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Realcore: Sergio Messina And Online Porn

Tiziana GeminNovember 1, 2006

Ever since it was produced legally, and gave life to a market of its own, pornography has gone through two epochal turns, caused by the introduction of technological tools that changed the way it is used, its formal canons and distribution strategies... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

L’estetica Dei Dati: Art Futura 2006

Barbara SansoneNovember 1, 2006

Ed arrivato alla sua diciassettesima edizione il festival ArtFutura di Barcellona, che si svolto dal 26 al 29 ottobre presso gli spazi del Mercat de les Flors, nella suggestiva citt del teatro di Montjuïc. Il programma di quest'anno, come neli anni scorsi del resto, era denso e ricco di conferenze, proiezioni, worshop, feste e tavole rotonde. Abbiamo seguito la ricchissima rassegna, difficile, forse impossibile da valutare nella sua fieristica globalit... READ MORE...

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Press In Second Life

Marco CadioliNovember 1, 2006

A Toyota parked in front of Wired's head office, here you are an image which pretty well summarise what is going on in Second Life. Companies start to arrive, as well as the press. The interest of the international press was in fact shocked recently by the Second Life phenomenon, which has overtaken the 1.000.000 residents in October and which is starting to be seen as a tool which is changing the way of thinking the Web, instead of being a simple game... READ MORE...

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Kinkaleri. Beyond The Wall

Massimo SchiavoniNovember 1, 2006

We'll have to wait the next 23rd November before some Japanese not only full of eastern popular traditions but also opened to the new western world in the Beijing of the new cultural, multi-ethnical and multi-social winds, can admire the less conventional but more surprising work of the Florentine group Kinkaleri. We'll have to wait the Italian year in China event and enter in the Oriental Pioneer theatre to value and confirm the not often respected in homeland talents in order to find the only place where we can stay... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Machinima By Eddo Stern

Domenico QuarantaNovember 1, 2006

The widespread tendency to identify new technology with innovation, leads to a rather banal misunderstanding, according to which new media artists are all innovators. The artists able to use the tool in an innovative way are actually a few. Eddo Stern is probably one of the few cases where both of the two preliminary remarks are actually fulfilled... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Video Online, The End Of The Beginning

Beatrice BonfantiNovember 1, 2006

The Net is the most huge communication prosthesis ever created. It is part of the definition new media and it is therefore different from the old media. The distinction is necessary as the Net can be considered a real new media, a big ensemble with numerous subsystem, included the traditional media... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

The Technological Beauty

Alessandra MiganiNovember 1, 2006

in the creating scene of New York emerge withouth any doubt a Soho studio, where the director Arvind Palep and the producer Serge Patzak direct 1st Avenue Machine, an agency that realizes spots and music videos in computer graphic and 3D animation since 2004... READ MORE...

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Jankowski, Ahtila: Psyche In Video

Monica PonziniNovember 1, 2006

You need a little bit of sense of humour to face horror. This seems to be the moral lesson of the tales of ordinary craziness by two video-artists whose technique and thematic are very different. Christian Jankowski's and Eija-Liisa Ahtila's exhibitions take place in New York respectively at The Kitchen and at MoMA... READ MORE...

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Interfacce, Interactive Comunication

Miriam PetruzzelliNovember 1, 2006

Dynamic and provokative, but also strong and sober. This is the Interfacce style, Roman show about mediated communication languages, this year at its sixth edition. Photography, video, movie and special effects, electro music, modelling and 3D animation, the Net and man-machine interation are the principal discussed themes... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Laurent Marques: Electro Head World

Silvia ScaravaggiNovember 1, 2006

Laurent Marques was born in Bordeaux in 1971. He worked in the advertising graphics for over 12 years. In 1996 began to work with the artist and sound designer Patrick Malinguaggi. In 2002 after many 3D and audio experiments, the video-animation Subsynchronous Whirl was born from the idea of a demo... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

May 6, 2001

Alessandro MassobrioNovember 1, 2006

The night from 6 th to 7 th May 2001, Kenneth Kirschner, an American composer popular for his experiments of random-infinite reproduction of the sound, hangs around in the districts of New York with his equipment for the audio reprise searching new inspirations for his works... READ MORE...

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Club To Club 2006: Internationality Desire

Alex DandiNovember 1, 2006

From the 9th to the 11th of November will take place Club To Club , event self-defying itself as an international festival of music and electronic arts. At its sixth edition, the festival extends its normal field and from Turin shifts partly in Berlin , in search of a middle European connection marking definitively contemporaneity of artistic choices... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Open Culture Brief

Camilla SerriNovember 1, 2006

There's a new and remarkable supply for people interested in free software and its philosophies, licences, and operative devices: the brand-new Informatics Freedom and Open Culture Brief by Simone Aliprandi, published by Prima Ora and freely available online in pdf format... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Cum2cut, Let’s Go Indie Porn!

Tatiana BazzichelliNovember 1, 2006

With the shout 'share and spread pornography!' the city of Berlin was literally raided by courageous men and women, most of which outsiders of the porn industry, who had just a few days to document and edit their very personal idea of pornography, summarized in only 5 minutes... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Dropping Knowledge: Tavola Delle Voci Libere

Laura ColiniOctober 4, 2006

Heinrich Heine scrive: Dovunque si bruciano i libri, alla fine si bruciano anche gli uomini. A Berlino nel 1933 di libri ne bruciarono a migliaia e Bebelplatz divenne il luogo simbolo della Bücherverbrennung il rogo della cultura voluto dai nazisti... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Semantic Vjing

Silvia BianchiOctober 4, 2006

The number of images surrounding us is everyday increasing in events and place of every kind. Sometimes probably you have thought about the existence of a secrete meaning behind the images that are projected on screens of club and festivals and about that meaning construction... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Light Up Y(our) Contemporary

Miriam PetruzzelliOctober 4, 2006

If, as De Kerkhove states, we are in the electric era, it is then allowed to consider the forms of digital culture to be a sort of Diogenes' lantern with which illuminate our humanity. Light up your contemporary , that is to say Transart, at its sixth edition between Trento and Bolzano, seems to boost this vision through a hectic schedule of events and performances... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Abstracta 06: Cinema Astratto Remake

Claudia D'AlonzoOctober 4, 2006

From the Twenties on authors coming from visual arts have started to manipulate the cinematographic language to snatch it to pure narration and reality reproduction: Eggeling, Ruttman, Léger, Picabia address their camera beyond the phenomenal reality, giving the cinema musical rules of rhythm and composition, experimenting the use of the film as material, made up of light and shade... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006