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Transmediale 2012: Screening. Unusual Pictures For Unusual Times

Claudia D'Alonzo
Satellite stories is the title of the video program. It consists of eight different screenings, curated by Marcel Schwierin. A very successful aspect of Schwierin’s curatorial work was the capacity to transcend the division between language and distribution channels, by mixing works conceived for the net and works anchored to the cinema tradition, video art, and other performative and audiovisual works... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Israeli Center For Digital Arts. The Middle-Eastern Side Of Art

Silvia Bertolotti
Our journey leads us to Israel, not far from Tel Aviv, its capital city. Specifically, to Halon where the Israeli Center for Digital Art is based. It is the one and only center dedicated to digital arts and new media. The Center was founded in 2001 with the purpose to promote digital arts and other artforms in Israel. It is also focused on encouraging dialogue between artists and audience, and among (Israeli and international) artists... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

The Transformation: Of Curating: Three Terms

Alfredo Cramerotti
The text is a revised version of an essay published on switch, an event, project, and book that archives the first three years of an artist-led project by Triona Ryan & Harald Turek in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. It began in 2008 as a ground up approach to showing contemporary works of moving images in a small town located in a rural context, a conversation between artists, audiences and artworks taking place outside of the big city and adapting to the rhythm of smaller places... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

Perspective Dizziness. Francois Vogel’s Images

Giulia Simi
FranÁois Vogel†is a French photographer and filmmaker. Each time he is defined in many different ways: ìBaroque Wizard of Videoî [2], or ìAstronaut of Image/sî†[3]. He easily moves between the world of communication as well as the independent video scene by producing commercials, music videos and other award-winning shorts known on an international scale.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

Enter The Void. Director’s Cut

Fabrizio Fogliato
Upon completing his studies, Gaspar NoÈ had the chance to shoot two black-and-white short films: ìTintarella di lunaî in 1985 and ìPulp amËreî†in 1987. The first simply tells the story of a woman who leaves her husband for her lover, while the second shows a man attempting to rape his wife, as he listened to the radio that rape can be an act of profound love: perhaps, it is in this exact moment that the poetics of this Argentine filmmaker was born... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

The Influencers 2012: War Through Art

Barbara Sansone
This year ìThe Influencersî promises to be a very exciting festival, but being quite honest, when on earth†has it ever disappointed? Or, hasnít it positively surprised those people who visited it for the first time? The most original and dynamic festival of Barcelona is at its eighth edition in 2012 and, as ever, itís taking place at CCCB, from 9th 11th February.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

Marta De Menezes. Bio-Art System Analysis

Jamie Ferguson
Marta de Menezes has been working now for a decade with biological techniques and materials as her medium, and has often done so in collaboration with scientists, and in particular, with biologists. She is a phd candidate at the University of Leiden, and the artistic director at Ectopia, an experimental art lab in Lisbon. By recently employing the tools of analysis in systems biology to the field of art practice, de Menezes is taking a reflexive and immersive approach to art research. It's one that embraces complexity and could translate into a deeper understanding about the historical development and embedded structures of art and biology related exploration... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012Science

The Algorithmic “unconscious” – Part 2

Eugenia Fratzeskou
This two-part essay offers an investigation of the 'depths' of the algorithmic workings of digital visualisation systems. The focal point of this study is digital 'memory', as explored in relation to the Algebras of Logic, the notions of process paradigm, pre-representational grids and emergence. In this way, the algorithmic unconscious' of digital visualisation technology - i.e. the inherent paradoxes and unknowns, the uncontrollable data flaws, the hidden inconsistencies, the exchanges and the potentialities of the system - is unveiled. New possibilities and ways of creating more than mere visual phenomena emerge... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012Science

Arte Bio-diversa. Il Pav Di Torino, Tra Ecologia E Transgenesi

Laura Capuozzo
Artisti e biologi lavorano fianco a fianco per tentare di dare una risposta concreta a problemi come l'impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sull'ecosistema, la salvaguardia della bio-diversitˆ, la clonazione di esseri viventi. Temi che l'arte prende in carico, non pi rappresentandoli, ma proponendo soluzioni. Se la sopravvivenza dell'ecosistema globale  una prioritˆ non solo etica, l'artista, analizzando il nostro rapporto con la biosfera, vuole ricordarci l'intima connessione con essa e la necessitˆ della sua tutela. Ne discutiamo con Piero Gilardi, direttore dell'Art Program del PAV di Torino.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012Science

Collect The Wwworld. The Artist As Archivist In The Internet Age

Loretta Borrelli
How does contemporary art fail to provide unusual perspectives on the everyday characterized by an exponential growth in the production of any kind of images and videos? What is the boundary between a digital reality consisting of archives of huge size and daily life? What aesthetics is interesting to talk about in these digital native years? These are just some of the questions to which an answer was attempted in the exhibition Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, curated by Domenico Quaranta... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Resource For Transmedial Culture. A New Project Of Transmediale

Daniela Silvestrin
With the upcoming edition in 2012, the festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary by introducing not only the new Artistic Director, Kristoffer Gansing, but also a new project called reSource for transmedial culture, developed and curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. The theme of transmediale 2012 will be in/compatible, which in various ways will lead the visitors back in time to the very beginnings of the festival and will project her towards the future of our digital age.... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012