Art

DAW 2007

The DIGITAL ART WEEKS program is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of symposium , workshops and performances , the Digital Art Weeks program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances during the Digital Art Weeks Festival each year, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of application of technology in the art.... READ MORE...

Franco Carlini

Stamattina, a Genova, è morto Franco Carlini all'età di 63 anni. Lo conoscevamo tutti per la sua attività di giornalista della carta stampata (Il manifesto, L'espresso, Il corriere della sera), del web, della radio e della televisione, per i suoi libri pubblicati dal manifestolibri e da Einaudi (Internet, Pinocchio e il gendarme, Lo stile del Web, Divergenze digitali), per la sua attività in Totem, società di Web desing e Web content da lui fondata a Genova.... READ MORE...

Disrupting Narratives

This international symposium brings together some of the world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore real-time interaction in electronic media. Over the last few years network theories have started to shape our thinking about social and cultural issues. This event seeks out artistic strategies and art forms that engage with these ideas.... READ MORE...

New Ecovention

The term ecovention describes an artist-initiated project that employs an inventive strategy to intervene in or transform a local ecology. Ecoventions usually involve collaborations between artists, community members and local specialists such as ecologists, botanists, landscape architects or urban planners.... READ MORE...

Video Positive Festival

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) unveils a new online archive giving public access to over 20 years of technological innovation to coincide with an exhibition re-visiting the organisation's ground-breaking visual arts festival, Video Positive.... READ MORE...

Re-Mediating Literature

Recent developments in digital and electronic media have stimulated new theoretical reflections on the nature of media as such and on the way in which they evolve across time. The aim of this conference is to examine how recent technological changes have affected the 'old' medium of literature.... READ MORE...

Software Art Space. Software Art ?!?

You can bet on it. As soon as the news gets around through reference mailing-lists, word of mouth, international festivals, interviews by the most acclaimed critic or curator of the moment, infinite will be the praises raised to Software Art Space ( www.softwareartspace.com ), the second operation performed by Steven Sacks, founder of the phantomatic Bitforms gallery: digital in conception, but with a physical (micro) headquarter in New York. In that same city and neighborhood, Chelsea, in which an apparently infinite army of galleries and exhibition spaces devoted to contemporary arts seem to be struggling to be part of the quadrangle between 4th and 5th streets, determining the destinies of the international art market.... READ MORE...

Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin è il fondatore e il presidente della Foundation on Economic Trends di Washington, una fondazione che studia l'impatto economico, socio-ambientale e culturale delle nuove tecnologie nell'economia globale.... READ MORE...