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The Future Of Journalism: Comparing Models

Simona Fiore
Are journalism and publishers dying? Are we watching their decline? Even if these assessments seem true today, they are so only in part. Journalism and publishers are facing a serious period of crisis. The responsibility for this condition is probably to be attributed to an inadequate business model which paid little attention to the changes which have affected society and consumers in recent years. The Internet has surely played a significant role in this situation, having proposed a 'long tail' offer able to satisfy more sectorial and niche demands.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Piksel Festival 2009

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Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.... READ MORE...
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Piemonte Share Festival 2009

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Celebrating the Fifth Piemonte Share Festival, directed by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi. In this year of worldwide financial crisis, the theme chosen for the Festival will not fail to attract attention for its capacity to read and in a way anticipate the profound impulses and movements that bring contemporary reality to life. Market Forces has been in the air for some time.... READ MORE...
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Re:Live 09

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The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History conferences, re:fresh (Banff 2005) and re:place (Berlin 2007).... READ MORE...
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Ahackitude

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AHAcktitude '09 is the second collective meeting for the community of the aha@ecn.org mailing list, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and at the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism.... READ MORE...
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Happy Birthday Artfutura

Barbara Sansone
Artfutura has just turned 20 (a really venerable age for a festival on such a topic). It celebrated its birthday at the IMAGINA building in Barcelona.For people thinking they were going to miss the traditional Mercat de le Flors (in fact this would have surely been a more adequate location for it) it has in fact turned out to be amusing to attend this festival in the famous catch@22, the district of innovation which has been the subject of a series of debates, an area still gutted due to never-ending work-in-progress but already with a futuristic stamp.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Future Places Festival. Between Digital And Local Cultures

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Future Places - Digital media and local cultures was held in Porto from the 13th to the 17th October. It is a festival, a meeting made up of a series of lectures and concerts, an exhibition, a place in which people congregate in order to discuss technology and creativity. It had two official sponsors: The University of Porto and the University of Austin, Texas.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

From Frieze To Ed Rusha. October In London With Eyes Of An Art Critic

Stefano Raimondi
They are the first days of October, and wearing the shirt with short sleeves and summer still clinging to his back, when you book, as an annual ritual, a short trip, destination, London, to see everything an art lover would ever see. Shows like rain: Miroslaw Balka, and the pure beauty of John Baldessari shine at the Tate Modern, a short distance Kusmirowski transforms the Barbican in a claustrophobic bunker.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Second International Conference for Image Science

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The increasing number of new technical and social possibilities to produce and distribute visual material - from YouTube, Flickr to other virtual spaces - demonstrates more and more the demand for strengthening visual competencies. On that basis the credo of the conference Gazing into the 21st Century, which brought together American experts on image science like Felice Frankel, Barbara Stafford or Michael Naimark with German representatives like Marie-Luise Angerer, Oliver Grau or Nikolaj van der Meulen et al., was dedicated to the inventory, classification and historiography of the latest worlds of images in the domains of publicity, art, entertainment and science.... READ MORE...
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The other shadow of the city

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The Other Shadow of the City is an international visual arts exhibition programme that draws inspiration from the city of Jerusalem and its changing urban structure. The exhibition takes the viewer to places outside the spiritual and holy Old City to urban locations that, despite their importance in shaping the contemporary urban city, have been rarely referenced or addressed in literature and art.... READ MORE...
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International Forum on free culture and knowledge

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There is in motion the celebration of an International Forum on free culture and knowledge from October 29 to November 1st2009 at Barcelona. This is the opportunity to join under the same roof and from a critical perspective, the main organizations and active voices in the free culture and knowledge world; a meeting point to sit down, dance and work together setting common agendas, strategies and address disagreements.... READ MORE...
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European Conference

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The European Conference "Creativity, Innovation, Digital Culture & Citizens Participation in the Construction of Europe" it responds to the expectations generated in previous conferences and forums organized by the Association ARTECHMEDIA for the impulse of a stable alliance of mutual interest between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology, Enterprise and Institutions that will contribute to a real Society of Knowledge based on the culture of creativity and innovation as well as on civic participation... READ MORE...
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Imagining Media @ Zkm

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The future is the declared objective of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. On the occasion of its jubilee, twenty years after its foundation in 1989 the institution now casts back to its past with the opening of an exhibition, which brings the history of the ZKM to life: in a large-scale overview presentation commencing on the 10 October, the best of media art works produced by international artists at the ZKM will be presented.... READ MORE...
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Carlo Zanni at CAM in New York

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The Chelsea Art Museum is proud to announce the debut of Carlo Zanni's installation Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day). Presented by The Project Room for New Media at CAM from October 1 to October 31, this multimedia project loosely refers to the 1975 espionage film Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, which was one of the first films to suggest a link between covert US military operations and the control of oil production in the Middle East... READ MORE...
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