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Meet the media guru Steven Berlin Johnson

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Steven Berlin Johnson è giornalista e autore di numerosi libri di successo che esplorano le interrelazioni tra scienza, tecnologia, media e mondo reale. La chiave della sua notorietà sta senza dubbio nella sua capacità di interpretare e prospettare le traiettorie future di fenomeni complessi attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che individua processi e principi trasversali.... READ MORE...
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The Leonor Annenberg Prize for art and social change

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Creative Time is pleased to announce the inception of a new, 25,000 USD award: The Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, presented by Creative Time to an artist who has committed her/his life's work to social change in powerful and productive ways. The first recipient of the prize is The Yes Men, and it will be bestowed during the opening ceremony for The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, on October 23 from 6 to 8pm in the historic Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library... READ MORE...
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Thirty Years Of Ars Electronica: The Future Of Man And Nature

Tiziana Gemin
The 2009 Ars Electronica will surely be an edition to remember. The festival, which takes place in Linz the first week of September, celebrated its 30th year. Much attention was focused on the little Austrian town for the fact that Linz was chosen as European Culture Capital for 2009, and so it has experienced an intense year, dense with launches and cultural events... READ MORE...
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11 Settembre by Stefano Cagol

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The starting point is a date: September 11. A univocal, dramatic date: September 11 or Nine Eleven, as it is commonly referred to since the attack to the Twin Towers in 2001. September 11 is also incidentally the day on which the artist Stefano Cagol was born, thus tying a personal occurrence to this symbolic landmark of the new millennium.... READ MORE...
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Art TLV 09

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Art TLV, the International art biennial to be held September 10–24, 2009, will be the main art event of Tel Aviv-Yafo's centennial celebrations, featuring leading contemporary Israeli and International artists creating exhibitions, installations, performances, screenings and talks throughout the city.... READ MORE...
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Cory Arcangel: Depreciated

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The Netherlands Media Art Institute proudly presents the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands by the 31-year-old 'darling of new media art', Cory Arcangel (US). The digital artist, performer, musician and programmer first became known primarily for his modifying the Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers. Arcangel altered the game in such a way that only the iconic, clear blue sky with its clouds slowly drifting by remained.... READ MORE...
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Abandon Normal Device

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Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach. The debut AND festival arrives in Liverpool in September 2009. Featuring an eclectic array of exhibitions, film screenings, online work and events, the festival will spill from screens and galleries onto the streets of the city.... READ MORE...
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TodaysArt Festival 2009

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Every year, for one weekend, the TodaysArt Festival transforms the city centre of The Hague into an inspiring stronghold of creativity and audiovisual experiences. In just a five years TodaysArt developed into one of the foremost art festivals in Europe.Its growing success is showed by the expansion of its annual line-up of events and worldwide co-operations.... READ MORE...
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E-partecipation: Paradoxes And New Ways To Discover

Gigi Ghezzi
The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe organized in March 2009 a seminary reserved to young researcher, policy-makers, youth organizations and young people coming from 47 European countries. This seminary had as topic the new partecipation methods based on Information and Communication Technology (e-participation). The results were collected in a document, which can be consulted online (http://www.coe.int/t) and fitness an open structure of encounter, where all partecipants had the opportunity to live a practical experience of cooperation in an important field within the Council of Europe.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Sputink Observatory

Monica Ponzini
Ideas are energy. Your brain is a satellite. Your mind is out there.' These are the basis of The Sputnik Observatory, an ambitious documentation project and representation of contemporary culture. Sputnik- literally 'fellow traveler'- was born from the idea that all the knowledge and arguments are in some way connected to each other, that the 'six degrees of separation', connecting all human beings on earth, are applicable also to their mental elaborations, and that also the most radical concepts, considered as marginal, are fertile matter of investigation and can contribute in a critical way to our cultural landscape.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Prologue Est Summer Workshop

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[prologue] is a series of cultural events, which engage with present-day feminist concerns within the context of changing Europe and beyond. The project originated from discussions held at Mladinski Kulturni Centre, Maribor, Slovenia, in 2004. So far there have been an exhibition, conference, and publications in Graz, Austria; an exhibition and symposium in Manchester, UK; and prologue_BLN, a symposium in Berlin.... READ MORE...
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I-realize: Analyze This For A Better Future

Elena Gianni
Two days to notice unsolved problems, introduce (technological?) solutions and stimulate the creation of new disruptive start-ups in different areas of work. The event-conference I Realize - The Art of Disruption has been presented on its own website and was held on June 9-10 in the fantastic studios Virtuality Media Park in Turin. The stimulating the birth of start-up events in two days is definitely an ambitious goal. And by all appearances the goal was achieved.... READ MORE...
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