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Occupied Sound. An eye on experimental music scene in the Arab world

Asma Ghanem
As part of my research for the ongoing Shams Asma project, and to find out more about the experimental music scene in the Arab world, I spoke with six prominent experimental musicians and sound artists from around the Levant and neighboring Egypt: Sary Moussa (a.k.a Radio KVM; Lebanon), Jad Atoui (Lebanon), Donia Jarrar (Palestine), Stormtap (Palestine), and Ismail Seleit and Mohamad Ali Talybab of Elmanzouma (Egypt).... READ MORE...
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MRD. Cronache di un master itinerante

Redazione Digicult
Dopo mesi di preparazione, settimane di riunioni, giorni troppo corti con le loro 24 h, centinaia di kilometri in giro per l’Italia per le presentazioni, qualche tera di byte occupato tra conversazioni via e­mail, chat su skype ed elaborazione di immagini, foto, video e documenti di vario tipo, finalmente oggi 14 febbraio alle 9.30 è suonata la campanella ed il Master Relational Design è iniziato.... READ MORE...
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afterglow: 27th transmediale, a nonlinear report

Mario Margani
Commissioned works, performances, conferences, talks, and an Internet black market have spiced up afterglow, the 27th transmediale that has taken place between 29.01 and 02.02 as usual at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Under the multiple meanings of the afterglow, and slogans such as “How do you feel today?” “Feel Healthy, Feel Fit”, the debate has rotated around the different approaches towards e-waste, cloud computing, surveillance, mining, big data, and whistle-blowers.... READ MORE...
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Stamatia Portanova: Moving Without a Body, MIT Press

Redazione Digicult
What differences does the idea of the digital make? Stamatia Portanova’s book Moving Without a Body, recently published in MIT Press "Technologies of Lived Abstraction" series, offers a provocative perspective on the question of dance and choreography in the digital age. How do the digital nexus, the compositional world of video, motion capture technologies and choreographic software in the hands of artists uncouple dance from the everyday, lived body?... READ MORE...
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Artefact Festival 2014

Redazione Digicult
Artefact is STUK's (media art center in Leuven, Belgium - http://www.stuk.be/) annual arts festival, focusing on (visual) culture, current affairs and scientific challenges. The programme consists of an extensive thematical exhibition with international artists, and lectures and performances linked to the central theme - both at STUK and in the centre of Leuven. Next to that, STUK and Het Depot present an ingenious music line-up during a three-day music festival.... READ MORE...
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Nevin Aladag: Zugabe

Redazione Digicult
With Zugabe the Kunstverein Göttingen presents a solo exhibition by Nevin Aladag (born 1972, Van/Turkey) in the spacious exhibition halls of the historic Town Hall. From intimate stagings, to interventions in public space, sound pieces and dance, the works on view address public space as a realm in which belonging and cultural identity are constantly being renegotiated and reformulated.... READ MORE...
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Attention Economy – Jahresring #60

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The 60th Jahresring takes the form of a compilation of artist interviews and offers a snapshot of a highly active art scene that stretches from Berlin as a new international center for art. Nicolaus Schafhausen put a series of questions to thirty-one art practitioners, less geared toward each artist's own praxis and more toward the conditions under which it arises.... READ MORE...
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