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Detached from yourself. Therefore Under Control – Part 2

Mauro Arrighi
One peculiar aspect concerning the use of technology formulated by Japanese artists it is shown by the constant interplay between the oneiric (relating to dreams) and science-fiction alike worlds depicted both by Japanese and American novelists and the content and/or the technique deployed in the artworks. The fictional, technological-empowered and otherworldly novels are taken as a main reference in Electronic Art; or are it true the other way round?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

A Taste of Sonar. South Africa Deals with Avant Guard

Ludovica Amoroso
Sonar of Barcelona, an International festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, landed for its 19th Indaba Design edition (from 29th February to 4th March) in Cape Town, by using a completely new special format. In order to know more about that, we asked Georgia Taglietti, Head of the International Media Department of Avanced Music (the organization which, every year, arranges Sonar event), to describe this new partnership.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Heath Bunting: Identity Bureau. Against Residual Self-Image

Ida Hirsenfelder
Identity Bureau was established by Heath Bunting to construct a custom-made physical person for the user, who would be able to function freely in society. The activities of the bureau extend also to instructions for other users to construct their own new identities. It undermines the habitual ways of climbing the social ladder and offers an alternative system to the dictate of there being a one and only "official" identity allocated to the individual by the state authorities.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Post Internet and Post Galleries. Conor Backman and The Reference Gallery

Robin Peckham
One of the founders of Reference Gallery, which could reasonably be called one of the best small-town galleries in the world, Conor Backman also happens to be a BFA student at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Open since the fall of 2009, Reference has come to define the growing inertia in post-internet art with a constant flux between physical exhibitions, digital circulation, and distributed networks of attention.... READ MORE...
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Can Digital Be Art? Its Time For Analysis

Lorenzo Taiuti
Periodically, as it happens in all expressive art forms, we need to ask ourselves about where we come from and which our own shapes and contents are. All that goes also for the ever-changing field affected by New Media’s “hyper-speed”. For more than two decades I’ve been trying to trace the relationships between Digital Art and Video Art on the one hand, and those established between Digital and the most specific field of Contemporary Art, on the other.... READ MORE...
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Virtuality. Aesthetic Experience and Curatorial Design

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Vince Dziekan is an artist, art historian, and curator who has dedicated his research and practice to explore of the concept of “Virtuality”. Specifically, Dziekan has been working on the space (intended as exhibition space and the one where artworks can be enjoyed and experienced) and influence that new digital technologies have had on its transformation and organization.... READ MORE...
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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

Being Social Furtherfield Gallery

Redazione Digicult
Furtherfield is opening a new public gallery for art, technology and social change with Being Social. This is the first in a series of exhibitions about network culture featuring emerging and internationally acclaimed artists: Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.... READ MORE...
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SHARE Prize 2012: Open your City – June 20, 2012

Redazione Digicult
Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age. Open Your City is the guiding theme for the Share Festival 2012. A theme that contains three key, simple and direct words, the pillars on which this year's festival programme will be built.... READ MORE...
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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