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Mauro Ceolin: Ethnography Of The Imaginary

Claudio Musso
Mauro Ceolin, present in September and October to Triennale Bovisa in Milan with his exhibition Contemporary Naturalism, VIVENDI - da Lassie ai Pokemon, made of hybridization his trademark. In fact, at the base of his work lies an analytic attitude, reason to study and ultimate goal at the same time. His methods of research lie on the border between a large body of disciplines ranging from sociology to biology, anthropology to chemistry, from science of materials to neuroscience. Before such a wide arsenal of options it would be practically impossible to give some answers to the first question, but the artist's extraordinary coherence of work comes to our aid.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 67, September 2011

Art/tapes/22. Interview With Maria Gloria Bicocchi

Claudia D'Alonzo
Between 1972 and 1976, a venue on the ground floor in Via Riccasoli 22, in Firenze, acted as the main setting for one of the key moments that brought about the video art in Italy. At that very address, Maria Gloria Bicocchi and her husband Giancarlo founded art/tapes/22, the center for the moving video, which started in Florence, but then followed the couple as they were traveling to other residences, in Santa Teresa, near Follonica, and Sant’Ippolito, in the Volterra countryside, reaching (complete with tapes and equipment) artists’ studio, galleries and cultural centres in Italy and abroad.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 67, September 2011

Notes on the Un-documentary. Vision – Rapresentation – Ricreation

Mitra Azar
This article is the result of a series of theoretical discussions coming out from my research in the cinema-documentary field. These lines are meant to suggest a broader lecture of documentary-making activity. Through the relations that the idea of documentary establishes with photography, fiction, identity and performance, I would like to deconstruct its meaning and make it a source of philosophical research, opening discussions about technical matters that lead to new styles and methods of realization.... READ MORE...
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New Media Art In Japan. Hideaki Ogawa And The Device Art

Mauro Arrighi
Hideaki Ogawa, graduated with a doctorate degree from the prestigious KEIO University of Tokyo, teacher in the Interface Culture degree program at the Linz Universit, co-founder and artistic director of the Studio h.o. in Tokyo, researcher at Ars Electronica Future Lab and member of the Device Art movent s in my opinion of those authors who represent the emblematic dualism which Sumitomo Fumihiko talked about earleir.... READ MORE...
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AND: residency program

Redazione Digicult
AND (Abandon Normal Devices) is excited to launch it's regional artists' residency programme, HOW TO BE A RESIDENT?The residency programme includes opportunities for artists to develop new work in partnership with a variety of organisations including the Forestry Commission, British Waterways and DaDa. Investigating the model of a contemporary arts residency, they will take place in remote locations, online and on water.... READ MORE...
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Public 2.0: The Era of information openess

Redazione Digicult
In recent years significant changes in the technological, social and media landscapes have redrawn relationships between cultural producers of all stripes and the people previously called readers, audiences and users. In parallel with this, unprecedented amounts of information have entered the public domain as a result of both top-down policy pressures and 'bottom-up' social activism. This process in turn has given birth to new cultural movements, opportunities for creativity, forms of information visualisation, and modes of content production.... READ MORE...
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Black Sound White Cube

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition Black Sound White Cube will present works by ten international artists that refer to the musical traditions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Black Sound White Cube thus seeks to trigger discussions off the beaten track of the hegemonic fields of avant-garde and pop. Black Sound White Cube is based on the eponymous book by German artist Ina Wudtke and Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage published in 2010. The central proposition of the book is that the white cube not only looks white but also sounds white.... READ MORE...
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Collect the WWWorld

Redazione Digicult
Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge amounts of visual material produced by popular culture and advertising. Collect the WWWorld is an attempt to show how art responds to the information society.... READ MORE...
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Offf 2011. Year Zero, In Which Sense?

Barbara Sansone
OFFF, the international festival for web design, graphic animation and post-digital culture, is back to Barcelona. It is not back because it has not reached its goals during its three years abroad, like Ivˆn de la Nuez, director of the the Department of Cultural Activities of the CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture , wants to point out. To claim the authorship of such a successful event is perfectly comprehensible, but it is also coherent with the politics of a city which tends always more to be a brand of industrial culture, disadvantaging in many cases the minor artistic trends, even if they are significant and committed.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Late “primavera”. Recorded Report From The Festival

Pia Bolognesi
Even if it seems impossible to combine such a big number of so different bands on the same event, the Primavera Sound 2011 'back to the present' operation managed to hit the bull's eye. Three days - from May 26th to May 28th -of historic pop, rock and post-punk icons of the eighties and the nineties that performed on stage with new artists, offering more electronic and contaminated music than the post-dance, dubstep and hip hop wave.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Notes on Digital Icons And Death. Iran Vs Iran

Mitra Azar
The image of Neda's death appears compulsively in our brain. The eye, cannibal and hungry partner, looks at death through the satellite decongesting awareness that had to be deactivated like it happened to the building in our surroundings. CNN kept broadcasting the images of Neda's face. The big cathode eye feels the smell of blood, knows its bulimic, vampirized adepts, and uses them until the burning red becomes invisible and the moment of death becomes dream. Like in the chocking game, a ritual for wealthy American teenagers, in which they choke each others until they faint and gasp for few seconds, convulsing, and then wake up again, laughing with their friends without understanding where, or why or when it happened... READ MORE...
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Me, Myself And Twenty-three. Science And Narcissism 2.0

Nicola Bozzi
The first time I heard of 23andMe I was reading an article on 'Internazionale', few years ago. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, the company provides a series of data and statistics about individuals' genome to everyone who is keen enough to send his/her own spit to be examined. For those who might not know, Wojcicki is Sergei Brin's wife, one of Google's chiefs and one of the main investors of the project.... READ MORE...
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