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Critical Fusion. Interview To Maurice Benayoun

Lorenzo Taiuti
Maurice Benayoun is one of the most experienced among digital media artists, both in France and abroad. Principally known as an interactive artist, his research course on visual art and video started from documentary experiences, as testified by his documentaries and video installations about the most influent contemporary artists in the Eighties. In 1987 he was one of the founders of Studio Z-A, one of the first examples of professional studio aimed to the experimentation of new approaches to computer-made images.... READ MORE...
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Roberto Pugliese. Digital Bio-acoustics

Claudio Musso
Roberto Pugliese is a distinguished representative of what is described above. He comes from a musical academic culture, but having soon felt the limits of a single view, he then began to look for other stimuli in the field of visual arts. This should be a reason of pride for the visual field, so often denigrated and abused, and moreover it helps to underline the need to mix different points of view.... READ MORE...
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Voluptuous Data. Matias Del Campo And Span Architects

Sabina Barcucci
Talking about design and architecture with Matias Del Campo (SPAN Architects, with Sandra Manninger) opens the mind toward an unexpected miscellanea of technology and romanticism. It clarifies that the work of those that, like SPAN, are developing new paradigms in material production through architecture act in a world where the combination of technology and sensibility has yet to be questioned and investigated. As Del Campo himself states, in this field we have just scratched the surface: everything still has to be imagined, discovered and defined.... READ MORE...
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Wefab: Digital Fabrication In The Heart Of Milan

Simona Casonato
If you are looking to make the revolution, maybe it is worth a trial. Or, better to say, a prototype, for it is design we are talking about. To the shouts of Make the right thing, WeFab exhibition has taken place in Milan, between April 14 and 16 of 2011 (http://www.wefab.it/). Three days entirely dedicated to open design, open source design and fabbing, the home-made fabrication: activities generating a short circuit in the relations between designer's creative act, prototyping and industrial production. WeFab has demonstrated how very different steps of production cycle can collapse to a unique time and place. A time and place that accept the burden of discussing about some century of our history, from the Industrial Revolution on.... READ MORE...
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Sparkle Labs. The Sparkle Of Creation

Zoe Romano
In this scenario new actors are embodying the sharing of knowledge as a full time occupation and thousands of new followers are thrilled by interactive electronics. One of these actors is worth highlighting is called Sparkle Lab, a duo of designer and teacher, Amy Parness e Ariel Churi, based in New York City. Sparkel Lab, born some years ago, is a special mix of art, craft, science and cuteness enabling the disclosure of the little engineers hiding inside all of us. Pastel colors, iced icons make us easily forget we are dealing with circuits, leds, electric threads and suddenly we learn the basis of electronics.... READ MORE...
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Notes On Online Middle East. The Infinite Potential Of The Masses

Mitra Azar
Middle East is burning. Syria is only one of the last pieces of this raging domino which exploded unpredictably from the inextinguishable flames of Tunisian and Egyptian revolution, both capable of overthrowing the existing regimes and reaffirming some old principle: the infinite potential of masses and the spontaneous political unmanageability of peoples, completely opposite to the automatic violence of authorities, which the more it ends, the faster it updates. (G. Agamben, Means Without End: Notes of Politics, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1996).... READ MORE...
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Transmedia. Postgraduate In Arts, Media & Design

Silvia Bertolotti
The New Media Art Education & Research field, is one of the most dynamic and controversial fields of study and professional confrontation, at an international level, of the last few years. The possible relapse on a new generation of artists and designers, of a certain kind of theoretical, historical and critical teaching, to be possibly integrated with a more technical, instrumental and operational aspect, on the application of digital technologies (software and hardware) in a creative field, is the topic of many meeting.... READ MORE...
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Istanbul Modern Paradise Lost

Redazione Digicult
Istanbul Modern presents a new exhibition addressing the relationship between art, nature and technology: Paradise Lost. Lasting from 25 March to 24 July 2011, the exhibition consists of digital media and video works. Included in the show are 21 artists and a joint project who take into consideration subjects related to nature and examine the impact of industry and technology on the environment.... READ MORE...
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Ballard Milano 2011

Redazione Digicult
Innocente e sfrontato come tutti i grandi artisti, James Graham Ballard ci ha lasciato il 19 aprile del 2009, chiudendo dolorosamente e serenamente il XX secolo, in tempo per regalarci, coi suoi ultimi romanzi uno dei più lucidi commenti alla nuova era che il crollo delle due torri a New York aveva aperto.... READ MORE...
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SPAN Exhibition Formations

Redazione Digicult
Architects Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, former recipients of MAK-Schindler Scholarships for the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles, teamed up in 2003 to found the Viennese studio SPAN, which designed the Austrian pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai together with Zeytinoglu ZT.... READ MORE...
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The Unbound Book

Redazione Digicult
The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has grown outdated. The book is coming unbound, freed from the bindings of the printed volume and from the limitations of conventional text. How will today's multimedia content and online modes of authorship offer entirely new vistas of book-like functions? How should we preserve vital features of conventional print? How will the chain from author to reader develop?... READ MORE...
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