Articles

Fluctuating Intelligences

In the 'liquid society', as Zygmunt Bauman defines it in: 'Modus Vivendi. Hell and Utopia of the Liquid World', the structures that create the boundaries of space of behaviour, habits and social and individual forms, are dissolved, creating a chaotic and dynamic context in continuous transformation where contemporary men and women find themselves having to continuously and frenetically pass from social one role to another. Family, work, social life, are alternated until they overlap, despite having different needs and necessities that are often distant from each other.... READ MORE...

Piksel Festival 2009

Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.... READ MORE...

Nuclear Art & Radioactivity

Nuclear power is re-emerging as a concern for our times, both as a generator of energy and as part of a defence strategy. Today it seems to stand for the failed utopian promises of modernism and a fresh hope for a carbon-free future. The contradictions that lie at its core have provided a rich source of questioning for artists, scientists, ecologists and activists for many years. The Nuclear exhibition explores these intricacies through two new commissioned works by Chris Oakley and Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou. ... READ MORE...

Ozchi Conference 2009

OZCHI is Australia's leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, and social scientists.... READ MORE...

Piemonte Share Festival 2009

Celebrating the Fifth Piemonte Share Festival, directed by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi. In this year of worldwide financial crisis, the theme chosen for the Festival will not fail to attract attention for its capacity to read and in a way anticipate the profound impulses and movements that bring contemporary reality to life. Market Forces has been in the air for some time.... READ MORE...

Re:Live 09

The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History conferences, re:fresh (Banff 2005) and re:place (Berlin 2007).... READ MORE...

Ahackitude

AHAcktitude '09 is the second collective meeting for the community of the aha@ecn.org mailing list, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and at the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism.... READ MORE...

Carlo Bernardini La luce che genera lo spazio

Palazzo Litta sede della Direzione dei Beni Culturali della Lombardia, in collaborazione con l'assessorato all'Arredo, Decoro Urbano e Verde del Comune di Milano, l'assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Milano e l'assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Torino, all'interno della programmazione rispettivamente di LED, Light Exhibition Design a Milano e Luci d'Artista a Torino, apre alla città il suo cortile d'onore con il progetto di luce ambientale di Carlo Bernardini, La luce che genera lo spazio.... READ MORE...

Reff/rewf. Short Chronicle Of A Contagion

For loyal readers of this magazine, REFF is not new: this symbol perhaps resonates in their ears like an echo family and it is plausible that they may know some or all the story behind it. Me ripercorriamola together in his milestones (1). REFF going to RomaeuropaFakeFactory. REFF is the fake version of (almost) namesake Romaeuropa Web Factory, a competition launched in January 2009 by Telecom Romaeuropa Foundation to support digital creativity.... READ MORE...

Stelarc’s Extrabody: The Technologic Chimera

Art concepts and techniques should always be avant-garde, and serve as an approach to men's comprehension as well as an anticipation of what they will be and how they will behave. In light of that assumption, Stelarc, who is a pioneer of extreme performances and of performances helped by interactive robotic systems and virtual reality, represents without a doubt an important reference point for all those who want to deal with an artistic project which uses technology as a means of expression.... READ MORE...

In The Beginning Was Cybernetics. Relation Between Science & Artists

What relationship is there between digital art and cybernetic science? Surely more than one can imagine. The concept of the system, the research of process patterns, the importance of interconnections and the relationship between system and environment (be it a machine or living organism), the centrality of information, the phenomenon of retroaction and self-management, the importance of code, are the terms of cybernetic research, but it could also be said that this is true for the research of any artist who works with new technologies.... READ MORE...

Plots In The Net: Boone Oakley And Web Storytellers

Once upon a time there was an internet site, an amount of web pages linked one another and housed in a clearly identifiable space which could be reached by a precise address. Once upon a time there was also the html - which later changed into xhtml - the language behind the hypertext system that can organize and make information intelligible, mainly in pictures and texts, of which web pages are composed. Yes, once upon a time.... READ MORE...

I Have Nothing To Say. Emergency – Emergent Agency

How do we deal with broken promises? How can artists work to enhance agency among participant audiences who are anonymous, migratory and in transition? Can the museum become a space for Habermasian democratic dialogue under a state of exception? These are some of the questions that guided the project Emergencia - Agencia Emergente // Emergency - Emergent Agency by the Lui Velazquez collective, which was part of the Proyecto Cívico: Diálogos e Interrogantes (PCDI) public programming developed by Bill Kelly Jr. as part of the Proyecto Civico show curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez, at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) in the fall of 2008.... READ MORE...

Future Places Festival. Between Digital And Local Cultures

Future Places - Digital media and local cultures was held in Porto from the 13th to the 17th October. It is a festival, a meeting made up of a series of lectures and concerts, an exhibition, a place in which people congregate in order to discuss technology and creativity. It had two official sponsors: The University of Porto and the University of Austin, Texas.... READ MORE...

From Frieze To Ed Rusha. October In London With Eyes Of An Art Critic

They are the first days of October, and wearing the shirt with short sleeves and summer still clinging to his back, when you book, as an annual ritual, a short trip, destination, London, to see everything an art lover would ever see. Shows like rain: Miroslaw Balka, and the pure beauty of John Baldessari shine at the Tate Modern, a short distance Kusmirowski transforms the Barbican in a claustrophobic bunker.... READ MORE...

Cinematography Of The Stone Age: Woyzeck By William Kentridge

The South African artist William Kentridge is one of the most renowned contemporary visual artists and proposes a poetic view on ancient taste where art and technique come together in the original value and significance of techné: the shows are based on his original filmed animations and recalls those theatres from the beginning of the century that experimented with the rudimental techniques of luminous animation (drawings on pieces of mobile glass, projected thanks to a Magic Lantern), promoting a primitive form of optical art.... READ MORE...