Articles
Pixelache 2008
Pixelache University is the theme of the seventh edition of Pixelache festival in Helsinki, running from 13rd to 16th of March 2008. The theme is exploring education in the cross-roads of science, technology, art and culture.... READ MORE...
Contrapolis
Two days of workshops, discussions, walks, presentations, installations and screenings that articulate approaches and experiences around the contentious nexus of culture and urban regeneration in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow and Barcelona. ... READ MORE...
Doves Day
XS [n.o.s.a.] DOVES DAY starts again thanks to the neverending work of ANTITESI and, for this year, also to the collaboration of Malaussène (cultural association).... READ MORE...
Feedback
Eyebeam’s expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses—19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools—to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject... READ MORE...
Blue Morph
The second annual Blue Morph event at the Integratron will be on 22nd of March from 6pm till noon of the next day. The event is organized for the Spring Equinox and the high season in the desert.... READ MORE...
Mata Festival
MATA presents its 10th annual festival of new music and installations by emerging artists, taking place March 31 to April 4th at the Brooklyn Lyceum in NY, a converted bathhouse at the heart of the burgeoning arts scene in the Park Slope/Gowanus neighborhoods.... READ MORE...
Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks
During the latest Video Vortex meeting organized by the Institute for Network Culture in Amsterdam at Club 11, the large networker's community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. In substance the questions that were addressed were how video and audiovisual information is used and shared through the net, how platforms like Vlog and podcast are developing and what tomorrow's television will look like in terms of clustering of information and free construction of programs with independent content.... READ MORE...
Share Festival 2008: Manufacturing
Cos" inizia il testo introduttivo di Vladimir Archpov, che ha pazientemente raccolto 220 invenzioni nate dall'estro di una popolazione russa colpita dalle ristrettezze economiche generate dalla fine dell'impero sovietico. Tra gli oggetti la " gabbia antivandali per lampione ', una " stufetta con lampada al quarzo ' e un " distillatore casalingo ': cosa centra tutto ci con Share Festival? Manufacturing, tema della quarta edizione del festival, che si tiene a Torino dall' 11 al 16 marzo 2008, stato scelto per due ragioni. ... READ MORE...
Carlo Zanni: Information Is The New Color
Carlo Zanni, who was born in La Spezia in 1975, is an international artist whose works have been shown in many galleries and museums, from Rome to New York .... READ MORE...
Christina Ray: Open Source Territories
Christina Ray lives in Brooklyn, New York. She's an artist and a curator focusing her efforts on psychogeography, the creative investigation of physical and psychological spaces inside the cities, she founded Glowlab, an initiative which produces art linked to the fruition and interpretation of urban spaces, as well as the Conflux Festival.... READ MORE...
Trok!: Free Music, In Free Spaces
In Italy , more than anywhere else, the cultural life of experimentation is related to political underground through a system that developed from the 60's. Social Centers and Squat have been locations of the (electronic and not) experimentation of the 90's, with alternate fortune.... READ MORE...
Who Is Afraid Of Janez Jana?
Berlin, 28th January 2008, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe . It's one past midnight. Three people wearing white windbreakers and carrying backpacks with GPS devices and a webcam turned towards their own faces, stop for a second, in silence.... READ MORE...
Generator X 2.0, Objects That Don’t Exist (yet)
During the presentation of GeneratorX 2.0, which took place in Berlin's DAM in collaboration with Club Transmediale 2008 and Hyperwerk, Marius Watz, the one who organized and curated the event, concluded his introductory speech inviting the audience to go and visit the generatorX exhibition, soon to open its doors. An exhibition of objects which are yet to exist.... READ MORE...
An Heideggerian Lecture Of Software Culture
During the 30's, Martin Heidegger dedicated a series of conferences to artwork that would have led on to writing of the essay 'The origin of the artwork', published in 1950.... READ MORE...
Ken Jacobs: The Demiurgo Of The Moving Image
Mentre scrivo questo 'pezzo' la dodicesima edizione del Sonic Acts volge al termine e come ogni evento che si appresta alla conclusione lascia nell'animo di chi era presente, come pure di chi non c'era, l'enorme ansia della perdita che non solo lo scivolare via d'un momento presente che si vorrebbe eterno, ma il timore dell'essersi lasciati sfuggire qualcosa da sotto il naso: un'intuizione, un momento, un bagliore irripetibile per sempre andato.... READ MORE...
Black Box: Gli Spazi Del Cinema
La versione inglese di questo testo stata pubblicata sul libro ideato dall'artista belga Boris Debackere e curato insieme ad Arie Altena 'The cinematic experience' per Sonic Acts XII, in cui I testi di nove autori e dieci interviste, riflettono sul cinema, sulla sua essenza e le sue modalit di produzione.... READ MORE...
Taylor Deupree: The Beauty Of Minimalism
Nel mondo della musica contemporanea e dell'arte digitale Taylor Deupree considerato uno dei migliori interpreti della rivoluzione digitale a cui abbiamo assistito in questi ultimi anni. ... READ MORE...