The Observatory: The Observed Science
The 15 th January 2008 Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) started The Observatory, a new observatory about science information cover and the journalism world environment.... READ MORE...
Articles
Giuseppe La Spada: The Aesthetics Of A Digital World
I knew Giuseppe La Spada by chance, at the wonderful performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto last year during the third edition of Festival delle Arti Contemporanee in Rovereto. In that occasion the Sicilian artist was a guest of his friend composer, with whom he carried out a net art project called 'Mo No Aware'few people have heard about, which supports a green cause, aiming at drawing people's and media's attention to radioactive contamination Japan is experiencing in the village of Rokkasho.... READ MORE...
Sign 69.com: Philip Wood’s Microprogramming
When we talk about sign69, medialounge.org, basically when we talk about Philip Wood, we deal with one of the real net artists who has immediately guessed the intrinsic communicative and expressive values of the net, beyond the technological innovation aspect.... READ MORE...
The Landscapes Of Technoethic Art
Italy has a peculiar characteristic that is difficult to understand for those who are not familiar with the history of our country. That is that our culture, on the whole, is distanced, always lagging behind, lacking consciousness of, and sometimes even traveling in the opposite direction of the important cultural trends that emerge across the globe.... READ MORE...
Cccs:cross-sectional View Of Contemporaneity
Emotional Systems - Contemporary Art between Emotion and Reason is the first exhibition of CCCS (Centro per la Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina) - as revealed by the name a part of the Fondazione Strozzi in Florence .... READ MORE...
The Catalan Technological Scene
In this article I have tried to ask some of the key components of Catalan artistic and cultural scene what are the health conditions of that so-called 'scene', which has been the reference point for everybody dealing with theatre and design multimedia art.... READ MORE...
Francesco Arena, Anatomy Of The Pure Image
In 2008 Genoa breathe thanks to different congruent aspects that give a unique vitality of personal human identity, a multiple desire to be free, present and socially participant of the cultural and artistic local and international 'Get Set'.... READ MORE...
Test_lab, Live_coding
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam is internationally recognized like one of the main centres for research and practice for what concerns new media art and technological and artistic experimentation. It has recourses of several events and workshops to give life to wide discussions about modern age and to propose the most interesting matters of the world creative scene.... READ MORE...
Tonewheels: Sound Optical Synthesis
The history of cinema and of visual arts is rich with moments in which visionary directors take their work into hybrid directions where physics, science, technology and music intersect. Chromatic futurist music, the abstract animations of people like Ruttman, Eggelin and Fischinger, the many visual music experiments of the beginning of the nineteenth century can be seen as the forerunners of contemporary forms of digital audio-visual interaction.... READ MORE...
Cccb’s Eccentric Cinema
Xcntric aims at promoting cinema and video productions which re-discuss images and define the medium through experimental means and intentions. Therefore, it recovers works kept secret or long forgotten through the audience's intimate experience.... READ MORE...
Sonic Acts XII:the Cinematic Experience
At last, after the usual two-year wait, Sonic Acts has come back. In my opinion, it is one of the best run festival inside of the international panorama of digital art.... READ MORE...
Virgilio Villoresi: The Mise-en-scene Of Dreams
One of the most powerful characteristics of cinematographic language is to recall the imaginative mechanisms of dreams, to stimulate associations, to evoke atmospheres one can sink into, overcoming logic and letting images speak without using words.... READ MORE...
New Giant Joystick
Imagine a joystick that is bigger than most basketball players...and requires at least two people to operate it. That's the challenging, quirky and ultimately fun concept behind "An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick]", an art-meets-technology exhibition opening February 4 in the Gallery at Calit2, a small space with big ambitions.... READ MORE...
Test Lab Multimodal
Test_Lab is a bimonthly public event, organised by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, that provides an informal setting for the demonstration, testing, presentation, and discussion of artistic Research and Development (aRt&D).... READ MORE...
The Influencers
The 4th edition of The Influencers, festival of media action and radical entertainment, explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.... READ MORE...
Transmediale 08 – Conspire…
After two years as a guest of the Academy of Arts, transmediale.08 returns for its next edition in January/February 2008 to Berlin’s landmark House of World Cultures giving focus to digital technology as an intrinsic element of worldwide contemporary culture... READ MORE...
Tuned City & Tuned Space
Tuned City Between Sound and Space Speculation is a comprehensive exhibition and conference project planned for July 2008. The project searches for a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic through the facilitation of dialog between the discourses of sound art, architecture and urban planning as well as the commissioning and exhibition of several site-specific works in various locations around the city of Berlin .... READ MORE...
