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Playing Music: A Game Of Sound Perception

Giulia Simi
I attended Playing Music a few months ago, in a small theatre near Livorno . I arrived late, missing the introduction. What I saw was two guys, each standing in front of a console with 6 numbered infra-red sensors, which, alternatively, through a movement of the hand towards them, activated short and suggestive sound-events, each of which corresponded to a specific number of a 6x6 numeric matrix... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Austrian Abstract

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition presents 27 Austrian-based artists dealing with abstraction in different styles and media. The show is divided into three, interrelated sections: an exhibition hall featuring a 'classical' compilation of paintings, photographs and installations; a cinema showing digital videos; and a lounge hosting a variety of computer-based works. ... READ MORE...
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Virtuality Conference

Redazione Digicult
The annual conference dedicated to virtual reality has become a celebrated meeting place and a venue for updating for all those who work and are interested in cinema, computer graphics, animation, post-production, simulation, video games and new frontiers in digital art . This year Virtuality is in its 7th edition and will take place in Turin from October 17-20, 2006 at the Centro Congressi Torino Incontra .... READ MORE...
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First Play Berlin

Redazione Digicult
TRAMPOLINE, the platform for new media art opens First Play Berlin and brings together 30 artists to explore the theme of mixed reality from different perspectives. Fusing video, installation and live performance, Trampoline offers a packed evening of media art entertainment to celebrate the launch of the FIRST PLAY BERLIN artworks. The finale will be a live concert by Heidi Mortenson... READ MORE...
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Italian Networking

Redazione Digicult
The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.... READ MORE...
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Golan Levin

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Golan Levin (1972) professore alla Carnegie Mellon University, è un artista e ricercatore americano interessato allo sviluppo di sistemi di comunicazione interattiva e visuale che potenzino la comunicazione interpersonale e sociale attraverso l’uso delle nuove tecnologie.... READ MORE...
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Piksel 06

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70 participants from 20 countries gather in Bergen for 4 days of exchanging art, code and ideas based on practical implementations of free culture. Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software.... READ MORE...
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Art Futura 2006

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ArtFutura 2006 reaches its seventeenth edition. From 26 to 29 October, the festival that has become a point of reference in Spain for art, technology and digital culture will offer an extensive program of activities in museums and cultural centers in as many as ten different cities.... READ MORE...
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Abstracta 06: Cinema Astratto Remake

Claudia D'Alonzo
From the Twenties on authors coming from visual arts have started to manipulate the cinematographic language to snatch it to pure narration and reality reproduction: Eggeling, Ruttman, Léger, Picabia address their camera beyond the phenomenal reality, giving the cinema musical rules of rhythm and composition, experimenting the use of the film as material, made up of light and shade... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Simply Ars Electronica

Tiziana Gemin
The contemporaneity is irremediable influenced, in its various domains, by the use of the technologies, which should be used to simplify our life and to make the sharing of our experiences more direct. But the new technologies influence us and persuade us to not always spontaneously behaviours in order to permit the interaction between the mankind and the machine... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006