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Colorito. An Interactive Renaissance Of Coulour

Lorenzo Taiuti
All at once, in the irregular Italian digital scenario, an interesting exhibition has appeared. It just ended on the 11th November 2010 in an unsuspectable location, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. Its title is Colorito: an interactive renaissance of colour, curated by Luca Farulli (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Venice), Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab/Texas A&M University) and Frank Nack (ISLA/University of Amsterdam) who proposed a mix of traditional names of digital art and young artists, linked by their interest for colour. This exhibition was organized for the first time in Italy the last 25-29th October 2010, during the ACM Multimedia 2010 international conference (the worldwide premier multimedia conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery). The event was coordinated by Professor Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, and Professor Shih Fu Chang, Columbia University, New York.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Pain Is Not The Game. Virtual And Real In Videogame Art

Mathias Jansson
When the German artists Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff were young they used to play games that deal with punishment in some ways. The most popular was probably Folter-Mau-Mau Tilma Reiff explains. A simple card game where the looser would be punished according to the cards that remains in his hand. We remembered the special tension that arose from the threat of possible punishment and the excitement that came with it. The relief if you came away unpunished. It simply adds a lot of feelings to the experience.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

The Machine That Makes Art. Form+code In Art, Design And Architecture

Sabina Barcucci
A perfect candidate for this role is FORM + CODE, a book by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams and LUST, recently published by Princeton Architectural Press. Contents are clearly expressed through an historical overview on the code development in electronic art, and in some of its conceptual art natural language programming forerunners(based on instructions series set up not for the machines but for the public). The graphic layout is a well-kept and an inseparable part of the publishing project, including a selection of pieces of work and breathtaking images (at a very reasonable price, it must be said).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

The Lost Cemetery Of Images.a Conversation With Carlos Casas

Pia Bolognesi
The use of archive material is a tendency which has established itself in the last few years as a common practice in audiovisual contaminations. It is an ongoing search which paves the road to countless approaches to the work, as well as involving the individuality of the artist in the reprocessing of traces and memories in an imagination which is set on the present. With Cemetery (Archive Works), inaugurated on 28 October and ongoing until 14 January at the Marslleria in Milan, Carlos Casas steps onto this path at its edges, balancing between visual anthropology and rethinking images as a form of trans-cultural memory.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Gob Squad. Neverending Live Cinema

Claudio Musso
On their website, just after the welcome messages, it says: Gob Squad make performances, videos, installations and weird happenings, mixing performance, theater, film and real life. Apart from the huge variety of artistic practices mentioned, the focus rests immediately on the weird. The term, difficult to translate alludes to different meanings such as strange, eccentric or curious. Indeed, after having had the opportunity to take part in a work of the Anglo-German group, it becomes much easier to understand the reason for that adjective.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Gillo Dorfles. Aesthetics, Electronics And Textuality

Pasquale Napolitano
Artist, designer, art critic and philosopher; Gillo Dorfles shows to be an indeed versatile figure, who binds his own name to the commitment of constantly explore and analyze aesthetic and cultural phenomena. Achieving to become interpreter and witness of the developing dialectics between artistic expressions and industrial production, Dorfles has been nurturing leading edge groups and movements, the most well-known of which are the MAC- Movimento di Arte Concreta (the Concrete Art Movement) , founded in Milan in 1948 together with Atanasio Soldati, Bruno Munari e Gianni Monnet, the aim being to promote a type of abstractionism freed from any process of mimesis - and the ADI (Industrial Design Association), the creation of which will see Dorfles himself as protagonist, 12 years later.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Susa Pop: Connecting Cities. New Formats Of Urban Communication

Silvia Bertolotti
In September and October 2010 the first edition of MFFE (Media Facade Festival) began, a European pilot project featuring the participation of different digital artists and designers. The festival is organised by the Berlin Public Art Lab, in collaboration with the artistic centers of other six European cities: Liverpool, Brussels, Helsinki, Linz, Madrid and Budapest.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Urban Space And Moltitude. Achim Wollscheid’s Work

Claudia Maina
German artist Achim Wollscheid's work investigates the possibilities of sound as a social interactive medium. Since the early 80s he and his collaborators Ralf Wehowsky, Stefan Schmidt and Charlie Steiger have been working on experiments linked to the use of tape cassettes and LP records, which have been exchanged and distributed among artists all over Europe, United States and Australia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010Sound

Interruptive Site-specificity In Contemporary Digital Art

Eugenia Fratzeskou
This article presents an investigation into the ways through which the notion of interruptive site-specificity is manifested and explored in digital art. This investigation is carried out through tracing early influential shifts in how artists have been working with site-specific virtual environments. Myron Krueger's Glowflow (1969) and Jeffrey Shaw's Virtual Museum (1991) are discussed as the relevant representative cases.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010Science

Daniel Dendra And Open Simsim. Open Source And Architectural Practice

Elena Biserna
Though the twelfth Venice Biennial Architecture is concluded, this year's theme - People Meet in Architecture - has left everyone wanting for more and returning for a long tem project, beyond the present exhibition. Our idea is to help people and society relate with architecture, to help architecture relate with people and society, and to help people and society relate with each other, as states Kazuyo Sejima, this year's director.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Web’s Unconscious.what Does A Technical Image Say Of You?

Loretta Borrelli
It's a year since when Seth Godin, the guru of permission marketing, a highly popular theory theory that became very popular during the first outburst of speculations on the dot-com, published his ten golden rules on how to chose the right profile picture to use on social networks accounts. By following these ten simple tips on how to show one's inner self through one single image, it is allegedly possible not only to achieve the aimed economic results, but also to become quite popular.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Anders Weberg. Url And Networks As Artworks

Mathias Jansson
Web based art, must have an address, an URL, which tells the user where the artwork is stored on the web. This obvious, but inescapable fact has the Swedish artist Anders Weberg among others, thought about in there art works. So, If you digit www.theurlistheartwork.com/, in your browser you will be taken to a homepage with the text: The url is The artwork by Anders Weberg, October 2009. The actual address, the URL is in this case the artwork. Can a net.art work be more minimalistic and sublime than just a simple URL?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

The Charm Of Precariousness. A Conversation With Jose’ Luis De Vicente

Barbara Sansone
A few years ago, there was an omnipresent personality to be seen at any digital art event organized in Barcelona (amongst other places). This personality was José Luis de Vicente, a writer, theorist, curator, and researcher actively involved in events like Sónar (http://www.sonar.es), OFFF (http://www.offf.ws) and ArtFutura (http://www.artfutura.org).... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Morgan Nardi. The Charm Of New Choreography

Massimo Schiavoni
He happened to be born in an Italian provincial town, he learned to understand from an early age to love an art which is considered minor by the society and with few job opportunities. He moved on to study dance and also to meet people and have opportunities that could change his life. This happened but this was not enough if he did not want to accept the existing system, if you had to compromise and wait for years to be able to express himself completely. It was not enough to want to create, experiment, challenge and also make mistakes; it was not enough as his name is Morgan Nardi... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010