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Urban Escapism – Part 1. The Thousand Lights Of Tokyo’s Streets

Toshio Iwai, born in Japan in 1962, has been internationally defined as a new-media artist. In the following pages, I will address one of his experiments, Sound-Lens , which he made in 2001, when he was 39. Following this piece, a couple of Japanese contemporary authors are offering a totally new point of view of Tokyo through the everyday's unseen: Iwai is one of these explorers.... READ MORE...

Ricci/forte. A Mash-up Of Uneasiness And Perversion

The epigraph introducing the article is taken from the cover notes of the above book, a volume containing the first publication of the Macadamia Nut Brittle text, related to the homonymous show that made its debut at the Festival Garofano Verde in Rome in 2009, inspired by Dennis Cooper, written by Ricci/Forte and directed by Stefano Ricci, which also contains an interview to the artists and a critical introduction by the author, retracing the main characteristics of the work by the Roman duo... READ MORE...

CynetArt Festival

The 15th edition of the CYNETART festival for computer-based art is very much characterised by the essence of the Festspielhaus Hellerau that opened 100 years ago. Between November 16th and 26th 2011 the building designed by Heinrich Tessenow especially for the proclaimed "Body Liberation" movement will be transformed into a space laboratory where cultural, artistic and academic as well as technological dimensions of contemporary and future body perception can be experienced. Visitors are invited to explore various experimental setups at the interface between naturalness and artificiality and thus to experience their corporeality in new and different ways.... READ MORE...

MAXXInWeb: Enzo Cucchi

Prenderà il via sabato 17 settembre alle ore 21:00 il progetto MAXXIinWeb, a cura del MAXXI e di Telecom Italia: nove incontri con altrettanti "big" della creatività contemporanea che Telecom Italia rende disponibile gratuitamente al pubblico del web, in streaming live e on demand, sul sito www.telecomitalia.com.... READ MORE...

On Media: Focus Olanda Steim

OnMedia è un progetto pluriennale ideato da O' associazione non profit e Die Schachtel editore indipendente di musica contemporanea, sviluppato in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale dei Paesi Bassi di Milano e con il supporto e la partecipazione di Istituto Austriaco di Cultura di Milano, Centre Culturel Francais de Milan, Facoltà di Musicologia-Università di Pavia sede di Cremona, NABA, Milano, Associazione Sincronie, Milano.... READ MORE...

You’re Doing What? Make A Living Inventing Your Job

The (long) way heading (by subway) to the New York Science Hall, hosting the World Maker Faire in Queens, gives me time to read some free presses and resume an article of the sunday NYTimes I haven't finished yet. It's a long piece about the twilight of the US manufacturing sector, started from the 50's to nowadays [1], and about the definite takeover of China.... READ MORE...