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Touching The Music. Baschet Laboratory Of Sound Sculpture

Barbara Sansone
They are strange, colorful, made of cardboard, tinfoil and glass sheets, this strings of metal. They are beautiful to behold. Above all, they make you feel like you want to touch them. The ambiguity of the verb tocar a term that in Spanish means also to play (a musical instrument) appears to have originated from them. It is sufficient to touch them with your fingers slightly wet. They will emit magnificent sounds, sounds that you could produce using a traditional instruments only after years of hard practice. These objects go by the name of Cristal Baschet and other works produced by the brothers Francois & Bernard Baschet, to whom Museu de la Musica di Barcellona is dedicating a solo exhibition, which will last until December 19, 2011.... READ MORE...
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Koen Vanmechelen. Chickens, Chicks & Experimental Subjects

Silvia Casini
During the international arts exhibition LIV, International Art Exhibition in Venice, the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen will install a laboratory at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, one of Venice most renowned buildings. It is a new stage of the artist's research on fertilization of arts and science, a project that Vanmechelen has been pursuing since the beginning of his career using all sorts of materials and techniques' sculpture, video, photography, multimodal installations, drawing.... READ MORE...
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Art & Networked Culture. Tallin And The New Media Art

Mathias Jansson
The Culture Capital of Europe 2011 is Tallinn in Estonia and the biggest art exhibition during this year has been the exhibition Gateways: Art and Networked Culture at KUMU Art Museum. For the occasion the German curator Sabine Himmelsbach has collected some of the most interesting New Media Art artists from Europe asEva e Franco Mattes, Aram Bartholl, Thomson & Craighead, Sašo Sedlaček, Julius Popp, Christina Kubisch, Les Liens Invisibles to mention some of the 27 participators.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 67, September 2011

Parallel Worlds. The Mysterious Doron Golan

Michael Szpakowski
Doron Golan has been making short movies using the QuickTime format for over thirteen years. For most of this period he has been posting his work to the internet. He was a pioneer of net video and his work is profoundly marked by its digital facture and its presence on the net. I believe it to be a body of work of great significance - fearless, rich, human and often profound.... READ MORE...
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Web Aesthetics. Vito Campanelli And The Media Aesthetics

Pasquale Napolitano
Vito Campanelli is a media theorist and lecturer at the University of Naples L'Orientale, Neural contributor, freelance curator and promoter of events in the domain of digital culture in collaboration withÃÆ'ƒÆ’ÃÆ'†â€™ÃÆ'ƒÂ¢ÃÆ'¢â€Ã¡Ã‚¬ÃÆ'…¡ÃÆ'ƒÆ’ÃÆ'¢â‚¬Å¡ÃÆ'ƒâ€Ã¡ÃÆ'‚ MAO - Media & Arts Office, explores network forms through the prism of aesthetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitation of the current debate. Web is the medium that, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour and Vito Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 67, September 2011

Climbing Aesthetics. Libia Castro & Olafur Olafsson

Elena Biserna
Last June, on the train to Venice, I was reading with little timingThe Radicant, Nicolas Bourriaud’s last essay published already in 2009 by Sternberg Press. A few hours later, I was in the charming courtyard of the Collegio Armeno, which houses the Icelandic pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial: Libia Castro & ÃÆ'â€Å'lafur ÃÆ'â€Å'lafsson’s exhibition Under Deconstruction.... READ MORE...
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AND: residency program

Redazione Digicult
AND (Abandon Normal Devices) is excited to launch it's regional artists' residency programme, HOW TO BE A RESIDENT?The residency programme includes opportunities for artists to develop new work in partnership with a variety of organisations including the Forestry Commission, British Waterways and DaDa. Investigating the model of a contemporary arts residency, they will take place in remote locations, online and on water.... READ MORE...
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Public 2.0: The Era of information openess

Redazione Digicult
In recent years significant changes in the technological, social and media landscapes have redrawn relationships between cultural producers of all stripes and the people previously called readers, audiences and users. In parallel with this, unprecedented amounts of information have entered the public domain as a result of both top-down policy pressures and 'bottom-up' social activism. This process in turn has given birth to new cultural movements, opportunities for creativity, forms of information visualisation, and modes of content production.... READ MORE...
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Black Sound White Cube

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition Black Sound White Cube will present works by ten international artists that refer to the musical traditions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Black Sound White Cube thus seeks to trigger discussions off the beaten track of the hegemonic fields of avant-garde and pop. Black Sound White Cube is based on the eponymous book by German artist Ina Wudtke and Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage published in 2010. The central proposition of the book is that the white cube not only looks white but also sounds white.... READ MORE...
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Collect the WWWorld

Redazione Digicult
Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge amounts of visual material produced by popular culture and advertising. Collect the WWWorld is an attempt to show how art responds to the information society.... READ MORE...
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A New Dark Age For Dutch Culture

Annette Wolfsberger
The letter Meer dan kwaliteit' (More than Quality') by the State Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra (VVD, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) arrived in the electronic mailboxes of Dutch art and cultural institutes on Friday, 10 June 2011. It stated that €200 million would be brutally slashed from the arts and culture budget, starting as early as 1 January 2013... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

City Portraits. Teatro A Corte: Interview With Berlin

Silvia Scaravaggi
We interviewed Berlin before their participation to Teatro a Corte 2011. Berlin is a Belgium-based collective, built around Bart Baele and Yves Degryse. It started in 2003, when the group from Anversa was formed together with the actress Caroline Rochlitz, with the aim to develop a project dedicated to cities or regions able to tell stories of important and universal identities and humanities.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Certain Pleasure. Zhang Peili And Electronic Media

Robin Peckham
Zhang Peili is an enigmatic figure: while he is widely respected in China as a pioneering video artist and a progenitor of the use of electronic media in the wake of the 85 New Wave movement of the mid-1980s, his international reputation relies primarily on a small number of survey exhibitions motivated by multicultural agendas and staged amidst work of vastly divergent practical initiatives.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011