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The Image Of Sound. Yuri Ancarani’s Stomach

Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972) likes to define himself a visual artist/film maker. He developed his research by starting studying his territory, the land where he was born: the Riviera Romagnola. As for his music video Vicino al Cuore (2003), work that he claims to love the most, or Kras (Bora, 2011) or Carrara caves (Il Capo, 2010), he always succeeds to catch the invisible aspect that transmits to the public the meaning of those places.... READ MORE...

Offf 2011. Year Zero, In Which Sense?

OFFF, the international festival for web design, graphic animation and post-digital culture, is back to Barcelona. It is not back because it has not reached its goals during its three years abroad, like Ivˆn de la Nuez, director of the the Department of Cultural Activities of the CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture , wants to point out. To claim the authorship of such a successful event is perfectly comprehensible, but it is also coherent with the politics of a city which tends always more to be a brand of industrial culture, disadvantaging in many cases the minor artistic trends, even if they are significant and committed.... READ MORE...

Late “primavera”. Recorded Report From The Festival

Even if it seems impossible to combine such a big number of so different bands on the same event, the Primavera Sound 2011 'back to the present' operation managed to hit the bull's eye. Three days - from May 26th to May 28th -of historic pop, rock and post-punk icons of the eighties and the nineties that performed on stage with new artists, offering more electronic and contaminated music than the post-dance, dubstep and hip hop wave.... READ MORE...

Notes on Digital Icons And Death. Iran Vs Iran

The image of Neda's death appears compulsively in our brain. The eye, cannibal and hungry partner, looks at death through the satellite decongesting awareness that had to be deactivated like it happened to the building in our surroundings. CNN kept broadcasting the images of Neda's face. The big cathode eye feels the smell of blood, knows its bulimic, vampirized adepts, and uses them until the burning red becomes invisible and the moment of death becomes dream. Like in the chocking game, a ritual for wealthy American teenagers, in which they choke each others until they faint and gasp for few seconds, convulsing, and then wake up again, laughing with their friends without understanding where, or why or when it happened... READ MORE...

Me, Myself And Twenty-three. Science And Narcissism 2.0

The first time I heard of 23andMe I was reading an article on 'Internazionale', few years ago. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, the company provides a series of data and statistics about individuals' genome to everyone who is keen enough to send his/her own spit to be examined. For those who might not know, Wojcicki is Sergei Brin's wife, one of Google's chiefs and one of the main investors of the project.... READ MORE...

Connect Art between media and reality

An exhibition with media art from the Swiss support programme Sitemapping / Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) 2003–2011. Smart technologies, everywhere available and tailored to our needs, determine our daily lives. We gossip, have affairs, send and receive our information electronically. Even support for revolutions is stoked up virtually. Mobile phone, Email, WLAN, Apps, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter define not only our communication behaviour, but even our very existence. The world has become more transparent, we are always any time anywhere, at least we think we are.... READ MORE...

Festival SESC Videobrasil

The particularities of contemporary artistic production from the geopolitical South of the world inspire the Southern Panoramas Seminar, the main activity in the Educational Curatorial Program developed for the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.... READ MORE...

Flussi 2011

Terza edizione per «Flussi», festival internazionale di arti digitali. Come tutti gli anni, sarà la terrazza del Teatro «Carlo Gesualdo» di Avellino il palcoscenico per i live set di artisti di spessore internazionale... READ MORE...

Share Prize 2011

Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age. Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from 25th June to 20th August 2011, by completing the entry form on the website.... READ MORE...

Art & Science A new art movement

Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever increasing rate. But today artists are bringing science out of the laboratory. Once art and science seemed diametrically opposite; but these days some of the most innovative artists are fusing art and science to create a brand new art movement inspired by science. Striving to visualise the invisible and what it must mean to be human in the future, they create images and objects of stunning beauty, redefining the notion of aesthetic and of what is meant by art.... READ MORE...

Biorhythm: Music And The Body

Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...

Translife: Media Art China

Following the groundbreaking international new media art exhibition "Synthetic Times", a 2008 Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, the National Art Museum of China presents "TransLife", the next installment of the "Media Art China" series, now instituted as a triennial, slated to open on July 26, 2011, in Beijing.... READ MORE...

Biorhytham: Music And The Body

Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...

Tuned City: Tallin

Hear Tallinn with new ears! Buildings and architecture are usually described in visual terms. But it is often our sense of hearing which assists us in experiencing and navigating through the spaces of urban cities. There is no sound without space and no space without a sound.... READ MORE...