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The Unbound Book

Redazione Digicult
The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, has grown outdated. The book is coming unbound, freed from the bindings of the printed volume and from the limitations of conventional text. How will today's multimedia content and online modes of authorship offer entirely new vistas of book-like functions? How should we preserve vital features of conventional print? How will the chain from author to reader develop?... READ MORE...
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Wefab Days Make the right thing!

Redazione Digicult
WeFab is a three-day event during the Milano Design Week. It is hosted by a collaborative clothing platform, OpenWear, and by Vectorealism, a digital fabrication facility based in Milan. WeFab offers Milano Design Week's visitors a way to explore creative possibilities with new technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting.... READ MORE...
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24th Images Festival

Redazione Digicult
Established in 1987, Toronto's Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. Alongside film and video screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in 14 local art galleries and new media projects by many renowned Canadian and international artists in our three exhibition platforms... READ MORE...
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Master of Fine Arts in creative media

Redazione Digicult
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media (MFACM) emphasizes the integration of art, culture and technology. As an internationally recognized terminal degree in the creative arts, the MFACM provides intensive and advanced training in digital animation, film/video production, interactive media and new media art. A cutting edge art programme with a global vision, the MFACM is a hub and a laboratory for creative exchanges and professional collaboration regionally as well as internationally... READ MORE...
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New Vienna Now

Redazione Digicult
New Vienna Now is a multifaceted and sophisticated book for all those who have an interest in present-day creative Vienna. Designed by Stefan Sagmeister, the 384-page publication pictures and describes the wide range of Vienna's contemporary art and creativity against the background of cultural tradition.... READ MORE...
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Paper Resistance: Graphic (r)existence

Claudio Musso
By reading in one go - as imposed by the absence of punctuation - this long periphrasis, one witness a superimposition of images, concepts and ideas that flash in mind like they do into Paper Resistance drawings. Its work of counterpoint and oxymoronic juxtaposition of figures and symbols of modern society, delineates in a biting manner all the contradictions and deformations of the present. Through a plain stroke, its composition defines clearly in frames and posters filled with alienating and unpredictable associations.... READ MORE...
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Aksioma Project Space Trevor Paglen

Redazione Digicult
Established in 1987, Toronto's Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen. Alongside film and video screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in 14 local art galleries and new media projects by many renowned Canadian and international artists in our three exhibition platforms... READ MORE...
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More Perfect Union. The Emotional Cartography By Luke Dubois

Pasquale Napolitano
More Perfect Union, the last work by Luke Dubois (United States, 1975), artist, scholar, musician, represeted by the Bitforms Gallery in New York (directed by Steve Sacks e Laura Blereau), one of the most influential exhibition centers in the digital art scenario, places itself as an interesting attempt to investigate the sentimental life of americans, through the digital visualization potential.... READ MORE...
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Paolo Cirio. When Stealing Becomes Art

Tatiana Bazzichelli
The engineer figure described by Walter Benjamin reminds the 'tactical' art by Paolo Cirio, who contributes to transform the meaning of the artistic practice from within, by unveiling the unsolved knots in the art field. Through his artworks, Paolo Cirio (http://www.paolocirio.net) intervenes tactically locating some plugs of a puzzle which can be finished only by directly involving its referents, being them either corporations, media apparatuses, or the so-called network 'users'.... READ MORE...
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Notes On Time And The Net. Morphogenesis Of An Ongoing Relationship

Mitra Azar
This article is going to introduce a series of interventions around some of the major philosophical issues that need to be rethinked by the diffusion of Internet and the digital society. The goal is not to address these issues from a systematic point of view, but rather to re-interpret them in relation to generally accepted networking practices and to digital methods and tools through which they arise.... READ MORE...
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Net Art At Exhibition Centers. Marta Ponsa And The ‘jeu De Paume’ Case

Giulia Simi
We have had the pleasure of interviewing Marta Ponsa, who is in charge of the artistic and cultural projects of Jeu de Paume, and she has been taking care of planning the virtual exhibition space since 2009. Since she surely represents one of the most interesting voices to listen to on the relationship that digital art can develope with contemporary art institutions, we asked her some questions about the history and the activity of Espace Virtuel.... READ MORE...
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