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Ulrich Vogl. Harmony And Worlds In Balance

Ulrich Vogl (Kaufbeuren, 1973) grew up in southern Germany. He studied in Monaco, Berlin and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says he inherited his artistic streak from his grandfather, who was a researcher and inventor. This familiar and romantic world belongs to Ulrich Vogl as to his works, which are a mix of invention and idyllic evocation, purified by clear and defined forms, minimal colour choices that simper away every affectation and confers the work a concise and intriguing aspect.... READ MORE...

Costellations And Fragments. The Sound By Stephan Mathieu

Recently reading again the essay by Nicolas Bourriaud, Post Production. The culture comme scénario: comment l'art reprogramme le monde contemporain, I have found this excerpt of Mode d'emploi du détournement by Guy Debord, which to the detriment of his fiftyfive years - the text was published back in '56 - picks an extremely contemporary aspect of the artistic practise.... READ MORE...

No Borders Struggles The Electronic Disturbance Theatre 2.0

We are Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 - EDT2.0. As a collective, we are already many. As a multiplicity, our goals, hopes and intentions are multiple. Our shared goals include the disturbance of borders: national, gender, genre, disciplinary, fiction/non, through the exploitation and re/performance of technology, poetry and the imaginaries of each.... READ MORE...

Notes On Transmediale 2011: Hack:ability And Identity

The last edition of Transmediale, Berlin's festival for new media, welcomed like every year artists, curators, critics, activists and insiders under the enfatic title Response: Ability. In its 2011 edition, Transmediale has dealt with the political implications generated by the technological evolution in progress, with the skills which the hypermedial and overconnected subject should acquire in order to face the new matters that reality sets with urgency.... READ MORE...

That Measure Of Light. A Conversation With Ugo Pitozzi

Ugo Pitozzi, choreographer and video-artist, is one of the major personalities of ballet born during the ʻ80s. His background stems from his education: he studied idioms of visual arts at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, contemporary dance (he studied the Laban technique), contemporary technique with William Forsythe, Mary Wigman's principles with Erika Thimey, and choreography dance composition with Gerhard Bohner. He also attended choreography dance composition and contemporary creation with Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Simone Forti.... READ MORE...

Videozoom Japan. Re-framing The Daily

From December 7th to January 10th, Kenichi Kondo, curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, presented a series of young Japanese artists at the Sala 1 - International Center for Contemporary Art in Rome, as part of the review Videozoom Japan. It was an overview of selected and formally interesting artistic production coming from the Rising Sun realized over the past decade, which focused on issues related to the re-framing of daily life (as suggested by the subtitle of this review).... READ MORE...

The “OVNI” Project. Video As A Critical Experience

The 2011 edition of OVNI (Observatory de V'deo no Identificat: Unidentified Video Observatory) is dedicated to the concept of dis-reality. In an age where the show business, too many times mistaken for the culture world, has risen as model of real life, where fiction and reality melt into one solution and where physic and mental solidity dissolve into a constant flow of images and appearances, in this intricate and complex mutation of reality the OVNI work shows itself as an antidote to the poison of contemporary information and communication... READ MORE...

Mischa Kuball Platon’s Mirror

Düsseldorf-based media artist Mischa Kuball is among the few artists who has consistently understood light's (socio-)political dimensions and used the media accordingly in numerous works and installations. In his new exhibition project Platon's mirror, two additional aspects are included: a perception-aesthetics component, as well as the possibility of a novel type of image generation through computer tomography.... READ MORE...

Mapping Maciunas & Exercise

Stendhal Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two exhibitions, Mapping Maciunas and Exercise on February 3, 2011. Both exhibitions examine the work of Fluxus artist, George Maciunas, who blended his education in architecture, graphic design and musicology to produce new ways of thinking about the state of contemporary society.... READ MORE...

Freedom of creation Kickstarter

Freedom Of Creation, Dutch design editor and pioneer in 3D printing, and FreshFiber, electronics accessories brand, are inviting visionary people, design addicts and pioneers to help fund the world's first online customization tool for 3D products. On www.kickstarter.com, everybody believing in the future of mass-customization, a true potential of 3D printing, can contribute, with low or big budgets, to this ambitious and futuristic project. Deadline for pledging is 27 February 2011.... READ MORE...

Artefact Festival

The Emergence of Things brings together some 20 artists who investigate the fundamental components or "elementary particles" of media, technology and their production processes. Like anatomical surgeons or archaeologists, they dissect our everyday instruments and image production. Some artists approach the theme from the social or political implications of certain 'tools' and the power structures that are interwoven with them.... READ MORE...

The Perturbing Image. Interview With Francesca Fini

Francesca Fini is an image-woman: she creates (moving, static, real and synthetic) images; she is an art performer and filmmaker, interaction designer and (hyper) graphic dealing with every kind of hybridizations and contaminations. During her life she has been trying her hand at several media. Her first work was the autobiographical novel 'Thus Spoke Mickey Mouse' (1996), then she began to work in the fields of cinema and TV.... READ MORE...