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Redazione Digicult
DIGITAL LIFE, is a project dedicated to the digital future and to the cross-fertilization between technology, new media and contemporary artistic expressions. On the 3 March 2010, this project inaugurates La Pelanda, a new location in the newly refurbished ex-abattoirs in Testaccio for contemporary artistic and cultural productions. These premises have been renovated for the city by the Rome Municipality as part of the Zone attive Project.... READ MORE...
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Delete: The Virtue Of Oblivion. An Interview To Viktor Mayer-schonberger

Simona Fiore
In our digital era we have a large number of technologic devices at our disposal, that allow us to store informations about ourselves, and fulfills our greets ambition as human beings: a perfect, or rather quasi-perfect memory. This being consequentially followed by a deep turnover between the mechanisms of memory and oblivion: in analog media era, the action of forgetting is a natural biological process; to memorize, on the other hand, was more difficult and had certain costs. In contemporary digital society remembrance is a default operation, while forgetting has instead become a longer and more difficult process.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Hypersurface And Mediafacade. Urban Screen And Nu Former

Annamaria Monteverdi
Lev Manovich once said that the deep change which is affecting culture in the era of computerized media revolution also concerns space and its representation and organization systems. Space becomes a media itself: Just like all other media - audio, video, images and text - nowadays space can be transmitted, stored and recovered in a snapshot. Space can be squeezed, re-formatted, changed into a flow, filtered, computerized, programmed and interactively managed (L. Manovich, Il linguaggio dei nuovi media)... READ MORE...
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light bulb by jeff lieberman

Redazione Digicult
light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, with the levitation and wireless power circuitry both on, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.... READ MORE...
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The Research Of Knifeandwork. In Between Technology And Partecipation

Mattia Casalegno
Even if the Knifeandfork were not raised in Los Angeles (Brian House is from Denver and based in NY, Sue Huang currently lives in LA but was born in Saudi Arabia) their art seems to me quintessential to such odd place. They designed an user-oriented fictional narrative inspired to Kurosawa's film Rashomoon based on the algorithm of the /Prisoner's Dilemma /game theory model (5 'til 12, 2006); transformed a contemporary art museum in a golf club (Emptiness is Form (golf and donuts) at MOCA, 2009), and staged a public continuous reenactment of the infamous Maradona's goal that leaded Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup (Trying the Hand of God, 2009).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Videostories And Videogames. Federico Solmi And His Douche Bag City

Monica Ponzini
Game Over. If Federico Solmi's work was characterized by an ironic destruction of myths and (anti)heroes, and the violence of his narration faded into laughter, with his latest exhibit, From Uterus to Grave with no Happy Ending, and video installation Douche Bag City, his satire becomes more bitter and deals with a highly topical theme - as always-- and with a very personal style.... READ MORE...
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Jacob Kirkeegard. The Poetics Of The Space

Silvia Bertolotti
From the 25th till the 28th of February the 13th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival took place in Amsterdam. This edition - The Poetic of Space - was entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative, audiovisual and film arts. Sonic Acts has become a moment for investigation into the importance of physical space, as well as for the physical and psychological impact of artistic creations centred on space, in a time, like the one we live in, of important and continuous technological development.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Art And Architecture: Investigation At The Boundaries Of Space

Eugenia Fratzeskou
Our changing understanding of reality has inspired the invention of new concepts of space and strategies for spatial research and practice across disciplines. There have been several radical changes in cosmology, science, art, design and philosophy, concerning the ways in which reality and our experience of it may be understood. As can be seen in recent studies by scientists, artists, designers and thinkers, such changes have encouraged the development of new philosophies and theories on space, new types of spatial perception, interaction etc... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

The Meaning Of A Sound Place. G. Bohme, The Aesthetics Of The Atmosphere

Simone Broglia
The theme of space is a cornerstone in the philosophical investigation. It appeals to the world experienced by the subjects in terms of perceptual knowledge, the aim then is never the metrological and scientific analysis of change, but the attempt at clarification of the common sensitive comprehension of those data which the outside world offers to those who meet it.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

The Influencers 2010: Art, Action, Disobedience And Alchemy

Barbara Sansone
Heroes? Not really, according to them. They do what we all could do, what we all should maybe do: to denounce, inform, express ourselves, find our spaces, make our voice being heard (especially when who should be representing us, does not actually do it at all) and yet defend freedom, enjoy ourselves, try to be fine and take charge of the consequences of our lifestyle over human kind and the environment. Without being afraid, without being submissive, get what is ours, in a creative way, in a cultuerd, artistic way.... READ MORE...
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The Suicide Irony. Seppuko And Web 2.0 Suicidemachine

Loretta Borrelli
Talk about suicide has has hardly ever been a simple thing, and that is especially nowadays. It is a dodgy, slippery ground. it might be tolerated wether it is tackled pivoting the speech on a medical-psychoanalitical attitude, since it allows to remain in a detached, scientific standpoint. Yet it becomes extremely likely to upset many people's sensitivity, if one tries to relate the subject to contemporary thought and politics... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Tortuous Visions Of Lu Yang. The Bioart In China

Robin Peckham
New media art in greater China, when it is present, tends toward the conservative: re-engineered video games, simplistically interactive video installations, and sound art are the norm. In a few corners, however, a new wave of artists is pushing this envelope and developing new strains of practice based particularly around the complementary poles of aesthetic coding and, most intriguingly, biological matter.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010Science

Body, Cyborg, Robot In Lugano. Interaction Between Mechanical & Organic

Silvia Casini
Primary and basic technology become works of art capable of playing with our passion for machinary and technology, a form of "pain" that we feel with and through our bodies. Simplicity is at the heart of Macchina Inutile (Useless Machine), an almost inconsistent assembly of delicate stems and coloured metal pieces built on to a spinning structure that slowly speeds down... READ MORE...
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Andy Deck And The Net Art: The Licence To Be An Artist

Marco Mancuso
Andy C. Deck, net artist and pioneer of conceptual art on the net, has been active for more than a decade and is not a character that needs a lot of introduction. A New Yorker, Andy Deck got his degree in English Literature at the University of Michigan, studied in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and in 1993 he obtained his MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Art in New York, where he is now a professor, as well as teaching Media Design & Theory at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at New York University.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010