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The Science And Art Of Complex Systems

Within quantum mechanics, reality is an evolving state that includes the interaction of the observer as a component of the system under observation. The same thing can be said of any interactive work of media art. Human behavior contributes complexity to any interactive system of which it is a component, whether it reside in quantum space or cyberspace. Sword of the Stranger di Masahiro Ando.... READ MORE...

Walking In The City With Christina Kubisch

Christina Kubisch, one of the most important sound artists on the European scene, began to work in 2003 on a project calleD Electrical Walks This project uses custom-built headphones which transduce electromagnetic fields into audio signals, through an interaction between force fields which allow the audience to listen to a concert of ambient sounds in public spaces specifically projected.... READ MORE...

Hyperlucid

Hyperlucid is an exhibition collecting works born on the invisible edge between two different levels of reality (apparent reality and media reality), and documenting the continuous trespassing from one level to the other.... READ MORE...

Fluid Architectures

The exhibition Fluid Architectures gathers spaces of flow and immateriality created by artists in response to these contemporary notions the city. These fictional spaces made of light, moving image, and other media extend the idea of physical architecture to the construction of dynamic and seemingly infinite spaces enabling a sensory experience... READ MORE...

The Sonic Orgasm Of Claudio Rocchetti

For some time now Claudio Rocchetti has been one of the most active and interesting electronic musicians in national and European scenes: be it because of his research on sound, as an emotional and compositional element, but also materially on analogical and electronic instruments, or because of his technical, improvisational and expressive capabilities be it in the studio or live, and the tight net of collaborations and participants active between Bologna and Berlin.... READ MORE...

The Ecology Of Laboratorio Elettrico Popolare

He won't have it, he really doesn't like me calling him 'Master'. Peppo Lasagna is in principal a modest person, absolutely coherent in his being 'ecological' and in his relationship with the world, the environment, the technology that surrounds us. In principal, he's one of those people that does not bask in compliments or in the awareness of his own knowledge, but prefers to act, to do, to create.... READ MORE...

The Chinese Nightmare?

The Chinese Dream is book of more than 700 pages about the urbanization in China, published by the Dutch editor NAI Publishers. This project of colossal dimensions is on the shoulders of an architect Neville Mars, and a researcher Adrian Hornsby and the Dynamic City Foundation. The disproportionate growth of the agglomerations in China is at the centre of this publication... READ MORE...

Green Platforms, Making Ecological World

When I got into the hall of Palazzo Strozzi for the opening of 'Green Platform, the latest exhibition organized by Centro di Cultura Contemporanea di Firenze (Centre for Contemporary Culture in Florence), the cue waiting to get in was unexpectedly long. I am not used to it. Contemporary art, outside the certain circuits and without high-sounding names, can hardly attract the big crowds.... READ MORE...

Already Reality

They are four young artistic realities from 'our nursery': fortunately they always keep up with the times and they are very creative and original, an inexorable and continuing but well-selected and creamed-off mine of talented people. The performing art, able to contaminate and represent all kinds of visual arts, dances and dramaturgies, sounds and special effects, installations and showings, has become the daily bread of the young contemporary people.... READ MORE...