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Share Festival 2008: Manufacturing

Luca BarbeniMarch 3, 2008

Cos" inizia il testo introduttivo di Vladimir Archpov, che ha pazientemente raccolto 220 invenzioni nate dall'estro di una popolazione russa colpita dalle ristrettezze economiche generate dalla fine dell'impero sovietico. Tra gli oggetti la " gabbia antivandali per lampione ', una " stufetta con lampada al quarzo ' e un " distillatore casalingo ': cosa centra tutto ci con Share Festival? Manufacturing, tema della quarta edizione del festival, che si tiene a Torino dall' 11 al 16 marzo 2008, stato scelto per due ragioni. ... READ MORE...

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Carlo Zanni: Information Is The New Color

Giulia SimiMarch 3, 2008

Carlo Zanni, who was born in La Spezia in 1975, is an international artist whose works have been shown in many galleries and museums, from Rome to New York .... READ MORE...

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Christina Ray: Open Source Territories

Monica PonziniMarch 3, 2008

Christina Ray lives in Brooklyn, New York. She's an artist and a curator focusing her efforts on psychogeography, the creative investigation of physical and psychological spaces inside the cities, she founded Glowlab, an initiative which produces art linked to the fruition and interpretation of urban spaces, as well as the Conflux Festival.... READ MORE...

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Trok!: Free Music, In Free Spaces

Bertram NiessenMarch 3, 2008

In Italy , more than anywhere else, the cultural life of experimentation is related to political underground through a system that developed from the 60's. Social Centers and Squat have been locations of the (electronic and not) experimentation of the 90's, with alternate fortune.... READ MORE...

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Who Is Afraid Of Janez Jana?

Antonio CaroniaMarch 3, 2008

Berlin, 28th January 2008, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe . It's one past midnight. Three people wearing white windbreakers and carrying backpacks with GPS devices and a webcam turned towards their own faces, stop for a second, in silence.... READ MORE...

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Generator X 2.0, Objects That Don’t Exist (yet)

Fabio FranchinoMarch 3, 2008

During the presentation of GeneratorX 2.0, which took place in Berlin's DAM in collaboration with Club Transmediale 2008 and Hyperwerk, Marius Watz, the one who organized and curated the event, concluded his introductory speech inviting the audience to go and visit the generatorX exhibition, soon to open its doors. An exhibition of objects which are yet to exist.... READ MORE...

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An Heideggerian Lecture Of Software Culture

Cristiano PoianMarch 3, 2008

During the 30's, Martin Heidegger dedicated a series of conferences to artwork that would have led on to writing of the essay 'The origin of the artwork', published in 1950.... READ MORE...

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Ken Jacobs: The Demiurgo Of The Moving Image

Alessio GalbiatiMarch 3, 2008

Mentre scrivo questo 'pezzo' la dodicesima edizione del Sonic Acts volge al termine e come ogni evento che si appresta alla conclusione lascia nell'animo di chi era presente, come pure di chi non c'era, l'enorme ansia della perdita che non solo lo scivolare via d'un momento presente che si vorrebbe eterno, ma il timore dell'essersi lasciati sfuggire qualcosa da sotto il naso: un'intuizione, un momento, un bagliore irripetibile per sempre andato.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

Urban Typography: Inspiration from the streets!

Redazione DigicultMarch 2, 2008

A two-day course, 3 and 4 April 2008, from 10am to 5pm, centered on experimenting and iteratively fine-tuning urban designs with FabLab... READ MORE...

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Cleotronica 08

Redazione DigicultFebruary 20, 2008

Cleotronica 08 is the inaugural version of Cleotronica a context responsive festival for media, art, and socio-culture organized by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) an alternative initiative for art and culture based in Egypt 's second largest city.... READ MORE...

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Av Festival 08

Redazione DigicultFebruary 14, 2008

The AV Festival is a biennial international festival of electronic art, moving image and music. AV Festival 08: Broadcast will take place across the three urban areas of NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland & Middlesbrough, 28 February - 8 March 2008.... READ MORE...

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Artefact 2008

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2008

Artefact 2008 presents a fascinating and refreshing collection of perspectives and opinions on the moments, places, and things that constitute our increasingly mediated world.... READ MORE...

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International Master of Media Art Histories

Redazione DigicultFebruary 4, 2008

The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others.... READ MORE...

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Giuseppe La Spada: The Aesthetics Of A Digital World

Giuseppe CordaroJanuary 29, 2008

I knew Giuseppe La Spada by chance, at the wonderful performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto last year during the third edition of Festival delle Arti Contemporanee in Rovereto. In that occasion the Sicilian artist was a guest of his friend composer, with whom he carried out a net art project called 'Mo No Aware'few people have heard about, which supports a green cause, aiming at drawing people's and media's attention to radioactive contamination Japan is experiencing in the village of Rokkasho.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 31, February 2008

Sign 69.com: Philip Wood’s Microprogramming

Luca BarbeniJanuary 29, 2008

When we talk about sign69, medialounge.org, basically when we talk about Philip Wood, we deal with one of the real net artists who has immediately guessed the intrinsic communicative and expressive values of the net, beyond the technological innovation aspect.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 31, February 2008

The Landscapes Of Technoethic Art

Antonio CaroniaJanuary 29, 2008

Italy has a peculiar characteristic that is difficult to understand for those who are not familiar with the history of our country. That is that our culture, on the whole, is distanced, always lagging behind, lacking consciousness of, and sometimes even traveling in the opposite direction of the important cultural trends that emerge across the globe.... READ MORE...

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Cccs:cross-sectional View Of Contemporaneity

Giulia SimiJanuary 29, 2008

Emotional Systems - Contemporary Art between Emotion and Reason is the first exhibition of CCCS (Centro per la Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina) - as revealed by the name a part of the Fondazione Strozzi in Florence .... READ MORE...

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The Catalan Technological Scene

Annamaria MonteverdiJanuary 29, 2008

In this article I have tried to ask some of the key components of Catalan artistic and cultural scene what are the health conditions of that so-called 'scene', which has been the reference point for everybody dealing with theatre and design multimedia art.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 31, February 2008