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Machinima By Eddo Stern

Domenico QuarantaNovember 1, 2006

The widespread tendency to identify new technology with innovation, leads to a rather banal misunderstanding, according to which new media artists are all innovators. The artists able to use the tool in an innovative way are actually a few. Eddo Stern is probably one of the few cases where both of the two preliminary remarks are actually fulfilled... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Video Online, The End Of The Beginning

Beatrice BonfantiNovember 1, 2006

The Net is the most huge communication prosthesis ever created. It is part of the definition new media and it is therefore different from the old media. The distinction is necessary as the Net can be considered a real new media, a big ensemble with numerous subsystem, included the traditional media... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

The Technological Beauty

Alessandra MiganiNovember 1, 2006

in the creating scene of New York emerge withouth any doubt a Soho studio, where the director Arvind Palep and the producer Serge Patzak direct 1st Avenue Machine, an agency that realizes spots and music videos in computer graphic and 3D animation since 2004... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Jankowski, Ahtila: Psyche In Video

Monica PonziniNovember 1, 2006

You need a little bit of sense of humour to face horror. This seems to be the moral lesson of the tales of ordinary craziness by two video-artists whose technique and thematic are very different. Christian Jankowski's and Eija-Liisa Ahtila's exhibitions take place in New York respectively at The Kitchen and at MoMA... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Austrian Abstract

Redazione DigicultOctober 23, 2006

The exhibition presents 27 Austrian-based artists dealing with abstraction in different styles and media. The show is divided into three, interrelated sections: an exhibition hall featuring a 'classical' compilation of paintings, photographs and installations; a cinema showing digital videos; and a lounge hosting a variety of computer-based works. ... READ MORE...

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Virtuality Conference

Redazione DigicultOctober 20, 2006

The annual conference dedicated to virtual reality has become a celebrated meeting place and a venue for updating for all those who work and are interested in cinema, computer graphics, animation, post-production, simulation, video games and new frontiers in digital art . This year Virtuality is in its 7th edition and will take place in Turin from October 17-20, 2006 at the Centro Congressi Torino Incontra .... READ MORE...

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First Play Berlin

Redazione DigicultOctober 19, 2006

TRAMPOLINE, the platform for new media art opens First Play Berlin and brings together 30 artists to explore the theme of mixed reality from different perspectives. Fusing video, installation and live performance, Trampoline offers a packed evening of media art entertainment to celebrate the launch of the FIRST PLAY BERLIN artworks. The finale will be a live concert by Heidi Mortenson... READ MORE...

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Show and Tell: Tara Mateik & The Yes Men

Redazione DigicultOctober 18, 2006

Activist artists Tara Mateik, founder of the Society for Biological Insurgents, and the Yes Men, an "identity correction" collective, will assume guises and give entertaining talks demonstrating their use of information and "disinformation" to shift balances of power.... READ MORE...

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Italian Networking

Redazione DigicultOctober 13, 2006

The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.... READ MORE...

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Laurie Anderson: recent works

Redazione DigicultOctober 13, 2006

Laurie Anderson will present a special audio-visual lecture exploring the intersections of art, science and creativity. One of the permier perfromance artists in the world, Ms. Anderson has consistently intrigued, entertained and challenged audiences with her multimedia persentations.... READ MORE...

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Golan Levin

Redazione DigicultOctober 12, 2006

Golan Levin (1972) professore alla Carnegie Mellon University, è un artista e ricercatore americano interessato allo sviluppo di sistemi di comunicazione interattiva e visuale che potenzino la comunicazione interpersonale e sociale attraverso l’uso delle nuove tecnologie.... READ MORE...

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Situated Technologies

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2006

A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis.... READ MORE...

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My First Second Life

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2006

Lunedì 02 ottobre 2006 nell'ambito delle Kuurian Expeditions, le spedizioni scientifiche nei mondi virtuali organizzate da Edward Castronova, si terrà un incontro in Second Life con Marco Cadioli... READ MORE...

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Piksel 06

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2006

70 participants from 20 countries gather in Bergen for 4 days of exchanging art, code and ideas based on practical implementations of free culture. Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software.... READ MORE...

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Art Futura 2006

Redazione DigicultOctober 6, 2006

ArtFutura 2006 reaches its seventeenth edition. From 26 to 29 October, the festival that has become a point of reference in Spain for art, technology and digital culture will offer an extensive program of activities in museums and cultural centers in as many as ten different cities.... READ MORE...

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Christian Fennesz: Electronic Punk Frontier

Marco MancusoOctober 4, 2006

Christian Fennesz is an atypical character of the electronic contemporary music universe. Anti-star per excellence, shy and reserved as his music, Fennesz has obtained during the last ten years international fame and prestige in a world sometimes too mean of sensitive and eclectic artists... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Floating Gender: Travel Notes From Etc

Eleonora OreggiaOctober 4, 2006

A text written in Italian is similar to a Zen exercise to an emigrant. The concentration comes when you write by hand, at the back of a printed paper. English keeps your mind busy, your brain is mixed up with the sounds of a long travel... READ MORE...

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Interactiva 07, Biennale Di Arte Nuova

Lucrezia CippitelliOctober 4, 2006

La Biennale InteractivA'07, si svolger a Mrida, nello stato messicano della Yucatan, in giugno/luglio 2007. In questi giorni il curatore esecutivo Raul Moharquech Ferrera Balanquet sta aprendo nuovamente la call per partecipare alla quarta edizione di una biennale indipendente, internazionale, incentrata sulle nuove e vecchie tecnologie e sulla creazione di reti, anche non digitali, che connettano saperi dislocati e critica al colonialismo culturale, anche quello nuovo... READ MORE...

ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006