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Hackmeeting: + Politica – Tecnica?

Maria MolinariOctober 4, 2006

Hackmeeting 2006. IX edizione. Se gli scorsi anni la comunit degli hacker italiani, che fa riferimento al sito hackmeeting.org e alla sua mailing list, si spesso radunata in centri sociali occupati che hanno accolto centinaia di ragazzi con computer in spalla e dato loro la possibilit di confrontarsi anche con le svariate e complesse realt sociali, quest'anno sono stati gli hacker in persona ad aver occupato a Parma un edificio ed qui che hanno preparato l'hackmeeting... READ MORE...

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Body In The 21st Century: More Than Skin-deep

Gigi GhezziOctober 4, 2006

The exhibit Körper, Gesicht und Seele is one of the many events that in the last years have developed around the body. The contents focus on the typification of femininity from the 16 th to the 19 th century, from the pictorial imaginary of the Renaissance up to the androgynous subjects of contemporary performances... READ MORE...

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Robots@play

Luigi PagliariniOctober 4, 2006

I just got back from Denmark, where I attended the first edition of Robotsatplay. Spread over several dates, the event took place in the historic center of Odense, one of Denmark's oldest cities, consecrated to the god Odin, and birthplace of Hans C. Andersen... READ MORE...

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Dropping Knowledge: Tavola Delle Voci Libere

Laura ColiniOctober 4, 2006

Heinrich Heine scrive: Dovunque si bruciano i libri, alla fine si bruciano anche gli uomini. A Berlino nel 1933 di libri ne bruciarono a migliaia e Bebelplatz divenne il luogo simbolo della Bücherverbrennung il rogo della cultura voluto dai nazisti... READ MORE...

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Semantic Vjing

Silvia BianchiOctober 4, 2006

The number of images surrounding us is everyday increasing in events and place of every kind. Sometimes probably you have thought about the existence of a secrete meaning behind the images that are projected on screens of club and festivals and about that meaning construction... READ MORE...

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Light Up Y(our) Contemporary

Miriam PetruzzelliOctober 4, 2006

If, as De Kerkhove states, we are in the electric era, it is then allowed to consider the forms of digital culture to be a sort of Diogenes' lantern with which illuminate our humanity. Light up your contemporary , that is to say Transart, at its sixth edition between Trento and Bolzano, seems to boost this vision through a hectic schedule of events and performances... READ MORE...

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Abstracta 06: Cinema Astratto Remake

Claudia D'AlonzoOctober 4, 2006

From the Twenties on authors coming from visual arts have started to manipulate the cinematographic language to snatch it to pure narration and reality reproduction: Eggeling, Ruttman, Léger, Picabia address their camera beyond the phenomenal reality, giving the cinema musical rules of rhythm and composition, experimenting the use of the film as material, made up of light and shade... READ MORE...

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Simply Ars Electronica

Tiziana GeminOctober 4, 2006

The contemporaneity is irremediable influenced, in its various domains, by the use of the technologies, which should be used to simplify our life and to make the sharing of our experiences more direct. But the new technologies influence us and persuade us to not always spontaneously behaviours in order to permit the interaction between the mankind and the machine... READ MORE...

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Designing New Audiovisual Universes

Bertram NiessenOctober 4, 2006

There are several dimension during an audiovisual performance. Time management, relation with the space, chromatic and formal balance, project and composition coherence, audiovisual sync, liveness, synaesthesia. Maybe more than anything else, there is the immersion... READ MORE...

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Struttura, A Wreck In The Digital Sea

Giulia SimiOctober 4, 2006

According to the Italian dictionary, Structure means an organic system of elements, materials or not materials, on a mutual coordination and interdependence terms. This is also what we find during Tuscan three days of studying and comparison between the languages and the new media art... READ MORE...

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Cartsen Nicolai, Aesthetics of Error

Monica PonziniOctober 4, 2006

It is called Xerrox, it is inspired to the photocopy process, and it is a project that explores the borders of recognizability of an information. It is the last creation of Carsten Nicolai , a.k.a. alva noto . It is a live for laptop and video, where the original sampling is reproduced and varied, disturbed to create a product that shade off its characteristics without losing completely its identity... READ MORE...

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The End Of Neverending Cinema

Massimo SchiavoniOctober 4, 2006

The summer creative workshop where young artists, musicians, DJ's and VJ's have animated Trento's Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea , turns into an actual showing, and all the experience gathered during these months are gathered in The End , an exhibit of the works thus realized... READ MORE...

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Wefail, The Web Irony

Luca MarzelloOctober 4, 2006

Some studies give their mind to their technical capacities, to likely future imaginaries, to complex navigations and elements in 3d in order to celebrate the net and the new way in which they think it should be. Wefail is a study of graphic design which simplifies everything and turns it into practically art... READ MORE...

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Gaming Realities, Videogame Art

Domenico QuarantaOctober 4, 2006

The love affair between art and videogame has a long history at his back, which could be dated back in the mid Nineties. A series of shows and publications sanction, along the years, stability, and yet the news of their marriage reaches us as a surprise... READ MORE...

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Who Is Toshio Iwai?

Teresa De FeoOctober 4, 2006

The ones who work with the electronic arts must know the Peter Pan of the digital culture: the Japanese Toshio Iwai. The Japanese, who looks always very upset, nearly an icon of the first generation of digital artists, at the level of a Tim Burton's story, still surprises with his refined and brilliant inventions... READ MORE...

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Further Processing, Generative Future

Fabio FranchinoOctober 4, 2006

The 23rd of September 2006 Further Processing was opened at the Galleria Mediemturn of Graz, another rare attempt, such as C.Stem and Bitform to make emerge, from the dark world of underground, generative practices and creation of systems meant for creative production... READ MORE...

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Schonberg Returns In Barcellona

Barbara SansoneOctober 4, 2006

Seventy-five years ago, Barcelona welcomed Arnold Schönberg between its wonders. Today the city remind its illustrious Viennese guest with an exhibition dedicated to his character and his artistic and creative production, not only musical... READ MORE...

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Trondheim Matchmaking

Redazione DigicultOctober 3, 2006

Trondheim Matchmaking is an arena for presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects a place where competence and resources within electronic arts and new technology are maintained and developed.... READ MORE...

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