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Live: To Play And To Create Is Like Playing

Alex DandiMarch 29, 2006

There is a musical software application which has been changing the modus operandi of electro music for some years. It is called Live. It is produced by the Berlin software house Ableton, founded in 1999 by the programmers/ sound engineers Robert Henke and Gerhard Behle, known as well as musicians under the name of Monokale... READ MORE...

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La Molleindustria, When The Goin’ Gets Tough

Claudia D'AlonzoMarch 29, 2006

A process of creative deconstruction has been assaulting one of the most representative mass entertainment commercial product: videogame. Groups as Molleindustria, Newsgaming , Antiwargame, Metapet deconstruct schemes and contents of videogame language changing videogames from entertainment instruments into soft stings to kindle lethargic brains... READ MORE...

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Meeting The Media Guru: Geert Lovink

Francesca ValsecchiMarch 29, 2006

The official and awaited moments before meeting our mind myths are never the proper occasions for a fruitful exchange, as the conditions for a necessary concentration and participation do not occur easily... READ MORE...

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Science Of Information, Science And Society

Gigi GhezziMarch 29, 2006

Science of communication is more and more moving away from an overall social subject. This science interdisciplinary par excellence is specialised in subfields and has created fences frequently off-limits, maybe because it focuses too much on amazing again and on safeguarding its margin of action.... READ MORE...

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The Fear Of The Limit

MotorMarch 29, 2006

Not long ago I was invited to the conference (The Sense of the Limit, arranged by Pino Zappal) which closed ToShare, a festival of digital arts. The subject of the conference was the sense of the limit. I had to relate the point of view of the artist... READ MORE...

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Fluid.nl: Designer O Developer?

Luca MarzelloMarch 29, 2006

The majority of developers are not really designers and vice versa. It is more common to find a work team instead of a single do-it-all. We can however come across really talented, creative and enthusiastic people, who are not worried about using this or that software and who at the same time love design and programming... READ MORE...

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Rld, La Republique Libre Du Design

Miriam PetruzzelliMarch 29, 2006

Also this year Milan is speaking about design again in the liveliest and most gossiped about week of the season, Il Salone del Mobile. Here design is extended over a closed public to awaken wider curiosity and consensus, but still waiting to know if also this year the Salone del mobile will be a sort of collective relay race between aperitifs and parties or if instead everything will be reduced to a more authentic and introspective social and cultural dimension... READ MORE...

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Mutaforma: Private Becomes Collettive

Beatrice FerrarioMarch 29, 2006

Collective Intelligence - a name taken from the cyborg imaginary - is the new Evilia di Leonardo and Daniele Tito 's outcome. They created the multimedia project Mutaforma. Collective Intelligence, which uses web audio and video resources to generate artistic creations... READ MORE...

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Sven And The Creative Video-surveillance

Tiziana GeminMarch 29, 2006

Every day we leave a variety of uncontrolled traces of our passing and actions. As a matter of fact new technologies extend our possibilities and make us more visible and identciable. Television cameras, mobile phones, satellites, and personal computers give us the possibility to monitor our actions and constantly spy our lives... READ MORE...

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Lol Architects, Architecture In Second Life

Marco CadioliMarch 29, 2006

In Second life there's no need to sleep, drink or eat, it's not cold, but there are houses just like those in the real world; kitchens, living rooms, bed rooms, and they are solidly anchored to the ground even in the absence of gravity, with a roof even though it doesn't rain and stairs to go from one floor to another even though you can fly... READ MORE...

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Share Festival, The Limit Is Surmountable

Teresa De FeoMarch 29, 2006

The last edition of the Share Festival 2006 has just ended, this year it had the pleasure of accompanying the acclaimed winter Olympics in Torino. Growing in notoriety, both at a national and international level, and attracting institutional interest, this time the Share Festival was held on the premises of the prestigious Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti... READ MORE...

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Roberto Latini Chained Atmotion Capture

Annamaria MonteverdiMarch 29, 2006

There are rare example of use of the technology Motion Capture in the prose theatre, as this is a modality more frequented by the digital choreography or special effects cinematography. To experiment the expressive potentiality of the machinery-body associated to data glove, an artist eclectic such as Roberto Latini was necessary , recognized as the talent of the new Italian research theatre... READ MORE...

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Finalmente Cosmesi

Massimo SchiavoniMarch 29, 2006

The Italian theatre re-start from Dramaturgy from the Space. I want to start woth this phrase pointing the lights on a project born in 2003 with two young from Friuli that already have years of research on their shoulder: Eva Geatti e Nicola Toffolini... READ MORE...

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Experiment New Interactions

Bertram NiessenMarch 29, 2006

Kinotek is a duo of video performer from Rome, composed of Mattia Casalegno and Giovanni D'Aloia . They try to build up audio-visual ambient using the languages of the new media arts. They move with confidence between the area of club vjing and the area of abstract performances, with the objective to experiment the different modalities of interaction between technologies and performances... READ MORE...

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Remediating Pontecorvo

Domenico QuarantaMarch 29, 2006

According to Jay D. Bolter and Richard Grusin, new media absorb and emulate old media. They call this phenomenon remediation and it can be seen both as the direct expression and invisibility of medium and hyper-mediation or display of medium and its characteristics. One of the most interesting characteristics of this process is it's multidirectional action... READ MORE...

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Rec Festival, Live After Siesta

Silvia BianchiMarch 29, 2006

The Rec Festival of 25 th February 2006 in Madrid has seen the participation of different artists from all around Europe and local artists as well. The festival was a marathon of 12 hours where 24 deejays and as many vee-jay alternate head to head on two different stages giving a good overview about the last European production... READ MORE...

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Hans Schabus And The Very Pleasure

Isabella DepanisMarch 29, 2006

The artistic collaboration between the Austrian artist Hans Schabus who inquires mainly into the space and The Very Pleasure duo (composed by the Austrian artists Oliver Welter, who's the singer of the band Naked Lunch and Fritz Ostermayer ) turned out into an interesting event which took place at the spaces of the laboratory of Teatro alla Scala... READ MORE...

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0006 Limiteazero

Redazione DigicultMarch 24, 2006

It inaugurates 0006_Limiteazero, the first monographic exposition of one of the most interesting artistic group of digital experimentation in Italy, which will be introduced at Hublab Gallery in Milan... READ MORE...

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