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Sensational Architecture

Redazione Digicult
Seconda fase della rassegna "Luce-Forma/Visioni Urbane", ideata dall' architetta Daniela Pastore e promossa dal Laboratorio Architettura Contemporanea, ha come fulcro la mostra Sensational Architecture. La mostra affronta il tema dell'architettura indagando panoramiche poliedriche di città internazionali in chiave onirica ed artificiale ; nelle quali lo spazio delle architetture diventa una visione psichica in grado di rimodellare le città e la sua visione trasformandola in sensazionale ed eccentrica .... READ MORE...
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Lookat Festival. Between Interactivity And Contemplation

Giulia Simi
It is more and more evident that contemporary culture and art are able to communicate to a public which goes beyond the simple niche of professionals. It is also difficult to ignore the fact that the new media offer a great contribution to this phenomenon. Lastly, it is a matter of fact that the vernissages of exhibitions, events and theme festivals are more and more crowded. However, when this happens in small towns, often accused to be unable to satisfy the requests and practices of electronic and digital art, it means that the 'long queue' has already created a positive effect which is impossible to ignore.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Radiography Of The Matter. Herman Kolgen And The Sound Perception

Enrico Pitozzi
Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound sculptures, videos and cinematographic works - for example Silent Room (2005), film, installation and live performance created with the collaboration of the video artist and photographer Dominique [t] Skoltz with whom he founded in 1996 the multi-discipline cell Skoltz_Kolgen (followed by DigiMag several times in the past).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Digital Life Exhibition”. When Art Does Show Off

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Closure moment is approaching for Digital Life,which opened in early March 2010 Pelanda activities in Rome. Recently restored, Pelanda is the part of the vast ex-slaughterhouse compound (the name itself refers to the room where animals were skinned)which in mid-February opened as space of cultural production. Wanted and organized by Zone Attive, a Roman cultural entity that has survived to Rome's political crossing from 'veltronian pax' to Alemanno's leadership in 2008, Pelanda space was inaugurated as a step further towards the recovery of the Mattatoio di Testaccio.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010
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thomas mcintosh: ondulation

Redazione Digicult
Presented as a "temporal sculpture," Ondulation (2002) in those days exhibited at Digital Life Exhibition in Rome, a composition for water, sound and light, was created by Thomas McIntosh in collaboration with composer and friend Emmanuel Madan (the pair go by the pseudonym [The User]) (2) and Mikko Hynnimen, a sound designer, lighting specialist, scenic artist and composer based in Helsinki, Finland.... READ MORE...
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Telcosystems: Machines And Audiovisual Horizons

Marco Mancuso
David Kiers, Gideon Kiers and Lucas Van Der Velden, this is Telcosystems, a Dutch research group very well known and very respected internationally, for its aesthetic and important projects, from live performances or enviromental installations. For years they have been advancing on many levels: on an academic level (they studied at the Royal Conservatory of the Royal Academy of The Hague), on an editorial level ( Lucas Van Der Velden is one of the directors of the audio visual festival and Sonic Acts multimedia), on an artistic level, emotionally and prospetively in the sound-imagine relationship, related to the physical space and in relation to the audience.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010

Jacob Kirkeegard. The Poetics Of The Space

Silvia Bertolotti
From the 25th till the 28th of February the 13th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival took place in Amsterdam. This edition - The Poetic of Space - was entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative, audiovisual and film arts. Sonic Acts has become a moment for investigation into the importance of physical space, as well as for the physical and psychological impact of artistic creations centred on space, in a time, like the one we live in, of important and continuous technological development.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Art And Architecture: Investigation At The Boundaries Of Space

Eugenia Fratzeskou
Our changing understanding of reality has inspired the invention of new concepts of space and strategies for spatial research and practice across disciplines. There have been several radical changes in cosmology, science, art, design and philosophy, concerning the ways in which reality and our experience of it may be understood. As can be seen in recent studies by scientists, artists, designers and thinkers, such changes have encouraged the development of new philosophies and theories on space, new types of spatial perception, interaction etc... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010