Cimatics 2009: Festival and City
The seventh edition of the Cinematics Festival 2009 in Brussels has just ended up, after ten intense days of events which involved the whole city.... READ MORE...
Audiovideo
Joost Rekveld’s Study And Research Lines
At the beginning of 2009 for the first time the exceptional screens of IFFF - International Film Festival Rotterdam presented the film #37, the new experimental creation of the Dutch author Joost Rekveld (1970, Terneuzen, Netherlands), which achived a great success both from the public and the critics point of view thank to his poetic intensity and visual beauty.... READ MORE...
Cimatics 09
For this 7th edition of the Cimatics festival, we try to go at full throttle again with todays image culture. As an audiovisual festival Cimatics puts the focus both on art, media, design and music. We invite you for a mix of concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, public interventions and parties.... READ MORE...
Felix Luque at Imal Center
Chapter I - The Discovery by Félix Luque invites us to to discover an unidentified artificial entity emitting a code of light and sound. Its shape is a pure platonic solid, a dodecahedron, a geometry often associated with philosophical theories, esoterism and sci-fi culture... READ MORE...
Carlo Bernardini La luce che genera lo spazio
Palazzo Litta sede della Direzione dei Beni Culturali della Lombardia, in collaborazione con l'assessorato all'Arredo, Decoro Urbano e Verde del Comune di Milano, l'assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Milano e l'assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Torino, all'interno della programmazione rispettivamente di LED, Light Exhibition Design a Milano e Luci d'Artista a Torino, apre alla città il suo cortile d'onore con il progetto di luce ambientale di Carlo Bernardini, La luce che genera lo spazio.... READ MORE...
Fluid Rules Of Audiovideo Geometry. An Interview With Scott Arford
For more than a decade Scott Arford has been one of the reference names for art and music in relation to the new media in the Bay Area of San Francisco, and was awarded a Honorable Mention for Digital Music in the Prix Ars Electronica 2005.... READ MORE...
Almost Cinema 2009. Looking For The Kinematic Effect
Almost Cinema celebrate this year its fourth birthday and also this year he accompanied the Film Festival of Gent, an exhibition organized by Eva de Groote, curator of the media area at the Center for Art and Culture Vooruit. As for the last editions (I visited and described it in a critical text published exactly one year ago on https://digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1324) the exhibition is hosted in the wonderful art Nouveau rooms of the Vooruit center itself.... READ MORE...
Sosolimited: Deconstruction Time Again
Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg are three thirty-something ironic and ingenious, since 2003 the project Sosolimited youth group at the intersection of art and design specializing in the deployment of interactive installations, audiovisual performances, live remixes and immersive environments, all strictly based self-designing software and technologies and on a technical level / achieved very, very high. With a solid background in physics, computer science, architecture and music and a master's degree at MIT in Boston in the drawer, jumped to hit the crononaca (and the glory of international art) with a momentum that only a country like the United States' America could make practical and effective.... READ MORE...
Madden 12x A Second. When The Eye Flickers In Milan
From the 17th to the 26th September at the DOCVA (Documentation Center for Visual Arts) in Milan, via Procaccini 4, took place the exhibition 'Quando l'occhio trema. Il flicker fra cinema, video e digitale' (When the eye shakes. A flicker between cinema, video and digital world'. It is a videoscreening created by Claudia D'Alonzo (Digicult) and Mario Gorni (Careof DOCVA) and made of15 works of art which play the so called 'flicker' effect.... READ MORE...
Tony Oursler: Round-nosed Whistiling-jack-off-dumb-fuck
Tony Oursler is one of the most internationally renowned multimedia artists, born in 1957 in New York City, where he lives and works. In the eighties he began to make short videos, and later he began to design installations where he set sound and video. Since the nineties the use of mannequins became a constant feature of his work, puppets and dolls were the stars of his installations.... READ MORE...
Losing Yourself In The Whitetree. Lippok Brothers & Ludovico Einaudi
The first time I heard Cloudland, the first album from Whitetree, I thought about one of my friends traveling, sitting in front of a waterfall at the foot of the Himalayas, in contemplation of the height and depth of the universe. The song was Mercury sand. Whitetree is a collaboration between the Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, and brothers Robert Lippok (software) and Ronald Lippok (drums), formerly part of German post-rock trio, To Rococo Rot, along with Stefan Schneider on bass... READ MORE...
Contour 2009: Video And Historical Representation
For its fourth edition the Biennial of Video Art in Mechelen (Belgium) Contour has opened the doors to a curator and to internationally renowned artists.... READ MORE...
Paolo Inverni: Paths Into Places Of Memory
On the 5th of June at the Mario Mazzoli Gallery in Berlin, the 'Paths' exhibition - the most recent project by the Piedmontese audiovisual artist Paolo Inverni - was inaugurated. The 'Paths' exhibition, curated by Daniela Cascella and produced by the freshly opened Berlin Gallery, will be open until the 18th of July... READ MORE...
Future Sounds Like Past Toys: Interview To Ape5 & Eraser
Ape5 is an old digimag acquaintance that we were pleased to 'meet' in various moments during the past few years so that he could tell us about his videomaking and his VJing (Interview 'Ape5 and Miki Ry', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 02), as well as his research as a producer with the netlabel Vidaux, that contains many of the more interesting names of the live media scene in Italy ('Vidaux, Netlabels for watching and listening', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 08... READ MORE...
The Art And The Epidemiological Criticism Of Gina Czarnecki
Gina Czarnecki is undoubtedly an conscious and sensitive artist, for the sensitive issues she courageously deals with, for her subjects, for her analysis and research methods she chose to elaborate, and for the aesthetic impact as well as the fascination of her work. This feeling is in her environmental and audiovisual work, and this feelings are even stronger when you have the chance to meet and talk to her... READ MORE...
Raster Noton Shopping Style
Experimentation. Carsten Nicolai's (aka alva noto) artistic production, (one of the few artists in the digital art who does not need any presentation) has always been characterized by an element of constant research: thinking about sound frequencies and visuals, digital and minimal aesthetics, where noise and glitch are bound to mathematics and geometric shapes, has gone through an evolution that made him one of the most important, long-established and famous artists in the international electronic scene.... READ MORE...
The Murder Of Crows
Fino a pochi giorni fa stato possibile visitare l'installazione 'The murder of crows' Janet Cardiff e George Bures Miller nella sala principale dell'Hamburger Bahnhof di Berlino, museo dedicato all'arte contemporanea. ... READ MORE...
The Digital Market Of Elektra
Last 6th and 7th of May Montreal's Cinémathque Québécoise has hosted for the third consecutive year the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA), event organized within Elektra, new media and audiovisual art festival. The International Marketplace for Digital Arts is a meeting for professional networking among those active in the field of production, creation and diffusion of digital arts.... READ MORE...