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Offf 2009

Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous.... READ MORE...

The Discreet Charme Of Elektra

Elektra Festival is one of the most interesting festivals on the international scene dedicated to the avant-garde of experimental art and new media, that has taken place every year since 1999 in Montreal, a Northern American city with a European flavour, creative and lively, most of all when it comes to artistic production and promotion and distribution of art in general.... READ MORE...

Direct Digital: Symposium

The symposium From Art to Design and Back, within the program of Direct Digital event on 28th of May 2009 at Sala Antonio Delfi of Galleria Civica in Modena (Italy), focuses on growing merge between productions, languages and aesthetics of digital art and design, intended as a method of creative "design" between interactivity, space and eco-system audiovisual production... READ MORE...

Otolab Workshop: Audiovisual Design & Live Media

Muv is an event that explores an universe of languages crossing each other: digital arts and electronic music. At its 5th edition, the festival takes place in Firenze on June 9 / 14, 2009, and is organized by the cultural association Muv and by Intooitiv. A big part of the festival will be dedicated also this year to training in the digital arts field, from June 10 to 13 Muv festival will offer, in the Casa della Creatività in Firenze, a workshop on audiovisual design and live media, organized by the milanese collective Otolab and presented by Marco Mancuso - critic, curator and director of Digicult.... READ MORE...

Alain Thibault: Elektra From Past To The Future

Hereafter we will carry on an approach analysis on Elektra 2009, with the tenth edition of the festival of the Audiovisual Art research and the New Media Art, which is the most interesting and complete in the entire North American territory. And in general one of the finest on the international scene, as well as one of the most appreciated by the artists. This should never be underestimated, in my opinion.... READ MORE...

Esther Manas & Arash Moori: Sound & Sculpture

Last month Digimag devoted a section to Domenico Quaranta, curator of one of the two parts of the section Expanded Box at Arco Madrid 2009. Among the very heterogeneous works on show, encompassing different languages and media, one in particular represents in my opinion one of the exhibition's highlights: the work Every Man and Woman is a Star, by the two artists Esther Manas and Arash Moori... READ MORE...

Marc Didou: Resonances

Marble, bronze and wood coexist with reflected images: what firstly appears as an abstract monolith, sudden reveals another face thanks to concave or convex mirrors. Marc Didou's original way of assembling the ancient art of anamorphosis with a cutting edge medical imaging technique is constitutes a remarkable encounter between art and science, where Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), set free from the scientific laboratori, is made available to the public as sculptures to interact with... READ MORE...

Exploding Cave

With a double reference both to the existentialist caves of 1950's Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Exploding Cave is a 2-days event that will be held in Milan on April 17 and 18, in the spaces of Cox18, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts... READ MORE...

Otolab Method

The interview to Otolab is a result of the event that was organised on January 16 th by the O' Gallery of Milan, in collaboration with Marco Mancuso, Digicult curator. During that evening, some members of the Milanese collective (which has come at its eighth year of life) could meet, have talks and watched the national exclusive preview of some of their recent creations, such as 'Circo ipnotico'(Hypnotic circus) and 'Giardini ner" (Black Gardens)... READ MORE...