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Nueue Musik In Milan. The Rai’s Institute Of Phonology Memory

Matteo Milani
After more than fifty years from the birth of analog magnetic bands music recording, on the 17th of September 2008 at the Castello Sforzesco Museum of Music Instruments in Milan, a new space dedicated to Rai - Institute of Musical Phonology was inaugurated, musical instrument of the XXth Century, extension of human thought. Such event was made possible thank to International Music festival MITO, in collaboration with the Civic Museum of Musical Instruments, TV Production Centre and Direzione Radio RAI.... READ MORE...
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Deep Ambiguity. A Conversation With Ben Houge

Robin Peckham
Ben Houge is a composer and sound designer who, though trained in composition, has largely been employed in sound design for video games, for at least five years at the corporate Ubisoft (in addition to collaborations with Gearbox Software, Troika Games, Massive Entertainment, Escape Factory, Relic Entertainment and ArenaNet). In Shanghai, however, he is known as one of the few outsiders to truly penetrate local art and music cultures.... READ MORE...
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The Imal Centre. Culture & Techno In The Heart Of Europe

Silvia Bertolotti
IMAL is an association created in 1999. From 2007 IMAL (Interactive Media Art Laboratory) has inaugurated its' new Center for digital and technological culture; a space that reaches 600 mq situated in what used to be an industrial shed in the heart of Brussels, becoming a place of encounter between artistic, scientific and industrial experimentation. A space, dedicated to research, digital culture and new media.... READ MORE...
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When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Tam Teatromusica, the well-known theatrical and video-theatre Italian company, has reached thirty years of artistic activity and celebrates this achievement with a truly memorable retrospective exhibition in Padua. It was 1980 when Michael Sambin, Pierangela Allegro and Laurent Dupont combined their expertise in the field of performing arts, music and experimental video art and gave life to the company, based in Padova.... READ MORE...
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Lev Manovich: Software Culture. The Common Grammar Of Media

Giulia Simi
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book 'The language of New Media' (it came out in Italy in 2002 in the Olivares Edition) was one of the main reference points for many theorists, artists, communicators and designers, that were already well settled down in the 'new technology' sector. Ten years later, thanks to the digital diffusion, grammar was already consolidated in the capitalism era and Lev Manovich decided to analyze and study that which today is seen as our 'interface with the world'(1): software.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Aaron Koblin: Aesthetic Evolution Of Data Visualization

Serena Cangiano
A couple of years ago Lev Manovich, famous guru of new media, was introducing the concept of Information Aesthetics, referring to the ways of visualizing emerging information and based on the creativity and alternative representations. On the basis of this concept, quantitive and qualitative data have become the main interest and desire of artists and designers, who have already begun to experiment new techniques and ways to generate shapes and fabulous software... READ MORE...
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James Johnson-perkins. Pop Sensitivity Meets Panoramas Gigapan

Silvia Casini
For inspiration among the narrow streets of Venice, James Johnson-Perkins, conceptual artist who teaches at Newcastle (UK), stopped to tell readers Digimag of his residence for artists in Venice, a few weeks of immersion in the suggestion of Venice, thanks to a scholarship from the Emily Harvey Foundation. The conversation with British video artist offers us some interesting ideas regarding possibilities for video-makers and artists in general Gigapan technology. Johnson-Perkins' recent experiments with this technology, all accompanied with a Pop sensibility, can reinvent the tradition of Renaissance Venetian views.... READ MORE...
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Liliwood Handicraftsmen At Work

Marco Riciputi
It happens that in order to promote money saving for customers that have to transport huge industrial machines in fairs all over the world technologies are developed to create video representations that allow - ten years later - to work as director at the stereography in the medium-length film Il Volo, directed by Wenders (fist Italian stereoscopic fiction). I was told the unusual path of Italian stereography by Giampiero Piazza, funding father and director of Lilliwood, i.e. a company based in Bologna specialized in this kind of shooting. 'I began working in the field of industrial photography 38 years ago, by making graphic in a traditional way - says Piazza - but every time I came into new opportunities, I've always tried to follow the crest of the technological development'.... READ MORE...
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Squatting Supermarkets: Shoptivism Narrations

Loretta Borrelli
Telling the other side of the story is the goal that Squatting Supermarkets is aiming at, an installation, a performance, a work of net art, some short stories (and one could use many more words to describe it), a coproduction FakePress / Art is Open Source, presented for the first time in November 2009 during the Piemonte Share Festival. It won the Special Project Award at this same festival and the Green Award for '0' impact technology of the Environmental Park in Turin.... READ MORE...
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Evan Roth: Graffiti Taxonomy. Writing Between Research & Documentation

Claudio Musso
If it is true that since the beginning of this phenomenon numerous photographers and video makers, have tried to slow down the extinction of Writiing, it is also true that their tentatives were limited. This is probably what pushed Evan Roth to create a new method, which offered graffiti artists to archive and store their work and their tags.... READ MORE...
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Open Peer-to-peer Design.massimo Menichinelli, Partecipated Future

Bertram Niessen
Along with this interview with Massimo Menichinelli, my second collaboration phase with Digicult begins. After being interviewing the leading live media artists during the past years , I believe I fairly cleared my mind up on what is going on in that field , and I hope to have also supplied at least narrowly i nteresting readings, to those who bothered reading me.... 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

Medi/action And Mediam(bi)ent. The Nuformer Digital Media Method

Annamaria Monteverdi
Projectable surfaces in metropolis have become big buildings' facades. We already wrote on this subject in the previous Digimag issue and this time we are putting forward our interview with Rob Delfgaauw from NuFormer, a Dutch firm which has diffused worldwide the sensationalist technique of mapping and screening 3d videos on edifices thus precisely reflecting existing volumes and altering in the public the way of perceiving the static object. Performances, advertising campaigns, big public events. Their promotional video, Projections on Buildings, a video-live performance in which buildings seem to be flaking off in front of spectators or else to be filled up with colorful small balls, was everywhere on the web. NuFormer style gets popular and turns into an example for many... READ MORE...
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Donkijote By Cristian Bettini. The Sustainable Slowness Of Being

Barbara Sansone
Once upon a time there was a man who was travelling with a donkey. With them was also a GPS, a solar panel, a PC with a modem and a video camera. The donkey's steps guided the man through nature - steps that were very different from those that men have taken since they have been walking through cities. The donkey was called Minuto, and the Italian Cristian Bettini used him as a guide and as a metronome for his journey through an artistic project (Donkijote - third chapter of a complex project that started off as Lasino.org, and then continued as Donkeypedia) which allowed him to discover the fascinating Asturias region in Spain with his feet firmly on the ground.... READ MORE...
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Mechatronic Art And Diy. Marc Dusseiller: The Artistic Soldering

Serena Cangiano
There are practices in the use of artistic and creative technology that can be compared to a sort of undergrowth because rich in rare and unexplored things. In the shadow of spheres and consolidated languages, characterized by codes and aesthetics, almost all supported by theories both by the public and by the market. These practices are hard to interpret through the framework of digital art because they are generated by s remix of ideas and subjects, that, on one hand have to do with the history of experimentation of electronics in the artistic field and on the other hand they regard the hacker culture, electronic art and technological design.... READ MORE...
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