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A Collective Resounding Body. Aiming Towards An Auditory Tactility

Enrico Pitozzi
Among the more interesting figures on the international circuit, the choreographer Isabelle Choinire has been developing a journey connected to sound qualities in movement for many years. She founded and currently directs the Corps Indice of Montréal (Canada) company with which she develops research projects on the relationships between dance and technologies.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010Sound

Francesca Proia: The Breath Of The Subtle Body

Massimo Schiavoni
My job is to find a suitable energy in order to create a precise composition . The philosophy of yoga comes across my project of creation as a philosophy that deals with the creation of time. These are Francesca Proia's paths, a young choreographer and dancer in Ravenna that has made the yoga a philosophy of life, making its mark in the theatrical solos danced in detail, where the subtle body imprisons and ponders a unique balance of energy and empathy contemporary dance.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Joost Rekveld’s Study And Research Lines

Silvia Scaravaggi
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...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Jonah Brucker-cohen: New Media, From Web 2.0 To Web 4.0

Donata Marletta
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, an artist and a writer who, in spite of his youth, has reached unquestionable fame and respect internationally in the field of new media and technologies applied to art. He has recently obtained a Ph d at the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at the prestigious Trinity College in Dublin.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

The Recycled Sound Of Teatrino Elettrico Pigreco

Marco Mancuso
Signal is an international avant-garde electronic and experimental music festival, which will take place from the 6th til the 14th of November in its third edition in Cagliari; the idea was produced by TiConZero, an cultural association that for years has been dealing with research in the music, theatrical and artistic fields. The artists involved represent the emerging levers in research on the border between sound and visual dimensions. The combination of music and video art in an inspired choice made by the frequent connections between various artistic languages, especially for those that regard avant-garde and research productions, which Signal dedicates its interest to.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009Sound

Stelarc’s Extrabody: The Technologic Chimera

Serena Cangiano
Art concepts and techniques should always be avant-garde, and serve as an approach to men's comprehension as well as an anticipation of what they will be and how they will behave. In light of that assumption, Stelarc, who is a pioneer of extreme performances and of performances helped by interactive robotic systems and virtual reality, represents without a doubt an important reference point for all those who want to deal with an artistic project which uses technology as a means of expression.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009Science

Plots In The Net: Boone Oakley And Web Storytellers

Giulia Simi
Once upon a time there was an internet site, an amount of web pages linked one another and housed in a clearly identifiable space which could be reached by a precise address. Once upon a time there was also the html - which later changed into xhtml - the language behind the hypertext system that can organize and make information intelligible, mainly in pictures and texts, of which web pages are composed. Yes, once upon a time.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Sosolimited: Deconstruction Time Again

Marco Mancuso
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...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Tony Oursler: Round-nosed Whistiling-jack-off-dumb-fuck

Claudia D'Alonzo
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...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Seismographs Of Time. A Conversation With Roberto Paci Dalo’

Enrico Pitozzi
Among the main figures of contemporary experimentation, Roberto Paci Dal˜ is a director, multimedia artist and composer/performer. He is director and creator of the Giardini Pensili group. His research develops within an area that goes from the development of radio interventions to sound installations; from the development of plays to the building of virtual stages like the Itaca project commissioned by the Teatro di Roma and directed by Mario Martone (1999-2000), passing through the development of the film that, as in the case of Petr˜leo México (2004) was presented at the Locarno International film festival... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009Sound

Raul Martinez: The Tenderness Of Metal

Barbara Sansone
Although Digimag deals with digital culture, this month we want to devote a well-deserved space to an artist, whose work does not exactly fall within this category, but it perfectly places itself within that field of research that our magazine carries out in the framework of (applied and reused) technology, mechanics and art. The general trend does no longer lie in the celebration of technology in itself, but aims to grant priority to the concept and the tangibility, also when, in order to obtain them, the artist uses techniques and materials that are not exactly the latest fad.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Geert Lovink: List Culture And The Art Of Moderation

Donata Marletta
Geert Lovink is one of the most influential cultures of the net worldwide. He is a critic and a theorist, he has been interested for years in texts and essays about the new media and network culture, and among his most recent projects the creation of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam is worth to be mentioned. This institute works on critical analysis of the Internet, and its aim is to help actively the development and the divulgation of studies and discussions on network topics, even through the organisation of conferences, and publications whose aim is to stimulate dialogue and online sharing.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009Web

Balint Boligo’ And The Magical Machines

Silvia Scaravaggi
Bálint Bolygó, born in 1976, of Hungarian origin but a London resident, appears to be an artist who works with science. His family history confirms this: both his parents are scientists, and Bolig˜ himself declares that this field was his initial means of inspiration for his own experiments and his own cultural growth. But when talking with Balint you realise that, despite maths, Physics and chemistry being significant reference points for the development of a personal poetical scheme, during the course of his artistic activity he does not want to create objects and sculptures that are scientifically significant, but instead wants to explore that thought-provoking space that brings art and science close together and has always made them unique and united.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009Science

Architectures, Visions And Apparati Effimeri

Marvin Milanese
Long gone are the times when the first Vjs entered the scene in the clubs brightening up the dance-floor. Over the last few years live video has stretched its borders merging with parallel visual and artistic disciplines to become an out-and-out communication tool that allows to range from artistic projects, mainly performances and video installations, to purely commercial projects, down to the world of advertising with creative and innovating ideas.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009