Interviews

Andrea Balzola: Drammaturgia Multimediale

Apripista assoluto e sperimentatore in Italia in questo versante della scrittura teatrale  Andrea Balzola, teorico dei nuovi media, critico, drammaturgo e sceneggiatore. Esce in questi giorni: Una drammaturgia multimediale. Testi e immagini per un nuovo teatro per Editoria & Spettacolo, l'antologia dei suoi lavori scritti proprio per quel teatro che usa i nuovi media in un'insolita e intrigante veste editoriale costituita non solo da testi ma da un ricco intreccio di immagini, parole, dialoghi, disegni a ricordare gli allestimenti multimediali con video, animazioni, pitture, graf'e di ogni genere. Immagini dunque integrate nel testo in forma di story-board visivi e foto-documentazioni a raccontarne anche la scrittura scenica.... READ MORE...

Una Rosa Cambiera’ Il Mondo

Scrive Zygmunt Bauman ne La societˆ individualizzata, su come sta cambiando il nostro modo di fare esperienza al giorno d'oggi: 'Tutti i punti di riferimento che davano soliditˆ al mondo e favorivano la logica nella selezione delle strategie di vitasembrano in piena trasformazione. Si ha la sensazione che vengano giocati molti giochi contemporaneamente, e che durante il gioco cambino le regole di ciascuno'.... READ MORE...

Geoff Cox: Social Networking Is Not Working

Geoff Cox is an artist, teacher and organiser of events connected with digital experimentation in the United Kingdom. Within his curatorial route for Arnolfini, an organisation dealing with contemporary art, he developed an interesting project whose topic is the intersections between critical theory of social networks and critical practice of the world of art.... READ MORE...

Julien Maire, Leonardo And The Visual Anatomy

The bewilderment between reality and illusion, between perceptive habits and a new way of watching through the video camera. A false step that interrupts the normal rhythm of perception and let us perceive other possible re-constructions of what we see. A jocose swing between these two levels is the trace that links the work of Julien Maire, a French artist living now in Berlin who, through performances and installations, apparently very different from each other, creates moments and spaces of compression, overlap and perceptive illusion.... READ MORE...

Koan01+ootchio: Landscapes From A Past Future

After three editions dedicated to great masters such as Cunningham, Glass and Bertolucci, the fourth edition of FUTURO PRESENTE festival opens up to the broader theme of the links between arts and new technologies: the legacy of the great experimenters, the dreams and utopias of the greatest twentieth-century protagonists revised and developed by artists who employ the latest technologies as lenses through which to observe and shape the world.... READ MORE...

Marianne Weems: Digital Divide And Theatre

Marianne Weems is the founder of American techno-theatre ensemble The Builders Association, specialised in theatre exhibitions exploiting the richness of interactive digital technology and panoramic screens. In 2004, they brought to RomaEuropa the multi-awarded Alladeen , winner of an Obie Award, a not so much fairy-tale story about employees in a call centre in Bangalore .... READ MORE...

Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow: Net Visions

Let's talk again about Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, two people that don't need to be introduced in the context of networking and mailing list about new international media art. Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow promoted many on-line debates, through not only their channel, NetBehaviour, many art networking projects, and they've been working for ten years on their project Furtherfield.org. They already wrote an important text of reflections and theories about art, that was published on Digimag 33 - April 2008. And they promised us to be interviewed; let's see what they answered... READ MORE...