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Atom: Floating Audiovisual Design

Bertram Niessen
Sometimes things happen, a bit by chance. It is true, though, that in some cities by chance things happen easier than somewhere else. So it may happen to go for a walk to the Tesla Culture Centre in Berlin on a Friday rainy evening, maybe feeling a bit bored, just to take a look around at the installations, not all of them interesting, and then to come across the rehearsal of one of the best performances/audiovisual installations one have seen long since.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Relational Architecture

Monica Ponzini
Mexico, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's homeland, made its debut at the 52nd edition of the Venice Biennale with the artist's work exhibition. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is well-known for his big installations used by the most various media and for his custom-made interfaces. In other words this artist loves the active interaction of the public. Robot installations, computers, video projections, sensors, lights (and shadows) and sounds, these are the means used for the creation of works. His works are famous because all around the world they can temporarily change space perceptions and their relations with people living there. Or they can draw attention to important issues such as the continuous control we are subjected.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Game Game Game And Again Game…

Giulia Simi
13 odd levels will set you free from cultural systems chains almost definable as dogmatic. The main objective of this play is, in the author's mind, 'to move around and think'. Game game game and again game is the latest Jason Nelson 's work. With an ironical and amused perspective the author looks back at the amateur aesthetics and the mistake theory and creates this work which he defines 'retro-game' . Here you find poems and family videos mixed together and found out by the main character during his weird adventure. And here are the character, a strange rolling ful ball, and its goal: the liberation from its own stereotypes.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

Struttura Organica 2007, Computing Nature

Marco Mancuso
When we, in some years, will have stiffness, and maybe time, to watch behind with the right critical spirit and with knowledge instruments more and more mature and shared, I'm sure that one of the most strong thematic will be the possible relation between technology, nature and art in this systematic order. Struttura Organica 2007, video art and net art festival from 7 th to 9 th September in San Vincenzo - Livorno, is maybe the first Italian exhibition that turns the attention to these themes, through the well-known formula of festival, meetings, art works and live performance.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

Alvarez-fernandez: Sound Amateur

Silvia Scaravaggi
Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez, young sound artist and designer ( Madrid , 1979), defines his background as a conventional one. Composition studies at the San Lorenzo de El Escorial Conservatory, composer in residence at the Madrid 'Residencia de Estudiantes' from 2002 to 2005, improvement in Germany at the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik of Darmstadt, at the Stockhausen Stiftung of Kurten, at the Elektronische Studio-Technische Universitat of Berlin.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

Ezio Cuoghi, High Education Of Brera 2

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Academy of Brera in Milan has been proposing the Course of New Art Technologies since 1999. Now it's introducing three more masters in Multi-media Arts, while big steps forwards have been made in education, especially in the fields of graphics, cinema and digital communication. But that's not all. It is also addressing to all the professions concerned by the world of the new media with a special focus upon 3D Animation, Digital Video, interactive advices, web design and show design.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007