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Kurt Hentschlager. Feed: Visible Space Collapse

Marco Mancuso
Feed, an audiovisual performance on sensorial, spatialized, electronic experimentation produced by austrin artist Kurt Hentschlager ( for the ones that don't know him, he, together with Ulf Langheinrich, is one of the two souls of Granular Synthesis) is, at this time, a project that is unique in its genre, outside of the aesthetic and technical languages currently spoken in the contemporary world of performances and multimedia installations. There's really nothing to discuss: opinions are in total accordance among audience and critics... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Sonia Cillari: Body As Interface

Silvia Scaravaggi
If you are close to me , created in 2006, is requested by many. Festivals, digital art and new media exhibitions try to obtain it, though it is not always easy. Sonia Cillari , the author, says this interactive installation/performance is so unique and expensive that its duplication in order to have it in different places at the same time is not advisable l'autrice. A sensitive platform on which the visitors place themselves to become actors, performers and audience of their own actions at the same time. The actions turn into geometric shapes and lines around their bodies and movements and can be seen thanks to the huge projections on the surrounding walls.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Sonar 2007, A Chat…to The Rhythm Of Music

Marco Mancuso
Digicult had the honor of establishing a partnership with the 2007 edition of Sonar, objectively the most widely known and populated advanced music and multimedia arts festival. The project has been carefully executed and many were the difficulties encountered by our small team, but we did it, and we can now proudly present you this double summer issue of the magazine filled with a report that is so complete and exhaustive that it can easily clear any doubts you might have left in your mind about the efefctive possibilities offered by editorial projects on the web, on both their viral capabilities and their structural dinamism.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Raquel Paricio. Res-qualia: Evolvable Art

Silvia Scaravaggi
Deepening dynamics and relationships between art, science and technology, it's amazing finding Res-Qualia.net, the website born in the 2005 from the Spanish researcher Raquel Paricio, which inquires the infinite world that links art to science, using a typical digital world's approach. A precious database that encloses in itself some of the most innovative works and researches of the last years in artistic field, always tied to science and to the idea of evolution of the conscience.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 25, June 2007Science

Warren Neidich, Between Brain And Culture

Tiziana Gemin
The emerging of new technologies implies mutations which have a deep influence both on our physical and on our psychic existence. With new technologies the environment changes, as well as and the stimuli we are exposed to. And the way we imagine changes too, letting new meanings emerge within a complex relation net between social, historical, economic and cultural conditions.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007Science

Andrea Brogi, Motion Capture Teatrale

Annamaria Monteverdi
Andrea Brogi, architetto digitale  attualmente uno dei massimi esperti italiani in materia di animazione grafica 3D Real time. Dalla fine degli anni '80 progetta spazi virtuali dinamici per i pi disparati campi applicativi: dal settore pi classico legato ai beni culturali fino allo spazio scenico teatrale; la sua sperimentazione si focalizza sull'uso della grafica tridimensionale interattiva e sull'interazione naturale con i sistemi digitali.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Maria Roussou, Immersive Interactive Experience

Silvia Scaravaggi
Maria Roussou worked for years (1993 - 1997) at the CAVE of Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago . From 1998 till 2002 she directed the Virtual Reality Department of the Foundation of the Hellenic World in Athene. She cooperated with several museums, such as the Minneapolis Walker Art Center , where she was in charge of online art education. She studied Electronic Media and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Illinois University in Chicago , she is PhD in Computer Science at London University and teaches New Technologies & Museums for Master of Arts program in Museum Studies at Athene University .... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007

Optronica: The Audiovisual Culture

Silvia Bianchi
The second edition of Optronica took place in London from 14th to 19th March, in the restructured National Film Theatre Complex, opened with the name of BFI Southbank and in the incredible IMax Cinema , near the first one. This edition confirmed the British festival as an not to be missed appointment for the lovers of Live Media and Live Cinema, and as meeting for the experts of the sector.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007