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Video Dresses

The Video dresses are created by 15000 LEDs embedded beneath the fabric. One dress displays hazy silhouettes of sharks in the sea whilst the other shows a time-lapse sequence of a rose blooming then retracting.... READ MORE...

Smart Urban Stage Intervista a Paolo Mataloni

Come degna conclusione del progetto di collaborazione tra Digicult e Smart Urban Stage, l'intervista a Paolo Mataloni (curatore della sezione "Explore - Scienza") è quindi l'ultima intervista ai curatori della mostra smart future minds exhibition: dopo quella ad Alberto Abruzzese, pubblicata nel numero di Luglio/Agosto di Digimag, e quella a Lorenzo Imbesi. Paolo Mataloni insegna Ottica Quantistica Non-Lineare al Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università ‹Sapienza› di Roma. I suoi principali campi di ricerca sono stati l'ottica non lineare, la fisica laser e i fenomeni ottici ultraveloci. Attualmente sta lavorando sull'informazione quantistica che usa tecniche ottiche: a riguardo porta avanti esperimenti sulla generazione di stati ‹entangled› di fotoni costruiti su molti qubit e le loro applicazioni per la realizzazione di protocolli per la comunicazione e computazione quantistica.... READ MORE...

The Invisible City

To rethink the 'invisible city' under the pressure of rapid urbanization, this edition of Test_Lab will feature a selection of freshly graduated artists, architects, and designers from European art and design academies whose projects explore the invisible aspects of our contemporary urban environments.... READ MORE...
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My Secret Heart

My Secret Heart is a new commission by Streetwise Opera of a music and film installation written by electronic composer and Warp artist Mira Calix, video artists Flat-e and sound designer Dave Sheppard. They worked with around 100 Streetwise performers from across the UK to create a unique work that is being shown around the world.... READ MORE...

Smart Urban Stage Intervista ad Alberto Abruzzese

Dallo scorso 26 giugno fino al prossimo 31 luglio, all'interno di un'avveniristica struttura gonfiabile di 200 mq presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, verrà presentata smart future minds exhibition. Articolata attraverso dodici progetti sul tema "Il futuro della città", la mostra promette di essere un momento di riflessione critica e divulgazione artistica all'interno del più ampio smart urban stage, innovativo road show che toccherà Zurigo, Parigi, Madrid e Londra dopo essere passata già a Berlino.... READ MORE...

Rojo Nova at MIS

Celebrating 40 years in 2010 MIS (Museum of Image and Sound) exhibits ROJO®NOVA – Contemporary Culture, a collaborative exhibition organized by ROJO®. A multdimensional international show wich will take place at the effervescent cultural scene of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from the 1st of July to 15th of August 2010, showcasing gigs, art interventions, audiovisuals and workshops.... READ MORE...

Sonarmatica 2010

SonarMàtica splits itself in two this year for Sonar 2010 Barcelona and Sonar 2010 Galicia, two different exhibitions which can be seen in Barcelona and A Coruña on 17th, 18th and 19th June. The Sónar 2010 Barcelona exhibition displays interesting artistic work produced using and based around the world of robotics.... READ MORE...
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Scott Snibbe: Gravilux

Gravilux is a work of interactive software art for the iPhone and iPad. With each touch in Gravilux, you exert a gravitational pull on a world of simulated stars. Though inspired by Newton's equations for gravity, Gravilux doesn't follow our universe's laws.... READ MORE...

II European Conference

Our current everyday lives reflect a panorama of global, political, social and economic uncertainties and therefore raises the need to respond with imaginative initiatives that might help to develop new models in response to the economic downturn and the new paradigms and opportunities offered by the digital age.... READ MORE...

Celluloid. Cameraless Film

In its exhibition "Celluloid. Cameraless Film" the Schirn focuses on a particular art film genre in which footage is produced by creating images directly on film stock. As opposed to other forms of experimental film, the material is removed from its conventional context of use and, as it were, interpreted as a canvas by applying diverse artistic processes: painting, drawing, collage on celluloid, scrapes and scratches in the emulsion, defamiliarization through chemical manipulations, or the direct exposure of the photosensitive material.... READ MORE...

OFFF 10th Anniversary

After Barcelona, New York, Lisbon and Oeiras, we are glad to announce that OFFF'10 will take place in Paris, France, on the 24, 25 and 26th of june 2010. A very special city for a very special occasion. It's been ten years in the vanguard of the avant-garde. 120 months redefining post-digital creation. 3.650 days discovering amazing artists. 87.600 hours learning new ways of expressing human feelings. 5,256.000 minutes of breathtaking experiences. 315,360.000 seconds dreaming on RGB. We lost the count on cofee cups, cigarrettes, bad sleeping, the sweat and the tears -no blood, fortunately- long time ago.... READ MORE...

Mal au Pixel 2010

Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. The festival brings together young digital artists and unconventionnal electronics : unexpected technologies, prototypes and open ended events.... READ MORE...