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La Biennale di Venezia: viaggio tra arte, architettura, cinema e danza

Redazione Digicult
La Biennale di Venezia è alle porte: scopriamo insieme cosa ci attende. Alla direzione del futuro Settore Arti Visive ci sarà Okwui Enwezor, che ha appena ricevuto il testimone da Massimiliano Gioni. Nato in Nigeria nel 1963, Enwezor è un curatore, critico d’arte, giornalista e scrittore, che fa notare come la Biennale sia il luogo ideale per esplorare più forme d’arte allo stesso tempo.... READ MORE...
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The big exhibition Digital Life 2013. An interview with the curator Daniele Spanò

Ludovica Amoroso
Digital Life 2013 was the big exhibition of art & technology, organized by Romaeuropafestival at the fourth edition with the title Liquid Landscapes, which gave life to the rooms of MACRO Testaccio and MAXXI in Rome from 10th of October to the last 1st of December. The show brought to Italy twenty seven art pieces by national and international artists, selected by the artistic commitee leaded by Monique Veaute, Alain Fleischer and Daniele Spanò.... READ MORE...
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Bob Meanza: Cicadas. Hacking the environment with sound insects

Ludovico Ristori
Bob Meanza is the nickname of Michele Pedrazzi, media artist and electronic musician born in Verona in 1978, now based in Berlin. He makes music with robots of various types and sizes, be they spring-loaded or quad-core-processor powered, but he studied jazz piano with Riccardo Massari Spiritini in Verona, then with Fabrizio Puglisi in Bologna, where attended to the multimedia composition seminars with Nicola Zonca at Studio Arkì. In 2004 he entered the doctoral program in Semiotics directed by Umberto Eco, and earns his Ph.D. with a thesis on improvisation in music... READ MORE...
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Towards a Catalogue of Artists’ Records: Records by Artists (1960-1990)

Elena Biserna
In 1977, Germano Celant published the volume OffMedia, Nuove Tecniche Artistiche: video disco libro. In this text, recognising the pervasiveness of the record in the contemporary artistic practice, Celant wrote: “In the art of the 1960s the record took its place alongside communications media such as video, the telegram, the photograph, the book and the film […] In line with the reductive theories of the period the record contributes to the isolation of one component of art work, sound, while on the other hand it enriches the array of linguistic tools available for the task of exploding the specifically visual and pushing back the limits of the art process"[1].... READ MORE...
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Shiro Takatani: Camera Lucida. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Redazione Digicult
This first-ever museum exhibition by Shiro Takatani presents a survey of his endeavors, both as artistic director of the internationally known performance art collective Dumb Type, doing video, lighting, graphics and set design for the group, and as a solo visual artist whose imaging [video and photo] works offer deep insights into the natural environment and diverse physical phenomena... READ MORE...
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