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Sustainable Non-property, The Answer By Estudio Livre

One of the innovations brought about by digital world is the reorganization of the process of creation/production according to an open system whose functionality is represented by the free software. The free software is the basis of the first free and widespread non-property net in history. Thanks to the overcoming of the binomial producer/consumer and the transformation of the product into process, an open and interactive relation between developer and user is created, with its potential of infinite new opportunities of production and creation.... READ MORE...

Hackmeeting 2007: Ten Years Nerdcore

Right this weekend it took place the 10th edition of Hackmeeting. This is a very important appointment for the Italian digital community because of its love for free software, of its computer nerds, of its technology freaks, regardless of hardware, software or reality manipulation. Hackmeeting is an independent initiative dating back to 1998. Every year a different Italian city is chosen as seat of the event, hosted by free and public spaces. For this edition the seat was the social centre Rebeldia' in Pisa, Tuscany.... READ MORE...

The Knowledge Of A Fragile Future

On 27th September Helga Nowotny ( http://www.helga-nowotny.at/ ) took part in the seminar Scienza Tecnologia e Societˆ (Science Technology and Society) organized by the University of Trento . The topics have been mainly those analyzed in her book Insatiable Curiosity. Innovation in a Fragile Future , which has been recently translated into Italian but which was first published in Germany in 2005 with the title Unersättliche Neugier, Innovation in einer fragilen Zukunft . Nowotny iso ne of the most famous living science sociologists: she is both Vice-president and founding member of the European Research Council (ERC) , and she was Chair of the European Research Advisory Board of the European Commission (EURAB) in 2005 and 2006.... READ MORE...

Todaysart 2007, The Hague International Art

The Hague , The Netherlands, is a little city with no more than 1million inhabitants and 1hour and half from Amsterdam . A grey sky as scheduled, avant-garde buildings, cycle facilities and the hundred-year-old Royal Art Academy . This Academy pays attention to anything artistic or modern. The weekend of 21 st - 22 nd September was dedicated to the Todaysart Festival. I'm coming from a couple of days in Amsterdam and the impact with the political capital of The Netherlands is completely different.... READ MORE...

Ars Electronica 2007: Goodby Privacy?

As every September, the 2007 edition of Ars Electronica took punctually place in Linz. Since 1979 the Austrian festival dedicated to digital art and new media has tried to draw the lines that link art, technology and society together. The event has surely always been an appointment that cannot be missed as well as a firm reference point in international digital culture scene.... READ MORE...

Death 24x, Death And Feticism Of Image

The link of all the thoughts I would like to give to you is related to the fact that the deconstruction of new media, the non-linearity of digital arts simply are coherent with a perception/concept of our contemporary reality. So, if we want to make an artistic research, if we want to make some experimentation, we must go further, we must think at them as fixed point, even if not sufficient. We must think at them as generative art concepts, as art as deconstruction, art as remix of the post-modern. A work that is interactive to a presence or that answers to the criteria of post modernity is not enough to achieve an artistic value.... READ MORE...

Master Sound and Drama

In passato il paesaggio sonoro cambiava in seguito all'introduzione di nuovi oggetti e di nuovi materiali e alla scomparsa di altri. Ogni oggetto presente in un epoca storica, tuttavia, aveva un proprio suono che lo distingueva dagli altri. Attualmente questo concetto tende a scomparire; l'idea che le cose abbiano un suono unico, determinato dalle loro proprietà fisiche, è superata: i nuovi strumenti del contemporaneo, in maggior parte elettronici, non hanno un suono poichè non possiedono un materiale, delle proprietàgeometriche, un peso.... READ MORE...

Intuition 2007

The Intuition 2007 Workshop & Conference on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments will be held in an exceptional conference venue, in the suburb of Glyfada, just 15 km from the centre of the city of Athens, by the seaside... READ MORE...

Media Acrhitecture

Organised by Media
Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference Media Architecture will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction... READ MORE...

Struttura 2007

L’arte organica e le pratiche creative che mettono in relazione arte, scienza e tecnologia sono il tema di Struttura Organica 2007, la tre-giorni sul mare digitale giunta alla sua terza edizione, in programma dal 7 al 9 settembre alla Torre di San Vincenzo (LI).... READ MORE...