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Roberto Pugliese. Digital Bio-acoustics

Claudio Musso
Roberto Pugliese is a distinguished representative of what is described above. He comes from a musical academic culture, but having soon felt the limits of a single view, he then began to look for other stimuli in the field of visual arts. This should be a reason of pride for the visual field, so often denigrated and abused, and moreover it helps to underline the need to mix different points of view.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011Sound

Peter Tscherkassky.audiovisuals From A Darkroom

Marco Mancuso
Let's start from an assumption: I am not a film critic and more in general I do not work exclusively on experimental cinema. This analysis of the avant guard director Peter Tscherkassky, born in Wien in 1958 and winner at the 67th Venice Film Festival in the 'Nuovi Orizzont" section with the film Coming Attractions, will probably lack those lexical elements and elements of analysis used by the most orthodox film criticism, and will inesorably be exposed to a radical reading of the following text. In spite of that, my intention is to highlight the austrian director's work, in terms of the importance that I think it has not only as far as cinema is concerned, but also and especially towards the production and the audiovisual research taken as an aesthetic-expressive possibility of the sound-image relationship.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

The Digital Gregor Samsa. Interview With Pierrick Sorin

Alexandra Purcaru
Pierrick Sorin, a multimedia artist which expresses himself through various means such as sound and video installations, presented the project entitled: 22:13 (this title is likely to be changed at any moment) at CentQuatre. The artist focuses his attention on short films, on the art of bricolage and storytelling through images and projections. A varied audience filled the room, even occupying the staircase seats... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

Audiovisual Parameters. Paul Prudence’s “natural” Structures

Pasquale Napolitano
Paul Prudence, real-time visual performer, works with procedural systems by exploring structures, graphic and generative potentialities of audiovisual systems. He is extraordinary, educated, intelligent, open-minded and capable of living in more worlds simultaneously, from the live-based media to the graphic art world, keeping his eyes always open wide on forms and composition rules, things that are not so easy to find in the turmoil of modern digital creativity. He is one of those hybrid figures standing on the edge of art and design who are now resorting to data visualization in order to describe, at the crossroads of art and algorithms, the storm of information surrounding us. The results are often unexpected.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 61, February 2011Sound

Carsten Nicolai + Marko Peljhan Polar M (Mirrored)

Redazione Digicult
The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] presents polar m [mirrored], a brand new installation piece. Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan, two artists who keep operating on the international stage, team up once every ten years for a collaborative investigation into the state, concept and informational environment of the ever-transforming "earth as environment" in the respective age. Part of this long-term project, this exhibition proposes a new understanding of human existence and living environments as formulated by the artists in the year 2010.... READ MORE...
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Gob Squad. Neverending Live Cinema

Claudio Musso
On their website, just after the welcome messages, it says: Gob Squad make performances, videos, installations and weird happenings, mixing performance, theater, film and real life. Apart from the huge variety of artistic practices mentioned, the focus rests immediately on the weird. The term, difficult to translate alludes to different meanings such as strange, eccentric or curious. Indeed, after having had the opportunity to take part in a work of the Anglo-German group, it becomes much easier to understand the reason for that adjective.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

The Lost Cemetery Of Images.a Conversation With Carlos Casas

Pia Bolognesi
The use of archive material is a tendency which has established itself in the last few years as a common practice in audiovisual contaminations. It is an ongoing search which paves the road to countless approaches to the work, as well as involving the individuality of the artist in the reprocessing of traces and memories in an imagination which is set on the present. With Cemetery (Archive Works), inaugurated on 28 October and ongoing until 14 January at the Marslleria in Milan, Carlos Casas steps onto this path at its edges, balancing between visual anthropology and rethinking images as a form of trans-cultural memory.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Jason Mena We all shall play in the ruins

Redazione Digicult
Jason Mena's work entails a multi-faceted approach to contemporaneity that, drawn from conceptualism and minimalism, reveals the complexities and contradictions of the ever increasing urbanization of space. The City and its architecture becomes the main protagonist and consequently witness of the post-modern condition. Reality and fiction converge, they appear and disappear in the urban landscape, provoking multiple reactions and interpretations.... READ MORE...
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Orlan aaka Orlan

Redazione Digicult
Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani will be opening the exhibition ORLAN AAKA ORLAN, curated by Eugenio Viola, on Thursday 18 November in its Milan premises in via Ventura, and on Saturday 20 November in the church of San Matteo in Lucca. ORLAN's work simultaneously brings into play matters concerning identity, taboos about opening up the body, the shattered myths of a dispersed femininity, the public and private spheres, and the limitations of art, language, and life.... READ MORE...
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Ars Electronica 2010. Art And Technology For A Better Future

Barbara Sansone
Talking about an event like Ars Electronica is far from easy, first of all due do its sheer size, Size about the multiplicity of possible activities (attending exhibitions, conferences, laboratories, performances, projections; resting and exchanging views at the meeting points; participating to a variety of parallel activities,), the creative sites whose boundaries fade one into another (video, cinema, dance, music, ininstallations, handcrafting, animation, sustainability, architecture, games, science, medicine, biology and the wide extension of spaces across which the festival is articulated.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010

Aaajiao’s Software. Data Matter Conversion

Robin Peckham
Xu Wenkai, who uses the name Aaajiao in most exhibition and other public contexts, was born in Xi'an in 1984 and currently resides in Shanghai. His name is widely known within both art and tech circles in China, though mostly for his efforts at organizing and sharing information rather than as an artist per se. New media artist and computer visual programmer, he created in 2003 the online sound art platform: cornersound.com and in 2006 the english version of the we-make-money-not-art blog We Need Money Not Art. Without forgetting his collaborations with the Dorkbot network and with the 3S Media Center, center for academic research in art, media and technologies.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010