The Observatory: The Observed Science
The 15 th January 2008 Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) started The Observatory, a new observatory about science information cover and the journalism world environment.... READ MORE...
Focus
The Landscapes Of Technoethic Art
Italy has a peculiar characteristic that is difficult to understand for those who are not familiar with the history of our country. That is that our culture, on the whole, is distanced, always lagging behind, lacking consciousness of, and sometimes even traveling in the opposite direction of the important cultural trends that emerge across the globe.... READ MORE...
The Gate: Open Considerations – Part 2
The Gate (or Hole in Space, Reloaded) is an installation created for the opening exhibition of iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels (4th - 10th October 2007).... READ MORE...
Art And Activism In The Showbusiness Era
What if the artists suddenly stops working with the traditional means of contemporaneous art ( and with the Avant-garde's expression strategies), what if he makes a review to the existing reality through the construction of a metaphorical talk representing it, so unveiling the undergoing mechanisms? What is he makes a direct intervention on reality creating situations able to change and improve it? And if he gets engaged on a political point of view?... READ MORE...
The Importance Of Being Interactive
My collaborator Dawn Stoppiello and I created our dance theatre company Troika Ranch in 1994, our purpose being to create dynamic, challenging artworks that fused traditional elements of dance, music and theatre with interactive digital media.... READ MORE...
Polymorphic Intelligence: Part 2
As far as we know, the human being is the most 'intelligent' organism. Their brain includes a number of fuctions so complex and sophisticated that, when the neurologist and psychologist Howard Gardner in his Frames of Mind tries to recap its structure, he comes up with seven sub-structures: Linguistic Intelligence, Logic-Mathematical Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, Spatial Intelligence, Interpersonal Intelligence and Intrapersonal Intelligence.... READ MORE...
Media Studies E Globalizzazione Degli Stereotipi
Nel settembre 2007 si tenuto presso l'Universit di Westminster a Londra la conferenza Internationalising Media Studies: Imperative and Impediments. La rivista Global Media and Communication , tra le promotrici della manifestazione, ha dedicato il numero monografico di novembre 2007 alla sintesi degli interventi pi significativi.... READ MORE...
The Gate: Open Considerations – Part 1
The Gate (or Hole in Space , Reloaded ) is an installation realized for the opening exhibition of the iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels (4 th -10 th October). Come up in Yves Bernhard's mind, manager of the iMAL Center , the installation was created to handle a only apparently simple question: how to build a bridge between real space and virtual worlds. The objective in mind was the enjoyment of virtual spaces and the interaction with their inhabitants in the physical space without the interaction of a graphic interface.... READ MORE...
Polymorphic Intelligence: Part 1
As I had the impression that for too long both the scientists for Mind and the researchers for Artificial Intelligence had taken for reference completely inadequate concepts, at the beginning of the year I developed the concept of Polymorphic Intelligence. This theory has little by little gained importance, being requested and welcomed all around the world.... READ MORE...
Beijing, World Researches Politics
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the China Association for Science and Technology (Cast) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were the protagonist of Beijing meeting of 24 th -29 th September. It deserves an in-depth examination of its contiguous and symbolic meaning. It is impossible to disregard this kind of initiatives to understand how the future developing and technology geopolitical relationship will evolve.... 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 Societ (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...
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...
Pcc. Pirate Cinema Reclaims The Cinema
The Film industry's war against pirates is a war against reality. These is the manifesto of PCC-Pirate Cinema Copenhagen ( www.piratecinema.net ), a project founded last year in the Danish national capital.... READ MORE...
La Legge Nella Scienza, La Scienza Per La Legge
Nel giugno 2007, sulla prestigiosa rivista ISIS (The History of Science Society), Graham Burnett, storico della scienza presso la Princeton University, ha proposto l'interessante focus 'Science and the Law', ovvero una sezione dedicata al rapporto tra i mutamenti dei sistemi legali in rapporto all'evoluzione delle conoscenze scientifiche.... READ MORE...
Peer Production: The Wealth Of Networks
A moment of opportunity and challenge that is how Yochai Benkler's book begins . In Italy The wealth of networks was published by Egea a couple of months ago but can be downloaded from the site www.omniacommunia.org as well. cos" che si apre il libro di Yochai Benkler - La ricchezza della rete, uscito da qualche mese in italia per Egea ma anche disponibile al download dal sito www.omniacommunia.org .... READ MORE...
Collective Author, Shared Memory
An lightning text is " Post dramatic Theatre ' by Hans-Thies Lehmann , that faces the changes of the theatre and its fruition in the contemporary theatre, transformations often marked by hybridizations with new media. We must remember that theatre has always been related to the 'scene machine', that never hesitated to exploit the available technology of every époque.... READ MORE...
Progetto Dru. Supportare La Ricerca Creativa
L'evento Biorama stata l'ultima iniziativa del progetto DRU che continua a promuovere un fortunato connubio tra arte, design, tecnologie e scienze della vita. Biorama, svoltosi nell'arco di un'unica giornata, il 13 di Luglio, ha avuto come tema la presentazione del lavoro dell'artista in residenza Andy Garcie, noto per le sue ricerche su i legami interstiziali tra mondo naturale e sistemi artificia... READ MORE...
Laboratorio Occupato Morion. Stop Biennale!
Lo so, probabilmente tendo a ripetermi parlando ancora una volta di inquinamento atmosferico da biennali d'arte contemporanea, della loro superfetazione, della vacuit inutile di un sistema fintamente internazionale che invita sempre gli stessi artisti - con le stesse opere - e gli stessi curatori negli angoli pi remoti del mondo, mascherando il turismo culturale radical-chic per 'multiculturalismo'.... READ MORE...