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Some Buoys For The Science By The Bay

Gigi GhezziJanuary 31, 2007

In San Francisco, from 15th to 19th 2007 there will be the meeting Science by the Bay. The annual conference is organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most important non-profit scientific associations of the world.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Resistant Maps Between Net And Art

Lorenzo TripodiDecember 6, 2006

The meeting-show Mappe Resistenti , Azioni artistiche nel territorio urbano interconnesso took place the 25th and 26th of November, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Villa Croce - Genoa . The event was managed by Alessandro Ludovico, Gianfranco Pangrazio , Tommaso Tozzi and Marco Villani .... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 20, December 2006 / January 2007

Globus Medicus And Medical Ediology

Gigi GhezziDecember 6, 2006

During the meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago from the 26 th to 30 th November has been presented the new system Globus MEDICUS ( Medical Imaging and Computing for Unified Information Sharing).... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 20, December 2006 / January 2007

Open Culture Brief

Camilla SerriNovember 1, 2006

There's a new and remarkable supply for people interested in free software and its philosophies, licences, and operative devices: the brand-new Informatics Freedom and Open Culture Brief by Simone Aliprandi, published by Prima Ora and freely available online in pdf format... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

The Archimedes Project Insists On The Net

Gigi GhezziNovember 1, 2006

It's singular how often the real experiences of the net are neglected from the public to the prejudice of intangible theories which predict whatever paradise in internet and in its social sublimation... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Video Online, The End Of The Beginning

Beatrice BonfantiNovember 1, 2006

The Net is the most huge communication prosthesis ever created. It is part of the definition new media and it is therefore different from the old media. The distinction is necessary as the Net can be considered a real new media, a big ensemble with numerous subsystem, included the traditional media... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Designing New Audiovisual Universes

Bertram NiessenOctober 4, 2006

There are several dimension during an audiovisual performance. Time management, relation with the space, chromatic and formal balance, project and composition coherence, audiovisual sync, liveness, synaesthesia. Maybe more than anything else, there is the immersion... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Body In The 21st Century: More Than Skin-deep

Gigi GhezziOctober 4, 2006

The exhibit Körper, Gesicht und Seele is one of the many events that in the last years have developed around the body. The contents focus on the typification of femininity from the 16 th to the 19 th century, from the pictorial imaginary of the Renaissance up to the androgynous subjects of contemporary performances... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Semantic Vjing

Silvia BianchiOctober 4, 2006

The number of images surrounding us is everyday increasing in events and place of every kind. Sometimes probably you have thought about the existence of a secrete meaning behind the images that are projected on screens of club and festivals and about that meaning construction... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Gaming Realities, Videogame Art

Domenico QuarantaOctober 4, 2006

The love affair between art and videogame has a long history at his back, which could be dated back in the mid Nineties. A series of shows and publications sanction, along the years, stability, and yet the news of their marriage reaches us as a surprise... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Privacy, Surveillance And Invisible Nets

Laura ColiniSeptember 6, 2006

Privacy is an everyday term, that the average citizen meets thousands of time on web disclaimer or little notes at the end of the bank or supermarket card contracts. The privacy concept or the more actual privacy feeling does not answer to the common sense of being in private as the behaving inside a domestic space... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 17, September 2006

Pirat Partiet At Riksdag

Maria MolinariSeptember 6, 2006

A series of initials are menacing our future. They would seem sounds without sense but they are laws and directives by the debatable content. They regulate the behaviours in the use of the information through the electronic means, they harmonize some aspects of the author right in the media society, they protect and guarantee us in the digital era... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 17, September 2006

Contaminating Vicissitudes Of Art And Science

Gigi GhezziJuly 3, 2006

The tradition of the modern historical thought induces us to think about art and science as two separate entities. On one hand science, the reign of the rational, the cognitive and of research, on the other hand the field of creativity, sensoriality and intuition. Such as Martina Heßler emphasizes in her essay Bilder zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 16, July / August 2006Science

Online Video

Monica PonziniJune 1, 2006

The mess is the message. This is how Wired magazine portrays the online video present situation. An explosion of aggregators , that is portals collecting and re-distributing different video materials and single Web sites such as vlogs, experimental animations, video-archives and newsletters... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 15, June 2006

When The Dj Goes To The Cinema

Alex DandiJune 1, 2006

these last few weeks news has emerged that Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homen Cristo have finished a feature film entitled Daft Punk's Electroma that talks about two robots that are intent on finding their own humanity... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 15, June 2006

Collaboration Paradox

Gigi GhezziJune 1, 2006

Collaboration is one of the most consolidated scientific practices. Scientific collaboration derives from the increasing knowledge specialization, from the complexity of investigation problems and from the increase of technological devices costs... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 15, June 2006

Which Culture?

Luigi PagliariniMay 2, 2006

In an editorial on teenagers, published on the New York Times of November 2005, the colleague analyst Keith Ablow denounces the status of the widespread mental distress among teenagers... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 14, May 2006

The Ethics Of Emerging Technology

Gigi GhezziMay 2, 2006

From May 26 th to May 28 th 2006, at the Stanford University Law School a conference will be held, entitled 'Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights' Human enhancement technology involves neural studies for the overcoming of paralysis and brain lesions... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 14, May 2006