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Science Of Information, Science And Society

Gigi GhezziMarch 29, 2006

Science of communication is more and more moving away from an overall social subject. This science interdisciplinary par excellence is specialised in subfields and has created fences frequently off-limits, maybe because it focuses too much on amazing again and on safeguarding its margin of action.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 13, April 2006

The Fear Of The Limit

MotorMarch 29, 2006

Not long ago I was invited to the conference (The Sense of the Limit, arranged by Pino Zappal) which closed ToShare, a festival of digital arts. The subject of the conference was the sense of the limit. I had to relate the point of view of the artist... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 13, April 2006

Video Mobile

Monica PonziniMarch 29, 2006

From installations exploiting mobile technology to works expressly conceived for iPod video is becoming more and more interactive. New possibilities of production and using have been opened and they encourage the artistic practices connected to imagining in movement... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 13, April 2006

Live Dj Set Vs Studio Dj Set

Alex DandiMarch 2, 2006

The forthcoming release of Miss Kittin 's Live At Sonar gives us the chance to consider the role of DJ sets immortalised and marketed on CDs the discography market is overstocked with. Can a DJ set be considered a live in all respects by the same standards of a concert with a lot of musicians making music through instruments... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 12, March 2006

Regional Innovation Systems

Gigi GhezziMarch 2, 2006

Nowadays a diffused sense of guilt is perceptible when pronouncing the word global, one of the most misused and poly-semantic terms used over the last twenty years, and equally a sense of compensation is felt when proposing, in substitution of it, the concept of glocal , that is the declension of global cultural, economical, political and technological dimensions with regional ones... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 12, March 2006

Rock-electronica: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Alex DandiJanuary 25, 2006

Some years ago, during a rock night, I played a sequence of tracks made up of Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture ed Electric Six . After a song of Electric Six Danger! High Voltage, an about twenty year-old guy, approached me and asked me to play rock... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 11, February 2006

Biological Memories And Artificial Memories

Gigi GhezziJanuary 25, 2006

After more than ten years since the official born of the Internet structure, the concept of memory togheter with computer is now common, so that is now acceptable a sort of analogy between human brain and computer, considered as a sort of electronic brain... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 11, February 2006

Copyzero X: Multiple Choice Licence

Maria MolinariDecember 1, 2005

Copyzero is an exclusive complete system promoted by the Movimento Costozero . As we have already talked about last month in the first part of this article, with digital signature and temporal mark the cost of royalties and licences is reduced to nothing... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

Dj: Shaman Or Jukebox?

Alex DandiDecember 1, 2005

What are the differences between a good dj set and a bad dj set? When a dj is considered a good dj? Who are the best djs? These question seem to be really personal, but they hide some esthetic rule... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

Evolutionary Simulation Artificial Intelligence

Gigi GhezziDecember 1, 2005

Artificial Life born from a promising interaction between evolutionist research and informatics: in the computer simulation environment a togetherness of instructionist technology and selection processes are applied, taken from the Darwinism paradigm... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

The Dialogue Of Ics And Ipsilon

Matteo TraversariDecember 1, 2005

An interactive system, I believe, can be considered a new type of film; but a film that can be controlled, and that concerns something we wish to influence. And the important duty of a project maker is to imagine this interactive film. Let's not wonder about the nuts and bolts: what is the dream... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

For A Democratic And Shared Net

Lorenzo TripodiDecember 1, 2005

During the last weeks, the World Summit on Information Society took place in Tunis , two years after the summit of Geneva , and had to deal with global strategies in order to face the issue of digital divide... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

Copyzero: All Rights Digitalized

Maria MolinariOctober 31, 2005

The Movement Costozero is a no-profit association that is fighting for free of charge communication rights, considered to be a real source of development. It supports free information and free access to the means of communication, the diffusion of open content... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 09, November 2005

Cryonics, A Prospect Of Immortality

Gigi GhezziOctober 31, 2005

On the opposite pole of pessimists outrance there's a thought current that has a positive and maybe positivist attitude towards future: I'm talking about supporters of cryonics therapy. Cryonics consists of the immediately after death freezing of a human body trated with peculiar protective agents to better assure the preservation of cellular tissues... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 09, November 2005

New Media Art, Selling Immateriality

Maria Rita SilvestriOctober 31, 2005

The immateriality of the new media art creates confusion in the world art system to the point that at its start the ownership of this digital works to the traditional and institutional art system was in doubt. But this is the real exciting aspect of the phenomenon... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 09, November 2005

Slices, Electronic Music Magazine

Alex DandiOctober 31, 2005

While in Italy we can enjoy the yearned first magazine devoted to electronic music extracted from a well-known French format called Trax , the cunning German are enjoying their first electronic music magazine completely on DVD. Name of the editorial project Slices: the electronic music magazine... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 09, November 2005

House Generation, Il Ritorno Di Jack

Alex DandiOctober 1, 2005

Da un paio d'anni a questa parte la club culture mondiale sta vivendo un periodo di grandi incertezze e trasformazioni. A partire dalla crisi dei superclub inglesi e dalla chiusuradi alcune riviste fulcro dell'industria al colpo di coda del moribondo rock'n'roll, la musica dance ha subito un brusco arresto dal punto di vista commerciale. Vendite di dischi ridotte ai minimi termini e conseguente smitizzazione della figura del superstar dj hanno messo in ginocchio un'intera industria rimescolando ancora una volta le carte... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 08, October 2005

Cambiamenti Climatici Simulati

Gigi GhezziOctober 1, 2005

Katrina e Rita sono gli ultimi uragani che hanno riportato in primo piano il tema del cambio climatico. Tale fenomeno viene spesso associato alle catastrofi naturali: sintomi del pericolo di un'alterazione radicale, graduale ed inesorabile dei parametri ambientali terrestri, con la conseguenza della creazione di un nuovo ambiente ostile alla popolazione terrestre.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 08, October 2005