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Necessity Or Taboo. How To Evaluate Art & Science Projects

Silvia Casini
Scientists and communicators are more and more persuaded that divulgating science to the public and involving outsiders into it is a duty rather than a choice. In order to make science is necessary to use a various range of tools: from a pen and a sheet where to draw sketches, write notes and create mental maps, to the utilization of the most advanced technology. The sciences that more evidently and more closely concern the human body, such as genomics and neurosciences, are searching for more effective ways to communicate and involve people.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011Science

Order Number Two. Majakovskij And The Culture Of Machine

Pasquale Napolitano
Vladimir Vladimirovič Majakovskij's works (1893-1930) contain traces of a new aesthetics. In some specific verses of his poems one can individuate the roots of a renewed conception of art and its relation with technique, serial production and reproducibility procedures. These matters have been immediately faced by the rising European and East-European design culture, expressed by heterogeneous experiences ranging from visual art, architecture, graphics, industry, in constant search of a balance between arts and trades, that played a key role in design.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

To Feel Like Voices. Vocal Expression: Sound Of The Subject

Simone Broglia
Voice is our means of communication. Voices inform us about what it happens in the flat next to ours, in the streets or in the car. A weeping baby explains a need, the low pitch of a conference invites to listen carefully, the cries of Diamanda Galas take convey us all the pain she want to express. Different worlds of expression sharing the same common idea: they are expression of the voice.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011Sound

Interruptive Site-specificity In Contemporary Digital Art

Eugenia Fratzeskou
This article presents an investigation into the ways through which the notion of interruptive site-specificity is manifested and explored in digital art. This investigation is carried out through tracing early influential shifts in how artists have been working with site-specific virtual environments. Myron Krueger's Glowflow (1969) and Jeffrey Shaw's Virtual Museum (1991) are discussed as the relevant representative cases.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010Science

Web’s Unconscious.what Does A Technical Image Say Of You?

Loretta Borrelli
It's a year since when Seth Godin, the guru of permission marketing, a highly popular theory theory that became very popular during the first outburst of speculations on the dot-com, published his ten golden rules on how to chose the right profile picture to use on social networks accounts. By following these ten simple tips on how to show one's inner self through one single image, it is allegedly possible not only to achieve the aimed economic results, but also to become quite popular.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Cao Fei: Demolishing The Virtual. Rmb City And The Crisis Of Art-reality

Robin Peckham
Chinese artist Cao Fei formally launched her last major project, RMB City, almost two years ago in January 2009. Nearing the end of its predetermined lifespan, the Second Life platform should come to an end within the next several months. At this juncture I have been attempting to take the pulse of the virtual community as a whole, speaking with current and former collaborators on RMB City, collectors, writers, and other interested observers in order to figure out how to measure the success or failure of the digital metropolis. See below for a summary of the findings so far; next month in this space we will continue this survey with a debriefing on Chinese art in Second Life... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Vns By David Rokeby. Seeking For An Harmonics Of Interaction

Claudia Maina
When aboarding the subject of interactive sound installation it is natural to turn to David Rokeby's work (1960, Tillsonburg, Ontario). If one thinks back to the line of research that was based upon the Sound Sculpture study in order to find a definition for Sound Art, knowledge of Rokeby's Very Nervous System (1986-1990) and his theory of harmonics of interaction' is fundamental for an understanding on the relationship between sound, movement, space and technology.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010Sound

Organic Resonances. On Ginette Laurin

Enrico Pitozzi
As one of the most relevant figures in the international scene, choreographer Ginette Laurin - founder of Canadian group O Vertigo, based in Montreal - is committed since the eighties to a radical research on movement, which she combines with an investigation on the stage mechanism both sound and chromatically-wise. Influenced by an extensive research on physicality, Laurin created a very specific language for 'writing' movement, which tends to deconstruct its features by working on dynamics of slowness and speed in the spacial organization of the scene.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010Sound

On Facebook Again. Public And Private Spaces

Loretta Borrelli
It has lately become common to hear the name Facebook being used as a synonym for Internet. Magazines, radio and TV broadcast news on curiosities, updates and weaknesses of the platform that has at this stage achieved a position of dominance in social networks environment. We are not anymore referring to this as to the latest technologic fashion: Facebook is now a part of the daily routine for about five-hundred million web-users all over the world, a consistent majority of whom are American-based. The online service CheckFacebook provides realtime statistics on the number of logged-in users, men/women percentage, nationality and age groups going from 13-years-olds up to 65-years-olds.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Technesexual Interface. Erotic Mixed Reality Performance

Micha Cardenas
Biometric sensors, made cheaply available by do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping platforms such as Arduino, allow a shift away from visual interfaces to proprioceptive interfaces, away from the touch of a finger and towards a more internal, embodied form of sensing. One possible effect of this shift is away from the command-control methodology which was a historical basis for cybernetics, and towards a form of modulation and cooperation akin to intersubjectivity.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010Science

Habemus Data. Digital Culture And Free Information

Teresa De Feo
A close step far from the counter-reformation of the 'gag law', stirred by the fear of our politicians who are frightened of losing control on the information flow or of a excessive overexposure of privacy and details, we caught the opportunity to go back on the matter of Open Data. But what has Open data got to do with the 'problem' of interceptions and 'bugs' of public and private world?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Informational Realism. Quantum Bit In The Cyber Space

Jeremy Levine
It may very well be said that information is the irreducible kernel from which everything else flows, hence the question why nature appears quantized is simply a consequence of the fact that information itself is quantized by necessity. (p.3) Anton Zeilinger, Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?, (The Global Spiral, Metanexus Online, March 25, 2002).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Athanasius Kircher. Arca Musarithmica And Many Sound Devices

Claudia Maina
Researching possible origins and theoretical roots of Sound Sculpture and Sound Art it isn't rare to get to face the oeuvre of Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher, an intriguing character who has been a point of reference for the work of many artists. We will here attempt to get closer to his poetics and understand which are the elements in his research that foremost might have influenced aforementioned fields.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010ScienceSound

Fair Trade Social Networks. Solidariety As Key Factor

Gigi Ghezzi
Renewed discovery of forgotten knowledge, sharing and deepening of hobbies, new friends and relationships, exhibitionism, amusements, etc. The list of private ways to use social networks, and of course the social networks themselves, is constantly widening. There are many cases in which the profiles are refearable to collective or professional activities based above all on promotion functions, engagement and widening of someone's personal image on the web, or rather strengthening and personalizing the relationship with customers (see for example the philosophy of social media - described in the International corporate for safety Northrop Grumman).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Chora Platonica And Digital Matrix

Eugenia Fratzeskou
As can be seen in Plato's Timaeus, space plays a significant role in cosmology. Alongside Models/Ideals and their imitations, Plato uses Χώρα (Chôra), that is, an invisible and formless receptacle... of all becoming' where Forms are materialised, in a sense close to space (1). Despite the hermeneutic difficulties in fully defining it, Chora has set the foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and placing, while the influence of Plato's cosmology is evident even in contemporary science.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010Science

About Sonic Sculpture. Between Disciplines Categories

Pasquale Napolitano
Watching a sound art installation requires a silent contemplation that allows to listen carefully. Sometimes it is not considered as something - as music is - going beyond the limits of a time-based expression. Many sound sculptures, as well as most visual art, have a linear sound structure (e.g. Clown Torture, one of the earliest videos by Bruce Nauman).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010Sound

Biomimethic Prized By Science. Scientific Imaging As Art

Carla Langella
A team of researchers from the Seconda Universitˆ of Naples formed by Professor Mario De Stefano from Environmental Sciences Department, Pharmaceutical Science for Environment and Health Section, myself from the History and Environment Industrial Design Department, Luigi Vanvitelli School of Architecture and by recently graduated at this same school, Doctor Antonia Auletta, awarded with honorable mention during the 2009 edition of International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, the prestigious international competition of scientific photography organized by National Science Foundation and by Science magazine.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010