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Redazione Digicult
Forty-eight artists from over 18 countries are gathering at LACDA via the Live@808 networked performance space. Live@808 is a custom web application where realtime video, audio, texting and countless other media collide and intermix in a playful and exciting environment facilitated by emergent technology... READ MORE...
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Mal au Pixel 2010

Redazione Digicult
Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. The festival brings together young digital artists and unconventionnal electronics : unexpected technologies, prototypes and open ended events.... READ MORE...
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Art on Wires

Redazione Digicult
Art.on.Wires is an open laboratory for live and interactive art where researchers, engineers and practitioneers from various fields collaborate to explore and create a new generation of media technology for artistic performances and mixed-reality spaces.... READ MORE...
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Lev Manovich: Software Culture. The Common Grammar Of Media

Giulia Simi
Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book 'The language of New Media' (it came out in Italy in 2002 in the Olivares Edition) was one of the main reference points for many theorists, artists, communicators and designers, that were already well settled down in the 'new technology' sector. Ten years later, thanks to the digital diffusion, grammar was already consolidated in the capitalism era and Lev Manovich decided to analyze and study that which today is seen as our 'interface with the world'(1): software.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Eclectic Tech Carnival

Redazione Digicult
The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women & trans with a critical interest in Free Information and Open Standards technology. The event has been held annually since 2002 and creates an opportunity for women & trans to share their experiences, knowledge, skills, and network, thus: have fun!... READ MORE...
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Hackmeeting 2009: Meeting With The Debian Community

Loretta Borrelli
On the official website of the Debian project can be read: The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

Hacker Space Festival

Redazione Digicult
The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on... READ MORE...
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The Aware And Creative Technology Of Goto10

Giulia Simi
The collective GOTO10 (the answers of this interview were elaborated with the name GOTO10 by Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Thomas Vriet), active internationally for years in the technological activist environment, is a good example of how a group of programmer-artists manages to face and win against the swamps of our time through a creative, aware and thought-out use of technology. I interviewed them so that they could tell us about some aspects of their complex project.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

Blender And 3dwithin Nearly…everybody’s Reach

Marco Riciputi
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License'. Dietro questa sintetica definizione che apre il sito ufficiale del software free e open source Blender, non si cela solo un programma per la modellazione 3D, ma un'autentica filosofia di lavoro, oltre che una comunitˆ di utenti sviluppata lungo le direttrici partecipative che le nuove tecnologie aprono in diversi settori. Blender, che sarˆ protagonista di un interessantissimo workshop nel periodo di warm up del prossimo Hackmeeting di Milano di Giugno, presso l'Universitˆ Statale Bicocca ... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009