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Avatar: un’esperienza nel mondo virtuale

Redazione DigicultOctober 22, 2008

Inaugura il 10 ottobre 2008 a Trento al Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali la mostra: AVATAR - Un'esperienza nel mondo virtuale. Ideata dal Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali e realizzata con la collaborazione di Virtual Italian Parks, AVATAR tratta il tema dei nuovi mondi virtuali che si stanno sviluppando in internet dal punto di vista psicologico, sociologico e antropologico.... READ MORE...

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Rinascimento Virtuale

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2008

"Rinascimento Virtuale" vuole creare un contrasto culturale tra l'etnografia, l'antropologia, le testimonianze creative dei primordi, e le avanguardie artistiche contemporanee che nascono e vivono solo nei Mondi Virtuali e nei Social Media... READ MORE...

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Mission Accomplished: Any Deck!

Monica PonziniOctober 2, 2008

Che cosa pu diventare una campagna presidenziale negli Stati Uniti nell'epoca di Internet e dei new media? Il duello mediatico Obama-McCain ormai riflesso a livello globale. I siti internet dei candidati sono diventati i canali preferenziali per trasmettere informazioni e video promozionali in tempo reale (per non parlare delle raccolte stellari di fondi).... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 38, October 2008

The Artist As Artwork In Virtual World – Part 2

Domenico QuarantaSeptember 5, 2008

Apart from what is produced, we have to say that everything in a virtual world is, first of all, a cultural construct . And everything, including the artist, can be considered as an artistic project. In other words, an avatar artist who works in Second Life, no matter the means he uses, is the artistic project of a real artist in Second Life platform.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 37, September 2008

The Artist As Artwork In Virtual World – Part 1

Domenico QuarantaJuly 2, 2008

In the last years, we saw an increasing development of artistic activities in virtual worlds. At the beginning, these virtual worlds were just game-places (MMORPG) [1] or communication tools (chat, MOO, etc...) [2] , and included art as a mere peripheral issue, that was seldom supported and often refused by other users.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 36, July / August 2008

Test_Lab: Topology

Redazione DigicultApril 7, 2008

A panel discussion and virtual performance event to explore ways the digital medium has reconfigured the moving image and thereby redefined concepts of cinema.... READ MORE...

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New Giant Joystick

Redazione DigicultJanuary 25, 2008

Imagine a joystick that is bigger than most basketball players...and requires at least two people to operate it. That's the challenging, quirky and ultimately fun concept behind "An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick]", an art-meets-technology exhibition opening February 4 in the Gallery at Calit2, a small space with big ambitions.... READ MORE...

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Blip Festival: Chiptune Music & Low Bit Visuals

Monica PonziniDecember 4, 2007

Game Boy's devotees and Commodore 64's fans: Blip Festival is back! For four days New York had been the centre of the electronic world of the 80s aesthetic and of its current reinterpretations.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Blip Festival

Redazione DigicultNovember 9, 2007

Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology.... READ MORE...

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Zero Gamer

Redazione DigicultOctober 17, 2007

Zero Gamer is a new exhibition at London Games Festival, from 22nd to 26th of October. It looks at games played, unplayed and unplayable, the spectator and the spectacle.... READ MORE...

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We Are The…strange Media For Strange People

Monica PonziniOctober 3, 2007

Stop motion, 3D, videogames, animes, 8-bit culture. With the Internet as distribution platform. The final product is We Are The Strange , an elusive and indefinite 90 minute film, where the author, M dot Strange , gathered everything that appeals to him visually, all his universe of images and styles.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Automatic Update

Redazione DigicultJuly 23, 2007

The momentum of the dot-com era infused media art with a heady energy, artists, many switching from analog to digital equipment, tried their hands at a range of newly invented art form... READ MORE...

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We Love Technology

Redazione DigicultJuly 23, 2007

We Love Technology, a showcase event dedicated to the creative use and (mis)use of technology, kicks off with a series of pre-event workshops in Huddersfield.... READ MORE...

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Source Code

Redazione DigicultJune 25, 2007

The projects in Source Code , a 10-year retrospective of programming, eyebeam style - the first of three exhibitions presenting the very best of creative exploration at Eyebeam - frame technologies, generate new processes and offer the audience a platform to contemplate the impact of technology on everyday life.... READ MORE...

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Vvvv, The New Born One

Marco MancusoApril 29, 2007

Inside the wide universe of software programming, more and more powerful and performing, inside a revenge never solved between Mac and Pc developers, inside the ambit of a pulse to be open source or not, it is now deafening the noise made by vvvv.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

8bitpeoples, Research And Development In 8bit

Marco MancusoApril 1, 2007

n last number you find out about the Blip Festival , probably the most important international gather of 8bit artists ever organized. In New York Monica Ponzini had the opportunity to assist at the event and describing it in the article on Digimag 21 of February, with the video support of State Grezzi Production.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007

Digital Aesthetic 2

Redazione DigicultMarch 24, 2007

Digital Aesthetic 2 is a multi-venue exhibition, conference and website organised by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Dr. Chris Meigh-Andrews at the Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire, both in Preston.... READ MORE...

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Reflections About Gameart

Paolo BrancaMarch 1, 2007

John & Levi una di quelle case editrici da tenere d'occhio; l'editore milanese, che gi aveva pubblicato la monografia sull'artista Mauro Ceolin, si ripresenta infatti nelle librerie con GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames, un'ambiziosa e altrettanto riuscita carrellata sulla 'Game Art', un termine atto a designare il lavoro di una serie di artisti che si trovano a confrontarsi con il videogioco.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 22, March 2007