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The Influencers 2012: War Through Art

Barbara Sansone
This year ìThe Influencersî promises to be a very exciting festival, but being quite honest, when on earth†has it ever disappointed? Or, hasnít it positively surprised those people who visited it for the first time? The most original and dynamic festival of Barcelona is at its eighth edition in 2012 and, as ever, itís taking place at CCCB, from 9th 11th February.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

Marta De Menezes. Bio-Art System Analysis

Jamie Ferguson
Marta de Menezes has been working now for a decade with biological techniques and materials as her medium, and has often done so in collaboration with scientists, and in particular, with biologists. She is a phd candidate at the University of Leiden, and the artistic director at Ectopia, an experimental art lab in Lisbon. By recently employing the tools of analysis in systems biology to the field of art practice, de Menezes is taking a reflexive and immersive approach to art research. It's one that embraces complexity and could translate into a deeper understanding about the historical development and embedded structures of art and biology related exploration... READ MORE...
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The mobile audience

Redazione Digicult
The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing is creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. This book tracks the history and genesis of locative and wearable media and the ground-breaking work of pioneer artists in the field. It examines changing concepts of space and place for a wide range of traditional disciplines ranging from Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Art and Architecture to Cultural and Media Studies, Fashion and Graphic design.... READ MORE...
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Urban Transcripts 2011

Redazione Digicult
Open to students and professionals in the arts, architecture, geography, planning, the social sciences, and related disciplines, the Urban Transcripts 2011 international workshop on the city will pursue a cross-disciplinary investigation of the city of Rome and aim to respond to a number of actual problematics.... READ MORE...
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Intermundo & Systema Solar: Militant Sounds, Socio-cultural Projects

Lucrezia Cippitelli
In 2007 the first edition of MDE Encuentros de Medellín (the International Contemporary Art Festival of Medellín, Colombia), was opened with a band performance. A well-blended group composed by visual artists, sound experimenters, rappers and activists, who just a few months before - in 2006 - had joined their forces to work together in self-production field. This band mixes digital sounds with Afro-Colombian music tradition.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

None Stands For Us. The Occupation Of Teatro Valle

Marco Mancuso
The Teatro Valle Occupato has drifted away from its initial route and is now heading to Piramide. It's about 6 PM of 10/15, and this is the Twittered message you can find following ashtag #15o, the personal and global reference point of this crazy day. I just escaped from two indiscriminate charges of the security forces (I should use the word guard, as it is better suitable for their manners, but I use the official term out of politeness), which, as usual, do not know and do not care to make any distinction between peaceful and not peaceful demonstrators... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Brighton Digital Festival

Redazione Digicult
Brighton's first month-long festival of digital culture, incorporating performances, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and meet-ups, takes place this September on the south coast. The Brighton Digital Festival brings together internationally renowned digital leaders and artists taking part in more than 30 events over 30 days.... READ MORE...
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Tangible Feelings

Redazione Digicult
A symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts. With the emergence of affordable EEG devices and other biofeedback sensors for the health and game industry, we see more and more artists inspired by these promising technologies in which they imagine the possibility of measuring one's emotions.... READ MORE...
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Notes on Digital Icons And Death. Iran Vs Iran

Mitra Azar
The image of Neda's death appears compulsively in our brain. The eye, cannibal and hungry partner, looks at death through the satellite decongesting awareness that had to be deactivated like it happened to the building in our surroundings. CNN kept broadcasting the images of Neda's face. The big cathode eye feels the smell of blood, knows its bulimic, vampirized adepts, and uses them until the burning red becomes invisible and the moment of death becomes dream. Like in the chocking game, a ritual for wealthy American teenagers, in which they choke each others until they faint and gasp for few seconds, convulsing, and then wake up again, laughing with their friends without understanding where, or why or when it happened... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Hacking The City Book publication

Redazione Digicult
The project "Hacking the City" took place on the occasion of the "European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010" Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called "Mapping the Region". Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum activities. More than thirteen projects in public space, a "Base-Station" in the museum and a homepage (www.hackingthecity.org) were realized.... READ MORE...
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Vittorio Arrigoni On Wikipedia? To Be Deleted Outright

Maria Molinari
On April 14, 2011 the Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, member of the International Solidarity Movement, was kidnapped in Gaza. Author of the book 'Gaza. Restiamo Umani', translated into four languages, and collaborator of the newspaper 'Il Manifesto', Arrigoni was the only foreign reporter to describe on his blog Guerrilla Radio, started in 2008, the sufferance of Palestinian people living in Gaza.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Media Adventures In Belgrade. The Share Conference

Julianne Pierce
Things are happening in Belgrade. This historic city sitting at the junction of the Danube and Sava rivers is throwing off a troubled past and with the enthusiasm of its young population, is striving to create a dynamic and media savvy cultural hub. The SHARE Conference, held in early April 2011 is an example of the entrepreneurism that appears to be taking hold in this rapidly emerging creative environment.... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Paolo Cirio Exhibition Realityflowhacked

Redazione Digicult
This exhibition at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljiana, features some of Paolo Cirio's most recent projects, that are related to the idea of Social Algorithms. They are conceptual hacks, which are represented by the pieces Open Society Structures (2009), P2P Gift Credit Cards - Gift Finance (2010) and Face to Facebook (coauthor: Alessandro Ludovico, 2011)... READ MORE...
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