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The Influencers 2009: Analog Guerrillas

This year from 5 th to 7 th February The Influencers festival was held at the premises of the CCCB in Barcelona. The minds that are behind this exciting event, at its fifth edition, are: Bani ( lively and curious curator and designer), Eva and Franco Mattes ( 0100101110101101.org), and Marco Deseriis (journalist, researcher at the Department of Media, Culture and Communication of New York University and author of the book 'Net Art, the art of connecting'). The large audience consists of people of all ages, many supporters who go every year to the Catalan capital just for this event not to be missed.... READ MORE...

Police seize UK indymedia server

An Indymedia server was seized by police in Manchester yesterday (22nd). This was probably related to postings about the recent Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) trial.Kent Police had e-mailed imc-uk-contact in the morning requesting that personal information about the judge in the SHAC trial be removed from the site.... READ MORE...

Produzione Di Anticorpi

Ogni nuova tecnologia  un'estensione di noi stessi; un nuovo medium che necessariamente introduce con se cambiamenti nell'organizzazione socio-individuale. Secondo Marshall McLuhan,  il medium (il mezzo), e non il contenuto, quello che determina l'informazione che trasporta. 'Le conseguenze di ogni medium derivano dalle nuove proposizioni introdotte nelle nostre questioni personali da ognuna di tali esten­sioni o da ogni nuova tecnologia.'... READ MORE...

Anna Adamolo: Practical Critique Of Ideology

The Onda Anomala (Anomalous Wave) is the more important social phenomenon seen in Italy in the last years. It started from the school's ground, from the protests against the so-called Gelmini reform, but its value doesn't seem to be limited to that: it looks like the manifestation of a new process of global social mobilization. The material, cultural and moral uneasiness that starts from the problems of the school, is beginning to concern wider thematic: work, redistribution of wealth, lifestyle, democracy and equality Copyright vs Community, ci vediamo e salutiamo divertiti.... READ MORE...

Interactivos?09: Garage Science

An International Workshop-Seminar that includes an intensive project development workshop (January 28 through February 14, 2009) and a seminar with lectures and public theoretical works presentations (January 28 and 29, 2009). Both projects and papers have been selected through international open call.... READ MORE...

Speaking Out Loud Symposium

Most works in the Speaking Out Loud exhibition suggest that language is a fluid, dynamic system which offers itself for individual expression and performance. On the other hand, language is a rational system not driven by instinct but whose strict rules and signs we must learn in a life long, enduring process... READ MORE...

Pure Data: Alla Ricerca Della Purezza Perduta

Come spiegato da Donald Judd nella citazione sopra riportata, l'astrazione e il minimale non hanno niente a che fare con la purezza. Seguendo il suo pensiero, potremmo dire che la purezza, non potendosi basare sull'astrazione, non pu˜ nemmeno affermarsi grazie ad una presunta immaterialitˆ. Ma allora cosa  la purezza e soprattutto perché occupa una posizione talmente onnipresente nel pensiero te(cno-fil)o-logico?... READ MORE...

Artech 2008

Artech 2008 is the fourth international workshop held in Portugal and Galicia on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims to promote contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the conception, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.... READ MORE...

Haip 2008

HAIP is International Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies and is organized by Zavod K6/4 - open multimedia center Kiberpipa from Ljubljana. The HAIP Festival puts on display multimedia art forms resulting from creative use of open technologies... READ MORE...