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Workshop Designing Hybrid Wearbables

Redazione Digicult
In this action-packed three days, 19-20-21 febraury 2008, from 10am to 5pm, participants will look at clothes and jewelry and their potential as personal mobile platforms for social interaction. This is one of the first workshops in Europe around the beautiful and brand new Lilypad Arduino, designed especially for use in wearables... READ MORE...
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Graffiti Research Lab: Writers As Hackers As Artists

Monica Ponzini
Real and virtual spaces, cities and new media. These are the domains of confrontation of the new semantic clashes, made of massified and pre-digested messages on one hand, and free circulation, manipulation and expression of ideas on the other. The main characters are big companies, buying ads spaces to spark the consumerism at the basis of their economies, versus individuals, sometimes gathered in little independent groups, using new technologies for realising and using expressions means and the net to communicate and join in.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

The Theatre Of Electronic Surveillance

Annamaria Monteverdi
Does anyone remember Enemy of The State directed by Tony Scott and starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman? The story deals with a man targeted by closed-circuit cameras, radars, bugs, satellite indicators, high-sensitive microphones following each of his movements. This movie as many others is concerned with important issues such as control, wire-tapping, data security and satellite espionage. Among them we must mention Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation,The End of violence by the German director Wenders and The listening, shut in 2006 by the Italian director Giacomo Martelli.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Steal This Film 2: Share Alike

Maresa Lippolis
n the wake of the diy-do it yourself attitude of Abbie Hoffman s book, Steal this book (1970) , in 2006 a pretended group of filmakers who gathered under the name of The league of the noble peer , produced an interesting documentary film, Steal this film , showing how the present time's pirates are causing trouble to the diffusion and production system of knowledge and information with their recreational and disenchanted habits.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Beijing, World Researches Politics

Gigi Ghezzi
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the China Association for Science and Technology (Cast) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were the protagonist of Beijing meeting of 24 th -29 th September. It deserves an in-depth examination of its contiguous and symbolic meaning. It is impossible to disregard this kind of initiatives to understand how the future developing and technology geopolitical relationship will evolve.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007