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Art is relationality: an interview with Marinella Senatore

Silvia Scaravaggi
Labor was a central theme at the art division of Ipercorpo, a festival organized in Forlì in May 2013 by Città di Ebla and Iagostudio eventi e comunicazione. The three nights of the festival featured a roundtable dedicated to the Forlì collection Verzocchi and more specifically to the topic of collecting organized by curator Davide Ferri. This initiative was combined with the presentation of three artworks that interpreted labor from three different perspectives: video Nui Simu by Marinella Senatore; Il Capo by Yuri Ancarani (see his previous interview for Digicult[1]) and the performance Dove si racconta di profondi sospiri e lunghi pensieri (“place for deep sighs and long thoughts”) by Stefania Galegati Shines.... READ MORE...
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Becoming a stranger. An interview to Brandon LaBelle

Anna Raimondo
Sound art lives today a recognition in the art field, both in the art market and in the academic world. Nevertheless, the definition still lives a great dichotomy in its interpretation. On one hand, sound art is understood as an artist practice based on the medium of sound; on the other hand, it is configured more as a possibility of reciprocal listening articulated in different forms, in which sound can be silent.... READ MORE...
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A Musing on Local Archives (hard drives, etc)

Redazione Digicult
The local archive is a tool against hegemony, but not the digital one. The roots of the digital archive are too enmeshed in the agendas of power itself, from the very structure of digital technology to the hegemony of the QWERTY keyboard. Secondly, the digital archive is too ephemeral on too many levels for it to be effective as anti-hegemonic tool for any longer than a very limited period of time.... READ MORE...
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William Basinski: Nocturnes. Playing Loop Tapestries

Silvia Bertolotti
On the 26th of January, at the Ancienne Belgique, one of the best musical venues in Brussels, William Basinski performed live, in an electro-acoustic night together with other musicians like Christian Fennesz. During this concert Basinski performed in a world première his new work, Nocturnes, an album already announced and finally coming up in February 2013.... READ MORE...
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Preserving memories for the future. The project “Archive for change”

Alessandra Saviotti
Archive for Change is a project initiated by the artists and filmmakers Julie Ballands, Taryn Edmonds and Laura Maragoudaki in 2010, which had the aim to explore urban and social changes in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The project is actively supported by the local community and its organizations, because it investigates directly the constant process of transformation of the city, taking Newcastle’s West End as a case study.... READ MORE...
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En Abîme. A Journey across Listening, Reading and Writing with Daniela Cascella

Elena Biserna
Daniela Cascella is an Italian writer based in London. Her work, which has ranged between critical and curatorial activities over the years, seems to gravitate around certain ongoing interests. Besides an attention to sound and musical experimentation, which characterizes her practice from the beginning, several of her curated projects focused on the relationships between sound, site, landscape, texts and literature.... READ MORE...
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The latest endeavours of DjSpooky: The Imaginary App and the The Met Reframed residency

Donata Marletta
Several authors in the past have widely focused on the artistic projects of Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, an inexhaustible artist whose works have the ‘remix’ as a core concept and primary form of representation. The following article traces Miller’s latest endeavours, in particular his residency at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the forthcoming book project about the terrific production of apps for mobile devices.... READ MORE...
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Indie videogames are going big, some voices from Italy

Zoe Romano
These are the words of one of the main characters of the Sundance-Festival-acclaimed documentary Indie Game, describing his relationship with his job, or better say, his mission. The two filmmakers (but also authors, producers, distributors), after to rounds of Kickstarter, went through 300 hours of shooting distilling the stoires of some indie videogamers in the effort of having a dream come true: release their game at the risk of sacrificing their money, health and mental balance.... READ MORE...
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Between design and sound: the feeling of touching according to Yuri Suzuki

Silvia Bertolotti
Yuri Suzuki is a designer and sound artist, born in Tokyo and currently based in the UK and Sweden.He explores the world of sounds using an innovative and challenging approach producing design creations and pieces, and questioning in an unusual and original way the relationship between visual and audio data, as well as the aspects of visibility of electronics. Suzuki also has a background in music and technology, disciplines that converge in his design research around sound.... READ MORE...
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