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Monolake. “Fundamental Forces” within contemporary electronic music

Silvia BertolottiOctober 4, 2012

Robert Henke is a German electronic musician and software engineer also known for being the creator of the project Monolake. Monolake is a duo born in 1995 in Berlin, together with Gerhard Behles, first, and Torsten Pröfrock (aka T++), afterwards. But Robert Henke is much more than Monolake. The artist currently manages the labels Imbalance Computer Music and Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music.... READ MORE...

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Schwebung. When Stephan Mathieu started his own label

Alessandra SaviottiOctober 1, 2012

Schwebung is Mathieu's own label, dedicated to release solo and collaborative work on vinyl and as high-resolution files. As he said: "Although I'm feeling very previleged to work with some great labels from around the world since the mid 90s, I thought it was the right moment to do it myself".... READ MORE...

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“My open source cure”. Salvatore Iaconesi hits the Net at the heart

Marco MancusoSeptember 25, 2012

At this point, Salvatore Iaconesi does not need any introduction. With the launch of its latest web project My open source cure, he broke any balance in the relationship between net culture and mainstream media. Of course, talking about "project" leaves a bit confused, mostly because the causes and motivations are among the most tragic: the story is familiar to many, Salvatore Iaconesi has recently discovered to have a brain cancer.... READ MORE...

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Cia Rinne. Notes for listeners

Mario MarganiSeptember 14, 2012

Cia Rinne (1973, Gothenburg) is a writer, poet and artist with an uncommon natural inclination towards languages. Born in Sweden from a Finnish family and raised in Germany, she holds a MA degree in Philosophy and has studied in Frankfurt/Main, Athens and Helsinki. Experiencing the continued switch between many languages and places helped her to raise awareness about the political and cultural implications lying down subtle gaps and shift of meanings.... READ MORE...

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Emergências 2012: Contemporary Art Exhibition. Interview with Marta de Menezes

Redazione DigicultSeptember 11, 2012

Marta de Menezes is an artist, making and researching, within the intersection between art and biology. She is the curator of "Emergências", the new media exhibition, taking place in the historic city of Guimarães (in Portugal) and this year the European Capital of Culture.... READ MORE...

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Art is open source. A new world created by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico

Alessandra SaviottiSeptember 4, 2012

It is hard to define the personality of Salvatore Iaconesi. If you google him, several projects are coming on the screen and probably you are going to get lost among them. Is he a hacker, an activist, an engineer, an artist, a teacher or a skateboarder? We can say that every definition is right for his multiple identity... READ MORE...

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AND Festival, a place for new digital culture

Alessandra SaviottiAugust 23, 2012

AND Festival has been taking place every year since 2009 in Northwest of UK. The programme is developed by Cornerhouse, FACT and folly to present the last tendencies in new cinema, digital culture and art.... READ MORE...

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Reskinning Nature. Photo-surgery by Bobby Neel Adams

Laura CapuozzoJune 15, 2012

Bobby Neel Adams is an American artist who shows how photography can be an artistic medium to talk about science; for example the transmission of the ge... READ MORE...

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The Sonic Body: Interview with Marco Donnarumma

Silvia BertolottiJune 14, 2012

Marco Donnarumma is a new media artist and performer of international renown, born in Italy but now based in Edinburgh. His works have been presented bo... READ MORE...

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Markus Kayser: Sun and desert in the industry of tomorrow

Zoe RomanoJune 11, 2012

"I see no future without technology, but even future without nature, they must find a balance at some point." This is the statement by Markus K... READ MORE...

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Lexicon for Dancing: An interview to Wayne McGregor on “Carbon Life”

Giulia TonucciJune 7, 2012

Wayne McGregor (1970) is a young multi-awarded British choreographer based in London, where he works with his company Wayne McGregor/Random Dance... READ MORE...

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The Compass: a conversation with Virginia Colwell

Felipe ZunigaJune 3, 2012

Virginia Colwell is a North American artist born in Nebraska and spent her childhood in Puerto Rico. Colwell did her undergraduate studies in fine art at Virginia Commonwealth University... READ MORE...

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Jeremy Bailey: “My art is a big apology of a white man living in a privilege world”

Lenka MorávkováJune 2, 2012

Although beeing 33 years old, Jeremy Bailey feature evokes a shy, blessed child with eyes wide open to the wonders of contemporary digital world. Smart enough to be critical, gamin enough to enjoy his work and let the audience enjoy his videotutorial-ish parodic allegories and interactive performancies along with him.... READ MORE...

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”Up-in-the-Air” with Sachiko Hayashi

Mathias JanssonJune 1, 2012

Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. She is originally from Tokyo and has lived in the US and UK, but is currently living in Sweden... READ MORE...

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Gabriel Shalom. At the Edge of Reality

Alessandra SaviottiApril 2, 2012

Gabriel Shalom likes to describe himself as a "videomusician", or an audiovisual artist working on manipulation of moving images to reach a rhythmic composition... READ MORE...

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Post Internet and Post Galleries. Conor Backman and The Reference Gallery

Robin PeckhamApril 2, 2012

One of the founders of Reference Gallery, which could reasonably be called one of the best small-town galleries in the world, Conor Backman also happens to be a BFA student at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Open since the fall of 2009, Reference has come to define the growing inertia in post-internet art with a constant flux between physical exhibitions, digital circulation, and distributed networks of attention.... READ MORE...

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Law Of The Instrument. An Interview with Constant Dullart

Mathias JanssonApril 2, 2012

When I heard about the Easter egg that make the Google search page rotate when you type “do a barrell” in the search field, I thought: “Hey wait a minute, this is old news. Constant Dullaart has already created the http://therevolvinginternet.com/ which make the same effect!”... READ MORE...

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The Sublime And The Vulnerable. The Art Of Carrie Mae Rose

Zoe RomanoFebruary 10, 2012

It is around these magical objects that the latest aesthetic and conceptual work of Carrie Mae Rose takes place. Sculptor, performer, interactive designer, she is best known for her work Wearable Weapons produced during a residence and fellowship at Eyebeam in New York.... READ MORE...

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