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New Media Art In Japan. Hideaki Ogawa And The Device Art

Mauro Arrighi
Hideaki Ogawa, graduated with a doctorate degree from the prestigious KEIO University of Tokyo, teacher in the Interface Culture degree program at the Linz Universit, co-founder and artistic director of the Studio h.o. in Tokyo, researcher at Ars Electronica Future Lab and member of the Device Art movent s in my opinion of those authors who represent the emblematic dualism which Sumitomo Fumihiko talked about earleir.... READ MORE...
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Pablo Gav. The Sound Art In Mexico City

Felipe Zuniga
To write about Mexico City as an emergent scene for contemporary music and sound art seems a difficult task. There is a lack of information and specialized publications. Thanks to some artists like Manuel Rocha Iturbide this scenario is slowly changing. Some academic essays are available on line, few catalogs of exhibitions that included sound art pieces or installations, and mostly we find artists websites and some festivals publications. These are the nodes available to build a network of scattered references.... READ MORE...
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Touching The Music. Baschet Laboratory Of Sound Sculpture

Barbara Sansone
They are strange, colorful, made of cardboard, tinfoil and glass sheets, this strings of metal. They are beautiful to behold. Above all, they make you feel like you want to touch them. The ambiguity of the verb tocar a term that in Spanish means also to play (a musical instrument) appears to have originated from them. It is sufficient to touch them with your fingers slightly wet. They will emit magnificent sounds, sounds that you could produce using a traditional instruments only after years of hard practice. These objects go by the name of Cristal Baschet and other works produced by the brothers Francois & Bernard Baschet, to whom Museu de la Musica di Barcellona is dedicating a solo exhibition, which will last until December 19, 2011.... READ MORE...
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Art & Networked Culture. Tallin And The New Media Art

Mathias Jansson
The Culture Capital of Europe 2011 is Tallinn in Estonia and the biggest art exhibition during this year has been the exhibition Gateways: Art and Networked Culture at KUMU Art Museum. For the occasion the German curator Sabine Himmelsbach has collected some of the most interesting New Media Art artists from Europe asEva e Franco Mattes, Aram Bartholl, Thomson & Craighead, Sašo Sedlaček, Julius Popp, Christina Kubisch, Les Liens Invisibles to mention some of the 27 participators.... READ MORE...
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Parallel Worlds. The Mysterious Doron Golan

Michael Szpakowski
Doron Golan has been making short movies using the QuickTime format for over thirteen years. For most of this period he has been posting his work to the internet. He was a pioneer of net video and his work is profoundly marked by its digital facture and its presence on the net. I believe it to be a body of work of great significance - fearless, rich, human and often profound.... READ MORE...
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Web Aesthetics. Vito Campanelli And The Media Aesthetics

Pasquale Napolitano
Vito Campanelli is a media theorist and lecturer at the University of Naples L'Orientale, Neural contributor, freelance curator and promoter of events in the domain of digital culture in collaboration withÃÆ'ƒÆ’ÃÆ'†â€™ÃÆ'ƒÂ¢ÃÆ'¢â€Ã¡Ã‚¬ÃÆ'…¡ÃÆ'ƒÆ’ÃÆ'¢â‚¬Å¡ÃÆ'ƒâ€Ã¡ÃÆ'‚ MAO - Media & Arts Office, explores network forms through the prism of aesthetics and thus presents an open invitation to transcend the inherent limitation of the current debate. Web is the medium that, more than any other, is stimulating the worldwide dissemination of ideas and behaviour and Vito Campanelli observes a few important phenomena of today, thus laying the foundations for an organic aesthetic theory of digital media.... READ MORE...
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Climbing Aesthetics. Libia Castro & Olafur Olafsson

Elena Biserna
Last June, on the train to Venice, I was reading with little timingThe Radicant, Nicolas Bourriaud’s last essay published already in 2009 by Sternberg Press. A few hours later, I was in the charming courtyard of the Collegio Armeno, which houses the Icelandic pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial: Libia Castro & ÃÆ'â€Å'lafur ÃÆ'â€Å'lafsson’s exhibition Under Deconstruction.... READ MORE...
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Mauro Ceolin: Ethnography Of The Imaginary

Claudio Musso
Mauro Ceolin, present in September and October to Triennale Bovisa in Milan with his exhibition Contemporary Naturalism, VIVENDI - da Lassie ai Pokemon, made of hybridization his trademark. In fact, at the base of his work lies an analytic attitude, reason to study and ultimate goal at the same time. His methods of research lie on the border between a large body of disciplines ranging from sociology to biology, anthropology to chemistry, from science of materials to neuroscience. Before such a wide arsenal of options it would be practically impossible to give some answers to the first question, but the artist's extraordinary coherence of work comes to our aid.... READ MORE...
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Art/tapes/22. Interview With Maria Gloria Bicocchi

Claudia D'Alonzo
Between 1972 and 1976, a venue on the ground floor in Via Riccasoli 22, in Firenze, acted as the main setting for one of the key moments that brought about the video art in Italy. At that very address, Maria Gloria Bicocchi and her husband Giancarlo founded art/tapes/22, the center for the moving video, which started in Florence, but then followed the couple as they were traveling to other residences, in Santa Teresa, near Follonica, and Sant’Ippolito, in the Volterra countryside, reaching (complete with tapes and equipment) artists’ studio, galleries and cultural centres in Italy and abroad.... READ MORE...
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City Portraits. Teatro A Corte: Interview With Berlin

Silvia Scaravaggi
We interviewed Berlin before their participation to Teatro a Corte 2011. Berlin is a Belgium-based collective, built around Bart Baele and Yves Degryse. It started in 2003, when the group from Anversa was formed together with the actress Caroline Rochlitz, with the aim to develop a project dedicated to cities or regions able to tell stories of important and universal identities and humanities.... READ MORE...
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