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Certain Pleasure. Zhang Peili And Electronic Media

Robin Peckham
Zhang Peili is an enigmatic figure: while he is widely respected in China as a pioneering video artist and a progenitor of the use of electronic media in the wake of the 85 New Wave movement of the mid-1980s, his international reputation relies primarily on a small number of survey exhibitions motivated by multicultural agendas and staged amidst work of vastly divergent practical initiatives.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

The Image Of Sound. Yuri Ancarani’s Stomach

Alessandra Saviotti
Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972) likes to define himself a visual artist/film maker. He developed his research by starting studying his territory, the land where he was born: the Riviera Romagnola. As for his music video Vicino al Cuore (2003), work that he claims to love the most, or Kras (Bora, 2011) or Carrara caves (Il Capo, 2010), he always succeeds to catch the invisible aspect that transmits to the public the meaning of those places.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Me, Myself And Twenty-three. Science And Narcissism 2.0

Nicola Bozzi
The first time I heard of 23andMe I was reading an article on 'Internazionale', few years ago. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, the company provides a series of data and statistics about individuals' genome to everyone who is keen enough to send his/her own spit to be examined. For those who might not know, Wojcicki is Sergei Brin's wife, one of Google's chiefs and one of the main investors of the project.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011Science

The Italian Hub. Interview With Co.de.it

Sabina Barcucci
Co-De-iT is an independent group of research on digital and scripting-based architecture, born in Italy yet strictly connected with the rest of the world. Their activity is guided by a mission: to bring to Italy some innovations usually characterizing other most advanced international contexts. The request for innovation is clear and concrete, as confirmed by the interviews with Andrea Graziano, Alessio Erioli and Davide Del Giudice. A more and more increasing number of students and professionals rely on Co-De-iT, attracted by its hub role for all those information and projects that encounter problems in penetrating the Italian context.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Roberto Pugliese. Digital Bio-acoustics

Claudio Musso
Roberto Pugliese is a distinguished representative of what is described above. He comes from a musical academic culture, but having soon felt the limits of a single view, he then began to look for other stimuli in the field of visual arts. This should be a reason of pride for the visual field, so often denigrated and abused, and moreover it helps to underline the need to mix different points of view.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011Sound

Voluptuous Data. Matias Del Campo And Span Architects

Sabina Barcucci
Talking about design and architecture with Matias Del Campo (SPAN Architects, with Sandra Manninger) opens the mind toward an unexpected miscellanea of technology and romanticism. It clarifies that the work of those that, like SPAN, are developing new paradigms in material production through architecture act in a world where the combination of technology and sensibility has yet to be questioned and investigated. As Del Campo himself states, in this field we have just scratched the surface: everything still has to be imagined, discovered and defined.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Wefab: Digital Fabrication In The Heart Of Milan

Simona Casonato
If you are looking to make the revolution, maybe it is worth a trial. Or, better to say, a prototype, for it is design we are talking about. To the shouts of Make the right thing, WeFab exhibition has taken place in Milan, between April 14 and 16 of 2011 (http://www.wefab.it/). Three days entirely dedicated to open design, open source design and fabbing, the home-made fabrication: activities generating a short circuit in the relations between designer's creative act, prototyping and industrial production. WeFab has demonstrated how very different steps of production cycle can collapse to a unique time and place. A time and place that accept the burden of discussing about some century of our history, from the Industrial Revolution on.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Sparkle Labs. The Sparkle Of Creation

Zoe Romano
In this scenario new actors are embodying the sharing of knowledge as a full time occupation and thousands of new followers are thrilled by interactive electronics. One of these actors is worth highlighting is called Sparkle Lab, a duo of designer and teacher, Amy Parness e Ariel Churi, based in New York City. Sparkel Lab, born some years ago, is a special mix of art, craft, science and cuteness enabling the disclosure of the little engineers hiding inside all of us. Pastel colors, iced icons make us easily forget we are dealing with circuits, leds, electric threads and suddenly we learn the basis of electronics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Transmedia. Postgraduate In Arts, Media & Design

Silvia Bertolotti
The New Media Art Education & Research field, is one of the most dynamic and controversial fields of study and professional confrontation, at an international level, of the last few years. The possible relapse on a new generation of artists and designers, of a certain kind of theoretical, historical and critical teaching, to be possibly integrated with a more technical, instrumental and operational aspect, on the application of digital technologies (software and hardware) in a creative field, is the topic of many meeting.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Manuel Lima. Mapping The Information Space

Pasquale Napolitano
In the contemporary media scenario always more information is produced, managed and shared through digital channels, with the consequent production of a huge quantity of data which end up piling up and stratifying in the enormous container which is the Net. To trace tracks, outlines allowing to enhance - in between art and science - trends, connections or configurations within this digital chaos, is today one of the main aims of Information Visualization, and that of Manuel Lima - interaction designer, architect and researcher - is one of the most authoritative voices in the present-day research scenario on this theme. Member of the Royal Society of Arts, he was named by Creativity Magazine 'among the 50 most influential and creative minds of 2009'.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Critical Fusion. Interview To Maurice Benayoun

Lorenzo Taiuti
Maurice Benayoun is one of the most experienced among digital media artists, both in France and abroad. Principally known as an interactive artist, his research course on visual art and video started from documentary experiences, as testified by his documentaries and video installations about the most influent contemporary artists in the Eighties. In 1987 he was one of the founders of Studio Z-A, one of the first examples of professional studio aimed to the experimentation of new approaches to computer-made images.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 64, May 2011

Aim, Fire, Poetry! Jason Nelson And The New Literature

Mathias Jansson
The Australian digital artist and poet Jason Nelson also creates his own poetry videogames. He has made a trilogy with name as: Game, Game, Game And Again Game, I made this. You play this. We are Enemies and Evidence of everything exploding. The videogame poems are based on traditional platforms games in which Nelson combines text, pictures and sound from the different sources from the Internet.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

The Digital Gregor Samsa. Interview With Pierrick Sorin

Alexandra Purcaru
Pierrick Sorin, a multimedia artist which expresses himself through various means such as sound and video installations, presented the project entitled: 22:13 (this title is likely to be changed at any moment) at CentQuatre. The artist focuses his attention on short films, on the art of bricolage and storytelling through images and projections. A varied audience filled the room, even occupying the staircase seats... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011