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Peter Tscherkassky.audiovisuals From A Darkroom

Marco Mancuso
Let's start from an assumption: I am not a film critic and more in general I do not work exclusively on experimental cinema. This analysis of the avant guard director Peter Tscherkassky, born in Wien in 1958 and winner at the 67th Venice Film Festival in the 'Nuovi Orizzont" section with the film Coming Attractions, will probably lack those lexical elements and elements of analysis used by the most orthodox film criticism, and will inesorably be exposed to a radical reading of the following text. In spite of that, my intention is to highlight the austrian director's work, in terms of the importance that I think it has not only as far as cinema is concerned, but also and especially towards the production and the audiovisual research taken as an aesthetic-expressive possibility of the sound-image relationship.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

Paper Resistance: Graphic (r)existence

Claudio Musso
By reading in one go - as imposed by the absence of punctuation - this long periphrasis, one witness a superimposition of images, concepts and ideas that flash in mind like they do into Paper Resistance drawings. Its work of counterpoint and oxymoronic juxtaposition of figures and symbols of modern society, delineates in a biting manner all the contradictions and deformations of the present. Through a plain stroke, its composition defines clearly in frames and posters filled with alienating and unpredictable associations.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

More Perfect Union. The Emotional Cartography By Luke Dubois

Pasquale Napolitano
More Perfect Union, the last work by Luke Dubois (United States, 1975), artist, scholar, musician, represeted by the Bitforms Gallery in New York (directed by Steve Sacks e Laura Blereau), one of the most influential exhibition centers in the digital art scenario, places itself as an interesting attempt to investigate the sentimental life of americans, through the digital visualization potential.... READ MORE...
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Paolo Cirio. When Stealing Becomes Art

Tatiana Bazzichelli
The engineer figure described by Walter Benjamin reminds the 'tactical' art by Paolo Cirio, who contributes to transform the meaning of the artistic practice from within, by unveiling the unsolved knots in the art field. Through his artworks, Paolo Cirio (http://www.paolocirio.net) intervenes tactically locating some plugs of a puzzle which can be finished only by directly involving its referents, being them either corporations, media apparatuses, or the so-called network 'users'.... READ MORE...
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Net Art At Exhibition Centers. Marta Ponsa And The ‘jeu De Paume’ Case

Giulia Simi
We have had the pleasure of interviewing Marta Ponsa, who is in charge of the artistic and cultural projects of Jeu de Paume, and she has been taking care of planning the virtual exhibition space since 2009. Since she surely represents one of the most interesting voices to listen to on the relationship that digital art can develope with contemporary art institutions, we asked her some questions about the history and the activity of Espace Virtuel.... READ MORE...
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Fidel Garcia’s Work. Art As A Complex System

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Fidel Garcia (at that time he was still known with his Micro X nickname, by the name of the homonym precinct of the Alamar quarter where he still lives now) has paid me a visit to talk about his work. At that time he was an ISA student (Instituto Superior de Arte, maybe the best school of art in all Latin America) and made part of Tania Bruguera's Catedra Arte de Conducta, the educational project the Cuban artist carried on for almost a decade, by bringing artists, philosophers, activists and curators to Cuba in order to educate and raise a new generation of artists, grown up in the shade of the international panorama of our time.... READ MORE...
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Francesca Grilli. Searching For The Daily Miracle

Alessandra Saviotti
Francesca Grilli, who was born in Bologna and now lives in the Netherlands has developed her research on the human figure realizing works inspired by her personal memories which are linked to her family and her daily life. Her work recently focused on the obsessive search for the daily miracle, through the manipulation of reality and adding an unexpected variable that produces a sense of familiarity that can also be shocking. As she herself explains, the daily miracle is a minimal invisible action which often transforms reality into magic, daily actions and tasks into something fabulous.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 63, April 2011

Multisensory Space. Interview With Sonia Cillari

Barbara Sansone
We are obviously talking about Sonia Cillari, original artist carrying on by long time a personal and coherent project, by offering to the public a way to enter, feel and live her work with body and soul. Awarded with a Honorable Mention at 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Interactive Art, she is today a professor at Frank Mohr Institute, IME Interactive Media Environment Department, and she is part of Optofonica Laboratory for Immersive ArtScience based in Amsterdam.... READ MORE...
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Ulrich Vogl. Harmony And Worlds In Balance

Silvia Scaravaggi
Ulrich Vogl (Kaufbeuren, 1973) grew up in southern Germany. He studied in Monaco, Berlin and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says he inherited his artistic streak from his grandfather, who was a researcher and inventor. This familiar and romantic world belongs to Ulrich Vogl as to his works, which are a mix of invention and idyllic evocation, purified by clear and defined forms, minimal colour choices that simper away every affectation and confers the work a concise and intriguing aspect.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

Costellations And Fragments. The Sound By Stephan Mathieu

Pia Bolognesi
Recently reading again the essay by Nicolas Bourriaud, Post Production. The culture comme scénario: comment l'art reprogramme le monde contemporain, I have found this excerpt of Mode d'emploi du détournement by Guy Debord, which to the detriment of his fiftyfive years - the text was published back in '56 - picks an extremely contemporary aspect of the artistic practise.... READ MORE...
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That Measure Of Light. A Conversation With Ugo Pitozzi

Enrico Pitozzi
Ugo Pitozzi, choreographer and video-artist, is one of the major personalities of ballet born during the ʻ80s. His background stems from his education: he studied idioms of visual arts at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, contemporary dance (he studied the Laban technique), contemporary technique with William Forsythe, Mary Wigman's principles with Erika Thimey, and choreography dance composition with Gerhard Bohner. He also attended choreography dance composition and contemporary creation with Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Simone Forti.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

The “OVNI” Project. Video As A Critical Experience

Herman Mendolicchio
The 2011 edition of OVNI (Observatory de V'deo no Identificat: Unidentified Video Observatory) is dedicated to the concept of dis-reality. In an age where the show business, too many times mistaken for the culture world, has risen as model of real life, where fiction and reality melt into one solution and where physic and mental solidity dissolve into a constant flow of images and appearances, in this intricate and complex mutation of reality the OVNI work shows itself as an antidote to the poison of contemporary information and communication... READ MORE...
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Urban Transcripts 2010. Over The Skin Of The City

Eugenia Fratzeskou
The launch of the first Urban Transcripts international and interdisciplinary exhibition took place on 16th December 2010 at Booze Cooperativa gallery at the historical center of Athens. Housed in a three-floored neoclassical building, this is one of the most lively, ground-breaking and influential platforms for the contemporary art scene in the capital, which facilitates diverse kinds of exchange and dialogue between various art forms, ideologies and philosophies, forming a framework for collaboration and creativity that encompasses all fields of expression.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011