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Humanity Of 3d. Billy Cowie’s Research

Silvia Scaravaggi
The fourth edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, which toke place in Turin and in eight Savoy residences in Piedmont from July 8 until the 25th, presented a wide selection of contemporary and experimental productions in the fields of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, video-dance and performance, hosting 31 groups from eight different nations. The event schedule comprehended 38 shows, 5 site specific projects and two creations commissioned for the Festival.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Generative Practice. The State Of The Art

Jeremy Levine
Generative art is often misunderstood and mischaracterized, but it has always played an important role in digital aesthetics. The following is a conversation about the state of generative art with three generative artists and theorists, Leonardo Solaas, Marius Watz, and Mitchell Whitelaw and the author. Is there a generative aethetics which can be separate from the generative process?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

I Am Open Cv. The Augmented Art Of Jeremy Bailey

Mattia Casalegno
A native of Toronto, 'funny man' Jeremy Bailey is a visual artist working primarily in electronic media who has been described by Filmmaker magazine as 'a one-man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art' and as often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies (Marisa Olson, Rhizome). His work has been featured internationally in numerous exhibitions and festivals, and he received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006. Currently his work can be viewed, rented and acquired through the independent on-line label Vtape.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Videosculptures / Videoplanets. Art And Science In Katja Loher’s Practice

Giulia Simi
A survey between the real and the virtual, one which inhabits the intermedia territories, is spreading across museum exhibition spaces, housing works of artists who also develop their repertoire outside the Internet. This could describe curator Elena Giulia Rossi's latest exhibition at Maxxi, Rome: NetinSpace adds to the long conversation on Net Art and its complex relationship with a museum which has housed many such works previous to archistar Zaha Hadid's fascinating exhibition.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Brandon Labelle. Where Do Sounds Come From And Where Do They Go?

Elena Biserna
Where do sounds come from and where do they go? From this fundamental and central question different paths branch out that make up Acoustic Territories. Sound Culture and Everyday Life, the new book by Brandon LaBelle - artist, theorist and editor who, through a particularly coherent research, has constantly devoted himself to the exploration of sound and audio culture from multiple points of view and different levels, giving birth to a large body of work, tests and projects.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010Sound

The Silences Of Biosphere. Neo Baroque And Aware Intimacy

Pasquale Napolitano
Geir Jenssen, also known as Biosphere, is one of the most important figures in the field of contemporary electronic composition. Norwegian origins, from Tromsø, a town immersed in icy silence, 500 miles away from the Arctic Circle. Atypical personality, friendly and quiet, he always prefers to communicate through sound, like the sound of his records, of the many installations he designed in the last years, even of the performances.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Gmaybe: Be Free, Be Public! What Future For Privacy?

Loretta Borrelli
You may have happened to witness the presentation of a new online service. Two young men wearing a t-shirt with the Gmaybe? logo show the exciting benefits of the new frontier of social networks. All the rhetorical promises related to technology are there: they tend to fall into four main categories: democracy, freedom, efficiency and progress. Democracy looks like what everyone will enjoy using the new technologies, thus increasing its own influence on the social environment [...] Freedom is usually presented as the absence of socially restrictive elements (Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion. Biotech theory and practices of resistance, Eleuthera, Milano, 2006, pp38-39).... READ MORE...
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The Explosion Of The Arts. Sineglossa Live Performances

Massimo Schiavoni
Sineglossa is an artistic collective residing in the Marche region in Italy, comprising personalities from different disciplines but with the same intent and the same sensitivity. Created in 2006 by director Federico Bomba, the painter Luca Poncetta and performer Barbara Hall, the theatrical debut happened in 2007 with Camera Verde, to which followed in 2008 Pleura e Pneuma. In 2009 are among the companies winning the contract ETI New creativity, working on Undo and Remember me.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Loop Barcelona. Transversal Video Art

Herman Mendolicchio
Once upon a time there was a peripheral artistic practice scarcely considered called video art. This could probably be the incipit of any dissertation on artistical practices tied to technology developments. As we know, the world of arts shares since ever a long common boundary with the world of technologies, but nowadays video art - though maintaining some innovative features - has departed from this frontier positioning itself among the artistic disciplines currently most demanded, valued and practiced.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Smart Urban Stage – The Media In The Future City. Meeting Alberto Abruzzese

Marco Mancuso
Since the past 26th of June until July the 31st, inside a 200 square meters inflatable futuristic structure at Rome's Music Parc Auditorium ( Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, ndt.) the smart future minds exhibition will be presented. Articulating the theme the future of the city through twelve different projects, the exhibition is guaranteed to constitute a moment of critical reflection and artistic divulging within the wider scenario of the smart urban stage, cutting-edge road show that is going to hit Zurich, Paris, Madrid and London and has already been in Berlin.... READ MORE...
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Live Architecture Network. The Net As A Design Project

Sabina Barcucci
The parametric or associative design is based on the use of integrated systems of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing) which allow a direct dialogue between the machine that models and the machine that makes the constructive elements and assembly pieces, generating a new process of ideation/production. The traditional relationships between the actors of this process change: every project can be planned out in an super-customized way and the variables which can be immense enlarge exponentially... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Landscape And Interaction. Matteo Pennese, The Sound Within Space

Simone Broglia
Systems of interaction between acoustic and electronic music are the base on which the Twentieth century's musical performance developed and grew. It is possible to find live electronic, namely performative, tracks, since the very beginning of experimental-contemporary music. In some cases even some of the very early works of electronic music, as Maderna's Musica su due dimensioni (Music on two dimensions, 1958), are filed among the so-called live-electronic compositions, marking by using this term the performance aspect that used to conciliate the writing for an acoustic instrument with the magnetic tape during the live execution.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Radiography Of The Matter. Herman Kolgen And The Sound Perception

Enrico Pitozzi
Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound sculptures, videos and cinematographic works - for example Silent Room (2005), film, installation and live performance created with the collaboration of the video artist and photographer Dominique [t] Skoltz with whom he founded in 1996 the multi-discipline cell Skoltz_Kolgen (followed by DigiMag several times in the past).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Vjing For Lights And Colors. The Sketch Projector Of Shantell Martin

Silvia Bianchi
Shantell Martin is an illustrator and an English Vj who has fused the latest technology and traditional media in a new and unique style through which she creates performances using her drawings. She began her journey as a traditional illustrator, until she discovered that she could draw with the graphic tablet and project what she was doing during concerts, happening and performances... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Science And Mind. Mikael Metthey’s Interaction Design

Henriette Vittadini
Within the current context of critique and practical artistic activity, predominantly based on now well entrenched mechanisms of expression pivoted on subversion, destruction of rules, rough and direct exposition of the violent attacks against both the artistic and social status quo, French-born 27-year.old interaction designer Mikael Metthey, structures his own critical speech along wider periphrases.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010Science