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Open Observatory Challenge. Roger Malina And The New Leonardos

Teresa De Feo
Data transparency, free movement of ideas, a fruitful collaboration between art, science and technology, but also among ordinary people and experts, this is exactly what Roger Malina is about. Recently hosted by Meet The Media Guru, an event held in Milan. At the Director of Astrophysics Observatory in Marseille, where he is a member of the Observational Cosmology Research Group, Roger Malina is chief editor of the newspaper Leonardo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and promoter of a series of interdisciplinary convergence projects, of which we will talk about later.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010Science

Suspended Projections. The Changing Equilibria Of Wanda Moretti

Massimo Schiavoni
Luisa Valeriani in his latest essay Performers - figures of change in widespread aesthetics', looks at the artist and the consumer as a sole figure. Both represent social and anthropological practices of creative spectacularisation which nowadays emerges from below; these performers favour their point of view and their own style by staging an innovative artistic creativity that goes beyond fashion, but which is also related to both the political field as well as sociology.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010

Delete: The Virtue Of Oblivion. An Interview To Viktor Mayer-schonberger

Simona Fiore
In our digital era we have a large number of technologic devices at our disposal, that allow us to store informations about ourselves, and fulfills our greets ambition as human beings: a perfect, or rather quasi-perfect memory. This being consequentially followed by a deep turnover between the mechanisms of memory and oblivion: in analog media era, the action of forgetting is a natural biological process; to memorize, on the other hand, was more difficult and had certain costs. In contemporary digital society remembrance is a default operation, while forgetting has instead become a longer and more difficult process.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

The Research Of Knifeandwork. In Between Technology And Partecipation

Mattia Casalegno
Even if the Knifeandfork were not raised in Los Angeles (Brian House is from Denver and based in NY, Sue Huang currently lives in LA but was born in Saudi Arabia) their art seems to me quintessential to such odd place. They designed an user-oriented fictional narrative inspired to Kurosawa's film Rashomoon based on the algorithm of the /Prisoner's Dilemma /game theory model (5 'til 12, 2006); transformed a contemporary art museum in a golf club (Emptiness is Form (golf and donuts) at MOCA, 2009), and staged a public continuous reenactment of the infamous Maradona's goal that leaded Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup (Trying the Hand of God, 2009).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Videostories And Videogames. Federico Solmi And His Douche Bag City

Monica Ponzini
Game Over. If Federico Solmi's work was characterized by an ironic destruction of myths and (anti)heroes, and the violence of his narration faded into laughter, with his latest exhibit, From Uterus to Grave with no Happy Ending, and video installation Douche Bag City, his satire becomes more bitter and deals with a highly topical theme - as always-- and with a very personal style.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Jacob Kirkeegard. The Poetics Of The Space

Silvia Bertolotti
From the 25th till the 28th of February the 13th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival took place in Amsterdam. This edition - The Poetic of Space - was entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative, audiovisual and film arts. Sonic Acts has become a moment for investigation into the importance of physical space, as well as for the physical and psychological impact of artistic creations centred on space, in a time, like the one we live in, of important and continuous technological development.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

The Suicide Irony. Seppuko And Web 2.0 Suicidemachine

Loretta Borrelli
Talk about suicide has has hardly ever been a simple thing, and that is especially nowadays. It is a dodgy, slippery ground. it might be tolerated wether it is tackled pivoting the speech on a medical-psychoanalitical attitude, since it allows to remain in a detached, scientific standpoint. Yet it becomes extremely likely to upset many people's sensitivity, if one tries to relate the subject to contemporary thought and politics... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Tortuous Visions Of Lu Yang. The Bioart In China

Robin Peckham
New media art in greater China, when it is present, tends toward the conservative: re-engineered video games, simplistically interactive video installations, and sound art are the norm. In a few corners, however, a new wave of artists is pushing this envelope and developing new strains of practice based particularly around the complementary poles of aesthetic coding and, most intriguingly, biological matter.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010Science

Andy Deck And The Net Art: The Licence To Be An Artist

Marco Mancuso
Andy C. Deck, net artist and pioneer of conceptual art on the net, has been active for more than a decade and is not a character that needs a lot of introduction. A New Yorker, Andy Deck got his degree in English Literature at the University of Michigan, studied in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and in 1993 he obtained his MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Art in New York, where he is now a professor, as well as teaching Media Design & Theory at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at New York University.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Absence/presence. (im)possible Images By Moira Ricci

Giulia Simi
The greeks often confronted death in a shy way. Whatever they had in front of them was in their past. That is how I have lived my life, not retracing my own life but the life of a person that I had loved. (1). This is how Roland Barthes describes in La camera chiara the moment of his mothers death, who, looking through the pictures of his mother throughout the years, tries to meet her again, to find her in some way. This is how Moira Ricci proceeded, she later confirmed that she had been inspired by Barthes, which is obvious in her most famous project called 20,12,53-10,08,04 (2) produced after her mother's sudden death.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Acoustics And Serendipity. An Interview With Jose’ Manuel Berenguer

Barbara Sansone
We had the pleasure and honour of going to meet José Manuel Berenguer in his home. José Manuel Berenguer is a key figure in the electro-acoustic experimental scene in Spain. A polyvalent artist, with a rich CV of experiences in various fields, and also co-director of the Orquestra del Caos, he is a likable man, open to dialogue and of enormous cultural knowledge. You could listen to him talk for hours without lowering your level of concentration. His professional and artistic journey is fascinating.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010Sound

Journalism Is A Process, Not A Product. An Interview With David Cohn From Spot.us

Simona Fiore
American Journalist, 27 years old, David Cohn started off as a freelance writing also for Wired, Seed Magazine, Columbia Journalism Preview. As editor at newassignment.net he took care of a project focused on citizen journalism. He organizes, on account of Buzzmachine.com, his first Networked Journalism Summit which had the purpose of gathering all the best practices and professionals of online journalism. He also worked for Broowaha, wide network of citizen journalism and now he works in Oakland, near San Francisco.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

The Sense Of A Clever Body. An Interview With Paola Bianchi

Massimo Schiavoni
Paola Bianchi's dancing body is everything, sometimes nothing, sometimes everything to discover, expect and fully understand. The human figure and anatomy, it's mind and introspection that implode strength and elegance, dynamism in the emotion she puts on stage since the early eighties. She has traveled, fought and stopped, she knew without looking back and she continued.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010