Interviews

The Sensible Scene

Alessandro Sciarroni from San Benedetto del Tronto already has a long-lasting and refined artistic history, and above all is appreciated in the European panorama of experimental theatre, and he turned out to be a sensitive interpreter of the contemporary artistic scene. This young actor and director from the Marche region, grew as an intense and impeccable actor with the Compagnia Lenz Rifrazioni from Parma, and then went back to his native region, where he conceived the idea of the Corpoceleste laboratory, and organized seminars and theatric productions. His first artistic creation, If I was your girlfriend - inspired by La Bovary c'est moi, collection of poetry by Giovanni Giudici, and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - was showed in the athletic track in Porto d'Ascoli, a non-conventional place and a demanding adaptation.... READ MORE...

Our Right To Internet: Interview With Alessandro Gilioli

I would say that it was almost inevitable. To live and work in a country, as democratic as it seems, where the interdependent rapport between politics and mass media is much tighter than in any other country in the world (excluding those openly totalitarian regimes that we mentioned for example in last month's Persepolis 2.0 article, of course) and does not allow for libertarian utopias of any sort if they discuss any subject that is a fundamental part of democracy, like the freedom of the Press, the right to an opinion, the freedom of thought.... READ MORE...

Sonar, Enduring Research. Interview With Giorgia Taglietti

This is the beginning of a new season of night music in clubs. This means that the day music festivals have just come to an end. And peace, of course. At the least we must accept life cycles, at the most we may even learn to love them. Yet, although an elaboration and an analysis on the experience that is being lived are possible thanks to the prolonged times of the clubs, we cannot forget that the profound elaboration and the analysis of the festivals represent the explosion and the synthesis of it...... READ MORE...

Sommercamp + Workstation. Temporary Autonomous Culture

On the 16th of August Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin hosted the presentation of works created during the course of six days of intensive workshops within the Sommercamp Workstation project, an event conceived as a mobile laboratory for art and media, which came about from the very important experience of the ex-research centre Tesla Medialab (www.tesla-berlin.de), a project that lasted four months and was situated in various places in the heart of Berlin.... READ MORE...

Losing Yourself In The Whitetree. Lippok Brothers & Ludovico Einaudi

The first time I heard Cloudland, the first album from Whitetree, I thought about one of my friends traveling, sitting in front of a waterfall at the foot of the Himalayas, in contemplation of the height and depth of the universe. The song was Mercury sand. Whitetree is a collaboration between the Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, and brothers Robert Lippok (software) and Ronald Lippok (drums), formerly part of German post-rock trio, To Rococo Rot, along with Stefan Schneider on bass... READ MORE...

Persepolis 2.0: Creative Support To Iran

I decided therefore to use Digicult as spokeman and create a short-circuit between some artistic and creative news and an important political event, i.e. the crisis in Iran. I wanted to make Digicult a small instrument of support, anyway without changing its roots and its cultural and editorial aim. Moreover I discovered the project Persepolis 2.0: it is a re-editing project by the graphic novel Persepolis created by the Iranian Marjane Satrapi which has had a lot of international success and offers a geographic and editorial comparison between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 (which is part of the original history) and what is happening nowadays in the Country. For this reason I decided first of all to support the project as requested, i.e. copying the Html code of the graphic tables on Digicult's homepage (all readers are kindly requested to do the same) and secondly to widespread it through Facebook. Last but not least I tried to get an interview for this edition of Digimag. It is an interview made in 24 hours, just before the publication of the newspaper, but it honours us and we hope it can be another small anchor to help the struggling Iranian people... READ MORE...

Pirates At The Parliament: The Big Dream?!

In just 24 months we have witnessed an amazing increase in consensus toward our ideals across the globe. Renowned worldwide for being one of the most defiant and cheeky online centres for Peer to Peer and exchange of audio and video files, fresh from their success in the European Elections which took one of their representatives flying from the meshes of the Net straight into a political seat in Brussels, the board of Pirate Party International, the political branch of The Pirate Bay project, is euphoric.... READ MORE...

Hackmeeting 2009: Meeting With The Debian Community

On the official website of the Debian project can be read: The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.... READ MORE...

Soundclusters: Robotic Electronica

Soundclusters is 'an ensemble of four robots (violin, viola, cello and percussion) created by the multidisciplinary artist Roland Olbeter, that you 'play' through a midi controller. Through a commission by the festival Faster than Sound (UK) and Sonar (ES), the two 'sonic adventurers' Tim Exile (Warp) and Jon Hopkins (Domino) have collaborated with Olbeter (already active in the past as a set designer for some works of interactive theater for an important performance by Marcel AntĂșnez Roca, including aphasia from which the instrumentation of Soundclaster was created). Together the group have made a new work for this mechanical band, creating the conditions for a unique experience of co-operation between live music, man and machine, and for an exciting spectacle... READ MORE...

Future Sounds Like Past Toys: Interview To Ape5 & Eraser

Ape5 is an old digimag acquaintance that we were pleased to 'meet' in various moments during the past few years so that he could tell us about his videomaking and his VJing (Interview 'Ape5 and Miki Ry', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 02), as well as his research as a producer with the netlabel Vidaux, that contains many of the more interesting names of the live media scene in Italy ('Vidaux, Netlabels for watching and listening', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 08... READ MORE...

The Art And The Epidemiological Criticism Of Gina Czarnecki

Gina Czarnecki is undoubtedly an conscious and sensitive artist, for the sensitive issues she courageously deals with, for her subjects, for her analysis and research methods she chose to elaborate, and for the aesthetic impact as well as the fascination of her work. This feeling is in her environmental and audiovisual work, and this feelings are even stronger when you have the chance to meet and talk to her... READ MORE...

Teatro A Corte 09. Art Without Borders

Summer time, Festival time. In this period of the year in Italy we witness an increasing and rising of close encounters with the theatre world. They can be more or less historical but these encounters are always meaningful and relevant. A new and modern Festival, which invested a lot in the contemporary art is the extraordinary 'Teatro A Corte' (Court Theatre), this year at its third edition. This festival is well known and qualified from all points of view and has always put the integration of arts and the enhancement of territory in the center of its activity... READ MORE...

Cinemahacking: Interview To Paolo Gioli

Paolo Gioli is one of the reference Auteurs of Underground Italian Cinema. He has experimented in his research on images and vision, painting, photography and cinema, deconstructing and often inventing techniques, reproduction and shooting methods ex-novo. The 45th 'Mostra del Nuovo Cinema' (New Cinema Exhibition) in Pesaro, which is held between the 21 st and 29 th of June 2009, with a great homage dedicated to the Auteur with a film exhibition and a photographic exhibition, held in Palazzo Gradari in Pesaro, and the publication of a volume, curated by the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Centre for Experimental Cinema Foundation), are among the most recent celebrations of his work.... READ MORE...