Interviews

Esther Manas & Arash Moori: Sound & Sculpture

Last month Digimag devoted a section to Domenico Quaranta, curator of one of the two parts of the section Expanded Box at Arco Madrid 2009. Among the very heterogeneous works on show, encompassing different languages and media, one in particular represents in my opinion one of the exhibition's highlights: the work Every Man and Woman is a Star, by the two artists Esther Manas and Arash Moori... READ MORE...

Giacomo Verde: Action Beyond Representation

Many people will already know Giacomo Verde's name and activity: a video maker, performer and, as he likes to define himself, techno artist. For those who do not know Giacomo's work, perhaps it's sufficient to say that he represents one of the ideal bridges between the first pioneer season of video and multimedia experimentation in Italy and the current experimental phase.... READ MORE...

Jan Rohlf: Musical(mind)

Jan Rohlf is a young artist originally from Tübingen, who from 1994 lives and works in Berlin . Jan in mainly a visual artist, but he is also engaged in various collaborations and cultural projects. Together with Oliver Baurhenn and Remco Schuurbiers, he's co-founder and artistic director of ClubTransmediale - International Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts (CTM).... READ MORE...

Dario Neira: The Flesh Become Word

A Torino si trova il PAV, parco d'arte vivente, nato su quella che prima era un'area industriale, una industria metalmeccanica per sospensioni di auto. Piero Gilardi, uno degli iniziatori del progetto, ex-presidente del parco, lo definisce come: 'un cantiere ininterrotto, un intreccio dialogico di esperienze aperto alle alteritˆ innovative, in omologia con i sistemi viventi della biosfera'.... READ MORE...

Produzioni Romane, Produzioni Libere

Roma, 2004. Nasce ZTL - Zone Teatrali Libere una sorta di rete informale di operatori teatrali indipendenti che raccoglie identitˆ e vocazioni molto diverse. Ne fanno parte spazi polifunzionali come Rialto Santambrogio e Angelo Mai, il teatro Furio Camillo, , la compagnia teatrale Triangolo Scaleno Teatro e il collettivo artistico Santasangre, attivo all'interno del Kollatino Underground, ovvero strutture che esprimono un nucleo operativo estremamente vivo... READ MORE...

Trevor Wishart: Chemistry Of Sound

Trevor Wishart, born 1946 in Leeds, is a composer and performer who developed (not only) sound transformation tools in his Sound Loom - Composers' Desktop Project software package. He's the author of the worldwide-known books 'On Sonic Art' and 'Audible Design', where he shares his extensive research on extended human voice and computer music techniques for sound morphing. He is currently 'Arts Council Composer Fellow' in the Department of Music at Durham University, England.... READ MORE...

Eduardo Navas: Track Me Not, Please!

Three years ago I had a long interview with Eduardo Navas about his editorial project, 'NewmediaFix', the online platform that republishes and redistributes texts and interviews from the most influential international magazines focused on art and media (between them Digicult) and which I collaborated with as editor for almost one year. I met again by email Eduardo for another interview about his last online project, 'Traceblog, launched on October 2008'... READ MORE...

Otolab Method

The interview to Otolab is a result of the event that was organised on January 16 th by the O' Gallery of Milan, in collaboration with Marco Mancuso, Digicult curator. During that evening, some members of the Milanese collective (which has come at its eighth year of life) could meet, have talks and watched the national exclusive preview of some of their recent creations, such as 'Circo ipnotico'(Hypnotic circus) and 'Giardini ner" (Black Gardens)... READ MORE...

Chiara Passa: Suoni E Immagini Nello Spazio

Nell'ambito della new media art ha giˆ sperimentato molto: animazione, videoinstallazioni, internet-art, progetti site-specific di architettura digitale legati al suono ed alla performativitˆ. é Chiara Passa (Roma, 1973) l'artista italianissima, con una carriera per˜ ben avviata a livello internazionale, che abbiamo voluto intervistare per questo doppio numero di Digimag, a cavallo tra il vecchio ed il nuovo anno... READ MORE...

I Suoni Celestiali Di Honor Harger

Lo scorso Sabato 15 Novembre ho avuto l'occasione di collaborare con il festival Sincronie di Milano, da qualche anno l'unico appuntamento meneghino e uno dei pochi a livello nazionale, a esplorare con coscienza e coraggio, i legami possibili tra due mondi apparentemente inconciliabili: quello della musica contemporanea e quello della musica elettronica di ricerca... READ MORE...