Digital Social Innovation in the heart of Europe
In the last decades, digital technologies and Internet have massively shaped social innovation.
The new challenge for the social sector is nowadays to find a... READ MORE...
Interviews
Infra-red Wuthering Heights: Interview with Evan Roth
The new project by U.S. artist Evan Roth, Internet Landscapes (2016), a series of videos which can be watched only online. Focused on the experiences he had when travelled around Sweden searching for the physicality of internet, the project is part of the Masters&Servers open call programme... READ MORE...
CairoTronica brings the electronic spring in Cairo
If we think to Egypt at this time, probably there are not many positive things that come to our mind, especially looking at the art and culture world and at the issue of freedom of expression. Still, good things also happen there. For example, the last edition of the Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Symposium, better know as CairoTronica... READ MORE...
The psychoacoustic properties of sound: an interview with Jonáš Gruska
Jonáš Gruska is an artist exploring the many facets of sound, he even creates the media through which he records. He studied at The Institute of Sonology in The Hague and at the Music Academy in Krakow. In his sonic work, he focuses on chaotic rhythms and the exploration of psychoacoustic properties of sound and field recording.... READ MORE...
Caterina Barbieri: new tactics for electronic mutants
Caterina Barbieri is a young electroacoustic musician and performer, born in Italy in 1990, and now living and working out of her homeland. Caterina’s music stems from a pan-harmonic conception of the sound universe, to which the composer needs to attune to, and then work through subtraction to create her own music... READ MORE...
The scene is a prism. Notes about ST/LL of Shiro Takatani
If the theatre, according to the word's etymology, is the place of the vision, it's all about understanding what we are going to see and what we actually see on stage, from which point of view experts from the theatre world look at the world and at which level of resolution they see things. Shiro Takatani is one of the leading exponent in contemporary theatre... READ MORE...
The riddler of sounds. Interview with Francisco López
Known internationally as a sound artist for his sensibility to the sounds around us, Francisco Lopez is able to present his tracks with a surrounding listening and without great sound-visual effects, but with the simple idea that: you must listen to the sound in an immersive way... READ MORE...
Josè Luis de Vicente: Sónar+D and convergence among art, innovation and technology
Sónar +D is the international conference (running even this year in Barcelona from 16 to 18 of June) that brings together a combination of activities with a common theme: the relationship between creativity and technology, and the digital transformation of the cultural industries involved.... READ MORE...
How to design objects that don’t exist yet. Design, IoT and Bruce Sterling
I met Bruce Sterling after I sent him a private message via Twitter after I had known he was hitting The Netherlands for a keynote speech at Impakt Festival in Utrecht. He replied within a few hours. A couple of days later, I was on a train with a camera and a bottle of good Barolo (for him).... READ MORE...
Evan Parker e Walter Prati. Electroacoustic Ensemble al Progetto Primavera 2016
In data 21 maggio, durante la rassegna concertistica del Progetto Primavera 2016 di Tempo Reale, è attesa la performance di un duo di musicisti ben noti per la loro accoppiata vincente. Si sta parlando di Evan Parker e Walter Prati. Il loro è un progetto di improvvisazione ed elettronica; progetto che porterà in seguito alla formazione del Electroacoustic Ensemble... READ MORE...
Bill Vorn. Immersed in a world of robots, metaphors, and paradoxes
Bill Vorn is a Canadian artist and academic based in Montréal. He has worked on performance, interactive installations, experimental soundtracks, soundtrack scores, and sound editing, creating components for film, video, and various other artistic projects. His works have been shown at major international media art festivals and events... READ MORE...
Becoming illegible. Jaime del Val: how to disrupt Control Society
Jaime del Val is a Spanish interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His art is a open dialogue between interactive dance, electro-acoustics, video, and urban interventions associated with a strong social activism. In 2013 he initiated Metabody, a multi-layered project involving artists and academics from 16 European countries... READ MORE...
Tempo Reale e il Progetto Primavera 2016: intervista a Francesco Giomi
Il Progetto Primavera 2016 di Tempo Reale è una rassegna concertistica dal 21 al 28 Maggio organizzata nella Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, che prevede una serie di eventi che mettono in relazione suono, nuova musica ed elettronica: prime assolute e prime nazionali, giovani autori e interpreti di fama mondiale della musica sperimentale ed elettronica... READ MORE...
Self-Made Media. Matteo Marangoni and instrument inventors initiative
My first contact with Matteo Marangoni, and with the collective he is part of, iii, occurred on the occasion of the Reading Room, a series of group readings supported by iii. In this series of events contemporary researchers, cultural theorists, philosophers, and artists are invited to share texts with the audience... READ MORE...
Be feral, open and yourself: interview with Alterazioni Video
Alterazioni Video is an Italian collective founded in 2004. Alterazioni Video works have been exhibited in museums and istitutions all around the world. The milanese audience will have the opportunity to see all Turbo Films in a special retrospective at Spazio Oberdan from 18th February to 4th March... READ MORE...
Everything is Connected to Everyone: An Interview with Artist Simona Koch
Men and nature, men are nature, man or nature: these are just some of the most recurrent questions at the center of German artist Simona Koch’s research. She has developed several works and side projects that deal not just with the aforementioned themes, but also with politics, history of humankind and psychology.... READ MORE...
The enhanced listening experience. Resonate by Naakte Ontwerpers
On a quiet morning in The Hague, I had the pleasure of meeting Tommy de Bruijn and Sam Van ‘t Oever, also known as De Naakte Ontwerpers. Tommy and Sam are two young designers who developed a device able of creating an experience which allows to listen not only through the ears, but also through the flesh.... READ MORE...
Kohei Nawa. A Japanese artist beyond cultural stereotypes
Born in the ancient city of Kyoto (Japan) in 1975, Kohei Nawa studied at the Kyoto City University of Art, and in 1998 moved to London. The symbolic art of Buddhism and Japanese Shintoism are additional Nawa’s influential inspirations that characterise several of his idiosyncratic works.... READ MORE...