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Global Proxy: an interview with Nicolas Maigret

Martina RaponiDecember 3, 2015

Nicolas Maigret practice revolves around the investigation of media, using its bugs and malfunctions as starting points for intervention. It is from these imperfections that Nicolas highlights the identities of the media he analyses and tamper with, bringing up evidences of their functioning.... READ MORE...

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Ryota Kuwakubo: the reality of shadows

Alessio ChiericoNovember 19, 2015

Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese artist who has been working between art and technology since the end of the '90s. His cross-disciplinary approach brought him to produce various kinds of works, which ranged from electronic devices to interactive installations.... READ MORE...

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Autonomous Times, the exhibition at Arebyte. An Interview with Nelmarie du Preez

Kirsten HawkinsNovember 12, 2015

South African-born artist Nelmarie du Preez has taken on an unusual approach to sculpture, art, film and “making”. She has blurred the boundaries between art and technology to striking effect in her current exhibition, Autonomous Times, curated by Nimrod Vardi.... READ MORE...

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Art, code and digital fabrication: an interview with the duo Varvara Guljajeva-Mar Canet

Jerneja RebernakNovember 5, 2015

Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet are contemporary artists who are innovating the gap between the physical and the digital world- spanning from the hacking and development process of a Brother machine, a project that combines technology and craft in displaying brain activity.... READ MORE...

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Searching for the unexpected: an interview with the visual artist Laetita Morais

Ana CarvalhoNovember 2, 2015

Laetitia Morais is a Portuguese visual artist, professor and researcher. Her solo and collaborative works mix media follow themes of observation and distance and extend from sound and image to spaces, translating ideas into events, objects and environments. The main aim is to move towards the unknown.... READ MORE...

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Blending and disrupting the realities: interview with Joseph DeLappe

Filippo LorenzinOctober 8, 2015

Although changing over time, thanks to increasingly efficient technology, the digital world and the real world have come together to contextually coexist, often creating problems. Looking at the many works by American artist Joseph Delappe you can somehow trace the evolution of this dynamic.... READ MORE...

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Immersive storytelling between gaming and narrative: interview with Andy Campbell

Silvia BertolottiOctober 5, 2015

Storytelling is getting more immersive and participative, in the sense that audience is engaged in a more interactive way and the environment is evolving into a more complex transmedia scenario. Perfect examples of this new immersive narrative form are the most recent works of Andy Campbell... READ MORE...

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Digital automat dioramas: an interview with Boris Labbè

Claudio MussoSeptember 21, 2015

The digital universes drawn by the hand of Boris Labbè are placed in the meeting point among Steve's Reich compositions, Bosch's paintings and the evolutionist theory. With solid bases in free-hand sketching and in plastic arts, hw carries his complex imaginary in extraordinary animation films... READ MORE...

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Meta-Interview. A conversation with Robert Wechsler

Vanessa MichielonSeptember 18, 2015

Since 2013, Metabody is developing technologies, tools and techniques at the convergence of the arts, that will be integrated in the first fully interactive architecture that will be touring throughout Europe in 2017-18. For this pavilion, intermedia artist Robert Wechsler is developing an interactive installation called Meta-Interview.... READ MORE...

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Masahiro Kobayashi introducing IAMAS Institute

Mauro ArrighiSeptember 8, 2015

On Sunday 26th of July 2015, I had the pleasure of meeting Masahiro Kobayashi, Professor and Library Director of IAMAS (The Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences) at the Open House event. Kobayashi was involved in the event, supervising it and giving a series of short open lectures at the library.... READ MORE...

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Spread what has been destroyed: interview with Morehshin Allahyari

Filippo LorenzinSeptember 4, 2015

Morehshin Allahyari is a new media artist born in Iran that is working on Material Speculation: ISIS. It's a series of 3D modelings of selected artifacts destroyed by ISIS fighters in museums of Middle East that are 3D printed: every printed object contains an USB key with materials about the last months of the original artifact... READ MORE...

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Marco Donnarumma. A performative techno-body for the SHAPE platform

Lucia UdvardyovaJuly 17, 2015

Marco Donnarumma is an Italian performer, sound artist, musician and writer based in London. His main tool of expression in his work is the body, the physicality, the sound. During 2015, he is part of the SHAPE platform for emerging and innovative artists and musicians supported by EU's Creative Europe programme... READ MORE...

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A stream of junk: interview with Sašo Sedlaček

Filippo LorenzinJune 18, 2015

Sašo Sedlaček, Slovenian artist interested in obsolescence long before it became one of the hottest topics of the discussions of these years, presented his first solo exhibition in Italy about these and other issues. Curated by Domenico Quaranta and opened since May 16 in the spaces of Ultra (Udine)... READ MORE...

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A journey into our future. Interview with Zoë Hough

Kirsten HawkinsJune 12, 2015

The Microbial Verdict has just closed at London’s Arebyte and curated by Nimrod Vardi. In this installation, Zoë Hough has simulated a hypothetical reality whereby the fictitious government institution The Department of Self and Sanity obliges citizens, to ingest a tablet containing a brain activity-tracking protein... READ MORE...

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The emojification of reality: interview with Carla Gannis

Filippo LorenzinJune 10, 2015

Online communication, chatting, colorful and disturbing interfaces are critically used by Gannis becoming the starting material for her artistic research. She is one of the most prolific American artists of digital art and in recent months her name has been one of the hottest in the market.... READ MORE...

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The Oriboticist. Interview with Matthew Gardiner

Donata MarlettaMay 25, 2015

Matthew Gardiner is an Australian artist and researcher. Since 2011 he has been Senior Research Lead at the prestigious Ars Electronica Futurelab. Gardiner holds a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts,. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, Australia... READ MORE...

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Inside the user’s mind: interview with Nicolas Sassoon

Filippo LorenzinApril 20, 2015

At the center of the project WITCHCRAFT there was the intention to investigate the possibility to understand technologies like computers and internet, critically and poetically; the selection of the involved artists reveals, for those who already know this field of research, the mood and the premises of the exhibition itself... READ MORE...

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Epicenter Projects. An interview with Cristopher Cichocki

Silvia ScaravaggiMarch 23, 2015

There is a brand new platform which lives a nomadic life: the Epicenter Projects. Its core is giving artists both the opportunity to live a residency programme in the Californian desert and the chance to create a new time-based and site-specific production alongside the San Andreas Fault Line... READ MORE...

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