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Politics of Art

Redazione Digicult
To celebrate the 10 years of operation of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens a large scale exhibition titled Politics of Art, From the EMST collection, is being organized from October 13, 2010 until January 30, 2011... READ MORE...
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Annie Abrahams. Allergic To Utopias

Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Annie Abrahams, born in the Netherlands, has been based in France since 1985. She holds a doctorate in biology from the University of Utrecht and is a graduate in fine arts from the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Arnhem. Abrahams's work most often employs networking technologies: she produces networked performances, net.art pieces, collective writing projects, videos, as well as installations and performances in physical space. She started using technology for her artistic practice around 1991, and her first telepresence piece took place in 1996, in a gallery in Nijmegen, Holland.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010

Feed Back

Redazione Digicult
Forty-eight artists from over 18 countries are gathering at LACDA via the Live@808 networked performance space. Live@808 is a custom web application where realtime video, audio, texting and countless other media collide and intermix in a playful and exciting environment facilitated by emergent technology... READ MORE...
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Gmaybe: Be Free, Be Public! What Future For Privacy?

Loretta Borrelli
You may have happened to witness the presentation of a new online service. Two young men wearing a t-shirt with the Gmaybe? logo show the exciting benefits of the new frontier of social networks. All the rhetorical promises related to technology are there: they tend to fall into four main categories: democracy, freedom, efficiency and progress. Democracy looks like what everyone will enjoy using the new technologies, thus increasing its own influence on the social environment [...] Freedom is usually presented as the absence of socially restrictive elements (Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion. Biotech theory and practices of resistance, Eleuthera, Milano, 2006, pp38-39).... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Squatting Supermarkets: Shoptivism Narrations

Loretta Borrelli
Telling the other side of the story is the goal that Squatting Supermarkets is aiming at, an installation, a performance, a work of net art, some short stories (and one could use many more words to describe it), a coproduction FakePress / Art is Open Source, presented for the first time in November 2009 during the Piemonte Share Festival. It won the Special Project Award at this same festival and the Green Award for '0' impact technology of the Environmental Park in Turin.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Evan Roth: Graffiti Taxonomy. Writing Between Research & Documentation

Claudio Musso
If it is true that since the beginning of this phenomenon numerous photographers and video makers, have tried to slow down the extinction of Writiing, it is also true that their tentatives were limited. This is probably what pushed Evan Roth to create a new method, which offered graffiti artists to archive and store their work and their tags.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

The Mediagate

Redazione Digicult
The next Friday, April 16th 2010, the exhibition Globalne Ocieplenie / The MediaGate curated by Marco Mancuso and Claudia D'Alonzo for DIGICULT and Michal Brzezinski, will open at Galerie NT / Imaginarium in Lodz.... READ MORE...
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A Year Of Arts Santa Monica. An Interview To Vicenc Altaio’

Herman Mendolicchio
The new Arts Santa M˜nica of 2010 in Barcelona began with new stimuli for creativity and discussion. Fresh with new mentalities, a new spirit and new aspirations, Arts Santa M˜nica, an old convent situated on the emblematic Rambla and just a stone's throw from the sea, now passes on to a new stage in its history, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary issues connected to art, science and communication.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010Science

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

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