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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

Delete: The Virtue Of Oblivion. An Interview To Viktor Mayer-schonberger

Simona Fiore
In our digital era we have a large number of technologic devices at our disposal, that allow us to store informations about ourselves, and fulfills our greets ambition as human beings: a perfect, or rather quasi-perfect memory. This being consequentially followed by a deep turnover between the mechanisms of memory and oblivion: in analog media era, the action of forgetting is a natural biological process; to memorize, on the other hand, was more difficult and had certain costs. In contemporary digital society remembrance is a default operation, while forgetting has instead become a longer and more difficult process.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010

Artefact Festival for Art & Media

Redazione Digicult
In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents.... READ MORE...
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The Wave Opus 1 transmediale.10

Redazione Digicult
WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion. Fluctuations in the economy have become similar to global climate warnings : nobody knows exactly what will happen tomorrow, or whether the future will be bleak or bright. Uncertainty seems to become the only certain rule. Throughout the early 20th century, art was the forerunner of social, political and technological upheaval.... READ MORE...
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Connectivism & Open Education. Education Of The Future

Simona Fiore
A property of one entity must lead to or become a property of another entity in order for them to be considered connected; the knowledge that results from such connections is connective knowledge'. This is the epistemological principle of connectivism about which George Siemens - connectivist theorist at the Manitoba University - talks about in his book titled Knowing Knowledge (Knowing Knowledge - George Siemens, 2006)... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

Journalism Is A Process, Not A Product. An Interview With David Cohn From Spot.us

Simona Fiore
American Journalist, 27 years old, David Cohn started off as a freelance writing also for Wired, Seed Magazine, Columbia Journalism Preview. As editor at newassignment.net he took care of a project focused on citizen journalism. He organizes, on account of Buzzmachine.com, his first Networked Journalism Summit which had the purpose of gathering all the best practices and professionals of online journalism. He also worked for Broowaha, wide network of citizen journalism and now he works in Oakland, near San Francisco.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

Around Simulation A Yasmin discussion

Redazione Digicult
We extensively use and live into simulation. In our everyday life we imagine situations, events, projects and decline them to the future: we simulate possible worlds and test them in a sort of permanent "what if" which is continuously reworked and modified. This process has been methodologically formalized in the sciences, where we build models, simulations, which try to describe facts, events and phenomena. Models and simulations have a very important cognitive role in knowing and understanding the world we live in.... READ MORE...
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Arabshorts.Net

Redazione Digicult
ARABSHORTS.NET is a web-based project showcasing nine online, curated film programmes by nine curators from the Middle East and North Africa. The project makes use of the vast potential of the Internet as a powerful and alternative platform for the presentation and circulation of independent films beyond the festival circuit and beyond conventional distribution networks... READ MORE...
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Mediamatic Travel: Online Cultural Turism

Giulia Tiddens
The Mediamatic travel project, carried out by Mediamatic Bank, one of the most important cultural centers in Amsterdam and in Europe, is ready to turn the world of cultural tourism upside down. If you connect to the following website http://travel.mediamatic.net/, you can find an endless list of cities, spread all over the world, with which it is possible to interact following definitely innovative approaches.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 50, December 2009 / January 2010

Competition: Art 2.0 Vocento

Redazione Digicult
Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2010 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid. VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.... READ MORE...
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Ahackitude

Redazione Digicult
AHAcktitude '09 is the second collective meeting for the community of the aha@ecn.org mailing list, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and at the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism.... READ MORE...
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Joy Ito: On Freedom Of Choice, Namely Creative Commons

Giulia Baldi
It is the talk of the moment. At meetings on the future of music (but also of publishing, cinema, television and visual arts) there is a prevailing topic: the search for new business models for creativity in the age of the digital dematerialization and world wide net; hence the meditation on the necessary changes both in the theoretical and practical approach to copyrights and reproduction... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Plots In The Net: Boone Oakley And Web Storytellers

Giulia Simi
Once upon a time there was an internet site, an amount of web pages linked one another and housed in a clearly identifiable space which could be reached by a precise address. Once upon a time there was also the html - which later changed into xhtml - the language behind the hypertext system that can organize and make information intelligible, mainly in pictures and texts, of which web pages are composed. Yes, once upon a time.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

I Have Nothing To Say. Emergency – Emergent Agency

Micha Cardenas
How do we deal with broken promises? How can artists work to enhance agency among participant audiences who are anonymous, migratory and in transition? Can the museum become a space for Habermasian democratic dialogue under a state of exception? These are some of the questions that guided the project Emergencia - Agencia Emergente // Emergency - Emergent Agency by the Lui Velazquez collective, which was part of the Proyecto Cívico: Diálogos e Interrogantes (PCDI) public programming developed by Bill Kelly Jr. as part of the Proyecto Civico show curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez, at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) in the fall of 2008.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Meet the media guru Steven Berlin Johnson

Redazione Digicult
Steven Berlin Johnson è giornalista e autore di numerosi libri di successo che esplorano le interrelazioni tra scienza, tecnologia, media e mondo reale. La chiave della sua notorietà sta senza dubbio nella sua capacità di interpretare e prospettare le traiettorie future di fenomeni complessi attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che individua processi e principi trasversali.... READ MORE...
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