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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

Future Places Festival. Between Digital And Local Cultures

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Future Places - Digital media and local cultures was held in Porto from the 13th to the 17th October. It is a festival, a meeting made up of a series of lectures and concerts, an exhibition, a place in which people congregate in order to discuss technology and creativity. It had two official sponsors: The University of Porto and the University of Austin, Texas.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

From Frieze To Ed Rusha. October In London With Eyes Of An Art Critic

Stefano Raimondi
They are the first days of October, and wearing the shirt with short sleeves and summer still clinging to his back, when you book, as an annual ritual, a short trip, destination, London, to see everything an art lover would ever see. Shows like rain: Miroslaw Balka, and the pure beauty of John Baldessari shine at the Tate Modern, a short distance Kusmirowski transforms the Barbican in a claustrophobic bunker.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Cam Girls And Sex On Second Life: A Report

Marco Riciputi
Rocco Siffredi sounded the alarm: You Porn is killing the porn industry. A cry of starlets like Eve Laurence withdraws from the business main stream to provide its community of fans tailored services, without passing by production houses, in perfect style participatory pornography. The magazine Focus goes on sale with a dossier on MP3 players that are vibrators to the music, equipment wii remote to masturbate with your partner and kiss-phone prototype that simulates the kisses. The Orgasmatron in Woody Allen's comparison of all this affection. While waiting to be able to have fun with the wii with my favorite cam girl who sends me in 3D, take the technological revolution of sex very seriously and I do a tour in the Red Light District in Second Life.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

Volavola / Fly Me. Preview Machinima In Paris

Marco Riciputi
New on YouTube: the interesting preview of VolaVola/FlyMe by Berardo Carboni. A small 3-minutes sample which mixes the machinima filming technique with a cartoon effect which got the attention of famed cyber-futurologist Bruce Sterling, who defines it on Wired blog disorienting. Let's see what it is about, with the help of its creator, machinima-operator Evo Szuyuan.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Madden 12x A Second. When The Eye Flickers In Milan

Alessio Galbiati
From the 17th to the 26th September at the DOCVA (Documentation Center for Visual Arts) in Milan, via Procaccini 4, took place the exhibition 'Quando l'occhio trema. Il flicker fra cinema, video e digitale' (When the eye shakes. A flicker between cinema, video and digital world'. It is a videoscreening created by Claudia D'Alonzo (Digicult) and Mario Gorni (Careof DOCVA) and made of15 works of art which play the so called 'flicker' effect.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Thirty Years Of Ars Electronica: The Future Of Man And Nature

Tiziana Gemin
The 2009 Ars Electronica will surely be an edition to remember. The festival, which takes place in Linz the first week of September, celebrated its 30th year. Much attention was focused on the little Austrian town for the fact that Linz was chosen as European Culture Capital for 2009, and so it has experienced an intense year, dense with launches and cultural events... READ MORE...
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Oltre La Vista Del Mondo. Message In A Bottle

Massimo Schiavoni
In occasione della prima edizione della Festa della Marineria, tenutasi a la Spezia dall'11 al 16 giugno, Xlabfactory ha presentato Oltre la vista del mondo - Message in a botle. Recital multimediale per il golfo dei poeti. Non ci poteva essere tema pi appropriato di quello affrontato nello spettacolo per celebrare il fascino incantatorio che emana dal Golfo di La Spezia: il testo drammaturgico di Andrea Balzola, che ha curato anche la regia dello spettacolo, narra di visioni estatiche, di esperienze epifaniche, ma anche tragiche, scaturite dalla frequentazione dei suggestivi luoghi che rendono unico il Golfo spezzino.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Fakepress. Ubiquitous Publishing And Distributed Storytelling

Salvatore Iaconesi
The scenario described by a timless flaneur as Baudelaire has been significantly modified during the last one hundred and fifty years, but the image of those mysteries that flow like saps in the mighty giant belongs to us. An information layer in multiple levels and distributed over the space, as well as objects, people and architecture, determines the possibility to change the world into a hybrid reality generated by a great variety of viewpoints, voices, shapes, gestures and sounds.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Art, Activism, Subjectivity, Sabotage

Antonio Caronia
Who said that books dealing with the proceeding of a congress are boring? First of all it depends on the congress and the speakers, secondly on the way the book is conceived. The reading of L'arte della sovversione. Multiversity: pratiche artistiche contemporanee e attivismo politico (The art of overthrow. Multiversity: artistic contemporary practices and political activism) edited by Marco Baravalle for 'Manifestolibri/Uninomade', once you get over the title -a bit over the top- it is very enjoyable because it is composed of many keen and necessary statements (not all of them of course) on a group of quite current issues, that though complicated, are fascinating for those who deal with cultural production in general, and with a political/social tone in particular.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Hangar + Laboral = Summerlab

Barbara Sansone
In this epoch, we are witnessing the rapid evolution of technology, which facilitates scientific research and improves our lives. But technology is also captured, manipulated and used for novel purposes in the arts. Experimental practice with technology in the arts is increasingly visible in exhibitions and museums around the world and on the Internet, while there is always a strong compulsion to create spaces where experimentation is possible. The objective of these centres is the public diffusion of this mix of disc'pines, to invite people to experiment, understand and express their creativity in unison with others and in this way to create culture.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Marina Abramovich Presents: Experiments And Tension

Donata Marletta
For about 2 weeks, between last July 3 & 19, the Manchester International Festival commissioned and produced the performance Marina Abramovic presents..., created by the Serbian artists especially for the festival. For the performance, the spaces of Whitworth Gallery in Manchester were completely emptied of all arts pieces, and put at the performance artist's disposal, event almost unique in the contemporary art's world.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Sputink Observatory

Monica Ponzini
Ideas are energy. Your brain is a satellite. Your mind is out there.' These are the basis of The Sputnik Observatory, an ambitious documentation project and representation of contemporary culture. Sputnik- literally 'fellow traveler'- was born from the idea that all the knowledge and arguments are in some way connected to each other, that the 'six degrees of separation', connecting all human beings on earth, are applicable also to their mental elaborations, and that also the most radical concepts, considered as marginal, are fertile matter of investigation and can contribute in a critical way to our cultural landscape.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009