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The Ethics Of Gaze: Raymond Depardon & William Kentridge

Silvia Casini
A photographer and a filmmaker, Raymond Depardon, author of what can be described as documentary fiction, was awarded the Pulitzer prize. He is the author of several reportages in countries such as Biafra, Chad, Venezuela. He is also renowned because he spent some time in 1976 at the former psychiatric hospital in San Servolo, Venice. In 1996 he shot a sort of documentary-fiction on a trip in Africa that lasted three years and on the filmmaking profession. William Kentridge was born in South Africa, an artist, whose artistic matrix is drawing, but who ranges from sculptures to animation and video installation and constantly interrogates himself on the social role of art and the responsibility of the artist.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

The Digital Market Of Elektra

Donata Marletta
Last 6th and 7th of May Montreal's Cinémathque Québécoise has hosted for the third consecutive year the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA), event organized within Elektra, new media and audiovisual art festival. The International Marketplace for Digital Arts is a meeting for professional networking among those active in the field of production, creation and diffusion of digital arts.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

Mapping Festival

Silvia Bianchi
The last Mapping Festival edition took place from the 8th to the 17th of May in the fervent city of Geneva . Focussing above all on visual aspects, this festival is different from the many others of electronic music which animate the Swiss city. Also this year it confirmed to be not only an incredibile showcase fot the vjing international scenery, but also an evidence of the real Swiss style in regard of technical organization and rich program.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

The Discreet Charme Of Elektra

Donata Marletta
Elektra Festival is one of the most interesting festivals on the international scene dedicated to the avant-garde of experimental art and new media, that has taken place every year since 1999 in Montreal, a Northern American city with a European flavour, creative and lively, most of all when it comes to artistic production and promotion and distribution of art in general.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 44, May 2009

The Chinese Nightmare?

Lucrezia Cippitelli
The Chinese Dream is book of more than 700 pages about the urbanization in China, published by the Dutch editor NAI Publishers. This project of colossal dimensions is on the shoulders of an architect Neville Mars, and a researcher Adrian Hornsby and the Dynamic City Foundation. The disproportionate growth of the agglomerations in China is at the centre of this publication... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 44, May 2009

Green Platforms, Making Ecological World

Giulia Simi
When I got into the hall of Palazzo Strozzi for the opening of 'Green Platform, the latest exhibition organized by Centro di Cultura Contemporanea di Firenze (Centre for Contemporary Culture in Florence), the cue waiting to get in was unexpectedly long. I am not used to it. Contemporary art, outside the certain circuits and without high-sounding names, can hardly attract the big crowds.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 44, May 2009

Already Reality

Massimo Schiavoni
They are four young artistic realities from 'our nursery': fortunately they always keep up with the times and they are very creative and original, an inexorable and continuing but well-selected and creamed-off mine of talented people. The performing art, able to contaminate and represent all kinds of visual arts, dances and dramaturgies, sounds and special effects, installations and showings, has become the daily bread of the young contemporary people.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 44, May 2009

Exploding Cave

Marco Mancuso
With a double reference both to the existentialist caves of 1950's Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Exploding Cave is a 2-days event that will be held in Milan on April 17 and 18, in the spaces of Cox18, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Marco Riciputi
They ask me what does Benjamin Button have to do with the Future Film Festival, what a question!' bursts out Oscar Cosulich, the art director of the kermes which presents the Italian Premiere of the film of David Fincher. Justifiably disappointed, because the special effects' always make you think of something heavily-noisy like travel to the centre of the earth' or King Kong, 20 meters tall'. - Young as in Kalifornia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

In Video Collaboration

Giulia Baldi
Towards the end of the '90s, long before the whole world found out about web 2.0, social networking and co-creation online, Furthernoise/Furtherfield, a collective of activists and radical artists that was founded in the UK by Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, focused their activity on concepts such as horizontal collaboration, sharing, involvement, openness, co-creation. In short they were turning the culture of individualism and D.I.Y. (do it yourself) into a culture of community and D.I.W.O. (do it with others), and artistic collaboration from contextual into relational.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

Philippe Parreno: No Ghost Just A Shell

Francesco Bertocco
I would like to begin this presentation of the work of a great French video artist and experimental filmmaker Philippe Parreno, with two specific terms: 'acquisition' and 'definition'. These are living a new semantic splendour inside the vocabulary of new technologies, mainly connected to the world of images, or the properties of images in function to their relationship as objects, even if virtual objects... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 42, March 2009