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Plug’n’play Festival, Audiovisual Club Salento

Loredana Menghi
Stiamo parlando del Plug N'Play Salento Music Festival, che si é tenuto presso il Parco Manˆ di Vernole (Lecce), spazio storico della costa adriatica riservato ad esperienze acustiche di livello e a grandi eventi locali. Una due giorni, questa, dedicata ai nuovi flussi creativi ed energetici della musica electro coniugata all'esplorazione di percorsi visivi molteplici suggeriti da istallazioni e performance video, aperta ai nuovi 'cas" musicali del panorama rap ed hip hop ed alle avanguardie storiche del movimento techno.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Hackmeeting 2007: Ten Years Nerdcore

Francesca Valsecchi
Right this weekend it took place the 10th edition of Hackmeeting. This is a very important appointment for the Italian digital community because of its love for free software, of its computer nerds, of its technology freaks, regardless of hardware, software or reality manipulation. Hackmeeting is an independent initiative dating back to 1998. Every year a different Italian city is chosen as seat of the event, hosted by free and public spaces. For this edition the seat was the social centre Rebeldia' in Pisa, Tuscany.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Todaysart 2007, The Hague International Art

Marco Mancuso
The Hague , The Netherlands, is a little city with no more than 1million inhabitants and 1hour and half from Amsterdam . A grey sky as scheduled, avant-garde buildings, cycle facilities and the hundred-year-old Royal Art Academy . This Academy pays attention to anything artistic or modern. The weekend of 21 st - 22 nd September was dedicated to the Todaysart Festival. I'm coming from a couple of days in Amsterdam and the impact with the political capital of The Netherlands is completely different.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Ars Electronica 2007: Goodby Privacy?

Tiziana Gemin
As every September, the 2007 edition of Ars Electronica took punctually place in Linz. Since 1979 the Austrian festival dedicated to digital art and new media has tried to draw the lines that link art, technology and society together. The event has surely always been an appointment that cannot be missed as well as a firm reference point in international digital culture scene.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Source Code

Monica Ponzini
Eyebeam, centro culturale newyorkese attivo nello sviluppo e divulgazione delle arti elettroniche, festeggia i suoi primi dieci anni di attivitˆ con una mostra intitolata, appunto, Source Code, in cui presenta una serie di artisti, programmatori e hackers che negli anni sono stati ospitati dal centro stesso. Un'esplorazione ad ampio raggio dell'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sulla creativitˆ applicata ad ogni ambito, dal video al videogioco, dalla rappresentazione di network al riciclaggio dei dati in rete... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Dio Error Bang: Pure Data And The Useless Machines

Eleonora Oreggia
On the 28, 29 and 30 of April Rome saw for the first time in his history the Italian convention of Pure Data, a grafic programming language for manipulation and real-time creation of videos and sounds, as well as managing program for interactive systems. The event, result of the collaboration between Binario Etico, Feramenta and Strike, is the first organized effort turned to the institution of an Italian community, using and programing this free and open source software.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 25, June 2007

Oil 21, P2p & Intellectual Property

Maresa Lippolis
From 24th till 28th May Berlin was the meeting point fot that weird and unruly network of activists, artists and hackers whose experiences and projects have intersected more or less continuously for a time at a global level. This time their objective was to study the formation politicies and thus to share experiences and ideas on the growing importance of the spread of knowledge and the access to immaterial resources.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 25, June 2007

Elektra, Festival Arts Numeriques

Marco Mancuso
It is now at its eight edition one of the first and most important festival of the world, in the ambit of digital art and audio-visual expression: the Elektra Festival of Montreal . One of the first international festival that focalized on experimental artistic audio-video forms with a wise and clever approach able to analyze the evolution of these years on the borders between art, experimentation, technologic research and communication.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Icra 07, Ubiquitous Robotics

Miriam Petruzzelli
From April 10 and 14 and happening for the first time in Italy , the 24 th ICRA's conference was set in Rome . ICRA is the International Conference on Robotics and Automation supported by IEEE , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international association aggregating over 370,000 members in 160 countries and gathering the major experts and high-tech specialists. This association is considered as an authority in a variety of sectors such as aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications, control systems, consumption energy and electronics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Optronica: The Audiovisual Culture

Silvia Bianchi
The second edition of Optronica took place in London from 14th to 19th March, in the restructured National Film Theatre Complex, opened with the name of BFI Southbank and in the incredible IMax Cinema , near the first one. This edition confirmed the British festival as an not to be missed appointment for the lovers of Live Media and Live Cinema, and as meeting for the experts of the sector.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007

Deaf 2007: Interact Or Die

Sara Tirelli
Interact or Die is the warning of the ninth edition of Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), the international art and new media biennial organized by V2_Institute of Unstable Media which will take place in Rotterdam from 10th till 29 th April. By emphazising the unavoidable process of interaction, conditio sine qua non of human behaviour, new flexible interactive models are proposed and analyzed, with their characteristics that cannot be strictly defined, but on the contrary follow ever-changing rules of relation.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007