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Passages. Travels In Hyperspace

Domenico Quaranta
The exhibition Passages. Travels in Hyperspace (16.10.2010 - 21.02.2011), clearly represents an attempt for the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación industrial of Gijon, Asturias, to make a qualitative leap. It doesn't mean that previous exhibitions were less ambitious - the big events the center has been hosting, starting with the first productive effort (Feedback, 2007), have few equal in the world. Indeed, the Spanish center has been curated by the world best curators (from Christiane Paul to Steve Dietz and Susanne Jaschko) who have been able to create projects that could not be conceived anywhere else.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Colorito. An Interactive Renaissance Of Coulour

Lorenzo Taiuti
All at once, in the irregular Italian digital scenario, an interesting exhibition has appeared. It just ended on the 11th November 2010 in an unsuspectable location, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. Its title is Colorito: an interactive renaissance of colour, curated by Luca Farulli (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Venice), Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab/Texas A&M University) and Frank Nack (ISLA/University of Amsterdam) who proposed a mix of traditional names of digital art and young artists, linked by their interest for colour. This exhibition was organized for the first time in Italy the last 25-29th October 2010, during the ACM Multimedia 2010 international conference (the worldwide premier multimedia conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery). The event was coordinated by Professor Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, and Professor Shih Fu Chang, Columbia University, New York.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 60, December 2010 / January 2011

Urban Mashup. Changing A Slum In A Cultural Heritage

Neva Pedrazzini
From the end of July to the beginning of August Instanbul hosted the third edition of Urban Mashup, a particular international workshop organized by URBz, i.e. an association acting above all in India but which was also able to create a deep net of international relationships. URBz promotes all over the world a review activity of cities and therefore their new planning aimed at valorize the interpretation of societies living there. The first edition took place in Tokyo in July 2009 and the second one in Mumbai in November 2009.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010

Ars Electronica 2010. Art And Technology For A Better Future

Barbara Sansone
Talking about an event like Ars Electronica is far from easy, first of all due do its sheer size, Size about the multiplicity of possible activities (attending exhibitions, conferences, laboratories, performances, projections; resting and exchanging views at the meeting points; participating to a variety of parallel activities,), the creative sites whose boundaries fade one into another (video, cinema, dance, music, ininstallations, handcrafting, animation, sustainability, architecture, games, science, medicine, biology and the wide extension of spaces across which the festival is articulated.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010

Sintomatologie Estive. Procreazioni Di Performing Dance

Massimo Schiavoni
L'estate porta con sé una 'fornitura invadente' ed un' elevata concentrazione di spettacoli dal vivo quasi imbarazzante, tanto che bisognerebbe avere quasi il dono dell'ubiquitˆ per non sentirsi incompleti ed impotenti, per non perdere il treno della contemporaneitˆ, e per avvertire ad ogni festival - da Santarcangelo a Drodesera, passando per il Festival d'Avignon ed ImPulsTanz, fino a Transito Firenze, Inteatro e Contemporanea di Prato - quella meravigliosa sintomatologia patologica inevitabile per un buongustaio ed amante della scena performativa all'avanguardia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Human, Water And Environment. Between Multimedia And Sustainability

Silvia Scaravaggi
The topic of water in the multimedia, electronic and digital field is huge since the beginning of electronic art and works of art of famous artists such as Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi, only to mention a few. Water has been compared to the electron flow and video, exactly for its liquid and mobile nature, is par excellence the mean which is the most linked and compared to this element essence.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Tam Teatromusica, the well-known theatrical and video-theatre Italian company, has reached thirty years of artistic activity and celebrates this achievement with a truly memorable retrospective exhibition in Padua. It was 1980 when Michael Sambin, Pierangela Allegro and Laurent Dupont combined their expertise in the field of performing arts, music and experimental video art and gave life to the company, based in Padova.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Sonarcinema 2010. Music For Eyes And Brains

Giulia Baldi
For those like us (Italians, if you were wondering) who come from places where national TV programs are superficial and squalid, and completely detached from both our real and our imaginary worlds, one of the most interesting experiences at Sonar Festival is offered by the chance to discover quality music videos and documentaries. No way the proposal can be exhaustive, of course, but it is definitely the result of a careful selection.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Lookat Festival. Between Interactivity And Contemplation

Giulia Simi
It is more and more evident that contemporary culture and art are able to communicate to a public which goes beyond the simple niche of professionals. It is also difficult to ignore the fact that the new media offer a great contribution to this phenomenon. Lastly, it is a matter of fact that the vernissages of exhibitions, events and theme festivals are more and more crowded. However, when this happens in small towns, often accused to be unable to satisfy the requests and practices of electronic and digital art, it means that the 'long queue' has already created a positive effect which is impossible to ignore.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Digital Life Exhibition”. When Art Does Show Off

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Closure moment is approaching for Digital Life,which opened in early March 2010 Pelanda activities in Rome. Recently restored, Pelanda is the part of the vast ex-slaughterhouse compound (the name itself refers to the room where animals were skinned)which in mid-February opened as space of cultural production. Wanted and organized by Zone Attive, a Roman cultural entity that has survived to Rome's political crossing from 'veltronian pax' to Alemanno's leadership in 2008, Pelanda space was inaugurated as a step further towards the recovery of the Mattatoio di Testaccio.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

The Softspace Of Usman Haque. Choreographies Of Sensations

Barbara Sansone
Architecture, according to Vitruvius, is the sum of three factors: utilitas, venustas and firmitas. Usefulness and beauty are for sure features that cannot be renounced in order not to cross the border into sculpture or into the simple and unfortunately rampant building industry. But what about permanence? Is it truly something that cannot be renounced ? Is it truly a must that an architectural work has necessarily to be solid and lasting over time ? When, on the contrary, a work is ephemeral, short-lived , transient cannot belong anymore to the domain of architecture ? And if the term 'ephemeral' rather than bearing the negative connotation of something fragile and subject to speculation, could instead carry a different meaning?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

How To Recycle Raee. Manuel Bozzo: Korf And Advanced Art

Annamaria Monteverdi
They are called Rifiuti di Apparecchiature Elettriche ed Elettroniche (Electronic waste), the old home and industrial TV devices, cathode ray tubes, that after having been our analogical company for many years are now part of fossil age. And with the widespread of digital technology they are bound to occupy an even larger space in disposal plants. The collective KORF suggested in La Spezia, at the Centro di Arte Contemporanea during an ex position titled Arte Avanzata, the other side of recycling: TV is not (only) rubbish. This story will be told us by one of the collective's protagonists: Manuel Bozzo.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010