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Kenneth Anger And The New American Cinema

Francesco Bertocco
The New American Cinema - NAC, represents one of the most meaningful artistic experience within the indipendent cinematography of the 60s, free from Hollywoodian empires and a mythopoetic all-engaging Star System. A group of directors - whose patroness and inspirer was Maya Deren - which included i.a. Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and Michael Snow - began to meet at the margins of the official cinematography, deteriorating the visual monopoly of great producers. Through poor means which seemed to be a stylistic manifesto, they created a series of experimental films on the wave of the first vanguards, by then still half-asleep in the story of the audiovisual world.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009

The other shadow of the city

Redazione Digicult
The Other Shadow of the City is an international visual arts exhibition programme that draws inspiration from the city of Jerusalem and its changing urban structure. The exhibition takes the viewer to places outside the spiritual and holy Old City to urban locations that, despite their importance in shaping the contemporary urban city, have been rarely referenced or addressed in literature and art.... READ MORE...
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Impakt Festival

Redazione Digicult
The 20th edition of the Impakt Festival will take place from October 14 through to October 18. And it is not entirely coincidental that this anniversary edition of the festival focuses on the experience of time. The Accelerated Living programme of the festival explores the ways in which we experience time and speed, and the ways in which our experience changes under the infuence of social and technological developments.... READ MORE...
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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

Tony Oursler: Round-nosed Whistiling-jack-off-dumb-fuck

Claudia D'Alonzo
Tony Oursler is one of the most internationally renowned multimedia artists, born in 1957 in New York City, where he lives and works. In the eighties he began to make short videos, and later he began to design installations where he set sound and video. Since the nineties the use of mannequins became a constant feature of his work, puppets and dolls were the stars of his installations.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Voom, By Robert Wilson:the Surface Of A Myth

Francesco Bertocco
There is a figure which seems to stop the time, move with care along its borders, fly above it, go through it but then sit outside it. It is a man who wears only his slips and stand in front of us, fixing us. Above us the rain begins to fall. The light is steered by a blinding intense blue which looks like a chemical color lent by Klein's imagination or by the fluorescent lamp of a sleazy club.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

When the eye flickers. Flicker between cinema, video & digital

Redazione Digicult
On Thursday September 17 at 6.00pm Careof DOCVA, presents "Quando l'occhio trema: il flicker tra cinema, video e digitale" (When the eye flickers: the flicker technique in cinema, video and digital), videoscreening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo and Mario Gorni, in cooperation with Invideo and Digicult. On occasion of the inauguration and open house meeting, Claudia D'Alonzo from the network Digicult; Elisa Gattarossa from Invideo; Mario Gorni, director of Careof DOCVA; Marco Mancuso, director of Digicult; otolab, Milanese collective of audiovisual experimentation will discuss the topic of "flicker".... READ MORE...
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Record: again

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition by the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe continues the project for the technical and scientific research, restoration and maintenance of video art that had been initiated in 2006... READ MORE...
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Derek Jarman’s Visual Painting

Francesco Bertocco
The incredibile influence of Derek Jarman's cinema is considered as an unavoidable background for every research on the new visual languages from the end of the '70s. His ability to survive and fall always on his feet in a vogue of indipendent cinematographers, outside the main channels of cinematographic production made him a kind of living god (Holy Derek). He is a survivor in a generation which spent all its energies and attention in the visual research and representation methods.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Wodiczko’s Video Shadows Between Visible And Invisible

Silvia Casini
Despite all promises of more attention to figurative arts and above all to painting, the 53° Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Biennale di Venezia (International Art Exhibition in Venice) focuses again on video installations and expanded cinema, which does not necessary mean experimental. In most cases it is a revisit of the exposition space after the typical experience within the cinematographic field. The screen becomes a wall or a plasma TV and the installation assumes the features of a real projection in which all typical cinematographic devices are deconstructed - think only to the loop movement enphatized by Douglas Gordon or to the decomposition of film into monitors dispayed in a row (Chantal Akerman).... 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