Issue 47 : Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Interviews

Our Right To Internet: Interview With Alessandro Gilioli

I would say that it was almost inevitable. To live and work in a country, as democratic as it seems, where the interdependent rapport between politics and mass media [...]

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Essays

Non-locality: Myths And Metaphors In Networked Art And Quantum Systems

Quantum particle systems seem to possess the ability to communicate instantaneously with each other, defying our classical understanding of space and distance. This feature of the quantum world, known [...]

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Hacking

Fakepress. Ubiquitous Publishing And Distributed Storytelling

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 [...]

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Hacking

Art, Activism, Subjectivity, Sabotage

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 [...]

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Hacking

Hangar + Laboral = Summerlab

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 [...]

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Cinema

Derek Jarman’s Visual Painting

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 [...]

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Essays

Wodiczko’s Video Shadows Between Visible And Invisible

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 [...]

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Clubbing

Sonar, Enduring Research. Interview With Giorgia Taglietti

This is the beginning of a new season of night music in clubs. This means that the day music festivals have just come to an end. And peace, of [...]

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Electronic Music

Sommercamp + Workstation. Temporary Autonomous Culture

On the 16th of August Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin hosted the presentation of works created during the course of six days of intensive workshops within the [...]

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Audiovisual Art

Losing Yourself In The Whitetree. Lippok Brothers & Ludovico Einaudi

The first time I heard Cloudland, the first album from Whitetree, I thought about one of my friends traveling, sitting in front of a waterfall at the foot of [...]

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Audiovisual Art

Contour 2009: Video And Historical Representation

For its fourth edition the Biennial of Video Art in Mechelen (Belgium) Contour has opened the doors to a curator and to internationally renowned artists. [...]

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Art+Science

Balint Boligo’ And The Magical Machines

Bálint Bolygó, born in 1976, of Hungarian origin but a London resident, appears to be an artist who works with science. His family history confirms this: both his parents [...]

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Graphic Design

Architectures, Visions And Apparati Effimeri

Long gone are the times when the first Vjs entered the scene in the clubs brightening up the dance-floor. Over the last few years live video has stretched its [...]

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Interviews

The Sensible Scene

Alessandro Sciarroni from San Benedetto del Tronto already has a long-lasting and refined artistic history, and above all is appreciated in the European panorama of experimental theatre, and he [...]

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Performing Art

Marina Abramovich Presents: Experiments And Tension

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 [...]

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Essays

E-partecipation: Paradoxes And New Ways To Discover

The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe organized in March 2009 a seminary reserved to young researcher, policy-makers, youth organizations and young people coming from [...]

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New Media

Sputink Observatory

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 [...]

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