Issue 55 : Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Interviews

Vjing For Lights And Colors. The Sketch Projector Of Shantell Martin

Shantell Martin is an illustrator and an English Vj who has fused the latest technology and traditional media in a new and unique style through which she creates performances [...]

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Audiovisual Art

Verbo: Among Graffiti & Digital. Plotterflux, Videoincursioni And Mapping

At first there was the bomb, the bomb was the writing. But then light came. Nothing easier than creating a word play when the subjects of this operation are: [...]

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Art+Science

Science And Mind. Mikael Metthey’s Interaction Design

Within the current context of critique and practical artistic activity, predominantly based on now well entrenched mechanisms of expression pivoted on subversion, destruction of rules, rough and direct exposition [...]

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Electronic Music

Nueue Musik In Milan. The Rai’s Institute Of Phonology Memory

After more than fifty years from the birth of analog magnetic bands music recording, on the 17th of September 2008 at the Castello Sforzesco Museum of Music Instruments in [...]

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Electronic Music

Deep Ambiguity. A Conversation With Ben Houge

Ben Houge is a composer and sound designer who, though trained in composition, has largely been employed in sound design for video games, for at least five years at [...]

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Hacktivism

A Movie About The Revolution: Seize The Time

From June 1st you can find 'Seize the Time' in bookshops and online stores. The DVD + book (Federico Carra Editore, 19) contains the text published hereby by courtesy [...]

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Art+Science

Athanasius Kircher. Arca Musarithmica And Many Sound Devices

Researching possible origins and theoretical roots of Sound Sculpture and Sound Art it isn't rare to get to face the oeuvre of Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher, an intriguing character [...]

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Essays

Fair Trade Social Networks. Solidariety As Key Factor

Renewed discovery of forgotten knowledge, sharing and deepening of hobbies, new friends and relationships, exhibitionism, amusements, etc. The list of private ways to use social networks, and of course [...]

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Interviews

The Imal Centre. Culture & Techno In The Heart Of Europe

IMAL is an association created in 1999. From 2007 IMAL (Interactive Media Art Laboratory) has inaugurated its' new Center for digital and technological culture; a space that reaches 600 [...]

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Interviews

When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

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. [...]

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Art+Science

Chora Platonica And Digital Matrix

As can be seen in Plato's Timaeus, space plays a significant role in cosmology. Alongside Models/Ideals and their imitations, Plato uses Χώρα (Chôra), that is, an invisible and formless [...]

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Clubbing

Sonarcinema 2010. Music For Eyes And Brains

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 [...]

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Audiovisual Art

Lookat Festival. Between Interactivity And Contemplation

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 [...]

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