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LAND OF ILLUSION OPEN SPACE - SECOND LIFE
16 JANUARY 2009
"Land of Illusion" Open Space: The virtual installation takes place in "Land of Illusion" in Second Life, which is an open space for artist collaboration and creativity. The founders, Lily & Honglei, invite artist, scholar, educator to present artworks, individually or institutionally, deliver lecture or set up discussion forum, especially those regarding "freethinking" tradition, folklore tradition and Chinese society & history, in "Land of Illusion." If you are a Second Life user already, visit the space now. For more information, please go to Participation page.
Monument 08 : Lily & Honglei, the new media artist team from Beijing, invites you to experience a unique installation exhibition in Second Life - "Monument 08," a visual meditation upon the past and the new year.
Using link provided, audience will find themselves immediately standing inside a giant chariot in ancient Chinese style on the Great Fire Wall; here, it specifically refers to the one driven by Confucius when traveling around China for his political pursuit. From the heaven, Chariots, Cloud Ladders, are falling; under the water, treasure of old-time are sinking. The moment is frozen, in the past or unknown future, shaped into the monument 08...
In the chariot, touching a "teleporter," a device enables transport between locations in Second Life, one will be suggested to go to the underwater city for visiting a virtual installation. It consists of paintings and the relic of Crystal Palace . The virtual landscape of [em]Crystal Palace[/em] mimics the Three Georges Dams area, where heritage sites have become submerged, lost, just like our old paintings, full of memories, legends of yesterday, scattered, and disappeared under the horizon ...
In the States, a new year has come; on lunar calender, the Ox year is falling. What will it imply? We invite you for a visual meditation, to be alert, to access your inner garden .
http://slurl.com:80/secondlife/Regeneration
http://lilyhonglei.wordpress.com/
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WELCOME
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| Welcome to Digicult, the online/offline cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture worldwide. Digicult focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult is founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field. |
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To learn more about Digicult, you can read some deep online interviews did in the last months: the one taken from Lab For Culture, the one from Elektra Blog, the one from project Vj Theory and the last one from Russian magazine Art-Manager.
Here you find all the Credits and here our rich Archive of articles, and you can contact us at:
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SINCRONIE FESTIVAL : DATA
EVELINA DOMINITCH & DIMITRI GELFAND
LECTURE + VIDEOSCREENING + CONCERT
15 DECEMBER 2009 - TEATRO ARSENALE MILAN
Sincronie is a festival of contemporary and experimental music born in 2003. As in the past, this 2009 edition is developed from a theme too, which will be the relationship between music and number. The third event of the festival program focuses on a critical reflection of the relationship between contemporary art and science in relation to digital, electronic and analog technologies, based on mathematical processes, numbers, abstractions and logical formulas. The event is curated by Marco Mancuso for Digicult and focuses on the work of Portable Palace, duo composed by Soviet artists Domnitch Evelina and Dmitry Gelfand. A presentation of their work will be followed by a Videoscreening devoted to some examples of artists who work, through different techniques, to relationship between sounds and images generated by physical, chemical, mathematical, electromagnetic, and nanoscale phenomena. The performance 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid will conclude the night.
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VIDEOSCREENINGS - PLATEAUX FESTIVAL
VISUAL MUSIC / +39:CALL FOR ITALY
20 - 21 NOVEMBER 2009 - TURUN (POLAND)
Plateaux Festival is a 4-day festival, 19.-22.11.2009 in Torun and Bydgoszcz (Poland), presenting the newest and most interesting multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual art, experimental films, electronic and electro acoustic music and vj-art. Digicult was included in the program of the festival with 2 videoscreening, curated by Claudia D'Alonzo (+39:Call for Italy Videoscreening) and Marco Mancuso (Visual Music). The screenings will be project on the nights of Friday 20th of November and Saturday 21st of November. The +39:Call for Italy videoscreening is the video selection taken from the seminal project +39:Call for Italy, while Visual Music is the screening extract from the original long selection curated for Dissonanze 06
+39:Call for Italy: Videoscreening Critical Text
Visual Music: Critical Text
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CONFERENCE: STELARC & MARCELI' ANTUNEZ ROCA
23-26 OCTOBER 2009 - LUGANO
The remixed Beauty, the event dedicated to Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca and Stelarc,
pioneers in using interactive and robotics technologies in
live performances is the first of a three-year programme
(2009-2011) of interdisciplinary festivals, productive
labs, workshops and discussions with international
guests. Marcel.lì Antùnez Roca, one of the founders of Fura dels Baus, and Stelarc, australian artist and performer, will present shows and performances, will host workshops for young artists and will meet each other for the first time to share their artistic paths and researches within hybridization, sistematurgy, cyborg. Meeting with: Pier Luigi Capucci, Tommaso Trini, Marco Mancuso, Carlo
Infante, M.G. Mattei
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Sea, the company operating Milan airports presents"La Porta di Milano", a new architectural project for realizing a work of art that will contribute towards changing the appearance of Malpensa airport. SEA, the company that manages the airports of Milan, would like to inform you that the deadline for the Competitive Tender Notice with regards to the presentation of the ideas and construction proposals to create a new grand scale project at Malpensa Airport, has been postponed from Monday 20th July 2009 to Monday 21st September 2009. La "Porta di Milano”, which will come to life between the airport and the Malpensa Express railway station, will be an area of great creative impact, a perfect blend of art and architecture, with which Milan will welcome the whole world in an entirely original manner: a sensorial itinerary pointing straight to the heart and mind of the travellers. The notice of competition, with the object of involving not only the Italian but also the international world of architecture and design, plans to create a space with a high aesthetic value, virtually representing the door to the city of Milan. An estimated 1.7 million Euro is planned to be invested in completing the entire work.
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TRANSMEDIALE.10
BERLIN:
02-07 FEBRUARY 2010
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At the House of World Cultures, transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! explores how internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology form new cultural, ideological and political templates. From 2 - 7 February 2010 - in an emblematic year for past images of the future - the festival presents conferences, workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions dedicated to the identity crisis the future seems to be experiencing. transmediale.10 invites artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what do we have in store for the future?
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SONIC ACTS XIII
AMSTERDAM: 25 FEBRUARY - 25 MARCH 2010
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Since its inception in 1994, the annual Sonic Acts festival has questioned, examined, assembled and exhibited contemporary and historical developments at the cutting edge of art, technology, music and science. The thirteenth edition of Sonic Acts will take place in Amsterdam from 25 February to 25 March 2010 in Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo (NIMk) and Steim.
The title of this edition of Sonic Acts, The Poetics of Space, is a translation of La poétique de l’espace, a book by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, published in 1958. In it, Bachelard meticulously explains the influence of space and architecture on the individual, making an implicit plea for a new form of architecture founded on experience and imagination, rather than science and functionality.
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FOODPOWER
MILAN: 02 FEBRUARY 2010
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Tuesday the 2nd of February 2010 at 5.30 PM Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food | I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi. The event was triggered by FoodPower, a project created by Franca Formenti in 2007 and developed into a series of actions and performances through which to re-think about food, intended as a core instrument of power mechanisms. FoodPower is a work in progress of actions and situations that involve the audience and professionals of the world of food, creative incursions that act on the various ways of experiencing food and the behaviour that it creates.
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CALL FOR ARTISTS AND PROJECTS
This sections is developed in collaboration with Sagasnet - http://www.sagasnet.de/. Sagasnet is an independent non profit network for professionals engaged in the development and production of interactive narrative content that sprang from a training initiative funded by the European MEDIA Training Programme.
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22 Jan 2009 at 06:40