DIGIMAG 70 - DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012

Sorry for any crosspostings

Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG 70 - DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/

Chief Executive and Director: Marco Mancuso
Management Commitee: Lucrezia Cippitelli, Bertram Niessen, Claudia D'Alonzo, Roberta Buiani

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I have to say, however, that the field of data art (or infoviz, dataviz, and all the other names used to define it) isn’t so interesting. In my opinion it deals in great measure with nothing more than a fashion, joined to an ideology of latent technicality, according to which “visualize” – i.e., showing “latent patterns of information” – is in itself something aesthetically right from an aesthetic point of view. Things become interesting when we find an attempt to combine the human with something, though set in motion by the species, which gains features that transcend it, to the extent that it becomes a kind of an unknown otherness.

Stefano Perna from "Kunstradio and Stefano Perna. A short guide to becoming-bat " by Pasquale Napolitano

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[INTERVIEWS]:

MANUEL VASON. PERFORMING WITH THE CAMERA
Txt: Giulia Tonucci - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2242

KUNSTRADIO AND STEFANO PERNA. A SHORT GUIDE TO BECOMING-BAT
Txt: Pasquale Napolitano - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2232

CHIARA GUIDI: MANTICA FESTIVAL. MOLECULAR VOICE PRACTICE
Txt: Alessandra Coretti - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2241

ARTE BIO-DIVERSA. IL PAV DI TORINO, TRA ECOLOGIA E TRANSGENESI
Txt: Laura Capuozzo - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2236

NO PUNS INTENDED. A CONVERSATION WITH FILIPPO MINELLI
Txt: Silvia Scaravaggi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2240

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[ESSAYS]:

URBAN ESAPISM - PART 2. SOUND LENS, RABDOMANCY BY TOSHIO IWAI
Txt: Mauro Arrighi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2239

REALTIME TAHRIR. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TWITTED
Txt: Mitra Azar - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2234

IT'S ALL THANKS TO CAPITALISM. A RE-READING OF PARTECIPATION PRACTICES
Txt: Alessandra Saviotti - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2233

THE ALGORITHMIC "UNCONSCIOUS" - PART 2
Txt: Eugenia Fratzeskou - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2235

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[REPORTS]:

TRASMEDIALE 2012. RE:SOURCE FOR TRANSMEDIAL CULTURE
Txt: Daniela Silvestrin - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2238

CYNETART FESTIVAL 2011. ECAS NETWORK EAND AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS
Txt: Marco Mancuso - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2230

EXPLORATIONS OF THE INVISIBLES. FREEDOM & POWER IN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC
Txt: Barbara Sansone - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2231

COLLECT THE WWWORLD. THE ARTIST AS ARCHIVIST IN THE INTERNET AGE
Txt: Loretta Borrelli - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2237

INVIDEO XXI. SHIFTING DISTANCES OF AN IN-MOTION LOOK
Txt: Giulia Simi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2243

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[ATTACHMENT]:

NEW MEDIA ART. IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Txt: Geert Lovink - http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/allegato.asp

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[THE DIGICULT PROJECT]:

From 2005, Digicult has being an online/offline cultural and editorial platform which focuses on the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Founded and directed by Marco Mancuso, is now based on the active participation of quite 50 professional people, who represent a wide international Network of journalists, curators, artists, theorists, practioneers and critics. Digicult is also the editor of the monthly magazine Digimag, which focuses on some cultural, productive and artistic issues like: internet & networks, hacking & hacktivism, video art & experimental cinema, sound art & electrinic music, audiovideo and live media, design & architecture, art & science, new media & social media, software art & generative art, performing art & interactive dance, with a strong critic and journalistic approach

[DIRECTION & MANAGEMENT COMMITEE]:

Marco Mancuso (Professor at Naba Academy of Milan, Visiting Professor at Transmedia School of Brussels) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (International Doctorship in Audiovisual Studies, University of Udine) ; Bertram Niessen (Researcher at Sociology Deparment of Statale University Milan - Bicocca) ; Lucrezia Cippitelli (Phd at Sapienza University Rome and Professor at Fine Arts Academy of L'Aquila) ; Roberta Buiani

[EDITORIAL STAFF & TRANSLATIONS]:

Marco Mancuso (Chief Executive & Director) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (Press Office) ; Fabio Franchino (Technical Consultancy) ; Paolo Ceresatto, Alessandra Saviotti, Martina Panelli (Editing) ; Paolo Borsatti (Marketing & Service Designer) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Stefano Avola, Andrea Cariello, Valentina Venegoni, Maria Cidonelli, Nicole Brioschi (Magazine Translations) ; Eugenia Fratzeskou (International & Academic Networks & Cooperation Consultant)

[AUTHORS]:

Tatiana Bazzichelli ; Bertram Niessen ; Teresa De Feo ; Luigi Ghezzi ; Giulia Baldi ; Domenico Quaranta ; Massimo Schiavoni ; Monica Ponzini ; Valentina Tanni ; Silvia Bianchi ; Lucrezia Cippitelli ; Claudia D'Alonzo; Barbara Sansone ; Giulia Simi ; Silvia Scaravaggi ; Alessio Galbiati ; Antonio Caronia ; Loretta Borrelli ; Carla Langella ; Silvia Casini ; Jeremy Levine ; Herman B. Mendolicchio ; Serena Cangiano ; Micha Cardenas ; Mark Hencock ; Pasquale Napolitano ; Zoe Romano ; Enrico Pitozzi ; Eugenia Fratzeskou ; Mattia Casalegno ; Robin Peckam ; Sabina Cuccibar ; Silvia Bertolotti ; Simone Broglia ; Claudio Musso ; Claudia Maina ; Elena Biserna ; Maria Chatzichristodoulou ; Neva Pedrazzini ; Mathias Jansson ; Felipe Zuniga ; Alexandra Purcaru ; Pia Bolognesi ; Julianne Pierce ;Emanuele Andreoli ; Alessandra Saviotti ; Alfredo Cramerotti ; Martina Panelli ; Alessandra Coretti ; Nicola Bozzi ; Jamie Ferguson ; Mauro Arrighi ; Laura Capuzzo ; Giulia Tonucci

[CONTACTS]:

Digicult: digital art, design & culture
Chief Executive & Director: Marco Mancuso
Largo Murani 4, 20133, Milan (Italy)
Mail: [email protected]
Mob. +39.340.8371816