Digicult: Digimag 52- March 2010

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Digicult presents:

Digimag 52 - March 2010
http://www.digicult.it/digimag\_eng/

Digimag is the monthly magazine of the project Digicult, which focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society.

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"… I've certainly seen the failure of street protests against the Iraq war in the past five years in the U.S. Marches and protests were not being covered in the mass media, so people lost interest in coming out. The last protest I went to in about 2007 was dismal and pathetic. I made a work subsequently called AntiWar404 that features hundreds of abstracts lifted from pro-peace and anti-war websites that have disappeared in the past five years.What I've learned from following the online aspects of the anti-war movement is that there are moments when people will move out of their ideological comfort zone to endorse resistance, and when that moment passes, it's much more difficult to build a movement. Unfortunately at present it seems that this arc of enthusiasm is governed largely by the corporate mass media coverage of current events. But to the extent that social media, independent media and other cooperative initiatives can be used to catalyze social actions, there is some potential to bypass the futility of the spectacular idiocy that prevails today"…

Andy Deck, from "Andy Deck and the Net art: the licence to be an artist" by Marco Mancuso

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[ARTICLES]:

- JACOB KIERKEEGARD - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1728
The 13th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival - The Poetic of Space - was entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative, audiovisual and film arts.
by Silvia Bertolotti

- ANDY DECK - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1736
Andy Deck, net artist and pioneer of conceptual art on the net, has been active for more than a decade and is not a character that needs a lot of introduction.
by Marco Mancuso

- LU YANG - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1734
One of the leaders of this new foray into bioart is Lu Yang, a young artist born 1974 in Shanghai and now based both there and in Hangzhou
by Robin Peckham

- MAYER-SCHONBERGER - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1738
Viktor Mayer Schönberger is director at Information and Innovation Policy Research Centre and author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in Digital Age
by Simona Fiore

- MOIRA RICCI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1737
20.12.53 - 10.08.04, conceived and produced after her mother's sudden death, is the most famous and discussed work by the artist Moira Ricci
by Giulia Simi

- SEPPUKO/SUICIDEMACHINE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1733
Talk about suicide has has hardly ever been a simple thing, and that is especially nowadays with web 2.0, as Seppuko and Web 2.0 Sucide Machine demonstrates
by Loretta Borrelli

- FEDERICO SOLMI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1741
Federico Solmi’s work, always characterized by an ironic destruction of myths and (anti)heroes, becomes more bitter with his new artwork
by Monica Ponzini

- KNIFEANDFORK - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1740
Knifeandfork is a group of artists and designers based in Los Angeles. They develope public projects in a territory between software art and design
by Mattia Casalegno

- BODY, CYBORG AND ROBOT - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1735
The huge exhibition in Lugano shows the historical path of all possible interactions between man, machine and art
by Silvia Casini

- THE INFLUENCERS 2010 - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1732
A report about the Barcelona art, comunication and activism event, come this year to its sixth awsome edition.
by Barbara Sansone e Jordi Salvadò

- KINETICA ART FAIR - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1729
A report about the huge London kinetik art exhibition, with interviews to the art director and some of the most intriguing designers
by Alessandra Migani

- ARCHITECTURE AND SPACE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1730
Our changing understanding of reality has inspired the invention of new concepts of space and strategies for spatial research and practice across disciplines.
by Eugenia Fratzeskou

- THE ACOUSTIC MEANING OF THE SPACE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1731
The theme of space is a cornerstone in the philosophical investigation. It appeals to the world experienced by the subjects in terms of perceptual knowledge
by Simone Broglia

- MEDIAFACADE AND HYPERSURFACE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1739
Urban Screen and NuFormer: the new urban mediafacades
by Annamaria Monteverdi


[COVER]:

- JACOB KIERKEEGARD - Anechoic Chamber


[ATTACHMENT]:

- LU YANG - Dictator E-Work - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/allegato.asp

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DIGICULT is an online/offline Italian platform, created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on participation of more than 40 professionals, representing a wide Italian Network of critics, curators and journalists in the field. DIGICULT is the editor of the magazine DIGIMAG, which focuses on some cultural and artistic issues like internet art, hacktivism, electronica, video art, audiovideo, art & science, design, new media, software art, performing art
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[DIRECTION & MANAGEMENT COMMITEE]:

Marco Mancuso (Digicult project Director and Teacher at New Academy of Fine Arts / Naba of Milan) ; 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 Teacher at Fine Arts Academy of L'Aquila)

[EIDITORIAL STAFF & TRANSLATIONS]:

Luca Restifo (Technical Consultancy) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (Press Office) ; Martina Bartalini (Web Editing) ; Giulia Baldi (Twitter & Facebook Editing) ; Giuseppe Cordaro (Podcast Editing) ; Riccardo Vescovo (Graphic Design) ; Luigi Ghezzi (Web 2.0 Marketing) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Francesca Lattanzi - Emanuela Cassol - Sara Cavagna - Henriette Vittadini - Mimi Peña (Magazine Translations)

[EDITORIAL BOARD]:

Tatiana Bazzichelli ; Bertram Niessen ; Teresa De Feo ; Luigi Ghezzi ; Giulia Baldi ; Domenico Quaranta ; Massimo Schiavoni ; Monica Ponzini ; Annamaria Monteverdi; Valentina Tanni ; Lucrezia Cippitelli ;Silvia Bianchi ; Claudia D'Alonzo; Barbara Sansone ; Giulia Simi ; Silvia Scaravaggi ; Maresa Lippolis ;Alessio Galbiati ; Antonio Caronia ; Clemente Pestelli ; Donata Marletta ; Valeria Merlini ; Stefano Raimondi ; Loretta Borrelli ; Carla Langella ; Marco Riciputi ; Elena Gianni ; Matteo Milani ; Francesco Bertocco ; Silvia Casini ; Jeremy Levine ; Alex Foti ; Serena Cangiano ; Micha Cardenas , Mark Hencock , Pasquale Napolitano ; Simona Fiore ; Zoe Romano ; Enrico Pitozzi ; Eugenia Fratzeskou ; Mattia Casalegno ; Robin Peckam ; Sabina Cuccibar ; Silvia Bertolotti ; Simone Broglia