27 Apr 2010

Digimag: Digital Art, Design & Culture Magazine

Digicult presents:


Digimag 53 - April 2010

www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/

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


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'...As a scientist I am innately optimistic. I think that the world is understandable using the scientific method. The problem is then converting understanding to changing our way of being in the world. This is not a problem that scientists are experts differently from experts in the arts and humanity are. I am encouraged by the way many artists and scholars in humanity are now deeply involved in these very hard problems. I think they are the 'new leonardos', often groups rather than individuals, often inter-generational. If we can combine the expertise of people over 70 with those under 30 we have reason to be optimistic..'

Roger Malina, from 'Open Observatory challenge. Roger Malina and the new Leonardos' by Teresa De Feo


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[ARTICLES]:


- TELCOSYSTEMS: MACHINES AND AUDIOVISUAL HORIZONS

Telcosystems is a Dutch research group very well known and very respected internationally, for its aesthetic and important projects, from live performances or enviromental installations

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1757

by Marco Mancuso


- OPEN OBSERVATORY CHALLENGE: ROGER MALINA AND THE NEW LEONARDO

Director of Astrophysics Observatory in Marseille, Roger Malina is chief editor of Leonardo journal of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1764

by Teresa De Feo


- MECHATRONIC ART AND DIY. MARC DUSSEILLER: THE ARTISTIC SOLDERING

Marc Dusseiller is a Swiss scientist specialized in nano technology and one of the founders of Swiss Society of Mechtronic Art, a no profit organization in Switzerland.

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1763

by Serena Cangiano


- MEDI/ACTION AND MEDIAM(BI)ENT. THE NUFORMER DIGITAL MEDIA METHOD

An interview to Rob Delfgaauw from NuFormer, a Dutch firm which has diffused worldwide the technique of mapping and screening 3d videos on bulidings

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1759

by Annamaria Monteverdi


- DONKIJOTE BY CRISTIAN BETTINI. THE SUSTAINABLE SLOWNES

Once upon a time there was a man who was travelling with a donkey. With them was also a GPS, a solar panel, a PC with a modem and a video camera.

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1762

by Barbara Sansone & Jordì Salvadò


- BETWEEN RHYTHM AND MEASURE. AN INTERVIEW TO AOKI TAKAMASA

Aoki Takamasaa is an electronic musician and his works and compositions twist among a very rich and stratified melting-pot of glitch sounds and rhythm

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1761

by Silvia Bertolotti


- A YEAR OF ARTS SANTA MONICA. AN INTERVIEW TO VICENC ALTAIO'

The 2010 of the Arts Santa Mònica began with new stimuli to creativity and discussion. Fresh with new mentalities, a new spirit & aspirations

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1766

by Herman Mendolicchio


- SPECTRA. MOVEMENT ACCORDING TO CINDY VAN ACKER

Cindy Van Acker for years has been involved in radical research on movement, with which she associates an investigation into the mise-en-scene as a device

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1768

by Enrico Pitozzi


- A SURREAL DOUBT. IOCOSE GROUP'S WORKS

IOCOSE is the name of a collective born in Bologna in 2006. Their style arise from a mature relation with the Internet, new media and social networks

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1765

by Elena Gianni


- CONVERSATION IN THREE VOICES. PARALLEL_41 INTERMITTENCES

The trio DeDominicis/Kent/Lonardion the wave of the project Parallel_41, create a surprising, modern and diachronic artistic mix, which is never identical

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1758

by Stefania Russo


- SUSPENDED PROJECTIONS. THE CHANGING EQUILIBRIA OF WANDA MORETTI

The performances by Wanda Morettiare events of great impact and appeal. They are made on the facade of buildings which are important in the life of cities

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1769

by Massimo Schiavoni


- DECODE EXHIBITION. SOFTWARE ART AT VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM

The huge Decode exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum in London, ran from 8th December 2009 until 11th April 2010

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1756

by Marc Hancock


- BIOMIMETHIC PRIZED BY SCIENCE. SCIENTIFIC IMAGING AS ART

The prestigious prize assigned to a team of researchers in Naples

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1760

by Carla Langella


- SYNTHETIC AESTHETICS. LIFE DESIGN

An analysis on synthetic biology and Synthetic Aesthetics

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1767

by Luigi Ghezzi


[COVER]:TELCOSYSTEMS - 12_Series


[ATTACHMENT]:


- TELCOSYSTEMS - 'Semaphore' inedito video -

www.digicult.it/public/sm4.m4v


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[THE PROJECT]:


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, epresenting 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)


[EDITORIAL STAFF & TRANSLATIONS]:


Luca Restifo (Technical Consultancy) ; Claudia D'Alonzo  (Press Office) ; Giulia Baldi & Luigi Ghezzi (Social Networks) ; Giuseppe Cordaro (Podcast Editing) ; Riccardo Vescovo (Graphic Design) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Francesca Lattanzi - 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, Claudio Musso, Elena Biserna