27 May 2010

Digimag: Digital Art, Design & Culture magazine

Digicult presents:
Digimag 54 - May 2010

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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'...Art has already lost most of it's differences with commercial media in the 1980s then the latter adopted abstract animation, installation and most other techniques and strategies of modern and contemporary art. However the new process started in the 1990s when artists in newly globalized countries made the trip from traditional to contemporary art language in a matter of a few years. This great expansion of the art universe however did not result in any visible increase of quality. Today we see many professionally made and smart artworks which sometimes are inyeresting and fun - but never as innovative as what comes out from Googke labs. It is not hard to understand why - art uses the same strategiies and assumptions as thirty years ago. Site specific installations, video, conceptualist strategies, irony, social critique and of course good old painting and photography - this all already existed for quite a while. Anyway 'contemporary art' will continue, more biennales will be established and more museums will be built. And just because of the huge size if the art system sometimes we will fund sine real talent and something which wil move us. Sometimes....'

Lev Manovich, from 'Lev Manovich: Software Culture. The common grammar of media' - by Giulia Simi

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[EDITORIAL TEXT]:

- MARCO MANCUSO - WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT


www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/editoriale.asp



[ARTICLES]:

- LEV MANOVICH: SOFTWARE CULTURE. THE COMMON GRAMMAR OF MEDIA
From the so called pioneers in the sixties and eighties to the revolution of social media in the last five years, 'Software Culture' (2010, Olivares Edition) zooms in on technology and on what differentiates media, giving life to what is called 'metamedium', or in other words, the computer.
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1794
by Giulia Simi

- EVAN ROTH: GRAFFITI TAXONOMY. WRITING: RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION
Evan Roth (part of Graffiti Research Lab) created a new method, which offered graffiti artists to archive and store their work and their tags.

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1791
by Claudio Musso

- THE SOFTSPACE OF USMAN HAQUE. CHOREOGRAPHIES OF SENSATIONS

Usman Haque organised a series of family labs to build up the Control Burble Remote modified project structure, in Barcellona, for Cultures de Canvi exhibition.

www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1785

by Barbara Sansone & Jordi Salvadò

- AARON KOBLIN: AESTHETIC EVOLUTION OF DATA VISUALIZATION
Today info-aesthetics could be considered as an actual academic discipline, but most of all a fertile context of research and planning, where key elements for the 'information society' are discussed.
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1795
by Serena Cangiano

- JAMES JOHNSON-PERKINS. POP SENSITIVITY MEETS PANORAMAS GIGAPAN


James Johnson-Perkins, stopped to tell of his residence for artists in Venice, a few weeks of immersion in the suggestion of the lagoon town


www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1797

by Silvia Casini

- OPEN PEER-TO-PEER DESIGN. MASSIMO MENICHINELLI, PARTECIPATED FUTURE

Massimo Menichinelli, is founder of openp2pdesign.org a blog that turned into an open-source community aimed to develop complex collaborative projects.
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1792
by Bertram Niessen

- THE ART OF STEALING ART. INTERVIEW TO JIACONG 'JAY' YAN


Jay Yan is a young Chinese artist based who, in few years managed to have a discreet international reputation in contemporary art international panorama.


www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1786

by Mattia Casalegno

- THE THOUSANDS STIMULI OF SOUND. INTERVIEW TO SILVIA BENCIVELLI


Recent studies of neurology, have interwoven depth contributions clearly showing the development of evolutionary processes, images and symbols related to sound.


www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1790

by Simone Broglia

- ABOUT SONIC SCULPTURE. BETWEEN DISCIPLINES CATEGORIES


Sound art rejects music potential to compete with other time-based art forms. Sound art addresses to a more immersive craving for perception: sound 
in space.
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1787

by Pasquale Napolitano

- SQUATTING SUPERMARKETS: SHOPTIVISM NARRATIONS


'Telling the other side of the story' is the goal that Squatting Supermarkets is aiming at, an installation, a performance, work of net art, some short stories

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www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1789
by Loretta Borrelli

- 'DIGITAL LIFE' EXHIBITION. WHEN ART DOES SHOW OFF


Closure moment is approaching for Digital Life,which opened in early March 2010 Pelanda activities in Rome.
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1784
by Lucrezia Cippitelli

- 'IF NOT YOU NOT ME'. ANNIE ABRAHAMS AND LIFE IN NETWORKS


Annie Abrahams's show If Not You Not Me at the HTTP Gallery in London was inspiring in its subtle, low-tech sensitivity of inter-connectedness


www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1793

by Maria Chatzichristodoulou

- HOW TO RECYCLE RAEE. MANUEL BOZZO: KORF AND ADVANCED ART


Manuel Boffo and the collective KORF suggested in La Spezia, an exposition titled Arte Avanzata, the other side of recycling.


www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1788

by Annamaria Monteverdi

- LILIWOOD AND THE 3D CAMERAS. HANDICRAFTSMEN AT WORK


Lilliwood, is a company specialized in 3D camera shooting, that worked in the medium-length film Il Volo, directed by Wim Wenders (fist Italian stereoscopic fiction).
www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1796
by Marco Riciputi



[COVER]:
- SOFTWARE STUDIES INITIATIVE

Frames taken every 6 seconds from the sequence of gameplay sessions. This image rapresent 62.5 hours of gameplay



[ATTACHMENT]:
- LUCREZIA CIPPITELLI - THE DOMINGUEZ CASE AND FREEDOM OF ART

www.digicult.it/digimag/allegato.asp

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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, 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) ; 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 , Claudia Maina