Digicult presents: DIGIMAG!!!

DIGIMAG 67 - SEMPTEMBER 2011

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"...This interest comes from sound in itself and then from being interested in humans and their lives, histories, conditions etc. But we also wanted to go beyond the object and to not objectify and we came across audio as being, in the context of visual arts, in a certain way less, or differently, objectifying than the photograph or the video image; and also for its sculptural and material, or immaterial, qualities; of travelling through space instead of being fixed in its place, or just having one line of projection like video, for example, whose image has a more fixed format. We have been working with sound for a long time: sound was part of the environments we did during the first years of our collaboration; then we used it as a means of intervention in public space. We usually used concrete sound in relationship with space, as a way of shaping it or intervene in it, more than as a narrative element..."

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, from "Radicant Aesthetics. Libia Castro &

Ólafur Ólafsson" by Elena Biserna

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[INTERVIEWS]:

RADICANT AESTHETICS. LIBIA CASTRO & OLAFUR OLAFSSON

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2154 - by Elena Biserna

LANFRANCO ACETI. LEA, ISEA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2155 - by Herman Bashiron

Mendolicchio

ART/TAPES/ 22. INTERVIEW WITH MARIA GLORIA BICOCCHI

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2158 - by Claudia D'Alonzo

TOUCHING THE MUSIC. BASCHET LABORATORY OF SOUND SCULPTURE

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2149 - by Barbara Sansone

PARALLEL WORLDS. THE MYSTERIOUS DORON GOLAN

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2152 - by Michael Szpakowski

NEW MEDIA ART IN JAPAN. HIDEAKI OGAWA AND THE DEVICE ART

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2147 - by Mauro Arrighi

PABLO GARCIA-VALENZUELA. THE SOUND ART IN MEXICO CITY

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2148 - by Felipe Zuniga

MAURO CEOLIN: ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINARY

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2157 - by Claudio Musso

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[ESSAYS]:

KOEN VANMECHELEN. CHICKENS, CHICKS & EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2150 - by Silvia Casini

THE THEATRE OF SOUND. ACOUSTIC RESEARCH BY FANNY & ALEXANDER

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2156 - by Enrico Pitozzi

A GUIDE TO AN A-DOCUMENTARY. VISION - RAPRESENTATION - RICREATION

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2159 - by Emanuele Andreoli

OPERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS - PART 2

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2146 - by Eugenia Fratzeskou

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[REPORTS]:

ART & NETWORKED CULTURE. TALLIN AND THE NEW MEDIA ART

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2151 - by Mathias Jansson

WEB AESTHETICS. VITO CAMPANELLI AND THE MEDIA AESTHETICS

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2153 - by Pasquale Napolitano

BIOARTCAMP. AN ADVENTURE UPON THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/allegato.asp - by Jamie Ferguson

[THE DIGICULT PROJECT]:

From 2005, Digicult has being an online/offline cultural and editorialplatform 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.

ROOM40'S OPEN FRAME 2011 ...

ROOM40'S OPEN FRAME 2011
Rooftop Terrace, Brisbane Powerhouse 7.30pm
featuring
Wednesday September 28 - Marina Rosenfeld, Fourcolor, Moskitoo
Thursday September 29 - Minamo, Scott Morrison, Our Love Will Destroy The World
..
Room40's Open Frame festival continues its annual survey of esoteric music and media arts.

In 2011, Open Frame welcomes one of the true icons of 21st Century sound art - New York's Marina Rosenfeld. Known for epic performance works and highly personalised sound situations, she has presented works at the Tate Modern, NYMOMA and countless festivals. We've managed to score her ONLY east coast performance and she will be delivering a trademark solo turntable work, composed for her own specially cut dubplates.

We also play host to a special entourage from Tokyo including the legendary melodic minimalists Minamo, 12K post-pop artist Moskitoo and the highly regarded Fourcolor whose new album 'As Pleat' has been heralded as "mesmerising and unique", by Fluid Radio in the UK.

Following epic successes in Europe and an ever growing array of acclaimed releases Our Love Will Destroy The World arrives in Brisbane for the very first time promising to deliver a massive wash of tectonic tones and savage harmony. Australian audio-visualist Scott Morrison also hits Open Frame to launch his new dvd edition 'Ballads For Quiet Horizons', featuring a collection of his individual landscape deconstructions.

Tickets available via - http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/open-frame/

Lots of great chat and great womens work happening and featuring on GIRRL's facebook page...

put your ear to it ... click here

Bedtime Ritual for Suffragettes (at any given time someone in the world is taking to her bed) by Heather Warren Crow...

Bedtime Ritual for Suffragettes (At Any Given Time, Someone in the World is Taking to Her Bed) from Heather Warren-Crow on Vimeo.

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Sarah Boothroyd's sound pieces ...

 

Visit Sarah's site here to hear her ...

Under the Radar presents Macrophonics: music machines, virtual instruments and audio-visual performance.

From the September 20-24 Brisbane Festival presents a striking program of music and audio-visual works for new technologies at Metro Arts. Presented as part of the festival’s experimental program Under the Radar, Macrophonics assembles an array of adventurous performance work that explores the interface between humans and machines in performance.

From sensor based microphone and guitar systems to autonomous robots, post-rock dronescapes and experimental electronica, the program includes music, audio visual and installation works by leading Australian sound and media artists Donna Hewitt, Julian Knowles, Wade Marynowsky and Tim Bruniges, with choreography by Avril Huddy

The program features a number of works for the eMic, a new sensor based microphone stand designed by Donna Hewitt. The eMic allows the performer to manipulate their voice in real time by capturing their movements via sensing devices including pressure sensors, distance sensors, tilt sensors, ribbon sensors and a joystick microphone mount.

The progam also features a new work for guitar, sensors and electronics by Julian Knowles, robotics based work from Wade Marynowsky (finalist in the Qld Premier’s National New Media Art Award) and live a/v works from Tim Bruniges best known for his work with Decoder Ring and The Dead Sea

Co-curator and performer Julian Knowles said this is a chance for audiences to experience a national survey of  music and a/v work for new performance interfaces developed by the artists with support from a range of international institutions, including the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, STEIM (Holland) and the Nes Artist Residency (Iceland).

Under the Radar invites Brisbane audiences to discover the work of an impressive line-up of progressive artists throughout Brisbane Festival from 3 - 24 September 2011.

Brisbane Festival Artistic Director Noel Staunton said Under the Radar provides a platform for artists to take a risk and experiment with art form, while supported within Brisbane Festival.

“I urge the people of Brisbane to get out there and try something new, buy a ticket and see where it takes you,” Mr Staunton said.


EVENT DETAILS

When:     Tuesday 20 September at 8:00 PM, Thursday 22 September at 7:30 PM, Friday 23 September at 7:30 PM, Saturday 24 September at 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM

Where:     The Studio, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia

Tickets:     5 for $60 ticket deal - See any five ticketed Under the Radar shows for $60\
Adult $20, Concession $15 (includes booking fee)

Event Sponsors:     Brisbane Marketing, Metro Arts, QUT, Arts Qld, STEIM, Brian Tucker Accounting, 4ZZZ, Time Off magazine and IKEA

Further information:    www.brisbanefestival.com.au

Nick Briz Explains the Glitch-Art Methods of JODI ...

 

By Chicago Art Magazine on Sep 08, 2011 in Cross Discipline Art, Featured

...'In an effort to branch out further into the world of tech-based and internet art, Chicago Art Magazine attempted to send interview questions to the Belgium-based artist collective JODI, who have been making art for the internet for almost 10 years. When we attempted to contact the duo, we did receive a reply, but the answers completely befuddled us.

Screen capture of work by JODI

Here are a few samples of the answers we had received via email:
Chicago Art Magazine: What do you hope that people who visit your website, wwwwwwwww.jodi.com, take away from your artwork?
Ow w Ow w OOOw w COM wwwwwwwww.jodi.orgNot FoundThe requested URL /people-who-visit-our-website” was not found on this server.Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.'

for more of the interview 

Book launch, Vienna/Austria: Content/ Form/ Im-material- Five Years of CONT3XT.NET

... from Content | Form | Im-material – Five Years of CONT3XT.NET
Book launch, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna/Austria
September 15, 2011

'Why is it still easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single work of Internet-based Art in a museum space? As with the nature of this question, both aspects have to be taken into account: the field of Internet-based Art with its characteristics and proponents, as well as the mechanisms that allow institutions to filter what the public at large understands to be art. The book “Content | Form | Im-material” analyses how artistic creation on—and based upon—the Internet and the processes of its re-formulation in the real space can be developed in order to find appropriate presentational modes, suitable for both sides—the Internet and the art world—in favour of interdisciplinary discourse. It also represents a synopsis of the activities of the art collective CONT3XT.NET over the past five years, since it was founded in Vienna in early 2006 by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Birgit Rinagl and Franz Thalmair. Programmatically, this group of artists, curators and authors—their different roles and functions sometimes regarded strictly, sometimes as a fluid continuum—work at the basis of contemporary visual, textual and networked practices. Always starting from the idea of the context as the most indecisive and variable but relevant constraint of any situation, the collective analyses the spatial, temporal, discursive as well as the institutional framework that conceptual artistic practices are rooted in today. Here the main point of interest is the exploration of creative territories shifting between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ as well as between the dimensions of the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’ of the field of art. This book can be read as a loose documentation of projects as well as a screenshot of tendencies that have emerged and disappeared within the past few years. Anyhow, it is a protocol of workflows concerned with matters of content, form and im-material.' ... for more visit the website