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DIGIMAG 63 - APRIL 2011
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PETER TSCHERKASSKY
AUDIOVISUALS FROM A DARKROOM
Txt: Marco Mancuso
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2034
Let's start from an assumption: I am not a film critic and more in general I 
do not work exclusively on experimental cinema. This analysis of the avant 
guard director Peter Tscherkassky, born in Wien in 1958 and winner at the 
67th Venice Film Festival in the "Nuovi Orizzonti" section with the film 
Coming Attractions, will probably lack those lexical elements and elements 
of analysis used by the most orthodox film criticism, and will inesorably be 
exposed to a radical reading of the following text. In spite of that, my 
intention is to highlight the austrian director's work, in terms of the 
importance that I think it has not only as far as cinema is concerned, but 
also and especially towards the production and the audiovisual research 
taken as an aesthetic-expressive possibility of the sound-image 
relationship.

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MORE PERFECT UNION
THE EMOTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY BY LUKE DUBOIS
Txt: Pasquale Napolitano
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2037
More Perfect Union, the last work by Luke Dubois (United States, 1975), 
artist, scholar, musician, represeted by the Bitforms Gallery in New York 
(directed by Steve Sacks e Laura Blereau), one of the most influential 
exhibition centers in the digital art scenario, places itself as an 
interesting attempt to investigate the sentimental life of americans, 
through the digital visualization potential. The work is about a mapping of 
the american identity through an analysis of the 21 main online meeting 
websites. A sort of media coverage and aestheticization of the most 
important experiences of investigating interpersonal relationships - like 
Comizi d'amore by Pier Paolo Pasolini or by Alfred Kisey if you want, who 
with his relationships defied the conventions taking care of issues until 
then considered a taboo.

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PAOLO CIRIO
WHEN STEALING BECOMES ART
Txt: Tatiana Bazzichelli
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2039
In the essay The author as a producer (1934), Walter Benjamin describes the 
author's role through the figure of the engineer. Instead of reproducing the 
production apparatuses, the author/engineer is able to intervene within 
them, transforming the cultural production function itself and opening it up 
to the collective intervention. The engineer figure described by Walter 
Benjamin reminds the "tactical" art by Paolo Cirio, who contributes to 
transform the meaning of the artistic practice from within, by unveiling the 
unsolved knots in the art field. Through his artworks, Paolo Cirio 
intervenes tactically locating some plugs of a puzzle which can be finished 
only by directly involving its referents, being them either corporations, 
media apparatuses, or the so-called network "users".

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THE DIGITAL GREGOR SAMSA
INTERVIEW WITH PIERRICK SORIN
Txt: Alexandra Purcaru
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2047
Paris is proving increasingly active on the artistic innovations of the 
digital scene. New centers dedicated to Digital Arts have been flourishing 
in the last decade. The Cube was born in 2001 in Issy, the CentQuatre 104 
was born in 2008, and the Gaîté Lyrique just opened in 2011. The three of 
them are platforms for creativity and avant-gardist sound, open to 
installations, exhibitions, performance, dance, rhythm and noise. Pierrick 
Sorin, a multimedia artist which expresses himself through various means 
such as sound and video installations, presented the project entitled: 22:13 
(this title is likely to be changed at any moment) at CentQuatre.