[spectre] Digimag 64 - May 2011 /// International Issue Online

[Redazione Digicult]

Digicult presents:


Digimag 64 - May 2011
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/

The archive section, past articles and issues:
http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/

The updated list of authors and critics
www.digicult.it/en/credits


"...We tend to look for patterns everywhere. This capability is embedded in our perceptual mechanism and has saved our ancestors in critical events over millennia, from identifying a moving object in a grassland or a threatening face in a crowd. But we also look for patterns in data, information, facts, and stories as a central method for assimilating knowledge. The way many of these maps and alphabets are displayed can certainly influence our perception of reality, so it's very likely that as representation metaphors shift so will our sense of time and place [...] Despite this rich graphical diversity, many projects tend to follow noticeable trends and common principles, which in turn result in a type of emergent taxonomy. This embryonic and evolving taxonomy provides a portrait of the current state of the practice and reveals the initial building blocks shaping a new visual language. This alphabet is not entirely new in the sense that many of its letters are recurrent visual metaphors used for centuries. But some are combining and recombining old metaphors in new original ways...."

Manuel Lima , by "Manuel Lima. Mapping the information space" - by Pasquale Napolitano


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[INTERVIEWS]:

VOLUPTUOUS DATA
MATIAS DEL CAMPO AND SPAN ARCHITECTS
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2063
by Sabina Barcucci

MANUEL LIMA
MAPPING THE INFORMATION SPACE
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2074
by Pasquale Napolitano

THE ROMAN SPRING BY STALKER
WONDERING AROUND WITH LORENZO ROMITO
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2068
by Elena Biserna

SPARKLE LABS
THE SPARKLE OF CREATION
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2065
by Zoe Romano

ZUL MAHMOD
SOUND ART FROM SINGAPORE
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2066
by Robin Peckham

CRITICAL FUSION
INTERVIEW TO MAURICE BENAYOUN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2075
by Lorenzo Taiuti

ROBERTO PUGLIESE
DIGITAL BIO-ACOUSTICS
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2062
by Claudio Musso

TRANSMEDIA
POSTGRADUATE IN ARTS, MEDIA & DESIGN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2073
by Silvia Bertolotti

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[ESSAYS]:

ONLINE MIDDLE EAST
THE INFINITE POTENTIAL OF MASSES 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2071
by Emanuele Andreoli

REVEALING INTERSTITIAL SPACES
PART 2
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2069
by Dr.Eugenia Fratzeskou

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[REPORTS]:

THE INFLUENCERS 2011
COLLECTIVE DREAMS, CONTEMPORARY HEROES
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2067
by Barbara Sansone

WEFAB: MAKE THE RIGHT THING
DIGITAL FABRICATION IN THE HEART OF MILAN
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2064
by Simona Casonato

JOSEPHINE BOSMA: NETTITUDES
LET'S TALK NET ART
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2072
by Lucrezia Cippitelli

CAE: THE SPECTRE OF PLAGUE
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, POLITICS OF FEAR
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2070
by Loretta Borrelli

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[COVER]: SPAN Architects

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>From 2005, Digicult has being an online/offline cultural and editorial platform 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 deep journalistic approach. Digicult produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, Digipod, linked to the world of netlabels and independent audiovisual productions online, and also has its own international newsletter service Diginews. Digicult is actually working with the art agency Digimade as curator/promoter of some Italian audiovisual artists and designers, presenting their work within festivals, galleries, exhibitions, events and cultural centers in Europe and worldwide.Finally, Digicult works as media partner for festivals, exhibitions & events, developing special curatorial projects, writing texts for catalogues, organizing workshops and seminars, joining lectures in academies and universities

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[DIRECTION AND 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 Department of Statale University of Milan - Bicocca) ; Lucrezia Cippitelli (Phd at Sapienza University of Rome and Teacher at Academy of Fine arts of L'Aquila)

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[EDITORIAL BOARD AND TRANSLATIONS]:

Giovanni Damiola (Technical Consultancy) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (Press Office) ; Bertram Niessen (Social Networking) ; Giuseppe Cordaro (Podcast Editing) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Lara Freschi - Francesca Lattanzi - Stefano Avola - Andrea Cariello - (Magazine Translations) ; Paolo Ceresatto (Magazine Editing)

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[ADVISORY BOARD]:

An international advisory board for Digicult will be announced soon...

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[AUTHORS]:

Tatiana Bazzichelli ; Bertram Niessen ; Teresa De Feo ; Luigi Ghezzi ; Giulia Baldi; Domenico Quaranta ; Massimo Schiavoni ; Monica Ponzini ; Annamaria Monteverdi; Valentina Tanni ; Lucrezia Cippitelli ; Claudia D'Alonzo; Barbara Sansone ; Giulia Simi ; Silvia Scaravaggi ; Alessio Galbiati ; Antonio Caronia ; Loretta Borrelli ; Carla Langella ; Francesco Bertocco ; Silvia Casini ; Jeremy Levine ; Serena Cangiano ; Micha Cardenas ; Mark Hencock , Pasquale Napolitano ; Simona Fiore ; Zoe Romano ; Enrico Pitozzi ; Eugenia Fratzeskou ; Mattia Casalegno ; Robin Peckam ; Sabina Barcucci ; Silvia Bertolotti ; Simone Broglia ; Claudia Maina ; Elena Biserna ; Maria Chatzichristodoulou ; Felipe Zuniga ; Mathias Jannson ; Neva Pedrazzini ; Alexandra Purcaru ; Lorenzo Taiuti ; Pia Bolognesi ; Julianne Pierce ; Thomas Schielke ;  Emanuele Andreoli ; Alessandra Salviotti
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