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Digicult presents:

DIGIMAG  45 / JUNE 2009
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp

You can read all the past articles and issues in the Archive section here:
http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/

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I don't like the word "experimental". It gives a sense of precariousness and 
indefiniteness. The works that are more often classified as being 
experimental are finished works: the experiment and the research are in the 
reconstruction of the case history of the work, from how it was made. This 
is interesting and is experimentation, but not the work per se which is the 
end of a path and is finished. Even painters test things, use different 
techniques. I did some photographs for example by putting photographic paper 
in my hand and impressing it from the hole that is created by making a fist. 
This procedure is experimental, it doesn't even exist in photographic 
history. Just think, it's a method that I, a dickhead from Rovigo , 
invented! It's fundamental to do tests, that's why I think that dexterity 
must not be lost as it takes you to the discovery of things you never even 
imagined, many times thanks to accidents, to errors, that you make your own. 
One thing that frightens me in electronic technology is the obsolescence of 
instruments. It's dangerous: it seems to me that the continuous new 
instruments are a limit and not a stimulus, they do not give creativity time 
to be just that, creative. The risk is that electronic engineers are more
creative than the artists themselves and another risk it that the artists 
are sucked into the big multinationals of electronics. All this in my 
opinion is very dangerous; it's more beautiful to surprise people with
nothing.

Paolo Gioli, from "Cinemahacking: interview to Paolo Gioli" by Claudia 
D'Alonzo

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INTERVIEWS:

- CARSTEN NICOLAI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1488 - by 
Monica Ponzini
- PAOLO GIOLI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1504 - by 
Claudia D'Alonzo
- AGOSTINO DI SCIPIO - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1493 - 
by Marco Mancuso
- CHRISTINA KUBISCH - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1492 - 
by Matteo Milani
- GOTO10 - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1498 - by Giulia 
Simi
- FUNEN ART ACADEMY - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1494 - 
by Loretta Borrelli
- SABRINA MUZI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1501 - by 
Massimo Schiavoni

REPORTS:

- DIRECT DIGITAL: SYMPOSIUM - 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1500 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli
- MAPPING FESTIVAL - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1489 - by 
Silvia Bianchi
- DIGITAL ART MARKET - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1499 - 
by Donata Marletta

FEATURING:

- DOUGLAS GORDON - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1505 - by 
Francesco Bertocco
- FELICE FRENKEL - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1497 - by 
Silvia Casini
- THE MURDER OF CROWS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1491 - 
by Valeria Merlini
- _AUGMENTOLOGY 1[L]0[L]1_ - 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1503 - by Mark Hancock

THEMES:

- SCIENCE AND ART OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS - 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1490 - by Jeremy Levine
- A_CTIVISM - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1495 - by 
OtherehtO
- BLENDER COMMUNITY - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1502 - 
by Marco Riciputi
- THE TWO CULTURES OF BARON SNOW - 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1496 - by Luigi Ghezzi

COVER:

- Redazione - Yayoi Kusama/Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity

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DIGICULT is an Italian cultural and editorial project concerning promotion 
and share of art and digital culture, spreading the impact of new 
technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary society. DIGICULT 
is founded and directed by Marco Mancuso, and is based on the active 
participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide 
Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field 
of electronic culture. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly magazine 
DIGIMAG produce an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD, and
has also its own newsletter international service DIGINEWS.  DIGICULT in 
finally involved with in many side activities with the art agency DIGIMADE

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[EDITORIAL STAFF]:

- Marco Mancuso - director
- Luca Restifo - technical consultancy
- Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design
- Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Università IULM - editing
- Claudia D'Alonzo - press office
- Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast
- Mauro Minnone e Luigi Ghezzi - web 2.0 strategies

[CONTENTS]:

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia 
Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Valentina 
Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Tiziana Gemin, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia 
Bianchi, Francesca Valsecchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia 
Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Alessio Galbiati, Giuseppe 
Cordaro, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli, Davide Anni, Donata Marletta, 
Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi, Otherehto, Carla 
Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Granulla, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, 
Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Philippa Barr

[TRANSLATIONS]:

Luisa Bertolatti, Philippa Barr, Emanuela Cassol, Sara Cavagna, Valeria 
Grillo, Monica Fontana, Chiara Resmini, Giulia Tiddens

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