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Digicult presents:

Digimag 55 - June 2010
http://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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"...The rumors about a "manoeuvre", these days spread by the press, is 
particularly concerned with the intervention looming on many public research 
institutions including ISFOL, IAS, ISAE, ISPESL, which foresee their 
suppression. The 'anti-crisis' decree which aims to stifle public research 
would a huge damage to the country. It wants to shut down several research 
institutions whose activities have an important role in the development of 
knowledge within the economic and social spheres. Despite, questionably, 
saving us money, such an operation would deprive us of those instruments of 
knowledge and technical support to those policies which are fundamental to 
the support of the people, especially in a time of crisis such as this one. 
The impact of "manoeuvre anti-crisis" on our future is therefore clear: it 
would silence the free, authoritative and independent voice which, in its 
most acute moment of the current international economic crisis, could help 
revive the Country, telling what happens..."

Valentina Gualtieri, from "The Euthanasia of Knowledge"

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[ARTICLES]:

- RADIOGRAPHY OF THE MATTER. HERMAN KOLGEN AND THE SOUND PERCEPTION
Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives 
in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from 
the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, 
works presented as installations, performances, sound sculptures, videos and 
cinematographic works
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1812
by Enrico Pitozzi

- DEEP AMBIGUITY. A CONVERSATION WITH BEN HOUGE
Ben Houge has written amounts of linear music, pop music, soundtracks, music 
for string quartets, choral music, exploring nonlinear structures of the 
sound
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1817
by Robin Peckham

- SCIENCE AND MIND. MIKAEL METTHEY'S INTERACTION DESIGN
Mikael Metthey artistic practice consists in the creation of interaction 
design products, those being not just merely functional but 'work' 
integrally
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1815
by Henriette Vittadini

- CHORA PLATONICA AND DIGITAL MATRIX
Chora has set the foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and 
placing, while the influence of Plato's cosmology is evident even in 
contemporary science.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1823
by Eugenia Fratzeskou

- VJING FOR LIGHTS AND COLORS. THE SKETCH PROJECTOR OF SHANTELL MARTIN
Shantell Martin is an illustrator and Vj who has fused technology and media 
in a new and unique style through which she creates performances using her 
drawings.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1813
by Silvia Bianchi

- THE IMAL CENTRE. CULTURE & TECHNO IN THE HEART OF EUROPE
IMAL is an association created in 1999. From 2007 has inaugurated a centre 
for digital & technological culture, a space that reaches 600 mq in the 
heart of Brussels
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1821
by Silvia Bertolotti

- VERBO: AMONG GRAFFITI & DIGITAL. PLOTTERFLUX, VIDEO RAIDS AND MAPPING
At first there was the bomb, the bomb was the writing. But then light came. 
Nothing easier than creating a word play when the writer is named Verbo
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1814
by Claudio Musso

- ATHANASIUS KIRCHER. ARCA MUSARITHMICA AND MANY SOUND DEVICES
Researching possible origins and theoretical roots of Sound Sculpture and 
Sound Art it isn't rare to get to face the oeuvre of Jesuit priest 
Athanasius Kircher
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1819
by Claudia Maina

- NUEUE MUSIK IN MILAN. THE RAI'S INSTITUTE OF PHONOLOGY MEMORY
After more than fifty years from the birth of analog magnetic bands music 
recording, a new space dedicated to Rai's Institute of Phonology was 
inaugurated.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1816
by Matteo Milani

- FAIR TRADE SOCIAL NETWORKS. SOLIDARIETY AS KEY FACTOR
In the recent Internet relational ferment, a must-have is a social network 
clearly dedicated to "fair trade" nets engaged in fair trade projects.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1820
by Luigi Ghezzi

- WHEN ARCHIVE BECOMES ART. MEGALOOP: THIRTY YEARS OF TAM
The exhibition for thirty years of Teatromusica is an anthologic curated by 
Riccardo Cardura at Altinate Cultural Centre in Padova
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1822
by Annamaria Monteverdi

- A MOVIE ABOUT THE REVOLUTION: SEIZE THE TIME
Nowadays, "Seize the Time" could be labelled as a docufiction about the 
Black Panther movement made in 1970 by the Italian filmmaker Antonello 
Branca
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1818
by Alessio Galbiati

- SONARCINEMA 2010. MUSIC FOR EYES AND BRAINS
One of the most interesting experiences at Sonar Festival is offered by the 
chance to discover quality music videos and documentaries.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1824
by Giulia Baldi

- LOOKAT FESTIVAL. BETWEEN INTERACTIVITY AND CONTEMPLATION
LookAt Festival has reached this year its fourth edition. It is an event 
dedicated to video art and electronic music, hosted this year in the 
charming rooms of Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca.
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1825
by Giulia Simi


[COVER]:

- HERMAN KOLGEN - DUST (2010)


[ATTACHMENT]:

- VALENTINA GUALTIERI - THE EUTHANASIA OF KNOWLEDGE - 
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/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. DIGICULTis 
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 - 
Jessica Williams (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, Henriette Vittadini

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