Digimag Journal – Issue 73 / Autunno 2012
Digimag Journal n° 73 | year VII Quarterly
November 2012
PLACES
AND
SPACES
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Digicult Publishing presents:
DIGIMAG JOURNAL
“PLACES AND SPACES”
Issue 73 – Autumn 2012
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Marco Mancuso
EDITING:
Roberta Buiani, Berna Ekim, Marco Mancuso
ADVISORY BOARD:
Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D’Alonzo, Marco Mancuso, Bertram Niessen, Roberta Buiani
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS:
Alessandro Barchiesi, Martin Conrads, Laura Plana Gracia, Miriam La Rosa, Nina Leo, Donata Marletta, Janet Marles, Melinda Sipos (Annet Dekker, Gisela Domschke, Angela Plohman, Clare Reddington, Victoria Tillotson, Annette Wolfsberger), Selena Savicic, Judson Wright
CONTENT
Digimag Journal 73
November 2012
6 . SEARCHING NEW SPACES
For unstable media
By Donata Marletta
12 . CONSTRUCTING NON-SELF
Language, Trance and Space
By Judson Wright
22 . THE POLITICS OF SMELL
How scent technologies are affecting the
way we experience space, sense of place
and one another
By Nina Leo
31 . TRANSNATIONAL,
COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS IN
RESIDENCY PROGRAMMES
A practice-led evaluation with suggestions
and recommendations
By Annet Dekker, Gisela Domschke, Angela Plohman,
Clare Reddington, Melinda Sipos, Victoria Tillotson, Annette
Wolfsberger
45 . IMMATERIAL PUBLIC SPACE
The emperor’s new architecture
By Selena Savicic
56 . LOOKING FORWARD
From augmented reality to augmented
museums
By Miriam La Rosa
63 . EXCELLENT LOCATION
In Berlin Mitte, property near the Forein
Office”. Real-estate Prose as a Locational
Disadvantage
By Martin Conrads
70 . SPATIAL AESTHETICS
An investigation into the art and space
By Laura Plana Gracia
77 . DATABASE NARRATIVES
Possibility Spaces: Shape-shifting and
interactivity in digital documentary
By Janet Marles
93 . SINLAB
A new Renaissance
By Alessandro Barchiesi
WHAT IS DIGIMAG
Driven by the above experience and stemming from the monthly magazine Digimag, 72 issues in 7
years Digimag Journal is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online publication, seeking highstandard articles and reviews at the intersection between digital art and contemporary art production, the impact of the last technological and scientific developments on modern society, economy, design, communication and third millennium creativity.
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Digimag has been changing, year after year, issue after issue it has morphed into a hybrid instrument able to reflect the complexity of contemporary artistic and cultural production. The magazine has quickly become a cultural instrument, a tool for academics, reseachers, students, artists, designers, geeks and practioners who constantly break the disciplinary boundaries of different media technologies. This is the reason why we decided to transform Digimag into a scholarly Journal based on articles spanning a wide range of contemporary digital and scientific fields.create private and social experiences through interactions between humans and their artworks
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Digimag Journal wishes to be an innovative form of cultural product that moves beyond classical
cultural definitions, thus avoiding strict productive and creative labels. This means that it seeks to
overcome traditional cultural production models based on institutional economic support or private
funding, going beyond the limits that other independent productions have been sometimes affected by, becoming, in this way, a professional reality of international importance.
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Digicult was born to give voice and visibility to a new generation of interdisciplinary authors, expand their circuits into an international context, and simultaneously break the existing inflexible publishing rules of the press, by exploiting potentialities of the Web, and its free networks in order to grow, to survive and to spread. The new Digimag journal is our voice. We hope you will appreciate our work as you alwys did in the last years. Have a good read
Marco Mancuso , Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D’Alonzo, Bertram Niessen, Roberta Buiani
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“PLACES AND SPACES”
The birth, growth and development of spaces open to the creative and experimental use of Media and Digital technologies have affected the production and dissemination of contents, have enriched the art system and its boundaries, have provided new methodologies of production, modes of art display and creative practices (and the daily work of individuals engaged in the field). These groundbreaking pr actices span visual art and design, science and technology innovation, social studies and politics, ecology and economy, music and architecture. The context where they take place is hybrid: hacklabs and bureau of research; mailing lists; virtual and physical exhibition spaces; media centers and museums. This call for contributions wishes to assess these emergent places of innovations and this rich proliferation of research, critical thinking and radical praxis based on horizontal cooperation.
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The call considered, but was not limited to, the following questions:
- How have the reciprocal relationship between spaces, research and creative/artistic processes been
transformed? Is it possible to map the historical contexts that gave rise to spaces involved in creative practices based on Media?
- How to describe, from a critical perspective, the tension between public and private, institutional and independent space?
- What kind of economies have emerged from these spaces working with new media creative practices? What are the links (if any) between these spaces and contemporary art, culture markets and immaterial culture and the city? The institutionalization of independent spaces and their long term development has been in most cases supported by public fundings. Given the recent cuts, what new strategies of survival are available?
- How has Media culture affected mainstream culture and its spaces? And in turn, how have spaces
been affected by issues of production and dissemination of art and knowledge? Are there new objectives and strategies to be followed by spaces and institutions involved in these fields?
- What spaces could (and can today) be considered most relevant to the development of production, exhibition, research and archiving of Media Art? How are methodologies and practices of archiving, preserving and disseminating Media Art evolved? What displaying techniques created by institutional and independent spaces can be considered the most significant and experimental?
- How has Media culture affected mainstream culture and its spaces? And in turn, how have spaces
been affected by issues of production and dissemination of art and knowledge? Are there new objectives and strategies to be followed by spaces and institutions involved in these fields?
- What spaces could (and can today) be considered most relevant to the development of production, exhibition, research and archiving of Media Art? How are methodologies and practices of archiving, preserving and disseminating Media Art evolved? What displaying techniques created by institutional and independent spaces can be considered the most significant and experimental?
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