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Digitalife
Arte e tecnologia
Le nuove realtà fra arte e tecnologia nelle parole di Sakamoto, Takatani, e gli artisti di DigitaLife...
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Le nuove realtà fra arte e tecnologia nelle parole di Sakamoto, Takatani, e gli artisti di DigitaLife...
DigitaLife:interviews[youtube]
Finger painting...
King of Heart - Matthew WatkinsIntervista a Matthew Watkins su Medeaonline ...
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domenica 10 gennaio 2010
Previsioni artistiche...
Recentemente mi è capitato di tornare con la mente ad Ars Meteo.
avendo tutti i giorni a che fare con web semantico, ontologie, semantic annotation, and so on...non può non riafforarmi spessissimo alla memoria questo progetto....
ArsMeteo...un sito, un blog, un'opera Net art in sé.
Arsmeteo rappresenta la voce dell'arte in chiave social media. Uno spazio comune di condivisione rivolto a chi si occupa d'arte da fruitore o da protagonista, dove chiunque può condividere le proprie opere, foto, immagini, poesie testi...tutte le forme di espressione artistica raccolte in un'unica nuvola di bits.
Un' ontologia artistica, dove agli utenti, agli autori, cosi come agli osservatori spetta il compito di esprimere con etichette (tag) i sentimenti, i criteri, le emozioni sucitate dall'opera. L'opera quindi esce da sé, dalla propria individualità per diventare parte di una rete di significati e di relazioni che ArsMeteo inferirà sulla base dei concetti già esistenti.
Una volta inserita, l'opera diventa parte di una nuvola di relazioni che la inseriscono in perscorsi diversi e imprevedibili.
Da un nucleo iniziale di poche opere nel 2007, si è quindi creato col tempo un mondo di relazioni che crescendo giorno dopo giorno, propone al visitatore nuovi percorsi personalizzati, permettendogli di passeggiare tra le opere su strade sempre diverse, saltando da concetto a concetto, da tag a tag guidato soltanto il flusso dei propri pensieri e delle proprie emozioni.
Ma il progetto non è solo questo. ArsMeteo si propone di usare quest'ontologia di concetti, per inferire possibili previsioni in campo artistico. Si legge nella presentazione:
Le nuove combinazioni potranno essere memorizzate, etichettate e ripercorse da altri utenti della comunità. In un contesto così dinamico, potranno essere usate tecniche per ragionare con sistemi automatici sull'evoluzione dei contenuti e dei significati attribuiti, al fine di monitorare tendenze e, in qualche modo, azzardare le nostre previsioni del tempo dell'arte.
Per questo che si chiede, a chiunque voglia contribuire al progetto, di inserire tag con un occhio a sentimenti che possano interagire con il concetto di tempo, presente e futuro..Ed è così che, giorno dopo giorno, si va ad arricchire la nuvola di tag rappresentata nella suggestiva visualizzazione grafica dell'homepage..un mare di concetti che fluttuano intorno al mondo...
Ed è anche questo, unito alla portata innovativa, e scientifica, che rende, secondo me, ArsMeteo un opera d'arte in sé, in chiave Web2.0.
Non si può parlare di una vera e propria base di conoscenza, o di un'ontologia formale, mancando il presupposto essenziale di un vocabolario di concetti condiviso e lasciando a chiunde estrema liberà di espressione. Ma sicuramente è un modo innovativo di giocare con algoritmi di knowledge representation per raccogliere le nuovissime tendenze artistiche; e forse, perché no, di scoprire le nuove tendenze, ante tempore, facendole emergere dall'incoscio emotivo degli utenti.
L' esperimento interessante e ambizioso, che unisce concetti d'avanguardia di arte multimediale con le conoscenze informatiche alla base di Semantic Web e knowledge representation, prende le mosse dalle intuizioni dell'artista Giorgio Vaccarino e dal supporto del Dipartimento di Informatica di Torino, coordinatore per la sezione italiana del progetto europeo Zeitgeist, legato al Semantic Web Group di Hannover.
Aggungere un tag ad un'opera è estremamente facile ed intuitivo. Aggiungere la propria opera alla "nuvola" un po' più delicato: è necesario contattare la redazione (mail@arsmeteo.org) e crearsi un account.
Dopo questa fino troppo lunga presentazione, non resta che ...ArsMeteo.
venerdì 8 gennaio 2010
Art with I-Phone
A volte basta un attimo...and it's gone...
Non importa dove siamo, cosa facciamo..ci sono attimi in cui pensi a quello che stai vivendo e vorresti bloccarlo fermarlo rivivelo.
Any moment can be something...
Questo è il concept del progetto di questo giovane designer newyorkese in IPhone as Art.
Ogni istante importante, colto con le lenti dell'I-Phone, entra a far parte di una galleria di immagini e di vita.
Per prendere poi forma in altri progetti, lavori, spunti..
Un esperimento interessante, dall'I-phone al web, senza (almeno cosi vogliamo credere) passare da Photoshop.
E il risultato di un'idea seplice, e forse banale, non è banale per niente, anzi...
Photos © Matt Bango
Non importa dove siamo, cosa facciamo..ci sono attimi in cui pensi a quello che stai vivendo e vorresti bloccarlo fermarlo rivivelo.
Any moment can be something...
Questo è il concept del progetto di questo giovane designer newyorkese in IPhone as Art.
Ogni istante importante, colto con le lenti dell'I-Phone, entra a far parte di una galleria di immagini e di vita.
Per prendere poi forma in altri progetti, lavori, spunti..
Un esperimento interessante, dall'I-phone al web, senza (almeno cosi vogliamo credere) passare da Photoshop.
E il risultato di un'idea seplice, e forse banale, non è banale per niente, anzi...
Photos © Matt Bango
lunedì 30 novembre 2009
Luiz Braga
Pochi artisti mi hanno colpita come lui.
Non una parola. Solo una foto, chiara, semplice diretta. Ed eccoti catapultato negli slum brasiliani...Colori che colpiscono e sottolineano la povertà vitale della casa. Focusa decentrato, come se la macchian ci volesse far concentrare sui dettagli dell'interno, tagliando fuori metà della scena. Non so, non so perché ma quest'immagine mi sembra davvero uno degli scatti più forti e toccanti che abbia ma visto. Un moneto rubato, un'immagine rapita ad una realtà semplicemente sudamericana.
http://www.luizbraga.fot.br/
domenica 22 novembre 2009
Biennale 2009
Un pomeriggio di Novembre, sola a passeggio tra i giardini della biennale, è un'emozione che una persona si dovrebbe regalare almeno una volta ogni due anni. L'atmosfera è quella di un freddo autunno che sonnecchia e il pomeriggio una di quelle giornate in cui l'unico rumore che senti è lo scricchiolio del tappeto di foglie morte sotto i tuoi piedi.
In un momento del genere, tutto assume un fascino particolare.
Un pomeriggio di Novembre, sola a passeggio tra i giardini della biennale, è un'emozione che una persona si dovrebbe regalare almeno una volta ogni due anni. L'atmosfera è quella di un freddo autunno che sonnecchia e il pomeriggio una di quelle giornate in cui l'unico rumore che senti è lo scricchiolio del tappeto di foglie morte sotto i tuoi piedi.
In un momento del genere, tutto assume un fascino particolare.
giovedì 12 febbraio 2009
What is conceptual art...
Sol LeWitt wrote in 1970:
When an artist uses conceptual form of art, it means that all the planning and the decisions are made beforeand, and the execution is a perfuncotry affair. The idea becomes the machine which makes art.
What did he mean with this sentence?
I abstracted it from the context and I started reflecting on it. What there is behind the conceptual art. The idea, the concept.
But is art only the "idea", or also the way of expressing it. I don't have an answer.
Is it true that the execution is a perfuncotry affair? There is something that does not convince me.
Is it true that the impulse of a movement does not matter?
So who is the the artist. Maybe also a scientist could be considered an artist: a scientist who finds a perfect algorithm...the idea..the concept, the beauty of a formula. Which is the difference in this case between the minimalistic beauty of a sculpure of Arp, and the simple beauty of Einstein formula, if The idea becomes the machine which makes art.
Well, the freedom of the observer.
Maybe the difference is in the potential interpretation. The scientist cannot leave space for observer interpretation. The artist can and does. From a pure sphere we can imagine the world, a ball, the belly of a mother...the observer is free to close his eyes and dream.
So maybe the execution is something more than a perfuncotry affair.
There must be a moment in which the the idea becomes art...and maybe it is in this moment in which the seed of immagination is dropped in the work.
When an artist uses conceptual form of art, it means that all the planning and the decisions are made beforeand, and the execution is a perfuncotry affair. The idea becomes the machine which makes art.
What did he mean with this sentence?
I abstracted it from the context and I started reflecting on it. What there is behind the conceptual art. The idea, the concept.
But is art only the "idea", or also the way of expressing it. I don't have an answer.
Is it true that the execution is a perfuncotry affair? There is something that does not convince me.
Is it true that the impulse of a movement does not matter?
So who is the the artist. Maybe also a scientist could be considered an artist: a scientist who finds a perfect algorithm...the idea..the concept, the beauty of a formula. Which is the difference in this case between the minimalistic beauty of a sculpure of Arp, and the simple beauty of Einstein formula, if The idea becomes the machine which makes art.
Well, the freedom of the observer.
Maybe the difference is in the potential interpretation. The scientist cannot leave space for observer interpretation. The artist can and does. From a pure sphere we can imagine the world, a ball, the belly of a mother...the observer is free to close his eyes and dream.
So maybe the execution is something more than a perfuncotry affair.
There must be a moment in which the the idea becomes art...and maybe it is in this moment in which the seed of immagination is dropped in the work.
sabato 31 gennaio 2009
ArsMeteo: artistic forecast
Blog...website..art...digital art...meeting point for new current..I do not know!
ArsMeteo is a bit of everything..
I studied digital art on books @Uni...I studied it as a post avant-garde in several Biennale of Venice, but today I kind of crashed into it...how?
Working, I was browsing on the page of the International Year for Intercultural Dialog and I found a Lab with ArsMeteo project...the home is simply genial to me..a kind of semantic network of concept flying on the work..concepts which bring you to artistic works, movements, currents, tags. It could be an artistic representation of an ontology, where entities fly around connected only by semantic constrains of our minds...where everyone can follow a his personal interpretation in travelling among these concepts..:)
So...have a nice journey.. ArsMeteo!!!
ArsMeteo is a bit of everything..
I studied digital art on books @Uni...I studied it as a post avant-garde in several Biennale of Venice, but today I kind of crashed into it...how?
Working, I was browsing on the page of the International Year for Intercultural Dialog and I found a Lab with ArsMeteo project...the home is simply genial to me..a kind of semantic network of concept flying on the work..concepts which bring you to artistic works, movements, currents, tags. It could be an artistic representation of an ontology, where entities fly around connected only by semantic constrains of our minds...where everyone can follow a his personal interpretation in travelling among these concepts..:)
So...have a nice journey.. ArsMeteo!!!
Photo Diary of James Hill
Trying to work on Saturday morning, always brings you reading some news around..:P And this is how I found myself on the trace of the photographer of Between war and Peace , James Hill. Originally English, he is now living in Russia, but travelling around as NY Times photographer. His photodiary in Afghanistan war is really touching, and it brings you in discovering, as rarely happens, these womanish and mannish suffering eyes behind the net of fear.
His spots seems to be stolen in the perfect moment, in the perfect instant in which silence takes the place of the war uproar. Just a moment, a moment of humanity, of living. And in the portrait he steals even more, he steals the angry look of a young lady without Chador, he sees the detail in a crowd.
I am not an expert, I am not a photographer, I just like to write down what I feel...
Photos © James Hill
His spots seems to be stolen in the perfect moment, in the perfect instant in which silence takes the place of the war uproar. Just a moment, a moment of humanity, of living. And in the portrait he steals even more, he steals the angry look of a young lady without Chador, he sees the detail in a crowd.
I am not an expert, I am not a photographer, I just like to write down what I feel...
Photos © James Hill
mercoledì 28 gennaio 2009
Let´s call it: "illumination"
For someone is close, for someone is not :), but this exhibition on Futurism seems to be more interesting than the usual "let` s put on a wall a famous name for collecting some money selling gadgets". :P.
At MART of Rovereto is starting a new exhibition on Futurism, where more than a gallery of famous names, there should be an interesting perspective which compare Futurism with other avantgardes of the beginning of the century.
I say it should because I have not seen it, but I read this interesting editorial ( sorry, in Italian :( ) which gives a new point of view.
Every room reflects on the connection of each artistic movement that was fermenting in that period.
At MART of Rovereto is starting a new exhibition on Futurism, where more than a gallery of famous names, there should be an interesting perspective which compare Futurism with other avantgardes of the beginning of the century.
I say it should because I have not seen it, but I read this interesting editorial ( sorry, in Italian :( ) which gives a new point of view.
Every room reflects on the connection of each artistic movement that was fermenting in that period.
martedì 27 gennaio 2009
Photography - Message of hope
Reading NY Art magazine, I went through an interesting picture..that you can find @ NYARTMagazine. And it let my mind fly!
Copyright @ Tommaso Guermandi/
My work attempts to represent a borderline reality—not marginal, not nearly, but a non-conformist reality. In substance, I imagine animated and non-animated objects in a special zoo made of thoughts and words, and pictures as short existential, emotional, dream stories. I also conceive the concrete; from the leaves, to the wind, to the color of each season... the love, and, the pain… The author
Even a sunflower sometimes doesn't find a reason to look at his sun...but a warm ray is still looking for it, trying to lull it with his light...
Copyright @ Tommaso Guermandi/
My work attempts to represent a borderline reality—not marginal, not nearly, but a non-conformist reality. In substance, I imagine animated and non-animated objects in a special zoo made of thoughts and words, and pictures as short existential, emotional, dream stories. I also conceive the concrete; from the leaves, to the wind, to the color of each season... the love, and, the pain… The author
Even a sunflower sometimes doesn't find a reason to look at his sun...but a warm ray is still looking for it, trying to lull it with his light...
domenica 4 gennaio 2009
My corner in NYC
Travelling around, you always have to find you spaces....well , in NYc there is a special place, a wonderful Gallery in West Broadway, which knidnapped me many many times...
Eli Klein Fine Art .
Eli Klein Fine Art .
Bridge bet west and east, it is a point of contact bst chinese artists and the "New world". Interesting and innovative, in a pure design style...the warmth of the evniroment comes from the works...
venerdì 12 dicembre 2008
The Family of Man
The Family Of Man
Je crois que l'exposition THE FAMILY OF MAN est un des projets les plus ambitieux et les plus audacieux jamais expérimenté en photographie.(…) THE FAMILY OF MAN a été créée dans un esprit passionné d'amour et dévoué de foi en l'homme"
Jerry Mason, éditeur du catalogue original
Je crois que l'exposition THE FAMILY OF MAN est un des projets les plus ambitieux et les plus audacieux jamais expérimenté en photographie.(…) THE FAMILY OF MAN a été créée dans un esprit passionné d'amour et dévoué de foi en l'homme"
Jerry Mason, éditeur du catalogue original
W. Eugene Smith, The walk to Paradise Garden, New York 1946
The family of man..it is one of the most beautiful travel in the human being feelings I have ever done. Walking in the small rooms of the exhibition, is an unforgivable experience of beauty, and ugliness, love and war, happiness and sadness, sorrow and serenity. Walking there, surrounded by pictures from all over the world, means to walk in the feelings of men, of every man, in every part of the world. It is the evidence that men and women are looking for the same hug in life, and suffering the beauty of a birth, are escaping bomb, are playing in a field of ruins. It does not matter where you are, who you are, why you are. Big questions of life do not matter. A kiss, as well as an hug is what matters. I felt it there. I felt that real life can be more philosophically deep than everything else....
I did not give a technical sketch of the exposition, but it is impossible not to be kidnapped by it..http://www.family-of-man.public.lu/
mercoledì 12 novembre 2008
Incipit
Hello!!!
how to start a blog...mm...I have no idea..starting is like the first line of an article...the one that you write at the end. but unfortunately this relativity of the time does not work on line, so ..i need an "incipit"... or no...no... I do not need anything..let's give up rules of writing, structure, introduction body conclusion, pyramids of content, inverted pyramid..uf....no, this is just my space, this is just the need of some thoughts to go out, and the deep wish that I have to start something new in a strange moment of my life... I feel it is the moment to express somewhere what I love...and what I love is contemporary art.... someone likes sailing, someone likes climbing, someone likes cooking...ok...I do not dislike none of them..but walking around in Moma, in Tate or in Mudam..this is what i love..
So you will think "fine..you are a critic, an expert, you studied history of art"....well...no :( I am a computational linguistic.And I know, building ontologies has nothing to do with all this!maybe this is one of the reason I decided to write down this blog... well...there are moment in your life when you feel the need to do something for yourself. I mean these kind of moments in which you feel that something/someone is missing, and you feel the need of focusing on something that makes you happy!
So, welcome in this blog...well, I hate this word, so, since literature it's not math and you do not need exact definitions, let´s call it..boh... Agora...
how to start a blog...mm...I have no idea..starting is like the first line of an article...the one that you write at the end. but unfortunately this relativity of the time does not work on line, so ..i need an "incipit"... or no...no... I do not need anything..let's give up rules of writing, structure, introduction body conclusion, pyramids of content, inverted pyramid..uf....no, this is just my space, this is just the need of some thoughts to go out, and the deep wish that I have to start something new in a strange moment of my life... I feel it is the moment to express somewhere what I love...and what I love is contemporary art.... someone likes sailing, someone likes climbing, someone likes cooking...ok...I do not dislike none of them..but walking around in Moma, in Tate or in Mudam..this is what i love..
So you will think "fine..you are a critic, an expert, you studied history of art"....well...no :( I am a computational linguistic.And I know, building ontologies has nothing to do with all this!maybe this is one of the reason I decided to write down this blog... well...there are moment in your life when you feel the need to do something for yourself. I mean these kind of moments in which you feel that something/someone is missing, and you feel the need of focusing on something that makes you happy!
So, welcome in this blog...well, I hate this word, so, since literature it's not math and you do not need exact definitions, let´s call it..boh... Agora...
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