Interface Culture Lab application.

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Dear Friends, maybe you are interested in studying something related to interfaces, programming languages, circuitry, new media, design, media art. Maybe Interface Culture is the right place to be, so give it a try and take a look at the program and the activities.
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The Interface Culture Lab at the University of Art and Design in Linz,
Austria provides an internationally oriented master and research program
in Interactive Digital Arts, led by Christa Sommerer & Laurent
Mignonneau and Martin Kaltenbrunner.

If you are interested in applying for the Interface Cultures master
program, the first registration round is now open from December to the
end of January for an interview by the end of February. A second
registration round will take place from May to the end of June for an
interview in the beginning of July. Both dates are valid for the
following study year beginning in October 2014.

You need a valid bachelor (or equivalent) degree to qualify for the
admission to this master program. For EU-citizens the program is
generally free of charge, non-EU-citizens currently have to pay a fee of
around 750.- € per semester. The master program is fully held in English
language, our faculty also can support German, French and Spanish
speaking students.

http://interface.ufg.ac.at/admission.html

For the online registration you will have to provide a copy of your
degree, along with your CV and a portfolio of your works. If you have
any further questions regarding the registration procedure, please get
in touch with Michaela Ortner <michaela.ortner@ufg.ac.at>

Dance in DorfTV!

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DorfTV in Linz is an open and independent television studio, directly on the main square, opposite to the art university’s main building. Actually the room belongs to the uni, that is supporting the project that aims to provide the city a cultural television studio, where is possible to collaborate on a voluntary basis.

Last Monday, 11th of November, i was there with Lena Setzwein, Juan Camilo and Anni Taskula and we had an interview with Baris Mihci, dancer, choreographer and pedagogue of the Axis Syllabus. The same day in the morning Baris started in Red Sapata a workshop focused on the AS, a compendium about the physics of movements according to bio-mechanics.

In the morning i was at the workshop, taking some shootage for the interview.
In the evening was in the directing room, selecting cameras and making a mess with the intercom, letting know the cameramen too many things.

The show resulted really nice and interesting, as we were told, here is a link Dance in DorfTV! in the dorfTV archive.

The concept behind the interview is the idea of giving to the linzer community a tv show focused on the contemporary dance scene in Linz and Upper Austria; we plan therefore to go further with some more shows and the team is gaining in experience. Since in the team there are also several dancers, we will go further, trying out with cameras and bodies.

The format, that has no fixed name, is supported from both Red Sapata and DorfTV, so we are excited about what can happen in the future in there!

Some links:

http://redsapata.com

http://www.tanzbus.com/lena.html - Lena Setzwein

http://www.axissyllabus.com/

http://www.dorftv.at/

Into the destroyed

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Another intervention of the Video Destroyer.
Those are the first 20 minutes of Sean Penn’s Into the wild (2007), a movie that really caught me from inside.

I found the game between pixels, persistence of vision and abstract vs. concrete images, really hypnotic, i tried to go further in this direction, where recognizing the content is difficult because affected by the previous images’ one, but the new frame is interesting also as a standalone image. The pixelated images becomes another landscape, in a way similar to the one work of Hugo Camargo, with whom i had really interesting conversation also about this topic (among others).

I Residui di Chernobyl – La Tempesta

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My videoDestroyer striked again. Over the last weeks, i edited this video for some friends of mine, I Residui di Chernobyl.

I took some videos of them playing, then edited a video sequence, then re-worked the finished sequence with a script i wrote on openFrameworks. Each pixel of every new frame is analyzed and compared to what is actually being shown and, the program then decides to draw one of the two, creating this pixelated ghost effect.

A great challenge for Adelio, my computer, since working in this way produces a whole amount of files!

http://iresiduidichernobyl.bandcamp.com/

The Sixth Sense

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The Sixth Sense

Ero in corriera con amici, andando in gita da qualche parte coi compagni di classe oppure nel viaggio verso i campionati nazionali di atletica in sicilia. In ogni caso si decise di vedere un film, Il Sesto Senso. Mi ricordavo la faccia del bambino e il finale con loro due in macchina, ho dormito tutto il tempo in mezzo. E mi sono giustificato con “l’ho trovato un po’ noioso”.
L’ho visto, finalmente, dopo una decina di anni dopo e ho sentito che il mio rapporto personale con il film è simile al finale. Bruce Willis si rende conto di tutto, io ho la conferma che quella volta ronfai imperterrito per un’ora e mezzo, ma soprattutto che chiudermi in casa a vedere i film che non ho mai visto in vita mia, e che mi pento di non conoscere, è una mossa buona. Tipo risolvere le mie faccende in sospeso anzitempo. Una immedesimazione totale, si potrebbe dire, un po’ autoreferenziale ma molto efficace.

Il primo pensiero dopo il film: “perchè leggere i classici?” Eddai Calvino, non fare domande del cazzo, lo sappiamo tutti il perchè.

Di armistizi, annunci digitali e amici all'estero

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Reblogged from unagraverivista:

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Ovvero: come si ricordano gli eventi in maniera nuova e interessante.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDUkU08hPo8

Quattro giorni fa è ricorso il 70esimo anniversario dell'armistizio italiano dichiarato dal Maresciallo Badoglio l'8 Settembre del 1943. Una data importante che ricorda un momento cruciale della storia italiana, avvenimento che viene ancora strapazzato dalle varie fazioni alla ricerca di un capro espiatorio di quel tempo per spiegare la recessione economica del futuro.

Read more… 446 more words

ecco qui UnaGraveRivista, aperta recentissimamente online, e il mio secondo articolo pubblicato.

Zuerst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral

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Vegetarians, optimized production, low-calories drinks, bio-fast-naturally colored dishes. We are surrounded by different foods, symbol of cultures and fashions. Food has always played a central role in social gatherings, as a cultural sign and a collective ritual.

Each event has indeed its own type of refreshment: wedding breakfasts, buffets, brunches. This buffet provides the suitable refreshments for the Interface Cultures’ exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival. The audience will enjoy a buffet made of experimental dishes and drinks. There will be original and collected recipes, some of them are close to the molecular kitchen, other to the DIY community. The selection follows a research lead by curiosity, lust for experimenting with food, discovering how ingredients react on each other and trying out new tastes and forms for usual dishes. (from the Exhibition’s catalog)

The idea behind this experiment is pretty simple: the buffet is part of the framework of the exhibition, playing with the concept of buffet is a possibility to speak generally about art and create a moment of communication among the participants. This is due to the open form of the event, where people will be there, eat something, exchange some words with me and the other visitors, telling their impressions.
This is the role that usually food has in many social gatherings, it creates a socializing moment, in this case without hierarchy because there is no table where to sit at, no fixed positions, just a central meeting point: the banquet.

My role will be something like a performer, a teacher and a cook at the same time. I will prepare some dishes in that place, explain how some things are working, let the audience create some food.

The proposed recipes are related to different branches of the artistic and technologic research included in the works that are part of the exhibition: interactive design, circuiting and Do-It-Yourself creations, research on materials, study of perception and, of course, experimental cooking.

The opening of the exhibition is the 5th of September in Brucknerhaus, Linz, at 13.00 sharp!

my computer draws “The Meditation” of Francesco Hayez.

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The process of painting a picture is simulated by the computer. At the beginning the sketch is empty, the machine only knows what will be the target of the painting, in this case we want to get an interpretation of “The Meditation” of Francesco Hayez.
In order to copy the picture, the program picks up a color, then compares bit by bit the original image and what is already inside the frame: if the corresponding pixel are not matching by color, and the pixel should a color similar to the one chosen by the program, then paints that pixel.

The algorithm of comparison is affected the Y position of the mouse; higher makes the program more accurate regarding the original image, lower makes it more free in the comparison.

The whole process is programmed in Processing as a result of Marlene Hochrieser’s class in the Interface Culture’s Lab, Kunstuniversität Linz.

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/blog

Interface Cultures’ Mobile Interaction Class.

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This has been a really interesting class!
Our idea was to create a narrative-building socialnetworked game throught the city.
People could add elements of narration into a story that is location-based, that could be “read” geographically walking through the city.
The project could develop then a fictional context of play, a kind of role play through mobiles.
Another possibility could be the analysis of some elements like the “morphology of the folktale” of Vladimir Propp, but used into a new medium such as the cellphone.

The prototype didn’t really work, at the end. I had serious troubles programming it, of course stupid problems due to our lacking “smart programming techniques”.

An interesting starting point for possible future project.