English [Italiano sotto] With over 800 million users worldwide, the Facebook social networking service is one of the favorite meeting places online. Here, people can correspond with friends, get back in touch with long-lost acquaintances from school days, contact business associates, get information about popular music groups, share pictures or […]
La terza generazione è quella che fa più fatica ad adattarsi ai nuovi linguaggi digitali e ad apprendere il funzionamento degli strumenti in grado di rendere possibile questo nuovo tipo di comunicazione, dove il messaggio viaggia senza il suo supporto. Noi prepariamo un piatto, lo fotografiamo e lo postiamo sui […]
This year the Ars Electronica festival, which took place from the 7th to the 11th of September, has been the setting for over 600 events such as exhibitions, conferences, concerts and workshops, and as usual it attracted visitors and artists from all over the world. The events in this edition […]
My first experience at “Ars Electronica”, which took place again in Linz (Austria), has come to the end: it was a very peculiar experience, as well as interesting and exciting. The festival’s theme for this year was about A.I (artificial intelligences), which is for sure a very actual theme as […]
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2017 – artificial intelligence Also this year was the Ars Electronica festival, an event where art, music and technology blend, thus promoting an interactive scientific dissemination. It is certainly a pleasure to see how, even in a small city like Linz, one can still talk about the […]
A review of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 by Giorgio Cipolletta in Noema. n-blog was a media partner of the event. art*science 2017/Leonardo 50. A supernova that lights a new history Art and science is a stumbling block. What really binds these two worlds apparently so far from each other, but actually so […]
[ITA] Le immagini degli eventi di art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 sono su Flickr. [ENG] The pictures of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 events are on Flickr.
ITA] E’ uscita una bella recensione di art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 di Elena Giulia Rossi su Il Sole 24 Ore del 6 Agosto, che proponiamo di seguito. fivewordsforthefuture era media partner dell’evento. [ENG] Here enclosed a beautiful review of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 by Elena Giulia Rossi on Il Sole 24 Ore, August 6, which […]
Let’s start!!! The winner is… Art*science/Leonardo50 opens the door with the Ionesco’s pièce Délire à deux, translated by Barbara Dondi (approved by the author) and directed by Michele Orsi Bandini. It is an “interconnectual” theatre experimentation, starting from a simple (and almost trivial) issue: some experts say that the […]
Il programma preliminare di art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 è stato pubblicato anche su Leonardo / The preliminary program of art*science 2017 is on Leonardo magazine E anche qui / Here too E qui / And here 50th Anniversary Partners and Teams It is our pleasure to be able to partner with […]
n-blog is a media partner of art*science 2017/Leonardo 50 – The New and History, Bologna (Italy), July 3-5 2017. It will take place in Factory (via Castiglione, 26) and at the Conference Hall “Marco Biagi” (Baraccano, via S.Stefano, 119). The program is in the official website (https://artscience.online) and on Leonardo […]
During the entire time of “Life in the soil”, I kept thinking of the above little animation. Then, I attended Lisa Hirmer’s presentation. “The Law of conservation of mass states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be rearranged”. This principle informs her work Pile Dirt. […]
Despite the differences in their interest and area of competence, the three presentations by a soil scientists, Jeffrey Howard, a community gardener, Steven Green and a bioartist, Nicole Clouston, revolved around the idea that soil is essentially a live entity which grows, changes and interacts with the surrounding environment (this […]
A few days before the events, participants were asked to collect one handful of “dry soil in a plastic zip-lock bag.” The sample could be from your garden or backyard, but could also come from a contested site, such as a contaminated site, a remediated land, or a site of […]
Geologically speaking, the area around the great lakes has a very interesting story. In fact, the land shifted and folded quite frequently and glaciers advanced and retracted unevenly. The result is a very diverse soil whose content may range from sandy to rich in clay. The Windsor region, known as […]
Life in the Soil started with an evening keynote event following a welcome introduction by Theresa Sims (Upper Mohawk, Turtle Clan, elder for South West Detention Centre, elder for Two-Spirit community in Windsor region) who acknowledged our presence on stolen land and gave thanks for our ability to enjoy it […]
It’s been roughly one week since Life in the Soil has come to an end, leaving a long lasting impression and, as it is the case for such complex and multifarious events, an inexhaustible number of questions. As Amanda White and Alana Bartol, two artists collaborating at the intersection of […]
I am on a train to Windsor, heading to a three-day intense workshop titled Life in the Soil. This series of public events will feature a mix of scientists, farmers, activists and artists interested in invested in “the scientific, indigenous, embodied and practical knowledge about the vital nature of soils”. For […]
“[ITA] Dal 20 al 22 Febbraio all’Università di Genova c’è “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, conferenze e workshop transdisciplinari con artisti, designer, scienziati, tecnologi. n-blog è partner dell’evento. [ENG] From February 20 to22 will take place at the University of Genoa “Interactive Micro Aerial Robots Swarm I-MARS 2017”, transdisciplinary lectures and workshops […]
[ITA] Pubblicato su Noema una riflessione di Giorgio Cipolletta su Ars Electronica 2016. La rivoluzione digitale ha riconfigurato e decodificato il nostro mondo immerso tra il bagnato del biologico e il materico dei bit, modificando in maniera radicale la nostra percezione. Chi sono gli alchimisti del nostro tempo? Con Radical Atoms and the alchemist […]
