If I ping you with my spime….
BRUCE STERLING - LUCA DE BIASE - CLAUDIO GERMAK - ANDREA BAIRATI - SIMONA LODI

What does the future have in store for us? In whose hands will design be? What economic trends will prevail? Bruce Sterling, renowned …

Virtual communities and viral media
SIMONA LODI - BRUCE STERLING - ANTONIO CARONIA - FRANCESCO MONICO - PAOLO ATZORI - PAOLO PEDERCINI

From the first groups founded at the end of the 1970s on computerised networks up until today, virtual communities have become widespread …

Share Award 2007
VICENTE MATALLANA - JOASIA KRYSA - ALEX ADRIAANSENS

Presentation of the six short-listed works for the Share Award 2007

Award ceremony follows …

Presentation of the Globe Share 2007
CLAUDIA DE GIORGI - FABRIZIO VALPREDA

Presentation of the Trophy Share Award 2007: it’s simple and can be shared. Today, all that’s digital relates to the arts in …

Netlabel?
SERGIO MESSINA - ANDREA TADDEI - BRUNO RUFFILLI - UGO BASILE - GIUSEPPE PERCUOCO

Internet, Mp3, Napster, E-mule, Myspace, Itunes music store, Second life. Almost 10 years after the introduction of the mp3 format (i.e. 100 …

From the Arenas of DOOM to the realm of WOW
COSMIN BONVECCHIO - ALESSANDRA CONTIN - MARCO CADIOLI - FILIPPO FRANCESCHETTO - PIERO CHIARA - SIMONE TRIMARCHI

In videogame history, many on line videogames have been re-elaborated by artists or video-player communities. Although substantial, this phenomenon was sectorial however …

the computational Image: generative ars and vj community
FABIO FRANCHINO - GIANLUCA DEL GOBBO

Fabio Franchino presents the generative art, that, as he says “is a practice for creative production via a system of rules. This …

Festival: containers and contents
SIMONA LODI - GIORGIO MORTARI - DINO LUPELLI - SABINE DUTHOIT - CLAUDIO MALPEDE

Some the most important italian and european festival presents their activites and the local particolarities. …

Web cinema and game art
LUCA BARBENI - DOMENICO QUARANTA

Presentation of the two books that dealt with the different environments peculiar to digital languages: contamination between videogames and art as well …

Online production of indipendent contents
ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO - NICOLA ANGRISANO

Personal computer marketing figured out the dream of a “paper-less office”, with massive magnetic archives that would have replaced huge amounts of …

Creativity, innovation and place
GEERT LOVINK - MATTEO PASQUINELLI

Conferences on “creative business” have become a permanent characteristic in many countries over the last few years. But what’s missing? Forget analysis …

Gender in Media
CRISTINA GIUDICE - TATIANA BAZZICHELLI - ILARI VALBONESI

New media that demonstrates moving on from “tool” to “environment” technology based on the rich experience of seeing and feeling, right up …

Citizen Journalism
LELE DAINESI - BRUCE STERLING - LUCA BARBENI - JASMINA TESANOVIC

Also defined as shared or grassroots journalism, citizen journalism is a type of journalism where citizens play an active role in the …

Youngsters and new media
ALFREDO MILANACCIO - DAVIDE BORRELLI - GIANFRANCO PECCHINENDA - SIMONA TIROCCHI - VINCENZO LOMBARDO

Recent episodes of violence in certain Italian schools urgently bring to light the problem of the relationship between youngsters and new technologies. …

The map is (not) the territory
HECTOR RINALDI - CARLO INFANTE

Semapedia.org is no-profit community. The aim is to link the virtual world with the physical one, by linking a dedicated physical area …

New media art communities
SIMONA LODI - REGINE DEBATTY - SIMON GOLDIN

Contemporary artists choose to create a community on “Second Life” similar to “The Port”. The logic of commodification, however, seems to go …

The Governance of the Internet: after the UN forum in Athens – what next?
ANNA MASERA - FIORELLO CORTIANA - STEFANO RODOTà - FRANCO CARLINI - ANGELO RAFFAELE MEO - LAURA SARTORI - BEATRICE MAGNOLFI - JUAN CARLOS DE MARTIN - FILIPPO PENATI - VITTORIO BERTOLA - ARTURO DI CORINTO - ANDREA BAIRATI

The symposium in Turin will concentrate on the four main issues identified by the United Nations as fundamental for the constitution of …