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The Sudwestern Saga: Live Media and Modular Narratives Between Commedia dell’Arte and Digital Hypertexts

Marina Turco

"My case study will focus on a group of live media performances called The Sudwestern Saga, by the Portuguese artist Edgar Pêra, that does not fit completely within traditional performance genres nor in new media genres (like VJ-ing and electronic audio-visual performances). The performance (defined by the artist as ‘cine-concert’) makes use of several media and languages
(cinema, theatre, digital video, music), but it is the ‘theaterical hypermedium’ that determines the general narrative structure and the function of new media inside it."

Is There a One or is it a Zero Ideology in the Digital Underground

Elsa Vieira

"I am interested in exploring the connections established by users of digital media on various levels; individuals, communities and cultures, to see if there is an underlying Ideology that connects them and their separately evolving ideas about art, technology and the contemporary world at large. Given the broadness of these topics, the following pages will most likely only scratch the surface of the proposed endeavor."

Expression and Dévisage: The face’s signification from art to reality

Gabriele Buzzi

"In all the authors I shall examine in this paper we shall find, in one form or another, the idea of enigma, the idea that the face’s signification hides (even if from time to time it does surface) something enigmatic, mysterious, paradoxical in its literal meaning: something that passes by our side, that avoids what seems to us common and usual. However there is more to it than that and, perhaps, something more interesting."

Musical Language in the VJing Art

Daniela Tordino

"The aim of this article is to analyse how musical language is involved in all aspects of the process of projecting and manipulating live images ..."

Visual Wallpaper

David Bernard

"Why on earth should the written combination of the noble craft of wallpaper design with undertones of video production techniques feel so threatening to such a wide ranging group of respected VJs?"

Same As It Ever Was - Acts of Digital Re-Authoring

Michael Betancourt

"The landscape is the map. Our histories of panic, of dread, of the disorientation of shifts and slippages, attempted erasures: all is a map. The advent of locative media art makes this possible.. The nature of wireless signals and global position satellite data (GPS) as available in many laptops , and cell phones is that it allows information to be placed in a location in real time."

Locative Dissent

Jeremy Hight

"The landscape is the map. Our histories of panic, of dread, of the disorientation of shifts and slippages, attempted erasures: all is a map. The advent of locative media art makes this possible.. "

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