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The story of a girl
who falls in love
with the world s greatest
obscene phone call.

Movie showing and exhibition
After 38 years missing the masterpiece movie The Telephone Book is back again to the public audience. Tonight at 9 pm Hello Film and Lungomare Gallery present the new-yorker extraordinary underground production which scandalized the 70’s through a photo exhibit and a DVD new edition.

The film is a biting satire on sexual morals that inspired Bernardo Bertolucci for his Last Tango in Paris (1972). The same Andy Warhol played the “Intermission” role in The Telephone Book but the scene was cut out during the editing and is now proved by photos of the making phase. The Warhol superstars Ultra Violet, Geri Miller and Ondine played and enjoyed the same success of Jill Clayburgh, the main actress who got a nominee at the Oscars.
The strongly obscene and shocking ending was realized by Lan Glasser, legendary expert of special effects. Read more

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Contemporary art and architecture meet at the 53rd International Art Exhibition in Venice. Two historical locations turned into spaces for culture. News from Venice by Maria Vittoria Capitanucci.

Music by Johann Pachelbel (Canon in D)
Performed by Matteo Secci
A film by Ugo De Berti – www.udb.it, © 2009 Ugo De Berti

PUNTA DELLA DOGANA
PINAULT, ANDO, BONAMI AND WHAT’S BEST IN CONTEMPORARY ART.

Maybe one of the most significant event of this last Venice Biennale, even if formally unrelated to it, was definitely the opening of the François Pinault Foundation at Punta della Dogana (a land ramification between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal) and of the outstanding Pinault collection at Palazzo Grassi. The project is signed by Tadao Ando who has developed his personal sense of space, matter and light – even better than in the historical Palazzo – creating new geometrical interiors made of velvet-like cement within the seventeenth-century triangular perimeter. Ando confirms his ability to master every gesture and detail, allowing many views to the lagoon outside and leaving natural light to enter from the roof, through trusses, thus showing to well know the feeble light of venetian winters. In other words he’s been able to catch the genius loci.

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As promised, here’s the second part of our interview to bestiario.org. These last questions touch the very sensible subject of geospatial web, one of the emerging technologies that are already changing (and are likely to change more) internet use for everybody.

What do you think is the correct balance between direct information and an imaginative visualization? Do you consider your work as closer to visual research, like generative art, or to conveying customized, intuitive information modeled on the reading user?
Different projects deserve different approaches. But there are two things we don´t want to create: aesthetic experiences that barely communicates an idea and analytic and cryptical tools that give computed answers. We believe in the power of human brain – and not only on its rational capacities – to understand and create. Our spaces should facilitate the brain’s hard work giving it information and several ways to navigate it, display it and combine it. We strongly believe in intuition. Our spaces might give and experience to perception, analysis and intuition. Generative art is usually devoted to results instead of giving understanding of the processes. That´s why, although if we use some generative arts techniques, we are more close to “conveying customized, intuitive information modeled on the reading user”. Read more

As you readers probably remember we’ve dealt with bestiario.org and their dynamic data visualization interfaces before. Here’s an interview with Bestiario’s Santiago Ortiz, who answered a few questions dealing with the group’s activities and future projects, plus new tendencies and perspectives for internet use. It’s a pretty long read, so I split it in two. Enjoy.

When and why did you realize you wanted to work with graphic data visualization?
I began playing with code very early, when I was 12 years old. I used to play with random numbers, or sinusoidal functions to create interesting patterns. Then I discovered complexity: fractals, cellular automata, chaotic functions, which generates much more interesting shapes and dynamics. Finally, as a natural step that increases complexity, I discovered the possibility of working with external data. My first serious project on data visualization was GNOM (2005), based on genetic data. With Bestiario we have developed a powerful framework based on graph theory, topological algorithms, physic models, geometrical and geographical representations…

What kind of clients do you usually have?
One of the most interesting things of this work is the wide diversity of persons and institutions than can require information spaces (and also the aims of the projects). Although the main kind of clients are cultural institutions this pattern is changing and we begin to work more with big companies. Among our clients there are cultural institutions, communication enterprises, big companies, research departments (university and enterprises), advertising agencies, museums, educational institutions. Read more

Montaje_Sin Título, 88 x 120 cm. C-Print digital. Edición de 6 + 2 p/a. © Cristóbal Palma

Paisajes Locales, the new photo exhibition featuring Cristóbal Palma @ AFA Gallery, Santiago de Chile.

The second exhibition at the renovated Galería AFA presents Paisajes Locales, a selection of landscape shots by one of the most well-known architecture photographer worldwide. Architect himself Cristóbal Palma here exhibits a subjective visual worldwide path of urban and natural landscapes. This work aims to tell the relationship between landscape and its use, particularly the human chance to make spaces real assets. From an Athens belvedere to Niemeyer’s architecture in Brasilia and Sao Paulo, Palma investigates and examines the act of observing starting from the dialogue among three witnesses: the photographer as a spectator of the scene, the people who actively live and observe the scene portrayed and finally the spectator of the photographer’s work. Read more

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Oggetti Disobbedienti, Giulio Iacchetti’s solo show at Milan’s Triennale has closed yesterday. The retrospective was curated by Francesca Picchi, with graphic design by Italo Lupi and “zero-mile” setting curated by Matteo Ragni. The exhibition consisted in 14 objects/concepts conceived by the designer in the last two decades.
Today we’re showing you a video of our own Angelica Di Virgilio’s visit to the exhibition, for all the ones who missed a good chance to have a taste of a great design-maker’s work, capable of creating real dialectics between form and content and introducing new communication lines in the market.

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(Text and photos by Luca Molinari)

PicScape installation by Elena Vincenzi

Pic Nic at the Temple in San Michele, Ganzaria has been a stimulating workshop organized and promoted by Marco Navarro/NOWAlab, Alessandro Rocca and Mario Lupano between may and june in the heart of Sicily. This year it’s been its fifth edition and it has had the merit to gather project designers, artists and landscape architects sharing the same attitude to free experimentation, together with students, for a week adventure of shared work. Everything started with Navarra’s pluri-awarded project of a cycle track in San Michele that, unfortunately, in a couple of years, because of the carelessness and local mismanagement, slowly disappeared. Nonetheless the sicilian architect made of this absence an occasion to bring new and different experiences and viewpoints to spur new learnings. More than eighty students coming from all Italy and many well-known authors have been summoned to interpret the “texture” theme, having the location materials and spaces at their disposal. Read more

Here are some drawings and diagrams of the project coming directly from the studio.

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(photos © AR/Contemporary Gallery)

“Chaos it’s only an order you have to decipher”
Libro dei contrari

If you happen to be in Milan remember that until tuesday 30th you can see the praiseworthy little exhibition at  AR/Contemporary Gallery curated by young Francesco Clerici. Read more

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