DIGICULT Digital Art, Design & Culture Founder & Editor-in-chief: Marco Mancuso Advisory Board: Marco Mancuso, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Claudia D'Alonzo Publisher: Associazione Culturale Digicult Largo Murani 4, 20133 Milan (Italy) http://www.digicult.it Editorial Press registered at Milan Court, number N°240 of 10/04/06. ISSN Code: 2037-2256 Licenses: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - Creative Commons 2.5 Italy (CC BY- NC-ND 2.5) Printed and distributed by Lulu.com E-publishing development: Loretta Borrelli Cover design: Eva Scaini Digicult is part of the The Leonardo Organizational Member Program TABLE OF CONTENTS Marco Mancuso Beatpick, A Tomorrow Netlabel ................................................................................ 3 Laura Colini Privacy, Surveillance And Invisible Nets .................................................................. 9 Maria Molinari Pirat Partiet At Riksdag .............................................................................................. 13 Valentina Tanni Dragulescu, L’achitettura Dello Spam ..................................................................... 18 Monica Ponzini Time Frame And The Manipulated Time ................................................................ 21 Marco Mancuso Dave Clarke, Superstar Dj… ....................................................................................... 23 Bertram Niessen Ryoichi Kurokawa, Perspective And Nature ......................................................... 29 Claudia D'Alonzo Historia Vjing: Annet Dekker .................................................................................... 32 Elena Bianchi Vairani Full Stealth, Director Vjing ........................................................................................ 37 Beatrice Bonfanti Arthur Clay, Artist Or Scientist? ............................................................................... 42 Elena Ravera Brian Eno: 77 Million Question Marks ..................................................................... 46 Miriam Petruzzelli Traces Of Identity And Memory Of The Present .................................................. 49 Massimo Schiavoni Ooff.ouro, Trilith System ........................................................................................... 53 Roberto Paci Dalo Velvet Factory, A New Multimedia Space ............................................................. 58 Marco Cadioli American Appareal In Second Life .......................................................................... 62 Beatpick, A Tomorrow Netlabel Marco Mancuso world of independent net music made of mailing list and poadcast, net label and shared audio project (see the website for the entire list, from rock to jazz, to electronic, to experimental, from dance to hardcore, from downtempo to hip-hop). So BeatPick is a net label, a reality made of a strict budget, which diffuses and distributes free music on Their homepage is clear. No DRM, no line, to use the Net as an instrument digital stuff to protect the eventual of promotion and resounding author’s rights. And to be more chamber to spread as far as possible digital-sustainable, all the music is and in the most economic way the compatible with every iPod, Mp3 music of their own artist. Since now player or electronic gadget available though, nothing new. At least for on the market, that are now testing every person informed about the fact the patience of new and old that nowadays music (and of course generations. the tomorrow one) is not only CD and DVD, file sharing and battles on legal These are just some of the rights. characteristics of a new both ambitious and pioneer project from the attitude side and professional from the realization one. We’re talking about BeatPick, a young London net label (created and managed by Italians) that boast in its rich artist rooster players such as Tobor Experiment, Groove Generator, FRD, Double6, Synthead and many others who had the possibility to get known and appreciated inside the lively . 3 For example the possibility to buy ) that can lead to interesting develop. directly the reproduction rights of a track in function of the type of license Even the relationship between labeller and the commercial use needed (vast and artists is rare and up to date. No the variety of licences and the binding contract, the possibility to simplicity of purchase; see sever a link in 30 days, division 50/50 http://www.beatpick.com/licence.ph of the gain, the possibility to diffuse p?cPath=23&products_id=50 ). There’s your own music in a professional and the possibility of commission music aimed way through specific channels. and projects to the artists of the label We talked about all this with David, and the option to listen to the tracks one of the founder members of before purchase. Soon other BeatPick BeatPick, to demonstrate how to put versions will be opened, first of all a into practice a correct and modern Chinese one. There are some projects net label, able to satisfy the in collaboration with satellite TV’s, exigencies of a new generation of radio and international poadcast like music addicted but also able to the Digipod ( www.digicult.it/podcast defend rights and necessities of the artists. 4 music for a reasonable number of time. Marco Mancuso: Which are your first artists and how did you convinced them of the goodness of your project? David: We started with 30 artists/bands selected by more than 1000 albums received during the three months precedent the . BeatPick.com opening. We had lots of Marco Mancuso: Can you explain how contacts in the music business, so it and when the BeatPick project was wasn’t hard to attract the attention of born? independent musician. Moreover we created a site with tons of information David: BeatPick.com has been about what we do, so when we launched the last February as answer receive a contact most of the time of a growing sense of dissatisfaction they’re already convinced to adhere to felt by the music lovers and the artists our initiative. against the big label. Our aim was, and is, to create a platform where the emergent and affirmed artists can keep the advantages of being independent, but where they can ask for help to a label for the promotion, publication and web technology needed. The idea is to help bands and artists with marketing, purchase of use rights and distribution of album and EP, offering a fair service that doesn’t force to long exclusive . contracts. Marco Mancuso: What does found and We also find possible to give open a net label means, which are the confidence to people, so we do not pro and con against traditional label? use DRM. We offer the free listening David: A net label means lots of work. of our albums and we give the We’re a little team and we work permission to copy the purchased almost twelve hours a day and often 5 during the weekends. We have to be the tracks. This way we attract efficient, answer in as less time as professionals, art houses, little and possible to the e-mails, most of all in middle productions and we give a the area of film and TV rights. true gain to the artists. The artists in BeatPick.com have a We encourage the free use of our platform to their disposal where they music for non-commercial projects can digitally distribute their music and and poadcasting. We think that sell their rights of use. Our artists also everything that can put our music have online publicity, online viral inside projects can one day increase advertising and poadcast, more that our sales. the possibility to collaborate on new projects. Our artists receive the 50% of the profit and the expenses are our charge. On the contrary in a traditional record label they would receive only a little percentage of the profit and only when the expenses are covered. In a traditional record label, the artists are tied down with long exclusive contracts, while in BeatPick.com they sign a non- . exclusive contract that can end whenever they decide it. Marco Mancuso: I think it’s the correct approach. Which are the potentialities In the area of the buying and selling of and advantages of the Net and the the use rights we cut off the incoming of faster and faster lines? intermediaries, the publisher and the advocates that make thin the artist David: All our business is set knowing gain. We create a friendlier procedure, that the Net and the lines are simple, automatic and transparent. It exponentially faster. On broadband only takes a few minutes to buy the we offer a variety of large files, WAV rights to use the music for TV and format included. Moreover there’s the movies. The music can be tested free streaming of entire albums mp3 128Kb before the project becomes format more than a buying and selling commercial and the productions can of rights completely online. All this request the entire catalogue. It is things couldn’t be even thought with possible commission works and we the 56kb or the first broadband. help with the looping and cutting of 6 Marco Mancuso: How are your all the participant to the music partnerships moving, online and not? business but also profitable for the artists. David: We spend many hours every day to patrol the Net for people or The idea is to create a model organizations that we like work with. comparable to the shareware We get in contact to see if there are software business. Make a base opportunities for both the parts. Since product and then gain with better months, we’re receiving partnership version. So our mp3s 128Kb are free to proposes by agents involved