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 Persepolis 2.0: Creative Support To Iran .................................................................. 3 Mark Hancock Vlogging, Networked Cinematic Poetics ................................................................. 9 Marco Mancuso Pirates At The Parliament: The Big Dream?! .......................................................... 14 Davide Anni A New Center For Art and Technologies ............................................................... 24 Loretta Borrelli Hackmeeting 2009: Meeting With The Debian Community .............................. 27 Philippa Barr Alessandro De Gloria, From Child’s Play To Serious Games ............................... 33 Alessio Galbiati Rip: A Remix Manifesto. A Specter Wanders In The Net .................................... 39 Silvia Casini The Ethics Of Gaze: Raymond Depardon and William Kentridge ...................... 43 Giulia Baldi Soundclusters: Robotic Electronica ........................................................................ 49 Silvia Bianchi Sonar 2009: The Queen Mary Anne Hobbs ........................................................... 55 Valeria Merlini Paolo Inverni: Paths Into Places Of Memory ........................................................ 60 Claudia D'Alonzo Future Sounds Like Past Toys: Interview To Ape5 and Eraser ........................... 67 Marco Mancuso The Art And The Epidemiological Criticism Of Gina Czarnecki .......................... 74 Marvin Milanese Multitouch Barcelona. How “heat” Technology .................................................... 85 Gigi Ghezzi Active Imagination And Design Paradoxes ............................................................ 91 Massimo Schiavoni Teatro A Corte 09. Art Without Borders ................................................................ 95 Elena Gianni I-realize: Analyze This For A Better Future ........................................................... 101 Jeremy Levine Ephemeral Physicality: Quantum Particles And Digital Art .............................. 107 Persepolis 2.0: Creative Support To Iran Marco Mancuso social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The press agencies worldwide were at first interested in the events, but then gradually moved their attention away, when the news flow coming from Iran slowed down, mainly due to the closure of some blogs that were afraid to be tracked through an IP and then be charged of capital crime (!!!). The facts happening in these days in Iran have been and still are evident to Many outraged reactions follow each anyone. After the alleged rigging of other on the Net, together with ballots, the President Ahmadinejad petitions and causes to be followed in was elected once again in Iran the last the well known way of social mid June. This unleashed formal networks (even if its real effectiveness protests coming from the defeated is now doubtful). I think other words candidate Moussavi which then let of comment are now useless. They loose more violent and widespreaded would sound banal in a situation that acts of protest on the streets of we – people from the West world (and Teheran and in the main cities of the certainly Italians) – do not even try to Country. understand since we have never, never found ourselves in a such As dreaded, the Iranian police did not situation of repression. stay inactive, but reacted with unequalled violence and repression, I decided therefore to use Digicult as arresting lots of young people, spokeman and create a short-circuit torturing them and killing an between some artistic and creative undefined number of people in the news and an important political event, streets. This repression continued on i.e. the crisis in Iran. I wanted to make the Net, since it was the place elected Digicult a small instrument of support, by some brave bloggers to anyway without changing its roots widespread news on the development and its cultural and editorial aim. of the events, skilfully using also some Moreover I discovered the project 3 Persepolis 2.0: it is a re-editing project your idea and your project Persepolis by the graphic novel Persepolis 2.0. Of course, it started to protest created by the Iranian Marjane Satrapi after the police riots against post- which has had a lot of international election uprising protest movement success and offers a geographic and again Ahmadinejad, but I think you editorial comparison between the had have the idea to spread the word Iranian Revolution of 1979 (which is of what is happening in your country part of the original history) and what using both the Internet/social is happening nowadays in the Networks and the easy impact of a Country. For this reason I decided worlwide famous graphic novel like first of all to support the project as Persepolis. Do you want to tell me requested, i.e. copying the Html code more about the genesis of the of the graphic tables on Digicult’s project? homepage (all readers are kindly requested to do the same) and Sina & Payman: The idea came out of secondly to widespread it through an intense desire to do SOMETHING. Facebook. Last but not least I tried to We both live in a country where get an interview for this edition of political protests are illegal and in any Digimag. It is an interview made in 24 case we are a bit cynical about the hours, just before the publication of effectiveness of demonstrations or the newspaper, but it honours us and petitions. So the day after the first we hope it can be another small intense crackdown (June 20th), we anchor to help the struggling Iranian brainstormed ways to help in an people. effective way. We quickly realized that our friends in the US and Belgium (where we grew up) did not really understand what was going on in Iran and so that whatever we do should address this gap in understanding. The decision to use Marjane Satrapi’s image was based on two reasons. First, Persepolis is an iconic work that has been seen by millions, thus enhancing the effectiveness of our project. However the second and . more important reason was that her Marco Mancuso: First of all, I would images of the Revolution of 1979 like to know something more about mirrored so well the events that were happening in 2009. In both cases 4 millions of Iranians demonstrated all focussing on other moments, of across Iran against political and social Iranian post-election protest? repression. We worked on this from 6pm until 3am for a week straight and Sina & Payman: We do have then launched it last Saturday. permission to use her images, and we are now working on other ways to Marco Mancuso: Which is your help educate non-Iranians about what background? Are you graphic is happening in Iran designers? and, how did you work technically on the graphic novel, using Marco Mancuso: You ask to the the same characters, the same Internet activist community to spread identical original iconography the project Persepolis 2.0 on the net. Which backdrops did you receive Sina & Payman: We are both from the Net until know? I know marketing managers. I focus on you’re starting collecting stats about word-of-mouth marketing for global the domain, so how do you want to startups while Payman focuses on use them? global marketing for large brands. Technically it was pretty easy, we Sina & Payman: Since launching the used Photoshop to replace the text site 6 days ago there have been more with our own and Illustrator to place than 50,000 unique visitors from 150 the images together. The hardest part countries. This propagation has taken was choosing the images to faithfully off completely on its own via reflect the events of that week. Facebook. Though there have been articles published about Persepolis 2.0 in the mass media, they have generated very little traffic compared with from Facebook. We have received a large volume of emails from all over the world asking how they can best support Iranians, and we’ve also received many emails from Iranians within Iran thanking us for helping get the word out. Moving forward, we look to leverage the . publicity that Persepolis 2.0 has Marco Mancuso: Did you contact also received to inspire “regular” people the original author Marjane Satrapi? worldwide to produce creative Will you work also on other chapters, expressions of solidarity… there’s a 5 reason why artists and writers are national strike and other measures considered so ‘dangerous’ for a like it will affect the regime and corrupt establishment. eventually will lead to a more free Iran. How many years did it take for Marco Mancuso: What is happening in there to be an African-American Iran now is something so terrible and named Hussein in the White House? against human rights, that it’s very Much sooner than anyone expected. I uneasy to tollarate and accept for us. I believe the same thing will happen in could not imagine what it means if Iran, for if the regime wants to you are Iranian born like you. So, maintain power they