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Music Industry: between indie productions and innovative startups

In these times we used to talk about every kind of art expression as performative acts: for visual arts and also for music. Like all performing art, also music introduces itself as a theatrical experience, an all encompassing and communal…

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Big Exhibitions 2010-2014: Institutions, Themes, Circulation. A Global Overview and the Case of Italy

Exhibitions are a central component of the contemporary art system, as one of the favourite tools for cultural distribution, attraction of public and visibility of cultural organisations. Important instruments for the communication of scientific results and new cultural views, they…

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Playing the Networking Game: Why You Should Know That Artist Residencies Matter

Aspiring professional artists must undergo a tough struggle for the world to recognize them as such. Artists are increasingly required to follow qualifying academic and working career paths and are pushed to prove the originality and the necessity of their…

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From the mirror to the screen: some videoart’s intuitions

After first experimentations of visual effects the video could generate, it became an introspective way to make art. An external device can show the artist to the artist, this is the point. So everything changed.

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The sound of poetry. The case of “Andata e Ritorno” Festival

We grow up being used to the idea that poetry is something boring. This scenario is luckily changing. There are a lot of poets who want to stay inside the modernity, want to write about it and above all they…

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Literature and Art: narrative paths for social-emotional education

Finally in Italy we are talking about social-emotional learning; #1oradamore is the name of the media campaign promoted by Italian journalists, artists, psychologists, researchers, and sociologists to promote the introduction of social-emotional education in Italian schools. To share feelings and…

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Is the architect an artist? Reconsidering the role of architects

Throughout this essay various possible conceptions of art and their relationship with architects’ responsibilities towards the community and their power in the creation of cities, will be considered. And the question on whether an architect is an artist will certainly…

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Paint before the police come!

Street art is challenging the world of art, its set of rules and its commercial system as few art movements in the past.

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Independent centers of cultural production in Turin – I centri indipendenti di produzione culturale a Torino

The most recent Italian cultural and artistic panorama has experienced a new phase. Alongside the institutional and commercial realities, there were experiences of independent centers of cultural production. These subjects form a dynamic, productive and relational creative fabric whose ability…

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Theatre at auction! Making it live!

July 2006: some advertisements invited interested people to take part in the public auction announced to sell the for too long a time dismissed Teatro Sociale of Gualtieri. The theatre is now becoming a benchmark in the domain, for the…

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Creative Chaos: How To Feed Ideas

I am always inspired by the ‘art’ of facilitation, a combination of methodologies useful for leading and orientating a complex group in job meetings or workshops, generally used in the learning organization and educational field. So, what if culture makes…

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The undervalued of potential of the peripathetic feature of festivals. A look at the FISahara Film Festival

In relation to the practice of deterritorilisaton, The FISahara film festival, coming to its 6th edition, is one of the most atypical activist film festivals, which takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, where…

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A new perspective for the movie industry: the use of web 2.0 and user-generated content

In 2011, the Dutch company, FCCE, has launched the Entertainment Experience project in order to create the first fully user-generated movie conceived by the audience and another one directed by Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct) on the same basis of audience’s…

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Urban Art: new markets for culture

The new contemporary art scenario is evolving very fast and is bringing some deep changes into the entire system. The last twenty years have seen the evolution and rise of some new genres as Street art (born directly form the…

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Movie design e brand experience

While many brands have explored various communication strategies, only a few have been able to innovate by integrating sustainability into their core business. This paper showcases examples of brands that have achieved this, demonstrating a commitment to creating a better…

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Cultural events as catalysts for change: The MI AMI Musica Importante festival in Milan | Gli eventi culturali come incubatori culturali. Il caso di MI AMI Musica Importante a Milano

Cultural events are a hallmark of postmodern society, fostering value creation through social interaction and shared learning. As like as cultural incubators, they tap into physical and digital spaces, communities, and online conversations, utilizing cutting-edge marketing and communication techniques. The…

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The environmental impact of art | Quando l’arte produce effetti sull’ambiente

The Anglo-Saxon world has been at the forefront of examining the environmental impact of art and events. Despite this, the issue has received relatively little attention elsewhere, particularly in terms of policy. The sector has also developed its own unique…

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Creating engaging cultural experiences through design-oriented narrative structures and metalanguages – Strutture narrative e metalinguaggi design-oriented per la fruizione del patrimonio culturale

A design-oriented approach to cultural heritage enjoyment entails transferring innovative processes to the cultural sector, leveraging local resources and the unique characteristics of each place. This systemic approach adds significant value by shaping specific concepts related to strategic design, communication…

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I contributi dei visitatori come patrimonio culturale: il design per la partecipazione
Visitors’ contributions as cultural heritage: designing for participation

Abstract In this article, we approach the setting up of two public exhibitions and, in this sense, our goal is to offer the necessary tools in order to facilitate and support the contributions of the visitors to the exhibitions themselves.…

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I festival tra impatto sul territorio e luogo di espressione per l’immaginario collettivo
Festivals between territorial impact and place of expression for the collective imagination

The practice of experiencing aesthetic contents far from specific places, usually in open or unusual spaces, which are not directly designed for art, like squares or streets. This is the main characteristic of festivals. Celebrations, events full of social relations,…