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Nicola Bozzi

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy but I was raised in Milan. I studied Arts and Multimedia at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, where I achieved a BA and then an MA in Cinema and Video. I have collaborated with magazines like Zero (www.zero.eu) and Exhibart (www.exhibart.com), writing art and cinema reviews. I was part of the Check-in Architecture editorial staff (checkinarchitecture.blogspot.com , youtube.com/user/checkinarchitecture) and I now work for yskira.com, an online architecture magazine.

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Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

Vito Campanelli's presentation of his own Web Aesthetics. How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (published by NAi) was one of the few theoretical ones in a very visual and demo-ridden Video Vortex edition. In his work, the Italian scholar reduces...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 Comments Off on Vito Campanelli and the Memetic Contagion of Aestheticized Objects

Dagan Cohen and Upload Cinema. Taking YouTube to the Big Screen

Upload Cinema is a monthly video spree that quite literally takes the most valuable YouTube gems to the big screen. That is, the not-so-big one of the Uitkijk, the smallest and coziest movie theater in...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 Comments Off on Dagan Cohen and Upload Cinema. Taking YouTube to the Big Screen

Andrew Clay @ Video Vortex 6. YouTube: Make Money While Escaping Death

A media theorist and lecturer at Leicester's De Montfort University, Andrew Clay has been investigating online video for some time. As an opener of the sixth edition of Video Vortex, his intervention explored YouTube and effectively went a bit...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/11/11 1

Book Review – Open 20: The Populist Imagination

The Populist Imagination comes in a timely moment. The 20th issue of Open, the cahier on art and the public domain published by NAi, is a collection of essays dealing with “the role of myth, narratives and identity in...
By Nicola Bozzi on 03/07/11 2

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project

by Nicola Bozzi Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation...
By Nicola Bozzi on 11/15/10 Comments Off on Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Inge Angevaare and the costs of digital preservation

by Nicola Bozzi With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about...
By Nicola Bozzi on 11/15/10 2

Revenue Models – Jaromil and Marco Sachy tell us about Cyclos and their own dyndy.net

by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the...
By Nicola Bozzi on 11/14/10 5

South Park and the Demise of the Big Other

Unsurprisingly, yet another South Park episode has made the news recently. And as usual, the comments have ranged from praise and approval to shock (and even subtly worded death wishes?). In pure South Park fashion, “Dead Celebrities” is a...
By Nicola Bozzi on 10/12/09 Comments Off on South Park and the Demise of the Big Other

Design your network. What has become of Twitter aesthetics?

“My nephew has HDADD: Hi-Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” – Steven Wright Since Twitter came out it was pretty obvious it was something else. Its minimal, quasi-zen approach...
By Nicola Bozzi on 10/05/09 Comments Off on Design your network. What has become of Twitter aesthetics?

We don’t need to read your blog to review it. And you don’t need to write it.

It all started by doing what every active internet user does once in a while: egosurfing (or something like that, I wasn’t looking for my own blog – this one here – but for the one I work for)....
By Nicola Bozzi on 10/04/09 1

From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks

In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius the argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges imagined a place with a completely different perception of reality than ours. In Tlön "the prime unit is not the verb, but the monosyllabic...
By Nicola Bozzi on 09/28/09 Comments Off on From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks

Speaking Hedberg to Italians

“I saw a commercial on late night TV, it said, ‘Forget everything you know about slipcovers!’ So I did. It was a load off my mind! Then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, but I didn’t know what...
By Nicola Bozzi on 09/21/09 Comments Off on Speaking Hedberg to Italians

The Multilingual Internet, or Where the Green Ants Dream

In one of the last scenes of Werner Herzog‘s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) an Aborigine stands up in a court room to speak up against some mineral excavations happening in a sacred tribal ground. The judge asks...
By Nicola Bozzi on 09/14/09 Comments Off on The Multilingual Internet, or Where the Green Ants Dream