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We are part of the electronics. Something that once seemed to be a fantasy from a Kraftwerk song, or perhaps the rare effects of a science fiction movie of the fifties, is now part of our lifestyle, everything around us. All appliances in our homes have electronic devices in the office, on the street, in the most unlikely imagined places in the world, there is an electronic device making sounds, serving for some purposes. Mobile phones always go with us everywhere, offering us many new options to use everyday. We are becoming characters of an electronic novel of the future.

The art made from electronics in its various aspects is growing all over the world. Therefore, the MUV Festival in Florence offers you the best of electronic and digital arts of current times in its various versions and formats, as well as other important activities. Installations, concerts, video and various media formats, prepared to enjoy the best dj´s and learn more about this important means of creating arts. It is noteworthy that among the guest artists this time are Who Made Who, Riva Starr, Guy Gerber, Noze, Octave One, Marcel Fengler and Kevin Saunderson.

In addition to dance and body moves with the best electronics, the MUV offers workshops in various technologies. Among these, a major workshop on Ableton Live 8, which is intended for those who want to work based on computer music. This workshop is dedicated to both beginners and professionals, and the Ableton Live 8 has become in recent years one of the most widely used software in the world of DJ´s and musicians. With this program, you can create songs, effects, sounds, and you can edit all these compositions quickly and easily. This interesting program is available for Mac and PC and if you´re into music, it is worth getting to know it. Highly recommended for amateur musicians who want to improve their techniques of composition and editing.

Similarly, another interesting workshop is focused on “soundscapes” or soundscapes, which will consist of developing new soundscapes from computers, musical instruments and other tools. If the term does not sound familiar, it is important to know that the soundscapes are compositions in which music or musical sound doesn’t come directly from rhythmic, melodic or harmonic elements, but are the result of being part of a particular space. The soundscapes or “soundscapes” tend to be introspective nature and environment. This workshop will gather both, musicians and fans to the phenomenon of the soundscape. For more information about this festival, as well as these interesting workshops, visit the official website of the MUV Festival in Florence here: http://www.firenzemuv.com/

Alexa Ray

Get apartments in Florence and enjoy this important festival of music and electronic arts. Florence is one of the best places you can visit in Europe this summer, make sure to visit it during your stay in beautiful Italy.

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Until the 15^th of July, Florence Palazzo Stozzino exhibits “American Dreamers. Reality and Imagination in Contemporary American Art”. The exhibition is organized by the Centro di Strozzina Contemporary Culture and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, and intends to analyze the new generation of American artists and their reality, while focusing on what was called “the American dream.”

This exhibition curated by Bartholomew F. Bland, analyzes whether the current economical situation in the U.S. allows Americans to still believe in the American dream, especially when the promise of prosperity and equality seems to have disappeared.

To analyze from an artistic point of view the vanished from American way of life, eleven American artists, through fantasy, imagination and dreams transmit their particular points of views on the crisis in American society. Furthermore, since their creations, they built those symbolic worlds that are required to transform the look of the contemporary, often oblivious to the greatest problems, and the same that sometimes return to be processing utopias.

The eleven artists invited to this exhibition are: Adrien Broom, Nick Cave, Adam Cvijanovic, Laura Ball, Will Cotton, Thomas Doyle, Richard Deon, Christy Rupp, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Mandy Greer y Patrick Jacobs.

Will Cotton was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1965. Study at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen, France, and at the New York Academy of Art. He is a painter; draftsman and sculptor who work with surreal dream images appealing to the concept of pleasure.

Kirsten Hassenfeld does interesting sculptures, usually very delicate, with an air of decorative art for the beauty that give the spaces. She works on paper sculptures that look like Chinese lanterns, giving the space a dreamlike, unreal.

Laura Ball is a painter that works with watercolors, creating a chaotic structure that constantly changes. Birds flying between tangled trunks and snakes intermingle with countless unidentifiable things are part of her jobs. Her work is very beautiful and with a feminine nature.

Adrien Broom is a self-taught photographer who has specialized in fantastic photography, while creating fictional worlds. In his images of women wrapped in fabrics that float, women with butterfly wings or children in a landscape of leaning trees, is the permanent movement that seeks Broom in their work.

Mandy Greer creates installations with fabrics, which add buttons, beads, plastic and small bright objects to give her work a sense of nature. Her works are a delicate architecture where various fibers intertwine installed on people to give shape and meaning to the work.

Patrick Jacobs creates small dioramas (3 inches) enclosed in magnifying glasses that are embedded in the walls of the exhibition spaces. It is painstaking work that takes several weeks to achieve stunning realism.

Christy Rupp is a sculptor and works with glass to build functional sculptures for public spaces. Her concern for the ecology is clearly expressed on her works.

For more information http://www.strozzina.org/exhibitions/american-dreamers/

Nancy Guzman

If you´re planning to stay in apartments in Florence during your holiday, do not miss this excellent exhibition at the Palazzo Stozzino.

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