. media culture
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art . music . sound art
Florian Hecker - Speculative Solution
CD + Book, Mego eMEGO 118, Urbanomic UF13, 2010
It's less and less common to find music labels brave enough to release and actually invest in concepts and experimentation, giving them proper form as products. Although realized with support from public funding, this work is a nice exception. Florian Hecker is quite well-known for being a composer both playful and restlessly investigative of conceptual topics, not afraid to delve into fringe fields of
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art . religion
Faith Condition, religious technologies
Faith Condition is the graduation project in Industrial Design by Lukas Franciszkiewicz, a designer who has focused his creative practice on some important questions concerning our media society. In particular Franciszkiewicz focused his research on the inability of traditional religions to fully understand the notion of altered sensory perception. The work Faith Condition questions a trend
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book . hacktivism . net
edited by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Mashup Cultures
Springer
, ISBN-13: 978-3709100950
256 pages, 2010, English
Participatory strategies involving the collective manipulation of digital content were hampered in the past due to worries about intellectual property rights, but they are increasingly becoming welcomed now that commercial online social networks have begun to understand the inherent recreational potential. Sonvilla-Weiss has stated that he picked the title of this book because in "web developments [it]
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activism . videogame
Unmanned, playing tolerance to reality
Molleindustria'
s games have traditionally aimed to put the player in a rather uncomfortable or unusual position. Previous games have asked users to run McDonald's businesses, to hide church scandals in Italy, or to supervise child labour in Congo. The team of radical Italian game designers have launched their latest challenge: 'Unmanned' invites you to become a UAV pilot and follow the character throughout
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art . hacktivism . software . visual
Extrafile.org, software art with practical usage
Artists have always been fascinated by imperfection. A little failure, a small mistake, an unexpected behaviour can be perceived as more meaningful and intriguing than the perfect artwork. This is even more relevant in the computer world where pushing the breaking point of technology is common practice, as shown by a renewed interest in glitch aesthetics over the past few years. A recent example
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art . book . interactive
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, L. Feireiss - A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553314, 240 pages, 2011, English
The fields of interactive (or "computational") design and digital art have been progressively juxtaposed since the two fields began to use the same tools, producing comparable output, eventually posing the question if a distinction between these two fields is still needed (actually, yes, it is). This luxurious, thick and glossy book is that kind of gift from god for curators when they have to deal with
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art . media . mobile . videogame
Photo / Nikto, fighting with light and darkness
Photo/Nikto is a game for the iPad, designed by Annelore Schneider and Douglas Edric Stanley for the project "Unterplay" of the Master of the Media Design - HEAD Geneve. Its functioning is very simple. Before playing, the touchscreen of the device is exactly half white and half black. Touching the screen the game starts. If the room light is on, the white part of the screen gradually
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book . music . sound art
Brandon LaBelle, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life
Continuum, ISBN-13: 978-1441161369, 304 pages, 2010, English
This is a book about "auditory life," exploring the everyday practice of listening and how auditory studies can better interpret and influence society. Systematically divided into chapters which reflect specific urban acoustic environments (Underground, Home, Sidewalk, Street, Shopping Mall, Sky), the text
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art . hacktivism . mobile
Phone Story, behind Apple allure
Phone Storyis a new game by Molleindustria for Android and iPhone (available for Android but already banned by Apple and deleted from the Appstore, because it was charged with violent content and non-compliance with the technical requirements). The player has to cross four stages that represent some of the production steps that provide the high-tech industries worldwide. "Coltan" is the phase in which minerals needed for the
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art . book . hacktivism . magazine
R. Klanten, A. Mollard, M. Hubner - Behind the Zines: Self-publishing Culture
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553369, 240 pages, 2011, English
If you're stuck with the concept of zines as a product of punk, you'd better check this book and learn how "self-publishing" in print has evolved. A book about magazines has always been a kind of celebration, turning the issues of the "expiring" magazines into history in the pages of a (non-expiring) book. But even more important than the many visuals here are the inspiring interviews that have been
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art . music . sound
Blackdeath Noise Synth, sounds from the plague
A set of relatively simple rules can often depict the complex patterns found in many natural phenomena. Among these, the relationships between individuals of a living society, like the one of a bacterial colony, have been studied for centuries. The famous Conway's Game of Life is a prime example of how these behaviors can be simulated mathematically, and since its introduction forty years ago, it has given birth
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art . book . net . software
Olga Goriunova - Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415893107, 176 pages, 2011, English
Beyond being a co-organizer of four editions of the mythical read.me software art festivals (each of which was documented in a reader she co-edited) Olga Goriunova is an author who has spent a lot of research time delving into concepts of software in art and society. For many years she also co-curated the online software art repository runme.org, which collected digital artworks dealing with the
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Neural 41, Addiction(s)
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Neural 41 extra - Eavesdropping, The Indiscretions of The Ear catalogue of the exhibition
Neural #41 extra, Eavesdropping - The Indiscretions of The Ear, catalogue of the exhibition, (only for subscribers):artists: Acid Police | Anne Wellmer | BMB con. Jeroen Uyttendaele | Lars Kynde | Michele Spanghero Wen Chin Fu curated by Matteo Marangoni Villakabila Violenweg 2, Den Haag Attempting to contain sound inside buildings is like trying to hold water in clasped hands. In terms of acoustic isolation, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . biotech . science
Communicating Bacteria Dress, bacterial social design
"Com- municating Bacteria" is an installation inspired by biological research on the flow of communication between bacteria. It is the result of a collaboration between the artist Anna Domitriu, (for a long time engaged in research on microbiology and collaborative practices) the microbiologists Paul Simon and John Park, and the video artist Alex May. The communication within the bacterial colonies is critical for
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art . book . hacktivism
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson (Author), Eric Bender (Contributor) - Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT [Paperback]
![Institute Historian T. F. Peterson (Author), Eric Bender (Contributor) - Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT [Paperback], 248 pages, The MIT Press, updated edition edition (March 11, 2011), English, ISBN-10: 0262515849, ISBN-13: 978-0262515849, nightwork.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images7/nightwork.jpg)
Paperback: 248 pages, The MIT Press; updated edition edition (March 11, 2011), English, ISBN-10: 0262515849, ISBN-13: 978-0262515849
This is a book about hacks and pranks at MIT, compiled by the Institute Historian and published by the MIT Press (actually, it's an updated version from 2003). With these premises one might expect a self-indulgent book... but actually it's not. Using original pictures and documents, the book reveals the inexhaustible creativity of MIT students (who seem to be in a kind of permanent state of intellectual
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art . hacktivism . surveillance
I-R.A.S.C., wearable surveillance protection
I-R.A.S.C. is a device that protects against infrared surveillance cameras. It is in fact composed of an elastic wearable band equipped with special LEDs that emit infrared rays that are invisible to the naked eye because their frequency is between 780 and 1 mm. But the reception of the image on the surveillance cameras is amended and a ball of light replaces the face of the person framed. The device
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book . music . preservation
edited by Mario Côté and Brigitte Kerhervé - Archives Sonores
booklet+dvd, 44 pages, Canada, 2009, EAVM/Hexagram, ISBN: 978-2-922392-11-1"Sonic Architecture" is an expression used to describe very different things, from the architectural audio-reflective properties of a building to the structure of a complex piece of music. But within Archives Sonores, it faultlessly expresses architectural spaces that represent pieces of the urban collective memory, through carefully planned recordings. Côté and Kerhervé, researchers at Hexagram ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . music . sound art
Idan Hayosh, orderly displays of threat
The work of Idan Hayosh disguises military imagery in simple arrangements of ordinary objects. Walking into his installations one is confronted with symmetrical displays of lamps, cutlery, gas tanks, scooters or fans, neatly spread out in wedge formations. These arrangements are not casual. They reproduce posters of military aircraft that Hayosh collected while
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art . performance
Elektra 12, report from Montreal, Canada.
See the Elektra 12 photo set on FlickrMontreal is the undisputed cultural capital of Canada and the largest city in the French-speaking province of Quebec. Although there's a visible and perceivable strong legacy with France, there's never a doubt that here we're in North America, and also quite close to the U.S. Montreal is a place that has seen the rise of theaters, university labs (like the fabulous inter-universities "Hexagram" where different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . book . science
edited by Jill Scott, Artists-in-Labs: Networking in the Margins
Springer Vienna Architecture,
2010,
English
, book+ dvd
, 212 pages, ISBN: 978-3709103203After decades when artists had to take a guest seat in scientific labs (when admitted), being regarded as accepted intruders, the development of art and science laboratories has become more viable with increasing communication between the two cultural spheres. Artists and scientists who share similar backgrounds but deal with heterogeneous knowledge bases (albeit in different languages) have had new ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . book
Aromapoetry, poetry to be smelled
' Aromapoetry is a book to be read with the nose' - the definition of this work by author Eduardo Kac. This is a volume consisting of a form of poetry, readable only through the nose: the pages do not contain text but smells. The pages are organized in a coherent and well-defined semantic path: each page (twelve in total) is a poem that comes from the intersection of fragrances created by
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dvd . music . sound art
Scott Morrison - Ballad(s) For Quiet Horizons
Room40, dvdThis is the first documentation of Scott Morrison's live installation works in the form of a series of compelling audio/visual tracks. Most of them focus on grass set in motion by an inaudible wind. The enchanting single and collective movements are cut in a very precise and specific way: producing a visual depth that is also perfectly synced with the music. The viewer, in fact, is taken aurally by the hand, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . hacktivism
Copy this drive, real hard disk sharing
Is baring a hard disk by making its content public still considered an act of provocation? In 2000, starting with the sarcastic idea that "privacy is stupid", the 0100101110101101.ORG group launched the project "Life Sharing", a real-time file sharing system in which the group transmitted online all their daily computer activities. In 2011, almost a decade later, artist Nick Briz has made all the content of his hard
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art . book . literature . science
edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover - Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts
448 pages
, University Of Chicago Press
, 2011, English
, ISBN: 978-0226038315The communication problem between humanism and science (defined in the past as the "two cultures" problem) is not a recent one: even William Gibson, in the late eighties, was encouraging people to talk about the slash between humanism and science. This book is trying to focus on the topic using a new methodology. It's an edited collection of texts, but not just a mere anthology: it's intended as a dialogue ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
music . sound art
Vinyl Rally, record's racing
A common issue in presenting experimental music and sound art is finding an effective way to share with the audience the fun of exploring unconventional uses of musical objects. Reinventing, hacking and sometimes destroying instruments, playback devices and other media can provide a good deal of fun, but perhaps due to the gritty, harsh and uncontrolled output these activities tend to generate, their
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Edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry - Of Intercourse and Intracourse, Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere
RE/Search Publications, ISBN-13: 978-3902796028, 240 pages, EnglishThis is the third anthology after "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" and "Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation" to expand on and "archive" an edition of the Arse Elektronika festival. The event, which takes place each year in San Francisco, was, initiated and fostered as a conference by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The founder's legacy is very clear in the heterogeneous ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . robot . surveillance
Zwischenräume, the deviant surveillance
We generally think of surveillance as a detached gaze, a remote form of watching. The fact that cameras record information continuously and unobtrusively somehow makes their presence elusive. And the idea of data being analyzed only when needed makes these devices feel innocuous. However the gaze of surveillance is always directed and motivated by human desires - it is a form of voyeurism. What
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edited by Luís Costa & Rui Costa, Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal
book+2CD
, Edições Nodar,
315 pages
, Nodar 003,
ISBN 978-9899720503This thick book, coming with two CDs, is the outcome of a three-year program of international sound art residencies made by twin brothers who have here focused on their Portuguese hometown - Nodar. Forty sound artists were involved in reading, watching and listening to the documentation of the respective projects. In the several hundred color pages of the catalogue the reader can be temporary ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
activism . art . media . net
The Deleted City, social web archeology
The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content
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art . book . media
Stephen Jones , Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
The MIT Press
, English,
464 pp.,
ISBN 978-0262014960This book is a small gem among the many dealing with the history of media art. Stephen Jones has undertaken an excellent and extensive research project, digging not only into his valuable personal archive of Australian media art (patiently assembled over decades) but also sifting through public libraries and private collections. This is neither a dispassionate nor pretentious academic work. It is, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . music . robot . sound art
Versus, sounding dialogues
Versus is a kinetic sound installation by David Letellier. Its functioning is characterized by an interactive dialogic mechanism. There are two kinetic sculptures that are interdependent and they have to be face to face to make sense. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, joining at the center in a flower-like shape with actuators to allow slow movement. In the center of this singular "corolla" there's
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Leah Lievrouw, Alternative and Activist New Media
Polity Press, 200 pages, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0745641843Defining new media has always been tricky. Here, the author gives a clear and thorough definition of new media based on three components: the device/artifact which enables the ability to communicate, the communication activity/practice, and the social arrangements and organizational forms created around the artifact and the practice. This is a strong base that, coupled with an explicit reference to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . media
On Spam, business proposal - urban spam tag
With the work "On Spam, Business Proposal" Niels Post documents the urban intervention he acted in Brussels with a photographs series . For this action the artist has selected some of the most effective phrases contained in the commercial spam messages, the ones that claim incredible and superfast chances for personal gain. He printed these on adhesive vinyl, sticking them on the windows of
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book . music
Joanna Demers Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
216 pages, Oxford University Press, 2010, English, ISBN-13: 978-0195387667The stated purpose of Demers in this book is to find a unifying (strictly speaking) aesthetics for electronic music, despite the very different ideologies the different genres come from. Although the task would seem too vast, she restricts the timespan considered from the 1980s onwards. 1980 has been chosen because it represents a pivotal moment for democratization of electronic music ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
activism . art . science
Solar Sinter, solar way of thinking
Ongoing diminution of natural resources and the urgent need to adopt more sustainabile practices are undoubtedly among the most crucial matters for the world today. As awareness increases, more and more young creators are engaging with this topic, taking a critical and active stance by building prototypes and actual alternatives. Markus Kayser is such an example; a young industrial designer
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activism . art . book
R. Klanten, M. Hubner, Alain Bieber Art & Agenda, Political Art and Activism
ISBN: 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten"Activism" in art has become a fashionable topic, especially after the beginning of the global financial crisis. Critiquing the system, formalizing regrets about the past and expressing fears about an uncertain future have become daily topics for major media. Artists are now also reflecting these feelings (maybe even more than during the sixties and seventies) with an abundance of creativity, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
music . sound art
A Piano Listening To Itself, inducing Chopin in chords
Moving across two and a half decades from the windy north Atlantic coast of Canada to the center of Warsaw, the large-scale Aeolian instruments of Gordon Monahan form a temporal bridge between the Fluxus-propelled experimental music of the sixties and seventies and contemporary sound art production. Taking the former’s deconstruction of musical heritage and combining it with an approach
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art . media . net . performance
Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash
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art . book . media
edited by Margit Rosen - A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961—1973
576 pages,
The MIT Press
, 2011,
English,
ISBN: 978-0262515818In the history of media art, Zagreb has definitively been on the map since the very beginning. In 1961 there was a seminal movement called "New Tendencies", which officially started with a pioneering exhibition curated by Matko Mestrovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This international group of (self-defined) researchers were investigating how emerging computer technologies could be used to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
hacktivism . media
Occupy George, talking dollars
Printing on (real) one dollar bills (the ones with George Washington) enjoyable and graphically concrete data concerning the distribution of wealth in the United States: this is the premise of Occupy George, a performance created in the wake of the many growing participatory movements born out of the original "Occupy Wall Street." The notes, constituting medium and message with an incisiveness that
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Neural 40, The Generative Unexpected
The new Neural issue is out.Subscribe now! because only the first 50 subscribers will get the ‘P2P Gift Credit Card’, by Paolo Cirio ---SOLD OUT--- and the new exclusive Newstweek flyer by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev. You can also buy the magazine from the closest of the almost 200 stores stocking it. A back issues pack is available. ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Neural 40 extra (2/2), P2P Credit Gift Card by Paolo Cirio --SOLD OUT --
Neural #40 extra (1/2), P2P Gift Credit Card, (only the first 50 subscribers subscribers) credit card instructions:A limited edition of physical plastic a P2P Gift Credit Cards by Paolo Cirio. ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Neural 40 extra (1/2), new exclusive Newstweek flyer
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book . music
edited by Song-Ming Ang, Kim Cascone - The Book of Guilty Pleasures
Song-Ming Ang,
English
, Pages 208
, ISBN 978-9810880699Published on the occasion of the Singapore Biennial, 2011, this book is a collection of "confessions" from a selection of one hundred artists, curators, musicians, and writers about what they think are their aural guilty pleasures. These contributions certainly have a glamorous quality and are potentially scandalous – they are revealing things that would usually not be mentioned. This generates much ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
interactive . music . performance
Sounding Juggling Balls, minimalist music in projectile motion
At Patterns + Pleasure Festival in Amsterdam STEIM presented the premiere of several pieces written by Tom Johnson for the Gandini Juggling company. For these pieces STEIM developed a set of interactive juggling balls that react to movement by emitting sound. Tom Johnson is an American composer and former music journalist, credited with introducing the term “minimalist” into music criticism in the
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art . book . video
Kate Mondloch - Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art
208 pages
, Universuty Of Minnesota Press
, 2010,
English,
ISBN 978-0816665228How many screens do we face in our daily lives? How much time each day do our eyes spend watching screens of various kinds? The answer can almost feel embarrassing, but it brings the huge influence that these mediation devices have on contemporary culture into focus. Unquestionably, we "see" differently now than how we "saw" twenty or forty years ago. Kate Mondloch focuses this essential ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . media
Electronic Instant Camera, minimal unsaved polaroid
The volcanic mind of Niklas Roy seems to produce an unending flow of surprising ideas. After animating the curtains of his studio, he has now turned his attention towards a bizarre camera. Electronic Instant Camera is a hybrid medium made from a combination of an analog video camera and a b/w thermal printer (of the style used for printing receipts). With every
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book . hacktivism . net
Mirko Tobias Schafer, Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production
249 pages, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-9089642561Internet has been since the beginning of its commercial diffusion a popular medium, but only recently has there been a rising interest in its own internal social dynamics, including its folklore and how it has radically reshaped the relationship ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . net . privacy
Poser, invading digital photo frames
In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic view of this media. Slipping inside the device, the artist has designed some chroma keys of
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hacktivism . music
Sound Tossing, Artificial Urban Crickets
In the urban landscape it can be hard to distinguish a sign from a trace and sometimes even from a piece of garbage. The global popularity of shoe tossing, the practice of throwing worn out shoes over telephone wires, can be partially attributed to this ambiguity. What does it mean when a pair of shoes are seen hanging overhead? While the motives of shoe-tossers remain unknown, they have inspired
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art . media . software
Glitch Reality II, digital (tangible) interpretations
What happens if we scan a physical object and then restore it to its initial state using 3D technology? In his work Glitch Reality II the British designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has experienced the full cycle of scanning a common tea set and then returning it to physical dimensions. Using a laser
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art . music . sound art
Urban Audio, composing with traffic
When R. Murray Shafer conducted the International Sound Preference Survey a few decades ago, traffic noise was categorized as one of the least appreciated sounds in the world, together with dentist drills and chalk squeaking on blackboard. Sound artist Florian Tuercke has been spending the last few years
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media . psychogeography . sound art
Lawrence English, Site-Listening: Brisbane
ROOM 40, Book + 3" CD, Dec 2010, RMBK001, ISBN-13: 978-0980814903Collaborative sound mapping, random field recording, sonic memory and live transmission from specific sites are various approaches that have been explored and used in the recent past, especially in connection with enormous potential of active audience contribution of recordings and networked microphones. Lawrence English here uses a different approach, making use of his own substantial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Electrohype 2010 - Report from Ystad (Sweden)
Check the Electrohype 2010 photo set here.
After a fascinating snowstorm, the sixth edition of Electrohype, the biennial for electronic art, opened at the Ystad Art Museum in Ystad (Sweden). A point of reference in Scandinavian countries, Electrohype has been operating since 2000. The theme for this edition was "objects", and, in a way, every exhibited work managed to reference this category. Curated by the Electrohype founders, Anna Kindvall and Lars
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art . interactive . net . science . software
Quantum Parallelograph, quantistic parallel lives
The ' Quantum Parallelograph ', designed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating, is a bizarre medical-looking white device made to translate our invisible inner workings into various languages interpreted by industry experts. The information produced by the machine is related to various
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book . media . net . science
Jussi Parikka - Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of behavior, ranging over contexts and discussions as wide as military theory, economics, the development of software algorithms, political organisation and user-led content generation. Indeed, as new media theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . hacktivism . media . privacy
People Staring at Computers: the discreet gaze of the commodities
Kyle McDonald is well-known for exploring the boundaries of public and private space in our post-privacy world. With his Keytweeter he placed himself under digital surveillance for an entire year, capturing everything he typed with a keylogger and posting in on Twitter - 140 keystrokes at time. His most recent project gives another conceptual twist on spyware. 'People staring at
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Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold, Interface Criticism - Aesthetics Beyond Buttons
Aarhus University Press, ISBN: 978-8779345041, 2011, 296 pages, EnglishWorking on interface aesthetics since the early 2000s, the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at the University of Aarhus never gave up its pioneering research goals. Hosting the ReadMe software art festival in 2004, the organization started to ground its research on software culture, joining the local scholars of an active international scene. It's not by accident that in the introduction Andersen and Pøld ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
media . mobile . music . net . video
TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek - The Politics of the Impure, Towards a Theory of the Imperfect
V2_ Publishing/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056627485, 208 pages, English, 2010Did technology historically foster the concept of "purity"? If we look back, we find in mechanical sounds and visual reproduction an attitude towards imitation and then improvement and enhancement of embedded characteristics. "High fidelity" and "high definition" are still popular approaches to sensory delight and the unstoppable complexity of technology has supported this for decades. It's the same ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . interactive . mobile
Finger-nose, extended nose features
The touchscreens used by smartphones can sometimes undermine the agility of these devices as they often require the use of both hands. But for the (many) people for whom the smartphone is an appendage of the body (as discussed in McLuhan), this kind of use can be very frustrating. Overcome by this feeling in the bathtub, the English artist and designer Dominic Wilcox invented a simple
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Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Counterblast: 1954 Facsimile
Gingko Press, Inc, English, ISBN-13: 978-1584234524, 32 pagesMcLuhan "zine"?!? This must be the first reaction once exposed to Counterblast. In the early golden era of the mimeograph, which also lead to a wave of science fiction zines in the U.S., the visionary theorist was already experimenting in communicating his own sharp and enlightening ideas. In the year of the McLuhan centennial, Transmediale festival has cooperated with Gingko Press to reprint a facsimile ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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. PAGES: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - Vivo arte.mov 2010 - Report from Belem
Check the Vivo arte.mov 2011 photo set here.
arte.mov has been a major Brazilian fes- tival of art and new media in the last few years. It's especially focused on mobility, in part because it's mostly funded by Vivo, the largest mobile phone service provider in South America. In 2010 it was held in five different cities: Belém, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and São Paulo. This was the first time that Belém was involved, even though it's the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by: Miren Eraso, Alessandro Ludovico, Slavo Krekovic
Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
ISBN 8479075082
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Sonic Genoma
Suoni Futuri Digitali
Wicked Style
nordiC (Dissonanze)
Tecnologie di Liberazione (2001)
Virtual Light (1995)
Internet Underground Guide (1995)
Suoni Futuri Digitali
Wicked Style
nordiC (Dissonanze)
Tecnologie di Liberazione (2001)
Virtual Light (1995)
Internet Underground Guide (1995)
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assistant editor:
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contributors:
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Vito Campanelli
Jonah Brucker Cohen
Valentina Culatti
Michael Dieter
Daphne Dragona
Vicente Gutierrez
Matteo Marangoni
Paolo Pedercini
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Chiara Ciociola
infrastructure design
and consulting:
Paolo Cirio
translations:
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technical consulting:
Paolo Mangraviti
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