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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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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) |
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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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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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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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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) |
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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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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) |
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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) |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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) |
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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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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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Untiled Faces, fascinating maths
At first glance the work “Untiled Faces” by Nathan Selikoff looks like a primitive videogame, a veteran of the '70s games room. By interacting with its toggle switches, however, one senses that what happens in the very small screens framed by dark, Spartan wood is a process far removed from that of a simple arcade. The device is based on the visual representation of chaotic systems, a complex mathematical
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L.S.D./Sonic Graffiti – Urban Screen Sonifier
Recyclism aka Benjamin Gaulon offers an original and playful reading of video advertisement displays. Competing for attention in our daily lives, plasma, led and lcd screens have become ordinary elements of the urban landscape, delivering familiar corporate propaganda in a technologically updated form. Gaulon employs his L.S.D. (light to sound device) to
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Josephine Bosma - Nettitudes, Let's Talk Net Art
Institute of Network Cultures/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056628000, 272 pages, English, 2011Who needs another book on net art? After reading this book one is forced to answer: me! In fact, different from almost all the other books on this topic (some of which are reviewed here), this is the first one written by someone who has closely followed the net.art movement since the beginning. Josephine Bosma's privileged perspective is that of an insider journalist and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sea and Spar between, digital poetical ocean
"Sea and Spar between", a work by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, is a generator of poetic lines formed by melding words and expressions from "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The work looks like a huge blue "ocean" of digital lines (about 225 trillion in total) explorable by randomly moving the mouse or by choosing precise coordinates similar to
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Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša - Podpis / Signature
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, ISBN 978-9619219218, Ljubljana, 2010, English, SlovenianOne of the artistic projects that has been successfully able to challenge the bureaucratic concept of identity in its very essence is undoubtedly "Janez Janša". The three artists who all changed their names to that of the Slovenian prime minister have gone a long way since they started to play with their new identities, misleading media and the public through various actions. The uniqueness of a name, and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
CD . art . media . music . sound art
Tristan Perich, 1-Bit Symphony
Cantaloupe Music, microchip in cd case, Ca21042, 2009-2010Coming a few years after the first Perich's 1-Bit Music "circuit album", this 1-Bit Symphony never ceases to amaze. The first problem is: how to define such a musical product (electronics in a transparent jewelry box which "executes" music)? The only reference that quickly comes to mind is the Buddha Machine, but that was made on top of something already used for other purposes. Despite its familiar ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Simulen, funny electric control
The genesis of "Simulen", a work by Congolese artist Jean Katambayi Mukendi exhibited at Pixelache 2011 festival in Helsinki, is very delicate. From the functional point of view it is a prototype for the automatic correction of electricity distribution trouble. The spark that triggered its creation is the absolute anarchy of the electrical infrastructure of the city where the artist lives, Lumbumbashi in
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Particles, light spheres creating space
In the darkness our sense of place, space and time diminish and we are as lost as we are free to navigate. We are like particles adrift and while we may not require darkness to remind us, the LED-implanted synthetic spheres utilized in this installation by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi do just this. As the spheres track downward,
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edited by Ivana Bago, Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić Kontejner: Curatorial Perspectives on the Body, Science and Technology
ISBN: 978-3868951387, Kontejner/Revolver, Croatia, 2010, 242 pagesIf you don't know Kontejner you've missed something important. This curatorial collective based in Zagreb has already a decade of history (celebrated in this book), running three different triennials about body, art, science and technology, while developing impressive relationships between the corporeal and the incorporeal. In the recurrent celebration of institutions' existence in multiples of five, this is one ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Soplarte, enchanting glass orchestra
Soplarte is a performance by an orchestra of wind instruments built using the technique of glass blowing. Recently performed at the EMAF festival 2011 in Osnabrueck, this unique ensemble was born out of the passion of Charlotte Van Wouwe (the artist who created the work) for wind instruments and glass. All the instruments used have a conical shape but with different levels of curvature, which
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Salome Voegelin - Listening to Noise and Silence: Toward a Philosophy of Sound Art
Continuum Publishing Corporation, ISBN-13: 978-1441162076, 2010, English, 256 pagesThe shared perception that sound art is either a restricted field with a fairly short number of valid artists, or an expanding field that would soon become a loose way of describing an artwork (like "video art") can be disputed only with significant research and enough supporting documentation. Salome Voegelin has written an excellent book about sound art, escaping cliché and easy categorizations. She ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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FoodMatch, surfing the fridges
The single portions of food at the supermarket are a strange business entity. The skimpy, perfect packaging directly links with the little windows of the huge buildings of one-room flats that are filling up all the big cities. The quantity of food inside them is always slightly more than necessary, so
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"Jeff Koons must die!!!", arcade-themed art
What if you were locked in an art museum overnight with a rocket launcher, during a Jeff Koons retrospective? What would you do? You would have two options: to either stroll around the virtual museum and observe a retrospective of Jeff Koons's artwork, or open fire and burn all of the art pieces down to the ground. This at least is what the multimedia American artist Huner Jonakin suggests
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edited by Nilo Casares, Brian Mackern - netart_latino database
MEIAC, ISBN: 978- 8461343942Supported by the work of the curator Nilo Casares, this book is unique. Not only because it's printed in a limited edition number of copies, but more because of its content. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáno (MEIAC) in Spain, it focuses on Brian Mackern's "netart_latino database" - the primary work of this Uruguayan visual, net and sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Lotto Beats, betting the rhythm
Deciding which lottery numbers to play is always a difficult choice. Generally the categories of thought are two: one is trusting in coincidence (when for example people obtain numbers from dreams or the events of everyday life), the other is probability theory using mathematical systems of varying complexity. Through the work Lotto Beats, Arturas Bumsteinas proposes a
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