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Random Selection In Random Image - Hypermateriality
Jan Robert Leegte’s new works re-examine the hypermateriality of the digital domain. Educated as a sculptor and architect this Dutch artist has a unique approach to art in the context of the internet. His recent online work‚ Random Selection in Random Image pushes the boundaries of both the notion of creativity and of individual perception. Leegte has created a smart commentary on the
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Open Your City - Share Festival 2012 Report
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Reappropriation of urban space, visions about the city of the future and grassroots participation. These main themes of Share Festival 2012 were given expression in the edition’s title - Open Your City - an imperative formula suggestive of sharing spaces and services and stressing the need for active involvement in the process of technological and social transition. This year’s Share prize included six finalists connected
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Facebook Demetricator - De-quantifier Of Social Connections
The reward-return system Facebook uses to entice users back to their profile to check for likes on posted photographs, comments on their status updates and peruse their ever-growing friend count creates an algorithm of addiction most users can testify to. Statistical number-crunching and manipulation of this data
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Algae Opera - Nurturing Algae With Soprano's Voice
Algae Opera is a work realized between Mezzo-Soprano Louise Ashcroft, composer Gameshow Outpatient and actor Samuel Lewis that uses a novel approach to cross-wire the sense of hearing and taste using algae. During a performance of this work CO2 gas which is extracted from the singers breath
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The Decelerator - Real Slow Motion
"The decelerator" designed by German artist Lorenz Potthast is a helmet made with reflective metal, aiming to provide total detachment from reality. The helmet does not generate a virtual or augmented reality, but instead changes the temporal perception of what is happening outside: it gives the user a "slow motion"
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Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet - Anarchive n°5: Fog
 Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, FrenchIn what format can a monograph be shaped in current times? It's an open question that deals with two main domains of problems: the content should be as complete as possible in every direction; and to prolong its intrinsic referential attitude, it should be accessible for as long as possible. This monograph ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . hacking . media
Tworse Key - A Twitter Telegraph
In recent decades, and perhaps nudged by the exponential growth of new technologies, media artists have demonstrated not only an increasing interest in the history of technology, but also with the non-synchronous merging of incongruous technologies in their artworks. Vintage futurism and
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art . media . performance . psychogeography
Blind Smell Stick - Emotional Urban Nose
Exploring the urban space with the nose: the work "Blind Smell Stick" by Peter de Cupere invites us to rediscover the familiar spaces in which we live. The object created looks like an ordinary walking stick but functions like the nose of a guide dog for the blind. The lower part of the stick is able to pick up odours through
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Directory Of Fictitious Telephone Numbers - Impossible Transmissions
An aseptic space. One white table and on it a printed directory, accompanied by an apparently normal looking telephone. It would seem the right environment to make a call. And calls are, in fact, made. The phone operates automatically, dialling random numbers from the many listed in the phone book
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Charles R. Acland, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence
Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0822349198, 328 pages, 2012, EnglishSubliminal communication, or being exposed to messages too quick or hidden to be consciously perceived, is an enduringly popular topic, thanks to its almost magical way of affecting us. Despite plenty of scientific evidence debunking the effectiveness of such techniques, they have permeated the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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deFacebook - Glitched Portraits
The work "deFacebook" by Indian artist Nandan Ghiya consists of a series of portraits made from images taken from popular social networks and physically printed on canvas. The selected photos are classic half-length or full-figured portraits, (partially) set up according to the classical canons of the family portrait. The wooden or
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Cipher - A Macro Wiev Of Micro
Bacteria, beings measuring just a thousandth of a millimetre across, are the most widespread organisms on Earth. They are everywhere and can survive in extreme conditions. They mutate, adapt and seem able to communicate to collectively carry out actions that are not possible for a single bacterium acting alone
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Earthcode - Rooted Computing
The cognitive neuroscientist Michael A. Persinger formulated a hypothesis that the link between human beings and the earth is so strong that a new geomagnetic field around the Earth could directly influence human conscience. On the basis of this theory, Martin Howse, mentor of the platform micro_research
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Five Introverted Machines - Disturbing Tape Head Orchestra
Stephen Cornford dedicates his experimental artistic work to the production of sounds through the employment of various manipulated objects and techniques. In his recent installation known as Five Introverted Machines, five identical first-generation Philips cassette players are set up on a white wall
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Frans Evers - The Academy of The Senses: Synesthetics in Science, Art and Education
 ArtScience Interfaculty Press - [book] ISBN: 978-94-6190-819-3, 300 pages, 2012, English The study of cross-modal perception or synesthesia is a subject of research that has found a renewed interest also due to the growth of audiovisual experimentation and the convergence of traditional media in the digital era. While there have been several recent publications on the subject, this book offers ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Amazon Random Shopper - Randomizing Compulsory Online Buying
With Amazon Random Shopper, Darius Kazemi applies the concept of random generation, already proposed in previous projects, to the process of online buying. After selecting a keyword from Wordnick API, a bot inserts it into the Amazon search engine and buys the first product in the list of the categories books, CDs and DVDs
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Carolyn Guertin - Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art
 Continuum, ISBN13: 9781441131904, 304 pages, EnglishGuertin begins to define the territory of her investigation as the "third space of authorship", borrowing a definition from Homi Bhabha's "Location of Culture". According to the author this is a site of resistance and renegotiation, in contrast to the first space of authorship as "oral culture", and the second space as "solitary genius" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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MR-808: Mechatronic 80s Drum Machine
The Roland TR-808 drum machine is an icon of electronic pop music that has spawned countless software emulators. Tired of making music in the physically constrained but potentially limitless environment of his computer, Moritz Simon Geist has created the MR-808, a physical version
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Hermes: Robotic Mobile Phone Romance
“Hello! Hello! Can You Hear me?” is a leitmotif that constantly re-emerges in mobile phone conversations. Such phrases are often associated with rising volume levels in the speaker’s voice and sometimes represent a source of disturbance for nearby listeners extraneous to the exchange
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I Am A Camera - Very Intimate Pictures
Luke Evans and Josh Lake have created intriguing process-based photographs by turning their bodies into "cameras." Both ingested 35mm photographic film slides and allowed their natural bodily functions to do the rest of the work as the film travelled through their digestive systems. After expelling the film in a dark room it was fixed using standard photographic techniques
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PirateBox DIY - Networking Surroundings
The number of times we find ourselves in a public place looking for an open or accessible wireless network shows to what extent we have to negotiate our digital presence and relationship with the digital entities surrounding us. The resulting "net-scape" is definitively flat with mostly closed commercial and home-based networks. David Darts' "PirateBox" is a self-contained mobile communication
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Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues
edited by Sarah Cook, Sara Diamond - Riverside Architectural Press / ABC Art Books Canada [book + DVD-ROM], ISBN: 9781894773225, 1100 pages, 2012, English
This imposing tome of more than one thousand pages is not too big once you realize that it hosts a systematized archive of ten years of dialogues at the seminal Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005. There are 150 original transcripts obtained from thousands of hours of recordings of various events, including the annual "Interactive Screen
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art . generative . video
Optical De-Dramatization Engine [O.D.E.] - Modulating Frames
Barbara Lattanzi's research engages with writing software that manipulates the sequence of time in movies, with aesthetically and structurally destabilizing results. Her Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E. ) is a program "modulating" frames independently and dynamically from each minute of a movie. The artist works with early 20th-century silent films and the software starts in an "algorithmically-determined point
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Plinko Poetry - Poetic Tweets Juice
"Obama texting Past convicted Catch receive Egypt’s dog". Here is an example of a poem signed by Plinko Poetry , an interactive poetry generator designed by Deqing Sun and Inessah Selditz. The single verses are composed by recombining words contained in NYTimes and Foxnews tweets, through a playful and interactive selection mechanism
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Pixelhead - Digital Mimesis
Pixelhead is a simple balaclava made with an elastic fabric very similar to swimsuit material. Its aesthetic appearance, however, is quite specific: the decorative pattern chosen by Martin Backes is indeed "pixelated" and the colour palette is similar to those that a face or a head shot would have if photographed by a digital camera
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Voice Array - Temporary Archive Of Visible Voices
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has been developing a certain attitude through his artworks, which feature space ordered matrixes and arrays of machine-controlled materials whose reactive movements unequivocally manifest an autonomous intelligence hidden somewhere
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I Love The Internet & The Internet Loves Me - The Power Of Text
Jamie Allen has used a classic strategy to connect two very different dimensions, the very intimate and the very public, maintaining their respective integrity in a very specific medium. His work "I Love the Internet and the Internet Loves Me", features a digital town crier, in the form of a column with a connected computer and a megaphone on top
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Little Bird - A Birdie Told Me A Secret
With the exponential growth information online, corporations and governments have stepped up efforts to control, regulate and track this information. Those who, conversely, have always supported the freedom of speech have continued to work, helping the Internet remain the powerful tool that we know today. The international organization Wikileaks has become
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Microsonic Landspaces - Song As 3D Sculptures
Moving beyond ubiquitous 2D visualizations of sound, Juan Manuel de J. Escalante (Realität) proposes a series of 3D sculptures that explore a new direction in the visual representation of music. "Microsonic Landspaces" is a series of 5 futuristic artifacts created with the data visualization software Processing
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I Wish I Said Hello - Street Art And A Second Chance For Love
Urban centres, parks, fashion clubs, bus stops. Humans are social animals. They meet up anywhere and check each other out continuously. Sometimes, however, these meetings don’t end up the way they were intended and are left incomplete. The street art project "I wish I said hello" started in May 2012 by Lisa Park and Andria Navarro
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Noisolation, low-tech augmented listening apparel
Since embedded audio processing gained attention during the years preceding the introduction of smartphones, a number of projects have been developed that employ computational means to establish new relationships between mobile audio devices and the acoustic environment
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art . videogame . visual
Harun Farocki Interview - Serious Games In Samos
It’s certainly not often that one gets to visit thought-provoking exhibitions while on summer vacation. But this year at Samos, the closest Greek island to the coast of Turkey, an exhibition by one of the most well-reputed film and video makers of our times took place. Harun Farocki, who lives and
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art . hacktivism . media . performance
Oh Bright Coins, keeping Capitalism current
Jonathon Keats, Managing Director of The Electrochemical Currency Exchange Company, has worked his way easily into regular ‘Wired’ coverage, the foyer of the Rockefeller Building in New York and most recently the murky depths of Far East currency exchange. His latest thought-experiment goes well beyond thinking and into the dark heart of banking. His data
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activism . art . media . net . psychogeography . surveillance . visual
Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real
The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for
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Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin - Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
The MIT Press,
ISBN: 978-0262042482
, 304 pages, 2011, English
One of the first broad discussions engaged in software art circles in the early 2000s concerned the pervasiveness of software in everyday life, at that time already perceivable in the daily transformations of the world. This book stems and flourishes from a similar starting point, investigating deeply the fundamental relationship between code and how it produces/creates/conditions space (physical or
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