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(ready) media: hacia una arqueología de los medios y la invención en méxico
6xdvd, Laboratorio Arte AlamedaCelebrating ten years of activity, LAA (Laboratorio Arte Alameda), a prominent art, media and technology institution based in Mexico City, has released this superb collection of six dvds containing audio and video material mostly produced in the late-nineties and two-thousands by Mexican artists. LAA first established a documentation centre in the usual way: documenting artists’ work and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . music . video
a film by Amy Grill, Speaking in Code : Everything Changes When You Get Lost in Music
sQuare, DVD, 2008This is a documentary film made with passion about passionate musicians. Amy Grill, director, and her husband David Day, a techno enthusiast working at a Cambridge (U.S.)-based music distributor decided to fund this movie about their shared love for techno, shot over the course of a few years. She narrates the film, and both of them appear as the main characters of the movie. But their passion just ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . sound art . visual
Luis Felipe Ortega, Israel Martinez - Triptych
Aagoo Rec., dvd, 2011, ACO026The symbiosis between a video artist and a musician can lead to unexpectedly effective synergies when both of them take on a shared territory to investigate. This is what happened to Luis Felipe Ortega and Israel Martinez who have produced intriguing audio-visual art about what they define as "the sculpted character of the landscape." Their joint multi-sensorial explorations have some peculiar traits. In fact, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . music . visual
Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee - av8ion ep
lightrhythm visuals
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2010 The now expansive VJ scene has historically included quite a few talented designers fond of club music, coupling it with their visual skills. In the 2000s a few Vjing "labels" were born, producing a different range of products, aimed more at its own niche than to the general public. Lightrhythm Visuals, one such label, has produced a number of dvd "albums". These products are more often ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . software . video
Conceiving Ada (a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson)
DVD, microcinema
, 2010Released in 1997 this movie celebrated one of the most underrated woman in the history of technology. In fact, Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (here interpreted by Tilda Swinton) has been acknowledged as a mathematical genius who conceived and developed the first computer programming language, a century before the first computer was invented. The movie was directed by famous artist Lynn Hershman, who ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . sound . video
Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards
errant bodies - records, #05, 2009"I wish the medium would be inside me" says Leif Elggren in an interview with the label owner Brandon LaBelle. The uneasiness that characterizes Elggren's work is unfolded quickly and nervously during the interview, as a sort of performance, revealing important personal details in every answer about his own human and artistic condition. The insufficiency of media (even the real-time digital ones) to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . media . music
VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret
cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the "Weimar Cabaret." This Cabaret included burlesque, darkness and comedy, and while its practices ended decades ago, its legacy can be found here in the form of modern music video artifacts. Culturally this is an environment that pushes on a theatrical and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . music
Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique
Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, EnglishPrélude au sommeil (Prelude to sleep) is a documentary film catching the spirit of Jean-Jacques Perrey, an eclectic electronic music pioneer who began his impressive career in the fifties. The film reconstructs the trajectory of a free spirit who flew to the USA with his early Ondioline electronic instrument (sponsored by Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau). Perrey is often briefly interviewed, but ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . magazine . media . video
ASPECT - Volume 14: Middle East
dvd, VOL 14, FALL 2009, U.S.A., EnglishThis is the usual excellent selection by Aspect (a bi-annual video-magazine on dvd) on a topic tough to explore: the Middle East. The format is usual: a collection of videos in a double version: the original work and one commented on by a renowned critic. Carefully avoiding stereotypes, focusing just on the hottest areas, and mostly including ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yoshihide Sodeoka - Video Metal
C505, Content004, USA, 2009, EnglishThis DVD is a real visual and sound trip. Master of visualization concepts, Yoshihide Sodeoka, is here enjoying the freedom of experimenting with both visual forms and ideas. The three pieces launch the user into an obscure and hypnotising video universe. The heavy metal atmosphere is made precarious ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working
Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, EnglishThis is a new reprint (the first release was in 2003) of an important dvd which gathers a series of audio/visual artworks made by Phill Niblock from the early 70s to middle 80s. Niblock is a historical intermedia artist, who has been mixing film and music since the late 60s, and is an acknowledged ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
copyright . dvd . hacktivism . media . video
Gomorra fake dvd, Camorra’s piracy
The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already
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art . book . dvd . media
Media Arts Zurich 13 Positions
Scheidegger & Spiess, ISBN 9783858812100, Germany, 2008, English / GermanA yearbook published by the Department of Art & Media at the Zurich University of the Arts details the support given to the young generation of media artists trained at the institution. This is a lavish product, designed to help promote talented work (and also, therefore, the school) through a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Rechenzentrum - Silence Dvd
DVD - Weiser MusicFor Rechenzentrum electronic images and rhythm have always been equally important. The use of video as an instrument, and the care for music’s visual quality - even though inspired by lettrist and dada avant gardes, or by the William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique - are modulated in often synthetic and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . book . dvd . media . net . visual
edited by Jillian Hamilton - Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction
book + dvd - Australasian CRC for Interaction Design - ISBN 0977597806 This a luxurious documentation of the project "Intimate Transactions", a complex interactive installation by the Transmute Collective based in Australia. In the work, affections and emotions are tentatively implemented through a different from usual interface: sound actuators and a custom mechanism to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . video . visual
Jorge Castro aka Fisternni - Messy
DVD - Manipulatto SplendidSince the very first frames, in Messy, an audio-video project by Jorge Castro, published by Manipulatto Splendid, the author's genius shows through. He puts together striking technical abilities (digital images and sounds, both 'glitched' and extreme for their cuts and quality of the sequences) with an undeniable ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films
DVD - Errant BodiesThese two projects by CM Von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad, an electronic music maker specialized in field recordings and drone music and a creative filmmaker specialized in short films and video installations, follow the communication strategies used traditionally by Errant Bodies, a label ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Aaron Gerber - Six Twilights
CD + DVD - Own RecordsShreds of skin, landscapes and contrasts, fluctuating words, sweet lullabies, then fleeting shadows, familiar abstractions and novels: an aestheticization of everyday things that follows many forms and private paths in the suggestive and rarefied images of 'Six Twilights', following Aaron Gerber's airy ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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David Kristian / Ryosuke Aoike - Gost Storeys
CD + DVD - CocosolidcityShadows and thin figures, timeless architectures composed in abstract sequences, Flash animations and rendered videos, with a soundtrack by David Kristian, equally overwhelming and coherent, built on drones and dream-like audio-electronic scores, elegantly synchronized with equally classy anime ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
dvd . interactive . visual
Projectsinge - Monkey_Party [Audiovisual Anarchy]
DVD - Projectsinge / LowaveAudiovisual iterations by the Projectsinge collective (Jeanfrancois Blanquet, Florent Roussel, Jerome Blanquet) generated in sophisticated random ways, using the DVD medium very creatively, exploiting some of its technical possibilities, with different angles and a precise definition of keywords, built on a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Limmat - Municipal 44
CD+DVD - Cocosolidciti - csc15With the collective moniker of Limmat, the video and animation artist Graham Clayton-Chance and the electronic musician Ian Heywood have released 'Municipal 44' for Cocosolidcity, a project divided between a dvd and audio cd, but strongly coherent in its combinatorial use of sounds and images both ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . theatre . video
Fuckhead - Lebensfrische
dvd - Mosz - mosz012In this work by Fuckhead, purposefully ambiguous in its mix of different spectacular forms and for the issues tackled, but very clear in its formal results that plunder from the 'performing art' tradition, there's a mix of contradictory inspirations going well beyond the two components of their name, 'fuck', ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . music . science . sound . visual
Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand - Camera Lucida
dvd - Line - Line_030In 'sonoluminescence' the actual emphasis on science and art convergence meets the urge to give sound a visual dimension that has pervaded the listening space in the last decade, in vjing practices as well as generative art or live coding performances. Sonoluminescence means to transform high ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Semiconductor - Worlds in Flux
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Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt are very inspired animators. Actually they use 'motion' as a complex language, expressing meanings instinctively perceivable. It's not by accident that they define some of their work as 'sound films'. The sensitiveness to movie narrative and the importance to correlate aural ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Michael Renkel/Sonia Bender - 7ft_Konka
dvd - AbsinthElectronic textures, frequencies, fuzzy sounds, improvised moments which always come back to cyclic sequences, iterations that mimic the images, which are well programmed and selected in homogeneous loop groups. Proceeding with an extreme coherence of audio-video correspondences, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Pretty Boy Crossover and Julio Soto - We Are All Drifting
CD + dvd C0C0S0L1DC1T1The beginning of the first video works by Julio Soto, 'The Possibility Of Utopia', looks like taken from Peter Cook's radical project 'Plug City' or from another artwork shown at the famous Archigram exhibition in 1973. It's a very imaginative meta-narration that takes place in the unknown ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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O.S.T. & Transforma - Synken
dvd - ShitkatapultSidereal spaces, trembling emissions, crooked views of natural spaces and industrial places, strange beings and a human figure, halfway through the monk and the shaman. Actually electronic sounds, made out of extremely dilated drones, machinic frequencies and noise roughness, fruit of Chris ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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HC Gilje - Cityscapes
dvd - Lowave - EDV1394Sequences of metropolitan landscapes, frames undistinguishable from the multipliciy of events, where architectures, disused spaces and humans bring life to geometric abstractions and daily motions. Cinema in his primigenial essence has always dealt with this: moving pictures not separated from ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . radio . sound
RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab
dvd - RIXCUsing for artistic purposes a radio-telescope, active during the cold war as an important technological articulation of the Soviet military power, stands out as one of the few cases in the world in converting occult deployments into positive outcomes. Not anymore workable for spying and surveillance ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bent Object and FoAM - In Human Format
dvd - Foton - ISBN 9081078216In the 'In Human Format' project the abstract and oneiric images by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney (aka FoAM) are elegantly synchronized with the smoothly articulated, minimal electronic sounds by Peter Van Hoesen and Susanne Bentley (Bent Object). There's a clear attitude towards highly ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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(edited by) Michael Faulkner, D-Fuse - VJ, Audio-visual Art and VJ Culture
book + dvd - Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 185669490This is the first adequately documented VJ culture compendium. Even if vjing is only one of the many possible mutual relationships between sound and visual developed in the last twenty years of personal computing, it's has become clear that it is a pop(ular) form of performance art, able to dissect the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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John Oswald - Chronophotic, cinéma del l'immobile/moving stills
cd+dvd video - L'arc d'apparition - ohmavtr34Time-based media art is a generic label applied to all the arts involving time as one of the mandatory coordinates to experience the works. John Oswald involves time at the very center of his own work, making it the hidden fulcrum of the reality he interprets, slowing down or accelerating his own ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Various Artists - City2City
dvd video - Lowave - EDV 1394 The invisible geometry of the urban landscape has pervaded every inhabited space. The feeling of being into a full scale model of a recursive pattern of concrete, asphalt, glass and steel is becoming frequent. And the abstraction of the network of streets, with its history and content, seem to already ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . dvd . media . mobile
Moblab, Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006, German media camp 2006
dvd video - IAMASConfronting two different cultures is better when both are on the road, so out of their protective and familiar shells (the houses or the offices). The intriguing experiment of grouping some 'Mobnauts' (digital artists willing to experience a shared mobile space) from Germany and Japan for a three weeks ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Wolfgang Dorninger - Nasca, on perspectives
dvd video - Base Records - base 0606-11Inspired by the archaic oversized field drawings of the Nasca civilization, this audio video performance produces infinite lines and juxtapositions of abstracts elements in space. The original Nasca people depicted animals (or supposed underground water flows) and each of their signs (realized from 200 ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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6xdvd, Laboratorio Arte Alameda
sQuare, DVD, 2008
Aagoo Rec., dvd, 2011, ACO026
lightrhythm visuals
, dvd,
2010
DVD, microcinema
, 2010
errant bodies - records, #05, 2009
cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, English
dvd, VOL 14, FALL 2009, U.S.A., English
C505, Content004, USA, 2009, English
Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already
...
Scheidegger & Spiess, ISBN 9783858812100, Germany, 2008, English / German
DVD - Weiser Music
DVD - Manipulatto Splendid
DVD - Errant Bodies
CD + DVD - Own Records
CD + DVD - Cocosolidcity
DVD - Projectsinge / Lowave
CD+DVD - Cocosolidciti - csc15
dvd - Mosz - mosz012
dvd - Line - Line_030
dvd - Absinth
CD + dvd C0C0S0L1DC1T1
dvd - Shitkatapult
dvd - Lowave - EDV1394
dvd - RIXC
dvd - Foton - ISBN 9081078216
book + dvd - Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 185669490
cd+dvd video - L'arc d'apparition - ohmavtr34
dvd video - Lowave - EDV 1394
dvd video - IAMAS
dvd video - Base Records - base 0606-11

