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dvd . media . music

VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret

Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010, twisted_cabaret.jpg

cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
This 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 ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 25/2010
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Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique

Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, English
Prélude 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 ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jul 29/2010
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art . dvd . magazine . media . video

ASPECT - Volume 14: Middle East

dvd, VOL 14, FALL 2009, U.S.A., English
This 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 ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Jul 18/2010
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Yoshihide Sodeoka - Video Metal

C505, Content004, USA, 2009, English
This 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 ]

Posted at 05:12 PM - Apr 22/2010
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Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
This 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 ]

Posted at 06:24 PM - Aug 13/2009
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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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Feb 27/2009
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Media Arts Zurich 13 Positions

Scheidegger & Spiess, ISBN 9783858812100, Germany, 2008, English / German
A 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 ]

Posted at 04:46 PM - Dec 31/2008
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Rechenzentrum - Silence Dvd

DVD - Weiser Music
For 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 ]

Posted at 07:03 PM - Jun 3/2008
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edited by Jillian Hamilton - Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction

Buy this book!

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 ]

Posted at 12:20 PM - Mar 27/2008
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Jorge Castro aka Fisternni - Messy

DVD - Manipulatto Splendid
Since 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 ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Jan 22/2008
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CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad, Two Film, Hashima, Japan 2002, field recording, experimental, electronic music, drone, architecture, urban geography, documentary, audio-visual, landscape, site-specific, performance, filmmaker, video, Al Qasr, Aurelio Cianciotta, errantbodies_twofilms.jpg

DVD - Errant Bodies
These 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 ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Oct 29/2007
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Aaron Gerber - Six Twilights

CD + DVD - Own Records
Shreds 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 ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Oct 18/2007
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David Kristian / Ryosuke Aoike - Gost Storeys

CD + DVD - Cocosolidcity
Shadows 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 ]

Posted at 09:27 AM - Oct 2/2007
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Projectsinge - Monkey_Party [Audiovisual Anarchy]

DVD - Projectsinge / Lowave
Audiovisual 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 ]

Posted at 12:00 PM - Sep 25/2007
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Limmat - Municipal 44

CD+DVD - Cocosolidciti - csc15
With 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 ]

Posted at 10:53 PM - Aug 30/2007
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art . dvd . theatre . video

Fuckhead - Lebensfrische

dvd - Mosz - mosz012
In 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 ]

Posted at 10:40 AM - Aug 27/2007
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art . dvd . music . science . sound . visual

Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand - Camera Lucida

dvd - Line - Line_030
In '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 ]

Posted at 05:01 PM - Jun 21/2007
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Semiconductor - Worlds in Flux

dvd - FatCat Records - fatsp14dvd
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 ]

Posted at 05:48 PM - Apr 5/2007
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Michael Renkel/Sonia Bender - 7ft_Konka

dvd - Absinth
Electronic 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 ]

Posted at 07:20 PM - Mar 16/2007
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Pretty Boy Crossover and Julio Soto - We Are All Drifting

Pretty Boy Crossover, Julio Soto, We Are All Drifting, C0C0S0L1DC1T1, prettyboycrossover_soto.jpg

CD + dvd C0C0S0L1DC1T1
The 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 ]

Posted at 11:53 AM - Mar 9/2007
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O.S.T. & Transforma - Synken

dvd - Shitkatapult
Sidereal 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 ]

Posted at 10:46 AM - Mar 6/2007
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HC Gilje - Cityscapes

dvd - Lowave - EDV1394
Sequences 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 ]

Posted at 11:17 AM - Feb 23/2007
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art . dvd . radio . sound

RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab

dvd - RIXC
Using 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 ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Feb 19/2007
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Bent Object and FoAM - In Human Format

Bent Object, FoAM, In Human Format, Foton, ISBN 9081078216, bent_object_foam_in_human_format.jpg

dvd - Foton - ISBN 9081078216
In 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 ]

Posted at 04:48 PM - Feb 16/2007
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(edited by) Michael Faulkner, D-Fuse - VJ, Audio-visual Art and VJ Culture

book + dvd - Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 185669490
This 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 ]

Posted at 10:51 PM - Jan 3/2007
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John Oswald - Chronophotic, cinéma del l'immobile/moving stills

cd+dvd video - L'arc d'apparition - ohmavtr34
Time-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 ]

Posted at 08:10 PM - Dec 29/2006
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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 ]

Posted at 07:17 PM - Dec 6/2006
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Moblab, Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006, German media camp 2006

dvd video - IAMAS
Confronting 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 ]

Posted at 01:34 AM - Nov 21/2006
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Wolfgang Dorninger - Nasca, on perspectives

dvd video - Base Records - base 0606-11
Inspired 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 ]

Posted at 09:59 AM - Oct 31/2006
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Aspect vol.7, Personas and Personalities

dvd video - Aspect/Microcinema - ISBN 097496574X
If 'identity' is one of the most important topics concerning the digital possibilities of reality construction, 'personality' is a more general aspect of the core personal traits that let us still recognize an (almost) 'human' (opposed to a 'machine'). In this issue of the valuable Aspect dvd magazine, works ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:55 PM - Oct 21/2006
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Rolf & Fonky / Scott Pagano - To Care

CD - Persistencebit Records - bit013
Software has broken the concept of video as a flowing unity, transforming it in a an artificial visual ecosystem. Scott Pagano, curator of the Reline dvd series is the director of this video collection made with the Rolf & Fonky techno duo. In every video ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:00 AM - Sep 22/2006
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Reline2

dvd video - Blackchair, Microcinema - MC-547
The vj culture is tangible in a lot of contemporary video works. The germs of the non-linear narrative (that were enabled and spread by PC post production software tools) has largely infected the video medium. As in the first Reline volume the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:15 AM - Sep 19/2006
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Joan Leandre - Archivos Babilonia, The War Room

dvd video - OVNI
Is it true that sometimes reality exceeds fantasy and leaves astounded more than any elaborated construction? In this new outcome of the research Joan Leandre is doing with his OVNI (Observatori De Video No Identificat) ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:04 PM - Sep 6/2006
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KNBSC505 - Noise Driven Ambient Audio and Visuals

YouWorkForThem - ISBN 0977624110
Beyond the overexploited abstract paradigm, there are few artists endlessly experimenting with digital technologies and video, never tired to play with new hybrids and visions. Yoshi Sodeoka (c505) is a long time member of the design underground community that feels the urge to experiment with the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:38 AM - Jul 28/2006
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Ivan Palacky & VJ Vera Lukasova aka Carpets Curtains

Errant Bodies - ebr_02 - dvd video
Where is the artist's freedom of expression if you get stuck on the narrative? The sequence and its sense in the tradition of telling a story is taken as a default. This experimental work goes straight against all this, taking the error, the interruption and the pause, and transforming them from ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:35 AM - Jul 23/2006
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