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Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet - Anarchive n°5: Fog

Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, French
In 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 ]

Posted at 01:18 PM - Mar 22/2013
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People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - The Keystone Cut Ups

DVD - Illegal Art
Vicky Bennett (People Like Us) has become well known for her audio/visual collages that draw from old movie archives. The Keystone Cut Ups is the brilliant outcome of a collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz, a "collagist" whose style matches Bennett's perfectly. The two have already composed two albums ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:50 AM - Mar 4/2013
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dvd . music . performance

Anaïs Prosaic - Eliane Radigue

DVD - La Huit / Potemkine - 2012, French, English
Virtuoso Listening is a film which turns out to be a homage to one of the female pioneers of electronic music: Eliane Radigue. Former wife of famous contemporary artist Arman, after their split she started composing avant-garde music (1967). In those early days she met minimalists like Terry Riley ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:38 AM - Feb 1/2013
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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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:23 AM - Jan 15/2013
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Oval /  OvalDNA 

Shitkatapult,  CD+DVD , Strike134, 2011 It took a decade to Markus Popp/Oval to return and release another album ("O") which radically changed its approach towards more classical sounds (with drums, guitar and a cheap computer using only pre-installed sounds and plug-ins). But, collecting together huge quantities of material from times past, now comes the magnum opus "OvalDNA". And it was worth waiting for – sporting, as it does, a twenty-five ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Sep 5/2012
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Mikhail Karikis + Uriel Orlow - Sounds From Beneath

Sub Rosa, Book+DVD, ISBN: 9780955736117, SR314, 2011, sound-from-beneath.jpg

Sub Rosa, Book+DVD, ISBN: 978095 5736117, SR314, 2011 Treating sound as memory and involving a number of different professionals can achieve the most interesting results. "Sounds From Beneath" is the result of the collaboration between composer Mikhail Karikis and visual artist Uriel Orlow on a project exploring the sounds of coal mines and their memory in the British community. This release includes the video the two produced together and a pamphlet with ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:08 PM - Aug 27/2012
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Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim, Mic.Madeira

Crónica, dvd, Crónica 063, 2011 Field recording exploded as a practice in experimental music during the 2000s. It has been used in the most varied ways, transcending its basic nature of "sampling" the environment, and in some inspired cases evolving a more conscious sense of recording something specific, then trying to preserve the sense of that place in subsequent uses. This video is one of those cases, and it's the revised version of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:32 PM - Jul 9/2012
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Scott Morrison - Ballad(s) For Quiet Horizons

Room40, dvd
This 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 ]

Posted at 09:35 AM - Feb 24/2012
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(ready) media: hacia una arqueología de los medios y la invención en méxico

6xdvd, Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Celebrating 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 ]

Posted at 04:01 PM - May 6/2011
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a film by Amy Grill, Speaking in Code : Everything Changes When You Get Lost in Music

sQuare, DVD, 2008
This 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 ]

Posted at 10:32 AM - Apr 7/2011
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Luis Felipe Ortega, Israel Martinez - Triptych

Aagoo Rec., dvd, 2011, ACO026
The 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 ]

Posted at 11:34 AM - Feb 7/2011
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Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee -  av8ion ep 

Fred Moth, Ben Sheppee,  av8ion ep , lightrhythm visuals , dvd,  2010, ep_av8ion.jpg

lightrhythm visuals , dvd,  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 ]

Posted at 08:47 PM - Nov 26/2010
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Conceiving Ada (a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson) 

Lynn Hershman Leeson),Conceiving Ada,  microcinema , 2010, Conceiving_Ada.jpg

DVD, microcinema , 2010
Released 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 ]

Posted at 08:33 PM - Oct 18/2010
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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 ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 3/2010
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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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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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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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Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet - Anarchive n°5: Fog

People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - The Keystone Cut Ups

Anaïs Prosaic - Eliane Radigue

Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues

Oval / OvalDNA

Mikhail Karikis + Uriel Orlow - Sounds From Beneath

Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim, Mic.Madeira

Scott Morrison - Ballad(s) For Quiet Horizons

(ready) media: hacia una arqueología de los medios y la invención en méxico

a film by Amy Grill, Speaking in Code : Everything Changes When You Get Lost in Music

Luis Felipe Ortega, Israel Martinez - Triptych

Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee - av8ion ep

Conceiving Ada (a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson)

Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards

VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret

Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique

ASPECT - Volume 14: Middle East

Yoshihide Sodeoka - Video Metal

Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

Gomorra fake dvd, Camorra’s piracy

Media Arts Zurich 13 Positions

Rechenzentrum - Silence Dvd

edited by Jillian Hamilton - Intimate Transactions: Art, Exhibition and Interaction

Jorge Castro aka Fisternni - Messy

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films

Aaron Gerber - Six Twilights

David Kristian / Ryosuke Aoike - Gost Storeys

Projectsinge - Monkey_Party [Audiovisual Anarchy]

Limmat - Municipal 44

Fuckhead - Lebensfrische

Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand - Camera Lucida

Semiconductor - Worlds in Flux

Michael Renkel/Sonia Bender - 7ft_Konka

Pretty Boy Crossover and Julio Soto - We Are All Drifting

O.S.T. & Transforma - Synken

Oval /  OvalDNA 

Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee -  av8ion ep 

Conceiving Ada (a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson) 