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art . interactive . visual

Phase = Order, escaping the screen

Phase = Order, Joris Strijbos, phase_order.jpg

In the field of expanded cinema the two-dimensio- nality of the projection screen has long been a limitation that artists have attempted to overcome through many different strategies. Rotterdam-based Joris Strijbos, member of the ensemble Macular, has found a way to take audio-visual media out of its habitual constraints. Recovering the legacy of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 23/2010
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Tele-Present Wind, blowing somewhere else

Tele-Present Wind, David Bown, tele_present_wind.jpg

The wind is a universal natural phenomena, and it's usually associated with weather conditions and forecasts. But it is still perceived as almost unforeseeable and invisible except for its physical impact on plants and for its sibilant sound. Wind has two characteristics in common with the virtual environment: the complexity of conditions needed to be generated (so, often being unforeseeable) and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 2/2010
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interactive . music . sound . visual

Otto, touching sound samples

otto, luca de rosso, otto_luca_de_rosso.jpg

Luca De Rosso offers to all those who have dreamed of manipulating a digital sample by literally touching it with their hands, a way to turn their dreams into reality. "Otto", the name of this small device designed and built by the Italian designer, is not a simple controller: it is a component integrating hardware and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Jul 12/2010
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art . interactive . videogame

Sleep Is Death, video playing with humans

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Art games are usually meant to reconsider rules, but often this reduces to just playing with conventions. "Sleep is Death (Geisterfahrer)" by Jason Rohrer, famous for his early controversial "Passage" game, is a little masterpiece of interaction. It allows two players to construct a story, but in a revolutionary way: one of them is the "computer", the other one ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:50 PM - Jul 7/2010
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art . biotech . interactive . media . science . visual

Amalgus Cycle Process1, digital genesis

Laura Zajac, Amalgus Cycle, amalgus_cycle_process1.jpg

Amalgus Cycle by Laura Zajac is an environment made up of parasitic processes triggered by organic inputs, which permeate and interconnect with organics and non-organics entities, through digital encoding, in a self-sufficient and finite mode. Process1 is actually the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Apr 1/2008
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Skinstrument, how to generate sound with human skin

Daan Brinkmann, Skinstrument, skinstrument.jpg

People are used to the sound of skin played by percussion instruments. Most of them consist of at least one membrane (skin) that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement, to produce sound. But what if the skin is human? Percussion ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Feb 12/2008
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art . biotech . interactive . media . science . tv

'Feed: interactive installation to show how life is fed by media

According to Pier Luigi Capucci, nowadays the relationship between arts and life follows two different paths. The first and more ancient is deep-rooted in the organic matter and is inspired by scientific disciplines: biology, biotechnology and genetic. The second path, more recent, comes from different ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:11 PM - Nov 27/2007
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dvd . interactive . visual

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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art . interactive . media . mobile . music . sound

Sound Jewelry, networking with sound

Sound Jewlery, Takuya Yamauchi, Toru Iwatake, sound_jewlery.jpg

Merging music and mobile technology indicates promising future developments in a rapidly emerging field. The walkman, the mobile phone, and the iPod have already integrated music into users' social and geographic erratic locations and they have also reshaped users' urban landscape experience. With ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:07 PM - Jun 26/2007
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art . interactive . net . software

Blogged, the bubble inflated by blog traffic

Is 'blog' the new ‘bubble’, ready to blow out? According to the metaphor used in ‘Blogged’, an interactive installation by Bill Shackelford the answer is: yes. This piece of 'web 2.0 art' consists of red balloon (a bit less than 2 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:15 PM - Jun 6/2007
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art . code . hacking . interactive . software

Time Based Text, the gesture in computer art

Time Based Text, Jaromil, Jodi, time_based_text.jpg

Thinking about gesture in art, people usually refer to choreography. If the topic is related to IT, instead, usability becomes the issue. But, what about gesture in computer art? Does it mean natural interaction or is it just a matter of performance? Certainly, a gesture is a way for emphasizing ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Apr 7/2007
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SoniColumn, digital interactive music box

Throughout the twentieth century western society was dominated by the machine. The fascination artists held for the beauty and power of mechanical processes established an enduring dialogue between creativity and technology. ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:48 PM - Feb 6/2007
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art . book . interactive . sound

Achim Wollscheid - Resolving Interactions

book - Selektion - ISBN 3934801021
Resolving Interactions is an interactive computer-light installation that codes interaction with art as a daily experience in a place meant for a different purpose, as the workspace. The abstract simple light-behaviours calculated by the machine are describing past and future walking patterns by people ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:50 PM - Dec 28/2006
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art . interactive . literature . software . sound

Phonetica, similarities in babel territories

Phonetica by Nao Tokui is a project that identifies homophones in the more than six thousands existing world languages. It's a cross-disciplinary project that, reconciling art and science, propose an innovative key to the reading of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:31 PM - Oct 17/2006
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Ombea, a paradoxical physical interaction

Ombea, FAMU, Film Academy of Prague Ombea, FAMU, Film Academy of Prague, ombea.jpg

These people so scared by silence' Chuck Palaniuk writes in Lullaby, 'these sound-oholics are my neighbors'. To resist the siege of noise, some students from FAMU (Film Academy of Prague) has created OMBEA, an interactive installation, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:20 PM - Oct 12/2006
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Bion, man-machine artificial relationship.

Bion, Andrew H. Fagg, Adam Brown, bion.jpg

Exploring the relationship between man and artificial life seem to be the purpose of Bion, a project realized by Adam Brown, an artist studyin electronic media dynamics, and Andrew H. Fagg, an Oklahoma University teacher. The work ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:48 AM - Sep 27/2006
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Ars Electronica 2006 - Simplicity report

Ars Electronica, 2006, ars_electronica_2006_report.jpg

During the last ten years Ars Electronica themes have tried to be the litmus paper for the digital scene. In 2003, the epiphany of software art, the object of research was 'CODE: the language of our time', while in 2002, shortly before the Iraq war, it was 'Unplugged, Art as the Scene of Global Conflict'. It is ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:57 AM - Sep 23/2006
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art . biotech . interactive . sound

BrainWaves, neural sounds

BrainWaves, Georgia Tech University, brainwaves.jpg

BrainWaves is a project of complex systems' data representation, like the human brain, developed at the Georgia Tech University by the students of neural engineering (prof. Steve Potter). The experiment is based upon the application of some pattern recognition techniques (through these techniques data - or patterns - are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:43 PM - Sep 21/2006
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SPIN, a journey to the core of physicality

There has always been a 'natural' gap between digital and physical environments. Sometimes you get a high level of immersion without a proper involvement of your body, while some other times you are a spectator in front of your physiological functions. In order to help bridging the gap Time's Up, the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:02 PM - Sep 4/2006
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art . book . interactive . media . visual

Bernadette Wegenstein - Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory

The MIT Press - ISBN 0262232472 The concept of disembodiment disseminated by computer networks has affected as a virus our perception of what is physical. The physicality is something different now, instinctively considered more precious, more related to the time lapse we experience it and in the end more deeply enjoyed in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:22 AM - Aug 11/2006
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ISEA 2006, ZeroOne San Jose, A Global Festival of Art on the Edge

The thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) is running in San Jose this week. After the latest editions of Paris in 2000, Nagoya in 2002 and Stockholm / Helsinki / Tallin ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:08 AM - Aug 10/2006
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Interferenze 2006, Naturalis Electronica

How rooted in their own territory are usually new media arts festival? The italian Interferenze is year after year pushing on their unique location (in the middle of the mountains of Partenio) to seamlessy integrate digital culture with its own natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 PM - Aug 4/2006
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Emotion's Defibrillator, consciousness short circuit

Emotion_s Defibrillator, Tobias Grewening, emotion_s_defibrillator.jpg

If the semantic notations are crucial for communication, then let's say that a brain-computer interface is a direct technological interface between a brain and a computer , where the word 'brain' is understood to imply the physical brain of an organic life form and 'computer' is understood to imply a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 AM - May 10/2006
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art . interactive . media . video

Meanwhile, interactive online film

Meanwhile, David Clark, Jeff Howard, Chris Mendis, Shelley Simmons, meanwhile.jpg

Godard once said that a film must have a beginning, middle and an end, but not necessarily in this order. This is the source of inspiration of Meanwhile, by David Clark, Jeff Howard, Chris Mendis and Shelley Simmons, an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:23 PM - May 6/2006
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art . interactive . net

Nowhere, rhizomatic sculpture

Nowhere, Ralf Baecker, nowhere_sculpture.jpg

To be born, grow up and die. All in three weeks. This is the vital cycle of Nowhere, electronic landscape conceived by Ralf Baecker. It's a net project, based on a search engine results (a concept originally developed here and later experimented ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:31 PM - Apr 22/2006
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Arabesk 24, abstract narrative perception

Arabesk 24, Gijs van Bon, arabesk_24.jpg

Arabesk 24 by Gijs van Bon can be assimilated to the artistic works that in the 20s were categorized as 'Kinetic Art', and defined by Bruno Munari and Umberto Eco as "a plastic art genre where the forms, colors and planes movements is the medium to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:06 PM - Apr 5/2006
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#41, Colors, Television Microwave And Ghost

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Yoshi Sodeoka, with his 'c404' handle, is among the artists who prefer experimenting on the fringe of the 'official' electronic art exhibitions. He's got a very peculiar and recognizable style. #41, Colors ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Jun 5/2003
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