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The Deleted City, social web archeology
The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content
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Stephen Jones , Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
The MIT Press
, English,
464 pp.,
ISBN 978-0262014960This book is a small gem among the many dealing with the history of media art. Stephen Jones has undertaken an excellent and extensive research project, digging not only into his valuable personal archive of Australian media art (patiently assembled over decades) but also sifting through public libraries and private collections. This is neither a dispassionate nor pretentious academic work. It is, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Leah Lievrouw, Alternative and Activist New Media
Polity Press, 200 pages, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0745641843Defining new media has always been tricky. Here, the author gives a clear and thorough definition of new media based on three components: the device/artifact which enables the ability to communicate, the communication activity/practice, and the social arrangements and organizational forms created around the artifact and the practice. This is a strong base that, coupled with an explicit reference to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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On Spam, business proposal - urban spam tag
With the work "On Spam, Business Proposal" Niels Post documents the urban intervention he acted in Brussels with a photographs series . For this action the artist has selected some of the most effective phrases contained in the commercial spam messages, the ones that claim incredible and superfast chances for personal gain. He printed these on adhesive vinyl, sticking them on the windows of
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Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash
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edited by Margit Rosen - A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961—1973
576 pages,
The MIT Press
, 2011,
English,
ISBN: 978-0262515818In the history of media art, Zagreb has definitively been on the map since the very beginning. In 1961 there was a seminal movement called "New Tendencies", which officially started with a pioneering exhibition curated by Matko Mestrovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This international group of (self-defined) researchers were investigating how emerging computer technologies could be used to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Occupy George, talking dollars
Printing on (real) one dollar bills (the ones with George Washington) enjoyable and graphically concrete data concerning the distribution of wealth in the United States: this is the premise of Occupy George, a performance created in the wake of the many growing participatory movements born out of the original "Occupy Wall Street." The notes, constituting medium and message with an incisiveness that
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Electronic Instant Camera, minimal unsaved polaroid
The volcanic mind of Niklas Roy seems to produce an unending flow of surprising ideas. After animating the curtains of his studio, he has now turned his attention towards a bizarre camera. Electronic Instant Camera is a hybrid medium made from a combination of an analog video camera and a b/w thermal printer (of the style used for printing receipts). With every
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Glitch Reality II, digital (tangible) interpretations
What happens if we scan a physical object and then restore it to its initial state using 3D technology? In his work Glitch Reality II the British designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has experienced the full cycle of scanning a common tea set and then returning it to physical dimensions. Using a laser
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Lawrence English, Site-Listening: Brisbane
ROOM 40, Book + 3" CD, Dec 2010, RMBK001, ISBN-13: 978-0980814903Collaborative sound mapping, random field recording, sonic memory and live transmission from specific sites are various approaches that have been explored and used in the recent past, especially in connection with enormous potential of active audience contribution of recordings and networked microphones. Lawrence English here uses a different approach, making use of his own substantial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jussi Parikka - Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of behavior, ranging over contexts and discussions as wide as military theory, economics, the development of software algorithms, political organisation and user-led content generation. Indeed, as new media theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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People Staring at Computers: the discreet gaze of the commodities
Kyle McDonald is well-known for exploring the boundaries of public and private space in our post-privacy world. With his Keytweeter he placed himself under digital surveillance for an entire year, capturing everything he typed with a keylogger and posting in on Twitter - 140 keystrokes at time. His most recent project gives another conceptual twist on spyware. 'People staring at
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Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold, Interface Criticism - Aesthetics Beyond Buttons
Aarhus University Press, ISBN: 978-8779345041, 2011, 296 pages, EnglishWorking on interface aesthetics since the early 2000s, the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at the University of Aarhus never gave up its pioneering research goals. Hosting the ReadMe software art festival in 2004, the organization started to ground its research on software culture, joining the local scholars of an active international scene. It's not by accident that in the introduction Andersen and Pøld ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Counterblast: 1954 Facsimile
Gingko Press, Inc, English, ISBN-13: 978-1584234524, 32 pagesMcLuhan "zine"?!? This must be the first reaction once exposed to Counterblast. In the early golden era of the mimeograph, which also lead to a wave of science fiction zines in the U.S., the visionary theorist was already experimenting in communicating his own sharp and enlightening ideas. In the year of the McLuhan centennial, Transmediale festival has cooperated with Gingko Press to reprint a facsimile ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Vivo arte.mov 2010 - Report from Belem
Check the Vivo arte.mov 2011 photo set here.
arte.mov has been a major Brazilian fes- tival of art and new media in the last few years. It's especially focused on mobility, in part because it's mostly funded by Vivo, the largest mobile phone service provider in South America. In 2010 it was held in five different cities: Belém, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and São Paulo. This was the first time that Belém was involved, even though it's the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Boskoi, wilderness addiction
Boskoi is an application for Android mobiles that allows people to create a checklist of geo-localized spontaneous food in urban areas. Created by Joey van der Bie, Maarten van der Mark and Vincent Vijn the application was developed with Ushahidi, an useful open source platform for collecting, displaying and mapping information on mobile devices. Recently it has been tried in Amsterdam where
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Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša - Podpis / Signature
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, ISBN 978-9619219218, Ljubljana, 2010, English, SlovenianOne of the artistic projects that has been successfully able to challenge the bureaucratic concept of identity in its very essence is undoubtedly "Janez Janša". The three artists who all changed their names to that of the Slovenian prime minister have gone a long way since they started to play with their new identities, misleading media and the public through various actions. The uniqueness of a name, and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
CD . art . media . music . sound art
Tristan Perich, 1-Bit Symphony
Cantaloupe Music, microchip in cd case, Ca21042, 2009-2010Coming a few years after the first Perich's 1-Bit Music "circuit album", this 1-Bit Symphony never ceases to amaze. The first problem is: how to define such a musical product (electronics in a transparent jewelry box which "executes" music)? The only reference that quickly comes to mind is the Buddha Machine, but that was made on top of something already used for other purposes. Despite its familiar ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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FoodMatch, surfing the fridges
The single portions of food at the supermarket are a strange business entity. The skimpy, perfect packaging directly links with the little windows of the huge buildings of one-room flats that are filling up all the big cities. The quantity of food inside them is always slightly more than necessary, so
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Zizi Papacharissi A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback]
![Zizi Papacharissi, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites [Paperback], 336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812, a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images6/a_networked_self_Zizi_Papacharissi.jpg)
336 pages, Routledge, English, ISBN: 978-0415801812Although hundreds of millions of people use social media platforms almost instinctively, the value, the meaning and the scale of what they are doing there is often missed, or, at best, only guessed at. In the context of a sort of global social experiment (which can't be disconnected from the rise of related industries), personal dynamics have to deal with a completely different dimension that does not ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Nilo Casares, Brian Mackern - netart_latino database
MEIAC, ISBN: 978- 8461343942Supported by the work of the curator Nilo Casares, this book is unique. Not only because it's printed in a limited edition number of copies, but more because of its content. Produced in collaboration with the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáno (MEIAC) in Spain, it focuses on Brian Mackern's "netart_latino database" - the primary work of this Uruguayan visual, net and sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
Sternberg Press, 2010, English, ISBN 978-1-933128-70-2, 176 pagesA trajectory of almost thirty years is taken as a sort of hypertext path by Jean-Yves Leloup in his parceled examination of electronic music and its rapid and compelling evolution. It's composed of short chapters focusing on a single topic. It starts with the amorphous spaces of the "Rave", and continues with the music "Territories", between tourism, nomadism and connected globalism, and the "Mix", with ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Highscreen, hacking public spaces with media archaeology
Net.Art already belongs to media archaeology as Oslo 2003 “Written in Stone” exhibition clearly stated. Exhibiting net art has always been all about commitment, because it is simply not possible to avoid interpretation if you want to show this art in a way that engages the audience in an exhibition space beyond the click of a mouse. But what happens if the action of exhibiting net.art, becomes an artwork in itself and the display area is the public space?
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Eve Shapiro - Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415996969, 248 pages, February 9, 2010, EnglishHow technologies are shaping and affecting our body has been often discussed in terms of "representation" and identity. Eve Shapiro is a sociologist researching the dynamic relationship between identity, embodiment and community, mainly within North America. In this book she's able to investigate various aspects of the definition of gender through a number of different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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) |
art . media . tv
Luminant Point Arrays, cathode ray ghosting
In contemporary art installations the television is a commonplace item, sometimes used more for its "scenic" value than for its symbolic potential. In ‘Luminant Point Arrays’ Stephan Tillmans chooses analogue TV itself as a field of research. This work is a photographic series that features the bright flash that occurs during the shutdown of the old CRT TV. The rapid suction of light that usually
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Adrian Mackenzie - Wirelessness, Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
The MIT Press, 2010, 256 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01464-9After years talking about the revolution in space perception induced by the real time IT networks, the strong industrial trend to go wireless whenever possible has pervaded space and habits. We're slowly "getting rid of cables", pushed by the industry as if cables were parasites, but unconsciously changing our culture without being aware of what is really happening technologically. Mackenzie fruitfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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edited by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, Theo Van Leeuwen V01CE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
The MIT Press, August 2010, ISBN: 978-0262013901, A Leonardo Book, 440 pp., 20 illus.Born in the context of the rich Australian audio and sound studies (as all the three editors are), this is an anthology of texts with a wide range of perspectives, dealing with the essence of the voice as a primary method of communicating and expressing, at various levels, the countless mediations that technologies apply. The symbolic, strategical or significant use of voice in dance, cinema, online ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Link, interactive sculpture on convergence
If your name is “Kimichi and Chips”, you define yourself a cross-disciplinary art & design studio and are based between London and Seoul, it should be quite a natural challenge to create an artwork about “Convergence”. This what Elliot Woods and Mimi Son did for Design Korea 2010 with the interactive piece
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edited by Clare Butcher, Angela Plohman - The Future of the Lab
Baltan Laboratories, ISBN 9789081583015, English, 2010After the establishment of the MIT Media Lab in 1985 the concept of a "Lab", meant as a space for research and experimentation with technologies and media in general, has evolved profoundly. If in the beginning the lab was a privileged space to use unaffordable tools, increasing access to technology has resulted in a shift towards the sharing of skills and visions as the primary focus. In its initial mission ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Coded Sensation, audio skin
All that happens in Coded Sensation is generated by touch. Hands sinuously caress bodies and objects that are completely covered by a shiny and iridescent black cloth, from which sounds emanate. The special fabric is created by applying a thin sheet of chromium oxide (the same used in cassette tapes) onto a simple
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Crashvertise, let's make crashes happen!
The traffic accidents aggravated the dense urban crowd and immediately the news was spread by word of mouth. People just stopped, attracted by the feverish show of a tragedy. People no longer ran, distracted by the frenzy of everyday life, but suddenly found time to stop, trying to find a place as close as possible to the scene. And they did nothing but watch. What better location for advertisements
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edited by Annet Dekker, archive2020, Sustainable Archiving of Born Digital Cultural Content
Virtueel Platform,
ISBN 978-94-90108-04-5
This is the printed outcome of the archive2020 conference held in Amsterdam in May 2009. It's not a "proceedings" book (even if there's a short report about the conference), but an edited anthology of texts, involving several tactical stakeholders with different experiences in archiving strategies of "born-digital" content. To stick with the reported definition, born-digital is "digital materials that are ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Check the ISEA2010 photo set here (140 pictures).
The 2010 edition of the "nomadic" ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) was even more nomadic this year, traveling through three cities: Essen, Dortmund (where the core activities were held) and Duisburg. They are all part of the Ruhr region in Germany and have been granted European Capital of Culture status. With artistic directors Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles making ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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