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Joiner, collage camera
The collage as an art form reminds of the way our vision works- the nanosecond twitches of focus that render our immediate visual environment. Japanese media duo exonemo have been working with this sentiment along with some inspiration from David Hockney's 'The Joiners' series, to develop an iPhone application whereby photos are instantly collaged and made manipulable. Bearing the same
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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) |
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Frances Dyson - Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
University of California Press, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0520258990, U.S.A.The most obvious link between sound and new media is that both are immaterial. Obviously there's more, especially through combination. Frances Dyson goes well beyond this point, adopting an interesting and original strategy: she argues that new media represents an "accumulation of the auditive technologies of the past." Specifically, she methodically examines ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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N.O. Cantsin - A Neoist Research Project
ISBN 978-1-906496-46-3, OpenMute, 2010, EnglishForget about certainties. Forget about authors. Forget about fancy graphic design. Forget about colors. Forget about greyscale. Forget even about page numbers. This is a Neoist book and its content was meant to radically break the rules in the eighties. And it still does. It's a comprehensive anthology of Neoism through an abundance of writings and strictly black and white ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Interferenze 2010 Rurality 2.0 report
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The idea of the nonconformist as no longer the black sheep but the one now wearing a digital player and headphones admirably sums up the theme of the 2010 edition of Interference: "Rurality 2.0". This year the electronic arts festival was held July 23rd to 25th in Bisaccia, Upper Irpinia, a significant place for its (undoubted) rural features as well as it being home to
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André Nusselder - Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
The MIT Press, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262513005, U.S.A., 2009Psychologists have been rarely very helpful in understanding the most deep and intimate relationships between men and machines. At the end of nineties one of the early scientific books investigating this field out: "The Psychology of the Internet" by Patricia Wallace. It tried to analyze emotional emergences rising on the net, which were mainly caused by the new mediated type of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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(edited by) Alka Pande, Nils Röller - Visual Arts, The India Habitat Centre's Art Journal
India Habitat Centre, volume 9, April 2008 - March 2009, India, English, 2009How much we really know about artists using communication technologies in countries not deeply involved in the art market? Not much, of course, and just thinking about that gives the impression that we're missing out on a lot of culture. India is certainly one of these territories. Since the Dutch-Indian establishment of Sarai in New Delhi, there was an entry point in a country ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Habitar - Bending the urban frame 2010 report from Laboral
 Check the Habitar photo set here. Invisible Architectures: the curiosity generated by this paradox is the starting point of Habitar - Bending the urban frame, the new stage of the broader curatorial path taken by Mediateca Expandida of the Laboral in Gijon, curated by José Luis de Vicente, with the help of Fabien Girardin. The aim is to show
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The Virtual State of Jefferson, a router state
Artists Ethan Miller and Ethan Ham have made an art installation in the Schneider Museum of Art, at the University of Southern Oregon, that transforms their university into the University of Jefferson, at least temporarily. The installation is called 'The Virtual State of Jefferson' . The work is a poetic yet also reflection
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Curious Displays, digital display becomes part of the house
In the multi-faceted world of digital imaging the ability to connect on a visceral level with an audience is becoming a main concern of any production. Often we hear the phrase, "It jumped out of the screen" when hearing someone recall a spectacular scene from a film. Although this is usually just a figure of
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Elizabeth Losh - Virtualpolitik
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262123044, USA, 2009, EnglishIn middle nineties EFF founder John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" formalizing the new autonomy from the real world bureaucracy and its walls as felt then by the Internet elite. Among the different statements it still can be read as a mounting impatience with digitally illiterate bureaucrats and their failing rhetoric, generated by a growing fear of an open and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Franco "Bifo" Berardi - The Soul at Work
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1584350767, USA, 2009, EnglishThe life of the Italian philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi has been often connected to contemporaneity. After his seminal gestures and exploits in the seventies, his fundamental writings in the nineties about communication technologies and social movements, and his pivotal contribution to the birth of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Bill Wasik - And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, EnglishBill Wasik makes internet experiments on viral culture. He organized the first (pointless) flash mob in New York, and went on with other effective strategies, exploiting online trust and community building techniques. It's the good old meme resurgence in the times of social networking, tested through a ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Coincidence Engines, the world revolving around the clock
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Clocks have their own aura. They quantify invisible and unstoppable time. And mechanical clocks have also interesting audio properties - in fact they scan time through their repetitive sounds. Coincidence Engines is a series of artworks by [The User], a group that became famous because of their Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, composing
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Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf, Gerfried Stocker - Ars Electronica 1979-2009 the First 30 Years: The Network for Art Technology and Society
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, Germany, 2009, English, GermanCondensing thirty years of the Ars Electronica festival history into six hundred pages is the challenge of this book. It's a tough task to make a selection and to deal with the inevitable incompleteness and redundancy, as the author's disclaimer suggests: "the selection... by no means reflects any sort of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Manuel Castells - Communication Power
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Edward A. Shanken - Art and Electronic Media
Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825, UK, 2009, EnglishThe size of a book is often influencing the reader. The so called "coffee table" size is either meant to entertain the casual reader in a usually public reading space, or to enhance the publisher's effort on the chosen topic, giving it the physical status of a referential book. "Art and Electronic Media" is a coffee ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Embroidered text messages, stitching virtual memory
Are we in danger of losing our memory? Lynne Brindley, Head of the British Library, has warned that as websites come and go, the memory of the nation may disappear too, leaving historians and citizens of the future with a "black hole in the knowledge base of the 21st century". On a more personal level,
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Rita Raley - Tactical Media
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, EnglishDespite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media art projects. In the classic theorization by Geert Lovink and David Garcia for the Next Five Minutes events, Michel de Certeau’s ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Pa++ern, esoteric language for embroidery
Pa++ern is an installation piece bringing about new interactions in social media by utilizing user-generated code strings via Twitter. It converts this data into a textile end-product using embroidering machinery. Media artists Daito Manabe
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Tim Tate's Reliquaries, video/glass fragility
Tim Tate could truly be described as a mixed-media artist. His glass reliquaries are formed from combining glass cases, objects and electronic circuitry, such as speakers, with a small video screen. The screen displays a short piece of work that plays from a DVD player housed in the bottom of the glass case. The DVD
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Matteo Pasquinelli - Animal Spirits, A Bestiary of the Commons
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626631, The Netherlands, 2009, EnglishHow can gentrification, free culture, pornography and Baudrillard coexist in the pages of the same book? Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons is a peculiar and oblique work that challenges many of cyberculture's recurring narratives. Matteo Pasquinelli, media activist and net porn expert, successfully ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Florian Cramer - nkdlunch.mp4, tapetrff.mp4
Floppy Films, The Netherlands, 2009Disappeared from our desktops first because of cd-rom burners and then (after regretting losing the floppy's quick data portability) because of USB keys, the floppy disk is still supported by major OSs, but is often found sleeping in quantities in boxes as old relics. The floppy disk (3.5") has been the medium ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mathieu O'Neil - Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745327969, UK, 2009, EnglishThe internet, in the early days of social spreading, has represented the utopia of a medium fully supporting horizontal organizations within self established communities. If this has partially happened, especially in the most successful cases, it is also thanks to an internal organization that explicitly or implicitly establishes hierarchies. The communities that are able to produce outstanding outcomes ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sound Chaser, running a vinyl rail track
Almost none of the dozens of interactive music tables have escaped the "abstraction" trap, sticking with similar, familiar "elements" made in perfect geometric shapes that assume the identity of "instruments", "samples", "drums", you name it. Yuri Suzuki's "Sound Chaser" instead tries to exploit a connective system that has already
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Internet-avgift, a torrent of payments
Pirate Bay owners Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata), Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom recently were given prison sentences for their roles in running a BitTorrent torrent aggregator that centralises free music, film and software trading. Ordered to pay 30 million Swedish
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edited by Fan Di'an and Zhang Ga - Synthetic Times: Media Art China
National Art Museum of China, The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262512268, China/USA, 2009, EnglishDuring the peak period of global attention on China, before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the biggest exhibition of digital art in China took place at the National Art Museum in China. It was not really a local effort, but a joint international one, gathering together most of the major historical ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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WikiLeaks, sensitive documents as a common
WikiLeaks is an astonishing community platform that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents relating to governmental, corporate, or religious acts, effectively preserving the anonymity and untraceability of its
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Edited by Christiane Paul - New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Curatorial Models for Digital Art
University of California Press, ISBN 9780520255975, USA, 2008, EnglishThis is an anthology of eight essays plus four case studies on the curatorial practices in digital art. The carefully selected essays by Charlie Gere, Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Joasia Krysa, Jon Ippolito, Sara Diamond and Patrick Lichty represent a good compendium of the inherent discourse. This is especially supported by practical issues addressed in the case studies section where curators Beryl Graham, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Dead Pixel in Google Earth, hacking satellite maps one pixel at a time
As someone who lives in a major metropolitan city and travels constantly, Google's "Maps" and "Earth" applications are an essential necessity for finding my way through these urban landscapes. Whether it's to meet a friend for coffee in a location I'm not familiar with or to discover the shortest route between
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Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Inke Arns - Waves, The Art of the Electromagnetic Society
HMKV/Kettler, ISBN 9783941100008, Germany, 2008, EnglishArmin Medosch wisely reminds us in the beginning of his introductory essay that "we've been an electromagnetic society for over one hundred years". Waves are all over us, invisibly filling up the space as more and more electronic wave- emitting and receiving devices surround us. After a historical ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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TimeStopper, Stop time like a "Hero"
Today's traditional Single Lens Reflex (SLR) digital and analog cameras are meant to do one thing, and perform this task well. Their aim is to take a picture from the vantage point of a lone photographer in order to produce a replica of that person's frame of vision at a specific place in time. Responding to this
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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
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Colin J. Bennett - The Privacy Advocates, Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026383, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishPrivacy is one of strangest beasts of our time. It's something we are supposed to defend strenuously, but also something we give away for free too often. And because of this alternate awareness it would perhaps be best considered as one of the most immaterial belongings of the whole immaterial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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