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Random Selection In Random Image - Hypermateriality
Jan Robert Leegte’s new works re-examine the hypermateriality of the digital domain. Educated as a sculptor and architect this Dutch artist has a unique approach to art in the context of the internet. His recent online work‚ Random Selection in Random Image pushes the boundaries of both the notion of creativity and of individual perception. Leegte has created a smart commentary on the
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Open Your City - Share Festival 2012 Report
 Check the Open Your City - Share Festival 2012 Report photo set here.
Reappropriation of urban space, visions about the city of the future and grassroots participation. These main themes of Share Festival 2012 were given expression in the edition’s title - Open Your City - an imperative formula suggestive of sharing spaces and services and stressing the need for active involvement in the process of technological and social transition. This year’s Share prize included six finalists connected
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Acoustic Space #11 - Techno-Ecologies
 edited by Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits - RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, ISSN: 1407-2858, 168 pages, 2012, EnglishAcoustic Space is a journal founded in 1998 that for a few years now has functioned as a peer-reviewed journal, usually printed every year and coinciding with a festival on the same topic (including conferences and an exhibition), held in Riga (Latvia). The main theme of issue #11 (relating to the 2011 event) is shaped on Felix Guattari's ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Facebook Demetricator - De-quantifier Of Social Connections
The reward-return system Facebook uses to entice users back to their profile to check for likes on posted photographs, comments on their status updates and peruse their ever-growing friend count creates an algorithm of addiction most users can testify to. Statistical number-crunching and manipulation of this data
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Raffael Dörig - COMPILER 04
Replay Compiler / Tweaklab [booklet + DVD], ISBN 978-3952285930, 2012, EnglishThe fourth volume of Compiler is dedicated to the multiplicity of reuse practices in audiovisual artworks produced with digital tools, interfaces and paradigms. The development of this attitude was once the preserve of artists, though in the second half of the 00s social media and the phenomenon ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jussi Parikka - What is Media Archaeology?
 Polity, ISBN: 9780745650265, 200 pages, 2012, English To understand the "futuristic" present we live in it's very important to know our past. This seems particularly true when it comes to media culture. In fact it appears that the only feasible kind of time traveling is what is usually defined as "media archaeology", which allows us to re-create and use the same mediations on content that ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tworse Key - A Twitter Telegraph
In recent decades, and perhaps nudged by the exponential growth of new technologies, media artists have demonstrated not only an increasing interest in the history of technology, but also with the non-synchronous merging of incongruous technologies in their artworks. Vintage futurism and
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Blind Smell Stick - Emotional Urban Nose
Exploring the urban space with the nose: the work "Blind Smell Stick" by Peter de Cupere invites us to rediscover the familiar spaces in which we live. The object created looks like an ordinary walking stick but functions like the nose of a guide dog for the blind. The lower part of the stick is able to pick up odours through
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Tony D. Sampson - Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN: 978-0816670055, 248 pages, 2012, EnglishThe concept of "virality" in networks was initially associated with the infection of computer viruses (and partly still is), before coming to describe the rapid and endemic spreading of content (typically visual), something that has become a holy grail for marketers concerned with commercial reward. The former ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Charles R. Acland, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence
Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0822349198, 328 pages, 2012, EnglishSubliminal communication, or being exposed to messages too quick or hidden to be consciously perceived, is an enduringly popular topic, thanks to its almost magical way of affecting us. Despite plenty of scientific evidence debunking the effectiveness of such techniques, they have permeated the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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deFacebook - Glitched Portraits
The work "deFacebook" by Indian artist Nandan Ghiya consists of a series of portraits made from images taken from popular social networks and physically printed on canvas. The selected photos are classic half-length or full-figured portraits, (partially) set up according to the classical canons of the family portrait. The wooden or
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Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey - Evil Media
 The MIT Press, ISBN: 978 0262017855, 248 pages, 2012, EnglishThe term "multimedia" has sounded obsolete for more than a decade now. This book by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey brings its archaic status into even sharper relief. Here "media" or the strategies of mediating information proliferate almost indefinitely, being mostly digital or networked ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Amazon Random Shopper - Randomizing Compulsory Online Buying
With Amazon Random Shopper, Darius Kazemi applies the concept of random generation, already proposed in previous projects, to the process of online buying. After selecting a keyword from Wordnick API, a bot inserts it into the Amazon search engine and buys the first product in the list of the categories books, CDs and DVDs
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Carolyn Guertin - Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art
 Continuum, ISBN13: 9781441131904, 304 pages, EnglishGuertin begins to define the territory of her investigation as the "third space of authorship", borrowing a definition from Homi Bhabha's "Location of Culture". According to the author this is a site of resistance and renegotiation, in contrast to the first space of authorship as "oral culture", and the second space as "solitary genius" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Alexander R. Galloway - The Interface Effect
Polity, ISBN: 9780745662534, 200 pages, 2012, English
Galloway defines interfaces as "action-oriented processes." They have "effects" (thus the title), "as they transform material states and are themselves effects of other things." This theoretical work investigates how such transformations occur and the effects they enable. It starts by discussing the actuality of Manovich's "Language of new media" book
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PirateBox DIY - Networking Surroundings
The number of times we find ourselves in a public place looking for an open or accessible wireless network shows to what extent we have to negotiate our digital presence and relationship with the digital entities surrounding us. The resulting "net-scape" is definitively flat with mostly closed commercial and home-based networks. David Darts' "PirateBox" is a self-contained mobile communication
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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
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Plinko Poetry - Poetic Tweets Juice
"Obama texting Past convicted Catch receive Egypt’s dog". Here is an example of a poem signed by Plinko Poetry , an interactive poetry generator designed by Deqing Sun and Inessah Selditz. The single verses are composed by recombining words contained in NYTimes and Foxnews tweets, through a playful and interactive selection mechanism
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Pixelhead - Digital Mimesis
Pixelhead is a simple balaclava made with an elastic fabric very similar to swimsuit material. Its aesthetic appearance, however, is quite specific: the decorative pattern chosen by Martin Backes is indeed "pixelated" and the colour palette is similar to those that a face or a head shot would have if photographed by a digital camera
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Towards The Third Culture - The Co-existence Of Art, Science And Technology
edited by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński - Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, ISBN: 9788361587545, 192 pages, 2011, English, Polish
The "Third Culture" category refers to a seminal John Brockman book from 1995, in which the author examines the work of several renowned scientists who were communicating their new ideas directly to the general public (Brockman in return refers to Charles Percy Snow's book from 1959 entitled "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution"
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Noisolation, low-tech augmented listening apparel
Since embedded audio processing gained attention during the years preceding the introduction of smartphones, a number of projects have been developed that employ computational means to establish new relationships between mobile audio devices and the acoustic environment
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Oh Bright Coins, keeping Capitalism current
Jonathon Keats, Managing Director of The Electrochemical Currency Exchange Company, has worked his way easily into regular ‘Wired’ coverage, the foyer of the Rockefeller Building in New York and most recently the murky depths of Far East currency exchange. His latest thought-experiment goes well beyond thinking and into the dark heart of banking. His data
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Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real
The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for
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edited by Alexei Monroe State of Emergence: The First NSK Citizens' Congress in Berlin
Plöttner Verlag Gmbh, ISBN: 9783862110483, 2011, 256 pages, English
Although self-proclaimed states are not a new concept, not even in art, the "NSK State in Time" established by the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) in 1992, was one of the most consistent and historically remarkable experiment. In fact it came out as a supreme expression of freedom in the beginning of the collapsing ex-Yugoslavia, creating a boundless state and issuing very plausible
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edited by Sabine Himmelsbach - produced@
Revolver Berlin,
ISBN: 978-3868951950
256 pages, German, English, 2012
Thinking for a minute of all the books celebrating the histories of different singular institutions put together, we can then imagine a sort of heterogeneous encyclopedia, comprehensively detailing a large chunk of a specific cultural scene (in this case media art). Tracing back what a single active entity has done over the years is not self-celebrating, but rather an important act of documentation. Here Edith-
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James Gleick - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Pantheon, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0375423727, Hardcover: 544 pages
This is an excellent history of information theory and science. The quantification and qualification of information is a process here investigated through key historical moments and figures, contextualized through biographical facts and narratives, starting with the amazing mechanisms of the "Talking drums
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CorruptArt in Prague: Occupy The Parliament and the Villas!
While various Occupy movements around the world are conducting events on the streets in front of financial and political institutions, in the Czech Republic preferred sites for activism have come to include parliament house and various infamous villas implicated in corruption cases. Artists recently organized the first ever performance in the local parliament house via a hacked mobile phone SMS
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Photo / Nikto, fighting with light and darkness
Photo/Nikto is a game for the iPad, designed by Annelore Schneider and Douglas Edric Stanley for the project "Unterplay" of the Master of the Media Design - HEAD Geneve. Its functioning is very simple. Before playing, the touchscreen of the device is exactly half white and half black. Touching the screen the game starts. If the room light is on, the white part of the screen gradually
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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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Paolo Pedercini
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