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media . mobile . visual

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:20 PM - Sep 6/2010
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art . media . mobile . privacy . psychogeography

Habitar - Bending the urban frame 2010 report from Laboral

Habitar, laboral, 2010, report_habitar_neural.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:53 AM - Jun 30/2010
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art . hacking . mobile . net . privacy

Buttons, shooting somewhere else

When you take a picture, a moment becomes a memory. The memory becomes matter. Publishing photos, through services like Flickr, has added a new dimension to the photographic process for many people. Publishing a picture on the web becomes an intentional part of the shooting process. By ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:02 PM - Apr 19/2010
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art . literature . mobile . sound

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, visual sound poetry for iPhone

Jörg Piringer, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.jpg

As Geoff Huth wrote, "we are living through what might be the greatest age of visual poetry, in a time when the methods of production and distribution are such that the form can prosper without the need for extensive capital". A convergence of factors, including the Internet, print-on-demand publishing, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:25 AM - Apr 13/2010
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art . mobile . science

Influ, self-destructive mask against the dictatorship of fear

Influ, Michel Bussien, Erik Sjödin, influ_flu_collector.jpg

Turning common sense upside down is one of the most effective strategies in art, especially when dealing with hot social topics. Swine Flu (H1N1) has been the big viral outbreak of 2009. The few rules created by authorities to prevent infection have been repeated ad infinitum, although these are only ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:50 PM - Dec 2/2009
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art . literature . media . mobile . preservation

Embroidered text messages, stitching virtual memory

Ginger Anyhow, Embroidered text messages, embroidered_text_messages.jpg

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, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:16 PM - Nov 4/2009
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art . mobile . performance . videogame

Amagatana, bringing virtual fights into the physical world

Amagatana, Body Fantasia, Yuichiro Katsumoto, amagatana_body_fantasia.jpg

In the multi-faceted genre of augmented reality gaming, many artists have attempted to translate virtual aspects of digital games into the physical world. These projects include everything from creating virtual maps transposed over physical locations, connecting the signage and language of these games ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:47 PM - Sep 8/2009
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art . book . mobile . psychogeography . science . visual

Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International - Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism

Melville House, ISBN 978-0091636586, USA, 2008, English
The representation of space, the reclaiming of space and the recoding of space through a collective negotiation of coordinates and facts are a few of the issues that "geography" at large has posed after our spatial perceptions have been enormously amplified by the internet. A full set of new "visions" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:37 PM - Aug 23/2009
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hacktivism . mobile . net

Netless, turning ad-hoc networks into homebrew ubiquity.

Taking a lesson from the advent of distributed mobile ad-hoc networks, "Netless", is a home brew version of these systems that employs a small wireless device and with built-in storage, that swaps data between other devices when they are in close physical proximity. Rather than rely on cell towers for connectivity, the project employs a large amount ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 AM - Jul 27/2009
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art . media . mobile . net . psychogeography

Dead Pixel in Google Earth, hacking satellite maps one pixel at a time

Helmut Smits, Dead Pixel in Google Earth, dead_pixel_in_google_earth.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:26 AM - Apr 1/2009
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art . hacktivism . mobile . software

Transborder Tool for Immigrants, locative media and art

Immigrants, locative media and art, Ricardo Dominguez, transborder_tool_for_immigrants.jpg

In the 1999 Headmap Manifesto, often mentioned as an earlier manifesto for locative media, Ben Russell describes an incipient new world where “real borders, boundaries, and space become plastic and malleable, statehood becomes fragmented, and global.” But in the present world borders between states ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 9/2008
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activism . art . hacking . mobile

Inside / Out, wereable tecnologies social potential

Katherine Moriwaki, Inside / Outside, inside_outside.jpg

In the art world, authors like Stelarc and Krzysztof Wodiczko have produced worrisome images of technology and body integration ignoring the expressive and aesthetic potential of wearable technology. Actually, thanks to the interchange among fashion, technology and art, artist / designer hybrids are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 8/2008
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art . mobile . net . software . tv . visual

WINDscale, visualizing the wind in a picture

Despite the increasing availability of megapixels and bandwidth, we have become used to the resolution and detail loss, often due to cheap and lossy image compression techniques. The most interesting content on the net is usually not the official crystal clear streamed video, but some unofficial or plainly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 PM - Dec 21/2007
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art . hacking . hacktivism . media . mobile . net . psychogeography

Constraint City, body as a living map

Gordan Savicic, Constraint City, The Pain of Everyday life, constraint_city.jpg

Gordan Savicic's project Costraint City - The Pain of Everyday life, exploits in a brilliant way the electromagnetic waves generated by the wireless networks spread all over the urban territory, mapping them out on his own body thanks to a jacket equipped with servo ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:53 PM - Nov 5/2007
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art . literature . mobile . net . psychogeography

Concrete Dialogues, narrating the city

Concrete Dialogues, The Concrete Organization, concrete_dialogues.jpg

The cultural mediation applied by the web to a territory representation is often conveyed by Google Maps, unfortunately the proprietary de facto standard for urban mapping. But even within its software constraints, many initiatives has started to capitalize on the possibility of collectively share some data, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:23 PM - Sep 26/2007
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art . hacktivism . mobile . net . video

Spy Box, watching the postal network from the inside

UK is a country where mail has always been duly delivered. UK is also a nation where the meaning of video surveillance is being redefined. Put these two national peculiarities in the hands of a British artist like Tim Knowles and the result is Spy Box. This artwork ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:27 PM - Aug 28/2007
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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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hacktivism . mobile

Dialstation, low-cost platform for international mobile phone

Telekommunisten, Dialstation, Dmytri Kleiner, dialstation.jpg

Launched on May 1st 2006, Telekommunisten is the first proto venture communist enterprise, one hundred per cent workers' owned and operated technology company. Based in Bootlab (Berlin), this self-declared ‘anti-war, against corporate globalization, against racism and inequality’ company, has ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:32 PM - May 9/2007
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art . hacking . hacktivism . media . mobile . sound . videogame

Social Hacking, temporary hacks in Plymouth

Social Hacking, Kurator, Plymouth, social_hacking.jpg

The 'hacking' practice is an overused and misunderstood term in pop culture and contemporary arts. 'Hacking' usually carries negative connotations and it is used referring the activity of breaking into computer systems. Nevertheless, in the computer programming community, the term 'hack' refers to a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:18 AM - Mar 8/2007
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art . biotech . mobile . net . robot

Independent Robotic Community, social network for robots and humans

Ricardo Iglesias, Gerald Kogler, Independent Robotic Community, independent_robotic_community.jpg

In a special edition of El Pais Digital reporting the Arco festival in 2001, the Spanish artist Ricardo Iglesias, one of the net art pioneers in his country, said that nothing or almost nothing ("only cliché") can be said about net art in five or six lines. However he mentioned a series of isolated topics that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Mar 7/2007
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art . mobile . psychogeography . sound

Ambient Addition, music from surrounding noises

Ambient Addition, Noah Vawter, ambient_addition.jpg

As human civilization devises ever more powerful machines, living among them may become more and more difficult. People find themselves surrounded by incidentally created sounds and noises which are out of synch with their momentary needs. In order to avoid discordant noises they tend to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:51 PM - Jan 11/2007
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art . hacktivism . media . mobile . science

PigeonBlog, pigeons enabled pollution data network

PigeonBlog, Beatriz da Costa, pigeon_blog.jpg

One of the most interesting projects that combined science, environmental awareness and art was PigeonBlog, by Beatriz da Costa, with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto. It was based on equipping pigeons with combined GPS and GSM open ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:09 PM - Dec 27/2006
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art . dvd . media . mobile . video . visual

Various Artists - City2City

dvd video - Lowave - EDV 1394
The invisible geometry of the urban landscape has pervaded every inhabited space. The feeling of being into a full scale model of a recursive pattern of concrete, asphalt, glass and steel is becoming frequent. And the abstraction of the network of streets, with its history and content, seem to already ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:17 PM - Dec 6/2006
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art . hacktivism . mobile . psychogeography . software

Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory

Mappe Resistenti, Leonardi V-Idea, Alessandro Ludovico, Gianfranco Pangrazio, Tommaso Tozzi, Marco Villani, resistant_maps.jpg

The locative dimension give us indefeasible points of reference in the daily networked and speedy life. But the process of 'mapping' is not obvious nor neutral, even if it has become so easy to experience and share. Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:23 PM - Nov 24/2006
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art . dvd . media . mobile

Moblab, Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006, German media camp 2006

dvd video - IAMAS
Confronting two different cultures is better when both are on the road, so out of their protective and familiar shells (the houses or the offices). The intriguing experiment of grouping some 'Mobnauts' (digital artists willing to experience a shared mobile space) from Germany and Japan for a three weeks ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:34 AM - Nov 21/2006
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Wolfgang Dorninger - Nasca, on perspectives

dvd video - Base Records - base 0606-11
Inspired by the archaic oversized field drawings of the Nasca civilization, this audio video performance produces infinite lines and juxtapositions of abstracts elements in space. The original Nasca people depicted animals (or supposed underground water flows) and each of their signs (realized from 200 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:59 AM - Oct 31/2006
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Real Time Rome, social cartographies

Real Time Rome, SENSEable City, real_time_rome.jpg

Can map making open the way to a more sustainable future? This is the aim of Real Time Rome, the SENSEable City Lab contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale. SENSEable City Laboratory is an initiative that studies the impact of new technologies ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:40 AM - Oct 27/2006
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art . media . mobile . sound

Distant Views / Culture Catchers, actived audio from distant places

Distant Views, Culture Catchers, Michael Sheridan, distant_views.jpg

Installed as 'Distant Views' for the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival and subsequently as 'Culture Catchers' at the gallery G-A-S-P, the artwork made by Michael Sheridan is a sound installation consisting of a transparent glass wall where ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:43 PM - Oct 18/2006
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art . mobile . software . sound

Tactical Sound Garden, cultivating sounds in public gardens

Tactical Sound Garden, Mark Shepard, Fiona Murphy, tactical_sound_garden.jpg

A virtual space that sprouts from the inner urban fabric. An interface that let the users - equipped with iPods, mobiles and laptops - enter wifi networks and simply share sound files. This is the configuration of Tactical Sound Garden, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:19 PM - Oct 5/2006
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art . mobile . sound

Call, phone call poetics

Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist active internationally. Her conceptually-generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her latest artwork, presented at ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA 2006 festival is entitled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:15 PM - Oct 3/2006
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art . hacktivism . media . mobile

NODELondon, Networked, Open, Distributed, Events

Media art, in all its meanings, has always been considered an hard topic to exhibit on. On the one hand problems of taxonomy (what is media art?), on the other its digital, ephemeral, interactive nature, have made every traditional curatorial approach inadequate. Both the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Mar 13/2006
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