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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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Phone Story, behind Apple allure
Phone Storyis a new game by Molleindustria for Android and iPhone (available for Android but already banned by Apple and deleted from the Appstore, because it was charged with violent content and non-compliance with the technical requirements). The player has to cross four stages that represent some of the production steps that provide the high-tech industries worldwide. "Coltan" is the phase in which minerals needed for the
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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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Finger-nose, extended nose features
The touchscreens used by smartphones can sometimes undermine the agility of these devices as they often require the use of both hands. But for the (many) people for whom the smartphone is an appendage of the body (as discussed in McLuhan), this kind of use can be very frustrating. Overcome by this feeling in the bathtub, the English artist and designer Dominic Wilcox invented a simple
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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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art . interactive . mobile . theatre
Palmtop Theater - Report from V2, Rotterdam
The combination of old and new media can create surprising results. ‘Palmtop Theater’, invented by artists Jitsiru Mase and Tom Nagae is a good example of this. By translating a nineteenth century magic trick known as 'Pepper's Ghost' into contemporary mobile media Mase and Nagae manage to make content literally rise above the flatscreens of smartphones and ipads. In the 1860's Pepper's Ghost
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Newstweek, mutant news
In a crowded restaurant a small plastic box attached to a power outlet goes unnoticed. It could be a transformer or a charger. The box conceals, in fact, a small computer capable of mapping the traffic of the wireless network environment. The mini-device accesses the intercepted network by creating an SSH tunnel. Using a simple "search and replace" process, the online content viewed by users
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R E < O R D S, records mutate into apps
"Net label" is the established definition of record labels that produce only mp3 files and usually give them away (or sometimes even sell them) online. Delaware, an atypical Japanese music/design group, has established "R E < O R D S", an "iPhone/iPodTouch label" selling their products as apps. The music product in this embodiment mutates into an app, being a self-sufficient "player" containing
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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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art . media . mobile . privacy . psychogeography
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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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
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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, visual sound poetry for iPhone
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,
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art . mobile . science
Influ, self-destructive mask against the dictatorship of fear
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
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art . literature . media . mobile . preservation
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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Amagatana, bringing virtual fights into the physical world
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
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Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International - Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Melville House, ISBN 978-0091636586, USA, 2008, EnglishThe 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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
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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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Transborder Tool for Immigrants, locative media and art
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
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Inside / Out, wereable tecnologies social potential
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
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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
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Constraint City, body as a living map
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
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Concrete Dialogues, narrating the city
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,
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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
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Sound Jewelry, networking with sound
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
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Dialstation, low-cost platform for international mobile phone
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
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Social Hacking, temporary hacks in Plymouth
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
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art . biotech . mobile . net . robot
Independent Robotic Community, social network for robots and humans
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
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Ambient Addition, music from surrounding noises
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
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PigeonBlog, pigeons enabled pollution data network
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
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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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory
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
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Moblab, Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006, German media camp 2006
dvd video - IAMASConfronting 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Wolfgang Dorninger - Nasca, on perspectives
dvd video - Base Records - base 0606-11Inspired 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 ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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