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Pendulum Choir - Complex Polyphonies And Gravitational Force
Cod.Act's Pendulum Choir explores the relationship between gravity, vocal movement in space and choral composition by placing a 9-piece choir on tilting, continuously moving platforms. A revolving, undulating hydraulic jack supports each singer. These movements have a direct physical impact on the singers, causing
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Algae Opera - Nurturing Algae With Soprano's Voice
Algae Opera is a work realized between Mezzo-Soprano Louise Ashcroft, composer Gameshow Outpatient and actor Samuel Lewis that uses a novel approach to cross-wire the sense of hearing and taste using algae. During a performance of this work CO2 gas which is extracted from the singers breath
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The Decelerator - Real Slow Motion
"The decelerator" designed by German artist Lorenz Potthast is a helmet made with reflective metal, aiming to provide total detachment from reality. The helmet does not generate a virtual or augmented reality, but instead changes the temporal perception of what is happening outside: it gives the user a "slow motion"
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Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet - Anarchive n°5: Fog
 Brouillard Anarchive [book + DVD-rom + DVD], ISBN: 978-2951813229, English, Japanese, FrenchIn what format can a monograph be shaped in current times? It's an open question that deals with two main domains of problems: the content should be as complete as possible in every direction; and to prolong its intrinsic referential attitude, it should be accessible for as long as possible. This monograph ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . media . performance . psychogeography
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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Anaïs Prosaic - Eliane Radigue
 DVD - La Huit / Potemkine - 2012, French, EnglishVirtuoso Listening is a film which turns out to be a homage to one of the female pioneers of electronic music: Eliane Radigue. Former wife of famous contemporary artist Arman, after their split she started composing avant-garde music (1967). In those early days she met minimalists like Terry Riley ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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I Am A Camera - Very Intimate Pictures
Luke Evans and Josh Lake have created intriguing process-based photographs by turning their bodies into "cameras." Both ingested 35mm photographic film slides and allowed their natural bodily functions to do the rest of the work as the film travelled through their digestive systems. After expelling the film in a dark room it was fixed using standard photographic techniques
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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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Compro Auri, the time value of listening
 The debate over the value of intellectual property has been conducted along more or less similar lines since digital file sharing came to the fore in the late 90s. While the industry attempts to equate immaterial products with traditional goods, activists and disobedient consumers struggle to maintain free access to information. A project by Brazilian artist Giuliano Obici proposes a refreshing and radical
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Fluorescene - Light Feedback Chain
In the opening pages of Understanding Media, when introducing his most controversial and well-known claim, McLuhan presented electric light as an example of a medium without a message. This concept finds a literal incarnation in the audio domain in the practice of generating sounds directly from a mixing desk with no external input sources, that is to say in the use of a sound system
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Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies, Rachel Zerihan - Interfaces of Performance
Ashgate, ISBN: 9780754675761, 232 pages, 2009, English
The concept of the performance space has been definitively questioned by the use of media technologies, multiplying the possible dimensions and extending the borders. Even more important, perhaps, is the role of the "interface" in the performance field. Here the term "interface" is very well defined as "a shared space of exchange and dialogue as well as a site of contestation and
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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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Elektra 12, report from Montreal, Canada.
See the Elektra 12 photo set on FlickrMontreal is the undisputed cultural capital of Canada and the largest city in the French-speaking province of Quebec. Although there's a visible and perceivable strong legacy with France, there's never a doubt that here we're in North America, and also quite close to the U.S. Montreal is a place that has seen the rise of theaters, university labs (like the fabulous inter-universities "Hexagram" where different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Sounding Juggling Balls, minimalist music in projectile motion
At Patterns + Pleasure Festival in Amsterdam STEIM presented the premiere of several pieces written by Tom Johnson for the Gandini Juggling company. For these pieces STEIM developed a set of interactive juggling balls that react to movement by emitting sound. Tom Johnson is an American composer and former music journalist, credited with introducing the term “minimalist” into music criticism in the
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edited by Ivana Bago, Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić Kontejner: Curatorial Perspectives on the Body, Science and Technology
ISBN: 978-3868951387, Kontejner/Revolver, Croatia, 2010, 242 pagesIf you don't know Kontejner you've missed something important. This curatorial collective based in Zagreb has already a decade of history (celebrated in this book), running three different triennials about body, art, science and technology, while developing impressive relationships between the corporeal and the incorporeal. In the recurrent celebration of institutions' existence in multiples of five, this is one ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Soplarte, enchanting glass orchestra
Soplarte is a performance by an orchestra of wind instruments built using the technique of glass blowing. Recently performed at the EMAF festival 2011 in Osnabrueck, this unique ensemble was born out of the passion of Charlotte Van Wouwe (the artist who created the work) for wind instruments and glass. All the instruments used have a conical shape but with different levels of curvature, which
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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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Chris Salter - Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance
The MIT Press, 480 pages, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262195881There are few books that can be described as "essential" in a specific field. This is one of them. Salter extensively explores performances intertwined with technology in all the major contemporary domains (theatre, music, dance, visual arts, architecture, interactive environments), advocating its centrality. Although vast in size (more than 400 pages), this is a very focused research project and extremely ... [ 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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Eternal Summer Storm, (in)voluntary re-enacting performance
Eternal Summer Storm is the first experiment proposed by Choy Ka Fai within the framework of the Prospectus for a Future Body: an ambitious project whose goal, according to the Singaporean artist, is to study the conditioning processes through which the human body adapts to future technological contexts. In particular, Ka Fai deeply explores the concept of muscle memory,
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Mechanical Games, online sports video for turkers
Mechanical Games is an online sports-themed video contest. The five competition categories (lifting weights, swimming, hockey, fencing, volleyball) can be realistically represented or interpreted freely (sometimes with surreal results) through 30-60-minute videos. The participants involved were recruited in different ways. The artist
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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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White Noise Machine, machine reaction
White noise is usually used for a couple of its unique properties: its being able to cut through background noise, which leads to it being implemented in emergency vehicle sirens, and the way it can mask other distracting noises in the environment, the reason for its use in small sleep-aid machines or
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How to build a fake Google Street View car and keep your data
Google Street View is an application that allows users to virtually dive into Google's popular Maps feature and travel around at street level. It uses millions of 3D photographs to give users a 360° horizontal and 290° vertical view of their location. The photos are typically taken via car-mounted
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SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert
The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living"
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scoreLight, playing contours
Blind people have a different conventional way to "see." They use a walking stick to sense borders around them, and their task is made easier when they can use a special rubber guidance route on the street. This process is not too conceptually distant from pickup and vinyl mechanics, and it's also the
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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) |
art . mobile . performance . videogame
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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Heavy Metal Moshpit, Metal Head Orgasmatron
Video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band have certainly altered the way we interact with music by filling a quenchable void once solely occupied by air guitar and karaoke. Now //////////fur//// group is heralding the new 'metallenium' with their advanced musical interaction of user-simulated
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21st Century Home, a real virtuality experience
Irony always pervades Paolo Pedercini’s work. We are used to see it applied to digital content in a game fashion. This time Molleindustria has created a “real virtuality” experience instead. The 21st Century Home is an installation users can dive into to get the feeling of how we’ll
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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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Suffering Machine, a robot suffering for your grief
Playing off the subtleties of human attachment to animate objects and creatures, Ricardo Nascimento's "Suffering Machine" remains a relevant reminder of the trials and tribulations that we often discover with the technological apparatus and detritus that occupies our daily existence. His "Suffering Machine" is a robot consisting of three arms or
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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, online workers choral effort
With “Bicycle Built for Two Thousand” Aaron Koblin confirms himself as specialist of crowdsourcing based artworks. As Jeff Howe wrote, "crowdsourcing" is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people
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Machines that Almost Fall Over, la vita in una metafora meccanica
Machines that Almost Fall Over di Michael Kontopoulos é una scultura fatta di diverse tavole angolari con un semplice meccanismo ad orologeria montato su che alza e poi lascia cadere un martello sulla parte piatta della tavola centrale e verticale. Ciascuna delle scultura dondola lentamente su un punto che fa cardine, quasi cadendo in avanti, poi dondolano all'indietro e si
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