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Solar Sinter, solar way of thinking
Ongoing diminution of natural resources and the urgent need to adopt more sustainabile practices are undoubtedly among the most crucial matters for the world today. As awareness increases, more and more young creators are engaging with this topic, taking a critical and active stance by building prototypes and actual alternatives. Markus Kayser is such an example; a young industrial designer
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Quantum Parallelograph, quantistic parallel lives
The ' Quantum Parallelograph ', designed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating, is a bizarre medical-looking white device made to translate our invisible inner workings into various languages interpreted by industry experts. The information produced by the machine is related to various
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Jussi Parikka - Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of behavior, ranging over contexts and discussions as wide as military theory, economics, the development of software algorithms, political organisation and user-led content generation. Indeed, as new media theorists Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Untiled Faces, fascinating maths
At first glance the work “Untiled Faces” by Nathan Selikoff looks like a primitive videogame, a veteran of the '70s games room. By interacting with its toggle switches, however, one senses that what happens in the very small screens framed by dark, Spartan wood is a process far removed from that of a simple arcade. The device is based on the visual representation of chaotic systems, a complex mathematical
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Particles, light spheres creating space
In the darkness our sense of place, space and time diminish and we are as lost as we are free to navigate. We are like particles adrift and while we may not require darkness to remind us, the LED-implanted synthetic spheres utilized in this installation by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi do just this. As the spheres track downward,
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Eve Shapiro - Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415996969, 248 pages, February 9, 2010, EnglishHow technologies are shaping and affecting our body has been often discussed in terms of "representation" and identity. Eve Shapiro is a sociologist researching the dynamic relationship between identity, embodiment and community, mainly within North America. In this book she's able to investigate various aspects of the definition of gender through a number of different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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ISEA2010 RUHR report
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The 2010 edition of the "nomadic" ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) was even more nomadic this year, traveling through three cities: Essen, Dortmund (where the core activities were held) and Duisburg. They are all part of the Ruhr region in Germany and have been granted European Capital of Culture status. With artistic directors Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles making ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Barri J. Gold - ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013727, 2010, English, U.S.A.There's an ethereal legacy between the nineteenth century (most of it was the so called Victorian era), science and technological innovation and the current digital age, almost two centuries after. Beyond recognizing the ancestors of technologies (the telegraph as the "Victorian Internet") and the subcultures producing fascinating atypical machines and settings (the steampunk ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ingeborg Reichle - Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art
Springer Verlag, Austria, English, ISBN-13: 978-3211781609The laboratory as an atelier: this seems to be one of the paradigms of art and science. "Art" and "science" are two terms that have been juxtaposed way too often, sometimes describing either "creative" science or art only citing scientific elements. This book is far away from these misunderstandings. The work restricts its field of research to three areas (genetic engineering, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Propagations, light robots as cellular automata
The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of "intelligence". So "organic" qualities are not yet generally associated with digital machines. Cellular automata (a grid of cells
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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, EnglishSound waves can't usually damage your ears unless you constantly keep headphone volume too high,or you insist on standing very close to tall speakers during a concert for too long. Used in the right way (or wrong way), however, they can be a scary armament, able to inflict various degrees of harassment, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sherry Turkle - Simulation and Its Discontents
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, EnglishStarting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role played by simulation in higher education, physics, chemistry and architecture research. The pivotal perception shift that is pervading the younger "world creators" seems highly risky, especially when seen from the previous generation's perspective, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Tardigotchi, augmented virtuality
Affection for living creatures has been widely exploited in video games. From the early abstract cellular automata, through to the seminal "Little Computer People" video game (1985), the mass popularity of Tamagotchi in the nineties, and the latest wave of the Nintendo DS "Pets" series, our protective instincts
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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) |
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Common Flowers, treating the genetic manipulation as common
If more and more of the flowers we buy at florist are cloned and if food is less and less spottable as genetically manipulated, we are facing times when the intervention with the dna of different living organisms will be considered as pop culture. Common Flowers by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel is a peculiar art project using genetic engineering
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Oil Prospecting, DIY rush for oil
Jon Cohrs is a visual artist and recording engineer whose work has focused on exploring technology and how it can promote connections that invoke a sense of development and growth. His last project, Winner of a Futuresonic 2009 Art Award Commission, is called Oil Prospecting and consists of a device
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Connect, a kinetik sculpture which models chaos
Connect is a kinetic sculpture which models chaos with oscillating spheres of steel. The artwork, created by German Andreas Muxel, produces complex behaviour, although its structure and rules are very simple. It consists of 13 modules made of a
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Digestive Table, eating your leftovers so you don't have to
Have you ever wondered what to do with your leftover food scraps from dinner? You usually have two options: 1) Throw them in the garbage or 2) Find somewhere to compost. Examining this dilemma from a conceptual art perspective, Ohio-based artist, Amy Youngs has created the "Digestive Table". The project attempts to
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edited by Beatriz da Costa, Kavita Philip - Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262042499, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishAs the essays in Tactical Biopolitics discuss at length, techno-scientific innovations have increasingly become subject to ongoing controversies through entanglements with corporate capital, ecologies, population health, identity politics and food production. Originally developed from a conference called ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Processing Photography, eyelid shuttering interface
Working with the theme, "the future of the interface," the latest exhibit ("minimal interface") at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) evaluates interface communication design while reflecting on the cultural diversity of our present day information-based society. Works on display from the fields of film, animation, sound,
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m/e/m/e 2.0, interactive installation parodying web 2.0
It is a matter of fact that in the Web 2.0 era people live their second existences diving into the so-called metaverse, the meta-universe populated by avatars as described by Neal Stephenson (1992). However, the progressive phenomenon of cyborgisation happens when people use prosthetic technology
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Wind-up Bird(s), a flock of electronic woodpeckers
Deep in the forest, something is subverting the natural order of nature. HC Gilje's Wind-up Bird(s) is a flock of electronic / mechanical woodpeckers mounted high in the trees of Lillehammer forest, Norway. Each
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Goldbergian Voting Machine, analog voting machine reinvents modular computing
The "Goldbergian Voting Machine", built over an eight week period by a group of students at UCLA's Design | Media Arts program, is a fully functional voting machine constructed from 20 individual modules, with each module designed and built by a different student in the program. The
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Eco-clubbing: Sustainable Dance Club
The Dutch agency Enviu, working in collaboration with architects from Dutch company Döll, has been working on a design for an Sustainable Dance Club. This technology, now in use, will enable dance clubs to run at a very low environmental impact and with reduced carbon
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(edited by Katharina Dohm, Heinz Stahlhut, Max Hollein and Guido Magnaguagno) - Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst, Art Machines Machines Art
book - Kehrer Verlag - ISBN 9783939583400Art Machines Machine Art photo set The autonomous physical production made by a machine has often been perceived as "magic". The perception that a non-organic entity would produce something "new", when not "original" has already been vastly debated, but the fascination of the results is still a matter of fact, underlying some ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Amalgus Cycle Process1, digital genesis
Amalgus Cycle by Laura Zajac is an environment made up of parasitic processes triggered by organic inputs, which permeate and interconnect with organics and non-organics entities, through digital encoding, in a self-sufficient and finite mode. Process1 is actually the
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Stationsraum fur assimilativen Zahlwitz, jelly numerical sequences
Stationsraum für assimilativen Zahlwitz is an audio installation made by Thom Kubli (supported by the Academy of Media Arts in Köln). Ten jelly cubes are placed in a room symmetrically with reference to the walls. In each cube there is a voice coil that sends the audio signals into the gelatinous body. Entering the room, the
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Akousmaflore, music reactive plants
The image of a fairy-tale landscape where plants welcome visitors with sounds and songs is a recurring element in literature, particularly in poetry. It's a fascination that has seduced the art world, too, where, melting with technologies, has encouraged the birth of a new genre: nature-themed interactive
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Emotional Sytems, contemporary art between emotion and reason
'Emotion' used to mark the insurmountable border between a man and a machine. Only in a distant future (science fiction, usually) machines were able to be intertwined with emotions. Actually, in real life, emotions are tracked, transmitted and mediated by machines. The brand new CCCS, Centre For
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'Feed: interactive installation to show how life is fed by media
According to Pier Luigi Capucci, nowadays the relationship between arts and life follows two different paths. The first and more ancient is deep-rooted in the organic matter and is inspired by scientific disciplines: biology, biotechnology and genetic. The second path, more recent, comes from different
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ICC Open Space 2007
Photo set
Middle-nineties were undoubtedly a seminal period for the media arts with flourishing new international initiatives that boosted by the global telematic networks advent, connecting media history with the future of media. The Tokyo's InterCommunication Center (ICC) was initiated by NTT the major Japanese
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Spinal Rhythms, autonomous embodied evolution of a biomimetic robot's rhythmic motion behavior
Reflections on artificial life are mostly centered around the dogma of digital representation: only what can be represented on a screen can be tackled and understood. This kind of approach clashes with all artificial lifeforms with a materiality of their own, such as robots, whose physical consistency forces us to
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Life as a non-linear installation
Despite the popular feelings, life in itself is a non-linear path. We are used to think about life as a permanent sequence of hours, days and years following each other. While, if we look closer to the infinite subjectivities, there is only a remote chance to get the cause and effect linear process within the whole
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