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Palmtop Theater - Report from V2, Rotterdam

Palmtop Theater, V2, Maki Ueda, Nae Morita, Palmtop_Theater_v2.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:20 PM - Apr 27/2011
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art . sound . theatre

AEO, auditory design performance

AEO is a sound collective undertaking new directions in performance and instrument development formed by rogue engineers Kazuhiro Jo (SWO), Taeji Sawai (Golden Pink Arrow) and Eye Yamatsuka, part of the seminal Japanese noise punk ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:08 PM - Sep 17/2008
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media . music . sound . theatre

OSCulator, human synth interfaces

OSCulator is a new powerful interface engine (unfortunately not open) which allows you to connect and control different multimedia devices, remaining at the same time flexible and easy. This software uses, as the name already says, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:55 PM - Sep 20/2007
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art . dvd . theatre . video

Fuckhead - Lebensfrische

dvd - Mosz - mosz012
In this work by Fuckhead, purposefully ambiguous in its mix of different spectacular forms and for the issues tackled, but very clear in its formal results that plunder from the 'performing art' tradition, there's a mix of contradictory inspirations going well beyond the two components of their name, 'fuck', ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:40 AM - Aug 27/2007
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art . media . theatre

Shadow Bag, the awareness of the body on the screen

Shadow Bag, Scott Snibbe, shadow_bag.jpg

Normally there's an individual perception of our own shadow? What's the relationship between the body and its projection in space? This is the area of interest Shadow Bag deals with. It's an installation by Scott Snibbe, that through a complex system of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Mar 9/2006
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art . media . theatre . visual

Gameplay, the dance body-machine relationship

Gameplay, Antoine Schmitt, Jean-Marc Matos, Anne Holst, gameplay.jpg

From such a long time a dance and the electronic technologies have found a good connection, mostly in the use of motion sensors. These devices allowed the body to expand its movements beyond themselves, giving the body itself a role of a crucial node to external ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Nov 28/2005
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