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art . media . tv

Luminant Point Arrays, cathode ray ghosting

Luminant Point Arrays, Stephan Tillmans, Luminant_Point_Arrays_Stephan_Tillmans.jpg

In contemporary art installations the television is a commonplace item, sometimes used more for its "scenic" value than for its symbolic potential. In ‘Luminant Point Arrays’ Stephan Tillmans chooses analogue TV itself as a field of research. This work is a photographic series that features the bright flash that occurs during the shutdown of the old CRT TV. The rapid suction of light that usually ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:27 PM - May 4/2011
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art . media . tv . visual

Curious Displays, digital display becomes part of the house

Curious Displays, Julia Tsao, curious_displays.jpg

In the multi-faceted world of digital imaging the ability to connect on a visceral level with an audience is becoming a main concern of any production. Often we hear the phrase, "It jumped out of the screen" when hearing someone recall a spectacular scene from a film. Although this is usually just a figure of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:47 PM - Jun 4/2010
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book . hacktivism . media . tv . video

David Joselit - Feedback: Television against Democracy

The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, English
There are plenty of scientific facts which testify to the pervasiveness of television, and to the ease with which it affects our consciousness, creating what the author defines as the "image ecology". He focuses on the postwar media art, especially the early video art, not scrutinizing every single major artist of that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:00 PM - Dec 14/2008
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Smiles Less Noise, smile as interface

Smiles Less Noise, Daito Manabe, smile_less_noise.jpg

"Smiles Less Noise" a recent work by Japanese media artist and interface designer Daito Manabe, is part of a series of experimental technology works exploring cybernetics and the relationship between sound and physical expression known as the Taico Club Art Project. Always asking their trademark question, "What makes you smile?", this work ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:51 PM - Nov 11/2008
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Emotoscope, the emotional time machine

Emotoscope, Kenichi Okada, emotoscope.jpg

The Japanese artist Kenichi Okada works a lot with how the perception of the moving image interlaces with the viewer's emotional state. Emotoscope, for example, is a sort of portable camera device, which is capable of changing the viewpoint of whomever films, hence ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:04 PM - May 8/2008
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2.4Ghz, detourned surveillance

2.4Ghz, RECYCLISM, Benjamin Gaulon, 2_4ghz.jpg

The new project by RECYCLISM ™ is hitting, as many media artists are doing yet, the prosperous muse of wireless technologies. 2.4Ghz™ exploits wireless netcams populating the urban space in a very simple but interesting way. BNJMN™ GAULON (alias Benjamin Gaulon) has been riding the streets of a few European cities with a wireless video ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:33 PM - Feb 26/2008
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art . net . software . tv . video

Breaking the News, how to mash-up news through the Net

Marc Lee, Breaking the News, News Jockey, news_jockey.jpg

In “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” (1979), Lyotard argued that our postmodern age is marked by "incredulity towards grand narratives" (the progress of history, the ability of knowing everything by science, and the possibility of absolute freedom). Lyotard argues that we don't believe ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Jan 25/2008
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art . book . copyright . hacktivism . media . psychogeography . tv . video

Deptford.TV Diaries

Book - OpenMute - ISBN 9780955479601
Public space is a "common" and "common" has to be its representation / interpretation. This seems to be the the inspired ground rule of the Depford.TV unique initiative here extensively documented in a printed book format. At the core there are different implementations and visions of the sharing concept, applied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:20 AM - Jan 10/2008
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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 . biotech . interactive . media . science . tv

'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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:11 PM - Nov 27/2007
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art . media . software . sound . tv . video . visual

Contemporary rethoric through audio/video installation

‘Parallel Rethoric, Coming and Going, Zachary Poff, parallel_rethoric.jpg

‘Rhetoric’ is usually understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language. However contemporary studies of rhetoric have a more diverse range of practices and meanings than in the past. Rhetoricians now argue in fact that the classical understanding of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Nov 23/2007
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Interception, camera hijacking against surveillance

Interception, Roch Forowicz, interception.jpg

Interception is a performance of pure 'urban hacktivism', held in Poland by Roch Forowicz, an artist from Warsaw very focused on the experimentations involving video technologies with respect to surveillance and violation of privacy. In ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:20 AM - Oct 9/2007
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art . media . sound . tv

The Sentiment Machine, machines with no sentiments

The Sentiment Machine, N. B. Aldrich, the_sentiment_machine.jpg

In 'The Sentiment Machine', a self-regulating sound installation by N. B. Aldrich, a dozen of speakers dangles from the ceiling, broadcasting audio clips from TV (talk show interviews, news briefs, and soap operas). Developed for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:48 AM - Jul 6/2007
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Mire.project: test pattern as mirror of society

If you do an online search for 'mire' you can find this word standing for various acronymous such as 'Interactive Media Research' or 'Monitoring Innnovative Restructuring Europe'. However for French language its main litteral meaning is 'test pattern' and refers to the television signal, also known as test card, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Feb 21/2007
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TV hijacking, Panic on

Youtube, or as we could call it the place of DIY TV, publishes also on the web a huge quantity of rare videos. One of these rarities is the hijacking of the Chicago commercial TV channel WGN-TV that took place in 1987. ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:28 PM - Jan 29/2007
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activism . art . hacktivism . media . tv . video

Satellite of Love - Witte de With

The cathodic tube and its pervasive spread in the contemporaneity are a rich argument in itself. But during the latest Rotterdam FIlm Festival, the Witte de With museum has developed a entire program on the television production mechanisms, unveiling them to a large public. It was made by different ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:59 AM - Apr 19/2006
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'We interrupt your regularly scheduled program...'

It was the '70s and SKP Promotei group was experimenting the use of television screen in a series of artworks called 'Electronic Paniter', which consisted of programming sequences of colors through generators inside the monitor. With the digital incoming, the curiosity towards ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Mar 4/2006
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art . net . tv . visual

Spin, liquid (tele)vision mediation

The tv medium's deconstruction is often based on a radical intervention on its essential mechanism: continous and hypnotic entertainment based on frequent light and color changes. TV has the universally acknowledged role of awareness' persuader, through the allurance of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Nov 22/2005
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hacktivism . media . tv

TV Predator, invisibly assaulting the TV set

In an almost amused way, this group from London, formed by artists and designers who studied at the Royal College of Arts, invents 'intelligent' objects. One of these devices is TV Predator, which looks like a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Jun 13/2005
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