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Tim Tate's Reliquaries, video/glass fragility
Tim Tate could truly be described as a mixed-media artist. His glass reliquaries are formed from combining glass cases, objects and electronic circuitry, such as speakers, with a small video screen. The screen displays a short piece of work that plays from a DVD player housed in the bottom of the glass case. The DVD
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art . performance . software . video
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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Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working
Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, EnglishThis is a new reprint (the first release was in 2003) of an important dvd which gathers a series of audio/visual artworks made by Phill Niblock from the early 70s to middle 80s. Niblock is a historical intermedia artist, who has been mixing film and music since the late 60s, and is an acknowledged ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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TimeStopper, Stop time like a "Hero"
Today's traditional Single Lens Reflex (SLR) digital and analog cameras are meant to do one thing, and perform this task well. Their aim is to take a picture from the vantage point of a lone photographer in order to produce a replica of that person's frame of vision at a specific place in time. Responding to this
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Gomorra fake dvd, Camorra’s piracy
The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already
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Sound Camera (Lumicon 8 III), light as sound
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edited by Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel - Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990
Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, EnglishThe "gargantuan book about media art" seems to be trademark ZKM. This new tome is 840 pages and weights 3.5 kilos, and is similar to "Future Cinema" and "CTRL-SPACE", two other massive books about video art history (from different perspectives). All these books are co-edited by Peter Weibel (ZKM's ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine
Nowhere / Now / Here photo setNowhere / Now / Here is an exhibition organized by LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón: 78 works by 67 artists from 20 countries, exhibited till the end of April. The exhibition, curated by the Spanish designers Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado, walks the line between art and design, only to discover that that line ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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David Joselit - Feedback: Television against Democracy
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, EnglishThere 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 ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Smiles Less Noise, smile as interface
"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
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Motion-Extraction-Reanimation Series, a difference perspective on film classics
New York based artist Kurt Ralske is a master of visual image manipulation. With his project "Motion-Extraction-Reanimation Series", the artist reassembles material from various commercial movies such as Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" (1965) and isolates, processes, and animates only the motion content. Ralske treats motion in the films as
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Rechenzentrum - Silence Dvd
DVD - Weiser MusicFor Rechenzentrum electronic images and rhythm have always been equally important. The use of video as an instrument, and the care for music’s visual quality - even though inspired by lettrist and dada avant gardes, or by the William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique - are modulated in often synthetic and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Emotoscope, the emotional time machine
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
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2.4Ghz, detourned surveillance
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
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Breaking the News, how to mash-up news through the Net
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
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Jorge Castro aka Fisternni - Messy
DVD - Manipulatto SplendidSince the very first frames, in Messy, an audio-video project by Jorge Castro, published by Manipulatto Splendid, the author's genius shows through. He puts together striking technical abilities (digital images and sounds, both 'glitched' and extreme for their cuts and quality of the sequences) with an undeniable ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Deptford.TV Diaries
Book - OpenMute - ISBN 9780955479601Public 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 ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Contemporary rethoric through audio/video installation
‘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
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CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films
DVD - Errant BodiesThese two projects by CM Von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad, an electronic music maker specialized in field recordings and drone music and a creative filmmaker specialized in short films and video installations, follow the communication strategies used traditionally by Errant Bodies, a label ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Aaron Gerber - Six Twilights
CD + DVD - Own RecordsShreds of skin, landscapes and contrasts, fluctuating words, sweet lullabies, then fleeting shadows, familiar abstractions and novels: an aestheticization of everyday things that follows many forms and private paths in the suggestive and rarefied images of 'Six Twilights', following Aaron Gerber's airy ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Interception, camera hijacking against surveillance
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
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David Kristian / Ryosuke Aoike - Gost Storeys
CD + DVD - CocosolidcityShadows and thin figures, timeless architectures composed in abstract sequences, Flash animations and rendered videos, with a soundtrack by David Kristian, equally overwhelming and coherent, built on drones and dream-like audio-electronic scores, elegantly synchronized with equally classy anime ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Limmat - Municipal 44
CD+DVD - Cocosolidciti - csc15With the collective moniker of Limmat, the video and animation artist Graham Clayton-Chance and the electronic musician Ian Heywood have released 'Municipal 44' for Cocosolidcity, a project divided between a dvd and audio cd, but strongly coherent in its combinatorial use of sounds and images both ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Fuckhead - Lebensfrische
dvd - Mosz - mosz012In 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 ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Spamland, scripting video with spam
Spamland is the series of movies produced by the The Brothers McLeod using as scripts 'inauthentic text' used in spam messages. Inauthentic text is a generated grammatically-correct nonsense that spammers use on top
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Cut Chemist video scratching the audience.
Cut Chemist (aka Lucas MacFadden) is one of the most sophisticated solo turntablist. It's not by accident that his first full-length album, labeled Warner and including a Apple iPod nano advertisement recently featured theme, is called ‘Audience is listening’. Despite this apparently
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Mediaterrae 2007 report.
Mediaterrae photo setIn Mediaterrae the smart idea of the behind the Interferenze festival was to bring a group of international electronic artists (visual artists and musicians) on the very peculiar Montemarano carnival, during the top celebrations of the fat Tuesday. The entire town celebrated all day long with ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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OpenSourceCinema, documentary mash up
Do we really need to mash up films to prove that they are 'open texts'? As Umberto Eco wrote almost fifty years ago: artworks are texts, open to infinite interpretations and re-editions. However digital technologies, and its related copyright debate, have increased the need for open source
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KeepVid, freeing web video from the streaming corporations.
'Broadband' basically was implemented to bring video on the web. The pioneer stamp-sized quicktime shorts and the uncertainty of compression that often corrupted the frames reproduction was suddenly something of the past. YouTube was the successfull repository of choice, winning the bet for the most
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Semiconductor - Worlds in Flux
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Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt are very inspired animators. Actually they use 'motion' as a complex language, expressing meanings instinctively perceivable. It's not by accident that they define some of their work as 'sound films'. The sensitiveness to movie narrative and the importance to correlate aural ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Michael Renkel/Sonia Bender - 7ft_Konka
dvd - AbsinthElectronic textures, frequencies, fuzzy sounds, improvised moments which always come back to cyclic sequences, iterations that mimic the images, which are well programmed and selected in homogeneous loop groups. Proceeding with an extreme coherence of audio-video correspondences, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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Spin Cycle, color turntable
Spin Cycle by Spencer Kiser is a turntable that allows the user to navigate color and aural spaces. It's a plain ordinary turntable, surmounted by a webcam. On the same turntable, there are some colored plexiglass discs (shoot by the camera). Depending on chromatic combinations and on the dj's juxtapositions, sounds are produced. During
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Pretty Boy Crossover and Julio Soto - We Are All Drifting
CD + dvd C0C0S0L1DC1T1The beginning of the first video works by Julio Soto, 'The Possibility Of Utopia', looks like taken from Peter Cook's radical project 'Plug City' or from another artwork shown at the famous Archigram exhibition in 1973. It's a very imaginative meta-narration that takes place in the unknown ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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O.S.T. & Transforma - Synken
dvd - ShitkatapultSidereal spaces, trembling emissions, crooked views of natural spaces and industrial places, strange beings and a human figure, halfway through the monk and the shaman. Actually electronic sounds, made out of extremely dilated drones, machinic frequencies and noise roughness, fruit of Chris ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + del.icio.us | + digg | TrackBacks (0) |
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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
Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
Today's traditional Single Lens Reflex (SLR) digital and analog cameras are meant to do one thing, and perform this task well. Their aim is to take a picture from the vantage point of a lone photographer in order to produce a replica of that person's frame of vision at a specific place in time. Responding to this
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The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn't be that extraordinary, if it wasn't for the fact that, if you walked through the centre of Naples several days previously, you could already
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Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, English
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, English
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New York based artist Kurt Ralske is a master of visual image manipulation. With his project "
DVD - Weiser Music
The Japanese artist Kenichi Okada works a lot with how the perception of the moving image interlaces with the viewer's emotional state.
The new project by RECYCLISM ™ is hitting, as many media artists are doing yet, the prosperous muse of wireless technologies.
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
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DVD - Manipulatto Splendid
Book - OpenMute - ISBN 9780955479601
‘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
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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
dvd - Mosz - mosz012
Cut Chemist (aka Lucas MacFadden) is one of the most sophisticated solo turntablist. It's not by accident that his first full-length album, labeled Warner and including a Apple iPod nano advertisement recently featured theme, is called ‘Audience is listening’. Despite this apparently
...
Do we really need to mash up films to prove that they are 'open texts'? As Umberto Eco wrote almost fifty years ago: artworks are texts, open to infinite interpretations and re-editions. However digital technologies, and its related copyright debate, have increased the need for open source
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'Broadband' basically was implemented to bring video on the web. The pioneer stamp-sized quicktime shorts and the uncertainty of compression that often corrupted the frames reproduction was suddenly something of the past. YouTube was the successfull repository of choice, winning the bet for the most
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