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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 . generative . video
Optical De-Dramatization Engine [O.D.E.] - Modulating Frames
Barbara Lattanzi's research engages with writing software that manipulates the sequence of time in movies, with aesthetically and structurally destabilizing results. Her Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E. ) is a program "modulating" frames independently and dynamically from each minute of a movie. The artist works with early 20th-century silent films and the software starts in an "algorithmically-determined point
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Unnamed Soundsculpture - Dancing With Data And Time
Unnamed soundsculpture is a video produced by onformative and chopchop and realized by Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer. A cloud of 22000 points, following the movements of a dancer giving a free interpretation of a track called Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek, creates the illusion of an ever changing statue of sand. The transfiguration of the human figure into grains of sand has been obtained by
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Kate Mondloch - Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art
208 pages
, Universuty Of Minnesota Press
, 2010,
English,
ISBN 978-0816665228How many screens do we face in our daily lives? How much time each day do our eyes spend watching screens of various kinds? The answer can almost feel embarrassing, but it brings the huge influence that these mediation devices have on contemporary culture into focus. Unquestionably, we "see" differently now than how we "saw" twenty or forty years ago. Kate Mondloch focuses this essential ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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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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(ready) media: hacia una arqueología de los medios y la invención en méxico
6xdvd, Laboratorio Arte AlamedaCelebrating ten years of activity, LAA (Laboratorio Arte Alameda), a prominent art, media and technology institution based in Mexico City, has released this superb collection of six dvds containing audio and video material mostly produced in the late-nineties and two-thousands by Mexican artists. LAA first established a documentation centre in the usual way: documenting artists’ work and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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a film by Amy Grill, Speaking in Code : Everything Changes When You Get Lost in Music
sQuare, DVD, 2008This is a documentary film made with passion about passionate musicians. Amy Grill, director, and her husband David Day, a techno enthusiast working at a Cambridge (U.S.)-based music distributor decided to fund this movie about their shared love for techno, shot over the course of a few years. She narrates the film, and both of them appear as the main characters of the movie. But their passion just ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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VJing by 375 Wikipedians
Greyscale Press, ISBN 978-2-9700706-0-3, August 2010, Format: Paperback, 4.25" x 6.875", 122 pagesIn her introduction, Ana Carvalho describes the production process of this book as a "wiki-sprint." It is, in fact, the result of gathering together the various people who contributed to the extensive defining of "Vjing" during a week-long writing marathon at the Mapping Festival in Geneva in May 2010. Some of them were physically present, others were online, but people from a number of countries formed the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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Conceiving Ada (a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson)
DVD, microcinema
, 2010Released in 1997 this movie celebrated one of the most underrated woman in the history of technology. In fact, Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace (here interpreted by Tilda Swinton) has been acknowledged as a mathematical genius who conceived and developed the first computer programming language, a century before the first computer was invented. The movie was directed by famous artist Lynn Hershman, who ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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The Fountainhead, photoshopping modernism
The Fountainhead is the title of a recent version of the 1949 film (directed by King Vidor), made by Société Réaliste, a Parisian art collective founded in 2004 by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy. Vidor's film took its name from the famous novel by Ayn Rand and was therefore a true manifesto of objectivism,
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Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards
errant bodies - records, #05, 2009"I wish the medium would be inside me" says Leif Elggren in an interview with the label owner Brandon LaBelle. The uneasiness that characterizes Elggren's work is unfolded quickly and nervously during the interview, as a sort of performance, revealing important personal details in every answer about his own human and artistic condition. The insufficiency of media (even the real-time digital ones) to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Kapitaal, X-ray public space
In a black environment of shapes and garbled sounds someone is lurking. The viewer walks through an environment which could well be that of a first-person shoot-em-up videogame: a jungle of logos, text, bright displays and signs. It's not an imaginary place. It is an X-ray image of
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ASPECT - Volume 14: Middle East
dvd, VOL 14, FALL 2009, U.S.A., EnglishThis is the usual excellent selection by Aspect (a bi-annual video-magazine on dvd) on a topic tough to explore: the Middle East. The format is usual: a collection of videos in a double version: the original work and one commented on by a renowned critic. Carefully avoiding stereotypes, focusing just on the hottest areas, and mostly including ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yoshihide Sodeoka - Video Metal
C505, Content004, USA, 2009, EnglishThis DVD is a real visual and sound trip. Master of visualization concepts, Yoshihide Sodeoka, is here enjoying the freedom of experimenting with both visual forms and ideas. The three pieces launch the user into an obscure and hypnotising video universe. The heavy metal atmosphere is made precarious ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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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 | + twitter | 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
The associations between sound and visuals have been one of the primary topics of media art aesthetics in the last twenty years, but technically they are still stuck in a few categories, including the digital interpretations of files in the incorrect domain of data (picture files interpreted as sound and sound files
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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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | 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 | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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