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art . media . preservation . video

Tim Tate's Reliquaries, video/glass fragility

Tim Tate, Reliquaries, tim_tate_reliquaries.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:15 PM - Aug 31/2009
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art . performance . software . video

21st Century Home, a real virtuality experience

21st Century Home, Paolo Pedercini, 21st_century_home.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:41 PM - Aug 20/2009
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art . dvd . music . sound . video

Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
This 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 ]

Posted at 06:24 PM - Aug 13/2009
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TimeStopper, Stop time like a "Hero"

Kenichi Okada, Time Stopper, time_stopper.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:37 AM - Mar 13/2009
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copyright . dvd . hacktivism . media . video

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Feb 27/2009
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art . sound . video

Sound Camera (Lumicon 8 III), light as sound

Sound Camera, Lumicon 8 III, Eric Archer, sound_camera_lumicon_8_III.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:13 PM - Feb 3/2009
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art . book . media . preservation . video

edited by Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel - Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990

Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Buffalo Heads, Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973, 1990, Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, vasulka_weibel_buffalo_heads.jpg

Routledge, ISBN 9780415961325, U.S.A., 2008, English
The "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 ]

Posted at 08:13 PM - Feb 2/2009
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Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine

LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón, Nowhere Now Here, nowhere_now_here.jpg

Nowhere / Now / Here photo set

Nowhere / 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 ]

Posted at 01:41 PM - Jan 26/2009
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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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art . software . video . visual

Motion-Extraction-Reanimation Series, a difference perspective on film classics

Motion Extraction Reanimation Series, Kurt Ralske, Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, motion_extraction_reanimation.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:33 AM - Aug 23/2008
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dvd . music . video . visual

Rechenzentrum - Silence Dvd

DVD - Weiser Music
For 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 ]

Posted at 07:03 PM - Jun 3/2008
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art . hacking . media . tv . video

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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dvd . video . visual

Jorge Castro aka Fisternni - Messy

DVD - Manipulatto Splendid
Since 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 ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Jan 22/2008
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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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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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activism . art . dvd . sound . video

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad - Two Films

CM von Hausswolff + Thomas Nordanstad, Two Film, Hashima, Japan 2002, field recording, experimental, electronic music, drone, architecture, urban geography, documentary, audio-visual, landscape, site-specific, performance, filmmaker, video, Al Qasr, Aurelio Cianciotta, errantbodies_twofilms.jpg

DVD - Errant Bodies
These 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 ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Oct 29/2007
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Aaron Gerber - Six Twilights

CD + DVD - Own Records
Shreds 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 ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Oct 18/2007
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hacking . hacktivism . media . tv . video

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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dvd . music . video . visual

David Kristian / Ryosuke Aoike - Gost Storeys

CD + DVD - Cocosolidcity
Shadows 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 ]

Posted at 09:27 AM - Oct 2/2007
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Limmat - Municipal 44

CD+DVD - Cocosolidciti - csc15
With 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 ]

Posted at 10:53 PM - Aug 30/2007
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art . hacktivism . mobile . net . video

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:27 PM - Aug 28/2007
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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 . literature . net . software . video . visual

Spamland, scripting video with spam

Spamland, The Brothers McLeod, spamland.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:10 PM - Jun 11/2007
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Cut Chemist video scratching the audience.

Cut Chemist, Lucas MacFadden, live at the El Rey, cut_chemist_video_scratch.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:54 PM - Jun 7/2007
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Mediaterrae 2007 report.

Mediaterrae photo set
In 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 ]

Posted at 01:41 PM - May 30/2007
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copyright . hacktivism . net . video

OpenSourceCinema, documentary mash up

Open Source Cinema, Brett Gaylor, open_source_cinema.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:00 PM - May 23/2007
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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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:19 AM - May 18/2007
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Semiconductor - Worlds in Flux

dvd - FatCat Records - fatsp14dvd
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 ]

Posted at 05:48 PM - Apr 5/2007
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Michael Renkel/Sonia Bender - 7ft_Konka

dvd - Absinth
Electronic 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 ]

Posted at 07:20 PM - Mar 16/2007
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Spin Cycle, color turntable

Spin Cycle, Spencer Kiser, spin_cycle.jpg

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 ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:34 AM - Mar 13/2007
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Pretty Boy Crossover and Julio Soto - We Are All Drifting

Pretty Boy Crossover, Julio Soto, We Are All Drifting, C0C0S0L1DC1T1, prettyboycrossover_soto.jpg

CD + dvd C0C0S0L1DC1T1
The 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 ]

Posted at 11:53 AM - Mar 9/2007
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O.S.T. & Transforma - Synken

dvd - Shitkatapult
Sidereal 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 ]

Posted at 10:46 AM - Mar 6/2007
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