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Random Selection In Random Image - Hypermateriality
Jan Robert Leegte’s new works re-examine the hypermateriality of the digital domain. Educated as a sculptor and architect this Dutch artist has a unique approach to art in the context of the internet. His recent online work‚ Random Selection in Random Image pushes the boundaries of both the notion of creativity and of individual perception. Leegte has created a smart commentary on the
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People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - The Keystone Cut Ups
 DVD - Illegal ArtVicky Bennett (People Like Us) has become well known for her audio/visual collages that draw from old movie archives. The Keystone Cut Ups is the brilliant outcome of a collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz, a "collagist" whose style matches Bennett's perfectly. The two have already composed two albums ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . videogame . visual
Harun Farocki Interview - Serious Games In Samos
It’s certainly not often that one gets to visit thought-provoking exhibitions while on summer vacation. But this year at Samos, the closest Greek island to the coast of Turkey, an exhibition by one of the most well-reputed film and video makers of our times took place. Harun Farocki, who lives and
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activism . art . media . net . psychogeography . surveillance . visual
Street Ghosts - Virtualised Reality Made Real
The grid swallows us. Increasingly it defines and shapes our positions. Italian artist Paolo Cirio uses this uncomfortable fact as the basis for a new work. Street Ghosts reveals a sense of the awkwardness generated by the invasion of public streets by indiscreet media organisations. Google Street View, for
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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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Subpixel, de-pixeled posters
There is no doubt that every inch of public space is becoming increasingly scrutinized by microscopes intent on examining the maximum potential for attention and revenue. In the throes of an amorphous supply-demand model, which may inadvertently lead to a sanitized visual cosmopolitanism, public space remains a grayzone where visual battles from the top down and bottom up are waged
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Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim, Mic.Madeira
Crónica, dvd, Crónica 063, 2011
Field recording exploded as a practice in experimental music during the 2000s. It has been used in the most varied ways, transcending its basic nature of "sampling" the environment, and in some inspired cases evolving a more conscious sense of recording something specific, then trying to preserve the sense of that place in subsequent uses. This video is one of those cases, and it's the revised version of
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Extrafile.org, software art with practical usage
Artists have always been fascinated by imperfection. A little failure, a small mistake, an unexpected behaviour can be perceived as more meaningful and intriguing than the perfect artwork. This is even more relevant in the computer world where pushing the breaking point of technology is common practice, as shown by a renewed interest in glitch aesthetics over the past few years. A recent example
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Untiled Faces, fascinating maths
At first glance the work “Untiled Faces” by Nathan Selikoff looks like a primitive videogame, a veteran of the '70s games room. By interacting with its toggle switches, however, one senses that what happens in the very small screens framed by dark, Spartan wood is a process far removed from that of a simple arcade. The device is based on the visual representation of chaotic systems, a complex mathematical
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Particles, light spheres creating space
In the darkness our sense of place, space and time diminish and we are as lost as we are free to navigate. We are like particles adrift and while we may not require darkness to remind us, the LED-implanted synthetic spheres utilized in this installation by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi do just this. As the spheres track downward,
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VidiMasher 3000, mashup on a screen
The mashup master Mark Gunderson, aka The Evolution Control Committee, has been in the music plagiarism field for the last couple of decades. One of his latest tactical products (after so many others) is called VidiMasher 3000. It's a 122-centimeter rear-projected faux
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Quintetto, sounding goldfishes
Neural issue # 37 came with a booklet on Zachary Lieberman's workshop at Fabrica. Here Lieberman asks the question: "How can we use code to create real-time animation that is lifelike and organic?" Back in 1986 Craig Reynolds gave one answer to this question. His “Boids” algorithm,
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Link, interactive sculpture on convergence
If your name is “Kimichi and Chips”, you define yourself a cross-disciplinary art & design studio and are based between London and Seoul, it should be quite a natural challenge to create an artwork about “Convergence”. This what Elliot Woods and Mimi Son did for Design Korea 2010 with the interactive piece
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SoLu, correspondence between audio and visual spectrum
Associating music and color as a concept can be traced back to the 16th century painter Arcimboldo, even if the most quoted modern example is the "Sarabet", a sort of "color organ" invented in 1918 by pianist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt. Nevertheless objective correspondences between color and sound are rare. André Rangel' "SoLu" is an installation which converts "the exponential spacing of the intervals
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Carsten Nicolai - Moiré Index
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553086, 312 pages, August 1, 2010, EnglishCarsten Nicolai has multiple attitudes towards sound, art, science and graphic design, but they are almost perfectly consistent with each other. A follow-up to "Grid Index" (a comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems), this new heavyweight book is dedicated to moiré, the graphical pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle. The beauty of this graphical interference (which every ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Luis Felipe Ortega, Israel Martinez - Triptych
Aagoo Rec., dvd, 2011, ACO026The symbiosis between a video artist and a musician can lead to unexpectedly effective synergies when both of them take on a shared territory to investigate. This is what happened to Luis Felipe Ortega and Israel Martinez who have produced intriguing audio-visual art about what they define as "the sculpted character of the landscape." Their joint multi-sensorial explorations have some peculiar traits. In fact, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Conversation Challenger, fighting with digital devices for attention
The London-based Studio Good One collective has created a series of devices that interrogate face-to-face conversation and how technology impacts on it by physically embodying our reliance on digital communication.
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Friedrich Kittler - Optical Media
Polity Press
, 2009
, 332 pages
, English,
ISBN-13: 978-0745640914Finally available in English after eight years, "Optical Media" is an influential book by one of the major and more controversial media philosophers: Friedrich Kittler. The book is the transcript of a fourteen-lecture series he presented at Humboldt-University, Berlin in 1999, and it's meant as a "popular exposition" (as John Durham Peters defines it in the revealing introduction) of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee - av8ion ep
lightrhythm visuals
, dvd,
2010 The now expansive VJ scene has historically included quite a few talented designers fond of club music, coupling it with their visual skills. In the 2000s a few Vjing "labels" were born, producing a different range of products, aimed more at its own niche than to the general public. Lightrhythm Visuals, one such label, has produced a number of dvd "albums". These products are more often ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Plane Scape, rubber bands exploded screen
Immersive audiovisual environments are often associated with elaborate and cutting edge technologies. From Imax theaters to works such as Filmachine by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami, impressive amounts of equipment are deployed to deliver high levels of sensory involvement. But staging less gear can be more effective: Plane Scape
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Theo Burt, Colour Projections
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E80If the field of audiovisual production has two different poles (the sonified visual and the visualized sound) this work can be placed exactly in the middle. Colour Projections is software created by Theo Burt that calculates audio and minimal geometrical video conceived as single tracks of an album. Although the work has a technical web structure (it's viewed in a browser, starting from an ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
media . mobile . visual
Joiner, collage camera
The collage as an art form reminds of the way our vision works- the nanosecond twitches of focus that render our immediate visual environment. Japanese media duo exonemo have been working with this sentiment along with some inspiration from David Hockney's 'The Joiners' series, to develop an iPhone application whereby photos are instantly collaged and made manipulable. Bearing the same
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Phase = Order, escaping the screen
In the field of expanded cinema the two-dimensio- nality of the projection screen has long been a limitation that artists have attempted to overcome through many different strategies. Rotterdam-based Joris Strijbos, member of the ensemble Macular, has found a way to take audio-visual media out of its habitual constraints. Recovering the legacy of
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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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(edited by) Alka Pande, Nils Röller - Visual Arts, The India Habitat Centre's Art Journal
India Habitat Centre, volume 9, April 2008 - March 2009, India, English, 2009How much we really know about artists using communication technologies in countries not deeply involved in the art market? Not much, of course, and just thinking about that gives the impression that we're missing out on a lot of culture. India is certainly one of these territories. Since the Dutch-Indian establishment of Sarai in New Delhi, there was an entry point in a country ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Otto, touching sound samples
Luca De Rosso offers to all those who have dreamed of manipulating a digital sample by literally touching it with their hands, a way to turn their dreams into reality. "Otto", the name of this small device designed and built by the Italian designer, is not a simple controller: it is a component integrating hardware and
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R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, S. Ehmann, T. Tissot - Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899552782, English, Germany, 2010According to Olia Lialina: "Two ideas have occupied the minds of new media designers for several decades: humanization of computers and the materialization of digital phenomena." While the former is far from truly being realized, the latter is a huge trend, especially when it comes to data visualization. Quantities and relationships ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . media . tv . visual
Curious Displays, digital display becomes part of the house
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
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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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Iman Moradi. Ant Scott, Joe Gilmore, Christopher Murphy - Glitch: Designing Imperfection
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0979966668, USA, 2009, EnglishError, and even more importantly, its perception and visual beauty are at the heart of the "glitch art" movement. Be it ethereal, as with a few seconds of uncertainty in the graphic rendering, or fixed, as a more or less stable bug in a file, the glitch is a recurrent, yet peripheral visual component. This is the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . privacy . visual
Stolen Moments, a human webcam in New York
The process of getting used to being constantly watched and monitored by webcams, social networks and unscrupulous invaders of our privacy has certainly had an effect on our expressions and movements. Our everyday gestures have necessarily taken on an artificial quality due to the feeling of
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edited by Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund - Audio.Visual: On Visual and Related Media
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3897902930, Germany, 2009, EnglishCornelia and Holger Lund established and run the Fluctuating Images gallery in Stuttgart since 2004, and in 2009 they relocated to Berlin. Their activity was centered on connecting the local audiovisual artist community (with a special care for the VJ scene) with the international one through works and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sherry Turkle - Simulation and Its Discontents
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, EnglishStarting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role played by simulation in higher education, physics, chemistry and architecture research. The pivotal perception shift that is pervading the younger "world creators" seems highly risky, especially when seen from the previous generation's perspective, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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scoreLight, playing contours
Blind people have a different conventional way to "see." They use a walking stick to sense borders around them, and their task is made easier when they can use a special rubber guidance route on the street. This process is not too conceptually distant from pickup and vinyl mechanics, and it's also the
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Francesco Brunotti/Various Authors - Nocturne
Persistencebit Records, Italy, 2009This is a product in the Bitmedia series, developed by the eclectic label Persistencebit. It is devoted to the production of multimedia works related to the ambient and modern electronics scenes. It's a book of photographs by Francesco Brunotti properly entitled "Nocturne" that includes a cd album stuck to the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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