Articles

Direktorenhouse

Das Direktorenhaus is a new art space in Berlin, where a simulation of a temporary Gesamtkunstwerk, the total art work, will be explored. Here traditional art and craft methods will be coupled with analogue technology and digital media, however they will not just be limited to their aesthetic values instead this is an experimental directive with a social resonances.... READ MORE...

Synthesis: Processing and Collaboration

Across their careers, Dan Sandin and Tom DeFanti have invented entirely new ways of how mediation operates - extending its ability of recording through processing and into a synthesis of new possibilities. This has taken place through an ongoing process of collaboration where a synthesis of art, engineering and science developed pioneering methods that would influence the creation of the field of new media art.... READ MORE...

Carsten Nicolai + Marko Peljhan Polar M (Mirrored)

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] presents polar m [mirrored], a brand new installation piece. Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan, two artists who keep operating on the international stage, team up once every ten years for a collaborative investigation into the state, concept and informational environment of the ever-transforming "earth as environment" in the respective age. Part of this long-term project, this exhibition proposes a new understanding of human existence and living environments as formulated by the artists in the year 2010.... READ MORE...

Learning Machines Art Education and Alternative Production of Knowledge

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano) – the first private art Academy in Italy founded by artists in order to oppose the rigid structure of the official Academy, organizes and hosts an international project "Learning Machines. Art Education and alternative production of knowledge". Through a vast number of initiatives this event will not just articulate the past and future of NABA, but will also stem to provide a profound reflection, and open up a discussion on the relationship between art and education, between institutional and non-institutional practices.... READ MORE...

Transmediale 11

transmediale.11, the International Festival of Art and Digital Culture is taking place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from the 1st to the 6th of February, 2011. It is devoted to the radical changes of our digital age. With the title RESPONSE:ABILITY transmediale.11 calls for joint reflection on how we live with and on the Internet today.... READ MORE...

Club Transmediale 11

This 12th edition of Berlin's unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts takes place from 01 - 06. February 2011 under the watchword #LIVE!?. With new venues and novel themes, CTM 2011 appears this year in a new guise to fathom the latest developments at the interface of music, art and technology, in terms both of theory and practice.... READ MORE...

Madatac 02

At the height of the 2009 economic crisis, the first edition of MADATAC (Muestra Abierta de Arte Audiovisual Contemporáneo) came as a salutary shock. Based on the interchange of experience and know how, MADATAC is a unique and inclusive springboard for cutting edge audio-visual art; this year it's back…and stronger.... READ MORE...

New Media Art & Education Always Already New

Celebrating the 30 years of the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, NABA, and as part of our blueprint program aimed at exploring the relations among culture, art and technologies, the PhD Program of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node and the NABA School of Media Design & New Media Art, in collaboration with NoemaLab are organizing a 3-day meeting on December 16 – 18, 2010, in Milan @NABA to challenge, foresee and debate in a subversive, non linear, anarchic and non academic free way, future strategies and forms of education in Media, Art & Design and the role of the research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technologies.... READ MORE...

Parasol Elektroniczny Rumors from the Eastern underground

The first episode of the "Parasol Elektroniczny. Rumors from the Eastern underground" series is an exception in two regards. Firstly, as I happened to be on a journey to Tallinn at that time, Felix Kubin conducted the interviews with the artists himself. This task is usually carried out by our umbrella agents. The second unusual feature is its duration. At over 80 minutes, it could almost be considered a double feature. However, television pilot programs are often longer than their follow-ups, and I don't see any reason why this should not apply to audio features too. Also, the Estonian episode is a good introduction to the vibrancy and variety of the Eastern European underground scene.... READ MORE...

The ADA Symposium

The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and produc...tion, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the ethical complexities of global air travel, and the social complexities of remote participation?... READ MORE...

Alter Nature: We Can

Celebrating the 30 years of the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, NABA, and as part of our blueprint program aimed at exploring the relations among culture, art and technologies, the PhD Program of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node and the NABA School of Media Design & New Media Art, in collaboration with NoemaLab are organizing a 3-day meeting on December 16 – 18, 2010, in Milan @NABA to challenge, foresee and debate in a subversive, non linear, anarchic and non academic free way, future strategies and forms of education in Media, Art & Design and the role of the research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technologies.... READ MORE...

Memefest: Oliver Vodeb. Critical And Radical Comunication

In a world where communication is more and more rapid and pervasive, we constantly show a deficit of interpretative tools that allow us to really understand this complexity and to interact with it. Many of the institutions traditionally delegated to the production of such tools have gradually shown their inadequacy, crystallizing in purely aesthetic logics and marrying an idea of creativity as a gesture included in itself, which is born and consequently develops independently of the rest in a sort of perfect and pure emptiness.... READ MORE...

Necessity Or Taboo. How To Evaluate Art & Science Projects

Scientists and communicators are more and more persuaded that divulgating science to the public and involving outsiders into it is a duty rather than a choice. In order to make science is necessary to use a various range of tools: from a pen and a sheet where to draw sketches, write notes and create mental maps, to the utilization of the most advanced technology. The sciences that more evidently and more closely concern the human body, such as genomics and neurosciences, are searching for more effective ways to communicate and involve people.... READ MORE...

Passages. Travels In Hyperspace

The exhibition Passages. Travels in Hyperspace (16.10.2010 - 21.02.2011), clearly represents an attempt for the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación industrial of Gijon, Asturias, to make a qualitative leap. It doesn't mean that previous exhibitions were less ambitious - the big events the center has been hosting, starting with the first productive effort (Feedback, 2007), have few equal in the world. Indeed, the Spanish center has been curated by the world best curators (from Christiane Paul to Steve Dietz and Susanne Jaschko) who have been able to create projects that could not be conceived anywhere else.... READ MORE...

Colorito. An Interactive Renaissance Of Coulour

All at once, in the irregular Italian digital scenario, an interesting exhibition has appeared. It just ended on the 11th November 2010 in an unsuspectable location, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence. Its title is Colorito: an interactive renaissance of colour, curated by Luca Farulli (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Venice), Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab/Texas A&M University) and Frank Nack (ISLA/University of Amsterdam) who proposed a mix of traditional names of digital art and young artists, linked by their interest for colour. This exhibition was organized for the first time in Italy the last 25-29th October 2010, during the ACM Multimedia 2010 international conference (the worldwide premier multimedia conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery). The event was coordinated by Professor Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, and Professor Shih Fu Chang, Columbia University, New York.... READ MORE...