Articles

Pure Data in the summer

Pure Data (Pd) presents the ultimate, free software environment for sheer audio, video and hardware pluggability, patching and piping. Pd provides the basis for all manner of audiovisual performance and trans-media installation, as well as satisfying the artistic quest for heady experimentation and improvisation..... READ MORE...

Biological Imperative

Structured around what the Tissue Culture and Art Project has called "cultural perceptions of life", Biological Imperative freely mixes ideas of partial personhood, the possibilities of regeneration, multiples, fecundity, the semi-living, and the undead (things that just won't die.)... READ MORE...

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008

During the summer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the National Art Museum of China will present SYNTHETIC TIMES - Media Art China 2008 in its current location at the center of Beijing . NAMOC is the only national art museum in China that is dedicated to the research, presentation and promotion of modern and contemporary arts.... READ MORE...

How To Talk to Images

For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.... READ MORE...

Hacker Space Fest

The first Hacker Space Fest (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab near Paris, France in June 2008. The goal of this festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on.... READ MORE...

Tuned City

Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and conference project planned for July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposes a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic... READ MORE...

Cronosfera Festival

CronoSfera Festival intende affacciarsi sull’ immaginario contemporaneo e sulle percezioni del Futuro, sul piano dell’espressione artistica, attraverso un concorso video e mostre di arte contemporanea; sul piano scientifico, attraverso tavole rotonde gestite da giovani ricercatori e divulgatori scientifici... READ MORE...

A Show On Friendship

Nico and the Navigators are back to Italy as absolute protagonists of that Image Theatre able to win spaces of thought, with reflexions born from the same social drama analysis already examined by Victor Turner in the essay Performance in Postmodern Culture and able to show the public a creative approach half-way between improvisation, and absurd and maniacal rituals.... READ MORE...

Koan01+ootchio: Landscapes From A Past Future

After three editions dedicated to great masters such as Cunningham, Glass and Bertolucci, the fourth edition of FUTURO PRESENTE festival opens up to the broader theme of the links between arts and new technologies: the legacy of the great experimenters, the dreams and utopias of the greatest twentieth-century protagonists revised and developed by artists who employ the latest technologies as lenses through which to observe and shape the world.... READ MORE...

The Last Supper: Souvenir From Milan

Behind the scenes there is a cultural turmoil of anxiety, trouble, phone calls, institutional activism (which characterizes me and has involved me a lot) to obtain from the Ministry the already granted and then revoked authorization to Greenaway to elaborate his reading, animated with lights and sounds, of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, exactly like he admirably did with Rembrandt's Night Watch and he is going to do with Picasso's Guernica.'... READ MORE...