Occupy the screen. Old and New Worlds of Audiovisual Militancy
The sampling culture is no longer a technical matter exclusively for experts, but a cognitive system, method of composition, characteristic of the conte... READ MORE...
Sound
The Sonic Body: Interview with Marco Donnarumma
Marco Donnarumma is a new media artist and performer of international renown, born in Italy but now based in Edinburgh. His works have been presented bo... READ MORE...
The Compass: a conversation with Virginia Colwell
Virginia Colwell is a North American artist born in Nebraska and spent her childhood in Puerto Rico. Colwell did her undergraduate studies in fine art at Virginia Commonwealth University... READ MORE...
”Up-in-the-Air” with Sachiko Hayashi
Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. She is originally from Tokyo and has lived in the US and UK, but is currently living in Sweden... READ MORE...
CTM Festival Club Transmediale 2012
With an extensive program of concerts, discourses, and an exhibition space, CTM.12 Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly, mysterious and dark in music, avant-pop, art, and to speculate about its possible causes and potentials.... READ MORE...
Zimoun: “Volume” Bitforms Gallery
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Volume, the first solo exhibition in New York by Swiss artist Zimoun. On view will be an immersive, site-specific sound installation based on prepared dc-motors and cardboard boxes.... READ MORE...
The Tosso Variations
For his first solo exhibition, the Berlin-based artist/filmmaker/composer Gabriel Shalom presents a videomusical suite in five movements. Videomusic is Shalom's self-invented term for his unorthodox compositions of both sound and images. Shalom's practice is equal parts avant-garde electronic music composition and hypercubist visual aesthetics.... READ MORE...
Explorations Of The Invisibles. Freedom & Power In The Electromagnetic
The exploration of this landscape is indeed what the exhibition Invisible Fields -Geographies of radio waves, proposes. Opened on 15th October 2011 at the Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona, it will run until the 4th March 2012. Curated by José Luis de Vicente and Honor Harger, from the digital culture agency Lighthouse (Brighton, UK), it has been realised in collaboration with the British Council, the Bureau du Québec in Barcelona / Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial of Gijón and the Blit-Centre d'Art Contemporani of Blit-Girona.... READ MORE...
Kunstradio And Stefano Perna. A Short Guide To Becoming-bat
A short guide to becoming-bat is a radio piece focusing on sounds produced by bats, some kind of FM-creatures, able to modulate a system of echoes and resonances that define a non-visual space, within which they fulfil their bodily functions. Immersed in complete darkness, bats build an undulatory space made of signals, of frequencies and amplitudes, 'a pulsating space that constantly changes, evolves, expands and contracts. Bats inhabit a radiophonic-world.... READ MORE...
Chiara Guidi: Mantica Festival. Pratica Vocale Molecolare
Performance, concerti, laboratori, installazioni, ascolti guidati, proiezioni. Un'affascinante staffetta di eventi scandisce il calendario di Mntica, festival cesenate tenutosi dal 26 novembre al 4 dicembre, che anche nell'edizione 2011 - la quarta - ha conservato intatto il suo cromosoma sonico, rilevato per da un'angolazione diversa rispetto a quella adottata negli anni precedenti: l'istante che crea. ... READ MORE...
Phillip Stearns: Subliminal Machines
Phillip Stearns creates at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including installation, audio-video, circuit sculpture, writing, performance art and musical composition. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in the interrogation of materials ranging from electronic objects, biological systems, images, light, video, and sound. His process is that of reduction aimed at revealing hidden macrocosms of potential, new materials for expression, and new paths for inquiries into understanding the state of things.... READ MORE...
Kernel Lab 011/012 Bandi per talenti italiani U30
Prosegue la raccolta delle candidature per partecipare al Kernel Lab _011/012, il nuovo progetto di AreaOdeon per la formazione, produzione e promozione artistica giovanile.... READ MORE...
Lighthouse presents: “Invisible Fields” exhibition at Arts Santa Monica
Invisible Fields is a major new international exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona Spain, co-produced by Lighthouse. It brings together over a dozen internationally known artists, designers and scientists to explore the radio spectrum - the invisible environment that underpins contemporary technology.... READ MORE...
Sonic Haiku And Invisible Cities. Yasuiro Morinaga’s Sound Design
Yasuhiro Morinaga is a sound designer specialized in field recording. He gave his contribution to various cinema, contemporary dance, installations, theatre and product design projects. His target in field recording is particularly aimed on rural communities, natural environments and concrete sounds.... READ MORE...
Sound, Body, Volume. Performativity According To Nico Vascellari
Nico Vascellari is an italian artist born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) in 1976. His artworks have been exhibited at the Monitor Gallery in Rome, one of the most interesting galleries and also one of the most interested in the research in the contemporary art field.... READ MORE...
Patterns+Pleasure
Amsterdam - STEIM (Studio for electro-instrumental music) organizes the Patterns + Pleasure Festival on 26, 27 and 28 September in Frascati Amsterdam.... READ MORE...