Buddha Machine. Third Generation Sound Toy
FM3, the experimental music group whose productions examine the relationship between composition, art, and everyday life, consists of original members Zhang Jian and Christiaan Virant.... READ MORE...
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Technesexual Interface. Erotic Mixed Reality Performance
Biometric sensors, made cheaply available by do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping platforms such as Arduino, allow a shift away from visual interfaces to proprioceptive interfaces, away from the touch of a finger and towards a more internal, embodied form of sensing. One possible effect of this shift is away from the command-control methodology which was a historical basis for cybernetics, and towards a form of modulation and cooperation akin to intersubjectivity.... READ MORE...
Habemus Data. Digital Culture And Free Information
A close step far from the counter-reformation of the 'gag law', stirred by the fear of our politicians who are frightened of losing control on the information flow or of a excessive overexposure of privacy and details, we caught the opportunity to go back on the matter of Open Data. But what has Open data got to do with the 'problem' of interceptions and 'bugs' of public and private world?... READ MORE...
Human, Water And Environment. Between Multimedia And Sustainability
The topic of water in the multimedia, electronic and digital field is huge since the beginning of electronic art and works of art of famous artists such as Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi, only to mention a few. Water has been compared to the electron flow and video, exactly for its liquid and mobile nature, is par excellence the mean which is the most linked and compared to this element essence.... READ MORE...
The Explosion Of The Arts. Sineglossa Live Performances
Sineglossa is an artistic collective residing in the Marche region in Italy, comprising personalities from different disciplines but with the same intent and the same sensitivity. Created in 2006 by director Federico Bomba, the painter Luca Poncetta and performer Barbara Hall, the theatrical debut happened in 2007 with Camera Verde, to which followed in 2008 Pleura e Pneuma. In 2009 are among the companies winning the contract ETI New creativity, working on Undo and Remember me.... READ MORE...
Informational Realism. Quantum Bit In The Cyber Space
It may very well be said that information is the irreducible kernel from which everything else flows, hence the question why nature appears quantized is simply a consequence of the fact that information itself is quantized by necessity. (p.3) Anton Zeilinger, Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?, (The Global Spiral, Metanexus Online, March 25, 2002).... READ MORE...
Loop Barcelona. Transversal Video Art
Once upon a time there was a peripheral artistic practice scarcely considered called video art. This could probably be the incipit of any dissertation on artistical practices tied to technology developments. As we know, the world of arts shares since ever a long common boundary with the world of technologies, but nowadays video art - though maintaining some innovative features - has departed from this frontier positioning itself among the artistic disciplines currently most demanded, valued and practiced.... READ MORE...
Smart Urban Stage – The Media In The Future City. Meeting Alberto Abruzzese
Since the past 26th of June until July the 31st, inside a 200 square meters inflatable futuristic structure at Rome's Music Parc Auditorium ( Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, ndt.) the smart future minds exhibition will be presented. Articulating the theme the future of the city through twelve different projects, the exhibition is guaranteed to constitute a moment of critical reflection and artistic divulging within the wider scenario of the smart urban stage, cutting-edge road show that is going to hit Zurich, Paris, Madrid and London and has already been in Berlin.... READ MORE...
Resistence And Constitution. Audiovisual Settings By N03!
Paolo Ranieri of N03! talks about his artistic support to interactive museums dedicated to History. From the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza (the Widespread Museum of Resistance) in Turin to the Museum of Fosdinovo (Sarzana - SP) opened on June 3rd, 2000 and the most recent Diritti al cubo/Living the Constitution (Genoa and Turin).... READ MORE...
Live Architecture Network. The Net As A Design Project
The parametric or associative design is based on the use of integrated systems of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing) which allow a direct dialogue between the machine that models and the machine that makes the constructive elements and assembly pieces, generating a new process of ideation/production. The traditional relationships between the actors of this process change: every project can be planned out in an super-customized way and the variables which can be immense enlarge exponentially... READ MORE...
Smart Urban Stage Intervista ad Alberto Abruzzese
Dallo scorso 26 giugno fino al prossimo 31 luglio, all'interno di un'avveniristica struttura gonfiabile di 200 mq presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, verrà presentata smart future minds exhibition. Articolata attraverso dodici progetti sul tema "Il futuro della città", la mostra promette di essere un momento di riflessione critica e divulgazione artistica all'interno del più ampio smart urban stage, innovativo road show che toccherà Zurigo, Parigi, Madrid e Londra dopo essere passata già a Berlino.... READ MORE...
Sonarmatica 2010
SonarMàtica splits itself in two this year for Sonar 2010 Barcelona and Sonar 2010 Galicia, two different exhibitions which can be seen in Barcelona and A Coruña on 17th, 18th and 19th June. The Sónar 2010 Barcelona exhibition displays interesting artistic work produced using and based around the world of robotics.... READ MORE...
Directkorenhaus Berlin
Last May 28th, 2010 the Direktorenhaus will be opened a new art space in Berlin, an experimental laboratory for Gesamtkunstwerk, the synthesis of the arts.... READ MORE...
Smart Urban Stage: The Future of the City
Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome from 25 June to 31 July will host "smart urban stage", an innovative road show that will reach six European cities and address these issues by proposing an interesting opportunity for dialogue and discussion through the presentation of twelve projects about 'The future of the city'.... READ MORE...
The Arts Catalyst: Arctic Perspective
Simultaneous exhibitions of photographs, videos, maps and architectural models from work by the Arctic Perspective Initiative are displayed in London and Dortmund this summer.... READ MORE...
Emergent Sonorities
The Emergent Sonorities group was formed in January 2010, as part of a Digital Media Studio Project based at the University of Edinburgh.... READ MORE...
Arctic Perspective Initiative
Arctic Perspective highlights the cultural, geopolitical and ecological significance of the Arctic and its indigenous cultures. API aims to empower local citizens of the North via open source infrastructures, such as; data sharing, environmental monitoring, and communications technologies.... READ MORE...
Persistence of Vision
How does memory influence what we see? What part does technology play in shaping both how we see and what we remember? Informed by scientific research and inspired by historical developments in media technology, FACT presents a new exhibition exploring the relationship between vision, memory and media.... READ MORE...