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Displace 2.0: Mediation of Sensations. A conversation with Chris Salter

Silvia Bertolotti
Chris Salter is a media and performance artist, based in Montreal and Berlin. Performance and performativity, as well as interaction with other disciplinary fields or arts are the main aspects and features of his work. Not only from the artistic point of view but also in terms of research. Salter is indeed involved in scientific research projects and publications (we would like to mention here his book published by MIT Press in 2010 Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance)... READ MORE...
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Backyard Brains: Neuroscience for Fun

Ludovico Ristori
The term Crowdscience (that is, the science of people) has recently become a very popular term. It means that people (a nineteenth-century term that perhaps should be replaced with the term "citizens"), by actively taking part in research, can enable discoveries, that would otherwise not be possible with traditional media – for the mental, computational and economic resources they require. It also assumes that first-person participation in scientific projects is one of the few ways to not be relegated on the sidelines of democracy in a society permeated at all levels by scientific and technological knowledge.... READ MORE...
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Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio. EVP, Psychoacoustics and Auditory Illusions

Elena Biserna
The so-called Rorschach ink-blot test is a psychodiagnostic method for the analysis of personality named after its inventor: Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922). During the test, the patient is asked to interpret a series of ten cards with symmetrical colored blots. According to advocates of this diagnostic method, different subjective responses to these ambiguous images – if appropriately registered and analyzed – would reveal the personality profile of the examined subject, as well as any psychiatric diseases or though disorder.... READ MORE...
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Dialogues on “Bioart” #1. A conversation with Jens Hauser

Daniela Silvestrin
In the series Dialogues on “Bioart”, I will speak about these and other issues with curators, artists, cultural workers and other professionals who deal with "Bioart" in different ways and have been working in this field for a number of years. Through these interviews, I not only want to present them and their work, but also to shed light on their various viewpoints on, and relevant experiences with, the issues being addressed in the so-called "Bioart", in order to bring all this into line with the larger context of the analysis of what "Bioart" as well as the connected issues and questions, actually are... READ MORE...
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Mapping the electomagnetism. Detektors by Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki

Alessandra Saviotti
Detektors is an open and collaborative project which consists in devices capable of recording hidden electromagnetic emissions produced by common electronic tools such as mobile phones, laptops, cameras etc. In addition, Detektors can also capture the high frequency bands: modulation of WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS and GPS networks, as well as any other transmission system between 100 Mhz and 5Ghz.... READ MORE...
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The Sacred and the Profane. An interview with Christopher Kline

Mario Margani
Christopher Kline (1982, Kinderhook NY) is a syncretic artist who prefers to be called maker and whose projects range over a wide variety of artistic fields and media. In collective and solo projects such as Snakebraid, Wooden Veil, Night Music and Gemeine Gesteine Kline has dealt with research in the field of ritual music, sacred culture, and primitivism focusing on their abstraction and re-contextualization in happenings and exhibitions. Outside of his interest in experimental music, in 2010 he started with the alias Hush Hush a pop music project placed outside of the art world to become an actual commercial product.... READ MORE...
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Raquel Meyers and the Teletext transmission

Mathias Jansson
Raquel Meyers (Cartagena, 1977) works with low-res graphics and photography for performance, web, video and installations. Currently she's experimenting with storytelling and text mode visuals (ASCII, PETSCII, etc) together with the musician Goto80. In September this year Raquel Meyers participated in Teletext festival ARD in Berlin.... READ MORE...
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A book made of video comments. “Kindle’voke Ghost Writers” by Traumawien

Silvia Bertolotti
On June 26th, the Austrian digital publisher Traumawien in the person of Luc Gross together with Bernhard Bauch, a German media artist and programmer, presented in Vienna their new project: Kindle’voke Ghost Writers. This project has been announced with a pretty creative and original press release written by Luc Gross of Traumawien, explaining the concept and idea behind that.... READ MORE...
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DECiBEL. A melting pot to dance

Claudia Galal
Within the landscape of the international electronic music Tectonic, a label based in Bristol, has always been very careful in the selection of its artists. Pinch alias Rob Ellis, “the godfather of dubstep” and founder of this label in 2005, doesn't give all his blessings. The last going into the multicolor family is DECiBEL, dj and producer born in London (real name Jay Fontaine) grown up in the sign of the cultural contamination.... READ MORE...
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