Video Dresses
The Video dresses are created by 15000 LEDs embedded beneath the fabric. One dress displays hazy silhouettes of sharks in the sea whilst the other shows a time-lapse sequence of a rose blooming then retracting.... READ MORE...
Hacking
Open Source Satellite Initiative
After three years of research and one year of experience as a satellite engineer, Hojun Song has found that it is possible to launch and operate a personal satellite at a fairly reasonable price.... READ MORE...
Gmaybe: Be Free, Be Public! What Future For Privacy?
You may have happened to witness the presentation of a new online service. Two young men wearing a t-shirt with the Gmaybe? logo show the exciting benefits of the new frontier of social networks. All the rhetorical promises related to technology are there: they tend to fall into four main categories: democracy, freedom, efficiency and progress. Democracy looks like what everyone will enjoy using the new technologies, thus increasing its own influence on the social environment [...] Freedom is usually presented as the absence of socially restrictive elements (Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion. Biotech theory and practices of resistance, Eleuthera, Milano, 2006, pp38-39).... READ MORE...
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...
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...
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...
Mal au Pixel 2010
Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. The festival brings together young digital artists and unconventionnal electronics : unexpected technologies, prototypes and open ended events.... 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...
Solar Equation
Solar Equation is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by Fed Square specifically for The Light in Winter in Melbourne, the piece features the world's largest spherical balloon, custom-manufactured for the project.... READ MORE...
V2 Test lab: Urban Screen Series
Uno schermo è uno strumento potente nelle mani di un artista, e lo spazio pubblico è un invitante luogo di incontro tra un artista e il suo pubblico. Gli urban screen possono quindi essere visti come uno strumento ideale sia per interventi artistici del pubblico che per un nuovo entusiasmante modello di esibizione.... READ MORE...
Art on Wires
Art.on.Wires is an open laboratory for live and interactive art where researchers, engineers and practitioneers from various fields collaborate to explore and create a new generation of media technology for artistic performances and mixed-reality spaces.... READ MORE...
How To Recycle Raee. Manuel Bozzo: Korf And Advanced Art
They are called Rifiuti di Apparecchiature Elettriche ed Elettroniche (Electronic waste), the old home and industrial TV devices, cathode ray tubes, that after having been our analogical company for many years are now part of fossil age. And with the widespread of digital technology they are bound to occupy an even larger space in disposal plants. The collective KORF suggested in La Spezia, at the Centro di Arte Contemporanea during an ex position titled Arte Avanzata, the other side of recycling: TV is not (only) rubbish. This story will be told us by one of the collective's protagonists: Manuel Bozzo.... READ MORE...
Squatting Supermarkets: Shoptivism Narrations
Telling the other side of the story is the goal that Squatting Supermarkets is aiming at, an installation, a performance, a work of net art, some short stories (and one could use many more words to describe it), a coproduction FakePress / Art is Open Source, presented for the first time in November 2009 during the Piemonte Share Festival. It won the Special Project Award at this same festival and the Green Award for '0' impact technology of the Environmental Park in Turin.... READ MORE...
Liliwood Handicraftsmen At Work
It happens that in order to promote money saving for customers that have to transport huge industrial machines in fairs all over the world technologies are developed to create video representations that allow - ten years later - to work as director at the stereography in the medium-length film Il Volo, directed by Wenders (fist Italian stereoscopic fiction). I was told the unusual path of Italian stereography by Giampiero Piazza, funding father and director of Lilliwood, i.e. a company based in Bologna specialized in this kind of shooting. 'I began working in the field of industrial photography 38 years ago, by making graphic in a traditional way - says Piazza - but every time I came into new opportunities, I've always tried to follow the crest of the technological development'.... READ MORE...
tracing mobility symposium
Joining forces with Nottingham Contemporary as part of their forthcoming Uneven Geographies exhibition, Tracing Mobility, the first of Radiator's three international symposia, examines the emergence of a new space, a space born out of the technology used to control and divide society.... READ MORE...
V2 Test lab: Urban Screen Series
A screen is a powerful medium in an artist's hands, and public space is an appealing domain for encounters between an artist and his or her audience. Urban screens can therefore be seen as an ideal tool for artistic public interventions as well as an exciting new exhibition format.... READ MORE...
things that are possible
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz presents an exhibition of fourteen graduate students whose works employ advanced technologies for creative potential and social impact.... READ MORE...
zer01: contemporary arts biennal
ZER01: The Art and Technology Network announces the 01SJ Biennial'Build Your Own World', which will take place from September 16-19, 2010, in San Jose, CA., the heart of Silicon Valley.... READ MORE...