France Cadet solo show at the gallery numeriscausa in Paris (3)
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In little more than 24 hours, i managed to visit some compelling art events in Paris. My first stop was for numeriscausa, a gallery that dedicates its energy to prove critics, audience and institutions (hence the market) that the so-called digital arts have achieved maturity. Image courtesy France Cadet The space is currently inhabited by the robots of France Cadet. With her exhibition, Artificial Curiosity, the artist questions once again the relationships we have with ...
Location-based annotation (2)
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An intriguing example of location-based annotation. This red brick inserted in the pavement on Rue de la République in Lyon (France) indicates that former french president Sadi Carnot had been assassinated here on June 25th, 1894. The sort of things that people want to replicate online, but it generally lacks the elegance of the “brick” as en urban element well inserted into its context.
Francising apexart (1)
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Apexart is a very cool, non-profit gallery in NYC. Every year it has a call for curatorial proposals from non-curators.Now it has a call for "franchise" proposals. I've put franchise is in quotes because it's really about doing a one-off show outside of NYC, rather than opening up an on-going gallery.apexart wants to come to you. Any city, any town, anywhere in the world. We are franchising a one-time exhibition opportunity where apexart will come ...
A Big New Space for New Media (1)
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As of today, the U.S. will have a bold new venue for new media art and performance: EMPAC. Short for Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center, the Troy, NY-based facility embodies state-of-the-artness and its affiliation with the highly regarded research university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ensures that the installations, performances, and concerts presented there will always be ahead of the technological curve. The space, itself, is a masterpiece. The 220,000-square foot building, designed by Grimshaw, includes ...
Media_city Seoul: what is media art today? (2)
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Long overdue.... A follow-up on media_city Seoul, a media art biennale hosted until November 5, 2008 at the Seoul Museum of Art. The events aims to reflect on the place that media art has taken into contemporary art. Each in their own way, the works selected for the exhibitions bring a fragment of answer to fundamental questions such as: What is media art? What is different from the conventional art? What changes have been made ...
Live Bits (1)
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Ars Electronica invites artists and scientists to submit proposals for new and novel ways to connect, in real time, people to people and people to environments in different physical locations. The goal is to expand and explore meaningful exchanges between remote groups of people.
Credits Neverending (1)
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Li Xin and Eirik Fatland's Credit Neverending (2006) is a television show that has been repeatedly broadcast on Finish televsion. From Fatland's site:You turn on the TV set. What appears is a list of credits, indicating that some movie or show has just ended. But as you wait, the credits keep on scrolling. And scrolling. And scrolling... If you read them, you notice that some of the names and titles make little sense. And if ...
Der Spiegel: The End of Arrogance: America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role (1)
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Not exactly known as a hotbed of mad dog leftist sentiment, the German newsweekly Der Spiegel recently published a long piece on the failed arrogance of the Bush years, the loss of American prestige around the world, the economic miscalculations and missteps since Reagan, the hubristic greed of Wall Street. All this and more in a five part article that includes: * Part 1: America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role * Part 2: Bush's Failed ...
Sidewalk playground (1)
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Different occurrences of sidewalk employed as a game platform, from European cities (Geneva, Lyon, Paris, Rotterdam) Quite a typology we have here with hop-scotch, tic-tac-toe, table to count point in whatever game, etc. What I’ve put here are only games that use the surface, for the use of shape, see this blogpost about skateboarding structures. Surely a recommendation to have a look at what is under your foot in contemporary cities. And definitely of interest ...
Studio 360 on New Media art (1)
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This weekend the public radio show Studio 360 had a interesting segment on new media art. The piece focuses Jonathan Carroll, who collects computer-based art, and deals with the difficulty tech-based art has had finding a commercial niche.Here's the segment's audio:Here's one of the works in Carroll's collection:Eye Contact, Rafael Lozano HemmerEye Contact shows 800 simultaneous videos of people at rest. When someone walks in detectable view, the miniature video portraits "wake up."
The Chelsea Art Museum’s Dialectics of Terror Catalog Raises More Questions (1)
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Earlier this week I reported the cancellation of the Chelsea Art Museum’s exhibition, Dialectics of Terror, (formerly named The Aesthetics of Terror), and thanks to an anonymous tipster I now have the much disputed exhibition catalog in the form of a PDF. While it’s impossible to know where the points of contention were in the catalog itself, there does seem to be some discrepancy between Museum president, Dorothea Keeser’s statements and the organization of the ...
Media_city Seoul, round one (3)
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Finally some time to put order in my brain and write a few lines about the 5th edition of Seoul International Media Art Biennale, aka media_city Seoul. With some 70 artists showing their work, the biennial is a very satisfying but also very overwhelming experience, especially because the event features so many pieces that require time and reflection, and so many artists whose work i had never heard of. Thank god and the curators, there ...
Redesign Cities From Scratch (1)
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Tom Vandebilt profiles Mitchell Joachim as one of the 15 big thinkers who should advise the next president. Wired Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn't your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don't get him started on sustainability. "I don't like the term," he says. "It's not evocative enough. You don't want your marriage to be ...
Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners (20)
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One of my favorite artists, Evan Roth, is working on a project that will be released soon - the pictures say it all, it's a "carry on" communication system. These metal places contain messages which will appear when they are X-Rayed. The project isn't quite done yet, Evan needs access to an X-Ray machine to take some photos and document. If you have access to an X-Ray machine he's willing to give you a set ...
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Dylan Bennett said:
This is brilliant. I'd love to see one of these with the 4th Amendment written on it.
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adrian said:
Amusing.
Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next (14)
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Earlier this year, I married my British fiancee and switched my visa status from "Highly Skilled Migrant" to "Spouse." This wasn't optional: Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary, had unilaterally (and on 24 hours' notice) changed the rules for Highly Skilled Migrants to require a university degree, sending hundreds of long-term, productive residents of the UK away (my immigration lawyers had a client who employed over 100 Britons, had fathered two British children, and was ...
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Andreas said:
And I just recently mocked a friend who was amazed by the RFID tech in London's public transport "Oyster Card" tickets. Well looks like she will carry another RFID with her soon.
Software Studies: A Lexicon (1)
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Software Studies: A Lexicon, edited by Matthew Fuller - Some years ago, Lev Manovich called for “software studies” to be established as an interdisciplinary field capable of re-thinking programmable media at the interface of cultural theory and computer science. Conceived partly against so-called speculative accounts of virtual reality and cyber-identities, this suggested re-orientation aimed for a denser materiality by foregrounding the technical composition of digital systems. Here, engineering documents were as likely a source of ...
Fresh Links! (1)
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Art and Terrorism Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”
