![]() | This essay accompanies If not you not me, an exhibition of networked performance art by Annie Abrahams. While social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. released 4th Feb '10 |
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![]() | Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral 'found objects' rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. released 3rd Feb '10 |
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project Data Soliloquies 3/2/10 by Richard Hamblyn, artist Martin John Callanan and artist Richard Hamblyn
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| behaviour, Code Art, collaboration, conceptual, database, environmental, knowledge, media art, media art ecologies, publication, resource, social | ||
![]() | Madeleine offers here a review of Ten Thousand Cents, a project by artists Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima. Although she acknowledges the beauty of the project Madeleine points to its conceptual ambivalence. released 29th Jan '10 |
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project Ten Thousand cents 29/1/10 by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, artist Aaron Koblin and artist Takashi Kawashima
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| aesthetic, digital, distributed creativity, game culture, interactive, Internet Art, media art, media art ecologies, multi-user, networked, participation | ||
![]() | DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement... released 18th Jan '10 |
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artist Olia Lialina, artist Dragan Espenschied and project DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader 18/1/10 by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, ascii, books, browser art, Code Art, collaboration, community, critical, cyberculture, digital, Flash, hacking, hactivism, interactive, Internet Art, journalism, media art, narrative, net art, net film, net.art, networked, platform, Political, satire, social, software art, web art | ||
![]() | make art, one of the world's most important free and libre art events, happens far away from the European metropolis, in the small town of Poitiers. released 14th Jan '10 |
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| Code Art, collaboration, creative commons, digital, event, festival, free code, free software, hactivism, media art, net art, open source | ||
![]() | Edward Picot discusses here the work of writer and new media artist Millie Niss: "She preferred work which didn't reach for the hi-tech solution when a lo-tech one would do - work, in other words, which didn't employ technology for its own sake, and where form was dictated by content rather than the other way round." released 8th Jan '10 |
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artist Millie Niss
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| browser art, context, Internet Art, language, media art, narrative, net art, net.art, poetic, reflection, social, text, web art | ||
![]() | Seven years ago, or about two years before the invention of youtube, the editors of Tank Magazine saw the possibility of an internet platform dedicated to video art. Their response was tank.tv, an Internet site that is part moving image archive, part online gallery, an part cutting edge video art exhibition. released 8th Jan '10 |
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project Tank.tv 8/1/10
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![]() | An almanac of human emotion extracted from more than twelve million blog posts by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar over the last five years as part of their "We Feel Fine" affective data visualisation project. released 30th Dec '09 |
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project We Feel Fine 30/12/09 and group Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, behaviour, blog, books, Code Art, collaboration, cyberculture, database, documentary, environmental, Internet Art, journal, journalism, photography, publication | ||
![]() | An overview of Open_Sailing, a site for creative experimentation on more intelligent modes of inhabiting the planet. A truly open source exploration of how to live at sea based on the concept of Open Architecture. released 10th Dec '09 |
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project Open_Sailing 10/12/09 by Cesar Harada
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| activism, collective, community, DIY, environmental, infrastructure, Locative Media, media art ecologies, mobile technology, open source, Technical Resources, wireless | ||
![]() | Angela Ferraiolo offers here a review of the Cologne Online Film Festival, CologneOFF V. Speaking to its founder, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, she discusses the role of the Internet in the transformation of filmmaking. released 10th Dec '09 |
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project CologneOFF 10/12/09
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| audiovisual, cinema, curation, festival, Film, intellectual property, net film | ||
![]() | A conversation between G.H. Hovagimyan and Mark Cooley conducted through electronic mail. Hovagimyan is an experimental cross media, new media and performance artist who lives and works in New York City. released 28th Nov '09 |
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artist G. H. Hovagimyan and project State of Art - A Conversation with G.H. Hovagimyan 28/11/09
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| activism, agency, article, behaviour, collaboration, context, critical, curation, cyberculture, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, independent, life hacking, media art, net art, performance, satire, social | ||
![]() | Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. the second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras... released 18th Nov '09 |
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group Ambient.tv, artist Manu Luksch and project Mapping CCTV around Whitehall 18/11/09 by Manu Luksch and Ambient.tv
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, Code Art, collaboration, collective, hactivism, Internet Art, interplay, intervention, poetic, social, street, Transgressive, urban, video, web art, wireless | ||
![]() | Every year as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, a group of Australian media artists known as Horse Bazaar produces Digital Fringe. This is a nonstop digital playlist of short form video, sound, and images, some of it made by artists, some of it not, uploaded to the Digital Fringe website from around the world. released 6th Nov '09 |
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project Digital Fringe 6/11/09
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| animation, audiovisual, cinema, digital, festival, Film, media art, sound, video | ||
![]() | Review of Artivistic (Montreal 15-17 October). This year's edition of Artivistic brings the fields of art, politics and academia together under the theme of TURN*ON - according to its curatorial statement, 'a fragile bridge extending, over a valley of which the depth you cannot see, to a life centered on pleasure, consciousness, togetherness, understanding, and joy'. released 30th Oct '09 |
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| activism, festival, media art, performance, sexuality, theory, Transgressive | ||
![]() | Since 2005, a series of radical conferences has taken place around Brazil, organized on a discussion list: Sub>midialogy - the art of re:volving knowledge logos by practices and disorienting practices by the immersion in sub-knowledge. Ricardo Ruiz wonders what will happen to all this creative energy now that funding has arrived. released 30th Oct '09 |
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| activism, agency, collaboration, community, conference, critical, independent, media art, networked, social, street, urban | ||
![]() | Review of new hardback publication spanning a decade of work by Ubermorgen.com. Comprehensive study of their conceptual and hacktivist art adventures, including images, essays and interviews by Inke Arns, Florian Cramer, Raffael Dorig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Weibel and others. Edited by Alessandro Ludovico of Neural.it, designed by Bernhard Faiss. released 29th Sep '09 |
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project UBERMORGEN.COM - MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART 29/9/09 by UBERMORGEN
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, archive, books, collaboration, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, geopolitical, hactivism, media art, net art, performance, publication | ||
![]() | The Freesound Project is a web repository of audio samples available under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus licence. It concentrates on sound rather than music, and has a wide variety of samples accessible through an easily navigated interface. released 28th Aug '09 |
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project The FreesoundProject 28/8/09
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![]() | Ellie Harrison highlights concerns for the future of humanity and the future of art, focusing on 2 central texts: Bourriaud's Altermodern Manifesto and a faux encyclopedia entry from the future which retrospectively defines 'the Age of Stupid' released as promotional material for Franny Armstrong's film. released 25th Aug '09 |
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artist Ellie Harrison
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| activism, agency, article, behaviour, context, critical, curation, database, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, environmental, event, exhibition, media art ecologies, social, text, theory | ||
![]() | This review of the 2009 FutureSonic festival by Ruth Catlow and Olga Panades looks at artists' and technologists' explorations, of participation and agency in a networked society in the context of environmental crisis. It also reflects on the partial adoption of an ecological approach in a celebration of the new techno-green-enterprise soon to become FutureEverything. released 23rd Aug '09 |
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project FutureSonic 2009 24/8/09, project Natural Fuse 24/8/09 by Usman Haque, project Reading the IPCC 24/8/09 by Amy Balkin, project groWorld 28/7/09 by David Griffiths, project Urban Prospecting 24/8/09 by Jon Cohrs, project Flight Patterns 24/8/09 by Aaron Koblin and project Nuage Vert (Green Cloud) 2008 24/8/09 by HeHe
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| activism, DIY, environmental, festival, game culture, hactivism, installation, intervention, knowledge, live, Locative Media, media art, media art ecologies, networked, participation, real time, satire, street, urban | ||
![]() | Edward Picot review's The Path "a short horror-game inspired by the tale of Little Red Riding Hood" from Tale of Tales, an independent computer games development company, run by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. Originally released in March 2009, and represents Tale of Tales' first attempt to produce a fully commercial computer game. released 17th Aug '09 |
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