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Audiovisual Art

Gabriel Shalom likes to describe himself as a "videomusician", or an audiovisual artist working on manipulation of moving images to reach a rhythmic composition [...]

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Design

Detached from yourself. Therefore Under Control – Part 2

One peculiar aspect concerning the use of technology formulated by Japanese artists it is shown by the constant interplay between the oneiric (relating to dreams) and science-fiction alike worlds [...]

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Cinema

A Taste of Sonar. South Africa Deals with Avant Guard

Sonar of Barcelona, an International festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, landed for its 19th Indaba Design edition (from 29th February to 4th March) in Cape Town, by [...]

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Hacking

Transmediale Re:Source. A Partisan Report

I find it very telling that of all the panels offered at Transmediale I ended up attending most reSource talks and debates, and that the keywords and comments contained [...]

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Interviews

Post Internet and Post Galleries. Conor Backman and The Reference Gallery

One of the founders of Reference Gallery, which could reasonably be called one of the best small-town galleries in the world, Conor Backman also happens to be a BFA [...]

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Hacktivism

Transmediale 2012: Symposium. In/compatible Systems, Publics, Aesthetics

The net art (known as new form of art), which is produced by the help of technological developments, was one of the topic of the panel “web.video the new [...]

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Live Media

Transmediale 2012: Incompatibility and the Bet On The Rest

The 25th edition oftTrasmediale had a concept, "In/compatible", whose title clearly shows that still there is a part of residual in the network-numerical-policy paradigm that several users/ global citizens [...]

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Essays

Can Digital Be Art? Its Time For Analysis

Periodically, as it happens in all expressive art forms, we need to ask ourselves about where we come from and which our own shapes and contents are. All that [...]

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Live Media

Virtuality. Aesthetic Experience and Curatorial Design

Vince Dziekan is an artist, art historian, and curator who has dedicated his research and practice to explore of the concept of “Virtuality”. Specifically, Dziekan has been working on [...]

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Net Art

Transmediale: The Exhibition. Uneasy energies in Technological Times

"Dark Drives. Uneasy Energies in Technological Times" curated by Jacob Lillemose, has largely complied with these resolutions, which I perceived as a pretty interesting purpose, and brave in their [...]

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Hacking

Law Of The Instrument. An Interview with Constant Dullart

When I heard about the Easter egg that make the Google search page rotate when you type “do a barrell” in the search field, I thought: “Hey wait a [...]

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Cinema

Ou’ Va La Video? Notes For Future Consideration

On 25th February 2012, Boccanera Gallery of Trento, in partnership with VisualContainer, presented the event “ON VIDEOS for Hours and Hours”: a day in which it was possible to [...]

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Cinema

Transmediale 2012: Screening. Unusual Pictures For Unusual Times

Satellite stories is the title of the video program. It consists of eight different screenings, curated by Marcel Schwierin. A very successful aspect of Schwierin’s curatorial work was the [...]

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