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Max Eastley - Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

Max Eastley, Installation Recordings, 1973 - 2008, 2CD, audio-art, drone, experimental, soundscapes, Thomas Koner, Peter Greenaway, Brian Eno, Obscure Records, Aurelio Cianciotta,
MaxEastley_InstallationRecordings.jpg 2CD - Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley's sound installations, a prolific artist who's been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the year when, in addition to gallery exhibitions and collaborations with Thomas Koner and film director Peter Greenaway,  ... [ Continue ]


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Michael J. Schumacher - Weave

Michael J. Schumacher, Weave, Entr'acte, experimental, field recordings, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, MichaelJSchumacher_Weave.jpg CD - Entr'acte
Based in New York City, Michael J. Schumacher focuses his research primarily on electronic and digital media, computer-generated sounds that iterate over fairly long periods of time, serializing sequences from multiple physical sources and structural elements. In Weave there are sampled engines, pumps and  ... [ Continue ]


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Loic Blairon - x\0

Loic Blairon,  x\0, w.m.o/r, Mattin, Cage, abstract, audio art, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, LoicBlairon_x0.jpgCD - w.m.o/r
Loic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he
has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold
reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no to music - and it could not be
otherwise, with a "work" based only on scattered tolls every minute.
This "no" - finally - precisely defines the unilateral relationship that
the "author" seeks to stabilize within and through  ... [ Continue ]


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César Bolaños - Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)

César Bolaños, Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music, 1964-1970,  Pogus,  Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies, CLAEM, marxista-burlesque, ethnic, experimental, impro, Aurelio Cianciotta, CesarBolanos_PeruvianElectroacousticAndExperimentalMusic.jpg2CD - Pogus
A pioneer of avant-garde experiments, well defined between electroacoustic and improvisational influences, the Peruvian composer César Bolaños, in this double CD, releases the pieces composed in Argentina during his collaboration with the Latin-American Center of High Musical Studies (CLAEM).  ... [ Continue ]


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Gert-Jan Prins - Cavity: The Capacitive Version

Gert-Jan Prins, Cavity: The Capacitive Version, Onomatopee, audio art, experimental, noise, noisy, Aurelio Cianciotta, GertJanPrins_CavityTheCapacitiveVersion.jpg 10" - Onomatopee
A transparent 10-inch record, rarefied digitalisms and several texts weaving more suggestions and trajectories (Freek Lomme, Daniela Cascella and Willem van Weelden). A stylized 32-page color insert, a report of geometric installations and of the ultra-vivid relationship between environments, human beings and the resulting sounds. Gert-Jan Prins, a seminal  ... [ Continue ]


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Francisco Lopez - Amarok

Francisco Lopez, Amarok, Glacial Movements, field recording, ambient, experimental, drone, soundscapes, musica sperimentale, Aurelio Cianciotta, FranciscoLopez_Amarok.jpgCD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly  ... [ Continue ]


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v4w.enko - snd

v4w.enko, snd, Electroton, mini-CDr, Limited Edition, Abstract, Experimental, microsounds,  Evgen Vaschenko, audio-art, Aurelio Cianciotta, v4wEnko_snd.jpgmini-CDr - Electroton
"Snd" is a sound project by v4w.enko, the moniker of the Ukrainian researcher whose real name is Evgen Vaschenko, a multifaceted artist involved with electronic sounds, video streams, and algorithm manipulation. Electroton emphasizes that a sequence of instructions can trigger a simple process, a set  ... [ Continue ]


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AAVV - Test Tone Anthology

AAVV, Test Tone Anthology, Medama, Cal Lyall, abstract, experimental, noise-rock, leftfield jazzy, digital, nightlife, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Shibuya, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV_TestToneAnthology.jpg3CD - Medama
Textures, rhythms and audio layers mix in this work, following the many forms of an experimental and abstract electronica, in the first of the three volumes of this series of "test tones". It's an anthology that draws inspiration from the music scene of the SuperDeluxe, in Tokyo, a club that represents the more  ... [ Continue ]


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Ido Govrin - Moraine

Ido Govrin, Moraine, Interval, ambient, audio-art, experimental, micro-sound, Aurelio Cianciotta, IdoGovrin_Moraine.jpgCD - Interval
Creeping ambient sequences, with alluring developments are pervaded by drones and split into many layers of auditory tones. This work consists of six compositions, in an electro-acoustic continuum that flows out of deep mechanisms of sound analysis and syntheses that are rich in new and increasingly  ... [ Continue ]


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Gilles Aubry & Stéphane Montavon - Les Écoutis Le Caire

Gilles Aubry & Stéphane Montavon, Les Écoutis Le Caire, Gruenrekorder, audio art, experimental, field recording, Aurelio Cianciotta, GillesAubry&StephaneMontavon_LesEcoutisLeCaire.jpgCD - Gruenrekorder
A simple white sheet, 51 by 84 centimeters, with the poetry of Stéphane Montavon spread over it. The CD is basically environmental field recordings, made by Gilles Aubry in Cairo, Egypt, in a bathroom, in a covered market, in a basilica and in a courtyard. Finally, other "audio catches" that can be traced to a  ... [ Continue ]


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Bj Nilsen - The Invisible City

Bj Nilsen, The Invisible City, Touch, Hildur Gudnadottir, Mum, Pan Sonic,  isolazionismo, ambient, Subharchord UdK, audio art, ambient, drone, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta,
BjNilsen_TheInvisibleCity.jpgCD - Touch
This is the third solo album by Bj Nilsen, an artist and experimenter who now, with "The Invisible City", returns to Touch, a renowned label that has maintained a strong presense over the last three decades. This record focusses on one the most engaging and sensitive issues in contemporary art: the  ... [ Continue ]


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Frank Rothkamm - Ghost Of New York

Frank Rothkamm, Ghost Of New York, Rothkammusic, abstract, audio art, drone experimental, microsound, frequencies, ghost-trap, metafonia, poltergeist, work in progress, spiritismo,  Tetralogy, music, Aurelio Cianciotta, FrankRothkamm_GhostOfNewYork.jpg CD - Rothkammusic
The first release of the planned series of three CDs and a DVD, "Tetralogy" by Frank Rothkamm starts with "Ghost Of New York", a spectral and detailed study of metropolitan poltergeist, a work in progress that since the beginning appears inspired by strong symbolic references, cryptic entities and energy  ... [ Continue ]


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Novi_sad - Mort Aux Vaches

Novi_sad, Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches, audio art, drone, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta,
Novisad_MortAuxVaches.jpgCD - Staalplaat
The package is made of three thick layers of black vinyl, edged by a heavy fabric ribbon, fastened by the usual copper "pin", the "centerpiece" of all Mort Aux Vaches releases. Our player starts and although we're wearing our headphones and the volume is pumped to the maximum, all we can hear for about  ... [ Continue ]


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Trevor Wishart - Machine

Trevor Wishart, Machine, audio-art, drone, experimental, field recordings, impro, soundscapes, Università di York, electronic music, Aurelio Cianciotta, TrevorWishart_Machine.jpgCD - Paradigm Discs
The reprint of a pioneering project by Trevor Wishart, completed in 1971, "Machine" could easily be mistaken for a very recent release, so well outlined in its audio landscapes, with carefully combined spoken texts, backing vocals and pre-recorded sounds, thoroughly manipulated and with the  ... [ Continue ]


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Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos - Equus

Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos, Equus, audio art, experimental, field recordings, impro, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, LionelMarchetti&OlivierCapparos_Equus.jpgCD - Pogus
"Equus", a collaborative project of concrete music, created by combining the strong personalities of Lionel Marchetti and Olivier Capparos. It may boast of being commissioned by the INA-GRM of Paris, the renowned music research institute founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1951, a place still very active and  ... [ Continue ]


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Christopher Hipgrave - Day

Christopher Hipgrave, Day, Home Normal, audio art, experimental, drone, Aurelio Cianciotta, ChristopherHipgrave_Day.jpgCD - Home Normal
Stylized algorithmic abstractions, tonal sounds steeped in melodic elements, cross-manipulations resulting from the fusion of textures and granular frequencies. "Day" is subdivided into seven different tracks but the continuum seems finely modulated in real time. Itis difficult to separate the individual  ... [ Continue ]


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Marc Behrens - A Narrow Angle

Marc Behrens, A Narrow Angle, audio art, experimental, field recordings, Taipei, Game Parlour Saint Fun, Taipei Metro Easycard 500 NT$, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, MarcBehrens_ANarrowAngle.jpgCD - Entr'acte
Shaped into the form of scratchy recordings, extrapolated from the environmental sounds of a video arcade in Taipei, which were then heavily processed, the frequencies of the first part of "A Narrow Angle" weaves together vibrant and alien sounds. These elaborations are very much present in the  ... [ Continue ]


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AAVV - Birmingham Sound Matter

AAVV, Birmingham Sound Matter, Audiobulb, Francisco López, Annie Mahtani, Mark Harris, Martin Clarke, Helena Gough, Bobby Bird, Cormac Faulkner, Nicholas Bullen, audio-art, drone, experimental, field recordings, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV_BirminghamSoundMatter.jpgCD - Audiobulb
If the standard practice of sound recording is regarded as a "capture," then in this abstract conceptual electronic music project, the representation of auditory reality happens through far more complex perceptual mechanisms. The work considers frequencies and drones, intended as isolated particles, as  ... [ Continue ]


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Mem1 - +1

Mem!, +, Interval, Laura. Mark Cetilia, audio art, acoustic/digital, experimental, laptop, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneid, Jen Boyd, Steve Roden, Ido Govrin, Aera C, Kadet Kuhne, Jeremy Drake, RS-232, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mem1-_+1.jpgCD" - Interval
The dreamily ambient sequences of "+1", a project by Laura and Mark Cetilia, constitute a fruitful and challenging colloborative work. The precision with which the duo compose has never been greater. Laptops and cello combine to produce a painstakingly thorough acoustic and digital confluence of  ... [ Continue ]


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Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials

Marina Rosenfeld, Plastic Materials, acoustic/digital, audio art, experimental, free form, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, MarinaRosenfeld_PlasticMaterials.jpg CD - Room40
Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of  ... [ Continue ]


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Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space

Nommo Ogo, Across Time And Space, Record Label, acoustic/digital, experimental, free form, soundscapes, krautrock, psychedelic, combo, space-future, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta,
NommoOgo_AcrossTimeAndSpace.jpg CD - Record Label
Rather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a  ... [ Continue ]


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Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples

Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele, Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples, Persistencebit, acoustic/digital, drone, experimental, folktronica, field recording,  pop, sound-designer, Marita Cosma, Carlo Masullo, Aurelio Cianciotta, MarioMasullo&AndreaGabriele_LesCouleursNeMeuventPasLesPeuples.jpgCD - Persistencebit
The new project by Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele is replete with divergent inspirations. They are both sound designers who are well-versed in several genres, manipulating both acoustic instruments and laptops/electronic devices with equal skill. Compared to their earlier productions, the duo seem to  ... [ Continue ]


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Marcus Maeder - Subsegmental

Marcus Maeder, Subsegmental, Domizil,  audio art, experimental, microsounds, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, MarcusMaeder_Subsegmental.jpgCD - Domizil
Although the term and concept of "subsegmental" are used primarily in psychology and in perception within the context of linguistics and phonetics, nothing stops Marcus Maeder from translating this meme into the field of music. Feeding the cognitive characteristics of tones, organizing acoustic  ... [ Continue ]


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Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj

Roj, Transactional Dharma Of Roj, Ghost Box, BBC Radiophonic Workshop d'antan, Warp, Broadcast, cut-up Nurroughs, experimental, folktronica, free form, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Roj_TransactionalDharmaOfRoj.jpg CD - Ghost Box
Straight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English  ... [ Continue ]


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Philip Julian - Low Activity Computer Solo

Philip Julian, Low Activity Computer Solo, Free Software Series, Neural, audio-art, experimental, microsounds, Linux/GNU, Aurelio Cianciotta, PhilipJulian_LowActivityComputerSolo.jpgCD - Free Software Series
Recorded in London and Berlin between September and November 2008, this work uses the induction coil of a telephone connected directly to a PC running GNU/Linux and a piezo contact microphone in order to pick up the electromagnetic activity inside the machine. Philip Julian's "Low Activity Computer  ... [ Continue ]


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Mice - World Tour

Mice - World Tour, Ecosono, acoustic-digital, electronica, ethnic, experimental, free form, impro, jazz, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mice_WorldTour.jpgCD - Ecosono
As a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting  ... [ Continue ]


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Global Safari (Powered by Google), the formation of the world's image

Global Safari, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez, global_safari_2.jpg "Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man" Villem Flusser wrote in his well-known 1983 book "Towards a Philosophy of Photography" which analyzed the transition from prehistoric, traditional images to posthistorical, technical ones. No longer formed by "authors", but by anyone who operates a camera or other apparatus, technical images have been opening windows to  ... [ Continue ]


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VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret

Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010, twisted_cabaret.jpg cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the "Weimar Cabaret." This Cabaret included burlesque, darkness and comedy, and while its practices ended decades ago, its legacy can be found here in the form of modern music video artifacts. Culturally this is an environment that pushes on a theatrical and  ... [ Continue ]


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Phase = Order, escaping the screen

Phase = Order, Joris Strijbos, phase_order.jpg In the field of expanded cinema the two-dimensio- nality of the projection screen has long been a limitation that artists have attempted to overcome through many different strategies. Rotterdam-based Joris Strijbos, member of the ensemble Macular, has found a way to take audio-visual media out of its habitual constraints. Recovering the legacy of  ... [ Continue ]


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Frances Dyson - Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture

sounding-new-media.jpeg University of California Press, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0520258990, U.S.A.
The most obvious link between sound and new media is that both are immaterial. Obviously there's more, especially through combination. Frances Dyson goes well beyond this point, adopting an interesting and original strategy: she argues that new media represents an "accumulation of the auditive technologies of the past." Specifically, she methodically examines  ... [ Continue ]


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Electromagnetic soundscapes, revealing the hidden environment

Wire Less, Yann Leguay, Wire_Less_Yann_Leguay.jpg All around us the air is filled with silent signals. Our bodies bathe daily in streams of electromagnetic waves connecting hundreds of networks in the growing family of wireless media. Yann Leguay has been working with The GhostLab to establish a protocol for capturing radio frequencies spanning from VLF to UHF, including  ... [ Continue ]


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N.O. Cantsin - A Neoist Research Project

N.O. Cantsin - A Neoist Research Project, ISBN 978-1-906496-46-3, OpenMute, 2010, English, neoist_research_project.jpg ISBN 978-1-906496-46-3, OpenMute, 2010, English
Forget about certainties. Forget about authors. Forget about fancy graphic design. Forget about colors. Forget about greyscale. Forget even about page numbers. This is a Neoist book and its content was meant to radically break the rules in the eighties. And it still does. It's a comprehensive anthology of Neoism through an abundance of writings and strictly black and white  ... [ Continue ]


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Interferenze 2010 Rurality 2.0 report

interferenze_2010.jpgCheck the Interferenze photo set here. The idea of the nonconformist as no longer the black sheep but the one now wearing a digital player and headphones admirably sums up the theme of the 2010 edition of Interference: "Rurality 2.0". This year the electronic arts festival was held July 23rd to 25th in Bisaccia, Upper Irpinia, a significant place for its (undoubted) rural features as well as it being home to  ... [ Continue ]


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Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook - Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media


Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media, rethinking_curating.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013888, English, U.S.A., 2010
After fifteen years of recurrent and animated debates about the peculiarities of new media art, it is still almost always considered as inappropriate in terms of classic museum and collector standards. There is also the undisguised frustration of being snubbed by the majority of the contemporary art world. Here is the best chance to start to definitively solve this  ... [ Continue ]


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Tele-Present Wind, blowing somewhere else

Tele-Present Wind, David Bown, tele_present_wind.jpg The wind is a universal natural phenomena, and it's usually associated with weather conditions and forecasts. But it is still perceived as almost unforeseeable and invisible except for its physical impact on plants and for its sibilant sound. Wind has two characteristics in common with the virtual environment: the complexity of conditions needed to be generated (so, often being unforeseeable) and  ... [ Continue ]


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Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique

Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique, Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, English, prelude_au_sommeil.jpg Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, English
Prélude au sommeil (Prelude to sleep) is a documentary film catching the spirit of Jean-Jacques Perrey, an eclectic electronic music pioneer who began his impressive career in the fifties. The film reconstructs the trajectory of a free spirit who flew to the USA with his early Ondioline electronic instrument (sponsored by Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau). Perrey is often briefly interviewed, but  ... [ Continue ]


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art . privacy

Desire of Codes, the tentacles of the surveillance beast

Desireof Codes, Seiko Mikami, YCAM, desire_of_codes.jpg We're accustomed to being under surveillance. We've taken for granted that cameras are everywhere "for our own safety". And we don't care anymore of being recorded in the street 30, 60 or 100 times (or even more) everyday. How has it happened? One of the reasons is that all these cameras around us are "passive". They're there, they record their memory, then they delete  ... [ Continue ]


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Barri J. Gold - ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science

Barri J. Gold,ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science,The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013727, 2010, English, U.S.A.,thermo_poetics.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013727, 2010, English, U.S.A.
There's an ethereal legacy between the nineteenth century (most of it was the so called Victorian era), science and technological innovation and the current digital age, almost two centuries after. Beyond recognizing the ancestors of technologies (the telegraph as the "Victorian Internet") and the subcultures producing fascinating atypical machines and settings (the steampunk  ... [ Continue ]


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RHFID Speakers, a different directional sound

RHFID_speakers.jpg Speakers are neutral. They carry the sound from its decoded source to our ears, but they are firm, static and impartial. They can be adjusted to create a better listening experience, or multiplied and singularly managed to enhance it even more, but they are meant to stay where you placed them the first time they were used. RHFID Speakers by Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe, Filippo Cuttica and  ... [ Continue ]


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André Nusselder - Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology

André Nusselder,Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology, The MIT Press, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262513005, U.S.A., 2009, interface_fantasy.jpg The MIT Press, English, ISBN-13: 978-0262513005, U.S.A., 2009
Psychologists have been rarely very helpful in understanding the most deep and intimate relationships between men and machines. At the end of nineties one of the early scientific books investigating this field out: "The Psychology of the Internet" by Patricia Wallace. It tried to analyze emotional emergences rising on the net, which were mainly caused by the new mediated type of  ... [ Continue ]


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Microcodes, the world without syntax errors

Pall Thayer, microcodes,microcode.jpg The descriptive, literary role of programming code has not being properly exploited, especially by writers and poets. Yet there's an incredible potential to create sense through the syntax and grammar rules of a programming language. Pall Thayer has started to rigorously write concepts in Perl in his Microcodes project. Slowly progressing from  ... [ Continue ]


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Ingeborg Reichle - Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art

Ingeborg Reichle, Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art,Springer Verlag, Austria, English, ISBN-13: 978-3211781609, art_age_technoscience.jpg Springer Verlag, Austria, English, ISBN-13: 978-3211781609
The laboratory as an atelier: this seems to be one of the paradigms of art and science. "Art" and "science" are two terms that have been juxtaposed way too often, sometimes describing either "creative" science or art only citing scientific elements. This book is far away from these misunderstandings. The work restricts its field of research to three areas (genetic engineering,  ... [ Continue ]


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Kapitaal, X-ray public space

kapitaal, studio smack, kapitaal.jpg In a black environment of shapes and garbled sounds someone is lurking. The viewer walks through an environment which could well be that of a first-person shoot-em-up videogame: a jungle of logos, text, bright displays and signs. It's not an imaginary place. It is an X-ray image of  ... [ Continue ]


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ASPECT - Volume 14: Middle East

ASPECT Volume 14: Middle East
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This is the usual excellent selection by Aspect (a bi-annual video-magazine on dvd) on a topic tough to explore: the Middle East. The format is usual: a collection of videos in a double version: the original work and one commented on by a renowned critic. Carefully avoiding stereotypes, focusing just on the hottest areas, and mostly including  ... [ Continue ]


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art . biotech . preservation

Modern Fossil - Fossilization now

Modern Fossil, Chistopher Locke, modern_fossil.jpg Sometimes they have evolved. Sometimes they have only appeared briefly and then mysteriously lost all their functionality and appeal. Obsolete technological objects, once cutting-edge, turn into modern fossils in the hands of Chistopher Locke. With a special technique, a mold made of a concrete-like mixture similar to real fossil stone, the phone becomes a  ... [ Continue ]


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