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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

Akira Kosemura, Polaroid Piano, Someone Good, acoustic/digital, experimental, field recordings, soundscapes, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, AkiraKosemura_PolaroidPiano.jpgCD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the  ... [ Continue ]


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RTX - Radio Tower Xchange

RTX, Radio Tower Xchange, Rixc, audio art, experimental, sounscapes, multimedia, stream, streaming, broadcasting philosophies, network, WiFi, infosfera, psicosfera, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta,
RTX_RadioTowerXchange.jpgCD- Rixc
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the  ... [ Continue ]


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Piotr Kurek - Lectures

Piotr Kurek, Lectures, Cronica, jazz, avant-garde,  Cornelius Cardew, experimental, audio-art, free form, Slepcy, Marcin Stefanski,  Scratch Orchestra, Cock Rock Disco, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta,
PiotrKurek_Lectures.jpgCD - Cronica
Tangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician who now lives in Portugal. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw  ... [ Continue ]


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audio art . experimental . noise

Yellow Swans - Mort Aux Vaches

Yellow Swans, Mort Aux Vaches, Staalplaat, psichedelia, elettronica, musica digitale, post-modern, avantgarde, audio-art, experimental, noise, Aurelio Cianciotta, YellowSwans_MortAuxVaches.jpg12" - Staalplaat
Once again Staalplaat sets a new milestone with the artwork accompanying their historic Mort Aux Vaches series. A very playful yellow hardback with embossed inserts, complete with the silhouette of a cute duckling and a smiling peasant girl is the companion of scratchy industrial sounds. The record is a  ... [ Continue ]


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Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4

Jim O'Rourke, I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4, Mego, experimental, audio-art, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, JimORourke_IAmHappy.jpg2CD - Mego
Compositions recorded between 1997 and 1999, often in different studios and cities (New York, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö), and originally published on Mego in 2001 constitute this fascinating project by Jim O'Rourke. This record effectively condenses the eclectic electronic music typical of the  ... [ Continue ]


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audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Phroq - Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situations

Phroq, Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situation, Uzu Sounds, Francisco Meirino, audio-art, experimental, microsounds, field recordings, max/msp, Espace Julien di Marsiglia, Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut di Oakland, live set, Paradox, Tilburg, performance, error, entropia, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Phroq_Recordings.jpgCD - Uzu Sounds
Francisco Meirino - under the pseudonym Phroq - continues unabashed in his fascination with bugs and micro-sounds. His is a meticulous investigator, pushing the limits of the audible, cataloguing the frequencies and hums of electrical equipment under stress. The sources of the samples - in the  ... [ Continue ]


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Milosh - III

Milosh, III, !K7,  indietronica, post-soul, abstract, acoustic-digital, electronica, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, milosh_III.jpgCD -!K7
Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music,  ... [ Continue ]


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An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music, Subrosa, Li Ching Sung, Guy Marc Hinant, Dickinson Dee, Torturing Nurse, Wang Fan, Dajuin Yao, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Li Jianhong, Yan Jun, astract, ambient, experimental, noise, soundscape, Cina, musica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AnAntologyOfChineseExperimentalMusic-.jpg 4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka  ... [ Continue ]


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Stephan Moore - To Build A Field

Stephan Moore. To Build A Field, Deep Listening, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, audio art, acoustic/digital, experimental, soundscape, Aurelio Cianciotta, StephanMoore_ToBuildAField.jpgCD - Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer  ... [ Continue ]


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EVOL - Punani Rubberist

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Jacob Draminsky-Hojmark, Punani Rubberist, Evol, Entr'acte, Joe Gilmore, Excelsior Punani, eRikm, Tupolev Farmyard, Kazumoto Endo, 23 Cartas de Tamariz, abstract, audio art, experimental, glitch'ncut, Aurelio Cianciotta, Evol_PunaniRubberist.jpgCD" - Evol/Entr'acte
The fifth work in the 'EVOL's Punani' series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the shape of a leaflet, along with individual black and white photo cards. The free form sound of the first track is "cut" and extremely inconstant,  ... [ Continue ]


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AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing

AAVV, Noise Vs Subversive Computing, Computationally Infeasible Records,  usb key, ambient, noise, Steganography, open source, lossless, hacker, hacktivism, Java tool, software art, Pure-Data, Midi, Speech Processing, cyber, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV_NoiseVsSubversiveComputing.jpgUSB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and  ... [ Continue ]


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Yutaka Makino - Black

Yutaka Makino, Black, audio art, drone, experimental, noise, Aurelio Cianciotta, YutakaMakino_Black.jpgCD - Strukto
This is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word 'Black' in an impeccably neutral relief, there's also the black inlay card of the CD trailer underneath the transparent plastic trailer, the black booklet, and the black CD  ... [ Continue ]


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Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants

Gregg Kowalsky, Tape Chants, Kranky, audio art, drone, experimental, field recording, Aurelio Cianciotta, GreggKowalsky_TapeChants .jpgCD - Kranky
Drones and subdued frequencies, structured in a kind of meditative psychedelia. Gregg Kowalsky is not new to sounds with such characteristics, using analog recordings, manipulating oscillators and managing purposefully created feedback. In "Tape Chants", however, his explorations reach a new level  ... [ Continue ]


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Autistici - Complex Tone Test

Autistici, Complex Tone Test, Kesh,  Audiobulb, drone experimental, microsound, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Autistici_ComplexToneTest.jpgCD - Kesh
Dilated and charming tonal sequences, micro-sonorities and patterns that gently intersect, ticks, acoustic and more synthetic structures arise in this new work by Autistici (David Newman), a sound-artist based in Sheffield, head-honcho of Audiobulb. Even if this record starts with very placid  ... [ Continue ]


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Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir

Audrey Chen, Robert Van Heumen, Abattoir, Evil Rabbit, free form, laptop music, noise,  bruitismo, Aurelio Cianciotta, AudreyChenRobertVanHeumen_Abattoir.jpgCD - Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden  ... [ Continue ]


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Mudboy - Mort Aux Vaches

Mudboy, Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vachez, audio-art, drone, experimental, field recordings, VPRO, Dwars, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mudboy_MortAuxVaches.jpg CD - Mort Aux Vachez
The audio compact disk is presented rigidly bolted between three different rectangular wooden blocks, held together by metal hinges, then fixed through the usual split pin, the symbol of the series. The new Mort Aux Vaches release includes five unreleased recordings and marks the return of Mudboy - hosted  ... [ Continue ]


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Denis Tricot / Eric Cordier - Orgue De Bois

Denis Tricot, Eric Cordier, Orgue De Bois, Prele Records, audio-art, experimental, free form, Aurelio Cianciotta, DenisTricotEricCordier_OrgueDeBois.jpg CD - Prele
Narrow strips of wood, roughly five inches long, thin, connected to each other to reach a considerable length (up to ten meters), totally suspended by special rods, shape sinuous undulations, as sculptural instruments and architectural installations, artistic and musical. This construction by Denis Tricot and  ... [ Continue ]


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Gintas K - Lovely Banalities

Gintas K, Lovely Banalities, Cronica, audio-art, experimental, field recordings, glitches, frequency, electronica, soundscape, error, digital, music, Aurelio Cianciotta,
GintasK_LovelyBanalities.jpgCD - Cronica
There are fourteen different tracks in "Lovely Banalities", the second release on Crónica for the Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K. Although there are multiple "field recording" interludes, connections and micro-frequencies, they result in a rather continuous, evocative and fascinating flow of sound. They  ... [ Continue ]


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Marcus Maeder - Die Wunschmaschinen

Marcus Maeder, Die Wunschmaschinen, DVD, Domizil, audio-art, experimental, Bernd Schurer, Kombirama, Zurich, Anti-Edipo, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari,  Antonin Artaud, Ivan Chtcheglov, Guy Débord, Sigmund Freud, Kraftwerk, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Richard Wagner, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, MarcusMaeder_DieWunschmaschinen-.jpg DVD - Domizil
Since the mid-nineties, the experiments of Marcus Maeder permeated the Kombirama of Zurich with a certain conceptual freshness, which was both seminal and intuitive. It was at this time - for the first time - that the term "digital culture" found its application. They were the same years in which Bernd  ... [ Continue ]


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Robert Hampson - Vectors

Robert Hampson, Vectors, Touch, Umbra, GRM, Groupe De Recherches Musicales, Pierre Schaeffer, Ahead, Vibrö,  sound art, Planetario, Poitiers, Dans Le Lointain, audio art, experimental, soundscape, acusmatica, Aurelio Cianciotta, RobertHampson_Vectors.jpg CD - Touch
Three dense and acousmatic tracks, in which Robert Hampson displays unconventional attitudes in very imaginative ways, are devoted to the construction of complex soundscapes. The plots are constructed with great care for the pauses; the ones in 'Umbra' - quote from Latin referring to the darker area  ... [ Continue ]


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Jorge Haro - Works Based On Field Recordings

Jorge Haro, Works Based On Field Recordings, Sudamerica Electronica, LIMb0 festival, audio art, experimental, field recordings, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, JorgeHaro_WorksBasedOnFieldRecordings.jpgCD - Sudamerica Electronica
Jorge Haro, composer, sound and audio-visual artist, head of Sudamerica Electronica and LIMb0 festival director, insists on remarkable organic quality recordings, diluted in deconstructed scores, intertwined with long silences, drones and concrete auditory events, all very coarse and responsive with finely  ... [ Continue ]


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Daphne Oram - Oramics

Daphne Oram, Oramics, Paradigm Discs, experimental, avant-garde, 2 CD, experimental, audio-art, Aurelio Cianciotta, DaphneOram_Oramics.jpg 2CD - Paradigm Discs
Seminal anticipations of future musical concepts and techniques from a time now passed away - a time fed by a different perception of the "concept" of the future, characterised by a very strong and rational exploration of the concept of "new" in music. These are the first stirrings of an electronic age - one  ... [ Continue ]


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Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be

Anne Laplantine, A Little May Time Be, Ahornfelder, acoustic/digital, drone, experimental, folktronica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AnnaLaplantine_ALittleMayTimeBe.jpg CD - Ahornfelder
The harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in  ... [ Continue ]


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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs

Tom Hamilton - Local Customs, TomHamilton_LocalCustoms.jpg CD - Mutable Music
The elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro-  ... [ Continue ]


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audio art . drone . experimental . plagiarism

Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample - Circulations

Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample, Circulations, Faitiche, ield recordings, plunderphonics, audio art, plagiarism,  drone, sample, sampledelic, Jan Jelinek, copyright, cut'n'paste, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, GES_Circulation.jpgCD - Faitiche
A multifaceted cluster of different auditive materials, a set of miniatures, a choreographic movement of field recordings: it is not surprising if 'the Society for the Emancipation of Sampling' promises 'financial protection and legal support in cases of active infringement of the copyright associated with that  ... [ Continue ]


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Heribert Friedl - Recherche

Heribert Friedl, Recherche, nonvisualobjectsCD - Nonvisualobjects
The hackbrett - or cimbalom - is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison and are copper over-spun. The strings are stretched in an order that allows different groups to overtop the others on each side  ... [ Continue ]


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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, sonic_warfare.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, English
Sound waves can't usually damage your ears unless you constantly keep headphone volume too high,or you insist on standing very close to tall speakers during a concert for too long. Used in the right way (or wrong way), however, they can be a scary armament, able to inflict various degrees of harassment,  ... [ Continue ]


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Temporary.cc, interaction is destruction


Temporary.cc, Zach Gage, temporary_cc.jpg Digital data has a paradoxical status. Immaterial by definition, it nonetheless has a need for a physical substance (hardware) to manifest itself. Eternal and not subject to decay, it is forced to bond its life to the hosting support, inheriting fragility and a tendency to degenerate. Furthermore, data legibility is  ... [ Continue ]


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Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original

Cornelia Sollfrank, Expanded Original, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, expanded_original.jpg Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, German
The work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the  ... [ Continue ]


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Web 2.0 suicide machine + Seppukoo, social network self-destruction

Web 2.0 suicide machine, Gordan Savicic, web_2_0_suicide_machine_seppukoo.jpg Parodies of social networking services started to appear since the Friendster boom in the early 2000s. Anti-social networking platforms as introvertster, snubster, enemybook or isolatr playfully subverted online community dynamics targeting their shallowness as much as  ... [ Continue ]


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Sherry Turkle - Simulation and Its Discontents

simulation_and_its_discontents.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, English
Starting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role played by simulation in higher education, physics, chemistry and architecture research. The pivotal perception shift that is pervading the younger "world creators" seems highly risky, especially when seen from the previous generation's perspective,  ... [ Continue ]


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IIE (Interactive Infrasonic Installation), infrasound for public consumption

IIE, Interactive Infrasonic Installation, Reinhard Gupfinger, interactive_infrasonic_environment.jpg IIE is an interactive acoustic installation through which Reinhard Gupfinger researches infrasounds, that is, those sounds that, having a frequency less than 20/16 Hertz (20/16 cycles per second), are below the audible threshold of the human ear. While the ear is insensitive to those sounds, the human body can nevertheless perceive  ... [ Continue ]


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Neural 34, Fake'ology

Neural 34, n34e.jpg The new Neural issue is out. Subscribe now supporting us directly, or buy the magazine from the closest of the more than 200 stores (Neural is from now on distributed by Central Books in Europe and Asia, by Ubiquity in USA and by Selectair in Australia and New Zealand). A back issues pack is also available.

Issue #34, winter 2009
ISSN: 2037-108X

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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer - Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph

dick_raaymakers_a_monograph.jpg NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626006, The Netherlands, 2009, English
The slow and almost unavoidable disintegration of pieces of early electronic art is part of a broader problem that involves the preservation of both their materials and their historical documentation. This task can be accomplished only by trying to systematize the rescued documents, in order to ease the  ... [ Continue ]


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Influ, self-destructive mask against the dictatorship of fear

Influ, Michel Bussien, Erik Sjödin, influ_flu_collector.jpg Turning common sense upside down is one of the most effective strategies in art, especially when dealing with hot social topics. Swine Flu (H1N1) has been the big viral outbreak of 2009. The few rules created by authorities to prevent infection have been repeated ad infinitum, although these are only  ... [ Continue ]


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Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf, Gerfried Stocker - Ars Electronica 1979-2009 the First 30 Years: The Network for Art Technology and Society

Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf, Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica 1979-2009 the First 30 Years: The Network for Art Technology and Society, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, the_network_for_art_technology_and_society.jpg Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, Germany, 2009, English, German
Condensing thirty years of the Ars Electronica festival history into six hundred pages is the challenge of this book. It's a tough task to make a selection and to deal with the inevitable incompleteness and redundancy, as the author's disclaimer suggests: "the selection... by no means reflects any sort of  ... [ Continue ]


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SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert

Peter William Holden, SoleNoid ß, solenoid_beta.jpg The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living"  ... [ Continue ]


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Manuel Castells - Communication Power

Manuel Castells, Communication Power, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English, manuel_castells_communication_power.jpg Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English
"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the  ... [ Continue ]


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scoreLight, playing contours

Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Yusaku Kuribara, scoreLight, score_light.jpg Blind people have a different conventional way to "see." They use a walking stick to sense borders around them, and their task is made easier when they can use a special rubber guidance route on the street. This process is not too conceptually distant from pickup and vinyl mechanics, and it's also the  ... [ Continue ]


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Edward A. Shanken - Art and Electronic Media

Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media, Phaidon Press, ISBN 9780714847825, art_and_electronic_media.jpg Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825, UK, 2009, English
The size of a book is often influencing the reader. The so called "coffee table" size is either meant to entertain the casual reader in a usually public reading space, or to enhance the publisher's effort on the chosen topic, giving it the physical status of a referential book. "Art and Electronic Media" is a coffee  ... [ Continue ]


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Sk8monkey, Twitter's wreckage by Jodi

Sk8monkey, Jodi, jodi_Sk8monkey.jpg Misusing technological tools and languages has been a trademark for Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) since the mid-nineties, when they emerged as the pioneers of a movement which later became internationally known as net.art. Starting by applying this creative strategy to browsers,  ... [ Continue ]


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Embroidered text messages, stitching virtual memory

Ginger Anyhow, Embroidered text messages, embroidered_text_messages.jpg Are we in danger of losing our memory? Lynne Brindley, Head of the British Library, has warned that as websites come and go, the memory of the nation may disappear too, leaving historians and citizens of the future with a "black hole in the knowledge base of the 21st century". On a more personal level,  ... [ Continue ]


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Can't You See I'm Busy, playing at work without feeling guilty

Can't You See I'm Busy, Maarten Vrouwes, Friso Ludenhoff, Eric Holm, Vincent Ludenhoff, can_t_you_see_i_m_busy.jpg In the spirit of the "net.art" of the late 1990s, the project "Can't You See I'm Busy" (by Maarten Vrouwes, Friso Ludenhoff, Eric Holm and Vincent Ludenhoff) consists of various arcade games masked into generic office tools like word processing and spreadsheet software in order to hide the activities of the procrastinating cubicle worker. Games  ... [ Continue ]


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Tardigotchi, augmented virtuality

S.W.A.M.P., Tardigotchi, tardigotchi.jpg Affection for living creatures has been widely exploited in video games. From the early abstract cellular automata, through to the seminal "Little Computer People" video game (1985), the mass popularity of Tamagotchi in the nineties, and the latest wave of the Nintendo DS "Pets" series, our protective instincts  ... [ Continue ]


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Rita Raley - Tactical Media

Rita Raley, Tactical Media, Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, rita_raley_tactical_media.jpg Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, English
Despite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media art projects. In the classic theorization by Geert Lovink and David Garcia for the Next Five Minutes events, Michel de Certeau’s  ... [ Continue ]


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