Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).
The Stock Photobomber claims to be an art director, now hilariously photobombing himself in classic stock photos.
Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).
The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/
“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.
Lady is a tramp by Dvein is an experimental animation testing the perception of an entity as human or human-like.
Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.
Ryoji Ikeda’s “test pattern [times square]” will bring artist’s trademark flickering black and white patterns to one of the most touristic New York City places, noon to midnight during October 2014.
Sousveillance, or the recording of an activity by a participant, usually using small portable/wearable cameras, implies not only a change of perspective, but also a different balance of power. The collective Shinseungback Kimyonghun has created a pure sousveillance suit for →
BIS Publishers, ISBN: 978-9063693145, English, 192 pages, 2014, The Netherlands
The dream of influencing or even dominating other minds has always been present in megalomaniac human beings. But what was just a myth in the past has now become (partially) →
Autonomedia, ISBN: 978-1570272646, English, 256 pages, 2013, USA
As a provocative but systemic reaction to the constraints of the economic crisis, cultural activists have conceived a number of their own counter-acts, which have materialised in theories, artworks, actions and productions. →
Print has intrinsic archival qualities, being, as with other static media, a portrait of content frozen in space and time. E-publishing is exactly the opposite: its ephemeral digital structure (which has to be interpreted and executed by a machine every →
Japanese obscenity laws are quite strict, especially concerning the representation of genitalia, in an apparently striking contradiction with the vast variety of underage porn that is somehow allowed. “3D MK Boat” is a conceptual work by the Japanese artist Megumi →
The historical development of music in the west has been described in terms of a distancing of the body: the identification of music with music notation and the progressive automation of musical instruments are two sides of this process. Dmitry →
The latest film by Johannes Grenzfurthner is set in a post-atomic future born from the ashes of the Google-war, a destructive global war of the twenty-first century between the two last superpowers: China and Google. “Social developments confront us with →
History is full of scientists and thinkers whose minds have proven to be capable of projecting beyond the reality around them, coining reasoning and predictions whose scientific demonstrations practices, have never been reached. Thus was born the concept of conceptual →
Litwin Books, ISBN: 978-1936117598, English, 370 pages, 2014, USA
The term “piracy” inevitably conjures up ambivalent feelings. It also reflects changes, conflicts and contradictions in contemporary society. This anthology of texts finally breaks the classic “cops and robbers” debate loop, →
Tactical Technology Collective, Book + stickers + postcards, ISBN 9789380765037, English, 170 pages, 2008, USA
In the world of big data visualization, developing a “practical” handbook to carry out really effective campaigns it is certainly a daunting task. But when →
