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.
1000hz is a frequency commonly used as a test tone in audio perception experiments. Rigorous research into human sensitivity to sound and auditory thresholds has often used 1000Hz as a reference point for determining the quietest tones a person with →
There is a strong connection between nations and bodies of people living in those nations. A territorial connection that doesn’t concern a geopolitical confine but the morphology of those territories. The national anthem is a trace of a community, or →
University of California Press, ISBN-13: 978-0520257559, English, 344 pages, 2012, USA
Douglas Kahn is one of the most inspiring scholars dealing with sound and art. He’s able to accurately track historically compelling behind-the-scenes facts, while retrieving and connecting visionary trajectories →
König Books Ltd / Sound And Music, ISBN-13: 978-3865607065, 96 pages, 2013, English
The western imaginary about post-October revolution Russia and its liberated, flourishing cultural scenes is only partially supported by official histories. This unique book adds another important account →
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Behind the moniker Illuha are hidden the Japanese experimenter Tomoyoshi Date and the cosmopolitan Corey Fuller. The first works of both sound-artists date back to the second half of the last decade; so they belong to the →
Errant Bodies Press, ISBN-13: 978-0982743942, 298 pages, 2012, English
The theory of sound art often finds its references in the realm of music. But there are other possibilities: concepts, or references to literature, theatre, cinema, or any other field of →
