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links for 2008-12-1
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 11:03pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
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links for 2008-11-29
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 7:44pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Network Research » Arithmetik Garden Arithmetik Garden by Sato Masahiko and Kiriyama Takashi is another work which was exhibited at ICC in Tokyo last year, this time as part of the Open Space. Users enter the garden with a numbered RFID smart card: (tags: art science mobile)
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Wind-up Bird(s), a flock of electronic woodpeckers
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 4:48pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
Deep in the forest, something is subverting the natural order of nature. HC Gilje's Wind-up Bird(s) is a flock of electronic / mechanical woodpeckers mounted high in the trees of Lillehammer forest, Norway. Each
unit tapping out a sound like a real woodpecker. Networked through wireless modems, the units react to each other and encourage the 'real life' woodpeckers to join in. Wind-up Bird(s), was part of UT-21 polish norwegian art project, exploring the environment. The mechanical birds strip away our notion of birds to the strongest element that remains in our conciousness: their sound. How does the digital and the biological manage this relationship? The birds become a part of the acoustic community and within no time, there is dialogue between the two. The aim of UT-21 is to create 'interventionist art' that attempts to derail the natural flow of the environment. For a moment this happens with Wind-up Bird(s), but in no time at all nature has adapted more quickly than the machines.
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links for 2008-11-27
Posted: November 27th, 2008, 10:01pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers 'not addicts' Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted. (tags: videogame hacktivism)
- Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs - NYTimes.com Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major record label has hit: more than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cellphones (tags: media music)
- *** PIKSEL08 *** Code Dreams, Bergen, Norway, december 4-7 2008 (tags: festival art hacktivism sound software)
- Festival Program — CIMATICS.08 - Audiovisual Festival / art / media / music / technology 27-29 November in Brussels (tags: art media festival sound visual)
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Branka Ćurčić, Zoran Pantelić - Public Netbase: Non Stop Future, New Practices in Art and Media
Posted: November 27th, 2008, 4:31pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
Revolver, ISBN 9783865884558, Germany, 2008, English
t0/Public Netbase has undoubtedly played an important historical role in new media art and politics. Konrad Becker, its initiator and the visionary behind Public Netbase, placed the epicentre of its activities in Vienna in early nineties (its website was one of the very first on the scene with plenty of texts and biographies). This anthology of texts spans a decade of essays, which detail events from the early pioneer days to recent times. We enjoy recollections of many famous artists and performers who have stopped in the Austrian capital for conferences or performances. Edited by two of the Kuda.org friend association members, this book crystallizes the unique approach employed by Netbase from the very beginning. In fact, as Francisco de Sousa Webber (co-founder of Netbase) reminds, their tradition was "dissent, spectacle and guerrilla humour". Thus the most influential new media culture institution in Vienna has always been involved with many challenging and controversial projects that were ahead of their time, despite threats to its long term survival in terms of a lack of public funding. Indeed, Netbase was one of the most radical efforts to unmask issues of state control and propaganda, funding subversive public art and discourse (for example, their (in)famous event "Sex, Lies and the Internet" that threatened their activities after loud complaints from Haider) Unmoved by these pressures, Becker never really stopped his work, actually shifting to a more personal level, publishing a number of books in the last few years and arranging his WorldInformation.org series of events and conferences all over the world. Thank God he never gave up. -
links for 2008-11-27
Posted: November 26th, 2008, 11:52pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Compulsive gamers 'not addicts' Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted. (tags: videogame hacktivism)
- Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs - NYTimes.com Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major record label has hit: more than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cellphones (tags: media music)
- *** PIKSEL08 *** Code Dreams, Bergen, Norway, december 4-7 2008 (tags: festival art hacktivism sound software)
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Autechre Reverse Engineering
Posted: November 26th, 2008, 7:37pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
Robbie Martin (as known as Fluorescent Grey) is a musician and provocateur who has become famous as a producer of fake material. He was responsible for the video of an American soldier’s beheading in Iraq (actually the "victim" was his friend Ben Vanderford aka The Great White Hype), which was
distributed in popular p2p platforms like Kazaa and Soulseek and was picked up by different authoritative media sources around the world. This experience informed Martin’s awareness of the incredible power of the internet to facilitate the circulation of (true or false) news and the ease with which it is possible to produce a faked appearance of reality. Thinking along these lines, Martin promoted a fake Autechre album called “Untitled” consisting of his own tracks. Many fans of the Warp Records' superstars were taken in by the stunt, provoking much resentment from the Autechre duo. Sean Booth was particularly vocal in his criticism of the fake version, suggesting the project was irrelevant. Booth's reaction has been cited by Martin as the principle cause of what he defines as a "childish retaliation". Martin’s version consisted of reverse engineering some Autechre tracks and distributing them as Max/MSP patches. Moving beyond any remark concerning the legitimacy of these kind of actions (and beyond any discussion of Autechre's famous awkwardness) the most interesting aspect here is that for many amateurs it represents the chance of producing their own version of some famous tracks, or- to use Martin’s words - taking a glance behind the curtain.
Vito Campanelli
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links for 2008-11-25
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 9:31pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Digg Attack - A JavaScript Game - Nihilogic A Digg-'em-up struggle against the overwhelming forces of social media. (tags: media videogame hacking net)
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edited by Megan Boler - Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times
Posted: November 25th, 2008, 12:06pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026420, USA, 2008, English
The gigantic media effort to justify the senseless war in Iraqi has become an historical case study for 21st century journalism (as the first Gulf War used to be for the nineties). With respect to modes of communication we are in divisive times, with power and media ownership on one side and alternative media and (mostly online) citizen journalism on the other. The question has become how to describe, or even define reality when the information we receive seems increasingly fragile. The role of the web is becoming more and more preponderant, and the ambivalence of trust and deception is played endlessly through pages with an established reputation. Activist individuals and groups, with their strategies, have always been there, leading the discourse in the mediated public sphere. In this anthology many different tactics are explained and documented, with an impressive attention on news and constructed narratives in reports. But it's not really a self-celebrating anthology. Jodi Dean's chapter ("Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics"), for example, is examining different complications related to the web 2.0-based platforms, questioning the ultra-positive conception of technology typically discussed by tech-savvy activists. We are asked to consider that the shape of reality is partly formed by a large community that is well aware of the value and influence of information. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that it is currently an elite of talented writers who are fostering citizen journalism on the blogosphere. Their presence and work is vital for maintaining, defending and improving online freedom of expression and control over mainstream media constructed reality. -
links for 2008-11-25
Posted: November 24th, 2008, 11:22pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- バンダイ【ツッツキバコ】公式サイト Tuttuki Bako, a videogame for your fingers. (tags: media videogame)
- Playpen » Blog Archive » Playing Word Games in Blog Comments word-association and other games going on in the comments of Fail Blog posts (tags: literature art net)
- collision detection: Suzanne Vega, "Tom's Diner," and the birth of the MP3 Karl-Heinz Brandenberg — one of the audio engineers who developed the compression method — used Vega’s song “Tom’s Diner” as the reference track as he worked (tags: music)
- Oeyvind Brandtsegg ImproSculp software Software for live sampling and manipulation. Designed to fit the (my) demand for an organic tool to deal with improvised audio in real time. (tags: music sound performance software)
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links for 2008-11-22
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 11:43pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Introduction: The Shapes Project | Allan McCollum Working over the past few years, I've designed a new system to produce unique two-dimensional "shapes." This system allows me to make enough unique shapes for every person on the planet to have one of their own. It also allows me to keep track of the shapes, so as to insure that no two will ever be alike. (tags: art visual software)
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links for 2008-11-21
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 11:29pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Esc Clock won't let you be tardy - Designlaunches.com Esc Clock works wirelessly with a pair of speakers and a dock (tags: art software visual)
- Chris O'Shea - Audience Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention. (tags: art media)
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links for 2008-11-19
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 7:33pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Turn Your Couch into a "Disney" Ride for Under $300 | With Photos ButtKickers. a device meant for installation underneath a seat or sofa in order to provide chair-rumbling effects to help you "feel" the film. (tags: sound)
- TAKEOVERS & MAKEOVERS Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use, and Copyright in the Digital Age conference (tags: art copyright)
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Tantalum Memorial, honoring those who died in coltan wars
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 7:26pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
"Tantalum Memorial", by the artists Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji is a telephony-based memorial built from a 1938 telephone exchange rescued from the old Alumix factory in Bolzano, Italy which is meant to address the people who have died in the "coltan wars" in the Congo. The project was built from a series of electromagnetic
Strowger switches which were instrumental in enabling the first automatic telephone exchange dating back to 1888. This device is connected to live phone conversations of London's Congolese community as they participate in "Telephone Trottoire", a concurrent project also built by the artists. The project functions as a "social telephony" network that calls Congolese listeners, plays them a phone message inviting them to record a comment and pass it on to a friend. This process builds off of the traditional Congolese practice of "radio trottoire" which includes the transference of news and gossip on street corners in order to avoid state censorship.
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links for 2008-11-18
Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:08am GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- doraballa-ommo: Manfred Mohr, selection from early algorithmic experiments 1969-1973 Pioneering generative art (tags: art visual software)
- Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Transnational Convergences in African Digital Art Digital artists IngridMwangiRobertHutter, a collective from Kenya and Germany, have created Cryptic, a Traveler's Diary (2007), that questions how journey and intersecting histories affect identity. Berni Searle's Home and Away (2003) from South Africa explores large scale digital photography of her body to interrogate the notion of home and its effects on Black South Africans. (tags: art media)
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links for 2008-11-18
Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:08am GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- doraballa-ommo: Manfred Mohr, selection from early algorithmic experiments 1969-1973 Pioneering generative art (tags: art visual software)
- Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions :: Transnational Convergences in African Digital Art Digital artists IngridMwangiRobertHutter, a collective from Kenya and Germany, have created Cryptic, a Traveler's Diary (2007), that questions how journey and intersecting histories affect identity. Berni Searle's Home and Away (2003) from South Africa explores large scale digital photography of her body to interrogate the notion of home and its effects on Black South Africans. (tags: art media)
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links for 2008-11-16
Posted: November 16th, 2008, 8:22pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent The reality quintessence of glitch (tags: sound)
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links for 2008-11-15
Posted: November 15th, 2008, 9:24am GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Sound Wave a metaphorical physical wave of melted vinyls (tags: art music sound)
- Filippo Minelli | Contradictions famous social networking platform names spray-painted in completely different public places. (tags: art visual net)
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links for 2008-11-13
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 9:06pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Inquisitive Devices - 2008 Questioning and engaging with the proliferation of mobile devices in urban space (tags: mobile music sound)
- Stairway to iPhone Stairway to Heaven with the Sonic Mule iPhone app. (tags: music performance sound software visual)
- CCCS - ART, PRICE AND VALUE A seminal exhibition on contemporary art and the market, ranging from complete conformity to the prevailing rules of the market to irony and sarcasm and even to an “anti-market” stance (tags: art media hacktivism for:.Ale. for:anaQ for:binary.koala for:buttergod for:cesarminoruharada for:copyriot for:Cyall for:eleon for:glitterdammerung for:holotone for:luetranger for:memeshift for:nannolino for:noisecolours for:randomengine for:REAS for:serial_consign for:Simonasharefestival for:stunned for:substa for:tracky for:usoproject for:viktorija_ufo for:zbiejczuk)
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Edited by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid - Sound Unbound, Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 8:59pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262633635, U.S.A, 2008
Music beyond composing. Dj Spooky edits an anthology about "music as one of the most immaterial of artforms" that is worth a careful reading to open one's mind with real food for thought. "Dj is writing" he stated in his previous book "Rhythm Science" (2004), and the selection of texts in this new one seems to pick up writers dealing with the essence and the role of sound, through a wide range of topics such as muslim influences on hip hop, sampling, plagiarism, improvisation, silence, pioneering electronic music, aesthetic and politics. So among the contributors we find Pauline Oliveros, Manuel DeLanda, Bruce Sterling, Brian Eno, Chuck D, Scanner, Dick Hebdige, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jaron Lanier and many others, sharing reputation and ideas that deserve attention in the twenty-first century. This heterogeneous remix of theories in printed form is then a thought provoking bumpy road, ready to shake any commercial limbo, and definitively corrupting the fake integrity of music as tracks to pay for and consume. The audio companion is a concept in its own, selecting historical sound documents (some of them remixed by Spooky) from the fabulous SubRosa electronic music archives (SubRosa is also releasing the same cd in a digipack format with an extra seminal poster / map about the whole acoustic wave spectrum in nature that opens endless possibilities for new ideas and experiments). Therefore this music culture anthology is a printed one that fits perfectly in the web era, giving music "creativity" a different and strategical perspective. -
links for 2008-11-12
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 10:14pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- SOCIAL SOUVENIR Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they their name and address. The information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum. The 300 T-shirts will gradually disappear from the physical museum space only to re-appear on the web. (tags: art visual mobile)
- World-Information Institute - Deep Search On the Future of Digital Searching, Conference on the Social Role of Google & Co 8 November, 2008, Vienna (tags: hacktivism net)
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Smiles Less Noise, il sorriso come interfaccia
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 7:51pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
"Smiles Less Noise" a recent work by Japanese media artist and interface designer Daito Manabe, is part of a series of experimental technology works exploring cybernetics and the relationship between sound and physical expression known as the Taico Club Art Project. Always asking their trademark question, "What makes you smile?", this work
utilizes sensor technology to establish and explore the relationship between electrical impulses and sound and video. Sensors are placed on the subject’s face (or anywhere) to detect the subtlest of muscle electrode function. Then, Manabe engages in a dialog with his subject in order to elicit reactions. The electrical impulses from the muscles in turn cause variations in the music playing and video broadcast signal. The relationship is rather simple- if the subject smiles, there will be less static and noise however if the subject becomes angry, or there is an intensification in electrode impulses as detected by the sensors, more noise and visual static is generated; to the effect that accompanying audio track is discombobulated while the video is fragmented and colors fade.
Vicente Gutierrez -
links for 2008-11-11
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 7:40pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- SOCIAL SOUVENIR Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they their name and address. The information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum. The 300 T-shirts will gradually disappear from the physical museum space only to re-appear on the web. (tags: art visual mobile)
- World-Information Institute - Deep Search On the Future of Digital Searching, Conference on the Social Role of Google & Co 8 November, 2008, Vienna (tags: hacktivism net)
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links for 2008-11-7
Posted: November 6th, 2008, 10:59pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Welcome :: make art 2008 make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), open practices and free culture in digital arts. (tags: art hacktivism software festival)
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links for 2008-11-2
Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 5:59pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Phonagnosia The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition of a woman who is unable to recognise people by their voice, including her own daughter whom she has great difficulty identifying over the phone. (tags: science sound)
- Infectious — Adhesive Art "Laptop art", make the back of your screen sleek. (tags: visual)
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links for 2008-11-1
Posted: November 1st, 2008, 10:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show [Jacobs School of Engineering: News & Events] Copying keys from a distance with tech (tags: hacking media)
- SSRG - home SSRG - Sicilian Soundscape Research Group, studying the Sicilian acoustic environment (tags: art sound music preservation)