Tag Archives: new media art

Lulzsec – Cyber terrorists, hacktivists or artists?

Phone hacking dominated British headlines during the summer months this year and the revelations were so detrimental to Murdoch’s empire that he thought it was best to shut down The News of the World – believing it had let down its readers. Whether this was in fact an elaborate ‘brush it under the carpet’ operation we might never know- not…

*Choose Life*

Ourania Dalalaki, Ashiq Khondker, Maritje Onjering, Hans Terpstra

mini-exhibition curated for the Critical Media Art seminar.

Disengage from the fear of technology, engage living forms through technicity, transform life, choose life.

Living, Semi-living, bio-creations that tactically aim to shape life.

Interacticipation: Ten Artworks Reflecting the Status of Contemporary Participation in New Media Art

Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in a way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome (Wikipedia, 2011a). In other words, it allows a dialogue between the artwork and the viewer. Although the history of interactive art goes back to the fifth century B.C. according to the new media artist and…

26 Days of Peace – a collection of tactical media projects

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has only known twenty-six cumulated days of peace. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Gulf War gave rise to a hope that we could blissfully live in a global capitalist democracy, but this changed with the attacks of September 11, 2001. Slavoj Zizek calls the…

Free For $8

The New Museum of Art in New York City is currently hosting an exhibition carrying work from 23 artists titled “Free”. The show explores: “how the internet has fundamentally changed our landscape of information and our notion of public space.” Perhaps with a firm tongue-in-cheek approach the only other exhibition running at the museum right now is called “The Last Newspaper”.

The Diegetic Desktop in a New Media Film: “Skydiver AKA Instructional Video #4 – Preparation for Mission by Eugene Kotlyarenko”

A couple of weeks ago, during my routine deletion of facebook notices and invitations (“fpam”?), I fortunately bothered to open one headlined, “The Groundbreaking Last Movie from Eugene Kotlyarenko.” Okay, I thought, a movie-release by an acquaintance is special enough to warrant more than a cursory look, so although I’m in Amsterdam, quite far away from Los Angeles or New York (where most of the events I’m still invited to take place), it wouldn’t hurt to be in the know. Fortunately (again), it turned out that the movie was being released on the internet, and not as a full-length feature, but in ten easy-to-digest-in-our-attention-deficit-internet-culture episodes — perfectly matching my spacetime needs.

Book Review: “Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds”

What is the relation between new media art and baroque? Is there any connection? According to the book Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (2008) by Timothy Murray there is. Murray states that there are conceptual and historical links between digital art and the baroque. Murray argues that new media art works resonates early modern baroque philosophical concepts…

Book Review: El Proceso Como Paradigma (Process as Paradigm)

It’s a hollow exercise publishing a book about new media art. Giving the work the representation it deserves in one picture and a 500-word description leaves readers sampling only a small hint of the original experience and runs the risk of often-laborious descriptions (“and then it lights up when the user mouses over the block!”). But as a necessary archive of this burgeoning scene comes the eponymous hard-back catalogue of the exhibition El Proceso Como Paradigma (Process as Paradigm), curated by Dr Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers at the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijón (23 April – August 2010).

The Sound of Shadow: Inverted Shadow by Eelco Wagenaar

The Sound of Shadow is an exhibition of works by a mix of graduating and graduated artists, some coming from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, that takes place in Amsterdam (Westergasfabriek) in the month of May 2010. The works aim to reflect on the relation between sound and (moving) image, and they do so by using image instead of sound. The

New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

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In my research paper – which I will be writing the next two months, I want to deepen the discussion around new media art and its relation to political and social engagement. While net.art has always taken a very strong stand against the mainstream culture and has promoted a so called “counter-culture” by coordinating hacktivists…