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Art and Music for Resistance

A description of the second and third day of LabSurLab where I met with the founders of FRACTALAB. Latter is focused on a multidisciplinary idea to create open space for the youth in the coffee region of Colombia (Eje...

By Fei An Tjan on 04/11/11 1

LabSurLab Report, Medellín 07-04

LabSurLab is a gathering of different worldwide Labs taking place in Medellín first time this year. From the 6th of April to the 12th of April different projects will present their work and exchange ideas on subjects such as...

By Fei An Tjan on 04/09/11 3

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...

By Ourania on 03/19/11 3

Online Video Art: Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko Play with the Diegetic Desktop

Originally published on the Video Vortex #6 conference blog. Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko's presentation was the most entertaining and confusing of the first day of Video Vortex #6. To begin with, their collaboration took place exclusively...

By Catalina Iorga on 03/16/11 1

Video Vortex #6: Florian Cramer: Bokeh Porn Poetics, On the Internet Film Genre of DSLR Video Camera Tests

(A blogpost on Florian Cramer’s presentation, originally published @ Video Vortex #6 website. The original text can be found here ) Florian Cramer (media theorist, director of the Piet Zwart Institute) participated in the first day of Video Vortex to provide the audience with...

By Ourania on 03/13/11 Comments Off

Augmented reality: the first steps to a society of control?

Layla van Daalen, Chris Hoogeveen, Hanneke Mertens Every aspect of the world has an extra layer of information. It may not always be obvious, but these extra layers are most certainly present. Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis describe these...

By Chris Hoogeveen on 03/13/11 2

The rebirth of data – between database and narrative

In arts, it has always been customary that artists influence each other and build upon the work of their peers. However, in the 20th century, this tendency magnified even further. Art movements like pop art and Dada, with their...

By Cendy Calis on 03/06/11 3

ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies,...

By Jidi Guo on 02/20/11 Comments Off

Flash Drive In The Wall?

Check out the newest project of Aram Bartholl, a creative artist and writer on new media, who in his works blends urban landscapes, art, technology and media. He is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City....

By Michal Kielbasa on 11/01/10 Comments Off

Fail and Prejudice: Using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator

I was already familiar with Illustrator (CS3). However since it’s been a while ago, I thought I could use Inkscape without prejudice. Think again. The point was to make a head upside down, half filled with blood, dripping out....

By Emina Sendijarevic on 10/31/10 Comments Off

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...

By Natalie Dixon on 10/31/10 Comments Off

The human race towards immortality or stupidity.

The idea of immortality plays a significant role in the human life. Within every generation, and within every culture this is an issue. The Chinese incorporate this with Ba Xian, the eight immortals. Within he Indian Mythology there is...

By Chris Hoogeveen on 10/21/10 1

Online to Offline: review of TS2AS party in Amsterdam

Three weeks ago I blogged about Justus Bruns and the concept behind Times Square to Art Square (TS2AS). Last night was the first offline event, held in MuzyQ, Amsterdam, where Justus explained the story behind his idea, “to turn...

By Janice Wong on 10/19/10 Comments Off

Are E-books just a transitional technology?

“At breakfast Sal reads the news. She still prefers the paper form, as do most of the people. She spots an interesting quote from a columnist in the business section. She wipes her pen over the news paper´s name,...

By Cristina Reyna on 10/19/10 Comments Off

Digital Comics: Not as Invincible as They Could Be

As a Toronto born comic book fan, I’ve probably visited my local comic book shop, Cyber City Comix, once a week for the last fifteen years. Every Wednesday I would go by and pick up the latest issues of...

By Ronen Shay on 10/18/10 Comments Off

Becoming an Inkscape expert

A few weeks ago, during the practical class of John Haltiwanger, he asked us what we wanted to learn on the computer. There were several people who wanted to learn how to Photoshop. Since John didn’t know how to...

By Floor Broer van Dijk on 10/11/10 Comments Off

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...

By Ashiq Khondker on 10/04/10 3

Art: E-Waste

Renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo's latest work Permanent Error features a haunting documentary of an e-waste(land) in Ghana.

By Natalie Dixon on 10/04/10 Comments Off

The Chinese Room

Friday, 17 september, in Hague’s Korzo5HOOG theater, I, with companion, got immersed in the phantasies of dancer and choreographer Kenneth Flak. Inspired on the thinking experiment ‘The Chinese Room’ placed in the context of the notions of William Gibson’s...

By Xander Stolwijk on 09/24/10 1

Review ‘Ideology of Design’ by Branka Ćurčić (Ed.)

Before reading any further… Being born in ex-Yugoslavia and understanding its culture, environment and heritage, I can not exclude them from my review of ‘Ideology of Design’. My analysis could therefore be seen as a different non-Western perspective on...

By Emina Sendijarevic on 09/21/10 Comments Off

Book review: Rethinking Curating – Art after New Media by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook

Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art....

By Jidi Guo on 09/20/10 1