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ecoarttech: techno-art connecting people with nature

ecoarttech: techno-art connecting people with nature

The New Media art partnership between Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir entitled ecoarttech aims to repurpose the use of common technologies (e.g. smartphones) with the intent of bringing global communities closer together, as well as local communities closer to,...
By Megan Phipps on 11/15/17 Comments Off on ecoarttech: techno-art connecting people with nature
Internet Moon Gallery: Art Moves into a Virtual Platform

Internet Moon Gallery: Art Moves into a Virtual Platform

How would you feel about visiting an art exhibition on the Moon? Internet Moon Gallery is a 3D virtual place created by Manuel Minch that aims to exhibit art using the wifi on the Moon. On May 2016, The...
By Zeynep Yavuz on 09/21/16 Comments Off on Internet Moon Gallery: Art Moves into a Virtual Platform

New Media Art and the Aura

New Media Art. A Short Introduction In the last three decades, the term new media art gained massive popularity and became the official label for a wide range of artistic practices that use new media technologies (Quaranta). However, defining this...
By Daria Bojan on 09/19/16 Comments Off on New Media Art and the Aura

(IM)POSSIBLE WORLDS – FIBER exhibits up-and-coming audiovisual artists

Reviewers: Evangelia Anagnostaki, Paola Gulian & Despoina Mountanea. Info:     24/08-28/09 FIBER exhibits up-and-coming audiovisual artists at NIMK with works by: Nicolas Andreas Fischer,Leon Lubberdink & Robin Koek, Matthias Oostri, Gabey Tjon A Tham,Lieven van Velthoven Just a day before...
By Paola Gulian on 10/01/12 Comments Off on (IM)POSSIBLE WORLDS – FIBER exhibits up-and-coming audiovisual artists

When objects talk with each other – the new turn in locative media

This article is a co-creation by Laura Burlacu and Daan Fliervoet In 2003 a workshop hosted by the Latvian RIXC electronic media center first introduced the locative media, a term which has since been used to describe a new...
By Daan Fliervoet on 03/20/12 Comments Off on When objects talk with each other – the new turn in locative media

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...
By Christopher Mead on 09/14/11 Comments Off on Lulzsec – Cyber terrorists, hacktivists or artists?

*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

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...
By Lotte Woerde on 02/24/11 6

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...
By Stefania Bercu on 02/13/11 4
Free For $8

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 on Free For $8
The Diegetic Desktop in a New Media Film: “Skydiver AKA Instructional Video #4 – Preparation for Mission by Eugene Kotlyarenko”

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

media.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/skydiver_screenshot3.jpg">media.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/skydiver_screenshot1.jpg" alt="" width="200" /> 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

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...
By Marije Rooze on 09/20/10 Comments Off on Book Review: “Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds”
Book Review: El Proceso Como Paradigma (Process as Paradigm)

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...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/19/10 Comments Off on Book Review: El Proceso Como Paradigma (Process as Paradigm)
The Sound of Shadow: Inverted Shadow by Eelco Wagenaar

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...
By Marta Colpani on 05/14/10 Comments Off on The Sound of Shadow: Inverted Shadow by Eelco Wagenaar

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

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...
By Marta Colpani on 10/24/09 Comments Off on New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

Bringing media back to space

Every day our lives seem to require more and more ‘new media’ to keep up the pace. GPS on cellphones, possibility of instant communication either online or via phone, a wii to make sure we do some sports, and...
By Ramses Petronia on 10/22/09 3

Twitter Poetry and Mobility in Art

Twitter is the ultimate social networking site. The last trend for new media junks. Journalists, politicians, writers, artists, depressed teenagers, hyper-active middle-aged Internet addicted, new Iphone owners, everyone seems to be out there, on Twitter. Of course, because Facebook...
By Marta Colpani on 10/01/09 Comments Off on Twitter Poetry and Mobility in Art

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking Art – The Net as Artwork

Tatiana Bazzichelli wrote the book Networking, The Net as Artwork in Italian in 2006. The book has also been translated in English, and that’s how I got in touch with it. During classes at the University of Amsterdam our...
By Marta Colpani on 09/12/09 Comments Off on Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking Art – The Net as Artwork

Book Review: Crossover, Liesbeth Huybrechts (red.)

Crossover, crosses over the boundaries of art and technology within very safe limits. Even though I understand why the tenure of the catalogue is positive on the influence of new media art on society (because of the broad audience and...
By saskia korsten on 09/14/08 Comments Off on Book Review: Crossover, Liesbeth Huybrechts (red.)