Cute and cruel, the best solo show i’ve seen in New York this week
Author: Regine
The Course Director of MAID on collage, ecological issues, gene mutation cutlery, clay animation and that famous hamster paper shredder
The videos of the conference which took place at FACT in Liverpool on February 8 & 9 have been made available online
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When i interviewed Wafaa about his latest art work last week, i had no idea his project would be censored and his view silenced
Set of unofficial favorite photos of the staff of the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, in Washington DC.
12 minutes packed with DIY kits to turn pee into fertilizer, vending machines for crows and the dark sides of social networks
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Mary Flanagan’s Giant Joystick
Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee, Kathy High and I will be in New York for a panel on biotech art
Despite the negative press, SL’s user base tripled and continues attracting about a half million new sign-ups a month. How can this possibly be happening?
In January, the lab was opening its doors to present KiBu’s projects, get feedback on their work from visitors, drink hot chocolate and end the evening with performances.
Eric Rodenbeck on why information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data sets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with a wide range of expressive potential
Imagine on a stroll through Hyde Park you are met with an eerie silence. All the twittering birds have disappeared.
Featuring Critical Art Ensemble’s video Immolation and The Office of Experiments investigation into truth serums
The concept of Territories is the focus of an excellent exhibition in the small Belgian city of Liège. Gorgeous image galore inside
Quirky robotic deer, moose, and zebra robotic trophies raise questions about human-animal relationship but also about the future integration of robots in our society
When magic tricks and physical computing classes collide at the University of Architecture in Venice …
Both an exhibition and a workshop Beyond The Screen brings together artists and designers who explore code-based strategies for producing physical form
Aram Bartholl’s exploration of the way the network data space steps into our everyday life
The exhibition invited visitors to look at the relationship between the artist, the artwork and themselves, in the light of the latest discoveries in the neurological sciences about the human brain and its effects on the emotions
Prototype toys to enhance our sensory range and feel like an animal, even as tiny as an ant or as big as a giraffe
Under its motto CONSPIRE…, transmediale.08 seeked to examine dubious worlds of story telling and remote opinion making, to look critically at the means of creative conspiratorial strategies, and use these to uncover new forms of expression and digital discourse.
The Corley Radio prints out specific words picked up while scanning radio stations. The keywords relate to the Mike Corley story about the UK secret service trying to ridicule him through media channels
Meet the artist who is hunting for moss bears, communicating with electric fish and combining woodworks and electronic music to create novel instruments and performances
The human animal has lost its natural instinct for the real dangers. This device will give cause a shiver to run down your spine. It makes your neck hair stand up and wakes the alert animal inside,
when you should fear what is around you.
Putting play on the urban agenda, with an emphasis on spontaneity, creativity and a top-down approach
Ticker Tape, an internet radio for people who suffer from Euphobia, “a persistent, abnormal and unwanted fear of hearing good news”
Are we willing to cross ethical boundaries and venture into repugnant markets to pursue the sustainable ideals of the 21st century?
Fernando Orellana had his own brain activity registered while he was sleeping and transfered the data on a robot to determine its head positions and behaviour
A selection of graphic design studios from Spain
A conversation with hackitectura.net about new ways of using “situation rooms” to empower the action of social networks, rather than central powers. “How could situation rooms enhance distributed control? How could they be used to generate socially useful knowledge and to increase coordination between social movements?”
Knitting for electronic devices and people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity
How Gordon Pask’s 1953 Musicolour Machine and Cedric Price’s proposed Fun Palace and Generator seeked to strategically deploy boredom as impetus for interaction.
Graham Pullin currently leads second and third year projects on the Interactive Media Design programme, in Dundee. He is responsible for some rather unconventional Social Mobile handsets and the mysterious Museum of Lost Interactions
What can a map of London made of urine samples and postcodes teach us about the way we will interact with each other and our environment in the near future?
Subversive sand castle, chroma key protest, exercises in body aesthetics, machines for capturing light animations, “world leaders” workshops in primary schools, etc.
How the Black World, a world of the world of classified programs, projects, and places, whose outlines, even existence, are deeply-held secrets by the military, leaves traces.
A data visualization project which expresses the meaning and extent of the damage that car traffic is doing to both the city of Madrid and its inhabitants
When technologies merge with the body, they redefine its material and functional properties. As the human anatomy gains technological capabilities, where does the body end and the machine begin?
The SETUN computer, developed in 1958 at the Moscow State University, is based on ternary logic, which distinguishes it from the usually binary operating computers. Western computer scientists tried to create such a ternary computer in the following years but never succeeded.
Eva Horn analyzed conspiracy theories that have emerged after 9/11