Where you’ll see a wall of robotic trophies, a robotic cat salivating in front of a virtual fish and a rocking robot having fun at the back of the gallery
Andreas Broeckmann, one of the curators of media_city Seoul reflects on crucial questions such as: Should media art be defined only by the technical media in use? Does it have any sense nowadays to organize specific media biennales and festivals?
The artist plays the guitar in a band called Herman Dune but he also creates drawings and illustrations. The ones on show in a tiny gallery off Arts et Metiers star the endearing and mysterious Blue Bigfoot Of The Negev
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With some 70 artists showing their work, the 5th edition of Seoul International Media Art Biennale is a very satisfying but also very overwhelming experience, especially because the event features so many pieces that require time and reflection, and so many artists whose work i had never heard of
Booklets on media art, politically-engaged graphic design and comics zine, essays about cities built from zero, slums and the worst way to deal with them, etc. What a lovely Summer i just had
The work of artists, designers and activists like Lize Mogel, John Emerson and Brooke Singer demonstrate that maps have the potential to bring about social changes
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C.STEM 2008: Breeding Objects – Computational Design, from Digital Fabrication to Mass-Customization
The conference and exhibition present a selection of visionary projects anticipating future developments in design process and technologies. What happens when design, creative coding and digital fabrication meet mass-customization?
Gosh! Was it hot that day! That didn’t prevent Lucas to hide inside a cabinet waiting for passersby to roll him home, Jenny walked around in black jacket monitoring wifi signals and Gerry morsed around the neighbourhood
My favourite art and tech festival for the creative exploration of urban public space has moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Was that really a good idea?
Vertical Bed is a sort of static prostheses that allows a person to fall asleep in a standing position. By bolting into cracks between the sidewalks, subway grates, or other rigid contact points, the suit will support it’s wearer with a minimum of visible hardware or occupied space, holding the sleeper’s weight with concealed harnesses
Little kids frolicking on rice paper, porn images getting a needlework treatment and Chechnya Women’s parachute jumping
The International Center of Photography had an exhibition about Bill Wood, a commercial photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, whose negatives were bought by Diane Keaton
13 Japanese artists explore themes such as the tension between individual expression and collective identity in contemporary Japan, the relationship of the adult to the child and the fight between human culture and nature
Peter Thaler & Lars Denicke started to get interested in characters ten years ago. They were fascinated by the very anti-Pixar essence of these characters: they have no background, no purpose nor story to tell. Yet, they have a soul and a clear personality, they manage to communicate no matter the country where they are shown. Demonstration
Pollstream by HEHE won the Golden Nica in the Catergory Hybrid Art. Pollstream consists of the three projects attempting to visualize human smoke emissions
Although Daniel Canogar is a media artist who’d deserve an interview about his own work, our conversation focused on the 11th edition of VIDA, a competition that rewards works of art produced with and commenting on artificial life technologies
No ars for me. Instead i’ll be covering the Pictoplasma conference and screenings in New York and the Media City biennale in Seoul. Any tips about Seoul is more than welcome
Johannes Gees’ action salat is a very relevant interaction in the xenophobic political climate in Switzerland
When a snuff movie for mouse and cursor meets a sewing machine and a paper shredder all they can talk about is the effect that a symbolic death in a computer game can have in the physical space
Free ice cream made to taste like memory and spectacle, giant helium-filled balloons that makes you feel 35 kg lighter and an hypnotizing performance on ice
Philippe Rahm re-created, inside a room, the climate and exact daylight that the city of Bolzano would experience in the absence of global warming. The installation demonstrates how today, you can still obtain a ‘natural’ climate but only through artificial means
The exhibition demonstrates how the development of construction and manufacturing processes have enabled the rise of a new culture of ornament. One which is not only innovative and aesthetically stunning but also economically viable
Even if they are made of wood and paint matrioskas can suffer the effects of radiation
A robot engraves a habitat for fungi while a team of architectural conservators trap dust and dirt in latex in order to preserve and display it like a precious shroud
A famous architect and a no less renowned group of activists participate to what is probably the best section of the itinerant European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Hop on the pirate bus!
A telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the ‘coltan wars’ in the Congo. Coltan is mined for an essential component of mobile phones that is now more valuable than gold
Exhibition of past and contemporary dwelling solutions, from emergency housing to self-built home, houses for specific users (student housing, hostels for girls, nomads’ houses, workers’ housing, the wearable house, etc.), including research by artists who have put the affordable issue at the centre of their work
The artist has just received a Design for our Future Selves award for Commuter Thrival, a brilliant communication campaign that aims to raise awareness of the issues surrounding public transport through posters visualising people’s emotions with quirky costumes
The always very stern and morose Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin is currently running a retrospective dedicated to Ugo Mulas. The focus is on the photographer’s relationship with the art scene of his time
Two site-specific projects at the Contemporary Art Space in Castellon engage with the theme of ‘remodeled spaces and minimal interventions.’ One is a semi-transparent space for mediation, the other is a community of plants
Everyone will tell you that the quality of art you can see or buy at the 798 art area in Beijing is getting scarcer by the day. Yet, the ex-factory district remains a unique and irresistible place. There’s even a new media art gallery
A modern wunderkammer in Los Angeles, where the boundaries between history and fiction, magic and reason, narrative and scientific method are completely fluid.
How are people’s lives being affected by online games and what is the role of real world ethics and behaviour codes in such virtual spaces?
Bright catalogs the state of the art of illumination and its use in architecture, design and interactive installations. Some projects are so astonishing that you forget the building underneath the light show, others act more as subtle enhancement of a building or environment
Beer and lemonade, shampoo, medicine, munitions, cardiac valves, car paint and brake discs, matches, desserts and bubblegum, pills, bread, etc. Over three years, Christien Meindertsma tracked the products made from parts or even tiny particles of pigs. Her quest provided her with 187 products and led her to a tattoo artist, dentist, farmer and weapon specialist
The temporary and modular architecture projects presented in the exhibition use existing structures and buildings to generate new scenarios and redefine the city as a site for play and appropriation. Interestingly, the way they regain control over space is totally at odds with the current ‘no loitering’ trend
The show brings together a compilation of recently-built projects which demonstrate how resourceful architects and designers can transform disused, outworn or inadequate urban spaces and buildings into efficient, and even aesthetically striking edifices
The workshop was great and extremely insightful. The least one could say about my contribution to this PDF document is that is extremely minimal but the rest is well worth your sunny afternoon my friends
How some young Spanish architects transformed a 15th century building into a gorgeous and frisky place, complete with washing machine windows, gardening plots and opportunities for debate and participation within a religious community
Campanella’s book examines the forces behind China’s urban revolution. It traces both the historical precedents and the increasingly globalized information, ideas, and trends that have combined to create a new Chinese landscape