Aram Bartholl’s exploration of the way the network data space steps into our everyday life
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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
The organizer of Pixelache, a very peculiar and engaging festival of electronic art and subcultures held in Helsinki and many other cities over the world
In socialist Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor. Farmers were thus forced to construct their own machines using bits and pieces from whatever machines they could find
Anime movie and paintings starring superheroes, grim warriors and elfish heroines
3 artists had a peak in the Museum of Technology’s storage facility in Stockholm and tried to position this technological cultural heritage in relation to their own artistic expression
Parr’s photographies show the tasteless and the unpolished, the essence of “english-ness” and the garish effects of mass tourism. Yet, I found more tenderness than bitterness in his work
The photographer presented 2 specific projects: “The Innocents” and “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar”
Monday, January 28, 2008 at c-base: electronic gadgets, flexible & washable circuitry and cheap beers.
Bjarke Ingels from BIG about a super harbour visible from the space, buildings shaped like Chinese characters and social housing with premium view on football fields
Production-oriented workshop: how we “tag the world” with new devices and how the digital and the physical world interact, creating new artistic tendencies as well as new kinds of human relations
Kazys Varnelis, Richard Saul Wurman, Charles Renfro from Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Patrik Schumacher from Zaha Hadid Architects discuss the impact of the new media on cities and architecture
Being aware of the current environmental crisis doesn’t mean being able to comprehend its extent and complexity. A few words with Brooke Singer and Michael Mandiberg
A modern monument to the forgotten workers and their anonymous contribution to supplying the electricity to power modernity.
A visit to the Cloaca retrospective at the Casino de Luxembourg. How works of art can mechanically produce other works of art that some might want to flush down the loo
tweetPad visualizes Twitter feeds in a dynamic fashion. The idea is to not only be on the receiving end of these feeds but to be able to manipulate them; to react and to interact with what we are reading.
Cat Mazza, the founder of microRevolt, develops projects which combine knitting with machines, and digital social networks to investigate and initiate discussion about sweatshop labour.
Meet the hamster that plays cards with the family, the t-shirts that sweats, the singing flower pot and other projects that reflect on the definition of life.
An exhibition in Paris suggests an alternative way to think about living creatures, questioning their place in our society and proffering ideas about cohabitation that might inspire the world of the future.