BlackBox is a new media art exhibition within ARCO, Madrid’s contemporary art fair. Here’s what i found about […]
Lee Bul‘s futuristic installations explore how the notions of beauty and the monstrous are at play in contemporary […]
Kent Henricksen embroids seemingly innocent bourgeois sceneries with gruesome images as hoods, masks, ghosts and ropes. The hooded […]
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This retro decorative tablecloth contains a textile keyboard. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself […]
Pneumatic Parliament, an installation by Peter Sloterdijk, Gesa Mueller von der Hagen and architect Dierk Jordan (Global Instant […]
Yoshitomo Nara neo-pop plexiglass dogs and freaky kids are at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, until March 11. […]
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Developed by Dutch design studio Solar, the stamps use twelve successive original television fragments of the winning races […]
Am i slowly turning into a fan of animals or taxidermy? I really like the work of Melbourne […]
A flexible material that instantly hardens into armour upon impact will protect US and Canadian skiers from injury […]
Stefhan Caddick whom i met too briefly at a seminar organised by BLOC in Wales, has sent (on […]
Valérie Lamontagne is working on Peau d’Ane, three dresses that will translate the qualities of the sky, moon […]
The Whitney Museum’s Artport and the Tate Online have teamed up to commission three web projects. Launching today, […]
Another Spanish project (which isn’t part of the New York show) that intrigued me: the city of Basauri […]
elastico has a nice post (in spanish but most of the links lead to websites in english) about […]
The Physarum polycephalum slime, which shies away from light, has been put in charge of a scrabbling, six-legged […]
I’m still trying to figure out how much exactly i should be disappointed by Transmediale. Maybe it was […]
Been thinking about the work of Tatsumi Orimoto ever since i saw his pictures at the Venice Biennale […]
SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network, aka “AI to the People,” is a real-time video performance system that […]
NTT Communications and Tmsuk have begun testing the RFID-guided shopping assistant robots at a shoping mall in Fukuoka. […]
(written by manekineko) I’ve been occasionally reading online articles on the Japanese geek subculture. For example, Washington Post […]
(written by manekineko) An interesting event about the intersection of art and technology is taking place at BankART […]
Incomplete calendar-like post about what’s going on in Europe these days: ARCO is running in Madrid until February […]
This morning i ran into this super outlandish trailer of Deadly Weapons, with Chesty Morgan and Harry–Deep Throat–Reems. […]
The China Connection, part 1. This panel discusses the role that European media arts and technology organisations have […]
Two eye-popping projects discovered while checking noticias arquitectura this morning. When it’s completed in 2010, Museum Plaza will […]
The Accouphene tuxedo is decorated with 13 soft speakers, embroidered in the shape of a coil with conductive […]
The Makroskop is a work by Boris Hars-Tschachotin and Hannes Nehls, currently on exhibition at the Berlin Photography […]
My notes from Shu Lea Cheang’s talk at Transmediale “How i Got Fucked in Norway, Snowed in Swiss, […]
Fabulous 1978 Japanese version of Spiderman, with subtitles.
The POST IT project, by Chus García- Fraile, sets out from a reflection on consumerism in western culture […]
For decades, one large lot that might otherwise have been prime territory for development in Berlin has lain […]
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A collection of Japanese Gangster Movie (or Yakuza Eiga.) Via Mari diary.
Old postcards for every taste: postcards of giants, fat persons, midgets, big patatoes, “anti-woman“, movie stars , zeppelin, […]
GFPixel is a “painting” made of genetically transformed bacteria. The organisms are cultivated in about 4000 Petri-dishes that […]
Another installation from the Smile Machines show, Transmediale. Stéphane Gilot’s Video Game – World 2 associates surveillance technology […]
Maurice Benayoun‘s Emotion Vending Machine (part of the Smile Machines exhibition at Transmediale) reminds me of our less […]
And the winner of the Transmediale award this year is… German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis for SGM-Eisberg-Sonde / SGM-Iceberg-Probe. […]
Jefferson Y. Han has developed, together with Philip L. Davidson, Casey M.R. Muller and Ilya D. Rosenberg, a […]
The China Connection (part 1) This panel discusses the role that European media arts and technology organisations have […]