The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities.
Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove and the epilogue of the videoartist Simonetta Fadda.
Translated by Helen Pringle and Maria Anna Calamia.
http://www.networkingart.eu/contents.html
intervista integrale a eugenio benetazzo. i catamoderni: l'impossibile avanguardia contemporanea from fabio d'ambrosio on Vimeo.
eccovi l'intervista integrale a Eugenio Benetazzo. in poco più di 20 minuti il giovane economista, traccia il quadro desolante della situazione contemporanea.
la giusta testimonianza da ascoltare, se pensate che il problema più grave, con la crisi prossima ventura, sarà come riempire di carburante il serbatoio del vostro suv.
sempre che la crisi ci sia sul serio.
ovviamente.
http://vimeo.com/2985415
Four years in the making, Sufferrosa is a non-linear, interactive web-based movie made by Dawid Marcinkowski (screenwriter, director, editor and designer) with help from an international group of filmmakers, musicians and artists. It is an experimental storytelling project combining cinema and the web.
The movie is a homage to Jean Luc Godard’s movie Alphaville (1965), W.J.Has’ cult-movie Manuscript found in Saragossa (1965), American film noir and the French writer Vernon Sullivan.
http://www.sufferrosa.com/
http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/
This project, funded by the AHRC, is led by Dr Joss Hands and Dr Jussi Parikka and based at ARCDigital (Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture) at Anglia Ruskin University. The project will explore the intersection of politics, networks and cultural practices. The network will work on an analysis of how the emergence of a 'network society' is reshaping the ground upon which we think about politics and culture. The primary objective is therefore to open up a dialogue between researchers, practitioners and activists that begins to map this important new domain of social, political and cultural production. Given that the notion of the network is contested, and entails many variations, the network will also have to address its own form, thus the project will entail a reflexive element which will encourage exploratory and innovative practices. To put it bluntly, it takes a network to understand the network. This will necessitate exploring emerging and ground-breaking media, communications and multi-disciplinary approaches to both scholarship and the dissemination of scholarship. This website will act as a hub for this activity and will be updated with more features and information shortly.
http://www.networkpolitics.org/
Emitting the noise of a flushing toilet to spare a woman’s blushes, the Toto Otohime ("sound princess") is a standard fixture in many toilets around Japan. But what do you do when you enter a toilet that doesn’t have an Otohime installed? Enter the Keitai ("Mobile") Otohime. This slender pink device, which comes in two attractive designs, can be slipped into a ladies’ handbag or connected to your phone or purse.
Japanese women often flush the toilet to hide embarrassing sounds but as each flush uses up around six liters of water, in these environmentally conscious times, a device like the Keitai Otohime allows you to both be discreet and save the planet. By simply pressing a button you can mask the noise of your toilet activities.
http://www.japantrendshop.com/keitai-otohime-toilet-sound-blocker-p-851.html
Conveyors by Anders Weberg and Robert Willim from Anders Weberg on Vimeo.
A traffic hub is intended to provide predictable movement and transport. But you never quite know which motions and emotions will occur. So, how to depict or make sense of these kind of sites?
"In this space of flows the conveyors are brought to work … Download them to a mobile media player when you are there and find the spots where the material was recorded. The perceptions of your specific time spent at Knutpunkten will blend with the mediated sound and images from screen and headphones."
City symphonies have been a source of inspiration, but when approaching the traffic hub Knutpunkten we wanted to extend or twist the concept. We took the idea of movements of a symphony and distributed them into a spatial or psychogeographical layout.
http://conveyors.se/
The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living" shoes move in a multiplicity of directions beating the time of a Marko Wild composition on special circular platforms. Inserts on the soles, typical of this type of footwear, amplify the continuous movement of the tip-toe-toe-tip that occurs sometimes in a sync and sometimes in other backbeats.
http://www.peter-william-holden.com/installations/solenoid/solenoid.html
Taking a photo means making a memory. Choosing a moment in time and framing a situation. Archiving it or making it public. Either way, we create a visual item that we have an emotional attachment to through our memory. Photos help us to remember moments in our past. Often they even become a memory in their own right. For many, making their moments public through services like Flickr is already part the process of photography itself, creating archives which contain a vast collection of visual fragments of individual lives.
Buttons
Buttons takes on this notion of the camera as a networked object. It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.
http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html
Transition Soundings (image above, video below) by David Birchfield, David Lorig, Kelly Phillips and Assegid Kidané is an interactive public sound art sculpture located at a bus stop in Tempe, Arizona, America. The installations structure:
"has the appearance of a large transit map with hubs and paths connecting locations across its surface. However, this stylize ‘map’ is actually a large network of sensors and speakers that trace paths in sound across the surface of the wall. As users move and gesture infront of the piece, a network of proximity sensors initiates sonic events that wash across the surface in a fashion that references ripples across the surface of water. Sound events propagate through the network in a way that mimics movement of traffic, ideas, currents, and connections in the networks of our lives."
http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/2010/transition-soundings
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Dopo aver parlato di piogge, venti e bufere un pò dappertutto, Lollis ha fatto il punto sulla West Coast, dicendo che “Nel sud dell'Oregon e nel nord della California abbiamo una situazione un pò strana. La prima parte del ciclo radar è abbastanza piatta, com'è di solito, poi però compaiono queste strisce di copertura nuvolosa, molto nette, che avanzano nella zona. Quella non è pioggia, e non è neve. Sembra incredibile, ma sono aerei militari che attraversano la zona scaricando "fuffa". Piccoli pezzetti di alluminio, a volte c'è dentro della plastica, persino prodotti di carta metallizzata, …
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3521
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5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
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Transparency Data is a central source for all federal and state campaign contributions made in the last twenty years. Here you can begin your search, find the information you need and then download records of what a candidate has received, what an individual has given, and how much companies and their employees have given
http://transparencydata.com/
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Create and control tiny sound-creatures in the shape of letters that react to gravity or each other and generate rhythms and soundscapes. Dive into a micro world of sounds, movement and touch. But beware! Using this app might change your daily reading and talking experience.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is a sound toy, a performance tool and an art work in its own right. You can play with the letter-creatures and watch and listen how they interact with each other or use them to produce soundscapes like you would with an electronic musical
http://joerg.piringer.net/index.php?href=abcdefg/abcdefg.xml
synthPond 2.0 Tutorial from zach gage on Vimeo.
synthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and audio toy by conceptual new media artist Zach Gage.
Unlike a normal sequencer where you place notes on a grid and a moving playhead plays them, in synthPond you place nodes in a field (pond).
http://www.stfj.net/apps/synthPond/index.html
Love Songs from Chris 'The Falcon' Han on Vimeo.
A compilation of songs with LOVE in the title.
Mashup has been one of the innovative techniques to take over the massive pop productions, breaking the borders established by the industry around every song released. "Love Songs" by Chris Han is an online "compilation of songs with 'love' in the title" where the flow of sounds is accompanied by the flow of the sequencing interface. It may seem banal, but the real time visualization implies that the sequencer becomes the mix's visual. Moreover, it's possible to "read" every passage, guessing where every sound is placed (and in which channel) and when it starts or ends. The entire structure is then "nude" and can be followed instant by instant, noticing how a voice or a drum pattern has been extracted and inserted in a perfectly organized compilation. Made with Ableton Live, the work was not a matter of minutes, but an effort that lasts many hours, in turn creating a consensus of effort from all over the internet, raising appreciation and questions. It's a real kinaesthetic experience, totally functional and aesthetic.
http://www.vimeo.com/2519605
Ralph Borland Photographs by Pieter Hugo
Suited for Subversion, 2002
Nylon-reinforced PVC, denim, padding, speaker, pulse-reader, circuitry
Edition of 3
Suited for Subversion is a project to create a suit that protects the wearer at large-scale street protests. The suit also monitors the wearer's pulse and projects an amplified heartbeat out of a speaker in the chest of the suit.
I designed and fabricated the first prototype of the suit as part of my Masters Degree in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. The project draws on my work as an activist involved in street demonstrations in New York, and is influenced by the work of other activists and demonstrators who wear protective clothing and make creative use of tools and technologies for protest.
http://ralphborland.net/s4s/
Death Calls The Tune (lab binaer) from lab binaer on Vimeo.
The mass media penetrate us day in and out with news from all around the world. Over the years we got used to this flood of information and the editors come up with ever more sensational news to catch our attention. But do we really have to know all this? Our work is about the increasing role death plays in the daily news and the over-stimulation coming with it. We want to show the resulting desensitisation.
From all the news items published throughout the world minute by minute, the light sculpture "Death Calls the Tune" selects those that are about doom and misery on our planet. Being driven by a micro-controller, the pick-up of the remodelled record player "burns" the headlines into the steadily rotating light-sensitive disc.
However, the brightly glowing headlines soon fade just as quickly as in our memory. Due to the incredible flood of shocking news, though, there will be no break. Accordingly, the light arm writes headline after headline and one which caught our eye a few seconds ago is immediately overwritten and does not matter any longer.
http://vimeo.com/8074995
On. Off. On. Off. On. What is wrong with the TV? Only you will know it's the TV Poltergeist! Annoy the crap out of friends and enemies by possessing their TV so it turns on and off at random intervals every 5-20 minutes, 24 hours a day, for weeks on end.
erfect for interrupting lame sporting events, obnoxious video games, moronic sitcoms, and poorly written movies! Using the TV Poltergeist couldn't be any simpler. Hide the TV Poltergeist somewhere in the same room as a TV and turn it on. Aim the LED toward the victim's television. Sit back, keep a straight face and enjoy the chaos.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/d794/
You are late to work
“Every day the same dream” is a slightly existential riff on the theme of alienation and refusal of labor. The idea was to charge the cyclic nature of most video games with some kind of meaning (i.e. the “play again” is not a game over). Yes, there is an end state, you can “beat” the game.
A new game from Paolo Pedercini
http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html
fractal explorations 2004-2009 from Regis Hervagault on Vimeo.
trippy fractal loops computed as a backdrop for my electronic live-act back in the days. original is super fluid at 50 fps but was subsampled to fit the current 1Gb upload limit so you could get a glimpse of the lightshow.
enjoy the visual stimulation set along some fine trance music from tomcosm.com
H2oil animated sequences from Dale Hayward on Vimeo.
The 3 animated sequences we lamoustache.ca completed for the feature documentary H2oil h2oildoc.com
trailer: vimeo.com/8416164
Animation Direction: Dale Hayward & Sylvie Trouvé ostrichindustries.blogspot.com
Illustrations: James Braithwaite thebathwater.com
Sound: Daniel Legace
Produced: Loaded Pictures loadedpictures.ca
