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Digitalarti's goal is to push forward digital arts through a magazine, an Artlab, a community website and services. Digitalarti Mag - international digital arts magazine This quarterly magazine (in french and english), deals with digital arts, news, artists, innovation and research, festivals programs and the tight relationship between arts and sciences. Digitalarti Mag is available online for free and printed. See al the Digitalarti Mag issues.   Digitalarti Serv...

[Innovation] When technology serves human rights

Civil Rights Defenders is an independent expert organisation founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1982, with the aim of defending people’s civil and political rights. Everybody heard about the tragical story of Natalya Estemirova, a russian human rights activist, that was murdered on 2009 because she was investigating hundreds of cases of alleged kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings by Russian government troops or paramilitaries in Chechnya. In order to protect human rights defend...

ArtsFwd Business Unusual Challenge: Vote for ZERO1

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  ZERO1 is one of 14 semi-finalists in the ArtsFwd Business Unusual National Challenge. We need your vote to push us to the finals and reach the crowdsourcing round, where an exciting “crowd” of big thinkers and leaders will contribute bold ideas and feedback to ZERO1’s adaptive challenge of establishing the ZERO1 Garage as an interface to engage Silicon Valley companies. Ultimately ZERO1 aims to be a new model for the arts that utilizes private/ public collaboration...

[Call for project] Borders

Technologies have profoundly change the notion of borders in the 21st century. AntiAtlas of borders will examine these changes and their impact on individuals. At the crossroads of research and art, this transdisciplinary event will propose seminar, conferences and two exhibitions. A call for proposals is launched for an exhibition at La compagnie in Marseille, from 13 December 2013 to 1rst March 2014. The curator and the artistic and scientific committee are looking for various proposals (ar...

'Tremorrag' at Festival Formula Bula

Tremorrag(Pascal Battus, Angie Eng) explores the subtlety of movement and the poetics of sound and image. This audio-visual duo focuses on the concept of our ability to visualize and hear movement by combining live ink drawing and digital design. Interactive sound/video effects are as direct as the pick up mics and micro cameras attached to their pen and hands. Their animations resemble artists (with a twitch): Len Lye, Henri Michaux or Cy Twombly .  The collaboration was inspire...

[Interview] Peter Weibel, director of ZKM

ZKM, photo © Uli Deck This article comes from the 12th Digitalarti Mag. Read it online for free. Peter Weibel is an artist, curator and media theorist. He started by exploring the art of performance before discovering the creative potential of media and technologies. In addition, whilst running ZKM in Karlsruhe, he was the artistic director of digital art events and the new media art curator. Everyone knows your work as a theorist and curator, but it is first and foremost as an arti...

"Duali" for a Honorary Mention @ the Digital Musics & Sound Art of Prix Ars Electronica 2013

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  It is a pleasure to inform you that the Digital Musics & Sound Art of Prix Ars Electronica 2013 has selected my work: "Duali" for a Honorary Mention. http://www.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/#digitalmusics   ...

Ars Electronica Price 2013 : and the winners are...

One of the most reknown digital art price has annouced its results this morning. The seven winners of the Ars Electronica Price 2013, selected out of more than 4,000 submissions, have been awarded. Here are the artworks which make them bring back home their awards. More details (but less videos) are available on Ars Electronica's website, as well as all the winners since 1987. Golden Nicas Digital Musics & Sound Art - Nicolas Bernier : frequencies   Computer Ani...

Soirée de vente aux enchères de GIFs animés / Auction for animated GIFs

  (english follows) Le vendredi 24 mai, à partir de 17h, LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE vous invite à une soirée très particulière – une vente aux enchères de GIF animés. Une première pour le centre, cette soirée conviviale présentera le travail effectué lors de l’atelier de création de GIF animés, donné par Boris Dumesnil-Poulin les 11 et 12 mai 2013. Les six participants – Caroline ...

<artist> Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Bopape, "I like to remember things in my own way", 2010. Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. In the year of her birth, the Brixton riots took place; two people were injured when a bomb exploded in a Durban shopping centre. Bobby Sands dies, MTV is launched, the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, Umkhonto we Sizwe performs numerous underground assault operations against the apartheid state....

<artist> Emeka Ogboh

Emeka Ogboh works primarily with sounds in exploring ways of understanding cities as cosmopolitan spaces with their unique characters. It has been his goal to employ field recordings to explore the history and aural infrastructure of cities, in particular his hometown Lagos, Nigeria. As a metropolis ultimately influenced by universal globalization processes, Lagos is a mélange of new and old, modern and archaic, first and third world. With an archival intent, he has recorded sounds at s...

[agenda] Nancy celebrates Renaissance

Nancy City, and the Grand Nancy urban community celebrate Renaissance from May 4 to August 4, 2013. This event offers more than 100 happenings all over Nancy City and its surroundings. The Renaissance period, as the current period, was a time of discoveries and innovations. Moments d'Inventions, from May 24 to June 16 on the Charles III place, will be the meeting point of digital arts. Here are the exhibited artworks: Water Light Graffiti: Antonin Fourneau's famous wall embedded with ...

A trap made of light : Isotopes by Nonotak Studio

Nonotak Studio, gathering Takami NAKAMOTO and Noémi SCHIPFER, is a Paris-based artistic collective. Their latest installation ISOTOPES v0.02, took place at the Mapping Festival 2013 in Geneva last week. Basically, it consists in a trap of light. As a carnivorous plant, the light tries to catch the public attention, to seduce anyone passing by its rays, and to bring the public at the core of the installation. Then, the welcoming light evolves into aggressive, flashing and exhaustin...

[exhibition] Digital Africa

Digital creation in Africa is not acknowledged as much as its vitality deserves to be. Musiques & Cultures Digitales gets involved and focuses its next issue on African digital creation, as well as the "Digitale Afrique" exhibition, taking place in Marseille from May 14th to July 5th, in partnership with Planète Emergences, on the occasion of Marseille Provence 2013 - Cultural Capital City of Europe. "Electronical experiments, innovations, sound install...

[Exhibition] Water Light Graffiti @ Stereolux

Since its opening in September 2011, Stereolux has become an essential venue for digital arts in Nantes. From June 6th to 30th, Water Light Graffiti wil be exhibited in the intermedia platform of this location. Antonin Fourneau's artwork, developed in Digitalarti Artlab, enables anyone armed with water guns, sponges, brushes... to create bright and ephemeral drawings. Water and light, a magical blend that seduces from the youngest to the oldest audience. This wall of LEDs also allows coll...

[Festival] Parizone@dream 2013

Parizone@dream is coming back in early June at the Gaîté Lyrique. After a large success for its first edition which gathered more than 4,000 visitors the Parisian festival of digital creativity grows and offers for its second edition two days of events, a permanent exhibition of twenty artworks and an OFF festival. The highlights are divided into two workshops Slit My Gif and Agence Numérique, two conferences Cinema Playable and Artificial Intelligence:...

Timothée Messeiller - Haustel : une interruption dans le continuum artistique

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Avec un cynisme subtil, mi-désinvolte, mi-engagé, Timothée Messeiller interroge en profondeur la démarche artistique au sens large, l' « être artiste », et par dessus tout, le « faire artiste ». Puisant aussi bien dans la culture populaire que dans l'histoire de l'art, Timothée Messeiller interroge donc les rapports de l'artiste au processus de production artistique et de fabrication. L'...

Exomène's debut album

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  Découvrez (et écoutez!) la vidéo teaser qui accompagne la sortie du premier album d'Exomene (www.exomene.com): "The life and death of an unnoticed shadow"   Rappelons que Exomène est le co-fondateur du collectif l:ed (Experiments in Digital), collectif artistique dédié aux arts numériques (https://www.facebook.com/LExperimentsDigital) C'est donc un plaisir partagé que de voir cette première ré...

Summer Digital Art Workshops (2013)

Processing, Digital Fabrication, Arduino & Pure Data Initiated in 2005, the Summer Digital Art Workshops go on with this 9th edition! Join us for an inspiring summer under the digital sun. The various courses address techniques and expressions increasingly used in visual arts, installations, performing arts, audio-visual or digital art (net art, code art, interactivity, ...) and introduce practices based on open source softwares. The five courses Course 1 : Int...

Arts/Sciences#13: Emmanuel Ferrand

Reductionism in today’s art: how do artists question mathematics and genetics? Mathematics are often found behind digital artworks, through softwares such as Pure Data or Processing that incorporate powerful sound and image processing functions. In this presentation, Emmanuel Ferrand will pay tribute to the “success” of mathematics, which allows not scientifically trained artists to appropriate innovative tools or develop their own. But Emmanuel will go beyond redu...
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