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[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...

[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...

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...

[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:...

[interview] GRÉGORY CHATONSKY image and flow…

Telofossiles This interview comes from the 12th Digitalarti Mag. Read it online, for free. Whether it’s videos or online pieces, small applications or sound installations, the artworks of Grégory Chatonsky are committed to revealing what we don’t see, or what we no longer see, to capture the traces and dig out the rhizomes, all the while being anchored in reality, in urban and human geography… Image, still or animated, and flow (technological, corporal or physical)...

[Interview] Robert Henke, Vanishing Lines

Robert Henke. Photo © Jimmy Mould This article comes from the 12th Digitalarti Mag. Read it online for free. Strange feeling when slipping between the black curtains that block the great hall of the Lieu Unique in Nantes: a mix of curiosity, excitement, but also anxiety… This is the first time we are faced with "Fragile Territories", a tentacular installation by Robert Henke. How did you conceive "Fragile Territories"? On which technical and conceptual basis...

[Feedback] SOUND ART @ ZKM, MAC & 104

"Dream House" by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela This article comes from the 12th Digitalarti Mag. Read it online for free. As far back as the early 1900’s, the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo foresaw sound as a medium by playing “noises” with the instrument he called an ‘Intonarumori’. Since then, numerous artists or sound artists have participated in what today is called Sound Art. Now art centres like ZKM in Karlsruhe, the MAC in Lyon and...

"Artists as Hackers" panel at Eyebeam during F.A.T GOLD exhibition

"The free software and arts communities are filled with people motivated not just by money but by the act of creation and a drive to make meaningful, or at least functional, contributions to society," writes F.A.T. Lab co-founder Evan Roth in his recent essay, Artist Hacker: From Free Software to Fine Art. Inspired by the philosophy put forth by Roth, Eyebeam hosted a panel on Thursday April 4 from 7:00pm–8:30pm called "Artists as Hackers". The discussion brought toge...

[Festival] Mapping Festival #9

From May 2nd to 12th, the Mapping Festival hosts its 9th edition in Geneva (Switzerland). This event, unmistakable for AV and electronic music lovers, offers this year 10 days with concerts, projections, exhibitions, workshops... Amid the AV performances program, several trends can be spotted. The architectural mapping with the Catalans from Onionlab and the Hungarian collective Bordos.ArtWorks, plus guest artists. Here is a video example of their spectacular creations. Wi...

Blaus, architecture, lasers & sounds

Playmodes and MID (Media Interactive Design) are both digital research collectives based in Catalonia. They work on interactions between architecture, light & sound, to produce immersive installations thanks to DIY hardware and software developments.  Blaus was created for the Vad festival. It's an in-situ installation tailor-made for Cisterna, the Girona's history museum. "We spent a whole week working on-site, playing with lasers, motors, mirrors and sound, and ...

DOT, a videogame with no winner

DOT is a video game by Henrique Roscoe. It's an audiovisual performance with synchronized sounds and images, played by a ‘game console’ built and programmed by HOL, and controlled by retro videogame (Nintendo) joysticks. The instrument is completely autonomous and works without the need of a computer, using only a projector and a sound system to play its content. Five people from the audience are invited to play the performance along with the artist, adding a random a...