Matthieu Bogaert, helped by Superbe Interactive, created D/compose. This interactive installation breaks down the composition process into two steps experienced with the vistor's body. First, you choose a color by passing through colored curtain made of strings, then you choose a location by standing on a large square. The installation then shoots the matching paint-ball on a large board. The board ends up to be a collaborative and colorful composition. Through this installation, Matthieu Bog...

Sounds, moves and the nature are Evan Holm main inspirations. This west-coast American artist creates kinetic installations featuring salvaged objects (piano, bedroom dresser, turntables...) For Paleotone, Evan submerged a turntable in a dark and opaque liquid. he picks a vinyl from the collection he has pinned on a wall and submerges it too, on the turntable. For Evan, this stands for the unavoidable back to the dust, the vanishing humanity will experience, causing the end of all its creatio...

Benjamin Gaulon is an hacktivist artist. Nicknamed Recyclism, he denounces the planned obsolescence of our objects by enabling them to enjoy a second life with as components of his installations. Two of his artworks are currently exhibited in Paris. 2,4GHZ exhibited on the occasion of Mal au Pixel (a festival taking place in La Gaîté Lyrique) enables anyone to see on a small device the wifi signals of CCTV cameras. Acting like a water diviner, Benjam...

Read it as a PDF (download) Read it augmented with videos  Order a iPad or a printed issue on Magcloud see Digitalarti Mag previous issues EDITO   OUR SURREAL WORLD - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ERUPTS INTO REALITY In his lecture at the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose, Bruce Sterling perfectly described our immersion in a digital environment.From 3D printing to augmented reality, we live amidst new esthetics without even taking the time to question them. Reality a...

Ursula Damm had a nice idea : depict the flow of traffic in Basel, from a commuter's perspective. She teamed up with Matthias Weber (preliminary work), Martin Schneider (code) and Max Netter (sound) to produce a one-hour-long video. This video is an interesting and original way to deal with the time going-by, its too slow and too long length to be basically filmed and not to use the ever-present time-lapse/stop-motion.   You liked it ? Discover ma...

Among the links between art and technology that digital arts embody, there are unexpected tools. For instance : the typical assembly line industrial robots. Symbol of mass-production, repetition, copying, they do not belong to the artists palette. (a Comau industrial robot - image source) Artists facing such an unusual object are often tempted, got inspired... and the quiet and repetitive robot unveils an unexpected potential. A robot may feel, but has no feeling, it expresses nothing, ha...