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ELEKTRA - The first International Digital Arts Biennial

The first International Digital Arts Biennial began in April 2012 in various locations around Montreal including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum, the DHC and the SAT. Alain Thibault, its founder, is also the artistic director of the Elektra Festival and the instigator of the International Digital Art Market. In May, the Syncretic Transcodings symposium organised by Hexagram CIAM was added to the events taking place in Montreal. Here is a review of some of the highlights.&n...

Projecting pictures on smoke is a solid idea.

"Show pictures on smoke is a solid idea" is a sentence that must have crossed Tomas Navarro's, Lorenz Potthast's and Fabricius Seifert's minds before they launched their latest  own projects. Tomas show a 3D hologram in a smoke halo. Lorenz and Fabricius fullfil soap bubbles with smoke and project an image on them as long as the bubbles float in the air, before they blow up. Light effects on smoke are nothing new, but these two projects each have a feature making them...

Stian Korntved Ruud's switches

Stian Korntved Ruud is a very young (23 year old) and talented norwegian designer. Diversifying his topics with clocks, desks or even spatial discoveries, he recently focused on electric switch and its toggling move. Looking for new interactions about this gesture, this way of triggering something, and the electricity nature, Stian designed a serie of prototypes called "Circuit Breaker". Some only need a battery and a light bubble, others need an Arduino to work.  He uses mag...

Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN

  Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory. This new prize marks a 3 year science/arts cultural partnership and creative collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica – which began with CERN’s cooperation with ...

rAndom International @ Carpenters Workshop gallery, Paris

 A rAndom International retrospective at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, until December 21st, 2012. http://random-international.com http://carpentersworkshopgallery.com  

X Media Lab festival

 X Media Lab, taking place in Basel from September 14th to 16th, creates a meeting place to assist companies and people in getting their own creative ideas successfully to market, through concept development, business matching, and direct access to world-class networks of creative professionals. Through conference & workshops, creative people can meet international experts on "participative culture" thema.    Malo Girod de l'Ain, co-founder of Digitalarti, will ...

Interview: DAAN ROOSEGAARDE

Walls of “intelligent” aluminum flowers, digital plants that light up and react to passers-by, “wired” clothing… The works of Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde convey a strange synergy between technology and humanity, with a backdrop of organic architectural poetry. Interview with the creator. Daan, your tactile and high-tech projects initiate interesting encounters between the city, nature and people—in particular the Dune series, which you first developed in...

KINETIC CLOCKS, how the time goes by digital creators

Time goes by, or goes round. It goes round at least on clocks, the best way humans have found so far to express both the infinity and the repetition of time. 24 hours a day, and always a new day to come. Representing time is such an never-ending issue that artists cannot resist to create with it. We have spotted a few creations playing on the moves of clock's hands, on the forms they create, on the time they embody. This is our Kinetic Clocks selection. Humans since 1982, Florian Jenett...

Scopitone is back ! from September 18th to 23rd

The time of back-to-school is looming and is making you sad ? Postpone this disappointment and head to Nantes (France) where Scopitone takes place from Septembre 18th to 23rd. For its 11th edition, this famous festival offers an eclectic program featuring the most innovative digital arts and the most festive electronic musics. This year, Scopitone welcomes  PARA ONE, JOANIE LEMERCIER, C2C, BREAKBOT, NLF3, KAVINSKY, ODAIBE, RYOICHI KUROKAWA, GESAFFELSTEIN and many others. ...

CONNECTED BODIES and artistic phantasmagoria

Human bodies that are technologized, hybridized and connected have haunted imaginations and representations for decades. In novels, artworks, mangas and comics, film and advertising, these images have sensibly moved from the realm of pure fiction to projections of near futures. The phantasmagoria of these figurations of technological virtuality is now doubled by incarnated virtuality, currently brewing in the very real world of laboratories and enterprises. Some artists tackle these issues ...

PANORAMA - the fourteenth

Le Fresnoy, or the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, is structured around a school directed by an artist, Alain Fleischer, who invites others to train still others. This year, the curator of the exhibition, Benjamin Weil, whose international experience is well known, took up the challenge of revealing a common meaning in more than fifty artistic proposals ranging from performance to film through installations and apparatus. Warding off bad luck It is said of ships that, “if they ha...

Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab

For a few weeks, Antonin Fourneau has been working in residence at Digitalarti Artlab on the Water Light Graffiti project : a wall made of LED which light up when touched by water. After several tries, prototypes and material improvements, Water Light Graffiti was finally ready to take place for a few days in a public space, which happened to be Poitiers. From July 22nd to 24th, Poitiers inhabitants could discover and try Water Light Graffiti with the artist, the Digitalarti Artlab team and&nb...

DIGITAL ART IN NEW YORK

STROLLING THROUGH NEW YORK CITY’S DIGITAL ARTS In the digital age, everything is fusion: art and media, technology and gaming, experiences and spaces, installations and urban architecture. Take a digitally artistic, historical and geographical stroll through New York City to see the sparks. (All the places are located on a map at the end of the article) Let’s start from the beginning of the history of “technological arts”: the moving image. Established in Queens in ...

[Call for entries] Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2012-13

The 2012 Rencontres Internationales just announced their call for entries opening. Here are all the details of this major European event :  THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 16, 2012, FOR THE RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES WHICH WILL BE HELD IN PARIS IN NOVEMBER 2012 AT PALAIS DE TOKYO AND GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE, AND IN MADRID AND BERLIN IN 2013. The event will feature an international programme focused on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers rec...

Digitalarti Mag #10

Access interactive online version, download free pdf version. Or order the print version today.   Free iPad version with free Magcloud or pdf lite apps. EDITORIAL CONNECTED BODIES, AUGMENTED BY THE SUN This summer, you have several options to give your body a makeover: run it through the beachside skate parks on the U.S. West Coast, sublimate it into an online avatar, or implant it with various devices (robotics, chips, etc.) in order to increase its potential. T...