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Tappers Robots by Peter William Holden

In SoleNoid β, Peter William Holden's system, robots are tap dancing, autonomous or controlled by the public thanks to sequencers. The robots are programmed to produce the perfect tap dance moves, so you can enjoy the tap dance sounds and pleasure easily. A funny way to have a try with this dance without having Fred Astaire's feet.   ...

Mapping Mobilities, 5th to 7th June in Vienna

The exhibition Mapping Mobilities presents six international artists who develop new and experimental approaches to mapping to explore questions around mobility, displacement and migration.   Using film, installation, print and audio Gulnara Kasmalieva/Muratbek Djumaliev, Esther Polak/Ivar van Bekkum and Michael Hieslmair/Michael Zinganel blur the boundaries between art and scientific mapping to challenge the authority of official maps and their role in the nexus of power ...

Vida 14.0, International Art and Artificial Life Competition.

Vida is committed to supporting excellence in the field of artistic research into artificial life. The new call is now open for the forthcoming edition and whose objective is to reward projects created in the past two years that offer innovative insights on life and its properties. Special attention will be placed on projects which, through the use of current technologies and the principles of the discipline, express new ways of simulating living systems, showing dynamic and evolving behaviors a...

LEAP, the new interactive tool

      LEAP released today its launching video introducing a new device to interact with hardware like smartphone, computers, televisions etc. LEAP looks like a little box, and seems to bring precision in motion detection to a new level. It seems more accurate than Kinect, and particularly more precise about the fingers moves. A innovation that could inspire many digital artists... Here is the demo video.     It seems like LEAPmotion (the ...

Perfume Trail, a new look for choreography

        Perfume digitalises its choreography and reckons the move in the time. The three Japanese musicians, in its video Perfume Trail, draw each dancer's gestures to get them concrete in 3D as curvy marks. The use of never-ending travelling cameras and the very sober clip aesthetics put the finishing touches to this successful experience. An animation made thanks to Autodesk Softimage 2012 SAP, with a depiction due to Luxology modo 601.       To dis...

Machines and Souls exhibition, the documentary

The Souls and Machines exhibition (450,000 visitors in a few months of 2008 in Madrid) will take place in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. It gathers many artworks using numerous various techniques, dealing with the question of the soul, humanity and living appearance of machines. This documentary gives a big picture of the 2008 exhibition, including some artists and curators interviews : a 30 minute long meet up with machines, sometimes funny, sometimes puzzling, sometimes moving. ...

Radiomentale on WJ-WWWindows

Radiomentale (Jean-Yves Leloup & Eric Pajot) is experimenting WJ-S WWWindows, created by Anne Roquigny. Digitalarti & MCD have invited them to play at Porte-voix numérique on February, 2012. Their performance is a creative surf on the web, mixed to their own sound sources, and shown on 3 screens. To learn more, watch the interview, realised by Digitalarti.  ...

Call for projects: VIDA 14.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards

The VIDA Award is granted to artistic creations developed using artificial life technology. Project submissions will be accepted from 23rd April to 30th July 2012. All projects must be submitted before midnight (Central European Time) on 30th July 2012. Among the projects submitted to VIDA, the artists’ ties to this theme and their choice of media are very diverse. Throughout its history, the competition has welcomed proposals that challenge the boundary between living and non-li...

Digitalarti Mag #9

Access interactive online version, download free pdf version. Or order the print version today.   Free iPad version with free Magcloud or pdf lite apps. EDITO ART IN THE CONNECTED CITY What if digital arts reinvented the city? Such is the theme of the 7th edition of Les Bains numériques in Enghien-les- Bains, on June 13-14.
 It’s also the ambition of the very first International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) in Montréal, from April 18 to June 13. Ex...

Anne Roquigny presents WJ-S WWWindows

February 6th, Digitalarti & MCD welcomed WJ-S WWWindows at Le Porte-voix numérique in Paris. Anne Roquigny, the creator of the WJ-S project is presenting WJ-S WWWindows while Radiomentale & Sylvie Astié are playing live (with the webjay software) on the 3 windows of the gallery situated rue des Ecluses, in Paris. More on www.wj-s.org  ...

Digitalarti announces the second version of its iPhone, iPad and Android apps!

Digitalarti announces the second version of its iPhone, iPad and Android apps! Since two years, Digitalarti offers mobile users the discovery of the best of Digital Art. Now, a new free version is available with a gallery of images and videos and faster downloading. To enjoy it, just upgrade the previous version or download Digitalarti from your app store. The application is also optimized for viewing on the iPad....

Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) from April 18 to June 13, 2012.

Art, culture and digital technology are the three main ingredients in the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) created by Elektra Festival organizers and taking place for the first time in Montreal from April 18 to June 13, 2012. Exploring the theme PHENOMENA, this major exhibition, featuring vernissages and special events, takes you on a journey through the digital arts, with visits to the most important sites for contemporary creation in Montréal. Artists : Alexandre Bur...

Elektra explores Invisible from May 1st to 6th

The Elektra festival, unavoidable digital art meeting in Montréal, will be held this year from May 1st to 6th. On the edition 13 program : immersive robotic show, AV performances, concert, experimental cinema and International Marketplace for Digital Art (MIAN). Alain Thibault, director's festival, talk about this edition : EDITORIAL For its 13th edition, Elektra offers digital culture aficionados a fine selection of the most recent contemporary creations in the field, from home and a...

WJ-S WWWindows : interview of Radiomentale

February 6th, Digitalarti hosted Anne Roquigny and her WJ-S WWWindows. This time, she invited Radiomentale and Sylvie Astié to perform. We asked a few questions to Jean-Yves Leloup & Eric Pajot from Radiomentale. www.wj-s.org   ...

Call for open-source software for musical and intermedia creation

For its fourth edition, Lomus 2012 invites music and audio open-source software creators to submit original projects that either directly or indirectly contribute to musical creation. A prize will be awarded to open-source sofware that proves to be not only innovatory but also inventive in the present context of music and audio creation. Calendar April 6, 2012 - Call for submissions April 25, 2012 - Submission deadline April 30, 2012 - Admission notification May 11, 2012 - JIM Award...