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...
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...
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(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...
ZKM, photo © Uli Deck
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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...
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.
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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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
