Sound
engineer, producer and composer, Stephen Hitchell alias Intrusion (and
Soultek) distils, between Chicago and Detroit, a dubby minimalism that
we thought belong only to the German scene. With his friend Rod Modell
(Waveform Transmission, DeepChord), they have more and more projects
(cv313) released by the label echospace [Detroit].
As most of their productions, The Seduction Of Silence — his last album
released ...
With
his new solo album An Imaginary Country, Tim Hecker, the composer from
Montreal keeps on polishing the deep and fascinating ambient sound
grinds of a surprisingly paradoxical music, brilliant sublimation of
chaotic elements and more harmonic coating. An ode to sound and
electronic tension in all its dissonant and addictive splendor.
At the beginning of the new century, Tim Hecker’s name was rhyming with
his pro...
As
famous for his abstract audiovisual installations as for the expert
precision of his live performances, the young multimedia Japanese
artist Ryoichi Kurokawa develops an original aesthetic line, where
digital technology and environmental influences interpenetrate
themselves for our senses pleasure. A hybrid experience that reveals
itself as a real diving in the heart of a very personal investigation
field.
All o...
The first WJ-SPOTS took place on the 27th and 28th May 2009 at the Maison des Métallos in Paris, on the occasion of the digital season "Immatérielles" and of Futur en Seine. Orchestrated by Anne Roquigny, this device allowed establishing « the state of web based arts », by « exhibiting» the point of view of about forty French web-activists, and and their selection of the web's most distinctive sites. Associate...
Since 2005, Étienne Cliquet has been exploring the computers world throughorigami. When asked what texts influenced him he mentions OrigamiDesign Secret, by Robert Lang and Le Pli by Gilles Deleuze. He informsus that French terms "implicite" (implicit), “explicite” (explicit ),“appliqué” (applied), “complexe” (complex) or “impliqué” (involved) allcome from the Latin term “plicare”, “fold”, before reminding us that...
Platform
dedicated to networked actual art, Synesthésie decided to promote in an
original way its online Centre of Virtual Art on the occasion of the
release of a presentation DVD. A good opportunity to get interest in
the citizen action engaged by this structure on the front of the
confrontation between contemporary art with the specificities of
networks and digital.
Manières de Fluer
Last autumn, the digital news tool arrived at the Biennale Art Grandeur
Nature, organized by the...
Tim Hecker’s deep ambient music and « imaginary country », Stephen Hitchell’s techno-dub minimalism and “silence seduction”, Etienne Jaumet’s night “cosmic” music mixed by Carl Craig and Joakim’s disco “milky ways”: the sound palette offered in this issue will make you want to ...
You enter a round room surrounded by plastic walls, you sit in the middle and press"start". Suddenly you are in the eye of a storm of styrofoams beads.
Quite fascinating.
In the center of this "meditation machine" everything is calm and safe but you are surrounded by thousands of small flying objects creating waterfall or desert storms like sounds, moving visual patterns... with the wind.
The artist comment on his work reflects the current habit o...
At the Arts Electronica center, the Fablab explores design with the new generation of 3Dprinters.
The printer:
The material used by this printer: plastic wires of various colors.
No this camcorder does not work it was printed on a 3D printer but is only a prototype.
Those 2 functional large clocks were entirely produced on a 3D printer by the MIT labs.
All this shows the start of an entirely new field as also presented during...
The Art Electronica center is itself a digital artwork! At night, the building is offered as a display window to artists, DJ... to create new experiences with light, sound... Is it "building art"? :) ...
"Bare" is a new type of ink that allows the part of the body painted with it to connect to various devices... It is a skin safe conductive ink. And water washable.
As those images show, I tested it and it works. Congratulation to Bibi Nelson (UK), Isabel Lizardi (US), Matt Johnson (US) and Becky Pilditch (UK).
Now the project is quite new and it shows. A brilliant idea with too little applications and thoughts on future usages at this time. Looking forward to follow up on t...
This year at Ars Electronica we explore the human body inside out. On the left is the picture of my retina ! Thanks to the New Views of Humankind - Biomechanical functionality of the Eye by Michael Buchberger, Austria at the Arts Elctronica center. One artist, Eduardo Kac, created a mixed specie DNA He extracted a gene of his own DNA and used it to replace its counterpart inside the DNA of a petunia. Why ??? As he answered: artists are using the medias of their times. &nbs...
