International Digital Festivals Guide
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Festivals at the heart of digital creation
For the sixth edition of this guide, we have chosen to feature on the front cover an enigmatic character encountered from festival to festival, riding his fluorescent scooter through the night. Who is this Blue Rider? Where does he come from? Where is he going? We met him at Elektra in Montreal and Mapping in Geneva. He leaves a luminous, poetic trail be...
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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...
MCD #66 Writing machines
English / French, 132 pages, 9€ > Buy it online !
EDITO by Anne-Cécile Worms
New machines / new forms of writing
In December 2010, at the ZKM, a robot copied the Bible on rolls of paper, using a fountain pen to write Gothic letters, complete with decorative capitals at the beginning of each chapter, day and night. This installation by the collective Robotlab entitled bios [bible], is a very impressive writing machine*.
Indeed, the history of writing ...
“Road to Ruin”, Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2008, by Stanley Greene.
Exclusive article from MCD magazine: The culture of green tech
For his “E-waste Trail” project, the cofounder of Noor photo agency is traveling around the world on the trail of electronic waste. Faithful to his line of conduct: to document and inform in order to change attitudes.
With his Chechen flag beret, small round sunglasses and heavy silver rings, Stanley Greene hasn’t aged, hasn&...
DIGITAL AFRICA
Digital Creation and Innovations in Africa
Bilingual Book (French/English) - Publication date: March 2013 - Publisher: MCD.
Digital Africa is a bilingual paper book published by the MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales) magazine in Paris, which presents a selection of African productions linking artistic creation to digital technologies. It was instigated by Karen Dermineur (guest Editor-in-Chief).
This publication provides an insightful view on a subject mat...
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EDITORIAL
"THE GEOCITIES OF THINGS"
The “Post Digital ramblings” by Russell Davies at the Strp festival were very inspiring to me. “We can make our own stuff. We can express ourselves. We can build what my friend Andy Huntington calls “The Geocities of Things”. We can add life a...
Exclusive article from MCD #65 « The culture of green tech » !!
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Hacktivists repaint the town green
Going well beyond the society of the spectacle, artists are reappropriating urban spaces by enchanting cities, alerting us to irresponsible behavior and publicly exposing the contradictions of an environment damaged by humans. Above ground, their works contrast with gray reality. Poetic and political, environmental hacktivism ...
MCD#65 L’Internet voit vert / the culture of green tech
English / french, 116 pages, 9€.
3D glasses for green activists
By Anne-Cécile Worms
Eureka! From Archimedes and Newton up to the famous (Macintosh) apple, from Nikola Tesla to Alan Turing and Von Neumann, scientists have always made technologies evolve. Today researchers, hackers, DIY coders are transforming the world from fablabs, producing strange things with electricity, discovering bio-computing and quantum comp...
More than 15 years after the beginnings of net art, the Internet has become the most ubiquitous participative global media of the 21st century; a huge territory between normalisation, commerce, hope and utopia. Is the Internet a disenchanted space for artists and creative people or is there a future for online arts and critical creative actions? If so, what are their possible forms and directions?
This is what WJ-Spots Brussels proposes to investigate by gathering an international...
Marco Donnarumma - Music for Flesh II - Interactive performance for enhanced body, 2011
eContact! 14.3 -- Biotechnological Performance Practice
eContact! extends an open call for contributions to an issue focussing on the use of the body in electroacoustic performance practice, coordinated by Guest Editor Marco Donnarumma. Performers, composers and others are encouraged to contribute their perspectives on the role or position of the body in experimental practices of mu...
Pascale Barret, artiste en résidence au Rustines|Lab de Perte de Signal,
fera le lancement de son livre Did you mean pascalebarret&avatars? dans le cadre d'Elektra_Lab 4 à Montréal.
4 Novembre 2011, 18h30, Usine C (1901, rue de la Visitation, Montreal)
« Proche d'une monographie
sans affirmer l'être, cette édition introduit mes recherches en 5
thèmes METAMORPHOSE, INCARNATION, DISINCARNATION, AVATARS & MIXED
REALITIES. C'est une première expérimentat...
If you don't know the art work of the french artist Joel Hubaut, Akhenaton prductions edits a hybrid book this month about his epidemic works.
"I paint, I draw, I write, I perform, I sing, I film, I install things, I
arrange, I organize a lot of things more or less set in the most basic dispersion and has been for 30 years. I started my work on epidemics and mixing in oct.l969. I have always been "artist wholesaler", for the ...
MCD offers you this exclusive content from MCD magazine #64 Game Over Culture !
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Art: Not the final frontier of gaming
As a critical and even subversive outgrowth of gaming, game art has infiltrated contemporary art, indie games and virtual worlds. It’s free, political and tenaciously experimental.
One thing is certain: without the viewer’s active participation, there is no “game art”. In order to write these words, I s...
The new MCD issue out now!
This new issue dedicated to videogames (120 pages, english/french, 9€) is available on digitalmcd.com.
Editorial by Anne-Cécile Worms :
You only have one life left!
We are all players. From retrogaming (Pac-Man, Tetris, Street Fighter, Mario, Space Invaders…), to multiplayer online games (World of Warcraft, Counter Strike…), GTA, geo-tracked games, mobile phone games, Kinect, Wii, etc. We either play on our own, side by side, as a family,...
[Output from Dreaming Machine #1, Ben Bogart]
Dear all,
it's with great pleasure that I share with you this piece.
I had an inspiring, in-depth conversation with artist and fellow Pd'er Ben Bogart over the last months, and this is the result:
http://vagueterrain.net/content/2011/09/origination-and-metacreation-conversation-ben-bogart
Tags: MAM, creativity, machine imagination, innovation+open source, techno-cultural methodology, a...
http://issuu.com/osvaldocibils/docs/sd44ds
Open publication - Free publishing - More art
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