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Eyebeam needs your help to fund the salvage of their archives and equipment after Sandy's damage. A few weeks ago, Sandy Hurricane hit the east coast of North America, causing serious damage in Haïti and New York, up to the American boarder with Canada. When our friends at Eyebeam, one of the main places in New York for digital creation, came back to their offices after the storm, they witnessed how violent and devastating Sandy had been. Their conference room was completely d...

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...

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...

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 ...

  May 19th to 20th took place the 2012 Bay Area Maker Fair, a kind of artistic and engineering carnival, gathering several thousands of people about DIY latest innovations and trends. During several days, all the visitors could discover participants' creations about almost everything you can build in your court yard, your basement or your living-room.    This year put an emphasize on the 3D printers, which could be count by dozens all over the Fair. From the now famous Makerb...

From March 8th to 18th, 2012, Exit Festival focuses on Low Tech throughout a huge exhibition, video selections, performances, theater and dance. Let's take a walk in this poetic universe…   ...