Tremorrag at Festival Formula Bula

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 . In contrast the music conjures up ...

'Tremorrag' at Festival Formula Bula

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...

[Interview] Peter Weibel, director of ZKM

ZKM, photo © Uli Deck This article comes from the 12th Digitalarti Mag. Read it online for free. 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...

"Duali" for a Honorary Mention @ the Digital Musics & Sound Art of Prix Ars Electronica 2013

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  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. http://www.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/#digitalmusics   ...

Ars Electronica Price 2013 : and the winners are...

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...

Soirée de vente aux enchères de GIFs animés / Auction for animated GIFs

  (english follows) Le vendredi 24 mai, à partir de 17h, LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE vous invite à une soirée très particulière – une vente aux enchères de GIF animés. Une première pour le centre, cette soirée conviviale présentera le travail effectué lors de l’atelier de création de GIF animés, donné par Boris Dumesnil-Poulin les 11 et 12 mai 2013. Les six participants – Caroline ...

<artist> Dineo Seshee Bopape

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....

<artist> Emeka Ogboh

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...

[agenda] Nancy celebrates Renaissance

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 ...

A trap made of light : Isotopes by Nonotak Studio

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...

[exhibition] Digital Africa

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...

[Exhibition] Water Light Graffiti @ Stereolux

Since its opening in September 2011, Stereolux has become an essential venue for digital arts in Nantes. From June 6th to 30th, Water Light Graffiti wil be exhibited in the intermedia platform of this location. Antonin Fourneau's artwork, developed in Digitalarti Artlab, enables anyone armed with water guns, sponges, brushes... to create bright and ephemeral drawings. Water and light, a magical blend that seduces from the youngest to the oldest audience. This wall of LEDs also allows coll...

[Festival] Parizone@dream 2013

Parizone@dream is coming back in early June at the Gaîté Lyrique. After a large success for its first edition which gathered more than 4,000 visitors the Parisian festival of digital creativity grows and offers for its second edition two days of events, a permanent exhibition of twenty artworks and an OFF festival. The highlights are divided into two workshops Slit My Gif and Agence Numérique, two conferences Cinema Playable and Artificial Intelligence:...