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MCD#70 - ECHO / SYSTEM - "Music and sound art"

TEN YEARS, a strange loop… Echo-system. MCD magazine originated from our passion for electronic music: free parties, raves, sound-systems, clubbing… The editorial staff took root in this fertile ground, where musicians experimented with free culture and collaborative performances, mixing technological development with artistic creation. From home studios, we followed the creative development of emerging digital art, from DJs to VJs, from Live AV to WJ (webjaying), from Net art t...

MCD#69 | NET ART – WJ-SPOTS #2: Artists take over the network

Available on newsstands and on MCD's website December 13th. bilingual French / English 132 pages, 9 euros ART DIGGERS: TREASURES FROM THE WEB If, around a street corner, you happen to be hooked by a piece of street-art, the internet artists should equally surprise you when you surf the web. The network has become an essential space for creation where one can discover audio, visual, generative and interactive art, collaborative practices, telepresence projects… Artists ...

Gamerz Festival

Festival GAMERZ 08 October 19th to 28th, 2012 www.festival-gamerz.com Devoted to game and diversion in contemporary creation, GAMERZ yearly gathers french and international artists, researchers and professionals in Aix-en-Provence, in order to offer to the public a recreational and cultural journey. Exploring the borders between art and new technologies, the program is particularly rich and innovating, including exhibitions, performances, and meetings....

MCD International digital festivals guide OUT NOW !

International Digital Festivals Guide French / english Available on our website Edito 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...

MCD magazine: new issue on "Writing machines", OUT on March 15th !

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 ...

Exclusive article from MCD magazine: Stanley Greene “We live in a throwaway society”

“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&...

Exclusive article from MCD #65: Hacktivists repaint the town green

Exclusive article from MCD #65 « The culture of green tech » !! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 The culture of green tech OUT NOW !

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...

Last night in Scopitone 2011

Saturday night fever in Scopitone 2011: Before Burn Studio with Input Selector Gangpol und Mit's trash tales Low bass by Kanding Ray The Electronic Conspiracy Mondkopf's black world Etienne De Crécy wakes up dance floor ! Fourth night in Scopitone 2011 from Musiques et Cultures Digitales on Vimeo....

Third night in Scopitone festival 2011

On this third night in Scopitone festival, at Stereolux, we see Murat Ombombe making music with his body, Sounds stimulating the face of Daito Manabe, forms making music with Purform, Hifana in a total audiovisual show and the legend from Kraftwerk, Karl Bartos. We finish at La Friche with Sebastian on a gigantic dancefloor. Third night in Scopitone festival 2011 from Musiques et Cultures Digitales on Vimeo.  ...

Second night in Scopitone

We begin with Kid Koala in Stereolux. He plays with audience, shows his project Space Cadet, and plays his last track on Ninja Tune. A master of scratch ! In TU, we go on with Hiroaki Umeda playing Accumulated Layout, an ascetic and impressive performance. Zan Lyons gives us a melancholic and beautiful live A/V with machines, violin and film.  ...

First night in Scopitone

Scopitone starts this year with a big night, between immersive lives A/V and acid music. In this report, you'll see Murcof & Anti VJ, Marklion, Ryoichi Kurokawa and Acid Washed.  ...

MCD magazine Game over culture ! Art& game culture by Annick Rivoire

MCD offers you this exclusive content from MCD magazine #64 Game Over Culture ! You can buy this issue on www.digitalmcd.com 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...

MCD #64 Game over culture

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,...

Annette Wolfsberger in Festivals’labo @ Nuits Sonores

We met Annette Wolfsberger at the Festivals’labo in Nuits Sonores. She speaks about Sonic Acts and Kontraste festival. Interview of Annette Wolfsberger, producer of Sonic Acts festival from Musiques et Cultures Digitales on Vimeo.  ...