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. Associat...

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 ...