According to Benjamin Weil, the principal curator of Laboral, the Feedforward exhibition is just a “sequel” to Feedback, the inaugural exhibition of the Centre for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijon, Spain. Its organisation was entrusted to Christiane Paul, one of the curators of the Whitney Museum in New York, and to Steve Dietz, the artistic director of the Zero1 biennale of San José, California. The exhibition’s subtitle, “The Angel of History” is making a reference to an essay b...

You will find enclosed the free pdf files of the number 1 issue of the Digitalarti magazine. It is bellow as en enclosure in low resolution (for faster download) and high resolution (for better image quality). The summary of this issue No 1 is there. Enjoy it and let us know your comments, questions, wishes… by commenting this post or by email at: info at digitalartimag.com ...

  From Mimesis, mimes to masksand simulation: Study on different kinds of representation of human behavior andappearance: When I hear the term simulation, I refer it tothe imitation of the real life, space and behavior of human, body, life andappearance. Since Plato’s theory about the mimesis of theart as imitation of real and ideal beauty, the artist wants to represent theworld where he lives such as fine artists and comedians. The first subject which took t...

MUSEUMS STRATEGIES digital art and preservation     Being able to experiment digital works of art few years after they were created can be a challenge: computers and other materials may be out of order, the code composing can be unreadable by more recent machines… Museums strategies Sometimes we can’t see or hear anything anymore. And even if t...

03 EDITO what am I doing here? 04 AGENDA festivals 06 COMMUNITY NEWS Extracts from news published on the site. Ars Electronica was celebrating its 30 years. 08 THE VENICE BIENNALE special report 12 ÉTIENNE CLIQUET ordigami 14 HEHE the "Pollstream" project 16 RYOICHI KUROKAWA graphical rhizomes 20 LAB[AU] digital architects 22 ANNE ROQUIGNY WJ-SPOTS, on the web… 24 SERIOUS GAMES video games with Isab...

    We are happy to be launching this n°0: a new digital art adventure!  It all started with a book about digital art in France that we published in September 2008.  Since then, we have started the online digitalarti site and opened our digital art investment fund which will be officially launched during FIAC (Foire International d’Art Contemporain) in Paris, October 23nd. And we are now publishing this magazine…   What are we doing here and w...

        Shown during the last edition of the Cube Festival at Issy-Les-Moulineaux inJune, the planetary topographical listening performance offered by thecomposer and German multimedia artist Jens Brand was one of the mostsensitive experience to live during the big digital get together of theHauts de Seines.Planetary scaleCalled We Play The World, andcleverly sub-titled The Earth Is A Disc, the project offers totranspose the technical and sensible princip...