Paris, Frankfurt, Ghent, Berlin, Rennes and, since January, Lyon and Bordeaux, with Mexico, Toronto, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia on the horizon… The Processing Cities project—a series of regular and participatory workshops open to anyone interested in open source tools for visual arts and code-related creativity—pursues its territorial coverage. Mark Webster, president of the Free Art Bureau, initiated the project.
Mark, how does the Processing Cities project ...
The Souls and Machines exhibition (450,000 visitors in a few months of 2008 in Madrid) will take place in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. It gathers many artworks using numerous various techniques, dealing with the question of the soul, humanity and living appearance of machines. This documentary gives a big picture of the 2008 exhibition, including some artists and curators interviews : a 30 minute long meet up with machines, sometimes funny, sometimes puzzling, sometimes moving.
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Digital art is still being uncared for within the contemporary art nebula. The multiplication of major events will hopefully reverse this ostracism. Thus, following other major events, Montreal’s BIAN (International Digital Art Biennial) should contribute to focus on works using digital technology tools in a unique, innovative, or critical way . The first BIAN will take place next spring, launched by the team of the Elektra festival, with the support of its Director, Alain Thibault. Here...
The Transmediale Festival focuses on the role of digital technologies in our society, while Club Transmediale is devoted to the “adventurous” music and related visual arts. This year, the Schering Foundation and the [DAM] Gallery were associated with these two events in Berlin.
Bacteriological Orchestra
Every year, the Transmediale Festival gives out a prize. This year, the members of the jury nominated seven works out of more than a thousand proposals and it was the artistic r...
If I was to be told about Béthune, it would be told about the "Matière-Lumière" exhibition produced during Béthune 2011, Regional Capital of Creation. Three temporary or rehabilitated locations and an ambitious curator, Richard Castelli: Here is an itinerary through the Garage, the 360 and a dome set up on the main square.
An old garage converted into an exhibition space, the Garage welcomes two immersive installations inviting the spectator to become aware of his perce...
The fourth edition of the STRP festival, which is devoted to bringing together music and artistic and technological practices, drew more than 30,000 visitors to its many concerts, performances, exhibitions, conferences and workshops in November 2010. As for the rather strange name for the event, it relates to the industrial site of Eindhoven that used to house the Philips brand before it revolutionised the cultural industry with its inventions.
Imprecision as a rule
Oddly, a securit...
The fourth edition of Issy-Les-Moulineaux‘s Le Cube festival has been an excellent occasion to present a panorama of current forms of digital artistic expressions as well as give easy access keys to a wider audience. A choice that also included itself into a reflection on public space, symbolized by a week-end long multimedia urban game.
Listening to music in a horizontal position has always something relaxing. But when this listening uses Sonic Bed from English artist Kaffe. Matth...
Artistic practices that are too often neglected by museums naturally make their own paths, for which festivals are essential components. There are at least a dozen dedicated to new media just within the Île-de-France region. This is a return to the year in festivals including the latest editions of Art Outsiders, Visionsonic, Atopic, Exit, Némo, Vision'R, Bains Numériques and Mal aux Pixels.
Art Outsiders
The back-to-school of the festival scene has taken place in September for...
If you are in Paris in the coming months and wish to play videogames on historical game consoles, have fun and get better acquainted with game culture, then there is one destination for you: Museogames. It is an exhibition dedicated to video games organized by the Musée des Arts et Métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts) at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris.
Museogames is the first such exhibition shown in a national museum in France. It focuses on the hi...
How can a simple movement of a camera enhance the power of light in a Monet, the texture of paint used by Vincent Van Gogh? How does it reveal a detail in a Veronese, the symbolism of a disguised vanity from Hans Holbein, or the significance of a perspective drawn by Leonardo da Vinci? Forty paintings from masters of the 16th Century to the 21st have been digitized to illustrate the technical breakthroughs of their respective eras.
That is not the only challenge of the premiere exhib...
One of the emblematic events of the Fresnoy National Contemporary Arts Studio is the annual Panorama exhibit. Panaroma 12, open until July 25th, in Tourcoing, is the opportunity to get to know this unique French training and production space. It was founded by its current director, Alain Fleischer, in 1987. A cross between "high-tech Villa Medici", "electronica Bauhaus", and an "Institute for Musical/Acoustic Research and Coordination for the visual arts" A...
Robots and Avatars was launched in November 2009 with a Forum at NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), attended by an international group of 80 experts, professionals and young people in London. The programme continues throughout 2010-2011 with educational events, an exhibition, a website, vodcasts with key experts, further forums and a book/DVD.
We are moving into an era where technology is greatly expanding the possibilities of representation, with the ph...
"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 a ref...
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, whose collection covers 3000 years of decorative art and design, welcomes the "Decode" exhibit, which, with its 34 pieces, offers an overview of digital creation from 2003 until today. Viewings, installations and sculptures are displayed on the museum's façade, set up in the garden basin, spread on the ground or hung up on darkened walls.
The museum goer watches and physically experiences the event, which was organized in collaborat...
LABtoLAB is an itinerant university project, launched by the Nantes network Crealab, which has developed a series of workshops over the past two years in various European "labs" to explore the relationship between “art / education / technology”. At a time where knowledge and the economy have merged together, the spaces in the digital creation landscape dedicated to the transfer of knowledge have come be a “neutral territory” we need to protect.
Crealab in...
An interactive event at the Batofar with the musician Vadim Vernay and Motus in November, "8 Seasons" on the program of the Atrium, at Chaville in the Hauts-de-Seine, in January… Another piece, "De Chair et D'âme", in theatres soon, as well as, constantly, more awareness¬raising activities, on the interaction of multimedia and art… The multidisciplinary dance company Mobilis-Immobilis is on all the fronts. Meet the company’s director, Maflohe Passedouet.
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The 53rd Venice Biennale opened at the beginning of June bringing together artists, curators and critics from around the world before opening to the general public through until November 22nd. On the programme: the "historical" pavilions in the Giardini, collateral events in various places around the city and Daniel Birnbaum’s "Making Worlds" exhibition at the Arsenal. The municipal gardens It’s best to get to the British pavilion early to reserve a seat for the screenin...
