ZKM, photo © Uli Deck
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
Telofossiles
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Whether it’s videos or online pieces, small applications or sound installations, the artworks of Grégory Chatonsky are committed to revealing what we don’t see, or what we no longer see, to capture the traces and dig out the rhizomes, all the while being anchored in reality, in urban and human geography… Image, still or animated, and flow (technological, corporal or physical)...
Robert Henke. Photo © Jimmy Mould
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Strange feeling when slipping between the black curtains that block the great hall of the Lieu Unique in Nantes: a mix of curiosity, excitement, but also anxiety… This is the first time we are faced with "Fragile Territories", a tentacular installation by Robert Henke.
How did you conceive "Fragile Territories"? On which technical and conceptual basis...
"Dream House" by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
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As far back as the early 1900’s, the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo foresaw sound as a medium by playing “noises” with the instrument he called an ‘Intonarumori’. Since then, numerous artists or sound artists have participated in what today is called Sound Art. Now art centres like ZKM in Karlsruhe, the MAC in Lyon and...
"The free software and arts communities are filled with people motivated not just by money but by the act of creation and a drive to make meaningful, or at least functional, contributions to society," writes F.A.T. Lab co-founder Evan Roth in his recent essay, Artist Hacker: From Free Software to Fine Art. Inspired by the philosophy put forth by Roth, Eyebeam hosted a panel on Thursday April 4 from 7:00pm–8:30pm called "Artists as Hackers". The discussion brought toge...
From May 2nd to 12th, the Mapping Festival hosts its 9th edition in Geneva (Switzerland). This event, unmistakable for AV and electronic music lovers, offers this year 10 days with concerts, projections, exhibitions, workshops...
Amid the AV performances program, several trends can be spotted. The architectural mapping with the Catalans from Onionlab and the Hungarian collective Bordos.ArtWorks, plus guest artists. Here is a video example of their spectacular creations.
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Playmodes and MID (Media Interactive Design) are both digital research collectives based in Catalonia. They work on interactions between architecture, light & sound, to produce immersive installations thanks to DIY hardware and software developments.
Blaus was created for the Vad festival. It's an in-situ installation tailor-made for Cisterna, the Girona's history museum. "We spent a whole week working on-site, playing with lasers, motors, mirrors and sound, and ...
DOT is a video game by Henrique Roscoe. It's an audiovisual performance with synchronized sounds and images, played by a ‘game console’ built and programmed by HOL, and controlled by retro videogame (Nintendo) joysticks. The instrument is completely autonomous and works without the need of a computer, using only a projector and a sound system to play its content. Five people from the audience are invited to play the performance along with the artist, adding a random a...
The 13th of May 2013, Digitalarti will team up with Grohe to bring Water Light Graffiti to a new city in the artwork world tour: New York, on the occasion of the New York Design Week. Water Light Graffiti will be installed in the Grohe Live Center for several hours of demonstration and public tests.
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Elektra still leads the way in matter of audio/video performances. For its 14th edition (from May 1st to 5th 2013, in Montréal) Elektra picked up the Anti/Matter theme.
In this perspective, sound is at the forefront: experimental, noisy, thick, physical, but also dance-floor from time to time. Sound is intimately bound to visual projections, which, on this occasion, will become waves, particles, video frames, shapes breakdown. The electrical signal is turned into musics and shapes...
Each year, Exit festival explores contemporary issues, such as paranoïa, low tech… In this edition, Artifical Natures invade the exhibition until April 14th.
Inexhaustible matrix of brain wave, unlike its resources, the Nature has never been so sublimated, controlled, abused, digitized. Man, like a true mad scientist whose subject escapes, notes today he used of a destructive power similar to the Nature one, furthermore able to pertual and surprising renewal.
The exhi...
Carlos Amorales, Fragmented Figure 04, 2008, Courtesy, Carlos Amorales et Yvon Lambert, Paris
From May 17th to 19th, in Saint Brieuc, Art Rock celebrates its 30th birthday. In addition to music concerts, the festival gathers exhibitions of digital arts, photography, along with dance and theater shows.
La Fura Dels Baus presents a special creation. Michael Clark, famous english choreographer, shows "New York" part I and "Come, been and gone" part II. Yro & B...
(Picture: Promenade dans l'oreille d'un compositeur by Michel Risse & Décor Sonore)
Essential for sound art lovers, Extension takes place from May 2nd to 29th in Paris and around. La Muse en Circuit manages the event. The national center for music creation founded around Luc Ferrari in 1982 and led since 1999 by David Jisse, celebrates this year its last programming.
Concerts, installations, sound walk, theater stages, and numerous other forms will enable the audience...
Digitalarti is organising two conferences as part of EXIT 2013 festival at la Maison des arts de Créteil on April 11th 2013. It will also be the opportunity to launch the Guide to Digital and Multimedia Art Resources and Places edited by MCD and suported by the General Delegation of Artistic Creation of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. The online version is developped in French and in English by Digitalarti.
The theme of the first...
