Access interactive online version, download free pdf version. Or order the print version today.   Free iPad version with free Magcloud or pdf lite apps. EDITO ART IN THE CONNECTED CITY What if digital arts reinvented the city? Such is the theme of the 7th edition of Les Bains numériques in Enghien-les- Bains, on June 13-14.
 It’s also the ambition of the very first International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) in Montréal, from April 18 to June 13. Exploring the theme of...

Access interactive online version, download free pdf version. Or order the print version today.   Free iPad version with free Magcloud or pdf lite apps. EDITORIAL "THE GEOCITIES OF THINGS" The “Post Digital ramblings” by Russell Davies at the Strp festival were very inspiring to me. “We can make our own stuff. We can express ourselves. We can build what my friend Andy Huntington calls “The Geocities of Things”. We can add life and connectivity to the things ...

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 is ...

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 com...

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 subject...

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, a g...

WJ-SPOTS is a project imagined and conceived by Anne Roquigny, new medias curator <www.wj-s.org>, that invites artists, critics, intellectuals, inventors, researchers, artistic curators and event planners to evaluate 15 years of artistic creation on the web.  Buy Wj-Spots Guide ...

The new MCD issue out now! LAB SWEET LAB Whether you were born into the networks or simply are interested in digital creation, nowadays there are places and communities where you can learn, create and share knowledge. These laboratories (labs) are mediation spaces dedicated to practice, expression and creation as much as critical commitment on the role of technology in art and society. Individual users, artists, engineers, researchers and designers go there to research and pro...

We are all (more or less) intelligent objects. We are already immersed in the Internet of Things (IoT) without even knowing it : microchipped pets, trackable consumer products, biometric passports and geolocation tools all point to a world where real and virtual are already intricately intertwined. Some 35 billion intelligent objects already surround us, for better or for worse. MCD magazine invited Poptronics, the digital media of electronic cultures, to penetrate this vast nebula, and to rea...

VIDEOFORMES publishes a quarterly magazine about video and digital media in contemporary art...download...