File under: portfolio, new, puredata, FLOSS, university, sound art, sound design, sensitive environment, artist Virtual Place: http.//marcodonnarumma.com Read it here http://www.thesaddj.com/new-virtual-existence-and-on-line-portfolio/ ...

  Emmanuelle Grangier is a french artist who lives in the south of France. Under the direction of Anne-Marie Duguet, she got a PHD in art and sciences of the art, and wrote her thesis about the accident : The bug : an aesthetics of accident. My link to Emmanuelle is fluid and liquid, it began on a beach, then in a bar drinking casher vodka and talking about our slavic soul. I am also playing in many of her videos... In 2002, she directed the first part of the Link tril...

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George GessertHumans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, including plan...

What do social media, endangered species, mangrove seeds, and flags on Antarctica have in common?Miami artist Xavier Cortada, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Artists and Writers Program recipient, was in Antarctica from December 2006 – January 2007 to create new works and implement various art projects.  This is an incredible opportunity to see and hear him talk about his residency work.Event Details:Wednesday, February 245:30pm – 7:30pmZER01’s HQ (152 N. 3rd St., San...

ZER01 has extended the Workshop and Micro-Grant open calls. Also we have several new exciting Open Calls. Check them all out at http://zero1.org/01sj/opencallsAlso for the 2010 01SJ Biennial we are collaborating with SF Shorts: San Francisco International Festival of Short Films to issue an open call for 5-minute shorts interpreting the theme Build Your Own World that were shot using a cell phone, flip video camcorder, or other mobile media device. You can interpret this theme literally or ...

We´ve uploaded an excerpt of incite/ performing some tracks from the new liveset dualicities for the first time on February 6th at Rote Flora Hamburg. The two tracks featured in this excerpt are city secrets and psychopath. (recorded with a [\[¢$#-old camera...) http://www.digitalarti.com/en/video/incite_live_rote_flora_feb_2010 The official premiere will be at the Némo in Paris on April 10th. There´s three ore pre-premieres planned for March: 18.03. Exineo @  LeZoo, ...

INTERVIEW OF NICOLAS FRESPECH IN THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF MCD : WJ-SPOTS#1 / Who are you? Can you tell us in a few words what you have been doing these last few years? / I studied fine arts at the Internet Editorial. I’ve had a computer since I was 11. I’ve always done art. I remember, as a child, I loved to send decorated envelopes: it was mail art. My practice was radically modified by multimedia and especially the net; I dropped my brushes and my color crayons to throw myself into co...

Next week, I will fly to Berlin and stay two weeks to take some time to meet new artists, curators and to see art exhibitions. During the first week, the artist and researcher Mathias Fuchs invited me to the public presentation of Ludic Interfaces on Saturday, 30th Jan 2010 at 11.30 pm to 13.30 pm at HBC Then, I will attend to Amaze a festival dedicated to art, music and games. On feb 4th, I will browse in real time into online content of curators, artists and online creations spec...

Christian Zanési, composer of acousmatic music and assistant director of the GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale – Musical Research Group), has just released an album called Soixante dix-huit tours on the label Double Entendre. The title is a reference to the famous 78s made in 1949 by Pierre Schaeffer, known as the father of music concrete, and of whom we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth. Interview. On what occasion did you meet Vibrö? Valérie Vivancos and Rodolphe Al...

Artistic Textual and Performative Paths in New Media Correlations: An Interview with Annie Abrahams by Evelin Stermitz Evelin Stermitz' interview with net artist Annie Abrahams, whose "works are structured on both digitized hyper and on site realities. She constructs forms of collective writings on the net and reconstructs them into offline perceptions, which leads to creations of net-operas and other web based interventions." Fylkingen's journal Hz st...

DIGITAL ART INTERNATIONAL     A new platform dedicated to digital arts? MCD could not possibly remain indifferent towards such an initiative! That’s why we are involved in the Digitalarti.com project… This website, a community and international portal is intended to promote, broadcast and give value to the actors of this digital, protean and creative cultur...

For the official launch of the international digital art website, magazine & digital art investment fund, we organized a large conference around digital art with artists, auction manager and gallerists.     Proof of the growing interest around digital art, the conference took place in a packed conference room with many people having to attend standing in the adjacent room!           A coktail allowed everyone t...