"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...
Le Fresnoy, or the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, is structured around a school directed by an artist, Alain Fleischer, who invites others to train still others. This year, the curator of the exhibition, Benjamin Weil, whose international experience is well known, took up the challenge of revealing a common meaning in more than fifty artistic proposals ranging from performance to film through installations and apparatus.
Warding off bad luck
It is said of ships that, “if they ha...
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 ...
Scopitone 2011 marked the start of a new adventure for the Stereolux team who launched the festival in Nantes ten years ago already! The program was extended over four days with the opening ceremony of new premises at La Fabrique, intense goings-on through other venues (TU, Ensan, Lieu Unique…) as well as multiple concerts, installations and performances… Here is the story.
mother ship
Supported by Songo (L'Olympic), a non-profit organisation from Nantes, Stereolux has found a p...
IRCAM’s Agora festival took place from last June 8th to 18th in Paris. The main focus of the 2011 event was the links between music and mathematics through contemporary creative processes, questioning the relationship between logic and imagination, thought and creativity.
A great number of works, meetings, lectures and installations were scattered between Ircam, the Pompidou Centre, the Grand Palais, the 104 and the Gaîté Lyrique but also spread to Le Fresnoy, in T...
54th Venise Biennale opening took place in the beginning of June and was entitled Illuminazioni (Illuminations). This event, happening since 1895, was historically a contest between artists presented by their nations in “pavillions” built in the Giardini, a park in the town.
And the Venise Biennale used to be indeed a national pavillion thing. It's understandable as the first Biennale started in an historic period when the concept of nation was not questionned the way it is toda...
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...
By focusing on points of convergence between human, scientific and technologic, 2011 EXIT festival proposed a vivid outlook of imaginary cyber-reality of tomorrow. A paranoiac view that declined in a series of interactive, immersive and performative experiences.
This year, the chosen theme of paranoia induced doubtless a step beyond in the appreciation of a multimedia art as interested in its scientific rationality as in its new expressive perspectives, underlining sketches of a cyb...
With the remains of its 19th architecture combining a cold and vespertine aesthetics, a remote legacy from the 80s (gray hue, neon lights, geometrical volumes, mirrors…), La Gaîté Lyrique would have made a perfect Apple Store… After the excitement triggered by the opening of this new City of Paris Cultural Establishment dedicated to the artistic practices of the digital age, time has come to make a first assessment, to foresee some prospects.
La Gaîté Lyrique is being added t...
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...
Since June 2008, SFR has been presenting its whole universe in its Studio in rue Tronchet, in Paris. Aside its commercial space, it includes a venue and an “apartment”. A teenage target has been quickly reached thanks to private concerts. The second target is more specific.
It comprises followers of new technologies in all fields of experimentation, with the launch, in 2009, of SFR Player, a yearly event focused on innovation and creation. Digitalarti was in charge of the artistic...
"The future is not just about what’s next. It’s also about what we can build to ensure that what’s next matters"…
This was the call to action that prompted an international array of artists to submit proposals to participate in the 3rd iteration of the 01SJ, a North American Biennial at the nexus of art, technology, and digital culture.
The result, over a period of 4-days more than 25,000 visitors engaged with over 100 artists, designers, engineers, filmmakers, mus...
We are living through one of history’s swerves. Over the past decade billions of people have hooked themselves up to the Internet via the computer and more recently mobile devices.
This communication revolution is now extending to objects as well as people. Object-to-object communications has been long predicted, but has always seemed to be perched safely on the horizon. Now it is rushing into the present. The so-called Internet of things (IoT) is, after the modern computer (1946) a...
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...
Between the 1st and 4th of April 2010, 14,000 people visited the Electron festival. This is testimony to the importance this event has acquired, with its performances, screenings, conferences, and, of course, its plethora of DJ and live acts. Here’s a look back at the highlights of this year's 7th edition.
When we get to the Usine, the Electron festival's flag ship self-run cultural centre, we were welcomed by Subsound, operating on the front lines, seeping torturous dubstep, with armore...
The Bains Numériques digital technology arts festival took place this past June at Enghien-les-Bains. Among the many events was the "dance and new technologies" competition. Its unique characteristics allow for exceptionally high audience participation in awarding prizes, and provide both a new perspective on, and high visibility to the creative process.
Although the various performances on show had been pre-selected, the jury and audiences watched them together during the...
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...
"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...
The Summer Encounters of La Chartreuse - Centre National des Écritures du Spectacle — in Villeneuve lez Avignon are the occasion to see performances and presentations of steps of work of authors in residence. We notably discovered the theater text on Internet of the group illusion.com (Joseph Danan, Emmanuel Guez, Sabine Revillet and Eli Commins, author and director; also at the origin of a work on the Iranian elections). A space also allows to view the engaged processes in "Le...
