INSULAR technologies is an open access, low cost, autonomous, decentralised, data and voice global radio network.
It is designed to promote and protect the communication between independent cultural, media and social initiatives, non-governmental organisations and individuals. These may be operating from remote areas and/or environments with limited connectivity.
The Waag sits in the heart of Amsterdam, a beautiful castle with an interesting past. There is a cafe that is nice, and computers that are not so nice. A large square invites visitors from surrounding neighborhoods including the red light district to the ...
The Mexican council for culture and the arts (CONACULTA) organizes through its department of audiovisual media, the international festival of video art, VIDARTE, which will have place from the 22 to the 26 of September at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City.
You are invited to the inauguration on line of the event X-99 on friday 19th March at 6 pm (french time). To meet us connect yourself on IRC on the server: [irc.webmaster.com] rooms [#fraclr] and [#frap ...
The transcript of David Ross's lecture "Net.art in the Age of Digital Reproduction," given March 2nd at San Jose State University and sponsored by the CADRE Institute, is now online at http://switch.sjsu.edu.
last night i asked geert lovink, co-organizer of the Next 5 Minutes 3 conference on tactical media, to talk about fakeshop's "Artificial Geography" performance.
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geert: for me this is more of a social event. there are the video-jockey people, and then there are the pirate radio stations–more like activist people ...
The greatest struggle for net.art is to prove its autonomy. Marshall McLuhan's useful insight, that the content of every new media is generally the previous media, reminds us of the potentially schizophrenic nature of art as it changes over time. For net.art, autonomy means ...
Future People are small now. They watch television in the morning, and they watch television in the afternoon, after a day at school (where they often watch tv too, and use ancient computers they are very proud of). Future People like technology. Nothing new here. You can't be scared of ...
It's practically a given that the pleasure of film resides in its fictive trance. Moviegoers earn their willing suspension of disbelief in an endless Pavlovian reward system of psychological closure in the face of the most shameless illusion. If the grime of a seedy back alley can't be conveyed by ...
The LIFE 2.0 site is now complete with images and text documentation of all winning works in the competition, which was juried in Madrid January 29th to 31st. Please see:
The Mouths of the Thames an interview with Mongrel and some of the people working with them
Matthew Fuller: The Natural Selection project at http://www.mongrel.org.uk is an internet search engine that works in exactly the same way as any other one of these vast pieces of ...