Human history can be studied (and read) through its Search Engines. A Search Engine reflects a culture's Zeitgeist. It is an institution and a mechanism that answer our need to organize, filter and catalog existing known human knowledge. Every era creates and uses Search Engines–From the Noah's Ark, through the ...
What's the smell of blood on the digital tracks? What's the sound of static deep in the wires? What's the color of electronic discharges as they bond flesh to the machine? What's the speed of the body when it has been ...
neo-scenes occupation: a long-term networking project
much of the educational process in the developed world is irrelevant, dead, or dying. neo-scenes wants to re-create and re-new learning, making it an omni-directional flow of energies with a force multiplied far beyond the meat count and with a reach that is far ...
The Material Versus the Virtual–The Art of Dalibor Martinis
Dalibor Martinis belongs to the first generation of European artists who employed electronic technologies in their creative activities. It was already a quarter of a century ago when Martinis produced his first video piece. Since then, the medium he had chosen ...
Re-Routing Nettime: An Exercise in Electronic Disturbance
Surprise "Columbus Day Outing"
Personal note:
My sincerest apologies to anyone who was offended or inconvenienced by this exercise. It was not intended in any way to be malicious or aimed at any specific persons or groups in any way other than in ...
Did anyone else in NY attend the ASCI panel at Cooper, "Collectiblity and the Digital Print"?
99% of the audience was composed of artists, including at least one of the net-literati (who was that?) who made a heated point that we should be using digital media to invent and explore ...
This week on Nirvanet Live and Nirva(not)TV, Special Stelarc with an live performance of his Parasite Performance at the Brussels CyberTheatre and a unique interview with the artist.
Revolting is finished… offline… we have been putting together the online archive over the past few days. click and enjoy, communicate, educate, organise. the media archive contains about 10 hours of (mainly) audio material for your plesure and enlightenment (not to be mistaken with human progress!)…
In a recent Guggenheim press release Matthew Drutt wrote:
In collaboration with the 16th World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim Museum and Society for Old and New Media present BRANDON, a public interface/installation at Theatrum Anatomicum, DeWaag from September 18 to September 21 with an Opening Party ...
Wanted: an informed approach in galleries for presenting new media works
Electronic art works have been gradually seeping into traditional art gallery venues. San Francisco has been dressing up for the forthcoming major international exposition of 20th century art. It is gratifying to note that a few traditional galleries have ...