I'll have to admit, when I dialed up the X-Art Foundation (http://interport.net/~xaf) to see the current online x-travaganza known as blast5drama I sorta lost my head. The start up page is perfect: elegant, good layout, sharp graphics, smart animation, great menu items. I expected no less from ...
A Call for Papers on Art and Biology for the Journal Leonardo
As part of our 30th anniversary celebration, the editors of Leonardo seek papers about art and biology. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- histories of plant, animal, and human representation - imagery of DNA, cells, chromosomes, and ...
Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald on the blast5 vehicles
In her book entitled "On Longing" Susan Stewart notes that "the metaphors of the book are metaphors of containment, of exteriority and interiority, of surface and depth, of covering and exposure, of taking apart and putting together."
DIGITAL OBJECTS is a feature series organized by RHIZOME INTERNET that looks at the place of new media art in the gallery. It consists of short texts contributed by gallerists and curators about new media art. DIGITAL OBJECTS is an attempt to collect and distribute critical appraisals of new media ...
Benjamin Weil: it is important to point out to the fact that its not so much the medium that defines the production. it is more like the adequacy of ...
DIGITAL OBJECTS contributor Cornelia Sollfrank is an artist from Hamburg, currently living in New York City. Central to her conceptual and performative works are the changing notions of art, the advent of a new image of the artist in the information age, gender-specific handling of technology, as well as new ...
OLALA!!!! video and new media art festivals on the Internet
We are preparing to launch a web site exclusively dedicated to video and digital media festivals. It aims to become a real working tool for persons interested in these areas: artists, researchers, students or professionals ...
The glass walls subtly reflect the purple glow of police lights. Above, rusty meathooks distinguish the perimeter of the space. The dark rooms are packed with bodies – who crouch, stand, or sit at small round tables, and listen intently.
"What *is* this music?" someone asks, as the soundscape ...
PRIVATE/PUBLIC, also published by Edita, is described as a "virtual exhibition". This CD-Rom documents the exhibition of the same name held at the The Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki in Spring 1995. It is very passable. Not an inspiring piece of multi-media but, as ...
The PHOTOSTATIC RETROFUTURIST is seeking submissions. Issue no. 1 will appear in 1997.
PhotoStatic Magazine began publishing in 1983 as a magazine of graphic artwork produced on the xerox machine. Over a period of some years, its originally narrow scope grew to embrace all machine-based art. PhotoStatic gradually acquired a ...
Telepolis Online Journal: Call for contributions and upcoming special issues, topics
launch date: 1.2.97. topic: "digital cinema"
description/questions: how do computers affect the narrative language of cinema? are computers just another tool for better special effects? will there ever be something as "interactive cinema"? how do digital ...
I never heard of the word "repurposing" before 1995. I first heard it when a woman putting together a multi-media CD-ROM included a video she had shot for a different project. It was being "repurposed".