The problem of the body in technology haunted the European Media Art Festival like a zombie, staggering through presentations, performances and lectures by Stelarc, Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, NVA and De La Guarda.
Stelarc's presentation at EMAF was part slide talk, part tech demo. He showed slides and videos of his ...
Gusztav Hamos, the well known Hungarian born TV, film and video maker – he has lived in Germany since childhood – brought his new computer generated installation work MOBIUS CIRCUS to EMAF. Originally presented in Budapest at the Butterfly Effect (connect to http://c3.hu), MOBIUS CIRCUS was a visually ...
EMAF '96 has a longstanding position in the media art scene of Europe, and for more than a decade has brought together the various disciplines in a week-long international get-together of artists, curators and critics. The festival has always tried to include what is popularly called *state of the art ...
I agree with Boris Groendahl: the Ars Electronica Center is quite disappointing. It's crammed with too many gadgets, and not enough space is devoted to reflection. But yes, I admit I also liked the CAVE. Not for it's content and graphics, but for ...
With the simultaneous opening of the exhibition "alt.youth.media" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the "Mediascape" exhibition at the Soho Guggenheim, inaugurating this museum's new commitment to new media arts, the entire season-opening weekend in the New York Soho art world seemed saturated by an interest ...
International Festival of Live Performance and Time Based Media
5th -25th OCTOBER, KINGSTON UPON HULL, UNITED KINGDOM. HOT WEEKEND 11TH - 14TH OCTOBER 1996.
For this year's ROOT festival aptly named SKINT Hull Time Based Arts and the Ferens have challenged artists to take a look at money, poverty, wealth and ...
The online journal telepolis is creating an open working situation at the EMAF Festival in Osnabrueck. The NEWSROOM is an attempt to create a new kind of journalism by example while demystifying the process ...
INTIMA Virtual Base - Creative Intimate Laboratory
is an artistic institution which unites people dealing in different creative media and forms of activity essential for such an institution to function: contemporary performing arts, radio and sound projects, performance art theory, body related theory and women studies, music, dance and choreography, philosophy ...
THE INCIDENT is a major encounter between artists, technologists and visionaries exploring phenomena as a significant part of contemporary culture. Conference (Oct 12-13 ...
Here too there is an electronic scene but the French are very cautious about the Internet. They see in it the great American Satan–and you know we already have the "Minitel" (unfortunately "franco-French" and very poor for feedback)! As for art, that is my object of ...
**A short email dialogue between Marie Ringler (Institute for New Culture Technologies, www.t0.or.at, Vienna) and Hari Kunzru (Wired, London) about Ars Electronica 1996, Linz/A.**
Marie Ringler wrote: Generally speaking I'd say the symposium was just as unsatisfying as big conferences usually are. Most lectures circled around ...
Siggraph 96 took place in New Orleans. It is still one of the most important, if not THE most important conference on computer graphics and animation. The images and animations shown at Siggraph proved one more time to what infantility and monstrosity the human mind is able if it is ...
