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Call for Entries THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL Deadline: January 5, 2004
A celebration of short films and new media work that ...
VertexList space has a pleasure to present recent works by Thad Simerly and Mike Stachiw. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, December 13th 2003, 7pm
Digital Culture Evening in conjunction with the "Killer Instinct" exhibition at New Museum of Contemporary Art Dec 12, 2003 6:30 - 8PM Zenith Media Lounge Free
"Killer Instinct" panel moderated by Alex Galloway. Participants include Cory Arcangel, artist; Shamim Momin, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Anne-Marie Schleiner, writer ...
Key words:flow, information, database , space time
Text:Kant, PUF, 2001 - Deleuze, on Bergson.
Questions:How to define Internet?The network implies it modifications on our aesthetic structure?Which are the relations between perception, entendement and reason at the era of the numerical one?Information is a new aesthetic category?
Key words:catharsis, tree structure, interactivity, generation, tempo, possible, translation Text:Aristote, the poetic, Seuil, 1980 - Lev Manovich, Language of new medias, MIT, 2001. Questions:The model aristotelician to define the narrative fiction it is adapted to the numerical one?Which are the models and the concepts to understand and ...
Key words:speech, affects, ideology, doxa, ambivalence, enthusiasm and conspiracy. Text:Jacques Derrida, Spectra of Marx, Galilee, 1993 - Virilio, Baudrillard, Queau, Levy, etc. Questions:Technologies are they independent of the speeches that one associates to them? Technologies are not techniques of language as much as language on the technique?
Key words:tools, instruments, techniques, technologies and language. Texts:Martin Heidegger, the question of the technique in Texts and conferences, Gallimard, 1980. Works:Bill Viola, Information (1973). Questions:Can one use numerical technologies?They are simply instruments to the instrumental direction?Which is the relation between technologies and languages in ...
The Ars Electronica organisation has created a new Prix Ars Electronica category under the name "Digital Communities". This category has been created to focus on the impact that the new technologies have in contemporary society (through Flash Mobs, Fan Communities, eGovernment sites and so).
Some time ago, I began hacking the splash pages of software that I use. In its place I created fictional names, images and corporations that pointed to specific ...
In the early 20th century many African Americans moved north (of the Mason-Dixon line) in order to better themselves and provide their children with some hope for a future. Some, however, felt that the south still held the most promise and refused to move north instead choosing to move south ...