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le grand content by clemens kogler and karo szmit.

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Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.

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December 24, 2009 at 8:19 pm

apocalypseなう: ‘the tv show’

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video by kousuke sugimoto with music by takayuki manabe.

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December 23, 2009 at 11:22 pm

vintage inspiration – starship by ron hays (1981)

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December 23, 2009 at 11:13 pm

avatar machine

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royal college of art student marc owens develops avatar machine as part of  a series of projects that address issues of identity and ethics.

The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface.

The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

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December 21, 2009 at 7:29 pm

LED kimono

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created by composer and performance artist miya masaoka, the LED kimono displays animation using 444 LEDs that were sewn on the a kimono’s sleeve. the result is a curious juxtaposition of technology and tradition, detachment and sensuality.

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December 18, 2009 at 11:02 pm

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mindtouch – mobile networked performance

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mindtouch is a fascinating research project by university of east london smartlab phd candidate camille baker. using mobile phones, body sensors, and custom software, baker creates a platform for collaboration and exchange of visuals and non-verbal experiences.

The intention of this project is to contribute to performance technology studies by investigating’liveness and presence’ within the context of a specific networked, mobile media performance research project, currently underway, in order to uncover any new understandings that may have emerged from the use of new wireless  and mobile technologies.

This project involves creating a mobile networked performance that utilizes a database of archived of streamed and/or archived video clips created by video enabled mobile phones, to then be retrieved, streamed and remixed during a live visuals performance(s). The event or events will form a performative, collaborative, non-linear narrative montage or remix, that will possibly be streamed back out to anyone’s phone and the internet, and then archived. These events will be starting in London, UK in July + October, Vancouver in Aug/Sept, and possibly Perth and Asia next year.

This research explores mobile video/media on phones for their immediacy, low quality – imperfectness, but spontaneity, at the speed of thought – with its rewriting, superimposing, and remixing of ideas, flashes and clashes of images and emotion, layering of meaning and stream of consciousness and equivalent – or simulation of telepathy and collective, if chaotic intelligence.

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December 7, 2009 at 2:54 am

flightpattern (2009)

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wonderful handdrawn audio responsive video exploration by gwen vanhee.

 

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November 21, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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audiocloud

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audiocloud is a beautiful sound piece by artist piotr adamski and rotterdam based mode:lina, using corrugated pipes as amplifiers.

Audioarchitektura (Sonicarchitecture) is a utopian vision of a city that cannot be heard. An innovative system of sound emission, which isolates people from the unbearable audiosphere of crowded streets, traffic and all the noise that unnaturally has become an inseparable part of our life.

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November 10, 2009 at 3:36 am

perpetual storytelling apparatus

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The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext. New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.

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October 30, 2009 at 2:47 pm

composed by the birds

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filmaker and musician jarbas agnelli took something most people would normally overlook and turn it something sublime:

Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

the result is this beautiful music video ‘birds on the wires‘:

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September 15, 2009 at 7:34 pm

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