Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture » computer art http://www.random-magazine.net Random links about Art & Technology Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Computer Baroque http://www.random-magazine.net/2009/05/computer-baroque/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2009/05/computer-baroque/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 13:28:57 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=350

Computer Baroque is an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright and hosted by Animate Projects. The show includes a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image (featuring pioneers Karl Sims, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, William Latham, Beriou, John Tonkin, Chris Landreth, Peter Callas, Simon Biggs, Ruth Lingford, James Duesing, Paul Garrin, Shelley Lake, The Butler Brothers and Jason White & Richard Wright). Rarely seen, they represent a period – the eighties and early nineties – in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology.

Why characterise this period as ‘Baroque’? I think it was the sense that by the late 1980s we had at last reached a stage where more than just a handful of insiders were able to harness the power of computers. Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go, to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend image and music and text, to apply scientific ideas as new sources of inspiration. It created a strident kind of image that insisted on the fact of its own realisation, fleeting paeans to the artificial. Yet equally present was a nagging anxiety, that this artifice was an illusion that disguised totalizing control, paranoia and catastrophe. (Richard Wright)

http://www.animateprojects.org

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The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth) is about to open in Plymouth (4 April – 24 May 2009).
Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium and coined the term telematic art. Since the 1960s he has been a pioneer of art, which brought together the science of cybernetics with elements of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art. Parallel to his artwork, Roy Ascott is a highly acclaimed teacher and theorist of art pedagogy.

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org
http://www.i-dat.org

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In this amazing video, Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga at the Commodore product launch press conference in 1985. Later on, in January 1986 the US magazine “Amigaworld” brought an interview with the artist about his relationship with computers (pdf available).

http://www.artnode.org (pdf)

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Sandy Smith uses broken and obsolete computer equipment for her artworks. She makes them work again and then use them as building blocks to create various architectural structures…

www.sandysmith.co.uk

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The essence lies in self-developed software, allowing computers to generate and compose image and sound. Telcosystems use hardly any source material that stems from outside the machines. Everything is built up from digital, synthetic elements that create image and sound in “real time”.
Meta_Epics II is the second part in a series of cinematographic installations. The installation investigates the (un)predictability and aesthetics of generative computer art. The borderland between order and chaos is the playing field in which the computer has an autonomous role.
This results in an independently evolving film with no script or plot-line, which is only finished when the electricity is turned off. Until that moment, the audience will see projections on wide screen accompanied by soundscapes that are being generated in a similar fashion.
Telcosystems have gained a lot of critical acclaim on the basis of their earlier work. We therefore think itÌs safe to say that Meta_Epics II is yet another must-see at <>TAG Headquarters.

Telcosystems > Meta_Epics II
Opening Exhibition> April 13th at 17:00hrs
Open> April 13th until May 5th
Location > Stille Veerkade 19, The Hague
www.tag004.nl

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Ultimately, the artworks featured change our understanding of transcultural society, and thus change our understanding about human existence.

CROSSMEDIALE 2
An exhibition of American and International art in new media curated by Gosia Koscielak
Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery, 1646 N. Bosworth Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622 – T.847.858.1540 – www.gosiakoscielak.com
April 13 – May 12, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, April 13, 6-10 p.m.
Special Event : Translations/Tower of Babelfish online performance by the Second Front, Patrick Lichty and Scott Kildall.

CROSSMEDIALE 2 will also be at Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery’s Booth # 12 at Bridge Art Fair Chicago April 27-30, 2007. For more details on Bridge Art Fair Chicago:
www.bridgeartfair.com/chicago

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Featuring: The Artists-In-Labs project: pelle digitale e qualche nuova prospettiva femminista.”

Prof. Dr. Jilll Scott (Nazionalitá Australiana) è Research Professor presso l’instituto di Cultural Studies in Arte, Media e Design presso l’Universitá di Arti plastiche e figurative di Zurigo Svizzera (Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich). La sua attuale ricerca nel campo degli studi e delle ricerche di media design include la percezione mediata da sensori somatici, HCI e cognizione umana e le ricerche sincretiche sulle bio-technologie. Ha recentemente pubblicato i lavori: artistsinlabs-Processes of Inquiry: Springer Press, 2006 and Coded Characters, Hatji Cantz 2003. Ha scritto articoli per molte riviste su arte, scienza e tecnologia, e ha realizzato performance, video e opere d’arte interattive in tutto il mondo. Jill è anche la progettista e il leader del AIL-Artists-in labs Residency project presso il HGKZ e Direttore del Z-Node del Planetary Collegium, di cui À membro del Board of Directors.

www.planetary-collegium.net
http://jillscott.org

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Roy LaGrone’s Beta Projection Series, premiering in Blue Star’s Project Space, is a suite of transmutated prints that derive from found artifacts (small bits of refuse on the streets of San Antonio) and function as conduits for healing. LaGrone’s experimental new body of work is rich in social meaning and compositional inventiveness, representing a stylistic breakthrough that he continues to refine again and again and again.
The exhibition and the work takes you to a parallel universe. You look at the past, the present, and the future simultaneously, said Bernice B. Appelin-Williams, curator of the Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth exhibition at Blue Star. Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a term meaning: self-contained, separate reality coexisting with our own. This separate reality can significantly range in size from a geographic region to an entire new universe. Roy LaGrone’s work personifies the term alternate reality. LaGrone constructs intricate illusions of three-dimensional space, heightened with many layers of transmutated elements and references. His computer-generated forms (photomontage and video) represent the art of making do, the skill of seeing possibilities and the aesthetic of transforming trash to treasure.

Roy LaGrone: Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth
Curator: Bernice B. Appelin-Williams
11.02.06 – 01.14.07
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio
116 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 – USA
Tel: 210.227.6960 – Fax: 210.229.9412
www.roylagrone.com

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[ITALIAN BELOW]

Inaugura mercoledi 23 novembre la prima edizione del Monza New Media Festival. Un evento pensato per introdurre un vasto pubblico alle nuove dimensioni della cultura espresse attraverso la tecnologia dei media, antica e recente. Video per l’arte, l’ambiente, l’architettura, l’arte digitale, il restauro, la cultura, le tradizioni: immagini, messaggi, narrazioni e testimonianze che attraverso strumenti sempre più sofisticati, conservano la nostra storia e la divulgano.
Questo primo appuntamento intende tracciare una linea non di demarcazione, quanto di percorso che unisce il passato al presente, raggruppando esperienze e produzioni locali e dislocate nazionalmente, che valorizzano e documentano la cultura e la storia del territorio e che rappresentino lÌattuale stato di ricerca e sviluppo dei linguaggi espressi tramite i nuovi media.
Evento collaterale del festival, realizzato in collaborazione con il Gruppo Elitel, leader nei servizi di telecomunicazioni, sarà MNMf WEBTV, trasmissione on-line streaming visibile a tutti, in cui sarà possibile visionare in diretta la rassegna di video selezionati tra esordienti e professionisti, gli incontri e i convegni. Il sito a cui accedere dal 23/11 è www.ilcoro.it.

I protagonisti del festival

Mario Canali
Algoritmi e emozioni: Dal virtuale al reale: video proiezioni commentate dallo stesso artista, volte ad esprimere una ricerca approfondita tra arte e tecnologia di oltre 15 anni e che intravede nel digitale la possibilità di rendere più concreti, pesanti, i mondi dell’astrazione e dell’immaginario. Mario Canali ha realizzato l’opera M.OTU-virtual sumo che è attualmente esposta alla mostra Techne presso lo Spazio Oberdan di Milano. Nel 2006 in occasione del trentennale sarà dedicata all’artista la retrospettiva Mario Canali art.exe Opere 1976-2006, che si terrà a Monza presso l’Arengario dal 17 marzo-14 maggio 2006.

Ida Gerosa, computer artist (la prima artista in Italia che ha elaborato immagini creative con programmi digitali sviluppati da IBM) che spiegherà a giovani e meno giovani il lato “umano” del computer. Ida Gerosa espone i due video Uscire dal tunnel e Speranza futura a sostegno ed esemplificazione della sua lunga ricerca che si espriem oggi con elaborazioni digitali emozionali: suggestive e poetiche, delicate e intense le immagini virtuali di Ida non mancheranno di affascinare il pubblico.

Caterina Davinio tecno-artista, autrice del saggio “Tecno-poesia e realtá virtuali”, presenterà la sua attività e alcune videopoesie, tra cui “Poem in Red” dedicata alla Ferrari Modena, e “Isola della poesia” realizzato per la Biennale di Venezia 2005. Parlerà inoltre del progetto di net-poetry “Isola Virtuale” realizzato on line per la 51ma Biennale di Venezia nel contesto di “Isola della Poesia”, progetto a cura di Achille Bonito Oliva ideato da Marco Nereo Rotelli”.

RAI Teche offre a supporto storico critico alcuni tra i programmi divulgativi dedicati allÌarte elettronica e contemporanea ideati da storici, critici e registi di rilievo: Vittorio Fagone, Anna Maria Cerrato, Lea Vergine, Marco Maria Gazzano. Questi documentari sono stati selezionati quali esempi di divulgazione culturale condotta attraverso il media TV, che nei palinsesti e con i programmi diviene mezzo di informazione e educazione culturale.

Si prevede inoltre la sera del 24 la presenza del Prof. Ugo La Pietra in occasione della proiezione dei suoi tre film La grande occasione, La riappropriazione della cittá, Attrezzature urbane per la cittá. Si tratta di importanti documentari di indagine sullÌurbanistica e osservazione del comportamento sociale in relazione allÌarchitettura, un recente recupero della Cineteca di Milano.

http://www.co-re.it/mnm_home.htm
http://www.ilcoro.it/co-re/mnm_home.htm

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Maurizio Bolognini, che si occupa di tecnologie digitali dagli anni Ottanta, è considerato l’artista più radicale nel movimento delle Nuove Tecnologie, avendo messo al centro del proprio lavoro gli stessi dispositivi e la loro fisiologia, rinunciando a qualsiasi sovrastruttura simbolica (Mario Costa). L’artista stesso sottolinea che le sue macchine -ormai centinaia- programmate per produrre flussi inesauribili di immagini casuali (o altri tipi di elaborazione: numerazioni, testi, voci…), servono a generare delle “infinità fuori controllo”, a costruire universi d’informazione paralleli che spostano la ricerca “dal livello dei significati a quello dei dispositivi e delle loro operazioni”, di cui egli si considera allo stesso tempo autore e spettatore.

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce
Via Jacopo Ruffini 3 – 16128 Genova
Tel. +39 010 585772 – 010 580069 fax +39 010 532482
E-mail museocroce@comune.genova.it

Inugurazione: mercoleì 8 giugno alle ore 18.00
Alle ore 22.00 dello stesso giorno viene inaugurata anche
un’installazione interattiva in Salita Pollaiuoli 22

Mercoledi 15 giugno inoltre, alle ore 17,30 Mario Costa presenta
Dimenticare l’arte, il suo ultimo libro sull’arte e le nuove tecnologie, edito da F. Angeli
www.museovillacroce.it
www.luxflux.org/n6/artintheory3.htm
http://www.bolognini.org/

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