Open Call for Artists - ANEMIC FESTIVAL

Join us in creating the ANEMIC Festival, November 4 - 16, 2010!
2010 marks the first annual ANEMIC FESTIVAL, initiated by the organization « M77 Arts, Digital creation & Training ». The international festival of the independent creation dedicated to the short-films, animated films, documentary films, video arts, vfx & motion graphic , visual arts, digital creation, multimedia performance & installation, web art and all forms of crea(c)tion in situ & urban. The festival needs you ! We are looking for willing volunteers to help us to build an international platform gathering and displaying all independent & contemporary creations.

Interview with Ken Knowlton

Zach Lieberman interviewed Ken Knowlton:
http://thesystemis.com/category/blog/

ken knowlton interview from thesystemis on Vimeo.

Vodule: Tracing the extension of volume and modularity in 3-D, augmented reality, and emerging media

Vodule, a new project by Yong Kim, Eduardo Navas, Maxx Navas and Ludmil Trenkov, examines the concepts of volume and modularity in media:

"Vodule examines the concepts of volume and modularity in media. We focus on how image, sound and other forms of communication are reinterpreted and extended with the purpose to provide immediate and believable bodily experience. At the moment, it is in Augmented Reality, Gaming, and 3D technology where much research and development is taking place, which is why we take these areas as starting points. Vodule also includes material from more established fields that push the possibilities of representation and communication as we know it.

Vodule is a word that encapsulates “volume” as in actual body or mass, as understood in physical space and simulated in 3D visualization; and “module” as a reference to different parts or objects that can work together but are interchangeable and independent, as defined in computing. Media covered includes Film, Photography, Gaming and all in-between. Reblogs, news feeds, reviews and special features are presented together to enhance the understanding of emerging media.

We reblog everyday and write in-depth articles regularly. If you would like to contribute or give us a tip, make sure to visit our contribute page to learn how."

http://www.vodule.com

Original Pacman sketches

via Alain Dépocas on FB:

Original Pacman sketches from Toru Iwatani.

http://control-online.nl/gamesindustrie/2010/06/22/iwatani-toont-gamesgeschiedenis-in-meest-pure-vorm/

Cory Arcangel - Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - II - Cute Kittens

Amiga Gaming Retrospective

Jeremy Reimer on ArsTechnica:

"The Amiga was born a game machine, but it entered a world where the video game industry was well-established and changing rapidly. Long gone were the days where a lone coder would stay up all night in his basement for six weeks and bang out a hit for the Atari 2600. Even the younger and smaller computer game industry had moved far beyond Roberta Williams putting floppy disks into ziplock bags and answering phone calls from players in her kitchen. The success of the Commodore 64 (and on the other side of the pond, the Sinclair Spectrum) meant that more money was available for computer game development, and it was a good thing too, as the more powerful 16-bit machines were starting to seriously test the limits of a one-man development team. For the first time, specialized careers were starting to emerge in game development. The Amiga's rich, 4096-color palette demanded people who were skilled artistically to create the sprites and backgrounds. The four-channel sampled sound chip cried out for musicians to make it sing. The larger size and complexity of the games required that someone other than the programmers be asked to test the games before they were released."

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art conference papers by pablo helguera / lol!

Entangled. Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Chris Salter's Entangled, Technology and the Transformation of Performance, explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a "ballet of objects and lights" staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically enabled "responsive environments"—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders.

sample chapters available

geert lovink interview

politics of internet culture / interview: geert lovink

Do read this !

conversation of Garnet Hertz with Jussi Parikka on Archaelogies of Media Art published on

CTheory.net/Resetting Theory/rt020 - 4/1/2010

www.ctheory.net