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Analyze Dat: TOR Visualization & online black markets

July 17, 2013 - 3:25pm

I knew about Bitcoin, i had heard of the Tor software that enables online anonymity but other than that, i felt that there was precious little i knew about the Deep Web, the vast submersed side of the World Wide Web that countless people are using in perfect anonymity every day to buy goods that neither ebay nor amazon will ever sell you and to exchange services that never appear when you do a google search. The more i looked into online black markets, the more intrigued i was. I thought that the easiest and fastest way to get a better understanding of the issue would be to interview Arthur Heist continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 38: Marco Donnarumma

July 17, 2013 - 1:59pm

Marco Donnarumma is a young performer and sound artist who gained fame across the world for a series of performances and instruments that use open biophysical systems to explore the sonic dimensions of the human body. His interactive instrument Xth Sense won the first prize in the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and was named the 2012 "world's most innovative new musical instrument" continue

Manufactured Britishness

July 16, 2013 - 11:51am

Manufactured Britishness is a project derived from the compulsory 'Life in the UK' test. The project critically explores the assessment program contrived by Britain in testing for citizenship by proposing a future manifestation of the Life in the UK test. In this future, we see immigrants as an exploitable material, a living currency, compelled to sustain national identity in order to maximise capitalistic agendas. At what point does one 'become' British? What are the criteria and who makes the final decision? continue

"Imitation", exploring China copy culture

July 15, 2013 - 2:34pm

Zhenhan Hao explored China's copy culture in an attempt to go beyond the 'illegal', 'vile' and 'evil' epithets that are usually associated with the practice. In China, the artist/designer proposed a new production model for craftspeople in Dafen village and Jingdezhen, 'the porcelain capital of China', to imitate and create at the same time. The result is a series of improvised products that sought to inspire the imitators to explore their imagination and creativity continue

SPPS, from chemical defense to border control

July 14, 2013 - 9:58am

Behind its menacing aspect, SPPS considers selectively permeable structures under lenses that range from the molecular level to the macro scale.It explores the (xenophobic) history of immigration in Australia and more generally current infrastructures that define socio-political boundaries. It also looks at the history of biowarfare, from Antique Chinese gunpowder rockets carrying poisonous material to virus injected into chicken eggs continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 37: James Bridle

July 12, 2013 - 4:59am

I'm sure many of you have heard of James Bridle. Either because he coined and formulated the concept of New Aesthetic. Or because you're interested in drone warfare. A few months ago, Bridle launched Dronestagram which uses Google Earth images and data collected by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to document systematically the locations of deadly U.S. drone strikes. Bridle has also been traveling from Istanbul to Brighton to Washington DC to paint crime scene-style outlines of UAVs continue

Who Owns The Arctic

July 9, 2013 - 8:43am

Sitting somewhere between criminality, deceit and disruption, each scheme seeks to exploit the unique infrastructure, ecology, potential for dispute, and legal ambiguity of the Arctic region to provide devious financial rewards continue

Aspect: V21: A Good Place to Stop

July 8, 2013 - 10:30am

The title of this issue of the new media art dvd-magazine is literal: this is the final stop for a publication that, in 10 years & 26 DVDs, has shown, promoted, curated, archived and put into context the works of over 200 artists working in new or experimental media continue

The Alternative Guide to the Universe

July 7, 2013 - 12:45pm

Alternative Guide to the Universe focuses on individuals who develop their ideas and practices outside of official institutions and established disciplines. Their work ingeniously departs from accepted ways of thinking in order to re-imagine the rules of culture and science. Some of their speculative visions rival the wildest inventions of science fiction - with the difference that these practitioners believe in the validity and veracity of all that they describe and propose continue

Post Cyberwar Series

July 5, 2013 - 1:49pm

Post Cyberwar proposes 3 methods to prepare for the time after a cyberwar: one is an open navigation system that uses seismic activity, the second one uses analogue television broadcasting to provide a wireless communication infrastructure and the last one would use London's sewerage system to store data continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 36: Ilona Gaynor

July 3, 2013 - 2:08pm

My guest tomorrow will be Ilona Gaynor and she'll be talking to us about forensic science, police reconstructions and the not so technically sophisticated (but very smart) way to rob a bank in broad day light on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles continue

Charles Fréger, The Wild and the Wise

July 2, 2013 - 1:47pm

The Open Eye Gallery is now showing the sensational Charles Fréger, The Wild and the Wise. One of Fréger's series documents some of the pagan rites that still celebrate the cyclical patterns of nature and life in general in Europe. Another portrays Hereros people dressed in a vernacular version of colonial uniforms... continue

Book review - Introducing: Culture Identities, Design for Museums, Theaters and Cultural Institutions

July 1, 2013 - 1:37pm

The book 'features outstanding poster campaigns, publications, and cross-platform corporate design for international cultural institutions by both young designers, who are striving to prove themselves creatively, and established studios, who are experimenting with new forms of visual expression.' continue

Circumventive hybrid organs

June 29, 2013 - 2:08pm

With the introduction of bioprinting the possibility of new organs is becoming a reality. The ability to replicate and print cells in complex structures could mean different cells with various functions could be put together in new ways to create new organs that would take millions of years to evolve naturally. Frankenstein-esque hybrid organs could then be put together using cells from different body parts or even different species continue

The Technoviking documentary. Or what happens when your internet Meme gets angry

June 27, 2013 - 10:52am

A discussion with artist and filmmaker Matthias Fritsch on why and how he is planning to produce a film about the story of my favourite internet meme: the Technoviking, a story that involves millions of users and that lately got him into court continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 35: Atau Tanaka

June 26, 2013 - 10:55am

Atau Tanaka is a composer and performer whose practice bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. During the show we will talk about the relationship between art & tech and how it has evolved over the past few years, about reenacting one of John Cage's performances, about the space and place for (new) media art in the contemporary art world, etc. continue

Book review: EP Vol. 1 - The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976

June 25, 2013 - 1:50pm

While emphasizing the multiple correspondences between collectives and groups like Arte Povera, Archizoom, Superstudio, and figures such as Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976 also highlights previously overlooked spaces, works, and performances generated by Zoo, Gruppo 9999, and Cavart. Newly commissioned interviews and essays by historians and curators shed light on the era, while contemporary practitioners discuss its complex legacy continue

Experiments in sound, soil and microbial fuel cells

June 24, 2013 - 7:50am

A discussion with Rasa Smite about "Biotricity No.5", a project that experiments with "green energy" technologies and sonifies the process of generating electricity from bacteria living in water continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 34: HeHe

June 20, 2013 - 2:20pm

HeHe took the invitation to turn FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool) inside out literally. Their new piece used the exhibition space to extract gas from the ground underneath the gallery and suggest that in the future we might want to bypass big energy companies and extract our own fossil fuels ourselves in our back garden continue

From swarms of synthetic life forms to neo-alchemy. An interview with Adam Brown

June 18, 2013 - 3:10pm

Adam Brown is a conceptual artist working with scientists to create art pieces that use robotics, molecular chemistry, living systems and emerging technologies. He recently demonstrated how bacteria can, over a period of one week, digest the toxins of gold chloride and spit out nuggets of 24-karat gold continue

Museums and the Web

Museums and the web 2013