CERN is working on an artist-in-residence program, that remains yet to be defined.
Category: Electronic arts
HorizonZero
A Canadian online magazine for digital art, ideas and culture (18 issues launched between August 2002 and December 2004)
Synchronous Objects
Presented at ISEA 2010, Synchronous Objects visualizes dance movements and presents a scored notation for «One Flat Thing, reproduced» by William Forsythe.
House of Electronic Arts Basel
Switzerland finally has its «House of Electronic Arts» or «Haus für elektronische Künste», in Basel, which already hosts the Shift festival every year. It opened officially on May 27th 2011.
Alvaro talks at UPF
Alvaro Cassinelli, Uruguayan citizen, like me, who studied in Paris and now is a professor in Tokyo in the Ishikawa-Oku lab, is giving a talk at UPF. I met Alvaro a few years ago at Siggraph and it was «love at first sight». Did I introduce Carson to Alvaro ? Or did I happen to be there when they met for the first time ? Anyways it happened at Siggraph.
Omnitopia
Omnitopia enacts a structural and perceptual enclave whose apparently distinct locales convey inhabitants to a singular place.
Future Perfect
Je ne crois pas que le futur antérieur existe en anglais, mais Future Perfect is a new performance, art and technology initiative, founded by the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, involving interactive media designers such as Ben Rubin, or avant-garde theatre companies like Elevator Repair Service.
Preserving digital art
An article in The Guardian about the difficulty of preserving digital art, for future generations.
EMPAC
Analog video synthesizer
A completely analog video synthesizer presented during the Electron Festival in Geneva : it’s called the Synkie, created by Flo Kaufmann and the Egger brothers.