May
31
2010
Here is a short documentary about one of the pioneers of American Modern Dance. Online footage on Jose Limón is still rather rare… I was very happy to find this short documentary uploaded by the Limón Dance Company 2 months ago…

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May
27
2010
Partly Private (2009) is a humorous and in-depth documentary by Danae Elon trying to find the answer whether male infants should be circumcised or not?

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May
24
2010
Time to move on and finish my covering from Device_art 3.009 with Croatian artists. Excuse me for small delay in my blogging, but last week I had an opportunity to partake on Wearable Technology Workshop led by Abigail Stiers and Alexander Gross in Ljubljana (Slovenia). I just didn’t want to miss this opportunity to learn more on Arduino, soft circuits and electronic textiles. I will blog about it separately during the following weeks…

Tomislav Pokrajcic: General Treatment, photo taken from Kontejner
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May
16
2010
If there is one artist who was most frequently mentioned in interviews on Body Pixel, it has been certainly Pina Bausch. Caffe Muller (1978), her most intimate artwork mirrors her experiences in family’s cafe during post-war Germany period, where she spent many hours watching adults struggling to survive in a devastated society and post-war atmosphere.

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May
11
2010
Body Pixel’s friend eTextile Fashionista or, as one blogger entitled her lately – Neuro Fashion artist, Lynne Bruning invites you to show your wearable technology work at the eTextile Fashion Show, which is going to be on view on 22nd of May in Fiesta Hall Stage, in San Mateo – California.

Kristin Neidlinger: Galvanic Extimacy Responder
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1 comment | tags: aniomagic, DIY, electricity, etextile, exhibition, fabric, fashion, grace kim, hand made, kristin neidlinger, lulievision, lynne bruning, maker faire, open sourcing, opportunity, shannon henry, wearable technology, wires | posted in arduino, art, art & science & technology, device art, fashion, interactive design, media art, mixed media, new media, new media art, open sourcing, performative, science, textile art, wearable, wearable technology
May
11
2010
I’m back! After short hiatus due to some private reasons, I’m ready to blog in more then three lines, dear readers. Here we have a short video interview with film maker and photographer Jana Debus made in the production of 25FPS International Festival for Experimental Film and Video.
Jana Debus made a short experimental film ‘Gregor Alexis’ in 2008. The film covers a story on her schizophrenic brother at the edges of genres, interlacing jointly with photography based frames, documentary elements. Gregor Alexis was recorded with 8mm camera.

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