Feb 22 2010

Interview with Mika Miyabara & Tatsuo Sugimoto: Bouncing Pixels and Images

Ooh la la… another interesting interview taken during Device_art 3.009Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto are media artists from Japan who have been working on visual interactive projects since 2001.

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Bounce Street exhibited on Device_art 3.009
photo taken from flickr: Movie Cards Project (c)

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Feb 3 2010

Body cinema: The Human Animal by Desmond Morris

Documentary series The Human Animal by ethnologist and zoologist Desmond Morris have always been magnet for wider audience. Made during the 1990′s his series (same as his books) about human body and the cultural differences are great resources which from time to time I like to watch again.

desmond_morris.jpgPhoto above by Steve Pyke (c), photo bellow taken from robertodelrey.com

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Jan 16 2010

Pocket cinema: Electropolis

Lovely animated film Electropolis is ‘the product of roughly 7 months of work from 13 students in the 3rd year of the BAA Animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.’

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Jan 3 2010

Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 2

As you can see history has been pretty brutal in Renaissance too, compared to the dark Middle Ages. Let’s see where all these guys in tight pants, armor costumes with charming periwigs ended up…

renaissance_martial_art.jpgIllustration: Johannes Georg Paschen, 1659,  thehaca.com

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Jan 3 2010

Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 1

You don’t have to be a history geek to watch this interesting web documentary on Renaissance Martial Arts… No, no… don’t expect some ancient super hero in tight clothes…

martial_arts.jpgIllustration: Hans Wurm, cca 1500, taken from thehaca.com

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