Aug
9
2011
This is the second part of the interview with Sabrina Basten & Audrey Samson. Read the first part here: Hackin’ some coils into wearables

Audrey Samson & Sabrina Basten @Make Me! Festival in Belgrade
Photo: body pixel (cc)
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Feb
2
2011
This is the second part of the interview with Johannes Birringer. Read the first part here: Interview with Johannes Birringer, part 1 – New media, interactivity and performative arts

Photo above: Johannes Birringer by Glenio Campregher (c), 2008
Photo bellow: scene from Ukiyo by DAP-Lab (c)
Taken from Dance-Tech
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4 comments | tags: cybernetics, dance, interactivity, interaktionslabor, internet, johannes birringer, michele danjour, new media, new media performance, photography, pioneer, science, technology, theatre, ukiyo, video, visual art, wearable technology | posted in art, art & science & technology, body, choreographer, computer games, culture, dance, fashion, installation, interactive design, interviews, low tech, media art, mixed media, new media, new media art, performance, performative, photography, science, sound art, textile art, theatre, video art, video dance, vintage, visual art, wearable, wearable technology, web, web2.0
Feb
1
2011
Eadweard Muybridge‘s vision never stops to tickle artists and scientists. No matter of what professions they are: animators, filmmakers, photographers or dancers. Every serious study on movements, motion and locomotions simply starts with his work.
A true master in landscape photography, Muybridge has managed to capture the most trickiest landscape on Earth, and that’s the body in motion.

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Feb
1
2011
Tonight I’m gonna have a lot of pioneers on Body Pixel… when talking about body, motion and film, no doubt we can not miss one, and that’s Étienne-Jules Marey.
This scientist, chronophotographer and photography developer firstly started to explore human and animal blood circulation, and then switched to pulse, motion, body rhythm, and heart beating at the end of 19th century. His films are both, science and art of full caliber, now having a wonderful patina and vintage layer.

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Nov
10
2010
One of the rare situations when I’m neither stuck, nor speechless… but in minimalistic mood… I simply can’t write an intro about Helen Keller… cuz she speaks for herself more than I can possibly express…

Helen Keller as a child, August 1886
Taken from the American Foundation for the Blind
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Oct
20
2010
This is the second part of the interview with Zdenko Basic… Read the first part here: Scopes of lucidity in illustration and animation

Photo of Z. Basic by Filip Filkovic Philatz (c)
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