Jul 1 2010

Body cinema: Merce Cunningham’s solo dance in Good Morning Mr. Orwell

Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.

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Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)

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Apr 8 2010

Borut Savski’s Strained Structures

Borut Savski’s artwork Strained Structures (2008) is deeply rooted in Slavic culture and it’s an intuitive linguistic journey through English, Slovene and Croatian… Let’s see how Savski connects etymology with electronic mechanisms…

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Strained Structures by Borut Savski, photo: Nada Mihajlovic

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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 19 2010

Nicodama – put your eyes everywhere

Nicodama is one of the latest project by Japanese media artist Ryota Kuwakubo that was exhibited during Device_art 3.009 in October.

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Nicodama by Ryoto Kuwakubo
Photo bellow by centralasian (cc)

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Nov 4 2008

Stoll & Wachall duo enjoying visual kinetics

Back to the Platform of Young Choreographers! I still have some unfinished thoughts on stuff I saw back than…

While I was at the presentation of video installation with excerpts of dance piece MISCHAderFALL, choreographed by Bernard Baumgarten and re-mixed by video artists Stoll & Wachall because of the atmospheric mood and drone sounds I had a re-re-re-thinking echo several days after I saw it.

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