Jun 28 2010

Edita Matan’s interactive gloves

Edita Matan’s project Interactive Gloves has in its focus electronic communication. She sees it as an analogue and digital work that presents two sides of communication: one that is tangible and touchable, and the other part that is ‘the most non-social form – the mathematical, electronic form’.

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Interactive Gloves by Edita Matan, photo by Kontejner (c)

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May 24 2010

General Treatment by Tomislav Pokrajcic

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…

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Tomislav Pokrajcic: General Treatment, photo taken from Kontejner

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Apr 5 2010

Pocket cinema: Digital Nation – Life on the Virtual Frontier by Douglas Rushkoff

Digital Nation – Life on the Virtual Frontier (2009 – 2010) is a documentary film by Douglas Rushkoff that thematizes the media issues in the context of our virtual lives, tech development, networking and multitasking.

This documentary is not made for infinite or final answers but to open a wider debate on the influence of technology and the internet on our lives.

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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 17 2010

Body cinema: Contemporary dance in videospace

Contemporary Dance in Videospace is a dance and video installation staged in Berlin in June 2007 at the studio 103. Dancer P. Park and Flavio Degen / Kosei Takasaki from kokomono collective mixed live contemporary dance and video art together…

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