Nov 25 2009

Interview with Mika Fukumori: On Ototenji and IAMAS

Before I’m going to start with individual presentations from this year’s edition of Device_art 3.009, held last month in Zagreb, I owe you few wordz on the concept and origins from the organizers of the festival, Kontejner – bureau of contemporary art praxis.

mika_fukumori_ototenji.jpgMika Fukumori: Ototenji

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Oct 20 2009

Maywa Denki on Device_art 3.009

Intergalactic cult Japanese art unit,  Maywa Denki will give performance next Monday in the Club Mochvara in Zagreb within the programme of Device_art 3.009 which opens tonight…

maywa_denki.jpgMaywa Denki (c)

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Oct 11 2009

Interview with Aurelien Bory: On stage puzzles and space formulas

During this year’s edition of Eurokaz – The International Festival of New Theatre I had an opportunity to interview artistic director of  CIE 111 Company,  Aurelien Bory…

aurelien_bory_1.jpgAurélien Bory in Zagreb, photo taken from SEEbiz (c)

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Aug 20 2009

Body cinema: Visions Of The Future

BBC documentary series ‘Visions Of The Future’ hosted by Michio Kaku is still very intriguing to see. Mr. Kaku is the main popularizer of science and renowned futurist whose calm voice introduces you to some major topics on human future in the context of  robotics, biotechnology and human evolution.

Michio_Kaku_Metropolis.jpgPhoto on the top: Michio Kaku with robot Asimo, BBC (c)
Photo bellow: excerpt from Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (c)

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Jun 21 2009

Pocket cinema: Peter William Holden’s kinetic sculptures

Kinetic sculptures and robotics could be also perceived in perfomative aspect, not only as installations communicating within the object itself and the creator – sculptor, engineer, passionate geek.

Therefore, I’ve picked up Peter William Holden’s installations and cinematix approach where he tend to re-interpret the space, objects, movements, music and choreography of ‘wired’ objects; making the idea of robotics pretty poetic.

Arabesque_holden.jpgArabesque by P. W. Holden taken from Ars Electronica

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