Spectral Memories:
the Aesthetics of the Phonographic Recording |
by Dugal McKinnon
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Sonic artist/Composer Dugal McKinnon examines
the aesthetics of the phonographic recording: "how
is the record, as a technology with a well-documented history,
also a signifying medium that has generated certain meanings,
and modes of aesthetic production and reception?" |
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_Augmentology Extracts_ |
by Mez Breeze
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Futurist and cyber poet Mez Breeze explores
concepts that shape and are shaped by an extensive range
of online/synthetic encounters through the phenomena Reality
Mixing, Game Addiction and Avatar Formation. Three extracts
from augmentology.com |
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Sound Art and
Public Auditory Awareness |
by Ariel Bustamante |
Ariel Bustamante explores the connection
between Sound Art and public auditory sensibilities by reviewing
works by Max Neuhaus, Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland, Christina
Kubisch, and Scout Arford and Randy Yau.
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Second Lives, Virtual
Identities and Fragging |
by Matthew Board
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"The use of the virtual identity,
whether through Second Life, the persona of the hacker or
an online identity gives the digital artist the freedom
to explore creative strategies that would otherwise be much
more difficult to realize. " Matthew Board investigates
online art practice.
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YMYI - You Move You
Interact |
by João Martinho Moura and Jorge
Sousa
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"YMYI (You Move You Interact) is
an interactive installation, where one is supposed to build
up a body language dialogue with an artificial system so
as to effectively achieve a synchronized performance between
the real user's body and the virtual object itself." |
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Pixelgrain |
by John Grande
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Writer John Grande's essay on "Pixelgrain"
project by the artists Michael Alstad and Leah Lazariuk,
an online repository of documents and ideas linked to the
fading symbol of the Canadian prairie grain elevator. |
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