Pau Waelder
Since 2002
Works in United States of America
BIO
Graduate in Art History by the University of Barcelona, currently studying for a PhD on digital art. Works as a freelance curator and art critic. Consulting professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, he has coordinated and written teaching materials for several courses on art and digital culture. He is also an editor of the blog "Arte, Cultura e Innovación" supported by the Open University of Catalonia and Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain), and the Media Art editor at art.es contemporary art magazine (Spain).
Website: http://www.pauwaelder.com
BLOG POSTS
Published on Thu Mar 16, 2006

CyberSave

The free version of CyberSave, the unusual screensaver, is now available.

The principle of this screensaver lays in a web tracking of CyberSave�

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Published on Thu Mar 16, 2006

McCoys interviewed on Artinfo


Their latest exhibition, "Directed Dreaming", opened at Postmasters Gallery in New York on March 4.

It comprises a series of complex, kinetic sculptures that are covered with tiny tableaux that they call �"fragmentary, miniature film sets". An array of tiny cameras are trained on these tableaux, and, as part of each installation, a sequence of greatly enlarged images are projected on to a wall of the gallery. The works are at once funny, bizarre and somewhat worrying. Immediately after the opening at Postmasters, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy spoke to ArtInfo about their work.

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Published on Thu Mar 16, 2006

Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly

A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.

Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years. (AFP)

Originally from Agenda Inc. Live Feed, ReBlogged by angus on Mar 15, 2006 at 05:46 PM

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Published on Thu Mar 16, 2006

Takeaway Fest


The Takeaway Festival at the London Science Museum

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Published on Tue Mar 14, 2006

Digital Intifada + Game as Critic as Art videos



Vit Sisler from Charles University in Prague has posted two excellent articles about political games, mainly focusing on the work of Afkar Media (the second article is an interview to its executive producer, Radwan Kasmiya). I have some issues with them -that's not unexpected given the hot topic of Middle Eastern politics + political videogames. For example, it sort of

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