Picabia - 1922 @ Centre Georges Pompidou May 8 - June 30 Paris
Picabia : portraying subjectivity as mechanical process
What might be another unacknowledged artistic predecessor to pomo academics and the "science fictions" of Baudrillard, Haraway, Debord, Gibson, Ballard and Dick? Answer: Picabia's Spanish Portrait - Machine exhibition from the 1922. You can see ...
Eno and Anderson were featured at something called The Imagination Conference in San Francisco this past weekend (June 8), and since I'm thousands of miles away, I was glad HotWired announced a week ahead of time that they'd be carrying the event live.
One artist at the Moscow WWWArt Centre, Aliona, has placed what amounts to a two-page ad on the Web headed with her own three-word message: "ALL FOR SALE". The body of the text explains that in other places and at other times maybe your basic starving artist could afford ...
Wired UK last issue carried a thinkpiece by Negroponte on the idea that learning might be a more interesting term than browsing for what we are doing on the net. This is a great idea, but it still needs some thinking through, of course. In ...
A new center, C3: Center for Culture & Communication, will be opened on June 26, 1996 by the Soros Foundation Hungary. As a result of the collaboration between the Soros Foundation Hungary, Silicon Graphics Hungarian Liason Office and MATAV (Hungarian Telecommunications Company), C3 will facilitate the expanded exploration of digital ...
The Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society was about, well, the Internet and Society. Most of the speakers promoted their companies' products, but there was a really interesting closing debate about Cultural Imperialism moderated by Arthur Miller. At one point, Jacques Attali (the well-known conservative Franco-American academic) claimed that ...
*The Arts of Love: Sense and Sensuality in the Global Matrix*
Liking is a form of enjoyment. Wanting is a function of desire's socialisation: you can only want what you know exists, only want things, commodities, that you already know – wanting is about repeating a sensation you've had before ...
After a relatively sparse time, things seem to be gathering speed in London. Theres' a scene, centred around the magazine Mute (run by Simon Worthington and Pauline Van Moerik Broekman, mute@skyscr.demon.co.uk), which showcases digital art, and contains ...
CINE FANTOM - for ten years it has been synonymous with Russian Parallel Cinema (underground film scene). It was the name of an independent film magazine and film festival, and now, we present the CINE FANTOM film ...
"In 1982 I began to photograph the Century Freeway Corridor in Los Angeles. Initially, I had no idea what was taking place on this swath of land. I only wanted to capture the sense of "abandoned suburbia" ...
The 'Cutting Edge' group is investigating leading edge developments in design and media technologies, design and media theories and feminism. There are eight members of the group, five from the University of Westminster and three from outside institutions. We have created a forum for research and the generation and publication ...
Douglas Davis is no stranger to the art world, but by the standards of anyone's definition of new media art, he's still on getting-to-know-you terms with at least one of the new media, the Web, where his "Breaking Out (of the Virtual Closet)" is currently on display. Plans ...
On May 21st and 22nd, in Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy, a gentle conversation is being organized by Ljubljana Digital Media Lab with the title "Net.art per se".
The direct context is the festival "Teatro Telematico" that is dedicated to the crossroads between art and technology in the era of ...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ discord. sabotage of realities. - week of visual arts Hamburg 1996 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
All interested artists are invited to participate by sending their concepts to Hamburg. A panel of artists and critics will review the concepts sent and decide which projects may be realized. Those invited will be assisted financially in the realization ...