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9-10th of May 2012 Ex Aurum – via D’Avalos angolo via Luisa D’Annunzio – 65129 Pescara OFFF FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITALY AS A SPECIAL EDITION IN COLLABORATION WITH WEBFEST 2012. MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE DIGITAL AGENCIES IN PARTHNERSHIP WITH OFFF, WILL INTERACT WITH THE AUDIENCE THROUGH VIDEO PRESENTATIONS, MULTI-TALKS...
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May 1, 2012 • THE MULTIMEDIA MACHINE – THE FALL OF TWO MEDIA EMPIRES AND THE MULTITUDE IN THE NETWORK edited by Giorgio Griziotti[1] Originally published in Italian at http://uninomade.org The fall of the two most symbolic and influential media barons of the last thirty years might strike one as at most an important and pleasant coincidence. Here, I...
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May 1, 2012 • LA MULTITUDE EN RESEAU – CHUTE DE DEUX EMPIRES MEDIATIQUES ET LA FORCE DE LA MULTITUDE EN RESEAU de GIORGIO GRIZIOTTI Traduit depuis l’italien par Marthe Machorowski http://uninomade.org La quasi coïncidence de la chute des deux Raïs des media parmi les plus symboliques et politiquement influents des trente dernières années ne peut être détachée de...
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Apr 29, 2012 • L.E.V. FESTIVAL 2012 – visual arts and electronic music Friday April 27, 2012, 18:30 – Sunday April 29, 2012, 06:00 Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijón Spain The sixth edition of Laboratorio de Electronica Visual hosts two days connecting visual arts and electronic music on April 27th and 28th across the different spaces of the...
MATHEMATICAL AESTHETIC by RYOJI IKEDA DATAMATIC Ryoji Ikeda’s works are characterised by brutal use of light and visuals, exploiting data as his primary medium. Datamatics consists of various forms such as moving image, sculptural, sound and new media works that explore one’s potentials to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world. Ryoji...
PATTERNS – UNIFYING PROCESS Patterned by Nature is about surfacing patterns embedded within images and sound in order to link natural contents to technological new contexts. The structure is essentially a giant grid of pixels, which celebrates the abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through perceptions. Patterned by Nature...
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Apr 27, 2012 • FEVER OF THE WORN LAND by DAL EAST 3 May 2012 / 6-9 Pm Spazio Isarte, Corso Garibaldi 2 – Milan (Italy) – Invitation Required 5 – 23 May 2012 / 6-9 Pm Urban Painting Gallery, Piazza Manzoni 8 – Carugate (Italy) URBAN PAINTING GALLERY is pleased to present “fever of the worn land“,...
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Apr 27, 2012 • BIO-HYPERMEDIA coming soon on LeStrabiques ” Today we carry alongside with us the evermore powerful connected devices that will allow our bodies and our mind to interact through our senses with networks. Our lives (the greek bios) are more deeply socially connected through mobile internet, multiple networks and applications: a new paradigm that we define...
PICTOPLASMA – CHARACTERS PARADE «This year’s Pictoplasma theme DOOMSDAY, inspired the trailer for the world’s largest festival of contemporary character culture to tell a story around a MACY’S DAY PARADE full of twisted characters. Far from the gloom and doom, which usually goes along end of day stories, our creatures invade a vacant city and...
INTERACTIVE BARCODE ON EVERYDAY OBJECTS A barcode is an optical machine, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. The mapping between messages and barcodes is called a simbology. Stacked symbologies repeat a given linear symbology vertically. The Barcode installation has been created by Smalifly. It was born as an encounter between Arte...
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Apr 16, 2012 • ALAN MOORE – UN GENIE ILLUSTRE NEONOMICON ET LA LIGUE DES GENTLEMEN EXTRAORDINAIRES, CENTURY TOME 2 : 1969 Les œuvres d’un auteur dialoguent elles entre elles ? Les deux dernières parutions d’Alan Moore se lisent comme des jeux de pistes, et les récits s’ils sont différents dans leurs strictes linéarités s’entrecroisent en permanence, révélant les questionnements...
WAYNE MCGREGOR – COGNITIVE HYPEREXTENSIONS As Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, WAYNE MCGREGOR (art director of the company Random Dance) is a symbol of a newly resurgent Ballet in London. McGregor’s choreography makes extreme contractions and hyperextensions. For McGregor, for whom the human form is inherently dramatic, the choreography is characterised by dynamic, sharp,...
MR FOLEY – TEAM D.A.D.D.Y Winner as best short film at many festival circuits, Mr Foley is the parody of a man’s awaking in a hospital room. The man has no more the ability of talking and listening, except with the support of a group of sound artists sound-tracking his life. A darkly funny but...
RESONANCE – BREAKING HARMONIC EMPATHY Resonance can be defined as a collective empathy. Sonar waves, as waves of human emotion, can be overwhelming. What is most unfathomable about resonance is its power, a power that has fuelled all the revolutions of human history. Ideology, slogans, and speeches are all part of resonance. Sound can be...
INTERVIEW D’ANDERS DANIELSEN LIE – OSLO 31 OUT Comment en êtes-vous venu à jouer dans des films alors que vous étudiez la médecine ? J’ai du pendre une année sabbatique à l’université pour faire le premier film de Joachim (Trier) « Reprise ». J’avais demandé à passer le casting pour le rôle. J’ai fait mes débuts en 1990...
PORTRAITS D’UN FEU FOLLET Maurice Ronet reste immortalisé sous le masque superbe et fébrile d’Alain Leroy, « Le feu follet » que lui fit interpréter Louis Malle en 1963, déambulant le cœur au bord des lèvres dans les rues grises de la Capitale sur les gymnopédies de Satie. Egalement adapté du roman de Pierre Drieu la...
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Apr 10, 2012 • BLOOD RED SHOES – IN TIME TO VOICES (V2) Des “couples” rock on en déjà vu pas mal ces dernières années. Des White Stripes aux Kills en passant par les Ting Tings, les exemples ne manquent pas en effet. Et puis on le sait depuis la nuit des temps, un gars et une fille peuvent...
TARANTISM ON DIGITALISM - STATES OF EPIDEMIC HYSTERIA The phenomenon of “tarantism” is consistent with mass psychogenic illness. The rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affects members of a cohesive group, exhibiting unconsciously excitation, loss or alteration of function, originated from a nervous system involved disturbance. Whereby physical complaints are exhibited unconsciously with no...
AAKASHI NIHALANI – TAPE DESIGN Aakashi Nihalani is a street artist with no alias or “street-tag” and a conceptual artist that strives to create an interface between the biological and the technological. Most of the work he does, can be seen on the streets and in the subways of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn; but really...
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Apr 8, 2012 • CO-MIX ART SPIEGELMAN Co-Mix, titre de l’exposition rétrospective de l’œuvre d’Art Spiegelman se veut un clin d’œil sur la notion transdisciplinaire (entre l’image et le texte) de cet art toujours mal compris qu’est la bande dessinée, et que Spiegelman a défendu inlassablement tout au long de sa vie en le revendiquant comme étant un art...
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Mar 31, 2012 • ANTHONY LISTER – THINGS WE SHOULDN’T TALK ABOUT L AS IN LISTER Anthony Lister, Australian anarchist who travels the world seeking adventures through drawing. After having exhibits in Berlin, New York, San Francisco and London, he has arrived in Milan for his first Italian exhibition, curated by Fiammetta De Michele at the Avantgarden Gallery and...
MATT PYKE – “Generative” as a modus operandi A monumental projection that represents dancers’ fight for survival, trying indefatigably to reach the left end of the screen. Cynically they are atomized before their arriving. MATT PYKE Being both an artist and a motion designer, Matt Pyke opened his own studio in 2004: Universal Everything,...
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Mar 21, 2012 • ANTONI MUNTADAS – LA PERCEPTION EXIGE LA PARTICIPATION Istallation et Video project. 260 Min MACBA Collectio, Fundació Museu d’Art Contemporain de Barcelone. Fundació Respol Collection Le Macba de Barcelone, Musée d’art Contemporain nous propose l’installation de l’artiste multimédia espagnol Antoni Muntadas, Between the Frame :The Forum, 1983-1993 (2011) . L’artiste, déjà au cours des années 70, élabore...
LWX LEONARDOWORX 4 LeStrabiques CELEBRATE WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE Selected by OFFF Atelier for a master program in Post Digital...
NEW MINIATURE PLAY from Elephant in The Room Theatre Most modern urbanites like to think of themselves as limitless, but everyone has to draw the line eventually. Where’s yours? What? Two captivating miniature plays you can watch while sipping your drink at Penghao Theatre’s café. In 2011, Elephant in the Room performed the short play...
SOLIPISTS – sensorial trip by Andrew Huang Winner at Slamdance 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short “I THINK; THEREFORE I EXIST” Solipsism (solus – alone and ipse – self) is a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing....
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Mar 16, 2012 • CENTRAL PARK (LISTEN TO THE LIGHT) by BLUEBRAIN Start up the i-Phone app “Central Park – Listen to the Light” within the boundaries of Central Park in New York City. This interactive audio app is designed for i-Phone and i-Pad, created by the musical duo Bluebrain and wrote by Bradley Feldman. It works by tracking...
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Mar 15, 2012 • PROPULSION PAINTINGS by Evan Roth WELCOME TO DETROIT Curated by Gregory Tom Works by Evan Roth March 14 to April 2, 2012 Eastern Michigan University’s University Gallery 900 Oakwood Street, 2nd Floor – Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Detroit’s creative community is about 6-week residency in Detroit, in order to support cultural Detroit resurgence. Evan Roth,...
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Mar 15, 2012 • THE GREAT AMERICAN CEREAL BOOK The Great American Cereal Book est une sorte de mini-encyclopédie sur les boites de céréales, depuis leur invention en 1863 jusqu’à 2010.Elle tente la quasi exhaustivité sur plus de 400 céréales en informant, quand cela est possible, de la date de fabrication, des slogans, des contenus et variation des produits, ainsi...
THE WONDER HOSPITAL – animated altered perceptions WINNER BEST SHORT ANIMATION by Beomsik Shimbe Shim from S. Korea The Wonder Hospital, a 3D and puppet animated film, is a surreal journey of oddity and empty illusion. In a mysterious hospital, modification of physical beauty is not what you would expect. A girl’s desire for...
TIM BURTON EXHIBITION Paris Expo 7 mars – 5 août 2012 La Cinémathèque française 51 rue de Bercy -75012 PARIS Horaires : Lundi, mercredi à vendredi :12h-19h. Week-end, jours fériés et vacances scolaires (14 au 29 avril et 4 juillet au 5 août) : 10h-20h. Nocturne le jeudi jusqu’à 22h. Fermeture le mardi et...
GRAVITY RUSH “GRAVITY DAZE” Gravity Rush is a Sony’s Japan Studio videogame for Ps Vita that makes the player able to defy gravity. The game has a comic book-like graphical flair and requires you to manipulate your character and gravity using the PlayStation Vita’s gyro controls. Designed by Keiichiro Toyama, Gravity Rush is one of...
COGNITIVE EXPERIENCES – THE ARGUMENT FROM ILLUSION PRISMATICA by Kit Weber The Australian new media artist Kit Weber developed a perceptual experimentation by video mapping a 2D pre-rendered video file on a 3D surface: a Prism. Pyramid crystals shape the Prism and projected video patterns illuminate it. The video mapping, which is precisely mapped to...
I-PHONE and I-PAD CREATIVE APP EDIT APP.DEMO by CreativeApplication.Net http://appbyedit.co.uk The Edit app is a “visual magazine”, that allows you to follow all you favourite blogs via images from new posts that are published and sent to your google reader. Google reader works pretty much like an email inbox, with the difference that the new...
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Feb 29, 2012 • THIBAULT DE GIALLULY ABRACADABRA In 2 day: March 3 → April 30, 2012 Galerie Alin Vidal 70, Rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris Opening hours Tuesday – Saturday, 2 PM – 7 PM Other times by appointment Admission fee Free Entry www.alinevidal.com Thibault de Gialluly is like a social researcher who would have the energy...
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Feb 27, 2012 • AIR LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (EMI) Quatorze ans après le somptueux “Moon safari”, Air fait son retour sur la lune en composant la musique accompagnant la version restaurée et en couleur du film de Georges Méliès. “Le voyage dans la lune”, datant de 1902, tombe à point car il a le mérite de reconduire...
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Feb 26, 2012 • BUCHSTABENGEWITTER the dynamic generator of typography from INGO ITALIC The lab of Ingo Italic, which is already the creator of « Letters are my friends » with Bärbel Bold; today is also responsible for an amazing letter storm « Buchstabengewitter », which is a generative typography project that transform three-dimensional linear structures into all the letters of the alphabet....
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Feb 25, 2012 • PLAYING WITH LINES and enjoy structures “Exploring the tension between Surface and Volume. One gives birth to the other as white lines rise from black space and give shape to invisible structures that are driven by sound. Inspired by the dazzle paintings of Edward Wadsworth and powered by the energetic music of The Glitch Mob. Directed...
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Feb 24, 2012 • REAL TAPE ART COMES FROM THE STREET and not “from money” Street artists are just urban artists that claim the right to use “public spaces” to express themselves in order to communicate to a large public. Their techniques are various: spray, stickers, tape, stencil, video projection, etc. Coming from anticonformism they shouldn’t really care about...
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Feb 23, 2012 • LES MAÎTRES DU DÉSORDRE In about 1 month: April → July 29, 2012 Musée du Quai Branly 37, quai Branly 75007 Paris Opening hours Tuesday & Wednesday, Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM Thursday – Saturday, 11 AM – 9 PM Admission fee Full rate €8,50 — Concessions €6.00 Tarif collections temporaires : plein 7 euros —...
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Feb 23, 2012 • VITTORIO SANTORO: LE HOVOUX TOURNE LA TETE POUR REGARDER AILLEURS In 12 days: March 6 → March 31, 2012 Galerie Fondation d’entreprise Ricard 12, Rue de Boissy D’Anglas 75008 Paris Opening hours Tuesday- Saturday , 11 AM – 7 PM Visites commenté le Mercredi à 12.30 AM et le samedi à 12.30 et 16.00 Admission fee Free...
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Feb 23, 2012 • OZMO – PreGIUDIZIO UNIVERSALE (UNIVERSAL PreJUDICE) museo del 900 Milan, Italy http://www.ozmo.it/ Reading, introspection and research are words that come to mind when you think of Gionata Gesi aka Ozmo. I won’t tell the story of his “dual personality” as a writer and gallery artist because it has already been written and narrated, I...
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Feb 20, 2012 • LE NOUVEAU FESTIVAL 3 EME ÉDITION In 2 days: February 22 → March 12, 2012 Place Georges Pompidou 75004 Paris Opening hours Every day except Tuesday, 11 AM – 10 PM Admission fee Free entrance for this event www.centrepompidou.fr This third edition of the Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou is an invitation to explore the...
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Feb 14, 2012 • POOR CÉLINE by Bose Collins A meditation on gravity, crystallisation & disintegration Nin Bose and Nathan Collins, with David Vigh As a vision of woman fragility, Poor Céline reminds me of “Wings of desire” by Wim Wenders. Both films are divided between what exist outside of time and humanity, which exists within it....
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Feb 13, 2012 • PRISMA 1666 – INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION Inspired by Newton’s Spectrum discovery, PRISMA 1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The installation enables interaction with the projected colours, angles, and shapes through a touch interface. It is a collaboration between Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio...
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Feb 11, 2012 • OPENFRAMEWORKS & CINDER IN VIDEOS IQ FONT – WHEN DRIVING BECOMES WRITING - OPENFRAMEWORKS MAKING OFF The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc ) STATELESS – ARIEL - CINDER official music vidé on Ninja Tune MAKING OFF A digital dance performance exploring the...
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Feb 11, 2012 • THE DEVIL’S FIDELITY – Closing www.mariangoodman.com Ends in 8 days: January 13 → February 18, 2012 79, rue du Temple – 75003 Paris Opening hours Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 7 PM Tim Lee, String Quartet, Op. I, Glenn Gould, 1955, 2010 4-channel HD, video photography installation — 3’40’’ — dimensions variables Courtesy of the artist Marian Goodman...
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Feb 11, 2012 • HORS PISTES – UN AUTRE MOUVEMENT DES IMAGES – Closing www.centrepompidou.fr Finishes tomorrow: January 27 → February 12, 2012 Place Georges Pompidou – 75004 Paris Opening hours Every day except Tuesday, 11 AM – 9 PM Admission fee Free entrance for this eventPhil Collins, Marxism today (prologue), 2010 Film (Allemagne, 35 min) Since 2006, Hors...
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Feb 11, 2012 • SON – CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON – Opening www.magnumgallery.fr In 3 days: February 14 → April 14, 2012 13, rue de l’Abbaye – 75006 Paris Opening hours Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 7 PM Christopher Anderson, Marion, USA, New York, 2010 © Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos “These images were not intentional. I did not set...
LA CHASSE AUX ETOILES- HOMMAGE A HELLA S. HAASSE Today: Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7 PM 121, rue de Lille – 75007 Paris Opening hours Every day except Monday, 1 PM – 7 PM Admission fee Les tarifs varient en fonction des expositions entre 4 et 6 euros. www.institutneerlandais.com ph: Koninklijke Bibliotheek et Natinaal...
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Feb 10, 2012 • HUMAL ANIMAIN – Opening Opening Friday, February 10 6 PM → 10 PM Concert of Depth Affect (David Bideau and Rémy Charrier) 73, rue des Haies – 75020 Paris Opening hours Wednesday – Sunday, 2:30 PM – 7:30 PM Admission fee www.plateforme.tk ph: Ghyslain Bertholon, Troché, Chevreuil, détail A l’heure où la science...
BEST FRIENDS DIMINISHING EMOTIANL INVESTEMENTS BY POSTING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS 451 wax connections [Objects] Best Friends Project by Colin Pinegar expresses the today relationship ambiguity. He quantified friendship analysis as physical artefacts. It attributes a value to those kinds of virtual relationships and put into question their connectivity. Colin explains: “Like a Facebook ‘friendship,’...
COLLECTIVE HYPNOSIS EXPERIENCE From Wednesday the 8th of February to Sunday the 25th of March at la “Petite sale” Catherine Contour proposes a dispositive that allows polymorphic experiences for individuals or little group of people, experiencing consciousness and unconsciousness. This performance is made for “2062” at la Gaîté lyrique in Paris. Hypnosis’ cabs are installed...
MAGSURF : THE 1st LEVITATING SKATE LIKE MARTY MCFLY ‘S HOVERBOARD Superconductivity can be tested by flying on a levitating skateboard, like the hover board of the film Back to the future! Researchers of the Quantum Phenomena and Materials at Paris Diderot University – Paris 7, had the crazy idea of building the first...
IVANO NAZERI 4 LeStrabiques Ivano Nazeri was born in 1981. Since childhood he loves drawing plus weird things fascinate him. After graduating at the Art Institute of Monza, Italy, he is quickly hired by Advertising companies as an Art Director, preserving his passion for illustration. Artists such as Dave McKean and Ben Templesmith inspire him....
2062 ALLER RETOUR VERS LE FUTUR 1er Fevrier > 25 Mars 2012 La Gaîté lyrique se projette en 2062 et fête son bicentenaire avant l’heure. Cette célébration anticipée est le point de départ d’un voyage dans le temps et d’expériences inédites. A travers des allers-retours entre passé, présent et futur, la Gaîté lyrique devient un...
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Feb 7, 2012 • TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS “The girl with the dragon tattoo” (Mute) Après avoir mis au repos forcé Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor n’est pas resté les bras croisés pour autant. Il n’est d’ailleurs pas du genre à attendre que le monde bouge autour de lui, préférant plutôt provoquer les choses. Et puis ce...
OPENFRAMEWORKS Artistic Installation Process Openframeworks is an intuitive open source C++ toolkit designed for creative new media artists in order to manipulate, analyze or explore « creative codes ». The artists Zachary Lieberman and Theodore Watson, in collaboration with his various users (artists, designers, developers) maintain it. Openframeworks runs on Windows and MAC OX. By using...
CINÉMA HONGROIS 1 : MIKLOS JANCSO de Jean-Louis Comolli France / 1969 / 53′ / nb et coul. / vof et stf avec Miklos Jancs Le rêve d’un révolutionnaire. Le festival Est-ce ainsi offre l’occasion de (re)découvrir l’oeuvre d’un cinéaste, Miklós Jancsó, chef de file, vers les années 1970, d’un nouveau cinéma hongrois ancré...
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