At the University of California Irvine, 1x Garnet Hertz is ploughing his way through a Visual Studies PhD program, with a particular focus on “the quest for living machines”. Aside from exhibiting a dead frog with a miniature web server … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, February 8, 2006 1 Comment
Threaded amongst the various art projects of New Yorker Alyce Santoro, is a deep(sea) fascination with the interplay of sound, technology and nature. Where these interests meet especially well, and where she one-ups her conceptual cousins, notorious UK collage artists … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, January 18, 2006 0 comments
Well known British satirist Chris Morris sure knows how to spread himself across a smorgasbord of media : as author, short-film maker, radio DJ, TV sitcom scriptwriter & current affair spoof presenter. All the more surprising that his checkered history … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, November 3, 2005 2 Comments
Representing the Finnish Pixel, Mia Makela, aka SOLU, has been busy in Barcelona. Aside from helping raise the live audiovisual roof in the last few years with performances, workshops and writings, SOLU has dived into many music, theatre and dance … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, October 6, 2005 6 Comments
Lev Manovich is brimming with ideas about ‘new media’ – he wrote the seminal ‘Language of New Media’ academic best-seller after all. But is the electronic arts emperor wearing no clothes? Let’s take his latest DVD offering for a spin, … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 15, 2005 4 Comments