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In Search of the Castle

Steina and Woody Vasulka
Format:
film/video

Filming through a fish-eye camera lens and accompanying the image flow with distorted electronic sounds, video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka drive through industrial cityscapes, suburban areas and rural districts. In the beginning...

Come To Daddy

Chris Cunningham
Aphex Twin
Format:
film/video

In Come To Daddy Chris Cunningham stages a miserable and surreal scene of run-down suburban tower blocks, in which an old woman walks her dog along a street strewn with litter. Camera and sound foster a feeling of suspense: the woman is not alone. In an adjacent carpark...

Image: (c) PhilipMakanna/GHOSTS

Media Burn

Ant Farm
Format:
film/video

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth,” said John F. Kennedy on 25 May 1961. His politics was decisive in helping the USA become the first nation to put a man on the moon. 500 Million people...

Courtesy the artists, photo by Franco Mattes

My Generation

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
Format:
film/video

If you were a teenage boy, what would you do if your mother cancelled your World of Warcraft account? Would you take off all your clothes, roll around on your bed and scream like a pig, go into a closet only to come out hitting yourself on the head with a shoe? If you have ever seriously played a computer game you know there is a chance you would. With material found on...

Dominic Gagnon. Pieces and Love All to Hell

Pieces and Love All to Hell

Dominic Gagnon
Format:
installation

"Flag as inapproriate". This unconspicuous button with a flag icon appears underneath every single YouTube video we watch marking the limits of our freedom in the Internet. Once flagged by anonymous users...

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<collaborative documenting / archiving of netart.activities>

Constant Dullaart
Robert Sakrowski
Format:
installation

During transmediale 2012 the video installation archiving.netart can be seen in the foyer of HKW. It consists of documentation of ephemeral net art pieces that have been shown at past transmediale festivals, and thus ties in closely with the panel discussion web.video – the new net.art? in the Theatersaal on 1 February at 11:00.

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Gæoudjiparl

MORT AUX VACHES EKSTRA EXTRA - THE GÆOUDJI SYGNOK GIVE AWAY!

Gæoudjiparl
Format:
installation

Mort Aux Vaches Extra Extra is a compositional project launched by the musical maverick and warrior Gæoudjiparl to radically engage with and solve the crisis in computer music and media art. The project encompasses several albums, interactive game books, an autonomous school, and now the large-scale installation MORT AUX VACHES EKSTRA EXTRA – THE GIVE AWAY! For the installation...

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Morten Riis

Steam Machine Music

Morten Riis
Format:
performance

Steam Machine Music is a homebuilt mechanical instrument made mostly from vintage Meccano parts.

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Daniel G. Andujar /Technologies To The People

Armed citizen

Daniel García Andújar / Technologies To The People

Questions of access are central to the notions of the Internet as a new space of freedom that became popular with the emergence of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s and have continued to flourish with Web 2.0 and beyond. The Chinese government...

Courtesy of the artist / Photo Paolo Pellion, Torino

Leaves

Sture Johannesson

From its legendary beginnings in Silicon Valley, the high-tech computer industry has shared close ties with counter cultures. For Sture Johannesson, co-founder of the Cannabis Gallery (1966-69) in Malmo and initiator of...