DJ/VJ set for Netherlands Institute for Media Art’s evening of demonstrations and presentations of new interfaces, models of interaction and performance technology. At this evening session the Interface Studies Group will present the ‘interface’ as the centre of technology mediated experience and will reveal trends, notions and tangible prototypes that stretch and challenge the still [...]
Bart Rutten of the Stedelijk invited me to come up with a short film introduction and live visual mix for this upcoming conference on museum as content creator. Thinking of Zabriskie point slow-motion explosions of the Guggenheim, youtube tourist videos from outside the represented museums, postcards and snapshots, classicism and iconography. Free entry, reserve via [...]
“From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-hans-aarsman-on-the-mysterious-ways-of-beauty-in-photography/
I finished post-production on this video just as the Melbourne band embark on a string of dates in the U.S.A, including shows at SXSW. Try to see them if you are in that neck of the woods. They will be touring with the equally awesome Beaches. An occular assault edit of no-input analog video effects, [...]
Dafna Maimon’s take on arts industry workers, recent art school graduates, art guards and the dreams and fears of the people at the frontline of cultural institutions. The protagonists use black parcan theatre lights on mic stands to frame their monologues. A white light too strong. Lights. Camera. Action.The repetitious scenes were almost nausea inducing [...]
Upcoming concert at Steim, Amsterdam’s incubator of eclectic electronic aesthetics. for more on the Chinese scene: http://www.chinesenewear.com/ear/links.html — STEIM@40! presents: BEIJING UNDERGROUND Yan Jun / electronics and voice Wu Na / guqin Xiao He / guitar and voice Zhang Jian / laptop Thursday, Dec 10 2009 Time: 20:30 Door open: 20:00 Charge: 5 Euros YAN JUN [...]
Google screenshot painting by Tyler Wilde. A powerful article by Dutch-Australian media theorist Geert Lovink on google, society of the spectacle/query, net criticism and the XXXXXX ‘The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives’ http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-09-05-lovink-en.html An excerpt Ever since the rise of search engines in the 1990s we have been living in [...]
Ken Hollings has an essay on MJ in the new Zero books publication ‘The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson’, edited by Mark Fisher of Kpunk blog. Providing an antidote to the mixture of unthinking sentimentality and scurrilous prurience that Jackson usually attracts, this book offers impassioned and informed answers to the urgent questions that Jackson’s [...]
a day-long symposium on the changing nature of cultural development, ‘amateurism’ vs. ‘professionalism’, the shifting sands of creative consumption and critical construction… gatekeepers now left with no-one at the gates… playlist curatorial selections and niche/long tail sales techniques… for a long time it has been sensed that artists are the new curators, filters that set [...]
**playing alongside noisy luminaries ov the szene** FX, MIC, MIDI X HARD DISK MELTDOWN X JACK 2 THIS X JUMP UP TRANCEHALL http://www.dnk-amsterdam.com/index.cgi?dept=AGENDA&article=5