Human Computers, someone you can count on
As far back as 1600, the word computer meant someone who does calculations. Someone, not something … that something in fact, had yet to be invented. Today, we all know that calculations are the basis...
View ArticleVarious Artists – Next City Sounds: Interfaces
CD – Gruenrekorder During the 20th edition of Kamuna on August 4th 2018, a habitual music event in the Karlsruhe Museum, three different in-situ performances took place. The locations were the project...
View ArticleSynthetic Messenger, botnet performance on climate change
Misinformation about climate change has historically been spread by right-wing, denialist and industrial polluter groups. Various strategies include the automated production and distribution of content...
View ArticleThomas Ankersmit – Perceptual Geography
CD – Shelter Press Perceptual Geography, a musical project by Thomas Ankersmit released by Shelter Press, is a long suite, concentrated into a single track of almost 40 minutes. The work was designed...
View ArticleVentriloquist Ontology, the fabric is more alive than the skin
In the dystopian play “The Ventriloquists’ School” by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a ‘free man’ falls into a deserted street and, panicked, takes refuge in a non-place populated by slaves and masters where...
View ArticleCommand and Control, against oculocentrism
The oculocentric concept of contemporary communications, which specialises in pleasing the eyes, can be profoundly challenged if we reverse the perspective and use the eyes as a site for the control of...
View ArticleFuture Dance of Nostalgia, preserving history through dance
There is a whole history of dancing as a competitive game, from the early ‘Dance Dance Revolution’ to the popular ‘Just Dance’, where a machine is quantifying and then evaluating players’ moves. The...
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Reconnection, synthesising meaningful spaces
The representation of the disconnection between spaces in virtual reality has been a concern since its inception. In Reconnection, Chun Hua Catherine Dong demonstrates the separation and reconciliation...
View ArticleOrson Hentschel – Heavy Light
CD – Denovali Three years since his last release, Orson Hentschel returns with his latest offering, Heavy Light. The eight tracks on this album range from dreamy, spaced-out soundscapes to metallic,...
View ArticleAlan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson –...
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262544818, English, 336 pages, 2022, USA During the historic ReadMe Software Art Festival in Aarhus in 2004, there was a final performance night in a small club (Musikcafeen )...
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