http://tagr.tv Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:59:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Charlemagne Palestine !! an extraordinary person - an experience you´ll never forget ! Not only his performance at the Französischer Dom is remarkable - we managed to get an interview before his gig. he is an epiphany himself !  of course we can´t transport the full experience of an organ ... http://tagr.tv/2010/spectral-continuum-berlin-2010-by-charlemagne-palestine Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots from auger-loizeau & zivanovic material beliefs (James Auger / Ander Zivanovic) http://tagr.tv/2010/carnivorous-domestic-entertainment-robots ReConstitution by Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther) Sosolimited having a live performance at transmediale.10 called "The LongConversation". Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg are visualizing the conference talk in real time for about 12 hours. We were getting them for a short talk about their experiences with their artwork ... http://tagr.tv/2010/reconstitution-transmediale-2010 In the Award Ceremony on Saturday, 6 February, Barbara Kisseler (Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin) and the members of both juries announced the winners of both the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010! Canadian artist Michelle Teran is the winner of the transmediale Award 2010. ... http://tagr.tv/2010/transmediale-2010-award-winners-announced OH SNAP!! Google had one of their Streeview camera cars parked in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt right here in Berlin. We put a GPS tracking device it and are following it right now!!!! Check this awesome large map we threw together (updates every 2 min) and ... http://tagr.tv/2010/fat-lab-tracks-google-streetview-car-in-berlin we proudly present one of our favourite artworks nominated for the transmediale award 2010 : chapter I - the discovery from the spanish artist Félix Luque Sánchez which is exhibited in the cervantes institute near alexanderplatz. we had the pleasure to get him for an interview. so listen to him ... http://tagr.tv/2010/chapter-i-the-discovery ok, this is as quick and dirty as it gets: today i met jaromil in the hkw and he agreed to do a walktrough with me - so i grabbed the camera i had on me and we started right away - see what jaromil has to tell us... jaromil ... http://tagr.tv/2010/a-walk-trough-the-exhibition-of-the-transmediale-2010-with-jaromil The transmediale 2010 opened it's doors yesterday, with a Yvette Matterns laser performance "From One to Many" and Charlemagne Palestine's sound performance. The program looks promising and we already met a lot of great people - so we're looking forward to a lot of interesting stuff! Here's a little impression ... http://tagr.tv/2010/transmediale-2010-opened Graffiti Analysis 2.0 takes live tags and transforms them into active 3D animations. The project is by Evan Roth and software development by Chris Sugrue and was recently showcased at the BLK River Festival in Vienna. http://tagr.tv/2009/graffiti-analysis-by-evan-roth-and-chris-sugrue Three members of the eye-writer initiative tell us about their project, how it started and how it developed. There is more great video documentation available on vimeo, like this clip: http://tagr.tv/2009/eyewriter-at-blackriverfestival During the Olympic Games in 2008 James Powderly traveled to Beijing in order to support the group "Students for a free Tibet". The Idea was to go there and do a L.A.S.E.R. Tag performance. Before he was able to do so he was arrested and sentenced to 10 days ... http://tagr.tv/2009/interview-with-james-powderly-grl-fat-lab Signs and Signals Appendix THX to the very charming and synergetic art-gang"freyluft" (monika freyer und philipp luftensteiner) we can proudly present: "Signs and Signals" the directors cut! It's a recording of the whole performance, taken from the vis-á-vis Danube bank. The project: 1. The Building: The Ars Electronica Center (AEC) is a center ... http://tagr.tv/2009/signssignals-full-length-concert The Japan Media Arts Festival chooses every year another country to show their currently awarded and nominated pieces in an exhibition abroad. This years the exhibition takes place in Vienna. It shows very well that the Japanese art definition differs from the European approach quite a lot, the border between art ... http://tagr.tv/2009/jmaf09_vienna http://tagr.tv/2009/visual-impressions-ars-2009 "Signs and Signals" @ Ars Electronica Festival 09Last weekend, at the FM4 co-hosted multimedia performance “Signs and Signals”, artist duo freyluft visualized sounds on the surface of the Ars Electronica Center (AEC). “Any heavy-handed block can be transformed to a magical zone with an illuminated façade”, wrote Gerlinde Lang on ... http://tagr.tv/2009/facade-play-and-body-sound  Wenn die Maus schreit Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, eine Computermaus zu zerstören. Zehn davon hat das japanische Künstlerduo exonemo in der aus Videos und einem Computerprogramm bestehenden Installation "DanmatsuMouse" gesammelt. Einmal saust ein Vorschlaghammer auf das Plastikgadget, ein anderes Mal fräst sich die Klinge eines Küchenmessers durch ... http://tagr.tv/2009/coded-cultures-exploring-creative-emergences The guys of Pikselfest in Norway are now accepting proposals in the categories installation, a/v performance, presentations and workshops. As ever - " Projects realised using Max/Msp/Jitter, Flash/Shockwave, Final Cut or any other proprietary software does NOT qualify, and should not be submitted!" Next years transmediale also published the call for ... http://tagr.tv/2009/transmediale-call-for-entries Jaime Stapleton at the Ö1 Creative Cities Symposium on the 31st of april in the Radiokulturhaus Vienna. ...well, that last question of Jaime put me into a difficult situation: we agreed to ask everyone the same set of questions, so i either had to cut out jamie - or break ... http://tagr.tv/2009/creative-cities-jaime-stapleton An interview with Maurizio Lazzarato during the Creative Cities Symposium - at the moment in french only.. http://tagr.tv/2009/creative-cities-maurizio-lazzarato Interview mit Diedrich Diederichsen, Kulturwissenschafter, Berlin / Wien at the Ö1 Creative Cities Symposium on the 31st of april in the Radiokulturhaus Vienna. http://tagr.tv/2009/creative-cities-das-versprechen-der-kreativen-okonomie Author/s: Armin Medosch Das Wesen des Kapitalismus ist die kreative Zerstörung, sagte der österreichische Ökonom Joseph Schumpeter schon in den dreißiger Jahren. Seine Theorie vom kreativen Unternehmertum feierte in den neunziger Jahren kreative Urständ: die New Economy, man erinnere sich. Junge Burschen und Mädchen mit feschen Frisuren, modischen Turnschuhen und krausen Ideen ... http://tagr.tv/2009/creative-cities-3teil-kreativ-aus-der-krise-oder-eine-kurze-genealogie-der-kreativen-klasse i finally managed to finish the summary of this years transmediale - it's a tough job to create a span of all the topics the transmediale is covering, but i think it's gives a rough idea, but see yourself: comments welcome! http://tagr.tv/2009/transmediale09-deep-north-rundown http://tagr.tv/2009/a-walk-through-the-exhibition-with-stephen-kovats-artistic-director-of-transmediale09-part-3 http://tagr.tv/2009/a-walk-through-the-exhibition-with-stephen-kovats-artistic-director-of-transmediale09-part-2 http://tagr.tv/2009/interview-with-alex-adriaansens-and-siegfried-zielinski-transmediale-advisory-board-members by doubleNegatives Architecture http://corpora.hu http://tagr.tv/2009/corpora-in-sighte De:Bug is a German magazine for electronic music, with computers and there abilities... lets call this mag an electronic-live-style-survival-package (pff...out of breath) Couldn't fit better, they just published the audio records of all "Club Transmediale" panels. And now you can find everything here. http://tagr.tv/2009/brilliant Part 1, interview in german http://tagr.tv/2009/a-walk-through-the-exhibition-with-curator-stephen-kovats http://tagr.tv/2009/interview-with-rudolfo-quintas interview with reynold reynolds 30/01/09 about his video installation six apartements. Winner of the transmediale 2009 distinction. http://tagr.tv/2009/six-apartements-by-reynold-reynolds Ælabs - LSCDC Performance at Transmediale 2009, 30.1. Interview with Gisèle Trudel and Stèphane Claude http://tagr.tv/2009/light-sweet-cold-dark-crude "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, however, it is impossible to spend one's entire life in a cradle." This quote from Constantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, a Russian rocket engineer, is the starting point for Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand's speculative performance on the suspension of gravity. The reduction of ... http://tagr.tv/2009/sonolevitation-evelina-domnitch-and-dmitry-gelfand-with-tez Tantalum Memorial! 2nd price goes to Rudolfo Quintas! Congratulations!!!! You can find info about both on tagr.tv, Quintas interview will be online tomorrow! is now online. http://tagr.tv/2009/and-the-winner-of-the-transmediale-award-2009-is       Reynolds’s video installation Six Appartments is a poetic narration of resignation and decline which documents the life of six people in their apartments. The inhabitants live isolated, unaware of each other, without drama – they eat, sleep, watch television – even though their lives are overshadowed by mass media generated ... http://tagr.tv/2009/distinction-to-reynold-reynolds  Jaromil AND Brian Holmes Conratulations!!   Denis Jaromil Rojo is a developer and media artist inspired by the GNU free
software movement: he follows the ideal of creating free software for
freedom of expression, to let people communicate, freed from
consumerist speculations and the need for expensive hardware. He is
author of the GNU/Linux Live CD ... http://tagr.tv/2009/and-the-winner-of-the-vilem-flusser-theory-award-is We're sorry for the f*c'd up sound quality - the mircophone gave up in the 1st second, we hope to get to properly recorded material soon! UPDATE: Now with proper sound! http://tagr.tv/2009/performance-by-rudolfo-quintas we had a chat with bronac ferran and juha huuskonen, two members of the jury, about their difficult job of choosing the artworks for this years transmediale. they had to choose from about 100 preselected works out of more than 900 entries. but listen to their methodology and experience ... http://tagr.tv/2009/jury-interview isuma.tv is an independent platform for indigenous film-makers, exchanging traditional knowledge, as well as news and footage documenting an aboriginal way of life. Paul Quassa, sitting in the futuristic McLuhan Salon, tells us why new technologies were quickly absorbed by aboriginal tribes, how traditional knowledge about nature and the ... http://tagr.tv/2009/isumatv-igloolik-isuma-productions Everybody uses mobile devices and computers. Less people know you need a very rare mineral called "tantal" to fabricate microchips this size, soon making it more precious than gold. This very moment, cruel wars are fought over this metal in Congo, resulting in more than 3.6 million deaths to ... http://tagr.tv/2009/tantalum-memorial Performance: Urs Dubacher  (video in german) specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal! Die Preformance “specialltà di silicio” ist eine ... http://tagr.tv/2009/specialita-di-silicio Jetzt mal zur Abwechslung ein subjektiver Beitrag. Ein Beitrag, der nicht versucht den Anschein von Objektivität zu erwecken. Gonzo heißt das oder so, aber vielleicht passt das so nicht. Egal. In Berlin ist es eiskalt. Ich habe meine lange Unterhose in Wien gelassen, weil ich fest darauf hoffte, dass spontan der Frühling einbricht. So ... http://tagr.tv/2009/a-shotgun-is-visible-and-intimidating The video artist Perry Bard invites people to a collaborative web-based, database-generated montage experiment. Using Dziga Vertovs masterpiece from 1929 as direct inspiration, participants from all over the world can upload footage on the website next to the corresponding scenes from the original film. Uploaded digital media from photo cameras, ... http://tagr.tv/2009/man-with-a-movie-camera-the-global-remake Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin surrt wie ein warmer Bienenstock. Diese Metapher passt zum Thema, irgendwie. Künstler, Medienmenschen, Journalisten und Teilnehmer aus aller Welt haben sich hier getroffen, um zu sehen was die Transmediale 09 zum heurigen Motto "Deep North" zu sagen hat. Offensichtlich geht es um ... http://tagr.tv/2009/429 Petko Dourmana is a media artist and organiser of interdisciplinary projects between art and information technology. He is co-founder of the InterSpace Media Art Centre, Sofia, which is a non-commercial combination of artists, computer scientists and media activists. Post Global Warming Survival Kit consists of a two-channel projection and shows infrared ... http://tagr.tv/2009/petko-dourmana-post-global-warming-survival-kit Erster Tag, erstes Panel im HKW. Zum Thema „Action between Art, Industry and Policy“ finden sich Bernd Wiemann, seines Zeichens Leiter der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung von Vodaphone Germany, der Künstler Hermann Josef Hack und mit kleiner Verspätung Staatssekretär Michael Müller im großen Saal ein. Etwas schwerfälliger Beginn, Vorstellungsrunde, ein bisschen ... http://tagr.tv/2009/interventionen-zwischen-kunst-industrie-und-politik With climate change we all become nomads. Interview with Hermann Josef Hack. German version only. Monday, January 26th 2009, the german artist Hermann Josef Hack arranged 200 small tents on the square in front of the Brandenburger Tor to build a miniature version of a refugee camp, the world climate refugee ... http://tagr.tv/2009/the-whole-world-is-a-climate-refugee-camp Looking beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of environmental catastrophe prevalent in the global warming debate, transmediale.09 shifts the focus of this challenge to the broader cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the collapse of the northern ice barrier reveals. the tagr.team at this years festival will be bigger than ever over ... http://tagr.tv/2009/upcoming-transmediale09 http://tagr.tv/2009/opening-ars-electronica-center-2009 i did an interview with the artist mikhael a crest sator ArXeNeKrOHeN who is the creator of the bragophone - a roboter look alike distillator with an charming alchemic touch - creating secret sounds of braga. he did the final distillation on the closing day of roboexotica. watch the interview ... http://tagr.tv/2008/bragofon-liquidator-roboexotica-2008 we spent a couple of days at the cyberfest in st. petersburg. and now we spent a couple of days in vienna to recover from the massive alcohol consumption we were committed ;-) . the festival was a small event with very nice people. actually it was that kind of ... http://tagr.tv/2008/cyberfest-2008-the-exhibition Richard Barbrook and the Class Wargames team performed their new version of Guy Debord's "Game of War" at the Cyberfest 2008. After the performance we managed to have a little walk through St. Petersburg's Hermitage where the Cyberfest takes place. http://tagr.tv/2008/interview-with-richard-barbrook-about-the-game-of-war We doubled up the ammount of led strips, bought a new camera, installed a microphone and are now looking forward to present the first umbrella interview providing proper sound and image quality :) come back for the full interview soon... http://tagr.tv/2008/umbrella-reloaded Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's installation is the current free exhibition at the Barbican Center in London. The idea is simple - by walking down and throwing a shodow at the 90-metre long acr of the gallery you tune trough London's radio spectrum, determining the frequenzy by the position of your shadows and ... http://tagr.tv/2008/rafael-lozano-hemmer-frequency-and-volume I lost my memory due to Flickr-Troubles. Somewhere deep within my 250.000 pictures, there was a blurred, shadowed testical, that's why they just erased/closed my account, instead of marking the whole account as "unsafe", which is common practice. And the worst thing: Flickr still refuses me access to my pictures, that's ... http://tagr.tv/2008/superbertram-need-you Peter Weibels Einführungsvorlesung im Wintersemester 2008, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Institut für bildende und mediale Kunst - Medientheorie http://tagr.tv/2008/peter-weibel-10-2008 the full frame festival is a small but powerful festival in vienna. the motivation of the founders was to bring art films (who are normally screened in exhibitions on video monitors) cinemas screens. astonishingly also that size was too little for the organisers so the last full frame festival took ... http://tagr.tv/2008/fullframe-festival I made a playlist of videos i found on youtube from this years ARS Electronica Festival. Most of them from the FH St. Pölten. http://tagr.tv/2008/ars-electronica-youtube-video-channel This years theme of the ARS Electronica Festival "a new cultural economy" has been a big challenge for Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf and their team. Maybe my expectations are far to high in concerns of this topic because if i look back to the festival i can´t find a dispute ... http://tagr.tv/2008/ars-electronica-2008 HEHE are Helen Evans (FR/UK) and Heiko Hansen (FR/DE). Both completed an MA inc omputer related design at the RCA in 1999 and are now living in Paris. Their project “Nuage Vert” won the Golden Nica in the Category Hybrid Art, it is part of Pollstream - a collection ... http://tagr.tv/2008/pollstream-by-hehe-defr The winning Project of this years Prix Ars is the Image Fulgurator by Julius von Bismarck (DE) - with good reason. The project is based on technology that's been out there for the last 40 years. All it does ist to invert the concept of an analog SLR camera and ... http://tagr.tv/2008/image-fulgurator-by-julius-von-bismarck-de According to Students for a free Tibet (SFT) and a Facebook Group, the "Beijing6" - James Powderly GRL, Brian Conley Alive In Baghdad, Jeffrey Rae, Jeff Rae, Michael Liss, Tom Grant) are free and on their way home. This happened after the AFP reported on Friday, that "Beijing ... http://tagr.tv/2008/beijing-6-free Internationally known artist, technologist and co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab, James Powderly, was detained in Beijing on tuesday early morning while preparing to debut a new work and technology of protest, the L.A.S.E.R. Stencil. According to a “twitter” message received today by Students for a Free Tibet at approximately ... http://tagr.tv/2008/grl-activists-detained-in-beijing Glow is a dusk to dawn performance and media art festival which took place for the first time on July 19th 2008 in Los Angeles. It is envisioned as a museum without walls, a way of bringing contemporary art to the public. “Media art meets the masses”, that sort of ... http://tagr.tv/2008/glow08 August 2008. In the tiny lovely town in Upper Austria called Wels, in the towns' cultural center Medien Kultur Haus a summeracadamy about audio visual culture takes place. The programm started already at the end of July with workshops for beginners and continues with the so called "Produktionswerkstätten". The aim is ... http://tagr.tv/2008/synchron-summeracademy-mkh-in-wels The Japan Media Art Festival is now accepting submissions on different categories. It's the biggest in Japan about media art and definitely worth a try - entries must have been produced or released between October 6th, 2007 and September 26th, 2008, Deadline is September 26th. http://tagr.tv/2008/call-japan-media-arts-festival-08 Finally! It's July and i am in Lisbon... the place where during those hot summer days the Abertura2 Festival is going on. Roundtables, Workshops and in the evening live audio visual sets will be shown... and for those few who cannot manage to arrive at Lisbon in time... there is ... http://tagr.tv/2008/abertura2-lisbon-20th-july-2008 Sigama6 is a group of visual artist from Geneva. Eric Mozier - one memeber of Sigma6 - is here at the Abertura Festival and he showed a really pretty cool vj set to the music of mr.connard who coudln't join the event personally. Anyway we all enjoyed the AV ... http://tagr.tv/2008/sigma6-abertura2-lisbon About twenty motivated comic painters met last friday at the brick5 in Vienna where they stayed 24hours together and produced as much as they could or wanted to... the results will be shown as an exhibition at the Brick5. 24h Comics - exhibition Opening: 8th July - 6pm Exhibition opening hours: 9th July to ... http://tagr.tv/2008/24h-comic-drawing-session-brick5 To quote another artist exhibiting at Sonar, 'I hate crowds, but I've never hated a crowd this big.' SonarMatica (the multimedia exhibition inside Sonar Complex) turned out to be a nice place to escape from the relentless chaos and irreparable ear damage. Be warned, there is nothing in this blog ... http://tagr.tv/2008/sonar08 3 reasons to put the video online, even though it's out of date since the "Interactivos" Workshop is over since ages: 1. Nova Jiang's installation "Stage Fright" is still exhibited at this years sonar exhibition 2. I always wanted to try portrait shaped video online 3. the video is shot with a construction, ... http://tagr.tv/2008/endorse-stage-fright-video Oh how much I love Vienna in summertime! Cool fresh summer breeze... to be open air just somewhere around... and enjoying Viennas great cultural summer programm. I just came home from the opening night of the frame(o)ut festival that is currently going on - open air - in the Museumsquartier. ... http://tagr.tv/2008/frameout-digital-film-festival-in-vienna-museumsquatier James Elkins is teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. His writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science, and nature. The presentation willlook at some ways that ... http://tagr.tv/2008/360 First Day of the shooting, after yesterday's indoor shootings we realized that the idea with the flashes won't work out so we moved outside. Moving the whole setup and realizing the camera is quite tricky, especially because the viewfinder of the cameras is like you'd expect it from a 10$ ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-9 It works, somehow: Looks cool, but actually it's not: the fact that the flashes are going off during 4-7 frames means that we have a rang of about a 1/3 sec within the cameras are releasing... this is a raw example of ne of our first test shootings: More ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-8 This was a lecture on May 31st. The Team of the Medialab Prado flew in Ruth Sergel from New York in order to tell us about the media-techniques magican's have been using for ages. I enjoyed the lecture a lot, to me it show the close relationship between art, magic, ... http://tagr.tv/2008/ruth-sergel-alchemy-of-light After a series of set-backs in the electronics department of our project, we can celebrate a big step forward today. Most of the electronics are working, all that's left to do is to increase the power to trigger the cameras in order to overcome the long distances of the extension ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-7 Simone showed me two more really helpful things: what you can see here is called wire wrapping. It's a technique to create circuits w/o soldering, and it looks great ;) You have to use wrap pins that you simply beat into the board, then you use a little stick to ... http://tagr.tv/2008/arduino-workshop-appendix Los compañeros walking off the medialab after a hard work's day... right into a opening of an exhibition: I like the way the spanish guys handle their inaugurations ;) http://tagr.tv/2008/after-work Day 5: nothing but ill. Day 6: great. We finished all the mounting pieces and found a place inside mataderos where we can set up the installation and leave it there untouched until the end of the workshop. The only minus-point of the day: all the cameras have 2b rewired, electronics ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-56 Ok, here's a fast endorse of the last days. Karolina and Sofy continued soldering all the cameras, i think they are finished in the meanwhile. We finally figured out how we'll handle the mounting and the adjustment of the cameras and found a really great place to produce it: ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-34 The workshop is great, i love the media-lab and everyone involved. I actually never experienced a space that was so open for each and every one - just one thing: the upload capacities are really_____ bad. that doesn't make my life as a documenter easier - as well as the ... http://tagr.tv/2008/personal-note Honestly, i missed the first part - i just arrived when the first example was finished: basically the job was to change the blinking frequency according to the value received by the potentiometer (or any other variable resistor) ⇒arduino file So now we're starting to use the arduino to pass values ... http://tagr.tv/2008/arduino-workshop-part-4 Today's Lesson was about the IF :lol: - ELSE :sad: command. The physical example we used for that was:IF you turn a potentiometer underneath a certain vale, make the LED blink. To keep things easy we used pin 13which has a resistor built in to let the LED blink. ... http://tagr.tv/2008/arduino-workshop-part-3 We continued to open up all the cameras and wired them in order to turn them all on and release the shutter at the same time. Also we wanted use a dip-switch for each camera to still have control over every single camera on it's own. That's when things got ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-23 Today it was fast and painless: Analog inputs. Easy but handy, basically any variabel resistor works like this. Check out the pictures for the schematics: http://tagr.tv/2008/arduino-workshop-part-2 I've chosen to join Karolina Sobecka's Project mmodesty. We'll build o low-cost virtual camera system. Therefore we will hack a bunch of single-use cameras in order to make them readable and release at the same time. 1st day: We started to break up some PDA readers that use the same interface ... http://tagr.tv/2008/immodesty-day-1 This week we'll have an arduino workshop going on besides the projects we're working on. Today we started with basics of electronics and arduino. Therefore Simone Jones http://tagr.tv/2008/arduino-workshop-part-1 Today, all the selected projects were presented by their creator, we now have to choose one or more projects to collaborate with. Here is a short summery of all the projects: Esther Polak: Sand Spiral Machine http://spiraldrawingsunrise.wordpress.com/ The idea is to build a robot that uses solar power in order to move that ... http://tagr.tv/2008/interactivos-day1 While taking part at Interactivos workshop in Madrid, i realized that the call for collaborators at eyebeam in NY ends today, but the call for projects for Interactivos in Mexico is still open until 8th of June: The workshop aims to use open hardware and software tools to create prototypes ... http://tagr.tv/2008/interactivos-in-ny-and-mexico Interactivos?'08: Vision Play event will take place from May 30 to June 14, 2008. This seminar-workshop will be directed by Alvaro Cassinelli and Simone Jones, with the participation of Daniel Canogar, Pablo Valbuena and Julian Oliver. Besides the two-week workshop, seminars, lectures and miniworkshops will also be held by Nuria ... http://tagr.tv/2008/interactivos08-at-medialab-prado-madrid Florian Cramer vom Piet Zwart Institut hat uns auf der Klasse für Digitale Kunst besucht und hielt einen Vortrag zum Thema "Software Art and Mobile Media" http://tagr.tv/2008/florian-cramer Bruce Sterling interview at the Share Festival in Turin about himself, his books and the rules of art and design. (14. 03. 2008 - engl., 24:29 min - download) http://tagr.tv/2008/bruce-sterling-interview Peter Weibel talking at the University for applied Arts in Vienna on 25th of April 2008. Unfortunately the last 10 min are missing on the (german) video, but there is an audio file with better audio quality ready for download here. http://tagr.tv/2008/peter-weibel-experimentelle-kunst-und-experimentelle-politik-iii The concert was part of the programme of the Donaufestival08 and completely sold out - not even the press pass got me in, i was very lucky to find someone who sold me his ticket in the very last minute in order to sneak in a minute before the concert ... http://tagr.tv/2008/eva-jantschitsch-aka-gustav-live-in-concert-featuring-trachtenkapelle-durrenstein This was the last talk of this years share festival: Bruce Sterling and Marcos Novak talking about the internet and new forms of visualisation - two really really interesting characters. While Bruce Sterling couldn't wait to finish the festival and move on to the wine, Marcos Novak couldn't stop to ... http://tagr.tv/2008/share-festival-two-architectures !!! Submission dealine: 30th April 2008 !!! At the Vision'R in Paris I met Gianluca Del Gobbo, one of the two programmers of FlxEr - a flash based VJ software - and the coorganiser of the LPM - live performers meeting in Rome. Don't forget to subscribe to this meeting, there ... http://tagr.tv/2008/interview-with-gianluca-del-gobbolive-performers-meeting-in-rome-29th-of-may-1st-of-june The first weekend of the Mapping Festival in Geneva past by too fast... and i tried to see and document every event... but to be honest it was not possible! What i saw... or let's say experianced was great and all the different kinds of performances gave a good overview ... http://tagr.tv/2008/av-performances-part-i-mapping-festival-2008 Casey Reas lecture "form+code" at the university of applied arts in vienna on 10.4.2008 as part of the sliver lecture series. big thx to Peter Linhart who recorded the lecture. http://tagr.tv/2008/casey-reas-university-of-applied-arts-vienna AntiVJ is a VJ Label founded by four VJs francophone - VJ Crustea, VJ Emovie, VJ Aalto and VJ Legoman. Their aim is to leave the traditional work area of a VJ ... the lonley screen somewhere in a club... Well, what they do so far is to create new surfaces ... http://tagr.tv/2008/anti-vj-mapping-festival-2008 yesterday _ the 10th of april 2008 _ the mapping festival _ a festival for and about visual art _ started with various live acts at the centre d'art contemporain of geneva. due to an unexpacted long trip from vienna to geneva, i only saw the last two vj performances ... http://tagr.tv/2008/mapping-festival-in-geneva-100408-200408 http://tagr.tv/2008/bruce-sterling-preview ok, lets keep this straightforward: this is the monitor he used to perform with, thanks to super-charming ella esque we were able to plug the recorder directly to the mixer and you can find a proper 320kbps .mp3 bootleg from his performance here, and this is to give you ... http://tagr.tv/2008/saturdaynight-share-festival-bong-ra Christine Sugrue is the winner of this years share prize. Her work “Delicate Boundaries” satisfied the jury members bruce sterling, anne nigten and stefano mirti - Congratulation! Jury Statement: Anne Nigten -- manager of the V-2 Lab and director of the Patching Zone in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Stefano Mirti -- architect, designer, and ... http://tagr.tv/2008/winner-of-the-share-prize-08 to lathe sound? what a curious idea, but after we are talked to the sympathetic guys named: "OWL PROJECT", it finally made sense. A carpenter’s workshop transforms the sounds of working wood (cutting, sawing, and fixing together) into genuine small objects with the help of a “sound lathe”. This machine records ... http://tagr.tv/2008/share08-owl-project-united-kingdom-%e2%80%9csound-lathe-workshop%e2%80%9d there is one thing that makes this media art festival really unique: the people here _never_ forget about the social part of a festival - and after years of media art festival hopping i know that this is not quite common. yesterday night we were taken to the "hiroshima mon ... http://tagr.tv/2008/friday-night-hiroshima-mon-amour if you appreciate good things like italien food, good wine and you also have a big crash on media art, the share festival in torino (IT) is the place to be right know. the italiens know how to make things perfect for bon vivants like they created a own wine ... http://tagr.tv/2008/toshareit Ist VJing Kunst ? diese Frage stellten sich ein paar namhafte Vertreter der österreichischen Visualistenszene bei einem Symposion des sound:frame Festivals im Künstlerhaus. http://tagr.tv/2008/soundframe-festival-symposion this year transmediale was back in Haus der Kulturen der Welt which is a big and perfect location for such an event. Not only because again it was gathering people from allround the world related to the digital art bubble for communication, inspiration and conspiration. and conspire. was even the theme ... http://tagr.tv/2008/transmediale08-archive part of the club transmediale were the xxxxx-workshops which where held in the ballhaus naunyn. i tried to participate in all the workshops, but due to lack of sleep and a missed flight to berlin i only participated in the digital theremin workshop which was held by andrey smirnov from ... http://tagr.tv/2008/theremin-workshop-andrey-smirnov Da uns der Schirm etliche neue Spielformen bietet und ich mir nicht sicher war ob es ok ist es an mich selbst per Interview auf einem Blog feature den ich mitbetreibe, haben wir abgesehen vom Schirm noch ein neues Format entwickelt: Das Interviewbattle - Gordan vs. Emanuel Gordan erklärt im ersten ... http://tagr.tv/2008/interview-battle-gordan-savicic-vs-emanuel-andel This is the first Interview we realized with our new setup - it was really nice to stroll around the exhibition wih our new umbrella and create this pretty eccentric situation. p.s.: We did this interview on the day before the Award Ceremonies, and we caught some quite interesting statements regarding ... http://tagr.tv/2008/amazon-noir-interview Following the great concept of ella esque we built a mobile interview environment which is equipped with a bird-view camera and a microphone inside the umbrella. that makes it possible to use low-qual. cameras but still provide proper sound. Beside the technical advantages this setup provides the interview team with ... http://tagr.tv/2008/tagrtv-umbrella Another group of Moving Forest Action was supported by Superbertram, the streaming bot guy who i am. I ended up being locked to the building and doing public video broadcasting for 3 days and nights at the castle.. You find the Flickr-sets at http://flickr.com/photos/superbertram/sets/ http://tagr.tv/2008/moving-forest-with-superbertram-squatting-hkw chat by aram bartholl is a mobile messaging system - people with portable keyboards - followed by moving speech bubbles - projecting the messages above their heads. you might know aram bartholl from his other works like TV-Filter and Random Screen http://tagr.tv/2008/chat-maria-transmediale08 a playlist of some videos i found on youtube.. http://tagr.tv/2008/videos-of-transmediale08 24 hours docu of a performance. 70 workers dismantle and rebuild a wooden sculpture representing the time. every minute it had to be rebuild again. by mark formanek, datenstrudel @ exhibtion - transmediale.08 - conspire. http://tagr.tv/2008/standard-time the special player performance is a project from 02L and was a external event of Transmediale - took place in berlins spacestation c-base. it was a special performance, but also functioned as an interactive installation where people were invited to freak the dancefloor... http://tagr.tv/2008/the-special-player-c-base people with wooden guns screaming and attacking presidential house... other people in front of the bundestag running around with gameconsoles waiting for instructions... red alert ? don´t worry, just follow the instructions.... but who is moving us ? who gives the instructions ? and where is all this noise coming ... http://tagr.tv/2008/moving-forest The Transmediale Festival 2008 "Conspire" will open it's doors next week. The Festival runs from 30th of Jan till 3rd Feb 2008. The Openng will take place im "Haus der Kulturen der Welt"on Tuesday evening. A detailed Programm is ready for download here. We will have a look behind the curtains ... http://tagr.tv/2008/upcoming-transmediale-2008-share-prize-08 Superbertram was officially invited to the 24C3, in his function as press reporter and publisher. It was a perfect surrounding to nerd around and get his UMTS running, nevertheless he got harsh critics because not respecting privacy and intimacy at the congress. http://tagr.tv/2008/superbertram-at-the-24c3-in-berlin From 27. -30.12. there was the 24C3, the 24. congress of the berlin hacker community CCC . For all folks who couldnt be there (including me) they put the videos of the conferences online Conference Recordings . check them out http://tagr.tv/2007/24-chaos-communication-congress-24c3-in-berlin Eine Ausstellung mit neuen Arbeiten von Albert Allgaier, Bernhard Garnicnig, Maria A. Mäser und Mathias Garnitschnig sowie einer Retrospektive des Ausstellungsjahres 2007 mit Arbeiten von Alexander Basile, Thomas Braudisch, Nils Jendri, Edgar Skomorowski und Hyo Lee. 14.12.2007 1900 Uhr Atelier c17 Czerningasse 17 1020 Wien http://tagr.tv/2007/collecting-1nteresting-7hings The cybernetic model visualizes existing interrelations of social processes and spatial dimensions. Two elastic layers made out of fabric are held vertically by threads and can be moved by computer-controlled motors. Movement within a certain radius around the object is tracked by sensors. The position and distance of a person ... http://tagr.tv/2007/rpm-revolutions-per-minute Nicolaj Kirisits und GordanSavicic erklärten in ihrem leider nicht sehr stark besuchten, nichts desto trotz aber sehr unterhalteneden und lehrreichen Workshop den praktischen Einsatz von Piezomikrophonen bei Performances - aber seht selbst: http://tagr.tv/2007/resonance-sound-workshop The sonance.artistic.project launched the re.sonance07 festival with the presentation of the (mighty) festival catalogue including a DVD last friday in Vienna. The catalogue gives a pretty detailed overview of the actual digital culture scene in and around vienna. It#s not easy to make your way trough the programme but it's definitively ... http://tagr.tv/2007/resonance-07-up-running not only from an aesthetic point of view "the 192 loudspeaker experience" is a installation you have to see ! the immersive soundexperience u face is unique and highly impressive and takes you out on a journey through soundscapes which not just surround you > they even intrude you ... http://tagr.tv/2007/the-192-loudspeaker-experience Interview with Ramon Schreuder (NL) creator of the i_AM:installation an interactive soundtable >> connecting people by making music together "...in our world everyone is digitally connected but never talking to each other face to face anymore..." >> bringing electronic music to a broader audience >> but listen to ramon, he will explain better ... http://tagr.tv/2007/strp-festival-part-iii because philips moved it's production to the east we can be here and celebrate electronic culture. a couple of years ago the monotonic movements of production robots determined the daily rhythm, now it is the bumping sound of techno music which makes the people move in a robotic behaviour. it's ... http://tagr.tv/2007/strp-festival-partii Some bits and pieces i collected on youtube that give an impressions whats up at the strp parties: If you have some clips online please join the youtube group. http://tagr.tv/2007/strp-on-youtube Jonctions / Verbindingen 10: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields Jonctions festival started since 2 days by different lectures, installations and debate. http://data.constantvzw.org/site/ Tracks in electr(on)ic fields, gestures transformed into data, codes that set bodies in motion, prescriptions that ask to be interpreted. Pretended or real identities spread like viruses as they are carried ... http://tagr.tv/2007/jonctions-festival-constant-la-bellone-brussels After a slightly complicated trainsurfingtrip i arrived in Eindhoven, a small beautiful city in the south of Netherlands... if you go to Eindhoven Beukenlaan by train , you'll see an old Philips Factory... and inside you find STRP, the Festival for Art, Technology and Music. already surprised at the entrance ... http://tagr.tv/2007/strp-festival-day-1 This Weekend ! STRP - Festival for Art&Technology in Eindhoven (NL) tagr.tv is there so watch out for news! http://tagr.tv/2007/strp-festival We have 3 more Authors that want to share their experiences on festivals with the world, i'm sending a triple HUURRAY! to Amsterdam(NL) , Nantes(FR), and Vienna (AT)! At the tagrtv.community forum you'll find a basic howto - this is also the place to post your suggestions and questions. Also we ... http://tagr.tv/2007/ciao-eleonora-salute-julian-hallo-peter Vunhat Tan(VN) Lasse Marhaug (NO) Gisle Frøysland (NO) set the record straight: Piksel likes Noise, Piksel produces Noise. I can't say anything about the way they generated their sound, but the way the video signal is generated is as simple as great: Gisle plugs the audio signal to an ... http://tagr.tv/2007/the-signal-is-the-message I couldn't attend to the presentation of this new tool, but i still want to spread the information it because - as far as i can say from the distance - it's a very interesting low-cost development: The CUI is a interface board that lets you connect up to the ... http://tagr.tv/2007/cui Yves Degoyon and Lluis Gomez and presented their recent pdp development PDVJ "pure data visual junk" - it's all about image processing and visual work within pd that include helpful objects like a colorgrid to pick a color or a videogrid that shows all the videos of a folder. also opencv ... http://tagr.tv/2007/pdvj-tools-presentation Maybe some of you have already seen this at the Ars Electronica - an elastic rope connects two excenter points that are driven by electric motors and controlled by an arduino - so simpel, so nice. One of the most beautiful installations i have seen within the last years. ... http://tagr.tv/2007/waves-by-daniel-p-jimenez-es I liked this one because of ti's simplicity: Of course you could do this with max, using a micro-controller to synchronize the movement of the mirrors with the video - or you could just connect a photo-transistor via a few resistors to a stepper motor driver and shine on the ... http://tagr.tv/2007/salto-mortale-by-ralph-kistler-dees I met Julien at the Piksel Festival last year for the first time: He did a workshop about DIY sinus generators and the at the last evening he did the noisiest and loudest performance i ever attended, no doubt about that. The Installation he did this year is something like ... http://tagr.tv/2007/arougate I arrived at the Piksel Festival and i'm about to gather all the documentation material - be sure to come back for more soon.. http://tagr.tv/2007/piksel-festival-2007-started October 24th Richard Barbrooks presented his new book "Imaginary Futures" at the net culture lab in Vienna. Here is the taped presentation, i didn't manage to sync it with screenshots of the presentation he is refering to yet - you can download his presentation file here. This is an interview with ... http://tagr.tv/2007/richard-barbrooks-net-culture-lab-imaginary-futures Am 24. Februar 2008 soll in Hamburg mit dem neuen "Digitalen Wahlstift" gewählt werden. Durch eine grundlegende Änderung des Wahlrechts wird unter anderem ein Computer-Wahlverfahren eingeführt, das nur oberflächlich wie die vertraute Wahl mit Zettel und Stift aussieht. Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) weist nun mit der Demonstration eines Wahlstift-Trojaners auf die erheblichen Manipulationsrisiken dieses Verfahrens ... http://tagr.tv/2007/chaos-computer-club-hackt-hamburger-wahlstift-ccc-hacks-electronic-voting-pens To learn how to make computers more human, we have to f**k them. Arse Elektronika's sex and technology conference in San Francisco held 5-7th October 2007 at kink.com's Pr0n Palace opened with a bang. Here a young cyberpunk woman engages in sex with a robot for the first time in media ... http://tagr.tv/2007/interpenetrating-systems-arse-elektronika-fkzilla After this unusual hot summer in greece - in some areas it had beyond 1000°C - nothing is like before, except the government. A wide area of the countryside is burned, so three curators (Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio und Augustine Zenakos) decided to finaly destroy athens too and organized ... http://tagr.tv/2007/destroy-athens folgende sache hat auch was mit neuen medien zu tun: es gibt videos ich frage mich von zeit zu zeit immer wieder, wie es eigentlich dazu kommen kann, das ein vater seinen sohn genau so tauft, wie er auch selbst heisst. führt das nicht zwangsläufig zu verwechslungen und komplikationen? vielleicht beim ... http://tagr.tv/2007/fraulein-atlantis http://tagr.tv/2007/large-hot-pipes-orchester while walking around the areal i saw this huge metal snake lying around there earlier, and couldn't imagine this massive piece actually moves - well, i was proven wrong. this snake is not only able to move but also to burn like hell. under the supervision of th charming FLG ... http://tagr.tv/2007/flaming-lotus-girls their big performance was quite boring, but this little toy was quite impressive: four nozzles pointing in four different directions to direct this thing through space: i'm still messing around with the *##+*:(##`g codec from the video snippets from their final show, as soon as i'm through with that i will ... http://tagr.tv/2007/survival-research-lab this robot from the robocross crew is so new that it doesn't even have a name yet. it was built within the last four weeks - three weeks to build all the parts, one week to assemble them and programming the movement actually on site - which means that at ... http://tagr.tv/2007/robocross-latest-piece this guy was performing live drum&bass for hours - enjoy 5minutes of the performance people & situations you meet while walking through the areal.. also the food is prepared in an adequate style :) ..and dont forget to [gipsy_style]party! http://tagr.tv/2007/the-robodock-a-huge-freakplayground also erstmal eins grad am anfang: das metalab ist super. billiges bier, grosse bildschirme, freundlich herumtigernde nerds, ein raucherzimmer, wuzzler, telefonkabine, bastelraum und gemeinschaftstoiletten. es gibt eine bibliothek, gratisinternet, bionade, salate und genügend werkzeug um frei gewählte dinge nach belieben auszuweiden, es gibt touchscreens, sensoren und und und und ... ... http://tagr.tv/2007/jason-brown-metalab from 19th - 22nd october the robodock festival will be happening in the docks of amsterdam, and we can happily announce to be there! please join the flickr and youtube groups if you have any media to share. come back on friday to check out the first videos.. http://tagr.tv/2007/robodock-2007 spiegel online berichtete ja grad noch unlängst, wien sei die metropole der europäischen digitalkultur, pressekonferenzen sind was schönes. kritik was anderes. die kann man sich manchmal eigentlich auch sparen. an der paraflows vernissage war der wein dann auch schlecht und gratis. da war die nicht funktionierende kowanz installation mit einer ... http://tagr.tv/2007/paraflows The interactive installation by sonia cillari "se mi sei vicino" is a masterpiece of implementing human-body-interface. "se mi sei vicino" means "If you are close to me". A human body is standing on a platform which functions also as a big ... http://tagr.tv/2007/se-mi-sei-vicino ok, you are walking through marienstrasse and suddenly somebody wants to hug u ? this somebody even try to kiss u out of nothing ? what are u doing ? start screaming and running away ? ok, either you met a person with mental disorder or you are in the ... http://tagr.tv/2007/intriguee this garage represents some great projects on a few square meters: GRL - L.A.S.E.R. Tag after being famous for their LED throwies actions in NY in 2006, this years big hit of the graffiti research lab was presented at the ars, the GRL L.A.S.E.R tag system. a beamer, a tracking unit and ... http://tagr.tv/2007/marienstrasse-7-hot-spot so finally there is a piece of art thats isn't shit, but produces some. it basically produces human excrement without a human body. the machine is fed with everyday food, and the excrement that it produces can not be differentiated from human shit - even not in laboratory tests. the windows are ... http://tagr.tv/2007/cloaca-by-wim-delvoye-be here we are: my personal favourite of this festival: since i had the chance to interview the artist i don't need to bore anyone with my thoughts about the peace - just check out this 2 videos: http://tagr.tv/2007/augmented-sculpture-v-12-by-pablo-valbunea This performance was one of the reasons why i was really happy to be at the ars. it started quite slow - including my nervous soul getting bored - but as soon as a few of the pieces were turned on and rotating, a really great sound collage emerged which i ... http://tagr.tv/2007/sirenen-by-ray-lee the more unhappy you are, the more ice cream you need - thats the simple principle of this machine. the concept says that i the machine uses a voice stress analysis in order to figure out how much ice cream you need - but see yourself: thank you james for beeing ... http://tagr.tv/2007/dr-whippy-by-demitrios-kargotis amagatana means "rainy sword" in japanese. it´s an umbrella with bluetooth connection making sounds when being moved. it has been developed by yuichiro katsumoto at the keio university inakage lab in japan. watch the performance @ marienstrasse @ ars electronica 2007. http://tagr.tv/2007/amagatana we're there to cover it at the moment, a lot of nice stuff, a lot of crab - and a lot of secondlife. if you want to contribute media flies please join the flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/ars07/ or the youtube group http://www.youtube.com/group/ars07 . as i mentioned before, the show is overwhelming. beside of ... http://tagr.tv/2007/ars-electronica-festival-2007-the-monster A project by Masterclass in Digital Environment Design, NABA - ITALY VIP is a nice plyful installation, representing all the state of the art realtime tools like ir camera motion tracking, max/msp and vvvv. For me, this is a typical master class project: technically perfect resolved, great design, but no story ... http://tagr.tv/2007/vip-virtual-identity-process one of the first installations to discover was an installation by scenocosme, called Alosos. you have to make your way through the flowerjungle with a spotlight, by doing so you will discover the sounds of the flowers and create a soundscape... really nice2discover installation. http://tagr.tv/2007/alsos-by-scenoscosme It's never an easy job to establish a new theme - especially not when you are the very first one... this is exactly what the guy's from the Streamfest are doing: organizing a media art festival in a wonderful area - that has never heard about media art before. In ... http://tagr.tv/2007/streamfest-2007-lecce-south-italy barbara husar DATAEXCHANGE kunstraum engländerbau, vaduz bis 22.juli http://www.kunstraum.li im kunstraum engländerbau welcher sich unmittelbar an der steilwand unter dem fürstlichen schloss im finanzghetto liechtenstein befindet, liegen derzeit einige originalnabelschnüre von originalwüstenziegen in einer originalmeteoritenfalle. merkwürdig? eigentlich ja. denn für barbara husar ist die nabelschnur als ein über das metaphorische hinausgehender, grundlegender datenstrang das aussschlaggebende ... http://tagr.tv/2007/data-exchange misused media. 20.juni bis 2.juli sterngasse 13, 1010 wien täglich 13 - 19 uhr das blinde mehr sehen als die sehenden ist bekannt. ihre wahrnehmung ist durch die behinderung bedingt, nicht nur um ein vielfaches ge- sondern insbesonders um ein vielfaches verschärft. blinde gehen sehend mit ihrem gehör, während sehende oft überhaupt nichts ... http://tagr.tv/2007/ausstellung-digitale-kunst-sterngasse-14-1010-wien christine sugrue (us) delicate boundaries actually i really enjoyed this installation, maybe it was the still little child in me that likes to roam around in backyards, pick up worms and try to get them moving on my arms. in this installation you can have this feeling in a clean digital way, if ... http://tagr.tv/2007/sonar-the-art-experience-delicate-boundaries douglas gordon and philippe parrenos portrait of zinedine zidane left me with a profound impression. the film has a length of 90 minutes and shows the football player, keeps close focus on him during the match of real madrid contra villa-real on april 23rd 2005. only very short wide shots ... http://tagr.tv/2007/le-zidane by ka and axolotl even though sonar is mostly known for the electronic music part we are arty eneugh to almost skip the music part and go straight on to the multimedia section. clearly for our coverage we will focus on that "mostly" secret part of the festival! the multimedia section was ... http://tagr.tv/2007/sonar-the-art-experience-2 http://tagr.tv/2007/the-russian-pavillon http://tagr.tv/2007/the-belgium-pavillon first step :-| by axolotl and ka it was quite easy to be reminded to organize everything in time because of huge smiley posters all over town. the smiley symbol seems to be the main merchandising source this year. we have a number of different theories about the use of this icon. ... http://tagr.tv/2007/sonar bernhard cella, wien Originally uploaded by tagr_tv What does the artist do after the death of the curator? the installation is in the entrance of giardini. a tent, camping table on top the product. Bernhard stands in front, wearing mirrored sunglasses. his multiple is ... http://tagr.tv/2007/bernhard-cella-wien alexander ponomarev, shower Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Entering the russian pavillon. Shower is an interactive installation, where tv footage floods down on the spectator. Reflecting on the media overkill of our time, ponomarev works with aesthetic brilliance and uses old fashioned technique ... http://tagr.tv/2007/alexander-ponomarev-shower opening biennale Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Robert storr opens the 52nd biennale di venezia. In giardini hundrets, not thousands of arts addicts, collectors, museum directors (hifive to gerald matt) and artists gather to celebrate this wonderful festival. The focus is set to ... http://tagr.tv/2007/opening-biennale lars ramberg, libertà Originally uploaded by tagr_tv The first toilet installation i ever saw. Its interactive, thanks to your own catabolisms, and its sound plays a mesh up of various national anthems. Like the thought of taking a dump while listening to ... http://tagr.tv/2007/lars-ramberg-liberta cameras everywhere... Originally uploaded by tagr_tv czech team .. they fucked up the internet line in the pressroom, yesterday, trying to upload a HD video file to a webserver.... the admins really went wild... ;) they like me, because i take care of the ... http://tagr.tv/2007/cameras-everywhere eric duyckaerts, palace of mirrors Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Belgium. An enormous glass labyrinth, the artist explains his work on 10+ videoscreens, shows how to walk thru it. the special tension on this is how the space is being divided into small ... http://tagr.tv/2007/eric-duyckaerts-palace-of-mirrors nordic pavillon Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Here we see some real simple, but popular pieces. About 100 dart plates, were people throw and throw, created by jacob dahlgren. Tried to get my turn, but couldnt wait. In the right corner i see ... http://tagr.tv/2007/nordic-pavillon hyungkoo lee, mus animatus Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Bones, bones, bones. Thats what we have in the korean pavillon. People assured me, that there were no human bones, the bits are made of magnesia. The skeleton you see on the pic is ... http://tagr.tv/2007/hyungkoo-lee-mus-animatus manuel vilariño, tabla bwa Originally uploaded by tagr_tv http://tagr.tv/2007/manuel-vilarino-tabla-bwa tracey emin Originally uploaded by tagr_tv http://tagr.tv/2007/tracey-emin tagr? Originally uploaded by tagr_tv http://tagr.tv/2007/tagr arnout mik, citizens and subjects Originally uploaded by tagr_tv we're at the dutch pavillon. aernout mik shows some recent works, where he reflects on the situation in a nationstate during 'the age of paranoia'. multichannel video screens, severe police training, kids wearing ... http://tagr.tv/2007/arnout-mik-citizens-and-subjects yves netzmann, the subjectivisation of.. Originally uploaded by tagr_tv ... Repetitation. The swiss pavillon shows a hybrid between classical paintings and video art. On a huge wall, rotated app. 45 degrees towards the spectator, i see surrealistic paintings of faceless, naked women ... http://tagr.tv/2007/yves-netzmann-the-subjectivisation-of herbert brandl, austrian pavillon Originally uploaded by tagr_tv http://tagr.tv/2007/herbert-brandl-austrian-pavillon homo technologicous Originally uploaded by tagr_tv he wont tell me his name. all i found out was, that he is 'homo technologicous'. walking giardini with some wireless equipment, cellular, gps, tablet pc and whatnot, he was a real eyecatcher. wished to meet ... http://tagr.tv/2007/homo-technologicous spanish pavillon Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Ruben ramos balsa, bowling two tables, two monitors. Stereo sound that somehow interacts with a tube that does bubbles into a glass of water. weired, melodic sound, from a piano that is used in a cageous style. ... http://tagr.tv/2007/blowing-2nd-part thats where we start our day Originally uploaded by tagr_tv Giardini. We gather at the illy spot, where they serve free coffee, as much you can swallow. Love that, coffee makes my brain work faster.. http://tagr.tv/2007/thats-where-we-start-our-day we (julia staudach, peter scharmüller) arrived at biennale '07. we are glad to work here, at the press room, where they provide us with free wifi and room to work, with desks and worksphere... it is the first day of press previews, cameras everywhere. got a little video from youtube ... http://tagr.tv/2007/biennale-2007 sorrowful we had to accept that we could not make it to the makeart festival, but we could still do our web 2.0 job and asked some people on flickr to join the makeart07 flickr group. it looks like there were not too many photographers at the festival who uploaded ... http://tagr.tv/2007/endorse-makeartfestival-slideshow Formed in 1996 by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa, Exonemo is group devoted to the experimentation of new ways of interaction between art and pubblic. LUCA: Object B presents, compared to the consumer society, a different kind of immersion between real and virtual spaces. what do you think about the relationships ... http://tagr.tv/2007/interview-with-exonemo barcelona is famous for a lot of things, for the lovely beaches, palmtree avenues, interior design shops on every corner, parties, pakistanis selling beer and samosas on every plaza all night long, its modernistic and contemporary architecture, its fashion victims and their bad taste for glasses, all those fucking "guiris" ... http://tagr.tv/2007/one-day-of-off-offf realtekken ! the people from god´s entertainment know how to cross the borders between reality and game. it really made me happy to see this manic performance, especially because the music-program this evening was kind of chippy. the performance took place in a backdoor-room of the stadtsaal and there were ... http://tagr.tv/2007/fight-club-donaufestival Krems, known as a kind of conservative city in lower austria is the mainspot of the annual contemporary music & art festival "donaufestival". Tomas Zierhofer-Kin and his team are bringing international high quality program to krems. read his statement. Apart from international contemporary musicprogram, which is the mainpart of the ... http://tagr.tv/2007/painstation-donaufestival Today we talk with Peter Horvath, who has recently inaugurated a retrospective exhibition at the ACA Gallery of the Savannah College of Art and Design, in Atlanta. Horvath presents a new DVD-installation, called Boulevard, together with other cinematic DVD's and Internet-based video. He's a pioneer of the genre, realizing a bridge ... http://tagr.tv/2007/interview-with-peter-horvath a new breathtaking, freaky work at las palmas is the knife.hand.chop.bot by 5VOLTCORE 5VOLTCORE... the guys with the nasty robots... their work shockbot "corejulio" won at transmediale05 and since that travels all the relevant media art festivals and exhibitions. The knife.hand.chop.bot is their new work, first time presented at DEAF07. Do you ... http://tagr.tv/2007/knifehandchopbot-deaf07 The Seminar interrupting realities was about artistic approaches to mixed reality. About possibilities, visions and the borders between virtual and real, 2nd life and 1st life. A very interesting project in the virtual world of art is common grounds from workspace unlimited (founded by Thomas Soetens and Kora Van den Bulcke) ... http://tagr.tv/2007/seminar-interrupting-realities-deaf07 Marguerite Charmante in collusion with Fleshgordo created the Ludic Society in Bilbao Spain in 2005 as an international association of game practitioners and thinkers who seek to provoke the new artistic research discipline of ludics or indulgent play. Usually for members only, on this night anyone could gamble for membership. realplay ... http://tagr.tv/2007/evening-of-ludic-society-deaf07