Archive for the ‘ new media art ’ Category

Space/Time Perception Through Digital Media: The Cubinator Project

Virtualization of our daily tasks, as well as of communication processes, social activity, production, economics, media consumption, etc. probably have more impact on our temporal and special awareness and sensorial processes than we normally realize. Sarah and I came to this conclusion during the research that we decided to undertake for the seminar Scopic Regimes [ READ MORE ]

Why is locative media art socially relevant nowadays?

While net.art has always taken a very strong stand against the mainstream culture and has promoted a so called “counter-culture” (see Networking, by Tatiana Bazzichelli) by coordinating hacktivists and spreading alternative information over the Internet, new media art is now presenting itself in other forms (such as database art, locative media art, etc.), mostly with [ READ MORE ]

New Media Protocols and the Artist (Rasing his Voice?)

In my research paper – which I will be writing the next two months, I want to deepen the discussion around new media art and its relation to political and social engagement. While net.art has always taken a very strong stand against the mainstream culture and has promoted a so called “counter-culture” by coordinating hacktivists [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Poetry and the Re-use Era: the Creation of Meaning

As I wrote in the last post about my new media research on Twitter, this new social networking site offers a very specific new format for communication. It gives a constraint of 140 characters to write a status update. Although Twitter asks the user to write “what he is doing”, this space is used by [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Poetry and Mobility in Art

Twitter is the ultimate social networking site. The last trend for new media junks. Journalists, politicians, writers, artists, depressed teenagers, hyper-active middle-aged Internet addicted, new Iphone owners, everyone seems to be out there, on Twitter. Of course, because Facebook is so [ READ MORE ]

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