KAC WEB
The website of Eduardo Kac, the artist who brought us Alba, the GFP Bunny. Alba was injected with a genetically modified protein from a jellyfish while still developing.
Here is text from the website:
GFP Bunny — With GFP Bunny Kac welcomes Alba, the green fluorescent rabbit, and explains that transgenic art must be created “with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues at the core of the work and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created.” The first phase of the GFP Bunny project was completed in February 2000 with the birth of “Alba” in Jouy-en-Josas, France. The second phase is the ongoing debate, which started with the first public announcement of Alba’s birth, made by Kac in the context of the Planet Work conference, in San Francisco, on May 14, 2000. The third phase will take place when the bunny comes home to Chicago, becoming part of Kac’s family and living with him from that point on.
Category: Art
Receiver
receiver
Vodafone’s online magazine about mobile art, media and philosophy. Nicely done.
From the site:
Wireless telecommunications have entered the media arts, and in accordance with their original functionality, they invigorated the discursive powers of various art forms. Terms like communication and interactivity acquire new significance in museum surroundings, in electronic music, architectural projects, and even poetry. Let’s have a look at art the wireless way Ö
Portable broadcasting backpack
neuroTransmitter
From the site:
com_muni_port is a portable radio broadcast unit created for short range pedestrian broadcasting. com_muni_port models itself after historical military, scientific, and media-related mobile communication devices.
Video improvisation group
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From the site:
242.pilots : a real-time video improvisation ensemble
hc gilje (norway)
kurt ralske (usa)
lukasz lysakowski (poland)
three video artists who perform collaboratively.
using their own custom software, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich,
layered experimental video works in real-time (both as a trio and as soloists).
improvising as a group, the three artists respond and interact with each other’s images
in a subtle and intuitive way. images are layered, contrasted, merged, and transformed.
the degree of interplay and unspoken communication between the artists is akin the best
free jazz ensembles.
the end product is a complex ‘visual conversation’: a quasi-narrative exploring
degrees of abstraction; a mesmerizing, immersive journey through diverse landscapes;
or just raw retinal delight.
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age
Net Art Commissions and Support
Calls and Opps List
Weekly list of calls for work and opportunities in the art world.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s site
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Some very nice interactive and physical projects, I like the public desktop as well as the literal physical re-interpretation of internet related terms, such as search engine.
A festival bringing together media, art and politics
next 5 minutes :: festival of tactical media
Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together media, art and politics.
Next 5 Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.
Radical Software, Online
Radical Software
From the site:
The historic video magazine Radical Software was started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider and first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers. Though scholarly works on video art history often refer to Radical Software, there are few places where scholars can review its contents. Individual copies are rare, and few complete collections exist. This Web site makes it freely available and searchable on the Internet.