media art meets futurism
I’m assisting and covering the live performances of Radio Oltranzista during the week 25-31 january, ready to tun into futurist poetry talk and scream…listening to the art of noises, the Futurist manifesto performed by UNOROSSO yesterday evening, a live recitation that reminds a verse of cirindillincci, (an excerpt from the futurist sho vlummia poem by Marinetti)yesterday, Fred and Fruity have set up the radio station at De Balie, Amsterdam, which is broadcating on 105.6 FM in Amsterdam and is also streamed online. The radio will be covering Weerwoord festival, the Leidseplein literary festival – authors, talks and readings, poetry, live music……Marinettiprisoner of compromises,sweet, and crude
recycling
the story of stuff is a video with a clever graphic style. It explains very efficiently about the whole chain of production and consumption. Where does all the stuff we use, buy and dump go? Well, the link with her ipod from the beginning of the video does certainly reminds of all the toxic ipod dumps in India. Now, if the story of stuff could be put on a loop for 10 hours and played over and over and over again on all the big screens around the world, would that be efficient? could be worth a try to dig into the management of huge multikulti companies? could there be some TVnews ritual, which would not cover news about murders and football, but would only play this video???could there be an introduction video that plays each time you enter a shopping street or a shopping mall? what difference would it make if you would travel and decide to make a donation for planting trees for each kilometer of wasted fuel in our atmosphere? Donna Metzlar wrote this about her small inquiry in the waste situation in the Netherlands:now in the netherlands incineration is possible, but in the rest of theworld it nearly isn’t. so that means that all those old computers, tv’s,printers, mobile phones and so on go straight into landfills. for me thatis a pretty depressing scenario.anyways. one last anecdote from tonight. in naples, italy, they have asurplus waste problem. there’s no incinerator and no land left to fill.and the politicians are in a bind. so “they” made some deal with theincinerator company in rotterdam, which the city council sold two yearsago to some private company for a Lot Of Money. and soon it will all betransported by Train to rotterdam to be dealt with!?
rec. arch sounds
Migrating architectures are an exploration in ethnographic research and recycling, which stimulates further notions of design and connectivity. Here toys and low tech electronic gadgets are adapted to the idea of their material and cultural migration, which might questions definition of vernacular activities of such objects adopted in daily unspecific uses. Re:Orient is an exhibition by Adam Somlai-Fischer and collaborators, running until january 2008 at the Hungarian institute in Paris. This video shows the exhibition made for the Venice Biennale (2006) engaging visual and sounds traveling synergies of connected playgrounds. 
Graphite sounds
it surprises me how often my online navigation ends up into something completely amazing to my eyes and ears. For the record, I was posting a picture from Flickr to my friend on her profile – I linked the author Autowitch and went to look at his blog. where I discover this incredible project that I am posting here.
Scratching vinyls makes a statement, but in this particular the aspect of pressing sound into graphite recalls an inscription on and with technology.
Listen to the sound when accessing the Graphite Sequencer project by Caleb Coppock
total DIY media beat experience
Could electric conductors possibly magnify the creative and participatory experience of this project? Can everyone contribute? yes, why not place something like this in a corner in a cafe and see what happens
To recall an inspiration I had some time ago and to link it to Graphite sounds – I am posting the video of their performance where they use motherboards to produce light and visual effects through bending.
the Breadboard Band, Japan
mobile agora
November 2, 2007 Amsterdam – Oosterpark (12-17 hrs)
This project is an interactive installation where the membrane of the mobile container could permeate slices of body sensations with emotions and fears. Who wishes to make an encounter with somebody sitting on the other side of the computer is challenged to enter in conversation with someone unknown. While connected in a chat with a person, who is experiencing isolation, people can either initiate dialogues and monologues.
thus, the challenge is, to exchange views, ideas, opinions, feelings, dimensions, truths, references between the pvc and the pc – the mediation taking place in a recreated telephone cabin withing the proximity of a park. All the chats made during the project will be recorded.
Agora phobia is a project by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (NL).
Mobile intimacy
Mmobile connectors seem to melt in the Video Lustre installation arranged by Beatice Valentine Amrhein for the Video vortex exhibition (20 Oct – 2 Dic 2007) at Montevideo, the Media Arts Institut in Amsterdam. Body images permeate the screen of the devices, aimlessly capturing, almost imposing a playground, engaging with the virtual, triggering questions of context and location. Objects of everyday consumption and use left alone, leaving the sour impossibility to perform and engage with them.Walking away sequels of our own imagination inscribed in this mobile sculpture between viewing and watching. 
The installation consisted of an installation resembling an upside down umbrella where mobile phones looped from sequence of videos. The image shown on the squared mobile phone screen transmits body parts and intimate body parts, which re-contextualize technology in a grid, nominating and fingerpointing at its body-estention.This installation shows the performativity of bodies embedded and inscribed with and on the machine.. a reflective action on databodies and bodydata.
The bubble project
for free spaces and free thought
launched in New York and Italy last year, now on the billboards in Amsterdam
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m-city
DIY of…
a play with the city
incrediblly smart and fun
instant creations and instant recreations of architecture and blocks
M-media opens a game, for your engagement and performance with the city. To create your own visuality from the window of shadow plays and memory.
Navigating from the virtual into the real world, while scrabbling the surface of old walls and painting them with patterns through layers of stencils, graffiti, posters and stickers.
Be sure to check the link to the pop-out window Konstructor from the menu on the left…there you can create your stencils and graffiti – dots and dots of cubicles among a variation of surfaces
simply a process of mousing…and printing…and to be continued
m.media reopening.Script
script
molecules of bits ‘ transversed across cables
maps and patterns of longevity forms
paper or screenmultiscreen
sensor ancestor
input
a welcoming to this reopening after I finished with my Scriptie…
Indeed, I have started this blog writing about the research for my thesis. Then, thinking about a missing connector of a lead, the red thread, I’ll just mention here what I’ve came to rediscover how to continue with the writing of this blog.
Foto: Anino shadowplay Collective
(channel for the Scriptie/thesis) coming soon
RFID Jamming
RFID guardian is a collaborative project developed at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.Watch how RFID jamming works in this video with Melanie Rieback
DIY media bits 
