i am proud to announce that the new raflesia ep ‘logenplatz im pantheon’ is now available for free download under a cc-license.
just download the whole zip-file (mp3 192kbit, 49,4 mb) or stream and comment on archive.org
you can also order a cdr via 12rec.net
filed under: download me music
im siebten jahr raflesia, drei jahre nach dem letzten release (cube-60) und natürlich mit ordentlich verspätung ist es endlich so weit:
raflesia bringt ein neues album raus!
es heißt logenplatz im pantheon und kann ab dem 12.10. auf dem netlabel 12rec.net als creative common-download runtergeladen werden.
neben der digitalen version des albums wird es auch eine äußerst stylische cd zum kaufen geben, später mehr dazu…
am gleichen tag (donnerstag, 12.10.) findet auch die dazugehörige record-release-party in der freestylelounge im café tuba in der zülpicher straße in köln (köln südbahnhof, moselstr. 80, google maps) statt.
also freut euch auf den download von logenplatz im pantheon, kommt zur party und feiert mit raflesia!
Sebastian made it to the european parliament in Brussels and is showing his funny porn-installation:
“Der Kunststudent Sebastian Löwe ist gegenwärtig bei der Wiedereröffnung des Verbindungsbüros Sachsen-Anhalt in Brüssel mit eigenen Werken vertreten. Diese Ausstellung findet im Rahmen einer Gesamtpräsentation der Burg Halle statt und war eigentlich Bestandteil der Jahresausstellung der Hochschule.
Ursprünglich arbeitete Sebastian Löwe als Werbetexter in Berlin und studierte danach drei Jahre Medienwissenschaften und Geschichte in Bochum. Seit zwei Jahren ist er nun in Halle an der Burg eingeschrieben. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt dabei dem Medium Video, was sich auch an seiner aktuellen Arbeit zeigt. Diese wurde als Beamerproduktion konzipiert, musste aber für die aktuelle Ausstellung an das Gesamtkonzept angepasst werden, was die Aufteilung auf drei Monitore begründet.
In seinem Werk setzt sich der Künstler mit dem Thema „Pornographie und Medien“ ironisch auseinander, indem er einer Duschgelflasche die Hauptrolle in dem kurzen Film einräumt.”
filed under: bochum media art porno video
The German architect and urban artist Aram Bartholl presented some of his projects at the Ars Electronica Brucknerhaus. Both deal in a nice way with the simplicity/complexity topic.
Random Screen is a flickering pixel display that works completely without electricity. 25 Beer cans and 25 tea lights are put together in a certain way to create the turning light-sources.
Papierpixel follows a similar approach, but in this case the analogue display can actually be used to show letters, numbers or little graphics – everything that fits on a 8×8 pixel matrix. There is an electric light that illuminates the display from the back and a mechanism similar to a hand organ that shows the light only to certain pixels.
filed under: ars electronica installation pixelart
While I was visiting this year’s Ars Electronica, there has been a very interesting panel at the Sky Media Loft. Among others (like Andrew Shoben from Greyworld and Horst Hörtner from Futurelab) Carlo Ratti, representing MIT’s senseable city lab, talked about a project that has been presented at the 10th International Architecture Biennial in Venice: Realtime Rome (pdf).
Basically it is about visualizing the „breath of the city“ in real time by tracking people’s position, cell-phone usage and the public transportation system of Rome. The data to do so comes from Telecom Italy. In the presentation he showed data-recordings of certain events, like a Madonna concert, or the soccer-match between France and Italy. To see the flow of people in the city and the ability to measure and analyze it in real time was quite impressive.
I can imagine that there is a lot of potential for all urban planners, politicians and commercial surveyors in this approach. But I am quite sure that this also drafts an image of a big surveillance technology, that can be used for unwanted purposes. Ratti admitted that this kind of data tracking could be „somehow dangerous for people’s privacy“, but he said that this threat depends on the location of filters that avoid being tracked.
If you’d ask me I am more pessimistic about this and I would bet that the average cell phone user won’t have or make use of such a choice. While I don’t share the rather grime perspective concerning technology that the Frankfurt-School introduced last century, I do think that a little bit more consciousness among “Media Artists”/Researchers would be great.
filed under: ars electronica privacy urbanity
a visually astonishing way of presenting news from all over the world has come up with mappedup. with the claim to be ‘an indispensable tool for the global newsjunkie’ the website aggregates global news-feeds and pops up the recent news geographically, just where they happen. additionally there is the possibility to personalize the map.
via postbubble
filed under: flash map news politics
the installation drawn by zachary lieberman uses both analogue and digital techniques to create an intuitive experience:
drawn takes us back to one of the most simple and ancient expressions of creativity: painting.
in this case, the analog process is connected to a real time digital animation system. figures drawn with pen and ink seem to take on a life of their own and interact with the hands of its creators.
filed under: ars electronica software
the installation drawn by zachary lieberman at ars electronica 2006.
filed under: ars electronica me video