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I’m Not Afraid

Luca @ January 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’m Not Afraid is a campaign started in august 2007 to tell the american governement that they’ve to stop to diffuse fear.
Down an excerpt from the campaign page:
Here’s what it means to not be afraid, here’s what it means to fight a real war on terror, and here’s what it means to win that war, […]

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Generative Cinema

Luca @ January 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Oleg Marakov Islands
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Mario Klingemann Flickeur
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Islands of Consciousness
The result of this fusion - Islands of Consciousness - is not a simple combination of the two concepts but a great advancement. Sound and Images enter a very close relationship in which the randomly arranged musical phrases are taking direct influence on the visual outcome. So when you […]

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Music Mind Interfaced

Luca @ January 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

This video shows Rick Grierson demoing his initial Brain Computer Music Interface. He created it using a mashup of MAX MSP / MAX PRO and EEG and he created an application which lets you compose music with the power of your brainwaves alone.
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In the Mix (Pickett Hour)

Ilari Valbonesi @ January 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

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Signature Event Context banned from Transmediale.08

Luca @ January 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The performance “Signature Event Context” by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša scheduled for the opening of TRANSMEDIALE.08 the 29th of January 2008 at 8.30 pm at the foyer of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany, has been conjunctively CANCELLED by the director of transmediale Stephen Kovats and the Guest-Curator of the […]

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Peter Jenner for MIDEM 2008 : Thoughts on the Challenge of the New Digital Reality for the Recorded Music Industry

Ilari Valbonesi @ January 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Peter Jenner:
Payment for recorded music has become voluntary, and it will become ever more so as time goes on.
Music is an essential aspect of our human existence, virtually a human right in that when we see people deprived of music, oppression is usually not far removed.
Traditionally accessed via concerts and performances, radio, jukebox, […]

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Suharto “smiling general” died

Luca @ January 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Suharto (born June 8, 1921), died on 27th janury. He was a former Indonesian military and political leader. He served as a military officer in the Indonesian National Revolution, but is better known as the long-reigning second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.
In 2001 he was found guilty and sentenced to […]

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Transmediale 08: the conferences

Luca @ January 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Speculative mechanisms of conspiracy theories have fuelled global events at all times. Much like our yearnings for desire, mystery and unpredictability, conspiracy is a human condition used to decipher the way in which we read an increasingly chaotic world of manipulated disinformation. The Internet and its associated Web 2.0 counterpart have begun to move beyond […]

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