The artists Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau (award winners inVIDA 3.0) present their recent work in an individual exhibition at the Galerie Charlot in Paris. Internationally renowned for their pioneering work in the field of interactive art, the artists have selected four installations in which they explore different facets of artificial life...
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Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Dave Griffiths received the First Prize at VIDA 13.2 awards for Naked on Pluto, a text-based online game that playfully addresses issues of online privacy and the (mis)use of personal data. Seven Artificial Intelligence bots interact with the player, who strives to escape the entertainment environment Elastic...
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On show at Gallery 400, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) exhibition area, from 17th January to 1st March is the exhibition Ghost Nature, curated by Caroline Picard, in which some twenty artists are taking part, among them, Agnes Meyer-Brandis (winner of second place in VIDA 15.0) and the collective Art Orienté Objet (Marion Laval-Jeantet and...
Leer másGeese in the Republic of the Moon
In the late 1620s, the English bishop Francis Goodwin wrote The Man in the Moone, the story of the Spaniard Domingo Gonsales, who built a flying machine pulled by geese and travelled with them to the moon. This curious story, considered by some to be one of the earliest works of science fiction, inspired the artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis to undertake a...
Leer másEXPLORING THE PERFORMATIVE: INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS SALTER
An artist and researcher, Dr. Chris Salter‘s work focuses on the development of responsive performance environments in which light, sound, image, architectural space and sensor-based technologies seamlessly blend with performers and the spectators themselves. Going beyond the simple, one-to-one interaction between user and computer, Dr. Salter...
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