Archives > Novembre 2004

Movements of Air is an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay with photographs by physician and physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). The smal amount of works may be a bit frustrating... but if you want to dive into Marey's laboratory, you should visit this superb online exhibition presented by the forthcoming Maison du Cinéma.
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Promoting photo-journalism, the french association 3P organises a special auction sale on Ebay (until dec. the 5th). : Pictures of Martine Franck, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Georges Mérillon or Yann-Artus Bertrand.
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Ultimate issue of HorizonZero, the canadian electronic publication : "From obsolete technology to decaying masterpieces, Issue 18 channels new media's ghosts and raises a monument to digital evolution and entropy. GHOST features thoughtful articles from media archaeologists and archivists, and brand new interactives from some of our favourite past contributors" (in french and english).
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New "telewision" (web and TV) launched at the Viper festival in Switzerland : "bastard channel is intended to reflect the web as a time medium. This is a cross between the babbling TV promises and the hesitant web response of a 56k modem". Works by Jimpunk, Young-Hae Chang, Beat Brogle, Nathalie Novarina and many more. Make sure you check the un-crypted version of Milk (Shu Lea Cheang) - the porn channel "censored" on the swiss site, mixing images grabbed on the web while displaying the number of Africans dead of AIDS since you started connecting... hardcore and definetely NS-at-all. In english, french and german.
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After Brick Lane in London, "HYPE is bursting back into active life - now with a new french twist" (Link). It's in Palais de Tokyo, and it's not going so easy... people here are not very happy with the way a public institution (PdT) is hosting an exhibition organised by Publicis - french communications group - and Hewlett Packard. Accusations focuse on the obligation for submitted works to contain the HP letters, and vilify the submission rules (no "pornographical submissions"... what about pornography in art ?). Moreover, the whole concept of the exhibition is being criticised, stigmatized as a Pop Idol for visual arts... In spite (or thanks) to this polemic, the exhibition is crowded. Works are uploaded here, "ennemies" of the Hype are ready for the counter-act : a group named "Société réaliste" attempted a stencel-key attack against the -y-e Gallery ! (see photo here).
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Giving a third life to the players of Second life is a job for Boueg Bergman, photographer in SL world. If you want to be portrayed in a landscape of pixels, see here for rates.
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The European gathering of young digital creation starts today in Valenciennes. This year's topic : typography.
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Official launch of Creative Commons licences in France. Tough work brought with the help of CERSA.
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A new online counterculture bookstore which distribute books, videos and magazines in french or english.
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First french DVD magazine about graphic and motion design. Check the english version.
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We had a discussion on Aeiou about the fast spreading 10x10 project and it's similarities with an other project made by Christophe Bruno in 2001 : Fascinum. All about memetics ?
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Enjoy a little v(rml)isit in France ? Nice photos.
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"Silophone makes use of the incredible acoustics of Silo #5 [in Montréal] by introducing sounds, collected from around the world using various communication technologies, into a physical space to create an instrument which blurs the boundaries between music, architecture and net art".
Upload your sound in the Silo ! A new project by [The User], known for their "Symphony for dot matrix printers".
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"There are many ways of talking about television. But in a business context, let's be realistic: basically, TF1's job is to help Coca-cola, for example, to sell its product". The lapsus (?) of Patrick Lelay, CEO of TF1 (French TV channel), is transposed to the insane world of mind "googlesizing" by the french artist Christophe Bruno. Cruel cruel world...
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