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Web
as Canvas - Carnivore On
October 1st 2001, Radical Software Group (RSG), an international
collective of net.artists announced the launch of the Carnivore
Project, based on the software with the same name used by the FBI
to spy and control data through the Internet, although its aim is
to transform the data obtained by the Carnivore through the Internet
into art. Hi-Res! The
multimedia studio Hi-ReS! has managed to become the most relevant
European web design company producing webpages where they subvert
all the established design principles in the Internet. Enigmatic
and hugely demanding, their highly awarded web projects for movies
such as Requiem for a Dream or Donnie Darko turn into enterprising
artistic experiments that extend the original work. With the collaboration
of the British Council. The
Future of Music on the Net While
the recording industry tries to hold back the unstoppable growth
of mp3 exchange networks at all costs, it is difficult to deny that
the Internet is the stage where the future of music is being decided.
From the new models of free music trying to transfer open code ideology
to music creation, to decentralized communities of music files exchange
managed by their own users, going through musical interactives,
the new creative frontier merging sound expression and software's
dynamic processes. A speculative discussion with the participation
of Pablo Soto, creator of the P2P net Blubster, an exchange
system of music files with more than three million users; Nacho
Escolar, musician and journalist specialized in Internet and
music, and author of the awarded article "Por favor pirateen
mis canciones" (Please, crack my songs), a text which has become
the flag of the Spanish anti-copyright movement, and Pedro Soler,
member of the collective Fiftyfifty and the responsible for the
selection of musiccal interactives in the Sónar festival.
Paul
Friedlander uses computer controlled lights and infrared sensors
to generate sculptures simulating giant holographies of intriguing
beauty. His work, defined by himself as "kinetic sculpture",
has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, London and Singapore. His
exhibition in artFutura 2002 presents a wide-ranging selection of
his most important works, and includes a new and exclusive production:
a light sculpture with more than 7 meters in length. In this session,
Friedlander examines his working techniques and gets inside the
scientific roots of his work. |
| Demoscene With the participation of Luis Fernández / escena.org (E), Rafael Pérez and Ricardo Cabello (E)/ BCNParty The
Demoscene lies in parallel to the numerous revolutions lived in
the area of digital production during the last 20 years but remains
largely untouched by these revolutions. A discipline that despite
its history and constant production remains, to a large extent,
plunged into the subsoil of digital art. A love for retro style,
the excellent technique and real time graphics make this discipline
something difficult to understand out of context. To mark the
opening of bcnparty, the main demoscene event in Spain, Luis Fernández,
creator of escena.org -meeting point of spanish sceners on the
Net- and Rafael Perez y Ricardo Cabello, bcnparty organizers,
will offer an introduction to the art and the culture of the demoscene.
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