A few weeks back, the cool French journalist Marie Lechner asked me to collect a list of interesting YouTube videos. I was originally going to do something more interresting than what I came up with, but I was busy travelling and so I quickly scraped together this fairly traditional list along with a there-goes-the-professor-again accompanying verbiage. Even if you don’t read French, the videos are fairly explicit: there’s insolent stuff, code stuff, remix stuff, political stuff, etc. Here’s the link: Playlist #1 par Douglas Edric Stanley. If you want a translation, Google will do it for you here: link. My [...]
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Installation : Déplacements (français) / Déplacements (english) Artist : Manuel Braun Exhibition : bbb, Centre régional d’initiatives pour l’art contemporain, Toulouse, France Dates : October 2006 Developped at : Aix-en-Provence School of Art Video: Déplacements This is a work that Manuel Braun developped for his Diplôme Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques in June, and which has just been exhibited in Toulouse at the Centre régional d’initiatives pour l’art contemporain. It is a 5 x 5 pixel array made out of computer fans. Each fan represents one pixel which together make a very singular display. On that display runs an artificial life [...]
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Information post-only / no rants / just letting people know that Arborescence ’06 is yet again here upon us in « lovely Aix-en-Provence ». The festival is slowly detatching itself from the Art School where it began and spreading out into the city of Aix as well as onto the site of the Friche bel de mai in Marseille where there will yet again be an evening of concerts, performances and installations on the night of October 6th — notably yet another installation-lite of the ENIAROF project. I will not be showing anything personally (well you never know with ENIAROF, but nothing [...]
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Speaker: Douglas Edric Stanley Presentation: « Une rencontre pour tisser des liens entre art, jeux vidéos, œuvres et pratiques ludiques » Date: 19h, 13 juin 2006 Location: Le Cyber, Friche bel de Mai Address: 41, rue Jobin 13003 Marseille In partnership with: CCSTI – Agora des sciences More information: ZINC Sorry to all my English-language readers, but I’m just about to leave for a presentation in Marseille and I promised to list a series of websites dealing with art + video games, or better said artistic explorations of video games and gaming culture. This list comes from a larger list [...]
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Speaker: Douglas Edric Stanley Presentation: « Une rencontre pour tisser des liens entre art, jeux vidéos, œuvres et pratiques ludiques » Date: 19h, 13 juin 2006 Location: Le Cyber, Friche bel de Mai Address: 41, rue Jobin 13003 Marseille In partnership with: CCSTI – Agora des sciences More information: ZINC I will be speaking again at the Friche bel de Mai, this time about my work in relation to video games, their langage, their culture, and their influence. It all started when I made a selection for the festival Arborescence of artistic reappropriations of video games. These ranged from more [...]
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Festival: Arborescence ’05 Location: Aix-en-Provence, France Date: 30 September – 8 October 2005 Website: Arborescence Every year at the end of the summer, the Arborescence festival is the meeting point for numerous artists coming from all around the world. Those artists, through their creations question the relationships between art, nature and new technologies. New problems arise around themes such as the future of mankind, ecological issues and the benefits of new technologies in the context of globalisation. The Arborescence festival is imprinted in a cultural project where art, nature and new technologies can conjointly bring hopes of renewed ethics and [...]
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Peter Sinclair and I were part of the selection committee today for Arborescence 2005. That’s what you get for criticizing a festival: they invite you to be part of the following year’s selection committee. This year’s selection looks more interresting than last year’s, which lacked focus. Arborescence has actually been doing quite well for itself. A young festival organized by a dynamic young non-profit Terre Active, it’s held its own in an ever-growing field of digital arts festivals in France. They also asked me to submit a proposal for this year, but I have yet to find something appropriate. Perhaps [...]
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