Alva Noto
The work of German artist Carsten Nicolai encompasses electronic sound/music performance and mixed media installation. Born in Karl Marx Stadt (now Chemnitz), Germany in 1965, and initially trained as...
View ArticleISEA2004
ISEA2004 was the 12th Symposium on Electronic Arts, organised for the first time in two capital cities and on a ferry that travelled between Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn, and Tallinn. During this...
View ArticlePoetics and Technics or How to Become a Sound Artist
Imagine a child of the ‘jet-age’ in an unobtrusive coastal village living mid-way between the dwelling of Blake, the artist, poet and visionary and that of his friend, the scientist and astronomer...
View ArticleTransmediale Report
The theme for Transmediale 04 was Fly Utopia—there is hope there is no hope. This offered interesting conceptual territory in terms of cultural theory and worried at the ongoing question as to the...
View ArticleClose Listening
I was able to meet the artist Larissa Linnell, during the final stages of her site-specific installation. Using a slide projector as a guide, she was completing a floor-to-ceiling pattern. Thousands...
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