CTM.13 – Marcell Mars, The Golden Age Interview
We met the Croatian internet activist and researcher Marcell Mars for a prolonged chat about the future of internet, The One Million Books project and the upcoming collapse and uprising of everything Marcell Mars (CRO) is an internet activist and…
Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future
Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republic’s very own futuristic endeavours While the Soviets were preoccupied with expanding their nuclear arsenal and launching dogs into…
Resonate 2013 New Media Festival @Belgrade (SER)
Following the success of the first Resonate festival that took place in March 2012, Magnetic Field B in collaboration with CreativeApplications.Net and Dom Omladine in Belgrade are pleased to announce the new edition of the festival, taking place 21-23 March…
CTM.13: The Golden Age report
Berlin’s Club Transmediale has been one of Europe’s leading destinations for creative encounters in cutting-edge technology, art and music for more than a decade now. Is it still going strong? Here’s our short and lo-fi photo overview of this year’s…
Device_art 4.012 – Machines, Robots and Boiled Eggs @Zagreb (CRO)
Oct 10-14, Student Centre, Zagreb (CRO) Device-art 4.012, the fourth edition of KONTEJNER’s international robotics, gadgets and devices festival, is the main culprit behind this new creative collision of weird, bizarre, witty and provocative techno-artistic concepts, this time located in…
Sharing my password with the world? Sure!
The Slovenian TMIA collective invites you to give away your password to a public online gallery. Apparently, it’s all about privacy and trust What will it take to put your online accounts’ passwords out in the open? Would you have…
Robots in Slovenian art
The first comprehensive exhibition focused on robots in contemporary Slovenian art lands in Venice, Italy The exhibition Robotica includes fields such as interactivity, robotics, informatics and multimedia. It the first comprehensive showcase of this part of contemporary Slovenian art. The…
Vuk Cosic: the origins of net.art
Back in 1994, when the Internet was still young and most people were struggling to grasp what it even was, the net.art movement was born “Net.art”, a term widely attributed to Belgrade-born artist Vuk Cosic, refers to a group of…
Are you for real? Inside Second Life: interview with Khannea Suntzu
Lily Lynch jumps into the virtual world to find out who the hell is this transhumanist, blogger, activist, conceptual artist and Second Life genderqueer prostitute. If you’d like to see for yourself, you can catch up with Khannea in person…
The future of reading
New reading devices might not change the face of literature, but they will create readers’ communities. According to Readmill, books have a future and the future is digital* Literature is a strange form of art: the art behind all arts, it…