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Banlieue, territoire-fiction : que retenir de l’exposition au Lavoir Numérique ?

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:48:58 +0100

L’exposition Banlieue, territoire-fiction, présentée dans le cadre de la Biennale Némo au Lavoir Numérique de Gentilly, interroge ce que...

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201 flip-flops beat for meriem bennani's installation at lafayette anticipations in paris

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:09:30 +0100

Petit-Déjeuner Art-Science 2025 : dévoilement de la campagne The Brain Challenge - Institut du Cerveau

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:45:35 +0100

Petit-Déjeuner Art-Science 2025 : dévoilement de la campagne The Brain Challenge Institut du Cerveau

M.C. ESCHER – Entre Art et Science au Mudec - Lepetitjournal.com

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:45:08 +0100

M.C. ESCHER – Entre Art et Science au Mudec Lepetitjournal.com

L’œuvre du jour : « 8.33, Perception de l’invisible » de Jésus Baptista

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:48:52 +0100

Découverte à l’occasion du festival SEMIBREVE, l’installation de Jésus Baptista réussit le tour de force de faire se rencontrer l’eau...

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Écrit par Zoé Terouinard

Ars Electronica mourns the passing of Christine Schöpf The blurry line between the arts and healthcare Cutting Edge: Sleeping fo...

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:09:28 +0100

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Christine Schöpf—a formative figure in media art and for all of us, without whom Ars Electronica would not be what it is today.

The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 blurred boundaries between art and healthcare, showing how creative practices can power health innovation and re-imagine patient-centred care.

“Perfect Sleep” shows how more sleep can lead to less consumption and CO₂ emissions, thus offering a simple counter-model to the compulsion for growth.

The Ars Electronica Futurelab invites you: Experience the latest works of the artistic R&D laboratory and atelier at the Ars Electronica Festival and collectively shape diverse futures!

Waltzes with artificial intelligence, organ music with robotics, interactive performances, and club nights: the musical program of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 opens up new realms of experience for its visitors.

Democracy thrives on resistance and participation. At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, artistic projects will show how protest opens up new spaces, strengthens communities, and creates visions for a shared future.

Theater has always been an art form that combines different media—today, this includes digital technologies. The Ars Electronica Festival 2025 showcases some of the most exciting examples.

“Organism and Excitable Chaos” combines sound sculpture, instrument, and kinetic experiment. The work explores how organic forms, unstable pipes, and a chaotic pendulum open up new possibilities for the interplay between material, sound, and audience.

At the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, artistic works will question the power of global tech corporations, shed light on “surveillance capitalism,” and show how we can reclaim our role in an AI-driven world.

rhythmic layering of wood and fabric weaves sail-inspired installation by cheng tsung feng

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:49:18 +0100

floating oculus installation shimmers in shifting chromatic light above brooklyn's streets

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:48:50 +0200

Vibe Shift

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:04:00 +0200

Earlier this month, Rhizome presented Vibe Shift, a two-part event featuring a hackathon and showcase at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, New York. Organized in partnership with Anthropic, this event sought to explore the creative practice of Vibe Coding, or the practice of using plain language to prompt LLMs like Claude to create executable computer code.

Rhizome has long supported some of the very first artists working online—artists misunderstood for experimenting with new technologies, for troubling canonical standards online and beyond, for treating the internet as a playground. From quantum internet experiments to pigeons that monitor air quality to competitive web surfing, we are committed to platforming art that defies categorization. With that in mind, we convened our communities as well as those of our partners NEW INC, Onassis ONX, and ZeroSpace to explore the nascent creative practice of AI-assisted coding and how artists are responding to these new systems.

Day 1: Hackathon

participants at the hackathon, October 8 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

We gathered 100 artists from our community and 16 mentors to participate in a one-evening hackathon where they would learn, make, and reflect; participants and mentors were also invited to share their work in a public showcase the following night.

Ploipailin Flynn, co-founder of AIxDESIGN, set the broader context for the night, urging participants to reflect on process over product. She set out a framework of “Slow AI,” prompting those gathered to make things that are “small, weird, and situated.” Everyone was given printed worksheets that asked them to make note of credit usage, intentions, and results.

The hackathon was anchored by a wonderful group of mentors—Chia Amisola, Kevin McCoy, Louise Macfadyen, Will Freudenheim, Don Hanson, Morry Kolman, Paizley Lee, Jamie Wilkinson, Daniel Temkin, Aaron Santiago, Shakti Mb, Saarim Zaman, John Threat, Ploipailin Flynn, Char Stiles, Rox Harris—who provided guidance on how to get started, sharing insight into their practices and how vibe coding can be used to augment, intersect with, or interrogate them.

breakout mentor session during the hackathon, October 8 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

In a workshop with Chia Amisola, participants learned how to generate bookmarklets to “perform” websites; Morry Kolman walked us through how one might use AI to scrape public data from websites; Kevin McCoy challenged us to vibe code software with a user base of one.

From creating unscalable software, to designing absurd programming languages, to imagining alternative, slower narratives to AI, the evening was a vivid snapshot of artist communities navigating change, and a testament to the continued relevance of artistic perspectives even as tools and contexts shift.

Ploipailin Flynn, co-founder of AIxDESIGN, speaks at the hackathon on October 8 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

Kevin McCoy, artist, served as a mentor during the hackathon on October 8 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

Day 2: Vibe Shift Party

The following day we returned to ZeroSpace once again to see the works made during the hackathon, dance to live coded performances, eat cupcakes, scream at the top of our lungs during the vibe code battle, and more!

Showcase

A simulation of a 2-month old baby’s vision. An interactive maze that invites you to “browse the universe.” A rude horoscope. An ambient drone interface inspired by the cosmos of the universe. These are a few of the Claude-powered works on view at Vibe Shift, installed on projections and computers and in a subway car. Along with the exhibited works, participants and mentors also shared work via five-minute presentations for an attentive crowd.

Vibe Code Jam with John Threat/Rip Space

John Threat leads the vibe code battle on October 9 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

Bethany Crystal and Lyell Hintz compete at the vibe code battle, October 9 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

There’s a lot that you can do in 8 minutes—

Veteran vibe coders were invited to the stage to see what they could make with Claude in 8 minutes, starting from scratch with an empty prompt. At the end of each round, audience cheers determined a “winner;” drama and hijinks ensued, with emcee John Threat keeping the energy level high.

Paizley Lee made a video game starring a rogue Anthropic employee; Alexander Bricken created an MS Paint clone that turned sketches into 3d objects; Lyell Hintz created an ASCII composition that cascaded all over the screen; Bethany Crystal imagined what Taylor Swift’s campaign website might look like; Xuelong Mu created a visualizer for Pachelbel's Canon; and Char Stiles could not connect to wifi, but still won her round.

Live Coding Performances

The night closed out with a celebration of more traditional creative coding: live coded performances by Roxanne Harris and Char Stiles. Live Coding is the act of writing and editing computer code to generate live music or an audiovisual experience—it emphasizes process and transparency, revealing the code and interfaces the performer uses to generate the sound and visuals in real-time.

participants in a breakout mentor session lead by Char Stiles, October 8 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

Part 5: Thank you!

Like all of our events, this one could not have been possible without the support and guidance of many people, and our community.

Thanks to Anthropic, NEW INC, Matthew, Aaron, and Toups at Onassis ONX for everything from last-minute tech support, to encouraging members of your community to take part in the hackathon!

Thanks to the team at ZeroSpace: Jae Shin, Xuelong Mu, Hanzo, Josh Pitts, and Audrey Perera.

Thank you to all of our hackathon participants who presented works: Audrey Chou, Elizabeth Lin, Jenn Scheer, Lord Fascinator, Jackie Neon, Kalinda Panholzer, Jason Isolini, dotsimulate, Noah Eisenbruch, Mariel Martinez Estevez, Isaac Sante, Dahlia Bloomstone, Aarati Akkapeddi, Shayla Lee, Adelle Yingxi Lin, Morry Kolman, and Shristi Singh.

Thank you to our presenters Ploi Flynn, Daniel Temkin, Chia Amisola, Don Hanson, Paizley Lee, Jason Isolini, Morry Kolman, Brent Cox, Audrey Chou, Amita Shukla, and Shristi Singh.

Thanks to our excellent docents and staff: Jacob, Marin, Kendall, Chuck, Roger, David, Martin Campbell Security, and Tapuz Staffing.

Thanks to our vendors: Perfect Blends catering, Yummy Tummy’s Cupcakes, Brooklyn Food Guild, NA Visitor Beer, Lunar Hard Seltzer.

Thanks to SDN Broadcast for another seamless event!

ZeroSpace

crowd watches the presentations on October 9 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NYC.

Spira Memoriae – Scent as a vector of storytelling, transmission, and shared fiction

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:31:11 +0200

Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites the user to traverse a fragmented sensory world. Original perfumes extend this reflection through the language of scent, acting as markers within an abstract land...

« Vulnicura VR », que penser du concert en réalité virtuelle de Björk ?

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:44:14 +0200

La chanteuse islandaise Björk ressuscite son avant-dernier album « Vulnicura » (2015) grâce à la réalité virtuelle. Une expérience...

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Ben Arpea, de la peinture aux pixels

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:26:49 +0200

Connu pour ses peintures de paysage abstraites, Ben Arpea tente aujourd’hui de les faire vivre dans le monde numérique, lors d’une...

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Écrit par Zoé Terouinard

industrial modules and organic soil build architectural installation that grows with the forest

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:48:27 +0200

Qui est Jonas Lund, lauréat du prix Arts Numériques de la Fondation Etrillard ?

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:39:16 +0200

Ce mercredi 22 octobre 2025, le premier Prix Arts numériques de la Fondation Etrillard - Académie des Beaux-Arts a été décerné à Jonas...

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Écrit par Zoé Terouinard

Unbubble – Revealing our tailor-made (many) realities

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:51:29 +0200

Unbubble explore user’s Instagram activity, exposing the paradox of our digital lives—guarded devices yet open to algorithms. By visualizing these hidden interactions, it reflects on how data shapes our identities and online bubbles.

ulf mejergren builds mobile red cottage on scissor lift as a response to climate change

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:11:50 +0200

Douglas Gordon : la carrière de l’artiste écossais en 5 dates clés

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:48:40 +0200

Artiste pluridisciplinaire écossais, Douglas Gordon refuse le choix d’un médium unique. Au contraire, c’est à travers la vidéo, le...

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vikram goyal turns india's ancient animal fables into a scented landscape in paris

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:41:52 +0200

Call 1-800 Shaolin for a good time

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:54:00 +0200

In 2008, the electronic artist Max Tundra released an album in the form of a Kosher Chicken noodle soup can. In a recent interview, rapper Soulja Boy revealed that he purposefully mistitled his song Crank That on Limewire, attributing it to prominent Billboard artists such as 50 Cent, Eminem, and Britney Spears, in order to trick users into downloading the song. Years later in 2014, U2 sparked backlash when they released their thirteenth studio album Song of Innocence for free on iTunes—automatically adding it to users’ libraries without their consent.

Since the shift from owned media to streaming rewrote music industry power dynamics, many artists have released music in unconventional ways – but few have gone as far as Wu-Tang Clan. In 2015 they released only one copy of their seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $1 million, deleted the master files, put it on a CD, and placed it inside of a silver jewel-encrusted box with a wax Wu-Tang Clan seal. The terms established by the group—that it must remain private, free and non-replicable—meant that it could not be uploaded, streamed or downloaded online. In doing so, the group hoped to raise its value to that of fine art, and “inspire urgent debates about the value of music” in a world where streaming is so ubiquitous the very act tends to water down its value.

This begs the question, how do you experience an album that has only one copy in the world; whose online existence is forbidden?

For their 7x7 presentation this year, Spencer Harrison, Artistic Director of PleaserDAO, who purchased the album in 2021, and Máuhan M Zonoozy, entrepreneur, designer, and conceptual artist, set out to answer this question with a series of truly out-of-the (silver jewel-encrusted) box solutions.

(Note: by reading past this point, you agree to be bound by the project’s NDA. If you consent you may scroll further. This is definitely legally binding and would for sure hold up in court.)

Some of their solutions:

A spring-loaded shoe with a subwoofer so you can “feel the music in your sole.”

A semi-autonomous ride share experience where the album is embedded inside of the speaker system.

A dual-purpose private listening helmet that is NASA certified to go to space.

And more.

While the pair ultimately went in a different direction, all of the above prototypes provide private, free and non-replicable forms of listening. Using the law as their source material to create from, see how the pair transforms a New York City phone booth into a private listening experience.

This year’s 7x7 was copresented by Rhizome and Backslash at Cornell Tech. Watch other presentations from this year's conference.

Read "wu-tang clan, $4 million dollars, and a phone booth" by Máuhan Zonoozy

Guests of the rhizome 2025 Benefit listening to Once upon a time in Shaolin on a custom speaker designed by Emmett Palaima. Guests had to put their phones in a sealed magnetic pouch that required a special magnet to be opened. Photo by Alexey Kim/ Sidewalkkilla.

« Des Abysses aux étoiles » à Toulon – Un voyage immersif entre art, science et technologie - fautquonenparle.fr

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:05:48 +0200

« Des Abysses aux étoiles » à Toulon – Un voyage immersif entre art, science et technologie fautquonenparle.fr