A film by British artist duo Mirza/Butler following a series of visits to Karachi, Pakistan: subjective impressions and experiences regarding the collaboration with many different local professionals as well as a critique of the complex role of international and local media as crucial ideological mediators.
A technological composition project by Canadian artist duo [The User] (Emmanuel Madan / Thomas McIntosh) in which the mundane ticking of a clock is transformed into the source of complex acoustic structures in homage to Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique.
A new kind of domestic robots invented by the british art collective Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic Material Beliefs (Jimmy Loizeau / James Auger / Alexandar Zivanovic): bizzare carnivorous hybrids between machine and living organism feeding on small flies.
A glowing 4m sphere of hundreds of energy saving light bulbs created by artist Wang Yuyang (cn): A poetic allusion to the changing roles of technology and environment, nature and artificiality as well as the, since 1969, still unresolved claiming of the moon between East and West.
An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).
The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.
Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.
An audiovisual installation by the artist Félix Luque Sánchez (es). A peculiar, geometric object releasing a code of light and sound: synthetically generated images destabilise the viewers' faith in their own perception.
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