//Reviews Refresh exhibition at Axiom Gallery.

Boston Globe. Everything old is new again. Artists degrade technology to find fresh content. By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent | August 4, 2010.

The exhibition "Refresh" (and my work Demolish the eerie ▼oid) got a review on Dinca and in the Boston Globe. 

                                                         
//Dinca:                                                         

"Spanning from 8bit and ascii animations to manipulated digital video, this exhibition creates an aesthetic and conceptual dialogue that allows us to question conventions of digital media in our society as well as our relationship to new and past technology.  The artists included in this exhibition evoke notions of nostalgia, document unintended artifacts, and push the boundaries of the ↓field by experimenting with new technologies.  In doing so, these artists create a refreshingly alternative digital practice that functions outside of the mainstream aesthetic."

//Boston Globe:

"Some of the art here simply looks grainy and low-tech. That can work when you push it far enough: Rosa Menkman has reduced a digital self-portrait down to a blipping code of colored dots, which at one point coalesce into an actual picture of her."

//Playlist exhibition at iMAL, Brussels.

Tomorrow is the closing day of Playlist in iMAL, an exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta. The exhibition gives an inclusive overview of artists working with ubiquitous technologies, (mis)using them as raw material to develop new works  concepts and understandings out of them.

Playlist gives us a sample of the way musical and visual artists asserted this freedom by taking the time to reinvent the specificites of the computer medium (code, computation generation, machine glitches,...) pushing obsolete game and computing technologies into new directions, far away from expected usages and established aesthetics, far away also from the pressure to consume the next generations of digital products launched on the market. Playlist highlights also the continuum of researches and practices based on reinvention, recycling and repurposing, active not only in mainstream cultures (game, hackers and demoscene, 8-bit and chiptune music) but also in contemporary media arts. This reinvention process is often one of the first steps that leads to innovation and renewal, a collaborative and open process shared by open communities and indivuals with rich, mixed and hybrid profiles.

For who did not get to go to Brussels, VjVISUALOOP made a nice overview-video. Around 1:44 you can see my video piece Radio Dada that is also part of the Playlist exhibition. I also made some photos during the opening night, which you can see here

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Pixelnoizz and Rosa Menkman live visuals @ Satta Outside 2010

After a day of heavy video glitch/compression-discussions and building 5 Quartz Composer patches in the sun, me and PXN (Pixelnoizz) did an improvised  "No Signal VJs" set, at the beach stage at Satta Outside Festival last weekend. We had a lot of fun, and I have lot of respect for PXN, he is a great artist and we really worked well together.

This is just 5 minutes of footage of our 3 hour filled-with-laughter improvisation.

Music by Lapti and DZA from Russia.

Video edited and shot by Tomas Ramanauskas, Vitalis Mika, Antanas Stasiunas and Darius Silenas 
(thank you guys and Vytautas, Ignas and the whole Satta crew!!).