Introduction In 1932 Antonin Artaud published “Theatre of cruelty” manifesto. It was the first time when the phrase “virtual reality” was ever used. It described how Artaud thought about the new format of modern theatre. In Artaud’s manifesto there is a passage concerning musical instruments: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: They will be treated as objects and as …
The Emergence of Digital Reality on the Polish Scene I will attempt to outline a juxtaposition of contemporary Polish activities and artistic projects which combine the use of current tools such as 3D, photogrammetry gaming engines, virtual and augmented reality, in the context of the search for authorial aesthetic values, new ways of building storytelling …
Introduction Synthetic media is an interconnected field of AI-generative media. This rapidly growing field is directly connected to generative adversarial networks. It is a modification of data by automated means. And even though it is mostly associated with the latest more popular implementations such as deepfakes it has a much wider spectrum including text to …
Someone requested on Reddit Miguel Herrera Saiyan transformation. It was a two-hour impromptu project and it really surprised me when the next morning I learned that it had gone viral with 7 million views. Adam Philips, animator Introduction It is hard to imagine modern digital culture without a GIF. This format is so iconic that …
Digital Georgia is a research article where I will cover contemporary, new media projects, artists, and platforms that are shaping the digital arts climate in Georgia. The article will be updated and expanded with each new entry, so keep coming back. In-Between Conditions In-between Conditions is a Georgian independent, transdisciplinary platform of media art, …
Japanese multimedia artist Ryoichi Kurokawa was born in 1978 in Osaka and is currently based in Berlin. He presents an audiovisual language where he combines a synthesis of complexity and simplicity. He began to work as an audiovisual artist in 1999. Released the audiovisual work “Copynature” from the PROGRESSIVE FOrM label in 2003, followed in …
Henry Jenkins is a media scholar who coined the term “convergence culture”. He is the Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending more than a decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the …
The idea of mechanical objects as intelligent beings is not new. Ancient Greeks, Chinese and Egyptian philosophers, and mathematicians reflected on automatons for centuries. Serious progress in the development of Artificial Intelligence began in the first half of the 20th century. Let’s go through interesting facts about AI step by step. 1The Spanish engineer Leonardo …
