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  • ...The luminal tunnel of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport was always the perfect symbolic experience of the future. With its plunging vanishing point and soaring roofline, Saarinen's theatrical passage embodied, if not created, Utopian ideals of...
  • ...Leonel Moura is a pioneer in the application of robotics and artificial intelligence in art. In 2001 he created the first robot arm able to generate unique paintings operate by an ‘ant algorithm’. In 2003 a swarm of ‘Painting Robots’ were able to produce artworks based...
  • The Return of Ulysses -
    ... excellent singers perform in William Kentridge's thought-provoking multimedia rendition of Monteverdi's opera. Transforming the opera's setting to a hospital bed in Johannesburg, Kentrige brings a contemporary South African perspective to this classic Greek...
  • ... pattern from a metal frame. Fedora hats are attached via a multitude of black rods to each robotic structure so that the hats hang in midair at roughly eye level with the observer. This arrangement alludes to an invisible human presence directly...
  • The Sentient Thespian -
    ...Sentient Thesbian is a theatrical movie about 2 robots.
  • ...Thecla Schiphorst is a computer media artist, theorist, educator, computer systems designer, choreographer, and dancer. She is a member of the design team that has developed Life Forms, the computer compositional tool for choreography, and has been working with the...
  • ...Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc' is arguably one of the finest films in the history of film, and Renée Jeanne Falconetti, primarily known as a stage performer in light opera, provides it with one of cinema's most harrowing performances. Shot...
  • ...Deep Sleep moves backwards and forwards in time between a notorious Sydney psychiatric institution of the 1970's where patients were subjected to "deep sleep" therapy, and the Chelmsford Royal Commission, established in the 1990's to investigate the many...
  • ...In 1996, the festival was still held in September, unlike later, when it was traditionally held in spring. This year, the film programme was put together in cooperation with the Swiss Film, Video and Multimedia Festival VIPER. It presented interesting impulses from...
  • COMBATscience -
    ...Multimedia environment with performative inserts 'COMBATscience' takes the life stories of the German scientist and Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Haber (1868–1934) and his wife, the chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), as motifs for the development of various topics....