Leonardo Electronic Almanac  

Lanfranco Aceti

Does Red Art exist? And if so, who creates it and where can we find it? This special issue of the Leon- ardo Electronic Almanac addresses these questions and collates a series of perspectives and visual essays that analyze the role, if any, that Red Art p... see more

Bill Balaskas

There is a new spectre haunting the art world. Not surprisingly, it has been put forward in recent arti- cles, panel discussions and books as the ”˜ism’ that could, possibly, best describe the current disposi- tions of contemporary art. The name of the sp... see more

Susanne Jaschko

What is Red Art? Or rather: what could Red Art be in today’s post-communist, post-utopian world, aworld shaken by conflicts engendered by contrary beliefs and ideologies which have little to do withcommunism? A world in which countries and societies are d... see more

Julian Stallabras

The divide between the art shown in major museums and art fairs and that associated with the new media scene has been deep and durable. Many critics have puzzled over it, particularly because there is much that the two realms share, including the desire t... see more

Boris Čučković

Based on the open animated movie Elephants Dream and the Free Universal Construction Kit project, I delineate and critically examine open source cultural production as a specific practice of the contemporary post-medium condition (Krauss, Manovich). I exp... see more

Dan Schiller, Shinjoung Yeo

The Internet and new media are often seen as constituting open spaces where cultural empowerment and free-flowing expressive creativity find emancipation from top-down political-economic power. However, this one-sided perspective is insufficient, if not e... see more

Boris Magrini

As a platform for knowledge sharing and artistic exploration, Hackteria constitutes a network of artists and researchers that merges the use of biotechnologies with hacking and do-it-yourself strategies. Its process-oriented and performative approaches, w... see more

Matteo Pasquinelli

Over-identification is a politico-aesthetic strategy famously developed by the music band Laibach and the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst since the 1980s and conceptualised, among others, also by Slavoj Žižek. This essay argues that the strategy of... see more

Ruth Pagà¨s, Gemma San Cornelio

Despite today’s ruling of neoliberal capitalism, New Media Art could be regarded as a place of resistance, where radical ideologies such as communist utopias and other social discourses are able to proliferate and spread through social connectivity. [1] B... see more

Taus Makhacheva

The viewer observes a man performing what seems to be a ritual dance among the ruins of the abandoned Avar village of Gamsutl, situated in the Caucasian mountains. In the past, this village has been famous for its skilful jewellers and armourers. Since th... see more

David Garcia

In this essay I argue that despite the powerful forces seeking to domesticate the internet, transforming it from the bio-diversity of a ”˜creative commons’ into a network of carefully managed ”˜walled gardens,’ the drive to expand and intensify the ideal ... see more

Valentina Montero Peà±a, Pedro Donoso

This paper explores the various ways in which art and new technologies converge in Latin America from a political and social perspective. Through the analysis of a number of art works and projects produced in the last decade in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Me... see more

Cornelia Sollfrank, Rahel Puffert, Michel Chevalier

THE THING Hamburg was an experimental Internet platform whose vocation was to contribute to the democratization of the art field, to negotiate new forms of art in practice, and to be a site for political learning and engagement. We, the authors, were acti... see more

Daphne Dragona

This paper examines a new form of creativity based on the commons, using as a starting point two projects commissioned by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens in 2010. It aims to define the features of this emerging creativity, to locate the ... see more

Natalie Bookchin

Long Story Short is a composite group interview that takes form variously as a film, an installation, and an online interactive web documentary drawn from and linked to an archive of video diaries made by 75 interviewees who reflect on poverty in America ... see more

Karin Hansson

The micro-financing of artists offers new possibilities for people outside the economic and cultural elite to become patrons of the arts. One might term it a more democratic base for the artistic activity and its varied discursive practices. However, it i... see more

Christina Vatsella

In its original meaning u-topia means the lack of topos. This condition is inherent in the new media artwork. Due to its immaterial quality and non-object status, the new media art is not physically tied to a specific space unless displayed. This literall... see more

Adam Brown

One moving image, a video of events in Syntagma Square in 2011, shows a swarm of points of green light, created by laser pointers directed at the architecture surrounding the square from within the crowd, and a second still image with the word ”˜thieves,’... see more

Elske Rosenfeld

This text is based on a conversation between myself and à…sa Sonjasdotter, visual artist and professor at TromsภAcademy of Fine Arts. In this text we will discuss my artistic research into the history of the revolutions of 1989 and of state-socialism in... see more

José Luis de Vicente

The text of this article is based on a lecture imparted during the Ars Electronica Festival 2011 as part of the Sensing Place, Placing Sense Symposium in September 2011. Several weeks after this talk, the emergence of the Ocuppy Wall Street movement and i... see more

Lanfranco Aceti

Decoding the Flow is an exhibition by Paolo Cirio with the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) that opened in parallel with another exhibition by Cirio at Kasa Gallery that was titled Jurisdiction Shopping.

Elske Rosenfeld

The project draws on a selection of nature and special interest magazines from the GDR from October 1989 till October 1990. It comprises all issues of each publication in which the process of political transformation within the country was discussed in re... see more

Karen O'Rourke

Today new media artists and entrepreneurs alike lay claim to the ideals of 1960s counter-culture. Silicon Valley start-ups have spawned a corporate culture that aims for maximum creativity, greater employee initiative and workplace autonomy. Has this “new... see more