La lettre n°19


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As every month, we are suggesting a new artwork and a new artist's screen to you.

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I am incorporating, you are incorporating, it is incorporating, we are incorporating…. Google News is incorporating… The world's information is within reach. Annie Abrahams compiles and mixes the throbbing rumour. Words, images and voices of the media follow one another to compose a multilingual chorus in a univocal format. A dumb voice shows up, affixed as a counterpoint, breaking the unbridled tempo to whisper its persistent message of reinsurance. ALL + 1? Is this voice the other voice? The alleviating voice of the artist? Or on the contrary exacerbates it the duality of the daily message, the collective distilling of frights and insurances? Fear, loneliness and fragility are topics cherished by Annie Abrahams. She especially excavates in the dubious zone of the eternal search for identity by the communicating subject. A dream of ONE; to be undivided with or without the machine is echoed by News Series 2, with its split screen. Who speaks with whom? By whom we are spoken? The partition of Being Human, written for voices separated, dislocated, deteriorated, associated, united, joint and confronted in the instrumented sociality of the Internet, follows its long course.

The month's work of art

New Series 2
New Series 2
Annie Abrahams, 2007-2008

Downloadable screensaver for Windows. Training software, workout for your windows and desktop icons while you don’t need them.

Three times a day
for a healthy desktop
until old age.


Artiste's screen
Bildschirmgymnastik
©bildschirmgymnastik
Joreg, September 2002


The Grand Tour in the  Digital Humanities' age
Back from Oulu… We have attended the international conference DH 2008. We have brought back a short review for those who could not be there… and some interviews that we are delivering in MP3 format ! See the Special Feature...

Conferences and Seminars
The use of digital medium in the artistic, scientific and patrimonial institution.This is the title of a study journey organized with the Master (Digital Culture) students to close the academic year. The Observatoire critique is publishing the summary of these interventions. It is becoming harder and harder to maintain an impenetrable barrier between the teachings and the website editing, the first occupation leaving less and less availability for the second... All the more that we are exploring there the same objects. Read the reviews...   

Museums at the risk of Web 2.0
We are publishing the first part of an article dedicated to this hot topic. Read the article...

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