Making Sense of ISEA2008 (Without Any Decent Statistics)
Brogan Bunt reviews ISEA2008, Held in Singapore from 25 July - 3 August, hosted in Asia for the second time in its history. An international symposium on Electronic Art, for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media.
article, conference, dialogue, digital, event, festival, institutions, interactive, Internet Art, media art, social, theory
 Calling Home
As 080808, the second UpStage Festival of live online performances, draws closer, one of the14 selected performances has already begun: Calling Home Part 1 by activelayers was presented on Tuesday 1st July. Helen Varley Jamieson reviews the live networked event.
audiovisual, collaboration, event, interactive, Internet Art, interplay, reflection, remix, web art
 The Salt Satyagraha
DeLappe's virtual re-creation of Mahatma Ghandi's Salt March to Dandi is part installation part performance art. His historical re-enactment reveals how virtual space is navigated from real space rather than the politics of Ghandi's protest against British salt tax in 1930, utilizing real space, a blog, and images on Flickr.
activism, aesthetic, agency, behaviour, cyberculture, exhibition, interactive, Internet Art, social, web art
 Abstract Hacktivism
A book collecting two essays by Otto von Busch and Karl Palmas transforms the concept of "hacktivism" with well-argued historical analysis and a number of informative case studies.
activism, books, collaboration, critical, cyberculture, geopolitical, hacking, hactivism, marxism, social
 Big Buck Bunny
"Big Buck Bunny", the second short film from the Blender Foundation, features well animated cartoon animals trying to kill each other in order to advance free software and free culture.
aesthetic, animation, collaboration, creative commons, Film, free software