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That’s what contributes to the motivation to keep on ‘looking’ broader with our Cell Phone Disco.

We’re exited to announce that we’re currently wrapping up the development of a new version of our Cell Phone Disco installation. Thanks to a commission by The Pittsburgh Cultural we where able to design a permanent installation for their new outdoor light gallery at the Cultural District in Downtown Pittsburgh, USA.

Updates
More update posts to come soon, but in the meantime you can follow the project progress on our Facebook page.

We received an email from Stephen Wilson that his new book Art+Science Now is being published. He asked us a while ago for visual material of our installation and we’ve been selected as one of the featured works. The book gives a global overview of the ways in which contemporary artists draw on scientific and technological developments to explore new forms of creative expression. In the twenty-first century, some of the most dynamic works of art are being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical, and social questions connected with cutting-edge scientific and technological research. Their work ranges across disciplines—microbiology, the physical sciences, information technologies, human biology and living systems, kinetics and robotics—and takes in everything from eugenics to climate change to artificial intelligence.

This comprehensive overview covers an array of work produced by some 250 artists from America, Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, and elsewhere. It presents a broad range of projects, from body art to bioengineering of plants and insects; from music, dance, and computer-controlled video performances to large-scale visual and sound installations.

About the author
Stephen Wilson is Professor of Conceptual and Information Arts at San Francisco State University and co-editor of Leonardo, the international journal of art and science. He is the author of Information Arts, Using Computers to Create Art, and Art + Science Now.

After WIRED NextFest’08 in Chicago and the 3rd International Contemporary Art Biennale, Seville we’re pleased to announce that Cell Phone Disco is part of the LIGHTWAVE exhibition at the Science Gallery, Dublin.

Testing the new sensors during daylight.

Celebrating innovation

Now in its second year LIGHTWAVE gives an unique chance to experiment with illumination in the company of a bright and buzzing community of scientists, engineers, philosophers and techno-artists who are passionate about the visible spectrum. From January 23-31st the LIGHTWAVE festival will thrill and delight Dublin city, and the LIGHTWAVE exhibition will continue until February 20th.

In keeping with the philosophy of Science Gallery, LIGHTWAVE is generated through an open call for ideas. From ten thousand peacock feathers in foaming acid to electric fish and a new kind of fuel cell to provide off-grid light in Africa, we have a full range of delights in store for you at the LIGHTWAVE festival, exhibition, talks and workshops.

More on Cell Phone Disco at the Science Gallery

Just one hour later after arriving back from Chicago we travelled on to Seville in Spain to participate as one of the many artists from all over the world in the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3), which will be held from 2 October 2008 to 9 January 2009.

Cell Phone Disco in action at the BIACS.

Curated by Peter Weibel, general director of the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Wonil Rhee, guest curator of PS1MoMA 2009, Korean curator, and Marie-Ange Brayer, director of the Regional Centre of Contemporary Art of Orleáns, France.

In the global context of the information and communication society, the Biacs3 will make a new map of Global Art, World Art, addressing the specific aspect of media, environment and technology. Under the title youniverse, the Biennial of Seville will show how contemporary art worldwide has changed through the influence of media, technology, science and architecture by fostering one main goal: the participation of the public and a new equation between man and his environment.

The creations of the selected artists (approximately 180 works) revolve around mobility, individualisation through technologies, quantum physics, nanotechnology, hydraulic engineering, architecture and the environment. One aspect will be to show that technology as man-made nature can help to solve our problems with natural environments. The other aspect will be the democratization of art. The audience, rather than the artists, is the star. The Biascs3 will present the public with a showcase of the 21st century’s most representative technical breakthroughs on the threshold of a material revolution that will lead us from simulation to stimulation, and will invite visitors to personally interact with the contents of the exhibition.