Editorial

The context of this issue is all of the issues which have come before it. Or perhaps everything that you're currently reading. Or perhaps everything that's currently on your mind. Or everything that you expect from Mediamatic?

Lizareebiekoe Ahobschkoh

Today, most art still conforms to a cultural model in which the artist regulates his dealing with the historical and topical cultural environment by making public a form that is definitive and resists communication.

Playing with Search Engines

Climate change is global: it occurs nowhere in particular and everywhere at once. The same could be said of the information supply about this ecological crisis.

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VAN DIJK
Imagenation:Popular Images of Genetics

Cloning: a dream or a nightmare? Dolly or Adolf? Anyone who ponders the future of cloning soon runs into this century's most hackneyed nightmare vision: an army of cloned little Hitlers.

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interactivity for collective use

We will investigate the possibilities of designing collective environments in new media.

TOOP
Ocean of Sound, Aethertalk. Ambient sound and imaginary worlds

Rainy day, somewhere in the early eighties. After spending an hour or so at Staalplaat, I returned home with my catch of the day.

Embrace Space

What happens when 'infinite possibilities' are your context? The infinite possibilities of technology or the infiniteness of empty space - outer space? In Embrace Space, it's NASA versus the underdog; limitless faith in technology versus paranoia about the limitless possibilities of deception

Space Embrace

The user-illusion of the world: on the meaning of design for the economy and society in the computer age

FORK

Somewhere in the Fork website it says, '100 ideas a second'. Now take all those ideas and add the magic of some great experimental interface design and a strong graphical sensibility.

HYGEIA REVISITED

Some of the most successful recent art projects on the Web have attempted to bridge the gap between a more traditional public art 'audience' and a Web audience.

FABRIC8

Fabric8 set up a site that promotes and sells unique products from a variety of San Franciscan designers and artists.

COLORS

In the seven years of its printed existence, Colors Magazine has established international renown. Positioning themselves as a global magazine on local cultures, it was only a matter of time before they would make the move to the Internet.

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The Automatic VJ Machine
KaapEngine v2.0

Automatic VJ Machine (or KaapEngine v2.0) is a commissioned work of art by Gerald van der Kaap, the godfather of veejays.

SupUrmarket

What are the hidden histories of the commodities that surround us? Can network technologies serve and defend the public against private interest? We take a trip down to the SupUrmarket and go Ur exploring for worlds that are pregnant with possibility, just behind the barcode

VOLUMEONE

Volumeoneis a quarterly webzine put together by the Brooklyn-based'visual communications studio' founded by Matt Owens. The purpose of this zine is to explore the new narrative possibilities of the World Wide Web and to find out how visual communication functions online.