Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

It’s official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that’s why the aesthetics of some of Atari’s earliest greats now sound newly fresh – not only retro, but as something elemental no deep in music, art, and culture.

Enter the wondrous world of Walter Giers’ electronic sound art

Few people could make circuits into art quite like Walter Giers. He made them into visual objects, into aesthetic and design statements, into loud and even “annoying” performative constructions, into instruments. They aren’t simply utilitarian means to an end, but imaginative medium. Electronic Beats takes a look into Walter Giers’ mind this week in a […]

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2017

Join Electric Indigo, Inner8 for an Immersion in Aesthetics

By way of follow up to our chat with Daniele Antezza yesterday, his Inner8 live act with sYn will meet up with another audiovisual collaboration – Susanne Kirchmyer (Electric Indigo), with visualist Thomas Wagensommerer. That takes place at Berlin’s Krake Festival next week, which means we get an extensive conversation with the two artists alongside […]

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2015

Morphing Abstractions to New Thom Yorke Superband, Tarik Barri's Poetry of Flatness

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2013

Morphing Abstractions to New Thom Yorke Superband, Tarik Barri’s Poetry of Flatness

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2013

Journey Game Out Today; Designing Feeling, Timeless Design

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2012

Exploring File Formats, Glitch with Rosa Menkman; Reading, Resources, Downloads

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2011

Casey Reas Talks to The Creators Project; Some Aesthetics and Art Behind Processing

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2011

Music for Dieter Rams: Alarm Clock Becomes Melodic, Minimal Treat; Music and Good Design

- May 20, 2011

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