1930s Soviet optical synthesis animation looks positively futuristic after 4K restoration

It’s synthesis from paper – sounds crafted quite literally by hand, using drawn animation, then optically synthesized. But after this 4K restoration, it’s clear how much these 1930s inventors were ahead of their time.

Between art tech and techno, past and future, a view from Russia

Gamma, the oversized electronic music and contemporary art event, has just wrapped in St. Petersburg, RU. We talk to Moscow-based curator Natalia Fuchs about transformations both historical and future in the realm of intermedia art and technology culture.

Peter Kirn - July 30, 2018

How Dutch archives turned into a Lakker AV show about water

Wade in the water, indeed. Set the Irish duo Lakker loose in a Dutch film archive, and what you get is a dense, heavy experimental techno album and a live show exploring the Netherlands’ ongoing battle with the sea. It’s a 2016 album, but even if you caught it before, now we get some insight […]

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2017

Explore a huge, free archive of the history of Japanese animation

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2017

Meet the Subharchord, subharmonic organ of the DDR

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2016

Get to know Bob Moog in online pictures, artifacts

Peter Kirn - June 7, 2016

Mapping Berlin's Project Spaces Against Transformation, Rebuilding Old Rockets in 3D

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2013

Mapping Berlin’s Project Spaces Against Transformation, Rebuilding Old Rockets in 3D

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2013

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