Mio I-zawa is a Japanese interactive media artist that utilizes flesh-like masses of material that resemble hearts, tumors, and skin cells. These items are placed into situations where they interact with computers, humans, or both.

The city of Berlin is preparing for this year’s transmediale.09, an international festival of Media Arts established in 1988. In good tradition, transmediale kicks off with a grand opening on January 27th, just shortly before the opening of the Berlin International Film Festival.
This year, the curators have taken on the theme “Deep North,” looking at the broader scape of human interaction with global systems. Their site reads:
In the context of climate change, transmediale.09 reflects on the urgency to read global events in fundamentally new ways, developing new cultural vocabularies factoring the autonomous and critical nature of art into the complexity [...]

Universal Everything, a commercial studio blending design and art in the UK, has recently installed a beautiful piece in the John Madejski Garden at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  Entitled ‘Forever,’ the installation consists of a large video wall displaying endless animations responding to an ever changing soundtrack.
Floating just above a pond in the middle of the garden, the installation is formed from generative music and generative visuals.  Essentially, the visuals are being created by the music that’s being played and the music that’s being playing is also being influenced by the visuals.  Got that?
What’s interesting about the piece, [...]