A team of seven researchers/artists led by visual artist Simon Faithfull have set up an unique mobile research station in Berlin to investigate existing urban waste ground in down town Berlin. Mobile Research Station No.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster – built from standard waste container, the [...]

Ars Electronica is a thirty-year-old annual festival of art, technology and society that takes place in Linz, Austria. The theme of this year’s edition is Human Nature. In their words:”This HUMAN NATURE will occupy the focal point at the next Ars Electronica Festival September 3-8, 2009 amidst a mix of speculative futuristic designs and provocative [...]

image AyahBdeir Date: August 9 2009, Location Beiteddine Festival, Bierut, Lebanon. “images of the ‘new middle east’ ” is a commission by international artist and composer Guy Manoukian for an upcoming concert in Beiteddine, Lebanon. Beiteddine Festival is one of the oldest and finest festivals in the Middle East and is held in a 200-year-old [...]

On July 4 2009 Cluster posted a link to a photo story commissioned by the The New York Times documenting the US real estate collapse ‘Ruins of the Second Gilded Age’, a few days later we received an e-mail from Simon Owens of bloggasm explaining that the photo essay had been removed and why. The [...]

ENTRY FORM (PDF): http://www.pixxelpoint.org/entryform2009.pdf DEADLINE: September 30th 2009, arrival date. WEBSITE: WWW.PIXXELPOINT.ORG *** *** *** Once Upon a Time in the West We keep on talking about “new media”, while in actually fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start counting from the advent of the Web, [...]