Digital Art

George Lucas is building a Museum!

By on 29. June 2017

Star Wars creator gets the Tender in Los Angeles

He took the last hurdle. The museum of Star Wars inventor George Lucas can be built in Los Angeles. After the cities of San Francisco and Chicago were drawn up the shortlist, the star director has now decided to go for the film metropolis.

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Alexey Kljatov – the King of Geometric Chaos

By on 29. April 2017

Snowflakes in Macro Photography

The Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov drew attention as early as 2013, when the first pictures of his fascinating snowflake recordings went virally around the world. He has not stopped creating these amazing photos. The results are getting more precise.

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How Virtual Reality revolutionizes Storytelling

By on 14. April 2017

When Film breaks new Ground

Men always wanted to create virtual realities. The technical development now makes it possible to create virtual worlds comparatively easy. Innovative business models conquer the advertising world. We provide you some exciting best practice examples in this article.

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Virtual Body

By on 14. April 2017

Art 2.0 – Pixel instead of Brush

Where once colour application and brushwork were of interest, today there are GIF files, encryption codes and ASCII. Since a long time, art has not only been developed analogously and with brush strokes. However, digital art also changes the self-perception and the representation of corpuses. About digital art and its possibilities:

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Rock am Ring back at the Nürburgring

By on 27. March 2017

Back to the Roots

2017 is the year when Rock am Ring returns to its origins. The organizers and the Ring managers have agreed to hold the festival at the old popular site in the Eifel. Well, we guess it’s time to get your tickets, because Rock am Ring is almost sold out this year!

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Highlights of the Musikmesse Frankfurt

By on 26. March 2017

New DJ Equipment and Controller

This year’s Musikmesse in Frankfurt am Main will open its doors again from 5th to 8th April 2017. While the classical music fair will take place on the west side of the exhibition grounds, the Prolight + Sound Fair will be held on the eastern site from 4th April 2017 onwards. Today, we introduce you to the highlights out of the section DJ equipment and DJ controller.

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Tangerine Dream

By on 23. February 2017

What about …?

After the death of Edgar Froese (2015), the founding member of Tangerine Dream, it has become very quiet around the electro pioneers. However, they still exist as usual in a new setup. We look back on the impressive path of probably one of the most important representatives of electronic band music.

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New Wearables for Deaf

By on 7. February 2017

Feel the Music through the Sound Shirt!

The first in Germany who invited deaf to a concert were the Junge Symphoniker Hamburg. With the so-called sound shirt, deaf people can feel the music on the body as vibrations without hearing. We betray to you how that works.

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Yoko Ono and John Lennon – The Movie

By on 6. February 2017

Fifty Shades of Gray Producer works on a Love Film

They were probably the most famous couple in pop history. Yoko Ono and John Lennon decisively influenced the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Now, 36 years after the assassination of John Lennon, a film about the love story of the two is beeing produced.

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Aphex Twin

By on 14. December 2016

The Mozart of Techno

He is undoubtedly one of the most important representatives of the electronic scene: Aphex Twin aka Richard David James. It is claimed, that he produced first pieces at the tender age of ten by the help of a prepared piano and a tape recorder. We introduce the luminary.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

By on 22. November 2016

The Pioneer of Electronic Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He still is a pioneer and an important source of inspiration for a comprehensive artist circles. From Joseph Beuys over Kraftwerk up to the DJ’s and artists of the techno generation all musicians who work with electronic music refer to the master of the artificially produced sound.

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The Genre Fashion Photography

By on 15. November 2016

Beautiful Women in beautiful Clothes

Yes – even fashion photography is an art form and fascinating exhibitions in galleries appertain to it repeatedly. Not only used in advertising and for selling, this genre radiates a very special appeal. Who does not want to take pictures of beautiful models in exciting clothes?
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