From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Apr 2 13:33:10 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Apr 2 13:33:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield. In-Reply-To: <027201c8381d$6aa22f40$0301a8c0@marco> References: <027201c8381d$6aa22f40$0301a8c0@marco> Message-ID: <49D4A276.3050302@furtherfield.org> Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield. The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=338 Review by Marc Garrett. Exploits in the Wireless City is the 4th Radiator festival and symposium to date, which lasted between 13-24 January 2009, 10 days of Exhibitions, Events, Screenings, Music, Artists' Talks and more. Marc writes about the commission for the festival 'Going Underground', enquiring how the works relate to the theme of Surveillance and Sousveillance. In this article, you will also find reviews on work by Stanza, The Office of Community Sousveillance, Folke Kobberling & Martin Kaltwasser. "A contemporary enactment of the Orwellian vision is now here and for real, millions of lensed spectres watch our every move around the country in the streets, as the constant drone of shopping serfs waddle around in their state imposed panopticon daze. In George Orwell's visionary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the Thought Police could view and control citizens at any moment via a tele-screen, no one new whether they were being watched or not. Today, the UK Government is so rabid in its support of technocratic solutions to control its citizens, we are now the most watched soap opera by the powers that be on the planet. Us, who live in Britain are presently monitored by 4 million CCTV cameras, and if you happen to be living in London you are likely to be viewed on camera about 300 times a day." http://www.furtherfield.org ------------------------------> MORE INFO:> Reviews, interviews & articles: http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php About Furtherfield: Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing and asgaring platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. More About Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php From derek at umatic.nl Thu Apr 2 14:50:56 2009 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Thu Apr 2 14:51:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Neanderthal Electronics workshops // Apr-June // UK, DE, NO, NL Message-ID: <49D4B4B0.1090904@umatic.nl> Neanderthals Electronics workshops on tour April-June 2009! .:::DATES + CITIES:::. 20-24 Apr: Queen St. Studios, Belfast UK 04-09 May: eNKa, Berlin DE 25-29 May: Lydgalleriet, Bergen NO 01-05 Jun: WORM, Rotterdam NL .:::NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS:::. More than 40,000 years ago, our Neanderthal predecessors invented the first music instruments from simple objects around them (bones and stones, sticks and skins...), without reference to any existing music history, and primarily for their own pleasure rather than that of others. Nowadays, we use complex audio hardware and software which make it "easier" to make music, so long as we channel our creativity into such socially acceptable avenues as Western Classical or Minimal Techno. As with any established genre, the results are often completely predictable, and therefore quite boring. But some of us, deep in our wild hearts, still long for the Stone Age simplicity of pure noise! This 5 day workshop is designed for 8-10 people, possibly with a background in sound, but with no previous electronics experience. They are shown how to use simple objects from our modern environment (resistors, capacitors, transistors, LEDs, integrated circuit chips...) to design and build their own personal, customized primitive noise synthesizers. Each is a tiny world of its own, using primitive analog computers in combination with feedback, sensors and audio inputs to create a unique sound. Even from the same plan, no two are alike! Participants are encouraged to use found materials for the construction of their personal instrument. The workshop concludes with a group performance and an invitation to the audience to experiment with each of the instruments which have been created. .:::VIDEOS FROM PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS::::. http://www.vimeo.com/album/64426 .:::ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:::. Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and heavy metal music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html .:::REGISTRATION INFO:::. Please register early for all workshops, as they are limited to 10 places each! All workshop fees include electronic components + use of tools. BELFAST ***DATES: Monday 20 April - Friday 24 April 2009 10.00-16.00 daily ***LOCATION: Digital Arts Studios, 37-39 Queen Street Belfast BT1 6EA ***COST: This workshop is FREE! ***FINAL PRESENTATION: Saturday, 25 April 2009 9pm til late. Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court Belfast BT1 6BX. ?5 donation welcome. ***REGISTRATION: events@digitalartsstudios.com or phone 02890312900 BERLIN ***DATES: Monday 4 May - Saturday 9 May 2009 12.00-18.00 daily ***LOCATION: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany ***COST: 120 EUR ***FINAL PRESENTATION: Saturday 9 May, 19.00, eNKa ***REGISTRATION: eNKa_NK@gmx.de www.myspace.com/enka52 +49 (0)176 20626386 BERGEN ***DATES: Monday 25 May - Friday 29 May 2009 10.00-16.00 daily ***LOCATION: Lydgalleriet, ?stre Skostredet 3, Bergen, Norway ***COST: 500 NOK (approx 56 EUR) ***FINAL PRESENTATION: Friday 29 May, 19.00, Lydgallerie ***REGISTRATION: post@lydgalleriet.no +47 48 23 78 88 ROTTERDAM ***DATES: Monday 1 June - Friday 5 June 2009 11.00-18.00 daily ***LOCATION: WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam ***COST: 50 EUR ***FINAL PRESENTATION: Friday 5 June, 21.00, WORM, 5 EUR entry ***REGISTRATION: workshop@moddr.net -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ::: http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 97: "Is the style right?" From a.ludovico at neural.it Fri Apr 3 08:00:00 2009 From: a.ludovico at neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Fri Apr 3 08:02:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] new Neural issue #32, Machine Affection Message-ID: The new printed Neural issue #32, "Machine Affection" is available. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION! 3 issues Europe, 30,90 Euros - World, 54,50 U.S. Dollars. http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BACK ISSUES: http://www.neural.it/art/2006/01/neural_back_issues.phtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Neural n. 32 contents] http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . France Cadet interview, . Ken Rinaldo interview, . Douglas Irving Repetto interview, . 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NEURAL http://neural.it/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Magazine - English (http://neural.it/) Italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Printed Issue - http://www.neural.it/art/2008/03/neural_29.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml From istha at nimk.nl Fri Apr 3 09:17:17 2009 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Fri Apr 3 09:17:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Book-launch: ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Edward Shanken, April 17 Message-ID: <49D5B7FD.3070407@nimk.nl> ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA BOOK-LAUNCH // DISCUSSION // PERFORMANCE // CELEBRATION NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5pm, free entrance, please let us know if you want to come: info@nimk.nl To celebrate the publication of Art and Electronic Media, the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of new media art, NIMk will host the international book-launch. ? Edward Shanken, the author, will share insights and highlights, answer questions, and autograph copies of the book, for sale at 37% discount (cash only) ? Annet Dekker will lead a discussion with the author and the audience ? Yolande Harris (NIMk resident artist, 2008) will perform new electronic music ? DJ Sniff will spin yarns of digital vinyl during the reception Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon, 2009) demonstrates the formidable history of artistic uses of electronic media. Over 200 artists and institutions from more than thirty countries are represented. It enables the rich genealogy of art and electronic media to be seen ? literally and figuratively ? as central to the histories of art and visual culture. Praise for Art and Electronic Media: ? ?It is a superb work of scholarship, marked by clarity, subtlety, and comprehensive vision. Art and Electronic Media does us all a great service. More than any other publication that I know of, it will bring our field of practice into the mainstream of art.? - Roy Ascott ? ?It?s the best book of its kind? ? Casey Reas ? ?This book will be quoted for decades to come? ? Eduardo Kac Edward Shanken is Universitair Docent, New Media, University of Amsterdam. Expert on historic and emerging new media practices in visual culture. http://artexetra.com Annet Dekker is program manager at Virtueel Platform and former head of exhibitions and education at NIMk. Also an independent curator and Ph.D. candidate at Goldsmiths College. Yolande Harris is a composer and artist working with sound, image and space in a technologically extended environment. Artist-in-residence at NIMk in 2007-8. http://yolandeharris.net DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a turntablist and researcher/curator in music technology. Artistic Director of STEIM, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music. http://www.djsniff.com/ For more information on the book, see http://artelectronicmedia.wordpress.com Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam T 020 6237101 F 020 6244423 http://www.nimk.nl From mathieu at coombs.anu.edu.au Thu Apr 2 09:54:00 2009 From: mathieu at coombs.anu.edu.au (mathieu@coombs.anu.edu.au) Date: Fri Apr 3 10:44:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] [pub] Cyberchiefs Message-ID: <52565.121.127.223.90.1238658840.squirrel@rsss.anu.edu.au> [apologies for cross-posts] Hi everyone Thought some might be interested to know that my book 'Cyberchiefs' which analyses leadership and organisation in free software projects, weblogs and wikis has been released. Please see the blurb below for more info. Cheers, Mathieu ******* Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes Mathieu O?Neil April 2009 PB / ? 17.99 / $ 32.95 / 978-0-7453-2796-9 / 215mm x 135mm / 242 pp ?Going against all easy celebrations of an Internet culture without authority or power structures, Cyberchiefs offers an important and relevant account of the innovations in forms of authority expressed by the social dynamics of Internet group formations.? Tiziana Terranova, associate professor of Sociology of Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Naples ?L?Orientale? and author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O?Neil focuses on the regulation of these working relationships. He examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics. What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organisation? Using case studies of online projects or ?tribes? such as the radical Primitivism archive, the Daily Kos political weblog, the Debian free software project, and Wikipedia, O?Neil shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and he analyses the tensions generated by this distribution of authority. Mathieu O?Neil is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, and Principal Researcher at Australia?s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He has contributed articles to Le Monde diplomatique, Mani?re de voir and Factsheet 5. He has also worked as a magazine editor and designer, as an editor on the collective New Media Art weblog Under the Sun, and has curated international digital art exhibitions. Publisher webpage (US): http://us.macmillan.com/cyberchiefs Obligatory Facebook page: Coming soon! ******* Mathieu O'Neil, Ph.D Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University Room 4101, Coombs Building (9) ACT 0200 - Australia E-mail: mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au Tel: (61) 2 61 25 38 00 Web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php From oliverodomenico at libero.it Thu Apr 2 18:32:29 2009 From: oliverodomenico at libero.it (oliverodomenico) Date: Fri Apr 3 10:44:30 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for artists Message-ID: Dear Sirs, We are writing to inform you that proposals for selection for ManifestaZOOne.09 are now welcome. You are invited to pass this information on to persons who you believe may be interested in participating in this event. ManifestaZOOne is a urban art exhibition open to young artists, organised by the Art.ur association with the support of the Cuneo City Council. For details please visit www.zooart.it For any clarifications please make contact directly with the organisers. Kind regards Domenico Olivero associazione art.ur ManifestaZOOne.09 Urban art exhibition Sponsor: Piedmont Region; Cuneo Province; Torino township; Cassa di Risparmio di Torino Foundation; IED; Gaia Collection; Cuneo township; Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation rules + application form urban art exhibition 09 regulations The closing deadline for applications is 8 th of may 2009 art.1 description The association Art.ur, in collaboration with the Cuneo Township presents the third Urban Art Exhibition contest, ManifestaZOOne. The intention of this project utilizing public art is to promote communication of socially sensitive issues in the form of large billboards, displaying this informative and creative art to the wider public that move daily through the city. Typically utilized for commercial advertising, the billboard will instead become a space for reflection where the contest message is inserted into in the daily lives of city citizens. art.2 contest theme The candidates will need to produce a graphical work to be printed 6 meters by 3 meters. The winning work or works, at the discretion of the judges, will be printed in the above dimensions and displayed in the Fresia gardens of Cuneo from the 2nd to the 19th of July during the ZOOart exhibition as well as on various advertising billboards within the city of Cuneo from the 9th to the 22nd of November 2009, during the Literature exhibition ?Scrittoriincitt?? (writers in the city). The theme that candidates must base their work on is: ?r?evolution? In this period of economical world crisis, it is necessary for an evolution of the political, economical and social system so to improve our current situation. The theme r?evolution is linked to the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, who inspired the new socio?economical ideas of philosophers such as Serge Latouche. R?evolution does not mean creating disorder, it refers to evolving the socio?economical system so that it may better develop our human potential. The theme this year therefore concerns our future and how it might develop but also the relationship that human?s have with their natural world and how we live through change. art.3 how to enter Entering the contest is free. The candidate must supply their work in a finished state ready to print, following the indications below. The candidate must send the file in: a Postage pack with the senders address included, addressed to: Concorso manifestaZOOne associazione Art.ur Casella Postale 208 12100 CUNEO Centro Italy The package to send must contain: A. a closed envelope that is anonymous, bearing only an alphanumeric code composed of 3 numbers and 3 letters (for example 123ABC) containing: 1. the contest application form filled in and signed 2. a resume of the participant or group of participants B. presentation in writing of the artistic work, anonymus and containg the same alphanumeric code composed of 3 numbers and three letters (e.g. 123ABC) C. a colour print, A4 format, of the work presented, with the same alphanumeric code written on it (e.g. 123ABC). D. Digital CD anonymous, with the same alphanumeric code written on it (e.g. 123ABC), containg: 1. the file of the work in format: _ .TIFF 110 cm wide by 60 cm high The image must have a definition of 450 dpi. 2. the file of the work in format: _ .PDF 110 cm wide by 60 cm high The image must have a definition of 450 dpi. The material will not be returned, it will become part of the exhibition archive. art.4 Entry deadline The package must be sent by the 8 th of may 2009, the postage stamp will be considered as proof of date of postage. art.5 evaluation criteria, judges and selection A panel of qualified experts, artists, curators and graphic artists, including a teacher from the IED in Torino, will consider works of a high aesthetic quality, that completely adhere to the theme of the contest, with a subtle sense of irony and that are especially efficiently communicative. These judges will examine the material sent and will show the results of the contest on the site www.zooart.it and through printed media, before the 15th of June 2009. The organisation has the right to choose only a single entry as the winner or to not proceed in choosing any winners if the judges indicated that none of the entries are adequate. The contest outcome cannot be appealed. art.6 prizes The winning work or works, at the discretion of the judges, will be printed 6 meters by 3 meters and the price of printing and display will be the exclusive responsibility of the organisers. The winning projects will be published on the exhibition catalogue. The winning works will be displayed, in a size that the organisers deem most suitable, within the Fresia Gardens of the Cuneo township as part of the ZOOart exhibition that begins the 2nd of July 2009. art.7 rights and copyright The organisers have the right to use the material contained in the file sent and to photograph the winning works to be included as part of the archive documentation. The organisers are exempt from paying for the right of reproduction and use of the works within the context of advertising the manifestaZOOne contest and for the ZOOart exhibition. Any responsibilities derived from the publishing of the work remain with the candidate. art.8 consensus By participating in this contest the candidate agrees to the above regulations. art.9 right to withdraw The organisers have the right to modify these regulations at any time, communicating any changes in writing to the effected parties. art.10 handling of personal information the candidates personal information will be used by the association Art.ur exclusively for the processing of applications to the manifestaZOOne.09. contest. According to Italian legislative decree 196/2003 it is possible to request the cancellation of one personal information by writing to: Art.ur association, Casella Postale 208, 12100, CUNEO Centro Italy. art.11 information For any further information please contact the Art.ur association: secretary: tel.?fax. 0171689960 tel. 339 6908997 e?mail: pqemi@tiscali.it zooarte@gmail.com web: www.zooart.it deadline: 08.05.2009 for images related to the exhibition manifestaZOOne please go to: www.zooart.it Application Form the undersigned born in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ resident of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ postal code _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ address: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ phone number _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e?mail _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Applies at no monetary expense to the contest ManifestaZOOne accepts all the conditions of the regulations. according the legislative decree 196/2003 the information provided will be utilized exclusively for the exhibition Date Signature (acceptance) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ From redazione at digicult.it Fri Apr 3 17:54:21 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Apr 3 17:54:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digital Direction|Contest 2009 Message-ID: <001b01c9b474$7483a3c0$83661201@marco> Sorry fo any crosspostings Digital Direction|Contest 2009 international competition for young artists >> 10th May 2009 The contest is organized by Artegenti in collaboration with Movimenta with the precious contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena (Italy) _______________________________________ Idea & concept|Gilberto Caleffi Jury| Gilberto Caleffi, Artegenti | Massimo Grillenzoni, Movimenta | Rossella Bertolazzi, IED Milano | Gianpaolo Caselli, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena | Simone Frittelli, Frittelli arte contemporanea Deadline|10th May 2009 Award Ceremony| 30th May 2009 Digital Direction is ready to begin. The competition organized by Artegenti is open for young artists under the age of 35, and is a division of Direct Digital 2009, whose specific orientation makes it a distinctive platform for new media arts and digital culture. The event will take place in Modena and in Carpi between 30th May and 28th June. The idea is based on the loan of four contemporary artworks by Mimmo Rotella, an artist directly connected with the theme of the event, and who is recognized as a maestro for a new generation of digital artists. These works, Sorprendente Marilyn (2004), Pazzo per le donne (2004), Giovent? bruciata (2004), Marlon Brando (2004), will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original and unpublished works of new media arts, using digital technologies as a tool, material and content. The winners will see their projects exhibited in Direct Digital 2009 alongside the originals by Mimmo Rotella. _______________________________________ Digital Direction Contest 2009 international competition for young artists >> 10th May 2009 //Introduction: Mimmo Rotella, the myths of American cinema The competition runs on the principle that a prestigious work of an important international artist acts as a sounding board for an exhibition of new talents in the field of new media arts. The project is based on the loan of four contemporary artworks by Mimmo Rotella, an artist directly connected with the theme of the event, and who is recognized as a maestro for a new generation of digital artists. These works will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original and unpublished works of new media arts. The contest winners will see their works/projects exhibited in Direct Digital 2009 alongside the originals by Mimmo Rotella. CONTEST RULES _Call for entries The participation is open for young artists under the age of 35 years. The competition is international and, therefore, open to artists of every country in the world. Participation is free. Employees of the organizers, sponsors and patrons of Digital Direction and Direct Digital, staff members of organizations as well as the competition's jurors are ineligible to participate. To participate in the Digital Direction_Contest 2009, first you need to pre-register online here. _Theme The works/projects have necessarily to refer the focus of the contest, which is the myths of American cinema included in Mimmo Rotella works: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marlon Brando.They will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original works of art using digital technologies as a tool, material and content. Participants will take part in the competition by submitting a work of new media art included in the following categories: computer art, digital art, electronic art, generative art, interactive art, internet art, robotic art, software art, sound art, video art, virtual art, videogame art. Purely photographic works, if not accompanied by the use of other digital media, are excluded. _Works Works must be unpublished (not displayed in previous exhibitions or published in catalogues). It is essential to use digital technology as an essential component of the work. The works must be designed with materials and technologies able to make copies/specimens, otherwise it is not possible to compete. Artists can make a work using any technique and any material provided by the combined use of digital technologies. _Documentation To join the contest, the artist must send to Artegenti's office the following documentation: 1 - Project that will be presented in competition or sketch of the work in digital format; the detailed technical specifications and materials used, any photographic images (in high resolution, minimum 300dpi) of parts of the work or the complete if ready; brief description of the work. 2 - Brief professional curriculum vitae including artist's personal data, tax code and personal data processing according to Italian law no. 675/96. 3 - Any other background material about artist's work and activities (list of the projects, personal and collective exhibitions, critical reviews, press reviews, etc.). _Deadline The above material must necessarily arrive to Artegenti's office (Via Portorico 41, 41100 Modena, Italy) by 10th May 2009, otherwise it is not possible to participate to the competition. The material must bear a clear and evident reference to " Digital Direction_Contest 2009". All submitted materials will not be returned. _Jury The evaluation of the works participating in the competition will be conducted by a jury composed by: Gilberto Caleffi, Artegenti Massimo Grillenzoni, Movimenta Rossella Bertolazzi, IED Gianpaolo Caselli, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Simone Frittelli, Frittelli arte contemporanea _Selection Based on the documentation received, the Jury will then undertake a deep analysis that will lead to selection of the winning entries. The best works will become part of the exhibition of contemporary art Direct Digital 2009. The opinion expressed by the Jury are final and unappealable. AWARD CEREMONY The award ceremony will take place on 30th May 2009 during the vernissage of the exhibition of contemporary art Direct Digital 2009 at Palazzo dei Pio (Carpi). PRIZE Each winner will receive a prize of 500 Euro. COPYRIGHT AND MULTIPLES The artist agrees to cede to Artegenti every right of reproduction of the winning work. In the discretion of Artegenti will be decided whether or not to make the reproduction of the work in a limited number of copies. The costs for making the copies will be borne by Artegenti. In case of replication of several copies of the work, the artist is committed to number and countersign to authentic each work reproduced in the limited series. The artist allows Artegenti to use of artist's name and image of the winning work for promotional purposes and for the catalogues, brochures and information material and advertising done to promote the events Digital Direction and Direct Digital. The artist allows that the promotional activity is carried out under the corporate image of Direct Digital. _______________________________________ Info Idea & concept by Gilberto Caleffi Artegenti Via Portorico 41, 41100 Modena, Italy tel. (+39) 329 4333 700 contest@digitaldirection.org www.digitaldirection.org _______________________________________ Marco Mancuso New Media Culture and Digital Arts Critic, Curator and Journalist ---------------------------------------- Digicult Director & Founder Naba Academy & Ied Teacher ---------------------------------------- Ripa Porta Ticinese 39 20122 Milano - Italy Mob: +39.340.8371816 Skype: sostakovich ---------------------------------------- www.digicult.it www.digicult.it/digimag www.digicult.it/podcast www.digicult.it/agency From redazione at digicult.it Fri Apr 3 17:57:02 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Apr 3 17:57:26 2009 Subject: [Spectre] Digital Direction|Contest 2009 Message-ID: <002301c9b474$d45906a0$83661201@marco> Sorry for any crosspostings Digital Direction|Contest 2009 international competition for young artists >> 10th May 2009 The contest is organized by Artegenti in collaboration with Movimenta with the precious contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena (Italy) _______________________________________ Idea & concept|Gilberto Caleffi Jury| Gilberto Caleffi, Artegenti | Massimo Grillenzoni, Movimenta | Rossella Bertolazzi, IED Milano | Gianpaolo Caselli, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena | Simone Frittelli, Frittelli arte contemporanea Deadline|10th May 2009 Award Ceremony| 30th May 2009 Digital Direction is ready to begin. The competition organized by Artegenti is open for young artists under the age of 35, and is a division of Direct Digital 2009, whose specific orientation makes it a distinctive platform for new media arts and digital culture. The event will take place in Modena and in Carpi between 30th May and 28th June. The idea is based on the loan of four contemporary artworks by Mimmo Rotella, an artist directly connected with the theme of the event, and who is recognized as a maestro for a new generation of digital artists. These works, Sorprendente Marilyn (2004), Pazzo per le donne (2004), Giovent? bruciata (2004), Marlon Brando (2004), will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original and unpublished works of new media arts, using digital technologies as a tool, material and content. The winners will see their projects exhibited in Direct Digital 2009 alongside the originals by Mimmo Rotella. _______________________________________ Digital Direction Contest 2009 international competition for young artists >> 10th May 2009 Introduction: Mimmo Rotella, the myths of American cinema The competition runs on the principle that a prestigious work of an important international artist acts as a sounding board for an exhibition of new talents in the field of new media arts. The project is based on the loan of four contemporary artworks by Mimmo Rotella, an artist directly connected with the theme of the event, and who is recognized as a maestro for a new generation of digital artists. These works will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original and unpublished works of new media arts. The contest winners will see their works/projects exhibited in Direct Digital 2009 alongside the originals by Mimmo Rotella. CONTEST RULES //Call for entries The participation is open for young artists under the age of 35 years. The competition is international and, therefore, open to artists of every country in the world. Participation is free. Employees of the organizers, sponsors and patrons of Digital Direction and Direct Digital, staff members of organizations as well as the competition's jurors are ineligible to participate. To participate in the Digital Direction_Contest 2009, first you need to pre-register online here. //Theme The works/projects have necessarily to refer the focus of the contest, which is the myths of American cinema included in Mimmo Rotella works: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marlon Brando.They will be a source of inspiration for the creation of original works of art using digital technologies as a tool, material and content. Participants will take part in the competition by submitting a work of new media art included in the following categories: computer art, digital art, electronic art, generative art, interactive art, internet art, robotic art, software art, sound art, video art, virtual art, videogame art. Purely photographic works, if not accompanied by the use of other digital media, are excluded. //Works Works must be unpublished (not displayed in previous exhibitions or published in catalogues). It is essential to use digital technology as an essential component of the work. The works must be designed with materials and technologies able to make copies/specimens, otherwise it is not possible to compete. Artists can make a work using any technique and any material provided by the combined use of digital technologies. //Documentation To join the contest, the artist must send to Artegenti's office the following documentation: - Project that will be presented in competition or sketch of the work in digital format; the detailed technical specifications and materials used, any photographic images (in high resolution, minimum 300dpi) of parts of the work or the complete if ready; brief description of the work. - Brief professional curriculum vitae including artist's personal data, tax code and personal data processing according to Italian law no. 675/96. - Any other background material about artist's work and activities (list of the projects, personal and collective exhibitions, critical reviews, press reviews, etc.). //Deadline The above material must necessarily arrive to Artegenti's office (Via Portorico 41, 41100 Modena, Italy) by 10th May 2009, otherwise it is not possible to participate to the competition. The material must bear a clear and evident reference to " Digital Direction_Contest 2009". All submitted materials will not be returned. //Jury The evaluation of the works participating in the competition will be conducted by a jury composed by: Gilberto Caleffi, Artegenti Massimo Grillenzoni, Movimenta Rossella Bertolazzi, IED Gianpaolo Caselli, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Simone Frittelli, Frittelli arte contemporanea //Selection Based on the documentation received, the Jury will then undertake a deep analysis that will lead to selection of the winning entries. The best works will become part of the exhibition of contemporary art Direct Digital 2009. The opinion expressed by the Jury are final and unappealable. AWARD CEREMONY The award ceremony will take place on 30th May 2009 during the vernissage of the exhibition of contemporary art Direct Digital 2009 at Palazzo dei Pio (Carpi). PRIZE Each winner will receive a prize of 500 Euro. COPYRIGHT AND MULTIPLES The artist agrees to cede to Artegenti every right of reproduction of the winning work. In the discretion of Artegenti will be decided whether or not to make the reproduction of the work in a limited number of copies. The costs for making the copies will be borne by Artegenti. In case of replication of several copies of the work, the artist is committed to number and countersign to authentic each work reproduced in the limited series. The artist allows Artegenti to use of artist's name and image of the winning work for promotional purposes and for the catalogues, brochures and information material and advertising done to promote the events Digital Direction and Direct Digital. The artist allows that the promotional activity is carried out under the corporate image of Direct Digital. _______________________________________ Info Idea & concept by Gilberto Caleffi Artegenti Via Portorico 41, 41100 Modena, Italy tel. (+39) 329 4333 700 contest@digitaldirection.org www.digitaldirection.org _______________________________________ Marco Mancuso New Media Culture and Digital Arts Critic, Curator and Journalist ---------------------------------------- Digicult Director & Founder Naba Academy & Ied Teacher ---------------------------------------- Ripa Porta Ticinese 39 20122 Milano - Italy Mob: +39.340.8371816 Skype: sostakovich ---------------------------------------- www.digicult.it www.digicult.it/digimag www.digicult.it/podcast www.digicult.it/agency From inke.arns at snafu.de Sun Apr 5 15:11:41 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Sun Apr 5 15:15:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] In memoriam: Oleg Kireev (1975-2009) Message-ID: Dear friends, it is with incredible sadness that I learned about Oleg Kireev's death. He apparently committed suicide on Thursday in Moscow. Oleg was a very good friend and colleague whom I got to know via the Syndicate mailing list about ten or twelve years ago. I've alway had the deepest respect for the critical/theoretical/activist work he did in such an incredibly adversarial context as in contemporary Russia. I will miss him a lot. Inke Arns ---------------- In memoriam: Oleg Kireev On Friday April 3, 2009 we received the terribly sad news that our friend and ever inspiring colleague Oleg Kireev from Moscow had died, apparently as a result of suicide. We are left behind as friends and colleagues, bereaved and puzzled by this dramatic fact. Kireev was a prominent guest in some of the most important projects in the art / media / politics triangle, which we had the honour developing at De Balie. Kireev was a crucial figure in circles of free culture, media activism and the arts in Moscow, one of the most demanding environments for such activity one can think of. (...) Eric Kluitenberg http://www.debalie.nl ----------------- From: Matteo Pasquinelli To: rekombinant@liste.rekombinant.org Subject: [RK] Oleg Kireev commited suicide yesterday Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:52:51 +0200 From: dmitry vilensky Date: 3 April 2009 12:52:17 GMT+02:00 To: transversal-list@eipcp.net Subject: [transversal] Oleg Kireev commited suicide yesterday Very important Russian activist and friend - Oleg Kireev commited suicide yestarday in Moscow. He was amazing person - author of 2 important books, those one who organised several big activist campaigns (Against All, Barricade) and a trigger of many artistic and activist movements in Moscow. Also pioner and promoter of free soft ware (active participant of Next Five Minutes festivale in Amsterdam) and transform contributor Being a good friend with Oleg I could say that he is definitely is one more victim of new repressive climate in Russian political life that gives no way for such a brilliant persons to realise even a small part of their dreams and ambitions. We miss him a lot - it is a big loss for the whole situation in Russia. Dmitry Vilensky ps - in att the photo of Oleg speaking at Russian Social Forum in 2006 http://lists.t0.or.at/wwsympa.fcgi/info/transversal-list --------------- Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero) 44143 Dortmund/Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 M ++49 - 173 - 988 99 84 inke.arns@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Upcoming: ?Wach sind nur die Geister? - Uber Gespenster und ihre Medien "Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts And Their Media PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund-Hoerde May 16 ? Oct 18, 2009 Opening: May 15, 2009, 19:00 From propaganda at goto10.org Sun Apr 5 17:55:41 2009 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Sun Apr 5 17:54:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for participation: LIWOLI09 Message-ID: <20090405155541.GL5706@hee.jungle> Sorry for ><, please >> -- Liwoli 2009 hacklab for art and open source 23 - 25 April 2009 - Kunstuniversit?t Linz -- Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and performances. -- Please register NOW to book a place in some of the many FREE workshops! http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Workshop - Select a workshop - Read the description - Interested? Click on "Register" and fill the form DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 15/04/09 !!! -- ... and do not miss out on the rest of the event! http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Vortrag http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Presentation http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Performance http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Interviews http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Intervention http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Installation With the participation of: Andrea Mayr, Andreas Trawoeger, Arjan Scherpenisse, Aymeric Mansoux, Christoph Haag, Claude Heiland-Allen, Dan Wilcox, Daniel Turing David Ayers, Eleonora Oreggia, Georg Jakob, Holger Sch?ner, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Johannes Kreidler, Marius Shebella, Pippa Buchanan, Ricardo Palmieri, Rob Canning, Robert Martin, Roch Forowitz, Sascha Neudeck, St?phanie Vilayphiou, Thomas Warwaris, Yves Degoyon, ... and more to be confirmed!... -- Questions? http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/contact Where to sleep? http://linz.linuxwochen.at/content/service -- :* From paul at paul-brown.com Mon Apr 6 22:05:12 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Mon Apr 6 22:14:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?CAS_May_Meeting_-_J=F6rn_Ebner?= Message-ID: The Computer Arts Society is pleased to invite you to our May meeting. This event is open to the public and is free. This will be our final meeting for Spring. We would like to thank everyone who has supported our programme and look forward to seeing you all again in the Autumn. Wednesday 6 May 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education 23 - 29 Emerald St London WC1N 3QS, England Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane Map: http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds J?rn Ebner "In this artist?s talk I will present notions of the use of objects, landscapes / cityscapes and song / sound in the context of my online works. Beginning with earlier performative pieces, I will speak about sculptural notions - the use of space and objects - in my early online works 2000-2004. My move to understand the internet as a physical element of landscape since 2005, and recent browser-based structures about central-peripheral cityscapes." J?rn Ebner, born 1966, visual artist. Studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London [1995-98], and English Literature at Universit?t Hamburg [1990-95]; he currently lives in Berlin, Germany. His works are predominantly located online, yet refer back to the viewers? situation in the physical world or operate in the public realm. In 2008 and 2006 Ars Electronica Festival commissioned two visual accompaniments for performances by the Bruckner Orchestra. In 2001 his work ?Lee Marvin Toolbox? was awarded the Kunstpreis des Medienforums M?nchen. His works are shown in international galleries and festivals (Siggraph; FILE; Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Viper; selection FILE Rio). http://www.jornebner.info/ CAS 1968-2009 - supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years http://www.computer-arts-society.org CAS is a BCS Specialist Group ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ April to June 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From natabor at aa-vv.org Tue Apr 7 09:55:16 2009 From: natabor at aa-vv.org (=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=B1?=) Date: Tue Apr 7 09:55:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] Reminder: Workshop in Munich. May 5-9 2009. Coils Magnets Music with Dan Wilson and Chris Weaver Message-ID: Last few places available at the 'Miraculous Agitation' Workshop Coils, Magnets, Music with Dan Wilson and Chris Weaver(UK). Registration by April 15 2009: http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_02010101 Drawing the hidden music out of everyday objects. Coils are the very soul of electronic music. The Victorians made jump, Jimi Hendrix made them howl and this workshop hopes to make them sing. It guides participants in creating and using electro-magnetic forces to create a type of 'acoustically synthesized' music from salvaged metal objects. We will explore how any object can be turned into a loud speaker and how the principal of feedback can make these objects vibrate with sound. The aim of the workshop is to get the participants quickly to the point where they have two adaptable instruments (a cracklebox and essential a DIY ebow to be focused on using these tools to pull out a wide soundscape from discarded objects. Each participant would be an 'island of sound' in the space, surrounded by the junk that they were using for their newly constructed instruments to transform into a harmonic sound environment! Dan Wilson is a composer, instrument builder and sound designer from Hertfordshire with a BA and MA in Sonic Art, whose interests lie primarily in the use of electromagnetic agitation in new instrument design. He is also a keen practitioner and theorist of mediadropping the act of leaving homemade tapes or CDs in public places for people to find. He was awarded the 2007 Arts Foundation electroacoustic composition fellowship (nominated by the Ed Baxter of the LMC) which led to a performance of his electromagnetic work 'Corrosion Suite' at the Tate Modern in June that year. He has been featured in The Wire on numerous occasions, in Unknown Public, in Nic Collins' book 'Handmade Electronic Music', and in the groundbreaking 365 Days Project MP3 series on Ubuweb. He is a performer in the electroacoustic improve quartet Oscillatorial Binnage. Chris Weaver is a composer and experimentalist, laptop and electronics improviser from London. When not manning the helm at London's Resonance104.4FM, he can be found alongside vocalist KJ Grant in their frequent duo and sporadic guest-lead trios. Occasionally he also turns up twanging rubber bands and and playing circuit bent casios in the group, Oscillatory Binnnage. Further details: http://www.aa-vv.org/?av_0201 workshop[at]aa-vv.org From matze.schmidt at n0name.de Tue Apr 7 12:02:41 2009 From: matze.schmidt at n0name.de (Matze Schmidt) Date: Tue Apr 7 12:06:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: In memoriam: [...] In-Reply-To: <20090406100004.C4FE514A0CFC@mail.buug.de> References: <20090406100004.C4FE514A0CFC@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <1643982122.20090407120241@n0name.de> > Very important Russian activist It is still interesting that the distinction between VIP activists and Non-VIP activists is alive. M From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Apr 8 11:26:40 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (VCH) Date: Wed Apr 8 11:27:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] Final call: one minute films and videos Message-ID: <20090408112640.826FBA85.2C8BBC9E@192.168.0.3> Call for entries Deadline: 2 May 2009 > -------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest:org is looking for "one minute films and videos" on the theme "memory " and "identity" for an online feature and future screening programs. Please find the entry regulations and form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 > --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetworjk]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net the experimental plattform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany. From off at c-base.org Wed Apr 8 15:18:07 2009 From: off at c-base.org (johannes p osterhoff) Date: Wed Apr 8 15:18:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Vortrag: Traveling Desktop Country 8.4. 21:00 MoAA Berlin Message-ID: In Desktop Country herrschte einst Ordnung und recycelbare Sauberkeit. Es war ein paradiesisches Land des Lichts. Feinste Schlagschatten s?umten nicht nur seine Fenster?auch die makellosen Gegenst?nde in diesem Land und dessen Bewohner werfen makellose Schatten. Doch in diesem Schatten formiert sich Widerstand. Der Wochenendausflug in die ?gr?ne Idylle? ist den Bewohnern der kleinen Reihenh?user auf Dauer zu wenig. Die harte Arbeit, um sich den eskapistische Urlaub auf der einsamen Insel oder die teuren mit Nanotechnolgie und Photoshop hergestellten Items leisten zu k?nnen, wirkt auf viele B?rger sinnentleert. Der Fortschrittsoptimismus br?ckelt und der kollektive Traum von der Reise in den unendlichen Weltraum ist ausgetr?umt. In seinen Reisen in die ?sch?ne neue Welt? von Desktop Country lernte johannes p osterhoff den Alltag der Desktop-Bewohner kennen, deren Arbeitswelt und Freizeit sowie deren Normen und Werte. In dem Diavortrag berichtet er ?ber die von den Massenmedien kaum wahrgenommenen aktuellen Unruhen in Desktop Country. Museum of American Art Berlin Frankfurter Allee 91, 10247 Berlin Beginn: 21 Uhr Dia-Vortrag von johannes p osterhoff, mit anschlie?ender Diskussion ?ber MoAA The Museum of American Art is an educational institution dedicated to assembling, preserving and exhibiting memories on modern American art shown in Europe during the 50es and early 60es. It opened in Berlin in 2004 at Frankfurter Allee 91 This museum is an offspring of the Museum of Modern Art which itself is an exhibit in the Museum of American Art, as the most important American contribution to modern art. This small sized MoMA encapsulates European modern art of the first half of the 20th century, the way it was defined and promoted by Alfred Barr, Jr., the founding director of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. This particular interpretation of modern art, based on ?international movements?, was established in New York in the mid 30es and brought to Europe after the war, where it gradually became the dominant narrative as we know it today. Links http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com/TravelingDesktopCountry/ http://www.museum-of-american-art.org/Talk.html From akvik at valand.gu.se Wed Apr 8 18:50:21 2009 From: akvik at valand.gu.se (Arne Kjell Vikhagen) Date: Wed Apr 8 18:51:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] C:Art:Media MFA programme - application deadline April 15th Message-ID: <20090408165112.E523082DD@atum.ita.chalmers.se> Application deadline April 15th 2009 (Portfolio deadline: May 8th) C:Art:Media is an international two-year master's programme aimed at students committed to a contemporary art practice using digital media in the realization of their work. It is a response to the need for contemporary artists and students working with technology to be both critical, conceptual thinkers as well as skilled, creative producers. The programme supports the exploration of cross-media and interdisciplinary approaches, as well as different arts traditions. - The C:Art:Media programme is situated in the city of G?teborg, Sweden. It is a collaboration between Valand School of Fine Arts and the IT Faculty of G?teborg. - The programme is intended for students from different backgrounds who are interested in developing their practice in a collaborative environment. - The C:Art:Media programme can result in a degree of Master of Fine Arts, or a Master of Applied IT, depending on the student's choice and exam work. - C:Art:Media as part of the Swedish University system is tuition free. - The main emphasis of the C:Art:Media programme is development of the student's own projects -- more than half of the credits consists of project courses. Much care is taken to provide individual tutoring and assistance for each student. - All teaching is conducted in English, and proficiency in both oral and written English is required. http://cam.valand.gu.se/about *** Application deadline: April 15th. This deadline is for EU/EEC citizen, or students that have a visa already). For students that need a visa to study in Sweden, the application deadline has already expired. *** Deadline for submitting your portfolio and statement: May 8th. Please note that the application instructions at the online application system will be in Swedish. Visit http://studera.nu for more information about the Swedish national admission system. Contact C:Art:Media admissions on cam@valand.gu.se if you need language assistance, or if you have other questions on how to apply. Best, Arne Kjell Vikhagen -- Programme Manager C:Art:Media - http://cam.valand.gu.se/ Valand School of Fine Arts | IT-University of G?teborg Mobile: +46(0)732 308 836 From diana at faces-l.net Thu Apr 9 00:40:11 2009 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Thu Apr 9 00:53:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: Re: In memoriam: [...] (Matze Schmidt) In-Reply-To: <20090408100006.5196A25D213@mail.buug.de> References: <20090408100006.5196A25D213@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <20090409004011.a4ao8ap6o00sccwc@webmail.servus.at> Thanks for this incredible bit of insight. I am sure that everybody mourning the tragic loss of a friend and colleague that they adored should really take a few minutes to consider the injustice of this. We should all take a few minutes to worry about totally irrelevant people that don't actually do anything other than whine about who might be getting a bit of attention. Bravo. Well done. > Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:02:41 +0200 > From: Matze Schmidt > Subject: [spectre] Re: In memoriam: [...] > To: spectre@mikrolisten.de > >> Very important Russian activist > > It is still interesting that the distinction between VIP activists and > Non-VIP activists is alive. > > M > > From redazione at digicult.it Thu Apr 9 01:37:25 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Thu Apr 9 01:38:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] Exploding Cave Message-ID: <000001c9b8a3$138cbba0$81661201@marco> Sorry for any crosspostings C.S.O.A. Cox18 In Collaboration with Digicult, with the partecipation of JointSventure, Vocecov, Dorkbot Milan Presents: EXPLODING CAVE Days of free research between cinema, sound, video and digital 17th - 18th of April 2009 C.S.O.A. Cox18 Via Conchetta 18 - Milan Info: cox18@inventati.org ; info@digicult.it Info: http://cox18.noblogs.org ; http://www.digicult.it/En/2009/ExplodingCave.asp Curated by : Marco Mancuso (Digicult director, art critic and curator), Marco Lorenzin (Cox18), Claudia D'Alonzo (freelance art critic and curator) ------------------ Trafficando con le forze tecnologiche emergenti, tra il 1966 e il 1967 Andy Warhol crea l'Exploding Plastic Inevitable, formando uno spazio contradditorio e sperimentale. Invece di una loro naturalizzazione, produceva un montaggio che scomponeva lo spazio nel quale diversi media interferivano ed entravano in competizione gli uni con gli altri (...). Improvvisamente, il ritmo della musica suonata dai Velvet Underground e dall'attrice/cantante Nico, i giochi di luce, i movimenti dei diversi film di Warhol, le performance dei ballerini si univano per creare qualcosa di significativo, ma prima di cogliere il senso di quello che stava avvenendo, tutto diventava nuovamente confuso e caotico. Il rumore ti colpiva. Volevi urlare, o lanciarti in una danza sfrenata, dovevi muoverti, agire (.). Nell'apparente oscurit? e nel caos dell'Exploding Plastic Inevitable, si poteva trovare una possibilit? di trasformazione, se non di liberazione". - [Branden W. Joseph, My Mind Split Open] The Milan we know has been planned, starting from the 1950's, in a way similar to that of the organization of work, the districts are separated by classes, the distances are calculated between workplaces and houses. You plan a specific family. You plan a certain type of house (...). The general feeling was that of a crystallized future, dominated by events mainly incomprehensible and not to be participated to (...). In the 'existentialist cave' of 1950's Milan, the traditional codes of the "Milanese" ballroom were replaced by the experimentation of new musical genres and new exchange methods between sounds and visions that in turn involved specific dynamics. The relationship of seduction was evident in the liberation of the body moved by musical rhythms, not anymore by the 'classical dance forms' of the dance hall. People's looks are freed of the bourgeois aesthetics of the 'jacket and tie' (...) - [John Martin, Primo Moroni, La Luna sotto casa ] ------------------ ///Special productions: Otto von Schirach / Orgone (otolab) - In Zaire (C.Rocchetti+G.I.Joe) / Virgilio Villoresi ------------------ With a double reference both to the "existentialist caves" of 1950's Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable", "Exploding Cave" is a 2-days event that will be held in Milan on April 17th and 18th, in the spaces of Cox18, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts. Organized by the same Cox18 with the collaboration of Digicult, Exploding Cave suggests the idea of an explosion, of an effort to "go beyond" the normal audiovisual perception towards multiple directions, both in the practices of audiovisual creation and in the performative methods. It investigates the phenomenon of the "optical unconscious", the concept of matrix, the analysis of both production and fruition forms that work to the rediscovery of a primary root of the audiovisual language, a common core at the base of the contemporary dialogue among cinema, video and digital arts. Exploding Cave revises and desecrates a complex machinery, bringing to rapid combustion the images and sounds of the cinema-cathedral of Hollywood, of television and of the social (anti)media; it is a sudden storm for the expansion of stories, hallucinations and extraordinary dreams, but it is also a concrete demonstration of experiences, knowledge and criticism of the present; it opens a tear on the harmonic visions and on today's most deafening noises. In a city that builds and models the social spaces through mechanisms of exclusion and consumption, in contrast to the municipal politics of repression and evacuation of autonomous spaces and self-managed realities in Milan and in Italy, Exploding Cave wants to reconstruct paths and moments of synthesis between experimentation of new social and creative forms, and involvement of other independent cultural realities in town, like JointSventure (http://www.myspace.com/jointsventure), Vocecov (http://www.myspace.com/vocecov) and Dorkbot Milano (http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmil/). A space therefore built to overcome the typical spectacular construction of an event (creator and spectator, speaker and listener), with the purpose of creating a more open circle, less centered on the performance but based rather on the sharing of knowledge and experiences. In concrete terms, a moment to give the floor to the artists / artisans and the machines / software they use for their audiovisual production practice. The formula thought for Exploding Cave is that of "a moment of free search", that allows the public - through a dynamic and articulated course - and the featured artists to start a dialogue that helps better understand the dynamics that unite cinema, sound and video to the universe of digital creation. ------------------ FRIDAY 17TH OF APRIL 23.00 - 03.00 The opening of Exploding Cave is devoted to the relationship between sound and images, expressed through dynamics of research and experimentation especially in a performative context. An evening full of digital aesthetics, between noise sounds, glitch, electro, 8bit and generative visualizations of graphic codes in movement. The first live set will see the duo Komplex (Mariano Equizzi and Paolo Bigazzi - http://www.ottovonschirach.com/) that will introduce their live audiovisual set "Blood Electric", where the reading of the homonym cyber-text, through a clock fixed in bpm, produces a constant flow of data that are destined to the controlling of visual effects and sound generation: the sequence that is so produced is controlled through the I use of wireless sensors, and fed by a series of pre-registered images. Later the audiovisual improvisation live set consisting of one of the most important names of the international idm/electro/punk Otto von Schirach (Schematic - http://www.ottovonschirach.com/), and of one of the members of the Milanese collective otolab, Orgone (http://www.otolab.net). A live set which is expected full of energy and improvised elements, pushed towards the search of a total audiovisual and sensory involvement of the audience, something in between hardcore electronics and generative graphics. Lastly, the 8bit music of one of the most interesting names of this ever rich musical scene, the Swiss Stu (http://www.toondra.ru/en/motiongraphics.htm), that for the occasion will cross Game Boy and Atari with Milanese Tonylight (http://www.tonylight.it), who has been promoting this genre on a national basis for years. SATURDAY, 18TH OF APRIL 16.00 - 18.00 Saurday will begin with an afternoon workshop with artists/hackers/designers that work on the thin line between creativeness and technological experimentation, realized in collaboration with Dorkbot Milan (http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmil/): the objective is to build new tools and innovative platforms for the audiovisual production. The first appointment is with the newborn Popular Electric Laboratory (L.A.P.), consisting of the eclectic Milanese artist Tonylight and Peppo Lasagna, with the intention of planning and building electronic tools for audio/video applications, of developing open source interfaces fit to create sounds and images, videos, lights. For this event, LEP introduces its last projects: "Leploop", a small analog synth to produce music (http://tonylight-leploop.blogspot.com) and "Videomoog", a video synth to produce images of synthesis able to follow music. During the presentation, various prototypes will be observable, and it will be possible to listen to, and try, the tools, apart from exchanging ideas on the projects. 18.00 - 19.00 The late afternoon will be dedicated to the presentation of the Videoscreening cared for by Claudia Di Alonzo and Marco Lorenzin: an endless cycle projection of films, videos and short films, will then be held at night in the spaces underlying the area where live shows take place. This time we start from the sound experience, in order to directly connect it to the re-appropriation of images and preexisting films (found footage). We will move from the combinatory game by Alberto Grifi (Verifica Incerta), to the ironic contamination of films by Bruce Conner (A Movie; Mongoloid; Mea Culpa); from the collages by Stan Vanderbeek (Achoo Mr. Kerrooschev), to the anticipations of the video scratch by Dara Birnbaum (Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman; Pop Pop Video); from the re-appropriation operated by Ren? Vi?net on the dialogues of an Hong Kong martial arts movie ( La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?) to the ironic and disrespectful de-construction of voices and gestures by Johan Soderberg (Surplus; Read My Lips; The Voice); from the criticism of the television images through repetitions, slowing down and overlaps by Duvet Brothers (Blue Monday; War Machine) and Gorilla Tapes (Death Valley Days), to the improvement of the scratch video brought by the collective EBN (Commercial Entertainment Product), a technique that derives from the revolution of sampling and remixing sounds born during the 1970's in the Bronx, with Hip Hop. The screening will be closed by the mash ups of Eclectic Method (U2 ZooTV Remix) and the trailers on commission of AddictiveTV (Snakes on a Plane; Iron Man). 19.00 - 21.00 On prime time Saturday, there will be a meeting with the artists that will perform live during the evening, introduced and moderated by Marco Mancuso. This will be the chance to get to know from an insider point of view the "modus operandi" of all musicians, video artists and designers involved - an "open-machine" meeting. 23.00 - 03.00 The night is finally devoted to the live performances in the central hall. Echran (Fabio Volpi, Davide de Col the and Accursio Graffeo - http://www.myspace.com/echran) is a project of audiovisual research where a cinema environment is created in which the soundtrack influences and deforms the movie materials used in the live visual set. Echran offers a live set split in two parts: in the first one "Stardust" the visuals develop starting from a sequence with a close up of Charlotte Rampling's face, in the second, the visions of A.Tarkowsky are reconstructed through some of his famous masterpieces, like Solaris and Sacrifice. Later on, the audiovisual live set coming from the second production of Exploding Cave with the participation of JointsVenture and Vocecov: the electro-acoustic improvisation group In Zaire (Claudio Rocchetti + G.I.Joe - http://www.myspace.com/claudiorocchetti) will take the floor in an energetic performance halfway between electronic, analog and percussive sounds, accompanied for the occasion by the special visual and cinema talent that is Virgilio Villoresi (http://www.myspace.com/vjvirgilio), for a totally exceptional AV set, very motivating and exciting for the audience. Finally, one of the historical names of the club / underground scene of Milan, Dj Pier, will accompany with his techno / electro sounds the projects of sonorization of "Dillinger ? morto" (live editing of the 1969 masterpiece by Marco Ferreri beginning from a sampling of the work in 69 parti and 19 details) and "CINEmatic eXperience" (vjset), remixed in real time by ilcanediPavlov! Project by Alessio Galbiati, focused on a live performance with a special attention to the cinematic image, which was born as a part of DJCINEMA and quickly became a performative project. ilcanediPavlov! collaborates since its beginning with the cinema culture digital magazine Rapporto Confidenziale (http://www.rapportoconfidenziale.org/). ------------------ Program: Friday, 17th of April 23.00 - 23.45 - sala centrale "Blood Electric" live av concert: Komplex (Paolo Bigazzi / Mariano Equizzi) 00.00 - 00.45 - sala centrale Live set + generative visual: Otto von Schirach / Orgone (otolab) 01.00 - 03.00 - sala centrale 8bit av set: Stu / Schnauz / Tonylight Program: Saturday, 18th of April 16.00 - 18.00 - archivio Calusca Workshop of audiovisual experimentation: L.E.P. - Laboratorio Elettrico Popolare 18.00 - 19.00 - archivio Calusca Videoscreening: a cura di Claudia D'Alonzo e Marco Lorenzin 19.00 - 21.00 - archivio Calusca Presentations: Paolo Bigazzi / Mariano Equizzi (Komplex) e Virgilio Villoresi moderati da Marco Mancuso 23.00 - 23.45 - sala centrale Live AV set: Echran 00.00 - 00.45 - sala centrale Live AV concert: In Zaire (C.Rocchetti + G.I.Joe) / Virgilio Villoresi 1.00 - 03.00 - sala centrale Cinematic techno set: Dj Pier + ilcanediPavlov! ------------------ DIGICULT is an Italian cultural and editorial project concerning promotion and share of art and digital culture, spreading the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field of electronic culture. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly magazine DIGIMAG produce an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD, and has also its own newsletter international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved with in many side activties with the art agency DIGIMADE http://www.digicult.it/en/ http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/ http://www.digicult.it/podcast http://www.digicult.it/agency From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Apr 9 10:06:29 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CTQ) Date: Thu Apr 9 10:15:17 2009 Subject: [spectre] call: The Best of Flash on the Net Message-ID: <20090409100629.837E87DB.EE66174C@192.168.0.3> extended deadline:30 June 2009 -------------------------------- Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for "videostreaming" on the net. As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised. After Cinematheque - streaming media environments - explored in 2007 the capabilities of "Quicktime" as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show \\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// - its now the time to explore in 2009 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well. // Flash and Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations \\ Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000. Please find the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From kovats at transmediale.de Thu Apr 9 11:43:52 2009 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Thu Apr 9 11:44:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: Re: In memoriam: [...] Oleg Kireev In-Reply-To: <20090409004011.a4ao8ap6o00sccwc@webmail.servus.at> References: <20090408100006.5196A25D213@mail.buug.de> <20090409004011.a4ao8ap6o00sccwc@webmail.servus.at> Message-ID: <4A62A4A3-B4F1-47C0-B002-FA4A40A09E76@transmediale.de> hi all, this is absolutely shocking - and disturbing news! Oleg was certainly more than an activist, whether VIP or not, but a brilliant artist whose art was the language of critical discourse and action where - to echo Inke's words - such forms of expression are not readily accepted as art but as subversive activity against the state. It's incredible, and for me somewhat incomprehensible, that these pressures may have contributed to Oleg's loss. it's very sad, and perhaps a wake up call of sorts ... greetings, Stephen On 09.04.2009, at 00:40, Diana McCarty wrote: > > Thanks for this incredible bit of insight. I am sure that everybody > mourning the tragic loss of a friend and colleague that they adored > should really take a few minutes to consider the injustice of this. > We should all take a few minutes to worry about totally irrelevant > people that don't actually do anything other than whine about who > might be getting a bit of attention. Bravo. Well done. > > > >> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:02:41 +0200 >> From: Matze Schmidt >> Subject: [spectre] Re: In memoriam: [...] >> To: spectre@mikrolisten.de >> >>> Very important Russian activist >> >> It is still interesting that the distinction between VIP activists >> and >> Non-VIP activists is alive. >> >> M >> >> > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Apr 10 16:02:30 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Apr 10 16:04:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Furtherfield Newsletter... In-Reply-To: <49661D420200003C000210D8@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> References: <49661D420200003C000210D8@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Message-ID: <49DF5176.4010500@furtherfield.org> The Furtherfield Newsletter... The 23rd Furtherfield newsletter is due for release in a couple days. The newsletter comes out about once a quarter, if you are interested in receiving a copy - reply to the email address of this post. What is inside the Furtherfield Newsletter? The Newsletter reflects a thriving and ever changing media art culture. Consisting of networked communities linked via activities on the Internet as well as physical environments it engages many emerging national and international practitioners, imaginative minds exploring experimental practice at the intersection of art, technology and social change. You will receive up to date information about events, projects, exhibitions, reviews, articles, interviews, learning & participation projects, peer exchange, publishing, research, residencies and workshops. Updates on what is happening from all the networked nodes/platforms making up the dynamic Furtherfield Neighbourhood. The Neighbourhood Consists of: Furtherfield - online media arts community. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Furthernoise - electronic and networked music community. http://www.furthernoise.org Netbehaviour - email list community for discussion. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org Learning & Participation - Learning with Young People, Supporting Artists' Practice, Talks & Events at HTTP Gallery, Residency Programme, Upcoming Projects http://www.furtherfield.org/learning.php Furtherfield on Twitter: http://twitter.com/furtherfield From newradio at turbulence.org Sat Apr 11 17:39:25 2009 From: newradio at turbulence.org (Helen Thorington) Date: Sat Apr 11 17:39:54 2009 Subject: [spectre] Yes, please Message-ID: <5952B94F-BB94-48C9-92B4-608237B2101E@turbulence.org> I'd like to receive the Furtherfield Newsletter -- H From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sun Apr 12 15:52:41 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sun Apr 12 15:53:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge. In-Reply-To: <1234835860.20297@emutagen.com> References: <1234835860.20297@emutagen.com> Message-ID: <49E1F229.2080707@furtherfield.org> We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge. "I will not fly for art but only if 6 other people will do the same AND replicate this pledge." ? Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart Deadline to sign up by: 26th April 2009 More details: We won't fly for art We will not take an aeroplane for the sake of art. For the next 6 months we will find other ways to visit and participate in exhibitions, fairs, conferences, meetings, residencies. We will not fly for inspiration, nor to appreciate, buy or sell art. But only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge. This pledge is designed for exponential growth so if you persuade another 6 people to do the same, within a year you could be one of millions of people changing the way the artworld works. So sign up, create a replica pledge and share your own experiences, observations and arguments towards reducing art flights. Post a link to it in the comment box so others can find their way to it. This is a public art experiment in the de-escalation of carbon-fuelled, high altitude, high-velocity, global art careering. For six months we choose to cover less physical distance, move more slowly between destinations, to look futureward with more attention to the view from the ground and the network, for ways to connect with others around the world. Who can sign up to this pledge? Any individual involved in the arts: artist (in the broadest sense), curator, art administrator, art appreciator, gallerist, art critic, art historian, art academic, art technician, art security, art transporter etc. Whether you currently fly for art 50 times a year or never, your engagement will change things by making your position in the artworld visible and by offering an alternative perspective. If you work with others you may need to completely revise your schedules and budgets and lobby for the right not to fly. This is to light the blue touch paper of Gustave Metzger's Reduce Art Flights campaign using the generative and viral capabilities of social networks. We want to know more about the impact of air-flight on the artworld (and beyond). We intuit that abstaining from air flight will motivate and enable people (with more time, money, energy and attention) to relate differently to their own local cultures and to connect more imaginatively to other cultures. Inspirations and Observations Artwork- 'Reduce Art Flights' by Gustave Metzger, reviewed here http://tinyurl.com/cnv44r Sustainable Development- Social science on the environmental impact of economic growth 'Why Politicians Dare Not Limit Economic Growth' by Tim Jackson http://tinyurl.com/6784zw Investigative Journalism - What can we do to stop climate change? Heat (2006) by George Monbiot, summarised and reviewed here http://tinyurl.com/devyax Monbiot's Guardian blog http://tinyurl.com/dcew6o Plane Stupid Campaign- 'bringing the aviation industry down to earth' http://www.planestupid.com/ From louise.desrenards at free.fr Sun Apr 12 21:13:49 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Sun Apr 12 22:45:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] DEMAIN ! > La crise alimentaire mondiale < SUR FRANCE CULTURE Message-ID: <49E23D6D.7000907@free.fr> _______________________________________________________ \/////////\\\\\\\/////////\////// Radio France Culture \\\\\/////////\\\\\\\/\////// SUR LES DOCKS \\\\\/////////\\\\\\\/ Coordinateur Jean Lebrun http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/sur_docks/ A partir de demain ne manquez pas ce documentaire plut?t explosif que pessimiste;-) ==> LA CRISE ALIMENTAIRE MONDIALE <== (dur?e totale 4 heures) une s?rie de 4 ?missions ==> 1 heure de documentaire chaque jour ==> de 16h ? 17h heure fran?aise ==> du lundi 13 au jeudi 13 avril inclus ?coute en direct chaque jour en RealPlayer sur Internet dans la page d'accueil de France Culture http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/sommaire/index.php maintenue dans le lien "archive" ? la page de Sur les docks (lien en ent?te) la semaine suivante. et Podcast. _______________________________________________________ \/////////\\\\\\\/////////\////// Un documentaire en s?rie propos? par Simon Guibert Producteur d?l?gu? R?alis? par Vanessa Nadjar Producteur coordonateur Alexandre H?raud __________________________________________________________ \/////////\\\\\\\/////////\////// _______________________________________ Lundi 13 avril 2009 ==> La crise alimentaire mondiale (1/4) - Les fruits de l?in?galit? Voir la fiche de l'?mission d?j? en ligne : http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=72315&pg=avenir _______________________________________________________ Mardi 14 avril 2009 ==> La crise alimentaire mondiale (2/4) - Du bl? pour les OGM Voir la fiche de l'?mission d?j? en ligne : http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=72316&pg=avenir _______________________________________________________ Mercredi 15 avril 2009 ==> La crise alimentaire mondiale (3/4) - Du soja dans la pampa Voir la fiche de l'?mission d?j? en ligne : http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=72317&pg=avenir _______________________________________________________ Jeudi 16 avril 2009 ==> La crise alimentaire mondiale (4/4) - M?dus?s par la p?che Voir la fiche de l'?mission d?j? en ligne : http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=72318&pg=avenir _______________________________________________________ \\/////////\\\\\\\/////////\//////\/////////\\\\\\\/////////\//////\/////////\\\\\\\/////////\////// " Cette s?rie en quatre documentaires de ? Sur les docks ? aborde de mani?re exhaustive le probl?me de l?alimentation au plan mondial ? travers l?exposition de pratiques industrielles locales produisant des effets au niveau global. " _______________________________________________________ 1. *==> Les fruits de l?in?galit?* Le 1^er mars 2008, pr?s de quatre cents producteurs de salades de la r?gion PACA ont bloqu? le March? d?int?r?t national (MIN) de Ch?teaurenard pour protester contre les trop bas prix pay?s depuis le d?but de l?ann?e par les centrales d?achat des grandes surfaces. Une salade achet?e 15 centimes d?euro au producteur est revendue 1,50 euro la pi?ce. En Afrique, la culture mara?ch?re est d?velopp?e dans un tout autre ?tat d?esprit : l?autoconsommation. En effet, dans les milieux urbains, les cultures mara?ch?res se d?veloppent fortement et contribuent ? faire vivre des millions de personnes lorsqu?elles ne limitent pas les effets de la crise alimentaire. La pression d?mographique croissante dans les villes en crise, o? les contraintes pesant sur la terre sont d?j? extr?mes, sont ? l?origine d?un nouveau soutien du mara?chage par les organismes internationaux qui esp?rent ainsi limiter les effets de la crise alimentaire. Avec en France : -- Bernard Charlery et Jean-Louis Hemptine, chercheurs, membres du laboratoire de recherches ? Dynamiques Rurales ? dirig? par Anne-Marie Grani? au sein de l?Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique (ENFA) ; au Cameroun : -- Eric Zoukekang, ing?nieur agronome ; -- Bernard Njonga, syndicaliste paysan. au Burkina Faso : -- Roger Kabore, formateur dans une ferme int?gr?e de Ouagadougou. et : -- Pierre Janin, chercheur ? l?Institut de Recherche pour le D?veloppement (IRD) ; -- Jean-Paul Jaud, journaliste, documentariste ; -- Pierre Janin, chercheur ? l?IRD, coordinateur du num?ro de la revue H?rodote sur ? La crise alimentaire mondiale ?. \//////\//////\//////\//////\//////\////// 2. *==> Du soja dans la pampa* Enorme exportateur de viande bovine depuis le d?but du XX? si?cle, le gouvernement argentin parvient tout juste ? ralentir, sans la contenir, la hausse du prix des denr?es de premi?re n?cessit?. Et encore : tir? par les cours internationaux et sous l?effet de tendances inflationnistes locales, le panier de la m?nag?re argentine ne cesse d?augmenter. Officiellement, l?inflation est inf?rieure ? 10 % et l??volution des prix de l?alimentation serait dans la moyenne. Mais tout le monde sait que l?indice officiel prend largement en compte des r?f?rences introuvables et des prix r?glement?s rarement respect?s. La r?alit? est que le pain, les l?gumes ou la viande augmentent ? un rythme compris entre 20 % et 25 % l?an. Difficile ? suivre pour les budgets domestiques. ? moins de s?orienter vers des hausses de salaires au moins aussi importantes, au risque d?enclencher une spirale difficilement ma?trisable? En attendant, les grands propri?taires terriens ont repouss? l??levage aux marges de la pampa. Le soja transg?nique de Monsanto s?est impos? ? la faveur du d?veloppement d?un mod?le agricole hautement sp?culatif qui se passe de paysans et d?vaste les petites soci?t?s rurales argentines? Avec en France : -- Naomi Klein, journaliste, essayiste ; -- Martine Guibert et Marie Gislcard, g?ographes, membres du laboratoire de recherches ? Dynamiques Rurales ? dirig? par Anne-Marie Grani? (ENFA) ; -- Marie-Monique Robin, journaliste, documentariste. ? Buenos Aires : -- Gustavo Alchurron, ancien PDG de la Sociedad Rural. au Burkina Faso : -- Roger Kabore, formateur dans une ferme int?gr?e de Ouagadougou. ? Rome : -- Nicole M?nage et Guillaume Foliot, repr?sentants du Programma Alimentaire Mondial (PAM). \//////\//////\//////\//////\//////\////// 3.* ==> Du bl? pour les OGM* Aujourd?hui, alors que les ?meutes de la faim se r?pandent dans le monde comme une tra?n?e de poudre, alors que le cours du riz rend cette c?r?ale inabordable pour une bonne partie des populations asiatiques et africaines, les biocarburants sont plus que jamais sur la sellette. Pour l?ONU, la production massive de biocarburants laisse pr?sager de fortes tensions sociales. Plus significatif du revirement en cours, les institutions financi?res internationales remettent en cause l?engouement pour les biocombustibles tout en adoptant des positions en faveur d?une plus grande commercialisation des OGM. En attendant, la corruption, le d?tournement des aides et la recherche de maxi-profits continuent de d?truire les tissus sociaux et agricoles du monde tandis que le Programme Alimentaire Mondial d?verse des millions de tonnes de c?r?ales dans les pays o? la malnutrition fait rage? Avec en France : -- Bernard Mondy, Alain Bonassieux, chercheurs, membres du laboratoire de recherches ? Dynamiques Rurales ? dirig? par Anne-Marie Grani? (ENFA / Toulouse Le Mirail) ; -- V?ronique Lucas, ing?nieur agronome ; -- Marie-Monique Robin, journaliste, documentariste ; -- Naomi Klein, ?conomiste, essayiste. ? Rome : -- Pierre Carasse, chef de la logistique a?rienne du PAM. au Burkina Faso : -- Olga Keita, directrice-adjointe du bureau du PAM ; -- Romain Gourot, consultant ind?pendant. \//////\//////\//////\//////\//////\////// 4. *==> M?dus? par la p?che* La r?cente ?tude du biologiste am?ricain Boris Worm publi?e par la revue ? Science ? (Worm B, Barbier EB, Beaumont N et al. ?Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services?. Science 314 (5800) Nov. 3 2006) pr?voit qu?en 2048, les p?cheurs ne remonteront plus que des m?duses du fond des mers d?vast?es par une sur-p?che chronique. De nombreuses solutions ?cologiquement viables existent d?j? pour d?velopper les productions alimentaires, notamment les productions li?es ? la pisciculture. Une approche plus ?quilibr?e des productions agricoles, avec des fermes int?gr?es, en usant des mati?res d'une production agricole pour la consommation d'un autre type de production agricole sur le m?me site, permettrait d'augmenter le rendement des fermes et r?duire les d?chets de production. La production agricole biologique pourrait se d?velopper plus facilement dans les pays en d?veloppement et permettre des rendements jusqu'? trois fois sup?rieurs aux productions agricoles, en diminuant l'utilisation d'engrais et semences modernes. Le transfert d'une partie des productions d'esp?ces tr?s consommatrices en nourriture (dont une partie issue d'antibiotiques polluant les eaux environnantes) et ?nergie (recyclage d'eau, etc.), comme le saumon, le thon, ou le cabillaud, vers d'autres cultures plus abondantes, comme les carpes, les poissons-chats, ou les crustac?s, cr?erait un ?quilibre marin renouvel? et des prix abordables pour les consommateurs. Avec en France : -- J?r?me Lazard, sp?cialiste de la pisciculture au Centre de Coop?ration Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le D?veloppement (CIRAD) ; -- Pierre Janin, chercheur ? l?Institut pour la Recherche et le D?veloppement (IRD), co-coordinateur du num?ro de la revue H?rodote consacr? aux enjeux de la crise alimentaire mondiale ; -- Fran?ois Chartier, charg? de campagne oc?an, Greenpeace ; -- Bruno Parmentier, ing?nieur, ?conomiste. au Burkina Faso : -- Roger Kabor?, responsable de la pisciculture dans une ferme int?gr?e de Ouagadougou ; -- Alexis Sane, contr?leur des Eaux et For?ts au Burkina Faso. _______________________________________________________ \/////////\\\\\\\/////////\//////\/////////\\\\\\\/////////\//////\/////////\\\\\\\/////////\////// _______________________________________________________ From datadandy at gmx.net Mon Apr 13 10:23:32 2009 From: datadandy at gmx.net (datadandy) Date: Mon Apr 13 10:24:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] OPENING: Mamoru Okuno (JP) / DI 14.04.09, 18.00 Uhr Message-ID: <22EFCC30-0BCE-40DA-8607-C26FFF966D40@gmx.net> CODED CULTURES - Event 1/04 Artist-in-Residence quartier21 Mamoru Okuno (JP): etude no.12 variations Opening: 14.04.2009, 18.00 Exhibition: 15.04 - 30.04.09, 10.00 - 22.00 Space: Transforming Freedom, Electric Avenue, MuseumsQuartier Wien open studio: 23.04. / 25.04. / 26.04. / 30.04.09, 15:00 - 16.00 performance place: Studio 501 (Hof 7 / Stock 1) The word "etude" is often used to represent small music composition that is designed to gain certain technique of the instruments or also for composers to display certain musical ideas as a sketch. mamoru?s "etude" is a series of works that is related to everyday objects, mostly cheep and easy-to-nd, which would be transformed into something unexpected by a simple idea. The original work is text; however they take various forms to be realized. Artist statement mamoru okuno (JP): At quartier21, I would like to make sound installation and performance for "etude no.12 - plastic lm" in two variations. One with glass bottle I nd in Austria; joghurt bottle, and the other with white light. At the opening I would do special performance involving the audience and continue to do variations at open studio for 4 days. I hope to see you and make good sound. www.codedcultures.net ______________________________________________ CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences Binational Festival to explore new artistic creative Ability-Profiles within media integrated Delineation Cultures 27. ? 31.05.2009 Vienna / Austria 14. ? 18.10.2009 Yokohama, Tokyo / Japan FESTIVAL VIENNA: Opening: 27th May 2009, 7.00 p.m. Freiraum/quartier21 ? MQ Exhibition: 28th May ? 07th June 2009, 10.00 a.m. ? 8.00 p.m. Freiraum/quartier21 - MQ Symposium: 28th ? 31st May 2009, 2.00 p.m. ? 8.00 p.m. MUMOK ? MQ Party: 31st May 2009, 8.00 p.m. Hofstallungen/MUMOK - MQ ______________________________________________ WHO IS CODED CULTURES: The executive team of ?Coded Cultures ? Exploring Creative Emergences?, represented by Dr. Georg Russegger, Mag. Matthias Tarasiewicz and Mag. Michal Wlokowski, is responsible for the contents and organization of the festival. Dr. Georg Russegger, main coordinator of the festival in Austria and Japan, is researcher at the Tokyo National University of the Arts and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2007, he is working together with 5uper.net to develop and organize the festival. Matthias Tarasiewicz and Michal Wlodkowski are founders of the group 5uper.net and realized over 75 events under this group since 2003. Since 2006 they are active in the field of F+E and develop under the label ?Mutti? together with the team of 5uper.net projects and prototypes for experimental media usage. ABOUT CODED CULTURES: CODED CULTURES is an initiative of 5uper.net and was first presented in 2004 at the ?MuseumsQuartier Wien? with the title ?Decoding Digital Culture?. 5uper.net is generally based in the field of networking, which can have digital, social, local or global parameters. The group represents an interdisciplinary, international Communication- Forum, which is actively exploring a discussion in the fields of Media Arts, Digital Arts, Music, Technology and New Media. 5uper.net combines producers which are interested in the interface between humans and machines, the improvement of existing media channels and to enable new forms of communication, distribution and discussion. Since 2003 the group has presented exhibitions, workshops and symposiums which are related to the fields of media art and the intersection between art and technology. 5uper.net / quartier21 MuseumsQuartier Wien Museumsplatz 1/10/7 1070 Vienna / Austria office@codedcultures.net www.codedcultures.net Press Contact: Johanna St?gm?ller press@codedcultures.net d From ivar at pixelpunx.com Fri Apr 3 14:19:50 2009 From: ivar at pixelpunx.com (Ivar Smedstad) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:21:54 2009 Subject: [spectre] 'Soundings - Nordic Sound Art', Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art Message-ID: 'Soundings - Nordic Sound Art' at The Museum for Contemporary Art Exhibition: The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde presents,'Soundings - Nordic Sound Art' an exhibition of works by a new generation of Nordic sound artists who in the spring of 2009 graduate as the first group from the joint masters study programme called Nordic Sound Art http://www.nordicsoundart.com. Opening: Friday April 24, 2009, 17-20 Exhibition period: April 25-June 7, 2009 Location: Museum for Contemporary Art, St?ndertorvet 3A, 4000 Roskilde, phone: 46 31 65 70 Open: Tuesday-Friday 11-17, Saturday-Sunday 12-16, www.samtidskunst.dk From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Apr 6 15:01:42 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:25:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery Message-ID: <011e01c9b6b7$d74fee60$85efcb20$@org> Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery/ Three works commissioned by Turbulence.org: "Hard Data" by R. Luke DuBois http://turbulence.org/works/harddata/ "School of Perpetual Training" by Stephanie Rothenberg http://turbulence.org/works/perpetualtraining/ "Plazaville" by G.H. Hovagimyan, with Christine McPhee http://turbulence.org/works/plazaville/ April 7 - May 1, 2009 Opening Reception: April 7, 5:00 - 7:00 pm Pace Digital Gallery, 163 William Street, New York City HARD DATA -- by R. Luke DuBois -- is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source "score" of events. Using Xenakis' understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. The intention of the project is to recontextualize the formal stochastic music in the context of real-world statistics, and to provide a compositional and metaphoric framework for creating an electroacoustic music relevant and significant to our time. http://turbulence.org/works/harddata/ R. LUKE DUBOIS is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He is best known as a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music. SCHOOL OF PERPETUAL TRAINING -- by Stephanie Rothenberg -- is an ironic edutainment website that exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam game training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and global distribution. Classic arcade games such as Dig Dug and Space Invaders are redesigned to train job seekers for positions in mineral mining and printed circuit board assembly. Pushing joystick and mouse aside, the webcam interface utilizes motion detection requiring full range of body motion to play. Through the relationship of physical labor for virtual gain, the reality of the actual physical, labor critical to running virtual worlds is made visible. http://turbulence.org/works/perpetualtraining/ STEPHANIE ROTHENBERG'S interdisciplinary practice merges performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited in the US and internationally at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, 2008 Zer01 San Jose, 2004/2008 ISEA; and the Knitting Factory, NYC. Stephanie received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. PLAZAVILLE -- by G.H. Hovagimyan, with Christine McPhee -- is a new media video artwork based on the classic 1965 movie Alphaville by Jean Luc Godard. Set in 21st century New York City, the scenes from the original Alphaville are re-enacted, interpreted and improvised upon by the artists, actors and videographers. The piece uses the internet as one means of distributing the short video clips. For Pace Digital the scenes will be projected as a randomly assembled movie. http://turbulence.org/works/plazaville/ G.H. HOVAGIMYAN is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art, installations and HD video. CHRISTINA MCPHEE is a media and visual artist whose work reflects on and interprets generative environments at the edge of the urban. She is based in the central coast of California. Current exhibitions include "Twice Upon a Time" at Galerie Andreas Huber Vienna and Silvmernan Gallery, San Francisco. Her new science fiction project "Tesserae of Venus" debuted at Silverman Gallery San Francisco in fall 2008 and in Belfast for the ISEA festival in August 2008. Her work has recently shown at Documenta 12, Lyon Biennial 2007, Bucharest Biennial 3, and Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden. "Hard Data", "School of Perpetual Training" and "Plazaville" are 2008/'09 commissions of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. They were made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From ruthadams at futureeverything.org Fri Apr 10 16:19:44 2009 From: ruthadams at futureeverything.org (Ruth Adams) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:25:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Futuresonic 2009 - Art Programme Message-ID: <140BB35CF13145DD8BE180416B1F2D00@RuthPC> Futuresonic 2009 Art Programme Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas 13-16 May Manchester UK http://www.futuresonic.com Futuresonic's 2009 art programme is more ambitious and relevant than ever. Themes include society, technology and the city plus this year Environment 2.0. The exhibition takes place across Manchester and beyond, with the focal point an exhibition at the CUBE gallery. Kim Abeles (US) Prayas Abhinav (IN) Ackroyd & Harvey (UK) Carlo Buontempo (IT) Lluis Sabadell Artiga (ES) Rob Bailey (UK) Amy Balkin (US) Mike Bennett (IE) Jonathan Cohrs (US) Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US) Alfie Dennon (UK) Yara El-Sherbini (UK) Cleo Evans (UK) Usman Haque (US) Drew Hemment (UK) HeHe (UK/FR) Aaron Koblin (US) Megan MacMurray (US) James Marriott (UK) Eva Meyer-Keller (DE) Fujiko Nakaya (JP) Christian Nold (UK) Angela Pablo (US) The Owl Project (UK) Andrea Polli (US) Janine Randerson (NZ) Scenocosme (FR) Will Schrimshaw (UK) Royal College of Art & Yamaha Yuri Suzuki (JP) Elin Wikstr?m (SE) CUBE exhibition 13-23 May, opening 5pm on 13 May All Art exhibitions and events are free http://www.futuresonic.com/art |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Curator's Statement |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The 2009 exhibition has grown out of three years of background work which commenced in 2006. It adds an engagement in the environment to the festival's now perennial themes of society, technology and the city. Artists here avoid cliches and address environmental sustainability in ways both forceful and irreverent. Eva Meyer-Keller re-enacts catastrophic weather scenarios using household objects in Handmade, and Kim Abeles' exhibits commemorative plates with images of U.S. presidents, created by exposing the plates to an amount of smog proportional to their environmental records. Futuresonic has developed a social engagement within its art programme, and in Beuys' Acorns by Ackroyd and Harvey this resonates within a wider art historical tradition. Installing 250 oak saplings grown from artist Joseph Beuys' acorns, they revisit his notion of social sculpture, where the artist is asking dangerous questions, seeking to change the social order. The exhibition includes artworks which are purely aesthetic, such as Janine Randerson's compelling film Rorschach Clouds, artworks which are conceived directly as social interventions, such as the urban gardening projects of Prayas Abhinav in Petpuja, as well as pieces which arise out of a sustained engagement and dialogue between artists and scientists such as the work of Andrea Polli. A focus on participatory artworks continues, with a public recital of the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) coordinated by Amy Balkin, an art device for prospecting for oil in the city centre by Jon Cohrs, and a number of large scale, participatory mass observation projects on climate and biodiversity by Futuresonic with the Met Office and Natural History Museum. Elin Wikstr?m introduces us to wheelchair tag rugby in a conceptual art event and exhibition in which the drama and brutality of the game offers a metaphor for the invasion of non-native species of plants and animals in the year of Darwin's bicentenary, and also a celebration of the sporting prowess of the disabled wheelchair rugby players prior to London 2012. Several artworks make visible and tangible the outcomes of our actions at a local level, including aesthetic and conceptual design objects by Usman Haque and Megan MacMurray & Angela Pablo, and documentation of HeHe's award winning Nuage Vert projecting energy usage onto a powerstation vapour cloud. Across the Art Programme artists explore other themes, including a number of sound art projects, centred on an important exhibition by Yamaha and Royal College of Art. Futuresonic 2009's focal point is, however, very much this year in seeking to open an original engagement in the environment, with projects which aim to provoke and inspire. Drew Hemment Artistic Director |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Festival |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas features world premiers of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. Now in its 14th year, Futuresonic is the UK's leading festival for digital culture, and this year was nominated for the prestigious Lever Arts Prize. An urban festival experience, it is anticipated that over 50,000 festival visitors will engage with 300 artists and 100 events across 30 venues. 13-16 May, Manchester UK http://www.futuresonic.com Futuresonic is presented by FutureEverything CIC. It is a Regularly Funded Organisation (RFO) of Arts Council England North West, a pillar event of Manchester City Council and is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. FutureEverything was shortlisted for the highly acclaimed 2009 Lever Prize. Futuresonic is presented in partnership with ImaginationLancaster http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk, a major new research lab at Lancaster University. In 2010 Futuresonic will return as FutureEverything #futr09 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Volunteers |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Futuresonic offers a range of opportunities to get involved through volunteering. In the lead up and during the festival this may include tasks in marketing, production, artist liason and front of house. Get in touch if you'd like to be involved in making the festival a great success. Contact: volunteers@futuresonic.com http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Apr 13 04:19:27 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:25:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Turbulence Artists' Studio: "Data_Sea" by Michael Takeo Magruder Message-ID: <001b01c9bbde$47a85dc0$d6f91940$@org> Turbulence Artists' Studios: ?Data_Sea? by Michael Takeo Magruder, with Drew Baker and David Steele http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo/ and at Thinktank Planetarium and Futures Gallery (Birmingham, UK) http://www.thinktank.ac/ The televised broadcast of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 was humanity?s first media transmission powerful enough to pass through Earth?s ionosphere and travel into deep space. From that point in time our signals have radiated into the universe, creating an ever-expanding globe referred to as Earth?s Radiosphere. In the 73 years since that defining moment, our communications have reached nearly two thousand other known star systems. ?Data_Sea? is a real-time virtual environment based upon this relationship between broadcast media and astronomy. The core geometry of the artwork is directly derived from the actual positions of all catalogued star systems residing within the Radiosphere. Obtained from current astronomical databases such as the Hipparcos star catalogue, these scientific measurements have been translated into a three-dimensional structure constructed in VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language). Each star system?s basic properties affect its aesthetic manifestation within the virtual realm. Star type is represented by shape, with normal stars appearing as full spheres, ?failed? stars (brown dwarfs) as incomplete spheres and ?dead? stars (white dwarfs) as compressed crosses. The stellar nodes are connected to a central spherical body (representing our solar system) by line structures that are coloured according to spectral class of the individual stars. Systems that are known to contain exoplanets are surrounded by concentric ring structures. Live media from the BBC world news service is streamed into the environment. The virtual elements are textured with images from today?s events, while layers of live audiocasts are blended into a persistent soundscape. These mediated reflections of the present are in constant flux, forever shifting as they drift into an endless sea of virtual space. ?Data_Sea? is a Thinktank production for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. The project was made possible with funds from Arts Council England and generous support from King?s Visualisation Lab, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King?s College London and ParallelGraphics. BIOGRAPHY Michael Takeo Magruder is an artist and researcher in King?s Visualisation Lab, King's College London. His work uses emerging technologies, including high-performance computing, mobile devices and virtual environments, blending Information Age technologies with modernist aesthetics to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the networked, digital world. His work has been showcased in over 200 exhibitions in 30 countries, including the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, EAST International 2005, Georges Pompidou Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau. His work also regularly appears in international New Media festivals such as Cybersonica, CYNETart, FILE, Filmwinter, Rencontres Internationales, SeNef, Siggraph, Split, VAD and WRO. His artistic practice has been funded by the Esm?e Fairbairn Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Arts Council England, The National Endowment for the Arts, USA and public galleries in the UK and abroad, as well as by commissions from leading Internet Art portals Turbulence.org and Soundtoys.net. For more Turbulence Artists? Studios please visit http://turbulence.org/studios Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 ? Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Apr 13 19:13:53 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:29:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Courtisane Festival 2009, Ghent, 23 - 26 April 2009 Message-ID: To: nettime-ann@nettime.org From: Stoffel Debuysere Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:34:15 +0200 Subject: Courtisane Festival 2009 // 23 - 26 April 2009 Hi all, Courtisane Festival 2009 is coming up. Gent, Belgium. 23 - 26 April 2009. www.courtisane.be - recent film and video work by Ben Rivers, Joost Rekveld, Jani Ruscica, Duncan Campbell, Philipp Lachenmann, Beatrice Gibson, Pavel Medvedev, Mary Helena Clark, Fred Worden, Ben Russell, Janie Geiser, Rosa Barba, John Price, Dariusz Kowalski, Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, Deborah Stratman, Martha Colburn, Marie Losier and many, many others - "Sculpting the Land : An evening on? Landscapes" with performances and screenings by Luke Fowler & Lee Patterson, Guy Sherwin, Emily Richardson, Chris Watson & Benedict Drew, Chris Welsby & William Raban, James Benning, Mungo Thomson - "Past Imperfect : An evening on? Memory" with performances and screenings by Aki Onda, Gill Arn?, Associazione Home Movies - La camera ottica with Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Benjamin Francart & Xavier Garcia Bardon, Jasper Rigole, Alvin Lucier pieces performed by Thomas Smetryns, Heleen Van Haeghenborgh, Kristof Roseeuw & Michael Weilacher - "Somewhere in Time : Explorations in Memory and History" with film and video work by Rebecca Baron, James Benning, Black Audio Film Collective, Matthew Buckingham, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hollis Frampton, Philip Hoffman, Nora Martirosyan, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, The Otolith Group, Walid Ra'ad & The Atlas Group, Rea Tajiri, Leslie Thornton, Vision Machine, Soon-Mi Yoo. - "A Simple Truth", an exhibition with work by Ivan Grubanov, Phil Collins, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mark Raidpere - "Artist in Focus" is Guy Sherwin - and oh, yes, we have a special "Baby Matinee", with work by Robert Breer, Oskar Fischinger, Jean Painlev? and others Courtisane offers free accreditations to professionnals from the audiovisual sector (curators, festival programmers, distributors, producers, journalists, teachers, students ...) who wish to attend. You just need to write to soetkin@courtisane.be and mention : * contact details (email, postal address, telephone number) * function / organization * passport photo Welcome! Looking forward, Stoffel Stoffel Debuysere stoffel.debuysere@gmail.com www.diagonalthoughts.com From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Apr 13 19:36:45 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:49:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Festival HAIP goes HYPE Message-ID: Subject: Festival HAIP goes HYPE From: Katja Gucek Organization: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6, Ljubljana Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:58:56 +0200 HAIP goes HYPE! In 2009 HAIP festival is not resting, but mutating! From its domestic environment in Slovenia capital Haip is moving through Europe propagating itself like a simbiont throughout other cultural structures. "HAIP goes HYPE" is organized by Haip partner organizations - Radio FRO (http://www.fro.at/), Time's Up (http://www.timesup.org/), CIANT (http://www.ciant.cz/) and monochrom (http://www.monochrom.at/) - it will take time and place as a part of other international festivals also. - First, Prague, Czech Republic: as a part of ENTER festival (http://enter4.org/), organized by CIANT, where slovenian artist Janez Jan?a is presenting his project Brainloop. From 19.4. unitl 24.4.2009. - Then Linz, Austria: as a part of LIWOLI 09 festival (Linux Wochen) (http://linz.linuxwochen.at/) in the organization of Radio FRO: Robertina ?ebjani? and Luka Frelih with the installation and workshop Pufination, Miha Ciglar and Nika Autor with workshop and performance A Small Contribution to The Genesis of Everyday Life, Daniel Turing with an installation and workshop, Gantle Junk (Ricardo Palmeri and Kruno Jo?t) with a range if interventions and workshops. Roch Forowitz will again intervene around the city also! From 23.4. until 25.4.2009. - And that's not all: Time's Up will continue its HAIP goes HYPE inspired programme in Linz with their project MayHEM (http://www.timesup.org/mayhem/) from 24.4. until 6.5.2009. We also have interesting happening in the fall coming up! But more about that some other time! http://www.haip.cc/ Festival HAIP 08 is supported by EU Culture -- Katja Gucek Public Relations Kiberpipa (Zavod K6/4) Kersnikova 6 1000 Ljubljana m: +386 40 187 871 e: katja.gucek@kiberpipa.org www.kiberpipa.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Apr 13 19:48:23 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:54:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) CFP: ACE 2009 and DIMEA 2009, Athens/Greece Message-ID: From: "Shika Ismail" Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:04:47 +0800 Subject: CFP: ACE 2009 and DIMEA 2009 CFP: ACE 2009 and DIMEA 2009 CFP: ACE 2009 adn DIMEA 2009 Dear Andreas Broeckmann ACE 2009 (5th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference) incorporating DIMEA 2009 (3rd Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference) Athens, Greece October 29-31, 2009 Interactive Entertainment is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 1996, the U.S. entertainment software industry reported $2.6 billion in sales revenue; this figure has more than tripled in 2007, yielding $9.5 billion in revenues. In addition, gamers, the target market for interactive entertainment products, are now reaching beyond the traditional 8-34 old male target demographic to include women, Hispanics, and African Americans. This pattern has been observed in several markets, including Japan, China, Korea, and India. Thus, interactive entertainment is becoming part of our everyday life, impacting our thinking, society and culture in many ways. ACE has become the leading academic forum for dissemination of novel research results in the area of entertainment computing. This year for the first time it incorporates DIMEA which has established itself over the last three years as a strong conference on interactive entertainment arts. Together the conference forms an exciting new step blending deeply the latest research in art and technology. The focus of ACE 2009 is to gather researchers from academia and industry-researchers who are working in multi-disciplinary areas within the arts, psychology, computer science, and design to discuss, present, and demonstrate their new contributions. The goal of ACE is to stimulate discussion in the development and advancement of interactive art and entertainment applications. It, thus, strides to balance several interdisciplinary areas and seeks representation in all these areas, including, but not limited to: * Accessibility * Aesthetics * Affective Computing * Ambient Intelligence * Animation Techniques * Attention * Augmented / Mixed Reality * Avatars and Virtual Community * Community * Cultural Computing * Digital Entertainment and Sports * Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting * Digital Cinema * Elderly Entertainment * Empathy * Entertainment Design Theory * Experience Design * Funology * Graphics Techniques * Human-Robots Interaction * Interaction Design * Interactive Computer Graphics * Interactive Theatre * Internet Networking Media * Learning and Children * Location-Based Entertainment * Metaverse * Mixed Media * Mobile Entertainment * Multimodal Interaction * Narratives / Digital Storytelling * New Gaming Audiences * Novel interfaces * Pervasive and Online Games * Physical Computing * Robotic Love and Affection * Simplicity * Situativity * Smart Gadgets and Toys * Social Impact * Social Networking * Sound and Music * Synesthetic Entertainment * Tangible Interfaces * User Interfaces * Visual Effects * Virtual Reality To encourage presentation of such multi-disciplinary work, we invite submissions that fall into the following tracks: * Papers Track: o Full Papers: Original unpublished technical, design, and theory/social impact. Submissions to this track should not exceed 8 pages in ACM format. o Short Papers: Original unpublished technical, design, and theory/social impact. Submissions to this track should not exceed 4 pages in ACM format. The program committee may also suggest submitted long papers be resubmitted as short papers. o Posters: Breakthroughs in technical research, content design, industry applications, and entertainment theories/social impact researches are invited. Submissions to this track should not exceed 2 pages in ACM format. Format instructions are posted on the website noted below. All accepted submissions will be published in conference proceedings. * Creative Showcases (show cased within three types of spaces: exhibition space, art gallery and gaming exhibit) o Technical demos : prototype demos of advanced entertainment technology o Games, including, but not limited to, experimental games, independent games, games for change, video games, commercial games, casual games, mobile games o Interactive narrative, interactive drama, alternate reality games, and interactive fiction o interactive art installations o web-based computer entertainment o digital audio, visual and other sensory art o Design showcase One page abstracts of all accepted submissions will be published in conference proceedings. For further information please visit: http://www.ace2009.org Important Dates: Deadline for Full and Short Papers: June 19, 2009 Deadline for Posters and Creative Showcases: June 19, 2009 Notifications of Acceptance: August 21, 2009 Camera Ready Copy: September 18, 2009 Submissions of papers will be online on our conference website <(http://www.ace2009.org)>(http://www.ace2009.org) using Easy Chair and should follow the ACM Submission Format. See ACM SIG Proceedings Template for more instructions. Selected papers will be asked to extend their papers for a Journal Publication: Selected papers will be published in Special Issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment and International Journal on Arts and Technology (IJART) Awards Best papers and creative showcases will be selected based on a jury of well respected pioneers in the field attending the conference. We honor the authors of these publications by presenting awards including: Paper award categories: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Creative showcase award categories: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Organization Committee Honorary General Chair Ryohei Nakatsu General Co-Chairs Hirokazu Kato Michael Haller Athanasios V. Vasilakos Program Co-chairs Bruce Thomas Yoshifumi Kitamura Magy Seif El-Nasr (Local) Organizing Co-chairs John N. Karigiannis Konstantinos Giannakis Adrian David Cheok Financial Co-Chairs Ivan Boo WWW Administrator Miyuru Dayarathna Demo Co-Chair Maki Sugimoto Art Exhibition Chair Philippe Pasquier Publicity Chair Owen Noel Newton Fernando From aurelie.besson at ciant.cz Mon Apr 13 19:50:59 2009 From: aurelie.besson at ciant.cz (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lie_Besson_CIANT?=) Date: Mon Apr 13 19:55:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] Invitation: workshop on Preservation of audiovisual and digital art Message-ID: Dear friends, It is our pleasure to inform you about the workshop on Preservation of audiovisual and digital art we organise in Prague in May. We would be happy if you decide to participate. We would also greatly appreciate if you could please recommend these events in person to your colleagues and friends, or just to post them to your contact lists. Thank you in advance for your kind help and time. Best regards, Aur?lie Besson CIANT TRANSISTOR Workshop on Preservation Supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union. An exceptional opportunity to meet with international leaders in the fields of preservation CIANT_International Centre for Art and New Technologies in collaboration with FAMU presents: Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital and audiovisual records Prague, Czech Republic May 20-23, 2009 Among the speakers from 7 countries: Richard Wright from BBC (UK) Dalit Naor from IBM (Israel) Richard Rinehard from the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (USA) Don Foresta, Research artist and theoretician in art (USA/France) Oliver Grau (DE), Danube University. Limited number of participants :18 / Apply as soon as possible!!! more information: transistor.ciant.cz Video of previous TransISTor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wca-B8olJqo What do you do to preserve your organisation's digital and AV records? With the world wide growth of digital information we as a people now have a new problem, there is a mass of data that must be stored and interpreted permanently. There is a strong risk that we will lose a good deal of our data, both that which is digital and that which is not yet digitalized. Today many of our processes become obsolete quickly and are replaced by new storage process, so that we need numerous systems to access all our old data. How well we can access our legacy of data will have important consequences in our organization's ability to retain our information capital as well as our Human cultural heritage. Currently new techniques of archiving and retrieving of audiovisual records are being developed and are resulting in new methods for the retention of capital of audiovisual information and the preservation and access of films, videos and interactive media. Among the lecturers: Richard Wright (UK): Senior Researcher, BBC Research and Development BBC project manager on European Commission projects PrestoPRIME (digital audiovisual preservation) and PrestoSpace (audiovisual preservation technology for Europe). www.bbcarchive.org.uk Richard Rinehard (USA): Digital Media Director at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive in California He is Associate Director for Public Programs of the Berkeley Center for New Media and is a new media artist. Richard has exhibited his art at Exit Art in New York and elsewhere; curated digital art exhibitions for the Berkeley Art Museum, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and others; and he has taught digital art at UC Berkeley and beyond. www.coyoteyip.com Don Foresta (USA/FR): Research artist and theoretician in art He is using new technologies as creative tools specializing in the network as an artistic space. He is now a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics and professor at the Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure d'Arts - Paris/Cergy. He has been working for over 25 years developing the network as an artistic tool and is presently coordinating a permanent high band-width network, MARCEL, for artistic, educational and cultural experimentation. www.donforesta.net, www.mmmarcel.org Contact us: "transistor2009[AT]ciant[DOT]cz" or: CIANT_International Centre for Art and New Technologies Kubel?kova 27 130 00 Praha 3 www.ciant.cz From alinamal2009 at gmail.com Mon Apr 13 20:02:44 2009 From: alinamal2009 at gmail.com (Alina MediaArtLab) Date: Mon Apr 13 20:21:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] CFP: X Media Forum in the frames of Moscow International Film Festival Message-ID: MediaArtLab Centre for Culture has started to receive requests for taking part in Media Forum 2009. It will be held in the frame of 31 Moscow International Film Festival from 23 to 28 of June. This is the 10 years Media Forum exists. The objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of technological innovations on visual arts. We hope that you will be interested to learn more about Media Forum 2009 here http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/en/ From lotu5 at resist.ca Mon Apr 13 21:44:58 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Mon Apr 13 21:45:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] New Media Lounge this wednesday! Message-ID: <49E3963A.6040407@resist.ca> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: this wednesday! Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:17:00 -0700 From: New Media Lounge To: newmedialounge-l@mailman.ucsd.edu Hello all digital art junkies and what have you, New Media Lounge is excited to bring MFA Candidate, Micha Cardenas for an exclusive motion capture demonstration in the Performative Computing Lab at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Micha will be discussing her recent project /*Becoming* *Dragon*/, a 365 hour, (2 week long) performance in Second Life. The performance is believed to be the first of its kind in Second Life, and Micha will talk about her experience and research, in addition to a techie demonstration of the motion capture setup involved. Join us on Wednesday, April 15th, at 6pm for some food, drinks, good music, and mocap fun. The Performative Computing Space in CRCA is located in Cal(IT)2, (Atkinson Hall) in Warren college, on the first floor. Make a right past the elevators, follow the hallway to the right once again, and you can't miss it. There will be signs posted as well. Flyer here: http://bang.calit2.net/tts/michaNmlFlyer.png See you then!!! -nml More on Becoming Dragon, from http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1431 "In an age when biotechnology has made it possible to alter the fundamentals of our food supply, our energy sources and even our genetic makeup, one graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, is pushing the limits of what it means to be human by exploring the intersections of biotechnology, art and virtual-reality in an immersive, durational performance titled */Becoming Dragon/*." "The project is a means of questioning the one-year requirement for "real-life experience" that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive gender confirmation surgery (also known as sexual reassignment surgery)." " 'The general theme for my project is to explore the possibilities for transformation, to ask the question, Is change really possible, or do you get what you're given, and that's it?' Cardenas explains. 'I'm asking if it's possible to replace this real-life experience requirement with Second Life experience, but I'm also asking a question that is somewhat rhetorical or fantastical: Could you really become your second-life avatar?' " -- micha c?rdenas performance / social media / public culture C(a)lit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net CRCA Researcher, http://crca.ucsd.edu MFA Candidate, UCSD, http://visarts.ucsd.edu MA, EGS, http://egs.edu blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts . From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Apr 14 14:57:13 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (NMAPN) Date: Tue Apr 14 14:57:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call --> Draft Title: SHOAH Message-ID: <20090414145713.E593E29C.B9A46111@192.168.0.3> [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media is planning in 2010-2012 a media art exhibition on the subject of SHOAH, looking for artists, who worked already or would like to work on this topic. In the focus of interest stand primarily digital media, in first place video/film, but also netart, computer basded multi-media, soundart, digital photography and media installation. Deadline: 30 September 2009 -------------------------- More info can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=662 and the project blog http://dts.engad.org ------------------------- info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------- From play at ubermorgen.com Tue Apr 14 19:50:32 2009 From: play at ubermorgen.com (UBERMORGEN.COM) Date: Tue Apr 14 19:50:54 2009 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition/New Work & artist presentation, Rencontres Internationales Madrid Message-ID: UBERMORGEN.COM EXHIBITION: "AFTER THE END / FAUX RACCORDS" at Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual Arts Madrid & Artist Presentation at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo New project Black n White : P'retty Ugly http://www.ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite Madrid Exhibition Loops (Screen 1&2) http://www.ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite/A1 http://www.ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite/A2 RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID In Madrid, April 16 ? 25 http://www.art-action.org Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual Arts | Reina Sofia National Museum | CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo | the Spanish Cinematheque | Auditorium of the Ministry of Culture THE EXHIBITION: "AFTER THE END / FAUX RACCORDS" Tabacalera from 16th April to 16th May The exhibition "After the End / Faux raccords" brings together 29 international artists and offers a video and multimedia journey, notably including previously unseen works by Tony Cokes [US], Thomas K?ner [DE], Antoni Muntadas [ES], Hans Op De Beeck [BE], Charly Nijensohn [AR], Joan Leandre [ES], Manuel Saiz [ES], Corinna Schnitt [DE], UBERMORGEN.COM [AT], Lawrence Weiner [US]. SPECIAL WEEKEND at the CA2M: "PUBLIC SPACE" CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo 18th - 19th April During two days, a series of screenings, debates, performances and workshops will take place at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, a special weekend in the presence of artists and well-known figures from the Spanish and international artistic and cultural scene. Following on from Paris in November and preceding Berlin in July, the 18th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, now in its third year in Madrid, will once again create a space for discovery and thought between new cinema and contemporary art at several prestigious locations of Madrid's art scene: the Reina Sofia National Museum, the auditorium at the Ministry of Culture, the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, the Spanish Cinematheque, and the Tabacalera ? future National Centre for Visual Arts. Singular in Europe due to the triangle formed between three of Europe's main capitals, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/ Madrid offer a rare insight into the numerous existing contemporary audio-visual practices. Cutting-edge cinema and documentaries, video art, multimedia installations, the Rencontres Internationales' programme is the result of an extensive research process (from around 6500 submissions) inviting certain artists, key figures in the world of cinema and contemporary art. In the presence of 150 artists and directors from all over the world, this year's festival offers an unprecedented international programme of 200 works from Spain, France, Germany, and 60 other countries, and brings together internationally-recognised artists and directors alongside young artists and directors presented in Madrid for the first time. Highlights include various film premi?res (over 30 screenings), an exhibition, and a series of round-table debates. For more detailed information: http://www.art-action.org Press & Professional Accreditation: http://www.art-action.org/ en_info.htm Free pass for students http://www.art-action.org/en_info_presse.htm International Press Contact Dimitri Larcher info@art-action.org + 33 1 40 18 0020 for more details on screenings and in-depth information on the whole event, please visit: http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/6634 -- Hans Bernhard UBERMORGEN.COM Email hans@ubermorgen.com http://www.ubermorgen.com Skype Hans_Bernhard Mobile +43 650 930 00 61 Facebook Hans Bernhard Superenhanced http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced Superenhanced Generator release very soon! + enjoy the silence! http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com 1001 Songs Cronicaelectronica May 1 Release + Black n White : P'retty Ugly http://www.ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual Arts Madrid, April 16 ? 25 From louise.desrenards at free.fr Wed Apr 15 05:27:45 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Wed Apr 15 05:22:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] Philosophy from individual to the commons as overpassing practice Message-ID: <49E55431.5050601@free.fr> Hello, Please receive this information in English (which I hope nearly correct) about an article in French @ "La revue des ressources" this page: http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1185 May be some of you understanding French will be interested in the references on Mehdi Belhaj Kacem which are quoted in the article and in the notes. Title: I love Mehdi Belhaj Kacem Abstract Strictly speaking, the following text does not consist of a review on the last book from Mehdi Belhaj Kacem "L'esprit du nihilisme : un Ontotlogique de l'Histoire". It consists of a study on the following subject: the creating process of conceptualizing the new as an overpassing practice to the act which we called 'Transgression" (a part of "Evil" but not at all Malpractice)--in French--from the Mehdi Belhaj Kacem's thinking. That is both a social individualized "Transgression" regarding the fields of the knowledge but in the same time a contributing activity of the "general transgression" concerning the insurrectionary society moving the laws, or else the crossing of the genre of writings such as Poetry, Novel, Essay turning into the Philosophy. From individualizing the writing by integrating the experimental body of the author till getting rid of the individualization thanks to the abstracting process by exceeding the affect to make happen the thought (what does not deprive it of the emotion from the writing to the reading). This thought being the "cursed part" of the economy of writing, an energy of the body (all the sources of included information) converted by the intellect into energetic and dynamic concepts, a gift from the individual to make happening in the common sense of the silent community. On one hand it throws back the notion of universality of the truth, for a cognitive consensus of the thought so expressed, not the truth but an event demonstrating what it discovers of common with the others by this own means; on the other hand it is not any more the organic intellectual, it is the insurrectionary intellectual in the unacceptable community. Process from an open masterwork--since his first book "Cancer" (published by Tristram in 1994) untill the last one just out: "L'esprit du nihilisme : une ontologique de l'Histoire" (published by Fayard the last month) of which I think that his subject being the proper revolution moving as subject. The appropriate subject of the great work of philosophy from Mehdi practice to the act being at the same time the performance of an irreproachable philosophic speech and a "malpractice" consisting of the reversal of the ethics : "(...) It is not the Law which is the condition of the "Transgression", but the opposite. The "Trangression" is the condition of possibility of any legislation: not only "moral", political and civic, but furthermore technical and cultural." So, he says may be, if the tragedy has been able to take sense in the modernity of the human without god(s), so the meaning is that the proper body of the modern theater of the History after the Myth is not the religion but the politics itself as the appropriate faith. Anyway, in his abtract summarizing his last book, he certainly says, "(...) in it the withdrawal of which, for thirty years, is the true name of the "nihilism" and the " return of the Religious ": the politics." See by yourself... ///////////////////////////////////////////////// ? propos de L?esprit du nihilisme : Une ontologique de l?Histoire, de Mehdi Belhaj Kacem ; collection "Ouvertures", ?ditions Fayard, Paris ; mars 2009. Abstract de l?ouvrage (par son auteur) "L?esprit du nihilisme : titre doublement paradoxal, puisque ce livre entreprend parall?lement, et souvent en m?me temps, de d?construire le (pseudo-)concept nietzsch?o-heideggerien de "nihilisme" et de d?crire ce que, par provocation provisionnelle nous appellerons "nihilisme d?mocratique". C?est graduellement, par la description ph?nom?nologique de la spiritualit? exprim?e dans la voix moyenne de toute une ?poque, que se rouvre alors la voie qui a travers? toute la modernit? pensante depuis deux si?cles : la "red?couverte" de la Trag?die par l?homme sans dieu(x). S?y ?tablit le "secret" d?couvert ? t?tons par cette modernit?, sans avoir jamais ?t? ?nonc? comme tel : renversant la tradition m?taphysico-politique de l?Occident, on d?montre que ce n?est pas la Loi qui est la condition de la Transgression, mais le contraire. C?est la Transgression qui est la condition de possibilit? de toute l?gislation : non seule-ment "morale", politique et civique, mais technique et culturelle. L?enjeu est consid?rable : si la philosophie, pour la toute premi?re fois de sa tradition, parvenait ? renverser le rapport qu?elle a toujours pos? entre l?gislation et transgression, d?montrant que celle-ci est la condition de possibilit? de celle-l? et pas l?inverse ; bouleversant au passage le sens m?me qu?on a toujours accord? au concept de "Transgression", alors la philosophie destituerait enfin la r?gion de pens?e qui, avec l?irrationalisme qui lui est propre, et qu?on a plus que jamais raison de qualifier d?"obscurantisme", a toujours "pens?" la pr?cession de la transgression sur la l?gislation : nomm?ment la religion (le "p?ch? originel"). Cette destitution non seulement court-circuiterait le pouvoir du religieux, mais restituerait ce pouvoir, et la t?che d?en penser les cons?quences, ? cela dont le retrait, depuis trente ans, est le vrai nom du "nihilisme" et du "retour du religieux" : la politique. " http://www.editions-fayard.fr/livre/fayard-321202-L-esprit-du-nihilisme-hachette.html From bszechy at gmail.com Mon Apr 13 19:52:22 2009 From: bszechy at gmail.com (beata szechy) Date: Wed Apr 15 08:46:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] HMC VideoFest, Budapest, Hungary Message-ID: HMC VideoFest, Budapest, Hungary August 02-05, 2009 The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc. (HMC) is soliciting entries for a HMC VideoFest to be held in "Godor" downtown Budapest, Hungary from August 02-05, 2009. Media and video artists all around the world are invited to send video art for the HMC VideoFest. In the same time we have an artists residency program in the city and an exhibition will be arranged. The HMC a nonprofit organization dedicated to promote cultural expansion of the visual arts. CONCEPT HMC Video Art Festival is looking for video art that foresees new perspectives, criticism or analyis of the subject of matter. The theme is free. ELIGIBILITY Artist: from any age, gender, nationality, religion can submit up to 3 works. Films and videos submitted must: - belong to the category of video art , - have been completed on or after January 1, 2007 - be in a single channel, - be copyright controlled by the artist REQUIREMENT All submissions should include: 1. Entry form. Fill up, print and sign the form for each work that you are submitting. 2. Artwork, videos should be submitted on DVD video (pal) format or video file ("avi", "mpeg" or "quicktime", with a maximum file size of 1,5 Gb) and the time duration of the work should not exceed 15 minutes. The DVD should be clearly label on the spine with title, year, running time and director name. Works submitted in languages other than English must be subtitled. 3. A short biography of the artist (between 50 and 100 words), 4. A short description of the work that you are submitting, including a list of previous screenings, 5. Two still images of the work in jpg. DEADLINE Entries must arrive at HMC address by April 25, 2009 HMC does not take responsability of shipment delais. Submissions that arrive after the deadline will not be considered. SHIPPING Submissions should be written on the envelop: "DVD for festival. Cultural use only. No commercial value." Do not send submission materials in fibre-filled envelopes; the dust damages media and playback equipment. HMC is not responsible for loss or damage during shipment. Submitted works won't be returned. ENTRY FORM The entrant's signature on the entry form automatically agree with the terms of the present call. It also certifies that the entrant is the legal owner of the work, and that any copyrighted materials included in the work have been legally cleared for use. ENTRY FEE $35. CATEGORIES AND CONCEPT We are interested in screening videos in the category of video art. We look for the inspired and the critical, the confounding and the revelatory, the scurrilous and the eccentric. This is non-profit Festival and unfortunately we got a very small budget so we can only show your video/videos on the singel screen. We can't offer artistic fees, accomondation or travel expenses. SEND SUBMISSIONS Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.(HMC) Beata Szechy, president 2503 Costa Mesa Drive, Dallas, Texas 75228 Please get in touch if you have any questions. 214-324-0078 bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com ENTRY FORM - HMC VideoFest, BUDAPEST 2009 ORIGINAL TITLE CONTACT INFORMATION: ARTIST/DIRECTOR First Name ARTIST/DIRECTOR Last Name Address: City State Zip Phone Email Website: TECHNICAL INFORMATION ORIGINAL PRODUCTION FORMAT SOUND (optical sound only): ___ Mono ___ Stereo ___ Silent ___ Dolby type ______ GENERAL INFORMATION LANGUAGE ENGLISH SUBTITLES___ yes ___ no HUNGARIAN SUBTITLES___ yes ___ no CITY AND COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION YEAR COMPLETED LENGTH (minutes) SIGNATURE DATE Your signature above constitutes acceptance of all rules and regulations of the HMC VideoFest. By signing this form you allow HMC VideoFest use of submitted work on publicity materials for promotional purposes (press kits, posters, website, etc.). Programmed works may be excerpted to a maximum of 2 minutes for television or other promotional purposes. I hereby certify that I have the rights to all materials used in this tape, and hold the HMC, Inc. harmless from all actions ensuring from any illegal use of copyrighted material. I hereby accept all rules and terms as printed on this entry form. BEATA SZECHY Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc. 2503 Costa Mesa Dr., Dallas, 75228 214-324-0078 bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com ************************Compliance Notice************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the originator of the message. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, except in accordance with its intended purpose, is strictly prohibited. -- Beata Szechy HMC Content-Type: text/rtf; charset=US-ASCII; name="FILMFEST APPLICATION.rtf" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FILMFEST APPLICATION.rtf" X-Attachment-Id: 0.1 _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann From office at napon.org Mon Apr 13 21:44:32 2009 From: office at napon.org (napon) Date: Wed Apr 15 08:46:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] Play Cultures in Bratislava, 14.04 - 03.05.2009 Message-ID: <49E39620.9000101@napon.org> Exhibition Play Cultures 14.04 - 03.05.2009 Dom Umenia, Nam. SNP 12 Bratislava Slovakia Opening of exhibition: Tuesday 14.04.2009 18:00 hours What is the position of the class of ?gamers? in today?s culture and society? Could game culture be used for emancipatory purposes and education? Is the militarization of game culture something that can be deconstructed or does it represent a highly customizable recruitment and ideological tool of the war culture? The exhibition ?Play Cultures? is an international exhibition that presents contemporary artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows one possible view of how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way. The exhibition consists of standalone games, mods, video works, multiplayer games and interactive storytelling. Exhibition consists of works covering wide spectrum from political propaganda to hacker technics and from high aestheticism to social themes. Artists: AES + F (RU), Alon Tzarafi (IL), Afkar Media (SY), Fiambrera (ES), Gonzalo Frasca (UY), Jodi (BE, NL), Molleindustria (IT), Personal Cinema (GR), Persuasive Games (US), Robert Praxmarer (AT), Serious Games Interactive (DK), Tale of Tales (BE), Vladan Joler (RS), Vladimir Todorovic (RS, SG), Urtica (RS) Curator of the exhibition: Kristian Lukic The exhibition is organized in the frame of festival Multiplace 8 www.multiplace.org Production: Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies - Napon, Atrakt Art Coproduction: Musem of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, National Culture Centre Bratislava, Multiplace From chiarapassa at gmail.com Tue Apr 14 11:19:47 2009 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Wed Apr 15 08:46:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] new review on ideasonair.net In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear friends & colleagues, I'm glad to share with you this fresh review http://blog.ponoko.com/2009/04/12/royalty-free-ideas/ on my blog-art project ideasonair.net Thanks & regards, Chiara -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From office at paraflows.at Wed Apr 15 10:22:37 2009 From: office at paraflows.at (Office) Date: Wed Apr 15 10:22:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] monochrom: Official Honoree for NetArt and Personal Blog/Culture in The 13th Annual Webby Awards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4jbodo10876susou15042009102237@monomail> monochrom has been selected as an Official Honoree for the NetArt category and the Blog - Culture/Personal category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards, http://www.webbyawards.com/ Official Honorees: NetArt http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=73&season=13 Official Honorees: Blog http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=83&season=13 From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Wed Apr 15 11:28:13 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Wed Apr 15 11:29:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] What Do Artists Know? Message-ID: <49E5C4CD0200003C000239FB@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> What Do Artists Know? Fellowship opportunities Fifteen places are available for Fellows; accommodation is provided, and there are funds for travel expenses. Fellows attend 27 hours of closed seminars with the Faculty; there are also public panel discussions and evening lectures. A full schedule is on our website: www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org The Stone Summer Theory Institute Is held each July at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. It is designed to investigate some of the principal themes of contemporary art. Each event will be produced as a book. The theme for 2009: What Do Artists Know? The education of artists is widely, even compulsively, discussed, but seldom theorized. This event will be a comprehensive reconsideration of theories of studio art education and artistic knowledge at all levels: first year, BFA, MFA, PhD, and professional. We will focus on three themes: the pertinent histories of art education (what is still taught, what remains in current curricula); the current content and philosophies of art education around the world and at all levels (what is taught in first-year programs, MA, MFA, and PhD programs worldwide); and the current state of theorizing on what artists know in society and outside the educational framework. An intensive week of seminars on the nature of the image Above: Students from the School of the Art Institute, in April 1913, protesting the avant-garde art in the Armory Show. They made a straw effigy of Matisse, which they called *Henry Hairmattress,* and they dragged it around the Art Institute, stabbing it. Notice the student with the rifle. The French-trained director of the School, William French, had made plans to be away at the time. Structure of the event The event is September 20-26, at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. It is centered on seminar discussions; no papers are given by Fellows. The public events are taped, and will form the basis of the book (the 2009 event will be the third book in the series). The Theory Institute is limited to 15 Fellows. Applications are currently invited from faculty and advanced graduate students. To apply, visit the website for full information: http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org and then send an informal two-page letter of intent, stating your interest in, or knowledge of, the topic, along with a CV and any pertinent texts (published or unpublished), to: conference@stonesummertheoryinstitute.org Please put all information including contact details in a single pdf file. Deadline June 15; applicants will be notified June 20. Successful candidates are eligible for travel funds. * 2009. All Rights Reserved. Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL 60603, USA Email or fax correspondence only (1 312 345 3789) Unsubscribe from this newsletter. (It is sent out twice a year.) If you are having difficulties viewing this email, the information is also on our website at http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org From podska at googlemail.com Wed Apr 15 11:37:12 2009 From: podska at googlemail.com (Podp Yvol) Date: Wed Apr 15 11:37:48 2009 Subject: [spectre] Multiplace # 8 ( a few highlights in Praha + Brno + Bratislava ) Message-ID: <52b15d1f0904150237y170e5b0eu3af52581058e5a82@mail.gmail.com> Hello spectrals, Multiplace #8 Network Culture Festival 14-18 April 2009 ~ CZ, SK, PL http://multiplace.org/2009/ Too much to list here, but here's a few highlights... ( well, the only things we've been able to get our head around thus far ... as we prepare our own XLterrestrial presentations and premiere of "The Transmigration of The Avatars" - psychomedia analysis/ performance/praxis in Brno on Thursday - 16.4.) ** 2nite in Prague Kyberia vs Facebook Matrix 15. apr?l 2009 18h, NoD Roxy, CZ_Praha Daniel Hromada (SK/CZ), Pavel Neuman (CZ), Palo Fabu? (CZ), Michal Cabowitz (CZ) [ in czech ] http://multiplace.org/2009/?id=757 ** 2mrrw in Brno Media reActivity 16. apr?l 2009 12 - 21h, Kav?rna Kun?t?tsk? Trojka , CZ_Brno Keiko Sei (JP), Petr Vr?na (CZ), Rafani (CZ), Maxigas (HU), Paolo Podrescu + XL Terrestrials (US/DE), Jana Hor?kov? (CZ), Jan Z?le??k (CZ) [ english/ czech ] Organiz?tor(i): Jana Hor?kov?, Barbora ?ediv? http://multiplace.org/2009/?id=823 ** in Bratislava Gu?a / Gucha 06 (presentation+discussion event in style of pecha kucha) 17. apr?l 2009 17h, A4 - nult? priestor, SK_Bratislava Keiko Sei (JP), Paolo Podrescu / XLterrestrials (US/DE), Richard Loskot (CZ) ** in Praha 18. apr?l 2009 19h, ?ist?rna v Buben?i, CZ_Praha in the afternoon + evening: installations and performances in water sewage in Bubenec : Franziska Mayr-Keber, Marc Muncke, Rich Loop Panciera, Nik Suchentrunk, Elsa Vieira (PT/US), Ale? Zemene (CZ), Marek ?uri? (CZ), Nikola Gedeonov? (CZ), Ivo Math? (CZ), Ondra Volek (CZ), otvoren? particip?cia Organiz?tor(i): Roguewaves, ?kolsk?28 (podpora) Tagy: performance, streaming + Share Jam organised by Elsa Vieira http://multiplace.org/2009/?id=2&c=16&d=5 More reports + links + analysis + at: 0----O----o www.xlterrestrials.org/plog arts + praxis organisms o-----O------0 Salut! pod From podska at googlemail.com Wed Apr 15 14:38:47 2009 From: podska at googlemail.com (Podp Yvol) Date: Wed Apr 15 14:39:21 2009 Subject: [spectre] Multiplace # 8 ( a few highlights in Praha + Brno + Bratislava ) Message-ID: <52b15d1f0904150538w46cad934t73eb505ead99b4d2@mail.gmail.com> Hello spectrals, Multiplace #8 Network Culture Festival 14-18 April 2009 ~ CZ, SK, PL www.multiplace.org/2009/ Too much to list here, but here's a few highlights... ( well, the only things we've been able to get our head around thus far ... as we prepare our own XLterrestrials presentations and premiere of "The Transmigration of The Avatars" - psychomedia analysis/ performance/praxis in Brno on Thursday - 16.4.) ** 2nite in Prague Kyberia vs Facebook Matrix 15. apr?l 2009 18h, NoD Roxy, CZ_Praha Daniel Hromada (SK/CZ), Pavel Neuman (CZ), Palo Fabu? (CZ), Michal Cabowitz (CZ) [ in czech ] www.multiplace.org/2009/?id=757 ** 2mrrw in Brno Media reActivity 16. apr?l 2009 12 - 21h, Kav?rna Kun?t?tsk? Trojka , CZ_Brno Keiko Sei (JP), Petr Vr?na (CZ), Rafani (CZ), Maxigas (HU), Paolo Podrescu + XL Terrestrials (US/DE), Jana Hor?kov? (CZ), Jan Z?le??k (CZ) [ english/ czech ] Organiz?tor(i): Jana Hor?kov?, Barbora ?ediv? www.multiplace.org/2009/?id=823 ** in Bratislava Gu?a / Gucha 06 (presentation+discussion event in style of pecha kucha) 17. apr?l 2009 17h, A4 - nult? priestor, SK_Bratislava Keiko Sei (JP), Paolo Podrescu / XLterrestrials (US/DE), Richard Loskot (CZ) ** in Praha 16-18 apr?l 2009 19h, ?ist?rna v Buben?i, CZ_Praha in the afternoon + evening: installations and performances in water sewage in Bubenec : Lenka Dolanov? (CZ), Michal Kindernay (CZ), G?van Bel? (BE/SK), Martin Bla???ek (CZ), Ale? Zemene (CZ), Isjtar (BE), Georgij Bagdasarov (RU), Kate?ina Zochov? (CZ), Mark?ta Lis? (CZ), Jonat?n Pastir??k (SK), Stanislav Abrah?m (CZ), Marcio Domingues (PT), Milo? Vojt?chovsk? (CZ), otvoren? particip?cia Organiz?tor(i): yo-yo, OKNO (podpora), Institut Interm?di? (podpora), ?kolsk?28 (podpora)+ Share Jam organised by Elsa Vieira www.multiplace.org/2009/?id=2&c=16&d=5 More reports + links + analysis + at: 0----O----o www.xlterrestrials.org/plog arts + praxis organisms o-----O------0 Salut! pod From seamascain at gmail.com Wed Apr 15 17:35:05 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Wed Apr 15 17:35:41 2009 Subject: [spectre] The death of Franklin Rosemont Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40904150835h489ee4abq8b3f85369ead84b8@mail.gmail.com> _______________ Franklin Rosemont, surrealist poet, artist, historian, street speaker, & labor activist, died of an aneurysm on Sunday, April 12th in Chicago, Illinois. He was 65 years old. With his partner & comrade, Penelope Rosemont, & lifelong friend Paul Garon, he co-founded the Chicago Surrealist Group, a remarkable presence in the art & activism landscape of Chicago for forty years. Rosemont did not separate scholarship from art, or art from political & social revolt. His books of poetry include "The morning of a machine gun" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions, 1968); "The apple of the automatic zebra's eye" (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Radical America, 1971); "Lamps hurled at the stunning algebra of ants" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions & Black Swan Press, 1990); & "Penelope" (Chicago : Surrealist Editions, 1997). Rosemont was a leading figure in the reorganization of America?s oldest labor press, the Charles H. Kerr Company. Under the mantle of the Kerr Company, Franklin edited & printed the work of some of the most interesting & important figures in the development of the political left: C.L.R. James, Martin Glaberman, Staughton Lynd, David Dellinger, Cornelius Castoriadis, Sam Dolgoff, Paul Goodman, Grace Lee Boggs, Paul Avrich, Augustin Souchy, Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Benjamin P?ret, Utah Phillips, Paul Buhle, T-Bone Slim, George Woodcock, and, in a new book released just days before Franklin?s death, Carl Sandburg. In later years, Franklin Rosemont created & edited the Surrealist Histories series at the University of Texas Press, in addition to continuing his work with the Kerr Company & Black Swan Press. Franklin Rosemont was a friend & valued colleague of such persons as Studs Terkel, Mary Low, the poets Philip Lamantia, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dennis Brutus, the painter Leonora Carrington, & the historians David Roediger, John Bracey, & Robin D.G. Kelley. I first encountered Franklin Rosemont face-to-face during the Chicago protests of August 1968. Then & since, I found him to be an amazing blend of contradictions, at once cordial yet cantankerous, amiable yet dismissive, spontaneous & enthusiastic yet grim, social yet unmistakably self-absorbed, creative yet singularly overpowering. Indeed, he was a unique personality. My condolences & solidarity to Penelope Rosemont, the Chicago group & its affiliates. S?amas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________ From joris at v2.nl Thu Apr 16 09:45:44 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Thu Apr 16 09:46:00 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_ Workshop Wearable Technology: Call for Participation Message-ID: <49E6E228.8040400@v2.nl> *Workshop: DIY Wearable Technology, by KOBAKANT* Call for participation May 16-17, 2009. Deadline for applications is May 3. Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. During the weekend of May 16 and 17, Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (aka KOBAKANT) will give a workshop on DIY wearable technology. The outcome of the workshop will be demonstrated during *Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology* on May 20 (20-23h). KOBAKANT explores the realm of wearable technology as a medium for commenting on technological and social aspects. For them, technology is to be hacked and modified by everyone to fit the needs and desires of the user. V2_Lab will organize a wearable technology workshop with an emphasis on DIY techniques and performing arts. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with hands-on experience on DIY wearable technology. The outcome of the workshop will be workingprototypes, which will be demonstrated by means of a short performance during Test_Lab.The participants will partake inhands-on sessions that involve both conceptual as well astechnical development. Developers from both V2_Lab and KOBAKANT are available for assistance throughout the workshop. The workshop is open to students and professionals in the fields of art, design, and engineering. Although anyone with an interest in wearable technology and basic knowledge of electronics or of sewing is welcome to join, we especially encourage people with an expertise in fashion design, technology in performance arts, and/or wearable technology engineering to sign up. Participants are invited to demonstrate the workshop outcome during Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology on May 20, in which various renowned artists will also demonstrate their wearable technology projects and where the technologies? social consequences will be discussed by professionals in the field. The number of participants to the workshop is limited. The fee for participation is ?50,- (to be paid before the workshop). This includes coffee, lunch and materials but no accommodation. Please use the application form: . Deadline for applications is May 3. For more information about the workshop, please contact Piem Wirtz M: piem@v2.nl T: +31 (0)10 2067273 www.v2.nl www.kobakant.at From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Apr 16 15:38:24 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Apr 16 15:38:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Furtherfield in support of Ada Lovelace Day. In-Reply-To: <49E55431.5050601@free.fr> References: <49E55431.5050601@free.fr> Message-ID: <49E734D0.4010409@furtherfield.org> Furtherfield in support of Ada Lovelace Day. Ada Lovelace Day (http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/) was conceived of and promoted by Suw Charman-Anderson as a way of "bringing women in technology to the fore". It was successful in motivating nearly 2000 people to publish a blog post about a woman in technology whom they admired. In support of Ada Lovelace Day Furtherfield.org invited women working in media arts to join the NetBehaviour.org email list (www.netbehaviour.org) for a week, between 23rd and 30th March. Invited contributors posted information about their own work alongside the work of other women who had inspired them in their own practice. Some names came up a number of times but with different stories and for very different reasons. NetBehaviour provided a context for sharing and discussing influences and tracing connections: artistic, practical, theoretical, technical, historical, personal. For readability this edited list does not include all of the discussion but this can be traced back through the NetBehaviour archives. Some contributors were anxious about the many excellent people who may have been missed out. We know this is not a definitive survey or list but it is an excellent resource and just one possible starting point for anyone wanting to know more about women working in media art. A big THANKS to all of those - women and men - who contributed to this tribute! Here it is: http://www.furtherfield.org/ada_lovelace.php From istha at nimk.nl Thu Apr 16 16:52:16 2009 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Thu Apr 16 16:52:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Media Art Platform: CALL FOR BLOGGERS! Message-ID: <49E74620.6090101@nimk.nl> Media Art Platform: CALL FOR BLOGGERS! This Spring, the Netherlands Media Art institute will launch the Media Art Platform, a networking website for people active in media art. For the Media Art Platform, we are looking for practitioners who are, during the course of this year, interested in contributing a (short) weblog about their work. We invite researchers and media artists to submit proposals for a future weblog of a maximum of 10 short posts. If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to write the proposed weblog on the Media Art Platform. Each blog post is rewarded with 30 EUR, with a maximum of 300 EUR per contributor (max. 10 postings). From all submitted proposals, four or five will be selected. Requirements your blog is preferably about practical aspects of your work. Ideally, it should give a unique, ?behind the scenes? insight in a working process: the development of an art project, the preparation of a publication or event, a research process... ideally, the blog is interesting for a large number of people who are active in, or interested in, media art the blog is written in English blog posts are short and to-the-point (max. 300 words) your weblog must be written in the course of a few months between 15 May and 31 December 2009. Please indicate which months or which period are most convenient for you. you remain the copyright owner of your postings and you are allowed to re-post them on your website or on other platforms, provided that you mention that the writing was commissioned for the Media Art Platform. We are especially interested in weblogs that show a personal perspective; especially related to the development of (future) art and research projects! Please submit the following: a short proposal for your weblog (max. 300 words) your CV and/or biography a link to your website (if you have one) one or more examples of previous writing Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2009 Please send your submissions to info@mediaartplatform.nl Selected/accepted writers will be informed around 15 May. -- Marieke Istha Communication istha@nimk.nl Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam T 020 6237101 F 020 6244423 www.nimk.nl From sabine at networkcultures.org Fri Apr 17 10:47:11 2009 From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer) Date: Fri Apr 17 10:47:51 2009 Subject: [spectre] Video Vortex in Split, Croatia Message-ID: (sorry for cross-posting) /////////////////// Dear all, On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place in Split, Croatia. It is organized by the Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.8, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. After previous Video Vortex events in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, Video Vortex Split will focus on the moving image on the Web. VV Split includes presentations by: Perry Bard, Nathalie Bookchin, Maarten Brinkerink, Vito Campanelli, David Clark, Dagan Cohen, Alejandro Duque, Albert Figurt, Stefan Heidenreich, Jasmina Kallay, Sarah K?ssene, Lev Manovich (to be confirmed), Dalibor Martinis, Gabriel Menotti, Ana Peraica, Valentina Rao, Jan Simons, Amir Soltani, Antanas Stancius, Evelin Stermitz, David Teh, Vera Tollmann, Andreas Treske, Sasa Vojkovic, Paul Wiersbinski, Kuros Yalpani. Performances by: Cym and Emile Zile, and screened work by: Nathalie Bookchin, Cym, Lemeh42, Cornelius Onitsch, Ivana Runjic, and Shelly Silver. The draft program is online at www.networkcultures.org/videovortex. We hope to see you in Split! Sabine Niederer Institute of Network Cultures /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// VIDEO VORTEX SPLIT OPENING EVENING: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009 17:30 Afternoon Screenings Preview at Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata, Split 19:00 Opening evening at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Velja?i? and Dan Oki Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (to be confirmed) 20:00 Exhibition opening (with food buffet) 21:00 Performance: Emile Zile - Post-It Kino (Buses to the hotel at 22:30 and 23:00) DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split (Buses to the Conference at 9:00 and 9:20) 9:45 - 11:30 SESSION 1: Tele-image Research Strategies Moderator: Sabine Niederer Presentations by: - Andreas Treske - Nathalie Bookchin - Dalibor Martinis Discussion COFFEE 11:45 ? 13:45 Session 2: The Database Moderator: Tomislav Medak Presentations by: - Maarten Brinkerink - Kuros Yalpani - Albert Figurt - Alejandro Duque Discussion LUNCH 14:30 ? 16:15 Session 3: Video Art meets Web Aesthetics Moderator: Leila Topi? Presentations by: - Vera Tollmann - Vito Campanelli - Sarah K?ssene Discussion COFFEE/TEA 17:00 SCREENINGS Presented by Dan Oki - Lemeh42, Study on human form and humanity #1, (2?00?). - Cornelius Onitsch, *AV*, (5?00?). - Ivana Runjic, Show me your hard disk and I will tell you who you are, (7?00?). - Nathalie Bookchin, Parking Lot, (15?00?). - Shelly Silver, In Complete World (53?00?). Q&A 20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Buses to the hotel leave at 22:15 and 23:00) DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009 Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split (Buses to the conference leave at 9:00 and 9:15) 09:30 ? 11:15 Session 4: Online Video Theories Moderator: Geert Lovink Presentations by: - Jan Simons - Gabriel Menotti - Amir Soltani - Stefan Heidenreich Discussion COFFEE 11:30 ? 13:30 Session 5: Online Video Narratives Moderator: Brian Willems - Jasmina Kallay - David Clark - Valentina Rao - Paul Wiersbinski Discussion LUNCH 14:15 - 16:15 Session 6: Politics of the Moving Image Moderator: Petar Milat Presentations by: - Sasa Vojkovic - David Teh - Ana Peraica - Antanas Stancius Discussion COFFEE/TEA 16:30 ? 18:00 Session 7: Social Cinema Moderator: Dan Oki Presentations by: - Perry Bard - Evelin Stermitz - Dagan Cohen Discussion Evening: 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER 21:00 PERFORMANCES - Cym, 30?00? - Surprise Act 22:00 VIDEO VORTEX PARTY (Buses to the hotel leave at 24:00 and 02:00) From lotu5 at resist.ca Sun Apr 19 02:44:32 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Sun Apr 19 02:45:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] Violence, Technology and Public Intervention, UCDArNet Panel Message-ID: <49EA73F0.9020202@resist.ca> *Violence, Technology and Public Intervention Date: *April 24th, 2009 *Time: *Noon - 5:00pm *Location: *Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego [webcast : http://calit2.net/webcast] *Host: *gallery@calit2 and UCDARnet *Guest Speaker:* Carlos Trilnick (Keynote) et al. Full speaker list and agenda below *DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT:* This symposium is in conjunction withi Carlos Trilnick's Anti-Personnel Mines Project, an interactive installation in the gallery @ calit2. Free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the panels. Sponsored by UCDARnet and gallery @ calit2. Abstract: Presentations will address the current and historical relationship between technology and violence, state and corporate-sanctioned as well as forms embodied in practices of resistance. The symposium will consider how the scale and far-reaching impact of violence and multiplication of modalities that it takes relates to global, regional and local contexts. Artists and theorists will navigate the tactics, strategies and disturbances that technology amplifies and distributes under the signs of the post-contemporary. Since our first encounters with analytic machines, technologically enabled violence has flickered between utopia and apocalypse, between labor saving and loss of jobs, between the ordinary and all too new, between bad machines and good machines. States of command and control violence and new forms of public interventions continually emerge from the machine smashing Luddites of 1811 to Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace?s code for the ?difference engine? in the mid-800's, to the exponential growth of military driven R & D throughout the 20th and 21st century. *AGENDA* Noon ?Introduction - Brian Goldfarb 12:10 - Carlos Trilnick - Keynote 12:30 ? *Panel One: Public Intervention as Art* * Sharon Daniel - Public Secrets Project * Warren Sack - Conversation Map v.2.0 Project * Micha C?rdenas ? Transborder Immigrant Tool * Respondent - Brian Goldfarb 2:30 Coffee Break 3:00 ? *Panel Two: The Art of Public Intervention* * Rita Raley ? Tactical Optics * Amy Sara Carroll - Forensic Prescience, Domestic Violence, "Death and the Idea of Mexico": Teresa Margolles' Operativo * Jordan Crandall - Art as Destabilization, Elemental and Ineludible * Respondent - Patrick Anderson Reception: 5:00pm Sponsored by UCDARnet and gallery @ calit2. *SPEAKER BIO:* Speakers include: *Micha C?rdenas* / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, theorist and troublemaker. Micha is an MFA candidate at the University of California San Diego who will be graduating in the summer of 2009. Micha holds a Master's degree in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Florida International University. She is a researcher at the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and at CalIT2 . Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at TechnoTrannySlut.com . Micha is a founding member of a number of art/activism collectives including Sharing Is Sexy , the borderlands Hacklab and the City Heights Free Skool . Micha recently joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator and collective member. In addition, Micha was the recipient of a 2008 Open Classroom Challenge Grant from UCIRA and taught a class entitled "Collective Art Practice, Performative and Networked Approaches to Challenging Power". She has been a guest lecturer at Calarts in Los Angeles and at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and presented a paper on the project Becoming Dragon at the Society of Photonic Imaging Engineers "Electronic Imaging" Conference in 2009. Micha has collaborated with faculty members Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum on the Transborder Immigrant Tool and the B.A.N.G. lab , and Adriene Jenik on specFlic 1.0 . *Amy Sara Carroll*, assistant professor of Latina/o Studies (jointly appointed in English and American Culture, affiliate of the Center for World Performance Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago . Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her critical essays and poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies. She is a member of the *particle group* (pitmm.net) and the Transborder Immigrant Tool research group. *Jordan Crandall* (http://jordancrandall.com ) is a media artist and theorist. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. His ongoing art and research project Under Fire, concerning the organization and representation of political violence, opened in October 2006 at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville . To date, two catalogues of Under Fire have been produced, in 2004 and 2005, published by the Witte de With center for contemporary art, Rotterdam . The third volume will be produced by the Seville Biennial in early 2007. Crandall has written on technology and culture for magazines such as Artforum, Parachute, Framework, Cultural Politics, Journal of Visual Culture, and TRANS (arts.cultures.media). Crandall?s other books include Trigger Projekt (Frankfurt: Revolver, 2002); Heatseeking (Caen: Esac, 2002); Suspension (Kassel: Documenta X, 1997); and Interaction: Artistic Practice in the Network (New York: D.A.P., 2001). *Sharon Daniel* is an artist whose research involves the use and development of information and communications technologies for social inclusion. Daniel engages in the production of ?new media documentaries??building online archives and interfaces that make the stories of technologically disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural, and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally at museums and festivals including Transmediale 08, the ISEA/ZeroOne festival, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Corcoran Biennial and the University of Paris I, as well as on the Internet. Her essays have been published in books and professional journals, such as Database Aesthetics (Minnesota University Press, 2007), the Sarai Reader, and Leonardo. Daniel is a Professor of Film and Digital Media and Chair of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California , Santa Cruz , where she teaches classes in digital media theory and practice. *Warren Sack* is a software designer and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a B.A. from Yale College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. Warren's writings on new media and computer science have been published widely and his art work has been shown at the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe , Germany ; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the artport website of the Whitney Museum of American Art . His Conversation Map is currently included in the SFMOMA exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now (November 8, 2008, through February 8, 2009). *Rita Raley* is Associate Professor English Department UC Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches in the areas of new media (art, literature, theory) and 20-21C literature in an ?international? or ?global? context. Her book, Tactical Media, a study of new media art in relation to neoliberal globalization, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in its ?Electronic Mediations? series. At present she is working on a series of articles on the topics of locative narrative, mobile media poetics, and ALife art. She also continues work on Global English and the Academy, excerpts of which have been published in The Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora. Another book project, Reading Code, is underway, an excerpt of which has been published under the title, "Code.surface || Code.depth". In the English department at UCSB, she is director of the Literature.Culture.Media center (formerly Transcriptions), co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization and currently leading a working group on ?New Reading Interfaces? for Transliteracies. She has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Rice University, where she was the Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Assistant Professor of English. In Spring 2009 she will be in residence at the UCHRI. *Carlos Trilnick* has been one of the pioneers of video art in Latin America since 1980, and his works - ranging from video installations and multimedia art to photography and online projects - have been exhibited extensively in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. , including the Museum of Modern Art in New York . He is a senior professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Development at the University of Buenos Aires. In addition to UC San Diego, Trilnick is also a Visiting Professor at universities in Colombia and Ecuador . Trilnick co-directs the Media Laboratory at the Talpiot Institute of Buenos Aires (a primary and secondary school), and coordinates the audio-visual media program "Vale la Pena," which curates programs of a broad range of contemporary work that engages social issues across the arts. *MORE INFORMATION:* For Directions and information: _http://gallery.calit2.net_ UCDARnet: _http://ucdarnet.org/_ Reception will follow the panels at 5pm. From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Sun Apr 19 17:38:09 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sun Apr 19 17:48:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) BALTAN goes NATLAB 24/04/2009 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:11 +0200 From: BALTAN Laboratories (ENGLISH BELOW) BALTAN GOES NATLAB BALTAN Laboratories nodigt u uit om aanwezig te zijn op vrijdag 24 april bij de tweede serie presentaties van BALTAN goes NATLAB in het voormalige Philips Natlab in Eindhoven. Samengesteld en ge?ntroduceerd door kunstenaar Geert Mul, zal deze presentatie gaan over de filosofie van de perceptie en hoe kunstmatige intelligentie en robots kunnen leiden tot een dieper inzicht in menselijk gedrag. Thom Warmerdam van Philips Applied Technologies toont een intelligent kunstmatig oog wat hij aan het ontwikkelen is en zal een licht schijnen op hoe onze hersenen beelden maken. De onderzoeker, kunstenaar en docent Willem van Weelden neemt een meer filosofische aanpak over hoe we waarnemen vanuit een bepaalde culturele achtergrond. En ontwerper Christien Meindertsma zal vertellen over haar aankomende project Makers & Spectators, een kijklaboratorium in MU (Eindhoven) van 1 mei tot 14 juni 2009. Na de presentaties bent u ook uitgenodigd een glas te heffen om de opening van Telcosystems' installatie 12_Series te vieren, diezelfde avond in Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, VS. 12_Series is een multichannel, audiovisueel, generatief kunstwerk van Telcosystems dat ontwikkelt is onder BALTAN's Po?me Num?rique onderzoeksprogramma. PRAKTISCHE INFORMATIE Datum: 24 april 2009 Tijd: 16.00 tot 18.30 uur Locatie: Auditorium van het voormalige Philips NatLab, entree aan de Kastanjelaan, Strijp S in Eindhoven Openbaar vervoer: Bus 401, 402 of 18 van Station Eindhoven CS, stop Kastanjelaan. Entree: Gratis Taal: Nederlands BALTAN GOES NATLAB On Friday, April 24, 2009 BALTAN Laboratories invites you to attend the second in the BALTAN goes NATLAB series of presentations at the former Philips NatLab in Eindhoven. Curated and moderated by artist Geert Mul, the focus of this session will be on the philosophy of perception and how artificial intelligence and robotics can lead to a deeper understanding of human behaviour itself. Thom Warmerdam from Philips Applied Technologies will give a presentation of the artificial eye that he is developing and will shed a light on how the brain constructs an image. Amsterdam-based researcher, artist and teacher Willem van Weelden will take a philosophical approach to the notion of how we culturally construct our sensorial impressions of the world. And designer Christien Meindertsma will preview her upcoming project Makers & Spectators, a looking-laboratory set up at MU in Eindhoven from May 1 to June 14, 2009. After the presentations, BALTAN also invites you to raise a glass with us to celebrate the opening of Telcosystems' installation <>12_Series that same evening at Woodstreet Galleries in Pittsburgh, USA. 12_Series is a generative multichannel computer installation by Telcosystems that has been developed under the umbrella of BALTAN's Po?me Num?rique research programme. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Date: 24 April 2009 Time: 16:00 to 18:30 Location: Auditorium of the former Philips NatLab, entrance on the Kastanjelaan, Strijp S in Eindhoven Public Transport: Bus 401, 402 of 18 from Station Eindhoven CS, stop Kastanjelaan. Entrance: Free Language: Dutch -- BALTAN Laboratories Glaslaan 2, SWA-8 Postbus 4042 5604 EA Eindhoven The Netherlands T: +31 40 256 9661 F: +31 40 256 9661 E: info@baltanlaboratories.org http://www.baltanlaboratories.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Sun Apr 19 19:56:29 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sun Apr 19 19:59:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] ann. new publication: Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology Message-ID: The book based on the 're:place 2007' conference is out: Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge Edited by Andreas Broeckmann and Gunalan Nadarajan VDG Publishers, Weimar, 2009 The volume presents seventeen studies about the complex interactions between art, media, science, and technology, based on papers presented at the international conference 're:place 2007' (Berlin). Zooming in on specific places and historical moments, the authors describe exemplary instances of the fruitful interaction and collaboration between artists, engineers, and scientists. Several analyses of the sites and trajectories of interdisciplinary knowledge production, as well as their ideological and institutional conditions, put a focus on areas such as the early Soviet Union, or the internationally dynamic period of the 1960s and 70s which is covered in essays about collaborative situations in Madrid, Sydney, and the Canadian West coast, as well as in Poland, Sweden, and Japan. Other essays deal with the work of individuals like Vil?m Flusser, Siegfried Giedion, and Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. Beyond the presentation of key moments in the history of art and science collaboration, the volume seeks to raise methodological questions about conceptions of history that take the multiple intersections between academic disciplines and cultural practices into account, and use them for enriching our understanding of creativity, variation, and historical change. Authors: Irina Aristarkhova, Michael Century, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Michael Darroch, Kristoffer Gansing, Olga Goriunova, Catherine Hamel, Caroline Seck Langill, Stephen Jones, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Janine Marchessault, Laura Marks, Eva Moraga, Nils R?ller, Margareta Tillberg, Siegfried Zielinski. 291 pages, 56 b/w illustrations. Price: 29,80 EURO ISBN: 9783897396111 Order from: http://www.vdg-weimar.de/catalogue_vdg/?id=9783897396111 or contact: bestellung@vdg-weimar.de Table of Contents Andreas Broeckmann, Gunalan Nadarajan: Introduction Janine Marchessault and Michael Darroch: Anonymous History as Methodology: The Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-55) Michael Century: Encoding Motion in the Early Computer: Knowledge Transfers between Studio and Laboratory Eva Moraga: The Computation Center at Madrid University, 1966-1973: An Example of True Interaction between Art, Science and Technology Stephen Jones: The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, 1968-1975 Kristoffer Gansing: Humans Thinking Like Machines - Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare State Caroline Seck Langill: Corridors of Practice: Technology and Performance Art on the North American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 1980s Ryszard W. Kluszczynski: From Media Art to Techno Culture. Reflections on the Transformation of the Avant-Gardes Machiko Kusahara: A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 - 1970 Margareta Tillberg: You are now leaving the American Sector: The Russian Group Dvizhenie 1962-1978 Irina Aristarkhova: Stepanova's "Laboratories" Olga Goriunova: Vitalist Technocultural Thinking in Revolutionary Russia (on Piotr Engelmeier) Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory Laura Marks: Genetic Algorithms, Caucasian Carpets, and Kunstwollen Nils R?ller: Radical Migration - Media theory as a subversion of discourse and dialogue Catherine Hamel: The National Museum of Beirut: Crossing into a Border Siegfried Zielinski: Meaningful Shifts. Towards an Institute for Southern Modernities (ISMs).. From filipe.valpereiro at inmotion.pt Mon Apr 20 03:41:18 2009 From: filipe.valpereiro at inmotion.pt (Filipe Valpereiro) Date: Mon Apr 20 03:42:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] Supercollider Workshop @ Porto, Portugal Message-ID: /// English bellow /// WORKSHOPS DE ARTES DIGITAIS || http://inmotion.pt/workshops Estas workshops s?o destinadas a m?sicos, performers e artistas visuais que pretendam expandir os seus conhecimentos em t?cnicas e tecnologias de processamento ?udio em tempo real. Especial destaque para a workshop de Supercollider II onde iremos abordar Live Coding e Physical Computing em ambientes de performance. INTRODU??O AO SUPERCOLLIDER I 25 & 26 Abril 2009 || Renate Wieser & Julian Rohrhuber INTRODU??O AO SUPERCOLLIDER II 2 & 3 Maio 2009 || Renate Wieser & Julian Rohrhuber INFORMA??O E INSCRI??ES Inscri??es por email ou telefone at? um dia antes da respectiva workshop. email: workshops@inmotion.pt telefone: 962685341 || 916296563 LOCALIZA??O Espa?o IMERGE Rua Santa Catarina, 777 4000 - 454 Porto, Portugal Telef: + 351 222 010 107 /// English /// DIGITAL ART WORKSHOPS || http://inmotion.pt/workshops These workshops are aimed at musicians, performers and visual artists who wish to expand on technics and knowledge for realtime audio processing with focus on Live Acts and Sound Synthesis. Relevance goes to Supercollider II workhop which will focus on Live Coding and Physical Computing for live performance ambiences. INTRODUCTION TO SUPERCOLLIDER I 25 & 26 April 2009 || Renate Wieser & Julian Rohrhuber INTRODUCTION TO SUPERCOLLIDER II 2 & 3 May 2009 || Renate Wieser & Julian Rohrhuber INFORMATION & SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions by email/telephone up to one day before each workshop. email: workshops@inmotion.pt telephone: +351 962685341 || +351 916296563 WHERE TO MEET US Espa?o IMERGE Rua Santa Catarina, 777 4000 - 454 Porto, Portugal Telef: + 351 222 010 107 --- Filipe Valpereiro /// http://inmotion.pt /// Skype: filipe.valpereiro /// 00 351 962685341 /// From Jim at spacestudios.org.uk Mon Apr 20 14:01:16 2009 From: Jim at spacestudios.org.uk (Jim Prevett) Date: Mon Apr 20 14:03:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] New publication launch- Emotional Cartographies: Technologies of the Self Message-ID: Join us for drinks and discussion at the book launch, including talks by editor Christian Nold along with contributors Dr Tom Stafford and Sophie Hope. Some free copies of the book will be available on the evening. Friday 24th April 2009 6.30 -9pm SPACE, Hackney Emotional Cartographies: Technologies of the self A new book exploring the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology. 'The Bio Mapping tool is therefore a unique device linking the personal and intimate with the outer space of satellites orbiting around the earth.' A collection of essays by Raqs Media Collective, Marcel van der Drift, Dr Stephen Boyd Davis, Rob van Kranenburg, Sophie Hope and Dr Tom Stafford brought together and edited by Christian Nold. SPACE, 129-131 Mare St, London E8 3RH Map: http://tiny.cc/GujaY Jim Prevett Emergent Technologies Producer [ s p a c e ] 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH 020 8525 4339 Mobile number 07951405466 jim@spacestudios.org.uk www.spacestudios.org.uk Current Exhibition: SKART: The Origin of Wishes 4th April - 22nd May, 2009 A retrospective exhibition of Belgrade art activist group ?KART documenting their socially engaged collaborative practice over the past 20 years. Art Services Grants Ltd Reg Charity #267021 Reg in England & Wales #1157240 Reg Office: 129 - 131 Mare Street From istha at nimk.nl Mon Apr 20 14:22:14 2009 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Mon Apr 20 14:22:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Netherlands Media Art Institute 30 years: Here we are - There we go! Message-ID: <49EC68F6.1040801@nimk.nl> Here we are - there we go! 8, 9 and 10 May 2009 - 30 years NIMk open house weekend =Symposium Friday 8 May from 9:00 ? 18:00 hrs Trouwgebouw Amsterdam =Projection on the NIMk building by Jan van Nuenen Friday and Saturday starting at sunset =Open house Saturday 9 May 12:00 ? 21:00 hrs =Party Saturday 9 May 21:00 ? 03:00 hrs =Open huis Sunday 10 May 12:00 ? 18:00 hrs The Netherlands Media Art Institute is 30 years old! We're going to celebrate that with a long weekend full of discussions, visual art and technology. We raise a glass to the future, and invite everyone to join us in thinking about the art of tomorrow, about media art and digital culture in all shapes and varieties. What fundamental changes are heading our way as a result of technological innovation? What influence is the digital environment of tomorrow having on art and artists today? And what does all this mean for an institute like the Media Art Institute? From May 8 through 10 there are presentations, performances, interventions, installations and projections in, on and around our building on the Keizersgracht. There is a conference in the Trouwgebouw, where we can talk about the future of media art together with artists, people from the field of culture, thinkers and innovators, under the title "Positions in flux". We're holding an Open House the whole weekend: the public is invited to drop in for conversations with artists in an open and relaxed atmosphere, to view the results from the Artlab, admire the designs for a new media art-mobile, see our newly refurbished mediatheque, and of course there will be lots of media art to see and experience. During the 'Open Platform: Think Ahead!' artists can make their pitch for new projects, one of which will finally be honored with a grant toward realisation. In the online project 'How I fell in love with Media Art' everyone who wants to can upload a short film, text or audio fragment in which they testify to their love for media art. Tell us ? and others ? why media art is one of the great loves of your life! Finally, there is a PARTY with dj's and performances and there are workshops for young. From May 8 through 10 you can meet the past, present and future in the Netherlands Media Art Institute. _Symposium_ Positions in flux: artists and institutions in the networked society Location: Trouwgebouw Amsterdam The symposium will center on some of the major parameters for the current and future development of contemporary art. In particular it will reflect on the aspect of cultural sustainability of art projects, art and technology initiatives and art curating. The symposium is comprised of three mutually connected panels: + Art goes politics with Hans Bernhard, Wafaa Bilal and Knowbotic Research, moderated by Chris Keulemans + New territories and cultures of the digital with Bronac Ferran, Nat Muller, Marcus Neustetter and Adam Somlai-Fischer, moderated by Rob van Kranenburg + Open Source ? A scheme for art production and curating? with Marcos Garcia, Jaromil, Joasia Krysa, Femke Snelting and Ren?e Turner moderated by Josephine Bosma Entrance 15,- (students 10,-) The symposium will be streamed from the symposium venue, Trouw Amsterdam. Online audiences will have the opportunity to participate in the debate in online chat. The results of the debate and its main contributions are reviewed and published online on the new Media Art Platform. www.mediaartplatform.org More information and registration: http://www.nimk.nl _Open house_ * Installations // Interventions by Jan van Nuenen, Physics Destorter; Flirtman, Silver & True; Lilia Perez Romero, Frontera v.2; Marnix de Nijs, Exploded views ? Mapping Florence; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, Sonolevitation, with live spectroscopic video feed by Bas van Koolwijk; Constant Dullaart and the International Dance Party by Adad Hannah and Niklas Roy * Open Platform Think Ahead -- pitch your new media art work more information: http://www.nimk.nl *Mini backstages: Driessens & Verstappen, Erwin Olaf, Constant Dullaart and eddie d _Other activities:_ *Presentations design new Media art Mobile (in collaboration with SKOR) *Presentation new viewing set by Richard van Os (?ppig) & Annekatrien van Meegen *Tours through the collection *Curator for one day *Open house: artlab, preservation and mediatheque *How I fell in love with media art http://www.youtube.com/user/nimk30jaar *WORKSHOPS for children age 4-6, 8-11 and 12-16 by Kristina Andersen, Audrey Samson and eddie d *SCREENINGS Elephants Dream by Blender and works from the NIMk collection _Party_ DJ's RedNoseDistrikt and performances by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand (sound spatialization by TeZ), Feedback Society and TokTek vs MNK Program subject to change more details: http://www.nimk.nl Thanks to: Mondriaan Foundation; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst; powered by BeamSystems; CCCS, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; D?l?gation g?n?rale du Qu?bec des Bruxelles. Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam http://www.nimk.nl From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Apr 20 18:21:41 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Apr 20 18:22:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] WHO ARE THE SPIES? WE ARE THE SPIES! In-Reply-To: <49EC68F6.1040801@nimk.nl> References: <49EC68F6.1040801@nimk.nl> Message-ID: <49ECA115.1050407@furtherfield.org> WHO ARE THE SPIES? WE ARE THE SPIES! Franz Thalmair interviews Daphne Dragona. 'Tag ties and affective spies' is the title of an on-line-exhibition which presents a selection of Internet-based artworks that highlight different aspects of the Social Web. The exhibition features works by Alessandro Ludovico , Christophe Bruno , Daphne Dragona, Gregory Chatonsky, Jodi, Jonathan Harris, Juan Martin Prada, Les Liens Invisibles, Paolo Cirio, Personal Cinema, Ramsay Stirling, Sep Kamvar, The erasers, and Wayne Clements. "Tagging", "posting", "sharing", "commenting", "rating" and ... once again, the other way around: affective and opinion-driven practices of exchange seem to be essential key issues for the everyday behaviour on the so called Social Web. But, what happens with us, the users of commercially hosted platforms, when we share our experiences and comment on opinions and statements brought in by other users? Do those mechanisms of interaction have any effect on the clever systems of pre-defined templates we move in? Tag ties and affective spies is the title of an online-exhibition which presents a selection of Internet-based artworks that highlight different aspects of the Social Web. With the exhibition, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), curator of the show Daphne Dragona asks if we are really connecting or if we are also forming the structure of the Social Web itself? http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=343 From m at 1010.co.uk Mon Apr 20 20:47:07 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Mon Apr 20 20:48:40 2009 Subject: [spectre] micro_research [Berlin] working group and salon: TEMPEST Message-ID: <4owjkvro.fsf@xxxxx.xxxxx> micro research salons on the last Thursday of each month (and occasional other dates) for local and international researchers to gather to discuss common research themes and endeavour. Calendar: April 23rd 8PM: TEMPEST salon [with Gordo Savicic and Bengt Sj?l?n] April 30th 8PM: ALMAProject. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomenons [with Connie Mendoza] ///// April 23rd 8PM: TEMPEST salon [with Gordo Savicic and Bengt Sj?l?n] Any time a machine is used to process classified information electrically, the various switches, contacts. relays, and other components in that machine may emit radio frequency or acoustic energy. ... This problem of compromising radiation we have given the covername TEMPEST. [TEMPEST: A Signal Problem. NSA 1972] micro_research hosts a three day working group (22,23,24 April 2PM+) exploring the signal phenomenon hiding behind the covername of TEMPEST and making use of contemporary technologies such as software-defined radio (USRP). The working group focus is very much on the analysis and subsequent reconstruction of any leaked signal, for example allowing the researcher to remotely monitor a distant computer display or keyboard. The TEMPEST working group/salon underscores a rich adventure, making sense of fortuitous emanations of sound, light and, primarily, electromagnetic phenomena. Research topics for artistic examination include, but are not limited to: signals and noise, van Eck phreaking, decoding, encryption and hiding, surveillance, information and carrier/support, intentionality of compromising emanations. Finally, TEMPEST, as covername with the word itself as revealing a certain relation to both hiding (information) and the state (subject). TEMPEST supposedly means nothing, quite simply denying the possibility of being decoded as itself an acronym. A codeword for the exposure of the world as (being) encoded. The TEMPEST salon on the 23rd will open with a short presentation of interim research results. Appropriate food and drinks will be served. Free entry. RSVP. Reference: http://www.1010.co.uk/org/data_forensics.html#sec-4.7 Details: xxxxx_micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. xxxxx_micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html http://www.1010.co.uk/org/xxxxx_micro_research.html http://pickledfeet.com From louise.desrenards at free.fr Tue Apr 21 04:05:52 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Tue Apr 21 04:00:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] On Mehdi Belhaj Kacem / MANY THANKS!! Message-ID: <49ED2A00.6070902@free.fr> I LOVE MEHDI BELHAJ KACEM Yet now the Performance is closed but the finalized version of the Essay stays Online: http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1185 MERCI!!! MANY THANKS!! THAT WAS A BIG SUCCESS-- Multilingual fast translator (free): http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html ___________________________________________ _____________________ ________ ? propos de "L?esprit du nihilisme : Une ontologique de l?Histoire", de Mehdi Belhaj Kacem ; collection "Ouvertures", ?ditions Fayard, Paris ; mars 2009. 21 AVRIL 2009 APRIL 21 : MERCI ? TOUS POUR VOTRE INT?R?T SUIVI AU LONG DE LA PERFORMANCE !! MANY THANKS TO EVERYBODY HAVING FOLLOWED OUR CONSTRUCTIVE WORK IN REAL TIME ! GREAT AND LONG LIFE TO MEHDI BELHAJ KACEM ! GRANDE ET LONGUE VIE ? MEHDI BELHAJ KACEM ! MERCI ? TOI ! Avertissement : Dans le cadre de la rubrique "Carte blanche", cet essai a donn? lieu ? la performance exp?rimentale publique de son ?volution vers sa version d?finitive, en temps r?el connect? des modifications du premier jet, depuis sa parution le 9 avril jusqu?au 20 avril inclus, un jour avant la disparition de son information au sommaire progressif de la page d?accueil de La revue des ressources, le mardi 22 avril. La version stabilis?e demeurera consultable ? son adresse URI respective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Belhaj_Kacem http://www.larevuedesressources.org/ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Apr 21 08:33:39 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (cologneOFF) Date: Tue Apr 21 08:33:54 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - call for entries Message-ID: <20090421083339.6789BF37.C6099C18@192.168.0.3> Call for entries: Deadline: Tuesday, 1 September 2009 --------------------------- CologneOFF V - 5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is planned to be launched in November 2009 under 3 festival themes 1. On Violence 2. Taboo? - Taboo! 3. One Minute Films - on memory & identity ---------------------------------------------------- Entry ---------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.) experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images, new forms of representing und new technologies Deadline: 1 September 2009 All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030 The One Minute Films have a special call and the early deadline of 2 May 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 ---------------------------------------------------- About CologneOFF ---------------------------------------------------- CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org , founded in 2006 as a new type of mobile film & video festival taking place simultaneously online and physical space in cooperation with partner festivals, is directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne The first 4 festival editions CologneOFF I - "Identityscapes" - 2006 CologneOFF II - "Image vs Music" - 2006 CologneOFF III - "Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animates narriatives" - 2007 Cologne IV - "Here We Are" - 2008 were presented between 2006 and 2009 in cooperation with festivals in India, The Netherlands Venezuela, Argentina, France Serbia, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Mexico, Bosnia-Hercegovia and others More info on http://coff.newmediafest.org ------------------------------------------- This call is released by netEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net . info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------- From marika at incident.net Tue Apr 21 10:29:57 2009 From: marika at incident.net (Marika Dermineur) Date: Tue Apr 21 10:30:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] THE UPGRADE! PARIS #22 Jonah Brucker-Cohen Message-ID: <49ED8405.8090308@incident.net> THE UPGRADE! PARIS #22 ************************************************************************ Jonah Brucker-Cohen B?ton Salon, Paris - 24 april at 19:00 > http://www.betonsalon.net/spip.php?rubrique42 inscription at : upgrade@incident.net ************************************************************************ ? B?ton Salon > 9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet Rez-de-Chauss?e de la Halle aux Farines 13?me arrondissement ? Paris +33.(0)1.45.84.17.56 info@betonsalon.net > http://www.betonsalon.net ************************************************************************ Jonah Brucker cohen will present his work, and will also mention the Scrapy Yard Challenges Jonah is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate as an HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He worked as an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC from 2006/7. From 2001-4 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of ?Deconstructing Networks? which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Rhizome.org, and Gizmodo. His work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art?s ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA - NYC)(2008), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008). ************************************************************************ > http://coin-operated.com/ ************************************************************************ Next Uprgade! Paris : HONF, New Media Art Laboratory (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Maison des Metallos - 30 april at 20:00 http://incident.net/theupgrade/2009/honf/ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ? The Upgrade! Paris Upgrade! Paris is organised by Incident.net. > http://incident.net/theupgrade upgrade@incident.net ************************************************************************ Thanks to B?ton Salon & M?lanie Bouteloup ************************************************************************ From a.ludovico at neural.it Tue Apr 21 11:26:28 2009 From: a.ludovico at neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Tue Apr 21 11:34:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] GREEN PLATFORM, art, ecology and sustainability Message-ID: GREEN PLATFORM art, ecology and sustainability http://www.strozzina.org/greenplatform/e_index.php The Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, will present from 24 April 2009 to 19 July 2009 : GREEN PLATFORM - Art Ecology Sustainability, curated by Valentina Gensini and Lorenzo Giusti. the exhibition will present a series of works by international artists who address these issues in a number of very different ways. The artists whose work will be on display are Alterazioni Video, Amy Balkin, Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, Michele Dantini, Ettore Favini, Futurefarmers, Tue Greenfort, Henrik H?kansson, Katie Holten, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Christiane L?hr, Dacia Manto, Lucy and Jorge Orta, Julian Rosefeldt, Carlotta Ruggieri, Superflex, Nicola Toffolini and Nikola Uzunowski. Between them they will address the issue of the environment in the dual sense of a crisis in our thermo-industrial society based on non-renewable sources of energy and of an ecological crisis caused by pollution and by the worrying overheating of our planet. Green Platform will allow visitors to compare the artists' different approaches to, and ways of reflecting on, the problem of ecology which will be explored not only in terms of an environmental approach but also analysed and understood through its myriad philosophical, psychological, environmental, economic and social implications. ART, NATURE, LANDSCAPE Some of the artists focus on investigating and denouncing existing situations, conduct and social practices that fail to respect the ecosystem. Their work highlights the inconsistency and responsibility of individuals and of society as a whole, yet without claiming to indicate any 'right way' to resolve the problem of the environment. Rather, their work offers a detached analytical view that questions tangible elements in the difficult transformation process currently underway. ART AND SUSTAINABILITY Other artists dwell on the theme of virtuous practices designed to curtail environmental impact, in an attempt to avoid jeopardising the chance of future generations to continue to develop while safeguarding the quality and quantity of the world's natural reserves and heritage. These artists' works are formed with natural, perishable and recycled materials or are constructed in accordance with energy-related, behavioural and structural rationales based on sustainability. ECO-ACTIVISM - ECO-CRITICISM Finally there are artists who resort to programmed or relational practices, interacting with the public sphere and proposing not just a virtuous approach in their artistic output but fully-fledged alternative strategies for development. 'Eco-active' artists make the best possible use of the varied vocabulary of art to fight a concrete environmental battle. Their work simultaneously covers the ground of both artistic practice and political activism. Designed not only as an exhibition but as a composite platform, Green Platform will offer a variety of different experiences, open to visitors and the community alike, with a series of workshops run by artists, environmental activists and NGO members, a calendar of lectures by experts hailing from several different disciplines and working environments, as well as a programme of videos and documentaries on environmental issues. The exhibition catalogue, with articles by international authors from a whole range of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds (from the economy to architecture, and from the social sciences to public-sector art), is a perfect tool for prompting reflection and debate on a new concept in art and on the opportunity to foster the new and 'sustainable' development of that art. Location: Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), 50123 Firenze, Italy Public Information: Tel. +39 055 2645155, http://www.palazzostrozzi.org Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 to 20.00, Thursday 10.00 to 23.00, Monday closed Tickets: ?5.00 multiple entry (up to five times in one month, including lectures) ?4.00 (schools) Access: Lifts and wheelchair access to all areas. -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Magazine - English (http://neural.it/) Italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Printed Issue - http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml From a.ludovico at neural.it Tue Apr 21 11:26:34 2009 From: a.ludovico at neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Tue Apr 21 11:34:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] Yves Netzhammer - Inventories of Abstraction al CCCS Message-ID: Yves Netzhammer "Inventories of Abstraction" http://www.strozzina.org/inventoriesofabstraction/e_index2.html The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi's CCCS - Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina has asked the Swiss artist to produce a work of art designed to pay tribute to the spectacular architecture of the Florentine Renaissance The inner courtyard of the Palazzo Strozzi in Firenze will be hosting a site-specific installation by Yves Netzhammer from 24 April to 12 July 2009. Yves Netzhammer, celebrated for his poetic installations in 3D reflecting the human condition, has designed a multimedia installation 14.5 mt. by 7.5 mt designed to mirror the Renaissance proportions of the palace courtyard. The work consists of a number of different elements that forge a kind of parallel world in an ongoing game of hide-and-peep with the architecture of this historical Florentine palace. The installation breathes life into a journey, a labyrinth comprising structures reminiscent of a compound, at each end of which the artist has placed shapes of animals and woodland vegetation. Here too, as in his other works, the artist works with formal elements reduced to a bare minimum yet with a wealth of images and action sequences. The compound forms an architectural framework which the visitor is urged to enter in a mood of total perception triggered by computerized animation typical of the artist's style and by atmospheric sounds created by Bernd Schnurer, a composer with whom Netzhammer has worked on several previous occasions. New shapes generate each other to the point where a virtual and predominantly symbolic reality comes into being, prompting reflection and dreamlike associations in the mind of the spectator who is called on to build a personal path of movement based on the relationship between seeing and understanding. This initiative is part of a project in which artists from all over the world are invited to Florence to present works of art specifically designed for the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi. The initiative kicked off with Chinese artist Wang Yu Yang's Artificial Moon in 2008 Yves Netzhammer was born in Schaffhausen in 1970 and lives in Zurich. After completing his studies in architecture and training initially as a draughtsman, he enrolled in the preparatory course at Zurich's Hochschule f?r Gestaltung und Kunst in 1990 to 1991, going on to frequent its course for specialization in the figurative arts from 1991 to 1995. After showing his work at personal and collective exhibitions in such important cities as Zurich, Frankfurt, B?le, Duisburg, Bremen, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Mannheim, Lucerne and others, and after winning a number of major prizes and awards, Netzhammer represented Switzerland, along with Christine Streuli, at the National Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello at the most recent edition of the Venice Biennale, in 2007. Since 1997 he has produced video installations, 3D animations, drawings, paintings and other objects, using the computer to create pictures and animated film sequences that offer a poetic and evocative interpretation of the world we live in. Using an extremely concise and symbolic style, Netzhammer explores the philosophical and psychological aspects of the game of relationships between man, objects, and elements from the animal and vegetable kingdoms and the transformations that they spawn. Location: Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), 50123 Firenze, Italy Public Information: Tel. +39 055 2645155, http://www.palazzostrozzi.org Opening hours: every day 8.00 - 20.00. Thursday 8.00 - 23.00 Admission free -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Magazine - English (http://neural.it/) Italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Printed Issue - http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml From info at apo33.org Tue Apr 21 14:38:42 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Tue Apr 21 14:39:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009 Message-ID: <20090421143842.13883mv8iuajooqo@apo33.org> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night. The preliminary line up goes like this: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// DAY: Workshops & Presentations : 12-5pm (free entry). ************** Presentations ************** * Arduino + PD (Ryan Jordan) : Using Arduino and PureData * SC + Processing (Daniel Jones) : Using Supercollider with Processing * Pd/Gem + ergates (Chris McCormick) : PureData audiovisual software * Groworld (Dave Griffiths) : Permaculture meets online games via guerilla gardening (http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Groworld) * Processing/Java/Eclipse/JOGL/GLSL(Rob Munro) : Techniquies for using Processsing with the Eclipse IDE.(http://robmunro.net/video) * Din (S Jagannathan) (http://code.google.com/p/din), Boxar (http://www.poojyum.com/boxar) : A free software musical instrument for performing indian classical music live (but not just) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ********** Workshops ********** * Fluxus (Dave Griffiths) : (free, 1-2hrs, max 10) The venerable OpenGL/scheme environment. (http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Fluxus) * APODIO (Julien Ottavi) : (1hrs, max 20) Gnu/Linux multimedia distribution LiveDVD * Introducing Processing for Visual Artists (Evan Raskob) : (?10, 2hrs, max 20) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ************************************************************ NIGHT: Performances : 7:30pm-12:30am (?5 entry) - doors 7pm ************************************************************ * dskg - Uses circuit bended machines altogether with open sources (http://www.myspace.com/dskg) * Jeremah - pixelated landscapes of techno beats, music box melodies and processed street noise (http://www.jeremah.co.uk/) * Rob Munro - audiovisual work exploring the world between (http://robmunro.net/video) * TheNoiser - The Noiser use noise as musicality, combined to an approach of programmatic composition (http://www.noiser.org) * PixelPusher - video and sound pieces; interactive art including new musical instruments (http://pixelist.info/) * Ryan Jordan - Body-sensor-noise-strobe-hypnosis (http://ryanjordan.org/) * Daniel Jones - generative audio-visual works (http://www.erase.net) * S Jagannathan - a free software musical instrument for performing indian classical music live (but not just) (http://code.google.com/p/din) * Robert Atwood - experiments with the sound created by feedback (http://variseq.nongnu.org/) * Chris McCormick - uses Free Software to make bleepy crunchy music (http://mccormick.cx) You are all very welcome - see you there ?. MORE INFO : http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/ -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From seamascain at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 23:18:02 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Tue Apr 21 23:23:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] The poems of Muhammed Iqbal Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40904211418y1a8f14f4i17485790f901ba36@mail.gmail.com> _______________ Coisc?im & Poetry Ireland invite you to be present when Liam Carson will launch a new book by Gabriel Rosenstock, a Gaelic poet, of translations of the poems of Muhammed Iqbal (1877 ? 1938) a poet & philosopher of Sialkot in Pakistan. Ceol, amhr?na?ocht agus fil?ocht ... Music, song and poetry ... This event will take place at the Ballsbridge Inn (formerly Jury's Hotel) in Dublin 4, Ireland on Sunday, 26th of April, 2009 at 12 noon. Tickets for this very special event available by e-mail from evayasin@hotmail.com or by phone in Dublin from Mariyam Burki at 086-390-7076 or Rosheen Callender at 087-2551-746. F?ilte ro?mh ch?ch ... S?amas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________ From agryfp at gmail.com Wed Apr 22 12:22:20 2009 From: agryfp at gmail.com (andrew paterson) Date: Wed Apr 22 12:22:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] 'Alternative Economy Cultures' post-script Message-ID: The ?Alternative Economy Cultures? (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th, brought together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions, during Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2009. The seminar aimed to tackle not just the financial, but the social, cultural, institutional, human, material, emotional and intellectual forms of capital. Not just about individual gain, boosting, balancing or bail-outs, but common good, peer-to-peer, shared wealth and appropriate reward for effort involved. The discussion-based workshop about peer-fundraising brought together artists, researchers and business representatives interested in P2P funding models. Focusing upon emerging practices and related topics, it also raised the topic: Can the crowd-sourcing phenomena be applied to support alternative cultural events in Finland? The programme was initiated and organised by artist-researcher Andrew Gryf Paterson (independent / www.agryfp.info / Medialab TaiK), in cooperation with Marita Muukkonen & Ivor Stodolsky of Perpetuum Mobil? (www.perpetualmobile.org) and Roope Mokka of Demos Helsinki (www.demos.fi). We aimed to offer a new strand to the Pixelache Network discourse. Not claiming to be any expert in the topic, the programme of speakers in the seminar emerged from a combination of direct invitations, and peer nominations from the social network of the organiser and associates. The audience for the event had to be constructed also. Hence in different ways, it was an exercise in exploring connections and developing new associations. A cultural festival and organisation, like Pixelache, is an organised network (www.pixelache.ac). It brings together people interested in topics such as electronic arts; participatory cultures (and subcultures, including the exploration of grassroot organising and networks); politics and economics of media/technology; media literacy and engaging environmental issues. Social, intellectual and institutional capital has gathered over the years, but it is still based mostly on volunteer or underpaid work. If we were to pay everyone, nothing would have happened to begin. That is a very-much unresolved problematic, but also strength where we support our dreams. In organising and cooperation, the alt.econ.cult programme aimed to highlight peer-to-peer practice in relation to theories. Unusually, in the Nordic cultural festival context, the event was funded by a 'bottom-up' mix of institutional and seed/peer-funding, where the support grew over time, rather than being determined in advance. For example, via small personal donations, cultural organisations, government ministries, non-profit political think-tanks, activist media and business companies. We also experimented with an online volunteer donation system, instead of seminar tickets, and used an offline micro-donation system (Pi?ata). For more info: http://2009.pixelache.ac/festival/programme/ alternative-economy-cultures/ . DOCUMENTATIONS All the documentations (including video, audio most slides, & supporting materials) from the Friday 3rd and Sunday 5th April events are now available *online*. See here: http://2009.pixelache.ac/alternative-economy-cultures-documentations/ The videos documenting the friday event are hosted on Vimeo platform, and the whole day is split into 7 parts. (In all cases, except the first 2 clips, speakers are bundled together in groups) However, audio files of each presenter are also available in both .ogg and .mp3 format, with creative commons licenses (by-sa/by-nc-sa) applied to them. . BUDGET Lastly, for those who wish to dip 'under-the-money-covers' of the the 'Alt.Econ.Cult' seminar.. Or learn something about the funding methodology/practicalities (and hopefully repeat/adapt/etc).. Or wonder who gave to & benefited from it.. The budget is made public, released with a creative commons license (by-nc-nd). Download: http://2009.pixelache.ac/alteconcult/budget/ budget_170409_alt-econ-cult_pixelache09_cc-by-nc-nd.pdf or view online: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub? key=pcJi_Y1JrRioGw54PXtgWcQ . Feel free to share with your internets. all the best (wishes), ,a -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- andrew gryf paterson http://agryfp.info/ mobile [FI]: +358 50402 3828 email: agryfp@gmail.com skype: agryfp locale: Helsinki, FI -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- From inke.arns at snafu.de Wed Apr 22 13:07:54 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Wed Apr 22 13:22:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] Workshop "The White Visitation" by Martin Howse, Dortmund 16 +17 May 2009 References: <4E4F4601-2605-4DD6-8391-09CFD2895C0C@hmkv.de> Message-ID: <536E0E7A-22FC-4785-9993-42B1E27E9493@snafu.de> ANNOUNCEMENT Dear friends, in the framework of the exhibition "Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media" (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 16th May - 18th October 2009, Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany), the following workshop will take place for which you can register now (until 8 May): THE WHITE VISITATION Workshop by Martin Howse (GB) - in English - 16th + 17th May 2009 (Sat + Sun) Please register until 8th May 2009 with Martin Howse, m@1010.co.uk, http://1010.co.uk/ * * * * THE WHITE VISITATION [spectral workshop/working group] ... a disused hospital for the mad, a few token lunatics, an enormous pack of stolen dogs, cliques of spiritualists, vaudeville entertainers, wireless technicians, Cou?ists, Ouspenskians, Skinnerites, lobotomy enthusiasts, Dale Carnegie zealots, all exiled by the outbreak of war from pet schemes and manias damned, had the peace prolonged itself, to differing degrees of failure. [Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow. pp. 77] Within the framework of the exhibition "Wach sind nur die Geister," The White Visitation projects the two day collective exploration of scryed or spectral phenomena, an investigation of non-causality and the detection of anomalies within processes of measurement and observation. The White Visitation actively traces an interface line between contemporary technology and a certain Breakthrough, the very shattering of a notion of the real which is both haunted and provoked by modern physics and the history of communication media (telegraph, radio). The popular disciplines of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena)/ EIP (Electronic Image Phenomena)/ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication), established by figures such as Konstantin Raudive, and Friedrich Jurgenson, articulate this fault line, providing for a clear examination of the relations of environment, modulation (signal, transmission), detection, measurement and interpretation within frameworks which reject notions of causality. The two day working group, composed of both invited and selected participants will constructively explore this wide spectral context, with an emphasis on aesthetic wave transitions (electromagnetic embracing light, liminal sound phenomena), and with an approach to contemporary hauntings (haunted media, the possessed Amstrad!). Applications for participation are invited with submission of a statement of interest to m@1010.co.uk. With the participation of: Oswald Berthold, Kathrin Guenter, Martin Howse, Martin Kuenzt a.o. SCHEDULE: SATURDAY 16th May 12.00-20.00: - PK (psychokinesis) experimentation - discussion and elaboration of classical EVP techniques (psychophon, ultrasound), recordings and interpretation - measurement, mapping and interpretation of magnetic field disturbances (scrying) towards the set up of an evening measurement lab SUNDAY 17th May 12.00-19.00: - interpretation of measurement lab results - experimentation with spectral imaging techniques - thoughtography with the use of photochemistry and photodetectors/PMT - proposals for the examination of haunted media - anomalous field generation Enquiries about the working group, registration until May 8, 2009: Martin Howse, m@1010.co.uk, http://1010.co.uk/ * * * * ?Wach sind nur die Geister? - Uber Gespenster und ihre Medien wird gef?rdert durch / "Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts And Their Media is funded by: Der Ministerpr?sident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Kunststiftung NRW NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal Institut Francais - CULTURESFRANCE Mondriaan Stichting Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund dortmund-project RUAG - Aerospace Services GmbH PHOENIX LEG ------------- Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero) 44143 Dortmund/Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 M ++49 - 173 - 988 99 84 inke.arns@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Upcoming: ?Wach sind nur die Geister? - Uber Gespenster und ihre Medien "Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts And Their Media PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund-Hoerde May 16 ? Oct 18, 2009 Opening: May 15, 2009, 19:00 From diana at faces-l.net Wed Apr 22 19:25:03 2009 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Wed Apr 22 19:30:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] Stadium X at The Building, Berlin Message-ID: <20090422192503.preucxqi8s0oc4s8@webmail.servus.at> Stadium X at The Building, Berlin Live Art Projects in a Communist Ruin, a Reader and its Various Contexts Saturday April 25th, 16:00 THE BUILDING, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a, Berlin The 10th-Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw was built in 1955 from the rubble of a war-devastated capital, and was to preserve Communism?s good name for forty years. In the early 1990s it fell into ruin, being ?revived? by Vietnamese and Russian traders. Since then the Stadium and the open-air market have become an Asian town, a primeval garden, a realm of discount shopping, a storehouse of urban legends, a piece of Land-Art, or a work camp for botanists. The heterotopic logic of the place and its long-standing (non-)presence in the city,?inspired?Joanna Warsza?s curated series of live art projects?The Finissage of Stadium X??and the related reader,?Stadium X ??A Place That Never Was. A Trip to Asia: An Acoustic Walk Around the Vietnamese Sector of the 10th-Anniversary Stadium by Anna Gajewska, Joanna Warsza and Ngo Van Tuong (2006); Boniek!, a one-man re-enactment of the 1982 Poland-Belgium football match by Massimo Furlan, with commentary by Tomasz Zimoch (2007); or Radio Stadion Broadcasts by Radio Simulator and backyardradio (2008) were subjective excursions undertaken by artists into the reality of a Stadium ?no longer extant?. The projects, of a participative and semi-documentary nature, touched upon issues of memory, deterioration, or the problematic exoticism of the place. ? The afternoon seminar at The Building and in its garden will offer a selection of short, partly performed lectures, forming a multi-faceted picture of the Stadium?s deterioration, its bizarre existence as a ?city within a city?, and the artists? interventions. The architectural and topographic situation of the Building in Berlin ? as a detached edifice with a plot of green lawn ? will play a major role in the construction of the event, which will feature a live radio broadcast by backyardradio (N Pieces by Etienne Noiseau & Radio Tale by Fran Ilich) and a garden project curated by Sebastian Cichocki. ? Saturday April 25th. The program starts at 4 p. m. 5:00 ? 5:30 p. m.? Dr Stefanie Peter, anthropologist, The Stadium as Stage 5:30 ? 6:00 p. m. Anda Rottenberg, curator and critic 6:00 ? 6:30 p. m. Joanna Warsza, curator, Laura Palmer Foundation, Finissage of Stadium X 6:30 ? 7:30 p.m. Break 7:30 ? 8:00 p. m. Sebastian Cichocki, curator at Warsaw MOMA, A Walk through the Ruins, or In Praise of Entropy (radio edit) 8:00 ? 8:30 p. m. Warren Nies?uchowski, writer and philologist, Stadion | Spadion | Spatium: Signing-Off 8:30 ? 9:00 p. m. Pit Schultz & Diana McCarty, berlin backyardradio, The Radio and The Baazar ? Beginning at 10.00 p.m. A party at The Building, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a Admission is free. Registration required. ? ? ? Stadium X ? A Place That Never Was: A Reader Edited by Joanna Warsza Contributing authors: Claire Bishop, Sebastian Cichocki, Benjamin Cope, Ewa Majewska, Pascal Nicolas-Le Strat, Warren Nies?uchowski, Marek Ostrowski, Grzegorz Pi?tek, Cezary Polak, Anda Rottenberg, Roland Sch?ny, Pit Schultz, Tomasz Stawiszy?ski, Stach Szab?owski, Ng? Van Tuong photos: Miko?aj D?ugosz, Marta Pruska, Marta Orlik. Published by Ha!art and B?c Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw and Krak?w, 2008/2009. ? On sale in Pro QM Berlin and at the Building! ? Organizers: The Building, Laura Palmer Foundation, B?c Zmiana Foundation Partners: Polish Institute Berlin, Ha!art publishing house, Pro QM Berlin, backyardradio Berlin. This event was made possible thanks to the generous support of The German-Polish Foundation. ? More at: www.laura-palmer.pl ? From louise.desrenards at free.fr Wed Apr 22 22:38:22 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Wed Apr 22 22:40:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] There is no bling-bling but the best;-) Message-ID: <9eb0e3810904221338w340819d1m96191892c8a7c893@mail.gmail.com> >From Alan Toner's blog http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/about/ (vous avez vu les "Unhappy entertainment industry members at the Odeon, Paris" :)) , http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/pirate-bay-defendants-convicted/ http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/more-on-the-pirate-bay-conviction/ http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/akerman-branco-deneuve-et-al-against-hadopi-and-three-strikes/ http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1150 ;-) From liberovskaya at compuserve.com Fri Apr 24 04:55:57 2009 From: liberovskaya at compuserve.com (Katherine Liberovskaya) Date: Fri Apr 24 04:56:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] OptoSonic Tea @ Diapason NYC - Monday, April 27th, 8pm Message-ID: Monday April 27th 8 pm MiniOptoSonic Tea Live sets by: - Sawako (live visuals / live sound) - Anton Marini and Mary Ann Benedetto (live visuals) with Aerostatic (live sound) Suggested donation: $ 7 Diapason 882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets, 10th floor BROOKLYN (Sunset Park) (718) 499-5070 directions: D, N or R train to 36th Street in Brooklyn OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future. Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer OptoSonic Tea is partly funded by the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center?s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. About the artists: Originally born in Nagoya, Japan, Sawako is a timeline-based artist, a sound sculptor and a signal alchemist currently based in Brooklyn USA. Once through the processor named Sawako, memories in everyday life float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. She is interested in the soundscape, the signal scape and the media scape of digital era, and her activities are making bridge between public and private, virtual and actual world. She has 4 solo CD releases from 12k, and/OAR and Anticipate, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Taylor Deupree, Andrew Deutsch, Kenneth Kirschner, Taku Sugimoto Toshimaru Nakamura, Chika, O.blaat, asuna, Daisuke Miyatani, Radio Sonde, Ryan Francesconi and Jacob Kirkegaard, and has performed in Tonic, WFC, Armory Show, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Monkey Town (NYC); Send + Receive Festival, MUTEK (Canada), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), m12 (Berlin), Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC), UCLA Hammer Museum (LA), offsite, Apple Store Sinsaibashi (Japan); OFFF Festival (Lisbon), Glade Festival, Resonance FM, ICA London (UK); and other venues in the US, Europe and Japan. Sawako obtained a Master?s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University?s Tisch School of the Arts. http://www.troncolon.com Anton Marini (vade) is a video performance artist, programmer and video engineer specializing realtime video systems, glitch aesthetics and visual effects. His work explores designing software environments and systems for realtime video as well as performing abstract visualizations and urban video collages. Anton Marini is a former researcher in residence at NYU's Brooklyn Experimental Media Center and has taught at Parsons/New School Design and Technology Department. He has performed at events such as Transmediale, Ultrasound festival, BAP, Anyware, Eyewash, Rake, Share, Warper, as well as leading several workshops in new media programming environments. His work has been featured and performed in music videos airing on MTV, Comedy Central, on DVD and in venues across the globe. http://vade.info Mary Ann Benedetto (outpt) is a visual artist working in a blend of traditional and digital media using photography, code, and mathematics. She teaches game development, procedural animation, and graphic design at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. She has preformed live visuals at Eyewash, Blip Festival, Pulsewave, and 8static. http://outpt.net/ Aerostatic - Based in Brooklyn, New York, Composer/Performers Terry Golob & Michele Darling AKA Aerostatic, utilize artifacts of sound generated by digital and analog processing in conjunction with a variety of interactive technologies. They compose a hybrid style of electronic music for performance, films, installations, and game environments. Their sonic aesthetic is a synthesis of formal classical elements manipulated by modern processes and the hyper-rhythmic pulse of futuristic electronics. The result evokes the intricacies of biomechanics and the integration of embedded micro technologies with existing and yet to be discovered organic entities. Aerostatic?s music has been featured in venues, museums, festivals and performances in the United States, Argentina, England, Austria, Italy, Australia and Serbia. Their music and sound design clients include Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop), HBO, The Learning Channel, Moshi Monsters, Four Kids Entertainment and The Criterion Collection. Michele Darling is currently a professor of audio and sound design at the Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Media Arts. http://www.aerostaticmusic.com/ for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit: http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html From hight at 34n118w.net Fri Apr 24 07:13:06 2009 From: hight at 34n118w.net (hight@34n118w.net) Date: Fri Apr 24 07:23:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] modulated mapping ..locative media engaged open source mapping Message-ID: Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2009/02/pdfs/ParsonsJournalForInformationMapping_Hight-Jeremy.pdf Volume I, Issue 2 This quarter's issue of the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) brings another wide variety of innovative, creative, and unique projects completed by our worldwide group of contributors. We showcase two interactive projects along with two well-researched and provoking essays. While this marks our second issue our Editorial Board has seen a vast majority of interest in the concept of globalization and its affect on social interactions among the world's inhabitants. The projects and essays in this issue bring forth various examples of global, local, geospatial mapping, and social connectivity. We thank all of our contributors for their excellent work and proudly present their successes to our subscribers. ? Brian Willison, Publisher, Parsons Journal for Information Mapping Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface Jeremy Hight, MFA The map can be active, malleable, open source fed, and even, in a sense, intelligent and able to adapt. The possibility also exists for this map to have a function that based on key words will search databases on-line to find maps, animations, histories... Abstract The map can be active, malleable, open source fed, and even, in a sense, intelligent and able to adapt. The possibility also exists for this map to have a function that based on key words will search databases on-line to find maps, animations, histories and stories etc to place within it for your study and engagement. The map is thus a platform and yet is active. Community is possible as people can communicate graphically in works placed on the map and in building mode in the tool. All the tropes of locative media are to be in a mapping system of channels of augmentation and a spatial net. The software by design will allow development on the map and communication like programs such as second life but in mapping itself. Project Metadata Project Title: Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface Keywords: map, mapping, space, modulate, measure, locative, augmentation, social network, semiotics From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Apr 24 07:18:19 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Apr 24 07:23:51 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: EQUINOX Message-ID: From: 144Barcelona Living Art Production House Date: April 3, 2009 9:44:48 PM GMT+02:00 To: spectre@mikrolisten.de Subject: EQUINOX + EQUINOX TV Welcome to the Equinox 20.03.2009 (some days later) Equinox: from L. aequinoxium: aequi-, equal + nox-, night An equinox is the only moment of the year in which days and nights have the same duration everywhere on the planet: 12 hours. EQUINOX is a symbol of cosmic equilibrium. EQUINOX transforms a 5 star hotel, in the heart of the commercial district of Barcelona, into a piece of living art. EQUINOX is a collection of 144 digital paintings created by the digital artist Dan Arenzon from the rooms of the Meli? Barcelona hotel, between the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox 2009. Each digital painting is a view on the city and its environment from the hotel windows. One number from 1 to 144 corresponds to each digital painting. EQUINOX restores equilibrium in every one of its phases. EQUINOX TV opens a space to reflect on the built environment. EQUINOX TV brings to the hotel those who build the habitat, and streams their dialogue with Dan Arenzon through a network of 330 hotels in 30 countries, and on the web together with 144Barcelona Living Art Production House During the time of creation of the EQUINOX Collection, the Meli? Barcelona exhibits "The Electronic Landscape 10th Anniversary 1999-2009"; a selection of 10 paintings contained in the interactive CD-ROM created by Dan Arenzon in 1998 in Tornio, Finland, presented together with the CD-ROM. This vernal equinox has occured March 20 at 12:44, Spanish peninsular time. info: www.144Barcelona.com in numbers we believe Bienvenidos al Equinoccio 20.03.2009 (algunos d?as despu?s) Equinoccio: del lat. aequinoxium: aequi-, igual + nox-, noche Un equinoccio es el ?nico momento del a?o en que los d?as y las noches tienen la misma duraci?n en todo el planeta: 12 horas. EQUINOX es un s?mbolo de equilibrio c?smico. EQUINOX transforma un hotel 5 estrellas, en el coraz?n del distrito comercial de Barcelona en una obra de living art. EQUINOX es una colecci?n de 144 pinturas digitales creadas por el artista digital Dan Arenzon desde las habitaciones de hotel Meli? Barcelona entre el equinocio vernal y el equinoccio oto?al 2009. Cada pintura digital es una mirada sobre la ciudad y su entorno desde las ventanas del hotel. Un n?mero del 1 al 144 corresponde a cada pintura digital. EQUINOX restaura el equilibrio en cada una de sus fases. EQUINOX TV abre un espacio que refleja el ambiente constru?do. EQUINOX TV trae al hotel a quienes construyen nuestro habitat y difunde su di?logo con Dan Arenzon mediante una red de 330 hoteles en 30 pa?ses y en internet junto a 144Barcelona Living Art Production House. Durante el tiempo de creaci?n de la colecci?n EQUINOX, el Meli? Barcelona exhibe "El Paisaje Electr?nico 10? Aniversario 1999-2009"; una selecci?n de 10 pinturas contenidas en el CD-ROM interactivo creado por Dan Arenzon en 1998 en Tornio, Finlandia, presentadas junto al CD-ROM. Este equinoccio vernal tuvo lugar el 20 de marzo a las 12:44, hora peninsular espa?ola. info: www.144Barcelona.com en n?meros creemos From: 144Barcelona Living Art Production House Date: April 9, 2009 10:21:10 AM GMT+02:00 To: spectre-owner@mikrolisten.de Subject: message to the list Dear Inke Last april 3 I tried to post the message to the list I am here including, but it has not been published. Could you plase tell me, where did I go wrong? This is the firt time I try to post something and I do not understand where the problem can be. Thank you very much. Giosafat 144Barcelona Living Art Production House www.144barcelona.com From: livingartproductionhouse@144barcelona.com Subject: EQUINOX + EQUINOX TV Date: April 3, 2009 9:44:48 PM GMT+02:00 To: spectre@mikrolisten.de Welcome to the Equinox 20.03.2009 (some days later) Equinox: from L. aequinoxium: aequi-, equal + nox-, night An equinox is the only moment of the year in which days and nights have the same duration everywhere on the planet: 12 hours. EQUINOX is a symbol of cosmic equilibrium. EQUINOX transforms a 5 star hotel, in the heart of the commercial district of Barcelona, into a piece of living art. EQUINOX is a collection of 144 digital paintings created by the digital artist Dan Arenzon from the rooms of the Meli? Barcelona hotel, between the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox 2009. Each digital painting is a view on the city and its environment from the hotel windows. One number from 1 to 144 corresponds to each digital painting. EQUINOX restores equilibrium in every one of its phases. EQUINOX TV opens a space to reflect on the built environment. EQUINOX TV brings to the hotel those who build the habitat, and streams their dialogue with Dan Arenzon through a network of 330 hotels in 30 countries, and on the web together with 144Barcelona Living Art Production House During the time of creation of the EQUINOX Collection, the Meli? Barcelona exhibits "The Electronic Landscape 10th Anniversary 1999-2009"; a selection of 10 paintings contained in the interactive CD-ROM created by Dan Arenzon in 1998 in Tornio, Finland, presented together with the CD-ROM. This vernal equinox has occured March 20 at 12:44, Spanish peninsular time. info: www.144Barcelona.com in numbers we believe Bienvenidos al Equinoccio 20.03.2009 (algunos d?as despu?s) Equinoccio: del lat. aequinoxium: aequi-, igual + nox-, noche Un equinoccio es el ?nico momento del a?o en que los d?as y las noches tienen la misma duraci?n en todo el planeta: 12 horas. EQUINOX es un s?mbolo de equilibrio c?smico. EQUINOX transforma un hotel 5 estrellas, en el coraz?n del distrito comercial de Barcelona en una obra de living art. EQUINOX es una colecci?n de 144 pinturas digitales creadas por el artista digital Dan Arenzon desde las habitaciones de hotel Meli? Barcelona entre el equinocio vernal y el equinoccio oto?al 2009. Cada pintura digital es una mirada sobre la ciudad y su entorno desde las ventanas del hotel. Un n?mero del 1 al 144 corresponde a cada pintura digital. EQUINOX restaura el equilibrio en cada una de sus fases. EQUINOX TV abre un espacio que refleja el ambiente constru?do. EQUINOX TV trae al hotel a quienes construyen nuestro habitat y difunde su di?logo con Dan Arenzon mediante una red de 330 hoteles en 30 pa?ses y en internet junto a 144Barcelona Living Art Production House. Durante el tiempo de creaci?n de la colecci?n EQUINOX, el Meli? Barcelona exhibe "El Paisaje Electr?nico 10? Aniversario 1999-2009"; una selecci?n de 10 pinturas contenidas en el CD-ROM interactivo creado por Dan Arenzon en 1998 en Tornio, Finlandia, presentadas junto al CD-ROM. Este equinoccio vernal tuvo lugar el 20 de marzo a las 12:44, hora peninsular espa?ola. info: www.144Barcelona.com en n?meros creemos From info at ciant.cz Sun Apr 19 17:39:12 2009 From: info at ciant.cz (CIANT PRAGUE) Date: Fri Apr 24 10:06:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] FESTIVAL ENTER 18-25.04.2009 PRAHA Message-ID: Dear friends and colleagues, let me invite you to the 4th edition of ENTER | international art / science / technology festival taking place in Prague, April 18-25, 2009. http://enter4.org Mili pratele a kolegove, srdecnu Vas zvu na 4. rocnik festivalu pro umeni, vedu a nove technologie ENTER, ktery probehne v datech 18.-25. dubna 2009 (Praha: DOX, MEETFACTORY, FR. INSTITUT, CIANT GALLERY). http://enter4.org Pavel Sedlak CIANT From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Apr 20 00:28:06 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Fri Apr 24 10:06:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] Networked_Music_Review "Interview: Natasha Barrett" by Peter Traub Message-ID: <00e601c9c13e$1f00a980$5d01fc80$@org> Interview: Natasha Barrett By Peter Traub Networked_Music_Review http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Natasha Barrett is a freelance composer, performer, and installation artist. The composition and manipulation of space is a central element in much of her work, and it is the focus of this interview. Barrett completed her Master's Degree at the University of Birmingham, where she studied with Jonty Harrison and became practiced in the art of live sound diffusion using Birmingham's renowned BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre) system. She completed a Doctoral degree in composition at City University in London in 1998, studying with Denis Smalley. Her body of work includes large architectural installations, electroacoustic concert pieces, works for instruments and performers, and live improvisation. Barrett's works have won international acclaim and numerous awards, including the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2006, a first prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (1998 and 2001), and most recently, a commission from the 2008 Giga-Hertz Award. Barrett was born in the UK, but currently lives in Oslo, Norway. She has released numerous CDs, available through her website. Peter Traub: Space as a compositional parameter features prominently in your work. Knowing that you studied with composers Jonty Harrison and Denis Smalley - who do significant work with diffusion and multi-channel systems - gives us some clue as to your interest in this area, but I'm wondering what really attracts you to working with spatializing systems, ambisonics, and diffusion? Natasha Barrett: During my masters degree, electroacoustic composition and particularly acousmatic composition drew my interest more than purely acoustic composition. In an acousmatic context, as spatial elements yield to greater variation and malleability, simply composing within this framework made spatial elements more interesting and important. So my interest in spatialisation systems stems from the investigation of space in sound, meaning and purpose in a compositional context and ultimately the need to find ways to communicate this information to a listener outside the composition studio. [...] http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2009/04/19/interview-natasha-ba rrett/ Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston New American Radio: http://somewhere.org From fuchs.mathias at googlemail.com Wed Apr 22 00:08:58 2009 From: fuchs.mathias at googlemail.com (Mathias Fuchs) Date: Fri Apr 24 10:06:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] MA Creative Technology, MSc Creative Games Message-ID: <49EE43FA.2040900@creativegames.org.uk> The School of Art & Design at Salford University in Greater Manchester, offers two Masters programmes in Creative Technology and in Creative Games to critically study social, philosophical, historical, and artistic aspects of new technologies and to work with them in a practice-based context. The philosophy of the programmes is expressed through the following features: * Understanding the various approaches, methods, and issues related to digital technology, serious games, and creative practice. * Gaining specific skills in a number of areas including creative thinking, research methods, games, visualization, multi-media, interactivity, and telematics. * Developing the ability to think dynamically and creatively. * Gaining the expertise to focus on a specific avenue of interest, carry out enquiries and experiment, and produce pioneering projects or realize innovative working prototypes and solutions. If you are interested in the aesthetic, philosophical, computing, or cultural aspects of Creative Games, and have a BSc or equivalent in arts, design, computer science, or equivalent, MSc Creative Games might be the master program for you. If you are interested in new and emerging technologies in a wider sense, you might want to consider studying on the MA Creative Technology. The programmes have a length of one year for full-time students and two years for part-time students, and lead to an MA/MSc degree. Students can apply now and begin their studies in September. http://creativegames.org.uk/MSc_CreativeGames/ From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Apr 24 11:07:04 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Apr 24 11:27:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Call: transitio_mx festival, october 2009, mexico city Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:56 -0500 Subject: "Re: pdf Centro multimedia, M?xico" From: Cuauht?moc Sent?es http://transitiomx.net Call for submissions In order to support, acknowledge, and promote current research and production in new media art, the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) through its Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional de las Artes, calls the local and international artistic community to the Third New Media and Art Contest which will take place in the New Media and Art Video International Festival. The contest is open to any individual, group and association engaged in the production of artwork created with new media technologies, including video art, sound art, net-art, installation, composition, performance and related disciplines.The Third New Media and Art Contest, Autonomies of disagreement, provides a setting of located practices, where disagreement allows for dialogue and exchange in the realms of local and international new media art. This international contest is concerned with acknowledging those distinct technological displacements and art's current status, bearing a particular emphasis on those artworks whose technological innovations and contributions are supported by means that can be used for creation, stressing above all a critical perspective. This international contest is concerned with acknowledging those distinct technological displacements and art's current status, bearing a particular emphasis on those artworks whose technological innovations and contributions are conceived through creative means. The following categories are thus open:" #1Residual topography This category seeks to reveal the discourses pronounced by means of obsolete technology (electronic and digital) and those articulated when contrasting local technologies with high technology appropriations. It is open for installation; interactive, immersed or sound environments; robotic art; hardware hacking; circuit bending; physical computing; site intervention; or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted. #2Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving images In order to analyze the moving images technological reconfigurations (and/or its possibilities) and consider its unusual territories, this category is intended to welcome artworks that use moving images in any of its modalities, be it lineal presentation or interaction: single channel video, 16mm, live cinema, Vj?s, videogame, mobile video, interactive animation, augmented reality, or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted. #3Dissident territories: the emergence of technology In order to explore technological developments that differ from industrial ones, this category looks for research and technology development projects who seek for innovations in the use of digital tools and electronic circuits with expressive and experimental means: free hardware and software, bioethical technology, gadget development, applications, devices or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted. #4Concealed order: viral construction of web contents This category will welcome those works whose poetics distinguish or surpass conceptions regarding mobile interfaces and information networks. Those that bear important contributions on distribution, expression and collaboration will be more privileged: internet, bluetooth, GPS, radiofrequency, mobile telephony, infrareds or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $35,000 (Thirty five thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted. National category #5Prize for creative young adults: potential talents This award is directed to people excelling in creative production involving the use of electronic and digital media in Mexico. The prize seeks to promote and foster creativeness among college undergraduates, self-taught people, and young artists primarily interested in the use of technology with an emphasis on art-oriented discourses. Only Mexican citizens (residing in Mexico) aged 18-25 up to the application deadline are eligible to participate. Desired content includes but is not limited to, computer-produced works such as: digital graphics, animation, sound, hardware and software applications, videogames, websites, or other related materials. A single prize will be awarded worth $20,000 (Twenty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted. Information Centro Nacional de las Artes Centro Multimedia Avenida R?o Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club, C. P. 04220, Coyoac?n, M?xico, D. F. Ana Villa Tel. (+52-55) 41 55 00 00 Ext. 1207: concurso03@transitiomx.net From 10:00 to 15:00 hrs. From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Fri Apr 24 11:25:33 2009 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Fri Apr 24 11:27:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] New folly ArtCast series released today in association with moves09 Message-ID: <0256B6C2667A3E4882F0FEF082186713446B75@follyone.FOLLY.local> ArtCast is folly's platform for public access to new and innovative art, exploring the creative potential of the podcasting medium. For April 2009, in association with moves, the international festival of movement on screen, we have selected five of the best new video works made by students based in England's Northwest, in response to the theme of moves09 - "Beyond Movement... What's Your Story?" There will be five videos available to download or watch online. Starting on 24th April 2009, a new video will be released daily, throughout moves09 (23rd to 28th April). Visit http://www.folly.co.uk/artcast now to find out more, subscribe to the podcast feed and check out the first video release. All the videos will also be available to play or download direct from the folly site as the festival progresses. folly is a non-profit digital arts organisation and registered charity, working in the Northwest of England and online. moves celebrates its 5th anniversary, 23 to 28 April in Manchester, Liverpool, Chester and UK-wide in cinemas, bars, restaurants and on the giant outdoors BBC Big Screens. At moves09 you can WATCH, SHARE, CREATE, and PLAY! The full festival programme with downloadable schedule, festival map and festival pass forms are available online at http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk From redazione at digicult.it Fri Apr 24 15:23:13 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Apr 24 15:24:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult_Digimag 43 / April 2009_english version online Message-ID: <015001c9c4df$d245a320$9900a8c0@marco> Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: DIGIMAG 43 / APRIL 2009 http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp You can read all the past articles and issues in the Archive section here: http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Music helped my time of working very much. You have to think about each note to manage to listen. In the meantime there is a listening coming from your body, too. Ancient Egyptians said that every part of the body thinks; I would rather say that every part of the body "listens". I often quote Hermann Broch's definition of the origin of painting. Unlike Greek-Roman tradition, according to which painting was born in Corinth, from the drawing that the girl of the potter sketched on the wall, by candlelight, following the silhouette of her beloved, Broch maintained that pictorial image was born from music: the rhythm of a primitive piece of music became the form of a tattoo, a sort of dance represented on the body. Till one day the tattoo emancipated itself from the body, it became a representation and painting had its origins. There is a particular moment during which the drawing becomes "real" and it is at that moment that we are freed from ourselves and throw away words and definitions of things. In drawing nature, things, the "figure", the object of the drawing changes and our intuition becomes the subject. Perhaps this is the ecstasy of ART. from "Valerio Adami and the pictorial sound" by Matteo Milani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . //INTERVIEWS: - ALAIN THIBAULT / ELEKTRA by Marco Mancuso - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1431 - VITTORE BARONI - by Tatiana Bazzichelli - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1423 - VALERIO ADAMI - by Matteo Milani - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1428 - ESTHER MANAS & ARASH MOORI - by Marco Mancuso - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1429 - GIACOMO VERDE - by Clemente Pestelli - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1424 - CHRIS WOEBKEN - by Stefano Raimondi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1432 - MARC DIDOU - by Silvia Casini - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1433 - ANTONIO MARTINO - by Alessio Galbiati - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1426 - PATHOSFORMEL - by Massimo Schiavoni - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1436 //REPORTS: - EXPLODING CAVE - by Emma Goldman - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1430 - CYBERCULTURES 4 - by Donata Marletta - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1422 //FEATURING: - THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON - by Marco Riciputi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1435 - DORON GOLAN AND MICHAEL SZAKOWKS by di Giulia Baldi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1427 //THEMES: - MATERIAL HYBRIDIZATION - di Carla Langalla - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1434 - PSYBODY DESIGN - di Otherehto - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1425 - DARWIN FROM THE MICROSCOPE by di Luigi Ghezzi - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1437 //COVER: - Redazione - Kurt Hentschlager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIGICULT is an Italian cultural and editorial project concerning promotion and share of art and digital culture, spreading the impact of new technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field of electronic culture. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly magazine DIGIMAG produce an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD, and has also its own newsletter international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved with in many side activities with the art agency DIGIMADE. Digicult is founded, conceived, managed and directed by Marco Mancuso, Italian critic, journalist and curator. Programmer Luca Restifo, press officer Claudia D'Alonzo, graphic designer Riccardo Vescovo, podcast editor Giuseppe Cordaro, web marketing & social strategies Mauro Minnone&Luigi Ghezzi www.digicult.it/en/ www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/ www.digicult.it/podcast www.digicult.it/agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EDITORIAL STAFF]: - Marco Mancuso - director - Luca Restifo - technical consultancy - Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design - Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Universit? IULM - editing - Claudia D'Alonzo - press office - Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast - Mauro Minnone e Luigi Ghezzi - web 2.0 strategies [CONTENTS]: Luigi Pagliarini, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Lorenzo Tripodi, Massimo Schiavoni,Monica Ponzini, Valentina Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Tiziana Gemin, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Francesca Valsecchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Alessio Galbiati, Giuseppe Cordaro, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli, Davide Anni, Donata Marletta, Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi, Otherehto, Carla Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Gianni, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi [TRANSLATIONS]: Ali Ustun, Paola Arrigoni, Emanuela Cassol, Chiara Resmini, Luisa Bertolatti, Valeria Grillo -------------------- Marco Mancuso Digital Arts & Culture Critic, Curator and Journalist --------------------------------- Digicult Director & Founder Naba Academy & Ied Teacher --------------------------------- Ripa Porta Ticinese 39 20122 Milano - Italy Mob: +39.340.8371816 Skype: sostakovich --------------------------------- www.digicult.it www.digicult.it/digimag www.digicult.it/podcast www.digicult.it/agency From bbrace at eskimo.com Fri Apr 24 16:33:47 2009 From: bbrace at eskimo.com ({ brad brace }) Date: Fri Apr 24 16:34:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] fill_the_mirror In-Reply-To: <015001c9c4df$d245a320$9900a8c0@marco> References: <015001c9c4df$d245a320$9900a8c0@marco> Message-ID: fill_the_mirror field-recordings from brad brace http://www.archive.org/details/fill_the_mirror an island (project) interlude -- rhythmic edits all around the horizon (race track with film and shopping scores) -- lapdance http://www.archive.org/details/fill_the_mirror { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- From virginias at clara.co.uk Sun Apr 26 23:20:27 2009 From: virginias at clara.co.uk (Virginias) Date: Sun Apr 26 23:27:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digital Access: Collections, Creators and Copyright, Queen Mary University, London Tuesday 28th April In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49F4D01B.4070102@clara.co.uk> Digital communications technologies offer important ways for museums, galleries and libraries to promote public access to their collections. However, digital access also raises issues of copyright law and can affect the interests of creators and copyright owners. *Professor Andrew Kenyon (Distinguished Fellow in Law, Queen Mary, University of London and Director, CMCL-Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne) will examine recent research into the perceived conflicts between the users of copyright material in the cultural sector, and creators and other copyright owners. The Australian experience will be critiqued and contrasted with the aid of commentators from the London creative sector. *Bronac Ferran is a freelance writer, researcher and arts consultant who also works part-time as a Visiting Lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering department at the Royal College of Art in London . She is involved in projects in Brazil, China and the US and is a founder member of the bricolabs initiative which has members worldwide. Her work in the UK includes contributing to the ACE funded Art and Law initiative. *Dr Paul Gerhardt leads the UK?s Creative Archive Licence Group ? a consortium of public and commercial broadcasters and archives developing a shared public access strategy. He was joint director of the BBC Creative Archive. This event is free of charge. Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University, Mile End Time: 12 noon Tuesday 28th April Booking and Directions; http://www.qmul.ac.uk/artsweek2009/programme/tuesday/index.html#digital From louise.desrenards at free.fr Mon Apr 27 01:24:03 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Mon Apr 27 01:24:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] International calling--Urgently Save Pierre Etaix's Comic Cinema Message-ID: <9eb0e3810904261624o47f2bd02j2c8f56797e48ce51@mail.gmail.com> *Les films invisibles de Pierre ?taix : Le Soupirant (1963), Yoyo (1964), Tant qu'on a la sant? (1965), Le grand amour (1968), Pays de cocagne (1969). Please Sign before Cannes--even you are not a Cineast! To be executive the petition must reach 50 000 signatures! http://sites.google.com/site/petitionetaix/ Woody Allen, Fran?oise Arnoul, Edouard Baer, Guy B?art, Julos Beaucarne, Fran?ois Berl?and, Jean Bigot, Jacques Bonnaf?, Rosa, Emilien & Alexandrine Bouglione, Paul & Michel Boujenah, Arturo Brachetti, Olivier Broche, Cabu, Nicole Calfan, Leos Carax, Marc Caro, Leslie Caron, Roland Cayrol, Laurent Chalumeau, Louis Chedid, Jean-Pierre Coffe, Jean-Louis Comolli, Alain Corneau, Jacques Cristobal, Dolores & Eug?ne Chaplin, Lemmy Constantine, CharlElie Couture, Joe Dante, Yvan Dautin, Patrice Dard, Antoine & Emma De Caunes, H?l?ne Delavault, Claire Denis, Julie Depardieu, Fr?d?ric Diefenthal, Philippe Druillet, Anny Duperey, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Duquesne, Stephan Eicher, Dominique Farrugia, Ren? F?ret, Nilda Fernandez, Pascale Ferran, John Flaherty-Cox, Agathe Gaillard, Terry Gilliam, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Luc Godard, No?l Godin, Michel Gondry, Gotlib, Fran?ois Hadji-Lazaro, Bernard Haller, Gwendoline Hamon, Pierre Henri, Daniel Herzog, Gilles Jacob, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Jones, G?rard Jugnot, Aline Issermann, Mathieu & Peter Kassovitz, G?rard Krawczyk, Gilbert Laffaille, John Landis, David Larible, Jorge Lavelli, Claude Lelouch, Lolita Lempicka, G?rard Lenorman, Maud Linder, David Lynch, Christophe Malavoy, Pierre Maguelon, G?rard Majax, Fr?d?ric Manoukian, Tonie Marshall, Albert Marcoeur, Franck Margerin, Ged Marlon, Ren? Meler, Michel Mend?s-France, Daniel Mesguich, Martin Messonnier, Anne-Marie Mi?ville, Julia Migenes, Eddie Mitchell, Yolande Moreau, Fran?ois Morel, Georges Moustaki, Marc-Edouard Nabe, Jean Narboni, Bernard No?l, Dominique Noguez, Tom Novembre, Michel Ocelot, J?r?me Pernoo, Nicolas Philibert, Michel Piccoli, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Catherine Pr?vert, Anna Prucnal, Charlotte Rampling, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Luis Rego, Michel Reilhac, Serge Riaboukine, Claude & Delphine Rich, Jacques Rivette, Pascal Rogard, Fran?ois Rollin, Daphn? Roulier, Pierre Salvadori, Louis Sclavis, Pierre Schoendoerfer, Barbet Schroeder, William Sheller, Shirley et Dino, Claire Simon, Bruno Solo, Lionel Soukaz, Laurent Spielvogel, Bernard Stora, Anne Sylvestre, Bertrand Tavernier, Sophie Tellier, Philippe Torreton, Serge Toubiana, Catherine Trautmann, Luce Vigo, Jaco Van Dormael, Jean Vautrin, Paul Vecchiali, Hans Walter M?ller, Jacques Weber, Lambert Wilson + 35 000 cin?philes se sont d?j? manifest?s pour que Pierre ?taix et Jean-Claude Carri?re retrouvent enfin leurs droits et leurs films*, le public. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Apr 27 12:41:38 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Apr 27 12:43:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49F58BE2.5010503@furtherfield.org> Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century. Review by Rob Myers. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=344 "Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century" by Gerald Raunig is a book that presents and contextualises artists engagement with revolutionary moments over the last one hundred and fifty years. The history of artists' involvement with the revolutionary movements of the modern era that it presents is compelling for artists looking for something more than the art market. And the theoretical framework that it uses as the context for this history is surprisingly pertinent to the post-credit-crunch new world order. More reviews/articles/interviews on furtherfield.org http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php From joris at v2.nl Mon Apr 27 12:56:31 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Mon Apr 27 12:57:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter May 2009 Message-ID: <49F58F5F.20104@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter May 2009 www.v2.nl V2_events: Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology Date: May 20, 20:00-23:00 Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam Admission: Free With Arminius Denkcafe, V2_ will hold a new edition of Test_Lab devoted to wearable technology, featuring presentations, performance, philosophical debate and more. With: Sabine Seymour (AT/US), Mark Coeckelbergh (B/NL), Aram Bartholl (DE), Cutecircuit: Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz (UK), KOBAKANT: Mika Satomi en Hannah Perner-Wilson (JP/AT). *The term Fashionable Technology is coined by Sabine Seymour. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_events: Workshop/ DIY Wearable Technology/, by KOBAKANT Date: May 16 and 17, 10:00-18:00 Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam* On the weekend preceding the Test_Lab, Miki Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson will give a two-day workshop whose participants will design and produce wearable technology. The results will be presented at the May 20 Test_Lab. Note: Unfortunately, the workshop is fully booked. Registration is no longer possible. www.kobakant.at ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Publishing: Exhibition Art Books in Light Date: April 24?May 24 Location: Warmoestraat 139, Amsterdam* Until May 24, V2_Publishing and its books are taking part in the exhibition Art Books in Light, organized by Valiz in collaboration with W139. This exhibition (and temporary bookstore) focuses on art books by various smaller, independent publishers from the Netherlands and Belgium. It will encompass not only artists? books but the breadth of publishing on contemporary art and visual culture ? ranging from art theory, design, architecture, photography, artists? monographs and typography to children?s art books and more. See http://www.w139.nl for the program and related activities. Art Books in Light is made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2_Lab: Sharewear on tour The electronic dresses from last years project /Sharewear/ by Di Mainstone and V2_ have been shown at Eyebeem in New York City. Check the report on www.dance-tech.net. The next performance will take place in Oldenburg (Germany) on May 14, 15 and 16. http://www.dance-tech.net/video/di-mainstone-interview-and From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Apr 27 13:13:30 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Apr 27 13:27:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] Furtherfield Blog (April 09). In-Reply-To: <49F58F5F.20104@v2.nl> References: <49F58F5F.20104@v2.nl> Message-ID: <49F5935A.3070008@furtherfield.org> Furtherfield Blog (April 09). Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture (April 09). A shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making it, curating it, translating it. http://blog.furtherfield.org Another blackout? Submitted by Helen Varley Jamieson. projected performances of Projection Performance. Submitted by by jonCates. We Won't Fly For Art. Submitted by Ruth Catlow. Revealing creatively hidden agendas. Submitted by Aileen Derieg. More Info: This Blog is an open environment, a place to intuitively explore media arts practice, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with answers. It set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org (www.furtherfield.org) team, including editors/reviewers. The team discovered that this format suited some people more than others and are now open to new contributors. The Furtherfield blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead bloggers explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions that are rarely publicly discussed elsewhere in such detail. From m at 1010.co.uk Mon Apr 27 17:08:26 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Mon Apr 27 17:28:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] micro_salon: April 30th 8PM: ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomenons [with Connie Mendoza] Message-ID: micro research salons on the last Thursday of each month (and occasional other dates) for local and international researchers to gather to discuss common research themes and endeavour. Calendar: April 30th 8PM: ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomenons [with Connie Mendoza] ///// ALMA Project is a cartographic exercise within time travel, through physics and through mental landscapes, investigating the notion of time and the breach between Sci-Tech and an intimate experience of time. ALMA is the acronym of Atacama Large Millimeter Array, an observatory under construction in the north of Chile, near my place of birth in the Atacama Desert. Chuquicamata is a village where workers and engineering technicians of the open pit copper mine lived in the middle of the desert. ALMA Project. Fata Morgana and Other Optical Phenomenons is the launch pad for this time travel. Copper and technological progress are intimately connected worldwide. In the Chilean context these connections have even more impact on the recent political and economical history and the psychological state of the population. References: ALMA Project: http://mendoza.zweibilder.net/english/future/alma/telescopio.html ALMA Observatory (eso): http://www.almaobservatory.org/ chuquicamata copper mine (codelco):http://www.codelco.com/english/la_corporacion/fr_divisiones.html Appropriate food and drinks will be served. Free entry. RSVP. Details: xxxxx_micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. xxxxx_micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 http://www.1010.co.uk/org/xxxxx_micro_research.html From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Apr 28 11:46:00 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Tue Apr 28 11:46:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines --> May 2009 Message-ID: <20090428114600.77AFFE27.46BC96C8@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->May 2009 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 03 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal 21 Calls: May 2009 deadlines external 9 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2009: deadlines internal Deadline: 30 September A Virtual Memorial - memorial project environments is looking for artists who work on the subject "SHOAH" in digital media, primarily videoart/filmart, but also netart, soundart, digital photography and media installation http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=662 Deadline: 1 September CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival is looking for film and video submissions for its 5th festival edition to be launched in November 2009 on the topics "violence" & "taboo" http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030 extended Deadline 30 June 2009 Cinematheque - streaming media project environments call: Flash & Thunder - Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 extended Deadline 2 May 2009 VideoChannel - video project environments call: One Minute Videos http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 ------------------------------------------------ May 2009 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 May Visions in New York City Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=904 31 May Watermill - Laboratory for Performance - Residencies (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1007 31 May One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau/CH http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=865 31 May Electrofringe Newcastle/Australia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=745 29 May Onedotzero - London/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1021 29 May ATA Film Festival San Francisco/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=738 29 May Expo Leeds/Uk - sonic art http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=893 15 May Urban Revolutions - Festival Miden Kalamata/Greece http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=900 16 May Madrid Procesos?09 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1048 15 May Exis 2009 - Experimental Film festival Seoul/S.Korea http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=839 15 May 28th Asolo Art Film Festival Asolo/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=435 15 May 8th Kansk Video Festival (Russia) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=856 15 May I-want-a-print Emerging Talent Award Tel-Aviv/Israel http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=770 10 May Digital Direction Contest 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=981 5 May X Media Forum Moskow 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=969 2 May VideoChannel - One minute films & videos - Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 2 May 10th Lucania Film festival Pisticci/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=859 1 May 25 FPS Exp. Film Festival Zagreb/Croatia 1 May Hacker Space Festival Vitry s/Seine (France) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=889 1 May XIII AVANCA Multi Media Festival /Portugal http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=559 1 May Cool stories II - Art Port (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=836 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- -->Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA -->OUTCASTING - web based screenings -->Films and video screenings Sioux City (USA) -->Laisle screenings Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -->Videos for Helsinki based video gallery - 00130 Gallery -->Web based works for 00130 Gallery Helsinki/Finland -->Project: Repetition as a Model for Progression by Marianne Holm Hansen -->US webjournal Atomic Unicorn seeks netart and video art for coming editions -->TAGallery and more deadlines on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?page_id=4 ----------------------------------------------- NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net # calls in the external section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=3 # calls in the internal section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=1 ----------------------------------------------- # This newsletter is also released on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=9 # netEX - networked experiences is a free information service powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany # info & contact: info (at) nmartproject.net From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Tue Apr 28 12:48:23 2009 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica) Date: Tue Apr 28 12:48:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] L.E.V. Festival, 1st and 2nd of May Message-ID: <49F6DEF7.10202@laboralcentrodearte.org> L.E.V. (or Laboratorio de Electr?nica Visual ? Visual Electronics Laboratory), is the space in which electronic music and visual and performing arts join as a way of artistic expression aiming at introducing the audience to a selection of the most interesting local and international creators - the new talent as well as established artists. On its third edition, the festival returns to Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura during May 1st and 2nd 2009. It is designed and conceived by the asturiano collective Datatr?n 0x3F, co-produced by Teatro de la Laboral together with Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre as its main sponsor. The first edition had outstanding artistic proposals such as the audio-visual live sets by Plaid & Bob Jaroc, Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto, Ryoichi Kurokawa or Rechenzentrum, live sets by Mouse on Mars, Bugge Wesseltoft or Apparat and new talent tokens such as Lego my Ego, Fuss! or .tape. L.E.V. 08 meant the project?s consolidation thanks to proposals such as Kindertotenlieder by Gis?le Vienne, KTL and Dennis Cooper, Siren by Ray Lee or live performances by M83, Frank Bretschneider, The Black Dog, Monolake & Deadbeat and Clark, among others. Aphex Twin returns to Spain after many years without coming over to our country and he?s doing it to show us his latest laptop performance in L.E.V. 09. Considered as one of the most important and influential personalities in electronic music, having been surrounded by numerous legends, with thorough precision in his control of old synths and creation of new sounds and gifted with one of the most restless and creative minds in the music scene, today Aphex Twin is still creating landmarks in the boundaries of the approved music rules. L.E.V.?s third edition?s programme will hold other extremely interesting works such as Moderat?s (Modeselektor + Apparat?s joint project with the visual artists Pfadfinderei) audio-visual live set, who after releasing a long-waited for album in March on Bptich Control, will offer a select series of sets on special occasions. L.E.V. will also hold Peter Greenaway?s Tulse Luper Vj Performance or live sets by Isol?e, Nathan Fake, Alva Noto and Byetone. This edition will also have the portuguese coreographer Rui Horta?s latest work together with the band Micro Audio Waves, live sets by Daedelus, AGF, Kelpe or Kettel, Loss-Layers? performance, a creation by Fabrice Planquette and A.lter S.essio or Black out by Jo?o Sam?es, as well as Electric Girl, the new project by Apostolia Papadamaki from Greece with live music by Blaine Reininger (from Tuxedomoon). The Laboratorio de Electr?nica Visual (Visual Electronics Laboratory) will share its activities between five amazing spaces: Laboral?s Theatre, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center, the Church and Asturias? Drama Art School. Tickets: 2 days ticket (presale only): 40 euro Ticket Friday 1st: 20 euro (presale) / 23 euro (at doors) Ticket Saturday 2nd: 27 euro (presale) / 30 euro (at doors) Please, visit http://www.levfestival.com to know the complete line-up and day activities as workshops, meetings, scenic activities... Artistas confirmados L.E.V. 09: Aphex Twin laptop performance [Warp Records, UK] Moderat: Modeselektor & Apparat & Pfadfinderei [Bpitch Control, DE] Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper Vj Performance [UK] Isol?e [Playhouse, DE] Nathan Fake [Border Community, UK] Alva Noto [Raster-Noton, DE] Byetone [Raster-Noton, DE] Rui Horta y Micro Audio Waves Zoetrope [PT] AGF [AGF Produktion, DE] Daedelus [Ninja Tune, USA] A.lter S.essio | Fabrice Planquette Loss Layers [FR] Kettel [Sending Orbs, NL] Eedl [Spa.RK, ES] Kelpe [D.C. Recordings, UK] It_boy [Audiovisual Theorem, ES] Bacanal Intruder [ES] Quasi Stellar | Apostolia Papadamaki Electric Girl [GR] Jo?o Sam?es Blackout [PT] Juan Rayos [ES] Normaa. [ES] .tape. [ES] Fasenuova [Ozonokids, ES] http://www.levfestival.com http://www.teatrodelalaboral.com http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org http://www.myspace.com/levfestival From marika at incident.net Wed Apr 29 01:04:37 2009 From: marika at incident.net (Marika Dermineur) Date: Wed Apr 29 01:05:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] Upgrade!Paris #23 - HONF - Maisons des =?windows-1252?q?M=E9tallo?= =?windows-1252?q?s_-_30/04/2009?= Message-ID: <49F78B85.30003@incident.net> UPGRADE! PARIS #23 ****************** HONF, New Media Art Laboratory, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Maison des Metallos, Paris - 30 April 8pm > > http://incident.net/theupgrade/2009/honf/ Subscribe: upgrade@incident.net ****************** . Maison des Metallos > > 94 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris Atelier 4 M? Parmentier, Couronnes ****************** Irene Agrivina Widyaningrum, Tommy Surya, Andreas Siagian, Julian Abraham, co-founders of HONF in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will present this New Media Art laboratory, its two festivals CELLSBUTTON and YIVF, and them recent creations. House of Natural Fiber [HONF] from Yogyakarta, Indonesia is a New Media Art laboratory, founded in 1999. They concentrate on the principles of social critique and art&technology innovation. Since the beginning, the House of Natural Fiber has consistently focused on cultural development and New Media art, running numerous projects and workshops in which they have concentrated on interactivity with people and environments. The two festivals Cellsbutton ? Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival and YIVF ? Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival, are some of their annual projects. ****************** > > http://www.natural-fiber.com ****************** Next "Uprgade!Paris": RYbN, Radio Free Robots, Michael Sellam, APO33, JODI Maison des M?tallos - 30 may, 2nd & 3rd June ****************** . Upgrade!Paris Upgrade! Paris is organised by Incident.net. http://incident.net/theupgrade/ ****************** Thanks to La Maison des M?tallos, Paris. ****************** From louise.desrenards at free.fr Wed Apr 29 01:45:21 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Wed Apr 29 01:39:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Solidarity For Julien Coupat In-Reply-To: <49F79485.6090901@free.fr> References: <49F79485.6090901@free.fr> Message-ID: <49F79511.20205@free.fr> Semiotext(e) vs MIT distribution ===> The coming Insurrection http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11879 by The Invisible Committee The Invisible Committee is the collective pen-name for a small group of French post-Situationist intellectuals and academics. La Fabrique ===> L'insurrection qui vient http://www.atheles.org/lafabrique/livres/linsurrectionquivient/ par le Comit? invisible __/.//./__./\?\?\?\__00 From a.ludovico at neural.it Wed Apr 29 10:51:05 2009 From: a.ludovico at neural.it (Alessandro Ludovico) Date: Wed Apr 29 10:51:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] Print on Demand: technology evolution and new digital frontiers Message-ID: The cultural association InkElektro organizes the seminar: "Print on Demand: technology evolution and new digital frontiers" The seminar is one of the final acts of the project that will end with a POD publication about digital culture and its printed relationship. 29 April, 3.30 PM Fiorenza Calabrese, cultural association InkElektro InkElektro project presentation Nicola Continolo, Sedit publishing services, Bari "PoD for dummies" Simon Worthington co-founder Mute and OpenMute "Mute experience: digital culture and network society" Trifone Gargano (Universit? degli Studi di Foggia) "digital resources to research and educate" Paolo Cirio (net-artist) "the most legendary robbing of books on the net" Alessandro Ludovico (Neural magazine chief editor) "the death of print" moderator: Aurelio Cianciotta, wickedstyle.it @ Sala del Consiglio (Dipartimento di Studi Classici e Cristiani) Strada Torretta (old city), Bari. http://www.inkelektro.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:print-on-demand-evoluzione-delle-tecniche-e-nuove-frontiere-digitali&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50 -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural Magazine - English (http://neural.it/) Italian (http://www.neural.it/neural_it/) Latest Printed Issue - http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml Subscribe - http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml From info at apo33.org Wed Apr 29 14:35:19 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Wed Apr 29 14:35:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] 14TH OF MAY @ AREA10 : BEYONS SIGNAL #4 Message-ID: <20090429143519.13036o4b8z83gmo8@apo33.org> Area10 welcomes BEYOND SIGNAL #4 organised by A10lab, Fibrr Records, Noise=Noise & Apo33 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// LONDON NOISE SONIFICATION!!!!!!!! ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 14TH OF MAY - 7.30pm - ?5 Noise, harsh digital glitch, body performance, diy punk electronics, hack live decoding,free software... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beyond Signal is a regular experimental A/V performance evenings, began in July 2008 and brings together some of the most exciting and novel performances in sound and vision. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! J MILO TAYLOR (real time A/V 3D) DAWN SCARFE & MEL GOUGH (live radio tuning and resonant soundscape) JOHN RICHARDS (Diy electronics & power noise) MARIE VERRY (A/V punk noise) SZ,BERLIN (Extreme industrial electronic music) THENOISER aka JULIEN OTTAVI (audio freak & oscillators battle) RYAN JORDAN / LUKE JORDAN / PATRICK TRESSET (Diy electronics, home built instruments and python) ODDSCENE & MAGMA (ICED video noise installation) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @ Area 10 Project Space Eagle Wharf Peckham Hill Street London SE15 5JT White building behind Peckham library Buses 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343 Train: Peckham Rye Station http://www.area10.info !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MORE INFORMATION : http://www.a10lab.info/beyondsignal //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// J Milo Taylor http://www.crisap.org/index.php?id=4,60,0,0,1,0 John Richards http://www.jsrichards.com/ TheNoiser aka Julien Ottavi http://www.noiser.org/noise Marie Verry http://marieverry.wordpress.com/ Ryan Jordan, Luke Jordan and Patrick Tresset. http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj/ Oddscene and Magma - ICE http://www.myspace.com/oddscene http://www.myspace.com/defibrillator Dawn Scarfe and Mel Gough http://www.dawnscarfe.co.uk Sz,Berlin http://www.virb.com/szberlin //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ++++ Previous Beyond Signal #2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri4ZiNSafPQ links: http://www.a10lab.info/beyondsignal http://www.area10.info noise=noise - http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj http://fibrr.apo33.org http://www.apo33.org -- ////A10LAB LONDON///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// As part of Area10 Project Space the new medialab platform is being introduced to facilitate the development of research and art practices using new technology in the media arts. area10medialab@crealab.info http://www.a10Lab.info /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From paul at paul-brown.com Wed Apr 29 23:29:53 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Wed Apr 29 23:33:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?CAS_May_Meeting_-_J=F6rn_Ebner?= Message-ID: !!Reminder!! The Computer Arts Society is pleased to invite you to our May meeting. This event is open to the public and is free. This will be our final meeting for Spring. We would like to thank everyone who has supported our programme and look forward to seeing you all again in the Autumn. Wednesday 6 May 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education 23 - 29 Emerald St London WC1N 3QS, England Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane Map: http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds J?rn Ebner "In this artist?s talk I will present notions of the use of objects, landscapes / cityscapes and song / sound in the context of my online works. Beginning with earlier performative pieces, I will speak about sculptural notions - the use of space and objects - in my early online works 2000-2004. My move to understand the internet as a physical element of landscape since 2005, and recent browser-based structures about central-peripheral cityscapes." J?rn Ebner, born 1966, visual artist. Studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London [1995-98], and English Literature at Universit?t Hamburg [1990-95]; he currently lives in Berlin, Germany. His works are predominantly located online, yet refer back to the viewers? situation in the physical world or operate in the public realm. In 2008 and 2006 Ars Electronica Festival commissioned two visual accompaniments for performances by the Bruckner Orchestra. In 2001 his work ?Lee Marvin Toolbox? was awarded the Kunstpreis des Medienforums M?nchen. His works are shown in international galleries and festivals (Siggraph; FILE; Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Viper; selection FILE Rio). http://www.jornebner.info/ CAS 1968-2009 - supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years http://www.computer-arts-society.org CAS is a BCS Specialist Group ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ April to June 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From diana at faces-l.net Thu Apr 30 00:59:51 2009 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Thu Apr 30 01:01:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] SocialEast Seminar on FOREiGN EXPERIENCE IN POST-89 ART Message-ID: <20090430005951.ytqprglioswo0cok@webmail.servus.at> SocialEast Seminar on FOREiGN EXPERIENCE IN POST-89 ART Ludwig Museum ? Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest Thursday 7 May 2009 http://www.socialeast.org 11.00 Registration 11.15 Welcome: Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal) 11:20 Nata?a Petre?in-Bachelez (Curator) The Experience of an East European curator in the international art scene. A confessional first-person narration 11.40 Nada Prlja (Artist, Macedonia/UK) On Being an International Artist 12.00 Diana McCarty (Berlin) Jet Set, Net Set, Easy Jet Set 12.20 Discussion 12.30 Lunch break 1.30 Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal) Ways of Belonging: Foreign Artists in Budapest since 1989 1.50 Szabolcs Kisspal (Artist, Budapest) Timezones and Rituals 2.10 Minithon of interventions by foreign artists living in Budapest EIKE, Katarina Sevi?, Claudia Martins, Alexander Schikowski, Catherine Burki and David Wilkinson 2.40 Discussion 2.50 Coffee break 3.10 Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen) Reconsidering the Avant-Garde: Afrika, the Russian Dog, and Marilyn Monroe 3.30 Lena Prents (Curator, Berlin) Foreign Experience Against the Slipping Down Into the Intellectual Provincialism 3.50 Oleksiy Radynski (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) Beyond Soros Realism 4.10 Discussion 4.20 End of programme in Ludwig Museum 5.00 Pan European Picnic at Kiscelli Museum Workshop, discussion and party Organised in partnership with: Ludwig Museum Budapest Kiscelli Museum Budapest ACAX Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange TRANSLOCAL,ORG From blakkbyrd at yahoo.com.au Thu Apr 30 02:13:14 2009 From: blakkbyrd at yahoo.com.au (blakkbyrd) Date: Thu Apr 30 02:14:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Aviary (April 09) Message-ID: <77678E3E-4953-4A94-94AB-17732BEDFE4C@yahoo.com.au> Subject Index - April 2009 http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2009/04/subject-index- april-2009.html From sica at dasein-design.com Thu Apr 30 09:37:13 2009 From: sica at dasein-design.com (yukiko shikata) Date: Thu Apr 30 09:38:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] ICC "Open Space 2009" (May 16 - Feb. 28, 2010) Message-ID: <49F95529.5090008@dasein-design.com> NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] April 2009 Long-term exhibition "Open Space 2009" May 16 - February 28, 2009 at NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] Admission: free ICC will release the 4th "Open Space", an annual long-term exhibition. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Press/2009/4/0424_01_j.html *the english info. will be uploaded by mid May. [Open Space 2009] ASANO Kohei IWAI Toshio KUWAKUBO Ryota JODI Gregory BARSAMIAN FUJIKI Jun Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER MUTO Tsutomu (may 16 to oct. 4) YAMAGUCHI Takahiro (may 16 to oct. 4) MAEBAYASHI Akitsugu (sept. 19 - feb. 28, 2010) Thematic Exhibition (May 16 - February 28, 2010) [Mission G: sensing the earth] doubleNegatives Architecture NARUKAWA Hajime PACT SYSTEMS Pachube + M.K.I. MURAKAMI Yusuke + Japanese 50th Antarctica Research Expedition +National Institute for Polar Research *curated by Yukiko Shikata [symposium of Mission G] May 16(Sat) 14:00- ICHIKAWA Sota (doubleNegatives Architecture) Marko PELJHAN (PACT SYSTEMS) NARUKAWA Hajime Guest: SERKAN Anilir (Doctor of Engineering/ Astronaut candidate) Moderated by SHIKATA Yukiko, ICC *English/Japanese simultaneous translation *Live on the Internet [artists talk] May 17 (Sun) 14:00- FUJIKI Jun, MUTO Tsutomu Moderated by HATANAKA Minoru, ICC. *only in Japanese *Live on the Internet ---- NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 163-1404 Japan tel：81-3-5353-0814 fax： 81-3-5353-0900 From sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net Thu Apr 30 11:15:33 2009 From: sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9bastien_Bourdeauducq?=) Date: Thu Apr 30 11:29:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Reminder: Hacker Space Fest proposal deadline, May 1st Message-ID: <200904301115.34197.sebastien.bourdeauducq@lekernel.net> Tomorrow is the last day to submit a proposal to the Hacker Space Fest to be held at the /tmp/lab near Paris on June 26-30. More information on this page : http://www.hackerspace.net/call-for-proposals We are looking forward to welcoming you ! From lists at asquare.org Thu Apr 30 11:18:56 2009 From: lists at asquare.org (lists@asquare.org) Date: Thu Apr 30 11:30:17 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: Do NOT touch the Internet Message-ID: <380-22009443091856690@M2W009.mail2web.com> I haven't seen this on as many mailing lists as I should have. a+ gar -------------------------- Do NOT Touch The Internet Citizens Ready For A Fight Across The European Union The privatization of the Internet could be decided in the next few weeks. On May 5th, the European Parliament will vote on a package of measures which will affect the national laws of all EU countries. The European Parliament is about to give up our rights to an open access to the Internet to protect the interests of Entertainment and Communications multinationals. A civil campaign by organizations of the whole European Community will be simultaneously launched tonight in order to prevent the privatization of the Internet and to defend the democratic right to access to information and digital tools. This campaign includes: 1 - An informative website explaining what the so called " Telecommunications Package ", which is about to be voted on in the European Parliament, is, why it is so dangerous for the future of citizens. the impact on their daily economy, as well as useful information and tools created by citizens for citizens, including open letters, press releases, a blog and video material: http: // www.blackouteurope.eu/ 2 - A letter to members of the European Parliament that it is being sent by hundreds of organizations and citizens (one Euro Parliamentarian recognized that they are receiving as many as 200 letters a day): http://www.blackouteurope.eu/act/letter_to_meps.html 3 - An automatic system that allows citizens to send the letter directly to all the Members of the European Parliament: http://blackouteu.wordpress.com/directly-send-to-parlamentarians/ 4 - A system to monitor their vote in the matter: http://blackouteu.wordpress.com/follow-their-vote/ And 5 - A Europe wide casting for ?grandmothers? to create an inter-European viral video: Fortheinternet.wordpress.com/ Take Part! ?Grandma, help them as they do not know what they are doing". On the occasion of the vote in the European parliament of the Telecoms package on May 5, a video contest has been launched on YouTube. This is to remind members of the European Parliament that they need our vote in June. The Internet still provides us with the tools to watch and judge their actions. And we need this to continue. Find out: Do not allow the European Parliament to privatize the Internet! Act now! Tomorrow it is too late! We Still Can Put Pressure On Them - We Gave Them Our Vote - We Vote Again In June. Remind Members Of The European Parliament! " Spread the info -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft? Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail From xavier at confettis.org Thu Apr 30 13:57:00 2009 From: xavier at confettis.org (Xavier Leton) Date: Thu Apr 30 14:00:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?R=E9alisations=5FVillesAllantVers?= Message-ID: <20090430135700784236.06da8ed9@confettis.org> Objet : R?alisations_VillesAllantVers Bonjour, Depuis le d?but de semaine, nous vous proposons des films courts, r?alis?s ? propos d'un "objet" que les participants ont d?couvert lors de leur "parcours commun" [1]. Ces films sont r?alis?s avec les participants de l'?cole ?l?mentaire de la Major, mais aussi avec l'association Maison Pour Tous du Cours Julien ? Marseille (publication ? venir : 4-5 mai). Vous trouverez un forum associ? ? chaque article, donc ? chaque film. Je vous incite ? d?poser votre avis ? propos de des films que vous venez de voir. Les participants et moi, nous avons _besoin_ de ces retours pour avancer dans notre d?sir de r?alisation. Aussi, permettez-moi de vous rappeler les films que nous vous avons pr?sent?s. ::_Histoire_d?un_Feu_Vert_Vert_Vert_:: http://www.facebook.com/l/a8c7e;http://villesallantvers.org/spip.php?article82 ::_L?arriv?e du Tram en gare de..._ :: http://www.facebook.com/l/a8c7e;http://villesallantvers.org/spip.php?article86 ::_H?tel_Terminus_:: http://www.facebook.com/l/a8c7e;http://villesallantvers.org/spip.php?article85 ::_Entretien_avec_la_Major_:: http://www.facebook.com/l/a8c7e;http://villesallantvers.org/spip.php?article83 Bonne vision, bonne ?coute, & bon conseil... En vous remerciant. Je reste ? votre disposition pour tout compl?ment d'information. Xavier --- [1] Parcours Commun: Les parcours communs sont de courtes vid?os d?une ? deux minutes. Elles sont film?es par les participants. Le parcours commun est un itin?raire r?alis? par l?ensemble des participants, cr?? ? partir de leur exp?rience individuelle, ce parcours commun nous invitent ? d?couvrir la ville, en la cr?ant, ? nouveau et diff?rement. Le mode de r?alisation du film est simple, je leur laisse la cam?ra et ils filment ce qui, au fil de l?atelier, leur est apparu comme important ? montrer. Je les aide pour la sc?narisation, le cadrage, la luminosit?... La cam?ra est entre leurs mains et ? leur |h|auteur. --- Facebook groupe : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50162883819 ------------------------------| URL == http://-> -> |_confettiS.org -> |_villeSAllantVers.org -> |_emigratrion.confettiS.org ------------------------------| |_XavierL |_47 rue de Lodi |_13006 Marseille |_++ 33 [+]4 91 42 52 57 |_++ 33 [+]6 72 86 66 63 -------------------------------| From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Tue Apr 28 18:56:05 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Wed May 6 17:04:11 2009 Subject: [spectre] Konzert RICOLOOP | 2. Mai 2009, 21 Uhr Message-ID: <49F7513F.9ACC.00AE.0@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu folgender Veranstaltung herzlich einladen | We would like to invite you cordially to the following event Konzert RICOLOOP | RICOLOOP concert Samstag, 2. Mai 2009, 21 Uhr | Saturday, 2 May, 9 p.m. im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany **************************************************************************************** Sie gilt als spektakul?r, die Performance des Berliners Ricoloop. An seiner sogenannten Loopstation spielt Rico verschiedenste Sounds, die er entweder mit Stimme, Gitarre, Bass, Harmonika, oder sogar mit Bierflasche erzeugt. Ohne Computer und Effektger?te erschafft Rico unglaubliche T?ne, die eine ganze Band auf der B?hne vermuten lassen. Eintritt: 6 ? / erm. 4 ? Mehr Infos im Internet unter www.ricoloop.com und unter www.edith-russ-haus.de. **************************************************************************************** Rico creates musical compositions using many different instruments and objects, including guitar, bass, keyboard, melodica, harmonica, and glass bottles, along with his voice (singing and mouth percussion, or beat-boxing). He plays and records a segment of music, which then repeats continuously. He can then play another segment of music and layer it on top of the previous one. With each layer the composition becomes more complex. This is a new technique of live-producing, teaching the audience how music is compiled and arranged, and exploring how rhythms and melodies interact. Rico*s passion is to convey images and emotions through his music. Entrance: 6 ? / 4 ? More info: www.ricoloop.com und unter www.edith-russ-haus.de. Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08 fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61 info@edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de Sollten Sie keinen Newsletter mehr von uns erhalten wollen, benachrichtigen Sie uns bitte unter unserer email-Adresse: info@edith-russ-haus.de If you don't want to receive our newsletter anymore, please contact us by email: info@edith-russ-haus.de From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Thu Apr 30 12:14:53 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Wed May 6 17:04:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-15?q?Er=F6ffnung_Ich-Maschine_Festival_=7C_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?8=2E_Mai_2009=2C_20_Uhr?= Message-ID: <49F99634.9ACC.00AE.0@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu folgender Veranstaltung herzlich einladen | We would like to invite you cordially to the following event Festival ICH-MASCHINE / I-MACHINE Roboter - Performance - Fashion - Film ER?FFNUNG | OPENING mit der Performance "Low-Tech-Songs" von Paul Granjon Freitag, 8. Mai 2009, 20 Uhr | Friday, 8 May, 8 p.m. im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany **************************************************************************************** Festival ICH-MASCHINE / I-MACHINE Roboter - Performance - Fashion - Film 9. bis 17. Mai 2009 Das Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst, die Kulturetage Oldenburg und das Medienb?ro Oldenburg veranstalten im Mai 2009 gemeinsam ein Festival, welches seine Schwerpunkte im Bereich der Roboterforschung und der tragbaren Elektronik, der sogenannten *Wearable Technology* setzen wird. Es ist ein besonderes Ereignis mit zwei klar definierten Zielen: Technologiebasierte Kunstwerke zu pr?sentieren und damit das Bewusstsein der Oldenburger Bev?lkerung gegen?ber den vielf?ltigen M?glichkeiten in Bezug auf Technologie und Kreativit?t zu aktivieren. Infolgedessen ist das Festival rund um die Idee des Wissenstransfers (durch Pr?sentationen, Ausstellungen und spielerische Workshops) angelegt. In unterschiedlichen Formaten - von K?nstlerworkshops, Filmprogrammen, Tanzperformances bis hin zu einer Modenschau - werden Projekte vorgestellt, welche die Faszination von Zukunft und Wissenschaft an der Begegnung von *Mensch und Maschine* bzw. *Mensch und tragbarer Technik* festmacht. Die Veranstaltungen und Pr?sentationen werden in kreativen Ideen und vision?ren Konzepten aufzeigen, welche Bedeutung die zunehmende Technologisierung unseres Alltagslebens f?r uns hat und welche Phantasien immer noch im Umgang mit ihr liegen. Wie sieht die Mode von morgen aus? Welche Funktionalit?t k?nnen wir von unserer Kleidung in Zukunft erwarten? Was passiert, wenn der Mensch zur Maschine wird? Was passiert, wenn Maschinen Kunst produzieren? AUSSTELLUNGEN im Edith-Ru?-Haus Teil 1: Roboter - Wesenhafte Technik in der Kunst 9. - 17. Mai K?nstlerpr?sentationen: Samstag, 9. Mai, 16-19 Uhr Sie bewegen sich, sie kommunizieren und reagieren auf uns. Sie sind unberechenbar. Sie scheinen zu leben. Eine Horde von robotischen Wesen, entworfen von verschiedenen Medienk?nstlern, bev?lkert im Rahmen des Ich-Maschinen Festivals das Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst. W?hrend die Ausstellung Kunst-Roboter und robotische Installationen zeigt, lernt der Besucher des Workshops *Wir bauen ein Roboter Orchester* Kleinroboter selbst herzustellen. Er?ffnet wird das Festival mit einer k?nstlerisch-absurden Robotik-Performance. K?nstler: Frank Fietzek, Paul Granjon, KH Jeron, Ralf Schreiber Teil 2: Wearable Technology Tragbare Technik zwischen Mode und Kunst 13. - 17. Mai Er?ffnung mit einer Einf?hrung von Susanne Jaschko: Mittwoch, 13. Mai, 19 Uhr In Kooperation mit dem Netherlands Institute for Media Art (NIMk) in Amsterdam pr?sentiert das Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst eine Ausstellung mit dem Titel *Tragbare Technologie - Mode, Funktion, Bewusstsein sch?rfen*. Sie zielt darauf ab, zur Verbreitung und Debatte um Kunst und Design im Bereich der tragbaren Technologien beizutragen. Tragbare Technologie befindet sich in einem interdisziplin?ren Feld an der Schnittstelle zwischen Design, Mode, Wissenschaft und Technologie, das Benutzer, Forscher, Praktizierende, Designer und Hersteller unter anderem aus dem Bereich des tragbaren und universellen Computing, intelligenter Kleidung, Mensch-Maschinen Interaktion, Modedesign und Textil- und Faserforschung zusammenbringt. F?r das Festival in Oldenburg wird NIMk eine exklusive Auswahl an tragbarer Technologie zusammenstellen. Bei den Pr?sentationen der *Mode von Morgen* wird das Publikum die M?glichkeit haben, die Ausstellungsst?cke selbst an- und auszuprobieren. Neben einer Pr?sentation im Edith-Ru?-Haus werden sich am Samstag, den 16. Mai, Models und K?nstlerInnen auch ins Oldenburger Stadtgeschehen mischen. Von 12 - 16 Uhr wird tragbare Technologie am Lefferseck in der Oldenburger Innenstadt auf *Stra?enniveau* pr?sentiert und dem Publikum damit die M?glichkeit gegeben, die Entw?rfe selbst zu ber?hren, zu entdecken, in einen Dialog zu treten, sie selbst zu tragen und dabei au?ergew?hnliche Erfahrungen machen zu k?nnen. Participating artists: Kristina Anderson and Maki Ueda; Mauro Arrighi, Anika Hirt, Onur S?nmez; Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Martin Pichlmair and Elina Mitrunen; Marguerite Charmante; Barbara Layne; Di Mainstone; Markus Kison; Ebru Kurbak, Ricardo Nascimento and Fabiana Shizue; Stijn Ossevoort; Merlinda Prizreni, Ka-min Lung, Jos Herder, Michiel Rotgans, Ana Resende, Melissa Bonvie and Suze Ruyten; Danielle Roberts, Anja Hertenberger and Barbara Pais; Gordan Savicic; SOS Design Studio ?ffnungszeiten w?hrend des Festivals: 9. - 16. Mai, 12 - 21 Uhr Internationaler Museumstag: 17. Mai, 10 - 18 Uhr Die Ausstellungen im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst werden in Kooperation mit dem Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam realisiert. Mehr Infos und vollst?ndiges Programm im Internet unter www.edith-russ-haus.de. Sollten Sie keinen Newsletter mehr von uns erhalten wollen, benachrichtigen Sie uns bitte unter unserer email-Adresse: info@edith-russ-haus.de **************************************************************************************** Festival ICH-MASCHINE / I-MACHINE Roboter - Performance - Fashion - Film 9 to 17 May 2009 The Edith Russ Site for Media Art, the Oldenburg Kulturetage and the Oldenburg Media Office are hosting a joint festival from 7 - 17 May 2009. It will focus on robot research and portable electronics, known as *wearable tchnology*. This will be a special event with two clearly defined goals: presenting technology-based art works and through them raising the consciousness of Oldenburgers for the manifold possibilities associated with technology and creativity. Consequently, the festival will centre on the idea of knowledge transfer (through presentations, exhibitions and play workshops). In various formats - ranging from artist performances and workshops, film programmes, dance performances to a fashion show - projects are to be presented that capture the fascination with future and science in the encounter between *man and machine* or *man and wearable technology*. Events and presentations will demonstrate in creative ideas and visionary concepts the significance of the increasing technification of everyday living and its impact on us and which fantasies are still associated with handling technification. What will tomorrow*s fashions look like? What functions can we expect from our clothing in future? What will happen if the human being becomes a machine? What happens when machines produce art? Projects at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art Exhibition: Part 1 Robots - Animated technology in art 9 - 17 May Artist talks: Saturday, 9 May, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. They move, they communicate and they react to us. There is no telling what they will do. They seem to be alive. Under the auspices of the I-Machine Festival, a horde of robotic beings, designed by various media artists, will populate the Edith Russ Site for Media Art. While the exhibition is showing, art robots and robotic installations, visitors will learn how to make mini-robots themselves at workshops. The Festival will open with a robotics art performance. Artists: Frank Fietzek, Paul Granjon, KH Jeron, Ralf Schreiber Exhibition: Part 2 Wearable Technology between Fashion and Art 13 - 17 May Opening with an introduction by Susanne Jaschko: Wednesday, 13 May, 7 p.m. A jacket that shows us where to go? A dress on which people can play computer games with one another? A sweat-shirt you can make music with? More and more designers and artists are experimenting today with new technologies to create articles of clothing that can do more than just look good. Sensors or LEDs may, for example, be integrated in such clothing, thus configuring wearable objects that attract attention but may be useful in everyday living, which facilitate communication and interaction while reinforcing the individuality of their wearers. Under the auspices of the I-Machine Festival, the Edith Russ Site for Media Art is hosting a programme devoted to wearable technology jointly with Netherlands Media Art Institute. The creations of designers and artists from around the world who explore the technical and aesthetic potential of wearable fashion and art are to be presented. As well as exhibiting their *wearables*, the programme of events also includes live presentations of the articles of apparel at various venues in Oldenburg. Moreover, on two evenings, the designers themselves will talk about their work and explain it. Visitors will have a chance not just to look at the creations but also to try on some of the *wearables* presented. Moreover, they will be able to make *wearables* themselves in the workshops that are to be given. Participating artists: Kristina Anderson and Maki Ueda; Mauro Arrighi, Anika Hirt, Onur S?nmez; Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Martin Pichlmair and Elina Mitrunen; Marguerite Charmante; Barbara Layne; Di Mainstone; Markus Kison; Ebru Kurbak, Ricardo Nascimento and Fabiana Shizue; Stijn Ossevoort; Merlinda Prizreni, Ka-min Lung, Jos Herder, Michiel Rotgans, Ana Resende, Melissa Bonvie and Suze Ruyten; Danielle Roberts, Anja Hertenberger and Barbara Pais; Gordan Savicic; SOS Design Studio. Opening hours during the festival: 9 - 16 May, 12 a.m. - 9 p.m. International Museum Day: 17 May, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. In cooperation with the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam More info and the complete programm under www.edith-russ-haus.de. If you don't want to receive our newsletter anymore, please contact us by email: info@edith-russ-haus.de Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08 fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61 info@edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de From julie at translatingnature.org Thu Apr 30 17:03:36 2009 From: julie at translatingnature.org (julie freeman) Date: Wed May 6 17:04:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition Launch - In Particular Message-ID: x=x= apologies for x-postings =x=x Please joins us for a drinks reception to launch In-Particular - an exhibition of works by Julie Freeman representing the culmination of an artist residency with Professor Jeremy Ramsden, at the Microsystems & Nanotechnology Centre, Cranfield University. 6 - 8pm Wednesday 6th May 2009 Vincent Building Atrium, Cranfield University, College Road, Bedfordshire, UK, MK43 0AL Guests will receive a limited edition copy of Nano Novels. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to: jmanners@mannerspr.co.uk Exhibition runs until September 2009. Free entry and fully accessible to all. http://www.in-particular.net **** An alternative LONDON event will be held at The Science Museum's Dana Centre, June 2nd 2009 **** With kind regards, julie@translatingnature.org www.translatingnature.org ????????????????????? From marta at diyalog-der.eu Mon Apr 27 15:15:30 2009 From: marta at diyalog-der.eu (marta@diyalog-der.eu) Date: Wed May 6 17:10:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?Anamur_=96_MonAmour_//_International_cu?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ltural_festival_in_Anamur=2C_Turkey?= Message-ID: International cultural festival in Anamur, Turkey from August 14 to 25, 2009 with various Workshops Registration until June 25, 2009 http://www.dynamic.diyalog-der.eu/index.php?id=549&L=2 The Anamur - MonAmour festival ? August 14 to 25, 2009 - is an international gathering around art and creativity, taking place in the rural Mediterranean setting of Anamur with participants from different cultural backgrounds. The project consists of a series of events around the central backbone of hands-on, state of the art workshops on photography, video, caricature drawing and local cuisine led by professionals. The festival in Anamur intends to create at least a 10 days community in which cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary experiences are shared. The town of Anamur with all its historical and natural beauty will become a playground for creativity; a varied cultural program will be provided; the site-specific features of the area (e.g. the sea turtles, the Roman castle or the social life of the farmers) will be mediated by professionals from the region. At the festival a cross-cultural exchange will emerge from the heterogeneity of the groups and from direct contact with the population of Anamur. Participants from different countries will discover an unique ecosystem with a rich flora and fauna. A thematic focus is the confrontation with the running program for the protection of Caretta Caretta sea turtles. Anamur, on rather the whole Turkish Mediterranean coast, is home to the largest remaining population of these protected animals. Anamur with its solitude is an oasis that offers rich and unique natural sites and many ancient ruins from Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman times. For detailed information about the festival program, the workshops as well as for your registration please view following project link: http://www.dynamic.diyalog-der.eu/index.php?id=549 Anamur - MonAmour is a cooperation between the association Diyalog Derneği based in Istanbul, the Association for the Promotion of Culture and Tourism in Anamur (A?ED) and the University of Mersin, Turkey. Diyalog Derneği / Diyalog e.V. Molla ?elebi ?esme ?ikmazi 1/3 34427 Beyoglu/Istanbul Turkey Tel.: + 90 - 212 - 292 41 34 Fax: + 90 - 212 - 292 41 36 info@diyalog-der.eu http://www.dynamic.diyalog-der.eu From turbulence at turbulence.org Mon Apr 27 20:52:15 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Wed May 6 17:10:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] Turbulence Spotlight: "MAICgregator" by Nick Knouf Message-ID: <00ff01c9c769$4ac8d8e0$e05a8aa0$@org> April 27, 2009 Turbulence Spotlight: "MAICgregator" by Nick Knouf http://turbulence.org/spotlight/knouf/ [Needs Firefox Browser and extention download] "MAICgregator" is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial "crisis". Please visit this post for conversation about the project: http://turbulence.org/blog/2009/04/20/maicgregator-by-nick-knouf/ BIOGRAPHY Nicholas Knouf is a PhD student in information science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. His research explores the interstitial spaces between information science, critical theory, digital art, and science and technology studies. Ongoing work includes "Fluid Nexus", a mobile phone messaging application designed for activists and relief workers that operates independent of a centralized network, robotic puppetry projects that engage with psycho-socio-political imaginaries, and sound works that encourage the expression of the unspeakable. Past and current work has been recognized by a number awards, including an Honorary Mention by Prix Ars Electronica in [the next idea] category (2005), the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) for his master's thesis (2008), a memefest Award of Distinction (2008), and a special transmediale "Online Highlight" (2009). Additionally, his work has been discussed in print and online media, including ID Magazine, the Boston Globe, CNN, Slashdot, and Afterimage. For more Turbulence Spotlights, please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . 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