From louise.desrenards at free.fr Sat Aug 1 21:05:33 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Sat Aug 1 21:07:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?L=27=E9t=E9_Neuf_apr=E8s_la_Saint_Jean_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?/_Summer_9_after_Holy_St_Jean_Day?= Message-ID: <9eb0e3810908011205g6287fb1eu68461a580216bc9b@mail.gmail.com> Le texte performatif d?di? ? Olivia Clavel est fini ce jour, 1er ao?t Les liens URI de l'?ditorial et de ses s?lections demeurent inchang?es donc toujours accessibles Bon mois d'ao?t de l'an 9 pour m?moire du premier ?t? du troisi?me mill?naire http://www.criticalsecret.com/n8 L. __________________ ?ditorial du 26 juillet?: L??t? Neuf apr?s la Saint Jean http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1261 Le 26 juillet 2009 par Aliette G. Certhoux Fin de vie Il revient ? ma m?moire des souvenirs familiers. Je revois ma blouse noire lorsque j??tais ?colier. Sur le chemin de l??cole je chantais, ? pleine voix, des romances sans paroles. Vieilles chansons d?autrefois... "Douce France?! Cher pays de mon enfance, berc?e de tendre insouciance ? je t?ai gard?e dans mon c?ur?!" Mon village au clocher, aux maisons sages, o? les enfants de mon ?ge ont partag? mon bonheur?: oui je t?aime. Et je te donne ce po?me. Oui je t?aime dans la joie ou la douleur, douce France, cher pays de mon enfance. Berc? de tendre insouciance je t?ai gard?e dans mon c?ur. J?ai connu des paysages et des soleils merveilleux au cours de lointains voyages, tout l?-bas sous d?autres cieux. Mais je leur pr?f?re les camions sur les autoroutes ? octrois, les rocades plant?es sur les routes nationales o? avant se dressait la for?t, et surtout mon Lir? aux pieds palatins, son ciel bleu sans horizon, ses eaux radioactives. Les algues vertes sur les rochers, ? la mer. Les brigades sp?ciales en tortue dans ma prairie mut?e. Les abeilles ?gar?es sur la place pi?tonnent, o? jadis se trouvait ma maison (toute petite au fond du jardin)... "Circulez?!" dit un policier ? visant, "Circulez?! Y a rien ? voir..." (il tire). >.< ________________________________ SOMMAIRE L??ph?m?re ?t? 9 apr?s la Saint Jean est d?di? ? la Douce France, de Charles Trenet ? Carte de S?jour. Mais encore ? Cesare Battisti, http://www.arte.tv/fr/2635502.html ? Fred Vargas ? qui le soutient (bient?t ici un lien pour qui peut contribuer ? l?aider?; en attendant lire polar cet ?t?). http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Vargas FRENCH CALLING For the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement.--English Translation by A. R.G. (See below) : Et sans discontinuer, ? L?appel du p?re de Joachim contre l?usage des armes non-l?tales par les forces de l?ordre ? ? tous les manifestants mutil?s ? aux insoumis victimes de la police et de l?injustice, du pouvoir accumul?. http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-4653.html http://lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/07/30/affaire-joachim-gatti-l-auteur-du-tir-de-flash-ball-n-etait-pas-en-legitime-defense_1224174_3224.html Aux sans papiers. Aux noy?s, aux bless?s des fronti?res ferm?es. Aux suicid?s des prisons de l?an Neuf. A ceux qui poursuivent d?avancer dans les jardins parfum?s, aux roses ?pineuses, ou parmi les feuillages miroitant au soleil de l??t?. A Armand Gatti, les singuliers les multiples http://www.armand-gatti.org/ et la parole errante. http://la-parole-errante.org/ ?- - - - - - - - - - - ? ? - - ? Avec les sources in?dites?: --> Olivia Clavel, les fluorescences du corps noir, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1245 par l??ditorialiste (Ecritures & Critiques?; Critiques) "L??t? Neuf apr?s la Saint Jean" ?pilogue?: --> R>VIDEO>8>DU>BRUIT> (23?), vid?o de cr?ation par Gr?goire Courtois http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1262 (Image?; La fabrique de l?image) Et les fonds de ressources choisies?: --> Les portraits des brigadistes et maquisards du photographe Francis Blaise, galerie extraite par Robin Hunzinger de l?article?: Un jour mon p?re, de Olivier Favier http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article946 (Images?; Un photographe, un ?crivain) La voix de Richard Brautigan, son, mp3 http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article357 Adresse spontan?e d?un Fan de l?auteur (Biblioth?que sonore) Mishima - la Beaut?, la plaie et le n?ant, par R?gis Poulet http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article516 (Asiatiques, Un continent litt?raire) Les amis, ? partir des photographies de Martin Bogren, par Delphine Maza http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article958 (Images?; Un photographe, un ?crivain) Approche de la pens?e lyrique de Roger Caillois, par Laurent Margantin http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1044 (Ecritures & Critiques?; Autres espaces) Du film Les astres noirs, de Yann Gonzalez et de Julien Dor?, par Aliette G. Certhoux http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1150 (Images?; Critique) Entretien avec Armand Gatti, par Chlo? Hunzinger http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article111 (Cr?ation litt?raire?; Entretiens) La d?sob?issance civile 1, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article277 La d?sob?issance civile 2, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article278 par Henri David Thoreau (1817-1862) (Id?es?; Grands astreignants) * ps: La chanson de r?f?rence incontournable, trouv?e sur YouTube, vid?os qui se caricaturent d?elles-m?mes (merci de ne pas y voir du nationalisme ni de la d?rision particuliers de notre part, sinon dans une perspective o? l??ditorial entreprend son illustration ? et son inspiration ? dans une intention d?hommage aux cr?ations critiques Punk des ann?es 60-70, et ? leurs techniques de composition)?: Charles Trenet, Douce France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4sz_P3dg7o Rachid Taha @ Carte de S?jour, Notre France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLoxJPZqzM ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// For Online Signing For the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement. To the Attention of : THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Category : Human Rights I would like to thank all those who have come forward in solidarity, who have passed on information and who have allowed us to speak of these acts of unacceptable violence. Two messages have reinforced my conviction that nonlethal weapons should be outlawed. The first message comes from the father of a high school student in Nantes who lost his right eye in similar circumstances. He summed up the report that was made by the CNDS (commission nationale de d?ontologie de la s?curit?). We find here the same scenario that was at Montreuil : the police officer fires at point-blank range at an unarmed person who is not threatening him. the authorities publish false statements. ?The CNDS describes the injury of the young high schooler as extremely serious, the expected consequences being particularly crippling since Mr. P. D-L. will never regain the vision in his right eye.? ?Concerning this the CNDS ?deplores? a false statement given by the central director of public security (Paris), who denied in writing the seriousness of the injury. The CNDS describes this official inaccuracy, published even after knowledge about two medical certificates was ?manifestly? known, as ?carelessly rash? and ?a blatant lack of follow-up?? (unless the omission is willful ?) The CNDS had a hearing with a police officer wearing a ski mask and armed with a defensive firearm 40x46 (LBD, the newest ?Flash-Ball? model), presumably the one who fired the shot, who reaffirmed that he, by order of his superiors, aimed at a protestor who was throwing ?rocks? in the direction of law enforcement, but that he would have ?not recognized? the young student wounded in the eye, who he had been facing. In addition, the family believes after inspection that the site of the rectorate did not contain any rocks or paving stones for throwing, only sand or gravel.? ?These findings lead the Commission to question whether the usage of these kinds of weapons is appropriate in the context of a street protest which involves a closeness and larger mobility between the protestors and the police.? It is always shocking to see brutal acts transposed into the language of administrative management : response assessment, lack of proportionality, self-defense in the use of force, and the lack of needing to respond, pursue disciplinary action, or scarcely even assign blame to the police officer. What can one say?he who for thirty-four years had the chance to watch himself grow old in the blue eyes of his son?to the butcher who is going to surround his barbarous act in the flowery language of government administration ? In moments like these, the question of the government police pops up again. In the entries on our family tree we have crossed this kind of cop many times : the boss police who shattered the leg of our first one before the war, the GMR (Groupe mobile de r?serve) who arrested our second one in the underbrush and handed him over to the Germans, the CRS in ?68 who swiped our third one in the wheat fields of Flins, and today the police officers (dressed up like Robocop) who fired into the face of our most recent one in the market square at Montreuil. By whatever name, these police are but different versions of a militia of power. The police officers have acted directly on prefectorial command. The question remains : should we equip such a militia with gear designed to terrorize those who would have inclinations to protest ? The second message comments on the aggression in the marketplace by law enforcement. Montreuil is a small town. Surveys of people living there were conducted through the coordination of freelance artists. The person in charge of deciphering it all sent me an email in which he concludes : It?s excruciating, I?m in the process of transcribing but there is an hour and a half of recordings. In bringing together the testimonies we are coming to the conclusion that Joachim was in the process of moving away (this conforms with the testimony of two individuals, one of whom a neighbor). But on the other hand everyone says that Joachim fell with his head toward the rue de Paris and his feet toward the boulevard de Chanzy, in the opposite direction from the cops, thus he had his back to the cops. A plain-clothes cop, standing very still, already had him in his sights (according to two witnesses, including one neighbor, the cop held a firing position for four seconds), which means that the cop waited for Joachim to turn his head toward him and fired at that very moment. If only the police officer had not hesitated to fire, provoking this disfiguration...but on the other hand the realness of the mutilation is constantly put in doubt. Doubt raised about the realness of the injury?even while the internist at the central hospital had clearly indicated on the first night, July 8, that the eye was completely lost. Doubt taken up again under different forms in certain papers. Doubt relayed by your own friends who ask you (surely out of kindness) if there really isn?t even a small chance to save the eye. This doubt quickly becomes unbearable because the medical diagnosis held no doubt, because the force of the impact left no chance. We must leave no chance for nonlethal weapons. Along with the signatories, I would simply like to ask for the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons (Flash-Ball, lbd40, Taser) by law enforcement. St?phane Gatti Thanks A. R.G. http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-4653.html ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// http://www.larevuedesressources.org/ http://www.criticalsecret.com From fritz.d at chello.nl Sun Aug 2 19:32:11 2009 From: fritz.d at chello.nl (Darko Fritz) Date: Sun Aug 2 19:33:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] grey) (area ::: Samuel Cepeda: The Clouds have no nation Message-ID: grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korcula Samuel Cepeda: The Clouds have no nation 4 - 14 . 8. 2009. Opening: Tuesday 4th August . 21 - 23 h. free entrance "The Clouds have no nation" is a project made for grey) (area space of contemporary and media art in Korcula, Croatia. It consists of a site- specific video installation in the gallery space and a public action of distributing art prints by the artist himself in the city of Korcula. "The Clouds have no nation" is part of the Cloudwalkers project (since 2005) which explores different ways of questioning the knowledge that we have about reality through the clouds. Artist state "The project makes us remember when we were kids and tried to find real objects in the shapes of a cloud. I tried to have people experience and participate in my artwork keeping in mind the question: why not?." An extended exhibition presented several phases of the "The Cloudwalkers project". It was held in 2008 at the Centro de las Artes CONARTE in Monterrey, curated by Darko Fritz. During the exhibition, Cepeda made a interactive action with children in ages between 8 ? 11. For the first time, its results and documentation are now presented. Among other activities, children made drawings of actual clouds while looking through the transparent plastic sheet size 4 x15 meters, placed above them. Now the same sheet with drawings is placed at the ceiling of the gallery space. Cepeda chose the clouds as objects over which science has difficulties providing fixed answers on their physical constitution. It?s hard to describe them within their nature and shape, which usually last for less than a second because they?re changed by a huge number of physical dynamics that are going on in nature?s permanent flux. The project is focused to produce, contextualize and display the imaginary forms triggered by the ever-changing visual appearance of the clouds watched by humans. This is represented by means of visual imagination of different people that participated in this project. The most important motivation for the realization of the project was to requestion realities throughout aesthetically means of fine arts, which its approach is impossible or very difficult to make, throughout the methodology and language of science. Artist is using and reversing the scientific language and methodologies. He summarized his project as "... ironic tendency to question the unquestionable". The sites of Cepeda's works ranging from institutions of contemporary art to the public spaces, as intentional institutional critique (the bar, the city streets and crossroads), appropriates both political activist, mainstream commercial propaganda and involvement methods. The old and new media and communication systems are used in the Cloudwalkers project. Making use of the polaroid photo in this project is significant as such media implicate instant authenticity, as well as including the photo-process and its distribution at once. Significally, at the time of preparing the first overview of the Cloudwalkers project (2008), the Polaroid company announced closing of its factories for further production of polaroid films and cameras. Samuel Cepeda (1977, Monterrey, N.L. M?xico) New media artist, he has two technical degrees one in graphic design and the other in computer design (1995). He graduated with a Visual Arts degree from the Universidad Aut?noma de Nuevo Le?n in 1999 as well as a Graphic Design Degree from the Universidad Metropolitana de Monterrey in 1998. Due to his interest in New Media Art he studied an MFA in Transart Institute and Danube University in Austria, and an MA in Arts at the Universidad Aut?nma de Nuevo Le?n. He is teaching at the Universidad Aut?noma de Nuevo Le?n and the Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios de Dise?o de Monterrey. Cepeda's artwork use video, photography, audio and digital tools as media to produce multidisciplinary projects with Installations, Public Actions, Performance, Happening, video art and digital art. Some exhibitions: "1ra Serie festival multidisciplinario" Mty, N.L. Mex (2009) public action, performance; "The cloudwalkers project", Monterrey (2008) Public actions, documentation, performance; "The cloudwalkers project_1" Linz, Austria (2006) video installation, performance; "Acthung-roof" Krems, Austria (2005) public installation, video documentation; "Identity" Santa Catarina N.L. (2007) Installation; "Casa de la abuela" Mty, N.L. (2002) Installation, Public intervention. website Samuel Cepeda: http://samuelc.com website Cloudwalkers project: http:www.cloudwalkers.org ------------------------------------------------------- contact: Darko Fritz darko@darkofritz.net / tel + 385 [0] 91.5800193 grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) . Petar Grimani (Croatia) . Ivan Marusic Klif (Croatia) . Toni Mestrovi? (Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) . Nina Czegledy (Canada) and Marcus Neustetter (South Africa) participants in gray) (area program: Veaceslav Ahunov, (Uzbekistan), Abilsait Atabekov (Kazahstan), Dunja Bla?evi?, Boris Cvjetanovic (Zagreb), Gem Sqash (Adam Hyde and Ntsikelelo Ntshingila), Petar Grimani (Croatia), Ulan Djaparov (Kazahstan), Ivan Faktor (Osijek), Kontejner (Zagreb), Lemeh 42 (Italy), Faruk Loncarevic (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Alban Muja (Kosova), Edita Pecoti? (Korcula / London), Ana Peraica (Split), PRO.BA (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Radioqalia (Adam Hyde and Honnor Hager, New Zealand), Lala Ra??i? (Sarajevo ? Zagreb), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia / Romania), Tomo Savi?-Gecan (Zagreb - Amsterdam), Slaven Tolj (Dubrovnik), Transfer (Zagreb), Goran Trbuljak (Zagreb), Alexandr Ugay (Kazahstan), Dra?en Vitolovi? (Sovinjak / Rijeka) i Enes Zlatar (Bosnia and Hercegovina). From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Aug 3 07:58:59 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Mon Aug 3 07:59:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] New on VideoChannel: One Minute Film Collection (OMFC) Message-ID: <20090803075859.DDCC7448.AB3BE96D@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel - video project environments - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is happy to launch on 3 August 2009 another highlight online. OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) is an ongoing project initiative chief curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne featuring at its start 67 films and videos with a duration of exactly one minute ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=242 VideoChannel is welcoming Ali Zaidi (motiroti, London(UK)) as a guest curator selecting 14 films by directors from UK, India & Pakistan. --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=507 Monika Dutta (UK), Shobna Gulati (UK), Hetain Patel (UK), Nikesh Shukla (UK) Ali Zaid (UK) , Nitin Das (India), Skanya Ghosh (India), Vishrajuti Ghosh (India) Nila Madhab Panda (India), Abhilash V. (India), Shazieh Gorji (Pakistan), Roshaan Khattak (Pakistan), Syed Ali Nasir (Pakistan), Sehban Zaidi (Pakistan) The other thematic sections are Family & Friends --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=517 Sonja Vuk (CR), Antti Savela (SWE), Wolf Nkole Helzle (Ger) Katherine Sweetman (USA) , Grace Graupe-Pillard (USA) Luisa Mizzoni (IT), Adrian Zalewski (Poland), Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan) Harad Rettich (Ger), Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan), Junho Oh (South Korea) Difference --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=533 Lukas Mateijka (SK), Kriss Salmanis (Latvia), Lin Fangsuo (China), Istv?n Rusvai (Hungary), Antonio Alvarado (Spain), Karl Mendonca (USA) Veena Shekar (India), Tanja Koljonen & Joe Candido (Finland) Louis Hubert (France), Erik Peterson (USA), Suzon Fuks (AUS) Mysteries ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=537 Mores McWreath (USA), Toni Mestrovic (Croatia), Yoko Taketani (Japan) Agricola de Cologne (GER), Antony Rousseau (FR), Sreedeep (India), Sean Burn (UK), Roderick Coover & Nick Montfort (USA) Sahra Bhimji (USA), Pierre-Laurent Cassi?re (France), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Past, Present & Future --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=551 Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia), Hermes Mangialardo (Italy, Henry Gwiazda (USA) Lemeh42 (Italy), Mads Ljungdahl (Denmark), Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) Harriet Macdonald (UK), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) Victoria S. Weible (USA), P?ter Vad?cz (Hungary) A Matter of Time --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=556 Johanna Reich (Germany), Anders Weberg (SWE), Ron Diorio (USA), Bill Domonkos (USA), Xenia Vargova (Bulgaria), Alison Williams (RSA) Walter Van Rijn (UK), Nicole Rademacher (USA) Baptist Coelho (India), Milica Rakic (Serbia) More info can be found on ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=597 ------------------------------------------- CologneOFF, VideoChannel , VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD - Video Art Database are dedicated to art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art & new media from Cologne/Germany . info [at] nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------- From info at garage-g.de Mon Aug 3 10:09:35 2009 From: info at garage-g.de (festival garage) Date: Mon Aug 3 10:38:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] sommercampworkstation 2009 - newsletter # 2 Message-ID: ((German version below - fuer deutsche Version nach unten scrollen)) Hello ! SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION - LABORATORY FOR ART AND MEDIA BERLIN - newsletter #2 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [1] SOMMERCAMP - only a few workshop places left [2] SOMMERCAMP - opening with performance evening @ ausland ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [1] SOMMERCAMP - only a few workshop places left - register now! The sommercamp 09 starts in a week, on August 10 - there are only a few workshop places left - please register soon! more infos on the workshops and registration form here: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=10 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [2] SOMMERCAMP - opening with performance evening @ ausland 09.08.2009 - 9 pm - ausland - Lychener Str. 60 - 10437 Berlin - http://www.ausland-berlin.de/ The sommercamp workshop marathon from August 10-16, 2009 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt will be kick-started with a performance evening on August 9 at ausland. Artists and workshop leaders will introduce themselves with short performances. With: Jessica Rylan (US), Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US), Hildur Gudnad?ttir (IS/D) + Halldor Ulfarsson (IS/F), Tore Honor? Boe (N/E), Dave Griffiths (B), Martin Howse (UK/D), Derek Holzer (US/D) Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=373 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ((German version)) SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION - LABOR FUER KUNST UND MEDIEN BERLIN - Newsletter #2 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [1] SOMMERCAMP - nur noch wenige Workshop-Plaetze [2] SOMMERCAMP - Eroeffnung mit Performance-Abend @ ausland ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [1] SOMMERCAMP - nur noch wenige Workshop-Plaetze - jetzt anmelden! Das sommercamp 09 startet in einer Woche am 10. August. Es sind nur noch wenige Workshop-Plaetze verfuegbar, bitte rechtzeitig anmelden! Informationen zu den Workshops und Anmeldeformular hier: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=de&page_id=10 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [2] SOMMERCAMP - Eroeffnung mit Performance-Abend @ ausland 09.08.2009 - 21 uhr - ausland - Lychener Str. 60 - 10437 Berlin - http://www.ausland-berlin.de/ Der sommercamp-Workshop-Marathon vom 10-16.08. im Haus der Kulturen der Welt wird bereits am 09.08.2009 mit einem Performance-Abend eroeffnet. Kuenstler und Workshopleiter werden sich an diesem Abend im ausland mit kurzen Performances vorstellen und einen Ausblick auf die Workshop-Woche geben. Mit: Jessica Rylan (US), Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US), Hildur Gudnad?ttir (IS/D) + Halldor Ulfarsson (IS/F), Tore Honor? Boe (N/E), Dave Griffiths (B), Martin Howse (UK/D), Derek Holzer (US/D) Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=373 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION - LABORATORY FOR ART AND MEDIA BERLIN http://www.sommercampworkstation.de /////////////////////// From greg.smith at utoronto.ca Tue Aug 4 04:22:04 2009 From: greg.smith at utoronto.ca (Greg Smith) Date: Tue Aug 4 04:40:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] Vague Terrain 14: Biomorph Message-ID: <20090803222204.spy5cyf604wwc4cs@webmail.utoronto.ca> A selection of artists, architects and writers were invited by guest curator Paul Prudence to contribute work that dealt with biological, botanical and morphogenetic ideas and processes. Vague Terrain 14: Biomorph provides an exotic selection of contemporary computational art, process-based illustration and speculative architecture. Some relevant keywords: "cellular automata, bacterial aesthetics, emergence and genetic algorithms." Contributing artists include: Daniel Widrig, David Lu, Emma McNally, Jonathan McCabe, Kat Masback, Marc Fornes (aka THEVERYMANY), Michael Hansmeyer, Robert Hodgin (aka Flight404), Wilfried Hou Je Bek and academic research directed by Alisa Andrasek of Biothing. View the issue at http://vagueterrain.net/journal14 From melentie at gmail.com Tue Aug 4 10:02:07 2009 From: melentie at gmail.com (Melentie Pandilovski) Date: Tue Aug 4 10:02:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] Bridget Currie and Paul Sloan at the EAF Message-ID: opening this Thursday at the Experimental Art Foundation Bridget Currie Regulators and, Paul Sloan Psychic Souvenirs both opening 6pm 6 August. 7 August?5 September Artists Talks 3pm Thursday 13th August Curated by Melentie Pandilovski Bridget Currie Every little thing needs a bit of help to get by. ? artist?s notes Bridget Currie?s new work at the EAF will see the installation of a recently culled olive tree, and fragrance. Regulators seeks to incite the cycles of death, decay and life in the regulation of the ongoing order of things. Plant matter ? as material, idea and reference ? has formed part of the artist?s visual vocabulary for sometime as a way of unfolding understandings of weight, preservation (states of decay and aliveness) and time. In Regulators the Japanese practice of altering the structures of plants ? either by crutches or selective pruning ? has incited a set of thoughts around the way the dead hold up the living. ?As a thought-image the tree suggests forces that are intangible but no less present: energy, pressure, and intensity. And yield as both produce (fruit, honey, oil, wood, paper), and as a giving way to resistance.??Teri Hoskin, ?Some tree time?, catalogue essay The artist has worked extensively with JH Lever & Associates Fragrance Design Studio to produce a perfume delivery system that will result in a subtle, changing experience of scent throughout the space. Bio Bridget Currie (b.1979) is a South Australian artist working predominantly in sculpture. She was one of the founders of Artist-run-initiative Downtown Art Space, and has been involved with independent art practice as an artist, writer, speaker and curator. In recent years her work has been exhibited at Artspace, PICA, 24HR Art, EAF, CACSA, Loose Projects, Bus, and other regional and artist run spaces. In 2007-2008 she undertook a residency at the Contemporary Centre for Art in Kitakyushu Japan, during which time she researched and produced Portable ends (things under pressure). Bridget Currie Regulators on eafweb http://eaf.asn.au/2009/currie.html Further images & details contact Teri Hoskin, info@eaf.asn.au Paul Sloan Paul Sloan draws with paint and has recently been creating three dimensional works and installations. For his exhibition at the EAF the artist will install an expanded selection of the things that make his paintings work the way they do ? drawings, paintings, sculptural objects, & audio traces ? gathered in a way that resembles a ?mini-museum? of pyschic souvenirs. ?Sloan is something of a bricoleur. He is retro in adhering so strictly to the ?fine-art? field of painting, and contemporary in the nihilism with which the various counters he manipulates at any one time are regarded. Where the bricoleur moves the pieces about with some attachment to their valency, some belief in their magic as symbols, Paul Sloan would appear to have almost no investment in his chosen elements? relation to ?truth?, only to their efficacy as ?seeming? true, briefly and for that moment and in that combination. On one level the art is brusque and dispassionate. On another it is rather lyrical?when it rounds on some beauty-producing juxtaposition of unlikely line, subject and colour.??Ken Bolton, ?A Fire Sale, A Drive-By Shooting: Gone in a Minute? 2009, catalogue essay. Bio Paul Sloan studied painting at R.M.I.T in Melbourne where he received a Bachelor of visual arts, honours. In 2008 he undertook a residency in Shangai and exhibited in Dublin. Paul Sloan has shown his work widely in Australia and also in London, Prague, Dublin, & Shanghai. His paintings are held in private and public collections. Paul Sloan is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. Paul Sloan Psychic Souvenirs on eafweb http://eaf.asn.au/2009/sloan.html Further images & details contact Teri Hoskin, info@eaf.asn.au From redazione at digicult.it Tue Aug 4 12:01:06 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Tue Aug 4 12:01:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult_Digimag 46 / July-August 2009_english version online Message-ID: <3624C22B08F84F67B6FFA78049E012ED@nomebea615a6f6> Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: DIGIMAG 46 / JULY-AUGUST 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/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "...Move forward, please think of your own creative ways to help educate the world about what is going on Iran and to express support directly to the people in Iran. The more creative the greater the chance that it "goes viral", but even if it doesn't just educating one person and inspiring them to action would be worth the effort. After all, what happens in Iran affects the entire Middle East and what happens in this region affects the entire world order. The Iranian Revolution in 1979 sparked dozens of Islamist movements. Imagine if this same Iranian regime was motivated to become more open and free because of people's efforts all over the world, imagine what the effect would be on other repressive regimes..." Sina Payman, from "Persepolis 2.0: creative support to Iran" by Marco Mancuso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . //INTERVIEWS: - GINA CZARNECKI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1534 - by Marco Mancuso - MAGNUS ERIKSSON / THE PIRATE BAY - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1526 - by Marco Mancuso - PERSEPOLIS 2.0 - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1524 - by Marco Mancuso - STEFANO ZACCHIROLI / DEBIAN - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1541 - by Loretta Borrelli - MULTITOUCH BARCELONA - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1535 - by Marvin Milanese - MARY ANNE HOBBS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1531 - by Silvia Bianchi - SOUNDCLUSTERS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1530 - by Giulia Baldi - PAOLO INVERNI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1532 - by Valeria Merlini - APE 5 / ERASER - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1533 - by Claudia D'Alonzo //REPORTS: - I -REALIZE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1538 - by Elena Granulla - ARTE A CORTE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1537 - by Massimo Schiavoni - ART & TECNOLOGIES CENTER - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1540 - by Davide Anni //FEATURING: - RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1512 - by Alessio Galbiati - DEPARDON & KENTRIDGE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1513 - by Silvia Casini //THEMES: - QUANTUM PARTICLES AND DIGITAL ART - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1528 - by Jeremy Levine - VLOGGING - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1525 - by Mark Hancock - DESIGN PARADOXES - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1536 - by Luigi Ghezzi - SERIOUS GAMES - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1527 - by Philippa Barr //COVER: - Redazione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 founded and directed by Marco Mancuso, and is based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide Italian Network of jounalists, 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 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]: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, 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 Granulla, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Philippa Barr, Marvin Milanese [TRANSLATIONS]: Luisa Bertolatti, Philippa Barr, Emanuela Cassol, Sara Cavagna, Valeria Grillo, Monica Fontana, Chiara Resmini, Giulia Tiddens -------------------- 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 paul at paul-brown.com Tue Aug 4 14:43:56 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Tue Aug 4 15:02:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] Barbara Nessim - CAS September Meeting Message-ID: <7D424AF5-9B36-45E5-800A-FD0B94776A09@paul-brown.com> The BCS CAS SG is pleased to announce that our Autumn Programme will launch with a presentation by the internationally-renowned artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim. Barbara is visiting the UK briefly and we are lucky to have this opportunity to hear her speak and to see her work. This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. Wednesday 2 September 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm Birbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive Barbara Nessim "My introduction to the computer began when Peter Spackman, the then Director of the Council of the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invited me to present my work to the students at The Visible Language Workshop, a new MIT graduate program. In turn, the students would teach me how to use the computer to create my work. I was both excited by the challenge and skeptical as to how a computer could be used to create art. This was 1980, before the Mac and the IBM PC. I already had 20 years experience as a fine artist and illustrator. This talk takes us through the years before and after the introduction of the computer, as an added artistic "super" tool. It covers the early computers from 1981 to the present, as well as detailing the many creative ways the art developed into hardcopy. I will also discuss the ideas central to my fine art exhibitions as well as reveal the anatomy and concept behind my published illustrations." Internationally-renowned artist, illustrator and educator Barbara Nessim has been a visionary in the art world for decades. Original in her creativity, she has an extensive resume of accomplishments, and a portfolio of work that?s been showcased in prominent museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Educated at Pratt Institute in New York, Barbara was quickly recognized for her distinctive style, and became one of the first female freelance illustrators of her time. In 1980, she embraced the use of the computer in her fine art and illustration, a topic upon which she has frequently lectured. Barbara has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and Parsons The New School for Design, where she served as Chairperson of Illustration. Today Barbara?s focus is on several commissions for buildings in New York City. http://www.barbaranessim.com CAS Autumn Programme: Wed 02 Sep - Barbara Nessim Wed 14 Oct - Roman Versotko - note second Wednesday Wed 04 Nov - unconfimed Wed 02 Dec - Iris Asaf CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From inke.arns at snafu.de Tue Aug 4 16:40:21 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Tue Aug 4 17:04:43 2009 Subject: [spectre] MyCity: Residencies for artists from Turkey Message-ID: <4811B180-66F0-4A8C-B954-DBB08F1B6F2D@snafu.de> http://www.britishcouncil.org/turkey-arts-my-city-european- residencies.htm MY CITY European Residencies [MCER] MCER, is a one-off programme to be realized between 2010 and 2011 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to develop their work in six prominent host institutions across Europe through residencies. It forms part of My City, a new cultural initiative funded through the European Commission?s Cultural Bridges Programme, designed and run by the British Council in Turkey. The programme?s aim is to establish partnerships between artists and institutions in Turkey and Europe. The My City programme has two strands: MCER and a programme of activities in Turkey around the theme of art in public space, including seminars, conferences and new commissions. Starting in 2009, five artists from Europe will be invited to Turkey to develop a unique work of public art for a specific city in Turkey. The selected cities are Canakkale, Istanbul, Konya, Mardin and Trabzon. Each of these cities has a unique story to tell and this project will give the artists the opportunity to take part in residencies and show their work at some of Europe?s leading cultural venues. The names of all participants will be announced during the International Istanbul Biennale in September. My City has been conceived by the British Council together with Anadolu Kultur and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is funded by the European Commission and the British Council. The project goal is to enable visual artists to develop and reflect upon their work in a different European environment and culture. The residency also generates opportunities for making or extending contacts and for exploring and/or developing a new context as well as producing new work. Who Can Apply? My City European Residencies [MCER] grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi- disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the MCER. In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. A good command of English and other relevant languages of the place of residence are required. Deadline for application is the 21st of August. If you require more information please contact: platform@garanti.com.tr Selection Process MCER Applications will be reviewed by a committee of six professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have the experience in international residencies. There will be one representative each from Platform Garanti and the British Council. The committee will prepare a short-list of three candidates for each institution for which the application was made. The final selection will be made by the European host institutions in consultation with the committee. Participating institutions: - Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw - Frame, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki - Gasworks International Residencies & Students, London - DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin - The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna - Hartware MedienKunstVerein & K?nstlerhaus Dortmund Application deadline: 21 August 2009 Please see the following document for further information about the host institutions and the application form. http://www.britishcouncil.org/turkey-arts-my-city-residency23july.doc From play at ubermorgen.com Tue Aug 4 18:38:22 2009 From: play at ubermorgen.com (UBERMORGEN.COM) Date: Tue Aug 4 19:04:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] UBERMORGEN.BOOK: MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART Message-ID: <3711C75D-E0CA-4143-8D9D-F5D204344F7E@ubermorgen.com> NEW RELEASE UM.B UBERMORGEN.COM - MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART HANS BERNHARD / LIZVLX Alessandro Ludovico (Ed.) 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From kisspal.sz at gmail.com Wed Aug 5 07:20:16 2009 From: kisspal.sz at gmail.com (KissPal) Date: Wed Aug 5 07:20:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] UBERMORGEN.BOOK: MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART References: <3711C75D-E0CA-4143-8D9D-F5D204344F7E@ubermorgen.com> Message-ID: <6F6BAF29A7BF4611BAA3767E86DF8085@sony> From: "UBERMORGEN.COM" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:38 PM > The project section of the catalogue features exemplary projects such as (...) Amazon Noir (...) > ORDER NOW! > Amazon.de: > http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de I appreciate the work of UBERMORGEN.COM and it was high time to have a detailed publication about their work, but i find the constellation above both remarkable and characteristic, sz. From rasa at rixc.lv Wed Aug 5 10:52:41 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Wed Aug 5 11:00:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY / SLSAeu conference stream Message-ID: CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm Submission of abstract (300 words): 16 August 2009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The SLSA-EU 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings. Through the term, 'textures,' we aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in many fields: * in literary criticism: the movement from the material signifier to meaning, affect, and communication; * in the arts: the well-known 'resistance in the materials'; * in cognitive science: the transition from the neuronal to the mental; * in a textile: the construction of cloth and the surfacing of a pattern from the interwoven material threaded lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft); * in painting: the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements; the presentation of an 'all over' composition in a series of canvases; * in sound art: the blending of running water or traffic noise into a continuous sonic structure; * with regard to the body: the perpetual becoming-other of an allegedly fixed and bordered identity; * the 'fold' in Deleuze; the 'tissue of quotations' in Barthes, the 'weave' in Derrida, the feminist spider's embodied writing of gendered subjectivity, and other materialist readings of familiar poststructuralist conceits; * etc. (please send us your ideas) The list is meant to be suggestive, not restrictive, of the range of interests we hope to accommodate. As the conscious embrace of constraints - in science, literature and the arts - , can be productive not narrowing, so is our theme designed to be generative and to stitch together the diverse theoretical and transdisciplinary approaches that have long defined SLSA research. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stream: Networks and Sustainability Chairs: Rasa Smite (director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture, Riga) and Armin Medosch (media artist, writer and curator, Vienna and London) This stream will interrogate the complex relationships between " network technology" and " network society", in order to reveal the multilayered texture of networks and to consider what potential network culture contains for sustainable development in technological, social and cultural fields. After the initial privatisation of the net in the 1990s, there was a wide-spread believe that the decentralized structure of the net would remodel society. The contrary has happened and the net has come under ever more closer corporate and state control. Yet, while some of the techno-utopian ideas of the 1990s failed, many important developments have been made which were rooted in the network culture of those days. In order to take steps towards a sustainable network culture a deeper analysis of many of its facets is now demanded. Taking stock of progressive and innovative developments in network culture, we are asking: * Which approaches exist for sustainable and social development of technologies (merging communal and technological developments)? * Which projects are underway to address the alternatives of energy use and other environmental issues (stemming from ICT)? * In which ways have alternative networks been able to create and maintain own network infrastructures (regarding server hosting, bandwidth, wireless and wired community networks, etc.)? * What can artists learn from FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities and vice versa? * In which ways has network culture already transformed the ways artists, curators, art historians and the audience "work" together? And which alternative models for dealing with authorship rights and collective authorship exist? * Which (artistic) strategies have been successfully used for purposes of resistance, social transformations, development of autonomous and sustainable structures? For this stream, we welcome papers by researchers, media theorists, social scientists, network activists and artists, who are engaged with the issues of sustainable development, ecological and alterantive uses of new technologies, social networking and social software development, etc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You can also submit proposals for other streams - please check out the SLSAeu website: http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm best regards, Rasa Smite RIXC.LV From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Aug 5 16:11:08 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Aug 5 16:13:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] Coming Out of One's Bubble. In-Reply-To: <20090513130457.819r94x5cc4w8w4g@eliot.at> References: <20090513130457.819r94x5cc4w8w4g@eliot.at> Message-ID: <4A7992FC.1050709@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Coming Out of One's Bubble. An interview with Annie Abrahams and Albertine Meunier by Cyril Thomas, French art historian and art critic, who posed his questions by mail separately to each artist. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=354 Annie Abrahams was born in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands. Since 1985 she lives in France. She has a doctorate in biology (University of Utrecht) and is a graduate in fine arts (Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Arnhem). Catherine Ramus aka Albertine Meunier is a net artist and DIY artist who lives at Vitry-sur-Seine, France. Keywords: browser art, code art, database, dialogue, d.i.y, installation, interactive, interplay, Internet Art, networked art, interview, media art, narrative, net art, networked, video, performance... From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Fri Aug 7 10:43:53 2009 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello) Date: Fri Aug 7 11:01:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] Pure:dyne Code Sprint- Goto10 @ LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial Message-ID: <4A7BE949.5060507@laboralcentrodearte.org> Pure:dyne Code Sprint- Goto10 @ LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial 9th to 15th of August 2009 The artist collective GOTO10 gathers at LABoral this summer for an intense week of coding in support of the ongoing Pure:dyne project, which is underway at this very moment. Pure:dyne is a GNU/Linux operating system developed by and for artists that offers a complete set of tools for processing audio and video in real time, making it an ideal work platform. Developed by GOTO10 alongside a community of users, Pure:dyne includes the tools most frequently employed by digital artists, all in a coherently integrated format: Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino, amongst others. Used by artists, medialabs and universities, Pure:dyne is a powerfult instrument and a network structured for artistic production through the use of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software). * *The LABoral ?code sprint? is one of a series initiated by GOTO10 to gather members from across Europe for seven days to work on new features and system developments. Sharing a common living and working space, away from distractions, this intense working method is popular in FLOSS projects to inject a lasting energy into volunteer developers who otherwise collaborate online. The discoveries and advances made by the Pure:dyne team are to be made available and become a permanent part of the Platform 2 Multimedia Production Centre of LABoral. http://goto10.org/ www.laboralcentrodearte.org From lotu5 at resist.ca Sun Aug 9 05:32:20 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Sun Aug 9 05:32:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] _I Am Transreal_ : [part 2] [_Augmentology.com_] In-Reply-To: <4A6F881B.9090208@resist.ca> References: <4A6F881B.9090208@resist.ca> Message-ID: <4A7E4344.1020405@resist.ca> Full version, with links and photos, here: http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/08/06/_i-am-transreal_-a-reflection-onof-becoming-dragon-part-2/ leave a comment and let me know what you think! _I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 2] I am becoming something else. In this moment, this being-in-transition, I am willfully stepping into the unknown. I am between realities. I can only imagine what I want to become, and then choose to become that new thing, but it is radically ungraspable, inconceivable. I can never know the reality of what I am choosing to become, desiring to become. My decision to transform can never be the right one, because it is always based on an illusion, a fantasy, a false conception with only a few points of data, not the rich details of an embodied life. As the transformation unfolds, those unknown events begin to occur, like seeing my breasts in the mirror for the first time after shaving my chest closely, feeling the movement in my orgasm change into something new or just walking down the street for a moment as a girl, unnoticed and not needing any special attention. My decision to become something else is always a decision to become mythopoetic, because the reality of the new state is always unknown, imaginary, a construct, a fantasy. Yet I don?t seek to decry this radical state of uncertainty but to embrace it. The very moments of everyday perception are also simply intersections of a real materiality with my symbolic and imaginary processing engines making sense of them, down to the way that I understand what pleasure is and what pain is and when the two become too close so as to be confused. And a choice to not transform is of course still a choice to transform into a different state, as our bodies are all in permanent transition, aging, training, consuming, producing, perceiving, creating new folds in our craniums. Through this process, I am also becoming an artist. Yet this is simply another fantasy which I use to structure my desires and find direction. Artist, porn star, student, professor, father, mother, husband, wife, lover, child, priest, these are all simply performances of being, yet their being a performance makes them no less real, nor more real, just another fold in the swirling interplay, the kaleidoscope of realities that is our being. A mixed reality performance using an online 3D virtual world simply highlights the fantasy nature of our everyday interactions, of the physical world, by referring back to the physical, stirring up our memories and conceptions of embodiment. A mixed reality performance is a misnomer, as every step of our waking lives is a mix of realities, our self-perceptions, muscle memory, proprioceptions, others? perceptions of us, our perceptions of their perceptions of us as they look at us, or don?t, our understanding that we are walking, taking on a step, on a sidewalk, by a building. A mixed reality performance simply highlights this fact, or this fiction, and allows one to see and begin to question the mythopoetic structure of reality. While performance sought to get closer to the real, to escape mediation, I embrace the pleasure of bits projected on my skin and the flickering of digital lights in my eyes, of the simulacrum of my own fantasy which creates that same fantasy. The mixture of real and imaginary is more real for being so. While one can draw one?s fantasy, or write it out in words, 3D virtual worlds bring us one step closer to seeing in front of our eyes the fantasy films which play behind our eyes, yet there are many more steps to bring us closer to dreams. In my dreams I smell, I feel my body in action, I have visceral emotions, yet software such as Second Life is far from emulating such unreal realities. Still, we can make steps closer to dreams, with motion capture, head mounted displays, tactile interfaces, wish pressure interfaces. I wish for another reality, the electricity on my skin changes, transferring the new desired location to the system, and the pressure interface responds, as my chair morphs from a car seat to a comfy recliner in my skybox?loading world?arriving. -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B From rasa at rixc.lv Mon Aug 10 08:06:21 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Mon Aug 10 08:04:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for proposals - ENERGY conference and exhibition (art+communication festival) Message-ID: Dear Spectre people, Please see below CALL FOR PROPOSALS - for conference, exhibition and performances - for forthcoming Art+Communication festival, which this year's theme is - Energy. Deadline: August 31, 2009. best Rasa http://rixc.lv EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ART+COMMUNICATION 2009: ENERGY XI International festival for new media culture October 8 - 10, 2009 in Riga, Latvia -- Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed. -- (The law of conservation of energy) The 11th edition of "Art+Communication" festival in Riga with this year's theme: Energy, will investigate the notion of 'sustainable development' from various perspectives - artistic, scientific, cultural, technological, social, architectural, and environmental. The main festival programme will take place in Riga, October 8 - 10, 2009, featuring: _ International art and science conference (organized in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University) _ Media art exhibition "Energy" (in RIXC gallery at Spikeri) _ Experimental film screenings, live performances, workshops and artists' presentations (in RIXC Media Space) - - - Conceptual background: Energy makes change (E=mc2) In nature, energy is found in many different forms - kinetic (avalanches), motion (wind), sound (thunder), water (rain), thermal (fire), electrical (lightening), magnetic (Earth's magnetic field), radiant (light), etc. Energy is involved in all processes that take place in Universe and on Earth. In human society, energy is the most essential resource driving its economy and its future development. Now, in the twenty-first century, it has turned out that human society with its information technologies need more resources to sustain its development then ever before. Yet, currently used forms of terrestrial energy production known today, have turned out to be finite, non-sustainable, posing a serious danger to the climate, people and environment. Creative ideas and new approach today is requested nearly in all fields, while sustainable development of both energy and information technologies have become key issues in nowadays. Smart devices and energy internet, clean and renewable energy resources, alternative and ecological design and production methods, open source and hybrid approaches to information technologies - are just few of the broad potential quests that could change the future landscape of sustainability. "The quest for a sustainable world may succeed, or it may fail. If it fails, the world will become unthinkable. If it works, the world will become unimaginable. In practice, people will experience mixed success". (Bruce Sterling) Yet, scenario of "saving the world" can only have any success, if people from different fields - scientists and artists, politicians and business people, theorists and practitioners, futurists and engineers, producers and consumers, etc. - will eventually be open for new ideas and new collaborations. The Energy festival will offer a space of exchange for an interdisciplinary group of participants, who will share their scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy. - - - Themes: I ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY: - The concept of energy and its various contexts: in Universe and on Earth - Invisible energy: in myths and legends, in nature and science - Energy technologies: in human life and in information society II ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: - Environmental science research, climate change and ecology - Permaculture and biosystem design - Historical traditions vs. modern alternative solutions in urban planning and architecture - Transition theory and futuristic visions of sustainable living - III OPEN SOURCE, INFORMATION AND ENERGY: - Synergetic and co-relation between information and energy - Smart devices and Energy Internet - Sustainability using open source approaches: in art, culture, ecology, architecture, environmental design - IV ART AND ALTERNATIVE SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES: - Dye sensitized solar technologies - Green chemistry: new approach in biotechnology - Artistic explorations of clean and renewable energy technologies (sun, wind, water, tides, biomass, etc.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call: For Energy conference we welcome proposals by artists, science researchers, engineers, activists, sociologists, philosophers, architects, designers, futurists, and other lateral thinkers, who are engaged with the issues of sustainable development, in relation to the themes proposed above. The deadline for conference papers and exhibition proposals: August 31, 2009 Please send your short abstracts (200 words) and bio (60 words) to e-mail: 2009 ( at ) rixc.lv - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Organisers and support: Organised by RIXC, Center for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia) with the support of State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point. Email: rixc( at )rixc.lv http://rixc.lv ENERGY festival website: http://rixc.lv/09 Symposium Art and Renewable technologies blog: http://renewable.rixc.lv/ RIXC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga - - - Satellite-event series: The festival is prefaced by a series of satellite events - already past: Terike Haapoja's "Entropia" installation, a film programme Wonderful World (Riga, May 11, 2009), and forthcoming: Art and Renewable Technologies symposium (Aizpute, August 13-16, 2009), http://renewable.rixc.lv and Erik Hobijn's "Chemo-bar" performance (Riga, September 12, 2009). EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE From turbulence at turbulence.org Tue Aug 4 16:26:15 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Aug 10 09:16:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] Upgrade! Boston + dorkbot-boston: Douglas Irving Repetto Message-ID: <001201ca150f$87f98590$97ec90b0$@org> Upgrade! Boston + dorkbot-boston: Douglas Irving Repetto DATE: August 17, 2009 TIME: 7:00-9:00 pm VENUE: Microsoft New England Research & Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Celebrating our first joint event, Upgrade! Boston and dorkbot-boston are thrilled to co-host Douglas Irving Repetto. Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center, New York City, Douglas is also an artist and teacher. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including "dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity", "ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show", "organism: making art with living systems", and the "music-dsp" mailing list and website. His work -- including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software -- has been presented internationally. Douglas' presentation will include "Bonding Energy," a solar energy to data visualization transducer commissioned by Turbulence.org. More >> http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2009/05/dorkbot-co-hosts-its-founder-do uglas-irving-repetto/ :::: About Upgrade! Boston :::: Upgrade! Boston is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org. It is one of 32 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence dot org. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Aug 11 01:35:20 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Aug 11 01:37:18 2009 Subject: [spectre] Investigating Asian Internet-based Art. Part 1. In-Reply-To: <49A2B376.6080508@furtherfield.org> References: <49A2B376.6080508@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4A80AEB8.7010805@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Investigating Asian Internet-based Art. Part 1. Article by Darleen Principe. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=355 An investigation on the concept of identity in Asian Internet-based art. These works are not necessarily net.art in the traditional sense, but they have two things in common - they are by Asian artists and they explore the concept of identity through digital means. Featuring artists C.J. Yeh and artist Dyske Syematsu. "As a Furtherfield.org intern, I recently began a research project to find and investigate net.art originating from Asian countries. Coming from an Asian background myself, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore the field in hopes of making some self-reflexive connections." Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Aug 11 07:36:23 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Tue Aug 11 07:37:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: films & videos for CologneOFF - 5th festival edition Message-ID: <20090811073623.3F69A2D0.538BF215@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 the festival themes 1. Taboo 2. Violence ---------------------------------------------------- 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 No entry fee! All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030 ---------------------------------------------------- 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, Indonesia 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 info at susannefasbender.de Tue Aug 11 16:59:15 2009 From: info at susannefasbender.de (Susanne Fasbender) Date: Tue Aug 11 17:14:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] CALL: with a view to the sound Message-ID: <09990266ba4123bcb34ea34d914823f5@susannefasbender.de> _____________________________________________________________ CALL FOR ENTRY Kunstfilmtag (art-house-film-day) D?sseldorf, Germany Deadline 19.9.09 http://www.kunstfilmtag.de/index.php?id=30 _____________________________________________________________ WITH A VIEW TO THE SOUND _____________________________________________________________ The Kunstfilmtag ( art-house-film-day ) originated as a free artist project with a festival character and is a tradition of exhibitions, initiatives and events organised and curated by artists. Located in the auditorium of the Artist Society ?Malkasten? in D?sseldorf it presents the diversity of film- and video creations by artists in D?sseldorf, together with international media art and artistic films from all around the world in one comprehensive program. The Kunstfilmtag 2009 directs its focus on the relationship between picture and sound. Noise, music, voice, silence - subtle, quiet or loud: in its spacious presence, sound is not just creating a consolidation of ambiences and moods, but also has the ability to form a contrast to the moving picture or to define it. Sound forms the acoustic, which significantly co-determines the perception and relevance of the picture. As originally autonomous forms of expression, for the duration of the film they will enter into an alliance. Whether synchronic, asynchronic, parallel or descant - the marriage of both raw materials, picture and sound, creates something unique, new - as an essential platform of the audio-visual concept. Whether the work is a documentary, structural, essayistic, poetic or performative: The artist decides on the modus, the style, in which sound and picture coincide. for submission: please have a look at the english-button of the website: www.kunstfilmtag.de Thanks and hope to hear from you! Susanne Fasbender, D?sseldorf From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Aug 12 08:13:36 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Wed Aug 12 08:14:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for Proposals: Draft Title: SHOAH Message-ID: <20090812081336.7AA27EDE.1D8F765B@192.168.0.3> [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany is planning in 2011-2012 a physical exhibition, entitled: Draft Title: SHOAH more info available on the concept page http://dts.engad.org/blog/?page_id=10 , and is looking for artists, who worked already on the topic of SHOAH or who would like to work on this subject. In the focus of interest stand primarily digital media, in first place video/film, but also computer basded multi-media, netart, soundart, digital photography and media installation. Those artists who feel addressed to are encouraged to submit their expression of interest in participating by sending one or more work or concept proposals. Please find the submission information on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=662 There are two deadlines --> 30 September 2009 --> 31 December 2009 All serious submissions will be collected, reviewed and archived Participating will be possible only on personal invitation. Project blog http://dts.engad.org info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------- From rasa at rixc.lv Wed Aug 12 12:18:26 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Wed Aug 12 12:16:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES - starts tomorrow Message-ID: Dear Spectre, Sympoisum for Art and renewable technologies starts tomorrow - more info please see below and on symposium's blog: http://renewable.rixc.lv best regards Rasa http://rixc.lv RIXC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga ==================================================================== Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES August 13-16, Aizpute (Latvia) The symposium for "Art and Renewable Technologies" will start on Thursday, August 13 held in Aizpute, Latvia. The symposium will gather together 30 artists, activists, technologists, scientists and researchers primarily from Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as from other European countries. Symposium participants will exchange their ideas and explorations that deal with renewable energy resources, alternative and ecological use of technologies and other sustainability related issues. - - - The symposium addresses 4 main themes: BIO / ECO-SYSTEMS: Environmental science and ecology - - - Ecosystem research - Permaculture and biosystem design - - - Biomass as renewable energy resource - - - Critical and alternative approaches to biotechnology SOLAR ENERGY: Sunlight as constant energy resource - - - Process of photosynthesis - Solar energy technologies OPEN SOURCE: Sustainability using open source / information approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and environmental design MYTH & LEGENDS: Historical traditions and modern alternative solutions - - - Cultural transformation: energy in nature and in city - - - Future visions of terrestrial energy - - - Participants: Ulla Taipale (FI/ES), Victor Hugo Mondragon Franco (SE), Malin Lindmark Vrijman (SE), Mathieu Vrijman (SE), Bartaku (BE), Christina Stadlbauer (BE), Tiina S??t (EE), Linda Vebere (LV), Andrew Paterson (SCO/FI), Gisle Froysland (NO), Julian Priest (DK), Jaanis Garancs (LV), Ainars Kamolins (LV), Reinis Rutkis (LV), Jaanis Liepins (LV), Mikelis Putrams (LV), Linda Krumina (LV), Daina Silina (LV), Terike Haapoja (FI), Rikke Luther (DK), Erik Sj?din (SE), Michel Bussien (SE), Martins Ratniks (LV), Dace Dzerina (LV), Rasa Smite (LV), Raitis Smits (LV), Signe Pucena (LV), Ugis Pucens (LV) - - - Location: The symposium will take place in artists residency center SERDE in Aizpute, a small town in Kurzeme region of Latvia. SERDE is located in old wooden historical building that also will be used as a specific case for which alternative and ecological approach in developing sustainable systems and renewable energy technologies can be explored and applied. http://www.serde.lv = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME DAY 1. Thursday, August 13 17.00 - 20.00 Introduction Meeting 21.00 Opening programme Open session / screenings / performances ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 2. Friday, August 14 09.30 - 10.00 Planning Meeting 10.00 - 11.30 [bio : eco] Andrew Gryf Paterson. PLATFORM ECOSYSTEMS AND PEDAGOGY (20-30 min) Erik Sj?din and Michel Bussien. BEYOND NATURE (20-30 min) Ulla Taipale. Capsula's CURATED EXPEDITIONS (20-30 min) 12.00-13.00 [bio : energy] Julian Priest. WHOIS ENERGY? (30 min) Reinis Rutkis. HYDROGEN AS ENERGY CARRIER - native and fuel cell systems. (20 min) 13.00 - 14.30 [bio : ethics] Ain?rs Kamoli?? and J?nis Liepi??. BIOETHICS AND/IN ART. (20 min) Terike Haapoje. PROJECT "CLOSED CIRCUIT - OPEN DURATION" and on use of scientific research technologies in art, and the impact of environmental ethics on art. (60 min) Discussion. 15.30 - 19.00 [bio : solar] Workshop [bio : solar]: HOW TO MAKE DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS. Conducted by Bartaku Workshop [bio : myth]. BEE ARCHITECTS - ON THE GEOMETRY OF BEE HIVES. Conducted by Christina Stadlbauer. + Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ... 21.00 - Screenings and presentations: [electromagnetic : energy] Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Linda Vebere/RIXC. Presentation of RIXC's projects: exhibitions WAVES (2006) and SPECTROPIA (2008), research projects SPECTRAL ECOLOGY and video SKRUNDA SIGNAL (2007). Open session / Films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 3. Saturday, August 15 10.00 - Planning Meeting / Discussions 10.30 - 11.30 [open source] Gisle Fr?ysland. INTO THE FREE AND OPEN: the piksel festival and related initiatives to provide sustainable resources for artists based on floss technologies. (30 min) Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman. Sustainability using open source approaches on ECO TOURISM AND LOCAL COMMUNITY AWARENESS. (30 min) 11.30 - 12.10 [eco : systems] Tiina S??t. UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY IN HUMANITIES (20 min) Mi?elis Putr?ms. NEW OPORTUNITIES CREATED BY WOOD INNOVATION: how new materials shape timber construction; dendrolight. (20 min) 12.30 - 14.00 [myth & legends] Rikke Luther. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ALL THAT WATER (30 min) Christina Stadlbauer. THE BLACK BEE WENT TO TOWN or how the ever waste land came to have 50.000 new inhabitants (30 min) Victor Hugo Mondragon. ZEGACHE PROJECT IN MEXICO. Open Media relations, interpretation and subjectivity within the popular culture and the Media Art. (20 min) 15.00 - 19.00 Workshop [solar]: HOW TO BUILD SOLARBOTS MINIATURE KINETIC SCULPTURES DRIVEN BY LIGHT. Conducted by Gisle Fr?ysland. Workshop [myth]: NATURAL FARMING: LOCAL TRADITIONS OF MAKING 'MOONSHINE'. Conducted by Signe Pucena and U?is Pucens. + Open session / Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ... 21.00 - Closing event / Screenings / Presentations Julian Priest. MINIMALIST SENSOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE "I SPEAK; I LIE". Open Session / Films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 4. Sunday, August 16 10.30 - 12.00 Closing Meeting (final discussions, evaluation, future planning) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The outcomes of the symposium - new projects, artworks, co-productions - will be presented during the international art and science conference ENERGY that will take place in the framework of Art+Communication festival in Riga, October 8 - 10, 2009. (Call for proposals for Energy festival and conference is currently open - deadline August 31, 2009. http://rixc.lv/09) - - - Organisers and support: Symposium is organised by RIXC, the center for new media culture with the support of Nordic Culture Fund. http://rixc.lv http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org RIXC address: 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia e-mail: 2009@rixc.lv phone (office): +371 67228478 phone (mobile): +371 67228477 (Rasa ?mite) Symposium blog: http://renewable.rixc.lv/ RIXC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Aug 13 09:51:34 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Thu Aug 13 09:52:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: 2010 - The Best of Flash on the Net Message-ID: <20090813095134.78B2DEA5.BB7BF13E@192.168.0.3> extended deadline: 30 September 2009 --------------------------------------- 2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne 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 2009/2010 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 info at susannefasbender.de Thu Aug 13 12:16:21 2009 From: info at susannefasbender.de (Susanne Fasbender) Date: Thu Aug 13 12:16:58 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?Announcement=3A_Professorship_Film_and_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Video_at_the_Academy_of_Fine_Arts_D=FCsseldorf?= Message-ID: <910a61c7145c4c8b2f208e8308b8ce5a@susannefasbender.de> TO BE INFORMED: A professorship for video and film at the academy of arts in D?sseldorf has been announced. An der Kunstakademie D?sseldorf wurde die Professur f?r Video und Film ausgeschrieben. http://www.academics.de/jobs/professur_w3_39827.html with kind regards SF From seamascain at gmail.com Thu Aug 13 16:53:06 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Thu Aug 13 17:10:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] ... the art of disappearing Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40908130753h58709217m29442b1e526b209a@mail.gmail.com> _______________ Two new books by the Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock, published by CSP (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) will be launched in D?n Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland on 29 August 2009 in the Kingston Suite of the Royal Marine Hotel at 7:00 p.m. This event is a part of the Festival of World Cultures in D?n Laoghaire. Rosenstock's books are titled "Haiku Enlightenment" & "Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing." They are the poets contemplations & musings about haiku & the form(s) of haiku. Early versions of these texts were serialised in the electronic journal World Haiku Review. Gabriel Rosenstock believes that "there is something going on in the literary & artistic energies at the eastern & western extremes of Europe which have shamanistic/druidic forces as part of their DNA, so to speak, energies that produce a vital poetry that is not a commentary on life, as such, but life itself, the living, breathing spirit ... one of the reasons I love haiku is because it offers an entrance into the pervading spirit of a place, a temenos ..." With this e-announcement, there is a way of getting a 50% reduction for advance orders of these new books by Rosenstock! Though this 50% off will be good only up to the August 29th launch-event in Ireland. To claim the 50% discount on either or both titles, orders can be made online at the CSP (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) web-site ... 1.) "Haiku Enlightenment" http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Haiku-Enlightenment1-4438-0521-1.htm 2.) "The Gentle Art of Disappearing" http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Haiku--The-Gentle-Art-of-Disappearing1-4438-1133-5.htm The customer should select the title, add it to the shopping basket, & then use the following: Login: (blank) Password: haiku50% Alternatively, purchases can be made directly through Vlatka Kolic of Cambridge Scholars Publishing at vkolic@c-s-p.org or orders@c-s-p.org Disappearingly, S?amas Cain http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain _______________ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Aug 14 10:10:58 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (vCh) Date: Fri Aug 14 10:11:51 2009 Subject: [spectre] OMFC - One Minute Film Collection Message-ID: <20090814101058.7EE41D10.89F95555@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel - video project environments - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org launched in August 2009 another highlight online --> OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) is an ongoing project initiative chief curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne featuring at its start 67 films and videos with a duration of exactly one minute ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=242 VideoChannel is welcoming Ali Zaidi (motiroti, London(UK)) as a guest curator selecting 14 films by directors from UK, India & Pakistan. --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=507 Monika Dutta (UK), Shobna Gulati (UK), Hetain Patel (UK), Nikesh Shukla (UK) Ali Zaid (UK) , Nitin Das (India), Skanya Ghosh (India), Vishrajuti Ghosh (India) Nila Madhab Panda (India), Abhilash V. (India), Shazieh Gorji (Pakistan), Roshaan Khattak (Pakistan), Syed Ali Nasir (Pakistan), Sehban Zaidi (Pakistan) The other thematic sections are Family & Friends --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=517 Sonja Vuk (CR), Antti Savela (SWE), Wolf Nkole Helzle (Ger) Katherine Sweetman (USA) , Grace Graupe-Pillard (USA) Luisa Mizzoni (IT), Adrian Zalewski (Poland), Yin-Ling Chen (Taiwan) Harad Rettich (Ger), Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan), Junho Oh (South Korea) Difference --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=533 Lukas Mateijka (SK), Kriss Salmanis (Latvia), Lin Fangsuo (China), Istv?n Rusvai (Hungary), Antonio Alvarado (Spain), Karl Mendonca (USA) Veena Shekar (India), Tanja Koljonen & Joe Candido (Finland) Louis Hubert (France), Erik Peterson (USA), Suzon Fuks (AUS) Mysteries ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=537 Mores McWreath (USA), Toni Mestrovic (Croatia), Yoko Taketani (Japan) Agricola de Cologne (GER), Antony Rousseau (FR), Sreedeep (India), Sean Burn (UK), Roderick Coover & Nick Montfort (USA) Sahra Bhimji (USA), Pierre-Laurent Cassi?re (France), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Past, Present & Future --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=551 Kaspars Groshevs (Latvia), Hermes Mangialardo (Italy, Henry Gwiazda (USA) Lemeh42 (Italy), Mads Ljungdahl (Denmark), Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) Harriet Macdonald (UK), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) Victoria S. Weible (USA), P?ter Vad?cz (Hungary) A Matter of Time --> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=556 Johanna Reich (Germany), Anders Weberg (SWE), Ron Diorio (USA), Bill Domonkos (USA), Xenia Vargova (Bulgaria), Alison Williams (RSA) Walter Van Rijn (UK), Nicole Rademacher (USA) Baptist Coelho (India), Milica Rakic (Serbia) More info can be found on ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=597 ------------------------------------------- CologneOFF, VideoChannel , VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD - Video Art Database are dedicated to art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art & new media from Cologne/Germany . info [at] nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------- From editor at intertheory.org Tue Aug 11 18:48:08 2009 From: editor at intertheory.org (Nicholas Ruiz III) Date: Fri Aug 14 10:18:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] Kritikos V.6 July-August 2009 Message-ID: <181076.30330.qm@web308.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Kritikos V.6 July-August 2009 Safety Last, Nonsense First...(n.ruiz) http://intertheory.org/safety.htm Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D NRIII for Congress 2010 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html ____________________________________ Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Aug 14 13:38:15 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (soundNET) Date: Fri Aug 14 13:38:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: soundart for SoundLAB VII Message-ID: <20090814133815.169A5060.8D7D95E5@192.168.0.3> Call for entries Deadline: 30 November 2009 2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne SoundLAB - sonic art project environments is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled: SoundLAB VII - soundCELEBRATION sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary! For its 7th edition, planned to be launched in March 2010, SoundLAB would like to celebrate the power of sound as a tool for artistic creations and communications on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the global network it is embedded in and invites soundartists, musicians and composers to create for the 10th anniversary a special sound composition. Please find detailed information, the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1423 ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net in(at)nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Aug 14 16:51:55 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Aug 14 17:11:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Feral Trade =?utf-8?q?Caf=C3=A9_to_re-open_until_30th_August=2E?= In-Reply-To: <20090522095109.FE0260BE.2DE65FBB@192.168.0.3> References: <20090522095109.FE0260BE.2DE65FBB@192.168.0.3> Message-ID: <4A857A0B.6030007@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Feral Trade Caf? to re-open until 30th August. Due to the positive reception and continual influx of visitors to Feral Trade Caf?, by Kate Rich at HTTP Gallery, we have decided to re-open the exhibition until the end of August. We are of course very pleased that visitors have enjoyed the exhibition so much and hope, that if you missed it before, that we will now entice you to come along and savour Mexican hot chocolate, Chevre sandwiches and Montenegrin Delight, to name just a few of the delectable menu items on offer. An art exhibition that is also a working caf?, Feral Trade Caf? serves food and drink traded over social networks, Feral Trade Caf? by artist Kate Rich (AU) provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for food delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up. Feral Trade received an Honorary Mention in this years' Prix Ars Electronica. http://www.aec.at/humannature/en/ About the show & other info: http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml Photos from the Opening Event http://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/sets/72157620396961159/ Article About the show on Gastrogeek: http://gastrogeek.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/wasted-again/ Video by William Shaw from RSA Arts & Ecology about the show: http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/ Exhibition: Free entry Days Open - Fri - Sun Opening Times - 12 noon - 5pm 13 June - 30 August We are on Twitter: http://twitter.com/furtherfield ------------------------------------- HTTP Gallery is based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area and is Furtherfield.org's dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org - www.furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery - http://www.http.uk.net are supported by Arts Council England, London. From rcagli at aecom.yu.edu Mon Aug 17 05:35:52 2009 From: rcagli at aecom.yu.edu (Ruben Coen Cagli) Date: Mon Aug 17 05:36:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] discard this - test Message-ID: <0ae8bed7e39ef6d4c495c2182c89874e.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> my apologies, I am just trying to see if I can post to this ml, given that last week I tried twice to post something and it never appeared. Ruben From simsite at gmail.com Mon Aug 17 05:59:19 2009 From: simsite at gmail.com (Simeon Moran) Date: Mon Aug 17 05:59:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] Screen art opportunity: Digital Fringe festival - arts content for your screen Message-ID: <4A88D597.9000005@gmail.com> Digital Fringe is a not for profit open access arts festival that screen artists work in public places all over the world. We are seeking contact with any screen, of any size, in public or semi public space anywhere in the world. Please refer us to other screen operators or curators you think maybe interested. See below for more detailed information about the festival or check out our website www.digitalfringe.com.au We also welcome arts submissions from local artists (emerging and established) in your community in the Digital Fringe festival. This can be a good way of enhancing local participation and engagement with your screen. Content Submissions will be open in mid August. contact screens@digitalfringe.com.au for more info on how you can participate in the festival ++++++++ *Want some free art content for your screen?* The Digital Fringe Festival is seeking all sorts of screens across Australia and the world! Do you have a public screen, projector, TV or old computer monitor that you would like to play free digital art on? Digital Fringe is seeking a plethora of public screening venues to participate in september/october 2009 - urban screens, galleries, shopping centers, bars, cafes, pubs, retail venues, libraries, salons and even swimming pools who have a screen of any size, to show our curated collection of screen based art. Help us to bring cutting edge digital artworks by local and international artists to the public. No screen is too large or small - it may be in a back corner of a library on a computer monitor, part of a shop's window display, a wall of TV's in an electrical goods shop, a projector in a foyer, or a huge public screen. We simply want to get this artistic content into as many nooks and crannies of public space as possible. *What is Digital Fringe? * Digital Fringe is an open access public arts festival that places contemporary screen based media in public locations. It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences throughout Australia and the world. Screening venues receive a playlist curated from the diverse visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, machinima, motion graphics, photography and stills submitted to the Digital Fringe festival via our website. In keeping with the Fringe Festival charter, Digital Fringe is open access and accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in screen based and new media. Submissions are received from all around the world: from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV?s in electrical stores, State and regional libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutions, suburban shop fronts and on massive urban screens in public plazas like Melbourne's Federation Square. All submissions also play on the Digital Fringe website Digital Fringe started in 2006 and runs on the cultural capital of Horse Bazaar and the contributions of numerous artists, screen operators and audiences. It has been put together with generous support from Film Victoria, Melbourne Fringe Festival and other sponsors. *How Does it work? * As part of The 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Digital Fringe will be broadcasting a curated playlist of digital art on public screens across the world. This playlist - the General Stream - consists of digital artwork that is submitted from all over the world in response to a massive public callout. This curated playlist is a compilation of silent, G rated visual works - be they animation, abstract, video art, short film, motion graphics, or stills. It is the cream of the crop of 1000?s of submissions that results from an extensive local, national and international callout. To reiterate the General Stream is the best of the best, and its all G rated so you don?t have to worry about the content played. The General Stream is sent out to all our screen locations on DVDs to play for your audiences. All you need is a screen of any sort and a DVD player to play the content. Screen Venues that sign up to broadcast Digital Fringe entries can play the content whenever they like during the festival (23 September - 11 October) or at an organised time around these dates. Screening can be continuous, event focused, fitted in around your normal programming, or be used if your screen has downtime where nothing is playing. All locations taking part in broadcasting the Digital Fringe General Stream will be promoted on the Digital Fringe website, which will feature a list of screening venues with links to partner websites and provision for logo placement, as well as be featured on a Google Map of Digital Fringe Screen locations. Last year we had over 60,000 visits to the Digital Fringe website, and the main Fringe website had 100,000 visits during the 17 days of the festival. We hope to double that this year! Screens locations may also feature in press releases. Any screen playing Digital Fringe artworks during the festival will be helping to support artists and the promotion of digital screen art in local communities. Not to mention providing free entertainment to punters, customers, and your wider community. We encourage screen venues to promote the festival and our 'call for entries' to their local artistic communities so that local content from your own communities can play a part in the artworks that you screen. If you are interested or would like some further information please contact me directly on: simeon@horsebazaar.com.au or screens@digitalfringe.com.au -- Simeon Moran +61 (0)402 514 017 simeon@horsebazaar.com.au Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 +61 (0)3 9670 2329 www.horsebazaar.com.au www.digitalfringe.com.au -- Simeon Moran 0402 514 017 simeon@horsebazaar.com.au Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 03 9670 2329 www.horsebazaar.com.au www.digitalfringe.com.au From rcagli at aecom.yu.edu Mon Aug 17 06:16:08 2009 From: rcagli at aecom.yu.edu (Ruben Coen Cagli) Date: Mon Aug 17 06:16:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] UBERMORGEN BOOK Message-ID: <221fa2e6ddaa159656b758769421d7ff.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> trying again ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [spectre] UBERMORGEN BOOK From: "ruben coen cagli" Date: Wed, August 5, 2009 1:18 pm To: spectre@mikrolisten.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Aug 5, 2009, at 1:20 AM, KissPal wrote: > From: "UBERMORGEN" Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 6:38 PM >> The project section of the catalogue features exemplary projects such > as (...) Amazon Noir (...) >> ORDER NOW! >> Amazon.de: > I appreciate the work of UBERMORGEN > and it was high time to have a detailed publication about their work, but > i find the constellation above both remarkable and characteristic, sz. Interestingly, it bears the same kind of recursiveness that many have noticed few years ago "'No Logo' is copyrighted by Klein and was published by a multinational corporation" (source wikipedia). And "Gomorrah" was published in Italy by Mondadori which is owned by the Berlusconi's. I am sure we can find many other beautiful examples. A lateral thought. Neuroscience also has a recursive flavor, where synaptic transmission is both the object of investigation and the material substrate for thinking and therefore investigating: there is no way out of this loop, no 'other' substance that mind is made of. But of course we hope and believe it is not so for social and economic structures, right? Still, I cried for Gomorrah, learned a lot from No Logo, and am in love with Amazon Noir ;) Thanks for pointing to this inextricable controversy of our time! Ruben From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Aug 17 15:37:24 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Aug 17 15:41:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] discard this - test In-Reply-To: <0ae8bed7e39ef6d4c495c2182c89874e.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> References: <0ae8bed7e39ef6d4c495c2182c89874e.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> Message-ID: ruben, postings mostly don't appear if the messages use formatted text, or include attachments, too many embedded links, or implicit destinations (spectre list address in bcc, or a long cc list to which the msg gets posted) etc. - the Mailman software then assumes that it is spam (of which we also see a lot) and automatically discards the message. when you send plain text like this directly to the list address, they should always go through. regards, -a >my apologies, I am just trying to see if I can post to this ml, given that >last week I tried twice to post something and it never appeared. >Ruben > >______________________________________________ >SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe >Info, archive and help: >http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Aug 19 14:52:28 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Aug 19 15:05:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Review of A Short Film About War by Thomson & Craighead. In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A8BF58C.9070501@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Review of A Short Film About War by Thomson & Craighead. Thou God Seest Me: Some Gathered Thoughts for A Short Film About War. Review by Mark Cooley. A Short Film About War is the second installment by Thomson & Craighead, in what will be a series of three "desktop documentaries." The first work in the series, "Flat Earth" establishes the context; a series of web based films constructed exclusively from media gathered from the Internet. A vast world is made smaller, more manageable, through the impossible eye that carries viewers in and out of the earth's orbit to reveal the individual voices of bloggers as lines in an elaborately staged narrative. "You see the imagery, you know what's going on, you see what you're looking at. It's very easy when something like that is happening to project yourself there and feel a part of the battle. Like I said, your heart starts racing a little bit." - CNN interview with US-based predator drone aircraft pilot on flying air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan from a control room in the Nevada desert. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=356 Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are london-based artists working with video, sound and electronic networked space to create gallery and site-specific artworks and installations. They have exhibited widely from Tate Britain to The New Museum in New York, and are among the leading UK artists using communications systems and technology in their work. Mark Cooley is an interdisciplinary artist interested in exploring the intersections of art, activism, popular culture and institutional critique in a variety of contexts. Subjects of particular interest are U.S. foreign policy, the fine art culture industry and the political economy of new technologies. Mark is currently a professor in the Department of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Wed Aug 19 10:50:40 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Wed Aug 19 16:17:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] isea09 : Institutional Platforms Message-ID: <4A8BD9000200003C00027340@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> isea 2009 @ Belfast Institutional Platforms Wednesday 26 August 2009 Main Hub: Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Lanyon Place 11.00 Vincente Matallana, Art, Science and Technology in the European Union Project 11.30 Drew Hemment, FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster 12.00 Clarisse Bardiot, Creation of a Publishing Collection about Digital Performances 12.30 Mark Daniels, Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture 14.00 James Coupe DXARTS 14.30 Mike Stubbs, FACT Liverpool 15.00 Anne Nigten, Patching Zone 15.30 Wendy Coones, MediaArtHistories Initiative with Danube University of Austria From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Tue Aug 18 19:40:08 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Wed Aug 19 17:27:21 2009 Subject: [spectre] ISEA 09 : Institutional Platforms Message-ID: <4A8B03980200003C000272BD@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> ISEA2009 @ Belfast Institutional Platforms Wednesday 26 August 2009 Main Hub: Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Lanyon Place 11.00 Vincente Matallana, Art, Science and Technology in the European Union Project 11.30 Drew Hemment, FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster 12.00 Clarisse Bardiot, Creation of a Publishing Collection about Digital Performances 12.30 Mark Daniels, Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture 14.00 James Coupe DXARTS 14.30 Mike Stubbs, FACT Liverpool 15.00 Anne Nigten, Patching Zone 15.30 Wendy Coones, MediaArtHistories Initiative with Danube University of Austria From lotu5 at resist.ca Wed Aug 19 19:30:20 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Wed Aug 19 19:30:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] b.a.n.g lab Summer Exhibitions and more Message-ID: <4A8C36AC.9080206@resist.ca> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [announce] b.a.n.g lab and Transborder Immigrant Tool and more Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:30:38 -0700 From: Ricardo Dominguez Reply-To: Dominguez, Ricardo To: b.a.n.g. lab researchers have been very busy and have a handful of upcoming and recent exhibitions! Follow these links to find out more! We have two new blogs and a tweet space up going: b.a.n.g lab (with tweets) http://bang.calit2.net/ Transborder Immigrant Tool http://bang.calit2.net/xborder/ /// Transborder Immigrant Tool at ISEA 2009 The Transborder Immigrant Tool will be exhibited in ?Space is the Place? exhibition at the Gallery of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, as part of the program of ISEA 2009 that takes place in Belfast and Dublin Ireland this year. The exhibition will run from the 27th August ? 1st September 2009. The exhibition includes a number of video poems written by Amy Sara Carroll and designed by CRCA researchers Ricardo Dominguez, Micha C?rdenas, and Elle Mehrmand. The voice performances in the videos are by Micha C?rdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, C?saire Carroll-Dominguez, Patrick Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez and artist Brett Stalbaum developed the code for the project (http://walkingtools.net). ?Space is the Place? is an exhibition of the documentation of artistic practises, which intervene in public space. The exhibition will focus on ephemeral practices, which have not been officially sanctioned and which are mediated in some fashion through digital networks. //// b.a.n.g. lab researcher Micha Cardenas will be presenting a workshop at this year?s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (HEMI) Summer Encuentro in Bogota, Colombia. The title of her workshop is ?New Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance? http://bang.calit2.net/page/2/ 7th Encuentro Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas at the National University of Colombia in Bogot? August 21-30, 2009 http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/encuentro/colombia_overview.html ///// Nanosf?rica by *particle proup* http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-intro Reality raincheck: these tiny trans-b.a.n.g.s are rapidly transforming what constitutes the everyday. *particle group* seeks to data-mine transperversal tales of the global Matter Market, to re-tell and re-own them in ways that unhinge the vested interests of venture sciences? speculative fictions. To this end, we privilege the poetic (paratactically speaking) in an attempt to slip the false binary qua dialectic of database/narrative aesthetics. Drawing upon varied traditions of performance art and poetry (including concrete poetries, visual poetry, flarf, e-poetry, more generally speaking, experimental film, Zapatista communiqu?s, the artivist gesture), dance, movement studies, critical theory, we think small, really small, even smaller (the pharmakon), ?reason[ing] deeply to forcibly feel,? it takes one to know one profane illumination (to another). http://pitmm.net //// b.a.n.g lab PI Brett Stalbaum is presenting at: Landscape 2.0 Exhibition runs August 29 through November 15, 2009 Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg and Springhornhof Neuenkirchen Art Association, Vernissage, Denmark Our view of landscape and its "nature" has changed over the course of history. By examining landscape designs, we can learn about the attitudes of a certain society at a certain time in terms of how it developed and shaped nature. In the Romantic period, landscapes came to symbolize the human psychological condition. Today we must ask ourselves how significant landscapes are today when they are depicted as a social and cultural construct and are primarily regarded as an economic or ecological resource. Is it even possible to think of landscape as intact and unspoiled nature? How do we imagine real, natural landscape, and how is landscape portrayed in digital fantasy worlds? http://www.edith-russ-haus.de ///// b.a.n.g lab researchers Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand at will be at GLAMFA The will be showing the video of Slapshock in the exhibition. Then, on opening night we?ll be doing a new performance called Technesexual which we?ve been hard at work getting ready. It is part of Mixed Relations and involves a mixed reality performance using biometrics and live audio that responds to our movements in order to explore relationality.Then, I?ll be talking about Becoming Dragon (and both of the above works) on an MFA round table as part of the CSULB Visiting Artist Lecture series on Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7pm. There are a bunch of other amazing artists from UCSD and from around southern california, so come check it all out! More info at the GLAMFA website. ///// The Transborder Immigrant Tool was in the Yucatan Biennale Arte Nuevo Interactiva 2009 For the fifth time, M?rida joins other art centers of the world such as Venice, Havana, New York, Paris, and Istanbul, to name a few, in hosting a ?Biennale?. This French and Italian word refers to any event which takes place every two years. In contemporary art, Biennale is used to describe an international exhibit. M?rida?s first Biennale was in 2001, and has taken place every two years since then. From May 28 (opening was at 9 pm at Museo de la Ciudad) until the end of June, the Museo de la Ciudad was headquarters for the M?rida Biennale. The event?s theme was the interactivity of art works and the public via Internet and other technologies, therefore its title of ?Arte Nuevo InteractivA ?09″. The Biennale incldes a number of b.a.n.g lab and CRCA researchers including Micha Cardenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Eduardo Navas, Brett Stalbaum and Nina Waisman in the categories of Locative Media and Critical Conceptualism. b.a.n.g lab (with tweets) http://bang.calit2.net/ -- Ricardo Dominguez Associate Professor Hellman Fellow Visual Arts Department, UCSD http://visarts.ucsd.edu/ Principal Investigator, CALIT2 http://calit2.net Co-Chair gallery@calit2 http://gallery.calit2.net CRCA Researcher http://crca.ucsd.edu/ Ethnic Studies Affiliate http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/ Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate http://cilas.ucsd.edu Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Board Member http://hemi.nyu.edu University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436 Phone: (619) 322-7571 e-mail: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu Project sites: site: http://gallery.calit2.net site: http://pitmm.net site: http://bang.calit2.net site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom . -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Aug 20 09:34:14 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Thu Aug 20 09:35:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] Final call: films & videos for CologneOFF - 5th festival edition Message-ID: <20090820093414.8ED90B95.C0E691EE@192.168.0.3> Final call: 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 the festival themes 1. Taboo 2. Violence ---------------------------------------------------- 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 No entry fee! All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030 ---------------------------------------------------- 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 animated narratives" - 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, Indonesia 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 bszechy at yahoo.com Tue Aug 18 23:00:34 2009 From: bszechy at yahoo.com (Beata Szechy) Date: Thu Aug 20 17:31:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: Contents of SPECTRE digest TEST Message-ID: <541994.6213.qm@web180108.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Call for artists A.I.R./International Artist Residencies, Budapest, Hungary The Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC) is currently accepting applications for AIR/HMC, Budapest, Monday, December 28 - Monday, January 11, 2010 Deadline: September 6, 2009 Our 2010 info and application form will be available end of August. For questions, application form please write to Beata Szechy bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com From info at franck-ancel.com Thu Aug 20 17:31:52 2009 From: info at franck-ancel.com (franck ancel) Date: Thu Aug 20 17:32:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] 1909 The Art of Memory 2009 Message-ID: <4A8D6C68.6000308@franck-ancel.com> http://www.italianfuturism.org/2009/08/1909-100x100-2009/ From fritz.d at chello.nl Thu Aug 20 20:27:27 2009 From: fritz.d at chello.nl (Darko Fritz) Date: Thu Aug 20 21:06:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] grey) (area ::: Ivan Marusic Klif: Synchronicity Message-ID: <70889C69-E117-4E5C-9A12-EB4CAE9C6BA2@chello.nl> grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korcula Ivan Marusic Klif: Synchronicity 24. 8. - 31 . 8. 2009. Opening: Monday 24th August . 21 - 23 h. Synchronicity is a performance and an authorial DVD edition. A multichannel media performance separates a performer from his audience, while picture and sound get transferred from a confined scene space into an open space of auditorium. Author-performer uses simple light and audio devices, from time to time employing his own voice, partially live and partially reproduced, in order to gradually build happening of the image and the sound. The performance is transmitted live into separated open space via 4 cameras and 4 microphones. Each camera and each microphone has its own screen and speakers system. Hence, image and sound transfer is happening with no additional processing, in 1:1 ratio. The performer has no feedback information as to what the audience hears and sees. Through combining light and sound sources, appearance and acoustics of the space is being continually changed and adapted. A small shift within inner space causes very big changes in the outer space. The performance is recorded full time. The second stage of project realization is a DVD edition. DVD medium enables setting of parallel channels of video, sound and text in an interactive modus. In this manner, a subject of synchronicity is again being referred to through another media. The same DVD is simultaneously a document of performance and an independent multimedia work. It is distributed as an artwork and project documentation at the same time. Thus authorised, the DVD renders an independent interactive work which is set within gallery space as a projection with Dolby surround sound system and remote control. The later enables visitors to combine and change channels of sound, video and text. Each of the few channels explains separate performance segment, for example, music and sound; author's inner state; motivation; treatment of sound preparation, etc.... IVAN MARUSIC - KLIF Born in 1969. in Zagreb. Graduated from The School of Audio Engineering in Amsterdam in 1994. His field of interest includes fine arts (light installations and kinetic objects), music and sound for theatre, set design (theatre, film and television) and performance art. From 1996. he started working with computers - mostly in the field of multimedia programming, interactive video and problems of interfacing computers with the "real" world. Exhibited and performed in Holland, Germany, USA, Austria, France, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Macedonia and Croatia. From 2000. to 2002. tought multimedia and installations at the Multimedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. website Ivan Marusic Klif: http://boo.mi2.hr/~klif/ ------------------------------------------------------ open daily 21 - 22 h free entrance contact: Darko Fritz darko@darkofritz.net / tel + 385 [0] 91.5800193 grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) . Petar Grimani (Croatia) . Ivan Marusic Klif (Croatia) . Toni Mestrovi? (Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) . Nina Czegledy (Canada) and Marcus Neustetter (South Africa) participants in gray) (area program: Veaceslav Ahunov, (Uzbekistan), Abilsait Atabekov (Kazahstan), Dunja Bla?evi?, Boris Cvjetanovic (Zagreb), Gem Sqash (Adam Hyde and Ntsikelelo Ntshingila), Petar Grimani (Croatia), Ulan Djaparov (Kazahstan), Ivan Faktor (Osijek), Kontejner (Zagreb), Lemeh 42 (Italy), Faruk Loncarevic (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Alban Muja (Kosova), Edita Pecoti? (Korcula / London), Ana Peraica (Split), PRO.BA (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Radioqalia (Adam Hyde and Honnor Hager, New Zealand), Lala Ra??i? (Sarajevo ? Zagreb), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia / Romania), Tomo Savi?-Gecan (Zagreb - Amsterdam), Slaven Tolj (Dubrovnik), Transfer (Zagreb), Goran Trbuljak (Zagreb), Alexandr Ugay (Kazahstan), Dra?en Vitolovi? (Sovinjak / Rijeka) i Enes Zlatar (Bosnia and Hercegovina). From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Aug 21 11:43:43 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Aug 21 11:45:40 2009 Subject: [spectre] Review of The Path by Tale of Tales. In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A8E6C4F.6060806@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Review of The Path by Tale of Tales. In a Dark Wood. A review of The Path by Edward Picot "a short horror-game inspired by the tale of Little Red Riding Hood" from Tale of Tales. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=358 An independent computer games development company, based in Belgium and run by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. It was originally released in March 2009, and it represents Tale of Tales' first attempt to produce a fully commercial computer game. "Harvey and Samyn's output has always been driven by a desire to move away from the typical subject-matter and style of modern computer games, into territory which is more poetic and ambiguous, touching on deeper themes. Before they formed Tale of Tales they worked together under the name Entropy8Zuper! and produced work such as The Godlove Museum (texts from the Bible mixed with new media animations and social commentary). The first Tale of Tales project, 8, was based on the story of the Sleeping Beauty. The second, The Endless Forest, a multi-player environment where each player controls a deer in an enchanted forest; and the third is The Graveyard, a meditation on old age and mortality, set in a cemetery, and featuring a little old lady on the point of death." Picot. You can also read the review at The Hyperliterature Exchange web site - http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewthepath.php This article is co-published by The Hyperliterature Exchange - http://hyperex.co.uk/ and Furtherfield.org - http://www.furtherfield.org Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From n0name at gmx.de Fri Aug 21 12:56:13 2009 From: n0name at gmx.de (n0name@gmx.de) Date: Fri Aug 21 13:04:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] B-) n0name nachrichten #142 Message-ID: <20090821105613.176500@gmx.net> |<------ Breite: 72 Zeichen - Fixed Width Font: Courier New, 10 ------>| B-) n0name nachrichten #142 Fr., 21.08.2009 12:36 CET *Inhalt/Contents* 1. Netzwerke(l)n Tatiana Bazzichelli's Buch ueber Pixel-Mafia 2. Debord - La Soci?t? du spectacle.srt als .txt 6 3. Rezension von Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot_ 40 34 KB, ca. 16 DIN A4-Seiten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Netzwerke(l)n Tatiana Bazzichelli's Buch ueber Pixel-Mafia Mit vollem Magen denkt sichs gleich besser. Die Pizza kam aus dem Ofen auf den Tisch in meinen Magen, die Bestellung dafuer ging ueber das WWW, das dem normalen Nutzer bekannte Netz. Tatiana Bazzichelli will aber Netze nicht auf solch banale, warenfoermige Verhaeltnisse reduziert wissen. Netze sind soziale, technische, kuenstlerische, nicht allein technisch-mediale Einkaufsnetze. Mit historischem Blick und vielen Querverbindungen traegt sie zusammen, was der reinen Verwertung widerstaendig erscheint. Entgegen einem romantischen Bild vom Netz als allumfassendem muss man feststellen, dass Netzwerke enden und an bestimmten Stellen hierarchische Knoten bilden oder abprallen. In der Tat wurde das vielbesungene graswurzelige, im Datennetz materialisierte Rhizom, in der Nachfolge post-operaistischer Agitation, angesichts der momentanen "Pubertaet" (so der Bremer Organisationspsychologe Peter Kruse) des Internet, bereits frueh, also vor ca. 10 Jahren verabschiedet: Vodafone-Werbung-Bloggerin-haelt- Kritik-nicht-mehr-aus.html und so oder so ist aber Netzwerken immer noch die Zukunft verheissen wenn man in der EU von 2 Mio. Arbeitsplaetzen dank Breitband traeumt. Worin unterscheidet sich also Netzwerken von Netzwerken, oder woran unterscheidet man Netzwerke und Netzwerke bzw. Netzwerke von Seilschaften? Der 'Verdacht' liegt nahe, die Autorin vernetze, also konstruiere erst a-netzige Einheiten in ihren episodischen Erzaehlungen zu eben den Verbindungen, die dann Netzwerke genannt werden. Ihr Netzwerk ist also vorerst ein literarisches. Darum auch der Anhang mit Fotos und Grafiken der agilen Szene ganz am Ende des Buches. Mit einigem methodischem Vorschuss waere sie damit Teil ihres eigenen Gegenstands. Was und wie Netzwerke sind muss aus diesen Zusammenhaengen erhoben werden. Sind es Freundschaften auf IT-Basis? Wie geht das mit den Anschluessen von Netzentitaet zu Netzentitaet? Vollziehen sich diese nur positiv, also von follower zu follower zu leader, oder auch von Feind zu Feind? Mit Derrick de Kerckhove's Vorwort kommt gleich die erste Belehrung, ueber die geistigen Regionen der Welt, denn hier handelt es sich um den Export Italienischen Denkens ueber Medien, wie er es ausdrueckt. Wer haette gedacht, dass wir von nationalen Grenzen und Eigenheiten umgeben sind, wo es doch nach dem McLuhan-Schueler de Kerckhove um Erweiterung der Sinne, des Koerpers, zu tun ist.[1] Und das im Land des praesidialen Fernsehens. Der Rahmen scheint damit gesteckt. Das ganze Land ist kontrolliert von Einwegkommunikationsmedien, kollektive Medien bergen Widerstand dagegen, kuenstlerische Traditionen des Netzwerkens sind fuer das ganze Land weiter zu entwickeln, Kommunikationsformen von unten, die dann in die Beduerfnisse des Einzelnen eingehen und -- und da liegt der Knackpunkt wo sich das ganze schoene Konzept als zirkelschluessiges aesthetisches outet -- diese Beduerfnisse werden zu subversiven kuenstlerischen Praktiken fuer die Partizipation an der Kunst. Auch wenn Tatiana Bazzichelli in ihrer "(Open) Conclusion" am Schluss des Buches es anders aufloest und von einem engen Kunstbegriff absieht, ihn aufs ganze Soziale erweitert. Sie will naemlich voellig offen das Soziale als anarchische, und ziemlich illusorisch, offenbar nur leider fehlgeleitete, Moeglichkeits-Relation der (italienischen) Gesellschaft sehen -- in Familien, Affinitaeten, Netzen. Illusorisch ist dieses Statement, weil es (mit einem MayDay-bezogenen Zitat) von einem Zustand jenseits der Arbeit als dem Kernmoment des Wohlstands ausgeht und Gesellschaft nur noch in eben diesen kommunikationalen Relationalgefuegen denkt, diese aber als neue materiale Basis annimmt, die blosz noch experimentell, dadaistisch usw. aufzuschluesseln und aufzubrechen seien. Diese 'multitudische' Sicht erhebt das Symbolische zum Eigentlichen, zum Motor fuer die dann und danach folgenden materiellen Umsetzungen. Sind sich offenbar alle Netzwerker einig, die der Kreativindustrie und die der politischen Alternative. Zynisch koennte man anmerken, dass es auch im feudalen Kuwait Familien, Affinitaeten, Netze gibt und die Herrscher das fuer die Quelle der Mehrwerte ausgeben und sogar von Demokratie quatschen. Dieser Netzwerken-Begriff verschliert und verschleiert alles. Im Nachwort von Simonetta Fadda aber auch bei de Kerckhove werden diese Relationalgefuege dann idealistisch verkoepert im Internet selbst gesehen, in einer Hybris, die Sprache und Code und seine Macher, den Hacker naemlich[2], zu Repraesentationen dieser netzigen nur-noch-Beziehungen-Welt. Das Netz ist das Soziale und das Netz ist das Internet. Netzwerkkunst und -aktivismus bilden die dazugehoerige nicht-elitaere Elite. Die Linke der "kreativen Klasse" artikuliert sich und kommt (auf Seite 148) doch wieder bei der Kollaboration und dem Rhizom an, welches (eine Buchseite weiter) keine Grenzen kennt, nur noch Hacker. Formuliert wird damit immerhin das Beduerfnis, endlich diese spielerische Produktivitaet und auch Nutzlosigkeit nach dem Ende der Ausbeutung zu erlangen. Aber die libertaere Steigerung zielt daneben. Die Netze sind uns nicht einfach gegeben, wie Bazzichelli zitiert. Haben wir es doch mit einer bestaendigen Einteignung des Wissens zu tun der eine Wiederaneignung entgegen steht. Die Forderung nach Lohn mit einem "Reclaim the Money" zu 'verkaufen' birgt doch den Widerspruch, dass wir eben nicht in den schoenen/haesslichen aber emanzipierten, semiotischen Netzen leben. Aber so ernst ist es mit dem direkten Anschluss an die Maschinen offenbar auch nicht, auch wenn sie Zeit, Handeln und mehr subsumieren. Der Kuenstler arbeitet schlieszlich nie in der Fabrik. Kunst entsteht aus anderem Impetus und kehrt aber merkwuerdigerweise immer zu sich zurueck. Dieses Netzwerkgesellschaft-Denken (Manuel Castells) soll nach Bazzichelli eigentlich als offenes gesehen werden und sieht die groessten Kraefte in den symbolverarbeitenden Maschinenkontexten, deren Telos kreativer Zweck ist, der die Aufteilung in Kuenstler und Publikum, Produzent und Konsument aufhebt. Die hier verwendete Kernkategorie ist die Kunst selbst, die ueber Hacktivismus, die Kombination aus Coden und Aktivismus beendet wird und doch ihr Titel bleibt. Die Offenheit ist deshalb zwielichtig, mafioes? Das so selbst aufgeklaerte Netz und sein Werken handelt mit Gegen-Institutionen ("Institute of Network Culture"), um so der Vereinnahmung zu entgehen? Die Pixel-Mafia auf Frontseite von Tatiana Bazzichelli's Buch, laechelt sie uns vielsagend zu? Ist sie die alte oder die neue Mafia in ebenso schwarzen Anzuegen, oder nur ihre utopische Karikatur? Fuer Bazzichelli ist diese Kunst geerdet durch das Experiment, das Erfahrungen machen im kritischen Handeln. Emanzipatorisches Netzwerken, ihre Aesthetik und die Antiglobalisierungskampagne sind nicht weit voneinander entfernt. Die geisteswissenschaftlich-philosophischen Grundlagen dafuer findet sie, in ihrer wie ich finde reflektiertesten Stelle im Text, bei Wilhelm Dilthey und z.B. nicht bei einem Pragmatismusvertreter wie John Dewey. Erfahrung und Erlebnis sind damit fundmental fuer die Konsequenzen menschlichen Handelns und geschichtliche Ergebnisse kultureller Arbeit. Diese lebensphilosophische Grundlage des Ganzen hebt jedoch damit eine problematische ethische Anforderung, dass nur was erfahren wurde, voll verstehbar sei. Dilthey avanciert zum Hausphilosophen der sozial-subjektivistischen Netze, die ganzheitlich wachsen und gedeihen. Am im Buch geoeffneten Thema der Libido und seines Porn und seiner Besetzung oder der Lustproduktion des Queeren zeichnet sich gut lesbar ab, wie das Widerstaendige Handeln irgendwie neutral sei und der Zurichtung und Beschneidung des Gender und des Sex in einer aktivistischen Ueberspringung der Aufspaltungen und Trennungen schon jetzt entgegengetreten werden koenne. Alles Netzwerke(l)n im kleinen aber vernetzten Stil, moechte so, mit Tatiana Bazzichelli, aufgehen in den unendlichen Moeglichkeiten des Seins (welche die Autorin gleich vorn in der Widmung anfuehrt) oder wenigstens im Bankrott einer Onlineindustrie, die wegen des Paradigmas der Netze, des Teilens von Information, das heiszt der nicht-warenfoermigen Konsumption, insolvent wird. Hier wird nocheinmal massiv Cyberpolitik+Verbrauchermacht vorgetragen. Man haette es gerne offen und aetherisch, unfestgelegt. Indifferent soll man Vittore Baronis's "Organic Tree" eigene Blaetter und Aeste hinzufuegen. Dem spriessenden Baum, auf dem Boden von Futurismus und Dada gleichermaszen stehend oder in ihm verwurzelt, sind alle Bewegungen des Networking in Formaten und veraestelt, die auch Bazzichelli beschreibt, von Mailart bis Cut-up. VPNs und CNN gehoeren nicht zu der im Buch abgebildeten Fassung von 1992, Google noch nicht? Und wirklich muss dieses organische Ganze erst zusammencollagiert und fantasiert werden, denn die in diesem Stammbaum herbeimontierte Historie der Moderne ist voller Brueche und Abbrueche und es haengt alles weniger miteinander zusammen als zu denken moeglich ist. Die Relevanz des Punk endete schon in seiner Auslebung, Fluxus wurde zur Grosskunstdisziplin, T-Shirts sind zwar neuerdings auch Community (spreadshirt.com) aber eben deshalb besser zu verkaufen, Neoismus wird als Fake erwartet, also als erwarte Faelschung und Taeuschung. Von allem sind noch Echos vorhanden. Werden diese Echos in der Tendenz musealisierend aufgereiht, ergibt das kein (ja, objektives!) Bild, kein Netz sondern eine Galerie also eine Folge. Das Buchformat ist hier der Wunderkammer unterlegen und es sollte vielleicht wiedereinmal darueber nachgedacht werden, die inhaerente Hierarchie der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen vom Text weg aufzubrechen. Andererseits muss zugestanden werden, wie muehsam Verbindungen und Pfade vom einen Projekt zum anderen ersteinmal nach-gezeichnet werden muessen. Aus einer Fuelle von Recherchiertem werden wichtige Aussagen herausgeholt, zum Beispiel die Kritik des Net_Institute am einseitigen Verstaendnis der traditionellen Linken Italiens vom Datennetz als Werkzeug. Dass aber das Web vom Institute dann sogleich zum Kosmos erklaert wird, diesen Sprung vom Marxschen Hammer (sinngemaesz: Kunst ist ein Hammer zur Gestaltung von Welt) zum Raum (siehe William Gibson) diskutiert die Autorin leider nicht und geht gleich ueber zur "Idee der Freiheit", zur "Kritik der Information", indymedia und dem Genua 2001-Mythos. Idee des Netzwerkes oder Fakt und nichtmenschliches Factotum? Tatiana Bazzichelli's Ausblick ist daher eher ein Hilferuf, also frei zu werden durch mediale Beziehungen, die datentechnischer Natur sind und ins Allgemeine des allgemein Gesellschaftlichen uebergehen. Genau darauf abzielend schaltet markt.de momentan Anzeigen, auf denen drei (maennliche) Beinpaare in Jeans auf einem Sofa zu sehen sind, einer der drei dreht Daeumchen. Darunter steht "Playstation?". Man koennte also sagen, der Platz des Netzwerkens ist schon besetzt und die Netzwerk(l)er aus der Kunst halten zumindest symbolisch dagegen und probt schonmal die Aneignung -- allerdings mit dem Kopf voller a-historischer und utopistischer Flausen. Es reicht einfach nicht das Politische als System zu begreifen und es dann "kuenstlerisch, eigenstaendig und nicht-kommerziell" zu hacken, also auszutricksen, ohne das Kuenstlerische, das Eigenstaendige und das Nicht-Kommerzielle in Beziehung zu setzen zu ihren Erzeugungskraeften. An dieser Stelle erweist sich das Netzwerken, die Praxis des Beziehungen-machen und ihre theoretische Geschichte, als erstaunlich beziehungs-unbewusst. Entspringen diese Erzeugungskraefte fuer die Protagonisten des Networking[3] doch offenbar der Oberflaeche des Geldes beziehungsweise einer unbestimmten Macht assoziiert mit der Polizei und einer hierarchischen Demokratie. __________ [1] Zaehlt de Kerckhove Technik zu Verlaengerung des Menschen, so kommt ihrer richtigen Nutzung dann die Dimension zu, diese Verlaengerung zum Besten zu wenden. Technik aber steht Mensch auch gegenueber, ist nicht sein Leib, eher seine Leibprojektion, bei de Kerckhove wie schon bei McLuhan, bei letzterem aber auch mal ironisch als Massage ("The Medium Is The Massage"). Diese Leibprojektion wurde von Georg Christoph Tholen u.a. in "Ende des Menschen?" als Ganzheitsillusion markiert, welche die symbolfunktionaere Grundlage der Medien miszverstanden habe; siehe: http://www.mewi.unibas.ch/fileadmin/downloads/Tholen%20Texte/THol_Virkitt.pdf Interessant waere, an dieser Stelle mehr ueber die Leibverlaengerungs- bzw. Organkonzeption von Maschinen und Medien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert herauszuwuehlen, auch etwa mit kritischem Bezug zu Deleuze' anorganischem Koerper, dessen Maschinenbegriff man aehnlich bei Marx findet. [2] Siehe: http://www.ecn.org/aha/English/hackmit_konzept.htm [3] Bei Tatiana Bazzichelli etwa nachzulesen in ihrer Nacherzaehlung der Anfaenge des Chaos Computer Club in Berlin oder den Aktivitaeten der ChainWorkers in den USA und Mailand. Matze Schmidt Tatiana Bazzichelli. _Networking. The Net as Artwork_. Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University: Aarhus, 2009. Download: http://darc.imv.au.dk/wp-content/files/networking_bazzichelli.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Debord - La Soci?t? du spectacle.srt als .txt 6 1085 01:05:10,834 --> 01:05:12,167 Die ?berall zur Schau gestellte 1086 01:05:12,324 --> 01:05:16,560 B?rokratie muss f?r das Bewusstsein die unsichtbare Klasse sein, 1087 01:05:16,773 --> 01:05:20,697 so dass das ganze gesellschaftliche Leben verr?ckt wird. 1088 01:05:20,799 --> 01:05:24,120 Die gesellschaftliche Organisation der absoluten L?ge 1089 01:05:24,140 --> 01:05:26,700 folgt diesem grundlegenden Widerspruch. 1090 01:05:27,999 --> 01:05:32,000 Je h?her wir steigen in dieser B?rokratie der Intelligenz, 1091 01:05:32,222 --> 01:05:36,505 um so wundervollere K?pfe begegnen uns. 1092 01:05:36,766 --> 01:05:41,066 Marx, Bemerkungen ?ber die neueste preu?ische Zensurinstruktion (1842) 1093 01:05:42,043 --> 01:05:46,846 Der Stalinismus war die Schreckensherrschaft innerhalb der b?rokratischen Klasse selbst. 1094 01:05:47,310 --> 01:05:50,562 Der Terrorismus, der die Macht dieser Klasse begr?ndet, 1095 01:05:50,725 --> 01:05:52,540 muss auch diese Klasse treffen, 1096 01:05:52,751 --> 01:05:59,344 denn sie hat als besitzende Klasse keine juristische Garantie, keine anerkannte Existenz, 1097 01:05:59,513 --> 01:06:02,406 die sie auf jedes ihrer Mitglieder ausdehnen k?nnte. 1098 01:06:02,647 --> 01:06:05,448 Ihr wirkliches Eigentum ist versteckt, 1099 01:06:05,615 --> 01:06:10,416 und Eigent?merin selbst ist sie nur auf dem Weg ?ber das falsche Bewusstsein geworden. 1100 01:06:10,599 --> 01:06:14,085 Das falsche Bewusstsein behauptet seine absolute Macht 1101 01:06:14,265 --> 01:06:16,001 nur durch den absoluten Terror, 1102 01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:19,070 in dem jede wahre Begr?ndung endlich verloren geht. 1103 01:06:19,613 --> 01:06:22,381 Die Mitglieder der machthabenden b?rokratischen Klasse 1104 01:06:22,550 --> 01:06:26,526 haben nur insofern kollektiv einen Besitzanspruch auf die Gesellschaft, 1105 01:06:26,706 --> 01:06:30,270 als sie bei einer grundlegenden L?ge mitwirken: 1106 01:06:30,518 --> 01:06:35,227 Sie m?ssen die Rolle des Proletariats spielen, das eine sozialistische Gesellschaft f?hrt; 1107 01:06:35,399 --> 01:06:40,060 sie m?ssen Schauspieler sein, die sich treu an den Text der ideologischen Untreue halten. 1108 01:06:40,965 --> 01:06:43,156 Aber die tats?chliche Beteiligung 1109 01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,004 an dieser Verlogenheit 1110 01:06:45,152 --> 01:06:49,027 muss als eine wahrhaftige Beteiligung anerkannt werden. 1111 01:06:49,586 --> 01:06:53,758 Kein B?rokrat kann individuell sein Recht auf die Macht behaupten, 1112 01:06:53,995 --> 01:06:56,515 denn sich als einen sozialistischen Proletarier zu erweisen, 1113 01:06:56,609 --> 01:07:00,076 w?rde hei?en, sich als das Gegenteil eines B?rokraten zu zeigen; 1114 01:07:00,230 --> 01:07:03,102 und sich als einen B?rokraten zu erweisen, ist ihm unm?glich, 1115 01:07:03,302 --> 01:07:07,308 denn die offizielle Wahrheit der B?rokratie ist die, dass es sie nicht gibt. 1116 01:07:07,662 --> 01:07:11,288 So befindet sich jeder B?rokrat in der absoluten Abh?ngigkeit 1117 01:07:11,528 --> 01:07:14,337 einer zentralen Garantie der Ideologie, 1118 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,305 die eine kollektive Mitwirkung aller B?rokraten 1119 01:07:17,469 --> 01:07:19,196 an ihrer ?sozialistischen Macht? anerkennt, 1120 01:07:19,377 --> 01:07:22,564 welche sie nicht vernichtet. 1121 01:07:23,067 --> 01:07:26,696 Wenn die B?rokraten insgesamt ?ber alles entscheiden, 1122 01:07:26,838 --> 01:07:28,977 kann der Zusammenhalt ihrer eigenen Klasse 1123 01:07:29,108 --> 01:07:35,267 nur durch die Konzentration ihrer terroristischen Macht in einer einzigen Person gesichert werden. 1124 01:07:35,595 --> 01:07:36,863 In dieser Person 1125 01:07:37,012 --> 01:07:40,237 liegt die einzige praktische Wahrheit der machthabenden L?ge: 1126 01:07:40,469 --> 01:07:45,125 die undiskutierbare Festsetzung ihrer laufend korrigierten Grenze. 1127 01:07:45,728 --> 01:07:47,861 In letzter Instanz bestimmt Stalin, 1128 01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,248 wer schlie?lich besitzender B?rokrat ist; 1129 01:07:50,460 --> 01:07:53,639 d.h. wer als ?Proletarier an der Macht? oder 1130 01:07:53,819 --> 01:07:57,514 als ?Verr?ter im Sold des Mikado oder der Wallstreet? bezeichnet werden muss. 1131 01:07:58,192 --> 01:07:59,933 Die b?rokratischen Atome 1132 01:08:00,058 --> 01:08:04,735 finden nur in der Person Stalins das gemeinsame Wesen ihres Rechts. 1133 01:08:04,948 --> 01:08:07,215 Stalin ist dieser Herr der Welt, 1134 01:08:07,377 --> 01:08:10,459 der sich auf diese Weise als die absolute Person wei?, 1135 01:08:10,623 --> 01:08:14,301 ?f?r deren Bewusstsein kein h?herer Geist existiert ... 1136 01:08:14,662 --> 01:08:18,993 ... Der Herr der Welt hat das wirkliche Bewusstsein dessen, was er ist, 1137 01:08:19,172 --> 01:08:25,000 der allgemeinen Macht der Wirklichkeit, in der zerst?renden Gewalt, 1138 01:08:25,205 --> 01:08:28,942 die er gegen das ihm gegen?berstehende Selbst seiner Untertanen aus?bt?. 1139 01:08:29,110 --> 01:08:33,845 W?hrend er die Macht ist, die den Boden der Herrschaft bestimmt, 1140 01:08:33,984 --> 01:08:37,068 ist er ebenso ?das zerst?rende W?hlen in diesem Boden?. 1141 01:10:35,041 --> 01:10:39,030 Es gibt ein Tal in Spanien namens Jarama 1142 01:10:40,648 --> 01:10:45,111 Ein Ort den wir alle nur zu gut kennen. 1143 01:10:46,770 --> 01:10:51,086 Es ist dort, wo wir unsere Jugend verloren, 1144 01:10:52,238 --> 01:10:55,639 und auch den gr??ten Teil unserer alten Tagen. 1145 01:12:27,147 --> 01:12:31,209 Dieser mit gro?er M?he wiederhergestellte soziale Frieden 1146 01:12:31,564 --> 01:12:35,488 w?hrte nur wenige Jahre, als jene auftraten, sein Ende zu verk?nden, 1147 01:12:35,782 --> 01:12:39,559 die in die Geschichte der Verbrechen eingehen sollten 1148 01:12:39,746 --> 01:12:43,147 unter dem Namen der ?Situationisten?. 1149 01:12:43,602 --> 01:12:47,528 Wenn das Proletariat jedoch entdeckt, dass seine ge?u?erte eigene Kraft 1150 01:12:47,695 --> 01:12:51,521 zur fortw?hrenden Verst?rkung der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft beitr?gt, 1151 01:12:51,733 --> 01:12:54,594 nicht mehr nur in der Form seiner Arbeit, 1152 01:12:54,759 --> 01:12:56,948 sondern auch in der Form der Gewerkschaften, 1153 01:12:57,114 --> 01:12:59,713 der Parteien oder der staatlichen Macht, 1154 01:12:59,939 --> 01:13:02,436 die es gebildet hatte, um sich zu emanzipieren, 1155 01:13:02,681 --> 01:13:06,155 entdeckt es auch durch die konkrete geschichtliche Erfahrung, 1156 01:13:06,332 --> 01:13:08,823 dass es die Klasse ist, die totaler Feind 1157 01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,442 jeder erstarrten Ent?u?erung 1158 01:13:11,605 --> 01:13:14,246 und jeder Spezialisierung der Macht ist. 1159 01:13:14,496 --> 01:13:19,268 Es tr?gt die Revolution, die nichts au?erhalb ihrer selbst lassen kann, 1160 01:13:19,717 --> 01:13:22,541 die Forderung der fortw?hrenden Herrschaft 1161 01:13:22,738 --> 01:13:24,396 der Gegenwart ?ber die Vergangenheit 1162 01:13:24,591 --> 01:13:27,174 und die totale Kritik der Trennungen; 1163 01:13:27,463 --> 01:13:31,534 dazu muss es die passende Form in der Aktion finden. 1164 01:13:31,966 --> 01:13:35,824 Keine quantitative Verbesserung seines Elends, 1165 01:13:36,022 --> 01:13:38,888 keine Illusion hierarchischer Integration 1166 01:13:39,046 --> 01:13:42,252 ist ein dauerhaftes Heilmittel f?r seine Unzufriedenheit, 1167 01:13:42,487 --> 01:13:45,875 denn das Proletariat kann sich nicht wahrhaftig 1168 01:13:45,973 --> 01:13:48,597 in einem besonderen Unrecht erkennen, das an ihm ver?bt wird, 1169 01:13:48,770 --> 01:13:52,198 folglich ebensowenig in der Wiedergutmachung eines besonderen Unrechts 1170 01:13:52,433 --> 01:13:54,509 oder zahlreicher F?lle dieses Unrechts, 1171 01:13:54,658 --> 01:13:57,020 sondern nur in dem Unrecht schlechthin, 1172 01:13:57,178 --> 01:14:00,047 an den Rand des Lebens gedr?ngt zu sein. 1173 01:14:15,548 --> 01:14:19,303 Genossen, Das Werk Sud-Aviation in Nantes ist vor zwei Tagen 1174 01:14:19,512 --> 01:14:23,109 von den Arbeitern und Studenten der Stadt besetzt worden, 1175 01:14:23,297 --> 01:14:26,730 die Bewegung hat sich heute auf mehrere Fabriken ausgeweitet, 1176 01:14:26,910 --> 01:14:30,016 der Ausschuss der Besetzung der Sorbonne ruft 1177 01:14:30,164 --> 01:14:33,544 zur sofortigen Besetzung aller Fabriken in Frankreich auf 1178 01:14:33,741 --> 01:14:37,363 und zur Bildung von Arbeiter-R?ten. 1179 01:14:37,488 --> 01:14:40,978 Genossen, vervielf?ltigt und verbreitet so schnell wie m?glich diesen Aufruf. 1180 01:14:41,158 --> 01:14:43,692 Sorbonne, 16. Mai, 15:00 Uhr 1181 01:14:45,425 --> 01:14:48,940 Besetzung der Fabriken. Arbeiterr?te. 1182 01:15:10,409 --> 01:15:13,368 Und der Monat Mai wird niemals wiederkehren, 1183 01:15:13,516 --> 01:15:16,426 von heute bis zum Ende dieser Welt des Spektakels, 1184 01:15:16,704 --> 01:15:19,737 ohne dass man sich unserer erinnert ... 1185 01:15:30,572 --> 01:15:34,438 Genossen! die Menschheit wird gl?cklich sein nur, wenn ... 1186 01:15:56,504 --> 01:16:00,281 Nieder mit der spektakul?ren Waren-Gesellschaft! 1187 01:16:01,387 --> 01:16:04,788 Bilden Sie sich nicht ein, dass diese Leute eine solche Absicht nicht haben; 1188 01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:08,405 sie m?ssen sie haben; und w?re es zuf?llig doch einmal anders, 1189 01:16:08,552 --> 01:16:12,219 br?chte die Gewalt der Umst?nde sie dazu; 1190 01:16:12,383 --> 01:16:15,913 die Eroberung erzeugt die Eroberung 1191 01:16:16,070 --> 01:16:19,528 und der Sieg weckt den Durst nach weiterem Sieg. 1192 01:16:19,708 --> 01:16:22,585 Machiavelli, Brief an Francesco Vettori 1193 01:16:36,884 --> 01:16:41,020 Lauf schnell, Genosse, die alte Welt ist hinter dir her ! 1194 01:16:43,971 --> 01:16:47,633 Seit dem 25. Februar brachen tausend seltsame Systeme 1195 01:16:47,911 --> 01:16:51,213 aus dem Kopf der Neuerer hervor 1196 01:16:51,376 --> 01:16:54,850 und ergossen sich im aufgeregten Geist der Menge, ... 1197 01:16:55,063 --> 01:16:58,381 es schien, dass, unter dem Sto? der Revolution, die Gesellschaft selbst 1198 01:16:58,586 --> 01:17:02,019 zu Staub geworden war und dass man im Wettbewerb 1199 01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:05,632 die neue Form suchte, die man dem Geb?ude geben musste, 1200 01:17:05,795 --> 01:17:09,294 das man an ihrer Stelle errichten wollte; jeder bot seinen Plan an; 1201 01:17:09,490 --> 01:17:12,628 dieser stellte ihn in den Zeitungen vor; jener in Plakaten, 1202 01:17:12,906 --> 01:17:16,363 die die W?nde bald zudeckten; dieser andere, im vollen Wind, 1203 01:17:16,576 --> 01:17:20,418 im gesprochenen Wort. Einer wollte die Ungleichheit der Verm?gen, 1204 01:17:20,614 --> 01:17:24,398 andere die Ungleichheit der Intelligenz zerst?ren, der Dritte versuchte, 1205 01:17:24,545 --> 01:17:28,134 die ?lteste der Ungleichheiten, diejenige des Mannes und der Frau einzuebnen; 1206 01:17:28,334 --> 01:17:31,750 man zeigte Besondres gegen die Armut und Rezepte f?r jenes ?bel der Arbeit, 1207 01:17:32,020 --> 01:17:35,601 das die Menschheit qu?lt, seitdem sie existiert. 1208 01:17:35,928 --> 01:17:38,412 Tocqueville, Erinnerungen 1209 01:17:52,487 --> 01:17:54,888 Aber weder Holz noch Feuer 1210 01:17:54,999 --> 01:17:58,113 werden irgendwo Ruhe finden, 1211 01:18:00,444 --> 01:18:03,822 bei keinem Hitzegrad, ob klein oder gro?, 1212 01:18:03,999 --> 01:18:06,395 in keiner ?hnlichkeit, 1213 01:18:06,575 --> 01:18:08,292 bis nicht das Feuer 1214 01:18:08,610 --> 01:18:11,618 eins geworden ist mit dem Holz 1215 01:18:11,814 --> 01:18:16,133 und ihm seine eigene Natur mitteilt... 1216 01:18:28,208 --> 01:18:31,739 Aber dann kommt es vor, dass man sie des Vandalismus anklagt 1217 01:18:31,926 --> 01:18:35,237 und ihre Respektlosigkeit gegen die Maschine tadelt. 1218 01:18:35,474 --> 01:18:39,267 Diese Kritiken w?rden stimmen, wenn die Arbeiter 1219 01:18:39,545 --> 01:18:43,125 blo? auf Zerst?rung aus w?ren, ohne sich um einen Zweck zu k?mmern. 1220 01:18:43,387 --> 01:18:47,147 Nun ist das aber nicht der Fall ! Wenn die Arbeiter die Maschinen angreifen, 1221 01:18:47,425 --> 01:18:50,837 geschieht das nicht aus Vergn?gen oder Dilettantismus, 1222 01:18:51,001 --> 01:18:54,360 sondern unter dem Zwang unerbittlicher Notwendigkeit. weiter im n0name newsletter #143 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Rezension von Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot_ 40 "Wir" schlossen das letzte mal (-> www.n0name.de/news/news135.txt) mit Sabine Nuss' Zitat von Marx, dass in der griechischen Zeit Reichtum nicht als Zweck der Produktion erscheint. Und: Die "Untersuchung ist immer, welche Weise des Eigentums die besten Staatsb?rger schafft. Als Selbstzweck erscheint der Reichtum nur bei den wenigen Handelsv?lkern - Monopolis-ten des carrying trade -, die in den Poren der alten Welt leben, wie die Juden in der mittelaltrigen Gesellschaft" (Marx 1857/58, 1953: 387). Aber auch die gesteigerte Sorge um den Besitz dient nicht dem Zweck, die Pro-duktion zu erh?hen um des Erh?hens willen. Im Mittelpunkt steht hier ebenfalls die Verbesserung der gesellschaftlichen Bande im Sinne einer friedvolleren Nut-zungsordnung bzw. geht es Aristoteles schlicht um ?gekl?rte Verh?ltnisse". Es scheint einfacher, Grund und Boden, Fr?chte, Tiere, was auch immer, gemeinsam zu nutzen, wenn klar ist, wer dar?ber - verteilend - verf?gen darf, denn dieser kann dann eindeutig adressiert werden und adressieren, als wenn alle alles benut-zen, ohne eindeutige ?bereinkunft, wie genau das geschehen soll. So schreibt Aristoteles: ?Denn wenn jeder einzelne den Besitz pers?nlich als Eigentum hat, kann man ihn einerseits seinen Freunden zur Nutzung bereitstellen, andererseits aber auch den Besitz (anderer) nutzen, so als geh?re er der Allgemeinheit. In dieser Weise (bedient man sich) auch in Sparta der Sklaven, die jeweils der andere besitzt, als geh?rten sie einem selber, au?erdem der Pferde und Hunde, und wenn man Wegzehrung braucht, der (Ertr?ge der) Acker auf dem Lande." (Aristoteles/Sch?trumpf 1991, Pol. II 5, 1263a). Bei Aristoteles ist individuelles Eigentum die Voraussetzung f?r eine geordnetere Nutzung durch die Allgemeinheit. Es f?hrt zur bereits oben f?r die Stammes-gesellschaften konstatierten Verwirrung, wenn Aristoteles ahistorisch verstanden und unreflektiert ?bersetzt wird, was er mit seinem folgenden und h?ufig zitierten Satz auch nahegelegt: Offensichtlich ist es danach vorzuziehen, da? der Besitz zwar Privateigentum ist, allerdings geht der Satz weiter mit: ?da? man ihn aber allen zur Nutzung zur Verf?gung stellt" (Aristoteles/Sch?trumpf 1991, Pol. II 5, 1263a). Nun gibt es in der Verfassung der b?rgerlichen demokratischen Gesell-schaft zwar auch eine ?Sozialpflichtigkeit des Eigentums", sie kann aber nicht mit der von Aristoteles bevorzugten Nutzungsordnung gleich gesetzt werden. Die Sozialpflichtigkeit des Eigentums stellt einen Ausnahmetatbestand dar, sie muss dazu addiert werden, wo das isolierte Individuum und damit das isolierte Privat-eigentum die Ausgangslage darstellt.12 Bei Aristoteles ist es umgekehrt bzw. um es mit Foucault auszudr?cken: Er steht in einer anderen diskursiven Praxis, er denkt und spricht nach anderen Formationsregeln. Ausgangspunkt in seiner Zeit ist die _______________ 12 Weil im Kapitalismus die Produktionsmittel per Privateigentum der Verf?gung durch die Gesellschaft entzogen sind, sie aber gleichzeitig f?r die Gesellschaft produktiv sein sollen, muss die N?tzlichkeit der Produktionsmittel f?r die Gesellschaft noch einmal extra festgeschrieben werden - f?r jene F?lle, in denen die ausschlie?liche Verf?gung durch den Eigent?mer dem gesellschaftlichen Zweck schadet. 142" Armin Medosch schrieb: > (...) Was jedoch wirklich gebraucht wird, anstatt > drakonischer Urteile und Netzsperren, sind neue Wege der Verg?tung > kultureller Produktion, die an den etablierten, im Niedergang > befindlichen Instanzen vorbei gehen. > > Full Text http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1005 Also stelle man sich eine Art kleine neo-buergerliche Revolution der kulturellen Produktionsmittel vor, oder wie? Produktiv fuer alle, weil "verguetet" und nicht _bezahlt_, aber eben verguetet... kulturell. ?---------------------------------------------------? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------+O+ .[TAG]ISO +O+------------------+ ? ? ? S P R E A D O U R R E L E A S E S ? ? ? ? A N D ? ? ? ? S H A R E T H E W E A L T H ? ? ? +------------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ?-----------------------------------------------------------? ??????????????????? ???????? ???????????????????? ??? ?????? ???? ?? ?????? ???? ?????? ???? ??? ?? ?????? ??????????? ????? ??? ??? ???? ????????? ????????? ??????? ? ???? ??? ??????????? ????????? ?????????? ???? ?????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????? ?????????????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ?????? ???? ?? Ist die Share-Gemeinde ein Wappentier? Was konkret getan werden koennte, um die Copyrightfrage zu loesen: "Stellungnahme von Mitgliedern der Antikapitalistischen Linken zum Beschlu? ?Vorschl?ge f?r eine bedarfsdeckende soziale Mindestsicherung? der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke" Ali Emas/Matze Schmidt Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot: Aneignungskonflikte um geistiges Eigentum im informationellen Kapitalismus_. Muenster: Westfaelisches Dampfboot, 2006. 269 S. - EURO 19,90. Erschienen: Oktober 2006 ======================================================================== Sie erhalten den n0name newsletter, weil sie da sind!/You get the n0name newsletter, because you are there! *Bitte weiterleiten!/Please forward!* Archiv: http://www.n0name.de/newsletr.html (c) 1999-2009 n0name, die Autorinnen & Autoren und die Maschinen Unterstuetzt von XPECT MEDIA http://www.xpect-media.de Sponsored by FONDS Dank an >top e.V. ------------------- Ende des n0name newsletter #142 -------------------- -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser From bureaud at altern.org Sat Aug 22 12:03:05 2009 From: bureaud at altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Sat Aug 22 11:58:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] @rt Outsiders Festival: Opening September 8th Message-ID: <4A8FC259.30803@altern.org> Festival @rt Outsiders 2009 www.art-outsiders.com (Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments September 9 > October 11 2009 Wenesday ? Sunday / 11 am-8 pm OPENING SEPTEMBER 8th 2009 ? 4pm ? 8 pm Maison Europ?enne de la Photographie. 5-7, Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris. Metro: Saint Paul or Pont Marie The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival ?celebrating this year its tenth anniversary?focuses on extreme environments. These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into "inhabitable" places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming "uninhabitable" due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures and global warming). "(Un)Inhabitable? ? Art of Extreme Environments" presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones. Artists and works: - Howard Boland & Laura Cinti (UK), The Martian Rose, 2007, mixed media installation, new edition for @rt Outsiders 2009 - Anne Brodie (UK), Antarctica, a Choice? Rothera Collection, 2007, mixed media installation - Peter Cusack (UK), Sounds from Dangerous Places, Chernobyl, 2006-2009, sound and visual installation, new version for @rt Outsiders 2009 - Stephen Eastaugh (Australia), Antarctic Sculpture Garden, 2003, photographies - Shiro Matsui (Japan), EP04 Dewey's Forest, 2009, mixed media installation mixed media, new version for @rt Outsiders 2009 - Connie Mendoza (Chile/Spain/Germany), Numerical Desert, 2008, photographies, production and first exhibition @rt Outsiders 2009 - Hu Jie Ming (China), Altitude Zero, 2003, interactive installation - Forrest Myers (USA), Moon Museum, 1969, ceramic tile, drawings by Forrest Myers, John Chamberlain, David Novros, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol - Lucy + Jorge Orta (France/UK/Argentina), Antarctic Village-No Borders ; Antarctic Village-No Borders Drop Parachute ; Antarctica World Passport Delivery Bureau ; Antarctica World Passport Citizenship Database, 2007-2009, video, installation, performance, online work - Bradley Pitts (USA), Singular Oscillations, 2008-2009, photography - Andrea Polli (USA), Sonic Antarctica, 2007-2008, sound and video installation, new version for @rt Outsiders 2009 - Catherine Rannou (France), Colonisation 2041 et Balises num?riques 32Ko (Digital Beacon 32Ko), 2009, mixed media installation and online work, creations @rt Outsiders 2009 - Ana Rewakowicz (Canada/Poland), SleepingBagDress Prototype II, 2004-2005, mixed media installation and video - Yang Yi (China), Uprooted, 2008, photographies Catalog : bilingual French/English, introductory text by Louis Bec Conference : Wednesday September 16th, MEP auditorium 6pm ? 8pm Les enjeux g?opolitiques des ressources ?nerg?tiques de la zone arctique (in French) Curators : Jean-Luc Soret, artistic director of the @rt Outsiders Festival. Annick Bureaud, theoretician and art critic, director of Leonardo/Olats. Press : Yannick Le Guillanton Tel : ++ 33/1 44 78 75 20 E-Mail : le.guillanton [@] art-outsiders.com -- ------------------------ Annick Bureaud (abureaud@gmail.com) tel/fax : 33/(0)1 43 20 92 23 mobile/cell : 33/(0)6 86 77 65 76 Leonardo/Olats : http://www.olats.org ------------------------- From info at art-action.org Sat Aug 22 20:03:12 2009 From: info at art-action.org (Les Rencontres Internationales) Date: Sat Aug 22 20:03:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] [Festival 2009-2010] Call for Entries | Appel a' proposition | Convocatoria | Teilnahmeaufruf | FILM, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA [EN] [FR] [DE] [ES] Message-ID: <4A9032E0.79058CB0@art-action.org> dear specters, we send you below an information about our current call for entries. please spread out and forward around you. best + + + + + + + + + + + + + + IN ENGLISH http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/en.htm#retour AUF DEUTSCH http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/de.htm#retour EN ESPA?OL http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/es.htm#retour EN FRAN?AIS http://www.art-action.org/site/_news/09/call/fr.htm#retour + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ||||||| CALL FOR ENTRIES ||||||| UNTIL SEPTEMBER 5, 2009: WITH REGULAR MAIL SENDING ||||||| UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15, 2009: WITH VIDEO UPLOAD ||||||| http://www.art-action.org/en_index.htm ||||||| RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID ||||||| FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA The call for entries for the next Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid is open until September 5 and 15, 2009. The next Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid will take place in Paris from November 30 to December 9 at the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume national museum and other venues. The same programme will be presented in Madrid in April 2010 and in Berlin in July 2010. Those three events will feature an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers recognized on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers. ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PROPOSALS, without any restrictions for length or genre. All submissions are free, regardless of geographical origin... [click here >>> http://www.art-action.org/site/en/info/appel.htm ] ? FILMS AND VIDEOS - any film and video format * Video / Experimental video * Fiction, exp. fiction / Short, middle and full length * Documentary, exp. documentary * Experimental film * Animation ? MULTIMEDIA * Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia concert, multimedia performance TO ENTER A PROPOSAL CLICK HERE >>> http://www.art-action.org/site/en/info/appel.htm You may have the opportunity to choose between two types of registration: ? Until September 5, 2009: Entry form to use with regular mail ? Until September 15, 2009: 100% online entry form with video upload PLEASE FORWARD this information to creative organizations, art networks, production organizations, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with. The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify to their reflections and their experiences, but also to artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes. The 'Rencontres Internationales' reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling program opened to everyone.. PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID In 2007, the Rencontres Internationales, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and various audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular in Paris the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume national museum, in Berlin the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and in Madrid the Reina Sofia National museum, the auditorium of the Ministry for Culture, the Tabacalera - futur national centre for visual arts, the Spanish Cinematheque, the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de la Comunidad de Madrid. The 'Rencontres Internationales' is a non-commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions... [click here >>> http://www.art-action.org/site/en/soutien/ ] ||||||| OPENING ||||||| MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009 Opening on Monday, November 30 from 8PM at the Centre Pompidou - Cinema 1 Presentation, screening, cocktail ||||||| PASS/ACCREDITATION ||||||| UNTIL NOVEMBRE 20, 2009 Accreditations (only press and professionals) grant access to the whole program (except for special screenings): screenings, exhibitions, concerts and performances, video library and debates. Accreditation application [click here >>> http://www.art-action.org/site/en/info/pass_accred.htm ] ||||||| PRESS ||||||| PRESS INFORMATION / PRESS KIT Press kit is sent upon receipt of emailed request info(at)art-action.org Press contact [click here >>> http://www.art-action.org/site/en/contact/ ] From armin at easynet.co.uk Sun Aug 23 09:47:43 2009 From: armin at easynet.co.uk (Armin Medosch) Date: Sun Aug 23 09:48:00 2009 Subject: [spectre] SLSA Conference Deadline extended Message-ID: <1251013663.6890.221.camel@armin-laptop> Dear Spectrists, the deadline for the The Sixth European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June, 2010 has been extended to 15th of September. Among the six very interesting conference streams, the track 'networks and sustainability', hosted jointly by Rasa Smite and me, is described in more detail below. hope to see you in Latvia next year, cheers armin Call for Papers The Sixth European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June Main Organizer: Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t) slsa.2010@gmail.com Venues: Main site for the academic programme, reception, lunches: The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) Other conference sites: e-t+t; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts; Riga City Art Space (t.b.c.), The Art Lab, University of Liepaja Streams 1. Textuality and Materiality 2. Architextures 3. Biopalimpsests 4. Tissue Cultures 5. Networks and Sustainability_In Liepaja 19-20 June: 6. Art as Research Main Call for Papers, all Streams http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm conference email: slsa.2010@gmail.com Networks and Sustainability Chairs: Rasa Smite ( director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture, Riga) and Armin Medosch (researcher, writer and curator, Vienna and London) This stream will interrogate the complex relationships between " network technology" and " network society", in order to reveal the multilayered texture of networks and to consider what potential network culture contains for sustainable development in technological, social and cultural fields. After the initial privatisation of the net in the 1990s, there was a wide-spread believe that the decentralized structure of the net would remodel society. Although it did not exactly work out like that, and the net has come under ever more closer corporate and state control, many important developments in the emancipatory use of the net originated in the network culture of the 1990s. While some of the techno-utopian ideas of the 1990s failed, we propose that a deeper analysis of many of the facets of network culture is now demanded. Taking stock of progressive and innovative developments in network culture, we are asking: * Which approaches exist for sustainable and social development of technologies (merging communal and technological developments)? * Which projects are underway to address the alternatives of energy use and other environmental issues (stemming from ICT)? * In which ways have alternative networks been able to create and maintain own network infrastructures (regarding server hosting, bandwidth, wireless and wired community networks, etc.)? * What can artists learn from FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities and vice versa? * In which ways has network culture already transformed the ways artists, curators, art historians and the audience "work" together? And which alternative models for dealing with authorship rights and collective authorship exist? * Which (artistic) strategies have been successfully used for purposes of resistance, social transformations, development of autonomous and sustainable structures? For this stream, we welcome papers by researchers, media theorists, social scientists, network activists and artists, who are engaged with the issues of sustainable development, ecological and alterantive uses of new technologies, social networking and social software development, etc. All proposals should be sent to this email address: slsa.2010@gmail.com From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Sun Aug 23 10:07:23 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sun Aug 23 10:13:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] Eclectic Tech Carnival Istanbul - DIJITAL DANTEL / DIGITAL DOILY September 9-13, 2009 Message-ID: From: begum ozden firat Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:46:23 +0300 > > > >DIJITAL DANTEL / DIGITAL DOILY > >Eclectic Tech Carnival Istanbul > >September 9-13, 2009 > > > >Hi there! You are invited to knit free and open source digital >doilies for yourselves and your loved ones together with other >women & trans from all over the world in the Eclectic Tech Carnival >Istanbul. > > The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women & trans with a >critical interest in Free Information and Open Standards >technology. The event has been held annually since 2002 and creates >an opportunity for women & trans to share their experiences, >knowledge, skills, and network, thus: have fun! > >The 10th Eclectic Tech Carnival will take place on September 9-13 >2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. > >The five-days carnival will consist of workshops on installing and >managing open source and free software, basic HTML and building >websites, creative ways of activism, debates on alternative uses of >technology and art for and within our movements and much more hands- >on workshops on DIY technologies. > > Participate! Just show up and participate in the workshops and >debates. If you want to present a workshop, lecture, performance, >and the like please hurry up and get in touch with us! > > Practical Info: > >Venue: /ETC will take place in the performance center/bar >Haymatlos. The venue is located in the center of Istanbul, on the >Istiklal Street in the Taksim district. We have two huge rooms for >workshops & hangout, a bar, a stage with sound-system, and big >kitchen. > >Participation: The gathering is open for women & trans, >particularly inviting the members of transgender community. > >There is no set participation fee, but we will be open for donations. > >Accommodation: ???mi casa e su casa??? thus, we will try to host >guest in our homes as much as we can. For the rest will arrange an >affordable hostel. > >Food: During the festival the newly formed food collective will be >cooking for us vegetarian/vegan food in Lambdaistanbul and >Haymatlos kitchens. Please get in touch with us if you would like >to give a hand and share your cooking skills. > >Affinities: This year /ETC is in coalition with Resistanbul - >Coordination of Resistance Days against the IMF and WB Meeting (1-8 >October). You are warmly invited to stay in Istanbul a little >longer and join the resistance against the IMF and the World Bank >in October. > > > >email us: etcistanbul@gmail.com > >- for registration, please send us an email stating when you are >arriving in Istanbul, how long you will stay, whether you need >accommodation and your background and basic skills you would like >to share with other participants ??? keeping in mind that none of us >are professionals and every kind of knowledge, experience and skill >is precious for us. > >- if you want to hold a workshop/presentation/performance, the >program is still growing. Hurry up! > > > >see you in istanbul to play - rebel - eat - xchange - discuss - >flirt - bla bla baklava! > >istanbul'da g??r????mek ??zere! > http://etcistanbul.wordpress.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Sun Aug 23 10:20:45 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sun Aug 23 11:04:30 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: Citizensofculture.net Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: http://www.citizensofculture.net Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:36:19 +0300 From: Aytul.bilen We would like to introduce you our virtual social network designed specially for European Cultural Actors. www.citizensofculture.net is a communication platform which is established with the prospect of developing a network and creating communication platforms for sustainable partnerships among cultural actors of Europe. It is connected with our two other virtual network www.artacademia.net designed for art academicians and www.artcitizens.net for artists from Europe When you register at the platform you will choose for yourself, you will reach many individuals(cultural actors), institutions, groups, academicians and artists to announce your, projects, news, schedules, events, writings, music and interest groups. You will also be able to; -Share your personal profile, articles, events and announcements with a broad target group, achieving international visibility, -Creating groups among people of common interests and developing the communication amongst them, -Creating groups of your Projects/organization/gallery, -Having access to resources on their specific research subjects, -Close follow-up of the European events agenda concerning their field of interest, - Reaching other international networks. Best Regards, Ayt?l Bilen Avrupa K?lt?r Derneg?i Fenerli Ahmet Sok. Fener Apt. No.12/1 Feneryolu 34724 I?stanbul Tel: +90 216 3383780 Fax: +90 216 3383706 www.europist.net/akd From play at ubermorgen.com Sun Aug 23 14:44:39 2009 From: play at ubermorgen.com (UBERMORGEN.COM) Date: Sun Aug 23 15:02:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] ISEA 09 and more, fuck yeah! Message-ID: <95284DB9-97D8-4101-8CD8-6DB3559FF046@ubermorgen.com> alert - massenmail - infomail - news alert - besonders wichtig - priority high ISEA 09 . Keynote UBERMORGEN.COM "Superenhanced" Aug 26, 5-6pm, ISEA @ Belfast . Exhibition Golden Thread Gallery Belfast UBERMORGEN.COM "Superenhanced Guantanamo Military Tribunal" Installation NEWNEWNEW . NEW Superenhanced Generator v1 - http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced/ generator NEW Videos - http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced/video.html UPCOMING . Superenhanced Generator, Interrogation Performance, Coded Cultures Yokohama http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced/generator . Superenhanced Generator, Interrogation Performance, Cabarte Voltaire, Zurich http://www.ipnic.org/superenhanced/generator . Adbuster Magazine Interview (USA) Vision Magazine Interview (China) Kunstforum International Interview (Germany) RECENT PUBLICATIONS . UM.BOOK: MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART" HANS BERNHARD / LIZVLX, Alessandro Ludovico (Ed.), Christoph Merian Verlag http://www.ubermorgen.com/books . Gallery Catalogue "UBERMORGEN.COM", FPEditions 2009 EDITOR: Domenico Quaranta, Text: Inke Arns, Jodi.org, Domenico Quaranta http://www.fpeditions.com/libri/schedauber.html . UBERMORGEN.COM manifesto v1 http://ubermorgen.com/manifesto http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2009/05/11/political-work-in- the-aftermath-of-the-new-media-arts-crisis/ http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-first-panel- of-positions-1.php . 1001 Songs of eBay, The Sound of eBay, UBERMORGEN.COM&&Nussbaumer Cr?nica 043~2009, http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=043 . hansbernhardblog (daily drugs&food) on twitter http://twitter.com/hansblog . "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector II / The Adventure Game" Hans Bernhard = Special Non Player Guest Character check out the game: http://www.monochrom.at/suz-game/ . MIGROS-Kulturprozent Podcast (Deutsch), Interview mit Hans Bernhard http://www.podcast-kulturprozent.ch/year/2008/ . Chaosradio Express Podcast (Deutsch), Tim Pritlove spricht mit UBERMORGEN.COM ueber Netzkunst, Benutzerunfreundlichkeit und Nazis http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre132.html . Mimikry. Gef?hrlicher Luxus zwischen Natur und Kultur Hrsg. Andreas Becker, Martin Doll, Serjoscha Wiemer und Anke Zechner Zeiterfahrung und ?sthetische Wahrnehmung, Band 4 320 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, ISBN 978-3-931264-74-1, 39,- Euro Mit einem Beitrag von UBERMORGEN.COM Hans Bernhard . Black n White : P'retty Ugly http://www.ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite RECENT EXHIBITIONS . PRAGUE BIENNALE 4 Hyperlucid, curated by Domenico Quaranta Artists: Alterazioni Video; Gazira Babeli; Shane Hope; Miltos Manetas; Gerhard Mantz; Eva and Franco Mattes; UBERMORGEN.COM; Damon Zucconi. . UBERMORGEN.COM's "The Sound of eBay", ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe "YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer, 01.05-30.08.2009 http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com/visualcoding.html RECENT TALKS . Coded Cultures Symposium, MUMOK Vienna Positions in Flux Symposium, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Trouw Amsterdam Summer School @ Night, Eyebeam New York E-Tribal Art Meeting, British Council Sofia UBERMORGEN.COM Salon, Das Weisse Haus Vienna Artist Talk, Academy of Art Linz Artist Talk & Book Presentation, [plug.in] Basel Fair for Subversion, Halle 09, Linz Artist Talk, Les Rencontres Internationales, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Madrid . . fuck yeah! hans&&lizvlx&&billie-ada&&lola mae . UBERMORGEN.COM officeR@ubermorgen.com, http://www.ubermorgen.com Skype Hans_Bernhard, Mobile +43 650 930 00 61 or 60 twitter.com/hansbernhard, facebook.com/ubermorgen delicious.com/hansbernhard We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Veterans are pussies. And The Federal Court and Type II Diabetes is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit! Copyright imdb.com + check the brandnew functions (colors, faces, ...) http:// images.google.com/ (bow) From paul at paul-brown.com Mon Aug 24 08:12:03 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Mon Aug 24 08:13:00 2009 Subject: [spectre] Reminder: Barbara Nessim - CAS September Meeting Message-ID: <8D46A1D6-399E-4ECC-AB70-115EDC92F9ED@paul-brown.com> *REMINDER* The BCS CAS SG is pleased to announce that our Autumn Programme will launch with a presentation by the internationally-renowned artist and illustrator Barbara Nessim. Barbara is visiting the UK briefly and we are lucky to have this opportunity to hear her speak and to see her work. This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. Wednesday 2 September 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm Birbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive Barbara Nessim "My introduction to the computer began when Peter Spackman, the then Director of the Council of the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invited me to present my work to the students at The Visible Language Workshop, a new MIT graduate program. In turn, the students would teach me how to use the computer to create my work. I was both excited by the challenge and skeptical as to how a computer could be used to create art. This was 1980, before the Mac and the IBM PC. I already had 20 years experience as a fine artist and illustrator. This talk takes us through the years before and after the introduction of the computer, as an added artistic "super" tool. It covers the early computers from 1981 to the present, as well as detailing the many creative ways the art developed into hardcopy. I will also discuss the ideas central to my fine art exhibitions as well as reveal the anatomy and concept behind my published illustrations." Internationally-renowned artist, illustrator and educator Barbara Nessim has been a visionary in the art world for decades. Original in her creativity, she has an extensive resume of accomplishments, and a portfolio of work that?s been showcased in prominent museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Educated at Pratt Institute in New York, Barbara was quickly recognized for her distinctive style, and became one of the first female freelance illustrators of her time. In 1980, she embraced the use of the computer in her fine art and illustration, a topic upon which she has frequently lectured. Barbara has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and Parsons The New School for Design, where she served as Chairperson of Illustration. Today Barbara?s focus is on several commissions for buildings in New York City. http://www.barbaranessim.com CAS Autumn Programme: Wed 02 Sep - Barbara Nessim Wed 14 Oct - Roman Versotko - note second Wednesday Wed 04 Nov - unconfimed Wed 02 Dec - Iris Asaf CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Thu Aug 20 16:46:06 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Mon Aug 24 09:15:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-15?q?Landschaft_2=2E0_-_Er=F6ffnung__=7C_Op?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ening_=7C_28=2E_August_2009?= Message-ID: <4A8D7DC5.9ACC.00AE.0@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu der folgenden Veranstaltung herzlich einladen | We would like to invite you cordially to the following event LANDSCHAFT 2.0 / LANDSCAPE 2.0 ER?FFNUNG | OPENING Freitag, 28. August 2009, 20 Uhr | Friday, 28 August 2009, 8 p.m. im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany **************** Please scroll down for English version**************** Landschaft 2.0 Eine Ausstellung zu Realit?t und K?nstlichkeit von Landschaft 29. August - 15. November 2009 eine Kooperation zwischen dem Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst (Oldenburg) und dem Kunstverein Springhornhof (Neuenkirchen bei Soltau) Wie nehmen wir Landschaft wahr - als reale und m?glichst unber?hrte Natur; als reale aber durchkonstruierte Wirklichkeit oder als digitale Fantasiewelt? Was kann und soll Landschaft heute leisten? Und welche Visionen gibt es von ihrer Zukunft? Die Ausstellung Landschaft 2.0 setzt romantische Sehns?chte und Empfindungen den Anspr?chen einer modernen globalisierten Welt und ihren Handlungsmaximen gegen?ber. Aus unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln wird von K?nstlerinnen und K?nstlern die Frage thematisiert, wie sich das Erscheinungsbild und die Wahrnehmung von Landschaften in den letzten Jahren gewandelt haben. ?kologische Ver?nderungen sind dabei ebenso Gegenstand der Auseinandersetzung wie die neu entstandenen digitalen Fantasielandschaften von Second Life oder anderen virtuellen Welten. Technologischer Fortschritt hat das menschliche Verh?ltnis zum Raum ma?geblich ver?ndert. Global Positioning Systeme und ihre Anwendung (von Google Earth bis GIS) erm?glichen eine pr?zise Verortung des Anwenders im topografischen Raum, die vorher unvorstellbar war. Topografischer realer Raum und digitaler Kommunikationsraum ?berlagern einander. Diese Ver?nderungen der Wahrnehmung von Landschaft und topografischem Raum wird von den K?nstlerinnen und K?nstlern der Ausstellung reflektiert. Die K?nstlerInnen der Ausstellung haben unterschiedliche Strategien entwickelt, sich mit diesem komplexen Thema auseinanderzusetzen. Vaughn Bell, Wapke Feenstra, David Hahlbrock und Ursula Damm werfen einen Blick zur?ck auf historische Entwicklungen und ihre Auswirkungen auf heutige Landschaftsstrukturen. Beate G?tschow nimmt Bezug auf die traditionelle Landschaftsdarstellung. Susan Collins reflektiert die Ver?nderungen unserer Landschaft durch technologische und globale Entwicklungen. Ulu Braun und Thiago Rocha Pitta entwickeln utopische Ideen und Konzepte einer zuk?nftigen nachhaltigen Landschaftsplanung. Janice Kerbel, Jane Prophet, Rachel Reupke und Monika Studer/Christoph van den Berg schaffen digitale Erlebnisr?ume und Modellwelten. Um das Verh?ltnis von K?rper, Blick und Perspektive in virtuellen Landschaften geht es in der Installation von Katrin Sigurdardottir. Praktiken des Lesens und der Vermessung von Landschafsr?umen mittels neuer Technologien und deren Umsetzung in ?sthetische und akustische Information (GPS, Google-Maps) sind Thema der Arbeiten von C5 Landscape Initiative, B?ro f?r Unabw?gbarkeiten, Masaki Fujihata, Teri Rueb und Thomson & Craighead, die Datenmaterial ?ber Landschaft h?r- und erfahrbar machen. F?r die Ausstellung sind mehrere ortsspezifische Arbeiten entwickelt worden, die den medial vermittelten Raum thematisieren und untersuchen. Technische Medien werden eingesetzt, um diese neuen Praktiken des Lesens und Vermessens von R?umen f?r neue ?sthetische und akustische Erfahrungen zu nutzen. Entsprechend findet die Ausstellung nicht nur in den Ausstellungsr?umen des Edith-Ru?-Hauses f?r Medienkunst und des Springhornhof Neuenkirchen statt, sondern sie ist in den ?ffentlichen Raum erweitert. Die Besucher werden eingeladen, ausgestattet mit GPS System und tragbarem Computer, den umliegenden Landschaftsraum neu zu entdecken und zu erforschen. Diese Interventionen im ?ffentlichen Raum besch?ftigen sich mit Fragen von Geschichte von Landschaft und urbanem Raum, von Landschaft und K?rper, Schall- und Klangr?umen. Die Ausstellung ist eine Kooperation zwischen dem Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst und dem Springhornhof Neuenkirchen (bei Soltau) und findet gleichzeitig an beiden Orten statt. Um alle Werke zu sehen, sind die Besucher eingeladen, beide Ausstellungsorte zu besuchen. K?nstlerInnen: Vaughn Bell, Ulu Braun, B?ro f?r Unabw?gbarkeiten, Susan Collins, C5 Landscape Initiative, Ursula Damm, Wapke Feenstra, Masaki Fujihata, Beate G?tschow, David Hahlbrock, Janice Kerbel, Jane Prophet, Rachel Reupke, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Teri Rueb, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Monica Studer und Christoph van den Berg, Thomson & Craighead Kuratorinnen: Bettina von Dziembowski und Sabine Himmelsbach Wir bedanken uns bei den Sponsoren und Partnern: Kulturstiftung des Bundes Stiftung Niedersachsen Oldenburgische Landesbank Mondriaan Foundation Klangpol / Netzwerk Neue Musik ?FFNUNGSZEITEN Dienstag - Freitag 14 - 17 Uhr Samstag und Sonntag 11 - 17 Uhr Montag geschlossen Eintritt: 2,50 / 1,50 Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 25 68 fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61 info@edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de Sollten Sie keine Informationen mehr von uns erhalten wollen, benachrichtigen Sie uns bitte unter unserer email-Adresse: info@edith-russ-haus.de ***************************************************************** Landscape 2.0 An exhibition on the reality and the artificiality of the landscape 28 August - 15 November 2009 A joint project of the Edith Ru? Site for Media Art (Oldenburg) and the Kunstverein Springhornhof (Neuenkirchen near Soltau) How do we perceive landscapes? As real and preferably undisturbed nature? As a real but totally constructed reality or as a digital fantasy world? What can and should the landscape accomplish today? And what visions are there about its future? The exhibition Landscape 2.0 juxtaposes romantic yearnings and emotions with the demands of a modern globalised world and its guiding principles. It concerns a contemporary exploration of the subject matter of the landscape and its importance in the present day. The significance of the landscape is permanently subject to an historic transformation that is influenced by social, ideological and technical changes. Landscape as an artistic representation was simultaneously always an inventory of the respective discourse regarding nature and its importance in peoples* lives. A new relationship to our surroundings has resulted from the increasing virtualisation of our world. Now that it has become navigable, predictable and thus manipulable in various ways, the shaped and constructed landscape functions like a catalogue of interpretations of nature, of society, of the economy or culture. The artists participating in the exhibition have developed various strategies of dealing with this complex subject matter. Vaughn Bell, Wapke Feenstra, David Hahlbrock and Ursula Damm have taken a look back at historic developments and the effects they have had on present-day landscape structures. Beate G?tschow references traditional portrayals of the landscape. Susan Collins reflects upon the changes in our landscape resulting from technological and global developments. Ulu Braun and Thiago Rocha Pitta have developed utopian ideas and concepts regarding sustainable landscape planning in the future. Janice Kerbel, Jane Prophet, Rachel Reupke and Monica Studer/Christoph van den Berg have produced digital venues and model worlds. Katrin Sigurdardottir*s installation deals with the relationship between body, sight and perspective in virtual landscapes. Practices of life and the measuring of landscape spaces by means of modern technologies and their translation into aesthetic and acoustic information (GPS, Google Maps) are the themes dealt with in the works of Brett Stalbaum/Cicero DaSilva/walkingtools.net, the B?ro f?r Unabw?gbarkeiten, Masaki Fujihata, Teri Rueb and Thomson & Craighead who make data regarding landscapes audible and tangible. Artists: Vaughn Bell, Ulu Braun, B?ro f?r Unabw?gbarkeiten, Susan Collins, Ursula Damm, Wapke Feenstra, Masaki Fujihata, Beate G?tschow, David Hahlbrock, Janice Kerbel, Jane Prophet, Rachel Reupke, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Teri Rueb, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Brett Stalbaum/Cicero DaSilva/walkingtools.net, Monica Studer und Christoph van den Berg, Thomson & Craighead Curators: Bettina von Dziembowski und Sabine Himmelsbach Many thanks to our supporters and partners: Kulturstiftung des Bundes Stiftung Niedersachsen Oldenburgische Landesbank Mondriaan Foundation Klangpol / Netzwerk Neue Musik OPENING HOURS Tuesday - Friday 2 - 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday closed Admission: 2,50 / 1,50 Edith Russ Site for Media Art 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 If you don't want to receive our newsletter anymore, please contact us by email: info@edith-russ-haus.de From drew at futuresonic.com Tue Aug 25 12:57:11 2009 From: drew at futuresonic.com (Drew Hemment) Date: Tue Aug 25 13:01:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] Launching The FutureEverything Awards and FutureEverything Message-ID: <980CD37E-5001-4886-8BDB-CF3D69FB159F@futuresonic.com> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Launching The FutureEverything Awards and FutureEverything - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We are still reeling from the stunning success of Futuresonic 2009. Our award winning festival drew an attendance of 75,000, and featured a huge range of incredible artistic projects including many world- firsts. It is thrilling to be in the middle of a quantum leap, and such an incredible year has given us huge momentum leading into 2010. We are proud to announce the launch of a major new international award, The FutureEverything Awards, and after 15 years at the leading edge of art, music and ideas, Futuresonic is now named FutureEverything, to reflect the greater scope and ambition of the festival. The date of the inaugural FutureEverything festival is 12-15 May 2010, with a series of launch events during October 2009, and nominations for the Award are open from 1st September 2009. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Launching The FutureEverything Awards - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://awards.futureeverything.org Introducing the FutureEverything Awards, a new international award recognising outstanding achievement for innovation in the arts, music, society and technology. The new award celebrates creative projects in any medium which offer a new and unique way to experience or see the world and help to bring the future into the present. Open to anyone internationally to nominate a project or to submit their own project. Submissions Deadline -- 1 Dec 2009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Awards - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In 2009-2010 the first in four categories of award introduced ? FutureEverything Art Award 2010 From 2010-2011 four categories of award will be awarded annually ? FutureEverything Art Award 2011 ? FutureEverything Music Award 2011 ? FutureEverything Society & Technology Award 2011 ? FutureEverything Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Awards Benefits - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The winners receive the new FutureEverything Trophy, a cash prize, and the opportunity to present their project at the Awards Ceremony and within the FutureEverything catalogue and website. The awards promote world class innovation and introduce the leading practitioners to stakeholders and the wider public, helping to promote and foster innovation culture in the UK and around the world. Awards Ceremony is a Gala event staged during the FutureEverything festival, also featuring presentations of the winner and runners up, and a world class curated programme of performance and presentations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jury Process - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The prizes are awarded following a rigorous and transparent assessment process. 1. Submissions reviewed by an International Jury 2. The International Jury produce a shortlist of three outstanding achievements 3. The winner is decided by a vote by the FutureEverything Community - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything 2010 Launch Events - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://futureeverything.org/news/octoberlaunch Join us for a series of big bang launch events throughout Autumn 2009 for each strand of FutureEverything 2010. FutureEverything features world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world, plus the awards ceremony for The FutureEverything Awards. - - - - - - - - - - Art Launch - - - - - - - - - - Environment 2.0 Exhibition at LICA LICA (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) 6/10/09 - 31/08/09, launch [6.00pm, 6/08/09] FutureEverything has been invited to curate an exhibition featuring a selection of works enagaging in the Environment 2.0 theme, with artworks from international artists including Ackroyd & Harvey, HeHe, Amy Balkin, Eva Meyer-Keller and Aaron Koblin. - - - - - - - - - - Music Launch - - - - - - - - - - ZU - Live KONG - Live NOW WAVE DJS + MORE TBC Islington Mill, Salford 03/10/09 Driven by a 'Black Flag' work ethic, Zu have played the astounding number of over 1000 gigs all over Europe, America, Canada , Asia, Russia, and even Africa, and have released 14 albums. Kong's music, such as it is, takes all the risibly obnoxious elements of lots of very loud, credible bands, feeds it non-brand specific lager, then comes on it in its sleep. - - - - - - - - - - Ideas Launch - - - - - - - - - - TEDxManchester BBC Broadcasting House, Manchester 2/10/09 FutureEverything is collaborating with BBC and Codeworks, to deliver an inspiring session of speakers and TEDTalks videos packed full of "ideas worth spreading". TEDxManchester will feature TEDTalks video and live speakers to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. This event has received great interest and places are booking up fast. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Taking the stage at ISEA2009, Ars Electronica & Picnic - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.futureeverything.org/news/takingthestage FutureEverything?s Artistic Director Drew Hemment has been invited to speak at three prestigious international events during August and September. - - - - - - - - - - International Symposium of Electronica Arts / ISEA2009 - - - - - - - - - - Belfast 26/8/08, 11.30am-12pm http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/?page_id=102 - - - - - - - - - - Ars Electronica - - - - - - - - - - Brucknerhaus, Linz 6/9/09, 2pm-3pm http://www.aec.at/humannature/en/category/presentations - - - - - - - - - - Picnic - - - - - - - - - - Amsterdam, Main Stage Talk 25/9/09 http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/52770/en - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything 2010 - Get Involved - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://futureeverything.org/getinvolved In 2010 there will be a new beginning, we look forward to you joining us on a new journey as a part of the first FutureEverything festival. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social Technologies Roadshow - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything has been inundated with invitations to take the Social Technologies Summit on the road, and the result is a series of seminars and networking events. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Environment 2.0 - Ongoing Impact and Events - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything's influential work on environmental sustainability has led to a range of new international initiatives, including new international collaborations with Picnic, Waag and Leonardo. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FuturesFamily - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FuturesFamily is a new Artists in Residence initiative established to nurture artists at the very cutting edge of art, music and ideas. Our family have been hand selected for their innovation and experimentation, driving forward our ethos to challenge and inspire. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Blog - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Discover more about FutureEverything including behind-the-scenes reports on our projects by Drew Hemment, the Festival Director, and reports on recent events in Berlin and Japan. http:// futureeverything.org/blog - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything Friends - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Join FutureEverything Friends and become part of a special community who help us to commission, produce and present projects working with the worlds most exciting and influential artists, musicians, performers, thinkers and writers. http://futureeverything.org/friends - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stepladder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything provides a platform for people like you to create, perform and inspire. A dedicated area of the website highlights the ways we can support innovators in art, technology and society, plus info on courses at our partner institution, Lancaster University. http://futureeverything.org/stepladder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Volunteers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything offers a range of opportunities to join the team and gain invaluable experience. Long and short term placements are available. http://futureeverything.org/getinvolved - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything Community - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The FutureEverything online community allows you to create your own profile, find and message other participants and friends, and even update your Twitter feed from http://community.futureeverything.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Archive - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The festival has been at the forefront of art, music and ideas since 1995. Browse past projects and editions of the festival here http:// futureeverything.org/archive - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subscribe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The FutureEverything mailing list has been running since 1995. Select the areas you are interested in so that we can send you the information that is relevant to you. http://futureeverything.org/ subscribe For more information about FutureEverything 2010 or to find out about one of the many events coming up please visit http:// futureeverything.org. From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Tue Aug 25 13:30:01 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Tue Aug 25 13:30:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Interactive Art Research Message-ID: <4A93E7590200003C000275E0@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Hi Spectrists, have the impression that this new publication could be interesting for list members. Oliver ------------------- Gerfried Stocker, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau (Eds.) Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau - Interactive Art Research, 2009. Springer Verlag Vienna/New York, ISBN: 978-3-211-99015-5 English, with DVD http://www.springer.com/springerwiennewyork/art/book/978-3-211-99015-5 This monograph represents a comprehensive overview of Sommerer & Mignonneau's art and research. In addition to providing detailed project descriptions of each interactive artwork, it includes essays and articles by highly recognized media scholars and theoreticians such as Peter Weibel, Christiane Paul, Mathias Michalka, Tomoe Moriyama, Itsuo Sakane, Erkki Huhtamo, Christine Schoepf, Hannes Leopoldseder, Ingeborg Reichle, John L. Casti, Machiko Kusahara, Florence de M?redieu, Oliver Grau and Roy Ascott. From seamascain at gmail.com Tue Aug 25 18:47:24 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Tue Aug 25 19:05:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Isle of St. Kilda Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40908250947u63516140t50a3aad912cdb428@mail.gmail.com> _______________ On the 29th of August 2009, there will be a simultaneous festival of arts & cultural events in communities throughout Scotland. This multi-site festival will celebrate the ancient Gaelic culture of one of the world's truly spectacular places, the Isle of St. Kilda. http://www.stkilda.eu/st-kilda-day-2009/st-kilda-day-09-full-program Events are planned in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Berneray, the Isle of Harris, the Isle of Lewis, Perth, Argyll, Portree, & North Uist as well as South Uist. The Isle of St. Kilda lies 65 kilometres out into the Atlantic to the west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The Isle of St. Kilda emerged from a huge volcano more than 50 million years ago & its vertical rock cliffs are dizzyingly tall. This festival of the Isle of St. Kilda, sponsored by Gaelic Arts & Pr?iseact nan Ealan, celebrates the place & the people of the Isle, their lives & their legacy in poetry & music & song, words & images, storytelling & film. (BBC ALBA will be showing a number of St. Kilda related programmes, so watch out for these in the run up to St. Kilda Day.) www.stkilda.eu Moran taing, S?amas Cain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain _______________ From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Aug 26 13:26:03 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Aug 26 13:28:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid. In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A951BCB.2030806@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid. Article by Ellie Harrison http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=360 Ellie Harrison highlights concerns for the future of humanity and the future of art, focusing on 2 central texts: Bourriaud's Altermodern Manifesto and a faux encyclopedia entry from the future which retrospectively defines 'the Age of Stupid' released as promotional material for Franny Armstrong's film. "Set in the year 2055, The Age of Stupid focuses on a man living alone in a world which has all but been destroyed by climate change. In an attempt to understand exactly how such a tragedy could have befallen his species and the society and culture which they created over the course of several millennia, he begins to review a series of 'archive' documentary clips from 2008. His aim is to discover how his ancestors - the one generation of people who had the power to prevent the impending disaster - could have demonstrated such disregard or contempt for the future." "What is most terrifying about Bourriaud's Manifesto therefore, is its absolute lack of acknowledgement of the real and dangerous future that we face. Rather than speaking out and demanding the dramatic changes that are necessary, it seems to support a continuation of the status quo of the last twenty years. In his video interview on the Tate website, Bourriaud describes the purpose of the altermodern as the "cultural answer to alterglobalisation" (Bourriaud 2009a). However, rather than questioning the carbon-heavy lifestyles that a globalised world promotes he seems to complicitly buy into them, insisting that "our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe". Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From bbrace at eskimo.com Wed Aug 26 15:17:39 2009 From: bbrace at eskimo.com ({ brad brace }) Date: Wed Aug 26 15:18:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] NP/bbs In-Reply-To: <4A951BCB.2030806@furtherfield.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> <4A951BCB.2030806@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: NOW PLAYING: over 13 hours of fresh mp3 rips of long reticent monoaural, radio-drifts=A5= , soup kitchens, police sirens, and forgotten film-soundtracks --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- --- http://bbrace.net/undisclosed.html --- =A5 strangely compelling recordings from car radio while travelling under high-frequency transmission lines in central california --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- --- http://bbrace.net/undisclosed.html --- [ eventually these will also be uploaded to internet archive, scrib and lul= u ] enjoy! /:b From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Aug 27 09:25:44 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (JavaMuseum) Date: Thu Aug 27 09:26:20 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for entries: JavaMuseum 2010 - Celebrate! Message-ID: <20090827092544.1D02F644.F2326359@192.168.0.3> Call for proposals ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010 Celebrate! 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is planning a big show online, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork:||cologne JavaMuseum is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised more than 20 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2009 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart since 2000 including more than 400 artists and 1000 art works. In 2006, JavaMuseum launched - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project containing meanwhile more than 80 interviews with experts and artists in the fields of digital and electronic art. On occasion of its 10th anniversary, JavaMuseum is planning to launch in autumn 2010 a netart show, entitled: Celebrate! in order to celebrate netart as an exciting, but anyway widely underestimated art genre, yet. This represents the best reason for inviting artists active on the fields of new, digital and electronic media to submit their latest or their older netart art projects which may originate from the years 2000-2010. Please find the details, regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 -------------------------------------------------------- JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org and JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org are corporate parts of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.javamuseum.org the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net -------------------------------------------------------- From joris at v2.nl Thu Aug 27 10:19:46 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Thu Aug 27 10:20:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter September 2009 Message-ID: <4A9641A2.3010206@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter September 2009 V2_Organisation: Vacancy for a Systems Manager http://www.v2.nl/organization/working-at-v2/vacature-systeembeheerder V2_ is immediately seeking a SYSTEMS MANAGER to join its team for 5 days / 38 hours a week. View the complete job description (Dutch version only) at www.v2.nl. Send your CV and a letter explaining why you?re right for the job to jobs@v2.nl by 15 September. --------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Organisation: Volunteers wanted V2_ is looking for enthusiastic volunteers who?d like to help during the Wereld van Witte de With festival on 11, 12 and 13 September and the Bernie Lubell exhibition "The Origins of Innocence" from 16 October to 22 November. Your expenses will be reimbursed. For more information, contact Anne-Mercedes on v2@v2.nl. --------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Lab: Test_Lab at Ars Electronica 4 September, 2?5 p.m. Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-at-festival-ars-electronica The V2_Lab will stage a special edition of Test_Lab: Summer Sessions at the Ars Electronica Festival. Work from three artists? residencies will be presented to the public in Linz. (See Test_Lab Summer Sessions below.) Respondent: David Stolarsky (Ars Electronica Futurelab) Performance: Robot Cowboy (Dan Wilcox, Ars Electronica Futurelab). ------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: V2_ at De Wereld van Witte de With 11?13 September V2_ (ground floor) and Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/events/v2_-op-wereld-van-witte-de-with During Rotterdam?s popular De Wereld van Witte de With festival, V2_ presents two installations: Boris Debackere?s "probe" and Marnix de Nijs?s "Physiognomic Scrutinizer". In "probe", the visitor is sucked into an endless interactive audiovisual trip. "Physiognomic Scrutinizer" uses biometric technology to pair and compare visitors? faces with others in a database of portraits of the worst kind of subversives. ------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 17 September, 8?11 p.m. V2_ (ground floor), Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions This summer, V2_Lab artists-in-residence Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri and David de Buyser worked on projects respectively related to wearable technology, augmented reality and the Life&Art series. At this Test_Lab, we?ll present their work to the public and place the V2_Lab in the spotlight. Over a refreshing free cocktail, we?ll look back at three fruitful Summer Sessions. Introduction: Boris Debackere, respondent: Angela Plohman. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Aug 27 14:54:44 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Aug 27 14:59:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] Review of FutureSonic:Environment2.0 2009 In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A968214.6000703@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Review of FutureSonic:Environment2.0 2009 This review of the 2009 FutureSonic festival by Ruth Catlow and Olga Panades looks at artists' and technologists' explorations, of participation and agency in a networked society in the context of environmental crisis. It also reflects on the partial adoption of an ecological approach in a celebration of the new techno-green-enterprise soon to become FutureEverything. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=359 Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ _________________________________ From inke.arns at snafu.de Thu Aug 27 19:00:55 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Thu Aug 27 19:01:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] German premiere: Laptoporchester Berlin, 28.8.2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund References: <20E4992D-14BB-4414-B20D-60AE3C2290B8@hmkv.de> Message-ID: <88BD63BF-E8CA-4B4C-B087-B6F379F0E7AD@snafu.de> (Please scroll down for German version) GERMAN PREMIERE Laptoporchester Berlin Endliche Automaten in concert at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund on 28 August 2009 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? presents New Music, electroacoustic music and electronica The Berlin-based Laptoporchester ?Endliche Automaten? will give a concert on 28 August (Friday) at 20:00 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. The concert takes place in the framework of the international media art exhibition ?Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media" which Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) shows at PHOENIX Halle until 18 October 2009. Admission for the concert is free. Composition journey through Central and South Eastern Europe In the framework of the cultural management program of the Robert Bosch Foundation the orchestra travelled through Central and South Eastern Europe in April 2009 and visited the cities ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu and Ruse. In each city a local composer wrote a new piece especially for the Laptoporchester Berlin. The new composition was played on the next destination of their journey. As more and more pieces were created, the orchestra played increasingly fewer pieces from their own repertoire, until finally the repertoire was completely changed. The six musicians Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki will present the results of this composition journey in Dortmund as a German premiere. The video artist Hagen Wiel joins them as a guest. The Robert Bosch Foundation and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund support the event which features contemporary music a.o. from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Romania. The Laptoporchester was founded in Berlin in 2003. It plays, deconstructs and reconstructs pieces from the fields of New Music, electro-acoustic music and electronica ? experimental, noise and avant-garde music. The six musicians use their notebooks as instruments. Together with a growing number of guests - solo musicians and video artists - they create an audio-visual synthesis which connects orchestra, performance and concert. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? laptop Marek Brandt ? laptop Oliver Kiesow ? laptop Stephane Leonard ? laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? laptop Nic Weiser ? laptop Guest: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php? nr=4066&rubric=events& Venue: HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Road description: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/ Start: 20:00 h Free admission Generously supported by: Robert Bosch Foundation Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------- DEUTSCH -------- DEUTSCHLAND-PREMIERE Laptop-Orchester spielt am 28.8. in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? pr?sentiert Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica Das Laptop-Orchester ?Endliche Automaten? aus Berlin spielt am 28. August (Freitag) um 20 Uhr in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. Das Konzert findet statt im Rahmen der internationalen Medienkunst-Ausstellung ?Wach sind nur die Geister ? ?ber Gespenster und ihre Medien?, die der Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) noch bis zum 18. Oktober 2009 in der PHOENIX Halle zeigt. Der Eintritt zum Konzert ist frei. Kompositionsreise durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa Im Rahmen des Robert Bosch Kulturmanager-Programms reiste das Ensemble im April 2009 durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa und besuchte die St?dte ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu und Ruse. In jeder Stadt schrieb ein Komponist aus der Region f?r das Laptop- Orchester ein zeitgen?ssisches Werk, das w?hrend einer mehrt?gigen Orchesterprobe vor Ort einstudiert wurde. Daraufhin wurde die jeweilige Neukomposition an der n?chsten Station der Reise uraufgef?hrt und das Repertoire an mittelosteurop?ischen Klangbildern wuchs. Die Ergebnisse der mehrw?chigen Kompositionsreise pr?sentieren die sechs Musiker Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki und Nic Weiser als Deutschlandpremiere am Freitag in Dortmund, als Gast ist der Videok?nstler Hagen Wiel dabei. Die Robert Bosch Stiftung und das Kulturb?ro der Stadt Dortmund unterst?tzen die Veranstaltung, bei der zeitgen?ssische Musik u.a. aus Tschechien, Ungarn, Kroatien und Rum?nien zu h?ren sein wird. Das Laptop-Orchester wurde 2003 in Berlin gegr?ndet. Es spielt, dekonstruiert und rekonstruiert seit Jahren St?cke aus den Bereichen Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica. Die sechs Musiker benutzen Notebooks als Instrumente und schaffen zusammen mit Solisten und Videok?nstlern eine Klang-Bild-Symbiose, die sich zwischen Orchesterauff?hrung, Performance und Konzert bewegt. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? Laptop Marek Brandt ? Laptop Oliver Kiesow ? Laptop Stephane Leonard ? Laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? Laptop Nic Weiser ? Laptop Gast: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_veranstaltungen/detail.php? nr=4061&rubric=veranstaltungen& Veranstaltungsort: HMKV in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Wegbeschreibung: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_kontakt_wegbeschreibung/ Beginn: 20:00 Uhr Eintritt frei Mit freundlicher Unterst?tzung durch: Robert Bosch Stiftung Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------------- Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero / office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 info@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Laufende Ausstellung / Currently on view: ?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 16 May ? 18 Oct 2009 From Jim at spacestudios.org.uk Thu Aug 27 19:02:15 2009 From: Jim at spacestudios.org.uk (Jim Prevett) Date: Thu Aug 27 19:03:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] Owl Project | Build you own m-Log workshop | London | 25th & 26th Sep Message-ID: Build you own m-Log workshop led by Owl Project plus special guest Leafcutter John Friday 25th and 26th At SPACE, Mare Street, Hackney A two day workshop to build your own hand held music controller out of a log. http://owlproject.com http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/blogcategory/Media_Arts/ What is an m-Log? Each m-Log is a unique music micro-controller that is made from a log. You design the functions, buttons, knobs and little unique designs that will personalise the way your log looks and the Owl Project will help you to build the electronics to complete your controller. What can it do? You can design your m-Log to use a range of sensors. Available with a rage of built in sensor inputs (light sensors, accelerometers etc) it has plug in and play compatibility with a wide variety of applications, notably MAX MSP/jitter, SuperCollider and Open Frameworks. The workshop includes all the materials needed to build & customise an m-Log to your own spec, a workshop in how to make the log work with software programmes and a special jam performance with Leafcutter John and his very own personalised m-Log. ?180 for 2 days including all equipment to make your own m-Log To apply for a reduced price, or a bursary please contact: jim[at]spacestudios[dot]org[dot]uk To Book: http://mlogworkshop.eventbrite.com/ 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 Forthcoming Exhibitions: Tom Ellis -Get me a show in China Richard John Jones - PROH-SOH' PA-PEER 4th September - 17th October 2009 Paintings, fictionally-readymade furniture and (a bit of) nihilism from Tom Ellis. An exhibition in two parts from Richard John Jones, launching NEU! - SPACE's young artist platform Art Services Grants Ltd Reg Charity #267021 Reg in England & Wales #1157240 Reg Office: 129 - 131 Mare Street From inke.arns at snafu.de Thu Aug 27 19:08:33 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Thu Aug 27 19:09:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] German premiere: Laptoporchester Berlin, 28.8.2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund References: <20E4992D-14BB-4414-B20D-60AE3C2290B8@hmkv.de> Message-ID: <90E70BC8-DFA0-4533-8F5F-E2B48608FCC0@snafu.de> (Please scroll down for German version) GERMAN PREMIERE Laptoporchester Berlin Endliche Automaten in concert at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund on 28 August 2009 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? presents New Music, electroacoustic music and electronica The Berlin-based Laptoporchester ?Endliche Automaten? will give a concert on 28 August (Friday) at 20:00 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. The concert takes place in the framework of the international media art exhibition ?Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media" which Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) shows at PHOENIX Halle until 18 October 2009. Admission for the concert is free. Composition journey through Central and South Eastern Europe In the framework of the cultural management program of the Robert Bosch Foundation the orchestra travelled through Central and South Eastern Europe in April 2009 and visited the cities ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu and Ruse. In each city a local composer wrote a new piece especially for the Laptoporchester Berlin. The new composition was played on the next destination of their journey. As more and more pieces were created, the orchestra played increasingly fewer pieces from their own repertoire, until finally the repertoire was completely changed. The six musicians Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki will present the results of this composition journey in Dortmund as a German premiere. The video artist Hagen Wiel joins them as a guest. The Robert Bosch Foundation and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund support the event which features contemporary music a.o. from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Romania. The Laptoporchester was founded in Berlin in 2003. It plays, deconstructs and reconstructs pieces from the fields of New Music, electro-acoustic music and electronica ? experimental, noise and avant-garde music. The six musicians use their notebooks as instruments. Together with a growing number of guests - solo musicians and video artists - they create an audio-visual synthesis which connects orchestra, performance and concert. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? laptop Marek Brandt ? laptop Oliver Kiesow ? laptop Stephane Leonard ? laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? laptop Nic Weiser ? laptop Guest: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php? nr=4066&rubric=events& Venue: HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Road description: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/ Start: 20:00 h Free admission Generously supported by: Robert Bosch Foundation Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------- DEUTSCH -------- DEUTSCHLAND-PREMIERE Laptop-Orchester spielt am 28.8. in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? pr?sentiert Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica Das Laptop-Orchester ?Endliche Automaten? aus Berlin spielt am 28. August (Freitag) um 20 Uhr in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. Das Konzert findet statt im Rahmen der internationalen Medienkunst-Ausstellung ?Wach sind nur die Geister ? ?ber Gespenster und ihre Medien?, die der Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) noch bis zum 18. Oktober 2009 in der PHOENIX Halle zeigt. Der Eintritt zum Konzert ist frei. Kompositionsreise durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa Im Rahmen des Robert Bosch Kulturmanager-Programms reiste das Ensemble im April 2009 durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa und besuchte die St?dte ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu und Ruse. In jeder Stadt schrieb ein Komponist aus der Region f?r das Laptop- Orchester ein zeitgen?ssisches Werk, das w?hrend einer mehrt?gigen Orchesterprobe vor Ort einstudiert wurde. Daraufhin wurde die jeweilige Neukomposition an der n?chsten Station der Reise uraufgef?hrt und das Repertoire an mittelosteurop?ischen Klangbildern wuchs. Die Ergebnisse der mehrw?chigen Kompositionsreise pr?sentieren die sechs Musiker Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki und Nic Weiser als Deutschlandpremiere am Freitag in Dortmund, als Gast ist der Videok?nstler Hagen Wiel dabei. Die Robert Bosch Stiftung und das Kulturb?ro der Stadt Dortmund unterst?tzen die Veranstaltung, bei der zeitgen?ssische Musik u.a. aus Tschechien, Ungarn, Kroatien und Rum?nien zu h?ren sein wird. Das Laptop-Orchester wurde 2003 in Berlin gegr?ndet. Es spielt, dekonstruiert und rekonstruiert seit Jahren St?cke aus den Bereichen Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica. Die sechs Musiker benutzen Notebooks als Instrumente und schaffen zusammen mit Solisten und Videok?nstlern eine Klang-Bild-Symbiose, die sich zwischen Orchesterauff?hrung, Performance und Konzert bewegt. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? Laptop Marek Brandt ? Laptop Oliver Kiesow ? Laptop Stephane Leonard ? Laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? Laptop Nic Weiser ? Laptop Gast: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_veranstaltungen/detail.php? nr=4061&rubric=veranstaltungen& Veranstaltungsort: HMKV in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Wegbeschreibung: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_kontakt_wegbeschreibung/ Beginn: 20:00 Uhr Eintritt frei Mit freundlicher Unterst?tzung durch: Robert Bosch Stiftung Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------------- Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero / office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 info@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Laufende Ausstellung / Currently on view: ?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 16 May ? 18 Oct 2009 From aplohman at dds.nl Fri Aug 28 00:50:40 2009 From: aplohman at dds.nl (Angela Plohman) Date: Fri Aug 28 00:51:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] OpenCV Workshop at BALTAN Laboratories Message-ID: OpenCV Workshop at BALTAN Laboratories September 21-27, 2009 Workshop leaders: Lluis G?mez I Big?rda, Hangar.org, Barcelona Yves Degoyon, GISS.tv, Barcelona In collaboration with Piksel (Norway) Participants: 16 (maximum) Fee: 75 Euro Location: BALTAN Laboratories Glaslaan 2, SWA 8 Eindhoven The Netherlands Computer Vision is currently acquiring a growing relevance in the field of interactive arts. From Myron Krueger?s pioneering artwork in the 1970s to the present day, many artists have used Computer Vision techniques in their works, extending its field of traditional applications (medical, military, industrial, etc.) to interactive artistic practices. It might be visible in an interactive installation or hidden/embedded when used, for example, in gesture-driven musical instruments. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce some computer vision techniques that form the basis of the actual OpenCV library for Pure Data; a set of objects, utilities and examples to use those techniques in an Open Source / FLOSS environment. At the same time we will introduce some practical examples of possible use cases of this technology, working on thematic research in the different domains of application: Interactive Installation, Augmented Reality, Learning Interfaces, Interactive Instruments, etc. This list will be extended depending on the interest and focus of the participants. This workshop forms part of a collaboration between BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel. The workshop is both open to the public as well as part of a collaborative research residency (for which we now have an open call: http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/?p=1006). Participation in the workshop is flexible. Days 1-4 involve acquiring basic knowledge and set the groundwork for working further with the technology. Days 5-7 will be dedicated to group work on specific projects. All participants are required to join the workshop on days 1 and 2 for the basic theory and practice. Attendance for the remaining days of the workshop is flexible but participants are asked to indicate when registering what days they will definitely be present. **To register: please send an email with your bio, technical experience and a short motivation indicating why you would like to join the workshop to angela[AT]baltanlaboratories.org. Please also be sure to indicate the days you intend to be present during the workshop week.** Note: Participants are asked to bring their own machine and video devices. All machines will be configured so that participants will be able to keep working on their project after the end of the workshop. We will configure the machines as needed by OpenCV : ppc mac-intoshes : apple?s osx with gem intel mac-intoshes : apple?s osx with gem or ubuntu with pdp/pidip and gem pc?s : ubuntu with pdp/pidip and gem WORKSHOP AGENDA September 21 : Introduction to Computer Vision 10:00 - 17:00 Theory : - Image and Video Format Concepts ( RGB, YUV, ? ) - Static and Dynamic processing of images and video frames - Movement Detection example - Simple Tracking example - Tracking using Pattern recognition - Pattern recognition using a Statistical approach Practice : - Conversion of videos to a format suitable for analysis - Simple Movement detection example - Simple Tracking example (Objective: Showing a panorama of existing computer vision techniques ) September 22 : Processing Live Video 10:00 - 17:00 Theory : - Which camera to use? What to expect ? - The importance of lighting and contrast - Noise removal and filtering - Advanced filtering and pre-processing of video Practice : - Using simple examples using different kind of inputs - Measure the importance of filtering - Use of video pre-processing techniques (Objective : Stabilize the first examples with a more precise detection and tracking setup) September 23 : Processing of data 10:00 - 17:00 Theory : - Connecting analysis data to media processing - Smoothing data ( mapping ) to get more stable results Practice : - Process incoming data to produce interaction - Connect first examples to a media production unit ( sound and/or video ) - Calibrating inputs to get the expected result (Objective : Using incoming data and process it to produce interaction ) September 24 : Choose the right technique in the right context 10:00-17:00 Theory : - Outdoor/Indoor context - Camera/Lighting setup for a ?Darkroom? - Importance of background and contrast Practice : - Using basic examples in different context ( outdoor, dark room ) - Playing with contrast and background (Objective : Determine the best technique and setup for different contexts ) September 25-27 : Thematic Working Groups (Practice) 10:00 - 17:00 Groups : - Motion Detection in a public space - Tracking in the context of dance and theater - Augmented reality - Interactive sound instruments (Objective : Realize a few prototypes using computer vision techniques for different kind of applications, towards a real application ) BIOGRAPHIES OF THE WORKSHOP LEADERS Lluis Gomez i Bigorda Lluis Gomez i Bigorda is in charge of the Free and Open Source department of the HANGAR medialab in Barcelona, association of visual artists of Catalunya dedicated to the production of multi-media art pieces, involving free hardware and free software development. He is active in the FLOSS community since more than 7 years and participated in the development of Pure Data, Freej and GISS free media platform (http://giss.tv ). Lately, he worked on interactive setups with choregraphers and performers (Shu-lea Chang), using Computer Vision techniques and WII devices as the basis for interaction. He was participating in the visual collective R3 and now formed a new collective T4 : Terminal 4. urls : Pure Data : http://www.artefacte.org/pd Hangar medialab : http://www.hangar.org GISS free media platform : http://giss.tv Yves Degoyon Yves Degoyon (es/fr) is a musician/performer and a free software developer/dealer. He developped since 2001 some tools for audio and video processing within the frame of Pure Data and some tools for escaping from the software mainstream, promoting self-mediation and inventive ways of communicating and organizing. Some bits of code :: OpenCV for PD (with Lluis Gomez i Bigorda): http://www.hangar.org/wikis/lab/doku.php?id=start:puredata_opencv G.I.S.S. (with others) : http://www.giss.tv /etc/groups : http://etc-groups.sf.net MapOMatix : http://mapomatix.sf.net P.i.D.i.P : http://ydegoyon.free.fr/pidip.html Unauthorized PD : http://ydegoyon.free.fr/software.html As a musician, he?s practising copyleft philosophy under the name of d.R.e.G.S: http://ydegoyon.free.fr -- BALTAN Laboratories Glaslaan 2, SWA-8 Postbus 4042 5604 EA Eindhoven T: +31 40 256 9661 F: +31 40 256 9661 E: info@baltanlaboratories.org http://www.baltanlaboratories.org From zgunduz at yahoo.com Fri Aug 28 09:37:33 2009 From: zgunduz at yahoo.com (Zeynep Gunduz) Date: Fri Aug 28 09:44:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fw: amberConference - 2nd call for papers Message-ID: From: amberConference <admin@a-m-b-e-r.org> Date: July 31, 2009 6:22:15 PM GMT+02:00 To: zeynep.gunduz@a-m-b-e-r.org Subject: amberConference - 2nd call for papers 7-8 November 2009, I?stanbul 2nd call Deadline is extended to 10th of September 2009 amberConference site > The first international amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber'09 Art and Technology Festival on the 7th and 8th of November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference aims to create a platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and topics in which Science, Art and Technology converge. The theme for this year's event is "Cyborg", a concept that has captured the imagination of the artistic and scientific communities in terms of theoretical, technological and creative outputs. The conference seeks previously unpublished papers of a maximum of 4500 words within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Sciences and Art Papers discussing original artwork. Topics include (but are not limited to) *Machinic/Cyborg Art*Robotics and robotic art*Cyborg and Performing arts*Avatars (virtual worlds and virtualenvironments)*Computer Games*Wearable and Tactile Technologies*Artificial intelligence*Post humanism*New modes of embodiment*Agency*Medicine*Genetic engineering, biology, clones and hybrids*Religion, tradition and eternal life*Militarism*Gender Important dates: A 500 word abstract to be submitted by 10th of September 2009 Notification of acceptance 15th of September 2009 Registration deadline 1st of October 2009 Deadline for full paper (~4500 word) submission 1st of November 2009 Conference 7th and 8th of November 2009 Deadline for final revised paper submission 30th of December 2009 Proceeding book will be published by February 2010 submit your abstract> amberConference site > 7-8 Kas?m 2009, I?stanbul 2. ?ag?r? Son bas?vuru tarihi 10 Eyl?l 2009'a kadar uzat?ld? amberKonferans sitesi > amberKonferans amber'09 Sanat ve Teknoloji Festivali i?ersinde ilk kez ger?ekles?ecek olan konferans, I?stanbul'da bilim, teknoloji ve sanat kesis?iminde akademik bir tart?s?ma platformu yaratmay? hedefliyor. Bu senenin temas?, sanat ve bilim alan?nda, akademide veya akademi d?s??nda bir?ok kis?inin yarat?c?l?g??n? ve hayal g?c?n? etkilemis? sosyal, teknolojik, sanatsal ve bilimsel sonu?lar? ile bir?ok aras?t?rma ve ?al?s?maya konu olmus? olan "Siborg" kavram? olarak belirlendi. Konferans bu tema ?er?evesinde daha ?nce yay?nlanmam?s? 4500 kelimeyi as?mayan Bilgisayar Bilimleri, Bes?eri Bilimler, Sosyal bilimler, M?hendislik gibi ?es?itli alanlardan makaleler ve ?zg?n bir sanatsal is?in veya deneyimin tart?s??ld?g?? makaleler bekleniyor. Konular, bunlarla s?n?rl? olmamakla beraber, Siborg kavram?yla ilis?ki i?erisinde as?ag??dakilerle ?rneklenebilir: * Siber Sanat * Robot ve robot sanat? * Siborg ve performans * Avatarlar * Bilgisayar Oyunlar? * Giyilebilir teknolojiler * Yapay zeka * Post humanizm * Beden ve bedensellik * Akt?r ve isten? * T?p * Genetik m?hendislig?i, biyoloji, klonlar ve melez/karma yap?lar * Din, gelenek ve sonsuz hayat * Militarizm * Cinsiyet ?nemli tarihler: 500 kelimelik makale ?zeti i?in son bas?vuru tarihi 10 Eyl?l 2009 Geri bildirim tarihi 15 Eyl?l 2009 Kay?t i?in son tarih 1 Ekim 2009 T?m makale (~4500 kelime) teslimi i?in son tarih 1 Kas?m 2009 Konferans 7-8 Kas?m 2009 Bask?ya haz?r makale i?in son teslim tarihi 30 Aral?k 2009 Konferans kitab? bas?m tarihi S?ubat 2010 makale ?zetini yolla> amberConference sitesi > amberFestival, BIS (Body-Process Arts Association) Listeden ??kmak veya bilgilerinizi g?ncellemek i?in; To unsubscribe or update your records, visit; http://www.a-m-b-e-r.org/pmm/user/login.php?Email=zeynep.gunduz@a-m-b-e-r.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Aug 28 10:08:32 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Fri Aug 28 10:09:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines -->September 2009 Message-ID: <20090828100832.381E5B86.D40165A3@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->September 2009 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 06 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal 21 Calls: September 2009 deadlines external 9 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2009: deadlines internal **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 special section for German film & videos http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=694 **Deadline 1 September CologneOFF Online Film Festival sucht deutsche Autoren von Kurzfilmen und -videos f?r ein Feature im Rahmen des 5. Festivalausgabe, welche im November 2009 ver?ffentlicht wird http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=694 *Deadline: 30 September, 31 December 2009 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 *extended Deadline 30 September2009 Cinematheque - streaming media project environments call: Flash & Thunder - Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 *ongoing deadline 1 September 2009 - 1 September 2010 Java Museum - Forum for internet Technology in Contemporaryv Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010 details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 *deadline 30 November call: soundart for SoundLAB VII details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1423 ------------------------------------------------ September 2009 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 30 September Paivascapes#1 - residency in Northern Portugal http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1238 30 September Giessen VideoArt Festival - Giessen/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1387 25 September Fluid v.2. at New Media Lab NY/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1412 20 September Tblisi International Film festival Tblisi/Georgia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1442 19 September Netmage 10 - Bologna/italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1298 19 September Kunstfilmtag 2009 Duesseldorf/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1395 18 September EHMN.2010 Competition for video artists http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1352 15 September SoundTrack_Cologne Festival Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1367 15 September Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1445 15 September A Very Loud Silence - silent film screening Atlanta/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1381 14 September Duration: London - monthly screenings in London/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1417 13 September Tiny Sketch - Open Processing Competion by Rhizome (NY) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1405 12 September Query - online/offline project in Munich/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1438 11 September Window online project space University of Auckland/New Zealand http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1420 10 September The Viral Video Award Berlin/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1399 1 September Square Eyes Festival Arnhem/Netherlands http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1205 1 September Museek - Music Video Festival St. Petersburg/Russia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1356 1 September Double Vision - Duo Video Festival Indianapolis/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1326 1 September Netherlands Media Art Institute residencies 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1208 1 September See the Voice: Visible Verse 2009 Vancouver/Ca http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=816 ----------------------------------------------- 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 natabor at aa-vv.org Fri Aug 28 15:43:36 2009 From: natabor at aa-vv.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F1?=) Date: Fri Aug 28 15:40:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] [aa-vv] Join in!: 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER'. Munich. 21-27, 2009 Message-ID: <4A97DF08.80002@aa-vv.org> This is an invitation to join in.. a collaborative controversial aesthetico-cultural experiment about building a new future for an old discipline, called theatre. The experiment 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER' (or 'how to dismantle theatre by making an electro-digital instrument out of it') will start up in Munich at i-camp/Neues Theater on September 21, 2009 with a group of electronic and digital artists and objects as motors for a necessary change. The work will continue over seven days leading to 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER' on September 27, 2009. Within this week we will try to investigate the theatre medium as it could be reinvented in the 21st century and freed from itself. The major objective is to start with the process of critical discussions on aspects and parameters of conventional theatre and radical experimenting, in order to reconceptualize, reformalize, recontextualize and resynthesize them. The set up is essentially collaborative, but leaves place for personal study, reflection and work to feed back into the group process. It will not function as a tutorial, or a learning event, but rather as an exploration of the possible features of chosen artifacts and tools. The goal is the realization of a maybe unfinished, but influential, first stage for the even more in-depth and radical development of a new medium called theatre. All media-related artists, from any discipline possible, working in a contemporary and experimental spirit are invited to join forces in Munich with different media, concepts and ideas along those lines: http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/18 http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/21 If you are interested and can be present in Munich for the week of September 21-27, 2009, join in!: http://www.aa-vv.org/?lathshnev http://www.aa-vv.org/?registration Natalia Borissova http://www.av-vv.org G?van Bel? http://societyofalgorythm.org / Kind support: I-camp Bezirk Oberbayern Kulturreferat der Landeshautpstadt M?nchen -- Feel free to pass on to those who might beinterested From info at franck-ancel.com Fri Aug 28 16:17:05 2009 From: info at franck-ancel.com (franck-ancel.com) Date: Fri Aug 28 16:17:41 2009 Subject: [spectre] [aa-vv] Join in!: 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER'. Munich. 21-27, 2009 In-Reply-To: <4A97DF08.80002@aa-vv.org> References: <4A97DF08.80002@aa-vv.org> Message-ID: <4A97E6E1.6060500@franck-ancel.com> OOTT: Once Open a Time Theater For my conference at ? Refresh! ? (1), I chose the topic ? From Scenography to Planetary Network ?: about Polieri's research in France. Now, I would like to shed some light on the sixties, particularly in the US, through the theater, pre-and-post media, where environment was performance. The personality of John Cage is the best known and identified, between two major events: the first multimedia happening which occurred at Black Montain College and the ? Nine Evenings ? at EAT. In Oliver Grau's book published by the Leonardo Press, ? Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion ?, he printed an excerpt from Gene Yougblood's ? Expanded Cinema ? (1970) about Milton Cohen's ? Space Theater ?. Milton Cohen is still an unknown figure from the ? Once Group ?. We need to discover especially how this invisible '360? history' has become a permanent fixture in the art of contemporary media. How can we understand the past and future of space hybridization? This conference is not about modernizating old space but about new writing to decipher ? from the national boundaries of delays and advances in ? mediart ? - towards a RE-visionnary ? LIVE ? media art. To be continued @ re:live09 (2) Best regards from Marspace, Franck Ancel (1) http://193.171.60.44/dspace/handle/10002/319 (2) http://www.mediaarthistory.org PS German interview about Ancel's zerography there: http://www.fhnw.ch/hgk/iis/pressespiegel/institut-daten/081108_baz-kultur_in3-08.pdf ? a ?crit : > This is an invitation to join in.. > > a collaborative controversial aesthetico-cultural experiment about > building a new future for an old discipline, called theatre. > > The experiment 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER' > (or 'how to dismantle theatre by making an electro-digital instrument > out of it') > > will start up in Munich at i-camp/Neues Theater on September 21, 2009 > with a group of electronic and digital artists and objects as motors > for a necessary change. The work will continue over seven days > leading to 'THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER' on September 27, 2009. > > Within this week we will try to investigate the theatre medium as it > could be reinvented in the 21st century and freed from itself. > The major objective is to start with the process of critical > discussions on aspects and parameters of conventional theatre and > radical experimenting, in order to reconceptualize, reformalize, > recontextualize and resynthesize them. > > The set up is essentially collaborative, but leaves place for personal > study, reflection and work to feed back into the group process. > It will not function as a tutorial, or a learning event, but rather as > an exploration of the possible features of chosen artifacts and tools. > The goal is the realization of a maybe unfinished, but influential, > first stage for the even more in-depth and radical development of a > new medium called theatre. > > All media-related artists, from any discipline possible, working in > a contemporary and experimental spirit are invited to join forces in > Munich with different media, concepts and ideas along those lines: > > http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/18 > http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/21 > > If you are interested and can be present in Munich for the week of > September 21-27, 2009, join in!: > > http://www.aa-vv.org/?lathshnev > http://www.aa-vv.org/?registration > > Natalia Borissova > http://www.av-vv.org > > G?van Bel? > http://societyofalgorythm.org > > / > > Kind support: > I-camp > Bezirk Oberbayern > Kulturreferat der Landeshautpstadt M?nchen > From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Aug 31 10:08:25 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Mon Aug 31 10:09:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] September 2009. feature: BODY and SOUL, VisualContainer Message-ID: <20090831100825.17DC24F7.E21C98D8@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel - video project environments is happy to launch in September 2009 two new features http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=658 1. BODY & SOUL a selection of video works focussing on the performative aspect of transporting an artistic message in video, featuring videos by Hamza Halloubi, Beatrice Allegranti, Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry, Empar Cubells, Sinasi G?nes, Elia Alba, Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir, Roland Wegerer, Alessandro Brucini, Joshua and Zachary Sandler, Virginie Foloppe http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=614 2. VisualContainer - a platform for videoart from Milan/Italy contributes a selection of Italian videos on the thematic aspects of "memory" & "identity" curated by Giorgio Fideli, featuring works by Alessandra Arno?, Elena Arzuffi, Barbara Brugola, Pascal Caparros Iginio De Luca, Pietro Mele, Patrizia Monzani, Christian Niccoli Matteo Pasin, Cristina Pavesi, Sabrina Sabato, Enzo Umbaca http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=278 Visit VideoChannel on also on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=254368285194 ----------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org - dedicated to art forms of video in a global context is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------------- From office at videomedeja.org Mon Aug 31 10:40:58 2009 From: office at videomedeja.org (office-videomedeja) Date: Mon Aug 31 10:55:30 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for submissions > videomedeja 2009 Message-ID: << Call for Submissions >> 13 international video festival v i d e o m e d e j a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 11 -13 2009 | Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi sad -> Serbia subject: No Commercial Value ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . entry forms and details for submission: http://www.videomedeja.org/entry deadline: October 15th 2009 Like previous years we are looking for new video art works and short films, media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based projects... In addition, we are very glad to receive proposals from curators and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings. Entry forms are online and artists can easily provide their video previews directly by web form or they can send materials by regular post. more info at: http://www.videomedeja.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . categories: video | film media installations | network and software projects | live av performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . awards: Sphinx award - for the best video Bogdanka Poznanovic award - for the best media installation, network or live project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . videomedeja info: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIDEOMEDEJA festival is stricly dedicated to art, completely independent and non-profit annual event. The first festival was held in 1996. So far, 12 festivals have been realized, more than 3000 works made by artists all over the world were submitted for the programme. Renowned artists, prominent critics, theoreticians, producers, distributors and journalists from all over the world took part in the festival programme. Festival focuses on narrative or abstract art projects which combine image and sound, communications and networks, from video art works, documentaries and short films, digital animations, media installations, url and network projects, objects, interactive and robotized objects, open source applications, audiovisual performances, mobile technologies, electronic music, advanced technologies in art practice... Permanently obeying copyrights and being strictly determined for professional approach, videomedeja is well known festival on the international scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From m at 1010.co.uk Mon Aug 31 19:50:40 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Mon Aug 31 19:51:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] _____-micro_research workshops:23_xx//September 5th: Working and publishing with Emacs and Org-mode Message-ID: A series of weekly working groups and workshops at _____-micro_research [Berlin]; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: September 5th 2PM: Working and publishing with GNU Emacs and Org-mode with Sebastian Rose September 10/11/12 2PM: Positronic PureData - get automated! with Roman H?feli & Olsen Wolf Forthcoming matter: software radio, hydrogen line, micro-cuisine, kitchen sink chemistry, Kicad, openEEG, fiction generation, thoughtography, org-mode Recommended: 17. - 19. Sept. 2009: get the basics of your gadgets! Ein Einf?hrungsworkshop in Arduino + Physical Computing von Akitoshi Honda + Shintaro Miyazaki (Institut f?r Algoryhthmik, Berlin): http://www.algorhythmics.com/ //<----------------------------------------------- September 5th 2PM: Working and publishing with GNU Emacs and Org-mode with Sebastian Rose Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. [Org-Mode: Your Life in Plain Text. http://orgmode.org] In common with parent Emacs, the incredibly versatile text editor and all round operating system, org-mode branches out spider-like to creatively embrace a vast range of interests. Presenting a fine example of a healthy free software project, with an active development community, new features are constantly added extending org-mode into the realms of advanced web and document publishing, blogging, mind-mapping, brainstorming, general hypertextual excess, and multimedia management. At the same time, relying on plain old text files for all data, org-mode is both portable and simple to use. This workshop, led by active org-mode contributor Sebastian Rose, will introduce org-mode use and project planning, with an emphasis on publishing by way of XHTML export and LaTeX, org-mode for code management, and a look at possible extension of org-mode and related projects. Reference: http://orgmode.org/ Cost: ?5 per participant (this includes food) Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) Prerequisites on any operating system: - emacs 22/23 - Latest Git-version of org - TexLive installation - gnuplot (optional) - ditaa.jar ---_______ Background: Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase. Practitioners at pickledfeet have included Martin Kuentz (prd@scrying.org), Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/), mikomikona http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html, Antony Hall (http://antonyhall.net), Gijs Gieskes (http://gieskes.nl/), Alexei Blinov (http://www.raylab.com), Valentina Vuksic (http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/), Dave Griffiths (http://www.pawfal.org), Marc Boon (http://www.marcboon.com), Christian Faubel, Cordula K?rber, and Ralf Schreiber _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. m@1010.co.uk _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ http://pickledfeet.com From diana.mccarty at googlemail.com Thu Aug 27 13:38:09 2009 From: diana.mccarty at googlemail.com (Diana McCarty) Date: Thu Sep 3 08:55:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] [Prologue]: Transitional Geographies / Feminist Mapping Message-ID: <469B1942-A968-4EFC-A358-096FDFD9A021@googlemail.com> Hi Spectre! It was great to meet up with Alla Mitrofanova after years of not being in touch with her. In any case, the ongoing project and these panels might be a good round to meet up again! All best, Diana The Prologue Panel will take place during ISEA on: Friday, 28 August 2009 at 14:00 at the Main Hub: Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Lanyon Place. The Prologue Surgery will take place at: Golden Thread Gallery at 14:00. The panel [Prologue]: Transitional Geographies / Feminist Mapping explores the cultural and political impact of European enlargement on feminist art and discourse: feminist participation in the cultural, economic, technological and structural spheres of a changing Europe remains a challenge. This panel aims to map out the crucial issues of how and where feminism remains a radical innovator in art, technology and society and to make public contemporary feminist art and discourse. The panelists - media artists, theorists and sociologists - are invited to reflect on the impact of shifting European borders and interests. This is extended to how feminist work addresses these changes. The huge paradigm shift of the late 80's has had a huge impact on the notion of what it means to be European - and feminists have been active at each step. Current economic and political shifts constitute yet another huge paradigm shift and feminists are more engaged than ever. An interdisciplinary approach combines old and new media, sociological research, theory and art from a feminist perspective. Following a summer academy that brings the panel participants together with numerous artists, activists, critics and theorists to address the challenges presented by shifting geographic spaces and their real economic and political impact, the panel will focus on the status of a project to map feminist discourse and practice within (and without) European borders. As Action Research, the panel is derived from a series of [Prologue]: New Feminism/New Europe events that will take place in Tallinn over 2009 and 2010 with the title Prologue_EST, and past events in Berlin, Graz and Manchester. Theinvited panelists comprise professional media artists, theorists and curators active in East and West Europe. They each bring a wealth of professional experience that extends across Europe and beyond. - ART ECONOMY POLICY - [Prologue]: New Feminism/New Europe resulted from a series of formal and informal discussions about the need to reclaim the radical elements of feminist movement and to re-articulate a feminist perspective in terms of East and West Europe. Past Prologue events have focused on themes such as transgender, language of resistance, witty works, and open source software. Participants have been from Albania, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK. By combining works once disregarded by historical blind spots and emerging artists, Prologue has worked across borders, genres and generations. As such, Prologue refers to setting the stage for future action. An abundance of feminist art exhibitions across North America and Europe have affirmed the historical importance of feminist art, however, mainstream media art discussions still question the relevance of gender in art and media. [Prologue]: Transitional Geographies / Feminist Mapping embraces the future: not only is feminist work valuable, it is more important than ever. [Prologue]: Transitional Geographies / Feminist Mapping is organized by Kathy Rae Huffman, Diana McCarty, Mare Tralla and Reet Varblane. +++ Radio is back. Kill your ipods. herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin Sept. 1 - Nov. 22, 2009 www.herbstradio.org Diana McCarty diana.mccarty@gmail.com + 49 (0) 1520 824 9536 +++ +++ Radio is back. Kill your ipods. herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin Sept. 1 - Nov. 22, 2009 www.herbstradio.org Diana McCarty diana.mccarty@gmail.com + 49 (0) 1520 824 9536 +++ From inke.arns at hmkv.de Thu Aug 27 18:57:17 2009 From: inke.arns at hmkv.de (Inke Arns) Date: Thu Sep 3 08:55:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] German premiere: Laptoporchester Berlin, 28.8.2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Message-ID: <20E4992D-14BB-4414-B20D-60AE3C2290B8@hmkv.de> (Please scroll down for German version) GERMAN PREMIERE Laptoporchester Berlin Endliche Automaten in concert at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund on 28 August 2009 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? presents New Music, electroacoustic music and electronica The Berlin-based Laptoporchester ?Endliche Automaten? will give a concert on 28 August (Friday) at 20:00 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. The concert takes place in the framework of the international media art exhibition ?Awake Are Only The Spirits - On Ghosts And Their Media" which Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) shows at PHOENIX Halle until 18 October 2009. Admission for the concert is free. Composition journey through Central and South Eastern Europe In the framework of the cultural management program of the Robert Bosch Foundation the orchestra travelled through Central and South Eastern Europe in April 2009 and visited the cities ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu and Ruse. In each city a local composer wrote a new piece especially for the Laptoporchester Berlin. The new composition was played on the next destination of their journey. As more and more pieces were created, the orchestra played increasingly fewer pieces from their own repertoire, until finally the repertoire was completely changed. The six musicians Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki will present the results of this composition journey in Dortmund as a German premiere. The video artist Hagen Wiel joins them as a guest. The Robert Bosch Foundation and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund support the event which features contemporary music a.o. from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Romania. The Laptoporchester was founded in Berlin in 2003. It plays, deconstructs and reconstructs pieces from the fields of New Music, electro-acoustic music and electronica ? experimental, noise and avant-garde music. The six musicians use their notebooks as instruments. Together with a growing number of guests - solo musicians and video artists - they create an audio-visual synthesis which connects orchestra, performance and concert. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? laptop Marek Brandt ? laptop Oliver Kiesow ? laptop Stephane Leonard ? laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? laptop Nic Weiser ? laptop Guest: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php? nr=4066&rubric=events& Venue: HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Road description: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/ Start: 20:00 h Free admission Generously supported by: Robert Bosch Foundation Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------- DEUTSCH -------- DEUTSCHLAND-PREMIERE Laptop-Orchester spielt am 28.8. in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Ensemble ?Endliche Automaten? pr?sentiert Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica Das Laptop-Orchester ?Endliche Automaten? aus Berlin spielt am 28. August (Freitag) um 20 Uhr in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. Das Konzert findet statt im Rahmen der internationalen Medienkunst-Ausstellung ?Wach sind nur die Geister ? ?ber Gespenster und ihre Medien?, die der Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) noch bis zum 18. Oktober 2009 in der PHOENIX Halle zeigt. Der Eintritt zum Konzert ist frei. Kompositionsreise durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa Im Rahmen des Robert Bosch Kulturmanager-Programms reiste das Ensemble im April 2009 durch Mittel- und S?dosteuropa und besuchte die St?dte ?sti nad Labem, P?cs, Osijek, Temeswar, Sibiu und Ruse. In jeder Stadt schrieb ein Komponist aus der Region f?r das Laptop- Orchester ein zeitgen?ssisches Werk, das w?hrend einer mehrt?gigen Orchesterprobe vor Ort einstudiert wurde. Daraufhin wurde die jeweilige Neukomposition an der n?chsten Station der Reise uraufgef?hrt und das Repertoire an mittelosteurop?ischen Klangbildern wuchs. Die Ergebnisse der mehrw?chigen Kompositionsreise pr?sentieren die sechs Musiker Alexander Augsten, Marek Brand, Oliver Kiesow, Stephane Leonard, Shintaro Miyazaki und Nic Weiser als Deutschlandpremiere am Freitag in Dortmund, als Gast ist der Videok?nstler Hagen Wiel dabei. Die Robert Bosch Stiftung und das Kulturb?ro der Stadt Dortmund unterst?tzen die Veranstaltung, bei der zeitgen?ssische Musik u.a. aus Tschechien, Ungarn, Kroatien und Rum?nien zu h?ren sein wird. Das Laptop-Orchester wurde 2003 in Berlin gegr?ndet. Es spielt, dekonstruiert und rekonstruiert seit Jahren St?cke aus den Bereichen Neue Musik, Elektroakustik und Electronica. Die sechs Musiker benutzen Notebooks als Instrumente und schaffen zusammen mit Solisten und Videok?nstlern eine Klang-Bild-Symbiose, die sich zwischen Orchesterauff?hrung, Performance und Konzert bewegt. Ensemble: Alexander Augsten ? Laptop Marek Brandt ? Laptop Oliver Kiesow ? Laptop Stephane Leonard ? Laptop Shintaro Miyazaki ? Laptop Nic Weiser ? Laptop Gast: Hagen Wiel - Video http://www.myspace.com/laptoporchesterberlin http://kulturmanager.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/12124.asp http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_veranstaltungen/detail.php? nr=4061&rubric=veranstaltungen& Veranstaltungsort: HMKV in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstra?e / Ecke Rombergstra?e 44263 Dortmund-H?rde Wegbeschreibung: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_kontakt_wegbeschreibung/ Beginn: 20:00 Uhr Eintritt frei Mit freundlicher Unterst?tzung durch: Robert Bosch Stiftung Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund -------------- Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero / office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 info@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de Laufende Ausstellung / Currently on view: ?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 16 May ? 18 Oct 2009