From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jul 1 08:10:03 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (videoNET) Date: Wed Jul 1 08:10:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] German video art: Johanna Reich Message-ID: <20090701081003.344ADDE.E0F6615B@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is happy to launch the first of a series of features of German video art. dedicated in July 2009 to Johanna Reich - video artist from Cologne/Germany http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=273 "Johanna Reich, a young video artist living and working in Cologne/ Germany, is walking consequently on a performative path in video art, giving the camera, the action or the performative process and the result in form of a video a new and very personal meaning. She involves the audience by provoking the visual senses with unexpected results. Her videos are much closer to performance as a form of contemporary art than filmic narritive or technological aspects, the videos go to the essence of the medium and have something purist we know from Japanese abstract minimalism of Zen, something very spiritual which seems to be very familiar and very strange at the same time. Thus art in its best sense." (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, curator) Read --> her interview on VIP -VideoChannel Interview Project http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=22 --> her biography on AND - Artists Network Database http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=111 Direct access to the online feature also via http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/2009/dvk-reich-index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ VideoChannel forms together with CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, VIP VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD - Video Art Database - a unity focussing on art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ From helen at hehe.org Wed Jul 1 09:08:05 2009 From: helen at hehe.org (helen evans) Date: Wed Jul 1 09:07:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?windows-1252?q?Conf=E9rence_=22Surveillance_et_contr?= =?windows-1252?q?e-surveillance=22?= Message-ID: <4A4B0B55.4060501@hehe.org> La saison se termine ? Ars Longa avec l'exposition ? Siren Shields ? *jusqu'au 18 juillet*. Apr?s l'incroyable /Police Party/ du 21 juin, notre dernier ?v?nement de la saison, une intervention sur les dispositifs de contr?le utilis?s par les artistes des ann?es 60 ? aujourd'hui. Conf?rence "Surveillance et contre-surveillance" Mercredi 1er juillet ? 19h Avec Anne Zeitz en pr?sence de HeHe (Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen) Mod?ratrice : Judith Lavagna Anne Zeitz parlera de la r?appropriation de la technologie de surveillance et de contr?le chez les artistes contemporains, de Bruce Nauman et Peter Weibel ? Harun Farocki et Alain Declercq. Artiste, chercheuse et membre de l'?quipe de recherche Esth?tique des Nouveaux M?dias de l'Universit? Paris 8 (EDNM), elle a organis? l'exposition "Mouvement-observation-contr?le" ainsi qu'un cycle de films pour le Goethe-Institut Paris en 2008 "SIREN SHIELDS" du Collectif HeHe ( Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen ) Exposition du 22 juin au 18 juillet 2009 Prenant le contre-pied des repr?sentations symboliques de la police dans notre soci?t?, le duo HeHe (Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen) pr?sente ? Ars Longa un dispositif alliant radar de contr?le invers? et ballet de sir?nes, t?l?vision sous contr?le et gyrophare g?ant. Non sans humour, c'est en observateur averti que le collectif redistribue les r?les en donnant au citoyen la possibilit? de g?n?rer de nouveaux modes d'appropriation, que ce soit dans un espace public, devant un ?cran, ou une exposition. L'exposition "Siren Shields" prend comme point de d?part la cr?ation d'un logiciel permettant l'enregistrement de sons de sir?nes, "Siren Shield v1 2009", fruit de la r?sidence 2008 d'Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen ? Ars Longa. Depuis plusieurs ann?es, le collectif d?veloppe une pratique artistique pluridisciplinaire centr?e sur les enjeux sociaux et ?cologiques contemporains, pla?ant toujours le spectateur au c?ur de ses pr?occupations. *Pour plus d'informations: http://www.arslonga.fr/ http://www.hehe.org/ From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Jul 1 09:08:42 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Jul 1 09:12:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) AV Festival NaREC Artist Residency Message-ID: From: Rebecca Shatwell Subject: AV Festival NaREC Artist Residency Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:18:31 +0100 AV Festival 10 Announcement and Call for Artists: Residency at NaREC (New and Renewable Energy Centre) AV Festival, in partnership with Inspire Northumberland, seek to appoint an artist in residence at NaREC, the centre of excellence for new and renewable energy technologies in North East England, based in Blyth, Northumberland. The residency will provide an opportunity for an artist to carry out new research and share ideas in response to one or more areas of sustainable energy technolology undertaken by NaREC, which are: Marine Renewables, Offshore Wind, Advanced Photovoltaics, Low Carbon/Distributed energy and Electrical Networks. The fee for the residency is ?10,000. The residency is open to any professional artist working within or outside the UK, and can be worked flexibly between September - February 2010 as part of AV Festival 10. The artist will be invited to give a public presentation about the residency as part of AV Festival 10 which has the theme of energy. The festival dates are 5 - 14 March 2010, and it will take place across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. Deadline for proposals: 9am, 22 July 2009 Shortlisting: 24 July 2009 Interviews: 5 August 2009 The residency brief can be downloaded at: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/news/opportunities/av-festival-10-announcement-and-call-for-artists AV Festival forms part of North East England's world-class festival's and events programme. Rebecca Shatwell Director, AV Festival / Audio Visual Arts North East Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough Tel: 44 (0)191 227 5523 Email: rebecca@avfestival.co.uk www.avfestival.co.uk AV Festival is run by Audio Visual Arts North East. Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No 06141603. Registered Charity Number 1120368. Registered Office: c/o Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG, UK From inke.arns at snafu.de Wed Jul 1 12:00:00 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Wed Jul 1 12:00:46 2009 Subject: [spectre] "Awake are only the spirits", PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, until 18 Oct 2009 References: <76CD0B51-6ECD-44AC-8A24-753722E9C147@hmkv.de> Message-ID: <0D628523-B1BC-413C-BE4B-88BB7CA3F1A5@snafu.de> (Please scroll down for German version) Yesterday Lib?ration published an extensive article in the newspaper's printed version about the exhibition "Awake Are Only The Spirits" - today the article is online at: http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101576997-vues-d-esprit-a-dortmund "Sous le ciel plomb? de Dortmund, ? l?ombre d?un haut-fourneau abandonn?, impressionnante relique d?un pass? industriel r?volu, un n?on bleut? ?claire l?entr?e d?un gigantesque entrep?t. Sous la lueur spectrale, un poste de radio crachote en continu: brouillard sonore d?o? ?mergent ? intervalles r?guliers des messages elliptiques. On n?aurait pu r?ver meilleur endroit pour accueillir l?exposition ?Wach sind nur die Geister? (Seuls les esprits sont ?veill?s), que le Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) consacre ?aux fant?mes et ? leurs m?dias? dans la halle Phoenix, 2 200 m?tres carr?s au milieu d?une zone autrefois consacr?e ? la production d?acier, en pleine reconversion high-tech. La m?tropole de la vall?e de la Ruhr, future capitale europ?enne en 2010, mise sur les nouvelles technologies pour sortir de la crise. (...)" ?AWAKE ARE ONLY THE SPIRITS? - ON GHOSTS AND THEIR MEDIA Exhibition by Hartware MedienKunstVerein PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr. Dortmund H?rde 16 May ? 18 October 2009 Thu + Fri 16:00 - 20:00 Sat + Sun 11:00 - 20:00 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Lucas & Jason Ajemian (US), Archiv eines anonymen Geistersehers (DE), kuratiert von hans w. koch, Sam Ashley (US), Corinne May Botz (US), Erik B?nger (SE), Damien Cadio (FR), Michael Esposito (US), Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani (DE), Agn?s Geoffray (FR), Kathrin G?nter (DE), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE), Tim Hecker (CA), Susan Hiller (GB), Martin Howse (GB), International Necronautical Society (GB), Friedrich J?rgenson (SE), Joep van Liefland (NL), Chris Marker (FR), Jorge Queiroz (PT), Scanner (GB), Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), Suzanne Treister (GB) MORE INFORMATION http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php? nr=3689&rubric=exhibitions& THE EXHIBITION IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY Der Ministerpr?sident des Landes NRW Kunststiftung NRW Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund dortmund-project Institut Francais - CULTURESFRANCE Mondriaan Stichting NRW Kultursekretariat PHOENIX LEG Dyrup GmbH RUAG - Aerospace Services GmbH MEDIA PARTNER: Heinz ------------- GERMAN ------------- Gestern berichtete die franz?sische Tageszeitung Lib?ration in ihrer gedruckten Ausgabe auf zwei Seiten ?ber die Ausstellung "Wach sind nur die Geister" - heute ist der Artikel online: http://www.liberation.fr/culture/0101576997-vues-d-esprit-a-dortmund "Sous le ciel plomb? de Dortmund, ? l?ombre d?un haut-fourneau abandonn?, impressionnante relique d?un pass? industriel r?volu, un n?on bleut? ?claire l?entr?e d?un gigantesque entrep?t. Sous la lueur spectrale, un poste de radio crachote en continu: brouillard sonore d?o? ?mergent ? intervalles r?guliers des messages elliptiques. On n?aurait pu r?ver meilleur endroit pour accueillir l?exposition ?Wach sind nur die Geister? (Seuls les esprits sont ?veill?s), que le Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) consacre ?aux fant?mes et ? leurs m?dias? dans la halle Phoenix, 2 200 m?tres carr?s au milieu d?une zone autrefois consacr?e ? la production d?acier, en pleine reconversion high-tech. La m?tropole de la vall?e de la Ruhr, future capitale europ?enne en 2010, mise sur les nouvelles technologies pour sortir de la crise. (...)" ?WACH SIND NUR DIE GEISTER? - ?BER GESPENSTER UND IHRE MEDIEN Ausstellung des Hartware MedienKunstVerein PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr. Dortmund H?rde 16. Mai ? 18. Oktober 2009 Do + Fr 16 - 20 Uhr Sa + So 11 - 20 Uhr K?NSTLERINNEN UND K?NSTLER DER AUSSTELLUNG Lucas & Jason Ajemian (US), Archiv eines anonymen Geistersehers (DE), kuratiert von hans w. koch, Sam Ashley (US), Corinne May Botz (US), Erik B?nger (SE), Damien Cadio (FR), Michael Esposito (US), Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani (DE), Agn?s Geoffray (FR), Kathrin G?nter (DE), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE), Tim Hecker (CA), Susan Hiller (GB), Martin Howse (GB), International Necronautical Society (GB), Friedrich J?rgenson (SE), Joep van Liefland (NL), Chris Marker (FR), Jorge Queiroz (PT), Scanner (GB), Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), Suzanne Treister (GB) AUSF?HRLICHE INFORMATIONEN http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_ausstellungen/detail.php? nr=3685&rubric=ausstellungen& DIE AUSSTELLUNG WIRD GEF?RDERT DURCH Der Ministerpr?sident des Landes NRW Kunststiftung NRW Kulturb?ro Stadt Dortmund dortmund-project Institut Francais - CULTURESFRANCE Mondriaan Stichting NRW Kultursekretariat PHOENIX LEG Dyrup GmbH RUAG - Aerospace Services GmbH MEDIENPARTNER: Heinz Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero / office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 inke.arns@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 kovats at transmediale.de Thu Jul 2 10:58:19 2009 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Thu Jul 2 10:59:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] Carsten Nicolai: 'rota' at new Schering Foundation Space Message-ID: <3B9E43AE-EB6E-4923-AB25-733D9A2B8F94@transmediale.de> Hi all, if you happen to be in Berlin this evening, the Ernst Schering Foundation is opening a new space for "exhibitions, lectures and workshops at the interface of art and science". The kick-off event will be Carsten Nicolai's exhibition 'rota' at 19.00, Unter den Linden 32-34, Berlin http://www.scheringstiftung.de/lang-en/deutsch/home/18-kultur/2350- carsten-nicolai-rota greetings, Stephen artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- transmediale.10 | 3 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale Award 2010 submissions: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale10 kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From joris at v2.nl Thu Jul 2 14:56:05 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (Joris Van Ballegooijen) Date: Thu Jul 2 14:56:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter July/August 2009 Message-ID: <4A4CAE65.8070807@v2.nl> V2_ Newsletter: July/August 2009 http://www.v2.nl V2_Events: Test_Lab: What Crisis?! July 9, 8?11pm, V2_Ground floor, Eendrachtstraat 10, Rotterdam Web: http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-what-crisis Admission: free Crisis or no, we?ll engage in artistic reflection on the current state of the world with a new generation of artists in this edition of Test_Lab. V2_?s international selection of five of the most promising graduation projects from European art academies shows that crisis can also lead to new opportunities and insights. With: David Hahlbrock (DE), Academy of Media Arts Cologne; Cesar Harada (FR); Dot Mancando (TH); Thomas Thwaites (UK), Royal College of Art; Sander Veenhof (NL), Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Opening: Mieke Gerritzen, respondent: Koert van Mensvoort. Followed by a live performance from TokTek. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Lab: Summer Sessions The V2_Lab has invited three artists for a brief summer residence during July and August. In these Summer Sessions, artists Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri and David de Buyser will work on projects in the respective areas of wearable technology, augmented reality and ecology. The Summer Sessions were created to make technology developed at the V2_Lab available to rising young talents and to stimulate their artistic development with the help of the expertise present at the V2_Lab. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Archive: Media Culture Education Program V2_Archive is currently working to compile a database of sources that will provide a basis for media culture education at Dutch secondary schools. Various museums and institutions have provided documents and fragments of media artworks that will be included in teaching packs focusing on themes such as identity, privacy and the body. Students in the teacher training programs at AHK and Artez will use the packs in lessons. Follow the project?s progress on the blog at http://projectmediaculture.web-log.nl/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: Sharewear at 5daysoff Di Mainstone and V2_Lab?s successful 2008 wearable project Sharewear can be seen on July 16 at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam during the 5daysoff festival. Former V2_ staffer Nicky Assmann?s Circuit Dress will also be on view in the festival?s extensive wearables program. For the full program, see ?wearables? at http://www.5daysoff.nl. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: September 2009 Much of the V2_ team will be away on vacation in August. Nonetheless, we will be working steadily on a number of productions planned for September and October 2009. Coming up at V2_: Sept. 1 (provisional date): The Ecology of Design: Everything is Made of Something. A Life&Art discussion night devoted to Lars Spuybroek?s book The Architecture of Continuity, published last year by V2_. Sept. 11, 12, 13: Festival Wereld van Witte de With. V2_ will of course again be present at the three-day festival in and around Rotterdam?s Witte de Withstraat. We will soon announce our program on the website. Oct. 16 ? Nov. 22: V2_ presents Bernie Lubell: A Theory of Entanglement. The first big Dutch exhibition of the fascinating installations of American artist Bernie Lubell. Produced in collaboration with FACT of Manchester. And, of course, there?ll be a new Test_Lab every other month, and the continuation of the Life&Art series. Our next newsletter goes out at the end of August. See you next season! From info at apo33.org Fri Jul 3 14:10:15 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Fri Jul 3 14:23:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] streaming now!! rainforest IV - David Tudor - Area10 / london Message-ID: <20090703141015.115351qqi2ft0ogs@apo33.org> A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records & Sound Research Practice, Goldsmiths presents: RAINFOREST IV - DAVID TUDOR "a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections in an audio system. " ////////////// STREAMING NOW ///////////// During 2 days, if you couldn't join us, you could listen at us : http://stream.r23.cc:2323/rainforest.mp3.m3u and tomorrow even watch the all installation :-) http://stream.r23.cc:2323/rainforest.ogg.m3u //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Come and see this mad installation!!! PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION 3rd & 4th of July - from 2pm to 23pm ?10 (online booking http://www.wegottickets.com) ?12 (on the door) at AREA10 PROJECT SPACE Eagle Wharf Peckham Hill Street London - SE15 5JT (White building behind the Library) Buses: 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343 Train: Peckham Rye Station ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Performed by RYAN JORDAN JULIEN OTTAVI KASPER T TOEPLITZ JEAN-BAPTISTE THIEBAUT JOHN BOWERS DOMINIQUE LEROY PHILIP JULIAN CHRIS WEAVER JENNY PICKETT RYO IKESHIRO DAWN SCARFE ANDY WHEDDON DUNCAN RAVENHALL ANTONIS ANTONIOU and more Thanks to ResonanceFM for their support! -- AKA THE NOISER & NANOFAMAS "the world is noise" http://www.noiser.org http://www.apo33.org http://www.a10lab.info http://fibrr.apo33.org http://ecos.crealab.info http://www.a10lab.info/mutation http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From awolfsberger at virtueelplatform.nl Fri Jul 3 17:26:13 2009 From: awolfsberger at virtueelplatform.nl (Annette Wolfsberger) Date: Fri Jul 3 17:26:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Converging Pathways to New Knowledge (LabforCulture) Message-ID: <4A4E2315.4070208@virtueelplatform.nl> Converging Pathways to New Knowledge is a LabforCulture initiative considering the future of knowledge building and knowledge sharing within a new digital paradigm. The project has three interconnected stages: ? A series of three online debates, involving invited experts and the LabforCulture community discussing and commenting on knowledge production, knowledge sharing and regulation ? A one day roundtable in G?teborg on July 28 will bring together foundations, governments and cultural organisations and will coincide with the conference of the Swedish presidency, ?Promoting a Creative Generation? ? A reflection document, produced in collaboration with Kennisland which will contain the outcomes of the online debates, and the roundtable reflection to be launched at the Cultural Forum in Brussels at the end of September Join the three online debates taking place on: 7th July 16:00 ? 17:30 8th July 16:00 -17:30 13th July 11:00 ? 12:30 CET. Some questions that will be asked are; where do cultural operators fit in to the new "digital picture", what does it mean for artists and what are the burning issues that should be addressed by policy makers to support this cultural shift? You can send your questions for the online debates by tweeting @labforculture! To get notifications and updates via email on the upcoming events, follow this link: cpnk-register@office.labforculture.org Please forward this email to your network! With thanks from the LabforCulture team From drew at futuresonic.com Sat Jul 4 11:29:58 2009 From: drew at futuresonic.com (Drew Hemment) Date: Sat Jul 4 11:30:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] Contemporary Art Manchester presents Trade City Message-ID: <7C05C78F-2CC0-403D-9799-16829A7DFB55@futuresonic.com> FutureEverything News http://www.futureeverything.org/news FutureEverything is a part of a new consortium of contemporary visual arts organisations called Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM). Contemporary Art Manchester is presenting its inaugural exhibition in association with Manchester International Festival 2009. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Contemporary Art Manchester presents Trade City |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 4th July - 19th July 2009 Trade City Launch: 3 - 7pm, Sunday 5th July 2009 Antifreeze Event: 12 - 7pm, Saturday 4th July Trade City is open 3 - 7pm, Weds to Sun, until 19th July 2009. CHIPS Building, Old Mill Street, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6EB Featuring Artists: Prayas Abhinav, Antifreeze, Rob Bailey, Andrea Booker, Andrew Bracey, Olaf Breuning, Rose Butler and Kypros Kyprianou, Chris Butler, Chipboard Project, Ruth Claxton, David Cochrane, Phil Constable, Paul Cordwell, Toby Huddlestone, Kevin Hunt, jack of none, Aaron Koblin, Yam Lau, Andrew Lim, Haroon Mirza, Becky Shaw, Suzanne Smith, Cheryl Sourkes, Daniel Staincliffe, Cherry Tenneson. Participating Organisations: 100th Monkey, BMCA, Bureau, Castlefield Gallery, Contents May Vary, Exocet, FutureEverything, Gymnasium, Harfleet & Jack, Interval, Islington Mill Art Academy, Rogue Project Space, twenty+3 projects. http://www.contemporaryartmanchester.org |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM) presents its inaugural project Trade City; a dynamic, international exhibition in Will Alsop's iconic CHIPS building, supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash, and in conjunction with Manchester International Festival 2009. Introducing a number of Manchester and UK premieres and new commissions, Trade City has generated new forms of exchange across the city's art scene. Contemporary Art Manchester is a new, not-for-profit consortium of visual arts organisations, representing the breadth of the current contemporary arts infrastructure in Manchester. In bringing together the art production of thirteen diverse organisations, Trade City reflects the trading and exchange that has taken place between the artists and curators partnering in CAM. Each participating organisation has selected artists to work with that are representative of their curatorial approach or position, alongside exploring multi-faceted interpretations of ?trade?. As a result, the presented works of twenty-six emergent to established international artists trade off each other in one space, creating aesthetic and spatial interplays, whilst addressing ideas of cultural, economic, geographical and political exchange. Trade City is organised by Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM), in association with Manchester International Festival 2009 (MIF 09). Supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash. Contemporary Art Manchester is supported by Arts Council England. From venzha at yahoo.com Sat Jul 4 21:39:10 2009 From: venzha at yahoo.com (venzha christ) Date: Sat Jul 4 21:39:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] CELLSBUTTON#03 2009 Message-ID: <436121.67771.qm@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (sorry for cross posting) --------------------------------------------------------- ....The thrust towards new media arts in many of the Asian countries seem to be caught between two parallel and related trends ? a) the need to develop culturally specific and located ways of engaging with and incorporating the new information, communication, experiential and biotechnologies; and b) the need to respond to the global imperatives that drive these technologies and their related artistic developments. While the media and technological developments in these countries indicate a constant juggling between these local and global imperatives, many of the media artistic developments in these countries pose interesting ways of reevaluating and significantly expanding the current discourses and practices in art, media and technology....(Gunalan Nadarajan) ....Now let us visualise a framework for this setting in which people resonate with media through simulating processes. I remember hearing the words intelligent interfaces, disappearing computer and smart environments for the first time at a conference in Sweden, J?nschoping. Bewildered I listened to academic researchers painting scenarios of strollers in the park being able to point at trees with their smart ( rfid/bluetooth enabled) watches resulting in... a screen rising up either from the ground or next to the tree. On that screen? ...information, data rather - about that tree. I'm sitting in my chair and look around me for smiling or laughing people, but nothing. This audience, top EU researchers and technical wizards, does not think this is ridiculous, strange, unnecessary at all. Instead, on the contrary what they see is open territory, a vast unknown adventure. Room to play. Yet I visualized a framework for this setting, grasping its radical potential immediately- as that tree had always spoken to me, as trees do to people who feel as well as see and hear. Or towers for that matters, my towers. Do they not realize that what actually matters in this vast grid of affordances that overlays so called material objects is their potential? their imaginary? Unaware they raise issues of alchemy, of witchcraft, magic....(Rob van Kranenburg) ....One of EFP?s methods is to organise accessible, ?hands-on? workshops that allow the audience to share knowledge and explore different forms of artistic collaboration induced by technology. Furthermore, these workshops are based on a ?Do It Yourself? philosophy, which enables the participants to use, subvert and adapt technologies for the specific requirements of local communities. This perspective is examined in the ?bricolabs? workshops, for example. Besides participatory authorship, another goal of the EFP is to stimulate a critical and reflective approach towards technology. What are the implications this new artistic practice for art, design and sciences for Indonesian context? In discussions and presentations, the aesthetic, social and philosophical context will be analyzed and debated in order to create a critical, practice based approach towards media arts in Indonesia....(Deanna Herst) and NOW! CELLSBUTTON#03 2009 yogyakarta international media art festival 1 - 8 august 2009 HONF lab the house of natural fiber, yogyakarta new media art laboratory http://natural-fiber.com/ - AGENDA : cellsOPEN research cellsKID cellsCHILL cellSONIC! workshop workspace discussion presentation exhibition cellsDISCO cellsKIT Indonesia Bricolabs cellsFEMALE Breakcore_LAB cellsPICNIC E-A channel meeting OFFbutton - PARTICIPANT : more than 100 Artists / Scientist / Activist / Researcher / Professional / Musician / Theorist / Local Communities from Indonesia ( Jakarta - Bandung - Yogyakarta - Surabaya - Medan - Batam - Bali - Semarang - Pekanbaru - Makasar - etc) + Astrid Almkhlaafy / UK - US Andrej Boleslavsky / Slovakia Michal Marianek / Czech Republic Mar Canet / Austria Vladimir Todorovic / Serbia Ond?ej Skala a.k.a JTNB / Czech Republic Darina Alster / Czech Republic Alex Scraub / Netherlands Jan Torpus / Switzerland Rene TA Lysloff / US Marco Batista / Slovenia Varvara Guljajeva / Estonia - Austria Peter Tomaz Dobrila / Slovenia Deanna Herst / Netherlands Marc Dusseiller / Switzerland Tengal / Philippines Somaya Langley / Australia Dan Gregor a.k.a Initi / Czech Republic Magdalena Pe?eva / Czech Republic Alessandro Carboni / Italy http://natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=57&Itemid=79 - VENUE : 19 venue for 8 day program http://natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=58&Itemid=80 - SCHEDULE : http://natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=59&Itemid=81 - Featuring Presentation and Project on : HONF - Fablab http://natural-fiber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184:prosthetics-workshop-at-fablab-amsterdam&catid=85:concepts&Itemid=90 Indonesia Bricolabs 2009 cellsKIT HONF - AKPRIND http://www.akprind.ac.id/ HONF - INHERENT http://www.inherent-dikti.net/?modul=bv&artikel=vicon/C48525D299C9 --------------------------------------------------------- HONF lab the house of natural fiber, yogyakarta new media art laboratory http://natural-fiber.com/ venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : venzha@yahoo.com venzha@natural-fiber.com URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com From bureaud at altern.org Sun Jul 5 18:39:24 2009 From: bureaud at altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Sun Jul 5 18:36:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call Residencies Lovely Weather-Deadline August 3rd Message-ID: <4A50D73C.5030902@altern.org> REMINDER ? DEADLINE APPROACHING LOVELY WEATHER ARTISTS RESIDENCIES DONEGAL- IRELAND INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DEADLINE: Monday 3rd August 2009 Leonardo/Olats, partner of the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal County, Ireland, would like to remind all interested artists the call for Lovely Weather residencies project related to art and climate change, that will take place in 2009-2010. You will find all relevant information and forms online at : http://www.donegalculture.com A short reminder about those residencies (full details online) : - Five residencies are proposed in the five Electoral Areas of County Donegal, Ireland. One per area. (Please refer to Appendix II on the project website). - Artist must apply to one of the 5 areas - Residencies will be of 4 - 11 weeks in duration (although proposals for shorter or longer periods can be considered). - The successful artists will not necessarily have to be resident in Donegal for the entire duration of the project. But they must demonstrate a commitment to working on the ground during at least part of the residency. - The commissioned artists will receive a fee of circa ?15,000 for fees/research/travel & materials. Please note exact amounts will be confirmed at a later stage in the commissioning process. - The residencies will be managed by co-curators for the project John Cunningham (Regional Cultural Centre) and Annick Bureaud (Leonardo/OLATS). Workshops and seminars will be held with the artists and interested parties, throughout the run of the residencies. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A TWO PHASE SELECTION PROCESS PHASE 1 IS A GENERAL CALL FOR SUITABLE CANDIDATES (deadline August 3rd 2009) SHORTLISTING OF CANDIDATES FOR PHASE 2 WILL TAKE PLACE SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR PHASE 2 WILL BE ASKED TO SUBMIT A MORE SPECIFIC PROPOSAL RELATED TO ONE OF THE FIVE LOCATION FOR THE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME Submissions MUST ONLY be submitted via the Lovely Weather Residency Website. Submissions should include a current Curriculum Vitae (300 word max). A maximum of 6-images/ audio/ video of previous works. A proposed project outline (including timescale, costings etc.) of no more than 750 words.An artist statement of no more than 500 words. TIMESCALE 1st PHASE Final date for Phase 1 submissions ? 3rd August 2009 Shortlisted artists for Phase 2 informed ? 17th August 2009 2nd PHASE Final date for Phase 2 submissions ? 25th September 2009 Successful applicants for residencies informed ? 16th October 2009 RESIDENCIES Start date for Lovely Weather Residencies ? 1st November 2009 Completion date for projects ? 1st November 2010 Exhibition ? 23rd November 2010 ? 25th February 2011 Further information is available at www.donegalculture.com. For further info contact Declan Sheehan Declan.Sheehan@donegalcoco.ie or John Cunningham jcunningham@donegalcoco.ie From m at 1010.co.uk Tue Jul 7 18:28:45 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Tue Jul 7 18:32:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] _____-micro_research workshops:20//July 11th 1PM: Archaeological geophysics fieldtrip [location unspecified] 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: July 11th 1PM: Archaeological geophysics fieldtrip [location unspecified] August 10-16th: sommercamp [world as representation//workshops] http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=10 Forthcoming matter: open salvage, schmelzolan robots, software radio, hydrogen line, micro-cuisine, kitchen sink chemistry, Kicad, openEEG, fiction generation, thoughtography, org-mode ... contact if you're interested in leading [un]-related workshop. //<----------------------------------------------- July 11th 1PM: Archaeological geophysics fieldtrip [location unspecified] The pick was [then] used to hammer on the surface, and by this means, the Angle Ditch was discovered. The sound produced by hammering on an excavated part is much deeper than on an undisturbed surface, a circumstance worth knowing when exploring a grass-grown downland, though not applicable to cultivated ground. [Augustus Pitt Rivers. Excavations in Cranborne Chase. Volume IV. 1895] Geophysical techniques for archaeological prospecting imply a certain "seeing beneath the soil," a divination which is akin to scrying defined as looking within one medium in order to envision an other matter or time. Such techniques frequently involve the examination of electromagnetic phenomena mapped to location, and a search for anomalous disturbances of local fields. Acoustic and geochemical methods of examination can also be employed. The fieldtrip will examine various approaches to this divining, for example electromagnetic field strength measurement and magnetometer surveying, to assess an important, as yet unspecified Berlin location to be revealed on the 11th of July. Meeting at 1PM [_____-micro_research] to journey to unspecified location. Contact m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place. Free (travel costs not included) Reference: http://1010.co.uk/org/scrying.html ---_______ 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) _____-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 redazione at digicult.it Thu Jul 9 00:44:59 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Thu Jul 9 00:50:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Pirates at the Parliament: the big dream?! - An Interview to Magnus Eriksson from Piratebyran Message-ID: <90BA2F66038F4D8E930D9FCA9F19EC21@nomebea615a6f6> Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: PIRATES AT THE PARLIAMENT: THE BIG DREAM?! An Interview to Magnus Eriksson from Piratebyran, realized during Hackmeeting 2009 in Milan (Italy) Txt: Marco Mancuso & Marco Riciputi / Eng: Luisa Bertolatti Digimag 46 - July/August 2009 English pubblication online soon... Italian text: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1508 ------------ "In just 24 months we have witnessed an amazing increase in consensus toward our ideals across the globe". Renowned worldwide for being one of the most defiant and cheeky online centres for Peer to Peer and exchange of audio and video files, fresh from their success in the European Elections which took one of their representatives flying from the meshes of the Net straight into a political seat in Brussels, the board of Pirate Party International, the political branch of The Pirate Bay project, is euphoric. And who could oppose such euphoria! The party of the pirates presented itself in Sweden and Germany obtaining a massive 7,1 % in the Scandinavian country that collocates it between those parties with the most consensus in the under 30 range. Only 0,9% in Germany, a good result nonetheless, in order to obtain a greater audience worldwide and the access to election funds, which represents, according to the pirates, the launch pad in order to do better in the future. "We wrote a page in political history" is the cry that was repeated during the past few weeks and the coverage and interest of the media all over the world confirms this. The pirate who will sit in the European Parliament is Christian Engstr?m, born in 1960, a programmer and political activist who deals with campaigns for the creation of a free market for the distribution of information technology alongside the Foundation For a Free Information Infrastructure. Even if, one of the first aspects that some journalists and analysts have shed some light on, is that Christian Engstr?m of the Pirate Party, as well as some of his colleagues such as Rick Falkvinge, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Bunde and Carl Lundstr?m, are more or less openly associated with a centre-rightwing political view, with ideas that are in some way connected to a neo-liberal type of economy and politics. Now, without seeming excessively naive or hypocritical, it seems clear that most of us imagined the universe of pirates to be a nihilistic stronghold of the Net, heroes of some fundamental rights for hacker communities (to say the least) like peer to peer, for the free exchange of files and ideas. The surprise of being faced with a real creature with three heads was overwhelming, framed by the great election victory and the typical political rhetoric of the Pirate Party, and the apolitical facade of the whole Pirate Party movement in its entirety (that has declared more than once of being in harmony with a possible "third option" that goes beyond the traditional division between left and right) and last of all social and economical analysis carried out by Piratebyran represented by Magnus Eriksson, who is interviewed below and was invited to the most recent Hackmeeting in Milan. And most of all, the indignation of the Net toward what happened few days ago was enormous: The Pirate Bay website was sold for almost 8 million dollars to a software house in Sweden, Gaming Factory X, who promises to launch a new model of business that can compensate the loss of content providers and copyright owners, and gratify those same owners of that collective platform based on the exchange of content that up until the day before yesterday had approximately 14 million accesses per day! Owners who will see a part of the money directly in cash (with which they can cover the fine from their prosecution, which is "just" 4 million dollars, and avoid going to jail for a year) and the rest will go towards shares in GFF. Good gosh! On the one side the owners of the Bay, are desperately reassuring their users that the money earned will be used for a foundation that will help projects based on the free distribution of information and the opening of knots on the Net, on the other the activists who throw their arrows at the address of their ex- paladins. The experience of the bay of pirates, in the past few months, seemed to be a wonderful fairy tale: the success of the portal as a neutral location, very much renowned for the free exchange of files, the legal battle fought in the name of peer to peer (and other slogans of the beginning of the millennium such as "we didn't make any money and rejected entertainment industry accusations it makes a large profit") against multinational music and film companies as well as a judge who was a member of the administration of one of these companies, the daily monitoring in front of the Stockholm Court in a mobile media centre, to the unexpected success of the most recent European elections. Little did it matter if, digging deeper into the meshes of the Net, one could discover the legal controversy announced by Pirate Bay itself on the use of the logo of the Bay by two young researchers, Anders Rydell and Sam Sundberg, in their book written on the experience of the pirate movement in Sweden. What are the objectives (or for some, the targets) of The Pirate Bay project? It's difficult to say at this point, really difficult. It's easy to drift toward the wrong direction, after the enthusiasm following the post-election period. As Engstr?m says, "if politicians intend to impede the sharing of files between normal citizens, the only solution is to expand the government's capacity for controlling society". For this reason in official statements they say they want to act incisively on the norms that regulate copyright and privacy. And to do so effectively they want to be in Brussels, where legislation itself is produced and then cascades onto the members of the European Union. The Pirate Party will definitely have access to important funds for a structure that up until yesterday (perhaps) was based on mere donations and volunteer work (as well as funds, the pirate forces include new recruits and different national pirate subjects who count 32 groups dispersed across Europe and the world, including Ung Pirate, the young association of Swedish pirates, with more than 20,000 subscribers it is the most common young political movement in Scandinavia); at the moment, the history of Pirate Bay reminds us of Napster and Kazaa, whose parabolas only made those great enemies of online piracy happy, that is to say, those monopolist Scrooges of the infotainment industry. The story has already been told, perhaps, but has the connotations of an illusion and for this reason it is creating more buzz on the Net: a story that in our opinion could definitely be an important chapter in the history of the evolution of the Net toward a homologous location under the dictatorship of elite businesses, as well as the neo-liberal economical mould that satisfies the requests of great content providers, connection operators, and passive users. But maybe not, maybe behind this there is a plan that no one can see yet, maybe we're wrong once again.... The interview with Magnus Eriksson (unfortunately done during his intervention at the Peer to Peer Economies conference held on the 18th of June in the Political Science Faculty in Milan during the Hackmeeting 2009 program, and so just hours before the statement of acquisition of Pirate Bay by GFF) clears just some of the aspects that have been analysed above but it is definitely food for thought for a broader view of the confusing situation: we do not want to express any kind of opinion, we will let you read the text that we think underlines the important distinctions of thought regarding the political movements of hackers in Italy. We thank Magnus for his time and for having answered on such short notice. Marco Mancuso: Would you like to tell us more about the 3 three main branches of the Pirate universe: the parliamentary fraction The Pirate Party (PP), the organic intellectuals of the Piratbyr?n (PB), and the entreprenueral platform, The Pirate Bay (TPB). Is it an organic project, I mean it was born with a political idea behind, or it grown up from activits anti-cultural ad anarchist movement, step by step, enlarging objectives and programs? Which is your role inside Piratebyran? Magnus Eriksson: First of all; if these are the three stars in our universe there are also plenty of bloggers or people in other groups, institutions and parties making up a system of planets and comets. Also, it's not these components forming a coherent whole, rather their dynamics make for a lively debate with symbiosis, mutation and productive disagreements. To understand this constellation you have to look at the history. This is not something that has grown out of activist movements except from parts of Piratbyr?n which in the early days of 2003 functioned as an exit-node for people who was tired of the autonomous movements. Pirate Bay was founded by us in 2004 since other parts of Piratbyr?n was deepely involved in hacker scenes since the early 90's. So combine former activists looking for something fresher, hackers, philosophers and a general sense of making thing look really nice while having a party - you have the recepe of Piratbyr?n and Pirate Bay. I think this is a difference with Italy. Had we formed there we would probably be more connected to social movements, for good or worse. The Pirate Party was formed by completely different people and has a different outlook. If the former is cryptonite radiating in all directions, the pirate party has a precision laser aimed at the formal political process. They have a narrow program focused on civil liberties and personal integrity more than anything else, but I consider them very necessary at the moment and are very glad of their success. Our roles are basically determined depending on skills and energy. Myself have a lot of time on my hands so I get my hands dirty in most projects we do. I do give lots of presentations, talk to media and involve myself in strategic discussion, but also work with the art projects, try to organize the fuckin bus and design websites. Marco Mancuso: You had a great victory at last Swedish Europan elections. I would like to know what do you want to do from now on. You have a great responsability not only in front of Swedish people who woted for you, but also for all the people on the Internet. "With this victory, the intellectual property question has decisevly moved in to the charmed circle of liberal, parliamentary deliberation"... Magnus Eriksson: I'm not a member of the party, but I'm still involved in the swarm taking part in forming the discussions about their agenda, just to clarify. Actually, at first, issues of intellectual property will have to take a step back. The Pirate Party will first and foremost deal with issues around net neutrality, internet censorship and blocking. These are the most urgent issues at the moment. Secondly they will focus on issues around civil liberties and prvacy, such as trying to prevent surveillence and data retention programs. A lot to be done here as well. Only in third hand will intellectual property come and here a quite different method needed. The first two are already on the agenda with issues to involve one self in. There are already proposals to try to fight and the arguments are quite clear. When it comes to intellectual property, copyright or patents, the pirate party will have to do more to raise the issues themselves, forming publics, discourses and possibly write their own proposals. This would really take an effort by movements all over Europe, trying to get the issues it will be about on the agenda. But generally I think the Pirate Party needs a European wide support and pressure from within other countries if they are to have some influence. In the EU, you can't just sit still and vote, but have to be active with suggesting changes. Politics is complicated of course and there will be compromises where no one wins in the end, so we will have to see how the performance will be evaluated. No matter the political success though, the pirate party can function as a material resource that brings good information out from the EU that people all over Europe can use to raise issues and put pressure on their politicians. This is perhaps the biggest benefit. Before this, people did this on their spare time with no money. Marco Mancuso: Try to explaing me the reasons behind your success at European elections. Two big events that happened in the last times in Sweden were the law proposing to extend military surveillance from radio to Internet trafic and the recent verdict against the founders of the Pirate Bay. Do you thing that these two episodes were in some way connected to what happened during elections? Magnus Eriksson: These were definitely the reasons. Without external developments like these, pirate party wouldn't have a chance. That's because they bring new political issues to the table. Things that never was talked about in the public debate before. They don't bring new answers to traditional political issues, but open up new spaces. So they were dependend on the public debate around file-sharing that was already quite big, dependend of the fame and sentence of the pirate bay and also about the FRA law that you mention where the old military radio surveillence departmend is going to be allowed to monitor traffic in internet cables. Marco Mancuso: Concerning both the Pirate Party, the Piratebyran and also the Pirate Bay, some anaylists and European journalists noticed that the political background of some of their former founders "was more shifted on the centre-right wing, conservative, or in some way connected to liberal economy and polytics". Rick Falkvinge and Christian Engstr?m, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Bunde, Carl Lundstr?m are all examples of what some analysts are talink about. At the same time, all the Pirate Bay movement, declared itself basically apolitical, close to a possibile "third-way" that goes beyond the classical division left-right (close to other political unclissified movements like the green one, the black one or the pink one according to Alex Foti and his book presented at Hackmeeting 2009 in Milan, edited by Agenzia X "Anarchy in the Eu" - http://www.agenziax.it/?pid=29&sid=30). How can you manage this double political attitude (like the controversial about the use of your logo on the book about the Swedish pirate movement) and how can you face the impression of a left-wing or anarchist movement that you have had, I'm sure you know this, in Europe in the last years? Magnus Eriksson: Just a detail, the controversy about the logo on the book was never about copyright but how they presented it as the official biography of the pirate bay. Even the authors themselves thought this was a bad idea but the publisher I guess wanted attention. Anyway, I noticed that Pirate Party is seen as left-wing or anarchist even in some places. This is simply not true. They have a narrow program about reforming copyright and patent, stop surveillence and keep the net open. Not small things of course, but that's it, call it what you want. If anyone want to connect this to other kinds of politics, it can be done, but you have to connect to them with an external relation. "Pirate Party does this in the EU, to us this is very connected to this other issue". Maybe this sounds strange for someone coming from the very polarized italian political environment, but here it works very well to do it in this project or issue driven, pragmatic way. To collaborate with people on some projects where on other projects it would be impossible because you would totally disagree. I mean even the guys running the Pirate Bay don't agree on shit except that they want to run a bittorrent tracker. I'm not too keen on cathegorizing the complex movements of politics but in a way it is beyond left and right. Not because it's some kind of neutral politics of the middle but the range of supporters and antagonists are all over the political spectrum and a failure of handling these issues within the traditional political actors. Dominant parties on both left and right are working for more surveillence. The issue of copyright is both defended and attacked from both sides. We enjoy this confusion at the moment because it opens up new political spaces and thinking, something which is desperately needed. So maybe it's not apolitical, but omnipolitical. And maybe you have to understand the Swedish political landscape to get this. Both the social democrats and the autonomous left in Sweden seem to lack political energy and all the intreresting things I think are happening in Sweden comes from places hard to define at the moment Marco Mancuso: Speaking again about a neo-liberal kind of economy and politics: how, in your opinion, your attention to peer to peer items will be used by the Pirate Party to promote a new possible business model of "free content & free labour"? How much, in your idea, the Pirate Bay could eventually become a profit-making venture and how could change the future of small indipendent grassroots economical acvitities? Magnus Eriksson: If you're talking about the Pirate Party, even the critique against the sentence of the pirate bay was mostly presented as a critique of how lobbyist could influence the political and legal system. Other than that it was mostly about internet surveillence and things like that. It seems very unlikely that PP would engage in generating new business models as a part of their formal political work, although they will surely use these ideas in their rethorics to counter the arguments made by lobbyists. I don't think business models in general will be generated by any central organisation. These things happen on the edges of networks, close to the flows of desires. This is the big fault in the argument of the copyright industry who is always asking for peace of mind from piracy so they can finally sit down within their industry and formulate the business models of the future. But innovation doesn't happen in this sea of tranquility but in the chaotic everyday life world.This does not mean that such ideas can spawn from the edges of the PP. They have a lot of enthusiastic members who will probably be bored with formal political work and engage in more free flowing activities. Marco Mancuso: How was your experience at Hackmeeting in Milan? At the light of my previous emails, how was your experience, emotions, feedbacks in front of such a mainly apolitical or anarchist audience, idealistic and optimistic in front of the potentiality of free code, free software, open source economies, free circulations of intellectual properties, which invited you as a concrete example of possibile success of their ideals. Do you feel a sort of responsability in front of them and, more in general, in front of European movements like Hackmeeting? Magnus Eriksson: Wow, I do NOW after you put it like that. No seriously, I don't feel a responsibility "in front of" them as you put it. I think it is the wrong way to put it that we are representing or are holding a power in our hands to use as a benefit for others. Our philosophy is the kopimi philosophy which is about spreading ideas and practicies as an epidemic. Even for the pirate party, they don't have any influence at all except in what extent they can contaminate other political actors to also work for these ideas. And also with politicians from other countries feeling the pressure from movements in their countries. That's why we have to be promiscous and contaminate everyone else. Not because they have the power and we are powerless, but because our ideas and precticies have all the power and if they don't get on the train, they will be left without momentum. There is no centre of power that you can enter and from there change the world. Instead, you have to connect to everything and be everywhere. Transforming all other entities, institutions and areas of society. So the EU is a place where many places transverse. You have to change it from a seat, form another country, from a company, from their email inbox, phone line and fax maxhines. Within a sentence, a proposal, a TV-station, an irc-channel or a hackmeeting. In, out, up, down, left and right. So everything that gets sucked into the EU magnet and later poured out carries your signature. From wieland at filmladen.de Thu Jul 9 10:35:34 2009 From: wieland at filmladen.de (Wieland Hoehne) Date: Thu Jul 9 10:36:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] Global Opinion Message-ID: >Global Opinion >3 Tage Weltpolitik f?r alle > >8.Juli bis 10. Juli 2009 >www.global-opinion.org > >Zeitgleich mit dem G8-Gipfel in L?Aquila veranstaltet das Projekt >?Global Opinion? einen Gipfel f?r alle im Internet. In zehn >verschiedenen Sprachen ruft die Internetseite >www.global-opinion.org >vom 8. bis 10. Juli 2009 zur Formulierung weltpolitischer Botschaften >auf. Per Weblog k?nnen die Internetnutzer die G8-Regierungschefs am >virtuellen Konferenztisch zum Sprechen bringen. Die politische >Willensbildung der Netz?ffentlichkeit wird online ein Buch >dokumentieren, das sich st?ndig aktualisiert. Am Ende der Konferenz >sendet die Projektgruppe acht gedruckte Exemplare des Buchs an die >G8-Regierungen. > >Nehmen Sie teil an der interaktiven Konferenz: >www.global-opinion.org > >Global Opinion ist ein Projekt von Studio Bauhaus (Bauhaus-Universit?t >Weimar) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut f?r Medientechnik (TU Ilmenau) > >Webseite: www.studio-bauhaus.tv > >Global Opinion >3 Days of Global politics for Everyone > >8-th July to 10-th July 2009 >www.global-opinion.org > >The Online G8 Summit is not just a summit for >the Leaders in L?Aquila, but an open Podium >where everyone has a chance to speak up. How can >we form a better World, from this age of >Globalization? Let your Political Representative >speak your mind. Every Message will become a >component of a Book, which will document the >democratic decision-making of the free world. At >the end of the virtual Summit, the book will be >given to the G8 Leaders in printed form. > >Please participate in 3 days of worldwide public decision-making: >www.global-opinion.org > >Global Opinion is a project by Studio Bauhaus (Bauhaus University >Weimar) in collaboration with the Institute of >Media Technology (Technical University of Ilmenau) > >Website: www.studio-bauhaus.tv From eb at randomseed.org Thu Jul 9 10:58:04 2009 From: eb at randomseed.org (erich) Date: Thu Jul 9 11:00:11 2009 Subject: [spectre] announcement: 80+1 Kilpisjarvi Message-ID: <1247129885.3988.4.camel@pupu> http://www.kilpiscope.net 80+1 KILPISJARVI - climate change (Finland); A Part of The 80+1-project by Ars Electronica. The Finnish BioArt Society is a participant in 80+1 A Journey Around the World, a virtual tour in the spirit of Jules Verne organized by the renowned media centre Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. The venture poses 20 crucial questions about our collective future visiting 20 emblematic locations in different parts of the globe. Kilpisjarvi is an exemplary location for questions on climate change as the issue is central to the exceptional long-term studies and research carried out by the Kilpisjarvi Biological Station of Helsinki University (Faculty of Biosciences). 80+1 Kilpisjarvi stems from Kilpisjarvi's unique, subarctic environment and nature, the scientific research the station performs and from the newly initiated program bringing art and science together by the cooperation between the Finnish Bioart Society and the Biological Station. The 80+1 Kilpisjarvi program interweaves artistic and scientific initiatives. The "Midnight Sun" is a live stream of the arctic midnight sun from Kilpisjarvi that will shine elsewhere in the world via the internet and onto the Ars Electronica building facade in Linz during the citys dark summer nights. Following sundown on seven consecutive nights (July 15th - 21st), the midnight sun will be reflected on the Museum of the Future's shell. 80 + 1 Kilpisjarvi will host a four day conference 15.-18.7 open for participation via the global window in Linz and via stream online (at www.kilpiscope.net). During the four days researchers will present a variety of issues about climate change in the arctic and globally. The themes vary from animal adaptability to societies' preparedness to a changing environment. The audience has the opportunity to pose questions and discuss climate change with experts. The afternoon offers a video-screening program of artistic approaches related to the topic of climate change. The works are screened on the Global Window in Linz (Hauptplatz). Artists included are for example, Ilkka Halso / Museum of Nature, Tarja Trygg / Solargraphy, Agnes Denes / Tree Mountain, Marjukka Korhonen, Heini Aho, and Leena Valkepaa. Water flea circus - a peepshow on ecology is on the second day of the program (16.7) and is a performative event that puts the focus on water-fleas, research, and its significance to our environment. Researcher Iris Zellmer from Germany has spent years investigating the impact of climate change on water fleas in this sub-arctic region. Performance director Merja Talvela has linked with Zellmer to look at water flees with a view to engaging with the research through an artistic perspective. The scrutiny that water fleas undergo when under the microscope is turned on humans by posing questions about our human misconceptions and delusions when we examine nature. This 4-days of program will be streamed online via www.kilpiscope.net and broadcasted to 80+1-stage, Global Window in Linz. The work of developing this event has generated another long-term initiative about climate change and climate issues directed for wide audiences. Climatescope is a Web 2.0 project that calls upon all internet denizens to take an active approach to the subject of climate change. For instance, you can post "Citizen Stories"-personal accounts, experiences, photos and videos having to do with climate change. "Citizen Science" goes into field research and assembles data yielded by the project's own measurements or observations on the basis of recreated natural examples. And in "Citizen Sensor," real-time data from throughout the world are collected, exchanged and disseminated. http://www.climatescope.net (Concept received an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica / Next Idea 2009). LOCATION: Kilpisjarvi is about 69 degrees north and 20 degrees east and located in a sub-arctic area of northern Finland, 50 km from the Arctic Sea, 1200 kilometers from the capital, Helsinki. The village provides had about 90 permanent inhabitants, and is a location for the Helsinki University's Biological Station. CREDITS: The Finnish Bio Art Society with Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Prof. Antero Jarvinen, Anu Osva SUPPORTED BY: Ars Electronica Center, The Finnish Bio Art Society and The Kilpisjarvi Biological Station, Helsinki University URL: http://www.kilpiscope.net/, http://www.80plus1.org/ From eb at randomseed.org Thu Jul 9 21:57:19 2009 From: eb at randomseed.org (erich) Date: Thu Jul 9 21:58:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] now Midnightsun live stream Message-ID: <1247169439.3752.13.camel@pupu> hello, >From now until 01:30 (GMT +3:00) Midnightsun live stream at http://www.kilpiscope.net/midnightSun.html For the player to work enable java and javascript or download VLC from http://videolan.org and use the following address: http://giss.tv:8001/midnightsun.ogg best the Kilpiscope team ps: unfortunately it is pretty cloudy at the moment :-) but this can change --------------------- http://kilpiscope.net From neuemethode at kein.org Fri Jul 10 09:54:43 2009 From: neuemethode at kein.org (neuemethode@kein.org) Date: Fri Jul 10 10:02:21 2009 Subject: [spectre] Was ist ein Medium? - free videolectuers // HEUTE Ballhaus Ost Message-ID: Diskurs M.E.D.I.E.N Berlin formatLabor berlin und CultD presents a old theory post new: Was ist ein Medium? (Relaunch) Wolfgang Hagen, Sybille Kr?mer, Dieter Mersch, Wolfgang Ernst, Stefan Rieger, Lorenz Engell, Lambert Wiesing, Hartmut Winkler, Elena Esposito, Natascha Adamowsky antworten auf die Frage, was denn ein Medium sei. http://www.formatlabor.net/Mediendiskurs/ (Design: Lara Y. Stepanovic) - - - HEUTE, 10. Juli 2009 BALLHAUS OST, 20 Uhr Possible World e.V. / Formatlabor Berlin in Kooperation mit dem Sonderp?dagogischen F?rderzentrum Ernst Adolf Eschke Schule FR?HLING ERWACHE! SHOWING/ WORK IN PROGRESS Theater mit geh?rlosen Jugendlichen Regie: Michaela Caspar http://www.possibleworld.eu - - - VORANK?NDIGUNG: Ab Oktober wird das Formatlabor Berlin gemeinsam mit dem Collegium Hungaricum und der Transmediale eine neue Salonreihe auflegen die JANOS VON NEUMAN SALONS Die Veranstaltung findet immer am ersten Mittwoch des Monats im CHB statt. Die erste Staffel besch?ftigt sich mit dem Problem der Evolution des Geistes und der Frage, wie das Neue in die Welt kommt. Eingeladen werden ein Hirnforscher und Philosoph, einer der wichtigsten Medienwissenschaftler Europas und ein Berliner Kulturwissenschaftler. Die Reihe wird mit einer kleinen Performance er?ffnet. Unser Theorieblog http://www.formatlabor.net/blog/ Enjoy the telelectures... Happiness to all! formatlabor team From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Jul 10 10:54:10 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Jul 10 10:59:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Interactive Screen workshop and scholarships, Banff/Canada Message-ID: Subject: Interactive Screen Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 18:29:06 -0600 From: "Kennard, Susan" Hello Andreas, I am currently advertising 10 fully funded scholarships for our August Interactive Screen event. It is a good development opportunity for early stage project ideas. If you know any people who might be intrested in applying I would appreciate it if you could pass this information along. Susan http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=862 Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers is the 14th installment of the Banff New Media Institute's acclaimed new media summit, where media makers from Canada and the world gather to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come. At the end of each summer, producers, investors, and policymakers convene with artists, technologists, and cultural researchers of diverse horizons in the majestic mountain setting of Banff. Interactive Screen aims to stimulate the creation of emotionally powerful, creatively inspired, and economically viable new media in Canada and abroad. Part conference, part festival, part peer exchange, part creative workshop, Interactive Screen is always intensive. Over six days of work and play, workshop participants engage in constant dialogue and collaboration through various panels, workshops, and performances. Together, they delve into the creative, social, and business impacts of content, technologies, and networks. Participants invariably come away from the event with new projects and alliances, a refined set of skills, and a renewed faith in the cultural power of new media. The theme of The Makers will explore the idea of a "society of makers". This ties in to the "cultural object" - with a focus on those who "make culture", not those who "own" it. Workshop participants are joined by Interactive Screen scholarship participants from Canada, who are invited to pitch and develop projects inspired by the event's theme. Applications for the Interactive Screen Scholarship Program will be accepted until July 15, 2009. INTERACTIVE SCREEN 0.9: THE MAKERS: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS New media practitioners interested in developing a creative project or reflective essay related to this year's theme, The Makers are encouraged to apply. Throughout Interactive Screen 0.9, participants will have the occasion to broaden their knowledge, concepts and networks. This is an opportunity to work directly with the Banff New Media Institute's peer advisors and staff. Scholarships are available for up to ten Canadian and international applicants and include full financial support to attend the workshop, as well as focused mentorship and public presentation opportunities. From chiarapassa at gmail.com Fri Jul 10 13:11:18 2009 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Fri Jul 10 13:11:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS - Live Concert Message-ID: Concert & Live cd Free Entrace ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS is a International Meeting for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation. www.espacioenter.com Live Concert and Recording of CD in direct and promotional video. Place: Auditorio de Tenerife. Sala Sinf?nica Date: 22th July 09. Horary: 20. 00 h Free entrace Groups, Dj?s and Visuals ATA?D VACANTE - BRUTALIZZED KIDS - DANCELWERK - DIPLOM?TICOS - GAF - LA PISTA B?LGARA - PS GIRL - RESONANCE - 13MOTOS - TUPPERWEAR - VENUS EN SURF - VISUALES DELAY TV The CD will be presented during the celebration of ESPACIO ENTER at september at TEA museum . -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From eb at randomseed.org Fri Jul 10 20:57:16 2009 From: eb at randomseed.org (erich) Date: Fri Jul 10 20:57:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] now Midnightsun live stream In-Reply-To: <1247169439.3752.13.camel@pupu> References: <1247169439.3752.13.camel@pupu> Message-ID: <1247252236.13610.3.camel@pupu> hello, >From now until 01:30 Finnish time (GMT +3:00) Midnightsun live stream at http://www.kilpiscope.net/midnightSun.html For the player to work enable java and javascript or download VLC from http://videolan.org and use the following address: http://giss.tv:8001/midnightsun.ogg best the Kilpiscope team ps: we hope this night the sky will be pretty spectacular at least at the moment we can see the sun --------------------- http://kilpiscope.net From fritz.d at chello.nl Sat Jul 11 20:56:14 2009 From: fritz.d at chello.nl (Darko Fritz) Date: Sat Jul 11 20:56:41 2009 Subject: [spectre] exhibition: grey) (area ::: Petar Grimani: XXXXXXXX Message-ID: <3C6332F5-B43C-4368-9986-F5DA250B1A0A@chello.nl> grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korcula Petar Grimani: XXXXXXXX Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th July . 21 - 23 h free entrance This project is dedicated to memory of victims of Srebrenica massacre (9th - 114th July 2005) The exhibition is a complex art installation which consists of drawings, paintings, video, sound, light and shadows that are specifically made for the occasion. The installation, that occupies five cellars within the gallery, represented with still and moving images of bison and the concentration camp Auschwitz, questions the achievements of civilisation in terms of Euro/Asian space and ethnic cleansing. ?Where is that bison?? (20 min, 2008) is the title of introduction video work, which follows the author?s flow of conscience in contemplating bison. Spatial colour shadows of bison drawings are a separate installation, while acrylic painting of human shadows is made on carpet (3x5 meters). The installation is spatially concluded with new video work that uses footage of the author?s performance in Auschwitz II (Birkenau) from 2008 following the final exit to the gallery?s terrace on the seashore. The artist?s obsessive search for European bison, that powerful creature almost completely extinguished in Europe and Asia, refers to a desire for a return to traditional, basic values that include unity of human beings and nature. The aim of the project is to use the allegorical figure of the European buffalo, a species almost totally extinct in this territory, which has multiple significations, and represents natural strength and primordial values of the ancient times, but also can be transferred to the context of the recent war in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia and the PTSD syndrome that continues to affect ex war veterans. The question we can ask is: ?Is our civilization utterly repressive and violent as it continuously endangers and violates other species and the harmony that used to exist among the different species and the nature? ? The artist chooses non-violence by refusing to actually kill the animal, but takes photographs instead, which symbolizes his desire to restore this harmony that seems to be lost. The installation xxxx is part of the project ?where is that bison?? started in 2008, shown on Drawing Trienal and 'T-HTnagrada@msu. hr' in Zagreb and 'Paso Doble' and 'Dopust ? days of performance' in Split. /// from artist?s statement: .....................?Where is it? Where is that bison? There has to be a bison somewhere around here! Where?s the bison ? I have to find a bison!? A multi-layered parable about the obsessive search for a European bison, a magnificent being which is almost extinct on the vast territory of Eurasia I have used as an allegory about searching for a master drawer. The video work that would be projected onto a drawing on a wall tells a story of a man who is searching for a bison where there is none and in a way we can interpret the symptoms of PTSP in this way, as well as a need to bring fiction back down to the matter, which a drawing is certainly capable of. Exactly the cave motifs of a bull can serve as a template for describing ritually magical obsessions, as well as a mechanism of anticipation. .....................?There was this European bison and I have to kill it! I have to kill it because a bison is a really strong creature. There is so much strength in it that when I kill it I will become as strong as the bison!? The European bison exits the area of hunt and becomes a symbol of prehistoric Europe which is in traces preserved to this day in the protected natural parks, but it is important to emphasize, through a way that necessarily demanded a human intention or even a more serious intervention. Even the mythological Europe ? its name means a place where the sun comes to the Mediterranean on the back of a giant bull. But the arrival of civilisation has urbanized the territory of Europe and coexistence with nature swiftly changes - the more westward we go, the more settled and populated and concrete-covered it gets. Today?s European centre of government is right in the centre of the radius of some three hundred kilometres in the heart of the most urbanized and most densely populated area on planet Earth, which is obvious if we look at the night photographs taken from satellites orbiting the planet. .....................?Oh, my ? when I see it, great as it is, standing somewhere on a hill, and then? BOOM! When I hit it on the head and it falls down to the ground and I come and put my hand on it when it is still warm, oh dear, what a feeling will that be. I have to find that bison and strike it in the head and run while it is still breathing? And lean my head on it, put my arms around and let all this strength coming from the soil and the hills enter into me. And let the last bison die.? Drawing is obvious in its intentions and precise as a discipline which can be explained or interpreted as leaving a trace or as an extension of a mental projection which is materialized in the controlling trace of the line. When a hunter shoots an arrow, throws a spear or releases a trigger, we assume that the fired projectile flies in a straight line. .....................??because then I have to hit it directly in its head, and I have to be very, very, very careful when I aim, because if it attacks me, I?m history.? Is there a purpose or a function in a drawing? Of course there is, even though it seems neglected and unimportant when compared to the technological development and the possibilities it offers (especially digital image editing). There is no medium which can better or more precise intensify and train our senses and combine the experience of watching and the creative articulation. Just like when we tune a guitar we train our hearing receptors by listening to the tone and colour of the sound, in the same manner the process of drawing synchronises us with what we are watching and develops sensitivity in relation to the line, composition, weight, lightness and intensity of light. .....................??we will become one. And in one moment I will think about killing myself, too, and then your spirit will say ? Don?t! And all those Indians and indigenous original inhabitants of old Europe will be with me and we?ll thank you for letting us kill you.? Personally, I am convinced that it is not possible to be a good visual artist, even in contemporary art, if one does not master the art of drawing ------------------------------------------------------- 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), 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 eb at randomseed.org Sat Jul 11 22:57:39 2009 From: eb at randomseed.org (erich) Date: Sat Jul 11 23:05:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] Midnightsun live stream 24h Message-ID: <1247345859.3933.13.camel@pupu> hello, >From now until the 10th of August 2009 24h "Midnightsun" live stream from Kilpisjarvi Lapland. http://www.kilpiscope.net/midnightSun.html For the player to work enable Java and Javascript or download VLC from http://videolan.org and use the following address: http://giss.tv:8001/midnightsun.ogg best the Kilpiscope team ------------------------------ For more information and other current Kilpiscope projects please visit http://www.kilpiscope.net From derek at umatic.nl Sun Jul 12 13:23:57 2009 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Sun Jul 12 13:24:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Berlin workshop! Neanderthal Vocal Computer 18 July 2009 Message-ID: <4A59C7CD.90302@umatic.nl> Neanderthal Vocal Computer workshop with Derek Holzer Saturday 18 July 2009 2PM _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. Cost: EUR 10 Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) http://www.1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html This workshop combines three of the basic building blocks of the longer Neanderthal Electronics workshop (TL072 op-amp comparator, 4093 gated oscillator & LM386 audio amplifier) to create a very crude, caveman-style analog computer for the processing of vocal input through a microphone. Participants will learn some analog and digital electronics basics to create an experimental prototype on the solderless breadboard, then recreate the circuit with permanent connections. They are also expected to bring their own box, case or other object in which to construct the final circuit. The last part of the workshop will touch on how this circuit can be expanded later on to include all kinds of mixers, modulators, distortions and filters through the use of other cheap, easily obtained parts. For more information and videos from the Neanderthal Electronics workshops, see: http://www.vimeo.com/album/64426 IMAGE: http://electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-files/img_4225_177.jpg PAST + UPCOMING NEANDERTHAL ELECTRONICS WORKSHOPS 2009 02-06 Feb: Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen DK 10-14 Feb: Tartu Art Week, Tartu EE 20-24 Apr: Queen St. Studios, Belfast UK 04-09 May: eNKa, Berlin DE 25-29 May: Piksel/Ny Musikk/Lydgalleriet, Bergen NO 01-05 Jun: WORM, Rotterdam NL 18 July: Pickled Feet, Berlin DE 10-16 Aug: Tesla/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE 17-22 Aug: AVAMAA, Moks, Mooste EE -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ::: http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 132: 'Remember .those quiet evenings' From cont3xt at cont3xt.net Sun Jul 12 15:55:09 2009 From: cont3xt at cont3xt.net (CONT3XT.NET) Date: Sun Jul 12 15:55:46 2009 Subject: [spectre] INTERVIEW WITH PALL THAYER | CONT3XT.NET.NEWS #04.09 Message-ID: ----- ----- ----- THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO MICROCODES Interview with Pall Thayer http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=1743 ----- ----- ----- "My medium is the code. (...) The viewer's medium can be something else." As simple as Pall Thayer's statement is, as strict is its execution within the series of so called Microcodes the Reykjavik-based artist started to develop in early 2009. Each Microcode is a fully contained work of art, the conceptual meaning of which is revealed through a combination of the title, the code, and finally the results of running it on a computer. Perceived from a literal/literary point of view, Pall Thayer's Microcodes can be understood as an extension and transgression of textuality in the digital realm: Perl-codes which are readable as short poems in natural language as well as readable in the sense of executable programmes. Once executed, the codes also draw conceptual strenght from their clearly identitifiable relations to art historical predecessors such as Andy Warhol, On Kawara, Kazimir Malevich and to themes and movements such as modernist monochromacity, ready-mades, or timebased conceptualism. In the interview by CONT3XT.NET Pall Thayer talks about his decisions to choose Perl as programming language for Microcodes, about his attemps to communicate the conceptual background of his artworks to Internet-users who are not necessarily coders and finally about the understanding of Microcodes which "comes entirely from the viewer's persepective and whatever previous understanding or knowledge they have" - a perspective which is definitely worth to be taken up. ----- ----- ----- Links: http://this.is/pallit http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes More interviews: http://cont3xt.net/blog/?page_id=236 ----- ----- ----- This is a newsletter by CONT3XT.NET (ZVR: 999765999, Vienna/Austria). If you do not want to receive information anymore please reply with "NO newsletter". From jaromil at dyne.org Mon Jul 13 17:19:12 2009 From: jaromil at dyne.org (jaromil) Date: Mon Jul 13 19:27:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] IAA, Nike Chalkbot Rips-off Streetwriter Message-ID: <20090713151912.GB22283@dyne.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI, by way of the Institute of Applied Autonomy - ----- Forwarded message ----- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7th, 2009 http://www.appliedautonomy.com/index.html Nike Chalkbot Rips-off Streetwriter This week Nike unveiled a cool "new" chalk-writing robot used to print messages on the road during the Tour de France bicycle race. The trouble is, the robot isn't so new after all. The Nike Chalkbot is nearly identical to the "Streetwriter" we began developing ten years ago. Since 1998, the Institute for Applied Autonomy has been inventing and building robots to protest the militarization of robotics research and to reassert the public's ownership of public space. Among the machines we produced were GraffitiWriter, a small remote controlled robot capable of printing high-speed text graffiti on the pavement while driving, StreetWriter, a black cargo van capable of printing large text messages the width of a traffic lane while driving, and SWX a more compact trailer version of the same. Largely without permission, these robots were used to print politically controversial messages in 6 countries and major cities across the US. In 2004 the StreetWriter project was deployed as the SWX in protest against the first DARPA Grand Challenge where its mission was to print Isaac Asimov's First Rule of Robotics (i.e.: "A ROBOT MUST NOT KILL") at the starting line of the military robotics event. In pointing out that the Nike Chalkbot is a higher-resolution/higher-budget but otherwise obvious descendent of the StreetWriter (SWX), we do not claim any sort of ownership over the project or the idea. We have always been very open about the inner working of our machines, publishing "how-to" plans and helping other artists and activists build similar devices. While we have long expected our anti-corporate project to one day be reappropriated as an advertising scheme, we are surprised that in this case, the culprits are close associates. According to sources close to the project, Chalkbot was built by an early IAA member working under contract for Deeplocal, a startup company founded by a onetime ?hacktivist?. Deeplocal in turn is under contract with the Wieden+Kennedy PR agency, which was in turn hired by Nike. The IAA was neither contacted nor consulted on the Chalkbot. Beyond wanting to reassure our friends that the IAA had nothing to do with the Nike project, we issue this release because we are concerned by the corporate appropriation of ?outsider? research projects without acknowledgement of the amateur, collective, hobbyist, and activist communities upon which projects like Chalkbot are built. Young people witnessing the Chalkbot on television need to know this was not handed down from a corporate research lab, but was made on nights and weekends by the hard work of people not unlike themselves. We certainly understand our friends? decision to work for Nike -- we all have bills to pay. It is unfortunate that as they enriched themselves, they were unable to also enrich the communities that nurtured their own development. We see this primarily as a failure of imagination, which we understand is a common side effect of working too closely with corporate sponsors. We helpfully suggest the following remedial ?karma-cleansing? activities: 1. Publish their plans + code, in keeping with the open nature of the project. 2. Feature a historical accounting of the technical and ideological origins of the robot prominently on their website and related publications. 3. Make the Chalkbot available for use by anti-corporate activists, free of charge. 4. Provide proportional financial support to new projects that share the anti-authoritarian and anti-commercial aims from which this project emerged. For more about the Institute for Applied Autonomy please visit: www.appliedautonomy.com Click here to view the IAA's "Bridging The Gap" video. Permalink to this release. Update: July 7, 2009 StreetWriter (SWX) Position Paper: Engaging Ambivalence: Interventions in Engineering Culture Published in DataBrowser 2: Engineering Culture by Autonomedia - ----- End forwarded message ----- ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E Nowadays only soubrettes, body builders, media owners and "the richest bozo in the pond" tend to be elected by a population of zombified slaves happy to run inside their guinea pig wheels Fravia, April 2009, http://fravia.com/swansong.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpbUG4ACgkQe2QxhLU0C16pbgCcCpJLLb8G5Z9kvuSXhCbJycJV VQgAoLQxh8oRxpqnY2pXkKnQ5EuetnLA =B2Qd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From hight at 34n118w.net Tue Jul 14 00:35:02 2009 From: hight at 34n118w.net (hight@34n118w.net) Date: Tue Jul 14 00:43:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] second editon of "Line of Influence " exhibition has launched featuring Kate Pullinger (last was Vuk Cosic) Message-ID: <4dd74ccbe4a89acf0f07be6e31b3e88d.squirrel@webmail.34n118w.net> The Line of Influence http://binarykatwalk.net/kate/kate.html We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd edition of Binary Katwalk's "Line of Influence". This edition features the important interactive narrative work of Kate Pullinger and her line of influence, works by Caitlin Fisher, Renee Turner and Christine Wilks. Binary Katwalk is an online exhibition space for experimental digital work. Each edition will feature artists from around the world and from different points in the spectrum of new media. This edition is the second in a series of a few artists selected to show their work alongside their influences and those they see as kindred spirits who are emerging onto the scene. This is not an ordinary exhibition, but instead a chance to show how ideas and works progress over time and how no artist is a solitary force out there. The artists selected have opened doors for others and have stayed true to a particular path with their work. Each artist has selected their companions in their showcase to paint in an arrow in time if you will and to tell the tale of communication and ideas in time. This edition features five new mini-stories created for Kate's Flight Paths project which is a mixed media communal net based narrative on a large scale. From rstorz at xcult.org Tue Jul 14 10:13:44 2009 From: rstorz at xcult.org (Reinhard.Storz) Date: Tue Jul 14 10:29:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] b e a m - m e - up ONLINE ART PROJECT Message-ID: <4A5C3E38.6090607@xcult.org> BEAM ME UP (2009-10) Newly commissioned artworks, animations and essays which speak to our struggle to comprehend, represent and imagine space. http://www.beam-me.net Launching in summer are new contributions by Joe Winter, artist, NYC Guillaume B?langer, astrophysicist, ESA Madrid Jamie O'Shea, artist, NYC Alec Finlay, poet, New Castle Jayanne English, physicist, Winnipeg Sarah Cook, curator and author, New Castle Johanna Dombois, opera director, Cologne Tan Genxiong, artist, Shanghai Richard Schindler, author and artist, Freiburg From daniel at danielcanogar.com Tue Jul 14 18:56:31 2009 From: daniel at danielcanogar.com (Daniel Canogar) Date: Tue Jul 14 18:56:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] VIDA 12.0, Art and Artificial Life International Awards Message-ID: <61271.76.68.209.142.1247590591.squirrel@mail.danielcanogar.com> VIDA 12.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards VIDA 12.0 awards art projects developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. Of particular interest are works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. Funded by the Fundaci?n Telef?nica in Spain, VIDA has given prizes in previous editions to artistic projects created with robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user interaction, interactive architectures, augmented reality pieces and works that explore the social aspects of A-life. A total of ?80,000 will be distributed amongst winning projects. Deadline: October 1st, 2009. For application guidelines, please go to: www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida From lotu5 at resist.ca Tue Jul 14 20:21:09 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (lotu5@resist.ca) Date: Tue Jul 14 20:28:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] becoming dragon, opening fri in la, video of talk in victoria... In-Reply-To: <61271.76.68.209.142.1247590591.squirrel@mail.danielcanogar.com> References: <61271.76.68.209.142.1247590591.squirrel@mail.danielcanogar.com> Message-ID: <7a7987d527f87a1de8dc4b1dba80f224.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> ... from my blog, http://transreal.org ... Video of Critical Digital Studies Workshop I recently gave a talk entitled ?Epistemology of Transition? about Becoming Dragon at Ctheory?s Critical Digital Studies Workshop in Victoria, Canada. The video is now online! You can also see the rest of the amazing talks from the workshop here. Becoming Dragon: An Epistemology of Transition How are technologies of transformation facilitating new becomings, new modes of learning and new sites of knowledge? The performance Becoming Dragon sought to explore two lines of technology, Multi-User Virtual Environments and biotechnology. Following Anna Munster?s call for Transversal Technology Studies, this paper is an attempt to map two transversal lines between these two directions of technology: transition or becoming as a mode of being and mixing of realities, genders and sexualities as a strategy of subversion. The intersections of these lines of technology and transversal strategies of action will be examined as operating within and against two fields of knowledge production, phenomenology and what Ricardo Dominguez has called ?science of the oppressed?. http://www.pactac.net/pactacweb/web-content/videoarchives/cdsw/D1-03-Cardenas.mp4 ////////// Also, come see the 25 minute documentation video of Becoming Dragon in Los Angeles this fri night at the I-5 gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony! MFA Conversations Part II at the I-5 Gallery At I-5 Gallery in the Brewery Artist Colony July 17th, 2009 7PM to 10PM July 17 to September 11, 2009 Artist Talks: July 25 and August 22 2PM to 4PM Conversation: (NOUN) 1. An informal spoken exchange of thoughts and feelings; a familiar talk. 2. Social intercourse; close association. 3. Rare. Close acquaintance, as with an object of study. I-5 Gallery is pleased to announce the second in the ?MFA Conversations? series of shows being offered this summer through the fall of 2009. MFA Conversations Part II continues to explore the abundance of MFA programs in the Southern California area from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Despite their shared geography, these programs represent a range of diverse offerings, foci, students, and work. While such diversity yields richness, it can also have an isolating effect on students from these institutions, who do not have many opportunities to interact in the greater southern California arts community. Curator Marla Koosed explains: ?MFA Conversations Part II builds on the foundation established by Part Iʼs show and artist conversations and will offer another opportunity for dialogue among the artists and their works. It will also offer visitors to the gallery an exceptional opportunity to see an edited sample of some of the finest work being produced by Southern California MFA Graduates. While most MFA shows are up for a limited period of time; Part II will be up for 2 months. This allows time for the scheduled artist talks, for the participants to discuss their work, each othersʼ work, and to share those conversations with a wider audience, the public.? Artist talks are scheduled from 2PM to 4PM on Saturday, July 25th and Saturday, August 22nd. On the heels of Part I, MFA Conversations Part II will show work from 7 schools; Art Center College of Design, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Otis and Calarts. This show is not a survey or comprehensive of all the graduates: Instead, studio visits for all eligible candidates for this show were conducted, and participants were chosen from that pool. The intimate space of the I-5 Gallery allows for an exhibit like this to function and for the works to interact by the space they cohabit. The MFA Conversations series will conclude with a third show, Professor Dialogues that will feature select works from faculty of the 15 schools and will take place Winter 2010. Stay tuned . I-5 Gallery 2100 North Main Street, Suite A-9 Los Angeles, CA 90031 1-323-342-0717 Press Information For Immediate Release Contact: Nancy Ramirez, Gallery Director Curator: Marla Koosed breweryartwalk@yahoo.com From lotu5 at resist.ca Tue Jul 14 21:47:55 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Tue Jul 14 21:48:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Video: The Transborder Immigrant Tool: Violence, Solidarity and Hope in Post-NAFTA Circuits of Bodies Electr(on)/ic Message-ID: <4A5CE0EB.7060206@resist.ca> Click link here to see my talk, which was co-written with Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll and Brett Stalbaum, and click the link below for the rest of the talks, all of which were amazing! And don't believe the warning on the page I'm linking to about Windows, it works fine in Ubuntu. I'll also be prsenting a version of this paper in Bonn, Germany in September at the Mobile HCI conference workshop on Community Practices and Locative Media [http://www.mobilehci09.org/call-for-submissions/workshops-2 ] *Transborder Immigrant Tool *Micha Cardenas, MFA, UC San Diego /Length: 29:54/ [video http://video-jsoe.ucsd.edu/asx/ViolenceTechnologyPublicIntervention/Micha.asx ] Violence, Technology and Public Intervention /San Diego, May 14, 2009/ -- Calit2 at UC San Diego and the UC Digital Arts Research Network (UCDARnet) sponsored a recent symposium on art's role in addressing the current and historical relationship between technology and violence. It was in connection with a new gallery@calit2 exhibit about anti-personnel land mines. The exhibit, "The Anti-Personnel Mines Project" by Argentine new-media artist Carlos Trilnick, runs through June 10, 2009 at the intimate gallery space on the first floor of Atkinson Hall. The interactive installation focuses on the long-term devastation that land mines produce, even decades after an armed conflict has ended. Trilnick was the keynote speaker at the "Violence, Technology and Public Intervention" symposium on April 24 at Calit2, which features panel discussion on public intervention as art -- and the art of public intervention. Artists from UC San Diego and other institutions talked about projects ranging from the "Public Secrets Project" to the "Transborder Immigrant Tool." The symposium presentations are now available for on-demand viewing here: http://http//www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1524 -- blog: http://transreal.org From propaganda at goto10.org Wed Jul 15 00:38:16 2009 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Wed Jul 15 00:55:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] MAKE ART 2009 - What the Fork?! - EXTENDED CALL 22/07 Message-ID: <20090714223816.GJ5014@hee.jungle> Due to popular request, delivered to you in cross-posting-visionrama, and until stocks last! (French version at the bottom) -- _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| from | __ | | _ _| | | 7 to 13 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| DECEMBER 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art -- CALL FOR PROJECTS: Extended deadline, July 22 -- make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art ? What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free software. We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations. This year make art focuses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art. 'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is the new black. Forking, copying the source code of a project and continuing work on the copy instead of the original, used to have a bad reputation. It would split a project and its developer community in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible, projects. Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to compete with it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables quick implementation of features and customization, bypassing acquiring committer status, bugfix or feature request protocol, working in a distributed way, together with others but not necessarily towards one goal, working from one source, cross-fertilising, inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting, changing direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas. Extended deadline : 22nd of July 2009. For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call -- _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| du | __ | | _ _| | | 7 au 13 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| DECEMBRE 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| MAKE ART 2009 - "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribu?es et ouvertes en art FLOSS -- APPEL A PROJETS: Prolong? jusqu'au 22 Juillet -- make art est un festival international d?di? ? l'int?gration des Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS[1]) dans l'art num?rique. La quatri?me ?dition de make art ? "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribu?es et ouvertes en art FLOSS ? se d?roule ? Poitiers (FR), du 7 au 13 d?cembre 2009. make art propose des performances, des pr?sentations, des ateliers et une exposition, centr?s sur la rencontre entre l'art num?rique et le logiciel libre. Nous recherchons actuellement des projets r?cents, innovants, bas?s sur des logiciels libres et open source : performances musicales et audiovisuelles, pr?sentations, d?monstrations de logiciels et installations. Cette ann?e make art sera centr? sur les pratiques distribu?es et ouvertes en art FLOSS. Dans 'What the fork?!' il est question de d?centralisation. Le fork c'est le bien. La pratique du Fork, qui consiste ? copier le code source d'un projet puis de continuer ? travailler sur une copie plut?t que l'original, a ouvent eu mauvaise r?putation. Car cela engendrerait une scission au sein du projet et de l'?quipe de d?veloppeurs, et conduirait ? des projets diff?rents et souvent incompatibles. Efforts gaspill?s, rivalit?s et querelles de d?veloppeurs, autant de concepts qui y sont associ?s. Tout ?a c'est de l'histoire ancienne et cr?er le fork d'un projet dans l'intention de rivaliser est encore une autre histoire. La libert? de faire un fork permet la mise en oeuvre rapide de nouvelles fonctionnalit?s et de personnalisations, en contournant la n?cessit? d'acqu?rir le statut de celui qui d?pose et valide (le "committer"), en contournant les protocoles de corrections de bug ou de demandes de nouvelles fonctionnalit?s, en travaillant de mani?re distribu?e, ensemble avec d'autres sans ?tre oblig? de suivre le m?me et unique objectif, tout en travaillant depuis la m?me source, mais en op?rant par fertilisation crois?e, en insufflant, en copiant, en patchant, en am?liorant, en exp?rimentant, en changeant de direction et en fusionnant. Cette pratique est largement boost?e par les outils d?centralis?s de d?veloppement de logiciel tels que Darcs, Mercurial ou Git. Il ne s'agit pas de hacks faits ? la va-vite, mais la cr?ation d'une chambre d'exp?rimentation, qui laisse de c?t? la copie unique du travail et qui d?multiplie les id?es. Date limite prolong?e: 22 juillet 2009. [1] FLOSS : Free/Libre/Open Source Software Pour plus d'informations : http://makeart.goto10.org/call/index.fr.html -- :* From gif at 220hex.org Wed Jul 15 07:05:31 2009 From: gif at 220hex.org (h220) Date: Wed Jul 15 07:05:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] Piksel09 :: Call for Projects - deadline EXTENDED 31/7 Message-ID: <200907150705.31397.gif@220hex.org> [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ** Piksel09 november 19-22 2009 Bergen, Norway [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] !!!!!!!!!! Deadline EXTENDED to - july 31. 2009 !!!!!!!!!! Please use the online submit form at: http://piksel.no/ocs or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel09 [AT] piksel [DOT] no [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Piksel [1] is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art. This years event - Piksel09 - continues the exploration of free/libre and open source technologies and it?s myriad of expressions within the arts. Piksel09 is organised in collaboration with Gallery 3,14 [2] and Lydgalleriet [3] which will host this years exhibitions, Bergen Kunstmuseum [4] hosting the presentations and panels, and Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark [5] hosting the evening events. [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ** open CALL for PROJECTS For the exhibitions and other parts of the programme we currently seek projects in the following categories: 1. Installations Projects to be included in the exhibitions at Galleri 3,14 and Lydgalleriet. The works must be programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY hardware. 2. Audiovisual performance Live art realised by the use of free and open source software. We specially encourage live coding and open/DIY hardware projects to apply. 3. Presentations Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under an open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realised using these technologies.) 4. Workshops Hands on workshops utilising free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use. [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Contact: Piksel att: Gisle Fr0ysland Georgernes Verft 12 5011 Bergen Norway More info: http://www.piksel.no Piksel09 is supported by Arts Council Norway, City of Bergen Cultural Office, Hordaland County Cultural Office and others. links: [1] http://www.piksel.no [2] http://www.stiftelsen314.com [3] http://www.lydgalleriet.no [4] http://www.bergenartmuseum.no [5] http://www.kunsthall.no/default.asp?k=6 -- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jul 15 09:37:43 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (videoNET) Date: Wed Jul 15 09:38:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] German video art: Johanna Reich Message-ID: <20090715093743.38D70B72.F1B2853F@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is happy to launch the first of a series of features of German video art. dedicated in July 2009 to Johanna Reich - video artist from Cologne/Germany http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=273 "Johanna Reich, a young video artist living and working in Cologne/ Germany, is walking consequently on a performative path in video art, giving the camera, the action or the performative process and the result in form of a video a new and very personal meaning. She involves the audience by provoking the visual senses with unexpected results. Her videos are much closer to performance as a form of contemporary art than filmic narritive or technological aspects, the videos go to the essence of the medium and have something purist we know from Japanese abstract minimalism of Zen, something very spiritual which seems to be very familiar and very strange at the same time. Thus art in its best sense." (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, curator) Read --> her interview on VIP -VideoChannel Interview Project http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=22 --> her biography on AND - Artists Network Database http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=111 Direct access to the online feature also via http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/2009/dvk-reich-index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ VideoChannel forms together with CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, VIP VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD - Video Art Database - a unity focussing on art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ From info at ryotakimura.net Wed Jul 15 19:26:47 2009 From: info at ryotakimura.net (Ryota Kimura) Date: Wed Jul 15 19:27:18 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 77, Issue 16 References: <20090715100005.481E154F20@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <84013C6B1C8245FEAAFCB0FCD9C5931B@rkwinintelmac> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:00 PM Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 77, Issue 16 > Send SPECTRE mailing list submissions to > spectre@mikrolisten.de > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > spectre-request@mikrolisten.de > > You can reach the person managing the list at > spectre-owner@mikrolisten.de > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SPECTRE digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. German video art: Johanna Reich ([videoNET]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:37:43 +0200 > From: "[videoNET]" > Subject: [spectre] German video art: Johanna Reich > To: > Message-ID: <20090715093743.38D70B72.F1B2853F@192.168.0.3> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > VideoChannel - video project environments > http://videochannel.newmediafest.org > > is happy to launch the first of a series of features of German video > art. > dedicated in July 2009 to Johanna Reich - video artist from > Cologne/Germany > http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=273 > > "Johanna Reich, a young video artist living and working in Cologne/ > Germany, > is walking consequently on a performative path in video art, > giving the camera, the action or the performative process and > the result in form of a video a new and very personal meaning. > She involves the audience by provoking the visual senses with unexpected > results. > Her videos are much closer to performance as a form of contemporary art > than filmic narritive or technological aspects, > the videos go to the essence of the medium and have something purist > we know from Japanese abstract minimalism of Zen, something very spiritual > which seems to be very familiar and very strange at the same time. > Thus art in its best sense." (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, curator) > > Read > --> her interview on VIP -VideoChannel Interview Project > http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=22 > --> her biography on AND - Artists Network Database > http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=111 > > Direct access to the online feature also via > http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/2009/dvk-reich-index.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > VideoChannel forms together with > CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, > VIP VideoChannel Interview Project and > VAD - Video Art Database - a unity focussing on > art forms of film and video in the framework of > [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net > the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany > > info (at) nmartproject.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > SPECTRE mailing list > SPECTRE@mikrolisten.de > http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > > End of SPECTRE Digest, Vol 77, Issue 16 > *************************************** > From hatam at drfz.de Wed Jul 15 20:02:45 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Wed Jul 15 20:03:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] concert Berlin Sat July 18 Cut Hands Proj William Bennett Nick Herd Message-ID: <380-22009731518245882@M2W006.mail2web.com> Concert at NK Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 9:30pm Elsen str 52 2 HH Berlin, Germany www.myspace.com/enka52 CUT HANDS sound by William Bennett, live visuals by Nick Herd A new night for music like no other : where the rules of the West no longer apply, where the sound of voodoo and santer?a is mixed with raw electricity : where we have the secret, you have the dilemma, and we have the solution : now welcome to CUT HANDS! http://www.myspace.com/cuthands SUDDEN INFANT Joke Lanz aka SUDDEN INFANT creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expressions, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. Member of the infamous SCHIMPFLUCH collective, singer of the notorious CATHOLIC BOYS IN HEAVY LEATHER and long time accompanist of Rudolf Eb.er, he's presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz has collaborated with the likes of Z'EV, Carlos Giffoni, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Norbert M?slang, DJ Olive, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Christian Weber, Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Roger Rotor, Strotter Inst, Evil Moisture, Astro, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Entracte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Artware, Klanggalerie, SSSM. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006). http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantnoise FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE http://www.myspace.com/familybattlesnake -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange From fritz.d at chello.nl Thu Jul 16 02:56:36 2009 From: fritz.d at chello.nl (Darko Fritz) Date: Thu Jul 16 02:57:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] grey) (area ::: Toni Mestrovic: Abyssos 6 Message-ID: <03E72D2C-26A9-45D6-B86C-1072D144B731@chello.nl> grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korcula Toni Mestrovic: Abyssos 6 17 - 28 . 06 Oepning: Friday 17th July . 21 - 23 h free entrance Site-specific video installation making use of projection of underwater scenes in relation with the 'real' sea and its sounds. The seafront is ten meters in front of the of the gallery entrance. Sound composition is made in collaboration with German artist Hannes Hoelzl. from artist satatement: As a point of departure I looked at the word abyssos (bottomless), which is a synonym for dark infinities and primal chaos. It was important for me to create a work, with the intention to open up the space between conscious and unconscious perception.The original underwater footage is combined with the images and sounds that have been manipulated through digital processing technology. Like a kind of a feedback system, ?real? imagery (original video footage) is intertwined with artificial imagery (manipulated footage and 3D imagery). Toni Mestrovic, born 1973 in Split, Croatia, graduated with a Graphic Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999, where he produced graphic arts, sculpture and installation. Due to his interest in electronic audiovisual media, he studied Video/Digital Imaging at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg in 1997, and completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne in 2004. Video, sound and audiovisual installations produced during Mestrovic's postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea, and the island where he grew up. Since 1992, he has taken part in group and solo shows, as well as video festivals. Lives in Kastela and teaches at the Arts Academy University of Split. website Toni Mestrovic: http://www.macaknara.hr ------------------------------------------------------- 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 louise.desrenards at free.fr Thu Jul 16 03:52:30 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Thu Jul 16 03:52:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] At Montreuil, the police force aims the demonstrators to the head Message-ID: <9eb0e3810907151852u752cdeebn3ce0f18f4255d8d2@mail.gmail.com> At Montreuil, the police force aims the demonstrators to the head The morning of Wednesday July 8, the police force had emptied a private clinic occupied in the downtown area. The private clinic, in reference to the experiments from Italy, had taken the form of a French" centro sociale?: residences, film projections, newspaper, defense of illegal immigrants, meals? All those that think of the lebensraum looked at this experiment with tenderness. The evacuation was done without violence. The extraordinary deployed police means settled the question in less than one hour. While crossing the market the morning, I had noticed their busy and diligent airs. Those that had stuck to this experiment and the residents decided to protest against expulsion by organizing a gigantic grub out in the mall of Montreuil. Three immense tables of hand-manufactured gnocchi (at least five thousand) rolled in the flour waited to be thrown in the broth. Tomato saucepans quivered. They had tightened streamers to rename the space. Images of the popular front or libertarian columns of the war of Spain were superimposed on this festival because sometimes the images gain widespread acceptance. I left the celebration at 8 PM by greeting Joachim. A few metres from there, it was the last day in the buildings of the Parole Errante at the Maison de l ?arbre in the street Fran?ois Debergue of our exhibition over May 68. For one year, it has accommodated plays, film projections, meetings, the sedentary night, the call of the Calls, readings, and presentations of books? That day, one closed the exhibition with a part of Armand Gatti?s ? l?homme seul? read by Pierre Vial of the French Comedy, a long time companion. Several versions of the life of a Chinese militant are confronted with it: that of the woman, the children, the father, the lieutenant, the general, the comrades? It was a three hours reading. We were surrounded by the newspapers of May. Suddenly, young people arrived in the room, frightened, they came to hide? they set out again. I received a call: Joachim is at the hospital, at the l?h?tel Dieu. He was indeed there. He had not lost conscience. His face was covered with blood that ran out slowly as if he had become porous. In a corner, the intern of service said to me that there was little chance that he finds the use of his burst eye again. I say burst because I would learn it later, he had three fractures on the face, the ocular sphere split into two, a torn off eyelid? Between these two moments; that is when I left him at the gnocchi celebration and the h?tel Dieu, what had occurred? He relates: ?There were fireworks on top of the market. We went there. Immediately, the police officers that supervised the area within their car deployed in front. One minute later, whereas we were still opposite the clinic, at the level of the market hall, the police officers that walked a few meters behind us, drew on our group by means of their flashball. I was walking and I looked in direction of the police officers. I felt a violent shock at the level of my right eye. I fell on the ground under the force of the impact. People helped me to stand up and supported me until I sat on the pavement in the rue de Paris. As the intensity of the pain and bleedings heightened, firemen were called.? There has been no clash. Five persons have been hit by the flashball shots, all of them above the waist. Police blunders cannot be invoked. The demonstrators were about thirty and were no threat to anybody. In fact, policemen shot images, as described by the following press release by AFP. A young man of about twenty lost an eye after a clash with the police, as learnt from several coincident sources on Friday. He occupied, together with other people, a squat at Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) that has been evacuated by the police last Wednesday. The young man, Joachim Gatti, belonged to a group of about fifteen squatters who have been sent off the premises of a former clinic Wednesday morning they tried to reoccupy the place a little later in the evening but they clashed with the police. They threw stones at the police, who replied with flashball, according to the prefecture that ordered the action. Three persons have been arrested and a young man had his eye injured and was taken to hospital in Paris, according to the Mayor, who did not however provide any detail on how severe the wound was. ?We have indeed been informed that a young man lost his eye, but there is no clearly established connection between this loss and the flashball shooting?, the prefecture stated before the AFP on Wednesday. The police shoot at the image of a 20 year old young man who tries to take back a squat. And for police and media alike, this justifies acquittal; this is the first scandal. Should one re-establish the truth on Joachim Gatti?s identity, at least to disclose how the police manipulate identities to justify their actions, as if there were a targeted population on whom shooting is legitimate? Joachim is not twenty, but thirty-four. He did not live in the squat, but used to take an active part to the numerous activities taking place in the clinic. He is a cameraman. He prepares exhibitions and is a film-maker. His first film is called ?Magume?. It was shot in Burundi, in a seminary; it dwells on the question of genocide. At present, he takes part in a project involving two Emma?s hostels within a collective framework. One should be allowed to rewrite the AFP forgery and ask them to publish it. It should run like: Joachim Gatti, a film-maker aged 34, was hit by a flashball bullet right in the face while he demonstrated in support of evicted squatters. He lost an eye as a result of police brutality. St?phane Gatti From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Jul 16 09:14:12 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Thu Jul 16 09:14:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: films & videos for CologneOFF - 5th festival edition Message-ID: <20090716091412.E44D72CB.5B146DFC@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 oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Thu Jul 16 10:34:55 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Thu Jul 16 10:35:54 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Message-ID: <4A5F024F0200003C000265C8@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. MELBOURNE 26-29 November 2009 The Media Art History national conference committee of Austrialia would like to invite you to attend the Re:live the international media art history conference. Over three stimulating days, historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will explore the latest research and theories that challenge; CONFERENCE SESSIONS on the HISTORIES OF:: :: art-science-technology :: biology :: the environment :: liveness :: the life of machines :: innovation :: How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery, mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options, potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have been realised and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history? KEYNOTE Presenters :: ZHANG GA :: DOUGLAS KAHN :: LISA GITELMAN We welcome you to join POSSIBLE PRESENTERS for this extraordinary event; Marianne SCHMIDT, Slavko KACUNKO, McKenzie WARK, Lu?s QUINTAIS, Daniela Alina PLEWE, Gebhard SENGMUELLER, Morten SONDERGAARD, Andres BURBANO, Audrey SAMSOM, Denisa KERA, Ana PERAICA, Darko FRITZ, Gabriel Menotti GONRING, Andrea GLENIGER, Laura BELOFF, Simona CARACENI, Ingrid HOELZL, Maggie MACNAB, Darren TOFTS, Frederik LESAGE, Lawrence BIRD, Natasha VITA-MORE, Mike LEGGETT, Eva KEKOU, Camille PALOQUE-BERGES, Nigel LLWYD, William HELYER, Mike STUBBS, Gabriella GIANNACHI, Katja KWASTEK, Roger MALINA, Catherine MASON, Lizzie MULLER, Caroline Seck LANGILL, Elena Giulia ROSSI, Martin CONSTABLE, Adele TAN, Danielle WILDE, Brogan BUNT, Mark GUGLIELMETTI, Margaret SEYMOUR, Oron CATTS, Melentie PANDILOVSKI, Ionat ZURR, Jennifer LADE, Stephen JONES, Paul SERMON, Christopher SALTER, Jihoon KIM, Jussi PARIKKA, Allison de FREN, Troy INNOCENT, Jon CATES, Nina WENHART, Susan BALLARD, Leon MARVELL, Rudy RUCKER, Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, Daniel PALMER, Zita JOYCE, Lucas IHLEIN, Louise CURHAM, Lissa MITCHELL, Gabrielle Finnane, Cass MEERS, Virginia PITTS, Manosh CHOWDHURY. Francesca FRANCO, Sarah KENDERDINE, Pia EDNIE-BROWN, Anders CARLSSON, Rosana Horio MONTERIO, Suzette WORDEN, Stefano RAIMONDI, Cat HOPE, Jung-Yeon MA, Keiko COURDY, Margit ROSEN, Robrecht VANDERBEEKEN, O. PARASKEVOPOULOU, D. CHARITOS, V. LAMONTAGNE, Mathias FUCHS, Franck ANCEL, Joanna WALEWSKA, Monika GORSKA-OLESINSKA, Robert SWEENY, Caitlin JONES, Ernest EDMONDS, Michael CENTURY, Larissa HJORTH, Kathy Rae HUFFMAN, Jens HAUSER, Mike PHILLIPS, Thomas MICAL, Anne-Marie DUGET, Norman FORD, Helen Mary GRACE, Hector RODRIGUEZ, Ross HARLEY, Tapio MAKELA SEAN CUBITT and PAUL THOMAS :: Co Chairs Re:live09 :: Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Conference :: The main conference will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, featuring keynotes by invited speakers as well as international presenters selected by a peer review process, the selected Keynotes (as listed above) will be held in the evenings at the BMW Edge at Federation Square. National Committee :: Oron CATTS, Edward COLLESS, Eleanor GATES-STUART, Lisa Gye, Ross Rudesch HARLEY, Larissa HJORTH, Kim MACHAN, Leon MARVELL, Anna MUNSTER, Daniel PALMER, Melinda RACKHAM, Darren TOFTS International advisory board :: Andreas BROECKMANN, Berlin; Paul BROWN, London/Cotton Tree; Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Sara DIAMOND, Toronto; Diana DOMINGUES, Caxias do Sul; Timothy DRUCKREY, New York; Oliver GRAU, Krems; Gunalan NADARAJAN, Baltimore; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Erkki HUHTAMO, Los Angeles; Douglas KAHN, Davis; ?ngel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI, Lodz; Machiko KUSAHARA, Tokyo; Roger MALINA, Paris; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, New York; Miklos PETERNAK, Budapest, Edward SHANKEN, Amsterdam; Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco Further information can be found at: www.mediaarthistories.org Information about other key events connected to Re:live can be found at: www.mediaarthistories.org Super Human symposium: Melbourne 23rd-24th of November http://superhuman.anat.org.au/symposium.html Leonardo Education Forum (LEF), Melbourne, 26th of November 2009 http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html (with: Paul THOMAS, Oliver GRAU, Ian CLOTHIER a.o.) :: forwarded by the Department for Image Science :: partner of Re:live and home of the Master of Arts programm in MediaArtHistories www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories From info at apo33.org Thu Jul 16 14:07:12 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Thu Jul 16 14:27:48 2009 Subject: [spectre] APO33 -> BOT project & THENOISER @ PDCONF09 - Sao Paulo/Brazil Message-ID: <20090716140712.13185g4fhqsnrx8g@apo33.org> APO33 THIS SUMMER!!! APO33 CET ?T?!!!! (english below french) -PDCONF2009 - Sao Paulo - Brazil -IN-OUT - Paimboeuf - France ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// BOT project & THENOISER @ PDCONF09 - Sao Paulo/Br?sil du 20 au 26 juillet 2009 PDCONF09 : http://blog.pdcon.org/ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// BOT WORKSHOP!!!! Impuls? par Apo33, les BOTs composent une communaut? virtuelle qui s'inscrit dans la continuit? du projet du POULPE de cr?er un ensemble d'entit?s machiniques venant se greffer sur des lieux, sites urbains ou naturels, pour en explorer les potentiels actifs et les mettre en relation les uns avec les autres. Chaque entit? capte des donn?es du lieu d?implantation (son, mouvement, intensit? lumineuse?) pour les faire transiter via internet sous la forme de flux streaming. Il y deux types de flux de donn?es : flux sonore et flux de data. Les seconds agissent sur les premiers par l?interm?diaire de patchs (programmes informatiques) construits par les diff?rents participants de la communaut? virtuelle. Les patchs s?interrelient au cours de leur construction, telle une plante aux ramifications multiples. Ils dessinent ainsi l?espace d?une exp?rimentation continue : un jardin sans cesse retravaill?. Les patchs mixent les flux sonores entre eux, les transforment, recomposant le point de vue initial de la captation pour proposer un paysage complexe et hybride, sans cesse en ?volution. Les donn?es capt?es sur chaque site agissent sur le patch qui a son tour agit sur les sons capt?s. workshop men? par Julien Ottavi plus d'info: http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=bot ECOUTER LES BOT: http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=radio-bot -utiliser apodio -introduction ? PD -outils de r?seau & streaming -les syt?mes d'automatisation du BOT -interface de manipulation des BOT -d?marrer son BOT -Comment connecter son BOT au r?seau des autres BOT le 23 et le 24 Juillet de 14h ? 16h - salle de Workshop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WIINOISE & LE MASQUE D'ELIOS - THE NOISER (aka Julien Ottavi) Percussif, puissante ?nergie du noise, The Noiser propose une performance o? le musicien et le compositeur devienne une m?me force ? travers une chor?graphie d?bordante o? le public est pris ? parti. Craquelure de grains, explosives et r?sonantes, les sonorit?s sont ? la fois fragment?s et massive, la prestation muscl?! --> le 25 juillet - 18:30h SESC Vila Mariana (Audit?rio) http://www.noiser.org ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// exposition IN-OUT @ Paimboeuf - France du 05 juin au 16 Aout 2009 Le Hangar (Office de Tourisme) avec: Pierre-Guillaume Clos Briarc Lepr?te Voncent Mauger Fabrice Parizy BIOBOT - APO33/ECOS/A10LAB BIOBOT nous propose une d?ambulation sonore en ext?rieur du Hangar (fa?ade EST) ? partir de donn?es environnementales capt?es en temps r?el ? Londres, Nantes, Le Pellerin, etc?et mises en flux pour transiter via internet. Des interfaces de programmations (les patchs) interreli?s mixent et recomposent les donn?es num?riques pour proposer un paysage sonore en perp?tuelle ?volution. Alliant recherche et exp?rimentation par les r?seaux num?riques ; ECOS , APO33, A 10 LAB d?ploient un espace de diffusion sp?cifique pour IN-OUT, l?ordinateur visible en vitrine et les hauts-parleurs sous les fen?tres. BIOBOT prolonge les postulats de l?exposition par la diffusion d?un paysage mental, d?un jardin sonore ? partir de donn?es r?elles. La diffusion d?multiplie l?espace r?f?rent et nous engage dans ? la r?alit? du virtuel num?rique ?, dans une ubiquit? de fictions? ouvert du lundi au samedi - de 9h30 ? 12h30 et 14h ? 18h (Dimanche - 15h ? 18h) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// BOT project & THENOISER @ PDCONF09 - Sao Paulo/Brazil from 20th to 26th of July PDCONF09 : http://blog.pdcon.org/ **************************************************************************** BOT WORKSHOP!! Initiated by apo33 (led by Dominique Leroy & Julien Ottavi), BOTs make up a virtual community, in the continuation of the 'POULPE' project, with a view to assemble a collection of entities in one location in order to diffuse their production to many more places. They stand for a new approach to digital phenomena : networks, multi motionless geolocation, interconnection of on-line produced or processed data, automation in the treatment of reality and, especially in the case of BOTs, sites for experiments, always accessible, and from anywhere. workshop led by Julien Ottavi more info: http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/en/doku.php?id=bot listen the BOT : http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/en/doku.php?id=ecouter -how to use apodio -PD introduction -tools for network/streaming -automaton BOT system -interface to control your BOT -start your own BOT -how to connect with the other BOT July 23rd & 24th - Workshop Room - 2pm to 4pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// WIINOISE & THE MASK OF ELIOS - THE NOISER (aka Julien Ottavi) A mediactivist, artist-researcher, musician, poet and tongues destroyer, experimental film maker and anarchitect, founder and member of apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video, new technologies and construction of electronic devices. An activist in the free software movement, he develops Apodio, a Gnu/Linux multimedia distribution. He is actually co-director of the Area10Medialab in London and participates in, and produces, numerous events such as conventions of researchers, artists and activists, sound art or multimedia festivals, workshops on free software and DIY electronics, etc. --> July the 25th - 18:30h SESC Vila Mariana (Audit?rio) http://www.noiser.org ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// IN-OUT EXHIBITION @ Paimboeuf - France 5th of June to 16th of August 2009 Le Hangar (Office de Tourisme) with: Pierre-Guillaume Clos Briarc Lepr?te Voncent Mauger Fabrice Parizy BIOBOT - APO33/ECOS/A10LAB open from Monday to Saturday - 9.30am to 12.30am and 2pm to 6pm (sunday - 3pm to 6pm) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -- AKA THE NOISER & NANOFAMAS "the world is noise" http://www.noiser.org http://www.apo33.org http://www.a10lab.info http://fibrr.apo33.org http://ecos.crealab.info http://www.a10lab.info/mutation http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From eb at randomseed.org Thu Jul 16 17:00:28 2009 From: eb at randomseed.org (Erich Berger) Date: Thu Jul 16 17:01:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] Kilpiscope Water Flea Circus live stream Message-ID: <20090716165314.G98774@clone.attacksyour.net> hello, tonight 19:00-21:00 (CET) 80 + 1 Kilpiscope - "Water Flea Circus" - live stream for stream and more information please visit: http://kilpiscope.net best the Kilpiscope team From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Jul 17 10:24:59 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (cinematheque) Date: Fri Jul 17 10:26:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: The Best of FLash on the Net Message-ID: <20090717102459.43FC691A.9AF7F987@192.168.0.3> extended deadline:31 August 2009 -------------------------------- Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for "videostreaming" on the net. As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised. After Cinematheque - streaming media environments - explored in 2007 the capabilities of "Quicktime" as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show \\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// - its now the time to explore in 2009 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well. // Flash and Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations \\ Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000. Please find the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From jcm at ata.org.pe Fri Jul 17 12:58:42 2009 From: jcm at ata.org.pe (Jose-Carlos Mariategui) Date: Fri Jul 17 12:59:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] Third Text: Special Issue on MEDIA ARTS: Practice, Institutions and Histories Message-ID: Dear Friends: A Special Issue of Third Text has just been published. It is an update on the development and current state of new media arts in some "under-represented" regions and contexts of the world. You can find it in bookshops, libraries and online (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title ~db=all~content=g912391250). Third Text (http://www.thirdtext.com/) Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture Volume 23 Issue 3 2009 MEDIA ARTS: Practice, Institutions and Histories Guest Editors: Sean Cubitt, Jose-Carlos Mariategui and Gunalan Nadarajan ISSN: 1475-5297 (electronic) 0952-8822 (paper) Contents Social Formations of Global Media Art Jos?-Carlos Mari?tegui; Sean Cubitt; Gunalan Nadarajan Taking a Line for a Walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to Vector Graphics Laura U. Marks Pou Rewa: The Liquid Post, Maori Go Digital? Maree Mills Agents for Change: The Contemporary Art Centres of the Soros Foundation and C3 Nina Czegledy; Andrea Szekeres Old Contexts for New: Media Cultures (in Russia) Olga Goriunova Electronic Image: Identities and the Experience of Globalisation in the International Festival of Electronic Art ? Videobrasil Eduardo de Jesus New Technologies in Central American Contemporary Art: A Partial Archaeology and Some Critical Appreciations from the Institutional Realm Ernesto Calvo; Mar?a Jos? Monge Electronic Art in Peru: The Discovery of an Invisible Territory in the Country of the Incas Mauricio Delf?n; Miguel Zegarra Chinese Contemporary Video Art Pi Li Excavating Images on the Border Hannah Feldman Analogue and Digital Anecdotes and Artworks from South Africa Marcus Neustetter Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom Ravi Sundaram From danja at k0a1a.net Fri Jul 17 13:22:34 2009 From: danja at k0a1a.net (danja vasiliev) Date: Fri Jul 17 13:23:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] RE:BUNTU, Linux that kills itself and may kill you Message-ID: <4A605EFA.8020703@k0a1a.net> k0a1a 2070 would like to bring to your attention: RE:BUNTU "re:buntu is an illustration of a system making decisions by itself and committing to self-maintenance. The system is continuously reloading a copy of itself within itself until the system memory runs out. When no free memory is left the system needs to decide which one of the copies of itself it shall kill in order to reproduce itself again, again and again... " read: http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu run: http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu/rebuntu-07142304.iso see: http://k0a1a.net/rebuntu/rebuntu-screencast-20mb.ogv EOF -- . _www_ . {~._.~} in the name . ( Y ) of the holy . ()~*~() grid . (_)-(_) # . k0a1a.net/recent . http://moddr.net -- From info at franck-ancel.com Fri Jul 17 15:12:15 2009 From: info at franck-ancel.com (franck ancel) Date: Fri Jul 17 15:12:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] 1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art Message-ID: <4A6078AF.9020507@franck-ancel.com> Dear Friends and Colleagues on Spectre, Enjoy below my last project "1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art". To be continued on 2009 by conferences there: "Walk on the Mars Side" @ Annual Inter. convention of The Mars Society in University of Maryland US (1) "OOTT: Once Open a Time Theater" @ "Re-live" symposium Media Art History in Melbourne Australia (2) Space of Love Franck Ancel Paris + 33 676 470 610 info@franck-ancel.com (1) http://www.marssociety.org (2) http://www.mediaarthistory.org Press release "1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art" On the night of 20 to 21 July 2009 at 3:56 (French time), I will make an appointment in space and time - a Conquest for Numerical Exploration of Stage and Screen - for Internet on-line platform (room 27) http://www.selfworld.net founded by Ivan Chabanaud. After releasing a streaming audio-video in real time from an aircraft in flight between Shanghai and Munich in December 2005 "From Scenography to Planetary Network" with "From Moon to Futurist Explorer Art", this is today a new setting things back to zero away from the limits of what is known. This event is not a copy of the Cirque Calder, or my Container Theater in 1998, but it is a model that was also thought to be connected to the Internet, inspired by the words that I projected on the screen of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris in 2004, "Mobile Wireless Digital". By coordinating the exhibition on scenographer Jacques Polieri in Paris in 2002 and Berlin in 2003, I was able to present his model in relation to the conquest of space, cosmic as well as scenic. Now I've concluded that there can be no new languages without a temporal written form as a primary consideration for experimenting with space itself. (**) One hundred years after the manifesto of Futurism, I play with the "art of silence" (*). The so-called ? technological arts ? have come of age, forty years after McLuhan's theories in relation to electronic communications along with the first steps of man on the moon. We are now entering into a "digital atmosphere" that has nothing to do with the past. Before my upcoming publication-performance-installation "00/00" in Paris, to close my triptych "1957/2007: from Sputnik Satellite to Explorer Art" and "1958/2008: from Philips Pavillon to Explorer Art" you can participate in "From Futurist Moon to Explorer Art". I invite you as a space tourist to experience, instead of the absence of gravity, an amusing discovery and, perhaps, to leave your mark on my work, which is also a break from definite space. As Pascale did not say, ? facing the eternal silence of these defined spaces which frighten us no more ?. "From Futurist Moon to Explorer Art" selfworld is connected to a wireless IP camera, with different scenery available, directly from the planet Mars taken by NASA robots (***) and characters that I can animate at the time of your choice. By purchasing a character in this work, representative of the cosmonauts, you become an actor Futurist, Marswalker, Explorer, Artist, etc., depending on your institutional support or private finances. The pieces in this game are set in a black cube type flightcase. The entire architecture of this "Little Cosmic Theater" is available for exhibition performances in museums and galleries. This gesture is an amusing but radically critical opening to imagine real interconnections between the arts. Franck Ancel, zerographer, Paris 11th July 2009. Contacts : info@franck-ancel.com +33676470610 (*) http://www.franck-ancel.com (**) http://www.fhnw.ch/hgk/iis/pressespiegel/institut-daten/081108_baz-kultur_in3-08.pdf (***) copyright NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University Franck Ancel, craftsman of his life for nearly forty years, of which half has been spent on projects that can be definied in 20 connections: 1989-2009 / invisible-visible / architecture-environment / Kiesler-Polieri / neo-avant-garde / space-time / technology-science / language-form / network-data / history-memory / freedoom-love / screen-stage / sounds-colours / lighthouse-satellite / desert-island / community-xxx / body-mouvement / past-future / skin-soul / spirituality-poetic. From swht at clear.net.nz Sun Jul 19 02:29:27 2009 From: swht at clear.net.nz (simon) Date: Sun Jul 19 02:32:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] (read the small print) Message-ID: <4A6268E7.40109@clear.net.nz> of interest to the asciites, otherwise, another music video, embedded here in HD: http://squarewhiteworld.com/ Best, Simon Taylor From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jul 20 09:56:23 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (cinematheque) Date: Mon Jul 20 09:56:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for Proposals: Draft Title: SHOAH Message-ID: <20090720095623.6453E16F.C1612730@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. The submission form can be found on http://dts.engad.org/blog/?page_id=18 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 m at 1010.co.uk Mon Jul 20 16:09:19 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Mon Jul 20 16:28:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] _____-micro_research workshops:22_//July 25th 2PM: Schmelzolan Robots Message-ID: <3a8rqwds.fsf@xxxxx.xxxxx> 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: July 25th 2PM: Schmelzolan Robots with Christian Faubel, Cordula K?rber, and Ralf Schreiber August 10-16th: sommercamp [world as representation//workshops] http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=10 Forthcoming matter: software radio, hydrogen line, micro-cuisine, kitchen sink chemistry, Kicad, openEEG, fiction generation, thoughtography, org-mode ... contact if you're interested in leading [un]-related workshop. //<----------------------------------------------- July 25th 2PM: Schmelzolan Robots with Christian Faubel, Cordula K?rber, and Ralf Schreiber Singing and moving solar robots in combination with Schmelzolan. In this workshop the traditional (German?) 70s housewife "schmelzolan" handicraft technique is mixed with DIY analogue electronic and soldering. You can build a little autonomous analogue sound device or a minimal analogues solar robot and seal them in molten schmelzolan plastic forms. Ornamental singing plastic discs for window applications or kitschy kinetic objects (for windowsills or ohp's) can be created. Electronic know-how is not required and all self builded creatures can be taken home. schmelzolan--> http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&q=schmelzolan&btnG=Bilder- Suche&gbv=2&aq=f&oq= christians schmelzolan ohp-bots http://derstrudel.org/videos/schmelzolan_on_overhead_med.mov solarsoundmodules http://www.ralfschreiber.com/solarsound/solarsound.html solarrobotics, beam http://www.solarbotics.net/ Cost: ?10 per participant (this includes all parts and food) Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) Note that this will be the last workshop before August sommercamp. ---_______ 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) _____-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 lotu5 at resist.ca Tue Jul 21 07:12:13 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Tue Jul 21 07:12:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] b.a.n.g. lab: New Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance Message-ID: <4A654E2D.8040405@resist.ca> ... from http://bang.calit2.net ... b.a.n.g. lab researcher Micha Cardenas [ http://transreal.org ] 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?. The outline for the workshop is below. The Encuentro's [ http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/encuentro/colombia_overview.html ] theme is "Staging Citizenship". From the description of the Encuentro: "Our 7th Encuentro invites interested participants to investigate "cultural rights" and their complex relationship to citizenship in both historical and contemporary contexts. We understand cultural rights as a juridical figure, a technology of power and an articulation that brings together multiple political demands, social subjects and modalities of citizenship. They allow us to explore the relationship between performance and politics through diverse expressive forms, analytic categories, disciplines, traditions and movements." Workshop brief outline: Hacktivism: From Electronic Civil Disobedience to Mixed Reality Performance Workshop for the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics Encuentro 2009: Staging Citizenship by Micha C?rdenas ?we are the virus of the new world disorder rupturing the symbolic from within saboteurs of big daddy mainframe the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix? - Cyberfeminist Manifesto, VNS Matrix ?Those who are against, while escaping from the local and particular constraints of their human condition, must also continually attempt to construct a new body and a new life... These barbaric deployments work on human relations in general, but we can recognize them today first and foremost in corporeal relations and configurations of gender and sexuality. Conventional norms of corporeal and sexual relations between and within genders are increasingly open to challenge and transformation. Bodies themselves transform and mutate to create new posthuman bodies.? Hardt and Negri, Empire The workshop will trace the trajectory from Hacktivism to Mixed Reality Performance, considering the possibilities opened up by networked gestures. Beginning with a discussion of Electronic Civil Disobedience, its motivations and mechanisms, the workshop will introduce participants to a number of strategies which are being used in post-contemporary political struggles including Free/Libre/Open Source, DIY, Hacklabs, Social Media and interventions in online public spaces such as Second Life. Day 1 ? Introduction to Hacktivism and Electronic Civil Disobedience Intro to topics: Hacktivism, Networked Performance, Online Public Space Digital Resistance as a response to the changing forms of Capital Society as Assemblage Electronic Civil Disobedience: Electronic Disturbance Theater Virtual Sit-Ins Day 2 ? Free/Libre/Open Source, Hacklabs and Science of the Oppressed Autonomy and World Building Free/Libre/Open Source Code as resistance in the Alter-Globalization Movement: Indymedia, the Zapatistas Hacklabs from Western Europe to the borderlands Science of the Oppressed: From ACT-UP to Cyberfeminism to Fadiat to Hackmeets Social Media: Myspace, Youtube, Twitter, Orkut Boredom Patrol, a silly netwar in the borderlands >From Twitter to Identica Day 3 ? Interventions in Online Public Space The Changing Nature of Public Space Physical, Online, Mediated Public Spaces Virtual Worlds, World of Warcraft, Second Life, Second Front Becoming Dragon, gender and sexuality Mixed Reality Performance Motion capture, physical computing, new forms of display -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Jul 21 11:44:19 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Tue Jul 21 11:45:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] August 2009: CologneOFF in Indonesia and more Message-ID: <20090721114419.D7E5B411.D8E5CC5A@192.168.0.3> CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival - http://coff.newmediafest.org is very proud to announce the next partner festival in August 2009 ?> OK Video Festival Jakarata/Indonesia - 28 July -9 August 2009 at National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarata) http://www.okvideofestival.org/ Go to the festival profile on netMAXX - networked magazine http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=74 CologneOFF will present a special selection on the topic "comedy" in its widest sense, curated by CologneOFF director, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne featuring films by Andreja Andric (Croatia), Gabriel Shalom (USA), Unnur A. Einarsdottir (Iceland), Carla Della Beffa (Italy), Michael Fortune (Ireland), Ji Hyun Kim (South Korea), Laurent Pernot (France), Miri Nishri (Israel), G.H. Hovagimyan (USA), Rami Fischler (Australia), Ina Loitzl (Austria), Alberto Magrin (Italy), Oksana Shatalova (Kazakhstan). -------------------------------------------------------------- FILE - Hipersonica Festival Sao Paulo/Brazil - 27 July - 30 August 2009 http://www.file.org.br is presenting --> SoundLAB VI - Sound POOL - sound compositions a challenge for imagination by SoundLAB -sonic art project environments curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=215 -------------------------------------------------------------- FILE - Electronic Language Festival - Sao Paulo/Brazil - 27 July - 30 August 2009 http://www.file.org.br - is presenting in its media art section these videos by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne --> Silent Cry - http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog?page_id=47, and --> timedOUT - http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog?page_id=44 -------------------------------------------------------------- One Minute - International Film &Video Festival -Aarau/CH - 21-23 August 2009 is screening Wilfried Agricola de Cologne's film --> Burning Phantom - http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog?page_id=52 -------------------------------------------------------------- CologneOFF - http://coff.newmediafest.org VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project - http://vip.newmediafest.org VAD - Video Art Database - http://vad.nmartproject.net are dedicated to art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net info (at) nmartproject.net --------------------------------------------------------------- From info at franck-ancel.com Tue Jul 21 17:12:15 2009 From: info at franck-ancel.com (franck ancel) Date: Tue Jul 21 17:12:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] Group "Room 27" on Facebook too Message-ID: <4A65DACF.9090504@franck-ancel.com> Room 27 est un groupe de cr?ation permanente cr??e par Franck Ancel. Room 27 is a group of permanent art created by Franck Ancel. Room 27 est apparu avec ? 1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art ?. Room 27 appeared with ?1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to to Explore Art?. Room 27 est h?berg? sur le site Internet Selfworld cr?? par Ivan Chabanaud. Room 27 is accommodated on the Internet site Selfworld created by Ivan Chabanaud. Room 27 est un espace d'?change et de discussion en direct par webcam. Room 27 is a space of exchange and direct debate by webcam. Room 27 est un rendez-vous ?ph?m?re sur la base d'un ?Mobile Wireless Digital?. Room 27 is a short-lived meeting on the basis of a "Mobile Wireless Digital". Room 27 est sans fronti?res autres que celles des connexions technologiques. Room 27 is without borders others than those of technological connections. Room 27 est une communaut? d'individu(e)s libres tourn?(e)s vers les autres. Room 27 is an individual's community free turned towards the others. Room 27 est un abr?g? d?histoire de la cr?ation portative cher ? Enrique Vila-Matas. Room 27 belongs to Enrique Vila-Matas's abr?g? d?histoire de la cr?ation portative. Room 27 est une transfiguration artistique entre architecture-cin?ma-danse-musique-th??tre. Room 27 is an artistic transfiguration between architecture-cinema-danse-musique-theater. Room 27 est un champs z?rographique quand le concept de sc?nographie est mis ? z?ro. Room 27 is a zerography vision when the concept of scenography is put on zero. Room 27 est un passage temporel comme celui de Xanti Schawinsky au si?cle dernier. Room 27 is a temporal passage like Xanti Schawinsky in the last century. Room 27 est pour l'?mergence d'un ?weBBauhaus? 90 ans apr?s l'ouverture du Bauhaus. Room 27 is for the emergence of "weBBauhaus" 90 years after the opening of Bauhaus. Room 27 est un acc?l?rateur symbolique de particules fondamentales entre les ?tres. Room 27 is a symbolic accelerator of fundamental particles between beings. Room 27 !/? http://www.selfworld.net http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122910280954 From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Thu Jul 9 10:12:39 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Tue Jul 21 18:04:21 2009 Subject: [spectre] Vortrag REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT | 10. Juli 2009 Message-ID: <4A55C291.9ACC.00AE.0@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu folgenden Veranstaltungen herzlich einladen | We would like to invite you cordially to the following events REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT Pr?sentation des Stipendiumsprojekts *Die Risikogesellschaft* | Presentation of their stipend project "The risk society" Vortrag | Talk Freitag, 10. Juli 2009, 20 Uhr | Friday, 10 July 2009, 8 p.m. im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst in Oldenburg | at Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany ***************************************************************** Die Arbeiten des K?nstlerduos REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT thematisieren die Beziehungen zwischen wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen und politischen Prozessen und die Frage, wie sich Gesellschaft vor diesem Hintergrund bildet. Im Rahmen ihres Stipendienaufenthaltes am Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst plant die K?nstlergruppe REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT die Erarbeitung einer Videoinstallation zur medialen Repr?sentation des gesellschaftlichen Strukturwandels im Zeichen neuer Risikoverteilungen. Schwerpunktthema sind die Beziehungen zwischen kulturellen Identifikationen und Berufsleben. Es handelt sich um ein flexibles Forschungsprojekt, das verschiedene Perspektiven auf soziale und technologische Prozesse beobachtet, erkundet und vernetzt. Von Interesse sind die individuellen und gruppendynamischen Beziehungen zwischen Verbraucher- und Produzentenkulturen. Das Ergebnis ist eine Installation, welche die Beziehungen zwischen pers?nlichen und sozialen Bed?rfnissen transparent macht. Das in den letzten Dekaden herrschende Dogma der ?konomie ger?t unter dem Eindruck der gegenw?rtigen krisenhaften Entwicklungen ins Wanken. Die globale Krise bleibt nicht ohne Auswirkungen auf die menschliche Identifikation mit Arbeit. Es zeichnet sich eine Tendenz ab, wirtschaftliche Risiken aus der Gesamtverantwortung hin zum Einzelnen zu verlagern. Der Soziologe Ulrich Beck beschreibt dieses Ph?nomen, welches im Zuge gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse auftritt als *Risikogesellschaft*, w?hrend Anthony Giddens Risiken als Folgen allgemeinen menschlichen Handelns beschreibt. Ein zentrales Thema der REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT ist die Definition einer k?nstlerischen Perspektive auf diese Prozesse, welche vor allem in den Arbeits- und Konsumwelten in Erscheinung treten. Am 10. Juli um 20 Uhr pr?sentieren Martin Keil und Henrik Mayer ihr neues Projekt und geben einen ersten Einblick in ihre k?nstlerischen Arbeitsprozesse. Im Herbst wird die K?nstlergruppe dann f?r einen Monat in Oldenburg sein, um ihr Stipendiumsprojekt zu verwirklichen. Das Stipendienprogramm des Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst wird gef?rdert von der Stiftung Niedersachsen. Sorry, no english version available. ?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 If you don't want to receive our newsletter anymore, please contact us by email: info@edith-russ-haus.de Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Edith Russ Site for Media Art Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg t. +49 (0) 441 - 235 3208 f. +49 (0) 441 - 235 2161 http://www.edith-russ-haus.de Oldenburg - Stadt der Wissenschaft 2009 From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Mon Jul 20 17:54:56 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Tue Jul 21 18:04:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-15?q?Isa_Rosenberger_/_K=FCnstlergespr=E4ch?= =?iso-8859-15?q?_=7C_Isa_Rosenberger_/_Artist_talk_=7C_23=2E_Juli_2009?= Message-ID: <4A64AF6A.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 **************** Please scroll down for English version **************** 23. Juli 2009, 20 Uhr Videopr?sentation und Gespr?ch mit Isa Rosenberger Gesellschaftspolitische Ver?nderungen im postsozialistischen Europa sind ein durchgehendes Thema in den Arbeiten der ?sterreicherin Isa Rosenberger. Im Kontakt mit Zeitzeuginnen entwickelt die ?sterreicherin Isa Rosenberger in ihren Foto- und Videoarbeiten Gegenbilder zu offiziellen Geschichtsschreibungen und hinterfragt etablierte Wahrnehmungsweisen. Durch die Einbettung in r?umliche Installationen, wie bei der Videoinstallation Nov? Most, wird die Pr?sentation um zus?tzliche direkte Erfahrungs-M?glichkeiten erweitert. In einem offenen Gespr?ch wird die K?nstlerin Auskunft ?ber sich und ihre Arbeit geben. F?hrungen Jeden Sonntag, 15 Uhr Museumstag im Rahmen des Kultursommers - freier Eintritt Sonntag, 26. Juli 2009, 11 - 17 Uhr Workshops Sonntag, 26. Juli 2009, 11 - 17.00 Uhr (Beginn 11 Uhr / 13 Uhr / 15 Uhr) Trickfilmworkshop *Bewegte Gedanken*, ab 5 Jahren Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009, 14 - 17.30 Uhr, ab 12 Jahren *Mit Spiegeln filmen* ?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 ***************************************************************** 23. July 2009, 8 p.m. Video presentation and artist talk with Isa Rosenberger Sociopolitical changes in post-Socialist Europe are a continuous theme in the works of the Austrian artist Isa Rosenberger. In her presentation she will talk about the works in the exhibition and her artistic practice in general. 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 mcardenas at ucsd.edu Tue Jul 14 21:42:06 2009 From: mcardenas at ucsd.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?micha_c=E1rdenas?=) Date: Tue Jul 21 18:13:17 2009 Subject: [spectre] Video: The Transborder Immigrant Tool: Violence, Solidarity and Hope in Post-NAFTA Circuits of Bodies Electr(on)/ic Message-ID: <4A5CDF8E.2020202@ucsd.edu> Click link here to see my talk, which was co-written with Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll and Brett Stalbaum, and click the link below for the rest of the talks, all of which were amazing! And don't believe the warning on the page I'm linking to about Windows, it works fine in Ubuntu. I'll also be prsenting a version of this paper in Bonn, Germany in September at the Mobile HCI conference workshop on Community Practices and Locative Media [http://www.mobilehci09.org/call-for-submissions/workshops-2 ] *Transborder Immigrant Tool *Micha Cardenas, MFA, UC San Diego /Length: 29:54/ [video http://video-jsoe.ucsd.edu/asx/ViolenceTechnologyPublicIntervention/Micha.asx ] Violence, Technology and Public Intervention /San Diego, May 14, 2009/ -- Calit2 at UC San Diego and the UC Digital Arts Research Network (UCDARnet) sponsored a recent symposium on art's role in addressing the current and historical relationship between technology and violence. It was in connection with a new gallery@calit2 exhibit about anti-personnel land mines. The exhibit, "The Anti-Personnel Mines Project" by Argentine new-media artist Carlos Trilnick, runs through June 10, 2009 at the intimate gallery space on the first floor of Atkinson Hall. The interactive installation focuses on the long-term devastation that land mines produce, even decades after an armed conflict has ended. Trilnick was the keynote speaker at the "Violence, Technology and Public Intervention" symposium on April 24 at Calit2, which features panel discussion on public intervention as art -- and the art of public intervention. Artists from UC San Diego and other institutions talked about projects ranging from the "Public Secrets Project" to the "Transborder Immigrant Tool." The symposium presentations are now available for on-demand viewing here: http://http//www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1524 -- micha c?rdenas Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts From netwurker at gmail.com Mon Jul 6 03:14:50 2009 From: netwurker at gmail.com (mez breeze) Date: Tue Jul 21 18:13:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] _Social Tesseracting_: Part 2 Message-ID: _Social Tesseracting: Part 2_ Posted June 1st, 2009 by mez [ for the link-rich version, please go to: http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/06/01/_social-tesseracting_-part-2/ ] In _Social Tesseracting_: Part 1, we learnt that: 1. Dimensionality defines working concepts of reality. 2. Theoretically, dimensionality can also expand to define a spectrum of nascent social actions. 3. These particular social actions encompass communication trends defined by synthetic interactions. 4. Synthetic interactions create social froth that can be produced geophysically or geolocatively. Both connection types depend on relevant electronic gesturing: 5. This mix of synthetic interactions and electronic gesturing provokes a descriptive framework of this aggregated sodality. This framework is termed Social Tesseracting. 6. In order to adequately formulate Social Tesseracting, contemporary theorists need to extend ?valid? reality definitions based currently on the endpoint of the geophysical. In assessing the growing ethological importance of Social Tesseracting, the following markers demand examination: a) _Social White-Space_: Just as with the convention of white space in graphic design, social tesseracts manifest in habituated actions performed routinely over a substantiated period [think: responding to smartphone emails during geophysical-based discourse]. Social white space exists in synthetically mediated consciousness via overlaying reality clusters. These clusters may exist outside of the geoloaded end of the Reality-Virtuality Continuum [ie the locatable "real person"]. Conjunctive or intermediary areas of connectivity mediate this ?primary? reality state [think: Information Shadowing, the Network Effect and Warnock's Dilemma]. Social white-space is currently effecting educative goals and is altering engagement within the workplace. b) _Immediation_: the instantaneous modification of remote events via the removal of geo-specific time lag. Immediation highlights the impact potential of synthetic connectors. Examples of Immediation in action: * The overwhelming social network usage during the 2009 Iranian Election and corresponding protests. * A charity-oriented social network that encourages altruism. Users synthetically don a digital wristband and donate online to the corresponding colour coded organisation. c) _Regenerative Comprehension_: indicated by rapid shifts in the nature of content creation and absorption. A primary example is Twitter?s chronologically-reversed tweet reading order acting to modify awareness. Other examples include: * Institutionalised settings validating abbreviated textspeak. * Gradual modification of standardised literacy conventions [think: seamless acceptance of typographical errors and upper and lower case montaging]. * Real-time lifestreaming effecting established cognition patterns [think: Active Narrative Gathering in Social Games]. Aggregated lifesharing also influences user-generated functionality shifts [think: communication workarounds]. * Haptic mobile devices requiring screencentric adaptations. d) _Process Centering_: Social Tesseractions are marked by fluid, process-oriented engagement rather than rigid procedural structuring. Process centering prompts a re-evaluation of data formation and alters the entrenched importance of institutionalised categorisations. An emergent example of process centering is Google Wave. Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of ?operational transformations? [live concurrent editing] which occur through a process called transformation: * The server transforms the client?s request, resulting in the client manifesting the same transformed output. * The notion of concurrency is invariably important as it mimics geophysical conversational states. * Utilizing the server as a point of relay [when more than one client's output is involved] assists in providing scalability and reliability. * The playback feature allows the server to present the document as a stream of operations that have occurred thus far in a particular wave/state. Transformation relies on continual modification via process centering. This accent on process acts to rewire the notion of documents as statically defined ?objects? and [by proxy] any information contained within. This has enormous implications in regards to such institutionally-governed categories such as literacy, media, the professional/amateur divide, narrative, and information construction. _Social Tesseracting_: Part 3 will expand on these indicators through examining: _Information Deformation_, _Attribution Modding_, and the _Decline of Silo Ghettos_. -- Reality Engineer> Synthetic Environment Strategist> Game[r + ] Theorist. ::http://unhub.com/netwurker :: From off at clone.attacksyour.net Tue Jul 7 14:57:03 2009 From: off at clone.attacksyour.net (laura beloff) Date: Tue Jul 21 18:14:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] announcement: 80+1 Kilpisjarvi (Finland) Message-ID: <20090707145303.V53085@clone.attacksyour.net> http://www.kilpiscope.net 80+1 KILPISJARVI -climate change (Finland); A Part of The 80+1-project by Ars Electronica. The Finnish BioArt Society is a participant in 80+1 A Journey Around the World, a virtual tour in the spirit of Jules Verne organized by the renowned media centre Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. The venture poses 20 crucial questions about our collective future visiting 20 emblematic locations in different parts of the globe. Kilpisjarvi is an exemplary location for questions on climate change as the issue is central to the exceptional long-term studies and research carried out by the Kilpisjarvi Biological Station of Helsinki University (Faculty of Biosciences). 80+1 Kilpisjarvi stems from Kilpisjarvi's unique, subarctic environment and nature, the scientific research the station performs and from the newly initiated program bringing art and science together by the cooperation between the Finnish Bioart Society and the Biological Station. The 80+1 Kilpisjarvi program interweaves artistic and scientific initiatives. The "Midnight Sun" is a live stream of the arctic midnight sun from Kilpisjarvi that will shine elsewhere in the world via the internet and onto the Ars Electronica building facade in Linz during the citys dark summer nights. Following sundown on seven consecutive nights (July 15th - 21st), the midnight sun will be reflected on the Museum of the Future's shell. 80 + 1 Kilpisjarvi will host a four day conference 15.-18.7 open for participation via the global window in Linz and via stream online (at www.kilpiscope.net). During the four days researchers will present a variety of issues about climate change in the arctic and globally. The themes vary from animal adaptability to societies' preparedness to a changing environment. The audience has the opportunity to pose questions and discuss climate change with experts. The afternoon offers a video-screening program of artistic approaches related to the topic of climate change. The works are screened on the Global Window in Linz (Hauptplatz). Artists included are for example, Ilkka Halso / Museum of Nature, Tarja Trygg / Solargraphy, Agnes Denes / Tree Mountain, Marjukka Korhonen, Heini Aho, and Leena Valkepaa. Water flea circus - a peepshow on ecology is on the second day of the program (16.7) and is a performative event that puts the focus on water-fleas, research, and its significance to our environment. Researcher Iris Zellmer from Germany has spent years investigating the impact of climate change on water fleas in this sub-arctic region. Performance director Merja Talvela has linked with Zellmer to look at water flees with a view to engaging with the research through an artistic perspective. The scrutiny that water fleas undergo when under the microscope is turned on humans by posing questions about our human misconceptions and delusions when we examine nature. This 4-days of program will be streamed online via www.kilpiscope.net and broadcasted to 80+1-stage, Global Window in Linz. The work of developing this event has generated another long-term initiative about climate change and climate issues directed for wide audiences. Climatescope is a Web 2.0 project that calls upon all internet denizens to take an active approach to the subject of climate change. For instance, you can post "Citizen Stories"-personal accounts, experiences, photos and videos having to do with climate change. "Citizen Science" goes into field research and assembles data yielded by the project's own measurements or observations on the basis of recreated natural examples. And in "Citizen Sensor," real-time data from throughout the world are collected, exchanged and disseminated. http://www.climatescope.net (Concept received an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica / Next Idea 2009). LOCATION: Kilpisjarvi is about 69 degrees north and 20 degrees east and located in a sub-arctic area of northern Finland, 50 km from the Arctic Sea, 1200 kilometers from the capital, Helsinki. The village provides had about 90 permanent inhabitants, and is a location for the Helsinki University's Biological Station. CREDITS: The Finnish Bio Art Society with Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Prof. Antero Jarvinen, Anu Osva SUPPORTED BY: Ars Electronica Center, The Finnish Bio Art Society and The Kilpisjarvi Biological Station, Helsinki University URL: http://www.kilpiscope.net/, http://www.80plus1.org/ From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Wed Jul 22 11:08:30 2009 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Wed Jul 22 11:10:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Rule of Thirds - the first major event of North Message-ID: <0256B6C2667A3E4882F0FEF0821867134C92BF@follyone.FOLLY.local> As part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival, WeMakeMedia and folly are teaming up to deliver North, a programme of events and activities aimed at inspiring creative professionals to do things differently. The first main event, taking place in South Cumbria in October 2009 is called Rule of Thirds. It will take the form of a one day gathering of creative thinkers to discuss the impact of digital culture on the creative workflow, and explore the exciting, developing opportunities for how we create, communicate and collaborate. We're inviting proposals from artists and members of the creative industries to contribute to the event. We're looking for creative people who want to share inspirational ideas and insights in the form of a 15 minute presentation. You can be working in any discipline, but we're looking for speakers who will contribute presentations relevant to our main theme: exploring how digital culture and innovation are having an impact on creative workflows Our intention is to bring together creative people from a range of disciplines to share, learn and debate. We're really interested in exploring innovative approaches, creative workflows and new forms of collaboration. Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2009 For further information and to submit a proposal go to http://www.meetnorth.com/rule-of-thirds/ From alex at slab.org Wed Jul 22 19:02:14 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Wed Jul 22 19:02:48 2009 Subject: [spectre] First international conference on computational creativity Message-ID: First international conference on computational creativity Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 January 2010 http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity in a cross-disciplinary setting. It will bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity as it relates to computational systems. This focus on creativity in the context of computational systems has the potential for increasing innovation in existing fields of research as well as for defining new fields of study, including: 1. Artificially Creative Systems: development of computational systems that produce or simulate creativity. These systems may be inspired by human creativity or by the possibilities of artificial systems beyond human capabilities. 2. Computational Models of Human Creativity: construction of cognitive models of human creativity that can be the basis for computational creativity. 3. Computational Systems for Supporting Creativity: production of user interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that support the user in being more creative. More info: http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx -- http://yaxu.org/ From seamascain at gmail.com Wed Jul 22 22:15:08 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Wed Jul 22 22:30:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] "a sonic field recording ..." Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40907221315y17a9997by391b137fd4df1884@mail.gmail.com> _______________ tr?d an gcoill ("through the woods") by S?amas Cain has been published by The Red Jasper in Dublin, Ireland to read Liam Carson's review of the book in the July 2009 issue of "Poetry Ireland Review" go to ... http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/liamcarsonsreview.htm to read S?amas Cain's response to various questions from Liam Carson, go to ... http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/questionsanswers.htm tr?d an gcoill ("through the woods") ISBN 978-0-9563001-0-2 http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain/ may be purchased from "An Seancheann" (The Old Head) Books & Collections, Woodley House, Castletownshend Road, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland Web-site: http://www.worldwidebookshop.com/detail/16526AB/ Phone: +353 87 290 36 13 E-mail: worldwidebookshop@hotmail.com _______________ From rasa at rixc.lv Thu Jul 23 12:43:48 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Thu Jul 23 12:40:10 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES symposium participants Message-ID: Dear Spectre! i am happy to inform you that we (e-lab/rixc/riga) have now re-made Xchange website, please check out: http://xchange.re-lab.net Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The Xchange mailinglist for information exchange and communication was started in December 1997. The Xchange community reached its' highest activity in 1998 and 1999 - when the most dynamic experiments with collaborative streaming possibilities took place during X-Open Channel sessions. Co-sessions were facilitated by E-LAB net.radio Ozone weekly webcast-programmes, during which live stream loops were created for connecting two and more participants from different locations of the network. In 1998 Xchange project received PRIX Ars Electronica "Award of Distinction" in net.category. Now there at the Xchange website is available nearly full archive of Xchange activities since 1997, including: 1. full mailinglist archive 1997-2007 http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/mailinglist/index.html 2. list of net.radio links from 90ties with short descriptions (there might be still incomplete/incorrect info,we are still improving texts! any corrections are welcome!) http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/links/index.html 3. and more interesting part - audio archive, with realmedia recordings from Xchange collaborative streaming experiments and loops in 1998 (also available for listening in mp3): http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/audio/index.html with best regards, rasa | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (a) (c) (o) (u) (s) (t) (i) (c) ( ) (s) (p) (a) (c) (e) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | information&comunication channel | for net.broadcasters http://xchange.re-lab.net (Xchange) net.audio network From rasa at rixc.lv Thu Jul 23 12:58:00 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Thu Jul 23 12:53:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] XCHANGE Net.Radio.Network project archive (1997-2009) - now online! Message-ID: Dear Spectre! i am happy to inform you that we (e-lab/rixc/riga) have now re-made Xchange website, please check out: http://xchange.re-lab.net Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The Xchange mailinglist for information exchange and communication was started in December 1997. The Xchange community reached its' highest activity in 1998 and 1999 - when the most dynamic experiments with collaborative streaming possibilities took place during X-Open Channel sessions. Co-sessions were facilitated by E-LAB net.radio Ozone weekly webcast-programmes, during which live stream loops were created for connecting two and more participants from different locations of the network. In 1998 Xchange project received PRIX Ars Electronica "Award of Distinction" in net.category. Now there at the Xchange website is available nearly full archive of Xchange activities since 1997, including: 1. full mailinglist archive 1997-2007 http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/mailinglist/index.html 2. list of net.radio links from 90ties with short descriptions (there might be still incomplete/incorrect info,we are still improving texts! any corrections are welcome!) http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/links/index.html 3. and more interesting part - audio archive, with realmedia recordings from Xchange collaborative streaming experiments and loops in 1998 (also available for listening in mp3): http://xchange.re-lab.net/2009/audio/index.html with best regards, rasa | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (a) (c) (o) (u) (s) (t) (i) (c) ( ) (s) (p) (a) (c) (e) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | information&comunication channel | for net.broadcasters http://xchange.re-lab.net (Xchange) net.audio network ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From kovats at transmediale.de Thu Jul 23 23:13:57 2009 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Thu Jul 23 23:14:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] reminder: transmediale + Vilem Flusser Theory Awards 2010 - Call for Entries Deadline July 31st! Message-ID: <76F95696-95D5-4637-8C60-914B44ED40F7@transmediale.de> Dear spectrites, just a gentle reminder that the deadline for Entries to the transmediale and Vilem Flusser Theory Awards 2010 is July 31st! // transmediale Award 2010 // // Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 // _Call for Entries_ :: Deadline: 31 July 2009 Please refer to the complete call and online submission form at: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice from narrative, online and offline work, hybrid or technologically multi-disciplinary and interactive work, to code, network, unstable and hactivist art. The Awards seek to promote art practices that both embrace and question the relationships between media, technology and society, advancing progressive and global forms of cultural media development. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and media culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO. Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburgh), Jos? Luis de Vicente (Barcelona/Madrid), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin/ Karlsruhe). Vil?m Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include Marcel Ren? Marburger (_Vil?m_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University, Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) transmediale.10 - FUTURITY NOW! festival for art and digital culture berlin 03 - 07 February 2010 CTM - club transmediale.10 festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 29 January - 6 February 2010 To receive complete and periodic program information about transmediale please sign up to the transmediale newsletter, or keep in touch with developments and upcoming events on twitter or facebook. http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale10 facebook: transmediale group We look forward to your proposals, and wish you a great rest of the summer, stephen kovats artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- transmediale.10 | 3 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale Award 2010 submissions: http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Fri Jul 24 10:51:46 2009 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Fri Jul 24 10:52:20 2009 Subject: [spectre] New FLI Residencies website now live Message-ID: <0256B6C2667A3E4882F0FEF0821867134C9356@follyone.FOLLY.local> folly and Lanternhouse International are delighted to invite you to the newly launched FLI Residencies website at http://www.fliresidencies.org.uk. The Folly Lanternhouse International Residencies offer support to artists working with new technologies to develop their ideas and extend their practice. The FLI Residencies website is regularly updated with ideas, work-in-progress, inspirational projects and more. This includes resident artists' blogs, video, images and other rich experiences. The site is a place to spark new ideas and act as a window to artists' creative processes. We invite you to meet the FLI artists online, see what they're up to, and share your comments and views. The three artists taking part in the 2009/10 programme have all now started their residencies. Read http://www.folly.co.uk/click/1422/99 to find out more. The programme meets a real need for artists to have access to the high quality discourse and the enriching creative environments that Lanternhouse International and folly provide. Based at the Lanternhouse in Ulverston, on the edge of the Lake District National Park, resident artists are able to devote time and space to their practice, engaging collaboratively with the host organisations, each other, and a rich tapestry of local communities, artists and creatives in the Northwest of England. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Jul 24 13:59:45 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Jul 24 14:02:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] A response | Should we travel for art? In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A69A231.90406@furtherfield.org> A response | Should we travel for art? Read artists, writers, critics and activists discussing their personal ideas on the subject. Margaret Atwood, Amy Balkin, Robert Butler, Chris Bodle, Ruth Catlow, Melanie Challenger, JJ Charlesworth, David Cross, Francesca Galeazzi, Barbara Hadrill, John Hartley, John Kinsella, Nicholas Lezard, Mark Lynas, Liz Snook... http://www.rsaartsandecology.org.uk/magazine/features/a-response--should-we-travel-for-art From aplohman at dds.nl Fri Jul 24 17:36:39 2009 From: aplohman at dds.nl (Angela Plohman) Date: Fri Jul 24 17:38:21 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for proposals - Piksel/BALTAN Laboratories residency Message-ID: <20090724173639.1a0sfen3408c8so8@webmail.dds.nl> Open Call for Proposals BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel collaborative research and development residency ++ Deadline: August 31, 2009 ++ As part of BALTAN Laboratories? Blueprint research programme investigating the roles and forms of the art and technology laboratory of the future, BALTAN and Piksel are collaborating to explore the relationship between hard and software developers working on free and open source tools for artistic production, and the artistic use and development of these tools in a laboratory setting. One artist will be selected from this open call to produce an artwork using tools developed in collaboration with local and international developers of the Piksel Community, together with BALTAN and Piksel, through workshops and a residency at BALTAN. The Piksel/BALTAN collaboration will run from September until December 2009. Specifically, we are interested in proposals to work with the tracking and mapping technology Open Computer Vision. OpenCV is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real time computer vision. Example applications of the OpenCV library are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Object Identification, Segmentation and Recognition; Face Recognition; Gesture Recognition; Motion Tracking, Ego Motion, Motion Understanding; Structure From Motion (SFM); Stereo and Multi-Camera Calibration and Depth Computation; Mobile Robotics. [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV]. There will also be opportunity for the artist and involved developers to connect to the BALTAN Tracker, a tool being developed at BALTAN for thermographic cameras. Knowledge, experience, tools and artwork will be openly disseminated both online as well as in person through public events at BALTAN and at the Piksel 09 Festival. Reflection on open processes and sharing knowledge throughout the research, development and production phases of an artistic work, beyond archiving, is an integral part of this collaboration. For more information about BALTAN and Piksel see: http://www.baltanlaboratories.org http://www.piksel.no We offer: - a residency period of up to 6 weeks at BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands during the months of September, October and November 2009. Specific dates to be determined in collaboration with the selected artist. - an artist fee of 2000 Euro - a production budget to be determined - travel to and from Eindhoven, NL and to Bergen, Norway for the Piksel festival, as well as accommodation in both locations - a week-long development workshop with OpenCV developers and other participants from September 21-27, 2009. - support from the Piksel community in the further technical development of the selected project throughout the residency period. - presentation of the project at the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway from November 19-22, 2009 - public presentation of the results of the artist?s research at BALTAN Laboratories in Eindhoven Requirements: - proposals are welcome from professional artists worldwide; - the artist must have advanced technical knowledge allowing him or her to experiment with the above-mentioned technologies; - the artist should preferably have experience working in collaborative settings with people from different disciplines; - the artist must be willing and able to travel to Eindhoven for a residency period of 6 weeks in the timeframe above and to the Piksel festival in Bergen from November 19-22; - the artist must be willing to openly and thoroughly document his or her artistic process. Proposal: Please send the following (digitally) to both Angela Plohman, Director, BALTAN Laboratories at angela[AT]baltanlaboratories.org and Gisle Froysland, Director, Piksel at info[AT]piksel.no by August 31, 2009: - an outline of the concept underlying the work that you wish to develop (200 words max) - a general outline of the scope of the final work (200 words max - can include visual sketches) - a motivation for why you would like to work in the context of this particular residency as well as an overview of your interest in the technologies mentioned above (250 words max) - an outline of the research and development plan for the work (250 words max) - an up-to-date CV including links to previous work From alex at slab.org Sat Jul 25 11:38:32 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Sat Jul 25 11:39:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] pubcode2 - livecoded music + vjs, London, Wednesday 5th August Message-ID: ++ PUBCODE2 ++ Part two in the first series of livecoded music events in London. http://toplap.org/uk/ Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. When: 7pm - 11pm, Wednesday 5th August 2009 http://toplap.org/uk/event/pubcode2/ Featuring: chr15m (making machines that make machines that make music) MCLD (beatboxing + livecoding, is it possible?) Yee-King + Click Nilson (algorithmic choreography) openSlub (crowdsourced livecoding) Place: The Roebuck 50 Great Dover Street London SE1 4YG Map: http://is.gd/CL5G Door tax: Free Tube: Borough (5 mins walk) London Bridge (9 mins walk) More info: http://toplap.org/uk/ TOPLAP UK gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation. From hatam at drfz.de Sat Jul 25 13:33:07 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Sat Jul 25 13:33:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] chiptune Marching Band Workshop DIY sound making w Kazuhiro Jo and Jamie Allen Message-ID: <380-22009762511337433@M2W044.mail2web.com> "Chiptune Marching Band" DIY sound making with Kazuhiro Jo, Jamie Allen From the Culture Lab, Newcastle University @NK Chiptune Marching Band-? (CMB) is a participatory DIY workshop/performance. CMB is a public workshop and actual public performance where participants make a sensor driven sound instruments, self-powered by a kinetic power source, and perform with their instrument with the band. With instruments at the ready, the group heads outside, bringing an event to the streets as the Chiptune Marching Band! The course invites any members of the general public, offering them the opportunity to explore localized resource communities, sound making circuitry, and collective sound performance through their realization. Saturday 8 August 12.00-15.30 Location: NK / ElsenStr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386 Participation fee: 5 Euros Registration is recommended for this workshop and can be done via Email to: eNKa_NK@gmx.de Please register early to ensure a place. Places are limited to 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE From netwurker at gmail.com Mon Jul 27 01:03:25 2009 From: netwurker at gmail.com (mez breeze) Date: Mon Jul 27 01:04:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] _Social Tesseracting_: Part 3 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------- _Social Tesseracting_: Part 3 Posted July 24th, 2009 by mez * for the link-rich/complete/referenced version, please go to: http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/24/_social-tesseracting_-part-3/ * ------------------------------------------- < continued from http://u.nu/24xg > e) _Information Deformation_: akin to process centering, this Social Tesseraction involves a shift in the very definition of information: "...Information may be defined as the characteristics of the output of a process, these being informative about the process and the input. This discipline independent definition may be applied to all domains, from physics to epistemology.? These deformed systems of data are constantly in flux and available for perpetual revision. Examples include: * cloud-based applications * constantly transliterated google waves. Users are able to simultaneously modify, update and adapt their input in real time.This type of liminal practice results in a deformation of current information architectures. Although traditional information construction may be flexible over time, it still demands unitary data snapshots for knowledge formation. Deforming such data in real time acts to fundamentally alter meaning production. Socially structured input is the keystone of such a dynamic, perpetually fluctuating system. Here the notion of Social Froth takes on a new level of importance: information becomes a constantly shifting construct with variable endpoints. Rewiring information in such a way radically changes its cohesive nature. This in turn effects: * authorship * politics * communication and media * education * book publishing and academia [think: the perpetuation of potentially obsolete content systems] * the scientific method * disciplines dependent on referential instruction [think: History or Commerce]. In this deformation system, facts can be _reality-edited_* in real time. Information becomes pliable in ways that challenge the perceived authority of institutions. The concept of narrative deforms as: * lifestreaming transmogrifies entertainment * game platforms employ transmedia, simulation and agency. Narrative progression repositions the representational towards the freeform [think: paidia as opposed to ludic]. An instance of this information deformation in action is troll play [or uncontrolled play]. A social example of troll play is found in the wiki _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ which: "?satirizes both encyclopedic topics and current events, especially those related to or relevant to internet culture. The wiki has been the subject of media attention given its focus on trolling and use of shock value, as well as its criticism of other Internet communities. It is also associated with the Internet subculture Anonymous.? _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ - and the affiliated imageboard/meme propagation site _4chan_ - showcase the challenge faced by narrative frameworks. Platforms like _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ encourage troll-based comedic intent. Users remix absurd, and sometimes taboo, content. In particular, invasion boards like _4chan_ utilize shock networking*: where social content attempts to subvert social codas through deliberate agitation. In comparison with established narrative conventions, platforms like _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ offer an experimental system which bypasses strict censorship and ethical constraints. These platforms cater for unfiltered interactions that operate via immediacy-of-response. They are highly idiosyncratic in execution and linguistic formation: censorship and moderation may be limited or non-existent. The output is propagative, with contributors encouraged to riff and rip-off, replace, and even delete content. Narrative is deformed beyond a sequential structure whereby the climax or pay-off event becomes the spectacle. An example of such modification is _Copypasta_, which consists of repeatedly copying and pasting blocks of text designed to evoke a heightened emotional response:"...A time-tested classic. This ending usually comes into play at the climax of a very troubling or exciting situation. Rather than resolve the story, one of the characters will abruptly say something to the effect of "I had Reese?s for breakfast.? At this point, the other character will completely forget about his/her worries and jump into the corresponding commercial dialogue, enamored by the peanut butter and chocolaty goodness that is Reese?s Puffs cereal. ?It?s Reese?s? for breakfast!?" _Copypasta_ derails notions of story or plot progression, resolution or denouement. It embodies context-counteraction* and meme perpetuation. Dramatic intent shifts to reiterative moments containing affectivity spiking which ignores the rigors of institutionalized framing [think: morality, hierarchy or ownership]. f) _Attribution Modding_ involves an extension of Stewart Brand?s iconic phrase ?Information wants to be free? to ?Identity wants to be freeform?. This category describes users focused on mobilization rather than individual recognition. The group Anonymous* projects attribution modding via collusive identity constructions. The collective?s title is based on the method _4chan_ uses to brand all contributors ?Anonymous? by default:"...As making a post without filling in the ?Name? field causes posts to be attributed to ?Anonymous?, general understanding on 4chan holds that Anonymous is not a single person but a collective (hive) of users." Anonymous is a social-tesseractivist group who perform raid actions [think: the immediate action to halt the abuse of Dusty The Cat and Project Chanology's DDoS attacks]. The collective broadcasts non-attribution ideologies where members are viewed as units of a social mechanism with a deemphasis on individual identification. _Attribution modding_ illustrates the rise of collective identity cognizance and the accompanying shift from expert-centric disciplines. g) _Decline of Silo Ghettos_: as information deformation impacts knowledge formation, there?s an increasing need to provide social tesseractors with comprehensive dimensional engagement. This type of borderless interaction deforms monostreams into cross-channelled productions. Social tesseracts assist in addressing the somewhat restrictive walled garden approach to software and platform production [think: the frustration levels encountered whilst experiencing the locked door syndrome]. Google Wave is one system that removes such constraints and allows users to input directly into previously isolated arenas. Other instances of interoperable systems that require the reorientation of Information Silos: * augmented applications that encourage a pairing of geolocative and geophysical needs * bridging software that links previously disparate platforms together [think: IRC-to-Second Life Chat Bridge]. _Information Deformation_, _Attribution Modding_, and the _Decline of Silo Ghettos_ are paradigm-shifting markers that highlight socially directed trends. One significant user-centric challenge involves ensuring a smooth migration into a Social Tesseracted future. Such transitions should lessen future shock and encourage a type of overlaid meta-comprehension which promotes the seamless recognition of synthetic conditions. ?? * Shock networking, reality editing, context-counteraction and Anonymous will be discussed in upcoming augmentology entries. -- Reality Engineer> Synthetic Environment Strategist> Game[r + ] Theorist. ::http://unhub.com/netwurker :: From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Jul 27 13:29:10 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Jul 27 13:31:41 2009 Subject: [spectre] Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A6D8F86.4090309@furtherfield.org> Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee. by William Shaw from The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre. http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/ "It?s interesting to see how the best media art moved on from the idea of creating networks in the virtual world, to seeing how those networks could affect the real world. Early net communities were full of idealism; how far does that ability to change the way we interact with each other spill over into the physical?" William Shaw visits North London?s HTTP Gallery, where media artists/gallerists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett are exhibiting the Feral Trade Cafe, implemeting artist Kate Rich?s Feral Trade network in their gallery space. The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion about the causes and the human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website. Details about the exhibition: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Jul 28 08:42:49 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Tue Jul 28 08:43:17 2009 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines -->August 2009 Message-ID: <20090728084249.E33E151B.FBF8D98C@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->August 2009 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 04 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal 10 Calls: August 2009 deadlines external 9 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2009: deadlines internal Deadline: 30 September A Virtual Memorial - memorial project environments is looking for artists who work on the subject "SHOAH" in digital media, primarily videoart/filmart, but also netart, soundart, digital photography and media installation http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=662 Deadline: 1 September CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival is looking for film and video submissions for its 5th festival edition to be launched in November 2009 on the topics "violence" & "taboo" http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030 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 fur ein Feature im Rahmen des 5. Festivalausgabe, welche im November 2009 veroffentlicht wird http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=694 *extended Deadline 31 August 2009 Cinematheque - streaming media project environments call: Flash & Thunder - Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 ------------------------------------------------ August 2009 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 August soundart for Sound of EBB http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1308 31 August Soundart for Consemble (UK) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=640 30 August Flag Metamorphoses - animation project by Myriam Thyes http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1183 7 August Going Underground 8 8th International Subway Film Festival Berlin http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=996 5 August namaTRE.ba - film & video art Trebinje/Bosnia-Hercegovina http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1118 3 August Digital?09 - Mysteries in Science http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1242 1 August AC Institute (Direct Chapel) - New York/NY/USA - Realit(y/ies) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1233 1 August Amber?09 Festival Istanbul/Turkey http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1125 1 August Visionaria - Toscana Video Festival Piombino/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=636 1 August Aspect Magazine: New Media - Influence & Reference http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1193 ----------------------------------------------- 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 m at 1010.co.uk Tue Jul 28 14:29:27 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Tue Jul 28 14:40:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] Friday 31st July 9PM: Sensory Response Systems with Ryan Jordan [London] at General Public [Berlin] Message-ID: Ryan Jordan presents and performs his Sensory Response Systems as part of a micro_residency at _____-micro-research [July 29 to August 1] exploring plant and body sensing. Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audio-visual performance using an array of sensors responsive to physical movements in order to control the audio-visual output in programmes such as PD and Max/MSP. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles and technology. We draw from inspiration and definition through reference to embodiment, phenomenology, post-modernism, post-humanism, performance, physical computing and computer sound. Ryan Jordan is currently studying MFA Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths College, London and developing a large scale dance performance integrating the human body and technology. He is also setting up a research network based around this area and working part-time with a community music project. Ryan Jordan is a member of OpenLab, London. Entrance free. General Public, Sch?nhauser Allee 167c, Berlin travel: U2 > Senefelder Platz http://www.generalpublic.de/ More information: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj/ http://www.1010.co.uk/org/micro_residency.html From info at transfera.es Tue Jul 28 17:19:36 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Tue Jul 28 17:19:48 2009 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV Message-ID: <4A6F1708.3050308@transfera.es> Querid@s Videoamantes, Transfera sigue despierta y alerta. Durante los meses de julio y agosto, para descanso de algunos, retransmitir? programas ya emitidos, mientras preparamos para septiembre nuevos cap?tulos con v?deos de los siguientes artistas: DIEGO ARANDOJO BRIAN DELEVIE / ISSHAELA INGHAM RUGGERO MANTOVANI SHIGE MORIYA NOELIA GARCIA MURIANA BERNIE RODDY ROBIN WHENARY KYE WILSON Tambi?n estamos organizando la Muestra de Videoarte (MADATAC), sobre cuya celebraci?n os informaremos m?s adelante. El Staff de Transfera os desea una gozosas vacaciones! www.transfera.es Dear Video Lovers, Transfera continues awake and on the alert. During the months of July and August, for the repose of some, will retransmit programs already emitted, while we prepare for September new chapters with videos of the following artists: DIEGO ARANDOJO BRIAN DELEVIE / ISSHAELA INGHAM RUGGERO MANTOVANI SHIGE MORIYA NOELIA GARCIA MURIANA BERNIE RODDY ROBIN WHENARY KYE WILSON Also we are organizing the Videoart Mostra (MADATAC), on whose celebration we will report you further on. Transfera Staff desires you a joyful holidays! www.transfera.es From lotu5 at resist.ca Wed Jul 29 01:22:03 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Wed Jul 29 01:22:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] _I Am Transreal_ : [part 1] [_Augmentology.com_] Message-ID: <4A6F881B.9090208@resist.ca> _I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 1] [complete version with video and links here:] http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/29/_i-am-transreal_-a-reflection-onof-becoming-dragon-part-1/ I am transreal. Look at me. When you do, a million iridescent scales across my dragon hide flick, move and align to create a multiplicity of perceptions, transversal illusions and realities cutting through each other, intersecting, dancing. Look at me. You see a shimmering of my fantasies and yours, a convergence of your minute sensory events, your imaginary constructs and my desires. Look at me. The mythopoetic elements of your reality and mine come into contact, unwind and become a recombinant event of male and female and something else, something more, for just an instant. Perhaps after that initial instant, one of your myths takes over your perception and you decide that you understand, but before that, I instill confusion and doubt. I can see it on your face. I am becoming mythopoetic, a shapeshifting creature of legend, a dragon. Standing here, on the border, the sunlight through the clouds defeating the fence, I am transreal, between realities, moving through layers of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, simultaneously quivering, swapping out and swapping back in, too fast to find the border between them. I am existing between my fantasies and desires, which are driving the changing form of my body, and the moment of perception in which you see me and call me maam, sir, dude, miss, or avoid choosing a category. Speaking, being with different people throughout the day, my body and name changes, my realness or unrealness oscillates. You see me standing here, but really, you see my avatar, my body, which is under construction. We bring our illusions together. You see soft skin. I see the pills and the bloody razor that made it soft, making me feel happier, more feminine. You see scales, I see textured prims and their glow values. A dark moment in the street at night, your illusions of masculinity swirl up against the confusion I install in you, and you attack. My reality becomes a blur, a flurry of motion, and a sharp chemical emotional reaction, as I strike back with pressurized chemical weapons. Yet even in that moment, I am transreal, between my reality and yours, only finding a hard fissure between the two. In bed with my lover, we are transreal, deep in our illusions of each other, feeling our very real emotions for each other, between bodies, looking into her eyes, slipping out of myself and my concerns and out into the bright nebula of pleasure. -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B From mdorovska at i-space.org Wed Jul 29 14:56:48 2009 From: mdorovska at i-space.org (Margarita Dorovska) Date: Wed Jul 29 14:58:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] training course for development of rich media content web sites Message-ID: <4A704710.5000303@i-space.org> In August this year, InterSpace organized a series of open-source based training courses in Sofia as part of TOSMI programme (http://tosmi.org). Currently, we have two more free places to offer for the course Producing Media Content for Web http://tosmi.org/node/2, which takes place from 10th to 16th august in Sofia and we still have scholarships covering the participation fee (which means that participants have arranged hotel, coffee breaks and lunches and have to take care of their travel costs and plan for some pocket money for their stay). The course is focused on developement of web sites featuring rich in audio visual content (i.e. videos, sound and photos) and targets artists and filmmakers. The participants are thought how to develop a website on Drupal/Jumla (CMS-s based on open source) and will work on their own website, having support by the trainers. The taught course (lectures&practice) takes place from 10th to 15th and on 16th there will be individual consultations and further advice session from 9:00 to 13:00 for those trainees who would be interested. If you are interested in the course, please submit your application online at http://tosmi.org/node/7 The course provides good opportunity for content producers who would like to develop new websites or migrate their old ones to a much more flexible and powerful Content Management System, allowing syndication with a lot of online platforms/tools. Through the course participants learn how to make a website from scratch and how to maintain it afterwards. Eligible participants: from the countries, covered by Media Programme of EU, which means: all EU countries, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Switzerland and Croatia. For futher information, please visit the website of TOSMI at http://tosmi.org. If you have any questions, please write to info@tosmi.org Margarita Dorovska curator InterSpace Association http://i-space.org From cz at movingimages.de Fri Jul 31 15:42:13 2009 From: cz at movingimages.de (Chris Ziegler) Date: Fri Jul 31 15:43:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] forest 2 - theater installation Message-ID: <1109BA53-0D9C-4C69-AE3B-DFAACA0C56E1@movingimages.de> english version below... --- Veranstaltungen 09 | 2009 Mi?So 02.?06.09.09 Chris Ziegler: ?forest 2 ? another midsummer night?s dream? Theaterinstallation im ZKM_Medientheater zu den ?ffnungszeiten der ZKM | Museen, Eintritt frei Live Interventionen am Sa 05.09. und So 06.09. Chris Ziegler, assoziierter K?nstler des ZKM, stellt seine neueste Theaterarbeit ?forest 2? nun als interaktive Theaterinstallation vor. Aufbauend auf Shakespeares Drama ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? und Ovids ?Metamorphosen? spielt ?forest 2? mit den vielschichtigen Elementen der literarischen Vorlagen. Der von Michael Hewel verfasste Text fokussiert die drei Motivstr?nge Liebe, Kunst und Tod und verkn?pft sie mit dem Thema Wald. Eine raumgreifende Installation bildet in Verbindung mit der Musik von Torsten Brandes und dem Ensemble f?r Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn sowie einer spezifischen Bewegungs-, Licht- und Bildarchitektur einen au?ergew?hnlichen Assoziationsraum, in welchem der Wald als ein Ort der Mythen und M?rchen, der ?ngste und Tr?ume erscheint. Das Publikum ist eingeladen, diese unterschiedlichen R?ume mit Puck (Friederike Plafki) zu erforschen. ?forest 2? gliedert sich in einen ersten Ausstellungsteil am Mi. 02.09. ? Fr. 04.09.und in die Auff?hrungen am Wochenende Samstag, den 05.09., und Sonntag, den 06.09. mehr... http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$6696 Gef?rdert durch den Landesverband Freier Theater Baden-W?rttemberg (LAFT) aus Mitteln des Ministeriums f?r Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-W?rttemberg. --- Events 09 | 2009 Wed?Sun 2009/09/02?06 Chris Ziegler: "forest 2 ? another midsummer night?s dream" Theater installation at the ZKM_Media Theater during museum opening hours, free admission Live interventions on Sat, Sept 05 and Sun, Sept 06 Chris Ziegler, an artist affiliated with the ZKM, presents his latest theater work ?forest 2? as an interactive theater installation. ?forest 2,? which is based on Shakespeare?s drama ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? and Ovid?s ?Metamorphoses?, plays with the complex elements of its literary origins. The text written by Michael Hewel weaves together the three motifs of love, art, and death and ties them to the theme of the forest. An extensive installation, which in conjunction with the music by Torsten Brandes and the Ensemble f?r Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn as well as a specific movement, light, and image architecture, creates an unusual association space in which the forest appears as a site of myths and fairytales, fears and dreams. The audience is invited to explore these different spaces with Puck (Friederike Plafki). ?forest 2? consists of two parts: an exhibition (Wed., Sept. 2nd, to Fri, Sept. 4th) and a performance part on the following weekend of September 05th and 6th. more... http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$6713 Supported by the Landesverband Freier Theater Baden-W?rttemberg (LAFT), funded through the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture Baden-W?rttemberg. Chris Ziegler mobile +49172 89 56 328 http://www.movingimages.de //||||| / |< ||| ZKM | Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe | Germany From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Jul 31 17:37:06 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Jul 31 17:39:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] Last weekend to visit Feral Trade =?utf-8?b?Q2Fmw6ku?= In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4A730FA2.3040309@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Last weekend to visit Feral Trade Caf?. This is the last weekend for visiting the Feral Trade Caf? by Kate Rich at Furtherfield's HTTP Gallery in North London. Exhibition: Free entry Fri - Sun 12 noon - 5pm Last day - Sun 2 Aug 2009. http://www.http.uk.net/ Feral Trade Caf? has been open to and experienced by a diverse public for nearly 8 weeks now. Serving food and drink that has been traded via physical, 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. View Video about Feral Trade by William Shaw from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo. http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/ View article & discussion by Rejina on 'Gastrogeek' with Kate Rich about the exhibition/Caf?. http://gastrogeek.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/wasted-again/ Feral Trade uses social and cultural hand baggage to transport grocery items between cities, often using other artists and curators as mules. The exhibition includes a retrospective display of Feral Trade products (2003-present), alongside ingredient route maps, bespoke food packaging, video and other artefacts from the Feral Trade network. The caf? will stock and serve a selection of Feral Trade goods from a menu including coffee from El Salvador, hot chocolate from Mexico and sweets from Montenegro, as well as locally sourced bread, vegetables and herbs. Along with their food and drink, diners will be served waybills detailing the socially facilitated transit of goods to their plate. Read more about the exhibition and associated events. http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml ----------> Furtherfield - online media arts community. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Furthernoise - online media arts music community. http://www.furthernoise.org Netbehaviour - email list community for discussion. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org From turbulence at turbulence.org Fri Jul 31 19:21:49 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Aug 10 09:16:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is LIVE! Message-ID: <000601ca1203$67b8b300$372a1900$@org> !!!!! PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD !!!!! WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE . comment, revise, translate, submit a chapter http://networkedbook.org Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations. You may also submit a chapter for consideration. Please register and then Read | Write: THE IMMEDIATED NOW: NETWORK CULTURE AND THE POETICS OF REALITY Kazys Varnelis http://varnelis.networkedbook.org LIFETRACING: THE TRACES OF A NETWORKED LIFE Anne Helmond http://helmond.networkedbook.org STORAGE IN COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ART Jason Freeman http://freeman.networkedbook.org DATA UNDERMINING: THE WORK OF NETWORKED ART IN AN AGE OF IMPERCEPTIBILITY Anna Munster http://munster.networkedbook.org ART IN THE AGE OF DATAFLOW: NARRATIVE, AUTHORSHIP, AND INDETERMINACY Patrick Lichty http://lichty.networkedbook.org TAGS: active, aethetics, aggregators, authenticity, authorship, BEN FRY, BEN RUBIN, BURAK ARIKAN, collaborative, communication, data, data mining, digital traces, distributed, DIY, EDUARDO NAVAS, everyday life, flow, GOLAN LEVIN, identity, improvisation, Internet, JANET CARDIFF, JASON FREEMAN, JODI.ORG, JONATHAN HARRIS, latency, lifelogging, lifetracing, MANIK, mapping, MARK HANSEN, MARTIN WATTENBERG, MAX NEUHAUS, Mechanical Turk, mediation, memory, music, narrative, NastyNets, NATHANIEL STERN, net art, network, NICK KNOUF, nonlinear, OLIVER LARIC, participation, performative, persistance, PETER TRAUB, platform, postmodernism, presentational, privacy, prosumer, prosurfer, ranking, realism, reality, real-time, relational, remix, representation, research, RYBN, SCARLET ELECTRIC, SCOTT KILDALL, search engine, self, self-exposure, SHIFTSPACE.ORG, social networks, software, sousveillance, STEVE LAMBERT, storage, surveillance, tactical media, telepresence, THE HUB, THEY RULE, TrackMeNot, transmission, TV, user-generated, visualization, web 2.0, webcam, widget, Wikipedia Art, YES MEN BACKGROUND "Networked" proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a "book" might take. In 2008, Turbulence.org and its project partners -- NewMediaFix, Telic Arts Exchange, and Freewaves - issued an international, open call for chapter proposals. We invited contributions that critically and creatively rethink how networked art is categorized, analyzed, legitimized -- and by whom -- as norms of authority, trust, authenticity and legitimacy evolve. Our international committee consisted of: Steve Dietz (Northern Lights, MN) :: Martha Gabriel (net artist, Brazil) :: Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures, The Netherlands) :: Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MA) :: Anne Bray (LA Freewaves, LA) :: Sean Dockray (Telic Arts Exchange, LA) :: Jo-Anne Green (NRPA, MA) :: Eduardo Navas (newmediaFIX) :: Helen Thorington (NRPA, NY) Built by Matthew Belanger (our hero!), http://networkedbook.org is powered by WordPress, CommentPress and BuddyPress. Networked was made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (United States). Thank you. We are deeply grateful to Eduardo Navas for his commitment to both this project and past collaborations with Turbulence.org. Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington jo at turbulence dot org newradio at turbulence dot org