From inke.arns at hmkv.de Sun Nov 1 21:01:31 2009 From: inke.arns at hmkv.de (Inke Arns) Date: Sun Nov 1 21:10:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners of its open architecture competition Message-ID: <5998751A-7F00-45B7-B66F-51F097500CEC@hmkv.de> Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners of its open architecture competition Three architects ? Richard Carbonnier (Nunavut, Canada), Giuseppe Mecca (Italy), and Catherine Rannou (France) ? have been selected as the joint winners of the Arctic Perspective Initiative open architecture competition. The challenge of this international competition was to design a zero-footprint mobile research unit for use by local populations in the Arctic. The unit is intended to facilitate a diverse range of technological research opportunities, such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, video editing and streaming, and communications systems. The three winning entries, each awarded ?1500, were selected by an expert jury from 103 submissions from architects and engineers in more than 30 countries. The competition was the first phase of a design process, the next phase of which will involve working with the winning submissions through a collaborative design effort with local community members from Nunavut, Canada. A prototype unit will be tested in the field next year in Igloolik, Nunavut, by local media workers, hunters, youth and elders of the community. API is committed to the empowerment and sustainable development of Northern communities through the collaboration and combination of science, arts, engineering and culture. The unit aims to serve as a model for mobile research in the north, incorporating proven local expertise, sustainable resources, and high tech solutions, while promoting open source data sharing strategies and management. All required power will come from green sources. The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a transnational art, science, and culture work group composed of HMKV (Germany), The Arts Catalyst (UK), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), Lorna (Iceland) and C-TASC (Canada). API is the brainchild of Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, who met and worked together for the first time as crewmembers of the Makrolab mkII in Blair Atholl, Scotland in 2002. API intends to direct attention to the global cultural and ecological significance of the Polar Regions. In light of the effects of climate change, the Arctic is simultaneously a zone of crucial contemporary geopolitical controversy and a space with an opportunity for transnational, circumpolar, and intercultural cooperation and collaboration. API aims to do this through the empowerment of the local citizens of the North via new communications, sensing, aggregation, transmission and information sharing through participatory and open technology methodologies. The design competition is but the first step towards what will develop, in 2010, into a large-scale (artistic) research project, the results of which will be documented in the exhibition ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE ? THIRD CULTURE 2010. The exhibition will be on view from 11 June - October 2010 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany, during the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 as well as the international media-art conference ISEA2010 RUHR. ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE ? THIRD CULTURE 2010 is funded by the European Commission, the City of Dortmund and by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. For more information: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php? nr=3594&rubric=exhibitions& http://arcticperspective.org/ -------------- Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (Buero / office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T ++49 - 231 - 823 106 M ++49 - 176 - 430 627 93 inke.arns@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de From info at apo33.org Sun Nov 1 23:02:50 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Sun Nov 1 23:03:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] APO33 ? NEWSLETTER - November 2009 Message-ID: <20091101230250.75493ifpqxnb3xyc@apo33.org> APO33 ? NEWSLETTER - November 2009 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - 9th to 13th of November OPEN EXPERIMENTAL ZONE : The Open Experimental Zone is the place where takes place new processes and unexpected combination for APO33 projects and others collaborations. Thought as a space for work in progress composed of shared transformation, manipulation and experimentation of practices. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAOSLAB v0.2 (Hackart) ? test & preparation for piksel Festival. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! random evolution & aperiodic bifurcation Chaotic systems are not as predominant as indeterminacy. Chaoslab creates sensitive dependence on initial conditions, devices and inputs by having evolution through phase space (installation/workshop within a place) that appears to be quite random. Our Chaotic models seem to be deployed to ascertain various kinds of activities related to bifurcation points (uncontrolled steps of evolution within the workshop), period doubling sequences (or should we said multiple sequences), the onset of chaotic dynamics proposed by the participants, the strange attractors between sources, filters, amplifications, connections and other denizens of the chaos zoo of hacked behaviours. Source: electronics, poetry, noise, pd, floss, audio, hacking, electromagnetic, possession, hijacking, found objects, light, movement, feedback, ecosystem, mutation; randomness, electricity, delirium, listen, quantum. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Public presentation of the experimentation in progress (for Nantes) ? aperitifs & drinks - Thursday 12th of Novembre ? 6pm (on reservation ? info@apo33.org) @ APO33 ? 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes - France !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 19th to 22nd of November PIKSEL FESTIVAL ? Bergen / Norway APO33 propose CHAOSLAB WORKSHOP random evolution & aperiodic bifurcation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! During 2 days, the chaoslab invades Piksel, we will hijack our own experimental framework and practices sharing space. A Tohu-bohu of noise, electronics, contradictory images, multiple perception, stretched and multiplicity of times, chaosmos of flux exchanges and maelstrom of found objects. Lead by : JULIEN OTTAVI with the CHAOSLAB team : DOMINIQUE LEROY JULIEN POIDEVIN RYAN JORDAN JENNY PICKETT + random participation join the chaoslab @ piksel festival http://www.piksel.no + conference on APODIO (version 6) distribution http://www.apodio.org ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - tuesday 24th of November ??Heidegger and the technic?? by Jean L?v?que free (on reservation) @ APO33 ? 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Friday 27th of November BEYOND SIGNAL # 5 (Nantes) noise, punk, electro, diy, bass, poetry, performance, ambiant, dubstep, tekno, gabber... 8pm - 5? with ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI & JULIEN OTTAVI (JAP/UK/FR) ? Extra-Noise, bass, pd, Super amplified WEHWALT (FR) kinetic music GRATUIT (FR) Garbage electro beat! GB-GRANULATOR (FR) - Hortense Gauthier & Philippe Boisnard -(FR) ? poetry, noise, A/V, X-s-trm performance SEMANTIK (FR) ? drum&bass, electro, Tekno punchy + DJs tekno, drum&bass, dubstep, Gabber...etc -->VJING / PING http://www.apo33.org http://beyondsignal.info /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Saturday 28th & sunday 29th of November workshop / continuous concert / conference / installation with ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI & JULIEN OTTAVI composition, generative patch, intensive musical practice, immersion, noise, pd, super bass, sharing, discussion... on subscription (limited number) : 20? per day 30? pass 2 days ? info@apo33.org & by phone : +33 251 894 716 @ APO33 from 10am to 6pm (17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FLOSS GRAPHIC DESIGN & VISUAL CREATION : This year APO33 is proud to work on the Piksel festival graphic design (web, catalogue, program, flyers...) with Free Libre Open Source tools (scribus, gimp, inkscape...). Graphic design and visual creation by the artists Jenny Pickett & Julien poidevin http://www.piksel.no /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Experimental music & sound art practices APO33 launch a program to learn and practice sound art and experimental music. Start of the program : January 2009 (6 months duration) teachers: Julien Ottavi, Dominique Leroy, assistant : Julien Poidevin. subscription: sonore[at]apo33.org price : 500? choice of the modules: (to precise in your subscription) 1-weekly module (4h per week on 6 months) 2-module in sessions (3 sessions of 4 days on 6 months / 8h per day) more information : http://www.apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=pratiquer (translation to come) or contact APO33 ? info@apo33.org ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 MEMBERS NEWS : - 2nd to 7 of November : FRACAS! workshop by JULIEN OTTAVI Deconstruction by vibrations & resonant archistruction @ Lequai Sonic (invited by Yvan Etienne) ? ?cole des Beaux-arts de Mulhouse http://sonic.lequai.fr/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Thursday 5th of November Tranches de Quai #10 From 7.30pm with Pierre Tillet, Edson Barrus, Mich?le Reverdy, Julien Ottavi, Jennifer Lacey, Loran Stosskopf, Boris Rebetez, Benjamin Bardinet, Christian Kempf, Christian Savioz?et Claire Morel, l?association lalala?et and more! 3, Quai des p?cheurs 68200 Mulhouse (acc?s parking Leclerc) 03 69 77 77 20 - esa@lequai.fr ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Friday 6th of November JULIEN OTTAVI / YVAN ETIENNE + RYAN JORDAN / JULIEN OTTAVI (live tek noise) live @ la Chapelle Mulhouse ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Sunday 22nd of November THENOISER vs ZERO POINT ENERGY @ Piksel Festival ? Bergen / Norway http://www.piksel.no ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - 25th to 29th of November ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI & JULIEN OTTAVI FRENCH TOUR!!!! - 25th : Paris - la G?n?rale with Kasper T Toeplitz - 26th : Lyon ? Sonic - 27th : Nantes ? Blockhaus DY10 (APO33) - Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th : workshop / live / installation / conference @ APO33 ? Nantes //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 APO33 , as an interdisciplinary laboratory drawing on the artistic and technological fields, fosters various collective projects associating research, experimentation and social intervention. In the continuity of the dynamics that has been opened by the free software movement, apo33 is structured as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and creative processes, as well as exploring new artistic and creative modes of production and diffusion. http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes ? France +33 02 51 89 47 16 -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From simona.lodi at toshare.it Mon Nov 2 11:23:21 2009 From: simona.lodi at toshare.it (Simona Lodi) Date: Mon Nov 2 11:23:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] Share Festival 09 - Opening and Conferences Message-ID: <4AEEB319.40109@toshare.it> See you in Torino! simona ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter 10.31.2009 Share Festival ? Market Forces 2009 - Torino SPOTLIGHT ON....OPENING e CONFERENCES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Share Festival starts! Opening: *Thursday November 3th , 6.00 PM* Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali via Giolitti 36, Torino CONFERENCES Free admission. Watch the conferences in live streaming from www.toshare.it. *WEDNESDAY 4th NOVEMBER* Virtual Reality & Multimedia Park >> >>> h. 2.30 pm /Conference CReATE - Connecting ICT research and creative enterprise/ METTE QUINN, ANDY CAMERON, FLAVIA BARCA. *TUESDAY 5th NOVEMBER* Albertina Academy of Fine Arts >> >>> h. 10.30 am Conference: /Share Tech/ Artists short-listed for the Share Prize 2009 show students from the Albertina Academy the tools and technologies they used to create their works for the competition. Regional Museum of Natural Science >> >>>h. 3.30 pm SHARE CONFERENCE /Presentation and screening of Until the End of Cinema/ with Luca Barbeni, Simone Arcagni, Phil Wood and Yaniv Wolf >>>h. 4.30 pm SHARE CONFERENCE /Presentation and screening of Market Forces /with Simona Lodi and Salvatore Iaconesi Followed by conference and Workshop/Performance Complex Shopping Narratives, an experiential workshop with Salvatore Iaconesi and Luca Simeone - FakePress *FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER* University of Turin - Quazza Laboratory >> >>>h. 10.30 am/ Conference day: DIGITAL ORBIT/ RICCARDO LUNA, STEFANO ROCCO, ERIK NATZKE, JEFF MILLS. Regional Museum of Natural Science >> >>>h. 3.00 pm CONFERENCE /Officine Sintetiche/ ALI ZAIDI, ANTONELLA USAI, ANTONIO PIZZO, VANESSA VOZZO, TATIANA MAZALI. >>>h. 5.00 pm /Angel_F. Diary by an Artificial Intelligence/. A presentation by Oriana Persico (co-author) in conversation with the art critic and sociologist Massimo Melotti *SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER* Regional Museum of Natural Science >> >>> h. 2.00 pm SHARE CONFERENCE - /Art vs. the Market/ SIMONA LODI, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO, FRANZISKA NORI, ANTONIO CARONIA. in collaboration with aksioma Regional Museum of Natural Science >> >>>h. 4.00 pm SHARE CONFERENCE - /The industry of aRTvertising/ Moderator ANDY CAMERON, JOEL BAUMAN, RENZO DI RENZO, ALEX GIORDANO. Teatro Gobetti >> >>>h. 4.00 pm DIGITAL ORBIT Conference - /Music in Mooltimedia/ ALESSIO BERTALLOT, KIVER, FLUSHING DEVICE, ROBIN RIMBAUD AKA SCANNER, TeZ. *SUNDAY 8th NOVEMBER* Regional Museum of Natural Science >> >>>h. 2.00 pm SHARE CONFERENCE - /Market Forces/ PIETRO TERNA, RICHARD BARBROOK, BRUCE STERLING, GIOVANNI FERRERO, ROBERTO BURLANDO, SORIN SOLOMON, KELLY. Se non volete pi? ricevere questa e-mail cliccate qui Questo messaggio ? stato inviato con -- Simona Lodi art director _____________ Share Festival for art and digital culture MARKET FORCES 3/8 November 2009 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino - IT http://www.toshare.it __________ The Sharing Via Rossini 3 - 10124 Torino (IT) phone: 0039.011.588.36.93 mobile:+39.333.800.82.71 skype: simona.share.festival From md3169 at mclink.it Mon Nov 2 23:08:24 2009 From: md3169 at mclink.it (LORENZO TAIUTI) Date: Mon Nov 2 23:26:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] VERSUS 15 - Video versus Digital, Torino Message-ID: M-MULTIMEDIA SHOW: "VERSUS 15 - Video versus Digital" Curated By: Lorenzo Taiuti Gallery VELAN SPACE - Torino Opening: November 4 - 2009 - 7 pm - till November 27. "Versus" will open at the same time in both galleries: Space Velan1 - Via Saluzzo 64 & Space Velan 2 - Via Modena 52 - Torino. Video Installations versus digital sound installations in 8 works by different artists in two different spaces in Torino: Marco Callea, Simone Catania, Antonio Falbo, Luca Garino, Motor, Irina Novarese, Gabriele Ottino, Alessandro Quaranta. Coming from different languages they use video and sound design, movie and the web. Different the authors and different thematics: memory, war, movie language, conscience, perception and mental illness. Lorenzo Taiuti From seamascain at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 17:35:50 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Tue Nov 3 17:36:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Interview with Kent Johnson Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40911030835x2e5fed18t2ef23d41fd03ad82@mail.gmail.com> _______________ There is an interesting & compelling Interview with Kent Johnson at ... http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Johnson%20interview.htm Sincerely, S?amas Cain http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________ From info at transfera.es Tue Nov 3 17:59:53 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Tue Nov 3 18:30:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV #36 Message-ID: <4AF06189.6030703@transfera.es> Amig@s, El pr?ximo viernes 6 de noviembre a las 21:00 y el s?bado 7 a la 09:00, Transfera TV emitir? desde Madrid el siguiente nuevo programa de Arte Audiovisual: MONOGRAF?AS: GAO SHIQIANG 1. TEATRO DE C?MARA 3: LA MATRIZ (2005) 12' 20" 2. ENTRE (2004) 9' 48" Pod?is acceder a toda la informaci?n en: http://www.transfera.es/programa36.html Como siempre, os deseamos todo lo mejor! Staff www.transfera.es Dearez, Next Friday November 6th at 21:00 PM and Saturday 7th at 9:00 AM, Transfera TV will broadcast from Madrid the following program of Audio Visual Art: MONOGRAPHICS: GAO SHIQIANG 1. CHAMBER THEATRE 3: WOMB (2005) 12' 20" 2. AMONG (2004) 9' 48" You can access to all the information at Transfera website: http://www.transfera.es/programa36.html We desire you, as always, the best luck! Transfera Staff www.transfera.es From joris at v2.nl Wed Nov 4 14:53:57 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Wed Nov 4 14:54:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Nov 5th: From the real-time city to read/write urbanism, Open City lecture by: Mark Shepard Message-ID: <4AF18775.6020709@v2.nl> From the real-time city to read/write urbanism Open City lecture by: Mark Shepard On November 5th, media architect and researcher Mark Shepard will deliver a lecture within the context of the Open City Event Program of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). Shepard studies the influence of new media and network technologies on architecture and the city. The theme of his lecture is 'Connectivity'. Cities today are complex hybrids of both physical and informational space. Brought into being through common everyday techno-social practices, these hybrids rely on a wide range of networked media, information and communication systems that continually make and remake the spatial conditions of urban life. Take for example the pervasiveness of mobile phones capable of not just synchronic voice communications but also asynchronic data transactions - text messaging, web browsing, photo sharing, to name just a few. These mobile computing devices have introduced new ways by which we connect with each other and interact with and within our shared urban environment. Mark Shepard's lecture will present a survey of recent work in urban computing, ambient informatics and locative media, and examine its implications for architecture and urbanism. How is our experience of the city and the choices we make there transformed by these new spatial practices? How do they reconfigure traditional urban relationships between privacy and publicity within urban public space? To what extent can we deploy them toward a form of open and participatory space-making within these new and emerging urban topographies? How do we - as architects and urban planners - begin to think about our role in shaping the immaterial architecture of software infrastructures and influencing their performance or enactment of new urban organizations and spatial experiences that are diverse, sustainable and dynamic? The Mobile City's Martijn de Waal and Michiel de Lange will introduce the lecture and discuss its themes with Mark Shepard. Moderator is Jaap Jan Berg . About Mark Shepard Mark Shepard is an architect, artist and academic. He has founded the Media Architecture educational program at the Univeristy of Buffalo, and organized the exhibit 'Sentient Cities ' with the Architectural League in NYC . He is also one of the editors of the The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series . Where & when Speaker: Mark Shepard Date: Thursday November 5, 2009 Time: 20:00 hrs Location: NAI Rotterdam, auditorium Language: English Admission: ? 5,- / ? 3,- (discount) / Passe Partout Reservations: www.nai.nl/register From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Nov 5 09:50:02 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (m/a/c) Date: Thu Nov 5 09:50:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for entries: Found Footage! - extended deadline Message-ID: <20091105095002.69A33246.549763@192.168.0.3> Call for entries extended deadline 15 November 2009 Found Footage! Christmas 2009 feature on VideoChannel According to [Wikipedia] --> "Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by placing it in a new context. The term refers to the "found object" (objet trouv?) of art history." VideoChannel is looking for some excellent films and videos using "found footage" as a relevant component of the film/video making which are planned to form also the basis for FFF (Found Footage Film) collection. For the online feature in December and later physical screenings, however, is most relevant, that no authors rights are violated by the creator using "found footage". Please find the details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1569 ------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media operating from Cologne/Germany info(at)nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------- From gif at 220hex.org Fri Nov 6 01:01:48 2009 From: gif at 220hex.org (h220) Date: Fri Nov 6 01:01:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] Piksel09:: call - OPEN WORKSHOPS Message-ID: <200911060101.48502.gif@220hex.org> Piksel09 nov. 19-22 2009 www.piksel.no/p09 ========================== * PIKSEL09 workshop series * Free and Open Creative Technology workshops In connection with the Piksel09 festival we are offering in total 12 electronic and software workshops. All the workshops are free to attend, but for the hardware workshops we need to charge material costs. To sign up or get more information, please contact us on piksel09 [AT] piksel.no or register directly at: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/schedConf/registration _______________________________________________________________ *ELECTRONIC WORKSHOPS: *Tom Bugs (UK): W.O.M (Workshop Osc Machine)* *Monday 16.11.09**, 12.00-18.00** - Build your own 3 oscillator one-board synth, DIY kit based - No previous experience needed Material costs: NOK 290,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/230 *Diego de Le?n (ES): LP Atari Punk Concole* *Tuesdag 17.11.09**, 12.00-18.00** - Learn about the Atari Punk Console circuit and build small noise synth - No previous experience needed Material costs: NOK 290,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/90 *Peter Edwards from Casperelectronics (US): DIY Drone Synthesizer Wednesday 18.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - Learn how to build a drone synth using the Drone Lab Kit. Material costs: NOK 850,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/231 *Hackteria: Bioelectronics for artists **Thursday 19.11.09 - Saturday 21.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - A three day workshop giving the participants an introduction to microscopy and tools for interfacing with micro organisms. Material costs: NOK 210,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/94 *Andy Bolus: Building simple analogue light-controlled theremins **Sunday 22.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - learn how to build a simple, analogue theremin, controlled by light sensors. Material costs: NOK 210,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/180 *Arjan Scherpenisse: VGA Signals** Sunday 22.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - Learn how to make a simple micro-controller to generate signals for displaying pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer. Material costs: NOK 165,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/65 *Minia: Open Hardware Sensor Board* *Monday 23.11.09 - Tuesday 24.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - Learn how to use MINIA - a USB, plug and play multi platform device that translates external sensor data to the computer. Material costs: NOK 165,- MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/229 * SOFTWARE WORKSHOPS Luca Carrubba (IT): Qeve - Free your visuals* *Thursday 19.11.09***, 11.00-13.00** - Learn how to use Qeve, a free software tool for video improvisation and partake in a joint video streaming session. MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/210 *Glerm Soares (BR): Navalha - handcrafted hardware/software audio performance interface *Friday 20.11.09***, 11.00-13.00** - Learn how to use Navalha - an software/hardware interface for real-time slicing of audio files. MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/212 *Alexandre Quessy: ToonLoop Live Animation workshop *Saturday 21.11.09***, 11.00-13.00** - Learn how to use ToonLoop - a real time stop motion animation tool. - Bring your own computer and midi controllers! MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/137 *Yves Degoyon (ES): Open Computer Vision *Sunday 22.11.09***, 11.00-13.00** - Get an introduction to Open Computer Vision (based on PureData), current libraries and the openCV API. MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/69 *SPECIAL EVENT: **Chaoslab: Random evolution & aperiodic bifurcation workshop **Friday 20.11.09 - Saturday 21.11.09***, 12.00-18.00** - Partake in an experiment based on chaotic systems and indeterminism in a workshop environment of participant sensitive equipment. MORE: http://piksel.no/ocs/index.php/piksel/piksel09/paper/view/158 _______________________________________________________________ Piksel09 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County Council, Nordic Culture Fund, PNEK, BKK and OCA. For more information: http://www.piksel.no/p09 -> http://www.piksel.no/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- From redazione at digicult.it Fri Nov 6 10:19:23 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Nov 6 10:29:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult International Press Release Message-ID: Sorry for any crosspostings ///Digicult International Press Release/// Born 5 years ago, the Digicult project has been able to achieve, step by step, a significant role, both nationally and internationally, in the fields of reviews and on-line publishing, having focused on digital culture and art as well as, in broader terms, the impact new technologies and modern sciences have had on art, design, culture and contemporary society. In order to discover some more about Digicult, as well as in order to better understand its origins and its future aims, various interviews have been published on-line recently by some well-known, on-line, international cultural projects: a.. the interview by Annette Wolfsfberger on the multilanguage website Lab For Culture (http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents/research-in-focus/cultural-blogging-in-europe/interview-with-marco-mancuso-digicult), the networking platform which allows people to always be up to date on the subjects of art and European culture as well as to establish professional co-operation beyond any boundary. b.. the interview by Ana Ascencio on the Elektra Festival Blog (http://blog.elektramontreal.ca/index.php?/archives/470-Interview-Marco-Mancuso-directeur-de-Digicult.html), one of the most important and long-lasting international festivals of electronic and audiovisual art c.. the interview by Ana Carvalho on VjTheory (http://www.vjtheory.net/interviews/marco.htm) website, a cultural platform and on-line community of digital and audiovisual art Born in January 2005, based on an idea of Marco Mancuso, art critic and curator, the project, which has been a multi-platform project (portal, magazine, podcast, newsletter and agency) right from the very beginning, has been characterised by a strong will to work within the net and by the sharing and mix of knowledge and disciplines. Its core depends also on a strong desire to create a vast network in Italy of professional people and artists, working together to give life to it and to enhance it, a large and complex editorial and cultural project strongly linked to contemporaneousness. Thanks to the experience and professionalism of the first artists and collaborators involved in the project, Digicult (http://www.digicult.it/en/) has been able to expand and enrich itself, on the one hand, letting the new generation of reviewers, curators and journalists who work in Italy in the fields of art, design, society and technology congregate; on the other, interacting with various Institutions, Festivals, Cultural Centres, Exhibition Centres and Academies both in Italy and internationally in order to promote curatorial and artistic projects. Digicult today is a cultural platform, both on-line and off-line, firmly based on the active participation of more than 40 professional people, representing the first broad network, in Italy, made up of journalists, curators, reviewers and artists who work in the field of digital art and culture. It is a web-portal, updated daily, with news and analyses regarding the world of the new media art. In it there are calls for artists, reviews, theoretical texts and articles, relevant links and artistic projects. It is a project deeply connected to the net and the web 2.0 dynamics which is also related to some Rss Feed available for the users as well as some tools like Facebook, Flicker, Delicious, Vimeo, Twitter and LinkedIn. Digicult is also the editor of Digimag (http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/), a monthly magazine which covers some artistic and cultural issues like internet art, hacktivism, video-art, electronic music, audio-video, design, art and science, new media, software art and performing art, as relevant subjects of its critical and journalistic approach. Digicult produces a podcast of electronic music and audiovisuals, Digipod (http://www.digicult.it/podcast/). It is related to the net-labels world as well as the one of on-line independent audiovisual production. It has its own international Diginews newsletter system. Digicult is, moreover, involved in some collateral activities managed by Digimade (http://www.digicult.it/Agency/). Through its press-office it is able to activate media partnerships for festivals and shows, both nationally and internationally, thanks to the huge amount of contacts in the field of contemporary art, digital art and design, as well as some special projects and curatorships in Italy and abroad. Digimade is the tool with which Digicult, involving each time every single member of the network, works on specific curatorial projects like events, exhibitions, seminars, workshops and festivals as well as editorial projects of catalogues and articles. It updates its professional contacts in Italy as well as abroad day by day --------------------------------- Marco Mancuso Digicult - Digital Art & Culture Critic, Curator & Consultant ----------------------------------------- Digicult Founder and Director Naba Academy, Laba and Supsi Teacher ----------------------------------------- Via Thaon di Revel 9 20159, Milan - Italy Mob. +39.340.8371816 skype. sostakovich From kovats at transmediale.de Fri Nov 6 10:44:01 2009 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Fri Nov 6 10:44:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] 6-8 Nov 2009 | Transitland Destination Berlin: Eastern & Central European Video Art at .CHB Berlin Message-ID: <8FDF5ACF-291B-4003-957B-3022E8009F0A@transmediale.de> Dear Spectrites! We would like to invite you to join us for Transitland Destination Berlin (TDB) this weekend at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB). From today afternoon, Friday, 6 November until Sunday evening, 8 November 2009 - so just prior to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - TDB celebrates the launch of the digital Transitland video archive comprising Eastern European video art from the past 20 years! A three-day special programme of discussions, performances, and screenings curated by Diana McCarty (programme) and Kathy Rae Huffmann (screenings) will deliver a context to the archive, which itself will simultaneously be made accessible to the public by hands- on viewing stations at the .CHB. Highlighting the ongoing work of "New Europe", TDB moreover premieres the 5 commissioned video works of the Transitland project as well as the Transitland publication. Below a brief overview of the programme. For more detailed information on complete schedules for Friday - Sunday, content, artists and participants please go to the links below: http://transitland.eu www.transmediale.de TDB Programme 6 - 8 November 2009 .CHB | Dorotheenstr. 12 | 10117 Berlin | Free entry TDB Friday, 6 November 17:00 - Opening Remarks by Stephen Kovats (artistic director of transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin ) and Dr. Vera Baksa-So?s (Moholy-Nagy Galerie at CHB, Direction) 17:30 - Introduction to the Transitland Archive/ Screening Programme by Margarita Dorovska (InterSpace Association Sofia, Bulgaria; project manager Transitland) and Kathy Rae Huffman (curator Transitland) 18:00 - The Aesthetics of 1989: Mauerfall and Romanian Revolution Discussion with Guszt?v H?mos (filmmaker) and Hito Steyerl (filmmaker) Moderation: Doreen Mende (critic) 20:30 Eastern Contemporaries: The Young Artists Discussion with Hajnal Nemeth (artist), Sophia Tabatadze (artist) and Anri Sala (artist) Moderation: Diana McCarty 22:00 ? 00:30 Late Night Screening Screening the Transitland archive with an introduction by project curator Kathy Rae Huffman. Screening in two parts, each 60 minutes. TDB Saturday, 7 November 15:00 Transitland Publication Presentation Extensive presentation of the publication accompanying the Transitland project by the editor of the book Edit Andras (Ludwig Museum Budapest). 16:00 Transitland Commission Presentations Transitland project commissioned 5 new video works by young artists from the "New Europe". The worksand the artists will firstly be introduced and presented by Stephen Kovats (artistic director of transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin) 18:00 - Reunification and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: Images from the Wars. Discussion between Dunja Blazevic (Director of the Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Art) and Boris Buden (Theorist) 21:00 - Integration Impossible: Performative Video Talk by Tanja Ostojic 22:00 - 01:00 Living in Your Time: Party with Tigrics Tigrics (Robert Berezneyei) joins up with Andr?s Sz?nyi (both Hungary) to combine the finest electronic music with electronic piano for an inspired and engaging musical extravaganza. Drinks available at the bar. TDB Sunday, 8 November 12:00 - Kanal X Brunch with Norbert Meissner Presentation of DIY television, utopic visions of media, a bit of nostalgia and a Berlin brunch. 14:00 - 19:00 Transitland Screening Program in 3 parts 14:00 ? 15:30 In the streets 15:45 ? 17:00 Traumas and transitions 17:30 ? 19:00 Journeys Transitland EUROPA is a collaborative EU Culture 2007 project organised by InterSpace [Sofia], transmediale [Berlin] and ACAX/ Ludwig Museum [Budapest] to create a video archive of 100 works spanning the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The archive of 100 works includes works, produced in the period 1989-2008 and newly commissioned videos (produced in 2009). The works have been selected by a jury of external experts and curators. The output includes archive jukeboxes and thematic compilations that travel to different venues in Europe, a website for international information, a print publication as well as a DVD compilation of the commissioned videos. TDB is the final Transitland event following a combination of screenings and discursive events in Bulgaria, Hungary and associated partners? locations. Discussions from Transitland Destination Berlin will be broadcast on Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin. www.transitland.eu www.transmediale.de www.hungaricum.de www.i-space.org www.ludwigmuseum.hu www.herbstradio.org -- stephen kovats artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Nov 6 13:16:45 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (JavaMuseum) Date: Fri Nov 6 13:17:37 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for entries: JavaMuseum 2010 - Celebrate! Message-ID: <20091106131645.CCE8682F.97C2C8F0@192.168.0.3> Call for proposals ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010 Celebrate! 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is planning a big show online, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork:||cologne JavaMuseum is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised more than 20 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2009 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart since 2000 including more than 400 artists and 1000 art works. In 2006, JavaMuseum launched - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project containing meanwhile more than 80 interviews with expersts and artists in the fields of digital and electronic art. On occasion of its 10th anniversary, JavaMuseum is planning to launch in autumn 2010 a netart show, entitled: Celebrate! in order to celebrate netart as an exciting, but anyway widely underestimated art genre, yet. This represents the best reason for inviting artists active on the fields of new, digital and electronic media to submit their latest or their older netart art projects which may originate from the years 2000-2010. Please find the details, regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 -------------------------------------------------------- JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org and JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org are corporate parts of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net -------------------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Nov 6 14:30:01 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Nov 6 14:30:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] Brazilian Velvet Gold Mine - Sub>midialogy. In-Reply-To: <49F58F5F.20104@v2.nl> References: <49F58F5F.20104@v2.nl> Message-ID: <4AF424D9.5040203@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Brazilian Velvet Gold Mine - Sub>midialogy. Article by Ricardo Ruiz on Furtherfield. Since 2005, a series of radical conferences has taken place around Brazil, organized on a discussion list: Sub>midialogy - the art of re:volving knowledge logos by practices and disorienting practices by the immersion in sub-knowledge. Ricardo Ruiz wonders what will happen to all this creative energy now that funding has arrived. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=364 "Some years ago, the elements (ideas, conceptions, practices, people) that compose the current (so-called) Free Culture movement were appropriated by the bureaucrat and the capitalist. The ones that made use of the technologies and available media to the creation of actions that provided the debate on new perspectives of possible social arrangements (obtained by tools such as free licenses, networks of communication, open source software), are today digested by the old apparatuses and social mechanisms that once they have used and questioned. They participated, many times unconsciously, in a ?socio-professional training? in order to occupy the same functions established for the maintainers of a system that is distant from what we imagine as a possible human grouping, even more distanced from freedom." submidialogy. Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. 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/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Nov 6 16:24:09 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Nov 6 16:25:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] Artivistic: TURN*ON In-Reply-To: <4A2FA4CB.10604@furtherfield.org> References: <4A2FA4CB.10604@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4AF43F99.8050603@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Artivistic: TURN*ON Reviewed by Gabriel Menotti on Furtherfield. This year's edition of Artivistic (Montreal 15-17 October), brings the fields of art, politics and academia together under the theme of TURN*ON - according to its curatorial statement, 'a fragile bridge extending, over a valley of which the depth you cannot see, to a life centered on pleasure, consciousness, togetherness, understanding, and joy'. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=363 Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate. Gabriel Menotti (Brazil, 1983) is an independent curator and producer engaged with emerging media circuits. He has been involved with pirate movie screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with super8 film projectors and generative art exhibitions. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths (University London). Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. 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/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From lena.haubold at googlemail.com Tue Nov 3 09:10:54 2009 From: lena.haubold at googlemail.com (Lena Haubold) Date: Sat Nov 7 15:12:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] Design Conference Message-ID: <78cf9c440911030010q18818a6n7cf5b8fddffa00e8@mail.gmail.com> Dear Sir or Madam In cooperation with the University of Plymouth, England, the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Media and Communication, Munich, will host the international design and research conference Consciousness Reframed of Planetary Collegium now in its 10th incarnation. The Consciousness Reframed Conference is a forum for transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, design and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, usually from at least 20 countries. From November 19th to November 21st, 2009, international known scientists from Media Theory and Media Design, entrepreneurs and creators will get together in Munich. This year?s slogan ? Experiencing design, Behaving media? is a wide and open forum for unusual and innovative positions and perspectives. At the opening event we will present: Prof. Derrick de Kerkhove (McLuhan Chair; University of Toronto), Jens Monsees (Industry Head, Google Germany) as well as the artist and theorist Roy Ascott. Friday and Saturday night we will have two paneldiscussions with the topics ?After social media ? what?s the next big thing? and ?Design within the Web 2.0 environment?. The event is directed to everybody who is interested in design. Everyone who deals with motivation and creation of new media is warmly invited to the event. You find further information for the registration under: http://www.planetary-collegium.org/ Kind regards, Jurgen Faust Dean, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, media and communication Consciousness Reframed 19 ? 22 November 2009 Theme: Experiencing Design,- behaving media - A transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology and society. Partner and Host: University of Applied Sciences, Munich MHMK http://www.planetary-collegium.org/planet-home.htm -- Lena Haubold Kazmairstr. 47, 80339 M?nchen fon 089/203 167 63 mobil 0176 83 26 24 24 From derek at umatic.nl Sun Nov 8 11:43:21 2009 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Sun Nov 8 11:43:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] Ardour Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint, 23-27.11.09 Rotterdam NL In-Reply-To: <46138207faa7c8e554fe25027057e613@lowstandart.net> References: <4AF2BA00.4000109@umatic.nl> <4AF2BBB2.1010701@umatic.nl> <95d630dad6604bb8b9ed8cf18b09df15@lowstandart.net> <4AF2C72D.7070106@umatic.nl> <4AF33A12.7010606@umatic.nl> <2b8f943b72db01e20ea830db568a6c7c@lowstandart.net> <4AF33D9D.7030007@umatic.nl> <924b1b1f3facb4a453d70707a1d5da59@lowstandart.net> <4AF33FF6.4050906@umatic.nl> <4AF42B62.9070906@umatic.nl> <46138207faa7c8e554fe25027057e613@lowstandart.net> Message-ID: <4AF6A0C9.8060304@umatic.nl> Ardour Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint Hosted by: moddr_lab/WORM, FLOSS Manuals and Derek Holzer Monday 23 November to Friday 27 November, 2009 Day session: 13:00-17:00 (GMT +1) Evening session: 18:00-22:00 (GMT +1) Location (physical): moddr_lab, Willem Buytewechstraat 188, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Location (online): http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/ Introduction to FLOSS Manuals by Adam Hyde 21.00, Friday 20 Nov at WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam http://agenda.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=2888 Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. New and experienced users of Ardour are invited to "learn by documenting" during this combination workshop and book sprint. A book sprint brings together a group of writers, editors and artists to go from an outline to a published book in just five days. We will use this format to give workshop participants tasks which they will learn to complete in Ardour, and which they will then document for the Ardour FLOSS Manual. This is an exciting opportunity both to acquire new skills as well as share them with others in the form of a book! The workshop will be split into two sessions: an evening session focusing on learning the software and creating chapters for the FLOSS Manual, and an afternoon session focusing on editing, proofreading and correcting the workshop texts. At the end of the week, we hope to have a beginner's manual covering these and other topics: Introduction: What is Ardour? Installing Jack & Qjackctl: Linux Installing JackOSX: OSX Installing Ardour: Linux Installing Ardour: OSX Installing Jamin: Linux Installing Jamin: OSX Getting Started: the user interface Getting Started: using JACK to interface with the soundcard and other applications Audio Tutorial: editing and arranging existing audio Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with the soundcard Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with other applications Audio Tutorial: using automation Audio Tutorial: using LADSPA and VST plugins Audio Tutorial: mixing down tracks Audio Tutorial: mastering with Jamin Audio Tutorial: exporting to file and CD etc etc Participants who would like to join us in Rotterdam should sign up via: workshop@moddr.net Interested remote participants should create a login on the Ardour FLOSS Manual page: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/ and communicate with us via the FLOSS Manuals chat interface on the website or at: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals during the working times listed. Further info/references: Ardour: http://ardour.org/ Ardour reference manual (in progress): http://vm-nice.stackingdwarves.net:8888/ardour-en/1-ARDOUR.html Ardour reviewed by Kim Cascone: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/ Old Ardour tutorial (cached): http://tinyurl.com/ardour-tutorial FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ moddr_lab: http://moddr.net/ WORM: http://wormweb.nl/ Derek Holzer: http://umatic.nl/info_derek.html -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ::: http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 81: "Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place" From gcox at plymouth.ac.uk Sun Nov 8 15:22:12 2009 From: gcox at plymouth.ac.uk (geoff cox) Date: Sun Nov 8 15:22:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] unCraftivism: call for participation Message-ID: <4AF6D414.8040104@plymouth.ac.uk> unCraftivism: call for participation unCraftivism is an open event where you can present your own work and organise your own event. unCraftivism is uncurated: your work will not be judged, or restricted by a theme, neither it has to be finalised. unCraftivism is self-organised: you organise and promote your own event, whether a performance, a talk, a workshop, a meal, a song, a party or other as-yet-undefined events. How to participate in 3 steps: 1. Add your event to the programme (http://www.craftivism.net/wiki/Programme). 2. Subscribe to the mailinglist and stay tuned to the latest news. 3. Invite your friends and show up in person or avatar from 12th to 13th of December. Saturday 12th + Sunday 13th of December Arnolfini (contemporary arts centre) 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA UK http://www.craftivism.net http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/ From nat at xs4all.nl Sun Nov 8 19:18:32 2009 From: nat at xs4all.nl (nat muller) Date: Sun Nov 8 19:19:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: I am not what I am - Hassan Khan at Mediamatic 12 Nov Message-ID: <7C579A69-F2D3-472B-B185-D45560332DBB@xs4all.nl> > > I am not what I am - An Artist Talk by Hassan Khan > On Thursday, November 12, Hassan Khan will present "I am not what I > am", an associative talk. Hassan Khan makes art, music and writes. > He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and has shown his work > internationally. > The talk will be followed by an open discussion with the audience. > ? > In this associative talk artist Hassan Khan strings together a > series of textual fragments, questions, statements and propositions > in relation to his practice. This is an attempt at finding a form to > discuss the artists practice without resorting to linear > chronologies or tired explanations. > In this relationship I do not want to inhabit the position of > someone who will explain himself. Or explain his work. Reasons do > not really exist. And explanations are always about something else. > > > Date: Thursday 12th of November, from 20:00 hrs > > Location: > Mediamatic BANK. Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam. More: www.mediamatic.net/page/114310/en From louise.desrenards at free.fr Mon Nov 9 05:32:42 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Mon Nov 9 05:28:18 2009 Subject: [spectre] Mort de Jacno / R.I.P. JACNO Message-ID: <4AF79B6A.9090405@free.fr> http://translate.google.com/# Vendredi en d?but de soir?e commen?aient les deux jours de Polyphonix http://www.polyphonix.org/ au Peuple qui manque http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/ inaugur?s par un film de Jean-Pierre Sergent sur Jacqueline Cahen, po?te amie qui ? plusieurs reprises avait aussi contribu? ? criticalsecret, disparue au d?but de cette ann?e, des suites d'un cancer. Contre mon intention je n'ai pu m'y rendre, accabl?e d'angoisse. Vers neuf heures il fallait bien sortir un peu.. je me suis laiss?e faire. L'id?e ?tait d'aller en voiture jusqu'au carrefour Mabillon, parce que ces jours-ci nous pensions, mais plut?t ? Chtcheglov qu'? Perec, nous disant au fond que le d?fi concurrentiel que Debord lui avait lanc?, le poussant dans ses engagements extr?mes, l'avait "poignard?" deux fois. Une fois en rompant avec lui faute de le soumettre, une fois en renouant avec lui dans les conditions o?, depuis, il ?tait enferm? ? l'hopital psychiatrique, parce que sa compagne crut qu'il allait faire sauter la Tour Eiffel (du moins ?tait-ce l'intention d?clar?e "historiquement" par les responsables de son internement qui passera ? la post?rit? des pertes et profits des po?tes psychiatris?s), au moment o? l'?trange patient reprenait la plume pour ?crire son autobiographie, dans une d?rive fragment?e de l'?criture, ce qui int?ressa Debord, pas seulement pour des raisons magnanimes, peut-on supposer. Lorsque Chtcheglov arriva justement au point de r?actualiser la blessure survenue lors de leur rupture, il perdit la coordination de sa main, et sans doute n'?crivit-il plus jamais... Voir si la pergola de l'ancien caf? ?ponyme ?tait toujours en place au dessus de la boutique qui l'avait remplac? en fa?ade d'angle de l'immeuble, au bout de la rue du four. Il y allait souvent, d'apr?s sa m?re, si on lit bien Apostolid?s chez Allia... La pergola est toujours l?, prot?geant la courbe de la baie de la vitrine, d'une boutique de v?tement. C'est au retour, en ?coutant la radio, que nous avons appris la mort de Jacno, un autre ami devenu lointain, mais toujours aim?. La nouvelle catastrophe, c'?tait ?a... Voici l'hommage ? Jacno dans un articl? informant de la mort, d?di? ? La revue des ressources, plac? en ?dito du 8 novembre, par le directeur de la revue : MORT DE JACNO http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1405 Pour m?moire d'enfances et d'adolescences, Jacno ? 23 ans, en 1980, cartonne avec Rectangle, sur trois doigts... Rectangle, extrait de l'album JACNO, 1979 (clip du Single pour une ?mission TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fTe0xaJ6Ac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_toys From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Nov 9 10:19:04 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (SoundLab) Date: Mon Nov 9 10:23:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: soundart for SoundLAB VII - extended deadline Message-ID: <20091109101904.D555CE49.2B5B2F72@192.168.0.3> Call for entries extended deadline: 31 December 2009 2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne SoundLAB - sonic art project environments is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled: SoundLAB VII - soundCELEBRATION sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary! For its 7th edition, planned to be launched in March 2010, SoundLAB would like to celebrate the power of sound as a tool for artistic creations and communications on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the global network it is embedded in and invites soundartists, musicians and composers to create for the 10th anniversary a special sound composition. Please find detailed information, the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1423 ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net in(at)nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------- From fls at kein.org Mon Nov 9 10:51:00 2009 From: fls at kein.org (Florian Schneider) Date: Mon Nov 9 10:51:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] huillet and straub Message-ID: OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING On films by Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Cin?-club and exhibition 12 November - 20 December 2009 Extra City - Kunsthal Antwerpen http://ofapeoplewhoaremissing.net The "Straubs", as Dani?le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub are often called, are among the most outstanding, and yet widely unknown contemporary filmmakers in the history of cinema. Jean-Marie Straub and Dani?le Huillet worked together for over 40 years until Dani?le Huillet's death in October 2006. Since the early 1960s their radical approach towards filmmaking allowed them to create almost 30 very diverse films; they treated and transformed literature by Kafka, Pavese and H?lderlin, as well as the paintings of C?zanne, cantatas by Bach and operas by Sch?nberg. The filmmakers constantly questioned the possible transformation from one medium to an other, such as literature, painting and music into film, as a process of re-reading, re-inventing or readjusting of meaning. If there is such a thing as a "P?dagogie straubienne" (as Serge Daney once hinted), the project follows the question: what can be learned from their films today? Is it possible to translate their precision which seems so deeply connected to and conditioned by the means of analog film production, into what is usually conceived as the age of digital image production, and if so, under what terms? Huillet and Straub categorically refused to offer any kind of interpretation that might ease or facilitate access to the artwork or so-called original. Instead, their focus on the act of speaking, always in very specific circumstances, opens up a multitude of possible interpretations; this marks precisely the peculiarity of their films. Through the speech-act the moving images change one of their most essential properties and they become no-one's property. No-one's property is the opposite of what pretends to belong to everybody -- no matter whether it is communicated, participated in or otherwise shared. In this sense one can also understand the remarks that Gilles Deleuze repeatedly put forth in his books on cinema: the films of the "Straubs" are made for a people who are missing. "A people" needs to be invoked rather than represented or addressed. "The people no longer exist, or not yet...". The phrase "a people who are missing" is taken from the only public lecture Paul Klee held in 1924 in the Kunstverein Jena: "Uns traegt kein Volk." Instead of embellishing the splendid isolation of the artist, such a people who are missing need to be understood literally and Jean-Marie Straub once suggested dedicating his movie "The chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" to the Vietcong. OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING will open in Extra City from November 12 to December 20 as a platform for both the viewing and making of films. The exhibition space will be structured around five studios which will act as showrooms as well as independent production spaces. Each studio is to be used in a different configuration of archive material, film excerpts, actual footage and the critical discourse around it. Every Thursday to Saturday, one studio will host invited guests and contributors for a series of screenings, lectures and debates. Among the contributors are: Chantal Akerman, Pietro Bianchi, Manon de Boer, Robert Bramkamp, Vanessa Brito, Giulio Bursi, Rinaldo Censi, Anna Fiacciarini, Jack Henrie Fisher, Peter Friedl, Kim de Groot, Romano Guelfi, Armin Linke, Laura Malacart, Martha Rosler, Sally Shafto, Ines Schaber, Eyal Sivan, Beno?t Turquety, Barbara Ulrich, Klaus Volkmer, Susanne Weirich. Curated by: Annett Busch and Florian Schneider Detailed program at: http://ofapeoplewhoaremissing.net http://extracity.org Of A People Who Are Missing is a collaboration of Extra City ? Kunsthal Antwerpen and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. With the support of Multitude e.V., Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg and Time Festival, Ghent. From ixddxk at googlemail.com Mon Nov 9 11:09:55 2009 From: ixddxk at googlemail.com (ixddxk@googlemail.com) Date: Mon Nov 9 11:10:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Concert Invitation - Berlin Sat 21st Nov 2009 - Electronic Music Concert 03 Message-ID: <428CA4D0-EDCB-4F4F-B48D-F57A9FA8DFC0@googlemail.com> Sorry for cross posting, invitation for a concert in Berlin. AUSREIHE in Cooperation with NK Presents : Electronic Music Concert 03 Lineup a-z: Alberto De Campo (AT) Berlin - Computer Improvisation DJ Sniff (JP) from steim/Amsterdam - Experimental Turntablist EVOL (ES) from Barcelona - Extreme Computer Music Cell Kaffe Matthews (UK) from London - 8 Multichannel Performance Suk-Jun Kim (KR) Berlin - Imaginary Electroacoustic Music Date: Sat 21st Nov 2009 Time: 22:00 open / 23:00 start Fee: 8 EURO Venue: Heimathafen Neuk?lln - Studio http://www.heimathafen-neukoelln.de/ Address: Karl-Marx-Stra?e 141 12043 Berlin, Germany Alberto De Campo (AT) Berlin - Computer Improvisation Alberto de Campo has studied classical composition, jazz guitar, and electronic music in Austria and the US. After working at UC Santa Barbara, designing experimental software instruments with Curtis Roads, he taught at Media Arts Academy Cologne, the Institute for Electronic Music in Graz, and at TU Berlin. He held a professorship for Music Informatics at Music University Duesseldorf, and currently is Professor for Generative Art at Arts Univ. Berlin. He plays with powerbooks_unplugged (just in time programming on mostly unamplified laptops); improvisation groups with acoustic instruments such as Quiet Noise Quartet, Syntopia Ensemble, and ad hoc constellations; electronic music with BlippooHazard (four musicians playing the Blippoo Box, a hardware synth by Rob Hordijk). Recent projects include creating software instruments and sound installations with Florian Hecker, e.g. 'No Night No Day' at Biennale Venice, and AuditoryObjects (Bordeaux), and collaborating with Marcus Schmickler and Carsten Goertz on "Bonner Durchmusterung", a project involving sonification und visualisation of atronomical data. DJ Sniff (JP) from steim/Amsterdam - Experimental Turntablist believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and the musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable musician working in the field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the live reconstruction and narratization of the phonographically amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-made hardware interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one turntable and DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for electronic music and a researcher of music technology. Since 2005 he has been involved with STEIM's (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab. From 2007 on, he is STEIM's Artistic Director, curating public events and representing the institution through performances and lectures. dj sniff regularly performs with computer musician Yutaka Makino as Audile and with saxophonist Keir Neuringer and Bassist Raed Yassin. http://djsniff.com/ EVOL (ES) from Barcelona - Extreme Computer Music Cell EVOL is a computer music cell started in Barcelona in 1996. Their work has been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as Mego, Entr'acte, Lucky Kitchen, Diskono, Scarcelight, Antifrost, fals.ch or their own ALKU. In 2003 the group started a series of electroacoustic pieces entitled 'Punani' which addresses some of the main aspects of their work, namely: algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other mathematical phenomena, somewhere in between Denis Smalley's concept of "spectromorphology", black magic and what Agostino Di Scipio called "functional iteration synthesis". Recently they have released 'Punani Xerrameca', a 10" on ALKU, and 'Fart Synthesis' a cassette on Presto!? http://vivapunani.org/ Kaffe Matthews (UK) from London - 8 Multichannel Performance Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England, and lives and works in London. Since 1996 she has been making new electro-acoustic music through a system of self designed software matrices through which she pulls and pushes different sounds live. The variety of sounds, things and places she has worked with have ranged from self played violin and theremin, sounds of spaces, kite strings on an uninhabited Scottish Island, flight data from NASA scientists, Scottish and Irish pipers, melting ice in Quebec, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, vibrating wires in the West Australian outback and recently a Vietnamese monochord and seaside sounds processed with 11 year olds to be dispersed by visitor pedalled bicycles. She has just returned from a month of working with sharks and conservation scientists on the Galapagos Islands. http://www.kaffematthews.net/ Suk-Jun Kim (KR) Berlin - Imaginary Electroacoustic Music A Korean Composer whose main output is electroacoustic music, Suk-Jun Kim?s music focuses mainly on the sense of places that are fantastic, imaginary, magical, and realistic, where listeners can visit, stop by, and dwell on. His music has received a number of international awards: M?tamorphoses (2000 & 2008), Regional Composition Prize at 2008 ICMC in Belfast, CIMESP (2007), Bourges (2001), ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition (2001) as well as mentions and finalists in MUSICA VIVA (2005) and MUSICA NOVA (2002 & 2005). He now lives in Berlin as an Aritist-in-Residence composer at DAAD. His research concentrates on listening and imagining in electroacoustic music and a framework based on ?acousmatic reasoning,? a listening process using both spectromorphological and semiotic listening modes, which listeners of electroacoustic music employ to ?make sense? out of the acousmatic experiences. AUSREIHE http://ausreihe.com/ AUSREIHE is an independent organization dedicated to experimental electronic/computer music, founded in Berlin, Germany 2009. NK http://www.nkprojekt.de/ NK is dedicated to Sound Art practices, situated at Elsenstr 52 in the Neuk?lln area in Berlin. Contact AUSREIHE : Daisuke Ishida info(at)ausreihe.com Recommendation for our guests : On the same day Sat 21st Nov, there is also a wonderful event HOERENSEHEN 2.0 going on in Berlinische Galerie presented by KLANGNETZ.ORG . You could check there before AUSREIHE concert begins. KLANGNETZ.ORG and AUSREIHE would like to see you in both sites. Further info about HOERENSEHEN 2.0 - http://hoerensehen.net/ From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Mon Nov 9 18:43:37 2009 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello Bugallo) Date: Mon Nov 9 18:39:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] UOC-LABoral online seminar: =?windows-1252?q?=93Digital_Culture_a?= =?windows-1252?q?nd_Entertainment=3A_New_Games_and_Players_in_Creative_In?= =?windows-1252?q?dustries=94?= Message-ID: <4AF854C9.3020507@laboralcentrodearte.org> UOC-LABoral online seminar: ?Digital Culture and Entertainment: New Games and Players in Creative Industries? from November 18th to December 16th LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial, Gij?n, Spain www.laboralcentrodearte.org LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) are organising a seminar ?Digital Culture and Entertainment: New Games and Players in Creative Industries? whose mandate is to interrelate digital art and cultural practices with the general context of digital entertainment, while also providing an overview of the most significant and innovative intersections of gaming culture, new media and technology, with a particular emphasis on digital leisure. The seminar is a new addition to the activities of Mediateca Expandida, opened this October at LABoral. The idea is to explore the exhibition and research of audiovisual projects which will then be added to the holdings of the art centre?s mediatheque. This seminar is a follow-up to the ?Innovation in Digital Art and Culture? seminar held as part of the summer courses last July. Its mission is to study gaming culture?s impact on society. That is, the aesthetics, dynamics and logics of videogames, as well as how they relate with other forms of digital entertainment and cultural expressions, including art, cinema, television and music, that are adopting new models in the relationship between the emitter and the receiver of the media-driven message. In the entertainment society, we are all players and inhabit, create and define the various levels of a massive multiplayer environment. The ?Digital Culture and Entertainment? course will take place off-site, in the virtual campus, from November 18th to December 16th with the participation of renowned international experts such as Jose Luis de Vicente, Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta, Raquel Renno, Pau Waelder. The seminars program are coordinated by Rosina G?mez-Baeza and Pau Alsina. The course will have a duration of 25 hours. On completion, participants will obtain 1 ECTS credit. Full information is available at: http://www.uoc.edu/seminarios/6/1_presentacion.html Enrolment in the course is open until November 16th, and may be formalised at: http://www.uoc.edu/seminarios/web/matricula.html?id=Identificador&idpath=61311 More information: http://www.uoc.edu/seminarios/6/1_presentacion.html http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial Los Prados, 121 33394 Gij?n (Asturias) Spain Tel: +34 985 185 577 Fax: +34 985 337 355 info@laboralcentrodearte.org http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org From gif at 220hex.org Mon Nov 9 20:58:06 2009 From: gif at 220hex.org (h220) Date: Mon Nov 9 20:57:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Piksel09 :: f[re](e){op}[en]able - 19-22 november 2009 Message-ID: <200911092058.06651.gif@220hex.org> Piksel09 :: f[re](e){op}[en]able [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Piksel09 :: festival November 19-22 2009 Piksel09 :: exhibition Nov. 20/09 - Jan. 10/10 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] We are also changing the world! - the 7th annual Piksel festival for - Electronic Art and Technological Freedom is on! - in Bergen, Norway ---> Get inspired by Exhibitions ---> Get amazed by LIVEart performances ---> Get wiser through Seminars ---> Get sustained by Workshops Biohacking, DIY Electronics, open hardware, free software, circuit bending, process art, computer vision, multitouch, noise, alternative interfaces, live animation, sound art, light installation, LED art, code poetry, VGA hacking ___________________________________________________________________ Programme: EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, Lydgalleriet -- http://piksel.no/p09/_exhibition David Elliott, Pall Thayer, Paul Klotz, Andreas Muxel, Martin Hesselmeier, Susanna Katharina Hertrich, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Michael Day, Arjan Scherpenisse, Ben Woodeson, Angie Atmadjaja, Gijs Gieskes, Carlos Tricas, Wolfgang Spahn, Thomas Gerwin, Ricardo Oliveira Nascimento,Ebru Kurbak, Fabiana Shizue, Dream Addictive, Carmen Gonz?lez, Leslie Garc?a, Arnfinn Killingtveit, Wendy Ann Mansilla, Jordi Puig PRESENTATIONS @ Bergen Kunstmuseum/Stenersen -- http://piksel.no/p09/Presentations ToonLoop, Virtual Entity, REBUNTU, The Art of Seduction OR Practical Jedi Mindtricks OR Escaping the Matrix, Microcodes, Re-ware, Milkymist, Noise & Capitalism, Open Source Software Tools for creativity, Pure Data Rhythm & Bass Machine, Gate peepin?, The Hijmans van den Bergh building installation, OHANDA ? Open Hardware and Design Alliance, Flock, _oneliner, Respirator, Py-Cessing, APODIO, Multi-Touch 360, Open Artistic Production LIVE PERFORMANCES @ Landmark, T?rnsalen & N?steBoden -- http://piksel.no/p09/live-events Action Potential, KUNST UND MUSIK MIT DEM TAGESLICHTPROJEKTOR, Noise invaders, DC12V ::Teatrino Elettrico::, Paper Cut Tales, Colour Projections, Mouth(s)? lecture(s), Mattin, d.R.e.G.S., noish_VS_automata, Souffles I, He boxed regularly and was strong and very brave and always a perfect gentleman, Psychoid, MSST, Andy Bolus, The DIY drone synthesizer, Respirator, [i/o], THENOISER VS ZERO POINT ENERGY WORKSHOPS @ N?stegate 42 & PikselHut -- http://piksel.no/p09/Workshops W.O.M. ? Workshop Osc Machine, LP Atari Punk Console, The DIY drone synthesizer, Qeve ? Free your visuals, Hackteria | bioelectronix for artists, Navalha ? handcrafted hardware/software audio performance interface, CHAOSLAB, ToonLoop Live Animation Workshop, Enhancing Pure Data Interactivity with Computer Vision (Open CV), Building simple analogue light-controlled theremins, VGA Signals: an introduction -- more info and complete programme: http://piksel.no/p09 _______________________________________________________________ Piksel09 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County Council, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Cultur Point, PNEK, BKK and OCA. OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART! -------------------------------------------------- Piksel 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. -------------------------------------------------- BLOG www.piksel.no TECH www.piksel.org WIKI www.piksel.no/pwiki IRC #piksel (irc.freenode.net) LISTS www.piksel.no/pwiki/MailingLists ----- From trebor at thing.net Mon Nov 9 21:21:14 2009 From: trebor at thing.net (Trebor Scholz) Date: Mon Nov 9 21:18:37 2009 Subject: [spectre] Conference on digital labor In-Reply-To: <4AF6D414.8040104@plymouth.ac.uk> Message-ID: THE INTERNET AS PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY CONFERENCE November 12?14 Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (New York City, USA) For three days, 100 media theorists, artists, legal scholars, activists, students, programmers, historians, and social media experts will join to re-evaluate what constitutes free labor, value, and play in an economy that is increasingly driven by the expropriation of social participation online. This event will commence a biennial series of conferences titled, ?The Politics of Digital Media.? Download program http://digitallabor.org/program Videos http://vimeo.com/user2103510/videos/sort:plays Live streaming http://streamingculture.parsons.edu/ The event is free but registration is required. http://digitallabor.org/registration Conference convener: Trebor Scholz Participants: Mark Andrejevic, Burak Arikan, Adam Arvidsson, Ayhan Aytes, Banu Bargu, Chris Barr, Michel Bauwens, Ted Byfield, Jonathan Beller, Fred Benenson, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Paolo Carpignano, Sumita Chakravarty, Heather Chaplin, Mark Cot?, Brittany Anne Chozinski, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Gabriella Coleman, Geoff Cox, Jeff Crouse, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Laura E. DeNardis, Julian Dibbell, DJ N-RON, Jesse Drew, Catherine Driscoll, Kate Eichhorn, Niva Elkin-Koren, Lauren Ellsworth, Ursula Endlicher, Laura Forlano, Christian Fuchs, Francesco Gagliardi, Alexander Galloway, Michael H. Goldhaber, David Golumbia, Ellen Goodman, Melissa Gregg, James Grimmelman, Alex Halavais, Orit Halpern, Paul Hartzog, Joseph Heathcott, Brian Holmes, Lilly Irani, Carolyn Lee Kane, Pat Kane, M. Christopher Kelty, Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott, Abigail De Kosnik, Julian K?cklich, Ferentz Lafargue, Mark Larrimore, Deborah Levitt, Local No. 12, Laura Liu, Thomas Malaby, Edward Maloney, Meredith L. McGill, Christina McPhee, Ulises Mejias, Robert Mitchell, Nick Montfort, Lisa Nakamura, Gina Neff, Luis Vincent Nunez, Timothy Pachirat, Frank Pasquale, Christiane Paul, Ben Peters, Dominic Pettman, Hector Postigo, Howard Rheingold, Alex Rivera, Martin Roberts, Judith Rodenbeck, Kenneth Rogers, Ned Rossiter, Stephanie Rothenberg, Douglas Rushkoff, Ivan Sigal, Brooke Singer, Hendrick Speck, Julia Sonnevend, Elizabeth Stark, Yuri Takhteyev, Fred Turner, McKenzie Wark, Darren Wershler, Jonathan L. Zittrain. The conference is sponsored by Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and presented in cooperation with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School for Design, Yale Information Society Project, 16 Beaver Group, The New School for Social Research, The Change You Want To See, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York University's Council for Media and Culture, and n+1 Magazine. From m at 1010.co.uk Mon Nov 9 21:31:04 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Mon Nov 9 21:31:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] _____-micro_research workshops_31//news: November 14th 2PM: Remote Control =?utf-8?b?4oCT?= a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling Message-ID: A series of working groups, events and workshops at _____-micro_research [Berlin]; an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction and experience of free software and open hardware. Calendar: November 14th 2PM: Remote Control ? a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling November 19th 8PM: Micro-residency salon with Olsen Wolf November 28th 2PM: Irrational Computing with Ralf Baecker //<----------------------------------------------- November 14th 2PM: Remote Control ? a workshop on TV programme programming with Linda Hilfling In 1932 Bertolt Brecht formulated a critique of the radio as a centralized mass media, and advocated a decentralized media structure with as many senders as receivers. Ever since, the general notion of democratic media has been, and still is, identical to people getting access to transmitting their own content. From independent grassroot TV makers to pirate radio stations or online digital platforms, the aim has been to create a perfect, democratic media structure by granting people access to the technology. Today though, with a media landscape made up of corporate internet service providers, Brecht's visions seem to have been fulfilled. However, paradoxically enough, by venture entrepreneurs capitalizing on so called architectures of participation. In this workshop we will try to go beyond the general notion of democratic media as a matter of access and instead re-examine the concept by itself. When broken apart, it raises questions around systems of organization and means of control. The workshop is on one side a conceptual framework for the discussion and exploration of participatory media production and the relation between code, content and execution, but also a 'hands-on' introduction to simple commandline video editing. We will develop TV programmes - small scripts that executes video content in different ways. At the end of the day we will turn the space into a pirate TV channel and make a collective transmission out of our TV programming efforts. Please bring video material and computer. Fee: 5 euros (includes food!) Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) ---_______ 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://julianoliver.com), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Kathrin Guenter (http://www.fotokatie.com), Alice Miceli (http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/), mikomikona http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html, Antony Hall (http://antonyhall.net), Gijs Gieskes (http://gieskes.nl/), Alexei Blinov (http://www.raylab.com), Valentina Vuksic (http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/), Dave Griffiths (http://www.pawfal.org), Marc Boon (http://www.marcboon.com), Christian Faubel, Cordula K?rber, and Ralf Schreiber (http://ralfschreiber.com/), Roman H?feli and Olsen Wolf (http://www.netpd.org), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (http://www.goto10.org), Danja Vassiliev and Gordan Savicic (http://moddr.net/) _____-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 From paul at paul-brown.com Mon Nov 9 23:46:12 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Mon Nov 9 23:48:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] CAS December Meeting - Iris Asaf - London 2 December Message-ID: <6EF6F996-FADE-42DA-8BC0-D62D2A150B35@paul-brown.com> The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce that our final presentation for Autumn 2009 is by the architect and creativity researcher Iris Asaf. This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. Wednesday 2 December 2009 7:00 for 7:30pm == !Please note the later start! Birkbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive Title: Uncertainty and The Algorithmic Conceptualization of The Design Process: The Quest for Novelty and Creativity in Architectural Design Speaker: Iris Asaf The creative process has always constituted an essential mechanism: that of an uncertain exploration, the development of premeditation to envision something that has not yet been made, or that may surprisingly appear. Interestingly, this relation between creativity and unpredictability has been especially prevalent with the enhanced use of generative systems in architectural design. The presentation will discuss the way in which various approaches to generative systems in design set the stage where the architectural design process can be viewed as an uncertain quest of potentialities. In this quest, design is a way of algorithmically thinking and conceptualizing ideas, and the potential for creativity lies within the dialogue between what has been algorithmically defined and what has surprisingly emerged. Iris Asaf is an architect and a PhD candidate at the Bartlett Graduate School, University College London. Her doctoral work focuses on developing a critical theoretical perspective on the use of computerized form-generation tools (or generative systems) in relation to creativity in design. She is also interested in the cultural and conceptual transformations of the design process as a result of the developments of information technologies and evolutionary tools. She has practiced as an architect and taught theory courses in Architecture, and she holds a B.Arch (Cum Laude) and an MSc (First Class Honours) in Architecture from the Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently teaching on the Bartlett Graduate School's MSc in Adaptive Architecture and Computation. Iris has also been the recipient of numerous international grants and awards in design and research, such as The Gertrude Award for research excellence and UCL's ORS and GSRS Research Awards. On behalf of the CAS management committee I would like to wish all our members and friends the greatest good fortune for the coming New Year. CAS Spring 2010 Programme ? provisional Please note that our first meeting for Spring 2010 will be on 3 February at the BCS as part of the Birkbeck/V&A Digital Arts Histories meetings. 3 February - Ideas Before Their Time ? at BCS 9:15-5:00 followed by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 6:00 4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A 2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 6 April - Tina Gonsalves ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 4 May - visit to Goldsmith?s College Maths & Art Archive organised by Janis Jefferies 14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics 14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From consumercitizen at informal.org.uk Tue Nov 10 08:32:17 2009 From: consumercitizen at informal.org.uk (Julian Priest) Date: Tue Nov 10 08:33:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] Slowflow 2010 Message-ID: <4AF91701.1050004@informal.org.uk> Call for participation: Slowflow 2010 is the second in a series of trips down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand and takes place between Jan 21st and Jan 31st 2010. Slowflow invites artists, technologists and environmentalists on a 10 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia K?rero. Part self propelled residency, part un-conference, part expedition - Slowflow provides an opportunity for discussing and reflecting on culture technology and the environment. Output from Slowflow will be collected for an exhibition at the Greenbench. Last year's works will be presented during Feb 2010. read more here: http://greenbench.org/project/slowflow/2010 From consumercitizen at informal.org.uk Tue Nov 10 08:32:51 2009 From: consumercitizen at informal.org.uk (Julian Priest) Date: Tue Nov 10 08:33:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] Slowflow 2010 Message-ID: <4AF91723.10706@informal.org.uk> Call for participation: Slowflow 2010 is the second in a series of trips down the Whanganui River, Aotearoa/New Zealand and takes place between Jan 21st and Jan 31st 2010. Slowflow invites artists, technologists and environmentalists on a 10 day journey down the Whanganui River by double hulled 22 person waka haurua (canoe) and bicycle, creating a setting for a flow of conversations - Te Ia K?rero. Part self propelled residency, part un-conference, part expedition - Slowflow provides an opportunity for discussing and reflecting on culture technology and the environment. Output from Slowflow will be collected for an exhibition at the Greenbench. Last year's works will be presented during Feb 2010. read more here: http://greenbench.org/project/slowflow/2010 From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Nov 10 15:29:17 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Nov 10 15:29:43 2009 Subject: [spectre] Review of Horse Bazaar's Digital Fringe, Melbourne 2009. In-Reply-To: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> References: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4AF978BD.3050200@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Review of Horse Bazaar's Digital Fringe, Melbourne 2009. By Angela Ferraiolo. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=365 "Every year as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 23rd - October 11th), a group of Australian media artists known as Horse Bazaar produces Digital Fringe. This is a nonstop digital playlist of short form video, sound, and images, some of it made by artists, some of it not, uploaded to the Digital Fringe website from around the world. Once individual entries are catalogued, the work is assembled into feeds and DVDs, and then streamed or delivered to a network of public and private locations. As expected, the festival's general stream is sent to museums and galleries but, in an effort to commandeer every available space, Horse Bazaar also sends Digital Fringe to bars, cafes, public squares, libraries, restaurants, and pretty much any other location that will allow them in." Angela Ferraiolo is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York. -----------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. 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/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From tjebbe at imaginarymuseum.org Wed Nov 11 09:28:53 2009 From: tjebbe at imaginarymuseum.org (Tjebbe van Tijen) Date: Wed Nov 11 09:29:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] Songs and samizdat made the Wall fall: Europe Against the Current September 1989 revisited Message-ID: I think this looking back at the years 1985-1989 from the perspective an initiative of the end of the eighties "Europe Against The Current" is relevant for this list and its non-territorial notion of 'Deep Europe'. In this posting I just give four opening paragraphs of what is an illustrated and deeply documented text on my blog.. The Limping Messenger (my guess is that there is sufficient positive balance here between the "haunting spectre of Europe" and possible "self promotion") so the full text is here: http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/songs-and-samizdat- made-the-wall-fall-europe-against-the-current-september-1989-revisited/ tjebbe ======== Songs and samizdat made the Wall fall: Europe Against the Current September 1989 revisited November 9, 2009 by Tjebbe van Tijen In mainstream news papers and television the decade-commemoration- machinery for The Fall Of The Berlin Wall in November 1989 is running at full speed now. So this is the right moment to recall the ?against the current? history of those days ? just before from 1985 till summer 1989 ? when mainstream media and commentators had no clue yet, of the sudden change in the political configuration of Europe, that would have its now official apotheose at last in November 1989. It was citizen dissidence that made not only the Berlin Wall fall, but also leveled the walls of nine state communist buildings (though, failing to dig out the deeper authoritarian fundaments). Thirty years of heavy Cold War propaganda bombardment of party-regime edifices in the eastern parts of Europe did not accomplish, what in the end could only be done by the inhabitants, the citizens, themselves. Some did it by writing and self publishing, others by distributing and reading, playing, dancing and singing, thus exposing the internal contradictions of systems reigning in the name and interest of all people, while excluding most of them from participation. The counter- culture movements in Eastern Europe have been instrumental in hastening the erosion process of state-socialism, this to such an extent that the walls of these bureaucratic paradises crumbled at the sound of these ?horns of Jericho?. It was in Hungary and Czechoslovakia that the first fissures appeared, and soon it were the East Germans, hopping trains, buses and their Trabants to hurriedly climb the fences of embassies in Prague, or to simply do a country hike and walk out across the Hungarian Austrian border where ? for a short while ? barbed wire was cut and watch towers were unmanned. DDR citizens not tearing down walls but ?voting with their feet.? [] Earlier in 1989 the iron curtain ? however rusty ? was still in place, the great divide between Western and Eastern Europe. Block- thinking was predominant: First World (capitalist), Second World (socialist) and Third World (poor and revolting). A long curving line from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean split Europe, separated it physical in two opposing political systems. Europe was a plural word at that time. The geographical Europe as could be found in atlases and maps reaching till the Urals, and two socio-political Europes: Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Culturally speaking, that what was East of that fenced line was considered by the Westsiders NOT even part of their idea of Europe (something like the actual perception of Turkey as something that should not be part of the EEC). In the end all this bickering over meaning of pseudo geographic entities has long be understood by the United Nations personnel as can be read in a report of the UN commission on toponymic issues that had to make an assessment for ?A Subdivision of Europe into Larger Regions by Cultural Criteria? and concluded: ?every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct.? The report ? using shady diplomatic language ? comes up with the conclusion that the notion of ?East Europe? based on the Russian Empire from the 16th to the 20th century and the Soviet period from 1917 to 1992 and its sphere of influence is over now and the traditional idea of ?Central Europe? can once more be established. I can not find the promised maps of this commission and when one does only a quick check anybody can see that more than one mapping of the idea of Central Europe exists. [] It is hard to imagine now, but it needs to be recalled how deeply entrenched the divide was then, on all levels. There had been popular risings in Eastern Europe, starting in East-Berlin in 1953 and ending in Gdansk in 1980, with the Hungarian Revolt in 1956 and Czech Spring of 1968 as moments where the iron curtain was torn aside a bit, but soon after repaired by Soviet and Warsaw Pact occupying forces with their tanks. There was no end in view of the ?entente? between the power blocks that kept each other in a forced embrace of mutual deterrence, based on their nuclear weapon arsenals. This military vision also translated into the cultural realm with the monolithic view of the Eastern European block as one total oppressive political unit with a only a few courageous dissidents, martyrs for the cause of a Western type of ?freedom?, for the rest just masses of indoctrinated communist obeyers. [] Those who looked beyond this Cold War imago knew that the rule and control in each of the countries ? messed together in the notion of ?Eastern Europe? ? had its own particularities, its own time line of periods of openness and repression. Those who were knowledgeable had observed that ? in each country in a different way and at different moments - in certain official recognized cultural areas some forms of less restricted activities and expressions were possible, like jazz festivals, cinema and theatre experiments, international scientific meetings, certain publishing activities, and cultural centers managed by youth associations or students. Those from ?the West? who went through the curtain and made the effort to go beyond the controlled itineraries could also discover a whole network that could rightly be labeled a ?cultural underground?, or as it was called in Czech society of that time, not ?underground? or ?counter culture? like in ?the West?, but ?paraleln? kultura? (parallel culture), also sometimes named ?zweiten Kultur? (second culture) like in the DDR. From bureaud at altern.org Wed Nov 11 14:17:16 2009 From: bureaud at altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Wed Nov 11 14:26:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: Water and Space: Societal, Educational and Cultural Aspects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4AFAB95C.7060603@altern.org> CALL FOR PAPERS WATER and SPACE: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects International Astronautical Congress 27th September ? 1st October 2010, Prague A joint session (E1.6.-E5.4) between the IAF Space Education and Outreach Committee and the IAA Commission VI and co-sponsored by ITACCUS on the topic "Water and Space: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects" will be hold during the International Astronautical Congress that will take place in Prague in 2010 Inter-disciplinary in nature, it will explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are related to space. Nearly 71% of the Earth constitutes water. Recently water has been found on other celestial bodies (Moon, Mars). Yet, the world faces serious issues related to water: not only its general availability and management, but also in the context of global warming as well as in the pollution of rivers, lakes and oceans. Space systems are employed in monitoring such aspects as ocean currents and salinity, the decline of the Arctic ice coverage, and the location and size of shoals of fish. Water management often relies on the use of space systems for scientific study as well as for remote operation of pump stations. Water and its resources management affects societies that depend on it for a living as well as for survival, not to mention the destruction of other life forms. Access to water is often a matter of serious political and economic implications. Water associated disasters such as floods and tsunamis are coming to rely heavily on space systems for time critical response and management. Climate change modelling requires a good understanding of hydrological science and this too is helped by the data provided by space systems. In this inter-disciplinary session we wish to explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are tied to space. Possible topics include: political and economic issues; how the crises affecting our oceans impact on society; how the discoveries of water on the Moon and Mars is opening up not only new knowledge but also may impact both the human condition on earth and human space exploration; the way the arts, popular culture and entertainment engage with cultural issues around water, remote sensing coordination and public access; water management; educational programmes relating to water from space and water in space. Chairs Annick Bureaud ITACCUS ? FRANCE Bijal Thakore Space Generation Advisory Council ? UNITED KINGDOM Lyn Wigbels American Astronautical Society (AAS) ? UNITED STATES Rapporteur Adrian Meyer NYDT ? SOUTH AFRICA How to submit: (Please read carefully, the IAC procedures are strict) Submission of abstract must be done exclusively on www.iafastro.org. If this is your first visit on the IAF website, please register using the online registration form. We kindly remind you that all fields are mandatory. Read the pdf of the call for all details: http://www.iafastro.com/iac2010/IAC2010_CallForPapers.pdf Deadlines 5 March 2010 Deadline for submitting abstracts 22-25 March 2010 IPC Spring Meeting in Paris 26 April 2010 Official notification to authors 26 April 2010 Opening of the manuscript uploading system 8 September 2010 Deadline for uploading manuscripts 10 September 2010 Deadline for uploading of presentations Important note: If your abstract has been selected, it is mandatory to upload your full manuscript presentation before the deadline to be able to participate in the session. Usefull web sites IAF : International Astronautical Federation http://www.iafastro.org IAC Prague 2010: International Astronautical Congress, Prague, 2010 http://www.iac2010.cz Pdf of the Call for Papers IAC Prague 2010 http://www.iafastro.com/iac2010/IAC2010_CallForPapers.pdf IAA: International Academy of Astronautics http://iaaweb.org/ ITACCUS: IAF Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space http://www.iafastro.org/?id=883 From hatam at drfz.de Thu Nov 12 00:13:05 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Thu Nov 12 00:52:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] Jeff Carey Presentation NK Thurs Nov 11.11.2009 Message-ID: <380-22009113112313596@M2W128.mail2web.com> This Coming Thursday Nov 11, 2009 at 8pm we are having a SuperCollider Meeting at NK. Jeff Carey will be doing a presentation about his work in SC. Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin www.myspace.com/enka52 www.nkprojekt.de The doors are open from 8:00 to 8:15 only if you come later please call me to get in. 017620626386 Best, Farah Jeff Carey is an american composer and electro-instrumentalist wich focuses on novel sound generation techniques ranging from feedback systems to non-standard synthesis. His electronic compositions are the expressions of structural possibility using composed algorithms where sound is elastic, non-linear, multi-dimensional, and part of an indivisible whole. As an electro-instrumentalist, he is dedicated to making self-built synthesis software a viable live performance instrument: no editing and no non-realtime operations. A blend of fixed-media composition and electro-instrumentalism -- his is the music of the visceral, ecstatic, and electric moment. His music has been performed at galleries and festivals in Europe and the US such as Pixilerations, NIME, High Zero, Natt Jazz, Gaudeamus Live Electronic Music Festival, Sonic Acts XI, SEAMUS, Ekko Festival, NuMusic, Borealis, The Chelsea Museum, De Appel, Gaudeamus International Music Week, and The Night of the Unexpected. Carey builds custom software instruments for musicians and has given lectures or courses on SuperCollider 3 and/or MKeys at Peabody Conservatory, Princeton, STEIM, Tisch ITP at NYU, BEK, TEKS, NoTAM, and Modulate. He has had artistic residencies at STEIM, Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF, and Harvestworks. He co-produces DNK Radio for new live electronic music on Dutch Public Radio. His work has received funding from Norsk Kulturr??d Prosjektst??tte, Nederlandse Programma Stichting, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Carey studied Audio Technology at American University (1994) and computer music at the Instituut voor Sonologie in the Koningklijk Conservatorium (2002). He is a founding member of the N-Collective. more info at http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Nov 12 13:23:18 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Nov 12 13:23:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY In-Reply-To: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> References: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4AFBFE36.40105@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY 10am-4pm, Wednesday 18th November 2009 Department of Music, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB A day of presentations, participatory workshops and informal performance around themes of urban sound, networked sound, locative media and acoustic ecology ? the relationship between living beings their environment, as mediated by sound. More info http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php Details of what will happen http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php#deets ============================== The live event is fully booked but there are still ways for you to get involved: Check out the new commission by Chris Joseph http://www.furtherfield.org/chris_joseph_soundecologies/ Upload your own sounds to the VisitorsStudio mix. If you can't be there in the flesh you can still contribute to the mix by adding your own local sound files (small 200k loops please) on an urban theme. http://visitorsstudio.org/x.html NOTE: When you upload your sounds don't forget to use the keyword 'urban' in the title or description so that we can find them AND IF YOU JUST CAN'T WAIT.... Please get your ears tuned in and check out some great projects highlighted by Furthernoise.org A review by Alex Young of a project that draws on the sonification of ocean current data. http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=44&iss=50 Resonant Cities Compilation by New Media Scotland reviewed by Stacey Sewell http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=216&iss=65 Idea of South an evolving Internet based sound map which allows you to hear and mix locational recordings from all over the southern hemisphere in a contrapuntal collage of sound. Roger Mills and Neil Jenkins http://www.eartrumpet.org/projects.html#ideaofsouth =============================== SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY is a partnership event funded by LCACE convened by Katharine Norman, Department of Music, City University London and Furtherfield.org From joris at v2.nl Thu Nov 12 17:32:49 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Thu Nov 12 17:33:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Origins of Innocence: Final Week Message-ID: <4AFC38B1.5090803@v2.nl> The Origins of Innocence: final week The successful exhibition "The Origins of Innocence" is entering its final week! Bernie Lubell?s interactive wooden installations are on view until Sunday 22 November at V2_. In its first weeks almost 1000 visitors came to see the fascinating artworks. After the exhibition in Rotterdam the work will return to the United States, so this is your very last chance to see this many of Bernie Lubell?s unique, poetic machines together in Europe. To give everyone a chance to see the exhibition in its last week we will stay open an extra hour every day from Tuesday 17 November through Sunday 22 November, from 12:00 to 19:00. Don?t miss this exhibition! The Origins of Innocence V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Witte de Withstraat 63 Open: Tue-Sun 12:00?19:00 Tickets ? 6.- at the door. (Children <12/students/65+/Rotterdampas: ? 3.-) http://www.v2.nl/events/the-origins-of-innocence From info at transfera.es Thu Nov 12 20:37:00 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Thu Nov 12 20:37:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV #36 Message-ID: <4AFC63DC.4030203@transfera.es> Next Friday November 13th at 21:00 PM and Saturday 14th at 9:00 AM,Transfera TV will broadcast from Madrid a special program of Audio Visual Art of one hour duration: MONOGRAPHICS: GAO SHIQIANG II RED (China, 2008) 50' 06" You can access to all the information at Transfera website: http://www.transfera.es/programa37.html Soon we will begin you to report on the Sample of Videoarte MADATAC, that will take place in Madrid between the 10 and December 12. Soon we will begin report on the Video Art Mostra MADATAC, that will take place in Madrid between the 10th and 12th of December. We hope to see you there. All the best . Transfera Staff www.transfera.es El pr?ximo viernes 13 de noviembre a las 21:00 y el s?bado 14 a la 09:00,Transfera TV emitir? desde Madrid un programa especial de Arte Audiovisual de una hora de duraci?n : MONOGRAF?AS: GAO SHIQIANG II ROJO (China, 2008) 50' 06" Pod?is acceder a toda la informaci?n en: http://www.transfera.es/programa37.html Pr?ximamente os comenzaremos a informar sobre la Muestra de Videoarte MADATAC, que tendr? lugar en Madrid entre el 10 y el 12 de diciembre. Esperamos veros por all?. Todo lo mejor. Staff www.transfera.es From info at transfera.es Thu Nov 12 20:38:20 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Thu Nov 12 20:38:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV #37 Message-ID: <4AFC642C.9020604@transfera.es> Next Friday November 13th at 21:00 PM and Saturday 14th at 9:00 AM,Transfera TV will broadcast from Madrid a special program of Audio Visual Art of one hour duration: MONOGRAPHICS: GAO SHIQIANG II RED (China, 2008) 50' 06" You can access to all the information at Transfera website: http://www.transfera.es/programa37.html Soon we will begin you to report on the Sample of Videoarte MADATAC, that will take place in Madrid between the 10 and December 12. Soon we will begin report on the Video Art Mostra MADATAC, that will take place in Madrid between the 10th and 12th of December. We hope to see you there. All the best . Transfera Staff www.transfera.es El pr?ximo viernes 13 de noviembre a las 21:00 y el s?bado 14 a la 09:00,Transfera TV emitir? desde Madrid un programa especial de Arte Audiovisual de una hora de duraci?n : MONOGRAF?AS: GAO SHIQIANG II ROJO (China, 2008) 50' 06" Pod?is acceder a toda la informaci?n en: http://www.transfera.es/programa37.html Pr?ximamente os comenzaremos a informar sobre la Muestra de Videoarte MADATAC, que tendr? lugar en Madrid entre el 10 y el 12 de diciembre. Esperamos veros por all?. Todo lo mejor. Staff www.transfera.es From e at various-euro.com Fri Nov 13 02:38:46 2009 From: e at various-euro.com (various euro) Date: Fri Nov 13 02:39:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] interfiction XVI / 2009 - playground : spielplatz Message-ID: <4AFCB8A6.1070200@various-euro.com> interfiction XVI/2009 playground : spielplatz Interdisziplin?re Workshop-Tagung f?r Kunst, Medien und Netzkulturen im Rahmen des 26. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofestes Kassel, 13. - 15. November 2009, Offener Kanal im KulturBahnhof Wir wollen ja nur spielen ? oder etwa nicht? Spiele und Spielen stehen derzeit hoch im Kurs. Und dabei geht es l?ngst nicht allein um Freizeitspa?. Doch wie steht es eigentlich um die Spielr?ume? Wer definiert die Regeln? Wer spielt mit? Welche Spielziele werden verfolgt? Wie werden Spielfelder abgesteckt und wo verlaufen ihre Grenzen? Was zeichnet Spielpl?tze aus? Wie richten wir sie ein? Kann heute prinzipiell jeder Ort zum Spielplatz werden? Die diesj?hrige interfiction-Tagung l?dt unter dem Motto playground : spielplatz dazu ein, gemeinsam alte und neue Spielpl?tze zu erkunden. In Vortr?gen, Projekt-Pr?sentationen, Workshops und Spielrunden werden Konzepte und Konstruktionen von Orten und R?umen f?r spielerische Strategien und Praktiken in digitalen und analogen Medien, Kultur und Kunst vorgestellt. Mit von der Partie sind Theoretiker/innen, Praktiker/innen und Vermittler/innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen von der Bildenden Kunst ?ber Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Architektur und Stadtplanung bis zum Game-Design, um im Rahmen der Tagung Thesen und Projekte zum Thema vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Die Runde ist er?ffnet. Faites vos jeux! Programm und Hintergrundinformationen zu interfiction: www.interfiction.org Kontakt: info@interfiction.org interfiction XVI/2009 playground : spielplatz interdisciplinary worshop conference for art, media & network cultures in the framework of 26th Documentary & Video Festival Kassel Kassel, 13th to 15th of November, 2009 ? Offener Kanal / KulturBahnhof We just want to play ? or not? Games and play are a big deal nowadays. And of course this is not about leisure only. But if so, what about the reach of play? Who defines the rules? Who takes part in the game? What are the goals? How are playing fields set up and what about their boundaries? How do playgrounds look like and what kind of equipment should they provide? Could we imagine every place, every space becoming our playground? This year's interfiction symposium is all about playground(s), game and play. In lectures, project presentations, workshops and game sessions participants from fine arts, art and media theory, cultural theory, architecture, urbanism, and game design will introduce and show concepts and constructions of spaces and places for playful strategies and practices in digital and analog media, culture and art. Together, we'll explore old and new playgrounds ? and you're invited to play with us. The game is open. Faites vos jeux! Schedule and background info at www.interfiction.org. Contact: info@interfiction.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Nov 13 09:05:17 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Nov 13 09:07:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival Message-ID: From: Fernando Llanos Subject: 10th aluCine / Toronto Latin Media Festival Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:48:24 -0500 10th aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival Nov. 12-28, 2009 http://www.alucinefestival.com/ Contemporary Mexican Art in AluCine 2009: Fernando LLANOS / Punto suspensivo? (sculpture video, talk and screnning) Tania AEDO, Memory, New Media in Mexico (talk and screening) Laura BARRON, Nostalgia (video installation) November, Thursday 12th 2009, 7:30pm Fernando Llanos y Laura Barron: Installations (part of group show) Lennox Contemporary 12 Ossington Ave. Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7 (Closing, November, Saturday 28th 2009) November Friday 13th, 7:00pm. Fernando Llanos: "Videoman" talk and screening Lennox Contemporary November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm Tania Aedo: "Memory, New Media in Mexico" (Talk and screening. Complete program bellow. Co-presented by Images Festival) CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.) Toronto, ON This year aluCine's Installations bring together Canadians and Latin-American artists. Regardless of their place of residence, they are all tightly connected and bound by the process of constant transformation when art and new technology meet. In their video projections, these artists combine classical techniques of visual representation (drawing, painting, sculpture and photography) with digital reproduction practices, creating an on-going dialogue between traditional and modern techniques. Programmers, Curators: Hugo Ares, Jorge Lozano. . Fernando Llanos studied at La Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Mexico, specializing in video. In 2000 he became interested in the relation between video and the Internet, e-mailing short works to a circle of 500 in countries such as the US, Cuba, Mexico and in Brazil. He created a website (fllanos.com) with videos lasting less than 26 seconds. Punto Suspensivo Sculpture Video: "Chamaco, my Chihuahua dog, gave me an iPhone at Christmas 2007. Since then I have been taking several daily pictures, with multiple interests and purposes. In these 20 months I have taken 13,921 iphoneographys, for this piece transferred to video and showed in a display that second to second present them for approximately four hours. The way of presenting them is through a mini-plasma that rotates 90 degrees left to right, depending on the photograph format, vertical or horizontal, highlighting with this rhythm the immediacy and excessive generation of images nowadays (2,000,000 pictures are uploaded daily on the site www.flickr.com). It shows the day to day (if you have the patience to see it completely) for over a year of an artist that has made the sharing of his privacy one of his concerns. This point is only one of the many that are suspended on the cyberspace." www.fllanos.com/puntosuspensivo Fernando Llanos, Punto suspensivo Videoman (Talk and screening). "Fernando Llanos is one of the most interesting experimental artists in contemporary Mexico. His work shifts between several territories and disciplines, including video, robotics, ciberart and performance." Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a. Videoman captures the collective subconscious precisely where culture and counterculture meet. The stage is the street, a laboratory where people make their way without noticing how they transform their environment and create new models of coexistence. The artist makes us reflect on the type of conscious which can be generated by a society where the masses obstruct, uniform and ignore but nevertheless create certain voids where the human being can flow individually - voids employed by Llanos to change both our routine and our spaces. His reflections are projected in video format in different, previously analyzed points of the city. The ephemeral and mobile nature of the project involves the public through a closed-circuit system that records the reactions to this participative action defined by its creator as "urban acupuncture". www.fllanos.com/vi_video Laura Barron, Nostalgia Laura Barron was born in Mexico. She received her undergraduate in Visual Arts at the UNAM and her Master in Visual Arts at York University. Since 1993 she has been actively producing and has exhibited en Mexico, Canada, Japan, Venezuela, and USA. Her work is a part of the following public collections: Kiyasoto Museum of Photography Art, Japan, Museo del Carmen, Mexico City, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Walter Philip's Gallery, Canada, Cultural Foundation Omnilife, Mexico City, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. In 2003 she immigrates to Toronto, the long process to adaptation to a new culture became a new focus point of her art. Nostalgia Video Installation: "Throughout my art practice I've been concerned with transforming images of existing landscapes into images of places that do not exist. My work was devoted to exploring landscape and its connection with memory. These images were my own private paradises, deeply desolate and de-populated yet functioning as a kind of antidote to the very large, sprawling and crowded city where I was raised-a place that in my mind I often imagined as some massive body of water. (This image in fact derives in part from the fact that the former Mexico-Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City, was built on small islands.) I no longer live in Mexico City, but its presence lingers within my imagination nevertheless. In keeping with my interest in creating images as alternative worlds, worlds that at once reflect actual geographical spaces and interior spaces or reflections of the unconscious mind, the work I'm presenting explores the ambivalence of the nostalgic condition, the desire to be always where one is not, and its inherent impossibility". Tania Aedo has used digital technology in her artistic practice since 1993. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema, and New Media, and the Kyoto Art Center. She have been the director of the Centro Multimedia at the Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) and currently is the director of Laboratorio Arte Alamenda, both in Mexico City. In addition, she teaches and lectures on art and new media in other national and international forums. Aedo has been recognized with several fellowships and grants, including a 1998 residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She studied Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Pl?sticas at Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico (UNAM). Her talk "Memory, New Media in Mexico" contextualizes a project intended to recuperate, and to expose Mexican new media productions. The laboratory "Arte Alameda" commissioned a group of curators-researchers to put together programs that will help to build an archeology of the new media practice in Mexico, to compile documents for the creation of an archive specifically related to new media production. This project was presented at the aperture of the first Centre for the Documentation of New Media in Mexico. The centre houses in its numerous archives the theoretical work by and about Mexican artists including the work of Pr?amo Lozada founder of the Alameda Laboratory. With the recuperation of this Memory the project has become a centre of reference for present and future generations. Screening Schedule November Friday 21th 2009, 9:00pm CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave. (In the alley south of Spadina Ave & Richmond St.) Toronto, ON Program: Origens and Technology Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa. Gregorio rocha 2003. 45:00 min. Video. (fragment) Lost Portraits: Lula Ricardo Nicolayevsky 1982-1985/2000. 00:25 min. Super-8. (fragment) Program: Otredad The American Egypt Jesse Lerner 2001. 57:00 min. 16mm. (fragment) Exotic Nippon Bruno varela 2008. 01:35. Super-8 (fragment) Program: Frontera Fronterilandia Rub?n Ortiz/Jesse Lerner 1995. 16mm. 77:00 min. (fragment) Scarlet, en Tracking Memory Amanda Guti?rrez 05:45 min. (fragment) Program: Cuerpo Golpeando la gelatina Claudia Prado 2002. 04:26 min. (fragment) Cama Ximena Cuevas 1998. 02:00 min. (fragment) Program: Movimiento/percepci?n Correr entre bejucos Bruno Varela 2006. 00:58 min. Super-8 intervenido. (fragment) Program: Mediaci?n/Consumo ?de negocios y placer Iv?n Edeza 2000. 01:39 min. (fragment) Invasi?n dom?stica Paulina del Paso 2002. 03:13 min. (fragment) Phonesex Dom?nico Cappello 2001.00:56 min. No D.R. A. Salom?n 2002. (fragment) Sound Art Curated by Manuel Rocha e Israel M Selection of audiovisual material from the sound program M?sica de c?mara (fragment) Colectivo m?sica de c?mara 1982. Video, Registro de acci?n Memorable Family Curated by Grace Quintanilla Fragment selection of some of the works from the program Daniel Reyes para presidente (fragment) Danny Reyes 2009.Documental Pan?ptico (fragment) Roberto Reyes Videoarte Revision of authors Curated by Karla Jasso and Tania Aedo Selection Sarah Minter Documentary (fragment) Andr?s Padilla y Dalia Huerta Cano Campermedia Co-presented by Images Festival: www.startright.scotiabank.com www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx www.consulmex.com From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Nov 13 10:50:51 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Fri Nov 13 10:51:37 2009 Subject: [spectre] Press release: VideoChannel launches CologneOFF V Message-ID: <20091113105051.C19682A8.C097B14D@192.168.0.3> ----------------- Press Release ---------------- Today, on 13 November 2009, VideoChannel Cologne is happy to launch CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival 2009 http://coff.newmediafest.org online starting together with its 2009 festival partners MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009 and FONLAD - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal 14 November 2009 - 03 January 2009 Earlier this year, Microwave Hong Kong invited VideoChannel to prepare two shows of video art for the 2009 festival, resulting two outstanding screening programs as a networked action ---> 1. "Memory & Identity" - a show which was in September 2009 featured on VideoChannel contributed by VisualContainer Milan and curated by Giorgio Fideli http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=278 celebrating the partnership between VideoChannel and Visual Container - public screenings between 14 November until 24 November 2009 at I/O (Input/Output) Hong Komg --> 2. "Body and Soul - 15:15:15" - a thematic presentation - one of the very rare physical manifestations of Agricola de Cologne (the encoded artist, chief curator of VideoChannel and director of CologneOFF) and an original way to launch CologneOFF V in physical space on 22 November 2009 at Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre Lecture Hall - which was made possible through the generous support by Goethe Institute Hong Kong For more info, please download the PDF - http://downloads.nmartproject.net/videoCHANNEL_microwave2009.pdf The second partner of VideoChannel in 2009 is FONLAD - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal representing the framework for the 2nd physical CologneOFF V manifestation in the two days screenings on 24 amd 25 November 2009. Read more about the festival partners on netMAXX - networked magazine MICROWAVE - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=94 FONLAD - http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=82 In December 2009, another CologneOFF manifestation is scheduled in Bristol/UK and in February 2010 in India. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Cologne OFF V Founded in 2006 by VideoChannel in the framework of [NewArtMedia ProjectNetwork]:||cologne, the experimental platform for art and new media, CologneOFF is realising in 2009 its 5th festival edition under the topic of "Taboo". According to (wikipedia) "A taboo is a strong social prohibition or ban against words, objects, actions, or discussions considered undesirable or offensive to a group, culture, society, or community. Breaking a taboo, considered objectionable, abhorrent or unacceptable by the majority in a community by in engaging in activities or not adhering to local customs usually leads to severe penalties applied by rule of law. Other common reactions by persons breaking taboos result in embarrassment, shame and are commonly considered by others as a sign of rudeness." In our Western socities "the taboo" changed its meaning profoundly and does actually not exist anymore as a dogma and an instrument of social and moral ruling, but it is replaced by a kind of individual "taboo" practiced by groups of mind-likes. In this way, people can be confronted with different types of "taboos" depending on the needs of certain social groups. The selected videos refer to this invidualization and take the artistic consequences in most different ways, whereby the digital technology offers many solutions to the artists and the viewer. It is this variety, which makes the festival program so exciting and vivid. It is up to the viewer to search and find his personal definition(s). CologneOFF V consists of 5 program sections including --> 50 shortfilms and videos in 3 international programs --> a feature of 14 German art films/videos and --> a selection of 14 One Minute Films made by the guest curator Ali Zaidi (London) and contributed by MOTIROTI London For more info about the festival and its films, please download the festival catalogue as PDF --> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf CologneOFF V can be accessed via the festival site on http://coff.newmediafest.org or directly via - http://coff05.newmediafest.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ On occasion of the CologneOFF V launch, VideoChannel is releasing online "Feature II" of German Video Art ---> http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=709 Including viideos by the German artists/directors participating in CologneOFF V. After Feature I, presenting the outstanding Cologne based video artist Johanna Reich, Feature II is offering the diversity of digital video of 15 artist/directors. Feature III, the next following focus on German video art is planned to be released in January 2010. -------------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival Hong Kong http://www.microwavefest.net FONLAD - Digital Art Festival http://www.fonlad,net ------------------------------------------------------- media partner: netMAXX - networked experience http://maxx.nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Goethe Institute Hong Kong MICROWAVE Hong Kong FONLAD Coimbra/Portugal Motiroti London/UK VisualContainer Milan/Italy ------------------------------------------------------ powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net and Media/Art/Cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org ----------------------------------------------------- info[at)nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------------- From paul at paul-brown.com Sat Nov 14 03:10:26 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Sat Nov 14 03:12:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] cfp: Computational Aesthetics 2010 Message-ID: <82AF3A4A-5353-4EF3-81DA-E941A771EA16@paul-brown.com> Call for Artworks, Performances, and Artist's Presentations You are invited to participate in the sixth annual Symposium on Computational Aesthetics that will take place in London England on 14-16 June 2010. CAe is co-located with Computer Graphics International and co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society. http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/2010/ Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic by integrating aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts. It seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour. CAe also investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning. Invited artists will be involved in the technical, artistic, and theoretical aspects of this young field. The invited artworks aim to help participants better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of delivering, and what is involved in the creative process. Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums covered by Computational Aesthetics. Specific examples include, but are not limited to: ? artworks that employ real-time visual processing; ? artworks that employ computer graphics on the web; ? 2D or 3D artworks that run on stand-alone consoles; ? virtual worlds created for the web; ? game art pieces that run on stand-alone consoles or the web; ? performances that include live computer graphics and/or live real- time visuals; and ? artist presentations, posters or screenings that explore topics related to computer graphics, modeling, and/or real-time visuals A call for papers was also issued. NOTE: Artists should submit either a paper or artwork, but not both, as the intention is to give as much coverage of the arts as possible within the limited space of the venue. Artwork Submission: Submitted artworks should be original works created in the past three years. Artworks should be stand-alone and must be self-contained and run on a computer console. Web-based work is encouraged and the venue has a wifi connection. Proposals from performing artists should be submitted as a video or DVD recording only as there is no performance area/stage available for live work at the venue. All artists should provide their own computer hardware and ancillary equipment. Submissions will be reviewed by the Arts Program international committee (the names of whom will be posted on the website) and accepted works will be included in a catalogue section of the conference proceedings which will be published by Eurographics and also appear in the Eurographics and ACM Digital Libraries. Please send proposals including: Descriptive overview (proposed catalogue entry) half page A4; images; sound samples; video; time-based works; technical specification; artist?s resume/biography and artist?s statement; a detailed listing of your technical needs, including the equipment you will provide and your space requirements; a link to a website which shows examples of the work you will be presenting. Please submit to the online portal below by the deadline of February 12, 2010. Please note: Computational Aesthetics has some funding for artist bursaries to cover the conference entrance fee, but regrets no funding is available for travel, shipping or artist fees. Artists are expecting to apply for funding from their local institutions or granting agencies. Invited artists will be sent an official letter of acceptance. Submissions should comprise of a pdf file as the descriptive overview (proposed catalogue entry) and be accompanied by a single zip archive containing all other files (maximum size 5mb). Submit via: http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_CAE09/ Arts Programme Chairs: Nick Lambert (n.lambert@bbk.ac.uk) Catherine Mason (catherine.mason@dsl.pipex.com) Arts Advisor: Stephen Boyd Davis, Head of Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 12, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 12, 2010 Camera-ready deadline: April 1, 2009 Conference Dates: June 14 - 16th, 2010 ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From tati at tatiweb.org Sun Nov 15 16:00:32 2009 From: tati at tatiweb.org (Domain Admin) Date: Sun Nov 15 16:23:11 2009 Subject: [spectre] Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge Message-ID: <758f53ca0911150700ne804755oaa6e5a5410b644c7@mail.gmail.com> Hello! Here the resultant "Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge" of the First Internacional Forum on Free culture and access to knowledge (Oct 29 to Nov 1 2009). A large coalition of organizations and individuals met at Barcelona and wrote the Charter. Please help to spread it. (Please help to spread the word) A broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators? has come together to campaign and organise for respect and the fullfilling of the rights of citizens and artists in the digital era. The action started with the celebration of a First International Forum on free culture and access to knowledge (October 29 to November 1 Barcelona) and continuous with the international launching of the "Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge". The Charter constitutes the beginning of an unprecedented offensive of civil society in defense of the fundamental rights in response to the pressure of the lobbies of the culture industry and lobbies for the privatization of education and knowledge on the national parliaments, and particularly European Parliament. Citizens of the digital era stand up to full fill the potential of the digital era in the increasing freedom, justice and rewarding for all. We invite all citizens to make this Charter theirs, spread it and practice it. We invite all the governments, multinationals and institutions urgently to listen to it, understand it and enforce it. See the Charter at: http://fcforum.net/ Download the Charter at: http://fcforum.net/files/CHARTER_short.pdf Let us know (claudia.borges@xs4all.nl) if your group would like to endorse the Charter. Mailing list to recieve further informations and news: http://list.fcforum.net/wws/subscribe/fcforum_discussion From lab_web at yahoo.com Sun Nov 15 22:14:57 2009 From: lab_web at yahoo.com (larisa blazic) Date: Sun Nov 15 22:23:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] Mezzo moderno,mezzo distrutto 18-21 November 2009 Message-ID: <270726.96240.qm@web50704.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Gillett Square Art Commissions 2009, Gillett Square, Dalston, London, N16 8JN 18-21 November 2009, 5pm-1am http://mezzodistrutto.e-w-n-s.net/ The installation will be the first major video projection to take place in Gillett Square and will be shown on a vast, custom-designed screen. The film will run continuously over the course of eight hours for four nights. It will re-mix footage of small, highly personal glimpses of streets and buildings captured by locals on their mobile phones. These 'minor' fragments will be blown up to a huge scale, inflating the personal view and giving it a new status. Blazic has collaborated with local people to create the work which portrays Dalston, and its East London surroundings, through the eyes and minds of its inhabitants. The work aims to preserve in digital form the character and spirit of the place. It will feature a medley of rows Victorian chimney stacks, where contributors remember fires burning in the 1950's; new eighteen-storey tower blocks in progress; wonky pavements, retro restaurant signage; scaffolding; familiar blue hoarding; giant cranes and eerily deserted train platforms. In isolation these elements of the built environment may seem banal but collectively they add up to something distinctive, something recognisable. Helen Omand, a contributor to the film, explains "Every day you wake to find some huge new building at the end of your street. This was our chance of having a view about these permanent changes." The installation will coincide with the London Jazz Festival programme at the Vortex Jazz Club, which includes highlights such as Mercury Music Prize-nominated Led Bib on Friday 21st November. Gig-goers will be able to view the installation from the Club and cannot fail to pass it en-route to many of Dalston's thriving night spots. The commission continues the new series of arts events in taking place in Gillett Square. Curator Emma Jones, of Hackney Co-operative Developments says "We are excited that Larisa Blazic is engaging local people in creating this new work which also serves to highlight the square as a major new, accessible cultural venue in East London." Funded by: The National Lottery through Arts Council England Hackney Council London Development Agency Contact: Simon Steven Press Office Tel: +44 (0)1843 596 194 (UK) Email: simon@simonsteven.net http://www.e-w-n-s.net http://www.ex-centric.net From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Nov 16 01:50:49 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Nov 16 01:51:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] November Issue of Furthernoise.org. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B00A1E9.5030207@furtherfield.org> November Issue of Furthernoise.org. As always we have a selection of new reviews and features for your reading and listening pleasure. Included in this, is a feature article on an innovative sound work by Aboriginal composer Rod Smith, as part of an exhibition produced in response to the Australian Governments Apology to the Indigenous population. Our audio player is again stocked with new sounds from a diverse mix of international sound artists, so sit back and enjoy the new issue of Furthernoise.org ! Furthernoise issue November 2009 http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=83 "Highs from Low Point" (feature) In this post-everything age, it?s hard to hear anything shatteringly new in the experimental ambient universe, even at the most Out-there reaches of the dronosphere. Yet there's still much to be savoured in the glut of well wrought music in this vein, among which may be numbered recent highs from Nottingham's Low Point. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=311 feature by Alan Lockett "Yapang Marruma Soundscape - Rod Smith" (feature) On February 12th 2008 the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an apology to the 'Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history' for the 'mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations [...] for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss [...] 'for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture. (excerpt). http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=315 feature by Roger Mills "Arturas Bum?teinas - Uniforms" (review) Arturas Bum?teinas is a sound and visual artist based in Lithuania. Uniforms features experimental and post-modern pieces, blended with modern electronic and glitch-based techniques. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=313 review by Alex Young "Echoes of Syros by Dempster, Heasley & Rieman" (review) Stuart Dempster and Tom Heasley have successfully expanded the capabilities of low brass instruments, once relegated to the back of the band. Together with keyboard player Erik Glick Rieman, they present a series of improvisations that exceed the boundaries of their previous work and highlight potential future explorations. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=312 review by Caleb Deupree "Peaceful Protest - Sade Sade" (review) ?D? Yellow Swans called it quits April 2008. In their 9 years together, this psych/noise duo consisting of Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindle Saloman (GMS) recorded over 50 releases, toured extensively around the World, and co-ran the Collective JYRK label/art collective. Gabriel ended up moving to Vancouver, BC to start a new label called Diadem Discogs with his wife and music collaborator Aja Rose. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=314 review by Derek Morton "The sincerest form of derivation" (review) Remora's Derivative is a guitar ambient album with a more aggressive edge than other drone guitar groups like Stars of the Lid or Mirror, retaining enough skronk to remove any artificial polish and give the work the immediacy of a laid-back live performance in his living room, and enough melodicism to prevent the work from becoming a noise fest. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=309 review by Caleb Deupree Roger Mills Editor, Furthernoise From turbulence at turbulence.org Tue Nov 10 17:24:06 2009 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Nov 16 08:17:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Turbulence Spotlight: "One Text, Many Stories" by Annette Weintraub Message-ID: <003701ca6222$3b917900$b2b46b00$@org> Turbulence Spotlight: "One Text, Many Stories -- URBAN MEMORY LOSS: a Nightmare of Change in which Time is Inscribed in Space -or How a Text Became a Story" by Annette Weintraub http://turbulence.org/spotlight/onetext [To View: Reset the zoom on your browser to 100% and turn off text zoom. Optimized for Firefox 3.xx, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3, and Internet Explorer 8] "One Text, Many Stories" is an exploration of reading, and of how the visual context and process of reading influences interpretation. An original text composed of nine short passages describes an urban space reconstituted in memory, and is interspersed with short extracts from Michael de Certeau's "The Practice of Everyday Life" and "The Production of Space" by Henri Lefebre. Taken together, the passages are a construction of 'the city' as a fluid mental map of elements that are shuffled and rearranged. Inspired by the css Zen Garden (http://www.csszengarden.com/) use of CSS to separate structure and appearance, each page redisplays and reconfigures the primary text. Through this alteration, the text undergoes shifts in meaning and narrative arc. BIOGRAPHY Annette Weintraub is a media artist whose projects embed layered narratives within a variety of architectural constructs. Her work is an investigation of architecture as visual language, and focuses on the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. She creates projects that integrate elements of narrative, film and architecture within a conceptual representation of space. She is now working with hybrid constructs of 2D and 3D in order to explore modes of spatial representation and the subjective experience of physical space. Weintraub's projects have been shown at venues that include: The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; The International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires; 5th Salon de Arte in Cuba; File in Brazil; Video Biennal Israel; The 5th Biennial of Media and Architecture in Graz Austria; The Whitney Biennial; The International Center for Photography/ICP; The First Chiang Mai New Media Art Festival; The International Film Festival Rotterdam; Thirteen/WNET TV's Reel New York.Web; Viper in Switzerland; at SIGGRAPH and ISEA and numerous other national and international exhibitions. Commissions include The Rushlikon Centre for Global Dialogue, CEPA and Turbulence. She is Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at The City College of New York, CUNY. For more Turbulence Spotlights, please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Fri Nov 13 16:08:05 2009 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Mon Nov 16 08:17:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-15?q?newsletter=3A_workshop_solarroboter_pr?= =?iso-8859-15?q?=E4sentation?= Message-ID: <4AFD845D.CA9C.00AE.0@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu folgender Veranstaltung einladen | We would like to invite you to the following event * K?nstliche Insekten, singende ?ste und andere Solarwesen * Pr?sentation der Ergebnisse des Solarroboterworkshops mit Ralf Schreiber Sonntag, 15. November 2009, 17 Uhr In diesem Workshop k?nnen unterschiedliche (einfache) Solarroboter gebaut werden. Diese f?hren kleinste Bewegungen aus oder erzeugen leise, naturnahe T?ne. Am Ende der beiden Workshoptage werden wir die Kreaturen in der freien Natur - in B?umen und Buschwerk - aussetzen und beobachten. Kontakt: Nanna L?th, Medien(Kunst)P?dagogik, Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst, vermittlung-erh@web.de ***************sorry! no English version available***************************** 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 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Nov 16 09:15:26 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (media/art/cologne) Date: Mon Nov 16 09:15:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] Taboo! Taboo? - CologneOFF V launched Message-ID: <20091116091526.B46631C6.FDE194E3@192.168.0.3> Taboo! Taboo? CologneOFFV - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival was launched on 13 November 2009 online! The 5th edition of CologneOFF stands under the thematic aspect of "Taboo", going down to the question of whether "taboo" lost its relevance in the contemporary societies as an instrument of moral and social ruling or not at all. The selected festival films spotlight that each one in different ways motivating the viewer to reflect and find individual definitions. Founded in 2006 by VideoChannel Cologne, CologneOFF is a new type of film and video festival taking place simultaneously online and in physical space via cooperating festival partners. Focussed on art forms of film and video , and differently than other festivals, the launch does not represent the temporary presentation for two or more days, also not the end of the festival, but its start. In this way, the previous festival editions are also still active, while once a year in autumn a new festival edition enters the stage. In 2009, CologneOFF V starts together with Microwave - New Media Arts Festival Hong-Kong - 13 Nov-11 Dec 2009 and Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal - 14 Nov '09 - 03 Jan '10 the two first festival partners in a series of physical manifestations in 2009 and 2010. CologneOFF V contains of 5 festival programs including 50 films in 3 international sections, 14 art videos from Germany and 14 One Minute Films selected by the guest curator Ali Zaidi (Motiroti/London). The festival catalogue is available as PDF for free download http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf CologneOFF V is featuring films by following artists/directors 1. Karlos Alastruey - Ascan Breuer - Marita Contreras - Jym Davis - Frank Gatti Heidi Kumao - Les Riches Dounaniers - Alex Lora - Ulf Kristiansen - Casey McKee Marianna and Daniel O?Reilly - Soumendra Padhi - Margarida Paiva - Erika Yeomans Ioannis Roumeliotis - Boris Sribar - Alysse Stepanian - Masha Yozefpolsky - Ran Slavin 2 Renata Padovan - Lily & Honglei - Holly Rodricks - Arzu Ozkal Telhan - Sinasi G?nes Daniel Castillo & Carolina Padilla - Milica Rakic - Haim Ben Shitrit - Lin Fanguso Sonja Vuk - Arthur Tuoto - Joaquin Palencia . Roland Wegerer - My Name is Scot Fumiko Matsuyama - Vladimir Mitrev - Carmen Lansberg - Jill Sigman - Isvan Rusvai 3. Jamie M. Waelchli - Bill Domonkos - Fabio Scacchioli - Pekka Ruuska - Roland Fuhrmann Luana Visciglia - Valerie Garlick - Iona Pelovska - Carla Della Beffa - Rafael - Chis Coleman Anna FC Smith - Virginie Foloppe - Priscilla Pomeroy - Julio Orta - Silvana Dunat - Aryn Zev Nuria Fragoso 4. Philip Matousek - Anna Porzelt - Amorea Cosmalion - Jonas Ungar - Dina Boswank Nilg?n Serbest & Tobias Kurtz - Sibylle Trickes - Susanne Wiegner - Maya Schweizer Amit Epstein - Anna Hirschmann - Johanna Reich - Sarah Adetola 5. Shobna Gulaty - Hetain Patel - Nikesh Shukla - Nitin Das - Nila Madhab Panda - Ali Zaidi Abhilash V. - Roshaan Khattak - Monika Dutta - Sukanya Ghosh - Vishwajyoti Ghosh Shazieh Gorji - Syed Ali Nasir - Sehban Zaidi ----------------------------------------------- CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival can be accessed via the festival site http://coff.newmediafest.org or directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org CologneOFF is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany ---------------------------------------------- info(at)nmartproject.net From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Nov 16 11:12:28 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Nov 16 11:12:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B01258C.5030106@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009 http://netarts.org/2009/grand_prize_2009.html Netarts.org (aka Art on the Net) run by the Art on the Net steering committee and the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others', to remix existing media. Providing a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Designed so anyone in the world can access it from a 56k modem. Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors. http://www.visitorsstudio.org About Furtherfield - Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org From ober at emdash.org Mon Nov 16 12:04:24 2009 From: ober at emdash.org (oberlist mailing list) Date: Mon Nov 16 12:24:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] CHIOSC project exhibition, VN Gallery, Zagreb Message-ID: <49372.93.136.27.166.1258369464.squirrel@mail.d-a-s-h.org> -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Oberlist] HR* evnt: CHIOSC project exhibition, VN Gallery, Zagreb From: "Vladimir US" Date: Mon, November 16, 2009 12:03 To: oberlist@idash.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- scroll down for English --- RO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Proiectul CHIOSC punct de informare cultural - platforma publica de manifestare - vernisajul expozitiei Proiectul CHIOSC - Bors Party 17 noiembrie, 2009, ora 20:00 Galeria VN str. Ilica 163a Zagreb, Croatia curatori - Vladimir US / Slobodne Veze proiect realizat de Asociatia Oberliht http://www.oberliht.org.md/chiosc.html contact: info(la)oberliht.org.md Marti, 17 noiembrie 2009, Asociatia Oberliht din Chisinau si Asociatia Slobodne Veze din Zagreb va invita la vernisajul expozitiei Proiectul CHIOSC. Acest eveniment va fi urmat de actiunea Bors Party. Va asteptam pe toti incepind cu ora 20:00! Expozitia va fi deschisa pina la 1 decembrie, 2009. In anul 2008 a inceput colaborarea intre Asociatia Slobodne veze si Asociatia Oberliht in cadrul unui proiect de interventii artistice in spatiul public din Chisinau. Proiectul INTERVENTII3 a implicat peste 30 participanti din citeva tari europene care au fost invitati sa reflecte asupra proceselor ce influenteaza spatiul public al Chisinaului, structura vizuala a orasului, memoria si experienta vietii cotidiene a locuitorilor lui. Colaborarea a continuat in 2009 cind a fost lansat proiectul CHIOSC, platforma publica de manifestare si punct de informare cultural. CHIOSC-ul este reprezentat printr-o unitate arhitecturala de proportii mici cu denumirea de APARTAMENT DESCHIS realizata de Stefan Rusu si instalata in centrul orasului Chisinau. In lipsa unui suport de dezvoltare institutionala pentru arta contemporana CHIOSC-ul apare ca o reactie la un context foarte concret si in calitate de o alternativa la sistemul autosuficient si ideologizat al institutiilor culturale existente. Din perspectiva unei logici al micro-dispozitivelor propuse de Deleuze (dispositif micrologique), proiectul umple una din nisele libere in zona culturii contemporane din Moldova. In vara anului 2009 a fost lansat proiectul de resedinte artistice drept parte a proiectului CHIOSC. Acest lucru a condus diverse modalitati de cooperare si varietate de proiecte artistice colaborative. Primul artist care a luat parte la programul de resedinte a fost Tonka Malekovic a carei colaborare cu artistul moldovean Ion Fisticanu s-a regasit in proiectul Posibilitatea orasului. Reprezentind o platforma de auto-reprezentare oferita comunitatii locale, ce incurajeaza participarea civica intr-o perspectiva in care autodeterminarea inseamna sa-ti recuperezi capacitatea autonoma sau colectiva de a-ti exprima dorintele in opozitie la un sistem ce se impune prin sanctiuni si se prolifereaz?? drept unul de control, CHIOSC- ul devine astfel un instrument politic. (Natasa BODROZIC si Ivana MESTROV) ARTISTI BRESSAN Michele [RO], ESINENCU Nicoleta [MD], FISTICANU Ion [MD], ILFOVEANU Nicu [RO], MALEKOVIC Tonka [HR], NANCA Vlad [RO], NICOLAE Mircea [RO], RUSU Stefan [MD] LOCURI si SPATII Galeria VN ??? str. Ilica 163a, Zagreb, Croatia PARTENERI Revista STARE de URGENTA, Chisinau http://staredeurgenta.blogspot.com Vizura Aperta, Zagreb http://www.rhiz.eu/institution-12943-en.html Asociatia Slobodne Veze, Zagreb http://www.rhiz.eu/institution-29115-en.html Centrul de Arta Contemporana din Kiev Studio - Asociatia Tinerilor Artisti, Budapesta http://studio.c3.hu UNAgaleria, Bucuresti http://unagaleria.blogspot.com AREA Chicago http://www.areachicago.org PERSOANE de CONTACT Vladimir US director de proiect info(la)oberliht.org.md tel: + /373 22/ 286317 - - - - - - - - - - Proiectul CHIOSC, punct de informare cultural si platforma publica de manifestare a fost conceput intr-un context social-politic complex al procesului de tranzitie, intentionind sa promoveze arta contemporana si cultura tinerilor in spatiul public prin strierea si contaminarea informationala a teritoriului urban, sa incurajeze participarea activa a diverselor categorii de persoane reprezentind diferite domenii deseori marginalizate si oferindu-le o platforma de manifestare publica, sa intareasca retelele locale si cele internationale de operatori si profesionisti din domeniul culturii, sa influenteze politicile publice in vederea extinderii accesului si utilizarii mai putin restrictionate a spatiul public. Proiectul intentioneaza sa prezinte diversitatea si bogatia unor practici artistice din majoritatea tarilor care formeaza continentul european, astfel unul dintre obiective este de a invita artisti, teoreticieni, operatori culturali sa participe in activitatile CHIOSC- ului cu expozitii, ateliere, proiectii, prezentari, intalniri s. a. APARTAMENT DESCHIS/FLAT SPACE este o replica functionala a unui apartament de tip socialist, elaborat de artistul visual Stefan RUSU pentru a reprezenta identitatea proiectului CHIOSC. Punctul de plecare in elaborarea designului a fost preocuparea pentru a expune public spatiul privat al unui apartament limitat de standardele societatii socialiste. Fenomenul blocurilor sociale este unul caracteristic tarilor post-comuniste din Estul Europei si care inca domina peisajul urban si definesc identitatea spatiului public. Structura deschisa a apartamentului sugereaza idea unui modul extras dintr-un bloc de apartamente cu elementele de baza specifice societatilor aflate ??n tranzitie: fatada principala cu un balcon impachetat in termopan, camera de zi, bucataria si un grup sanitar. Balconul este elementul cheie care va functiona ca punct de informare si diseminare a informatiei cu caracter cultural, in timp ce spatiul efectiv al apartamentului expus publicului va avea un caracter multifunctional si va servi drept o platforma deschisa pentru prezentari publice si evenimente culturale. Proiectul CHIOSC cuprinde si rezultatele proiectului INTERVENTII3 care a fost realizat in 2008: http://www.oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html Proiectul CHIOSC beneficiaza de sprijinul Fundatiei Culturale Europene, Directiei Cultura al Municipiului Chisinau, Preturii sectorului Centru, Preturii sectoruluii Buiucani, Aliantei Franceze din Moldova, Institutului Cultural Roman prin Programul CANTEMIR (2008), Uniunii Latine (Biroul din Republica Moldova), Henkel Romania precum si a CEC ArtsLink, a programului Gulliver Connect si a Ministerului Culturii din Croatia. EN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The CHIOSC project cultural info-point - public platform for participation ??? opening of CHIOSC project exhibition ??? Borsch Party November 17, 2009, 8 pm VN Gallery Ilica 163a Zagreb, Croatia curators - Vladimir US / Slobodne Veze a project by Oberliht Association http://www.oberliht.org.md/chiosc.html contact: info(at)oberliht.org.md Tuesday, November 17st, 2009, Slobodne Veze Association from Zagreb and Oberliht Association from Chisinau invite you to the opening of the CHIOSC project exhibition. This event will be followed up by a Borsch Party. Everybody is welcome starting with 8 pm! The exhibition is open till December 1st, 2009. In the beginning of 2008 the collaboration between Loose Associations/ Slobodne veze and the Moldavian association Oberliht began. It was a project of artistic interventions in the public space of Chisinau, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Moldova. The project entitled INTERVENTIONS3 involved more than thirty participants from several European countries who were invited to reflect over the processes which have shaped Chisinau???s public space, its visual structure, the memory and the everyday experience of its inhabitants. The collaboration was continued in 2009 when the CHIOSC project, a platform for public participation and cultural production, was launched. CHIOSC is embodied in a small architectural unit entitled FLAT SPACE by Stefan Rusu, erected in the center of Chisinau. In view of the lack of institutional support for contemporary artistic expression, CHIOSC appears as a reaction to the given context and as an alternative to the existing selfsufficient, highly ideologized system of cultural institutions. Following Deleuze???s logic of micro- dispositive (dispositif micrologique), the project fills one of the empty niches in the area of Moldova???s contemporary culture. In the summer of 2009, the artist in residency project was initiated within the framework of the CHIOSC project. It led to many types of cooperation and a variety of collaborative artistic projects. The first artist to participate in CHIOSC???s artist in residency program was Tonka Malekovic, whose collaboration with the Moldavian artist Ion Fisticanu resulted in the project The possibility of the city. Giving the local community a platform for self-representation, CHIOSC becomes a political instrument, enabling civil empowerment in a perspective in which self-determination means recovery of an autonomous, or collective, capacity to express desires, in opposition to a system that imposes and proliferates control and sanctions. (Nata??a BODROZIC and Ivana MESTROV) ARTISTS BRESSAN Michele [RO], ESINENCU Nicoleta [MD], FISTICANU Ion [MD], ILFOVEANU Nicu [RO], MALEKOVIC Tonka [HR], NANCA Vlad [RO], NICOLAE Mircea [RO], RUSU Stefan [MD] PLACES & SPACES VN Gallery - Ilica 163a, Zagreb, Croatia PARTNERS STATE of EMERGENCY magazine, Chisinau http://staredeurgenta.blogspot.com Vizura Aperta, Zagreb http://www.rhiz.eu/institution-12943-en.html Slobodne Veze, Zagreb http://www.rhiz.eu/institution-29115-en.html Studio Young Artists Association, Budapest http://studio.c3.hu Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev UNAgaleria, Bucharest http://unagaleria.blogspot.com AREA Chicago http://www.areachicago.org CONTACT Vladimir US project director info(la)oberliht.org.md tel: + /373 22/ 286317 - - - - - - - - - - The CHIOSC project, a cultural info-point and a platform for public participation has been conceived in a complex social and political context that marks the period of transition, with the intention to promote contemporary art and youth culture in public space by contaminating the urban territory with relevant information. It is meant to encourage active participation of diverse social groups representing often marginalized or less visible domains by putting at their disposal a public platform for manifestation, to strengthen local and develop regional and international network of cultural operators and professionals, to influence the existing public policies and local authorities to extend the access to public space and allow it's less restricted usage. This project intends to present the diversity and richness of various art practices carried out in different parts of European continent, thus one of its objectives is to invite artists, theorists, cultural workers to participate in CHIOSC??s activities with exhibitions, workshops, screenings, talks etc. The FLAT SPACE/APARTAMENT DESCHIS project is a functional replica of a socialist apartment designed by Stefan RUSU commissioned to represent the identity of CHIOSC project. The point of departure for the design of the FLAT SPACE/APARTAMENT DESCHIS project was to publically display the private space of a flat limited by the standards of the socialist society, which still is a strong visual element within the contemporary urban and social landscape of East European countries. The transparency and the openness of the flat give the exposure to an architectural model extracted from the flat building that is composed from few basic elements characteristic to societies in transitions: the main fa??ade with a balcony covered with plastic windows, dining room, kitchen and bathroom. The balcony is a key element, which will function as a cultural info point and will distribute information with cultural content. The rest of the space that is exposed to the public will bear a multifunctional character and will serve as an open platform for public presentations and cultural events. The CHIOSC project includes the results of the INTERVENTIONS3 project realized in 2008: http://www.oberliht.org.md/interventii3.html The CHIOSC project receives support from the European Cultural Foundation, Cultural Department of the city of Chisinau, Center and Buiucani districts of city of Chisinau, Latin Union (Republic of Moldova office), Romanian Cultural Institute through CANTEMIR Program (2008), CEC ArtsLink, Gulliver Connect, French Alliance Moldova. Henkel Romania and Ministry of Culture of Croatia. Vladimir US CHIOSC | director de proiect http://oberliht.org.md/chiosc.html Proiectul CHIOSC este realizat cu suportul financiar al Fundatiei Culturale Europene http://www.eurocult.org -- Asociatia Tinerilor Plasticieni din Moldova "Oberliht" Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" tel/fax: + (373 22) 286317 mob: + (373) 69 171010 email: vladimir@oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list oberlist@idash.org http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist From azdelslade at gmail.com Mon Nov 16 18:47:15 2009 From: azdelslade at gmail.com (micha cardenas / azdel slade) Date: Mon Nov 16 18:47:48 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?windows-1252?q?Reality_Shifting_=96_Part_1=3A_Rezzin?= =?windows-1252?q?g_=40_=5FAugmentology_1=5BL=5D0=5BL=5D1=5F?= Message-ID: Reality Shifting ? Part 1: Rezzing ?There are many worlds and many realities in our universe. When one reality, or one world-view is superimposed on another, it is inevitable that social, economic and cultural problems arise. Hierarchies of worlds are constructs of a bygone era. Ecologies of worlds should guide us in considering our future? We can begin by designing environments that can respond to physical, environmental, or social needs. Not only the needs of human beings, but also of the organisms and elements with whom we share the Biosphere.? ? fo.am Rezzing occurs in the space in-between worlds. Rezzing happens in the moment we switch from one reality to another: where the structure of synthetic worlds is unveiled. We see these spaces appear gradually ? textures, alpha channels and audio appear in layers. Forms start as simple grey patterns that morph and evolve via emergent detail. These patterns resolve as final forms that adhere to in-game physics and flop into ?place?. Rezzing 1 from azdel slade on Vimeo. Read the rest @ Augmentology.com: http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/11/14/the-dynamics-of-rezzing-part-1/ -- micha c?rdenas / azdel slade Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org From redazione at digicult.it Tue Nov 17 10:58:16 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Tue Nov 17 10:58:44 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult Videoscenings - Plateaux Festival 2009 Message-ID: Digicult Videoscreenings: +39:Call for Italy and Visual Music Plateaux Festival, Torun - Bydgoszcz 19th-22nd of November 2009, Poland www.plateauxfestival.pl www.myspace.com/plateauxfestival Plateaux Festival is a 4-day festival, 19.-22.11.2009 in Torun and Bydgoszcz, presenting the newest and most interesting multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual art, experimental films, electronic and electro acoustic music and vj-art. This year the festival is extended to run four days and gains momentum. The carefully prepared programme will surely satisfy even the most demanding tastes. No matter the preferences everybody will find something for themselves during these intensive days. Continuing the idea from last year, every part of the festival will be of a different character. Various artists, different personalities, styles and ways of expression. What is more, many of the artists will be performing in Poland for the first time! Digicult was included in the program of the festival with 2 videoscreening, curated by Claudia D'Alonzo (+39:Call for Italy Videoscreening) and Marco Mancuso (Visual Music). The screenings will be project on the nights of Friday 20th of November and Saturday 21st of November. ---------- +39: CALL FOR ITALY VIDEOSCREENING curated by Claudia D'Alonzo The interaction between sound and moving image is the common denominator of these works, whose makers act in fields sometimes far apart. They have been invited by Digicult Video Screening for a collective confrontational opportunity to picture a fertile and multiple scenario, to find common grounds in the varied Italian electronic audiovisual production of these last years. The screening features works going from video art to animation, from graphic design to videoclips to audiovisual synaesthesy, presenting a range of approaches and methods so as to follow the different tinges of meaning around what is referred to as 'audiovisual'. The videoclip is one of the audiovisual means of telling a story. Which is what happens in "The rain" and "Spiritual Healing". "The Rain", born as a collaboration between videoartist/maker Virgilio Villoresi and the illustrator Ericailcane, use the stop motion technique to create an environment of small things, traces of a delicate tale around desire, accompanied by the sound of Lou Rhodes (Lamb). "Spiritual Healing" is another videoclip, produced by a group of graphic designers and videomakers called 47th floor, with music by Zu: a gothic voyage that reminds of Hieronymus Bosch's crazy and distorted worlds. The stop motion technique is also reinvented by the duo Elec in "Un re del mondo", taken by an installation where sequences of photographs of a mechanic being become a video whose mounting is controlled by sound, thus giving life to one only piece that constantly deviates from predictable schemes, never repeating itself. The video "Fino" by Blu (member of OkNo collective) looks like and escherian fairy tale. The illustrator uses animation to create a never-ending drawing whose shapes generate other shapes. "Waltz 57", by illustrator, web-designer and film-maker Niko Stumpo creates, instead, a link between computer graphics and animation putting up a carillon of abstract shapes that dance in a visionary, dissolved environment. Graphic design is also the easthetic reference for the video "Forming", by the group Progettoantenna. They investigate around the thin line separating creation and decay of a shape using the 3D technique: lights and shadows trace, cut and develop figures that are, at the same time, full and empty within a great liquid movement able to limit and recreate. Zimmer Frei, from Bologna, unite theatre, music, live cinema and performance under a common idiom, exploring time and its perception, a main issue in videoart. Their work, "Sodium Pentathol", is a camera-car subjective sequence-shot taken in Brussel's bypass ring. Fabio Franchino, an artist that ranges from video to generative art, presents the video "Am i Born?". A work where sound controls image thanks to a self-produced software, creating a poetic and intimate abstract path among inlaid shapes, lights, skin and body. Ogino Knauss, who have been pioneering research on the urban tissue transformations using video, vjing and live cinema, are present with "Quantize This", taken from an installation of theirs which was commissioned by Domus magazine for San Siro stadium in Milano. It is an investigation on the city of Milano using the concept of the 'number' as a sign that characterizes this city, ruling over its times of life. Urban landscape is also the main theme in a video series called City Scan, by Hfr-Lab, a multidisciplinary and experimental group. Architectural elements become audiovisual modules to be mixed and interweaved according to a practice which is half-way between graphic design and vjing. >From the livemedia scene, a work called "Infonaturae 1.0". It is a collaborative work between musician Emanuele Errante and videoartist Mattia Casalegno, where sound paths and ever-changing pixels create a morphogenesis on the brink between organic and inorganic. "Oakland", a video of group Mylicon/en, whose production is an original mix of digital abstraction and physicity, is also performative. The original TV source dissolves and is layered so as to become a flow of colours and sound. The exhibition finishes with the video "Strip Melody", by videomaker Vinz Beschi, who builds a complex score in the piece "Stripsody di Cathy Berberian" composing plugs and video fragments that use facial expressions of bewilderment along with onomathopeic comic-book sounds. Vinz Beschi realizes therefore a very original piece where voice, images, words and rhythm become elements to deconstruct and re-use. More Infos here: http://www.digicult.it/Agency/sections/curating/+39.asp --------- VISUAL MUSIC curated by Marco Mancuso A lot, and indeed almost everything, has been said about video as a means for communication and documentation but also as an instrument of perception and experimentation. It is not my intention therefore to add words to a book that has already been written. Video, compared to other "new media", differs as it has been an object of research from the depths of the last century, in an interminable excursus between technical analysis and artistic expression, between analogical networks and digital euphoria, between narrative methods and audiovisual synchronies. One of the more relevant characteristics of the video as an instrument, and its digital audio-visual arborescence that I think is worth talking about, is its indisputable capacity to transform the sensorial space that surrounds us into the object of research that characterises it. At the same time it manages to do so as a hybrid medium, capable of having different expressive methods within itself and being able to take on a predominant role in contemporary aesthetics... as well as in growing electronic mass culture. This is true in the more classical and narrative examples of what is universally recognised as video art, as well as in its more graphical derivations, glitches, synchronies and minimalisms. Video art is therefore a synthesis, a contamination, a renovation, capable of going beyond the classic expressive methods, a mirror of expression of distorted sensation of our time, an instrument used to knock down distinctions and boundaries, expressive methods and categorisations, for a unique flow of images and sounds, techniques and practices. The Visual Music fair, originally presented in the Dissonanze festival of 2006 in Rome at magnificent Theatre of Palazzo dei Congressi, takes its origin from this seed of thought, presenting itself as a complex and long path toward fruition of that process of analysis, spontaneous and unstoppable, that has characterised video and audio-visual research in most recent years. The main subject in the video "Au quart de tour" from the Belgian artist Antonin De Bemels is the body, and more particularly the dancing body or rather its spatial and temporal recomposition, obtained through various editing and processing methods. "Red Flag" by Dutch artist Bas Van Koolwijc is an abstract video, produced with software applications that were developed for the live performance FDBCK/AV. The 'flagging' seen in this video is of a digital nature entirely, but its logic is based on analogue video processing. The same logic applies to the computations by which FDBCK/AV creates a feedback control circuit between audio and video signals. >From the US collective project "Reline 2", the artists included in "Visual Music" investigate modern mythology, examine environments, play with similes between machine and body, and explode form. Through the use of custom software, unique processing methods, and envelope- pushing applications of traditional production tools, these works push technical limits and the very boundaries of style and imagination. Audiovisual works like "Data Flow" by English collective DFuse in collaboration with the musician Luisin ucl, or "Drowdown" by video artist Phoenix Perry and musician Brian Jackson, or even "E3" by Roberto Seidel and "From brown to green" by Scott Pagano and Twerk, offer an insight into the current world and it's potential future as imagined through graphic re-interpretations, biotechnology, architecture, and the environment. More narrative and cinematographic are the works by the Dutch artist Jan Van Neuen "Warning, petroleum pipeline" and "Strategie, signe et geste" by the French videomaker and musician Pierre-Yves Cruaud. In the first one, a desolate desert landscape is slowly transforming into a futuristic industrialized world. Indefinable machines are branching off into more complex mechanisms which are producing an industrial soundtrack while moving rhythmically. In the second one, a softly buzzing black field is interrupted by a light signal and a penetrating sound. In flashes at irregular intervals, we keep on catching a glimpse of an image. Each time a little more becomes visible, of what looks like a hand, a repeated movement, a gesture. Any fluent perception or clear meaning is made impossible for several minutes, but eventually things come together in a gesture: the shaking of two hands. More synesthetic and pioneristic the final works from masters like the German artist Karl Kliem and the English duo Semiconductor. In "Trioon 1" by Karl Kliem both elements of the music (by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto), an analog piano and a digital sinus wave, are represented by two overlapping visual elements: the fading sound of the piano by three abstracted octaves of a keyboard with the keys fading out just as softly as the tones fade from hearing; in the beautiful "Fbas Furniture", the music is a processed version of an Eric Satie piano piece that i did with Max-MSP. As Satie was referring his music to be like audible furniture, i thought i would do a video that worked as visual furniture. Has something of a modern campfire in black and white. "Inaudible Cities Part 1" by Semiconductor is the the first in a series of short films where cities are made up of and controlled by sound. In this episode, every detail of an urban landscape is built by the sonic pressures of an oncoming electrical storm. The very fabric of this isolated world is defined by the noises and frequencies that surround a space in another aural dimension; for "200 Nanowebbers", the artists have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor's live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano scale environment that shifts and contorts to the audio resonance. As the landscape flickers into existence by the light of trapped electron particles, substructures begin to take shape and resemble crystalline substances. More Infos here: http://www.digicult.it/Agency/sections/curating/dissonanze06.asp From louise.desrenards at free.fr Tue Nov 17 16:29:46 2009 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Tue Nov 17 16:25:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] Nov 15 -> Non-mort de Jacno Message-ID: <4B02C16A.4040001@free.fr> __________________________________________ _____________________ ________ Guy Peellaert, nous a quitt?s il y a un an jour pour jour. Impossible de ne pas le citer : http://www.guypeellaert.com/ Son Deleuze pour le symosium de criticalecret en 2002 pour V?ronique Bergen et Mehdi Belhaj Kacem http://www.criticalsecret.com/n10/VERONIQUE%20BERGEN/contenus.php (d'apr?s une photographie pr?t?e par Anne Querrien) Aristote en vampire Stagyrite (autoportrait in?dit du graphiste) http://www.criticalsecret.com/n1/peellaert/vampire.htm install? par Timoth?e Rolin in criticalsecret.com #1 1999-2000 _______________________________________________________ http://translate.google.com/# _____________________________________ ____________________ ________ __ >.>.>.>. >>>>>>>>> JACNO (3 juillet 1957, 5-6 novembre 2009) <<<<<<<<< http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1405 La revue des ressources, 8 novembre [ Mise ? jour le 15 novembre ] " L'article MORT DE JACNO du 8 novembre est devenu NON-MORT DE JACNO le 15 novembre Moins de deux semaines apr?s sa disparition, l?hommage de la Presse ? l?artiste et la communication commerciale de ses productions dans tous les sites de vente en ligne, dont la page d?accueil de amazon.fr lui ?tant exclusivement d?di?e le dimanche 15 novembre, attestent de sa popularit? incontournable. Au-del? du boycott radiophonique et t?l?visuel de son dernier album "Tant de temps", ? cause de la chanson ? l?envers "Le sport c?est d?la merde", c?est le dialogue direct des internautes avec la rengaine criminalis?e par les lobbies qui a apport? ? Jacno son succ?s critique depuis 2006. Gr?ce au clip rigoureusement iconoclaste comme la musique et son texte envoy?s sur YouTube, ce fut une tra?n?e de poudre : lors de la grande manifestation nationale contre les licenciements et la politique anti-?conomique et anti-sociale du gouvernement, qui convoqua en France plus de deux millions de personnes, le 15 mars 2009, on put voir ? Paris des pancartes au cadre noir et aux mots d?ordre ironiques plagiant les cartons du clip. Mais ce n?est pas tout, maintenant nous allons entendre l?album entier d?o? la part maudite du sport a surgi avec le don du tube (d?autant plus subtil que Jacno y pariait notoirement avec la monnaie vivante de ses addictions respectives), "Tant de temps", qu?il consid?rait musicalement comme l?un de ses meilleurs albums, sinon le meilleur... Et pour le d?fricher nous allons retourner vers ses actes Solo apr?s "Rectangle". Le paradoxe du simple (?crire sa musique comme des samples mais il n?y aura pas de remix), c?est d?ouvrir de multiples chemins. C?est dire si le titre de son dernier album supposait autant que son pass? le temps futur qu?il nous resterait ? lui consacrer... Jacno, c?est l??coute et le timbre, la connaissance des musiques d?environnement contemporaines et actuelles populaires, ? l??preuve de la sympathie avec les r?f?rences sociales, impliqu?e par leur mouvement, la diff?rence entre les oeuvres personnelles et les contributions pour d?autres selon leurs propres sensibilit?s. C?est le style de la ponctuation acoustique quand elle fait vibrer l??lectronique, quand laissant entrer le d?sir dans la machine obtuse elle d?chire une petite faille, une ?me, pour lib?rer le suppl?ment d??me. Un compositeur radical en po?te transgenre du son divertissant et des musiques critiques. Des avant-gardes dans le ruisseau ? la ritournelle de l'environnement social comme performance de renversement du r?el, et sa d?couverte posthume. Longue vie ? JACNO... (...) " La suite, faire part de l'?dito du 8 novembre, mises ? jour successives jusqu'au 16 novembre, video des chansons, iconographie, liens discographiques, information sur son inspiration musicale, environnement, liens principaux du Buzz (? nos yeux mais il y en a s?rement d'autres que nous omettons par choix, car on ne peut pas tous les mettre, ou par ignorance), etc. ici : http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1405 __ ________ ____________________ _____________________________________ Merci ? La revue des ressources et ? Robin Hunzinger d'avoir mut? une br?ve en ?dito et ainsi d'avoir permis de la d?velopper en article` http://www.larevuedesressources.org/ From m at 1010.co.uk Tue Nov 17 20:01:32 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Tue Nov 17 20:21:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] November 19th 8PM salon: Flankierende Massnahmen im Schienenersatzverkehr with Olsen Wolf Message-ID: micro research salons on the last Thursday of each month (and occasional other dates) for local and international researchers to gather to discuss common research themes and endeavour. November 19th 8PM salon: Flankierende Massnahmen im Schienenersatzverkehr with Olsen Wolf - Accompanying arrangements at rail replacement bus service - acousthesia upgrade 'Accompanying arrangements at rail replacement bus service? is a sound installation performed by a robot named ?Hyper Line Tracer?. In residency at _____-micro-research we'll be exploring an acousthesia upgrade to expose the robot into a feedback actuated orbit: The robot is carrying a radio transmitter and a microphone on its back and is surrounded by various radios, receiving the signal emitted from the robot. As the microphone is transmitting the signals coming from the radio speakers back to the radio receivers, feedback noise is generated. Hence by passing the series of radios, with their different positions and characteristics a composition of feedback noise emerges. With the applied sensitivity to sound the robot is guided by the noise created upon its own movements. In the end the robot generates and moves within its own labyrinth of noises and feedback tones. For the salon various 'Accompanying Arrangements' will be performed and examined. With drinks and conversation. Free. RSVP. http://hasa-labs.org Details: _____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119 U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl. Telephone: 3050187482. _____-micro_research is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009 http://1010.co.uk/org/salon.html From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Nov 18 08:12:20 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Nov 18 08:20:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) exh. Timelapse, National Art Museum of China, Beijing Message-ID: From: z Subject: TImelapse Opening at the National Art Museum of China, Nov. 24 2009 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:20:50 +0800 For immediate release The National Art Museum of China is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Timelapse curated by Zhang Ga. The first installment of this Chinese and Swiss media art exhibition will open on November 25, 2009, in Beijing and will travel to Biel, Switzerland, in March 2010. In the summer of 2008, the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) successfully staged Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, International New Media Art Exhibition. The exhibition showcased the latest trends in global media art development, establishing Beijing as a platform for international dialogue in the field of new media art and providing an opportunity for a Chinese audience to recognize and appreciate rich and multifaceted artistic visions of the twenty-first century. Timelapse is the result of NAMOC's continued commitment to exhibit media art. Time-lapse describes a cinematographic technique in which pictures are taken with long intervals between each frame. Time-lapse as a process of delaying or prolongation constructs an obviously accelerated artificial effect when synchronized at a twenty-four-frame-per-second playback speed, which typically creates the illusion of real-time movement in human visual perception. Time-lapse therefore manipulates an illusionary reality to achieve yet another level of syntheticity - a virtual reality as opposed to the "reality" arrived at by simulation. Time represents itself by movement, which is the continuous covering of space. In space where movement unfolds, abound the actions and happenings of distinct progression, that of heterogeneity. In time-lapse, through the drastic slowing down of speed in space, in between the delays and elongation for the finale of speediness and continuity, elasticity metamorphoses into virtuality, transcending ordinary perception of the temporal and the spatial, creating memory in a succession of variations. By metaphorically invoking photographic terminology in the spirit of Bergsonian / Deleuzian time-movement interpretation as inspiration, the exhibition Timelapse in which a dozen artists from both Switzerland and China will participate, attempts to examine the fundamental constituent of digital media: the concept of time and its embodiment in space, its evocation of passage and memory, its movement of differentiation and its state of representation in diverse formal grammars to reveal the social implications of the fast in the disguise of the slow, the multiplicity in temporality, and disparity in spatiality, both psychologically and geographically. The exhibition scrutinizes the nuances and ramifications of cultural being within the disparate frameworks of time in distance and space in locality, and the potential collapse of a time-space duality. Participating artists: Peter Aerschmann, Cao Fei, Chen Shaoxiong, Arthur Clay, Herv? Graumann, Alexander Hahn, Hu Jieming, Jin Jiangbo, Timo Loosli, Qiu Zhijie, Valentina Vuksic, Zhang Peili, Daniel Werder The exhibition is a project of NAMOC's Media Art China 2009, co-organized by the National Art Museum of China and CentrePasquArt (Biel Contemporary Art Museum) in Switzerland, and in partnership with Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, as part of the exchange and cooperation program "Swiss Chinese Cultural Explorations" , which aims to support a rapprochement between the two countries on a cultural level, placing importance on establishing long-term relationships between artists and institutions from Switzerland and China. The exhibition is also supported by Presence Switzerland and Swissnex Shanghai, Switzerlands's Outpost for Science, Technology and Culture in China. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China November 25, 2009 - December 19, 2009 CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland March 28, 2010 - May 30, 2010 Catalogue designed by: Project Projects, New York From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Nov 18 09:02:41 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (media/art/cologne) Date: Wed Nov 18 09:03:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091118090241.C052089.3530CAB2@192.168.0.3> CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival -------------------------------------- After the Cologne OFF V launch on 13 November 2009, VAD - Video Art Database will feature during the coming weeks each day another CologneOFF festival film in a random manner just for one day, until the festival program of 78 films is complete. The feature appears on the VAD frontpage - http://vad.nmartproject.net, there is also a permanent URL ---> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 Today's feature: "How to clean a puddle" by Roland Wegerer (Austria) Yesterdays features was: BIP by Karlos Alastruey (Spain) The entire festival can be accessed online via http://coff05.newmediafest.org The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded as PDF for free --> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf ------------------------------------------------------ VideoChannel is presenting screenings of CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival programs http://coff.newmediafest.org on MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival Hong Kong 13 Nov - 11 December 2009 and FONLAD - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal 14 Nov - 2009 - 03 January 2010 ----------------------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne. info(at)nmartproject.net From info at apo33.org Wed Nov 18 09:40:19 2009 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Wed Nov 18 09:40:51 2009 Subject: [spectre] APODIO 6-beta AVAILABLE NOW!! Message-ID: <20091118094019.15876xoz4qu5eccg@apo33.org> APODIO: A GNU/LINUX MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION APODIO is a Gnu/Linux live and installation DVD with a large collection of open source audio/video/graphic/streaming/programming software, as well as graphical utilities for making system administration as simple and intuitive as possible. It is based on Ubuntu. APODIO 6-beta AVAILABLE NOW!! APODIO NEW VERSION IS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW ON SOURCEFORGE!!!! We developed this version 6-Beta under a 3 days collective session with a team of different people from the organisations: apo33, labomedia, crealab, ping, fdl?etc. thanks to Benjamin, Olivier, JulienB, Jean-Fran?ois, Thomas, Dominique, Jenny and JulienO!!! This version is based on Ubuntu Jaunty. It follow most of the stable software available version and updates of the distribution, it have known issues from Jaunty, strange behaviour with Network gnome applet for example, also drivers for Nvidia cards and ATI are present on the dvd but need to be installed if you may want to use. There is some openGL trouble with intel graphical cards. We are still looking for solutions for those issues, please help us to improve this version 6, send us feedback and ideas. A version 7 should be released depending the Ubuntu 9.10-karmic stability or not. We will test the usability an update in January 2010. SOURCEFORGE DOWNLOAD HERE : https://sourceforge.net/projects/apodio/files/apodio-6.07-beta.iso/download thanks, Julien Ottavi for the APODIO team! http://www.apodio.org -- 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 epk at xs4all.nl Wed Nov 18 15:57:29 2009 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Wed Nov 18 16:20:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere, December 9, 14-17 hrs., De Balie, Amsterdam Message-ID: A N N O U N C E M E N T Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere Will Art Criticism Survive the Digital Age? International Seminar De Balie, Amsterdam www.debalie.nl Wednesday December 9, 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs (CET) Doors open: 13.30 Live webcast: wwwdebalie.nl/live The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. At the same time the presence of art criticism on the internet is mostly limited to the ?blog? ? a format that celebrates an impressionistic, subjective and often populistic point of view. More substantial forms of web-based criticism are still rare to be found. Broader changes in the culture could be responsible for this. In the current climate the voice of ?classical? criticism is associated with an authoritative, paternalistic tradition. In the universe of web 2.0, consumers no longer tend to accept that authority. Another effect of the internet revolution is that information about artists, artworks and exhibitions is now abundantly available online. Critics facing the challenge of covering the ever-growing number of biennials and other large-scale exhibitions all over the world, may feel tempted to stay at home and write their ?reviews? without actually visiting the exhibition they write about. According to some reports, this critical practice is become more and more common. Is there a future for serious, in-depth criticism in an internet-dominated society? Has the need for art criticism completely disappeared, or has it merely changed? Does the internet offer possibilities for serious criticism beyond the limitations of the blog? Do new media arts and net.art show us the way? Is the interactive, social networking capacity of the internet at all used in this context, or even understood? Is the web really replacing print or is this a false contradiction? How do art critics respond to these changes and challenges? Speakers: Georg Sch?llhammer, editor in chief of Springerin and curator of the Documenta 12 Magazines project. http://magazines.documenta12.de/frontend/ Regine Debatty, writer and editor of we-make-money-not-art.com. www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ Arjen Mulder, writer and media theorist. Jennifer Allen, art critic. Moderator: Maria Hlavajova (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst Utrecht) ----- Wednesday December 9, 2009, 14.00 - 17.00 hrs Doors open: 13.30 Admission free | Reservation recommended Live webcast: www.debalie.nl/live ---- Organisation: AICA Netherlands - Association Internationale des Criticques d?Arts www.aicanederland.org De Balie - Centre for Culture and Politics www.debalie.nl/media Supported by: Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Lectoraat Kunstenaarstheorie?n en de Artistieke Praktijk, Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans, Den Haag; Lectoraat Beeldende Kunst van AKV / Sint Joost / Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch; Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Metropolis M From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Nov 19 08:00:25 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Thu Nov 19 08:20:51 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091119080026.3105CFB7.31F7EE98@192.168.0.3> CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org Video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database --> Today, 19 November 2009---> "Benefits of War" by Nitin Das (India) http://vad.nmartproject.net From info at garage-g.de Thu Nov 19 09:56:02 2009 From: info at garage-g.de (carsten stabenow) Date: Thu Nov 19 10:21:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] In Between Categories / Displays for Becoming Present / Exhibiting Networking Message-ID: Discourse / Diskurs: STRUCTURES NODE 3 - In Between Categories ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Date: Fri - Sun, 20. - 22.11-2009 // Time: Fri, 20:00; Sat, 14:30; Sun, 17:00 // Freier Eintritt | Entrance free // Sprache: wenn nicht anders angegeben in englischer Sprache // Language: mainly in English if not advised differently > Day|Tag 1&2 pr?sentiert von | presented by Dock e.V. > Day|Tag 3 pr?sentiert von | presented by DISK/CTM Art and music in the media context are transdisciplinary practices that intersect in manifold ways with the visual arts, science and technology, the creative economy, Pop and other subcultures, performance and also New Music. They are oriented to processual work formats within and with networks. This simultaneously makes them translocal. Which in turn often leaves them stranded on the fence, not only in aesthetic terms but socially and politically too. At the same time, demands are raining in from all sides for creative synergies, allegedly the solution to every conceivable challenge in an increasingly complex world. This discrepancy - between the lack of public awareness of activities that have long since been around and the 'future viability' ascribed to the same or similar 'newly emerged' ideas and practices - could well be caused at root by the relative invisibility of networks and the difficulties involved in developing a profile for network cultures. Within the Urbanism discourse at least, the cityscape-role of finely networked, creative processes in constant motion and flux is now up for reappraisal. Can existing structures - be they cultural-political tools, institutions, groups or venues - resolve this contradiction and develop accordingly? Or is a new scope for activity truly opening up, one that requires new initiatives, structures and venues? ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Day 1 - 20. November 2009 20:00 Lecture ART AND MEDIA IN BERLIN - PAST PRESENT FUTURE with Andreas Broekmann (DE), Martin Howse (UK), James Wallbank (UK), Carsten Seiffarth (DE), Carsten Stabenow (DE) and others. Dock/Platform takes off from an appraisal as well as concrete visions of the protagonists for the conditions of production and presentation of art with media in Berlin. The Publication "Wegweiser Kunst und Medien in Berlin" will be presented, which has been commissioned by mikro e.V. has was edited by Andreas Broekmann and Carsten Seiffarth. The publication portraits 33 Berlin initiatives and institutions active in the field of art and media culture. Details: http://www.dock-berlin.de/?page_id=494 22:00 Sound Performance MARIO DE VEGA (Mx) A sound performance by mexican artist Mario de Vega utilizing motors, needles, aplified objects and other electronics. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Day 2 - 21. November 2009 DISPLAYS FOR BECOMING PRESENT / EXHIBITING NETWORKING Conference: DISPLAYS FOR BECOMING PRESENT / EXHIBITING NETWORKS The conference is a public brainstrom about spatial conceptualizations of artistic projects of translocal and transdisciplinary nature. The conference involving artists, architects, reaearchers, curators and theoreticians is thematically based on two threads: space and network. The conference is curated by Doreen Mende, who was awarded the Dock-Curatorial-Residency. 14:30 Part 1 Beryl Graham (Curator, Universit?t Sunderland, crumbweb.org, UK) + Agnes Meyer Brandis (Artist, DE) & Herwig Weiser (Artist, AT). Respondent: Alexander Klose (Author and Researcher, DE) 16:00 Part 2 Peter M?rtenb?ck (architect, networkedcultures.org), Peter Hanappe (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris) Respondent: Sabeth Buchmann (professor for art and theory, Vienna) 16:30 Part 3 Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, culturalspaces.in), Trebor Scholz (New School in New York, digitallabor.org) Respondent: Stefan R?mer (professor for media theory and conceptual artist) 20:00 Final Discussion With all participants. 22:00 Performance "Open Core" by Julien Maire (FR) ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Day 3 - 22. November 2009 17:00 Lecture (in German) THE TRICK LIAISON OF CONTEMPORY COMPOSITION (NEUE MUSIK) AND EXPERIMENTAL POP by Dahlia Borsche (DE) The grey zone between Contemporary Music and experimental Pop is an ideological minefield, on which both sides are armed to the teeth with prejudice and defensive attitudes and yet, for quite some time already, mutual exchange in terms of music and content has been fruitful and fun. This on-off love-hate relationship is a longstanding tradition of knee-jerk responses that put more ingenuous rapprochement on hold. But, with a little insight into the roots of these traditions, one can not only dislodge tired prejudice and diminish mistrust but also open the door to more profitable forms of cooperation, with which the grey zone could at last leave its shadowy existence behind. 18:30 Panel Discussion SOUND AND MEDIA IN BERLIN With Honor Harger (guest curator transmediale, UK), Robert Henke (Musician/artist/developer, DE, requested), Farahnaz Hatam (NK, Berlin), Gregor Hotz (Ausland, DE), Jan Rohlf (DISK/CTM, DE) and others. Chaired by: Pit Schultz (Herbstradio, DE) When people talk about 'media arts', they not infrequently mean music and artistic work with sounds. Yet what exactly is this 'music with media'? Why does it play such a major role in media arts discourse? Where does it take place? Why is never really named as such? Are the available terminologies, venues and initiatives adequate? 20:00 Screening COLORFIELD VARIATIONS 2009, 80 min. Colorfield Variations is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists and assembled by curator and sound artist Richard Chartier. Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged as a new direction in American painting in the 1950s following Abstract Expressionism, is characterized by canvases painted primarily with stripes, washes and fields of solid color. An alternate but less frequently encountered term for this style is chromatic abstraction. As the first critically acclaimed art movement to originate in the United States's capital, the Washington Color School was key to the larger Color Field movement. As a reaction to the emotional energy and gestural surfaces of Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field artists broke away from the individual mark in favor of pure color itself becoming the main content of the work. By breaking painting down to its formal and fundamental elements, the Color Field artists created pure, simplified, large-format, color-dominated fields on often monumental scale utilizing the full psychological power of color. Artists such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Larry Poons, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, and others eliminated recognizable imagery from their canvas and presented abstraction as an end in itself with each work being a cohesive image. The Color Field movement can be seen as a precursor to the themes and aesthetics of the subsequent Minimalist movement. With Works by: Steve Roden (US), Alan Callander (US), Frank Bretschneider (DE), Stephan Mathieu (DE), Sue Costabile (US) + Beequeen (NL), Tez (IT), Tina Frank + General Magic (AT), Bas van Koolwijk (NL), Chris Carter + Cosey Fanni Tutti (UK), Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Sawako (JP), E. Domnitch + D. Gelfand (RU/US), Ernest Edmonds (AU) + Mark Fell (UK) http://www.3particles.com ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Further Information: http://www.dock-berlin.de/ http://www.generalpublic.de Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Nov 20 08:51:00 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Fri Nov 20 08:51:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091120085100.9E1D0C6A.CC506A17@192.168.0.3> CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org Video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database --> Today, 20 November 2009---> "dead SEEquences" by Fabio Scacchioli (Italy) http://vad.nmartproject.net ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded as PDF for free-->> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videoChannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival on MICROWAVE - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 -------------------------------------------- The entire festival consisting of 5 programs including 78 films and videos can be accessed online via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From image.science at donau-uni.ac.at Fri Nov 20 17:17:02 2009 From: image.science at donau-uni.ac.at (Image Science) Date: Fri Nov 20 17:17:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] Database of Virtual Art : Collective Tool for the Field Message-ID: <4B06CF0E0200007D0000959E@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art (DVA) has been documenting the rapidly evolving digital installation art for more than a decade. Cooperating with known media artists, researchers and institutions as members allows the DVA to develop into the collective project in the field. There have been a number of online archives supported over the years, but almost all no longer have funding and have either disappeared or exist in a frozen condition. The DVA is beginning a renewed phase of further development with existing and new members. Based on the *concept of expanded documentation* it epitomizes a collective, *facebook-like* project dedicated to media art. 500 artists selected from over 5000 applicants offer the best selection of thousands of high quality artworks. Besides the artists, more than 300 theorists and mediaarthistorians are contributors. The DVA is a scholarly project and from the beginning a university-based endeavor. NEW FEATURES of the DVA ::: ::: Optimized upload system allowing contributors to add, revise, & cross-link information in a clear online procedure. ::: Artists can easily upload videos, as well as work descriptions, digital documents, technical data, institutions and bios. ::: This rich online resource has a systematic thesaurus built from various international keyword systems. ::: Any contributor from the field can submit to the news-ticker. www.virtualart.at Inviting a new wave of contributions to use the enhanced and improved interface. ::::::: Database of Virtual Art ::::: ADVISORY BOARD :::::: Roy ASCOTT, Beryl GRAHAM, Erkki HUHTAMO, Jorge LA FERLA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Martin ROTH, Steve WILSON http://www.virtualart.at/about/advisory-board.html PERFECT COMBINATION Beside the Database of Virtual Art - the Goettweig Print Collection (www.gssg.at) containing 30.000 original prints from Renaissance to Baroque until now, allows in-depth research into its large resources. We are glad to report that Danube University is able to provide open archives contextualizing media art in art and image history. DANUBE UNIVERSITY The Department for Image Science offers a Master of Arts program MediaArtHistories: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah The DVA is partner of: Re:Live - World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology www.mediaarthistory.org DANUBE TELELECTURES : www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Nov 20 19:11:44 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Nov 20 19:12:11 2009 Subject: [spectre] Ambient.TV's Mapping CCTV around Whitehall. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B06DBE0.7090705@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Ambient.TV's Mapping CCTV around Whitehall. Review by Rob Myers. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=366 Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. The second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras, no. 40 in Villiers street, by intercepting its signal as it was transmitted wirelessly without encryption. As passers-by entered the marked area covered by the camera, they were alerted to the its presence and handed a copy of the map of CCTV cameras in Whitehall. "Mapping CCTV around Whitehall", 2008, is, as its name implies, a performance of mapping Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras around the UK's parliament in London and a video record of that performance by Ambient.tv's Manu Luksch. Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of "Mapping CCTV In Whitehall" has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV. This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective encapsulation of the project's ideas and aesthetics. Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch codirect Ambient Information Systems (AIS), a crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools. They work as artists under their own names and also as ambientTV.NET. They have a history of conceiving works that integrate curatorial and collaborative aspects (e.g., VBI), research (FACELESS and the Data Protection Act), community involvement (BOW SPACE), and hybrid media installations (ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY). Of particular interest are concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, privacy, surveillance. The establishment of participative processes, creation of tools, and archiving and documentation are signal features of recent projects. -----------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. 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/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Sat Nov 21 18:19:50 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Sat Nov 21 18:20:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] Leonardo Education Forum@ Re:live in Melbourne Message-ID: <4B082F460200003C0002A902@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) will run a one day forum on the 26th November 2009 prior to the media art history conference Re:live.The LEF@Re:live will be focused on mapping the terrain: Institutional capacities in media art, science and technology creating an exchange on the burning current issues in education. The LEF intend to publish policy papers in the course of the next few years. Contributions by participants of LEF conferences in 2008 form the base of our introductory LEF Strategic Summary document available for comment at http://mass.nomad.net.au/leonardo-education-forum-strategy-summary-on-media-art-education/ The Forum will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, 234 St Kilda Road, SOUTHBANK Victoria 3000 Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne Campus Map 2009 We are delighted to report that the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) continues its successful international education event-initiative and correspondingly we hope you can join us at the public sessions scheduled at the forthcoming Media Art History Conference Re:live 09. If you are interested in attending the Leonardo Education Forum workshop, which is carrying on from the excellent work done at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Belfast and Ars Electronica towards the further development of an educational policy paper, please contact us. 10 00 am Welcome Su Baker, Associate Professor Art, Head of School, Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair, Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University and Dr Paul Thomas, Australian representative for LEF, Co chair Media Art History Conference, Re:live 09, Director Centre for Research in Art Science and Humanity Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. 10.10 am Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair presents LEF international initiatives & Policy Papers 10.30 am Dr Paul Thomas and Jeremy Blank will report on the Australian national media art scoping study. 11.00 am Reports from delegates on LEF@ISEA - Ars on the three themes 11.15 am Professor Oliver Grau,, Chair for Image Science, Head Department for Cultural Studies DANUBE UNIVERSITY, Krems, AUSTRIA 11.30 am Professor Ross Harley, Head of School, Media Arts, Acting Associate Dean Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia 11.45 am Professor Ian M Clothier, Faculty of Art, Commerce and Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand, Director: Intercreate.org, SCANZ2006 & 2009 12 pm lunch 1.30 - 3.00 pm Working groups focus: 1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology 2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain 3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / OrganizationalCapacities and Benchmarks 3.00 pm summary by session chairs The Role of Research in media art & science & technology Working group leader: Oliver Grau The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain Working group leader: Ross Harley The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks Working group leader: Ian Clothier Working group co-leaders to be announced. 3.15pm - 4.30 pm Darren Tofts, Associate Professor in Media & Communications Faculty of Life & Social Sciences. Resolutions and outcomes (With refreshments.) Please feel free to circulate. Contact/Organizers: Nina Czegledy Paul Thomas p.thomas@curtin.edu.au and Julian Stadon From gcox at plymouth.ac.uk Sun Nov 22 17:13:30 2009 From: gcox at plymouth.ac.uk (geoff cox) Date: Sun Nov 22 17:13:57 2009 Subject: [spectre] Symposium, 26/11/09, Arnolfini, Bristol UK Message-ID: <4B09632A.2030902@plymouth.ac.uk> Who's Recuperating Who? Thursday 26 November, 11-6pm Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Suggested donation ?15 / ?7 (concs) Ursula Biemann, Geoff Cox, Peter Fend, Janna Graham, Nav Haq, Brian Holmes, Esther Leslie, Sebastian Lutgert, Gustav Metzger, PLATFORM, Tom Trevor As part of the Artist Activist season and 100 Days, Arnolfini invites you to Who's Recuperating Who?, a symposium that aims to explore some of the paradoxes of the artworld's interest in working with activists. This is the second Who's Recuperating Who event, the first being at the start of the eight week C Words exhibition at Arnolfini, curated by PLATFORM. This second event is intended to reflect on the artist / activist season of work at Arnolfini, as well as examine the wider relationship between art and politics. The symposium will examine critical questions that have been raised: what are the power relations between art, activism and cultural institutions? Who ultimately benefits from this relationship? What critical role can art and/or activism have in a situation where any form of critique is automatically recuperated and neutralised by the mainstream? Under these conditions, what are effective strategies of opposition? And above all ? 'What is to be done (with art)'? This day will include presentations from speakers including: influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger; artist Ursula Biemann; Peter Fend, artist and founder of Ocean Earth Development Corporation; curator Janna Graham, member of art collaboration Ultra-red; theorist and writer Brian Holmes, initiator of the seminar programme and website 'Continental Drift'; Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London; Sebastian Lutgert who will introduce his 'Oil of the 21st Century' project; and artist / activist group PLATFORM, curators of the current exhibition C Words at Arnolfini. Who's Recuperating Who? Thursday 26 November, 11-6pm 11.00 Introduction by Tom Trevor 11.10 Brian Holmes, Radical Artists and Mainstream Institutions: A Marriage Made at Increasingly Hot Temperatures 11.35 Esther Leslie, We call it Recuperation 12.00 Sebastian L?tgert, Introduction to the Oil of the 21st Century project 12.25 Janna Graham, title TBC 12.50 Panel moderated by Geoff Cox 13.30 Lunch 14.30 Film, TBC 15.00 Gustav Metzger, title TBC 15.25 Ursula Biemann, Mission Reports 15.50 Peter Fend, Action Not Activism 16.15 PLATFORM, Inside Out: the Uses of Discomfort 16.40 Break 17.00 Panel moderated by Nav Haq 18.00 Ends, followed by launch of Concept Store #2 Journal. The artist/activist season at Arnolfini includes the exhibitions: C Words curated by PLATFORM, Ocean Earth: Technology Change/Climate Stability, Beyond the Acid Free: Artist Placement Group Revisited, and Craftivism. http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/ From propaganda at goto10.org Sun Nov 22 21:23:05 2009 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Sun Nov 22 21:23:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] MAKE ART 09 - 08>13 December 2009 - Poitiers Message-ID: <20091122202305.GP31439@goto10.org> #!/bin/bash cat <<":*" | _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| 08-13 DEC | __ | | _ _| | | 2009 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| 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 8th to the 13th of December 2009. With Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes (NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni Hofm?ller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Lafor?t (FR), Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste (HU), Noyade (FR), Jean S?pulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP), Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), J?r?mie Zimmermann (FR), IOhannes M. Zm?lnig (AT), ... http://makeart.goto10.org -- make art est un festival international d?di? ? l'int?gration des Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS*) dans l'art num?rique. *FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software La quatri?me ?dition de make art - "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribu?es et ouvertes en art logiciel libre - se d?roule ? Poitiers (FR), du 8 au 13 d?cembre 2009. Avec Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes (NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni Hofm?ller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Lafor?t (FR), Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste (HU), Noyade (FR), Jean S?pulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP), Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), J?r?mie Zimmermann (FR), IOhannes M. Zm?lnig (AT), ... http://makeart.goto10.org :* ( ( echo '[-]>[-]---------->[-],[----------[>[-]++++++++++,----------]' echo '<[++++++++++.<]>++++++++++.-------------------->[-],]' ) | ( echo '#include ' echo '#include ' echo 'int main(int c, char **a){' echo 'char *makeart = calloc(2009,1);' sed -e 's/+/++*makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/-/--*makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/>/++makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/ Sunday November 29th Noon Double Blind (Love) performance on selfworld.net I will sing in the space for contemporary cr?ation the Living Room in Montpellier with Curt Cloninger who will be at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville US. We will sing blindfolded in front of a webcam a short excerpt of a pop song ? love, love, love ? one to the other for an unfixed time lapse (6 hours max.) In both places one room will be used for the life performance and another for a video projection. So you will be also very welcome in the Living Room, 5 Rue Fouques in Montpellier or in the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville. More information: http://livingroomart.wordpress.com/performance/double-blind-love/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am very happy to be able to present to you the vid?o "Squad". It's a fragment of a performance I did in Marseille during the festival Riam06. While Colette and Emmanuelle surround me with phrases on fear, I dance. http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/squad/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Coming Out of One's Bubble" Interview with Annie Abrahams and Albertine Meunier by Cyril ?Thomas had been published on Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=354 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The video of the performance Tit for Tat (subtitled in English) with Elisabeth Rolland-Thiers doctorante in cognitive experimental psychologie, and? B?n?dicte Aptel-Guiu, researcher in dermatology, is now available : http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/tit-for-tat2/ From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Mon Nov 23 21:58:59 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Mon Nov 23 22:17:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] Invitation - Prof. Martin KEMP - Lecture at the Centre for Contemporary Art= Laznia Message-ID: <4B0B05A30200003C0002AA7C@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> >> INVITATION << Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk, Poland, cordially invites You to the lecture of Prof. Martin KEMP on Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 6 p.m. Jaskolcza Street 1 80-767 Gdansk **** "Atthe Cutting Edge: Computer Graphics and Renaissance Art Techniques ofComputer Graphics and Computer Vision can be brought into very fruitfuland innovatory dialogues with certain aspects of Renaissance art,especially in th analysis and construction of space. Computer visionwill enter into dialogue with paintings by Masaccio, Uccello and Pierodella Francesca. The works of Leonardo will extend the dialogue intoareas of geometry, motion, hydrodynamics and flight. The potential isfor enhanced research and public communication" **** Martin KEMP FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. Hehas written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art andscience from the Renaissance to the present day. Books include, TheScience of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi toSeurat (Yale University Press), and The Human Animal in Western Art andScience (Chicago 2007. He has published extensively on Leonardo daVinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellousworks of nature and man (1989 and 2006). Increasingly, he hasfocused on issues of visualization, modelling and representation. Hewrites a regular column on Science in Culture in Nature (an earlyselection published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000). The Nature essaysare developed in Seen and Unseen (OUP 2006), in which his concept ofstructural intuitions is explored. He has curated andco-curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes,including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London andLeonardo da Vinci. Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria andAlbert Museum in 2006 and Seduced. Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now,Barbican Art Gallery London, 2007. He was also guest curator for Ca1492 at the National Gallery in Washington in 1992. He wastrained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University andthe Courtauld Institute, London. He was British Academy WolfsonResearch Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based inScotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews. He has held visitingposts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles and Montreal. **** For more information please contact: Kasia Wozniak Curator Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia Jaskolcza Street 1 80-767 Gdansk Tel. +48728177090 From azdelslade at gmail.com Mon Nov 23 23:33:07 2009 From: azdelslade at gmail.com (micha cardenas / azdel slade) Date: Mon Nov 23 23:33:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] SWARM the VOTE TODAY - Support Transborder Immigrant Tool In-Reply-To: <60537.68.40.68.134.1258974726.squirrel@acs-webmail.ucsd.edu> References: <60537.68.40.68.134.1258974726.squirrel@acs-webmail.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ricardo Dominguez Date: 2009/11/23 Subject: [announce] SWARM the VOTE TODAY - Support Transborder Immigrant Tool To: announce@jupiter.ucsd.edu Hola all once again, We the Chicana Coyotek Gangs (CCG), we used to be known as Electronic Disturbance Theater/bang.lab. What is your vote on our new name? Speaking of votes. CCG would like you to SWARM the VOTE TODAY. How can I do that you ask and what am I voting for? Here is the scoop - a new news story has popped-up at the OCR: November 20, 2009 9:26 AM GPS tool will help immigrants cross border BY CINDY CARCAMO The Orange County Register http://www.ocregister.com/news/border-220422-people-desert.html Lots of angry folks clicking in and voting on the poll: Transborder Immigrant Tool: Does this tool pose a threat to national security? Yes 80 % No 19 % Not sure 2 % Total Votes: 171 (Found on the bottom right of the article page). Which was a Viral Bounce from this interview: FOLLOW THE GPS, ?SE THE TRANSBORDER IMMIGRANT TOOL HELPS MEXICANS CROSS OVER SAFELY (It has lots of mistakes, that should be fixed soon). http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/follow-the-gps-225.php Now You - YES YOU! can go by and click "NO!" and make Chicana Coyotek Gangs (CCG) even richer than we are already are! So go now and do not hesitate. CLICK=ACTION! Abrazos grandes, >From Chicana Coyotek Gangs (formally known as EDT/bang.lab) http://bang.calit2.net P.S. Recent review by David Ronfeldt from the RAND about the Transborder Immigrant Tool: "fascinating. what an innovative twist." http://spinuzzi.blogspot.com/2009/11/transborder-immigrant-tool.html David Ronfeldt About Me Professional status: retired. Fields: first 20 years, U.S.-Latin American security issues (esp. Mexico, Cuba); last 15 years, worldwide implications of the information revolution (cyberocracy, cyberwar, netwar, swarming, noopolitik, the nexus-state). Goals: finish "STA" framework about how people think and act; finish "TIMN" framework about social evolution (past, present, future). Publications: mostly online at rand.org and firstmonday.org. P.P.S. The CCG has been getting a-lot-of-LUV from folks around the world even the military on the other side of the world!: A new comment on the post #2 "About This Project" is waiting for your approval http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/?page_id=2 Author : The Eagle (IP: 214.13.141.100 , host141-100.iraq.centcom.mil) E-mail : pcomey@gmail.com Whois ?: http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=214.13.141.100 Comment: It's disgusting that a group such as this exists to circumvent U.S. law. Perhaps an investigation should be initiated to determine if they can be charged with Conspiracy/Aiding and Abetting the Illegal Entry of Aliens (18 USC 2/8 USC 1325). -- Ricardo Dominguez Associate Professor Hellman Fellow Visual Arts Department, UCSD http://visarts.ucsd.edu/ Principal Investigator, CALIT2 http://calit2.net Co-Chair gallery@calit2 http://gallery.calit2.net CRCA Researcher http://crca.ucsd.edu/ Ethnic Studies Affiliate http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/ Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate http://cilas.ucsd.edu Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Board Member http://hemi.nyu.edu University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436 Phone: (619) 322-7571 e-mail: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu Project sites: site: http://gallery.calit2.net site: http://pitmm.net site: http://bang.calit2.net site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom -- micha c?rdenas / azdel slade Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, UCSD Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Nov 24 09:02:45 2009 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue Nov 24 09:07:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] Journal for Artistic Research / Call for Support Message-ID: <7827B7BC-7E46-4FAA-9748-504B545FDA42@xs4all.nl> Dag Geert, Kun/wil jij dit ook verspreiden naar de internationale nettime-lijsten? Groeten, Henk From: Henk Borgdorff Date: 23 November 2009 9:56:42 PM To: h.borgdorff@ahk.nl Subject: Journal for Artistic Research / Call for Support Dear all, Please take notice of this call for support. With the Journal of Artistic Research a major step is taken in strengthening the international infrastructure and culture for artistic research. I hope that you are willing to support this initiative. Please forward the call to your own network. (And don't forget to check the box in the Call, if you are in the position.) kind regards, Henk Borgdorff Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) Call for support: http://www.jar-online.net/call/call.html The international Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is in the making! After an initial development phase funded by Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity), Bern University of the Arts, we are now looking for individuals and institutions to get involved and to share our idea of a dedicated journal for artistic research. Already, JAR has widespread support. However, by making this call public do we hope to widen the journal's support basis before we consolidate the journal and start working on issue 0 from the beginning of next year. Now is the time to get involved! We have set up a webpage where you can find additional information and a link to the JAR draft proposal. There is also a form with which you can sign up to our mailing list. Financial support from member institutions is required for the funding of the journal; please indicate if your institution is interested in becoming a supporting member. Deadline for expressions of interest is December 31, 2009. A meeting to discuss quality criteria and peer-reviewing processes and to finalize the organizational structure will be held on March 5/6, 2010; a more detailed invitation will be emailed early January 2010. We explicitly encourage participation from a variety of practices, disciplines and sectors. The link is: http://www.jar-online.net/call/call.html Michael Schwab, Royal College of Art, London: michael.schwab@jar-online.net Florian Dombois, Bern University of the Arts: florian.dombois@jar-online.net Henk Borgdorff, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Design, Music and Dance, The Hague: henk.borgdorff@jar-online.net Please forward this email to others who might be interested. From galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr Tue Nov 24 10:52:31 2009 From: galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr (galerija galzenica) Date: Tue Nov 24 10:52:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition "Interzone : Economy" on Wednesday, November 25th Message-ID: <4B0BACDF.3080307@globalnet.hr> "Interzone : Economy" November 25th - December 25th in Galzenica Gallery (Velika Gorica, Croatia) artists: Carlos Katastrofsky (A), Lemeh42 (I), Rosana Ratkov?i? i Fedor Kritovac (HR) and Dimitry Strakovsky (USA) curators: Ivana Han?ek, Klaudio ?tefan?i? --- This is the last exhibition in this year's cycle dedicated to the influence of globalization on society. Each artist or artist group in this exhibition commented on the recent changes which have primarily occurred as a consequence of the global and liberal capitalist market and the ways in which it operates. In their short animated film the Italian video-artist duo, known as Lemeh42, make an ironic view of the business philosophy of Ikea and their global omnipresence, as well as of their practicality and economical approach to interior design. Dima Strakovsky, on the other hand, in his performance at the opening of the exhibition makes a parody of the most powerful Asian corporations by combining the stereotype of Asian spirituality with the stereotype of Asian economic efficiency. A Croatian duo Rosana Ratkovcic and Fedor Kritovac will show the results of their study of Zagreb's and Croatian crafts tradition, which has, due to economic changes, undergone some considerable changes in the last twenty years. Carlos Katastrofsky (aka Michael Kargl), a member of Vienna group Cont3xt, is, on the other hand, focuses on the critique of corporation economy present on the Internet. By means of intervening into the source code of a certain Web site, he puts an emphasis on commercialization and monopolization of the Internet. -- Pu?ko otvoreno u?ili?te Velika Gorica GALERIJA GAL?ENICA Trg Stjepana Radi?a 5 HR - 10410 Velika Gorica tel:+385 1 6221 122 / fax: 6226 740 www.galerijagalzenica.info From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Nov 24 10:57:28 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Tue Nov 24 10:58:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091124105728.34A78776.5CD70153@192.168.0.3> VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org 1) Video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database --> Today, 24 November 2009---> "Forbidden City" by Lily and Honglei (China) http://vad.nmartproject.net 2) Today, 24 November and tomorrow 25 November 2009 screenings of two CologneOFF V festival programs at TMG Gallery Guarda on Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 the screening on 24 Nov include videos by Casey McKee (USA), Alex Lora (Spain) Frank Gatti (France), Jym Davis (USA) Erika Yeomans (USA), Margarida Paiva (Portugal) Istvan Rusvai (Hungary) ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF --> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From lo_bo at ecn.org Tue Nov 24 11:13:09 2009 From: lo_bo at ecn.org (lo|bo) Date: Tue Nov 24 11:13:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] AHAcktitude 2009, Milan, Italy November 27.28.29 In-Reply-To: <587257.29437.qm@web112120.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <587257.29437.qm@web112120.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4B0BB1B5.4000302@ecn.org> AHAcktitude 2009 27-28-29th November, Milan, Italy Organised by: aha@lists.ecn.org and AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism AHAcktitude '09 is the second collective meeting for the community of the aha@ecn.org mailing list, one of the lists hosted by the historical independent server Isole Nella Rete (Islands in the Net), and at the core of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism. The idea of AHAcktitude came about from the desire of the more than 600 members of the aha@lists.ecn.org to be able to meet. For the first time after the creation of the mailing list (30th of December 2002) this happened last year in Venice at the S.A.L.E. Docks. AHAcktitude '09 is the second stop point for this path whose centre is to discuss themes like artistic, political and technological activism. The meeting will be held in Milan on the 27-28-29th of November at the Social Centre Cantiere and will be proposing to create networks, share projects and build new activist interventions for the future. By adopting the same strategy as Hackmeetings, AHAcktitude is organised and managed directly by the participants who can propose and share seminars or projects via the aha@lists.ecn.org list. AHAcktitude began as a space for dialogue and sharing, with the purpose of learning and spreading practices and knowledge in a free environment, without censorship. Everyone can use the AHAcktitude wiki to participate: it is a shared space for the presentation of projects, ideas, files, documents, music, etc. # A bit of history AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism is an artistic networking project founded in 2001 by Tatiana Bazzichelli aka T_Bazz. AHA is a networking initiative activated by contamination/integration of multiple media and events, where the common denominator is hacktivism and artistic and political activism. Activism-Hacking-Artivism focuses on artists and hacktivists in Italy and abroad that use media in an independent way, through the organisation of exhibitions, events, and collective meetings organised by T_Bazz along with other curators that change accordingly. The core of the project AHA is the community that develops in the mailing-list aha@lists.ecn.org, where AHAcktitude comes from. The mailing-list aha@lists.ecn.org is administered by Lo_Bo, Dedalus and Gionatan, and today counts more than 600 subscribers and it is the sister mailing-list of the international list Nettime. The AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism project won an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities cathegory of Prix Ars Electronica at the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz (AU) in September 2007. More info: AHAcktitude 2009: http://www.ahacktitude.org/event/2009/ Social Network: http://www.ahacktitude.org/ AHA mailing list: http://lists.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha AHA - Activism-Hacking-Artivism: http://www.ecn.org/aha/ -- [IIIII] lo|bo )"""( / \ /`-...-'\ |asprin | _ |`-...-'j _ \)`-.___.(I) _(/) email: lo_bo [at] ecn [dot ] org (I) (/)(I)(\) -------------------------------------------------------------------- From m at 1010.co.uk Tue Nov 24 12:17:14 2009 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Tue Nov 24 12:20:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] _____-micro_research workshops_finale: November 28th 2PM: Irrational Computing with Ralf Baecker Message-ID: Irrational Computing is a loose collection of ideas that includes non-traditional logic gates, non-applied computing, minimal computing, DIY transistors and homebrew CPUs. During the workshop we will build elementary arithmetic and logic units that enable us to realise expandable, networked and looped digital circuits with complex behaviour. We will feed our circuits with binary patterns and explore their visual and auditive responses. The major component of this workshop is the transistor and its switching capability. In addition the workshop will give an introduction and guidance into building handcrafted macroscopic mechanical logic gates. Feel free to bring some potential material (old toys, junk, springs, levers etc.) for logic investigations. Ralf Baecker (1977) lives and works in Bremen, Germany. After studies in computer science he attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. In 2007/2008 he taught at the department for "Design of Medial Environments" at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Baecker builds kinetic installations and sculptures which interlink symbolic and physical spaces. His epistemological machines explore our imagination of digital processes. http://www.no-surprises.de/ No experience required Fee: 10 euros (includes food) Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited) ---_______ The last in a series of regular workshops at _____-micro_research [Berlin]. In 2010 we will initiate an interdisciplinary mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics. Field trips, working groups and occassional workshops are planned. ---_______ 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://julianoliver.com), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Kathrin Guenter (http://www.fotokatie.com), Alice Miceli (http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/blog/chernobyl2), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell, jo FRGMNT grys(http://tob.de.vu/), mikomikona http://www.zuviel.tv/mikomikona.html, Antony Hall (http://antonyhall.net), Gijs Gieskes (http://gieskes.nl/), Alexei Blinov (http://www.raylab.com), Valentina Vuksic (http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch/), Dave Griffiths (http://www.pawfal.org), Marc Boon (http://www.marcboon.com), Christian Faubel, Cordula K?rber, and Ralf Schreiber (http://ralfschreiber.com/), Roman H?feli and Olsen Wolf (http://www.netpd.org), Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen (http://www.goto10.org), Danja Vassiliev and Gordan Savicic (http://moddr.net/), Linda Hilfling _____-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 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Nov 25 09:28:48 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Wed Nov 25 09:29:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091125092848.9EF7BC5D.AAE725D6@192.168.0.3> 25 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org 1) Video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database --> Today, 25 November 2009---> "Art Reception" by Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) http://vad.nmartproject.net 2) Today, 25 November and yesterday, 24 November 2009 screenings of two CologneOFF V festival programs at TMG Gallery Guarda on Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda/Portugal 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 the screening on 25 Nov include videos by Nitin Das (India)- Ascan Breuer (Germany) - Marita Contreras (Peru) - Masha Yozefpolsky (Israel)- Anna Porzelt (Germany) Heidi Kumao (USA)- Les Riches Douaniers (France)- Soumendra Padhi (India) - Boris Sribar (Serbia) ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From joris at v2.nl Wed Nov 25 10:39:56 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Wed Nov 25 10:40:23 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter December 2009 Message-ID: <4B0CFB6C.3010504@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter December 2009 http://www.v2.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Test_Lab: Intimate Interfaces December 10, 2009 Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam 20:00?23:00 admission: free Please arrive on time as space is limited. Doors open at 19:30. It is not possible to make reservations for this event. Create electronic circuitry on bare skin, enter a digital network by wearing a veil, see through clothing without X-Ray vision. Test and debate some truly new forms of techno-intimacy in this edition of Test_Lab. Featuring: Studio Roosegaarde and Maartje Dijkstra (NL) | Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (NL) | Bare Conductive: Isabel Lizardi and Matt Johnson (UK) | Lucy McRae (NL) | Opening: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi (IT) http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-intimate-interfaces ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aica Certificate for "Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph" "Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph", published by V2_ in 2008, has been awarded the AICA Certificate. The certificate is presented every three years to a publication by the Dutch branch of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics). V2_ is delighted that Dutch art critics have recognized the efforts of four years of research in this manner. The certificate is proof that we have succeeded in our intention of producing a book that is of scholarly quality and yet engrossing. You can still order the English or Dutch version of the book through our online store. http://www.v2.nl/news/dick-raaymakers-monograph-wins-aica-certificate ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Opaque Presence ? knowbotic research at IABR 2009 December 4, 2009 NAi, Forum, Rotterdam 17:00?18:30 admission: free Every Friday afternoon during this year's International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), a local 'cultural ambassador' appears as host of the Biennale's Open Podium relating to the theme of the week. On December 4, V2_ will be cultural ambassador, presenting a lecture by and discussion with Christian Huebler from the renowned Zurich based artist group knowbotic research. The lecture deals with recent works of the artist group knowbotic research and addresses questions of public visibility and strategic camouflage. http://www.v2.nl/events/knowbotic-research-iabr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Expert Meeting: Augmented Reality Ecosystem December 4, 2009 Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam 13:00?18:00 This expert meeting brings together the (emerging) ecosystem around Augmented Reality in the Netherlands and beyond in the following sectors: public/governmental, technology, commercial, education, culture/heritage and art. This is a private event, if you are interested to join please contact us at: ar-ecosystem@v2.nl http://www.v2.nl/events/ar-ecosystem ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2_Lab Releases Max5 Object for Laser Rangefinder V2_Lab has developed open source software for using the "Laser Measurement System" in Max 5, which facilitates interaction in media installations. View the v2_max.sick.lms100 object for Max 5. http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/lab-releases-max5-object-for-sick-laserscanner From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Nov 25 13:22:44 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Nov 25 13:24:12 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCnstlerhaus_Bethanien?= , Moving and Relaunch June 2010 Message-ID: From: Christina Sickert Subject: K?nstlerhaus Bethanien: Umzug und Relaunch Juni 2010 / Moving and Relaunch June 2010 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:29:53 +0100 k?nstlerhaus bethanien gmbh PRESS RELEASE 24.11.2009 K?nstlerhaus Bethanien at Kottbusser Stra?e 10 as from June 2010 Dear colleagues, partners and friends of K?nstlerhaus Bethanien, K?nstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH and Nicolas Berggruen Holdings GmbH are pleased to announce that after 35 good, eventful years in the Bethanien building on Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg, K?nstlerhaus Bethanien will be continuing its studio and exhibition programme with fresh dynamism in new, extended premises in the commercial property Kottbusser Stra?e 10/ Kohlfurter Str. 41/43 in Kreuzberg as f rom June 2010. The corresponding lease contract has been concluded with Nicolas Berg g ru e n Holdings GmbH. The company acquired the predominantly vacant commercial building with an overall floor space of 10,000 m2 from a property fund in 2008, the intention being to initiate a commercial centre from which the legendary Kreuzberg mix of creative culture, internationality and experimental innovation can diffuse its own special energy. The occupation of the south wing of Bethanien on Mariannenplatz by left-wing squatters in 2005, their toleration by the building's owner - the district office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg -, and the subsequent development of the building into a socio-cultural neighbourhood centre was making perspectives for Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH's internationally oriented work increasingly difficult. Nicolas Berggruen Holdings made a persuasive offer: an opportunity to start again - quasi as the key, inspiring tenant - in the context of an artistic concept for the use of a location with good public transport access between Kottbusser Tor and Fraenkelufer. The new location of the Ku.nstlerhaus at Kottbusser Stra?e 10 will mean considerably improved conditions for working and presentation, so helping to generate fresh dynamism for our longstanding, successful work of promoting excellence in the field of young, contemporary art and also sharpening Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien's profile as an internationally acknowledged experimental laboratory and think tank. After the completion of conversion measures for Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien, visitors will encounter enhanced offers with larger, more flexible areas for events and exhibitions, an increase in the number of artists' studios and thus an expansion of the International Studio Programme, a much improved workshop situation, large-area lifts, and an entrance area that will create its own impact on public space at Kottbusser Stra?e 10. The gallery exhibition area, now extended to 730 m2, will be directly accessible from here. Flexible ground plans for the artists' studios ranging from 45 to 90 m2 will enable us to invite 25 artists each year in future. An additional meeting place is sure to enliven groupdynamics among visitors and guests. The owner of around 60 properties in Berlin and Potsdam including Caf? Moskau and the Sarotticourtyards on Mehringdamm, Berggruen Holdings intends the five-storey building complex to be used predominantly by the cultural industry, with a mix including all fields of communications and creative business, as well as related handicrafts and other skilled trades. The aesthetic quality of the architecture on the quietly-situated street Kohlfurter Stra?e, which extends as far as Kottbusser Stra?e, and its well-preserved structural condition presents an ideal basis for this project. Careful restoration retaining the buildings' historical charm, equipping with modern technology, and the introduction of individual contemporary architectural accents have created an ambience with a forward-looking, flexible layout of space that is highly suited to the needs of creative industries. As from the second quarter of 2010, additional studio, office and commercial areas will be available for lease on the upper floors (from 250 m2) as well as space for galleries and/or shops on the ground floor. Since 2005, preparations for Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien's move have been carefully attended and actively supported by the Senate Office for Cultural Affairs and the shareholders of Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, the German Academic Exchange Service - and partners at home and abroad. Adonation from the foundation Deutsche Klassenlotterie made conversion and development measures possible. Special thanks are due to all our supporters. Such new perspectives must be celebrated in suitable style: the plan is to mark the re-launch of the Ku.nstlerhaus in the context of a major celebratory event on Friday, 11th June 2010, which will be attended by representatives of the Senate Office and Nicolas Berggruen and include a major exhibition opening with party to follow. Naturally, we will gladly inform you about the details of our removal plans and the re-launch celebrations. We sincerely hope that we can rely on your continued interest in Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien and its work during the coming, exciting months of our move and the new beginning - and that we have been able to trigger your interest in the further development of the commercial centre. Best regards Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH Nicolas Berggruen Holdings GmbH Nicolas Berggruen Holdings GmbH Ku.nstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH Commercial lease: Thorsten Ohmann Press Office: Christina Sickert Tel. 030 25 93 996 0 Tel. 030 616 90 315 to@berggruenholdings.de presse@bethanien.de www.berggruenholdings.de www.bethanien.de From info at transfera.es Wed Nov 25 20:54:44 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Wed Nov 25 20:55:06 2009 Subject: [spectre] MADATAC 09 Message-ID: <4B0D8B84.2030309@transfera.es> MADATAC 01 MUESTRA ABIERTA DE ARTE AUDIOVISUAL CONTEMPORANEO MADRID 10-12 December 2009 FESTIVAL: Presentation The Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts (MADATAC ? Muestra Abierta de Arte Audiovisual Contempor?neo), aims to serve as a lighthouse for video and visual artists; helping along the way and spotlighting work which challenges the conventional cinematic narrative. With an open and inclusive approach, MADATAC will place particular value on experimentation, innovation and risk-taking. Prizes will be awarded to the best works from those presented to competition and selected for the festival by the TV programme, Transfera. Transfera is a weekly programme broadcast from Madrid showcasing digital and video art. During the festival, there will be daily showings of video creations, open discussions with video artists, lectures, round-table debates, audio-visual performances and forums. Objetives ? Provide a regular opportunity for emerging audio-visual artists to establish themselves professionally: it is very difficult for these artists to show their work. The festival also aims to support those artists who are already better-placed in the market. ? Stimulate video artists? creativity, provide feedback for them and establish a productive interaction with society as a whole. ? Support audio-visual trends which are developing and evolving in line with technological breakthroughs at all levels. ? Find a point where academic and experimental can meet to create a festival based fundamentally on recognising innovate contribution. ? Provide audiences with a clear picture of the current state and possible future of video art and digital audio-visual art. Artists, prizewinners and professionals from the video art world will take part in a wide range of activities including master classes, open forums, technical courses and workshops, enabling them to share their experience, expectations, future projects and creative approach with the public. ? Create a new environment to exhibit and aquire video art alongside the art fairs, museums and galleries. This will serve as a training ground for video artists and a reference point where galleries, collectors, critics, curators and cultural organisations can discover what is on the up in this field. Categories 1. The Official International Selection comprises a total of 90 video creations from 21 different countries. The Ibero-American Selection (35 works) will be shown at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, and the Rest of the World Selection (55 works) will be shown at the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematogr?ficas. At the end of each screening session there will be a forum with the video artists. REST OF THE WORLD OFICIAL INTERNATIONAL SELECTION ACADEMIA DE CINE PROGRAMA 1 : VIERNES 11 21:00 1. ANGELO PICOZZI (Reino Unido / UK) 00:06:03:08 (2006) 6' 03" 2. CLEMENT ZERBOLA [Hellaimorth] (Francia / France) 11 (2004-05) 15' 00" 3. GER GER (Alemania / Germany) BLACK BALLOONS (Globos negros, 2008) 4' 26" 4. MIHAI GRECU (Rumania / Romania) COAGULATE (Coagulado, 2008) 6' 00" 5. BRET F. BATTEY (Reino Unido / UK) AUTARKEIA AGGREGATUM(Fusi?n autosuficiente, 2005) 9' 30" 6. JUDITH VAN DER MADE (Holanda / Netherlands)) AFGROND (Abismo, 2007) 7' 10" 7. SACHIKO HAYASHI (Jap?n / Japan) BOOP-OOP-A-DOOP (2003-04) 5' 16" 8. FANIS LOGOTHETIS (Grecia / Greece) BLAZE (Resplandor, 2006) 5' 00" 9. SONIA ARMANIACO (Italia / Italy) E=MOTIONALMIXPROJ (2008-09) 5' 08" 10. AGRICOLA DE COLOGNE (Alemania / Germany) BAREBACK - SERIAL DISCHARGE (A pelo - Descarga en serie, 2007) 6'00" 11. ATSUKO NOJIRI (Jap?n / Japan) UNTITLED (Sin t?tulo, 2005) 4' 11" 12. EVA DRANGSHOLT (Noruega / Norway) YOUNG LIONS (Leones inexpertos, 2005-07) 6' 38" 13. SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER (EE.UU / USA) FALSE FRIENDS (Falsos amigos, 2007) 5' 00" 14. PASQUALE NAPOLITANO (Italia / Italy) CITY (Ciudad, 2009) 4' 00" 15. TK.KIM NGUYEN (Suiza / Switzerland) SALLE D'? (Cuarto de ba?o, 2007) 10' 40" 16. SHIGE MORIYA (Jap?n / Japan) IMPURITY (Impureza, 2003) 6' 00" 17. ANDERS WEBERG (Suecia / Sweden) UNDISCLOSED BEAUTY (Belleza oculta, 2008) 3? 13? REST OF THE WORLD OFICIAL INTERNATIONAL SELECTION ACADEMIA DE CINE PROGRAMA 2: S?BADO 12 12:00 1. TAKEHITO ETANI (Jap?n / Japan) THE THIRD EYE PROJECT (El proyecto del tercer ojo, 2002) 4' 2. MARTYN BLUNDELL (Reino Unido/ U.K.) MADRIGAL (2007) 2' 20" 3. DEBORA PRADO (EE.UU / USA) JANELA (Ventana, 2006) 1' 34" 4. FABIENNE GAUTIER (Francia / France) ICELAND (Islandia, 2006) 4' 19" 5. BRIAN DELEVIE & ISSHAELA INGHAM (EE.UU / USA) EMANATIONS (Emanaciones, 2008) 9' 48" 6. RUGGERO MANTOVANI (Italia / Italy) IL NARRATORE CIECO (El narrador ciego, 2008) 1' 52" 7. ROBIN LYONS (Reino Unido / UK) LEAVES (Hojas, 2007) 7' 10" 8. KARL LIND (EE.UU / USA) LULLABY (Canci?n de cuna, 2003) 3' 00" 9. OLGA MINK (Holanda / Netherlands) VOICEPRINT (Huella vocal, 2008) 3' 28" 10. RUI FELIPE ANTUNES (Reino Unido / UK) XTNZ (2006) 5' 00" 11. CHIEKO TAIRA (Jap?n/Japan) SUIEN - HYDROFLAME (Hidrofuego, 2002) 6' 48" 12. HENRY GWIAZDA (EE.UU) IN BED WITH LIGHT (En cama con luz, 2007) 2' 07" 13. JENNIFER BETH GUERIN (EE.UU / USA) KATE WALKER (Nueva Zelanda / New Zealand) ELSEWHERE (En otra parte, 2007) 2' 10" 14. ROBIN WHENARY (Reino Unido / UK) MOTION (Movimiento, 2001-07) 4' 30" 15. BLAZ ERZETIC (Eslovenia/ Slovenia) OPENMINDED (Receptivo, 2004) 3' 36" 16. FELECIA CARLISLE (EE.UU / USA) BIRD CAGE (Jaula de p?jaro, 2007) 1' 39" 17. KAROLINA DEMIROVIC (Croacia / Croatia) A LIFE (Una vida, 2007) 3' 01" 18. RICHARD O'SULLIVAN (Reino Unido / UK) FERNDALE, WESTERN CANYON (2005-07) 12' 14" 19. IVANA CEKOVIC (Serbia/Luxemburgo) PAIRAU (1998-2004) 3' 00" 20. THEODOR TZANTARMAS (Grecia / Greece) GOING THROUGH (Movimiento perpetuo, 2007) 3' 55" 21. PIETRO MELE (Italia / Italy) OTTANA (2008) 11'' 45" 22. RAFA?L (B?lgica/Espa?a ? Belgium/Spain) BODIES & METALS (Cuerpos y metales, 2009) 3 '00" REST OF THE WORLD OFICIAL INTERNATIONAL SELECTION ACADEMIA DE CINE PROGRAMA 3: S?BADO 12 18:00 1. YOKO FUKUOKA (Jap?n /Japan) LOST OF THE BEGINNING(La p?rdida del principio,2003) 3' 36" 2. DENNIS H. MILLER. Northeastern University, Boston. (EE.UU/USA) WHITE NOISE (Ruido blanco, 2007) 9' 45" 3. LAURENT VICENTE (Francia / France) POLIS (2006) 7' 30" 4. JEREMY NEWMAN (EE.UU / USA) LURK (Al acecho, 2006) 2' 18" 5. GRAZIANO STAINO (Italia / Italy) SOSPIRI DAL CIELO (Suspiros del cielo, 2007) 3' 35" 6. BILL ALVES (EE.UU / USA) STELLATION (Estrellaciones, 2008) 12' 00" 7. DANIEL RONNSTAM (Suecia / Sweden) STARVED (Hambriento, 2006) 6' 25" 8. LEMEH42 [Lorenza Paolini + Michele Santini] (Italia / Italy) STUDY ON HUMAN FORM & HUMANITY #1 (Estudio sobre la forma humana y la humanidad N?1, 2008) 1' 53" 9. AKIKO NAKAMURA (Jap?n / Japan) TIMES STROKES (Rupturas de tiempo, 2002) 3' 42" 10. JEAN-PIERRE GAGNE (EE.UU / USA) CHERCHEZ LA FEMME (Buscad a la mujer, 2007) 1' 00" 11. BLAKE CARRINGTON (EE.UU / USA) SKY & WIRES: AT HOME & HOMELESS (Cielo y cables: En casa pero sin hogar, 2007) 8'25" 12. AYSEG?L G?RY?KSEL (Turqu?a / Turkey ) KIMSENIN EVCILI (Mascota de nadie, 2007) 6' 31" 13. KEVIN EVENSEN (EE.UU / USA) WIND, WATER, STONE (Viento, agua, piedra, 2006) 2' 05" 14. CATHERINE RENAUD BARET (Francia / France) DANS LES MEANDERS DU FLEUVE MONDE (En los meandros del r?o mundo, 2007) 10' 00" 15. KYE WILSON & DENISE CALLENDER & NEIL HUNT (U.K. / Reino Unido) THE KISS (El beso, 2006) 7' 00" 16. SHAHRAM ENTEKHABI (Iran/Alemania-Iran/Germany) WATCHING (Mirando, 2007) 5' 06" IBERO-AMERICAN OFICIAL INTERNATIONAL SELECTION INSTITUTO CERVANTES PROGRAMA 1: JUEVES 10 18:00 1. FERNANDO GARC?A TAMAJ?N [Malaventura] (Espa?a /Spain) MONSTRUOS MARINOS (2005) 7' 30" 2. MIT BORR?S (Espa?a / Spain) DEAFLAND (Tierra de sordos, 2008) 3' 45" 3. ANTONIO ALVARADO (Espa?a /Spain) TERNURAS DE GUERRA (2008) 5' 46" 4. DANIEL RODRIGO (Espa?a/Reino Unido-Spain/UK) FASHION DEATH (Muerte elegante, 2007) 4' 40" 5. JOS? ALEJANDRO LOPEZ (Colombia/Suecia-Colombia/Sweden) MOMENT (Momento, 2005) 1' 03" 6. JOS? ALEJANDRO LOPEZ (Colombia/Suecia-Colombia/Sweden) DOGMA (2006) 0' 58? 7. BEHDAD REZAZADEH (Iran/Espa?a-Iran/Spain) M?STICOS EUFEMISMOS BLASFEMOS DE EF?MERA MUSITACI?N INTERESPIRITUAL (Blasphemous Mystical Euphemisms of Ephemeral Intraspiritual Musitations, 2003) 1'09" 8. NOELIA GARCIA MURIANA (Espa?a/Spain) PATRON XX (2004) 5' 9. ELIAS ROBLEDO (Espa?a /Spain) Zahatoviguetza (2005) 11' 15" 10. PEDRO SANCHEZ [PS3] (Espa?a/Spain) THE MISTERY OF KAITEN SUSHI (El misterio de Kaiten Sushi, 2005-07) 4' 00" 11. ELECTRIC GLOBAL CULTURE [Alex Contri, Joan Gisbert, Garbi KW] (Espa?a/Spain) PREMIX-PROJECT 1 (Proyecto Premix 1, 2007) 5' 53" 12. DOMINGO SANCHEZ BLANCO (Espa?a / Spain) LA CUEVA DEL OTRO-EL SE?UELO (The Cave Of The Other - A Decoy, 2005) 4' 00" 13. ROBERTO DELGADO (Espa?a / Spain) CONTRA NATURA (2007) 4' 57" 14. ANTONIO MURGA (Espa?a / Spain) PENT?LOGO INVISIBLE (Invisible Pentalogos, 2004) 6' 00" 15. BORIS FRANCO NAVARRETE [Siro] (Espa?a / Spain) HANDMADE (Hecho a mano, 2008) 11' 39" 16. MIQUEL JORD? (Espa?a/Spain) BODY AND SOUL (Cuerpo y alma, 2005) 4' 40" IBERO-AMERICAN OFICIAL INTERNATIONAL SELECTION INSTITUTO CERVANTES PROGRAMA 2: VIERNES 11 18:00 1. MARCO CASADO / SALVADOR ORTEGA (M?xico) SHE DREAMT WE DREAMT (Ella son? nosotros so?amos, 2007) 4' 15" 2. MARIO SARRAMI?N (Espa?a / Spain) ESPIRITUAL (Spiritual, 2007)) 1' 16" 3. MARIO SARRAMI?N (Espa?a / Spain) INVESTIGACIONES SOBRE LA IDENTIDAD [aya2v5] (2007) 1' 30" 4. MARIO SARRAMI?N (Espa?a / Spain) INVESTIGACIONES SOBRE LA IDENTIDAD [japanese sex] (2007) 1' 00" 5. TERESA TOM?S (Espa?a /Spain) DESTEJER EL ARCO IRIS (Undoing the rainbow, 2007) 12' 50" 6. ALBERTO GUERREIRO (Portugal) X-MACHINA (2006) 9' 55" 7. GERARD FREIXES (Espa?a / Spain) AISLADO (Isolated, 2007) 3' 30" 8. LEFT HAND ROTATION (Espa?a / Spain) MADRID, CERRADO POR VACACIONES: Parques, Delicias, Dep?sitos, C?rcel. (Madrid, Closed For Holiday, 2008) 3' 10" 9. MARTA MORENO MU?OZ [Umabeecroft] (Espa?a / Spain) RIYAZ MASTER PROJECT (Proyecto maestro Riyaz, 2006-07) 4' 15" 10. ANTONIO DYAZ (Espa?a / Spain) EYE (2007) 3' 00" 11. CARLOS URBINA/ADOLFO NU?EZ (Espa?a / Spain) T?TEM (2006) 6' 00" 12. DENICA SABEVA (Espa?a / Spain) ENSO?ACI?N L?QUIDA (LIQUID DREAMINESS, 2008) 5' 00" 13. GARBI KW (Espa?a / Spain) SUE?O CUBISTA (Cubist dream, 2009) 5' 28" 14. CLAUDIO CALDINI (Argentina) HELIOGRAF?A (Heliography, 1993) 5' 45" 15. MAJO PULIDO (Espa?a / Spain) IMPLANTES (Implants, 2004) 5' 00" 16. TOM?S OCHOA (Ecuador/Espa?a ? Ecuador/Spain) INDIOS MEDIEVALES PARTE I (Medieval Indians Part I, 2008) 6' 17. JUANJO FERN?NDEZ RIVERO (Espa?a / Spain) 120 GRADOS (120 Degrees, 2008) 5' 49" 18. DIEGO ARANDOJO (Argentina / Argentine) MI CALLE ES MI CUERPO (My street is my body, 2009) 6' 00" 19. EQUIPO MORAL: CHEMA ALONSO & CARLOS TMORI (Espa?a/Spain) DAMAS O'PUESTAS + EP?LOGO (Ladies O'pposed plus Epilogue; 2004) 3' 30" 2. The Open Session provides the opportunity to meet certain video artists who will participate in screenings and public forums to discuss their work and creative approach. INSTITUTO CERVANTES Friday 11th December Video artist Mabel Palacin will screen her pieces 'La distancia correcta' (The right distance) and 'Una noche sin fin' (An endless night) and participate in a discussion on her creative approach. 3. The Monograph Selection will examine the work of different video artists. ACADEMIA DE CINE Friday 11th December 16:00 Monograph Selection. Screening of works by Chinese video artist, Gao Shiqiang Revolution (2007) 55'54 One Day One Night (2005) 20? 15? Faint With Oxygen (2008) 28?58? AWARDS This year, awards will be granted in three groups: MADATAC AWARDS There are seven awards in this group. Winners will receive the MADATAC trophy, a cutting-edge work of art in itself, along with a DVD of the winning art works, distributed by Transfera Media Arts. Best Video Art Work (3 awards) Most Innovative Work Most Promising Video Artist Best Visual-Aural Interaction Special Audience Award (Granted to the Best Video Art Work from the Oficial Selection as voted for by festival audiences.) METR?POLIS AWARDS The well-known TV programme METROPOLIS (TVE, La 2) will select and award works from the Official Selection, totalling 27 minutes. Winning artisits will be paid ?150 per minute for broadcasting rights, and the winning videos will appear in a special programme dedicated to MADATAC to be shown on La 2 (TVE) on 20th December. TRANSFERA AWARDS MADATAC has reached a ground-breaking agreement with Subastas Segre (auctioneers) to auction three of the winning videos on the 15th December, a week after the first edition of the festival. The works to be auctioned will be selected by representatives from Transfera and Segre. Starting bids will range from ?500 to ?700 for editions of 5 copies on DVD. Artists will receive the final sale price less a percentage comission for administration and sale fees. Works for auction will be exhibited at C / Segre 18, Madrid from 4th December. Additional Activities Lecture Instituto Cervantes 10/12/09 19:30 ART IN THE AGE OF NEW DIGITAL MEDIA by the writer, media historian and Professor of Audio-Visual Communication, Roman Gubern. Round Table Debate Instituto Cervantes 11/12/09 19:30 WHAT?S THE FUTURE FOR VIDEO ART? Maria Pallier (Director of the TV programme METROPOLIS), Tania Pardo (curator from MUSAC ? Castilla y Leon Contemporary Art Museum) y Carlos Trigueros (video artist from ?Equipo Moral?) will participate. Chaired by MADATAC Director, Iury Lech. Performances Plat? CATA 10/12/09 21:15 PASSION SUSPENSI?N. Unsettling audio visual performance art by A SANGRE FRIA (In Cold Blood), together with a live cinema session performed by members of INSTITUTO HUMANO AUDIOVISUAL. (Estado Avanzado, Errorvision, Die! Goldstein!). The audience is invited to actively participate in these performances. Academia de Cine 12/12/09 20:30 Audiovisual performance by members of INSTITUTO HUMANO AUDIOVISUAL (Estado Avanzado, Errorvision, Die! Goldstein!) VJ Session by selected video artist Shige Moriya. Book Presentation Sala Manuel de Falla 9/12/09 13:00 Presentation for the press and general public of Iury Lech's book ?La imagen encapsulada: El videoarte como espiral? / 'The encapsulated image: Video Art as a Spiral.' (Ediciones Autor) Exhibition and Auction of Video Art Subastas Segre Del 4/12/09 al 15/12/09 Exhibition and auction of three works chosen from the Official Internacional Selection. The auction will be held on 15th December at 18:30. Trailer (Se incluir? m?s tarde) Images (Se incluir?n m?s tarde) Press infomadatac@transfera.es (+34) 687816504 Contact MADATAC (Muestra Abierta de Arte Audiovisual Contempor?neo) Mail Address: MADATAC Galeno 41 28232 Las Rozas Madrid Espa?a (Spain) T: (+34) 637975582 E: madatac@transfera.es Venues Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematogr?ficas de Espa?a Calle Zurbano, 3 28010 Madrid Telf: 915934333 Instituto Cervantes Calle Alcal?, 49 28014 Madrid Telf:91 4367600 Sala Manuel de Falla Calle Fernando VI, 4 28004 Madrid Telf: 91 3499550 CATA Abd?n Terradas 2 28015 Madrid Telf:91 5505705 Subastas Segre Calle Segre, 18 28002 Madrid Telf: 91 5159584 Hotel NH Embajada Calle de Santa Engracia, 5 28010 Madrid Telf: 91 5940213 Staff Director Iury Lech Assistant-Director Oscar Rivilla Production and Communication Marta ?lvarez Arroyo Festival Presenter Elena G?mez Poster Photography Oscar Rivilla Poster Design David Villarrubia / Ricardo Llavador Trophy Design Alfredo Velasco Publications Design David Villarrubia Make up Daniel Vicente G?mez para Giorgio Armani Cosmetics Technical Support: Andr?s Quesada Translation Rebekah Rhodes ORGANISED BY: TRANSFERA MEDIA ARTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF: INSTITUTO BU?UEL INSTITUTO CERVANTES MAHOU EGEDA FILMOTECH ACADEMIA DE LAS ARTES Y LAS CIENCIAS CINEMATOGRAFICAS DE ESPA?A CONTRIBUTORS: INSTITUTO HUMANO A SANGRE FRIA SUBASTAS SEGRE GALER?A MAGEE ART CATA MEDIA CONTRIBUTORS: RADIO 3 METROPOLIS BRIEF PROGRAMME SGAE Wednesday 9th December 13:00 Cocktail and presentation of Iury Lech?s book ?La imagen encapsulada. El videoarte como espiral.? 14:00 MADATAC press lunch. INSTITUTO CERVANTES Thursday 10th December 18:00 Screenings of Ibero-American works from the Internacional Official Selection. Open forum with selected video artists. 19:30 Lecture by Roman Gubern: ART IN THE AGE OF NEW DIGITAL MEDIA. Friday 11th December 12:00 Open Session with video artist Mabel Palacin, who will screen her piece entitled "La distancia correcta" (The right distance) and participate in a discussion on her creative approach. 18:00 Screenings of Ibero-American works from the Internacional Official Selection. Open forum with selected video artists. 19:30 Round table: ?WHAT?S THE FUTURE FOR VIDEO ART? Maria Pallier (Director of the TV programme METROPOLIS), Tania Pardo (curator from MUSAC ? Castilla y Leon Contemporary Art Museum) y Carlos Trigueros (video artist from ?Equipo Moral?) will participate. Chair: Iury Lech ACADEMIA DE LAS ARTES Y LAS CIENCIAS CINEMATOGRAFICAS Friday 11th December 16:00 to 18:00 Monograph Selection Screenings. Works by Chinese video artist, Gao Shiqiang: Revolution (2007) 55'54 One Day One Night (2005) 20? 15? Faint With Oxygen (2008) 28?58? 21:00 a 23:00 Rest of the World Offical Selection Screenings. Open forum with selected video artists. Saturday 12th December 12:00 to 14:00 Rest of the World Offical Selection Screenings. Open forum with selected video artists. 18:00 to 20:00 Rest of the World Offical Selection Screenings. Open forum with selected video artists. 20.00 Break and refreshments. 20:30 Closing and Awards Ceremony. Performance by Instituto Humano Audiovisual (ESTADO AVANZADO, ERRORVISION, DIE! GOLDSTEIN) and VJ Session by selected video artist Shige Moriya. PLAT? CATA Thursday 10th December 21:15 Performance by A SANGRE FRIA. Live Cinema session with INSTITUTO HUMANO AUDIOVISUAL. SUBASTAS SEGRE Exhibition and auction of three works chosen from the Official Internacional Selection. The auction will be held on 15th December from 7pm. From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Nov 26 09:04:24 2009 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu Nov 26 09:05:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW IS A CURATOR Message-ID: <956DA507-BB25-46E5-B651-4ECF1BE6515F@xs4all.nl> ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW IS A CURATOR Saturday 19?12?2009 Paradiso Amsterdam (NL) a symposium about quality in an age of visual overload While museums are developing strategies to digitalise their collections, online cultural production is growing steadily, with hundreds of thousands of new images posted each day. A lot of potentially interesting work is being produced online, which never reaches the physical world. The distribution of this high quality work is increasingly decentralised, leaving museums, foundations and professional magazines at a loss on how to redefine their role as gatekeepers. On the other hand, the time spent daily behind the computer on internet networking is pushing the demand for a physical experience of our fleeting culture. Designers, artists, mediators and policy makers need to redefine their position, because new technologies define to a large extent today?s possibilities and means of presentation and archiving. There is need for new quality criteria, frames of references, and alternative methods for enabling connections between the virtual and the physical space of today?s culture. Practical information: Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam (Weteringschans 6) Entrance: ?25, ?10 (studenten) english spoken Reservations: symposium@graphicdesignmuseum.com Advanced sales: AUB ticketshop amsterdam/ticket service nederland Contact information: graphic design museum t +31 (0)76 529 99 00 www.graphicdesignmuseum.com Program Saturday December 19, 2009 10.00 Doors open, coffee & tea 10.25 Welcome by Mieke Gerritzen 10.30 Bruce Sterling - revisions of digital culture 11.20 Julia Noordegraaf - performing archival material online 11.40 Sarah Cook - curatorial strategies for online artistic production 12.00 Coffee break 12.15 Rick Poynor - design criticism in the blogosphere 12.45 Sophie Krier - me, you and everyone we know is a curator 12.50 Metahaven - visual identity and network standards 13.00 Lunch break 14.00 Andrew Keen - digital vertigo: selecting talent in the age of social media 14.50 Aram Bartholl - online visual culture in physical space 15.10 Dagan Cohen (Upload Cinema) - bringing web films to the big screen 15.20 Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic) - please try a new search to find more results 15.30 Coffee break 15.40 Introduction debate by Henk Oosterling 15.50 debate about the role of the digital in dutch policy making. with representatives of the main dutch funds and art institutions 16.40 Drink (free) Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort Visual interventions: Sander van der Pavert (Lucky.tv) Organisation: Graphic Design Museum Concept: Sophie Krier, Mieke Gerritzen Design: Metahaven ------ bruce sterling (us) As one of the main voices of the cyberpunk movement in 1980s, SF writer Bruce Sterling promoted a worldview and aesthetic that strongly influenced the generation that came of age with the computer revolution. In his popular books and articles, Sterling chronicles the social and technological developments of our over mediatised world. www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/ andrew keen (uk) Author of bestseller ?Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture? (2007). Keen is currently writing a second book entitled ?Digital Vertigo: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age?, which will be published by St Martins Press. Keen starred in the Dutch VPRO television documentary, ?Wiki the Truth? and was the subject of the November 2008 BBC Radio 4 show ?Iconoclasts.? andrewkeen.typepad.com rick poynor (uk) Design critic and writer, Poynor is the co-founder of Eye, The international Review of Graphic Design. He has written about design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Icon, Creative Review, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, Financial Times, and many others. In 2003, he co-founded the weblog Design Observer, which became a leading international forum for design discussion. www.designobserver.com www.eyemagazine.com/critiques.php julia noordegraaf (nl) Programme director of the Master Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (from September 2003) and author of a.o. Strategies of Display: Museum Presentation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Visual Culture (Boijmans van Beuningen / Nai Uitgevers 2004). Noordegraaf is currently researching a book entitled ?The Performing Archive?, due to come out in Fall 2010. home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.j.noordegraaf/ sarah cook (uk) Co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss www.crumbweb.org) and research fellow at the University of Sunderland. Her forthcoming book on curating, co-authored with Beryl Graham, will be published by MIT Press in 2009. Sarah?s most recent curatorial project is a series of online commissions about outer space for Xcult.org. www.beam-me.net aram bartholl (de) Aram Bartholl lives and works in Berlin. In his art work he thematizes the relationship of net data space and every day life. In which form does this network-data-world manifest itself in our physical everyday- lifespace? What is being fed back into physical space from the ?cyberspace? into which data has been fed for so long now? How do these digital innovations influence our actions in everyday life? www.datenform.de upload cinema (nl) Upload Cinema is a film club that takes the best web films to the big screen. The audience can submit films; an editorial team selects the best and compiles a ninety minutes program, which is screened at movie theatres and special venues. www.uploadcinema.nl mediamatic (nl) Mediamatic is interested in the cultural developments that go hand in hand with new technologies and in new technologies that cause cultural development. They organize exhibitions, salons, lectures, workshops, screenings in public space and develop software and art projects, and they used to publish the magazine Mediamatic Off-Line. www.mediamatic.net henk oosterling (nl) Henk Oosterling is senior lecturer of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He lectures on dialectic methods, French philosophy and differential thinking, inter-cultural philosophy and aesthetics. As director of the Centre for Philosophy and Art he initiated and led the Intermediality research programme. www.henkoosterling.nl metahaven (nl) A studio for design and research, Metahaven is based in Amsterdam and Brussels. Metahaven works in visual identity and architecture, both with clients and independently. www.metahaven.net koert van mensvoort (nl) Koert van Mensvoort is an artist/scientist. He holds a PhD in industrial design from Eindhoven University of Technology. His most profound experience in life, so far, has been the discovery of next nature. Which revolves around the idea that our technological world is so complex, that it has become a nature of its own. www.nextnature.net sander van der pavert (lucky tv) (nl) Sander van de Pavert makes LuckyTV, a concept he created himself. In short films, Lucky reacts in a light-hearted way to current affairs. Generally use is made of existing images that are cut, edited and mutilated in an indecent way. LuckyTV is currently shown on weekdays at the end of the Dutch television programme ?De Wereld Draait Door? (The World Keeps Turning). www.luckytv.nl sophie krier (lux) With her studio Sophie Krier explores the peripheries of the design field, with a focus on film, writing and temporary, social interventions. She is currently developing scenarios for public space in Houten and Hoeksche Waard, editing a new design journal entitled Field Essays, and doing research for a documentary project. Between 2005 and 2009, Sophie Krier was head of designLAB at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. www.sophiekrier.com mieke gerritzen (nl) Mieke Gerritzen is director of the Graphic Design Museum in Breda. Besides she makes films, books and organizes public events. Gerritzen creates networks with many different designers, writers and artists. In 2001 she started the All Media Foundation for the organization and production of movies, publications and events like ?The International Browserday? in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam and more recently ?The Biggest Visual Power Shows.? www.graphicdesignmuseum.com From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Nov 26 09:10:26 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Thu Nov 26 09:11:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day Message-ID: <20091126091026.278BBA04.C9CD3619@192.168.0.2> 26 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org CologneOFF V - video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database Today--> "Cakesitter" by Valerie Garlick (USA) http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Nov 27 12:25:03 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Fri Nov 27 12:25:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day - 27 November Message-ID: <20091127122503.28964E4.33DD0C79@192.168.0.2> 27 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org CologneOFF V - video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database Today-->"Roghieh" by Alysse Stepanian (Iran) --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Nov 27 12:34:23 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Nov 27 12:34:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] Co-curation event - Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain Today. 27th Nov 09. In-Reply-To: <20091127122503.28964E4.33DD0C79@192.168.0.2> References: <20091127122503.28964E4.33DD0C79@192.168.0.2> Message-ID: <4B0FB93F.9010503@furtherfield.org> Sorry for cross posting. Co-curation event - Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain Today. 27th Nov 09. Join us for the DIWO co-curation event today It will run from 12-3pm at HTTP Gallery View the work and discuss the concepts and approaches explored and make decisions about how the work can best be displayed in the gallery. From the webpage you will be able see and hear what we're doing in the gallery and contribute to the discussion via instant messaging. Online here http://www.livestream.com/furtherfield. Log on at noon for a 12.15 start - it ends at 3pm. If you experience any problems, email ale@furtherfield.org. Floor plan here: http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?page_id=78 See you here. Furtherfield.org crew HTTP Gallery Technical Specification Connectivity - Broadband 8Mb, Wireless access Computer Equipment and accessories - Laptop running XP and Linux, Mac Mini, 3 PCs, keyboards and mice. Audio-visual output/display - 2 good projectors, TV that plays DVDs, 4 speakers (surround sound), 2 speakers (stereo), a big cludgey monitor, several flat-screen monitors that can be wall-mounted, colour laser printer, b&w inkjet printer, dot matrix printer. Info about this project here: Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?page_id=2 Info about the last DIWO Project before this one: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml Other related links: Furtherfield - online media arts community. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - email list community for discussion. http://www.netbehaviour.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sat Nov 28 10:46:54 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Sat Nov 28 10:47:46 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day - 28 November Message-ID: <20091128104654.5C6E5BBE.8B6E46BB@192.168.0.2> 28 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org CologneOFF V - video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database Today-->"The Great Identity Swindle"" by Nikesh Shukla (UK) --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From redazione at digicult.it Sat Nov 28 11:07:05 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Sat Nov 28 11:07:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult_Digimag 49 / November 2009_english version online Message-ID: <5BF34499CC614298A53F1D74AB7CB269@nomebea615a6f6> Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: DIGIMAG 49 / NOVEMBER 2009 http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.asp The archive section, past articles and issues: http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/ The updated list of authors and critics www.digicult.it/en/credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "... I think there are some interesting scenarios about the future of the body, most of them generating contestable futures. So, I'm not suggesting some kind of utopian sci-fi futures for the human body, but the human body, for example, unexpectedly has recently become the host for its machines. Increasingly technology has become microminiaturized and it is now being safely inserted inside the body. At a nanotechnology scale, the technology will be able to re-colonize the human body. So, now we are colonized by bacteria and viruses: in the future will be re-colonized by machines, sensors and nanorobots. And this is a quite a plausible scenario. Instead of the Japanese manga, sci-fi external extensions of the body through exoskeletons - that I have done - perhaps the future of the body will be a future with the body itself becomes the host for its machines and all technology of the future will be invisible because will be inside of the body. This is a possible scenario, but there are many others..." Stelarc, from "Stelarc's extrabody: the technologic chimera" by Serena Cangiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [INTERVIEWS]: - STELARC http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1641 - by Serena Cangiano - SCOTT ARFORD http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1633 - by Claudia D'Alonzo & Marco Mancuso - SOSOLIMITED http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1649 - by Marco Mancuso - BOONE OAKLEY http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1643 - by Giulia Simi - TEATRINO ELETTRICO PIGRECO http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1638 - by Marco Mancuso [REPORTS]: - FUTURE PLACES http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1645 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli - ALMOST CINEMA 09 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1634 - by Lucrezia Cippitelli - ART FUTURA 2009 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1635 - by Barbara Sansone - FROM FRIEZE TO ED RUSHA http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1646 - by Stefano Raimondi - REFF/REWF http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1640 - by Penelope.di.Pixel - ISTITUTO CIID COPENHAGEN http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1636 - by Elena Gianni [FEATURING]: - WILLIAM KENTRIDGE http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1647 - by Annamaria Monteverdi - KENNETH ANGER http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1651 - by Francesco Bertocco - JOY ITO http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1637 - by Giulia Baldi - TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INNOVATION http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1650 - by Alessandra Migani - EMERGENCIA / AGENZIA EMERGENTE http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1644 - by Micha Cardenas & Felipe Zuniga [THEMES]: - CLIMATTIVISTA! http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1639 - by Alex Foti - IN PRINCIPIO FU LA CIBERNETICA http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1642 - by Teresa De Feo - CAM GIRLS AND SEX ON SECOND LIFE: A REPORT http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1648 - by Marco Riciputi [COVER]: Ryoichi Kurokawa live visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EDITORIAL STAFF]: - Marco Mancuso - director and editor - Claudia D'Alonzo - press office - Luca Restifo - technical consultancy - Riccardo Vescovo - graphic design - Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Universit? IULM - editing - Giuseppe Cordaro - podcast - Mauro Minnone e Luigi Ghezzi - web 2.0 strategies [AUTHORS]: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Bertram Niessen, Teresa De Feo, Luigi Ghezzi, Giulia Baldi, Domenico Quaranta, Massimo Schiavoni, Monica Ponzini, Valentina Tanni, Annamaria Monteverdi, Tiziana Gemin, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Silvia Bianchi, Francesca Valsecchi, Claudia D'Alonzo, Barbara Sansone, Giulia Simi, Silvia Scaravaggi, Maresa Lippolis, Alessandra Migani, Alessio Galbiati, Giuseppe Cordaro, Antonio Caronia, Clemente Pestelli, Davide Anni,Donata Marletta, Valeria Merlini, Loretta Borrelli, Stefano Raimondi, Otherehto, Carla Langella, Stefano Bertocco, Elena Gianni, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Marvin Milanese, Penelope.di.pixel, Alex Foti, Serena Cangiano [TRANSLATIONS]: Emanuela Cassol, Luisa Bertolatti, Monica Fontana, Francesca Lattanzi, Margerita Castelli, Giulia Tiddens, Sara Cavagna, Valeria Grillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIGICULT (www.digicult.it/en) is an online/offline Italian cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture worldwide. DIGICULT focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people about, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field of digital art and culture. DIGICULT is today a web portal updated daily with many news from all over the world, with calls for artists, with events and projects highlights, links, reviews and theoretical texts. DIGICULT is also the editor of the monthly magazine DIGIMAG (www.digicult.it/digimag_en/index), which focuses, with a critic and journalistic approach, on some important cultural and artistic issues like net art, hacktivism, video art, electronica, audio video, interaction design, artificial intelligence, new media, software art, performing art. DIGICULT produces an electronic music and audiovisual podcast, DIGIPOD www.digicult.it/podcast), linked to the world of the netlabels and indipendent audiovisual productions online, and has also its own newsletter international service DIGINEWS. DIGICULT in finally involved with the art agency DIGIMADE (www.digicult.it/agency) in activities like special projects and curatorial in Italy and worldwide, media partnerships and special journalistic/critic reports of some important festivals, and is actually working as curator/promoter of some Italian Audiovisual artists and designers, presenting their work within some important festivals, galleries, exhibition, events and cultural centers in Europe and worldwide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marco Mancuso Digicult Director - Digital Art & Culture Critic, Curator & Teacher ----------------------------------------- Via Thaon di Revel 9 20159, Milan - Italy Mob. +39.340.8371816 skype. sostakovich ----------------------------------------- http://www.digicult.it http://www.digicult.it/digimag http://www.digicult.it/agency From qrndnc at yahoo.it Sat Nov 28 18:36:01 2009 From: qrndnc at yahoo.it (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Sat Nov 28 18:36:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] =?windows-1252?q?PIXXELPOINT_2009_=96_Once_Upon_a_Time?= =?windows-1252?q?_in_the_West?= Message-ID: <9552233D-46E6-4701-9014-4F91EFC5FAF9@yahoo.it> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PIXXELPOINT 2009 ? 10th International New Media Art Festival Once Upon a Time in the West December 4 ? 11, 2009 Nova Gorica (SI) ? Gorizia (IT) Curator: Domenico Quaranta Organization: Kulturni dom Nova Gorica Partners: Associazione Lucide, Gorizia DAMS Gorizia, Universit? di Udine Zavod Kinoatelje Istituto italiano per la cultura in Slovenia, Ljubljana Ambasciata Olandese in Slovenia Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Gorizia Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open at the Mestna galerija Nova Gorica on December 4, 2009, at 8.00 PM. The festival will take place from December 4 to December 11, 2009, and will have two venues: the Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, every day from 9.00 AM to 7.00 PM; and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia (Via Carducci 2, Gorizia), every day from 2.00 to 7.00 PM. Furthermore, Web based works have been collected in an online gallery designed in collaboration with Club Internet (www.clubinternet.org) and proudly hosted by Padiglione Internet (www.padiglioneinternet.com) ? a project by Miltos Manetas for the Venice Biennale. The online exhibition, open every day, 24/24, will be screened in the two venues of the festival as well. Pixxelpoint, now celebrating its 10th birthday, has become an internationally established New Media Art festival, well known in Slovenia and abroad. Its primary interest is to bring information technologies and New Media Art to a broader audience, and to help new generations in developing an alternative, more ?mature? use of the computer. THE FESTIVAL THEME Once Upon a Time in the West We keep on talking about ?new media?, while in actually fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start counting from the advent of the Web, forty if we start from Arpanet. Spacewar!, the first videogame ever, is more or less the same age. Virtual worlds are the updated, lighter versions of a technology acclaimed as ?the future? when Second Life programmers were still in diapers; social networks are the bastard sons of Fidonet. As for the computer, it is younger than Lord Byron, but certainly not than his daughter Ada. Once upon a time there was the electronic frontier, an abandonware myth which was able to regenerate itself thanks to the continuous advance of the frontier itself. Like in space, in technological progress there's no ocean at the end of the trip. But, unlike the space race, the race to the next technology is endless, and endlessness is boring. Yet, while we got used to innovation and the day-after rhetorics, we have never got used to the loss of the past. We look back to what was new yesterday and is trash today, and we feel a deep sense of nostalgia. Commodore 64 and 386dx. The first Apple Macintosh. Bulletin Board Systems. Animated gifs. Glittering images. Web buttons. Super Mario. Doom. Napster. Jennicam. Mosaic. ASCII art. MIDIs and MOOs. Not to mention VHS, vinyl, audio cassettes, cathode tubes, portable radios, faxes. It is the kind of nostalgia that we feel for a relative who died young, once the pain abates: you are left wondering what kind of man he would have been. Or for someone that, once grown up, does not live up to his or her promise. Sometimes nostalgia develops into historical research, and becomes media archeology. We don't look for the technologies that we once loved, but those we have never seen in action. But in both the cases, in the artistic field this sentimental look at the past is producing some brand new, interesting stuff. Reviving dead media and obsolete technologies, retrieving and rekindling their aesthetics, making them do things they were never expected to do, and telling stories about them with other means is proving to be a sound artistic strategy ? undoubtedly more so than ?the exploration of the artistic potential of new media? which became the mantra of most New Media Art. This happens because, when you give up on the rhetorics of novelty, what is left on stage is the human element: the man of the past who domesticated the media, put his own life into them and was changed by them; and the man of the present, who looks back on that past with the same sentiment as the venerable Sergio Leone looked to the West. Indeed in spaghetti westerns, as in this show, nostalgia is just a minimal part of the whole thing. The decision to use obsolete media reveals can be act of cultural resistance against the present and this marketing strategy, as well as proprietary software and hardware; a way to make something new with old means; the resiult of the choice to work withing a defined set of constraints. In some cases, it is the juicy fruit of a steampunk imagination; iIn other cases, looking back to the history of the media goes hand in hand with looking back to your own personal history. Dr. Domenico Quaranta (1978, http://domenicoquaranta.com) is a contemporary art critic and curator who lives and works in Brescia, Italy. He focused his research on the impact of the current techno- social developments on the arts, with a specific interest in art in networked spaces, from the Internet to virtual worlds. As an art critic, he is a regular contributor to Flash Art magazine; his essays, reviews and interviews appeared in many magazines, newspapers and web portals. His first book titled, NET ART 1994-1998: La vicenda di ?da?web was published in 2004; he also co-edited, together with Matteo Bittanti, the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (Milan, October 2006) and contributed to a number of books and publications. He curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, including: Connessioni Leggendarie. Net.art 1995-2005 (Milan 2005); GameScenes (Turin 2005); Radical Software (Turin 2006); Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age (Bruxelles 2008); For God?s Sake! (Nova Gorica, 2008); RE:akt! | Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting (Bucharest ? Ljubljana - Rijeka 2009); Expanded Box (ARCO Art Fair, Madrid 2009); Hyperlucid (Prague Biennal, Prague 2009). He lectures internationally and teaches ?Net Art? at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. EXHIBITING ARTISTS: AIDS-3D (Germany): Forever Heath Death, 2009 Mats Andren & Anders Carlsson (Sweden): HT Gold, 2008 Michael Bell Smith (USA): Grid Panic, 2006 David Blackmore (UK): Cracked LCDs, 2009 Ian Bogost (USA): Guru meditation, 2009 BridA / Tom Ker?evan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica (Slovenia): Nanoplot, 2009 Wayne Clements (UK): The Best and Worst of Possible Worlds, 2009 Vuk ?osi? (Slovenia): ASCII sculpture, 2009 Chris Coy (USA): Chariots of Mortal Combat Fire, 2007 Florian Cramer (The Netherlands): Floppy Films, 2009 Olle Essvik (Sweden): Devices, 2007 ? 2008 Vladimir Frelih (Croatia): Katalogue, 1998 ? 2000 Darko Fritz (Croatia): Home, 2002 ? 2009 James Houston (UK): Big Ideas (Don't Get Any), 2008 IOcose (Italy): Floppytrip, 2009 Tom Jennings (USA): Alan Turing made flat, 2000 Oliver Lari? (Germany): 787 Cliparts, 2006 Les Liens Invisibles (Italy): Never Ending Happy End, 2008 Olia Lialina (Germany): Animated Gif Model, 2005 Paul Matosic (UK): Deconstructed New Technology, 1995 ? ongoing Eilis McDonald (Ireland): Lo-fi Wi-fi, 2008 Rosa Menkman (The Netherlands): Happy Birthday Goto80, 2009 Rafael Rozendaal (The Netherlands): RGB, 2002 Thatisaworkaround (Greece): The Enemy Agent and You II, 2009 Thisgasthing (Italy): CABOTRONIUM, 2009 Eugenio Tisselli (Spain): Childhood Games, 1984 ? 2009 Tonylight (Italy): Space LED, 2009 UBERMORGEN.COM (Austria): Black 'n white, 2000 ? 2009 Harm Van Den Dorpel (The Netherlands): Bison.gif, 2008 Windows Media Players (UK): Graphic Interchange Series: Victorian Device, 2009 Math Wrath: While Playing Astro Grover in 1989 FOR THE FULL PROGRAM, CHECK OUT: http://www.pixxelpoint.org MORE INFOS: http://www.pixxelmusic.com http://domenicoquaranta.com PRESS: IMAGES 1 (zip, 8.1 MB) - http://domenicoquaranta.com/public/PRESS/PX09_press_pack1.zip IMAGES 2 (zip, 8.2 MB) - http://domenicoquaranta.com/public/PRESS/PX09_press_pack2.zip --- Domenico Quaranta web. http://domenicoquaranta.com/ email. info@domenicoquaranta.com mob. +39 340 2392478 skype. dom_40 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sun Nov 29 11:27:19 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Sun Nov 29 11:47:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day - 29 November Message-ID: <20091129112719.A7AC6D6D.A3ADB26@192.168.0.2> 29 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org CologneOFF V - video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database Today-->Bodies and Metals by Rafael (Belgium)--> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From peripheriques at free.fr Sun Nov 29 14:48:16 2009 From: peripheriques at free.fr (Nicolas Maigret) Date: Sun Nov 29 14:50:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] CORPUS / ARCHITECTURE & SONORITIES > FROM DECEMBER 4TH, 2009 TO JANUARY 27TH, 2010 > AQUITAINE - FRANCE Message-ID: <4B127BA0.80301@free.fr> sorry for any cross posting ____________________________________________________________________________ CORPUS / ARCHITECTURE & SONORITIES SOUND INSTALLATION / LIVE / CONFERENCE / EXHIBITION FROM DECEMBER 4TH, 2009 TO JANUARY 27TH, 2010 AQUITAINE - FRANCE DETAILLED PROGRAM AND ARCHIVES : http://corpus.artoffailure.org ABOUT ART OF FAILURE : http://artoffailure.org ____________________________________________________________________________ CORPUS / ARCHITECTURE & SONORITIES / _is an event organized by the Art of Failure collective. The multimedia project CORPUS reposes on sound interventions in four sites of Aquitaine, choosen for their architectural specificities. Each intervention offers one to participate to a unique sound experience, where architecture is set in vibration. Parallel, a series of meetings with artists, whose work deals with architecture and sound alike, will allow to perceive and experience the current stakes regarding these crossings. ____________________________________________________________________________ CORPUS [N. MAIGRET & N. MONTGERMONT 2006-9] _is both a sound, architectural and multimedia apparatus, which sets in vibration objects, furnitures or components in a dedicated space. The whole is activated, "brought to life", and specific sonorousnesses are then revealed. The site is transformed in a sole and vast instrument. CORPUS brings a physical and unique experience, a sensitive as well as ghostly relationship with ones' environment. This experience is accurately conceived according to the characteristics of each place. Each concert and site specific installation will be recorded. These audiovisual archives will then be exhibited at OARA - MOLIERE SCENE D'AQUITAINE, as well as on the dedicated website. Dec.4th : FUNICULAR OF PAU - [Pau] - (Jean Bonnamy - 1908) Dec.11th : PYRAMID OF THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL OF BORDEAUX - [Talence] - (Claude Ferret - 1973) Dec.18th : AGRICULTURAL POLE OF CHATEAU CHASSE-SPLEEN - [Moulis en Medoc] - (Lanoire & Courrian - 2007) Dec.25th : LATAPIE HOUSE - [Floirac] - (A. Lacaton & JP. Vassal - 1993) Jan. 8th to 25th : ART OF FAILURE EXHIBITION - @ Oara [Bordeaux] ____________________________________________________________________________ ARCHITECTURE AND SONORITIES / _is a series of of meetings at the intersection of sound art and architecture, from practical, theorical and historical approaches. Each event begins with an artist's lecture at OARA's, followed by a concert, an exhibition or installation. Dec.10th : ACHIM WOLLSCHEID @ Oara & Monoquini [Bordeaux] Dec.17th : JEAN PHILIPPE ROUX @ Oara & Monoquini [Bordeaux] Jan. 7th : ART OF FAILURE @ Oara [Bordeaux] ____________________________________________________________________________ DETAILLED PROGRAM AND ARCHIVES : http://corpus.artoffailure.org ABOUT ART OF FAILURE : http://artoffailure.org This project is part of the residence program of the OARA [Bordeaux/France], and take place in the 9th ?dition of the acces(s) festival [Pau/France] PARTNERSHIP : Monoquini, GMEM, Ch?teau Chasse-Spleen, Ecole nationale sup?rieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, Radio Campus Bordeaux, famille Latapie, Le Carr? des Jalles, Goethe Institut, M?dias-cit? - Jeudis Multim?dias, Upgrade! Paris, Universit? M. Montaigne - Bordeaux 3, DICREAM From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Nov 30 07:45:05 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Mon Nov 30 07:55:11 2009 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF V - features for one day - 30 November Message-ID: <20091130074505.DE76CE47.4CEF2768@192.168.0.2> 30 November 2009 ------------------------------------ VideoChannel Cologne presents CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo? 5th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org CologneOFF V - video features for one day on VAD - Video Art Database Today-->Murdered Brides by Arzu Ozkal Telhan (Turkey) --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?p=974 ---------------------------------------------- The CologneOFF V festival catalogue can be downloaded for freee as PDF ?> http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF_5th_edition_2009.pdf --------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is presenting CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival also on --> Microwave - New Media Arts Festival 2009 Hong Kong - 13 Nov - 11 Dec 2009, and --> Fonlad - Digital Art Festival Guarda Portugal - 14 Nov 2009 - 03 Jan 2010 --> in December in UK and Feb 2010 in India -------------------------------------------- The entire festival can be accessed online directly via http://coff05.newmediafest.org info[at]coff.newmediafest.org -------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Nov 30 11:36:19 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Mon Nov 30 11:55:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines --> December 2009 Message-ID: <20091130113619.BDF23883.7EFF2A94@192.168.0.2> netEX: calls & deadlines -->December 2009 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents a) . news b) calls & deadlines --> 03 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal 19 Calls: December 2009 deadlines external 10 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ a) News -->VideoChannel Cologne announces 1. Launch of Found Footage! Christmas 2009 Feature on VideoChannel - 1-31 December 2009 http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=667 2. CologneOFF V program screenings at Bristol's Arnolfini in the framework of unCraftivism - 12-13 December 2009 3. CologneOFF IV all day screening program on 30 December 2009 at Rauland Kunstforeningen Rauland/Norway ---> Media/Art Cologne announces NewMediaFest'2010 - the global networked event starting on 1 Jan 2010 - ending on 31 December 2010 Motto: 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.mediaartcologne.org/blog/?p=72 ------------------------------------------------ b) Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2009: deadlines internal ** extended deadline 31 December call: soundart for SoundLAB VII - soundCelebrations details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1423 Deadline 20 December 2009 VideoChannel - video project environments Call: SF - Shoah Film Collection to be released on occasion 27 January 2010 - 65th return of the Liberation of Auschwitz details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549 *ongoing deadline 1 September 2009 - 1 September 2010 Java Museum - Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010 details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 ------------------------------------------------ December 2009 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 December Courtisane - film, video and media art festival - Ghent/Belgium http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1608 31 December Imaging History - Conferece (papers & presentations) - Brussels/Belgium http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1697 31 December Artist Residency in Beijing/China http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=562 30 December 4th Beijing International Art Biennale 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1678 30 December Artist residency in Myanmar New Zero http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1602 18 December Aferro Studio resideny Newark/NY/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1521 15 December EMAF 2010 - European Media Arts Festival Osnabrueck/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1694 15 December Creative Divergents - International competition http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1737 15 December ARTerra - Artistic Rural Residency Portugal http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1729 13 December Moves?10: Framing Motion Liverpool/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1771 12 December unCraftivism - Arnolfini Britol/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1732 10 December Digital Facades: Open Up - Media Art Lab Proado Madrid/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1765 10 December Experiments in Cinema 5.1 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1545 7 December Pact Zollverein Residencies Essen/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1742 5 December Banff New Media Institute - Almost Perfect Co-production Residencies http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1517 4 December ARTECH?2010 Conference Portugal http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1759 4 December 700IS - Reindeerland Film & Videofestival Iceland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1716 1 December Art Grease - video and film art Buffalo/NY/Usa http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1219 1 December Tampere Film Festival 2010 Tampere/Finland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1506 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- ---> Selfshadows 2.= - net based project by Javier Bedrina -->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 marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Nov 30 13:13:59 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Nov 30 13:14:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] State of Art - A Conversation with G.H. Hovagimyan. In-Reply-To: <027201c8381d$6aa22f40$0301a8c0@marco> References: <027201c8381d$6aa22f40$0301a8c0@marco> Message-ID: <4B13B707.9080000@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... State of Art - A Conversation with G.H. Hovagimyan. A conversation between G.H. Hovagimyan and Mark Cooley conducted through electronic mail. http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=906 Hovagimyan with Cooley about his experiences around censorship in art culture, identifying some of the taboos which tend to influence responses from potential censors (curators, board members, sponsors, politicians, and other interested parties). As well as the economics, funding and criterias around art practice, and how that shapes the context of how art is seen and presented in an art framework and what this means. G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental digital artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet in the early nineties. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art and installations. His streamed video talk shows, Art Dirt and Collider explore and document the artists of the digital art scene at the time circa 1995-2000. ----------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. 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/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Nov 30 13:57:46 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Nov 30 13:58:20 2009 Subject: [spectre] Re: State of Art - A Conversation with G.H. Hovagimyan. In-Reply-To: <4B13B707.9080000@furtherfield.org> References: <027201c8381d$6aa22f40$0301a8c0@marco> <4B13B707.9080000@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4B13C14A.7090901@furtherfield.org> CORRECTION... Sorry - this is the correct link is http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=368 marc From rasa at rixc.lv Mon Nov 30 15:52:22 2009 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Mon Nov 30 15:55:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] Training Programme ORGANIZED NETWORKS in Riga this week! Message-ID: Dear Spectre! Please find below the info about the strategical network meeting ORGANIZED NETWORKS, which RIXC with partners is organising in Riga this weekend, December 3-5 Also, some important parts will take place online, so who is interested can join too - i will send more detailed programme later this week, more updated info also will be available in Training Programme's blog: http://orgnet.rixc.lv/ (currently under construction) best regards, Rasa http://rixc.lv ---- ORGANIZED NETWORKS Training Programme for Cultural Network Management Riga, December 3 - 5, 2009 By addressing issues of cultural sustainability with focus on networking, the Training Programme for cultural network management entitled "Organized Networks" will take place in Riga, December 3 - 5, 2009, gathering together representatives from more then 20 cultural organisations, new media centers and networks from Baltic, Nordic and other European regions, as well as Caucasus countries. The Training Programme is co-organised by the RIXC, the Center for new media culture (Latvia) and partners from Finland (Pixelache festival, MARIN Association), Norway (Piksel, iolab, Atelier Nord), Iceland (Lorna), Sweden (Kultivator, C-Studio/Interactive Institute, New Media Meeting), Denmark (FieldWork, WindFestiva/Energy Academy), Lithuania (KCCC), Latvia (Association for Cultural NGOs), the Netherlands (Baltan Laboratories), Armenia (ACCEA/NPAK) and Georgia (Center for Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, GeoAir). . . . Conceptual background The current global crisis motivates us to think again of "how to remake the world" as many of methods used previously have turned out finite and unsustainable. Today, new approach in terms of both - design and production is urged nearly in all fields, including culture. The idea of "networks" is not new, but it contains potential that hasn't been exploited to a great extent yet. New media networks have already had more than ten years of history. Translocal as well as local networking has played an important role in supporting operation of small-scale cultural organisations. However, networks as such are not only virtual structures, there are real people and real technical infrastructures behind them. Our network culture today is also faced by sustainability issues. We are asking now: how to work out new strategies and methodologies for improving and developing more sustainable translocal cooperation practice ("organized networks")? And how to develop new (network-based) models for facilitating individual / local cultural organisations ("network nodes")? The idea of "organized networks" (as proposed by Ned Rossiter, Geert Lovink) poses a question, can network be seen as a new form of institution, and considers that it is relevant not only to work out new methodologies for networking practice - i.e. tools and protocols (agreed ways to support activity in the network), but also to discuss 'collaborative value system' (dealing with issues such as funding, internal power plays, and the demand of "accountability" and "transparency", etc.). The Training Programme will investigate what strategies "organized networks" can offer for sustainable development in cultural sector, and, in particular, in translocal cooperation. The Training Programme will specifically focus on evaluating the cultural network practice of Baltic-Nordic-EU region. This will include NICE and Pixelache festival networks, Baltic-Nordic artists residency programmes, Nordic funding structure, future development of new media art centers, their local and translocal cooperation strategies, etc. Ways how networks can create and sustain their own infrastructure will also be discussed. Geographically, the Programme also aims to enhance European cultural area by drawing out new cultural cooperation axis connecting Nordic, Baltic and Caucasus regions on the Northern and Eastern border of Europe. With regard to the content, the Training Programme will explore the potential of emerging interdisciplinary cooperation among the fields of arts, science and sustainable (information and energy) technologies, in order to set up a common ground for developing Art and Renewable Energy Network and to discuss possible future co-projects. Seminar will also discuss how artists, new media activists, renewable technology researchers, social software developers, open source activists, designers of autonomous and alternative infrastructures who already work together, deal with sustainability issues, discussing how may cultural organizations and their networks benefit from these artistic innovations for building their future sustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PROGRAM Thursday, December 3 Location: Spikeri, kim? Building, 3rd floor 19.30 - 21.00 Public Lecture: Erik Kluitenberg (the Netherlands) ?Design for Sustainable Immobility" Friday, December 4 (Day 1) Location: RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35 (entrance from Minstereja street) 10.00 - 14.00 [Work Session 1]: Networks (/ Organized Networks) 15.00 - 18.00 [Work Session 2]: Sustainability (/ Design for Resilience) Location: Spikeri, kim? Building, 3rd floor 20.00 - [Open Programme] Screenings / Public Presentations (Kultivator / Sweden, Baltan Laboratories / the Netherlands, One Minute Video Festival / Armenia, Survival Kit / LMC, Latvia, Serde / Latvia, Arctic Perspectives Project / Lorna, Iceland, etc.) Saturday, December 5. (Day 2) Location: RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35 (entrance from Minstereja street) 11.00 - 12.00 Michael Psallidas (Greece) Lecture "Intelligent Energy Networks" 12.00 - 14.00 [Work Session 3]: p2p Infrastructures (/ Energy Issues) 15.00 - 18.00 [Work Session 4]: Open Code Infrastructures (/ Social Media) Location: Spikeri, kim? Building, 3rd floor 20.00: [Open Programme] Presentations (MoTA / Slovenia; MARIN mobile residency project / Finland; GeoAir / Georgia; Homo Novous / JTI, Latvia; Nordic-Baltic Videoarchive Project / Noass / Latvia, Pixelache festival network / Finland, etc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday, December 3: The Training Programme will begin with public lecture ?Design for Sustainable Immobility" by Eric Kluitenberg on Thursday, December 3 at 19.30 in Spikeri. The lecture will explore a rather contradictory topic - mobility continues to spread all around the planet regardless of the current financial crisis. On one hand, everyone has rights to travel without restrictions. But on the other, it is clear that our planet can no longer sustain such hypermobility as today. New design ideas must deal with how to develop interconnections between people and how to organize an alternative lifestyle that would be less determined by constant speed and mobility. Designers, architects and artists in particular are invited to discuss ideas and possible models for solving this issue. . . . Friday, December 4: Day 1 of the Training programme will focus mainly on discussing theoretical questions in relation to "network" and studying previous networking experience. The working session will start off with a general discussion on terms ?network" and ?sustainability" and the relations between them: Do we all know what is the 'network'? Do we understand what makes something sustainable? Can network be considered as a new type of institution that is translocal, distributed, mobile and decentralized? How can we maintain our networks to be sustainable, if they are in principle unstable? What are the most relevant organizational issues regarding networks? What approach of "organized networks" offer that would contribute towards network sustainability? What does creative labour mean in the context of organized network? First working session will feature also an on-line presentation (live from Shanghai) by Ned Rossiter (author of the book "Organized Networks") introducing ideas behind the "organized networks" concept, which will be followed by work in discussion-groups of on-site (and remote) participants. Whilst an on-line interview on "design for resilience" with John Thackara (founder of design forum "Doors of Perception" and expert on design and sustainability issues) will introduce the second working sessiong that will address issues of "sustainability" in relation to "mobility". Mobility issues will be discussed from two different perspectives. The "mobile sustainability" working group (faciliated by Tapio Makela) will discuss physical infrastructures for mobility and communication - from e-cars to green wifi, M.A.R.I.N. (residency project on a sailing boat) and other projects and current topics. A contrary session on "sustainable immobility" will focus on online tools and tactics, introducing ideas of the forthcoming Electrosmog festival (March 2010 in Amsterdam). This session will be faciliated by Eric Kluitenberg, and it will focus on how to imagine closer co-operation using real-time connections over the internet and how that might work both in tightening collaboration and networking between cultural organizations as well as contribute ecologically to breaking down the cycle of continuous travel to sustain cultural networks. . . . Saturday, December 5: Day 2 of the seminar will discuss more practical questions - how to organize the practice of cooperation network and how to design network infrastructure. Day 2 will start with lecture "Intelligent Energy Networks" by Michael Psallidas, introducing general infrastructures of p2p-networking and energy issues. The working group afterwards will focus more on a particular issues around newly founded Art and Renewable Network - discussing tools, finances, resources, events, exchanges, as well protocols: ways how to support activity in the network. The second part of the day will be focusing on issues of open source infrastructures and social media that will start off with another on-line lecture ?Social Media: Re-introducing centralization trough back door" by Armin Medosch. This working session will include evaluation of situation in Baltic-Nordic-EU region and previous networking experience (NICE, Pixelache, Nordic funds, participating organizations, etc.), introduction to case studies (current cultural situation in Latvia, case of Caucasus region) and will discuss how to enhance regional and European cooperation, by involving Caucasus region. Also other practical and theoretical issues brought up by participants, will be discussed during this day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PARTICIPANTS Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie / The Netherlands) Andrew Paterson (Pixelache / Finland) Angela Plohman (Baltan Laboratories / The Netherlands) Margr?t El?sabet ?lafsd?ttir (Lorna / Iceland) Edward Balassanian (NPAK / Armenia) Gagik Ghazareh (NPAK / Armenia) Malin Lindmark Vrijman (Kultivator / Sweden) Mathieu Vrijman (Kultivator / Sweden) Nino Palavandishvili (GeoAir / Georgia) Kristin Bergaust (Norway) Ignas Kazakevicius (KCCC / Lithuania) Skaiste Kazarauskaite (KCCC / Lithuania) Paulius Klisevicius (KCCC / Lithuania) Martin Bricelj (MoTA / Ljubljana) Linda V?ge (Atelier Nord / Norway) Tapio Makela (MARIN / Finland) Juha Huuskonen (Pixelache / Finland) Michael Psallidas (p2p network / Greece) Lars Nordqvist (New Media Meeting / Sweden) Rasa Smite (RIXC / Latvia) . . . Online speakers: Ned Rossiter (author of "Organized Networks" books) John Thackara (design and sustainability expert, founder of Doors of perception) Armin Medosch (writer, artist, curator of "WAVES" exhibition project) . . . Online participants: Bj?rn Norberg (Mejan Labs / Sweden) Daniela Ariado (iolab / Norway) Gisle Fr?ysland (Piksel / Norway) Thomas Rydell (Interactive Institute / Sweden) Nis R?mer (Fieldwork / Denmark) Per Platou (PNEK / Norway) uc. . . . Participants from Latvia: Members of Association of Contemporary Culture NGOs of Latvia: RIXC, NOASS, LLMC, SERDE, JTI, DIC, and others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locations: Public lectures: Spikeri, kim? building, 3rd floor, Maskavas iela 12/1, Riga (near Central Market). Training programme: RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas iela (in Old Town). . . . Organisers: RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in cooperation with Association for Contemporary Culture NGOs (Latvia) and international partners. . . . Contact: rixc@rixc.lv tel. +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite) tel. +371-67228478 (RIXC office) . . . Support: European Culture Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, State Culture Capital Foundation, Hotel Elizabete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Nov 30 18:42:46 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Nov 30 18:43:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain - Exhibition Opening In-Reply-To: <4A1FB29F.1030609@no-log.org> References: <4A1FB29F.1030609@no-log.org> Message-ID: <4B140416.5080806@furtherfield.org> Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain - Exhibition Opening Press Release: December 2009 Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain: The Exhibition http://http.uk.net An exhibition resulting from a Mail-Art project across physical and digital networks, responding to the Dark Mountain Manifesto. Private View: 7-9pm Full Moon, Wednesday 2nd December '09 Live performance at 8pm representing a central controversy arising during the project Gallery Open: 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, 4th-12th December '09, 8th-30th January '10 We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. ? Uncivilisation, The Dark Mountain Manifesto. The Dark Mountain Project is ?a new cultural movement for an age of global disruption.? It aims to ?question the stories that underpin our failing civilisation, to craft new ones for the age ahead and to write clearly and honestly about our true place in the world.? Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain, a mail-art project at HTTP Gallery, is a cultural collaboration for this age. ?Uncivilisation,? the Dark Mountain Manifesto, calls for a cultural response to our current predicament. Its challenge was offered to network-minded artists, technologists, writers and activists as a provocation ? to work together to re-envision the narratives and infrastructures that govern our relationships with the natural world, and how they might be unravelled and rewoven to reconfigure our place in it. As ?Uncivilisation? concludes, ?the end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.? Artists, technologists, writers, activists and all other living beings were invited to correspond with each other across physical and digital mail networks, and the exhibition at HTTP present the results of this process. These have been gathered and the presentation devised during an Open Curation event, involving collaborators in real and virtual space. Transmissions to be shown in the exhibition include collaborative image-threads, net artworks, digital videos, drawings, paintings on wall and paper, sound works, and the full text of the discussion generated on the NetBehaviour list presented in numerous forms. The opening will also feature a performance representing a central controversy arising during the project. The exhibition offers new myths and maps for future uncivilisation at HTTP Gallery. This is the second Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art project initiated by Furtherfield.org. The first DIWO experiment in 2007 extended the Do-It-Yourself ethos of early net art, characterised by curiosity, activism and precision, towards a more collaborative approach, using the Internet as an experimental artistic medium and distribution system to foment grass-roots creativity. Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain is a collaborative project by Furtherfield.org and The Dark Mountain Project. More about The Dark Mountain Project and Furtherfield.org The Dark Mountain Project is curated by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine. http://www.dark-mountain.net Paul is the author of One No, Many Yeses and Real England. He was deputy editor of The Ecologist between 1999 and 2001. His first poetry collection, Kidland, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. http://www.paulkingsnorth.net Dougald writes the blog ?Changing the World (and other excuses for not getting a proper job).? He is a former BBC journalist and co-founder of the School of Everything, and has written for and edited various online and offline magazines. http://www.dougald.co.uk This project is part of Furtherfield.org's three-year Media Art Ecologies programme, which aims to provide opportunities for critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage. HTTP Gallery is Furtherfield.org?s dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art and technology. Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England, London. For details about the project, visit: http://http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain For more information contact: Ale Scapin, HTTP Gallery ale@furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY. http://www.http.uk.net http://www.furtherfield.org From veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca Mon Nov 30 18:52:15 2009 From: veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca (Sophie Le-Phat Ho) Date: Mon Nov 30 18:52:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] cfp :: .dpi 17 :: "adherence: messy resistance" Message-ID: <811148.26631.qm@web52904.mail.re2.yahoo.com> .dpi issue 17 :: call for proposals :: "adherence: messy resistance" Guest editor-in-chief: Sophie Le-Phat Ho Deadline for abstracts + bios: January 3, 2010 Selected texts must be submitted by: February 7, 2010 Publication date: February 2010 Brought closer to the notion of resistance, that of adherence seems to function as an antonym: to resist something is to not adhere to it. On the other hand, to resist, despite what some inventors of "nonistes" might claim, is also to adhere to something else. Between the two, the level of adherence can serve to measure the degree of resistance against institutionalization or cooptation. Adherence can be resistance's weapon just as it can be its weakness point. As such, resistance and adherence go hand in hand. However their opposition is not a given. Indeed, the notion of resistance_adherence can be seen rather as a process (of everyday life), a way of doing, of work to be done at every level (at all times). The choice of the concept of adherence, rather than that of adhesion (membership), brings forth the possibility of approaching that concept in terms of degree, of coefficient -- that is, as measure -- and not as identity. Adherence hence suggests the ideas of a slippery ground, of a force of attraction, of friction, lubrication, rhythm, viscosity, entanglement, as well as dexterity, navigation, sharpness -- or in other words -- art. How can resistance_adherence be addressed in those terms, that is, not in oppositions but in levels of intensity? How can an analysis of resistance_adherence lead to a better understanding of creativity, of autonomy? Indeed, how could tackling the notion of resistance from the point of view of adherence expose new tracks, new points of entry? Studio XX's feminist journal .dpi welcomes essays, critiques, interviews, and other web-based forms of expression related to the thematic cross-roads of technology, women, art and society. As an electronic periodical, .dpi also seeks proposals that make an interesting use of the Internet. Usually, essays are no longer than 1500-2000 words and columns, 800-1000 words. Other suggestions can also be acceptable. Selected authors will receive an honorarium for their contribution ($150 per selected article and $75 per selected column). Please send your abstract (300 words) and a short bio (100 words) by January 3, 2009, to: programmation_AT_dpi.studioxx.org For more information: http://dpi.studioxx.org + http://studioxx.org Offrez un compte Flickr Pro ? vos amis et ? votre famille. http://www.flickr.com/gift/ From podska at googlemail.com Mon Nov 30 19:38:08 2009 From: podska at googlemail.com (Podp Yvol) Date: Mon Nov 30 19:56:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] 1.12 > Globale Film Fest presents an open roundtable discussion "Becoming the Media" in Berlin Message-ID: <52b15d1f0911301038q69b5b2bctaff1e2d7bd900f57@mail.gmail.com> Globale Film Festival invites: An Open Roundtable discussion: "Becoming the Media? with: Ak Kraak, Joanne Richardson, XL Terrestrials, Globale December 1st / Tuesday 19.30h at New Yorck in Bethanien "Raum f?r emanzipatorische Projekte" S?dfl?gel, Mariannenplatz 2A, Kreuzberg Berlin The former censorship of the mainstream media has now turned into new and more refined forms of disinformation, based on overload and noise rather than the removal of information. At the same time, the claim for the democratization of the media, which in the past 10 years gave birth to a large number of independent media projects, seems to have empowered the web 2.0 user-generated content platforms. -What is the use of counter-information in such media environments? -Does something like a "General Public" still exist? -And what about media activism aside from the patterns of leftist propaganda? These questions are proposed as possible starting points for an open roundtable organized by Globale Film Festival together with filmmakers and groups who are making a political use of images, in order to think together and discuss different tactics and strategies. The participants will show one or more video excerpts taken from their own works or others which can be shown as examples to feed the discussion.To be continued. All are welcome! With respect to international participants, the discussion shall be in English ( but questions + comments welcome in any language, we'll do our best to translate ) - akkraak.squat.net/ - subsol.c3.hu/joanne/videos.html http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/richardsontext3.html - xlterrestrials.org/plog - globale-filmfestival.org ... contact: info@globale-filmfestival.org ... Hope you can join us, Podinski ps. Already started writing some text / notes for the presentation, and if you are unable to attend but interested in the theme, we hope to include a small report on the event at the Xlterrestrials site... and feel free to send us any comments or perspectives to add to the discussion there. www.xlterrestrials.org/plog Included are a list of possible media clips presented by the XLt collective from their upcoming media analysis tour: "Don't Feed the Monsters!" 0----O----o XLterrestrials arts + praxis organisms + unlicensed psychomedia analysis o-----O------0 From podska at googlemail.com Mon Nov 30 19:50:46 2009 From: podska at googlemail.com (Podp Yvol) Date: Mon Nov 30 19:56:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] 1.12 > Globale Film Fest presents an open roundtable discussion "Becoming the Media" (in Berlin) Message-ID: <52b15d1f0911301050k1c95ffc1s1632cb380f290769@mail.gmail.com> Globale Film Festival invites: An Open Roundtable discussion: "Becoming the Media? with: Ak Kraak, Joanne Richardson, XL Terrestrials, Globale December 1st / Tuesday 19.30h at New Yorck in Bethanien "Raum f?r emanzipatorische Projekte" S?dfl?gel, Mariannenplatz 2A, Kreuzberg The former censorship of the mainstream media has now turned into new and more refined forms of disinformation, based on overload and noise rather than the removal of information. At the same time, the claim for the democratization of the media, which in the past 10 years gave birth to a large number of independent media projects, seems to have empowered the web 2.0 user-generated content platforms. -What is the use of counter-information in such media environments? -Does something like a "General Public" still exist? -And what about media activism aside from the patterns of leftist propaganda? These questions are proposed as possible starting points for an open roundtable organized by Globale Film Festival together with filmmakers and groups who are making a political use of images, in order to think together and discuss different tactics and strategies. The participants will show one or more video excerpts taken from their own works or others which can be shown as examples to feed the discussion.To be continued. All are welcome! With respect to international participants, the discussion shall be in English ( but questions + comments welcome in any language, we'll do our best to translate ) - akkraak.squat.net/ - subsol.c3.hu/joanne/videos.html http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/richardsontext3.html - xlterrestrials.org/plog - globale-filmfestival.org ... contact: info (at) globale-filmfestival.org ... Hope you can join us, Podinski ps. Already started writing some text / notes for the presentation, and if you are unable to attend but interested in the theme, we hope to include a small report on the event at the Xlterrestrials site... and feel free to send us any comments or perspectives to add to the discussion here: - xlterrestrials.org/plog Included are a list of possible media clips presented by the XLt collective from their upcoming media analysis tour: "Don't Feed the Monsters!" 0----O----o XLterrestrials arts + praxis organisms + unlicensed psychomedia analysis o-----O------0 From alidiana at gmail.com Mon Nov 30 20:30:52 2009 From: alidiana at gmail.com (diana ali) Date: Mon Nov 30 20:31:26 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call out for artists Message-ID: <974a79020911301130k387cc4a2ka30cebe0edb0c06e@mail.gmail.com> Call out for artists ?Dialogues: A Fake Romance?? For a dialogue to form, the process requires another. When another is presented the dialogue becomes a dichotomy. Do we adopt another persona according to who we are talking to and how genuine is that chat? Dialogue can be seen as an exchange but this exchange is not always equal or amicable, it can manifest into an emotional charge, disagreements, it may lead to conflicts, irrationality, fake romances, or jealous contingencies. Does dialogue hinder us or further us? According to David Bohm, no one wins a dialogue; a dialogue is an exploratory process and does not work towards a goal. However, Mikhail Bakhtin held that relationships and connections exist among all living beings, and that dialogue creates a new understanding of a situation that demands change. How to apply Artists are invited to submit work which address or explore the theme of dialogue and its hidden meanings. The exhibition ?Dialogues: A Fake Romance?? will take place at the Elysium Gallery, South Wales in February 2010. http://www.elysiumgallery.com/ Please note that the submission process is free but if artists are selected they are required to pay a ?20 administration fee. To apply please send up to 3 jpeg images and a 50-100 word statement about how the work links to the theme to alidiana@gmail.com Deadline for submissions: 22th January 2010. Diana Ali (Curator of ?Dialogues: A fake romance??) From ajaco at xs4all.nl Mon Nov 30 22:16:51 2009 From: ajaco at xs4all.nl (Andreas Jacobs) Date: Mon Nov 30 22:17:18 2009 Subject: [spectre] CFP: AINAC 2010 - Art is not about Communication Message-ID: <61E32F99-DDE7-439C-BF19-E0EF2473CC8A@xs4all.nl> AINAC 2010 - Art is not about Communication Call for Papers nouns: Focus, Belief, Communication, Course, Comprehension, Art, Effect, Art, Direction, Direction(s), Network, Art, Vector, Side, Side, Main, Interpretation, Error, Many, Professional, Field, Art, Senses, Thumb, Critic, Few, World, Speech, Extreme, Notion, Ourselves, This, World, Push, Foreground, Curator, Metrosexual, Power, Relation, Accumulation, Item, Fetish, Replacement, Lust, Contact, Capital, Distinction, Use, Exchange, Labyrinth, Housing, Global, Warning, Transportation, Education, Sex, Healthcare, Political, Agenda, Value, Object, Control, Prison, CCTV, Market, Non-Smoking Area, Public, Everybody, Part, Communication, World, Facebook, Twitter, About, Their, Spaces, Google, Anxious, Need, Each, Other, Labour, Stop, Thinking, Leisure, Subject, System, Aesthetics, Teleologics. verbs: To problematize, To invent, To economize, To force, To capitalize, To inject, To reject, To subject, To object, To maintain, To remain, To insult, To consult, To solve, To dissolve, To involve, To revolve To explode, To implode, To radiate, To broadcast, To send, To conceive, To retrieve, To conspire, To subvert, To invert, To absolve, To gain, To loose, To drain, To drink, To drown, To stop, To communicate, To mutate, To correspond, To eject, To rule, To erradicate. adjectives/adverbs: Mistaken, Contrary, Singular, Local, Contemporary, Public, (Psycho), Patho-Sociological, Drenched, Oversaturated, Urban, Senseless, Speechless, Worshipped, Rural, Blurred, Private, Communicative, Global, Lucid, Kind, Nice, Rough, Mild, Less, Manifold, Plural, Focal. names: Derrida, Foucault, Brecht, Lacan, Freud, Deleuze, Bourriaud, Houellebeq, Lovecraft, Poe, Borges, Alzheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Marx, Hobbe, Spinoza, Sloterdijk, Hegel, Kranz, Benjamin, Plotinus. Articles should use any or all the words given and should not exceed 500 words. Send your proposals to ::: Art is not about Communication ::: Deadline: 15 January 2010 Received entries to be published in Nictoglobe, Volume 12, issue 1, 2010 A. Andreas - Editor Nictoglobe Online Magazine Amsterdam, The Netherlands e: ajaco@xs4all.nl w: http://www.nictoglobe.com