From diana at faces-l.net Tue Sep 1 01:44:30 2009 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Tue Sep 1 01:45:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin on air Message-ID: <20090901014430.h9w4webeasgwgogc@webmail.servus.at> +++ herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin Sept 1. - Nov. 22, 2009 www.herbstradio.org Aus der Stadt - fuer die Stadt. September 1st, 18:00 - 22:00 In and around the House of World Cultures Garden Launch, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee Klubradio and Radiopiloten are proud to announce the launch of Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin on September 1st! The actual broadcast starts in the wee hours of the morning and really gets going at 18:00 when we kick of a marathon program! Stay home with your kitchen radio or join in with your own radio in and around the House of World Cultures. We'll be showcasing the best of past radio projects like funkwelle, radio 1:1 and reboot.fm and presenting the best of programs yet to come. The line up is an eclectic sample featuring the artists that will be tearing up Berlin's airwaves over the next few months: DJ Officer, Officer, Gozel Radio, Make Capitalism History, Steve Morell, Orient Taxi, Nouri Ben Redjeb plus special guests. +++ Radio is Back! Kill your ipod! Breaching the airwaves with a new breed of sound: Transmitting from two studios in the former east and west parts of the city, a new radio project marks the crossings of many cultural communities for the next three months. Herbstradio is a continuation of an ongoing international experiment: how to map the complex patterns of urban culture's productivity and transport it into the ether? While other cities around the world have permanent "free cultural radios", Berlin has only realized this in temporary forms. Partly, Herbstradio is a tribute to Berlin's potential to realize a permanent cultural channel like Resonancefm London; WFMU, NYC; Grenouille, Marseilles; Tilos Radio Budapest; Orange, Vienna and Corax, Halle or the former Radio100, Berlin. Herbstradio proposes to better promote all the cultures of a city which make it vivid and livable but are mostly excluded from the media sphere, living in the "long tail" of interim residues of micro-local and digital niches. A large portion of the population in Berlin is not part of the mainstream and probably never will be: with a migration background, as temporary cultural workers, or in permanent underground exile, they create different cultural spaces. Cosmopolitan diversity is a given condition which drives and inspires cultural institutions and events as well as everyday life. Local and far away stories and sounds stand for themselves but also blend and mix while radio opens up a shared timespace right in your car, office or kitchen. Cultural production after the global crisis of capital needs to find its place between the offerings of the creative industry and your friendly facebook friends. Money probably isn't the only means to measure productivity these days. A low budget project can still filter a considerable amount of interesting cultural data for you. Watching the music industry change, one can sense an uncertain future where distribution is free and incomes are low. Herbstradio operates on the assumption of a universal flatrate model, where everything is available but choice needs effort. The isolated ipod user is overwhelmed with the task of permanently reorganizing individual playlists, while free cultural radio offers a social context where relevance can emerge from locality and surprising moments of commonality. New forms of collective subjectivity production are needed which connect the physical plane of living together in a locality with the abstract sphere of social data on the internet. How to organize the unorganizable? How much information you want to digest has to do with your capability of how long you can stay up to go clubbing. Then again, how many interesting lectures did you miss? For those who cannot be at the same place at the same time, radio offers a way to include people and extend the social range of a niche. While the globe goes digital, the local analogue strikes back. radio is the new vinyl. You can travel through a city like you can consume a website. Herbstradio allows you to dig a little deeper. It will capture more than just a glimpse of events, discourses or musical styles without trying to be journalistic, objective or representative. This is rather a part of the fabrics which hold the city together and drive it, to develop the electromagnetic senses which connect it to the past and future. Check out the podcast and livestream or tune in to the FM broadcast. Contributors and studio guests include: Jochen Becker, Franco ?Bifo? Berardi, Kiran Cantuerk, Paddy Catani, Chaosradio, Chaussee der Enthusiasten, Chicks On Speed, Club der Polnischen Versager, Mike Davis, Till Nicolas von Heiseler, Heinrich ?DJ Officer, Officer?? Dubel, Dmitry Kleiner, Kodwo Eshun, Harun Farocki, Hausradio, Andrej Holm, Darius James, Jahcoozi, Grada Kilomba, Karsten Krampitz, Brandon Labelle, Geert Lovink, Liebe Statt Drogen, Meena Menon, Mikro.fm, Alla Mitrofanova, Multicult2.0, Carsten Nicolai, Orient Taxi, Tanja Ostojic, Polyphon, Radijojo, Radio Hochsee, Radio Voodoo, Reformb?hne Heim und Welt, Salon Bruit, Hito Steyerl, Surfpoeten, Peter Lamborn Wilson and many others. Supporting events and organizations: B_Books, Berliner M?rchentage, Club Transmediale, General Public, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ICI Berlin, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, Make Capitalism History, Metrozone, Next, Pro Qm, Radia.fm, Transitland Destination Berlin, Vattenfall 20. Herbstradio is organized in a cooperation between Hausradio/Klubradio and Radiopiloten/Brotfabrik and is a combination of two radio projects: REWIND2020 and Berlin macht Radio. Hausradio, a cooperation between klubradio, Next Intercultural Agency and the House of World Cultures is a substantial part of Herbstradio. The transmitter broadcasts from the tower of the Segenskirche in Schoenhauser Allee. This is not only the point of broadcast, but also the point where the signals from the two studios join: from Radiopiloten at the Freudenhaus Lottumstrasse (Prenzlauerberg) and from Klubradio at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Tiergarten). The Project Rewind2020 is supported by a grant from the Haupstadkultur Fonds. +++ Radio is back. Kill your ipods. herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin Sept. 1 - Nov. 22, 2009 www.herbstradio.org +++ diana.mccarty@gmail.com + 49 (0) 1520 824 9536 +++ From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Tue Sep 1 10:08:03 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Tue Sep 1 10:12:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] ISEA2010 RUHR - Call for submissions - deadline 15 Sept. Message-ID: Newsletter - 1 September 2009 Deadline for submissions approaching - 15 September 2009 ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a major conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, scheduled for 20-29 August 2010 in the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, a. o.). We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations, exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in public space. Visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers, software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media, should submit their projects or papers online by 15 September 2009. The submission platform of ISEA2010 RUHR is available at http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international jury. The results of the jury process and invitations for ISEA2010 RUHR are expected by the end of 2009. Successful submissions will published in the proceedings. Note: Please, note that there will not be a second general call like this. If you want to submit to ISEA2010, please, submit by 15 September! Detailed information about the submission process can be found at: http://www.isea2010ruhr.org Contact: call@isea2010ruhr.org You can also download the flyer http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/download/ISEA_Flyer_Call.pdf and poster http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/download/ISEA_Plakat_Call.pdf for printing and further distribution. ISEA2010 RUHR is a project of the European Capital of Culture, RUHR.2010, and is hosted by Medienwerk NRW. ISEA2010 RUHR is organised under the auspices of the ISEA Foundation and is funded by RUHR.2010, the State Chancellory of North Rhine Westphalia, and the City of Dortmund. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- ISEA2010RUHR - 20-29 aug 2010 - http://www.isea2010ruhr.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ISEA2010 RUHR c/o HMKV | Guentherstr. 65 | D-44143 Dortmund ----------------------------------------------------------- From cz at movingimages.de Tue Sep 1 10:20:17 2009 From: cz at movingimages.de (Chris Ziegler) Date: Tue Sep 1 10:20:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] forest2 - theaterinstallation opening Message-ID: english below... --- ab morgen ist die Theatersaison am ZKM Karlsruhe er?ffnet... Herzliche Einladung zu: "forest2 - theaterinstallation" Ausstellung ab Mittwoch bis Freitag 11 - 18 Uhr zus. Auff?hrungen/Interventionen ab Samstag bis Sonntag zu jeder vollen Stunde ab 12 Uhr ZKM Medientheater http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$6696 --- from tomorrow on, the theater season at ZKM Karlsruhe is opened... You are invited to: "forest2 - theater installation" Exhibition from Wednesday to friday 11 AM to 6 PM Live Interventions/Performances form Saturday to Sunday on every full hour from 12 AM - 5 PM ZKM Mediatheater http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$6713 --- Chris Ziegler mobile +49172 89 56 328 http://www.movingimages.de //||||| / |< ||| ZKM | Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe | Germany http://www.zkm.de From info at franck-ancel.com Tue Sep 1 10:46:16 2009 From: info at franck-ancel.com (franck-ancel.com) Date: Tue Sep 1 10:56:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] FUTURITY NOW @ Transmediale.10 !/? In-Reply-To: <76F95696-95D5-4637-8C60-914B44ED40F7@transmediale.de> References: <76F95696-95D5-4637-8C60-914B44ED40F7@transmediale.de> Message-ID: <4A9CDF58.8090402@franck-ancel.com> "1969/2009: from Futurist Moon to Explorer Art" On the night of 20 to 21 July 2009 at 3:56 (French time), I will make / have made / an appointment in space and time - a Conquest for Numerical Exploration of Stage and Screen - for Internet on-line platform (room 27) http://www.selfworld.net founded by Ivan Chabanaud. After releasing a streaming audio-video in real time from an aircraft in flight between Shanghai and Munich in December 2005 "From Scenography to Planetary Network" with "From Futurist Moon to Explorer Art", this is today a new setting things back to zero away from the limits of what is known. This event is not a copy of the Cirque Calder, or my Container Theater in 1998, but it is a model that was also thought to be connected to the Internet, inspired by the words that I projected on the screen of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris in 2004, "Mobile Wireless Digital". By coordinating the exhibition on scenographer Jacques Polieri in Paris in 2002 and Berlin in 2003, I was able to present his model in relation to the conquest of space, cosmic as well as scenic. Now I've concluded that there can be no new languages without a temporal written form as a primary consideration for experimenting with space itself. (**) One hundred years after the manifesto of Futurism, I play with the "art of silence" (*). The so-called "technological arts" have come of age, forty years after McLuhan's theories in relation to electronic communications along with the first steps of man on the moon. We are now entering into a "digital atmosphere" that has nothing to do with the past. Before my upcoming publication-performance-installation "00/00" in Paris, to close my triptych "1957/2007: from Sputnik Satellite to Explorer Art" and "1958/2008: from Philips Pavillon to Explorer Art" you can participate in "From Futurist Moon to Explorer Art". I invite you as a space tourist to experience, instead of the absence of gravity, an amusing discovery and, perhaps, to leave your mark on my work, which is also a break from definite space. As Pascale did not say, "facing the eternal silence of these defined spaces which frighten us no more". "From Futurist Moon to Explorer Art" selfworld is connected to a wireless IP camera, with different scenery available, directly from the planet Mars taken by NASA robots (***) and characters that I can animate at the time of your choice. By purchasing a character in this work, representative of the cosmonauts, you become an actor Futurist, Marswalker, Explorer, Artist, etc., depending on your institutional support or private finances. The pieces in this game are set in a black cube type flightcase. The entire architecture of this "Little Cosmic Theater" is available for exhibition performances in museums and galleries. This gesture is an amusing but radically critical opening to imagine real interconnections between the arts. Franck Ancel / Paris 11th July 2009 / (*) http://www.franck-ancel.com (**) http://www.fhnw.ch/hgk/iis/pressespiegel/institut-daten/081108_baz-kultur_in3-08.pdf (***) copyright NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University Franck Ancel is Zerographer. Craftsman of his life for nearly forty years, of which half has been spent on projects that can be definied in 20 connections: 1989-2009 / invisible-visible / architecture-environment / Kiesler-Polieri / neo-avant-garde / space-time / technology-science / language-form / network-data / history-memory / freedoom-love / screen-stage / sounds-colours / lighthouse-satellite / desert-island / community-xxx / body-mouvement / past-future / skin-soul / spirituality-poetic. From joris at v2.nl Tue Sep 1 11:39:37 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Tue Sep 1 11:40:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_: Call for a fashion designer for =?windows-1252?q?=93Intimacy?= =?windows-1252?q?=94?= Message-ID: <4A9CEBD9.20809@v2.nl> Call for a fashion designer for ?Intimacy? Artist Daan Roosegaarde and V2_Lab are looking for a fashion designer (M/F) to help realise ?Intimacy?, a next step in wearable technology. Daan Roosegaarde, known for his interactive artworks such as ?Dune? and ?Sustainable Dance Floor?, is expanding his artistic and innovative horizon to include fashion. In close collaboration with V2_Lab he will be developing electronic fashion that becomes visually transparent according to the amount of personal intimacy involved. The dress ?Intimacy? is made out of smart foil that becomes transparent when electrified. The distance to the dress determines the level of transparency; creating a sensual play of shared control. Daan Roosegaarde says: ?Technology is used here not merely functional but also as a tool to create intimacy as well as privacy on a direct, personal level ... which in our contemporary tech society is becoming increasingly important.? In order to take this step from prototype to 'haute couture' V2_Lab and Daan Roosegaarde are looking for: - a recently graduated or senior year fashion designer (M/F) with an affinity for hairstyling; - he or she must be able to participate in thought process along the lines set out by V2_Lab and Studio Roosegaarde in the preliminary stages and therefore must be a good team player; - the project starts on 1 November 2009; it is a full-time position for a period of 4 to 6 weeks. What we offer: - access to functioning new technology, an existing prototype and an artist's impression of the intended final product; - a workplace at V2_Lab, Rotterdam; - a trainee allowance; - exhibition of the end result; - name credit. Please send your resume/portfolio and motivation before 1 October, preferably by e-mail, to: piem@v2.nl V2_Instituut voor de instabiele media Attn. Piem Wirtz Eendrachtsstraat 10 3012 XL Rotterdam Eligible designers will be invited for an interview mid-October. http://www.v2.nl http://www.studioroosegaarde.net -- Joris van Ballegooijen PR & Communicatie V2_Institute for the Unstable Media +31 (0)10 206 7272 www.v2.nl From istha at nimk.nl Tue Sep 1 15:15:38 2009 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Tue Sep 1 15:16:39 2009 Subject: [spectre] Launch of the Portal: GAMA @ Ars Electronica Festival Message-ID: <4A9D1E7A.6010000@nimk.nl> Launch of the Portal: GAMA @ Ars Electronica Festival On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 the econtentPlus project GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art - is launching a portal to the eight founding European archives with a workshop and a screening installation of selected works from the collections. Workshop "Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies" Sept 5th, 2 pm at the Kunstuniversit?t Linz, Kollegiumgasse 2, Audimax. Experts will discuss the significance of the institutional setting with respect to the creation of the repositories and their future perspectives. Additionally, artists will present new ways of documentation of media art which tend to integrate the user experience into a documentation strategy for media art works - or even into the works themselves. Speakers: Annet Dekker (Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam), Anna-Karin Larsson (Filmform, Stockholm), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, Linz), Matt Adams (Blast Theory, Brighton), Gabriella Giannachi (University of Exeter), Caitlin Jones (Free curator and media theorist, New York), Lizzie Muller (University of Technology, Sydney) Screening Installation in the Brucknerhaus 3 - 8 September In the History Lounge the eight European media art archives and collections networked within the GAMA portal are screening highlights from their collections. For example works by Lars Arrhenius, Yael Bartana, Robert Cahen, Gerard Cairaschi, Mounir Fatmi, Toshio Iwai, Ema Kugler, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cecilia Lundqvist, Vincent Meessen, Jean-Gabriel P?riot, Sa?o Podgor?ek, Semiconductor, Shelly Silver, J?nos Sug?r and Gianni Toti will be shown. More information Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/humannature/category/conferences/ Special thanks to: Ars Electronica for hosting the launch events Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research for organizing the workshop and screening European Community for co-funding the project within the econtentPlus programme. GAMA-Prototype: http://gamatest.hku.nl/ Project website: http://www.gama-gateway.eu/ The consortium: Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universit?t Bremen GERMANY (Co-ordinator) Akademie der bildenden K?nste Wien AUSTRIA AGH University of Science and Technology POLAND ARGOS - Centre for Art & Media BELGIUM ATOS Origin S.A.E. SPAIN C3 Center for Culture & Communication Foundation HUNGARY CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies CZECH REPUBLIC Filmform Foundation SWEDEN Heure Exquise! FRANCE Staatliche Hochschule f?r Gestaltung Karlsruhe GERMANY Hochschule f?r K?nste Bremen GERMANY Z?rcher Hochschule der K?nste SWITZERLAND Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd. GERMANY Les Instants Vid?o Num?riques Et Po?tiques FRANCE Ludwig Boltzmann Institut - Medien.Kunst.Forschung. AUSTRIA Nederlands Instituut Voor Mediakunst THE NETHERLANDS SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana SLOVENIA Universitat de Barcelona - Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius SPAIN Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam The Netherlands http://www.nimk.nl - From simsite at gmail.com Wed Sep 2 04:28:43 2009 From: simsite at gmail.com (Simeon Moran) Date: Wed Sep 2 04:55:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digital Fringe 2009 international call for artworks Message-ID: <4A9DD85B.603@gmail.com> *Digital Fringe 09 Call for submissions Digital Fringe* is now open for video, image, and audio submissions Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens across the world! Get your entries in by 14th September to be included in the festival DVD. Check digitalfringe.com.au for submission info ++++++++ Digital Fringe is an open access public arts festival that places contemporary screen based media in public locations. It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences throughout Australia and the world. Screening venues receive a playlist curated from the diverse visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, machinima, motion graphics, photography and stills submitted to the Digital Fringe festival via our website - digitalfringe.com.au. Login and upload your works. In keeping with the Fringe Festival charter, Digital Fringe is open access and accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in screen based and new media. Submissions are received from all around the world: from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Artists maintain control of their own copyright. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV?s in electrical stores, State and regional libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutions, suburban shop fronts and on massive urban screens in public plazas like Melbourne's Federation Square. Digital Fringe screens are also appearing in outback Australia, and across the Americas's, Africa, the UK and Europe. All submissions also play on the Digital Fringe website. Produced by Horse Bazaar with assistance from Film Victoria and Melbourne Fringe, Digital Fringe 09 will create a web of screen art in public space across Melbourne, Regional Australia and the world! If you know of other screens that can play Digital Fringe and be part of our network email us - screens@digitalfringe.com.au -- Simeon Moran 0402 514 017 simeon@horsebazaar.com.au Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 03 9670 2329 www.horsebazaar.com.au www.digitalfringe.com.au From joris at v2.nl Wed Sep 2 09:53:27 2009 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Wed Sep 2 09:53:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Test_Lab: Summer Sessions Sept.17, 2009 Message-ID: <4A9E2477.50205@v2.nl> Test_Lab: Summer Sessions Date: Thursday September 17, 2009 Time: 20.00h Location: V2_Groundfloor V2_Institute for the Unstable Media Eendrachtsstraat 10 Rotterdam | www.v2.nl Featuring: Melissa Coleman (NL) | Tarik Barri (NL) | David de Buyser (BE) | Introduction: Boris Debackere (BE) | Respondent: Angela Plohman (CA) http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions It is the end of summer, but the start of a new Test_Lab season! Summertime for most people means beaches and barbecues, but at V2_, three up-and-coming young artists have spent the summer developing their art practice. During the intensive working period entitled "Summer Sessions," each of them has collaborated with V2_?s expert developers, project managers and curators to produce new work. The outcome of these residencies will be the focus of a special summer edition of Test_Lab. In the 2009 Summer Sessions, artists Tarik Barri, Melissa Coleman and David de Buyser respectively developed projects in the fields of augmented reality, wearable technology, and interactive organic environments. By holding the three residencies in parallel, V2_ aimed to promote a creative synergy between these enthusiastic young artists. Test_Lab: Summer Sessions will show the results of this synergy through demonstrations of the works created during the residencies and discussion of the artists? experiences of these intensive working periods. As usual in V2_?s Test_Labs, the audience will be invited to critically test the works through hands-on engagement. To celebrate the end of the Summer Sessions, we?ll also be serving refreshing free cocktails! This event will be streamed live at http://www.v2.nl For more information please contact: Michel van Dartel E: michel@v2.nl T: +31(0)10 206 72 72 Test_Lab is a bi-monthly public event organized by V2_, the Institute for the Unstable Media, that provides an informal setting for the presentation, demonstration, testing, and discussion of artistic Research and Development (aRt&D). From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Sep 2 11:10:53 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Sep 2 13:22:01 2009 Subject: [spectre] European DISCRIMINATION of BOSNIAKS as of 2010 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:28:17 +0200 To: nettime-l@kein.org Outrageous DISCRIMINATION of BOSNIAKS in new VISA REGIME (mobility) for SOUTH EAST EUROPE! As of 2010 they will remain only nationality of former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia with rigid VISA regime for EU. CALL FOR SIGNATURES European Commission divides South Eastern Europe We note with great concern the current policy for South Eastern Europe of the European Commission. The visa policy for the successor states of the former Yugoslavia risks to create two classes of citizens in South Eastern Europe, based on ethnicity. We welcome, that visa-free travel should be granted to citizens of Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia as of 1 January 2010. Equal rights will, for example, be refused to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European Commission ignores that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are almost at the same level with regard to the introduction of bio-metric passports and a variety of legislative acts agreed on the visa liberalisation road map. The arguments which serve to justify the Commission recommendation are factually unconvincing and politically irresponsible. The draft recommendation on visa liberalisation will increase tensions within the fragile post-war societies as the plans of the Commission will formalise ethnic divisions and provide them with dubious legitimacy. Only a part of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina will profit from the new travel regime. Bosnian Serbs and Serbs from Kosovo travel visa free in the EU thanks to their second passport issued by the Republic of Serbia as of 1 January 2010. Bosnian Croats have already enjoyed visa-free travel to the EU for a couple of years thanks to their Croatian passports. Restrictions thus remain in place for the Bosniak people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. De facto, ethnic criteria will decide on whether a citizen is able to travel freely to the EU. These days, 14 years ago, more than 8,000 Muslim boys and men were killed around Srebrenica. It is evidence of the EU's poor political judgement that Bosniak survivors and relatives of the killed will be disadvantaged in comparison to the hundreds of suspected perpetrators who committed crimes in Srebrenica and who continue to evade justice. German post-war history reminds us how important the freedom to travel has been for the peaceful development of a society. With the change of the travel laws in the GDR on 9 November 1989 the wall came down. The East and the West of Europe were able reunite. People in South Eastern Europe have the same right to freedom of travel. A region still haunted by nationalism needs freedom of exchange of ideas and opinions and also the right to travel. It is not freedom that creates instability, but the suppression of freedom. The guiding vision of the visa liberalisation policy of the European Union is to bring South Eastern Europe closer to the EU and to promote European reconciliation and cooperation. In the next weeks, the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament have the choice between a visa policy that is uniting Europe or one that separates people on the basis of their ethnicity. 13 July 2009 V.i.S.d.P Tobias B?tow, Hagenauer Str. 8, 10435 Berlin, Germany, southeastern.europe@gmx.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Europ?ische Kommission spaltet S?dosteuropa Reisegesetze diskriminieren Srebrenica-Opfer Mit gro?er Besorgnis beobachten wir die aktuelle S?dosteuropa-Politik der Europ?ischen Kommission. Die Visa-Politik gegen?ber den Nachfolgestaaten des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens droht, zwei Klassen von B?rgern in S?dosteuropa auf ethnischer Grundlage zu schaffen. Wir begr??en, dass ab dem 1. Januar 2010 den B?rgern aus Montenegro, Mazedonien und Serbien Reisefreiheit in die Europ?ische Union gew?hrt wird. Beispielsweise Bosnien und Herzegowina wird aber das gleiche Reiserecht verweigert. Die Europ?ische Kommission missachtet, dass sich Bosnien und Herzegowina und Serbien bei der Einf?hrung biometrischer P?sse und diverser Gesetzesprojekte der Visa-Roadmap fast gleich auf sind. Die Argumente, die als Begr?ndung dienen, sind in der Sache nicht ?berzeugend und politisch verantwortungslos. Mit ihrem Visa-Gesetzesvorhaben verst?rkt die Europ?ische Kommission die Spannungen innerhalb der fragilen Nachkriegsgesellschaften, indem sie ethnische Trennlinien formalisiert und zweifelhafte Legitimit?t verleiht. Denn nur ein Teil der Staatsb?rger in Bosnien und Herzegowina wird von den neuen Reisegesetzen profitieren: Serbische Bosnier und serbische Kosovaren reisen dank ihrer serbischen Zweit-Staatsb?rgerschaft ab dem 1.1.2010 visumsfrei in die EU. Die kroatischen Bosnier profitieren bereits mehrere Jahre von der Visa-Liberalisierung der EU gegen?ber Kroatien. F?r die Bosniaken aus Bosnien und Herzegowina bleiben aber die bestehenden Reiseeinschr?nkungen oder Reiseverbote bestehen. Ethnische Zugeh?rigkeit wird somit de facto ?ber die Reisefreiheit entscheiden. In diesen Tagen vor 14 Jahren wurden in der Umgebung von Srebrenica tausende muslimische Jungen und M?nner ermordet. Es ist ein politisches Armutszeugnis f?r die Europ?ische Union, dass die bosniakischen ?berlebenden und Hinterbliebenen gegen?ber den hunderten, bislang straffreien serbischen Sch?tzen und Kommandeuren von Srebrenica sowie vielen anderen T?tern benachteiligt werden sollen. Die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte erinnert uns, wie wichtig Reisefreiheit f?r die friedliche Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft ist: Mit der ?nderung der Reisegesetze in der DDR am 9. November 1989 fiel die Mauer. Ost- und Westeuropa wuchsen zusammen. Den Menschen in S?dosteuropa steht die gleiche Reisefreiheit zu. In einer Region, in der das Gespenst des Nationalismus noch immer nicht aus den K?pfen verschwunden ist, brauchen Gedanken- und Meinungsfreiheit auch die Freiheit des Reisens. Nicht Freiheit schafft Instabilit?t, sondern deren Unterdr?ckung. Es ist der Grundgedanke der Visa-Liberalisierungspolitik der Europ?ischen Union, S?dosteuropa an die EU heranzuf?hren und europ?ische Verst?ndigung zu verbreiten. In den kommenden Wochen haben die Europ?ische Kommission, der Europ?ische Rat und das Europ?ische Parlament die Wahl, ob ihre Visa-Politik Europa einen oder auf ethnischer Grundlage spalten soll. 13. Juli 2009 V.i.S.d.P Tobias B?tow, Hagenauer Str. 8, 10435 Berlin, southeastern.europe@gmx.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- Signatories/Erstunterzeichner: Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Hoher Repr?sentant a.D., M?nchen, Germany Marieluise Beck, MdB, Berlin, B?ndis90/Die Gr?nen, Germany Franziska Brantner, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Doris Pack, MEP, (EPP), Brussels Tilman Z?lch, Gesellschaft f?r bedrohte V?lker, G?ttingen, Germany Rebecca Harms, MEP, (Chair Greens/EFA), Brussels Dany Cohn-Bendit, MEP, (Chair Greens/EFA), Brussels Reinhard B?tikofer, MEP (Bureau Greens/EFA), Brussels R?diger Ratsch-Heitmann, Sch?ler Helfen Leben, Berlin/ Pristina/Sarajevo Ulrike Lunacek, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Hermann Hardt, Fl?chtlingsrat Hamburg e.V. Heide R?hle, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Sven Giegold, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Peter Matjasic, Secretary General, Young European Federalists, Brussels Bart Staes, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Helene Flautre, MEP (Greens/EFA), Brussels Michael Cramer, MEP (Greens/EFA), Brussels Werner Schulz, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Raul i Romeva, MEP, (Greens/EFA), Brussels Dr. Damir Arsenijevic, Tuzla University, Bosnia and Herzegovina Ulrike Baur, Journalist and Filmmaker, Heidelberg, Deutschland Prof. Dr. Johan Behrens, Universit?t Halle/Saale, Germany. Dr. Carl Bethke, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany Amira Bieber, Forschungsgruppe Bosnien, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. Benjamin Bieber, Forschungsgruppe Bosnien, Frankfurt, Germany. B?rbel Bohley, Berlin Tobias B?tow, Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa, Berlin, Germany. Jasna Causevic, Gesellschaft f?r bedrohte V?lker e.V., G?ttingen, Germany Tobias Heider, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany. Majda Idrizbegovic, European University Institute, Florence, Italy PD Dr. Ernst K?hler, Universit?t Konstanz, Germany. Peter Matjasic, Young European Federalists Armina Omerika, Universit?t Erfurt, Germany Erich Rathfelder, Journalist, die tageszeitung Oliver Rolofs, Hauptmann d.R., Germany. Damir Saracevic, ZZI, Linz, Austria Beate Seel, taz, Ressortleitung Ausland, Berlin, Germany Antje Heider-Rottwilm, Dr. Martin Heider, Br?cke-HafenCity, Hamburg Germany Michael Schmitt, European Parliament, Brussels Aida Vehabovic, Sch?ler Helfen Leben, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina Walter Veirs, Regional Director, Charles Steward Mott Foundation, Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------- BESIDES THE POPULATION GROUPS OF BOSNIAKS AND THE ALBANIANS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT OF THE PETITION, THE NEW EU VISA REGULATION IS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MEMBERS OF ALL NON-SERB AND NON-CROAT ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE KOSOVO AND IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, AS WELL AS AGAINST ALL THOSE BOSNIANS AND HERZEGOVINIANS WHO CHOSE NOT TO DECLARE THEMSELVES MEMBERS OF A PARTICULAR ETHNICITY. THUS, IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE STRENGTHENING OF THE SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL MARGINALIZATION TO WHICH THEY ARE ALREADY EXPOSED. WE ASK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND YOUR SIGNATURE. YOU CAN SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION UNDER: www.balkangoeseurope.eu THE WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY ONLY IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH, TRANSLATIONS INTO OTHER LANGUAGES ARE TO FOLLOW SOON. PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION AND INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES TO JOIN THE GROUP AND/OR SIGN THE PETITION. email: southeastern.europe@gmx.de facebook: http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/group.php?gid=103145124316 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Sep 2 16:43:47 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Sep 2 16:59:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Freesound Project In-Reply-To: <4A968214.6000703@furtherfield.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> <4A968214.6000703@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4A9E84A3.3090802@furtherfield.org> marc garrett wrote:Sorry for any cross posting... Review of The Freesound Project by Rob Myers The Freesound Project web site is a Free Culture sound repository similar to OpenClipArt for illustration, Project Gutenberg for text or the Prelinger Archive for film. Launched in May 2005 in Barcelona by the Music Technology Group of Pompeu Fabra University, it quickly attracted contributors and an audience from around the world. Freesound is a sound repository rather than a music or audio repository. It contains samples of noises rather than of music or spoken word recordings. If you do want music there are several excellent music sites elsewhere on the Internet, from an artistic point of view notably Sal Randolph's OpSound. But these focus on completed tracks rather than raw sound materials, and are limited to music. Freesound has no such limitation. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=361 Other Info: We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Thu Sep 3 08:56:46 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu Sep 3 09:01:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: Call for Artists / Fundatia Mora, Bucuresti Message-ID: >CALL FOR ARTISTS' APPLICATIONS > >For english, please scroll down > > >Galeria MORA din Bucures?ti invita? artis?ti >vizuali rom?ni s?i stra?ini sa? aplice pentru >expunere ?n spat?iul galeriei ?n perioada >ianuarie - decembrie 2010. >Anul acesta artis?tii sunt invitat?i sa?-s?i >prezinte propunerile de proiecte expozit?ionale >pe baza unei teme liber alese, conform cu >propriile idei curatoriale. >Artis?tii sunt invitat?i sa? propuna? proiecte >de arte plastice, decorative s?i design, >proiecte video, performance, instalat?ie. >Galeria MORA ofera? spat?iu de expunere, >asigura? protocol pentru vernisaj, logistica? >s?i printul materialelor promot?ionale - >invitat?ii s?i afis?e. > >Cum sa? aplici > >Aplicat?iile trebuie sa? cont?ina?: >- CV, care sa? includa datele de contact (doc sau pdf) >- o propunere de proiect (max 1 pagina?) >- 6 fotografii lucra?ri personale recente (jpg web format) >- 1 video (max 7 minute, format avi) (doar >pentru propunerile de proiecte video) > >Trimitet?i aplicat?iile p?na? la 1 octombrie la >urma?toarea adresa? de e-mail: >fundatiamora@gmail.com >sau direct la adresa galeriei: >Str. Grigore Mora nr. 39, Bucures?ti, sector 1, 011886 > >Artis?tii selectat?i vor fi contactat?i p?na? cel t?rziu 10 noiembrie 2009. > > > >Galeria MORA (More Opportunities for Romanian >Artists) este un spat?iu expozit?ional dedicat >sust?inerii artis?tilor rom?ni ?n demersul lor >creator, ?n continuarea traseului lor >profesional. Provocat?i sa? experimenteze, >sa?-s?i foloseasca? propria libertate de >exprimare fa?ra? medierea unei intervent?ii >curatoriale, artis?tii sunt ?ncurajat?i sa? >dezvolte s?i un alt tip de discurs, destinat >dialogului direct cu publicul s?i criticii. >Galeria MORA este un spat?iu ?n care lucrurile >sunt la?sate ?sa? se ?nt?mple", ?n care artistul >are libertate maxima? de exprimare, comunicarea >cu spat?iul complet?ndu-i intent?ia, ?ntr-un joc >al imaginat?iei necenzurate. >Galeria MORA este un spat?iu organic, >pret?ndu-se unor multiple interpreta?ri s?i >repozit?iona?ri, prin ?nsa?s?i morfologia >spat?iului, tipul inedit de dialog al echipei >manageriale cu artis?tii expozant?i, flow-ul >firesc al propunerilor expozit?ionale, >interdisciplinaritatea tematica? s?i de mijloace >de expresie. >Galeria MORA face parte din Fundat?ia MORA, a >ca?rei misiune este ?ndreptata? at?t ?nspre >promovarea artei rom?nes?ti s?i sust?inerea s?i >?ncurajarea artis?tilor rom?ni ?n demersul lor >profesional, c?t s?i spre dezvoltarea publicului >de arta?, prin implicarea sa ?n procese >educat?ionale s?i angajarea sa ?n dezvoltarea de >proiecte de arta? publica?. > >Mai multe despre noi veti putea gasi cur?nd pe >www.fundatiamora.org > > > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >EN > >MORA Art Gallery in Bucharest invites visual >artists from around the world to apply with >projects proposals to be presented in the >gallery's space. The projects will be presented >to the public within the January-December 2010 >time period. >For the 2010 exhibitional progamme, the gallery >gives artists total freedom. They are invited to >present their project proposals (drawing, >painting, sculpture, installation, design, >photography, video, performance) based on a >theme of their own choice and according to their >own curatorial ideas. >MORA Art Gallery in Bucharest offers the >exhibitional space, ensures the private viewing >protocol, logistiques and printing for the >promotional of the event - invitations and >posters. > > >How to apply > >The applications should include: >- Curriculum Vitae, comprising contact details (doc or pdf) >- project proposal (up to 1 page) >- 6 photographs of the artists' recent work (jpg format for web) >- 1 video (up to 7 minutes long - avi format) >(only in case of a video project proposal) > >You can apply not later than 1st of October: >- via e-mail, to the following address: >fundatiamora@gmail.com >- or directly at the gallery's address: >39 Grigore Mora Street, Bucharest, 011886, Romania > > >We'll contact the artists for the selected >proposals until 10th of November 2009. > > > >MORE then a space, freely interacting & experimenting within >exhibitions, public art projects, exchanges, art courses OPPORTUNITIES >promoting ROMANIAN visual arts, >emerging and up coming local, foreign and outsider ARTISTS > >More about us will be soon available at >www.fundatiamora.org > > > >-- >Galeria MORA >0040 21 316 55 41 >str.Grigore Mora, nr 39, sect1 >Bucuresti >(reper- statia de metrou Aviatorilor) >Cauta pe harta From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Thu Sep 3 15:00:34 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu Sep 3 15:05:15 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) 1st Former West Congress, BAK/Utrecht/NL Message-ID: 1st Former West Congress, Utrecht 1st Former West Congress 5 - 7 November 2009 Organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Venue: Ottone Kromme Nieuwegracht 62 Utrecht, the Netherlands http://www.formerwest.org In the days leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2009, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht hosts the 1st Former West Congress, which gathers some of the most influential curators, artists, theorists, and thinkers of the past two decades from the field of art. This is the first major public program of the long-term, multifaceted international research, education, publishing, and exhibition project Former West (2008-2013). Former West aims at articulating the processes of the West "becoming former" that, however unacknowledged by the West itself, began with the demise of the Cold War construct of a bipolar world in 1989. The project is an attempt to rethink the West and its art out of their hegemonic self-narration and to propose another, speculative view of the history of western art after 1989, one evolving around significant social and political changes and in active dialogue with post-communist and postcolonial thought. Through dynamic and critical exchange with contributors and participants, this inaugural Congress begins mapping the artistic and theoretical developments surrounding the problematic of the "formerness" of the West, and charts the practices in art through which we can identify and engage with the post-1989 landscape and its impact on cultural production. Each day of the Congress is framed under a general thematic field and is comprised of different formats, including keynote lectures and a series of conversations. 5 November 2009 The first day commences with a position paper delivered by the Former West curators: Charles Esche (director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Maria Hlavajova (artistic director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht), and Kathrin Rhomberg (curator, Berlin Biennial 6, Berlin), followed by a response from Rosi Braidotti (director Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht). This is followed by a second session entitled Histories and Narratives: Between the Post-communist and the Postcolonial (1989-2009), which includes keynotes delivered by Sarat Maharaj (art historian, Lund), Renata Salecl (philosopher, Ljubljana/London), Boris Groys (theorist, New York), and Paul Gilroy (sociologist, London). 6 November 2009 The second day's session, Art, its Discourses, and the World at Large (1989-2001-2008), is openend by Cosmin Costinas (curator BAK, Utrecht) and Georg Sch?llhammer (theorist, Vienna) who jointly deliver the keynote. The rest of the day is structured around a series of conversations with David Riff (art critic, Moscow), Jalal Toufic (artist, Istanbul), Pablo Lafuente (managing editor Afterall, London), Catherine David (curator, Paris), Kerstin Stakemeier (curator, Berlin), Marion von Osten (artist, Berlin/Vienna), Stefan Heidenreich (writer, Berlin), Christian Hoeller (editor, Vienna), and Helmuth Draxler (curator, Stuttgart/Vienna), and concludes with a plenary session. 7 November 2009 The concluding day of the Congress, entitled Representations of Art in the Former West: Exhibitions, Art Institutions, Art Market (1989-2009) is opened by a keynote from Simon Sheikh (curator, Berlin). Further contributions on this day are organized as conversations between two interlocutors: Claire Bishop (art critic, London/New York) and Douglas Gordon (artist, Berlin); Mihnea Mircan (curator, Bucharest) and Piotr Piotrowski (art historian, Poznan/Warsaw); Thomas Boutoux (curator, Paris) and Okwui Enwezor (curator, New York/San Francisco); Nuria Enguita-Mayo (curator, Valencia) and Ana Longoni (art historian, Buenos Aires); Sven L?tticken (art critic, Utrecht) and Tom Holert (art historian, Berlin/Vienna). The day ends with a plenary session and the concluding remarks of the Former West curators. The Congress continues with a series of closed sessions on Sunday 8 November 2009, dedicated to in-depth discussion on the issues and themes raised during the public days. Practical Information: The 1st Former West Congress takes place at Ottone, Kromme Nieuwegracht 62 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. All sessions of the conference are held in English. Further information about the Congress, including participation, registration, etc. is available at http://www.formerwest.org and http://www.bak-utrecht.nl Due to limited seating registration for the Congress is required, and is open until Wednesday 30 September 2009. To register, please send an e-mail with contact information to info@bak-utrecht.nl. Former West is initiated by Maria Hlavajova, curated by Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova, and Kathrin Rhomberg, and coordinated and produced by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. It is developed together with a team of research advisors: Claire Bishop, Boris Groys, Marion von Osten, Piotr Piotrowski, Simon Sheikh, and Georg Sch?llhammer; and a network of institutional partners: Afterall Journal and Books, London (http://www.afterall.org); BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (http://www.bak-utrecht.nl); Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht (http://www2.hum.uu.nl/cfh); International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), Amsterdam (http://www.idfa.nl); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof?a, Madrid (http://www.museoreinasofia.es); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (http://www.artmuseum.pl); and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl). The 1st Former West Congress is realized in partnership with the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University. For more information please visit http://www.formerwest.org. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Sep 3 15:47:37 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Sep 3 15:49:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] Class Wargames presents The Game of War - HTTP Gallery In-Reply-To: <4A9E84A3.3090802@furtherfield.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> <4A968214.6000703@furtherfield.org> <4A9E84A3.3090802@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4A9FC8F9.8000008@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Class Wargames presents The Game of War Weekend at the HTTP Gallery. http://www.http.uk.net/events/gameofwar/ Sat 26th September: Participatory demonstration - Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter. Sun 27th September: World Premier of Class Wargames film - The Game of War. The Situationist Raoul Vaneigem famously wrote "There are no more artists since we've all become artists. Our next work of art is the construction of a full-blooded life." - The Revolution of Everyday Life. Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn?t just a game - come and learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of the spectacular society! Join the Class Wargames crew, Richard Barbrook, Fabian Tompsett, Ilze Black and others, in redefining political and contextual territories. On Saturday the 26th, Class Wargames presents 'Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter', a day of making and playing Guy Debord's The Game of War. Sunday is the World Premier launch of the Class Wargames' film - The Game of War. Directed by Ilze Black; script writers Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett; xenography by Alex Veness, voice over by Hayley Newman and Alex Veness. For more information about Class Wargames and players: http://www.classwargames.net http://www.classwargames.net/pages/aboutus.html Game of War Weekend Schedule: Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter. Day 1 - 12-5pm Saturday 26th September. 12.00 meet and greet 12.15 introduction by Class Wargames 12.30 building your own game, learning to play and participatory game playing 17.00 day is over Film Launch of The Game of War by Class Wargames Day 2 - Day 1 - 12-5pm Sunday 27th September. 12.00 meet and greet 12.15 View games exhibition and film 14.30 Talk by Class Wargames 15.00 Film launch of film & drinks 17.00 day is over For more information about the event please visit HTTP Gallery website. To take part in the game please RSVP toale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org Booking Essential - Contact: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org Contact: Ale, HTTP Gallery email: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org HTTP Gallery Unit A2, Arena Design Centre 71 Ashfield Road London N4 1LD +44(0)79 8129 2734 Click here for map and location details http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml With thanks to the Arts Council of England for their support From jukhau at gmail.com Thu Sep 3 22:50:47 2009 From: jukhau at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Hautam=E4ki?=) Date: Thu Sep 3 23:00:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] SUMU artist-in-residence program: call for applications In-Reply-To: <81A55DA8A4D3433391DFF32C9895AC8E@admin441a86868> References: <81A55DA8A4D3433391DFF32C9895AC8E@admin441a86868> Message-ID: <74a7610d0909031350p7882f9c7yb1f5e9729f4268b@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arte ry / Titanik Date: 2009/9/1 Subject: SUMU artist-in-residence program: call for applications To: Call for Applications - Deadline 30 September 2009 Arte Association's Artists' Residency SUMU http://www.arte.fi ARTISTS RESIDENCY SUMU Arte Association's Artists' Residency SUMU offers one- to three-month residencies in 2010 to new media artists, working in the intersection of new media, new technologies and contemporary art. The residence is located in Turku, in the Southwestern coast of Finland. Artists are provided with free accommodation and studio, and a possibility of exhibiting their work either in Sumu's studio which is adjoined to Arte's gallery Titanik, or on Sumu's website. The artists must fund all their living expenses including food and transportation. Arte can help the artists with material costs up to 200 euros depending on the application. More information:?http://www.arte.fi APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Please prepare an individual submission, including: -? ? ? ? project plan (short, clear & realistic, max one page) -? ? ? ? short artists' statement (max one page) -? ? ? ? CV (max one page) -? ? ? ? DVD / CD including a maximum of 10 minutes worth of samples in PC format -? ? ? ? samples of recent work as print-outs (3 - 5 pieces) The submissions will not be returned. E-mail or internet applications are not accepted, only submissions sent by mail are processed. Deadline 30th of September is a postmark date. The proposal can also include an exhibition either in the studio space or on our website at the end of the residency. -------- NOTE! OBS! NORDIC ARTISTS! We will invite 2-4 artists for 1 or 2 months residency periods from the Nordic countries (except Finland)?in addition to our normal residencies during 2010. This Nordic program is sponsored by Nordic Culture Point. Artists, who were born or live permanently in the Nordic countries, can send us their applications and project plans for whole year of 2010 by 30th September 2009. The stipend includes accommodation, work space, daily allowance, material money and travelling costs within reasonable limits. See the application requirements above. --------- Please send your completed submission by mail to: Gallery Titanik / Sumu AIR It?inen Rantakatu 8 20700 Turku Finland Deadline September 30th,? 2009 (postmark). Session dates for international programme: from July 11th to December 31st, 2010. For further information please visit our website, www.arte.fi or Res Artis website, www.resartis.org, or contact: Paula V?in?m? Residencies Coordinator, Arte tel. +358 2 2338 372 sumu@arte.fi SUMU? Artist-in-residence program, It?inen Rantakatu 8, 20700 Turku, Finland tel. +358 (0)2 233 8372 www.arte.fi?sumu@arte.fi ------------------------------------------------------------------ From taylor at greenquarter.co.uk Fri Sep 4 09:31:29 2009 From: taylor at greenquarter.co.uk (Taylor Nuttall) Date: Fri Sep 4 09:31:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] MARIN - AND festival Message-ID: <4AA0C251.1070704@greenquarter.co.uk> M.A.R.I.N. MOBILE RESIDENCY PROJECT ON THE IRISH SEA http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127987182059 http://www.andfestival.org.uk Start Time: Friday, 04 September 2009 at 12:00 End Time: Sunday, 27 September 2009 at 23:00 Location: Cumbria & Liverpool Email: hello@andfestival.org.uk Founded by artists Tapio M?kel? and Marko Peljhan, M.A.R.I.N. is a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology. For their maiden voyage M.A.R.I.N. will sent sail on an 11-week long residency on the Irish Sea, starting from ISEA2009 in Belfast and traveling down the coast of Cumbria to Liverpool. Mapping marine ecology along the Northwest coastline, using sensors and a small field laboratory and combining maritime history, interviews, and public workshops. In Cumbria M.A.R.I.N. will host workshops with artists from Soundwave in Whitehaven from the 4th - 6th September, then sail on to Barrow-in-Furness to work with a group of young people from Drop Zone at The Dock Museum from 8th - 15th September. All the research and work created during the workshops will be used to create podcasts, a geo-tagged web blog and an installation in the public space at FACT in Liverpool during the AND Festival from 23rd - 27th September. The project is supported by Arts Council Finland, Finnish Audiovisual Foundation AVEK, The Finnish Institute in London, Australia Council, University of North-South Wales, ISEA 2009, AHRC, University of Salford, Audio Nomad, Marin Association. With Special thanks to Whitenhaven Marina and AB Ports, Barrow-in-Furness. Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture 23-27 September 2009 & 2011 Liverpool April 2010, 2011, 2012 Cumbria & Lancashire September 2010 & 2012 Manchester & Cheshire Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new festival that welcomes audiences to experience the best in new cinema and media art in a celebration that spills from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of the North West. AND exists to create a space where artists and filmmakers can offer striking new perspectives, and visitors can enjoy, discuss and interact with ideas, in a festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach. The festival will take place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with an extended programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire. Expect an eclectic array of screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, workshops and live events, with a distinctive emphasis on ideas and discussion. The debut AND festival takes place in Liverpool 23-27 September. Pop it in the diary and please join us for five days of mind-blowing media art and cinematic shenanigans... Abandon Normal Devices is driven by a new collaborative partnership between three of the UK?s leading institutions dealing with art and digital culture. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool, Cornerhouse in Manchester and folly in Lancaster have joined forces to collaborate on the exciting task of imagining a new festival from scratch. AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy project for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. WE PLAY is a Legacy Trust UK funded project led by the Arts Council, Northwest on behalf of new regional partnerships. WE PLAY is presented in the Northwest as part of beinspired. From sibyllepeters at gmx.de Fri Sep 4 14:20:07 2009 From: sibyllepeters at gmx.de (Sibylle Peters) Date: Fri Sep 4 14:20:40 2009 Subject: [spectre] LecturePerformance im Netz - Konferenz Message-ID: <20090904122007.318530@gmx.net> Die Performance der Lecture im Netz Online-Vortr?ge zwischen Wissenschaft, Kunst, Medien und ?konomie Konferenz, 9./10.10.2009, Kampnagel Hamburg, P1 Zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und ?konomie, zwischen Online und Offline, entstehen derzeit neue Formen der Wissenspr?sentation. Im digitalen Vortragslabor treffen sich nun f?r zwei Tage Wissenschaftlerinnen, K?nstler und Web-Wizards, um gemeinsam daran zu forschen. Dabei steht der Stand der Kontroverse in Sachen PowerPoint ebenso zur Debatte wie der neue Zwang zum Selbstmarketing im Netz. Die MacherInnen von Plattformen wie Netzspannung.org und Scienceblogs sprechen ?ber Vernetzung in Kunst und Wissenschaft. Medienwissenschaftlerinnen und Soziologen berichten vom Life Hacking im digitalen Archiv, Prognosen ?ber die Zukunft der Vortragsperformance werden gestellt. Nachmittags werden Forschungen im Greenscreen pr?sentiert. Das Publikum ist eingeladen, das Geschehen per Twitter live zu kommentieren. Abends stehen Lecture-Performances auf dem Programm: Die Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur experimentiert mit kollaborativen Vortragsformaten und ?bersetzt ihre ber?hmte Powerpoint-Karaoke versuchsweise in Online-Karaoke. Anschlie?end f?hrt uns Armin Chodzinski, Virtuose zwischen Kunst und ?konomie, in die die Kunst der Buisnesslecture ein und nimmt die Online-Performance der Motivationstrainer aufs Korn. Am Samstag pr?sentiert Joshua Sofaer, Live-Art-K?nstler aus London, erstmals sein neues Projekt The Many Headed Monster, Nachfolger des in Fachkreisen legend?ren Performance Packs. Sofaer spezialisiert sich auf die Herstellung einzigartiger Vortragssets, mit deren Hilfe das Publikum den Vortrag gleich selber halten kann. Teil I: Netzwerke, Neue Wissenschaften, Selbstunternehmertum Freitag, 9.10. 2009 15.30 Uhr Begr??ung und Einf?hrung (Sibylle Peters) 16-17.30 Uhr: Henning Lobin: Powerpointillismus und ?The New Powerpoint Generation? Marc Scheloske: Transformationen der Wissenschaftskommunikation durch Weblogs 18-19.30 Uhr Ramon Reichert: Inszenierungen des Intellektuellen im Videoblog Stephan M?nte-Goussar: Open Access, selbstdarstellerisches Hochschulmarketing oder Lektion in digitaler Selbststeuerung? ab 21 Uhr: Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur: Telepronto. Kollaboration und Koh?renz im Vortragswesen. Armin Chodzinski: How to succeed in business with?: lecture! Teil II: Archive Liveness, Wissensk?nste Samstag, 10.10.2009 14-15.30 Uhr Boris Traue: Life Hacking ? Lecture und Tutorial als Selbstautorisierungsgeste Ulrike Bergermann: To whom it may concern: Konstitutive Nachtr?glichkeit im digitalen Archiv 16-17.30 Uhr Sibylle Peters: online/offline ? ?ber die Zukunft des Vortrags als Performance Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss: Lecture Performance im Netz oder vernetzt? 18-19.30 Uhr Online-Shortcuts: experimentelles Podium mit allen Vortragenden 21 Uhr Joshua Sofaer: The Many-Headed Monster. The audience of contemporary performance (in englischer Sprache) veranstaltet von: Sibylle Peters - Vortragsforscherin und Projektleiterin im Forschungsverbund ?Interactive Science? angesiedelt am Zentrum f?r Medien und Interaktivit?t der Universit?t Gie?en. Die Konferenz wird aus Mitteln der VW-Stiftung im Programm "Schl?sselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften" gef?rdert. Nachmittags Eintritt frei. Abends Eintritt 8 Euro. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich. http://petersblog.wissenschaftskommunikation.info/ http://www.kampnagel.de -- Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate f?r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Fri Sep 4 17:24:05 2009 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Fri Sep 4 17:24:43 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for Artists - Pod Camp - a unique residential opportunity Message-ID: <0256B6C2667A3E4882F0FEF0821867135394A8@follyone.FOLLY.local> folly, Art Locates Me and the Forestry Commission, Grizedale are collaborating to create a unique residential opportunity for a group of young carers from across Cumbria to engage with digital technology, sustainable energy and the forest environment. The partnership is inviting expressions of interest from artists to participate in 3 days research and development from 6th - 8th November 2009 at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria. The remit for the 3 days is to consult with the partner organisations and the group of young carers to develop ideas for creating and installing digital art in Grizedale Forest on a temporary basis. These ideas will be used to create Pod Camp, a series of residential opportunities for the artist and young people to develop the ideas further. Pod Camp will be launched in April 2010 and will take place at Grizedale Forest as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival. The work will build upon the success of the previous partnerships between Art Locates Me and folly to create innovative digital arts work with young people and utilise the expertise of the Forestry Commission in working with the environment and sustainable energy. For further information and the full artists' brief visit http://www.folly.co.uk/click/1466/99 Artist Fee: ?600 fee including travel and VAT Accommodation will be provided Deadline for Submissions - 25th September 2009 Interviews - 6th October 2009 Dates for Research and Development - 6th to 8th November 2009 For more information please contact Tor Townley at folly on tor.townley@folly.co.uk From lotu5 at resist.ca Sat Sep 5 04:30:50 2009 From: lotu5 at resist.ca (dj lotu5) Date: Sat Sep 5 04:55:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] Technesexual Mixed Reality Performance Sunday, 6pm, Long Beach, CA Message-ID: <4AA1CD5A.3000300@resist.ca> WHAT: Mixed Reality Performance in Second Life and "Real Life", Technesexual WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas WHEN: Sunday, 6pm, September 6th, 2009 WHERE: Cal State Long Beach at GLAMFA, map here: http://www.greaterlamfa.com/info.html On *September 6th* at 6pm we?ll be doing a new performance called Technesexual which we just performed in Bogota, Colombia at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Technesexual is part of Mixed Relations and involves a mixed reality performance using biometrics and live audio that responds to our movements in order to explore relationality. Upcoming performances include Tijuana at CECUT on Oct 4th, San Francisco at Arse Elektronika, and Montreal at Artivistic 2009. Also, Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas will be showing the video of Slapshock in the exhibition of GLAMFA. On Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7pm, Mehrmand and Cardenas will be speaking at a round table about these works as well as a pervious work, Becoming Dragon, as part of the CSULB Visiting Artist Lecture series. Technesexual involves Mehrmand and Cardenas kissing in physical and virtual space, while biometric sensors monitor their heartbeats, allowing the audience in both spaces to hear their live heartbeats, blurring the lines between the two spaces. Slapshock is a performance using an Arduino, a Freeduino and a Transdermal Electro Nerve Stimulation (TENS) unit in which each performer slaps themselves, which in turn causes the other performer to receive a painful electric shock. The performance continues as long as the performers can tolerate the pain. More info at the GLAMFA website. Links: Slapshock: photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157620312879150/ Technsexual: photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotu5/sets/72157621943139937/ Mixed Relations Project description: A series of performance and workshops that explore how relations between people change in mixed realities, using the body as an instrument, with biometric sensors to create live audio and activate avatars in Second Life. http://bang.calit2.net/tts/2009/05/01/mixed-relations-won-the-ucira-emerging-fields-award/ http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations This project is being supported by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego. Micha C?rdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, theorist and trickster. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at UCSD. She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2 . Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She blogs at Transreal.org . Micha holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University. Micha recently joined the Lui Velazquez space in Tijuana as a curator and collective member. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and many other places. Micha has received grants from UCIRA, calit2 and Ars Virtua and her work has been written about in publications including the LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, .dpi magazine and Rolling Stone Italy. Elle Mehrmand is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, photography, sound and installation within her works. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin and San Diego. -- blog: http://transreal.org gpg key: 1024D/7E8B7A2B From hatam at drfz.de Sat Sep 5 12:19:44 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Sat Sep 5 12:20:19 2009 Subject: [spectre] Blank Pages Performance Sun 060909 NK Berlin Message-ID: <380-2200996510194422@M2W019.mail2web.com> Blank Pages a performance This weekend join the Blank Pages audio performances in Berlin Blank Pages #7 Lieu/Place : Emitter19 - Kiefholzstrasse 19 - Berlin Date : 05-09-2009 (Saturday) Heure/Time : 2pm - 3pm 5 Participants Participants : Jorge Antonio Martinez Sanchez - Nicolas/Lain Berger - Thomas Thiery - Pierce Warnecke - Felix Pfeifer Blank Pages #8 Place : NK - Elsen str 52 - Berlin Date : 06-09-2009 (Sunday) Time : 5pm - 6pm 6 Participants Participants : Stefan Tiedje - Renaud Rubiano - Barreiro Servando - Jo?o Pais - Duan Wasi - Dominik Tresowski After the session all public is invited to come to have a drink and eat something while talking- this will be a great to chance to discuss sound, programming, gardening and stock investments. A small snack will be provided but if you want to bring any of your personal culinary specialities we would be delighted! The Blank Pages Performance is an improvisation involving live coding, where the participants are musicians and instrument makers at the same time. The performances are never prepared and the participants do not necessarily know each other. Each participant has a station on which he creates a sound making program in real time using Pure Data or MaxMSP. These programming environments allow them to write and modify their code while continuing to produce sound and/or video. There is no computer connection between the stations : only listening to each other allows the participants to play together- the quality of the music produced is based on this central idea and it is each performer?s responsibility to listen as much as possible. This, the score, and the four points below are what guides the musician/programmers through the Blank Pages Performance. 1. The performance lasts one hour. This is the length redeemed sufficient to construct and develop a dialogue between the performers. 2. Each participant must use one of two programming languages written by Miller Puckette ; Pure Data or Max MSP. These programming environments were conceived for the real time creation and processing of data, sound and video. 3. The musician/programmers must begin the performance with a blank programming page. They are therefore set in a situation of pure improvisation since even there instrument is non-existent at the beginning of the set. 4. It is strictly forbidden to load or save a file during the entire session. More informations : www.blankpages.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange From fa at franck-ancel.com Sat Sep 5 18:37:00 2009 From: fa at franck-ancel.com (Franck Ancel) Date: Sat Sep 5 18:56:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] SelfWorld metting Message-ID: <4AA293AC.2020609@franck-ancel.com> Le Motel Selfworld ouvre ses portes ? Annie Abrahams et Curt Cloninger chambre 29 dimanche 6 septembre vers 20H en pr?paration de Double Blind performance chant?e. C'est l'occasion de participer ? cette premi?re session de test. Pour la suite le 19 septembre 20H concert Musique Rebelle chambre 37 en direct depuis la Friche Belle de Mai Vous pouvez aussi participer au Conquest for Numerical Exploration of Stage and Screen chambre 27 en exp?rimentation avec Frank Ancel projet au long cours qui devrait avoir quelques rebondissements dans les jours futurs. Voila pour les prochains rendez-vous. http://www.selfworld.net From nilo.casares at uv.es Sun Sep 6 10:45:39 2009 From: nilo.casares at uv.es (nilo casares) Date: Sun Sep 6 11:20:20 2009 Subject: [spectre] [propaganda] _influx/reflux/reflex_ Message-ID: proyecto en curso/work in progress:::::::::::::::::::::influx/reflux/reflex iniciativa::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::embajada de espa?a en sud?frica initiated by:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::embassy of spain in south africa colaboran/in collaboration with:::::::::::::::::::::::::consorcio de museos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::de la comunidad valenciana :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.consorciomuseos.es] espa?a ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::sala parpall?. valencia :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.salaparpallo.com] espa?a ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::casa ?frica. las palmas de gc :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.casafrica.es] espa?a ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::map zar. richmond :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.mapzar.org] south africa ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::the nirox foundation. johannesburg ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.niroxarts.com] south africa ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::johannesburg art gallery. johannesburg :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::south africa concomisarios/co-curators::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::bronwyn lace :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::johan thom coordinaci?n t?cnica (/valencia) technical coordination::isabel p?rez ortiz ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::consorcio de museos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::de la comunidad valenciana ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::eva caro ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::sala parpall? artistas/artists::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::marta fern?ndez calvo :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::dorothee kreutzfeldt ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::juan linares & erika arzt :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::churchill madikida :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::?scar mora :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::james webb calendario/schedule::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[07.09.09)(18.09.09] presentaci?n p?blica/one day event::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m/18.09.09 mesa redonda de presentaci?n/round table discussion:::::::::19h00m/18.09.09 lugar/venue:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::sala parpall? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::alboraya, 5 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::e46010-valencia :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+34963614415 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::entrada gratuita/free entrance :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::aforo limitado a 50 personas/maximum 50 people :::::::::::::::::::::presentaci?n influx/reflux/reflex::::::::::::::::::::: un proyecto de arte colaborativo entre artistas espa?oles y sudafricanos desarrollado como talleres, abiertos o cerrados seg?n las posibilidades de los anfitriones, que se materializar? en distintas exhibiciones al uso en espa?a y sud?frica durante el a?o 2010. en la actualidad el proyecto se encuentra en fase de reflexi?n entre los artistas y presentaci?n p?blica en los distintos centros art?sticos de acogida. tras una primera etapa en 2008, realizada en _map zar_ (richmond) y _the nirox foundation_ (johannesburg), sigue su curso en la sala parpall? en estos d?as y en casa ?frica en diciembre de 2009. [http://influxrefluxreflex.wordpress.com] :::::::::::::::::::::influx/reflux/reflex introduction::::::::::::::::::::: influx/reflux/reflex is a collaborative project between spanish and south african artists. the results of these workshop-based collaborations will be show cased in traveling exhibitions from spain to south africa in 2010. currently the second phase of the project in underway in spain and the results of this phase will be showcased in valencia in the month of september and in casa africa in the month of december 2009. the first phase of the project was held in south africa in 2008 at the _map zar_ residency space in the small town of richmond, karoo. the results of this phase where presented at _the nirox foundation_ in the cradle of humankind close to joahnnesburg. [http://influxrefluxreflex.wordpress.com] ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- copyleft (todos os direitos ao reve's) nilo casares life is too short to drink bad wine / la vida es demasiado breve como para beber mal vino / a vida ? muito curta para beber vinho mau / zivot je suvise kratak da bi se pilo lose vino beijos em espiral:: besos en espiral:: besades en espiral:: baisers en spirale:: baci a spirale:: spiral kisses :: spiral kyssar:: spiraalzoenen:: pocalunki spiralowe:: muxu kiribilatuak:: kierteisia suukkoja:: spiralni poljupci:: spiralk?sse http://comisario.net http://twitter.com/140_pulsaciones if file > 2mb; send it to nilo dot casares at gmail dot com From info at transfera.es Sun Sep 6 21:59:06 2009 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Sun Sep 6 21:59:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA VIDEOART CHANNEL TV #35 Message-ID: <4AA4148A.9010704@transfera.es> Apreciad@s amig@s, Transfera TV sigue emitiendo lo m?s actual del Arte Audiovisual. Para el pr?ximo viernes 11 y mi?rcoles 16 de septiembre a las 21:00 os hemos preparado desde Madrid el siguiente programa: TEMA: HIPERVISIONES KYE WILSON THE KISS (2006) 7' RUGGERO MANTOVANI IL NARRATORE CIECO (2008) 1' 50" SHIGE MORIYA IMPURITY (2003) 6? DIEGO ARANDOJO MI CALLE ES MI CUERPO (2009) 6' EQUIPO MORAL DAMAS O'PUESTAS (EP?LOGO) (2003) 1' 25" BRIAN DELEVIE/ISSHAELA INGHAM EMANATIONS (2008) 9' Pod?is acceder a toda la informaci?n en: http://www.transfera.es/programa35.html La convocatoria para el env?o de trabajos sigue abierta. Os deseamos una ?ptima reentr?! Staff www.transfera.es Dear friends, Transfera TV continues broadcasting the most actual Audio Visual Art. For the next Friday 11 and Wednesday 16 at 9:00 PM we have prepared from Madrid the following program. SUBJECT: HYPERVISIONS KYE WILSON THE KISS (2006) 7' RUGGERO MANTOVANI IL NARRATORE CIECO (2008) 1' 50" SHIGE MORIYA IMPURITY (2003) 6? DIEGO ARANDOJO MI CALLE ES MI CUERPO (2009) 6' EQUIPO MORAL DAMAS O'PUESTAS (EP?LOGO) (2003) 1' 25" BRIAN DELEVIE/ISSHAELA INGHAM EMANATIONS (2008) 9' You can access to the information at Transfera website: http://www.transfera.es/programa35.html The term for the reception of works is still open. We desire you an optimal rentr?e! Transfera Staff www.transfera.es From galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr Mon Sep 7 11:44:12 2009 From: galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr (galerija galzenica) Date: Mon Sep 7 11:53:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition "Interzone : Gender" on Wednesday, September 9th Message-ID: <4AA4D5EC.4030002@globalnet.hr> we are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Interzone : Gender" on Wednesay, September 9th from 8.p.m. to 10 p.m. in Galzenica Gallery artists: Davor Duki? (SR), Ibro Hasanovi? (BiH), Helena Jane?i? (HR), Milica Raki? (SR) i Alenka Spacal (SLO) curators: Sanja Horvatin?i?, Nina Pisk --- "Interzone: Gender" continues this year?s series of exhibitions dedicated to the phenomenon of globalization and its effects on the local, on politics and, among others, on intimacy. The exhibition will try and offer a view into one of the more actual topics today: the question of gender and gender relations/roles. Within that context, the exhibition will present works from artists from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Serbia. By the performance of hanging self-portraits on kitchen cloths in the gallery, the artist from Slovenia, Alenka Spacal, imitates the intimate household atmosphere, and at the same time deals with the problem of the relation between private and public, i.e. personal and political. She also deals with the relation between the self-portrait as a classical painting genre and performance as its extension within the contemporary feminist art practice. The self-portrait of the Croatian artist Helena Jane?i? refers to the work of the modernist painter Nasta Rojc and also deals with the question of presentation of gender identities within the local context. The work of Milica Raki? ?Krasna zvezda? uses historical documentation and photographs to explore the idea of existence, transience and time, and also the ways in which language and culture shape identities. The problem of gender differences and its cultural determination is the basis of the video by Ibro Hasanovi? titled ?Attempt of Being?. By reading the work by the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette ?L?ing?nu Libertine?, the author is questioning ideas of sexual identity and woman writing. In his work ?Man of Action?, Davor Duki? humorously addressed the problems and symbols of pop-culture and its meanings within the local tradition and the male gender identity. -- 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 paul at paul-brown.com Mon Sep 7 13:26:57 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Mon Sep 7 13:52:37 2009 Subject: [spectre] cfp: 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity In-Reply-To: References: <289227C1-F076-4F3B-A2A8-BF0729D5F801@doc.ic.ac.uk> Message-ID: ICCC-X : 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 January 2010 http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx DEADLINE: September 21, 2009 Call for Papers Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of computational creativity in a crossdisciplinary setting. It will bring together people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related to the notion of creativity as it relates to computational systems. This focus on creativity in the context of computational systems has the potential for increasing innovation in existing fields of research as well as for defining new fields of study, including: 1. Artificially Creative Systems: development of computational systems that produce or simulate creativity. These systems may be inspired by human creativity or by the possibilities of artificial systems beyond human capabilities. 2. Computational Models of Human Creativity: construction of cognitive models of human creativity that can be the basis for computational creativity. 3. Computational Systems for Supporting Creativity: production of user interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that support the user in being more creative. Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to: a. computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and rerepresentation; b. metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems; c. perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational creativity, models of human behaviour intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; d. the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; e. factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies; f. social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity in social settings; g. specific applications to music, language and the arts, to architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to entertainment; h. detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts produced, and applications of the system. The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences, creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell" session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans. In addition, the conference will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational] creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative computational systems. Invited Speaker Our keynote speaker will be Nancy J. Nersessian, Regents' Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Nancy is an expert on creativity and innovation in scientific processes. Submissions Please submit full papers of up to 10 sides in Springer LNCS format. We are also inviting short papers of up to 5 sides in Springer LNCS format. These can cover preliminary work, late-breaking results, short systems descriptions and interesting musings. Submission details (via easychair) are available on the conference website: http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx Important Dates September 21, 2009 Submission deadline October 30, 2009 Authors' Notification November 22, 2009 Deadline for CRCs January 7-9, 2010 Conference Organising Committee General Chair: Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths, UK) PC Chair: Dan Ventura (Brigham Young, USA) Local Chair: Amilcar Cardoso (Coimbra, Portugal) Publicity Chair: Simon Colton (Imperial College, UK) Please consider submitting a paper to what we hope will be a very stimulating first conference in the computational creativity series. ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From redazione at digicult.it Mon Sep 7 20:30:25 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Mon Sep 7 20:30:55 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digimag interview to Alessandro Gilioli: Right to Net. Fredom of Press. Virtual Italian blogs strike Message-ID: Sorry for any crosspostings: Digicult presents: OUR RIGHT TO NET: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALESSANDRO GILIOLI by Marco Mancuso from Digimag 47 - September 2009 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1542 English version online soon Digimag interviewed Alessandro Gilioli, well known journalist, writer, editor and blogger of "L'Espresso"(monthly magazine edited by the same editorial group of "La Repubblica") and Derrick de Kerckhove. The last 14th of July a virtual strike took place, a strike on the main Italian blogs, organized by Alessandro Gilioli with the collaboration of bloggers from all political areas. The initiative asked Italian blogs to stop posting all the same hour, and to just post the logo of the protest online, with a link to the statement for the Right to Net: http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/. The Social Networking platform worked as a collector of posts and free opinions, as well as a container for the images of all the bloggers who gagged themselves by taking part in the protest. The project also involved a sit-in and meeting in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7pm on Tuesday, the 14th of July, and a symbolic gagging of the bloggers that were present as well as the statue that represents the freedom of speech, the statue of Pasquino. The reason of the protest was the Angelino Alfano (ITalian Minister of Justice) decree on wiretapping, which has in fact "muted" a whole series of bloggers on the Net, threatening them with legal action and hefty fines. If the so-called obligation to rectify, thought of 60 years ago for the Press, is imposed on all blogs (even amateur ones) with the foreseen hefty pecuniary fines, it would actually put a silencer on online conversations and freedom of speech. A very strong action against freedom of press in Italy ------------------- I would say that it was almost inevitable. To live and work in a country, as democratic as it seems, where the interdependent rapport between politics and mass media is much tighter than in any other country in the world (excluding those openly totalitarian regimes that we mentioned for example in last month's Persepolis 2.0 article, of course) and does not allow for libertarian utopias of any sort if they discuss any subject that is a fundamental part of democracy, like the freedom of the Press, the right to an opinion, the freedom of thought. To think that the Internet, Blogs, P2P and Social Networks could be exempt from censorship and restrictions from the government, to hope that they would continue to be completely free territories forever, was absolutely naive in my opinion: there are many negative accounts of this, on a national and international level, some of which have been discussed in Digimag during the past few years. Regarding these themes, the Italian government seems to have already triggered an unprecedented control and restriction policy in the Western "democracies" and that, as the guests of this interview Alessandro Gilioli and Derrick De Kerckhove emphasise, could bring up a series of amendments and decrees that constitute as a dangerous precedent to be imitated by other "democracies" all over the world. In fact it seems that in Italy, the freedom of the Press as we know it, is a right that exists merely on paper and much less in practice: how to interpret the latest masked government action against the freedom of thought and of the Press, the Alfano decree on wiretapping, which has in fact "muted" a whole series of bloggers on the Net, threatening them with legal action and hefty fines? If the so-called obligation to rectify, thought of 60 years ago for the Press, is imposed on all blogs (even amateur ones) with the foreseen hefty pecuniary fines, it would actually put a silencer on online conversations and freedom of speech. In a government obsessed by controlling the mass media, intent on putting a silencer on every possible voice of protest, fundamentally ignorant to social and economical dynamics that make up the Internet, P2P, Open Sourcing and Social Networking, it's almost inevitable to be afraid of that which you cannot control, of the so-called "word getting out" that could slip through the small mesh of an online community, as small as it can be, that has the potential to grow and could soon become politically important (if well-represented, of course). Therefore in protest against the Alfano Decree, on the 14th of July a virtual strike took place, a strike on the main Italian blogs. This happened thanks to the initiative of Alessandro Gilioli (Journalist, writer, Editor and blogger of "L'Espresso" with his "Piovono Rane" feature), and the collaboration of bloggers from all political areas (and non-political areas too) and representatives of various parties and associations, the initiative asked Italian blogs to just post the logo of the protest online, with a link to the statement for the Right to Net: http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/. The Social Networking platform worked as a collector of posts and free opinions, as well as a container for the images of all the bloggers who gagged themselves by taking part in the protest. The project also involved a sit-in and meeting in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7pm on Tuesday, the 14th of July, and a symbolic gagging of the bloggers that were present as well as the statue that represents the freedom of speech, the statue of Pasquino. The initiative inevitably caught my attention, be it for the objective importance of the theme in question, the fact that Digimag naturally tends to want to know about projects done by the vivacious voices of its guests (that can be artistic and of protest), be it for the opportunity to be able to confront myself with a free-thinker whose activity and presence on the Net, in my opinion, are very important for our country, for the distribution of a "new" form of hybrid journalism between the traditional form, connected more closely to Print and TV and to the dynamics of classic editorials, and what the media have erroneously crowned as being "citizen journalism" (which I prefer to call "free journalism"). Derrick de Kerckhove (whom I thank dearly) also answered my questions, an essayist who needs no introduction, an opinionist, Director of McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor of the Department of French of the University of Toronto, who in someway has been closely following the evolution of Alessandro Gilioli's project. Marco Mancuso: I would like to begin this interview by asking you to give me an initial overview of the initiative of the "blog strike" that took place on the 14th of July after the creation of the platform The Right to Net. Personally I consider this initiative to be an important step toward the use of the Net as a real platform for discussion, thought, gathering: for example The Right to Net has united many informative blogs and this is very useful for all those people that wish to find their way through the (hopefully) free and independent universe of information from the bottom, that was quickly labelled Citizen Journalism by the media. At the same time I ask myself, and ask you, aside from the act of protest and strike that were absolutely legitimate and justified, what practical and concrete effects has the initiative been having on a social and political level, that I presume is still thriving, and what effects can it have in the future? And more generally speaking, in what direction, in your opinion, should work be done so that protest and gathering initiatives on the Net can have a real and efficient fall back in the real world of our lives? Alessandro Gilioli: We'll see the "specific" results of the protest later on: if and when the "blogkiller" enforcement will be thrown out by Alfano, as we hope. It's being discussed, there's an amendment that will probably be voted for: I am probably "rashly optimistic" on the hypothesis that the specific objective will be reached. But two results have already been obtained. First of all, the initiative has brought the question of communication "from the bottom" in Italy (and the ignorance of our politicians) outside the self-referential circuit of blogs. Dozens of Italian and foreign newspapers (like El Mundo) and TV stations (from Sky to the BBC) have talked about it - so that they could dissent from it. A lot of politicians and actors in politics asked themselves for the first time, "what are these blogs and why are they so pissed off"?, which is something. The second result was the fact of getting the blog sector to discuss and think about its own role and (why not?) its responsibilities. In particular the passage from a phase of simple "defensive rejection" against stupid laws (D'Alia, Carlucci, ddl Alfano, etc.), to a phase of "purposeful counterattack" to stimulate the legislators to produce laws that keep in mind the different dynamics of online communication from the bottom compared to the vertical journalism of Print, to be inspired toward opening, innovation, sharing and neutrality of the Net, instead of the "terrorised prohibition" with which they've made their moves so far. Derrick de Kerckhove: The extension of news from the official press, the Twitter-like usage, the use of defensive technology, and contributions of Italian intelligence. What fall back can be produced by protest initiatives on the Net is an interesting question. It's true that only now are social networks beginning to generate some effect; citizen journalism through social networks involves increasing amounts of people and not only on blogs but also other forms of communication. It could have a very strong effect on the government, despite its dependence on the number of people who are connected, and the ratio between the number of people on the Internet and the actual population. I think for example that Italy will find its point of maturity on the Internet in the future just as America found its own with the election of Obama, the highest moment of mass distribution of the force of the Internet compared to that of classic media. It means that strategies can be found to greatly augment the impact of social networks, which have an influence on political power, a power that we can call ecological. Politics should be ecological. Another aspect is the impact that such a law has on people's lives, that represses the freedom of expression. Let's hope that we will not see a competition in Italy between the organisation of a Network that defends itself and the organisation of a government that attacks it. The contributions of Italian intelligence are clearly and heavily threatened if such a situation arises, the emancipation of Italian minds must not be blocked. Marco Mancuso: On the basis of the recent government anti-blog orders, as for example the Alfano decree this past July, what are, in your opinion, the actual and potential risks that the Internet faces, concerning freedom of thought but also free circulation and sharing of files, ideas and materials, movements of protest and gathering and autonomous processes of creation of new professions and economies, of the defence of one's own privacy and personal data? In other, words, how long will the Net remain a free territory as we have known it in the past 10 years and how dangerous could the illusion that it will always be a marginal territory in contemporary society be? Alessandro Gilioli: In Italy the danger of the Net comes from a combination of intolerance, fear and ignorance of politicians, especially those of the PDL and UDC parties. Intolerance: Berlusconi can't stand hostile media in general, he tells people to not advertise with them, he dreams of an Italy of Minzolini communicators. Fear: politicians do not know the Net but can suss how little it can be controlled compared to mainstream media, in other words that if a piece comes out on the Net that embarrasses them they don't have a editor they can call the next day to ask for "compensatory" articles, they don't have a reporter from the Palazzo that they can walk arm-in-arm with along the Montecitorio Transatlantic, they don't have any kind of blackmail power that they have always had over editors. Ignorance: most politicians don't know what horizontal communication is, the insertion of content in blogs or social networks, and mechanically tend to apply laws that were thought up 60 years ago for Print. Faced with all this, the way in which the Italian Net will live in the next few years depends mostly on us, that is to say, those people who want it to be free and plural: how we will know how to move and influence the Palazzo, giving up on isolated and snobby positions and facing the reality out there. But also avoiding vanity and personal ambitions, with every person working at the service of everyone. Derrick de Kerckhove: The problem is in the fact that the Italian law does not constitute as the exception but is the norm. Right now the tendency toward the norm is visible, predictable in many details, in China, France, Italy and in Iran. The next law will require the creation of an internal department of defence (like the Basso fortress in Florence, built by the Medici, non to defend the city but to defend themselves from the city). The danger does not solely exist for Italy; the danger is that every conservative government can imitate the Italian example at any stage. At this time it's clear how the governments are tempted, and one is going beyond temptation, the Italian one, to control people in an absolute way. It's a new and innovative way to control the population. It's also interesting to see to what point the image of Italy, that is not seen under the best light right now with Berlusconi's government, will continue to get worse to the eyes of the whole world with this new law. This is not a positive example for a country whose inspiration tends to reach toward an openness that is very similar to the American standard. The American way means an openness that is under surveillance, but with a sense of free space, this sense can also be classified as ecological. It gives the population the possibility to live with breathing space and I think that in Italy, to have a reputation similar to that of China on the Internet is not becoming. But the other aspect that worries me is the tendency that the right wing governments have to research a sort of absolute control over people, to be carried out in many ways. If the Italian "experiment" (that I hope will never come to be) becomes a model for other governments in the rest of the world, if that should really happen, we will be lost. Marco Mancuso: There's an interesting post on The Right to Net concerning a comment of the lawyer Guido Scorza, an judicial IT expert, who talks about the risks that channels like Youtube are facing. In the light of the previous question don't you think that it's increasingly necessary to create an open and possibly shared discussion with those very people who can illustrate, clarify and eventually legally help all those people who work, express themselves and communicate on the Net and through Social Networks? Don't you think that in this sense, a platform like The Right to Net should discuss this deeply, clarify as much as possible and eventually help to create a legal case history that can constitute as a reference point for all those people who find themselves in dire straits in the future? Alessandro Gilioli: Scorza is doing a great job, be it in terms of judicial information be it concerning the project for the literacy of politicians. The Right to Net is just one of the many platforms where action can begin. To me it seems useful that the debate and eventual "political" initiatives are as flexible and plural as possible, even when offline. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking of the Net as a problem that only regards bloggers. It's an issue that concerns all citizens, as an open democracy. Derrick de Kerckhove: The question is very interesting! I absolutely agree with the request to create forms of information, discussion and assistance for all those people who are in difficulty concerning the problem of the forms of control. In Piazza Navona the people present at the event were less than those who had taken part online, this probably depends on how the news about the strike action was distributed but also depends on the novelty of it.... I hope that the number of Italians capable of expressing their consent/dissent to these laws increases greatly because it is their right as well as their duty, in other words the more people participate the more they create/whip-up a case of legal interest... finding a way to protect this "Right to Net" with international laws. For example, in part of the decree by Alfano there is a constitutional illegitimacy in relation to the art.21, what are we waiting for to denounce this in uproar? A thorough juridical study would be best, to guarantee this "Right to the Net", to "build", through a scientific committee made up of Italian jurors, substantial legal support, with great visibility on the Net, that underlines the contrasts between ddl Alfano and the Constitution. Marco Mancuso: Social Networks and virtual/real identity. How can the project "The Right to the Net" be compared to the universe of Social Networks, how do they or will they use dynamics of integration with platforms like Delicious, Twitter and Facebook (I don't mean integrating videos from Youtube, Vimeo or Digg, that is commonplace now), ad most of all how will the unsolved dilemma of giving a face, a body, a physicality for action to that virtual identity that exists behind every account that participates to your initiative? What dynamics should be used as leverage? I ask you because you had the courage to face this topic, in the moment when you asked people to participate physically in Piazza Navona on the 15th of July while doing the "blog strike" online at the same time. Alessandro Gilioli: That's the point. To make the issue of the Net in Italy come out of the closed circuit of bloggers and Net-Fans is fundamental. You need to work at it every day. Every person must, with his or her own means - in order to create a civil battle for everyone. It's also an economical battle: the innovation of Italy - is very slow and scarce compared to other countries, not just European ones - and does not just pass through the widening of the band, but also through the widening of collective consciousness. A virtual reality that distinctly sets against physical reality no longer exists (if it ever did): the virtual is a part of the real - and an important part too. The "Physical" encounter in Piazza Navona had a symbolic value. In this, I believe that whoever has acted on the Net for many years must step forward, avoid feeling snobby and part of a "different and more advanced world", face themselves and get their hands dirty with topics like literacy and distribution. Derrick de Kerckhove:...and must persuade the mainstream media in Italy to join in. Marco Mancuso: You are an affirmed journalist of a large editorial group, but at the same time you are also one of the most renowned bloggers on the Italian Network. On more than one occasion you did not hesitate to take an activist stand and you presented your blog Piovono Rane (It's Raining Frogs) to the defence of cases like, as I can recall, the case of the raid on the Community Centre Cox18 and the Calusca Archive. How do you conciliate your role as a journalist for the editorial group "L'Espresso" with your role as a blogger online: in other words, how much does the Net (as a mass medium considered to be of little impact compared to newspapers and TV) still allow for a margin of free activist action to professional journalists like yourself, and how much will it increasingly become a balance between the will of the individual professional and the ontology of the Press. And how big is the risk of the proliferation of blogs that express precise opinions and assume certain positions with the purpose of collecting users (and therefore readers, or potential electors) from social areas that are more extreme (be they left or right wing)? Alessandro Gilioli: Personally I am lucky to work for a newspaper that has a long tradition of civil battles and so I have the possibility to "use" blogs quite freely for that which you cal "activism". Blogs allow for a margin of autonomy and independence that - if managed with responsibility and awareness - is much greater than that of a printed newspaper (which is still a collective product). The balance between personal activism and the position of the newspaper has many variables though and must be measured with intelligence every day. It's obvious that in my blog - which is a part of the website of the "Espresso" - I have greater responsibility and constraints compared to another hypothetical personal blog outside the website of the newspaper. But it's worth it, because being a part of the "Espresso" you also have an audience and greater feedback, which makes it easier to defend those cases that you speak of, and eventually get to activism. In other words, it means you can move better - for the results that you want to obtain - in the "balance" between positions of the newspaper and personal freedom. On the other hand, here luckily the funny but golden rule that the BBC gave as a unique policy to its journalists-bloggers: do as you like, but use your common sense and your head. Which isn't bad as a margin for freedom. As for the proliferation of blogs that take extreme positions or super assertive "to the sole purpose of attracting users", I don't see anything wrong with that or anything "risky": everyone must have the right to do the blog he or she chooses, with the purpose that they want, and it will be the users - the readers - who will give them credibility and authority. Derrick de Kerckhove: A healthy relationship between the press and the networks is essential for the well-being and the openness of society. Every government experiences the temptation to control the media, every newspaper at times experiences nervousness at publishing risky reports. The condition of freedom, not only of people?s expression but also of their movement rests largely on an open relationship between government, mainstream media and the network. The network is not a new underground, it is the ground itself. People have to be able to express their opinions and desires and see them reflected in the media when they pertain to social well-being as in the case of Iran. On the other hand, the presence of mainstream journalists who are also credible in the world of networks is part of the public image of great editorial groups. There is, in Canada, the principle of "arms length" between the government and the media, that is, they are inevitably closely related but manage somehow to maintain their independence mutually. A journalist with a blog establishes the liaison between the world of individual opinion and information to the world of media consensus. It requires, of course someone capable to maintain a quality blog. An "arms length" agreement" between government and the press on the matter of reporting is thus necessary. By which I mean, that a respected newspaper should never be refrained from reporting on public opinion for fear that the government will retire its support. And a respected journalist like Alessandro Gilioli should never have to fear the consequences on his honest reporting in blogs as well as on the paper. Internally the editorial board may not always be ready to take risks. But, in many newspapers of international reputation such as le Monde in France, The New York Times in the US, and La Repubblica in Italy there is enough professional honesty and standards to tolerate a critical attitude within their midst. The association creates a greater sense of trust among the papers? readers. Thus, there ought to be a mutual support between network, citizen journalists and the mainstream media. Long before blogs were invented, the collaboration has begun dozens of years ago, with England?s Daily Telegraphy taking the lead in the early nineties, by seeking the opinions of people on line and offering special services. Media began to act as accelerators of pertinent citizen news. Artists -artisvist- groups in Italy, such Taziana Bazichelli?s AHA or Alessandro Ludovico?s NEURAL have shown the way. The idea has always been to help the main media, not to ut the then down. The consequence should be that the main media recognize the value added service provided by responsible reflexive hacktivism, and citizien, eyewitness journalism. If we want to still talk about democracy in the next few critical years, networks and media must work together to advise and dissuade governments from silly or dangerous impulses to block free expression of the public. Governments, after all, are not a private profit-oriented businesses, they belong to the people who vote for them and the electorate should be able to expect the services it has paid for. Marco Mancuso: I'll ask you a question that I asked the authors of the graphic novel Persepolis 2.0 last month, an artistic project of re-editing of the graphic novel Persepolis that traces an artistic and narrative parallel between the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the protest movements of 2009. My thought, and that of the authors, is that from the moment that the protest of young people in Iran of the past few weeks was repressed by violence, and causes the simultaneous closure of Networks and a hunt for bloggers and all those from Iran who were "guilty" of having communicated with the rest of the world by reporting the violence that was taking place, the great mass media (but also online) did not cover or emphasize the situation, abandoning the Iranian population and leaving it to its destiny. In other words, it's evermore evident that the Net (as the mass medium that it now is) has an enormous potential in keeping the attention on certain political situations in the world and consequently has a growing responsibility (be it ethical or professional) concerning its potential and its shortcomings. When the Net, the countercultures on the Internet, the initiatives that are concerned with freedom of expression online, websites like Reppublica or L'Espresso, blogs, do not use their potential (or only do so for short periods of time and only connected to the "hottest" news bulletins), you ask yourself how much are we who work on the distribution of news and culture on the Net responsible of some shortcomings or hypocrisies. What do you think? Don't you think that at times the Net falls into professional dynamics that are too similar to those of common mass media, therefore slowly losing part of its revolutionary force and its propulsive dynamics, as naive as they may be? Alessandro Gilioli: Perfection is no one's and nobody's, not even the Net's. But on the Net there are "long lines" and retrievals, and niche websites that don't "let go" of a topic such as Burma or Iran just because current affairs has. So things are better than they were 20 years ago, when there were just Print newspapers and so consult archives you had to go to the public library, or if you wanted to know what was happening in a far-off country that was ignored by the newspapers you had to walk around various associations in a City. For example, for personal reasons I follow the Burma situation closely, but I cannot do a daily post of Burma because if not I will have lost dozens of readers: which would not be useful for the distribution of other important news. At the same time, when I see something new or strong about Burma then I gladly put it in there. Once again, for a journalistic-generalist website or blog it's a question of balance and good sense. Another issue for blogs and niche websites, naturally, is that are like online data banks that are perpetually updatable and consultable. In other words, I wouldn't get too paranoid about "Journalist logic" of online activism as a negative dynamic: the important thing is that there's a plurality that is as free as possible and contains as many voices and topics, battles and elaborations as possible. Derrick de Kerckhove: I don't think so, because I think the problem lies elsewhere and is much more dangerous, as that quoted of the repression of blogs in Iran. The accessibility of anybody on the Net creates conditions for absolute control. There will be a great temptation in many countries, like Italy (and perhaps even the United States in the next Republican "reign") to experiment a kind of "electronic fascism". Marco Mancuso: I would like to conclude this interview by trying to reflect on a point that I think is important: the very existence of this interview! Aside from the obvious and right dynamics of the younger professional who interviews the expert, of the counterculture website like Digicult that is interested in the activities of a journalist of an important national Newspaper and a great editorial group, I ask myself whether this interview signals a certain weakness in the project The Right to Net. In other words, don't you think that there's the risk that these initiatives are perceived as vertical initiatives, directed by an intellectual elite that despite everything doesn't speak the same language as the new classes of professionals and intellectuals that have been created in Italy in the past decade, that despite everything remain too far away from the common people, from young people who do politics on the Net, from the activist countercultures that animate it? I'm sure that, and luckily may I add, the initiative was a success and I've seen that many people participated in the platform The Right to Net, but at the same time, by reading a few posts here and there, I'm still struck by certain messages like: "The initiative has seen participants and bloggers from every political area (but also non-political areas) and representatives from various parties and associations. Some of the participants: Ignazio Marino, Vincenzo Vita, Mario Adinolfi and Francesco Verducci (Pd - Democratic Party); Antonio Di Pietro (Idv): Pietro Folena (Party of the European Left); "Amici di Beppe Grillo" (Friends of Beppe Grillo) in Rome, Calabria and Taranto; Articolo 21; Sinistra e Libert? (Left and Freedom); Per il Bene Comune (For the Common Good); Partito Liberale Italiano (PLI). On an individual level other people have participated such as Giuseppe Civati, Sergio Ferrentino, Massimo Mantellini, Alessandro Robecchi, Claudio Sabelli Fioretti, Ivan Scalfarotto, Luca Sofri, Marco Travaglio and Vittorio Zambardino. Some parliamentarians from the ruling party (like Antonio Palmieri and Bruno Murgia), even if they won't be in the piazza, have expressed their opposition to the "Net-Gagging" law in the Alfano decree.... in other words, the introduction into "new" environments is not underlined in traditional politics and in the dominant intellectual society, as much as the classes and groups and people who think they can represent a "guide" but that perhaps many people on the Net or people who do politics through new technologies, are no longer perceived as real "alternatives" from a political point of view. What do you think about this? Alessandro Gilioli: I don't want to repeat myself, but it's still a question of balance. If the participation in a battle of people who are stimulated and considered authoritative for different reasons is useful for the result of the battle itself, this should be communicated and valued. If I had written: "My grocer Gino participated too, as well as my doorman Guido, my cleaner Luz and the neighbourhood officer Erminio", I would have been more horizontal and more democratic, but a little silly too. The important thing is that when the initiative takes place, everyone mixes up the same way, without verticality or leadership (for this reason in Piazza Navona I avoided getting up on a stage and talking, leaving the speeches up to a judicial expert such as Scorza and a Network expert such as De Kerckhove). If hundreds of "unknown" blogs hadn't participated in the strike, it would have been a failure. But in the moment of preparation the participation of "authoritative" characters was useful so as to involve the "unknown" blogs. In other words, we try to avoid ideologies and to be pragmatic: it's right that there are no leaderships and personal interests, but it's also right that authoritative characters "spend their time" if this can be useful to the positive outcome of the initiative. It is strenuous to find the right balance between the two each and every time. Derrick de Kerckhove: I don't know Italian politics well enough to be able to answer this question, but I will say that whatever the quantity - be it homeopathic - of the representation of the critique of power, the effect is believable, if it does not touch the masses. This means that there are people circulating on the net that are capable of having a believable and authoritative position, in the sense that Social Networks are a pertinent world of connections: person to person, group to group, they become a fact... like a Press Release.... It has happened in other historical situations. Think of the voice of a person who lives outside his or her country and conditions an ever-growing network of people in the rest of the world. It's an interesting thing; it means that it's perfectly possible to find a reference on the Internet that comes at light speed to the right person. I think that this is the great power of the Internet, from a small dosage of information that becomes important, that circulates at light speed and allows people to "do things". As Mc Luhan says: "light speed is the maximum function of speed not the quantity of information, it's the speed of access that makes the mass, it's a mass of real time, a mass that is built up and broken down. Information works that way, it's a different way with respect to traditional strategies of the so-called mass media". Having said that, I continue to sustain that in order to make a positive action of persuasion on the government, a union of all the official Press is preferable, if they accept to take a stand on this topic... and I think that the Union of the Press would be essential in the future of political decisions. This in my belief and must be the effect of other initiatives of "The Right to Net". The stimuli and pressure come from the Internet, from Social Networks, from blogs, and are released into reality, into the media, the mainstream, because the Internet is underground. http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/ http://gilioli.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/ http://www.cittadinolex.kataweb.it/article_view.jsp?idArt=88618&idCat=120 From office at paraflows.at Tue Sep 8 01:34:11 2009 From: office at paraflows.at (Office) Date: Tue Sep 8 01:34:58 2009 Subject: [spectre] paraflows 09 - URBAN HACKING Message-ID: <3dtxhtqrv76ejyat08092009013414@monomail> paraflows 09 ? Festival for Digital Art and Cultures 10. - 20. September 2009 http://www.paraflows.at Festival Opening / 10.09.2009, 7 pm Container Installation, Karlsplatz/Resselpark, Close-by Otto Wagner Pavillon, Stra?enbahnhaltestelle Karlsplatz http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110085149966494054901.00047256007d7ace8c1ab&source=embed&ll=48.200061,16.371393&spn=0.00532,0.013937&z=17 The city of Vienna has a long tradition of interventions and actions in the public space. With this year?s topic URBAN HACKING, the fourth paraflows festival continues this artistic investigation of the public and urban space of living. What is more, paraflows 09 will shed light on the role played by digital media when it comes to exploring, questioning, and shaping the urban infrastructure. Exhibition URBAN HACKING A container village designed especially for paraflows at Karlsplatz will provide the space for the exhibition URBAN HACKING, which will connect the K?nstlerhaus, the Karlskirche, and the project space, and thereby unite the historic with the contemporary. More than 30 national and international positions of digital art and cultures as well as the artistic strategies connected therewith shed light on current and older tendencies of interacting with the public space.What will be put on display are projects on use and intervention, on hacking and setting up the urban public. A focus will thereby be laid on the possibilities ?urban hacking? offers for the redesign of public space. The net, as public infrastructure with its individual elements, possibilities, and mechanisms, has become integral to social communication and extended the public space via hyperspace. How these two parallel layers of reality are organized and impact the individual?s freedom of movement is one of the questions to be answered by paraflows 09 URBAN HACKING. Symposium URBAN HACKING Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity. The three-day program of the symposium corresponds to the thematic priorities Urban, Hacking, and Risk. The panel Urban discusses the city as cultural venue, whereas the second the panel, Hacking, investigates the origin, structures, and evolutionary elements of the multi-faceted notion ?hacking.? The third and final day will be dedicated to questions of risk, for instance when one ? for artistic or philosophical reasons ? transgresses boundaries, as well as question pertaining to gender in the given context. The symposium also will serve as a copula between the exhibition and the workshops and will be accompanied by movie screenings and theatre plays. From info at fondation-langlois.org Fri Sep 4 16:29:57 2009 From: info at fondation-langlois.org (Fondation Daniel Langlois) Date: Tue Sep 8 09:13:40 2009 Subject: [spectre] News from the Daniel Langlois Foundation Message-ID: David Rokeby, "Machine for Taking Time" A new artwork has been added to our series of documentary collections. "Machine for Taking Time (Boul. Saint-Laurent)" by David Rokeby is presented here as a file containing a detailed list of technical specifications, different shots of the installation and its components, a selection of images produced by the work itself, as well as an introduction and an interview with the artist: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?Lstsrv=200909&NumPage=2161 Share your opinion with us! As of today, you can post comments on selected pages of our Web Site. All you have to do is create a user profile: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/memberRegister.php?Lstsrv=200909 So far, the following three documentary collections are available for your comments: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Subtitled Public" http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?Lstsrv=200909&NumPage=2111 David Rokeby, "Machine for Taking Time": http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?Lstsrv=200909&NumPage=2161 David Rokeby, "The Giver of Names" http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?Lstsrv=200909&NumPage=2121 From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Tue Sep 8 11:27:23 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Tue Sep 8 11:49:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: MUHTELIF 5 / out. Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: pelin tan Date: 2009/9/6 Subject: MUHTELIF 5 / out. MUHTELIF g?ncel sanat yay?n? contemporary art publication I?stanbul Yaz 2009 Summer 2009 Say? 5 Number 5 ?cretsizdir Free Retroakt / Retroact Susanne von Falkenhausen Totaliteralizm ve Avangards? Totalitarianism and the Avant-Gardes? Diyalog / Dialogue a conversation with Wael Shawky Temsiliyetin Unsurlar?: "?slak k?lt?r - kuru k?lt?r" The elements of Representation: "wet culture - dry culture" Praksis / Praxis Markus Miessen in conversation with Rodney LaTourelle I?ddial?, romantik, fakat tamamen anlay?s?l?. Pretentious, romantic, but totally insightful. Gramer / Grammer a conversation with Lucien Kroll by Hans-Ulrich Obrist "ertelenmis? kat?l?mc?l?k" "postponed participations" S?imdi / Now Ulus Atayurt Sak?n ola k???mseme? Anlat?lan senin hikayen.. Don't you belittle it - It's your own story G?nl?k / Daily F.Zahir Mibineh Tahran G?nl?g?? Tehran Report Havuz / Pool Metahaven "We Lived In Financial Times" Edit?rler Editors Pelin Tan, Adnan Y?ld?z Asistan Edit?r Asistant Edit?r Banu ?i?ek T?l? I?ngilizce D?zelti Proofreading Ashkan Sepahvand T?rk?e D?zelti Turkish Proofreading ?zge A??kkol, Burak S?us?ut ?eviri Translation Adnan Y?ld?z, I?z ?ztat, Banu ?i?ek T?l?, Pelin Tan, Bar?s? ?akan, Ashkan Sepahvand Tasar?m Design Ali Cindoruk Kapak Cover Elmas Deniz http://www.adnanyildiz.blogspot.com From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Sep 9 13:18:35 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Sep 9 13:21:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4AA78F0B.5090804@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture. A shared space for personal reflections on contemporary art practice as part of life: living it, breathing it, making it, curating it, translating it. A selection of recent Blog entries below, to read more visit - http://blog.furtherfield.org Ruth Catlow. Overland: the first leg to Human Nature. As part of honouring a pledge made with Marc Garrett 'We Won't Fly For Art', http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart/ - Ruth has actively taken on the difficult task of choosing alternative ways of getting to Ars Electronica's 30 year celebration festival in Linz, Austria and The Eclectic Tech Carnival in Istanbul, Turkey. Overland: the first leg to Human Nature, is her 1st written account of this 10 day journey from London and back which also includes video entries uploaded from her mobile phone. http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/3 Helen Varley Jamieson. Outside ISEA. Helen, visiting the UK, Island, Austria and Turkey has undergone a long period of travel from New Zealand. On her blog you can read various journals about her visit to ISEA 2009 (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts). Return again to catch up with her soon to be uploaded experiences of her visit to Ars Electronica and The Eclectic Tech Carnival. http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/28 jonCates lists, boards, friends + feeds (PART IV). Jon continues to enthrall us with intellegent and imaginative blog contributions which not only contain detailed studies on the history of media art and net art and Internet mailing list culture, but also thrown into the heady mix, are some beautiful visuals worth hanging on any wall. Visit and explore his series' of 'lists, boards, friends + feeds'. http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/5 ---------------------------------> More about The Furtherfield Blog: This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts and related practices, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate conclusions, it is about experience and process, the bits in between. Set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. We soon discovered this format suited some people more than others and are now open to new contributors. The blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead it invites individuals to explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions rarely publicly discussed elsewhere. Other Info: Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Sep 9 14:22:40 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Sep 9 14:24:47 2009 Subject: [spectre] RSA Arts and Ecology Centre: Ecological Innovation. In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4AA79E10.5010808@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... RSA Arts and Ecology Centre: Ecological Innovation. Can the cultural sector step up to show it has something uniquely powerful to offer an ecological age? An examination of practice, partnership and policy The need for more sustainable practice is accepted within business; in the arts, the transfer of models from other industries is underway. An increasing number of individuals and organisations are decreasing energy consumption through measurement, standards, targets and disclosure. But is this enough? Does the cultural sector have more to offer in times of wholesale change? As part of Culture|Futures ? a series of events that spans discussions at COP 15 ? RSA Arts and Ecology is inviting international partners from the arts and beyond to describe a ?cultural offer for an ecological age?. To inform that enquiry, we will discuss case studies that offer cultural value within a wider sustainability agenda, and seek to identify key policy areas and lines of collaboration. The outputs from this day will be organisational comparison across policy, identification of case studies and input to a peer-reviewed paper, together with identifying key messages from the cultural sector to policy makers attending COP 15. Chair: Sally Taylor, Director LCACE With participation from: Arup, MLA, CABE, Art s Council England, University of the Art s, UK Film Council, Tate, RSA, Danish Cultural Institute PROGRAMME: Thursday 24 September, 9.30-4.00pm Front Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, University of Arts London, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP 09:30 Arrival and coffee 10:00 Chair?s welcome 10:15 Context: The Engineer?s Role in the Ecological Age - Peter Head, Arup 11:15 Art s Examples with questions - Cultural organisations as infrastructure catalysts - Alan Boldon, Arnolfini - Cultural participation and ecological citizenship ? DOTT Cornwall - Ecological technology, are we there yet? ? Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett , Furtherfield 13:15 Lunch 14:00 Policy Implications - European comparison ? Olaf Gerlach-Hansen, Danish Cultural Institute - Shared action - A sector perspective? 15:00 Discussion/Plenary 16:00 Ends The RSA combines thought leadership with social innovation to further human progress. Building on our 250 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, we undertake influential and varied research projects and host the UK?s most ambitious free lecture series. Our work is supported by 27,000 Fellows, an international network of influencers and innovators from every field and background. To find out more visit our website here - http://www.theRSA.org Registered as a charity in England and Wales no. 212424 and in Scotland no. SC037784 To see our standard legal disclaimer click here - http://www.thersa.org/email-disclaimer Please consider the environment before printing this email. From paul at paul-brown.com Wed Sep 9 16:06:48 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Wed Sep 9 16:08:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] CAS October Talk: Roman Verostko Message-ID: <42D699B4-87B5-4846-96AB-7C7B518007D2@paul-brown.com> The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce that our Autumn Programme continues with a presentation by Roman Verostko who was awarded the SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award at last month's SIGGRAPH conference in New Orleans. Roman is visiting London and we are very lucky to have this oportunity to hear him speak. Please note that because of Roman's schedule this talk is on the SECOND Wednesday and not our usual first Wednesday. This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm 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 Writing the Score for Drawing. Roman outlines sources that dominated his pursuit as an artist for over 60 years. He identifies ?form generating? ideas from pioneers of non-objective art that shaped his pre-algorist work and have continued to shape his approach to algorithmic art. His presentation illustrates the transition from what he calls ?art-mind guiding hand? to ?art-mind guiding machine?. By doing so he suggests that the ?decision bit? and one?s art ideas are inseparable. For this session he will include a brief addendum on his 2008 project, the Upsidedown Book and Mural for which he resurrected pre-algorist drawings and transformed them with digital tools. Short Bio Roman Verostko, born 1929, Art Institute of Pittsburgh (1949), Professor Emeritus, MCAD (1994). Primarily a painter in his pre-algorist work, Roman also experimented with new media with showings of his programmed audio-visuals in 1967 long before exhibiting his first fully algorist work, ?The Magic Hand of Chance?, in 1982. A founding member of the algorists he is known best for his richly colored algorithmic pen and brush drawings. His generative software controls up to 14 pens and achieves expressive brush strokes driving oriental brushes with a pen plotter. His seminal paper, ?Epigenetic Painting: Software as Genotype? (ISEA, Utrecht, 1988), outlined the biological analogues to generative art (verostko.com/epigenet.html) http://www.verostko.com http://www.algorists.org http://www.upsidedownbook.com CAS Autumn Programme continues: Wed 04 Nov - George Malllen Wed 02 Dec - Iris Asaf CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From bureaud at altern.org Wed Sep 9 21:13:04 2009 From: bureaud at altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Wed Sep 9 21:07:38 2009 Subject: [spectre] ANNOUNCING YASMIN DISCUSSION : (UN)INHABITABLE?. ART OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Message-ID: <4AA7FE40.9030101@altern.org> ANNOUNCING YASMIN DISCUSSION : (UN)INHABITABLE?. ART OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Discussion at : http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions @rt Outsiders (September 9th ? October 11th 2009) : http://www.art-outsiders.com/edition2009/default-en.htm Leonardo/Olats in collaboration with the @rt Outsiders Festival is pleased to propose this Yasmin discussion on "Habitability and exteme environments" The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival that takes place at the Maison Europ?enne de la Photographie from Sept 9 to October 11, focuses on extreme environments with the title "(Un)inhabitable? Art of extreme environments". We will hold a YASMIN discussion from September 25 to October 15 2009 on how artists and scientists are involved in questions of habitability and extreme environments. This discussion will be moderated by the organisers Jean-Luc Soret, artistic director of the @rt Outsiders Festival Annick Bureaud, theoretician and art critic, director of Leonardo/Olats and Roger Malina, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into ?inhabitable? places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming ?uninhabitable? due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures and global warming). (Un)Inhabitable? ? Art of Extreme Environments presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones. Beyond the exhibition, on September 16th, a conference is organised at the Maison Europ?enne de la Photographie, on "The geopolitical stakes of the energy ressources of the arctic zone" (6 ? 8 pm) * All Yasminers are invited to participate in the discussion. To Subscribe/Post to YASMIN Discussion list: http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions Note: We also have a YASMIN announcements list which you need to subscribe to separately: http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_announcements -- ------------------------ Annick Bureaud (abureaud@gmail.com) tel/fax : 33/(0)1 43 20 92 23 mobile/cell : 33/(0)6 86 77 65 76 Leonardo/Olats : http://www.olats.org ------------------------- From seamascain at gmail.com Wed Sep 9 21:21:29 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Wed Sep 9 21:38:43 2009 Subject: [spectre] ... grace & delicacy, in the Zen sense Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40909091221ic92dbf8k4a282d781a6343b4@mail.gmail.com> _______________ On Thursday, September 10th, 2009, IMRAM, the annual Irish-language literary festival, will present a special evening of performances in homage to the life & poetry of M?ire Mhac an tSaoi. This event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at EAGLAIS ?INIT?IREACH (the Unitarian Church), 112 West St. Stephen?s Green in Dublin, Ireland. Admission is free. M?ire Mhac an tSaoi was born in 1922. She is one of the most important figures in contemporary Irish literature. She has a knowledge of the Munster dialect of Irish that is second-to-none. Her technical mastery of traditional forms melds with potent self-expression to produce modern poetry of grace & delicacy. Indeed, the poetry of M?ire Mhac an tSaoi is centered, in the Zen sense of centered. Her collections of poetry include "Margadh na Saoire," "Codladh an Ghaisc?gh," "An Galar Dubhach," & "Shoa agus D?nta Eile." This evening of special performances drawn from the work of M?ire Mhac an tSaoi will feature Nuala N? Dhomhnaill, M?ir?n Nic Eoin, Br?d N? Mh?r?in, Fionola ? Siochr?, Eoghan ? hAnluain, Liam ? Muirthile & Gabriel Rosenstock. Thursday, 10 September 2009, 6:30 p.m., EAGLAIS ?INIT?IREACH, 112 West St. Stephen?s Green, Dublin, Ireland Free admission For additional information about the IMRAM Festival, go to ... http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-IRISH-LANGUAGE-LITERATURE-FESTIVAL http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-FEILE-LITRIOCHTA-GAEILGE Questions may be put to Liam Carson, Director of IMRAM Festival at ... liamog62@mac.com Books featured at the IMRAM Festival may be purchased from ... Connolly Books, connollybooks@eircom.net 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2, Ireland beir bua, S?amas Cain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain http://alazanto.org/seamascain _______________ From inke.arns at snafu.de Thu Sep 10 08:35:43 2009 From: inke.arns at snafu.de (Inke Arns) Date: Thu Sep 10 08:36:52 2009 Subject: [spectre] MUHTELIF 5 / out. References: <851ef6df0909071200me170325q2bd5fb949fbd5c11@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: pelin tan Date: 2009/9/6 Subject: MUHTELIF 5 / out. To: spectre@mikrolisten.de MUHTELIF guncel sanat yay?n? contemporary art publication ?stanbul Yaz 2009 Summer 2009 Say? 5 Number 5 Ucretsizdir Free Retroakt / Retroact Susanne von Falkenhausen Totaliteralizm ve Avangards? Totalitarianism and the Avant-Gardes? Diyalog / Dialogue a conversation with Wael Shawky Temsiliyetin Unsurlar?: ??slak kultur ? kuru kultur? The elements of Representation: ?wet culture - dry culture? Praksis / Praxis Markus Miessen in conversation with Rodney LaTourelle Iddial?, romantik, fakat tamamen anlayisl?. Pretentious, romantic, but totally insightful. Gramer / Grammer a conversation with Lucien Kroll by Hans-Ulrich Obrist ?ertelenmis katilimcilik? ?postponed participations? Simdi / Now Ulus Atayurt Sakin ola kucumseme? Anlatilan senin hikayen.. Don't you belittle it - It's your own story Gunluk / Daily F.Zahir Mibineh Tahran Gunlugu Tehran Report Havuz / Pool Metahaven ?We Lived In Financial Times? Editorler Editors Pelin Tan, Adnan Y?ld?z Asistan Editor Asistant Editor Banu Cicek Tulu Ingilizce Duzelti Proofreading Ashkan Sepahvand Turkce Duzelti Turkish Proofreading Ozge A??kkol, Burak Susut Ceviri Translation Adnan Y?ld?z, Iz Oztat, Banu Cicek Tulu, Pelin Tan, Baris Cakan, Ashkan Sepahvand Tasar?m Design Ali Cindoruk Kapak Cover Elmas Deniz From drew at futureeverything.org Tue Sep 8 20:56:21 2009 From: drew at futureeverything.org (Drew Hemment) Date: Fri Sep 11 10:11:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] FutureEverything at PICNIC / 23-25 Sept / Amsterdam Message-ID: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything at PICNIC 23-25 September 2009 / Amsterdam - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FutureEverything is collaborating with Waag Society, FING and Amsterdam Innovation Motor to host a EcoMap Lab at PICNIC09. http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/52631/en FutureEverything's Director, Drew Hemment, has also been invited to present a main stage talk at PICNIC09. http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/52770/en PICNIC is three inspiring days of ideas, fun and sensory stimulation in media, technology, entertainment, art and science. Come and inspire others. PICNIC is a unique festival and an inspiring conference complimented by a set of networking events and hands-on technology experiences for top creatives and innovation professionals in business, technology, new media, entertainment, science and the arts. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EcoMap Lab Friday 25 September 09:45-17:00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/52631/en FutureEverything, Waag Society, FING and Amsterdam Innovation Motor will host a one-day EcoMap Lab at PICNIC. We will build a shared understanding on how to map the environment (eg. energy, waste & mobility), aggregate the data and visualize it to promote behavioral change and reduce CO2 footprints. We will use alternative measurement networks and services that enable people to take active part. Based on international examples we will develop prototypes for getting, aggregating & visualizing environmental data in effective, useable and unexpected ways. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drew Hemment/FutureEverything Friday 25 September Conference Hall, 14:15-14:45 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.picnicnetwork.org/person/30604/en This talk shall explore how participatory observation and mapping made possible by locative technologies combined with the ability to share information globally and instantly creates an unprecedented capacity for participatory mass observation on the environment, biodiversity and local climate. Environment 2.0 is a project initiated in 2006 by FutureEverything to explore how people can use locative art to develop 'new senses,' and share their discoveries with neighbours and people around the globe to become a part of a world-wide network of 'one billion eyes.' http://futureeverything.org/news/picnic09 From black at x-i.net Wed Sep 9 11:48:44 2009 From: black at x-i.net (black) Date: Fri Sep 11 10:11:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Power of 8 - Invitation to a Private View Sept 22 Message-ID: <4AA779FC.7070403@x-i.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Power of 8 Private View Tuesday 22 September at 6.30pm at Watermans Media Gallery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please join us and meet some of the ?imaginateurs? who have contributed to the project "Power of 8 presents /The Beamer Bees from Acres Green, which is a design proposal for an alternate augmented ecosystem./" http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/the_power_of_8/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you want from the future. A house? A car? A family? Maybe you want a better job or to see a bit more of the world. It isn?t that hard to think about what you want, but will you get it? Global warming, a rapidly aging population, mass migration and transformations in science and communications cloak our futures in uncertainty. The only thing we can know about the future is that it will be made by many people. People who have been educated differently, who have completely different outlooks and aspirations who speak different languages, wear different clothes and like different food. That?s where the Power of 8 came from. The project developed by Anab Jain has brought together people with radically different perspectives to imagine how we could live in the future. Some of us see the future through technologies that will help us self-medicate, replicate and create. Some of us look at the future stymied by the weight of a thousand books that remind us that man is always his own undoing. Some of us would rather stare at saints, heroines, innovators and wish that one day we will all be like that. The future is a date, but it?s also a story about our lives today. We?re all looking for chipped shards of the future in our own ways, in our own places. The Power of 8 has gathered a few that we found to create one mosaic into which our hopes squeeze. The project has produced a vision of a future, but the way it came about is a reflection of how the future will come. Our hope is that somehow through the chaos of different ideas, inventions and organizations, a more loving, just and humane future can prevail. Drinks and canap?s will be served. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please rsvp to angela@watermans.org.uk Watermans 40 High St, Brentford London, TW8 0DS Box Office: 0208 232 1010 www.watermans.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- Power of 8 is a collaborative art project and is supported by Arts Council England and Watermans From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Sep 11 12:19:37 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Sep 11 12:24:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] ISEA2010 RUHR - call deadline POSTPONED to 25 Sept Message-ID: Dear friends, ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, will take place in the cities of the German Ruhr area from 20 - 29 August 2010. Due to many requests we have postponed the deadline for our Call for Submissions to 25 September 2009 This will give people an extra 10 days to prepare and edit their submissions. We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations, exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in public space, from visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers, software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media. The submission platform of ISEA2010 RUHR is available at http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an International Review Committee. The results of the jury process and invitations for ISEA2010 RUHR are expected by the end of 2009. Successful submissions will be published in the proceedings. Please, note that there will not be a second general call like this. If you want to submit to ISEA2010, please, submit by 25 September! Other news: On a new archive website, comprehensive information is now availabe about all previous ISEA editions: http://www.isea-webarchive.org We post a monthly newsletter to keep you updated about the preparations (please, subscribe through the website). Below, you will again find hints to related events going on in the Ruhr region this autumn. CREDITS ISEA2010 RUHR is a project of Ruhr.2010 - European Capital of Culture. ISEA2010 RUHR is hosted by Medienwerk NRW and organised under the auspices of the ISEA Foundation. Funded by Ruhr.2010 - Cultural Capital of Europe, the State Chancellory of North Rhine Westphalia, and the City of Dortmund. Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW. INFORMATION http://www.isea2010ruhr.org CONTACT: ISEA2010 RUHR, c/o HMKV, G?ntherstra?e 65, 44143 Dortmund, Germany, info@isea2010ruhr.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECOMMENDED EVENTS in and around the Ruhr region Arto Lindsay, Richard Siegal / The Bakery: Muscle Dance performance PACT Zollverein, Essen 11 September, 20.00 h http://www.pact-zollverein.de MobileHCI09 University of Bonn 15 - 18 September 2009 http://www.mobilehci09.org KunstFilmBiennale Cologne and Bonn 28 October - 1 November 2009 http://www.kunstfilmbiennale.de contemporary art ruhr 09 - the innovative art fair galerie/agentur 162, Welterbe Zeche Zollverein, Essen 30 October - 1 November 2009 http://www.contemporaryartruhr.de Exh. ?Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts and Their Media Hartware Media Art Association, Dortmund until 18 October 2009 http://www.hmkv.de Exh. Industrial Land Art Skulpturenmusem Glaskasten Marl until 25 October 2009 http://www.marl.de/skulpturenmuseum Exh. RECORD > AGAIN ! Video Art in Germany 2 Ludwig Forum, Aachen 19 September - 15 November 2009 http://www.ludwigforum.de Exh. Harun Farocki Museum Ludwig, K?ln 31 October 2009 - 7 March 2010 http://www.museum-ludwig.de Exh. Codes and Clowns: Claude Shannon - the juggling scientist Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum, Paderborn 6 November 2009 - 28 February 2010 http://en.hnf.de To stay informed about the programmes of the member organisations of Medienwerk NRW, please check: http://www.medienwerk-nrw.de/html/mitglieder.html RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture http://www.ruhr2010.de From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sat Sep 12 12:54:11 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sat Sep 12 12:56:30 2009 Subject: [spectre] Furthernoise issue September 2009 In-Reply-To: <47594D51.1060602@franck-ancel.com> References: <47594D51.1060602@franck-ancel.com> Message-ID: <4AAB7DD3.2040400@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... For your reading listening pleasure there is a new issue of furthernoise.org online, sister sister site of furtherfield.org Range of reviews below. Furthernoise issue September 2009 http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=82 "Audiobulb profile" (review) Audiobulb is a Sheffield-based exploratory music label promoting the cause of innovative electronica. Label curator, David Newman, has overseen a flurry of activity over the past couple of years, and this profile features four of Audiobulb's most recent releases, from a location-inspired compilation to a work driven by an experimental sound generator. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=305 review by Alan Lockett "Christian Vasseur ? Po?mes Saturniens and Alam" (review) Christian Vasseur is a French guitarist who works with a range of instruments. His work is inspired by impressionist composers like Debussy, as well as more contemporary musicians and progressive rock bands.Po?mes Saturniens (Conch 002) and Alam (Conch 003) are two of his releases on Humming Conch. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=307 review by Alex Young "Essay: Capitatio Benevolentiae - Piracy, Capital, and the Culture of Digital Sound - Frank Rothkamm" (review) The piracy of digital sound content is an act of trade, an exchange between the creator of sound recordings and the listener thus defined: The creator gets nothing and the listener gets everything. But the accumulation of digital capital is different from that of its material counterpart; there is no intrinsic value in digital capital. Photograph - Glenn Wolsey http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=303 review by Frank Rothkamm "Fast Falls the Eventide by Dead Voices on Air" (review) Dead Voices on Air, was originally a trio consisting of Scott Harker, Clancy Dennehey, and ex-Zoviet France?s Mark Spybey. Fast Falls the Eventide marks DVOA?s 11th album where now we find Spybey solely at the helm. This ship sails the waters off a strange musical continent, a land where world music fuses disembodied, electronic-rumbling drones inside vast reverberant architectures. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=304 review by Derek Morton "Luminous Air and Delicate Accidents" (review) A delicate rice-paper cover for a clear vinyl release is the maiden release for Tobira Records. New Works for Processed Electric Guitar presents a shimmering soundscape with elusive harmonies from Richard Lainhart and a warm, prickly cloud of gently swirling melodic lines from Japanese guitarist Hakobune. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=302 review by Caleb Deupree "noise=noise - The Basement Series" (review) Submerged in the basement vault of a pub in central London every Wednesday night in August, noises began to crackle, and light began to spark for noise=noise's The Basement Series. Featuring over forty international and UK artists from a wide range of practices and backgrounds, it was set up and run with absolutely no funding or money involved what so ever. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=308 review by Ryan Jordan "XVI Reflections on Classical Music - Various" (review) Musical genres as any aficionado will tell you have historically grown out of a reaction to the fetishism of the previous era. Whether it be the quest for balance and harmony emanating from the disjointed ashes of Baroque or Debussy's longing for dissonance from the melodic sentimentalism of Bedřich Smetana, they all tend to be motivated by periodical ennui of what has gone before. http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=306 review by Roger Mills From hatam at drfz.de Sat Sep 12 13:04:36 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Sat Sep 12 13:05:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] Concert - 15.09.09 Berlin - Big City Orchestra, Hati, Rinus vanAlebeek@ NK Message-ID: <380-22009961211436929@M2W041.mail2web.com> Concert on Tuesday the 15th of Sept. at NK Berlin Big City Orchestra, Hati, Rinus van Alebeek 30 years anniversary-tour of Big City Orchestra http://www.ubuibi.org/ http://www.myspace.com/hatitah http://www.myspace.com/rinusvanalebeek NK - Elsen str. 52 2HH. 2 Etage 12059 Berlin www.myspace.com/enka52 If you cant make it to the concert we will be streaming it live from NK to DFM. So "tune" your computer from 22:00 to; http://dfm.nu/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft? Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail From hatam at drfz.de Sat Sep 12 13:20:27 2009 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Sat Sep 12 13:33:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] Theoretical and Aesthetic approaches to composition - 2day Workshop with Zbigniew Karkowski Nov 2&3 Message-ID: <380-220099612112027235@M2W019.mail2web.com> Theoretical and Aesthetic approaches to composition - a 2day Workshop with Zbigniew Karkowski Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1958, Zbigniew Karkowski is one of the most significant artists working in the field of experimental and contemporary music. For the first time in Berlin, he will give a workshop for sound artists, musicians or composers who are interested in his approach to composition and live performance on both the technical and formal level. This workshop gives the participants an opportunity to gain insight into the working methods of on one of the most challenging composers / performers of electronic music today. Karkowski will teach the participants about his aesthetic and conceptual approaches towards composition through an in depth analysis of some of his own pieces as well as exploring the compositional concepts that are inherent to the design of his Max and Super Collider patches. Along these lines aesthetic approaches towards the use of sound textures, timbres and the technical aspects of sound production will also be covered and finally he will share his experiences and ideological beliefs about live performance and composition. Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg?s Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After the completion of his studies in Sweden, he has studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During these years, he attended many summer composition master courses (Centre Acanthes in France) where he studied with Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, and Georges Aperghis. He has produced numerous works in the fields of both acoustic and electronic music and has written 3 pieces for large orchestra, an opera and several chamber music works. Karkowski was also a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio ?Sensorband? (with Atau Tanaka and Edwin van der Heide) and collaborated with artists like Francisco Lopez, Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Pita, Hafler trio,... Based in Tokyo, Karkowski has a large collection of releases and regularly presents his work all over the world. http://www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski location: NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage Berlin 12059 Tel nr. +49 (0)17620626386 When: Nov 2 & 3 ,2009 Fee: 100? Number of participants is limited to 15. Preregistration is highly recommended and can be done by sending an email to enka_nk@gmx.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE From qrndnc at yahoo.it Sat Sep 12 16:59:59 2009 From: qrndnc at yahoo.it (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Sat Sep 12 17:00:58 2009 Subject: [spectre] PIXXELPOINT 2009 CALL FOR ARTWORKS Message-ID: <012F17BD-AB4B-4295-B5C5-09E488670CBF@yahoo.it> Dears, These are the very last days to apply for the Pixxelpoint 2009 call for artworks. The application can be sent either via e-mail (to the address pixxelpoint2009@gmail.com) or via traditional mail to the following address: Pixxelpoint Kulturni dom Nova Gorica Bevkov trg 4 SI 5000 Nova Gorica Slovenia These are the guidelines for this festival edition: 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. On the occasion of its 10th Birthday, Pixxelpoint festival wants to explore this feeling. Clean out your attic, the folders you haven?t touched for years, GIF repositories, your university?s warehouse, and the dumps of Silicon Valley ? or its small-town emulators. Get your hands on this stuff, and send us your finds. Any media is allowed, apart from new! Domenico Quaranta, curator More infos: http://www.pixxelpoint.org http://domenicoquaranta.com --- Domenico Quaranta http://domenicoquaranta.com/ mob. +39 340 2392478 email. info@domenicoquaranta.com skype: dom_40 home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS) From redazione at digicult.it Mon Sep 14 12:00:17 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:00:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult presents - Videoscreening Exhibition - When the eye flickers: the flicker technique in cinema, video and digital Message-ID: <50BB219A5F3840FCB3674734ED4C9DCA@nomebea615a6f6> Sorry for any crosspostings Careof DOCVA in cooperation with INVIDEO and Digicult presents: :::QUANDO L'OCCHIO TREMA. IL FLICKR TRA CINEMA, VIDEO E DIGITALE::: When the eye flickers: the flicker technique in cinema, video and digital Videoscreening curated by Mario Gorni (Careof DOCVA) and Claudia D'Alonzo (Digicult) ------------------------- Inauguration on Thursday September 17, 2009 at 5:30pm at DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, via Procaccini 4, Milan with Claudia D'Alonzo, Elisa Gattarossa, Mario Gorni, Marco Mancuso, otolab Videos on show from September 17 to September 26, 2009 from 3.00pm to 7.00pm ------------------------- On Thursday September 17 at 6.00pm Careof DOCVA, presents Quando l'occhio trema - il flicker tra cinema, video e digitale (When the eye flickers - the flicker technique in cinema, video and digital), videoscreening curated by Claudia D'Alonzo and Mario Gorni, in cooperation with Invideo and Digicult. On occasion of the inauguration and open house meeting, Claudia D'Alonzo from the network Digicult; Elisa Gattarossa from Invideo; Mario Gorni, director of Careof DOCVA; Marco Mancuso, director of Digicult; otolab, Milanese collective of audiovisual experimentation will discuss the topic of 'flicker'. Quando l'occhio trema (When the eye flickers) - based on the 1989 homonymous film by Paolo Gioli - a historical and methodological journey on the use of the flicker technique through a selection of ten works coming from the DOCVA and Invideo video archives, together with works by authors partaking in the Digicult international network. The 'flicker' technique is used in several forms of art, experimental motion picture cinema, light installation, analogical video and audiovisual digital video. Such technique is based on a specific perception phenomenon. Normally the perception of a moving image occurs at a frequency of 24 frames per second. If we diminish such frequency to 6/18 frames, we elicit a visual flickering that corresponds to a direct stimulation of the optic nerve, a proto-vision, where the visual rhythm directly synchronizes with our brainwaves. The flicker phenomenon falls within a category that Edmund Husserl defines as perceptive ambiguity, because it enables us to transcend conventional knowledge to perceive and relate to reality through the new possibilities produced by a destabilization of our automated perception, which is, in this case, violent, at times even traumatic. The flicker technique allows both for a phenomenological investigation, the anomalous stimulation of our perceptive apparatus, and for a structural analysis of the codes of the moving image. The show Quando l'occhio trema, proposes a partial reconstruction of the historical journey of this artistic experimentation through historic cinema and video authors and digital video authors from the contemporary scene: Claudio Ambrosini, ape5+miky ry, Scott Arford, Alessandr? Arn?, Gerard Cairaschi, Paolo Chiasera, Antonin De Bemels, Thorsten Fleisch, Paolo Gioli, Graw & Bockler, Granular Synthesis (Kurt Hentschl?ger/Ulf Langheinrich), Girts Korps, otolab, Steina and Woody Vasulka. Thanks to the cooperation between Archivio DOCVA, Archivio INVIDEO and Digicult, Quando l'occhio trema takes on the shape of a research, which aims to use the material from the archive as a dynamic tool that enables the connections and exchanges that are necessary to draw a comparison between the historical experience in audiovisual experimentation and the developments achieved by contemporary authors. Such comparison is vital both to retrieve, preserve and make the most of a significant historical heritage, that is the experimental audiovisual production, but also, and above all, to establish the scientific parameters that enable the interpretation and study of a heterogeneous and manifold artistic digital production. ------------------------- The non-profit organization Careof has been promoting the Italian and international contemporary artistic research, granting great attention to the emerging generations. Over its 20 years of activity it has organized and hosted more than 200 personal and collective shows, taking foot as a very dynamic centre for artistic experimentation. Through the organization of workshops, seminars and conferences, Careof has given birth to an information circuit and to a platform for artists, critics, curators and the public. In cooperation with the association Viafarini, Careof organizes and manages the DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, a documentation centre for visual arts, currently one of the most advanced in Italy for the computerization and diffusion of contemporary art. The centre consists of: Library specializing in visual arts, Video Archive, Portfolio Archive, ArtBox databank. Invideo - Internazionale di video e cinema oltre (International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond)?- has been organized in Milan by A.I.A.C.E. since 1990. It is the only festival in Italy where the most important international works in the field of art video and research are presented every year. Invideo is also a permanent archive devoted to the artistic "non-fiction", which has been acquired through an in-depth and wide-reaching research and analysis among the most meaningful Italian and international works. Invideo: www.mostrainvideo.com Digicult is a cultural and editorial project engaged in promoting and disseminating digital art and culture, the impact of science and new technologies on art, design and the contemporary society. The project Digicult was founded and is lead by Marco Mancuso. It is based on the active participation by more the 40 professionals, representing today's first, far-reaching Network of journalists, curators, critics and artists in Italy. Digicult: www.digicult.it ------------------------- Quando l'occhio trema. Il flicker tra cinema video e digitale - When the eye flickers. The flicker technique in cinema, video and digital - September 17/26, 2009 Curated by Mario Gorni (Careof DOCVA) and Claudia D'Alonzo (Digicult) Location: DOCVA Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4 20154 Milan Info: Careof DOCVA: +39 02 3315800 info@careof.org, digicult: press@digicult.it Links: DOCVA: www.docva.org Careof: www.careof.org ------------------------- Program: _The Vasulkas - Noisefields USA 1974 9' 54'', col. Courtesy Archivio INVIDEO www.vasulka.org _Claudio Ambrosini - Light solfeggio Italy 1977 2'17'', b/w Courtesy Archivio DOCVA _Paolo Gioli - Quando l'occhio trema - When the eye flickers Italy 1989 12', b/w Courtesy Paolo Gioli www.paologioli.it _Kurt Hentschl?ger/Ulf Langheinrich (Granular Synthesis) - Form Austria 2000 3', col. Courtesy Granular Synthesis www.granularsynthesis.info _Thorsten Fleisch - Superbitmapping Germany 2000 2' 3'', col. Courtesy Thorsten Fleisch fleischfilm.com Paolo Chiasera - 20mo Livello - 20th Level Italy 2001 6', col. Courtesy Archivio DOCVA www.paolochiasera.org _Gerard Cairaschi - D?lice France, 2002, 9' Courtesy Archivio INVIDEO _Graw & Bockler - Because Germany 2002 3'47", col. Courtesy Archivio DOCVA grawboeckler.de _Scott Arford - Untitled for television USA 2003 5' 57'', col. Courtesy Scott Arford www.7hz.org _Alessandr? Arn? - Stars Italy 2003 4', b/n Courtesy Archivio DOCVA www.alessandraarno.com _Girts Korps - Ho deciso di non fare pi? l'arte - I have decided to give up art Italy 2003 3', col. Courtesy Archivio DOCVA ape5+miky ry - Scarti - Throw-outs Italy 2005 10' 37'', col. Courtesy ape5 www.ape5.it www.myspace.com/mikyry _Antonin De Bemels - Merge/Se Fondre Belgium 2006 24'30'', col. Courtesy Archivio INVIDEO www.antonindb.be _Otolab - Vagina cosmica - Cosmic Vagina Italy 2009 video: xo00 audio: _dies 4' 50'', col. Courtesy Otolab www.otolab.net From hello at andfestival.bubblehosting.net Fri Sep 11 13:31:12 2009 From: hello at andfestival.bubblehosting.net (hello@andfestival.bubblehosting.net) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:19:07 2009 Subject: [spectre] ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES FESTIVAL FACT LIVERPOOL 23-27 SEPT 09 Message-ID: <23186.194.83.252.45.1252668672.squirrel@pop3.fast1.bubblehosting.net> Abandon Normal Devices, Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture 23-27 September 2009 Liverpool, UK The debut edition of Abandon Normal Devices, festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture, is now less than two weeks away. Featuring an eclectic array of exhibitions, film screenings, online work and events, the festival will spill from screens and galleries onto the streets of the city. Expect artists and filmmakers offering striking new perspectives in a festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach. Highlights include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Yes Men, Carolee Schneemann, Nic Roeg, Phil Collins, Jamie King, and the conference Real-Time: Showing Art in the Age of New Media. Join us in abandoning your normal devices, to celebrate new strategies and tactics in cinema and digital culture that challenge expectations and open opportunities for change and growth. Full programme is online now, with downloadable brochure and ticket details. Visit www.andfestival.org.uk. From joasia at kurator.org Fri Sep 11 14:36:26 2009 From: joasia at kurator.org (Joasia) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:19:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] After The Net (2.0) exhibition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: FYI ----- PRESS RELEASE KURATOR and LaAgencia announce: AFTER THE NET (2.0) http://www.kurator.org/afterthenet/ 'After the Net (2.0)' explores the paradoxical development of the Internet. As the current Web 2.0 hype begins to wane, the exhibition reflects upon the promises of technological progress, global networking and instantaneous communication. Presented artworks draw attention to key developments: from cybernetics to free and open source software, and social networking platforms. Reflected in the title, the exhibition makes explicit reference to the documentary film 'The Net' by Lutz Dammbeck (2003), and has three iterations: for Valencia (2008), Plymouth (2009) and Toluca (2010). The selection of artists is updated for each venue as a new version. EXHIBITION 12 September - 23 October 2009 Exhibition Preview: 25 September, 6.30pm Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK ARTISTS: Roy Ascott | Wayne Clements | Geoff Cox | Lutz Dammbeck | Jeff Gompertz & Caen Botto (Universomente) | Rui Guerra | Linda Hilfling | Aymeric Mansoux & Marloes de Valk (GOTO10) | Graham Harwood, Richard Wright & Matsuko Yokokoji PERFORMANCE 25 September 2009, Peninsula Arts Gallery, 7.00pm 4NX performance by Aymeric Mansoux LECTURE 22 October 2009, Theatre 2 Roland Levinsky Building, 6.30pm 'Transiting the Net' by Professor Roy Ascott Curated by Joasia Krysa (KURATOR) | Produced by LaAgencia, Madrid In March 2010, the exhibition travels to Tecnologico de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico, as part of the programme of the 1st International Congress on Web Studies (http://webstudies.info/). Supported by KURATOR, LaAgencia, Observatori, Peninsula Arts / University of Plymouth, Tecnologico de Monterrey Toluca and Arts Council England. For more information on the programme and artists please see: http://www.kurator.org/afterthenet/index.php?pg=plymouth From quaranta.domenico at gmail.com Sat Sep 12 16:42:58 2009 From: quaranta.domenico at gmail.com (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:19:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] PIXXELPOINT 2009 CALL FOR ARTWORKS Message-ID: <976CFC76-2DCA-44C8-84D2-F1961C281F29@gmail.com> Dears, These are the very last days to apply for the Pixxelpoint 2009 call for artworks. The application can be sent either via e-mail (to the address pixxelpoint2009@gmail.com) or via traditional mail to the following address: Pixxelpoint Kulturni dom Nova Gorica Bevkov trg 4 SI 5000 Nova Gorica Slovenia These are the guidelines for this festival edition: 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. On the occasion of its 10th Birthday, Pixxelpoint festival wants to explore this feeling. Clean out your attic, the folders you haven?t touched for years, GIF repositories, your university?s warehouse, and the dumps of Silicon Valley ? or its small-town emulators. Get your hands on this stuff, and send us your finds. Any media is allowed, apart from new! Domenico Quaranta, curator More infos: http://www.pixxelpoint.org http://domenicoquaranta.com --- Domenico Quaranta http://domenicoquaranta.com/ mob. +39 340 2392478 email. info@domenicoquaranta.com skype: dom_40 home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS) From stoicomedia at gmail.com Mon Sep 14 12:25:51 2009 From: stoicomedia at gmail.com (yukiko shikata) Date: Mon Sep 14 12:26:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" @ ICC Message-ID: <40882c4e0909140325r5775a98sd6b0d25f6de5907d@mail.gmail.com> "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" Date: September 19 (Sat.)-December 23 (Wed.), 2009 Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Special cooperation: Austrian Embassy - Cultural Forum / Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture Cooperation: TOSTEM Foundation for Construction Materials Industry Promotion / Austrian Airlines Curated by Yukiko Shikata The exhibition "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" presents two projects that have first been shown at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2008. "Astro Balloon 1969 Revisited - Feedback Space", an interactive installation which uses the participants' heartbeat in a feedback mechanism to synchronize and visualize it on screens in the balloon, has originally devised in 1969, finally realized in 2008 in Venice and has now been upgraded to accommodate the exhibition hall in the ICC. The second project, "Brain City Lab" is a current research assignment of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the neuroscientist Wolf Singer as well as sociologists, and computer programmers. This interactive installation relates the development process of the human brain with that of the city. Final goal will be to conceive programs adopting the latest resources from biological and information sciences to forebode scenarios for urban and social development. [COOP HIMMELB(L)AU] Founded by Wolf D. PRIX, Helmut SWICZINSKY and Michael HOLZER in Vienna, Austria in 1968, is active in architecture, urban planning, design, and art. Headquartered in Vienna, there is a second office in Los Angeles as well as several project offices in Frankfurt am Main/Germany, Paris/France, Akron/USA, Mexico City/Mexico and Hong Kong/China. Since 2006 the studio has been run through Wolf D. PRIX, Wolfdieter DREIBHOLZ, Harald KRIEGER, Karolin SCHMIDBAUR and Project Partners. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/ http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/ From fa at franck-ancel.com Mon Sep 14 13:19:25 2009 From: fa at franck-ancel.com (Franck Ancel) Date: Mon Sep 14 13:19:49 2009 Subject: [spectre] Only for Frenchies "exile out of french network". Message-ID: <4AAE26BD.4040303@franck-ancel.com> Lettre ouverte ? Monsieur le Ministre de la Culture Fran?aise Minist?re de la Culture 182, Rue Saint Honor? F-75001 Paris Paris, 12 Septembre, 2009. Monsieur Fr?d?ric Mitterrand, Pour la seconde et derni?re fois, je d?cide d'annuler ma participation ? mes frais en tant que l'un des rares cr?ateurs fran?ais, invit? ? une grande manifestation internationale tourn?e vers les arts digitaux. Pr?sent ? ?Media Art History? au Canada en 2005 puis ? ?ISEA San Jos?? aux USA en 2006, je d?veloppe depuis plus de quatre ans une th?matique de recherches autour de l'Exposition Universelle de Shanghai, comme une tentative de renouvellement des arts dits m?diatiques. Les impasses d'?changes avec les Ambassades, en 2008 ? Singapour avant ?ISEA?, puis cette ann?e ? Melbourne ? propos des troisi?mes rencontres ?Media Art History? refl?tent ? mon avis une totale et grave incompr?hension, ? l'image d'une situation proprement fran?aise. Au moment o? la foire internationale d?Art Contemporain s'ouvre ? Shanghai, aucune structure fran?aise ne semble officiellement et r?ellement pr?sente pour eARTS Shanghai, le volet des arts num?riques. Alors que la France est bien pr?sente dans son aspect ?classique?, d'autres structures, autres que chinoises, sont impliqu?es dans ces importants champs ?mergents. Cet ?tat semble ? l'image d'une malheureuse r?alit? hexagonale. Derri?re l'actualit? de la loi HADOPI et les probl?mes li?s aux actuelles mutations du Minist?re de la Culture, il manque encore une coh?rence pour des ?recherches & d?veloppements? concernant les arts digitaux. Les aides du CNC sous le dispositif du DICR?AM comme certaines directions artistiques ne servent qu'? justifier une mis?rable modernisation du champ de la cr?ation. Sous couvert d'amicales mises en r?seaux ou sous pr?texte de manque financier, aucun bilan n'est r?ellement tir? depuis des ann?es. Le devenir des arts digitaux en France ? n'a pour seul avenir qu'une impasse - tant que les incompr?hensions royales qui l'orientent ne seront pas analys?es et solutionn?es. Si je peux ?tre interview? sur plusieurs pages dans un grand quotidien Suisse, lors d'un festival de sc?nographie, accueillant les agences des pavillons Anglais ou Suisse de Shanghai 2010, mes propositions de remise ? z?ro sont syst?matiquement bloqu?es en France. Aujourd'hui, si j'en suis encore r?duit ? essayer de financer avec mes fonds personnels, par exemple, un projet d'?dition-installation-performance ? partir d'in?dits de Mallarm?, alors il est raisonnable de stopper toute activit? ? fonds perdus, car l'incompr?hension semble devenue la seule ligne culturelle dans ce pays. Veuillez, croire, Monsieur le Ministre de la Culture, en mes salutations les meilleures. FA Franck Ancel is Zerographer. Craftsman of his life for nearly forty years, of which half has been spent on projects that can be definied in 20 connections: 1989-2009 / invisible-visible / architecture-environment / Kiesler-Polieri / neo-avant-garde / space-time / technology-science / language-form / network-data / history-memory / freedoom-love / screen-stage / sounds-colours / lighthouse-satellite / desert-island / community-being / body-mouvement / past-future / skin-soul / spirituality-poetic. From n0name at gmx.de Mon Sep 14 15:43:01 2009 From: n0name at gmx.de (n0name@gmx.de) Date: Mon Sep 14 15:50:16 2009 Subject: [spectre] The Pirate eBay von t-shirtz.org Message-ID: <20090914134301.118470@gmx.net> The Pirate eBay Ein virtueller Urlaub auf Hawaii, "(Ein zu entwickelndes) Oekonomisch politisches FQA* zur Piratenpartei" und explizit politische T-Shirts. Ungefaehr in dieser Reihenfolge oder auch umgekehrt. Denn es ist bekannt geworden, dass die kleinbuergerlichen Verfechter der Menscheninternetrechte keine Ahnung haben, dass ihre Bucht zwar verraten und verkauft aber leider doch noch nicht lukrativ veraeussert wurde. Im August wollten ganze zwei nette Leute die (moeglichen in der revolutionaeren Situation) zu besetzende Orte sehen. Und dabei war das Lichtspiel des gegenueberliegenden Plattenbaus im Sonnenuntergang ( ) interessanter als die Hemden mit den exakten kartografischen Angaben zum Umsturz. Wirklich eigentlich will doch jede nur utopisch am Strand liegen. The Pirate eBay von www.t-shirtz.org Samstag, 26.09.2009 20:30 Uhr Lesung ab ca. 22:00 Uhr, Film ab ca. 22:30 Uhr Neues Deutschland Gebaeude Raum 711** (7. OG) Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain Naehe Ostbahnhof U 5 / Bus 347, N5 Weberwiese; S 3, 5, 7, 9, 75 / Bus 140, 240, 347, N40, N47 Ostbahnhof http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Franz-Mehring-Platz+1,+10234+Berlin& sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=13.381124,39.506836&ie=UTF8&ll=52.513805,13.435829&spn=0.006333,0. 027466&z=16 _____ * Frequently Questioned Answers ** Vom Fahrstuhl aus links bis ans Ende des Gangs die letzte Tuer rechts. Von Aussen sichtbar das dritte Fenster von rechts im siebten und letzten Stock. -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Mon Sep 14 17:18:35 2009 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello) Date: Mon Sep 14 17:18:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] International Symposium FEEDFORWARD- The Angel of History Message-ID: <4AAE5ECB.5020901@laboralcentrodearte.org> International Symposium FEEDFORWARD- The Angel of History Cleaning up after the 20th century. What is progress now? 23rd and 24th of October 2009 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon (Spain) [As part of the programme of the exhibition Feedforward- The Angel of History, curated by Christiane Paul and Steve Dietz] FEEDFORWARD - The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces-- largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies -- inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title references Paul Klee's painting "Angelus Novus," which Walter Benjamin famously interpreted as an "angel of history" transfixed by the wreckage of the past that is piling up in front of him while being propelled backwards into the uncertain future by a storm from paradise (progress). The Symposium brings together theorists and artists, who will explore via panel discussions the five primary themes presented in the exhibition: the "wreckage" of the 20th century created by wars and conflict; the countermeasures of surveillance and repression that the state as well as global capital set up in an to attempt to maintain control; the aesthetics and symbolic language of the media of our times; the forces of economic globalization such as outsourcing and migration; and the possibilities of reconstruction and agency. Speakers: Christiane Paul, Steve Dietz, Sarah Cook, Margot Lovejoy, Tamiko Thiel, Chris Baker, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Stephanie Rothenberg, Angus Cameron, Tiziana Terranova, Pior Szyhalski, Naeem Mohaiemen, Barbara Fluxa, Esther Leslie, Hasan Elahi, Konrad Becker, Marco Peljhan, Nonny de la Pena & Peggy Weil, Knowbotic Research, Tom Levin, Jaron Madirolas, Clara Piazuelo, Tere Badia, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Graham Harwood, Eric Kluitenberg, Daniel G. Andujar, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Carlos Motta, Ali Momeni PROGRAM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23rd 10:30 - 12:00 The Angel of History: Art and the Language of Media Moderated by Christiane Paul, Steve Dietz, Exhibition Curators Speakers: Sarah Cook, Margot Lovejoy, Tamiko Thiel, Chris Baker Coffee break 12:30 - 14:00 Art = Kapital | Art and Global Economics Moderated by Jose Carlos Mariategui Speakers: Stephanie Rothenberg, Angus Cameron, Tiziana Terranova Lunch break 15:30 - 17:00 Art and Conflict: Representing the Wreckage Moderated by Christiane Paul, Steve Dietz, Exhibition Curators Speakers: Piotr Szyhalski, Naeem Mohaiemen, Barbara Fluxa, Esther Leslie 17:30 - 18:45 Countermeasures: Surveillance / Sousveillance and Simulations of History Moderated by Christiane Paul, Steve Dietz, Exhibition curators Speakers: Hasan Elahi, Konrad Becker & Marco Peljhan, Nonny de la Pena & Peggy Weil, Knowbotic Research, Tom Levin SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th 10:30 - 12:00 What Now? Art, Cultural Production Moderated by Jaron Rowan , Clara Piazuelo Speakers: Tere Badia, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Graham Harwood Coffee break 12:30 - 14:00 What now? Art, Activism, and the Possibilities of Democracy Moderated by Eric Kluitenberg Speakers: Daniel G. Andujar, Fernando Garcia Dory, Carlos Motta, Ali Momeni Lunch break 15:30 - 17:00 Moderated roundtable with select participants across panels For more information and registration: simposio@laboralcentrodearte.org Registration Fee: 20 ? Deadline: October 9th 2009 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial Los Prados, 121 33394 Gijon Asturias Espana T: + 34 985 133 924 F: + 34 985 337 355 www.laboralcentrodearte.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Sep 14 18:14:08 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Sep 14 18:20:08 2009 Subject: [spectre] south africa connections Message-ID: dear friends, i visited south africa (on invitation by the goethe-institut) in june this year and spent almost a fortnight in johannesburg and cape town, meeting people, visiting places, trying to get my head around a complex country. below is a list of contacts that i have collected, or been given, during those two weeks, which i want to make available for people who are curious about the art and culture scene in south africa. i have not met or visited all of these, but i guess that all of these are interesting for making some first steps in a thriving scene. find the same list here: http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Art+and+Media+research+South+Africa+June+2009 best regards, safe journey, and enjoy the world cup 2010! -a !! People Alan Alborough http://www.alanalborough.co.za Colleen Alborough http://www.saartsemerging.org/2007/07/colleen-alborough.html Wayne Barker http://www.wayne-barker.com Shelley Barry http://www.youtube.com/user/twospinningwheels Anthea Buys http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/antheabuys Stephen Cohen http://www.at.artslink.co.za/~elu/stevencohen/contents.htm http://www.michaelstevenson.com/contemporary/artists/cohen.htm Franc? Cronj? http://www.art.co.za/francicronje/ Keith Dietrich http://academic.sun.ac.za/beeldende_kunste/keithdietrich/ Christo Doherty http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopics/ http://www.artthrob.co.za/09apr/reviews/interview.html Ismail Farouk http://ismailfarouk.com http://www.trolleyworks.net Adam Haupt, book Stealing Empire http://adamhaupt.book.co.za/ http://icommonssummit.org/speakers/2008/04/adam-haupt.html Matthew Hindley http://www.matthewhindley.net Stephen Hobbs http://onair.co.za/sh Aryan Kaganof http://kaganof.com Thando Mama http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/person/2617 Hentie van der Merwe http://www.rivet.de MT Kidu (Murray Turpin) http://www.myspace.com/mtkidu http://www.saartsemerging.org/2007/07/mtkidu-end-of-begining.html Marcus Neustetter http://www.marcusneustetter.net Travis Noakes http://www.travisnoakes.co.za Rodney Place http://www.gallerymomo.com/artists/rodney-place.html http://www.rodneyplace.com Robin Rhode http://www.perryrubenstein.com/artists/robin-rhode/ Vaughn Sadie http://vaughnsadie.net Mitch Said http://www.mitchsaid.com Johann van der Schijff http://www.johannvds.com/ Bernie Searle http://www.michaelstevenson.com/contemporary/exhibitions/searle http://www.artthrob.co.za/00may/artbio.html Kathryn Smith http://www.goodman-gallery.com/smith.html Warrick Sony / Kalahari Surfers http://www.kalaharisurfers.co.za Johan Thom http://johanthom.com the trinity session http://onair.co.za Marion Walton http://twitter.com/marionwalton James Webb http://www.openrecord.co.za/jameswebb.html Carine Zaayman http://carinezaayman.co.za/ Niklas Zimmer http://upland07.com (other artists whose websites i could not find:) Bridget Baker Katherine Bull Richard Kilpert Charles Maggs Minette Vari Robert Weinek Ed Young !! Schools and Universities University of Cape Town, Centre for Film and Media Studies http://www.cfms.uct.ac.za/ University of Cape Town, Michaelis School of Fine Art http://www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/ Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Informatics & Design, Graphic Design Dept., Cape Town http://www.cput.ac.za University of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts, Digital Arts, Johannesburg http://www.wits.ac.za/artworks University of Pretoria, Dept. of Visual Arts http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1584 UNISA University of South Africa, Dept. of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology, Pretoria http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=155 University of Stellenbosch, Department of Visual Arts http://academic.sun.ac.za/beeldende_kunste/ http://www.usgradex.co.za Cityvarsity School of Media & Creative Arts http://www.cityvarsity.co.za Vega Communications School, Cape Town http://www.vegaschool.com/ !! Galleries and Exhibition Spaces Gallery AOP Art on Paper, Johannesburg http://www.galleryaop.com Goethe on Main, Johannesburg http://www.goethe.de/johannesburg Goodman Gallery, Cape Town http://www.goodmangallerycape.com Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg http://www.goodman-gallery.com/ Gordart Gallery, Johannesburg http://www.gordartgallery.com David Krut Projects http://www.davidkrut.com Gallery Momo, Johannesburg http://www.gallerymomo.com Michael Stevenson http://www.michaelstevenson.com UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=16262 http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4681&ArticleID=2163 !! Organisations, Networks, Online Projects Africa South Art Initiative http://www.asai.co.za Artthrob http://www.artthrob.co.za/ Cape09 festival http://www.capeafrica.org Cape Town Art Route http://www.coffeebeansroutes.com/capetownroutes/art-route Cape Town TV http://www.capetowntv.org Dakar Biennale (Dak'Art), Senegal http://dakart.org/ Goethe-Institut Johannesburg http://www.goethe.de/johannesburg Hotel Yeoville http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za Internet Art in the Global South http://jafnetart.digitalarts.wits.ac.za/ 2nd edition of the Pan-African Festival of Algiers http://www.panafalger2009.com/ South African Virtual Art Gallery http://www.vgallery.co.za Shuttleworth Foundation http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ South African Sign Language http://www.sled.org.za Upgrade Johannesburg http://www.upgradejoburg.net Universes-in-Universe http://universes-in-universe.de/africa/zaf/english.htm !! Travel flying: http://www.kulula.com http://www.flysaa.com http://www.comair.co.za/ http://ww5.flymango.com/ https://www.1time.aero/aqueduct/1time/Booking train: http://www.seat61.com/SouthAfrica.htm Premiere Class (very comfortable train!) http://www.premierclasse.co.za accommodation http://www.portfoliocollection.com/ http://www.wheretostay.co.za/ http://www.tourismcapetown.co.za/ http://abigails.co.za/ !! Passports & Visas South African Department of Home Affairs http://www.home-affairs.gov.za/visa_detail.asp Department of Foreign Affairs http://www.dfa.gov.za/ From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Sep 14 18:22:20 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Sep 14 18:26:59 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) amberConference - 2nd call Message-ID: > From: amberConference <admin@a-m-b-e-r.org> > Date: July 31, 2009 6:22:15 PM GMT+02:00 > To: zeynep.gunduz@a-m-b-e-r.org > Subject: amberConference > > 7-8 November 2009, Istanbul > 2nd call > Deadline is extended to 10th of September 2009 > > amberConference site > > The first international amberConference will be held in conjunction > with the amber'09 Art and Technology Festival on the 7th and 8th of > November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference aims to create a > platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and > topics in which Science, Art and Technology converge. > > The theme for this year's event is "Cyborg", a concept that has > captured the imagination of the artistic and scientific communities > in terms of theoretical, technological and creative outputs. > > The conference seeks previously unpublished papers of a maximum of > 4500 words within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social > Sciences, Computer Sciences and Art Papers discussing original > artwork. > > Topics include (but are not limited to) > > . Machinic/Cyborg Art > . Robotics and robotic art > . Cyborg and Performing arts > . Avatars (virtual worlds and virtualenvironments) > . Computer Games > . Wearable and Tactile Technologies > . Artificial intelligence > . Post humanism > . New modes of embodiment > . Agency > . Medicine > . Genetic engineering, biology, clones and hybrids > . Religion, tradition and eternal life > . Militarism > . Gender > Important dates: > > A 500 word abstract to be submitted by > 10th of September 2009 > Notification of acceptance > 15th of September 2009 > Registration deadline > 1st of October 2009 > Deadline for full paper (~4500 word) submission > 1st of November 2009 > Conference > 7th and 8th of November 2009 > Deadline for final revised paper submission > 30th of December 2009 > Proceeding book will be published by > February 2010 > > submit your abstract> > > amberConference site > > > > 7-8 Kasim 2009, Istanbul > 2. ?agri > Son basvuru tarihi 10 Eyl?l 2009'a kadar uzatildi > > amberKonferans sitesi > > amberKonferans amber'09 Sanat ve Teknoloji Festivali i?ersinde ilk > kez ger?eklesecek olan konferans, Istanbul'da bilim, teknoloji ve > sanat kesisiminde akademik bir tartisma platformu yaratmayi > hedefliyor. > > Bu senenin temasi, sanat ve bilim alaninda, akademide veya akademi > disinda bir?ok kisinin yaraticiligini ve hayal g?c?n? > etkilemis sosyal, teknolojik, sanatsal ve bilimsel sonu?lari ile > bir?ok arastirma ve ?alismaya konu olmus olan "Siborg" > kavrami olarak belirlendi. > > Konferans bu tema ?er?evesinde daha ?nce yayinlanmamis 4500 > kelimeyi asmayan Bilgisayar Bilimleri, Beseri Bilimler, Sosyal > bilimler, M?hendislik gibi ?esitli alanlardan makaleler ve ?zg?n > bir sanatsal isin veya deneyimin tartisildigi makaleler > bekleniyor. > > Konular, bunlarla sinirli olmamakla beraber, Siborg kavramiyla > iliski i?erisinde asagidakilerle ?rneklenebilir: > > . > Siber Sanat > . > Robot ve robot sanati > . > Siborg ve performans > . > Avatarlar > . > Bilgisayar Oyunlari > . > Giyilebilir teknolojiler > . > Yapay zeka > . > Post humanizm > . > Beden ve bedensellik > . > Akt?r ve isten? > . > Tip > . > Genetik m?hendisligi, biyoloji, klonlar ve melez/karma yapilar > . > Din, gelenek ve sonsuz hayat > . > Militarizm > . > Cinsiyet > ?nemli tarihler: > > 500 kelimelik makale ?zeti i?in son basvuru tarihi > 10 Eyl?l 2009 > Geri bildirim tarihi > 15 Eyl?l 2009 > Kayit i?in son tarih > 1 Ekim 2009 > T?m makale (~4500 kelime) teslimi i?in son tarih > 1 Kasim 2009 > Konferans > 7-8 Kasim 2009 > Baskiya hazir makale i?in son teslim tarihi > 30 Aralik 2009 > Konferans kitabi basim tarihi > Subat 2010 > > makale ?zetini yolla> > > amberConference sitesi > > amberFestival, BIS (Body-Process Arts Association) Listeden ?ikmak > veya bilgilerinizi g?ncellemek i?in; To unsubscribe or update your > records, visit; >http://www.a-m-b-e-r.org/pmm/user/login.php?Email=zeynep.gunduz@a-m-b-e-r.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Sep 15 08:40:32 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Tue Sep 15 08:41:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] Final call: 2010 - The Best of Flash on the Net Message-ID: <20090915084032.9D1E46C2.FC2BEDCF@192.168.0.3> Final call - deadline: 30 September 2009 --------------------------------------- 2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net Call for entries \\ Flash & Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations // Since the Internet became popular in the late 90'ies of 20th century, the software program "FLASH", once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for "videostreaming" on the net. As soon as the Internet started, artists captured it for artistic purposes, and the same is good for certain software used for the net, particularly Flash is predestined for developing artistic creations due to its intuitive use. It became one of the most popular software tools for the net, computer based animations and interactive applications like games. Flash based artworks entered media festivals, even festivals solely based on movies created in Flash are organised. After Cinematheque - streaming media environments - explored in 2007 the capabilities of "Quicktime" as an artistic medium in the comprehensive show \\Slowtime? Quicktime as an artistic medium// - its now the time to explore in 2009/2010 the artistic potential of Flash in its own way in a big online show, as well. // Flash and Thunder Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations \\ Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000. Please find the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cinematheque - streaming media project environments http://cinema.nmartproject.net is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From fritz.d at chello.nl Tue Sep 15 18:54:13 2009 From: fritz.d at chello.nl (Darko Fritz) Date: Tue Sep 15 18:55:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] kor::net + DECro > Nina Czegledy + Marcus Neustetter: The Visual Collider Message-ID: <7DCEEE80-4A5A-4D31-9F88-67BF8623E5AC@chello.nl> + Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . Vela Luka + grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art . Kor?ula + DECro - Digital Exchange Croatia . Zagreb > present The Visual Collider by Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter 18 . 09 - 10 . 10 . 2009 Opening: Friday, September 18th, at 8 p. m. in the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Cultural Centre of Vela Luka Curator: Darko Fritz . grey) (area Gallery curator: Rada Dragojevic Cosovic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vela Luka and the gray) (area ? space of contemporary and media art, Kor?ula, through an informal association with the cor::net (Kor?ula Network), and in association with DECro-Digital Exchange Croatia, Zagreb present a world premiere of the Visual Collider project. Within the Visual Collider project Hungro-Canadian artist Nina Czegledy and South-African artist Marcus Neustetter collaborate for the first time. The authors and the curators will attend the exhibition opening on Friday, 18th September at 8 p. m. On September 10th 2008, billions of particles were smashed together in nano-seconds to recreate the first moments of the Big Bang, in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world?s most powerful particle accelerator. Thousands of scientists worked for decades to achieve this scientific spectacle ?challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm?. Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter were so inspired by a lecture on the LHC that while they had already deliberated and tested project ideas for several months, they immediately adopted a fresh approach, which led to The Visual Collider. For the first exhibited manifestation of The Visual Collider, Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter are presenting a small segment of their larger vision of an ongoing collision of images and impressions that take place with each experience by both artists. In some sense, the exhibition in Korcula becomes a sketch for a Visual Collider that, much like the LHC, can produce data through reaction, some of which is measured and some of which we are not able to comprehend or express. Artist statement: At the actual Collider every function including research, development and production, is based on principles and systems. In contrast our method is spontaneous, immediate and intentionally unsystematic. Nevertheless there are significant junctures. LHC is an immense scientific venture - our deep interest in the intersection of arts, science and technology is one of the crossover points. While in the sciences it is prudent to build on fundamental facts with analytical precision, in reality these investigations are often permeated with the exploration of the unknown, reaching unexpected revelations. In our practice working with the bizarre, traveling towards unpredictable destinations is a regular pursuit. In science a negative experimental result might become as valid as an expected outcome. These unexpected results including happy accidents often lead to significant alternate solutions or theories. Our adjacent images presented in this exhibition reveal unconventional interpretations frequently through unforeseen collisions. By employing a personal approach to the Visual Collider we challenge mega-projects such as the actual LHC, asking atypical questions concerning the experimental smashing together of information whether in the form of photographic light or protons. For several years, we have been involved in high-tech experimentation in the virtual and the physical world. These days however, -similarly to many others, - we feel that there is a certain validity in a low- tech approach. This project differs very much from most of our work where we seek to evoke the sublime. In the ?Visual Collider? we present raw, spontaneous records that reflect more a momentary involvement that is simply juxtaposed with another. With this we make use of everyday experiences, experimenting with commonplace objects and situations. While the scale differs, our act of snatching and smashing these moments together is not unlike the Hadron Collider colliding myriad of particles in fractions of seconds. The Visual Collider image sets (derived from our own source material) traverse cultural, political and personal boundaries suggesting different connotations. During the journey we cross time and space, bracketing generations and spanning continents in a never-ending conceptual loop. In the process of the juxtaposition of ideas and images we invite the viewers to develop their own hypothesis, their own Collider of the project. ------------------------------------------------------ Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Cultural Centre of Vela Luka Obala 3/9 . 20270 Vela Luka . Croatia tel: + 385. 20 . 813602 open: 9-14h, 18-19h Saturday 10- 12 h free entrance contact: Darko Fritz darko@darkofritz.net / tel + 385 [0] 91.5800193 grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) . Petar Grimani (Croatia) . Ivan Marusic Klif (Croatia) . Toni Mestrovi? (Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) . Nina Czegledy (Canada) and Marcus Neustetter (South Africa) From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Thu Sep 17 10:43:08 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu Sep 17 11:14:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Urban Screens and Public Space, Sept.28-30, Medialab-Prado Message-ID: Urban Screens and Public Space International Seminar September 28, 29 and 30, 2009 @Medialab- Prado Madrid (Spain) This international seminar aims to reflect on the relationships established between urban screens and the public space in which they are immersed, questioning the kinds of space, communities and personal interactions they activate. The program includes lectures given by internationally renowed artists and experts, as well as roundtables, discussion groups and the presentation of urban screen projects in Spain, such as the screen at Plaza de Las Letras (Medialab-Prado) in Madrid, the facade of the C4 in Cordoba, or the communicating building of Alcorcon City Council (Madrid). Participants: Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield), Susa Pop (Public Art Lab), Jeffrey Huang (Media Design Lab), Kim Halskov (Digital Urban Living), Jan and Tim Edler (Realities United), and United Visual Artists (UVA). Roundtables moderated by Jos? Luis Brea, Blanca Fern?ndez Quesada, and Paloma Blanco. Free admission. Limited seating. Complete program and RSVP: http://medialab-prado.es/article/urban_screens_and_public_space_seminar Contact: difusion@medialab-prado.es +34 91 369 2303 Venue: Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid (Spain) -- Nerea Garc?a Garmendia Comunicaci?n / Press Medialab-Prado ?rea de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid Plaza de las Letras Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid Tfno. +34 914 202 754 difusion@medialab-prado.es www.medialab-prado.es _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Thu Sep 17 15:58:30 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu Sep 17 16:26:36 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) SUMU artist-in-residence program: call for media artists Message-ID: . ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arte ry / Titanik <arte@saunalahti.fi> Date: 2009/9/1 Subject: SUMU artist-in-residence program: call for applications To: Call for Applications - Deadline 30 September 2009 Arte Association's Artists' Residency SUMU http://www.arte.fi ARTISTS? RESIDENCY SUMU Arte Association's Artists' Residency SUMU offers one- to three-month residencies in 2010 to new media artists, working in the intersection of new media, new technologies and contemporary art. The residence is located in Turku, in the Southwestern coast of Finland. Artists are provided with free accommodation and studio, and a possibility of exhibiting their work either in Sumu's studio which is adjoined to Arte's gallery Titanik, or on Sumu's website. The artists must fund all their living expenses including food and transportation. Arte can help the artists with material costs up to 200 euros depending on the application. More information: http://www.arte.fi APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Please prepare an individual submission, including: - project plan (short, clear & realistic, max one page) - short artists' statement (max one page) - CV (max one page) - DVD / CD including a maximum of 10 minutes worth of samples in PC format - samples of recent work as print-outs (3 - 5 pieces) The submissions will not be returned. E-mail or internet applications are not accepted, only submissions sent by mail are processed. Deadline 30th of September is a postmark date. The proposal can also include an exhibition either in the studio space or on our website at the end of the residency. -------- NOTE! OBS! NORDIC ARTISTS! We will invite 2-4 artists for 1 or 2 months residency periods from the Nordic countries (except Finland) in addition to our normal residencies during 2010. This Nordic program is sponsored by Nordic Culture Point. Artists, who were born or live permanently in the Nordic countries, can send us their applications and project plans for whole year of 2010 by 30th September 2009. The stipend includes accommodation, work space, daily allowance, material money and travelling costs within reasonable limits. See the application requirements above. --------- Please send your completed submission by mail to: Gallery Titanik / Sumu AIR It?inen Rantakatu 8 20700 Turku Finland Deadline September 30th, 2009 (postmark). Session dates for international programme: from July 11th to December 31st, 2010. For further information please visit our website, www.arte.fi or Res Artis website, www.resartis.org, or contact: Paula V?in?m? Residencies Coordinator, Arte tel. +358 2 2338 372 sumu@arte.fi SUMU Artist-in-residence program, It?inen Rantakatu 8, 20700 Turku, Finland ? tel. +358 (0)2 233 8372 www.arte.fi sumu@arte.fi ps: Pls, fwd, tnx! _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann From seamascain at gmail.com Thu Sep 17 17:10:59 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Thu Sep 17 17:11:33 2009 Subject: [spectre] New poetry from the Rinn Gaeltacht Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40909170810m3323770ct1173ba603fec74f8@mail.gmail.com> _______________ On Friday, September 18th, 2009, IMRAM, the annual Irish-language literary festival, will present a special evening of performances of poetry, music & song from the Rinn Gaeltacht. (The poems will be spoken or sung & simultaneously displayed in powerpoint.) This event will take place at 7:00 p.m. at THE NEW THEATRE, 43 East Essex Street in Dublin, Ireland. Admission is 5 euros. ?ine U? Cheallaigh gained acclaim for her version of ?Lift the Wings? in Riverdance. She was born in Belfast, her father?s hometown. Her mother was from An Rinn. Her musical influences can be traced to both areas. Her first solo album, "Idir Dh? Chomhairle," was released in 1992. Stiof?n ? Cadhla is an expert in many areas, including folklore, holy wells, & cartography. His first collection of poetry, "An Creideamh D?anach," explores history & family. ?ine U? Fhoghl??s second collection of poetry, "An Li? sa Chuan," won the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award; in their citation the judges praised her "strikingly beautiful" imagery. The night's events will be steered by bean an t? Catherine Foley. Friday, 18 September 2009, 7:00 p.m., THE NEW THEATRE, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin, Ireland Admission is 5 euros. For additional information about the IMRAM Festival, go to ... http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-IRISH-LANGUAGE-LITERATURE-FESTIVAL http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-FEILE-LITRIOCHTA-GAEILGE Questions may be put to Liam Carson, Director of IMRAM Festival at ... liamog62@mac.com Books featured at the IMRAM Festival may be purchased from ... Connolly Books, connollybooks@eircom.net 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2, Ireland beir bua, S?amas Cain http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain http://alazanto.org/seamascain _______________ From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Thu Sep 17 17:42:15 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Thu Sep 17 17:48:56 2009 Subject: [spectre] Christa SOMMERER in Gdansk : Interaction Revisited Message-ID: <4AB274F70200003C00028279@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> In the series Kasia Wozniak curated in Gdansk for Laznia with speakers like Roy Ascott, Eduardo Kac, Martin Kemp, etc. there is a new .. ...>> INVITATION << Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk, Poland, cordially invites You to the lecture of Prof. Dr. Christa SOMMERER >> Interaction Revisited - Interactive Art Research << on Monday, 26th October 2009, 6 pm Jaskolcza Street 1 80-767 Gdansk In 2009 Peter Weibel stated: "Artists, in the age of Youtube.com, Flickr.com, MySpace.com, and Second Life, lose their monopoly on creativity. Using contemporary media everyone can be artistically creative". If we subscribe to this notion, we have to ask ourselves what kind of implication this has for artists who are mostly concerned about pushing the boundaries of interaction design and interactive art and work in this field since many years How are technical aspects of these works interwtined with their artistic content ? And can we learn something from early notions of participatory art and see parallels in the interconnection between artistic message and form and their effects on mass products? By looking at various interactive projects we address those questions and revisit the notion of interactivity and participation from an artist practitioner's point of view. For more information please contact: Kasia Wozniak Curator Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia ul. Jaskolcza 1 80-767 Gdansk Tel. +48 792003541 From aslemeur at free.fr Thu Sep 17 18:09:03 2009 From: aslemeur at free.fr (aslemeur@free.fr) Date: Thu Sep 17 18:09:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] Aslemeur, Outre-ronde, interactive 3D 360 degrees panorama Message-ID: <1253203743.4ab25f1f9175f@imp.free.fr> Hello, I am delighted to announce you my upcoming exhibition : - 27 September - 3 October, Beyond-Round, interactive 360 degrees panorama, real time 3D, La Generale en Manufacture, Sevres (Parisian Suburbs). http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/outre_r_eng.htm 'Outre-ronde' is the last part of 'Into the Hollow of Darkness' (2000 - 2009), long time running research project. 'Into the Hollow of Darkness' explores non-realistic virtual light phenomena and a conter-intuitive interaction playing with the desire to see, in order to widen visual and sensorial perception. 'Into the Hollow of Darkness' comprises : - 'Where It Wants To Appear/Suffer', recorded 3D images, 14 min, silence, 2001 - 'Eye-Ocean', generative 3D image, real time, silence, 2005-2007 - 'Grey-Moire', performance, generative 3D image, real time, variable music, 2009 - 'Beyond-Round', interactive 360 degrees panorama, real time 3D, silence, 2009 'Into the Hollow of Darkness' has been supported by (late) CICV, ZKM - Karlsruhe, Le Cube and Interface-Z. I want to thank my saving collaborators warmly : Francis Bras, Didier Bouchon, and the casual ones - nonetheless precious : Zandrine Chiri, Jo?l Kichenin, Homeira Abrishami. I hope to meet you at La G?n?rale, Anne-Sarah Le Meur interactive experimental 3D image http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/agenda_eng.htm From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Sep 18 08:06:50 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (soundLAB) Date: Fri Sep 18 08:07:22 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call: soundart for SoundLAB VII Message-ID: <20090918080650.5CDAE272.58A1B83F@192.168.0.3> Call for entries Deadline: 30 November 2009 2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne SoundLAB - sonic art project environments is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled: SoundLAB VII - soundCELEBRATION sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary! For its 7th edition, planned to be launched in March 2010, SoundLAB would like to celebrate the power of sound as a tool for artistic creations and communications on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the global network it is embedded in and invites soundartists, musicians and composers to create for the 10th anniversary a special sound composition. Please find detailed information, the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1423 ------------------------------------------------ SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net in(at)nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------- From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Sep 18 10:32:34 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Sep 18 11:00:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Prospectives.09 Festival, Nov 12-14, 2009, Reno/Nevada Message-ID: Prospectives.09 International Digital Arts Festival November 12-14, 2009, University of Nevada, Reno http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html CALL FOR ENTRIES - DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 2009 -Exhibit, Play, Present, Perform, Project(full dome)- The Digital Media Studio of the Department of Art of the University of Nevada, Reno presents Prospectives.09 (previously RIFNM) We invite interdisciplinary graduate and phd students working in digital media to the UNR campus and Reno community for a series of events focused on emerging interdisciplinary practice in the digital arts. A juried exhibition in the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, along with three days events featuring performances, symposia, game art and full-dome projections in venues in and around the UNR campus and Downtown Reno. This event presents a unique opportunity for graduate and phd candidates to share and interact with fellow practitioners and the general public a diversity of approaches to experimental, digital practice in the visual, performing and auditory arts. Present/Symposium Graduate candidates present and discuss their work, issues, ideas and trends as emerging practicioners. Thursday, November 12th Location TBA 10:00am - 4:00pm Exhibit Juried exhibition showcasing recent works by prospective, emerging talent in the digital realm, at this, the prime location for contemporary and experimental art in Northern Nevada. November 12th - December 16th, 2009 Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery 5:30-6:30pm Artist's Panel Presentation 6:30-8:00pm Festival Opening Reception Play The festival will highlight experimental work in the area of computer gaming, interactivity and social media. Grads working in all areas of experimentation involving the notion of "play" in the larest possible sense of the word, will be featured throughout festival events and venues. Perform A diverse evening of experimental performance art and music utilizing the potential of digital systems for creative expression in a live, theatrical setting. Friday, November 13th The Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater, Nevada Museum of Art 7:00pm Project(full dome) Screening of juried and selected experiments utilizing full-dome technology, for immersive, dome-based video projection. Saturday, November 14th Fleischman Planetarium and Science Center 6:00pm Questions/Contact: Prospectives.09 Joseph DeLappe, Festival Director Digital Media Studio Department of Art/224 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557 775-784-6624 delappe "@" unr.edu Hosted by the Digital Media Studio Department of Art, University of Nevada, Reno This event is sponsored by the Benna Foundation for Excellence in the Fine Arts, The University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Art, The Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, the Fleischman Planetarium and Science Center, and theNevada Museum of Art. From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Sep 18 10:53:14 2009 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Sep 18 11:01:05 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 =?iso-8859-1?q?=92_Sofia_Launch_Event?= Message-ID: Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 18th and 19th September Organized by InterSpace, Sofia Hosted by Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Sofia http://www.transitland.eu/ Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 - Sofia Launch Event The collaborative archiving project Transitland, realized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, launches with a comprehensive website and a series of discussions and screenings in Sofia, followed by events in Budapest and Berlin. It presents a selection of 100 single-channel video works, produced in the period 1989-2009 and reflecting the transformations in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. The selection of works was made by an international jury from 350 videos, proposed by 40 nominators - curators, art critics and artists. The project focuses on an extensive and turbulent time and space span. The territory of "Transitland" is quite close to being a half of Europe - population and territory wise. Once called as the "Eastern bloc" without further specification, it was conceived as somewhat homogeneous, dark side of Europe behind the Iron Curtain. Central and Eastern Europe with different sub-regions now covers 24 post-socialist European countries. Twenty years ago this territory belonged to only 9 states. Transitland is not only the widest-spanning presentation of video art from Central and Eastern Europe but also a unique attempt to address and reflect upon an extensive period of transformation and changes. The mere breadth of time and geography and the complexity of the transition process are still beyond perception not only from outside but also within the region. Besides the numerous discursive and documentary attempts to describe, analyze and contextualize the transformations, a multitude of viewpoints and aspects, presented through the media of video art are meant to provide a unique asset of aesthetic and critical positions to the current discourse on the transition period. The Sofia launch event features discussion panels and a series of screenings. The first discussion panel addresses the question of expectations right after the Fall of the Wall, the second one traces what actually was happening in those 20 years and the third - leads to the ultimate question where we are heading now. It gathers artists and curators with personal curiosity, first-hand experience and intellectual engagement with the transition period in Central and Eastern Europe. A series of screenings and discursive events will be taking place in Budapest organized by the Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in the following months. In Berlin the project will be premiered by transmediale festival for digital arts and culture from 6th to 8th November at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. Further presentations of the archive are being planned for 2010. Transitland is realized by InterSpace Association Sofia, transmediale festival for art and digital culture berlin and Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, with associated partners D Media, Cluj and Videoaktiv, Berlin. It was made possible with support from Culture 2007-2013 Programme, the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, the European Cultural Foundation, the Culture programme of Sofia Municipality and the Hungarian Cultural Fund. From image.science at donau-uni.ac.at Fri Sep 18 14:52:41 2009 From: image.science at donau-uni.ac.at (Image Science) Date: Fri Sep 18 14:53:14 2009 Subject: [spectre] ::Curating::Exhibiting::Collecting:: MediaArtHistories, CP Message-ID: <4AB39EB90200007D00008CC9@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> The next MediaArtHistories modules in November 2009 and May 2010 will focus on Curating, Exhibiting and Collecting Media Art with the best experts in the field like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan NADARAJAN, and others. These two modules complete a Certified Program in MediaArtHistories :: fully accredited with 30 ECTS (post graduate), offered low residency, parallel to employment, in English. The CP can later be extended to complete the full Master of Arts program in MediaArtHistories or used as study-abroad credits. www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah-cp The November module will start with an excursion to Berlin and end in a workshop with Lev MANOVICH. The May module will include a excursion to the relevant Ars Electronica sites and workshops with main players in Linz. Module 1. Nov 2-12, 2009 Berlin and Goettweig/Krems Module 2. May 1-11, 2010 Goettweig/Krems and Linz The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories opens a passageway into the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others. Using online databases and other modern analysis instruments, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and wearables are examined. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are researched in intriguing ways with media art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology are extensively integrated into the program. The MediaArtHistories MA modules are based on the international practice and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media Arts. Thus setting the conditions necessary for wider consideration of media art works and the integration of new media into the international contemporary art scene. New databases and other scientific tools structuring and visualizing data provide the contexts to enhance and develop new understanding in the histories of media art. DANUBE UNIVERSITY - located in a UNESCO world heritage site is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Students come twice a year for 2 week blocks to Monastery G?ttweig in Austria. The Wachau is voted #1 Places Rated by National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/pdf/destination-scorecard.pdf http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah http://www.virtualart.at http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures Department for Image Science Danube University Krems Contact - application information Andrea Haberson andrea.haberson@donau-uni.ac.at Contact - course and content questions Wendy Coones wendy.coones@donau-uni.ac.at From fa at franck-ancel.com Fri Sep 18 15:04:32 2009 From: fa at franck-ancel.com (Franck Ancel) Date: Fri Sep 18 15:05:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] ::Curating::Exhibiting::Collecting:: MediaArtHistories, CP In-Reply-To: <4AB39EB90200007D00008CC9@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> References: <4AB39EB90200007D00008CC9@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Message-ID: <4AB38560.6060803@franck-ancel.com> Have you some french experts in your Field for this Module like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan NADARAJAN? Friendly regards from Exile. Franck A. Image Science a ?crit : > The next MediaArtHistories modules in November 2009 and May 2010 will > focus on Curating, Exhibiting and Collecting Media Art with the best > experts in the field like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan > NADARAJAN, and others. These two modules complete a Certified Program > in MediaArtHistories :: fully accredited with 30 ECTS (post graduate), > offered low residency, parallel to employment, in English. The CP can > later be extended to complete the full Master of Arts program in > MediaArtHistories or used as study-abroad credits. > www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah-cp > > The November module will start with an excursion to Berlin and end in a > workshop with Lev MANOVICH. The May module will include a excursion to > the relevant Ars Electronica sites and workshops with main players in > Linz. > > Module 1. Nov 2-12, 2009 > Berlin and Goettweig/Krems > > Module 2. May 1-11, 2010 > Goettweig/Krems and Linz > > > The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories opens a passageway into the > most important developments of contemporary art through a network of > renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others. > Using online databases and other modern analysis instruments, knowledge > of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art > as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, > augmented reality and wearables are examined. Historical derivations > that go far back into art and media history are researched in intriguing > ways with media art. Important approaches and methods from Image > Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology are > extensively integrated into the program. > > The MediaArtHistories MA modules are based on the international > practice and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving > and Researching in the Media Arts. Thus setting the conditions necessary > for wider consideration of media art works and the integration of new > media into the international contemporary art scene. New databases and > other scientific tools structuring and visualizing data provide the > contexts to enhance and develop new understanding in the histories of > media art. > > DANUBE UNIVERSITY - located in a UNESCO world heritage site is the > first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced > continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working > professionals and lifelong learners. Students come twice a year for 2 > week blocks to Monastery G?ttweig in Austria. The Wachau is voted #1 > Places Rated by National Geographic. > http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/pdf/destination-scorecard.pdf > > > > http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah > http://www.virtualart.at > http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures > > > Department for Image Science > Danube University Krems > > Contact - application information > Andrea Haberson > andrea.haberson@donau-uni.ac.at > > Contact - course and content questions > Wendy Coones > wendy.coones@donau-uni.ac.at > > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > > From image.science at donau-uni.ac.at Fri Sep 18 15:42:48 2009 From: image.science at donau-uni.ac.at (Image Science) Date: Fri Sep 18 15:49:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] ::Curating::Exhibiting::Collecting:: MediaArtHistories,CP In-Reply-To: <4AB38560.6060803@franck-ancel.com> References: <4AB39EB90200007D00008CC9@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> <4AB38560.6060803@franck-ancel.com> Message-ID: <4AB3AA780200007D00008CEA@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Dear Frank, Here is the link to our faculty list. www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories/faculty Everyone teaches once during the two year program period. The focus on curating, exhibiting and collecting for the next two modules will of course focus on specific faculties specialties. There could be more french faculty in the group. Is there anyone you suggest as english speakers from the french-speaking arena, or institutions to visit for a course excursion? Wendy Coones Image Science Department >>> Franck Ancel 18.09.2009 15:04 >>> Have you some french experts in your Field for this Module like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan NADARAJAN? Friendly regards from Exile. Franck A. Image Science a ?crit : > The next MediaArtHistories modules in November 2009 and May 2010 will > focus on Curating, Exhibiting and Collecting Media Art with the best > experts in the field like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan > NADARAJAN, and others. These two modules complete a Certified Program > in MediaArtHistories :: fully accredited with 30 ECTS (post graduate), > offered low residency, parallel to employment, in English. The CP can > later be extended to complete the full Master of Arts program in > MediaArtHistories or used as study-abroad credits. _____________________________________________________________snip From fa at franck-ancel.com Fri Sep 18 15:55:57 2009 From: fa at franck-ancel.com (Franck Ancel) Date: Fri Sep 18 15:56:29 2009 Subject: [spectre] ::Curating::Exhibiting::Collecting:: MediaArtHistories, CP In-Reply-To: <4AB3AA780200007D00008CEA@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> References: <4AB39EB90200007D00008CC9@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> <4AB38560.6060803@franck-ancel.com> <4AB3AA780200007D00008CEA@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Message-ID: <4AB3916D.1040607@franck-ancel.com> Dear Wendy, Thank you so much for this link that has enlighted about your first email. It will be great to organise a nice "excursion" for french school or faculty to visit your program. I have nobody to suggest because my english is too bad to teach in France ;-) Friendly regards, Franck Image Science a ?crit : > Dear Frank, > > Here is the link to our faculty list. > www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories/faculty Everyone teaches once > during the two year program period. The focus on curating, exhibiting > and collecting for the next two modules will of course focus on specific > faculties specialties. > > There could be more french faculty in the group. Is there anyone you > suggest as english speakers from the french-speaking arena, or > institutions to visit for a course excursion? > > Wendy Coones > Image Science Department > > > >>>> Franck Ancel 18.09.2009 15:04 >>> >>>> > Have you some french experts in your Field for this Module like Steve > DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan NADARAJAN? > > Friendly regards from Exile. > Franck A. > > > Image Science a ?crit : > >> The next MediaArtHistories modules in November 2009 and May 2010 >> > will > >> focus on Curating, Exhibiting and Collecting Media Art with the best >> experts in the field like Steve DIETZ, Christiane PAUL, Gunalan >> NADARAJAN, and others. These two modules complete a Certified >> > Program > >> in MediaArtHistories :: fully accredited with 30 ECTS (post >> > graduate), > >> offered low residency, parallel to employment, in English. The CP >> > can > >> later be extended to complete the full Master of Arts program in >> MediaArtHistories or used as study-abroad credits. >> > _____________________________________________________________snip > > From simsite at gmail.com Sat Sep 19 06:01:21 2009 From: simsite at gmail.com (Simeon Moran) Date: Sat Sep 19 06:01:53 2009 Subject: [spectre] Final Call for artworks: - Digital Fringe 2009 Message-ID: <4AB45791.3030804@gmail.com> *Digital Fringe 09 - Final Call for submissions Digital Fringe* is still open for video, image, and audio submissions Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work seen on hundreds of public screens across the world! Get your entries in by this Monday 21st September to be included in the festival DVD's that are distributed to over 250 public screens across the globe Check digitalfringe.com.au for submission and festival info - or contact us on people@digitalfringe.com.au ++++++++ Digital Fringe is an open access public arts festival that places contemporary screen based media in public locations. It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences throughout Australia and the world. Screening venues receive a playlist curated from the diverse visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, machinima, motion graphics, photography and stills submitted to the Digital Fringe festival via our website - digitalfringe.com.au. Login and upload your works. In keeping with the Fringe Festival charter, Digital Fringe is open access and accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in screen based and new media. Submissions are received from all around the world: from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Artists maintain control of their own copyright. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV?s in electrical stores, State and regional libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutions, suburban shop fronts and on massive urban screens in public plazas like Melbourne's Federation Square. Digital Fringe screens are also appearing in outback Australia, and across the Americas's, Africa, the UK and Europe. All submissions also play on the Digital Fringe website. Produced by Horse Bazaar with assistance from Film Victoria and Melbourne Fringe, Digital Fringe 09 will create a web of screen art in public space across Melbourne, Regional Australia and the world! If you know of other screens that can play Digital Fringe and be part of our network email us - screens@digitalfringe.com.au -- Simeon Moran 0402 514 017 simeon@horsebazaar.com.au Horse Bazaar 397 Lt Lonsdale St Melbourne 3000 03 9670 2329 www.horsebazaar.com.au www.digitalfringe.com.au From alex at slab.org Sat Sep 19 11:28:23 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Sat Sep 19 11:48:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] transfer, 16th Oct, Goldsmiths London, w/ Leafcutter John, Finn Peters Quartet, Spacedog and Slub Message-ID: TRANSFER http://slab.org/transfer/ An evening of beautiful experiments in music from humans and computers as part of the knowledge futures conference. Enjoy microfolk, brainjazz, robotic theramin cabaret and livecoding. Time: 7pm - 10pm, Friday 16th October 2009 Place: Goldsmiths Great Hall, New Cross, London Advance tickets available, ?10 each (?5 concessions). Featuring: + LEAFCUTTER JOHN + Leafcutter John's experimental approach to music, including handmade synthesis algorithms, contact microphones and handmade interfaces like his "electric breasts" beloved him to a crowd more used to industrial techno through his chaotic Planet Mu releases. More recently though his love of folk music has shown in his recorded work, his 2006 album finding his guitar and his voice between electronic forests. It's not clear what he's going to do for Transfer, but it'll be chosen from one of the broadest sonic pallets in London. [ http://www.leafcutterjohn.com/ ] + FINN PETERS QUARTET + Finn Peters (sax / flute / fx), Matthew Yee-king (SuperCollider), Oren Marshall (tuba / fx) and Tom Skinner (drums / synths / fx) will play prototypical versions of tracks from the forthcoming 'Music of the Mind' album which features music generated, modulated and inspired by the activity of the brain. As usual, you can also expect some noisy, wild card improvisations. [ http://www.myspace.com/finnpeters | http://www.yeeking.net/ | http://orenmarshall.com/ ] + SPACEDOG (the Angliss sisters and Clara 2.0) + Spacedog present Electroplasm: space songs, torch songs and death ballads with theremin, vocals and musical automata. [ http://spacedog.biz/ ] + SLUB + Slub are three live coders who have made software to make music to drink beer to for the last nine years. Slub sound emerges from slub software; melodic and chordal studies, generative experiments and beat processes. Process-based sonic improvisations; live generative music using hand crafted and live coded apps, scripts, l-systems, daisy chains and traffic simulations in networked synchrony. With roots in UK electronica and tech culture, slub build their own software environments for creating music in realtime. Only custom composition and DSP software is used. Everything you hear is formed by human minds. [ http://slub.org ] http://slab.org/transfer/ A Goldsmiths Digital Studios event as part of the LCACE inside out festival, with support from Sound and Music, the Sound Practice Research centre, TOPLAP UK and the PRS Foundation. From marika at incident.net Mon Sep 21 01:03:24 2009 From: marika at incident.net (Marika Dermineur) Date: Mon Sep 21 01:04:04 2009 Subject: [spectre] Appel =?iso-8859-1?q?=E0_projet/Call_for_participation_-_G=E9ogra?= =?iso-8859-1?q?phies_variables/Variable_Geographies?= Message-ID: <4AB6B4BC.4040002@incident.net> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Appel ? projet / R?sidences G?OGRAPHIES VARIABLES - Sept. 2009 - Avril 2010 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (English below) > Suite ? un probl?me technique, la date limite de candidature a ?t? repouss?e au 30 septembre 2009 inclus. Incident.net et la Chambre Blanche sont heureux d'annoncer la cr?ation d'un programme de r?sidences crois?es entre la France et le Qu?bec, dont la th?matique s'articule autour des notions de ?g?ographies variables?. Ce programme met en relation une douzaine artistes Fran?ais et Qu?b?cois, et leur propose des r?sidences de productions li?es ? internet, dans 6 lieux dans ces deux pays. Ce programme se d?roulera en deux sessions, 2009/2010 et 2010/2011. La liste des lieux et conditions de r?sidence sont visibles ? cette adresse : http://incident.net/geo Ce programme permet entre autre la cr?ation de deux nouvelles r?sidences: "L'enclos du port", en partenariat avec l'?cole Sup?rieure des Beaux-arts de Lorient (Bretagne) - http://incident.net/geo/wordpress/?cat=7. "incident.res", la r?sidence d'incident.net, une espace ind?pendant ? Briant (Bourgogne) - http://incident.net/geo/wordpress/?cat=5. ?G?ographies variables?. Ces notions ont ?merg? de fa?on importante ces derni?res ann?es, mais restent difficiles ? d?finir pr?cis?ment : leur complexit? et multiplicit? les font appara?tre comme des notions floues, ou en devenir. Il s'agit d'aborder ces domaines dont la variabilit? et la mutation sont quasi quotidiennes. Alors comment les (re)d?finir, comment r?fl?chir et rendre compte visuellement d'une cat?gorie scientifique d?finie par l'homme, cat?gorie qui sans arr?t oscille entre la r?alit? physique et exp?riences teint?es d'une forte subjectivit?. Cet appel ? projet demande aux artistes, dans la mesure du possible, de prendre en compte le lieu de r?sidence, et de s'emparer de ce titre, et de l'interpr?ter librement avec leur point de vue et leur pratique. > Le dossier doit comprendre les ?l?ments suivants, au format pdf, word, ou texte : - La fiche de renseignement t?l?chargeable ? cette adresse : http://incident.net/geo/fiche/ - Un texte sur le projet soumis : note d'intention de 3 pages maximum, d?montrant l'int?r?t de l'artiste envers les arts contemporains/num?riques et en r?seau. - Une documentation visuelle de travaux r?cents (15 pages maximum) - Un CV (3 pages maximum), une bio ou la d?marche g?n?rale de l'artiste (15 lignes maximum chacun) - Un dossier de presse (non obligatoire) Les dossiers devront ?tre achemin?s de fa?on ?lectronique dans un dossier compress? (.zip, ou .sit) avant le 30 septembre 2009 inclus aux adresses suivantes : - production@chambreblanche.qc.ca - geo@incident.net Tout dossier de plus de 12M sera rejet?. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > POUR PLUS D'INFOS : http://incident.net/geo //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Incident.net & La Chambre Blanche are pleased to announce the creation of an art in residence program, based on the theme "Variable Geographies". This program, in two sessions (2009-2010 & 2010-2011), will allow 12 artists from France and Canada to produce internet and network art pieces. The call for residencies' deadline is the 30th September and must be send by mail only, compressed (.zip or .sit), at both addresses: geo@incident.net, production@chambreblanche.qc.ca It should include: - a form found here. - a text presenting a project to be developed during the residency (3 pages maximum) - a portfolio (15 pages max)? - a CV (3 pages max), a bio or artiste statement (15 lines max) - a press kit (not mandatory) > Maximum size for the submission by mail: 12M //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Voir cette lettre d'information sur le site Incident.net G?rez votre abonnement ? la lettre d'information From marika at incident.net Mon Sep 21 01:07:37 2009 From: marika at incident.net (Marika Dermineur) Date: Mon Sep 21 01:08:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Appel =?iso-8859-1?q?=E0_projets/Call_for_participation_-_POLLUTI?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ON_-_Hors_S=E9rie/Series_2009_-_Limite/Deadline=3A_31/10?= Message-ID: <4AB6B5B9.8060808@incident.net> Appel ? projets 2009 d'INCIDENT sur le th?me de la POLLUTION. Date limite d'envoi des oeuvres: 31 octobre 2009. Merci de bien vouloir nous envoyer par m?l (incident@incident.net): - Une description de l'oeuvre - Une courte biographie - Votre oeuvre (ou son url). Attention: seules les oeuvres utilisant activement les technologies (interactivit?, g?n?rativit?, flux du r?seau, etc.) seront retenues. --- INCIDENT's Call for Participation on the theme: POLLUTION. Deadline: October 31st 2009. Thank you to send us by email (incident@incident.net): - A description of your work - A short biography - Your work (or its url) Nota bene: only the works using technology (interactivity, generativity, networks, etc.) will be selected. http://incident.net incident@incident.net --- POLLUTION --- (english below) Depuis quelques ann?es, la prise en compte ?cologique est parvenue au premier plan des pr?occupations humaines. La pollution, li?e ? une intense activit? humaine, qui s'est acc?l?r?e ces 50 derni?res ann?es, est ? l'origine des bouleversements environnementaux mettant en p?ril l'?quilibre de l'?cosyst?me plan?taire. Dans l'univers m?diatique contemporain, la notion de pollution intervient d?s lors qu'un message est alt?r?, transformant ou rendant difficile sa r?ception. D'un autre c?t?, la pollution appara?t aussi dans la transformation qu'elle op?re sur le message, comme un ?l?ment r?v?lateur d'un trop grand polissage du flux hyperm?diatique contemporain. Dans la question environnementale, la pollution indique un exc?s, une saturation, qui constitue donc un indicateur et une mise en garde ? plus de "pr?caution" et de prise en compte des ?cosyst?mes. La pollution est un fait nouveau qui appara?t avec la r?volution industrielle. Son appropriation, sa repr?sentation par les artistes est donc aussi un fait nouveau. Si visuellement, on peut en trouver des repr?sentations chez William Turner (dont les travaux sont de nos jours utilis?es par des scientifiques pour mod?liser les changements climatiques), c'est surtout chez les expressionnistes que le motif de la pollution comme exc?s appara?t dans toute sa force de repr?sentation: les toiles urbaines de Georg Grosz, les violentes d?constructions cubistes, sont autant de signes d'une cacophonie urbaine naissante ? la fin du 19e si?cle. Si la pollution renvoie instinctivement ? un brouillage visuel repr?sent? par le d?versement des fum?es des nouvelles industries lourdes du 19e si?cle, c'est aussi l'apparition d'un nouvel environnement sonore satur? de bruits qui rend compte de transformations importante dans l'espace vital de l'?tre humain. Hors de toute passivit? face ? ce nouveau fl?au, Luigi Russollo s'enthousiasme dans "l'Art des bruits" de l'apparition de nouvelles formes sonores, de bruits, que ses contemporains ne tardent pas ? s'approprier. Ces nouvelles formes sont un miroir ?vident d'une soci?t? plus nerveuse, souvent urbanis?e, o? la pollution des machines est devenu l'environnement de vie des contemporains. La pollution enfin est corollaire de notre commerce quotidien avec l'?lectricit? et le num?rique qui transportent nos oeuvres de l'esprit en les transformant. Le propre m?me de ces nouvelles technologies de la communication est de transposer les m?dias en d'autres signaux, en d'autres codes, modifiant, d?teriorant au passage l'information, donc en quelque sorte la polluant. La pollution n'est pas toujours mat?rialisable par une alt?ration visible de notre environnement: d'autres formes de pollution ?mergent, invisibles, et qui ont des effets induits dont nous sommes encore peu ? m?me de mesurer les r?percussions: pollutions ?lectromagn?tiques rendues audibles par Robin Rimbaud dans son projet sonore "Scanner", saturations cognitives dans le d?ferlement informationnel du r?seau internet, transformation du regard face aux d?ferlement d'images num?riques errod?es par leur transcodage. Entre destruction visible et r?v?lation d'un fourmillement invisible de formes microscopiques, le motif de la pollution innerve l'int?gralit? de notre rapport ? notre environnement, plus encore dans notre commerce quotidien avec les machines dont l'apparente inocuit?e cache des r?percussions fortes sur la transformation du genre humain. Texte de Claude Le Berre. --- english --- POLLUTION --- In recent years, concerns about the environment have reached the forefront of human concerns. Pollution, a result of the intense human activity which has accelerated in the last 50 years, is at the origin of the environmental changes that currently put in danger the global ecosystem. In the contemporary media universe, the notion of pollution becomes apparent in the alteration of messages or signals, by transforming or impeding their reception. At the same time, pollution also appears as a transformation which operates on the message, revealing the over-polished nature of the contemporary media stream. In the physical environment, pollution indicates excess and (over)saturation, acting as an indicator and a warning for greater consideration of the ecosystem. Pollution's significance dates back to the industrial revolution. Likewise its appropriation and representation by the artists is also a relatively recent phenomenon. If we can find visually representations in the work of William Turner (whose pieces are today used by scientists to model climate change), it is particularly with the expressionists that the concept of pollution as excess appears in all its strength of representation: Georg Grosz's urban paintings, and the violent deconstructions of the Cubists are indeed clear signs of the urban cacophony at the end of the 19th century. If pollution sends us back instinctively to a visual static represented by the smoke produced by the new heavy industries of the 19th century, it is also the appearance the new saturated noise environment that speaks to the significant transformation of the living space of the human being in the era. Irrespective of the generally passive response to this plague, Luigi Russollo is inspired in "The Art of Noises" by the appearance of new sound forms that he and his contemporaries did not delay appropriating. New forms such as his are a clear sign of a sensitized, often urbanized society, where the pollution by machines became and integral part of the people's environment. The very purpose of new technologies of communication is to transpose one form of media into signals, into other codes, modifying and degrading the information, and thus in a sense polluting it. Pollution is in the end a corollary for our daily work of using electricity and digital technology, modifying our works of the mind by transforming them. Pollution is not always realized through a visible change of our environment: other forms of pollution appear, sometimes invisible, and which have repercussions which we still have difficultly measuring. For example: electromagnetic pollution made audible by Robin Rimbaud in his sound project "To scan", the cognitive saturations in the informative flow of the Internet, and the transformation of the regard in the face of the endless flow of digital images degraded by their transmission. Between visible destruction and the impact microscopic effects, the question of pollution impacts at every level our relationship to our environment, especially in our daily interactions with machines where visible innocuousness often hides strong repercussions for the transformation of the human race. By Claude Le Berre. From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Sep 21 08:40:46 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Mon Sep 21 08:41:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for proposals: SFC - Shoah Film Collection Message-ID: <20090921084046.8AFD4C41.C454854A@192.168.0.3> Call for entries Deadline 20 December 2009 VideoChannel - video project environments is happy to announce the launch of "SFC - Shoah Film Collection" on 27 January 2010 - that day when the 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz will be celebrated. For this purpose, VideoChannel released a call for proposals inviting film and video makers all over the world to reflect the topic of SHOAH and the various incorporated thematic aspects in order to contribute to keep vivid the memory of SHOAH and other genocides and crimes against humanity. SFC is also planned to form at a later stage the basis of the future exhibition project, entitled: Draft Title: SHOAH Please find the call, the regulations and the entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549 ---------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org SFC - Shoah Film Collection http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=669 Draft Title: Shoah http://dts.engad.org ---------------------------------------------- powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Mon Sep 21 10:08:08 2009 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Mon Sep 21 10:09:09 2009 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: Art+science position @ University of North Texas Message-ID: <4AB750880200003C00028458@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> >>> Christina Soontornvat 18.09.2009 21:01 >>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** I was sent this description for a very interesting faculty position at the University of North Texas. I know the perfect candidate exists out there in the ISE world...feel free to pass it on! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi guys, here's a draft for a position before they mail it out to the public. If you know anybody who would suit that posiiton, forward it to them. Please note that this is only a draft (hardware, motion tracking, speech recognition AND music information retrieval?), but they want to get interesting candidates before they announce it publicly. Feel free to respond directly to jenny.m.vogel@gmail.com Draft of a position description at iARTA for an engineer/artist/performer The University of North Texas seeks nationally and internationally renowned applicants in targeted areas to augment the newly formed Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA). An open rank appointment is expected to begin January 2010. Where? At the University of North Texas, with over 34,000 students, located in Denton just north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area where its rich cultural offerings provide excellent research and professional opportunities for students and faculty. The University of North Texas is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to cultural diversity in its educational programs Who is iARTA? iARTA is one of six interdisciplinary research clusters approved for significant university support. As this new initiative spans several departments and colleges on campus, the home department of these positions is negotiable and may include joint appointments between member departments: Music Composition, Music Theory, Studio Art, Art History, Radio Television and Film, Dance and Theatre, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering. Areas of research expertise to support and integrate with the goals of iARTA. These could include, but are not limited to: v hardware/software development: * -Control of input data - (video, audio, sensors, gesture tracking, pattern detection, data analysis, etc.) * -Control of output data - (video, audio, robotics, instrument design, haptics / interface feedback, etc.) * -hardware design (intelligent instrumentation, human/machine interface) * -software design (interactive strategies) v digital signal processing (audio, video synthesis and analysis / re-synthesis, spatial modeling) v music information retrieval and processing, electronic music signal analysis and synthesis, and new music technologies v Speech processing, speech recognition, speaker identification, and management of acoustic signal v motion capture technology (for dance, video, animation, and as gestural input for interactive media systems) This position fulfills one of the essential roles within the research cluster - as an active link between the arts and sciences departments and faculty. The research of the successful hire should have clear applicability to creative projects of iARTA arts faculty. Similarly, the creative research of affiliate arts faculty should serve as an innovative stimulus for this new hire's research. Candidates must have a terminal degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field, and an active and distinguished record of creative work and/or research appropriate to rank, with background in interactive media systems and signal processing. A minimum of six years of college or university teaching experience is preferred for senior position applicants, though remarkable professional practice may be considered in lieu of academic experience. Expectations New faculty will be expected to: (1) conduct high-level research and/or creative work in the field of interdisciplinary arts and technology including regular presentation in juried/peer reviewed venues of national and/or international stature, (2) teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the department(s) appropriate to the expertise of the candidate, and, particularly in this case, (3) serve in an active leadership role in the newly formed iARTA research cluster and contribute to the interactions between diverse department, college, and university communities. All the best, Hans _____________________________________ HANS TAMMEN Deputy Director Harvestworks 596 Broadway, #602 New York, NY 10012 212-431-1130 hanst@harvestworks.org Technology for the art of the 21st century: http://www.harvestworks.org Endangered Guitar: http://www.tammen.org Christina Soontornvat Science Content Developer Austin Children's Museum 201 Colorado Street Austin, Texas 78701 phone: (512) 472-2499 X 205 e-mail: csoontornvat@austinkids.org www.austinkids.org Our mission is to equip and inspire the next generation of creative problem solvers. *********************************************************************** For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to listserv@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM. From heather.corcoran at fact.co.uk Mon Sep 21 14:21:53 2009 From: heather.corcoran at fact.co.uk (Heather Corcoran) Date: Mon Sep 21 14:22:28 2009 Subject: [spectre] AND Festival net art programme - NOW ONLINE Message-ID: <4AB76FE1.4040807@fact.co.uk> From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be... Abandon Normal Devices Net Art Programme NOW ONLINE! at http://www.andfestival.org.uk 20-27 September 2009 Newly commissioned artworks by Guthrie Lonergan, Oliver Laric, John Michael Boling and Hanne Mugaas Taking its title from a piece by Michael Bell Smith - a simple Google search for the phrase - From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be? is a curated selection of artist commissioned blogs to be realised online throughout the festival dates. The novice blogger often sets out with huge expectations ? from the number of readers to the frequency of posts to the quality of content. But the unedited, open nature of the medium means the blog often fails to find a cohesive voice, instead left abandoned in lost hopes and unrealised potential. As Bell-Smith?s piece suggests, the blog creator is burdened with a nagging guilt that leaves its traces in posts that attempt to revamp and revive the failed blog. Freed from obligation of an indefinite commitment, the artists create time-limited ?fantasy? blogs that are realized exclusively for the festival dates. The blogs will become a forum for the alternate personas and quirky ideas of the artists. In turn, the commissioned artists act as official festival bloggers in an Abandon Normal Devices style; not conforming to the documentarian image and not even covering the festival itself. The selected artists maintain ongoing blog presences that contrast with their fantasy blogs, in addition to creative practices that revolve around the internet. They are: Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Austria), co-founder of www.vvork.com; John Michael Boling (b. 1983, USA), contributor to http://www.rhizome.org; Hanne Mugaas (b. 1980, Norway) maintainer of the independent art and eBay blog http://www.hanne-mugaas.com/; and Guthrie Lonergan (b. 1983, USA), co-founder and contributor at http://www.nastynets.com. From now on this blog is going to be? is 2009?s AND net art programme. Alongside talks by Lonergan and Laric in the Salons programme, and a special screening of viral video curated by Michael Connor, this programme highlights new creative practices on the net. Abandon Normal Devices, Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture debuts in Liverpool, UK, 23-27 September 2009. From veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca Mon Sep 21 23:10:44 2009 From: veryseriousmail at yahoo.ca (Sophie Le-Phat Ho) Date: Mon Sep 21 23:11:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] TURN*ON :: Artivistic 2009 :: 15-17 Oct Message-ID: <280261.72250.qm@web52912.mail.re2.yahoo.com> [english version follows] please distribute // sorry for x-postings TURN*ON 15 au 17 octobre 2009 Montr?al http://artivistic.org D?guisez-vous la touffe! Joignez une infracrew et venez ?changer avec nos sexy invit?es venues de partout ? travers le monde pour le 4i?me rassemblement Artivistic. TURN*ON r?unit des artistes (nomm?s les ? ?rtistes ?), th?oricien.nes (les ? nerds ?) et militant.es (les ? rebel' ?) d?veloppant un travail qui prend prise sur des enjeux li?s aux sexualit?s et ?rotismes, aux technologies et aux relations interpersonnelles. Nous vous invitons ? venir FAIRE le monde avec et en m?me temps qu'eulles. TURN*ON, c'est 3 jours d'ateliers, de conversations, de films, d'installations audio et visuelles interactives, de performances, d'actions sur des enjeux sexo-politiques. Nous voulons mettre de l'avant la force du plaisir, les hardiesses de la curiosit?, la puissance du d?sir, l'ardeur de l'humour. Prenons le pouvoir et de nos constats : tirons des gestes. Participez! Joignez une infracrew existante ou proposez une ?quipe de votre cru (http://artivistic.org/fr/content/les-infracrews). D?p?chez-vous et contactez-nous : collaborations : info_AT_artivistic.org infracrews : infra_AT_artivistic.org Du c?t? pratique : (((cash))) L'?v?nement est gratuit, mais nous vous invitons ? participer ? notre caisse de solidarit? en cliquant sur l'ic?ne Pledgie de notre site web afin de faire un don parce que l'autonomie : c'est sexy! (((h?bergement))) !mi casa es su casa! Nous tentons d'h?berger nos invit?.es chez les gens le plus que nous pouvons. Si vous pouvez contribuer en h?bergeant les participant.es ? l'?v?nement ne r?sidant pas ? Montr?al, nous vous garantissons que vous ferez des rencontres enrichissantes : style anti-capitaliste! (((infracrews))) Documentation (infoCrew) Nourriture et repas (infraBouffe) Espace / Mise en sc?ne + glanage + mat?riel (infraSpace) Blog en direct + manifestation internet (inframation-en-hypernavigation) Cercles de lecture, de discussion et autres intellectualit?s / analyse*ON (infraNerd) Accueil (infrAccueil) Pr?sence et vibewatching / espace de d?tente et d'?coute (infraVibe) Traduction chuchot?e (inFrenglish) Communications trans-id?ologiques et (sub)culturelles (infraOutreach) Techniques / Geek / projection (infraPlogue) "Garderie" (infraTimbits) et plus..! Joignez-vous ? une de ces crews et amenez un.e ami.e! Pour nous contacter : infra_AT_artivistic.org L'horaire et les lieux seront d?voil?s sur notre site web sous peu. Si vous pensez avoir besoin d'une garde d'enfants, svp contactez-nous ? l'avance. L'avenir sera terriblement sexy http://artivistic.org ///////////////////////////////////////english version TURN*ON October 15 to 17, 2009 Montr?al http://artivistic.org You are invited to dress-up your pubes and play with your profiles with other sexy folks from all over the world for the upcoming fourth Artivistic gathering. TURN*ON brings together artists (aka "Artists"), academics ("nerds"), and activists ("rebels") who take charge of issues related to sex, technology and politics. We invite you to MAKE the world with and alongside them. The three-day gathering will consist of workshops, films, interactive audio and visual installations, performances, actions, discussions, as well as moles and infrastructural interventions for and within our movements. We want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently. Participate! Join a crew (http://artivistic.org/content/infracrews) or propose your own. Or just show up and participate in the workshops and debates. Hurry up and get in touch with us! collaborations: info_AT_artivistic.org infracrews: infra_AT_artivistic.org Practicalities: (((dollar billz))) There is no set participation fee, but we encourage folks to engage with our peer2peer fund on the website. Autonomy is sexy! (((accommodation))) !mi casa es su casa! We will try to host guest in our homes as much as we can. If you can contribute to housing folks from out-of-town, we can insure you'll get to meet exciting artists anti-capitalist style! (((infracrews))) Reverse Documentation (infoCrew) Food & eating (infraBouffe) Space / set-design + material (infraStudio) Live blogging + net participation (infraInformationsuperhighway) Reading circle & other nerdisms / autonomous analysis (infraNerd) Welcome centre (infraTheatrics) Look-out / safe space area / sexual harassment vibe watching (infraVibe) Translation (inFranglish) Communications / ideologico-(sub)cultural translation (infraOutreach) Technology / Geek / Projections (infraWires) Childcare (infraMunchkins) et plus..! So exciting! Pick one and bring along a friend! Get in touch: infra_AT_artivistic.org The schedule and venues will be announced on our website shortly. If you think you might need childcare, pls contact us in advance. The world to come is so sexy. http://artivistic.org D?couvrez les styles qui font sensation sur Yahoo! Qu?bec Avatars. http://cf.avatars.yahoo.com/ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Sep 22 10:29:46 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (JavaMuseum) Date: Tue Sep 22 10:30:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for entries: JavaMuseum 2010 - Celebrate! Message-ID: <20090922102946.337AB5A7.34502C48@192.168.0.3> Call for proposals ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010 Celebrate! 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is planning a big show online, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork:||cologne JavaMuseum is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised more than 20 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2009 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart since 2000 including more than 400 artists and 1000 art works. In 2006, JavaMuseum launched - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project containing meanwhile more than 80 interviews with experts and artists in the fields of digital and electronic art. On occasion of its 10th anniversary, JavaMuseum is planning to launch in autumn 2010 a netart show, entitled: Celebrate! in order to celebrate netart as an exciting, but anyway widely underestimated art genre, yet. This represents the best reason for inviting artists active on the fields of new, digital and electronic media to submit their latest or their older netart art projects which may originate from the years 2000-2010. Please find the details, regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 -------------------------------------------------------- JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org and JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org are corporate parts of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.javamuseum.org the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net -------------------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Sep 22 19:31:42 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Sep 22 13:56:50 2009 Subject: [spectre] Reminder of Game of War this Weekend... In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4AB909FE.3070408@furtherfield.org> Sorry for nay cross posting... Reminder of Game of War this Weekend... Class Wargames presents The Game of War Weekend at the HTTP Gallery. http://www.http.uk.net/events/gameofwar/ Sat 26th September: Participatory demonstration - Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter. Sun 27th September: World Premier of Class Wargames film - The Game of War. The Situationist Raoul Vaneigem famously wrote "There are no more artists since we've all become artists. Our next work of art is the construction of a full-blooded life." - The Revolution of Everyday Life. Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn?t just a game - come and learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of the spectacular society! Join the Class Wargames crew, Richard Barbrook, Fabian Tompsett, Ilze Black and others, in redefining political and contextual territories. On Saturday the 26th, Class Wargames presents 'Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter', a day of making and playing Guy Debord's The Game of War. Sunday is the World Premier launch of the Class Wargames' film - The Game of War. Directed by Ilze Black; script writers Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett; xenography by Alex Veness, voice over by Hayley Newman and Alex Veness. For more information about Class Wargames and players: http://www.classwargames.net http://www.classwargames.net/pages/aboutus.html Game of War Weekend Schedule: Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter. Day 1 - 12-5pm Saturday 26th September. 12.00 meet and greet 12.15 introduction by Class Wargames 12.30 building your own game, learning to play and participatory game playing 17.00 day is over Film Launch of The Game of War by Class Wargames Day 2 - Day 1 - 12-5pm Sunday 27th September. 12.00 meet and greet 12.15 View games exhibition and film 14.30 Talk by Class Wargames 15.00 Film launch of film & drinks 17.00 day is over For more information about the event please visit HTTP Gallery website. To take part in the game please RSVP toale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org Booking Essential - Contact: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org Contact: Ale, HTTP Gallery email: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org HTTP Gallery Unit A2, Arena Design Centre 71 Ashfield Road London N4 1LD +44(0)79 8129 2734 Click here for map and location details http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml With thanks to the Arts Council of England for their support From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Sep 22 17:03:03 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (VideoChannel) Date: Tue Sep 22 17:03:42 2009 Subject: [spectre] Call for entries: Found Footage! Message-ID: <20090922170303.7BD93DD1.EDAE7D1A@192.168.0.3> Call for entries Deadline 2 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 trouve) 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, it 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 seamascain at gmail.com Tue Sep 22 18:18:27 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Tue Sep 22 18:19:03 2009 Subject: [spectre] Controversy & Debate Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40909220918s26909b5fofce5dbb46f034efb@mail.gmail.com> _______________ On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, IMRAM, the annual Irish-language literary festival, will present an evening of controversy & debate on the issue of "Tradition and/or Innovation." This debate will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square in Dublin, Ireland. Admission is free. PUBLIC LECTURE & DEBATE Does the Irish language have a modern literary culture? Or, have universities limited literary discussion to folkloric texts that have little to say to urban readers? Can poetry & literature in Irish survive if the rural Gaeltacht dies? Can a modern literary culture emerge from an urban creolized form of Irish? Has the Irish-language become the prisoner of sociologists, anthropologists, government bureaucrats & educators who have constricted & suffocated the possibilities to such an extent that the very survival of the language itself has been called into question? Will literary innovation ever be tolerated in Ireland? These are the questions that Tom?s Mac S?om?in raises in his IMRAM talk, "An D?chas agus an Nua" (Tradition & Innovation). D?ith? ? h?g?in, Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin, will reply to the lecture, & IMRAM invites all with a serious interest in Irish poetry & literature to join in this crucial debate. Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 7:00 p.m., IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland Free admission For additional information about the IMRAM Festival, go to ... http://www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-IRISH-LANGUAGE-LITERATURE-FESTIVAL http://www.facebook.com/pages/IMRAM-FEILE-LITRIOCHTA-GAEILGE Questions may be put to Liam Carson, Director of IMRAM Festival at ... liamog62@mac.com Books featured at the IMRAM Festival may be purchased from ... Connolly Books, connollybooks@eircom.net 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2, Ireland beir bua, S?amas Cain http://www.freewebs.com/seamascain http://alazanto.org/seamascain _______________ From anette at trampoline-berlin.de Tue Sep 22 20:19:17 2009 From: anette at trampoline-berlin.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anette_Sch=E4fer?=) Date: Tue Sep 22 20:19:45 2009 Subject: [spectre] VISUAL FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS_BERLIN Message-ID: VISUAL FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS_BERLIN Visual Foreign Correspondents is a platform for international video artists to reflect on recent events and to take the role of correspondent through their work. Die ZEIT online will provide additional background information and interviews to the invited artists and projects, and invites for critical discourse about the work. Coinciding with the 20th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin wall, WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong together with Visual Foreign Correspondents Foundation, invited seven international artists to develop work relating to borders and boundaries and to take different positions relating to the nature of virtual or physical boundaries, walls or barriers as well as reflecting on the current state of the world. In times of a global economic crisis and international acts of terrorism, there is a clear tendency to re-erect or strengthen existing barriers; just as the European Union is strengthening its exterior borders. A project of Visual Foreign Correspondents, Amsterdam, and WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong in collaboration with ZEIT Online. SCREENINGS IN BERLIN: - U Bahnhof Kochstra?e/Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin-Mitte? (21 September ? 9 November 2009, 7 ? 21 hrs, Sat & Sun 11:30 ? 20 hrs)? - Media facade?of Collegium Hungaricum,? Dorotheenstra?e 12, 10117 Berlin (9 November 2009, after sunset) SCREENINGS IN AMSTERDAM: - Melkweg, Die Wende Festival, 1-30 November 2009 http://www.die-wende.nl/? - CASz in Amsterdam (December 2009) (more information to follow) ARTISTS: Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Simon Faithfull (Great Britain), Mariam Ghani (US, Afghanistan), Han Hoogerbrugge (Netherlands), Little Warsaw (Andr?s G?lik & B?lint Havas, Hungary), Lena Merhej (Lebanon), Berit Zemke (Germany) http://www.visualcorrespondents.com http://www.wl-project.org http://www.zeit.de/kultur From azdelslade at gmail.com Wed Sep 23 02:07:55 2009 From: azdelslade at gmail.com (micha cardenas / azdel slade) Date: Wed Sep 23 02:08:24 2009 Subject: [spectre] Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances, and Workshops in October Message-ID: <4AB966DB.5020209@gmail.com> Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances and Workshops WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas WHEN: Oct. 2th, 4th, 15-17th, 2009 CONTACT: Micha Cardenas, Azdel Slade in SL, azdelslade 4+ gmail d()+ com Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand will be doing a performance called Technesexual that uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring relationality between people and between people and technology. Cardenas and Mehrmand will be performing Technesexual in Tijuana at Entijuanarte at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), in San Francisco at Arse Elektronika and in Montreal at Artivistic. They will also be doing a 3 day workshop in Montreal, sharing the technology used for the performance with workshop participants including DIY electronics, Second Life and Puredata. More info and photos here: http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations Entijuanarte 09 at CECUT - http://www.entijuanarte.com/ - *entijuanarte* es una plataforma art?stica y cultural que busca alentar la exposici?n, promoci?n y venta de arte contempor?neo de artistas nacionales y extranjeros, individuales y colectivos. Su convocatoria incluye disciplinas y medios diversos como pintura, escultura, fotograf?a, dibujo, grabado, medios digitales, instalaci?n y performance. Este a?o, en su quinta edici?n, entijuanarte 09, refrenda su compromiso y expande el papel que su presencia ha ido conformando con las pasadas ediciones dentro del escenario art?stico y cultural regional y nacional. Arse Elektronika - http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika - Of Intercourse and Intracourse = Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods =Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established. Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre? Artivistic 2009 - TURN*ON - http://artivistic.org/ - The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and liberation. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible. For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. From October 15 to 17, 2009, we invite participants to discuss, question, and imagine the proxemics of sexuality, technology and politics. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently. # -- micha cardenas Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org From fls at kein.org Wed Sep 23 10:11:24 2009 From: fls at kein.org (Florian Schneider) Date: Wed Sep 23 10:12:13 2009 Subject: [spectre] dictionary of war new york Message-ID: Dear all! Please allow me to point your attention to the 9th edition of the DICITONARY OF WAR that will take place next Saturday, September 26th 2009, at Columbia University, New York. http://dictionaryofwar.org/newyork After editions in Frankfurt Staedelschule, Munich Muffathalle, Graz steirischer herbst, Berlin Sophiensaele, Novi Sad studio m, Gwangju biennale, Bolzano manifesta, and Taipei biennale, we are very glad to be hosted by the "Cities and the new wars" conference that Saskia Sassen is organizing on Friday and Saturday. http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/cities_and_new_wars For the New York edition of the DICTIONARY OF WAR 15 guests have been invited to present a concept that plays a crucial role in the contemporary discourse of war and urban spaces. Such a concept might be a term that needs to be newly created, it can be one that has been neglected so far, or one that needs to be re-invented. Speakers at the 9th edition of the DICTIONARY OF WAR are: Ted Byfield (Parsons, The New School for Design), Tony Conrad (University of Buffalo, New York), Susan Crile (Artist, New York), Ashley Dawson (CUNY Graduate School), James Der Derian (Brown University), Fiona Jeffries (CUNY, Graduate Center), Danny Kaplan (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Jennifer S. Light (Northwestern University), Suketu Mehta (New York University), Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia University), Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics), Ida Susser and Jan Schneider (CUNY Graduate Center) Gar Smith (Environmentalists Against War), Gediminas Urbonas (MIT, Visual Arts Program). What is at stake is the unsettling of notions of war instead of a pacification of meaning that only re-affirms the unbearable status-quo. If it is the case that there is increasingly less difference between war and non-war, that war is the constitutive form of a new order, that war is perpetual and everywhere, then it becomes essential to desert from a war of words which can no longer be challenged or even critisized. Instead, what seems urgently needed are new vocabularies, new terminologies that by abandoning old certainties are capable of grasping changing realities and addressing uncharted problems. DICTIONARY OF WAR is characterized by its openness towards all sorts of formats, genre, media and conceptual approaches. Rather than defining consensus and limiting meaning, DICTIONARY OF WAR is about a non-uniform, many-voiced, asymmetric, and deregulated production of concepts as the tools with which to attain new ideas. DICTIONARY OF WAR is a performance and a production space at the same time: The concepts will be presented in 20-minutes time slots, in alphabetical order and without a break; they are recorded in a television studio setup, encoded in real-time and published on the internet. http://dictionaryofwar.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Sep 23 11:06:46 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Wed Sep 23 11:07:30 2009 Subject: [spectre] September 2009. features Message-ID: <20090923110646.1BAF025C.C28AFFD1@192.168.0.3> Currently, VideoChannel is running two features of video art http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?p=658 1. BODY & SOUL a selection of video works focussing on the performative aspect of transporting an artistic message in video, featuring videos by Hamza Halloubi, Beatrice Allegranti, Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry, Empar Cubells, Sinasi G?nes, Elia Alba, Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir, Roland Wegerer, Alessandro Brucini, Joshua and Zachary Sandler, Virginie Foloppe http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=614 2. VisualContainer - a platform for videoart from Milan/Italy contributes a selection of Italian videos on the thematic aspects of "memory" & "identity" curated by Giorgio Fideli, featuring works by Alessandra Arno?, Elena Arzuffi, Barbara Brugola, Pascal Caparros Iginio De Luca, Pietro Mele, Patrizia Monzani, Christian Niccoli Matteo Pasin, Cristina Pavesi, Sabrina Sabato, Enzo Umbaca http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=278 Visit VideoChannel on also on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=254368285194 ----------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org - dedicated to art forms of video in a global context is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net ----------------------------------------------------- From chiarapassa at gmail.com Tue Sep 15 11:51:15 2009 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Wed Sep 23 12:56:31 2009 Subject: [spectre] Espacio Enter Canarias-International Meeting of digital culture Message-ID: Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Meeting for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation :: September 22 - 27, 2009 :: Tenerife, Canary Islands. Espacio Enter Canarias will embrace contemporary artistic expression related to innovation and new media and also the Future Now Symposium. It aims to strengthen the linkage between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise in order to construct Knowledge Society for all citizens. Art-Science-Innovation: Digitals Communities- Storytelling- geoespacial- Artificial Life- Software Art- Transgenic Art- Generative- Art- Videogamess- Robotic- Open Source- Animation, 2D, 3D- Videocreation- Net-art- Blog, Videoblog- Creation for mobile platforms- Videodance. Go to registration form: art_science_innovation International Digital Experimental Cinema Festival: Film- Webfilm- 3D_Cinema- Short Film- Animation- 60seg. Go to registration form: internacional_digital_cinema_experimental STAGE call: Performance- Theatre new media- Dance new media- Fashion Innovations- Web development 2.0, 3.0- Others. Go to registration form: Stage_call ADVANCE MUSIC call: DJ S- Wj S- Electronic Music- Experimental Music- Live Visual Sessions- Streaming Music- Experimental Sound Sessions. Go to registration form: Advance_Music_call Headquarters: TEA, Espacio de las Artes and Auditorio de Tenerife. Directors: Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco; Organiza: ART TECH MEDIA. Principal Sponsor: Septenio, Gobierno de Canarias Collaborator: Cabildo de Tenerife. ARTISTS: http://www.espacioenter.com/artinnov_generativo.htm -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From mcardenas at ucsd.edu Wed Sep 23 02:05:10 2009 From: mcardenas at ucsd.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?micha_c=E1rdenas?=) Date: Wed Sep 23 12:56:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances, and Workshops in oct Message-ID: <4AB96636.1060706@ucsd.edu> Mixed Relations / Technesexual - Mixed Reality Live Audio Performances and Workshops WHO: Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas WHEN: Oct. 2th, 4th, 15-17th, 2009 CONTACT: Micha Cardenas, Azdel Slade in SL, azdelslade 4+ gmail d()+ com Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand will be doing a performance called Technesexual that uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring relationality between people and between people and technology. Cardenas and Mehrmand will be performing Technesexual in Tijuana at Entijuanarte at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), in San Francisco at Arse Elektronika and in Montreal at Artivistic. They will also be doing a 3 day workshop in Montreal, sharing the technology used for the performance with workshop participants including DIY electronics, Second Life and Puredata. More info and photos here: http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations Entijuanarte 09 at CECUT - http://www.entijuanarte.com/ - *entijuanarte* es una plataforma art?stica y cultural que busca alentar la exposici?n, promoci?n y venta de arte contempor?neo de artistas nacionales y extranjeros, individuales y colectivos. Su convocatoria incluye disciplinas y medios diversos como pintura, escultura, fotograf?a, dibujo, grabado, medios digitales, instalaci?n y performance. Este a?o, en su quinta edici?n, entijuanarte 09, refrenda su compromiso y expande el papel que su presencia ha ido conformando con las pasadas ediciones dentro del escenario art?stico y cultural regional y nacional. Arse Elektronika - http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika - Of Intercourse and Intracourse = Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods =Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established. Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre? Artivistic 2009 - TURN*ON - http://artivistic.org/ - The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and liberation. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible. For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. From October 15 to 17, 2009, we invite participants to discuss, question, and imagine the proxemics of sexuality, technology and politics. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently. # -- micha cardenas Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org From seamascain at gmail.com Wed Sep 23 19:03:57 2009 From: seamascain at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9amas_Cain?=) Date: Wed Sep 23 19:04:32 2009 Subject: [spectre] ... the poetry of pneumatic drills Message-ID: <6f1e9ee40909231003h1139849dvbd03be29d028b457@mail.gmail.com> _______________ On Saturday the 26th of September 2009, at 7:30 p.m., in the Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, Scotland ... Ce?l 'S Craic will present an evening of words & music. Poetry from Maoilios Caimbeul, Mark Goodwin, M?ire Holmes & Aifric MacAodha ... Also Margaret Callan & Alasdair C. Whyte ... plus traditional Music & Song, & a C?ilidh with the Pneumatic Drills! For more information write to michelle.ceol@googlemail.com This event is sponsored by Comhairle nan Leabhraichean (the Gaelic Books Council) as part of the Cuairt nam B?rd 2009 festival! Admission is ?8 (?5) ... For more information about the Centre for Contemporary Arts, go to ... http://cca-glasgow.com/home For more information about Comhairle nan Leabhraichean (the Gaelic Books Council) go to ... https://lsh507.securepod.com/gaelicbooks.org/merchantmanager/ Ch? sinn ann thu! S?amas Cain http://www.saorsainn.net _______________ From redazione at digicult.it Fri Sep 25 12:19:36 2009 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Sep 25 12:20:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] Digicult_Digimag 47 / September 2009_english version online Message-ID: <3F2DFF095D2B4C08A5828CC2DF177677@nomebea615a6f6> Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: DIGIMAG 47 / SEPTEMBER 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "...When I lived in Holland I tried to make a medialab. I find the idea of a medialab connected to a fixed place is a bit archaic, a bit dated. Personally, I don't want to criticise other forms of practice in medialabs, but I'm very interested in transitory situations. I'm interested in creating multi-use areas that are quick and temporarily autonomous. In creating a transitory situation like "let's do something quick, in on week", you must not worry about the problem of being continuously eco-friendly or about long-term issues. For example, in the 80's there were many initiatives, now they have stopped and they keep sucking up locations, money and oxygen. I've seen a lot of situations like these and they bore me, as well as being a complete waste. I believe that to create temporarily autonomous situations is more exciting. It's a way to use the best elements of existing organisations, to take portions of them, configure them and make the next step...". Derek Holzter, from "Sommercamp+Workstation. Temporary autonomous culture" by Valeria Merlini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [INTERVIEWS] - ROBERT LIPPOK - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1560 by Alessandra Migani - BALINT BOLIGO'- http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1568 by Silvia Scaravaggi - ALESSANDRO GILIOLI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1570 by Marco Mancus - FLUID FORMS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1562 by Elena Granulla - DEREK HOLTZER - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1565 by Valeria Merlini - GEORGIA TAGLIETTI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1564 by Giulia Baldi - APPARATI EFFIMERI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1563 by Marvin Milanese - ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1574 by Massimo Schiavoni [REPORTS] - MARINA ABRAMOVIC PRES: - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1573 by Donata Marletta - CONTOUR 2009 - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1561 by Lucrezia Cippitelli - SUMMERLAB - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1575 by Barbara Sansone - SPUTNIK OBSERVATORY - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1572 by Monica Ponzini [FEATURING] - DEREK JARMAN - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1576 by Francesco Bertocco - KRYSZTOF WODICZKO - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1577 by Silvia Casini - FAKEPRESS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1567 by Penelope.di.Pixel - THE ART OF SUBVERSION - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1566 by Antonio Caronia [THEMES] - NON-LOCALITY PHENOMENON - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1569 by Jeremy Levine - E-PARTECIPATION - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1571 by Luigi Ghezzi [COVER] Toys"R"Us wall shop, New York City - Photo by Marco Mancuso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EDITORIAL STAFF] - Marco Mancuso - director - 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 Granulla, Matteo Milani, Marco Riciputi, Jeremy Levine, Mark Hancock, Philippa Barr, Marvin Milanese, Penelope.di.pixel [TRANSLATIONS] Emanuela Cassol, Chiara Resmini, Luisa Bertolatti, Monica Fontana, Philippa Barr, 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 spamrobotmultidentity at noos.fr Sun Sep 27 14:40:51 2009 From: spamrobotmultidentity at noos.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thierry_Th=E9olier?=) Date: Sun Sep 27 14:39:17 2009 Subject: [spectre] SDH network 3.00 [new!] Message-ID: <4ABF5D53.9020801@noos.fr> FCBK sucks_ http://syndicatduhype.ning.com SDH :: Parisian network of nerdz gatecrasherz :: since 2002 with old school stuff (mailing lists & blogs) SDH F1rst Teasing contextual on_ http://www.digitalmcd.com/news/ Last written inter-view on WJ-SPOTS #1_ http://www.digitalmcd.com/articles/articles.php?idarticle=788 TH | 3.00 = build & activate your own network smaller but local & private From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Sep 28 09:11:47 2009 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Mon Sep 28 09:12:27 2009 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines -->October 2009 Message-ID: <20090928091147.FC5AEBA4.546FAE39@192.168.0.3> netEX: calls & deadlines -->October 2009 ------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne newsletter contents calls & deadlines 06 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal 16 Calls: October 2009 deadlines external 9 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2009: deadlines internal **Deadline: 30 September 2009 A Virtual Memorial - memorial project environments is looking for artists who work on the subject "SHOAH" in digital media, primarily videoart/filmart, but also netart, soundart, digital photography and media installation http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=662 **extended Deadline 30 September2009 Cinematheque - streaming media project environments call: Flash & Thunder - Flash as a medium and tool for artistic creations http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408 *Deadline: 2 November 2009 VideoChannel - video project ebvironments call: Found Footage! details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1569 deadline 30 November 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 Contemporaryv Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010 details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 ------------------------------------------------ October 2009 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 October Pollution - thematic project by Incident.net http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1558 30 October One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague/Czech Republic http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1531 24 October Luminale 2010 Frankfurt/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1474 20 October Alternative Film/Video 2009 Festival Novi Beograd/Serbia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1565 15 October City Without Walls - curatorial opprtunity - Newark/NJ/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1538 15 October 2nd SCREEN Festival Oslo/Norway http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1448 15 October Creative Divergents International Competition http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1457 15 October Videomedeja Novi Sad/Serbia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1453 15 October Phonurgia Nova Awards Arles/France http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1336 5 October Pontino Short Film Fest - Latina/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1392 7 October Project Room and Lab - Atelier Nord Oslo/Norwary http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1561 5 October Visualizar: Public Data, Data in Public - MediaLAB Prado Madrid/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1371 1 October Vida 12.0 - Fundacia Telefonica Madrid/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1317 1 October Chico Art Net 2009 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1488 1 October VII International Electro-Acoustic Miniature Contest Huelva/ES http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1186 1 October Streaming Festival The Hague/NL http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=799 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- -->Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA -->OUTCASTING - web based screenings -->Films and video screenings Sioux City (USA) -->Laisle screenings Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -->Videos for Helsinki based video gallery - 00130 Gallery -->Web based works for 00130 Gallery Helsinki/Finland -->Project: Repetition as a Model for Progression by Marianne Holm Hansen -->US webjournal Atomic Unicorn seeks netart and video art for coming editions -->TAGallery and more deadlines on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?page_id=4 ----------------------------------------------- NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net # calls in the external section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=3 # calls in the internal section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=1 ----------------------------------------------- # This newsletter is also released on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=9 # netEX - networked experiences is a free information service powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany # info & contact: info (at) nmartproject.net From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Sep 28 16:05:42 2009 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Sep 28 10:06:34 2009 Subject: [spectre] Furtherfield Blog - Share the Journey... In-Reply-To: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> References: <47596B5D.1040409@rybn.org> Message-ID: <4AC0C2B6.9020104@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross postings... Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture. A shared space for personal reflections on contemporary art practice as part of life: living it, breathing it, making it, curating it, translating it. A selection of recent Blog entries below, to read more visit - http://blog.furtherfield.org Marc Garrett. Not Always Digital But From the Same Place... "I possess no desire for the singular and absolute approach of using my art and creative projects as a hammer to promote a technologically determined agenda. Technology is just one medium of a much larger mix of things, allowing flexible space for an eclectic expansion of today's very contemporary art related endevours. Furthermore, I am dedicated to grass roots art and the organisations that support them. The use of technology has been extremely useful in bringing about a whole new art culture that challenges traditional art controls, connecting beyond top-down imposed gate keeping remits that are only in place to serve a privileged elite. It lets the makers and critical thinkers who are genuinely engaged in art and culture at deeper levels, to break through the glass ceiling that many have experienced world-wide." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/315 Aileen Derieg. Overland: Crossing Borders. "As passports are now "enhanced" for security with RFID chips and biometric photos, the conditions of inequality based on the nationality of one's passport remain at least as rigid as ever, despite the patent absurdity of that. In the small world that I live in, a substantial number of people speak multiple languages and have several different passports, and in the mid-90s I knew a number of people whose Austrian residence permits were attached to passports issued by countries that had meanwhile ceased to exist as such, which made the renewal of an expired passport extremely complicated. Opportunities to study or work somewhere else should not be dependent on something as random and arbitrary as "nationality"." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/311 Ruth Catlow. Overland: 36hrs Linz to Istanbul with border crossings. "At 1 o'clock in the morning we were woken by an alarming banging on the door, and a number of men shouting in languages we didn't understand, interspersed with "passport control! polizei! open! hell-o!". Then more agitated pounding, more shouting, different voices. The train remained stationery. We played dead under our blankets. I could think of nothing else to do than wait for them to go away. Then torch lights shone in through our window and someone attempted to open the window from the outside while Aileen tried to close it again. Only when she recognised our conductor looking very flustered outside the window did we realise that we must have misunderstood his instructions and we sheepishly unlocked the door. A very irritated passport official demanded to know what we had been drinking. The conductor told us later that there were over 10 officials trying to gain entry to our cabin. We tried to explain but still have no idea what he thought we were doing." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/301 Helen Varley Jamieson. after 090909. "the day began for me at 4am - no, make that 3am, with the ramadan drumming & yelling in the street to get everyone up in time for breakfast before daylight. then i dozed until my alarm went off at 4am, & got up to make coffee, check my email for last minute emergencies, & make the links to the stages live. my first 090909 HQ was my humble hostel bedroom. at 5am istanbul time everything kicked off in the 090909 foyer, where 20 online audience members plus an as-yet-unknown number at nodes in canada (surrey & calgary) & new zealand (dowse art gallery & hutt city libraries) where gathered to celebrate the start of 090909." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/304 ---------------------------------> More about The Furtherfield Blog: This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts and related practices, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate conclusions, it is about experience and process, the bits in between. Set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. We soon discovered this format suited some people more than others and are now open to new contributors. The blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead it invites individuals to explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions rarely publicly discussed elsewhere. Other Info: Furtherfield http://www.furtherfield.org We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php The Netbehaviour list http://www.netbehaviour.org/ From paul at paul-brown.com Mon Sep 28 22:25:06 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Mon Sep 28 22:26:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] CAS October Talk: Roman Verostko Message-ID: !!Reminder!! The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce that our Autumn Programme continues with a presentation by Roman Verostko who was awarded the SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award at last month's SIGGRAPH conference in New Orleans. Roman is visiting London and we are very lucky to have this oportunity to hear him speak. Please note that because of Roman's schedule this talk is on the SECOND Wednesday and not our usual first Wednesday. This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm 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 Writing the Score for Drawing. Roman outlines sources that dominated his pursuit as an artist for over 60 years. He identifies ?form generating? ideas from pioneers of non-objective art that shaped his pre-algorist work and have continued to shape his approach to algorithmic art. His presentation illustrates the transition from what he calls ?art-mind guiding hand? to ?art-mind guiding machine?. By doing so he suggests that the ?decision bit? and one?s art ideas are inseparable. For this session he will include a brief addendum on his 2008 project, the Upsidedown Book and Mural for which he resurrected pre-algorist drawings and transformed them with digital tools. Short Bio Roman Verostko, born 1929, Art Institute of Pittsburgh (1949), Professor Emeritus, MCAD (1994). Primarily a painter in his pre-algorist work, Roman also experimented with new media with showings of his programmed audio-visuals in 1967 long before exhibiting his first fully algorist work, ?The Magic Hand of Chance?, in 1982. A founding member of the algorists he is known best for his richly colored algorithmic pen and brush drawings. His generative software controls up to 14 pens and achieves expressive brush strokes driving oriental brushes with a pen plotter. His seminal paper, ?Epigenetic Painting: Software as Genotype? (ISEA, Utrecht, 1988), outlined the biological analogues to generative art (verostko.com/epigenet.html) http://www.verostko.com http://www.algorists.org http://www.upsidedownbook.com CAS Autumn Programme continues: Wed 04 Nov - George Malllen Wed 02 Dec - Iris Asaf CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From alex at slab.org Tue Sep 29 11:24:27 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Tue Sep 29 11:54:02 2009 Subject: [spectre] Live coding at shunt lounge, this thurs 1st October Message-ID: ++ SHUNTCODE ++ Part three in the first series of livecoded music events in London. http://toplap.org/uk/ Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. Where: Shunt lounge, London Bridge When: 10pm until late, This thursday 1st October As part of the din collective fest from thursday til saturday, the TOPLAP UK collective will live code beautiful music in the main bar in shunt lounge from 10pm until the early hours. There'll be a lot of other nice music happening around shunt from 8pm. Line up will include Thor Magnusson Yeeking Cane toad orchestra Michele Pasin MCLD Slub Jaganyax Shunt is the system of caverns through a passageway from Joiner street, between London bridge tube and railway station. More info: http://toplap.org/uk/ -- http://yaxu.org/ From press at v2.nl Tue Sep 29 14:16:58 2009 From: press at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Tue Sep 29 14:17:20 2009 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter October 2009 Message-ID: <4AC1FABA.8000803@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter October 2009 The big news at V2_ over the next two months is US artist Bernie Lubell's exhibition "The Origins of Innocence". You'll find information on the show and associated events in this special expanded newsletter. But first, an important announcement: you're cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition on Friday October 16 (17:30?19:00), at which the artist will be present. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_events: The Ecology of Design: Everything Is Made of Something October 13, 19:30?22:00, V2_ Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/events/the-ecology-of-design Admission: free An evening of spirited debate and open conversation with Caroline van Eck (University of Leiden), Henk Oosterling (philosopher), Siebe Thissen (advisor art in public space) and Lars Spuybroek (architect and theorist). On the themes of the book "The Architecture of Continuity" by Lars Spuybroek. ?Our whole lives ? all our decisions, all our politics, all our concerns ? are nothing but matters of design.? Lars Spuybroek. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_events: The Origins of Innocence Oct 16?Nov 22, open daily (closed on Monday) 12:00?18:00 Official opening October 16 at 17:30. Witte de Withstraat 63, Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/events/the-origins-of-innocence Admission: ? 6,- (Studenten/65+/Rotterdampas: ? 3,-) Bernie Lubell has been designing and building interactive artworks out of wood for more than three decades. His machines are striking in their clever construction and surprising connections. The works are operated by the viewers; the audience ?creates? the work by turning cranks, moving on benches, and pushing pedals. An innocent movement at one of the machines can have unexpected consequences in another part of the exhibition. "The Origins of Innocence" is organized by V2_ and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. It is Bernie Lubell?s first European solo exhibition. The show provides an overview from his early work of the early 1980s to his latest installation, "A Theory of Entanglement" (2009), which was created specially for this exhibition on a commission from V2_ and FACT. Bernie Lubell was born in 1947 and lives and works in San Francisco. His work has received several awards. In 2007, he received the ?Award of Distinction? at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, for his installation "Conservation of Intimacy". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_events: Sunday Matinee with Bernie Lubell and Marta Braun October 18, 12:00?14:30, Witte de Withstraat 63, Rotterdam. http://www.v2.nl/events/sunday-matinee-with-bernie-lubell-and-marta-braun Admission: ? 6,- (Studenten/65+/Rotterdampas: ? 3,-) On the occasion of his exhibition at V2_ in Rotterdam, Bernie Lubell discusses his work in a Sunday matinee with Marta Braun from Ryerson University (Toronto), a specialist in early cinema photography and visual anthropology. She is the author of the book "Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830?1904)". Bernie adapted Marey's pneumatic sensor technologies to explore the conflicted relationship we have with the machines we have become ever more dependent on. From le.quartier at free.fr Wed Sep 30 12:27:57 2009 From: le.quartier at free.fr (le.quartier) Date: Wed Sep 30 12:28:25 2009 Subject: [spectre] Interactive and immersive installations : SpherAleas and Akousmaflore at Ososphere festival Message-ID: <1254306477.4ac332ad87e95@imp.free.fr> Interactive and immersive installations : Sph?rAl?as and Akousmaflore at Ososph?re festival We invite you to discover our immersive and interactive installation Sph?rAl?as and the interactive artwork Akousmaflore : Sensitive and interactive musical plants during Ososph?re festival at La Laiterie of Strasbourg from the 25 Sept to the 3 Oct 2009. ============================== Sph?rAl?as : Tridimensional interactive / sound / image installation Scenocosme : Gr?gory Lasserre & Ana?s met den Ancxt http://www.spheraleas.com/a_index.htm Sph?rAl?as is made of a half-spherical structure and of an evolutionary device wich makes man, image and sound interact thanks to digital tools. Sph?rAl?as is ideal for collective performances. It?s a safe space of oneiric creations in which the public creates, handles, juxtaposes, superimposes sonorous, pictural shapes unstable and reactive. Like for the learning of a musical instrument, people must take time to experiment it. Collectively, they must pay particular attention to compose a melody. Spectators are sitting around a hearth which is materialized by a hemispherical mirror. They can manipulate sensitive device in order to create visual and sonorous symphonies. By manipulating the sensors, the spectator-musician can continuously intervene on the whole structure by playing with the different variables: order, side-by-side positioning, overlapping, speed, rhythm, harmonic pitch It is a kind of orchestra : there is a conductor who guides musicians, and coordinates the organization of visual and sonorous objects. The scenography is designed for complete immersion of the spectator thanks to interactive sensors, a multipoint sound diffusion, a video projection system (180?), within a half spherical membranous architecture. This original shared experiment becomes a poem of sensations: inside this womb-like space, sensitive perceptions are amplified, modified until a multitude of unexpected metaphorical worlds resonate. ============================== Akousmaflore : Sensitive and interactive musical plants Scenocosme : Gr?gory Lasserre & Ana?s met den Ancxt http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm Akousmaflore is a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to human gestures and to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or warmth by producing a specific sound. The plant ?language? or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrical aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created. In our artwork, we create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit us to establish a relationship between plants and sound. We display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience gestures and movements generate sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound. Our body continually produces an electrical and heat aura, which cannot be felt. This phenomenon exists in the environment immediately surrounding us. In our research, the ?design of the invisible?, our approach is to animate that which we cannot detect. Mixing reality with imagination, we propose a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our relationship with other living things and with energy. Indoor plants can have an ambiguous existence that swings between decorative object and living being. It is said that ?inanimate objects? can react when they receive human attention. Through Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration. Les nuits electroniques de l'Ososphere / La laiterie - Strasbourg (FR) Sph?rAl?as & Akousmaflore Exhibition : 25 Sept - 3 Oct 2009 SCENOCOSME : PRESENTATION ============================== The french artists couple : scenocosme is made by Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt. Ana?s was born in Lyon in 1981. She is graduated from the university of Lyon in anthropology, from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon, and from the Ecole Sup?rieure d?Art et de Design of St Etienne. Gr?gory was born in Annecy in 1976, he has studied Computer Science and Electronics, he is graduated from a Master in Multimedia and created interactive artwork since 2002 as a digital artist. They use interactive art, music and architecture in order to create evolutionary and interactive artwork. With multiple forms of expression, they invite the spectator to be in the centre of musical or choreographic collective performances. Scenocosme have exhibited their artworks at ZKM Centre for Art and Media (Germany), BIACS3 - International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (SPAIN), ISEA2009 - International Symposium Electronic Arts (Ireland / UK) and many digital art festivals in France (EXIT, VIA, Scopitone, Arborescence, Mal au Pixel, 38e Rugissant... ) and others countries (Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland), Streamfest, SHARE (Italy), ACM SIGRRAPH (Germany) ) in art and cultural center (Kibla multimedia center (Slovenia), Carr? des Jalles, Maison Salvan...) ... Full Biography : http://www.scenocosme.com/bio_e.htm ======================================================================== Scenocosme : Gr?gory Lasserre & Ana?s met den Ancxt tel : 06 61 09 50 52 http://www.scenocosme.com http://www.spheraleas.com ======================================================================== From daniel at danielcanogar.com Wed Sep 30 15:14:05 2009 From: daniel at danielcanogar.com (Daniel Canogar) Date: Wed Sep 30 15:14:35 2009 Subject: [spectre] VIDA 12.0 Deadline extended until October 9th Message-ID: <26870.83.61.38.120.1254316445.squirrel@mail.danielcanogar.com> VIDA 12.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards VIDA 12.0 awards art projects developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. Of particular interest are works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. Funded by the Fundaci?n Telef?nica in Spain, VIDA has given prizes in previous editions to artistic projects created with robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user interaction, interactive architectures, augmented reality pieces and works that explore the social aspects of A-life. A total of ?80,000 will be distributed amongst winning projects. Deadline: October 9th, 2009. For application guidelines, please go to: www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida -- Daniel Canogar Calle Tracia 16 2? 28037 Madrid Tel: 34-91-327-2785 www.danielcanogar.com From paul at paul-brown.com Wed Sep 30 20:45:52 2009 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Wed Sep 30 20:47:41 2009 Subject: [spectre] EvoMUSART 2010: 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: <18918BD3-41AC-4F65-AA77-16E86A01F2FA@paul-brown.com> EvoMUSART 2010 8th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 7-9 April, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.evostar.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART 2010 is the eighth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Following the success of previous editions and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area. EvoMUSART 2010 will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2010. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and included in the EvoApplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EvoMUSART 2010 important dates are: Submission deadline: November 4, 2009 Conference: 7-9 April, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques (Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc..) in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generation o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Making Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; o Biologically Inspired Sound-Generators and Music-Systems that create music, aggregate sound, or simulate instruments, voices, effects, etc; o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; o Other related generative techniques; - Theory o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; o Representation techniques; o Comparative analysis and classification; o Validation methodologies; o New biologically inspired computation models in art, music and design; - Computer Aided Creativity o New ways of integrating users into evolutionary computation art and music frameworks; o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; - Automation o Techniques for automated fitness assignment; o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to analyze artistic objects and artifacts; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format no later than November 4, 2009. Formatting instructions available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by 20 December 2009. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by 10 January 2010. The accepted papers will appear in the event proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the event. Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on the following pages: Evo*2010: http://www.evostar.org EvoMUSART2010: http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/ evomusart.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 4 November 2009 EvoMUSART: 7-9 April 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada Carlos Grilo, Instituto Polit?cnico de Leiria, Portugal Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK Craig Kaplan, University of Waterloo, Canada David Hart, Independent Artist, USA Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK Eleonora Bilotta , University of Calabria, Italy Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia Jonatas Manzolli , UNICAMP, Brasil Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain Kenneth O. Stanley, University of Central Florida, USA Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern Denmark, Italy Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy Nicolas Monmarch?, University of Tours, France Oliver Bown, Monash University, Australia Pablo Gerv?s, Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Spain Palle Dahlstedt, G?teborg University, Sweden Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal Peter Bentley, University College London , UK Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy Stephen Todd, IBM, UK Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EvoMUSART CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Penousal Machado University of Coimbra, Portugal Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt Gary Greenfield University of Richmond, USA ggreenfi AT richmond DOT edu ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK July - Sept 2009 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From black at x-i.net Tue Sep 29 18:33:23 2009 From: black at x-i.net (black) Date: Thu Oct 15 06:34:18 2009 Subject: [spectre] Head of New Media Arts Development - London Message-ID: <4AC236B2.2010603@x-i.net> Watermans is a vibrant arts centre stunningly situated on the banks of the river Thames in West London. Media art is in an integral part of the artistic programme incorporating an innovative mix of events, projects and exhibitions. We are currently looking for a dynamic highly motivated individual to join our creative team. Head of New Media Arts Development - ?26,804 (pro rata) 20hrs per week. You will be responsible for developing an artistic programme that maximises the potential for digital and media art practice. Closing date for completed application forms is Monday 19 October 2009 12 noon, by email to angela@watermans.org.uk Interviews on Wednesday 4 November 2009 To receive a job description and an application form, please go to http://www.watermans.org.uk/contact/team.php Watermans strives to be an equal opportunities employer. Watermans can not accept CVs without an application form. Registered Charity No: 267426. Watermans is funded by London Borough of Hounslow, Arts Council England and London Councils