From paul at paul-brown.com Thu Apr 1 11:28:46 2010 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Thu Apr 1 11:30:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] CAS May Meeting - Tina Gonsalves Message-ID: **PLEASE NOTE our April meeting is cancelled and May rescheduled as follows** The BCS Computer Arts Society Specialist Group invite you to our May meeting at the London Knowledge Lab. This meeting is open to the public and is free. DATE: Tuesday 4 May 2010 TIME: 6.30 for 7.00pm PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS Nearest tubes: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Line), Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) and Chancery Lane (Central Line). Buses: 19, 38, 55, 243. Map: http://tinyurl.com/yfcvjut Speaker: Tina Gonsalves Title: CHAMELEON Tina Gonsalves is currently working with world-leaders in psychology, neuroscience and emotion computing in order to research and produce emotionally interactive installations. She is currently honorary artist in resident at the Institute of Neurology at UCL in London, visiting artist at the Media Lab at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA and artist in resident at Nokia Research Labs, Finland as part of the Australia Council Connections Residency. She will discuss the process of building about her latest project, CHAMELEON. The project uses facial emotion recognition software to build up an empathic relationship with the audience. The coding is built on research in social neuroscience. The project arises from cross-disciplinary research integrating emotion neuroscientist Prof Hugo Critchley, social neuroscientist Prof Chris Frith, computer scientists Prof Rosalind Picard and Dr Rana Kaliouby from the MIT Media Lab. She will also discuss her current works in development in mobile technology. http://www.tinagonsalves.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues: 14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics 14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From ermkeandrea at gmx.de Thu Apr 1 14:03:54 2010 From: ermkeandrea at gmx.de (Andrea Ermke) Date: Thu Apr 1 14:04:23 2010 Subject: [spectre] UNSUBSCRIBE In-Reply-To: <20100401093028.B91FF14A0038@mail.buug.de> References: <20100401093028.B91FF14A0038@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <20100401120354.70430@gmx.net> please just stop sending me your mails. -- NEU: GMX DSL f?r 19,99 EUR/mtl. und ohne Mindest-Laufzeit! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 From ml at virose.pt Fri Apr 2 01:05:00 2010 From: ml at virose.pt (miguel leal) Date: Fri Apr 2 01:05:39 2010 Subject: [spectre] call for papers: UNNEEDED TEXTS | vol. one Message-ID: Sorry for any cross postings --------------- call for papers --------------- UNNEEDED TEXTS | vol. one ========================= Deadline: 22 th May, 2010 Topics: UNTANGLE: The Future Past of Media Art; UNSUSPICIOUS: The Politics of Aesthetics; UNCUT: Time-Based Art. UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS - Theory and Practice of Art is an international conference to be organized every year by the Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Porto (FBAUP). This first edition will take place in May 2010 in the city of Porto, Portugal see official program here: The 2010 edition of UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS will focus on three main discussion topics ? UNTANGLE: The future past of media art; UNSUSPICIOUS: The politics of aesthetics; UNCUT: Time-Based Art ? which are are definitely at the core of contemporary art practice. After the conference, a book will be printed ? UNNEEDED TEXTS | Vol. one ? with all the papers presented and further documentation on the conversations, talks and exhibitions included in the program. The book will be divided in three different chapters, following the three topics of this year's UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS. A call for papers to be included in this book is now open. Only texts in English will be accepted. The papers must be sent by e-mail before the 22th May, 2010. The papers will be blind-peer reviewed by a panel of international referees and we hope to announce the selected texts until mid-July. Electronic submission guidelines: Files in Rich Text format (rtf) sent by e-mail, between 3000-5000 words+ 300 words abstract, using Humanities Style citation style with notes in the end ; please include a 50 words author's bio.Images in b&w (the images can be included in the rtf document); if the paper is accepted author(s) will be asked to send full resolution images (300 dpi, jpeg or tiff). The cover page of the paper must include: the title of the paper; the complete names and institutional affiliations (if applied) of all authors, and the email address for the all authors. For any questions regarding the conference or the book please contact Ana Reis http://unneeded.virose.pt |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS - Practice and Theory of Art Part One | Porto, 10th-15th May 2010 Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Porto Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas - 265 | 4049-021 Porto Portugal Room PA 406 http://www.fba.up.pt t: +351 225192400 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From jmmmpais at googlemail.com Sun Apr 4 17:20:18 2010 From: jmmmpais at googlemail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Pais?=) Date: Sun Apr 4 18:20:52 2010 Subject: [spectre] Pd-berlin meeting next tuesday, 6th April - 20h30 instead of 20h In-Reply-To: References: <558411.61509.qm@web23808.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello, next tuesday, 6th April, will be the sixth meeting of Pure Data users in Berlin at NK (http://www.nkprojekt.de/) - Elsenstr. 52, 2HH 2Etage. At 19h30 there will be a presentation by joreg from vvvv, a toolkit for real time video synthesis. Since this has some relevance to Pd users using visuals, the presentation will go until 20h30. In case you're not interested, you can show up right after. Look up http://www.nkprojekt.de/vvvv-presentation/. For more information, look up http://puredata.info/community/organization/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group. We also encourage you to take an active part, and put up suggestions for topics you want to talk about / topics you want to be talked about. Doors are open from when the vvvv session is finished. After that they'll be closed, and you will have to call someone from the Pd-meeting to get in. To get a telephone number to call or confirm assistance you can write to info_at_minitronics.net. Please, don?t call to the staff of NK to open the doors. They let us use the space but we have to take care about having the meeting without producing any disturbance to them, and to clean the space after the meeting. We would apreciate if you would send us a small mail to info_at_minitronics.net with your name, Pd experience and interests, so that we know how many people might be coming. Or put your name in the pd-berlin wiki page. We would like to thank the support and willingness of NK in the organization of these events. Jo?o Pais -- Friedenstr. 58 10249 Berlin (Deutschland) Tel +49 30 42020091 | Mob +49 162 6843570 Studio +49 30 69509190 jmmmpais@googlemail.com | skype: jmmmpjmmmp From Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at Sun Apr 4 18:35:37 2010 From: Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Sun Apr 4 18:36:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Leonardo Scholarship for MediaArtHistories MA awarded to Fran Ilich Message-ID: <4BB8DBF90200003C0002FC74@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES MA awarded to Fran Ilich >From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four continents, Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Mu?ozhas been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media.Art.Histories MA program at the Department of Image Science at Danube University, Austria. The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon Cates and Oliver Grau selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates based on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication, independent vision, and entrepreneurial spirit. Ilichis Director of the Literature Department at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Founding Director of Possible worlds.org and Founding CEO of Spacebank. He was Co-founder and Moderator Nettime-Latino and has contributed essays to Wired News, Modem.txt, and Al Fin. His videogame artwork, "Banner" (with Blas Valdez) was exhibited at 01 San Jose (2009) and ARCO XX, Madrid (2001). His Internet soap opera, "Fea y Rebelde" was exhibited at Documenta 12, Kassel (2007). He was General Director and Curator of the Borderhack! festivals in 2001, 2002, and 2005. => LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist. => FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES (low-residency; English language, international faculty) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER,Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and mediahistory are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed. http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah =>DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life long learners. Our students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria, Austria,Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. => LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and technology. Through publications, initiatives andpublic forums, Leonardo/ISAST facilitates cross-disciplinary researchin these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. =>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement of artistic research andacademic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, includingthe College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society. Further Information: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah www.leonardo.info www.virtualart.at www.mediaarthistories.org From geert at xs4all.nl Sun Apr 4 20:34:22 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sun Apr 4 20:34:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] call to EU citizens to stop Bill Gates Message-ID: <586CD32A-9952-440C-B5BB-11F75902B3BE@xs4all.nl> from: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2010/04/02/gambling-with-open-a-how-bill-gates-made-money-moment/ : ----------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOXb3O9I_0 Bill Gates is to new media as Rupert Murdoch is to old media?an atavistic force of economics, mad gambling, and vector misdirection. Beyond my undying desire to share TNT?s Pirates of Silicon Valley with everyone I know, I am sharing this video to put eyes onto Bill Gates? sharkiness. The man is a ruthless, underhanded animal when it comes to profit and market control. So when I read that key elements of policy regarding a European Union commitment to open source and open standards is at stake in the EU?s Digital Agenda, I already knew who was behind it before reading this tweet from David Hammerstein, ex- Member of European Parliament for the Greens: ?SOS to everyone as sources confirm that Kroes is about to eliminate ?open standards? policy from EU digital agenda; Kroes has been under intense lobbying pressure from Microsoft to get rid of interoperability and open source goals of EU.? Further confirmation of my suspicions appears in a ComputerWorld article on the issue: According to people with good contacts to the politicians and bureaucrats drawing up the Agenda, Microsoft is lobbying hard to ensure that open standards and open source are excluded from that policy ? and is on the brink of succeeding in that aim. Without a EU citizenship, there is little I can do besides call attention to the fact that Microsoft is trying to hardball another government into maintaining the M$ business model and, by extension, their position as owners of the most common formats. Please, if you care about this and have an EU citizenship, fill in your comments in the online survey, online until 6 April. John Haltiwanger From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Apr 5 09:29:29 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de ([videoChannel}) Date: Mon Apr 5 09:30:13 2010 Subject: [spectre] VideoChannel: Feature of the Month April 2010 --> US video art Message-ID: <20100405092930.4C43F0C2.23903FCF@192.168.0.2> VideoChannel Cologne is happy to launch on 5 April 2010 in the framework of NewMediaFest'2010 and as the feature of the Month April 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=733 "Memory & Identity" 10 experimetal videos from the USA curated by Alysse Stepanian (Santa Fe/USA) featuring works by Lana Z. Caplan, Brian DeLevie, Ron Diorio Michael Greathouse, Soyeon Jung, Laleh Mehran Joe Merrell, David Montgomery, Christine Schiavo Brooks Williams Access to the feature http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=962 After the collaboration in "For Action's Sake" on 12 March 2010, an exhibition of video art co-curated by Alysse Stepanian and Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, "memory & identy" represents already the 2nd intercontinental collaboration between the curatorial initiative "Manipulated Image" (Santa Fe/USA) directed by Alyssse Stepanian and VideoChannel Cologne directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne which was launched as a physical screening first on 2 April 2010 at The Complex in Santa Fe/USA Read also the CURATOR?S STATEMENT (by Alysse Stepanian): http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=733 More info about Manipulated Image on entMAXX - networked magazine http://maxx.nmartproject.net/?p=110 ------------------------------------------------------- VideoChannel Cologne http://videochannel.newmediafest.org NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne 2010 [at] newmediafest.org ---------------------------------------------------- From ml at virose.pt Mon Apr 5 14:54:31 2010 From: ml at virose.pt (miguel leal) Date: Mon Apr 5 14:55:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?windows-1252?q?UNNEEDED_CONVERSATIONS_=96_Theory_and?= =?windows-1252?q?_Practice_of_Art____REGISTRATION_NOW_OPEN?= Message-ID: ++Apologize for cross-postings++ UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS ? Theory and Practice of Art REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Porto, Portugal, May, 10-14, 2010 http://unneeded.virose.pt/staceyEN/ The first edition of the international conference ?UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS ? Theory and Practice of Art? will be held in May 2010 in the city of Porto, Portugal. Organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto (FBAUP), this conference aims at establishing an intellectual platform to discuss fluidity of contemporary art practice through a series of interdisciplinary interventions. The 2010 edition of UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS will have three main topics for debate ? UNTANGLE: The Future Past of Media Art; UNSUSPICIOUS: The Politics of Aesthetics; UNCUT: Time-Based Art ? which are at the core of today?s problems of art practice. The conferences will be held in an old cinema of Porto city center (Cinema Passos Manuel), which is only a five minute walk from the Faculty of Fine Arts, and they will be divided into two categories: Talks and Conversations. The first ones ? a more conventional format ? will take place in the afternoon, and Conversations ? a more hybrid format ? will take place in the evening. See full programme here: http://unneeded.virose.pt/staceyEN/programa/ A simultaneous program will include exhibitions, workshops, screenings or concerts in different places in the city center and at the Faculty of Fine Arts. After the conference a book will be published ? UNNEEDED TEXTS / Vol. one ? including both the papers presented and further relevant documentation on the event. A call for papers to be included in this book is now open. REGISTRATION The early registration for the conference can be made directly at FBAUP's Office or by e-mail. If made by e-mail the registration fee (in euros) must be transfered to the following bank account: NIB: 003507480000126103068 IBAN: PT50003507480000126103068 BIC: CGDIPTPL Please indicate the word UNNEEDED and your name when transferring the money. The registration form and the bank receipt should then be sent to registration@unneeded.virose.pt Registration until April, 15: UP community - 25 Euros | all the others - 35 Euros Registration after April, 15: UP community - 35 Euros | all the others - 45 Euros The registration gives access to all the 1o conferences and also to the activities included in the simultaneous programme, except for the workshops. More Information: registration@unneeded.virose.pt From ml at virose.pt Mon Apr 5 15:26:29 2010 From: ml at virose.pt (miguel leal) Date: Mon Apr 5 15:26:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] UNNEEDED TEXTS | vol. one: call for papers Message-ID: Dear spectrers, Sorry for my last e-mail. What I really wanted to post was the call for papers associated with the conference... best ml call for papers UNNEEDED TEXTS | vol. one Deadline: 22 th May, 2010 Topics: UNTANGLE: The Future Past of Media Art; UNSUSPICIOUS: The Politics of Aesthetics; UNCUT: Time-Based Art. http://unneeded.virose.pt/staceyEN/call-for-paper/ UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS - Theory and Practice of Art is an international conference to be organized every year by the Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Porto (FBAUP). This first edition will take place in May 2010 in the city of Porto, Portugal. After the conference, a book will be printed ? UNNEEDED TEXTS | Vol. one ? with all the papers presented and further documentation on the conversations, talks and exhibitions included in the program. The book will be divided in three different chapters, following the three topics of this year's UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS. A call for papers to be included in this book is now open. Only texts in English will be accepted. The papers must be sent by e-mail texts@unneeded.virose.pt before the 22th May, 2010. The papers will be blind-peer reviewed by a panel of international referees and we hope to announce the selected texts until mid-July. Electronic submission guidelines: Files in Rich Text format (rtf) sent by e-mail, between 3000-5000 words+ 300 words abstract, using Humanities Style citation style with notes in the end [http://library.williams.edu/citing/styles/ chicago1.php]; please include a 50 words author's bio. Images in b&w (the images can be included in the rtf document); if the paper is accepted author(s) will be asked to send full resolution images (300 dpi, jpeg or tiff). The cover page of the paper must include: the title of the paper; the complete names and institutional affiliations (if applied) of all authors, and the email address for the all authors. For any questions regarding the conference or the book please contact Ana Reis areis@unneeded.virose.pt From phreeduh.list at gmail.com Wed Apr 7 02:34:54 2010 From: phreeduh.list at gmail.com (freida abtan) Date: Wed Apr 7 02:35:32 2010 Subject: [spectre] The UnConference at ICMC2010 Message-ID: Last chance to submit to ICMC 2010! Call for Submissions: the 2010 International Computer Music UnConfererence Stony Brook University, in association with New York University, and the Electronic Music Foundation of New York City, will host the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in New York City and Stony Brook, NY, USA from June 1-5 2010. As part of this event, the UnConference will take place over two afternoons during a portion of the paper sessions. The UnConference is an informal gathering of artists, thinkers, dreamers, and other trouble makers all focused on digital technologies, electronic arts, and computer music. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with peers in an informal setting. Composers and artists are especially encouraged to bring both finished work and work in progress for critique. Participants are invited to suggest a workshop or present their ideas! The UnConference will also serve as a place for unscheduled discussion of emerging topics at ICMC. To present in the UnConference, please submit a 1 page abstract of your topic that can be printed in the proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. If you require any technical assistance other than the use of a projector and speaker system, please also include a detailed technical description of your needs. All submissions must be sent electronically to unconference@icmc2010.org by or before the extended deadline of April 15th 2010. Participants at the UnConference will be required to register for the International Computer Music Conference and will have access to all the ICMC papers and events. From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Wed Apr 7 14:09:18 2010 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello Bugallo) Date: Wed Apr 7 14:11:33 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?Workshop_Seminar_INTERACTIVOS=3F_proces?= =?iso-8859-1?q?s_as_paradigm_at_LABoral_Centro_de_Arte_y_Creaci=F3n_Indus?= =?iso-8859-1?q?trial?= Message-ID: <4BBC75EE.8000908@laboralcentrodearte.org> Workshop Seminar INTERACTIVOS? process as paradigm at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial, Gij?n (Spain) A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of Area of Arts of Madrid City Council DATES OF WORKSHOP: 8th to 20th of April 2010, from 10.30 am to 20 pm SEMINARS: Thursday and Friday 8^th and 9^th , 15^th and 16^th , and Tuesday 20^th of April, from 10.30 am PARTICIPATION: the participation is free, registration is not neccesary Interactivos? are hybrids between a production workshop, a seminar and a showcase. A space for reflection, research, and collaborative work is created, in which proposals selected by an international open call are developed, completed and displayed. *Interactivos? *is a research and production platform for the creative and educational uses of technology. The process is open to the public from beginning to end. The seven selected proposals in a international call will be developed by the authors and collaborators during the workshop prior to the opening of the exhibition Process as Paradigm, on April 23rd 2010. The projects will become part of the exhibition. This exhibition, curated by Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers, reveals a huge shift from a culture based on the concept of manifestation and the final product (industrial society) to a culture of process. The Interactivos? workshop leading up to the exhibition is devoted to the production of artworks which follow the thesis of the exhibition. Selected projects: /Driven By/ by Andr? Gon?alves, /Everything is under control/ by Tommaso Lanza and Cathrine Kramer, /FrankenFoodCart /by Zackery Denfeld/, Scan-it /by Mar?a Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, /Photographic spatial experiment/ by Boris Oicherman, /Practice Mapping/ by Marco Quaggiotto and Wouter Van den Broeck and /Territoris Oblidats /by In?s Salpico/./ Check the projects and the full programme at _www.laboralcentrodearte.org _ From Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at Wed Apr 7 21:16:03 2010 From: Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Wed Apr 7 21:17:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Wtrlt: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] CFP: New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse? Message-ID: <4BBCF6130200003C0002FDB7@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> >>> Edward Shanken 4/7/2010 4:27 PM >>> 2011 Call for Participation CAA 99th Annual Conference New York, NY, February 9*12, 2011 PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIR, Due May 3, 2010 New Media, Art-Science, and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse? Edward A. Shanken, Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF), eshanken@artexetra.com (Open to members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) or College Art Association) Since the mid-1990s, new media has become an important force for economic and cultural development, establishing its own institutions, such as the ZKM, Ars Electronic Center, and Eyebeam. Research at the intersections of art, science, and technology also has gained esteem and institutional support, as demonstrated by the Artists in Labs program (Switzerland) and the proliferation of interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs around the world. During the same period, mainstream contemporary art experienced dramatic growth in its market and popularity, propelled by economic prosperity and the proliferation of international museums, art fairs and exhibitions from the Tate Modern to Art Basel Miami to the Shanghai Biennial. This dynamic environment has nurtured tremendous creativity and invention by artists, curators, theorists and pedagogues in all branches. Yet rarely does the mainstream artworld converge with the new media and art-sci artworlds. As a result, their discourses have become increasingly divergent. Contemporary art practice and writing are remarkably rich but often lack understanding of science or technology and the interdisciplinary artistic practices and critical discourses that are co-extensive with them. Art-science and new media art offer valuable insights into the implications of science and technology and expand the possibilities of art. However, these discourses often display an impoverished understanding of aesthetic and theoretical developments in contemporary art, resulting in work that fails to resonate in that context. This LEAF-sponsored session at CAA shall interrogate the extent to which the discourses of art-science, new media art and mainstream contemporary art are commensurable. Is it possible to construct a hybrid discourse that offers nuanced insights into each, while laying a foundation for greater mixing between them? What role have educational programs played in fostering these divides and how can they contribute to dissolving them? What insights into larger questions of emerging art and cultural forms might be gleaned by such a rapprochement? Every proposal should include the following six items: 1. Completed session participation proposal form, located at the end of attachment. 2. Preliminary abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages. 3. Letter explaining speaker*s interest, expertise in the topic, and CAA/LEAF membership status. 4. CV with home and office mailing addresses, email address,and phone and fax numbers. Include summer address and telephone number, if applicable. 5. Documentation of work when appropriate, especially for sessions in which artists might discuss their own work. 6. If mailing internationally, it is recommended that proposals be sent via certified mail or via email. Follow this link to .pdf of CAA CFP for more details: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yktzdpd Edward Shanken Universitair Docent, New Media Turfdraagsterpad 9 University of Amsterdam 1012XT Amsterdam, NL http://artexetra.com From info at rybn.org Thu Apr 8 17:53:58 2010 From: info at rybn.org (rybn) Date: Thu Apr 8 17:53:43 2010 Subject: [spectre] INTERNET ANONYMAT 2 - 10.04.2010 Message-ID: <80B2B7A5-25B7-4D50-BB5D-97C7E6B3951C@rybn.org> INTERNET / ANONYMAT [2] in EMPREINTES NUMERIQUES /. TOULOUSE FRANCE ./ http://empreintes.toulouse.fr/2010/ 10.04.2010 . INTERNET / ANONYMITY WORKSHOPS .. INTERNET DISORDER CONFERENCE ... REPULSIVE SOCIETY PERFORMANCE http://rybn.free.fr/anonymat2/ INTERNET ANONYMAT 2 - 10.04.2010 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Apr 8 19:48:05 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Thu Apr 8 19:48:47 2010 Subject: [spectre] CologneOFF VI: call for film & video art Message-ID: <20100408194805.925FBA35.B9927B0E@192.168.0.2> Call for film & videoart extended deadline: 4 May 2010 ------------------------------------------- In 2010, CologneOFF is celebrating its 5th anniversary with its 6th festival edition in sequence. Again CologneOFF is looking for exciting films and videos focussing on "memory" & "identity" in an experimental context. For the anniversary festival in 2010, CologneOFF invited a jury consiting of the directors of 7 partner festivals. Find all details, the regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 ------------------------------------------ --> Cologne International Videoart Festival CologneOFF VI - 6th Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org info [at] coff.newmediafest.org From info at apo33.org Fri Apr 9 17:59:18 2010 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Fri Apr 9 17:59:41 2010 Subject: [spectre] APO33 NEWSLETTER SPRING 2010 Message-ID: <20100409175918.173978oaerfa2rs4@apo33.org> APO33 programation ? April ? May ? June ? July 2010 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Monday 12th of April TALK with ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (Tokyo/Japon) ?order is an exception? ?If you can?t explain it simply, you don?t understand it well enough?. Albert Einstein Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He 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 completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. Free entrance ? 6.30pm - APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy ? Nantes/FR) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Mardi 13 avril: TALK with : SOPHIE GOSSELIN experiences at la Borde Talk with Sophie Gosselin on ?collective & institution?. Sophie Gosselin will share her experience in Institutional Psychotherapy clinic La Borde created by Jean Oury & Felix Guattari in 1953. Entr?e libre ? 18h30 - APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy Nantes) ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Friday 14th of May BEYOND SIGNAL # 11 : 7pm ? talk with JOERG PIRINGER (Vienna/Austria) http://joerg.piringer.net/ 9pm ? Concert / Live : JOERG PIRINGER / JULIEN OTTAVI (Sound poetry, computer, noise, visual) http://www.noiser.org/ JOACHIM MONTESSUIS (voice, shout, noise, drone) http://www.eternalnetwork.org/jm/ ERYCK ABECASSIS (guitar, noise & contemporary music) http://www.eryckabecassis.com/ SEMANTIK (soundcsape, noise et phonography) http://www.myspace.com/abruitsecret + GUEST! 9pm - 5 euros ? APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy Nantes/FR) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Saturday 15 of May Night of Museum : JOERG PIRINGER (Sound & visual poetry, ?lectronics) http://joerg.piringer.net j?rg piringer born in 1974. currently living in vienna/austria. member of the institute for transacoustic research. member of the vegetable orchestra (das erste wiener gem?seorchester). student at the schule f?r dichtung in wien (curd duca, sainkho namtchylak, etc). master degree in computer science. sound poet. 8pm ? free entrance ? Mus?e des Beaux-arts de Nantes / FR //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From 24th to 30th of May ARCHIPELAGOS SYMPOSIUM Art/Ecology/Theory/Science ? Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday : talks & prsentation ? Friday 28th : Beyond Signal # 12 ? Maison des Isles - Trentemoult ? Saturday 29th : workshop et presentation of pieces / projects, walks, installation... ? Sunday 30th : Conferences ? MHT ? Ile de Nantes 2010: the Isle of Nantes, Bikini island (in the Nantes estuary, near Le Pellerin) and the Isle of Dogs (London).Each isle must be considered through the other two; together, they constitute an archipelago of experiments and practices. Meetings, seminars, artistic creations, lectures, constructions, actions on the ground, all are part of the project, travelling from one isle to the next and thus forming an archipelago. Free Entrance ? Maison des Isles- Trentemoult-Rez? /FR Organised by Apo33 et Ecos //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Tuesday 15th of June Crealab / Apo33 presents : DORKBOT & BARBECUE ?people doing strange things with electricity? http://dorkbot.org/ 6pm : conferences / presentation / electrical experience (program to come) free entrance ? 6pm - APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy) - Nantes/FR http://www.crealab.info http://www.dorkbot.org //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From 17th to 22nd of June BEYOND SIGNAL # 14 Exhibition with JUNG-OH HONG (South Korea/UK) Multiple Architectural forms, deconstruction, visual installation on transparency and camouflage. http://old.gold.ac.uk/art/exhibitions/mfa2009/pages/joh/01.html Opening Thursday 17 ? 18h- APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy Nantes) Exhibition open from Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th and Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd of June from 2pm to 7Pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Friday 25th of June BEYOND SIGNAL # 13 tekno, punk, noise, exp?, drum&bass, dubstep, harsh, gabber...etc JOKILLER (london/Nantes) ? hip hop punk noise http://www.myspace.com/jokillernoise SEMANTIK (Nantes) ? tekno ultra sound http://www.myspace.com/abruitsecret LA KUIZINE (Nantes) ? industrial between Residents & throbbing Gristle http://www.myspace.com/lakuizine MANTA (Marseille) ? mashup gabber deconstruct tek SCAT INJECTOR(London) ? tekno punk harshcore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9X_IBTxvE&feature=related ANDY WEDDHON (Brighton) ? electo break beat electroacoustic http://www.reverbnation.com/andywheddonandfriends LENA (Nantes) ? floatingdub http://www.myspace.com/lenafloatingdub line up to be confirmed @ Le Calysto ? 5? ? 9pm 3 rue cale crucy 44100 Nantes / FR (Quartier bas-Chantenay) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// from 2nd to 9th of july BEYOND SIGNAL # 15 Exhibition : JULIEN POIDEVIN Sound artist working with devices whom interrogates ou relation to the body and territories. Audio Geolocalised derive & sound installation Opening Friday 2nd of July - 6pm open Saturday to Wednesday from 2pm to 7pm - APO33 (17 rue Paul Bellamy Nantes/FR) Performance Ending the 9th of July- live: tekno, exp? electronics : JOKILLER-SEMANTIK- +NOISY GUEST... //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 APO33 , as an interdisciplinary laboratory drawing on the artistic and technological fields, fosters various collective projects associating research, experimentation and social intervention. In the continuity of the dynamics that has been opened by the free software movement, apo33 is structured as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and creative processes, as well as exploring new artistic and creative modes of production and diffusion. http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes ? France +33 02 51 89 47 16 APO33 is funded by la Ville de Nantes, Le Conseil R?gional de Loire Atlantique, la DRAC des Pays de la Loire et la R?gion des Pays de la Loire ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From derek at umatic.nl Sat Apr 10 16:29:39 2010 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Sat Apr 10 16:30:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] TONEWHEELS 2010 USA tour Message-ID: <4BC08B53.6030608@umatic.nl> Next week I will be embarking on a quick tour of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island USA to give several TONEWHEELS performances and lectures as well as a field recording workshop and a lecture on the Tuned City project. I have several days free in NYC around 24-26 April in case people want to meet up or make some spontaneous noises happen... Please check my blog for details on the different events: http://macumbista.net Be seeing you.... Derek **** *TONEWHEELS 2010 USA tour* *DATES* FRI 16 April: Buffalo NY?SoundLab, 110 Pearl Street: TONEWHEELS performance + Affecting Animate Nerve Organs (16 artist multi-media installation) [8pm] SAT 17 April: Syracuse NY?Spark Contemporary Art Space: TONEWHEELS performance, other artists TBC [8pm?] TUE 20 April: NYC, NY?Electronic Music Foundation: ?A Brief History of Optical Synthesis? lecture [7pm] WED 21 April-THU 22 April: NYC, NY?Harvestworks: Soundtransit-The Art of Field Recording workshop [6:30pm each night] FRI 23 April: NYC, NY?Bent Festival, Dumbo, 81 Front Street: TONEWHEELS workshop [12pm] performance [8pm] TUES 27 April: NYC, NY?Electronic Music Foundation: Tuned City lecture [7pm] THU 29 April: Providence, RI?Rhode Island School of Design: TONEWHEELS workshop FRI 30 April: Providence, RI-AS220: TONEWHEELS performance + Black Pus (1/2 Lightning Bolt), Humanbeast and Shawn Greenlee [9pm] SAT 1 May: Somerville, MA: Existence Establishment @ The Starlab: TONEWHEELS performance + Karlheinz, Shawn Greenlee, Animal Steel, Brandon Terzakis, Benjamin Nelson, Bombings [8pm] *DETAILS* ___TONEWHEELS PERFORMANCE ___Various locations and dates... TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. This all-analog set is performed entirely live without the use of computers, using only overhead projectors as light source, performance interface and audience display. In this way, TONEWHEELS aims to open up the ?black box? of electronic music and video by exposing the working processes of the performance for the audience to see. ___TONEWHEELS WORKSHOP ___Bent Festival 23 April, RISD 29 April TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions such as the ANS Synthesizer (Murzin USSR 1937-57), the Variophone (Sholpo USSR 1930) and the Oramics system (Oram UK 1957). In this workshop, participants will learn to construct their own optoelectronic synthesizer using two different circuits: a simple light-to-sound converter and a variable motor speed controller, as well as how to design and print their own tonewheel patterns using the FLOSS software Inkscape. ___?A BRIEF HISTORY OF OPTICAL SYNTHESIS? lecture ___TUE 20 April: NYC, NY?Electronic Music Foundation [7pm] The technology of synthesizing sound from light is a curious combination of research from the realms of mathematics, physics, electronics and communications theory which found realization in the industries of motion picture films, electronic music, surveillance technology and finally digital communications. This lecture will touch on various points in the development of optical sound synthesis in these various contexts, referencing the work of Joseph Fourier, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolph Koenig, Arseny Avraamov, Thomas Wilfred, Evgeny Scholpo, Nikolai Voinov, Oskar Fischinger, Boris Yankovsky, Edwin Emil Welte, Evgeny Murzin, Norman McLaren, Lev Theremin, Daphne Oram, Jacques Dudon and Iannis Xenakis, among others. This lecture is given in the context of the opto-electronic performance TONEWHEELS, by Derek Holzer at the Bent Festival the following Friday. ___Soundtransit-The Art of Field Recording ___Harvestworks, NYC, Wednesday & Thursday, April 21 & 22 6:30 ? 9:30pm $100 Field recording, or phonography, is the art of recording sounds as they are found ?in situ?, rather than those created in a studio or concert hall. There are as many ways of approaching field recording as there are field recordists, with interests ranging from recordings of natural or urban environments to improvised situations or soundwalks to the resonance of solid objects or the Earth?s atmosphere. The first session of this workshop provides a theoretical introduction to the various microphone techniques and recording strategies used for field recording, as well as special tools which allow phenomenon such as physical motion, electromagnetic waves and light can also be converted into sound. This will be followed by a night-time recording excursion into the city. The second session consists of a critical listening session of the sounds gathered the night before. Key concepts to be explored include musical and cinematic metaphors of sound, composing the cityscape and communicating senses of place and space through sound. ___?Tuned City ? Between sound and space speculation? ___TUES 27 April: NYC, NY?Electronic Music Foundation [7pm] ?Tuned City ? Between sound and space speculation? was an exhibition and conference project taking place from July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposed a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic. It?s next edition is scheduled to take place during the Cultural Capital summer of 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia. In this lecture, we will see and hear some of the projects from the Tuned City event by Mark Bain, Raviv Ganchrow, Will Schrimshaw, John Grzinich, James Beckett, Akio Suzuki, Barry Blesser, Randy H.Y. Yau + Scott Arford, Thomas Ankersmit + Antoine Chessex, Bernhard Leitner, CRESSON, Farmers Manual, AGF, Chris Watson + BJ Nilsen, Jacob Kirkegaard, Martin Howse, Ralf Schreiber + Martin Kuentz and Staalplaat Sound System will be discussed, among others, as well as related projects covering the themes of Temporary Architecture for Sound, Buildings as Instruments and Composing the Cityscape. A limited number of catalogs and program guides will also be available. -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://macumbista.net ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 13: "Are there sections? Consider transitions" From azdelslade at gmail.com Sat Apr 10 19:43:44 2010 From: azdelslade at gmail.com (micha cardenas) Date: Sat Apr 10 19:44:19 2010 Subject: [spectre] Fwd: LAST CALL to submit to Queers in the 21st Century Zine! Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: suzanne wright Date: 2010/4/10 Subject: LAST CALL to submit To: azdelslade@gmail.com Cc: darin klein Hello people this is it....the last call to submit your work to? QUEER PILE UP ZINE/ and exhibition Keep in Mind: 1)submissions need to Darin by April 15th (100 copies of what you are submitting) 2) what you submit does not have to be queer themed....just what ya do! 3) *****Local queer artists are invited to bring work to Amy Adler?s studio for a one-night exhibition. All mediums welcome. Wall space and floor space available on a first-come, first-served basis. Bring anything you need for installing (hardware, extension cords, tools, A/V equipment, etc.). Performances, readings, interventions encouraged. Visual artists: take all work home that night. Call for participants Darin Klein & Friends Present: Suzanne Wright at Amy Adler?s Echo Park studio March 27-April 24 Details soon at www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com ?21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves ?Zine submissions must be received by April 12 & Queer Pile-up! A one-night exhibition of queer LA artists on April 17 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves A ?zine by and about queer artists living and working in the 21st Century. A resource for sharing information and educating ourselves and our peers. A guide to identifying, contacting and inspiring each other. Not a visual artist? Queer artists work in many ways, and all are welcome ? I?m sure you can think of a way to contribute! Mail me 100 standard size copies (black ?n white or color) of an image or images documenting or representing your work. Limit one page per artist, please. On the backside, print info about yourself and your work. I need everything by April 12! Darin Klein 1529 1/2 Rosalia Road Los Angeles, CA 90027 Your work is done! I?ll collate and staple it all together. The result will be 100 ?zines including all the submissions, released to the public on April 17 at the Queer Pile-up! I?ll send you at least one copy if you include your mailing address - or attend the Queer Pile-up! and grab a copy! Note: Artists outside the US can email digital files. I will print them for you and include them in the ?zine. Send to darinklein_la@yahoo.com ?Queer Pile-up! Local queer artists are invited to bring work to Amy Adler?s studio for a one-night exhibition. All mediums welcome. Wall space and floor space available on a first-come, first-served basis. Bring anything you need for installing (hardware, extension cords, tools, A/V equipment, etc.). Performances, readings, interventions encouraged. Visual artists: take all work home that night. ?Saturday, April 17, 2010 Install from 5-7pm. Exhibition from 7-10pm at Amy Adler?s Echo Park studio 1296 Sunset Blvd LA, CA 90026 Darin and I really hope you can help us in the creation of this Queers in the 21st century zine! -- micha c?rdenas / azdel slade Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sun Apr 11 13:22:38 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sun Apr 11 13:23:08 2010 Subject: [spectre] Download Furtherfield's latest broadcast on Resonance FM, Tuesday 6th April 2010. In-Reply-To: <4B163ADA.6010905@v2.nl> References: <4B163ADA.6010905@v2.nl> Message-ID: <4BC1B0FE.6050800@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Download Furtherfield's latest broadcast on Resonance FM, Tuesday 6th April 2010. A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of what's happening in contemporary media arts culture. Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost interview: Danja Vasiliev, artist in Residence at Furtherfield.org's HTTP Gallery. London, UK. James Wallbank and Steve Withington from Access Space, UK's first 'Free Media Lab'. http://www.furtherfield.org/resonance/furtherfield_radio_1_april_6th.mp3 Other features include a music collaboration from 1975, with Laurie Anderson & Alan Sondheim, violin & mandolin. And other treasures, noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music... More information on guests and broadcasts... http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context. --------more info---------> About Furtherfield.org Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London. http://www.furtherfield.org http://www.http.uk.net/ About Resonance 104.4FM ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art." Resonance 104.4FM http://www.resonancefm.com From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Wed Apr 7 14:31:41 2010 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Tue Apr 13 22:14:36 2010 Subject: [spectre] Newsletter: Vortrag Videokunst von Prof. Herzogenrath Message-ID: <4BBC9742.CA9C.00AE.1@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie zu folgender Veranstaltung einladen Vortrag: WIE MAN VIDEO AUSSTELLT 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland, Teil 1 und 2 von Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath, Direktor der Kunsthalle Bremen Freitag, 9. April 2010, 20 Uhr Veranstaltungsraum Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Im Rahmen der aktuellen Ausstellung Record > Again! 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland, Teil 2 im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst wird Prof. Wulf Herzogenrath, Direktor der Kunsthalle Bremen, ?ber Ausstellungsformen von Videokunst sprechen. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage der Ausstellbarkeit dieser Kunstform, entspricht sie doch bez?glich zentraler Charakteristika nicht den Konventionen von Kunstausstellungen der traditionellen Gattungen Malerei, Skulptur und Grafik. Videos erfordern eine l?ngere Betrachtungszeit, sie interagieren nur schwer mit anderen Kunstwerken, sie brauchen in vielen F?llen verdunkelte R?ume. Videokunst war seit den 1970er Jahren der erste Testfall einer neuen Medienkunst im Ausstellungsbetrieb, wie sie das Edith-Ru?-Haus seit zehn Jahren betreibt. Videokunst hat einen langen Weg durch die Kunstinstitutionen hinter sich, seit K?nstler es ?ber den Umweg der Videoinstallation erstmals schafften, im Ausstellungsbetrieb mit ihrem neuen Format Fu? zu fassen. Wulf Herzogenrath wird die Geschichte der Ausstellung von Videokunst und deren spezifische Anforderungen reflektieren. Dabei kommt ihm in gleichem Ma?e die Rolle des *Erfinders* wie des *Chronisten* zu, war er doch derjenige, der sich in Deutschland seit den fr?hen 1970er Jahren als einer der ersten Ausstellungsmacher explizit um das noch junge Medium bem?ht und ihm eine ?ffentliche Plattform geboten hat - sowohl als Leiter des K?lnischen Kunstvereins (1973 - 1989) als auch als verantwortlicher Kurator f?r diesen Bereich auf der documenta 6, 1977. Er organisierte 1976 die erste europ?ische Einzelausstellung des Videokunstpioniers Nam June Paik, um dessen Gesamtwerk er sich verdient gemacht hat, nicht zuletzt 1999 mit einer gro?en Retrospektive in der Kunsthalle Bremen. Sein Videokatalog der gro?en K?lner Ausstellung Projekt 74 ist Teil der aktuellen Pr?sentation Record > Again! 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland, Teil 2 im Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst, in der die Geschichte der Videokunst wesentlich von der Seite ihrer technischen Herausforderungen und den Problemen der Restaurierung gesehen wird. Wulf Herzogenrath war als Kuratoriumsmitglied an der Konzeption von Record > Again! ebenso beteiligt wie am 1. Teil der Ausstellung 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland. Als Experte f?r die Pionierzeit des Mediums und die grunds?tzlichen Fragen der Ausstellung von Videokunst wird er im Vortrag eine der revolution?rsten Richtungen der j?ngeren Kunstgeschichte aus der Sicht der Kunstinstitutionen und des Publikums n?her bringen. Record > Again! 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland, Teil 2 27. Februar bis 16. Mai 2010 *******************************sorry, no english version available**************************** Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08 fax: +49 (0)441 - 235 21 61 info@edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de Sollten Sie keine Informationen mehr von uns erhalten wollen,benachrichtigen Sie uns bitte unter unserer email-Adresse: info@edith-russ-haus.de From workshop at staalplaat.com Wed Apr 14 09:22:42 2010 From: workshop at staalplaat.com (workshop) Date: Wed Apr 14 09:23:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] Gijs Gieskes building Hard Soft Synth 3 Circuitbending workshop Message-ID: staalplaat PRESENTS! Gijs Gieskes building Hard Soft Synth 3 Circuitbending workshop, Better then Uri Geller! Date: 14 May, time: 13.00 till 18 00 hour Das Alte Finanzamt, Sch?nstedtstrasse 7, Berlin Neuk?lln price 60 euro. (that includes Hard Soft Synth building kit!) 19 euro pure Circuitbending (but you must bring stuff to bend!) The Hard Soft Synth 3f is a small arduino based synth. Analog effect: It has a lowpass filter that is controlled from the synth with a led > ldr combination. The resonance can be set with a potentiometer. There is a vertical adjust potentiometer, that can be used to clip the audio. io: it has a trigger input and trigger out via mini jacks, also via ir sync. Synth settings: all synth settings are set by 6 potentiometers. One potentiometer is used to select a synth, and the other potentiometers can be used to adjust the synth. Scripts: At the moment there is one finished script that can be used, that has 16 Synths. and another one is in the works that will probably have about 8 synths or more. There are drone type of synths, noise synths, a drum sequencer with kick and noisy hh, a 303 type of synth, a arpegiator, and a click type of synth... but more are in the works. You must bring: soldering iron! and lots of electronic junk toys check: gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=hard-soft-synth-3 staalplaat.wordpress.com/ CONTACT workshop@staalplaat.com From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Apr 14 23:29:10 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Apr 14 23:29:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] Festival HAIP10 - Call for applications Message-ID: Subject: Festival HAIP10 - Call for applications From: Katja Gucek Organization: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6, Ljubljana Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:28:20 +0200 //HAIP10: NEW NATURE// 23.-26. November 2010 4th International Multimedia Festival HAIP10 is coming this fall - multimedia centre "Cyberpipe/Kiberpipa" from Ljubljana is announcing call for applications. This year's festival theme is "New Nature". Application deadline is 30th April 2010. Information about applications, festival and theme is available below and on HAIP website http://www.haip.cc/ (where you can download application forms). The festival The idea for the HAIP festival arose within the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre team which operates within Zavod K6/4 in Ljubljana. HAIP is a biannual festival that emerged in 2004. The festival is conceived to be socially active and through it we attempt to reach the very core of the issues and themes in the field of intermedia art and contemporary scientific communication technologies. On the international level the HAIP festival presents the works of young perspective as well as already established artists, theoreticians, creative engineers and groups that are oriented into top artistic practices that are supported by open standards (regardless whether this is from practical or ideological reasons). Thus the festival will present individuals and groups who creatively and critically deal with social development and progress that includes us all due to the bloom of the variety of possibilities and choice. With this focus the HAIP festival supports the research and creation of those contemporary artistic and scientific practices that surpass the borders of specific forms and contents. This is also shown by the name of the festival, i.e. ?HAIP? - which is an acronym for ?Hack-Act-Interact-Progress?. / The festival encompasses: / - lectures - workshops - exhibition of artworks/ spatial interventions - performances - club event _____________________________________________________________________ /On the festival theme/ New nature Data processing through the synthesis, manipulation and characterization of matter on the atomic and molecular level (which enables the creation of so-called nanostructure materials) opens a line of thought as regards the new levels of autonomy and life of a certain matter. In the attempt to understand the use of matter that is in the process of being modified on its atomic level (as a multidirectional medium) the focus turns towards the specifics and (non)materiality of the intermediate spaces - towards contents, quantumly transformed through these spaces. This means that the artistic medium is established on an entirely new - atomic and subatomic level. In the poetic and performative sense we encounter the idea that we can (trans)form reality through the manipulation of matter on the atomic level. However, the motif for our research of this scientific field is not based on the fascination we show for the fairytale qualities of the 'fantastic' images that can be achieved with such processes. It is also not based on the monotonous connection between science and art, in which art is often used merely to illustrate science, while both fields fail to establish a dialogue as regards their reciprocal potentials. Our motif emerges from the intention to establish an analytical discourse on the basis of the paradigm that it is possible to link the artistic concept, creative programming, DIY electronic systems and (inanimate) nature into a new expressive content. Nanocrystals can be understood as ready-mades that are not manifested in the form of uniquely selected static objects, but are constantly changing manipulative situations/information/samples. Such feasible unpredictable dynamics and hybrid crossbreeding of various (un)organic matter with various other - mechanical and software - media activates the consciousness on nano-cybernetic reality. Through this we witness the establishment of a new domain within which the Cartesian perception of the world has ceased to exist, for the knowledge of the world has become an oscillating variable between the known (visible) and the unknown (invisible). These phenomenological processes have transformed the relations in contemporary life and do not present a type of nature and culture in themselves. In order for art to function subversively in relation to the (monitoring) mechanisms (as enabled by informational technologies), it has to be experienced as a constant anti-culture that is available to all. This is why we attempt to democratise art in relation to nano technology and science, for here it is possible to transform matter in real time (on the level of their atomic operation). On a certain level these actions are therefore linked to political actions or with the affirmative and utopic gesture that breaks away from the established aesthetic taste and opens the field of the unknown, still unarticulated and unreflected, where we confront the need to reorganise our perception and consequentially operation. Such processes represent medium personification which is established in the relation between the abstract space of the data and the real space of the matter. The chemical equation (as a scientific model) no longer functions as a hermetic scientific medium, instead it becomes an auto-poetic feedback system and a virtual space for open/multidirectional communication, which is (trans)formed, (re)programmed, synthesised and freshly characterized by the user/artist. With the absence of the tactile the interactivity is manifested in the transcendence of the ?senses as monocular images in binocular perception? (Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Such a perceptive frame opens a multidimensional reality, in which reality (as an actual organic and inorganic presence) reveals the new characteristics of spatial dimensions that can transform and redefine the understanding of our existence. Through the development of the new nature - which also represents the potential starting point for the development of a new artistic expression - we are (on the theoretical and empirical level) interested in the multimedia quantum/chemically generated nanosystem - (in)organic kinetic nano-cybernetic sculpture, which has performative characteristics in itself. The directness of this experience through the broadening of the perception within the merger of scientific discoveries and the visual communication of multimedia art expression and patents/equations/systems/data from these researches should be offered for the potential (co)development and (co)use of intermedia art by similarly thinking authors, for this represents the main condition for the establishment of a qualitative artistic production, which would aid the development, pluralisation and expansion of intermedia cultural and art fields. _____________________________________________________________________ APPLICATION: The application has to include the following: - Filled in application form - Photo documentation of the project (max 10 jpgs, min 180 dpi) - Video documentation (DVD, CD, USB flash drive or internet connection - in avi, mov or ogg format) - Technical plan of the project Candidates may also attach additional documentation (catalogues, texts and similar). Original works, incomplete and late applications will not be considered in the selection process. The attached documentation will not be returned, but will remain in the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre/ HAIP10 Festival archive. Application deadline: 30th April 2010 Invitation and application can be downloaded in .odt, .pdf in .doc format on HAIP website: http://www.haip.cc The application form should be sent to the following address: Contact person: Maja Smrekar - By mail: Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa Kersnikova 6 1000 Ljubljana Slovenija With the text: "Application for HAIP10 festival" - By e-mail: haip@kiberpipa.org The selection of the projects that will be realised and presented at the HAIP10 festival will be concluded in May 2010. Only successful candidates will be notified. Information about application and festival also available on: http://www.haip.cc Thank you for spreading the word about this call for participation! From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Apr 14 23:42:13 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Apr 14 23:42:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) ISMAR2010 Message-ID: >From: Julian Stadon >To: >Subject: ISMAR2010 >Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:14:48 +0000 >http://www.ismar10.org/index.php/AMH_CFP > >Call for Participation > >The 2010 ISMAR Arts, Media and Humanities chairs invite artists, >scholars, media practitioners, who can shed new light on emerging >new relations within the future of Mixed and Augmented Reality. We >would welcome musings, probings, discourses, insights, and >imaginations to be presented in Seoul Korea October 13-16, 2010 in >the form of long and short papers, art installations, panels, >workshops or tutorials. >This theme of this year's ISMAR conference is "Borderless" sparked >by the convergence of Mixed and Augmented Reality, ubiquitous >technology and global connectivity. In the rapidly emerging >application of Mixed and Augmented Reality, how do we make sense of >time and space now? >With no clear-cut boundary between what is natural and artificial, >we are faced with ambiguity, transience, and contingency. How will >melting the boundaries between real, virtual and imaginary realities >transform our world? > >Topics and Themes > >The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the >following major topics: > >Case studies, deployment and evaluation of AR in the context of art >installations, performance, cultural heritage or multimedia literacy, >Explorations of interaction and interactivity for AR/MR installation >performance or humanities, >The applications of performance studies perspectives to AR and MR >technologies and applications, including such themes as liveness, >performativity, ritual, mediation, and presence. >Discussion of interdisciplinary, trans-disciplinary collaboration >for AR/MR experience design, >Studies of the creation, design and production of AR/MR applications >for storytelling and dramatization in museums and other historic >sites. >Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality Tools, Librairies, Framework >developed by artists for artists or by humanists for humanists, >The application of media studies and media theory to the technology >and practice of AR/MR, >AR mobile artistic and media practice, >Social media, tactical media and AR/MR, >Transhumanism, post-humanism, and AR/MR, >Ecological interventions, >Critical design and new approaches to future products and services >using/based on AR/MR, >AR/MR in game, toys, advertising and marketing, >Web based AR/MR applications > > > >Submission Categories > >The program proposes the following submission categories: > >Long papers and posters, >Art Installations and Showcases, >Panels, >Tutorials and Workshops. > >For each discipline, the program will address different goals. > >The Art program is looking for notable artists that have stretched >the boundaries of expression with the use of Mixed and Augmented >Reality. The creative interaction between real, virtual and the >imaginary realities to create provoking experiences are highly >encouraged. Written papers and posters are to include position >statement with notes and images on approach, implementation and the >technology used. showcases and art installations will be mounted to >support physical entries. >The Media program will be accepting submissions from media >practitioners who have stretched the boundaries of the creative >impact of Mixed and Augmented Reality. This venue seeks innovative >uses of creative techniques for communication and entertainment to >enhance the experience of MR/AR through novel applications of >head-mounted, embedded projection, or mobile displays. Submissions >may include new tools, conventions or taxonomies for developing >these new media. >The Humanities program will be accepting academic submissions that >relate to Mixed and Augmented Reality content that allows for >innovative analytical, critical or speculative approaches to reflect >the study of the human condition and digital media. From xgz at societyofalgorithm.org Thu Apr 15 00:21:10 2010 From: xgz at societyofalgorithm.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=EDvan_Bel=E1?=) Date: Thu Apr 15 00:21:51 2010 Subject: [spectre] 1616 + copyright In-Reply-To: <20100414100003.2E21925D3F2@mail.buug.de> References: <20100414100003.2E21925D3F2@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <509C5B09-15DA-4D15-967E-AFE119DC8587@societyofalgorithm.org> hey hey geniuses, seeing a lot of announcements on this list all the time and before we look too much and too long in the mirror, what are you thinking of this? http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5125&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_and_Copyright_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Day who is celebrating what in this case? thanks for the enlightment... your g?van bel? From venzha at yahoo.com Thu Apr 15 19:54:56 2010 From: venzha at yahoo.com (venzha christ) Date: Thu Apr 15 19:55:32 2010 Subject: [spectre] OPEN CALL - Cellsbutton#04 2010 - Yogyakarta - Indonesia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <123605.64742.qm@web113310.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> OPEN CALL CELLSBUTTON#04: INVISIBLE CELLS YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 27 JULY - 7 AUGUST 2010. ?That the modernist tradition of progress and ceaseless extension of the frontiers of innovation are now dead. Originality is dead. The avant-garde artistic tradition is dead. All religions and utopian visions are dead and resistance to the status quo is impossible because revolution too is now dead. Like it or not, we humans are stuck in a permanent crisis of meaning, a dark room from which we can never escape. Humans will not be visible, humans will be invisible. (Inspired by Kalle Lasn's Contemporary Society) - Irene Agrivina, 2010? The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) are proudly to present Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells - Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival. Cellsbutton#04 will take the theme of ?Invisible? as part of Education Focus Program curriculum in 2010. Cellsbutton#04 will consist 12 days duration of the festival, focussing on educative artistic activities engaging local and global development and application in art, science and technology. As an annual international community-base festival, Cellsbutton#04 will be a cross-collaborative starting platform for international artists, communities, scientists, researchers, lecturers, inventors, theorists, activists practitioners, to exchange knowledge that beneficial for the society. Cellsbutton is an annual community-base organized international media art festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia initiated by HONF. Since it was started in August 2007, Cellsbutton became the first international media art festival in Indonesia that focus on education. Cellsbutton act as a platform that connect international artist with interdisciplinary people in Indonesia to expand limitless creations and innovations through media art. As part of HONF Education Focus Program [EFP], Cellsbutton is set to became HONF primary instrument to provide the proper dissemination of knowledge, information and networking in media art for the general public in Indonesia especially Yogyakarta; a special province that contain great deal potential of intellectuality from various disciplinal backgrounds and famous as a center for Indonesian higher education. The organizing of the festival was done through the collaboration with the support from local creative communities in Yogyakarta. The House Of Natural Fiber The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) is a media art laboratory run by a community in Yogyakarta. They implemented a methodology called Open - Community which is mostly concerned to the needs of cross-collaborative actions responding to technology development and practical use in daily life. In the beginning, they started as a young community with various backgrounds and ideals. They want to do whatever they wish, but with a natural inclination to create by the spirit of togetherness. There is no ambition to work simply for personal profit. They create for themselves, their family, and their environment. This is the basis for the first actions and commitment between them. Since 1999, they concentrate on the principles of critique and innovation. Thinking forward, positive and creative is becoming a vision for HONF. In the implementation of this vision, in every program, they work towards the development of art with technology. This desire to contemplate the future of technology and art is an important endeavor for the technology itself. Education Focus Program (EFP) EFP is a curriculum that act as a guideline for every HONF activities that is innovated responding the global situations and conditions in Indonesia. EFP concentrate on interdisciplinary knowledge exchanges and collaborations in critical analysis towards local and global issues and creating innovative ideas to seek solutions toward it. EFP main objective is to build a modern mind and mentality of society by bridging art, science and technology that is useful in processing local potentials into beneficial outputs for the society based on human uses and urgent needs. In the implementation of EFP programs, HONF use Open-Community form, a methodology that invites local communities in Yogyakarta to take various roles accordingly to their ability and competency, which allows them to be involved in the activities with HONF acted as navigator. This method is chosen, as community is a primary working method that is used by the society in Indonesia at the present time. It is also enabling EFP to be a generic infrastructure that enhance and amplify the dissemination of knowledge to involving communities and wide range society. EFP programs are presented in informal educative platforms that are accessible by the society to overcome the current Infrastructures and curriculum of overall education system in Indonesia that is far from efficient. Invisible Invisible seeks sustainable actions that were created to systematically expand or convert accessible technology and generic infrastructure to be used as multifunctional and cross-functional tools. Invisible will try to reveal innovation and creation that is developed in response to local and global situations and conditions. Invisible then will challenge the application and how art could function between artists and society in responding how it reaction could be achieve from suitable and crucial action rather than emphasizing the existence of the actor. How to Apply Please send an email to cellsbutton@gmail.com before 25 May 2010 an A4 size pdf format files containing information of: 1. Applicant?s Name 2. Applicant?s Short Biography (100 words max) 3. Project Title to be presented in Cellsbutton 4. Project Description 5. Brief Explanation on how the project would be beneficial to local communities Term and Condition HONF will provide place to stay, 1 meal per day and local transportation for Cellsbutton#04 schedule of activities. For international transportation HONF could only provides a letter of invitation to support and letter of recommendation for the participants to get funding. As the Official Office and meeting point during the festival, HONF lab will be open for every participant as the gathering place, studio and meeting point. Activities 1. openCELLS : opening act of Cellsbutton 2. cellSONIC : special audiovisual performance act of Cellsbutton 3. cellsDISCO : club party, VJ gathering/VJ School 4. cellsOUTING : meet the fibers! 5. cellsKIT : DIY workshops, researches and presentations 6. cellsPICNIC : ?even God take a day off...? 7. Indonesia Bricolabs : international global network focussing on local and global development generic infrastructure incrementally develop by communities 8. cellsKID : children workshop. Simple art - simple technology - fun learning and nourishing activity 9. breakcore_LABS : open platform for experimental music and audiovisual performance 10. The fibers : platform for collaboration and researches between media labs and creative communities 11. EA Channel Meeting : exchanging informations on global and local networking 12. cellsLIVING : pre-Cells and post-Cells residency program. Collaborating with local creative communities 13. cellsRADIO : sharing information & knowledges through radio frequency 14. offBUTTON : off - file not found (closing party) Now and then... ?We?re looking for the invisible! And with togetherness we?ll overcome the invisible and become one! With this start, we see Cellsbutton#04 ? Invisible Cells as our destination in presenting beneficial outputs in both directions to outer our communities and inside. Learning and progressing as our curriculum of Education Focus Program (EFP) have helped us in evolving and adjusting our role to accommodate the local communities for the last 10 years. We have reached a milestone more than we have expected, but thousands waits in our path. We realized that we are small, but from those small things we have evolved. For a new step and beginning of The House of Natural Fiber in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, we devoted ourselves think the unthinkable, to touch the untouchable and to see the invisible. One minor step we take in 2010 for our remaining long and distant path.? (/microCELLS - A Prelude To Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells - Yogyakarta International Media Arl Festival 2010) Welcome to the invisible cells!!! venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro - Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : venzha@yahoo.com venzha@natural-fiber.com URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com http://www.myspace.com/electrocore_indonesia From chiarapassa at gmail.com Thu Apr 15 18:30:15 2010 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Sat Apr 17 16:43:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] Meta Motus - interactive video installation OUT NOW! Message-ID: Dear friend and colleagues, I'm glad to share with you my new interactive video installation "Meta Motus", just out now on my website. ?Live Architecture? is a series of site-specific interactive video installations I thought of and made in order to reshape the architecture in public places, as well as interior environments, into something vibrant and lively. The ?Meta Motus? installation, developing all around the viewer, shows a dynamic atmosphere that is in one continuous transformation. "Meta Motus" reacts to the spectator?s actions and movements that they make freely throughout the space. Those movements are captured from a camera tracking action and translated on the x, y and z coordinates, in order to redesign the whole ambient with various patterns. video demo: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videoenglish.html concept: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videography.html images: http://www.chiarapassa.it/images.html Sinossi ita.: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videografia.html Best regards, Chiara -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net http://twitter.com/jogador Skype: ideasonair From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Apr 16 14:43:46 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sat Apr 17 19:21:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] transmission problem solved / spectre admins note Message-ID: dear spectre subscribers, we had some transmission problems in the last days due to some technical changes which i don't really understand but trust have been resolved now. please, note: if your messages don't get through to the list, they most likely do not apply to the (strict but healthy) rules that we stick with on this mailing list and that are diligently applied by the list software, 'Mailman': - don't use formatted text, send *plain text* only (this is sometimes difficult today, since a lot of automatic formatting goes on everywhere; but if you dig into the preferences of your mail programme you will find that it is actually possible to select the option) - don't send attachments (put what you want to convey into the body of the message as plain text) - message have to be less than 40 K - post from an address that is subscribed to the list - post to 'spectre' in the TO: or the CC: field (not BCC:) and don't post to too many other recipients at the same time (if you do, Mailman thinks you don't really _mean_ us on spectre - instead, we like to get a 'personally addressed message from you ;-) if you still fail after carefully applying these rules, please, look into your Spam-folder and check whether you have received Bounce-messages from the spectre-mailman which explain why the message has been rejected (or is being held for moderation which inke and i are finding less and less time for, unfortunately). please, write to us directly at if you still cannot get through. truth is that dear Mailman sometimes does strange and unexplainable things which we then try to work around. and then, please, also remember that this is a channel which we have been keeping open for close to nine years now on a voluntary basis; we value all the varied contributions and the steady flow a news from the art, media and culture world. years ago, this was a cosy community of a couple of hundred people, many of whom knew each other personally. now there are over 1600 subscribers (many of whom are no doubt filtering into long-forgotten and never-seen dead mail boxes )-; but we still keep a rather fond and personal attitude towards the list. this is just an old-fashioned mailing list, first conceived as the 'syndicate' list in 1996. best regards, andreas & inke From info at transfera.es Fri Apr 16 02:46:59 2010 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Sat Apr 17 19:21:48 2010 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA #40 VIDEOART TV PROGRAM_MADATAC AUDIO-VISUAL ART FESTIVAL CALL Message-ID: <4BC7B383.2070009@transfera.es> Dear Video Art followers, This Friday, December 16th at 21:00 PM and Saturday 17 at 09:00 AM Transfera, a tv space that broadcasts from Madrid by Canal Autor (Orange),offers a one hour special programme with the following artists: ENCICLOPEDIC CARTOONS VIDEO PROJECT _ You can access to the complete information at: http://www.transfera.es/programa40.html Joas Nebe / Germany NOK&T/ART / Netherlands Sally Grizzell Larson / USA Gruppo Sinestetico / Italy Andr?s L?szl? Weil Fischer di Palotta / Hungary_Netherlands Beate Goerdes / Germany Russell J.Chartier & Paul.J. Botelho (USA) Vienne Chan / Hong Kong_Canada Elisabeth Eberle / Switzerland Alberto Guerreiro / Portugal Kim Dotty Hachmann / Germany Paul Rascheja / Poland/Germany Debbie Douez / Canada Alison Williams / South Africa Continues open the term for the reception of works for the program and for the MADATAC 02 Videoart Festival (www.madatac.es), to take place in Madrid on December 2010 with the aim to award the best works of audio-visual art, is open. Write for bases: info@transfera.es Best regards. Staff www.transfera.es From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Sat Apr 17 16:41:25 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Sat Apr 17 19:21:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:38:03 +0200 Subject: COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES From: To: Andreas Broeckmann COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES The seminar will take place in Brussels and Paris, in both cases at The Public School. Brussels April 23rd, 3-6pm Participants: Agency, Dessislava Dimova, Albert Heta, Olga Kisseleva for more information please follow the link: http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/class/2336 Paris April 24th, 3-6pm Participants: Pietro Bianchi, Renata Poljak, Soci?t? R?aliste, Oxana Timofeeva for more information, please follow the link: http://paris.thepublicschool.org/class/1773 Organized by Elena Sorokina and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez description: After the collapse of the Soviet block, communism as idea, image or problem has been regarded as "outmoded, absurd, deplorable or criminal, depending on the case". Today, it is often presented by the mainstream media as a parenthesis of history, an aberration of the 20th century, as "a completely forgotten word, only to be identified with a lost experience". Although the communist hypotheses of previous eras may no longer be valid, their histories, narratives and key notions have never ceased to spark attention and inform recent discussions such as the communal versus the common, and material versus immaterial property, to name just a few. Perceived from a greater distance today, communism has re-emerged as a topic for investigation in artistic and exhibition production, that reflects it in diverse ways, addressing the relevance of the term today or inviting provocative comparisons with the present. This seminar aims at presenting various works that recast ideas related to communism and revisit it as a complex and diverse arena of political and aesthetic attitudes, which varied between nations, communities and historical periods. By no means does the seminar intends to take a nostalgic tour through the past decades, but rather seeks to address the topic through concrete art and exhibition projects realized recently. All of them are trying to deconstruct the idea of monolith, still very present in today's reception, and to recuperate various episodes, stories and notably, the "communist apocrypha" - texts, music, visual production - which have never been part of the established ideological canon, and whose intellectual patterns shed new light on what the contemporary uses of the notion of communism might be. Instead of treating communism as pure political abstraction, the projects presented by the seminar deal with concepts, events and/or particular personalities related to communism and its history which have survived the Bildersturm of the recent past and can be artistically reactivated. Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532787364#!/event.php?eid=101896426520537&ref=mf COMMUNISMS AFTERLIVES The seminar will take place in Brussels and Paris, in both cases at The Public School. Brussels April 23rd, 3-6pm Participants: Agency, Dessislava Dimova, Albert Heta, Olga Kisseleva for more information please follow the link: http://brussels.thepublicschool.org/class/2336 Paris April 24th, 3-6pm Participants: Pietro Bianchi, Renata Poljak, Soci?t? R?aliste, Oxana Timofeeva for more information, please follow the link: http://paris.thepublicschool.org/class/1773 Organized by Elena Sorokina and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez description: After the collapse of the Soviet block, communism as idea, image or problem has been regarded as "outmoded, absurd, deplorable or criminal, depending on the case". Today, it is often presented by the mainstream media as a parenthesis of history, an aberration of the 20th century, as "a completely forgotten word, only to be identified with a lost experience". Although the communist hypotheses of previous eras may no longer be valid, their histories, narratives and key notions have never ceased to spark attention and inform recent discussions such as the communal versus the common, and material versus immaterial property, to name just a few. Perceived from a greater distance today, communism has re-emerged as a topic for investigation in artistic and exhibition production, that reflects it in diverse ways, addressing the relevance of the term today or inviting provocative comparisons with the present. This seminar aims at presenting various works that recast ideas related to communism and revisit it as a complex and diverse arena of political and aesthetic attitudes, which varied between nations, communities and historical periods. By no means does the seminar intends to take a nostalgic tour through the past decades, but rather seeks to address the topic through concrete art and exhibition projects realized recently. All of them are trying to deconstruct the idea of monolith, still very present in today's reception, and to recuperate various episodes, stories and notably, the "communist apocrypha" - texts, music, visual production - which have never been part of the established ideological canon, and whose intellectual patterns shed new light on what the contemporary uses of the notion of communism might be. Instead of treating communism as pure political abstraction, the projects presented by the seminar deal with concepts, events and/or particular personalities related to communism and its history which have survived the Bildersturm of the recent past and can be artistically reactivated. Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532787364#!/event.php?eid=101896426520537&ref=mf Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="Guest Future.jpg"; Content-ID: From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Apr 19 07:00:09 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Apr 19 07:01:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Shortlist for the Nam June Paik Award 2010 Message-ID: Kunststiftung NRW Shortlist for the Nam June Paik Award 2010 - International Media Art Award of the Art Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia The international selectors for the Nam June Paik Award 2010 met on the last weekend of February in the Museum Kunst Palast in D?sseldorf. Solange Farkas (Sao Paulo), Udo Kittelmann (Berlin), chairman, Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona/New York), Mikl?s Petern?k (Budapest) and Yukiko Shikata (Tokyo) came together to draw up the shortlist for the media art award established in 2002 by the Kunststiftung NRW. Competing for the award, and taking part in an exhibition that can be seen from 11 September 2010 in the Museum Kunst Palast in D?sseldorf, are the following artists: Daito Manabe, Tokyo, Japan and Ei Wada a.k.a. Crab Feet, also from Tokyo; Hajnal N?meth, Berlin; Eike, Budapest; the artist group Chelpa Ferro, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Ali Kazma, Istanbul, Turkey; Rosa Barba, Berlin and Amsterdam; Ignas Krunglevicius, Oslo, Norway. The winners of the Newcomer Prize of the Nam June Paik Award 2008, Adriane Wachholz, M?nster and Thorsten Hallscheidt, Cologne and Karlsruhe, will also present new works in the exhibition. Kunststiftung NRW Ro?stra?e 133 40476 D?sseldorf Germany http://www.kunststiftungnrw.de Stiftung museum kunst palast Ehrenhof 4-5 40479 D?sseldorf Germany http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de From chiarapassa at gmail.com Fri Apr 16 14:23:17 2010 From: chiarapassa at gmail.com (Chiara Passa) Date: Mon Apr 19 07:30:26 2010 Subject: [spectre] Meta Motus - interactive video installation OUT NOW! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear friend and colleagues, I'm glad to share with you my new interactive video installation "Meta Motus", just out now on my website. ?Live Architecture? is a series of site-specific interactive video installations I thought of and made in order to reshape the architecture in public places, as well as interior environments, into something vibrant and lively. The ?Meta Motus? installation, developing all around the viewer, shows a dynamic atmosphere that is in one continuous transformation. "Meta Motus" reacts to the spectator?s actions and movements that they make freely throughout the space. Those movements are captured from a camera tracking action and translated on the x, y and z coordinates, in order to redesign the whole ambient with various patterns. video demo: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videoenglish.html concept: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videography.html images: http://www.chiarapassa.it/images.html Sinossi ita.: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videografia.html Best regards, Chiara -- Chiara Passa chiarapassa@gmail.com http://www.chiarapassa.it http://www.ideasonair.net From castilloga at newmexico.com Sat Apr 17 19:56:57 2010 From: castilloga at newmexico.com (Castillo Gallery) Date: Mon Apr 19 07:30:26 2010 Subject: [spectre] post a message Message-ID: Hello Spectre Readers, I would like to invite you to join in a dialogical project found on my blogspot: ricardoccastillo.wordpress.com In this encounter I will post anonymous pen pal letters from young people from undisclosed parts of the world. If you would like to participate, please just respond to any letter in an artful open way. I will then get your responses back to the young people and encourage them to respond as well. All correspondences will remain anonymous. The intent of this project is to mediate exchange among humans who, although different socioeconomically,ethnically, culturally and/or generationally may in reality be able to identify with each other through a process of empathetic identification and critical analysis. Through empathy can we learn to literally re-define self? Kindest regards, Ricardo Castillo From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Apr 19 12:48:44 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Apr 19 12:57:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] Program - week 17 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100419124845.9631260D.E704F646@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ______________________________________ program- week 17 - 19-25 April 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=755 ______________________________________ 1. Feature of the week 17 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=762 VideoChannel - German Video Art II featuring Philip Matousek, Anna Porzelt, Amorea Cosmalion Ascan Breuer, Jonas Ungar, Nilg?n Serbest & Tobias Kurtz, Sibylle Trickes, Susanne Wiegner, Maya Schweizer, Amit Epstein, Anna Hirschmann, Johanna Reich, Dina Boswank, Roland Fuhrmann, Sarah Adetola 2. Feature of the Month April 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=733 -->VideoChannel Cologne - - Memory & Identity- 10 experimental videos from the USA curated by Alysse Stepanian (Santa Fe/USA) including Lana Z. Caplan, Brian DeLevie, Ron Diorio, Michael Greathouse, Soyeon Jung , Laleh Mehran, Joe Merrell, David Montgomery, Christine Schiavo, Brooks Williams 3. Celebrate! - netart features 2010 10 Years - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art This week--> Tomas Rawski (Argentina) All details on the week program --> http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=755 ---------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne 2010 [at] newmediafest.org ---------------------------------------------- From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Apr 19 11:29:05 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Apr 19 14:14:28 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) LABoral Gijon/ES presents Process as Paradigm Message-ID: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial El Proceso Como Paradigma (Process as Paradigm) Art in development, flux and change 23 April - 30 August 2010 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial Los Prados, 121 33394 Gij?n (Asturias) Spain Tel: +34 985 185 577 Fax: +34 985 337 355 info@laboralcentrodearte.org http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org At this point in time, we, the global society, are experiencing a series of processes that have seemingly got out of our control while, more than even, we are equipped to observe and monitor them. Ongoing conflicts in various parts of the world, the sudden meltdown of world economy and the menaces of climate change, to name only the big headlines, are valid proof that we are deeply involved in social, ecologic and economic processes which are of such complexity that we have become aware of our limitations to manage them in their entirety, if this is at all possible. By the same token, a major shift takes place from an industrial culture based on the concept of the final product to a post-industrial, networked culture, the latter being built on the concept of global trade, production systems and service industries. Given this background, it would only seem natural that innovative contemporary art no longer holds onto the safe properties of the final object, the ultimate manifestation of a creative process, but moves to the uncertain territory of unpredictability and successive live generation of form. Artists increasingly explore the complexity, the temporal aspect, the interdependence and the self-organisation of processes. They deal with these matters almost on a scientific level, which makes their artworks become experiments and test set-ups rather than controllable systems. The exhibition Process Becomes Paradigm shows that processes are indeed becoming one of the mayor paradigms and creative strategies in contemporary art. The exhibition confronts us with art that is in continuous flux and execution, that has a life of its own, that grows, changes and decays. The artworks investigate the vague terrain between pre-programming and autonomy, between present development and randomness, thus delivering surprising insights into the nature of non-teleological processes and a novel understanding of art -- art as a form of prototyping, continuously prototyping the natural and generating the social. When Process becomes Paradigm presents the work of 25 artists or artists groups whose creations range from biological, automated to social processes or who visualise processes in real time. CURATORS: Susanne Jaschko y Lucas Evers, Amsterdam ARTISTS: Jelte van Abbema, Boredomresearch, Ralf B?cker, Gregory Chatonsky, Adrian Cuervo, Ursula Damm, Driessens & Verstappen, Peter Flemming, Isabelle Jenniches, Roman Kirschner, Allison Kudla, Luna Maurer, Marta de Menezes, Henrik Menn?, Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel, Aymeric Mansoux/ Marloes de Valk, Leo Peschta, Julius Popp, Casey Reas, RYBN.ORG, Antoine Schmitt, Ralf Schreiber, Warren Sack, Jan Peter Sonntag VENUE: Salas 1A & 1B PRODUCTION: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial GRAPHIC DESIGN: The Studio of Fernando Guti?rrez WORKSHOP SEMINAR INTERACTIVOS? PROCESS AS PARADIGM A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of Area of Arts of Madrid City Council DATES OF WORKSHOP: 8th to 20th of April 2010, from 10.30 am to 20 pm SEMINARS: Thursday and Friday 8th and 9th, 15th and 16th, and Tuesday 20th of April, from 10.30 am PARTICIPATION: the participation is free, registration is not neccesary VENUE: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial, Gij?n (Spain) Interactivos? are hybrids between a production workshop, a seminar and a showcase. A space for reflection, research, and collaborative work is created, in which proposals selected by an international open call are developed, completed and displayed. Interactivos? is a research and production platform for the creative and educational uses of technology. The process is open to the public from beginning to end. The seven selected proposals in a international call will be developed by the authors and collaborators during the workshop prior to the opening of the exhibition Process as Paradigm, on April 23rd 2010. The projects will become part of the exhibition. This exhibition, curated by Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers, reveals a huge shift from a culture based on the concept of manifestation and the final product (industrial society) to a culture of process. The Interactivos? workshop leading up to the exhibition is devoted to the production of artworks which follow the thesis of the exhibition. Selected projects: Driven By by Andr? Gon?alves, Everything is under control by Tommaso Lanza and Cathrine Kramer, FrankenFoodCart by Zackery Denfeld, Scan-it by Mar?a Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, Photographic spatial experiment by Boris Oicherman, Practice Mapping by Marco Quaggiotto and Wouter Van den Broeck and Territoris Oblidats by In?s Salpico. Check the projects and the full programme at http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial Los Prados, 121 33394 Gij?n (Asturias) Spain Tel: +34 985 185 577 Fax: +34 985 337 355 info@laboralcentrodearte.org http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Apr 19 15:24:01 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc.garrett@furtherfield.org) Date: Mon Apr 19 17:56:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] Furtherfield broadcast on Resonance FM. Tuesday, 20th April 2010. Message-ID: <380-22010411913241523@M2W106.mail2web.com> Sorry for any cross posting... Furtherfield broadcast on Resonance FM. Tuesday, 20th April 2010. A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of what's happening in contemporary media arts culture & social change. Tuesday 9.30 - 10.30. 20th April 2010. Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost interview: Pete Gomes, Film Director and Artist working across all forms of moving image and electronic media. Dr Nick Lambert - Researcher in Digital Media Arts at Birkbeck University and Secretary of the Computer Arts Society. Including various treasures, noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music and a selection recent works from Furthernoise.org. Live questions from the audience on the night: http://twitter.com/furtherfield & share comments using the hashtag #frfm Downloads of the last 3 broadcasts, info about guests and broadcasts... http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php More info about the Guests: Pete Gomes has collaborated extensively including; Shobana Jeyasingh, Michael Nyman, Errollyn Wallen, Jocelyn Pook, Donnacha Dennehy, Scanner and Throbbing Gristle. His film and video works cover varied styles and genres using music, documentary, experimental, and narrative techniques. Currently working on a new documentary film about performance art commissioned by Performa 09 and in 2008 his film Round 10 was commissioned by UK Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England and was screened in the UK, Channel Four and ABC Australia. http://www.mutantfilm.com Nick Lambert is the Principal Investigator on the AHRC Computer Art & Technocultures Project (CAT). Currently researching the history and development of digital-based artforms and is also lecturing on Digital and Dynamic Art on the BA History of Art in 2009/10 at Birkbeck University of London http://www.bbk.ac.uk/. Formerly the Research Fellow on the AHRC CACHe Project http://www.e-x-p.org/cache/index.HTM and is acting head of the Computer Arts Society http://www.computer-arts-society.org/ and Programme Chair of the EVA Conference. This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context. --------other info---------> About Furtherfield.org Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London. http://www.furtherfield.org http://www.http.uk.net/ About Resonance 104.4FM ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art." Resonance 104.4FM http://www.resonancefm.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web From istha at nimk.nl Tue Apr 20 14:03:43 2010 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Tue Apr 20 14:12:58 2010 Subject: [spectre] CALL FOR PROPOSALS Funware Shared Artist in Residence DEADLINE APRIL 23 Message-ID: <4BCD981F.2050404@nimk.nl> CALL FOR PROPOSALS Funware Shared Artist in Residence: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL) BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL) Piksel, Bergen (NO) CALL BALTAN, NIMk and Piksel have launched an open call for proposals as part of the exhibition project Funware. We are looking for interesting new software art projects that can be developed in the period of June ? November 2010 through a shared residency. The new work developed during the residency will be presented in the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010. This residency is a collaboration between three labs, based on a desire to investigate the ways and potential of working within a network of labs that support the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge. The form of this collaboration aims to provide the most specific and relevant support to artists working on art and technology projects in residence. Knowing the capacities and competences of each lab/organisation, the residency exchange will offer targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, local context and time) to be provided at different stages of the research and development of the project specific to each organisation. Off- and online dissemination of form and content via this partnership and the building of structural relationships are crucial to the collaboration. FUNWARE Funware, conceptualised by Olga Goriunova (runme.org), is an exhibition about the fun in software. Making and using what has become known as software is experimental, humorous, and eventful. However improbable it might sound for today?s all encompassing dullness of forms, databases, schedules and processors, ?fun? has informed and guided the development of software from its very inception. The rise of net art and the changes the Internet and desktop computers brought to culture gave rise to software art at the turn of the millennia. Performed by amateurs, artists, alternative coders or professional programmers for ?fun?, software art as an aesthetic practice questions, tangles and experiments with the materiality of software has subsequently lost its visibility again, as attention is turned to the social web and software applications for third generation mobile phones, which all harness some of the energies constitutive of aesthetic software. Funware reflects on the history of engagement with software, that demonstrates its non-industrial, non-professional, non-commercial, or non-academic character. The exhibition demonstrates the trajectory of humour and affect as constitutional to software and computing. The exhibition aims to make such an ?obscure? technological object as software, open, palpable and approachable, bridging a gap between ?serious? production such as technology and ?non-serious? production such as different forms of art. The exhibition has a few distinct threads: games; ASCII; code art; a few vectors of AI; computers in popular culture; spyware, conceptual software, hardware modification, hacker/virus approaches, sound, software modification, pranks, participatory web. And as software is intertwined with the hardware it runs upon and the networks that construct the society in which it rules, the exhibition features a lot of projects dealing explicitly with computer hardware or the materiality of hardwareas well as engaging projects experimenting with sound. We offer: - Residency period at each of the different labs (residency time at location will be project dependent) in the period of June ? November 2010. Specific dates at each location are to be determined in collaboration with the selected artist. - Artist(s) fee. - Production budget (including support of travel and accommodation, accommodation is not provided for in Amsterdam). - Presentation of the project in the Funware exhibition in Eindhoven (MU) and Dortmund (HMKV). - Public presentation of the results of the artist?s research at BALTAN Laboratories, NIMk and Piksel; - Support for the documentation of the research and final work, and dissemination of this documentation. Requirements: - Proposals are welcome from professional artists worldwide; - The concept should fit within the theme of the exhibition Funware, in which it will be presented; - The work should be created using free/open source software; - The artist should have experience working in collaborative settings with people from different disciplines; - The artist must be willing and able to travel to Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Bergen for residency periods (exact dates and period will be made in accordance with the artist); - The artist must be willing to openly and thoroughly document the artistic process. What are we looking for: - Outline of the concept underlying the work that you wish to develop (200 words max). - General outline of the scope of the final work (200 words max ? please include visual sketches). - Outline of the research and development plan for the work (250 words max) - Motivation for why you would like to work in the context of this particular residency as well as an overview of your interest in the technologies mentioned above (250 words max). - Indication of your planning divided between the three labs, i.e. what would you like to develop where. - Up-to-date CV including links to previous work. Please send your submission to call@nimk.nl Deadline for submission is Friday 23 April 2010. The candidate is chosen by representatives from the three partner organisations. Applicants will be informed by May 10th. ABOUT THE DIFFERENT VENUES Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL) http://www.nimk.nl The Artist in Residence (AiR) programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute supports the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work. The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues. There is access to studio and exhibition equipment, technical support from the Institute's staff and production help from interns. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realisation of the concept. BALTAN Laboratories (Eindhoven, NL) http://www.baltanlaboratories.org BALTAN Laboratories initiates, supports and disseminates innovative research and development activities in the field of art, technology and culture. A two-year pilot initiative located in a space of 500 m2 at Strijp S in Eindhoven, it is a first step towards a broader Art Science Lab in the former NatLab (Philips physics laboratory). BALTAN provides space, a critical framework and support for artistic research into technological culture. The pilot phase is intended to develop a radical and sustainable identity for the laboratory of the future. The Funware residency exchange with NIMk and Piksel in 2010 is an integral part of this research. BALTAN offers an open and flexible residency context in which we dialogue closely with the artist throughout the development of their project. Interaction with other research projects being undertaken at BALTAN is key to all residencies at BALTAN. We provide support for documenting, disseminating and reflecting on the research process and results of the residency, and offer a unique local context in which to work. BALTAN?s core team includes four artistic advisors: Marc Maurer (Maurer United Architects), Geert Mul, Gideon Kiers and Lucas van der Velden (Telcosystems). Piksel (Bergen, Norway) http://www.piksel.no/ Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software. The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy. ** Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam T 31 20 6237101 F 31 20 6244423 http://www.nimk.nl Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NetherlandsMediaArtInstitute Twitter: http://twitter.com/NIMk_nl Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nimk Media Art Platform: http://www.mediaartplatform.nl From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Tue Apr 20 17:21:49 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Tue Apr 20 17:22:25 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) laptopsrus =?iso-8859-1?q?=22MEETING_=7C_REUNI=D3N=22?= at stattbad april 24 Message-ID: To: spectre@mikrolisten.de From: shu lea cheang Subject: laptopsrus "MEETING | REUNI?N" at stattbad april 24 Cc: Bcc: Attachments: for spectre berliners please join laptopsrus MEETING | REUNI?N at Stattbad this saturday aprl 24. LaptopsRus "MEETING | REUNI?N" is an open public meeting of the laptop generation women live performers in an electronically updated boxing ring tournament setting. Meeting as performance, Reunion as tournament , we call for women performers to play with/against each other in collaborative/challenging ways. "MEETING | REUNI?N" is ladies' night out. We invite local woman VJs, live performers who maybe fresh and unknown in the AV festival circuit, to join us. Young, old, experienced, not-so-experienced, local, international VJs gather together to build and grow a dynamic woman network. to sign on and play or just come and enjoy a fun night http://www.laptopsrus.me now@laptopsrus.me From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Apr 21 06:46:28 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Apr 21 06:53:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) 1st Augmented Reality flashmob Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:17:54 +0400 From: Sander Veenhof Flashmobbing is back! Sorry... A former hype combined with our current hype gives: the worlds 1st Augmented Reality flashmob! Time and place: April 24th, 2PM - Dam square, Amsterdam Concept: "Bring your own virtual human statue" Check out the webpage for last-minute instructions on installing AR software on your contemporary communication device (iPhone or Android) to be prepared for Saturdays' event. http://sndrv.nl/ARflashmob From ajaco at xs4all.nl Wed Apr 21 21:38:03 2010 From: ajaco at xs4all.nl (Andreas Jacobs) Date: Wed Apr 21 21:45:22 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?windows-1252?q?=5BNictoglobe=5D_NSK=3A_Fascists_as_M?= =?windows-1252?q?uch_as_Painters=2C_Painters_as_Much_as_Fascists=3F=94_-_?= =?windows-1252?q?Article_by_Stevphen_Suvkiatas=2C_Updates_21_April_2010?= Message-ID: FYI: ? ?NSK: Fascists as Much as Painters, Painters as Much as Fascists?? - Article by Stevphen Suvkiatas: http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/articles/oiaob.html ? ?Mudra Machine Nr. 1? A. 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Andreas e: a.andreas@nictoglobe.com w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl Andreas Jacobs e: ajaco@xs4all.nl w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl From Jim at spacestudios.org.uk Thu Apr 22 18:38:31 2010 From: Jim at spacestudios.org.uk (Jim Prevett) Date: Thu Apr 22 18:40:01 2010 Subject: [spectre] DIY Technology workshops at SPACE Message-ID: The summer is upon us and it's time to beam those cheerful sunshine smiles. Hit the park, sip Sangrias, bike around and find your way to SPACE in Hackney. Learn something new this summer with our awesome DIY workshops as part of the PERMACULTURES programme. OPENLAB: Interactive Lighting with Arduino [Monday evenings | April 26th to May 17th] Learn all about creative uses of sensors to produce your own interactive lighting project. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb OWL PROJECT: Build your own mLog [May 15th + 16th] Build your own USB Music Controller from a real log. Unleash the techno Tarzan in you. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/owlproject Websites for Artists [May 10th + 17th] You got it. Now flaunt it. Learn how to build a website to showcase your portfolio. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/artistsites TINKER.IT: Beginner's Arduino [May 22nd, 23rd] Learn the basics of Arduino, open source micro controller for cheap and easy physical computing. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/tinkerit OPENLAB: Intermediate Processing [Thursday evenings | April 29th to May 17th] Learn how to visualize data with Processing. Enter a new world of artistic possibilities. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb OPENLAB: Introductory Processing [Thursday evenings | May 27th to June 24th] Learn the basics of Processing language for artists and designers. You'll know why code is poetry. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb Bitnik: Hack a Day 12: Frequency Modulations [Saturday 5th June] Build your own FM Transmitter and hack, broadcast pirate, jam. Use DIY technology as a tactical and artistic device. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/bitniks All this and more at SPACE all summer. Come and check them out. Jim Prevett Forthcoming Exhibitions: 14th May - 19th June 2010 Gavin Watson: RAVING '89 NEU! Ben Sansbury: AMAXAMA From Jim at spacestudios.org.uk Thu Apr 22 18:38:31 2010 From: Jim at spacestudios.org.uk (Jim Prevett) Date: Thu Apr 22 19:10:31 2010 Subject: [spectre] DIY Technology workshops at SPACE Message-ID: The summer is upon us and it's time to beam those cheerful sunshine smiles. Hit the park, sip Sangrias, bike around and find your way to SPACE in Hackney. Learn something new this summer with our awesome DIY workshops as part of the PERMACULTURES programme. OPENLAB: Interactive Lighting with Arduino [Monday evenings | April 26th to May 17th] Learn all about creative uses of sensors to produce your own interactive lighting project. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb OWL PROJECT: Build your own mLog [May 15th + 16th] Build your own USB Music Controller from a real log. Unleash the techno Tarzan in you. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/owlproject Websites for Artists [May 10th + 17th] You got it. Now flaunt it. Learn how to build a website to showcase your portfolio. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/artistsites TINKER.IT: Beginner's Arduino [May 22nd, 23rd] Learn the basics of Arduino, open source micro controller for cheap and easy physical computing. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/tinkerit OPENLAB: Intermediate Processing [Thursday evenings | April 29th to May 17th] Learn how to visualize data with Processing. Enter a new world of artistic possibilities. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb OPENLAB: Introductory Processing [Thursday evenings | May 27th to June 24th] Learn the basics of Processing language for artists and designers. You'll know why code is poetry. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/26u3ueb Bitnik: Hack a Day 12: Frequency Modulations [Saturday 5th June] Build your own FM Transmitter and hack, broadcast pirate, jam. Use DIY technology as a tactical and artistic device. Learn More: http://tinyurl.com/bitniks All this and more at SPACE all summer. Come and check them out. Jim Prevett Forthcoming Exhibitions: 14th May - 19th June 2010 Gavin Watson: RAVING '89 NEU! Ben Sansbury: AMAXAMA From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sat Apr 24 16:46:06 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sat Apr 24 16:49:44 2010 Subject: [spectre] Update on Furtherfield's Broadcasts on Resonance FM. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4BD3042E.7070604@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Update on Furtherfield's Broadcasts on Resonance FM. Hosted by Marc Garrett, artist, writer and co-founder of furtherfield.org, reviews and interviews with art historian & writer Charlotte Frost. Last Tuesday's interviews featured: Pete Gomes Film Director and Artist working across all forms of moving image and electronic media. Dr Nick Lambert - Researcher in Digital Media Arts at Birkbeck University. Head of the Computer Arts Society. Latest broadcast on 20th April for download: http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Also find other downloads for broadcasts since 9th March 2010. Interviews Featuring: Lottie Child: Founder of Street Training - Urban survival skills for the 21st century. Dougald Hine & Pete Gravell: Space Makers Agency, rethinking our use of everday spaces. Danja Vasiliev: Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Douglas Dodds: Co-curator of 'Digital Pioneers' at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). James Wallbank and Steve Withington: Access Space. longest running open access Internet participation project in UK. Sophie Macdonald and Sally Northmore: Co-founders of Mztek. Non- profit collective encouraging women artists to pick up technical skills in the fields of new media, computer arts, and technology. This regular live show highlights current activity and controversies around contemporary practices in art and technology, discussing events, exhibitions, debates and their social contexts with all manner of player and participant. Features include lively debate and interviews with artists, techies, writers and curators, interspersed with bleeding-edge music, some from Furthernoise.org, and a rolling programme of experimental creative adventures for your amusement. This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context. --------more info---------> About Furtherfield.org Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London. http://www.furtherfield.org http://www.http.uk.net/ About ResonanceFM ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art." Resonance 104.4FM http://www.resonancefm.com From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Apr 26 11:43:25 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Apr 26 11:44:07 2010 Subject: [spectre] Program - week 18 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100426114325.105E3464.B00319F9@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ____________________________________________ program- week 18 - 26 April - 02 May 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=771 ____________________________________________ 1. Feature of the week 18 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=773 W:MoRiA Women: Memory of Repression in Argentina curatorial environment by Agricola de Cologne & Raquel Partnoy The project is referring to the thirty thousands of persons who disappeared during the military dictatorships of the 20th century in Argentina, a war of the military against the own population,a genocide, which is also called - Argentine holocaust-, containing a number of authentic testimonies, a portrait of the Jewish family Partnoy which emigrated in the beginning of the 20th century from Europe to Argentina, a documentary which gives an idea how family structures were systematically destroyed while the military were ruling, further a number of young Argentine female New Media artists who deal with this traumatic memory manifested in their net based art works, curated by Agricola de Cologne, by name Irene Coremberg, Marina Zerbarini, Anahi Caceres and her Arte UNa network and Andamio Contiguo, an artists collaborative. 2. Feature of the Month April 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=733 -->VideoChannel Cologne - -Memory & Identity- 10 experimental videos from the USA curated by Alysse Stepanian (Santa Fe/USA) including Lana Z. Caplan, Brian DeLevie, Ron Diorio, Michael Greathouse, Soyeon Jung , Laleh Mehran, Joe Merrell, David Montgomery, Christine Schiavo, Brooks Williams 3. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project- a series of interviews with artists and experts in the fields of netart, electronic and digital art - listed on this permanent URL --> http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?p=111 ->this week: : Irene Coremberg(Argentina), Tamar Schori (Israel) Fieldes & McPherson (UK) All details on the week program --> http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=771 ---------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org director and chief curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne 2010 [at] newmediafest.org ---------------------------------------------------- From joris at v2.nl Wed Apr 28 11:08:48 2010 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Wed Apr 28 11:33:49 2010 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter May 2010 Message-ID: <4BD7FB20.8090800@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter May 2010 Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers May 20, 20:00-23:00, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-urban-screen-savers Featuring: Michelle Teran, Ubermatic (CA) | Gunnar Green, TheGreenEyl (DE) | Matthias Oostrik (NL) | Toine Horvers and Paul Cox (NL) | Rui Guerra, INTK (PT) A screen is a powerful medium in an artist?s hands, and public space is an appealing domain for encounters between an artist and his or her audience. But despite an ongoing increase in the number of digital urban screens in metropolitan spaces, their potential for artistic intervention and exhibition is only seldom exploited. Will artists end up merely designing urban screen savers, or can a thorough look at the artists? current demands contribute to defining a stronger artistic agenda for the urban screen, thereby ?saving? the urban screen as an artistic medium? Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers is streamed live at www.v2.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Augmented Reality Expert Meeting and TEDx Rotterdam June 4, Rotterdam http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/tedx-rotterdam V2_ will hold its second Augmented Reality Expert Meeting on June 4. After a successful edition last December, this time we will explore the artistic possibilities of AR technology in more depth. The first edition of TEDx Rotterdam will take place on the same day. As an official "creative partner" for TEDx Rotterdam, V2_ will select speakers for this popular conference. Therefore, a speaker exchange between the two events is a possibility. We will announce the program and participants soon at www.v2.nl The AR Expert Meeting is open to invited guests only. If you are interested in attending, please contact Jan Misker at the V2_Lab. From inke.arns at hmkv.de Tue Apr 27 16:45:44 2010 From: inke.arns at hmkv.de (Inke Arns) Date: Thu Apr 29 08:27:25 2010 Subject: [spectre] Advance booking ISEA2010 RUHR has started References: <665FCCB6-3EBE-4992-B4A4-40CD2DAA96F5@hmkv.de> Message-ID: <86238836-D086-49FD-BF59-7299B3D182BB@hmkv.de> Advance booking for ISEA2010 RUHR has started! Those who book their tickets online at www.isea2010ruhr.org/service/registration until 31 May 2010 get an extra discount of fifteen percent. On sale are the Full Professional Pass for ? 212,50 and the Symposium Pass for ? 127,5/85. Both Passes include free entrance to all ISEA2010 RUHR events. Additionally, the Full Professional Pass comprises one free copy of the conference proceedings, the programme booklet, the ISEA2010 RUHR catalogue and priority access to all events. Furthermore, it includes a welcome package that will help orientate yourself at ISEA2010 and in the Ruhr region. ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, has been held at different places worldwide since 1988: 2009 in Belfast and 2008 in Singapore. It will be in Germany for the first time this year! At several venues in the Ruhr Region, ISEA2010 presents current works and debates in Media Art worldwide from 20 until 29 August 2010. Apart from the academic conference where more than one hundred speakers will present recent developments in contemporary art and digital culture, ISEA2010 RUHR will also include keynotes, two exhibitions, the E-Culture Fair, performances, a week-long concert- and club programme as well as partner events by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, PACT Zollverein Essen, the Folkwang University for Music, Theatre, Dance, Design, Academic Studies, Essen and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl. Inquiries on booking, guided tours or group tickets may be directed to ticket@isea2010ruhr.org or +49.231.55 75 21 21. ISEA2010 RUHR, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, is a project of RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture, and is hosted by medienwerk.nrw. ISEA2010 RUHR is organised by Hartware MedienKunstVerein under the auspices of ISEA International and is funded by RUHR.2010 GmbH, the minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Dortmund and the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia. In cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Contact: ISEA2010 RUHR c/o Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund G?ntherstra?e 65 D-44143 Dortmund +49.231.55 75 21 21 ticket@isea2010ruhr.org http://www.isea2010ruhr.org Check out our Fansite at facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/ISEA2010-RUHR/110735215611577?ref=ts ------------------ Dr. Inke Arns Kuenstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Guentherstr. 65 (office) 44143 Dortmund, Germany T + 49 - 231 - 823 106 M + 49 - 176 - 430 627 93 inke.arns@hmkv.de www.hmkv.de hmkv-dortmund.blogspot.com www.inkearns.de From info at bankleer.org Tue Apr 27 18:43:12 2010 From: info at bankleer.org (bankleer) Date: Thu Apr 29 08:27:26 2010 Subject: [spectre] THEATER OF =?iso-8859-15?q?PEACE=5FFRIEDENSSCHAUPL=C4TZE=5FNGBK_B?= =?iso-8859-15?q?ERLIN=5F30=2E_APRIL_19_UHR?= Message-ID: <4BD71420.5090400@bankleer.org> hallo! endlich ist es soweit! wenn ihr wissen wollt, wof?r wir die letzten monate gearbeitet haben, kommt doch vorbei und feiert mit uns das ereignis! f?r diejenigen, die freitags bereits verplant sind: am sonntag ab 17 uhr pr?sentieren larissa sansour und oreet ashery eine performance, videos und ihren comic-roman the novel of nonel and vovel. im anschluss daran findet ein round-table mit allen anwesenden k?nstler_innen statt. liebe gr?sse bankleer www.bankleer.org .................... Friedensschaupl?tze / Theater of Peace Frieden und Sichtbarkeit in der asymmetrischen Welt Ausstellung, 1. Mai bis 13. Juni 2010 NGBK Berlin, Oranienstr. 25, 10999 Berlin Einladung zur Er?ffnung: 30. April 2010, 19 Uhr Kriegsschaupl?tze in aller Welt stehen t?glich im Mittelpunkt der medialen Aufmerksamkeit. Friedensarbeit hingegen ist unspektakul?r, langwierig und wenig attraktiv. Was aber macht einen Ort, eine Initiative, eine k?nstlerische Arbeit zu einem Schauplatz des Friedens? Welche alternativen Perspektiven lassen sich den asymmetrischen Sichtbarkeitsverh?ltnissen entgegen stellen? Ist Frieden ?berhaupt sichtbar und darstellbar? Die Ausstellung Friedensschaupl?tze versammelt k?nstlerische und aktivistische Strategien, die verdeckte Hintergr?nde an verschiedenen Krisenschaupl?tzen der Welt sichtbar machen, in ?ffentliche Diskurse intervenieren und sich der Kriegslogik widersetzen. Webplattform Friedensschaupl?tze / Theater of Peace www.theaterofpeace.org Die Website Theater of Peace / Friedensschaupl?tze versteht sich als Plattform des Austauschs, die Initiativen und K?nstler_innen auch ?ber die Dauer der Ausstellung hinaus miteinander vernetzt, indem sie Akteur_innen und Projekte in einer Datenbank sammelt und deren Orte als "Friedensschaupl?tze" weltweit kartiert. Alle Personen und Gruppen im Handlungsfeld von engagierter Kunst, Forschung und Friedensarbeit sind eingeladen, sich selbst und die eigenen Projekte in die Datenbank einzutragen sowie Videos, Bilder und Dokumente zur Verf?gung zu stellen. Veranstaltungsprogramm zur Ausstellung (Flyer): http://www.theaterofpeace.org/bilder/Theater-of-Peace_Flyer.pdf Mit Ausstellungsbeitr?gen von / With exhibition contributions from: Larissa Sansour/Oreet Ashery (Jerusalem, London, Kopenhagen), Floating Lab Collective (Washington D.C.), Mazen Kerbaj (Beirut), Solo7 (Nairobi-Kibera), Graine Th??tre/Espace Masolo (Paris/Kinshasa), Artists Without Walls (Israel/Pal?stina), Victor Gama (Angola), Robby Herbst (Los Angeles), David Reeb (Tel Aviv), Jan Caspers/Anne K?nig/Vera Tollmann/Jan Wenzel (Leipzig), Akim (Berlin), Grete Aagaard (Aarhus), Stefan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll (Berlin/Z?rich), Sandra Sch?fer/ Elfe Brandenburger (Berlin), Zentrum f?r politische Sch?nheit (Berlin), Institut Design2Context (Z?rich), Sabine Horlitz/Oliver Clemens (Berlin), Projekt Grenzgeografien: Philipp Misselwitz/Tim Rieniets (Istanbul/Z?rich), Samidoun media team/Kharita: Solidarity Maps (Libanon), Mona Fawaz/Ahmad Gharbieh/Mona Harb (Beirut), Steven Rowell (Berlin/Los Angeles), Decolonizing Architecture (Bethlehem), The Center for Landuse Interpretation (Los Angeles), Christiane Wehr/Ulf Treger (Hamburg), Lize Mogel/Dario Azzellini (New York/Berlin), OFOG (Schweden), Netzwerk Friedenssteuer (Deutschland), Women Videoletters (int.), Rosa Heide (Neuruppin u.a.), Clownsarmee (int.), G8 TV (int.), Elke Beyer und Anita Kaspar mit der Projektgruppe Theater of Peace Kuratorisches Team / Curatorial team: bankleer (Karin Kasb?ck und Christoph Leitner), Anke Hagemann, Dietrich Hei?enb?ttel From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Thu Apr 29 08:28:38 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Thu Apr 29 08:30:11 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Lighthouse debates: Surveillance, internet freedom & beyond Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:09:13 +0100 From: Honor Harger Dear Spectres, Just a short reminder about our two political debates this week at Lighthouse, that both feature some familiar faces to the Spectre community. Tonight, Manu Luksch is with us to present Beyond Surveillance: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/surveillance.htm Tomorrow night, we will be debating one of the most controversial laws to be based on internet freedom in Europe - the UK's Digital Economy Act: - Debating the Digital Economy Act Thursday 29 April http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/digitaleconomyact.htm Matt Adams (Blast Theory) is amongst the participants of that event. Both events will be documented, and made available on the Lighthouse website. For those near Brighton, I hope to see you here. Best wishes, Honor Harger Director Lighthouse LIGHTHOUSE DEBATES - APRIL 2010 http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/events.htm A week before the UK General Election, Lighthouse is staging two events which explore some of the most controversial and pressing issues which face contemporary civil society. On Wednesday 28 April, we will explore how the UK has evolved into one of the most surveilled nations in the world, and how artists are reacting to this process. "Beyond Surveillance", lead by Manu Luksch, will show how artists are critiquing the culture and technology of surveillance. On Thursday, we will focus on the contentious Digital Economy Act, the wide-ranging piece of media and technology reform, passed into law by the Government this April. The Act has been criticised by some commentators for it's approach to copyright infringement, which many say threatens free expression, whilst supporters of the law say it is vital for protecting Britain's creative industries. What is your view? What do the provisions of this far-reaching law means for you? Come and join us at Lighthouse on Thursday 29 April to air your views. *** BEYOND SURVEILLANCE *** http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/surveillance.htm Date: Wednesday 28 April Time: Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton Cost: Free videoclub and the Index on Censorship present a screening of artworks developed in response to, and in counteraction against, surveillance technologies, with a panel of speakers discussing the consequences of and alternatives to surveillance in our daily life. Curated by Manu Luksch, the event asks what are the consequences of surveillance on our daily lives? Is surveillance provoking a climate of self-censorship? Is a society without a paternalistic infrastructure of control, such as surveillance and censorship, possible? As surveillance technologies become more ubiquitous - from CCTV to data-mining on websites to mobile phones to Google streetcar - does it not become ever more important to consider the implications and to develop creative, radical responses, counteracting and reversing acts of surveillance? Speakers: - Caspar Below - artist - Julia Farrington - Head of Arts at Index on Censorship - Manu Luksch - ambientTV.NET / artist - David Valentine - artist More information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/surveillance.htm *** DEBATING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY ACT *** http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/digitaleconomyact.htm Date: Thursday 29 April Time: Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton Cost: Free, but registration required: http://www.wiredsussex.com/dea What does the UK's Digital Economy Act mean for the digital, creative and cultural sectors? Wired Sussex and Lighthouse are teaming up to stage a quick response event reacting to the controversial Digital Economy Act, which the UK Government passed into Law this April. One week before the General Election, this is your opportunity to talk about how the Act is going to impact on you. Supporters of the Act say it strikes "the right balance between giving creative artists more protection and giving consumers a fair deal" (Ben Bradshaw, 8 April), whilst opponents say that it is "an attack on everyone's right to communicate, work and gain an education." (Open Rights Group, 9 April). What do you think? The debate will be chaired by Anthony Lilley, the BAFTA winning chief executive of Magic Lantern, who also acts as advisor on matters digital to many leading organisations. Anthony will be joined by some of Brighton's digerati recently acknowledged in Wired magazine's Top 100 . Speakers: - Anthony Lilley (OBE), chief executive of Magic Lantern & chair of Lighthouse - chair - Jeremy Keith - musician & director at Clearleft - named in Wired's Top 100 - Matt Adams - artist, Blast Theory - named in Wired's Top 100 - James McCarthy - director, The Werks, workspace - Nik Butler - social networker and opinioneer More information: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/digitaleconomyact.htm -- Honor Harger Director Lighthouse http://www.lighthouse.org.uk Address: 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ, UK Tel: +44 1273 647197 email: honor@lighthouse.org.uk Find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LighthouseArts Join our mailing list: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/about/signup.html -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . honor harger present location: brighton, .uk email: honor@va.com.au sms: +44 7765834272 -> w o r k incoming director of lighthouse: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk -> r e c e n t guest curator of transmediale.10: http://www.transmediale.de -> r e s e a r c h mphil at z-node, ch: http://www.z-node.net/ -> w e b bio: http://www.radioqualia.net/honor - > a r t r a d i o q u a l i a: http://www.radioqualia.net -> l i s t e n radio astronomy: http://www.radio-astronomy.net From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Apr 29 10:22:16 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Thu Apr 29 10:23:25 2010 Subject: [spectre] netEX - calls & deadlines --> MAY 2010 Message-ID: <20100429102216.842580D9.C1FBEC42@192.168.0.2> netEX: calls & deadlines -->MAY 2010 ------------------------------------- NewMediafest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne ------------------------------------- newsletter contents a) . news b) calls & deadlines --> 03 Calls: 2010 deadlines internal 16 Calls: MAY 2010 deadlines external 11 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ a) news NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January -31 December 2010 http://2010.newmedaifest.org includes in MAY following venues --> CologneOFF V - Cologne International Videoart Festival - at 1) AllArtNow International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria http://www.allartnow.com- 25-30 May 2010 2) Fonlad - Digital Art Festival 15-28 May Coimbra/PT - http://www.fonlad.net 3) One Shot - International Shortfilm Festival Yerewan/Armenia 17-24 May 2010 4) Athens Video Art Festival 7-9 May 2010 - http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr ------------------------------------------------ b) Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ MAY 2010: deadlines internal ------------------------------------------------ NewMediaFest'2010 has currently 3 calls running CologneOFF VI - Cologne International Videoart Festival extended deadline 4 May 2010 Call for film & videoart http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 NewMediaFest'2010 VideoChannel - deadline 31 May 2010 Family Affair II - Father // Brothers and Sisters http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 NewMediaFest'2010 *ongoing deadline 1 September 2009 - 1 September 2010 Java Museum - Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010 details, regulations and entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 ------------------------------------------------ MAY 2010 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 May 18th Contravisioon Int. Film Festival Berlin http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2281 31 May Fundata Artists Film Festival 2010 - Halifx/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2128 30 May Digital Art Festival Sofia 2010 - Experimental films http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2220 30 May 11thGas Natural International Exhibition - La Coruna/Spain http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2232 25 May Yogyakarta Media Art Festival 2010 - Indonesia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2253 24 May Visions in the Nunnery 2010 London/UK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2148 21 May Gaza International Video art Festival 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2278 15 May Videoart Screening Night Pesaro/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2241 15 May MusicVideoArt 5 - Mons-en-Baroeul (France) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1937 15 May EXIS 2010 - Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul/South Korea http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2132 14 May DIY Kenya Commission http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2271 1 May Busho - Budapest Short Film Festival 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2008 1 May Los Angeles Film Forum 2010 Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2125 1 May Patras International Festival of Film & Culture (Greece) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2181 1 May The UnifiedField Video Performance Yogyakarta/indonesia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2198 1 May Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2010 Minneapolis/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2275 ----------------------------------------------- Ongoing calls: external/internal ----------------------------------------------- ---> SFC - Shoah Film Collection by VideoChannel & A Virtual Memorial Foundation ---> Selfshadows 2.= - net based project by Javier Bedrina -->Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA -->OUTCASTING - web based screenings -->Films and video screenings Sioux City (USA) -->Laisle screenings Rio de Janeiro/Brazil -->Videos for Helsinki based video gallery - 00130 Gallery -->Web based works for 00130 Gallery Helsinki/Finland -->Project: Repetition as a Model for Progression by Marianne Holm Hansen -->US webjournal Atomic Unicorn seeks netart and video art for coming editions -->TAGallery and more deadlines on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?page_id=4 ----------------------------------------------- NetEX - networked experience http://netex.nmartproject.net # calls in the external section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=3 # calls in the internal section--> http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=1 ----------------------------------------------- # This newsletter is also released on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?cat=9 # netEX - networked experiences is a free information service powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne http://www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany # info & contact: info (at) nmartproject.net From galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr Thu Apr 29 12:09:40 2010 From: galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr (galerija galzenica) Date: Thu Apr 29 12:17:22 2010 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition, Recycle The Future!, May 5th - May 30th 2010 Message-ID: <4BD95AE4.2050500@globalnet.hr> " Recycle The Future! " May 5th - May 30th 2010 in Galzenica Gallery at 8 p.m. Aleksandrija Ajdukovic (SR), Paul Matosic (GB), Tonka Malekovic (HR) and Tanja Perisic (HR) Artists? talk will be held at the gallery on the day of the exhibition, May 5th, beginning at 6 p.m. The talk will be recorded and available in audio format at http://galzenica.posterous.com/ --- When in a recent interview Umberto Eco was asked about the size of his private library, he said that he throws away most of the books he receives as a gift or those he doesn't need any more. However, for the post-war welfare state generation this behaviour of the noted Italian writer would have seemed quite outrageous. Up until recently, to treat items of high culture as nondurable goods meant that you were either totally economically irresponsible or that you obviously had utter contempt for humanist culture in general. Merging of economic and cultural capital ? a practice that began in the second half of the 20th century ? is still very productive, especially in the field of museum institutions and the associated idea of the original work of art, or the concept of master-piece. But it is clear that the flow of contemporary cultural capital is different today. Without analysing the reasons for this change, the present situation can be shortly explained in this way: the humanist culture ? until recently being a privileged working field that served as a symbolic capital of a certain society ? became yet another economic sector, next to tourism, entertainment industry and sport. In another words, there is more writing, reading and publishing today than ever before; more painting, performing and exhibitions; more music and theatre performances. When this is supplemented by further so called primary sector production growth, it isn?t hard to conclude that that the majority of our everyday activities are aimed at managing abundance of goods. Ecological aspect of that management is the subject of the joint work by Paul Matosic and Tonka Malekovic. Similar to their previous art practice, they work with discarded materials and items. This time Matosic and Malekovic are using obsolete and disposed computer equipment. The artists will treat the distribution seting up of the objects in the gallery space as a site-specific installation. In a direct physical/tactile contact with a large amount of waste, the public is invited to comprehend the ratio of contemporary production of goods. Aleksandrija Ajdukovic, on the other hand, is interested in commodity market. Citizens of the Republic of Serbia ? or, more precisely, Chinese immigrants on the one hand, and the domicile population on the other ? were asked to advertise a nonexistent Chinese detergent in a specific commercial manner. By juxtaposing national stereotypes and advertising strategies the artist points to the ridiculous aspect of the global market. Tanja Perisic?s photo montages deal with the problem of the future social development based on unlimited production and consumption of topics. Nowadays the awareness of unsustainability of this kind social development is manifested in different ways: from the economical - or political - critique of neoliberal capitalism, through discovery of new, green sources of energy, to alternative ways of living . It seems to us that this very atmosphere of the immanent end of one phase of social development, i.e. one civilization focused on appropriation of human labour and nature, is best presented in the dystopian landscapes of Tanja Perisic. (K.Stefancic) --- Aleksandrija Ajdukovic was born in Osijek in 1975. She graduated from the Bra?a Karic Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrdae (Department of Photography). She is currently attending a post-graduate interdisciplinary study at the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She has received the Photography Award at the 2004 October Salon in Belgrade and the 2005 Young Talents Henkel Award. Tonka Malekovic was born in Zagreb. In 2006 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2003 she has been exhibiting at solo and group shows in Croatia and abroad. She has received several artist scholarships and residencies, as well as the 2007 ESSL Award and the 2009 Zagreb Salon Award. This year she has been elected as finalist of the Radoslav Putar Award. She lives and works in Zagreb. Paul Matosic has been present on the art scene of the United Kingdom, continental Europe and North America over three decades. He has been active in many artistic fields (performance, film, sculpture, site-specific installations, curating, etc), and was a lecturer at many art academies for a number of years. He received five art awards for his work. Tanja Perisic graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006. She is currently attending a post-graduate study at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She has received a number of awards for her work and attended several artist residencies in Austria, Belgium, Germany. She mostly exhibited in Croatia, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands. Her work has mainly been focused on the correlation between technology, the body and its surrounding space. Curators: Sanja Horvatincic, Nina Pisk, Klaudio Stefancic -- 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 dusan at idealnypartner.sk Thu Apr 29 16:28:04 2010 From: dusan at idealnypartner.sk (db) Date: Thu Apr 29 17:01:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] SAY CHEESE GOES CHDK. Workshop. Berlin. June 10-13, 2010 Message-ID: <8783.92.225.141.131.1272551284.squirrel@xena.media7.sk> SAY CHEESE GOES CHDK - Eyes on creative workshop & hacked cameras' meeting. (No permanent changes, no warranty, free to use and modify..) With: Kubo Ludma Czechoslovakia->Berlin Organized: Natalia Borissova/aa-vv.org / TAZ Hosted: Stephan Kallage/West Germany June 10 - 13, 2010. 1PM - 7PM daily June 13, 2010. From 7PM - X-position @WEST GERMANY Skalitzer str.133 10999 Berlin How to get unbelievable functionality out of the cheap point-and-shoot Canon photo-camera by installing CHDK and scripts onto it. You will be exploring the possibilities and limitations of CHDK while doing fun small projects individually or together; acquire skills necessary to write and debug small programs for the camera; mastering your own remote shutter release, battery packs and other hardware without risking damaging your camera as well as to repairing (seemingly) defective ones; making videos from photographs using free software; compiling programs, and benefiting from the situation where 15 hacked cameras meet together. (Syncing all cameras and arranging some fast rugged 'matrix' shot, for instance..) CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) is a widespread unofficial software add-on for cheap digital CANON compact cameras that can get unbelievable functionality out of them: Shooting in raw, automating camera actions with scripts, making time lapse videos, super-fast motion detection (able to catch lightning strikes), extremely short and long exposures, syncing two cameras for stereo photography, rugged film scanning, luminography - painting with light, microscopic photography/depth-of-field stacking, book scanning, aerial photography, stop motion animation, bracketing/high dynamic range, syncing many cameras, using as text file reader, games, communication with other equipment.. The workshop aimed at: 15 experimentally working (anti)-artists/-photographers/-animators/ -movie makers/-sexy models, amateur astronomers, those who are not-so-technically versed and experience frustration when running into computer problems and those who could do this on their own, but would like to do it with us. To participate, drop a line to: workshop [at] aa-vv [dot] org briefly outlining your interests. URL would be helpful too. Fee: 55,- Euro/The whole lot Registration until June 1, 2010 Further details: http://www.aa-vv.org ~ Please forward to anyone interested From Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at Thu Apr 29 18:55:00 2010 From: Oliver.Grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Thu Apr 29 18:55:43 2010 Subject: [spectre] Wtrlt: Entangled: Technology - Performance / MIT Press/ Chris Salter Message-ID: <4BD9D6040200003C00030989@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> highly recommended. >>> Chris Salter 4/29/2010 6:25 PM >>> Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the release of Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance from the MIT Press. Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance Chris Salter Foreward by Peter Sellars This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology?s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational?from a "ballet of objects and lights" staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically enabled "responsive environments"?have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter?s exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging practices?in particular in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of digital art need to master not only electronics and code but also dramaturgy, lighting, sound, and scenography. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and artists as well as a handbook for future praxis. Endorsements: "Entangled stays true to its name. It is one of those rare books that builds networks and bridges - between the body and technology, the material and the ephemeral, thinking and making." ?William Forsythe, Artistic Director, The Forsythe Company, Frankfurt Germany "Salter's Entangled is a rich source book that presents the relationship between performance art and technology in a unique and broad perspective. The manifold artworks described in this overwhelming volume testify to the continuity of artistic exploration throughout the twentieth century and show how contemporary, digitally based practices are rooted in the lasting curiosity about what it means to be human in an age of ever-evolving machine systems." ?Andreas Broeckmann, art theorist and curator, Berlin "The routes we usually take to tell our stories about media, architecture, embodiment, and movement are challenged here by all- terrain travel: to warp, sing, pixilate, fly. Cross-medial engagement in a wide variety of performance practices is carefully articulated, skillfully performed, smartly theorized, and rigorously historicized, helping us shake off the habitual media-versus-live, or human-versus- machine divide to tangle our sensibilities in far more interesting claims. This is an important book." ?Rebecca Schneider, Brown University The Author: Chris Salter is an artist, Assistant Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal and researcher with the Hexagram institute for Research-Creation in Media Arts. His works, large-scale multimedia environments, have been exhibited worldwide. For more information: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12153 Best, Chris ? Christopher L. Salter, Ph.D. Asst. 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