From gordana.novakovic at btopenworld.com Mon Feb 1 00:12:41 2010 From: gordana.novakovic at btopenworld.com (ENSEMBLE Novakovic) Date: Mon Feb 1 00:13:25 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?utf-8?q?TESLA=40UCL_=3A=3A_Anna_Dumitriu_and_Dave_La?= =?utf-8?b?d3JlbmNlOjogRnJpZGF5LDE5IEZlYnJ1YXJ5LCAxOTowMCDigJMgMjA6MDA=?= Message-ID: <849720.81120.qm@web86501.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Dear Spectre, If you are in London... Friday, 19 February; 19:00 ? 20:00 University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing (Details how to get there at the bottom of the page) Artists Anna Dumitriu and Dave Lawrence:: KryoLab KryoLab Dave Lawrence and Anna Dumitriu discuss their project 'KryoLab', made in collaboration with Antti Tenetz. The project brings together bioart, ice sculpture and sound, in an investigation of delicate relationships in the Arctic ecosystem. It traces their individual and collective journeys, in terms of investigative art/science research as well as in terms of being part of the experimental European/world wide collaborative e-MobiLArt project - designed to encourage collaboration with scientists, and with artists from other cultural backgrounds and geographic locations. Anna Dumitriu Anna Dumitriu is a visual artist whose highly experimental work is involved with the nature of trans-disciplinary practice-based research. She has collaborated with scientists many major projects and often tends to go very deeply into her chosen area of research, taking on, or attempting to take on, the role of scientist in an almost performative sense, raising paradigmatic questions in her work. Her installations, interventions and performances use a range of digital, biological and traditional media including video projections, mobile phones and embroidery, working with diverse audiences often in non-traditional settings. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile is held in several public collections. She is currently Artist in Residence at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Dept of Informatics at Sussex University, participating in the e-MobiLArt project (EU funded European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists) and researching her practice-based Fine Art PhD part-time at The University of Brighton. She was recently invited to become a contributing editor to Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Dave Lawrence Dave Lawrence (aka Sponde) is a sonic artist, composer, performer, and collaborative explorer. Special interests - time & place, analogue/digital worlds, sounds and science of life, forming instruments, exploring interaction, inside and outside. Composition adopts meticulous serendipity and often uses multiple layers of sounds - sampled (in ?soundabout? walks), generated, performed, synthesised, and/or digitally processed. In addition to e-MobiLArt, projects include: ?Secret Life? (Transmediale, Berlin 2009; collaboration with Joanna Hoffmann), ?Somniloquy? (a sonic drama, Brighton 2008, Fiorenzo Palermo), ?Stardust Ruins? (Liliane Lijn, Riflemaker London Summer 08), ?Laranjas? (Portugal, June 08, In?s Amado), ?Soundings from the Estuary? (London, June 08, Frank Watson), ?Sphere & Cross? (NCCA, Moscow Dec 06, Sasha Frolova) Getting to UCL: The nearest Tube stations are Euston Square and Warren Street. For full details, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/public-transport How to find the Garwood Lecture Theatre: Once you enter the main gate of UCL in Gower Street, you will face the Portico in the UCL quadrangle courtyard. Please take the right hand side diagonal and walk to the right corner of the building. You will see the brass tablet indicating South Wing. Enter the second entrance door at the South Wing, and you will find the Garwood Lecture Theatre on the first floor. There will be signs from the entrance that will help you to find the exact location easily. You may also consult the UCL maps at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps Entrance is free, all welcome. All best, Gordana Novakovic, Tesla founder/curator www.gordananovakovic.net From oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at Mon Feb 1 00:44:31 2010 From: oliver.grau at donau-uni.ac.at (Oliver Grau) Date: Mon Feb 1 00:46:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] Visual Culture Studies in Europe - Friday 5th February 2010 Message-ID: <4B6623EF0200003C0002D495@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> Friday 5 February 2010 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, University of Westminster, London 10:00 Introduction 10:15-12:30 Session 1: Cartographies of Power Iain Chambers, University of Naples, Italy Joachin Barriendos, Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, and Professor Anna Maria Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain Dr Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University, Belarus/Lithuania 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:45: Session 2: Education, Education, Education Professor Adrian Rifkin, Goldsmiths, University of London, England Lorraine Audric and Professor Andre Gunthert, L?Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Dr Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian, University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway 3:45-4:15 Break 4:15-6:30: Session 3: Projects Dr Oyvind Vagnes, University of Bergen, Norway Kresimir Purgar, Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University, Krems, Austria From kovats at transmediale.de Mon Feb 1 02:02:23 2010 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Mon Feb 1 02:03:09 2010 Subject: [spectre] transmediale.10: FUTURITY NOW! - opening Tuesday! Message-ID: <5521CA74-02CD-4562-9CBC-C552BE58A541@transmediale.de> FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 2 - 7 February 2010 House of World Cultures (HKW) and other locations across Berlin www.transmediale.de But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.' The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 1895 Dear spectrites! Last night, as part of Berlin's 'Long Night of the Museums', we opened two exhibitions by transmediale.10 award nominees, [The User] and Felix Luque Sanchez . Both are exceptional works, which are now open to the public daily through the festival. With these pre-openings almost all of transmediale 15 Satellite events and locations are in full swing now! See all the Satellite events at The festival officially launches tomorrow February 2, 2010, and we hope to see you at our Opening Gala . Doors to the HKW open at 1700, and the Opening Ceremony, featuring an appearance by science-fiction author and technology pioneer, Herbert W. Franke will be followed by a special live performance out on the HKW terrace (yes ... in the fresh snow!) by the pioneering sound artist and composer Charlemagne Palestine playing Berlin's Tiergarten carillon, next to the House of World Cultures . Simultaneously we will 'switch on' Yvette Mattern's installation "From One to Many" - a rainbow of seven laser beams, slicing through Berlin from the HKW, past the glass dome of the German parliament to the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz . Back inside the HKW the Salon, Free Culture Incubator and transmediale Award nominee works will be on display and we'll be opening the transmediale.10 exhibition, Future Obscura curated by Honor Harger . Performances by our special guests aaajiao, Byetone (raster-noton), and Benjamin Laurent Aman complete the evening! (and a special thanks here to the Ferchau Engineering GmbH for making a reception possible this year!!) Full announcements, programmes and schedule on the transmediale.10: FUTURITY NOW programme are available online, with some of the main programme segments highlighted below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! 2 - 7 February 2010 House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin 1] Introduction 2] Conference 3] Exhibition 4] Performance 5] Film & Video 6] Salon 1] Introduction Between 2 - 7 February, with FUTURITY NOW!, transmediale.10 presents a unique and intensive programme of lectures, screenings, performances, exhibitions, concerts and much, much more! We are thrilled about the participation of such great artists, writers and researchers including Ryoji Ikeda, Bruce Sterling, Gabriella Giannachi, Michael Khaimzom, Charlemagne Palestine, Feng Mengbo, F.A.T. Lab, Regine Debatty, Steve Lambert, Joy Tang, Jem Finer, Alan Shapiro, Yvette Mattern, Rasha Salti, raster-noton ... and also especially about welcoming you! 2] Conference "The fact that you have no interest in the future, does not mean that the future has lost interest in you." [Bruce Sterling] Have we caught up with our notions of the future? This is the principle question posed at Future Observatory, the transmediale.10 conference, taking place from 5 - 7 February 2010 in the iconic House of World Cultures in Berlin. Thinkers from various fields will discuss the epistemologies, limitations, ruptures and malfunctions of the future as an object of cultural projection. It brings together designers, media artists, net citizens, critical thinkers and researchers in order to create a network to lens the future. It will be anchored by keynotes from renown writer and futurologist, Bruce Sterling; technology pioneer Conrad Wolfram (co-founder of Wolfram Alpha); and writer and critic Richard Barbrook (author of "Imaginary Futures"). Future Observatory examines the, ways of perception and patterns of behaviour that are inscribed into our contemporary media cultural society. What is the code that performs the operation future? From the perspective of modernity the 21st century served as an object of projection for innumerable exuberant visions of future societies and techno-utopias. 2000, 2001, 2010 are emblematic as appointed dates for futuristic notions of social and economic progress to come true. Until now however this is neither the case regarding the utopian, nor the dystopian predictions. We have neither arrived in the kind of future that was foreseen for us, nor have we left this very future behind altogether. Paradoxically today we find ourselves in a future that belongs to the past - and which simultaneously contradicts our present. What we are currently experiencing above all are the limitations, ruptures and malfunctions caused by this temporal superimposition. The conference will open on 5 February 2010 with the special Futurity Long Conversation relay event. 21 guests will discuss projects, ideas, technologies and utopias that are already determining our future. In The Long Conversation the dialogue as an aesthetic, analytical and collaborative process expands into a special timezone in which the participants and the audience oscillate between the disciplines of art, science and industry. The format of the Futurity Long Conversation was inspired by the work of The Long Now Foundation and the Longplayer Trust, international organisations crafting ways with which to perceive time and durational process in radically different and perhaps media technologically appropriate ways. Keynotes: Richard Barbrook (UK) / Imaginary Futures Conrad Wolfram (UK) / Wolfram | Alpha Bruce Sterling (US) / Atemporality! Participants in the Futurity Long Conversation and Conference panels include: Susan Neiman (US), Jem Finer (UK), Drew Hemment (UK), Andy Cameron (UK), Joy Tang (TW), Tim Edler (DE), Trebor Scholz (US), jaromil (IT), Julian Oliver (NZ), Maja Kuzmanovic (HR), Gustaff Harriman Iskandar (ID), Denisa Kera (CZ), Juliana Rotich (KE), Florian R?tzer (DE), Mercedes Bunz (DE), Alexander Rose (US), Sascha Lobo (DE), Tiziana Terranova (IT), Steve Lambert (US), Siegfried Zielisnki (DE) In addition, transmediale.10 Award nominees Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work, a tandem live coding performance of the The Long Conversation. Further information on the conference including all participants can be found on: (With special thanks to the support of the BpB - the German Federal Foundation for Civic Education!) 3] Exhibition We make our journeys out there in the low light of the future, and return to the bourgeois day and its mass delusion of safety, to report on what we've seen. What are any of these 'utopian dreams' of ours but defective forms of time-travel? Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (2006) Future Obscura brings together a group of diverse artworks which explore the complex condition of futurity through the lens of image- making. Clear boundaries of the time continuum are broken down by artists whose work allows us to peer into the 'low light of the future'. As her curatorial departure point, guest curator Honor Harger explores the camera obscura, the historical apparatus in whose interior the image of an exterior scene can be projected. The exhibition presents the work of artists who re-work this mechanism artistically by appropriating the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making. It features a large-scale audiovisual installation by pioneering Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, who is presenting at transmediale for the first time. Other highlights include the German premi?res of White Noise, a major installation by rising star Zilvinas Kempinas, who represented Lithuania at the 2009 Venice Biennale and A Parallel Image, an electronic camera obscura by Gebhard Sengm?ller, previously known for his striking work Vinyl Video. transmediale.10 will also stage the world premi?res of important new site-specific pieces by Julius von Bismarck, Julien Maire, Yvette Mattern and Julian Oliver. Together the works in the exhibition meditate on how futurity is an obscured notion of what we used to think of as the future. Exhibition artists: Julius von Bismarck (de), Ryoji Ikeda (jp/fr), Zilvinas Kempinas (lt/ us), Julien Maire (de/fr), Yvette Mattern (de/us), Alice Miceli (br), Julian Oliver, Clara Boj, Diego Diaz and Damian Stewart (nz/es), Ken Rinaldo (us), Gebhard Sengm?ller (au), Bengt Sj?l?n, Adam Somlai- Fischer & Usman Haque (se/hu/uk), TeZ (it/nl) Further informations concerning the exhibition can be found on http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-exhibition-future-obscura 4] Performance The transmediale.10 Performance programme presents a range of concerts and events acting as auditory and performative interrogations of FUTURITY NOW!.The highlight: six concert evenings in collaboration with CTM featuring some of the most important figures working within music and sound today. Each night new, and often rare, performances by Ryoji Ikeda, artificiel, Jurgen Reble & Thomas K?ner and AtomTM will represent the most experimental intersections of audiovisual culture and digital art. A special performance evening co-hosted by eARTS Shanghai on Sunday February 07 featuring Feng Mengbo, aaajiao, FM3_Zhang and Dj set by Ben Huang will wrap-up transmediale.10! At 19:00 each evening, the Cafe Global Stage at the House of World Cultures will be brought to life by a series of performances. transmediale is proud to present the world premi?re of La Chambre Des Machines by Nicholas Bernier and Martin Messier, plus unique interpretations of works featuring Matthias Fritsch, Rachida Ziani and Dewi de Vree, and Andrea Lange. Some of Berlin's finest talent in the form of Pe Lang, Benjamin Laurent Aman and Lord Cry Cry will close each evening with a special sound landscape exploring the post- avant-garde of audio culture. More details about the Highlights of the performance programme can be found on http://www.transmediale.de/en/performance-highlight-transmediale-ctm- col... 5] Film & Video The film & video programme of transmediale.10 consists of eleven programmes with a total of 54 films of all genres. Feature, documentary, animation, experimental films and video art from 20 countries will be shown, with a special focus on the selections from the 600 submissions from 30 countries. The films look at FUTURITY NOW! in terms of failed utopias and illuminate various sub-topics such as the role of the media, the future human body or the post- socialist era. Guest curator Rasha Salti from Beirut is going to present the online platform ArabShorts.net and discuss the relevance of digital media for the Arab world. Two additionally curated programmes will approach the theme of transmediale.10 from a historical perspective: Man & Machine is about the conflicts between man and the technologies created by he himself. Short Fictions presents science fiction shorts made by artists. In 1957 Hugh Stubbins designed the utopian architecture of the HKW as a conscious counterpart to the Stalin Allee in East Berlin. In the matin?e on Sunday the plot of the GDR's first science fiction film will unfold in this very building: Der Schweigende Stern (1959) by Kurt Maetzig pictures the dark vision of a failed civilisation. More informations about the film&video programme can be found on http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-film-video-programme 6] Salon ... Talks, Workshops, Art The transmediale.10 Salon consists of three interdisciplinary strands exploring FUTURITY NOW!. With a specific focus on free culture and process-based projects, the Salon will engage cultural thinkers and makers into conversations and actions that lay down future strategies for a global network age. The Free Culture Incubator curated by Ela Kagel and the Phuturama sub-conference on Speculative and Fictive Design curated by Gregor Sedlag are two of the main highlights of the Salon programme! -- Festival and Day Passes, as well as the special Conference Pass, and individual concert/performance tickets with reductions for students are available online! http://www.transmediale.de/en/tickets With best regards, and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin at transmediale.10, Stephen Kovats artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale (#tm10) facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Feb 1 13:24:12 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Feb 1 13:24:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] NewMediaFest'2010 - week 06 - preview Message-ID: <20100201132412.4148DFC0.DFD3E2C5@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ------------------------------------- Week 06 - 1-7 February 2010 ------------------------------------- 1. Feature of the month February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=436 On occasion 27 January 2010 - 65th Return of the Liberation of Auschwitz A Virtual Memorial Foundation launched on (27 January 1945-2010) - SFC - Shoah Film Collection- http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=669 2. new ! SFC - Shoah Film Collection - daily solo features on http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1641-->> this week: Monday: Alicia Felberbaum (UK) Tuesday: Isobel Blank (Italy) Wednesday: Holger Kiess (Germany) Thursday: Antti Savela (SWE) Friday: Miri Nishri (Israel) Saturday: Grace Graupe Pillard (USA) Sunday: Lukas Matejka (Slovakia) 3. Celebrate! - netart features 2010 10 Years - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art the netart features are released in form of the daily journal - "Celebrate!" - http://2010.javamuseum.org This week--> Monday: Gr?goire Zab? (France) Tuesday: Marc Lee (Switzerland) Wednesday: Timo Kahlen (Gerrmany) Thursday: Curt Cloninger (USA) Friday: Susanne Berkenheger (Germany) Saturday: jurgen trautwein aka jtwine (USA) Sunday: Carlo Sansolo (Brazil) 4. SIP - SoundLAB Interview project--> a series of interviews - http://sip.newmediafest.org/?p=414-->this week: : Monday: Jim Barrett (USA) Tuesday:Matt Dotson USA) Wednesday: Josh Goldman (USA) Thursday: Neil Kaczor (UK) Friday: John Maters (NL) Saturday: Koich Shimizu (Japan) Sunday: Johann Walter (Denmark) 5. VideoChannel Cologne - Greek Video Art - curated by Gioula Papadopoulou (GR) - features until Friday http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1546--> this week: Monday Nikos Giavropoulos Tuesday Leonidas Konstantinidis Wednesday Gioula Papadopoulou Thursday Andreas Sitorego Friday George Vaviloussakis new! VideoChannel - Video aArt from Malaysia curated by Roopesh Sitharan (Malaysia) - this week --> Saturday Tan Chui Mui Sunday Liew Seng Tat 6.. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1275--> this week: Monday Dennis Summers (USA) Tuesday Alexander Mouton (USA) Wednesday Irad Lee (Israel) Thursday Jeremiah Jones (USA) Friday Andrea Huyoff (Germany) Saturday Enrique Freaza (Spain) Sunday Sebastian Clej (Romania) 7. new! CologneOFF IV - features for one day - start 1 February 2010 http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1632 ->this week: Monday: Christian Bermudez (Costa Rica) Tuesday. Carlo Sansolo (Brazil) Wednesday: Piotr Nowak / Samuel Van Ransbeeck Thursday: Filip Peruzovic, (Croatia) Friday: Yoko FUKUSHIMA ( Japan) Saturday: Alberto Magrin, Alberto (Italy) Sunday: Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) ___________________________________ February 2010 - feature of the month http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=436 A Virtual Memorial/VideoChannel Cologne --> SFC -Shoah Film Collection (2010) during February daily solo features on --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1641 ___________________________________ 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 calls for entries --> for NewMediaFest'2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=78 downloads http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=87 newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Feb 1 14:16:54 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon Feb 1 14:17:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] CPOV: SECOND WIKIPEDIA RESEARCH CONFERENCE (Amsterdam, March 26/27) Message-ID: <7AC2C191-A210-44F9-A42E-4DAE6B52829F@xs4all.nl> Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative Date: 26-27 March 2010 Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty's Wen-hsien ta- ch' eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclop?die. The multilingual Wikipedia as digital collaborative and fluid knowledge production platform might be said to be the most visible and successful example of the migration of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) principles into mainstream culture. However, such celebration should contain critical insights, informed by the changing realities of the Internet at large and the Wikipedia project in particular. The CPOV Research Initiative was founded from the urge to stimulate critical Wikipedia research: quantitative and qualitative research that could benefit both the wide user-base and the active Wikipedia community itself. On top of this, Wikipedia offers critical insights into the contemporary status of knowledge, its organizing principles, function, and impact; its production styles, mechanisms for conflict resolution and power (re-)constitution. The overarching research agenda is at once a philosophical, epistemological and theoretical investigation of knowledge artifacts, cultural production and social relations, and an empirical investigation of the specific phenomenon of the Wikipedia. Conference Themes: Wiki Theory, Encyclopedia Histories, Wiki Art, Wikipedia Analytics, Designing Debate and Global Issues and Outlooks. Confirmed speakers: Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Andrew Famiglietti (UK), Stuart Geiger (USA), Hendrik-Jan Grievink (NL), Charles van den Heuvel (NL), Jeanette Hofmann (DE), Athina Karatzogianni (UK), Scott Kildall (USA), Patrick Lichty (USA), Hans Varghese Mathews (IN), Teemu Mikkonen (FI), Mayo Fuster Morell (IT), Mathieu O'Neil (AU), Felipe Ortega (ES), Dan O'Sullivan (UK), Joseph Reagle (USA), Ram?n Reichert (AU), Richard Rogers (USA/NL), Alan Shapiro (USA/DE), Maja van der Velden (NL/NO), G?rard Wormser (FR). Editorial team: Sabine Niederer and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam), Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham (Bangalore), Johanna Niesyto (Siegen), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne). Project manager CPOV Amsterdam: Margreet Riphagen. Research intern: Juliana Brunello. Production intern: Serena Westra. The CPOV conference in Amsterdam will be the second conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative. The launch of the initiative took place in Bangalore India, with the conference WikiWars in January 2010. After the first two events, the CPOV organization will work on producing a reader, to be launched early 2011. For more information or submitting a reader contribution: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/reader/ . Buy your ticket online at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/practical-info/tickets/ (with iDeal), or register by sending an email to: info (at) networkcultures.org. One day ticket: ?25, students and OBA members: ?12,50. Full conference pass (2 days): ?40, students and OBA members: ?25. More info: www.networkcultures.org/cpov. Contact: info (at) networkcultures.org, phone: +3120 5951866 From diana at faces-l.net Mon Feb 1 15:56:55 2010 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Mon Feb 1 15:57:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] Herbstradio 99.1 FM - Back on air! Program this week! Message-ID: <20100201155655.80032un36csrfw6v@webmail.servus.at> ich will mein Radio zurueck! Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin 1-28th, February, 2010 www.herbstradio.org Program: http://www.herbstradio.org Donate: http://herbstradio.org/spendenaufruf2010 Contact: info@herbstradio.org Stream: http://91.213.60.40:8002/stream Twitter: http://twitter.com/herbstradio Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbstradio Facebook: herbstradio 99.1 FM Group +++ +++ Mo, 01. Februar 2010 06:00 | Herbstradio > Kinofunk (Dauerloop) Am 1. Februar um 18 Uhr gehts los. 18:00 | Er?ffnung > Herbstradio Kinofunk (Magazin) Die Er?ffnungssendung zum Herbstradio Kinofunk, der ab heute noch vier Wochen in Berlin auf UKW 99,1 senden wird. Zukunft, spendeaufruf und mehr. 20:00 | B.K.A. etc. > Dj Anna (Berliner DJs) Neues aus Berlin: Bands, Klatsch, Konzerte (a.k.a. Ran Huber , amSTARt) 21:00 | Radio KQSM Berlin > Kerker, Quote, Stubenmusi... (Gro?es Magazin) Schlimme Weltmusik. Oder warum es der Freiheit nicht zutraeglich ist, wenn einem die Ohren bluten. Mit Heinrich 'DJ Officer, Officer' Dubel & Paul 'Paulator' Paulun 23:00 - 01:00 | The Zero Hour > #1 (Berliner DJs) Steve Morell pres. Music, Speeches, Sounds & Discussions Di, 02. Februar 2010 01:00 | Kosmische > Mario Siebert (Nachtschicht) Krautrock Disco Radio Show by Pete Woodhead and Mario Siebert from Resonance.fm London 02:00 | Krautrock -The Rebirth of Germany (Nachtschicht) audio track of TV Doku by BBC4 from October 2009 03:00 | One Hour with Krautrock > The Black to Comm (Nachtschicht) F*ck Krautrock, Autumn 2009, by Black To Comm 04:00 | clusters of time > mauxuam (Nachtschicht) two hours of drony Krautrock mixed into one flow ++ Di, 02. Februar 2010 06:00 | Radijojo > Das Kinderradio #1 (Kinderradio) Spannendes, fr?hliches, gewaltfreies und p?dagogisch sinnvolles f?r Kinder von Kindern. Werbefrei, gemeinn?tzig und international! 08:00 | GaragePunx > Berlin Today (Morgenradio) Funk, Soul, Surf und RnR aus der Garage von Sp?tinsbettgeher f?r Fr?haufsteher. 11:00 | The Brain > Die Mini-Dadashow #76 (Morgenradio) Providing freaky music since 1999. For those who wonder: What is The Brain? Listen this! 12:00 | Freie Radios > Die Letzte Woche (Community Radio) Nachrichten, Reportagen, Meldungen der letzten Woche. 14:00 | Jugendradio > Klax Nr. 1 (Nachmittag) Sch?ler der KLAX-Gesamtschule senden aus dem Studio der Radiopiloten. 15:00 | H?rspiel > Toter Mann (Nachmittag) Arbeitslosigkeit in den 1930ern: Hannes Rader verliert seine Arbeit und mit ihr den Glauben an sich und die Welt. Zwischen Resignation und Wut hin- und hergerissen, spielt er zum einen den ?Toten Mann?, zum anderen gilt sein Zorn der Maschine, die ihn brotlos gemacht hat. 16:00 | Die Prophetin > vom Treptower Berg (Radio Spezial) Sendung von und mit Dan Richter und Uli Hannemann. 17:00 | Reisemagazin > Russland (Radio Spezial) Marcel Polanski stellt heute Russland vor, das Land der tausend Schlagb?ume. 18:00 | Berliner Runde > Film und EDV (Magazin) Aktuelles Magazin. Was ist in Berlin los? Und was passiert sonst noch so? Heute teilt sich die Runde in Themen rund um Film sowie in der zweiten H?lfte EDV auf. 20:00 | Polanskifunk > In Memoriam DZB Pt. 1 (Kleines Magazin) Wer sich schon einmal gefragt hat, was das eigentlich f?r Musik ist, die in vielen der Herbstradio-Jingles zu h?ren ist, der findet hier eine Antwort: Marcel Polanski stellt die Dieter Zeesen Bluesband vor. 21:00 | Berlin Beatet Bestes > Die Andi & Andi Show #12 (Gro?es Magazin) Andi (Ost-Berlin) & Andi (West-Berlin) pr?sentierten Berlin Beatet Bestes. 23:00 - 01:00 | Sand FM > Orange und G?ste (Berliner DJs) Der Fingernagelknipser, die W?ste, der Plattenspieler ? und Ich. ++ Mi, 03. Februar 2010 01:00 | Mountain Radio Redux > American Oil (Nachtschicht) Channeling a semi-fictional radio DJ - Retlaw Kedzu - artist Steven Rowell frames recent field recording projects with displaced geographic references and frequencies. 02:00 | Electric Flavour > Tribalhouse (Nachtmusik) Electric Flavour ??DJ Jim Bean mit elektronischer Tanzmusik. 03:00 | mICROFON > Electro (Nachtschicht) mICROFON: alte & neue Musik aus der T?rkei. 05:00 | Brainwashed > Brainwashed Radio #199 (Mondlandung) Music from artists and labels hosted at Brainwashed.com. now including releases whose reviews are featured on Brainwashed.com. The Brainwashed Radio - Podcast Edition is an hour-long show (usually weekly) with music from the artists and labels on Brainwashed.com. 06:00 | Radijojo > Das Kinderradio #2 (Kinderradio) Spannendes, fr?hliches, gewaltfreies und p?dagogisch sinnvolles f?r Kinder von Kindern. Werbefrei, gemeinn?tzig und international! 08:00 | GaragePunx > Berlin Today (Morgenradio) Funk, Soul, Surf und RnR aus der Garage von Sp?tinsbettgeher f?r Fr?haufsteher. 11:00 | The Brain > Die Mini-Dadashow #77 (Morgenradio) Providing freaky music since 1999. For those who wonder: What is The Brain? Listen this! 12:00 | Borderclash > Hanna B?cher (Community Radio) Borderclash 08 04 23. Tolouse Low Trax 14:00 | Jugendradio > Aus dem HdKW (Nachmittag) Sendung von Klubradio aus dem Radiostudio des Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 15:00 | Jugendradio > Aus dem HdKW (Nachmittag) Sendung von Klubradio aus dem Radiostudio des Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 16:00 | Deutsch vertont! > Neue deutsche Liedermacher (Radio Spezial) Immer mehr Liedermacher (Songwriter) komponieren und produzieren ihre Musik mit deutschen Texten! Diese Entwicklung soll in dieser Sendung innerhalb verschiedener Musikgenres dargestellt werden. Acht deutschsprachige K??nstler werden im Interview vorgestellt und mit Songproben zu h??ren sein. 17:00 | raudio aasland > Serie (Radio Spezial) With live performances in the studio and from around the world. 18:00 | Berliner Runde > DER Weisse HAI IST GUT (Magazin) Aktuelles Magazin. Was ist in Berlin los? Und was passiert sonst noch so? Die Berlinale beginnt in den n?chsten Tagen. Maas Media Mitwoch mit Mario Mentrup & Claudia Basrawi. 20:00 | Rock/Pop > am Montag (Kleines Magazin) Rock/Pop am Montag. Von Aavikko bis zu Zombies - der Fokus liegt auf Bands, die gerade im Garten Blumen pfl?ckten als der Erfolg an der T?r klopfte. 21:00 | POW > Sick Girls (Gro?es Magazin) Sick Girls take the revolution a few beats further. 22:30 - 00:00 | Orient Taxi > f?hrt hoch (Berliner DJs) Sick Girls take the revolution a few beats further. Do, 04. Februar 2010 00:00 | Xberg Dhirty6 Cru > Die Reime der Anderen (Berliner Djs) Xberg Dhirty6 Cru - Die Reime der Anderen 01:00 | StationMelt > Mining for Gold (Transmediale Special) We rewind, remix and revisit Karen Margolis's Postcard From Berlin on tonight's Radio Joy... a new haunting of the old haunted twenty years on, after the fall, after the wall, after all... 02:00 | CTM 2010 > CTM (Festival) Mining for Gold. We rewind, remix and revisit Karen Margolis's Postcard From Berlin on tonight's Radio Joy... a new haunting of the old haunted twenty years on, after the fall, after the wall, after all... 04:00 | StationMelt > radiomaya (Transmediale Special) radiomaya - fruehstuecksradio bei STATIONMELT, dem radio der transmediale 2010. ++ Do, 04. Februar 2010 11:00 | Transmediale > Brunch (StationMelt) Ein Studio voller G?ste diskutiert Themen rund um das transmediale Festival.Ein Studio voller G?ste diskutiert Themen rund um das transmediale Festival Eingeladen sind: Aram Bartholl, Michelle Teran & Matteo Pasquinelli. 13:00 | Jazz > Duke Ellington (Communtity Radio) Jazz von A bis Z: eine Sendung von B138 aus dem Kremstal in ?sterreich ?ber Duke Ellington. 14:00 | Boulevard Radio > Kafferunde (Nachmittag) Heute Boulevard Radio mit einer Kafferunde. 16:00 | LauschRausch > Hemmungslos Weltbewegend #1 (Radio Spezial) W?chentlich sechzig einzigartige Minuten. Ungek?rzt, unzensiert, unglaublich. Viel mehr als ein Abenteuer, weniger ein Urlaub als eine Sinnesreise. Wir wissen es doch auch nicht. 17:00 | Leseb?hne > Spider & B?ttcher (Radio Spezial) Die Lesestunde widmet sich hier den Berliner Autoren Andreas Spider Krenzke (?Imbiss wie damals") und Bas B?ttcher (?Neonomade"). 18:00 | Berliner Runde > Aktuelles und Sm?k TV (Magazin) Aktuelles Magazin. Was ist in Berlin los? Und was passiert sonst noch so? Wir laden G?ste ein und plaudern. 20:00 | Schlag 8 > Musiktalk (Kleines Magazin) In bew?hrter Manier und lockerer Athmosph?re f?hrt Rolf G?nsrich in ?Schlag 8? seine G?ste und Zuh?rer ab 20 Uhr durch eine ganze Stunde mit Live-Musik, K?nstlergespr?chen und Veranstaltungshinweisen. 21:00 | StationMelt > Clear Spot (Transmediale Special) Highlights of the transmediale, selected by the festivals curators. 22:00 | StationMelt > Adventures In Modern Music (CTM) New music brought to you by Tony Herrington and Biba Kopf from The Wire magazine. 23:30 - 00:00 | StationMelt > Lost Steps (Transmediale Special) Ian Rawes joins Malcom Hopkins in the studio to discuss his London Sound Survey. Fr, 05. Februar 2010 00:00 | StationMelt > Bermuda Triangle Test (Transmediale) B.T. engineers conduct regular audio, technical and aesthetic tests in, out and through the Resonance studio. Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts 02:00 | CTM 2010 > CTM (Festival) Live From WMF - VOTEL, ANDY [UK], DAN FRIEL [US] / HOLY FUCK [CA] / ETIENNE JAUMET [FR] / ONI AYHUN. 04:00 | StationMelt > radiomaya (Transmediale Special) radiomaya - fruehstuecksradio bei STATIONMELT, dem radio der transmediale 2010. ++ Fr, 05. Februar 2010 11:00 | StationMelt > Brunch (Transmediale) Ein Studio voller G?ste diskutiert Themen rund um das transmediale Festival. Eingeladen sind: Elisabeth Zimmermann & Anna Soucek (Kunstradio), Paulo Raposo (Sirr, Radio Zero) 13:00 | StationMelt > The Late Late Breakfast Show (Transmediale) Live discussion show from The Bar in Old Street, anchored by Tracey Moberley. With special musical guests and regulars including The Worm Lady and Grassy Noel. 14:00 | StationMelt > Calling All Pensioners (Transmediale) A weekly radio slot hosted by Harry and Tim from the Deptford Action Group for the Elderly (DAGE), which specialises in giving advice and happiness to the South East London pensioners. 15:00 | TM 2010 > Speakers Corner (Festival) Soundout - Hosted by Carole Finer 16:00 | TM 2010 > London (Festival) Wavelength, Filerdelphia, Nature Calls, Sendung von Resonance 104.4 London 18:00 | TM 2010 > StationMelt On-Air Workshop (Festival) Radio?kologie in Berlin und London. 21:00 | TM 2010 > Clear Spot (Festival) More on Economy - with guests Barbrook, Heidenreich, Pasquinelli 04:00 | StationMelt > radiomaya (Transmediale Special) radiomaya - fruehstuecksradio bei STATIONMELT, dem radio der transmediale 2010. ++ Sa, 06. Februar 2010 11:00 | Transmediale > Brunch (StationMelt) Ein Studio voller G?ste diskutiert Themen rund um das transmediale Festival Eingeladen sind: Jem Finer & Bruce Sterling. 13:00 | StationMelt > The Hello Goodbye Show (Transmediale) Hosted by Dexter Bentley 14:00 | Polyphone Bewegung > Bewegungsr?dio (Nachmittag) Alle sind weg - wir bleiben noch kurz? 16:00 | ORWOhaus > Plattensprung (Radio Spezial) Plattensprung - die Sendung aus dem ORWOhaus: 100 Prober?ume, rund 700 Musiker, ein gemeinn?tziger Verein. In der Musikfabrik ORWOhaus, entsteht t?glich ein St?ck Berliner Underground-Kultur. 17:30 | CTM 2010 > Jonny Trunk OST (Festival) This weekly programme is dedicated to film music, TV music, library music and related recordings, and is hosted by Jonny Trunk. 19:30 | StationMelt > clubtransmediale (Transmediale Special) Pit Schultz interviews Apparatjik 20:00 | StationMelt > The Truth About Markets (Transmediale) Markets. Finance. Scandal. Hosted by Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert 21:00 | Berliner Runde > Umwelt und Aktuelles (Magazin) Aktuelles Magazin. Was ist in Berlin los? Und was passiert sonst noch so? Das Sendestudio ist in den zwei Stunden offen f?r Aktuelles und Jeden. Heute besch?ftigt sich die erste Stunde mit Umweltthemen und die zweite mit Themen aus Politik und Gesellschaft. 23:00 - 00:00 | CTM 2010 > CTM (Festival) Herbstradio Kinofunk und Resonance FM begleiten gemeinsam die Clubtransmediale 2010. ++ So, 07. Februar 2010 00:00 | TM 2010 > Bob & Ben (Festival) The enticing "Bob & Ben" theme at the start is by Evil Dick and the Banned Members from Leicester, England. 01:30 | CTM 2010 > CTM (Festival) Live from WMF - Grischa Lichtenberger [DE] / Senking [DE] / Aoki Takamasa [JP] / Atom TM [DE/CL] / Ulf Eriksson [SE] 04:00 | StationMelt > radiomaya (Transmediale Special) radiomaya - fruehstuecksradio bei STATIONMELT, dem radio der transmediale 2010. So, 07. Februar 2010 11:00 | StationMelt > Brunch (Transmediale Special) Ein Studio voller G?ste diskutiert Themen rund um das transmediale Festival Moderiert von Marc Garrett und Lauren Wright (furtherfield). Als G?ste dabei sind: Richard Barbrook, Charlotte Frost 13:00 | Radio Voodoo > Thema Tatort (Mittag) Radio Voodoo ? spirituell, unkonfessionell, fleischfressend. Heute ausnahmsweise erst ab 14 Uhr wegen Transmediale und Radio Resonance.FM London Projekt! 15:00 | Chaosradio Express > Blinde und Computer (Nachmittag) Chaosradio Express ist ein seit 2005 erscheinender Interview-Podcast rund um die Themen Technologie und Gesellschaft. Heute eine Kurzausgabe: Blinde und Computer - Wie arbeiten Blinde mit Computern und welche Software unterst?tzt sie dabei? 16:00 | Sonntagskonzert > Pink Floyd (Radio Spezial) Dieter Zeesen pr?sentiert: Das Sonntagskonzert auf Herbstradio! Heute h?ren wir Pink Floyd. 17:00 | M?rchenstunde > Die Frau im M?rchen (Radio Spezial) Die beiden M?rchenonkel Heinrich Wagner und Konrad Teuffel lesen die sch?nsten M?rchen vor. Lasst Euch ?berraschen, was sie heute mitgebracht haben. 18:00 | CTM 2010 > Next (Festival) Herbstradio Kinofunk und Resonance FM begleiten gemeinsam die Clubtransmediale 2010. 19:00 | Berliner Runde > mikro.fm (Magazin) Aktuelles Magazin. Was ist in Berlin los? Und was passiert sonst noch so? Mikro.fm ?bernimmt heute die Redaktion der Berliner Runde. 21:00 | TM 2010 > Clear Spot (Festival) Final Discussion on Futurity Now! 22:00 - 00:00 | Dipolantenne > CPV (Gro?es Magazin) Immer sonntags h?ren Sie hier die Dipolantenne - Die schizonationale Radio-Show des Club der Polnischen Versager, mit Adam Gusowski, Piotr Mordel und G?sten. From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Feb 1 16:38:15 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Feb 1 16:38:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] Representing Labor: Ten Thousand Cents and Amazon's Mechanical Turk. In-Reply-To: <23186.194.83.252.45.1252668672.squirrel@pop3.fast1.bubblehosting.net> References: <23186.194.83.252.45.1252668672.squirrel@pop3.fast1.bubblehosting.net> Message-ID: <4B66F567.9010400@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Representing Labor: Ten Thousand Cents and Amazon's Mechanical Turk. review by Madeleine Clare Elish http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=376 Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction. "Arriving at the homepage of Ten Thousand Cents, an Internet artwork by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, a mottled image of a one hundred dollar bill slowly fades into view. Ben Franklin looks out sedately. Mousing over the large image, the cursor is replaced with a small red rectangle. And here lays the beauty of the project; with the click of each rectangle, a zoomed in portion of the one hundred dollar bill is revealed. On the left side is a high-resolution photograph of that tiny portion of the bill. On the right side, a real-time moving image plays, revealing how the image was drawn by a human hand in a drawing program created by Koblin and Kawashima. There are, in fact, 10,000 such rectangles and each was created by a Turker through Amazon's Mechanical Turk marketplace." Aaron Koblin is a media designer and artist focused on the creation and visualization of human systems. Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron transforms large abstract data sets into humanly contextualized information. In doing so, he hopes to raise at least as many questions as he answers. Takashi Kawashima is a designer and media artist living in San Francisco. His work explores the re-contextualizing of commonplace items to create new awareness of the mundane. About Madeleine Clare Elish: Currently studying as a Masters student in the Comparative Media Studies at MIT in Boston. Her thesis for the program is focusing on print and TV advertising about early personal computers. Madeleine is particularly interested in thinking through how material objects extend and sustain agency and social relationships, as well as critical studies of technological innovation and consumer culture. Equally important is Madeleine's interest and research about the communities and practices of technology, research and activist -based art. She has a degree in Art History from Columbia University in New York. Worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the commercial art gallery, Gavin Brown's enterprise (as well as an assortment of other jobs!) Last year I was involved in Boston's Cyberarts Festival as a "correspondent." More recently, Madeleine spent the summer with the folks at the Medialab Prado in Madrid, working on a (still in process) research project about collaborative modes of artistic practice. Also currently involved in the planning stages of a digital archive project at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and Visual Arts Program. ------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From malducoch at hotmail.com Mon Feb 1 23:08:10 2010 From: malducoch at hotmail.com (Thomas Pigache artkillart.tk) Date: Mon Feb 1 23:08:37 2010 Subject: [spectre] WAVE Berlin / WJ-SPOTS Berlin / Transmediale.10 / Feb 4th 2010 Message-ID: 04.02.2010, 8pm to midnight Betahaus, Prinzessinnenstra?e 19-20, 10969 Berlin live webstreaming: www.sidebysidestudio.net > 8 to 10pm - WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion ? Innovative Artistic and Economic Practices ? with I-Wei Li, Christine Kriegerowski, Claudia Burbaum, Ela Kagel, Matthias Reichelt, Tonia Welter, Arthur Engelbert, Heather Corcoran. > 10pm to midnight - WJ-SPOTS Berlin ? 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet ? with Anne Roquigny, I-Wei Li, Pierre Bongiovanni, Helen Thorington, Marie Petit, Maria Ptqk, Per Platou, Hans Bernhard, Isabelle Arvers, Anne Laforet. The WAVE is an initiative that provides mobile platforms around Europe for philosophers, economists, and artists to engage in alternative economic possibilities in crisis period. In coordination with Transmediale.10, The WAVE will launch its first critical debate at the creative co-working hub, betahaus, in Berlin. Followed by WJ-Spots, a web-performance project that interview outstanding figures of internet community inside the WJ-S multi-screen environment through online browsing of a selection of emblematic websites, chosen by the speakers. For detailed programme, please visit: http://www.sidebysidestudio.net/spip.php?article41 http://www.transmediale.de/en/betahaus-wave-opus-1-en The WAVE:Opus 1 is curated by I-Wei Li, SideBySide Studio Office: +49 (0)30 8597 8021 Mobile: +49(0)151 1546 4346 Address: Wildenbruchstr 4, 12045 Berlin For short biography about I-Wei Li: http://www.sidebysidestudio.net/spip.php?article38 Production: Relais Culture Europe Production, SideBySide Studio Coordination, with Transmediale / Sklunk / Arscenic Support ///////////////////////////// WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion : ? Innovative Artistic and Economic Practices ? Fluctuations in the economy have become similar to global climate warnings: nobody knows exactly what will happen tomorrow, or whether the future will be bleak or bright. Uncertainty seems to become the only certain rule. Throughout the early 20th century, art was the forerunner of social, political and technological upheaval. Art at the time foresees (but not always understands) in advance what would happen. Now, artistic activity seems too be carried away by the whirlwind of uncertainty. The democratic ideal has never seemed so fragile. To a very large extend, it remains to be a total utopia. The modesty of political ambitions, the widespread practice of mafia, the rise of nationalist and religious sect, continuation of poverty, distraught middle-class, all these elements are destroying day after day the ideals of brotherhood, equality, and liberty. Modern communication technology and the digital economy have overwhelmed all social practices, either cultural or economical but we still have great difficulty understanding the reality. We still continue to struggle with positive outlook and engage in critical changes into the future. In this context, it is possible to imagine new relationships between money, politics, and artistic creation? How will we identify new approaches, especially critical approaches in a time of crisis? Panelists: I-Wei Li - multi-media artist, curator, artistic director of SideBySide Studio Christine Kriegerowski - Berlin-based artist, working with drawing, digital drawing and photography Claudia Burbaum - Berlin-based art historian and freelance curator Ela Kagel - program curator of Transmediale, initiator of the Free Culture Incubator Arthur Engelbert - ae prof. dr. habil., theory and practice of media and contemporary art Matthias Reichelt - cultural journalist, curator and editor Tonia Welter - co-Funder and director of betahaus Heather Corcoran - Curator at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) For more details about the panel, please visit http://www.sidebysidestudio.net/spip.php?article41 ///////////////////////////// WJ-Spots Berlin : ? 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet ? Anne Roquigny, French media arts curator will follow her series of interviews in Berlin of outstanding figures of the internet community who share their reflections of 15 years of Internet history. The interviews are conducted inside the WJ-S (webjay) multi-screen environment, transformed into a space for thought and investigation. Live online browsing into a selection of emblematic websites, chosen by the speakers, take place simultaneously on 3 big screens. Real time surfing magnifies and augments thought presentation, offering multiple points of view while the participants comment and analyze, from an artistic perspective, how the Internet has been progressively taken over as a space of artistic creation, from its beginning until now. MCD ? Musiques et Cultures Digitales Magazine ? (http://www.digitalmcd.com ) regularly launches special bilingual paper editions of WJ-SPOTS with the interviews and the bookmarks. Videos of WJ-SPOTS events are also published on line on Digitalart platform (http://www.digitalarti.com ) http://www.wj-s.org/WJ-SPOTS-1-15-years-of-internet Interviews by Anne Roquigny Media arts curator / http://www.roquigny.info Live internet browsing : Isabelle Arvers (FR), curator, art critic / http://www.isabelle-arvers.com & Anne Laforet (FR) researcher and critic / http://www.sakasama.net Interviewees: I-Wei (TW/CA/DE), multi media artist, curator, artistic director of SideBySide Studio / http://www.sidebysidestudio.net Pierre Bongiovanni (FR), artist, curator / http://www.bongiovanni.info Helen Thorington (US), writer and sound artist and co-director Turbulence / http://www.turbulence.org Marie Petit (FR), author, theater director / http://www.chambrebleue.eu Maria Ptqk (ES), critic, curator / http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com Per Platou (NO), artist, curator / http://www.perplatou.net Hans Bernhard (CH), artist / http://www.ubermorgen.com _________________________________________________________________ Tchattez en direct en en vid?o avec vos amis ! http://www.windowslive.fr/messenger/ From gif at 220hex.org Tue Feb 2 09:31:44 2010 From: gif at 220hex.org (h220) Date: Tue Feb 2 09:33:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] Piksel Newsletter 1-2010 Message-ID: <201002020931.44440.gif@220hex.org> PIKSEL NEWSLETTER 1 ? 2009 ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ------------------------------------------------------------ INTRO STREAM: NEWSLETTER INDEX ------------------------------------------------------------ PIKSEL FESTIVAL ? Piksel10 PIKSEL PULSE ? 1. Club Transmediale 2010 [outreach] ? 2. Circuit Bending [workshop] ? 3. Piksel Plenum [seminar] ? 4 Meta.Morf 2010 [conference] ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? PIKSEL10 FESTIVAL ???????????????????? ?? 1. CALL FOR PROJECTS The Piksel Festival is organized for the eight time the 18th-21th November 2010. The Call for Projects is now opened: !!!!!!!!!! Deadline - JUNE 01. 2010 !!!!!!!!!! Please use our online platform for submitting applications: http://piksel.no/ocs ?? PIKSEL PULSE ???????????????????? Piksel is involved in several off-festival activities throughout 2010, both locally in Bergen, nationally and in collaborative projects internationally. These activities are named Piksel Pulse. ?? 1. CTM10: Creative Independents Network Market [outreach] On Sat. 6.2.2010 Piksel will be present at the Creative Independents Network Market at Club Transmediale in Berlin. Please drop by our booth at .HBC for a chat! MORE: http://www.clubtransmediale.de/ctm-festival/day-program/market.html ?? 2. CIRCUIT BENDING [workshop] 22nd-26th March, Piksel has invited sound artist and instrument maker, Audun Eriksen, to host a circuit bending workshop in Bergen. The 5 day workshop aims to give the participants the opportunity of learning how to short-circuit existing audio toys and instruments to reveal new soundsscapes. MORE: http://www.bek.no/~audun/audun_2009/index.html http://www.myspace.com/auduneriksen ?? 3. PIKSEL PLENUM [seminar] Electronic art is more closely connected to the development of technology than any other art genre. New technology creates new opportunities for artists and developers, and with that follows the discussion of copyright, IPR and distribution rights. In 2009 Piksel started a seminar series, Piksel Plenum, that set focus on such socio-political questions. In 2010 we plan to host 3 Plenum events, by inviting various thinkers and artists to give presentations and be involved in discussions at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall. Piksel Plenum #1 2010 is taking place in April, and this year we work with ambient seminar as the form for the Plenum events. The immersive character of this type of seminar places the audience in the centre of attention, and in addition to presentations the evenings will include visual and musical references presented through a relevant selection of media and communication technology.' MORE: http://www.piksel.no/pulse/piksel_plenum ?? 4. META.MORF Piksel will curate one of the cinema programs for the Meta.Morf Biennale in Trondheim in collaboration with TEKS (Trondheim Electronic Art Centre). Meta Morf is a biennale for arts and technology taking place in Trondheim (NO) Oct. 7th - Nov. 7th. This years theme is "Brave New World" MORE: http://teks.no/2009/METAMORF/METAMORF.html _______________________________ OUTRO STREAM: FREE AS IN ART! ????????????????????????????????????????????????? Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art. ????????????????????????????????????????????????? BLOG www.piksel.no TECH www.piksel.org WIKI www.piksel.no/pwiki IRC #piksel (irc.freenode.net) LISTS www.piksel.no/pwiki/MailingLists From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Feb 2 10:38:49 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Tue Feb 2 10:39:02 2010 Subject: [spectre] netEX: calls & deadlines -->February 2010 Message-ID: <20100202103849.1135126E.BF02982B@192.168.0.2> netEX: calls & deadlines -->February 2010 ------------------------------------- NewMediafest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne ------------------------------------- newsletter contents a) . news b) calls & deadlines --> 04 Calls: 2010 deadlines internal 22 Calls: February 2010 deadlines external 11 Calls: ongoing external/internal ------------------------------------------------ a) news 1) On 1 January 2010 [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne launched NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture a festival context in an exchange between virtual and physical space 1 January -31 December 2010 http://2010.newmedifest.org 2) NewMediaFest'2010 announces the first venue in 2010 The presentation of the entire CologneOFF V festival program on CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity Sattal/India http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm ------------------------------------------------ b) Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2010: deadlines internal NewMediaFest'2010 has currently 4 calls running CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! - deadline 5 April 2010 Call for film & videoart 5 Years Cologne Online Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 VideoChannel - deadline 2 March 2010 [self] ~imaging - artists portraying themselves in film & video http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 NewMediaFest'2010 VideoChannel - deadline 2 April 2010 One Minute Films of OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) 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 ------------------------------------------------ February 2010 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 28 February Le Ville Matte residency Cagliari/Italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1922 28 February Detmold ShortFilm Festival /Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1954 19 February Anti - Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio/Finland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1964 15 February Cynetart Competition 2010 - Dresden/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1942 28 February Residency 2010 at Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg/Germany http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1832 28 February Arse Elektronika 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1640 26 February Crosstalk Videoart Festival Budapest/Hungary http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1634 23 February Currents 2010 - Santa Fe/New Mexico (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1892 19 February Media City Film Festival 2010 Windsor/Canada http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1632 15 February Australian International Experimental Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1886 15 February 2nd International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1933 15 February Athens Video Art Festival 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1838 15 February 56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (German competition) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1653 15 February Videofestival Bochum (Germany) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1807 14 February re-new Digital Arts Festival Copenhagen/DK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1961 5 February 14th Annual Shortfilm and Video Festival Tempe/Arizona (USA) http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1876 5 February LUMEN_EX Digital Art Award 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1889 2 February Rhizome Curatorial Fellow http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1973 1 February GO SHORT Online Competition Nijmegen/NL http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1925 1 February Sounding landscapes - soundart http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1804 1 February Writers residency in Bialsytok/Poland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1902 ----------------------------------------------- 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 j at xxn.org.uk Tue Feb 2 10:49:04 2010 From: j at xxn.org.uk (j) Date: Tue Feb 2 10:49:40 2010 Subject: [spectre] /...Exquisite_Code...February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010...E:vent Gallery, London. E2...Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate.../ Message-ID: <4B67F510.3040808@xxn.org.uk> /...Exquisite_Code...February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010...10-6pm daily...E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale St. London. E2...8 Writers pitched 8 hours a day for 5 days against despotic edit-code...Yield: one book...Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate.../ /...Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark Forest of Things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production.../ /..Eight international writers will work eight hours a day for five days generating text-prompts, text and edit-software in unrelenting micro-sessions to create a cadaverous exquisite_code life-novel . Text will be produced in response to prompts conspired by the writers at the end of each session. But only after bespoke edit-software has wormed its way through it, cutting, chewing and spitting gobbets of the text into a dump from which the life-novel will be elaborated. This edit-worm is itself interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers. At all times all participants are available for public scrutiny and interaction, and all writing will be on live display whilst continuously extruded as hardcopy from line printers.../ /...The event will culminate in a Saturday night exquisite_code LAUNCH PARTY (7.30 -11.30pm) on 20th February at E:vent Gallery with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants from the week's accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will be by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute.../ /...Leif Elggren [SWE] writer/artist/performer http://www.leifelggren.org; Mara Goldwyn [US] writer/performer http://maragoldwyn.wordpress.com/writing/; Dave Griffiths [UK/FI] artist/coder/performer http://www.pawfal.org/dave/; Brendan Howell [US/DE] writer/coder/artist http://wintermute.org/brendan/; Jonathan Kemp [UK] writer/artist http://xxn.org.uk; Laura Oldfield Ford [UK] writer/artist http://www.savagemessiahzine.com/; Eleanora Oreggia [IT/NL] writer/coder/artist/performer http://xname.cc/; Sabrina Small [US] writer/artist http://www.foodandfootage.com; / with additional performances from Martin Howse [UK/DE] http://www.1010.co.uk/org; Preslav Literary School [UK/DE] http://www.preslavliteraryschool.co.uk; and Ryan Jordan [UK] http://ryanjordan.org .../ /...E:vent Gallery is near Bethnal Green Tube Station. Buses 106, 254, 253, 48 and 55 pass close by. see http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/contact .../ /...This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England.../ http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/events/exquisitecode http://exquisite-code.com From matze.schmidt at n0name.de Tue Feb 2 11:41:39 2010 From: matze.schmidt at n0name.de (Matze Schmidt) Date: Tue Feb 2 11:42:14 2010 Subject: [spectre] 38317 "Meine eigene Gefahr" LIVE INOFFIZIELL, PLAYBACK & MIT HUT Message-ID: <4347474.20100202114139@n0name.de> 38317 LIVE VOR DEM HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN AM 02.02.2010 CA. 17:00-18:30 INOFFIZIELL, PLAYBACK & MIT HUT Meine eigene Gefahr (38317) Diese Transe[1] brauche ich nicht Aber die Transe, die braucht mich Ich habe die Erlaubnis fuer Alles[2] Auf eigene Gefahr Auf meine Gefahr Komm, wir trinken Auf meine eigene Gefahr Unsere Zukunft will uns nicht[2 1/2] Aber wir wollen unsere Zukunft Ich habe Marshall McLuhans Botschaft verstanden[3] Auf eigene Gefahr Auf deine Gefahr Komm, wir trinken Auf meine eigene Gefahr Wenn irgendwann die Wuermer das Archiv zerfressen[4] Und die wiederaufgebauten Altbauen nach China verkauft sein werden[5] Wird bei Schering eine Antideklassierungspille entwickelt und kostenlos verteilt[6] Wir sind Roehren[7] Wir sind Roehren Wir sind Roehren (kommunizierende Roehren) n0name, 01.02.2010 _______________ [1] Echter Szene-Jargon: Transe nennt man in Berlin das Medienusw.festival "Transmediale". [2] Von Thomas Scherl kann man Ausweise mit der "Erlaubnis fuer Alles" ausgestellt bekommen. [2 1/2] Auch wenn der wichtigste nationale Futurologe uns im Februar auf eben jener Transe segnet. [3] Natuerlich ist hier die Kanadische Botschaft in der deutschen Hauptstadt gemeint, die mit dem sakralen McLuhan Salon. Kanada -- das gelobte Einwanderland fuer frustrierte Westeuropaeer und zur Winter-Olympiade 2010 trotzdem Land der Armen & Reichen (verkuerzter Diskurs). [4] Irgendwo im _Vil?m_Flusser_Archiv sollte Flussers legendaerer de-anthropologisierender Text ueber Menschen als Informationen fressende Wuermer zu finden sein. [5] Alles muss man nicht erklaeren. [6] Tatsaechlich brachte 1961 Schering die Antibabypille in der BRD auf den Markt, verteilte diese aber nicht kostenlos. Heute avanciert die Firma/ihre Stiftung zum Universalsponsor auch der oertlichen Kultursubunternehmen. [7] Berlin ist hier und da durchzogen von kurios ueberirdisch verlegten Rohrleitungen, manchmal rosa, die Wasser fuehren. Das Stadtbild wird dadurch noch hipper, technischer, irgendwie. http://www.n0name.de/38317/krach/meineeigenegefahr.mp3 From aksioma4 at siol.net Tue Feb 2 16:13:34 2010 From: aksioma4 at siol.net (Aksioma) Date: Tue Feb 2 16:14:21 2010 Subject: [spectre] NAME Readymade at Art Laboratory Berlin Message-ID: Please scroll down for English version Ank?ndigung 3. Februar 2010, 19h Janez Jan?a, Janez Jan?a, Janez Jan?a NAME Readymade Performative Presentation Die Veranstaltung wird den Akt der "Namens?nderung" vorstellen, der von drei slowenischen K?nstlern durchgef?hrt wurde: 2007 ?nderten sie offiziell durch s?mtliche notwendige Papiere und Stempel ihre Namen in jenen des damaligen slowenischen Ministerpr?sidenten Janez Jan?a (2004-08). Alle Arbeiten der drei Janez Jan?as, ihre privaten sowie ?ffentlichen Angelegenheiten, in einem Wort: ihr gesamtes Leben, sind seitdem unter diesem Namen gef?hrt worden. Janez Jan?a wird eine Reihe k?nstlerischer, politischer, administrativer und medienorientierter Aktionen vorstellen, die er zusammen mit Janez Jan?a und Janez Jan?a realisiert hat und sich auf ihre letzte Ausstellung "NAME Readymade" beziehen. Die Werke in dieser Ausstellung (g?ltige Personalausweise, Reisep?sse, Kredit- und Bankkarten, F?hrerscheine, Geburts- und Hochzeitsurkunden, etc.) wurden durch die Realit?t selbst generiert. Diese Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen der laufenden Ausstellung Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft (noch bis 7.2.), am 3. Februar kann ab 18 Uhr die Ausstellung vor und nach der Pr?senation noch besucht werden. Produktion: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art and the steirischer herbst Festival in collaboration with Maska and Moderna galerija Ljubljana. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. Mehr Informationen: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/de-event-7.htm ART LABORATORY BERLIN Prinzenallee 34 13359 Berlin http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org ***********************English version******************************** Announcement 3 February 2010, 7PM Janez Jan?a, Janez Jan?a, Janez Jan?a NAME Readymade Performative Presentation The event will present the act of ?name changing? perpetrated by three Slovenian artists who in 2007 officially, with all the required papers and stamps, changed their names to the prime minister of Slovenia at the time, Janez Jan?a (2004-08). All Janez Jan?as? works, their private and public affairs, in a word their whole life, has been conducted under this name ever since. Janez Jan?a will take you through a series of artistic, political, administrative and mediatic actions performed by himself together with Janez Jan?a and Janez Jan?a, with a particular focus on their latest personal exhibition entitled NAME Readymade. Works exhibited in this show (valid ID cards, passports, credit and bank cards, driving licences, birth and marriage certificates, and so on) were generated by reality itself. This event will take place in the context of the ongoing exhibtion Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft (until 7.2.) which can be seen on 3 February from 6pm before and after the presentation. Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art and the steirischer herbst Festival in collaboration with Maska and Moderna galerija Ljubljana. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. More information: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-7.htm ART LABORATORY BERLIN Prinzenallee 34 13359 Berlin http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org From info at transfera.es Thu Feb 4 09:16:17 2010 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Thu Feb 4 09:16:48 2010 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA 38 Message-ID: <4B6A8251.1050802@transfera.es> Dear friends, After the celebration of MADATAC (www.madatac.es) and the festive parenthesis, Transfera, an independent television space of contemporary audio-visual art, referring in its kind and being broadcast from Madrid at 21:00 PM, returns to the battle field. The program for the next Friday 5th of February 2010 is: Mutaciones del entorno ?-? Environment Mutations JAVIER DE JUAN-CREIX (Espa?a/Spain) EL ENCARNADOR DE SUE?OS (2009) 9' 13" JORGE GARCIA VELAYOS (Espa?a/Spain) LA BESTIA (2009) 5' 20" GERARD FREIXES (Espa?a/Spain) ALONE (Solo, 2008) 3? 06? PAULO BARROS (Brazil) REMIX STATION (2008/09) 7'00? ROBIN WHENARY (Reino Unido/U.K.) THE BOY, THE BIKE AND THE APPLE (El ni?o, la bicicleta y la manzana, 2001/2007) 4'30" You can access to the complete information at: http://www.transfera.es/programa38.html Thanks for your fireproof fidelity. Staff www.transfera.es Queridos amigos, Tras la celebraci?n de MADATAC (www.madatac.es) y del par?ntesis festivo, Transfera, un espacio televisivo independiente de arte audiovisual contempor?neo referente en su g?nero que se emite desde Madrid a las 21:00, vuelve a las andadas. El programa del pr?ximo viernes 5 de febrero 2010 es el siguiente: Mutaciones del entorno ?-? Environment Mutations JAVIER DE JUAN-CREIX (Espa?a/Spain) EL ENCARNADOR DE SUE?OS (2009) 9' 13" JORGE GARCIA VELAYOS (Espa?a/Spain) LA BESTIA (2009) 5' 20" GERARD FREIXES (Espa?a/Spain) ALONE (Solo, 2008) 3? 06? PAULO BARROS (Brazil) REMIX STATION (2008/09) 7'00? ROBIN WHENARY (Reino Unido/U.K.) THE BOY, THE BIKE AND THE APPLE (El ni?o, la bicicleta y la manzana, 2001/2007) 4'30" Pod?is acceder a la informaci?n completa en: http://www.transfera.es/programa38.html Gracias por vuestra incombustible atenci?n. Staff www.transfera.es * * From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Feb 4 14:05:00 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Feb 4 14:05:22 2010 Subject: [spectre] Data Soliloquies - review by Pau Waelder. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B6AC5FC.5030202@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Data Soliloquies - review by Pau Waelder. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=377 Data Soliloquies by Martin John Callanan and Richard Hamblyn, is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral 'found objects' rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. "Our relationship with the environment is certainly one of the main problems we are going to face during this century and it is also a subject that brings up the necessary communication between science and society. The UCL Environment Institute [2] was established in 2003 to promote an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research and make it available to a wider audience. While being representative of almost every discipline in the University College London, it lacked an interaction with the arts and humanities. This gap has been bridged by establishing an artist and writer residency program in collaboration with the Slade School of Fine Arts and the English Department. Among 100 applications, writer Richard Hamblyn and artist Martin John Callanan were chosen for the 2008-2009 academic year: Data Soliloquies is the result of their work." Pau Waelder Graduated in Art History at the University of Barcelona, has a Masters Diploma in Advanced Studies in History Science and Art Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands and is currently writing his PhD thesis in the field of art, science and technology. He has participated in international simposia such as the I International Conference on Arthur Danto and the End of Art, (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003) and Gaming Realities, (Fournos, Atenas, 2006). He has written chapters for the books Gaming Realities. A challenge for digital culture (Athens: Fournos, 2006) and Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Game Player Experience (Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press, 2008), as well as the text Games of Pain: Pain as Haptic Stimulation in Computer-Game's Based Media Art, published in Leonardo Vol. 40, Issue 3 (MIT Press, 2007). ------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Feb 5 09:39:06 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Feb 5 09:41:47 2010 Subject: [spectre] CFP: Networks & Sociability in East European Art (London, 23 Oct 10) Message-ID: From: Maja & Reuben Fowkes Date: 04 Feb 2010 08:52:10 +0100 Subject: CFP: Networks & Sociability in East European Art (London 23 Oct 10) Proposals for papers and presentations are invited from art historians, curators and artists that examine the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe in both historical and contemporary contexts. The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art will be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art on 23 October 2010. The SocialEast Seminar on "Networks and Sociability in East European Art" provides a forum for the presentation of new research into practices of informal exchange and patterns of alternative communication between experimental artists in the Eastern Bloc. This seminar explores the ways in which unauthorised artistic ideas were able to transgress national and ideological boundaries through networks of friendship and artistic collaboration that flew in the face of an official culture of isolationism, censorship and political control. It focuses on processes of artistic exchange that took shape at a grass-roots level, inventive strategies to surmount bureaucratic obstacles, and the specific meaning of 'networking' in the context of communist Eastern Europe. The seminar also considers the degree to which state-sponsored artistic events, held for Cold War propaganda reasons, could become spaces for unofficial exchange, the roles available to exiled artists and intellectuals in facilitating international communication, collaboration and the circulation of materials, as well as the contribution of curators and intellectuals from the far side of the Iron Curtain in creating informal networks. The SocialEast Forum is a platform for innovative, transnational research on the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe initiated by Dr. Reuben Fowkes in 2006. Based on active collaboration with institutes of art history across Europe and the involvement of prominent academics, curators and artists, SocialEast has become an internationally-recognised generator of pioneering research into the art history of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. This second SocialEast Seminar at the Courtauld Institute follows on from the SocialEast Seminar on Art and Espionage held in February 2009 and co-organised with Dr. Sarah Wilson. Previous SocialEast Seminars have dealt with issues of Foreign Experience, Art and Ideology, Art and Documentary, Art and Revolution, Art and Memory, Art and Empire and the Legacy of 1968 and were held at Manchester Art Gallery, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Krakow University, and Mimara Museum Zagreb. The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art is organised in collaboration with Dr. Klara Kemp-Welch of the Courtauld Institute as part of a three year Leverhulme Trust funded project entitled Festivals and Friendships: Networking the Soviet 'Bloc', examining unofficial exchange between artists from East-Central Europe and former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s. The seminar is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Courtauld Institute Research Forum. To propose a paper for the SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to info@socialeast.org The deadline for submitting a proposal is *Monday 15 March 2010*. ____________________________________________________________________ H-ARTHIST Humanities-Net Discussion List for Art History E-Mail-Liste fuer Kunstgeschichte im H-Net Editorial Board Contact Address / Fragen an die Redaktion: hah-redaktion@h-net.msu.edu Submit contributions to / Beitraege bitte an: h-arthist@h-net.msu.edu Homepage: http://www.arthist.net ____________________________________________________________________ From Hans.Hubbertz at kk-ekvw.de Fri Feb 5 13:16:43 2010 From: Hans.Hubbertz at kk-ekvw.de (Dr. Hans Hubbertz) Date: Fri Feb 5 13:17:21 2010 Subject: [spectre] Invitation to BlinkenBible Message-ID: <4B6C1A3A.28DF.000D.0@kk-ekvw.de> BlinkenBible Ein interaktives Multimedia-Projekt zum innovativen Umgang mit der Bibel in der Stadt Marl 02.-06. Februar 2010 >20.00 h - 24.00 h (GMT+1) 13.-17. April 2010 >21.00 h - 0.00 h, (GMT+1), (Local Hero Week) Die Bibel gilt als das zentrale Kulturgut der Christen in aller Welt. In dem Projekt BlinkenBible treffen High-Tech und traditionelle Schriftkultur im Rahmen eines weltweit nutzbaren, interaktiven Multimediaprojekts zusammen. F?r den Zeitraum von 2 x 5 Tagen sollen im Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2010 von Menschen versendete Bibelverse f?r mehrere Stunden in der abendlichen Dunkelheit auf dem Hochhaus der Kreissparkasse in Marl an der Bergstra?e erscheinen. Die Texte werden als Laufschrift per Hochleistungslaser auf die fensterlosen Fl?chen der Fassade des elfst?ckigen Geb?udes projiziert. Die Verse werden aus einer Bibel-Datenbank per Webinterface abgerufen. Der Name des Absenders und sein Standort d?rfen in geregelter Weise hinzugef?gt werden. Die Einspeisungen sind im lokalen Umfeld des Hochhauses und im Internet per Webcam beobachtbar. Wie funktioniert BlinkenBible? Den ganzen Tag und die ganze Nacht k?nnen auf einer Webseite w?hrend der Laufzeit des Projekts mit einem Pull-Down-Men? Bibelverse ausgesucht und verschickt werden. Der Sender/die Senderin k?nnen ihren Namen und ihren Absendeort hinzuf?gen. Alle Verse und Namen mit Orten werden nach Eingangszeit geordnet und gestapelt auf der Webseite angezeigt. Aus dem Stapel wird errechnet, wann die Verse ungef?hr gezeigt werden. Diese voraussichtliche Projektionszeit wird eingeblendet. Die Verse durchlaufen einen Filter und werden noch bis Samstag, dem 6. Februar ab 20.00 h bis 24.00 h per Laser auf das Hochhaus in Marl (Germany) projiziert. Die Projektion der Verse kann im Internet per Webcam beobachtet werden. Maximal 600 Zuschauer und Zuschauerinnen k?nnen den Live-Stream gleichzeitig sehen. Die Gesamtfolge der Projektionen kann zeitversetzt im Internet als Film - gestaffelt nach Uhrzeit und Tagen - heruntergeladen werden. Wer m?chte kann das Hochhaus der Kreissparkasse in Marl an der Bergstrasse besuchen und die Projektionen direkt miterleben. "Dies ist ein Spiel, das wir ernst meinen" Es geh?rt zu den Kennzeichen moderner Gesellschaften, dass deren Mitglieder immer weniger ein gemeinsames soziales Band erfahren. An dessen Stelle sind mehr und mehr wirtschaftliche oder kulturelle Verkn?pfungen getreten. Das typische Kennzeichen von Marktgesellschaften ist die lockere Verbindung der zahlreichen Einzelnen zueinander, die nach dem Philosophen Peter Sloterdijk, vor dem Problem stehen, wie sie in hinreichend gemeinsame Spiele zu verwickeln sind. Die Lichtinstallation BlinkenBible kann in diesem Sinne als spannungsreiche Kombination von Spiel und Ernst verstanden werden, als Verbindung von alten und neuen Medien, n?mlich dem "Buch der B?cher" und dem vernetzten Computer, von lokaler und entfernter, globaler Pr?senz, von Ewigem und Verg?nglichem, von Licht und Dunkelheit, von Individuellem und Kollektivem. BlinkenBible l?sst sich als zeitlich befristete kollektive Meditation verstehen. BlinkenBible wird als eine interaktive Lichtinstallation zum Umgang mit der Bibel im ?ffentlichen Raum fungieren. Es kombiniert in innovativer Weise ein 3000 Jahre altes Kulturgut mit modernstem Hightech. Die Tradition der fixierten Schriftkultur trifft auf die fluide der elektronischen Medien. Geografisch voneinander entfernte Menschen k?nnen ihren Bibelvers vielen anderen mitteilen und miteinander in Interaktion treten. ################################################## Activation international (german, english, italian, french) BlinkenBible Projekt zur Kulturhauptstadt RUHR.2010 Schicke Deinen Bibelvers weltweit ?ber www.blinkenbible.de mit Deinen Namen und Deinem Absendeort per Laser an ein Hochhaus in Marl (Germany) und beobachte die Projektion per Webcam im Internet Das Multimediaprojekt l?uft zwei Mal: 02.-06. Februar 2010 >20.00 h - 24.00 h (local time) 13.-17. April 2010 >21.00 h - 0.00 h, (local time), (Local Hero Week) Ort: Kreissparkasse Marl, Bergstrasse, Marl (Germany) Die Bibel gilt als das zentrale Schriftkulturgut der Christen in aller Welt. In dem Projekt BlinkenBible treffen High-Tech und traditionelle Schriftkultur im Rahmen eines weltweit nutzbaren, interaktiven Multimediaprojekts zusammen. Kommentare erw?nscht F?r Kommentare gibt es einen extra Blog zum Projekt http://blinkenbible.blogspot.com/ Dort kann man zum Beispiel ank?ndigen, ob man mitmachen m?chte oder Ideen zu dem Projekt hat. Dort k?nnen die Sender und Senderinnen der Verse berichten, was ihnen ihr Vers bedeutet, warum sie ihren Vers geschickt haben, in welcher Situation sie gerade stecken. Jeder, der einen Internetzugang hat, kann problemlos mitmachen. Ein europ?isches Schulnetzwerk und ?kumenischen Partnergemeinden aus z.B. aus Russland, Tansania und Guatemala sind eingeladen, sich zu beteiligen und ihre Verse an das Hochhaus am Nordrand des Ruhrgebiets im Evangelischen Kirchenkreis Recklinghausen zu senden. F?r das Projekt BlinkenBible kann man eine Spende abgeben. Die H?lfte dieser Spenden geht an die Partnergemeinde des Ev. Kirchenkreises Recklinghausen im Magharibi-District, Tansania. Spendenkonto Unter dem Kennwort "LaserProjekt Kulturhauptstadt 2010" oder dem Kassenzeichen 10-52-6920.45.0000 freuen wir uns ?ber Spenden f?r BlinkenBible. Die Bankverbindungen des Ev. Kirchenkreises Recklinghausen, Limperstr. 15, 45657 Recklinghausen: KD-Bank eG BLZ 350 601 90 Konto-Nr. 2 001 265 027 Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen BLZ 426 501 50 Konto-Nr. 90 035 114 Volksbank Marl-Recklinghausen eG BLZ 426 610 08 Konto-Nr. 5 329 999 000 BlinkenBible A project within the Capital of Culture Programme RUHR 2010 You can send a Bible verse via Blinkenbible.de together with your name and the place of dispatch, display it with a laser on a multi-storey building at Marl (Germany) and watch the projection via webcam on the Internet. The multimedia project will be displayed twice: 02.-06. February 2010 >20.00 h - 24.00 h (local time) 13.-17. April 2010 >21.00 h - 24.00 h, (local time), (Local Hero Week) Place: Kreissparkasse Marl, Bergstrasse, Marl (Germany) The Bible is considered to be the central written cultural asset of all Christians worldwide. In the BlinkenBible project traditional written culture and high-tech meet in a worldwide usable interacitve multimedia project. Your comments are welcome and can be addressed to the special project blog: http://blinkenbible.blogspot.com/ There you can announce if you wish to participate in the project or if you want to contribute some ideas, etc. Those who already sent a Bible verse may e.g. explain what the verse means to them, why they sent it or what their personal situation is like. Anybody who has got access to the Internet can participate without difficulty. A European schools network and ecumenical partner congregations from e.g. Russia, Tanzania, Guatemala have been invited to participate and send their verses to the multi-storey building on the northern edge of the Ruhr in the Protestant congregation of Recklinghausen You can make a donation to support the BlinkenBible project. Half of your danoations will be forwarded to the partner congregations of the Protestant congregation of Recklinghausen in the Magharibi-District, Tanzania. Donations account Code name "LaserProjekt Kulturhauptstadt 2010" or reference number 10-52-6920.45.0000 Your donation will be much appreciated. Bank details of the Protestant congregation of Recklinghausen, Limperstr. 15, 45657 Recklinghausen: KD-Bank eG BLZ 350 601 90 Konto-Nr. 2 001 265 027 Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen BLZ 426 501 50 Konto-Nr. 90 035 114 Volksbank Marl-Recklinghausen eG BLZ 426 610 08 Konto-Nr. 5 329 999 000 IN ITALIANO BlinkenBible Progetto per la Capitale della Cultura RUHR.2010 Oltre a Istanbul, anche Essen e la zona della Ruhr sono state scelte come capitale della cultura 2010. All'occasione, collegandoti a www.blinkenbible.de, puoi mandare a tutto il mondo il tuo versetto biblico preferito, completo di nome e luogo di provenienza. Il messaggio verr? proiettato via laser sulla facciata di un grattacielo situato a Marl in Germania e potr? essere seguito via webcam. Il progetto sar? attivato due volte: Dal 2 al 6 febbraio 2010, ore 20.00-24.00 (ora locale) Dal 13 al 17 aprile 2010, ore 21.00-24.00 (ora locale) (Local Hero Week) Luogo: Kreissparkasse Marl, Bergstrasse, Marl (Germany) La Bibbia ? considerato il fondamentale bene culturale scritto dei cristiani in tutto il mondo. Nel progetto BlinkenBible si incontrano la cultura scritta tradizionale e la tecnologia avanzata nel quadro di un progetto multimedia interattivo, utilizzabile in tutto il mondo. Sono graditi commenti nel blog appositamente istituito per questo progetto http://blinkenbible.blogspot.com/ Qui ? possibile annunciare la propria partecipazione o esprimere idee sul progetto. Inoltre i mittenti possono spiegare che cosa significa per loro il versetto inviato, perch? lo hanno scelto, qual ? la loro situazione attuale. Chiunque pu? partecipare, ? sufficiente un accesso internet. Un network europeo di scuole e le comunit? ecumeniche gemellate in Russia, Tanzania, Guatemala ecc. sono invitati a partecipare e a inviare i loro versetti per farli proiettare in questo luogo situato nella parte settentrionale della Ruhr, nel decanato della chiesa protestante di Recklinghausen. E' possibile fare offerte per il progetto BlinkenBible. Il 50% delle offerte sar? versato alla comunit? gemellata del decanato di Recklinghausen nel Magharibi-District, Tanzania. Le offerte possono essere versate all'Ev. Kirchenkreises Recklinghausen, Limperstr. 15, 45657 Recklinghausen, indicando come causale "LaserProjekt Kulturhauptstadt 2010" nei seguenti conti correnti: KD-Bank eG IBAN DE53 3506 0190 2001 2650 27. Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen IBAN IBAN DE35 4265 0150 0090 0351 14. Volksbank Marl-Recklinghausen eG IBAN DE50 4266 1008 5329 9990 00. EN FRANCAIS BlinkenBible Projet dans le cadre de RUHR.2010 - Capitale de la Culture. Envoie le verset biblique que tu auras choisi dans le monde entier par www.blinkenbibel.de avec ton nom et ta ville. Le verset sera projet? par laser sur le mur d'un grand immeuble (tour) ? Marl dans la R?gion de la Ruhr (Allemagne) et tu pourras observer cette projection via Webcam sur internet. Le projet a lieu pendant deux p?riodes: du 02 au 06 f?vrier 2010 entre 20h et 24h (heure locale) et du 13 au 17 avril 2010 entre 21h et 24h (heure locale), (local hero week) Lieu de l'action: L?Immeuble de La Caisse d'Epargne R?gionale, Bergstrasse, Marl (Allemagne) La Bible est consid?r?e comme l'?le?ment central du patrimoine chr?tien d'?criture, dans le monde entier. Par le projet Blinkenbible se fait la rencontre entre la culture li?e ? la Haute Technologie et la culture tradidtionnelle d'?criture, dans le cadre d'un projet Multim?dia qui sera utilisable dans le monde entier et d'une mani?re interactive. Tu peux aussi d?poser des commentaires. Pour laisser ses commentaires, un blog expr`s pour ce projet est mis en place: http://blinkenbible.blogspot.com/ A cet endroit, on peut par exemple, annoncer sa participation ou transmettre des id?es qu'on a par rapport ? ce projet. On peut ?galement s'en servir pour donner des explications sur les raisons qui ont influenc? le choix du verset, en quoi ce verset est important pour celui ou celle qui l'a envoy? ou dans quelle situation il/elle se trouve actuellement. Seul un acc?s internet suffit pour participer. Un r?seau europ?en de coll?ges et de lyc?es ainsi que des paroisses partenaires , p.ex. de la Russie, de Tanzanie et du Guatemala sont invit?s ? participer et ? envoyer leurs versets bibliques sur ce mur d'immeuble du nord de la R?gion de la Ruhr, qui fait partie de la R?gion de Recklinghausen de l'Eglise Protestante en Westfalie. Pour ce projet on peut faire des dons. La moiti? de ces dons sera transmise ? la paroisse partenaire de la R?gion Recklinghausen de l'?glise Protestante, en Tanzanie, dans le district de Magharibi. Le compte en banque du projet: R?f?rence: "LaserProjekt Kulturhauptstadt 2010" ou ?galement: Code 10-52-6920.45.0000 Nous serons heureux de chaque don pour BlinkenBible. Le compte en banque de la R?gion Recklinghauen de l'Eglise Protestante en Westfalie, Limpertstrasse 15, 45657 Recklinghausen (Allemagne) : KD-Bank eG , code banque 350 601 90, num?ro de compte 2 001 265 027, IBAN DE53 3506 0190 2001 2650 27 ou: Sparkasse Vest Recklinghauesen, code de banque 426 501 50, num?ro de compte 90 035 114, IBAN DE35 4265 0150 0090 0351 14 ou bien: Volksbank Marl-Recklinghausen eG, code de banque 426 610 08, n? de compte 5 329 999 000, IBAN DE50 4266 1008 5329 9990 00 Beste Gr??e Hans Hubbertz -------------------------------------- Dr. Hans Hubbertz Ev. Kirchenkreis Recklinghausen Industrie- und Sozialpfarramt/Presse- u. ?ffentlichkeitsarbeit Limperstr. 15 D-45657 Recklinghausen Tel. 02361/206-109 Fax 02361/206-172 www.kirchenkreis-re.de From propaganda at goto10.org Sat Feb 6 19:15:42 2010 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Sat Feb 6 19:16:12 2010 Subject: [spectre] Workshop hello wor(l)d! - 2, 3 and 4 March 2010 - Groningen - NL Message-ID: <20100206181542.GE28524@goto10.org> sorry for deOMGifying Railties, please revert!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for participation Workshop hello wor(l)d! --------------------------------------------------------------------- (dutch version below) The workshop hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and live coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try. Day 1: Pure Data by IOhannes Zm?lnig Day 2: Microcodes by Pall Thayer Day 3: Fluxus by Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp No previous programming experience required, as long as you're not afraid to work in a terminal. Basic experience with any scripting or markup language (even if it is HTML/CSS) will make it easier to follow. Date: 2, 3 and 4 March 2010 Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Entrance: free! Venue: het Paleis (Erlenmeyer zaal), Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL) Registration: limited places available. Please send your name, phone number and CV to signnl@gmail.com before February 20 2010. If you are bringing a laptop, please specify your operating system. Hello wor(l)d! is part of make art, an international festival focused on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open content in digital arts. Make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming. The fifth edition - chmod +x art - will take place in Groningen (NL), from the 2nd to the 7th of March 2010. http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x/?page=hello_world&lang=en Organised by Sign and GOTO10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Oproep tot deelname Workshop hello wor(l)d! --------------------------------------------------------------------- De workshop hello wor(l)d! is een kennismaking met 3 verschillende artistieke benaderingen tot programmeren: grafisch, code (poetry), en live coding. De workshop laat de deelnemer proeven van alle drie de smaken en is bedoelt als inspiratie en ontdekkingstocht voor kunstenaars die nieuwsgierig zijn naar deze vormen van kunst. Je kunt niet leren programmeren in 3 dagen, en al helemaal niet op 3 verschillende manieren, maar het is heerlijk om te kunnen ervaren hoe de verschillende talen en stijlen je bevallen. Dag 1: Pure Data met IOhannes Zm?lnig Dag 2: Microcodes met Pall Thayer Dag 3: Fluxus met Dave Griffiths en Gabor Papp Geen programmeerervaring vereist, zolang je maar niet bang bent om in een terminal te werken. Basis ervaring met wat voor scripting of markup taal dan ook (al is het HTML/CSS) maakt het makkelijker om alles te volgen. Datum: 2, 3 en 4 maart 2010 Tijd: 10:00 - 17:00 Toegang: gratis! Locatie: het Paleis (Erlenmeyer zaal), Boterdiep 111, Groningen Registratie: beperkt aantal plaatsen beschikbaar. Stuur je naam, telefoonnummer en CV naar signnl@gmail.com voor 20 februari 2010. Als je een laptop mee wilt nemen, laat ons dan weten welk operating system. Hello wor(l)d is onderdeel van make art, een internationaal festival rond Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) en open content in digitale kunst. Make art biedt performances, presentaties, workshops en een expositie, rond de vage grens tussen kunst en het programmeren van software. De vijfde editie - chmod +x art - vindt plaats in Groningen (NL) van 2 tot en met 7 maart 2010. http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x/?page=hello_world Georganiseerd door Sign en GOTO10 :* From matze.schmidt at n0name.de Sat Feb 6 21:20:48 2010 From: matze.schmidt at n0name.de (Matze Schmidt) Date: Sat Feb 6 21:21:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] Re: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 84, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: <20100206110005.44A0925D3F6@mail.buug.de> References: <20100206110005.44A0925D3F6@mail.buug.de> Message-ID: <873892392.20100206212048@n0name.de> ---------------------------------Anzeige-------------------------------- T-Shirt "Reichstag auf dem Kopf" von t-shirtz.org http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320484514498&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:DE:1123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Laser Queue ca. 9:20 PM www. buskampagne.de from Berlin, Germany: The bible?s text: Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde. > BlinkenBible > Ein interaktives Multimedia-Projekt zum innovativen > Umgang mit der Bibel in der Stadt Marl > 02.-06. Februar 2010 >20.00 h - 24.00 h (GMT+1) 13.-17. April 2010 >>21.00 h - 0.00 h, (GMT+1), (Local Hero Week) > Die Bibel gilt als das zentrale Kulturgut der Christen in aller Welt. > In dem Projekt BlinkenBible treffen High-Tech und traditionelle > Schriftkultur im Rahmen eines weltweit nutzbaren, interaktiven > Multimediaprojekts zusammen. From awolfsberger at virtueelplatform.nl Mon Feb 8 09:37:21 2010 From: awolfsberger at virtueelplatform.nl (Annette Wolfsberger) Date: Mon Feb 8 09:38:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] SONIC ACTS: 25-28 FEB 2010, AMSTERDAM Message-ID: <4B6FCD41.7040608@virtueelplatform.nl> SONIC ACTS - THE POETICS OF SPACE Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology 25 ? 28 February 2010, Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ? Highlights live performances & films ? New festival website with complete programme online ? Tickets for all Sonic Acts events available now ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ? Highlights live performances & films DEEP SPACES - 25 February 2010 The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Immerse yourself in Thomas K?ner?s mesmerizing spatial sound tapestries, while his colleague, J?rgen Reble, takes you on a visual journey through the darker side of his alchemical chemograms. Haswell & Hecker will perform their radical UPIC Diffusion Session, an infinity of extreme sound and engulfing lasers. And Monolake and Tarik Barri will transport you through their spatial audiovisual universe. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/thursday/deep-spaces EXPANDED SPACE - 26 February 2010 The Expanded Space programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema. The magnificent film Color Sound Frames by Paul Sharits is dusted off for the big screen, Bruce McClure will show us a new performance he made with beautiful 16mm recordings of pelicans, from a 1950s nature documentary, and Greg Pope en Gert-Jan Prins will join forces to bring an homage to the 70s solid light film Line Describing A Cone by Anthony McCall. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/friday/expanded-space ACOUSTIC SPACES - 27 February 2010 This more than four-hour-long programme is devoted to various approaches to soundscape composition and features works produced by several generations of composers and musicians. From acoustic ecology to extreme field recordings: BJ Nilsen will present his latest thunderstorm recordings, Booming dunes from the Oman deserts by Jacob Kirkegaard, and Gilles Aubry will take us on a sonic journey across european airports. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/saturday/acoustic-spaces BEYOND SPACE - 28 February 2010 An extraordinary programme in a remarkable location: the Beyond Space event in the Artis Planetarium includes the international premiere of a composition by the recently deceased innovative composer Maryanne Amacher, a new audiovisual work by the Italian multi-talent TeZ; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand will explore the space with laser and soap bubbles, accompanied by live audio by Francisco L?pez; and the British designer Paul Prudence brings a visual spectacle specially designed for the Planetarium dome. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/sunday/beyond-space ? New festival website with complete programme online As of this week the new festival website is online with the complete programme, background information, a timetable and much more. http://2010.sonicacts.com Also now available for download the programme booklet as PDF. http://2010.sonicacts.com/SA13_programme.pdf ? Tickets for all Sonic Acts events available now Ticket pre-sale for all Sonic Acts events has started via de Balie, Paradiso, Ticket Service, and other regular pre-sale addresses. For an overview of all available tickets visit the ticket page: http://2010.sonicacts.com/ticket-information/ Sonic Acts Weteringschans 6 - 8 1017 SG Amsterdam the Netherlands p +31206264521 f +31206222721 e info@sonicacts.com www.sonicacts.com From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Feb 8 12:31:17 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Mon Feb 8 12:32:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] NewMediaFest'2010 - week 07 - preview Message-ID: <20100208123117.725CCACF.EAE33610@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest?2010 _____________________________ Week 07 - 8-14 February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=475 _____________________________ 1. Feature of the week --> SoundLAB III - sound art //global competition 2005 //Australian soundart curated by Michael Yuen //German soundart by Peter Wolf http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=477 2. Feature of the month February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=436 On occasion of 65th Return of the Liberation of Auschwitz A Virtual Memorial Foundation launched on (27 January 1945-2010) -SFC - Shoah Film Collection- http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html 3. Celebrate! - netart features 2010 10 Years - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art the netart features are released in form of the daily journal - "Celebrate!"--> http://2010.javamuseum.org - this week--> Monday: Reginald Brooks (USA) Tuesday: Gita Hashemi (Iran/CA) Wednesday: Beat Suter (CH) Thursday: Osvaldo Cibils (UY) Friday:KPHB - Philippe Bruneau (F) Saturday: Ian Flitman (UK) Sunday: Katty Vandenberghe (SA) 4. SIP - SoundLAB Interview project- a series of interviews --> http://sip.newmediafest.org/?p=414 --> this week: : Monday: Mira Burt-Wintonick (Canada) Tuesday:Lin Culbertson (UK) Wednesday: Erin Gee (CA) Thursday: Margaret Jameson aka tinydiva (USA) Friday: Matt Mackissak (UK) Saturday: Owen Plotkin (USA) Sunday:Meri Nikula (Finland) 5. VideoChannel Cologne - Ukrainian Video Art - curated by Yarina Butkovska (UA) - features for the next 14 days http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1797 --> this week: Monday Viacheslav. Poliakov Tuesday Oksana Chepelyk Wednesday Olexiy Khoroshko Thursday Kateryna Babkina Friday Mykola Kondratenko Saturday Yuriy Kruchak Sunday Oleg Ushchenko 5. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1275 --> this week: Monday Benjamin Rosenthal (USA) Tuesday Jennifer Schwed (USA) Wednesday Jasper Rigole (Belgium) Thursday Jun Ho Oh (South Korea) Friday Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan) Saturday Borja Alexandre (Spain) Sunday Katrina Inagaki (USA) 6 VideoChannel - Shoah Film Collection http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1641 -> this week: Monday Sean Burn (UK) Tuesday Agricola de Cologne (Germany) Wednesday Yonathan Weinstein (Israel) Thursday Jens Salander & Mikael Str?mberg (Sweden) Friday Branko Miliskovic (Serbia) Saturday Daveed Shwartz (Israel) Sunday Heike Liss & Thea Farhadian (USA) 7. CologneOFF IV - features for one day - start 1 February 2010 http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1632 -->this week: Monday Daniel Sl?ttnes (Norway) Tuesday Grace Schwindt (UK) Wednesday Mikael Prey, (aka Fetish23) (Sweden) Thursday Elisabeth Smolarz, (USA/Germany) Friday Oksana Shatalova, (Kazakhstan) Saturday Mihai Grecu (Romania) Sunday Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA) --------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ 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 calls for entries --> for NewMediaFest'2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=78 downloads http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=87 newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From office at paraflows.at Mon Feb 8 19:23:03 2010 From: office at paraflows.at (Office) Date: Mon Feb 8 19:23:34 2010 Subject: [spectre] Hoozah! Pre-order for monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hard to believe, but monochrom #26-34 will be out March 2010! 500 pages, 55 ounces, for 18 euros / 24 us-dollars. Release tour: March 11, 2010 @ MUSA in Vienna (afterparty at Metalab) April 3, 2010 @ Videotage in Hong Kong April 27, 2010 @ The Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City (dates for LA, SFO, London, Munich, Berlin will be announced soon) Content? Screws and astronauts. Roundworms and Columbia. Cannibalism at sea. Conlanging 101. The basic mechanisms of New Economy and Neoliberalism. The sketchy world of Elffriede. The status of martial law. RFID. Henry the Halibut. Rieseberg and the emergence of work. Dracula (a poem). Historicity, temporality, and politics in the cinema aesthetics of Deleuze, Ranci?re and Kracauer. Or-Om's call to the children. The problem with social robots. An (anti)history of Rave. The life of a Swiss banker and fascist anti-imperialist. Considerations by Martin Auer. The Stepford wives and stereotypes of putative perfection. Noise and talk. A little potpourri about amok runners, mass homicide and 80s pop songs. Scratching means life. Mae Saslaw's 10005. Kiki and Bubu and Orwell's 1984. Cybernetics and whatever happened to it. The integrating of the Fringe. Witchcraft and lesbianism. The weirdness (and PR) of the wonders of Oz. Rachel Lovinger's personal journey towards datameaningfulness. Revolution, ads and revolt. A pilot study on the philosophy of life of schizophrenics. Pro Asylum. Bird Ball. Medicine in the Dark Ages (humor, leeches, charms and prayers). Reflections about Ivan Grubanov and Paul Chan. Communism, anti-German criticism and Israel. Surprise findings. Hot, hard cocks and tight, tight unlubricated assholes. Dubbing (Casablanca and forged movies). The treatment of media in H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror. The relationship of books and films explained via Capricorn One. Stories about our friends (e.g. whales). The history of Pinball machines. Italy and the incubation of fascism. Consider Phlebas and The Waste Land. The implicit ideology of media activism and its current opportunities. Urban Pilgrims touring Vienna. Ronald McDonald slapping a guy in the face. Text adventures. The Shining (Jack of all Trades, Master of None). Reappropriating architecture and playing with the built city. Recoding LOLcats. Sitcom as Endgame, Tatort out of the Volksempf?nger (an attempt to understand the culture industry). Gender, race and film comedy. Neon Bible and its hidden agenda. The SNAFU principle and how hierarchies inhibit communication. The power of disposition over (global) space as a new dimension of class structuration. Lustgas. Stammlager 217 and Israel's popular culture of the 1960s. Supertheory(TM). Adopt a highway. X-Wing penetration, dominatrix fathers and phallic light sabers. Europanto. The Unicorn and the Maiden. Leben macht Spass. How to build a magnificent Boom-Boom. Lots of reviews of deities, personalities, questions, states of mind, culture (as opposed to nature), nature (which cannot be divided from culture), words, social practise, future(s), technological artefacts, experiences, things on a keyboard, and matter. The short story of Pocahontas and Avatar. Walled World. Hacking the Spaces. Sally Grizzell Larson's No. 29. The tyranny of structurelessness. Jack Kirby's top 20 creations. The need of Change (keep your coins). Fehler and Fairchild Semiconductor. Richka's Answering Space and the question about Home. Worm. Future 42.0. Doctorow's row-boat. Bare life innovation. A mnemonic of longing. Etiology of Romero-Fulci Disease (and the case for prions). Campaign for the abolition of personal pronouns. Yahooking. A social-centric, canine-inspired perspective on the placebo effect. Helpless machines and true loving caregivers. Information doesn't work (that's why we need information workers). The myth of Xanadu (reconsidered). John Wilcock and the Manhattan Memories. The Cult of Done. Looking at Gene Wilder. Sweet Home Alabama (and why diamonds are a girls worst nightmare). Pretesting the idea of apparative hermeneutics. Ignorantism. Artistic fears in the age of religious fundamentalism. Smoking against America. The Things of Eternity. After warfare in Yugoslavia (or: moral order of recognition). Existential game-show experiments. The epic of Gilgamesh. Mozart as public relations hype. Las Vegas and its casino traditions. Sikhs. Pornographic coding. Invader and public tiles. Splasher, street art and the Situationist International. MakerBot. Long live the porn flesh. The three rules of sidewalk junk giveaways. Melcus and his maps. Mister plomlompom's embracing of post-privacy. Catty (the baseball player). John Duncan (in: Blind Date). Michayluk's crush of worship of the copy. The Telecommunications History Group. monochrom's initiative for the accomplishment of Total Population. The medieval agricultural year. Office Art. A cartoon that makes neoliberals laugh. A rough guide to number stations. The digital age and ubermorgen.com. Mobile phones and "for whom the SAR tolls". A call for more science... and giant dinosaurs who bite each others head off. Pre-order? Certainly... please send a mail to mono@monochrom.at http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/index.htm From kovats at transmediale.de Tue Feb 9 00:23:00 2010 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Tue Feb 9 00:23:37 2010 Subject: [spectre] transmediale.10 exhibitions for Haiti 'Radio Metropole' (HKW Berlin) Message-ID: transmediale.10 / FUTURITY NOW! ... extension Dear Spectrites, for those of you in Berlin who didn't have a chance to the see the transmediale.10 exhibitions, including FUTURE OBSCURA, the Award Nominees (and winners!) as well as the 'Futures Exchange' works, there is one more day of full opening today (Tuesday, February 9, 2010) transmediale.10 is taking part in the fundraising campaign for Haiti initiated by EUNIC - the EU Association of National Cultural Institutes via its current chair, the Instituto Cervantes Berlin (one of transmediale.10's satellite partners). During the charity event, which will take place the evening of the 9th of February, the exhibitions are open from 11.00 am until 9.30 p.m. Apart from the exhibition FUTURE OBSCURA, curated by Honor Harger, with works by artists including Julius von Bismarck, Ryoji Ikeda and Gebhard Sengm?ller, works nominated for the transmediale Award 2010 including Buscando al Sr. Goodbar by the Canadian artist Michelle Teran can also be seen. Installations as part of the Futures Exchange within the festival architecture by raumlaborberlin, as well as the thousand-year composition Longplayer by Jem Finer and the interactive Tweetscreen by Jens Wunderling will continue through the extension. With this campaign transmediale.10 wants to make a contribution to the reconstruction of free and independent media in Haiti. Proceeds collected through the exhibition will be donated to Haitian 'Radio M?tropole', which was severely damaged by the earthquake in January. Radio M?tropole is one of the most significant sources of independent news, information and culture in Haiti, broadcasting again from a temporary facility in their garden. Supporting free and independent media in Haiti helps guarantees the broader reconstruction and relief effort in the country. Herbstradio Berlin (99,1 MHz) and Resonance FM (104,4) have been broadcasting live from transmediale.10 and will participate in the action and are including reportages from or about 'Radio M?tropole' activities in the coming days. http://www.transmediale.de/en/press-news www.herbstradio.org The Benefit Concert for Haiti itself, presented by EUNIC in collaboration with the House of World Cultures features four performers from four countries - from Haiti, Karlex Antoine and his Band, the renowned Spanish Flamenco-Musician Gerardo N??ez, the Finnish Pianist Jarkko Riihim?ki and Damir Ba?ikin Feat. Arzet Quintet Berlin & Sonik Theatre. Concert 09.02.2010 | 19 Uhr / 7 pm Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin For entry to the concert a donation of minimum 20? in cash is being requested. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Deutschen Welthungerhilfe e.V. Reservations: Telefon +49 (0)30?39 78 7175 or Mail tickets@hkw.de www.eunic-berlin.eu greetings, stephen artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin transmediale and Vil?m Flusser Theory Award winners announced: http://www.transmediale.de/en/award/all -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From louise.desrenards at free.fr Tue Feb 9 00:27:00 2010 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Tue Feb 9 00:27:45 2010 Subject: [spectre] Of The Jewish question in the False debate on the feminism ( 1843-2010 ) Message-ID: <9eb0e3811002081527y2ca306e8td452eacfc9d4fc59@mail.gmail.com> http://translate.google.com/# http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1542 Pourquoi ?voquer La question juive, ? propos de la querelle m?diatique sur la candidature d?une militante qui arbore le signe de son appartenance musulmane, en liste du Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste pour les ?lections r?gionales fran?aises de 2010? Voici le texte de r?f?rence qui permet de voir plus clair et de comprendre que ceux et celles qui appellent le porte parole du NPA Olivier Besancenot ? relire Marx, ne l?ont pas lu eux-m?mes. Sur la question de l??mancipation et de la religion, ils doivent prendre Marx pour L?nine et ignorer que le fondement du NPA (?volution de La Ligue Communiste r?f?r?e ? la IVe Internationale) soit notoirement trotskyste. On ne va pas expliquer ici les affres des textes politiques r?volutionnaires et des choix partisans de L?nine, ce qui permettrait n?anmoins d?apprendre les diff?rences entre le parti communiste marxiste-l?niniste bolchevique, qui installa la dictature du prol?tariat, la rupture avec Trotsky pourtant chef de l?arm?e Rouge (finalement assassin? au Mexique, sur les ordres de Staline), les Internationales successives, leurs divisions, et les anarchistes. Mais on peut inviter les accusateurs publics ? lire ce texte de Karl Marx pr?cis?ment consacr? ? poser la question philosophique mat?rialiste de l??mancipation au-del? d?un contexte particulier, tout en discutant sur son l?histoire. En effet, il s?agit de La Question Juive, titre ?ponyme de l?article publi? en 1843 par son ancien professeur, l?h?gelien Bruno Bauer, auquel Marx r?pond la m?me ann?e, alors qu?il n?a que vingt cinq ans, vivant encore en Allemagne, quand il ?pouse son amie d??tudes Jenny von Westphalen. L?essentiel de sa r?flexion sur la religion, et la contradiction de l??mancipation (entre individu et citoyen, entre sujet et morale), y est pos?e comme insoluble, du fait de son int?riorisation et de la structure de reproduction de l?id?ologie de cette fa?on, sinon sur un autre plan : celui de la force sociale, quand elle s?int?gre en force politique. C?est un ouvrage important, ? la base des th?ories mat?rialistes de l??mancipation moderne de la fin du XXe si?cle, car ce texte s?applique aussi bien ? la condition f?minine qui traverse celle des religions. Ce fut le g?nie de Simone de Beauvoir d?ouvrir un nouveau front du f?minisme, apr?s l?obtention du droit de vote pour les femmes en France (21 avril 1944), en appliquant l?interpr?tation marxiste de l?int?riorisation de la religion ? celle de la condition f?minine (Le deuxi?me sexe, 1949), et de faire monter l?id?e d?une production domestique, conf?rant la femme au foyer ? la force sociale, rendant imaginable une lutte sociale cadr?e par la dialectique des sexes, ? laquelle recourent encore les f?ministes qui revendiquent l??galitarisme paritaire aujourd?hui. Puis Frantz Fanon de l?appliquer ? la condition ?mancip?e des Noirs (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952 ? qui se situe par une citation du Discours sur le colonialisme d?Aim? C?saire), et des peuples colonis?s dans leurs guerres de lib?ration (Les damn?s de la terre, 1961), jusqu?? inspirer Malcolm X puis le Black Panther Party (o? Jean Genet se retrouve). Texte de Marx souvent cit?, mais mal connu dans son importance, parce qu?on lui attribua ? tort de l?antis?mitisme. R??dit? chez 10/18 au moment de la Guerre des 6 jours, puis en 1968, la version de 1967 a ?t? mise en ligne gratuitement sur le site des archives marxistes www.marxists.org, version du texte int?gral de Marx que nous publions ici, avec la pr?face de Robert Mandrou que nous pla?ons en Postface. En 2006, sans doute pour ?clairer l?actualit? du conflit israelo-palestinien, une nouvelle traduction par J. F. Poirier, pr?sent?e et comment?e par Daniel Bensa?d, a ?t? publi?e aux ?ditions La Fabrique, sous le titre Sur la question juive ; elle comprend, comme dans l?ouvrage chez 10/18, le texte de r?f?rence de Bruno Bauer. A lire le texte de Marx, on comprend en quoi le choix de la candidate Ilhem Boussa?d, si contest? ces jours-ci, n?est ni anti-marxiste ni anti-f?ministe. Bien au contraire, tendant ? la r?solution d?une int?riorisation par l?int?gration de la force sociale (la population productive des "quartiers" repr?sent?e par une militante qui provient de ce nombre) en force politique (l??mergence ?lectorale d?un parti la?que internationaliste et anticapitaliste), dans le cadre du pacte d?mocratique en vigueur. Il n?est pas indiff?rent de remarquer qu?il s?agit d?un choix assum? par le Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, th?oris? et instruit par Daniel Bensa?d... Daniel Bensa?d est mort le 12 janvier 2010. M?me s?il ne s?agit pas de la traduction Jean-Fran?ois Poirier qu?il a comment?e, nous lui d?dions en hommage cette publication, dans La revue des ressources, de la version de 1968. Sous l?Introduction report?e en post-scriptum, on trouvera les liens utiles vers les r?f?rences source en ligne, et vers les deux ?ditions de l?ouvrage de librairie, l?ancien pour les collectionneurs, d?occasion, dans le site Price Minister, et l?actuel neuf, dans le site de l??diteur. Il y a plus : l?impossibilit? philosophique mat?rialiste de la d?sali?nation de l?individu par l??tre moral ? collectif ? (sinon par l?interdit ou l'?mancipation g?n?rale), instruit que la d?sali?nation soit une r?duction au lieu d?une libert? (qui accro?t). Ici passe la pr?diction des seuils d?intol?rance priv?s ou publics, communautaires ou la?ques, qui installent les syst?mes politiques des plus stupides aux plus d?sinform?s, ? travers la prescription autoritaire par les usages, ou par la loi, ou par la guerre (des d?mocraties aux dictatures, et jusqu?aux luttes de lib?ration qui cherchant l?unit? s?arment contre la diff?rence, craignant d??tre affaiblies). A. G-C. Hommage ? Daniel Bensa?d, Respect ? Olivier Besancenot et au NPA du Vaucluse, Courage ? Ilhem Moussa?d;-) La version traduite par Jean-Fran?ois Poirier, pr?sent?e et comment?e par Daniel Bensa?d, ?d. La Fabrique, 2006) : http://www.lafabrique.fr/catalogue.php?idArt=186 __ Karl MARX La question juive / Table des mati?res : 1. La question juive 2. La capacit? des Juifs et des chr?tiens actuels de devenir libres, selon Bruno Bauer Le texte int?gral en fran?ais de la version mise en ligne par marxists.org (d'apr?s la traduction de Jean-Michel Palmier, ?d. Union g?n?rale d??dition, col. Le monde en 10/18 n? 412, Paris, 1968) : http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1542 From kovats at transmediale.de Tue Feb 9 00:41:01 2010 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Tue Feb 9 00:41:33 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?transmediale_+_Vil=E9m_Flusser_Theory_A?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ward_2010_winners_announced!?= Message-ID: <5964B7F5-5C86-427A-8594-E3EF3C51480D@transmediale.de> transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! Congratulations - Award 2010 winners announced! This year?s winners of the transmediale and Vil?m Flusser Theory Award have been announced. The awards were presented on the evening of February 6 by Barbara Kisseler, head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery, and the members of both juries. Canadian artist Michelle Teran is the winner of the transmediale Award 2010. Her work 'Buscando al Sr. Goodbar' was awarded the prize of 6,000 EUR. http://www.ubermatic.lftk.org/blog/?p=225 Jury Statement: 'Buscando al Sr Goodbar' by Michelle Teran is a timely and considered exploration of synergies between online social space and physical urban spaces. Her work asks us to consider the hidden pockets of virtuosity that take place all around us. In her hands, online tools become not only a platform for display, but a method of discovery and reconnection to other people. She combines old methods (bus tours)and new (online tools) to create a work that is a complex commentary on our present moment, but also points the way to future layering of our digital and physical selves. A Distinction worth 2,000 EUR was given to Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey for their work 'Bicycle Built For Two Thousand'. http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/ Jury Statement: The method by which the participants were recruited, while only possible on this scale in our contemporary networked age, also cleverly reminds of the traditional studio model where apprentices create building blocks that are refined and completed by masters. The work is an elegant reflection on networked labour. The Vil?m Flusser Theory Award 2010, also worth 2,000 EUR, was given to Berlin based artist (and neurosurgeon) Warren Neidich for his research project 'Neuropower'. http://www.warrenneidich.com/ Jury Statement: The project Neuropower is a manipulation in the literal sense of the word. Departing from recent insights of brain research, the trained biologist Neidich searches for strategies to manipulate the process of ongoing cerebral reconstruction. Through artistic means ? as for instance the performative gesture ? Warren Neidich attempts to re-conquer those cognitive realms which are normally subjected to the effects and mechanisms of the mass media in a globalised world defined by neoliberalism. By joining scientific and aesthetic knowledge elegantly, Neidich?s work commences right there where reality is first of all constructed: in the neuronal networks of the brain. transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) invited submissions for both awards and from the approximately 1.500 submissions from 72 countries, the juries selected nine nominees for the transmediale Award 2010 and four nominees for the Vil?m Flusser Theory Award, which were presented at transmediale.10. The jury members of the transmediale Award 2010 were Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburg), Jos? Luis de Vicente (Barcelona), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Bruxelles), and Doreen Mende (Berlin). Advisory committee members for the Vil?m Flusser Theory Award 2010 were Marcel Ren? Marburger (_Vil?m_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna). We congratulate the artists and all the nominees for their great work, and participation in both the Award and the festival!! transmediale Award winners 2010: http://tiny.cc/VNSH7 transmediale Award nominees 2010: http://tiny.cc/laIvF Vil?m Flusser Theory Award nominees 2010: http://tiny.cc/UAshW artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller gesch?ftsf?hrer moritz van d?lmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Feb 9 17:27:54 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Feb 9 17:28:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] Review of Mark Napier's Venus 2.0 by Angela Ferraiolo In-Reply-To: <49A2B376.6080508@furtherfield.org> References: <49A2B376.6080508@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <4B718D0A.4070107@furtherfield.org> Sorry for cross posting... Review of Mark Napier's Venus 2.0 by Angela Ferraiolo. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=379 Angela Ferraiolo meets Mark Napier in New York and asks him what's behind the Venus 2.0 project. Venus 2.0 was created from software written by the artist, collecting images of various body parts of Pamela Anderson, an erotic icon of our time. All images were scraped from the hundreds of pictures of Pamela Anderson available on the Internet, recreating mobile, three-dimensional figures out of these flat fragmentary pictures. Mark Napier reflects and redefines on our perceptions of images in this Internet age, on network structures and on the Internet's influence on our lives. "Now that I'm done' I find the artwork disturbing. It freaks me out. Maybe I'll do landscapes for a while to detox." -- Mark Napier Mark Napier (http://www.potatoland.org/), well-known for the net classics Shredder (http://www.potatoland.org/shredder/) Riot (http:www.potatoland.org/riot/) and Digital Landfill (http://www.potatoland.org/landfill/) recently exhibited his latest work Venus 2.0 at the DAM Gallery (http://www.dam-berlin.de/) in Berlin. Mark Napier (1961, USA) lives in New York. He became inspired by software development soon after completing his training as a painter. He has been working on Net art since 1995 and was one of the first artists to deal thematically and formally with the Internet. His works explore terms such as 'ownership' and 'authority' in the Net and interrogate browser functions and Web design. He has been commissioned to create Net art works by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and took part in the Whitney Biennale in 2002. Institutions and festivals that have exhibited his works include the Centre Pompidou in Paris, P.S.1 New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Ars Electronica in Linz, The Kitchen, K?nstlerhaus Vienna, ZKM Karlsruhe, Transmediale, iMAL Brussels, Eyebeam, the Princeton Art Museum, and la Villette, Paris. He has also received awards from Creative Capital, the Greenwall Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Angela Ferraiolo is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York. ------------> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on Twitter http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews/articles/interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org From bubotic at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 10:04:37 2010 From: bubotic at gmail.com (bubotic@gmail.com) Date: Wed Feb 10 10:05:12 2010 Subject: [spectre] Sandberg Instituut / NIMK - [AMS 12 FEB] Message-ID: <2F6343FB-AFC8-4BC0-89EB-56777D62A813@gmail.com> . Sandberg Institute at NIMK A night of new work by M.F.A. students of the Sandberg Institute. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Renee van Trier, Giorgi Tabatadze, Salome Lamas, Styrmir ?rn Gu?mundsson, Edwin Stolk, Nicole O?Neill, Nadine Hottenrott, Tom Milnes, Paula Albuquerque, Sina Khani, Susan Lanting, Vera Korman Friday 12 February, NIMK Keizersgracht 264. Deur open 20:00 Programma 20:30 Einde 23:00 Toegang 3.50, studenten gratis http://nimk.nl/nl/agenda/sandberg-institute-nimk-2 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268321705497&ref=ts Curated and produced by Theus Zwakhals (NIMK) and Emile Zile. Afterparty at Occii http://www.occii.org/nightdetails.asp?id=834 . From qrndnc at yahoo.it Wed Feb 10 12:30:44 2010 From: qrndnc at yahoo.it (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Wed Feb 10 12:37:59 2010 Subject: [spectre] EXPANDED BOX AT ARCO MADRID 2010 + PANEL Message-ID: <99922D83-916E-45D9-814C-A80B84E2F852@yahoo.it> OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EXPANDED BOX Madrid, Feria de Madrid / IFEMA, Pavillion 8 February 17 - 21, 2010 Curated by: Domenico Quaranta Galleries and artists: [DAM]Berlin, Berlin / BOREDOMRESEARCH; Alma Gallery, Riga / GINTS GABRANS; Art Claims Impulse, Berlin / JULIUS VON BISMARCK AND BENJAMIN MAUS; Arthobler, Porto / JAKUB NEPRAS; DNA Galerie, Berlin / MARIANA VASSILEVA; Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia / EVA AND FRANCO MATTES AKA 0100101110101101.ORG; Gentili Apri, Berlin / JODI; Haunch of Venison, London / RAPHAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. Press Images (zip folder, 72 MB): http://domenicoquaranta.com/public/PRESS/ARCO_EB_2010_press_images.zip More infos on the fair: http://www.ifema.es/web/ferias/arco/default_i.html Official press release: Once again, ARCOmadrid is opening up its own particular ?black box? to provide room for renowned international artists using new media in their works. The use of new technologies and digital tools in art creation is no longer viewed as anything strange or exceptional, and in fact a large number of artists have already added it to their everyday practise without further ado. This new addition of electronics to art is reflected in the eight spaces at EXPANDED BOX, in a programme coordinated by the Italian critic and curator Domenico Quaranta, a specialist in digital and net art. ?The idea that new technologies, new media, new ways of addressing vital questions, as well as how cultures have contextualised these technological changes, is constantly modifying not only the way in which we live, but also the way in which we make art and even the very notion of art itself?, the curator explains. The evolution has been so fast and digital media have irrupted into our lives with such force that they are transforming absolutely all fields of culture. This means a true revolution in terms of cultural production, with a rise of techniques such as photography, film and animation. ?Some artists have embraced new media enthusiastically, while others are being forced to reconsider the way in which they work with conventional media like painting and sculpture; and yet others have done both things? and, as Quaranta says, ?art has changed beyond all recognition?. With over a decade under its belt already, the EXPANDED BOX programme has been instrumental in this process and, in this upcoming edition, it will take another step further in order to showcase an art that is looking beyond the creative world, ?an art that is growing on Internet, that is made in research centres and laboratories and that has the potential to change our current accepted idea of art?, the curator tells us. The public will find a programme that ?will try to make collectors and art lovers lose their fear of these changes?, while at once demonstrating that ?in the information society, works of art have as much to say as always?. The reconstruction of art To give us a rounded perspective, Domenico Quaranta has selected eight projects ?capable of clearing showing the diverse facets of this strange diamond we currently know as ?New Media Art?? or, in any case, those that the curator considered the most interesting ?in terms of cultural urgency?, within a field ?whose leadership and reputation has seen an exponential growth over recent years?. This is the case of the Italian collective comprising Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG. In the space of the FABIO PARIS ART GALLERY, they are presenting a complete cycle of their ?Synthetic Performances?, in which they reconstruct legendary performances from the history of art through avatars from virtual worlds like Second Life. Particularly representative of latest trends in this genre is JODI, a duo of artists and one of the hottest names in Net Art since its inception. They will be showing their work in the space of the Berlin gallery GENTILI APRI. At ARCOmadrid this collective from Holland are presenting one of their latest and most subversive works, which revolves around amateur technology and participative media, rewriting folklore in a particular anthropology through the net. Also from Berlin, the ART CLAIMS IMPULSE gallery is representing the German collective comprising Julius Von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus. The public will have a chance to catch their latest creation, ?Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus?, a machine that translates the words from a text into drawings on continuous paper. Like a 21st century ?exquisite corpse?, the result reveals a re-contextualization of ideas and fragments, opening the way to a new narrative, creating fascinating stories and intriguing visual metaphors. Tradition and innovation Domenico Quaranta?s selection also includes various projects combining new technology with more conventional media or which use these technologies towards classical ends. The latter is the case of the wonderful installation by the Bulgarian artist Mariana Vassileva, presented by the German DNA GALLERY. The artist, concerned with issues cutting across violence, gender, family and social hierarchies, uses the human being in her work as a source of energy and light, exploring themes of human desires like communication, interpersonal relations, personal introspection and solitude. The Latvian gallery ALMA GALLERY is exhibiting photonic paintings created by the multimedia artist Gints Gabr?ns using a laser ray and then registering them on photographic paper. From a profound concern for aesthetics, this artist?s works are a clear instance of how conventional media can be reinterpreted and adapted to new technologies and languages. On a similar tack, we find the work by the young artist Jakub Nepra? presented by the Portuguese gallery ARTHOBLER. This Czech artist brings three of his video projects together in one single installation. Through the use of assemblage and the layering of individual sequences, the artist creates movement along various axes, generating dynamic and pictorial rhythms in a temporal loop. The public can also see an evocative work by the UK collective Boredomresearch, comprising Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, who use new media to portray and recreate artificial life. The new series of informatic objects by this duo who work with software art to fuse aesthetics and biology is on view at the space of [DAM] BERLIN. Finally, the Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is also making a contribution to this summary overview of e-art and new technologies applied to creation. The London gallery HAUNCH OF VENISON is showing one of his latest installations, Reaction Diffusion, which consists of a series of computer-controlled light boxes showing animated images from some of the world?s frontier regions with the greatest migratory traffic and the greatest economic inequality. The social dynamics are, in this case, the object study and reflection for this artist, who uses new media to speak of pressing problems of the moment. The ?black box? at ARCOmadrid_2010 is, as such, ?an attempt to rethink more traditional media ?photography, video, performance and even painting and sculpture ? through the optic of the digital era and to facilitate a mutual dialogue?, and as Domenico Quaranta claims, one of the founding mandates of his selection for EXPANDED BOX. --- EXPANDING THE FIELD. Or, 8 good reasons to talk about new media (in an art fair) Director: Domenico Quaranta Lecturers: UBERMORGEN.COM, Marius Watz, Trevor Paglen, Oron Catts, Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn, Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky ARCO Art Fair, Forum Auditorium 2, Hall 6. February 18, 2010, from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. and from 4 to 8 p.m. Download the complete program: http://domenicoquaranta.com/public/pdf/ARCO2010_seminar.pdf Something is happening in the field of art. Postmodernism seems to have been replaced, but nobody is really able to say by what. Art critics such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explained this change looking backwards to Modernism, but Modernism itself is many things, and it?s still not clear if this new modern, or Altermodern, is rooted in a new utopianism, as argued by Christov- Bakargiev, or in creolisation, globalisation and travelling, as suggested by Bourriaud. What is clear to both is that new technologies, in the broader meaning of the term, are having a central role in this change. Starting from here, and appropriating Ippolito and Blais? idea that the change will come from artists operating ?at the edge of art? ? Expanding the Field will involve artists and researchers that address, with different approaches, various new technologies ? from the Internet to videogames and biotechnology ? and issues and practices of the digital culture, from media hacking to data mining and surveillance. Some of them developed groundbreaking tools now used worldwide by artists operating in different fields; others ? such as Tale of Tales ? dropped out from the traditional art world in order to bring their idea of art to a different, possibly wider audience. Some feel more comfortable in labs than in museums, and most of them are strongly connected to online communities. Along the panel, they will be invited to introduce their work, addressing their relationship with technology and digital culture, and explaining how the fields they explore are affecting our culture and our concept of art. --- Domenico Quaranta web. http://domenicoquaranta.com/ email. info@domenicoquaranta.com mob. +39 340 2392478 skype. dom_40 From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Feb 10 12:49:09 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Feb 10 12:49:51 2010 Subject: [spectre] 'If not you not me' exhibition by Annie Abrahams - update. In-Reply-To: <99922D83-916E-45D9-814C-A80B84E2F852@yahoo.it> References: <99922D83-916E-45D9-814C-A80B84E2F852@yahoo.it> Message-ID: <4B729D35.80806@furtherfield.org> 'If not you not me' exhibition by Annie Abrahams - update. This Friday evening, 6.30-9pm 'If not you not me', an exhibition of networked performance art by Annie Abrahams opens with 3 live performances at HTTP Gallery in London http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml We hope to see you there. Ruth Catlow has written an essay to accompany the exhibition http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=378 Where social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. This exhibition presents three new collaborative works alongside documentation of recent networked performances created and curated by the artist. Exhibition Details: If not you not me by Annie Abrahams Open 12 February - 20 March 2010 Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6.30-9pm All are welcome to come along this Friday evening, 6.30-9pm http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml How to get to HTTP Gallery http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml About Annie Abrahams Annie Abrahams was born to a farming family in a rural village in the Netherlands. She obtained a doctorate in biology in 1978 and found that her observations of monkeys inspired curiosity about human interactions. After leaving an academic post, she trained as an artist and moved to France, where she became interested in using computers to construct and document her painting installations. She began experimenting with networked performance and making art for the Internet in the mid 1990s. Her work has since returned to the questions raised by the monkeys, concentrating on the possibilities and limitations of communication on the Internet. She has performed and shown work extensively in France, including at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and in many international galleries including among others Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan; festivals such as the Moscow Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, and on online platforms such as Rhizome.org and Turbulence. About HTTP Gallery HTTP Gallery, near North London's thriving Green Lanes area, is Furtherfield.org's dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England, London. From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Wed Feb 10 15:12:00 2010 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello Bugallo) Date: Wed Feb 10 15:11:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?CFP=3A_Interactivos=3F_Process_is_Parad?= =?iso-8859-1?q?igm=2E_LABoral_Centro_de_Arte_y_Creaci=F3n_Industrial?= Message-ID: <4B72BEB0.8050404@laboralcentrodearte.org> (scroll down for English version) CONVOCATORIA INTERNACIONAL DE PROYECTOS Taller Seminario INTERACTIVOS? en el marco de la exposici?n Proceso como Paradigma Una colaboraci?n de LABoral y Medialab-Prado, del ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid PLAZO DE LA CONVOCATORIA: hasta el 22 de febrero 2010 FECHAS DEL TALLER: 8 al 20 de abril 2010 LUGAR: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial, Gij?n (Espa?a) Se abre la convocatoria para la presentaci?n de proyectos para participar en Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, dentro del programa destinado a artistas y creadores de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial. Se seleccionar?n un m?ximo de ocho propuestas para su desarrollo colaborativo en el taller que tendr? lugar en las semanas anteriores a la inauguraci?n de la exposici?n When Process Becomes Paradigm, el 23 de abril de 2010. La exposici?n When Process Becomes Paradigm pone de manifiesto, a trav?s de 25 proyectos, el cambio fundamental de una cultura basada en el producto final (sociedad industrial) a otra fundamentada en el proceso. Interactivos?, que se anticipa a la exposici?n, est? dedicado a la producci?n de obras de arte en l?nea con este planteamiento te?rico. Las pruebas y los prototipos realizados durante este taller son procesos que evolucionar?n, se desarrollar?n y se transforman a lo largo del tiempo. Los proyectos desarrollados durante Interactivos? formar?n parte de la exposici?n. Consulta las bases en www.laboralcentrodearte.org INTERNACIONAL CALL FOR PROJECTS Workshop Seminar INTERACTIVOS? in the framework of the exhibition Process is Paradigm A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. CALL DEADLINE: 22nd of February 2010 DATES OF WORKSHOP: 8th to 20th of April 2010 LOCATION: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial, Gij?n (Spain) Call for the presentation of projects to take part in Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, as part of the programme for artists and creators of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial. A maximum of eight proposals will be selected to be collaboratively developed in the workshop that will take place prior to the opening of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm, on April 23rd 2010. The exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm 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. As in the exhibition, the probes and prototypes made during the Interactivos? workshop are processes that evolve, develop and alter over time. The projects developed during Interactivos? will be shown in the exhibition. Check the guidelines at www.laboralcentrodearte.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Feb 10 19:05:48 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (JavaMuseum) Date: Wed Feb 10 19:06:26 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call: Celebrate! - netart features 2010 Message-ID: <20100210190548.8D917C13.4871BC64@192.168.0.2> Call for proposals ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010 Celebrate! - netart features 2010 ~ 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well., both coordinated in NewMediaFest'2010 Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork:||cologne JavaMuseum is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised more than 20 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2009 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart since 2000 including more than 400 artists and 1000 art works. In 2006, JavaMuseum launched - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project containing meanwhile more than 80 interviews with expersts and artists in the fields of digital and electronic art. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is realising the online show of netart features in form of a daily journal, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" http://2010.javamuseum.org - in order to celebrate netart as an exciting, but anyway widely underestimated art genre, yet, resulting at the end of 2010 a kind of "who is who in netart". This represents the best reason for inviting artists active on the fields of new, digital and electronic media to submit their latest or older netart art projects which may originate from the years 2000-2010. Please find the details, regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428 -------------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture http://2010.newmediafest.org JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art http://www.javamuseum.org and JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project http://jip.javamuseum.org are corporate parts of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info[at]nmartproject.net -------------------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Feb 11 18:40:22 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de ([CologneOFF}) Date: Thu Feb 11 18:41:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call: 6th Cologne Online Film Festival Message-ID: <20100211184022.2D407F70.A780C135@192.168.0.2> CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival --> Call for entries --> Deadline: Monday, 5 April 2010 ----------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate!! In 2010, CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary - a good reason to try the new festival concept as a networked festival, including a networked jury, networked contributions and a series of networked screenings between September and December 2010 and beyond. CologneOFF - founded in 2006 by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne as a new type of film and video festival dedicated to art forms of film and video in a global context - is following a successful concept of a festival without a static location of its own. It does not last just 2 or 3 days a year, but is all the year everyday 24 hours available to the audience online and simultaneousl?y via physical screenings in cooperation with partner festivals. This independance of availabliity on one hand, and dependance on networking partners makes CologneOFF most attractive not only to the audience, but basically also to the participating artists/directors and their films and videos due to a lasting promotion, confidence and trust. After 5 successful festival editions, i.e CologneOFF I - "Identityscapes" - 2006 - CologneOFF II - "Image vs Music" - 2006 CologneOFF III - "Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animates narriatives" - 2007 CologneOFF IV - "Here We Are!" - 2008 CologneOFF V - "Taboo! Taboo?" - 2009 and their physical manifestations 2006-2010 - in New Dehli/India, Rotterdam/NL, Maracaibo/Venezuela, Rosario/Argentina, Lyon/France, Belgrade/Serbia, Szeczin/Poland, Brussels/Belgium, Istanbul/Turkey, Guadaljara/Mexico, Athens/Greece, Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovia, Thessaloniki/Greece, Clermont-Ferrand/France, Jakarta/Indonesia, Hong Kong/ China, Bristol/UK and many more - CologneOFF is taking the occasion of its 5th anniversary to thank all artists & directors, partners and the audience and invites all to celebrate CologneOFF VI under the festival theme "let's celebrate - memory and identity in an experimental context" to be launched in September 2010 as part of NewMediaFest?2010 - 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwok]:|| cologne global heritage of digital culture The networked jury consists of Gioula Papadopoulou, curator of Videoart Festival Miden (Greece) Margarida Paiva, director of Oslo Screen Festival (Norway) Macu Moran, director VideoArtWorld Barcelona (Spain) Tamas Gabeli, director of BuSho - Budapest International Short Film Festival (Hungary) Giorgio Fedeli , curator & president of Visual Container Milan (Italy) Mohamed Allam, director and curator of Medrar, Cairo (Egypt) Jonas Nilsson, manager of Art Video Screening, initiator and chief-coordinator of ?rebro International Videoart Festival (Sweden) Besides the official festival program, networked festival contributions will be made by Videoart Festival Miden, Oslo Screen Festival, BuSho - Budapest International Shortfilm Festival, Art Video Screening Orebro, Video Art World Barcelona, Visual Container Milan and Video Festival Cairo CologneOFF VI - festival theme --> "Let's Celebrate - memory & identity in an experimental context" CologneOFF invites artists and directors to submit their films & videos up to 10 minutes duration. --------------------------------------------------------- Please find the entry details and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 Download the entry details as PDF http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF6_entryform.pdf --------------------------------------------------------- CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital art http://2010.newmediafest.org [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne the experimental platform for art & new media http://www.nmartproject.net --------------------------------------------------------- info (at) nmartproject.net --------------------------------------------------------- From julian at julianoliver.com Thu Feb 11 23:04:16 2010 From: julian at julianoliver.com (Julian Oliver) Date: Thu Feb 11 23:10:52 2010 Subject: [spectre] // The New Arena Paintings: Hannah Maclure Centre, Dundee, Scotland // Message-ID: <20100211220416.GB15927@mail.ljudmila.org> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------> Julian Oliver: The New Arena Paintings, Hannah Maclure Centre 15 February - 30 April 2010 Preview 12 February, 4pm Abstract Expressionist painters have long explored strategies for decoupling gestural habit and tendency in their work by means of automatic or chance-based operations. This exhibition by New Zealand born, Berlin-based, artist Julian Oliver represents a new strategy along this vein, deploying a computer game as canvas, paint and brush. Generated by four software agents in combat in a virtual arena, these new paintings by Oliver mark a significant evolution of his 2003 game based painting system, ioq3aPaint. Here, each agent is purposed as a kind of digital brush; every twitch, lunge and change of state registered immediately as a graphic mark. Of the 36 million paintings that will be generated in the duration of the exhibition, a total of just 250 small prints will be made freely available, alongside the source code of the system. A number of large prints selected by Oliver from earlier iterations of the process will be displayed in the gallery. Each print is made using a photographic printing method and mounted on substrate of the highest quality. Links: http://ljudmila.org/~julian/ioq3apaint/the-new-arena-paintings/ http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk/Julian_Oliver.html //<----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Dundee, Scotland about: http://julianoliver.com From sr at jardinsdespilotes.org Fri Feb 12 10:42:28 2010 From: sr at jardinsdespilotes.org (Stefan Riekeles) Date: Fri Feb 12 10:43:19 2010 Subject: [spectre] ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE Conference, Helsinki 24-25.3.2010 Message-ID: <4B752284.3050502@jardinsdespilotes.org> Please send forward, See full abstract in Pdf. Text in finnish below. ------------------------------------------------------------ ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE Practices in transformation A conference by the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelache festival. Helsinki, 24-25.3.2010 The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of environmental issues. Facing the threat of global warming, the findings of scientific research have become a subject of intensive political debate. The ethical questions traditionally discussed in the green-wing marginals have become mainstream, as science has become a coffee-table topic. The field of art that interacts with the practices of science and its technologies is commonly referred to as ART&SCIENCE. During the past decades, this hybrid field has become more or less established, with landmark works, major institutions and written histories. However, with the new wave of environmentalism, a further wave of artists working with methods and questions related to scientific research has also emerged. The conference seeks to contextualize the practices of ART&SCIENCE both in the contemporary political atmosphere and the history of contemporary art. The first day of the two-day conference focuses on the practices in transformation as a result of research-orientation and cross-disciplinarity, characteristic to the field of ART&SCIENCE. The second day of the conference looks at the technologies of encounter between human and non-human worlds. The aim is to address the ethical discourse taking place in art practices which look at the interaction between humans and non-humans. Speakers include Roy Ascott (artist, researcher, UK), Jill Scott (artist, researcher, AUS/CH), Andy Gracie (artist, UK/ESP), Ingeborg Reichle (art historian, DE), Adam Zaretsky (artist, US), Tuija Kokkonen (theatre director, FI), Terike Haapoja (artist, FI), Pau Alsina (researcher, ESP), Ulla Taipale (curator, FI/ESP), Anu Osva (artist, FI), Erich Berger (artist, coordinator ArsBioarctica, AUT/FI), Leena Valkeap?? (artist, FI), Laura Beloff (artist, researcher, FI), Manu Tamminen (microbiologist, FI), Eija Juurola (forest researcher, FI), Raitis Smits (artist, curator, LV), Jan Kaila (artist, professor, FI), Antti Sajantila (professor, medical doctor, FI), Minna L?ngstr?m (artist, FI), among others. Contact: Erich Berger Coordinator ArsBioarctica eb@randomseed.org +358-50-4338898 http://kilpiscope.net Terike Haapoja Artist, Phd researcher mail@terikehaapoja.net +358-50-4058341 http://kuva.fi ---------------------------------------------------- ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE - taiteen muuttuvat praktiikat Kansainv?linen konferenssi, j?rjest?j?n? Suomen Kuvataideakatemia, yhteisty?ss? Biotaiteen seuran ja Pikseli?hky ? festivaalin kanssa 24-25.3.2010 Helsinki 2000-luvun alkua leimaa ymp?rist?kysymysten voimallinen politisoituminen. Ilmastonmuutoksen edess? tieteellisest? tutkimuksesta on tullut poliittisen tarkastelun kohde ja kiihkeiden v?ittelyiden v?likappale. Perinteisesti vihre??n marginaaliin liitetyt aiheet ovat virranneet valtavirtaan, samalla kun tieteest? on tullut kahvip?yt?keskustelujen puheenaihe. Tieteen ja teknologian suhteita tarkasteleva, leimallisesti monialainen ja poikkitieteinen nykytaiteenalue otsikoidaan usein sananparilla ART&SCIENCE. Viime vuosikymmenten aikana t?m? perinteisi? genrerajoja ylitt?v? kentt? on vakiinnuttanut asemansa: merkkiteokset ja alan instituutiot ovat jo osa taiteen kirjoitettua historiaa. Ymp?rist?kysymysten politisoitumisen my?t? on kuitenkin noussut esiin uusi aalto tieteen ja sen teknologioiden parissa ty?skentelevi? taiteilijoita. Konferenssi pyrkii hahmottamaan art&science -kent?n praktiikoita sek? suhteessa ajankohtaisiin poliittisiin kysymyksiin, ett? nykytaiteen perinteisiin. Konferenssin ensimm?inen p?iv? keskittyy taiteen muuttuviin praktiikoihin tutkimuksellisuuden ja poikkitieteellisyyden seurauksena. Konferenssin toinen p?iv? tarkastelee ihmisen ja ei-inhimillisen suhteita m??ritt?vi? kohtaamisen teknologioita ja niit? eettisi? kysymyksi?, joita ihmisen ja ei-inhimillisen suhteita tieteen kehyksess? k?sittelev? taide nostaa esiin. Konferenssin puhujina ovat mm. Roy Ascott (taiteilija, tutkija, UK), Jill Scott (taiteilija, tutkija, AUS/CH), Andy Gracie (taiteilija, UK/ESP), Ingeborg Reichle (taidehistorioitsija, DE), Adam Zaretsky (taiteilija, US), Tuija Kokkonen (teatteriohjaaja, FI), Terike Haapoja (taiteilija, FI), Pau Alsina (tutkija, ESP), Ulla Taipale (kuraattori, FU/ESP), Anu Osva (taiteilija, FI), Erich Berger (taiteilija, koordinaattori ArsBioarctica, AUT/FI), Leena Valkeap?? (taiteilija, FI), Laura Beloff (taiteilija, FI), Manu Tamminen (mikrobiologi, FI), Eija Juurola (ekologi, FI), Raitis Smits (taiteilija, kuraattori LV), Jan Kaila (taiteilija, professori, FI), Antti Sajantila (oikeusl??ketieteen professori), Minna L?ngstr?m (taiteilija, FI). Yhteystiedot: Erich Berger suunnittelija, ArsBioarctica eb@randomseed.org +358-50-4338898 http://kilpiscope.net Terike Haapoja kuvataiteilija, KuvA mail@terikehaapoja.net +358-50-4058341 http://kuva.fi From n0name at gmx.de Fri Feb 12 19:15:17 2010 From: n0name at gmx.de (n0name@gmx.de) Date: Fri Feb 12 19:15:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] B-x n0name nachrichten #145 Message-ID: <20100212181517.308930@gmx.net> Veronica_8_158726i.jpg |<------ Breite: 72 Zeichen - Fixed Width Font: Courier New, 10 ------>| B-x n0name nachrichten #145 Do., 11.02.2010 10:13 CET *Inhalt/Contents* 1. Unfertiges Readymade Ursula Panhans-Buehlers Buch ueber Duchamps Flaschentrockner in der vierten Dimension 2. Rezension von Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot_ 42 3. Rollen & Stampfen 32 KB, ca. 10 DIN A4-Seiten ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Unfertiges Readymade Ursula Panhans-Buehlers Buch ueber Duchamps Flaschentrockner in der vierten Dimension Der Film _Herzen_ von Alain Resnais, eroeffnet gleich zu Beginn eine Ursula Panhans-Buehlers Fragestellung aehnliche Problematik. Wie wirkt sich es auf praktische Erkenntnis aus, wenn ein paradoxales Moment raeumlich installiert ist? Das Zimmer einer Zweizimmerwohnung -- hier sozusagen epistemologisches Instrument -- ist geteilt, so dass das eine Fenster in beiden so entstandenen Raeumen entweder offen oder geschlossen ist. Nicht gerade das, was Duchamps Darbietung einer zugleich geoeffneten und geschlossenen Tuer war, die als eine Art Vorarbeit gelten kann fuer den Flaschentrockner, der in Wahrheit das in 3D erscheinende Objekt der vierten Dimension ist. Denn das Fenster ist ja nun offen oder geschlossen und nicht beides zugleich, es ist eindeutig; jedenfalls nicht so offen, wie die Gestalt des Flachentrockners, der doch auch geschlossen ist, in seiner Form. Kompliziert. Doch fuer die Bewohner der beiden Raeume, die sich durch die Wand getrennt sehen, ist das mit dem Fenster so oder so ein grosser Unterschied. Entweder sie erfrieren beide oder sie ersticken, beides sicher nur im uebertragenen Sinn. Strenggenommen ist also nicht die Installation Kernproblem und Gegenstand, sondern die beziehungsvolle Umgehensweise damit. Dies alles nur als ersten Hinweis auf das, was Ursula Panhans-Buehler vorfuehrt, wenn sie in ihrer nun erschienenen Habilitationsschrift (vor bereits ueber 14 Jahren verfasst) Duchamps Flaschentrockner und weiteres von ihm scheinbar (!) ueberdeutet, ueberinterpretiert, ueberschreibt. Man muss zum Verstaendnis vielleicht kurz auf Panhans-Buehlers Herangehensweise eingehen, die genaugenommen keine Herangehensweise ist, keine Methode. Eher eine _science-vivre_, oder in besserem Franzoesisch eine _science de vivre_. Sie ist schon garkeine Life Science, aber auch keine science de l'art, also keine Kunstwissenschaft, wogegen sie sich im laufenden Betrieb der Hochschule verwehrte. Kunst kann man demnach, so muesste man aus ihrer Einstellung schlieszen, nicht positivistisch naturwissenschaftlich wissen. Man kann sie geschichtlich erzaehlen (ein Standpunkt, dem ich nicht bedingungslos folgen wuerde), also wiederum, gerade in Anbetracht ihrer historischen Gewordenheit, nicht nur geschichtlich erfassen. Das verbindet sich aber ganz und gar nicht mit Nichtwissen oder Pseudogeisteswissenschaft, obwohl diese Verbindungen da sind. Nur diese Verbindungen werden nicht voll bestaetigt, hoechstens die Trennung in Wissenschaften und Geisteswissenschaften und selbst diese ist Kunst nicht heilig -- nicht erst seitdem die Schering Stiftung auch Parabolfluege fuer ein paar Videoaufnahmen bezahlt, die Celebrity mal geschenkt[1]. Die Angelegenheit ist, gefaehrlich genug, keine der klaren Absetzung in Rationalitaet und Mystik, da die Demystifikation sich mit der Mystik gut auskennen muss. Und es kann sein, dass die rationale Sprache ueber die Dinge als ihr Medium mehr mystifiziert, als sie damit selbstreflexiv herausrueckt. Schlussendlich wird aber doch eine nachvollziehbare und nicht nur behauptete Position herauskommen, meint man. Ja, kann man antworten, aber nicht unbedingt bei der Autorin. Lesen ist schlieszlich keine Reproduktion. Womit man mitten im Gegenstand (oder beim?) des Buches waere. Das Buch oder genauer sein Inhalt wird naemlich selbst zum Gegenstand gemacht. Und damit legt Ursula Panhans-Buehler das Allwissende Szientistische ab, indem sie das Objekt, das wir schon zu haben glauben, ikonografistisch neu und immer wieder rotierend neu reflektierend verzaehlt. Indem sie also die Verwissenschaftlichung ernst nimmt. Die "Freiheit der Indifferenz" als zu bearbeitendes Item ist nur zu haben, wenn man sich ihr stellt. Ob dies eher mutmaszliche Freiheit ist, bleibt abzuwarten. Verzaehlen meint nun nicht, dass der Endbetrag nicht stimmte, es ist ja noch nicht einmal die exakte Ausgangssumme bekannt. Daher muss erst einmal alles zusammengezaehlt werden, was Duchamps Unterlaufen des ihm bekannten Geschaefts so mit sich bringt. Was alles an Artefakten wie aufgeladen wurde, was auf welche Weise seine Apparence, seinen Anschein und sein Aussehen findet. Die Kunstgeschichte als narratives Wissen in ihrer Vermittlung wird diese darzustellen haben. Nach Hans Heinz Holz waere die Fertigware in den aesthetisierenden Zusammenhang der Kunstausstellung geholt die zum Kunstfetisch gewordene Ware, die auf nichts anderes mehr als ihren Besitz als Bedeutungsebene hinweist. Damien Hirsts Diamantenschaedel und dessen Kaeufer (die sogar um Preisnachlaesse betteln) scheinen das zu bestaetigen. Dennoch spricht Holz, und das kann man nicht _am_ Diamantenschaedel, sondern nur in seinem Kontext erkennen, dem fertigen Objekt ja auch eine Verdinglichungsebene zu, die nicht voll im Fetisch aufgeht. Diese ist weder voll gegeben noch gesetzt. Verdinglichung haelt ja immer den Rest eines Sinns, der noch nicht verdinglicht wurde. Oder anders: Jedes materielle Ding, industriell oder nicht, bedingt nunmal Sinn. Nonsense ist davon nur die Unterkategorie. Nichts geht vom modernen Fetischobjekt aus, alles wird an ihm gesehen. Es bekommt einen Selbststaendigkeitscharakter, der seine Dinghaftigkeit gerade durch den gewussten Kult -- Panhans-Buehler spricht mit Duchamp vom Cargo-Kult -- verschleiert bekommt. Das wird dann aesthetisch genossen. Jedes Readymade im Feld der Kunst ist daher unfertig und wird nur dann zur Waren-Ware, heisst zur Ware mit absoluter Warenfunktion, dessen Gebrauchswert es ist, eben Ware zu sein, durch die Norm des Betriebs. Oder zirkelhaft ausgedrueckt: Nur an der Ware kann die Warenwelt sich zeigen. Das alles sind keine neuen Erkenntnisse. Nur soviel, Duchamp brauchte diese Norm fuer seine Subversion oder genauer, er hat sie mit-gemacht und somit zur Anscheinen gebracht. Als Agnostiker selbstverstaendlich. Und der Agnostiker bestaetigt mehr als er zweifelt. Ein unanschauliches Anscheinen aber, eines das man nicht sehen kann. Das aber, etwa im Schreiben, verhandelt werden muss. Die Autorin bezieht sich Quellensicher aufs Fuehlen, ich denke da eher an intellektuelle Taetigkeit. Jede Galerie, die von der Imageaufwertung von Kunst ueberm Sofa profitiert und dann doch aufgeben muss, verdeutlicht das in ihrer Metaperformance. Kunst selbst hat ein Image. Imageologie und Imaging-Diskurs meinen das zu behandeln. Es ist das Thema der Geschichte der Kunst seit ihrer Entdeckung durch das Buergertum bis 'hinab' zu Comics als Kunst oder Bierflaschen/Bierbrauen/Biertrinken als Kunst. Der Werbung kam bald zu, brauchbarer Sinntraeger zu sein, fuer was die repraesentative Kunst nichts mehr uebrig hatte. Duchamp habe das alles frueh im letzten Jahrhundert auf einen Nullpunkt gebracht. Seitdem sei jedes Kunstwerk nur noch Fetisch der Fetische, oder ohne Werkcharakter und Erkenntnisauftrag, ergo nur das Leben selbst und demnach nichts. Nun musz man Duchamp anders lesen, wird hier gesagt, denn hinter dem Nichtkonsumierbaren Konsumding, stehe ein Konsumierbares, das weder Religion, weder Wissenschaft noch Tauschobjekt ist. Duchamp kann demnach nicht der Zerstoerer, sondern nur der sein, der resettet hatte. Am Unfertigen laesst sich aufbewahren, was ueber es symbolisch noch oder eben seit ungefaehr 1914 nun wieder, aber nur unter Schmerzen gesagt werden kann. Die Frage ist nur, ob Ursula Panhans-Buehler nun das Unfertige des Readymade als Medium fuer Erfindung von Sinngehalt sieht. Ob sie also einen anderen (?) Sinn jenseits seiner gesetzten Funktion als Bedeutunsgraeger abgewinnen mag. Reclaim Meaning. Ja, das liegt ja auf der Hand. Nur tut sie das in einer gleichzeitigen Infragestellung indem sie abschweift, Geschichten erfindet, Notizen und Skizzen von Duchamp paraphrasiert. Sozusagen als Anathema, als Widerspruch in der Bejahung des Gegenstands. Wohlgemerkt, der banale Gegenstand ist der Flaschentrockner. Seine Banalitaet geht verloren auf ueber 190 Seiten, auf denen das intuitive Wissen -- eine wichtige Konstante in Panhans-Buehlers eigener Lehre, so darf man sagen -- befragt wird. Im Kopf geht naemlich alles: Gedankenexperiment. Gewiss, der Flaschentrockner ist ausserhalb seines Gebrauchs als solcher keiner mehr, und deshalb bringt er, herausgefallen aus der Warenfunktion, herausgefallen aus der ueblichen Gebrauchsfunktion, zerobjektiviert einige Eigenschaften mit, die sich nur zu gut in der Welt der Zuschreibungen im "Metapherngestoeber", wie Panhans-Buehler erkennt, quasireligioes verticken lassen. Um dem zu entgehen, muessen die wahren und unwahren Geschichten wie gesagt ersteinmal aufgeschrieben werden, um Enscheidungsgrundlagen zu haben. Ein einfacher Vorgang. Nur woran wird das Erzaehlte gemessen? Panhans-Buehlers These ist ja, dass sich nicht beliebig mit der Sinnhaftigkeit umspringen laesst. Das bereits stillgestellte Objekt, also der Komplex Duchamp-Readymade-Kanon, kann nur dann geoeffnet werden, wenn von neuem hypothetische Prozesse gefuehrt werden. In vorgefuehrten Schauspieleinlagen und Kurzgeschichten wird die Suche nach der vierten Dimension, welche neben den drei bekannten Raumdimensionen nicht synonym mit der vermutlich nichtraeumlichen Zeit verstanden werden kann, wird abenteuerlich und mit Rueckgriffen auf Aufzeichnungen Marcel Duchamps praezisierend holzwegig das durchgespielt, was Duchamp in Formeln zu packen versuchte. Das Hypostasierte wird aber nie erreicht, nie voll aneigbar, nur vorgestellt. Etwas, das man bei der Suche nach bisher unbekannten Teilchen der Materie im CERN und den dort gepflegten Parallelwelten der nichtmessbaren Materie neben der messbaren immer mitbedenken muss. Die Ergebnisse werden berechnet. Zwischen uns und dem Unbekannten liegt das System Wissenschaft -- und ermoeglicht Erkennbarkeit. Doch fuer was ich nicht messen kann, weil keine Instrumente und Ausgangsmaterialien vorhanden, muss ich literarisch sein. Damit steht diese Kunst neben Wissenschaft und Religion, und kapitalistischer Warenwelt sowieso. Ihre Autonomie ist damit um so anfaelliger. Der Begriff des allegorienhaften Sinnbilds, im Gegensatz zur Metapher ist entscheidend. Die Allegorie, hier gleichsam ein wortreiche Maschinerie des sich selbst erklaeren wollenden Bildgebers fuer einen Forschungszweck, laesst wenig Spielraum fuer die Verfolgung und Verzaehlung der These, das geht nicht beliebig. Was da statthaft ist muss aber strittig werden, wird altmodisch discours, Abhandlung nicht Diskurs. These ist, dass das Sichtbare Dreidimensionale Hinweise darauf enthaelt, was eben nicht nur drei Dimensionen hat. Das sachlich Gegebene steckt aber voller Schwierigkeiten, dieses "nur" auf diese hypostasierte Vierdimensionalitaet zu bringen. Nur von was wird hier hypostasiert, von was wird abgeleitet? Oder mit Kant (?) Welchem Gedanken wird hier eine gegenstaendliche Realitaet untergeschoben? Mit Duchamp waere die uns bekannte dreidimensionale Welt eine Projektion der vierdimensionalen. Aber, da muss man streng sein, es handelt _sich_ um garnichts. Nur die Apparition, das Auftreten eines solch vermuteten Wesens bringt in der Interpretation, und nur in der Interpretation eine empirische Evidenz zustande. Das macht also Duchamp nicht allein. Es geht demnach weniger um die Ausdeutung eines Werks von Duchamp. Aber nicht blosz der deutungs-politische Akt des Durchgangs (dis-cours), nicht nur die Art und Weise der Darstellung stehe zur Debatte. Descartes bleibt folgenreich Grundlage auch fuer die nicht nur persiflierende Pataphysik, auf welche sich Panhans-Buehler -- sozusagen gut pataphysisch -- weder zustimmend noch ablehnend bezieht. Sagen wir: Der Aufbau des Fetisch der Erkenntnis und seine Enttaeuschung. Wenn der Flaschentrockner im Duchampschen persoenlichen Universum mit Allgemeinheitsanspruch als ein "geistiges Sinnbild" verstanden werden soll, so guelten die Stellen im Buch als aufschlussreich, in denen es um die Widerstaendigkeit der Kunst geht. Die Produktivitaet dieser Branche ist dann nicht in ihrer Produkteherstellung, den "Arbeiten" wie Ursula Panhans-Buehler kritisiert, zu suchen. Die "unheilige Trias von Geld, Geist und Produkt", so bliebe aber anzumerken, ist mithin der verfaelschend und zugleich entlarvende Blickwinkel. Da der Blick auf diese drei die vierte Dimension der Verhaeltnisse noch nicht sieht, deren Apparence UND Apparition die ersten drei sind -- auch wenn das eine dem Rezensenten moeglicherweise nicht zustehende Inanspruchnahme des Themas des Buches ist. Die Autorin unterschied mit Duchamp naemlich beide (Apparence und Apparition) voneinander als Erscheinung und Auftretendes, also als Manifestation und Verlaufsform. Da es sich systematisiert gesehen um Skulptur handelt, waere demnach das erstere als die Form des Gusses, das zweite als die Form des Giessens. Jeder, der roten oder anderen Wein trinkt, wird diese Unterscheidung nachvollziehen koennen, wenn die Flasche leerer wird, wie sie kenntnisreich erlaeutert. Etwas feiner gesagt, das Geld ist der Schein, waehrend dem entlohnten Geist sein Produkt genommen wird. Entzug oder Verweigerung also auch hier. Unterstellen kann man Ursula Panhans-Buehler, dass sie in Anwendung der Verschiebungen wissenschaftlicher Arbeitsweisen nach Duchamp und in der Unterschreibung der Verweigerung dem Nuetzlichkeitsdogma gegenueber, genau diesen, mit ihm neu formulierten Unterschied in der Funktion der Kunst in der zerstueckelten Gesellschaft explikativ, jedoch aussertextuell klar macht. Freilich anhand des Lesers und seines Anteils an der Publikation. Der Skeptizismus Duchamps ist das Problem. Dass sich eine gefeierte gegenwaertige Generation von Dokumentaristen und Sozialartisten mit diesem geradezu traditionellen Gestus weniger zufrieden geben will und gerne mitregiert, ihn aber als Haltung mittraegt, steht in dicken Katalogen. Das Buch von Ursula Panhans-Buehler, die vor kurzem erst in Kassel mit standing ovations emeritiert wurde, ist im Verlag Philo Fine Arts in Hamburg erschienen, kostet 14,00 EURO, traegt den vollstaendigen Titel _Gegeben sei: die Gabe -- Duchamps Flaschentrockner in der vierten Dimension_ und ist gebunden mit Lesebaendchen. _________________________ [1] "Oh! yes, Agnes Meyer-Brandis is very beautiful. She's also bright, talented and from what I gathered from the interview I made of her, she's a really nice person." (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/11/interview-with-1.php) Matze Schmidt -----------------Nur noch bis 17. Feb. 2010 15:00:03 MEZ---------------- T-Shirt "Shah Rukh Khan's Kopf" von t-shirtz.org http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320487385431&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:DE:1123 -------------------------t-shirtz.org by n0name------------------------- 2. Rezension von Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot_ 42 ... die Geschichte und Geschichtlichkeit der Eigentumsverhaeltnisse. Und die Relativitaet des Eigentums, dessen Status in der buergerlich kapitalistischen Demokratie das Scharnier zu ein scheint, um das sich Herrschaft dreht. Herrschaft und nicht abstrakt _Macht_. Und das Internet, so befand ein Bundesgericht in Australien, ist doch nicht boese: "Allein die Bereitstellung des Internets ist noch keine Rechtsverletzung". Aber wiedereinmal "Good Copy Bad Copy": Dialektik Not Found (aka 404).[1] Aber: "Meet me now! 25 Berlin, Germany" und es geht nach: http://adultfriendfinder.com/search/p196827.subpiratebay?max_age=24&country=Germany&override=1&photo=2&ip=auto&show_city=1&min_age=18&pg=1&pb=50706610 Wir erinnern uns: "W?hrend in den ?urkommunistischen" Gesellschaften also nicht der Kontrakt isolierter Privateigent?mer die Produktion und Verteilung regelte, sondern ein" -- und jetzt geht es weiter (Zitat:) "Produktionsplan und Verwandtschaftsbande, l?st sich dieses System mit dem 11./12. Jahrhundert wieder langsam auf. Mit der ?kommerziellen Revolution" entste-hen wieder St?dte, Handel und Geldwirtschaft nehmen zu, und statt der alten Verwandtschaftsordnung wird das r?mische Recht wieder aufgenommen und geht in das Kirchenrecht ein (siehe dazu unten). Die im Mittelalter vorherrschende Produktionsweise dr?ckte sich in einer spe-zifischen Eigentumspraxis aus, die mit Heide Gerstenberger ?feudale Aneignung" genannt werden kann: - ?Feudale Aneignung umfa?t (...) nicht nur Aneignung in den Formen der Grund-, Bann-und Lehensherrschaft, sondern auch kriegerische Aneignung, die Aneignungsform der Heirat und die Ausnutzung herrschaftlich sanktionierter Handelsprivilegien" (Gerstenberger 1990: 504). Der Sachsenspiegel (entstanden 1220 - 1230), eine der wichtigsten Rechtssamm-lungen des Mittelalters, reflektiert diese Vergesellschaftungsweise. Das Buch - zuerst auf lateinisch, dann auf niederdeutsch erschienen - besteht aus zwei Teilen: dem Landrecht (das Gewohnheitsrecht des Bauernvolks) und dem Lehnsrecht (die Ordnung des Adels). Nach Wesel ist es das statische Recht ?einer tauschlosen Eigenwirtschaft, in der es im wesentlichen nur Abgaben an den Adel gibt" (Wesel 1997b: 317). In der deutsch-rechtlichen, mittelalterlichen Sprache existierte kein abstrakter Eigentumsbegriff, vielmehr fand sich entsprechend der vielf?ltigen Besitzverh?ltnisse jener Zeit eine Vielfalt an Worten: ?`eigen' (-`turn', -`schalt'), `erbe', `gut', `fahrende habe', len', `leihe', 'g?lt', `zins', leibzucht' usw." (Brunner, et al. 1975: 66). Auch die r?misch-rechtlichen Begriffe dominium und proprietas, die mit dem 13. Jahrhundert zunehmend Eingang fanden in mittelalterliche Schriften, konn-ten nicht ohne weiteres ?bernommen werden, sondern mussten - den mittelalter-lichen Verh?ltnissen entsprechend - modifiziert werden (vgl. Brunner, et al. 1975: 70). Bez?glich der Adaption der r?misch-rechtlichen Begriffe im Mittelalter kam der Rechtshistoriker Dietmar Willoweit in einer wortgeschichtlichen Untersuchung zu dem Ergebnis, dass vor dem 12. Jahrhundert das Rechtswort dominium eher mit unserem Begriff der ?Herrschaft" zu ?bersetzen ist, wobei der Inhalt dieses Herrschafts- oder Gewaltverh?ltnisses sehr verschiedener Art sein kann. Es kann sich um das dominium eines K?nigs oder eines Volkes, eines Bischofs oder eines Vaters handeln und es kann schon auch das dominium bez?glich einer Sache gemeint sein, aber: ?Ein engerer Bezug zwischen dominium und Eigentum ist nicht nachweisbar. Im Hori-zont des Rechtswortes dominium ist die Herrschaft ?ber eine Sache nichts anderes als eine weniger wichtige species des weit umfassenderen Herrschaftsbegriffs, der durch den Sprachsinn des Wortes dominus konstituiert wird." (Willoweit 1974: 135, Hew. i.O.). 148 Auch der Begriff proprietas habe im Sprachgebrauch der Quellen bis weit in das 13. Jahrhundert hinein nichts zu tun mit einem Eigentumsbegriff, der - auf Sa-chen beschr?nkt - Herrschaft und Ausschluss Dritter gew?hrt (Willoweit 1974: 138). Proprietas wird sowohl auf ?Eigenleute", also Menschen bezogen, wie auf Rechte, beispielsweise das Holzrecht. Die beiden Rechtsw?rter dominium und proprietas k?nnten damit keinesfalls als Synonyme verstanden werden, sie ?ent-sprechen weder einzeln noch miteinander verbunden dem modernen Eigentums-begriff" (Willoweit 1974: 139). Eigentum im Mittelalter meinte demnach mitnichten die Macht ausschlie?licher Verf?gung ?ber die Sachen (Hecker 1990: 74). F?r das mittelalterliche Rechtsdenken standen vielmehr ?konkrete, gewachsene Rechte im Vordergrund, die vielfach gleichzeitig mit der Verf?-gung ?ber den Bodenertrag die Herrschaft ?ber seine Bewohner zur Folge hatten, aber durch Pflichten gegen?ber dem Lehnsgeber einerseits und gegen?ber den Bewohnern andererseits begrenzt waren." (Rittstieg 1975: 3; vgl. auch R?mer 1978: 40 ff.). Somit entspricht der r?mische Eigentumsbegriff nicht der sozialen Welt des Mittelalters und konnte erst mit dem Entstehen des Kapitalismus wieder Wir-kung erzielen.19" Wie Kapitalismus auch auf dem Papier entsteht. "6.5 Die Legitimation individuellen Eigentums durch Thomas von Aquin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ein Zeitgenosse des mittelalterlichen Aufschwungs und zugleich einer der wich-tigsten Theologen der Kirchengeschichte ist Thomas von Aquin. Bez?glich der Untersuchung zum vorkapitalistischen Eigentum nimmt er eine zentrale Stellung ein, da man vielerorts davon ausgeht, dass mit ihm der erste Schritt getan sei, der von der Tolerierung des Eigentums schlie?lich zu jener Auffassung f?hrt, ?die jeden Angriff auf das Eigentum als Versto? gegen den g?ttlichen Willen hinstellt" (Salin 1967: 34). In der um 1270 erschienenen Summa Theologica formulierte er die erste gro?e Rechtfertigung des individuellen Eigentums innerhalb der scholas-tischen Philosophie. Thomas von Aquin hat sich damit gegen eine starke Tradi-tion gestellt: Die Kirchenv?ter lehnten den Gedanken ab, dass die urspr?ngliche G?tergemeinschaft historisch gewesen sein soll (vor allem zu nennen ist hier Ambrosius 339 - 397). Vielmehr handle es sich dabei um ein naturrechtliches ______________________________ 19 ?Mittelalter und Altertum kannten sehr wohl einzelne Privatrechtsinstitute; aber da ihnen eine einheitliche Ausrichtung nach rein ?konomischen Gesichtspunkten fehlte, die politisch-st?ndische Stellung des Einzelnen ausschlaggebend war f?r Erwerb, Besitz und Verlust aller irdischen G?ter, so konnte auch hier der moderne Eigentumsbegriff nicht entstehen. Denn dieser setzt ein ziemlich hohes Ma? an Verselbst?ndigung und. Gebrauchsrationalit?t der Eigentumstitel voraus" (Kirchheimer 1972: 10). 149" Anzumerken waere an dieser Stelle, dass der "moderne Eigentumsbegriff" den Verhaeltnissen folgt und nicht umgkehrt. Verschiedentlich wurde gefragt, ob es denn Sinn mache, ein solches Buch ueber Jahre hinweg zu besprechen. Manche Leskreise benoertigen nur knapp 1-2 Jahre fuer 200 Seiten. Im Vordergrund steht ja die Selbsterklaerung. Fuer Lesemuede ist hier bereits 2007 eine Kurzversion erschienen: "Rezension von Sabine Nuss. _Copyright & Copyriot_ 21: Tolpatschige Kopierkatzen" http://www.n0name.de/news/news117.txt _______________ [1] Noch nochmal nochmal nochmal DJ Danger Mouse' Geschichte usw., der, der am dem Grey Album 2004 nichts, 2006 zusammen mit Cee-Lo Green und dem Retroneo-Hit "Crazy" alles verdiente. also sich aneignete. Der Film _Good Copy Bad Copy_ ist zu bekommen als flv auf http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net [12.02.2010] Ach ja, und nochmal The Pirate Bay, dessen "Schwarm" 2009 dezentralisiert" wurde, also ohne zentralen Tracker dasteht. Ali Emas/Susi Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Rollen & Stampfen (www.38317.tk) Ich hab gehoert, es geht um Gott Und einen Vater, der opfert z.B. seinen Sohn Aber Mythen interessieren hier nur bedingt, oder? Ein Prediger im Anzug steht auf der Buehne[1] Christ, Buddhist oder was auch immer[2] Und der jault immer wieder Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah[3] ... Wer profitiert von diesem Konflikt? Wer hat hier wen getrieben? Wollen die einen die anderen vertreiben, ist es so? Der Grenzstreifen ist geraeumt Jemand aus dem brennenden Olivenhain ruft: "Hamas" und die Antwort: "Allah Akbar"[4] Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar ... Brennende Oefen werden geleugnet Aelter als wir sind ist der Krieg Siedler an der Front feiern einen Sieg Kommt, wir werfen sie ins Meer Die Geschichte von Semiten ist bereits rassisch[5] Auf Deiner Flagge steht blau auf weiss Shalom Shalom, Shalom ... Los jetzt, den Herrn preisen! Die Herren und ihre Heere Verdraengtes Judentum plus Staatsmacht ist gleich Christenheit Zu Weihnachten gibt es Gaensebraten Der Ersatzkaiser sagt die Bibel ist das wichtigste Buch[6] Und du sagst immer zu allem Ja und Amen Ja und Amen, Ja und Amen ... Der Dalai Lama laechelt nur Die gelbe Robe ist purer Zynismus Sie muesste genaugenommen eigentlich blutrot sein Yangkyi tippelt mit dem Einkaufsrolli durch die Stadt Sein Cassettenrecorder spielt ohne Unterlass Es droehnt, es klingelt Hare Krishna[7] Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna ... Eine Kirche ist eine Reinigungsfirma Fuer Seelen und fuer Geldwaesche, ja Sie verkaufen spirituelle Freiheit und die reinste Wahrheit (Aha) Vielleicht bist du krank, du weiszt es nur noch nicht Jetzt machen wir mal einen Test l?homme machine, Filmstars, ScienceFiction, Scientology[8] Scientology, Scientology ... Im Alter werden Popstars nervoes Wenn Plattenvertraege platzen werden sie religioes Ihre Lieder sind blosz noch Repitition gleicher Klaenge in Worten Auf das Bewaehrte kann man sich nicht mehr verlassen Der ganze Hassel ist ein Hip-Hop Beat Nach Blues kommt Schwulst kommt Jazz kommt Rollen & Stampfen Rollen & Stampfen, Rollen & Stampfen Rollen & Stampfen, Rollen & Stampfen Rollen & Stampfen, Rollen & Stampfen[9] ... _______________ [1] Leonard Cohens "Hallelujah" bedient offenbar das Beduerfnis nach eintraechtig saekular-religioesem Sing-Sang. Es ist ein oft nachgespieltes Lied, einige Versionen sind auf Youtube zu finden, Schuelerbands erfreuen ihre Eltern mit dieser gospelig-psalmischen Antirebellion. 2008 sang das Publikum mit wedelnden Armen in Cohens Konzerten mit, wie beim Erweckungserlebnis. [2] Die ersten Zeilen des Originaltextes von Cohen (von 1984) nehmen direkt Bezug auf das Alte Testament -- auf Davids Lautenspiel; die Einfluesse biblischer Poesie auf das 'dichterische Popularlied' westlicher Bauart sind riesig. Lou Reed, der fuer Cohen die Laudatio bei dessen Aufnahme in die "Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame" sprach, sang auf dem Album _New York_ in "Straw Man" noch irgendwie kritisch aber dann doch wohl haeretisch vom "self-righteous rock singer / whose nose he says has led him straight to God", jetzt ist er mit Cohen und U2 ("Gloria in te Domine") in bester Gesellschaft. Auch weil er sich in seinem Spaetwerk-Lied "Who am I" fragt, wer den Himmel gemacht hat und zur indirekten Antwort eben Gott angibt. Was man Johnny Cash vielleicht alles mal noch verzieh, weil er unverschuldet im Bible Belt gross wurde, kann man den intellektuellen Saengern-Liederschreibern aus den Metropolen nur vorwerfen. Cohen wurde radikalerweise in den 1990ern buddhistischer Moench. Zur Erklaerung: Haeretisch ist ein Haeretiker, ein Haeretiker ist ein anti-kirchlicher Glaeubiger, der es besser als die Kirche weisz, also ein Verteidiger des wahren Glaubens, fuer die Kirche ein Ketzer und demnach zu bekaempfen oder zur Raeson zu bringen. [3] Hallelujah ist Hebraeisch und heisst "Lobe Gott". [4] Die Ueberkomplexitaet des Konflikts zwischen Palaestinensern und Israelis hat wenigstens diese fragwuerdigen Topoi: Wem nuetzt der dauerhafte Kriegsaehnliche Zustand? Wer foerdert deshalb die Vertreibung? Neben der Frage, ob Israel mit der Shoah als Legitimation der eigenen nationalen Existenz, der Vorposten des westlichen Kapitals auf der arabischen Halbinsel sei, glaube ich nicht an antikapitalistische Motive einer Hamas. Es muss klar werden, dass die ethische-religioese Ebene, die Verhandlungsebene von sich bekriegenden Maechten um Vorherrschaft am Ort ist. [5] Die Rassentheorie drueckt, und heute die Ethnien-Anschauung, konsequent brutalst die Trennung in menschliche, gegeneinander agierende Gruppierungen aus. Wo diese weiter ausgebaut werden, gewinnen Imperiale. [6] Der neue Rassismus, die Ethnien-Anschauung, und die nur vordergruendig ueber die Vernichtung von Menschen im zweiten Weltkrieg aufgeklaerte Gesellschaft sind Teil der Verdraengung der Geschichte. Sie kommen in einer neuen Gleichschaltung in der BRD zusammen. Die Bibel kann (das sagt am Ende des 00er-Jahrzents der deutsche Praesident offen), da sie von vielen schriftorientierten Religionen respektiert wird, im Land die Funktion der mentalen Zentralisierung bekommen. Dieses wiederum vermeintlich aufgeklaert, genau an der Schnittstelle an der auch Cohens Song Saekulare, Atheisten, Agnostiker und Glaeubige pluralistisch mediatisiert: Du kannst auf religioes machen, ohne zur Kirche oder zur Religion ueberhaupt ueberzulaufen zu muessen. Es ist das gebrochene Verhaeltnis zur eigenen Religiositaet, die von den Institutionen auf Leute wie Cohen uebergeht. Was dieser zwar konnotativ offen, aber ehrlich genug ausspricht: "it's a broken Hallelujah". [7] In den Grossstaedten laufen die Vereinzelten oder sektiererischen Esoteriker herum, und tanzen um regenbogenbunte PACE-Fahnen Ringelreihen. (Wobei der Anwurf des Sektierertums Einhelligkeit voraussetzte.) Die ausbeuterische Geschichte der Religionen wird gerne vergessen, ihre aktuelle gerne verbal aufgehoben. Diese Geschichte wird mit der Position Israels nicht bessser. Im Gegenteil, die Nation mit dem Label Davidstern stellt sich gegen die, sicherlich tendenzieoesen, aber eben gegen die Berichte der UNO und damit auch gegen Fakten. Eine UN-Glaeubigkeit stellt diese Feststellung nicht dar. Das "Hare Krishna" ist wieder das schon vom Hallelujah her bekannte Mantra zum Lob Gottes. Dieser Gott tritt hier in Form von Krishna, einem Avatar von Vishnu auf. [8] Die Church of sowieso ist die mafioese Konkurrenz zur Staatsreligion, dem legalen Staat im Staate. Deshalb wird sie, natuerlich nur halbherzig, bekaempft. [9] Niemand mehr kann Pop oder Rock oder seine Generika fuer rein oder "eher" emanzipativ halten, und wer Elvis auch nur ein wenig studierte, konnte das auch auch bisher nicht tun. Die adornitischen Apologeten und Verfechter des Endes der Popmusik meinen damit vor allem ihr eigenes linkes Ende im Speckguertel derselben. Als Kritiker dieser so abgelegten falschen Vergangenheit werden sie freilich weiter feuilletonieren. Sie sind gewissermaszen vom Glauben ab- oder vom Goldberg gefallen. 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Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 From paul at paul-brown.com Fri Feb 12 19:19:15 2010 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Fri Feb 12 19:20:09 2010 Subject: [spectre] CAS March Meeting - EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE ROBOT Message-ID: <4606FC0F-CDBD-43EC-93E9-B8A2CB24734C@paul-brown.com> The BCS Computer Arts Society Specialist Group invite you to our March meeting at the London Knowledge Lab. This meeting is open to the public and is free. DATE: Wednesday 2 March, 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 EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE ROBOT Ron Chrisley and Joel Parthemore The SEER-3 project is an attempt to explore new ways of specifying the non-conceptual content of experience, using an off-the-shelf robotic dog from Sony. Much of experience is not conceptually structured or, at least, not easily expressible in words. Alternate means of expressing the content of that experience are needed. We will offer our own perspective on that research, and relate it briefly to our own research interests in philosophy of mind. Most importantly for this audience, we will talk about our conclusion that the program output had independent aesthetic merit, leading us to suggest that some samples of it be submitted to the CAS-sponsored art exhibition in Shrewsbury in 2007. After presenting samples of what was exhibited we will also discuss our experiences interacting with the audience there, interacting with the exhibit. Lastly, we will talk about the coding process as an aesthetic experience and present examples of the program output from each stage in the program's development. If possible, the talk will conclude with output of some recent work on a light-avoidance routine. Ron Chrisley is the Director of COGS, the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, where he holds a Readership in Philosophy in the Department of Informatics. He has held various research positions in Artificial Intelligence, including a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and a Fulbright Fellowship at the Helsinki University of Technology. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1997. Joel Parthemore is writing up his doctoral thesis on the intersection between enactive philosophy and theories of concepts. The former stresses the continuity between an agent and that agent's environment; the latter concerns the ways our thoughts are systematically and productively structured. He is a student in the School of Informatics at the University of Sussex and is spending the current year at the University of Lund in Sweden as a guest of Peter G?rdenfors, whose work on "conceptual spaces" he is basing much of his own thesis on. In his spare time, he is interested in ways of bridging the art/science divide and in the occasional aesthetically pleasing products his work has quite unexpectedly produced. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues: 6 April - Tina Gonsalves ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 4 May - visit to Goldsmith?s College Maths & Art Archive organised by Janis Jefferies 14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics 14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From j at xxn.org.uk Fri Feb 12 23:59:21 2010 From: j at xxn.org.uk (j) Date: Fri Feb 12 23:59:47 2010 Subject: [spectre] /...Exquisite_Code...February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010...E:vent Gallery, London. E2...Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate.../ Message-ID: <4B75DD49.4020306@xxn.org.uk> /...Exquisite_Code...February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010...10-6pm daily...E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale St. London. E2...8 Writers pitched 8 hours a day for 5 days against despotic edit-code...Yield: one book...Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate.../ /...Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark Forest of Things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production.../ /..Eight international writers will work eight hours a day for five days generating text-prompts, text and edit-software in unrelenting micro-sessions to create a cadaverous exquisite_code life-novel . Text will be produced in response to prompts conspired by the writers at the end of each session. But only after bespoke edit-software has wormed its way through it, cutting, chewing and spitting gobbets of the text into a dump from which the life-novel will be elaborated. This edit-worm is itself interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers. At all times all participants are available for public scrutiny and interaction, and all writing will be on live display whilst continuously extruded as hardcopy from line printers.../ /...The event will culminate in a Saturday night exquisite_code LAUNCH PARTY (7.30 -11.30pm) on 20th February at E:vent Gallery with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants from the week's accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will be by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute.../ /...Leif Elggren [SWE] writer/artist/performer http://www.leifelggren.org; Mara Goldwyn [US] writer/performer http://maragoldwyn.wordpress.com/writing/; Dave Griffiths [UK/FI] artist/coder/performer http://www.pawfal.org/dave/; Brendan Howell [US/DE] writer/coder/artist http://wintermute.org/brendan/; Jonathan Kemp [UK] writer/artist http://xxn.org.uk; Laura Oldfield Ford [UK] writer/artist http://www.savagemessiahzine.com/; Eleanora Oreggia [IT/NL] writer/coder/artist/performer http://xname.cc/; Sabrina Small [US] writer/artist http://www.foodandfootage.com; / with additional performances from Martin Howse [UK/DE] http://www.1010.co.uk/org; Preslav Literary School [UK/DE] http://www.preslavliteraryschool.co.uk; and Ryan Jordan [UK] http://ryanjordan.org .../ /...E:vent Gallery is near Bethnal Green Tube Station. Buses 106, 254, 253, 48 and 55 pass close by. see http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/contact .../ /...This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England.../ http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/events/exquisitecode http://exquisite-code.com From j at xxn.org.uk Sat Feb 13 21:43:08 2010 From: j at xxn.org.uk (j) Date: Sat Feb 13 21:43:29 2010 Subject: [spectre] Exquisite_Code. February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010. E:vent Gallery, London. E2. Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate Message-ID: <4B770EDC.6080302@xxn.org.uk> /...Exquisite_Code...February 15 - 19th & 20th 2010...10-6pm daily...E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale St. London. E2...8 Writers pitched 8 hours a day for 5 days against despotic edit-code...Yield: one book...Print. Launch. Read. Evaluate.../ /...Forget insulation from the cold nagging existential doubt or refuge in stories comforting the General Intellect; a dark Forest of Things is foregrounded in exquisite_code, a radical constructivist experiment that hothouses a collaborative writing production.../ /..Eight international writers will work eight hours a day for five days generating text-prompts, text and edit-software in unrelenting micro-sessions to create a cadaverous exquisite_code life-novel . Text will be produced in response to prompts conspired by the writers at the end of each session. But only after bespoke edit-software has wormed its way through it, cutting, chewing and spitting gobbets of the text into a dump from which the life-novel will be elaborated. This edit-worm is itself interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by the writers. At all times all participants are available for public scrutiny and interaction, and all writing will be on live display whilst continuously extruded as hardcopy from line printers.../ /...The event will culminate in a Saturday night exquisite_code LAUNCH PARTY (7.30 -11.30pm) on 20th February at E:vent Gallery with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants from the week's accumulated materials. Publication of all code, prompts and final text will be by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute.../ /...Leif Elggren [SWE] writer/artist/performer http://www.leifelggren.org; Mara Goldwyn [US] writer/performer http://maragoldwyn.wordpress.com/writing/; Dave Griffiths [UK/FI] artist/coder/performer http://www.pawfal.org/dave/; Brendan Howell [US/DE] writer/coder/artist http://wintermute.org/brendan/; Jonathan Kemp [UK] writer/artist http://xxn.org.uk; Laura Oldfield Ford [UK] writer/artist http://www.savagemessiahzine.com/; Eleanora Oreggia [IT/NL] writer/coder/artist/performer http://xname.cc/; Sabrina Small [US] writer/artist http://www.foodandfootage.com; / with additional performances from Martin Howse [UK/DE] http://www.1010.co.uk/org; Preslav Literary School [UK/DE] http://www.preslavliteraryschool.co.uk; and Ryan Jordan [UK] http://ryanjordan.org .../ /...E:vent Gallery is near Bethnal Green Tube Station. Buses 106, 254, 253, 48 and 55 pass close by. see http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/contact .../ /...This is an exquisite_code production in collaboration with E:vent Gallery, London, Openmute.org, and supported by Arts Council England.../ http://www.eventgallery.org.uk/events/exquisitecode http://exquisite-code.com From hatam at drfz.de Sun Feb 14 19:48:26 2010 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Sun Feb 14 19:49:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Francisco Lopez Concert Berlin Fri Feb 19th, 2010 at NK Message-ID: <380-220102014184826822@M2W127.mail2web.com> Friday 19th February 2010 Francisco Lopez in concert @NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin www.nkprojekt.de doors open 8pm concert begins 9pm seating limited to 30 places contact enka_nk@gmx.de for ticket reservation Francisco L??pez is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Over the past 30 years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries of the five continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios] www.franciscolopez.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft? Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Feb 15 13:00:48 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?[the=5Fnetwork}?=) Date: Mon Feb 15 13:01:34 2010 Subject: [spectre] NewMediaFest'2010 - week 08 - preview Message-ID: <20100215130049.52326084.C0E87699@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 Week 08 - 15-21 February 2010 program preview --> http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=517 _________________________ Feature & venue of the week 08 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=512 CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival - is celebrating its 5th anniversary in India on CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity at Sattal, Uttarkhand - the Himalaya state. by presenting it entire screening program of CologneOFF V - the latest festival released in November 2009. CeC2010 is co-curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne who is also the director and curator of CologneOFF. Find the films and directors listed on http://theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm __________________________ Feature of the month February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=436 During February, VideoChannel's new project release "SFC - Shoah Film Collection" is spotlighted in daily solo features on VAD - Video art Database --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1641 Monday - Brian Delevie (USA) Tuesday - Anders Weberg (SWE) Wednesday - Cezary Ostrowski (Poland) Thursday - Dana Levy (Israel) Friday - Felice Hapetzeder (SWE) Saturday - Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos (Greece) Sunday - Paolo Bonfiglio (Italy) __________________________ Feature of the year 2010 is the ongoing netart journal, entitled: Celebrate! released in daily features by JavaMuseum - Foruim for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art Starting on 10 January 2010, Celebrate! will have featured until the end of this year a representative overview of the netart production of the past 10 years. Find Celebrate! on http://2010.javamuseum.org __________________________ Further, VideoChannel is presenting in solo features on VAD - Video Art Database Video Art from Ukraine --> http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1797 & CologneOFF is presenting in daily solo features on VAD - Video Art Database the entire CologneOFF IV program structure "Here We Are!" on http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1632 ___________________________________________ Find the complete weekly program on http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=517 and the features of today, 15 February 2010 on http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=523 ___________________________________________ 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 calls for entries --> for NewMediaFest'2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=78 downloads http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=87 newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From nilo.casares at uv.es Mon Feb 15 20:28:01 2010 From: nilo.casares at uv.es (nilo casares) Date: Mon Feb 15 20:29:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] [propaganda] _netart latino database_ Message-ID: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>scroll down for english este libro ha sido editado para poner en circulaci?n quinientas copias facsimilares (treinta y cinco de ellas numeradas y firmadas por el autor) de la _netart latino database_ de brian mackern, adquirida por el meiac el uno de enero de dos mil ocho por noventa y nueve c?ntimos de euro. direcci?n editorial: nilo casares textos: laura baigorri, giselle beiguelman, nilo casares, brian mackern, lila pagola y gustavo romano traducci?n y revisi?n de textos: polisemia im?genes: joaqu?n torres-garc?a (p?g 32), rafael marchetti (p?g 107), brian mackern y los artistas capturados. dise?o: f?ndc publica: meiac (museo extreme?o e iberoamericano de arte contempor?neo) [http://www.meiac.es] imprenta: indugrafic ? consejer?a de cultura. junta de extremadura ? de los textos, traducciones e im?genes sus autores. salvo en los casos de lila pagola, con licencia creative commons by sa argentina 2.5, y de nilo casares, cedido al dominio p?blico. isbn: 978-84-613-4394-2 dep?sito legal: ba-6-2010 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3637.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3638.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3639.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3640.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3641.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3643.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3644.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3645.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3647.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3648.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3649.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3650.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3651.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3652.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3665.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3666.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3992.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3993.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_4001.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_4042.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/sello-firmas-bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_.jpg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>arriba espa?ol this book was published for the purpose of distributing five hundred facsimile copies (thirty five numbered and signed by the author) of the _netart latino database_ by brian mackern, acquired by the meiac on the first of january, two thousand and eight, at the price of ninety-nine cents (euros). edited by: nilo casares texts: laura baigorri, giselle beiguelman, nilo casares, brian mackern, lila pagola y gustavo romano translation and proof reading: polisemia images: joaqu?n torres-garc?a (p. 32), rafael marchetti (p. 107), brian mackern and the artists reproduced here. design: f?ndc published by: meiac (museo extreme?o e iberoamericano de arte contempor?neo) [http://www.meiac.es] printers: indugrafic ? regional ministry of culture. regional government of extremadura ? of the texts, translations and images, their authors. except in the cases of lila pagola, with creative commons licence by sa argentina 2.5, and nilo casares, granted to the public domain. isbn: 978-84-613-4394-2 national book catalogue number: ba-56-2010 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3637.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3638.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3639.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3640.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3641.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3643.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3644.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3645.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3647.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3648.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3649.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3650.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3651.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3652.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3665.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3666.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3992.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_3993.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_4001.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_4042.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/database/sello-firmas-bri_netart-latino-database_MEIAC_.jpg -- copyleft (todos os direitos ao reve's) nilo casares life is too short to drink bad wine / la vida es demasiado breve como para beber mal vino / a vida ? muito curta para beber vinho mau / la vita ? troppo corta per bersi un vino scadente / het leven is te kort om slechte wijn te drinken beijos em espiral:: besos en espiral:: besades en espiral:: baisers en spirale:: baci a spirale:: spiral kisses :: spiral kyssar:: spiraalzoenen:: pocalunki spiralowe:: muxu kiribilatuak:: kierteisia suukkoja:: spiralni poljupci:: spiralk?sse:: spiraal soene http://comisario.net http://twitter.com/140_pulsaciones if file > 2mb; send it to nilo dot casares at gmail dot com From info at rybn.org Tue Feb 16 00:18:16 2010 From: info at rybn.org (rybn) Date: Tue Feb 16 01:18:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] ** D-CLICK DANSE & ** Message-ID: <3C46B8CD-3303-4CF4-8C2D-B356B7184D4A@rybn.org> ** d-CLIC Danse & ** 19 /o2 /2o1o INTERACTIVE DANCE an interactive choregraphy for 14 dancers by RYBN.ORG (interaction) & Andr?ya Oumba (choregraphy) based on the d-CLIC Dance Workshop (Trias Culture / 1er Temps) http://triasculture.net/dCLICDanse&_1002/index.html & RGBa / RYBN.ORG Audiovisual Performance http://89.8o.157.183/ in Th??tre de Verdure & Salle de cin?ma Institut Fran?ais L?opold S?dar Senghor 89 rue Joseph T. Gomis, Dakar, S?n?gal T?l: (221) 33 823 o3 2o Tarif: 2 ooo FCFA - ! and also in Dakar in february 2o1o ! ** d-CLIC Dance & ** Interactive dance workshop by RYBN & Andr?ya Ouamba (Association 1er Temps) organized by trias culture & Ass. 1er Temps, from 8 /o2 /2o1o to 19 /o2 /2o1o Foyer Culturel Ouakam / Dakar - Senegal http://triasculture.net/dCLICDanse&_1002/index.html ** PD WORKSHOP ** in Ecole Sup?rieure Multinationale des T?l?communications (ESMT) / Dakar - Senegal 2o /o2 /2o1o - 13h/18h Terrain foyer, Rocade Fann Bel Air T?l.: (221) 33 824 98 o6 / (221) 33 824 97 42 free entrance http://triasculture.net/AtelierPureData_100220/index.html ** ANTIDATAMINING ** in Goethe-Institute / Dakar - Senegal 24 /o2 /2o1o - 19h3o Rue de Diourbel angle Piscine Olympique Point E, Dakar, S?n?gal T?l: (221) 33 869 88 8o free entrance http://triasculture.net/adm_100224/index.html - Organized by : Trias Culture http://triasculture.net & ASSOCIATION 1er TEMPS - Hosted and supported by : IF LEOPOLD S. SENGHOR http://www.institutfr-dakar.org/index1.php3?id_article=63&ancre=1 DAKARLUG http://blog.dakarlug.org/ GOETHE INSTITUTE http://www.goethe.de/ins/sn/dak/frindex.htm INCIDENT.NET http://www.incident.net UPGRADE! DAKAR http://www.incident.net/upgradedakar/ - From bogus@does.not.exist.com Tue Feb 16 00:18:23 2010 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Tue Feb 16 01:19:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] ** D-CLICK DANSE & ** Message-ID: <350BF6ED-6B50-4EE6-9C82-4A2DA593488E@rybn.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ** d-CLIC Danse & ** 19 /o2 /2o1o INTERACTIVE DANCE an interactive choregraphy for 14 dancers by RYBN.ORG (interaction) & Andr?ya Oumba (choregraphy) based on the d-CLIC Dance Workshop (Trias Culture / 1er Temps) http://triasculture.net/dCLICDanse&_1002/index.html & RGBa / RYBN.ORG Audiovisual Performance http://89.8o.157.183/ in Th??tre de Verdure & Salle de cin?ma Institut Fran?ais L?opold S?dar Senghor 89 rue Joseph T. Gomis, Dakar, S?n?gal T?l: (221) 33 823 o3 2o Tarif: 2 ooo FCFA - - ! and also in Dakar in february 2o1o ! ** d-CLIC Dance & ** Interactive dance workshop by RYBN & Andr?ya Ouamba (Association 1er Temps) organized by trias culture & Ass. 1er Temps, from 8 /o2 /2o1o to 19 /o2 /2o1o Foyer Culturel Ouakam / Dakar - Senegal http://triasculture.net/dCLICDanse&_1002/index.html ** PD WORKSHOP ** in Ecole Sup?rieure Multinationale des T?l?communications (ESMT) / Dakar - Senegal 2o /o2 /2o1o - 13h/18h Terrain foyer, Rocade Fann Bel Air T?l.: (221) 33 824 98 o6 / (221) 33 824 97 42 free entrance http://triasculture.net/AtelierPureData_100220/index.html ** ANTIDATAMINING ** in Goethe-Institute / Dakar - Senegal 24 /o2 /2o1o - 19h3o Rue de Diourbel angle Piscine Olympique Point E, Dakar, S?n?gal T?l: (221) 33 869 88 8o free entrance http://triasculture.net/adm_100224/index.html - - Organized by : Trias Culture http://triasculture.net & ASSOCIATION 1er TEMPS - - Hosted and supported by : IF LEOPOLD S. SENGHOR http://www.institutfr-dakar.org/index1.php3?id_article=63&ancre=1 DAKARLUG http://blog.dakarlug.org/ GOETHE INSTITUTE http://www.goethe.de/ins/sn/dak/frindex.htm INCIDENT.NET http://www.incident.net UPGRADE! DAKAR http://www.incident.net/upgradedakar/ - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkt51j8ACgkQccGkM61Ah3HIfwCcDGmlzOIY0t8Mndmgz6v6TQP2 4R4AniQH1GH6O1+N8J1+lA24H3+NWnpb =6JO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr Tue Feb 16 16:13:14 2010 From: galerija.galzenica at globalnet.hr (galerija galzenica) Date: Tue Feb 16 16:13:44 2010 Subject: [spectre] Exhibition, I Avoid Places Where =?utf-8?b?SeKAmW0gRXhwZWN0ZWQs?= =?utf-8?q?_February_17th_-_March_14th__2010=2E?= Message-ID: <4B7AB60A.90303@globalnet.hr> "I Avoid Places Where I?m Expected" February 17th - March 14th in Galzenica Gallery (Velika Gorica/Zagreb, Croatia) at 7 p.m. Ana Belosevic, Sebastijan Dracic, Hana Miletic, Danica Mrakovic Jurcic and Zlatan Vehabovic Artists? talk will be held at the gallery on the day of the exhibition, February 17, beginning at 4.30 pm. The talk will be recorded and available in audio format at http://www.posterous.com. --- The exhibition ?I Avoid Places Where I?m Expected? features young artists whose work refers to the complex and unstable processes of subjectivation. Whether this process is situated in the period of adolescence and maturity, like in Hana Miletic?s work; or we recognize it in the feeling of loneliness, understood as a certain degree of social isolation, which is present in the works of Ana Belosevic and Sebeastijan Dracic; or it is associated with love and friendship, as seen in the works of Zlatan Vehabovic and Danica Mracevic Jurisic ? we are likely to understand it as an aspect of life which has little to do with the society that surrounds us. Therefore, as one of the results of subjectivation, we are often inclined to perceive our identity as something belonging only to us and something that is inseparable, something that will, in the constant interaction with others, help us negotiate more easily with others, fight for a meaning, acquire prestige and keep surviving despite everything. These artists, however, suggest that these intimate aspects of our lives are no longer representable through traditional patters of (civil) everyday life: armchairs, libraries, flower pots or pets; in other words, through private oases of peace and stability. In their case, the world is constantly lurking behind every bend, not giving the protagonists the freedom to isolate or relax. --- Ana Belo?evi? graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006. She has participated at a dozen solo and group exhibitions. She also works as an illustrator for the publisher Algoritam based in Zagreb. anabel@net.hr Sebastijan Dra?i? graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006. He is currently a post-graduate student of painting at the same academy. http://www.sebastijandracic.com/ Hana Mileti? was born in Zagreb. She received a degree in Art History in Brussels and also graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Currently she works for a research project Mirage at the same academy. http://www.hanamiletic.com Danica Mra?evi? Juri?i? is a post-graduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (Department for Visual Communication Design). In the artistic practice she uses video, photography, performance and dance. Her work has been exhibited in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and the Czech Republic. danmrak@net.hr Zlatan Vehabovi? graduated painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006. He is currently at a post-graduate study of painting at the same academy. He has won several awards for his work and his paintings are part of private collections in Croatia and abroad. http://www.weakersoldier.blogspot.com 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 matze.schmidt at n0name.de Tue Feb 16 18:32:52 2010 From: matze.schmidt at n0name.de (Matze Schmidt) Date: Tue Feb 16 18:32:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] "Berlinale Baer auf allen 4en" by t-shirtz.org Message-ID: <1631700825017.19880216183302@n0name.de> --------------------------Film ist Aufklaerung-------------------------- t-shirtz.org "Berlinale Baer auf allen 4en", 2010 Siebdruckfarbe auf Baumwolle Groessen: S/M/L/XL Handgemalt (Kein Siebdruck!) Der Filmfestivalpreis in Gold. 2,- vom Erloes gehen an die FAU (www.fau.org). http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320488485540&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:DE:1123 --------------------------t-shirtz.org by n0name------------------------ From louise.desrenards at free.fr Tue Feb 16 19:42:30 2010 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Tue Feb 16 19:43:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Abram Leon: The Jewish Question, The premises for a scientific study of Jewish history Message-ID: <9eb0e3811002161042w54cc8b75x46602315a85c445d@mail.gmail.com> http://translate.google.com/# ==> 2? volet apr?s le texte de Marx r?pondant sur La question juive _________ " A propos de "La question juive" " (1843-2010), Marx, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1542 Ensuite, il fallait lire "La conception mat?rialiste de la question juive", de Abraham L?on, http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1546 Abram Leon, The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation (Integral version published by Ernest Mandel, in 1946) http://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/leon/index.htm ... parce que si le texte de Marx r?gle entre la chose priv?e et la chose publique, entre l?individu et le citoyen, celui d?Abraham L?on r?gle entre la communaut? et le sionisme, entre le partage et la domination ? entre ce qui appartient ? tout le monde et la propri?t? (?gale au nationalisme) pour certains ?. Marx instruit la la?cit?, L?on instruit la vie (il n?est pas loin de Gramsci, mais autrement car il parle aussi depuis son ?tant ? l?autre) : c?est le XIXe si?cle (Marx) avant la probl?matique du parti communiste, et le XXe si?cle (apr?s La dictature du prol?tariat et la r?alisation du sionisme). Cela vaut pour toute communaut? du moment qu'elle n'est pas expansionniste ni imp?rialiste, je pense... Une carte ?patante pour survoler sans heurts la confusion du territoire actuel... ____________ Du communautarisme politique ? l?imp?rialisme, mais inversement, de la communaut? culturelle au socialisme (ou communisme) international, comme praxis de l?invention du partage dans la "r?volution permanente", qui distingue les Trotskystes : en quoi il faudrait entendre une anticipation de la r?volution culturelle chinoise, plut?t qu?un art de vivre en paix dans les soci?t?s postmodernes ? mais encore ? Que ce soit unifi? ou en r?seau de la diversit? f?d?r?e (c?est une autre question mais aussi celle du stalinisme, peut-?tre). Ce texte, un manifeste de l?histoire int?gr?e des personnes et des soci?t?s, ?claire non seulement l?histoire de son temps, mais encore la question palestinienne, aujourd?hui. Cette pr?sentation de La conception mat?rialiste de la question juive survolera toutes sortes d??v?nements, ici et l?, pour m?moire du contexte historique et des luttes de lib?ration ant?rieures et contemporaines de Abraham L?on, et de celles qui lui succ?deront. Marx, ? propos de la religion dans La question juive, distingue entre l?individu et le citoyen, entre les droits de l?homme et les droits civiques, ce qui installe le statut de la la?cit? commune entre tous, et la r?serve du droit priv?. L?on, qui conna?t la d?rive sioniste nationaliste, distingue entre la question communautaire int?rioris?e et la question politique ext?rioris?e : entre l?imp?rialisme sioniste (une oppression de l?homme par l?homme) et le communisme international (d?abord un processus de lutte dans lequel les contradictions religieuses se r?solvent pour y parvenir) ? ici on ne peut se r?server, il faut choisir d??tre avec le partage, ou contre. De la communaut? au communisme. La Conception mat?rialiste de la question juive est la r?flexion pr?alable d?une praxis fond?e par la n?cessit? d?un choix (et d?une rupture avec la r?alisation de l?utopie). C?est aussi la question des moyens et de la fin, la question de la coh?rence entre la th?orie et la pratique, et sa r?solution int?gr?e, contre le stalinisme. D?un voile et d?une calotte bibliques ? l?autre il y a chaque fois un Livre de diff?rence, le Coran inclus, et souvent une la?cit? collective diff?remment comprise mais pourtant entendue, avec en outre des m?tamorphoses des communaut?s qui s?int?grent ? parfois jusqu?? l?ath?isme mais pas n?cessairement ? notamment dans chaque Internationale r?volutionnaire ouvri?re et particuli?rement dans la IIIe et la IVe. Seuls les anarchistes, exclus depuis la seconde Internationale, font un principe irr?vocable de l?ath?isme... Mais tout fonctionne par communaut?s, aux fondements de la soci?t? socialiste. Il y a aussi en France une pr?sence du Maghreb (dont la premi?re tentative de colonisation remonte aux ann?es r?volutionnaires), ?migration acc?l?r?e depuis la Prise d?Alger (1830), pour travailler dans les usines de plusieurs villes. Ce sont des populations musulmanes r?cemment ?migr?es d?Afrique du Nord, entre autres peuples d?Afrique et d?Asie objets de la colonisation, elles ne se structurent pas en communaut?s revendicatives, mais rejoignent le syndicalisme socialiste ou anarchiste. Dans les ann?es 30, des ouvriers alg?riens organisent les premiers mouvements anti-imp?rialistes en France ; certains s?enr?leront dans les Brigades Internationales pour aller se battre en Espagne. Pour m?moire des luttes anti-coloniales sur le terrain contre la France : en Alg?rie, c?est une femme mystique, la Kabyle "Lalla" Fatma N?Soumer, lettr?e coranique de descendance maraboutique, ? la beaut? l?gendaire, insoumise ? la famille et ? la colonisation, qui devient chef d?une arm?e d?environ 14 000 femmes et hommes, apr?s avoir unifi? les cheiks de plusieurs tribus, organisant une r?sistance qui tient t?te ? l?arm?e fran?aise pendant dix ans. Arr?t?e en 1857, les militaires fran?ais saccagent sa biblioth?que. Elle meurt, toujours d?tenue, en 1863. Au contraire, Abd-el-Kader d?fait par la France s?exilera ? sa demande ? Damas, o? lors de massacres il sauvera de nombreux chr?tiens maronnites, ce qui lui vaudra d??tre d?cor? de la L?gion d?honneur par Napol?on III ; il meurt en 1883. Le Moyen Orient arabophone conna?t la cr?ation secr?te du Congr?s g?n?ral arabe, en 1913, pour revendiquer une nation arabe apr?s l?effondrement de l?empire Ottoman, mais il est r?prim? par les Turcs. A partir de 1922, la r?gion est sous un mandat britannique attribu? par la Soci?t? des Nations. (...) __________________ (...) Suite de la pr?sentation de l?ouvrage de Abraham L?on et t?l?chargement de l?int?grale de La conception mat?rialiste de la question juive, pr?c?d?e de l?introduction de Ernest Mandel : http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1546 _____ From derek at umatic.nl Tue Feb 16 21:00:28 2010 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Tue Feb 16 21:01:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] [reminder]Pure Data Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint next week Message-ID: <4B7AF95C.3050700@umatic.nl> Pure Data Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint Tusday 23 ? Friday 26 February 2010, 17.00-22.00 [GMT +1] NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin, Germany Contact Derek Holzer: derek AT THE DOMAIN umatic.nl (Please keep my mobile number for building access): +49(0)176 2812 5845 Or contribute online! http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals Pure Data (or Pd) is a free + open source, real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Because all of these types of media are handled as data in the program, many fascinating opportunities for cross-synthesis between them exist. Pd is commonly used for live music performance, VeeJaying, sound effects composition, interfacing with sensors, cameras and robots or even interacting with websites. A book sprint brings together a group of writers, editors and artists to produce a published book within several days. This sprint will combine a workshop within it, where new users will learn to create basic patches in Pd, documenting them along the way for the FLOSS Manual. This is an exciting opportunity both to acquire new skills as well as share them with others in the form of a book! This sprint is a long-distance collaboration between FLOSS Manuals, the Berlin Pure Data users group and ITP/Tisch School of the Arts, New York. Please bring your own laptop with Pure Data Extended installed. The workshop is free, with the expectation that participants will contribute to the FLOSS Manual. http://puredata.info/community/organization/pd-berlin/pd-berlin-users-group http://www.nkprojekt.de/ -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://macumbista.net ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 125: "Only a part, not the whole" From natabor at aa-vv.org Tue Feb 16 23:00:16 2010 From: natabor at aa-vv.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F1?=) Date: Tue Feb 16 22:55:07 2010 Subject: [spectre] ARE YOU CONDUCTIVE? workshop/installation MUNICH/March 17. - 20. 2010 Message-ID: <4B7B1570.7030703@aa-vv.org> aa-vv workshop invitation: ARE YOU CONDUCTIVE? hands-on, creative workshop & interactive installation Guest: Stefanie Wuschitz (Vienna) Dates: March 17. - 20. 2010, 2 - 7 PM March 20. 2010, 7 - 9 PM - Welcome to our circuit! public Installation. Host-location: @WERKSTATT BRIENNER 49, Munich (a cozy central project-space with a bar, small kitchen and large windows!;) http://maps.google.de/maps?q=BRIENNER+49,+M%C3%BCnchen&oe=utf-8&client=f... Abstract: Focusing on uniting sustainable low tech and untypical materials with high tech in a poetic and fluent way, we will be creating changeable patterns, forms and shapes within the electric circuit, experimenting with resistance and conductivity to create hand made switches and analogue sensors from magnetite stones, conductive thread/fabric, graphite, organic and found materials to be joined to a spatial interactive and sensual circuit, consisting of movable parts, connected to the micro controller Arduino. Day 1-4: 1) Collecting and connecting different materials, found objects and electronic parts to a simple electric circuits, containing small speakers, motors and lights; Trying out sustainable ways of power production with solar panels and organic batteries; Looking into a device called 'Arduino' to connect everything interactively. 2) Exploring the possibilities of the space for arranging a large scale room installation from the electronic circuits built so far and connecting them with analog conductive materials meaningfully; Drawing with conductive ink and graphite, implementing light sensors that react with sound to any interaction. 3) Building the sound part of the installation with the help of an open source software called 'processing' (lava-based application for creating interactive graphics and animations in connection to Arduino) 4) Are you conductive? Join the circuit for immersing experience! Max participants: 10-12 (girls are encouraged*) Fee: 55,- Euro (including basic electronic parts and materials) (Sorry, no funding this time:/) Stefanie Wuschitz uses interactive technology to build mobile sound and video installations site-specifically encouraging the construction of unique social and collaborative spaces. Her current focus is on subversive public art produced by women with wireless technology. She was one of the organizers of the international festival 'Eclectic Tech Carnival' in Umea/Sweden and founder of 'Miss Baltazar's Laboratory'= weekly workshops on Open Source Software, Arduino, art techniques as e.g. laser cutting, wearable technology and circuit building (currently based at Metalab/Vienna). Conducted the following workshops: Mobile-hack-day, Supersimple Robots Workshop at Letni dilny Cistirna-Prague, XBee Workshop at OKNO Bruesseles, Mobile Processing Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden and many other. http://metalab.at/wiki/Lage http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org More information about the workshop: http://aa-vv.org/ Registration: workshop@aa-vv.org (with a brief statement of your interest and background. The URL of your activity would be helpful too) Until: March 10. 2010 ||// Set up by Natalia Borissova http://aa-vv.org/ (homeless workshop project) This time in cooperation with WERKSTATT BRIENNER 49, Munich <> From greg.smith at utoronto.ca Wed Feb 17 19:44:28 2010 From: greg.smith at utoronto.ca (Greg J. Smith) Date: Wed Feb 17 19:44:42 2010 Subject: [spectre] Vague Terrain 16: Architecture/Action Message-ID: <20100217134428.pmh1w12tc040kc4k@webmail.utoronto.ca> Announcing Vague Terrain 16: Architecture/Action The latest of edition of Vague Terrain presents a timely and nuanced consideration of ubiquitous computing. Guest curated by the American artist/programmer Joshua Noble, the issue provides a window into the practices of several leading researchers. Given the arrival of gestural interfaces and preliminary deployments of augmented reality technology and "intelligent" architecture, it is an important moment for thinking about the relationship between technology and the body. Noble on this current milieu: "All technologies reshape the body and the space around the body, from the bow and arrow to the steam engine to the telephone. It may be that we are beginning to truly see how computing and ubiquitous devices will once again reshape our bodies and our conceptions of ourselves in space." The issue features text, interview and project contributions from: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Golan Levin, Pierre Proske, Mark Shepard and Marilena Skvara. To view the issue please visit: http://vagueterrain.net/journal16 Greg J. Smith & Neil Wiernik http://vagueterrain.net From txt at 1904.cc Wed Feb 17 23:27:09 2010 From: txt at 1904.cc (txt) Date: Wed Feb 17 23:27:32 2010 Subject: [spectre] deletion log: heath bunting Message-ID: <4B7C6D3D.5060409@1904.cc> Heath Bunting >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 08:29, 19 September 2009 Black Kite (talk | contribs) deleted "Heath Bunting" ? (A7: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion: Expired PROD, concern was: Not notable. No reliable secondary sources.) From nknouf at zeitkunst.org Thu Feb 18 03:03:46 2010 From: nknouf at zeitkunst.org (nknouf@zeitkunst.org) Date: Thu Feb 18 03:04:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] deletion log: heath bunting In-Reply-To: <4B7C6D3D.5060409@1904.cc> References: <4B7C6D3D.5060409@1904.cc> Message-ID: Page recreated, with partial text from the French version of wikipedia. Interesting to note that the French version had no notes regarding notability or original research. nick > Heath Bunting >>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > > This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are > provided below for reference. > > 08:29, 19 September 2009 Black Kite (talk | contribs) deleted "Heath > Bunting" ??? (A7: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for > inclusion: Expired PROD, concern was: Not notable. No reliable secondary > sources.) > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > From j at xxn.org.uk Thu Feb 18 09:44:42 2010 From: j at xxn.org.uk (j@xxn.org.uk) Date: Thu Feb 18 09:45:17 2010 Subject: [spectre] exquisite_code Launch Party and Performances Sat. 20th Feb. Message-ID: <36841.92.25.252.201.1266482682.squirrel@xxn.org.uk> exquisite_code Monday 15 February 2010 until Friday 19 February 2010, 10-6pm daily http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/events/exquisitecode The collaborative writing project will culminate in an exquisite_code LAUNCH PARTY on Saturday 20th February (7.30-11.30pm) at E:ventGallery with human-machine readings, performances and detournements made by participants and performers from the week?s accumulated materials. http://www.eventnetwork.org.uk/events/exquisitecode Order of play to be announced on the day. Exquisite_Code would like to thank the Arts Council England, E:vent Gallery and OpenMute for their support in the production of this event. E:ventGallery 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6PU, United Kingdom From nknouf at zeitkunst.org Thu Feb 18 18:56:01 2010 From: nknouf at zeitkunst.org (nicholas knouf) Date: Thu Feb 18 18:56:38 2010 Subject: [spectre] PLEASE CIRCULATE: OPEN SPACE/SINGAPORE/SOUTHEAST ASIA Message-ID: <4B7D7F31.1080708@zeitkunst.org> OPEN SPACE/SINGAPORE/SOUTHEAST ASIA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We seek submissions for a curated online and on-site exhibition exploring the theme of Open Space. This exhibition will be showcased at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Singapore from June 22-26, 2010. Open Space is mounted as the digital arts exploration of the conference theme Im/Material. WHAT IS OPEN SPACE? Open Space imagines a zone of horizontality mobilizing collaboration, participation, complex interactive dialogues, process, permeability, and community. The term open space originates in landscape design, where space is privileged over mass to stage meaningful and often surprising encounters and interactions. It has also emerged as a key environmental concept in the greening of global cities, in architecture, and in international organizational design. Indeterminancy, flexibility, and contingency constitute key strategies in open space. Open Space proposes a relational mode rather than a fixed object. Open Space suggests work that mobilizes an ethics of convenings and encounters in a sustainable zone. Open Space spurs collaborative knowledges and produces new provisional microterritories through engagement. Open Space is where technologies meet people meet spaces. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? We seek works and makers exploring the concepts and practice of Open Space in Singapore and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, and Indonesia). We are particularly interested in makers, artists, collectives, and collaborative projects from these regions. Works that are transnational and translational with a central concern of Southeast Asia as nexus will also be considered. The Open Space/Singapore/Southeast Asia exhibition is looking for digital arts and design projects in any of the following forms/interfaces: online art projects, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), social gaming, creative robotics and digital devices, locative media, mobile applications, ambient screens, user-generated community narratives and maps, innovative digitally-based cartography projects, web-based archival projects, social media interfaces and projects, installation, live DJ/VJ remixes. Additionally, any other digital and analog forms that engage a collaborative aesthetic and participatory ethics are eligible for inclusion. PRACTICAL DETAILS FOR PARTICIPATING PROJECTS Deadline: March 3, 2010 To submit work: Please send a short, one paragraph description of your project, a short bio, and a link to your project or documentation of your project in an email inquiry to Patricia Zimmermann, Shaw Foundation Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, at tpatricia@ntu.edu.sg no later than March 3, 2010 Exhibition: Projects will be featured on the ICA/WKWSCI website as the Open Space Exhibition. A limited number of artists/makers/collaborative teams will be selected from the overall exhibition to present at sessions and venues at ICA in Singapore June 22-26, with airfare and accommodation provided. CURATORIAL TEAM Patricia R. Zimmerman, Nikki Draper, and Sharon Lin Tay, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with Wenjie Zhang. INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION The International Communications Association (ICA) (http://www.ica2010.sg) is the largest international academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA has over 4,500 members from 76 countries. Over 2,000 scholars, writers, and communications practitioners from around the world attend the conference. ICA 2010 is the first time in seven years that the annual conference will be held in Asia. ICA 2010 CONFERENCE THEME: IM/MATERIAL Communication is in many respects im/material because it constitutes the very nexus where the material and immaterial dimensions of our world meet each other. Communication is indeed spectral or ghostal because our interactions consist of making present what could have remained absent from a debate, a discussion, a conversation and so on. (from the conference website: http://www.ica2010.sg/conference.html) WEE KIM WEE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE The host for ICA 2010 is the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI)(http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/sci), at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)in Singapore. Ranked as one of the world?s top 100 universities, NTU(http://www.ntu.edu.sg) is a research-intensive university with globally acknowledged strengths in science and engineering. WKWSCI is one of the premiere institutions for research and teaching in communication and information in Asia. It houses the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre , the Asian Communication Resource Centre, and the Singapore Internet Research Centre. ------- From riiia38 at yandex.ru Thu Feb 18 19:11:21 2010 From: riiia38 at yandex.ru (George Medvedev) Date: Thu Feb 18 19:11:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] UNSUBSCRIBE Message-ID: <41181266516681@webmail86.yandex.ru> UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE From su at sushu.de Thu Feb 18 19:21:31 2010 From: su at sushu.de (susanne schuricht) Date: Thu Feb 18 19:21:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] UNSUBSCRIBE Message-ID: <8336B010-8CA3-4483-AA5B-DCEE635B4F2D@sushu.de> UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Feb 18 19:28:56 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Feb 18 19:29:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] UNSUBSCRIBE In-Reply-To: <8336B010-8CA3-4483-AA5B-DCEE635B4F2D@sushu.de> References: <8336B010-8CA3-4483-AA5B-DCEE635B4F2D@sushu.de> Message-ID: <4B7D86E8.1030809@furtherfield.org> RESUBSCRIBE RESUBSCRIBE RESUBSCRIBE From derek at umatic.nl Fri Feb 19 02:05:45 2010 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Fri Feb 19 02:06:21 2010 Subject: [spectre] GOOUTSIDE Message-ID: <20100219020545.vxuzosac00cgc848@webmail.ideeel.nl> GOOUTSIDE GOOUTSIDE GOOUTSIDE -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://macumbista.net ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 4: "Abandon desire" From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Feb 19 08:27:21 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Feb 19 09:15:40 2010 Subject: [spectre] FUTUROLOGIA \ RUSSIAN UTOPIAS, Garage CCC, Moscow Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:06:35 +0100 Subject: FUTUROLOGIA \ RUSSIAN UTOPIAS, Garage CCC, Moscow From: Tatiana Sadovnikova FUTUROLOGIA \ RUSSIAN UTOPIAS March 5 - May 23, 2010 Garage CCC, Moscow Kazimir Malevich, Afrika, Victor Alimpiev, Petr Belyi, Olga Chernysheva, Electroboutique, Gaponov & Koteshov, Olga Kisseleva, Irina Korina, Diana Machulina, Andrei Molodkin, Pavel Pepperstein, Ivan Plusch, Recycle group, Aidan Salakhova, Sergei Bratkov ABC group, Viacheslav Akhunov, Yuri Avvakumov, Kirill Ass and Anna Ratafieva, Blue Noses group, Alexander Brodsky, Dmitry Bulatov and Alexei Chebikin, Alexei Buldakov, Cloud Commission group, Dmitry Gutov, Iced Architects group, Inspection Medicine Hermeneutique group, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Alexei Kallima, Oleg Kulik, Dmitriy Korobkov, Valery Koshliakov, Andrei Kuzkin, Dmitry Prigov, Nikolai Polissky, PG group, Avdei Ter-Oganian, Boris Orlov, Stas Shuripa, Sergei Shutov, Haim Sokol, Natalia Struchkova, Where the Dogs Run group, Arseniy Zhilyaev Curators: Herv? Mikaeloff, Yulia Aksenova and Tatiana Volkova Futurologia explores the legacy of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, showing how the work of pioneering artist Kazimir Malevich continues to influence Russian artists today with newly commissioned, large-scale works by contemporary artists. Russian Utopias examines the theme of utopia in Russian art over the last 20 years, the exhibition demonstrates how the concept of utopia has evolved over time, and has been subject to radically different interpretations from being regarded as an archaeological monument to acting as a vehicle to imagine an alternative future. By tracing the development of these ideas in contemporary art, the exhibition explores how utopian ideals and dreams are an important part of the Russian character and society. The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture will showcase new art being created in Russia today in two major exhibitions, both opening on 5 March 2010. Futurologia will explore the legacy of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, showing how the work of Kazimir Malevich and his contemporaries continue to influence Russian artists today. Russian Utopias will examine the theme of utopia in Russian art over the last 20 years. Together, the exhibitions will represent the work of over 40 artists and provide a unique insight into two different trajectories of contemporary Russian art. The pioneering artist Kazimir Malevich is one of the most significant figures of the Russian avant-garde. Malevich founded the Suprematist school of geometric abstract art in 1915, but turned late in his career to a figurative style of painting. Futurologia will examine the influence of the avant-garde by showing the work of Malevich alongside 18 newly commissioned, large-scale works by contemporary Russian artists, which also use both abstraction and figuration. The exhibition will be shown concurrently with Russian Utopias, which looks at the recurring theme of utopia in Russian art. Showing works by both established and emerging artists spanning the last 20 years, the exhibition will demonstrate how the concept of utopia has evolved over time and been subject to radically different interpretations, from being regarded as an archaeological monument to acting as a vehicle to imagine an alternative future. By tracing the development of these ideas in contemporary art, the exhibition explores how utopian ideals and dreams are an important part of the Russian character and society. As well as casting new light on the contemporary art scene in Russia, the joint exhibitions offer a chance to view Russian art through both local and international perspectives. Russian Utopias is curated by Yulia Aksenova and Tatiana Volkova, part of a new generation of young curators working in Moscow. In contrast, Futurologia is curated by internationally renowned French curator Herv? Mikaeloff who has previously curated for the Louis Vuitton and Caisse des D?p?ts Collections. Futurologia and Russian Utopias 5 March - 23 May 2010 Garage Center for Contemporary Culture 19A Ulitsa Obraztsova Moscow, Russia Tel: +7 495 645 0520 http://www.garageccc.com From alex at v2.nl Fri Feb 19 16:33:53 2010 From: alex at v2.nl (Alex Adriaansens) Date: Fri Feb 19 16:34:19 2010 Subject: [spectre] Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web2.0 Suicide Machine Message-ID: <2E4C743E-EED2-4CE9-A43B-F9727397649B@v2.nl> Rotterdam, 18th of February 2010 Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web2.0 Suicide Machine It is with great sorrow that we announce that Facebook Inc. has decided that WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, will be excommunicated from Facebook. The initiative to build the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine came from Moddr_, WORM?s media lab. By threatening WORM, Facebook is trying to take down the Suicide Machine. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine allows users of - among others - Facebook to commit ?social network suicide?. Facebook threatens WORM with further legal action if WORM doesn?t stop targeting the FaceBook platform via the SuicideMachine. In addition, it has now also demanded that WORM immediately deletes its own Facebook profile (WORM_Rotterdam). According to Facebook and its lawyer, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has violated Facebook?s Terms of Service and with that WORM has forfeited it?s right to keep using the platform. WORM does not want to engage in a fight over this matter with Facebook. The idea behind the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine was to be able to ?unfriend? in an automated fashion and to make users of social networks aware that they should always be in control of their own data. Facebook won?t allow for this control and is also not willing to enter into this debate. We are pretty much done with that and are left with no other choice than to commit online suicide ourselves. The conditions and attitude of Facebook leave no other option as far as WORM is concerned. WORM deeply regrets the current situation. The web 2.0 Suicide Machine was never intended to target Facebook as such, but meant as a tool for people who, for whatever reason, are tired of their online life. Facebook wants all access to their service, personal data of their users included, to run via their own ?connect? platform. In this way, Facebook can set, interpret and change its own rules as it sees fit... The excommunication of WORM illustrates that data freedom and net neutrality of users is merely an illusion on many social network sites. Not only is it not allowed for people to unfriend (in an automated manner), but companies also have the power to expel users they do not like. Facebook shows that a user only has the rights that Facebook grants it. Facebook claims all rights. WORM does not want to continue living in this 2.0 world. Which is why we say goodbye to all our friends. We wish you all the best. No flowers, no speeches. moddr_labs, WORM, Rotterdam worm.org moddr.net www.suicidemachine.org From rhinolver37 at gmx.net Fri Feb 19 18:37:29 2010 From: rhinolver37 at gmx.net (elisabeth enke) Date: Fri Feb 19 18:37:56 2010 Subject: [spectre] Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web2.0 Suicide Machine In-Reply-To: <2E4C743E-EED2-4CE9-A43B-F9727397649B@v2.nl> References: <2E4C743E-EED2-4CE9-A43B-F9727397649B@v2.nl> Message-ID: <4B7ECC59.6010807@gmx.net> wow, thats going crazy ! its crazy virtual life is so important its crazy facebook is taking a software that important - and at least its only for people who want to quit .. that shows us all facebook is nohting but capitalism, not at all social. its so stupid .. has there ever been a case where a cooperation excluded a user for his critical action ? .. besides states ? i cannot really figure this out, but its very stange. everybody should quit facebook ! Alex Adriaansens schrieb: > Rotterdam, 18th of February 2010 > > Facebook excommunicates WORM because of the Web2.0 Suicide Machine > > It is with great sorrow that we announce that Facebook Inc. has decided that WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, will be excommunicated from Facebook. > > The initiative to build the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine came from Moddr_, WORM?s media lab. By threatening WORM, Facebook is trying to take down the Suicide Machine. > > The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine allows users of - among others - Facebook to commit ?social network suicide?. Facebook threatens WORM with further legal action if WORM doesn?t stop targeting the FaceBook platform via the SuicideMachine. In addition, it has now also demanded that WORM immediately deletes its own Facebook profile (WORM_Rotterdam). According to Facebook and its lawyer, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has violated Facebook?s Terms of Service and with that WORM has forfeited it?s right to keep using the platform. WORM does not want to engage in a fight over this matter with Facebook. The idea behind the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine was to be able to ?unfriend? in an automated fashion and to make users of social networks aware that they should always be in control of their own data. Facebook won?t allow for this control and is also not willing to enter into this debate. We are pretty much done with that and are left with no other choice than to commit online suicide ourselves . The conditions and attitude of Facebook leave no other option as far as WORM is concerned. > > WORM deeply regrets the current situation. The web 2.0 Suicide Machine was never intended to target Facebook as such, but meant as a tool for people who, for whatever reason, are tired of their online life. Facebook wants all access to their service, personal data of their users included, to run via their own ?connect? platform. In this way, Facebook can set, interpret and change its own rules as it sees fit... > > The excommunication of WORM illustrates that data freedom and net neutrality of users is merely an illusion on many social network sites. Not only is it not allowed for people to unfriend (in an automated manner), but companies also have the power to expel users they do not like. Facebook shows that a user only has the rights that Facebook grants it. > > Facebook claims all rights. WORM does not want to continue living in this 2.0 world. Which is why we say goodbye to all our friends. We wish you all the best. > > No flowers, no speeches. > > > moddr_labs, > WORM, Rotterdam > worm.org > moddr.net > www.suicidemachine.org > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > -- www.myspace.com/soundslikelisabeth www.ausland-berlin.de/eiskalt From joasia at kurator.org Fri Feb 5 11:02:47 2010 From: joasia at kurator.org (Joasia) Date: Sun Feb 21 10:42:08 2010 Subject: [spectre] SILICON DREAMS opens in Tabakalera, San Sebastian Message-ID: MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, SPANISH GOVERNMENT Spanish Presidency of the EU ? first semester of 2010 EU Informal Competitiveness Council of Ministers SILICON DREAMS Art, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION tabakalera donostia ? san sebasti?n February 9th ? March 21th 2010 Silicon Dreams draws attention to the currency for transdisciplinary practice across Science, Technology and Art. Aiming to support a vision of the European Union as a leader in Research and Development, the project highlights emerging art forms, exploring creative influences, experimentation and innovation in the field. The exhibition presents artworks selected from an invited shortlist of outstanding works in the field. The final selection was undertaken by The Scientific Committee established by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the purpose of the project, and sought to reflect the high level of transdisciplinary research across arts and science. The exhibition represents the complexity and diversity of the field from an ever evolving perspective reflecting broad categories of practice. However, the underlying intention behind the exhibition is not to provide a comprehensive survey of the field, either contemporary or historical in character, but to highlight key moments and outstanding ideas that have been driving the development of creative ideas. In particular, the selection aimed to exemplify: advanced research and innovation demonstrating cross knowledge in the field Art, Science and Technology; the potential for further collaborations between artists and scientists; interaction between artistic and scientific production methods; an influence and challenge to scientific paradigms; significant public impact; vision and imagination to inspire new ideas, new experiences and to dream our future in new ways. Selected works: Camera Lucida, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand (2005). Interactive Plant Growing, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (1993-1997). Luci - Sin nombre y sin memoria, Jos? Manuel Berenguer (2008). Mission Eternity: Tamatar. SWARM F71834AA6A9A6586, Etoy (2010). My Black Cat, Knowbotic Research (2009). Natural Fuse, Usman Haque (2008). Probe, Boris Debackere (2008). Requiem, Marcel.l? Ant?nez (1999). Terrain_01, Ulrique Gabriel (1992-1993). The exhibition also includes Protrude, Flow by Sachiko Kodama (2008). Scientific Committee: Chair: Carlos Mart?nez Alonso, State Secretary for Research, Ministry of Science and Innovation Curatorial Co-ordinator: Dr. Joasia Krysa, Reader in Art and Technology, KURATOR / University of Plymouth. Members: Montserrat Ton? Escasany, Director General for International Cooperation and Institutional Affairs, Ministry of Science and Innovation. Clara Eugenia Garc?a, Advisor to the Minister?s Office, Ministry of Science and Innovation. Lourdes Arana Uli, Director General of FECYT. Elisa S?inz, CEO of Development of Design and Innovation, Ministry of Science and Innovation. Alex Adriaansens, Director, V2. Daniel Canogar, Artist. Fernando Castro Fl?rez, Art Critic. David Cuartielles, Artist - Programmer, founder of Arduino. Dr. Yago Torroja. ETSII School of Industrial Engineering, University Polytechnic of Madrid. LaAgencia, Secretary of the Committee Photographic material: http://laagencia.org/SiliconDreams_fotos_Folder.zip From cahen.x at levels9.com Mon Feb 8 18:36:53 2010 From: cahen.x at levels9.com (xavier cahen) Date: Sun Feb 21 10:42:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] .fiction DOCUMENTAIRE 2009.2010, Universite Paris 8, Saint Denis, France. Message-ID: <4B704BB5.20704@levels9.com> .fiction DOCUMENTAIRE 2009.2010 OPINION(?)PUBLIQUE http://www.arpla.fr/canal14/2010/puyo_julia/index.html Le 25 Octobre 2009 le ministre de l?immigration et de l?int?gration Eric Besson lance dans les m?dias le d?bat sur l?identit? nationale, ainsi, autour d?un sujet qui ne r?pond ? aucun ?v?nement concret, une opinion publique est g?n?r?e. D?s lors, on parle de ce que chacun entend par identit? nationale : une certaine typologie de discours apparait et des sites internet consacr?s au d?bat, des forums ouverts ? tous et des interviews r?alis?es dans la rue permettent aux m?dias de reprendre et de saisir ce que cette opinion publique g?n?r?e par eux-m?mes entend ? niveau de ce sujet. L??volution du d?bat sur l?identit? nationale m?ne ? un questionnement sur la nature de l?opinion publique : le sujet du d?bat a d?abord ?t? soumis ? consensus dans la sph?re du politique qui l?a propos?, ensuite le th?me a ?t? signal? par les m?dias et les sondages men?s par ceux-ci obligent les gens ? s?interroger et ? discuter sur cette question, les discours de l?opinion publique ?tant ainsi encadr?s autour de ce sujet. Pierre Bourdieu n?aurait-il pas raison lorsqu?il affirme ?L'opinion publique est un artefacte?? Le projet ? Opinion(?)publique ? est une r?flexion sur l'artifice du discours et de l'opinion publique. - La piste sonore reproduit les interviews que j?ai r?alis? dans la rue. Ces interviews nous permettent de relever les diff?rents discours issus autour de ce th?me, de conna?tre la d?finition que donne l'opinion publique ? l'identit? nationale et d'apprendre ce qu'elle a ? dire du fait qu'un d?bat autour de ce sujet ait ?t? cr??. C?est un ?chantillon de cette pr?tendue opinion publique. - Dans la vid?o, sous forme de zapping, une bouche prononce des discours issus de ce d?bat. Ces discours ont ?t? relev?s dans des interviews, des forums de d?bat, des articles d?opinion et des articles de journaux. Ainsi le discours de cette bouche est le discours de cette opinion publique, et comme notre propre discours, son discours ? elle est un discours qui nous vient des autres, de cette opinion publique modul?e par les m?dias. Cette vid?o est reproduite sur une PSP, ceci permet au spectateur d'adopter ces discours en pla?ant la PSP ? la hauteur de sa bouche : la bouche de la vid?o co?ncide avec la sienne et les discours de la vid?o -qui sont les discours des autres- deviennent les leurs. L?artifice du discours est mis ? l?avant. Julia Puyo Calvo 2009 Installation http://www.arpla.fr/canal14/2010/puyo_julia/documents/page2.html Vid?o 4'15" http://www.arpla.fr/canal14/2010/puyo_julia/documents/page3.html Son 38'35" http://www.arpla.fr/canal14/2010/puyo_julia/documents/page4.html +++++ 2009.2010 Canal 14 /. fiction DOCUMENTAIRE http://www.arpla.fr/canal14/index.php?cat=2008 N'oubliez pas de visiter les autres canaux ! http://www.arpla.fr +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Retrouvez l'ensemble des travaux sur Arpla : ? Arpla est le serveur p?dagogique du D?partement Arts plastiques de l'Universit? Paris 8, ? Saint-Denis, 93. Il accueille des travaux d'?tudiants et des supports de cours. ? 1999>2010 -- XAVIER CAHEN -------------- cahen.x@levels9.com Paris France http://www.levels9.com http://www.00-00-0000.org http://www.radiolist.org http://www.cityson.info From info at fondation-langlois.org Tue Feb 16 18:06:38 2010 From: info at fondation-langlois.org (Fondation Daniel Langlois) Date: Sun Feb 21 10:42:11 2010 Subject: [spectre] 2010 DOCAM Summit Message-ID: <48b9500a259781fae3951036001ecba8@fondation-langlois.org> The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance presents the 2010 DOCAM Summit, which will mark the end of five years of research. DOCAM is an international research alliance initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together artists, researchers, students and museum practitioners (conservators, curators, technicians, etc.) in order to expose and explore the issues raised by current research. At this occasion, DOCAM will launch its new website, featuring the following main research results: - A Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections; - A Preservation Guide for Technology-Based Artworks; - The DOCAM Glossaurus; - The DOCAM Documentary Model; - A Technological Timeline. Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as part of its Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) program, DOCAM includes several partners such as the Mus?e d?art contemporain de Montr?al, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, as well as university departments such as that of Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM), Universit? de Montr?al and McGill. DOCAM would also like to thank Hexagram UQAM, main collaborator of this event: - March 3, 2010: Professional workshops regarding Conservation/Preservation and Cataloguing (space is limited / registration required) - March 4 & 5, 2010: International conference open to the public (Agora Hydro-Qu?bec, Coeur des sciences, 175 avenue du Pr?sident-Kennedy) - March 4 (evening event) : Public Launch of the new DOCAM website (Chaufferie, Coeur des sciences, 175 avenue du Pr?sident-Kennedy) Summit detailed program: http://www.docam.ca/docam2010/en/ The Summit is free admission. However we invite you to register by adding your email address to the DOCAM mailing list: http://www.docam.ca/docam2010/en/contact.php For questions, please email: info@docam.ca From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Feb 22 11:59:00 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?[the=5Fnetwork}?=) Date: Mon Feb 22 11:59:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] NMF'2010 - program preview - week 09 Message-ID: <20100222115901.DDC7F7E2.47D0E36F@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 ---------------------------------------- Program preview of week 09 - 22-28 February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=608 Feature of the week 09 JavaMuseum - I-Highway - netart from Canada (2003) more details on http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=603 ----------------------------------------- Program of today - 22 February 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=602 ----------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org calls for entries --> for NewMediaFest'2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?page_id=78 newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From info at rybn.org Mon Feb 22 18:43:48 2010 From: info at rybn.org (rybn) Date: Mon Feb 22 19:44:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] AKA in RIAMo7 Message-ID: <9C2288DC-A489-41A4-8DC5-AD67786238DB@rybn.org> RIAM 07 - LOW TECH 7th International Multimedia Art Meetings 25 february to 06 march 2010 Marseille _ Back to technological future. Nowadays, artistic events devoted to connections between art and technology are facing a paradox : how to stand back from technological glorifications, in a consumerist world constantly saturated by new gadgets? RIAM (International Multimedia Art Meetings) have always focused on analyzing and criticizing the technology?s role and the artists way of appropriate and embezzled it. Even if technology have transformed our everyday life in a distinct way, RIAM?s programming has never been blindly rushed into enthusiasm for new technological feats. It seems evident to us that media and technical evolution have radically transformed our way of organizing, interpreting and understanding the world. The German philosopher Friedrich A. Kittler (1) proposes a regard on technology which links it to cognitive models in history. According to him, technological tools are structuring thought, they aren?t neutral: if they are the result of human inventions? capacity, they are also a mean to modify our link with the world. Across technical history, this RIAM edition make a sort of inventions? archaeology, reconsidering as well successively replaced media (16 mm film, super 8, audio tape, polaro?d, analogical synthesizer, pinhole, vinyl, video recorder) as functions, objectives (and dreams) which are often abandoned too. In this context, many artists have recently taken an interest in low-tech technology, recycling obsolete analogical models. It consists in investing autonomy, according to a " do it yourself " principle. Others artists can take an interest in transfers between low and high tech, as existing in our everyday?s life practices, where phone coexist with virtual social networks. Some of them, are still applying to use with irony old technological terms when using high level tools, in a resistance to fascination produced by smooth images and media imagery. At the heart of these artists reflections, there is a questioning about progress illusion, which have became the technological market?s catch phrase, constantly searching for new consummation horizons. In parallel, many artists are also wondering about production?s means bidding and imposed scale?s change in festivals and biennials contexts, which are dominated by communication strategy at the expense of real artistic?s issues. So, this RIAM edition is aiming take a temporal step back, without falling into a retro-futuristic aesthetic. It rather consists in understanding the present by taking an interest in how past technology made us dreaming about an-other future. _ FULL PROGRAM : http://www.riam.info/07/ _ PROGRAM _ thursday 25th february In Mont?vid?o at 7 pm Yann Leguay (Artkillart) ?Cutter off? Sound Performance The artist presents Cutter Off,a performance version of the Dead_Media project wich consist in a ? dissection ? of a vinyl with use of micro- contact plugged surgical tools. This is a scalable mix. Starting from a blank disk, the burning is realized in live, immersing people in a sound universe of industrial noise and acoustic-electronica. http://www.phonotopy.org - Sister Iodine (Mego - Premier sang - Textile records) Concert French pioneer experimental rock band (trio) founded in the early 90?s, Sister Iodine made themselves known with 2 albums recorded on the R.I.P French label ?Semantic?; ADN 115 (1994) & Pause (1997), collision between the savage energy of No wave, the game of collage tapes and exploration of their instruments inspired by concrete music, their primitive love of Noise, and a primal free rock approach. From 1992 to 97 they did some wicked concerts in company of bands like Sonic Youth, Faust, US Mapple, Circle X, Keiji Haino, Flaming Demonics, B?stard, Krackhouse, Melt Banana, Tone Rec, amongst others.. Geographically separated since 1997 Sister Iodine began to play sporadically for some scattered events like some dates w/ Sonic Youth french tour 1999, Phonotaktik Festival, Vienna/1998, PS1 Contemporary Art Center NY/1998, each members focused then more on their own new electronic projets (Discom, duos w/ Tujiko Noriko, Evil Moisture) touring around the world. And still running... Back to pure and harsh electricity since early 2000?s , Sister Iodine continued their ufo like road, gaved brutal concerts here and there around their album came out on Textile records (Jackie O?Motherfucker, Magik Markers, Oren Ambarchi, Volcano The Bear, Chris Corsano & Mike Flower, Sun, and many more) on feb 2007, recorded @ Rare Book Room studio with Nicolas Vernhes. 2008/ Sister Iodine recorded his new album in his studio and did a few shows around like the one invited by Sonic Youth to play for the opening of the massive exhibition dedicated to the band "Sonic Youth, Sentational Fix" in Saint Nazaire. http://www.sister-iodine.net _ friday 26th february In Gallery Buy-sellf art club at 6:30 pm Vincent Epplay & Samon Takahashi (FR: Artkillart) Duo pour Synthi AKS et Janotron. Since a tenth years, Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi are exploring opportunities of musical duo. From gigs (Plasm) to electronic composition, interpretations of anthology pieces (Trios de Tristram Cary), and psychedelic replay (on Pierre Cl?menti?s films), their music is not only electroacoustic but extends in kraut rock, noise and groove. If there was a family of legends to situate them it would be between Schaeffer & Henry and Rox & Rouky, Ike & Tina and Heckel & Jeckel ? Now, " Duo to Synthi AKS and Janotron " is a new device system in construction. Epplay and Takahashi are conversing, whispering, bawling through the legendary Synthi AKS and the home-made Janotron, multiple analogical instrument created by Jean-Marcel Busson. A hard sonic dual based on untempered and indomitable electronic instruments. _ saturday 27th february In La Compagnie at 7:00 pm Samon Takahashi & EmanueleCarcano Low profiles (low-fi aesthetics?s historical overview) Conference Samon Takahashi combines music and contemporary art out of practical?s borders. Does his creations are made to be seen or to be heard ? Is he comic or engaged? Takahashi plays on senses and sounds, combining usefull and pleasant to disrupt the spectator. Takahashi invites us to enter in a comic universe, poetic and also reflexive. Emanuele Carcano is a music editor devoted to avant-gardes, from noise- art poetry to electronic music. He is the creator of Alga Marghen editions (Milan). www.algamarghen.com with the support of Upgrade!Paris http://incident.net/theupgrade/ _ wednesday 03rd march In Daki Ling wednesday 3rd march at 8 pm artkillart label introduction Artkillart is a label based in Paris and Berlin, created in 2007. Its purpose is to promote experimental audiovisual and sound art. In reaction to dematerialized music, the artists of the label refocus on material objects. They are invited to conceptualize and design an object exploring the quality, the complexity and the limits of different media (including the dvd, cd and vinyl), and conceived as an experience both for the artist and the audience. http://www.artkillart.tk - chdh ?Vivarium? Performance A/V chdh?s work is based on a symbiosis between sound and image. Between minimalism and industrial, chdh creates a single, cold but organic universe. Thanks to the use of mathematical algorithms and physical models, chdh brings a new vision on the practice of data-processing tools in digital creation. The use of audio-visual objects, having a sound and a video component controlled by the same parameters allows an effective management of the relations between the two medias. This project evokes a virtual world, made up with more or less autonomous abstract creatures. The aesthetics of the video and the sound is minimalist: sines, diracs and noises interact with cubes, spheres and other primitive in 3D on a black and white visual environment. vivarium is an audio/video DVD project based on chdh?s performance work. vivarium?s goal is to switch from a live expression form to written and composed pieces. This project is based on the years of work already provided by chdh, and on the experience due to the performances they?ve done in France and Europe. http://www.chdh.net From epk at xs4all.nl Tue Feb 23 16:44:47 2010 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Tue Feb 23 16:45:13 2010 Subject: [spectre] ElectroSmog Festival, March 18 - 20, 2010: Preliminary Program now available on-line Message-ID: ElectroSmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ON-LINE Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne. March 18 ? 20, 2010 www.electrosmogfestival.net About the festival: The ElectroSmog festival is a critique of the worldwide explosion of mobility, and an exploration of the new forms of connectedness with others offered to us by network and communication technologies. Our question is if these new forms of connectedness can help us to develop a viable new lifestyle less determined by speed and constant mobility, which is both ecologically and socially more sustainable. The preliminary festival program is now available at the ElectroSmog website: www.electrosmogfestival.net/program Bringing together a broad coalition: The ElectroSmog festival brings together a broad coalition of designers, environmentalists, urban and spatial planners, technologists, artists, theorists, and engaged and concerned citizens, to explore and ?design? sustainable immobility. Zero travel: ElectroSmog is a truly international festival, with everything you might expect: international debates and discussions, performances, art projects, exhibits, site specific projects, screenings, a design competition, and more. ElectroSmog stakes its claim for a radical break with the current systems of hyper-mobility not simply by discussing the issue, but by actually implementing it. A few basic ground rules apply for all the festival events listed there: ? No presenter will travel beyond their local or regional boundaries to participate in this event. ? All festival events will always take place in at least two locations connected in real-time. ? A crucial dimension of the festival will be its on-line presence, where audiences from basically anywhere with an internet connection can follow events on-line, join in discussions and debates, visit virtual theatres in metaverses such as second life, and contribute to the program. Going beyond the broadband enclaves: ElectroSmog acknowledges from the start that bandwidth is not equally distributed across and within societies. Therefore remote connection to lower bandwidth spaces, do-it-yourself telematics, and information technologies for the majority world will be central concerns the festival will address. Thematic discussions, presentations and connected debates The ElectroSmog festival-program is organised around a series of interlocking thematic programs, connected discussions and debates all transmitted live over the internet. Themes covered by these events include: ? Global views on the crisis of mobility ? Witnessed Presence ? Hyper-mobility and the urban condition ? City & regional branding debate ? e-mobility versus immobility ? Designing for (im-)mobility ? Public media art projects and sustainability ? Energy and information ? ElectroSmog is Good for You! ? Food and global mobility ? Deep local and remote technologies Satellite events: Around the main program a host of satellite events is organised locally and translocally. These include: ? Art projects and local interventions, including original works by Bureau des Etudes, Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat, John Cohns, Sean Kerr, Kevin McCourt & Bartolo Luque, and others. ? Special events, screenings, book launches, and more. ? A program of connected and localised workshops ? On-line projects and environments designed specifically for the festival. www.electrosmogfestival.net March 18 - 20, 2010 From joris at v2.nl Wed Feb 24 10:46:53 2010 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Wed Feb 24 10:47:19 2010 Subject: [spectre] V2_ presents: Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda - March 11 Message-ID: <4B84F58D.1070003@v2.nl> Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world. http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-tools-for-propaganda Thursday March 11 20.00-23.00 V2_ Eendrachtsstraat 10 Admission: free Featuring: Maurice Benayoun (FR) | Marc Lee (CH) | Damian Stewart (NZ/AT) | Opening: Alessandro Ludovico (IT) | Screening: www.uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki | www.subvertr.com | www.streetwithaview.com The increased accessibility and affordability of contemporary media technologies has greatly expanded possibilities for the dissemination of independent and grassroots information. At the same time, these developments have also greatly increased the opportunities for (mis)use of media technologies as powerful and effective tools for political and commercial propaganda. Although many theorists, artists, and activists have addressed the latter perspective on contemporary media technologies, critical debates have rarely relied on concrete demonstrations to prove their point. This edition of Test_Lab will therefore investigate the face of propaganda in the digital age by means of live artistic demonstrations, and will allow the audience to test hands-on how new media technologies can be applied as effective tools for propaganda. How does Google determine which website shows up first and which one on page 2.480.133 of a search? Does a photograph only represent its own reality? How does social tagging affect the meaning of an online image? Why is spam persuasive and profitable? Is Uncyclopedia perhaps the true Wikipedia? What would the world look like if all advertisements were covered with artworks? And can Google?s Street View be a stage for artistic intervention? Test_Lab: /Tools for Propaganda/ allows you to experience and test for yourself how new media technologies can be (mis)used to direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world. Subvertr.com and streetwithaview.com are screened with kind permission of the artists, Les Liens Invisibles, and Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley, respectively. This event will be streamed live at www.v2.nl for more information please contact: Michel van Dartel michel@v2.nl +31 (0)10 206 7272 From redazione at digicult.it Wed Feb 24 14:20:35 2010 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Wed Feb 24 14:22:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] Digicult_Digimag 51- February 09_new graphic design Message-ID: Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: Digimag 51 - February 09 NEW GRAPHIC DESIGN http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/ You can read the past issues, articles and interviews here in our Archive section: http://www.digicult.it/en/Archive/ The Digicult's Board here: http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/board.asp The Digicult website: www.digicult.it/en The Art-Agency Digimade: www.digicult.it/agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "...If you work in electronics you must know the devices to know how far you can go and often many interesting pieces of work are created by forcing the machines so that they can go beyond what they are capable of. Here serendipity comes into play, when you're working on the sensitive issue, because in reality you're working with things that come up, that were unforeseen. So you must have a foundation but then forget about it a little, so as to not remain attached to the issue, if not it's very difficult to get out of that situation. It's what happens when you study counterpoint for many years or harmony and at the end you only know how to do counterpoint and harmony exercises and that's dramatic. It's what happens to most composers. The technique is very important but you must not get trapped by it: it will be a topos, but technique is important mostly in order to transcend it. What is interesting are the paths that people use to get over it, to acquire the domain of what is difficult to transmit with language..." Jos? Manuel Berenguer, from "ACOUSTICS AND SERENDIPITY. AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSE' MANUEL BERENGUER" by Barbara Sansone & Jord? Salvado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ARTICLES]: - LEONARDO SOLAAS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1711 by Jeremy Levine - JOSE' MANUEL BEREGUER - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1702 We had the pleasure and honour of going to meet Jos? Manuel Berenguer in his home. He is a key figure in the electro-acoustic experimental scene in Spain by Barbara Sansone - CARLOS CASAS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1700 The image of the Italian festival Netmage, created by the Spanish Carlos Casas, is a trace of an inner journey revealed for the first time to the public by Silvia Bianchi - DAVID COHN: SPOT.US - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1707 American Journalist, 27 years old, David Cohn from Spot.us started off as a freelance writing also for Wired, Seed Magazine, Columbia Journalism Preview by Simona Fiore - BENNET PIMPINELLA - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1712 Bennet is an eccentric experimenter in images in motion is pure glory for the eyes and the spirit. In balance between analogical and digital by Alessio Galbiati - AWARE OBJECTS - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1701 Visual voltage is the travelling exhibition whose Berlin version Visual Voltage Amplified had its opening on last January 7th at the Felleshuset by Serena Cangiano - PASSION AND FASHION - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1704 It has been almost three years since the publication of the results of a research about working practices in a number of fashion houses in Milan by Zoe Romano - ISABELLE CHOINIERE - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1703 Among the more interesting figures, the choreographer Isabelle Choini?re has been developing a journey connected to sound qualities in movement by Enrico Pitozzi - CROATIAN BIENNAL 09 - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1709 Corners and Intersections is the title of the third edition of the Quadrilateral Biennial, also known as the Croatian Biennial by Giulia Simi - HARMONY KORINE: GUMMO - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1713 A critic elaboration Harmony Korine's cinema and artwork by Francesco Bertocco - ART TECH MEDIA - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1705 Art Tech Media brings together people coming from areas relating to subjects concerned with science, art and technology by Barbara Sansone - OPEN EDUCATION - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1708 Connectivism and learning education as netforming process. by Simona Fiore - PAOLA BIANCHI - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1710 Paola Bianchi's dancing body is everything, sometimes nothing, sometimes everything to discover, "expect" and fully understand by Massimo Schiavoni - WOMEN IN (VIDEO)GAMES - http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1706 Women in Games, 25-26 March at the University of Bradford, it emerged as one of the most important in the female world of videogame research and industry by Luigi Ghezzi [COVER]: Leonardo Solaas - La Mosca [VIDEO ATTACHMENT]: Otolab - Videomoog 3.0 - Unpublished: Footage + Live - Netmage 2003 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/allegato.asp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIGICULT is an online/offline Italian platform, created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on participation of more than 40 professionals, representing a wide Italian Network of critics, curators and journalists in the field. DIGICULT is the editor of the magazine DIGIMAG, which focuses on some cultural and artistic issues like internet art, hacktivism, electronica, video art, audiovideo, art & science, design, new media, software art, performing art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [DIRECTION & MANAGEMENT COMMITEE]: Marco Mancuso (Digicult project Director and Teacher at New Academy of Fine Arts / Naba of Milan) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (International Doctorship in Audiovisual Studies, University of Udine) ; Bertram Niessen (Researcher at Sociology Deparment of Statale University Milan - Bicocca) ; Lucrezia Cippitelli (Phd at Sapienza University Rome and Teacher at Fine Arts Academy of L'Aquila) [EIDITORIAL STAFF & TRANSLATIONS]: Luca Restifo (Technical Consultancy) ; Claudia D'Alonzo (Press Office) ; Martina Bartalini (Web Editing) ; Giulia Baldi (Twitter & Facebook Editing) ; Giuseppe Cordaro (Podcast Editing) ; Riccardo Vescovo (Graphic Design) ; Luigi Ghezzi (Web 2.0 Marketing) ; Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specialistica, Universit? IULM di Milano (Website Translations) ; Francesca Lattanzi - Emanuela Cassol - Sara Cavagna - Henriette Vittadini - Mimi Pe?a (Magazine Translations) [EDITORIAL BOARD]: Tatiana Bazzichelli ; Bertram Niessen ; Teresa De Feo ; Luigi Ghezzi ; Giulia Baldi ; Domenico Quaranta ; Massimo Schiavoni ; Monica Ponzini ; Annamaria Monteverdi; Valentina Tanni ; Lucrezia Cippitelli ;Silvia Bianchi ; Claudia D'Alonzo; Barbara Sansone ; Giulia Simi ; Silvia Scaravaggi ; Maresa Lippolis ;Alessio Galbiati ; Antonio Caronia ; Clemente Pestelli ; Donata Marletta ; Valeria Merlini ; Stefano Raimondi ; Loretta Borrelli ; Carla Langella ; Marco Riciputi ; Elena Gianni ; Matteo Milani ; Francesco Bertocco ; Silvia Casini ; Jeremy Levine ; Alex Foti ; Serena Cangiano ; Micha Cardenas , Mark Hencock , Pasquale Napolitano ; Simona Fiore ; Zoe Romano ; Enrico Pitozzi ; Eugenia Fratzeskou ; Mattia Casalegno ; Robin Peckam ; Sabina Cuccibar ; Silvia Bertolotti ; Simone Broglia From hillevi at anart.no Wed Feb 24 15:55:58 2010 From: hillevi at anart.no (Hillevi Munthe) Date: Wed Feb 24 15:56:23 2010 Subject: [spectre] Oslo Workshop: Wearable Sound Experiments Message-ID: <37476.195.159.18.66.1267023358.squirrel@webmail1.clsmail.net> Wearable sound experiment or Why does my knee bark and my armpit squeak? @ Atelier Nord, Oslo This four day workshop introduces basic soft electronics techniques for constructing fabric sensors and wearable circuits. Instead of using soldering irons and wire, we will use sewing needles and conductive thread.The theme of the workshop is hacking sound toys into wearables. During the workshop each participant will develop a wearable project, paying attention to the placement of components and the relationship between body, action and sound. Participants will design wearable interactions and deal with issues such as comfort, functionality, context and purpose. We will introduce to a range of available and affordable materials, tools and craft techniques for making soft electronics that are easy to be continued at home.The textile components covered in this workshop will include: soft and stretchy fabric traces, battery pouches, hard/soft permanent and plugable connections, pressure, bend, tilt and stretch sensors as well as modifying sound toy circuits to be integrated in soft circuitry. Techniques will include: sewing, soldering, embroidery, fusing, knitting, crochet as well as isolation techniques. Last but not least, we will be raising this question throughout the workshop: why we would ever want to map sounds to our bodies in the first place, let alone embed electronics in our clothing. Participants of all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to bring their own old clothes to repurpose. Registration for the workshop at ateliernord.no The workshop will be held in English by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi. For more information: www.kobakant.at/DIY/ Maximum number of participants: 10 Dates: 15 - 18 March 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm. The workshop will be held at: Atelier Nords project room, Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvn. 17, 0167 OSLO Please apply by filling the form here: www.ateliernord.no. Application deadline: 5 March 2010. Participation fee: NOK 500. If you have any questions please mail to: office@ateliernord.no or call 23060880. ________________________________________________________________________ ATELIER NORD Wergelandsvn. 17 N-0167 Oslo www.ateliernord.no From marika at incident.net Thu Feb 25 16:40:32 2010 From: marika at incident.net (marika dermineur) Date: Thu Feb 25 17:40:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] Upgrade! Samon Takahashi and Emanuele Carcano / RIAM - Marseille Message-ID: <4B8699F0.6080207@incident.net> ---en--- Upgrade! # 35 Low profiles Historical Overview of low-fi aesthetic Conference by Samon Takahashi and Emanuele Carcano Saturday, February 27 at 19:00 La Compagnie / RIAM / Marseille _________________________________________________________ under the 7th Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multim?dia RIAM 07 ? LOW TECH _________________________________________________________ Free Admission Reservations recommended at 09 52 52 12 79 or contact@riam.info La Compagnie 19 rue Francis de Pressens? 13001 Marseille Tel: 04 91 90 04 26 http://www.la-compagnie.org _________________________________________________________ Samon Takahashi mixes music and contemporary art without limit or compartmentalize his practices. His pieces are they to see or hear? Is he funny or engaged? Takahashi plays on the meanings and sounds, he weaves the useful and agreeable to the loss of landmarks. Shows a funny, poetic, but also reflexive universe. http://www.erratum.org/old/takahashi/ Emanuele Carcano is music publisher dedicated to avant-garde, from poetry sound to electronic music. He is the founder of the respected label Marghen Alga, Milan (Charlemagne Palestine, Pierre Bastien, Luc Ferrari, Henri Chopin, Francois Dufrene, ...). http://www.algamarghen.com _________________________________________________________ _ Full program of the evening: http://www.riam.info/07/samedi-27-fevrier.html _ RIAM - 7th Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multim?dia February 25 to March 06, 2010 in Marseille http://www.riam.info/07/ _ Upgrade! Paris http://incident.net/theupgrade/ ---fr--- Upgrade! # 35 Low profiles Aper?u historique de l?esth?tique low-fi conf?rence de Samon Takahashi et Emanuele Carcano samedi 27 f?vrier ? 19h ? la Compagnie / RIAM / Marseille _________________________________________________________ dans le cadre des 7?mes Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multim?dia RIAM 07 ? LOW TECH _________________________________________________________ Entr?e libre R?servation conseill?e au 09 52 52 12 79 ou contact@riam.info La Compagnie 19 rue francis de pressens? 13001 marseille Tel : 04 91 90 04 26 http://www.la-compagnie.org _________________________________________________________ Samon Takahashi m?le musique et art contemporain sans compartimenter ni borner ses pratiques. Ses pi?ces sont-elles ? voir ou ? entendre ? Est-il dr?le ou engag? ? Takahashi joue sur le sens et les sons, il entrem?le l?utile et l?agr?able jusqu?? la perte des rep?res. En ressort un univers dr?le, po?tique mais aussi reflexif. http://www.erratum.org/old/takahashi/ Emanuele Carcano est ?diteur de musique se consacrant aux avant-gardes, de la po?sie sonore ? la musique ?lectronique. Il est le fondateur du tr?s respect? label ?Alga Marghen?, Milan (Charlemagne Palestine, Pierre Bastien, Luc Ferrari, Henri Chopin, Fran?ois Dufr?ne, ?). http://www.algamarghen.com _________________________________________________________ _ Programme complet de la soir?e : http://www.riam.info/07/samedi-27-fevrier.html _ RIAM - 7?mes Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multim?dia 25 f?vrier au 06 mars 2010 ? Marseille http://www.riam.info/07/ _ Upgrade! Paris http://incident.net/theupgrade/ From epk at xs4all.nl Fri Feb 26 00:36:08 2010 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Fri Feb 26 00:37:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] Live Streams Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space, Feb. 26 - 28, 10.00 -18.00 hrs. Message-ID: <181C3E52-D0EE-4C29-948C-A53D7358C827@xs4all.nl> Friday-morning, February 26, the Sonic Acts conference kicks off at De Balie in Amsterdam. The conference is sold out but you can follow all discussions on-line via: http://2010.sonicacts.com/live/ and www.debalie.nl/live Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10.00 - 18.00 CET (GMT+1) enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology 25 ? 28 February 2010, Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ? Highlights Conference The three-day conference in de Balie forms the heart of the festival. An international gathering of theorists, artists, researchers, composers and critics will reflect on their explorations of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. Keynote Derrick de Kerckhove Derrick de Kerckhove will open the conference on Friday morning with a keynote addressing the paradigm shift that has taken place in our culture on the notion of perspective, and how Point of View became Point of Being. Derrick de Kerckhove worked with Marshall McLuhan for over ten years as translator, assistant and co-author. He has published extensively on culture, technology and biology, including co-editing a book that scientifically assesses the impact of the Western alphabet on the physiology and the psychology of human cognition, and a collection of essays on the new electronic reality. Friday 26 February 2010, 10:00, de Balie http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/keynote-derrick-de-kerckhove Soundwalks, Acoustic Spaces and Field Recordings How to intensify listening to the environment? What is the importance of raising our awareness of the sounds that surround us? How do we experience and remember spaces and landscape through their sounds? How to work with field recordings, soundscape composition and sound maps? A panel with Hildegard Westerkamp, Edward Shanken & Yolande Harris and Annea Lockwood. Saturday 27 February 2010, 13:00, de Balie http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/session5-soundwalks-acoustic-spaces-and-field-recordings Gardeners of the Future In order to survive the near future, humans need to rapidly adapt to the challenges ahead. Artists will play an important role in ?gardening? the future, not only by shifting from computer technology to biology and genetic engineering, but also by starting to understand the universe as a single, large natural algorithm that needs gardening in order to function in a sustainable way. With astronomer and editor-in-chief of Leonardo, Roger Malina, the Canadian architect, artist and designer of interactive immersive environments Philip Beesley and the English writer, blogger and audiovisual artist Paul Prudence. Sunday 28 February 2010, 13:00, de Balie http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/session9-gardeners-of-the-future From helen at scansite.org Mon Feb 22 11:56:34 2010 From: helen at scansite.org (Helen Sloan) Date: Fri Feb 26 05:23:26 2010 Subject: [spectre] Steina and Woody Vasulka Presentation, Bournemouth University, UK 24th February 13.15 - 14.45 Message-ID: Apologies for cross posting Dear Colleagues and Friends Bournemouth University and SCAN Models of Practice Series Steina and Woody Vasulka Presentation Shelley Lecture Theatre Poole House Bournemouth University 24th February, 1.15 - 2.45pm All welcome. FREE Please arrive early to ensure that you get a seat Presenting only at two venues in UK in February 2010, Bournemouth University and SCAN (Models of Practice Series) are pleased to host major figures in the history of video art and electronic media, Steina and Woody Vasulka. They will show their work from the 1970s through to their recent interventions in the online platform Second Life. The two artists, who have worked together since the 1960s, have contributed enormously to the development of digital arts through a prolific body of work exploring the manipulation of electronic energy and the interrelation of sound and image. In 1971, they co-founded The Kitchen, New York with Andreas Mannik and in the same year established the first annual video festival there. Concurrently they were leaders in the development of a video art programme at the Whitney Museum. Their early collaborative efforts, produced from 1970 - 74, were primarily focussed on explorations that deconstructed the materiality of video and audio signals. In the mid 70s they collaborated with Geoffry Schier to build the first real-time, computer-controlled video processor. Since then, their work has expanded to include video installations with robotic sculptural elements and live interactive performance. Since 1980, the Vasulkas have lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), where Steina has continued her work in video, media performance, and video installation, and Woody has continued to produce work in video, three-dimensional computer graphics, and media constructions. In 1992, the Vasulkas organized Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt: Pioneers of Electronic Art, an exhibition of early electronic tools for Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, with a laserdisc interactive catalogue. The Vasulkas have been artist-in-residence at the National Center for Experiments in television (NCET), at KQED in San Francisco, and at WNET/Thirteen in New York. For further details please contact info@scansite.org or 01202 961451 I do hope that you will be able to attend With best wishes Helen Sloan Director SCAN From sarah.e.cook at sunderland.ac.uk Thu Feb 25 13:44:00 2010 From: sarah.e.cook at sunderland.ac.uk (Sarah Cook) Date: Fri Feb 26 05:23:28 2010 Subject: [spectre] SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA Message-ID: <846EF6D7-E129-4D16-8AAE-440E4B62CB59@sunderland.ac.uk> (please forward and apologies for cross postings) We have places left for our Symposium at BALTIC, organised together with the Contemporary Art Society, on March 5th. The event kicks off the AV Festival and is followed by our CRUMB book launch and openings/ performances across Newcastle and Gateshead. Do come and make a weekend of it! http://www.avfestival.co.uk Information on the symposium and how to book follows. Sarah http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/events/event/symposium- commissioning-collecting-variable-media SYMPOSIUM: COMMISSIONING AND COLLECTING VARIABLE MEDIA BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Fri 5 March, 9:00am-4:30pm Free to Contemporary Art Society's National Network Members, ?25 non- members Tickets: www.contemporaryartsociety.org or email to: nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org The work of artists who use new media art, live art and other 'variable media' is increasingly being drawn into our national public collections. Excellent models exist where major works are acquired or where artists are commissioned specifically to create works for collections. This symposium offers an opportunity to learn from pioneering institutions that have worked with artists. Keynote speaker: Benjamin Weil, Chief Curator of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial de Gijon, Spain. Other confirmed speakers include: Laura Sillars, Programmes Director, FACT; Lisa Panting, Director, Picture This; Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency; Graham Harwood, artist. Programmed by the Contemporary Art Society's National Network in partnership with CRUMB. http://www.crumbweb.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Feb 26 12:08:11 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de ([artNET}) Date: Fri Feb 26 12:09:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] netEX - calls & deadlines --> March 2010 Message-ID: <20100226120811.85601514.76673D69@192.168.0.2> netEX: calls & deadlines -->MARCH 2010 ------------------------------------- NewMediafest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne ------------------------------------- newsletter contents a) . news b) calls & deadlines --> 04 Calls: 2010 deadlines internal 29 Calls: March 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.newmediafest.org includes in March following venues --> 12 March Manipulated Image @ The Complex Santa Fe (USA) For the Action's Sake - screening event co-curated by Alysse Stepanian and Agricola de Cologne http://manipulatedimage.com/ 11 - 14 March Traverse Video Festival Toulouse/F 3 videos by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/?p=541 14 March Oslo Screen Festival - http://www.screenfestival.no Presentation CologneOFF V Agricola de Cologne's video "Silent Cry" http://movingpictures.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog?page_id=47 participates in 11 - 28 March - VideoFormes Clermont-Ferrand/F 12 - 14 March - Oslo Screen Festival Norway - ------------------------------------------------ b) Calls & deadlines ---> ------------------------------------------------ 2010: deadlines internal ------------------------------------------------ NewMediaFest'2010 has currently 4 calls running CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! - deadline 5 April 2010 Call for film & videoart 5 Years Cologne Online Film Festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907 VideoChannel - deadline 2 March 2010 [self] ~imaging - artists portraying themselves in film & video http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 NewMediaFest'2010 VideoChannel - deadline 2 April 2010 One Minute Films of OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) 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 ------------------------------------------------ March 2010 deadlines: external ------------------------------------------------ 31 March Les Ateliers de Rennes - Contemporary Art Biennale Rennes/F http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1979 31 March Time Film Festival - Lausanne/Switzerland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2076 31 March International Art Cinema Festival Bergamo/It http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2041 31 March Sardinia Film Festival Sassari-Sardinia/IT http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2035 31 March Fonlad #06-2010 - online digital art festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2087 31 March Media Poetry Competition http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1930 27 March Euganea Film Festival Padova/italy http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2005 26 March Art By Chance Festival - ultra short film festival http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2002 19 March The Eye Kea project Cork/Ireland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2067 15 March Imagine - Towards an Eco_Aesthetic - Aarhus/DK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2073 15 March Advertising Life - Azyl Short Film Fest Bratislava/SK http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2032 15 March Digital Graffiti Festival - Alys Beach - Florida/USA http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1995 14 March UAVM - Virtual Worlds http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2084 10 March DOCVILLE - Documetary Film Festival Leuven/Belgium http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1970 10 March Breizh Entropy Congress - Rennes/France http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2021 10 March Arthouse Film and Video Festival Tampa/Florida http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2063 10 March Interactive sculpture project http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1726 6 March She-Story - New Media Gallery Zadar/Croatia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2080 5 March Art Video Screening Orebro/Sweden http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1841 5 March I-Motions - Means of Emotions http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2054 5 March FILE Symposion 2010 Sao Paulo/Brazil http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2044 5 March Prix Ars Electronica Linz/Austria http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1976 5 March FILE Prix Lux Sao Paulo/Brazil http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1982 3 March Open Space/Singapore/Southeast Asia http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2096 2 March [self] ~imaging - artists portraying themselves in film and video http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 1 March Ms.Use - online platform http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2057 1 March Pocket Film Festival Paris /F http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1999 1 March Arteles Artist Residency Finland http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=2018 1 March Festival Image Contre Nature - Marseille/F http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1785 1 March - extended deadline 2nd International Video art ExhibitionTaiwan Taipeh/TW 2010 http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1753 ----------------------------------------------- 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 fc-spectre at pleintekst.nl Fri Feb 26 14:20:16 2010 From: fc-spectre at pleintekst.nl (Florian Cramer) Date: Fri Feb 26 14:13:51 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call for Applications: Piet Zwart Institute Networked Media Master Message-ID: <20100226132016.GM2023@box.lan> Piet Zwart Institute Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research Willem de Kooning Academy / Rotterdam University Netherlands Master of Media Design and Communication : Networked Media Call for Applications Application Deadline: May 1, 2010 http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media The programme is internationally known as the new media study programme at the Piet Zwart Institute. Summary We offer a Master programme focused on a critical engagement with the culture of the Internet and computer media, their artistic design, technology and theory; a small (20 students in total), English-taught, two-year full-time Master course with a multidisciplinary community of students and teachers, and a strong emphasis on personal contact and collaboration. Our students, faculty members and guests come, among others, from the USA, France, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Pakistan, Turkey, and our 24/7 studio facilities allow you to make our school your workplace. We offer a challenging programme with trimestrial thematic projects, theory sessions and a technical course. Students receive strong tutorial support with weekly individual meetings with both staff and guests. Multidisciplinarity Whether you are a graphic designer wanting to develop your digital media practice more thoroughly, an audiovisual artist interested in a more informed and self-made media practice, an architect interested in media as systems that impose social possibilities and constraints, a media activist wanting to develop both practical and theoretical tools of intervention, a computer and electronics experimenter wanting to sharpen her or his artistic concepts, a media artist/designer looking for research-oriented study in an international community of peers - this is what our programme makes possible. Programme The study programme consists of a mix of theme-based projects lead by international media artists and designers, researchers and activists, theory sessions on arts, culture and media, a continuous technical introduction into media-oriented computer programming, personal tutorials and independent study. (For more details, visit our web site http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media .) Next to practical media work, there is a strong element of critical writing for which you receive tutorial support and feedback. Subjects Some exemplary themes of our trimestrial projects are: What are open media, on- and offline? What is publishing in the digital media age? Can one build media in hardware? Can we compare urban planning to programming and map it? Can we collectively design media according to game rules? Philosophy In short, media design in this Master program strives for the creation of media, instead of creating with off-the-shelf and out-of-the-box technology. This is why Open Source is an important element of our course, philosophically and technologically. Artistic work, theoretical study and technological learning are the three core aspects of the course that often overlap and lead to each other. Faculty Our faculty members and guests are practitioners and theoreticians in digital media, art and design. This year, the faculty members include Aymeric Mansoux (core tutor, member of the GOTO10 collective, PureDyne developer), Michael Murtaugh (interaction design, computer science graduate MIT Media Lab), Stock (hardware guru, former chief developer V2_Lab), Florian Cramer (course director and research professor for art, media and communication). Regular tutors include Renee Turner and Femke Snelting (Geuzen collective), Gordan Savicic (MODDR_Labs), Roel Wouters and Luna Maurer (graphic and media designers, co-authors of the Conditional Design Manifesto), . The group of faculty members and guests varies every year, and we regularly invite external media practitioners, theoreticians and artists as guest tutors. For further information, please see http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/category/study-programme/staff/ Research Opportunities The Master course is affiliated to the international research programme Communication in a Digital Age at the Piet Zwart Institute. This project investigates the future of communication design in relation to the most current technological and social developments of media and communication. As a Masters student, you can attend all its conferences, lectures and workshops, have visiting research fellows as personal tutors, and contribute your own projects to its published research. Our past research publications include the anthologies "Software Studies" (ed. Matthew Fuller, The MIT Press) and "FLOSS + Art" (ed. Aymeric Mansoux, OpenMUTE). Information Students who will receive their Bachelor degrees in summer 2010 can already apply now. For application forms, application criteria and further information on our curriculum or public programme, please see http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/category/apply/application/ and contact Leslie Robbins: l.j.drost-robbins -at- hro.nl Piet Zwart Institute Postgraduate Studies and Research Networked Media Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University attn. Leslie Robbins P.O. Box 1272 3000 BG Rotterdam The Netherlands -- Florian Cramer, Lector Master Networked Media Research programme Communication in a Digital Age Piet Zwart Institute Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media http://pzwart.wdka.nl/communication-in-a-digital-age From epk at xs4all.nl Fri Feb 26 14:23:26 2010 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Fri Feb 26 14:24:00 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?Orakelmachine_op_de_Balie_fa=E7ade_in_e?= =?iso-8859-1?q?re_hersteld!?= Message-ID: <04275B10-D49C-494F-A1BB-29719407461A@xs4all.nl> (Engklish below) A A N K O N D I G I N G Orakelmachine - installatie voor de fa?ade van De Balie in Amsterdam gereconstrueerd. Precies op tijd voor het Sonic Acts festival dat dit weekeinde plaats vindt in De Balie en Paradiso is de fa?ade-installatie Orakelmachine van ontwerper Jeroen Joosse gereconstrueerd. Het orakel schraapt het internet op zoek naar uitspraken over de 'Poetics of Space' en zal na afloop van Sonic Acts talloze andere kwesties aansnijden. Bij intrede van de duisternis verschijnen berichten van het Orakel op de ramen van de eerste verdieping van De Balie aan het Leidse Plein van Amsterdam. www.orakelmachine.nl Over de Orakelmachine Ontwerper Jeroen Joosse ontwierp een interactieve installatie voor de fa?ade van cultureel en politiek centrum De Balie. De Orakelmachine verschijnt als projectie op vijf schermen, die vanaf 20 januari dagelijks - na zonsondergang - vanaf het Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen en Leidseplein op de ramen van de De Balie te zien is. De Orakelmachine toont een continue stroom uitspraken en meningen over maatschappelijke, politieke en culturele onderwerpen. Deze teksten komen niet uit de mond van journalisten, programmamakers, schrijvers, redacteuren of andere specialisten, maar rechtstreeks uit de virtuele publieke ruimte: het internet. De actualiteit bepaalt de onderwerpen, maar het is voor iedereen mogelijk de stroom te onderbreken en een onderwerp in te sturen per SMS, om zo zelf de gevel van De Balie te besturen. Met de hedendaagse explosie van opinie op weblogs, fora en andere plekken op het web, en de grote toegankelijkheid tot deze informatie, lijkt het klimaat voor publiek debat en individuele meningsvorming in hoogconjunctuur te zijn. Maar de versnippering is groot, net als de onverschilligheid. De Orakelmachine laat deze kakofonie zien, onderzoekt de spanning tussen diversiteit en betrokkenheid en brengt de de virtuele en de fysieke publieke ruimte dichter bij elkaar. De automatische manier waarop teksten van het internet worden gehaald en de 'bias' die hierbij gebruikt wordt - dezelfde als die van de grote zoekmachines - confronteert ons met onze informatiepraktijken: dit is wat wij schrijven, dit is wat wij lezen, dit is hoe wij nu met informatie omgaan. De onuitputtelijke stroom berichten op de schermen van de machine is een reflectie van wat allang de dagelijkse praktijk is op internet. De Orakelmachine prikkelt, draagt bij aan meningsvorming, laat onverschillig, irriteert en provoceert. En dat alles met de 'stem van de gemeenschap'. Breng uw kwestie! De offici?le presentatie van het project is op zaterdag 20 januari om 20:00 uur. Richard Rogers, onderzoeker, hoofd nieuwe media van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Media-theoreticus Eric Kluitenberg en ontwerper Jeroen Joosse geven commentaar en achtergronden bij de presentatie. Vervolgens is de Orakelmachine live in actie te zien: ook het publiek mag zoektermen aan het Orakel geven om te zien wat er op dat moment op internet over het betreffende onderwerp wordt geschreven. Met medewerking van Karel Brascamp (software ontwikkeling) en Erik Borra. Met dank aan het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. -------------------- A N N O U N C E M E N T The Oracle Machine - An installation for the fa?ade of De Balie in Amsterdam reconstructed. Just in time for the Sonic Acts festival that takes place in Amsterdam this weekend at De Balie and Paradiso, the Oracle Machine installation for the Oracle Machine installation of designer Jeroen Joosse has been reconstructed. The Oracle scrapes the internet looking for statements about the 'Poetics of Space'. After completion of Sonic Acts it will dissect countless other issues. At the fall of darkness the messages of the Oracle appear on the windows of the first floor of De Balie at the Leidse Plein. www.oraclemachine.nl About the Oracle Machine Designer Jeroen Joosse devised an interactive installation for the fa?ade De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam. The Oracle Machine consists of a five screen window projection, which can be seen daily, starting from January 20th - after sunset - from the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen and the Leidseplein on the windows De Balie. The Oracle Machine displays a continuous stream of statements and opinions about social, political, and cultural issues. These texts do not originate from journalists, editors, writers and other specialists, but come directly out of the virtual public domain of the internet. Current affairs and debates determine the issues, but it is possible for everyone to interrupt the stream and send in an issue via SMS, to (temporarily) control the fa?ade of De Balie. The explosion of opinions on weblogs, fora and other places on the net, and the increased accessibility of this information, would suggest a booming climate for public debate and individual opinion- making. However, the fragmentation is considerable, and so is indifference. The Oracle Machine visualises this cacophony. It investigates the tension between diversity and involvement, and brings the virtual and physical public spaces closer together. The automatic nature of retrieving texts from the internet, and the 'bias' used within this process - similar to the major search engines - confronts us with our information practices: this is what we write. this is what we read, this is how we deal with information today. The inexorable stream of messages on the screens of the machine constitutes a reflection of what already for a long time is daily practice on the internet. The Oracle Machine stimulates, contributes to the formation of opinions, leaves us indifferent, irritates, provokes. And all this with the 'voice of the community'. Bring Your Issue! The official presentation of the project is on Saturday January 20th at 20.00 hours. Richard Rogers, researcher and head of New Media at the University of Amsterdam, media theoretician Eric Kluitenberg and designer Jeroen Joosse will give comments and provide background to the project. Subsequently, the Oracle Machine can be seen 'live' in action: also the audience will be allowed to give search terms (issues) to the Oracle to witness what is written on the internet at this particular moment about the issue at hand. The Oracle Machine is realised with the support of Karel Brascamp (software development) Erik Borra, and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. From minx at bway.net Sat Feb 27 14:20:09 2010 From: minx at bway.net (Perry Bard) Date: Sat Feb 27 14:20:37 2010 Subject: [spectre] DIPLOMATHEQUE-FEBRUARY 27 20:00- 22:30 EST- A networked philosophic karaoke Message-ID: <42253.96.23.170.208.1267276809.squirrel@webmail.bway.net> DIPLOMATH?QUE : A philosophic karaoke beyond borders Playlist online at www.youtube.com/perrybard February 27 2010 Networked performances from 20:00 - 22:00 EST http://www.livestream.com/diplomatheque_montreal LIVE in front of the Berlin Wall at Centre de Commerce Mondial, Montreal and at Plaza Ch?, Bogot? A philosophic karaoke: Zizek and Plato in French and English in Montreal with Kathy Kennedy and le Choeur Maha choeurmaha.org/ and in Spanish in Bogot? with Alejandro Jaramillo Hoyos y Las Chicas Extraordinarias http://chicas-extra-ordinarias.blogspot.com/. Come sing! Technician for the stream: Jonathan Yu a project for ART SOUTERRAIN Perry Bard is represented by Joyce Yahouda Gallery Montreal www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net From ancelfranck at gmail.com Sat Feb 27 15:05:14 2010 From: ancelfranck at gmail.com (Ancel Franck) Date: Sat Feb 27 15:05:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] DIPLOMATHEQUE-FEBRUARY 27 20:00- 22:30 EST- A networked philosophic karaoke In-Reply-To: <42253.96.23.170.208.1267276809.squirrel@webmail.bway.net> References: <42253.96.23.170.208.1267276809.squirrel@webmail.bway.net> Message-ID: YEAH sounds great dear Perry! Franck Ancel / Paris-exil + 33 676 470 610 ancelfranck@gmail.com Le 27 f?vr. 2010 ? 14:20, "Perry Bard" a ?crit : > DIPLOMATH?QUE : A philosophic karaoke beyond borders > Playlist online at www.youtube.com/perrybard > > > > February 27 2010 > Networked performances from 20:00 - 22:00 EST > http://www.livestream.com/diplomatheque_montreal > > LIVE in front of the Berlin Wall at Centre de Commerce Mondial, > Montreal > and at Plaza Ch?, Bogot? > > A philosophic karaoke: Zizek and Plato in French and English in > Montreal > with Kathy Kennedy and le Choeur Maha choeurmaha.org/ and in > Spanish in > Bogot? with Alejandro Jaramillo Hoyos y Las Chicas Extraordinarias > http://chicas-extra-ordinarias.blogspot.com/. Come sing! > > > Technician for the stream: Jonathan Yu > > a project for ART SOUTERRAIN > Perry Bard is represented by Joyce Yahouda Gallery Montreal > > > > www.perrybard.net > http://dziga.perrybard.net > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sun Feb 28 01:01:39 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sun Feb 28 01:02:04 2010 Subject: [spectre] Zero Dollar Laptop Workshops Update. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B89B263.20301@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Zero Dollar Laptop Workshops Update. Week 6. Spraying our stencils! http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=246 The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology. Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo?s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book. The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future. Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org) http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Fri Feb 26 09:10:26 2010 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Fri Mar 19 08:24:09 2010 Subject: [spectre] Ausstellung Record > Again! Message-ID: <4B878FB7.CA9C.00AE.1@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie auf Folgendes aufmerksam machen: Record > Again! 40JAHREVIDEOKUNST.DE, Teil 2 27. Februar bis 16. Mai 2010 / 27th of February to 16th of May Er?ffnung: Freitag 26. Februar 2010, 20 Uhr / Opening: Friday, the 26 of February 2010, 20.00 Begr??ung/Words of Greeting: Martin Schumacher, Kulturdezernent Stadt Oldenburg Sabine Himmelsbach, Leiterin Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Einf?hrung/Introduction: Christoph Blase: Kurator der Ausstellung, Leiter ZKM | Labor f?r antiquierte Videosysteme Die Ausstellung *Record > Again!*, die in Kooperation mit dem ZKM | Zentrum f?r Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, dem Ludwig Forum Aachen und dem Kunsthaus Dresden entstanden ist, stellt den zweiten Teil des umfassenden Projekts *40JahreVideokunst.de* dar, das 2006 begonnen hat. Konzentrierte sich der erste Teil auf die Darstellung der wichtigsten Videokunstprojekte der vergangenen vierzig Jahre in Deutschland, wurde bei der Erarbeitung des zweiten Teils die Frage nach der Restaurierung und Archivierung des k?nstlerischen Materials in den Vordergrund gestellt. Viele der zwischen den sechziger und achtziger Jahren entstandenen Videokunstwerke sind aus dem ?ffentlichen und kunsthistorischen Fokus verschwunden, weil die Formate der Arbeiten nicht mehr abzuspielen oder die B?nder stark restaurierungsbed?rftig waren. Der Auffindung, Wiederherstellung und Digitalisierung dieser Werke widmet sich das ZKM | Labor f?r antiquierte Videosysteme, unter dessen Federf?hrung die Pr?sentation vieler bereits verloren geglaubter Arbeiten der Videokunst in beiden Teilen Deutschlands zusammengestellt wurde. So kommt es im Rahmen der Ausstellung zu einigen Erst- und zahlreichen Wiederauff?hrungen von Arbeiten von K?nstlern wie Joseph Beuys, Claus B?hmler, Klaus vom Bruch, Holger Czukay, J?rg Herold, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen, Marcel Odenbach, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Ulrich R?ckriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Peter Weibel uvm., deren (Wieder)Sichtbarmachung eine Neueinsch?tzung der Videokunstgeschichte in Deutschland nahelegt. Gef?rdert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes und das Land Niedersachsen Internationale Vermittlung durch das Goethe-Institut ************************************************************************************************* The exhibition "Record > Again!", a cooperation with the ZKM | Zentrum f?r Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Forum Aachen and the Kunsthaus Dresden, forms the second part of the comprehensive project "40JahreVideokunst.de" which started in 2006. While the first part concentrated on the most important video works during the past fourty years in Germany, the second part was mainly conceived based on the question of restauration and archiving of the material. Many of the video works of the sixties to the eighties have vanished from public and art historical focus, because the replay of its formats became technically impossible or they needed to be restored. ZKM | Laboratory for antiquated video systems has the task to find these works, restore and digitalize them. They assembled this display of important works of video art from both parts of Germany among many were thought to be lost. Therefore the exhibition is able to present some debut performances and many works which had not been shown for years by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Claus B?hmler, Klaus vom Bruch, Holger Czukay, J?rg Herold, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen, Marcel Odenbach, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Ulrich R?ckriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Peter Weibel and many more. They suggest a re-evaluation of the history of video art in Germany. Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Edith Russ Site for Media Art Peterstra?e 23 26121 Oldenburg Germany t. +49 (0)441 235 32 08 f. +49 (0)441 235 21 61 info@edith-russ-haus.de www.edith-russ-haus.de Sollten Sie keinen Newsletter mehr von uns erhalten wollen, benachrichtigen Sie uns bitte unter unserer email-Adresse: info@edith-russ-haus.de If you don*t want to receive our newsletter anymore, please contact us by email: info@edith-russ-haus.de Edith-Ru?-Haus f?r Medienkunst Edith Russ Site for Media Art Katharinenstra?e 23 D-26121 Oldenburg t. +49 (0) 441 - 235 3208 f. +49 (0) 441 - 235 2161 http://www.edith-russ-haus.de From sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net Fri Feb 26 13:05:17 2010 From: sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9bastien_Bourdeauducq?=) Date: Fri Mar 19 08:24:11 2010 Subject: [spectre] Breizh Entropy Congress (Rennes, Apr15-17): less than two weeks before deadline! Message-ID: <201002261300.41798.sebastien.bourdeauducq@lekernel.net> Hi, You have until March 10th to send us a few words on the projects or the subject that you would like to present at Breizh Entropy Congress (Rennes, France, April 15-17 2010). After your submission, we will contact you before March 20th to tell you if it is going to be part of the schedule. The schedule with the timetable will be published on March 25th. ANYONE can submit a proposal to Breizh Entropy Congress: students, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, artists, free software activists, tinkerers, hackers... on ANY subject related to free and open technologies. This congress is about eclectism! To participate, send a mail to cfp@breizh-entropy.org including the following points: - Format of the submission: lecture, workshop, installation, lightning talk, other... - Title of the submission - Name of speaker(s)/presenter(s)/artist(s) - Language (if applicable): French/English - Summary of the submission - Short bio of the speaker - Hardware/logistics requirements - Contact e-mail and (if possible) mobile phone The complete call for proposals is online: http://www.breizh-entropy.org/cfp.html Looking forward to your participation! NB! we are grateful for any kind of distribution of this info!