From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sat Jan 2 17:09:09 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Sat Jan 2 17:09:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call: CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! Message-ID: <20100102170909.27641232.87EEA6FF@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 Fideli , 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 editor at intertheory.org Fri Jan 1 15:42:45 2010 From: editor at intertheory.org (Nicholas Ruiz III) Date: Sun Jan 3 17:50:29 2010 Subject: [spectre] January 2010 on -empyre-: The Art of Complicity Message-ID: <32863.7913.qm@web304.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> happy new year -empyre- 'tis an art to complicity some say... The accepted, and then, the unacceptable? A book like -Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue,' and then, a book like 'The Coming Insurrection'; an altar panel like Martini's 'Annunciation',and then a piece like Dali's ink drawing from 1956, 'Annunciation'...transgression of the boundaries of our assent and complicity, in our creative practices, in our lives, and in our immortalities...Handel's 'Messiah' and Trent Reznor's 'The Hand that Feeds'...what difference some centuries make, and how we do walk the walk, and talk the talk, no? Where do we place our pessimisms, our hopes, or educations in rebellion, our acceptances? Do our arts and lives straddle the commercial horse of enterprise with an infirmity? Enter the gauntlet or throw it down? Perhaps the stakes are less than this? It's January 2010. On the one hand, let us not take ourselves too seriously in what Sam Sparrow has aptly called our 21st century life - but on the other hand, let's not sell ourselves short. Where Fukuyama once declared history's end, Baudrillard reclaimed 'l'illusion de la fin.' We proceed with the full gravity of events - and the dark matter and energy of non-events as thought and theory. In other words, what is the enduring love and art of complicity? our guests: Gerry Coulter is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bishop?s University in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. He is editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including 'Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity.' Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of 'Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit.' Jon Haber is an editor and writer living in New York. Pleas join us: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D Co-Moderator, -empyre- NRIII for Congress 2010 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html ____________________________________ Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jan 4 09:25:31 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (artNET) Date: Mon Jan 4 09:26:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100104092532.89CE367F.B9211080@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Media/Art/Cologne is happy to announce NewMediaFest'2010 - 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - global heritage of digital culture, a festival context starting on 1 January 2010 and ending on 31 December 2010 online and in physical space. Initiated 10 years ago by the Cologne based media artist Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, the project of the global network, entitled: [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - developed from a small Internet based art piece to a global wide acting context of digital art creation - spread on a variety of project platforms dedicated to different types of contents and art media. just to mention some--> A Virtual Memorial Foundation, JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art, VideoChannel Cologne, SoundLAB Cologne, CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, Cinematheque - streaming media projects. Please download the PDF for more details http://downloads.nmartproject.net/2010_The-Network_Wilfried-Agricola-de-Cologne.pdf NewMediaFest'2010 takes the chance of the 10th anniversary to initiate during one year new projects and cooperations on all network platforms, as well as spotlighting the most important projects realised during 10 years in an exchange between virtual and physical space, including more than 2000 artists, curators, organisations and institutions, the pioneering decade of new forms of contemporary art. Many of the projects to be spotlighted received prizes ansd awards and were presented on the most relevant festival and exhibition contexts worldwide. As a media art project itself, the global network started already years before Web2.0 was invented, still successfully running social online contexts which were, differently than Facebook & Co open not only to networking creators, but also available to the entire online audience without any restrictions. The global network incorporates a variety of diffferent types of art media, related projects and platforms, whereby Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is acting in different identities as an initiator, festival director, curator, programmer, multi-media developer, artist, and many more. NewMediaFest'2010 is organised as a networked festival context, which is coordinated online in form of a blog journal, displaying and announcing daily new program features online and physical events. However, the festival is not completely scheduled in all details, yet, until its end on 31 December 2010, so there is sufficient time and space for experimenting, new and additional initiatives, virtual and physical projects and collaborations during the coming year. Please download the PDF for more details http://downloads.nmartproject.net/NewMediaFest2010.pdf A special hightlight of the festival year will represent the 5th anniversary of CologneOFF --> CologneOFF VI - Let?s Celebrate! - 6th Cologne Online Film Festival which is planned as a networked event to be launched in September 2010, including a networked jury, consisting 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 Fideli , 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) Please download the PDF for more details http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF6_entryform.pdf During the first month - January 2010 - following features are expected to be launched --> 1. CologneOFF V - Features for One Day on VAD - Video Art Database 2. VideoChannel - French Video Art 3. JavaMuseum - start of the netart features of JavaMuseum Journal - Celebrate! 4. Cinematheque - launch of Flash & Thunder - Flash as a tool and Medium for artistic creations 5 On 27 January 2010 - 65th Return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz - A Virtual Memorial Foundation & VideoChannel will launch SFC - Shoah Film Collection and related program components Please check the program features online on http://2010.newmediafest.org At the start of NewMediaFest'2010, its partners are Videoart Festival Miden (Greece), Oslo Screen Festival (Norway) BuSho - Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Hungary) Art Video Screening Orebro (Sweden), Video Art World Barcelona (Spain) Visual Container Milan (Italy), Video Festival Cairo (Egypt) Manipulated Image Santa Fe /New Mexico (USA) more to come, yet. ------------------------------------------------------------- [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne experimental platform for art and new media http://www.nmartproject.net CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- From joris at v2.nl Mon Jan 4 14:24:12 2010 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Mon Jan 4 14:26:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter January 2010 Message-ID: <4B41EBFC.9080004@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter January 2010 ? And a happy New Year! V2_ wishes all of its readers and visitors a wonderful 2010. We will kick start 2010 with two exhibition openings and we hope to see you there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crisis: a non-economic approach Exhibition: Jan 7?10 and 14?17, 2010 12:00?18:00 | Admission: free | Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam V2_ presents the Media Technology MSc Exhibition by the students of the Leiden University. The Media Technology MSc program encourages students to formulate their own scientific questions and to translate their personal inspiration and curiosity into their research projects. This has resulted in six media art installations. The theme of this year?s semester project exhibition is ?crisis.? Official opening: January 7 at 17:00 by Michel van Dartel http://www.v2.nl/events/crisis -------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Skin ? Maurice Benayoun Installation/Exhibition: Jan 22?Feb 7, 2010 Open daily from 13:00?19:00 | Admission ?3,- | Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam In parallel to the 39th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, V2_ presents /World Skin: A Photo Safari in the Land of War/, an installation by the French artist Maurice Benayoun. A visit to /World Skin/ is a poignant experience. Armed with a camera, visitors are placed in a war zone that is visualized on a large projection screen in 3D animation and video. Opening in the presence of the artist: January 22 at 17:30 by Alex Adriaansens http://www.v2.nl/events/world-skin/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Online Archive As another step in the ongoing development of a new approach to online archiving V2_ has released the extended view option on its regular website. Visitors who press the arrow symbol next to an item on the V2_website will now see all related articles, people and organizations, edited and structured by the archivist rather than by the computer. http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-intimate-interfaces/view_expanded We also started presenting our collection of videos from past events and works at the website. You can find the ever-growing collection at: http://www.v2.nl/files/retrospective From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Jan 4 14:32:46 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Jan 4 14:33:13 2010 Subject: [spectre] We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion. In-Reply-To: <4B41EBFC.9080004@v2.nl> References: <4B41EBFC.9080004@v2.nl> Message-ID: <4B41EDFE.5050401@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Review by Rob Myers. We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar Scribner Book Company, December 2009 ISBN 1439116830 "We Feel Fine - An Almanac Of Human Emotion" is a hardback book that in just under 300 pages of well designed montages, data visualisations, diagrams, illustrations and text presents and analyses the data gathered by the We Feel Fine project. Started in 2005 and launched in early 2006 by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, We Feel Fine is based around a database assembled using a webcrawler that searches the blogosphere for statements of the form "I feel" or "I feel like". Any matches are stored along with as much contextual data as the webcrawler can find (a photograph nearby in the blog post, the poster's age, gender, and location, local weather). The database contained twelve million such entries by the time the book was published. Harris and Kamvar are admirably candid in laying out the history, methodology, technology and in the case of the book's production even the finances of their project. The code listings included in the book are tantalising glimpses into how the We Feel Fine server works, allowing a rare chance for students and artists to study such a system, and are licenced under the GPLv3. The book is under the obscure but principled Creative Commons "Founders Copyright" licence which will automatically expire the copyright on the book in twenty years time. This is all invaluable for critique and study of the project by artists, academics and anyone with an interest in art and technology, and more artists should do it. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=371 -------------> 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 info at transfera.es Mon Jan 4 15:48:01 2010 From: info at transfera.es (info@transfera.es) Date: Mon Jan 4 15:48:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] TRANSFERA TV PROGRAM & MADATAC AUDIO VISUAL ART FESTIVAL CALL Message-ID: <4B41FFA1.7080602@transfera.es> The TRANSFERA VIDEO ART TV (www.transfera.es/programa37.html) and MADATAC AUDIO VISUAL MOSTRA (www.madatac.es) call for 2010 is open. It is left open without restrictions the call to select, by means of a criteria in which will be valued particularly the quality, the experimentation, the innovation and the risk, the creations of all those audio-visual artists who wish that their works are promoted and broadcasted through a weekly and independent program of television broadcasted at La Central Digital/Canal Autor, a cable channel based in Madrid, Spain (Abd?n Terradas n?4, 28015). The content of the tv program Transfera is exclusively dedicated to divulgue videoart in all its modalities (any processes of image-sound interaction, without exclusion of the experimental cinema), with the aim to disclose to the great public a view of the consolidated videoartists and offer a platform for all those emergent videoartists with a future projection who contribute with renewing proposals, avoid conventional visual language and does not find their place in other mass media spaces. Due to the difficult challenge that supposes to raise a project of this spread, destined essentially to compensate the well-known mediatic absence, in this first stage of non-profit test and consolidation of Transfera, the relation with the artists will be based on a principle of promotion and visibility, a guideline directed to strengthen the sustainability of the program. Once assured the continuity, a remuneration will be agreed with the selected participants. There is no deadline nor restrictions for the age of the participants or for the amount of material desired to send. All the participants can also send a brief promotional video about themselves and their work (not more than 4 minutes long), that will be included within the program as a presentation of their art. The interested must send their works in a PAL DVD or video format mpeg or mov uncompressed files, (720x576 resolution, preferably 16:9, but 4:3 is also accepted), with an acceptable quality for broadcasting, an jpg image of the video, a brief CV with their personal data, contact and a signed permission form to: TRANSFERA C/Galeno 41 28232 Las Rozas-Madrid (SPAIN). Transfera cannot return the sent material. However, all the received material will enter, unless the authors express the contrary, in the selection for the II Edition of MADATAC, the Open Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Art that Transfera Media Arts will organize in Madrid, Spain, on December 2010. This event will serve to prize the best videos emitted in the program during this time among the selected participants as a compensation for their support. Also, it will be again an opportunity to watch and enjoy the most experimental and innovative audio visual creations, to meet the artist's and the scholar's of the future, to buy brand new video art pieces and to learn what is really moving this particular artistic discipline. In the case that the piece is selected, Transfera will send a submission form with the agreement for broadcast permission and rights clearance to be signed by you. Participation in this project implies the acceptance of its rules. You will find all the information about both call's at www.transfera.es To receive more information on the call please write to: info@transfera.es From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Tue Jan 5 10:45:02 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Tue Jan 5 10:45:48 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day005 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100105104502.DCCC19A4.825D9439@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 Day 005 program - 5 January 2010 1. VAD - Video Art Database VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection start of "features for one day" during the coming weeks--> today: ONCE, 2009, 2:11 by Renata Padovan (Brazil) 2. VAD - Video Art Database CologneOFF V - features for one day today: ?tude red and blue, 2009, 3:31 by Vladimir Mitrev (Bulgaria) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=131 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 004 program - 4 January 2010 - highlight Launch of French Video Art on VideoChannel Cologne featuring videos by Antony Rousseau, Frank Gatti, Jean-Gabriel P?riot + Tom de P?kin, Jean-Gabriel P?riot, Tom de P?kin, Laurent Pernot, Matthieu Capel, Jimmy Owenns, Melanie Perrier, Les Riches Douaniers, Virginie Foloppe, Isabelle Schneider http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=121 ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jan 6 08:45:48 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Wed Jan 6 08:46:35 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day005 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100106084548.31416AD1.97EB5E1A@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 006 program - 6 January 2010 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. VideoChannel - French Video Art "features for one day" during the coming 16 days --> today: Visualcut, 2006, 1:10 by Anthony Rousseau (France) 2. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection "features for one day" during the coming weeks --> today: Maneater, 2009, 3:04 by John Criscitello (USA) 3. CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival today: Anomia, 2008, 4:51 by Nuria Fragoso (Mexico) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=139 ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From paul at paul-brown.com Wed Jan 6 11:11:20 2010 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Wed Jan 6 11:13:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] CAS - Major 2010 event - February 3-5 - London Message-ID: <6FC6F2A3-B2B9-4B49-A62B-6046B31EBE08@paul-brown.com> The BCS Computer Arts Society SG is pleased to announce a special three-day event to launch our Spring 2010 programme. It begins on 3 February with a one-day symposium at the BCS including a free public talk that evening by keynote speaker Brian Reffin Smith and continues with a two-day conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Note that the Kinetica Art Fair will also be on in London from 4-7 February: http://www.kinetica-artfair.com/ 3 February - Ideas Before Their Time ? 9-6pm at BCS London HQ followed by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 7:00 4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A The symposium and conference both need to be booked in advance. The CAS evening talk is open to the public and free but an RSVP is necessary. And sorry this is such a long post! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 3 February 9:00 - 6:00 & 7:00 - 8:30 pm Ideas Before Their Time Connecting the past and the present in Computer Art BCS London HQ, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA http://www.bcs.org/upload/img/londonssbw.jpg In conjunction with the Computer Arts Society, the CAT Project (Computer Art & Technocultures) is presenting a symposium at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden. Many intriguing concepts have emerged in Computer Art over the past 50 years. Some have been brought to light in the archives examined by the CAT and CACHe Projects. Speakers from all areas of Computer Art, including practitioners, curators and historians, will discuss the past, present and future of this area. Go to http://www.technocultures.org.uk/symposium.html to view the programme and book a place. 6:00 Drinks Reception ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30 for 7:00 - Public Talk BCS London HQ - as above Free but RSVP necessary to paul_brown@mac.com Speaker: Brian Reffin Smith Title: Post Computer Art ? Ontological Undecidability and the Cat with Paint on its Paws. It is argued that an active re-visiting of computer based artworks from the last 60 or so years is essential to any progress of today?s work towards an activity that pushes at the frontiers of contemporary art. We need to open up the history, works, techniques and discourses of computer based art to enable a revolution to occur ? that of rendering the art problematic and ?difficult?: then new solutions will emerge. It is suggested that whilst conceptual art was busy doing just this, computer based art was rushing madly in the opposite direction, trying in a reformist manner to make things easier, simpler. Derrida, ?Pataphysics, Schr?dinger?s cat and the living dead may well be brought into play. Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, performer and teacher. He was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and ?state of the art? technology, which might merely produce ?state of the technology? art. He is a French civil servant, having been invited to work for their Ministry of Culture. Smith, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nike, in Linz in 1987, is a Regent of the College of 'Pataphysics, Paris, holding the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy. He is Professeur, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure d'Art, Bourges, France. Areas of work, research, teaching and performance include the idea of the philosophical Zombie in art and elsewhere, and the d?tournement or ?hijacking? of systems, mechanisms, programs etc. to make art. He became a Zombie, after a short illness, in 1999. http://www.zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 4 & Friday 5 February 10.00-17.30 each day Decoding the Digital Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum A rare opportunity to hear a dialogue between contemporary digital practice and historical collections within the world of digital and computer generated art and design. Speakers include artist Frieder Nake and writer Edward Shanken, with theorists Charlie Gere and Beryl Graham. There will be an in-conversation between Paul Brown and his son Daniel Brown. Other contributors include the collector Michael Spalter, the writer and artist Anne Morgan Spalter, plus Louise Shannon (V&A) and Shane Walter (Director, onedotzero), co-curators of the V&A exhibition Decode, and Douglas Dodds, one of the curators of the V&A display Digital Pioneers. ?50, ?40 concessions, ?10 students for two days ?25, ?20 concessions, ?5 students for one day Further details and bookings: http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html#decoding In collaboration with Birkbeck College, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues: 2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 6 April - Tina Gonsalves ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 4 May - visit to Goldsmith?s College Maths & Art Archive organised by Janis Jefferies 14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics 14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From epk at xs4all.nl Wed Jan 6 11:51:30 2010 From: epk at xs4all.nl (Eric Kluitenberg) Date: Wed Jan 6 11:52:00 2010 Subject: [spectre] ElectroSmog - International Festival for Sustainable Immobility, March 18-20, 2010 - First General Announcement Message-ID: <4F3F2901-595F-41DB-9CB4-D2AEFE1BD957@xs4all.nl> A N N O U N C E M E N T ElectroSmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne March 18 ? 20, 2010 www.electrosmogfestival.net About the Festival: ElectroSmog is a new festival that explores the concept ?Sustainable Immobility? in theory and practice. Sustainable Immobility is first of all a critique of the growing global crisis of mobility. Current forms of hyper-mobility of people and products in travel and transport are ecologically increasingly unsustainable. The will to slow down, however, seems thoroughly absent. The economic crisis may have temporarily slowed matters down, long term projections still point towards exponential growth of worldwide mobility and exploding energy needs. Alternatives for the current state of hyper-mobility need to be designed urgently. The exploration of Sustainable Immobility is a quest for a lifestyle less determined by speed and constant mobility. A lifestyle that celebrates stronger links to local cultures, while at the same time deepening our connections to others across any geographical divide by means of new communication technologies, instead of physical travel. The ElectroSmog festival will engage one of the main promises information age: that communication technologies can replace the need for physical mobility and thereby contribute directly to ecological stability. Our increased tele-connections would lead to a more rewarding deep local lifestyle (homework in the electronic cottage) and to richer connected experiences with the rest of the world (the global village). While these promises have existed since the dawn of the information age, they were never fully realised. The expanding mobility and energy crisis requires us, however, to re-examine these promises and find out how to turn them into viable life-style choices. ElectroSmog will not take the underlying premises of the information age for granted. We want to ask questions such as: Are increased electronic connections truly more energy efficient and ecologically sustainable? Do they lead to new forms of electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog)? How can the revitalisation of the local be combined with a responsible global consciousness? How can remote connections become a truly rewarding experience in and of themselves? Technology alone is never the answer. We are looking for both technological and non-technological solutions to the central question of the festival: How can a sustainably immobile way of life be achieved? 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. 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. No Travel Allowed! Connecting the Local Off-Line with the International On-Line: The very concept of an international festival and its traditional conventions has been rethought and redesigned from the ground up. This has lead us to a few basic ground rules that will apply for all festival events: - 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. A network of accomplished cultural and new media centres, labs, theatres and other public venues work together to create the local ?hubs? that will inter-connect on-line for the festival. 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 one the central concerns the festival will address. Themes explored during the festival include: - Global Views on the Crisis of Mobility - The Promise of Ubiquity: Being everywhere at once, while staying home - Designing for Immobility - The Changing Path of Food to our Kitchen Table: Food and Global Mobility - Do-It-Yourself Telematics: Technologies for everybody else - Aesthetics of Distributed Space - ElectroSmog is Good for You! - Tyrannies of the Real-Time - Going Slow: Private Agency Towards a Sustainable Immobility The preliminary festival program will be published on February 1st. Updates on festival preparations and news will be published at the festival news-blog and website at: www.electrosmogfestival.net International Design Competition ElectroSmog has initiated its own design competition for young designers, artists, students, and professionals to come up with design scenario?s, life-style proposals, prototypes or demo-designs for sustainable immobility. The competition invites proposals, scenario studies, demos, prototypes or other innovative ideas to in response to the question: How can we design sustainable immobility? The winner will be awarded eternal fame and a fully equipped residency, generously hosted by the Banff New Media Institute, to execute her or his ideas. For details please refer to: http://electrosmogblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/electrosmog-international-design-competition/ Technology Transfer and Content Follow-up: ElectroSmog will make extensive use of existing and open source technologies that will be integrated in a re-useable web environment, developed in collaboration with the Cool Mediators Foundation and De Balie in Amsterdam. The technical processes will be documented in a post-festival documentation workshop organised with the innovative Floss Manuals organisation, resulting in a freely downloadable manual and a print on demand publication available from the Floss Manuals website. The outcomes of the discussions, debates and theoretical seminars will lead to an international follow-up publication, currently under negotiation and planned for the Fall of 2010. ElectroSmog Partner Organisations De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam ADA ? Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, New Zealand. Eyebeam ? Art + Technology Center, New York. Banff New Media Institute, Banff. Medialab Prado, Madrid. RIXC ? Centre for New Media Culture, Riga. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. m-cult- centre for new media culture, Helsinki. REFRAMES, Munich Hivos ? Humanist Institute for development Cooperation, The Netherlands. Floss Manuals ? Free Manuals for Free Software, (international network). Engage! Tactical Media, Utrecht. Cool Mediators Foundation, Amsterdam. Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam ________ Further enquiries can be directed at: info [AT] electrosmogfestival.net From hatam at drfz.de Wed Jan 6 18:43:41 2010 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Wed Jan 6 18:44:17 2010 Subject: [spectre] Adam Hyde artist presentation at NK in Berlin Friday 8, January 2010 at 19:00 Message-ID: <380-22010136174341531@M2W119.mail2web.com> Friday 8th January 2010 at 19:00 Adam Hyde Artist Presentation at NK Adam is an artist with an international practice who works with software, online audio and video, sound art, new technologies and more traditional forms of broadcast. He has also gained extensive management experience, having managed the radio station Contact89FM (Hamilton, New Zealand) and held the position of CEO for 95bFM (Auckland, New Zealand). Adam also established and managed New Zealand???s first community television station, Static TV. Adam has also worked at management level internationally in the IT sector as Business Development Manager at Australias Virtual Artists (Adelaide, Australia), as well as managing the Software and Web Development departments at the renown Dutch Internet Service Provider XS4ALL (Amsterdam). In addition to management experience in the IT sector Adam has an established reputation as a free software programmer. Adam has developed several free software applications including the FrequencyClock , and ReCo(de)R. Adam is an active member of the free software development group DYNE and is co-founder of the Open Source Streaming Alliance. In late 2002 Adam also started his own consultancy ??? The Streaming Suitcase ??? specialising in online audio and video training and system design for cultural institutions. Clients have included Tate Modern, the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, USA, The Virtual Arts Network (an initiative of the Asia Society, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New England Foundation for the Arts, SF MOMA, and the Walker Art Centre), The Science Musem in London, the Foundation for Film, Art and Creative Technology ??? FACT, and Montevideo. In 2006 Adam also formed the group SIMPEL and has exhibited the Paper Cup Telephone Network (San Francisco Exploratorium, 21Grand Gallery Oakland, and ISEA 2006) and Wifio which was premi??red at Waves (Riga, 2006). Earlier in the year Adam attended residencies in New Zealand, Latvia, and Slovenia. In 2006 Adam also curated a series of panel discussions about the future of television for the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In 2007 Adam founded FLOSS Manuals Stichting for the development of a collaborative platform for manuals on free software. The project has been awarded a grant from Digitale Pioneers (Amsterdam) and Adam is currently working developing the platform at FLOSS Manuals. In 2008 FLOSS manuals won the New Zealand Open Source Award. More info on Adam and his work: http://www.radioqualia.net/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam/ www.nkprojekt.de Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange From play at ubermorgen.com Wed Jan 6 22:50:09 2010 From: play at ubermorgen.com (UBERMORGEN.COM) Date: Wed Jan 6 22:52:30 2010 Subject: [spectre] UM.SEASON 10 - kick off in Jerusalem Message-ID: <15C107D8-31E4-485B-97B3-8C0711BB6ECD@ubermorgen.com> headliner. Superenhanced talk & performance ein karem israel wed 06.01.10, 2000h (ups, missed it!) http://www.mamuta.org - announcement attached produced by sala-manca, lea mauas & diego rotman (thank you. no, thank you!) http://sala-manca.net ALL NEW: Superenhanced Generator v2.0 - http://superenhanced.com dontbescaredtoreadthisitsjustprivatebusinessbubbles. we already know the new word of 2020. it is excitement. so relax, this will be a year full of inneresting things happening around you - and you missing all of them if you decide to do so if depression will remain your choice of a lifeform. but if you go have some kids, they will take so much time from you, you don't even have time and energy to develop a proper clinical psychosis (courtesy of billie and lola). billie is dropping out of school at the sweet age of 6 years, homeschooling now for a few weeks, then we either send her off to some english prep school or leave her in a playful leftist anarchist learning environment. lola will be moving up to the kindergarten group (leaving toddler day care forever behind) and in the meantime just tries to get herself killed in various ways - at the moment she counts 10 infected mosquito bites on her cheek (israelis still deny the existence of winter mosquitos, fukcing undercover warfare techniques), then she got 2 finger broken by a radicalized jewished settler kid - but she avoided burning her fingers into coals and did not touch the glowing steel barrel at the al mahatta gallery in ramallah. thanks lola. the big ones try to squeeze in some work in between solving world problems and sibling terrorist interventions. if you read the above listings you realize what great entertainment we are willing to offer to the world, and we have big plans and tons of "activities" for this year-2010-sweathearts. some stuff. The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts Amsterdam http://www.nimk.nl distributes ALL videos by UBERMORGEN.COM with immediate effect http://catalogue.nimk.nl/artist.php?id=15512 Superenhanced Performance Tate Modern London UK Superenhanced Performance Cabaret Voltaire Zurich http://bit.ly/JfXS6 Superenhanced Photos & Video MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. http://ipnic.org/superenhanced Heb2.tv - hebron westbank/palestine performance - http://www.heb2.tv FACT Liverpool Exhibition: Space Invaders: Art in the Video-Game Environment http://fact.co.uk/2009/space-invaders http://ubermorgen.com/CHINESE_GOLD PIXXELPOINT 2009 ? 10th International New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica ? Gorizia Once Upon a Time in the West curated by Domenico Quaranta, Black 'n white http://ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite AMBER Festival Istanbul, Abud Efendi Istanbul (un)Cyborgable Psych|OS Cycle http://ubermorgen.com/psychos ELECTRO_ONLINE exhibition, The Sound of eBay http://www.electrofringe.net/2009/electroonline/ SHARE festival Torino - The Sound of eBay - http://www.toshare.it VIDEOMEDEJA 2009 - http://videomedeja.org - The Sound of eBay this is a magazine - amazon noir vice magazine - interview art review - review flash art - interview see this sound ad magazine spain ten theses about software art by florian cramer http://ubermorgen.com/manifesto UM.BOOK: MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART & UBERMORGEN.COM http://ubermorgen.com/books (order via amazon) bezalel academy of arts and design east-jerusalem israel lecture 29.12.09 art academy ramallah westbank/palestine lecture 04.01.10 university of pyongyang north-korea lecture 15.03.10 university of sao paulo brazil lecture 26.02.2009 jury stuttgarter filmwinter media art award jury 21-24.01.10 art academy linz lecture 20.01.10 rotterdam film festival - Superenhanced V1E1 R&D woppow project nairobi kenya E-Tribal cluj rumania woppow project NiMK Amsterdam AiR 2010 Doublethink project folly.co.uk / AND, UGI project commission havanice day fukc yeah! hans && lizvlx, billie-ada, lola-mae -- snip -- release: UBERMORGEN.COM x-mas mixtape meat&sugar by wendy http://ubermorgen.com/2007/mixtapes/ This_Must_Be_Wrong_Mix_Tape_by_Wendy.mp3 -- snip -- ??? ????? 6 ?????? ???? 20:00 UBERMORGEN.COM ?????? 1999-2009 + ???????? : Superenhanced Generator ??????? ????? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ???, ??? ??? ??? ?????? ??????? ???????????? UBERMORGEN.COM ???? ??-??? ??????? ???? ??????, ?????? ???? ???????? ?????? ????? ????????? ????????. ???? ?????? ?? UBERMORGEN.COM ???? ????? ???????????, ?????-?????, ????-???????, ????? ????, net.art, ????? ????????? ???????. ????? ????? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????? ????? ??????. ??? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ????? ?????, ??????? ?? ???????? ??????? ??????????, ???????? ??????? ???????. ???, ??? ???? ?????? ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ???, ?????? ????? Sala-Manca ???? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ?? ????? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ?? ??????? Superenhanced. UBERMORGEN??? ?????????? ???????? ????? ????? ?????, ???? ???????? ????? ?? ?????? ???? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ???????? ?? ???? ??? 1999: The Election Trilology, Vote-Auction, GWEI, the Generator Tetralogy. ???? ???? ????? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? ???????? : Superenhanced, ????? ????????, ????? ?????, ??????? ?????? - Superenhanced Generator. ?? ????? ?? ????? ????, ?? ????? ???????? ????, ?? ?????????? ?????? ??? ??????? ???????? ?????? ?? ??????? ??? ??????? ????? ??????? ???? Ars Electronica (Austria), ARCO (Spain) ,Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria), Laboral Gijon (Spain), SFMOMA (USA), Transmediale Berlin Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), Mumok Vienna (Austria). ????? ????? ?????? ??????????, ???? ???. ??? ????? ?6 ?????? ???? 20:00, ?????? ??????, ??? ???. ???????: 17, 17?., ?? ??? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ??????? ??????. ????? ?????? ???? ??????. ??? ?????: 10 ? http://superenhanced.com http://ipnic.org/superenhanced http://ubermorgen.com/EKMRZ_Trilogy http://gwei.org http://ipnic.org/Generator_Tetralogy http://ipnic.org http://vote-auction.net http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de img: Superenhanced S1E1, 2009, Inkjet on Paper 55x55cm, http:// ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html Wednesday 6th January, at 20:00 UBERMORGEN Works 1999-2009 + Performance: Superenhanced Generator Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center, Madregot Habikur St 58, Ein Karem UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities ? controversial and iconoclastic ? of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. the permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one?s working materials that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). ?Ubermorgen? is the German word both for ?the day after tomorrow? and ?super- tomorrow?. http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM In the lecture they will present some of their past projects 1999-2009 and focusing also in the current project they are working on ?superenhanced? . An UBERMORGEN.COM lecture split into two. The first part of the talk will focus on their oeuvre 1999-2009 featuring main projects such as The Election Trilogy including ote-Auction, the EKMRZ Trilogy including GWEI and the Generator Tetralogy with the 2001 Injunction Generator. The second part of the lecture will focus on their 2008-09 research-project ?Superenhanced? dealing with Enhanced Interrogations (torture), Child Imprisonment, Extraordinary Renditions, Supermax (high-security prisons) and the interrogation- software ?Superenhanced Generator?. They will to tell you about the research, the methodology, the terminology, their artistic approach, the technology, the performances and the personal aspects of this project. http://superenhanced.com http://ipnic.org/superenhanced http://ubermorgen.com/EKMRZ_Trilogy http://gwei.org http://www.ipnic.org/Generator_Tetralogy http://ipnic.org http://vote-auction.net http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de entrance fee: 10 nis -- snip -- Special thanks to BM:UKK Ministry of Culture Austria, Pro Helvetia, BAK Bundesamt fuer Kultur Schweiz, City of Vienna, Migros- Kulturprozent, Austrian and Swiss Embassies in Israel, Argentina, Korea, Kenya, Brazil, UK, Rumania, Spain, Istanbul, NiMK Amsterdam, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, lo-res.org, Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Interspace Sofia, AltArt Cluj, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Domenico Quaranta, Laagencia Madrid, Sala-Manca Diego&Lea, Mamuta.org and Wendy. (bow) From play at ubermorgen.com Wed Jan 6 22:50:09 2010 From: play at ubermorgen.com (UBERMORGEN.COM) Date: Wed Jan 6 22:52:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] UM.SEASON 10 - kick off in Jerusalem Message-ID: <15C107D8-31E4-485B-97B3-8C0711BB6ECD@ubermorgen.com> headliner. Superenhanced talk & performance ein karem israel wed 06.01.10, 2000h (ups, missed it!) http://www.mamuta.org - announcement attached produced by sala-manca, lea mauas & diego rotman (thank you. no, thank you!) http://sala-manca.net ALL NEW: Superenhanced Generator v2.0 - http://superenhanced.com dontbescaredtoreadthisitsjustprivatebusinessbubbles. we already know the new word of 2020. it is excitement. so relax, this will be a year full of inneresting things happening around you - and you missing all of them if you decide to do so if depression will remain your choice of a lifeform. but if you go have some kids, they will take so much time from you, you don't even have time and energy to develop a proper clinical psychosis (courtesy of billie and lola). billie is dropping out of school at the sweet age of 6 years, homeschooling now for a few weeks, then we either send her off to some english prep school or leave her in a playful leftist anarchist learning environment. lola will be moving up to the kindergarten group (leaving toddler day care forever behind) and in the meantime just tries to get herself killed in various ways - at the moment she counts 10 infected mosquito bites on her cheek (israelis still deny the existence of winter mosquitos, fukcing undercover warfare techniques), then she got 2 finger broken by a radicalized jewished settler kid - but she avoided burning her fingers into coals and did not touch the glowing steel barrel at the al mahatta gallery in ramallah. thanks lola. the big ones try to squeeze in some work in between solving world problems and sibling terrorist interventions. if you read the above listings you realize what great entertainment we are willing to offer to the world, and we have big plans and tons of "activities" for this year-2010-sweathearts. some stuff. The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts Amsterdam http://www.nimk.nl distributes ALL videos by UBERMORGEN.COM with immediate effect http://catalogue.nimk.nl/artist.php?id=15512 Superenhanced Performance Tate Modern London UK Superenhanced Performance Cabaret Voltaire Zurich http://bit.ly/JfXS6 Superenhanced Photos & Video MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. http://ipnic.org/superenhanced Heb2.tv - hebron westbank/palestine performance - http://www.heb2.tv FACT Liverpool Exhibition: Space Invaders: Art in the Video-Game Environment http://fact.co.uk/2009/space-invaders http://ubermorgen.com/CHINESE_GOLD PIXXELPOINT 2009 ? 10th International New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica ? Gorizia Once Upon a Time in the West curated by Domenico Quaranta, Black 'n white http://ubermorgen.com/BlacknWhite AMBER Festival Istanbul, Abud Efendi Istanbul (un)Cyborgable Psych|OS Cycle http://ubermorgen.com/psychos ELECTRO_ONLINE exhibition, The Sound of eBay http://www.electrofringe.net/2009/electroonline/ SHARE festival Torino - The Sound of eBay - http://www.toshare.it VIDEOMEDEJA 2009 - http://videomedeja.org - The Sound of eBay this is a magazine - amazon noir vice magazine - interview art review - review flash art - interview see this sound ad magazine spain ten theses about software art by florian cramer http://ubermorgen.com/manifesto UM.BOOK: MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART & UBERMORGEN.COM http://ubermorgen.com/books (order via amazon) bezalel academy of arts and design east-jerusalem israel lecture 29.12.09 art academy ramallah westbank/palestine lecture 04.01.10 university of pyongyang north-korea lecture 15.03.10 university of sao paulo brazil lecture 26.02.2009 jury stuttgarter filmwinter media art award jury 21-24.01.10 art academy linz lecture 20.01.10 rotterdam film festival - Superenhanced V1E1 R&D woppow project nairobi kenya E-Tribal cluj rumania woppow project NiMK Amsterdam AiR 2010 Doublethink project folly.co.uk / AND, UGI project commission havanice day fukc yeah! hans && lizvlx, billie-ada, lola-mae -- snip -- release: UBERMORGEN.COM x-mas mixtape meat&sugar by wendy http://ubermorgen.com/2007/mixtapes/ This_Must_Be_Wrong_Mix_Tape_by_Wendy.mp3 -- snip -- ??? ????? 6 ?????? ???? 20:00 UBERMORGEN.COM ?????? 1999-2009 + ???????? : Superenhanced Generator ??????? ????? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ???, ??? ??? ??? ?????? ??????? ???????????? UBERMORGEN.COM ???? ??-??? ??????? ???? ??????, ?????? ???? ???????? ?????? ????? ????????? ????????. ???? ?????? ?? UBERMORGEN.COM ???? ????? ???????????, ?????-?????, ????-???????, ????? ????, net.art, ????? ????????? ???????. ????? ????? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????? ????? ??????. ??? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ????? ?????, ??????? ?? ???????? ??????? ??????????, ???????? ??????? ???????. ???, ??? ???? ?????? ???? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ???, ?????? ????? Sala-Manca ???? ?? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????????? ?? ????? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ?? ??????? Superenhanced. UBERMORGEN??? ?????????? ???????? ????? ????? ?????, ???? ???????? ????? ?? ?????? ???? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ???????? ?? ???? ??? 1999: The Election Trilology, Vote-Auction, GWEI, the Generator Tetralogy. ???? ???? ????? ??????? ??? ?????? ??????? ???????? : Superenhanced, ????? ????????, ????? ?????, ??????? ?????? - Superenhanced Generator. ?? ????? ?? ????? ????, ?? ????? ???????? ????, ?? ?????????? ?????? ??? ??????? ???????? ?????? ?? ??????? ??? ??????? ????? ??????? ???? Ars Electronica (Austria), ARCO (Spain) ,Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria), Laboral Gijon (Spain), SFMOMA (USA), Transmediale Berlin Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), Mumok Vienna (Austria). ????? ????? ?????? ??????????, ???? ???. ??? ????? ?6 ?????? ???? 20:00, ?????? ??????, ??? ???. ???????: 17, 17?., ?? ??? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ?????? ??????? ??????. ????? ?????? ???? ??????. ??? ?????: 10 ? http://superenhanced.com http://ipnic.org/superenhanced http://ubermorgen.com/EKMRZ_Trilogy http://gwei.org http://ipnic.org/Generator_Tetralogy http://ipnic.org http://vote-auction.net http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de img: Superenhanced S1E1, 2009, Inkjet on Paper 55x55cm, http:// ipnic.org/superenhanced/photos.html Wednesday 6th January, at 20:00 UBERMORGEN Works 1999-2009 + Performance: Superenhanced Generator Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center, Madregot Habikur St 58, Ein Karem UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities ? controversial and iconoclastic ? of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. the permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one?s working materials that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). ?Ubermorgen? is the German word both for ?the day after tomorrow? and ?super- tomorrow?. http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM In the lecture they will present some of their past projects 1999-2009 and focusing also in the current project they are working on ?superenhanced? . An UBERMORGEN.COM lecture split into two. The first part of the talk will focus on their oeuvre 1999-2009 featuring main projects such as The Election Trilogy including ote-Auction, the EKMRZ Trilogy including GWEI and the Generator Tetralogy with the 2001 Injunction Generator. The second part of the lecture will focus on their 2008-09 research-project ?Superenhanced? dealing with Enhanced Interrogations (torture), Child Imprisonment, Extraordinary Renditions, Supermax (high-security prisons) and the interrogation- software ?Superenhanced Generator?. They will to tell you about the research, the methodology, the terminology, their artistic approach, the technology, the performances and the personal aspects of this project. http://superenhanced.com http://ipnic.org/superenhanced http://ubermorgen.com/EKMRZ_Trilogy http://gwei.org http://www.ipnic.org/Generator_Tetralogy http://ipnic.org http://vote-auction.net http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM http://tinyurl.com/UM-Amazon-de entrance fee: 10 nis -- snip -- Special thanks to BM:UKK Ministry of Culture Austria, Pro Helvetia, BAK Bundesamt fuer Kultur Schweiz, City of Vienna, Migros- Kulturprozent, Austrian and Swiss Embassies in Israel, Argentina, Korea, Kenya, Brazil, UK, Rumania, Spain, Istanbul, NiMK Amsterdam, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, lo-res.org, Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Interspace Sofia, AltArt Cluj, Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Domenico Quaranta, Laagencia Madrid, Sala-Manca Diego&Lea, Mamuta.org and Wendy. (bow) From marika at incident.net Wed Jan 6 23:15:52 2010 From: marika at incident.net (marika dermineur) Date: Wed Jan 6 23:16:24 2010 Subject: [spectre] Upgrade! Paris - ART OF FAILURE - 07/01/2010- Bordeaux Message-ID: <4B450B98.2060708@incident.net> Upgrade! # 31 ART OF FAILURE presents CORPUS at the occasion "Corpus" exhibition opening Thursday, 7th January, at 6:30pm Th?atre Moli?re - Sc?ne d'Aquitaine / OARA 33 rue du temple, Bordeaux, France --voir plus bas pour la version fran?aise-- _________________________________________________ EXHIBITION OPENING : CORPUS ART OF FAILURE & JEREMY GRAVAYAT + Upgrade! Conference with Art Of Failure _________________________________________________ _ Corpus is a set-up which uses sound, architecture and multimedia technology to stage objects, furniture, architecture or a place and set them into pulsating vibration. The various elements which compose the inherent identity of place thus become active or ?living? and breathe life into sounds specific to their personality. The selected place becomes the instrument on which the duo of musicians play, offering their audience a unique physical experience of place at once richly sensorial and other-worldly. In December 2009, four different sound interventions were carried out using Corpus in sites around the Aquitaine region selected for their rich architectural qualities ? the funicular in Pau, the pyramid at the School of Architecture in Bordeaux, the agricultural pole of Ch?teau Chasse-Spleen and the Maison Latapie. Each Corpus project explores the inherent personality and specificities of the place selected and each concert and sound installation is rooted in detailed preliminary research. The audio-visual archives of the performances and genesis of each project will be presented during the exhibition at the OARA and are also accessible on line at our website: http://artoffailure.free.fr/corpus _ During the conference marking the exhibition?s official opening, Art Of Failure will look back over the development of Corpus from its inception with the GMEM in 2006 to the four installations and concerts held with the OARA in 2009. The duo will present the different versions of Corpus designed and developed over this period, its building blocks and underlying tenets and the successive mutations the project has undergone at the complex crossroads of sound and architecture their work explores. _________________________________________________ ABOUT ART OF FAILURE : _ Art Of Failure is a duo of French artists - Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont. Their work is fuelled by their love of the ground-breaking experimentations of the historical avant-garde and by scientific and aesthetic innovation generally. They like to establish transpositions between genres and seemingly unrelated fields, or explore the tipping points where, for example, abstract concepts may find their expression in the plastic arts, where geological data may be transformed into a record or where medical information technology may be used to perform a concert. These transgressions and oversteppings of limits shed new light on the inherent characteristics and aesthetic qualities of the technology so prevalent in our contemporary world. Their work takes on a variety of guises ? performances, installations, on-line projects or published scores. http://artoffailure.free.fr --fran?ais-- _________________________________________________ VERNISSAGE DE L'EXPOSITION CORPUS ART OF FAILURE & JEREMY GRAVAYAT + Conf?rence de Art Of Failure _________________________________________________ _ Corpus est un dispositif sonore, architectural et multim?dia qui met en vibration les objets, le mobilier ou l'architecture d'un lieu. L'ensemble des ?l?ments dont le lieu est constitu? devient actif ou ?vivant? et r?v?le des sonorit?s qui lui sont propres. Le lieu devient un seul grand instrument. Ce projet offre une exp?rience physique de l?espace qui est unique, un rapport ? la fois sensible et fantomatique avec ce qui nous entoure. L?exp?rience propos?e est enti?rement pens?e en fonction des particularit?s de chacun des espaces. Au mois de d?cembre 2009, quatre interventions sonores Corpus ont ?t? r?alis?es sur des sites en Aquitaine choisis pour leurs sp?cificit?s architecturales : le funiculaire de Pau, la pyramide de l'?cole d'architecture de Bordeaux, le p?le agricole de ch?teau Chasse-Spleen et la maison Latapie. Chaque concert et installation sonore donne lieu ? un travail documentaire. Ces archives audiovisuelles sont pr?sent?es durant l?exposition ? l?OARA, ainsi qu?en acc?s permanent sur le site web du projet. http://artoffailure.free.fr/corpus _ Durant cette conf?rence, Art Of Failure pr?sentera l'historique du projet Corpus, depuis la gen?se d'une premi?re version avec le GMEM en 2006, jusqu'aux 4 installations et concerts avec l'OARA en 2009. Le duo expliquera les diff?rentes versions r?alis?es, les fondements des mutations successives du projet, et abordera un ensemble de probl?matiques aux intersections entre l'art sonore et l'architecture soulev?es par ce travail. _________________________________________________ A PROPOS DE ART OF FAILURE : _ Art Of Failure est un duo d?artistes fran?ais compos? de Nicolas Maigret et Nicolas Montgermont. Leur travail se nourrit des avant-gardes historiques et d?exp?rimentations artistiques et scientifiques. Ils op?rent des glissements ou des transpositions, notamment de concepts vers le domaine plastique, de donn?es g?ologiques vers l??dition vinyle, ou encore de l?informatique m?dicale vers le format concert. Ces d?tournements mettent en lumi?re des probl?matiques et des esth?tiques propres aux technologies qui nous sont contemporaines. Leur travail est pr?sent? sous de multiples formes: performances, installations, projets en ligne ou ?ditions. http://artoffailure.free.fr _________________________________________________ LIENS/LINKS : _ Art Of Failure : http://artoffailure.free.fr J?r?my Gravayat : http://www.derives.tv - http://www.basseslumieres.net Corpus : http://artoffailure.free.fr/corpus Evenement Corpus / Architecture & sonorit?s : http://corpus.artoffailure.org voir aussi/see also: Article de lib?ration sur l'installation & le concert ? ch?teau Chasse-Spleen : http://www.libebordeaux.fr/libe/2009/12/m%C3%A9doc-murs-ventriloques.html _________________________________________________ Upgrade! Paris http://incident.net/theupgrade From oliverodomenico at libero.it Thu Jan 7 08:57:34 2010 From: oliverodomenico at libero.it (oliverodomenico@libero.it) Date: Thu Jan 7 08:58:02 2010 Subject: [spectre] zooart 2010 call for submission Message-ID: <27704750.127341262851054077.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> ZOOART 2010 an artistic itinerary for the Fresia Garden, Cuneo (Italy) art.1 description The Art.ur Association and the Cuneo City Council announce the 2010 ZOOart Exhibition. The 9th edition of this contemporary art show will be held in July in the Fresia Gardens, originally the site of the city?s zoo. Once again the organisers intention is to bring contemporary art into the public arena, as well as offering an opportunity for young artists to exhibit their work. Since it?s inception, the idea behind ZOOart has been to offer a space to unknown young artists and also bring attention to those who have also achieved some notoriety. Again this year the exhibition is a group show, held for four days each week, from Thursday to Sunday, for three weeks. The works chosen to be exhibited will be exhibited for one or more weeks commencing on Thursday the 1st, then the following Thursdays on the 8th and 15th. Works that are site specific, able to create a particular dialogue with the exhibition area will are favoured. The selected artists might be asked to participate in events such as workshops or discussions and or other similar activities that will take place during the exhibition. Artists who would like to participate are requested to send in a proposal that takes into account the following conditions. art.2 conditions Participation is open to young artists of any nationality, representation as individuals or group works. Three preferential places will be offered to students enrolled at the Albertina Academy in Turin. There is no fee for participation. art.3 object for selection Candidates can submit one or more proposals of works in the form of sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings, photographic works, videos, performance, audio and new media installations, etc. Given the large area available sculptures and installations are site specific and must occupy an area of 3m x 3m (exact size will be discussed and agreed upon in more detail with the organisers at a later phase and will depend upon the project) and must be designed for the outdoors as there is no provision for the works to be moved or covered in the event of bad weather. The works must not in any way subject the public, who frequent the gardens where the works are to be displayed, to any harm. Drawings, paintings and photographic works must cover 12 to 15 linear metres with a maximum height of 2.4 metres. The maximum size of a singular work must not exceed 2m x 2.4m. Works will be hung on display boards during opening hours and held in a storeroom outside of the exhibition opening hours. Videos must be suitable for projection onto a screen 6 metres x 3 metres in size and must not exceed 2 minutes in length. Musical or theatrical performances must not be more than 15 minutes long. art.4 methods of participation Documentation of the proposal must be sent to: ZOOart Associazione Art.ur Casella Postale 208 12100 Cuneo Centro Documentation required: 1. name and address of the candidate/s (please indicate clearly if the candidate is a student at the Albertina Academy). 2. curriculum vitae 3. title and detailed written presentation of the proposal 4. graphic representation of the work/s to be exhibited in a maximum of six A4 pages (comprising of sketches, photos, drawings etc.) including indication of size of actual works 5. a CD comprising all the above mentioned documentation. For proposals of videos or performance art, in addition to the documentation listed above at points 1,2 and 3, it is also necessary to supply a cd of the work proposed. All documentation supplied must be clearly identifiable (name and surname must be written on the back of all images, on the front of all written material and on the covers of cds, etc.). None of the documentation received will be returned to artists. art.5 deadline All documentation of the proposal must be received by March 5, 2010. art.6 criteria for selection by panel of judges A panel of qualified experts, made up of curators and artists will judge the submissions received. The panel will take into account the curriculum of candidate and also the site specific nature of the works proposed. Criteria include the quality, innovative aspects and overall creativity of the work . The panel will examine the submissions received and inform the only the candidates that have been chosen to participate in the exhibition. These candidates will be asked to have all work on site by the 1st , 8th or 15th of July 2010. The works must be in every way the same as those proposed to the panel. The submissions that are chosen to be exhibited will be published in the ZOOart.09 catalogue. Both the realisation and transport of the works are at the cost of the artist. The organising body may be able to make a small contribution towards travelling costs and assist with homestay accommodation in the case of artists coming from distant localities. Art works will be returned to the artists at the end of the exhibition, the timing will be organised directly with each artist. The organising body will not take any responsibility for damages to the art works that occurs while the works are in their possession. art.7 permissions and copyright The organising body reserve the right to use any material in the submission received and to photograph the selected works for archiving purposes. The organising body is excluded from publishing rights of the artist for the reproduction and use of images for the purposes of the exhibition. Exhibiting artists hold all responsibility for any issue that may arise as a result of the works being published or exhibited are completely art.8 use of personal details Personal details of the artist/s will be used by the Art.ur association exclusively for ZOOart 2010. In accordance with the art.7, D.Lgs 196/2003 it is possible to request that personal details be removed from the associations list by writing to: associazione Art.ur, Casella Postale 208, 12100, CUNEO Centro. art.9 information The project, organised by the association Art.ur in collaboration with the city of Cuneo, has obtained support during past exhibitions from the Piedmont Region, Cuneo Province, City of Turin, the CRC Foundation, the CRT Foundation, the Albertina Accadamy of Turin, GAI and the Gaia collection of Busca. Participation in the exhibition is taken as agreement to above mentioned conditions. Info: Associazione Art.ur, Casella Postale 208, 12100, CUNEO Centro. tel: +393396908997 fax: +390171689960 mail: pqemi@tiscali.it zooarte@gmail.com web: www.zooart.it deadline: 05.03.2010 For images of the gardens during the exhibition period please look at: www.zooart.it support piedmont region . cuneo province . cuneo council . crt foundation . crc foundation . albertina accadamy . la gaia collection From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Jan 7 11:03:05 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Thu Jan 7 11:03:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day 007 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100107110306.875031BF.8C37F8C0@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 007 program - 7 January 2010 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. 2010 - 10th anniversary of JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project start --> a series of interviews with artists & experts in netart/electronic art today: interview with Andrea Polli (USA), digital media artist living in NY/NY 2. VAD - Video Art Database VideoChannel January 2010 - French Video Art "features for one day" during the coming 16 days--> today: "Body of War II", 2006, 4:00 by Isabelle Schneider (France) 3. VAD - Video Art Database VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection "features for one day" during the coming weeks--> today: Red Star, 2009, 3:49 by Milica Rakic (Serbia) 4. VAD - Video Art Database CologneOFF V - features for one day today: Ana is Gone 2009, 2:50 by Davor Sanvincenti (Croatia) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=146 ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org newmediafest2010 [at] koeln.de ---------------------------------------------------- Join NewMediaFest'2010 on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=404197070650 ---------------------------------------------------- From paul at paul-brown.com Thu Jan 7 23:39:37 2010 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Thu Jan 7 23:41:25 2010 Subject: [spectre] cfp: CAe 2010 - Computational Aesthetics Message-ID: Computational Aesthetics 2010 - sponsored by the BCS CAS SG Call for papers Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic by integrating aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts. It seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviours. CAe also investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning. The conference brings together individuals with technical experience of developing computer based tools to solve aesthetic problems and people with artistic/design backgrounds who use these new tools. Invited talks will be given by technical, theoretical and artistic/ design figures. The talks will help participants better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of and, equally, to fully appreciate what is involved in artistic design and creative process. Refereed papers and artworks will be presented in a single track program that aims to facilitate a dialogue between scientists and engineers who are creating new tools, and also artists and designers who use them. Presentations will provide a snapshot of the latest technical breakthroughs and the most recent artistic or design achievements in applying computer based techniques to solve aesthetic problems. Technical submissions are invited across the broad range of areas covered by Computational Aesthetics. Specific technical areas include, but are not limited to: a.. computational analysis and modelling of creative behaviour (AI, A-life); b.. artistic image transformation techniques (colours, edges, patterns, dithering); c.. image style and salience analysis (paintings, photographs, others); d.. visualization (perceptual or aesthetics based); e.. sketching, simplification techniques (artistic, cognitive); f.. composition, visual balance, layout; g.. non-photorealistic rendering; h.. empirically based metrics of aesthetical attributes; and i.. applied visual perception (colour appearance, spatial vision, and other aspects). j.. measuring and describing aesthetics and k.. computational tools for artists Technical Paper Submissions Technical papers should present original, unpublished work. The manuscripts must be written in English, must be formatted according to the EG publication guidelines (see the submission site for the LaTeX templates), and should be no longer than 8 pages. For all Submissions see: http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/cae2010/ You can start a new submission at the EG submission site: http://egmcp1.cgv.tugraz.at/SRM_CAE10/ Accepted technical and art papers will be presented at the symposium, and appear in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published and printed in the Eurographics Workshop and Symposia Series, and will appear in the Eurographics and ACM Digital Libraries. Important Dates Submission deadline: February 12, 2010 Acceptance notification: March 12, 2010 Camera-ready deadline: April 1, 2009 Conference Dates: June 14 - 16th, 2010 Further Information a.. http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/ b.. e-mail: pjepp@vimmi.inesc-id.pt and info@computational-aesthetics.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 ajaco at xs4all.nl Thu Jan 7 23:50:35 2010 From: ajaco at xs4all.nl (Andreas Jacobs) Date: Thu Jan 7 23:51:18 2010 Subject: [spectre] [Syndicate] [Ann] Revolutions, Artists uses of the term revolution by Alan Dunn [Sat Jan 9, 17:30 - 19:30 @ Patapoe Radio 88.3MHz FM Amsterdam + Livestream] Message-ID: <165DFA62-658D-4966-9247-995980EA55EB@xs4all.nl> ==================================================== Announcement: ==================================================== Sat. Jan. 9 - 17:30 - 19:30 Patapoe Radio 88.3 MHz FM Amsterdam + Livestream ==================================================== Revolutions, Artists uses of the term revolution by Alan Dunn Burgerwaanzin Radioshow from Nictoglobe RadioTV Saturdays from 17:00 to 20:00 The CD's from Alan's project are being played integral ===================================================== Project info: http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/003/articles/adunn/index.php ==================================================== Listen: http://icecast.freeteam.nl/patapoe.m3u ==================================================== Andreas Jacobs e: ajaco@xs4all.nl w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl _______________________________________________ From paul at PAUL-BROWN.COM Fri Jan 8 05:37:47 2010 From: paul at PAUL-BROWN.COM (Paul Brown) Date: Fri Jan 8 09:31:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] [CAS] Digital Pioneers @ V&A Museum, London Message-ID: <0A3599F4-93FF-42FC-86CC-5338A1E0FE17@paul-brown.com> This exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum contains many early works from the BCS Computer Arts Society SG collection: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London presents a new display of early computer-generated art and design. Digital Pioneers 7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010 Julie & Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90 and Paintings, Room 88a Free admission This display provides an overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. It includes some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. From the 1960s until the early 1980s, digital pioneers worked directly with computer hardware and software to produce graphic images unlike anything that had gone before. Some artists went on to use increasingly sophisticated software packages, while others continued to work directly with the hardware itself. The display includes plotter drawings, screenprints, digital inkjet prints, photographs and animations, as well as important documentary material from the time. It features pioneers working in science and industry during the 1950s and 60s, such as Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and Herbert W. Franke. Artists who worked with the computer in the 1970s and 80s include Paul Brown, Harold Cohen, Manfred Mohr and Vera Molnar. The show also encompasses more recent works by James Faure Walker, Jean Pierre-H?bert, Roman Verostko and Mark Wilson Digital Pioneers offers a historical context for contemporary digital practice, and is scheduled to coincide with the V&A exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations. http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Digital%20Pioneers/index.html ==== 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 ancelfranck at gmail.com Fri Jan 8 10:18:23 2010 From: ancelfranck at gmail.com (Franck Ancel) Date: Fri Jan 8 10:18:48 2010 Subject: [spectre] [CAS] Digital Pioneers @ V&A Museum, London In-Reply-To: <0A3599F4-93FF-42FC-86CC-5338A1E0FE17@paul-brown.com> References: <0A3599F4-93FF-42FC-86CC-5338A1E0FE17@paul-brown.com> Message-ID: <4B46F85F.7010206@gmail.com> Listen and see there this online documentary http://aquitaine.france3.fr/emissions/49069206-fr.php The talk in French of Abraham Moles in 1973 Bordeaux "Art et Ordinateur" for Sigma9 Festival (*) (*) http://www.bcr-caillaud.org/bcrcaillaud/artcomputer/visite/chronos-final.swf Paul Brown a ?crit : > This exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum contains many early > works from the BCS Computer Arts Society SG collection: > > The Victoria and Albert Museum, London presents a new display of early > computer-generated art and design. > > Digital Pioneers > 7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010 > Julie & Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90 and > Paintings, Room 88a > Free admission > > This display provides an overview of the first decades of the > computer's history in art and design. It includes some of the earliest > computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have > never been exhibited in the UK before. From the 1960s until the early > 1980s, digital pioneers worked directly with computer hardware and > software to produce graphic images unlike anything that had gone before. > Some artists went on to use increasingly sophisticated software > packages, while others continued to work directly with the hardware > itself. > > The display includes plotter drawings, screenprints, digital inkjet > prints, photographs and animations, as well as important documentary > material from the time. It features pioneers working in science and > industry during the 1950s and 60s, such as Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and > Herbert W. Franke. Artists who worked with the computer in the 1970s and > 80s include Paul Brown, Harold Cohen, Manfred Mohr and Vera Molnar. The > show also encompasses more recent works by James Faure Walker, Jean > Pierre-H?bert, Roman Verostko and Mark Wilson > > Digital Pioneers offers a historical context for contemporary digital > practice, and is scheduled to coincide with the V&A exhibition Decode: > Digital Design Sensations. > > http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Digital%20Pioneers/index.html > > > ==== > 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 > ==== > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Jan 8 10:34:54 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Fri Jan 8 10:35:43 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day 008 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100108103454.858211A3.59C2E834@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 008 program - 8 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=171 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. 2010 - 10th anniversary of JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art launch of Feature of the month January 2010 First of Java - Perspectives on New Media (2001) 1st global competition- JavaArtist of the Year Award featuring--> Yael Kanarek, Jody Zellen, Doron Golan, Jacki Danielchuk, Ian David Aronson, Marilyn Watelet, Giacomo Verde, Toni Mestrovic, Valerie Grancher, Fernando Llanos, Patrick Lichty, Eldar Karhalev, Atle Barcley, Jaka Zelesnikar, George Alamidis, Leander Seige, Roman Minaev, 80/81, Brooke AKnight, Yifat Gat, John Cavendish, Christina McPhee, sfear bebopanaut, Digital Sisters Indeed, Trebor Scholz/Carol Flax, Wolf Kahlen, WOWM.org Marek Gibney, OXIMORIS, Armelle Aulestia Tiia Johannson, Nicole Stenger, Olga Kisseleva, Alexandra Globokar, Robert F. Krawczyk, MEZ [mary-anne breeze], Ashley Holmes/Matthew Hawker 2. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project a series of interviews with artists & experts in netart/electronic art today interview with: Karlos Katastrofsky (Vienna/Austria), 3. VAD - Video Art Database VideoChannel January 2010 - French Video Art - features for one day- today: Rupture, 2005, 3:50 by Matthieu Capel (France) 4. VAD - Video Art Database VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection - "features for one day" today: Extension of Human Sight, 2008, 3:10 by Andreas A. Zingerle (Austria) 5. VAD - Video Art Database CologneOFF V - features for one day today: Hole in the Floor, 2008, 7:00 by Heidi Kumao (USA) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=171 ---------------------------------------------------- January 2010 - features VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - 1st global competition (2001) ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org 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 info at rybn.org Sat Jan 9 03:17:03 2010 From: info at rybn.org (rybn) Date: Sat Jan 9 03:17:44 2010 Subject: [spectre] Upgrade!Paris #32-33-34 - Ars Longa Message-ID: <9B554924-3396-488D-9B06-A43CC24F4BF1@rybn.org> ************************************************ Upgrade! Paris #32-33-34 * House of Natural Fiber [HONF] (Indon?sie), * Tengal Drilon (Philippines), * Nika Autor et Miha Ciglar (Slov?nie) Performances & presentations 10-11-12 january 2010 - 19h in ARS LONGA - Paris 67 Avenue Parmentier ? 75011 Paris Metro Parmentier http://www.arslonga.fr/ ************************************************ ************************************************ PROGRAMME ************************************************ *** Sunday 10 january - 19h *** ? Gangan Transmissions ? - Tengal Collective Radio Performance ---- bring your portable radio !!! ? A small contribution to the genesis of everyday life ? - Nika Autor & Miha Ciglar Audiovisual Performance *** Monday 11 january - 19h *** Lecture : Tengal (SABAW Media Art Kitchen) Lecture : HONF ? P.A.D.I. ? - HONF (Irene Agrivina, Bagus Budiarto, Budi Prakoso) Collective Audiovisual Performance *** Tuesday 12 january - 19h *** Lecture : Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar ************************************************ A PROPOS DE / ABOUT - House of Natural Fiber [HONF] YOGYAKARTA, INDON?SIE http://www.natural-fiber.com/ fr- P.A.D.I Paradigm of antidotes to deconstruct the infrastructures Performance collective HONF Irene Agrivina, Bagus Budiarto, Budi Prakosa En collaboration avec: Galia Community, Microbiology Faculty ? Gajah Mada University, Mapala ? UPNVY. Honf propose de compl?ter un projet initi? par la Communaut? Galia de Yogyakarta, qui consiste en une recherche esth?tique visant ? r?soudre des probl?mes rencontr?s dans le domaine de l?agriculture. Ce projet est une extension des activit?s de la communaut? Galia, et vise ? cr?er un simple compteur technologique des pesticides utilis?s par les agriculteurs de la r?gion de Bantul ? Yogyakarta, en Indon?sie. Leur activit? s?est appuy? sur l?utilisation massive de pesticides avant 1989, et a entrain? l??radication des pr?dateurs naturels des parasites qui infestaient les r?coltes de riz. La perte de ces pr?dateurs naturels est ?galement une cons?quence de l?urbanisation croissante de larges zones de Java, qui a d?truit leur habitat naturel, et les a chass? loin des r?gions agricoles. La communaut? Galia a mis en place la cha?ne alimentaire agricole et a ainsi compl?t? le tableau en r?introduisant la souris dans les zones agricoles. Ce pr?dateur naturel qui inhibe Java ?tait la pi?ce manquante du tableau de l??cosyst?me des zones agricoles. Une solution qui est respectueuse de l?environnement est consid?r?e comme b?n?fique pour l?homme et la nature. Les travaux d?velopp?s par le HONF seront pr?sent?s sous la forme d?expos?s sur les situations et conditions de l?agriculture en Indon?sie, comment celles-ci affectent les agriculteurs qui sont la partie la moins remarqu?e de la soci?t?. Un travail esth?tique sera ?galement pr?sent? lors d?une performance interactive qui sera effectu?e par trois membres du HONF: Irene Agrivina ?Ira?, Bagus Budiarto et Budi Prakosa. Les travaux portent essentiellement sur la base de donn?es d?un serveur web qui g?n?re des valeurs ou de l?information num?rique interpr?t?es sur 3 ordinateurs sous forme de sons, de visuels et de p?riph?riques sp?cifiques. House of Natural Fiber [HONF] de Yogyakarta, Indon?sie, est un Laboratoire d?di? aux nouveaux m?dias, et a ?t? fond? en 1999. Centres d?int?r?ts: critique sociale et innovation technologique et artistique. Depuis sa fondation le HONF s?est sp?cialis? dans le developpement culturel et dans les nouveaux m?dias, via de nombreux projets et ateliers autour de l?int?raction homme/environnements. Les deux festivals Cellsbutton Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival et YIVF Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival, sont leurs deux principales activit?s annuelles. en pr?sence de: Irene Agrivina Widyaningrum, Bagus Budiarto, Budi Prakoso en- P.A.D.I Paradigm of antidotes to deconstruct the infrastructures HONF tries to represent the project that was initiated by the Galia Community, from Yogyakarta and developing aesthetical innovations in their activity in helping solutions for the problems in agriculture fields. The project was an extension of activities done by Galia Community in creating a simple counter to technology in pesticides that is used by the farmers in Bantul district of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The activities itself was generated from the case of the heavy used of pesticides before 1989, which eliminated natural predators of pests that infested rice crops. The lost of pests? natural predators was not only by heavy use of pesticides but also by the large increase of urban areas in Java, destroying its? natural habitat and puts them aside from the farming areas. Galia Community simply completed pieces of the puzzle that is lost in the food chain of the farming areas. In their activities, they bring the natural predators of mice back in to farming areas. Owl, a once natural predator that inhibits Java, was the missing puzzle of the food chain in the farming areas ecosystem. A solution that is friendly to the environment is considered beneficial to humans and nature. The developed works with HONF will be presented in form of presentations about the situations and conditions of agricultural in Indonesia, how it affected the farmers as the poorly noticed part of the society. An aesthetic developed work will be also presented in an interactive performance session that will be performed by three HONF members which is Irene ?Ira? Agrivina, Bagus Budiarto and Budi Prakosa. The works mainly generated by database from the web server, that generate values or numeric information to pull or trigged computers, separate to 3 computers that produce specific sound and visual and also trigged the specific device. House of Natural Fiber [HONF] from Yogyakarta, Indonesia is a New Media Art laboratory, founded in 1999. They concentrate on the principles of social critique and art&technology innovation. Since the beginning, the House of Natural Fiber has consistently focused on cultural development and New Media art, running numerous projects and workshops in which they have concentrated on interactivity with people and environments. The two festivals Cellsbutton Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival and YIVF Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival, are some of their annual projects. - TENGAL MANILA, PHILIPPINES http://aseum09.tk/ www.tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com fr- La s?rie ? Transmissions Gangan ? est une performance de lives ?lectroniques interactifs, par le biais de la radio et des m?dias audio. Elle red?finit la relation entre les artistes et le public, ouvre des espaces sonores aux voix de diverses communaut?s en associant la cr?ation de contenu avec une r?flexion sur la production dans le champ de la communication radiophonique. Lors de cette performance, ce sont des postes radios portables et des auto-radios des voitures qui seront utilis?s pour la diffusion, fournissant ainsi ? tous une exp?rience de plus famili?re et accessible. Le Gangan Ensemble produit des lives de musique ?lectronique ? partir d?ordinateurs portables et d?instruments ?lectroniques, utilisant des algorithmes temporels qui d?terminent le flux de la performance de l?ensemble. La musique est mix?e sur quatre canaux, et chaque canal est diffus? via sa propre fr?quence radio (utilisant les longues ondes) pour une diffusion locale. Le public est alors invit? ? apporter son propre poste radio, portable et sur batteries, son t?l?phone portable ?quip? d?un r?cepteur radio, sa voiture, et chacun est invit? ? parcourir les fr?quences utilis?es par les performeurs. Ainsi chacun est invit? ? jouer son propre son en se d?pla?ant de fr?quence en fr?quence. Le public devient un interpr?te actif de la performance musicale, qui r?sulte de l?interaction entre les musiciens, le public et les fr?quences radio. Le public est en mesure de d?terminer son degr? de participation en personnalisant son environnement sonore. Les radios personnelles sont des instruments de musique ?lectronique dont nous savons tous jouer, comme elles font partie de notre environnement quotidien. Tengal est un artiste interdisciplinaire bas? ? Manille aux Philippines: musicien-compositeur, commissaire et producteur, et r?alisateur. Son travail met l?accent sur l?exp?rience imm?diate, la prise de risque personnelle et l?interaction entre les artistes et le public, et souligne le potentiel des situations de performance, d?interaction entre les m?dias (son et image particuli?rement) et d??changes sinc?res entre la sous-culture et l?acad?misme. En 2005, il fonde SABAW Media Art Kitchen, une association artistique autog?r?e et une plateforme de r?seau pour toutes sortes d?informations concernant les nouveaux m?dias et la culture ?lectro, avec un focus sur l?Asie du Sud-Est. SABAW a produit des concerts, des ateliers, des espaces de dialogue entre les artistes et des forums, des albums de musique, les festivals d?art num?rique, de la musique exp?rimentale et des spectacles de live cin?ma. Plus sp?cifiquement: ?Sinemusikalye ?, une installation-concert-audio-vid?o-de-rue pour le National Arts Month of The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) aux Philippines; ?Transmissions Gangan ?, une performance audio- vid?o ? 5 canaux radiophoniques dans un espace interactif en collaboration avec Chris Brown compositeur en ?lectro-acoustique californien; la ? Fete de la Wasaque ? festival for outerfringe art ?, et plus r?cemment ? ASEUM.09: Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium ? et ? EAR2EYE: festival for cutting-edge music and moving image. ? en- The ? Transmissions Gangan ? series is an audience interactive, live electronic music performance series about the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio. It redefines the relationship of performers and audience to the radio medium, opening audio spaces to unheard voices in diverse communities by emphasizing the ability of both to create both the content and the means of production of radio communication. For this performance, radios in automobiles are primarily going to be used since it provides a more familiar experience and is easily accessible today. Using a big outdoor space, the Gangan Ensemble produce live electronic music from laptop computers and electronic instruments using a time- based algorithm that determines the flow of the ensemble?s performance. The music is mixed into four channels, each of which is sent to its own low-power, FM radio transmitter. The transmitters are tuned to different frequencies not already used by broadcasters in the performance locale; the audience is encouraged to bring their own cars as well as bringing portable radio receivers, especially battery powered boom-boxes, mobile phone radios, and to each tune in one of the transmission channels and play its sound into the space while moving through it. The audience is thus made a creative partner in the performance of the music, and the event becomes an interaction between the musicians, audience, and the sounds presented in the transmissions. The audience is able to dictate their degree of participation by creating avenues for personalized sound environments, as well as make for greater flexibility for numerous sound tapestries to be exhibited in the limited space. Personal radios are electronic musical instruments that we all know how to play: we adjust their loudness and tone-quality to our taste and we move them around in our environments to accompany us in our lives. Tengal is Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer- musician, curator-producer, and filmmaker. His work puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction between artists and audience, and emphasizes the situational potential of live performance, the interplay of various media ? sound and image, in particular ? and candid exchange between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. In 2005, he founded SABAW Media Art Kitchen ? a not-for-profit, artist- run umbrella organization and network platform for all kinds of information and communication carried via modern electronic media art focused specially in the region of South East Asia. Since then, SABAW has been producing concerts, workshops, inter-artist dialogues and forums, music albums, festivals for new media art, and experimental music and live cinema performances ? most notably ? Sinemusikalye ?, a 50-feet audio-video installation-street-concert for the National Arts Month of The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) in the Philippines; ? Transmissions Gangan ?, an audio-video performance for 5 radio channels on an interactive space with California electro- acoustic composer Chris Brown; ? Fete dela Wasaque ? festival for outerfringe art ?, and most recently ? ASEUM.09: Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium ? and ? EAR2EYE: festival for cutting-edge music and moving image. ? - Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar Ljubljana, Slovenie http://www.ciglar.mur.at http://www.autor.si fr- ? A small contribution to the genesis of everyday life ? performance - Miha Ciglar (r?alisation sonore avec un bocal ? poissons, de l?eau, du savon et une table de mixage) - Nika Autor (r?alisation vid?o avec un circuit bending analogique) ? A small contribution to the genesis of everyday life ? est une pi?ce performative pour deux, o? les deux artistes sont des ?l?ments constitutifs de l?instrument audiovisuel en jeu. Ils sont tous deux reli?s ?lectriquement au r?seau ?lectronique instrumental, de sorte que les signaux audio et vid?o qui sont projet?s au public sont en cours d?ex?cution ? la fois par leurs corps dans leur forme ?lectronique. La douleur est une composante pr?sente dans une situation o? l??lectricit? circule ? travers un corps humain. Cela permet une perception corporelle et une interpr?tation diff?rentes du bruit et de la vid?o qui en r?sultent, dan la mesure o? les artistes n?ont pas seulement une r?f?rence auditive et visuelle, mais aussi haptique ? ? savoir, la douleur caus?e par le courant ?lectrique ? pour guider le choix de leurs actions. Produit par: IRZU ? Institut de recherche sur les arts Sonores ? www.irzu.org Miha Ciglar est un ing?nieur du son et artiste sonore, travaillant ? l?intersection entre l?art et les technologies. En 2009 il obtient son dipl?me de ma?trise en sciences ? Institute for Electronic Music (IEM) ? www.iem.at. Depuis 2001, il a effectu? ses propres compositions pour diff?rents instruments acoustiques, performances ?lectro-acoustiques, spectacles de danse interactive, musique assist?e par ordinateur et des installations audiovisuelles dans de nombreux festivals artistiques internationaux. En 2008, il fonde IRZU ? the Institute for Sonic Arts Research ? Ljubljana, en Slov?nie. L?institut fonctionne comme une organisation non gouvernementale. Il est bas? sur un concept interdisciplinaire et r?alise des productions artistiques dans les domaines de la musique ?lectronique, de la recherche en technologies sonores, et dans l??ducation. En 2009, il a organis? le Sonic Arts Festival EearZoom, l?un des premiers grands projets IRZU?s. http://www.ciglar.mur.at Nika Autor: Un fil rouge traverse l?ensemble de ses ?uvres: toutes soulignent la question fondamentale du r?le de l?individu dans la soci?t? qui se pr?sente de plus en plus comme un jeu de l?absurde. L?art politique est de retour, que ce soit sous la forme du documentaire, de l?intervention dans le spectacle, dans espace r?el ou virtuel ou que ce soit au travers de la performance, de l?installation, d?une affiche ou autre. Nika Autor se consacre ? des projets sociologiques traitant de l??conomie informelle ? c?est ? dire des techniques de survie hors de la r?gulation officielle de de l??tat ? et de politique informelle, qui sont parall?les aux proc?dures et structures gouvernementales. Nika Autor s?int?resse ? l?inclusion de l?art contemporain dans ces types de pratiques informelles, et au r?le ou ? la possibilit? d?un int?r?t plus g?n?ral que l?intervention artistique pourrait assumer ? l??gard de la vie sociale et politique. http://www.autor.si En - ? A small contribution to the genesis of everyday life ? - Miha Ciglar (making sound with a fishbowl, water, soap and mixing board) - Nika Autor (making video by analogue circuit bending) ? A small contribution to the genesis of everyday life ? is a performative piece for two, where both performers are constitutive parts of the audovisual instrument the play on. They are both electrically connected to the instruments electronic network, so the audio and the video signals which are projected to the audience are running through both their bodies in their electronic form. There is a component of pain present in a situation where electricity is flowing through a human body. This enables a different corporal perception and interpretation of the caused sound and video, since now the performers do not only have the audible and visual but also a haptic reference ? i.e., pain caused by the electric current ? for the choice of their following actions. Produced by: IRZU ? Institute for sonic arts research ? www.irzu.org Miha Ciglar is an audio engineer and sound artist, working at the intersection of art and technology. In 2009 he obtained his MSc degree at the Institute for Electronic Music (IEM) ? www.iem.at. Since 2001 he has performed his own compositions for various acoustic instruments, electro-acoustical performances, interactive dance performances, computer music and audiovisual installations at many international arts festivals. In 2008 he founded IRZU ? the Institute for Sonic Arts Research in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The institute is operating as a non governmental organization. It is based on an interdisciplinary concept and is carrying out artistic productions in the field of electronic music, audio technology research as well as educational activities. In 2009 he organized and curated the sonic arts festival EearZoom, one of IRZU?s first major projects. http://www.ciglar.mur.at Nika Autor: There is a red thread running through all of her works. Namely, all of them point to the fundamental question of the role of an individual in the society that increasingly presents itself as a game of the absurd. Political art is coming back, be it in the form of documentary, intervention in real or virtual space or be it as performance, installation, theatre show, poster and such. Her particular thematic focus is on sociological projects dealing with informal economy, i.e. techniques of survival outside of official state regulative and with informal politics, which are parallel to the governmental procedures and structures. Nika Autor is interested in inclusion of contemporary art in those types of informal practises, as much as into the role and possibility of wider relevance that artistic intervention could assume in regard to social and political life. http://www.autor.si - - - http://incident.net/theupgrade/ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sat Jan 9 11:58:11 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Sat Jan 9 11:59:03 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day 009 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100109115812.2EC8917B.C0CEC76C@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 009 program - 9 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=193 ---------------------------------------------------- 1. SoundLAB Cologne - sonic arts // Feature of the month January 2010 --> Today, SoundLAB Cologne is entering NewMediaFest?2010 Sound Art from Chile ( SoundLab IV 2006) - curated by Rainer Krause (Santiago de Chile) featuring soundworks by--> Luis Barrie, Claudio Fernandez Sini, Foro de Escritores (FDE) Ensamble Majamama, Radio Ruido, Mario Soro, Andr?s Torres, Pintor Z 2. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project a series of interviews with artists & experts in netart/electronic art --> today interview with: Raivo Kelomees (Estonia) 3. VideoChannel January 2010 - French Video Art - features for one day- --> today: Devil Inside, 2004, 2:50 by Jean-Gabriel P?riot + Tom de P?kin (France) 4. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection - "features for one day" --> today: LIFTN, 2008, 1:20 by Constantin Hartenstein (Germany) 5. CologneOFF V - features for one day --> today: Imagenes et loci, 2008, 10:30 by Susanne Wiegner (Germany) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=193 ---------------------------------------------------- January 2010 - features of the month VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media (2001) ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org 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 nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Sun Jan 10 12:46:42 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmapn) Date: Sun Jan 10 12:47:34 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day 010 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100110124642.FF9E9C91.3B6456DA@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ---------------------------------------------------- Day 010 program - 10 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=210 ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 1. SIP - SoundLAB Interview Project - a series of interviews with sound artists Today, SIP is entering NewMediaFest?2010 with this interview -> tobias.c. van VEEN (Canada) http://sip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=113 2. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project a series of daily interviews with artists & experts in netart/electronic art -->today interview with: Jody Zellen (USA) 3. VideoChannel Cologne - French Video Art -->feature today: Tease, 2006, 7:00 by Jimmy Owenns (France) 4. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection -->feature today: The Choice, 2009, 2:15 by Jonas Nilsson (Sweden) 5. CologneOFF V - 5th Cologne Online Film Festival -->feature today: Basbas, 2009, 4:49 by Joaquin Palencia (Philippines) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=210 ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- January 2010 - features of the month 1. VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art (2010) 2. JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media (2001) 3. SoundLAB Cologne --> Soundart from Chile (2006) ---------------------------------------------------- NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org 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 info at reseaux-creation.org Sun Jan 10 18:11:15 2010 From: info at reseaux-creation.org (info@reseaux-creation.org) Date: Sun Jan 10 18:11:44 2010 Subject: [spectre] 2010 Vision'R VJ festival (france) submission call- extended VJ experiences (end of january) Message-ID: <1263143475.4b4a0a3364d14@ssl0.ovh.net> Hi, 5th edition of Vision'R vj festival will happen in 2010 may ! (french version below) Vision'R collaborative festival concerns post-clubbing VJ performances with IN SITU part or/and experimental distance and questions. We means VJ as a relation between image/sound/performance/venue/audience. Screening off or screening out ? Images aren't enough ! The shape, context and contingency determine the audience's experience. Formless, processual, post-politic, external/strange, hybrid, non-disciplinary or questionning submissions are welcome ! Vision'R is set up by nonprofit association Les Reseaux de la Creation for your productions involving invisible processes, experimental performances and workshops, non-linear and/or collective presentations (theory, social, showcase, reading...) about art without canvas, unreal aims, politics... >From these Vision'R positions, every radicalities are allowed ! Openly radical or radically elsewhere, out of their controlled ?*here and now*?. Live images will be the common denominator of our 5th edition festival ! Subscriptions will be taken until beginning of 2010 february. 2 submissions per person/group maximum We need these informations : Name (group/artist) ? how many persons involved Contact : e mail ? cell phone Country & town A short presentation txt about intention and content Pictures (if possible) : photograph, video, live capture Proposal type : (performance, speech, workshop, showcase...) Proposal duration Website url Contact : vision-r(AT)reseaux-creation.org (Mail object "vision'r 2010"). Technical sheet and further informations will be asked later. http://vjforums.com/showthread.php?p=244962 thx ! http://vision-r.org FRENCH VERSION HERE : Bonjour, l'appel est encore ouvert jusqu'? la fin du mois ! Vision'R, festival collaboratif, soutient et d?fend les performances VJ post-club, et/ou incluant une part in situ critique ou exp?rimentale de d?placement ou de questionnement des pratiques. VJ est ? entendre au sens large comme relation live image/son/performance/in situ/public. Sorties ou lev?es d'?crans ? Les images ne suffisent pas, la forme et le contexte de partage conditionnent l'exp?rience de la r?ception par les personnes du public. Les propositions hors formats, informes, processuels, post-politiques, ext?rieures/?tranges, questionnantes, sont les bienvenues ! Vision'R, organis? par l'association Les R?seaux de la Cr?ation, encore cette ann?e ?galement avec le Centre Mercoeur, Paris 11?me, et d'autres partenaires engag?s dans les d?fenses des singularit?s, est ouvert aux propositions hybrides, transversales, indisciplinaires, hors cases des squelettes des politiques culturelles en d?route. Performances invisibles, insaisissables; conf?rences non-lin?aires, ? plusieurs voix, aux interstices partag?es/pirat?es; pr?sentation de ? projets ? improbables, irr?alisables; art sans oeuvres et/ou sans art; ateliers collectifs th?oriques et/ou pratiques; d?monstrations de technologies mais aussi les formes plus classiques aux contenus en recherche ou aux services d'intention avec ou sans but, mais aussi les propositions cadr?es aux propos engag?s... Vision'R laisse place aux prises de positions et aux propositions radicales ! Radicalement frontale, ou radicalement d?j? ailleurs ou invisible de leur ici polic? ! A partir de notre positionnement, toutes propositions est permises ! L'image live ou le rapport ? vivant ? aux images sera le d?nominateur commun de la programmation du festival 2010 pr?vu dans la deuxi?me quinzaine du mois de mai. Vous avez jusqu'au 31 janvier pour inscrire vos propositions ? : vision-r{at}reseaux-creation.org (avec pour objet "vision'r 2010"). avec : Nom (collectif/artistes) et nombre de personnes intervenantes Contact e mail / phone Pays/ville Un court texte sur l'intention et/ou le contenu Des images si possible (captures, live, photos/videos) type de proposition (performances/atelier/presentation/conference/table ronde/autre...) Dur?e estimee de la proposition Site(s) internet Vous recevrez ensuite une fiche technique et une demande d'info compl?mentaire. Vous pourrez nous transmettre davantage d'?l?ments ult?rieurement. retrouvez cet appel ici http://forum.vjfrance.com/viewtopic.php?id=7174 version anglaise ici http://vjforums.com/showthread.php?p=244962 Laurent pr Vision'R http://vision-r.org From info at apo33.org Mon Jan 11 10:40:50 2010 From: info at apo33.org (APO33) Date: Mon Jan 11 10:41:22 2010 Subject: [spectre] APO33 NEWSLETTER FEB/MAR/APR 2010!!!! Message-ID: <20100111104050.19971vufg7mlerz4@apo33.org> Happy new year 2010!!! APO33 NEWSLETTER Feb/March/April 2010 FESTIVAL ALL THE YEAR!!!!! ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -from 13th to 19th of February : BEYOND SIGNAL #7 Exhibition with YVAN ETIENNE & CLAIRE WILLEMANN "LE PUITS" videos & sound spatialisation (intermedia installation) "Le puits" works as a concentration point, an heterotopy between macrocosm & microcosm. Opening / concert - Saturday 13th of February - 6pm, APO33, 17 rue Paul Bellamy, Nantes-FR exhibition open from Sunday the 14th to Friday the 19 of Friday - 2pm to 6pm more information : http://apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=beyond_signal http://wyy.free.fr/ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Thursday 25th of February WORKSHOP :::::::: BODY, URBAN, POETRY & PERFORMANCE::::::::::::::: workshop leads by Robin Decourcy & Julien Ottavi. From 10am to 5pm 1 day of performance in Urban context, body immersion to re-write the city! Training exchange on the performances proposed think the space test in situation performances traces discussion join @ info@apo33 before 15th of February - price for the day 15 euros http://louseinmore.blogspot.com/ http://www.noiser.org //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Friday 26th of February BEYOND SIGNAL #8 --> PO-E-TRY FESTAL (performance, reading, experimental, sound, contemporary poetry...) JEAN-LOUIS COSTES (singing, performance, shouty pop) ROBIN DECOURCY (performance, dance, poetry of the body, sound) ESTHER SALMONA (urban poetry reading)) LAWRENCE UPTON & JOHN LEVACK DREVER (concrete, visual, sound poetry - UK) JULIEN OTTAVI (shout, sound poetry, noise, performance) CATH SIGN (reading, nomad poetry) @ APO33 - 5euros - (17 rue Paul Bellamy, Nantes-FR) http://costes.org/ http://louseinmore.blogspot.com/ http://hyphes.blogspot.com/ http://www.lawrenceupton.org/ http://www.gold.ac.uk/music/staff/drever/ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Friday 5th of March BEYOND SIGNAL #9 --> BASS, NOISE, SHOUT & OSCILLATION (concert) KASPER TOEPLITZ & JULIEN OTTAVI (bass, computer, crotals, noise, powerful) - FR TONESUCKER (DIYbox, machines, oscillator, guitar, bass) - UK @ APO33 - 5 euros (17 rue Paul Bellamy - Nantes-FR) http://www.sleazeart.com/ http://www.noiser.org/noise //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// -Friday 19th of March Crealab present: APEROCODELAB #6 "Special BLANK PAGES" (A/V live coding) score: 60 minutes Puredata Page blanche No load No save ++ others propositions - CREALAB! Organised by Crealab network venue to confirm - Nantes-FR http://www.crealab.info http://www.blankpages.fr/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////: -du 2 au 4 April BEYOND SIGNAL #10 : Experimental video exhibition with DUNCAN RAVENHALL Micro-construction of images, Maths, light and random combination. opening Friday 2nd March - 6pm, APO33, 17 rue Paul Bellamy - Nantes-FR exhibition open Saturday & Sunday - 2pm to 6pm http://apo33.org/dokapo/doku.php?id=beyond_signal ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APO33 APO33 , as an interdisciplinary laboratory drawing on the artistic and technological fields, fosters various collective projects associating research, experimentation and social intervention. In the continuity of the dynamics that has been opened by the free software movement, apo33 is structured as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and creative processes, as well as exploring new artistic and creative modes of production and diffusion. http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org 17 rue Paul Bellamy 44000 Nantes ? France +33 02 51 89 47 16 APO33 is funded by la Ville de Nantes, Le Conseil R?gional de Loire Atlantique, la DRAC des Pays de la Loire et la R?gion des Pays de la Loire -- APO33 space of research and experimentation http://www.apo33.org info@apo33.org From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jan 11 12:42:39 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Jan 11 12:43:23 2010 Subject: [spectre] Week 03 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100111124239.65C6BEDC.5633AE51@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest?2010 _____________________________________________ Week 03 - 11-17 January http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=229 _____________________________________________ 1. Feature of the Week - launch on 11 January 2010 10 Years JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art launches today its netart features of the year 2010, released in form of the daily journal - "Celebrate!" - http://2010.javamuseum.org - starting today with the US artist Russet Lederman (USA) and her net based project -Barely Skin Deep-, 2008 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=220 2. SIP - SoundLAB Interview Project - a series of interviews - this week: --> Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay), 4th World Orchestra, Mauro Arrighi (IT), Anna Friz (CAN), G.H. Hovamigyan (USA), Juichi Ito (JAPAN), TZ/X - Zoltan Tonka (HU) 3. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project - a series of interviews - this week: : --> Salvatore Iaconesi (Italy), Yvonne Martinsson (SWE), Juan Manuel Patino (AR), Myron Turner (CAN), Reiner Strasser (GER), Letizia Jacchieri (NO), Calin Man (RO) 4. VideoChannel January 2010 - French Video Art - daily features this week: Melanie Perrier, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Les Riches Douaniers, Tom de Pekin, Laurent Pernot, Virginie Foloppe, Frank Gatti 5. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection - daily features this week: James Woodward (USA), Michael Brynntrup (GER), Clint Enns (CA), Maria Canas (ES), Doron Golan (IL), Angie Eng (USA), Joao Ricardo (PT) 6. CologneOFF V - features for one day - this week: --> Junho Oh (S.Korea), Jym Davis (USA), Renata Padovan (BR), Carla Della Beffa (IT), Dina Boswank (GER), Yin-Ling Chen (TW) http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=229 _____________________________________________ January 2010 - features of the month - http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=224 1. VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art (2010) 2. JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - 1st global competition (2001) 3. SoundLAB - Soundart from Chile (2006) - curated by Rainer Krause _____________________________________________ NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org 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 marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Jan 11 15:01:29 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Jan 11 15:01:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009). In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B4B2F39.70605@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009). This article is co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange. Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009). By Edward Picot. Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, died at 5 a.m. on 29th November 2009, of swine flu with complications. Her mother and longtime collaborator, Martha Deed, was with her at the time. She had been in hospital for four weeks, mostly in intensive care, after picking up the virus, which quickly became serious in her case, probably because she already had respiratory difficulties as a result of a rare condition known as Behcet's Disease. She was 36 years old. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=372 "Millie's work for me, has always reached beyond the surface of things. Managing to communicate an essence of her character and her varied intentions successfully. There is a unique sense of humour in much of her work, even when dealing with dark themes. A surreal edge, informed by her particular views on humanity and all of its, seemingly perpetual absurdities. Mixed with a playful, open spirit and a twist of simplicity. Her work was and is, more for those not bound by distracting trends - open for all. A rare wisdom with an authentic voice in this strange and complex world. Good bye Millie..." Marc Garrett. This article by Edward Picot can also be read on The Hyperliterature Exchange - http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewmillieniss.php -------------> 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 hatam at drfz.de Mon Jan 11 17:20:14 2010 From: hatam at drfz.de (hatam@drfz.de) Date: Mon Jan 11 17:20:49 2010 Subject: [spectre] The World as instrument: A theoretical Workshop Francisco Lopez Berlin NK Feb 16-18 Message-ID: <380-220101111162014717@M2W131.mail2web.com> The World as instrument: A Theoretical Workshop Taught by Francisco Lopez at NK Feb 16-18 2010 Berlin. 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] This theoretical workshop is focused on the historical, sociological and philosophical (rather than technical) aspects of different practices that have the ???real world??? as a source, or an inspiration, for sonic creation. From ancestral manifestations of music derived from nature to the present massive sonic exploration of our world, analyzing the historical attempts at recording sonic reality and creatively transform it, from musical notation to digital technology. With a multitude of sonic examples, from traditional to electronic music, the workshop aims at stirring up discussion and at challenging many stereotypical and misleading conceptions about recorded sound in many diverse areas and objects of study, from bioacoustics to experimental music, from phonographs to hard disk recorders, from birds to cosmic radio emissions. Date: Feb 16-18 2010 (3Days) Place: NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin Time: 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 17:00 Participation is limited to 15 participants Registration: Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to enka_nk@gmx.de Fee: 150 Euros -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web From turbulence at turbulence.org Sun Jan 3 22:34:53 2010 From: turbulence at turbulence.org (Turbulence) Date: Mon Jan 11 21:38:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] Turbulence Commission: "FUJI spaces and other places" by Nurit Bar-Shai Message-ID: <000501ca8cbc$98583ba0$c908b2e0$@org> January 3, 2010; 6:30 am in Tokyo (4:30 pm EST) Turbulence Commission: "FUJI spaces and other places" by Nurit Bar-Shai http://turbulence.org/works/FUJI Appropriating, processing, and interweaving several existing webcam feeds of Mount Fuji, "FUJI" is a durational piece for four seasons. "FUJI" examines the authenticity of networked, spatiotemporal experiences of distant nature, sacred sites, and sacred icons. The overwhelming immediacy and delirious variety of live broadcasts available via the Internet, as well as the current incitement to communicate with distant but real subjects alter our experience of space which is invariably mediated through images. In "FUJI", the gap between the real place and its representation no longer exists. "FUJI" is a voyage across deep time, experienced minute by minute, day by day -- a longing for a place that could never be, yet, evidently, always is. BIOGRAPHY Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist who composes video and live telematic installations. Her work has been exhibited at the OK-Center in Linz, The National Art Center in Tokyo, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo, the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki and The Center for Digital Art in Israel, among others. Bar-Shai received a Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Honorary Mention, the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Award, ETC Finishing Funds award, funded by NYSCA, ARTIS - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund Grant, and was commissioned by Turbulence.org, with funds from The Greenwall Foundation (2006), and with funds from The Jerome Foundation (2009). Bar-Shai has held residencies at the Experimental Television Center, the Makor Steinhardt Center, Harvestworks and the European Lab for Interactive Media Art: eMobiLArt. From sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net Fri Jan 8 16:12:18 2010 From: sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9bastien_Bourdeauducq?=) Date: Mon Jan 11 21:38:52 2010 Subject: [spectre] Breizh Entropy Congress - Call for Proposals (APRIL 2010 - RENNES-FRANCE) - Culture and free technology Message-ID: <201001081612.19022.sebastien.bourdeauducq@lekernel.net> ================================ BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France Call for Proposals ================================ French version at bottom / Version fran?aise en bas Passionate individuals and non-profit organizations from the region of Rennes, Brittany, France invite you to participate in the first Breizh Entropy Congress. This inter-disciplinary event focuses on free (as in freedom) creations and culture. Through a meeting fostering open-mindedness, exchange of ideas and learning, we hope to show solutions to technical, social and political problems, and celebrate free, reclaimed and creative art and technology. We happily welcome entropy, as a means to break artificial boundaries between disciplines and find unexpected ways of doing things that promote liberalization, sharing and reclaiming of technologies that traditionnally belonged to the realm of corporations and well-funded academic labs. NB: We are grateful for any kind of distribution of this CfP! FORMATS We gladly accept your proposals for the following formats. You can submit a proposal alone or as a group. The list is not exhaustive. - Lecture (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour slot to explain or present your project or idea. - Panel discussion (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). One hour of debate on the subject you propose. - Lightning talk (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). 5 minute short talk to outline your idea and give a web link to the audience. - Workshop (Friday & Saturday 10:00-18:00). Hands-on practice in electronics, mechanics, chemistry or software, led by yourself. Can be any length between 1 and 8 hours. - Music concert (Thursday 18:00-24:00). If you play music licensed under CC or any other free license, be most welcome. All styles accepted. Duration 30min - 2 hours. - Artistic performances (Thursday 18:00-24:00). Duration 10min - 2 hours. - Exhibition and artistic installations (during the complete event). Come and bring your cool hardware and/or artistic projects. - Posters (during the complete event). We will have space in the exhibition room for you to stick posters about your projects, ideas or events. SUGGESTED PROPOSALS Free hardware - Free your manufacturing: FabLabs & RepRap - Free your vintage electronics: DIY vacuum tube fabs - Free your silicon: DIY semiconductor fabs - DIY thin film technology - Drones (UAVs) - Soldering workshops - Electronics workshops Free devices - Free your applications: file format reverse engineering - Free your drivers: device protocol reverse engineering - Free your logic design: open FPGA cores and tools - Free your PCBs: free "traditional" electronics designs - Home automation Free software - Innovative & original free software tools - Free games - Reverse engineering tools & techniques - Pentesting tools - Graphics & live audio processing tools - Free software economy Free radio - Free your waves: open source software-defined radios - Free your communications: wireless mesh networks - Amateur radio - Open hardware mobile phones Free science - Any type of uncommon science experiment contributing to free knowledge - Cyclotrons - Gyrotrons - Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging devices - Free your space exploration: google LunarXPrize projects - Free your energy generators: alternative & DIY power stations - Artificial intelligence & neural networks - Cognitive sciences - Alternative scientific paper review/publication systems Free society - Ensuring access to public data - Political debates on net neutrality - Ethical & problematic free licensing schemes - Visions of freedom - Intellectual property - Future of free software and legal threats - Preserving the commons - Access to knowledge - Escaping control society - Liquid democracy Free individuals - Privacy - Accessibility - Hijacking of established practices and purposes - Darknets - Hackerspaces - TAZ - Creative hijacking of public space Free art - Free artwork and/or artwork made with free software - Artistic performances - Artistic installations - Any style of freely-licensed music - Computer-assisted music - Remix culture/Transformative works - Free cinema - Demoscene ...And anything that does not fit... PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE - S?bastien Bourdeauducq S?bastien is a passionate science and technology generalist. He is a core member of /tmp/lab, a Paris hackerspace, since 2008 and participated in organizing the Hacker Space Festivals. His projects include Milkymist (an open source hardware system-on-chip for live video art), Consumer-B-Gone (a mobile phone ringtone that blocks shopping carts), reverse engineering Prism54 Wi-Fi cards, and many others. Web: http://lekernel.net - Nicolas Brodu Nicolas Brodu is a teacher and researcher, currently at University of Rennes 1. He is interested by the use of machine learning to investigate complex systems, as a way to deal with emergent phenomena. He develops free software, both for scientific and general use, amongst which the Encours.org teleconference server. See http://nicolas.brodu.numerimoire.net - Meven Car - Pierre Cosquer Pierre is a student at the Computer Science Department at INSA de Rennes (an engineering school). He is a member of Actux and one of the developers of The ProPHET (http://codingteam.net/project/prophet). - Val?rie Dagrain Val?rie is a consultant specialised in the stakes of information society and digital territories. She is involved full time on free software projects and on the advocacy of Internet at the service of citizens. She invests herself in usability, interoperability, digital inclusion, participative democracy, promoting access to knowledge and ensuring access to public data. She contributes in local development and the organization of Free Software events and workshops since 2002. - Nina Engelhardt Nina is a student in computer science at ENS Cachan. She is a member of /tmp/lab and helped with the organization of the Hacker Space Festival 2009. Her interests are centered around the intersection of technology, culture and society. - Kevin Hinault Developer in an ITC (Information Technology Consulting) company. Assistance on the Debian mailing-lists. Member of the April non profit organization. Active member of Breizhtux: mainly involved in the monthly Install Party and in organizing the RBLL (Rencontres Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre). Blogger on system-linux.eu. Occasional Mozilla contributor. - John Lejeune Dived into Free Software ten years ago and since then, does not give up. Now involved in hackable-devices.com, he applies to hardware the principles of Free Software and DIY culture. His other passion is the radio broadcasting world, through associations like http://www.autres-mondes.org, http://radio.rmll.info or http://canalb.fr. - Yohann Lepage Yohann is a master student in engineering in networks and telecommunications. He has a passion for innovative and free technology. - David Mentr? Founding member of Gulliver, lead developer of demexp software (http://demexp.org) and co-developer of MapOSMatic (http://maposmatic.org). Free Software activist for more than 15 years. - Carole Thibaud Young video maker from Nantes, member of some non-profit organizations like Makiz'art (audiovisual creation and independant production), Mire (experimental cinema), and the Crealab network (digital creation). Vj, projectionist, editor, documentary director, she's interested as much in real time video as in the techniques of argentic cinema. www.carolethibaud.com - Kereoz Kereoz is a PhD student in computer security. He is passionate with arts, science and their interaction. He is a core member of Actux (FOSS) and MDesigner (FOSS & electronic arts). - RZR tags: programming, multimedia, 3d, audio, contrib, linux, debian, packaging, ubuntu, embedded, telephony, openmoko, maemo, c, c++, privacy, android, qt, java, low tech, autonomy, amiga, diy ... url: http://rzr.online.fr/contribs.htm - Taz SUBMISSION TEMPLATE Send your submission before the deadline to cfp AT breizh-entropy.org. Be sure to include information about the following points: - Format of the submission - Title of the submission - Name of speaker(s)/presenter(s)/artist(s) - Language (if applicable): French/English - Summary of the submission - Short bio - Hardware/logistics requirements - Contact e-mail and (if possible) mobile phone PRACTICAL INFO Venue: Universite de Rennes, Campus Beaulieu 263 Avenue du G?n?ral Leclerc 35700 Rennes, France Price: Free! Opening: Thursday, April 15th 2010, 18:00 Closing: Saturday, April 17th 2010, 18:00 For concerts & artistic performances on stage: Submission Deadline: February 2nd 2010, 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: February 4th 2010 Publication of Schedule: February 12th 2010 For all other formats: Submission Deadline: March 10th 2010, 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: March 20th 2010 Publication of Schedule: March 25th 2010 Website: www.breizh-entropy.org CfP Mail (for sending your proposals only): cfp AT breizh-entropy.org Orga Contact (for all the rest): contact AT actux.fr DISCLAIMERS Breizh Entropy Congress is a zero-budget operation entirely run by volunteers and we therefore cannot help anyone with their food, travel and accommodation expenses. However, we might be able to arrange makeshift accommodation for participants in need, contact us for more information. Breizh Entropy Congress is not an academic conference. ================================ BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS 15-17 avril 2010, Rennes, France Appel ? propositions ================================ Des passionn?s et des associations de la r?gion de Rennes vous invitent ? participer au premier Breizh Entropy Congress. Cet ?v?nement inter-disciplinaire a pour th?me la cr?ation et la culture libres. A travers un colloque favorisant l'ouverture d'esprit, l'?change d'id?es et l'?ducation, nous esp?rons ?baucher des solutions ? des probl?mes techniques, sociaux et culturels et c?l?brer l'art et la technologie libres, r?appropri?s et cr?atifs. Nous appr?cions l'entropie, en tant que moyen de briser les fronti?res artificielles entre les disciplines et trouver des fa?ons de faire inattendues qui favorisent la lib?ration, le partage et la r?appropriation de technologies qui appartiennent traditionellement au domaine d'entreprises et de laboratoires acad?miques solidement financ?s. NB: Nous sommes reconnaissants pour toute distribution de ce CfP! FORMATS Nous acceptons vos propositions dans les formats suivants. Vous pouvez soumettre une proposition seul ou en tant que groupe. La liste n'est pas exhaustive. - Conf?rence (Vendredi & Samedi 10:00-18:00). Cr?neau d'une heure pour pr?senter votre projet ou votre id?e. - Table ronde (Vendredi & Samedi 10:00-18:00). Une heure de d?bat sur le sujet que vous proposez. - Conf?rence ?clair (Vendredi & Samedi 10:00-18:00). Cr?neau court de 5 minutes pour ?baucher votre id?e et donner un lien web ? l'audience. - Atelier (Vendredi & Samedi 10:00-18:00). Travaux pratiques en ?lectronique, m?canique, chimie, logiciel, etc. que vous dirigerez. Dur?e entre 1h et 8h. - Concert (Jeudi 18:00-24:00). Si vous faites de la musique sous licence libre, soyez le bienvenu. Tous styles accept?s. Dur?e 30min - 2h. - Performance artistique (Jeudi 18:00-24:00). Dur?e 10min - 2h. - Exposition et installations artistiques (totalit? de l'?v?nement). Venez et apportez votre mat?riel et/ou vos projets artistiques. - Posters (totalit? de l'?v?nement). Des grilles d'affichage seront ? votre disposition dans la salle d'exposition pour afficher vos posters ? propos de vos projets, id?es ou ?v?nements. SUGGESTIONS DE PROPOSITIONS Mat?riel libre - Lib?rez la fabrication: FabLabs & RepRap - Lib?rez l'?lectronique "vintage": fabrication de tubes ? vide - Lib?rez le silicium: fabrication DIY de semiconducteurs - Technologies "couche mince" DIY - Drones - Ateliers soudure - Ateliers ?lectronique Appareils libres - Lib?rez les applications: ing?nierie inverse de format de fichier - Lib?rez les pilotes: ing?nierie inverse de protocole de p?riph?rique - Lib?rez la conception logique: coeurs et outils FPGA ouverts - Lib?rez les PCBs: designs ?lectroniques "traditionnels" - Quels mod?les ?conomiques pour les appareils libres? - Domotique Logiciel libre - Logiciels libres innovants & originaux - Jeux libres - Intelligence artificielle et r?seaux neuronaux - Outils et techniques d'ing?nierie inverse - Outils de pentesting - Outils graphiques et de traitement audio temps r?el - Economie et logiciel libre Communications radio libres - Lib?rez la radio: radio logicielle open source - Lib?rez la communication: r?seaux maill?s sans fil - Radioamateurisme - T?l?phonie mobile Science libre - Tout type d'exp?rience scientifique peu commune et contribuant ? la connaissance libre - Cyclotrons - Gyrotrons - Appareils d'imagerie par r?sonance nucl?aire - Lib?rez l'exploration spatiale: projets Google LunarXPrize - Lib?rez les sources d'?nergie: g?n?rateurs alternatifs & DIY - Sciences cognitives - Syst?mes de revue et de publication scientifiques alternatifs Soci?t? libre - R?appropriation des donnees publiques - Licences ?thiques et probl?matiques - D?bats politiques sur la neutralit? d'internet - Visions du libre - Futur du logiciel libre et menaces l?gales - Pr?servation du bien commun - Soci?t? sous surveillance - D?mocratie liquide Individus libres - Vie priv?e - Accessibilit? - Propri?t? intellectuelle - D?tournement des usages - Darknets - Hackerspaces - TAZ - D?tournement cr?atif de l'espace public Art libre - Art libre et/ou r?alis? avec des logiciels libres - Performances artistiques - Installations artistiques - Tous styles de musique sous licence libre - Musique assist?e par ordinateur - Culture remix - Cin?ma libre - Demoscene ...Et tout ce qui n'a pas ?t? list?... COMITE DE PROGRAMMATION - S?bastien Bourdeauducq S?bastien est un passionn? de sciences et de technologies en g?n?ral. Il est l'un des membres principaux du /tmp/lab, un hackerspace de Paris, depuis 2008 et a particip? ? l'organisation des Hacker Space Festival. Ses projets incluent Milkymist (un "system-on-chip" open source pour l'art vid?o temps r?el), Consumer-B-Gone (une sonnerie de t?l?phone portable qui bloque les caddies de supermarch?), l'ing?nierie inverse des cartes Wi-Fi Prism54, et bien d'autres. Web: http://lekernel.net - Nicolas Brodu Nicolas Brodu est un enseignant et chercheur, actuellement ? l'Universit? de Rennes 1. Il s'int?resse ? l'apprentissage automatique comme outil d'investigation des syst?mes complexes, afin d'en ?tudier les ph?nom?nes ?mergents. Il d?veloppe des logiciels libres, tant pour usage scientifique que g?n?raliste, parmi lesquels le syst?me de t?l?conf?rence Encours.org. Cf son site web http://nicolas.brodu.numerimoire.net - Meven Car - Pierre Cosquer Pierre est actuellement ?tudiant au d?partement Info de l'INSA de Rennes (une ?cole d'ing?nieurs). Il est adh?rent ? Actux et l'un des d?veloppeurs du logiciel The ProPHET (http://codingteam.net/project/prophet). - Val?rie Dagrain Val?rie Dagrain est conseill?re en d?veloppement territorial et technologies de l'information et communication (TIC) pour un internet citoyen. Elle s'investit sur des th?matiques relatives ? l'accessibilit?, l'interop?rabilit?, l'inclusion num?rique, les logiciels libres, la d?mocratie participative et l'intelligence coop?rative. Elle intervient dans le cadre d'un d?veloppement local, durable par la prospective et ?tude de projets, organisation d'?v?nementiels et d'ateliers participatifs avec du Libre depuis 2002. - Nina Engelhardt Nina est ?tudiante en informatique ? l'ENS Cachan. Elle est membre du /tmp/lab et a aid? ? l'organisation du Hacker Space Festival 2009. Ses int?r?ts sont centr?s autour de l'intersection de la technologie, de la culture et de la soci?t?. - Kevin Hinault D?veloppeur dans une SSII ? Lannion. Aide sur les listes de diffusion Debian. Participation ? la vie de l'April. Membre actif de Breizhtux: essentiellement lors des Install Party chaque mois et pour l'orga de la RBLL. Bloggeur ? mi-temps sur system-linux.eu. Contributeur Mozilla de temps en temps. - John Lejeune D?couvre le Libre il y a une dizaine d'ann?e et ne l?che pas depuis. ? pr?sent impliqu? dans hackable-devices.com, il cherche ? d?velopper, pour le hardware, les principes du logiciel Libre. Son autre passion reste l'univers radiophonique, au travers d'associations comme http://www.autres-mondes.org, http://radio.rmll.info ou http://canalb.fr. - Yohann Lepage Yohann Lepage est apprenti ing?nieur en r?seaux & t?l?communications. C'est un passionn? des technologies innovantes et libres. - David Mentr? David est membre fondateur de Gulliver, d?veloppeur principal du logiciel demexp (http://demexp.org) et co-d?veloppeur de MapOSMatic (http://maposmatic.org). Activiste du Libre depuis plus de 15 ans. - Carole Thibaud Jeune vid?aste nantaise, membre des associations Makiz'art (cr?ation audiovisuelle et production ind?pendante), Mire (cin?ma exp?rimental) et du r?seau crealab (cr?ation num?rique). Vj, projectionniste, monteuse, r?alisatrice documentaire, elle s'int?resse autant au traitement de l'image en temps r?el qu'aux techniques de cin?ma argentique. www.carolethibaud.com - Kereoz Kereoz est doctorant en s?curit? des syst?mes d'information. Il est passion? par l'art, la science et leur interaction. Il est un membre principal d'Actux (FOSS) et MDesigner (FOSS & arts ?lectroniques). - RZR tags: programming, multimedia, 3d, audio, contrib, linux, debian, packaging, ubuntu, embedded, telephony, openmoko, maemo, c, c++, privacy, android, qt, java, low tech, autonomy, amiga, diy ... url: http://rzr.online.fr/contribs.htm - Taz MODELE DE PROPOSITION Envoyez votre proposition avant la date limite ? cfp AT breizh-entropy.org. Veuillez vous assurez d'inclure les points suivants: - Format de la proposition - Titre de la proposition - Nom du (des) pr?sentateur(s)/artiste(s) - Langue (si pertinent): Fran?ais/Anglais - R?sum? de la proposition - Courte biographie - Besoins mat?riels/logistique - E-mail de contact et (si possible) t?l?phone portable INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES Lieu: Universite de Rennes, Campus Beaulieu 263 Avenue du G?n?ral Leclerc 35700 Rennes, France Prix d'entr?e: Gratuit! Ouverture: Jeudi 15 avril 2010, 18:00 Fermeture: Samedi 17 avril 2010, 18:00 Pour les concerts et performances artistiques sur sc?ne: Date limite d'envoi: 2 f?vrier, 23:59 Notification d'acceptation: 4 f?vrier Publication du programme: 12 f?vrier Pour tous les autres formats: Date limite d'envoi: 10 mars, 23:59 Notification d'acceptation: 20 mars Publication du programme: 25 mars Web: www.breizh-entropy.org Mail CfP (pour envoyer vos propositions): cfp AT breizh-entropy.org Contact orga (pour tout le reste): contact AT actux.fr DISCLAIMERS Breizh Entropy Congress est organis? sans budget par des volontaires et nous ne pouvons donc aider personne avec leurs d?penses de nourriture, voyage et h?bergement. Cependant, nous pourrions ?tre en mesure de trouver un h?bergement de fortune pour les participants en ayant besoin, contactez nous si vous ?tes dans ce cas. Breizh Entropy Congress n'est pas une conf?rence acad?mique. From Info at edith-russ-haus.de Mon Jan 11 16:46:12 2010 From: Info at edith-russ-haus.de (Edith-Russ-Haus) Date: Mon Jan 11 21:38:53 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?utf-8?q?Newsletter=3A_K=C3=BCnstlergespr=C3=A4ch_Guy?= =?utf-8?q?_Ben-Ner_-_Artist=C2=B4s_Talk_Guy_Ben-Ner?= Message-ID: <4B4B55CC.CA9C.00AE.1@edith-russ-haus.de> Wir m?chten Sie herzlich einladen zum / We would like to invite you to the K?nstlergespr?ch mit Guy Ben-Ner am 14. Januar 2010, um 20.00, im Seminarraum des Edith-Ru?-Hauses f?r Medienkunst. Die erste deutsche Einzelausstellung des isrealischen K?nstlers Guy Ben-Ner gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in sein videok?nstlerisches Werk. Im Gespr?ch mit dem K?nstler bietet sich die Gelegenheit, weitere Arbeiten kennenzulernen und ihn zu den Hintergr?nden seiner Filme zu befragen, die Sie sich vorher w?hrend der Abend?ffnung der Ausstellung Guy Ben-Ner. Flying Lessons zwischen 17.00 - 20.00 und in der F?hrung um 18.00 noch einmal ansehen k?nnen. Das Team des Edith-Ru?-Hauses und Guy Ben-Ner w?rden sich freuen, mit Ihnen eine anregende Diskussion ?ber diese wichtige Position zeitgen?ssischer Videokunst zu f?hren ************************************************************************************** Artist?s talk with Guy Ben-Ner on January the 14th 2010, at 20.00, in the Seminarraum at the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art. The first German solo exhibition by the Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner presents an overview of his video art. The artist?s talk offers the possibility to get to know more of his works and to ask him about the background of his films. You might watch these before during the late opening of the exhibition Guy Ben-Ner. Flying Lessons at 17.00 - 20.00 and in the guided tour at 18.00. The team of the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art and Guy Ben-Ner would be happy to discuss this important position of contemporary video art with you. 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 From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Jan 12 14:24:42 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Jan 12 14:25:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] Older than youtube. Curator Laure Prouvost Explains Seven Years of tank.tv In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B4C781A.1020509@furtherfield.org> Older than youtube. Curator Laure Prouvost Explains Seven Years of tank.tv Article by Angela Ferraiolo http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=373 Seven years ago, or about two years before the invention of youtube, the editors of Tank Magazine saw the possibility of an internet platform dedicated to video art. Their response was tank.tv, an Internet site that is part moving image archive, part online gallery, and part cutting edge video art exhibition. "The sole focus is on the work," explains curator and creative director Laure Prouvost, who has been with the site since its beginning. Prouvost describes tank.tv as a completely open endeavor, one that supports experimentation by accepting submissions and curatorial proposals throughout the year: "We have worked to make tank.tv a collaborative platform over time and we're still looking for ways to open our programme as much as possible." After running a series of solo shows in 2009, tank decided to finish the decade with the group show 'Open End'. About twelve films were selected from the submissions tank.tv received throughout the year. Works by emerging artists received special attention. They include Just a 'Quiet Peaceful Dance' by Dean Kissick, a rapid, flash cut montage that cascades in one smooth glide over its upbeat house track, and the dreamy, slightly disturbing 3D animation 'Your Uncertain Spirit' by Jonathan Monaghan and more... 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 juhuu at juhuu.nu Tue Jan 12 14:41:59 2010 From: juhuu at juhuu.nu (Juha Huuskonen) Date: Tue Jan 12 14:42:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] Pixelache Helsinki 2010 / Call for Participation Message-ID: <791E8393-E436-4BCB-9AF6-5224EECBD5B4@juhuu.nu> : : : Pixelache Helsinki 2010 25-28 March Call for Participation >> www.pixelache.ac/helsinki Deadline Wednesday 20 January! : : : Pixelache Helsinki 2010 features: HERBOLOGIES/FORAGING NETWORKS - The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, exploring the cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open information-sharing, biological and hydroponic technologies. HOW TO BUILD A DISHWASHER - The first exhibition of a collaborative research project by Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute researchers Garth Zeglin, Marek Michalowski, Geoff Gordon, Ben Brown, Iheanyi Umez-Eronini, Sue Ann Hong, Paul Scerri and artist Axel Straschnoy. The objective has been to find out what kind of art robots make for other robots. It started with a discussion within the team and with partners such as artists, theater directors, philosophers and neurobiologists. Following these conversations, two robots were designed and built: One that can make performance art and another one that can watch it. GOTO10 - GOTO10 is a collective of international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts. GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art. GOTO10 collective has been invited to curate parts of Pixelache Helsinki 2010 programme. GOLAN LEVIN EXHIBITION IN KIASMA MEDIATHEQUE - Golan Levin is an artist and engineer interested in exploring new modes of reactive expression. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, Golan applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of non-verbal communication and interactivity. ART MEETS ENERGY CONSUMPTION - Pixelache and Helsingin Energia are collaborating to produce artworks related to collective energy consumption in Helsinki area. The artworks will be located in public space in Helsinki and/or presented as online projects. In the first round of the project, following artists were invited to submit proposals for artworks: Miska Knapek, Andy Best, Maria Duncker, Unsworn Industries (Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson) and 4um (Karthik Acharya, Arto Tommiska, Elina Alatalo ja Jukka Hautam?ki). OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE - Open Source Hardware presents projects and communities that have over the past few years been making knowledge about electronic hardware more accessible. The OSH programme will include presentations of case examples by 5-10 local and international participants, such as the initiative Fritzing from Germany for documenting and manufacturing pcbs for Arduino board and the meshing wireless access point project for low-infra areas Mesh-Potato. MEGAPHONEBOOTH HELSINKI - Megaphonebooth Helsinki is a coin-operated megaphone to be located in a public space somewhere in Helsinki. To use the megaphone you just have to insert one euro per minute, speak into the attached handset and have your voice instantly amplified and projected into the local soundscape. Unsworn Industries (Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson) is an interaction design and innovation studio based in Malm?, Sweden. Unsworn will premiere their project Megaphonebooth in Helsinki during March 2010. THE INVISIBLE CITY - The Invisible City project explores the city not just as formed by physical space, but also as a collective construction, made up of the memories, desires and experiences of its inhabitants. The city should not be conceived as a unit but rather as the sum of its inhabitants' multiple points of views which, all combined, create a multi-faceted perspective. Thus, the city is an aggregation of public and private spaces, from which emerges a shared identity allowing us to live in it. ART AND SUSTAINABILITY - This programme section is organised in connection with MIM goes sustainable (working title) project by Maike Lond & Taavet Jansen. It aims to provide alternatives to traditional thinking of how theaters operate and prove that low-tech eco-thinking in theatre does not automatically mean simply substandard production quality. The main goal of the project is to create a staged theatrical performance that brings the usage of fossil fuels and other resources to absolute minimum. SIGNALS FROM THE SOUTH - Signals from the South is a programme section dedicated to art, media and technology from the South (South America, Africa, Asia). The third edition of Signals from the South features an exhibition by Shaina Anand & Ashok Sukumaran (India). ALSO IN PIXELACHE HELSINKI 2010: - Performances by TERMINALBEACH (AT) and Ona Kamu (FI) - Pixelache Software of the Year - Club events - MUU Artists' Association interactive sound installation course results - Sound workshop for kids in collaboration with IHME Days - HELOW 2010 (Helsinki Low Frequency Weekend) electronic music festival ++ MORE PROGRAMME TO BE CONFIRMED : : : From info at garage-g.de Tue Jan 12 20:40:09 2010 From: info at garage-g.de (carsten stabenow) Date: Tue Jan 12 20:40:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] Agnes Meyer-Brandis - Cloud Core Scanner Message-ID: with this mail we would like to invite you for the opening of the first project which was produced during the residency of the cologne based artist agnes meyer-brandis at dock-berlin e.v.. the opening reception will take place thursday, 14th of january at 7 p.m. at the project space of schering stiftung berlin. Agnes Meyer-Brandis Cloud Core Scanner: INSIDE THR TROPOSHERIC LABORATORY The "Tropospheric Laboratory" allows insights into cloud cores and other matter of the apogee. The installation narrates the synthesis of clouds and shows varying conditions and combinations of art and science in the absence of weight. The "laboratory" is the gravimetric document of "Cloud Core Scanner" - an experiment and artistic project by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, carried out on board a German Aerospace Center research plane. It reflects an iridescent world, between controlled and unleashed states: artistic research on the quest for a degree of reality within constructions. 15. January - 27. February 2010 Monday - Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. location: Schering Stiftung Unter den Linden 32-34 10117 Berlin entrance: free A production of DOCK e.V. in cooperation with Schering Stiftung. Partner-event of transmediale.10. The experiment "Cloud-Core-Scanner" was realised in cooperation with Deutsches Zentrum f?r Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) and with the support of Filmstiftung NRW. more informations: http://www.ffur.de http://www.dock-berlin.de http://www.scheringstiftung.de From jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk Wed Jan 13 10:59:17 2010 From: jennifer.stoddart at folly.co.uk (Jennifer Stoddart) Date: Wed Jan 13 10:59:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] BLAZING A TRAIL: NEW CULTURAL JOURNEYS COMMISSIONS Message-ID: <31387153.22075.1263376757164.JavaMail.root@fermat.axiomtech.co.uk> New Cultural Journeys is inviting proposals for creative projects that will 'Blaze a Trail' across Lancashire and the Fylde Coast, UK, between March and September 2010. New Cultural Journeys is an ambitious youth led culture and sport participation programme for Lancashire and the Fylde Coast that is part of WE PLAY, the North West cultural legacy programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The theme of the programme is Routes and Trails, making new connections between people and places, sport and arts and physical and virtual worlds in the lead up to 2012. Working with young people aged 13 - 19 from across the region, we are seeking to commission 5 creative projects along the theme of Routes and Trails. We are looking for ideas that will excite, surprise and engage residents and visitors to Lancashire and the Fylde Coast, creating opportunities for people of all ages to take part in voyages of discovery both outdoor and online. Fees for each commission are in the range of ?5 -10K with the opportunity of future further investment for the most successful and innovative ideas. We are inviting applications from artists and designers who work with digital and creative technology. Collaborative proposals and regional, national and international applications welcome For a full brief, including information about the individual commissions and how to apply, please email: sara.domville@lancashire.gov.uk The closing date for proposals is 29th January 2010 New Cultural Journeys is a partnership project between Lancashire County Council, Creative Lancashire and Blackpool Council and is part of WE PLAY. WE PLAY is a Legacy Trust UK project, led by the Arts Council England Northwest, on behalf of a new regional partnership. From m at 1010.co.uk Wed Jan 13 15:17:50 2010 From: m at 1010.co.uk (m) Date: Wed Jan 13 15:18:38 2010 Subject: [spectre] mobile laboratory//topology of a future city Message-ID: 'Temporal bandwidth,' is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar '[delta-] t' considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. [Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow] _____-micro-research announces the launch of a mobile research laboratory devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics. Field trips, working groups and occassional workshops are planned for 2010. The first expedition will be titled Topology of a Future City and takes place in early February in Berlin as part of Transmediale10. Topology of a future city proposes a speculative working group divining, describing and thus constructing a future city in ruins; a series of descriptive urban vectors extrapolated from ghosted electromagnetic, signal and literary traces. Borrowing techniques from geophysical archaeology (revealing and mapping of geophysical properties), narrative displacements (filmic manipulations of temporality, science fiction), and coded psychogeographics (tracing signs of underground networks), Topology sketches a model for the future city flaneur. http://www.1010.co.uk/org/topology.html http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/11027 renewed siting: http://www.1010.co.uk/org/ From louise.desrenards at free.fr Thu Jan 14 13:05:44 2010 From: louise.desrenards at free.fr (Louise Desrenards) Date: Thu Jan 14 13:06:16 2010 Subject: [spectre] BATTISTI / BRAZIL / YEARS OF LEAD Message-ID: <9eb0e3811001140405y625ac48cs7743c9664062c0b1@mail.gmail.com> http://translate.google.com/# ???????????????????????????????????????????? http://lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/01/12/au-bresil-la-memoire-des-annees-de-plomb-revient-sur-le-devant-de-la-scene_1290582_3222.html ?????????\ CESARE BATTISTI /???????? Deadline F?vrier 2010 POUR SIGNER LA PETITION DES ECRIVAINS BR?SILIENS http://www.ldh-france.org/Une-petition-pour-Cesare-Battisti ==> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/btstlng/petition.html Traduction indicative en fran?ais : http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?breve818 ???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????? La recension de deux derniers textes (chronologiquement) dans la revue des Ressources - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ANN?ES DE PLOMB, PAROLE DONN?E, DOCTRINE MITTERRAND 25 ANS APR?S... http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1488 Aliette G. Certhoux, 12 janvier 2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - MENSONGES EN DE?A DES ALPES ET MENSONGES AU-DEL? ENTRETIEN D'OLIVIER FAVIER AVEC FRED VARGAS SUR L'AFFAIRE BATTISTI (in?dit) http://www.larevuedesressources.org/spip.php?article1477 Fred Vargas, Olivier Favier, 26 d?cembre 2009 ???????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????\/???????? From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Thu Jan 14 17:00:08 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (netEX) Date: Thu Jan 14 17:00:47 2010 Subject: [spectre] Two open calls Message-ID: <20100114170008.38AC4DD5.122FDD2E@192.168.0.2> VideoChannel Cologne has currently two open calls running ________________________________________________ 1. [self ] ~imaging // artists portraying themselves in film and video 2. One Minute Films for One Minute Film Collection ________________________________________________ 1 Call for entries Deadline 2 March 2010 Theme: [self ] ~imaging // artists portraying themselves in film and video Like in the classical artistic media, self-portraying takes also in film & videoart a prominent position, the own "self" is not only representing the cheapest model, but basically self-reflecting belongs to the essential artistic processes and activities of an artist. Thus, there are good reasons why artists self-portraits can be counted often to the best and most intimate works of an artist, at all. VideoChannel Cologne would like to invite artists working in the field of the moving images to submit their Selfportrait in video. VideoChannel Cologne is planning to extend an already existing collection of artists video self-portraits through new exciting films and videos to be launched in May 2010 on VideoChannel online, optional screenings in sequence. Find the details and the entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852 _________________________________________________ 2. Call for entries Deadline 2 April 2010 Theme: One Minute Films for OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) VideoChannel is looking for "one minute films and videos" on the theme "memory" and "identity" for an online feature and future screening programs in the framework of the 10th anniversary celebrations of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - http://2010.newmediafest.org The accepted films will extend OMFC - One Minute Film Collection - the uinique selection of films and videos lasting exactly 60 seconds. regulations and entry form on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447 _________________________________________________ VideoChannel Cologne http://videochannel.newmediafest.org videochannel (at) newmediafest.org _________________________________________________ From bureaud at altern.org Thu Jan 14 17:35:45 2010 From: bureaud at altern.org (Annick Bureaud) Date: Thu Jan 14 17:33:03 2010 Subject: [spectre] Reminder Call for Papers: Water from Space, deadline March 5th 2010 Message-ID: <4B4F47E1.5090000@altern.org> Dear Spectals ! A Happy New Year ! Feel free to dissiminate this call to artists, theoreticians, scientists you know that have projects relevant to the topics of the call. And I encourage everyone that has one to submit ! Best Annick Bureaud ****** REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS : deadline March 5th 2010 WATER from SPACE: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects International Astronautical Congress 27th September ? 1st October 2010, Prague A joint session (E1.6.-E5.4) between the IAF Space Education and Outreach Committee and the IAA Commission VI and co-sponsored by ITACCUS on the topic "Water from Space: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects" will be hold during the International Astronautical Congress that will take place in Prague in 2010 Inter-disciplinary in nature, it will explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are related to space. Nearly 71% of the Earth constitutes water. Recently water has been found on other celestial bodies (Moon, Mars). Yet, the world faces serious issues related to water: not only its general availability and management, but also in the context of global warming as well as in the pollution of rivers, lakes and oceans. Space systems are employed in monitoring such aspects as ocean currents and salinity, the decline of the Arctic ice coverage, and the location and size of shoals of fish. Water management often relies on the use of space systems for scientific study as well as for remote operation of pump stations. Water and its resources management affects societies that depend on it for a living as well as for survival, not to mention the destruction of other life forms. Access to water is often a matter of serious political and economic implications. Water associated disasters such as floods and tsunamis are coming to rely heavily on space systems for time critical response and management. Climate change modelling requires a good understanding of hydrological science and this too is helped by the data provided by space systems. In this inter-disciplinary session we wish to explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are tied to space. Possible topics include: political and economic issues; how the crises affecting our oceans impact on society; how the discoveries of water on the Moon and Mars is opening up not only new knowledge but also may impact both the human condition on earth and human space exploration; the way the arts, popular culture and entertainment engage with cultural issues around water, remote sensing coordination and public access; water management; educational programmes relating to water from space and water in space. Chairs Annick Bureaud Leonardo/Olats - ITACCUS ? FRANCE Bijal Thakore Space Generation Advisory Council ? UNITED KINGDOM Lyn Wigbels American Astronautical Society (AAS) ? UNITED STATES Rapporteur Adrian Meyer NYDT ? SOUTH AFRICA How to submit: (Please read carefully, the IAC procedures are strict) Submission of abstract must be done exclusively on www.iafastro.org. If this is your first visit on the IAF website, please register using the online registration form. We kindly remind you that all fields are mandatory. Read the pdf of the call for all details: http://www.iafastro.com/iac2010/IAC2010_CallForPapers.pdf Deadlines 5 March 2010 Deadline for submitting abstracts 22-25 March 2010 IPC Spring Meeting in Paris 26 April 2010 Official notification to authors 26 April 2010 Opening of the manuscript uploading system 8 September 2010 Deadline for uploading manuscripts 10 September 2010 Deadline for uploading of presentations Important note: If your abstract has been selected, it is mandatory to upload your full manuscript presentation before the deadline to be able to participate in the session. Usefull web sites IAF : International Astronautical Federation http://www.iafastro.org IAC Prague 2010: International Astronautical Congress, Prague, 2010 http://www.iac2010.cz Pdf of the Call for Papers IAC Prague 2010 http://www.iafastro.com/iac2010/IAC2010_CallForPapers.pdf IAA: International Academy of Astronautics http://iaaweb.org/ ITACCUS: IAF Committee for the Cultural Utilization of Space http://www.iafastro.org/?id=883 From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Fri Jan 15 15:51:46 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Fri Jan 15 16:00:20 2010 Subject: [spectre] [Fwd: Interactivos? El proceso como paradigma] Message-ID: INTERNACIONAL CALL FOR PROJECTS Workshop INTERACTIVOS? in the framework of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. CALL DEADLINE: 15th 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 CONVOCATORIA INTERNACIONAL DE PROYECTOS Taller INTERACTIVOS? en el marco de la exposici?n When Process Becomes Paradigm Una colaboraci?n de LABoral y Medialab-Prado, del ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid PLAZO DE LA CONVOCATORIA: hasta el 15 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 Centro de Arte y Creaci?n Industrial Universidad Laboral 33394 Gij?n Asturias - Spain T: +34 985 185 577 www.laboralcentrodearte.org -- susanne jaschko curator ------------------------- coming up next: El proceso como paradigma - When process becomes paradigm April 23 - September 27, 2010 Laboral, Gij?n, Spain ------------------------- contact: metzer str 39 10405 berlin mobile +49 1577 1902490 office +49 30 72290168 www.sujaschko.de ------------------------- From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Sat Jan 16 15:37:23 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Sat Jan 16 15:37:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B51CF23.4060300@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain. http://http.uk.net The last three weeks. Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010 Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project. ---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system. ---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances. This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking! If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90 ==================== Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/ as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php Info about gallery: HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participatory and collaborative art practice. ------------> 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 propaganda at goto10.org Sat Jan 16 20:57:38 2010 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Sat Jan 16 20:58:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] Puredyne 9.10 - Carrot and Coriander Message-ID: <20100116195738.GE3175@goto10.org> Sorry for crossposting, please drink soup // Puredyne 9.10 - Carrot and Coriander ------------------------------------ Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic, audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from sound art to innovative filmmaking. Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high responsiveness needed by artists working in this field. Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux. http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html // 64-bit support! --------------- (.. and more architectures to come...) Starting with this release, we are happy to provide support for a new experimental branch of Puredyne for 64-bit CPUs. We need your feedback to develop this further, so please get one of these amd64 Puredyne CD or DVD, and tell us how it works for you! http://puredyne.goto10.org/download.html // Yeah, fork me baby!!! --------------------- Thanks to broth, the mother of all soups, it is now very easy to make your own Puredyne based recipe. Get the pan, mix in your ingredients and cook slowly. Using broth, two new Puredyne/broth based distros have been released: * Puredyne craftivism: a special liveUSB key specially made for the craftivism exhibition. You can purchase (at cost) this collector item at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK. http://www.craftivism.net * sidistro: a greek flavoured distribution focussed on privacy and anonymity. http://sid.gr/doku.php/agenda/distro Why not make one yourself? (and impress friends and family with your very own livethingie) https://launchpad.net/broth // Join the team! -------------- (we have internets) Do you like adventures? Giant robots, waterfalls and dinosaurs? Then join the dev team! We are always looking for people to help us make Puredyne a better distribution for musicians, artists and media designers. We need help on all fronts! you can type a mail? you're hired! :) https://launchpad.net/puredyne https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-community // Free Libre Open Source Soup + Art --------------------------------- (as seen in /usr/share/soup) A nice soup, a classic combination made with both fresh and ground coriander - but the fresh coriander added near the end of cooking really adds the bright flavour of coriander to match with the carrot. Ingredients =========== * 1 tablespoon olive oil * 1 large onion,diced * 500g carrots, diced * 1 teaspoon ground coriander * 1.2 litres vegetable stock * large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped * Salt * Black Pepper Method ====== 1. Heat the olive oil in a non-stick pan, to a medium heat. 2. Add the sliced carrots and diced onions. Cook for approximately 5 minutes until they start to soften. 3. Add the ground coriander and salt & pepper. Cook for a further 1 minute. 4. Add the vegetable stock bring the mixture to the boil. Simmer for 10-15 minutes until the carrots are very soft. 5. Blend until smooth. 6. Add the fresh coriander. 7. Serve. source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Carrot_and_coriander_soup BY-SA 3.0 // Puredyne is brought to you by the Puredyne team, with help and support from GOTO10 and Arts Council England. Special Thanks to the Debian Live project. :* From aabrahams at bram.org Sun Jan 17 12:33:42 2010 From: aabrahams at bram.org (aabrahams) Date: Sun Jan 17 12:34:16 2010 Subject: [spectre] On Collaboration Message-ID: http://bram.org/collaboration/ Ecriture partag?e / collecte? On co ? laboration ? operation ? construction ? creation and human constraints Collective writing / collection (ENG) Collaboration on and via the Internet has been a hot topic for some time. Now everyone tends to see the Net more as a space for conservative individual self-representation and mediation. I wonder about this. What makes it so difficult? Why doesn?t, does it work? Why are people less interested? (FR) La collaboration sur et via Internet a ?t? un sujet important pour un certain temps. Aujourd?hui le Net est plus consid?r? comme un espace plut?t conservateur, individuel de repr?sentation et m?diation de soi. J?y songe.? Pourquoi est-ce si difficile? Pourquoi les gens s?y int?ressent moins? (NL) Er werd in het verleden veel gepraat over Samenwerken op en via het Internet. Tegenwoordig ziet eenieder het Net meer als een plek waar men zichzelf presenteert, promoot. Dat geeft te denken. Wat is er zo moeilijk aan?, Waarom werkt het wel, niet? Waarom interesseren mensen zich er minder voor? On Collaboration is a part of the Huis Clos No Exit research project. http://bram.org/huisclos/ You can find some thought on my collective writing projects in ?Artistic Textual and Performative Paths in New Media Correlations: An Interview with Annie Abrahams? by Evelin Stermitz published in Hz http://www.hz-journal.org/n14/stermitz.html -- Lundi 25 janvier : ?On Collaboration I, s?ance de travail ? Kawenga Montpellier avec Simon Benhamou (chercheur en ?cologie comportementale), Mathias Beyler ( metteur en sc?ne ), Laurent Marseault (expert en outils de collaboration sur le web), Thierry Serdane (chercheur en science info com) et Elisabeth Rolland-Thiers ( doctorante en psychologie cognitive exp?rimentale ) http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/on-collaboration1/ From venzha at yahoo.com Sun Jan 17 16:49:42 2010 From: venzha at yahoo.com (venzha christ) Date: Sun Jan 17 16:50:19 2010 Subject: =?utf-8?B?W3NwZWN0cmVdIE1JQ1JPLUNFTExTIC8+PiBhIHByZWx1ZGUgdG8gQ2VsbHNi?= =?utf-8?B?dXR0b24jMDQgMjAxMDog4oCcSW52aXNpYmxlIENlbGxz4oCd?= In-Reply-To: <4B51CF23.4060300@furtherfield.org> References: <4B51CF23.4060300@furtherfield.org> Message-ID: <114891.60768.qm@web113310.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> /micro-CELLS 9 january - 2 february 2010 >> a prelude to Cellsbutton#04 2010: ?Invisible Cells? Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival ( 27 July ? 5 August 2010 ) HONF_lab Lab.2.Lab project start! http://natural-fiber.com research workshop presentation workspace cellsKIT breakcore_LABS discussion laboratory work The House of Natural Fiber (HONF) is proud to present /micro-CELLS a pre ? event of the incoming Cellsbutton#04 in 27 July ? 5 August 2010. /micro-CELLS will consist of interdisciplinary workshops, presentations and discussion during 9 January to 2 February 2010 as a test case for several ?invisible? projects that will be initiated in Cellsbutton#04, 2010. /micro-CELLS will consist many programs that is intended to be a platform for collaborative works and projects. /micro-CELLS primarily is set to be an introduction on HONF?s latest initiative project called Lab.2.Lab that was prepared and tested during YIVF#05, dec 2009. Lab.2.Lab will focus on work outputs and researches that have been done previously or still in working progress to be used in a working platform of collaborations based on interdisciplinary working method. In this long-term program, HONF will act as facilitators and also actors and decided to initiate /micro-CELLS to be the event that will host Lab.2.Lab first phase. With several steps in Lab.2.Lab programs, HONF intend to use /micro-CELLS in the creation of a team formation that will identify issues and problems in the early stages. /micro-CELLS will help the team to prevent and minimalize problems in the next phases of the program. /micro-CELLS is also intended to build the working collaboration atmosphere of interdisciplinary communities. The first interaction and knowledge exchange from both sides is crucial to determined next phases in the program and to sufficiently applying the knowledge in the collaboration in to a concrete outputs that is beneficial to the communities as well in aesthetic abilities. Different approaches might be needed to overcome the difference in perspective and working method, /micro-CELLS will be the first approach in learning each other content to determine and share the vision of togetherness could achieve. be invisible ! :) hugs from all fibers here venzha the house of natural fiber yogyakarta new media art laboratory (HONF) Jl.wora wari A80/6 Baciro Yogyakarta Indonesia T : +62 (0) 817468621 F : +62 (0) 274 564276 E : venzha@yahoo.com venzha@natural-fiber.com URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com From istha at nimk.nl Mon Jan 18 12:03:27 2010 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Mon Jan 18 12:03:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] Media Art Platform newsletter nr. 1 Message-ID: <4B543FFF.4030102@nimk.nl> [MEDIA ART PLATFORM - GENERAL NEWS] Welcome to the Media Art Platform's first newsletter. The Media Art Platform (MAP) is a website and social network for media art enthusiasts, with a strong focus on the Netherlands. MAP is an initiative of the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) and was developed with the kind support of the Mondriaan Foundation. With MAP, we aim to provide a platform for the exchange of information about media art among enthusiasts and professionals. MAP offers the possibility to write weblogs, to ask questions on a forum, to create personal and organisation profiles and to add events to the Dutch media art calendar. Your input is welcome! Do get in touch with us if you would like to play an active role on MAP, either by posting your own activities, by being a forum host or by writing a weblog about your work and interests related to media art. [BLOGS ON MAP] At this moment, various people are actively blogging on the Media Art Platform. # Artist Harold Schellinx has blogged about the development of the brand new iPhone audio art application Raudio IIIII. He will now continue to write about his own work and further projects. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/harold-schellinx # Artist Danielle Roberts has written about a media art project she is currently developing, which involves the use and development of wearable technology. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/danieller # Jaromil (Denis Rojo) of dyne.org reports on interesting activities and conferences he participated in, and on general themes related to media, art, open source and technology. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/jaromil # Wiel Seuskens, technical coordinator of the NIMk artlab, is posting some useful and handy technical tutorials and pointers. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/wiel # Artist and educator Marloes de Valk (GOTO10) blogged about the make art festival 2009 in Poitiers and continues to write about her artistic practice. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/marloes/ # Bas Wijers, MAP intern, and Sandra Fauconnier, MAP coordinator at NIMk, are regularly (re)blogging about interesting calls, opportunities and publications related to media art in the Netherlands. In the next months, we expect a few new blogs to start, so stay tuned with us. If you would like to write a weblog on the Media Art Platform yourself, don't hesitate to send us your proposal: info@mediaartplatform.org [CALLS AND OPPORTUNITIES] If you are specifically interested in calls and opportunities, be sure to visit our blog page on this subject. An RSS feed for this page is also available. Some interesting calls at this moment: # Animation Studio, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (Eindhoven University of Technology) and STRP Festival invite artists, designers and scientists to submit proposals for developing a new visual language for science. Deadline Feb 28, 2010. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.org/blog/sandra-fauconnier/call-proposals-developing-new-visual-language-science # The Netherlands Media Art Institute has a questionnaire about the preservation of display and playback equipment, for organisations, archives and individuals who still own or keep such equipment. >>> http://www.mediaartplatform.org/blog/media-art-platform/questionnaire-about-preservation-display-and-playback-equipment We are happy to post new calls related to media art in the Netherlands. Send us your vacancies and opportunities via email; alternatively, you can also create an account on MAP so that you can post them yourself. [CALENDAR - MEDIA ARTS IN THE NETHERLANDS] Some interesting upcoming events in the media art calendar: # Versions, exhibition at NIMk, Amsterdam, Nov 28, 2009 till Feb 6, 2010 # orbitor, exhibition of works by Mark Bain at de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Jan 17 till Feb 27, 2010 # International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Jan 27 till Feb 7, 2010 # Sonic Acts, festival, Amsterdam, Feb 25 till Mar 25, 2010 Representatives of media art organisations, and media artists from the Netherlands are very welcome to add their own events to the MAP calendar. Create an account, send us an email and we'll grant you posting permissions. [MAP via RSS] The Media Art Platform offers many RSS feeds, allowing you to follow up on updates daily. Some of the feeds are listed here: http://www.mediaartplatform.org/page/rss-feeds Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91884337878 Twitter: http://twitter.com/map_txt NIMk: http://www.nimk.nl/ Media Art Platform is developed by The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) thanks to the Mondriaan Foundation. ********** Feel free to forward this e-mail to whoever you think is interested. Don't worry: we do not seek profit, you can change your subscription at any time. We will use your address for this mailing only. To manage your subscription, follow this link: http://www.mailinglijst.nl/nieuwsbrief/subscribe.asp?l=3777 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jan 18 12:53:06 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Jan 18 12:53:33 2010 Subject: [spectre] Week 04 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100118125306.6BF2C488.B55C7AAD@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest'2010 ____________________________ Week 04 - 18-24 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=328 ____________________________ 1. Feature of the week 04 Cinematheque - streaming media - a showcase in 5 parts: --> Flash & Thunder - Flash as a tool and medium for artistic creations Part 1 (Jan-Feb' 2010) is featuring : Aaron Oldenbourg (USA, Myriam Thyes (Switzerland), Jason Freeman (USA), Bill Domonklos (USA), Renaud Vercey (France) http://cinema.nmartproject.net/cinema_d/index.html 2.Feature of the week 03 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: Jose Vieira (PT) Tuesday: Michael Cousin (UK) Wednesday: Adam Trowbridge (USA) Thursday: xname (Italy) Friday: Ubermorgen.com Saturday: Marcello Mercado (Argentina) Sunday: Aranda Yto (Chile) 3. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project - a series of interviews _ http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?p=111 -->this week: : Monday: Natalie Perrin (F) Tuesday: Michael Szpakowski (UK) Wednesday: Sachiko Hayashi (SWE/Japan) Thursday: Philippe Langlois (F) Friday: Ubermorgen.com Saturday: Randy Adams aka runran Sunday: JR Carpenter (Canada) 4. VideoChannel Cologne - French Video Art - features http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1304 --> this week: Monday: Anthony Rousseau (F) Tuesday: Jean-Gabriel Periot (F) Wednesday: Tom de Pekin (F) 5. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1275 --> this week: Monday: :Larry Caveney (USA) Tuesday: Juan David Gonzalez Monroy (Colombia) Wednesday: Lobo Pasolini (Brazil) Thursday: Toban Nicols (USA) Friday: Philip Widmann (Germany) Saturday: Ellen Lake (USA) Sunday: Rajorshi Ghosh (USA) 6. CologneOFF V - features for one day - http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1272 -->this week: Monday: Iona Pelovska (Canada) Tuesday: Jonas Ungar (Germany) Wednesday: Luana Visciglia (Italy) Thursday: Arthur Tuoto (Brazil) Friday: My name is Scot (Canada) Saturday: Jill Sigman (USA) Sunday: Johanna Reich (Germany) ____________________________________ January 2010 - features of the month http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=224 1. VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art (2010) 2. JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - 1st global competition (2001) 3. SoundLAB - Soundart from Chile (2006) - curated by Rainer Krause ____________________________________ From Pieter-Paul.Mortier at stuk.be Mon Jan 18 13:40:12 2010 From: Pieter-Paul.Mortier at stuk.be (Pieter-Paul Mortier) Date: Mon Jan 18 13:41:35 2010 Subject: [spectre] Artefact Festival for Art & Media 9>14 feb 2010 In-Reply-To: <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B8E@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> References: <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B8E@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> Message-ID: <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B93@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> Artefact festival for Art & Media ON GAPS AND SILENT DOCUMENTS 9 > 14 FEB 2010 STUK arts centre Leuven, Belgium ---> check the program at www.artefact-festival.be In 'On Gaps and Silent Documents' international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, "Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate." Creating archives is continual selection. As such, it reveals the priorities and blind spots of the keeper of the archives, his world and his time. Since the beginning of time, 'forgetting' was always the norm. 'Remembering' was the exception. In this age of continuously transforming technology and worldwide networks, this balance seems to be shifting. Is it true that in our time, with its excessive storage capacity, everything is obsessively being saved? More and more, we face the question of whether we have the right to create our own gaps, to silence documents and erase our own traces. Privacy, intellectual property and censorship in our digital networked society require different and complex solutions. 'On Gaps and Silent Documents' uses 'new' and 'old' media and technologies, such as the Internet, websites, Google, newspapers, texts, books, film and video, photography, music scores, sound, telephones, Twitter, online newsgroups, printers, microfilm, light, computers, etc., to approach this theme from different (sometimes paradoxical) perspectives and question it in spatial installations, presentations and performances. expo | Alfredo Jaar - Sharon Daniel - Mariana Castillo Deball - Manfred Werder - Yann S?randour - Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer - Daniel Knorr - Anita Di Bianco - Sebastian Romo - Lisa Oppenheim - Joseph Cornell - Jonas Mekas - deepblue - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Elmgreen & Dragset - Christian Andersson - Yunchul Kim - Carlos katastrofsky - Jens Wunderling - de Geuzen - Hasan Elahi - Ben Rubin - Antoni Muntadas performance | Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger - Luis Recoder / Sandra Gibson / Ben Owen - Martin Nachbar - deepblue - William Hooker labo nights | Clark + AKS - Lars Horntveth & Emanon - Lyenn + John Hopkins - Nurse With Wound | pieter-paul mortier | stuk | artefact | ___ naamsestraat 96 ___ b - 3000 leuven | t: +32 |0|16 320 307 | f: +32 |0|16 320 330 | m: +32 |0|497 04 04 51 | e: pieter-paul.mortier@stuk.be stuk arts centre | www.stuk.be artefact | www.artefact-festival.be From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Mon Jan 18 14:00:43 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Mon Jan 18 14:01:09 2010 Subject: [spectre] The Furtherfield Newsletter. In-Reply-To: <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B93@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> References: <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B8E@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> <562EA47F252E594B826D3B440E0B34A21282547B93@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> Message-ID: <4B545B7B.3060106@furtherfield.org> The Furtherfield Newsletter. We are in the process of compiling the latest Furtherfield Newsletter, the 25th edition. We have many interested subscribers who already receive it. But, before the latest version is distributed - we are asking if there are others out there, who would like to receive the Newsletter. Also, it is a good time for those who have changed their email addresses to let us know, so we can update the mailing list. Whether you're an artist, curator, academic, musician, student, activist or curious. We offer a wealth of cross cultural projects and platforms where people regularly produce their creative digitally orientated endeavours, physical and on-line. We are part of an ever changing, expanding and explorative self-built set of communities, contemporary and networked. "Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies." Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. The Newsletter features information about projects, publications, projects and we are doing with others, updates on what is happening on different nodes/platforms as well as on furtherfield. What is currently happening on furthernoise, visitorsstudio, netbehaviour, the furtherfield blog, the HTTP Gallery, events, workshops, collaborations. You will know what is going on right across the whole, networked neighbourhood. Sent via email (plain txt) about every couple of months, sometimes every three months. If interested - reply to this email... Wishing you all well. The Furtherfield crew :-) ------------> 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 juhuu at juhuu.nu Mon Jan 18 16:13:31 2010 From: juhuu at juhuu.nu (Juha Huuskonen) Date: Mon Jan 18 16:14:00 2010 Subject: [spectre] Pixelache Software(s) of the Year 2010 Message-ID: <9F7DAD15-5DD8-4267-96AE-090AECB81060@juhuu.nu> Pixelache Software of the Year 2010 title has been awarded to... APODIO by APO33 and Puredyne by GOTO10 : : : Puredyne and APODIO are ?live CD? projects ? distribution versions of Gnu/Linux operating system, which boot on any PC laptop or desktop, including the intel-based Mac and x86 netbooks. These distributions are dedicated to creative multimedia tools for audio/video processing and real-time performance and aims to provide a full set of tools for the average media artists needs. In addition to these two initiatives, we would like to draw attention to the practice of developing custom GNU/Linux distributions tailored for specific uses such as media production, audio/video streaming, hacktivism, art installations and more. Other such initiatives include dyne:bolic, Sahabuntu and PikseLiveCD. : : : Puredyne 9.10 - Carrot and Coriander Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic, audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from sound art to innovative filmmaking. Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high responsiveness needed by artists working in this field. Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux. http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html : : : APODIO : A GNU/Linux multimedia distribution for everyone! APODIO is a 6 years old GNU/Linux distribution, dedicated to multimedia tools for audiovisual creation, to run your own radio, TV, make your own film, animation, art installation, Live Coding and other A/V performance. APODIO is a GNU/Linux platform containing audio, text-friendly, 3D,Streaming, graphic, Live Coding and video tools. It can be used as a liveDVD or be installed on a partition of your hard disk. http://www.apodio.org : : : APODIO was presented in Piksel (19-22 Nov 2009) and Puredyne will be featured in Pixelache Helsinki (25-28 March 2010). Pixelache Software of the Year is an initiative by Pixelache Network, started in 2008. The chosen software for the first year was Animata, a live animation software by Kitchen Budapest. More information: www.pixelache.ac www.piksel.no www.goto10.org www.apo33.org Puredyne: http://puredyne.goto10.org APODIO: http://www.apodio.org : : : From monica at laboralcentrodearte.org Mon Jan 18 18:39:08 2010 From: monica at laboralcentrodearte.org (Monica Bello Bugallo) Date: Mon Jan 18 18:38:39 2010 Subject: [spectre] =?iso-8859-1?q?CFP=3A_Interactivos=3F_When_Process_Bec?= =?iso-8859-1?q?omes_Paradigm=2E_LABoral_Centro_de_Arte_y_Creaci=F3n_Indus?= =?iso-8859-1?q?trial?= Message-ID: <4B549CBC.8030608@laboralcentrodearte.org> CONVOCATORIA INTERNACIONAL DE PROYECTOS Taller INTERACTIVOS? en el marco de la exposici?n When Process Becomes Paradigm Una colaboraci?n de LABoral y Medialab-Prado, del ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid PLAZO DE LA CONVOCATORIA: hasta el 15 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 INTERACTIVOS? in the framework of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of ?rea de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. CALL DEADLINE: 15th 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 j.osterhoff at btk-fh.de Mon Jan 18 20:57:52 2010 From: j.osterhoff at btk-fh.de (johannes p osterhoff) Date: Mon Jan 18 20:58:34 2010 Subject: [spectre] Drop Shadow Talks: Jay Bolter Message-ID: <4B54BD40.6090004@btk-fh.de> Talk 5 on January 21, 7 pm @ BTK Berlin Jay David Bolter: "Performing in the mirror: digital design in the age of social media" http://dropshadowtalks.com The Drop Shadow Talks --------------------- The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened background into three-dimensionality?and thus significance. With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its ?at medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon. This semester the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influuenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface. This Talk --------- In the 1990s digital design could focus largely on the World Wide Web as a remediation of graphic design for print as well as on interaction design for Internet-based experiences. While these areas have not disappeared, the development of social media for the Web and now for mobile technologies poses new challenges for design. An important question is whether polished, transparent, modernist design is appropriate or even possible in an era of user-generated contents such as the eclectic pages of Facebook and the cluttered Google maps on mobile phones. Other design approaches may be suggested by Performance Studies: that is, by thinking of digital artifacts as opportunities for users to define and perform their own identities?for themselves and for their digital ?publics?. The talk will be in English. http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~bolter/ Location? --------- The talks are located at Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule in room J/K. Admission is free. Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK) Hochschule f?r Gestaltung (FH) Bernburger Stra?e 24-25, D-10963 Berlin -- johannes p osterhoff, M.A. Dozent f?r Text und Interaktion Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (FH) University of Applied Sciences Bernburger Str. 24-25, 10963 Berlin www.btk-fh.de Tel. +49 30 25358708 Fax. +49 30 26949605 From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Jan 18 21:57:52 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Jan 18 22:02:43 2010 Subject: [spectre] Residency opportunity for artists from Africa and the Caribbean Message-ID: From: "The Trinity Session" Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:16:59 -0600 (CST) Ker Thiossane, The Trinity Session partners in Dakar (Senegal), are hosting an exciting opportunity for artists from Africa and the Caribbean working on the cross-over of art and technology. Please distribute. kind regards The Trinity Session ------------------------------ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CALL FOR RESIDENCE KER THIOSSANE - VILLA FOR ART AND MULTIMEDIA DAKAR - S?N?GAL AFROPIXEL #2 - FESTIVAL OF ART, TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY IN AFRICA 9 > 24 MAI 2010 In advance of the second edition of the Afropixel Festival, dedicated to art, technology and transformation of society, K?r Thiossane welcomes artists from Africa and the Caribbean in residence for experimentation and creation of works in relation to the themes of the festival, that is to say : the inter-relationship between technology and the transformation of society (citizenship, ecology, town development, energy...), digital experimentation, free practices (Do It Yourself and Open Source), high tech and low tech technological creations, re-routing, recycling. Deadline for Candidature : 22 February 2010 (snip) Contact and information : Kerthiossane//?//craslab.org Ker Thiossane 1695 Sicap Libert? 2 Dakar http://www.ker-thiossane.com /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APPEL ? R?SIDENCES - ART - TECHNOLOGIE & CITOYENNET? KER THIOSSANE - VILLA POUR L'ART ET LE MULTIM?DIA DAKAR - S?N?GAL FESTIVAL AFROPIXEL # 2 9 > 24 MAI 2010 En amont de la deuxi?me ?dition du festival Afropixel d?di? ? l'art, aux technologies et aux transformation soci?tales, K?r Thiossane accueille en r?sidence des artistes d'Afrique et des Cara?bes pour l'exp?rimentation et la cr?ation d'?uvres en rapport avec les th?matique du festival, ? savoir : les interrelations entre technologies et transformations soci?tales (citoyennet?, ?cologie, urbanisme, ?nergie?), l'exp?rimentation num?rique, les pratiques libres (Do It Yourself et Open Source), le bricolage technologique high tech et low tech, le d?tournement, le recyclage? D?p?t des candidatures avant le 22 f?vrier 2010 ? kerthiossane//?//craslab.org Dossier disponible sur le lien suivant : (snip) Contact et informations : Ker Thiossane 1695 Sicap Libert? 2 Dakar http://www.ker-thiossane.com From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Jan 19 14:48:24 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Jan 19 14:48:54 2010 Subject: [spectre] WE THE USERS - DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. In-Reply-To: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> References: <7D16F242-67D2-472E-972A-612984CC1F15@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4B55B828.7020108@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... WE THE USERS - DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader, reviewed by Pau Waelder. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=375 DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement... "Although we are being constantly told that this is the era of the user (or youser), as the TIME magazine Person of the Year cover in 2006 so triumphantly expressed and social networks try to remind us every day, the role of users is still underestimated, while their contributions are both labeled as "amateur" and absorbed into the structures provided by web 2.0 companies. In front of this, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied advocate the importance of the contribution of user-generated content to contemporary culture by coining the term Digital Folklore: "Digital Folklore encompasses the customs, traditions and elements of visual, textual and audio culture that emerged from user's engagement with personal computer applications during the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century". The term stems from the artistic work of Lialina and Espenschied over the last years, as well as their research in Interface Design at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, which has derived into an unorthodox and very interesting publication, halfway between the scholarly reader and the artist's book." 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 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jan 20 08:44:45 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (CologneOFF) Date: Wed Jan 20 08:45:12 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call: CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! Message-ID: <20100120084445.BFE3EEDC.A5859E51@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 Mon Jan 18 14:07:35 2010 From: julian at julianoliver.com (Julian Oliver) Date: Wed Jan 20 13:02:42 2010 Subject: [spectre] CFP: Augmented Reality Adbusting, Transmediale 2010 Message-ID: <20100118130735.GN32311@mail.ljudmila.org> Hallo! The Artvertiser is looking for artwork to exhibit on urban billboards during Transmediale 2010 in Berlin. We are seeking interesting 2D artworks that criticise, recontextualize and remix the urban advertisements of Berlin. If you are tired of seeing street advertisements - and want to say something about it - this call is for you. Rather than painting over billboards directly, The Artvertiser uses a digital technique called Augmented Reality: by looking through our specially engineered digital binoculars, users of the system will see artwork instead of advertisements in the city of Berlin. Your fully credited work will be presented in video documentation in the main 'Future Obscura' exhibition at Transmediale 2010 and also seen during an 'art walk' in the streets of Berlin during the festival. Here are the steps to contributing: 1/ Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/theartvertiser/sets/72157623233484340/ and pick an advertisement. Alternatively, take a good photo of an advert somewhere in the A|B metro zone of Berlin and work with that. 2/ Using Gimp, Photoshop, a video editor or pen and paper - remix, alter or produce something entirely new that relates to the advert in question. 3/ Mail your work, or a link to to your work, to theartvertiser@gmail.com before January 26th. Be sure to include your artist name and a title for the piece. PNG, JPEG and AVI movies up to 30 seconds in length are OK. If possible, be sure to send us work in an aspect ratio that is similar to the advert in the image.. Once we have your contribution we'll take our Billboard Interception Binoculars out on the street and substitute the advert with your work, making a video of the result. Please visit http://theartvertiser.com for more info about the project, alongside the to-be-confirmed location of the art walk taking place during the festival. Looking forward! The Artvertiser Team From julian at julianoliver.com Mon Jan 18 11:23:10 2010 From: julian at julianoliver.com (Julian Oliver) Date: Wed Jan 20 13:02:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] // CFP: Augmented Reality Adbusting, Transmediale 2010 // Message-ID: <20100118102310.GE32311@mail.ljudmila.org> Hallo! The Artvertiser is looking for artwork to exhibit on urban billboards during Transmediale 2010 in Berlin. We are seeking interesting 2D artworks that criticise, recontextualize and remix the urban advertisements of Berlin. If you are tired of seeing street advertisements - and want to say something about it - this call is for you! Rather than painting over billboards directly, The Artvertiser uses a digital technique called Augmented Reality: by looking through our specially engineered digital binoculars, users of the system will see artwork instead of advertisements in the city of Berlin. Your fully credited work will be presented in video documentation in the main 'Future Obscura' exhibition at Transmediale 2010 and also seen during an 'art walk' in the streets of Berlin during the festival. Here are the steps to contributing: 1/ Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/theartvertiser/sets/72157623233484340/ and pick an advertisement. Alternatively, take a good photo of an advert somewhere in the A|B metro zone of Berlin and work with that. 2/ Using Gimp, Photoshop, a video editor or pen and paper - remix, alter or produce something entirely new that relates to the advert in question. 3/ Mail your work, or a link to to your work, to theartvertiser@gmail.com before January 26th. Be sure to include your artist name and a title for the piece. PNG, JPEG and AVI movies up to 30 seconds in length are OK. If possible, be sure to send us work in an aspect ratio that is similar to the advert in the image.. Once we have your contribution we'll take our Billboard Interception Binoculars out on the street and substitute the advert with your work, making a video of the result. Please visit http://theartvertiser.com for more info about the project, alongside the to-be-confirmed location of the art walk taking place during the festival. Looking forward! The Artvertiser Team From abc at interrational.de Wed Jan 20 19:59:14 2010 From: abc at interrational.de (abc) Date: Wed Jan 20 19:58:52 2010 Subject: [spectre] netmage 10 | 21/22/23 january 2010 | bologna | italy Message-ID: <4B575282.8060304@interrational.de> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Xing presents Netmage 10 international live-media festival - 10th edition 21/22/23 January 2010 Palazzo Re Enzo - Bologna - Italy ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROGRAM ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The tenth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna , 21,22,23 January 2010) presents, in the historic al castle of Palazzo Re Enzo, an unpredictable sce nario of contemporary audiovisual research featuri ng live media, live cinema, concerts, performances , sound and visual installations. Netmage 10: Rachida Ziani/Dewi de Vree (F/NL), Fra ncesco Cavaliere/Marcel T?rkowsky (I/D), Harappian Night Recordings (UK), The Hunter Gracchus (UK), Lee Hangjun/Hong Chulki (KR), My Cat Is An Alien ( I), Ectoplasm Girls (S), The Magic State (S), Be M aledetto Now (I), Richard Lainhart (USA), Cluster (D), Canedicoda (I), Nassa (Nadav Assor/Surabhi Sa raf) (USA), Andr? Gon?alves (P), Es (Fin), Margare th Kammerer/Andrea Belfi/Stefano Pilia/Daniela Cat tivelli/Michaela Grill (I/D/A), Carlos Casas (E), Vincent Dupont (F), Nana April Jun (S), Aaron Dill oway (USA). ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Netmage 10 Palazzo Re Enzo - Piazza Nettuno Bologna - Italy info tel +39.051.331099 info@xing.it www.netmage.it www.xing.it From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Thu Jan 21 12:01:11 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Thu Jan 21 12:01:45 2010 Subject: [spectre] Review of GOTO10's 'make art'. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B5833F7.3080702@furtherfield.org> Review of GOTO10's 'make art'. GOTO10's project - 'make art' in the small town of Poitiers in 2009. Review by Gabriel Menotti. One of the world's most important free and libre art events, happens far away from the European metropolis, in the small town of Poitiers. The name 'make art' might sound familiar because not long ago they were doing a series of workshops in the UK to introduce FLOSS tools using their own pure:dyne operational system - a GNU/Linux distribution for multimedia creation. Having received some funding from the Arts Council, pure:dyne recently grew in efficiency and popularity. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=374 ------------> 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 istha at nimk.nl Thu Jan 21 14:59:18 2010 From: istha at nimk.nl (Marieke Istha) Date: Thu Jan 21 14:59:41 2010 Subject: [spectre] Preview of the project: huwwara _ anybody, looking Message-ID: <4B585DB6.3080703@nimk.nl> January 30 ? January 31 2010 Preview of the project: huwwara _ anybody, looking Opening Friday January 29th, 18.00 ? 20.00 Official opening by Andreas Broeckmann 19.00 hrs With pleasure we announce the preview of the project huwwara _ anybody, looking by the artists collective Knowbotic Research. It?s a project they have realized with the help of the Artists in Residence Program at NIMk. The installation huwwara _ anybody, looking is being exhibited at NIMk firstly as a preview and will afterwards be shown amongst other places at FACT, Liverpool and the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art, Oldenburg. a participative dis/play A female voice recounts the TV-report about an interrupted and failed suicide attack by a Palestinian boy on an Israeli checkpoint. Or is the voice narrating a dream about the hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture, merging both and turning them into an undecodable, computer-animated being? huwwara _ anybody, looking is an installation consisting of different sets, media and viewing formats (an audio piece, a single-screen computer animation, a double-screen interactive video). The installation is based on the re-enactment of video footage, archived on Youtube, of a report from Israeli TV Channel 2. The installation enables the observer, placed in a "third position", a vexing immersion into his/her ways of looking at, and perceiving of, extremely overcoded protagonists such as suicide bombers and high-tech military actors. Interjected is a doubled, apparently inconspicuous view of the neutral silhouette of a Palestinian city at night. The display of the restaged TV scene provides access to a "narrative of strangeness", an opaque extension to the existing demonizing imagery applied from both sides of the political antagonism in the Middle East, as well as a displacement of super-hero figurations from adolescent role model techniques. The collective Knowbotic Research consists of the artists Yvonne Wilhelm (*1962), Christian Huebler (*1962), and Alexander Tuchacek (*1962), who are based in Zurich/Switzerland. The group experiments with urbanity, the construction of knowledge and political representations in public spheres. http://krcf.org/krcf.org/ Opening hours Saturday January 30th and Sunday January 31st from 13.00 ? 18.00 hrs, free entrance Netherlands Media Art Institute Keizersgracht 264 1016 EV Amsterdam T 31 20 6237101 F 31 20 6244423 http://www.nimk.nl Facebook: www.facebook.com/NetherlandsMediaArtInstitute Twitter: http://twitter.com/NIMk_nl Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/nimk Media Art Platform: www.mediaartplatform.nl From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Fri Jan 22 10:18:43 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Fri Jan 22 10:19:27 2010 Subject: [spectre] Day 022 - NewMediaFest'2010 Message-ID: <20100122101844.65A1A464.A01449F9@192.168.0.2> NewMediafest'2010 Day 022 - week 04 - ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Day 022 program - 22 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=369 ___________________________________________ Features of today 1. Cinematheque - Flash & Thunder 2. JavaMuseum - Celebrate! - Ubermorgen.com 3. JavaMuseum interviews - Ubermorgen.com 4. VideoChannel - Video Art from Malta - Pierre Portelli 5. VideoChannel - Found Footage! - Philp Widmann (Germany) 6. CologneOFF V - daily features - My Name is Scot (Canada) ___________________________________________ Feature of the Week 04- 18-24 January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=345 Cinematheque - streaming media - a show case in 5 parts: ---> Flash & Thunder - Flash as a tool and medium for artistic creations Part 1 (Jan-Fen' 2010) is featuring : Aaron Oldenbourg (USA, Myriam Thyes (Switzerland), Jason Freeman (USA), Bill Domonklos (USA), Renaud Vercey (France) http://cinema.nmartproject.net/cinema_d/index.html ___________________________________________ Features of the month January 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=224 1. SoundLAB Cologne - Soundart from Chile (2006) 2. VideoChannel Cologne - French Video Art (2010) 3. JavaMuseum - 1st of Java - Perspectives on New Media (2001) ___________________________________________ NewMediaFest'2010 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne global heritage of digital culture 1 January - 31 December 2010 http://2010.newmediafest.org 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 redazione at digicult.it Fri Jan 22 12:00:58 2010 From: redazione at digicult.it (Redazione Digicult) Date: Fri Jan 22 12:01:29 2010 Subject: [spectre] Beggar' s Food: Foodpower Performance Message-ID: Sorry for any crosspostings Digicult presents: Beggar' s Food : Foodpower Performance I'm hangry / Are you hungry? Milan, Tuesday the 2nd of February 2010 at 5.30 PM -------------------- Media partner and press: Digicult (www.digicult.it). Critical text: Antonio Caronia. Video, directing and editing: Franca Formenti http://www.foodpower.it/English/Index.htm http://www.digicult.it/en/2009/beggarsfoodfoodpowerperformance.asp --------------------- Tuesday the 2nd of February 2010 at 5.30 PM Dissapore presents Beggar's Food | I'm Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi.The event was triggered by FoodPower, a project created by Franca Formenti in 2007 and developed into a series of actions and performances through which to re-think about food, intended as a core instrument of power mechanisms. t's not a coincidence that at the beginning of the new century food has become, as did happen at the dawn of modernity, a cultural phenomenon. We are going through a phase of social transformation, of adaptation to a new form of capitalism, the capitalism of knowledge. In this new phase food becomes a central cultural object. "We are idealistically used to the fact that culture is in the high ranks of our life, that's it's a bit above us, that it is the highest and most noble product of our brain, often forgetting about our stomach. In some moments of transition food becomes "food for thought". Food reminds us that our body keeps being the privileged instrument of our thoughts, and even some of the more immaterial, noble and vile things that human beings can produce". (Antonio Caronia) FoodPower is a work in progress of actions and situations that involve the audience and professionals of the world of food, creative incursions that act on the various ways of experiencing food and the behaviour that it creates. At the same time with the 2010 edition of the Milan congress of Identit? Golose (Gluttonous Identities) , a meeting of international importance dedicated to authorial cuisine Beggar's Food | I'm Hungry / Are You Hungry? In Milan, in Piazza Argentina, will have a food stand , where the public can buy food prepared by exceptional chefs. Beggar's Food will be an occasion to taste dishes prepared by some homeless immigrants, who, after having been trained by the Dissapore staff, which is a reference point for the world of food in its various meanings, have acquired a high level of competence and professionalism in the restoration field. The chefs will give the public that take part in the performance a bowl of soup, a dish that is connected to the tradition of "poor" cuisine. An example of social diet, soup is capable of seducing taste, nurturing healthily and protecting from the cold weather of winter in a genuine and economical way Beggar's Food is an event connected to food and the pleasure of the palate, but at the same time it is a prototype for the creation of a new economical model, an inversion of the mechanism of supply/demand for those who live in difficult social and economical situations. "I'm Hungry" is a statement, but at the same time a question, which crowds around the streets of Milan in a problematic way: on sidewalks, in the underground, on streetcars, these places are stages for increasingly pressured requests from those who are hungry, those who do not have a roof over their head, those who do not even have the bare minimum to be able to survive. The demand for food passes through the cleanliness of a car windscreen at a traffic light, the gadgets of street sellers, the roses given at restaurant tables, the petulant echoes of a question that multiplies uncontrollably. The answer is often detachment toward those requests, and in many cases, exploitation of them. The problem of the question "I'm Hungry" and its consequences are at the core of the concept of Beggar's Food . The performance takes its title from Berthold Brecht's "Three Penny Opera", which was inspired by the satirical comedy "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay in 1727. In the original text, Gay makes the poor people, the beggars, into the pariahs of society, heroes of a world turned upside down. Gay triggers an overturn of the values of his contemporary London to represent the image of corruption and immorality of the political system of high society as a reflection. In the same way, the performance Beggar's Food isolates the social phenomenon of the excluded, the poor man, and makes him a street action, a situation where he can take part, provoking an overturning of the rules with which to play. Beggar's Food inverts the burning question of the poor man by transforming it until it becomes an offering: "I'm Hungry" becomes "Are you Hungry?". Thanks to the competence and experience of Massimo Bernardi and the staff of Dissapore, the poor man enters into the world of food, becoming a person who offers something instead of a victim of his own question. An offer that creates an economical offer, seeing as the public will be able to give money back. A donation or the umpteenth hand-out, and a symbol that is firmly in the "space" of the performance is the relationship between food-money that is at the base of the liberal economy. Dissapore was founded in 2009 by Massimo Bernardi in collaboration with a series of associated editors, with the objective of creating an informative and thought-provoking space on food and wine and to give an impression in real time on top gastronomical news. Designed by Tiziano Fogliata with the graphics of Antonio Tomacelli, Dissapore wants to be an encounter between the traditional editorial model of a magazine and the innovative one of a blog. A editing team of dynamic collaborators who mix text content with multimedia, thanks to the video contributions, to propose an antidote to the daily dose of gastronomical journalism that is insipid and servile, lightened by the pleasure of discovering, cooking, eating and sharing good food. Beggar's Food is an event created by Franca Formenti, developed in collaboration with Massimo Bernardi and Dissapore (www.dissapore.com). From joris at v2.nl Fri Jan 22 14:26:45 2010 From: joris at v2.nl (V2_) Date: Fri Jan 22 14:27:12 2010 Subject: [spectre] V2_Newsletter February 2010 Message-ID: <4B59A795.50600@v2.nl> V2_Newsletter February 2010 www.v2.nl V2_events: World Skin: Maurice Benayoun January 22: Official opening in the presence of the artist at 17:30 Installation/Exhibition: Jan 22?Feb 7, 2010 Open daily from 13:00?19:00 | Admission ? 3,- | Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam A visit to World Skin is a poignant experience. Armed with a camera, visitors are placed in a war zone that is visualized on a large projection screen in 3D animation and video. Benayoun presented the first version of world skin in 1997. In 1998 the impressive installation won the Golden Nica Award in the interactive Art Category at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. Back then, World Skin was a CAVE environment but it has now evolved into a 3D animation with video on a flat screen. In this new set-up at V2_ Benayoun applies the latest 3D projection technology, combined with a new and sophisticated interactive scenario. http://www.v2.nl/events/world-skin/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2_Lab: Internship research project ?Closer? ?Closer? is looking for five students to join their multidisciplinary team. This internship will take place between February and April 2010. The team will be guided by the experts of V2_ and the Institute for Sound and Vision and will collaborate on the development of innovative experience concepts for the presentation and interaction of audiovisual archiving material. Send your r?sum? and a short motivation letter before January 25th to V2_Lab: jan@v2.nl http://www.v2.nl/organization/working-at-v2/stage-onderzoeksproject ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2_ is now an official partner of Open_Sailing The Open_Sailing research community has as ultimate goal the creation of several international floating laboratories that will drift across the world?s oceans, utilizing the principles of open-source technology and social networks. Cesar Harada of the Open_Sailing gave his first presentation on Open_Sailing outside the UK at V2_ in 2009 at Test_Lab: What Crisis?! V2_ is supporting the further development of Open_Sailing with other partners. http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/partner-open_sailing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2_Lab: Herman Asselberghs - New artist in residence From February until April 2010, Brussels-based artist Herman Asselberghs will work in residence at the V2_Lab to develop a new video work under the working title Inside out: Exhibiting the Laptop. Asselberghs will investigate the origin and the final destination of a laptop?s components. http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/whats-inside-a-laptop From ewen at no-log.org Fri Jan 22 15:55:17 2010 From: ewen at no-log.org (ewen@no-log.org) Date: Fri Jan 22 15:55:51 2010 Subject: [spectre] Jacques =?iso-8859-1?q?Ranci=E8re_at_ENSBA_Paris_27/01=2C_3pm?= Message-ID: <57021.AQABW1gEDH8=.1264172117.squirrel@webmail.no-log.org> FORUM DE DISCUSSION - Mercredi 27 Janvier 2010 A l'?cole nationale sup?rieure des beaux-arts - Salle de conf?rence du palais des ?tudes 14, rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris - M? St-Germain-des-Pr?s Nous vous invitons ce mercredi 27 janvier 2010 ? 15h ? l'Ecole nationale sup?rieure des beaux-arts ? une rencontre et une discussion avec Jacques Ranci?re, philosophe, autour de la question de ce que serait une pens?e et une action politiques radicales aujourd'hui. ? Un partage du sensible, c'est la mani?re dont se d?termine dans le sensible le rapport entre un commun partag? et la r?partition de parts exclusives. Cette r?partition qui anticipe, de son ?vidence sensible, la r?partition des parts et des parties pr?suppose elle-m?me un partage de ce qui est visible et de ce qui ne l'est pas, de ce qui s'entend et de ce qui ne s'entend pas. L'essence de la police est d'?tre un partage du sensible caract?ris? par l'absence de vide et de suppl?ment : la soci?t? y consiste en groupes vou?s ? des modes de faire sp?cifiques, en places o? ces occupations s'exercent, en modes d'?tre correspondant ? ces occupations et ? ces places. Dans cette ad?quation des fonctions, des places et des mani?res d'?tre, il n'y a de place pour aucun vide. C'est cette exclusion de ce qu'"il n'y a pas" qui est le principe policier au coeur de la pratique ?tatique. L'essence de la politique est de perturber cet arrangement en le suppl?mentant d'une part des sans-part identifi?e au tout m?me de la communaut?. Le litige politique est celui qui fait exister la politique en la s?parant de la police qui constamment la fait dispara?tre, soit en la niant purement et simplement, soit en identifiant sa logique ? la sienne propre. La politique est d'abord une intervention sur le visible et l'?non?able. ? Extrait de la th?se 7, Aux bords du politique, 1990. Sur une proposition des s?minaires libres ? Paris 8, Paris 3, et l'Ens. Le forum, ? la suite des s?ances pr?c?dentes, propose une r?flexion autour de la disciplinarisation et de la hi?rarchisation des savoirs et des savoirs-faire, des places et des fonctions sociales, et de ce qui ferait rupture ? leur logique, ouvrant dans le m?me temps ? la possibilit? d?une pens?e politique du commun. Ce forum, ouvert ? tous et fond? sur la mise en relation de domaines, de pratiques et d?id?es, avec une orientation art, technologies, politique, a ?t? cr?? et est maintenu de fa?on coll?giale par des artistes, activistes, chercheurs et ?tudiants. http://inter-seminaire.org http://philosophie.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique17 http://ufr-zero.org http://contre-conference.net From post at wolfgang-spahn.de Sat Jan 23 20:07:23 2010 From: post at wolfgang-spahn.de (wolfgang spahn) Date: Sat Jan 23 20:05:00 2010 Subject: [spectre] Vernissage "ubiquitous =?iso-8859-15?q?oscillations=B2_=22=2C_27?= =?iso-8859-15?q?=2E_Januar=2C_General_Public=2C_Berlin?= Message-ID: <4B5B48EA.3020405@wolfgang-spahn.de> Dear Friends, I would like to invite you to the opening and the exhibition of --------------------------------------------- **ubiquitous oscillations? *** * or about rhythmic structures of media --------------------------------------------- eine Ausstellung mit zwei Sound Installationen von Michael Chinen (*1982, US / Berlin), Thomas Gerwin (*1955, Berlin), Akitoshi Honda (*1977, Berlin / JP), Shintaro Miyazaki (*1980, Berlin / CH / JP), Wolfgang Spahn (*1970, Berlin) --------------------------------------------- **General Public*** * Sch?nhauser Allee 167c Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg --------------------------------------------- 28. Januar - 7. Februar 2010 von 14:00 bis 20:00 Uhr -------------------------------------------- www.generalpublic.de -- ____________wolfgang spahn_______________________ ____________kastanienalle 85_________10435 berlin __Atelier:__gerichtstrasse 12-13_____13347 berlin __030 39200060______________________ 0179 7935447 ____________________________ From propaganda at goto10.org Sat Jan 23 20:54:07 2010 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Sat Jan 23 20:54:36 2010 Subject: [spectre] CHMOD +X ART, 2-7 March 2010, Groningen (NL) Message-ID: <20100123195407.GD21910@goto10.org> sorry for exit 1, please exit 0 #!/bin/bash cat <<":*" | _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| |+----------------------------------------+_ || chmod +x, Groningen(NL) 2-7 March 2010 |_| |+----------------------------------------+___ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| | __ | | _ _| | | | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| Make art is 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. Workshop hello wor(l)d!, exhibition, Hocus Pocus lecture evening, Placard headphone concert, breakfast club, speed geeking & PechaGnucha, bookshop. With: Wayne Clements (GB), Martin Howse (GB), Graham Harwood (GB), IOhannes Zm?lnig (AT), Pall Thayer (IS), Dave Griffiths (GB), Gabor Papp (HU), Agoston Nagy (HU), Florian Cramer (DE), Nathalie Magnan (FR), Dmytri Kleiner (RU), ... http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x -- Make art is 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. Workshop hello wor(l)d!, expositie, Hocus Pocus lezingen avond, Placard koptelefoon concert, breakfast club, speed geeking & PechaGnucha, boekwinkel. Met: Wayne Clements (GB), Martin Howse (GB), Graham Harwood (GB), IOhannes Zm??lnig (AT), Pall Thayer (IS), Dave Griffiths (GB), Gabor Papp (HU), Agoston Nagy (HU), Florian Cramer (DE), Nathalie Magnan (FR), Dmytri Kleiner (RU), ... http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x :* sed "s|[^A-Za-z]| |g" | sed "s| *| |g" | ( cat <<"=(^-^)=" | #define _BSD_SOURCE #include #include #include #include const int N=27;int main(int argc,char**argv){int count[N][N][N][N], i,j,k,l;for(i=0;i=r){c=l;break;}}putchar(" abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"[c]);fflush( stdout);i=j;j=k;k=c;usleep(40000);}} =(^-^)= gcc -xc -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -o chmodxart - && ./chmodxart ) From propaganda at 0100101110101101.org Fri Jan 15 16:18:57 2010 From: propaganda at 0100101110101101.org (Franco Mattes) Date: Mon Jan 25 09:46:02 2010 Subject: [spectre] Re: I know that it's all a state of mind In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <488B0B38-2EFB-402F-A900-0C3D304B696F@0100101110101101.org> Hi all, if you happen to be in England next weekend there is a good reason to come to Plymouth. Marina Abramovic is curating a performance event called "The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow" for which we are performing old and new works live at the Slaughterhouse and in Second Life, for 4 days in a raw. Last time we performed in Second Life too many people showed up (thanks!) and many could not attend the performances (sorry!) so this time we'll try to resist each day as long as we can, luckily for 4 hours, most probably 'till we throw up on the keyboards. As always if you join us in Second Life you can participate (click the link below), if you come to Plymouth you can just watch. Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG I know that it's all a state of mind Live in Plymouth http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art.html and in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/East%20of%20Odyssey/46/152/33/ Thursday Jan. 21, 6:30pm (UK time); 10:30am (Second Life time) Friday Jan. 22, 5pm (UK time); 9am (Second Life time) Saturday Jan. 23, 5pm (UK time); 9am (Second Life time) Sunday Jan. 24, 2pm (UK time); 6am (Second Life time) See you there! Eva and Franco Mattes btw, a tiny funny book on our work is now in bookstores: http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/book.html From info at eyesfeed.com Tue Jan 12 18:43:09 2010 From: info at eyesfeed.com (info@eyesfeed.com) Date: Mon Jan 25 09:46:03 2010 Subject: [spectre] Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival Message-ID: <201001121743.o0CHh9M6025651@web1.shellrent.com> This is an unsolicited message; you don't receive other communications, if you dislike. To remove by this list, simply click this link : http://www.eyesfeed.com/remove.php?mail=spectre@mikrolisten.de |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| This call for participation is sent to 67522 mailbox addresses. >From October 2009 to March 2010, will take place the 5th edition of Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival. The Festival is realized in partnership with CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum and PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. Magmart festival's online media sponsor is the art news portal eyesfeed.com Visualcontainer is our other partner. The Festival activity will end with the screening of all videos participant along three days, scheduled for March, at prestigious house of PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (http://www.palazzoartinapoli.net/pan/eng/home.htm), in the midtown of city, followed by the screening of 30 selected videos at CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (http://www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com/en/lab.htm), in a great night-event, with screening of a selection from other famous videoart festival, scheduled for April 2010. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| RULES The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Partecipation is free. The Festival is dedicated exclusively to videoart, and suggest one theme, that artists are invited to render: VISION(S) OF Between all submitted videos, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts. The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM permanent collection. All sended materials don't will be return, and will be stored in the Festival's archive like documentation. Sending the participation form, the artist accept fully the present rules. The Jury verdict is incontestable. The artist accept that his/her own videos will be broadcasted online and offline, on site www.magmart.it; he/she accept that, if selected, the video become part of permanent collection of CAM, and should be freely screened within PAN and CAM rooms. All the videos, selected or not, can be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline, with exclusion of any commercial use. Still-frame from videos can be freely used for the Festival communication, mentioning title and author of artwork. All rights on videos remain property of author. The author assert, under his/her own liability, the complete right of use on used materials (images, sounds, videos) and that compose the artwork; the author undertake completely the liability for any breach of copyright laws. To participate is necessary fill out the form available online, on official website of Festival. The omission, or the incorrect filling, of one or more parts of form itself, will involve the exclusion of video by selection of Jury. Will be accepted only the videos received within midnight of January, 31 2010. The possible selection by Jury is in any case subordinate at an essential condition for the proclaim of winners: the author of selected video must send, via ordinary mail, and within midnight of February, 15 2010, the donation act to CAM of the copy of his/her own video, downloadable from official website of Festival. This donation act don't underlie in any way a transfer of right, but certify exclusively the willingness of author so that a copy of his/her own video artwork will be permanently keeped - and, with limitations above, utilized - in the permanent collection of CAM. Without this donation act, the videos will be rule out by group of 30 selected artworks, and replaced by those immediately subsequent in Jury's ranking. Any author can participate with max 5 videos. TECHNICAL FEATURES OF ARTWORKS The videos must be fully realized with digital tech. The videos must be sent in format .mpeg or .mov (PAL); any other format will be rejected. The max lenght of videos don't must surpass 10 minutes. The videos must be accompanied by participation form fully and correctly compiled. The videos must be accompanied by a still-frame from video itself, in format .jpg, and with dimension not less than 400 px X 300 px. The videos must have a quality (dimension, resolution) good for a public screening, without any further shipping of an high-res copy. Suggested size is 720px X 576px; minimum size required is 640px X 480px. If the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be fully visible within video lenght. SUBMISSION WAY Is possible to send required materials for participation (video, form, image) just in one way, online - Filling out the form, before midnight of January, 31 2010; - In the form, must be indicate an URL http or ftp for downloading the video (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.mov) and the still-frame from video (i.e.: Http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.jpg); - Is possible to utilize a service for big files transfer. The video and the image must be effectively available at indicated URL within the deadline. Don't send us link to video hosted on YouTube, Vimeo or similar websites! They don't match our rules! We need your original artwork. For informations: info@magmart.it www.magmart.it From quaranta.domenico at gmail.com Sat Jan 23 15:19:16 2010 From: quaranta.domenico at gmail.com (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Mon Jan 25 09:46:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] Whole Earth Catalogue / Neoncampobase Message-ID: <73752F98-8073-4B58-A322-BDFBD61F6EC7@gmail.com> WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE [ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Selezione video per la serie ?Playlist?, Neoncampobase, Bologna. http://www.neoncampobase.blogspot.com/ Opening: 27 gennaio 2010 A cura di: Domenico Quaranta (http://domenicoquaranta.com). Fondato dallo scrittore americano Stewart Brand nel 1968, Whole Earth Catalogue (WEC) ? stato un catalogo di ?strumenti? rispettato come una bibbia dalla generazione della controcultura ? vale a dire, da coloro che hanno plasmato il contesto tecno-culturale in cui ci troviamo a vivere. Pubblicato regolarmente fino al 1972 e irregolarmente fino al 1998, ? stato ?ucciso? dal successo del World Wide Web, di cui persone come Steve Jobs (fondatore di Apple) e Kevin Kelly (fondatore di Wired) vedono in esso un anticipatore. WEC era concepito come ?uno strumento di valutazione e di accesso? che intendeva portare potere e conoscenza alle persone. Proponeva eccellenti recensioni di libri, mappe, riviste di settore, corsi e lezioni, insieme a oggetti di ogni tipo, dagli attrezzi da giardinaggio ai computer. Chiunque poteva contribuire. Come i recensori del Whole Earth Catalogue, gli artisti di questa mostra contribuiscono regolarmente a una risorsa condivisa; come loro, amano i loro strumenti e, come loro, sono interessati a capire il mondo nel suo complesso. Ci? che ? cambiato, nel frattempo ? e in gran parte grazie alla generazione del World Earth Catalogue ? ? il mondo stesso. Gli artisti ? e noi con loro ? vivono in un mondo in cui i media non si limitano a riprodurre o a simulare, come dice Baudrillard, il reale: lo plasmano, gli danno forma, contribuiscono ad esso, a volte costruiscono mondi paralleli in cui possiamo trascorrere il nostro tempo. Riprogrammano il modo in cui viviamo, pensiamo, produciamo e fruiamo cultura, mangiamo, dormiamo, moriamo. E in cui pensiamo a dio. Questi artisti usano semplici strumenti e trucchi di editing per commentare lo stato attuale dell'immagine, per parlare di se stessi, per modificare materiale trovato e arricchirne il significato; esplorano culture e pratiche per campionarle, remixarle e commentarle; abusano delle tecnologie che usano; esportano metafore, pratiche, estetiche e narrazioni in altre situazioni. Questo pu? suonare strano per chi non viva nella loro stessa fetta temporale ? ma, per favore, non chiamateli formalisti. Non lavorano con un medium: lavorano in una realt? ampliata dai media. Sono realisti, nel solo modo in cui il termine realismo pu? avere un senso oggi. Questo peculiare realismo pu? portare alcuni di loro a ritornare a quando tutto ? iniziato. Come ? noto, le droghe psichedeliche hanno avuto un ruolo importante agli inizi della cultura digitale. Without Sun, di Brody Condon, ? un mesh-up di video reperibili in rete che hanno come protagonisti individui affetti da una sostanza psichedelica. Perch? mettono in rete questo materiale? Non hanno, queste esperienze extracorporee, una relazione con altre forme oggi comuni di proiezione identitaria, come i videogiochi online? Alcuni artisti, come Cory Arcangel e Oliver Laric, sono interessati alle conseguenze concettuali delle tecnologie, al modo in cui riprendono e attualizzano alcune preoccupazione centrali della nostra cultura; altri, come il duo AIDS-3D, guardano a come le tecnologie stanno influenzando in maniera crescente la nostra vita spirituale. Vogliono, come dicono loro, ?rendere visibile la magia intangibile della tecnologia?. Non necessariamente attraverso di essa: il video di Constant Dullart, ad esempio, traduce l'animazione di caricamento di Youtube in una suggestiva, ipnotica scultura usando la luce e palle di styrofoam. Questo interesse per la magia e la trascendenza ? condiviso da diversi altri artisti in mostra, da Petra Cortright a Damon Zucconi, da Harm Van den Dorpel a Martin Kohout. Nelle loro mani, un filtro video pu? diventare il modo migliore per esplorare la consistenza del mondo esterno, e di noi stessi. Pu? diventare il modo migliore per conoscere meglio il mondo in cui viviamo, qualsiasi senso diamo a questa parola. -- Video selection for the series ?Playlist?, Neoncampobase, Bologna (Italy) http://www.neoncampobase.blogspot.com/ Opening: January 27, 2010 Curated by: Domenico Quaranta (http://domenicoquaranta.com). Founded by the American writer Stewart Brand in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalogue (WEC) was a catalogue of tools that was regarded as a bible by the counterculture generation ? that is, by those who shaped the techno-cultural environment we are living in. Published regularly until 1972 and sporadically until 1998, it definitely died with the rise of the Web, of which it is considered a conceptual forerunner by people such as Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) and Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired). WEC was conceived as an ?evaluation and access device? meant to bring power and knowledge to the people. It featured excellent reviews of books, maps, professional journals, courses, and classes, along with objects of any kind, from gardening tools to computers. Everybody could submit a review for the catalogue. Like the WEC reviewers, the artists in this exhibition are contributing to a shared resource; like them, they love their tools and, like them, they are interested in understanding the world as a whole. What did change, in the meantime ? and mostly thanks to the WEC generation ? is the world itself. These artists ? WE ? live in a world in which media don't just reproduce reality, nor just simulate it, in Baudrillardian terms: they shape reality, improve it, sometimes they build parallel worlds in which we can spend our time. They redesign our way to live, to think, to make and enjoy culture, to eat, to sleep, to die. And to think about God. These artists use simple tools and editing tricks in order to comment on the current status of the image, to talk about themselves, to edit found material and to improve its meaning; they explore cultures and habits in order to sample, remix and comment them; they use and abuse technologies; they export metaphors, practices, aesthetics and narratives to other situations. This may sound weird if you are not living in their same time slice, but please ? don't call them formalists. They are not working within a medium: they are working within a media-implemented reality. They are realists, in the only way that realism makes sense nowadays. This peculiar realism can bring somebody to go back to when everything started. Notoriously, psychedelic drugs played an important rule in the beginning of digital culture. Without Sun, by Brody Condon, is a mesh-up of various found videos of individuals on a psychedelic substance. Why do people broadcast these materials? Do these ?out of the body? experiences have any relationship with other now common forms of projection of the self, such as online videogaming? Some artists, such as Cory Arcangel or Oliver Laric, are interested in the conceptual consequences of technologies, and on the way they are updating fundamental concerns of our culture; others, such as the duo AIDS-3D, explore how technologies are increasingly affecting our spiritual life. In their own words, they want to make ?the intangible magic of technology visible?. Not necessarily trough technologies themselves: Constant Dullart's video, for example, turns Youtube's ?loading? animation into a suggestive, hypnotic object using light and styrofoam balls. This concern with magic and transcendence is shared by many of the artists on show, from Petra Cortright to Damon Zucconi, from Harm Van den Dorpel to Martin Kohout. In their hands, a video filter can become the best way to explore how consistent the outer world is, and how consistent we are. It can become the best way to get a better knowledge of the world we live in, whatever we may mean with this word. Lavori selezionati / Selected works: AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller & Nik Kosmas, US/DE), Motion Capture Dance, 2008. Video, 08.34 min. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://www.aids-3d.com/motioncapture.mov . Cory Arcangel (US), Drei Klavierst?cke op. II ? I, 2009. Video, 04.21 min. Courtesy Team Gallery, New York. Online at http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/DreiKlavierstucke . Brody Condon (US), Without Sun, 2008. Video, 15.12 min. Courtesy Virgil De Voldere, New York. Online at http://www.tmpspace.com/video/WithoutSun.mov (excerpt). Petra Cortright (US), Das Hell(e) Modell, 2009. Video, 03.41 min. Online at http://petracortright.com/das_helle_modell/das_helle_modell.html . Paul B. Davis (UK/US), Compression Study #4 (Barney), 2007. Video, 02.49 min. Courtesy Seventeen Gallery, London. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWG5jqzYsEI . Constant Dullart (NL), Youtube as a Sculpture, 2009. Video, 00.33 min. Online at http://www.youtube.com/constantdullaart. Martijn Hendriks (NL), Untitled (12 glowing men), 2008. Video, 04.10 min. Online at http://www.12glowingmen.com/. Jodi (BE/NL), Mal Au Pixel, 2009. Video, 01.14 min. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8VIKXnsQ0. Martin Kohout (CZ/DE), Close Up, 2009. Video loop, 03.11 min. Online at http://www.martinkohout.com/new/close-up/. Oliver Laric (DE), Aircondition, 2006. Video, 01.59 min. Courtesy Seventeen Gallery, London. Online at http://www.oliverlaric.com/airconditionvideo.htm . Les Liens Invisibles (IT), Too Close to Duchamp?s Bicycle, 2008. Video loop, 02.14 min. Online at http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/too-close-to-duchamps-bicycle/ . Miltos Manetas (GR/UK), King Kong After Peter Jackson, 2006. Video, 03.05 min. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNMkjWpdC4c. Pascual Sisto (US), No strings attached, 2007. Video, 01.30 min. Online at http://www.pascualsisto.com/projects/no-strings-attached/. Paul Slocum (US), You?re Not My Father, 2007. Video, 04.05 min. Online at http://turbulence.org/Works/notmyfather/. Harm Van den Dorpel (NL), Resurrections, 2007. 3 animated found photos, 04.18 min. Online at http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/work/resurrections . Damon Zucconi (US), Colors Preceding Photographs (woodshed), 2008. Video, 00.35. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://damonzucconi.com/uploads/Video/woodshed_w.mov . --- Domenico Quaranta web. http://domenicoquaranta.com/ email. info@domenicoquaranta.com mob. +39 340 2392478 skype. dom_40 From quaranta.domenico at gmail.com Sat Jan 23 15:19:16 2010 From: quaranta.domenico at gmail.com (Domenico Quaranta) Date: Mon Jan 25 09:46:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] Whole Earth Catalogue / Neoncampobase Message-ID: <73752F98-8073-4B58-A322-BDFBD61F6EC7@gmail.com> WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE Video selection for the series ?Playlist?, Neoncampobase, Bologna (Italy) http://www.neoncampobase.blogspot.com/ Opening: January 27, 2010 Curated by: Domenico Quaranta (http://domenicoquaranta.com). Founded by the American writer Stewart Brand in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalogue (WEC) was a catalogue of tools that was regarded as a bible by the counterculture generation ? that is, by those who shaped the techno-cultural environment we are living in. Published regularly until 1972 and sporadically until 1998, it definitely died with the rise of the Web, of which it is considered a conceptual forerunner by people such as Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) and Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired). WEC was conceived as an ?evaluation and access device? meant to bring power and knowledge to the people. It featured excellent reviews of books, maps, professional journals, courses, and classes, along with objects of any kind, from gardening tools to computers. Everybody could submit a review for the catalogue. Like the WEC reviewers, the artists in this exhibition are contributing to a shared resource; like them, they love their tools and, like them, they are interested in understanding the world as a whole. What did change, in the meantime ? and mostly thanks to the WEC generation ? is the world itself. These artists ? WE ? live in a world in which media don't just reproduce reality, nor just simulate it, in Baudrillardian terms: they shape reality, improve it, sometimes they build parallel worlds in which we can spend our time. They redesign our way to live, to think, to make and enjoy culture, to eat, to sleep, to die. And to think about God. These artists use simple tools and editing tricks in order to comment on the current status of the image, to talk about themselves, to edit found material and to improve its meaning; they explore cultures and habits in order to sample, remix and comment them; they use and abuse technologies; they export metaphors, practices, aesthetics and narratives to other situations. This may sound weird if you are not living in their same time slice, but please ? don't call them formalists. They are not working within a medium: they are working within a media-implemented reality. They are realists, in the only way that realism makes sense nowadays. This peculiar realism can bring somebody to go back to when everything started. Notoriously, psychedelic drugs played an important rule in the beginning of digital culture. Without Sun, by Brody Condon, is a mesh-up of various found videos of individuals on a psychedelic substance. Why do people broadcast these materials? Do these ?out of the body? experiences have any relationship with other now common forms of projection of the self, such as online videogaming? Some artists, such as Cory Arcangel or Oliver Laric, are interested in the conceptual consequences of technologies, and on the way they are updating fundamental concerns of our culture; others, such as the duo AIDS-3D, explore how technologies are increasingly affecting our spiritual life. In their own words, they want to make ?the intangible magic of technology visible?. Not necessarily trough technologies themselves: Constant Dullart's video, for example, turns Youtube's ?loading? animation into a suggestive, hypnotic object using light and styrofoam balls. This concern with magic and transcendence is shared by many of the artists on show, from Petra Cortright to Damon Zucconi, from Harm Van den Dorpel to Martin Kohout. In their hands, a video filter can become the best way to explore how consistent the outer world is, and how consistent we are. It can become the best way to get a better knowledge of the world we live in, whatever we may mean with this word. Selected works: AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller & Nik Kosmas, US/DE), Motion Capture Dance, 2008. Video, 08.34 min. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://www.aids-3d.com/motioncapture.mov . Cory Arcangel (US), Drei Klavierst?cke op. II ? I, 2009. Video, 04.21 min. Courtesy Team Gallery, New York. Online at http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/DreiKlavierstucke . Brody Condon (US), Without Sun, 2008. Video, 15.12 min. Courtesy Virgil De Voldere, New York. Online at http://www.tmpspace.com/video/WithoutSun.mov (excerpt). Petra Cortright (US), Das Hell(e) Modell, 2009. Video, 03.41 min. Online at http://petracortright.com/das_helle_modell/das_helle_modell.html . Paul B. Davis (UK/US), Compression Study #4 (Barney), 2007. Video, 02.49 min. Courtesy Seventeen Gallery, London. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWG5jqzYsEI . Constant Dullart (NL), Youtube as a Sculpture, 2009. Video, 00.33 min. Online at http://www.youtube.com/constantdullaart. Martijn Hendriks (NL), Untitled (12 glowing men), 2008. Video, 04.10 min. Online at http://www.12glowingmen.com/. Jodi (BE/NL), Mal Au Pixel, 2009. Video, 01.14 min. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8VIKXnsQ0. Martin Kohout (CZ/DE), Close Up, 2009. Video loop, 03.11 min. Online at http://www.martinkohout.com/new/close-up/. Oliver Laric (DE), Aircondition, 2006. Video, 01.59 min. Courtesy Seventeen Gallery, London. Online at http://www.oliverlaric.com/airconditionvideo.htm . Les Liens Invisibles (IT), Too Close to Duchamp?s Bicycle, 2008. Video loop, 02.14 min. Online at http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/too-close-to-duchamps-bicycle/ . Miltos Manetas (GR/UK), King Kong After Peter Jackson, 2006. Video, 03.05 min. Online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNMkjWpdC4c. Pascual Sisto (US), No strings attached, 2007. Video, 01.30 min. Online at http://www.pascualsisto.com/projects/no-strings-attached/. Paul Slocum (US), You?re Not My Father, 2007. Video, 04.05 min. Online at http://turbulence.org/Works/notmyfather/. Harm Van den Dorpel (NL), Resurrections, 2007. 3 animated found photos, 04.18 min. Online at http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/work/resurrections . Damon Zucconi (US), Colors Preceding Photographs (woodshed), 2008. Video, 00.35. Courtesy Gentili Apri, Berlin. Online at http://damonzucconi.com/uploads/Video/woodshed_w.mov . --- Domenico Quaranta web. http://domenicoquaranta.com/ email. info@domenicoquaranta.com mob. +39 340 2392478 skype. dom_40 From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Mon Jan 25 09:59:07 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Mon Jan 25 10:04:15 2010 Subject: [spectre] Miren Eraso (1960-2009) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: With great sadness, we pass on the following: Miren Eraso, main editor of ZEHAR magazine since 1995, manager of the documentation center of Arteleku, artistic director of the same art center during 2007-08 and among some other things one of the promoters of the publication of the book Noise & Capitalism (she co-founded the editorial serie KRITIKA in 2008), passed away quietly yesterday. (posted 19 December 2009) http://www.arteleku.net/noise_capitalism/?p=145 From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Mon Jan 25 11:24:37 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (nmf2010) Date: Mon Jan 25 11:25:12 2010 Subject: [spectre] NewMediaFest'2010 - week 05 - preview Message-ID: <20100125112437.15A7C902.5004790F@192.168.0.2> NewMediaFest?2010 ------------------- Week 05 - 25-31 January 2010 ------------------- 1. Feature of the week 05 http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=384 On 25 January 2010, A Virtual Memorial Foundation is entering NewMediaFest?2010 - launching the media art context. Draft Title: Shoah v.1.0 - http://dts.engad.org/blog/ on occasion of the International Holocaust Day - 27 Jan' 2010 - the 65th Return of the Liberation of Auschwitz (27 January 1945-2010), including numerous artists working in different digital media - also launch of - SFC - Shoah Film Collection - http://dts.engad.org/sfc.index.html , which will be the feature of the month February 2010? Enter --> Draft Title: Shoah v.1.0 http://dts.engad.org/shoah-index.html 2. 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: Carmen Olmo (Puerto Rico) Tuesday: Jeremy Hight (USA) Wednesday: Alan Biegelow (USA) Thursday: Marc Cypher (Australia) Friday: Aleksandar Janicijevic (Canada) Saturday: Chris Basmajan (USA) Sunday: Jing Zhou (China) 3. JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project - a series of interviews - http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?p=111 -->this week: : Monday: Pat Badani (USA) Tuesday: Anahi Caceres (Argentina) Wednesday: Curt Cloninger (USA) Thursday: Genco Gulan (Turkey) Friday: Taztvydas Bajakevicius (Lithuania) Saturday: Domenico Quaranta (Italy) Sunday: Panos Kouros (Greece) 4. VideoChannel Cologne - Greek Video Art - curated by Gioula Papadopoulou (GR) - features for 12 days http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1546--> this week: Monday: Margarita Stavraki (Gr) Tuesday: Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (Gr) Wednesday: Eileen Botsford (Gr) Thursday: Yiannis Konstantinou (Gr) Friday: Ioanna Myrka (Gr) Saturday: Konstantinos Vaviloussakis (Gr) Sunday: Panayota Tzamourani (Gr) 5. VideoChannel - Found Footage Film Collection http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1275--> this week: Monday: Dr. Boston (USA) Tuesday: Leslie Huppert (Germany) Wednesday: Alistair McClymont (UK) Thursday: Agricola de Cologne (Germany) Friday: Sonja Vuk (Croatia) Saturday: Joshua Rosenstock (USA) Sunday: Owen Mundy (USA) 6. CologneOFF V - features for one day - to be finalized on 31 January 2010 http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=1272 -->this week: Monday: Sonja Vuk (Croatia) Tuesday: Nilg?n Serbest & Tobias Kurtz (Germany) Wednesday: Chis Coleman (USA) Thursday: Roland Fuhrmann (GER) Friday: Virginie Foloppe (France) Saturday: Fumiko Matsuyama (Japan) Sunday: Ascan Breuer (Germany) --------------------------------- January 2010 - features of the month http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=224 1. VideoChannel Cologne --> French Video Art (2010) 2. JavaMuseum --> 1st of Java - 1st global competition (2001) 3. SoundLAB - Soundart from Chile (2006) - curated by Rainer Krause --------------------------------- From alt.bani at gmail.com Mon Jan 25 12:12:29 2010 From: alt.bani at gmail.com (alt.bani@gmail.com) Date: Mon Jan 25 12:13:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] The Influencers - Barcelona, february 4-6 Message-ID: * The Influencers * Art, communication guerrilla, radical entertainment Presentations, screenings, workshops, actions A project by Bani Brusadin, Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG February 4 - 6, 2010 Center of Contemporary Culture - Barcelona, Spain http://TheInfluencers.org With the participation of: The Yes Men ZEVS James Acord Donkijote Black Label Bike Club Joan Leandre a.k.a. Retroyou Critical Art Ensemble The Influencers is a three day think-tank that tackles the potential of non conventional communication in contemporary society. We are interested in exploring the hybrid zones wherein autonomous experiments and mainstream culture blend and collapse into one another. Projects that stem out of a deeply rooted do-it-yourself attitude, even when they develop into complex, large scale projects. Since 2004, The Influencers has been gathering a limited but carefully selected number of diverse projects. This 6th installment makes no exception: celebrity pranksters (with a cause), tactical media artists, computer games modders, hi-tech donkeys, extreme bicycling gangs, atomic sculptors, ads' kidnappers, and media transformers will come together for three long evenings to present, discuss, and perform their work. Whether they are art works or life long projects, or just weird ideas one came up with, these practices are fed by a visionary taste for weirdness and desire for social change. Unlike other festivals, The Influencers has no theme, but if you are looking for threads to string stories together, this time you will encounter at least a couple. First, examples of mind ecologies, life after dumb consumerism, DIY survival strategies for after the brands feast is over. Second, risky and dangerous narratives. Those risks that you take on when you force physical, aesthetical, legal, and political boundaries of our society, and challenge collective imagination to desire the unthinkable. We want to show that taking risks is possible, never easy, frequently fun, and always very instructive. The detailed program is available at http://theinfluencers.org/en/ festival/2010/program For press inquiries, please contact Cristina Diaz: cristina@theinfluencers.org From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Tue Jan 26 09:39:27 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Tue Jan 26 12:03:39 2010 Subject: [spectre] CONF: Being in Europe: Crisis? What Crisis? (Bratislava, 28-29 Jan 10) Message-ID: From: nini palavandishvili Date: 25 Jan 10 Subject: CONF: Being in Europe: Crisis? What Crisis? (Bratislava, 28-29 Jan 10) The Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Brandenburg in collaboration with Space Gallery Bratislava kindly invites you to the conference Being in Europe: Crisis? What Crisis? Conference 28th - 29th January 2010 Space Gallery Velehradska 7/A Bratislava Slovak Republic http://www.atlantisprojects.eu/ eliska.mazalanova@crazycurators.org The conference "Being Europe: Crisis? What Crisis?" opens up new vistas on Europe 20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Under the designation "Crisis? What crisis?" we bring into focus various perspectives on European changes in the last 20 years and the current crises. The title - taken from a cover of Supertramp?s LP from 1975 - can ironically be interpreted in diverse ways. For example as a synonym for a non-existing crisis or an attempt to disavow the existence of crises. It also describes the crucial questions for this conference: Are we really having a crisis? Are we even confronted with different crises? Or do we deny their existence and profoundness? What can we do to solve possible crises? 20 years have passed since the Velvet Revolution. Since then a globalized economy within a free society of politically responsible citizens seems to have grown. In these years societies in Europe came into transformation, new democratic systems have emerged and social reforms have passed. The European Union has fundamentally changed. At the same time it faces several crises. Some of them seem to be obvious. First of all a deep economic crisis. And also the crisis of climate change and energy resources which affect not only Europe but the whole world. But what about European culture and art? What about the crisis of the art market and the lack of support of culture and art in the new member states of the European Union? And do we also have a crisis of the democratic system? Sure enough democratic governmental institutions do not work efficiently in many member states of the European Union. The current constitution of democratic systems in European countries is confronted witha loss of political impetus. Public discussions of political issues seem to get less important. Most decisions are taken by only a few opinion leaders in national or supranational parliaments and governments. The level of participation of the citizens is low, their involvement in the process of decision-making weak. Nevertheless, political decisions taken today in times of crises will be eminently important for the future shape of our political, economical, cultural and ecological system. What Europe decides these days touches its being and the every day live of millions of people. Again: Crisis? What Crisis? Programme Thursday, 28th January 2010 19.30 Opening Juraj Carny (art critic, curator, gallerist. Space projects | Residency lab | store; Bratislava) Inka Thunecke (director Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Brandenburg; Potsdam Germany) 20.00 Challenge of multiple crisis Prof. Ulrich Brand (Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna) 20.45 Crisis of the economy Prof. Joachim Becker (Institute for International Economics and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business) Discussion 22.00 Art Performance Jana Kapelova (to be confirmed) Friday, 29th January 2010 9.30 Challenges and crisis of democracy Prof. Oliver Marchart (Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne) Discussion 11.30 Crisis of the institutions Isolde Charim (philosopher and publicist, assistant lecturer University of Vienna) Marek Adamov (director of Stanica cultural space; ?ilina) Discussion 13.30 Break 14.30 Art - no Crisis? Ruth Noack (author and curator) Jakob Racek (cultural manager and curator, Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art; Plovdiv Bulgaria) Juraj Carny (art critic, curator, gallery owner. Space projects | Residency lab | store; Bratislava) Emil Mirazchiev (artist and director of Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art; Plovdiv Bulgaria) Nini Palavandishvili (curator and member of GeoAIR, Tbilisi Georgia) 16.00 Discussion and Final Comments Moderation Natalia Urblikova (cultural scientist ) Please register for the conference via mail at eliska.mazalanova@crazycurators.org ____________________________________________________________________ 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 paul at paul-brown.com Tue Jan 26 15:01:40 2010 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Tue Jan 26 15:03:10 2010 Subject: [spectre] CAS - Reminder: Major 2010 event - February 3-5, London Message-ID: <77DEF453-CEF1-450B-8754-30BAC4BEE5F0@paul-brown.com> !REMINDER! The BCS Computer Arts Society SG is pleased to announce a special three-day event to launch our Spring 2010 programme. It begins on 3 February with a one-day symposium at the BCS including a free public talk that evening by keynote speaker Brian Reffin Smith and continues with a two-day conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Note that the Kinetica Art Fair will also be on in London from 4-7 February: http://www.kinetica-artfair.com/ 3 February - Ideas Before Their Time ? 9-6pm at BCS London HQ followed by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 7:00 4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A The symposium and conference both need to be booked in advance. The CAS evening talk is open to the public and free but an RSVP is necessary. Please note that due to confusion with Brian's earlier keynote the title of his CAS presentation has changed. And sorry this is such a long post! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 3 February 9:00 - 6:00 & 7:00 - 8:30 pm Ideas Before Their Time Connecting the past and the present in Computer Art BCS London HQ, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA http://www.bcs.org/upload/img/londonssbw.jpg In conjunction with the Computer Arts Society, the CAT Project (Computer Art & Technocultures) is presenting a symposium at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden. Many intriguing concepts have emerged in Computer Art over the past 50 years. Some have been brought to light in the archives examined by the CAT and CACHe Projects. Speakers from all areas of Computer Art, including practitioners, curators and historians, will discuss the past, present and future of this area. Go to http://www.technocultures.org.uk/symposium.html to view the programme and book a place. 6:00 Drinks Reception ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30 for 7:00 - Public Talk BCS London HQ - as above Free but RSVP necessary to paul_brown@mac.com Speaker: Brian Reffin Smith Title: A Zombie 'Pataphysical approach to computer based art. 'Pataphysics is the science of exceptions, singularities and the unexpected. Although the Paris College of 'Pataphysics may be described as "freemasons on acid", its numerous - indeed infinite -subcommittees include Oulipo in literature, and Oupeinpo for art. These deal with constraints and limits as motors of creativity. In this sense, it might be in opposition to the ever-expanding possibilities of computer art. The Zombie, in its incarnations as "philosophical Zombie" or p-Zombie, enjoys the ultimate constraint common to all forms of the living dead. It is argued that new ways of considering, creating and talking about computer-based arts necessarily arise from these approaches. Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, performer and teacher. He was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and ?state of the art? technology, which might merely produce ?state of the technology? art. He is a French civil servant, having been invited to work for their Ministry of Culture. Smith, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nike, in Linz in 1987, is a Regent of the College of 'Pataphysics, Paris, holding the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy. He is Professeur, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure d'Art, Bourges, France. Areas of work, research, teaching and performance include the idea of the philosophical Zombie in art and elsewhere, and the d?tournement or ?hijacking? of systems, mechanisms, programs etc. to make art. He became a Zombie, after a short illness, in 1999. http://www.zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 4 & Friday 5 February 10.00-17.30 each day Decoding the Digital Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum A rare opportunity to hear a dialogue between contemporary digital practice and historical collections within the world of digital and computer generated art and design. Speakers include artist Frieder Nake and writer Edward Shanken, with theorists Charlie Gere and Beryl Graham. There will be an in-conversation between Paul Brown and his son Daniel Brown. Other contributors include the collector Michael Spalter, the writer and artist Anne Morgan Spalter, plus Louise Shannon (V&A) and Shane Walter (Director, onedotzero), co-curators of the V&A exhibition Decode, and Douglas Dodds, one of the curators of the V&A display Digital Pioneers. ?50, ?40 concessions, ?10 students for two days ?25, ?20 concessions, ?5 students for one day Further details and bookings: http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html#decoding In collaboration with Birkbeck College, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues: 2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 6 April - Tina Gonsalves ? at the London Knowledge Lab. 4 May - visit to Goldsmith?s College Maths & Art Archive organised by Janis Jefferies 14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics 14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group http://www.computer-arts-society.org ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Tue Jan 26 16:39:56 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Tue Jan 26 16:40:30 2010 Subject: [spectre] Reminder - Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B5F0CCC.4030807@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Reminder - Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain. http://http.uk.net The last three weeks. Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010 Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project. ---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system. ---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances. This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking! If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90 ==================== Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/ as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php Info about gallery: HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participatory and collaborative art practice. ------------> 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 nilo.casares at uv.es Tue Jan 26 20:48:40 2010 From: nilo.casares at uv.es (nilo casares) Date: Tue Jan 26 20:52:50 2010 Subject: [spectre] [propaganda] _la =?iso-8859-1?q?m=E1quina_podrida_aka_la_desdenta?= =?iso-8859-1?q?da=5F?= Message-ID: ////////////////////scroll down for english exposici?n:::::::::::::::::::la m?quina podrida aka la desdentada :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::1999-2004 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::todo el net.art en un port?til :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::de brian mackern obra de::::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern comisario::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares coordinaci?n t?cnica:::::::::?ngela montesinos producci?n::::::::::::::::::: y organizaci?n:::::::::::::::meiac textos del cat?logo::::::::::rodrigo alonso :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::andr?s burbano :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::gabriel galli :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::?ngela montesinos coordinado por:::::::::::::::nilo casares traducciones:::::::::::::::::polisemia dise?a:::::::::::::::::::::::fundc [http://www.fundc.com] edita::::::::::::::::::::::::meiac inauguraci?n:::::::::::::::::[20h00m/05.02.10] calendario:::::::::::::::::::[05.02.10)(04.04.10] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::de martes a s?bados :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m/17h00m-21h00m :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::domingos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m sala:::::::::::::::::::::::::3a planta :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::meiac :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::virgen de guadalupe, 7. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::e46001-badajoz :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+34924013060 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[meiac@juntaextremadura.net] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.meiac.es] contacto de prensa:::::::::::?ngela montesinos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[angela.montesinos@juntaextremadura.net] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::presentaci?n de la expo:::::::::::::::::::::: la m?quina podrida es una exposici?n sorprendente que emana de un viejo ordenador port?til del a?o 1999, propiedad del net.artista uruguayo brian mackern, para recrear la ?poca en que el net.art tuvo su momento de mayor brillo y, tal vez por ello, de estertor previo a la aparici?n de la web 2.0 (conocida como red social) brian mackern es un artista fundacional que se anticip? en el desarrollo de interfaces sonoras online y offline. fundador de los directorios online [http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri] y netart latino database [http://netart.org.uy/latino/index.html] (en la actualidad propiedad del meiac. sus sitios de referencia son http://netart.org.uy, http://no-content.net y http://34s56w.org. su ordenador, la m?quina podrida, est? completo y lleno de todos los datos contenidos hasta el momento en que se decidi? su venta, d?a 08.05.2004, porque fue el instrumento de trabajo (el taller, en t?rminos cl?sicos) que acompa?? a brian mackern entre los a?os 1999 y 2004, tanto en sus trabajos personales como en sus encargos para otros artistas o en sus net jamm, aparte de sus trabajos como videojockey [vj], conferencias y workshops. en fin, su herramienta. un ordenador completo de informaci?n e historia adquirido por el meiac con el fin de exponerlo a la posteridad cuando el desarrollo de hardware y software nos impida ver muchas de las piezas hospedadas en su ordenador. la exposici?n se estructura en 5 estaciones navegadas por el propio brian mackern. 1- estaci?n antropol?gica: contenidos y componentes de hardware de la m?quina. sonidos generados por su funcionamiento. referencias a sus archivos, etc. 2- estaci?n taller: obra propia (c?digo fuente-obra visible). el c?digo fuente de obra propia y, a la vez, la navegaci?n final de la misma. 3- estaci?n internet y redes: contenido relacionado con muchos de los proyectos grupales y colaborativos en que ha intervenido brian mackern. 4- estaci?n archivo, documentaci?n y an?lisis: recopilaci?n aleatoria de informaci?n acerca del net.art y de la cultura de internet de aquella ?poca. 5- estaci?n hist?rica. historia del net.art: remezcla de un sinf?n de sitios de net.art, en muy diferentes estados de conservaci?n, muchos de ellos readaptados en su c?digo para permitir su navegaci?n dentro de la m?quina sin necesidad de conexi?n a internet. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::im?genes::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: a: momento de arranque de la subasta de la m?quina podrida, peam, pescara (italia), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/a.JPG b: muestra de los directorios contenidos en la m?quina podrida http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/b.JPG c: disco duro de la m?quina podrida con la huella dactilar de su propietario: brian mackern http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/c.JPG d: alguna de las pegatinas de la m?quina podrida http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/d.JPG e: teclas que le faltan a la m?quina podrida y raz?n por la que recibe tambi?n el nombre de la desdentada http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/e.JPG f: modo en que fue expuesta la m?quina podrida para su subasta en el peam, pescara (italia), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/f.JPG g: monstruo que acompa?a a la m?quina podrida en todos sus viajes, junto a la mochila que se aprecia en la imagen anterior http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/g.JPG h: la m?quina podrida en funcionamiento durante la exposici?n para su subasta en el peam, pescara (italia), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/h.JPG ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ////////////////////arriba espa?ol exhibition:::::::::::::::::::the rotten machine aka the toothless old thing :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::1999-2004 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::all net.art in a brian mackern's laptop works of:::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern curator::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares technical coordination:::::::?ngela montesinos production::::::::::::::::::: and organization:::::::::::::meiac texts of catalogue:::::::::::rodrigo alonso :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::andr?s burbano :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::gabriel galli :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::?ngela montesinos edited by::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares translation::::::::::::::::::polisemia designer:::::::::::::::::::::fundc [http://www.fundc.com] publisher::::::::::::::::::::meiac opening::::::::::::::::::::::[20h00m/05.02.10] schedule:::::::::::::::::::::[05.02.10)(04.04.10] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::from tuesdays until saturdays :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m/17h00m-21h00m :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::sundays :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::10h00m-13h30m gallery::::::::::::::::::::::3th floor :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::meiac :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::virgen de guadalupe, 7. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::e46001-badajoz :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+34924013060 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[meiac@juntaextremadura.net] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[http://www.meiac.es] press contact::::::::::::::::?ngela montesinos :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[angela.montesinos@juntaextremadura.net] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::exhibition intro:::::::::::::::::::::: the rotten machine is a surprising exhibition that emanates from an old laptop from 1999, owned by the uruguayan netartist brian mackern, to recreate the time when net.art had its peak brightness, and perhaps therefore, the rattle before the emergence of web 2.0 (known as social network). brian mackern is a founding artist who was ahead of the time in the development of online and offline soundvisual interfaces. founder of online directories [http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri] and latin netart database [http://netart.org.uy/latino/index.html] (currently owned by meiac). his reference sites are http://netart.org.uy, http://34s56w.org and http://no-content.net. his computer, the rotten machine, it's full and complete of all the data collected until the moment it was decided to be sold, on the 8th of may, 2004. it was the working tool (the studio, in classical terms) that accompanied brian mackern between 1999 and 2004, both in his personal work and in collaborative works with other artists and net jamms, apart from his work as a vj, conferences and workshops. in short, his tool. a computer full of information and history, acquired by the meiac in order to expose it to posterity, when the development of hardware and software will prevent us from viewing many of the art pieces hosted on this computer. the exhibition is divided into 5 audiovisual stations navigated by brian mackern himself. 1 - anthropological station: content and hardware components of the machine. sounds generated by its operation. references to files, etc. 2 - studio station: personal work (source files and visible works). the source code of his own work and at the same time the navigation of it. 3 - internet and networking station: content related to many of the projects and online/offline collaborative groups in which brian mackern has intervened. 4 - file, documentation and analysis station: random collection of information about net.art and internet culture of that time. 5 - history station. history of net.art: remix of endless net.art sites, in different states of preservation, many of them with retrofitted code to allow navigation within the machine without internet connection. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::pics::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: a: starting point for the auction of the "rotten machine". peam, pescara (italy), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/a.JPG b: display of directories contained in the computer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/b.JPG c: hard disk of the rotten machine with the fingerprint of its owner, brian mackern http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/c.JPG d: some of the stickers on the computer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/d.JPG e: keys that are missing, the reason why this computer is also called *the toothless old thing* http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/e.JPG f: way in which *the rotten machine* was exposed for auction in peam, pescara (italy), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/f.JPG g: accompanying monster for the rotten machine during countless tours, alongside with the backpack shown in the picture above http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/g.JPG h: the rotten machine working, during the exhibition for its auction at peam, pescara (italy), 2004 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/h.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 helen at creative-catalyst.com Wed Jan 27 04:20:34 2010 From: helen at creative-catalyst.com (helen varley jamieson) Date: Wed Jan 27 04:12:43 2010 Subject: [spectre] Last days to donate to the UpStage server appeal! Message-ID: <4B5FB102.7080809@creative-catalyst.com> 1. UpStage server appeal ends 31 January 2. Open walk-through Wed 3 Feb/Thurs 4 Feb ================================ 1. UpStage server appeal ends 31 January A month after we launched our appeal to raise funds for a new server for UpStage, we are just over half-way to our goal of NZ$1200. We will close the appeal at the end of January and we need your help NOW to reach our target. Those who?ve already donated - thank you! If you haven?t, please consider a donation of even just $10 or $20. Our goal is modest and every little bit helps. Click here to donate: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278 Read about why we need a new server here: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?p=698 =================================== 2. Open walk-through Wed 3 Feb/Thurs 4 Feb The next UpStage open walk-through will be held on Thursday 4 February at 2pm New Zealand time - this equates to 8pm on Wednesday 3rd Feb in Florida! Click here to find your own local time: http://tinyurl.com/y868yct This walk-through is specifically for anyone planning to submit a proposal for the 101010 UpStage Festival, who isn?t already familiar with UpStage. You will learn the basic operations of UpStage and have the opportunity to ask experienced users any questions you may have about creating your performance in the UpStage platform. To participate, email info@upstage.org.nz and ask for a guest log-in. More about the 101010 UpStage Festival: http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=680 ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst helen@creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ From nc-agricowi at netcologne.de Wed Jan 27 13:07:44 2010 From: nc-agricowi at netcologne.de (AVM) Date: Wed Jan 27 13:08:23 2010 Subject: [spectre] Launch of SFC-Shoah Film Collection Message-ID: <20100127130744.E83727B4.DF351A89@192.168.0.2> SFC - Shoah Film Collection http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=669 http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html A Virtual Memorial Foundation & VideoChannel Cologne are happy to launch the initiative SFC - Shoah Film Collection on occasion of 27 January 2010 - International Holocaust Day 65th Return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp Auschwitz (27 January 1945). SFC - starts with 34 films and videos dealing with the SHOAH and related fields. As an initiave it is its aim to encourage especially young film- and videokers all over the world to reflect SHOAH by using new technologies and contenporary approaches in order to contribute against the Forgetting. Many of the films and videos were especially created for SFC, and show that reflecting SHOAH in an artistic sense does not need to be necessarily reflecting the Past, but basically the Present, which can be the bridge to the Future. SFC is part of Draft Title Shoah - a media art context and feature of the week 05 and will be Feature of the Month February 2010 on NewMediaFest'2010, with daily solo features during the month February 2010 on Video Art Database. SFC is including these artists/directors Agricola de Cologne, Yochai Avrahami and Karin Eliyahu, Bebe Beard Christiano Berti, Isobel Blank, Paolo Bonfiglio, Sean Burn, David R. Burns Brian Delevie, Konstantinos-A. Goutos, Alicia Felberbaum, Grace Graupe Pillard Felice Hapetzeder, Holger Kiess, Anetta Kapon, Tammy Mike Laufer Dana Levy, Heike Liss & Thea Farhadian, Lukas Matejka, Branko Miliskovic Jay Needham, Doris Neidl, Miri Nishri, Cerzary Ostrowski Doron Polak & Uri Dushy, Natania Rubin, Jens Salander,& Mikael Strromberg, Antti Savela, Maja Schweizer, Boris Sribar, Anders Weberg, Yonathan Weinstein ------------------------------------------------------------------ SFC - Shoah Film Collection http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=669 http://dts.engad.org/sfc-index.html is a corporate part of Draft Title: Shoah - http://dts.engad.org on A Virtual Memorial Foundation http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org - and VideoChannel Cologne http://videochanel.newmediafest.org and featured on NewMediafest'2010 10 Years - [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne] global heritage of digital culture http://2010.newmediafest.org info [at] nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- From ab at mikro.in-berlin.de Wed Jan 27 14:35:53 2010 From: ab at mikro.in-berlin.de (Andreas Broeckmann) Date: Wed Jan 27 14:38:05 2010 Subject: [spectre] (fwd) Intl residency program in Italy "LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts" Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:55:23 +0100 Subject: International call for residency program in Italy "LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts" From: Marta Colombo Press release The Province of Cagliari promotes International call for the residency program LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts first edition Villasor, Cagliari, Italy 14 April - 15 May 2010 Open call from 11 January 2010 to 28 February 2010 The program is part of LE VILLE MATTE - artist residencies The international call for the first edition of the residency program LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts is open; the program will take place in Sardinia from 14 April to 15 May 2010 in Villasor, a town a few kilometers from Cagliari. This edition's visiting professor will be Giancarlo Norese, with Chiara Agnello as guest curator. This initiative is part of LE VILLE MATTE - artist residencies, a wider project promoted by the Province of Cagliari, through the Cultural Policy Office, with the purpose of offering artistic study and research residencies in Sardinia, stimulating new productions in the field of music, writing and visual arts. An actual network of residencies, located in small centers of the highest environmental and landscape value, that may provide a profitable exchange between the local community and the artists of the national and international art scene. The main goals of LE VILLE MATTE are: to involve the cultural institutions of the Region, create occasions of exchange through a program of conferences and meetings with the local cultural scene and the professionals in this field, activate fruitful collaboration with the artists in residency and offer them visibility, stimulate innovative and stimulating centers of artistic production in Sardinia that may contribute to improving the Region's image and foster cultural and sustainable tourism. The call is open to artists from all over the world, with no age limit (but the applicants must be over eighteen); the ten participants will be selected from the applications by a commission whose members are Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Agnello and Francesca Sassu. The project designed by Giancarlo Norese - Supercalifragilistic (Mistaken Landscapes) - addresses the theme of architecture and landscape, reflecting on the contradictions between the spaces that have been transformed by man and those that have been self generated by chance and necessity. "'Architectural erratums' - explains the visiting professor - are anomalies that bear a symbolic value capable of resisting homologation, question our certainties, but at the same time generate warmth, closeness and sense of belonging to the community". Besides the daily activity of study and experimentation, the residency program schedules workshops and laboratories with guest artists invited by Giancarlo Norese: Ji?? Kovanda (Prague), Luigi Negro (Lecce), Umberto Cavenago (Milan), Luca Scarabelli (Como) and Mauro Cossu (Cagliari); with them the participants will investigate the themes of space, the relations between environments, the true nature of debris, the influence of urban action on our daily existence and the sounds that dwell and shape a place. Chiara Agnello - artistic director of the contemporary art organization Careof, and curator of DOCVA, Documentation Center for Visual Arts of Milan - has been invited to follow the project, by supporting the training activity of the artists in residency and organizing moments of exchange with the local art scene (studio visits, meetings with collectors, etc.). The goal of the project is not only to offer the participants a chance of professional growth, but also to put forward an occasion to address the theme of social practices in contemporary art: through the use of different media, social practice puts relations between people, idea exchange, and interaction between artist and the audience at the centre of the artistic process. By giving creativity total freedom from any structured aesthetic theory, social practice in art fosters the development of collaborative projects. At the end of the residency program in May 2010, the works produced by the artists in Villasor will be exhibited in a show set up in the former Convent of the Capuchins of Villasor (opening 15 May 2010). The exhibition will be documented by a bilingual Italian and English catalogue. Participation in the residency program is free, and includes the following services: a studio with internet connection; open space area for group activity; town library and multimedia library for documentation; production expenses managed by the visiting professor on the basis of each artist's requirements. Travel expenses are to be covered by the participants that are also required to bring their own personal equipment such as camera, video camera, laptop etc. Applicants must be over eighteen, have at least three years' professional experience in contemporary art, a good knowledge of English and attitude towards collaborative projects/social practices. The selected artists will include one from Sardinia. Applications can be sent in from 11 January 2010 from the website http://www.levillematte.it/ Applications must be filled in online in the specific area of the website by 28 February 2010 and must be accompanied by the following material: - digital ID - filled in application form - pdf portfolio including a cv, images of one's work and texts - 5 images of past works - up to 3 audio files for sound artists - up to 3 videos or excerpts (with links to youtube, vimeo, google video etc.) for video artists LE VILLE MATTE includes other two residencies: one dedicated to music, from 25 June to 24 July 2010, and one dedicated to writing, scheduled between September and October 2010. At the end of the entire project a final publication will be released. Title: International call for the residency program LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts Visiting professor: Giancarlo Norese Guest curator: Chiara Agnello Promoted by: The Province of Cagliari - Cultural and Sport Policy Office In collaboration with: Careof DOCVA Coordinators: Giorgio Murtas, Francesca Sassu Opening of the call: 11 January 2010 End of the call: 28 February 2010 Dates of the residency: 14 April - 15 May 2010 Exhibition opening: 15 May 2010 Where: Villasor, Cagliari, Italy Info: tel.+39 070 4092329, fax +39 070 4092312, info@levillematte.it http://www.levillematte.it/ National and International press office: Marta Colombo +39 340 3442805 martacolombo@gmail.com; Regional press office: Stefania Giganti +39 329 3604710 sgiganti@provincia.cagliari.it From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Wed Jan 27 14:43:22 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Wed Jan 27 14:43:55 2010 Subject: [spectre] Zero Dollar Laptop workshops Update. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B6042FA.9040103@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... Zero Dollar Laptop workshops Update. Working with Homeless, Reusing donated Laptops and upgrading them with Linux Software. http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop The first day of working with St Mungo's Homeless, clients & residents was a success. After our call asking people to send their old laptops to us so that we can work with homeless people for the Zero Dollar Laptop project, we received many computers (laptops), and they are still arriving. We even received one from Greece. The class was over subscribed. 12 individuals was the limit "Twenty people got together in a busy room (18 participants and 2 tutors Jake Harris and Olga Panades Massanet) and went through the first big step." Week 1. Breaking Windows. Installing Linux. http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=53 Preparing for ZDLT workshops http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=13 Wishing you all well. more info: The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology. 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 (http://www.access-space.org/) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (http://www.access-space.org/) The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of public debates, exhibitions and workshops about art, technology and environment inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto (http://robvankranenburgs.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/james-wallbank-says-the-zero-dollar-laptop-manifesto/). Developed in partnership with Access Space and St Mungo?s charity for the homeless (http://www.mungos.org/)as part of Furtherfield.org?s Media Art Ecologies programme (http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/Furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php). From rasa at rixc.lv Thu Jan 28 11:01:15 2010 From: rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite) Date: Thu Jan 28 11:08:57 2010 Subject: [spectre] Call for papers> AcousticSpace(8): ENERGY issue Message-ID: (((((((((((((((((((( acoustic space 8 )))))))))))))))))))) CALL FOR PAPERS: ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy. Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8) "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed." (The law of conservation of energy) RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal entitled "ENERGY" (nr.8). The journal will be published in between the previous Art+Comunication festival with the title ENERGY (organized by RIXC in 2009, http://rixc.lv/09) and the forthcoming 2010 festival conference - NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY. This conference event will be held in Riga, June 16-18, 2010 (moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite), and it will be a part of the 6th European Meeting of SLSA (the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) taking place in Riga and Liepaja, Latvia, June 15-20, 2010 (http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm). Following the theme of ENERGY, the next issue of 2010 will focus on different social and cultural aspects of energy in the contemporary human society, investigating the notion of 'sustainable development' from various perspectives - artistic, scientific, technological, architectural, environmental. The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for new media culture and creative explorations in the networked (electro-acoustic, electromagnetic, wireless, radio, electronic) environments. For the second time, Acoustic Space journal will come out as 'peer review' (refereeing) publication. It will be published by the MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University in collaboration with the RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture. DEADLINES: Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2010 - for completed research and artistic texts. (For abstracts - February 21, 2010) We would like to welcome to submit abstracts first. Proposals and inquiries regarding submissions should be made to Rasa Smite . Full texts should consist of 10000-14000 characters (i.e. 5-8 pages A4, 12 pt), with references. Language: English (all texts will be also translated to Latvian). THEMES: For this publication, we welcome proposals and texts by artists, scientists, academic researchers, media theorists, social scientists, activists, and other lateral thinkers, who are interested to share their scientific and artistic ideas, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy. The publication will cover broad scope of topics under 4 main sections: ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY: ... The concept of energy and its various contexts: in Universe and on Earth ... Invisible energy: in myths and legends, in nature and science ... Energy technologies: in human life and in information society ... CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SUSTAINABILITY: ... Environmental science research, climate change and ecology ... Permaculture and biosystem design ... Historical traditions vs. modern alternative solutions in urban planning and architecture ... Alternative economics and visions of sustainable living ... INFORMATION AND ENERGY: ... Synergetic and co-relation between information and energy ... Smart devices and Energy Internet ... Sustainability using open source approaches: in art, culture, ecology, architecture, environmental design ... SCIENCE AND ART OF RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES: ... Dye sensitized solar technologies ... Green chemistry: new approach in biotechnology ... Scientific and artistic explorations of clean and renewable energy technologies (sun, wind, water, tides, biomass, etc.) ... (((((((((((((((((((((((((( acoustic space 8 ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Previous publication - Acoustic Space (Nr. 7): SPECTROPIA: Illuminating investigations in electromagnetic spectrum - is also still available! http://rixc.lv/kiosks/index.php?obj_id=1008&kat_id=192 * Contact: 2009@rixc.lv, Rasa Smite , Linda Vebere Address: The RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture 11. Novembra Krastmala 35 - 201, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia. Tel. +371-67228478, +371-26546776 (mob.), Fax: +371-67228477 URL: http://rixc.lv http://rixc.lv/ (((((((((((((((((((((((((( acoustic space 8 ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) From ajaco at xs4all.nl Thu Jan 28 13:48:44 2010 From: ajaco at xs4all.nl (Andreas Jacobs) Date: Thu Jan 28 13:49:22 2010 Subject: [spectre] [Nictoglobe] Special Issue: Art is not about Communication In-Reply-To: References: <6A924EDC-C338-44FE-A6DE-074A940181B2@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <4ECEE9A9-7C15-45A4-85C7-3C2DA2D1E861@xs4all.nl> Nictoglobe Vol.14 #1 2010 Friction Research 3: http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/index.html This is the third issue of 'Friction Research', a series of collective investigations on contemporary arts & media practices. Previous issues: 'Investigating Ruptures in the Art Political Grid', Nictoglobe, Volume 12 Issue 3, Amsterdam The Netherlands (2008). 'Creative Resistance: New Media as Soft Arms', Nictoglobe, Volume 11 Issue 2, Amsterdam The Netherlands(2007). Introduction Art is not about Communication Below our open call from November 30 2009 nouns: Focus, Belief, Communication, Course, Comprehension, Art, Effect, Art, Direction, Direction(s), Network, Art, Vector, Side, Side, Main, Interpretation, Error, Many, Professional, Field, Art, Senses, Thumb, Critic, Few, World, Speech, Extreme, Notion, Ourselves, This, World, Push, Foreground, Curator, Metrosexual, Power, Relation, Accumulation, Item, Fetish, Replacement, Lust, Contact, Capital, Distinction, Use, Exchange, Labyrinth, Housing, Global, Warning, Transportation, Education, Sex, Healthcare, Political, Agenda, Value, Object, Control, Prison, CCTV, Market, Non-Smoking Area, Public, Everybody, Part, Communication, World, Facebook, Twitter, About, Their, Spaces, Google, Anxious, Need, Each, Other, Labour, Stop, Thinking, Leisure, Subject, System, Aesthetics, Teleologics. verbs: To problematize, To invent, To economize, To force, To capitalize, To inject, To reject, To subject, To object, To maintain, To remain, To insult, To consult, To solve, To dissolve, To involve, To revolve To explode, To implode, To radiate, To broadcast, To send, To conceive, To retrieve, To conspire, To subvert, To invert, To absolve, To gain, To loose, To drain, To drink, To drown, To stop, To communicate, To mutate, To correspond, To eject, To rule, To eradicate. adjectives/adverbs: Mistaken, Contrary, Singular, Local, Contemporary, Public, (Psycho), Patho-Sociological, Drenched, Oversaturated, Urban, Senseless, Speechless, Worshipped, Rural, Blurred, Private, Communicative, Global, Lucid, Kind, Nice, Rough, Mild, Less, Manifold, Plural, Focal. names: Derrida, Foucault, Brecht, Lacan, Freud, Deleuze, Bourriaud, Houellebeq, Lovecraft, Poe, Borges, Alzheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Marx, Hobbe, Spinoza, Sloterdijk, Hegel, Kranz, Benjamin, Plotinus. The following individuals and collectives have contributed to our call for submissions. Poetry Art is not about Communication, Lawrence Upton 2009 - UK http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/upton.html Text Participation as Kitsch, Henry Jones & Daniel Hess 2010 - USA http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/pak.html Jacques Derrida and the Politics of Architecture, Francesco Vitale 2009 - IT http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/jdpa.html Essay Generator, judsoN ^R+ 2010 - USA http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/judson.html Paintings Skin, Biying Zhang 2010 - USA http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/biying.html Projects Grenze, Patrick Fontana et al. 2009 - FR http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/marx.html 204_NO_CONTENT, Darko Fritz 2007 - > NL/YU http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/ainac2010/darko.html About Published & Curated by Andreas Maria Jacobs for Nictoglobe Online Magazine 2010 Nictoglobe can be reached by email: info[at]nictoglobe[dot]com A. Andreas e: a.andreas@nictoglobe.com w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl From derek at umatic.nl Thu Jan 28 14:37:11 2010 From: derek at umatic.nl (Derek Holzer) Date: Thu Jan 28 14:37:42 2010 Subject: [spectre] Pure Data Workshop+Book Sprint, Berlin Message-ID: <4B619307.5050207@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 for building access: +49 176 2812 5845 / derek@umatic.nl 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. -- ::: derek holzer ::: http://macumbista.net ::: ---Oblique Strategy # 131: "Question the heroic approach" From diana at faces-l.net Thu Jan 28 16:19:19 2010 From: diana at faces-l.net (Diana McCarty) Date: Thu Jan 28 16:19:51 2010 Subject: [spectre] Herbstradio Kinofunk 99.1 FM Berlin 1-28 February 2010 Message-ID: <20100128161919.14992xy3nrxy57g7@webmail.servus.at> +++ ich will mein Radio zurueck! Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin 1-28th, February, 2010 www.herbstradio.org The "klubradiopiloten" are pleased to announce that Herbstradio is back on air with Kinofunk! For the 28 days of February, Berliners can once again tune into 99.1 FM for the best of art, culture, music, discussions and, of course, events. With a strong focus on the Berlinale Film festival and film, Herbstardio Kinofunk will bring the best of Berlin straight to your good old radio. Over 200 Berlin based artists, DJS, filmmakers, writers and underground heroes will fill the airwaves 24/7. From the high culture of Hebbel am Ufer and the House of World Cultures to the independent cinemas like Brotfabrik and Babylon, Kinofunk covers it all. Music from Clubs, bars and assorted scenes keeps it interesting: WMF, Maria, SO36, Freudenhaus and Ausland just to name a few. Events like Transmediale & Club Transmediale are also featured, along with a cooperation with the London based artist run radio, Resonance FM. This one month broadcast is part of a bigger plan to realize Herbstradio as an 11 month event radio demonstration - with a focus on temporary and ongoing cultural life in Berlin. You, the public can join in: send us tips on events, call in to join discussions, or even better, make a donation to make it all possible. Special thanks to the Medienanstalt Berlin Brandenburg (MABB) for granting this one month permission (and hopes for a permanent free cultural radio in Berlin!). Herbstradio Kinofunk is an event radio covering the Berlinale (11th-21st Feb) initiated by the Glashaus e.V., known to most as the Kino Brotfabrik, in cooperation with the Radiopiloten and Klubradio Ltd. The "Klubradiopiloten" realize and coordinate the program from two studios - Lottumstrasse (Prenzlauerberg) and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Tiergarten). +++ Program: http://www.herbstradio.org Donate: http://herbstradio.org/spendenaufruf2010 Contact: info@herbstradio.org +++ Stream: http://91.213.60.40:8002/stream Facebook: herbstradio 99.1 FM Group Twitter: http://twitter.com/herbstradio Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbstradio +++ +++ ich will mein Radio zur?ck! Herbstradio 99,1 mhz Berlin 1-28th, February, 2010 www.herbstradio.org Die "Klubradiopiloten" freuen sich das Herbstradio wieder auf Sendung ist. An 28 Tagen im Februar k?nnen die Berliner wieder das Beste aus Kunst, Kultur, Musik, Diskussionen und Events auf 99.1 FM h?ren. Mit dem Fokus auf die Berlinale wird Herbstradio-Kinofunk das Feinste der Hauptstadt direkt in euren Rundfunkapparat bringen. ?ber 200 in Berlin lebende K?nstler, DJs, Filmemacher, Schrifsteller und Underground-Helden werden die Frequenz rund um die Uhr f?llen. Von der Hochkultur des Hebbel am Ufer ?ber das Haus der Kulturen der Welt bis zu Independent-Kinos wie die Kino Brotfabrik und das Babylon, wird der Kinofunk alles abdecken. Zus?tzlich macht Musik aus Clubs, Bars und ausgew?hlten Locations wie dem WMF, Maria, SO36 und dem Freudenhaus, das Programm spannend und abwechslungsreich. Events, wie die "Transmediale" und "Club Transmediale", werden in Kooperation mit dem londoner K?nstlerradio "Resonance FM" gefeatured. Dieser weitere Monat UKW-Radio ist Teil eines Plans, Herbstradio ein ganzes Jahr "On Air" zu bringen. Der Fokus liegt auf dem aktuellen und fortlaufenden Kulturleben Berlins. Macht mit, gestalted Herbstradio und schickt Tipps f?r Events, ruft an bei Diskussionen oder noch besser, seid finanzieller Support f?r ein ganzj?hriges Herbstradio. Vielen Dank der Medienanstalt Berlin Brandenburg (MABB) f?r die Einmonatslizenz und in Zukunft hoffentlich f?r ein dauerhaft freies Kulturradio in Berlin. Herbstradio-Kinofunk ist ein Eventradio, dass ?ber die Berlinale (11. - 21. Februar.) berichtet. Es ist initiiert von Glashaus e.V. - den meisten bekannt als die Kino Brotfabrik - in Kooperation mit den "Radiopiloten" und klubradio GmbH. Die "Klubradiopiloten" senden und koordinieren das Programm von zwei Studios aus: Lottumstrasse (Prenzlauerberg) und dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Tiergarten). Program: http://www.herbstradio.org Spende: http://herbstradio.org/spendenaufruf2010 Kontakt: info@herbstradio.org +++ Stream: http://91.213.60.40:8002/stream Facebook: herbstradio 99.1 FM Group Twitter: http://twitter.com/herbstradio Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/herbstradio From marc.garrett at furtherfield.org Fri Jan 29 17:50:17 2010 From: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org (marc garrett) Date: Fri Jan 29 17:50:46 2010 Subject: [spectre] At HTTP Gallery, If not you not me - Annie Abrahams. In-Reply-To: <1259737233.4b16109165e71@ssl.mecca.ca> References: <1259737233.4b16109165e71@ssl.mecca.ca> Message-ID: <4B6311C9.1020004@furtherfield.org> Sorry for any cross posting... If not you not me Annie Abrahams HTTP Gallery, London 12 February ? 20 March 2010 Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm Free admission to exhibition and events. http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/ifnotyounotme/index.shtml Annie Abrahams (b. NL 1954 , lives and works FR) is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. 'If not you not me' at HTTP Gallery in London is the first exhibition of her work in the UK. Where social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Annie Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling ? of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. Working with simple interfaces, carefully crafted instructions and disruptions in data-flow, Abrahams sensitises participants and audiences to glitches in communication and invites them to experience and reflect on different ways of being together in a machine-mediated world. The exhibition asks how we deal with the tensions of collaboration and physical separation as we negotiate relationships through video imagery, computer software and digital networks. Abrahams has created three new works for 'If not you not me' at HTTP Gallery, inviting collaboration from visitors to the gallery and others around the world. Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partag?e, a telematic still life for mixed media and LED message board, asks visitors to HTTP Gallery and Kawenga - territoires num?riques in Montpellier, France to communicate with one another by arranging objects in the still life and sending messages to one another, with the results visible in a projection in both galleries. The exhibition's private view also includes two new collaborative performances to be documented and shown in the exhibition. On Collaboration Graffiti Wall, a collective text and speech performance, draws on reflections around the nature and problems of online collaboration collected via a website. Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam involves four women artists sitting before webcams in different locations around the world. They will try to organise a unified sound performance, working with and around the inevitable delays that result from the international live feed. In addition to the new works, the exhibition presents documentation of recent networked performances created and curated by Abrahams. If not you not me is co-produced by Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery, London, and bram.org and Kawenga - territoires num?riques, Montpellier, France. Furtherfield.org supports experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. This exhibition was conceived in connection with Furtherfield.org's Rich Networking project interrogating the transparency of communication, artistic collaboration and sociability through digital networks. This is the fourth event in Furtherfield.org's three-year Media Art Ecologies programme which foregrounds practices sharing an ecological approach - an interest in the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns. Events ====== Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm, HTTP Gallery 7pm: On Collaboration Graffiti Wall - Collective text and speech performance at gallery. To contribute or view texts to be used during the performance visit http://bram.org/collaboration/index.php. 8pm: Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partag?e goes live - telematic still Life installation at HTTP Gallery and Kawenga - territoires num?riques, Montpellier, France. 8:30pm: Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam - Telematic performance projected at HTTP Gallery, featuring Anteye Greie (Hailuoto, FI), Pascale Gustin (Paris, FR), Helen Varley Jamieson (Wellington, NZ), and Maja Kalogera (Madrid, ES). More Information Annie Abrahams - http://aabrahams.wordpress.com Bram.org - http://bram.org Kawenga - territoires num?riques - http://www.kawenga.org Furtherfield.org's Media Art Ecologies programme - http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php HTTP Gallery Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY. http://www.http.uk.net From kovats at transmediale.de Sat Jan 30 14:25:58 2010 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Sat Jan 30 14:26:33 2010 Subject: [spectre] transmediale.10 / FLOSS Manuals publication 'Collaborative Futures' available now! Message-ID: Dear spectrites, Between 17 ? 23 January 2010 transmediale, together with FLOSS Manuals, hosted an experimental Book Sprint focussing on the festival theme FUTURITY NOW!. The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of books saw five people locked in a room in Berlin's IMA Design Village for five days to produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title ? Collaborative Futures. They had to create the concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days. Collaborative Futures was facilitated by Adam Hyde and written by Mike Linksvayer, Alan Toner, Marta Peirano, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv with a number of guests who contributed chapters and passages. The process opened up a new and networked discussion focusing on a new vocabulary of the forms, media and goals of collaborative digital practice. As the transmediale.10 publication the Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats to enact the festival notion of futurity in the form of a flash publication. Aleksandar Erkalovic in part developed and tested the alpha version of the 'booki' collaborative platform live and on-site with which 'Collaborative Futures' was created. The contents of the book are now available online, and a special limited edition of 200 copies featuring a great cover designed by Laleh Torabi will be available for sale during transmediale.10, opening next Tuesday Feb 02, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. For an e-pub and pdf version: http://www.transmediale.de/en/collaborative-futures with some great pics and more info on the process at FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/about transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! 02 - 07 February 2010 House of World Cultures Berlin http://www.transmediale.de twitter #tm10 Collaborative Futures festival edition price 15,-- euro greetings, and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin next week, Stephen artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin tickets and passes online at: http://www.transmediale.de/en/tickets -------------------------------------------------------- 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 kovats at transmediale.de Sat Jan 30 14:41:40 2010 From: kovats at transmediale.de (stephen kovats) Date: Sat Jan 30 14:42:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] transmediale.10 pre-openings today + Long Night of the Museums Message-ID: Dear spectrites, for those of you already in Berlin two transmediale Award nominee works will be opening this afternoon: 'Chapter 1 - The Discovery' by Felix Luque S?nchez at 16.00 Instituto Cervantes, Berlin http://www.transmediale.de/en/instituto-cervantes 'Coincidence Engines I and II' by [The User] opening at 17.00 Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB) http://www.transmediale.de/en/chb-collegium-hungaricum-berlin Both works, and together with exhibitions at ART CLAIMS IMPULSE and Galerie ZERO will be part of Berlin's 'Lange Nacht der Museen' (info below). Also opening this evening at gallerie [DAM]Berlin: GaMe! Video games and art With France Cadet, Mark Essen, Joan Leandre, Jason Rohrer, Tale of Tales Vernissage: 30 January, 16:00 ? 18:00 Galerie [DAM]Berlin Tucholskystra?e 37 10117 Berlin dam-berlin.de *** Berlin's Long Night of the Museums *** Saturday, 30 January, 18:00 - 02:00 Three days before the official opening, the Long Night of the Museums offers the opportunity to get a thorough, night-long taste of transmediale.10! At two Satellite institutions in Berlin-Mitte, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB) and the Instituto Cervantes, you can experience two outstanding artworks both nominated for the transmediale Award 2010. The .CHB presents the technological composition project Coincidence Engines I and II by [The User], an artist duo from Canada. At the Instituto Cervantes visitors are greeted by a peculiar object emitting light and sound and which seems to have escaped a Science Fiction film: it is the audiovisual installation Chapter 1 - The Discovery by Spanish artist Felix Luque S?nchez. In Kreuzberg two galleries offer exciting group exhibitions, screenings and lecture-performances: In a one-hour long, moderated screening, the gallery ART CLAIMS IMPULSE presents a number of its central works. Artists with pieces shown include Maria Vedder, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Mihai Grecu, Julius von Bismarck, Pierre Wolter and Michelle Handelman. Visitors of this programme can also see the multimedia installations featured in the current exhibition Reflective Interventions. Galerie ZERO's new exhibition Hybrid Frequencies featuring works by Slovenian performance artist Marko Batista and experimental artist Prokop Bartonicek from the Czech Republic will open over the course of the Long Night. Here the visitors will encounter unforeseen noises and sleeping identities, which the artists seek to detect and liberate through a number of technologies. At 19:00 they will give the lecture-performance SIPHON:SYS:SONIC. http://www.transmediale.de/en/festival/all 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 b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n at b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n.net Sun Jan 31 15:25:17 2010 From: b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n at b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n.net (BlueScreen) Date: Sun Feb 21 10:42:06 2010 Subject: [spectre] 2009=false; 2010=true; //Happy New Year! 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