Nextfest 29.09 -01.10 NY

WIRED Magazine is bringing its vision of a new world's fair to New York City. Experience more than 130 exciting exhibits from scientists, researchers, and inventors around the globe. WIRED NextFest features innovations in communication, design, entertainment, exploration, health, transportation, security, and green living.

Emergences festival 29.09 - 01.10 Paris

In the framework of Villette Numérique 2006 / Play! digital creations

and video games

Emergences festival
Sept. 29th till Oct. 1st 2006 | 4th edition
Maison de La Villette | Cité des sciences et de l’industrie
www.festival-emergences.info

Installations | Performances | Concerts | Projections

Emergences, the new artistic forms and new media yearly meeting, the
inescapable side of the biennal Villette Numérique event is for this
coming edition invading the Cité des sciences’s square and thus opening
up an artistic space fully devoted to Game Art. Coming from all over
Europe, the artists try and understand the video games codes and culture
and immerse the public inside an entertaining and festive universe.

For 3 days and 2 outstanding nights, this giant multimedia playground of
almost 600 square meters is to welcome installations, shows, concerts
and performances. Emergences also proposes 2 electro pluged nights and,
at day time, a "GameART" exhibition which will connect the Cité des
sciences et de l’industrie with the Maison de la Villette.
Lastly, somewhere between Paris and Strasbourg, Emergences is once again
getting off its territorial borders to develop arty ties with its
partner "Les Nuits Electroniques de l'Ososphère", a festival in
Strasbourg which takes place over the same period: simultaneously
program network creations and performances, numerical experiments, live
retransmissions and ephemeral radio in the two events.
All in all, they are more than 30 artists who are to participate to this
new edition of Emergences : Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca, Marnix de Nijs, Yan
Duyvendak, //////////fur///, Habbo Hotel, MEC (Motards En Colère), the
art group Exyzt,...

FOLLY LAUNCHES F.CITY – FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CULTURE 29.09-21.10 Lancaster (UK)

folly is launching f.city, a major festival of digital art and culture including exhibitions, events, performances, talks, screenings and podcasts from late September.

The festival features Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders, an exhibition of work existing at the point of convergence between art, architecture and design.

Other events include the first major field trial Steve Symons’ GPS virtual sound environment Aura, the launch of two online works from boredomresearch and Adele Prince; a collective dance performance developed in partnership with Ludus Dance; a 3D films night and workshop with Julian Oliver; podcasts; music events and Open Source workshops.

MAPPING SOUND INSTALLATION official website is opend!!

“Mapping Sound Installation” is an art project, in which the space of YCAM (both studio space and public space) is regarded as a place for installing sound-art, and the site-specific and public-oriented sound designs are mapped spatially. At each mapping spot, aesthetic meaning and social function of the three-dimensional spatial extent is unconventionally designed through sound-art so that visitors and users can perceive and actually go through new experiences. In this project, both artists and visitors pursue the entire building as a range of living and moving spaces, while the horizontally circulatory feature of the YCAM architecture is highlighted, and delicate linkage between public art and human senses is activated.

2nd Gifu Ogaki Biennale 2006

The 2nd Gifu Ogaki Biennale 2006 international media art festival will be held this forthcoming Friday October 6 to Sunday October 15. The Biennale will be directed by media art curator and internationally active critic, Gunalan Nadarajan, and media aesthetics professor at the Institute for Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Hiroshi Yoshioka. They present Janken as the universal theme at Biennale, reinterpreting the non-European game as a flexible and mythical idea. This Biennale has two distinct features: First, it will be the first exhibition in Japan that focuses on Asian media artists from countries such as Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, China and South Korea which have in recent years grown with rapid momentum, drawing global attention. Second, these exhibitions will be deployed throughout various places on the streets of Ogaki City, Gifu.
In addition to the works above, there will be artist talks, symposia, workshops, performances and exhibitions of artworks by artists from Japan and other countries, IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences) students and graduates. This will be an event full of fresh ideas and the latest information technology such as a unique stamp collecting activity developed specifically for the Biennale and sound events from a specially customized bus.

FIRST PLAY BERLIN

Be the first to experience FIRST PLAY BERLIN. A virtual tree. A handheld world evolving with every beat of your heart. Memories of a childhood home and an English garden brought to life by new technology. A CCTV city tour. FIRST PLAY BERLIN fuses the player and the game, the handheld and the heartfelt, the cerebral and the technical – short-circuiting the limits of play.

Trampoline are delighted to invite you to the opening of FIRST PLAY BERLIN at Hebbel am Ufer, HAU2 on Thursday 12 October from 8pm onwards when FIRST PLAY projects go live and a Trampoline event showcases our unique blend of eclectic and emergent new technology art from around the world.

Blast Theory, Active Ingredient, Michelle Teran, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Simon Heijdens and Frank Abbott converge on Hebbel am Ufer for FIRST PLAY BERLIN. The result is a weekend of trend-setting, cutting-edge international live media art projects that combine technology, performance, interaction and installation.

Renowned British media art group Blast Theory present a mobile phone game for up to 1000 players over 24 days. Be the first one to populate this fictional city and come to the opening of DAY OF THE FIGURINES on Thursday 28 September at 6pm.

On Friday 13 October FIRST PLAY artists will give presentations of their work and take part in a discussion.

FIRST PLAY BERLIN features innovative work questioning the concept of performance and expanding the notion of interactive art. Using locative media such as mobile phone, PDA, location sensor devices, a truly interactive experience is created for the audience, embedding the art into the real, physical, urban environment.

luminance in motion Stuttgart (D)

MC PICTURES - luminance into motion the video Exhibition of MULTIPLE CHOICE in co-operation with fluctuating images e.V. - media art gallery Video work of ALEX SCHMDIDT 16.September until 1 October 2006 daily starting from 18.00 o'clock theatre house Stuttgart In the course of its co-operation in the context of the project the Videofilmer Alexander Schmidt and the Choreograf Fabian Chyle its own aesthetics in handling the medium video developed MULTIPLE CHOICE in dance performances. In the context of the exhibition a representative selection of the video work is shown.