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Opening of EMPAC 8.10.2008, Troy NY

2008-10-06T18:22:00.000-07:00

The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a place and a program where the arts, technology and science will challenge and transform each other. Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest technological university, EMPAC draws strength from being part of a great research university. It will offer artists, visiting scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities that are available nowhere else under a single roof, providing unsurpassed facilities for creative exploration as well as for research in fields ranging from visualization to immersive environments to large-scale interactive simulations. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creators from around the world, and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.

Rensselaer is the nation’s oldest technological university, offering degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, the humanities and social sciences. It is pre-eminent in research into biotechnology, nanotechnology, IT, and the media arts and technology. In addition to its MFA program, RPI offers bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts, and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication – one of the first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States.

Glowmobiles, NewcastleGateshead, GB

2007-12-24T17:17:00.000-08:00

Glowmobiles - A dazzling array of illuminated Art Cars and other amazing vehicles. Fire-breathing, music-making, wild-wheeled mechanical mischief on the streets.

NewcastleGateshead’s fabulous FREE New Year’s Eve celebrations will be better than ever this year, with a fun event for all the family – Glowmobiles. A dazzling array of incredible Art Cars and other illuminated vehicles will make
their lively and mischievous way to several locations around NewcastleGateshead where they can be viewed by the public.

This is no ordinary traffic jam – these surreal wheeled wonders, created by artists and members of the public, include cars, bikes and scooters, a milk float and even a fire engine, all wonderfully lit up, painted, decorated and sculpted. Some breathe fire, some make music and others explode with fireworks! A fleet of gleaming Glow Bikes will make up part of the parade - see the bikes come to life!

Glowmobiles, created by Walk The Plank, will be located at ‘pit-stops’ at Saltwell Park, Baltic Square, Times Square and Monument, finishing with a parade of all the vehicles from Grey’s Monument at 5.30pm, before ending up at Newcastle Civic Centre at 6.30pm for a grand finale and fireworks display.

The final line-up has been announced for the amazing art cars which will take to the streets on New Year’s Eve:

The Blip Festival 29.11.-02.12.

2007-11-25T10:49:00.000-08:00

The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States.

Luminous Echo 2007

2007-11-14T16:02:00.000-08:00

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Based in Hong Kong, the annual Microwave International New Media Arts Festival is a pioneering festival of its kind, both in Asia and internationally. Each year we strive to bring the latest fusion of art and technology to Hong Kong that would inspire both artists and public. The theme of this year's 11th anniversary festival is "LUMINOUS ECHO" - an attempt to display works of public interest that explore the relationship between sound and light, with an emphasis to break down the barrier between man and machine, and heighten the interactivity between people and electronic media art. The Festival will run until 18 November 2007.

DIVA Paris 15.-18.11.07

2007-10-21T12:46:00.000-07:00

Digital & Video Art Fair Paris 2007 - New dates
For its 3rd edition in Paris, DiVA (The Digital & Video Art Fair ) sets new dates to be better positioned in the busy international calendar. The new dates and location to allow more flexibility for interested galleries to participate in the fair and art lovers to take their time to view the videos. These changes should bring the number of visitors from 3,000 last year to an estimated 10,000 this fall 2007. The new location offers many advantages such as the unique opportunity to the exhibitors to use an actual retail store space at the central location in the middle of Paris. The most interesting aspect of this new location however is the juxtaposition
of Video and Digital Art with Antiquities. A unique demonstration that Digital and Video Art co/exist with the utmost pertinence in all environment even when it creates an apparent anachronism.
Digital & Video Art Fair Paris 2007 - The program
19 stores at Louvre des Antiquaires used by international galleries
Screenings and lectures at the fair
Outdoor program of recommended exhibitions in Paris with VIP receptions.
Digital & Video Art Fair Paris 2007 - A unique vision DiVA, the first international contemporary art fair dedicated to video and multimedia arts
Since the first edition DiVA have demonstrated a commitment to quality. It is also a profound forward thinking approach to the event we offer to the world. As such DiVA has become the first fair dedicated to Video and New Media, the largest fair for video art, the only international fair for Video Art.
Today DiVA offers possibility to buy the art works directly online.
Since the invention of photography, nothing has had a greater impact on artistic practice than the emergence of the personal video camera, and later, digital technology. Today, cameras and video cameras, digital and otherwise, with the aid of computers, have become the ultimate tool in creating a dynamic arena for artistic expression without the limits imposed by the artists’ physical surroundings. The concentration of serious collectors in Paris, both contemporary art lovers and those who collect as part of family tradition, makes Paris one of the most important places for exhibiting video art and new media. DiVA Paris promises to be a valuable addition to the city's art arena with local and international collectors welcoming video as a serious part of their collections.
Digital & Video Art Fair Paris 2007 - Information
November 15-18 2007
Le Louvre des Antiquaires
2, place du Palais-Royal
75001 Paris

Urban Screens Manchester until 14.10.07

2007-10-09T18:08:00.000-07:00

The public element of Urban Screens Manchester 07 is an exciting four-day programme of art and events which range from mobile projection, VJ sets, live streaming, video and animation programmes, audiovisual performances to interactive art.

The programme features the works of more than 80 artists from around the world.

Three LED screens in city centre Manchester will show individual programmes exploring the aesthetic and creative potential of content for urban screens. The curatorial focus lies on works which deliberately respond to the specifics of urban screens being sited in the dynamic and dense terrain of public space.

For the art and events programme artworks/creative projects were chosen and commissioned which enrich the urban and public environment.

You’ll soon find a full line-up of projects and events under each day; you can already find some information on a number of events. We are constantly updating this section of the website.

Live Events
The art and events programme brings to Manchester a number of outstanding live events, in which the screens become a stage for international artists. All live events will be presented on either the big screen in front of Urbis or the second temporary big screen on the MMU campus.

All live events plus the rest of the art and events programme are free. The only exception from this rule is the Light Surgeons’ performance at the City Hall for which you will need a low-price ticket sold at Cornerhouse.

One of the highlights will be the interactive audiovisual performance The Air Been Broken by the Chinese duo 8GG on Saturday 13th. This live, exclusive performance in the shadow of the URBIS building will encourage the public to participate via the giant screen, webcams, microphones and other sensors.

The famous multimedia artists, The Light Surgeons, will premier their new piece True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore in the UK on Thursday night, the 11th. The live performance brings a true fusion of eclectic musical genres such as classical, electronic, folk and hip-hop together on stage as a kaleidoscopic multi-screen cinematic experience, incorporating live musicians and striking audio-visual manipulations.

The performance Buffer Zone by the Russian-Canadian Samer Najari will bring images and sounds from a location near the port of Calais in France where people gather waiting to illegally immigrate to the UK. On three nights, Najari invites these immigrants to speak about their fears and hopes for their future life. The collected still images, stories and songs are transmitted via the Internet and presented in real time on the screen in All Saints Gardens.

Interactive works
The interactive works will invite passers-by to play with the big screens. Both projects will captivate the audience through their simplicity and intuitiveness which supports spontaneous fun and engagement. The interactive works will be on display repeatedly and for longer durations, so you have a real chance to play with them.

Circulez Y’A Rien A Voir (move along now, there's nothing to see) by French Cécile Babiole converts the movements of people into abstract graphic patterns and sounds. Every passer-by can do as one pleases: roam, dance, stamp, run or simply wave a hand and explore means of activating graphics and cheeping sounds.

Streaming media works
A couple of streaming media works will be shown as part of the art and events programme. These works are special as they have a live element to them, for example they use real time images from sites around the globe. These works are fascinating, because they are not just videos, but they change over time.

One of them is Nocinema.org which draws upon a string of live webcams across the world, transmitting live scenes collected from different locations. While the image is slightly manipulated, thus recalling a cinematic camera shot, the sound compositions by various artists foster the hypnotic character of the piece.

Overnight video installations
The sleepless citizen will enjoy the three video pieces which will be presented on all four nights. These works have been designed for an installation setting and will be adapted for the urban screens. Starting at midnight and running till dawn, these pieces will take you to distant and almost surreal places.

Video and animation programmes
A number of video programmes from various parts of the world have been assembled particularly for Manchester. We have asked leading curators and screen operators, video distributions and institutions to provide video works for the public screens in Manchester.

The result is a culturally diverse and absolutely thrilling programme of videos and animations which celebrate the public screen and its various audiences. So either get caught by walking by one of the screens or show up for a screening of your choice! Roaming projection Last but not least we want you to walk with us and follow the mobile projection of A Wall Is A Screen. On Friday night, A Wall Is A Screen will project a series of short movies specially selected for Urban Screens Manchester 07 onto buildings in the city centre. Watch the stunning movies while the crowd grows and moves from one spot to the next!

PixelVÄRK 05.-07.10 Stockholm

2007-09-30T15:14:00.001-07:00

PixelVÄRK is a festival for electronic art and subcultures and a Swedish version of pixelACHE. The first pixelACHE festival was organised in Helsinki in 2002. Since then it has become annual event at Kiasma and additional festivals has been arranged in New York, Bratislava, Montreal, Paris and Colombia. PixelACHE presents projects experimenting with media and technology from a broad range of discipline: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. There is a focus on grass-root networks and communities such as VJ Communities, media activists, open source communities and demo scene.
The theme for the 2007 pixelVÄRk is aesthetics, tools and methods in VJ-ing and other underground media. The festival marks the end of the Game Art focus Mejan Labs has had during the early autumn of 2007, where art related to computer games have been discussed.

The festival starts with a seminar with a certain focus on the festival topics and continues with three club nights celebrating the live video and the pixel.

Goodbye Privacy Ars Electronica, Linz

2007-09-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

A new culture of everyday life is now upon us, bracketed by the angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. One in which everything seems to be public and nothing’s private anymore. Panopticon or consummate individual freedom of expression? At symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions, the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival will delve into what the public and private spheres have come to mean and the interrelationship that now exists between them.

Inter-Faces, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan

2007-09-09T14:14:00.000-07:00

‘Inter-Faces’ is the first exhibition of international

Contemporary video art to take place in Kazakhstan.

Artists:Jeremy Deller, Jeroen Offerman, David Blandy, Philip

Donstov, Matt Calderwood, Jorge Sosa, Connor Kelly, Simon

Faithful, Artists Anonymous, Nada Prija, John Hughes, Mai

Hofstad Gunnes, Josh Tonsfeldt, Donna Conlon, Suky Best,

‘Inter-Faces’ showcases the work of cutting-edge artists.

Chosen for their dynamism and exploration of common social

themes, the sensitivities and perceptions of each work

contribute to a larger conversation. Through a discourse that

confronts the falsehoods, definitions, presuppositions, and

boundaries of various cultures, the universality of the human experience explored.

Cybermural: The Web as the Wall NYTimes

2007-08-12T15:44:00.000-07:00

THE neighborhood is changing,” the multimedia artist Juan Devis said as he walked through Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, “and I wanted to record that change of scene by the folks who live there.” So began his Web project “Departures.” Part digital mural, part social documentary, part travelogue, it can be seen on the Web site of the public television station KCET, where Mr. Devis is a new-media producer.

Since it went up about a year ago (kcet.net/explore-ca/departures), “Departures” has won international, national and local digital-media awards. It also has strong ties to art history, especially that of California. With its pumped-up colors, a focus on everyday lives made heroic and its status as an essentially public artwork, “Departures” strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s, a movement born from the Chicano civil rights movement when Mexican-American artists like Judy Baca, David Rivas Botello and Willie Herrón adapted the Mexican muralist tradition for their own time.

When Mr. Devis first arrived from Colombia in 1993, Boyle Heights was “a beehive of gang activity,” he said. But he often spent time there because it had “things that made me feel comfortable,” like the restaurants serving “the best goat in town” and Spanish spoken on the streets.

Founded as an affluent white suburb in the 1880s, Boyle Heights soon became a proverbial working-class melting pot. It was the first port of call for successive waves of newcomers to Los Angeles: African-Americans, Jewish immigrants, refugees from the Russo-Japanese War, the Mexican Revolution and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which drove many Japanese-Americans south. Since the 1970s the neighborhood has been predominantly Latino, evident in the vibrant murals that grace many of its housing projects, restaurants and stores.

By that point it was also encircled by freeways, which has kept it somewhat frozen in time. But now Boyle Heights is on the verge of change, as a new Metro line opening in 2009 will reconnect it with the rest of Los Angeles.

Mr. Devis, 36, began his journey into the neighborhood in May 2006, equipped with only a camera and what he called his rules of travel: “always travel as a tourist, even in your own city”; “get lost”; and “talk to someone you don’t know.” After about a month of getting to know the locals and taking casual scouting shots, he returned with a video camera, sound equipment and his associate producer, Bijan Rezvani, to record more formal interviews.

At first glance “Departures,” which they created with Digitaria, a San Diego-based design firm, resonates like an old-fashioned photographic panorama. Click on an image, and travel along three blocks of East First Street: the Latino gay and lesbian hangout Redz Bar and the Benjamin Franklin Library, the first branch of the city’s public library system; past Homeboy Industries, a group that helps ex-gang members build new lives; to the elegantly turreted Boyle Hotel, which began life in 1898 as a luxury hilltop inn and is now a dilapidated residence for mariachi musicians.

On closer inspection, though, this streetscape turns out to be a photomontage. It conflates both sides of the street into one and is punctuated with out-of-scale, out-of-place details: the cross that marks the First Street Pool and Billiard Parlor, the boxer wrapping his hands outside the First Street Boxing Gym, the cracked sidewalk littered with cigarette butts that looms above the locally fabled burrito joint Al & Bea’s. Near the Golden State Freeway overpass Jose Torres poses against a painted version of his store, Torres Closeouts; this is actually a detail of a painting by Diego Cardoso that hangs in a nearby cafe.

Mr. Devis represented the street in this fashion to suggest the experience of discovery. “When you’re walking down a street, you are selective,” he said. “You frame things, you zoom into something, depending on your interests.” He also took pains to present many of the sites from different angles, “to break the perspective you normally get on Google maps.” And he chose to structure it as a walking tour, he said, “to trump the idea that in L.A. you cannot walk, that in L.A. there are no communities.”

At many points the panorama deepens into three dimensions, through hot spots that lead to slide shows, audio interviews, historical photographs and literary quotations about the experience of place or travel. (A sample, from “A Walker in the City” by Alfred Kazin: “All my early life lies open to my eye within five city blocks.”) Most interviews include multiple soundtracks (about half in Spanish) and each is accompanied by a video portrait that depicts the subjects standing still as the world continues to move around them.

It's Simply Beautiful until 22.10.07 Laboral

2007-08-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

How do the terms 'beauty' and ?'culture' function relative to one another in various disciplines, including, art history, philosophy, cultural studies and architecture?

The expressionist model often used to frame such inquiries ? making a culture the expression of a singular community ? is increasingly inadequate given the research on the many differences within the communities and the incessant back-and-forth of borrowings among cultural groups. In light of the changes involved in trans-culturalism, we are in the midst of globalizing forces foreclosing some forms of cultural life and opening up others. What are the aims of culture in a globalised world?
The answers we give to this question will determine how we conduct ourselves as artists and citizens.

TERMINAL ZERO ONE Digital Art Exhibition at Toronto Pearson International Airport

2007-07-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

Terminal Zero One (T01) is a site-specific digital art exhibition of five projects exploring themes of contemporary air travel and the architecture of airports. Airports are networks, information is increasingly networked, the T01 exhibit examines people as data, motion as trajectories and the symbiosis of virtual and actual. The public is invited to experience the projects via touch sensitive screens, SMS text messaging, a webcam and as a controlled 3D avatar navigating through a simulated terminal. Track real-time flight activity originating from Pearson International Airport through a live data stream. Reinterpret the familiar by manipulating universal airport symbols and flight information screens. Engage in dialogue about controversial issues of international security and human rights. T01 is a portal into digital artworks that reflect the technology, movement and connectivity of the contemporary international airport - a transitory space where notions of borders, time and place are temporarily suspended. The T01 kiosk, designed by Toronto based W I D E Studio, is located across from the Ingo Maurer water sculpture on level 3 departures pre-security at Terminal 1.

Sonar 2007 14.-15.16.06 Barcelona

2007-06-11T17:14:00.000-07:00

SonarMática
In a one hundred and eighty degree turn, this year SonarMatica looks at the world of magic, presenting an exhibition based on the Third Law of the famous British writer Arthur C. Clarke – the author of “2001: A Space Odyssey” - which states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

Sonarama
Sonarama focuses on the latest developments in new media: installation art, audiovisual concerts, software and medialab presentations in a shared exhibition space.

SonarCinema
A menu selection that presents a wide range of contemporary audiovisual art in all aspects linked to new technologies and electronic music.

Talks and Panels
Round tables, forums and debates about electronic culture.

Sónar A La Carte: Music A La Carte y Digital A La Carte:
Sonar A La Carte is the Festival's media archive. Various exhibits of digital art, video and music that explore contemporary electronic culture through theme-based pieces chosen by different specialists each year.

Cellphonia: WET

2007-06-03T12:09:00.000-07:00

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Cellphonia: WET is a cellphone interactive sound/video installation. Visitors will experience a 6-minute 5-song looping vocals of naiads lamenting the loss of the world's fresh water with projected video accompaniment.

Comments:

Cellphonia: WET will re-use technology and deployment methods from the premiere of Cellphonia: San Jose, a karaoke cellphone opera, at the ISEA Zero One, August 2006 receiving a favorable review in the New York Times.
- Cellphonia: WET will reuse portions of the libretto from WET, an opera, that premiered at the Disney REDCAT theatre in 2005 with favorable reviews in the Los Angeles Times.
- Cellphonia: WET will use video footage prepared during a Rockefeller Bellagio retreat.
- Cellphonia was awarded a NYSCA grant in 2006. .

Installation Description

One audio capable computer connected to internet to stream audio from Cellphonia web site.
Public address system with loud speaker volume level set to be heard by several visitors.
One video projector and screen or large video monitor to display water video from a DVD player.
A poster to inform visitors to call Cellphonia telephone number and add their own voices to the installation vocals.
Installation should be located so a visitor can use his cellphone to easily make a phone call.

"404 FESTIVAL - ON TOUR / EUROPE 2007"

2007-05-19T14:44:00.000-07:00

Astas Romas" & "404 Festival" decided to launch an European Tour that begins on May 31th 2007.

Directors and team of the "404 Festival" will be visiting cultural centers, public and alternative places performing live concerts, projections and conferences, also presenting "404 selected" artworks from international authors.

Artists from different countries will join this tour, such as SadMb (Japan), Synchdub (Belgium), Sample Mousse (Finland), Guillermo Giampietro & Lara Baracetti (Italy), Einstein's Brain Project (Canada), Vladimir Manovski and Aleksandar Secerov (Serbia), Miha Ciglar (Slovenia), among others.

TOURING SHOW

2007-05-08T05:50:00.000-07:00

Touring Show is an online exhibition of artists' maps and 'virtual tours' of contested spaces, ranging from the Military Industrial Complex, to the US-Mexico border, to the body. The mapping and social organization of spaces has not only had a profound impact on the cultures that inhabit them, it has also contributed to the development of a number of artistic traditions, including cartography, drafting, and landscape painting and photography. More recently, the emergence of the artists' lectures and tours as artistic media has coincided with the practice of 'radical cartography,' which in its most elemental terms is the charting of a space's relationship to the empire or ideology that governs it. Also significant to the specific cultural moment traced here is the mingling of technology's impact on our landscape and the use of technologies to explore and document this terrain. The artists here offer a combination of web-based and public projects that can be interpreted as tours in this vein. While some of the projects read as interventions, others simply present the information needed to navigate viewers' own subjective traversals.

Curated by Marisa Olson for Rhizome.

New Directions from China from 05/06/07 to 06/17/07 PlugIn, Basel

2007-05-01T17:19:00.000-07:00

With works by Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Huang Shi, Miao Xiaochun, spylab
(Benjamin Bacon / Huang Haiyan), Wu Juehui, Jin Jiangbo, Lu Yang.
Curator: Zhang Ga

Opening / lecture
Contemporary China: art and technology
Lecture by Zhang Ga on the occasion of the opening of «New Directions from
China»
Saturday, May 5th, 6pm
Opening reception afterwards (7pm).

Panel discussion on the conditions of new media art in China.
06/15/07, 2pm (during Art Basel)
With Jin Jiangbo, Lu Yang, Wu Juehui, Zhang Peili und Zhang Ga.

Despite the boom of Chinese contemporary Art, new media art from China is still little known. «New Directions from China» is the first group show of its kind in Europe. It was curated by Zhang Ga, the artistic director of the
China International New Media Arts Exhibition 2008 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.

"New Direction from China is the first attempt to bring an exhibition of Chinese artists working exclusively in the area of new media to the European audience. The exhibition is comprised of works from both established as well as emerging artists from Mainland China. By presenting a body of exemplifying works, it is my hope to introduce to the West a glimpse of the new direction of artistic endeavor from China, though nascent, yet already manifesting great potential and refreshing vitality. The exhibition is conceived to inspire active dialogues among media art communities and to
embark on a discourse of the open art work seen from culturally and historically disparate contexts and traditions."
Zhang Ga

EMAF 2007 exhibition until 20.05, Osnabruck (D)

2007-04-27T15:43:00.000-07:00

/ 20 YEARS OF THE EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL – THE FORUM FOR EXPANDED MEDIA IN EUROPE The meeting point for audiences and guests from home and abroad. Around 250 new works of media art, including world premieres, will be presented. The festival shows film as a contemporary work of art in cinemas and exhibitions, both performed and using multimedia. // EXHIBITION The exhibition »Final Cut« directs our view to the relationship between media art and cinema. From 25 April to 20 May an artistic look at the dream machine "cinema" will be given at the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche. International artists will demonstrate their fascination with cinema, but will also question the values, codes and patterns behind the films. Works will be presented by artists such as Paul McCarthy, Alex McQuilkin, Mischa Kuball, Klaus vom Bruch, Candice Breitz, Mark Lewis, Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, Bjørn Melhus, Peter Tscherkassky, Christoph Draeger, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Pierre Huyghe. There will also be plenty of opportunity to participate in talks with the artists and attend lectures on the subject.The exhibition is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation.

THE ART WORLD IS FLAT 26.-28.04 Jay Pritzker Pavilion,Chigaco

2007-04-09T02:12:00.000-07:00

The inaugural Symposium C6 will bring together an international group of socially engaged artists, scientists, curators, technologists, patrons and cultural entrepreneurs who are confronting the new challenges and possibilities of our profoundly interconnected world.

Digimag 23

2007-04-03T07:12:00.000-07:00

Word of Fire by Santiago Sierra

2007-03-25T10:40:00.000-07:00

"Word of Fire" is the new project by artist Santiago Sierra. It will be made in a space of around 1500 cubic meters in a field located in ANAPRA, at the western end of the city, and only a few meters away from the U.S. border. This is the area considered in the plans for building a wall which will definitely isolate the First World from the Third. This territory is the point where the states of Chihuahua, New Mexico, and Texas meet, and therefore, the plans for this area also contemplate building an international crossing to New Mexico.

The port of ANAPRA was one of the first and largest irregular settlements in the outskirts of Juarez. It was created back in 1974, when a group of persons guided by teachers invaded an area of around 50 acres. Ever since, the neighbors have struggled to get public services such as electricity, water and paved streets. Nowadays, they don't have a sewer system and families still have to be allocated. Life in this worker's neighborhood has been marked by disintegrating families and very low incomes. A big part of its population consists of immigrants from several parts of Mexico that go there in order to work at the maquilas (assembly plants) or as street vendors. This area is also famous because of the forced interventions by American police forces in Mexican soil, which cross the border to arrest alleged criminals and for the cases of blood poisoning of children with the lead produced by the smelting procedures of the American company ASARCO. According to the health authorities from Cd. Juarez, the population of this zone presents the highest rates of malformations, of anencephaly, and of respiratory diseases in the city's population.

The work "Word of Fire" will take place in this representative area of the city, in front of the Sporting Center which is being built by the State Government and next to a ditch which was broken during the heavy rains of the summer, which left many people homeless and proved the lack of urban infrastructure in the West End of the city.

"Word of Fire" will have a duration of 30 minutes and will be transmitted live from the artist's website (www.santiago-sierra.com) and from www.proyectojuarez.org.

Opening LABoral Centre 30.03 Gyon, Spain

2007-03-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is specifically focused on the production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and new technologies. FEEDBACK Focuses on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one possible narrative of the history of ‘new media art’. Featuring historical and current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital technologies. Curators: Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate Modern, London Curatorial Advisor: Charlie Gere, Research Professor in New Media, University of Lancaster Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture GAMEWORLD Curator: Carl Goodman, Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria (New York) Associate Curator: Daphne Dragona Curatorial Advisor: Helen Stuckey Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture Gameworld refers to the designed world within a video game; the emerging artistic, industrial and academic ecology surrounding video games; and the extent to which lived experience is being coloured by video games, their forms of representation and their techniques of machine-mediated interaction. LABcyberspaces Following an open invitation to artists all over the world to present works with a major component of digital creation and net art. The 10 selected works will be put on show as a snapshot or overview of artistic creation associated with technology and cyberspace as new challenges and new frontiers. Jury: Alex Adriaansens, Director, V2 and DEAF, Rotterdam; Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Director of laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijón (Asturias); Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gerfried Stocker, Art Director, Ars Electronica, Linz Development of presentation: Manuela Pfaffenberger Exhibition Design: Quero-Kawamura-Ganjavian EXTENSIONS-ANCHORS This project is an open coordinated network of exhibitions and/or interventions conceived to connect the new Centre for Art and Creative Industries with its surrounding environs and artists, with a goal of recovering the tradition of dialogue between arts and industry. The project will feature work by young artists or those particularly engaged with non-commercial and minority idioms, with a total of fourteen exhibitions or interventions in two phases. Curator: Francisco Crabiffosse, independent curator, Oviedo Artists: Pablo Armesto, Paco Cao, Maite Centol, , Soledad Córdoba, Carlos Coronas, Juan Fernández and Chechu Álava, Dionisio González, Adolfo Manzano, Juan Carlos Martínez, Natalia Pastor, Fernando Redruello, Avelino Sala, Cuco Suárez and Aurora Suárez. THE E-IMAGE ERA International essayists and thinkers ponder the reach of the electronic image in art today. Pencilled in are François Bucher, Jordan Crandall, Pedro A. Cruz, Alexander Galloway, Anna María Guasch, Lev Manovich, Juan Martín Prada and Siegfried Zielinsky

EMAF 25.-29.04 Osnaebruck

2007-03-16T17:23:00.000-07:00

20 Years of the European Media Art Festival - the forum for Expanded Media in Europe The meeting point for audiences and guests from home and abroad. Around 250 new works of media art, including world premieres, will be presented. The festival shows film as a contemporary work of art in cinemas and exhibitions, both performed and using multimedia. //Exhibition The exhibition "Final Cut" directs our view to the relationship between media art and cinema. From 25 April to 20 May an artistic look at the dream machine "cinema" will be given at the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche. International artists will demonstrate their fascination with cinema, but will also question the values, codes and patterns behind the films. Works will be presented by artists such as Paul McCarthy, Alex McQuilkin, Mischa Kuball, Klaus vom Bruch, Candice Breitz, Mark Lewis, Christoph Girardet, Bjorn Melhus, Peter Tscherkassky, Christoph Draeger, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Pierre Huyghe. There will also be plenty of opportunity to participate in talks with the artists and attend lectures on the subject. The exhibition is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation. // Anniversary A review of media art will be given by our special guests, the director of the ZKM, Peter Weibel, Lynn Hershman, Birgit Hein of the fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig and Malcolm LeGrice, who will be showing their personal selection of films. // Cinema Around 180 current experimental shorts, feature-length films and videos have been selected from a total of roughly 2000 works submitted from around the world. They range from narrative approaches to documentary/analytical views of war events and environmental problems. Visually walking the borderline between real and virtual areas of communication is also selected as a central theme. We are focussing this year on the countries of Mexico and Cuba. // Awards Three awards will be presented at the festival: the "EMAF Award" for a trend-setting work in media art, the "Dialogpreis" of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange and the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" for the best German experimental film. // Expanded Cinema The new edition of SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT curated by Mark Webber (LUX London) provides an insight into Expanded Cinema from the 1960s and 70s. Two historic works will be screened live. // Performance The performance LATITUDE presents a new work by the English group D-Fuse, known for their international DJ/VJ acts. Another highlight will be the YouTube Party by and with the artist Bjorn Melhus. // Congress Besides taking stock and giving an outlook, the current determination of the position of media art is also the focus of lectures and panel discussions. How has digitisation changed artistic production? Which interrelationships exist between artistic and commercial media production? How have these interrelationships affected aesthetics, form and content? // International Student Forum The contact and exchange point for projects and offerings in higher education: the Hochschule fur Gestaltung from Karlsruhe, the Dutch Minerva Academy from Groningen, the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste Braunschweig and the Hochschule der KÃ�Â¼nste Bern. For further information: www.emaf.de

An Evening with Takuji Kogo 27.02. MoMA

2007-02-21T17:31:00.000-08:00

Takuji Kogo (Japanese, b. 1965), founder of “candy factory,” an alternative Yokohama gallery that operated from 1998 to 2000, exploits the Internet to explore the meanings of globalization, especially through sites left deserted when the economy of multinational companies fails. He playfully interlaces photography, animation, and sampled music, and he invites the participation of Web denizens. An Evening with Takuji Kogo is part of “out of the internet,” an international festival featuring cultural content emerging from the Asia Pacific regions. The project is realized through MAAP—Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. Program approx. 90 min.

OpenSky 2.0

2007-02-13T16:14:00.000-08:00

HACHIYA Kazuhiko, who was born in 1966, has created an innovative group of works related to communication and realizing one's dreams. Earlier works include "Inter Dis-Communication Machine" (1993), a pair of devices that exchange points of view between two persons, so that the wearers see through each other's eyes, and "AirBoard" (1999, 2001), a jet-powered, real-life version of the hoverboard seen in the film "Back to the Future". He also proposed the "PostPet" e-mail software and provides direction for its development. His career as an artist in the inventor mode has made HACHIYA a well-known media artist.

HACHIYA launched OpenSky in 2003 as a project to create a single-person flying machine. The project is currently progressing towards its ultimate goal of achieving a feasible personal jet glider. Phase one was the basic design of the craft and experiments with a model of it; phase two was experimental production of the actual craft and trial flights at low altitudes. The project is about to enter phase 3, manned flight with the glider equipped with a jet engine.

This exhibition will focus on the OpenSky project, presenting the model and full-scale craft, its concept, and a vast collection of video recordings of experiments to date. It will also allow visitors to experience the flight simulator and the sounds of the jet engine in a multifaceted presentation that provides a comprehensive view of the project.

What seemed the dream of individual flight is, as the OpenSky project demonstrates, achievable precisely through a single person's creation of this aircraft. In doing so, the artist frees the idea of soaring through the skies at will from the realm of fantasy.