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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.

Dispatx

2007-02-04T08:09:00.000-08:00

Dispatx is a curatorial platform that provides the tools of a socialised internet for the development and presentation of contemporary art and literature. It was created in 2004 by Oliver Luker, Vanessa Oniboni and David Stent.

The website functions both as a rigorous concept-space for the exploration of the creative method - the organisational process which translates creative vision into creative product - and as an exhibition space for concluded works.

Visitors are invited to interact with the working processes of contributing artists presented online and to create unique private collections of finished works in My Dispatx.

For each edition we publish themes for exploration that are open to the interpretation of collaborating artists. From the moment a theme is announced, the process of selection for collaborative projects and concluded works is open.

Selected projects are developed over a period of 5 months in the Studio. Their evolution can be observed in Make, where users can comment on the progress of each artist. When projects are finalised they are collated together and published in the Show section of the following edition, where the content is processed and presented by genetic algorithms.

The Girlfriend Experience until 09.03 Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)

2007-01-28T09:26:00.000-08:00

The avatars of The Girlfriend Experience will be available every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 20:00- 23:00. They can also be observed live in the Analog Villa, the Mediamatic Exhibition space.

The rampant growth of online avatar communities such as Second Life and World of Warcraft has enabled the creation of a personal online social and economic existence. Simultaneously this triggers inherent questions about this existence, as it questions what the consequences will be for first life, or reality.

When you use virtual avatars you can do as you please. In The Girlfriend Experience you will have to get to know each other first. Player and avatar explore what they can do for each other and how far the avatar wants to go to execute specific desires. It is ambiguous who is really controlling the situation. You have ten minutes to figure out what you can do with your avatar. After that, your time is up and another player can take your place.

The title of the project, The Girlfriend Experience, denotes the paradoxical character that online social interaction has. On one hand, the safe anonymity by using the avatar, on the other the intimate releases and projections that can spread easily. For Martin Butler is this the merging of two apparent extremes, anonymity and intimacy, which characterizes an important part of contemporary social traffic. The best paid prostitutes are the ones with whom the client feels as though he is with his girlfriend, or with whom he has a Girlfriend Experience.

art_clips until 25.03. ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe (D)

2007-01-22T05:43:00.000-08:00

"art_clips are the subject-centered answer of art to the end of industrially produced music videos for television. They are a guarantee of an individual view of the world, which opens the horizon of the possible. Searching for a contemporary visual language for short and meaningful messages, art_clips move within a gigantic field of optical investigations, free from mass-media taboos that would forbid a playful treatment of image, text and sound. Alongside and after all previously established artistic genres, they represent an art form corresponding to the acceleration of life, its hecticness and diversity. art_clips are of such a density of design, such a cunning and enigmaticness, such a stylistic sovereignty and personal yet general validity, that one may say they are a shot that hits the mark - us. Following the DVD production and preview events in Innsbruck and Bern, the ZKM now presents the first comprehensive compilation of this new art form. Presented will be 90 art_clips from Switzerland, Austria and Germany produced between 2000 and today."

Unfinish Transmediale.07 31.01- 4.02, Berlin (D)

2007-01-17T08:21:00.000-08:00

The 20th transmediale festival again explores how art and society are changing under the influence of media and technologies which become more and more dominant in our everyday lives. In contemporary art, digital media like video and electronic networks are now so wide-spread that a strict definition of what constitutes ‘media art’ seems no longer possible. We have therefore decided to alter the subtitle of the festival: transmediale is no longer called ‘international media art festival’, but ‘festival for art and digital culture’. This name is supposed to demonstrate the step away from the niche of ‘media art’, yet still points to the field of tension between culture and digital technologies, which continues to form the main driving force of the festival.

Networked Nature until 18.02 Foxy Production

2007-01-14T10:05:00.000-08:00

Foxy Production presents Networked Nature, a group exhibition that inventively explores the representation of “nature” through the perspective of networked culture. The exhibition includes works by C5, FutureFarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross,Stephen Vitiello, and Gail Wight, who provocatively combine art and politics with innovative technology, such as global positioning systems (GPS), robotics, and hydroponic environments.

In their work Perfect View, San Jose-based collective C5 reached out to the subculture of recreational GPS users, or geo-cachers, asking them for their recommendations of “sublime locales.” The submitted latitudes and longitudes provided the guide points for a thirty-three state, thirteen-thousand mile motorcycle expedition by collective member Jack Toolin, who photographed the terrain at the given coordinates. The results, presented in triptychs, smartly subvert traditional representations of landscape and notions of the sublime.

San Francisco-based collective FutureFarmers’ Photosynthesis Robot is a three-dimensional model of a possible perpetual motion machine driven by phototropism - the movement of plants towards the direction of the sun. Their proposal that a group plants will very slowly propel a four wheel vehicle is a witty take on the pressing search for new forms of energy.

New York artist Shih-Chieh Huang’s inflatable installation, EX-S-S-TW, is inspired by everyday household electronic devices and his studies of physical computing and robotics. In this ingenious exploration of organic systems, he creates a dynamic circulation of electricity and air: a living micro-environment.

San Francisco-based Philip Ross’ Juniors are self-contained survival capsules for living plants. Blown glass enclosures provide a controlled hydroponic environment, where plants’ roots are submerged in nutrient-infused water, while LED lights supply the necessary illumination. The artist has drawn on two culturally divergent traditions - Chinese scholars’ objects and Victorian glass conservatories – that share the belief that nature is best understood when seen through the lens of human artifice.

Virginia-based artist Stephen Vitiello’s Hedera (BBB) unsettles our assumptions of what an appropriate soundtrack might be. The artist has constructed a sprawling vine installation with speakers hidden between the branches that quietly broadcast percussive sounds woven from the speeches and private conversations of George W. Bush and Tony Blair.

Creep, by Oakland-based Gail Wight, is an hypnotic three screen time-lapse video of the growth of dyed slime mold. Separately edited sequences play alongside each other, cycling through a sequence of fluorescent color shifts. In her aestheticizing of the normally repellent, Wight creates an ode to the beauty of natural growth patterns.

Networked Nature will run in conjunction with the College Art Association's annual conference in New York, February 14-17, 2007. A reception for CAA will be held on Friday February 16th at Foxy Production. www.collegeart.org

Networked Nature is organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator, for Rhizome. The exhibition will tour to the Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York.

Networked Nature is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the College Art Association, the New York City Department for Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. A full-color catalogue will be published by Rhizome and available at the gallery.

Rhizome is a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Its programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways - www.rhizome.org; www.newmuseum.org

ALIEN PRODUCTIONS & MACHFELD - "XT"

2007-01-07T09:11:00.000-08:00

ALIEN PRODUCTIONS & MACHFELD - "XT"
Performance and Live-Webcast
as part of the exhibition
CROSSOVER III - photography and media art

Thursday, Jan 11th 2007, 7 pm (CET)
F O T O G A L E R I E W I E N
Währinger Straße 59/WUK, A - 1090 Wien

The process of crosstalking (XT) is the point of departure for the conjoint performance of the artists' collectives alien productions (Martin Breindl, Norbert Math, Andrea Sodomka) and Machfeld (aka Sabine Maier und Michael Mastrototaro).

In telecommunication and telephony, crosstalk is often distinguishable as pieces of speech or leaking from other people's connections - hence the name. The artists will use this - normally unwanted - effect and base their performance exclusively on spoken word. They use their voice to trigger technical devices like sythesizer, vocoder, stylus printers or granular synthesis programs which themselves start to "crosstalk". The original signal will be gated out for listeners and also for the communicating artists. What remains are the sound events, processed in real time.

The performance will be webcasted live on . It also will be used as material for a reworked radio-art version which will be broadcasted on ORF Oe1, Kunstradio-Radiokunst on Jan. 28th, 2007, 11.05 pm (CET)

"Super*Nature" January 5 – 15 , Školská 28 Prague

2006-12-26T16:20:00.000-08:00

"Super*Nature" is an art exploration in finding the simplicity & purity of nature forms, in which it creates a new balance as part of the process. How nature can be infinitely simple and simple enough to give us new kind of experiences and thoughts that will reflect in this whole discovery.

I’ve been waiting for you, Triad New Media Gallery, Seoul

2006-12-17T14:25:00.000-08:00

Established in 1994, Fabrica is a unique research institution that encourages the creative development of selected young professionals from all over the world. Funded by Benetton and housed in a striking building designed by world-renowned architect Tadao Ando outside of Treviso in Northern Italy, Fabrica’s activities ranges from graphic design to cinema, with industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music in between. The works produced at Fabrica are experimental projects which cross over between the art world and commercial sector blurring the boundary between art and communications. I’ve been waiting for you is a group show which features recent works in interactive media developed by artists at Fabrica. These works share a preoccupation with creating connections and relationships: among the artists, between the artists and the audience, between the audience and the artwork, and among the audience themselves.

ITP Winter Show 2006 17.-18.12. NY

2006-12-10T15:04:00.000-08:00

A two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

Interactive Telecommunications Program
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor, South Elevators
New York NY 10003

The Art of Sleep YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

2006-12-03T07:09:00.000-08:00

THE ART OF SLEEP, 2006, has been commissioned by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES for Tate Online, to coincide with the opening of the Frieze Art Fair in London.

Employing their usual mix of animated black and white typography, jazzy music and humour, the work explores the international contemporary art market from the artists' perspective.

"International Festival of Electronic Art 404" 30.11- 3.12. Rosario, Argentina

2006-11-26T12:01:00.000-08:00

The III "International Festival of Electronic Art 404" will be held in Rosario, Argentina, from November 30th to December 03rd, 2006, in the "Plaza Cívica" and "Parque de España" Cultural Centers. Visit the shedule of the 404 Festival at: http://www.404festival.com/eng/cronograma.htm As a result of the 2006 call, 126 artworks from 27 different countries in the following categories: Net.Art, Still Image, Animation, Video, Music, Audiovisual-Set, Theory, Performance and Installation. Authors from Japan, France, Serbia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Italy, Belgium and Holland, among others will be present at the Festival.

ArtBots Gent:The Robot Talent Show 2-3 december, 2006

2006-11-19T07:58:00.000-08:00

art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots.

ArtBots Show 9.-12.11 NY

2006-11-09T17:26:00.000-08:00

ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. For each show, we publish an open call for submissions, inviting artists from around the world to send us information about their work. We have no fixed definition of what qualifies for the show; if you think it's a robot and you think it's art, we encourage you to submit. The final list of participants is a mix of works selected from the open call submissions and additional artists invited by the ArtBots curators.

Every year the show is a bit different; the location changes and ArtBots director Douglas Repetto invites a new set of humans to co-curate the show with him. We hope that by changing the specifics of the show each year we can keep it accessible to a diverse range of people, works, and ideas.

ArtBots is very happy to announce a regional NYC show as part of the science+art festival 2006 this fall. The show will feature works old and new by eight New York artists who have appeared in previous ArtBots shows.

The 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media 9.11-15.12.

2006-11-07T12:08:00.000-08:00

The 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media (RIFNM 06) highlights an international selection of work by graduate and Phd students working with new digital technologies for the creation of art. Artists working in and across disciplines were invited to submit works to be considered for five interrelated events/venues: exhibit , netart , perform , project (full-dome) and present . The resulting festival schedule of events presents a unique opportunity to directly experience innovative work being created by a diversity of emerging artists exploring digital systems for visual and experiential production.

RIFNM 06 will feature a wide range visual and performative media incorporating digital systems, including but not limited to: interactive art, robotics, movement/dance, net art, full-dome video/animation, generative systems, video installation, electronic music an performance art.

Participating Artists/Affiliations:

Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Gudmundur S. Gunnarsson, Mills College
Sabrina Berryman, University of Utah
Margaret Noble and Edyta Stepien, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jolanta A Lapiak, NSCAD, Nova Scotia, Canada
Martin Machado, San Francisco Art Institute
Suzanne Yo Martinsen, University of Central Florida
Pete Froslie, Massachusetts College of Art
Alejandro Duque, European Graduate School, Switzerland
Jamie Timms, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mike Godwin, University of California, Santa Barabara
Conor McGarrigle, National College of Art & Design Dublin, Ireland
Stephanie Jeanjean, Graduate Center of CUNY (City University of New York)
Melissa Grey and Robert Kirkbride, The New School, New York City
Pamela Kray, The New School, New York City
So Jung Kwon, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Si Jae Byun, School of Visual Arts, New York City
Walter Nelson, Griffith University, Australia
Stephen Cady, University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Art and Design
Jeanne Jo, Rhode Island School of Art and Design
Jake Lee High, Massachusetts College of Art

Colour by numbers

2006-11-05T08:00:00.000-08:00

Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm, Sweden. The installation will be inaugurated on October 23 and will shine during evenings and nights until January 7. Under live video you can see a live video image of the tower and also read instructions for how to control the light installation over the phone.

Until November 5 the video image is also projected on the façade of the Culture House in Stockholm, as part of the exhibition "Stockholm
bygger ".

Colour by numbers is a collaboration between the artist Erik Krikortz, the architect Milo Lavén and the interaction designer Loove Broms.

Mario's Furniture 2 TELIC until 3.12. Los Angeles

2006-10-31T13:19:00.000-08:00

Mario's Furniture 2, an installation and interactive game, will be exhibited at TELIC Arts Exchange in Chinatown from October 28th to December 3rd. Created by artists Hillary Mushkin and S.E. Barnet, Mario's Furniture integrates wireless technology with artistic production and performance. In most video games you just sit on the couch, but when you play Mario’s Furniture you MOVE the couch, in fact you move the whole living room!

Mario's Furniture began in 2002 as a video installation, including a single night of performance. Four years later, Mario’s Furniture 2 - created with programmer Clay Chaplin and electronic specialist Lorin Parker - is now a wireless environment where viewers become players, physically moving objects before a relentlessly panning camera, all the while watching themselves and their scores in real time on a large-screen projection.

In Mario’s Furniture 2 the body is actualized in real and virtual space simultaneously. Players can’t merely manipulate an avatar with a joystick. Playing Mario’s Furniture involves strenuous physicality, parodying conventional video games in which avatars are put in peril while players sit on a couch. Players must physically move the couch to play the
game. Mario’s emphasizes how camera and screen effect the construction of social relationships. Players see themselves (and not a stand in) under the camera’s scrutiny, humorously mirroring the absurdity of living within the frame.

Mushkin and Barnet look at technological and narrative ways in which video and digital media unfold and complicate meaning. The game critically remarks on aesthetics and narrative boy-logic of computer games while reflecting on theories of the digitally decentered subject. The artists’ racing antics against the camera alludes to Chaplin and Keaton, Mario Brothers, Tomb Raider and the deadline pressed “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

Natural Habitat 4.11.- 17.12. Montevideo, Amsterdam (NL)

2006-10-30T05:49:00.000-08:00

In the Natural Habitat project artists are working at the interface of nature and technology. Here they investigate the extent to which nature and technology complement each other, and whether a distinction can be made between what is natural and what is technology. In Natural Habitat the boundaries between nature, culture and technology become increasingly blurred.

Natural Habitat consists of an exhibition and a seminar
For more information about the seminar: Art and Science in their Natural Habitat

Background
In our environment today nature is ever less natural, and applications of technology are ever more natural. The way that our industrialized world deals with nature is based on technological control and scientific analysis. In this context it is not surprising that the expression ‘disposable landscape’ is being heard with increasing frequency in The Netherlands, and one also hears of a ‘cultivated landscape’. The message is clear: the landscape is subject to continuous change as a consequence of human interventions, making it ever more difficult for one to relate to that landscape. Pure or untouched nature is something which is found only in our imagination any more. In the publication Next Nature by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, Michiel Schwarz correctly asserts that the question ‘what is nature?’ is no longer relevant, and must be replaced with the question ‘how do we relate to nature?’. ‘In the age where we have genetic engineering, artificial beaches, nature-identical food flavorings and virtual environments, what we traditionally used to view as 'nature' has now become an object of human design. 'So-called nature' has become a culturally-constructed nature in a mediated world. In this world, it is perhaps fitting that we now manipulate not only what we believed to be nature, but we happily also manipulate our images of nature... What the images of multiple natures reveal to us, then, is the 'new ecology' in which we now find ourselves. A new ecology, where natures, technologies and media are all caught up together.’ He concludes his argument with the question, ‘What sort of nature do we want?’
Only a small group of artists shared an ecological consciousness in art in the 1960s. Artists involved in what was called the Land Art movement placed the relation between man, nature and the environment at the heart of their work. Presently this discourse has reached far beyond the narrow confines of art, and the framework in which we regard the natural environment, and its boundaries, has become an important point for discussion within the cultivated urban milieu throughout the Western world, and certainly in The Netherlands. In art too reflection on nature from purely aesthetic grounds, or from an intrinsic art value, has become passé. With the developments in digital culture and research by artists into artificial life and its expressions, traditional and humanist ideas about nature are being revised.

The exhibition

Artists respond in various ways to the influence of technology on nature. Sometimes they play with our feeling of nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial era in which man and nature lived harmoniously alongside and with each other. It is a desire for virgin nature that we can really only find any more – skillfully packaged – in amusement parks, zoos and other theme parks where nature is made natural. The imitation of wild nature, the taming of nature and the extension of nature are important points of departure for these artists. By these means they try to return nature – the power and existence of which we hardly recognize any more – to our environment. Beside that, there is attention for nature as science, in which processes of change play a large role. Artists focus on the possibilities that underlying mechanisms of processes from biochemistry, genetics and evolution might provide for art by implementing these as purely visual and image-generating systems. Self-organizing processes such as growth and evolution are theoretically still capable of being understood, but not visible in everyday life. Translated by artists, this science becomes perceptible at the level of the senses.
On the other side, there are artists who themselves go in search of ways to create living nature. Sometimes they make use of scientific methodologies and mechanisms, in order to see to what extent unnatural processes can become part of our environment. Computer processes and networks are examined for the creation of new and interesting visible phenomena. Artists are particularly interested in processes in which simple rules lead to complex behaviors. Efforts are undertaken to make digital life as real as possible, so that people can identify with it. Individuals from complex ecosystems eat each other up, reproduce or die a lonesome death. These examples reveal that these artificial processes perhaps have more relation with ‘wild nature’ than with what we see at this moment in our natural environment.
Finally, artists devote attention to invisible technology – technology that merges into our environment, architecture or body so that it becomes invisible and functions as a natural part of the environment. This puts to the test our conditioned way of seeing, and the artists focus on the possibility that nature takes on new meanings. According to them, recognisability ultimately underwrites true-to-nature images. Here a new image of Nature arises

Texelectronica Symposium and exhibitions Dallas USA

2006-10-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

An annual international event, Texelectronica brings renowned digital artists and scholars to the Dallas–Fort Worth area to explore the ways that new media affects and is affected by culture. Co-sponsored by the University of North Texas and the French Embassy, this year's inaugural festival includes a symposium, exhibitions, and special nightly performances and events. For more information visit www.texelectronica.com

Andorgallery will be featuring a light and sound piece by the Canadian collective Artificiel, with their collaborator Pascale Malatarre designing the installation. The work is based on a simple concept: playing voice recordings through high power audio amplifiers and feeding them through large 1000 watt light bulbs. The tungsten and glass materials of the bulbs act as rich but band-limited filters, resulting sometimes in understandable whispers, other times purely synthetic tones, creating flowing and ebbing waves of light and sound.

At their opening reception, they will also be hosting additional digital art installations and performances by regional and international artists that are part of the Texelectronica Festival schedule for other events and the symposium that will be going on Thursday through Sunday. organized by UNT and the French Embassy. And be sure to check out their

Performances at the reception start at 8pm and will include Yao Bin, Frank Dufour, Washboard Leo, and some of the local Laptop Deathmatch crew.

And if that’s not enough, their awesome new neighbors, House of Dang, will be having a Halloween party next door!!

Night Garden until 7.1.2007 Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)

2006-10-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

Night Garden, an exhibition in the form of a sub-technical INDOOR garden, is teeming with technology, art and food.

Visitors can expect to be transformed into a cybernetic NOCTURNAL animal, build robots at a garden robot production studio, wander through a digital alter-garden, learn about air fluctuations, experience PSYCHO-chemical garden furniture and eat at a prototype restaurant serving more than 30 sorts of SPROUTED micro-greens.
Participant artists are Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Felix Hess, Mateusz Herczka, Ralf Schreiber & Christian Faubel, Petra Blaisse, Debra Solomon en Michael Samyn & Auriea Harvey.

HABITATS: a 4 day Cultural Festival 9.-12.11.

2006-10-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

HABITATS: a 4 day Cultural Festival :: Artists, scientists, and cultural commentators are joining together to create a collective vision of a sustainable habitat. The Habitats conference and festival is a 4 day event organized to promote an exchange between art, technology, and environment. With public and private cooperative efforts leading to cleaner water, the Gowanus Canal area has experienced an increase in wildlife and improved prospects for commercial and cultural revitalization. Habitats celebrates this process. Instigated by Eidolon Culture, The Habitats conferences will include speakers such as best-selling author Steven Johnson ('Emergence' and 'Mind Wide Open'); long-standing community organizers such as the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation (GCCDC) ; electronic artists such as Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Foundation) ; site specific sound and video recordings, live music performances, site specific installations, collaborative projects, recycled art, workshops and active audience participation.

The placement of the artworks in their site-specific rendition, the sharing of thought provoking ideas of contemporary cultural relevance, and the active role of audience interaction all create a 'Habitat' -- a place defined by the indispensable nature of everyone and everything within it. Habitats is being Presented by Eidolon Culture and Sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Polytechnic University: Integrated Digital Media Institute (IDMI), CEC Arts Link, New York State Council on the Arts, and Material for the Arts.

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2006

2006-10-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

"DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2006" will be held mainly by a Japanese TV program for the new century NHK "Digital Stadium" (Digista) which seeks new talents of digital art. The digital artworks from CG, animation, film works, to interactive installation, which have been introduced in the Digista, will get together at Ariake and Shibuya in Tokyo from December 1st to 10th.

13terShop by Florian Thalhofer and Kolja Mensing

2006-10-13T11:59:00.000-07:00

13terShop - startig today! [13terShop] - 31 days in a shopping mall After the huge success of [13terStock], Florian Thalhofer and Kolja Mensing do the same thing again. - Almost - this time we spend one month in shopping mall in Bremen. We are collecting stories at one of the first shopping malls that was built in Germany, 34 year ago. We will be here for one month and we live in a camping-trailer right where the trucks arrive to deliver the goods. Every day we will publish stories and interviews and produce a new Korsakow-documetary. You can watch it while it is being made! www.13terShop.de

Laurie Anderson: Interplay Live Webcast 21.10.

2006-10-13T05:18:00.000-07:00

Laurie Anderson will present a special audio-visual lecture exploring the intersections of art, science and creativity. One of the permier perfromance artists in the world, Ms. Anderson has consistently intrigued, entertained and challenged audiences with her multimedia persentations. Anderson's artistic career has cast her in roles as various as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, ventriloquist, electronics whiz, vocalist and instrumentalist. Following her presentation, Ms. Anderson will be joined in conversation by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of the USC Brain and Creativity institute and a leading researcher of cognition, emotions, and neural systems.

This special presentation is part of the HASTAC In|Formation Year, devoted to twelve months of public programming from a number of universities meant
to promote the human and humane dimenstions of technology and to encourage conversation and exchange between humanists, artists, technologists, and scientists (www.hastac.org).

‘MASKIN’ - Trondheim Matchmaking 2006 12.-15.10.

2006-10-06T07:20:00.000-07:00

TRONDHEIM ELECTRONIC ARTS CENTRE presents

‘MASKIN’ - Trondheim Matchmaking 2006
-annual international festival for electronic arts and new technology- http://www.matchmaking.no in cooperation with NoMuTe, Nordic Music Technology Conference, 2006 Dokkhuset 12th-15th of October, Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art October 13th - November 12th

44 lecturers; artists, musicians, researchers and composers; from 16 countries.

Exhibitors, performers and lecturers are amongst many others: ,
Stelarc, Australia / Norman T. White, Canada / Jørn Hokland, Norway / David Gamez, UK / Ken Rinaldo, USA / Jørgen Larsson, Norway/ Sabrina Raaf, USA / Pierre Bastien, Netherland / Øyvind Brandtsegg, Norway / Peter Votava, Germany / Anna Notaro, UK / Paul Lansky, USA / Frank Ekeberg, Norway / Alex Mesker, Australia / Gyrid N. Kaldenstad, Norway/ Stefania Serafin, Denmark / Erich Berger, Finland / Stian Westerhus, Norway / Ingar Zach, Spain / Philippe Depalle, France

Trondheim Matchmaking is an arena for presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects – a place where competence and resources within electronic arts and new technology are maintained and developed. This year the main theme of the festival is ‘MASKIN’ (Machine), and it is coordinated with NoMuTe, Nordic Music Technology Conference. As part of the festival an exhibition opens at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art.

The subject of the festival relates to the possibilities and limitations that lies within the new technologies that we to an extending degree surround ourselves with. And man’s relation to them. How is this expressed within the arts, as base for ideas, and as tool for production and presentation.

The festival opens October 12th at 17.30 at Dokkhuset, and during the weekend there will be both lectures, exhibition opening (at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art) and concerts. The festival finishes of with the world premiere of ’Heart Chamber Orchestra’; a concert with the artist duo ‘Terminalbeach’ and Trondheim Sinfonietta.

DOKKHUSET
Seminar program, Thursday: 17.30-20.30
Concert, Thursday: 21.00
Seminar program, Friday: 10-17.00
Seminar program, Saturday: 10-17.00
Concert, Saturday: 20.00
Concert, Sunday: 20.00

TRØNDELAG CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Exhibition opening, Friday: 18.30

BLÆST
Club night, Saturday: 23.00

Complete program and extended background information could be found at the web page of the festival: http://www.matchmaking.no
Order tickets in advance at ticket@teks.no

Collaborating partners at this years festival are NoMuTe -Nordic Music Technology Conference, New Music Trondheim and Cinemateket.

Trondheim Matchmaking was made possible through support from
Trondheim city council, Arts Council Norway, Sør-Trøndelag county council and Fond For Lyd og Bilde.

SEQUENCES 13.-28.10 Reykjavik

2006-10-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

SEQUENCES is an international crossmedia festival in Reykjavik with the focus on time based art phenomena. The festival links contemporary visual art with other media, especially sound and performative art. It will take place in different locations in the city center of Reykjavík, accompanied by exhibitions and video/shortfilm nights. SEQUENCES will invade established spaces (museums and galleries) as well as public spaces in the city center of Iceland’s capital. A fine selection of international and local artists will participate in this unique event. The strong interrelation between visual arts, sound and performance arts is significant for Iceland’s vibrant art scene. These nexuses are accountable for specific dynamic creative processes which develop especially in time-based art projects.

THE COPY AND PASTE SHOW

2006-10-03T02:07:00.000-07:00

The Copy and Paste Show explores the evolution of copy-and-paste culture, where the copying of digital material has become a major technique in the construction of online identity and style. Featured artists include: Seth Price, 808, and artists collaborative, Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby. Each explores how copy and paste techniques, paired with different digital tools, influence web aesthetics, music production, and relationships on and offline.

TIME SHARES Organized by Rhizome and co-presented by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Time Shares is a series of online exhibitions dedicated to exploring the diversity of contemporary art based on the Internet. Every six weeks, Rhizome and invited curators will launch a new exhibition featuring an international group of artists. The series is a component of Rhizome's Tenth Anniversary Festival of Art & Technology.

Nextfest 29.09 -01.10 NY

2006-09-30T01:48:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-29T01:53:00.000-07:00

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)

2006-09-24T13:21:00.000-07:00

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!!

2006-09-21T03:41:00.000-07:00

“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

2006-09-15T12:09:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-14T05:14:00.000-07:00

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)

2006-09-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

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.

SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity until 5.09 , Linz (Austria)

2006-08-31T15:35:00.000-07:00

Our world’s increasing complexity and its tension-filled interplay with our own growing need for a comprehensive, comprehensible overview of the world will occupy the focal point of attention at the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival. This theme is the common denominator of a feature-packed calendar of events, conferences, symposia, exhibitions and performances that will comprehensively showcase the state of the art of global media culture.

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Mute Vol 2 #2 - Dis-integrating Multiculturalism OUT NOW

2006-08-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking down. As state policy shifts from the celebration of difference to an anxious call for assimilation, the racial other (whether citizen or immigrant) is under renewed pressure to integrate herself into society.

In this issue of Mute, contributors read the crisis of multiculturalism – political, scientific and social – as both a neoliberal offensive and a challenge to rethink the relationship between particular identities and universal rights, evolutionary science and biopower.

Texts by: George Caffentzis, Matthew Hyland, Daniel Jewesbury, Marek Kohn, Eric Krebbers, Hari Kunzru, Melancholic Troglodytes, Angela Mitropoulos, Luciana Parisi, Benedict Seymour

Impakt Festival 23.-27.08 Utrecht (NL)

2006-08-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

The Great Outdoors,
This year, the Impakt Festival takes place in August for a change. We have included many outdoors activities to give the festival a real summertime feeling. You can barbecue every evening at the AV-BBQ, while some remarkable films are being screened in the open air. In the Floating Cinema, you can watch films while sailing through the canals of Utrecht. Every afternoon, there is an Audio Picnic with live music in the garden of the Centraal Museum. Apart from all these outdoor projects, the Impakt Festival will also include the first Dutch solo exhibition of the Swiss artist Olaf Breuning. The visual artist Hans Op de Beeck from Belgium will give a general overview of his works in two film programs. A number of film programs will draw attention to street art. The music program will be varied as ever, including not only breakcore, dubstep and minimal techno, but also a performance by the Englishman Phillip Jeck that will serve as an accompaniment to the old Soviet film Battleship Potemkin. The slightly weird Apparat Organ Quartet from Iceland will give a concert on the opening night. To top it all, the Feed project by Kurt Hentschläger from Austria will immerse visitors in a unique audiovisual experience they will not easily forget.

< Up Dating Art and Technology > 17.18.19.08 Cultural Centre of Spain in Santiago (Chile)

2006-08-16T19:28:00.000-07:00

< Up Dating Art and Technology > A series of conferences that will aboard the limits between art and technology from expiriencies made by artits, will take part during 6 pm through 9 pm. in the Cultural Centre of Spain in Santiago, during the days 17th, 18th and 19th of August, and broadcated online to Espacio H in the city of Cordoba, Argentine. Thus corresponding to the first step, since between the days 24th to 26th of August, will be broadcasted the 8th Digitale Day Works , from Cordoba to the School of Arts in the city of Valparaiso.

The shrinking of electronic devices, the democratization of the access to information, the speed of the data transfer, the new destribution systems for decentralised information, the new techniques of genetic maipulation, the personal computers and the wireless communication are just some of the phenomenas produced from the digital revolution. Chile, as a nation, direct or undirectly, has not been excempt to these changes which have been manifestated in many different contexts:

Firstly; the images of the planet Mars shown in Eugenio Dittborn´s Fugitiva catalogue, were taken from the NASA...
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State of the Image Festival 2006 04-09.09 Arnhem (NL)

2006-08-13T13:42:00.000-07:00

From 4 up to and including 9 September 2006 the festival ‘State of the Image’ takes place in the centre of Arnhem. For the experts in the audiovisual business and the media line there are readings, workshops and master classes. But also for the general public there’s much to see and to do. Interactive movies which the viewer itself can exert influence on the course of the movie. The public can actually see and make knowledge of with the production of a lot of art films, video clips and games. The last night will be spectacular with a VJ performance of nobody less than Peter Greenaway.

Peter Greenaway is a well-known movie director from among others the cult movie The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover. Another international guest is Chris Hales, a pioneer in the field of interactive film. Three nights the public can enjoy watching the screens and, with live actors, the public can exert influence in the course of the story.

Arnhem has a wide history in the field of experimental and renewal video productions and the organisation shows it with the programme component Square Eyes. How are digital films get manipulated? And what does it mean for the people watching it?

A diversity of digital films and movies, produced in The Netherlands and in foreign countries, is shown. But also Audio Visual artists from this particular area can show themselves. For the youngsters among us, there will be workshops to get familiar with interactive media.

A varied program for young and old, for people making and people watching it.
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Container Culture San Jose (USA)

2006-08-11T07:01:00.000-07:00

Container Culture is an exhibition developed by the Curatorial Working Group of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit. Each curator has selected one or more emerging regional artists to present at ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA2006, using a shipping container as not onlly its means of transportation but also as the "white cube" for its exhibition.
One of the most significant examples of cross-cultural encounters in contemporary art is the traveling exhibition. The traveling art exhibition has often served to operationalize and exemplify the cross-cultural encounters and exchanges that are deemed “necessary” and “natural” in the globalized art world. However, a range of social, political, economic and art historical differences generally complicate the globally themed traveling exhibition. The artists in traveling exhibitions are rarely able to adequately respond to each new context through their works, which is what these exhibitions are meant to initiate. The traveling exhibition thus converts each new cultural context to, essentially, an empty container for the art works, with little ability to respond to the exhibition site as physical location.

Container Culture is an exhibition of art works that travel from different port cities that rim the Pacific in standardized containers to San Jose to be presented alongside each other; almost like a conference of containers. In an ironic reversal of the tendency of conventional traveling exhibitions to convert every new space into an empty container, this exhibition invites curators and artists from each of these diverse port cities to convert a container into a culturally specific space. The exhibition conceptually draws on and will explore some of the following notions:

* Ports are liminal nodes that have traditionally and still negotiate the relations between countries. Ports invoke a whole set of related concepts: commerce, exchange values, customs procedures, border anxieties, legal trade vs. illegal traffic, etc.
* Containers are “spaces” that mimic the white cube as an empty “container,” even while potentially enabling the subversion of the white cube's immobility by their portability; its transcendence by their quotidian-ness; its neutrality by their border crossings.
* Transportation of artworks traveling in space and time between countries enables culturally specific elements of one place to migrate to another. Related concepts of location, speed, logistics, proximity and distance can also be explored
* Networks. Transporting shipping containers from one port city to another maps a network of economic relationships. By specifically curating new media installations, Container Culture investigates the effect of virtual networks to create real cultural connections. The site for full information.

ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006) AUGUST 7-13, 2006

2006-08-01T18:35:00.000-07:00

For seven consecutive days this summer, nearly 200 juried artists from around the world will be converging on the Silicon Valley to showcase some of the most innovative, astounding art ever seen or experienced. It’s ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and ISEA2006 Symposium. From August 7-13, ZeroOne San Jose will transform the entire city into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture. It is a multi-dimensional, startling and brilliant event featuring exhibits, live cinema, performances, workshops, and youth activities. All are one-of-a-kind, many never-before, only-here experiences. See 01sj.org

Raqs Media Collective : 'There Has Been a Change of Plan'

2006-07-30T11:49:00.000-07:00

Raqs Media Collective will have its first solo exhibition in Delhi - 'There Has Been A Change of Plan' at Nature Morte Gallery. The exhibition features selected works (2002 - 2006) in the form of cross media installations with networked computers, objects, postcards, video, sound, prints and projections. Works exhibited include: 'Lost New Shoes', selections from 'A Measure of Anacoustic Reason', 'Location (n)', '28.28 N / 77.15 E :: 2001/02 (Co-Ordinates of Everyday Life, Delhi 2001-2002)', 'Erosion by Whispers', 'Preface to a Ghost Story' and 'There Has Been a Change of Plan'.

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INTERFERENZE San Martino Valle Caudina (3-5 August) Italy

2006-07-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

With its 2006 edition, INTERFERENZE, international festival of sounds, new visual arts and media, is seated in the mountains of the Partenio/Valle Caudina, which it will fill with live performances, installations, projections, seminars, free camping, artists and the public. Thus the international artistic vanguard will be fused with the splendid mountain scenes of Campania. Although INTERFERENZE is tied to the land, electronic and multimedia arts are its driving force: performances, installations, events, workshops and conferences complete the event. With edition IV INTERFERENZE confirms its dual spirit existing in the balance between digital provocation and tradition: digital arts and the arts of the past, sonorous vanguards and local values. INTERFERENZE breaks down the borders between the technological, urban, inorganic world and the rural, archaic, organic world. It does not, however, pursue gratuitous provocation. On the contrary, the marriage of pixel and chlorophyll, silicon and cell represents a source of fascination and a stimulus for the visitor, who will find themselves freed from the necessity of having to choose between remaining in the city - not losing contact with the future, which models itself every day in new digital vangaurds - or walking along mountain paths, declining to follow the more innovative forms of human progress. Therefore INTERFERENZE reprsents a new way of exploring nature and art. It offers the visitor the opportunity to explore two territories as one: the physical sphere of the forests and the virtual sphere of the digital arts in one single and total experience. Digital technologies are presented as a concrete alternative to present trends of development. Its impact on a territory which has remained unpolluted in comparison with the surrounding area is environmentally responsible.

Neural

2006-07-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

Neural it's a daily updated site on new media art, electronic music and hacktivism, quarterly printed as magazine. There is an English content section, with daily updated link and regular new articles and reviews.

todaysart festival 22+23 september, The Hague (NL)

2006-07-17T07:05:00.000-07:00

todaysart is the annual international multidisciplinary modern creativity festival in The Hague.

The festival offers a programme at 20 venues in the city centre with more than 200 artists from over 25 countries, all presenting their creative vision about what Art is Today in terms of music, video and visual arts, film, photography, fashion, performing arts, theatre, contemporary dance and other disciplines and crossovers.

Expect unique and custom-made productions and performances by the world's most creative artists. Click here to visit the site.