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:: Monday, June 15, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Kurator and LX 2.0



Kurator and LX 2.0 are pleased to announce the first of two
commissions selected from an open call to infect the 2012 Olympics, as
part of the Anti-Bodies contemporary art programme.

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:: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 ::

Media Art and Video International Festival Transitio_MX 03



http://en.transitiomx.net/

http://www.youtube.com/
transitiomx3


The third edition of the Electronic Art and Video Festival Transitio_MX 03, attempts to acknowledge differences in a transparent and straightforward context.

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:: Monday, May 11, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Rooftop Films Opening Night



Rooftop Films is back and we're starting the summer early. The Rooftop Films 2009 Summer Series kicks off on Friday, May 15th. Head to the Lower East Side and follow the crowds up to the Open Road Rooftop Project to see extraordinary live music performances and amazing films under the warming sky, framed on all sides by the greatest cityscape in the world.

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:: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002


Image: Ben Benjamin

Rhizome is pleased to announce the launch of " Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002," an online exhibition featuring the 39 splash pages commissioned over a four-year period.

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:: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19, and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded



Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use.

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:: Monday, March 02, 2009 ::

BOOK FEATURE: New Media in the White Cube and Beyond - Curatorial Models for Digital Art



This anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art˜artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object.

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:: Monday, January 26, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature", Curated by Alan Bigelow



"Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature" is an exhibition of twelve multimedia works that offer readers representative examples of new digital poetry and fiction on the web.

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:: Friday, January 16, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Selection of Recent Online and Offline Projects, January 09



The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.

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:: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 ::

TELIC: Insurrection, Stock Footage, and a Closing Reception this Weekend



Saturday
11am: The Coming Insurrection
2pm: Stock footage workshop

Sunday
Noon: The Three R's'... Review, Response and a Reception

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P2P Networks and Processes Seminar - July 6 - 10 / Medialab-Prado



The 4th Inclusiva-net Encounter: P2P Networks and Processes will take place in Medialab-Prado Madrid from July 6 to 10, 2009.


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:: Monday, June 29, 2009 ::

Online Film Project_apartment666



A web-based shortfilm project from berlin/germany,
experimenting with specific ways of storytelling on the web.

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Save the Date for a TAE Fundraiser



SAVE THE DATE
Sunday July 19, 5-8pm

A Summertime Sundowner at The Mandrake Bar in Culver City
To raise funds for the programs of Telic Arts Exchange

Please put us in your calendar for an early evening of cocktails, classes, food and music. Invitations and information coming soon.

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:: Monday, June 22, 2009 ::

newmediaFIX Is Taking a Few Days Off, Back on June 29



newmediaFIX will be back on June 29. Please visit us then.


:: Thursday, June 18, 2009 ::

Electronic Sit-in In Solidarity with Iranians Protesting against the Rigged 2009 Presidential Elections



http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/

Please join us in this urgent action in solidarity with the large numbers of Iranian people who have been taking to the streets since June 13, 2009 to claim their right to free and fair elections.

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El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo invita a la presentacion inaugural de la obra digital de Gustavo Romano. Utilitarios para un universo inestable



Desde sus inicios creativos como artista, Gustavo Romano ha experimentado con las posibilidades conceptuales y los procesos de produccion de los nuevos medios como el video, la animacion y el Internet.

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From the Yes Men: TOP HEADLINE, WORLD LEADERS SIGN PACT TO AVERT CLIMATE DISASTER



Newspaper Ignites Hope, Announces "Civil Disobedience Database"

* Civil-disobedience database: http://BeyondTalk.net
* PDF of printed newspaper: http://iht.greenpeace.org/todays-paper/
- Online version: http://www.iht-se.com/
* Video: http://iht.greenpeace.org/video/ (coming soon)

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:: Monday, June 15, 2009 ::

RAJO: Radio Jorongo



Sorpresas culturales para abrigar el destape informativo.
Conduce: Fernando Llanos

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New Website Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden



We are happy to announce the launch of our new website designed by Ohlsonsmith and Nodeone. The site is intended to be easy to navigate, continuously updated, works with an open source programming solution and even includes regular blog.

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InD.I.Y. Arts! 10th Annual Expo, Tonic Fundraiser, and More!



10th Annual Expo for Independent Arts at the Music Concourse 9/26
A Tonic for the Arts Fundraiser next Friday!
Free DIY Workshops: Artist's Resume & Social Media
Workshop Materials - Sexy Finances
More Free Resources for Independent Artists

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:: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 ::

Rooftop Films & The Fledgling Fund present No Impact Man



On June 11th, 2009 Rooftop Films and The Fledgling Fund will host a special community-engagement screening of No Impact Man, a documentary directed by Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein. A local family drama with global implications, the film follows the inspirational (and controversial) “No Impact Man” and family as they challenge themselves to make no environmental impact for one whole year.

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MEDIALAB PRADO: Proximas actividades / Upcoming Activities - 08/06/09 - 14/06/09



Last days! -- International project development workshop
INTERACTIVOS?'09 ARTELEKU: Open Call

Open call for the reception of projects to be collaboratively developed within the workshop INTERACTIVOS?'09 ARTELEKU: Mixed episodes in Hybrid Bases, that will take place in Arteleku [...]

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Thomas Hirschhorn on Tank.tv



The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival

8th - 30th June 2009

on www.tank.tv


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:: Monday, June 08, 2009 ::

PixelPops! V.5 2009 Curator Search



Deadline: July 15, 2009
Time is running out and PixelPops! is looking for suitable candidates to serve as curator for the 2009 PixelPops! show (Fall 2009). PixelPops! is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits.

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24/7 Truth + Three R's... Review, Response and a Reception



"24/7 Truth," curated by Tom Leeser, will be on exhibit at the Distributed Gallery through June. The exhibition forms the basis for a class, "Three R's... Review, Response and a Reception," led by Leeser at The Public School.

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Wikipedia Art goes to Venice (and Everywhere Else)



Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern invite you to re-mix the Wikipedia Art project as part of the Padiglione Internet (the Internet Pavilion) for the Venice Biennale. All works will be indirectly hosted on http://wikipediaart.org/remixes.

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:: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 ::

BOOK: A Computer in the Art Room by Catherine Mason, Reviewed by Molly Hankwitz



This book is a work of art history analyzing the many contributions made by British artists and scientists to the development of computer art in England and its simultaneous impact and origins internationally.

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TEXT: a minima:: Feature on Digital Transit



The following is a text about an exhibition at Medialab Madrid, by former curators and directors Karin Ohlenschlager and Luis Rico. It was originally published in a minima:: issue 15.

This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in Spanish and English. For more information, please visit aminima.net.

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:: Friday, April 03, 2009 ::

TEXT: aminima:: Feature, HumphreyII



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in Spanish and English. For more information, please visit aminima.net.

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TEXT: ARCO 2009, Meditaciones en una (supuesta) catastrofe, by Raquel Herrera




Coincidiendo con la celebracion de la feria de arte contemporaneo ARCO 2009, la ciudad de Madrid se lleno de vacas multicolor a modo de esculturas urbanas que algunos incivicos se dedicaron a estropear.

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TEXT: Notes on March 2009 Visit to El Salvador, by Eduardo Navas



Cultural Center of Spain invited me to lecture in San Salvador, El Salvador from March 8 to the 13, 2009. During this period I also learned about the contemporary art scene as well as the art history of El Salvador.

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:: Monday, January 26, 2009 ::

Joseph Nechvatal's Notes from the ECAM 2008 Conference in Mexico City



The following are notes from a lecture by Joseph Nechvatal, which took place at ECAM, in Mexico City, during October 2008. They are republished on NMF with his permission.

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Spatial Dissonance, Subjective Imagination and Locative Media: An Interview with Paula Levine



To listen to the interview please visit Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

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Aboriginal New Media Arts: A Real Cultural Practice? by Jenny Fraser



This text was originally published on NAICA during the summer of 2008. It is republished on NMF with permission.

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Time - Space Compression in Cyberspace Art, by Avi Rosen



The term "time - space compression" was coined by David Harvey [1] in his book, "The Condition of Postmodernity" (1989). It refers to speed-up in the pace of life, while abolishing traditional spatial barriers.

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:: Friday, September 26, 2008 ::

TEXT: ARS ELECTRONICA 2008, breve cronica sesgada en 4 puntos..., by Raquel Herrera



(Spanish only)

No pretendo hacer esta mi primera critica de Ars Electronica con intencion exhaustiva. Durante una semana, multitud de exposiciones, charlas y actuaciones se acumulan con tal intensidad que solo un robot Data o C3PO podria asimilarlas todas. [...]

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TEXT: NeMe, Immersive Event Time by Jeremy Hight



Time is plastic. Our linear measure is man made for convenience. The oversimplification of minutes, hours, days is functional in a base utilitarian sense, yes, but fails to account for point of entry, context, point of view, the density of what is occurring in time and how it is thus experienced.

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INTERVIEW: Golan Levin



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 01/31/08. Only the text is reproduced here. To access audio and video as well as proper links related to this interview, please go to Networked Music Review.

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TEXT: Thinking Global, by Ed Halter



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on July/23/08 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Thursday, May 15, 2008 ::

TEXT: Review of Net Art in Colombia: It's Ugly and Doesn't like the Cursor, by Eduardo Navas



This text is published in collaboration with Latinart.com; originally published on March 5, 2008.

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Nanotecnologia, nuevo espacio para la responsabilidad



(Spanish only)

This text is released in collaboration with Escaner Cultural, an online magazine based in Santiago de Chile. It was originally published on June, 23 2001.

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INTERVIEW: Miya Masaoka, by Helen Thorington



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 05/21/07. Only the text is reproduced here. To access audio and video as well as proper links related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/2007/05/21/
interview-miya-masaoka/


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TEXT: a minima:: feature, "Not-Art" by Antonio Cerveira Pinto



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in Spanish and English. It was previously republished in Net Art Review in August, 2005 For more information, please visit aminima.net.

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INTERVIEW & TEXT: Daniel Rozin, Mirror of the Soul, By Marco Mancuso



This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in May 2005. It appears as originally published.

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INTERVIEW: Mark Amerika, by Rick Silva



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 11/21/07 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Monday, February 25, 2008 ::

INTERVIEW: Virus / Body / Signal Transmissions. Interview with Jussi Parikka, by Ignacio Nieto



Interview with Media theorist Jussi Parikka, published in English and Spanish.

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INTERVIEW: PIrandelo e il BOX Multimedialte by Bertram Niessen



(Italian only)

This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in February 2005 (First Digimag Issue).

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TEXT: a minima Feature on Reinhard Nestelbacher (DNA-Consult Sciencetainment), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center)



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in English and Spanish. It was originally published in a minima:: #15 For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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INTERVIEW: Amit Pitaru, by Helen Thorington



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 05/18/07. Only the text is reproduced here. To hear audio and access proper links related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/
2007/05/18/interview-
amit-pitaru/


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INTERVIEW: Michael Smith, by Ceci Moss



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 01/23/08 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Monday, December 17, 2007 ::

TEXT: a minima:: Feature on Romy Achituv and Camille Uterback



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine. For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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TEXT: The Theatre of Electronic Surveilance, by Annamaria Monteverdi



This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in October 2007.

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INTERVIEW: Networked Music Review, Jason Freeman



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 03/11/07 . Only the text is reproduced here. To hear audio related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/2007/
03/11/interview-jason-freeman/


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TEXT: Death, Bowling With Pigeons and Exploding Furniture, by Ulysses Catellanos



This text was written for the "Artery", gallery 1313's publication, Summer 2007. Ulysses Castellanos was one of the artist of "Space Invaders" aluCine's media insttallatinos May 31st -June 24th, 2007.

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TEXT: The Messy, Dirty, Silly Interplay of Art and Activism: Artivistic 2007, by Micha Cardenas



The following is a critical review of Artivistic, originally published on Techno Tranny Slut,and republished here with Permission.

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TEXT: Porque a algunos artistas nos interesa el software libre? by Lila Pagola



(Spanish only)

This text is released in collaboration with Escaner Cultural, an online magazine based in Santiago de Chile. It was originally published in October, 2007.

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TEXT: For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 10/03/07 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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