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:: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 ::

Artistay: Call for Artists - Residency Opportunities in France 2010



For visual artists, writers, creators in other disciplines like design, fashion, architecture with a project of residency.

artistay works with professional art residencies in France.

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:: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Competition, ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO



VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.

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:: Monday, November 16, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Film, The Yes Men Fix the World



Theatrical release in the U.S. began October 7 in New York City at the Film Forum theater in Lower Manhattan, with simultaneous premieres in New Orleans and Bhopal. Nationwide release began October 20, with Shadow Distribution.

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:: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 ::

FEATURE: Transitio-MX, New Media Art and Video Festival



The International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video Transitio_mx is the most important Mexican platform showcasing and analyzing the contemporary praxes of artistic creation with electronic media and digital culture.

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:: Friday, September 04, 2009 ::

BOOK FEATURE: DATA browser 04



Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security edited by Wolfgang Sutzl & Geoff Cox

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:: Monday, August 10, 2009 ::

Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is LIVE!



WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE . comment, revise, translate, submit a chapter
http://networkedbook.org

Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations. You may also submit a chapter for consideration.

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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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:: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 ::

Pure Abstract Cinema/Abstract Groove all'Open source



martedì 02 febbraio, ore 22.00, via Paladini 8, Milano

Abstract:groove presenta:
pure:abstract:cinema
a live audio-visual performance

Scomporre la grammatica filmica mediante le asimmetrie del motion design e le non-regole della cultura visiva contemporanea.

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Proximas actividades / Upcoming Activities - 1/02/10 - 07/02/10



Eventos: el mundo con forma de juego
Jueves, 4 febrero / 19:30h

Conferencia de Abelardo Gil-Fournier sobre los "newsgames" o la posibilidad de transformar los eventos del mundo en eventos de un videojuego. Actividad en el marco del taller Playlab (segunda parte de 4 al 7 de febrero). Streaming en directo.

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PUBLIC DESIGN FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY



Sabato 17 Aprile lo scenografico spazio dell' Hangar Bicocca ospiterà la festa di chiusura del Public Design Festival.


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:: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 ::

Exhibition: the rotten machine aka the toothless old thing



The rotten machine is a surprising exhibition that emanates from an old laptop from 1999, owned by the uruguayan netartist brian mackern, to recreate the time when net.art had its peak brightness, and perhaps therefore, the rattle before the emergence of web 2.0 (known as social network).

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First Monday Published the January 2010 (volume 15, number 1) Issue



The following papers are included in this month's issue:

First Monday
Volume 15, number 1 - 5 January 2010

A persistence paradox
by Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/
index.php/fm/article/view/2776/2427


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:: Monday, January 25, 2010 ::

Now Out- Issue #7, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest



The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Issue #7
http://joaap.org/7/7.html

Available in print ($7)
http://www.joaap.org/press.htm#issue7 or online (free)

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Johanne Logstrup - the first Distributed Gallery Exhibition of 2010



January 8 - February 26, 2010

Johanne Logstrup, a curator based in Copenhagen, has selected the videos that are installed in the Distributed Gallery for the months of January and February.

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:: Thursday, January 21, 2010 ::

The Medium Was Tedium / Triple Canopy at the New Museum



The Medium Was Tedium
Panel discussion featuring Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff
The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7 pm
$6 New Museum members, $8 general public
http://canopycanopycanopy.com

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REMINDER: OPEN CALL ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO Third Edition - PRIZE 15.000 Euros



////// DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS THE 31ST JANUARY 2010 //////

ADITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE WINNER OF ARCO-VOCENTO PROJECT 2009:

http://laagencia.org/CSDVA_WAAP.pdf


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:: Monday, January 18, 2010 ::

Tornavideo Hits The Road For Some Repair Work On Contemporary Art!



Contemporary art makes another appearance in Ankara. A new exhibition activity meets the audience in a dynamic and energetic platform. With Funda Oruç and Uğur Karagül as curators, Tornavideo exhibition will meet the audience in Tamirhane Bar, a meeting point of the youth.

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h1Week 04 - NewMediaFest'2010



NewMediaFest'2010

Week 04 - 18-24 January 2010
http://2010.newmediafest.org/?p=328

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Time is Love.2



International video art exhibition curated by Kisito Assangni

including artists: Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo (USA/Costa Rica)/ Sebastien Burdach (Germany)/ Jen-Kuang Chang (Taiwan)/ Angelica Chio (Mexico)/ Angele Diabang (Senegal)/ Sinasi Gunes (Turkey)/ Wim Janssen(Belgium)/ Robin Kiteley (UK)/ Bryan Lauch & Petra Pokos (USA/Slovenia)/ Frederic Nakache (France)/ Hege Dons Samset (Norway).

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Media Art Platform newsletter nr 1



Welcome to the Media Art Platform's first newsletter.
The Media Art Platform (MAP) is a website and social network for media art enthusiasts, with a strong focus on the Netherlands. MAP is an initiative of the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) and was developed with the kind support of the Mondriaan Foundation.

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:: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 ::

*Special Issue of E-Learning and Digital Media*, Editor Dr. Norm Friesen



Media today are everywhere. From educational gaming through portable e-texts to cell phones ringing in class, it seems we can't escape. Nor can we live without media; instead, they form a kind of ecology that we inhabit.

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January Storm of Good News Hits Dam, Stuhltrager



THE NEW SPACE: Dam, Stuhltrager annex is expanding and staying permanently in Berlin! Located in Alexanderplatz, two blocks from Berlin's major transit hub and famous TV tower thru last December…

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:: Monday, January 11, 2010 ::

Call for Artists: F.I.F.E CARBUNARI 2010



International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari

Deadline for applications: March 03, 2010

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Proximas actividades / Upcoming Activities, 11/01/10 - 17/01/10



Sesion de trabajo del Laboratorio del procomun
Jueves, 14 enero / 19:00h

Reunion y puesta en comun de los grupos de trabajo en marcha y presentacion del calendario de actividades. La reunion está abierta a todas las personas interesadas en escuchar las propuestas, inscribirse en alguna de ellas o participar en el debate. [+info]

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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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