New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen; they also promote the reorganization of its logic of distribution, modes of consumption and viewing regimes. Once, it was video and television broadcast that disturbed traditional cinematographic experience, revealing the image as soon as it was captured and bringing it into the home of the audience. Nowadays, computer imaging and online networks cause an even stronger effect to the medium, increasing the public agency in the movie market dynamics.

In order to understand how these significant changes in the modes of accessing and distributing moving images might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography, we are obliged to rethink not only of its future, but its past as well. Besides the Screen is a one-day international symposium that aims to map research projects on new and old forms of moving image distribution, exhibition and consumption. The conference will be hosted in Goldsmiths College (University of London) in November, with the support of the Goldsmiths Graduate School.

We invite proposals for paper presentations in the form of 250-word abstracts, to be sent to the email besidesthescreen@gmail.com until June 11th 2010. The list of selected works will be published online at
besidesthescreen.blogspot.com (under construction).

Suggested topics / themes:

· Contemporary views of traditional exhibition venues
· Online video archives and directories (archive.org, youtube)
· Non-traditional distribution networks
· Peer-to-peer and filesharing
· Film & video piracy
· Transnational distribution
· Projection-based performances (vjing/ live cinema/ etc.)
· Market regulations (DVD distributions, release windows, ratings)
· Contemporary and historical film societies
· Non-commercial exhibition spaces (art galleries, outdoor
screenings, etc.)
· Intersections between IPR, copyright & film distribution/exhibition.

Upgrade! Boston: Joseph DeLappe + Pete Froslie

March 11, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he directs the Digital Media program. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad - including exhibitions and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Peru, China and the Netherlands. He was a 2008 Commissioned Resident Artist at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. In his 2006 dead-in-iraq project, he began typing, consecutively, all of the names of America’s military casualties from the war in Iraq into the “America’s Army” first person shooter online recruiting game. More here http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2010/02/joseph-delappe/
Pete Froslie received his MFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2008. He moved to Boston in 2005 from Reno, Nevada, where he earned his BFA in Digital Media. He returns to Reno periodically to teach courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, and to remain an active part of the community. In 2008 he was recognized as one of the top five graduating visual artists by the Boston Globe. His work has been discussed and highlighted online and in print, including MAKE, Gizmodo, the Boston Globe, RN&R, and the Reno Gazette. Froslie explores diverse tangents ranging from alternative historical fiction and documentary, to electro-mechanical sculpture and prostheses. More here http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2010/02/pete-froslie/

Artists and curators at ISCP are invited to present their recent work to the public in the semi-monthly public Salons. Participants present film screenings, performances, small exhibitions, formal lectures, and a number of hybrid formats. Besides from introducing the residents, practice to the audience, these presentations are important social events encouraging conversation and exchange of ideas among the ISCP residents and the public.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 7PM

VALERIO ROCCO ORLANDO: ‘A Lover’s Discourse’

‘During a six months residency at ISCP, I’m creating a new series of works about Love. My purpose is to explore all the changes and correspondences experienced inside the identity of a couple. Starting from the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s theories about being-in-common, the dynamics of self-reflection and sharing coexisting in a web of relations, my intent is to demonstrate the fundamental importance of reciprocity and interchange with ‘the other’ in order to evolve and build up one’s own identity and self awareness.

Valerio Rocco Orlando works across a range of media including film, video, and photography. His installations show articulated compositions made of cinematic and emotional portraits. Inspired by the evolution of identity dynamics in contemporary society, Orlando’s research explores the relations between individual and collective memory, as well as the changes induced by social relationships in the process of identity formation.
www.valerioroccoorlando.com

STUART RINGHOLT
Ringholt’s interdisciplinary art practice grapples with our social environment, exploring ideas of perception and states of consciousness. With uncomfortable honesty, he highlights awkward interpersonal interactions, revealing complex networks between individuals and communities. At the recent Sydney Biennale, Ringholt facilitated 50 Anger Workshops with 400 people participating. In 2010 Ringholt will participate in the Adelaide Biennial and present a solo show ‘Vitrines’ at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney. His work has been profiled in Artforum and Frieze. Ringholt is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
www.annaschwartzgallery.com

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 6PM

GORAN SKOFIC
Goran Skofic works almost exclusively in the media of video and photography. He focuses on what he calls ‘abstractions’: society, the individual, interaction and coexistence. In his work, Skofic uses his body as an instrument of expression like he did in his video installation ‘Corpus’ where the artist examines his own body. Each of the installation’s videos shows a multiplied figure of the author who rhythmically performs just one action (i.e. workout in the gym, running, applauding in a concert hall). Skofic thus deconstructs the body into a naked ‘corpus’, liberating it from humanization and bodily weaknesses like fatigue or mistake. His character, which has no foothold either in the original or in truth, acts with the rhythm of incessantly repeating movements.
www.goranskofic.com

SAMUIL STOYANOV
Thinking while looking, or looking while thinking: Samuil Stoyanov is interested in ‘thinking vision’. Lately this theme has appeared in his works, but it has nothing to do with visual experiments or optical effects; rather it is to be fully associated with the conceptualization of the act of looking.
Samuil was born in 1975 in  Dobrich, Bulgaria. In 2001 he graduated from the National Art Academy with an MA in Ceramics. From 2001 to 2009 he realized eight solo exhibitions, and he is the winner of several art awards, including the 2009 BAZA Award. He works in all the existing media and ironically treats various contemporary subjects. Stoyanov will participate with four of his works in ‘Qui vive?’, the second Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (July, 2010). For this Salon at ISCP he will show his Projects for the World Government Building. He will also make some brand new works.
www.samuilstoyanov.com

exposure

The numerous exhibitions and projects in which ISCP participants are included are often a byproduct of ISCP’s programming approach that includes forging contacts between artists, curators, gallerists, museum professionals, and critics. While in residence, participating artists and curators mayhave exhibitions in New York and elsewhere.

Information listed below is a selection of current exhibitions featuring ISCP participants.

WHO: All film and videomakers
WHAT: Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation
WHEN: Entries must be received by May 15, 2010.
WHERE: Send submissions to Jaimie Baron, 10480 National Blvd. #308, Los Angeles, CA 90034
PRESENTED BY: Los Angeles Filmforum

Santa suit in July? Brussel sprouts for breakfast? Cat in the bathtub? Fish on a bicycle? All of these things are possible, but they are just “not done.” At least, in our view, not often enough! Of course, the notion of what is “appropriate” always depends on context – the right time and the right place. What is permissible in one context may not be so in another. Indeed, the “inappropriate” is all about what is in the “wrong” place and at the “wrong” time, which is exactly where we think it should be. Mash-up, machinima, remix, collage, compilation, found footage, détournement – these terms all refer to films and videos that tear materials from one (con)text and place them in another, constantly questioning the limits of what is “appropriate. ” At its best, this act of (in)appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

With that idea in mind, Los Angeles Filmforum invites submissions for the 2010 Festival of (In)appropriation – our third festival! We are open to all works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in “inappropriate” ways. We will consider both films and videos, including works that are made up entirely of found footage and those that only use small segments of appropriated material. We are especially interested in – but certainly not limited to – films that put history into question and films that explore the ways in which digital technologies are reconstructing our relationship to preexisting audiovisual materials. Particular consideration will be given to films that repurpose materials in an inventive way and to films that are under 20 minutes long. We will only accept work finished in 2008 or later.

The Festival of (In)appropriation will take place at in Fall 2010, specific date TBA.
Curated by Jaimie Baron and Madeleine Gallagher.

Guidelines:
• Submission deadline: May 15, 2010
• Please send all submissions in DVD format to: Jaimie Baron, 10480 National Blvd. #308, Los Angeles, CA 90034
• Submissions must be 20 minutes or less and must contain some form of “(in)appropriation. ”
• Acceptable submission formats: DVD and VHS
• Acceptable exhibition formats: mini-DV, DV-Cam, 16mm film, 35mm film, DVD (but discouraged, since DVD is not a reliable projection medium).
• Please include: title, filmmaker, running time, a 30-word or less synopsis, and contact information (phone and email).
• No submission fee, but please send only good films!

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation.

For more information, please go to: http://www.lafilmforum.org/

On Tuesday, 9 March, the Centre for Film Studies will host a screening of THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, a documentary by political pranksters and culture jammers, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno– possibly best known for their recent hijacking of the BBC when they pretended to be Dow Chemical and took responsibility for the industrial tragedy in Bhopal.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Yes Man and co-director,
Mike Bonanno.

Date and Time: Tuesday, 9 March starting at 5.15pm
Place: School V

For more information please go to:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/events.php?eventid=108

The management of Agora Gallery, located in Chelsea, the hub of New York City’s international art scene, has been the sponsor of international fine art competitions since 1984. Currently, the gallery hosts the annual Chelsea International Fine Art Competition.

“Carving a space for new talent is very much at the core of our business,” says Agora Gallery Director Angela Di Bello who has vast experience on the art circuit.

Juror selected artists will gain exposure by exhibiting their work in the famed Chelsea Art Gallery District and their work will be promoted both online and in print. Our fine art contests are juried by influential voices in the New York art world;This year’s competition juror will be Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator of the Guggenheim Museum.

As part of our ongoing commitment to giving back to the community we live and work in, Agora Gallery donates 25% of its proceeds from the sale of artwork from the art competition exhibition to the non-profit organization Art Start (www.art-start.org). Through its innovative programs, Art Start brings together art, artists and children in need throughout the New York Metropolitan Area.

March 2 - 6, 2010
Where: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain)

Translation Sprint of 2 FLOSS Manuals in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) from March 2 through 6. We we’ll be collaboratively translating into Spanish *Inkscape Manual* and *Collaborative Futures*. Participation is free but previous registration is required. You can also participate online!

Event organized by FLOSSmanuals and Medialab-Prado, in collaboration with Escuela de Arte 10 of Madrid, and coordinated by Jennifer Dopazo.

All the info here:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/encuentro_flossmanuals_en_espanol
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Inkscape
http://en.flossmanuals.net/collaborativefutures/

Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)

Symposium and Online Digital Art Gallery D-ART 2010
iV London, UK and CGIV Sydney, AU
http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/CAVE.htm

Call for Artwork, Papers, Videos and Participation

Scope:
Authors are invited to send their extended abstract or the full paper to the chairperson of symposium.
Artists are invited to submit their current digital artwork for exhibition in IV 2010 and CGIV 2010- at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/.
Papers presenting original research with the theme of ‘DIGITAL ART’ are being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Preparing artists to learn programming, preparing programmers to learn aesthetics
Interrelationship between disciplines. How computer graphics can influence computer science and software engineering
Issues in digital art: Technical challenge and artistic quality, criticism, perception in the field
Art and visualization of spatial, tonal, and temporal domains: Industry, Academia, Media
New media arts approaches within medical science and technology
Game and interactive multimedia
Information technology in visual arts and culture, visual art for IT Visualization
Cognitive Science issues, digital art and visual learning: critical and abstract thinking, problem finding
The role of digital art and graphics in production of web video for marketing
Digital fabrication methods. Process (including collaborative efforts)
History of computer graphics and art
Copyright (representation through a detail, watermark, resolution)

Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/PAPERS.htm
Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/

Important Dates:
1 March 2010 submission of artwork
1 March 2010 ? Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: https://www.conftool.net/IV10/
30 April 2010 ? Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes

All queries and application materials should be sent to:

Anna Ursyn
School of Art and Design
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley CO 80639, USA
T: (Int. +1) 970 - 351-2476
F: (Int. +1) 970 - 351-2299
E: ursyn@unco.edu

The latest of edition of Vague Terrain presents a timely and nuanced consideration of ubiquitous computing. Guest curated by the American artist/programmer Joshua Noble, the issue provides a window into the practices of several leading researchers. Given the arrival of gestural interfaces and preliminary deployments of augmented reality technology and “intelligent” architecture, it is an important moment for thinking about the relationship between technology and the body. Noble on this current milieu: “All technologies reshape the body and the space around the body, from the bow and arrow to the steam engine to the telephone. It may be that we are beginning to truly see how computing and ubiquitous devices will once again reshape our bodies and our conceptions of ourselves in space.”

The issue features text, interview and project contributions from: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Golan Levin, Pierre Proske, Mark Shepard and Marilena Skvara.

To view the issue please visit: http://vagueterrain.net/journal16

Greg J. Smith & Neil Wiernik
http://vagueterrain.net

Del 23 al 27 de Febrero de 2010-02-20

La Nave Spacial

www.lanavespacial.com

Plaza del Pelícano 4. Local 1 – Sevilla

VideoartWorld

Caja sol / Obra Social

Día 1.

-         Anna Bella Geiger: Pasajes (1974, 9´30”). Brasil

-         Ximena Cuevas: Befote televisión (1984, 1¨43) México

-         Coco Fusco y Paula Heredia : The Couple in the cage (1993.31´00¨) Cuba / USA

-         Angie Bonino : New World Order (2008. 5´29¨) Perú.

-         Enrique Ramírez: Imágenes de una memoria (2006. 9´00¨) Chile.

Día 2

-         Regina José Galindo: Confesión (2007. 2´22¨) Guatemala

-         Beth Moysés: Día a día (1998. 6´52¨) Brasil

-         Ana Luisa Sanchez – Law: Navigator (2009. 3´13¨) Panamá

-         Teresa Puppo, Gabriela Larrañaga y Graciela Taquini: Secretos (2007.5´) Urugay / Argentina).

-         Patricia Betancur: Yo amo (2008. 5´00¨) Uruguay.

Día 3

-         Juan Aizpitarte: Over game (2008. 9´30¨) España

-         Verónica Ruth Frias: Apalos (2009. 4´31¨) España

-         Ángel García Roldán: Nàrke (2008.22´00¨) España

-         Tete Álvarez: En un momento (2009,2´29¨)España

-         Marisa Mancilla: Plumes(2009,4´04¨) España

-         Amparo Garrido: Remanecer (2008, 14¨40¨) España

-         Anna Gimein: Rehearsal 2 (2007, 2¨34¨) España / USA.

Dia 4

-         Ernesto Oroza: Anestesia (2006, 8´18¨) Cuba

-         Glenda León: Mar Interno (2006. 1´20¨)Cuba

-         Lázaro Saavedra: El ideólogo de buen corazón (2006, 2´47¨) Cuba

-         Celia Yunior: Bojeo (2006/2007, 7´31¨) Cuba

-         Reinier Nande Pérez: Juegos discretos (2006.12´12¨) Cuba.

-         Lisandra Ramírez: El viejo (3´50¨) Cuba.

Día 5

-         Ana Claudia Garcia: Mi adorable mariposa (el aleteo) (2003,4´51¨) Argentina.

-         Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Cardoso Flea Circus (1996.8´00¨) Colombia

-         Nicolás Dumit: For art´s sake (2005, 3´13¨)República Dominicana.

-         Teresa Serrano: A room of her own (2003. 6´42¨)México.

-         Azucena Losana: Loco(2008, 1´44¨) Argentina .

* Selección ¨Proyecto circo de La Habana” comisariada por Ada Azor.