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CONSERVING, DOCUMENTING, ARCHIVINGS meetings of electronic & digital art conversation to be held in Buenos Aires

August 27th, 2010 · Raquel Herrera · Art, Conference, History, Museums, Theory, Video, [2]News & Events, net art No comments

These events, organized by Taxonomedia, will take place in the Cultural Centre of Spain at Buenos Aires (CCEBA), in the Space of Telefónica Foundation and in the Latin-American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (Malba), during the 1, 2, 3 and 6 of September.

Topics previously addressed in the first edition, Conserving electronic art: what to preserve and how to preserve it?, will resurface in the thematic areas that have proved fundamental: digitalization, documentation, storage of art-works/art-pieces, and information access.

The seminar will bring together national or international experts, among others Timothy Murray (Rose Goldsen Archive, Cornell University, NY), Gabriela Previdello (Archive FILE- electronic language internacional festival, San Pablo), Lluis Roque (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona), Ricardo Dal Farra ( CeiArte, Untref Buenos Aires – Concordia Univerisity, Montreal), Glòria Munilla (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya),Verónica Vitullo (Mediateca FADU, UBA), Proyecto Ludión and Diego Alberti.

Check the full program at http://taxonomedia.net/encuentro2010/ .

Taxonomedia- Asociación para la conservación digital
http://taxonomedia.net
info@taxonomedia.net

First Monday August 2010

August 2nd, 2010 · -- · Criticism, Research Opportunity, Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

First Monday has just published the August 2010 (volume 15, number 8 )
issue at
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 15, number 8 – 2 August 2010

Escuelab. Programa avanzado de Residencias para Desarrollo de Proyectos. Aplicación extendida hasta el 1 de agosto.

July 28th, 2010 · Raquel Herrera · Art, Offline Project, Research Opportunity, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

El Programa Avanzado de Residencias para Desarrollo de Proyectos (2010 – 2011) en Escuelab, es posible gracias al convenio entre ATA (Alta Tecnología Andina), la Fundacion Príncipe Claus por la Cultura y el Desarrollo, y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).

Fecha de respuesta a la solicitud: 30 de Agosto del 2010.

El programa se inicia el 4 de octubre de 2010.

En el centro histórico de la ciudad de Lima, capital del Perú, Escuelab ofrece un programa orientado a jóvenes artistas, creadores y activistas de América Latina, con énfasis en la región Andina, Centro América y el Caribe. El programa acoge anualmente hasta diez participantes, que acceden a la condición de becarios y pueden residir en Escuelab – Lima Centro por un periodo de 11 meses, con el objetivo de recibir una formación de características interdisciplinares y con posibilidad de desarrollar un proyecto propio.

Los cursos impartidos en el programa de residencias abarcan campos teóricos y técnicos, todos de aproximación relevante al arte, la tecnología y la sociedad. Se otorga además un valor especial al aprendizaje a través de seminarios, talleres, encuentros de inmersión e intercambio, foros de discusión en la web, y en general, dinámicas de aprendizaje horizontales y comunitarias.

Además se alienta un abordaje práctico e integral enfocado a la incubación de proyectos propios: esta será la marca de una formación de avanzada en el contexto actual latinoamericano.

El programa de residencias de Escuelab, está diseñado para artistas/creadores/ activistas originarios y residentes de cualquiera de los países que conforman la región Andina (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú), Centro América (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá) y el Caribe (Barbados, Cuba, Haití, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago ). Son elegibles las personas que busquen ampliar sus conocimientos y experiencias en torno a las relaciones entre arte, tecnología y sociedad. Los postulantes deben tener un mínimo de 24 años y pueden provenir de cualquier ámbito profesional (artes visuales, arquitectura/ urbanismo, cinematografí a, ingenierías, comunicaciones, ciencias sociales y ciencias puras y aplicadas) con o sin grado académico.

La información completa se halla en http://www.escuelab .org/contenido/ programa- residencias.

Future Exhibitions, No. 2 Available Now

June 10th, 2010 · -- · Books, History, Research Opportunity, Resource, Review, Theory, [1]Features and Reviews No comments

A publication seeking answers to tomorrow’s questions.

Main Site:

http://www.riksutstallningar.se/

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Facebook:

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Future-Exhibitions/121585281185802?ref=ts

2009 Swedish Travelling Exhibitions launched Future Exhibitions – a publication concerned with searching the world for signs of what is to come. Given the visitor’s experiences, life choices and dreams, what is the probable future of the exhibition as a medium, a voice, experience and contemporary fountain of knowledge? And what future do we who are working in the field hope to see?

Code Drift Essays Released by CTheory

June 4th, 2010 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

New essays as part of the special issue of CTheory, _Code Drift: Essays in Critical Digital Studies_. The essay is available at www.ctheory.net.

“Lenticular Galaxies: The Polyvalent Aesthetics of Data Visualization”
- Sara Diamond
http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=651

“Creative Destruction Versus Restrictive Practices: Deleuze, Schumpeter and Capitalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Technical Innovation”
-Simon Glezos

http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=648

“A Sonic Economy”
-Stephen Kennedy

http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=649

Paralelo Texts Available Online

May 30th, 2010 · Raquel Herrera · Art, Books, Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

An international networking event about art, technology and environment took place in 2009 in Sao Paulo. Now, the main texts by Brazilian, Dutch and English writers, researchers and practitioners have been compiled in both a book and online format.

http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/#2930

Art Collaboration: Precision Targets

May 24th, 2010 · -- · Theory, [1]Features and Reviews, online Project No comments

Precision Targets, an interactive essay about technology and the militarization of everyday life.

The project places you inside a cube containing six parallel stories told through interactive comic panels that are married to threads of an essay by scholar Caren Kaplan.

Precision Targets was designed by Erik Loyer and illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels.

Launch the project: http://precisiontargets.com/

CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, VOL 33, NO 1-2

May 21st, 2010 · -- · Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

Visit CTHEORY Online: www.ctheory.net

“Creative Destruction Versus Restrictive Practices: Deleuze,
Schumpeter and Capitalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Technical
Innovation”
-Simon Glezos

“A Sonic Economy”
-Stephen Kennedy

kind regards,

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, editors CTheory

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* CTHEORY is an international peer-reviewed journal of theory,
* technology and culture. Articles, interviews, and key book
* reviews in contemporary discourse are published weekly as
* well as theorisations of major “event-scenes” in the
* mediascape.

First Monday has published the May 2010 (volume 15, number 5) issue

May 5th, 2010 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, Theory No comments

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/
bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/current

The following papers are included in this month’s special issue:

First Monday
Volume 15, number 5 – 3 May 2010

Special issue: User creativity, governance, and the new media
edited by Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi

User creativity, governance, and the new media: An introduction to the
First Monday special issue
by Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi

Developing virtual worlds: The interplay of design, communities and
rationality
by F. Ted Tschang and Jordi Comas

Computer game mods, modders, modding, and the mod scene
by Walt Scacchi

Authorization and governance in virtual worlds
by Dan L. Burk

The rewards of non-commercial production: Distinctions and status in the
anime music video scene
by Mizuko Ito

Who owns the mods?
by Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi

Modding to the big leagues: Exploring the space between modders and the
game industry
by Hector Postigo

New Neural Issue Out

April 29th, 2010 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events, online Project No comments

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