Send announcements, press releases and text abstracts to editor@...

Archive: January, 2006

FEATURES: selections of recent online projects

January 30th, 2006 · -- · [1]Features and Reviews, net art No comments

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

Germinal, Gen and F4RM, An intiative by Mario de Vega, Laura Balboa, Juan Pablo Villegas & Antonio Dominguez consisting of quicktime movies using beta applications created with Max MSP Jitter with combination of other vector applications.
http://www.f4rm.org/
(image shown above)

———-
From Logran W. Fry:
Straight extract from the “about” page for “Desire” – my new brain scan
movie. See links at bottom of page.

If my work is about anything, it is about modularity and remixability (Lev
Manovich); I merely refer to it as cultural transformation, where an object like
an early Intel EPROM chip can transform across multiple media and platforms.
Such transformation is almost definitional for humans; digital technology
merely gives new tools. Indeed, we are now on the verge of the realization of the
observation: “All art can be reduced to a sequence of binary bits, zeros and
ones in endless succession.”

Desire – Desire
To copy and paste:
http://www.dmoma.org/lobby/movies/brain_scan/w_logan_fry/desire_about.html
The Brain Scan Movies – MRI Brain Scan
To copy and paste:
http://www.dmoma.org/lobby/movies/brain_scan/brain_scan_about.html

———-

Mobile phone Festival (what else is there to say…):
http://www.mobilefilmfestival.com

————

‘Pacman Bey’ is a simplistic art project that is meant to be minimal,
ironic, fun, rapidly consumable; yet provides connections between text (text
as character strings as well as content), images, symbols and internet
culture. The quote is taken from Peter Lamborn Wilson’s (aka Hakim Bey)
writings about temporary autonomous zones.
by Ali Miharbi
http://n-ll.haisoft.net/pacman_bey/

———–

randWin 8or9 albat blue sxtunt rewnd xxxx3_ Narn_ secret
security sirene theykee toon (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c)
(a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a)
(b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
(d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f)
(d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d)
(e) (f) pressent cmcstrp drugs maltese g-h.ref p4r4ch boxdogs
poseid_ p_jack Robert paint_ vendetta wind (a) (b) (c) (a) (b)
(c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c)
(a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a)
(b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d)
(e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e)
(f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) benicio hido inthestre j-m-He
jodie error flight93 tiiiitprnt twcemrB x oopentry gundown_
N_C (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c)
(a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a)
(b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d)
(e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f)
(d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) john Michell
plane pulp1 mywav TaxiDriver thegrey EE ttiiuhi phne MDasn
mi4mi blank (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a)
(b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b)
(c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d)
(e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f)
(d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f) (d) (e) (f)
(X)
http://www.jimpunk.com/www.pulp.href/

———–

Tell a mouse
Between Happening and Ephemeral art, transdisciplinaries works to experiment virtual relations ; collaborative and participative, based on the principle of remote proximity, networked spaces open to everybody, without frontiers and out of time, where art is social and social is art.
A recent work by Tamara Lai
http://www.tell-a-mouse.be
———–
A late happy new year from bluescreen:

//————————————————–
//HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006
//————————————————–
function happy_new_year(year)
{
year++;
say(“Happy new year”+year);
see(” http://b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n.net/misc/voeux/2006/ “);
bye();
}
//————————————————–
from(0) = “BlueScreen”;
from(1) = ” http://www.b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n.net“;

ART TECH MEDIA 06

January 30th, 2006 · -- · Competition opportunity, Conference, Criticism, Offline Exhibition, Theory, [2]News & Events, net art No comments

www.artechmedia.net
http://www.artechmedia.net/menu_en.htm

ART TECH MEDIA 06 is a Meeting of Artists, Museum Directors, Art Centres,
Media Lab, Thinkers, Curators, Gallery owners, Collectors, Cultural Agents,
Politicians and Society, in many cases, confused by the methods and concepts
which are so different from the traditional ways of producing of art, its
exhibition, collecting, and way of contemplating.

ART TECH MEDIA 06 was born with the intention of reflecting, analyzing and
viewing art produced using new technologies in Spain within an international
context, and the impact that our polyhedric altered reality has on their
widespread use.

It will be developed in different sections: Lectures, Round Tables, official
announcements for video artists from all over the world, and exhibitions in
the participating venues.

artists call

ART TECH MEDIA 06
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Calling on all artists of the world to participate in ART TECH MEDIA 06 and
exhibit their works in a variety of Spanish Museums.

Artworks will be accepted from the following categories:

- Video art
- Net-art
- Computer Animation
ENTRY
All submissions must be received by February 15th, 2006.

Headquarters’ Program. Spain
- The Canary Islands (Tenerife) . From March 13th to 18th, 2006.
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa (A Coruña): From March 23rd to
April 23rd, 2006.
- Museo Da2 (Salamanca ): From March 27th to April 2nd, 2006 .
- Museo Vasco Artium (Vitoria ): From April 4th to 9th, 2006 .
- BilbaoArte (Bilbao): From April 17th to 23rd, 2006.
- Centro Párraga (Murcia): Del 8 al 21 de mayo.
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid): october, 2006.
- Other Museums not confirmed yet

PRESENTATION ART TECH MEDIA
FERIA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO ARCO
9th february 2006. 18 to 19.30 h
THE ASSEMBLY HALL
Sala N-115
1st. floor of Centro de Convenciones Norte

artechmedia@artechmedia.net

Thanks MOntse Arbelo and Joseba Franco
www.montsearbelojosebafranco.com

Chiara Passa
chiapa@libero.it
www.chiarapassa.it

Call for Speakers – Deadline Extended to 30 January 2006

January 30th, 2006 · -- · Call for Papers, Competition opportunity, Conference, [2]News & Events No comments

GKP International Forum on Cross Sector Partnerships
“Creating Prosperity through Innovation: ICTs at Work in Development”

Colombo, Sri Lanka – May 2006

This year’s GKP International Forum will engage leaders from business,
civil society and government to share experiences and build new
partnership-based initiatives that create prosperity through the
innovative application of information and communications technology
for development.

The Global Knowledge Partnership is seeking proposals for speakers who
illustrate innovation in using information and communication
technologies for development.

Proposals should be developed according to the guidelines below and
sent using the attached ‘GKP 2006 Forum Speaker Proposal Form’ by the
deadline of 30 January 2006 to forumspeakers@gkps.org.my.

Proposal Guidelines:
1 Proposals should be for an individual speaker, although this
person may represent an innovative organization, project or work in a
particular region.

2 Proposals should fit the context of the Forum theme, “Creating
Prosperity through Innovation: ICTs at Work in Development”.

3 Proposals should indicate how the speakers, their projects, or
organizations demonstrate innovation in applying information and
communication technologies for development. Innovation may be
demonstrated by the particular technology used, the application of
technology, the social context in which it is deployed, the way in
which the project is financed, the means of evaluation or measurement,
the way(s) in which partners collaborate, and/or other dimensions.

4 Proposals should include the proposed speakers’ name, their
contacts information, a biography of not more than 250 words, and a
rationale why their contributions fit the theme of innovation. This
should not be more than 250 words.

5 Proposals, using the attached proposal form, must be
emailed by 30
January 2006 to forumspeakers@gkps.org.my.

St. Gilgen Media Award Call for Entries

January 30th, 2006 · -- · Competition opportunity, Festival, [2]News & Events No comments

http://www.MEDIA-AWARD.com

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

The St. Gilgen International School in Austria proudly presents the
first international Media Award. With special emphasis on communication and
media education the St. Gilgen International School supports innovative
and creative ideas in the field of New Media.

All entries are under the Creative Commons Licence and are free to be
developed further for an international Open Source and Open Idea Network
and Archive of the best international ideas. The theme of the 2006
competition is Lifecycle of Knowledge. Entries are accepted in the
categories: Audio, Video, Image and Interactive.

Prizes include two main prizes Best Media Contribution of 10.000
each, six prizes Best Contribution per Category of 3.000 each, and
full and partial scholarships at the St.Gilgen International School.
Participation is free of charge.

Join the New Media World and develop with us great ideas for the
future. All information about the award and the application procedures
at:
http://www.MEDIA-AWARD.com and
http://www.stgilgen-international-school.at

Deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2006!

Please help us build an Open Source and Open Idea Network and Archive
for educational purposes. Send along this email to all those who
might benefit from this information!

Thank you!
Nico Serda
Media Award Coordinator

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILM ET VIDEO DE CREATION

January 30th, 2006 · -- · Festival, Film, [2]News & Events, project launch No comments

Nouvelles images en mouvement
2nd Edition
From 2nd till 5th of Mars, 2006

At Cinema Empire Sofil – Beirut

A coté des circuits commerciaux des salles de cinéma, une autre forme
de création existe, non pas pour la simple contradiction dans la
construction, mais pour satisfaire un besoin culturel autre, pour
élargir le champ de création des auteurs, pour donner à réfléchir et à
aimer. C’est ainsi que le Festival de Film et Vidéo de Création se
positionne dans la scène des manifestations artistiques
contemporaines.

Le Festival de Film et Vidéo de Création est un festival qui a lieu à
Beyrouth (Liban) le mois d’avril et regroupe des sélections en
provenance de multiples manifestations de film, de vidéo et de
nouveaux médias dans le monde.

Program at:
www.fifvc.com

FLOATING POINTS 3: UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

January 27th, 2006 · -- · Conference, [2]News & Events No comments

In partnership with Emerson College
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/
February 8 and March 15, 7:00 p.m.

Floating Points 3 will address the subject of “Ubiquitous Computing” or
“Ubicomp,” where computing and wireless capabilities are so integrated into
the fabric of everyday life (clothing, cars, homes, and offices) that the
technologies recede into the background and become indistinguishable from
everyday activities. Panel 1 will focus on responsive environments and
systems, and Panel 2 will concentrate on networked devices such as barcodes
and RFID tags and creative strategies to subvert the ever-enlarging practice
of surveillance and data mining.

|< <| FROM DATABASE AND PLACE TO BIO-TECH AND BOTS: RELATIONALITY VS AUTONOMY
IN MEDIA ART |>>|
Turbulence’s Helen Thorington, Panelist
College Arts Association, Boston
http://conference.collegeart.org/2006/sessions/thu/
February 23, 2006, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Moderator: Marisa Olson
Panelists: Tad Hirsch, Warren Sack, Brett Stalbaum, and Helen Thorington

|< <<| UPGRADE! BOSTON: MARISA S. OLSON |>>>|
In partnership with Art Interactive
http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/02_06MSO.html
February 24, 7:00 p.m.

Marisa S. Olson is a San Francisco-based artist and is also Editor & Curator
at Large of Rhizome. She has most recently performed or exhibited at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, Southern
Exposure, Pond, Foxy Productions, Debs & Co, and the international
Futuresonic, Electrofringe, Machinista, and VIPER festivals. While Wired has
called her both funny and humorous, the New York Times has called her
“anything but stupid.”

|< <<<| TURBULENCE NEW ENGLAND INITIATIVE II: NET ART AND NETWORKED HYBRID
ART COMPETITION |>>>>|
In partnership with Art Interactive; funded by the LEF Foundation

http://www.turbulence.org/ne2/guidelines.html

Deadline: February 28

|< <<<<| UPGRADE! BOSTON: BROOKE A. KNIGHT |>>>>>|
In partnership with Art Interactive

http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_06BK.html

March 2, 7:00 p.m.

Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital
media for over a dozen years. His current areas of interest include webcams,
the landscape, and text in all forms. He is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, where he
teaches classes in interactive media. He received his MFA in photography
from CalArts in 1995.

|< <<<<<| TURBULENCE FUNDRAISER |>>>>>>|
http://www.turbulence.org/fundraiser_05/index.html
It’s not too late to contribute!

PANACEASUPERSPA: Michael Pinsky, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich

January 27th, 2006 · -- · Offline Exhibition, [2]News & Events, project launch No comments

16 February – 8 April 2006
Private view: Thursday 16 February 6.30 pm

Le Parvis centre d’art contemporain, Ibos (France) presents Superspa, the latest manifestation of Panacea. This evolving and travelling artwork is currently being developed by Michael Pinsky, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich to function as a universal formula for social, economical and political problems.

Once it has reached a destination, Panacea releases its curing powers. A maquette of an imaginary landscape emerges from a wooden crate and disseminates its content: a selection of the artworks presented on the maquette are realised as prototypes in the gallery space.

Le Parvis is a contemporary arts centre built inside a shopping mall. Its creation was initiated by a professor of philosophy and financed by a supermarket franchise. Pursuing the democratic aims of this visionary founder, the artists invite experienced gallery-goers as well as casual shoppers, to trial their ‘artistic’ solutions, which simultaneously offer an aesthetic experience and a practical tool to improve life. Inspired by the Pyrénées and the health-giving springs surrounding the gallery, they propose to take visitors in their Superspa for a special winter treat.

Viral Planting is presented for the first time at Le Parvis alongside other sculptures such as Friendly Frontier and Life Pulse. For Viral Planting (V1 – Avian Flu), Pinsky arranges a mass of plastic flowers to reflect viral infections, which are the focus of public attention and fear. The beautiful and yet disquieting patterns make images of potentially deadly illnesses omnipresent. Friendly Frontier by Walker & Bromwich consists of a hand-sewn inflatable mountain range with emergency slides to bridge international borderlines. This symbolic territory is an open border acting as a buoyancy aid for countries in conflict. Life Pulse by Pinsky, a composition of eerie luminaries, illuminates the space by capturing the visitors’ heartbeats. Creating an ever-changing pattern of flashing lights, this piece transforms the relationship between the patient and the medical institution.

“Panacea questions the authority of science and more particularly of medicine. The concept of the prototype refers to this critical stance. Within the exhibition space, visitors are subjects to voluntary therapeutic trials designed to test the effectiveness of the artworks/treatment before they are put on general release. […] The primary virtue of the Panacea pieces resides in their capacity to be truly experienced by all.” Odile Biec, Director and Chief Curator of Le Parvis.

Dr Hiliary, who has been commissioned by the artists to conduct an evaluation of the benefit of Panacea on health and wellbeing, will be presenting his research methodology on Saturday 18 February 2006. Time to be confirmed. Please contact the gallery for more details or visit www.panaceaproject.org http://www.panaceaproject.org .

TRANSFORMATION | OPPORTUNITY | GROWTH CONFERENCE ON THE VISUAL ARTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 2006 VANSA

January 27th, 2006 · -- · Conference, Research Opportunity, [2]News & Events, project launch No comments

National and International Speakers
Cape Town 8 -11 February 2006

MEDIA RELEASE
and Programme

The Visual Arts Network of SA (VANSA) will be the hosting the TRANSFORMATION | OPPORTUNITY | GROWTH national visual arts conference from 8 to 11 February 2006 at theUCT Hiddingh Campus, Orange Street, Cape Town.

The conference is supported by the Department of Arts and Culture, The CAPE Africa Platform through NAC and ACT grants, Business Arts SA (BASA), the British Council, Pro Helvetia, Cape Town Partnership andArtists Network. The conference runs over three days and is followed on a fourth day (11 February) by VANSA’s first national AGM.

The conference hopes to invite key visual arts practitioners: artists, gallerists, academics, educationalists, curators, critics, collectors, administrators and bureaucrats, amongst others, to discuss the state of visual arts since 1994. Speakers and guests will come from all the nine provinces of the country and will include some international delegates. A special artists’ workshop will run alongside the formal ’talkshop’. Throughout the conference there will be a host of optional social events’, tours and presentations/displays including a special Art Night (10 Feb 2006 from 18h30).

VANSA is an organisation established by and for South African artists and arts practitioners to represent and lobby for the interests of all active practitioners in the South African visual arts sector. Focused largely on issues of art and social development, VANSA foregrounds existing historical imbalances and deals with concerns around access, opportunities and coherence within the visual arts sector. Formed in 2003, it is an emerging national voluntary body that is establishing a broad membership base, which includes leading figures from the visual arts community nationally.

The 3 days of the conference cost R300 in total, or R150 for VANSA members. Bursaries are available for paid up VANSA members who cannot afford the conference fee. VANSA membership costs R50 for individuals and R200 for institutions. Contact Gouwa at Merle Falken inc at reception@merlefalkeninc.co.za for bookings, phone 021-447 9108. Places are limited and are offered on a first come first served basis. See www.vansa.co.za for more details. There are a number of sessions opened to the public (these are marked), all others are closed for delegates only. The main conference venue is Hiddingh Hall, Orange Street, UCT.

The VANSA conference is supported by The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC), CAPE Africa Platform, The National Arts Council, Arts and Culture Trust, Business Art SA, British Council, Pro Helvetia, Artthrob, Artists Network (UK), Cape Town Partnership.

ENDS
Issued on behalf of VANSA

For further media information, media accreditation and interviews please contact Berniece Friedmann
021 434 4951 / 082 892 5877

PROGRAMME : 7 – 11 FEBRUARY 2006

Tuesday 7 February

Pre-conference event. Open to Public
18h30
Topic: Visual Arts, Crafts and Design: Where are the differences?
Confirmed speakers: Mel Hagen (CPUT Design), Sandra Klopper (Univ of Stellenbosch) {Chair}
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

21h00 Optional Social Gathering: Café Du Sud (Bree Street)

Wednesday 8 February

11h00
Formal registration begins for Conference

14h00 – 15h30 Opening of Conference
Topic : Opening and VANSA
Speakers: Moleleki Frank Ledimo (Bus factory/VANSA Chair), Joseph Gaylard (independent/ VANSA
Gen Secretary), Zayd Minty (independent/VANSA Conference convenor), Steven Sack (Chair – tbc)
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

15h30: Tea

16h00 – 16h45
Topic: The Department of Arts and Culture and its Visual Arts policy development programme
Speakers: DAC Speaker: Lindi Ndebele
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

16h45 – 17h00
Closing remarks: Moleleki Ledimo

17h00 – 19h00: Snacks

19h00 for 19h30 – 20h30
Keynote Session and Formal Opening. Open to Public
The Minister of Arts and Culture : Dr Pallo Jordan
David Koloane (artist/curator) Keynote speaker :
Transformation and the Visual Arts: SA Visual Arts 12 years on.
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

21h00 Optional social gathering spot: Joburg Bar (Long Street)

Thursday 9 February,

Closed to Registered Delegates
An overview of the Visual Arts Sector: Local and International
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

09h00 Reflections on the previous day: Yvette Dunn (African Arts Centre, Dbn)

09h15 – 10h15
Chair: Emma Bedford (VANSA/Iziko SANG)

1 Financing and Resourcing: examining the state of the visual arts economy as it
stands (Susan Glanville/ CAPE)

2 Promoting and Presenting: looking at the ways in which visual arts is collected, displayed
and disseminated (Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa/artist and curator)

10h45 – 11h45
Chair: Khwezi Gule (VANSA/JAG)
3 Education and Training: the state of education in the visual arts from primary to tertiary
levels, formal and non formal (David Andrew / Wits)
4 Art in the Public Sphere: looking at dynamic ways visual arts is being taken to a broader
public sphere (Sue Williamson/artist, Artthrob)

11h45 – 13h00
The International Sector
Susannah Sillver: Artists Network. (UK) Courtesy of The British Council
Michel Ritter: Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. Courtesy of Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council)
SA Hilario Gemuce. Muvarts (Mozambique)

13h00 – 14h00: Lunch

14h00 – 15h30 – Breakaway Sessions

Financing/Resourcing the Arts
Speakers : Nicola Danby (BASA), NAC (tbc), Stephen Hobbs (The Trinity Sessions),
Harroe Siertserma (Graskop Hotel)

Promoting and Presenting the Arts
Speakers:
Melanie Hillebrand (Nelson Mandela Metro Museum), Gabi Ngcobo (artist/ISANG),
Gavin Jantjies (CAPE Africa Platform)

Art in the Public Sphere
Sipho Mdanda (Freedom Park, Public Eye (speaker tbc), Dorothee Kreutzveldt (Joubert Park Project/artist),
Clive van den Berg (artist/Northern Cape Legislature)

Education and Training
Janine Allen (Dpt Fine Art, UFS), Market Photo Workshop, Jill Joubert (Frank Joubert Art Centre),
Jeff Rankin (Border Tech/E. London)

1530 – 16h00 Tea

16h00 – 17h00
Plenary and wrap up
Chair: Kim Berman (Artists Proof Studio)

17h00 – 18h30 – Reception in honour of Michel Ritter (supported by Pro Helvetia)

18h30 – 20h00: Open to the Public
Race, gender and the rural-urban divide
Nandipha Mntambo (artist, CT), Arlette Franks (LACA, Limpopo), Michael Barry (artist, PE),
Vuyile Vuyiyo (artist/curator)

21h00 Optional social gathering spot: Joburg (Long Street)

Friday 10 February
Closed to registered delegates

Looking Forward
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

09h00 Reflections on the previous Day: Mario Pissarra (critic/educator)

09h30 – 11h00 Breakaway Sessions: Looking Forward
These sessions will attempt to connect their discussion with issues of transformation, and each will
engage with matters related to funding/financing/resourcing, networking, infrastructure, and education.

Good Critic, Bad Critic – Art criticism and the media

Speakers: Sean O‘Toole (Art SA), Khwezi Gule (JAG/Gauteng), Robert Greig (Sunday Independent), Jillian Carmen (art historian, SAVAH), Sophie Perryer [Chair]

No Job, No Work, No Money: Job Creation & Training
Speakers: Storm Van Rensburg (ex KZNSA), Carol Lignitsky (Creative Inner City Initiative – Jbg), Barbara Lindop (Renault Arts project/Gauteng)

Creativity and new directions in the arts
Speakers: Kathryn Smith (artist/Univ of Stellenbosch), Mustafa Maluka (artist), Clive Kellner (JAG ), Virgina Mckenny (UCT) [chair]

Intellectual Property/Repatriation/Indigenous Knowledge System
Speakers (tbc)

11h00: Tea

11h30 – 12h30
Plenary and wrap up
Chair: Nathi Gumede (KZNSA/VANSA)

12h30 – 15h30 (with a 1 hour break for lunch – 13h00 – 14h00)
Closure : Looking Forward Visual Arts: Access and Transformation
Graham Falken (AMAC, WCape)

15h30 Tea

16h00 – 17h30
Way forward
VANSA, DAC input
Themba Shibase (DIT, Kzn)

17h30 – 21h00
Art Night in the central city
18h30: Speaker: Andrew Borraine (Cape Town Partnership) at AVA
Followed by a musical performance in Church Street. Mac McKenzie (Gtr and vocals/ex the Genuines and Goema Captains), Boeta Kaatjie Davids (banjo) with the Continentals Male Choir of Bridgetown.
(organised by the Coffee Beans Routes)

21h30 till late – Closing Party (venue tbc)

Saturday 11 February

9h00 – 11h00
Gallery Walkabouts : for delegates only (please book with Gouwa, places limited)
9h30: Michael Stevenson Gallery, Hill House, De Smidt Steet, Cape Town:
Walkabout by Michael Stevenson entitled The Mechanics of the Art Market
10h15: What if the World Gallery, 11 Hope Street, Cape Town (near cnr of Roeland St)

National VANSA AGM
11h00 – 16h30
Venue: Hiddingh Hall

11h00 – 11h30 Welcome

11h30 – 12h00 VANSA (2002 – 2006)
Speakers Vansa Exec

12h00 – 13h00 Group Discussion 5 Year Plan

13h00 – 14h00 Lunch

14h00 – 14h30 Plenary: 5 year Plan

14h30 – 15h00 Group Discussion: Constitution

15h00 – 15h30 Tea

15h30 – 16h00 Plenary: Constitution

16h00 – 16h30 Elections of National Exec Committee and National Chairperson

16h30 Closure and Thanks

WILD INFORMATION NETWORK

January 27th, 2006 · -- · Art, Competition opportunity, Music, Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

The Department of Ecology, Art, and Technology
Call for Sound Works – Deadline April 1, 2006

http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods

If we encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the woods, in
the “natural” environment, what kind of information would be distributed? If
there was an entity, a life-form, or a “natural” other that disseminated
sonic information, wild-information, how would this information sound? This
project encourages artists to create audio sound works that imagine the
“voice” of the ecological other and explore its translation into the
language of digital art technologies.

If “nature” encountered a pod-cast, or a streaming radio server in the
woods, in the “natural” environment, what kind of information would be
distributed? This project could take on unpredictable, interactive, and
experimental dimensions as it also encourages artists to consider themselves
as human animals, beings within “nature” producing sound works for
unknowable others, e.g. ferns, salamanders, flowers, mosquito, beetles,
flowers, deer, coyotes, bear, water, etc.

WILD INFORMATION NETWORK is a project initiated by Cary Peppermint and The
Department of Ecology Art and Technology, a performative collaborative of
artists seeking to create works that explore issues that lie at the
intersection between new media technologies and the environment.

The project will establish a sonic field of information produced with
renewable energy, digital technologies, and ecological imagination. The
information will be a continuous solar-powered series of audio transmissions
located relatively deep in the woods of 940 acres in the upper Catskills of
New York State. Visitors and hikers to the back woods location will use
802.11 wireless devices, Bluetooth-enabled devices, or transistor radios to
receive sonic information through digital downloads, and radio
transmissions.

This project is made possible by generous support from NYSFA’s
Decentralization Grant, The Upper Catskills Community Center for the Arts,
and The Pine Lake Environmental Campus of Hartwick College.

NOMAD’s video compilation and presentation at CeC & CaC 2006, New Delhi, India

January 27th, 2006 · -- · Festival, Video, [2]News & Events No comments

28. Jan. 2006
SNAPSHOT 1
video compilation
curated by Basak Senova
NOMAD
Turkish Light Arts (2002) ExtraStruggle
I/O Information Overbloated (2005) Erhan Muratoglu
Derdimi Anla (1998) ZeN
Istatistiklal (2004) Erhan Muratoglu РErtug Ṳar РSimge Goksoy
Deniz (2005-2006) Cem Yardimci ­ John Barret
Lost Postcard (2004-2005) Selda Asal – Ceren Oykut
Down-Under (2005) Guven Çatak
Abstraction (2004) Serap Dogan
SeashellSea (2004) Ozlem Sulak

29.Jan.2006
Basak Senova will deliver an overview of the e-Creative scene of Turkey
through NOMAD projects in a public auditorium session in which Osama Manzar,
Aditya Dev Sood, Nitin Donde, and Marco Mancuso also take place and will be
moderated by Milindo Taid.

—————————————————————

CeC & CaC is The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave,
addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread
of Technology, across multiple streams of Creative Human Endeavour. CeC &
CaC is presented by India International Centre and The Academy of Electronic
Arts, New Delhi, India. CeC is the Carnival of e-Creativity, Public Forum,
themed “Touch-e Feel-e” for 2006. The event will be largely open to the
public, with breakout sessions in the Gandhi-King Plaza and the Annexe
rear-garden. CaC is the Change-agents Conclave, Peer Forum themed “Quo
Vadis?” for 2006.
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/

NOMAD¹s contribution is supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
and NOMAD Project Channel.

—————————————————————

http://www.nomad-tv.net