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DIGIMAG ˆ #ISSUE 13 ˆ APRILE 06

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http://www.digicult.it/digimag

Interviews: GEERT LOVINK – FLUID.NL – ADDICTIVE TV – LA MOLLEINDUSTRIA – ECHRAN – KINOTEK – REPUBLIQUE LIBRE DU DESIGN – MUTAFORMA

Featuring: REC FESTIVAL – SVEN/SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK – LOL ARCHITECTS – SHARE FESTIVAL – HANS SCHABUS – THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS – ROBERTO LATINI/UBI INCATENATO – FINALMENTE COSMESI

Themes: VIDEO MOBILE – ABLETON LIVE – LA PAURA DEL LIMITE – SCIENZA DELL’INFORMAZIONE

Cover: ARIANNA D’ANGELICA

Artwork: NIKO STUMPO

DIGIMAG è un magazine elettronico con pubblicazione mensile sui temi della cultura elettronica e delle arti digitali, distribuito mediante protocollo Http 4.01. DIGIMAG è un e-mag con lo scopo preciso di informare e approfondire tutte le tematiche relative al mondo della cultura, delle arti e delle tecnologie elettroniche, mettendo in evidenza le differenti realtà esistenti e le sinergie che tra esse si creano. Argomenti di approfondimento del magazine sono:

Net Art

Hack Art

Software Art

Video Art

Elettronica

Audio Video

Performing Art

Intelligenza Artificiale

Design

New Media

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//ARCHIVIO

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//REDAZIONE

- Marco Mancuso – concept, editing, coordinamento e design

- Arianna D’Angelica – photo editing e fotografie

//COLLABORATORI

- Luca Restifo ˆ programmazione

- Riccardo Vescovo – web magazine design

- Luca Pertegato – web portal design

//AUTORI

- Luigi Pagliarini ˆ Intelligenza Artificiale

- Tatiana Bazzichelli – Hacktivism e Net Art

- Gianluca Del Gobbo – Audiovideo

- Bertram Niessen – Audiovideo

- Teresa De Feo – Interaction e Intelligenza Artificiale

- Miriam Petruzzelli – Interaction e New Media

- Luigi Ghezzi – New Media e Intelligenza Artificiale

- Giulia Baldi – Electronica

- Simona Brusa – Interaction

- Alex Dandi – Electronica

- Simone Bertuzzi – Electronica

- Domenico Quaranta – Software Art

- Maria Molinari – Hacktivism

- Lorenzo Tripodi – New Media

- Massimo Schiavoni – Performing Art

- Mariangela Scalzi – Interaction

- Monica Ponzini – Video Art

- Domenico Sciajno – Audiovideo e Electronica

- Valentina Tanni – Software art eNet Art

- Anna Monteverdi – Performing Art

- Motor – Intelligenza Artificiale e Interaction

- Isabella Depanis – Video Art

- Beatrice Ferrario – Net Art and Hacktivism

- Tiziana Gemin ˆ New Media eI.A.

- Fabio Franchino – Software Art

- Alessandra Migani – Video Art e New Media

- Sarah Nussenblatt – New Media

- Lucrezia Cippitelli ˆ Hacktivism e NetArt

- Maria Rita Silvestri ˆ New Media

- Matteo Traversari ˆ Interaction

- Silvia Bianchi – Audiovideo

- Marco Cadioli ˆ New Media

- Luca Bergero ˆ Sound Art

- Elena Vairani – Audiovideo

- DrexKode – Electronica

- Francesca Valsecchi – Hactivism e New Media

- Claudia D’Alonso – Hacktivismo e New Media

//TRADUZIONI

- Giulia Artioli

- Ian Bolton

- Micaela Genchi

- Ornella Pesenti

- Camilla Serri

- Mariacristina Virgilio

//PARTNER

ARTIFICIALIA – Luigi Pagliarini

robotica e intelligenza artificiale

Artificialia è un’associazione culturale fondata con l’intento di promuovere e tutelare l’arte elettronica in Italia attraverso il confronto artistico e collaborazioni di respiro internazionale. E’ promotrice del meeting annuale di artisti elettronici Peam (Pescara Electronic Art Meeting).

AHA – Tatiana Bazzichelli

hackart

AHA, Activism-Hacking-Artivism, e’ un progetto di networking, incentrato sull’hacktivism e le forme sperimentali di net.art. Nato nel 2001, si sviluppa attraverso l’organizzazione di eventi/rassegne collettive, la gestione di una mailing list sull’attivismo artistico (aha@ecn.org) e la diffusione-ricerca sull’hacktivism italiano e internazionale.

OTOLAB – Bertram Niessen

audiovideo e musica elettronica

Otolab è un collettivo milanese di ricerca audiovisuale nei campi della live media art, del live electronic, del djing e del vjing. Dal 2001 è caratterizzato da un’attività continua di sperimentazione e laboratorio, forte progettualità di integrazione tra audio e video e costruzione di performances site specific.

SHOCKART – Gianluca Del Gobbo

webart e audiovideo

Il progetto Shockart.net nasce nel 1999 per iniziativa delll‚associazione culturale Vernice (www.vernice.it). E’ oggi punto di riferimento culturale per la valorizzazione e a divulgazione dell‚arte digitale e della webart. Il progetto è inoltre legato a doppio filo al progetto Flxer, software di vjing open soruce utilizzato ormai da molti vjing live in Italia e in tutta Europa

ARCNAUT – Teresa De Feo/Miriam Petruzzelli

interaction design

Arcnaut è un laboratorio dell’Immaginario. Installazioni interattive, arte visiva, robot, luogo di produzione artistica, video e design. Nato da un’idea di Mario Canali, è un centro culturale legato anche alla promozione di eventi nell’ambito della contaminazione tra tecnologie e filosofie.

48 ORE – Luigi Ghezzi

tech media

48 Ore nasce con il compito di sviluppare la “scrittura digitale” attraverso performance letterarie in varie articolazioni. Il filone principale ha come teatro le città italiane: i 6 personaggi che animano il progetto vivono e trascrivono in tempo reale, per 48 ore, incontri e sensazioni che diventano autentiche storie metropolitane.

RISONANZA MAGNETICA/INVERNOMUTO – Simone Bertuzzi

musica elettronica

Risonanza Magnetica è un distributore e mailorder di musica elettronica attivo dal 2003. Il proprio campo d’azione spazia dall’hip hop più creativo alle sperimentazioni elettroniche più esasperate, tenendo sempre presente una visione originale del suono e del ritmo. .::invernomuto::. nasce nel 2003 come gruppo di sperimentazione audio-visiva, il progetto principale che ne caratterizza l’operato è la produzione di un magazine a-periodico chiamato ffwd_mag (http://www.ffwdmag.org).

OGI:NO KNAUSS – Lorenzo Tripodi

tech media

Ogi:noknauss è un gruppo di ricerca indipendente, attivo dal 1995. che si occupa di comunicazione, linguaggio e trasformazione dell’ambiente umano. Nasce come laboratorio di cinema mutante e attraversa una costante deriva nei linguaggi e nelle pratiche della comunicazione. mediante performances, videoinstallazioni, allestimentie pratiche VJing.

HK-HACKER KULTURE – Maria Molinari

hacktivismo

HK- Hacker Kulture è il primo e unico portale italiano dedicato alla cultura hacker, alla filosofia, all’arte, all’etica e alla storia della cultura hacker. Nato nel luglio 2002 all’interno del sito Dvara.Net. HK presenta una ricchissima quantità di dati, informazioni, testi, cenni storici, progetti, personaggi, realtà, andando a costruire, attraverso una vasta raccolta di materiale, un’unica retrospettiva attuale e aggiornata sulla cultura hacker e i suoi primordi cyberpunk.

ANTITESI – Domenico Sciano

audiovideo e musica elettronica

Antitesi è un centro di autodocumentazione, ricerca e sviluppo interdisciplinare per l’arte nuova. Dal 1995 ha ideato diversi eventi in ambito performativo e divulgativo che pongono il suono al centro e in rapporto con le altre arti. Tra i più recenti progetti XS[not_only_sonic_acts] e il contest/festival Live!iXem. Sciajno è il fondatore di Antitesi e nel 2003 ha avviato iXem (italian eXperimental electronic musix) è un collettivo virtuale che attraverso un forum internet raggruppa artisti che affrontano il suono come materia prima nella sperimentazione elettronica ed il suo rapporto con le altre arti.

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The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State Artists’ salon co-sponsored by Leonardo and the San Francisco Art Institute Center for Media Culture featuring the Raqs Media Collective of New Delhi, India and Steve Cisler of San Jose, CA, USA

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Thursday, April 6, 2006, 7 P.M.
San Francisco Art Institute Café
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, is pleased to co-sponsor with the San Francisco Art Institute Center for Media Culture a lively evening salon with the Raqs Media Collective and Steve Cisler. Drinks and supper will be served before the presentations, and dessert will follow.

The Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) from Delhi, India, investigates the technological forms that underwrite contemporary urban experiences and the social practices through which the city is acted upon and imagined. The collective is the co-initiator of Sarai: The New Media Initiative, a program of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban culture. Currently acting as Spring 2006 Fellows for the SFAI Center for Media Culture, the Raqs Media Collective will intersect with several of SFAI’s degree, community education and public programs. At the April 6 salon, Raqs will initiate a discussion on the topic of “The Strange Destiny of Open Source in the Nation State.”

Steve Cisler is a librarian by training who began using computers when he was middle-aged. Starting in 1985 Cisler ran a WELL forum on information and libraries. In 1988 at Apple Computer library he started a grant program called Apple Library of Tomorrow, through which he made dozens of grants to U.S. and Canadian museums and libraries. Cisler worked on the de-regulation of the radio frequencies and standards that became known as 802.11 or Wi-Fi. Over the past 7 years Cisler has consulted in Latin America, Thailand, Jordan and Uganda on short-term projects involving telecenters, school computer labs and indigenous groups. Cisler is Chair of the “Piracy and the Pacific Working Group” at the upcoming Pacific Rim New Media Summit, a pre-symposium to ISEA2006. Cisler will give a presentation at the April 6 salon on intellectual property issues.

San Francisco Art Institute’s Center for Media Culture links artistic practice and the study of culture. Students explore the ways in which different media, including film, video, photography, sound and technology, shape—and are shaped by—concepts of identity and community. The Center offers students opportunities to foster agility in their artistic practice through the study of the cultural and aesthetic shifts that characterize diverse societies. The results are technically informed media practitioners and comprehensive critical thinkers prepared for a broad variety of career and artistic opportunities.

Leonardo, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology and by stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists and technologists. As Leonardo/ISAST nears its 40th anniversary, its programs and activities have expanded to include print and online publications, an awards program, involvement in workshops, conferences and symposia (including the Pacific Rim New Media Summit, a pre-symposium to ISEA2006, August 2006, in San Jose), and collaborative projects focused on twenty-first-century media involving art, science and technology.

http://www.sfai.edu
http://www.leonardo.info

DORKBOTSOCAL12 Machine Project April 1st 2006, 1pm Dagett, Spellman/Stow, Lew: “Visualizing the Invisible”

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*** April 1st 2006 – 1pm (Saturday)
*** Machine Project
*** 1200 D North Alvarado Street
*** Los Angeles, CA 90026
*** http://www.machineproject.com

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[ O V E R V I E W ]

If a theme for this event had to be chosen, I’d pick “Making the
Invisible Visible”. This month’s event will feature a good variety of
work from a number of different angles: social software, locative
media and digital cinema. Mark Daggett, most well-known (perhaps) as
being part of the Radical Software Group that won a Golden Nica at Ars
Electronica 2002, will be presenting “Balance Bar” – a browser
extension programmed to allow any user to editorialize any web page
anywhere on the Internet. Naomi Spellman & Brandon Stow from 34 North
118 West will be showing “Interpretive Engine for Various Places on
Earth”, a system that uses outdoor wireless network connections to
design a custom-built narrative specific to geographical location,
including factors like weather conditions, the physical environment,
nearby locales, and historic events. Michael Lew will also be
presenting: he’s a media artist and research engineer that primarily
works on expanding cinema, and has a background in electrical
engineering, artificial intelligence, performance and filmmaking.

Come on out – bring your friends. This event is free of charge. If
you would like to make a donation to our kind venue-host (Machine
Project), bring some dollar bills and watch them get sucked up in the
money-sucking-machine. Also, the last number of lecture events have
been filled to over-capacity, so if you want a chair, it might be a
good idea to come at 12:50.

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[ P R E S E N T E R S ]

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Mark Daggett
“Balance Bar”
http://www.flavoredthunder.com/

“In my artwork, I primarily make tools for use by others. The tools that
I create are computer applications, which are commonly referred to as “social
software” or “art applications”. My ongoing social software research
is in the area of “independent interfaces,” a term I coined to
describe my artistic production and academic research. (The term also
is the title of my related book project.) Independent interfaces are
artistic augmentations to conventional technology that help people
understand how social software can alter their lives in positive and
not-so-positive ways. My interfaces are developed to illuminate and
measure the often-elusive effects of social software on our culture.
A good example of my work in social software is an on-going project
called the “Balance Bar” (http://www.collcoll.com/balancebar/). The
“Balance Bar” is a simple browser extension programmed to allow any
user to editorialize any web page anywhere on the Internet. The
“Balance Bar” will literally insert your comments/article/rant
directly onto whatever web page you would like to expound on. The
“Balance Bar” was developed to address the increasing need to
“balance” the one-sided and isolated worldview that much of our media
sources produce.”

Mark Daggett is an artist and programmer, whose work has been shown in
museums, festivals and exhibitions around the world. His work has
shown in the Whitney Museum, the Princeton Museum, P.S. 1, the Ars
Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, and the Transmediale festival
in Berlin, to name a few. As a member of Radical Software Group, he
was part of a team that won a Golden Nica award for the project
Carnivore at the 2002 Ars Electronica Festival. Daggett have been
nominated for several prestigious awards, including a 2006 Rockefeller
New Media Grant, and a Webby Award, which is sometimes called the
Oscars of the Internet. Major media sources have covered Daggett’s
work, including the New York Times, Le Monde, WIRED Magazine and
Surface Magazine. He is presently Creative Manager for Revver a Social
Software company based in Hollywood.

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34 North 118 West
Naomi Spellman & Brandon Stow
“Interpretive Engine for Various Places on Earth”
http://www.34n118w.net/

Naomi Spellman and Brandon Stow will discuss The Interpretive Engine
for Various Places on Earth, a project with Jeff Knowlton. A work in
progress, this generative narrative relies on outdoor wireless
Internet connection to tell a story specific to user location. Data
such as weather conditions, the physical environment, nearby locales,
historic events – all specific to the current location and time – are
retrieved from online sources and fed into a scripted story structure.
The negotiation of remote databases uncovers larger issues of social
control and power among governmental, commercial, and academic
interests.

34 North 118 West is a southern California based collective focusing
on site specific experimental works utilizing digital media,
computation, and internet resources. Through telecommunications and
mapping tools, one of their concerns is to expose or call to light the
debate around control of and access to information. Their work has
been shown at Futuresonic <4> (Manchester, UK), the LA Freewaves
Festival (Los Angeles), and the Art in Motion in Festival (Los
Angeles). The “interpretive engine” will be shown in the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum’s Off-site series, June – August 2006. Naomi,
Jeff, and Brandon are affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Computing
Arts Program at UC San Diego.

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Micheal Lew
Human behaviour control
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~lew/

“I will be presenting some ongoing research project about “Human
behaviour control”. Combining the electronic art attempts of tapping
into the nervous/muscular system (roachbot, Stelarc, Artifacial
expression) and the influence of video game control into live
interactive entertainment, I will present a project where live actors
can be controlled by the audience. It’s better than Office Voodoo, the
Sims or reality TV. After a background talk surveying the field, I
will present a demo with live actors of my work-in-progress
prototype.”

Michael Lew is a media artist and research engineer, with backgrounds
in electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, performance and
filmmaking. From 2001-2004, he was a Research Fellow at the MIT Media
Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland, investigating what happens to the film
form when the medium becomes computational. Michael’s interactive film
installations and live experimental videos have been shown in
electronic art festivals across Europe and the US. Michael obtained
his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (EPFL), with a masters thesis on software agents from
the AI Lab, Motorola Labs in Paris, France, for which he was awarded
the Logitech 2000 prize. In 97-98, he was developing architectures for
MPEG-2 video streaming at the Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel.

The weekly interviews on JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project

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http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11
—>
3rd & 4th interview featuring
Jorn Ebner (UK) & -rechen- [Roberto Echen/ Argentina]
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Jorn Ebner
is an artist based in England. Born in Bremerhaven, Germany, he studied
English Literature at Universit‰t Hamburg 1990-95 and Fine Art in London
at Central Saint Martins College of Art 1995-98. His internet-based
works include “Leif Codices” (2003), “Lee Marvin Toolbox” (2001), which
received the Kunstpreis des Medienforums M¸nchen 2001, and “Life Measure
Constructions” (2000/01), a New Media Scotland Commission. In September
2004, the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Stormarn, Germany, opened
“Offline, On()”, an exhibition of Ebner’s computer- and internet-based
works; the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle presented the work, “Portable
Landscape”; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, organised Ebner’s “Instability
Experiment” in summer 2005.
&
rechen-
Roberto Echen -born in Rosario/Argentina, is working since 1980 in
different art disciplines and teaching at the School of Fine Arts of the
National University of Rosario since 1987. He started in 1997 working
with computers and incorporated Internet with the aim of making art on
the net, and joined later a group of research on art and technology at
the University of Rosario, working through Internet instead of having a
physical space. In 2000, Roberto Echen became Coordinator of
Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Art Juan B. Castagnino of
Rosario, Argentina, and was envolved in 2004 in the creation of MACRO
(Museo de Arte Contempor·neo de Rosario – museum of contemporary art of
Rosario) and became general curator of it.
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About JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org/start1.htm
is currently preparing a new project, entitled:
JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
to be launched in June/July 2006 online.

Agricola de Cologne, director of JavaMuseum
is interviewing a number of selected artists active in the field of
Internet based art
who participated in the “1st phase”,
the 18 JavaMuseum showcases 2001-2004,
in order to spotlight their artistic background, activities and visions.
Once completed – JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project will release the
collected interviews online
on the new project site – http://jip.javamuseum.org , but immediately
also in form of one interview per week on the new weblog -
JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11

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streaming http://ice.mur.at:8002/under_ctrl.ogg
31. March. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and
screening programme and live performance of Ran Slavin (Israel) ≠ streaming
through the Internet starting from 9:20pm
01. April. 2006, 7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and
screening programme and live performance of Sala Manca (Argentina/Israel) ≠
streaming through the Internet starting from 9:20pm
02. April.2006, 3pm-3.30pm Ligna (DE) presentation,
3.30pm ≠ 5.30 pm panel ≠ audio streaming through the Internet starting from
3:00pm
7pm-11pm video works, installations, documentaries and screening programme
and live performance of Anabala (Turkey) ≠ streaming through the Internet
starting from 10:30pm

streaming is hosted by ice.mur.at (Ales Zemene)

under.ctrl
a project by NOMAD
developed by Basak Senova, Erhan Muratoglu, Emre Erkal
curated by Basak Senova
31 March 2006 > 2 April 2006

http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl

FORUM STADTPARK
Stadtpark 1, A – 8010 Graz
http://www.forumstadtpark.at

The project series, under.ctrl, intends to define ≥the interfaces of control
mechanisms≤ which systematically compose our lives. Interfaces themselves
have become the locus of control by being more effective than their
underlying mechanisms, yet more invisible and subtle in normalizing such
mechanisms which they veil. They operate in various layers of our daily
perception and realization through the re-designing of life styles;
procedures of auto-control; re-perception of histories; generating modes for
social psychology; constructing communication channels; and particularly
through technological embodiment. The significant influence of these
interfaces, along with the direction and intensity of implicit and explicit
acceptance and rejection modes, are being detected and questioned through
subversive activities and reactions in different forms of expressions by
artistic practices. The project follows an empirical method through various
researches carried out by different artistic practices focusing on various
kinds of interfaces of control mechanisms operating in the social,
political, economic, cultural, geo-political, and psychological layers of
our daily lives. In the same line of thought, this project is also an
attempt to detect tactics and rejection mechanisms along with the ≥off the
record≤ strategies against the pressures and conditions of these mechanisms.

under.ctrl graz launch: ≥interfaces of control mechanisms≤, which is planned
as an event in process with various performance formats, will put forward
observations on the various aspects of the mechanisms that control our
lives, in connection with their designed interfaces. Throughout these 3
days, Forum Stadtpark will host sound performances, installations and
screenings of works and documentaries (in a definite time frame with a
controlled and composite schedule) along with a panel that will be
publicized after the event. Therefore, it will operate as a platform of
discussion on how these interfaces are shaped and alter our lives in
different local contexts. loosing.ctrl (Turkish-Israeli project) -as one of
the sub channels of the series- will also be presented with a screening
programme. under.ctrl graz launch will bring a specific emphasis to the
local context through the works of Austrian artists and a local activist
group.

participants
The participating artists of under.ctrl are Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK),
Hristina Ivanoska (Macedonia) Effie and Amir (Israel/Belgium), Zhou
Hongxiang (China), Ran Slavin (Israel), Anabala (Turkey), Sala Manca
(Argentina/Israel), Ligna (Germany), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Michael
Zinganel (Austria), Pragmatic Sanction (Austria), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia),
Nicole Pruckermayr & IOhannes zmˆlnig (Austria), Yane Calovski (Macedonia),
FOS (Denmark) and Igor Stromajer & Brane Zorman (Slovenia).

Participating artists of the loosing.ctrl screening programme are Yael
Bartana (Israel), Erhan Muratoglu (Turkey), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir
(Israel), Can Turkinan & ÷zlem Sulak (Turkey), and Hatice Guleryuz (Turkey).

The panelists are Andreas Leo Findeisen (Austria), Marina Grzinic
(Slovenia), Vuk Cosic (Slovenia) and Emre Erkal. Erhan Muratoglu and Basak
Senova of NOMAD (Turkey) will be acting as moderators.

http://nomad-tv.net/under_ctrl

New Media in Mexico City! a panel discussion with: Eusebio Bañuelos, Arcángel Constantini and Mario de Vega

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on Wednesday 2006.04.05 4:30 PM
[FRAY] – Film, Video and New Media Department
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603
Free

New Media in Mexico City, a panel discussion with Mexico City based
curators and organizers Eusebio Bañuelos (Video artist and Moving
Image curator at The CENTRO MULTIMEDIA), Arcángel Constantini (Net
Art, Web Art and New Media curator, organizer and artist) and Mario
de Vega (New Media, Sound artist and musician). Join us to hear from
and engage in conversation with hese accomplished and active young
curators and learn about the dynamic and very different ways in which
New Media manifests in Mexico City!

* Eusebio Bañuelos is the Moving Image and Video curator at The
CENTRO MULTIMEDIA (the Multimedia Center) in Mexico City. The CENTRO
MULTIMEDIA is a major hub of New Media arts in Mexico City if not the
premier venue and institution for New Media art.

* Arcángel Constantini curates Net Art, Web Art and New Media
projects and is the director of the encuentros efimeros (ephemeral
encounter) project. Constantini also curates the inmerso cyberlounge
museo tamayo (cyberlounge museum tamayo) space for New Media, Net Art
and Sound projects. As an artist, Constantini is a part of the
internally recognized New Media collectives and collaboratives
hell.com, no-such.com and khora.org.

* Mario de Vega is a New Media and Sound artist working
collaboratively in the f4rm project. Mario de Vega is based in Mexico
City and has participated widely in international digital arts events
such as the OPEN AIR – A RADIOTOPIA project at ARS ELECTRONICA
FESTIVAL 2002 and mutek.

* (A) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest brings these artists, organizers and
curators and 6 of their peers from Mexico City to Chicago to
organize, participate and perform these decentralized events. This
r4WB1t5 macro.Fest runs for 4 days from THURSDAY 2006.04.06 until
SUNDAY 2006.04.09 in 4 spaces. The CHI-TOWN ARENA (a Mexican
wrestling venue in Pilsen), EN3MY (Chicago’s most recent art space
dedicated to sound and art in Wicker Park), BUSKER (audio/visual
projects and new media programming in East Village) and POLVO
(Pilsen’s alternative art space) will all host individual micro.Fests
on each day of the expanded macro.Fest. These free and open events
are organized and curated by Eusebio Bañuelos, Arcángel Constantini,
David Somellera, Rogelio Sosa and Mario de Vega from Mexico City and
facilitated in Chicago by Amanda Gutierrez, jon.satrom and jonCates.

* [FRAY]
The New Media in Mexico City panel discussion is a part of the
distributed [FRAY] New Media series in the Film, Video and New Media
Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

* Upcoming [FRAY] screening at Conversations at the Edge:
Thursday 2006.05.04 @ 6:00 PM CALCULATIONS: Pioneers of Computer
Animation

* Upcoming [FRAY] Conference in the Department of Film, Video and New
Media:
Saturday, 2006.05.13 @ 2:00 – 6:00 PM Discussions with Annette
Barbier (UNREAL-ESTATES and Interactive Arts and Media Department
Columbia College), Ryan Griffis (The Temporary Travel Office,
YOUgenics and The School of Art & Design University of Illinois at
Champaign Urbana), Mark Hansen (Professor in English Language &
Literature, Cinema & Media Studies; University of Chicago), Lynn
Marie Kirby (California College of the Arts), PILOT TV, Rob Ray
(DEADTECH and dorkbot Chicago), Lincoln Schatz (OPEN-NODE and The
Upgrade! Chicago) and Daniel Tucker (AREA Chicago).

* Links:

Eusebio Bañuelos: http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cmm
Arcángel Constantini: http://www.infomera.net
inmerso cyberlounge museo tamayo: http://www.museotamayo.org/inmerso
hell.com: http:/www.hell.com
no-such.com: http:/www.no-such.com
khora.org: http:/www.khora.org
Mario de Vega: http://www.f4rm.org
(A) MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest: http://r4wb1t5.org/2006.04.05-2006.04.08
[FRAY]: http://fvnm.info/fray
Conversations at the Edge: http://fvnm.info/cate.html
Gene Siskel Film Center: http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/
siskelfilmcenter/2006/march/edge.html
Video Data Bank: http://www.vdb.org

10 questions on Internet based art open call – deadline 1 May 2006

March 31st, 2006 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events, net art, online Project No comments

JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org
is currently preparing “JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project” &
invites via this open call professionals and “amateurs”
to answer 10 questions on Internet based art ,
in order to enable a broader discussion about the still undervalued
genre of new media art through a variety of
different approaches, definitions and opinions.

The questions and the entry details can be found on
“JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project” weblog
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11&cat=78
where the answers will be posted, as well.

A selection of the most interesting answers will be included in
JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
to be launched in September 2006.

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Creative Commons Releases Open Source Software ccHost 2.0

March 30th, 2006 · -- · Open Source, Resource, [2]News & Events, project launch, software art No comments

San Francisco, USA, March 29, 2006

ccHost, an Open Source project that provides web-based infrastructure
to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using
Creative Commons licenses and metadata, released version 2.0 today.
This major feature release combines approximately six months of
development, usage, and testing into packages that anyone may
download, install, and use to build on-line media sharing communities.

These features most notably show up and are tested in Creative
Commons’ project, ccMixter (http://www.ccmixter.org), a popular on-
line music social network service that supports legal media sharing
and remixing. ccHost is the Open Source Software engine powering
ccMixter. Anyone may download, install, and use ccHost to freely
build media sharing communities.

Perhaps the largest features in this release are to aid feedback
between community members. First, the addition of native reviews no
longer relies upon phpBB. This drastically makes installation of
ccHost easier for average users while integrating the previously
separate review system into ccHost. Also, now all users have to do to
rate submissions is to hover over the star ratings for a media file,
and select how many stars. Then, rather than requiring a refresh of
the browser, the ratings automatically update.

Other user enhancements include optional text formatting for
descriptions, bread crumb path display for easier site navigation,
not safe for work (NSFW) flagging, and a ╲How I Did It╡ browser.
Also, for audio-based installations there is support for M3U-based
radio. While previous versions of ccHost had RSS support, ccHost 2.0
now supports the ATOM feed standard and caching for all feed types.
Beyond these, the most major under-the-hood enhancement to the
codebase is in general performance enhancements which provide
noticeable improvement in all areas of the site, most notably on user
profile pages.

On the administrative side, ccHost now ships with the sample pool API
turned on (http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml).
Basically, this allows for multiple different ccHost installations to
query each other for samples. Beyond the basic usage of multiple
ccHost installations communicating through this RESTful API, anyone
may also use the simple sample pool API to write code that interacts
with a ccHost installation’s sample pool.

Other administrative additions include import and export of settings,
internationalization accessible through a string editor, replacement
of magpie with custom code, a new ratings panel, stricter fairness
policies, and various administrative options for administrators to
customize ccHost. The monthly archives, statistics, and charts pages
barely made it into this release, and require more testing and usage,
yet are already solidly functioning on ccmixter.org.

The ccHost development community encourages new developers to
contribute to the project. While ccHost already supports major audio
formats such as MP3, MIDI, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis, it also supports
video and still image formats. Future development needs more
contributors to add more media (file-type) functionality to ccHost as
well as help with internationalization (i18n) support for multiple
languages. Adding language support does not require coding experience
since one may use the administrative string editor to add
localization to a ccHost installation.

Chat with other developers on irc channel #cc on irc.freenode.org,
join the project mailing list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cctools-cchost), and edit the project wiki page to help
shape this project’s future direction (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ccHost).

Project Website

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ccHost

ccHost Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=156675

Feature Requests

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=80503&atid=559969

Bug Reports

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=559966&group_id=80503&func=browse

Roadmap (Project Timeline)

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost_Roadmap

About ccHost

The goal of this project is to spread media content that is licensed
under Creative Commons throughout the web in much the same way that
weblogs spread CC licensed text. ccHost is web-based infrastructure
that may be used to host and allow for commenting, remixing, and
distribution globally. The more installations of ccHost and its
variations, the more content there will be available for enjoyment
and artistic re-use in a sane and legal setting. ccHost is what is
used for the infamous Creative Commons ccMixter project, which
supports legal media sharing and remixing.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works
â•„ whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licenses
provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon
the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to offer a
voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons is
sustained by the generous support of various foundations including
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar
Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation,
as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org/.

Contact

Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric@creativecommons.org

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: Job announcement, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature

March 30th, 2006 · -- · Job Opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

The University of Hong Kong is at the international forefront of higher
learning and research, with more than 100 teaching departments and
sub-divisions of studies, and more than 60 research institutes and
centres. It has over 20,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from
48 countries. English is the medium of instruction. The University is
committed to international standards for excellence in scholarship and
research.
Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature
Applications are invited for appointment as Assistant Professor in
Comparative Literature with a specialty in cultural studies, tenable from
September 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will
initially be made on a three-year fixed-term basis, renewable after
review.
The Department of Comparative Literature enjoys a reputation as a leader
in literary, theoretical, and cultural studies using cross-cultural
materials and interdisciplinary approaches. Main areas of research and
teaching in the department include visual cultures and film studies,
literature, critical theory, feminism and gender studies, postcolonial,
Hong Kong, and China studies, and new media and global studies. The
Department offers B.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree programmes, and it has
excellent teaching and research facilities and support. The Department
has received substantial amount of competitive funding for research
projects from the University and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Information about the Department can be obtained at
http://www.hku.hk/complit.
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in cultural studies or a related
field. Applicants should be strongly committed to teaching and research
in the areas of China and inter-Asian cultural studies, literary and
cultural theory, and cultural studies issues in connection with gender and
sexuality. A research emphasis in cultural studies in the context of
globalization and China studies would be an advantage. Applicants are
requested to send at least one writing sample with their applications.
A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and
experience will be offered. The appointment will attract a contract-end
gratuity and University contribution to a retirement benefits scheme,
totaling up to 15% of basic salary. The appointment carries leave, and
medical/dental benefits. Housing benefits will be provided.

Further particulars and application forms can be obtained at
https://extranet.hku.hk/apptunit/; by fax (2540 6735 or 2559 2058); e-mail
(apptunit@hkucc.hku.hk); directly from the Appointments Unit, Room 1001,
Knowles Building; or by writing to the Appointments Unit (Senior), Human
Resource Section, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, enclosing a $1.40
stamped self-addressed envelope. Closes April 22, 2006.

CTheory Live: Michel Foucault’s Legacy

March 29th, 2006 · -- · Conference, Criticism, Resource, Theory, [2]News & Events No comments

Dear CTheory Readers,

We have just posted the online video archive for the CTheory Live
symposium on Michel Foucault’s Legacy which took place on March
13/14, 2006 at the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture
(Victoria, Canada). Featured speakers include:

 James Tully. “Foucault and the Question of Agency.”

 Arthur Kroker. “Before Foucault: Power and Cynical Ideology.”

 Warren Magnusson. “Before Foucault: Scepticism, Relativism and
Modernity.”

 Rob Walker. “Foucault, Self-Determination, Limits.”

The archive of this CTheory Live event as well as archives of past
lectures can be found at:

http://www.pactac.net

Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Editors, CTheory