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Robots at Play Prize 2007

July 30th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

10.000 euro cash prize to the most playful robotic system

www.robotsatplay.dk

The Robots at Play Prize 2007 is an international prize for the most playful and/or interactive robotic system. It is given in connection with the Robots at Play Festival in Odense, Denmark, on 23-25 August 2007, and sponsored by Fionia Bank. The festival and prize is chaired by Professor Henrik Hautop Lund.

Robotic systems are entering into the daily life on citizens all over the world. Vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, toys, playgrounds, rehabilitation equipment, fitness equipment, etc. are becoming robotic systems. In such a development, it is crucial to design robotic systems that are interactive and well integrated into the daily life in its natural surroundings, being at home, in the urban space, in sports club, in theatre, in hospitals, in developing countries, etc. This design challenge demands integration of different disciplines such as robotics, design, interaction design, and arts.

The Robots at Play Prize of 10.000 euro is aimed at reinforcing the integration of such disciplines and societal understanding in robotics. The prize promotes robotic systems for use in all aspects of daily life for the benefit of humans and interactivity with humans.

A prominent example of such a system is playware, which combines robotics, design, arts, play studies and industrial development to create the playgrounds of tomorrow – playgrounds that are based on robotic components in order to create joyful physical activity in fight against obesity. The Playware is developed by one of the committee members and therefore not nominated for the Robots at Play Prize, and serves only as an example.

Call for candidates:
The international Robots at Play Prize is open to any candidate robotic system world-wide. It is open for anybody world-wide to suggest candidate robotic systems. Candidate robotic systems will be evaluated during the festival by an academic/industrial committee based upon their qualities in terms of being
· interactive
· innovative
· playful
and also in terms of their
· design
· functionality
· potential impact on society

The committee will evaluate the nominated candidates. Nominated candidates are invited to join the Robots at Play Festival in order to showcase their robotic system to the public, as part of the evaluation for the prize. The Robots at Play Prize 2007 ceremony will be held on evening 24th August 2007 in Odense, Denmark, during the Robots at Play Festival.

Candidate descriptions including abstract, www-information, photo, and inventor/developer contact information should be sent to the committee chair Professor Henrik Hautop Lund, University of Southern Denmark, by email: hhl at mmmi.sdu.dk, no later than 1st August 2007.

Committee:
The committee consists of members from the Academy of Fine Arts, RoboCluster, and Danish industry

Robots at Play Festival:
The overall aim of the Robots at Play Festival is to spread knowledge about robotics by presenting interactive robotic systems in the daily life of the citizens. Therefore, the festival takes place on an open city square, in art museums, library, bars, cinema, etc. in the city centre of Odense that has nominated “play and robotics” as its future focus for industrial and city development. Apart from the prize, the festi-val hosts numerous events like robot construction, robot bazaar, robot film presentati-ons, play, learning, robot art exhibition, robot art performances, RoboMusic development, a stage show, an international Playful Robotic Art conference and a debate on robotics ethics. All events take place in the centre of the city amongst the citizens in their daily environment. Please have a look at the video from last year’s festival, and the descriptions of activities and photos of some of the robots from the forthcoming 2007 festival on the web-site.

+ info: please, write you to Luigi Pagliarini

Robots at Play Festival, Odense, Denmark, 23-25 August 2007:
http://www.robotsatplay.dk

Yours sincerely,

Henrik Hautop Lund, professor
Chair of the Robots at Play Festival

Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Tel: +45 6550 3574 Fax: +45 6615 7697
www.adaptronics.dk
hhl at mmmi.sdu.dk

GaleriaZero – message for visual artists

July 30th, 2007 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

GaleriaZero www.galeriazero.com

c o n t e m p o r a r y a r t

message for visual artists

Find out about exhibition and promotion opportunities

at http://expo.galeriazero.info

* submitting the on-line form you may have access to download directly inscription forms and conditions.

* Find out about new exhibition projects in Barcelona, about exposure in Beijing 2008 and about art fair participation .

.Visit our art show in London / Cork Street http://corkstreet.galeriazero.info

.We will be present in the art fair DEARTE in Madrid ( January 2008)

Urban Video Project call for submissions (Sept 3 Deadline)

July 28th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, Offline Project, Research Opportunity, Video, [2]News & Events No comments

The artist group Avalanche Collective is currently accepting video/sound/multimedia art submissions for our Fall 2007 exhibition schedule. Screenings and installations will be held in urban spaces in Syracuse, New York during the city’s Third Thursday open gallery nights. Exhibition dates are slated for September 20th, October 18th and November 15th.

Submissions are divided into the following categories:

-TYPOGRAPHY- Deadline September 3rd
Works that are composed exclusively of text or feature text as a major component.

-STILL IMAGES IN VIDEO- Deadline September 3rd
Works that feature or invoke still photography, or contain bitmap motion graphics.

-OPEN CALL- First Deadline September 3rd
Individual project proposal.

-CONTACT INFO-
Include the following information with your submission:

Name
Address
Email
Telephone #
CV
Brief artist statement(no longer than one page)

Submissions should be in NTSC/PAL DVD, VHS, or MiniDV format. Max running time 10 min.

Include SASE if you would like your submission materials returned.

Send Submissions to:
Avalanche Collective
C/o Christopher Gianunzio
102 Schaffer Art Building
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244

DOWNLOAD PDF AT http://urbanvideoproject.org/UVPsubmissions.pdf

http://urbanvideoproject.org
http://avalanchecollective.net
avalanchecollective@gmail.com

Conferencia de José Luís Brea (auspiciado por el CCEBA)

July 28th, 2007 · -- · Conference, [2]News & Events No comments

Centro Cultural Rojas

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Corrientes 2038 – Buenos Aires
(Auspiciado por el CCEBA y con contribución de Fundación Telefónica)

Martes 7 de agosto, 19 hs

José Luís Brea es Profesor de Estética y teoría sobre arte contemporáneo Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Crítico de Frieze, Flash Art y Parkett entre otras. Corresponsal en español de Artforum. Editor de las revistas: Estudios Visuales, Salón Kritik y Agencia Crítica. Entre sus libros mas recientes destacan: Noli me legere. El enfoque retórico y el primado de la alegoría en el arte contemporáneo http://www.cendeac.net/publicaciones/index.php?id=35 , CENDEAC, Murcia, 2007. Estudios Visuales. La epistemología de la visualidad en la era de la globalización , (ed.) AKAL, Madrid, 2005. El tercer umbral. Estatuto de las prácticas artísticas en la era del capitalismo cultural. http://www.eltercerumbral.net/> CENDEAC, Murcia, 2004. La era postmedia. Acción comunicativa, prácticas (post)artísticas y dispositivos neomediales. http://www.laerapostmedia.net/ Editorial Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, 2002.

*Mutaciones de la cultura en la era de la distribución electrónica

La energía simbólica que moviliza la cultura -la forma de la memoria que ella es- está empezando a dejar de tener un carácter primordialmente rememorante, recuperador, para derivarse a una dirección productiva y relacional. (Cultura_RAM)

Que ella, la cultura, mira ahora menos hacia el pasado (para asegurar su recuperabilidad, su transmisión) y más en cambio hacia el presente y la producción incondicionada del futuro. Menos hacia la conservación garantizada de los patrimonios y los saberes acumulados a lo largo del tiempo, de la historia, y más en cambio hacia la gestión heurística de nuevo conocimiento. Menos a la perpetuación de las tradiciones que a la optimización de las condiciones la experiencia del vivir en comunidad, a la interacción de los datos y la conjunción de los sujetos de conocimiento –sometida a grados crecientes de diversificación, diferencia y complejidad.

Acaso habría que decir que el uso de la metáfora de los modos de la memoria propios del ordenador es probablemente aquí algo más que una metáfora: quiere decirse que, en buena medida, la irrupción histórica de los modos de la gestión de lo cultural por la eficacia de las nuevas herramientas tecnológicas es seguramente, y mucho más que una mera metáfora, el verdadero factor desencadenante del cambio en el propio sentido de la cultura –que intentamos denotar con la figura de una cultura_RAM.

Pero tomémosla por ahora como simplemente una metáfora. Lo que ella intenta ilustrar: que el tipo de memoria que produce la cultura no es tanto una de archivo (y backup, una memoria de disco duro para entendernos, ROM en la jerga informática). Sino más bien, y sobre todo, una memoria de proceso, de interconexión activa y productiva de los datos (y de interconexión también de las máquinas entre las que ellos se encuentran distribuidos, en red); una memoria de programa y procesamiento (la memoria del procesador, RAM, de vuelta a la jerga informática) y no más una de archivo; una memoria red y no más una memoria documento; una memoria constelación, fábrica, y no más una memoria consigna, almacén.

Una memoria que ya no se pone en singularidades señeras, que ya no se dice en definitivos docu-monumentos, en lugares, signos o escenarios de privilegio. Sino que, al contrario, se dispersa y clona en todas direcciones, se reproduce y distribuye vírica a toda su red de lugares, difundida como onda y eco, deslocalizada en una multiplicidad de no-lugares, hacia los que fluye (y desde los que refluye) activamente y en tiempo vivo.

Centro Cultural Rojas
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Corrientes 2038

4953-3556 / 4954-8352

prenroj@rec.uba.ar – www.rojas.uba.ar

THE TIBET CONNECTION AIRS THIS FRIDAY, JULY 27TH AT 2 PM PST ON KPFK 90.7 FM – TUNE YOUR DIAL!

July 28th, 2007 · -- · History, News, Resource, [2]News & Events, online Project No comments

THE TIBET CONNECTION
The English-Language Radio News Magazine About Tibet

AIRS THIS FRIDAY, July 27th at 2pm PST on KPFK 90.7 FM IN LOS ANGELES
98.7 FM IN SANTA BARBARA

Streaming Live at http://www.kpfk.org
if you miss it, you can hear it anytime at http://www.thetibetconnection.org

also PODCASTING and ARCHIVES at http://www.thetibetconnection.org

THIS PROGRAM FEATURES:

* NEWSDESK: We take a look at the recent destruction of a Buddhist statue at Tibet’s oldest monastery and what it means for religious freedoms in Tibet. We probe the implications of the 6th round of talks between Beijing & the Tibetan government-in-exile PLUS The paving of Everest…

* FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: 21st CENTURY BUDDHISTS? On the occasion of the first Buddhist teaching to Tibetan youth by the Dalai Lama, we explore the relevance of Buddhism to the lives of young Tibetans in exile.

* INTERVIEW: Can Buddhism survive modernity? How does science play a role? We take an in-depth look at these questions and more with leading scholar and Western Buddhist teacher, B. Alan Wallace, PhD.

* ASK TENZIN: Tibet scholar TENZIN DORJEE answers the question: CAN MONKS MARRY?

Airing on the last Friday of each month on KPFK, the station with the strongest signal in the Pacifica Network reaching a quarter of a million listeners, we provide an hour of engaging interviews, stories, profiles, and news exploring the world of Tibet— its people, culture, politics, and philosophy.

Visit us at http://www.thetibetconnection.org
Email: contact@thetibetconnection.org

“It’s very important. The fuller the knowledge about Tibet and Tibetan spirituality and Tibetan culture the better. Such a program is very, very useful.”

HIS HOLINESS XIV DALAI LAMA speaking about The Tibet Connection

COMUNICATO STAMPA STRUTTURA 2007

July 28th, 2007 · -- · Art, Festival, VJ Culture, Video, [2]News & Events No comments

L’arte organica e le pratiche creative che mettono in relazione arte, scienza e tecnologia sono il tema di Struttura Organica 2007, la tre-giorni sul mare digitale giunta alla sua terza edizione, in programma ad ingresso gratuito dal 7 al 9 settembre alla Torre di San Vincenzo (LI).

Rassegne video, talk a tema, installazioni multimediali e videoproiezioni, coinvolgenti performance alla presenza degli artisti e di esperti di settore, musica e dj set per un weekend poliedrico e propriamente “organico”.

Il festival è una produzione Media Boulevard, associazione culturale composta da professionisti del multimedia che operano a livello nazionale e internazionale.

APPROFONDIMENTI SULL’EDIZIONE 2007

IL TEMA

L’idea di Struttura Organica 2007 nasce da una semplice constatazione: il mondo è un organismo vivente. In anni in cui la tecnologia avanza imponendosi sul quotidiano, gli individui cercano rifugio nella natura e riscoprono il corpo. Non è però necessario negare la tecnologia per riscoprire la natura. Al contrario sono molte e sempre più interessanti le esplorazioni delle interconnessioni tra le due sfere. Struttura Organica 2007 intende dare visibilità ai progetti artistici che indagano simili sinergie.

IL PROGRAMMA

Il programma offre una ricca selezione di materiale video sul tema della bio-arte e dell’organico, con contributi selezionati da alcuni festival di spessore internazionale con i quali Struttura ha avviato un rapporto di collaborazione (v. Virtuality – International Computer Graphics Conference, INVIDEO – Mostra internazionale di video e cinema oltre, Interferenze – New Arts Festival).

In calendario anche momenti di approfondimento sull’arte organica e le pratiche artistiche che rientrano sotto questa definizione: in particolare, il panel “Le declinazioni del vivente” illustrerà i il rapporto tra arte, scienze, tecnologie, informazione digitale e materia organica attraverso la presentazione di Art Biotech, uno degli ultimi libri pubblicati sul tema, alla presenza del curatore dell’edizione italiana.

Il panel di software art si focalizza invece sul codice generativo, pratica artistica più immateriale che attraverso la tecnologia tenta di emulare i meccanismi dell’organismo: artisti ed esperti del settore ne mostreranno i processi e le dinamiche estetiche.

La Torre di San Vincenzo è anche uno spazio vitale che ospiterà installazioni multimediali, fra le quali “Animula”, ultimo lavoro in 5.1 degli Otolab realizzato per il progetto Optofonica, ma anche dipinti di Lorenzo Noccioli, sculture – tra cui quelle di Raffaele Fiorella, scultore d’ispirazione post-pop, e infine performance, fra le quali “Storia del Purpo con la testa di cuore”, coinvolgente lavoro di Alessandra Cianelli a base di polpo, vodka e materiale video in interazione con il pubblico, e la performance coreografica di danza Arbus – “Uova di Cigno”.

MultiMediaSUQ (9 settembre 2007)
Novità di quest’anno è la veste della terza giornata di Struttura, dalla vocazione multiforme, poliedrica e vivace basata sulla formula degli Shorts Talk, presentazioni di una serie di idee e lavori nello spazio di un quarto d’ora ciascuno. MultiMediaSuq è un pomeriggio di progetti, esperienze artistiche, presentazioni e visioni in compagnia di giovani attivisti mediali italiani. Alcune delle opere, inoltre, sono esposte e fruibili permanentemente nei locali della Torre durante i tre giorni dell’evento, in un percorso che si snoda fra i vari piani dell’edificio.

Inoltre ogni sera chill out dalle 19.30 con musica e bar e dalle 23.30 in poi Musica PlayList all night long.

LA PUBBLICAZIONE
I temi, i dibattiti e le immagini di Struttura saranno raccolti e pubblicati al termine della manifestazione nell’omonimo catalogo, che rappresenta un ulteriore momento di approfondimento.

IL SITO E IL BLOG
Per seguire l’aggiornamento del programma e di tutte le attività correlate al progetto Struttura, oltre a fruire recensioni, contenuti e interviste, è attivo il blog di Struttura, http://blog.struttura.li.it/. Maggiori informazioni sul progetto Struttura, che si articola in approfondimenti sull’arte contemporanea e le nuove tecnologie digitali, si possono reperire sul sito web www.struttura.li.it nel quale sono presentati il catalogo dell’edizione 2006, le schede dei partecipanti e le foto delle scorse edizioni.

SPONSORIZZAZIONI/ COLLABORAZIONI/ PATROCINI / MEDIAPARTNERSHIP
Struttura si svolge con il patrocinio del Comune di San Vincenzo (LI) ed è sostenuta economicamente da Media Integration and Communication Center (www. http://www.micc.unifi.it/), Unit9 – Creative Production ( http://www.unit9.com/) e dalla Provincia di Livorno.

Struttura si svolge in collaborazione con Master in Multimedia e Content Design dell’Università di Firenze (www.mmm.unifi.it), MMM community (http://morpheus.micc.unifi.it/forum/index.php), Interferenze (http://www.interferenze.org/), Virtuality Conference(http://virtualityconference.it/) e Invideo (http://www.amici-invideo.com/).

Struttura è Mediapartner di Noemalab (http://www.noemalab.org/index2.php), Exipiria (http://www.expiria.com/web-multimedia/ )e Nexmedia (http://www.nexmedia.it/).

PROGRAMMA 7-8-9 settembre (Torre di San Vincenzo, LI)

VENERDI 7 settembre

* 18.00 Inaugurazione Struttura Organica 2007

La terza edizione di Struttura si confronta con il tema dell’arte organica e del rapporto tra il corpo e le nuove tecnologie. Verranno illustrate le opere d’arte e le installazioni multimediali disposte alla Torre, tra cui “Animula”, ultimo lavoro in 5.1 degli Otolab, realizzato per il progetto Optofonica.
Con l’occasione si verrà presentato il catalogo dell’edizione 2006 “Struttura. Studi e visioni sul mare digitale” (scheda).

* 21.30 Videoarte Organica.

Selezione di opere di videoarte a tema “organica” in collaborazione con Invideo Mostra Internazionale di video e cinema oltre, con la partecipazione di Andreina Di Brino:

o David Anderson, Motion control, 8′32″, Gran Bretagna, 2002
o Antonin De Bemels, Scrub solo 3: soliloquy, 17′15″, Belgio 2001
o Nicole Seiler, One in a million, 10′, Svizzera, 2005
o Jon Rubin, Among the living, 1′21″, USA, 2004
o A. Ganzerli, L. Bourdoiseau, J. Blanquet, Electronic performers, 5′45″, Francia, 2003
o Vincent Dudouet, Unicode, 5′40″, Francia, 2004
o Thorsten Fleisch, Gestalt, 5′, Germania, 2003
o Susanna Carlisle, Timepiece, 4′35″, USA, 2004
o Loic Sturani, Vegetable thriller, 2′, Italia, 2003

Guido Cionini (Nexmedia) presenta in anteprima il suo ultimo video “Bio-diario minimo del sentimento organico”.

SABATO 8 settembre

* 18.30 Le declinazioni del vivente.

Conversazione su arti, scienze, tecnologie, informazione digitale e materia organica. Presentazione del libro Art Biotech a cura di Jens Hauser, Bologna, Clueb, 2007, con la partecipazione di Pier Luigi Capucci, curatore dell’edizione italiana insieme a Franco Torriani.

* 20.00 Storia del Purpo con la testa di cuore. Reading, performance e video di Alessandra Cianelli.

* 21.30 Morphogenetics: processi e dinamiche estetiche del codice generativo. Panel di software art moderato da Leandro Pisano di Interferenze – New Arts Festival con ospiti:
+ Laura Bardier – new media curator
+ Alessandro Capozzo – Artist
+ Fabio Franchino – Artist

DOMENICA 9 settembre

* 16.00 MultiMediaSuq.

Il tessuto organico del multimedia. Un pomeriggio di progetti, esperienze artistiche, presentazioni, visioni in compagnia di giovani attivisti mediali italiani.

* 21.00 Arbus – “Uova di Cigno”

Performance coreografica nel cuore della torre.

* 21.30 Digital experiments

Un selezione di corti, clip ed esperimenti digitali da tutto il mondo. In collaborazione con Virtuality Conference con la partecipazione di Maria Elena Gutierrez.

OGNI SERA: CHILLOUT

19.30 Musica a gogo + baretto.

23.30 Musica PlayList all night long

Exhibition: total_participation RADICAL__RELAXATION

July 28th, 2007 · -- · Offline Exhibition, Video, [2]News & Events No comments

Opening no. II: July 27.2007, 7pm, DAS PREKARIUM
Exhibition: July 28-August 16.2007
Videoscreening: August 3.2007, 9pm
Finnisage: August 16.2007, 7pm
Arttransponder
Brunnenstr. 151
D-10115 Berlin
Subway stn.: Bernauer Straße
www.arttransponder.net
tel +49(0)30-306 42 400
fax +49(0)30-44 67 81 14

Opening hours: Thurs. 12-5pm, Fri/Sat.2-7pm

With:
Tere Recarens, Halina Kliem, Susanne Schulz, Katharina Gruzei, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Markus Freidl, Luis Fernandés Pons/Jasmina Llobet, Maya Schweizer, Ingrid Hölzl, Rémi Marie, Peter Frey, Angela Köntje, Caroline Lund, Christine Woditschka
And:
Aaron Ximm, Anne McGuire, Kara Herold, James T. Hong, Yin-Ju Chen, Bryan Boyce, Archimedia, Kathleen Quillian, Gilbert Guerrero, Bill Daniel

We’re building a Prekarium! PREKARIUM* [Austrian] defines a revocable right granted upon request, which is not constituted in any legal code.

Check out our process at www.totalepartizipation.com
The Prekarium will be located in the center of the gallery space, and works will be presented as satellites of the Prekarium, clustered together, without isolation, but as a collective presentation. Individual works are modules that represent our processes–– what you bring is what you get! Components, context, network in two directions: total_participation:RADICAL_RELAXATION.
* http://www.help.gv.at/content.node/99/seite.991248.html

total_participation:RADICAL_RELAXATION Kicked off with a five-day workshop Together with the invited artists and participants, questions of (self-)precarization are discussed. The main focus is on the paradoxical absorption of participation and self-initiative in the capitalist exploitation process: Is a total participation in nearly all areas of life required? How do you maximize your “self-economization”? Do you combine friendship with work? Do you find yourself permanently networking? Do you stay mobile and flexible all the time? What about creativity? And how does this all relate to the insatiable yearning for relaxation? At the beginning of the project stands a work phase–– a place for disussions, talks and collective artitistic practice. The ensuing exhibition (July 27 thru Aug.16) will present the results of the process. The project calls for open participation in any of the different phases, in the workshop, in the exhibition, or in the online blog.

The exhibition has two platforms: in the real space of the gallery in Brunnenstrasse, and in the virtual space of the blog.

www.totalepartizipation.com

Concept and organization:
Caroline Lund, Christine Woditschka

Blog:
Tjoss May

VIDEO SCREENING
total_participation:RADIcAL_NETWORKING
Report from the Western ‘Prairicairie’ San Francisco
August 3. 2007 9pm

When prompted, most people in San Francisco would probably not identify with the term “precarity”. Precarious ways of life seem to have always constituted a major part of North American identity––starting with the first immigration from Europe, through the history of the Wild West, to contemporary Mexican re-immigration. Even though there is hardly a safety net of social security (social benefits, affordable health insurance, unemployment benefits, not to mention social security for artists, or rent support), and despite the USA being a home of some of the most insecure workers in the First World, the discourse about precarity seems absent. Why? Is the condition of precarious work and living such a naturalized element of consciousness, that the necessity for a discourse appears redundant?

Radical Networking presents a video program from San Francisco, USA, as the contribution of Sylvia Schedelbauer to the exhibition totale_partizipation:RADIKALE_ENTSPANNUNG. The selection of work was playful and associative, and is contextualized by both themes of precarity, as well as relaxation.

Programmed by Sylvia Schedelbauer With: Yin-Ju Chen, Kara Herold, Archimedia, Anne McGuire, Bryan Boyce, Kathleen Quillian/Gilbert Guerrero, Bill Daniel, James T. Hong/Yin-Ju Chen. A preview of the screening will be looped on a monitor during the entire exhibition.

Call for Online Digital Media: ‘Ubuntu’ at FLEFF 2008

July 26th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, Conference, Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

Radically reconfigured for the 21st century in 2006, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is a multimedia festival that explores the theme of sustainability and the environment within a large global conversation that embraces a range of political, economic, social, and aesthetic issues, including labour, war, health, disease, intellectual property, software, remix culture, economics, archives, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights.

‘Ubuntu’, the online digital media exhibition for FLEFF 2008, takes its name from Bantu-language African philosophies that foreground interconnectedness and interdependence through expressions such as ‘a person is a person through persons’ and ‘I am because we are’. The exhibition applies this conception of intersubjectivity to explore understandings of environmentalism—ways that it affects us collectively, suggesting that online digital media can affect awareness and positive change.

The curators of ‘Ubuntu’ are looking for submissions of online digital/new media art and video that explore issues related to the four ‘content streams’ of this year’s festival: camouflage, counterpoint, games, and gastronomica. (See details below.) We are particularly interested in collaborative work, interactive work, multiscreen or multichannel work, and work that underscore the aesthetics of the political and the politicisation of the aesthetic. Submissions from artists living and working in the global South are of particular interest. Selected works will be exhibited and archived on the festival’s official web site.

‘Ubuntu’ aims to deploy potentially progressive aspects of globalization, such as digital technologies and internet communication, as a means to prompt critical dialogues on the often repressive aspects of globalization, including the rapidly accelerating disparity among populations in terms of wealth, power, and access to basic human rights. ‘Ubuntu’ aims to demonstrate that environmentalism is not just about nature, but about our collective existence.

1. Camouflage

Sometimes mistakenly conceived as “blending in,” camouflage achieves its objectives by disrupting visual fields and fragmenting their boundaries. Ironically, through its disruptions, camouflage fosters mediation, connectivity, integration, and engagement, blurring boundaries between bodies, species, environments, and cultures. Military camouflage, now digitally designed, is offered in dozens of styles, each tailored to the needs of a specific regional conflict. In streets, galleries, and fashion houses, camouflage is accessorized as accoutrement of critique and resistance.

2. Counterpoint

Different melodic lines heard simultaneously identify counterpoint. Counterpoint matches horizontal lines into vertical harmonies, creating dimension. Counterpoint germinates polyphony. Discords produce tension. Dissonance resolves into consonance. Inventions, fugues, and canons exemplify counterpoint with their rhythms, modulations, episodes. Contours and climaxes shape counterpoint. Counterpoint also spells argument—pushing against the dominant, the assumed, the accepted. A contrapuntal position releases us to see, hear and invent fresh meanings and radical structures.

3. Games

Games are sports. Games are conceptual environments. Games spin dialectics between competition and collectivity, interaction and immersion. The ludology/narratology wars pit process against story. Games fuel fun and flow. Games conjure liminal zones. Bounded by space and time, game players torque rules and components. Through movement and climax, games create imaginary and real places exempt from quotidian routines. Whether in words, wars, boards, cards, courts, virtualities, fields, ecologies, computers, or minds, games mobilize abstract strategies and risk.

4. Gastronomica

Constituted by chemical compounds—sugars, proteins, carbohydrates, salts, and fats—food is the essence of environmental tangibility and provides the material foundations of life. Food spawns all things gastronomic, the refinements and complexities of cuisine, with attendant implications for taste, nutrition, family, community, and identity. Gastronomica connotes multiple divisions of labour, sweeping political economies, ravaging famines, heterogeneous ethnicities, hidden histories, complex systems of production, vast regimes of regulation, daunting genetic manipulations, mountains of cookbooks, and billions in advertising.

FLEFF 2008 will take place from 31 March to 06 April 2008 in Ithaca (New York), USA; ‘Ubuntu’ will go live on the web on 31 March 2008. Visit www.ithaca.edu/fleff/exhibitions.html#undisclosed for a description of last year’s exhibit, ‘Undisclosed Recipients’, and www.ithaca.edu/fleff/selected_works.html for links to curated work.

Please send submissions, with links and a brief bio, to *BOTH* Dale Hudson (Amherst College) dhudson@amherst.edu *AND* Sharon Lin Tay (Middlesex University) s.tay@mdx.ac.uk no later than 01 November 2007. Only work that can be exhibited online can be considered for this exhibit. Media artists working in offline formats, should submit work to FLEFF under other calls.

Electric Lab – Conceptplus Call for Proposals at Exit Art

July 26th, 2007 · -- · Competition opportunity, Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

In the fall of 2007, Exit Art will present Electric Lab. This exhibition is dedicated to the scientist Nikola Tesla, who wanted to provide the entire world with free access to electricity.

As Tesla discovered, electricity is one of life’s most fundamental forces; it courses through the heart and powers our computers. Today, the shortage and high cost of electricity is a pressing contemporary issue. For Electric Lab, we are asking artists to envision solutions to the impending electricity crisis by creating works that imagine alternative sources of electricity, suggest new ways to access electricity, and establish scenarios in which to experience the power of electricity.

Electric Lab
September 22 – November 17, 2007

How to Apply:
Proposals may be for work in any medium. Please submit a one page description of your project idea: a sketch of the proposed project; a resume; and documentation of your previous work (10 slides or images on CD, please send images at lowest resolution so they open quickly, or a 3-5 minute NTSC VHS video or DVD). Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for the return of your work. You will be notified by email of your involvement in the exhibition so please include an email address with your materials. Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a SASE.

Proposals due by June 15, 2007

Send Submissions to:
Exit Art
Electric Lab
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

Or email electriclab@exitart.org
No phone calls please.

Visit Exit Art online now: www.exitart.org

Bit International . Update: Exhibition in Neue Galerie [Graz, Austria] is extended to 26th August 2007

July 26th, 2007 · -- · Museums, Offline Exhibition, [2]News & Events No comments

96-pages German language exhibition catalogue is published by Neue Galerie in German. Price: 7 Euros, available via Neue Galerie.

Extensive English language anthology will be published by MIT Press in 2008 accompanying follow up exhibition in ZKM, Karlsruhe [2008].

Here enclosed improved list of 106 participating artist and artists groups.

Apart of the exhibited works and audio-visual documentation of working process and computer programs, the exhibition presents for a first time more than 30 hours of digitally restored audio archives of four symposia that were held 1968 – 1973 in Zagreb.

Exhibition website [in German]: http://www.neuegalerie.at/07/bit/ cover.html

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bit international . [Nove] Tendencije – Computer and Visual Research
[Zagreb 1961 - 1973]

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum . Graz . Austria
28 April – 26 August 2007

opening: Friday 27th April 19 h

Curator: Darko Fritz (Zagreb / Amsterdam)

Artists / artists groups:
+ Marc Adrian + Jose Luis Alexanco + Kurd Alsleben / Cord Passow + Getulio Alviani + Anonymous Collective + Vojin Bakic + John Baldessari + Mario Ballocco + Manuel Barbadillo + Otto Beckmann / Alfred Grassl [Ars intermedia]: + Alberto Biasi [Gruppo N]: + Vladimir Bonačić + Hartmut Böhm + Frank Böttger + California Computer Products, Inc. [CALCOMP]: + Gianni Colombo + Compos 68 + Computer Centre ‘Boris Kidrič’ Institute + Charles Csuri + Waldemar Cordeiro / Jorge Moscati + Ivan Čizmek + Dadamaino + Hugo Rodolfo Demarco + Gabriele De Vecchi [Gruppo T] + Milan Dobeš + herman de vries + Milan Dobeš + Piero Dorazio + Michel Fadat + Willam Allan Fetter + Alan Mark France + Herbert W. Franke + Horacio Garcia- Rossi [GRAV] + Karl Gerstner + Gruppo MID + Leon D. Harmon + Grace C. Hertlein + Miljenko Horvat + Hervé Huitric / Monique Nahas [g.a.i.v] + Gottfried Jäger + Sture Johannesson / Sten Kallin + Hiroshi Kawano + On Kawara + Julije Knifer + Kenneth C. Knowlton + Hans Köhler + Vladimir Kristl + Edoardo Landi [Gruppo N]: + Auro Lecci + Julio Le Parc [GRAV] + Wolfgang Ludwig + Heinz Mack [Zero] + Frank Joseph Malina + Robert Mallary + Enzo Mari + Jean-Claude Marquette [g.a.i.v] + Almir Mavignier + Leslie Mezei + Tomislav Mikulić + Petar Milojević + Gustav Metzger + Manfred Mohr + François Morellet [GRAV] + Jane Moon [California Computer Products, Inc.]: + Frieder Nake + Maurizio Nanucci + Georg Nees + A. Michael Noll + Koloman Novak + Lev Voldemarovič Nusberg [Diviženije] + Sergej Pavlin + Ivan Picelj + Otto Piene [Zero] + Marko Pogačnik [OHO] + Manuel Quejido + Zoran Radović + Ludwig Rase + Vjenceslav Richter + Sylvia Roubaud / Gerold Weiss + Manfred Robert Schroeder + Lillian Schwartz + Dieter Schwille [mbb Computer Graphics] + Ana Seguí / Javier Seguí + Soledad Sevilla + Jesus Raphael Soto + Aleksandar Srnec + Joël Stein [GRAV] + Kerry Strand [California Computer products inc.] + Alan Sutcliffe + Zdenek Sýkora + Nikola Šerman + Paul Talman + Goran Trbuljak + Stan VanDerBeek + Gregorio Vardanega + Evan Harris Walker + Aron Warszawski [mbb copmuter graphics] + Sol Le Witt + John Witney + Rolf Wölk [mbb copmuter graphics] + José María Yturralde + Yvaral [GRAV] + Edward Zajec + Vilko Ziljak + Anton Zöttl +

audio archive of symposia presentations and debates (1968, 1969,
1971, 1973):
+ Marc Adrian + Kurd Alsleben + ARC – Art Research Center + Badi Banga ne-Mwine + Dimitrije BaÅ¡ičević + László Beke + Renzo Beltrame + René Berger + Božo Bek + Jonathan Benthall + Alberto Biasi + Vladimir Bonačić + Florentino Briones + Silvio Ceccato + Waldemar Cordeiro + Nena Dimitrijević + Fanie Dupré + Jacques Dupré + Umberto Eco + Herbert W. Franke + Grga Gamulin + Karl Gerstner + Alfred Grassl + Jean-Claude Halgand + Josef Hlaváček + Vera Horvat-Pintarić + Hervé Huitric + Hiroshi Kawano + Boris Kelemen + Martin Krampen + Fedor Kritovac + Želimir Koščević + Jean-Claude Marquette + Abraham A. Moles + Francois Molnar + Leonardo Mosso + Frieder Nake + Branimir Makanec + Matko MeÅ¡trović + Vladimir Muljević + Lev Nusberg + Radoslav Putar + Vjenceslav Richter + Ronald B. de Sousa + Josef Hermann Stiegler + Srboljub Stojanovič + Srečo Dragan + Irina Subotić + Zdenko Å ternberg + Božo Težak + Jiri Valoch + Edward Zajec +

The ‚Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum’ examines one of the most important international trends of the 1960s in the exhibition “bit international. [Nove] tendencije – Computers and Visual research”, which was of enormous influence at the time, but which has now slipped out of public consciousness and has virtually been lost to the history of the development of art. While numerous exhibitions have been held with the titles “New Tendencies” or “Nouvelle Tendance” in Venice and Paris, the place of origin Zagreb has vanished from the focus of attention. A biennial event developed in Zagreb starting with concrete and constructive art in 1961 maintained its avant-garde title by introducing the computer as a medium of “artistic research” in 1968. Simultaneous with the legendary „Cybernetic Serendipity“ at the London ICA in 1968, which is regarded as the first major computer art exhibition, a colloquium also took place in Zagreb with an exhibition of computer generated art, tendencije 4.

The Gallery for Contemporary Art in Zagreb – today the Museum of Contemporary Art – dedicated a series of exhibitions, symposia and publications on the subject of the ‘Computers and Visual Research’. Original projects in both art and science were presented. During the heyday of the Cold War artists and scientists from the entire world travelled to Zagreb – from Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia and the USA. The multi-lingual magazine Bit International published by the Gallery in Zagreb was an initiation point for aesthetic and media theory reflection and there was nothing that could be compared with it anywhere else in the world. ‘Tendencije 4’ attempted to both accompany and mould the historic transition in which the computer as a symbol processing machine first entered consciousness as a machine for artistic creation. The arts of the electronic media were not regarded as an isolated phenomenon, but were included in the history and the discourse on the fine arts and the performing arts.

A first review of the ‘Tendencije’ exhibitions and the publications of „Bit International“ has now been assembled in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and with an international network of collectors and private archives in an exhibition curated by Darko Fritz.

The exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz presents 106 artists and artists groups with more than 350 artworks – graphic work, films, sculptures, poems, theatrical texts and artistic concepts, alongside computer programs and other working process documents. The exhibition presents for the first time more than 30 hours of digitally restored audio recordings of four symposia that were held 1968 – 1973 in Zagreb. An exhibition catalogue of 96 pages is published by the Neue Galerie in German. An extensive english language anthology will be published by MIT Press in 2008, accompanying the follow up exhibition at ZKM, Karlsruhe [2008].