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Turbulence Spotlight: (sans femme et sans aviateur) by Jorn Ebner

February 26th, 2009 · -- · Collaborator: Turbulence, Online Exhibition, [2]News & Events, net art, online Project No comments

Turbulence Spotlight: (sans femme et sans aviateur) by Jorn Ebner
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ebner
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(sans femme et sans aviateur) is a browser-based work that was inspired by Eric Rohmer’s film “The Aviator’s Wife”. It depicts contemporary Paris, happened upon following the main locations of the movie. The photographic imagery and the audio material were recorded during walks, and bus and metro rides, in a manner similar to the Nouvelle Vague film maker — although without any pre-arrangements for settings and observations; and with repeated visits to the locations. “My intention was to honour Rohmer’s powers to get me interested in Paris, and at the same time make a work that discovers the city, even if only for myself … The work was also made with (the) intention to use the browser as a presentation tool that is independent of user interaction.” – Jorn Ebner

BIOGRAPHY

Jorn Ebner, artist and writer, born in1966, Bremerhaven, Germany, currently based in Berlin. Studies in English Literature at the Universität Hamburg [1990-95] and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London [1995-98]. Kunstpreis Medienforum Münchnen [2001]. AHRB Research Fellow, Newcastle University [2002-2005]. Since 2000 his works are largely online-based: a suite of internet works including “Leonardo Log” [2004], “Leif Codices” [2003], “Lee Marvin Toolbox” [2001] were animated, interactive drawings – tools for existence. Since 2008 his new pieces including “(sans femme…)”, audio work “(the tender indifference)”, and “(«Feuerland»)” are non-interactive spatial examinations. His online audio works include “Which—Side” [2007], a downloadable song-sculpture (Newcastle City Council public art programme commission 2007), and “Leonardo Log (Klanglandschaft)” [2002], originally a walkable installation at iCamp Neues Theater, München.

Ebner’s works have been featured in various exhibitions & Festivals (Siggraph; FILE; Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Viper; selection FILE Rio. Ars Electronica Festival 2008 & 2006 commissioned visualisations for Elliott Carter and John Cage performances by the Bruckner Orchestra. Recent exhibitions 2009: Paperpool, Doerrie*Priess, Hamburg; Uncommon Ground, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne; [12] Japan Media Art Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo. Contemporary Flânerie, Oakland University Gallery, Rochester.

For more Turbulence Spotlights, please visit http://turbulence.org/spotlight

The Planetary Collegium’s Xth International Research Conference: Consciousness Reframed

February 26th, 2009 · -- · Conference, Research Opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

19 – 22 November 2009

With the topic:

Theme: Experiencing Design,- behaving media -

Please submit proposals for papers and presentations:

http://www.planetary-collegium.org/planet-call.htm

The registration site is also up. If you have further questions, please e-mail me.

macromedia hochschule für

medien und kommunikation

Jurgen Faust

Dekan

Professor für Digitale Medien

gollierstraße 4
80339 münchen
telefon 089.544 151-868
telefax 089.544 151-14
j.faust@macromedia.de

www.macromedia-hochschule.de

MA – Art in the Digital World

February 23rd, 2009 · -- · Competition opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

MA – Art in the Digital World At the National College of Art and Design, Ireland is a unique course that looks at how contemporary art practice responds to the Digital World. The course is open to graduates from creative backgrounds, who seek the opportunity to recast their existing practice in light of, and in response to, the possibilities provided by new digital and virtual media technologies. Students acquire new a range of technical skills while developing a research practice. Former students on the course have included painters, architects, filmmakers, computer scientists, photographers, theologians and musicians.
For more info see http://www.ncad.ie/research/fa_postgrad_vr.shtml

2009 ELECTROFRINGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

February 23rd, 2009 · -- · Competition opportunity, Festival, Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers, cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers, experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn’t fit these boxes.

Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture held from the 1st – 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia. Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.

Electrofringe seeks proposals in the following program areas: Artist and project presentations, workshops and demonstrations, panels, interventions, live art, performance (Electro-Performance), residencies (Electro-Residencies), mobile works (Electro-Manoeuvre), online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) plus special events (something you want to propose).

All presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, panels, performance, residency, intervention, live and mobile works submission proposals are due by TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009.

Only online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) submission proposals are due by
SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.

See the Electrofringe website for submission details: www.electrofringe.net

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Somaya Langley – Co-Director, Electrofringe 2008 – 2009
Matt Gingold – Co-Director, Electrofringe 2009 – 2010

web: www.electrofringe.net
email: electrofringedirectors@gmail.com

This year’s Electrofringe festival will be held from the 1st – 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia.

Electrofringe is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts advisory body and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

Our 2008 Festival Partners included: 2ser, POOL, ABC Radio National – The Night Air, RealTime/OnScreen, Room 40, The Lock-up, Dorkbot Sydney, Share/Outpost, The Performance Space, Hunter TAFE, Japan Media Arts Festival, Arcadi Festival France, Elektra Festival, SIGGRAPH, RealDance, Harvestworks, Liminal B, Spinifex, criticalsenses, Arts NSW, the NOW now and This Is Not Art (TINA).

Concorso internazionale di satira politica

February 23rd, 2009 · -- · Competition opportunity, Research Opportunity, [2]News & Events No comments

La destra, la sinistra e quel che ne resta: un concorso di satira politica, per innescare pensieri. La satira come strumento che da sempre propone punti di vista alternativi, veicola verità attraverso la risata, fa emergere ipocrisie e pregiudizi, mette in discussione le convinzioni.

In un momento in cui è forse più forte la distanza della politica e dalla politica, in cui prevale il senso di impotenza e rassegnazione, dove mancano luoghi di discussione e confronto, si parla poco di politica, o solo dei temi dettati dai media. Ed invece è necessario analizzare, approfondire, capire, avere un’opinione e condividerla.

esterni apre un concorso che è un invito ad informarsi, a riflettere, scrivere e parlare. E’ possibile inviare monologhi in video, che saranno pubblicati sul sito www.esterni.org, ed i più votati saranno presentati presso la Palazzina di via Paladini. Monologhi massimo 15 minuti.

Inviare estratti di massimo 3 minuti, in italiano o in inglese, formato mov, m2v, m4v, all’indirizzo info@esterni.org.

Informazioni a info@esterni.org, oppure 02 713 613.

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center presents: JOSEPH DELAPPE & SAWAKO

February 18th, 2009 · -- · Collaborator: Turbulence, Offline Exhibition, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

MONDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2009,
7PM FREE

HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway #602 _New York City (at Houston St)
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince

Harvestworks is pleased to present 2008 Harvestworks Artists-In-Residence, Joseph DeLappe and Sawako. DeLappe will discuss a work in progress that seeks to create an interactive system that facilitates performative reenactments by “walking” famous routes of protest and pilgrimage through diverse data co-mingled from Flickr, YouTube and live in-studio cameras. Sawako will present A Breath in the Cities, a new 5.1 surround-sound journey about two megalopolises, New York City and Tokyo. Field recordings and other sounds representing the artist’s personal memories are amplified, mixed, layered, processed and mutated with digital signal resulting an a work the artist describes as “a journey resonating between tiny breaths and large cities.”

Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Her works have appeared on over 30 CDs and she has performed in Japan, USA (Warm Up @ P.S.1/MOMA, WFC, TONIC, Monkey Town, Roulette, Issue Project Room, UCLA Hammer Museum etc), Lisbon (OFFF Festival), London (Institute of Contemporary Art), Paris (Batofar), and Canada (MUTEK Festival). Sawako holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and received a B.A. from Environmental Information Department at Keio University, SFC, Japan. Born in Nagoya, Japan, she studied the classical piano over 10 years and Japanese Nohgaku Theatre for 6 years when she was a child. http://www.troncolon.com

Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media area. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. In 2007, he launched Iraqimemorial.org, a web based exhibition of and ongoing call for memorial proposals to the many thousands of civilian casualties in the War in Iraq. In 2008, he created a new work, Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online using a specially customized treadmill to walk the entire 240 miles in 26 days to control his avatar, MGandhi, as he journeys throughout Second Life. His work has been presented internationally at Eyebeam Art and Technology, New York, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Camerawork, Sheffield 03, UK, Artist’s Space, Sydney, Australia, ISEA 2002 (Nagoya, Japan) among others. www.delappe.net/HOME

About Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org

Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Jerome Foundation, media The foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, The New York State Music Fund, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, The Argosy Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, The NY Community Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Friends of Harvestworks.
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway, Suite 602, New York, NY 10012
http://www.harvestworks.org, info@harvestworks.org, Tel 212-431-1130, Fax 212-431-8473

Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games

February 18th, 2009 · -- · Collaborator: Turbulence, [2]News & Events, net art, software art No comments

Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/2009/

A Film Screening, Symposium and Workshops with Asi Burak, Anita Fontaine, Jesper Juul, Friedrich Kirschner, Marcin Ramocki, Jason Rohrer, Adriana de Souza Silva, Mushon Zer-Aviv

DATE: March 20-21, 2009
VENUE: Emerson College, Boston + streamed live on the web and in Second Life.
FREE and OPEN to the public. Registration details on the website

Video games extend beyond the gaming console into nearly every aspect of contemporary life. They are fun. They drive innovation, consumer engagement and employee productivity. Is our culture turning everything into a game?

Video Games have had a greater impact on narrative form than any medium since film. They are altering our experience of both virtual and physical space. Gamespace is everywhere and nowhere (McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory). In Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds, Michael Nitsche introduces five analytical layers – rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space. How do artists and game designers use these spaces in their creative practice? How does structured play impact our engagement with other people, both online and in urban space? What are the political and cultural implications of gaming practices?

More information at http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/2009/

Turbulence Spotlight: “Sensitive Rose” by Martha Gabriel

February 18th, 2009 · -- · Collaborator: Turbulence, Resource, [2]News & Events, net art, software art No comments

Turbulence Spotlight: “Sensitive Rose” by Martha Gabriel
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/sensitive_rose
[Needs mobile device with camera and QRcode reader]

“Sensitive Rose” is an interactive, navigable compass formed by mobile tags (QRcodes). To interact with “Sensitive Rose” one has to access the work via a mobile device. Once there, the user must choose what he/she wants from life. On the web “Sensitive Rose” maps the desire next to the tag related to it, and generates a new QRcode for that user. The desire — for instance, “Joe wants Love” – is added to the compass rose which evolves with each new contribution. Users can decipher one another’s desires by decoding the poetry hidden within these tags.

“Sensitive Rose” was commissioned by Nokia Trends São Paulo 2008

BIOGRAPHY

Martha Gabriel is an artist, engineer, author, and educator. Her work has be exhibited internationally, including Turbulence.org, Soundtoys, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), Cinetico_Digital, Ingenio 4000, prog:me, SIGGRAPH, FIAT Mostra Brazil among others. She has presented at world-renowned conferences such as Consciousness Reframed, ELO, and SCANZ. Martha is a Professor at University Anhembi Morumbi and the Director of technology at NMD – New Media Developers. Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is the founder and curator of Upgrade! Sao Paulo, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Art at University of Sao Paulo. Martha’s awards include: “Institute of Engineering of Sao Paulo” Award, Brazil, 1985; 11 “Internet Best” Awards in Brazil, 1998 to 2005; “FIAT Show Brazil” Award/Selection at Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006; “Rumos Cybernetic Art 2006/2007”, Brazil, 2007; “Best of Track Presentation: Posters”, US, 2008.

For more Turbulence Spotlights, please see http://turbulence.org

Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern invite you to participate in an intervention on Wikipedia

February 16th, 2009 · -- · [2]News & Events, net art, online Project No comments

Wikipedia Art it is art that anyone can edit.

We’ve posted a new entry on Wikipedia called “Wikipedia Art.” This page is the manifestation of the work of art; alter its composition, and you become a collaborator in the art’s formation. The catch is that Wikipedia, the world’s free and editable encyclopedia, has enforced standards of quality and verifiability. All Wikipedia articles, and each fact written in them, must cite “credible” external sources: interviews, blogs, or articles in “trustworthy” media institutions.

Wikipedia Art is birthed, survives and transforms itself through public performance and communal intervention. It is continuously reconstituted and redefined in a participant-driven write+cite+edit process that we call “performative citation.”

Wikipedia Art MUST BE written about extensively both on- and off-line, and these writings will in turn be included as part of the work, on its Wikipedia page. This serves the dual purpose of verifying the piece – which is considered controversial by those in the Wikipedia community, and may occasionally be removed from the site – as well as transforming it over time.

Here are three ways you can join the collaboration:

(1) Write a text, blog entry, essay or any other form of thoughts about the project
(2) Edit the Wikipedia page itself, citing a published text (even your own!)
(3) Pass along this call for participation to others

Link to the project page
http://www.wikipediaart.org

Initial interviews and essays
Wikipedia Art — a virtual fireside chat
http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2009/02/wikipedia-art-virtual-fireside-chat.html

WikiPedia art? — by Patrick Lichty
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/267

Próximas actividades / Upcoming Activities · 16/02/09 – 22/02/09

February 16th, 2009 · -- · Research Opportunity, Resource, [2]News & Events No comments

MEDIALAB-PRADO
Plaza de las Letras
C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid
+34 913 692 303
www.medialab-prado.es
Entrada gratuita / Free admission
M – V: 10h – 20h
S: 11h – 20h
D: 11h – 15h

(English below)

http://medialab-prado.es

Seminario
net.art (segunda época). La evolución de la creación artística en el sistema-red
16 y 17 de febrero / 19:00h – 21:00h. Entrada libre sin inscripción

Juan Martín Prada imparte este seminario sobre la evolución y futuro de los usos “artísticos” de Internet y del pensamiento social que generan. Se abordarán cuestiones como: ¿es posible hablar de una segunda época del net.art? ¿qué aportan las nuevas formas artísticas basadas en la hibridación on/off line? ¿qué reflexión crítica nos proponen las nuevas manifestaciones de la creación digital en red? [+info]

Este seminario está planteado como introducción a los contenidos del 3er Encuentro Inclusiva-net que se celebrará en el Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires (AECID) del 2 al 6 de marzo de 2009.

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Muestra de proyectos
INTERACTIVOS?’09: CIENCIA DE GARAJE
Martes, 17 febrero – Domingo, 22 marzo

Muestra de los nueve prototipos desarrollados durante en taller Interactivos?’09: Ciencia de garaje. [+info]

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Sesión del grupo de trabajo
Arquitecturas de la cultura del mañana-mañana
Jueves, 19 febrero / 19:00h

Sesión de trabajo del grupo Arquitecturas de la cultura del mañana-mañana, organizada en torno a pequeños grupos de debate sobre las cuestiones planteadas en las primeras sesiones. [+info]

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Talleres
Viernes OpenLab
Todos los viernes / 19:00h

Los Viernes OpenLab constituyen un espacio de trabajo, encuentro y experimentación abierto a todos aquellos interesados en desarrollar o colaborar en propuestas, prototipos o experimentos con objetos electrónicos, interactivos, sonoros, sistemas de visión artificial, etc. [+info]

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Instalación interactiva en la Plaza de las Letras
PLAZANIMADA
Todos los días / 18:30h – 24:00h

Plazanimada superpone la red y la calle, ofreciendo una plataforma abierta para la expresión pública en la ciudad a través de http://plazanimada.es
Los dibujos enviados por los usuarios a través de la web son proyectados en el espacio físico de la Plaza de Las Letras. [+info]

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:: CONVOCATORIAS ABIERTAS::

Convocatoria abierta
Ayudas a la movilidad internacional de creadores – Matadero Madrid 2009
Cierre de la convocatoria: 24 febrero, 2009

Matadero Madrid convoca ayudas a la movilidad internacional de creadores para la ampliación de estudios, la investigación y la realización, producción y desarrollo de proyectos de creación en el exterior. Bases y formularios de solicitud disponibles en:
www.munimadrid.es
www.mataderomadrid.com

Más información en http://medialab-prado.es