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Archive: December, 2009
1. A new Neural issue (#34) is out! Subscribe now [http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml] supporting us directly, or buy the magazine from the closest of the more than 200 stores (Neural is from now on distributed by Central Books in Europe and Asia, by Ubiquity in USA and by Selectair in Australia and New Zealand). A back issues pack is also available [http://www.neural.it/art/2006/01/neural_back_issues.phtml]. Issue’s index below (pass it to friends if you want).
2. Neural has a new ISSN: 2037-108X
3. Neural is now a no-profit association
4. Neural is now printed on FSC Certified Papers (mixed source, recycled and from new and well managed forests).
Issue #34, winter 2009
ISSN: 2037-108X
Centerfold: ‘20.12.53 – 10.08.04′ by Moira Ricci.
interviews
.Yes Men
.Janez Jansa
.Lieutenant Murnau
.Les Liens Invisibles
articles
.False Files
.Too Good to Be True
.The Onion News Network
reports
.Abandon Normal Devices .
.Energija
.news: Tardigotchi, Pa++ern, Amatagana, Sk8monkey, Tim Tate’s Reliquaries, Heavy Metal Moshpit, Pitch Control, scoreLight, STiMULiNE, SoleNoid beta, Pirate Kiosk, Netless, Can’t You See I’m busy, 21st Century Home, Embroidered Text Messages.
..books/dvds: Lund/Audio.Visual, Minilogue/Animals The Movie, Mulder, Brouwer/Dick Raaymakers, Rainer, Rolling, Daniels, Ammer/See This Sound, Gilfillan/Pieces of Sound, Doctorow/©ontent, Castells/Communication Power, Sollfrank/Expanded Original, Turkle/Simulation and Its Discontents, Wasik/And Then There’s This, Shanken/Art and Electronic Media, Hauser/SK-INTERFACES, Leopoldserer, Schopf, Stocker/The Network for Art Technology and Society, Arns, Ruyter, HKMV/Awake Are Only The Spirits, Harrison/Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector. .
.cd reviews: An Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music, Autistici, Stephan Moore, Daphne Oram, Anne Laplantine, Tom Hamilton, Herbert Friedl, Gregg Kowalsky, Marcus Maeder, Denis Tricot, Eric Cordier, Mudboy, Gintas K, Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen, Robert Hampson, Jorge Haro, Yutaka Makino, EVOL, Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample, Noise Vs. Subversive Computing, Feeding the Transmitter.
Call for proposals
December 15, 2009: Triple Canopy is pleased to announce its first call for proposals. We will be commissioning ten projects spanning the five areas outlined below—original research, new-media journalism, public programming, Internet-specific artwork, and critical dialogues—to be published in the magazine and presented before live audiences in the next year. Submissions and proposals are due by February 15, 2010. For more detailed information, visit our commissions page: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/commissions
This first round of commissions is supported in part by a generous grant from the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston. Commissions will be accompanied by a modest honorarium, the amount of which will reflect the scope of the project and the cost of its development. Support future commissions by making a tax-deductible contribution online now: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/support
Triple Canopy
Project areas
Research Work
Research Work was established to facilitate the creation of research projects that are produced outside academia, for a general audience; employ Internet-specific methods of presentation; and serve a public best reached by making the work available for free online.
Internet as Material
Internet as Material was established to support emerging and mid-career artists who have never before made work specifically for the Web in the production of an online project. These projects further Triple Canopy’s mission by utilizing the Internet—which is too often understood as a channel for the transfer of information—as a medium for the development of artworks that actively engage readers.
Thinking Through Images
Thinking Through Images was established to foster conversations about images and videos of cultural, political, and social relevance, between artists, writers, researchers, and other cultural practitioners working in different fields. The program aims to facilitate close readings of popular media and fine art—from nineteenth-century paintings to Internet memes to documentation of current events—that consider these cultural products in a common context.
New Media Reporting Project
The New Media Reporting Project was established to provide journalists an outlet for—and provide them with the training and technical resources and expertise to realize—in-depth, critical reports executed in multiple media, with the goal of providing an immersive experience of the stories and subjects that shape our age.
New Programming
New Programming was established to support the development of exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, film screenings, and other public events that examine the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
Festival for art and digital culture berlin
*Early bird discounts of 10% on transmediale.10 Passes until
December 18, 2009*
‘But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.’ The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
As 2010 approaches – a year which has been synonymous with past images of the future – it is clear that global society is neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented in the fictions, architectures and theories of the 20th century. Rather, it is an increasingly complex web of economic, political and cultural systems dependent on the convergence of rapidly evolving technologies that compress what used to be thought of as ‘future’ into a more coherent and malleable ‘present’. As the future catches up to us, as a concept of technological evolution and progress, it seems to be experiencing an identity crisis.
transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! invites YOU to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what is it that we have in store for the future?
Dear Spectrites!
The programme for transmediale.10 – FUTURITY NOW! taking place Feb. 02 – 07, 2010 in Berlin is almost complete!
The festival kicks off Tuesday evening, February 2 at Berlin’s landmark House of World Cultures with a welcome address by Computer Art pioneer Herbert W. Franke and a special live concert featuring Charlemagne Palestine playing Berlin’s unique bell tower – the Tiergarten Carillon.
The festival?s exhibition ?Future Obscura?, by transmediale guest curator Honor Harger presents artworks that use the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our relationship with atemporality – the collision of past, present and future. Over a dozen international artists, including Zilvinas Kempinas, Julius von Bismarck, Ken Rinaldo, Alice Miceli and Julien Maire, have created create interdisciplinary explorations of light and chronology – some of which are new works premiering at transmediale.10 – which will unfold across the House of World Cultures, and several urban spaces within Berlin.
http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale10-exhibition-future-obscura
The daily programme begins on Wednesday February 3rd with the “Free Culture Incubator” Salons curated by Public Art Lab curator Ela Kagel, the Phuturama sub-conference hosted by c-base ‘conceptioneer’ Gregor Sedlag and this year?s Marshall McLuhan Lecture by telepresence artist Graham Smith. Daily screenings curated by Marcel Schwerin highlight works from the Award competition and explore atemporal junctures between technology and image production.
Spectacular performances by Ryoji Ikeda and J?rgen Reble with Thomas K?ner initiate tm.10?s extensive live programme including six events in collaboration with CTM which also reflect their theme ‘Overlap’, and feature some of the most important figures working within music and sound today.
http://www.transmediale.de/en/festival/performances
The tm.10 ‘Future Observatory’ conference, with keynotes by Bruce Sterling, Conrad Wolfram and Richard Barbrook, kicks off on Friday February 5, with a special ?Futurity Long Conversation? bringing 23 leading artists, designers, theorists, journalists and media interventionists, including people such as Jem Finer (Longplayer), Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum), Andy Cameron (fabrica), Denisa Kera (transgenesis), Gustaff Harimann Iskandar (common room network), Trebor Scholz (digitallabour), R?gine Debatty (wemakemoneynotart), and Warren Neidich (Flusser Award 2010 nominee) among distinguished others. From their own positions and experience, they will discuss, contextualize and explore the abstract and qualitative elements defining our take on what the concept of future – and with that, the tm.10 festival theme FUTURITY NOW! – must be today. Accompanying the Futurity Long Conversation? transmediale.10 Award nominees Sosolimited will unveil an entirely new work ‘The Long Conversion’, using ground-breaking text and visual analysis tools, as a tandem live coding performance of the The Long Conversation.
The format of the Long Conversation was developed in conjunction with the Long Now Foundation, an international organisation crafting ways with which to perceive time and durational process in radically different and perhaps media technologically appropriate ways. In their approach, we are in a period which redefines the ‘now’ within a timespan of a 1000 years, altering our notions of future and the acceleration of progress and development.
Artists Salons, workshops, satellite events across Berlin and a special night of sound art and performance from Shanghai – Myths of the Near Future – complete the program!
**** EARLY BIRD PASSES UNTIL DECEMBER 18th ****
Reserve your Festival Passes now for transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW!
Early bird discounts of 10% on all transmediale.10 Day Passes and Festival Passes, as well as Kombi Passes for transmediale and club transmediale (CTM) are available until December 18, 2009 only! The discounts apply to all Passes – including reduced student passes, and are done via reservation and invoiced pre-payment.
To reserve your passes, please use the form here:
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/current.
The following papers are included in this month’s issue:
First Monday
Volume 14, number 12 – 7 December 2009
Political protest Italian-style: The blogosphere and mainstream media in
the promotion and coverage of Beppe Grillo’s V-day
by Alberto Pepe and Corinna di Gennaro
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2740/2406
Search engine use behavior of students and faculty: User perceptions and
implications for future research
by Oya Y. Rieger
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2716/2385
The self-Googling phenomenon: Investigating the performance of
personalized information resources
by Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry
Saunders
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2683/2409
Three strands in a braid: Identity interaction in social software
by Cynthia F. Kurtz
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2746/2408
Public lives and private communities: The terms of service agreement and
life in virtual worlds
by Debora J. Halbert
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2601/2405
Use of social networking by undergraduate psychology majors
by Caleb W. Lack, Lisa Beck, and Danielle Hoover
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2540/2407
The book release will take place at Kulturhuset in Stockholm on December 17th between 6pm and 8pm and will coincide with an open public debate. The book 163 04/ VENEZIA NEW YORK PARIS documents the three-year pedagogical project 16304/, a collaboration between Tensta Konsthall, Tensta High School and the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. The project’s aim was to see in what ways it is possible to broaden the recruitment possibilities to art schools by young people with differing ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The book is divided into three sections Venice, New York and Paris – the three international destinations for the project and contains texts written by the involved students, teachers and artists form the participating institutions. The book was designed by the leading young Swedish graphic designer Parasto Backman. The public debate will include politicians, educators, artists and students who will discuss the issue of student recruitment to cultural institutions in Sweden today.
For press images, contact Ida Ömalm Ronvall at ida.omalm@tenstakonsthall.se
Tensta Konsthall
Taxingegränd 10
163 04 Spånga
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 36 07 63
Fax: +36 8 36 25 60
Open Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon – 5pm
Tensta Konsthall is supported by Swedish Arts Council, The City of Stockholm, Stockholm County Council, The Foundation for the Culture of the Future and The Swedish Inheritance Fund.
BIANCO-VALENTE
alla mostra BaROCK al MADRE – Museo d’Arte contemporanea Donna Regina di Napoli, la cui apertura è prevista per Sabato 12 Dicembre alle 19:00.
La mostra vede la presenza di un numeroso gruppo di artisti internazionali: Adel Abdessemed, Micol Assaël, Matthew Barney, Domenico Bianchi, Bianco – Valente, Antonio Biasiucci, Keren Cytter, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Claire Fontaine, Lara Favaretto, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Shirin Neshat, Carsten Nicolai, ORLAN, Philippe Parreno, Giulia Piscitelli, Michal Rovner, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sislej Xhafa.
Per maggiori informazioni sulla mostra: www.museomadre.it
MADRE – Museo d’Arte contemporanea Donna Regina
Via Luigi Settembrini, 79 – 80139 Napoli
VM21 is pleased to communicate the participation of BIANCO-VALENTE in the exhibition BaROCK in Museo MADRE, Naples that will open on Saturday, December 12th, h 7pm.
The exhibition is featuring works by a large group of international artists, including Adel Abdessemed, Micol Assaël, Matthew Barney, Domenico Bianchi, Bianco – Valente, Antonio Biasiucci, Keren Cytter, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Claire Fontaine, Lara Favaretto, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Shirin Neshat, Carsten Nicolai, ORLAN, Philippe Parreno, Giulia Piscitelli, Michal Rovner, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sislej Xhafa.
For further information about the exhibition: www.museomadre.it
V.M.21 artecontemporanea
Via della Vetrina, 21
00186 Roma
Tel./Fax: (0039) 06.68891365
E-mail: info@vm21contemporanea.com
Dear Friends,
As the end of the year draws near, we hope that you will support our many inspiring and innovative projects – Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance, Networked_Music_Review, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art), Upgrade! Boston, Floating Points, Programmable Media, New American Radio – and the artists, scholars, and writers they support.
Please contribute $10, $25, $50 or more.
No amount is too small! No amount is too large!
Contribute via PayPal on Turbulence or send a check to:
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale, MA 02131, USA
Thanks for your generous support, and a Happy New Year to you all.
Warm Regards,
Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington, Co-Directors
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Friday, December 18, 2009
urban-oilscapes-tour.jpg
The tour will visit a number of urban well sites, from the West Side to Downtown, to Signal Hill and Long Beach, as part of the exhibit Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin.
The bus will depart from the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s exhibit space at 9331 Venice Blvd, Culver City, California, at 9 AM Friday, December 18th, and will return by 6 PM. Please be at the CLUI no later than 8:50am to board the bus. Bring lunch money – a stop will be made at a restaurant for lunch.
Tour ticket price is $30. Tickets go on sale on Monday, December 7th @ 12 noon PST, and must be purchased online here.
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax
support (at) clui (dot) org
www.clui.org
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
is a non-profit organization dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge
about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
The art of exhibiting art online. Third Edition.
Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2010 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.
http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.
The competition wishes to respond to the shifting context of online environments — from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond — and to draw attention to the dynamic potential of the web as a research, production and presentation platform for the specific context of art.
ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO invites individual and collaborative proposals by programmers, software engineers, designers and artists alike, that combine creative and critical thinking, technical solutions with practical competence.
ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO aims to enable the development of a powerful tool or web environment for art context, and to promote creative, original, innovative and speculative thinking in a fast developing field, reflecting new social sensibilities and art’s ability to surprise.
Total award is 15.000 euros.
Description
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental online platforms or effective web tools to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet. The selected proposal will be awarded with a production budget of 15,000 euros (taxes included) to realize the project.
The competition wishes to encourage research in the field of social technologies and artistic practice, and more specifically to identify current needs and provide suitable solutions for art galleries and art market more generally in the context of the Internet. The intention behind the competition is to enhance communication and exchange between the field of art and wider society.
The proposal – a complete web concept, environment or a tool – shall offer an application to be implemented by individual art galleries and / or ARCO Fair.
The winning proposal will be selected by an international Jury, made up of two experts in the field of art and technology: Dr. Joasia Krysa (KURATOR/University of Plymouth, UK), CSDVA (winner of the 2009 edition with the project WAAP, Croatia) and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain). LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.
• Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a maximum period of nine months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the participant galleries at ARCOmadrid´s 2010 edition and the galleries participating at ARCOmadrid´s 2011 edition.
• Notification of the winner date: 19th February 2010.
• The Award prize of the winning proposal will receive a total of 15.000 euros budget (taxes included).
Conditions for entry to participate:
• The competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO is open to any individual or group, of any nationality or legal entity. It is an open and international award contest.
• The proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php
• Proposals sent by e-mail, post or any other way will not be accepted.
• Each individual or group is allowed to submit only one proposal. In case of the submission of more than one proposal, only the first proposal will be considered.
• Applications for the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition can be submitted in English or Spanish. We highly recommend submitting bilingual versions of the proposal.
• The participating proposals must be for projects realizable for the value of the prize money, i.e. €15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum production period of nine months from the date of the Jury’s decision.
• The Jury reserves the right to accept or reject any of the projects, and its decision is final.
• Accepting the prize implies the transfer of property rights of the awarded project to VOCENTO, after the termination of its free distribution among art galleries participating at ARCOmadrid 2010 and those taking part in the 2011 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialize nor distribute it in any other form than that described. After two years VOCENTO may make the project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons, Attribution 2.5 Spain.
APPLICATIONS
• Opening date for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 1st December 2009 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call for Proposals website.
• Deadline for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 31st January 2010 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call of Proposals website.
• The application form and guidelines will be available from 1st December 2009 ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at the proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php
For further information about the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition, please get in contact with:
LaAgencia
Vicente Matallana
Tel: (34) 91 366 8821
E-mail: Arte_Web-VOCENTO@laagencia.org
