Now showing on Tank.tv: Paul McCarthy
February on tank.tv
In February tank.tv will be exhibiting a pair of videos from Paul McCarthy. 'Family Tyranny' & 'Cultural Soup' were cut from two days of taped performance at a community television studio in 1987. Featuring McCarthy's fellow artist Mike Kelley, these videos are filled with the disturbing images of familial horror and stomach turning abjection that characterise the artist's renowned body of work. Both works will be available on tank.tv untill 28th February.
ART PROJECTS
Yugop
Launch project
A variety of interactive studies and works created by Yugo Nakamura for his MONO*crafts project.
Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environment.
Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe. Some artworks from his personal website: yugop.com (http://yugop.com/) have recenly been shown at Center Pompidou (Paris), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Design Museum (London). His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC.
My existence in the network - Environment
Launch project
Project being ephemeral variation placed in time and net space. Return to existing localisations, reorganise structures and navigational contexts creates changing environment, unstable in their news character, imitating informational tissue of net. Virtuality, hypertextual, ephemeral, interaction, digital aesthetics, activism.
The fragile circus: the Secret & the Wolf
Launch The Secret & The Wolf
In the Secret & The Wolf we enter a world of a dandily dressed wolf and his secret diary.
Myron Campbell is an artist and designer who is interested in ideas of consciousness and the subconscious, dream states and fairy tales. He uses painting, drawing, digital art, sound art, collage and 2D animation to explore and create his visions
Clearance
Launch project
"Clearance is multimedia exploration of a state inbetween sleep and consiousness. Based a around a protagonist who believes he has witnessed a global apocalyptic event, the narrative unfolds through scrambled recollections, scenes and conversations. "Clearance" allows the user / reader to pan arround a barren rural landscape littered with stone carvings representing his hypnagogic flashbacks" (Vagus)
Fuzzy Dreamz - 'A journey into the psychogeography of dreams'
Launch Fuzzy Dreamz
A net.art project from fear to fun, drama, love, desire and a sense of wonder.
The moving images, soundtrack and voices are forming a 'psycho-geography of dreams'. Work in progress since 1996.
Artist's statement: In our minds we have private virtual museums, silent places for our memories, imagination and dreams - a provocative linking of nightmares and fuzzy logic.
Description of the work: In the beginning was the dreaming. In dreams we cross the borders of time and space. Time and timing is the medium of life. Fuzzy Dreamz consists of flashes from a constructed human gaze that emanates warmth and privateness, a provocative linking of nightmares and fuzzy logic. The medium is the messenger, and no longer the message. I use the cinematic syntax of montage in relation to synaesthetic dream experiences to discover our collective memory (a myth is a public dream, a dream is a private myth). Fuzzy Dreamz brings us closer to 'who we are', 'what we want' and 'what we see with closed eyes'. The future never sleeps. . .
Netwurker
Netwurker
quote: 'net.wurk][.Phonet][r][ix][ n.sert no here xXXx '
"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." (Florian Cramer). The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language "mezangelle"] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall. Mez has exhibited extensively since the early 90s.
Heritage
Launch project
Heritage - an interactive movie by Nicolas Claus
with Jean-Jacques Birgé, sound
"We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent." -George Bush, Sr. Quotes and TV images of George Bush--father and son--put together in what could be described as the Bush psychoanalytic nightmare. A sarcastic look at a heritage story which poses questions about the world we are leaving to our children. (source:Turbulence)
[c j i i + i B a t z u ]
Launch project
[c j i i + i B a t z u ]
Beautiful black and white collages, some of them are interactive some are stills.
The Status Project
Launch The Status Project.
Our identity can be thought of as a portfolio of
both private and public contracts both expressed and
implied with other people and organisations.
'The system' consists of the commons of our
collective relationships.
The status project is mapping these links on a
personal and national level producing maps for both
comprehension and mobility.
"Since 2004 artist Heath Bunting has been developing the Status Project, an exploration of the inter-relationships of UK status including citizenship, education, finance, identity, social security, work and utilities. The Status Project centres on an online database from which status maps have been generated and brought together in 0-9 The System Deluxe to create a unique A-Z of UK status."
NIESATT
NIESATT
no place to rest.
NIESATT
visual chaos within
parallel worlds of interconnectedness.
NIESATT
abstracted ideas of man in
its selfcreated environment.
NIESATT
never full
never enough
never satisfied
NEWS
Dr.Hugo Heyrman (((Motions of the Mind))) special
Online since 1995, Dr. Hugo Heyrman became one of the pioneers in Net.art. He participated in 1988 at the 'First International Symposium on Electronic Art' (FISEA) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In the 'Fuzzy Dreamz' series, a work in progress since 1996, he transforms his painting experiences into digital media and vice versa. He took part in various Net.art projects, including the online projects, Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace 'ALT-X-site' (1997) New York and 'Revelation' ISEA 2000, Paris.
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( ( ( Motions of the Mind ) ) ) - a net.art project by Dr. Hugo Heyrman, exploring the telematic future of art and mind.
THE GAME OF WAR
NewMediaFest'2010 - 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork] :||cologne
NewMediaFest'2010 - 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - global heritage of digital culture, a festival context starting on 1 January 2010 and ending on 31 December 2010 online and in physical space.
Initiated 10 years ago by the Cologne based media artist Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, the project of the global network, entitled: [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - developed from a small Internet based art piece to a global wide acting context of digital art creation - spread on a variety of project platforms dedicated to different types of contents and art media.
just to mention some--> A Virtual Memorial Foundation, JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art, VideoChannel Cologne, SoundLAB Cologne, CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival.
Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space
The thirteenth Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space examines the importance of physical space in times of far-reaching technological developments, and the physical and psychological impact of spatial designs.
Now showing on CologneOFF V
CologneOFF V is excited to announce the Christmas 2009 update:
On 22 December 2009, CologneOFF V is launching the new
Program 5 - featuring 14 outstanding One Minute Films
selected and curated by the charming guest curator Alysse Stepanian (Iran/USA)
herself not only video artist´and participant in CologneOFF V,
but also a talented curator who is running her own curatorial project
"Manipulated Image" at the Complex in the city of Santa Fe/New Mexico (USA):
Now showing on Tank.tv: Open End
To add to this year of solo exhibitions, tank.tv will end 2009 with a group show, Open End.
Selected from recent discoveries and the great number of submissions they received throughout the year.
Now showing Open End 15th December 2009 - 7th January 2010: Andrew Cross / Dean Kissick / Oreet Ashery / Michael Fortune / Jon Purnell / Oliver Michaels / Mark Shorey / Michael van den Abeele / Matthew Johnstone / Nicholas O'Brien / Katja Aglert / Steven Eastwood / Simon Woolham / Jonathan Monaghan.
Web 2.0 Suicide machine
Tired of your Social Network? After the launch of Seppukoo now also web 2.0 Suicide machine.
Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com! Commit NOW!
JavaMuseum celebrates net-art
10 Years JavaMuseum - the 10th anniversary - a reason to celebrate!
JavaMuseum invites artists active on the field of new, digital and electronic media who created or create “netart” to submit their Internet based works orginating from the past 10 years (2000-2010).
This call is ongoing and valid from 1 September 2009-1 September 2010. JavaMuseum is planning to launch in autumn 2010 a comprehensive show on netart, entitled: “Celebrate!
CologneOFF V - Taboo! Taboo?
launch CologneOFF V
CologneOFF is a mobil film & video festival which is organised simultaneously online and offline via physical screenings & cooperations.
CologneOFF V is invited to present three screening programs in the framework of “unCraftivism” - a project context by Rui Guerra running on 12 & 13 December 2009 at Arnolfini Bristol/UK
Craftivism and Arnolfini
See more details on the screening programs: 1st progam –> 2nd program –> 3rd program –> this program includes One Minute Films
guest curator –> Ali Zaidi (Motiroti(London)
ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC.
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?
Production : Condor
Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay
Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli
3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
Questionnaire about preservation of display and playback equipment
PACKED - Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of Audiovisual Arts (Brussels) and the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam) currently execute a research project into the preservation of display and playback equipment for video art. As part of this research project PACKED and NIMk ask the cooperation from organizations, archives and individuals.
Since the emergence of the medium video, different recording, playback and display systems have been developed that got obsolete afterwards due to the technological evolution. This equipment (video recorders, monitors, projectors, .) has often become rare. But at the same time access to it is crucial to exhibit old video works and safeguard them for the future.
