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Call for Participants: Sonic Acts Masterclasses,
Call for Participants: Sonic Acts Masterclasses, 20-23 February 2012, Amsterdam
DEADLINE: 12 February 2012
Masterclass Leaders: Catherine Christer Hennix, Peter Kubelka, Olaf Nicolai, Pauline Oliveros, Tino Sehgal
In collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum and STEIM, Sonic Acts will host a series of masterclasses as part of this year’s festival edition Travelling Time.
The masterclasses provide a unique opportunity for artists, musicians and other creative professionals to work with 5 internationally renowned artists whose work critically reflects on time and timing. In a concentrated and intimate setting, participants will gain insight into the artists’ concepts, work processes, and methods of composition and production through hands-on workshops and seminars. Read more »
SuperCollider Symposium 2012 is now out
The programme for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012 is now out! Get
your tickets...
This April will see musicians, artists and coders come to London for a festival
of what can be done with the SuperCollider audio programming environment.
Tickets are available from £70
for a WHOLE WEEK of sonic inspiration featuring:
==MUSIC==
- LIVE ALGORITHMS CONCERT - three specially-commissioned musicians
will be improvising live on stage, collaborating with
responsive musical algorithms for the first time.
PLEASE SEE OUR CALL FOR CODERS:
http://www.sc2012.org.uk/live/algorithms/
- LIVECODE EVENING - codefaced people hacking music in front of your eyes:
http://www.sc2012.org.uk/live/code/
- ELECTROACOUSTIC CONCERT of new multi-channel works
for electronics and featuring musicians from the Plusminus Ensemble:
http://www.sc2012.org.uk/live/concert/
- CLUB NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA, rounding off the festival in style
with a panoply of audiovisual acts,
and headlined by A SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED...
http://www.sc2012.org.uk/live/club/
==ART==
Sonic art exhibition held in the Mile End Park,
with works both indoors in the Art Pavilion and outdoors in the park: Read more »
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The Right to Database
November 6, 2011
3 - 5 PM
Theater Kikker, Utrecht, The Netherlands Launch project
The current widespread availability of data has led to an explosion of creative practices formulated around the collection, analysis, and visualization of information. The inevitable backend of these exercises, the database, is fore fronted in this programme by Impakt Online and SKOR NetArtWorks.
The Right to Database invites artists to explore the inherent implications of the database system. Their projects trial novel ways of understanding and interrogating database systems, and how they transform both the act of collecting and the objects of collection.
The Right to Database is held with Graham Harwood (YoHa) and Linda Hilfling. Including contributions from Metahaven, Hendrik-Jan Grievink & Coralie Vogelaar and Upload Cinema. The discussion is led by Bernhard Rieder, assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He is particularly interested in the role of algorithms in social processes. Read more »
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Call for participation in the WJ-S workshop
DJs / VJs / WJs
WJ-S is a software and a flexible public device for web performances allowing WJs (webjays, artists, curators, web addicts, web mutants…) to play live with online text, sound and visual… WJs take the control of a multiscreens environment and surf at distance in different browser windows simultaneously. WJ-S is a visible and collective experience of the surf. WJ-S is an immersive experience in the flux.
Following the steps of DJs and VJs, WJs (weejays, webjays, webjockeys …) directly draw their sources from the Web and mix the network flow in real time. The WJ-S/essions are organized indoors or outdoors in a public space, in front of an audience.. Read more »
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Labs Show DEAF 2012
Labs Show DEAF 2012
V2_Lab and Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven) launch a call for proposals from media labs around the world for recently produced artworks to be featured at the next edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival taking place from April 19-22, 2012 in Rotterdam.
V2_Lab (Rotterdam, NL) and Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven, NL) launch a call for proposals from media labs around the world for recently produced artworks (developed by artists in labs in 2011-2012) to be featured at the next edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival taking place from April 19-22, 2012 in Rotterdam (NL). The intentions of the show are to provide a unique overview of the diversity and quality of work being developed at the crossroads of art and technology today, to present ‘best practices’ of different labs, and provide input for a conference on new forms of contemporary art production in the form of concrete work and working processes. Through this we aim to stimulate new productions, open up the ‘ways of producing’ of labs and fuel the debate on the socio-cultural functions of artistic research and production facilities. Read more »
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6th International ARTE LAGUNA Art Prize 2011-applications now open!
Terms & Conditions of the 6° International Art Prize Arte Laguna
ART. 1 – Goal
The Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in collaboration with Arte Laguna, organizes the Sixth International Art Prize “Arte Laguna” aimed at promoting and enhancingthe contemporary art. The total value of the awards is 170.000 euros. The Prize obtained a medal by the Italian Head of State, with the patronage of, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Veneto Region, the European Institute of Design. The Prize offers: money prizes; the organization of an important collective exhibition in Venice; exhibitions in Art Galleries; Art Residences and the publication of the official Catalogue. The Prize is divided into five sections: painting, photographic art, sculpture, video and performance, virtual art. Participants can choose the theme of their artworks.
ART. 2 – Techniques
The Prize is open to all artists, without any limit of age, sex, nationality or other qualifications. Each artist can participate with one or more artworks, in one or more sections. Technical details:
Painting – works realized with technical and stylistic freedom (oil, tempera, acrylic, ink, vinyl, watercolor, graphite, pencil, collage, etc.) on whatever support (canvas, paper, wood, plastics, iron, etc.).
The maximum dimensions allowed per each work are 150 cm per side. Read more »
International Art Competition 2011
International Open Art Competition 2011
(This contest is 'open' to both amateur and professional artists.)
Deadline for entries 30 April 2011
Cost - only £10 to submit up to 5 images!
1st Prize - £350 worth of vouchers to spend on artist materials,
or cash, and exposure on your own dedicated page:
www.yourname.marilyncomparetto.com for 1 year
(see www.karenwalker.marilyncomparetto.com)
2nd Prize - £100 worth of vouchers to spend on artist materials,
or cash, and exposure on www.competitions.marilyncomparetto.com for 1 year
3rd Prize - £50 worth of vouchers to spend on artist materials,
or cash, and exposure on www.competitions.marilyncomparetto.com for 1 year
for further details please visit: http://www.competitions.marilyncomparetto.com/contest_2011_2.html
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VIDEOHOLICA 2011 OPEN CALL FOR VIDEOS
4TH VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
5 . 12 AUGUST 2011, VARNA, BULGARIA
OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
The 4th edition of the VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL is open for 2011 video art entries for this year’s festival.
VIDEOHOLICA 2011 will take place within the period 5 . 12 August 2011 in Varna, Bulgaria.
The events held during VIDEOHOLICA 2011 will include a series of evening video art projections in outdoor public spaces in Varna, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina Open-Air Stage in the Varna Sea Garden and other. In parallel with the video art screenings of VIDEOHOLICA 2011, exhibitions, discussions, and workshops concerning video and contemporary art topics led by established local and international art professionals followed by a reception with honored video artists will take place in gallery and museum spaces in Varna. Read more »
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3 RD VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL IN VARNA, BULGARIA
Between August 10th and August 18th, 2010, the 3rd edition of VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival will be held in Varna accompanying AUGUST IN ART International Biennial of Visual Arts.
During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projects describing diverse concepts and interpretations of the term ‘illusion’ as a phenomenon discovered and studied with the techniques of video art will be screened and presented.
VIDEOHOLICA 2010 main program, which includes over 150 video art works (selected from more than 500), part of which thematically divided into the selections 'East Asia', 'Dance' , 'BG', will be presented in a series of evening screenings in four different open-air places, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina open-air stage and the outside space of Music Cafe LOOK.
An international jury composed by Vesselina Sarieva (cultural activist, Bulgaria), Dinu Li (artist, UK / China), Anthony Bannwart (artist, Switzerland) and Yovo Panchev (curator and artist, Bulgaria), will debut at the festival choosing the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 Representative Selection. Read more »
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UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS – Theory and Practice of Art
PORTO, PORTUGAL, MAY 10-14, 2010 - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
The first edition of the international conference “UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS – Theory and Practice of Art” will be held in May 2010 in the city of Porto, Portugal. Organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto (FBAUP), this conference aims at establishing an intellectual platform to discuss fluidity of contemporary art practice through a series of interdisciplinary interventions. Held in school of arts, UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS is also meant at being a connection axis between different contexts by interconnecting and mixing different forms and approaches.
The 2010 edition of UNNEEDED CONVERSATIONS will have three main topics for debate — UNTANGLE: The Future Past of Media Art; UNSUSPICIOUS: The Politics of Aesthetics; UNCUT: Time-Based Art — which are at the core of today’s problems of art practice. At the same time, those topics will also be addressed so that they will contribute to the conceptual definition of the recent multimedia/intermedia branch in FBAUP courses.
The conferences will be held in an old cinema of Porto city center (Cinema Passos Manuel), which is only a five minute walk from the Faculty of Fine Arts, and they will be divided into two categories: Talks and Conversations. The first ones — a more conventional format – will take place in the afternoon, and Conversations — a more hybrid format — will take place in the evening.
A simultaneous program will include exhibitions, workshops, screenings or concerts in different places in the city center and at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
After the conference a book will be published – UNNEEDED TEXTS / Vol. one – including both the papers presented and further relevant documentation on the event. A call for papers to be included in this book is now open. Papers will be blind-peer reviewed by a panel of international referees. The book will be fully published in English in print and electronic format. Read more »
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Organisations, magazines & resources
Organisations, institutions, blogs, webzines, e-zines, portals etc...
SAW Video Media Art Centre
Launched in 2004 as an initiative of SAW Video, the Mediatheque is an ever-expanding public video archive that currently houses more than 300 Canadian independent films and videos online. It features 30 years' of video works from SAW Video members as well as videos and films from artists in Ottawa-Gatineau and across Canada. In all, the works of more than 100 Canadian artists are included. Mediatheque artists are emerging, mid-career or established film and video makers. The archive contains complete short and feature-length productions in all genres, including drama, documentary, animation and video art. SAW Video is proud to provide this important repository of Canadian films and videos to its members, to curators and the general public.
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TOPLAP - Temporary Organisation for the Pragmatics of Live Algorithm Programming
For a long time computer scientists have been erasing time from programming, and we're now putting it back in.
For a long time computer musicians have been trying to hide the computation in their music, and we're celebrating it.
Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video: live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. TOPLAP exists to promote it.
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Minor Compostions
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.
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Videoart.net
based in New York City, Videoart.net serves as an international network for video art and experimental films. As a video-sharing website and online community Videoart.net has helped to democratize the relationship between artists, curators, institutions, and the public worldwide. Videoart.net attracts both art and film industry professionals by merging the avant-garde with art and film establishments. An international network with a dynamic online community, Videoart.net has positioned itself as one of the most popular video art and experimental film websites in the world
Mission:
To establish an international hub of video artists, filmmakers and audiences.
To expand video arts into public spaces accessible to a wider audience.
To create an online community of filmmakers and artists.
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Toplab - Temporary Organisation for the Pragmatics of Live Algorithm Programming
Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video: live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. TOPLAP exists to promote it.
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CTHEORY: THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE VOL 33, NO 1-2
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CODE DRIFT
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Preface
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Code Drift
~Arthur & Marilouise Kroker~
What is the fate of the regime of computation? A global techno-culture inscribed by the terrorism of the code or an emergent age of networked individualism driven onwards by the ecstatic visions of augmented reality, mobility, and connectivity?
When the regime of computation suddenly slams into the real world of globalization, when code is forced to tangle with the always messy world of blown away referential values -- the real world of gender trouble, stormy challenges to the big signifiers of race, class and ethnicity -- we finally know that we are living in the beginning days of something radically new, namely a culture of code drift. Read more »
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Overview of network art projects
Launch Society of Algorithm: Overview of network art projects
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Sonus
SONUS is an online listening library (jukebox) of electroacoustic works, created and managed by the CEC for the benefit of the greater Electroacoustic / Computer Music / Sound Art community.
The CEC created SONUS to make electroacoustic pieces easily accessible to audiences everywhere. SONUS is a valuable tool for composers to promote their work, and a fascinating resource for listeners, with over 1800 works in a wide variety of aesthetics already in the catalogue.
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Arse Elektronica
Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods.
Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established.
Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre?
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Everyday Listening: sonic inspiration
Everyday Listening: sonic inspiration collects inspiring and remarkable sound art and creative sound design projects, installations, reviews of urban soundscapes, places, contemporary or experimental, mostly electronic music. You might also read about new ways of using and distributing music and sound.
The term Everyday Listening is used to describe the way we use sound to find our way in our everyday life. There's an article by Buxton, Gaver & Bly giving a very clear description of this phenomenon:
"Everyday listening is a matter of listening to the attributes of events in the world - the speed of a passing automobile, the force of a slammed door, whether a person is walking up or downstairs."
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Soundart Radio
A space to listen, play and experiment
Soundart Radio 102.5 FM is a community radio station for the Dartington and Totnes area of South Devon. We are an arts radio station providing space on the airwaves to listen, play and experiment with sound. Our programmes are made by volunteers who thrive in an atmosphere of trust and creative freedom. All kinds of people visit, talk, play music and present radio shows. We leave the studio door open and the sounds of passing birds, conversations and steam trains filter into our broadcasts.
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