Announcements, E-zines and Organisations
Public Announcements
SUBMIT announcement
Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space
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*• Highlights live performances & films*
*• New festival website with complete programme online *
*• Tickets for all Sonic Acts events available now*
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*• Highlights live performances & films*
*Sonic Acts - The Poetics of Space*
/Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology /
25 – 28 February 2010, Amsterdam
*Deep Spaces - 25 February 2010*
The opening event /Deep Spaces/ presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. Immerse yourself in *Thomas Köner*’s mesmerizing spatial sound tapestries, while his colleague, *Jürgen Reble*, takes you on a visual journey through the darker side of his alchemical chemograms. *Haswell & Hecker* will perform their radical UPIC Diffusion Session, an infinity of extreme sound and engulfing lasers. And *Monolake *and *Tarik Barri* will transport you through their spatial audiovisual universe. http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/thursday/deep-spaces
*Expanded Space - 26 February 2010*
Videoholica
VIDEOHOLICA 2010 will present a series of video art projections and exhibitions and will make presentations of well-known international video art forums and honored video artists in parallel with discussions concerning video art topics.
The 3rd festival edition will pass under the KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE motto.
File Prix Lux
January 11th to March 5th
This year, the artists, on registering their projects to take part in FILE 2010, will be competing for the FILE PRIX LUX prize.
FILE PRIX LUX was conceived to complement FILE's actions in the area of electronic and digital languages, with the intent of rewarding, motivating and stimulating the emergence of new talents. This new initiative by FILE intends, besides the exhibition and presentation of works, to add value to such manifestations, conferring to the awarded artists a national and international impact.
Since 2000, FILE - Electronic Language International Festival constitutes an international interdisciplinary platform for the development of innovative and creative projects in the area of arts and technologies. FILE is a cultural, nonprofit organization that promotes a reflection on the main themes of the global contemporary electronic-digital context, always in a transdisciplinary vision in the political complexity of our time's cultural universe.
Launch project
Visions from the Future international festival of sound visions 2010 IRIDESCENTWORLDS
Cari Tutti!
Cronosfera Project e Sincronie sono lieti di presentare
Visioni dal Futuro
festival internazionale di visioni sonore
seconda edizione
.:MondIridescenti:.
Torino 28-29-30 Maggio 2010
Cinema Massimo, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Nuovo bando di concorso Video e Live media
Visioni dal Futuro 2010 chiama tutti i videomakers e sperimentatori audiovisuali a creare, modellando l'immagine e il suono, opere che ci attraversino per arrivare a percepire MONDI IRIDESCENTI.
Vi alleghiamo la Scheda di Partecipazione con scadenza : 23/04/2010
per maggiori informazioni vi invitiamo a visitare il nostro sito: www.cronosferafestival.com
Vi chiediamo gentilmente di diffondere il bando in tutto il mondo e oltre!
Vi ringraziamo per l'attenzione e ci scusiamo nel caso d'invio multiplo.
Dear All!
Cronosfera Project and Sincronie are glad to announce
Visions from the Future
international festival of sound visions
second edition
.:IridescentWorlds:.
Torino May 28-29-30 2010
Cinema Massimo, Hiroshima Mon Amour
New competition announcement Video and Live media
Visions from the Future 2010 calls all the videomakers and audiovisual researchers to create, shaping image and sound, works that pass through us to imagine IRIDESCENT WORLDS.
In attachment the Entry Form with the deadline: 04/23/2010
Artcontext Calendar
The 2010 edition of the Artcontext Calendar marks threedecades of calendars from artist Andy Deck. Since the mid-1990s the project has often engaged public participationthrough websites made by the artist to generate images
and texts.
This year's calendar leverages the recently announced Artistic License site, which lets visitors produce anofficial-looking ID proclaiming them to be just aboutanything they can think of. This performative series of images is incorporated into the calendar in both free and printed editions.
Beginning in late December, all the pages will be freelydownloadable as PDF files. At present, orders are being
accepted for a full-color printed edition at a modest price.
It should be noted that for another week, participation isstill open, so if you'd like to appear in the 2010 Artcontext Calendar you should visit Artistic License soon. If you do, and you decide to buy the calendar, your laminated Artistic License will be added to the shipment.
You will not only have a distinctive calendar, you will bea card carrying artist and a participant in a 30 yearcalendar project begun by the artist in 1979.
http://artcontext.net/calendar/
http://artcontext.net/artisticLicense/
FUTURITY NOW!
FUTURITY NOW!
transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010
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!
A R T E C H M E D I A
A R T E C H M E D I A www.artechmedia.net
ll Internacional Conference ART TECH MEDIA 09 “Innovation, Networks & New Media at Digital Culture and Social Development”
Barcelona, 18th to 21th december 2009
The conference will serve as a meeting point for art, creativity, and innovation. It will also raise institutional, entrerprise and social awareness, nationally and internationally, of the challenges and threats that new information and communication technologies bring for the construction of a Knowledge Society that will define the future of Spain and the whole world. It is directed to institutional representatives within the art world, technology enterprise, university, research centres, communication media, foundations and other social organisations.
The main objective of the call for the II International Conference is to debate and articúlate proposals that will instigate the implementation and awareness of new media and the development of networks that will drive the alliance between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology and Institutions as a vehicle for integration and social development.
This call responds to the support demonstrated by institutions, organisations and artists who participated in the debates that tool place in the ARTECHMEDIA activities.
Live!iXem 2009
Live!iXem 2009, VI Edition, Festival of experimental electronic music and arts is back!
18>20 DECEMBER 2009 - Palermo Italy
Here the dettailed programme
18 Dicembre 2009
The world as instrument: workshop con Francisco Lopez
h.10.30-16.30 Palazzo Fernandez, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Aula 12
ElettroVisioni
h.16.30-18.00 Palazzo Fernandez, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Aula 12
Ingresso libero
19 Dicembre 2009
The world as instrument: workshop con Francisco Lopez
h.10.30-16.30 Palazzo Fernandez, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Aula 12
Bowindo Release Party
h. 21.00 Amp2 Studio, via Calderai n.5
info@antitesi.org
20 Dicembre 2009
The world as instrument: workshop con Francisco Lopez
h.14.00-17.00 Atelier Montevergini, via Montevergini, n.8
Trilogy of the Americas
installazione sonora immersiva di/con Francisco Lopez
h.21.00 Atelier Montevergini, via Montevergini, n.8
10,00 €
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www.antitesi.org - info "at" antitesi.org
UpStage festival of cyberformance
he fourth UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 101010 (10 October 2010). The call is now open for performance proposals.
http://www.upstage.org.nz
The 101010 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. The festival provides a platform (and shares the technichal expertise) to enable artists to experiment with the new medium, and to have their work seen alongside performances by internationally renowned practitioners - in a celebration of the evolution and diversity of cyberformance practices.
LES METAMORPHOSES DES DRAPEAUX
CALL FOR ENTRIES
FLAG METAMORPHOSES
http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net
Next deadline: March 30, 2010 (and ongoing)
Flag Metamorphoses is a participatory art project - a continuously growing series of animations with many authors: The flags of every nation in the world will transform into each other through flash animations. Between each two flags, scenes appear to show an aspect of the relations between the two countries - an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national iconography. Flag Metamorphoses lays stress on the relations between nations as changing ones. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way. You too can contribute!
To find out how to participate, to see Flash flag animations, the list of exhibitions and festivals, and to read the full concept, please visit: www.flag-metamorphoses.net.Appel à la participation (s'il-vous-plait, diffusez):
LES METAMORPHOSES DES DRAPEAUX
http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net
Prochaine date d'inscription: 30 mars 2010.
Organisations, magazines & resources
Organisations, institutions, blogs, webzines, e-zines, portals etc...
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?
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."
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.
Creative Media: new issue of Culture Machine 11
Launch Creative media
CREATIVE MEDIA
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska
Taking seriously both the philosophical legacy of what the Kantian and Foucauldian tradition calls ‘critique’ and the transformative energy of the creative arts, this issue features a number of experimental yet rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions that are equally at home with critical theory and media practice.
Contents
Sarah Kember, Joanna Zylinska, ‘Creative Media between Invention and Critique, or What's Still at Stake in Performativity?’
Rowan Wilken, ‘The Card Index as Creativity Machine
Sarah Kember, ‘Media, Mars and Metamorphosis’
Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Peter Woodbridge, ‘Deleuze's “Postscript on the Societies of Control”’
Joanna Zylinska, ‘I Don't Go to the Movies’
Nina Sellars, ‘Anatomy of Optics and Light’
Eleni Ikoniadou, ‘Rhythm-House: A Virtual Design for the Digital ‘
Patrick Crogan, ‘The Nintendo Wii, Virtualisation and Gestural Analogics’
David Penny, ‘Devices for Progress’
Federica Frabetti, ‘"Does It Work?": The Unforeseeable Consequences of Quasi-Failing Technology’
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Acoustic Space: Xchange - Net Audio Network
Launch project
Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The intent was to create a network for alternative net audio content providers and a collaborative platform for creative explorations with real-time sound and live streaming possibilities on the Internet.
Dr.Hugo Heyrman (((Motions of the Mind)))
Launch project.
Museums of the mind, mortions of the mind, doctorhugo.com is a webiste with so much information that it is quickly becoming a major resource for net art enthusiasts. It contains theoretical texts such as History of the Internet and Critique of Net Art, as well as links to documentation of pieces that exist outside of the web. This website is close to becoming an institution on itself, which is not always a bad thing.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] :: (netartreview)
Also hosts Belgian Synesthesia Association
# 'Art and Synesthesia' site of Dr. Hugo Heyrman, Ph.D. in Art Sciences. Are synesthetes people of the future? —to answer this question, and as a consequence of my scientific and artistic passion for Art and Synesthesia, I created this portal on Synesthesia, online since 1995 —to present relevant sources on the art & mind connection, theory, experiments and research on the future of the senses. Homepage of the 'Belgian Synesthesia Association' (BSA).
moddr_your ‘unfriendly’ neighbourhood medialab…
moddr_ came about in 2007 when a group of alumni from the Media Design MA course, at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, decided there was room for another ‘new media’ place in the city next to the already established and rather famous v2_lab. We wanted to create a place that is more accessible to young artists and hackers, without the need for overblown project descriptions and ridiculous budget applications.
The name ‘moddr_’ resembles the dutch word ‘modder‘, meaning mud, and we chose this name to show that a large part of our practice involves the modification (modding) and re-creation of already existing technology. We tend to dislike the idea of contemporary media being labeled ‘new’, and it is part of our mission to display a critical perspective on issues related to this through our artistic practice - basically the lab consists of some very geeky fine-artists…
Art from code - Generator.x
Launch Generator.x
Generator.x is a curatorial platform exploring the use of generative strategies and software processes in digital art, architecture and design. It focuses on a new generation of artists and designers who embrace code as a way of producing new forms of creative expression.
Computational strategies are having an impact in many creative fields. Generator.x was set up to examine the following topics in particular:
Culture Machine, vol 10 Pirate Philosophy
Launch project
Tenth Anniversary Issue, edited by Gary Hall
Table of Contents
Articles
Introduction: Pirate Philosophy
Gary Hall
Pirate Philosophy (Version 1.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Free Content, Free/Libre/Open Media
Gary Hall
Piracy as a Business Force
Adrian Johns
For the Good of the Net: The Pirate Bay as a Strategic Sovereign
Jonas Andersson
Vapor Music
Don Joyce, Negativland
Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation and the End of Recorded Music
Kembrew McLeod
Debord’s Nostalgic Algorithm
Alexander R. Galloway
Source Material Everywhere: The Alfred North Whitehead Remix
Mark Amerika
Liquid Theory TV
Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Pete Woodbridge
New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader
Gary Hall, Clare Birchall
V2 Institute for the Unstable Media
Institute for the Unstable Media
V2_ is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_'s activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks in its own media lab, publishing in the field of art and media technology, and developing an online archive.
onedotzero: adventures in moving image.
http://www.onedotzero.com/home.php
onedotzero: adventures in moving image.
onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts.
activities encompass public events, artist + content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services.
onedotzero is critically acclaimed for producing the world’s most innovative audio-visual festival, onedotzero_adventures in motion. this year’s edition has just commenced an international tour, following sell-out festivals at london’s bfi southbank in november 08. and in buenos aires in september 08.
onedotzero was conceived at the start of the desktop digital revolution in the mid-1990s out of a desire to explore moving image across single screen, interactive and live audio-visual work. today, onedotzero remains committed to providing a home for visionary moving image experimentation and contemporary creative collisions.
