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[spectre] NIMK presents the exhibition The Greater Cloud

2011-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

The Greater Cloud

December 10th - February 5th 2011
opening December 9: 6 - 8 PM

curated by Aleksandra Domanovic, Petra Heck, Oliver Laric and Katja Novitskova

The Greater Cloud is a show in which the Internet as a platform, medium or 
subject matter functions as a source of inspiration for artists and influences 
their artistic practice. The Internet has become banal and ubiquitous. Starting 
point for this exhibition is what this means for a younger generation of 
artists and curators. Elements that are key to the Internet nowadays and form 
the background to The Greater Cloud are: distributed forms of collectivity, the 
sharing and distribution of knowledge, openness of information, circulation of 
digital material as well as formal properties like connectivity, performativity 
or 3D programming elements. The works derive from Internet based materials or 
ideas or processes connected to the Internet.

As a consequence of internet’s characteristics and practice, that are based on 
sharing, distribution and circulation, The Greater Cloud is not only curated by 
NIMk’s curator Petra Heck, but co-curated by the artists/curators Aleksandra 
Domanovic, Oliver Laric, and Katja Novitskova. Everyone gets to fill one space 
while referencing to the theme of the show according to their own opinion, 
taste and style. And in addition to this every visitor can become a co-curator 
too. One of the exhibition spaces can be filled up by the visitor by adding 
artworks found online. A computer with a blog devoted to this exhibition will 
be connected to a beamer so that everyone can browse through and upload things 
to it.

The artists included don't only make digital or online work, but work 
multidisciplinary producing sculptures, video's, photo prints, installations or 
texts. The Greater Cloud consists of “art that exists because of the Internet, 
or is influenced by the Internet,” as the artist Cory Arcangel once said. The 
exhibition continues a conversation about how the Internet has changed 
contemporary art, a matter most recently articulated in an exhibition called 
´Free´ at the New Museum in New York (2010 – 2011) that was curated by Lauren 
Cornell.

NIMk’s curator Petra Heck chose to exhibit works wherein the following elements 
circulate freely: the free floating of information on the Internet resulting in 
ephemerality, temporarility and performativity and on the other hand the hybrid 
of digital, analogue and 3D elements. Artists included in this space are: 
Martijn Hendriks, David Horvitz, Marisa Olson, Jon Rafman, Alexandre Singh, 
Ryan Trecartin, and Artie Vierkant.

Katja Novitskova selected Harm van den Dorpel for a solo exhibition within The 
Greater Cloud that connects the theme of the show to his art practice as an 
ongoing process of assemblage taking place between web, sculpture, painting, 
collage, video, text and a myriad of other materials.

Aleksandra Domanovic looks for new landscapes that emerge from the 
interdependence of telecommunication and geography. The works in her exhibition 
range from Lance Wakeling's topographical following of the transatlantic 
submarine cable, to a commissioned text by Pablo Larios that both map out 
alternative terrains.

Further, Oliver Laric will show a piece by Marjolijn Dijkman. It’s a remake of 
a table that was originally used by the lunar society members, a 18th century 
enlightenment society that was influential during the industrial revolution. 
The table was a meeting point where the ideas for some of the most significant 
technological changes were formed. This 21st century version of the table will 
also function as a stage for talks and the developments of ideas and on top of 
the table works will be positioned by artists like Pamela Rosenkranz as well as 
by people working outside the art world.

December 11, 15.00: Artist talks by Harm van den Dorpel and Lance Wakeling.

Thanks to: Shapeways


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T 020 6237101
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[spectre] Identity Bureau Workshop: How to make a new identity by Heath Bunting

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

workshop

Identity Bureau Workshop: How to make a new identity

20 October 2011, 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM

By Heath Bunting

Date: Thursday, 20 October 2011
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk)
Keizersgracht 264
Amsterdam


An identity is a mutable object. It’s negotiated between people, organizations, 
and institutions, formalized in documentation, actions, and possessions. In 
this workshop Heath Bunting (UK) shows how you create your own legal identity. 
As Bunting demonstrates, identities can be constructed over time by developing 
relationships to place a given “person” within a web of shopping cards, cell 
phones, bills, government correspondence, and other “personal” data. Identity 
Bureau challenges the idea of personhood by showing how materially produced an 
identity is.

Heath Bunting explores the porosity of borders. Often performing as an 
interventionist or prankster and finding form within everyday acts of 
resistance, Bunting's work reaches its public through systems of documentation 
and distribution including photography, print publishing and the web. 
Dismantling the divisions separating art and everyday life, Bunting prioritises 
information and action. His work is based on creating open and democratic 
systems by modifying communication technologies and social systems.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants. The participation fee is € 10,00 (€ 
5,00 for students) including refreshments and entrance to the exhibition The 
Art of Hacking.

For more information and registration, please email to an...@nimk.nl


Heath Bunting‘s work straddles various modes of action, documentation and 
visualisation. Bunting is best known for his involvement in the formation of 
the net.art movement in the 1990s and as a founder of irational.org. His 
practice may be viewed in parallel with the tendencies of historical movements 
such as Conceptual Art or the Situationist International. Dismantling the 
divisions separating art and everyday life, Bunting prioritises information and 
action. His work is based on creating open and democratic systems by modifying 
communication technologies and social systems. He explores the porosity of 
borders, both in the physical space and online. Often performing as an 
interventionist or prankster and finding form within everyday acts of 
resistance, Bunting's work reaches its public through systems of documentation 
and distribution including photography, print publishing and the web.

Bunting’s works have been commissioned and exhibited at a range of venues, 
including The InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Apex Art, New York; The 
New Museum, New York; Tate, London; Documenta X, Kassel; The Banff Centre, 
Canada; Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield; Art Teleporticia, Moscow; The Arts 
Council England; Proboscis, London; The Watershed, Bristol; and DA2 London.

Some of his well-known works are: readme.html (1997), which relates to the 
issue on the Internet of visibility versus invisibility. BorderXing Guide (Tate 
commission, 2002) in which he comments on the way in which governments and 
associated bureaucracies restrict movement between borders. The Status Project 
(2004–2008) examines how the construction of our ‘official identity’ as a 
collection of data influences how we can navigate the social space, the 
Internet and private or governmental databases. And Map of Terrorism (Tate 
commission, 2008), in which he plots on a map the information required when 
making an online purchase in relation to new legislation defined in the UK 
government’s 2006 Terrorism Act.

This workshop is organised by NIMk and SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public 
Domain.
www.nimk.nl
www.skor.nl


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1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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[spectre] CALL FOR ARTISTIC RESIDENCE IN MOBILE MEDIA LAB (BRAZIL AND THE NETHERLANDS)

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

CALL FOR ARTISTIC RESIDENCE IN MOBILE MEDIA LAB (BRAZIL AND THE NETHERLANDS)
Organised by Vivo ARTE.MOV  NIMk (Netherlands Media Arts Institute)

Vivo ARTE.MOV and NIMk are excited to launch a collaborative residency to 
develop an art project or workshop programme for mobile lab and presentation 
platforms. The residence is for two people: a curator or artist living or 
residing in Brazil, and a curator or artist living in the Netherlands. The 
total residence period will be 2 months, divided between Amsterdam and São 
Paulo.

Portugese Version: 
http://nimk.nl/eng/edital-de-residencia-artistica-em-lab-movel

CONTEXT
In August 2011, NIMk started touring its Media Art Mobile (MKM) and would like 
to further develop its programme. Vivo ARTE.MOV is currently developing its 
mobile media art lab, and is searching for input for the development of a 
platform to extend the current actions of its programme. In addition to the 
technical infrastructure of the media art mobiles, the art project/workshop 
programme can also draw on the organisations’ rich video and media arts 
collections.

The collaboration aims to investigate a mobile platform in all its various 
contexts. Because of their nomadic character and appearance, mobile media 
labs/platforms can help to create temporary environments for curiosity and 
openness, and enable a crossing of diverse cultural, social and economic 
backgrounds. Mediation plays a crucial role in the interaction between such an 
approach and its audience.

PURPOSE
We are looking for art projects or workshop programmes that involve local 
communities in innovative, meaningful and exciting ways. Moreover, the 
proposals should question how temporary interventions facilitated by media labs 
could generate meaning within a specific context for local groups, and/or a 
more ad hoc audience. In other words, what components do these interventions 
(workshop or art project) need to address the interests and needs of the 
audience, and how can their impact last beyond the very limited time period of 
the intervention itself?

The art project or workshop programme should be directed towards one or more 
target groups in the following contexts:
1. Popular culture and media arts festivals, (such as DEAF2012 in Rotterdam  
Vivo ARTE.MOV Festival in São Paulo);
2. Higher education institutions, schools and vocational organisations 
(students between 15 and 17 years of age);
3. Health care institutions.

TIMELINE CALL
Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2011
Final decision: 1 December 2011
Duration / timing of residency: 2 months in the period February to April 2012

OUTLINE OF THE RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY
The residency is organised by Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam 
 Arte.mov, Brasil (more details below).

The residency is aimed at developing a workshop programme or art project with a 
strong participatory component for the organisations’ mobile media art labs. 
The conceptual framework should be centred on the critical inquiry of a mobile 
platform in mediated contexts, as outlined above.

The Brazilian and the Dutch curator/artist will spend a month in each city, 
starting in Amsterdam in February/March and moving on to São Paulo in 
March/April. Although the residents do not need to develop a common project, we 
do want to encourage a continuous dialogue during their research and 
development process, and they would work in the same cities at the same time.
The organisations will provide targeted support (in the form of resources, 
space, technical support, local context and time) relevant to each stage of the 
project development. Depending on the nature of the selected 
curatorial/artistic project, additional partners will be sought in Brazil and 
the Netherlands who can provide additional think- and/or workspaces during the 
residency and who will optimise the process and results.

The residency will also offer the opportunity to explore the potential for 
collaboration and exchange with creative peers across the organisations, and 
share knowledge as widely as possible through a structured programme including:
- Regularly scheduled conceptual and technical critiques;
- Online documentation of the project process;
- Research dissemination through a range of social media;
- Scheduled events for discussion with both peers and public;
- Facilitated meetings with other cultural and media arts organisations.

At the end of the programme, the curator/artist in residence will be expected 
to present and demonstrate the results of their project and produce a research 
report that considers process, findings and value. The creative process and 
production phase should be documented by the curator/artist in a blog. This 
will be published online with an evaluation report and disseminated through the 
wider networks of the organisations involved.

We offer:
- A 1-month residency period at each of the organisations. Specific dates at 
each location will be determined in consultation

[spectre] Naked on Pluto

2010-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

Naked on Pluto

Multiplayer Text Adventure Game on Facebook

You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you 
like to do?

Naked on Pluto is a Multiplayer Text Adventure Game on Facebook. You wake up on 
Pluto, in a city under the rule of Elastic Versailles revision 14, a corrupted 
Artificial Intelligence and former entertainment colony. It used to be the Las 
Vegas of the Solar System, a true paradise for consumers and corporations 
alike. Until something snapped... What happened and how to escape?

Versailles is a capital of convenience, a non stop 24hr zone of endless 
pleasure, provided by Pluto’s huge entertainment corporations. Amuse yourself 
and your friends for hours on end collecting meaningless tokens, talking to our 
bland robots, or simply relax and take in the staggering conformity of your new 
home. Take absolutely no notice of the areas you aren’t allowed to go into, 
even if it were possible to break out of the zone around the Palace, why would 
you possibly want to – or indeed why change the core structures of this world 
when they have been so excellently taylored to fit your every desire?

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly 
pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, 
carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with 
an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are 
being used.

Naked on Pluto is developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN 
Laboraties and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, 
Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. The project is licensed Copyleft.

The research and development process is documented and can be followed on 
http://pluto.kuri.mu and http://facebook.com/is.so.convenient

The game can be played on http://naked-on-pluto.net

Naked on Pluto is also part of the international touring exhibition Funware now 
on show until January 16, 2011 at MU Eindhoven.

Biographies

Dave Griffiths was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 
8bit computers, and is now dedicated to changing the world with free software, 
live animation and noise. He works as a self employed artist/programmer, mainly 
working with the FoAM art laboratory and performs as part of slub - a 
livecoding band. He creates installations, open source software and teaches 
workshops around the themes of games, music and the lisp programming language. 
Past work includes computer graphics for games, feature film special effects 
and machine vision research for Sony's EyeToy group.

Marloes de Valk (NL) is a Dutch (software) artist. She studied Sound and Image 
at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, specializing in abstract compositional 
computer games, HCI and crashing computers. Her work consists of audiovisual 
performances and installations, investigating machine theatre and narratives of 
digital processes. She has participated in exhibitions throughout Europe, 
teaches workshops, gives lectures and has published articles on Free/Libre/Open 
Source Software, free culture and art (a.o. in the Contemporary Music Review 
and Archive 2020. Sustainable archiving of born digital cultural content). She 
is editor of FLOSS Art (OpenMute, 2008) as well as the Digital Artists' 
Handbook (folly and GOTO10, 2008). She is a former member of artist collective 
GOTO10, and has helped develop the puredyne GNU/Linux distribution and make art 
festival. She is currently collaborating with Aymeric Mansoux and Dave 
Griffiths on a social gaming project.

Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist, musician and media researcher.
n 2003, he founded GOTO10 with Thomas Vriet, a non profit organization and 
artist collective, with the goal to promote the use and support of free 
software in electronic music and media art creation. Aymeric has been active in 
the collective until 2010 and initiated several projects such as: 'make art', a 
yearly international no nonsense festival for software artists using and 
writing free software; 'Puredyne', a popular live GNU/Linux distribution for 
creative media and the 'FLOSS Art publication', the first collection of essays 
on FLOSS and digital art production.
Since 2009, he is mentor and co-supervisor of study for the networked media 
branch of the Media Design and Communication Master of the Piet Zwart Institute 
in Rotterdam (NL). Aymeric is also an MPhil/PhD student at the Centre for 
Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, researching online art and 
design communities, free culture licenses and resources, and distributed 
collaboration.

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[spectre] NIMk Newsletter

2010-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

NIMK Newsletter

Announcement
VIDA 13.0 Award for Sonia Cillari: Sensitive to Pleasure

NIMk is happy to announce that Sonia Cillari's interactive installation and
performance Sensitive to Pleasure has won the first prize in the VIDA 13.0 Art
Artificial Life International Competition. VIDA is organized yearly by
Fundacion Telefonica (ES) and awards prizes for artistic projects using
technology, which offer innovative approaches to research into artificial life.

In Sensitive to Pleasure, Sonia Cillari uses the human body as interface. The
audience is invited to participate in this interactive performance, but will
inflict physical pain and pleasure to the artist while doing so.
Sensitive to Pleasure was co-developed as an Artist in Residence project at
NIMk.
A registration of the project is part of NIMk's current exhibition: Technology
Requested.

Sensitive to Pleasure was co-produced by STEIM, Netherlands Media Art Institute
in Amsterdam and Claudio Buziol Foundation in Venice.
Supported by Fonds BKVB and Optofonica Laboratory for Immersive ArtScience in
Amsterdam.
Thanks to CYNETART Festival, Dresden for construction of the ambisonic cube.
http://stp.nimk.nl/
http://www.soniacillari.net/

More info:
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/es/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/index.htm
(link in Spanish)

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Distribution
NIMk distributes computer and internet art

Sensitive to Pleasure by Sonia Cillari is, from now on, in distribution by the
Netherlands Media Art Institute. For more information on the floorplan, fee,
equipment, building conditions and shipment, curators and programmers are
welcome to contact NIMk's distribution staff.

Sensitive to Pleasure is the first work announced as part of a new distribution
project by NIMk: the distribution of computer- and internet-based art. Since
2010, NIMk extends its existing collection with a broader selection of media
art. NIMk promotes these works and facilitates their presentation at national
and international festivals, manifestations and exhibitions at various art
institutions.

NIMk and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (V2_, Rotterdam) start
distributing computer- and internet-based works at the same moment. Both Dutch
institutions join forces to introduce their dissemination and distribution
services for media art.
The full selection of artists and works will be officially announced early 2011.
http://www.v2.nl/

More info:
http://nimk.nl/eng/distribution/distribution-of-computer-and-net-based-works

Launch
Transmediale 2011: launch new media distribution

The Netherlands Media Art Institute and V2_ collaborate on the production of a
shared catalogue of represented artworks.
To celebrate the release of this catalogue, and to launch both distribution
initiatives to a German and international audience, NIMk and V2_ curated a
small showcase of artworks from their catalogue for the Transmediale.11
festival in Berlin (February 1-6, 2011). http://www.transmediale.de/

More info:
http://nimk.nl/eng/calendar/transmediale11-launch-of-distribution-computer-and-net-based-art

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[spectre] NIMk Newsletter

2010-12-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

NIMK Newsletter

Announcement
VIDA 13.0 Award for Sonia Cillari: Sensitive to Pleasure

More info:
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/es/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/index.htm
(link in Spanish)

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Distribution
NIMk distributes computer and internet art

More info:
http://nimk.nl/eng/distribution/distribution-of-computer-and-net-based-works

Launch
Transmediale 2011: launch new media distribution

More info:
http://nimk.nl/eng/calendar/transmediale11-launch-of-distribution-computer-and-net-based-art

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[spectre] CALL FOR PROPOSALS Shared Artist in Residence

2010-10-28 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Shared Artist in Residence:
Kitchen Budapest (HU)
Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam (NL)
Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol (UK)
5daysoff /Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)

CALL
5daysoff, Pervasive Media Studio, Kitchen Budapest and NIMk launch an 
open call for a cross-European residency programme.


We’re looking for interesting artists seeking time and space to 
research, produce and present projects at the intersection of art, 
mobility and culture involving audience participation. The programme 
will support early stage ideas that utilise pervasive technologies and 
free/open source software. This is a valuable opportunity to explore 
process and develop experimental works within four unique collaborative 
environments to be presented in public space and/or festival environments.


WHAT
5days off 2011 will feature an exhibition that focuses on art works 
questioning and examining new production methods: projects that were 
produced using online means for production and creation of content such 
as crowd sourcing, that challenge the notion of artists as single 
creator or author of a work and experiment with notions of co-authorship 
and co-creation by e.g. involving others, knowingly or unconsciously in 
the development of a work.


In this context, we are particularly interested in projects that deal 
with the theme of mobility and involve the audience as co-creators in 
public space in a playful, dynamic or performative way by using mobile, 
wireless or sensory technologies in innovative and surprising ways. We 
are looking for projects that trigger individual actions/experiences 
that lead to a unique collective experience. Communication towards and 
participation of the audience is crucial. The project is situated in the 
context of electronic pop culture.


WHEN
Projects will be developed during the period of December 2010 until May 
2011. During this period beta tests will happen at 5daysoff in Amsterdam 
and at Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. The 5daysoff festival takes 
place between 2-6 March 2011, and the accompanying exhibition from 18 
February to 29 April 2011. The final work will be presented at a public 
festival.


WHERE
The residency will be hosted by four European organisations: Kitchen 
Budapest, NIMk, 5daysoff/Melkweg and Pervasive Media Studio. Time will 
need to be spent at each location and the organizations will provide 
targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, 
local context and time) relevant to each stage of project development.


The residency will also offer the opportunity to explore the potential 
for collaboration and exchange with creative peers across the 
organisations; and share knowledge as widely as possible through a 
structured, facilitated programme including:

- Regularly scheduled conceptual and technical critiques
- Online documentation of project process
- Research dissemination through a range of social media
- Scheduled events offering the opportunity for discussion with both 
peers and public


At the end of the programme, participant(s) will be expected to present 
and demonstrate their work (location/festival t.b.c.) and produce a 
research report that considers process, findings and value. Event 
documentation and reports will be published online and disseminated 
through the wider networks.


-

We offer:
- Residency period at each of the different organisations (time and 
location will depend on the project) in the period of December 2010 – 
May 2011. - Specific dates at each location will be determined in 
collaboration with the selected artist.

- A modest artist fee
- Production budget (including support of travel and accommodation, 
accommodation is not provided for in Amsterdam)
- Public presentation of research at Kitchen Budapest and NIMk, public 
launch at 5daysoff/Melkweg and public beta testing at Pervasive Media Studio

- Dissemination of the research report

Requirements:
- Proposals are welcome from professional artists worldwide
- The concept should fit within the overall themes as described above
- The work should be created using free/open source software and utilise 
mobile, wireless or sensory technologies.


The artist must:
- Be willing and able to travel to Amsterdam, Budapest and Bristol for 
residency periods with dedicated research time at each organization 
(exact dates and period will be made in accordance with the artist)
- Have an open, rigorous, experimental approach and be keen to work in 
collaborative settings with people from different disciplines

- Be willing to openly and thoroughly document the artistic process online
- Participate in events, critiques and discussions
- Have a willingness to contribute to the lab

[spectre] Reminder: Stream and symposium chat – Positions in flux

2009-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

On Friday, May 8, the symposium 'Positions in flux: On the changing role 
of the artist and institution in the networked society' will take place 
at the Trouw in Amsterdam. The symposium is organised by the Netherlands 
Media Art Institute.


The symposium is streamed live. You will find the stream on the 
symposium's page on http://www.nimk.nl
We invite you to actively contribute to the debate through the chat. So 
called chat agents at the symposium will follow and respond to your 
online questions and comments and will bring them to the attention of 
the audience and panel. Chat address: http://www.nimk.nl/chat


We are hoping for a critical and inspiring discussion.
Please find the full program and start times on the NIMk website. 
http://www.nimk.nl


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[spectre] Update speakers Symposium Positions in Flux

2009-05-05 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Symposium

Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in 
the networked society


Symposium venue: Trouwgebouw Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 131, Amsterdam 
http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl

Friday, May 8th, 2009 9:00 - 18:00 hrs
Organised by the Netherlands Media Art Institute

The symposium will center on some of the major questions regarding the 
current and future development of contemporary art and digital culture: 
Which impact has art on politics and can it contribute to the solution 
of conflicts? How does the wide spread of digital technologies influence 
the creation of art and mould individual digital cultures? Are there new 
models of art production and curating coming up? The three panel 
discussions follow a clear thematic scheme and try to bring in as much 
expertise and viewpoints as possible. The conference language is English.

More information: http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=lid=297

Live stream: http://www.nimk.nl
Live chat: http://www.nimk.nl/chat

LAST UPDATE SPEAKERS
Art goes politics
Wafaa Bilal, artist (IQ/USA)
Hans Bernhard (at), artist, UEBERMORGEN.COM
Knowbotic Research, artist group (D/CH), artist in residence at NIMk 2008/09
Moderated by Chris Keulemans, writer and journalist (NL)

New territories and cultures of the digital
Nat Muller, independent curator and critic (NL)
Bronac Ferran (UK), researcher, consultant and founding member of bricolabs
Marcus Neustetter, media artist, curator and co-founder of Trinity 
Session (SA)

Péter György, theoretician, advisor of Kitchen Budapest (HU)
Moderated by Rob van Kranenburg, thinker, networker and author (NL/B)

Open Source – A scheme for art production and curating?
Jaromil, dyne.org and researcher at NIMk
Femke Snelting (NL) and Renée Turner (USA), De Geuzen
Marcos Garcia, director of Interactivos, Medialab Prado (E)
Joasia Krysa, curator, founder of KURATOR (P/UK)
Moderated by Josephine Bosma, theoretician and critic (NL)

During the lunch break intervention by Silver  True

REGISTRATION: 9:00 - 9:45 hrs
ENTRANCE: 15 euro (Students 10 euro).
RESERVATIONS: Please make reservations by sending you name and contact 
information to jk...@nimk.nl


Here we are – There we go
Special opening 30 years NIMk open house weekend
May 8, 9:30 p.m.
The Netherlands Media Art Institute is celebrating its 30th anniversary! 
We are doing so with an open house on 8, 9 and 10 May, a long weekend 
full of discussions, artist talks, performances, installations, tours 
and a party. On Friday May 8 we invite everybody to see the preview of 
the installations which are presented at the institute during the 
weekend with a special opening of the installation of Marnix de Nijs, 
Exploded views – Remapping Firenze and the installation of Jan van 
Nuenen, Physics Distorter 1.1.

See the final program: http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=lid=298

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 Ev Amsterdam
http://www.nimk.nl


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[spectre] Netherlands Media Art Institute 30 years: Here we are - There we go!

2009-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Here we are - there we go!
8, 9 and 10 May 2009 - 30 years NIMk open house weekend

=Symposium Friday 8 May from 9:00 – 18:00 hrs Trouwgebouw Amsterdam
=Projection on the NIMk building by Jan van Nuenen Friday and Saturday 
starting at sunset

=Open house Saturday 9 May 12:00 – 21:00 hrs
=Party Saturday 9 May 21:00 – 03:00 hrs
=Open huis Sunday 10 May 12:00 – 18:00 hrs

The Netherlands Media Art Institute is 30 years old! We're going to 
celebrate that with a long weekend full of discussions, visual art and 
technology. We raise a glass to the future, and invite everyone to join 
us in thinking about the art of tomorrow, about media art and digital 
culture in all shapes and varieties. What fundamental changes are 
heading our way as a result of technological innovation? What influence 
is the digital environment of tomorrow having on art and artists today? 
And what does all this mean for an institute like the Media Art Institute?


From May 8 through 10 there are presentations, performances, 
interventions, installations and projections in, on and around our 
building on the Keizersgracht. There is a conference in the Trouwgebouw, 
where we can talk about the future of media art together with artists, 
people from the field of culture, thinkers and innovators, under the 
title Positions in flux. We're holding an Open House the whole 
weekend: the public is invited to drop in for conversations with artists 
in an open and relaxed atmosphere, to view the results from the Artlab, 
admire the designs for a new media art-mobile, see our newly refurbished 
mediatheque, and of course there will be lots of media art to see and 
experience. During the 'Open Platform: Think Ahead!' artists can make 
their pitch for new projects, one of which will finally be honored with 
a grant toward realisation. In the online project 'How I fell in love 
with Media Art' everyone who wants to can upload a short film, text or 
audio fragment in which they testify to their love for media art. Tell 
us – and others – why media art is one of the great loves of your life! 
Finally, there is a PARTY with dj's and performances and there are 
workshops for young. From May 8 through 10 you can meet the past, 
present and future in the Netherlands Media Art Institute.


_Symposium_
Positions in flux: artists and institutions in the networked society
Location: Trouwgebouw Amsterdam
The symposium will center on some of the major parameters for the 
current and future development of contemporary art. In particular it 
will reflect on the aspect of cultural sustainability of art projects, 
art and technology initiatives and art curating. The symposium is 
comprised of three mutually connected panels:
+ Art goes politics with Hans Bernhard, Wafaa Bilal and Knowbotic 
Research, moderated by Chris Keulemans
+ New territories and cultures of the digital with Bronac Ferran, Nat 
Muller, Marcus Neustetter and Adam Somlai-Fischer, moderated by Rob van 
Kranenburg
+ Open Source – A scheme for art production and curating? with Marcos 
Garcia, Jaromil, Joasia Krysa, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner moderated 
by Josephine Bosma

Entrance 15,- (students 10,-)

The symposium will be streamed from the symposium venue, Trouw 
Amsterdam. Online audiences will have the opportunity to participate in 
the debate in online chat. The results of the debate and its main 
contributions are reviewed and published online on the new Media Art 
Platform. a href='http://www.mediaartplatform.org' target='_blank' 
name='www.mediaartplatform.org' class='bold'www.mediaartplatform.org/a


More information and registration: http://www.nimk.nl

_Open house_
* Installations // Interventions by Jan van Nuenen, Physics Destorter; 
Flirtman, Silver  True; Lilia Perez Romero, Frontera v.2; Marnix de 
Nijs, Exploded views – Mapping Florence; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry 
Gelfand, Sonolevitation, with live spectroscopic video feed by Bas van 
Koolwijk; Constant Dullaart and the International Dance Party by Adad 
Hannah and Niklas Roy
* Open Platform Think Ahead -- pitch your new media art work more 
information: http://www.nimk.nl
*Mini backstages: Driessens  Verstappen, Erwin Olaf, Constant Dullaart 
and eddie d


_Other activities:_
*Presentations design new Media art Mobile (in collaboration with SKOR)
*Presentation new viewing set by Richard van Os (Üppig)  Annekatrien 
van Meegen

*Tours through the collection
*Curator for one day
*Open house: artlab, preservation and mediatheque
*How I fell in love with media art http://www.youtube.com/user/nimk30jaar
*WORKSHOPS for children age 4-6, 8-11 and 12-16 by Kristina Andersen, 
Audrey Samson and eddie d

*SCREENINGS Elephants Dream by Blender and works from the NIMk collection

_Party_
DJ's RedNoseDistrikt and performances by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry 
Gelfand (sound spatialization by TeZ), Feedback Society and TokTek vs MNK


Program subject to change more details: http://www.nimk.nl

Thanks to: Mondriaan Foundation; Amsterdams

[spectre] Media Art Platform: CALL FOR BLOGGERS!

2009-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Media Art Platform: CALL FOR BLOGGERS!

This Spring, the Netherlands Media Art institute will launch the Media 
Art Platform, a networking website for people active in media art.


For the Media Art Platform, we are looking for practitioners who are, 
during the course of this year, interested in contributing a (short) 
weblog about their work. We invite researchers and media artists to 
submit proposals for a future weblog of a maximum of 10 short posts.
If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to write the proposed 
weblog on the Media Art Platform. Each blog post is rewarded with 30 
EUR, with a maximum of 300 EUR per contributor (max. 10 postings).


From all submitted proposals, four or five will be selected.

Requirements
your blog is preferably about practical aspects of your work. Ideally, 
it should give a unique, ‘behind the scenes’ insight in a working 
process: the development of an art project, the preparation of a 
publication or event, a research process...
ideally, the blog is interesting for a large number of people who are 
active in, or interested in, media art

the blog is written in English
blog posts are short and to-the-point (max. 300 words)
your weblog must be written in the course of a few months between 15 May 
and 31 December 2009. Please indicate which months or which period are 
most convenient for you.
you remain the copyright owner of your postings and you are allowed to 
re-post them on your website or on other platforms, provided that you 
mention that the writing was commissioned for the Media Art Platform.


We are especially interested in weblogs that show a personal 
perspective; especially related to the development of (future) art and 
research projects!


Please submit the following:
a short proposal for your weblog (max. 300 words)
your CV and/or biography
a link to your website (if you have one)
one or more examples of previous writing

Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2009
Please send your submissions to i...@mediaartplatform.nl
Selected/accepted writers will be informed around 15 May.
--

Marieke Istha
Communication
is...@nimk.nl

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
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[spectre] Book-launch: ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Edward Shanken, April 17

2009-04-03 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


ART AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

BOOK-LAUNCH // DISCUSSION // PERFORMANCE // CELEBRATION

NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE
Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam
Friday, 17 April, 2009, 5pm, free entrance, please let us know if you 
want to come: i...@nimk.nl


To celebrate the publication of Art and Electronic Media, the most 
comprehensive and authoritative survey of new media art, NIMk will host 
the international book-launch.


• Edward Shanken, the author, will share insights and highlights, answer 
questions, and autograph copies of the book, for sale at 37% discount 
(cash only)

• Annet Dekker will lead a discussion with the author and the audience
• Yolande Harris (NIMk resident artist, 2008) will perform new 
electronic music

• DJ Sniff will spin yarns of digital vinyl during the reception

Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon, 2009) demonstrates the formidable 
history of artistic uses of electronic media. Over 200 artists and 
institutions from more than thirty countries are represented. It enables 
the rich genealogy of art and electronic media to be seen – literally 
and figuratively – as central to the histories of art and visual culture.


Praise for Art and Electronic Media:
• “It is a superb work of scholarship, marked by clarity, subtlety, and 
comprehensive vision. Art and Electronic Media does us all a great 
service. More than any other publication that I know of, it will bring 
our field of practice into the mainstream of art.” - Roy Ascott

• “It’s the best book of its kind” – Casey Reas
• “This book will be quoted for decades to come” – Eduardo Kac

Edward Shanken is Universitair Docent, New Media, University of 
Amsterdam. Expert on historic and emerging new media practices in visual 
culture. http://artexetra.com


Annet Dekker is program manager at Virtueel Platform and former head of 
exhibitions and education at NIMk. Also an independent curator and Ph.D. 
candidate at Goldsmiths College.


Yolande Harris is a composer and artist working with sound, image and 
space in a technologically extended environment. Artist-in-residence at 
NIMk in 2007-8. http://yolandeharris.net


DJ Sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a turntablist and researcher/curator 
in music technology. Artistic Director of STEIM, Studio for 
Electro-Instrumental Music. http://www.djsniff.com/


For more information on the book, see 
http://artelectronicmedia.wordpress.com


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
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[spectre] SYMPOSIUM: Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society

2009-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in 
the networked society


Friday, May 8th, 2009

Organised by Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam

Symposium venue: Trouw Amsterdam Wibautstraat 131, Amsterdam 
www.trouwamsterdam.nl


The symposium 'Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and 
institution in the networked society' will center on some of the major 
parameters for the current and future development of contemporary art. 
In particular it will reflect on the aspect of cultural sustainability 
of art projects, art and technology initiatives and art curating.


'Positions in flux' will give floor to international artists, 
theoreticians, critics, cultural producers and aims to initiate a truly 
critical debate. The symposium is designed for a broad audience working 
in the field of contemporary culture and art, with a desire to 
understand what comes ahead and how to respond to these changes on an 
artistic or institutional level. 'Positions in flux' will provide a 
platform and “thinkspace” for artists, cultural workers, theoreticians 
and a broader public to envision the future in our field and to provide 
us with the necessary information to make choices for a meaningful and 
sustainable development of society and culture.


The three panel discussions follow a clear thematic scheme and try to 
bring in as much expertise and viewpoints as possible. The panels are 
interlinked and designed to initiate an ongoing discussion among the 
participants.


The symposium will be streamed from the symposium venue, Trouw 
Amsterdam. Online audiences will have the opportunity to participate in 
the debate in the live discussion forum. The results of the debate and 
its main contributions are reviewed and published online on the new 
Media Art Platform. www.mediaartplatform.org


The symposium is part of the 'Here we are – There we go' programme at 
the Netherlands Media Art Institute, May 8th – 10th, 2009 which takes 
place on the occasion of the Institute’s 30th anniversary. 'Here we are 
– There we go' celebrates the Institute’s achievements in these thirty 
years and plans for the future with an inspiring open house weekend of 
artist talks, performances, installations, tours and a party.


'Positions in flux' is made possible with the kind support of the 
Mondriaan Foundation.

The conference language is English.

Please contact: i...@nimk.nl for inquiries

ENTRANCE:
15 euro (Students 10 euro). You can buy your ticket in advance at the 
reception of the NIMk (sale starts May 1th) or you can pay at the venue 
location until a half hour before the symposium starts.

Including tea, coffee, reception at the NIMk at the end of the day

RESERVATIONS:
Please make reservations by sending you name and contact information to 
i...@nimk.nl


Speakers and panels
Please note that speakers and times are subject to change.

9:00 – 10:00 Registration

9:45 Welcome and Introduction
by Heiner Holtappels, director of NIMk and Susanne Jaschko, the 
symposium's curator


10.30 – 12.30 Panel 1: Art goes politics
In this session we will discuss the potential of art to contribute to 
global and local problems such as religious conflicts, environmental or 
social crisis. Or is art constrained to raising awareness only? Should 
art become an agency for political and social affairs at all? How to 
successfully implement and conduct art projects in zones of crisis? What 
does it take to successfully implement and conduct projects in zones of 
crisis? How far do these projects benefit from the dubious attention of 
the mass media?


Hans Bernhard (AT), artist, UBERMORGEN.COM
http://www.ubermorgen.com

Wafaa Bilal, artist (IQ/US)
http://www.wafaabilal.com

Knowbotic Research, artist group (DE/CH), artist in residence at NIMk 
2008/2009

http://www.krcf.org

Moderated by Chris Keulemans, writer and journalist (NL) (tbc)
http://roadtrip.submarinechannel.com/content/view.jsp?mapid=5986itemid=4897menu=true 



12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 – 15.30 Panel 2: New territories and cultures of the digital
This panel will look at the geographical shift that media culture 
currently undergoes and that will shape the future of this field. In the 
past, Europe, North America and Japan were at the forefront of digital 
production, design, art and technological research. Now that digital 
technologies become available at lower prices and spread more widely on 
the globe, new digital communities flourish. This panel looks 
specifically at new initiatives and bottom-up organisations in other 
parts of the world such as East Europe, the Middle East, Africa and 
South America, trying to understand what characterizes these 
initiatives. In how far do local and national cultures shape digital 
culture? Do these initiatives share common experiences and challenges, 
or is there no common ground to be found? Which kind of art arises from 
these new nodes on the digital map? How can we support the

[spectre] TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION - Workshops by Linda Hilfling

2009-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION
Workshops by Linda Hilfling
March 21

Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, http://www.nimk.nl

TERRITORIAL IN/-/FORMATION

territorial
adj 1: of or relating to a territory; 'the territorial government of the 
Virgin Islands'; 'territorial claims made by a country'
2: displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders; 
'territorial behavior'; 'strongly territorial birds' [ant: nonterritorial]
3: of or relating to the local vicinity;'territorial waters'[ant: 
extraterritorial] n 1: nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial 
military unit 2: a territorial military unit [syn: territorial reserve]


in
The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to 
surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs 
signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within 
circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, 
confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different 
applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is 
interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.


in-
An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, 
incapable, inapt.


formation
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. The 
manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; 
conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.


information
The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. Any 
fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated 
by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum 
that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; 
intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.


This workshop examines the performative gaps in between laws and their 
structure of participation in offline as well as online territories. A 
number of casestudies and artistic projects will serve as the starting 
point for a discussion of the different, yet interacting materialities 
of territorial information.
Physical spaces as well as information architectures are being explored: 
From the art of misspelling as an intervention into the corrective info 
regimes of search engines, to a house on wheels as a circumvention of 
building regulations or the extra-territorial paradox of virtual 
embassies. Following these examples, the participants are encouraged to 
work individually or in groups developing their own interventions or 
strategies for mapping out territorial in/-/formation.


Workshop programme:
11.00-13.00: Introduction
Casestudies and projects:
As a point of departure for the discussion, Linda will present different 
cases and projects that explore the greyzone of informational 
territoriality. In different ways each of the cases points out 
occurencies where the territorial structures breaks or where their 
incompleteness are being revealed.

13.00-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-14.30: A discussion of the mornings presentation. Subjects of 
interest are being defined and participants are selecting working areas.

14.30-16.00: The participants work individual or in groups
16.00-17.00: Roundtable presentations and final discussion.

A small reader will be provided online one week before the actual 
workshop. This reader is voluntary reading, but might be a source of 
inspiration before or after the workshop. Participants are welcome to 
bring projects which they are already working on.

Feel free to email any questions to info [at] gatepeepin [dot] org .

Linda Hilfling (Odense, Denmark, 1975) has a background in studies of 
filmmaking, architecture, urban planning and media design. Her interest 
in those fields is founded in an attention to the structures they are 
part of and how practice is inscribed in but also re-forming these 
structures. This has lead her to interventions within existing 
media-structures.
Works range from concepts for using ATM-machines or surveillance cameras 
as local-media platforms to the Misspelling Generator - a firefox 
extension that circumvents Google's selfcensorship and rigid information 
structure. She is also the co-curator and initiator of the Art of the 
Overhead – a media archaeological festival celebrating the overhead 
projector ( http://www.overheads.org/ ).
Linda graduated at the Danish Royal Academy of Art, School of 
Architecture, Copenhagen (BA Architecture) in 2003 and graduated at Piet 
Zwart Institute (MA Media Design) in 2008. Linda stayed as an 
artist-in-residence at NIMk in 2008. http://www.nimk.nl


Date: Saturday March 21, 10.30-17.00h

Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam

Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail + your cv and a brief 
description of your motivation for attending the workshop to an...@nimk.nl
To ensure a place, please register before March 15. Places are limited 
to 15.


Cost: euro 15,- / 10,-

[spectre] NIMk: Opening exhibition Speaking Out Loud

2008-11-03 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


NIMk presents:

Opening exhibition Speaking Out Loud
Friday 14 November 17.00 hour

During the opening of the group exhibition Speaking Out Loud there will 
be three performances by Omer Krieger (IL), Bas Böttcher (DE) and the 
Dutch hiphop artist Blaxtar. The exhibition is on show until january 24, 
2009.


OMER KRIEGER, LIVE COVERAGE
'Live Coverage' is a public system covering speech and publishing text 
in a physical social space. The system is activated by people in a 
process of live reporting, based on an infrastructure of microphones, a 
listening station and a text display. The keywords heard in the sites of 
coverage are published by the human reporter on a screen, in constant 
and questionably immediate updates. Live Coverage is proposed as a 
permanent media installation for public spaces, a form of journalism.
At the opening of 'Speaking Out Loud', Omer Krieger will cover 
conversations of the visitors. Programming by Gil Rimon.


BAS BÖTTCHER
The rap poetry of Bas Böttcher and his band Zentrifugal is closely 
connected to American Slam Poetry. The genre uses distinct pictures 
drawn with words. The first poetry slams took place in the late 1980s 
in American bars, cafés and clubs. One of them was the Nuyorican Poets 
Cafe in New York, where young American poets organised literary 
competitions they called Slams.
At the beginning of the 1990s the first slam competitions were organised 
in Germany, which soon developed a slam scene of its own. Poetry slams 
are far removed from literary readings. They represent a literary 
experiment with a high entertainment factor for the listeners, as they 
also function as the jury.
When Böttcher performs outside German speaking-countries, he often uses 
projections which display the translation of his texts accompanied by 
stylish video loops.
Böttcher will perform a selection of his texts at the opening of 
'Speaking Out Loud'.

http://www.basboettcher.de

BLAXTAR
The Dutch hip-hop artist Blaxtar is very conscious of the power of 
language, the strength of the word. It is simply logical then that the 
texts are printed in a booklet with his album. Even more: the titles of 
all the numbers together, one after another, make a poem. Blaxtar does 
more than just show us that he comes off the streets. In his texts he 
showcases his interest in philosophy, science and religion.
Recently, in October, 2008, he organized the event 'Spoken'. For this 
occasion Blaxtar phoned up some friends to ask if they were interested 
in an evening that only revolved around the content of their texts. The 
evening session gave a large group of different professional hip-hop 
artists the opportunity to gain exposure.
During the opening of 'Speaking Out Loud' Blaxtar will present a 
selection of his texts.

http://www.blaxtar.com

Speaking Out Loud
15 November 2008 – 24 January 2009
Opening 14 November 5:00 p.m.
Artists participating: Tim Etchells (UK) and Vlatka Horvat (CRO), Mukul 
Patel (UK) and Manu Luksch (AT), Charles Sandison (UK), Christoph Keller 
(DE), Jaromil (IT) and Jodi (NL), Linda Hilfling (DEN), KH Jeron (DE), 
Tudor Bratu (RO), Michael Höpfel (DE), Trikoton (DE), Evan Roth (US). 
More information: http://www.nimk.nl


Opening hours exhibition: Tuesday - Saturday and first Sunday of the 
month + December 7 and January 4 from 1: 00 - 6:00 pm The NIMk is closed 
for public from December 21 until January 1th.


Kindly supported by the Goethe Institute Amsterdam, BeamSystems and 
Jacot Audiovisueel


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

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[spectre] MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION // edition 2008-2

2008-09-22 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Netherlands Media Art Institute

MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION // edition 2008-2

Online newsletter on preservation by the Netherlands Media Art 
Institute. Offers 4 times a year information and news about ongoing 
research, presentations and publications dealing with video and media 
art preservation. The newsletter is in English only.


Editor: Gaby Wijers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

International symposium
(New) Media Art in Museums: production - keeping - presentation
Rijeka 15 - 17 October 2008
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka organizes the 
international symposium (New) Media Art in Museums that will be held 15 
- 17 October 2008 at the City Hall in Rijeka.
The aim of the international symposium (New)Media Art in Museums is to 
consider status of (new)media art in museum collections, conditions of 
keeping, protection, modes of exhibiting and all the changes that 
(new)media art introduces into the everyday practice of contemporary 
museums.

more information http://www.mmsu.hr/.

Conference
Media Art in North Rhine-Westphalia: Collections, Conservation, Presentation
Düsseldorf 23 October, 2008
Imai - inter media art institute - in Düsseldorf organizes a conference 
about the conservation and ‘restage’ of media-based installations in 
cooperation with the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Städtetag 
Nordrhein-Westfalen.

http://www.imaionline.de/content/view/58/1/lang,en/

Conference
DOCAM's fourth International Summit and symposium
Montreal 29 - 31 October 2008
This year, DOCAM’s fourth International Summit will be held on October 
30 and 31, at McGill University. During the two days of this public 
conference taking place at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music 
Building, audience members will have the opportunity to learn about the 
progress of DOCAM’s research and to meet distinguished speakers among 
whom will be renowned Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas. For the first 
time, the Summit will be preceded by DOCAM’s Media in Motion Symposium, 
which will be held on October 29.

http://www.docam.ca/en/?cat=17

Seminar
Permanence in Contemporary Art - Checking Reality’
Copenhagen 3 - 4 November 2008
A seminar to be held the 3rd and 4th of November 2008, arranged by the 
Conservation Department at Statens Museum for Kunst in collaboration 
with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Statens Museum for Kunst and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 
Schools of Visual Arts, will be the organisers of this international 
seminar addressing various critical issues surrounding the preservation 
and exhibition of contemporary artworks. The seminar, which will 
encourage interdisciplinary exchange between museum professionals 
including conservators, art historians, artists and others.

http://icom-cc-wg.phpbb24.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70

Website
Media Matters launches phase 2
A consortium of curators, conservators, registrars, legal advisors, and 
media technical managers from New Art Trust, The Museum of Modern Art 
(MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Tate has 
launched the second phase of Media Matters, an innovative website 
designed to provide international guidelines for the care of time-based 
media works of art (e.g. video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based 
installations).

http://www.tate.org.uk/mediamatters

Project
TAPE project finalized, EPCA closed
The European Commission on Preservation and Access was established in 
1994 to promote the preservation of the documentary heritage in Europe. 
This year, with the finalisation op the TAPE project 
http://www.tape-online.net, the ECPA will bring its work to a close. The 
website will remain for a wile, the mailinglists are closed in July.


Study day
Saving electronic and digital media
A study day for artists and others, Antwerp October 28 2008
Organized by Packed http://www.packed.be/

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

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[spectre] 5 days off MEDIA presents: optofonica: C rosswire – in search of the synesthetic effect

2008-06-26 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

 5 days off MEDIA presents

optofonica: Crosswire – in search of the synesthetic effect

Exhibition: 3 - 26 July
Works by: Aernoudt Jacobs, Sagi Groner, Kaffe Matthews, Telcosystems, TeZ  
Janis Pönisch

Opening: 2 July 6:30 pm
During opening:
7:30 pm performance Avatar Metaverse Orchestra
8:30 pm Aernoudt Jacobs

More information opening:
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=oid=268

The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents in collaboration with 5 days off 
MEDIA the exhibition and performance series Crosswire. Crosswire comprises 
sound installations and audiovisual environments enabling immersive and spatial 
sonic experiences through bodily and multi-sensory perception. Whilst the 
various works offer different points of access to experience sound, they all 
unfold their architectural or sculptural quality in the gallery. As a result, 
compositions become perceptible as holistic phenomena. Crosswire is curated by 
Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ)on the basis of the Optofonica platform which is 
devoted to the presentation of the current state of art in synesthetic media 
and sound spatialization. www.optofonica.com

More information about crosswire:
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_nieuws.php?id=173

Performances and screening Crosswire
The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) performance on the opening night feature 
virtual instruments designed specifically for each composition created for the 
Orchestra within the Second Life platform and are played by artists from all 
around the world making live music together. AOM's concert includes the 
beautiful and powerful THE HEART OF TONES (mixed reality version) by iconic 
composer Pauline Oliveros (aka Free Noyes), and the mesmerizing composition 
FRAGULA by sound artist Björn Eriksson (aka Miulew Takahe).

The performances from Sagi Groner, Aernoudt Jacobs, Telcosystems and Francisco 
Lopez take place within the installations so access is limited. Please make a 
reservation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PROGRAM PERFORMANCES
2 July
7:30 pm: Avatar Metaverse Orchestra
8:30 pm: Aernoudt Jacobs

3 July
7:30 pm: Sagi Groner

4 July
7:30 pm: Telcosystems

5 July
8:30 pm: Optofonica screening

6 July
7:30 pm: Aernoudt Jacobs
8:30 pm: Francisco Lopez

Opening hours during 5 days off
3 - 6 July from 1:00 – 7:30 pm. After the festival regular opening hours 
Tuesday - Saturday from 1: 00 - 6:00 pm Entrance 2,50 (1,50 with discount). 
With festival passepartout and day ticket free entrance until July 26th.

5 days off
2 - 6 July, Amsterdam
Paradiso, Melkweg, Heineken Music Hall, Netherlands Media Art Institute 
www.5daysoff.nl

5 days off MEDIA is made supported by the Mondriaan Foundation and the 
Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten, Powered by BeamSystems

5 days off is sponsored by Heineken Refreshing Sounds

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

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[spectre] My [Public] Space

2008-05-22 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


My [Public] Space

24 May until 21 June
My [Public] Space goes deeply into the blurring of private and public 
information and spaces.
Exhibition with works by: Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, 
Dora GarcÍa, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 
0100101110101101.ORG, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson

More information: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=257

Opening My [Public] Space Friday May 23, 5:00 p.m.

PROGRAM opening:

5:00 - 6:30 p.m
SVEN: Surveillance Video Entertainment Network aka AI to the People by 
Amy Alexander, Wojciech Kosma and Vincent Rabaud.
If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a 
terrorist, criminal, or other undesirable - why not when you look like 
a rock star?

http://deprogramming.us/ai/

6:30 p.m.
Live performance by Scanner: Sound Polaroid 0508
Mapping the city with voices, intercepted mobile phone conversations of 
unsuspecting talkers are edited into a musical setting, bringing into 
focus issues of privacy and the dichotomy between the public and the 
private spectrum. The performance offers an anonymous window into 
reality, cutting and pasting information to structure an alternative 
vernacular.

http://www.scannerdot.com

Powered by BeamSystems

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
http://www.nimk.nl


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[spectre] Visual Foreign Correspondents presents Thando Mama

2008-05-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Visual Foreign Correspondents presents
Issue 7
Date: 13 May – 09 June 2008
Artists: Thando Mama
Country: South Africa
Title: Prayer, 2008

In collaboration with The Globalised Crystal Ball this is the seventh 
issue of Visual Foreign Correspondents. VFC is an independent platform 
in which 11 distinguished artists from around the world are invited each 
month to give their personal visual commentary on events and situations 
from their locally situated perspective. Their works especially created 
for urban screens and online platforms. This project will give people in 
the streets of Amsterdam a brief window into other regions, peoples and 
other kinds of imagination.


Thando Mama, an artist based in Cape Town, his work tackles many issues 
including the ways in which images of violence are connected to 
representations of black masculinity. Frequently he uses his own body, 
passive, silent and vulnerable, capturing the marginality of African 
subjects in general.


For Visual Foreign Correspondents, Mama has made ‘Prayer’ in which 
scenes of violence and extreme poverty are juxtaposed with an evocative, 
textured image sequence of men bending in Islamic prayer. The piece was 
made after a visit to Mali, where he witnessed a fellow artist who broke 
off discussion to begin praying. Mama described the strangeness of 
seeing people praying everywhere. He found himself, as he put it, 
“wanting to join them in prayer even though its not my religion or 
something that I would not normally do; It seemed to somehow to be a way 
to glimpse ‘the other’ in their most spiritual mind. I was looking at 
universal images of poverty, as well as hope for the future.”


Visual Foreign Correspondents is connected to The Globalised Crystal 
Ball, a series of monthly international seminars hosted by De Balie on 
globalisation and the future of the international community and spread 
over a full year. These monthly seminars feature internationally 
renowned speakers, examining the changing nature of globalisation. The 
screen-based artworks play an important role in contributing an 
alternative perspective to these meetings. Artist’s contribution to this 
event is not simple illustration but provides another kind of 
imaginative response to these subjects.


The work will be launched during the seminar event of the Globalised 
Crystal Ball in the conference space. An introduction to the work will 
be given, making a connection to the seminar and the ideas of the artist.
Independent from the seminar the work will then feature on the urban 
screen outside the ‘Balie’ every night for a month, on the The 
Contemporary Art Screen, at the Zuidas and in 11-Reatuarant Bar Club, 
part of Post-CS, museum of modern art, Amsterdam. These screens will be 
in relationship to a specially designed website and ‘Oog’. The VFC 
website will show the work and contextualize it with political, social 
and cultural background information. Furthermore it will give 
information about the project and a possibility for the audience to 
interact.
The work will also feature in ‘OOG’, a commentary and opinion platform 
that is part the online edition of De Volkskrant, a major Dutch daily 
national newspaper. Here the work will feature for a week as part of the 
continuing series of artist commentaries.


http://www.visualcorrespondents.com

Screen locations
De Balie: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
http://www.debalie.nl
CASZ: Zuidplein, Amsterdam
http://www.caszuidas.nl
11/Restaurant bar club: Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam
http://www.ilove11.nl

http://www.volkskrant.nl/oog

Visual Foreign Correspondents
Artistic director: Nanette Hoogslag
Editors: Annet Dekker, David Garcia, Nat Muller, Petra Heck and Eric 
Kluitenberg


Thanks to:
Visual Foreign Correspondents is made possible by Amsterdamse Fonds voor 
de Kunsten, VSB, De Balie and the Netherlands Media Art Institute


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[spectre] My [public] space

2008-05-09 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


*My [public] space*

May 24 – June 21, 2008
opening May 23, 5:00 p.m.
Netherlands Media Art Institute

Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, 
Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 
**0100101110101101.ORG**, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson


The exhibition 'My [public] space' is a follow-up to the exhibition 
'Territorial Phantom'. In the previous exhibition the occupation of and 
claims to space by corporations, organizations or countries was central. 
My [public] space goes more deeply into the blurring of private and 
public information and spaces.



The copious use of digital, network and mobile technologies has had an 
enormous influence on our concept of public and private space, and calls 
up new questions about the conditions for these environments. Public 
space is not longer something that we can leave or exclude. Through 
wireless technologies – chat, mail, GSM – the public is everywhere: in 
our homes, our beds and even our bodies. What is private any more? What 
consequences does this muddying of the public and exposure to the public 
gaze have? Public space has become a ‘hybrid’: an entanglement of the 
public and private spheres.


The phenomenon of the changing concept of private and public space is 
twofold: on the one side there is a growing wish to express ourselves 
publicly via the media; on the other, public space is becoming more 
controlled and limited than ever. With their t-shirts, animations, 
games, installations and websites the artists in this exhibition throw 
light on this phenomenon in diverse ways.


For instance, in their work Hasan Elahi and Jill Magid employ mechanisms 
and technologies of control in public spaces for their own private 
stories, and with an enormous camera Martijn Engelbregt asks passers-by 
on the Museumplein what they think of being filmed. The works by Eduardo 
Navas and Marisa Olson respond in various ways to taking private 
information into the public domain of the internet. Guy Ben-Ner really 
is doing the same thing, but in the publicly accessible (though private 
property) model rooms at IKEA.


With her game Dora García responds in an abstract manner to the gray 
areas around the borders between the public and private, with a quiz 
with unanswerable personal questions which nonetheless must be answered 
yes or no. Eva and Franco Mattes aka 01001011101011101.org respond in an 
abstract, synthetic way to the phenomenon by taking a performance that 
was all about impinging on someone's private space by forcing them to 
squeeze past naked bodies in order to enter some place, and re-enacting

it in Second Life.

Susan Härtig's tent makes a really private and mobile space possible, 
somewhere that no mobile telephone or other device using radio waves can 
find. And finally, by revealing what is normally invisible on internet 
or via RFID technology, the t-shirts by Susan Härtig and Aram Bartholl 
address today's hybrid space.



Open: Tuesday through Saturday and the first Sunday of the month from 
1:00 to 6:00 p.m.


Admission 2,50 (1,50 with discount)

Thanks to: BeamSystems

For more information: Marieke Istha, communication [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Website: www.nimk.nl






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[spectre] Navigating the Space of the Future

2008-04-09 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Navigating the Space of the Future

Netherlands Media Art Institute
April 15
Start 20.30 hour

LIVE STREAM: http://www.montevideo.nl/st/player.php

Seminar with presentations by: Yolande Harris, David Dunn and Atau Tanaka

What does it mean to navigate? What is the importance of location 
specificity? What does it mean to get lost? The increasing accuracy of 
satellite navigation strives to eliminate the possibility of human 
error, but it also produces a sense of dislocation from one's immediate 
environment by abstracting location as the coordinates of longitude and 
latitude. What place is there for one's body, one's senses, one's 
conscious and unconscious awareness of space, if this knowledge is so 
apparently made redundant by GPS? What, if any, role can historical 
skills of navigation at sea, of observation, choice, intuition and 
improvisation play in navigating the spaces of the future? The symposium 
'Navigating the Space of the Future' will take these questions as its 
starting point to see if we can find our way within the dense 
environment of global positioning technologies. The field is open but 
the practice is just starting to form itself by looking at ways to 
counter locative media strategies where geographical walks are organised 
that use the city and the street as a playing field negating the 
relation between space, architecture, time, body and mind. The 
presentations will focus on new ways of interpreting data of location 
and navigation by relating these directly to the physical (space) 
through the use of sound.


Yolande Harris – Sun Run Sun (Artist in Residence NIMk)
Sun Run Sun explores the individual experience of current location 
technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to 
(re)establish a sense of personal connectedness to one's environment, 
and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future 
and animal navigation using sound. Sun Run Sun investigates the split 
between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of 
position. A series of portable personal instruments “satellite sounders” 
developed for the residency, transform satellite data directly into a 
sonic composition. This composition constantly varies in response to the 
changing location of the player as they move through their physical 
environment. 'The experience of sound is internal, as a process that 
influences the relationship between the self and the environment. True 
navigation consists of a continuously coherent relationship between the 
two.'

http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl/
http://www.yolandeharris.net

David Dunn
David Dunn takes his research into the bioacoustics of bark beetles and 
entomogenic climate change, and on ultrasonic audio phenomena in both 
human and non-human environment as starting points to talk about 
Acoustic Ecologies. He wants to bring forth the sonic presence of these 
worlds for human contemplation of their inherent aesthetic beauty and to 
show the amazing continuity of life, with its capacity for infinite 
variation in audible communication. “Given the superabundance of how 
music as a human activity has been used, I believe that music has 
simultaneously been a strategy to evolve our capacity to 
structurally-couple with our environment through our aural perception, 
and a significant force for defining the boundaries of group affiliation 
and for the affirmation of cultural status, giving voice to an 
evolutionary heritage of an abundance of other coupling modes that are 
greater than the rational mind alone.”

http://www.davidddunn.com
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5399

Atau Tanaka
Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and 
research. He creates music for sensor instruments, wireless network 
infrastructures, and democratized digital forms. Tanaka is best known 
for his performances where he uses physical gestures to articulate music 
and sound synthesis and real-time image transformation. For the past 
years, inspired by the ever-changing social, geographic, ecological, 
emotional context of using mobile technology for creative ends Tanaka 
focusses his attention towards mobile media projects. He is exploring 
the creative, critical and commercial potential of mobile music. “My 
interest is to take interactive music practice off the stage and outside 
the concert hall into the urban sphere. Mobile communications devices 
are meant to connect groups of people. Musical concerts, similarly, are 
situations that bring people together for a common purpose. Can we 
elicit commonalities to make a community-based musical process, creating 
a shared experience among users?” In his presentation he will pay 
attention to the description of the architecture of an audio-visual 
hard- and software framework that was developed for the realization of a 
series of locative media artworks, and eliciting from this, he brings 
afore fundamental issues and questions that can be generalized and

[spectre] Netherlands Media Art institute: Programmer/Engineer wanted

2008-03-31 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Programmer/Engineer wanted

The Netherlands Media Art Institute is looking for a programmer or 
engineer who supports and works with Mexican artist Lilia Perez Romero 
on the production Frontera.  Lilia Perez Romero is the new Artist in 
Residence at the NIMk.


Project Description Frontera
The project is a follow-up of the Frontera project (see 
http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/IF07/?page_id=37). Its 
main technical goal is to build an interactive video portrait using a 
videobooth (to be developed) to capture such portrait. The interactive 
portrait should act as a mirror to the user. When he slides his/her hand 
over the screen, the portrayed subject should follow the user's hand 
with his/her own hand. There is already a prototype of the portrait, but 
the aim of the collaboration is to improve its performance, and to 
automate the process of capturing the video and programming the 
interaction. (Many of the parameters of the prototype were defined 
manually).


Outline of Work
- Develop a control interface to control a camera so that the play / 
record/ pause/stop/ ffw/rewind buttons are available from an on screen 
graphical interface.


- Develop the necessary tracking software to follow the user's hand 
movements over a 157 x 127cm screen using two firewire cameras or 
through another device thus obtaining the effect of a touch screen.


- Develop a system to map the user's hand movements (in the xy plane) to 
the appropriate time slice of a video that is going to be recorded 
simultaneously.  All videos and their associated mapping data should be 
stored in such a way as to allow their fast retrieval during the booth's 
mirror operation mode.


- If multiple computers are required, the communication system among 
them should also be designed and developed.


- Design and develop a user-friendly graphic interface to setup and 
calibrate the application.


- The system can be developed using PD, or any programming language such 
as Java, C++, etc. The only requirement is that the problems described 
above are solved.


Time and Payment
It would be ideal, if the programmer/engineer could start to work with 
Lilia immediately. The NIMk can remunerate the programmer/engineer up to 
an amount of 2500 Euro. Ideally s/he is based in Amsterdam or close.


Contact
If you are interested to engage in this project, or if you have further 
questions, please contact Ms. Lilia Perez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 
+31622655042.


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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[spectre] Perfect Present Continuous - Video program curated by Nat Muller

2008-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents:

Perfect Present Continuous
Video program curated by Nat Muller
April 1, 2008
Start: 20.30 h.

“Perfect Present Continuous” is a wry reference to a grammatical tense 
(present perfect continuous), which indicates an unspecified time 
between 'before now' and 'now', wherein there is both an interest in the 
process as well as the result. This process may still be going on, or 
may just have finished. By placing the word ‘perfect’ at the beginning, 
an impossible – and at times ironic – utopian project is articulated. 
The selected works present us with visions bordering on the ideal and 
the flawed. They designate the moment between the potential of 
perfection and a preconceived failure, or the porosity between beauty 
and horror, present and memory, across the brink of time, geo-political 
space and place.


Featuring a special live performance of Lebanese artist Raed Yassin.

A VIDEO  MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY RAED YASSIN,Tonight’s Special, (LB),20’, 
2007-2008.
During the civil war period in Lebanon, the electric current was 
changing between 110v and 220v for unknown reasons. Once Raed plugged 
the VCR machine into the electricity and started to smell something 
strange. He plugged it out immediately and didn’t tell anybody about the 
incident. Since that time he has a feeling of guilt because nobody from 
the family members could watch night an Egyptian movie entitled 
“Tonight’s Special” featuring Mahmoud Yassin. Raed Yassin was born in 
Beirut in1979, and works as a video, sound and visual artist, as well as 
a musician (double bass, tapes and electronics). He graduated from the 
Theatre Department in the Fine Arts Institute in Beirut. His work is 
based on themes related to the media, the city, the history of 
contemporary art, Arabic cinema, disasters, and archives. Currently he 
lives and works in Amsterdam as a resident at The Ateliers.


Lamia Joreige (LB) Full Moon, 23’, 2007
The video and series of prints Full moon presents a few attempts over 
years to capture a poetic moment which happened once: A traveling with 
an extraordinary full moon while driving to Raouché crossing “the Ring”, 
then back home. The same traveling is repeated each time in a different 
way, the recordings which are each a diagnosis of our « present » in 
Beirut, constitute as many fragments of history. Is it possible to 
capture an instant? Aren’t we always beneath or beyond reality? Here, 
repetition becomes the reflection of a vain desire to capture beauty and 
at the same time a mean of renewal. It reflects on the process of creation.


Oraib Toukan (JO), Remind me to remember to forget, 2006, 2’50”
Remind me to remember to forget is a video that posits Middle Eastern 
memory as a memory that has somehow been 'made-to-forget,' a 'memory' 
that has become accustomed to being raped, eradicated, and disposed of 
right before it shifts from present to past. Entranced by the absurd US 
media coverage of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, Oraib Toukan 
obsessively wrote and re-wrote the phrase ‘remind me to remember to 
forget,’ until the words and their meaning were eventually explored in a 
video. In a split screen format, Remind me to remember to forget depicts 
two separate but synchronized performances. On one half of the screen, 
the phrase is frantically written in gold glitter and then inhaled 
through a red, white, and blue nozzle. On the other half of the screen 
is a close up shot of a throat that concurrently breathes in and out. 
Set to the mind-numbingly hypnotizing sound of stifled breathing, the 
artist is suggestively seen remembering to forget...to erase all that 
she recollects…even the phrase that reminds her to do so.


Yane Calovski (MK)  Fos (DK), An Early Lost Play, 2006, 11’42”
Early Lost Play is comprised of series of public actions performed by a 
character - a young woman, Tanja - dealing with her own indifference in 
the wake of the current political situation in Denmark. They are 
recorded on video and produced as 8 short episodes understood as 
interventions in the media. As the real situation evolves and 
progresses, the character's existential connection to reality, built 
upon a certain kind of social idealism, devalues and she loses the 
constraints as an individual submitted to accepted codes of social 
behaviour. The work attempts to deconstruct these existential codes and 
bring up and provoke issues of social morality, escapism, non-compliance 
and humanity. The actions performed by the character are linked to, and 
hint of, demystifying social ideology, through individual demonstrations 
against the conservative and liberal norms and standards.


Larissa Sansour (PS/DK), SBARA, 8’30’, 2008
Heavily referencing the 1980 cult classic The Shining by Stanley 
Kubrick, the video piece SBARA explores the castigation of Arabs in 
contemporary Western dialogue. By adding an audio montage combining 
historical and current quotes on the Middle East to

[spectre] Sun Run Sun events upcoming, invitation by Yolande Harris

2008-03-15 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha

I'm pleased to invite you to the events that mark the culmination of my 
artist residence project Sun Run Sun: on Sonic Navigations at the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute in collaboration with STEIM in Amsterdam.


http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl

The project development over the last four months has been intense and 
varied, and the months of March and April hold the exhibitions and 
performances of five related works on the theme of navigation 
technologies, environment and sound.


The central work is the Satellite Sounders small portable instruments 
for hearing the live data from the GPS satellite network. These can be 
tried out by walking along the canals around NIMk and are part of the 
upcoming Territorial Phantom exhibition there.


The two installation pieces, Dead Reckoning and Navigating by Circles 
present spaces of intuitive navigation in sound and video, in Amsterdam 
and Den Haag.


I'll be presenting the ideas behind the project at a symposium on 
Eco-Visualisation with other artists working on environmental issues at 
Mediamatic in Amsterdam, at a symposium on Sonic Navigations at NIMk, 
and at a Test_Lab evening at V2_ in Rotterdam.


These events are bracketed by two performances that introduce and 
explore the materials of live satellite data and environmental sound 
recordings, Amphibian and Sun Running  at TAG and STEIM.


I look forward to seeing you at one or some of the events.
Yolande

http://www.yolandeharris.net



15/3 17:00hrs Amphibian
performance during Dag in de Branding Festival at TAG Gallery in Den Haag
http://www.dagindebranding.nl

20/3 19:00-22:00
lecture at symposium on Eco-Visualisation organised by TAG at 
Mediamatic in Amsterdam

http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-30862-nl.html

22/3 - 28/4 Navigating by Circles
22/3 17:00hrs opening event
video and sound installation in the Eco-Visualisation exhibition curated 
by Tiffany Holmes and Hicham Khalidi at TAG Gallery in Den Haag

http://www.tag004.nl/new/

29/3 - 12/5 Satelllite Sounders and Dead Reckoning
28/3 17:00hrs opening
sonic walk and sound installation in the Territorial Phantom exhibition 
at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.

http://www.nimk.nl

2/4 20:30hrs Sun Running
performance at STEIM in Amsterdam
http://www.steim.org

15/4 Navigating the Space of the Future
symposium around the project Sun Run Sun, including presentation by 
David Dunn, at Netherlands Media Art Institute (montevideo) in Amsterdam.

http://.nimk.nl

2/4 Sun Run Sun
presentation at Test_Lab Topologies, V2_Insitute for the Unstable Media 
in Rotterdam.

http://www.v2.nl/

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.nimk.nl

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[spectre] PROGRAM NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE

2008-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


PROGRAM NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE

Vertigo, by Daan Brinkmann
Opening Friday, February 8, 5:00 p.m.
February 9 – 15
Daan Brinkmann, winner of the 2006 René Coelho Prize, shows his latest 
work, 'Vertigo', from February 8 – 15. The prize, which is named for 
René Coelho, founder and former director of the Institute, was awarded 
in November, 2006, to the artist who, in addition to the best graduation 
project, had also presented the most promising proposal for new work. 
Daan Brinkmann, a graduate of the KABK, sculpture and sound at the 
Conservatory, The Hague, won the prize with his interactive light and 
sound sculpture '16 Pillars'. He is now showing his latest work, 
'Vertigo'. http://www.daanbrinkmann.nl


Open Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Free admission

The René Coelho Prize is Powered by Beamsystems http://www.beamsystems.nl

Video Vortex.2
The exhibition Video Vortex.2 is on show until February 3. The Video 
Vortex Workspace presents two workshops: January 22 – 26 by govcom.org: 
Space for People: Suggested Fields and on February 2 a workshop by 
Furtherfield.org: SWAMP Splash about in the deluge of information rising 
up through the grass-root.


More information
Video Vortex.2 http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=235
Video Vortex Workpace 
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=wid=231

Curator for one day: http://www.curatorforoneday.nl

Sonic Acts XII exhibition
22 februari – 22 maart
Opening 21 februari 17.00 uur
With works from: Boris Debackere, Kurt Hentschläger, Ulf Langheinrich, 
Julien Maire
The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents in collaboration with the 
Sonic Acts festival an exhibition with works related to the Sonic Acts 
XII theme: The Cinematic Experience. All works presented create various 
forms of cinematic experience, ranging from music to visual art, 
installations and media arts. The festival will focus on the rich 
history of the cinematic experience, from magic lanterns, colour organs 
and zootropes to experience machines and immersive environments. Sonic 
Acts will also peer into the future. Will cinema distance itself from 
narrative in the near future? What is the prospect for celluloid? And 
what role will sensory deprivation play in future cinema?


Sonic Acts XII - The Cinematic Experience
21 – 24 February, Amsterdam
Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Melkweg.
Conference, performances, film program, exhibition
More information http://www.sonicacts.com

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[spectre] Visual Foreign Correspondents presenteert, Erhan Muratoglu, No Parking

2008-01-12 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha



Visual Foreign Correspondents presenteert


Aflevering 3

15 Januari -11 Februari 2008

Erhan Muratoglu, Turkije

Titel: No Parking


In samenwerking met De Geglobaliseerde Glazen Bol, het internationale 
debatprogramma in de Balie, presenteert Visual Foreign Correspondents de 
derde aflevering van een maandelijkse serie audiovisuele kunstwerken 
voor het publieke scherm.
Visual Foreign Correspondents vraagt elf gerenommeerde kunstenaars 
wereldwijd hun persoonlijke visie op de actualiteiten te geven aan de 
bewoners en bezoekers van Amsterdam. De kunstenaars maken hun bijdrage 
voor een groot scherm in de publieke ruimte en online. Het scherm wordt 
als een raam waarin de toeschouwer een glimp van een andere wereld en 
een ander perspectief kan opvangen.



15 Januari – 11 Februari 2008 presenteert Visual Foreign Correspondents:

Erhan Muratoglu met het werk 'No Parking'.


In 'No Parking' beschouwt Erhan Muratoglu de huidige toestand in 
Istanbul waar mensen en hun fysieke omgeving steeds vaker met elkaar in 
conflict raken. De globalisering, toegenomen welvaart en uitbreidende 
urbanisatie zorgen voor krapte binnen de openbare ruimte. Mensen, auto’s 
en de stad zitten elkaar meer en meer in de weg. Deze korte animatie 
lijkt op een videogame als Grand Theft Auto, met het verschil dat hier 
de stad het heft in eigen handen neemt.



Ook ander werk van Erhan Muratoglu ontstaat vanuit de steeds sneller 
veranderende indrukken en situaties van de -stedelijke- omgeving en de 
problematische consequenties die deze voor het individu hebben. 
Muratoglu is een interactief ontwerper/digitaal kunstenaar die in 
Istanbul woont en werkt. Hij maakt computer gegenereerde projecten die 
in Turkije, Europa en de Verenigde Staten tentoongesteld worden en heeft 
op vele festivals prijzen ontvangen voor zijn experimentele video's.



Het werk wordt gepresenteerd in de Balie tijdens het programma van De 
Geglobaliseerde Glazen Bol. Daarna is het een maand lang, elke avond te 
zien op publieke schermen aan het Baliegebouw, op het Contemporary Art 
Screen, op de Zuidas en in Restaurant Bar Club 11, Post-CS, het 
tijdelijk Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Op de website van VFC wordt het 
werk uitgebreid toegelicht met achtergrond informatie en een interview 
met de maker, verder zijn er interactiemogelijkheden en zijn de vorige 
afleveringen te zien.


Ook is het werk te zien als deel van de visuele opiniepagina Oog, een 
opinieplatform in de Volkskrant online, waar kunstenaars wekelijks hun 
visie geven op onderwerpen in de actualiteit.


Scherm Locaties:
De Balie: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
_www.debalie.nl http://www.debalie.nl/_
CASZ: Zuidplein, Amsterdam
_www.caszuidas.nl http://www.caszuidas.nl/_
11/Restaurant bar club: Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam
_www.ilove11.nl http://www.ilove11.nl/_

_www.volkskrant.nl/oog http://www.volkskrant.nl/oog_


Aan Visual Foreign Correspondents werken mee:

Artistieke leiding: Nanette Hoogslag

Redactie: Annet Dekker, David Garcia, Petra Heck, Eric Kluitenberg en 
Nat Muller



Visual Foreign Correspondents is een samenwerking tussen de stichting 
Visual Correspondenten, De BaliE en het Nederlands Instituut voor 
Mediakunst.



Visual Foreign Correspondents is mogelijk gemaakt door het Amsterdamse 
Fonds voor de kunsten, VSB, De Balie en het Nederlands Instituut voor 
Mediakunst




Kijk voor meer informatie op: _www.visualcorrespondents.com 
http://www.visualcorrespondents.com/_


Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]_



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[spectre] Visual Foreign Correspondents presents Sharam Entekhabi from Iran

2007-12-27 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Visual Foreign Correspondents presents
Issue 2
18 December 2007- 14 January 2008
Sharam Entekhabi, Iran
Title: Haji Firouz

In collaboration with The Globalised Crystal Ball we are proud to 
announce the second issue of Visual Foreign Correspondents. VFC is an 
independent platform in which 11 distinguished artists from around the 
world are invited each month to give their personal visual commentary on 
events and situations from their locally situated perspective. Their 
works especially created for urban screens and online platforms. This 
project will give people in the streets of Amsterdam a brief window into 
other regions, peoples and other kinds of imagination.


In Iran Haji Firouzis a clownesque character in blackface, traditionally 
heralding the Persian New Year: Nowruz. With song and dance he spreads 
good cheer and inaugurates the festive season. Set within a busy 
shopping street in West-Berlin, Entekhabi enacts his own version of Haji 
Fairuz. However, his continuous efforts and increasingly exaggerated 
gestures to attract attention and become included within a commodified 
urban setting, are widely ignored by the busy Christmas shoppers. Their 
own preoccupation with performing the festive season themselves, by 
means of consumption, disallows them to see, let alone consume, an 
element which seems out-of-place and disrupts the regular flow of goods 
and people. Entekhabi’s Haji Firouz challenges normative behavioural 
patterns by pushing social and racial boundaries; it becomes clear 
within these parameters, that participation in a particular system, is 
based on exclusivity and conformity.


Shahram Entekhabi was born in Boroujerd, Iran and studied graphic design 
at the University of Tehran and architecture and urbanism in Italy. He 
has exhibited internationally, and lives and works in-between London, 
Berlin and Tehran. His practice is framed within an urban setting and 
questions the idea that West-European urban space is primarily reserved 
for the white, middle class, heterosexual male. He explores these ideas 
via a variety of performative actions, using architecture, installation 
and digital media. In his work he chooses to highlight individuals who 
are ordinarily perceived as marginalized, and hence rendered invisible 
or forced into a condition of self-ghettoisation from within the urban 
domain, such as migrant communities (in particular from the Middle 
East). The question of visibility and invisibility, is a prominent theme 
Entekhabi keeps revisiting and exploring in his practice.


The work will be launched during the seminar event of the Globalised 
Crystal Ball in the conference space. An introduction to the work will 
be given, making a connection to the seminar and the ideas of the artist.


Independent from the seminar the work will then feature on the urban 
screen outside the ‘Balie’ every night for a month, on the The 
Contemporary Art Screen, at the Zuidas and in 11-Reatuarant Bar Club, 
part of Post-CS, museum of modern art, Amsterdam.
These screens will be in relationship to a specially designed website 
and ‘Oog’. The VFC website will show the work and contextualize it with 
political, social and cultural background information. Furthermore it 
will give information about the project and a possibility for the 
audience to interact.


The work will also feature in ‘OOG’, a commentary and opinion platform 
that is part the online edition of De Volkskrant, a major Dutch daily 
national newspaper. Here the work will feature for a week as part of the 
continuing series of artist commentaries.


http://www.visualcorrespondents.com

Screen locations
De Balie: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
http://www.debalie.nl
CASZ: Zuidplein, Amsterdam
http://www.caszuidas.nl
11/Restaurant bar club: Oosterdokskade 3-5, Amsterdam
http://www.ilove11.nl

http://www.volkskrant.nl/oog

Visual Foreign Correspondents
Artistic director: Nanette Hoogslag
Editors: David Garcia, Nat Muller, Petra Heck and Eric Kluitenberg

For more information please contact Nanette Hoogslag at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Visual Foreign Correspondents is made possible by Amsterdamse Fonds voor 
de Kunsten, VSB, De Balie and the Netherlands Media Art Institute






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[spectre] Upcoming exhibition: VIDEO VORTEX.2

2007-12-06 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Video Vortex.2
December 8, 2007 – February 3, 2008
opening: Friday, December 7, 5:00 p.m.

Johan Grimonprez  Charlotte Léouzon, Martijn Hendriks, Jaap de Jonge, 
Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INT, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Oog Volkskrant 
Online, Park 4DTV, Rabotnik, Sonic()bject, Martin Takken, Thomson  
Craighead


Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded 
to the Web2.0 phenomenon. More information: 
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=235


During the opening on December 7, at 6:15 p.m.
Video Response by Constant Dullaart
Constant Dullaart makes a selection from his archive, and in 30 minutes, 
using visual rhyming, reveals not only the democratization of video as a 
medium, but also of authorship. In short, 30 minutes of videos from 
artists, advertising agencies and lots of amateurs. 
http://www.constantdullaart.nl/


Video Vortex Workspace
In the Workspace everyone can get acquainted with open and free software 
(FLOSS, in collaboration with Derek Holzer), Vlogging (under the 
guidance of Seth Keen), network mapping (Govcom.org), take part in the 
Furtherfield Visitors Studio and more. See http://www.montevideo.nl for 
the latest program.


Curator for One Day
And of course you can still become Curator for One Day! 
http://www.curatorforoneday.nl

Every Thursday a special guest presents his or her choice, with:
Friday, December 7: Macha Roesink (director, Paviljoens, Almere)
Thursday, December 13: Esma Moukthar (freelance art critic)
Thursday, December 20: Ulay (artist)
Thursday, January 10: Kelli Dipple (webcasting curator, Tate Modern, London)
Thursday, January 17: David Garcia (artist, teacher and writer)
Saturday, January 19: Sabine Niederer (Institute of Network Cultures)
Thursday, January 24: Maria Rus Bojan (freelance curator)
Thursday, January 30: Mirjam Coelho (Brakke Grond)

Video Vortex international conference
January 18 and 19, 2008, PostCS Amsterdam
Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures 
http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex


Open:
Tuesday through Saturday + the first Sunday of the month, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Closed December 23, 2007 through January 7, 2008.
Open extra hours on Sunday, January 20, in connection with the Video 
Vortex Conference.


Admission: 3,00 euro (with discount 2,00 euro). Entry includes USB stick.

Video Vortex is a collaboration among the Netherlands Media Art 
Institute, the Institute of Network Cultures and Argos, Brussels.


With thanks to: David Garcia (advisor), VSBfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor 
de Kunst, Powered by BeamSystems, Sony Playstation


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl


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[spectre] upcoming exhibition: Video Vortex.2

2007-11-28 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Video Vortex.2
December 8, 2007 – February 3, 2008
opening: Friday, December 7, 5:00 p.m.

Johan Grimonprez  Charlotte Léouzon, Martijn Hendriks, Jaap de Jonge, 
Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INC, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Oog Volkskrant 
Online, Park 4DTV, Rabotnik, Sonic()bject, Martin Takken, Thomson  
Craighead


Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded 
to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user and 
democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use in 
which open and friendly cooperation stimulates critical reflection and 
new ideas. In Video Vortex.2 attention is given to a different side of 
the democratic movement. How are artists reacting to this 
democratization process? To what degree does the democratic movement in 
Web 2.0 differ from previous utopias around radio and television? How 
can artists retain their autonomy and diversity outside the mass media? 
Is the esthetic of amateurism the new genre? Once again, artists will be 
responding to Web2.0, with special attention this time being given to 
the Dutch situation.


Growing out of the desire to do one's own things in a space one annexed 
for oneself, in the early 1980s various initiatives arose in Amsterdam 
that focused on making and exhibiting images and sound. Art, politics 
and media came together for the first time. Alas, it was not long before 
the coherence and mutual solidarity were lost, but the tone had been set 
and a great deal of effort had been put into dynamic and socially and 
culturally subversive radio and television broadcasts. Both Rabotnik and 
Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INC will be showing things which were made 
during those years. In the presentation the emphasis will be on the 
significance of Rabotnik and DFM for the internet today and what they 
could mean for those making idiosyncratic productions now. DFM 
(http://dfm.nu/) takes us along to Second Life, where they broadcast old 
and new material from the first television station in Second Life. 
Rabotnik goes online, making its archives accessible.


PARK, established later and known for its slogan “TAPE THIS! STEAL 
THIS!”, also opens its archives in the PARK4DDD (Digitale Data Dump) 
1991-2007. Any visitor to Video Vortex can copy texts, short films, 
codes, pictures and audio from PARK to a USB stick there, on the spot. 
In the tradition of PARK, with his installation O.T.S. (Open Televisie 
Station) Jaap de Jonge has remixed a number of PARK videos in an 
extraordinary manner. Thirty-two prisms scramble the image, creating new 
images and image combinations. PARK4DTV is an artists' initiative which 
has been distributing Pure Image and Sound for every imaginable sort of 
screen since 1991. See http://www.park.nl


The You-Tube-o-thèque, designed by Johan Grimonprez and Charlotte 
Léouzon, is a sort of television playing a program improvised with films 
from YouTube, Podcasts, online television, mobile telephones, Ipod 
video, blogs and other sources. The films are selected on the basis of 
events surrounding 9/11. The You-Tube-o-thèque is a unruly contemporary 
podium.


Martin Takken makes use of the do-it-yourself principle that is 
increasingly popular, both on the internet and in exhibitions. His Es 
Ist Ein Gesamtkunstwerk concept is a collective, constantly changing 
artwork that is made by international artists. Every day a different 
selection of colors is available, the kind of brush changes every hour, 
and various rules imposing limits or creating new possibilities are 
introduced and modified at random moments. Each day's results are stored 
in the archive and can be purchased for 25 euro, but you can also make a 
print for yourself. http://www.gesamtkunstwerk.nl/


New tools such as wireless and mobile telephones outfitted with photo 
and video cameras afford new ways of working, in which the process is 
more important than the end product and the content is created only 
through unstable netwerk platforms. The work MythEngine by Nancy 
Mauro-Flude is a good example of this. MythEngine is a webcast that 
transmits live video and stills. Referring to our compulsion to tell 
stories, MythEngine shows how over time, with the rise of digital 
photography and video, our collective memory is increasingly becoming a 
database. http://sistero.sysx.org/verbo/index.html


Finally, Thomson  Craighead present their desktop documentary Flat 
Earth. Using fragments from existing blogs, Flat Earth takes the viewer 
around the world in seven minutes. An individual discourse is created by 
weaving the fragments to, through and over one another. 
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flat_earth.html


The mobile telephone is one of the first electronic objects that large 
numbers of people have personalized with sound. The 'ringtone' has 
become a familiar personal insignia. For both composers and users it 
provides a unique opportunity to do something with sound. The mission of 
Sonic()bject

[spectre] VIDEO VORTEX -- Netherlands Media Art Institute

2007-10-18 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


VIDEO VORTEX
October 20 - December 2
Opening: Friday, October 19, 5:00 p.m.

Artists: Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, Giselle Beiguelman, Susan Collins, 
Jonathan Harris  Sepandar Kamvar, Graham Harwood, Mediashed / Mongrel, 
MW2MW (Marek Walczak  Martin Wattenberg), Sonic()bject


The exhibition VIDEO VORTEX is the Netherlands Media Art Institute's 
response to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user 
and democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use 
in which an open and playful collaboration can lead to critical 
positions and new ideas. More info: 
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=224


LAUNCH FLOSS MANUALS
During the opening, Friday October 19, Adam Hyde will present his FLOSS 
Manuals. http://nl.flossmanuals.net/


MOBILE ART
Saturday 20 October
Presentations by artists that show work in the exhibition VIDEO VORTEX 
will tell about the background and ideas of their work.
Artist Grahame Weinbren will give an introduction: 
http://www.grahameweinbren.net

Participating artists:
Susan Collin: http://www.susan-collins.net
Giselle Beiguelman: http://www.desvirtual.com
Rory Solomon: http://rorysolomon.com  http://noplace.mw2mw.com
Start: 13.30 h.
Entrance: 4,- (students 2,50)
Reservations: 020 6237101 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exhibition open: Tuesday through Saturday and the first Sunday of the 
month from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Admission: 3,00 euro (with discount 2,00 euro)

Video Vortex is a collaboration of the Institute of Network Cultures 
with Argos Brussels and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.

Thanks to: VSBfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Powered by BeamSystems http://www.beamsystems.nl

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31 (0)20 6244423


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[spectre] 50%ImageNEW! - October 16th AMSTERDAM

2007-10-10 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents

50%ImageNEW!
Tuesday October 16, 2007

New Dutch work from Arno Coenen, Jan van Nuenen, eddie d, Igor Sevcuc, 
Martijn van Boven and Guido van de Werve (probably all present).


And special attention for the René Coelho Award. Nominees are: Viola 
Groenhart, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Maike Lond, Koninklijke 
Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag; Wouter Venema, Hogeschool voor 
de Kunsten, Arnhem; Polo Vreedenburgh, AKI, Academie voor Beeldende 
Kunsten, Enschede and  Dorien de Wit, AKV/ St. Joost, 's-Hertogenbosch.
The jury this year are: Giny Vos (media artist), Ellen de Bruijne (Ellen 
de Bruijne Projects) and Nanda Janssen (independent curator).

Chairman Heiner Holtappels (Director Netherlands Media Art Institute)

Start: 20.30 h.
Door open: 20.00 h.
Entrance: 3,50 (2,50 students)
Presentation: Theus Zwakhals
Reservations: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020-6237101
More information: www.montevideo.nl

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31 (0)20 6244423




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[spectre] Opening and presentation Artists in Residence project pond

2007-06-13 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Netherlands Media Art Institute

Opening and presentation pond
Artists in Residence - Aymeric Mansoux (F) and Marloes de Valk (NL)
Friday June 15
Time: 4.00 p.m.
From June 15 until July 14 the result of the Artists in Residence 
project by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk will be shown in the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute. During their residency Mansoux and De 
Valk investigate to what extent information can develop in a network of 
computers linked with each other and how it it possible for an audience 
to interact with it.
pond is an experiment and a game for people who are curious about the 
possibilities of standalone processes, generative systems and artificial 
life.

More information: www.montevideo.nl


Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV
Amsterdam
Nederland
Tel: 020 6237101
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[spectre] CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS - LabforCulture.org

2007-06-02 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROPOSALS - LabforCulture.org
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Deadline July 1, 2007
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http://www.labforculture.org

LabforCulture.org is the essential online tool for everyone involved  in 
arts and culture who creates, collaborates, shares and produces  across 
borders in Europe. This interactive web platform was launched  in 2006 
to encourage dialogue, networking and collaboration across  physical, 
cultural and imaginative borders across 48 countries in the  broader 
Europe. Initiated by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF)  and jointly 
developed and supported by many of Europe's leading  cultural 
organisations, LabforCulture offers a wealth of essential  information, 
debate and research - including all the latest news,  vital funding 
tips, blogs and a vast searchable database of cultural  organisations 
operating from Rome to Reykjavík.


LabforCulture.org will celebrate its first anniversary in the summer  of 
2007 and in this context we are pleased to announce a call for an  
experienced media art curator or curatorial collaboration to  
conceptualise and manage an online presentation of specially  
commissioned artworks, for presentation in early 2008.


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Call for proposals
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This is an open call to Europe-based curators to propose a creative  
concept for the LabforCulture anniversary project, be responsible for  
the ultimate selection of artworks and critically reflect on the  
project throughout its duration and after its end. The concept and  
commissioned artworks should address, challenge and rethink issues  such 
as cross border dialogue, cultural intersections, crossings or  
networks, in the context of LabforCulture and cultural cooperation in  
the broader Europe. The curatorial proposal will contextualise and  
document the work in relation to the scope, content and technological  
framework of LabforCulture.org.


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Curatorial profile
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The selected curator/s should:

* have demonstrated experience in either curating Net Art and/or  
artists who use the internet as integral to their practice.

* have a curatorial track record in the field of media art
* have demonstrated cultural project management experience
* demonstrate their ability to write about and critically evaluate the  
presented works


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Responsibilities
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The curator/s will be contracted by the European Cultural Foundation  on 
a freelance basis for the period of August 1, 2007 to May 15, 2008,  and 
will receive a fee of 7000 Euro (excluding 2 required trips to  
Amsterdam for work with the LabforCulture team, but including any  
additional travel required to deliver the proposed project, to be  
discussed with the LabforCulture Director). In addition to the fee, a  
fixed commissions and documentation budget will be provided.


Responsibilities:

* design a concept and thematic framework for the project
* make the final selection of artists
* maintain an appropriate timeline for agreed outputs
* be the main contact person for the commissioned artists  
(LabforCulture will be responsible for the administration of the  
project in terms of contracts, payments and overall coordination of  the 
project)
* manage the agreed commissions and documentation budget, which will  be 
overseen and administrated by LabforCulture
* write an engaging curatorial statement to be published on  
LabforCulture in November 2007 and a subsequent series of texts to  
accompany the presentations in 2008, introducing and reflecting on the  
selected artists/artworks
* be available to travel to Amsterdam as required, to meet with  
LabforCulture staff over the course of the project
* work in close collaboration with the LabforCulture team in relation  
to the technical framework and requirements of the commissioned artworks
* work with the LabforCulture team to agree and implement an  
appropriate page/section for the project that integrates with the  
current website design and branding
* work with the LabforCulture Communications team to promote the  
project and be available for press interviews
* gather and prepare documentation about the commissioned artists and  
artworks for presentation on LabforCulture.org
* ensure appropriate documentation of the project is undertaken and  
after its end, reflect on the process, challenges and experience of  the 
project in a final text/public discussion forum.


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Selection panel
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Annet Dekker (Head of Exhibitions and Artlab, Netherlands Media Art  
Institute, Amsterdam, NL) and Kelli Dipple (Webcasting Curator, Tate,  
London, UK) will join the LabforCulture content development team to  
select the curatorial proposal.


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Submissions
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Interested curators are asked to submit the following material BY  EMAIL 
ONLY no later than July 1, 2007:


1. Cover letter
2.

[spectre] (in)visible sounds, exhibition and seminar

2007-05-16 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


(in)visible sounds

June 2 through July 14, 2007
Opening June 1, 5:00 p.m.

Erich Berger, David Haines  Joyce Hinterding, Usman Haque  Rob Davis, 
Informationlab (Ursula Lavrencic  Auke Touwslager), Olga Kisseleva, 
Brandon LaBelle  James Watts, Semiconductor, Theodore Watson


Exhibition is in cooperation with the 5 days off festival www.5daysoff.nl

The omnipresence of computers and mobile communications apparatus has 
led to digital technology increasingly becoming a part of our 
environment. Invisible wireless networks have altered our ways of 
communicating, working, learning and playing. They have even taken on an 
important role in the creation of our identity and our relationships 
with others. In the course of this development, interest in the 
apparatus has increasingly shifted from the technology itself to the 
role it plays in shaping our experience. The artists in this exhibition 
investigate the invisible world of sound waves and frequencies and 
electromagnetic fields. In all cases they touch on issues concerning the 
radiation that is ever-present, but imperceptible to our senses. They 
make use of technologies that are present around us, but invisible, and 
by playing with electromagnetic waves and different frequencies their 
works surprise us with an abundance of information and possibilities.


In his work Tempest (2004) Erich Berger(Sweden) makes use of the basic 
principles of Van Eck Phreaking, a technology through which the content 
van a computer screen can be reconstructed at a distance by picking up 
the electromagnetic field surrounding that screen. In Tempest pure 
generative graphic forms are transformed into a dense and intense 
composition of sound, noise and light. The graphic forms that appear on 
the screen produce radio waves, which are then picked up by several 
transistor radios. These are tuned to various AM frequencies and 
ultimately produce the distinct and lively sounds that go together with 
the images. David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (Australia) use the live 
data stream from televisions to precipitate avalanches. In their work 
Purple Rain (2004) Haines and Hinterding draw an overwhelming connection 
between the mystic forces of nature and the presence of the thousands of 
watts that are stirred up by the frequencies of the electromagnetic 
field. In the installation Evolving Sonic Environment (2005-2007) Usman 
Haque and Rob Davis (UK) investigate to what degree the presence of 
people in a space influences the audio composition created, without the 
intervention of sensors. Several audio speakers hang form the ceiling, 
each generating a sound with a different frequency. Intercommunication 
between these units balances the sounds and maintains the sensitive 
sonic ecosystem, which is only disrupted by visitors. The consequences 
these interventions have on the brain of the space can be observed, live 
on the internet..


The visitors also play an important role in the installation AudioSpace 
(2005-2007) by Theodore Watson (US). In the 3D augmented aural space 
visitors can leave messages for others in the form of sound. By means of 
a special headset with a microphone, texts can be spoken into the space, 
and at the same time, messages left earlier can be retrieved. The space 
is filled with invisible messages from previous visitors. On the other 
hand, Brandon LaBelle and James Watts (US) let one hear the mystic 
sounds of the building. In the site-specific installation Radio Flirt 
(2007) visitors with small portable radios walk through the space in 
search of characteristic noises and the secrets of the building.


Olga Kisseleva (Russia) lets us see the flows of energy and magnetic 
pollution that surround us. In Landstreams (2006) she creates a new type 
of abstract landscape art. The paintings are based on various data flows 
that have been analyzed by a computer. In the film Earth Moves (2006) by 
Semiconductor (UK) the visualization of unseen forces is also central. 
Earth Moves reveals an unstable world that is always in flux. The 
contours and forms of everything around us are being altered by the 
invisible force of acoustic waves. This process is imperceptible to the 
naked eye. By combining digital photos of various places with sound from 
the same locations, new acoustic landscapes are created. Finally, in a 
humorous way Informationlab (Ursula Lavrencic, SLO and Auke Touwslager, 
Netherlands) reveal the invisible aura of the mobile telephone. Cell 
Phone Disco (2006) is an installation made out of LED-lamps that respond 
to the electromagnetic field of mobile telephones. As visitors walk 
through the installation while making calls, the telephone signal 
activates the LEDs, so that a trail of flickering LEDs follow them 
through the space. The unseen body of the mobile telephone becomes 
perceptible.


In addition to the works in the exhibition a selection of video works 
from the Institute’s own collection can be viewed on monitors. These

[spectre] Faith in Exposure - Exhibition and Se minar - 24 February – 17 March

2007-02-09 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Faith in Exposure

Exhibition and Seminar
24 February – 17 March
Opening exhibition 23 February, 17.00 – 19.00 hour

Beirut Letters, De Geuzen, Govcom.org, Lynn Hershman, Olia Lialina  
Dragan Espenschied, Avi Mograbi, Sean Snyder, Thomson  Craighead, Jody 
Zellen


Nanette Hoogslag / Oog (Volkskrant): Jimpunk, Graham Harwood, Micheal 
Magruder, Laure Ghorayeb, Rob Hamelinck  Nienke Terpsma, Kessels 
Kramer, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jochem Niemandsverdriet, Max Kisman, Tjebbe 
van Tijen, Persijn Broersen  Margit Lukacs
Lust: Thomas Castro, Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, Jeroen Barendse, Willem van 
den Hoed, Han Hoogerbrugge

Occulart: Geoff Lillemon, Jody Zellen, Motomishi Nakamura, Jonas Ohllson

Curated by David Garcia

This exhibition and seminar addresses the central narrative of western 
democracy our 'faith in exposure', the unquestioning belief that the 
circulation of knowledge through news media (and other means) constrains 
the powerful and guarantees democracy. In a world where we may know but 
are still compelled to obey, Faith in Exposure is a platform for artists 
and researchers to ask whether it is still tenable believe the central 
myth of the information age; that knowing the truth shall make us free.


Seminar
Saturday 24th of February
13.30 – 16.30 hours
With Jodi Dean, Noortje Marrse, Rchard Rogers, moderated by David Garcia
The seminar accompanying the exhibition Faith in Exposure will take 
place on the 24th of  February. It will begin with a key-note 
presentation by leading US political and media theorist Jodi Dean. 
Dean’s book “Publicity’s Secret“ approaches (according to Slavoj Zize), 
the key issue of critical theory: “how are we to subtract the authentic 
democratic impulse from its perversion in the media manipulated notion 
of public and public support”. Part of Dean's book involved looking for 
sites of resistance even in odd places like UFO and conspiracy theories.
For the seminar has prepared a talk Dean which deepens her interrogation 
of the ways in which conspiracy theories operate in the public domain. 
Entitled Popular Credibility, the presentation will address matters of 
certainty and conspiracy theory around 9/11 and will involve showing and 
analysing portions of a video that has been circulating the Internet 
called Loose Change.
Also present at the seminar and acting as respondents to Dean’s 
presentation will be Noortje Marres and Richard Rogers, two important 
Amsterdam based theorists who have both, in different ways, challenged 
dominant conceptions of the ‘public’ and rethought our conceptions of 
how democracy has changed since its fate became entwined in the Internet.

Reservations: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +31 (0)20 6237101
Entrance 10,- ( students 8,-)

Exhibition
Our goal with this exhibition is to temporarily transform the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute into a center for what the artists 
collective De Geuzen call “multi-visual research”. Not only a gallery 
space alone but an “art and knowledge workshop”. This is why the 
Amsterdam University research network Govcom.org have occupied the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute recently on the basis of a temporary 
residency. During these weeks they have been working with their 
specially developed webcrawler application to investigate fluctuating 
alliances between political issues and celebrity endorsements. 
Govcom.org’s installation will focus on the case study of the Heather 
Mills and Paul McCartney saga and uses this instance to ask whether the 
link between celebrities and issues can be dismissed as the ‘politics of 
distraction’ alone.
The installation Global Anxiety Monitor, the artists collective, De 
Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research) deploys Google’s 
multi-lingual image search functions to look at the way different key 
words raise the anxiety temperature of different cultures including 
Arabic, English, Hebrew and Dutch, monitoring the eb and flow of global 
anxiety.
Oog is a remarkable experiment in which the major Dutch national 
newspaper De Volkskrant has opened a space in its on-line edition in 
which each week an artist is commissioned to make visual commentary on 
the news. The project has existed for 18 months and is one of the most 
visited pages on the site, outside the news-pages. From the extensive 
archive Oog’s initiator and curator Nanette Hoogslag has made a small 
selection of pieces to resonate with the Faith in Exposure theme. The 
contents are made accessible though a specially created interface by 
Joes Koppers and Bente van Bourgondiën.
The Beirut Papers is an soul scorching video distributed freely on the 
net during the Israeli incursion into the Lebanon in 2006. A powerful 
example of how the subjects of the news can take control of the 
instruments of representation and dissemination.
Avi Mograbi is an internationally acclaimed documentary film maker. An 
Israeli himself he goes into areas of conflict in Palestine and uses his 
camera and the journalistic role not only

[spectre] THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM “ART IN THE NE W FIELD OF VISIBILITY”

2007-01-15 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM “ART IN THE NEW FIELD OF VISIBILITY”
(English only)

Within the context of the debate about the role and function of image in 
our society, the symposium “Art in the New Field of Visibility” attempts 
to create a broader framework for comprehending the recent metamorphosis 
of all the communication forms and its implications in the art field.
The emergence of a new synthesis of the worldwide communications field 
has generated an interesting process of unifying the semiotic 
distinctions between words and images, between art and non-art, between 
visibility and non-visibility. This process reveals a paradigm shift 
that is dramatically altering the boundaries, calling for new strategies 
of research and approach, adjusted continuously to the increasing 
complexity of our world.
Through four interdisciplinary panel sessions and a final debate, the 
participants at the symposium will discuss the various aspects and 
features of our predominantly visual culture, exploring artists’ 
reaction to the generalized media experience and to stereotypes and 
globalization. Topics referring to the new regimes of image as a 
consequence of living in a transparent society, as well as topics 
referring to the crisis of representation and the existing situation of 
visual homogenization, will also be discussed.


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday January 19
Place: VLAAMS CULTUURHUIS DE BRAKKE GROND
Nes 45, 1012 KD Amsterdam

9.30-10.00  Welcome to the participants
10.00-10.15  Welcome speech: Leen Laconte, director of De Brakke Grond
Maria Rus Bojan  Bogdan Ghiu: Introductory Remarks to the Conference

Panel 1: Tuin Zaal Conference Hall, ground floor

Themes of discussion:
The transparent society considered as environment and condition of 
contemporary artistic creation.
The new artistic dilemma: approach the media process 
non-technologically, or subject the technology to artistic purposes? The 
contemporary artist’s status, between revolt and desire for diversion, 
and the risk of being absorbed by the general media flow.


Moderator: Maria Rus Bojan
10.15-10.45 Heiner Holtappels, director Netherlands Media Art Institute: 
The Influence of New Technologies on Culture, with a focus on visual art
10.45-11.15 Bogdan Ghiu, philosopher and writer: Imperceptible, 
Hyper-perceptible: the New Hodological Condition.
11.15-11.45 Emilian Cioc, philosopher, New Europe College Bucharest: Art 
in a Destitute Time
11.45-12.15 David Garcia, media theorist, Utrecht School of Arts: 
Visualizing Networked Freedom

12.15-12.45 Pascal Beausse, artcritic and curator The Artist as a Self-media

13.00- 14.00Lunch in the restaurant of De Brakke Grond

Panel 2:  Tuin Zaal Conference Hall, ground floor
Themes of discussion:
Image as mental environment and primordial element of the social space
The dissidence of image in the artistic approaches and the 
hyper-valorisation of image through spectacle in media.
The new invisibility seen as a state of non-representation and reaction 
against the media flow.


Moderator: Irina Cios, director of ICCA Bucharest
14.00-14.30 Corin Braga, writer, Babes Bolyai University, Faculty of 
Letters: ”Imagination”,”Imaginaire”, ”Imaginal”
14.30-15.00 Eric Kluitenberg, Networks of (in-) visibility, 
Cartographies of the Unseen in Hybrid Space
15.00-15.30 Jean Christophe Royoux, artcritic, France: The dissidence of 
images

15.30-16.30 Khalil Joreige, artist, Lebanon: Undisclosed Title
16.30-17.00 Sagi Groner, artist: Ready Media

Panel 3.  Groene Zaal Conference hall, ground floor

Themes of discussion:
Crisis of representation? An analysis of the existing situation of 
visual homogenization and democratic aestheticism.

The role of art and its ethical responsibility.

Moderator: Suzanne van de Ven
14.30-15.00 Bart Rutten, curator, Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch, Literary 
Deduction as Contemporary Navigation Practice
15.00-15.30 Vesna Madzoski, artcritic: Archeology of the Invisible: 
Shifting Paradigms and Aborted Artworks
15.30-16.30 Prof. Dr. Rolf Sachsse: Behemoth and Leviathan: Ethos in Art 
and Design under Digital Conditions


17.00-18.30Exhibition Opening: CORCORAN Strategies of Confinement in 
the Age of Biopolitics, curated by Zoran Eric, exhibition hall De Brakke 
Grond


21.00- 22.00  Opening of the exhibition Distorted fabric,Shadow cabinet,
curator Natasa Petresin (first part)
De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10

Saturday January 20

VLAAMS CULTUURHUIS DE BRAKKE GROND
Nes 45, 1012 KD Amsterdam

9.45 -10.00 Coffee

Panel 4. Tuin Zaal Conference Hall, ground floor

Themes of discussion:
Artistic representations of constructed realities.
The battle of art against the new codification and the stereotypes 
consolidated by media.


Moderator: Natasa Petresin, Artcritic and curator, Paris
10.00 –10.30 Hanneke Grootenboer, Senior Researcher, Royal Netherlands 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, UVA: Restoring the Infinite.
10-30-11.00 Zoran Eric, curator Museum of Modern Art Belgrade:

[spectre] ART IN THE NEW FIELD OF VISIBILITY

2007-01-09 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


ART IN THE NEW FIELD OF VISIBILITY

Manifestation from 18 January - 17 March 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Locations:
Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond
Netherlands Media Art Institute
de Appel
Maison Descarte

Art in the New Field of Visibility is an event which aims to explore the 
complex interactions between art and media, within the context of the 
debate about the role and the function of image in our society. The 
program consists of a series of exhibitions, screenings and talks 
organized by the Netherlands Media Art Institute, the Flemish Arts 
Centre de Brakke Grond, de Appel, Maison Descartes, Institut Français 
des Pays-Bas, Institutul Cultural Roman Boekarest and the Goethe 
Institut Amsterdam.


PROGRAM

FLEMISH ARTS CENTRE DE BRAKKE GROND

International Symposium
ART IN THE NEW FIELD OF VISIBILITY
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th January from 10.00 hour
Concept: Bogdan Ghiu, Maria Rus Bojan
Participants: Pascal Beausse, Corin Braga, Edwin Carels, Emilian Cioc, 
Irina Cios, Ann Demeester, prof. dr. David Garcia, Bogdan Ghiu, Katarina 
Gregos, Sagi Groner, Hanneke Grootenboer (o.v.), prof. dr. Boris Groys, 
Khalil Joreige, Eric Kluitenberg, Vesna Madzoski, Nataša Petrešin, 
Jean-Christophe Royoux, Bart Rutten, prof. dr. Rolf Sachsse, Ive 
Stevenheydens, Suzanne van de Ven

Saturday January 20th at 12.30 h. Lecture Prof Dr. Boris Groys
Within the context of the debate about the role and function of image in 
our society, the symposium “Art in the new field of visibility” attempts 
to create a broader framework for comprehending the recent metamorphosis 
of all the communication forms and the implications of this process in 
the art field. The emergence of a new synthesis of the worldwide 
communications field has generated an interesting process of unifying 
the semiotic distinctions between words and images, between art and 
non-art, between visibility and non-visibility. This process reveals a 
paradigm shift that is dramatically altering the boundaries, calling for 
new strategies of research and approach, adjusted continuously to the 
increasing complexity of our world.
Through four interdisciplinary panel discussions, the participants at 
the symposium will attempt to decipher the various aspects and features 
of our predominantly visual culture, exploring artists’ reaction to the 
generalized media experience and to stereotypes and globalization. 
Topics referring to the new regimes of image as a consequence of living 
in a transparent society, as well as topics referring to the crisis of 
representation and the existing situation of visual homogenization, will 
also be discussed.


Entrance: 20,- (students 10,-) --- including lunch
Reservations: T +31 20 6229014 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exhibition
CORCORAN
Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics
19 January – 25 February
Opening 19 January 17.00 hour
Artist: Alexandra Croitoru, Johan Grimonprez, Mladen Miljanovic, Solmaz 
Shahbazi, Sean Snyder

Curator: Zoran Eric
More information: http://www.brakkegrond.nl

Filmscreening
CLUB VOYEUR: CORCORAN
Strategies of Confinement in the Age of Biopolitics
Thursday February 8th 20.30 h, Zoran Eric in conversation with Bart Rutten
Videoworks from: Harun Farocki, Walid Raad  Atlas Group, Artur Zmijewski
Curator: Zoran Eric
More information: http://www.brakkegrond.nl


NETHERLANDS MEDIA ART INSTITUTE

Exhibition
READY MEDIA
18 January – 10 February
Opening 18 January from 17.00 - 19.00 hour
Artists: Pierre Bismuth, Heather  Patrick Burnett-Rose, Claude Closky, 
Sagi Groner, Sami Kallinen, Matthieu Laurette, Gabriel Lester, Anna 
Maltz, Cristi Pogacean, Julika Rudelius

Curator: Maria Rus Bojan
More information: http://www.montevideo.nl

Exhibition
FAITH IN EXPOSURE
24 February – 17 March
Opening 23 February, 17.00 h.
Artists (t.b.c.): Beirut Letters, De Geuzen, Govcom.org, Lynn Hershman, 
Olia Lialina, Avi Mograbi, Oog (Nanette Hoogslag / Volkskrant), Sean 
Snyder, Thomson  Craighead, Jody Zellen

Curator: David Garcia
More information: http://www.montevideo.nl

Seminar
FAITH IN EXPOSURE
Saturday 24 February
With contributions by: Jody Dean, Noortje Marres, Richard Rogers, Sean 
Snyder, David Garcia (moderator)

More information: http://www.montevideo.nl

DE APPEL

Exhibition and videoscreening
THE SHADOW CABINET:‘DISTORTED FABRIC’
19 – 27 January
Opening 19 January 20.00 hour
Artists: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Curator: Nataša Petrešin
Friday 19 January 21.00 hour
Videoworks from: The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Daya Cahen, Sebastián Díaz 
Morales

Saturday 20 January 20.30 hour
Videoworks from: Eglė Budvytytė, Keren Cytter, Jakup Ferri, Mario García 
Torres, Driton Hajredini, Ahmet Öğüt, Natascha Sadr Haghighian  Judith 
Hopf, SilentCell Network, Clemens von Wedemeyer  Maya Schweizer

More information: http://www.deappel.nl

MAISON DESCARTES

Exhibition
INVESTIGATIONS
20 January - 10 February
Opening Saturday 20 January at 17.00 hour
During the opening Pascal Beausse will talk to Bruno

[spectre] Symposium: The Body as Interface, December 15

2006-12-05 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


The Body as Interface

Symposium December 15, 2006
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute
Time: 13.30 – 19.00 hours
Entrance: 10,- (students 8,-)
Reservations: 020 6237101, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Language: English
Live Stream: www.montevideo.nl

Looking at interactive art practices artists and critics will shed light 
on one of the key concerns for many creative practitioners - engaging 
the emotions of the audience/user. They will focus on the meaning and 
wish for 'emotional engagement' and interactivity.


Artists seem compelled to expand the sensory capabilities of our bodies, 
but what do we gain through this process? How do we conceptualise 
interactivity and incorporate emotional values? Does interactivity 
offer, due to its participatory nature, a more profound experience than 
traditional forms of art? How does one engage and sustain the interest 
of the public in an interactive experience? How does one define the line 
between spectacle and works that create a chain of associations and 
provide a space for engagement, interpretation and participation?


Moderator: Ole Bouman

13.30 – 14.00 h.
Presentation: Renee van de Vall (University Maastricht, MA Media Culture)

14.30 – 16.00 h.
Discussion with:

Kristina Andersen (Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and 
Steim, Amsterdam)


Christa Sommerer (media artist and professor at University of Art and 
Design in Linz Austria) - http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/


Paul Verschure (Group Leader Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH-UZ, 
Zurich) - http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~pfmjv/

http://www.mvrdv.nl/

Opening 17.00 hours of Dune 4.0 from Daan Roosegaarde with live 
performance by Ellen Pieterse in collaboration with Melange. Dune 4.0 is 
an interactive landscape that was developed specially for the Artist in 
Residence program in order to investigate the functioning and 
presentation of interactivity. Dune 4.0 is a work-in-progress. No 
entrance fee.

www.studioroosegaarde.net

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl

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[spectre] CALL: ARTIST in RESIDENCE [AiR] 2007

2006-11-14 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


ARTIST in RESIDENCE [AiR] 2007

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

+ + DEADLINE: 2 JANUARY 2007 + +

in brief:
residency period 3 months
dates from March 2007
location Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Netherlands Media Art Institute is pleased to announce an open call 
for the Spring 2007 round of its Artist in Residence (AiR) program.


The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support 
the exploration and development of new work in 
digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. 
The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive 
environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from 
an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and 
experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to 
enable the development and completion of a new work.


Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive installation 
art, in which the following occurs:

- interaction between tools and/or software
- interaction between tools and artwork
- interaction between audience and artwork

The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with 
technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give 
feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues. 
There is access to studio and exhibition equipment,
technical support from the Institute’s staff and production help from 
interns. The technical staff is specialized and has good contacts with 
programmers of the following software, a.o.: PD/PDP, Blender, Dynebolic, 
Linux. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the 
technical realization of the concept.


It is integral to the mission of the AiR program that artists 
participate in presenting their work in a public form appropriate to 
their project. This can include gallery installations, demonstrations of 
research in progress, panel discussions, on-line projects, or multimedia 
performances, in addition to open studio events and workshops. For this 
reason we ask that artists include in their proposal possible examples 
of how they might like to present their work publicly.


At this moment the Netherlands Media Art Institute provides in travel 
costs. It doesn’t provide accommodation for artists living outside of 
Amsterdam. However, we are willing to help the search but cannot 
guarantee a place for living.


Application using the application form can be send to:
Netherlands Media Art Institute
Artist in Residence
c/o Annet Dekker
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
the Netherlands

For more information about past residents and their projects, see our 
website at Research www.montevideo.nl


Application Form can be found on our website www.montevideo.nl // 
Research /// AiR



Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo / Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31 (0)20 6244423

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[spectre] Art and Science in their Natural Habitat -- Seminar saturday November 11

2006-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


*Art and Science in their Natural Habitat*

*Seminar saturday November 11 from 13.00 - 17.30 h.*

For many people the subject of art and science is still hard to grasp. 
Is there something like artistic science, or scientific art, and where 
is the boundary to be drawn as to whether something is art or science? 
Especially in the case of ‘invisible’ technology it is often unclear 
whether something is art or scientific research. For instance, to many 
people nano recording immediately suggests something aesthetic and 
artistic. The relation between art and science however has a long 
history, with the two going their separate ways only in the 19th 
century. Although since then they have cooperated less, alliances 
continue to exist that lead to mutually productive projects. The 
‘invisible’ technology of the last few years has surfaced renewed 
interest in collaboration between artists and scientists. Perhaps it is 
the mythic aspects surrounding nano technology, biotechnology and 
genetics that lead to artistic ideas and concepts. That which cannot be 
seen and understood whets the curiosity and creativity of many artists. 
In many cases they try to embed scientific points of departure, 
methodology or research in a cultural discourse by – in the case of this 
exhibition – relating these to aesthetic, ethical or philosophical 
questions about nature and the relationship between nature and culture 
and the position of mankind in them.


Under the title ‘Art and Science in their Natural Habitat’, on the basis 
of a number of presentations and discussions the Netherlands Media Art 
Institute is calling for thought about the relation between artist and 
scientist. The discussion focuses on projects that manifest a new 
practice, in which the relation between nature and culture is central. 
With Evelina Domnitch  Dmitry Gelfand, Driessens  Verstappen, Alex 
Verkade, Ben Schouten, Koert van Mensvoort, Robert Zwijnenberg en Awee 
Prins.


See the full program: 
_http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=lid=175 
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=lid=175_


Entrance 10,- (students 8,-)

Reservations 020 6237101, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Seminar is part of the Natural Habitat project. The exhibition 
Natural Habitat opens Saturday November 4 at 3:00 p.m. and can be 
visited untill December 16. 
_http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=173 
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=eid=173_




Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo / Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31 (0)20 6244423

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[spectre] Wanted PD/PDP programmer

2006-02-15 Diskussionsfäden Marieke Istha


Wanted PD/PDP programmer

For a new Artist in Residence project the Netherlands Media Art 
Institute is looking for a PD/PDP programmer. Preferably for a period of 
4 months, starting this March in Steim, Amsterdam and the following 3 
months (April-June) in the Netherlands Media Art Institute. You’ll be 
working closely with media artist/architect Sonia Cillari who will be 
developing her new project Conscious Space II. The timeframe of the 
project is in consultation with the artist. More information is 
available on request.


The Netherlands Media Art Institute will provide working space, housing 
and fee.


Candidates preferably from the EU

If you’re interested please contact as soon as possible Annet Dekker 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl

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