[spectre] The California Ideology Redux
From: Julian Bleecker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Convergence: Special Issue on Digital Cultures of California Date: July 13, 2007 10:58:54 AM PDT Colleagues and Friends, I am editing an upcoming special issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. If you would, please consider contributing. Inquiries or questions can be directed to me. We are particularly interested in articles that have a practice-based approach to their topic, or are explications of digital culture as seen through new kinds of interaction rituals brought to us courtesy of California's peculiar ways of making and circulating culture. Thanks. Hope to hear from you. Julian Bleecker Julian Bleecker, Ph.D. http://research.techkwondo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Call for Papers – Special Issue on ‘Digital Cultures of California Vol 15 no 1. February 2009 Guest editor: Julian Bleecker (julian [at] techkwondo [dot] com and bleeckerj [at] gmail [dot] com) (Near Future Laboratory and University of Southern California) The deadline for submission of research articles is 1 February 2008. This call invites submissions for a special issue related to digital cultures of California. Internationally, California is a phenomenon in terms of its relationship to creating, consuming and analyzing the era of digital technologies. From the legendary garage entrepreneurs, to the multi-billion dollar culture of venture capital, to stock back- dating scandals, to the epic exodus of California’s IT support staff during the Burning Man festival, this territory plays an important role in the political, cultural and economic underpinnings of digitally and network-mediated lives on a global scale. The Bay Area of California (often referred to somewhat incorrectly as Northern California) is perceived as a hot-bed of technology activity. Nearby Silicon Valley serves as a marker for the massive funding of enterprises that shape many aspects of digital culture. The new interaction rituals that have come to define what social life has become in many parts of the world can often be traced back to this part of California. New, popular and curious forms of presence awareness and digital communication such as Twitter and Flickr have found a comfortable home here. Lifestyles of the Northern California digerati have enveloped the cultural milieu, often changing the social landscape to such a degree that it become unrecognizable and unpalatable to those less engaged in creating and consuming digital cultures. Complimenting the Bay Area’s technology production activities is Southern California – the greater Los Angeles basin in particular – where Hollywood sensibilities bring together entertainment with technology through such things as video games, mobile content distribution, digital video and 3D cinema. California is also the home of several colleges and universities where digital technologies are developed in engineering departments and reflected upon from social science and humanities departments. This curious relationship between production and analysis creates the promise of insightful interdisciplinary approaches to making new kinds of digital networked cultures. Many institutions have made efforts to combine engineering and social science practices to bolster technology design. Xerox PARC probably stands as the canonical example of interdisciplinary approaches to digital technology design. Similarly, combining arts practices with technology as a kind of exploratory research and development has important precedent at places like Intel Berkeley Labs and PARC and at the practice-based events such as the San Jose California-based Zero One festival. In this special issue we welcome submissions which investigate, provoke and explicate the California digital cultures from a variety of perspectives. We are interested in papers that approach this phenomenon in scholarly and, particularly, approaches that emphasize practice-based analysis and knowledge production. * What are the ways that social networks have been shaped by digital techniques? * How has the phenomenon of the digital entrepreneur evolved in the age of DIY sensibilities? * What are the ways that ‘new ideas’ succeed or fail based on their dissemination amongst the elite, connected digerati, as opposed to their dissemination amongst less more quotidian communities? * What is the nature of the matrix of relationships between Hollywood entertainment, the military, industry and digital technology? * Can the DIY culture explored in the pages of Make magazine produce its own markets? * How does the Apple Inc. culture of product design and development shape and inform popular culture? * How have the various
[spectre] V2_| Exhibition in MOCA, Taipei
Rotterdam, 19 July 2007 / V2_ EXHIBITION IN MOCA, TAIPEI From 10 August through 28 October 2007 the exhibition ZONE V2_ will take place in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei, organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. To celebrate the 25 year anniversary of V2_, the MOCA has invited V2_ to curate an international exhibition of electronic and media art. The exhibition shows a compilation of art and artists, who have determined the identity of V2_ in the past decennia. Zone V2_ will also present a conference and workshop hosted by international artists and experts. ZONE V2_ Media such as radio, photography, film, television and internet have deeply influenced the way that modern people regard themselves and experienced the world. The exhibition plays with our media experiences, and with the impact the media have on our social, cultural, political, and economical context and interactions. The main themes of Zone V2_ include time, information, and interaction, represented by new installations, as well as artworks that were exhibited earlier during the Dutch Electronic Art Festival. Highlights among the more than twenty artworks on show are George Legrady’s Pockets full of Memories, Beijing Accelerator by Marnix de Nijs en data.tron by Ryoji Ikeda.. Conference and workshop Concurrently with the exhibition there will be a two-days conference Unstable Media, about critical interaction with popular machineries and the relationship between media art and popular culture. Several experts and artists that participate in the exhibition will reflect on their work and give demonstrations. Prior to the conference Staalplaat Soundsystem will host the workshop Made in Taiwan, where the audience can participate in the creation of an installation, made of electronic kitchen devices, which can be controlled by mobile phones. The result will be exhibited in ZONE V2_. Zone V2_, Unstable Media, Act - Interact 10 August through 28 October 2007 Conference: Unstable Media 11 and 12 August 2007 Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan ZONE V2_, artists/artworks: - PainStation, Enhanced Dueling Artifact, 2001 – 2004 by fur art entertainment interfaces (Tillman Reiff, Volker Morawe) - G-Player 4 by Jens Brand - Feed by Shane Cooper - Synthia-Stock Ticker by Lynn Hershman Leeson - Purple Rain Joyce Hinterding, David Haines - data.tron by Ryoji Ikeda - Pockets Full of Memories by George Legrady - Drawn by Zachary Lieberman - Beijing Accelerator by Marnix de Nijs - Cheap Imitation by David Rokeby - YOKOMONO by Staalplaat Soundsystem - Exactitudes by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek - Amazon Noir by UBERMORGEN.COM, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO, PAOLO CIRIO - Google Will Eat Itself by UBERMORGEN.COM, ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO, PAOLO CIRIO - zgodlocator/version zII by Herwig Weiser - Chinese Portraiture by Zhou Hongxiang Videoworks ‘In the Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall ‘ directed by Denis Beaubois ‘All is Full of Love’ directed by Chris Cunningham ‘Safe Distance’ by New Media Center_kuda.org ‘The Catalogue’ directed by Chris Oakley Workshop Made in Taiwan Hosted by Staalplaat Soundsystem: Sale Away (end-result installation) ///END/// You can find more information about Zone V2_ and the two-days conference Unstable Media on our website: www.v2.nl More information about the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (MOCA) on http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/_english/index.asp You can also contact Annetje Lekkas, V2_PR and Communications : +31 10 206 72 72 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Satellite Voyeurism, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Sat, July 21, 2007
(please scroll down for German version) Hello, take a day off for a trip to the spectacular site of PHOENIX Halle Dortmund! On Saturday, July 21, 2007 there will be exciting lectures and project presentations. In the framework of the Satellite Voyeurism workshop Francis Hunger, Daniel Schulz, Régine Debatty and Tristan Thielmann will speak about the production and (artistic) reception of satellite images. The public lectures take place in the context of the current exhibition History Will Repeat Itself which is a cooperation between HMKV Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin and will be on view until September 23, 2007 (Thu + Fri 11-22 hrs, Sat + Sun 11-20 hrs) at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. Comprehensive information about the exhibition can be found at http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104rubric=exhibitions; Looking forward to see you there, Inke Arns SATELLITE VOYEURISM Workshop Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, July 20 - 22, 2007 Public Lectures: SATURDAY, July 21, 2007, 11:00 - 16:00 hrs (4 / 2 Euro, incl. exhibition entrance, no advance booking required) Conceived and organised by Francis Hunger (HMKV) The workshop Satellite Voyeurism addresses questions of production and reception of satellite images. In addition to public lectures by international media artists, committed scientists and commercial companies' representatives of the regions' geo-data industry, a two day workshop program with up to 12 participants takes place. Within the hands-on part the participants learn how to use a simple antenna, computer, soundcard combination to retrieve satellite images of NOAA satellites, and share own ideas and projects with the other participants. Both lectures and workshop discuss the image quality of satellite images but of course the subject will also touch upon the field of locative media, as GPS, GIS. Through the workshop the basis for a publication shall be created, which includes documentation about recent media art projects in the field of mapping, satellite images and satellite technology. http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php?nr=2344rubric=events; The workshop is funded by Der Ministerpraesident des Landes NRW LAG Soziokultur NRW Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund PROGRAM (public lectures, no booking required) SATURDAY July 21, 2007, 11 am - 4 pm Public lectures (partly in English / German) 11:00 am FRANCIS HUNGER (HMKV, Dortmund) Introduction: A few comments on the success of Google Earth 12:00 am DANIEL SCHULZ (IAIS Fraunhofer Institut) Geomarketing Break 1:00-2:00 pm 2:00 pm REGINE DEBATTY (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com, Berlin) Recent artists' project using satellite images and geo-data 3:00 pm TRISTAN THIELMANN (Universität Siegen) Geomedialität: Neue A-Perspektiven auf den blauen Planeten. Public program ends at 16:00. About Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund HMKV serves as a platform for the production, presentation, education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. The activities of HMKV deal, in different formats, with the theme Augmented Space: in exhibitions, workshops, performances, symposia, publications, Internet applications and in European research projects. The success of last year's How I learned to love RFID workshop at HMKV (conceived by Francis Hunger) and the emergence of popular geographic mapping tools led to the development of the Satellite Voyeurism workshop in 2007, directed by Francis Hunger. For more information on HMKV: http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_institution_mission/ CONTACT Exhibition and Workshop Venue: HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Hochofenstrasse / corner Rombergstrasse 44263 Dortmund-Hoerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hmkv.de Tel: ++49+231+823106 Guten Tag, spannende Vortraege stehen am Samstag, den 21. Juli 2007 im HMKV Dortmund auf dem Programm! Im Rahmen des Satelliten Voyeurismus Workshops werden Francis Hunger, Daniel Schulz, Régine Debatty und Tristan Thielmann ueber Produktion und (kuenstlerische) Rezeption von Satellitenbildern sprechen. Die oeffentlichen Vortraege finden im Rahmen der aktuellen Ausstellung History Will Repeat Itself statt, eine Kooperation zwischen dem HMKV Dortmund und den KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, die noch bis zum 23. September 2007 (Do + Fr 11-22 Uhr, Sa + So 11-20 Uhr) in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund zu sehen ist. Mehr zur Ausstellung unter http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/d_programm_ausstellungen/detail.php?nr=2108rubric=ausstellungen; Herzliche Gruesse, Inke Arns SATELLITEN VOYEURISMUS Workshop Hartware MedienKunstVerein in der PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 20. - 22. Juli 2007 Oeffentliche Vortraege: Samstag, 21. Juli 2007, 11:00 - 16:00 Uhr (4 / 2 Euro, inkl. Eintritt in die Ausstellung, keine Anmeldung erforderlich)
[spectre] Dislocate 07 - Tokyo
Dislocate 07 http://www.dis-locate.net/www.dis-locate.net ART, TECHNOLOGY, LOCALITY Exhibition, Symposium and Workshop series 24th July 5th August Tokyo and Yokohama Ginza Art Laboratory (Wednesday Sunday 3-8pm) Koiwa Project Space (Tuesday Sunday 2-7pm) ZAIM 28th 29th July 11am-4pm Symposium and Workshops Opening Event Koiwa Project Space 24th July 7pm Performance Event ZAIM 29th July 6pm All Events are Free Dislocate 07 Festival for Art, Technology and Locality Dislocate brings together a group of over 30 international artists in an exhibition, symposium and workshop series in Tokyo and Yokohama. Considering the spacial and social dislocation which can occur through technology, these artists are investigating how new media can be rooted in its specific location and form a meaningful relationship between ourselves and our surroundings. Dislocate aims to explore the potential new media has to increase our awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit. This project presents cutting edge approaches to new technology art but with a view to seeing beyond the technology itself, examining what lies past the screen. Dislocate prompts us to reconsider the alternative uses of the personal technologies which surround us, not merely offering an escape route from our current situation but also a tool to actually confront this very location. With an endless array of spaces available to us, we can select our contexts of participation like the channels of a television. We may be highly active in an online space, engrossed in our constructed personal space, but by choice or otherwise we may distance ourselves from our immediate surroundings. We are presented with the freedom of unlimited possibilities and yet are we making these decisions consciously or are they occurring without thought? Dislocate considers the very integration of new media with the environment and this might be utilized to consciously reconnect with our location, seeking to explore, question and debate how can technology be used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of isolating us from our immediate space. When numerous places converge in one site, how do we navigate such space? How does our interaction within a given space formulate identity and how can this be communicated effectively to elsewhere? These are some of the questions which will be raised through the Dislocate events. All events are free If you wish to attend the symposium or workshops please email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] with your name and contact telephone number Artists Include: Active Ingredient http://www.i-am-ai.net/www.i-am-ai.net Christian Nold http://www.softhook.com/www.softhook.com Dan Belasco Rogers http://www.planbperformance.net/dan/www.planbperformance.net/dan/ D-Fuse http://www.dfuse.com/http://www.dfuse.com/ Taeyoon Choi http://tyshow.org/http://tyshow.org So-Hyeon Park Erik Pauhrizi http://butonkultur21.org/http://butonkultur21.org/ Andreas Schlegel and Vladimir Todorovic http://syntfarm.org/projects/btc/http://syntfarm.org/projects/btc/ Yuko Mohri http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~moo/http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~moo/ Augemented Architecture http://www.augmented-architectures.com/http://www.augmented-architectures.com/ Stanza http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.htmlhttp://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/index.html Disinformation For more information please contact Emma Ota mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] further artists include: Ryosuke Akiyoshi, Martin Callanan, Frank Abbott, Sascha Pohflepp, Maria Andraos Sonali Sridhar, Miguel Andrés-Clavera and Inyong Cho, Laurent Pernot, Esther Harris, Andreas Zingerle, Julian Konczak, Genevieve Staines, Marco Villani, So Young Yang, Liu Zhenchen, Nisha Duggal, Lori Amor Kevan Davis, Maria Raponi, Lisa Mee, Leo Morrissey, Cary Peppermint Christine Nadir, Anne-Marie Culhane, Jomi Kim, Harry Levene Jon Pigrem, Naoko Takahashi, Son Woo Kyung Dislocate is supported by The Asia-Europe Foundation, The Sasakawa Foundation, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Arts Council, England *** Trampoline Newsletter This is an automated newsletter. Please do not reply to this message. If you would like to reach us, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have received this email unvoluntarily or would like to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please go to http://www.trampoline-berlin.de/index.php?page=newsletterhttp://www.trampoline-berlin.de/index.php?page=newsletter ___ Newsletter_trampoline-berlin.de mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ml02.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/newsletter_trampoline-berlin.de __ SPECTRE list for media
[spectre] gray) (area . Korcula . Croatia presents Changing Climate - Central Asian Video
gray) (area space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia presents . Changing Climate a selection of Central Asian Video curated by Stefan Rusu . 21 - 30 . 07 . 2007 . opening . Saturday 21th . 20.30 h )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( ) ( )( )( )( )( )( )( The selection shows particular interest of Central Asian artists for cinematic language that become an effective tool in exploring contradictions and confusions of the Islamic states, some decades after dissolution of soviet block. We invite you to dive into artist’s laboratory, in which the reuse of spiritual tehnics and practices becomes effective models in articulating critical attitudes toward inertia, rampant globalization and neo-liberal anarchy. The artists obsession for ecstatic vocabulary comes from the varieties of nomadic rituals, pre-Islamic and syncretic practices that define their life and cultural environment. The exhibition is an attempt to question former and ongoing EU policy measures/adjustments toward the black market development and labor force migration from the Eastern countries, as the effects of its policy during the 90’s in the Western Balkans. In such circumstances the artists exploring the values of nomadic culture become a valuable contribution in changing actual cultural and political climate. Presented artists: Abilsait Atabekov, Alexandr Ugay from Kazakhstan, Veaceslav Ahunov/Uzbekistan and Ulan Djaparov/Kyrgyzstan Stefan Rusu is artist and freelance curator based in Chisinau, Moldova and Bucharest. In 2005/2006 he attended the Curatorial Training Program at Shtichting De Appel from Amsterdam where he co- curated Mercury in Retrograde (www.mercuryinretrograde.com) )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( ) ( )( )( )( )( )( )( gray) (area is located 10 meters by the sea in the basement of The Memorial Collection of Maksimilijan Vanka [http://www.hazu.hr/ENG/ MemColl_M_Vanka.html] . Put sv. Nikole 7 . Korcula open daily 19. 30 - 21.30 h or by appointment gray) (area is an initiative by Darko Fritz . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . tel +385 [0] 91.5800193 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
