[spectre] from the moderator machine - when your message disappears...
Dear friends and fellow spectrites, just a reminder of some basic rules for the spectre-list; this is important to remember, esp. when you normally love attachments, exotic colour fonts and multiple-address posting: The Mailman-software we use is configured to accept: - no HTML, no formatted text, no attachments - messages must be smaller than 40K - you have to post from a subscribed address Messages which don't apply to these rules sometimes get discarded automatically, so if you don't see your messages appearing on the list, try the beauties of plain text. This morning, the list has 992 subscribers. Best regards from Inke and Andreas -- SPECTRE is an open, unmoderated mailing list for media art and culture in Deep Europe. Initiated in August 2001, SPECTRE offers a channel for practical information exchange concerning events, projects and initiatives organized within the field of media culture, and hosts discussions and critical commentary about the development of art, culture and politics in and beyond Europe. Deep Europe is not a particular territory, but is based on an attitude and experience of layered identities and histories - ubiquitous in Europe, yet in no way restricted by its topographical borders. SPECTRE is a channel for people involved in old and new media in art and culture. Importantly, many people on this list know each other personally. SPECTRE aims to facilitate real-life meetings and favours real face-to-face (screen - to - screen) cooperation, test-bed experiences and environments to provoke querying of issues of cultural identity / identification and difference (translatable as well as untranslatable or irreducible). WHAT IS (A) SPECTRE? 1. There's a spectre haunting Europe ... (K. Marx/F. Engels) 2. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.: Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (James Bond 007 movies) 3. spektr was a module of the MIR space station focussing on the research of micro gravity 4. Les Spectres de Marx (J. Derrida) 5. Craig Baldwin's latest movie: Spectres of the Spectrum (2000) 6. to be continued... __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Platform Garanti: Season's Greetings...
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:40:22 -0500 From: e-Flux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Platform Garanti: Season's Greetings... 01/08/06 http://www.e-flux.com Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Center Season's Greetings... Eid al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice (January 10th 2006) is the most important feast of the Muslim calendar. It concludes the Pilgrimage to Mecca. Eid al-Adha lasts for three days and commemorates Ibraham's (Abraham) willingness to obey God by sacrificing his son. Muslims believe the son to be Ishmael rather than Isaac as told in the Old Testament. Ishmael is considered the forefather of the Arabs. According to the Koran, Ibrahim was about to sacrifice his son when a voice from heaven stopped him and allowed him to sacrifice a ram instead. The feast re-enacts Ibrahim's obedience by sacrificing a cow or ram. The family eats about a third of the meal and donates the rest to the poor. Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istiklal Cad. No: 276 Beyoglu Istanbul, 34340 Turkey Tel: 90 212 293 23 61 Fax: 90 212 293 30 71 http://www.platform.garanti.com.trhttp://www.platform.garanti.com.tr __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Notes for an Art School / BOOK LAUNCH
hello, is this the same florian waldvogel who stole other people's texts for 'his' justdoit!catalogue in linz last year without asking permission and without crediting the authors? can we trust manifesta6 if we cannot trust him? -ab From: Hedwig Fijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16 February 2006 5:28:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Notes for an Art School / BOOK LAUNCH Notes for an Art School / BOOK LAUNCH Manifesta 6 School Martin Beck / Boris Groys / Liam Gillick / Walid Raad / Martha Rosler / Dexter Sinister and Anton Vidokle will be present to speak informally about the school and the publication. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH / 7 - 9PM 495 Broadway 3d Floor, New York, NY 10012, Tel: 212 925 2035 The SWISS INSTITUTE - CONTEMPORARY ART (S I) is pleased to host the launch for Notes for an Art School, the first publication of Manifesta 6. Notes for an Art School is an anthology of essays and interviews by artists, curators, theorists and educators on the topic of art education. Contributors are Mai Abu ElDahab, Babak Afrassiabi, Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Olaf Metzel, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Tobias Rehberger, Walid Sadek, Nasrin Tabatabai, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel. The book lays the theoretical groundwork for Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contmporary Art, for which the curators Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel propose to challenge the conventional format of the large-scale exhibition and, alternatively, set up an art school - the Manifesta 6 School - in Nicosia, from September 23 - December 17, 2006. (...) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Sonic Acts XI, Amsterdam - The Anthology of Computer Art
Sonic Acts XI - The Anthology of Computer Art 23 - 26 februari 2006 - Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam The eleventh edition of the Sonic Acts Festival will be held from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th February 2006 in Paradiso and De Balie in Amsterdam. Entitled Sonic Acts XI - The Anthology of Computer Art, the festival will include a three-day international conference, three evenings and nights of live performances, an extensive film programme and an exhibition. A DVD and a book on the festival theme will also be published to coincide with it. The three-day conference will provide a multifaceted and penetrating overview of computer art. International speakers from computer arts, film, the fine arts, music, the academic world, literature and art history will, from the perspective of their own background, discuss the historical developments, present the current position of computer art, and consider its future. Jasia Reichardt (UK) opens the festival at February 23 2006 with a Keynote lecture. Reichardt is writer and curator and made history in 1968 with the exhibit Cybernetic Serendipity. Speakers at the conference include Lillian Schwartz (US), pioneer in the field of computer-generated art and computer films; Curtis Roads (US), composer and author of the influential Computer Music Tutorial; Stephen Wilson (US), professor of conceptual design at the SFSU and author of the authoritative Information Arts, Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology; Joost Rekveld (NL), artist, produces abstract films and kinetic installations since 1991; Ben Fry (USA), artist, who's current research involves the visualization of genetic data. With Casey Reas he is developing the open source programming environment Processing; Manfred Mohr (US), computer artist since 1968 and considered as one of the pioneers; Frieder Nake (DE), professor interactive computer- graphics in Bremen and one of the three artists in the first computer art exhibitions (1965, Stuttgart). A key-person in the field of computer art and information aesthetics since then; Andreas Broeckmann (DE), artistic director of the international media art festival Transmediale in Berlin. In texts and lectures he deals with post-medial practices and the possibilities for a 'machinic' aesthetics of media art; Matthias Weiss (DE), studied art history and philosophy and is considered an authority in the field of net-art; John Oswald (CA), composer and sound-artist. Became famous in 1990 with his Plunderphonics; Rob Young (UK), editor for the music magazine The Wire; Golan Levin (US), artist, composer, performer and engineer, develops new forms of interaction with audiovisual systems; Joan Leandre (ES), also known as Retroyou, artist working with modified games; Wolf Lieser (DE), curator and founder of the Digital Art Museum; Erik van Blokland (NL), designer and co-founder of Letterror. Arjen Mulder (NL), Casey Reas (US) and Rutger Wolfson (NL) will moderate during the conference. The festival will start with performances by Granular Synthesis (AT) and Curtis Roads Brian O'Reilly (US). Granular Synthesis, renowned for its monumental and impressive audio-visual performances and installations, will perform Areal. Curtis Roads Brian O'Reilly will perform their international acclaimed octaphonic audiovisual piece Point Line Cloud. The Friday programme is being compiled in collaboration with Jace Clayton (a.k.a. DJ/rupture), founder of Negrophonic and Soot Records, and will include: The Bug feat. Ras B (Rephlex, UK), Beans (Warp, US), Ghislain Poirier (Chocolate Industries, CA), Vex'd (Rephlex, UK) , DJ /rupture No Lay G-Kid (Unorthodox, UK), Team Shadetek presents: Heavy Meckle feat. Matt Shadetek, Sheen, Jammer, Chronik Ears (Warp / Jah Mek the the World, UK/US), Hrvatski (Planet Mu, US), Aaron Spectre (Death$ucker, US), Ove-Naxx (Adaadat, JP), Scotch Egg (Wrong Music, JP), Doddodo (Adaadat, JP), Drop the Lime (Tigerbeat6, US), Filastine (Soot, US), Nettle (theAgriculture, ES), 2/5 BZ (Gözel, TU), Gustav (Mosz, AT), Planning to Rock (Twisted Nerve, DE), Toktek MNK (NL). On Saturday Performances by: Matthew Dear (Spectral Sound, US), Reinhard Voigt (Kompakt, DE), Ada (Areal records, DE), TBA (Max Ernst, DE), AGF SUE.C (Orthlorng Musork, DE/US), Portable (Scape, ZA), Fe-mail (NO), NotTheSameColor (AT), SKIF Bas van Koolwijk (US/ NL), Moha! (NO), OfficeR(6) (NL/US/NO), Jason Forrest (Cock Rock Disco, US), TinyLittleElements (AT/DE), Anne Laplantine (FR), Boris Brecht Debackere (BE), Nancy Fortune (Viewlexx, FR). The film programme will look at purely digital film art with a number of historical overviews, documentaries and contemporary computer films. Work will also be shown from the archive of the Institut National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches des Images. In two programme series work will be shown from filmmakers such as: Raymond Hains, Jacques Brissot, Nicolas Schöffer, Caroline Laure, Marie Claire Petris, Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade and Piotr
[spectre] (fwd) STRP Art Loves Technology Festival
Dear reader,The STRP festival will take place between the 24th and 26th of March 2006 in the former industrial area, Strijp S, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. STRP is a festival at the intersection of art, technology and popular culture in the full context of all art disciplines. A festival where the public is treated to a broad palette of works through in-depth presentations and large spectacles, which provide an image of how visual art, design, stage arts, film, architecture and popular culture develop themselves through the means or appliance of both new and existing technology. http://www.strp.nl STRP Program: ROBOTICS Amorphic RobotWorks (USA) - Inflatable Bodies, Robotlab (GER) - Juke_bots, Bill Vorn (CAN) - Hysterical Machines, Pascal Glissmann, Martina Höfflin (GER) - Electronic Life Forms (ELF), Garnet Hertz (CAN) - Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot #3, Gijs van Bon - Arabesk #23, Time's up/HRL (AUT), Bar Bot - Dr. Christoph Bartneck (GER) - eMuu, Robbert Smit, Graham Smith, HKU - Telemoby, Björn Schülke (GER) - Nervous, Markus Lerner, Andre Stubbe (GER) - Outerspace, Michiel van Overbeek - Nazarenos, Lara Greene (UK) - You Move Me, Fred Abels Mirjam Langemeijer - Dirk INTERACTIVE ART Marnix de Nijs - RMR (runmotherfuckerrun), C6 (UK) - Want Need, //fur art entertainment interfaces (GER) - PainStation, Marnix de Nijs Edwin van der Heide - Spatial Sounds, Mateusz Herczka - 44\13, Debbie does art - Cockroachlounge, Walter Langelaar - SUB-OBJECT_2.1, Raymond Deirkauf, Beyond Expression - Ray's, Aldje van Meer en Radboud Mens - Realsound, Kim Boekhout van Solinge - Ruissimulatie, David Kousemaker - TouchMe, Prohaska, Sägmüller, Demblin (AUT) - Unplugger v1.1/Plug In to Black Out, Prohaska (AUT) - KRFTWRK, Crew (BE) - Degenerator 2.0, Paul Klotz - 3D-Quoter MUSIC Dj's Jeff Mills (DVJ-set, USA) - Derrick May (USA) - Daniel Wang (USA) - DJ Krust (UK) - Addictive TV (DVJ Set, UK) - Dick El Demasiado - Lady Aida - Steffi - Martyn (DJ Pan) - Robob - Rick Angel - Ari Daily - Caz One Live Karl Bartos (Ex-Kraftwerk, GER) - Mouse on Mars (GER) - DMX Krew (UK) - Atom Heart (GER / CHI) - Octave One (USA) - Joris Voorn - Secret Cinema - Zeena Parkins Ikue Mori (USA) - Beautyon (UK) - Daniel Wang (USA) - Kettel - Geigercounting - Dijf Sanders (BE) - Dexter - Like a Tim - Vert (GER/UK) - Drillem - Taeji Sawai (JPN) - Ella Bandita - Yutaka Makino (JPN) - RA-X and the Raiders of the Lost Cause - David Grubbs (USA) - Solid Decay - Hrvatski VISUALS Live Cinema Peter Greenaway (UK): Tulse Luper VJ performance - Skoltz Kolgen (CAN) - Telcosystems - Addictive TV (UK): The Eye of the Pilot - Boris en Brecht Debackere (BE): Rotor - Optical Machines - SXNDRX: Videoboxing Video-art/art videoclips Cinefeel: Music Videos - Addictive TV (UK): Mixmasters - Optronica (UK): Visual Music on the Screen - WORM: Live Cinema DVD 1 - NOTV: Visual Music 2 - Floris Kaayk: The Order Electrus Vj's VJ Oxygen others Live visuals presentations by Holland-Interactive Special outdoor light installation by Har Hollands Films Fritz Lang (GER) - Metropolis, Fred M. Wilcox (USA) - Forbidden Planet, Mamoru Oshii (JPN) - Ghost in the Shell 2, Het uur van de wolf - Op zoek naar een vergeten toepassing, Lesic, Lindgreen Pancras, When I sold my soul to the machine, Len Lye (NZL) - Birth of a Robot, Lillian Schwartz (USA) - Pixilliation, Robert Seidel(GER) -Grau, Phillipp Hirsch (GER) - Inside, Alexander Rutterford (UK) - Gantz Graf, Alexander Rutterford (UK) - 3Space, Johnny Hardstaff (UK) - Future of Gaming, George Melies (FRA) - Le Voyage dans la Lune OTHER Theatre Pipslab: The washing powder conspiracy, produced by Paradiso-Melkweg Productiehuis - Crew (BE): _U - Eboman: SampleMadnesS Workshop Ralf Schreiber, Tina Tonagel and Christian Faubel (GER) 'Chirping and Crawling' Robotworkshop Lectures Karl Bartos (Ex Kraftwerk, GER) - Bas Haring - Dirk van Weelde - Dr. Christoph Bartneck (GER) - Kees Tazelaar - Koert van Mensvoort - Peter Verhelst (BE) - Hans Beekmans - Waag Society Check for in depth information on the festival WWW.STRP.NL Best Regards, Bente Bollmann STRP Foundation P.O. Box 272 / 5600 AG Eindhoven / The Netherlands Tel: +31 40 2367228 / Fax: +31 40 2377676 WWW.STRP.NL www.dorkbot.org/dorkboteindhoven The STRP festival will take place between the 24th and 26th of March 2006 in the former industrial area, Strijp S, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This e-mail, any attachments and the information contained therein (this message) are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you have received this message in error please send it back to the sender and delete it. Unauthorized publication, use, dissemination or disclosure of this message, either in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Backyard residency program in South-East Europe - call for applications
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:36:32 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backyard residency program in South-East Europe - call for applications BACKYARD RESIDENCIES! New Program of Artists' Residences in South-East Europe Host institutions: Vector Association, Iasi, RO Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, TR New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad-Belgrade, SCG Backyard Residencies aim at re-connecting artists and local art scenes in the countries of South East Europe with the primary objective to activate interest for artistic research which may be beneficial for understanding and learning more about each other. WHAT DOES THE RESIDENCY PROGRAM OFFER? Twelve selected artists will be offered twelve six-week to eight-week residencies at the three prestigious independent art institutions in Iasi (Romania), Istanbul (Turkey) and Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro). The residencies will be available from June 2006 to June 2007. WHO CAN APPLY? The program is open for applicants from the following countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. DEADLINE The completed form (in English language) has to be sent before May 1, 2006, either by electronic mail or by regular post, directly to the institution of choice. Alternatively, the form may be sent to the Program Coordinator, Branislav Dimitrijevic. More detailed call for application, application format and detailed information about host organizations are attached to this e-mail. to unsubscribe from this list, reply with subject: unsubscribe kuda.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] brace mogin 2 po box 22 21113 novi sad serbia and montenegro tel/fax +381 21 512 227 http:// kuda.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] tesla salon w/ catherine david: exploring arab web representations
netzkultur.salon 5: im dickicht arabischer weblogs kollaboratives websurfing mit catherine david im gespraech mit geert lovink tesla-berlin, klosterstr. 68-70, berlin-mitte di 21. maerz -- 20:30 h eintritt frei trotz schlechter internetanbindung beliefern uns blogs und webseiten mit vielfältigen und manchmal beunruhigenden bildern des zeitgenössischen iraks und der arabischen welt im allgemeinen. neben den persönlichen tagebüchern der blogger gibt es literatur-portale, alternative nachrichten-seiten, foto-archive und informationen pber den widerstand gegen die us-geführte besetzung des iraks. welche bilder über fallujah zirkulieren im netz? kann man die enthauptungen und abu ghraib als warporn interpretieren? welche blogger gibt es neben salam pax? was sagen und tagebücher von us soldaten? wir werden über politik und ästhetik dieser webseiten diskutieren und untersuchen, woher die seiten stammen. wieviel können wir über die besitzer und herausgeber erfahren? wer sind die anbieter dieser seiten? ip-space-mapping durch jan gerber ++ netzkultur.salon 5: exploring arab web representations collaborative websurfing with catherine david in dialogue with geert lovink tesla-berlin, klosterstr. 68-70, berlin-mitte tue 21 march -- 8:30 pm free entrance despite low internet access, blogs and websites are providing us with a rich, and sometimes disturbing image of contemporary iraq, and the arab world in general. besides the personal diaries of bloggers, there are poetry portals, alternative news sites, photography archives and resources that capture the resistance against the us-led occupation of iraq. what images about fallujah circulate? can we interprete the beheadings and abu ghraib as warporn? what bloggers are there besides salam pax? what do diaries of us soldiers tell us? we will discuss the politics and aesthetics of these websites and investigate where the sites originate from. how much can we find out about the owners and editors? who is hosting these sites? ip-space-mapping by jan gerber -- -- tesla berlin - klosterstr. 68-70 - d-10179 berlin http://www.tesla-berlin.de -- -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Rencontres 2006 ::: Call for Entries ::: Appel a' proposition ::: Teilnahmeaufruf
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 04:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Festival 2006 ::: Call for Entries ::: Appel a' proposition ::: Teilnahmeaufruf From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EN FRANCAIS PLUS BAS DANS LE MESSAGE AUF DEUTSCH UNTEN = IN ENGLISH = CALL FOR ENTRIES: UNTIL THE APRIL 30th, 2006 | FESTIVAL #11 #12 | RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN | FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA | http://art-action.org/en_info.htm *** Please forward this information as widely as possible *** The Call for entries 2006 is open until April 30th. In Autumn 2006, the festival 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin' will present in Paris and Berlin an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and directors acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and not much distributed directors. The festival aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, directors and professionals. The 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin', an event without competition, are supported by French, German and international cultural institutions. http://art-action.org/en_soutien.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ALL INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANIZATIONS CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without any limitation of geographic origin. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES * Fiction - short, medium and feature length - All film and video formats * Video art / Experimental video - All video formats * Experimental Film - All film formats * Animation movie - All formats * Documentary - All film and video formats MULTIMEDIA CYCLES * Installation * Net art, CDrom, DVDrom * Performance art, concert, sound work + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Video and film submissions are received on DVD or VHS. ALL submissions are sent by mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL APRIL 30th, 2006. Entry forms and information regarding the 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin' are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The 'Rencontres internationales' offer more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and directors recognized on the international scene along with young artists and directors who still cannot enjoy a substantial distribution, directors from organizations and emerging structures - testifying of the vivacity of creation and its diffusion, but also of the artistic and cultural contexts that often are in transition or sometimes experiencing deep changes. The festival reflect specificities and crossings of contemporary art practices, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. Please feel free to spread this piece of information to creative organizations, art networks, production companies, artists and directors you are in contact with. Best wishes The Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin http://art-action.org/en_info.htm = EN FRAN«AIS = APPEL A PROPOSITION: JUSQU'AU 30 AVRIL 2006 | FESTIVAL #11 #12 | RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN | FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA | http://art-action.org/fr_info.htm *** Merci de faire circuler cette information le plus largement possible *** L'appel ý proposition 2006 est ouvert jusqu'au 30 avril. Les Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin prÈsenteront ý Paris et Berlin ý l'automne 2006 une programmation internationale inÈdite consacrÈe aux nouveaux cinÈmas, ý la crÈation vidÈo et au multimÈdia, rÈunissant des úuvres d'artistes et de rÈalisateurs reconnus sur la scËne internationale aux cÙtÈs de jeunes artistes et de rÈalisateurs peu diffusÈs. Les Rencontres internationales ont pour vocation de faire dÈcouvrir ces úuvres ý un large public, de crÈer des circulations entre diffÈrentes pratiques artistiques et entre diffÈrents publics, de susciter des Èchanges entre artistes, rÈalisateurs et acteurs de la vie artistique et culturelle. Les Rencontres internationales, ÈvÈnement sans compÈtition, sont soutenues par des institutions culturelles franÁaises, allemandes et internationales. http://art-action.org/fr_soutien.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + TOUT INDIVIDU OU ORGANISME PEUT EFFECTUER UNE OU PLUSIEURS PROPOSITIONS D'OEUVRE. L'APPEL A PROPOSITION EST OUVERT POUR LES CYCLES FILM, VIDEO ET MULTIMEDIA, sans restriction de genre et de durÈe. Les propositions sont gratuites, sans limitation de provenance gÈographique. + + + + +
Re: [spectre] digital culture networking event in Cluj/Romania
dear rarita, dear friends, this is excellent news! i look forward to coming to cluj next month and hope that a few others will also make it there for this third picnic. i found this page which has some useful first leads for travel information etc. http://www.romaniatourism.com/cluj.html i'd love to come over land, but looking at the train times, i guess that i will fly from berlin. greetings, -a Dear friends, We invite you to join us for Mind the Gap, a european digital culture networking event that will take place in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in 16-18 June 2006. Culture flows. And it seems that Bernoullis principle laid out in the late 1700s applies well to this kind of fluid too: you just connect two or more cultural - recipients and transfer begins. But what is transferred and when? And what is the direction of transfer? In digital culture technology penetration lag or maturization cycles are just two of the parameters affecting all actors on the cultural scene. How do differences or similarities between connected cultures influence transfer? Either cultural producers or audiences, understanding the phenomena of cultural transfer is to our best interest. It helps us fit in the flow. The meeting aims to contribute to the networking of artists and organisations working in the field of digital culture across Europe and to foster the debate on the trends and developments in media arts in different parts of the continent and the connections and transfers that occur among the producers of digital content.On the same occasion AltArt will officially launch the BINAR Centre for Digital Culture, the first initiative of its kind in the country. Mind the Gap intends to continue the media picnic series initiated by kuda and V2 in 2004 (Trans-European Picnic, Novi Sad) and continued by SCCA/pro.ba (_Sarajevo Picnic_2005, Lost In Transition) in 2005 in Sarajevo. We warmly invite you to join us. And also to contribute to the refining and the selection of the topics to be discussed. For more details about the event and to view and comment on the proposed topics please visit our forum at www.altart.org/mindthegap. Partner: Transmediale/Berlin With financial support from: Romania National Cultural Fund, Goethe Institute, Pro Helvetia Swiss Cultural Programme in Romania, SC Fornetti SRLFor more information please contact us at the details provided bellow. Hoping to meet you soon, Rarita Szakats AltArt Foundation Tel +40 723 263072 Fax +40 264 587467 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.altart.org www.altart.org/mindthegap __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Vacancy - LabforCulture, ECF Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:10:00 +0200 From: Angela Plohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LabforCulture.org Sharing Culture across Europe Roemer Visscherstraat 18 NL - 1054 EX Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31.20 4121017 fax: +31.20 4122468 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE CHECK http://www.eurocult.org/lab An initiative of the European Cultural Foundation * The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Partners are announcing the post of the Director of the LabforCulture.org pilot project Position: LabforCulture Director Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Closing date: 1 June 2006 Starting on: 1 September 2006 Contract: FTE for 2 years LabforCulture (LfC) is a new, fully interactive online platform for all those involved in arts and culture who collaborate and produce across borders in Europe. It is backed by a vast network of partners and also carries out a range of offline activities, such as workshops and research. LabforCulture is a partner initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Key Responsibilities - Overall leadership and management of LabforCulture - Further development of LfC as the innovative online reference point for all those engaged in European Cultural Cooperation across the broader Europe - Close collaboration with existing funders and ongoing financial and political lobbying to ensure sustainability beyond the pilot phase - Ensuring successful networking and communication of the project - Managing a team of employed staff members and free lancers Key competences and qualifications - Academic education - 10 years working experience in new media development and cultural management or cultural policy - Profound knowledge in the field of online information and knowledge management - Profound knowledge of the field of transnational artistic or cultural cooperation - Excellent leadership capacity, lobbying and fundraising skills - Excellent communication, public presentation and networking skills - Fluency in English and another European language - Experience of working in intercultural environment Applications in English in the form of a covering letter, detailed CV, 2 references, salary expectations, only via e-mail, to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please review the application pack online at www.eurocult.org/lab for further details. The European Cultural Foundation would like to thank all applicants for their interest however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Thailand MAF06 Nov - 'ONE : MANY', Nov '06
Thailand New Media Arts Festival ~~~ upcoming event: MAF06 Nov - ONE : MANY 1-7 Nov 2006, Bangkok http://www.thailand-maf.org/MAF06 ~~~ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale seeks a new director from 2008 onwards
transmediale sucht neue Leitung ab 2008 Die transmediale sucht fuer das Festival 2008 und folgende eine neue Kuenstlerische Leitung. Der jetzige Leiter, Andreas Broeckmann, wird die transmediale nach dem Festival im Februar 2007 verlassen, um sich nach sieben Jahren neuen Aufgaben zu zu wenden. Den Ausschreibungstext finden Sie unten. ___ (ENGLISH) transmediale seeks a new director from 2008 onwards transmediale is looking for a new Artistic Director for the festivals from 2008 onwards. After seven years on the job, the current director, Andreas Broeckmann, will be leaving transmediale after the festival in February 2007 in order to pursue new challenges. The advert for the job, below, is only in German, since a good command of the language is vital. ___ Fuer das Projekt transmediale - festival fuer kunst und digitale kultur berlin suchen wir ab Anfang 2007 einen / eine Kuenstlerischen Leiter / Kuenstlerische Leiterin Die transmediale ist das groesste internationale Festival fuer Kunst und die kreative Anwendung der digitalen Medien in Deutschland. Das Festival zeigt einmal im Jahr neue und bedeutende Projekte der digitalen Kultur und bietet Reflexionen ueber die Rolle digitaler Technologien in der heutigen Gesellschaft. Alle zwei Jahre findet eine umfangreiche Ausstellung statt. Das Festival ist ein kommunikatives Forum fuer Kuenstler, Medienschaffende und ein breites, kunstinteressiertes Publikum. Die transmediale befindet sich in der Traegerschaft der Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs GmbH (BKV) und wird von 2005 bis 2009 von der Kulturstiftung des Bundes gefoerdert. Die kuenstlerische Leitung wird von einem internationalen Beirat inhaltlich und organisatorisch beraten. Voraussetzungen fuer Ihre Bewerbung sind ein abgeschlossenes Studium und umfangreiche Kenntnisse im Bereich der internationalen Gegenwartskunst und digitalen Kultur, kuratorische Praxis, langjaehrige Erfahrung im Organisieren grosser Kulturveranstaltungen, hohe Organisationskompetenz sowie Erfahrung im Aufbau und der Leitung eines Teams. Wir erwarten eine Persoenlichkeit mit Ideenreichtum, Kommunikationstalent, Durchsetzungsvermoegen, hoher Belastbarkeit und sozialer Kompetenz, und mit verhandlungssicheren deutschen und englischen Sprachkenntnissen. Die Anstellung erfolgt befristet unter der Massgabe der fortgesetzten Foerderung des Projektes, mit der Moeglichkeit der Verlaengerung. Eine Verlegung des Wohnortes nach Berlin ist erforderlich. Der Bewerbung ist neben den ueblichen Unterlagen Ihre Gehaltsvorstellung sowie ein kurzes Statement ueber Ihre Zukunftsvision fuer die transmediale beizufuegen. Bewerbungsschluss: 3. Juli 2006 Bewerbungen richten Sie bitte in digitaler Form an: Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs GmbH Dieter Klumpp Geschaeftsfuehrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auskuenfte erteilt Frau Magdalena Rothweiler unter Tel.-Nr. 030 - 24749 761 oder unter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berliner Kulturveranstaltungs GmbH transmediale Klosterstrasse 68 10179 Berlin __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: artists / researchers in residence, Spain
ADISONANCIAS 2006 Call for Artists to realize joint research projects in Research labs and RD units This is a call for artists to collaborate on joint research projects with Research Labs and RD units in Spain (Basque Country) Download the application: http://www.disonancias.com DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: JULY 5 Collaboration period: from September 2006 to February 2007 The call for artists to participate in DISONANCIAS 2006 is now open. DISONANCIAS (Art and innovation) is the second round of this art and industry collaboration project located in the Basque Country, Spain. The project seeks to promote the diversification in relation to the process of innovation inside research labs and R D units here, based on the potentials of experience and exchange generated by the relationship with artists. Ten artists will be chosen to collaborate with research teams in companies and labs, in order to encourage deviations and dissonances from the regular logical thought and action processes, in the hope of leading to a news definition of prototypes for different products or different approaches toward production. The deadline for applications is 5 July 2006. We encourage artists to apply who normally work on collective and relational projects and/or on projects related to science and technology. The Jury consists of Roger Malina, astrophysicist at the Laboratory of Spatial Astronomy of the CNRS at Marseille (France), and executive editor of Leonardo publications on Arts and Sciences, Jill Scott, Director of The Artistsinlabs project and professor and vice director of Z-node PHD Program in Art and Science at the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and design at the Academy of Art and Design in Zurich (Switzerland) and Santi Eraso, Director of Arteleku (Public Art Centre) in Donostia - San Sebastian (Spain). 10 companies and research labs participating in the project have defined the field / concept / material / technology and / or processes they wish the applying artists to investigate: 1. Researching concepts. Creative concepts proposals which relate to the strategic interests of companies / research centers, which may experience unexpected developments: Safety: multi-sensorial and secure evacuation of buildings at DAISALUX - http://www.daisalux.com Safety (2): researching safe working environments which are able to integrate disabled persons at LEIA - http://www.leia.es Multimedia: researching ways of integration between the different media (press, web, TV, radio) of the CORREO GROUP - http://www.elcorreodigital.com 2. Thinking up new products. This call corresponds to the need to diversify product portfolios and it involves devising new products (mainly for the street and home furniture): using materials produced by the FORMICA laminate company - http://www.formica.es using recycled plastic materials GAIKER Technology Centre - http://www.gaiker.es from the ALFA LAN GROUP's own technologies, normally used in making large public sculptures - http://www.alfaarte.com 3. Reinventing formats. This involves seeking out innovative formats which depart from conventional designs. Three formats are related to image, and one to food products: the audiovisual documentary format at EITB - http://www.eitb.com multimedia content for Augmented Reality applications at VICOMTECH - http://www.vicomtech.es audiovisual and interactive contents to be sent to personal mobile devices at EUVE - http://www.euve.org packaging and merchandising of food products at KAIKU - http://www.kaiku.es The above collaborations should result in the construction of a prototype or drawings of ideas, or development of new approaches or processes. The 10 artists (or group of artists) selected will receive a fee of 5.000 euros each, and a minimum of 1.300 euros for travel, food and accommodation. In addition, each artist is entitled to a maximum of 5.000 euros (depending on the project) for expenses driving from the development of the research. The collaborations last 6 months each, alternating virtual and presential relations according to the projects needs. Full information on the companies and research centers participating and the rules for participation are available at http://www.disonancias.com Contact Arantxa Mendiharat Divergentes 05 / Disonancias 06. Coordinadora T: +34 943 27 85 01. M: +34 654 42 44 69 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.disonancias.com / - Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht - __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: Deeper Depression Exhibition, Tehran
http://www.parkingallery.com/deep/ Parkingallery presents: *Deeper Depression* A contemporary Art Practice New Media / Performance / Photography / Typography / Literature / Illustration / Painting 2nd round of parkingallery's deep depression project will launch in Tehran on 23rd of June, 2006 in four venues with 247 Iranian international participants.* * __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Comp. deadline 30.6. for running Medienkunstlabor
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:05:35 +0200 From: Winfried Ritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime-ann Competition deadline for Medienkunstlabor ends 30.6.2006 Dear Netartists and Mediaartists ! The call for entries to the competition for artits and or artists groups running Medienkunstlabor for the next two years, starting with Jannuary 2006 [i guess this should be *2007*], will end on 30.6.2006. see http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/10233523/4942183/ and http://mkltender.kunsthausgraz.at/. mfg winfried ritsch, mur.at __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Bucharest Biennale / CAA / 'The Brunch'
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:15:38 +0300 From: Razvan Ion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime-ann BUCHAREST BIENNALE/CAA/THE BRUNCH THE BRUNCH Tuesday, June 27, 12.00 a.m. CAA, Bucharest, Str. General Budisteanu 19 (in the courtyard of Faculty of Art). ìThe Brunchî at CAA (Center for Art Analyze/Contemporary Art Archive). Debates moderated by Lia Dan Perjovschi. A democratic choice of the topic will be performed to conclude the last day of BB2.Ý WHAT IS ìTHE BRUNCHî The Brunch is an ongoing project realized by CAA and PAVILION magazine after an idea by Lia Perjovschi. ìThe Brunchî is a platform of debates and analyzes of the Romanian and international art scene and the social-political context. These events will explore on a theoretical level the role of art, discussing the possible social and political missions of artistic practice. We would like to encourage communication, consultation - perhaps collaboration - alongside facilitating the reciprocation of knowledge and understanding between the artists and theoreticians involved. ORGANIZERS Lia Perjovschi's CAA (Contemporary Art Archive/Centre for Art Analysis) is a project active under different names and in different shapes since 1988. CAA was a voice activated installation, a place for debate and criticism; it served as a point for local and international artists and curators to meet and exchange opinions and transformed itself and its mission according to the changes in the political and cultural context. PAVILION is an art and culture magazine that name alludes to the relative temporary structure of the contemporary art. The magazine is presenting wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary content in each issue through the varied formats of regular column, essays, interviews, and artist projects. PAVILION does not only want to describe contemporary phenomenon but with its militant attitude it tries to directly intervene in cultural, political and social life. Editors and founders are Razvan Ion Eugen Radescu PAVILION is the producer of BUCHAREST BIENNALE and PAVILION lecture series. www.bucharestbiennale.org www.pavilionmagazine.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) European Commission's RFID public consultation
[it would be great if some of the critical artistic research that is being done in this field would be fed back into the political debate; -ab] Hi all, just a short note to tell you that the European Commission is holding a public RFID consultation on its website after previous Workshops on the issue in May and June. So who ever feels like commenting on RFID policy is welcome to do so under: http://www.rfidconsultation.eu/ http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=RFID Greetings, Christine * The Information Society and Media Directorate General is consulting stakeholders on their opinions on development and deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and on possible ways to stimulate its use while mitigating its potential negative impacts on privacy and health. A public debate on RFID was launched on 9 March 2006 by Mrs Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, at the CeBIT fair in Hannover. Developments around RFID, Commissioner Viviane Reding said, open the door to a new wave of productivity gains across a wide range of sectors. Remember that productivity is the engine of economic growth and job creation. (...) We must also make some decisions of principle on the security and privacy issues associated with widespead government and commercial use of RFID technology. The time for action is now. (...) I will not see the liberty of citizens and their fundamental rights being compromised. Between March and June 2006 five workshops took place in Brussels to discuss and build consensus on the main issues, challenges and opportunities related to the use of RFID. These workshops addressed the research and technological development requirements and options, the growing use of RFID in commercial and governmental applications, the legal and societal issues related to security and privacy protection, the standardisation, interoperability and governance issues, and the current and future frequency spectrum requirements. The present consultation seeks feedback from all stakeholders involved in the development and deployment of RFID technology as well as from consumer and civil liberty organisations that feel concerned by the potential societal implications of RFID use in situations where personal data processing is involved. Should you wish, you are invited before replying to read the supporting background document called Your voice on RFID which provides a summary of the views and conclusions that emerged from the workshops and which may provide useful guidance on the concepts and vocabulary relevant to the field. The creation of a conducive and stable policy environment for the implementation and use of RFID calls for a wide consensus among experts on certain complex technical issues such as standards and interoperability, the read range designed into a particular RFID system, frequency allocation, privacy and security, counterfeiting prevention, and the integration of RFID with other technologies. It is imperative to understand the technology, its full potential and the related business requirements in order to appreciate its policy implications. Please note that peculiar issues related to RFID technology such as, for example, its possible health effects or the governance of identities across the associated decentralised and distributed databases, can be addressed by respondents, should they have an opinion and wish to express it, in question 38. But besides getting the knowledgeable opinion from the key stakeholders in the field, the European Commission is also keen to consult all interested citizens on issues that are primarily a matter of personal opinion and choice. In this respect, compulsory questions are mainly intended to elicit the general public's views with respect to not purely technical problems whereas optional questions are primarily set to collect the views from RFID specialists. On the basis of the replies, the European Commission intends to prepare a Communication to European Parliament and Council, which will cover all the aspects referred to in the questionnaire. The consultation will be open until 17 September 2006. If you wish to consult the information available on the workshops and the roadmap concerning the consultation initiative on RFID, and/or to submit further comments or evidence, outside this consultation, please feel free to do so at: http://www.rfidconsultation.eu Thank you for your valuable contribution. ___ Wsis Mailingliste JPBerlin - Mailbox und Politischer Provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/wsis __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] 7th Werkleitz Biennale HAPPY BELIEVERS 6-10 Sept 2006, Halle/D
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:27:10 +0200 From: biennale06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime-ann Press Release 7th Werkleitz Biennale HAPPY BELIEVERS *7th Werkleitz Biennale HAPPY BELIEVERS 6th-10th September 2006 in the Volkspark Halle (Saale) * Press Release No. 4, 25th July 2006 The biggest media arts festival in East Germany, also known as the 'Documenta of East Germany', will once again take place in premises of the Volkspark Halle (Saale). From 6th to 10th September the Werkleitz Biennale will present approximately 100 international contributions of contemporary art and culture. The biennial features an exhibition with 30 art works, 13 film programmes with a total of 56 films, performances, lectures, roundtables and DJ-events. Throughout the last decade the general interest in religiosity and religious phenomena has increased. The 7th Werkleitz Biennale entitled Happy Believers takes a close look at the role of belief and religion in present day society.What do we believe in? and Why do we believe? are the central questions guiding the production of the art works. These investigations go beyond an understanding of belief in a strictly religious sense.Visitors of the Church Congress, Zen-Buddhists, football fans, brand fetichists and hobby astrologists - they all have their own belief. It seems that a new longing for meaning and wholeness develops alongside the ongoing process of individualisation and globalisation. Characteristic for 'patchwork religion' is that people create their own belief systems from different sources: happy believers.Whereas, the media often stages events using religion for political and economic purpuses. The art works presented at the 7th Werkleitz Biennale approach this complex field from different artistic view points: some art work investigate the fascination with belief and highlight the moments of happiness it gives people, while other art works critically examine the ways religion is instrumentalised. Art works specifically produced for the biennial deal with specific local forms of belief in a Federal State known for its a-religiosity, Saxony-Anhalt. Many of the participating artists will be present during the festival. Thus, the biennial once again provides a space for intensive exchange between artists, culture producers and the general public. The 7th Werkleitz Biennale is curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren. For the programme and a list of the participating artists, please visit our webseite: www.werkleitz.de/happy_believers *** *Press Conference - Please note * The press conference will take place at the 6th of September, 2 pm in the Volkspark, Weinecksaal. Thereafter, the curators want to invite the participants on a guided tour through the exhibition. The organisers and participating artists will also be available for interviews. Until 7 pm, the official opening of the biennial, journalists have the opportunity to view films from the film programmes or to work in the press lounge. *Contact person* If you have any further questions, need foto material or want to arrange an interview with the curators of the 7th Werkleitz Biennale, please do not hesitate to contact: Hanna Keller phone: +49 (0)30 69 53 12 53 mobile: +49 (0)176 24 09 36 57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case you are not interested in further information, please answer this mail with the subject unsubscribe. The 7th Werkleitz Biennale is funded by: Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, Lotto Toto GmbH, Stiftung Kunstfonds Additional funds and sponsoring by: Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Mitteldeutsche Medienfrderung GmbH, Stadt Halle (Saale), IASPIS, British Council, Burg Giebichenstein - Hochschule f¸r Kunst und Design Halle, Hochschule Anhalt Fachbereich Design, Kniglich Niederlndische Botschaft in Berlin Image Hans Hemmert Hans Hemmert: Dom zu Speyer by Louis Vuitton Melletier, 2006, Paper -- hanna keller presse- und ffentlichkeitsarbeit fon: +49 (0)30 69531253 mobil: +49 (0)176 24093657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.werkleitz.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Workshop participation: Mobile Troops - Urban Jungle
hi erich, i fail to see the irony in your title and find it, in fact, rather cynical, because i cannot believe that you are that naive. the 'artistic' tools that this workshop will deal with are the very communication tools that, at this very moment, armies and mercenaries in iraq, lebanon, chechnya, afghanistan and elsewhere, in cities, jungles and deserts are using in their military business. not to speak of all different types of organised crimes, real piracy, etc. this is not an argument about how artists should be aware of the economic, military, political or whatever context from which the technologies they use derive. it is an argument about the distastefulness of calling such a workshop that pretends to be utterly unpolitical 'mobile troops', esp. at a time when everyone is watching mobile troops on NTV, CNN, Phoenix, or whatever channel you are following the current wars on. - personally, i also think that you cannot escape from these military usages in artistic 'locative' work, so whenever you switch on you GPS 'for fun' today, you already enter, let's say, southern lebanon. (there are gps applications that are more utilitarian, of course, but we are talking about artistic experimentation in the digital age, aren't we?) but then that might be pushing it a bit. regards, -a Mobile troops ironically points to the fact that we tend to increasingly equip us with all kinds of necessary interfaces for surviving the urban jungle. The electronic car key is as important as mobile phone and credit card. Mobile troops is a workshop about media art which is mobile, (possibly) networked, and experimenting with new ideas and artistic concepts. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Sameeta Ahmed: Word from Urdu language
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formating; when posting to Spectre, please, use 'plain text'; -ab]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:01:28 +0500
From: Sameeta Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: SPECTRE@mikrolisten.de
Subject: Word from Urdu language
Here is an entry from Pakistan in the Urdu language:
HUMZUN= feminist.
(there has been no one word for feminist in the Urdu language before;
the English word was used instead. I have come up with this one:
'Hum' means 'same', 'with', ('homo')[derived from Persian; and 'Zun'
is a word for woman [also derived from Persian]. The connecting of
these two creates a symbiosis that connotes solidarity between women
and with women, reagardless of one's gender.
Sameeta Ahmed
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[spectre] conf. WOS4 - Information Freedom Rules, Berlin 14-16 Sept
Wizards of OS 4 Information Freedom Rules International Conference 14-16 September 2006 in Columbia Hall Berlin http://wizards-of-os.org/ Four weeks to go till WOS4. We were thinking about holding a beach volleyball competition during the conference to prevent our joints from becoming rusty from all the sitting and talking and hacking, but if the temperature continues to drop at the current rate we might have to do with snow-ball fights instead. Fortunately there is a tropical wind blowing into WOS4 from the Southern hemisphere. The digital revolution will definitely not be televised but if we believe Brasils Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil it will be tropicalised. How does the spirit of funky samba and caipiroshka get into silicon and bits? Hear about it first hand from Claudio Prado, Head of the Department of Digital Culture at the Brasilian Ministry of Culture. On the final session of WOS4, Brazil, the Free Culture Nation [1], he will be speaking about hacking the government, spanning a network of free culture points across the country and achieving autonomy. The pontos de cultura [2] will be powered by the MetaReciclagem movement that Felipe Fonseca will be introducing, and, of course, by free software. Fernanda Weiden will be addressing the Women in Free Software Project that she founded in Brazil. Its well known that free software is good for developing countries, because of its local- and customisability, its suitability for older recycled hardware, its community support and zero licensing fees. We will discuss this in the Future of Free Software sessions as well, that Linux Weekly News editor in chief Jonathan Corbet is chairing [3]. But what if you turn around and free versions of proprietary software come creeping up on previously free machines? Sergio Amadeu who was behind the local telecentro movement and then the national free software strategy in Brazil has the answer: You set up an NGO to train ten thousand young people to support GNU/Linux and then -- start an anti-piracy campaign. Expect a lot of Brasilian grass-roots culture coming online from these pontos de cultura [2], including massively cool music. Berlin DJ and producer Daniel Haaksman has researched the Baile Funk scene of Rio de Janeiro and published a number of compilations [4]. He will not only talk about the culture and economics behind it but also play the first set at the party on Saturday night [5]. In the last announcement I promised to unveil some of the more unruly aspects of WOS4. In fact, every rule provokes its own transgression. Beyond what is permitted lies the largely unknown realm of the possible. What happens when we interpret information freedom in a radical way, and everyone can actually do what they like? We dont know, therefore we have invited radical researchers to shed light on this space of possibilities on the Freedom expanded panel [6]. What happens if one starts from the assumption that copyright has become untenable, as does Rasmus Fleischer from the Swedish Pirate Bay? What develops when you connect p2p networks to local micro transmitters? The artist group Bitnik knows a bit or two about it. What could emerge when you open source and interlink the millions of emedded computers that make the things around us intelligent? That is exactly what Alexei Blinov is planning to do. I was just kidding about the snow-ball fights. The first WOS participants from Brazil have arrived already, so we can expect Berlin temperatures to rise any minute [7]. Tatiana Wells and Ricardo Ruiz from Pipa in the North of Brasil have taken up residency at Tesla [8] in order to construct the Berlin version of their Urban Intervention and Information Correction Machine mimoSa. They would like you to join them in the construction so that the machine will be ready to record our stories at WOS4. Watch this page for instructions: [9]. If you havent fully planned your trips for the summer yet and enjoy event hopping, take a look at our calendar [10]. WOS4 offers a lot of opportunities for combination with events before, like ars electronica (Linz), the Eclectic Tech Carnival (Timisoara) and the 6th international literature festival (Berlin). From WOS you can then go on to EuroOSCON (Brussels), OpComm (Berlin), Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? (Maribor) or Informatik und Ruestung (Berlin). You cant come to WOS4 at all? WOS4 will not be televised either, but it will be streamed. [11] A final word on money. Models for generating income to make free culture sustainable will be a central issue at WOS4. But the conference itself has to be sustained as well. If you like what WOS is doing and are in a position to contribute to making WOS4 happen or know someone who is, we would love to hear from you. Here are a number of attractive options for supporting the conference: [12]. Dont miss it. Register now [13]. for the WOS team yours Volker Grassmuck [1] http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2313
[spectre] video competition: The Residents at MoMA
08/16/06 http://www.e-flux.com MoMA The Residents: The River of Crime, an online community art project Submissions requested August 15September 15 http://www.moma.org/residents http://www.moma.org/residents The Residents: Re-Viewed October 1923 The Museum of Modern Art 11 W. 53 St. (212) 708-9480 http://www.moma.org/film http://www.moma.org/film You are invited to take part in an online project with The Museum of Modern Art and The Residents. The famously anonymous multimedia visual artists and musicians seek video to go with their audio. Between August 15 and September 15, visit http://www.residents.com http://www.residents.com to download the audio excerpt from The River of Crime episode 1 and read the directions for submitting your clip. The Residents and MoMA curator Barbara London will judge submissions. On October 1, thirty shortlist videos will be posted on YouTube.com. London and the Residents will select the final videos for screening at MoMA on October 19. YouTube popularity will be taken into consideration in the judging process. On October 20, the selections will be posted on http://www.moma.org/residents http://www.moma.org/residents The Residents: Re-Viewed October 1923 This survey features the musical videos and films of The Residents. Originally from Louisiana, they moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and formed Ralph Records. With wit and rarified electronic inventiveness, The Residents fuse a dark storytelling tradition of the South with an eccentric countercultural spirit of the Bay Area. The exhibition includes material such as Eskimo (1979), the bizarre 2002 Demons Dance Alone show, and footage from their ambitious Vileness Fats film project, which was reluctantly cancelled after four years (197276) of filming. Throughout their thirty-year history, The Residents have cloaked their lives and music in obscurity. Band members (always four in number) refuse to grant interviews, do not identify themselves by name (or even individual pseudonyms), and never appear without masks (usually giant eyeballs with top hats.) Their management team, The Cryptic Corporation, coordinates their productions and tours. A representative will introduce the opening program and discuss The River of Crime, their recently released downloadable Crimecast series modeled after radio dramas of the 1940s. The Museum of Modern Art 11 W. 53 St. (212) 708-9480 http://www.moma.org/film http://www.moma.org/film TERMS AND CONDITIONS: IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE, YOU MUST REVIEW AND AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING SUBMISSION TO YOUTUBE, WHICH MAY BE LOCATED AT http://www.youtube.com/t/terms http://www.youtube.com/t/terms, AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING SUBMISSION TO MoMA, WHICH MAY BE LOCATED AT http://www.moma/residents http://www.moma/residents, EACH OF WHICH ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY OF THESE TERMS, THEN PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT MATERIALS FOR THIS PROJECT. http://www.e-flux.com/index.phtml?p=forwardmsg=message_1155726998.txtemail to a friend http://www.e-flux.com/index.phtml?p=contactcontact http://www.e-flux.com/index.phtml?p=joinsubscribe electronic flux corporation / http://www.e-flux.com/www.e-flux.com 295 greenwich street #532, nyc ny 10007 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] New Sound Art from Germany / THE KITCHEN, NY
The Kitchen Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany Jens Brand Christina Kubisch Carsten Nicolai Stefan Rummel Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag September 9 - October 14, 2006 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9 6-8pm http://www.thekitchen.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Picturing Free Knowledge - TESLA video progr. for WOS4
footage or pursue new concepts for media knowledge production. The programme is about the appropriation of visual technologies, formats and styles. Following this logic, Serhat Köksal stirs up mass culture: orientalism, pop, politics and folklore collide in the works of DJ Hugo Chavez VJ Ahmadinejad. 22:00 Klub: 'MyTube YourSpace' by DJ Hugo Chavez VJ Ahmadinejad -- -- tesla berlin - andreas broeckmann - artistic co-director klosterstr. 68-70 - d-10179 berlin - tel. +49-30-24749-761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.tesla-berlin.de -- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Sao Paulo calling artists from the global South
SUBMISSIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE 16th VIDEOBRASIL INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL Associacao Cultural Videobrasil is now accepting submissions for Southern Panoramas, the competitive exhibition of the 16th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. The Festival will be held at SESC Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, September 4 through 23, 2007. We will only accept works produced from May 2005 onwards by artists born in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Submissions will be accepted at the Associacao in Sao Paulo until March 31, 2007. The list of works selected for the Festival will be posted on this site in June 2007. Use the links below to access the Entry Form and to refer to the rules established by the 16th Festival regulations regarding the shipping of the works. ... __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Professur Digitale Kunst
Professur fr Kunst digitaler Medien An der Universitt fr angewandte Kunst Wien gelangt ab 1. Mrz 2007 die Stelle einer Universittsprofessorin / eines Universittsprofessors fr das Fach DIGITALE KUNST befristet auf fnf Jahre zur Besetzung. Eine sptere Vertragsverlngerung ist in beiderseitigem Einvernehmen mglich. Allgemeines: Die Universitt fr Angewandte Kunst in Wien stellt sich die Aufgabe, die knstlerischen Praktiken auf das Potential der digitalen Techniken zu beziehen und die traditionellen Gattungen der Knste in ein Verhltnis zu setzen zu den neuen Ausdrucksformen der Medienknste. Aufgaben: Gesucht wird eine Knstlerpersnlichkeit von internationalem Rang, welche die Anforderungen ihres Faches in Theorie und Praxis umfassend erfllt und auch die Fhigkeit besitzt, den Studierenden des Studienzweiges Digitale Kunstã die knstlerischen Anwendungen digitaler Techniken im audiovisuellen Bereich zu vermitteln. Dies beinhaltet insbesondere die Bereiche netzbasierte Kunst, Interaktivitt, Virtual Reality Game Creation und die knstlerische Integration von Themenbereichen wie Datenarchitekturen, Content Management Systeme und sensorische Systeme. Erwartet wird berdies die Vermittlung knstlerischer digitaler Bildgebung in den Bereichen 2D, 3D und Animation, die Vermittlung programmiertechnischer Grundlagen als Voraussetzung digitaler Kunstwerke, die Akquisition von Drittmitteln sowie die Betreuung laufender Drittmittelprojekte. Einstellungsvoraussetzungen: - Abschluss eines entsprechenden knstlerischen bzw. einschlgigen Hochschulstudiums - Nachweis der besonderen knstlerischen Befhigung durch entsprechende Leistungen und Erefolge in der knstlerischen Praxis - Pdagogische Eignung Abweichend davon ist eine Bewerbung mglich, wenn hervorragende fachbezogene Leistungen in der knstlerischen Praxis und pdagogische Eignung vorliegen. Die Universitt strebt eine Erhhung des Frauenanteils in leitenden Positionen an und fordert daher qualifizierte Frauen ausdrcklich zur Bewerbung auf. Frauen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt aufgenommen. Bewerbungen sind bis 20. Oktober 2006 unter Anschluss umfassender Unterlagen ber Lebenslauf und die eigene knstlerische Arbeit sowie einer kurzen Zusammenfassung der persnlichen Vorstellungen von der Ttigkeit als UniversittsprofessorIn an den Rektor der Universitt fr angewandte Kunst, 1010 Wien, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 zu richten. Gerald Bast Rektor __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) call of projects IDENSITAT 07
(as always: attachments and formatting deleted - keep it in plain-text; ab) Hello spectre, I send you information about the call of projects of IDENSITAT 07, that's open till November the 15th. IDENSIAT is a public art program that takes place at a net of towns near Barcelona; I wish that you be interested in it to distribute through your mailing list. Otherwise I don't know if there are some requirements to do it or if we have to pay any taxes. If there are, please inform us about. For further information, http://www.idensitat.org/www.idensitat.org Thanks for all, Oriol Fontdevila IDENSITAT 07 http://www.idensitat.org/www.idensitat.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENSITAT 07 HOME / AWAY Call for projects open until November the 15th, 2006. www.idensitat.org IDENSITAT 07 starts its fourth edition calling for projects. It is addressed to artists who offer proposals in the field of public space, from a multidisciplinary perspective and having the will of interacting in the social space of the territory where the project is promoted. IDENSITAT is a programme developed biannually with the aim of offering mechanisms for the structuring of creative projects in the field of public space and that are related to the territory. Since 1999 a series of projects and activities have been done in the town of Calaf, and progressively other relations have been established with more towns, with the aim of allowing the development of projects that can be adapted to the own and multiple specificities arising out from the singularity of a place. IDENSITAT 07, just like in the previous edition, takes place in two towns of the Barcelona province, Calaf and Manresa, and moreover expands the territorial network with the development of a project in the town of Mataró, supported by Can Xalant. TERRITORIES IN PROCESS IDENSITAT 07 is conceived as an observatory of the territory and a laboratory for the development of projects, offering the opportunity to intervene in an active way in the urban processes, precisely when there is a phenomenon of expansion and growth, as well as a redefining of the identities that characterise them. The aim is to favour a field of action, experimentation and debate, which started in the previous edition of the programme (IDENSITAT 05). Considering the moment of intense urban evolution going on now in Calaf, Manresa and Mataró, the participants must articulate certain artistic activities which include critical, analytic and propositional regards that can involve certain groups of population; or that permit formulating alternative proposals at the same time, so that it is possible to perceive, face and participate in the urban processes taking place in a specific moment. CALLING FOR PROJECTS The call IDENSITAT 07 is structured around two categories of presentation, having each different goals and characteristics. One points to the production of projects and the other one for already implemented proposals (documentary projects). HOME / AWAY is the motto chosen for a possible project development based on the tension between the two concepts: the belonging to a territory, the identity issues, the long-term cultural structuring, etc; being opposed or related to the superficial, distant, curious and less engaged regard, the tourist experience, or others which could be stated thanks to the projects emerging in this call. PRODUCTION OF PROJECTS linked to a place and activated through procedural strategies and strategies of cooperation with social groups; or with projects intervening specifically or incisively in the public space of these different towns, existing the possibility of using the infrastructure and means already available in the territory. PROJECTS OF DOCUMENTATION. This category gathers those works developed in other contexts, thus promoting their diffusion and linking them to different activities of debate, exposition and edition organised by IDENSITAT. SELECTION COMMITTEE. The selection committee of this call will be constituted by Santiago Cirugeda, architect and artist; Amanda Cuesta, independent curator; Alicia Murria, art critic and director of the magazine ARTECONTEXTO; Ramon Parramon, director of IDENSITAT; Lorenzo Romito, architect and member of STALKER. ECONOMIC ENDOWMENT. The economic endowment destined to each selected project in the section PRODUCTION OF PROJECTS will be determined by its budget, having available a maximum amount of 11,000 ¤. In reference to the DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS, the economic endowment might depend on the presentation format of the project; having available a maximum of 1,500 ¤. The deadline for this call of projects is November the 15th, 2006. More detailed information about the call Idensitat 07: www.idensitat.org To contact the organisation, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organisation: Calaf Town Council, Manresa Town Council, Generalitat de Catalunya, Diputació de Barcelona and Can Xalant
[spectre] The Connecting Worlds exh. at reopened ICC Tokyo
The Connecting Worlds, the first exhibition after the renewal of NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC] focus on the communication, with contributions exploring the creative possibilities that emerged out of the new environments of the networking age. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2006/ConnectingWorld/index.html 'As the first exhibition since the reopening of ICC, this show raises-from the horizons of art and programming-practical alternative possibilities of various phases of communication that we currently see around us. This exhibition features artwork and projects that take a unique step into contemporary networks, politics, economies, physiology, or urban environments by manipulating sound, games, the Internet, or other media as well as foreseeing artwork created in the past.' Yukiko Shikata, curator Connecting Worlds opens at the NTT InterCommunication Center on 15th of Sept until 26th of Nov 2006. Artists include: ambientTV.NET (AT/IN/UK) / Wayne CLEMENTS (UK) / Robert DAVIS + Usman HAQUE (UK) / exonemo (JP) / Peter FISCHLI David WEISS (CH) / Muntadas (UK/SP) / MaSS Dev. (JP) / MOHRI Yuko + MIHARA Soichirou (JP) / Newtype Technology Lab. (JP) / Dennis OPPENHEIM (UK) / Manuel SAIZ (UK/SP) / TANO Taiga (JP) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] exh. Knowbotic Research: Room for Manoeuvre, Skuc, Ljubljana
Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, October 5 - 27, 2006 Knowbotic Research - 'Room for Manoeuvre' four vehicles: white_sovereign, passion_cleaner, tiger_stealth, blackbenz Exhibition opening: Thursday, October 5, 2006, 20.00 h The exhibition 'Room for Manoeuvre' is the new solo-show of the artist group Knowbotic Research (KRcF), known for their advanced network and media works since the founding of the group in 1991. In a specially designed audio-visual installation including four video projections, 'Room for Manoeuvre' presents four of the 'vehicles' that Knowbotic Research have developed for their current projects, and places these vehicles in a series of hypothetical scenarios. The exhibition explores the meaning of codes and actions in public spaces. It proposes possibilities for acting through strategies of transcoding in these spaces of power, of scientific knowledge, of surveillance, and spaces of migration. Going beyond these possibilities, the show suggests to the audience that such 'vehicles' might in fact be used for other, self-designed strategic purposes. The projects naked bandit / here, not her / white bandit (2004/05), Passion 5 (2005), be prepared! tiger! (2006) and BlackBenz Race (2006-) use different vehicles to act as catalysts for such transcodings: in the first case it is an autonomous flying robot which produces technologically coded forms of sovereignty under the conditions of a (university) research laboratory; in the second case, a street cleaning machine clears up the petrified political passions of a May demonstration; the amateur-built stealth boat, invisible for radar, processes the intercultural translations between the US stealth bomber and the tactical speedboats of the Tamil Tigers; and in a car race, a caravan of black Mercedes cars traverses the translocal conditions of the Albanian space of migration. The term transcoding describes the translation of abstract facts and conditions which usually evade public representation, into temporary visibilities that can be dealt with. These facts cannot be described by simple representations in clearly defined, local contexts, but require networked scenarios within which they can be reflected and acted upon. In the exhibition, some original vehicles (white_sovereign, tiger_stealth) are on display, as well as the 'Adaption KITs' with which normal vehicles can be transformed into passion_cleaners and blackbenz. The atmospheric and metaphorically rich short film loops. They are projected in four separate rooms of the gallery, each showing one of the vehicles in action, pointing to potential applications that they can be put to. Brochures and printed tableaus offer information about the vehicles in the form of manuals through which their usages can be further explored. A specially designed sound environment developed together with Roly Roos and Joana Aderi traverses the entire gallery and sends echoes and acoustic reverberations of the different projects through the exhibition space. The text publication accompanying the exhibition includes essays by Andreas Broeckmann, Stefan Riekeles, Giaco Schiesser, Sabine Schmidt, Felix Stalder, Stefan Wagner, and Knowbotic Research. Exhibition by Knowbotic Research (Christian Hübler, Alexander Tuchacek, Yvonne Wilhelm) in collaboration with Simon Jaquemet, Roly Roos, Joana Aderi, Peter Sandbichler, Yannick Fournier Curated by: Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles (assistant) Production: Skuc Gallery in cooperation with Knowbotic Research More about the group: http://www.krcf.org Supported by Bundesamt für Kultur BAK - sitemapping, Pro Helvetia, Kunst Öffentlichkeit Zürich, 'PubliCity' - 29. Duisburger Akzente, Kulturforum der Österreichischen Botschaft Laibach The programme of Skuc Gallery is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Cultural Department of the City of Ljubljana. Galerija Skuc - Stari trg 21 - 1000 Ljubljana - T: +386 1 251 65 40 - http://www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Kontraste Sound Art Festival, Krems/AT
Kontraste 06 - Sound Moving Image Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche (Österreich) Musik Film, Klang Bild, Sound Visuals - unter diesen Aspekten konzentriert sich Sound Moving Image auf Auditives und Visuelles. http://www.klangraum.at Freitag, 29. September 2006, 22:00 Uhr Links gehen-Rechts stehen Ana Maria Rodriguez Steffi Weismann VERSION FÜR 2 INSTRUMENTE, VIDEO LIVE-ELEKTRONIK Ana Maria Rodriguez: Konzept, Komposition, Live-Elektronik Steffi Weismann: Konzept, Video, Live-Video Lucio Capece: Bassklarinette, Saxophon Lucia Mense: Blockflöten Die argentinische Komponistin Ana Maria Rodriguez lässt sich für ihre Kompositionen gern durch ungewöhnliche Räume inspirieren. Es fasziniert sie, dass ein Raum durch die Vielschichtigkeit von sich überlagernden Bewegungen charakterisiert wird, durch unterschiedliche Zeitverläufe also, deren Überkreuzungen die Linearität von Zeit auflösen. Die strikte Befolgung der durch Piktogramme symbolisierten oder verbal vorgegebenen Verkehrsregeln amüsiert sie. Für das Personenlaufband lautet eine solche Regel etwa links gehen - rechts stehen. In Steffi Weismann findet Rodriguez eine Partnerin, die sowohl den Witz dieses Verhaltens im Transitraum mit ihr teilt als auch jene Situation als künstlerische Herausforderung empfindet. Die Schweizer Performerin und Videokünstlerin interessieren bei diesem Projekt besonders die Bedingungen, durch die unsere Wahrnehmung konditioniert wird, oder wie Orientierung funktioniert und mit welcher Selbstverständlichkeit wir uns in bestimmten Systemen bewegen. Ähnlich wie die jeweils spezifische Fortbewegung der Menschenströme - mühsam, leichtfüßig, schwerfällig, geduldig - etwas über den Charakter der einzelnen Personen verrät, sind auch die vier Instrumentalparts vor allem durch die zeitlichen Eigenarten ihrer Bewegungsabläufe charakterisiert: durch periodische und aperiodische, geradlinige und ungradlinige Verläufe, rhythmisierte und repetitive Strukturen und verschiedene Geschwindigkeiten. Jedes Instrument hat dabei seinen eigenen, geräuschhaft aufgerauten Ton-Raum. Gisela Nauck __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] TESLA salon with Seiko Mikami, Thu 28 Sept
TESLA salon - art/science 2 Seiko Mikami - On the Continuum of Perception and Interfaces The renowned Japanese artist Seiko Mikami talks about her work and presents a preview of her latest project which she is working on during a year-long residency in Berlin. Thu. 28 Sept., 20:30 h (conversation in English) TESLA, Klosterstr. 68, Berlin-Mitte http://www.tesla-berlin.de Seiko Mikami: On the Continuum of Perception and Interfaces All projects by Seiko Mikami involve human perception. Perception is highly significant, yet also a very complex and wide subject area. Moreover, we still don't understand our body and its functions very well. In order to approach these issues, Mikami decided to disassemble the individual senses: seeing, hearing, the sense of touch, gravity, etc., advancing eachsense separately through different interfaces. The point of each project is to create an 'interface' set to one sense of perception by elaborating a particular sensory mechanism. Mikami's entire project is motivated by the conviction that something like what we call 'interface' in the context of computer technology, already exists within us. Mikami's projects make the audience experience their own state of perceptions. The interfaces designed for her projects function as extensions of what we already have--a network that mediates our subjectivity, that synthesizes what we perceive and the world that is perceived. Mikami explores the 'in-between' or 'inter-medium' of the information interchange, through perception, between the body and the surrounding space. She audifies and visualises what is not conventionally the object of those sense. Thus her key proposition is: the eye is not merely a thing that sees and the ear is not merely a thing that hears; it is possible for the ear to see, for the nose to hear, and for the eye to touch. Seiko Mikami (Japan) is an artist who teaches Information Art at Tama Art University, Tokyo. Most of her works are interactive media art installations incorporating human perception, including the eye tracking project Molecular Informatics at Canon ARTLAB (Tokyo 1996), about the acoustic sense and the living body sound at NTT InterCommunication Center's permanent collection (Tokyo 1997), Gravicells on the theme of gravity called the 6th consciousness in Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Japan 2004, in collaboration with Sota Ichikawa). She has participated in festivals and exhibitions all over the world, incl. DEAF, Ars Electronica, and transmediale (2002, 2005). Her latest work, first shown in the Desire of Codes show at Kulturhuset (Stockholm, Sweden, 2006), will be presented at TESLA during transmediale.07. Her work was published in Seiko Mikami - Art Works at Diputacion Provincial De Malaga, Spain (2004). - Mikami is currently on a sabbatical and based in Berlin as a fellow at the University of the Arts. From December till February 2007 she will be an artist in residence at TESLA. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe IRWIN (eds.) ISBN 1-846380-22-7 (cloth) ISBN 1-846380-05-7 (paper) 7.9 x 9.75, 500 pp., 192 colour illus. East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe surveys the extraordinary artistic landscape of the eastern half of the European continent. It is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct some of the hidden histories of contemporary art and offers compelling discoveries for readers based both outside and within these geographic limits. The Slovenian artists group IRWIN, who initiated the concept of East Art Map, has invited artists, curators, theorists and critics to record a wide range of innovations and radical actions that have taken place in the region since 1945. Despite its substantial contribution to a new art history, this book also remains an artists project, with a subjective and quixotic appeal in addition to its informative contents. In recent decades, Eastern Europe has undergone rapid changes in its political and economic dogmas and it is now among the most significant areas for the production of contemporary culture. East Art Map tells the regions compelling histories in different ways, based on a selection of key artworks and artists. For the first time over such a broad terrain, the less celebrated sector of Europe talks to us on its own terms about its past and its future. Not only does East Art Map serve as a guidebook through the visual culture of totalitarian and post-totalitarian societies, it is the largest contemporary art documentation project ever undertaken by the East on the East. Where history is not given, the editors write, it has to be constructed. This book is that construction. The IRWIN group consists of five artists: Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek and Borut Vogelnik. The group was founded in 1983 in Ljubljana and was also co-founder of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). Alongside other activities, IRWIN have been engaged in a series of projects which have actively and concretely intervened in social and historical contexts in the decade that redefined the status of art in Eastern Europe (Kapital, NSK Embassy Moscow, Transnacionala, East Art Map). The first three of these projects resulted in books edited by Eda Cufer, who started to collaborate with IRWIN at the beginning of the 1990s. IRWIN is also involved in the creation of three art collections in Eastern Europe. Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press, and can be ordered via the website: http://mitpress.mit.edu/afterall For further information on Afterall please see: http://www.afterall.org/ For further information on East Art Map please see: http://www.eastartmap.orghttp://www.eastartmap.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] curatorial department restructuring at MoMA
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:22:16 +0100 Sender: Curating digital art - www.crumbweb.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Sarah Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: curatorial department restructuring at MoMA just in case anyone missed this in the New York Times recently... there is a post on Steve Dietz's blog yproductions about it as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/03arts.html?ex=1161144000en=1da62bf29b4db251ei=5070 http://www.yproductions.com/WebWalkAbout/archives/000803.html - NYT: October 3, 2006: The Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that it had created a new curatorial department to focus exclusively on the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving images in gallery installations. The media department, once part of the department of film and media, will deal with works that use a wide range of modern technology, from video and digital imagery to Internet-based art and sound-only pieces, said Klaus Biesenbach, who was named chief curator of the new department. Mr. Biesenbach, who has been a MoMA curator since 2004 and the chief curator of P.S. 1, the museum's Queens affiliate, since 2002, said that works relying on media techniques and ideas of conveying motion and time had become much more prominent over the last two decades at international art fairs and exhibitions.'And it's even more visible now,' he said. 'I think artistic practice is evolving, and so museums are evolving as well.' The creation of the new department brings the number of curatorial departments at the museum to seven. The other six are architecture and design, drawings, film, painting and sculpture, photography, and prints and illustrated books. - thus: Barbara London's job title has changed to Associate Curator, Department of Media. Film remains its own department. And there is no sense yet of where media art projects that aren't moving-image or gallery-based, will go. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call: re:place 2007 Conference (Berlin, November 2007)
presentations and posters will have to be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats. The DEADLINE for submissions will be 15 January 2007. INFORMATION about the submission process and general information can be found at: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual Art at Danube University Krems' Center for Image Science, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research, Forum Goethe Institut, and others. Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA) __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) call - WRO 07, Wroclaw/PL, May 2007
12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 (C) WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication. The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is eur5000 and the total prize money awarded is eur8000. The deadline date for entry submission is 15 February 2007. Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jurys announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale. Agenda: 16 - 20 May 2007 competition, special events, symposium; 16 May - 17 June 2007 exhibition National Museum in Wroclaw, WRO Art Center http://www.wrocenter.pl __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] animatronica - microwave festival hongkong
Animatronica Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 4-15 Nov 2006 http://microwavefest.net/ Animatronica showcases classical and cutting edge media-arts in the technical context of surveillance and real-time interaction. The exhibition is set out to explore the many dimensions of animated space: the public, the private, and the social. It is presented as a situation within which the audience's own imagination and willful exploration ignites the new dimension of seeing. The exhibition space becomes the matrix through which audiences discovers new ways of interacting with surveillance devices, and expand our repertoire of dynamic visceral experiences. This year's Festival highlights the critical nature of animated images, both in the form of animation and by way of surveillance devices. Surveillance, usually perceived in a negative context, is being presented to the audience in a fun, enigmatic manner. The devices, mobilized by artists' creativity, allow viewers to witness extended dimensions of their physical existence: fantastic interactive elements emerge while they navigate through the exhibition space. The exhibition venue is constructed as a technological laboratory where the public is invited to engage, participate and experiment: to explore the interactivity within an inviting social context and referential space. The show could not be defined without the active participation of audiences. The exhibition would not be complete without the interaction of the public. Exhibition Date: 5-15.11.2006 Time: 11:00am-8:00pm, Daily Venue: Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall (map) Free Admission Exhibition Opening Date: 4.11.2006 Time: 5:30pm Venue: Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall (map) Artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Canada Camille Utterback - USA Alvaro Cassinelli - Uruguay Philip Worthington - U.K. Max Kazemzadeh - USA Daniel Shiffman - USA Daniel Sauter - Germany Jin-Yo Mok - South Korea X-D Animation Award Winners - Hong Kong Microwave X-D Animation Award 2006 Prize Presentation Date: 5.11.2006 Time: 2:00pm Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Microwave X-D Animation Award Show Date: 5-15.11.2006 Time: 10:00am-8:00pm, Fri-Wed (Closed Thur) Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Tribute to Nam June Paik: Special Lecture and Screening Program Date: 11,13-15.11.2006 Venue: Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Film Archive (map) Events Conference Electronic Mediated City-Wide Performance Artist Talks Workshops Animatronica Exhibition Tours __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: canadian PARACHUTE magazine suspends publication
From: Joanne Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 November 2006 17:48:41 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Suspension de PARACHUTE / PARACHUTE suspends its publication Press Release For Immediate Release Ý THE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE PARACHUTE SUSPENDS PUBLICATION Montreal, 20 November 2006 ó The contemporary art magazine PARACHUTE, founded in 1974, has taken the difficult decision to suspend its activities. Despite the success of its new format, introduced in 2000, and its international recognition, funding levels no longer make it possible to ensure a reasonable level of quality and stability. Despite its determination and efforts to maintain the journalís presence on the contemporary art scene and to continue operations, PARACHUTEís board of directors was obliged to take this last-resort decision after examining all the economic and social factors which would have enabled the journal to extract itself from the impasse facing it. The journal had recently succeeded in increasing its sales by more than 200% while at the same time cutting expenses and trimming budgets. Major fundraising efforts over the last years have produced significant but insufficient results. As well, the repeated demands on government agencies have been unproductive. An overall drop in subsidies, in tandem with the current funding structure of the journal and the media environment today make the task that much more complex. Despite PARACHUTEís exceptional longevity in a highly competitive milieu ó a longevity owing to the enthusiasm of its contributors and readers and to the unflagging determination of its director ó its suspension of activities at this time highlights the precariousness of cultural organizations in Quebec and the rest of Canada. In a letter to the journalís readers appearing in PARACHUTE 125 in January 2007, Chantal Pontbriand, director, writes: ìWhen the bell tolls, the adventure should come to a stop, at least in the way it has been led until now. The economic structure needed to pursue this passionate venture linking actors from around the world is gravely lacking at this point. The situation was never comfortable, but the continuing withdrawal of government funding for innovation in the arts and the need to cultivate ever-more private funding in a country where sponsorship of contemporary art is underdeveloped and where few private art galleries in the field exist, does not help our effort to raise funds and be self-sustaining. After huge efforts to cut costs and increase fundraising in the private sector in the hope of counteracting a too-fragile economic situation, our endeavour must come to a halt while we reconsider the situation and find other ways of doing what we do. Personally, I do not wish to stop myself, being convinced of the need for the magazine.î PARACHUTEís board of directors and director would like to extend their warm thanks to all those who contributed to the journalís great success over the years: its founding members, its staff and board members over the years, its readers, authors, artists, editors, correspondents, graphic artists, copy editors, proofreaders, translators, printers, subscribers, advertisers, distributors, donors, collectors and federal, provincial, municipal and foreign funding agencies. Founded in Montreal and published in English and French from its very first issue, PARACHUTEís mission is to investigate new transdisciplinary and multimedia artistic practices and to develop a critical and theoretical language specific to the new directions art is taking today. Published and edited from the start by the art critic and curator Chantal Pontbriand, PARACHUTE has a track record of more than thirty years in the field of contemporary art. One hundred and twenty-five issues at a rate of four per year have been produced and twenty-four books published. Numerous exhibitions were mounted, including curating the Canadian pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 and multidisciplinary international festivals. Eleven symposia and several discussion laboratories were held in Montreal and elsewhere under the title PARAZONES. With a print run of 4,000 ñ 5,000 copies, PARACHUTE can be found in more than forty countries and in the libraries of the worldís major institutions. More than 3,000 top-notch writers have published their work in the journal, including art critics, philosophers, scholars in every field and world-famous artists from every corner of the planet. PARACHUTE is a reference publication both locally and internationally, and essays published there have been reprinted far and wide and remain an important source of information and ideas for the arts community and the general public. In 2004, La Lettre volÈe in Brussels published Essais choisis 1975-2000, a collection of some of the most important articles appearing in the journal since its founding. An English anthology
[spectre] job: Head Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology Zürich
Guten Tag, Diese Stelle ist seit kurzem öffentlich ausgeschrieben, und da die Eingabefrist knapp ist, informieren wir Sie hiermit direkt, mit der Bitte, die Information auch allfälligen Interessenten in Ihrem Umfeld weiterzuleiten. Hello, This Job-Opening has just been made public. Since the deadline is very soon, we'd like to inform you personally and kindly ask you to pass on this information to other interested parties. mit freundliceh Grüssen with kind regards Jan Schacher (jasch) English Version below / Die Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich hmt z sucht auf das Wintersemester 2007 eine/einen Leiter/in Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST Die Arbeit am Institut ist der Forschung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Bereichen Computermusik und Sound Technology gewidmet. Das ICST organisiert Veranstaltungsreihen, lädt Gäste zu Forschung oder kompositorischer Arbeit ein und ist in der Ausbildung präsent. Die Gründung der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK im September 2007 wird es der neuen Leitung ermöglichen, in einem interdisziplinären Kontext ein einzigartiges Instituts- und Forschungsprofil zu entwickeln. Voraussetzungen für eine Bewerbung: Internationale Tätigkeit in Komposition und Musiktheorie und/oder Forschung Erfahrung in elektroakustischer Musik Erfahrung auf einem relevanten Gebiet der musikalischen Lehre oder Produktion Aufgaben: Fachliche Führung des Institutes Vertretung des ICST im Departement Musik der ZHdK Entwicklung von Forschungsstrategien zusammen mit den Mitarbeitenden des ICST Forschungstätigkeit Unterrichtstätigkeit im musiktheoretischen oder kompositorischen Bereich Informationen: Der Stelleninhaber Gerald Bennett erteilt gerne Auskunft (gerald.bennett [at] hmt.edu). Unterlagen mit den üblichen Beilagen senden Sie bitte bis 31. Dezember 2006 an: Felix Baumann, Leitung Komposition / Musiktheorie , Hochschule Musik und Theater, Florhofgasse 6, CH-8001 Zürich // The Zurich School of Music, Drama and Dance (Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich hmt) invites applications for the Winter semester of 2007 for a Director of the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST The work at the Institute is devoted to research with special consideration for the cooperation between the fields of Computer Music and Sound Technology. The ICST organises courses and events, invites guests to do research or composition and is active in training in these fields. The founding of the Zurich School of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK) in September 2007 will enable the new director to develop a unique institute and research profile in an interdisciplinary context. Prerequisites for an application: * International activities in composition, music theory and/or research * Experience in electro-acoustic music * Experience in a relevant area of music education or production Duties: * Professional direction of the Institute * Representation of the ICST in the department Music of the ZHdK * Development of research strategies together with the staff of the ICST * Personal research activity * Teaching in the field of music theory or composition Information: The present director Gerald Bennett will be pleased to answer any questions (gerald.bennett [at] hmt.edu). The deadline for applications is 31st December 2006 Applications with the usual documents should be sent to: Felix Baumann, Head of Department of Composition / Music Theory Hochschule Musik und Theater Florhofgasse 6 CH-8001 Zürich Switzerland. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Re: 'COMPASSIONATE SLAVERY' - a spoof?
From: William Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [spectre] Re: 'COMPASSIONATE SLAVERY' - a spoof? Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:59:44 + To: Andreas Broeckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Andreas, Oh yes, the conf took place but it was crashed by those guys who put on suits and pitch at things like this and pretend to be 'experts' with prepared papers. There's a short note on the WTO site about it. Please note: A panelist for the Wharton Africa Business Forum misrepresented himself as being affiliated with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Based on that misrepresentation, the individual was invited to speak at the Forum, which was held on November 11, 2006 in Philadelphia. As soon as the conference organizers realized the misrepresentation perpetrated by this individual, the other panelists were immediately informed. Neither the conference organizers nor The Wharton School had or has any association with the individual nor do they endorse the individual's views. Regards, Executive Team Wharton Africa Business Forum See http://www.whartonglobal.com/africa/panels.asp#Trade Go well Bill On 23 Nov 2006, at 09:20, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: dear bill, which part of it do you think is a spoof? it seems that the conference and the lecture with the announcement took place, right? quizzically yours, -a Re this: It's a spoof bill Message: 2 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:00:58 +0100 From: jaromil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [spectre] 'COMPASSIONATE SLAVERY' MARKET FOR AFRICA: WTO To: spectre@mikrolisten.de Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - Forwarded message from World Trade Organization - November 13, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WTO ANNOUNCES FORMALIZED SLAVERY MARKET FOR AFRICA US Trade Representative to Africa, Governor of Nigeria Central Bank weigh in at Wharton __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Re: 'COMPASSIONATE SLAVERY' - a spoof?
hey jaromil, i think that many, many flowers should be allowed to blossom in the pastures of our networks. and i think it is interesting to see that there is no natural consensus about the reading and the evaluation of critical artistic practice. we had a discussion on the german rohrpost recently about the relevance of copyright and remuneration systems because there was a letter by a pro-copyright group of writers posted to the list. for me it is important that william's failure, or unwillingness, to see the dark humour in the 'slavery' action by the yesmen is a valid reaction, too. remember that the syndicate had room for people like tisma, and antiorp, and everyone else. we can also not expect that everyone who is on the spectre list today is aware of 10 or so years of rtmark 'oeuvres'. it feels sisyphean, but then that's life. and reminds us of the beauty of repetition. regards, -a hey Andreas, should we adapt the network to curators, or curators to the network? i like the choice to be yours here, this is not going like syndicate ;) mr William, did you ever had a closer look to some net-art ? rtmark, the yes man, e-toy ... i recommend it, interesting expressions of our mediatically troubled times. ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://afrolinux.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFZrZHe2QxhLU0C14RAhuJAKDb3Z5vxG+RTO85dPWcOgLuzUd/ogCg4y8P 6TI+ly2D8QkkBBrfupR8hrw= =n18w -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] 1,2, 3 Avant-Gardes, CCA Warsaw/PL
1,2,3 Avant-Gardes *1,2,3 Avant-Gardes* Experiment / Film / Art / Archive Dec. 9, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007 Opening: Dec. 8, 2006, 7pm Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland Artists: Akademia Ruchu, Antosz Andzia, Pawe? Althamer / Artur Z.mijewski, Piotr Andrejew, Bernadette Corporation, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Matthew Buckingham, Bogdan Dziworski, Marcin Giz.ycki, Janusz Haka, Oskar Hansen, Judith Hopf / Katrin Pesch, Tadeusz Junak, Jacques de Koning, Igor Krenz, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Zofia Kulik, Pawe? Kwiek, Przemys?aw Kwiek, Natalia LL, Jolanta Marcolla, Jonathan Monk, Ewa Partum, Andrzej Paw?owski, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Józef Robakowski, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Zbigniew Rybczyn'ski, Zygmunt Rytka, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jadwiga Singer, Zdzis?aw Sosnowski, Mieczys?aw Szczuka, Micha? Tarkowski, Stefan Franciszka Themerson, Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Ryszard Was'ko, Jan S. Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Zare;bski, Florian Zeyfang The exhibition 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes celebrates the (ongoing) history of the experiment in film and art, and the interactions between these two fields. The exhibition brings together artists and filmmakers from different countries and generations, juxtaposing their work with the outstanding history of Polish avant-garde film, represented by the works of Pawe? Kwiek, Józef Robakowski, Natalia LL, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Bogdan Dziworski and many others. The exhibition works with the tension created by a horizontal and a vertical interpretation of the multiplicity of the avant-garde and evoked by the exhibition's title 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes: Horizontal - in the sense of different ideas of modernism, the pluralism of film and conceptual image-work existing in the different worlds of the Cold War and today; Vertical - suggesting the search for a possible historicisation of Polish avant-garde art and film, a linearity, to be discovered and reconstructed in light of the many distortions in Polish history over the last 80 years. Vertically, it contains a reference to the three movements important to experimentation with art and film: the very first modernist avant-garde, the neo-avant-garde of the 1970s, and the artists who started working in the 1990s to address, often with irony or idealism, the heritage of the two previous movements. In contrast, the title's horizontal reading includes different understandings of the notion of avant-garde - like Peter Wollen's text Two Avant-Gardes that elaborates on the difference between narrative politics and politics of the formal experiment - suggesting something like a third, fourth and even fifth avant-garde 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes experiments itself with a setting that confronts the videos and films of artists working since the 1990s and influenced by different legacies and notions of moving image with the extensive work of earlier generations of artists, performers and filmmakers in Poland. The exhibition consists of six rooms, organised according to different themes, such as Analytical strategies, Political and Ideological Engagement, Sound / Image, Imagination, Games / Participation, Consumption, and features work especially developed for the show. Another important issue off the exhibition is work with the archive. The show is a specific summary of the previous events of the program of the Film Archive of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, which is a research project focused on gathering and analysing Polish film and art. The aim of the program is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art, and to develop contemporary contexts of presentation for this historic material. 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes is curated by ?ukasz Ronduda and Florian Zeyfang and conceived within the framework of Buero Kopernikus, an initiative of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). The exhibition is supported by IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stichting Mondriaan, and Piktogram Magazine. Collaboration: Kaja Pawe?ek. Exhibiton design: Centrala http://www.centrala.net.pl For further information: Kaja Pawe?ek: + 48 22 6281271 # 104, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.buero-kopernikus.org/en/project/2/36/0 1,2,3 Avant-Gardes will be shown in 2007 at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (with a special focus) and at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. A catalogue will be published with essays by Leire Vergara, David Crowley, Steven Ball/David Curtis, Stefanie Peter, Anselm Franke, Jan Verwoert, Michal Wolinski, ?ukasz Ronduda, and including an archive section and artist pages. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Al. Ujazdowskie 6, 00-461 Warsaw, Poland tel: (+48 22) 628 12 71-3 fax: (+48 22) 628 95 50 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
[spectre] publ. Going Public 06. Atlante Mediterraneo
From: PRESS - aMAZElab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 12, 2006 11:11:54 AM EST To: PRESS - aMAZElab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book presentation: Going Public '06. Atlante Mediterraneo We are pleased to announce that the book GOING PUBLIC '06. ATLANTE MEDITERRANEO will be presented at: - Cairo Biennial, Town House Gallery (Cairo/Egypt), 10/14th December 2006 - Tapies Foundation (Barcelona/Spain), 18th January 2007 The book gathers the results of 18 mounth of public art and territorial project, the site specific artistic interventions, and the researches of partners and contributors from six mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona. It's a 250 pages book, 2 languages (it+engl), 160 images full colors. Texts by: Claudia Zanfi (curator); Tony Chakar (Beirut architect); Abdalla Daif (Alexandria art critic); Manuel Delgado (Barcelona anthropologist); Sameh El Halawany (Alexandria artist); Achilleas Kentonis (Artos Foundation director, Nicosia); Bilal Khbeiz (Beirut journalist); Elias Khury (Beirut writer); Vasif Kortun (Platfom Garanti director, Istanbul); Stefano Maffei (Politecnico, Milan); Yannis Papadakis (Nicosia sociologist); Marti Peran (Barcelona University); Sharon Rotbard (Tel Aviv urbanist); Nermin Saybasili (Goldsmiths University, London). Special projects by: Atlas Group (Beirut); Ofri Cnaani and Jenny Vogel (NYC); Francesca Cogni and Donatello De Mattia (Milano); Gianmaria Conti (Milano); Oda Projesi (Istanbul/NYC); xurban_collective (Istanbul/NYC); Akram Zaatari (Beirut) and others. Edition by: Silvana Editoriale, Milano. International distribution by: Actar, Barcelona. aMAZElab via Cola Montano 8 20159 Milan, Italy Ph/Fax +39 02 6071623 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.amaze.it - Hakan Topal xurban_collective_ny [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xurban.netwww.xurban.net | ++1.646.283.5252 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) book OMITTED HISTORY
(the event is over, but the publication sounds very interesting; ab) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:38:33 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Presentation of the book OMITTED HISTORY in Novi Sad, Serbia Friday, 8. December 2006, 19:00 Cinema room, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Dunavska 37, Novi Sad (former Museum of Socialists Revolution) Invitation to Promotion of the publication: OMITTED HISTORY Promotion of the project Political Practices of (Post-) Yugoslav Art Participants of the public discussion are members of collectives: What, How for Whom - WHW, Zagreb SCCA/pro.ba, Sarajevo Prelom Kolektiv, Belgrade New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad OMITTED HISTORY - How ready are we to learn from our mistakes from the past? How important is it to position positive historical elements as a model for the future, especially when we speak about the freedom and progressive cultural and social practices? These are just some of the questions initiated during the open discussion Omitted History held in November 2005 in Novi Sad, at the opening of the exhibition The Continuous Art Class, Novi Sad Neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. Speakers of the debate were Zelimir Zilnik, movie director from Novi Sad, Prof. Misko Suvakovic, art theorist from Belgrade, Latinka Perovic, historian from Belgrade, Balint Szombathy, multimedia artist from Budapest and Lazar Stojanovic, movie director from Belgrade. This discussion was intended to throw light on crucial events on the political and artistic scenes at the beginning of the seventies of the twentieth century in former Yugoslavia, yet on the other hand, to offer the proposals for a model on how to critically read and write new history of the Yugoslav socialist times, connecting it to the present situation. One year after the exibition The Continuous Art Class and the discussion Omitted History in Novi Sad, this valuable document, the transcript of the discussion is published in new, bilingual publication in publishing project of the Center_kuda.org, as a part of long-term research entitled The Continuous Art Class. Publication Omitted History is bilingual edition (Serbian and English language) and it has been published by Revolver, Frankfurt, Germany. Details about the book Omitted History and its free download (PDF fail) could be found at http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/node/795 Political Practices in (Post-) Yugoslav Art is concieved as a long-term process in which four independent cultural organization are collaborating in multidisciplinary researching, mapping and analyzing of the historical, socio-political and economic conditions that led to current constellation of art practices or intellectual and cultural production in post-Socialist space of Southeast Europe or, more preciselly, of Western Balcans, eg. former Yugoslavia. It is a research that stands against the understanding of cultural domain based on the notion of identity, particularly on national identity, this research would like to make a shift from the paradigm of art-as-something that represents to art-as-a-political practice. The project Political Practices of (Post-) Yugoslav Art takes place in the framework of ALMOSTREAL. ALMOSTREAL (www.almostreal.org) is a project initiated by the European Cultural Foundation and it is an integral part of its arts programme. Details about the project Political Practices of (Post-) Yugoslav Art could be found at http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/node/555 More about participants of the public discussion: What, How for Whom - WHW, Zagreb, www.mi2.hr/whw SCCA/pro.ba, Sarajevo, www.pro.ba Prelom Kolektiv, Belgrade, www.prelomkolektiv.org/ New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad, www.kuda.org Publication Omitted History has been realised with the support of European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam and Daniel print, Novi Sad and the public discussion has been realised with the support of Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina and Student Cultural Center Novi Sad. Important further links: Publication Omitted History: http://www.kuda.org/?q=sr/node/795 The project Political Practices of (Post-) Yugoslav Art: http://www.kuda.org/?q=sr/node/555 Project The Continuous Art Class, publication and the exhibition The Continuous Art Class, Novi Sad Neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s: http://www.kuda.org/?q=node/541, http://www.kuda.org/?q=en/node/645 to unsubscribe from this list, reply with subject: unsubscribe kuda.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] brace mogin 2 po box 22 21113 novi sad serbia and montenegro tel/fax +381 21 512 227 http:// kuda.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale.07 - Exhibition
Please see below for English version ** Newsletter vom 6.12.2006 transmediale.07 unfinish! Berlin, 31.1. - 4.2. 2007 Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10 Ausstellung unfinish! ** 1. Ausstellung unfinish! 2. David Rokeby - 'Taken' 3. Herwig Weiser - 'Death Before Disko' 4. Kurt d'Haeseleer - 'Scripted Emotions' 5. Herman Asselberghs - 'Proof of Life' 6. Antoine Schmitt - 'still living' 7. Weitere Arbeiten 8. Oeffnungszeiten, Eintrittspreise ** 1. Ausstellung unfinish! In der kuenstlerischen Arbeit mit digitalen Medien kann unfinish! sowohl das Drama des ewig Unvollendeten bedeuten, als auch die Chance auf stetige Weiterentwicklung sein. Mit unfinish! will die transmediale.07 die Bedingungen der Endlichkeit ausloten und die Bandbreite aufzeigen, in der mit kuenstlerischen Mitteln scheinbar festgefahrene Prozesse neu in Bewegung gesetzt und veraendert werden koennen. In der Ausstellung zum Thema unfinish! praesentiert die transmediale.07 in der Akademie der Kuenste am Hanseatenweg Werke von David Rokeby (ca), Herwig Weiser (at), Kurt d'Haeseleer (be), Herman Asselberghs (be), Antoine Schmitt (fr) und anderen. ** 2. David Rokeby (ca) - 'Taken' Interaktive Installation, 2002 'Taken' ist eine interaktive Video-Installation, die die Aktivitaeten im Ausstellungsraum mithilfe von Ueberwachungskameras aufnimmt und interpretiert. 'Taken' regt an zu einer kritischen Reflexion ueber Methoden der Beobachtung und Klassifizierung von Menschen im oeffentlichen Raum. Eine Doppelprojektion zeigt die Ausstellungsbesucher, die sich in den Galerieraeumen bewegen. Das eine Bild zeigt Besucher-Portraets als Loop und mit einer wachsenden Verzoegerung von 20 Sekunden wieder auf das urspruengliche Bild projiziert. Der stete Bewegungswechsel erzeugt vielschichtige Ueberlagerungen. Gelegentlich scheint ein Bildverzeichnis der letzten 200 Ausstellungsbesucher auf. Ihre Bilder werden aus der Gesamtaufnahme isoliert und gross projiziert, wobei ihnen zufaellig Adjektive zugeschrieben werden (z.B. 'ahnungslos', 'mitschuldig', 'hungrig'), die sie nur angeblich charakterisieren. David Rokeby lebt und arbeitet in Toronto. Er gilt derzeit als einer der bedeutendsten kanadischen Medienkuenstler. Seit Beginn der 80er Jahre entwirft und realisiert er interaktive Installationen, die sich insbesondere mit dem menschlichen Koerper beschaeftigen oder Computer als kuenstliches Wahrnehmungssystem mit einbeziehen. http://www.davidrokeby.com ** 3. Herwig Weiser (at) - 'Death Before Disko' Installation, 2006 Herwig Weiser hat eine Maschine gebaut, deren technischen Elemente uns in ungewoehnlicher, verfremdender Klarheit gegenuebertreten. 'Death Before Disko' nutzt Online-Datenstroeme aus Weltraumbeobachtungen und uebersetzt diese in einfache, spektakulaere Klang- und Lichtereignisse. Mit dem schnellen Wachstum der digitalen Technologie werden die Benutzer immer mehr von den eigentlichen Hardware-Komponenten ihrer Laptops oder Stereo-Anlagen entfernt. Hier wird solche Hardware in kristalliner Deutlichkeit vorgefuehrt um zu zeigen, dass wir zur Technologie nicht so sehr ein rationales, sondern stets vor allem ein emotionales Verhaeltnis haben. Herwig Weiser studierte an der Gerrit Rietveld Akademie Amsterdam und an der Kunsthochschule fuer Medien in Koeln. Seine interdisziplinaeren Arbeiten zeigen ein breit gefaechertes Spektrum: Objekte, Videos, Multimedia-Arbeiten, Sound- und Computerinstallationen sowie Mikroindustrielandschaften. http://www.zgodlocator.org ** 4. Kurt d'Haeseleer (be) - 'Scripted Emotions' Installation, 2005 Ehrenwerte Erwaehnung, transmediale Award 2007 'Scripted Emotions' ist ein pseudo-romantisches Drama fuer zwei Touristen-Fernglaeser: Die interaktive Installation besteht aus zwei Fernglaesern mit integrierten Projektionsflaechen. Der Zuschauer sieht durch die Fernglaeser ein digitales Panorama, durch das er sich bewegen kann - ein naechtliches Drama nimmt seinen Lauf Kurt dHaeseleer, ein Video-Kuenstler aus Belgien, bedient sich digitaler Montage- und Produktionstechniken. Erfahrungen sammelte er mit Video-Arbeiten fuer das Bruesseler Kollektiv De Filmfabriek zu deren multimedialen Theater- und Tanzprojekten. http://www.kunstbus.nl/verklaringen/kurt+d'haeseleer.html ** 5. Herman Asselberghs (be) - 'Proof of Life' Video (30'), 2005 Nominiert fuer den transmediale Award 2007 Auf dem Videomonitor die Innenansicht eines leeren, offenen Raumes: Die Grenze zwischen innen und aussen ist schmal. Menschliche Anwesenheit ist nur auf der Tonspur zu vernehmen: Eine maennliche Stimme evoziert erschreckende Fernsehbilder, die Umstaende einer lange Gefangenschaft oder Geiselnahme. Die
[spectre] Reminder - re:place 2007 - Call for Proposals
for submissions is 15 January 2007. general INFORMATION can be found at: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference partners include LEONARDO, DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART AT DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS' CENTER FOR IMAGE SCIENCE, LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE MEDIA.ART.RESEARCH, FORUM GOETHE INSTITUT, and others. Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA) re:place 2007 Advisory Board HONORARY BOARD Rudolf ARNHEIM; Frank POPPER; Jasia REICHARDT; Itsuo SAKANE; Walter ZANINI ADVISORY BOARD Inke ARNS, Dortmund; Horst BREDEKAMP, Berlin; Paul BROWN, London/Cotton Tree; Annick BUREAUD, Paris; Dieter DANIELS, Leipzig; Sara DIAMOND, Toronto; Diana DOMINGUES, Caxias do Sul; Timothy DRUCKREY, New York; Jean GAGNON, Montreal; Oliver GRAU, Krems; Lydia HAUSTEIN, Berlin; Linda D. HENDERSON, Austin; Erkki HUHTAMO, Los Angeles; Douglas KAHN, Davis; Ángel KALENBERG, Montevideo; Ryszard KLUSZCZYNSKI, Lodz; Machiko KUSAHARA, Tokyo; Sarat MAHARAJ, London; Roger MALINA, Paris; W.J.T. MITCHELL, Chicago; Edward SHANKEN, Savannah; Barbara STAFFORD, Chicago; Christiane PAUL, New York; Jeffrey SHAW, Sydney; Peter WEIBEL, Karlsruhe; Steven WILSON, San Francisco; Siegfried ZIELINSKI, Cologne best wishes for the holiday season, Department for Image Science Team Danube University Krems WHAT IS IMAGE SCIENCE? visit us and find out :: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale @ Pariser Platz: Paik, Kempelen, DDR, Edition Edison
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Newsletter 2.1.2007
transmediale.07
unfinish!
January 31 - February 4, 2007
Akademie der Kuenste
Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10
transmediale @ Pariser Platz
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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz
2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
3. Kempelen - Zwei Maschinen
4. Media Art in the GDR?
5. Edition Edison
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1. transmediale @ Pariser Platz
The transmediale.07 programme includes a series of events that are being
presented outside the main festival venue of the Akademie der Kuenste on
Hanseatenweg. The new building of the Akademie der Kuenste on Pariser Platz is
an important second venue, where the festival week already begins a day before
the official opening, with an hommage to Nam June Paik who died exactly one
year ago.
Akademie der Kuenste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
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2. Nam June Paik: There is no rewind button for life
Monday, January 29
Nam June Paik, the pioneer of Video Art, died on January 29th, 2006. Born in
Korea he came to study music in Germany in the late fifties, before he engaged
in the Fluxus movement as a visual artist. Although he left for New York in
1964 Germany remained to be his 'artistic homeland'. The Akademie der Kuenste
commemorates its prominent member.
18 h Traditional Korean music in the Foyer and other spaces
19 h Opening Klaus Staeck, followed by Paiks Kosmos. Introduction Wulf
Herzogenrath. Performances by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler und Mario Bertoncini
21 h Panel discussion with Mary Bauermeister, Pash Buzari, Anne-Marie Duguet,
Wulf Herzogenrath, Ira Schneider, Emmett Williams (invited). Moderation Manfred
Eichel
23 h Music performance by John Cage, played by Mario Bertoncini. Followed by
falling piano.
18 h - 24 h Video works by Nam June Paik: 'A Tribute to John Cage' (1973),
'Global Groove' (1973), 'Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint' (1982), 'Documenta 6
Satellite Telecast' (1977), 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' (1984), 'Merce by Merce
by Paik' (1978), 'Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes' (1964-94), 'A Tribute
to Nam June Paik' (1982).
Installations by Nam June Paik ('Mercury', 1991) and Toni Serra, winner of the
NJP Award for 2006
Admission 10 Euro, reduced 7 Euro
Ticket Hotline: +49-(0)30-20057-2000
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3. Kempelen - Zwei Maschinen / Two Machines
Saturday, February 3, 15 h
Wolfgang von Kempelen, scholar and administrator in the court of
Maria Theresia,
left many humble traces in history, the most memorable of which are his Talking
Machine and his chess-playing android. In 1769, Kempelen presented a mechanical
chess-player, dressed in an oriental costume. The 'Chess Turk' became
one of the
great technical sensations of the 18th century. However, only ostensibly had an
automaton taken control of rationality, for on the inside, a man was hidden. In
contrast, Kempelen's Talking Machine was based on the ideas of
enlightenment and
was supposed to give an audible voice to deaf people. The
construction resembled
the human apparatus of articulation, and Kempelen's 1791 publication about the
mechanism of human speech marked the beginnings of experimental acoustics.
The event mainly revolves around the presentation of the 'Kempelen Box' with
reconstructions of both machines, which were developed and built at the
University of Applied Art Vienna between 1999 and 2001.
Participants: Brigitte Felderer, Jakob Scheid, Ernst Strouhal
Presented by: Siegfried Zielinski
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4. Media Art in the GDR?
Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR between 1976-1989
Sunday, February 4
In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed
beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof
(TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches,
galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of 'Super-8 film'
was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet Quarz
camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in
Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also
reached East Berlin.
16 h Film programme 'Revision DDR' (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Joerg Herold,
Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster)
18 h Discussion 'Media Art in the GDR?' (in German) with Lutz Dammbeck, Else
Gabriel, Claus Loeser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Staeck, Christoph Tannert,
Dieter Daniels
20 h Film programme 'Films by Painters in the GDR' with works by Lutz Dammbeck,
Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel, Juergen
Boettcher, A. R. Penck. Film programme curated by Claus Loeser, Archiv
ex.oriente.lux
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5. Edition Edison
Workshop Installation: February 1 - 3
[spectre] CfP - Digital Art Weeks, Zurich/CH, July 2007
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Digital Art Weeks Festival 2007 (DAW07) July 9 - July 14, 2007 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Digital Art Weeks is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. It consists of a symposium, workshops, and performances. The program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology. Artists and researchers will examine the use of electronic media in articulating the performer's presence through the possibilities of the multi-sensuality of electronic media. The possibility of blurring the divide between public and performer to bond them through the powers of dissemination and inclusion inherent within the technology used will also be considered. The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks at ETH Zurich seek papers, posters, and performances on themes specific to performance using electronic media. We seek proposals that explore a concept of the Performative Surround in terms of how computer-mediated communication and dialog takes place between performers and viewers and how it tends to aid in dissolving the divide between perf! ormer and viewer. PERFORMANCES topics include: * Media Enhanced Artwork in the areas of Performance, Dance and Sound-Art * Mobile Art Music that explore Performer Networking and Audience Participation * Digital Puppetry including Enhanced, Waldo, Motion Capture, and Machinima * Laptop Music including Live-Coding, Live-Cinema Live-Re-Scoring * Installations involving Net-poetry computer mediated communication PAPERS, POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS topics include: * Current Research and Innovations in Media Enhanced Artwork and Technology * Issues Concerning the Live-Electronic Re-Embodiment of the Performance Artist * Approaches to Performer Networking and Audience Participation using Technology * Technology and Aesthetics of Digital Puppetry * Approaches to Live-Coding, Live-Cinema Live-Re-Scoring * Novel Software Paradigms for Mixed-Media Processing and Authoring PANEL topics include: * Software Innovations in Mediated Communication and the Arts * Live Cinema, Expanded Video, and Film Rescoring * Immersive Audio and Video Space * The Dissolve of the Performer-Audience Divide * Networking the Private Space-Pubic Space Divide * Digital Puppetry from Enhanced to Machinima Submission guidelines are available at: http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/PI07/Submission __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale.07 Salon programme
Newsletter 5.1.2007 transmediale.07 unfinish! January 31 - February 4, 2007 Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10 ** 1. transmediale.07 Salon 2. Panels and discussions 3. Presentations of artists ** 1. transmediale.07 Salon The salon programme of transmediale.07 presents artistic projects and discussions that relate to current questions in art and digital culture. German and international 'works in progress' and initiatives present themselves to the audience and invite an exchange of ideas. Throughout the festival, the transmediale salon invites its visitors to delve into a dialogue about contemporary artistic practices, their communication and their distribution. In this newsletter you will find a *small selection* of the multi-facetted Salon events; information about all other presentations, e.g. about online computer games, media art education at school, digital art projects in urban space, or the Chinese Firewall, can be found at: http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon.html ** 2. Panels and discussions Resonant Memory Traces / Theory Wednesday, 31.1. 2007, 18 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon The Institute for Media Archaeology (IMA) devotes its research to the work of female artists in the field of electronic media art. In its virtual salon, IMA presents the first two portraits of the DVD-series IMA fiction, dedicated to Liesl Ujvary and Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova. Followed by a discussion about the life and work of Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneering artist in the area of combining light and music. Participants: Elisabeth Schimana, Liesl Ujvary, Rebekah Wilson, Cordula Boesze, Seppo Gruendler, Martin Breindl. http://ima.or.at/?language=de Supported by: bundeskanzleramt:kunst, Niederoesterreich Kultur und FH Joanneum. Networking Bordergames Thursday, 1.2. 2007, 12 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon 'Bordergames' is an international open-source computer game project. It offers young migrants a creative tool for self-representation and for a critical analysis of their environment. It also serves as an instrument for reflecting and communicating about social conflicts. The subject and content of the different local versions of Bordergames are the specific living conditions of young migrants in political, social and cultural border areas. Starting from their immediate environment, the teenagers can choose characters, dialogues and paths by themselves, learning the specific IT skills to realize the computer game. 'Bordergames Kreuzberg' evolves from a cooperation with the Spanish art and activist collective La Fiambrera Obrera. At the transmediale.07, Spanish and Berlin-based members of the group will show the three already existing versions of Bordergames (Lavapies, Figueres and Rifgames) and will present the Berlin workshop, scheduled to start in spring 2007 in the area around Wrangelstrasse in Kreuzberg. Participants: Bordergames Kreuzberg, La Fiambrera Obrera http://bordergames.org/ Whatever happened to Tactical Media? Thursday, 1.2. 2007, 16 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon Creating a collaborative culture has been the main goal of video activism, independent practices that are based upon cooperation and networking. Can online tools and services such as YouTube or Flickr provide new cultural identities and open up new areas of dialogue and critique? What political role does the Net play today as a tool for collaborative production? Is self-sufficiency and the DIY ethos still important in the age of Web 2.0? And what is the actual relevance of tactical media today? Participants: Baerbel Schoenafinger, Katsiaryna Herasenkava, Pauluk Kanavalchyk, Anastasia Nekozakova, Petko Dourmana, Fran Ilich, Micz Flor Presented by: Joanne Richardson Designing Your Second Life Friday, 2.2. 2007, 19.30 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon In Massively Multi-user Online worlds (MMOs) like Second Life, millions of users experience new forms of entertainment, virtual commerce and creative metaphors of identity. This evolution constitutes a challenge for both, game developers and activists. But it attracts also artists, who aim to swim against the virtual stream as well. Participants: Joachim Stein, Anna Krenz, Aram Bartholl, Kaspar Gwinner, IGA Worldwide Presented by: Peter C. Krell http://secondlife.com/ http://game-face.de/ In cooperation with Game Face Content Generating Users (in German) Saturday, 3.2. 2007, 12 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon The Blogosphere, where many people found their place as sender, receiver and relay, has finally reached the art world. In November 2006 the Deutschlandradio began to broadcast Blogspiel, a programme whose radio and sound art contents are mostly provided by the continuous posts on its website. Sendung.net is an open online archive for audiovisual art, while Kunst-Blog.com is a forum for art criticism.
[spectre] (fwd) Be[com]ing Dutch, Eindhoven/NL 26 - 28 January 2007
Van Abbemuseum - Be[com]ing Dutch VAN ABBEMUSEUM BILDERDIJKLAAN 10 EINDHOVEN - THE NETHERLANDS 31 [0]40 238 1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatheringshttp://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings Be[com]ing Dutch seeks to put our ideas of national identity under pressure and to examine and challenge the processes of inclusion and exclusion in The Netherlands today. As questions of cultural identity and normative 'national' values become ever more of an issue in political and cultural debate the concept behind Be[com]ing Dutch is to move the agenda of multiculturalism from notions of toleration and difference towards building a shared but agonistic democracy on a cultural level through the use of one of the few remaining public sphere institutions left to us - the museum. It requires wide public participation, that is encouraged, prepared and committed to over a longer term than a single exhibition. Be[com]ing Dutch Be[com]ing Dutch is a two year project developed both inside and outside the museum, which consists of debates, reading groups, artists projects, exhibitions, residencies, and other forms of collective participation and production. To begin Be[com]ing Dutch, the Van Abbemuseum launches a three day 'Gathering' between the 26 -28 January. After that the project leads up to an intensive three week international Caucus [meeting] in November 2007. The final phase will be a large scale exhibition of newly commissioned works in the Van Abbemuseum in May 2008. The Gatherings 26 - 28 January 2007 To begin the project Be[com]ing Dutch we are issuing a call to join us in Eindhoven for a three day Gathering. We invite you to come together to listen, debate and discuss with a variety of invited artists, thinkers and activists including (a.o.) Babak Afrassiabi, Abdellatif Benfaidoul, Bik Van der Pol, Igor Dobrovici, Surasi Kusolwong, Sarat Maharaj, Sohelia Najand, Maria Pask, Mario Rizzi, Superflex, Nasrin Tabatabai, Abdelaziz Taleb, and Aline Thomassen. They will present ideas and models of art practice that challenge and critique our various understandings of identity and visibility and offer imaginative possibilities for organising ourselves collectively. For a complete overview of the programme, go to: http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings JOIN US! Entrance is free. If you would like to participate in any or all of the days of The Gatherings, register now on http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings as space is limited. Registration closes on 22 January 2007. Please specify which date[s] you will attend. More information on reservation and dinner can be found on http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings http://www.vanabbemuseum.nl/gatherings . Be[com]ing Dutch is being developed by Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher and many others in- and outside the Van Abbemuseum. Institutional partnerships: BAK [Utrecht], New Museum of Contemporary Art [New York], Goldsmiths College [London], Kosmose [Eindhoven], Stichting Interart [Arnhem]. The project Be[com]ing Dutch by the Van Abbemuseum has been awarded the Development Award for Cultural Diversity 2006 by the Mondriaan Foundation __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Going Public '06. Atlante mediterraneo, by aMAZElab
aMAZElab GOING PUBLIC '06. ATLANTE MEDITERRANEO Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona Urban interventions, workshops, films, debates, cultural exchanges, publications A project by aMAZElab artistic direction claudia zanfi GOING PUBLIC is a mobile open platform on practices and subjects. Its one the leading project in Italy on communities and territory, dealing with contemprary subjects such as: mobility, borders, new geographies, new EU, mediterranean and middle eastern cultures, micro-geographies, etc... Its a space where artists, architects, curators, writers, sociologists, geographers, students, can meet and exchange opinions. With a strong international network, Going Public introduce every year new artists and involves different communities. Therefore were pleased to announce that the book GOING PUBLIC '06. Atlante Mediterraneo, will be presented at: - Foundaciò Antoni Tapies (Barcelona/Spain), 18th January at 7pm The subject will be introduced by: Claudia Zanfi (director MAST- Museo di Arte Sociale e Territoriale), Vasif Kortun (Director Platform Garanti, Istanbul), Marti Peran (curator and professor Barcelona University) - Can Xalant, Center for Contemporary Art (Matarò, Spain), 19th January, 11 to 5pm A round table and pubblic discussion on the subject Public and Territorial Art. Presentation of researches and materials by students and young artists from Barcelona University. The book gathers the results of 12 months of researches and the site specific artistic interventions by partners and contributors from six mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona. Its a 250 pages book, 2 languages (it+engl), 160 images full colors. Special projects by: Atlas Group (Beirut); Ofri Cnaani and Jenny Vogel (NYC); Oda Projesi (Istanbul); Francesca Cogni+ Donatello De Mattia/ Multiplicity (Milano); Gianmaria Conti (Milano); xurban_collective (Istanbul/NYC); Akram Zaatari (Beirut), others. Texts by: Claudia Zanfi (curator); Tony Chakar (Beirut architect); Abdalla Daif (Alexandria art critic); Manuel Delgado (Barcelona anthropologist); Sameh El Halawany (Alexandria artist); Achilleas Kentonis (Artos Foundation director, Nicosia); Bilal Khbeiz (Beirut journalist); Elias Khury (Beirut writer); Vasif Kortun (Platfom Garanti director, Istanbul); Stefano Maffei (Politecnico, Milan); Yannis Papadakis (Nicosia sociologist); Marti Peran (Barcelona University); Sharon Rotbard (Tel Aviv urbanist); Nermin Saybasili (Goldsmiths University, London). Published by: Silvana Editoriale, Milano International distribution by: Actar, Barcelona The project has won 2 European Grants for international cultural exchanges Partners: Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna; Provincia di Modena; Formigine Cultural Department; Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena; Youth for Europe Programme; Artos Foundation, Nicosia; Platform Garanti, Istanbul; Askal Alwan Association, Beirut; Fondazione Olivetti, Rome; Gudran Association for Art and Development, Alexandria; Can Xalant Cultural Center, Barcelona; Transit Project, Barcelona; IUAV, Venice; Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; ECF, Amsterdam; Anna Lindh Foundation, Alexandria; DARC, Ministry of Culture, Rome. Info: http://www.amaze.it http://www.amaze.it - [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] tm*20 - 20 years transmediale
** Newsletter 19.1.2007 transmediale.07 unfinish! January 31 - February 4, 2007 Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10 transmediale times twenty - retrospective ** 1. transmediale times twenty 2. TM*20 - Register 3. Project library 4. Conference - Many Years of Video Art 5. Infermental 6. Media Art in the GDR? ** 1. transmediale times twenty Within the scope of the twentieth edition of the festival for art and digital culture, which started as VideoFilmFest in 1988, transmediale.07 offers a retrospective of the festivals development as well as several historical sections and perspectives of art in dialogue with media. ** 2. TM*20 - Register On the occasion of twentieth festival edition, transmediale publishes an extensive Register, which lists all participants of the last 20 years in a detailed index. The compendium presents the broad variety of all festival programmes. ** 3. Project library On occasion of transmediale.07 a temporary project library is installed in exhibition hall 3. 827 of a total of 1030 works submitted for the transmediale Award 2007, whose authors approved to publication in this context, are available for viewing. Additionally, several historic compilations of video and media art from Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Slovenia can be viewed here. The temporary project library also features a complete collection of all eleven INFERMENTAL editions in full length. The editions will also be introduced in extract by the respective editors within the film and video programme. ** 4. Conference: Many Years of Video Art - Historical Views on Art and Media Wednesday, January 31, 16 hrs, Studio In spring 2006, five German museums presented the project '40 Jahre Videokust in Deutschland' (40 years of video art in Germany). A substantial DVD edition of more than 50 individual works in combination with a catalogue (Hatje Cantz Verlag) tries to describe the field of video art in Germany since the mid 1960s. In the context of its anniversary programm, transmediale.07 presents this DVD edition and attempts its evaluation in ab roader and international context. Therefore similar projects from other countries have also been invited to the transmediale. The panel discussion between the producers of '40 Jahre Videokunst' and international colleagues offers a critical debate about such projects of documentation and overview. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the international distributor of '40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland'. ** 5. Infermental Wednesday, January 31, 10 hrs (Studio II) Thursday, February 1, 11 hrs (Studio II) Friday, February 2, 11 hrs (Studio II) INFERMENTAL was the first international magazine on video tape and was initiated in 1980 by the Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Body. Between 1982 and 1990, eleven editions were produced with 674 single works by more than 600 artists from 36 countries. The basic idea of INFERMENTAL was the collecting and archiving of current cultural tendencies on video in order to connect isolated media islands with already existing networks. Looking at the editions it becomes clear that these differ considerably in their interpretation of the concept, their selection criteria and the respective form of organisation of the editors. Each edition not only documents a specific period of cultural and artistic creation, but also allows for a very authentic look at the different approaches of the respective editorial group and their views on the world, politics, and work. On the occasion of transmediale.07, the festival presents an extensive overview of the INFERMENTAL editions, which can also be viewed in full length in the temporary project library of transmediale.07. An INFERMENTAL breakfast will be held simultaneously and opens the series of presentations within the festival's programme. http://www.infermental.de ** 6. Media Art in the GDR? Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR 1976-1989 Sunday, February 4, Akademie der Kuenste (Pariser Platz) In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof (TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches, galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of Super-8 film was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet Quarz camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also reached East Berlin. 16 hrs Film programme:
[spectre] (fwd) conf. digital aesthetic 2, preston/uk, march 2007
The Digital Aesthetic 2 Conference: 16th - 17th March 2007 Organised jointly by: Dr Chris Meigh-Andrews, (University of Central Lancashire, Electronic and Digital Art Unit) and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery Venue: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Conference Background and Aims The aim of the conference is to facilitate good practice in the emerging area of Fine Art practice within the digital domain, to foster and communicate the dissemination of new and theoretical ideas and to provide a forum and to facilitate networking between artists, academics and writers. The Digital Aesthetic 2 is a joint initiative between the Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire and Harris Museum and Art Gallery. Built on the highly successful exhibition, conference! and website The Digital Aesthetic autumn 200. We aim to bring together some of the most significant visual artists, theorists and academics worki ng in the international field of new media and digital imaging. The exhibition will consist of artworks from artists of regional, national and international importance at venues including the University of Central Lancashire and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. This two day conference will highlight, explore and debate the issues and implications of new media work within the contemporary fine art context. Who Should Attend? This conference will be of interest to a range of people including artists, critics and academics, undergraduate and post-graduate students. Draft Programme 9:30-10:00 Refreshments and registration 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction Dr Chris Meigh-Andrews 10:15-11:30 Session 1 * Prof. Sean Cubitt, (Australia), Director of Media and Communications Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne,Light and Colour in the Digital Domain * Jon Thomson, (UK), Slade School of Art, University College London Alison Craighead (UK), CARTE, University of Westminster,Sculpting Real Time * Clive Gillman, (UK), Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Gallery as a Digital Hub * 11:30-12:00 Refreshments break 12:00-13:15 Session 2 * Gary Hill (USA) Artist * Dr Charlie Gere (UK), Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum: Stelarc's Mystical Body * Dr Andrea Zapp, (Germany/UK), Senior Lecturer and MA Route Leader Media Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, The Real and the Imaginary: Interactive Narratives in Online Media Art Installations 13:30-14:30 lunch 14:30-15:45 Session 3 * Prof. David Garcia, (Netherlands), Professor of Design for Digital Cultures, University of Portsmouth, UK and Hoogschool voor de Kunst Utrecht, Knowledge, Networks, Freedom * Prof. Bill Seaman, (USA), Department Head of Digital + Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, The Thoughtbody Environment. Toward the Science of Neo-sentient * Prof. Paul Sermon, (UK), Professor of Creative Technology, University of Salford, Puppeteers, Performance or Avatars- A perceptual difference in telematic space 15:45-16:15 Refreshments 16:15-17:00 Plenary Chaired by Prof. Jane Prophet 18:30 Private view - Harris Museum Saturday 17th March 2007, Mitchell Kenyon Cinema, Foster Building, University of Central Lancashire 9:30-10:00 Refreshments and registration 10:00-11:30 Session 1 * Robert Cahen, (France) Artist, Recent Digital Works * Dr Peter Appleton (UK) Artist and Reader In Creative Technology, ICDC: (International Centre for Digital Content), Liverpool John Moores University * Taylor Nuttall, (UK) Chief Executive of Folly, Virtual relationships, individual identity and cultural growth 11:30-12:00 Refreshments break 12:00-13:30 Session 2 * The Vasulkas (Iceland, Czech Republic/USA), Artists, Recent Digital Video Work * Blast Theory (UK), Artists Collective * Avi Rosen (Israel), Artist, The Ultimate Cathedral 13:30-14:30 lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 3 * Dr Alexander Galloway (USA), Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, Current and Past Work by the Radical Software Group. * E-boy, (Germany), Artists Collective, Parts * David Surman, (UK) Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Design, Newport School of Art, Media and Design, Pagentry and Play in Digital Art 16:00-16:30 Refreshments break 16:30-17:15 Plenary Chaired by Prof. Jane Prophet Further information relating to the conference : www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk http://www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk/ http://www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk/ . Full costs and details can be found on the web site. Please feel free to pass on this information to any of your colleagues interested in attending. However, if in the meantime, you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact me on my direct number 01772 892656 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[spectre] Fwd: Elena Bajo at ARCO
Dear Friends: I will be delighted if you stop by Real Jardin Botanico (across from El Prado Museum) and visit the exhibit Destino: Futuro, on view until February 25th, the work of 25 emergent artists curated by Oliva Maria Rubio from La Fabrica. My work is included and I am attaching some installation shots of the site specific piece I believe in Fairies, an installation of found canvases and sculpture in which I paint and incorporate photos as collage of ephemeral sulptures i make with found materials on the streets, during my 'derive' urban walks, and i call them architectures of disorder. I hope you have the chance to see it. Thanks a lot. Best Elena Bajo Artists in the exhibit: Loreto a., Elena Bajo, Gabriel Castaño, Jacobo Castellanos, Virginia Frieyro, Sandra Gamarra, Fernando García, Germán Gómez González, Jaime de la Jara, Diana Larrea, Cristina Lucas, Esther Mañas, Guillermo Martín Bermejo, Fran Mohíno, Manuela Moscoso, José Álvaro Perdices, Concha Pérez, Iván Pérez, Diego del Pozo, Miguel Ángel Rebollo, Fernando Rubio, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Carolina Silva, Daniel Silvo y Patric Tato Wittig. http://www.elenabajo.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: Filmaka - Online Film Competition 'Mistaken Identity'
Datum: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:45:28 +0530 Betreff: Fwd: Online Film Competition After the success of its first two contests, Filmaka has launched its third contest 'Mistaken Identity'. Submissions are accepted till 27th February 2007. www.filmaka.com http://www.filmaka.com/ http://Filmaka.com Filmaka.com Announces the Start of Contest #3! February's topic is Mistaken Identity, and all 1-3 minute films must be uploaded by midnight PST, February 27, 2007. The annual grand prize is a feature film contract. http://Filmaka.com Filmaka.com is a new online competition, juried by award winning filmmakers including Werner Herzog, Neil LaBute, Paul Schrader and Wim Wenders, and founded by leading independent producers and financiers. Filmmakers have a new chance to enter each month, and submissions are accepted in 10 different languages. Please visit www.filmaka.com to see past contest submissions, and for complete rules, terms and conditions. Membership is free for full time students: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your school issued email account for more information. Regards __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] ART TECH MEDIA 07, Madrid, May 2007 - art call
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 Subject: RHIZOME_RARE: ART TECH MEDIA 07 art call From: montse arbelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] . International Artist Call Art Tech M e d i a0 7 T h e F i r s t I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r t T e c hM e d i a C o n g r e s s www.artechmedia.net Calling on all creatives of the world to participate. Submissions will be accepted from the following categories: A - Video art - Net-art - 2D 3D Computer Animation - Blog, videoblog - Creation for mobile platforms - Digital Music - Videodance B - Digital Communities - Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art, Transgenic art, Generative art . In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known until now. The First International Art Tech Media Congress has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. Within this context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to be devised for the development of national and international collaborative networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and promotion. Last year, Art Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening its development. www.artechmedia.net/artechmedia06.htm Art Tech Media 06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. ... artists_call GENERAL REGULATIONS Art Tech Media 07 art call - Works must have been produced after January 1st, 2006. - The number of submissions is not limited. - Works may be presented in any language. However, a transcript of dialogues must be included in either Spanish or English, - The organization reserves the rights to use parts of the works for media broadcasting, within the promotional framework of artechmedia. - Following the process of selection based on abstratcs, all participants will be notified in writing of the result and the required format for the presentationof their work, preferably on DVD. - Authors will be responsible for copyright of their works. - Works selected will be exhibited in artechmedia. - A electronic catalogue will be produced in Spanish and English, including all the works. - Artists with works selected shall agree to assign a copy to artechmedia, which may be used in the subsequent exhibitions. - The organization is not responsible for the content of works in order to preserve freedom. Projects: - Those interested in submitting work in these categories must send a completed entry form. - The net-art @blog, videoblog must include the URL address in the entry form. - A part from the entry form, those interested in taking part in video art and computer animation must also send a DVD with their work. - Digital Music must be sent both in digital format and as a hard copy by post. - All mail is to be sent to the office central art tech media Art Tech c/Méndez Nuñez 102, 6ºD. 38001 S/C Tenerife. Canary Island.
[spectre] CFP: Locative Media Summer Conference (Siegen, 3-5 Sep 07 )
From: Tristan Thielmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12 Mar 2007 Subject: CFP: Locative Media Summer Conference Locative Media Summer Conference at the Research Center Media Upheavals September 3-5, 2007 University of Siegen, Germany Everything is related to everything else, but closer things are more closely related (Waldo Tobler's First Law of Geography, 1970) Nowadays everything in the media world gets tracked, tagged and mapped. Cell phones become location-aware, computer games move outside, the web is tagged with geospatial information, and geobrowsers like Google Earth are thought of as an entirely new genre of media. Spatial representations have been inflected by electronic technologies (radar, sonar, GPS, WLAN, Bluetooth, RFID etc.) traditionally used in mapping, navigation, wayfinding, or location and proximity sensing. We are seeing the rise of a new generation that is location-aware. This generation is becoming familiar with the fact that wherever we are on the planet corresponds with a latitude/longitude coordinate. The term Locative Media, initially coined in 2003 by Karlis Kalnins and the 2006 topic of a special issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, seems to be appropriate for digital media applying to real places, communication media bound to a location and thus triggering real social interactions. Locative Media works on locations and yet many of its applications are still location- independent in a technical sense. As in the case of digital media, where the medium itself is not digital but the content is digital, in Locative Media the medium itself might not be location-oriented, whereas the content is location-oriented. Can Locative Media like digital media thus be understood as an upheaval in the media evolution? This is one question we want to discuss at the Locative Media Summer Conference in Germany. Locative Media can now be categorized under one of two types of mapping, either annotative (virtually tagging the world) or phenomenological (tracing the action of the subject in the world). Where annotative projects seek to demystify (see all the Google Earth Hacks), tracing-based projects typically seek to use high technology methods to stimulate dying everyday practices such as walking or occupying public space. The Japanese mobile phone culture, in particular, embraces location-dependent information and context- awareness. It is thus projected that in the near future Locative Media will emerge as the third great wave of modern digital technology. The combination of mobile devices with positioning technologies is opening up a manifold of different ways in which geographical space can be encountered and drawn. It thereby presents a frame through which a wide range of spatial practices that have emerged since Walter Benjamin's urban flaneur may be looked at anew. Or are Locative Media only a new site for old discussions about the relationship of consciousness to place and other people? In the early days of sea travel, it was only the navigator who held such awareness of his exact position on Earth. What would it mean for us to have as accurate an awareness of space as we have of time? In the same way that clocks and watches tell us the exact second, portable GPS devices help us pinpoint our exact location on Earth. As we dig a bit deeper into how particular Locative Media projects negotiate local and global spaces, we see the increasing technologisation and commodification of urban and public spaces. Are Locative Media the avant-garde of the society of control? If this kind of media practice resides in pure code (tracklogs), what is the difference between Locative Media and software development? Or is the recent rise of Locative Media just a response to the disappearance of net art? In reaching beyond art, many of us are becoming familiar with GPS units, such as navigation systems. GPS technologies now appear in mobile, location-aware computing games such as Mogi or Tiger Telematics Gizmondo which utilize GPS to enable players to see each other's locations. Most of the location-based games nowadays seem to emphasize collecting, trading and meeting over combat. Does this indicate a social trend in mobile entertainment? Do Locative Media generate more accessible than aggressive play plots? Can we say that the numerous distributed geotagging projects (Flickr, Geocaching etc.) unleashed have given rise to a new genre of collaborative geocommunities? Could these geolocated spatio-temporal web portals become a dynamic visualization matrix for all scales, from nano to astro, and incorporate interoperability standards for the biological sciences, the geosciences, history, economics, and other social sciences? And finally, are Locative Media a kind of manifestation of what Bruno Latour means by the Internet of Things ? By geotagging objects instead of people, and having these objects tell us their stories, do we
[spectre] Fwd: Champ Libre: New Artistic Direction
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 From: Champ libre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:57:54 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Communique NOUVELLE DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE / Press release NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTION CHAMP LIBRE C.P. St-André B.P. 32130 Montréal, Québec, H2L 4Y5 T : 514 - 393 3937 F : 514 - 393 4176 http://www.champlibre.com ___ POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Montréal, le 21 mars 2007 / Montreal, March 21th 2007 NOUVELLE DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE DE CHAMP LIBRE NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTION OF CHAMP LIBRE Le conseil d'administration de Champ Libre est heureux d'annoncer la nomination de Mme Cécile Martin à la fonction de directrice artistique. Cécile Martin continuera d'assumer la direction générale du centre de création interdisciplinaire en art, fonction qu'elle occupait déjà depuis cinq ans. Le conseil d'administration et la nouvelle directrice générale et artistique tiennent à souligner la contribution artistique inestimable de François Cormier, fondateur de Champ Libre, qui, au cours des quinze premières années d'existence de l'organisme, lui a donné son identité et sa place dans le paysage artistique québécois. Nous lui souhaitons le plus grand succès dans ses nouveaux projets. Le prochain événement organisé par Champ Libre, Vue de la Forêt : 8e Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montréal (MIVAEM) - Temps 1, aura lieu du 27 au 29 septembre 2007 dans l'espace Nature Légère du Palais des Congrès de Montréal, ou Lipstick Forest, de l'architecte/paysagiste Claude Cormier. Le conseil d'administration de Champ Libre : Serge Cardinal (président), Bertrand Émard (secrétaire-trésorier), Louise Pelletier et Stéphane Bertrand. ___ The Board of Directors of Champ Libre is happy to announce the nomination of Ms Cécile Martin to the function of Artistic Director. Cécile Martin will continue to act as the General Director of the centre for interdisciplinary artistic creation, position that she had already been occupying for five years. The Board of Directors and the new General and Artistic Director would like to emphasize the invaluable artistic contribution of François Cormier, founder of Champ Libre. During the first fifteen years of existence of the organization, Mr. Cormier has given Champ Libre its identity and place in the Quebecois artistic landscape. We wish him the greatest success in his new projects. The up coming-event organized by Champ Libre, View of the Forest: 8th Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montréal (MIVAEM) - Part 1, will take place from September 27th to 29th 2007 at Montreal's Congress Center in the premises of Lipstick Forest designed Claude Cormier landscape architect. The Board of Directors of Champ Libre: Serge Cardinal (president), Bertrand Émard (secretary treasurer), Louise Pelletier and Stéphane Bertrand. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] thierry kuntzel passed away
From: Anne-Marie Duguet Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:17:25 +0200 Dear friends, Our dearest friend Thierry Kuntzel passed away today. We are all so sad. Anne-Marie Publication: Title TK http://www.anarchive.net/ http://www.artactif.com/indexk/kuntzel.htm http://home.nordnet.fr/~heureexquise-128/doc/artistes/kuntzel.htm http://www.eai.org/eai/artist.jsp?artistID=404 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] FORO ARTSISTICO: 12.Marler Videokunst-Preis
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:10:19 +0200 From: Foro Artistico [EMAIL PROTECTED] FORO ARTISTICO MedienKunstForum präsentiert: 12. Marler Videokunst-Preis neue Kunstvideos aus Deutschland eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl 3. - 20.5.2007 Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Donnerstag, dem 3.5.2007 um 19 Uhr, sind Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich eingeladen. Die Preisträgerin Magdalena von Rudy ist anwesend. Arbeiten von Magdalena von Rudy, Gunnar Friel/ Anja Vormann, Daniel Burkhardt, Florian Gwinner, Martin Brand, Christoph Brech, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht/ Hajoe Moderegger), Dennis Feser, Alexander Heim, Thomas Köner, Yvonne Leinfelder, Ruben Malchow/ Rexi Tom Weller, Auriela Mihai, Monika Nuber, Stefan Panhans, Norman Richter, Anke Schäfer, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Volker Schreiner weitere Informationen unter http://www.foro-artistico.de FORO ARTISTICO, Seilerstr. 15 D, 30171 Hannover, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stadtbahn Linie 1, 2, 8: H Schlägerstraße, Bus Linie 121: H Stolzestraße __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Jan van Eyck Weekend on video art (Maastricht 26-28 May 07)
From: Kim Thehu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10 May 2007 9:00 AM Subject: Jan van Eyck Video Weekend Saturday 26 - Monday 28 May Jan van Eyck Video Weekend - screenings, presentations, discussions with among others Chantal Akerman, Cel Crabeels, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Johan Grimonprez, Mark Nash, Pedro Costa, Catherine David, Chris Dercon, Corinne Castel, Dirk de Wit, Pavel Braila, Knut Asdam, Rein Wolfs, Jennifer Steetskamp, Isa Rosenberger The Jan van Eyck Academie presents a three-day programme on video art. International renowned artists, curators and academics scrutinise topics regarding video art - of the past as well as its current state of affairs. In addition, for the first time ever an elaborate programme is set up with videos from the Jan van Eyck archive - the videos cover a time span from the seventies to now. The programme offers experts and the public at large a unique chance to get acquainted with the rich tradition of Jan van Eyck video production. More info: http://janvaneyck.nl/0_2_3_events_info/arc_07_video_weekend.html Saturday 26 - Monday 28 May 11:00 - 18:00 92 films equals 30h32m52s equals 35 years of video production - screenings The Jan van Eyck video collection, comprising more than 300 films, inspired several current and former (advising) researchers and guests to curate a programme of screenings. Based on memories, personal preferences or specific themes they compiled an extensive programme with films from the Jan van Eyck archive and external productions. The aim is not to give a historical overview, yet the programme shows videos from as early as 1972, when the medium was still in an exploratory phase, to the latest release of 2007. Descriptions of the videos and the motivation of the curators can be accessed at http://janvaneyck.nl/0_2_3_events_info/ arc_07_video_weekend_descriptions.html and in a printed programme brochure. Saturday 26 May 20:00 hrs From black box to white cube - round-table Increasingly, filmmakers are invited to take part in art events such as biennales and exhibitions; it would be interesting to ascertain why that is. Is video art not sufficient in its own right? Is it too abstract, too esoteric, too unprofessional, too much turned in on itself? Or is it that filmmakers experience a kind of freedom when they operate in an art context - the freedom to think beyond the structures, methods and forms we ascribe to 'cinema'? Perhaps the cutting edge of art is more seductive and rewarding than the fringe area of cinema? Why do filmmakers who enter the white cube often make their work into installations? How do they deal with this spatial dimension? Why is the shift from white cube to black box much more uncommon and hardly ever successful? Filmmakers Chantal Akerman and Pedro Costa, and curator Catherine David will tackle these issues from their own experiences in a round-table discussion chaired by curator Chris Dercon. Sunday 27 May 11:00 The hidden story of video production - round table Video is an increasingly accessible, high-quality and affordable medium. Yet, for the artist, attaining professional levels of production and distribution involves complex and often problematic negotiation. In this round-table discussion we will look at how aspects of commissioning, financing structures, production, distribution and archiving have developed over the past decades, how they work now, where they might be heading and how they affect current artistic production. We will also discuss the effect of the Internet and web streaming on artistic methods, and on the curating and reception of video art. The panel members of this round-table are freelance producer Corinne Castel, artist Johan Grimonprez and theoretician Mark Nash. The discussion is chaired by curator Dirk de Wit. Monday 28 May 11:00 Looking back: The roots of video production at the Jan van Eyck Academie - lecture From the 1970s onwards, the Jan van Eyck Academie has played a central role in applying new technologies to the context of fine art. It was one of the first institutes in the Netherlands where artists began to experiment with video. From the 1980s onwards, these activities were structurally organised via what was then called the 'video workplace'. In an attempt to run through the history of video of the seventies and eighties, Jennifer Steetskamp (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA) will give a short introduction on the history of video activities at the Jan van Eyck. Monday 27 May 13:30 From white cube to black box? - lecture by Mark Nash Mark Nash will consider the role of moving image art works in the museum and gallery today, as well as the longer-term significance of movement in contemporary art. He will show excerpts from a range of contemporary works as well as installation shots of a number of recent exhibitions, including his own Experiments with truth. Head of Department of the Curating Contemporary Art department, Mark Nash is a well-known specialist
[spectre] ISEA2008 Singapore call Artist in Residency program
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:32:37 +0800 From: Vladimir Todorovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends, we are pleased to announce the open call for Artists in Residency program which will constitute the core of the ISEA2008 exhibition in Singapore. please help us distribute this to all the possible and interested parties. thanks a lot. best regards, v ISEA 2008 Call for Proposals - Artist In Residence @ National University of Singapore The organizing committee of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008 (ISEA2008) with generous support from the National University of Singapore (NUS), is soliciting proposals from New Media artists to work collaboratively with NUS centers of research and arts in preparation of work to be submitted for exhibition during the July 2008 ISEA in Singapore. Unlike previous symposia where there was a separate call for artists in residence and one of art works for exhibition, ISEA2008 will only have one call for artists' submission. The submissions selected for the AIR will also be subsequently produced and shown in the main ISEA exhibition. Submissions from countries and cultures underrepresented at other New Media venues are particularly encouraged. Residencies of up to 3 months in duration can be supported, and must be completed before July 2008. Financial support from NUS is available for: - Economy airfare to and from the artist/designers country of residence, - University housing while the artist is in Singapore, - A monthly allowance of S$2000, - Materials cost of up to S$1000. In addition, NUS Host Centers will provide equipment, facilities, and expertise as agreed to on a per-project basis. Artists will have the opportunity and be expected to participate in public and academic community activities such as lectures and demonstrations during the course of their residency. More details and the guidelines about AIR call submissions can be found at: http://www.isea2008.org/air.html Symposium Themes http://www.isea2008.org/themes.html The global and unequally distributed proliferation of information, communication and experiential technologies has led to the development of a highly differentiated and structurally complicated media arts field. Even as the advent of some technologies is actively celebrated and their potential exploited by some, some others have barely come to grips with the possibilities of 'long-obsolescent' technologies. Even as some struggle with the newness of certain technologies, others somewhat jaded with the determinative influence on their lives and creativity are consciously opting for old and low technologies. In such a globally differentiated situation, the very notions of new and old technologies though pandered as an issue of relative sophistication is revealed as an issue of relative access largely determined by historical, political, economic and cultural contexts. That such technologies have become important engines of economic development has made a critical evaluation of their complicities in and complex relationships to particular socio-cultural, economic and political ways of being especially difficult. That one can simultaneously critique technologies and yet enjoy the benefits and pleasures of some particular technologies might seem like a compromise and sell-out for some, but is a necessary aspect of one's being in a world infused with such technologies to a point where opting out is both pragmatically impossible and ethically irresponsible. In the art world, the problems of how one critically evaluates creative uses of technology are often confused with the questions of how one creatively enables the critical uses of technology. The themes for ISEA2008 Symposium have been selected to respond thus to the challenges of new and old technologies in creatively engaging the critical problems and possibilities of our age. Locating Media The oft-heard rhetoric of recent media technologies is that it complicates traditional notions of spatial and geographical location insofar as these technologies are said to attend to one's technological needs without regard to where one is; for example, one common myth goes like this: 'one can access information about anything and communicate with people on the net without regard to which country one is in'. Such postulations of location-neutrality, however, are based on a fallacious assumption that one's location is merely a secondary aspect of one's experiential environment and thus can be phenomenologically simulated or even negligibly circumvented by the mediation of communication, information and experiential technologies. Location, however, is a complex experience constituted by one's cultural, economic, political and technological environment that is differentially distributed and conceived in different parts of the world. Thus, new technologies, even while purporting to surmount location, seem to be merely following the contours of the location-specific 27 variables that
[spectre] Malevich Society Grant Competition 2007
From: Julia Tulovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25 May 2007 Subject: Call for Grant Proposals Dear Colleagues, The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its grant competition for the year 2007. The Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich and his work. In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art, and should be recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the Society awards grants to encourage research and writing relating to his history and memory. The Malevich Society also sponsors publications devoted to Malevich, as well as translations of his texts, and texts about him, into other languages. The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality, and at all stages of their career. Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Malevich and his work, or augment historical, biographical, or artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. Application forms and instructions may be requested by telephone at 1-718-980-1805, by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or may be downloaded from the web-site: www.malevichsociety.org. Deadline: September 30, 2007 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: Future Histories of the Moving Image, Nov 2007
Future Histories of the Moving Image An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland 16-18 November 2007 Due to growing interest and new confirmed speakers we have extended the submission deadline: 30 June 2007 Keynote Speakers: Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), and Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine and Independent Film Parliament, UK) As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating all areas of our moving image culture. We would particularly welcome papers that address the following areas: - What impact does the increasing reliance on database resources have on the nature of the histories we produce and write? - History as database vs history as narrative. - Implications of the proliferation of online critical writing (from refereed academic journals through to personal blogs) and its dissemination, with the blurring of the traditional distinction between professional and amateur writer. - The role and implication of immediate online distribution/exhibition of works - What impact is digital distribution having on theatrical exhibition? - Issues arising from the perceived need on the part of major producers/broadcasters to develop content for multiple platforms. - The implications of multiple producers being able to disseminate a wide range of material to multiple niche audiences (giving the idea of 'narrowcasting' a new meaning). - Revival/development of found footage production practices with the availability of digital archives such as Library of Congress Internet Archive (including the Prelinger Archive) and BBC Open Archive initiative. - Questions relating to the increasing accessibility online of moving image material in relation to intellectual property and the development of the Creative Commons copyright licence. - The creative influence of database logic on film structure. The conference will also host an open workshop - with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate, the British Film Institute, Marcel Schwierin (Cinovid Database, Germany) and Gaby Wijers (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts) - which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources. The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme. Check out our blog regularly for latest news: myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/futurehistories/ Please send proposals of 200-300 words for papers of approx. 20 minutes, together with a brief biographical note by 30 June 2007 to the conference organisers (Steven Ball, Julia Knight and Stephen Partridge) at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the University of Sunderland, the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal. Julia Knight Reader in Moving Image/Co-editor, Convergence School of Arts, Design, Media Culture University of Sunderland Media Building The Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter's St Peter's Way Sunderland. SR6 0DD Tel: 0191 515 2653 (direct line) Tel: 0191 515 2634 (switchboard) Fax: 0191 515 3807 email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ***Please note NEW author-date style for Convergence** see http://www.beds.ac.uk/convergence/callforpapers/instructionswww.beds.ac.uk/convergence/callforpapers/instructions Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Editors: Julia Knight and Alexis Weedon Editorial assistant: Jason Wilson Associate editors: Jeanette Steemers (Europe), Rebecca Coyle (Western Pacific), Amy Bruckman and Jane Singer (North America) Published quarterley. ISSN 1354-8564 Copyright of Convergence articles rests with the publisher Editorial e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial website: http://www.beds.ac.uk/convergencewww.beds.ac.uk/convergence SAGE http://con.sagepub.comhttp://con.sagepub.com __
Re: [spectre] wlt07
lisa, like this message of yours, every message is posted automatically that gets sent to the spectre list from an address that is subscribed to the list. messages only get trashed (again, automatically) if: - they come from an address that is not subscribed - they contain attachments - they use formating, marked up links, etc., which the spam filter recognises as spam (see note below) - they have a volume of more than 40 K. in these cases, the messages get deleted automatically. please, believe me that inke and i have much better things to do than 'control' what gets posted to the spectre list or not. our main work is to keep the channel as spam-free as possible, and to avoid the completely unnecessary pleasures of 4 MB attachments and multi-colour, multi-size fonts. if your message does not appear on the list, try sending it as 'plain text' - you can select this option in the preferences/options of your e-mail software. best regards, -a ps: lisa, your message contained this: X-Spam-Score: (0.136) BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,UPPERCASE_25_50 every messages gets analysed like this; read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering Zitat von lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I sent a post about We Love Technology - do you know if it will be listed soon or do you need for me to amend it? -- Best, Lisa Roberts Director BLINK BLINK INITIATE CREATIVE PROJECTS WITH FILM,NEW MEDIA AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGY www.blinkmedia.org POCKET CULTURE: Conversations with arts audiences www.pocket-culture.co.uk The Old Caretakers House, Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street Huddersfield West Yorkshire UK HD1 6QT 01484 301 805 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre -- andreas broeckmann - media-art-laboratory 'tesla' klosterstr. 68 - d-10179 berlin - tel. +49-30-24749-780 ab [at] tesla-berlin.de - http://www.tesla-berlin.de __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] Fwd:Concerning AHRC withdrawal of AHDS funding
there was a message forwarded to the spectre list on 1 June from Barry Smith # Concerning AHRC withdrawal of AHDS funding in response, I asked: 'what are the reasons given by the AHRC for the discontinuation of funding for AHDS? -a' below is barry's answer, which i am forwarding with his permission, and as requested, with the following addition: From: Barry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:56:13 +0100 feel free to forward as you wish. The only point I'd raise if you're intending to leave my address intact is that I'm not an official spokesman for AHDS but just one (of many hundreds to judge by the Petition to the UK PM currently standing at 800+!) whose former and current work is thrown into disarray by this bizarre funding decision - so any follow-up enquiries would be best addressed directly to the principals involved: [UK] Arts and Humanities Research Council: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] AHDS: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Most recently I've even heard reports of much anger being expressed in academic research meetings (anger!) and whatever the rights and wrongs of the AHRC decision - and I don't see many rights myself - this particular UK Research Council seems to have lost the confidence of many of its constituents in one fell swoop and on three fronts: the rationale behind the decision, the lack of consultation and manner of the announcement, and now the implementation. Best wishes. b. From: Barry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andreas Broeckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [spectre] Fwd:Concerning AHRC withdrawal of AHDS funding Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:27:04 +0100 hello Andreas A reasonable question. The AHRC website http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp suggests: Council believes that Arts and Humanities researchers have developed significant IT knowledge and expertise in the past decade. The context within which the AHDS was initially supported by the AHRC has changed. Much technical knowledge is now readily available within HEIs, either from IT support services or from academics. Much that generally can be safely assumed now, for example that web sites can be put together and run effectively for the duration of a project, could not be assumed ten years ago. Council believes that long term storage of digital materials and sustainability is best dealt with by an active engagement with HEIs rather than through a centralised service I suspect AHDS are rather offended and phased by the suggestion that their mission is to put together websites for the duration of projects and would probably also wish to query the assertion that long term sustainability is best achieved at a local level. Other views suggest, following AHRC's announcement in March 2007 of impending budget cuts, that a more direct financial imperative is at work here, see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/AHRC_statement_on_funding.asp To judge by the rapid growth of the UK PM Petition many seem persuaded that the rationale and manner of this decision and its immediate implementation give cause for concern, not least over the Council's apparent lack of appreciation of the range and complexity of national and international work being undertaken. b. = __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Re: [spectre] just an invitation to the hive un-launch
hey armin, OK. i must have misunderstood what you wrote. since people question from time to time why messages did not make it to the list, we remind the entire list of how these things work, from time to time. we also have these conversations off-list regularly. but i understand that it is difficult to get a feel for the way the list software works if you don't experience it 'hands on'. (if anybody wants to have a go at it, please, just get in touch) as regards the content of the list, and the assumed lack of discussions, etc., the answer is also the same as it was ten years ago, when people would say this about the syndicate list: 'the list is what _you_ post'. inke and i are just here to keep the channel open. regards, -a ps: like this message of yours, every message is posted automatically that gets sent to the spectre list from an address that is subscribed to the list. messages only get trashed (again, automatically) if: - they come from an address that is not subscribed - they contain attachments - they use formating, marked up links, etc., which the spam filter recognises as spam (see note below) - they have a volume of more than 40 K. in these cases, the messages get deleted automatically. please, believe me that inke and i have much better things to do than 'control' what gets posted to the spectre list or not. our main work is to keep the channel as spam-free as possible, and to avoid the completely unnecessary pleasures of 4 MB attachments and multi-colour, multi-size fonts. if your message does not appear on the list, try sending it as 'plain text' - you can select this option in the preferences/options of your e-mail software. best regards, -a read more at: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Rudolf Arnheim dies peacefully
Margaret Nettinga (Arnheim's daughter) writes: Rudolf Arnheim, a pathbreaking psychologist of visual experience in the arts, died at the age of 102 in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 9 2007. His last academic post was at the University of Michigan, where he was Visiting Professor in the Departments of Art, History of Art, and Psychology from 1974 to 1984. The previous American years of his long academic career were spent at Sarah Lawrence College from 1943 to 1968 and at Harvard in the Department of Visual and Enviromental Studies from 1968 to 1974. Born in Berlin in 1904, where his father was a manufacturer of pianos, Rudof Arnheim took his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1928, with a dissertation of the experimental psychology of visual expression, and secundary studies in musicology and history of art. At the time Arnheim was enrolled in Berlin University's Institute of Psychology, it was the center of experimentation in Gestalt Psychology, with Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang K*hler, and Kurt Lewin the central authorities. Arnheim conducted some of the earliest experiments in the application of Gestalt theory in the perception of a work of art. Between 1928 and his departure from Nazi Germany in 1933, he was on the editorial staff of Die Weltb*hne, the influential weekly magazine then edited by Carl von Ossietzky and suppressed with the advent of the Third Reich. It was in this publication that Arnheim ventured into film criticism, a medium that became central to his theories of vision. (...) read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Arnheim __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) 1st Athens Biennial 2007 - DESTROY ATHENS
1st Athens Biennial 2007 DESTROY ATHENS 10th September - 18th November Preview: 9th September Technopolis, Athens http://www.athensbiennial.org DESTROY ATHENS Destroy Athens, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Augustine Zenakos, is an attempt to challenge the ways in which identities and behaviours are determined through stereotypical descriptions. The notion of Athens - as the archetypal city that has become emblematic in terms of stereotypes - is used as a metaphor for this feeling of extra-determination or entrapment that the stereotype inflicts upon the personal sense of identity and social behaviour. Destroy Athens aims to function as a progression through various themes - elements will contradict, collide or cancel-out each other constantly. Successive realizations and disillusionments will make up a fragmented acknowledgement of a dead-end, a kind of world, a dystopic environment of conceptual Waste Lands. Architectural interventions by Gruppo A12 will challenge and modify the intricate spaces of Technopolis, the main venue, to create new possibilities of perception and determine the viewers progression through the various themes of the exhibition. Artists (as in 30th May 2007): Adbusters, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Aidas Bareikis, Marc Bijl, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Kimberly Clark, Annelise Coste, Kajsa Dahlberg, Peter Dreher, The Erasers, Chris Evans, Stelios Faitakis, Jan Freuchen, HobbypopMUSEUM, Narve Hovdenakk, Derek Jarman, Folkert de Jong, Vassilis Karouk, Omer Ali Kazma, John Kleckner, Terence Koh, Edward Lipski, Lotte Konow Lund, Mark Manders, Bjarne Melgaard, Ciprian Muresan, Eleni Mylonas, Olaf Nicolai, The Otolith Group, Erkan Ozgen, Torbjorn Rodland, Julian Rosefeldt, Georgia Sagri, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yiannis Savvidis, Santiago Sierra, Martin Skauen, Eva Stephani, Temporary Services, Thanassis Totsikas, Stephanos Tsivopou los, Jannis Varelas, Void Network, Eva Vretzaki, Bernhard Willhelm DESTROY ATHENS -- APPENDIX The 1st Athens Biennial includes parallel exhibitions and events, closely related to the theme of the main exhibition Destroy Athens. These will run throughout the duration of the main exhibition and will be presented in the surrounding area of Metaxourgeio. How to endure The exhibition How to endure, curated by Tom Morton, borrows from the idea of magic where rituals have two actions, that is to change the world and at the same time to keep it as it is. The exhibition aims to move away from the binary notion that preservation is conservative and change is progressive and explore what that move might change in the way we perceive the city and ourselves. Artists: Charles Avery, Miguel Calderon, Allen Ginsberg, Loris Greaud, Roger Hiorns, Matthew Day Jackson, Germaine Kruip, Grant Morrison Frank Quitely, Olivia Plender, Maaike Schoorel Young Athenians The exhibition Young Athenians, curated by Neil Mulholland Deborah Jackson, presents a group of artists that live and work in Edinburgh. The title forms an ironic reference to the infamous cliché of Edinburgh as the Athens of the North. This -- unrealistic -- relation of the two cities is used by the artists as a vehicle of commenting on the urban environment they live in. Artists: Tam A, Kim Coleman, Craig Coulthard, Keith Farquhar, Tommy Grace, Jenny Hogarth, Darius Jones, David MacLean, John Mullen, Ellen Munro, One O'Clock Gun, Lee O'Connor, Katie Orton, Kate Owens, Sophie Rogers, Robin Scott, Cathy Stafford, Lucy Mackenzie, Alastair Fairweather. DESTROY ATHENS -- FILM The Screening Program, curated by Florian Wuest, will present short films and video art, and will include fiction, documentaries and experimental cinematic exercise. Film screenings will also be presented as part of the International Athens Film Festival. DESTROY ATHENS - LIVE Music Events will take place indoors and outdoors in Technopolis and the area of Metaxourgeio, and will include concerts, DJ sets, experimental performances with custom-made software as well as audiovisual events. Main Sponsor: Deutsche Bank Under the Aegis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Athens With the collaboration of Technopolis Sponsors: Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel | Netsmart S.A. Media Sponsors: To Vima | Athens Voice | Velvet Magazine | Athina 9.84FM | e-flux | go.culture.eu With the support of: OCA | IFA | The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation | Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene | NIA | Spanish Embassy in Athens | Cervantes Institute | British Council | The Friends of the Athens Biennial http://www.athensbiennial.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Variant 29 Summer 2007?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:30:35 +0100 Subject: Variant 29 Summer 2007? From: www.variant.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Variant 29 Summer 2007 http://www.variant.org.uk ...the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political cultural issues. text : full issue http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/issue29.html PDF : full issue http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/0Variant29.pdf Content * Who Are You to tell me to Question Authority? Radical education in a 'proto-fascist' era Benjamin Franks A comprehensive review of Henry Giroux's 'Against the New Authoritarianism', a well-researched polemic that identifies the threat of authoritarianism in the nexus of hierarchical institutions that have formed in the United States, where the images from Abu Ghraib provide Giroux with a significant set of 'proto-fascist' texts for discussing the wider social processes that produced them. text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/Franks29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/3Variant29Frank.pdf * Closed Circuit Tunnel Vision Tom Jennings An incisive review of Andrea Arnold's Glasgow-set film, the suspense thriller 'Red Road'. Jennings posits that Arnold in intending to question the ramifications of surveillance in Britain explains the apparent acceptance of the state's intrusiveness in terms of 'our national psyche'. A reference which he details as being beyond current affairs' hysterical hyperbole and the film's erstwhile critical reception. text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/jennings29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/4Variant29Jennings.pdf * Comic Zine Reviews Mark Pawson Pawson opens the eclectic pages of: Hitsville UK: Punk in the Faraway Towns, Duke, Anorak, Okido, Street Play, Tour de Fence, Here, Foie Gras, I Can't Draw, Your Mum, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States... text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/pawson29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/5Variant29Pawson.pdf * 'Reframing the Poverty Debate' the New Labour Way Gerry Mooney Poverty is back on the agenda, but back on it in particular and very worrying ways. ... how poverty is defined, understood and talked about says much about the shape and nature of any policy and political response to it. Here, Mooney draws attention to some of the ways in which the question of poverty is being reconstructed by New Labour and an assortment of journalists, academics and social and political commentators today. And rather than a neo-liberal vision of social justice premised on a celebration of the market advances an entirely different conception and understanding of social justice that argues for social and economic equality through an attack on wealth and vested interests. text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/mooney29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/6Variant29Mooney.pdf * The Agreed Truth The Real Truth: The New Northern Ireland Liam O'Ruairc The 'historic' restoration of devolution in Northern Ireland, on 8 May 2007, has been hailed by the media as marking the symbolic end of the conflict there. ... But is Northern Ireland really 'reaping the dividend of peace, stability and, it is to be hoped, impending prosperity' as the media is assuring us? And if so is it going to last when Northern Ireland has the lowest household incomes in the UK ... the gap between rich and poor is even larger than in the rest of Britain and Sectarianism is supposed to be solved by a system that institutionalises it. text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/liam29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/7Variant29Liam.pdf * Multiple Agendas, Impossible Dialogues: Where Irish Studies and History of Art Meet Lucy Cotter Blow-by-blow conference report of 'Irish Studies and History of Art: Impossible Dialogues?' at the Association of Art Historians 2007 conference, University of Ulster, April 2007: The main point of tension in such an interdisciplinary dialogue is the function and status of the national - which is central to Irish Studies and often seen as reductive in Art History. text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/cotter29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/8Variant29IrishStudies.pdf * Loving Art Tim Stott Irish art criticism not contracted to the laborious recovery of meaning, or that puts interpretation in the service of promotion and general arts management, might engage instead in the intimate exchanges of lovers... text : http://www.variant.org.uk/29texts/stott29.html PDF : http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue29/9Variant29Stott.pdf * Art School and the Old Grey Cardigan Test Mick Wilson There is a topicality to the question of art education even within the mainstream of the international art world. But within art education institutions established patterns of low-level conflict fail to pass over into open, critically accountable
[spectre] International Artists Residencies/Seminar Budapest
From: beata szechy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dates: Thursday, DECEMBER 27, 2007 - Wednesday, JANUARY 9, 2008 The Hungarian Multicultural Center is currently accepting applications for the Budapest - Hungarian International Artist/Writer Residency Program http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com/ Residency Submission Deadline: Friday, October 19, 2007 The program is open to international artists working in all disciplines who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. For application form or questions regarding the International Artist Residency please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) ISEA2008 Singapore CALL
International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 (ISEA2008) CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND ARTIST PRESENTATIONS We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between 25th * 30th July 2008. The conference is held alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in- conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008 from 25th July to August 3rd 2008. The conference, as in previous ISEAs, is expected to bring together artists, theorists, historians, curators and researchers of media arts from around the world to jointly explore the most urgent and exciting questions in the field. The five themes of ISEA2008 are especially focused on eliciting a wide range of international scholars and artists. Conference Programme The conference programme will include competitively selected, peer- reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works. The conference also promises to present a list of internationally renowned Keynote Speakers expounding on the major themes of the conference. There will also be a special lecture delivered by a Nobel Laureate. Call for Proposals We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference. The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography. Submissions A dedicated website and online paper submission system is currently being developed and will be ready for submissions from 15th July 2007. Submission period: 15th July - 31st of August 2007. Submission link: To Be Announced 15 July 2007 Submission requirements: We only require abstracts (not more than 300 words) of the proposed paper, panel presentations and artist presentations to be submitted in either Text, RTF, Word or PDF formats via this site. Please do not submit full papers at this stage. While we encourage submissions to include relevant images, it would be useful if the formats in which such images are submitted is restricted to low resolution jpegs. In the case of submissions for artists presentations, artists are encouraged to provide links to their and/or relevant websites. The deadline for submissions will be 30th August 2007. Submissions sent after this date will not be considered. Please see http://www.isea2008.org/themes.html for more information on the themes. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Dead in Iraq - running now at the Banff Centre
Dead in Iraq PERFORMANCE BY JOSEPH DELAPPE 8:00 - 10:00pm, Banff Centre, JPL 313 The Fourth of July marks the fifth anniversary of the release of America's Army, an online first-person-shooter game aimed at recruiting new soldiers into the American Military. Joseph DeLappe will continue his performance of Dead in Iraq, assuming the role of a character in the game environment with the name of a real American soldier that has been killed. This character will not fight and is consequently killed by the other players, thereby recording the name of the dead soldier into the game's database. http://www.delappe.net/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Fwd: NETMAGE 08 - open call INTERNATIONAL LIVE MEDIA FLOOR
From: NETMAGE FESTIVAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:42:40 +0200 Subject: NETMAGE 08 - open call INTERNATIONAL LIVE MEDIA FLOOR | Xing presents Netmage 08 International Live-media Festival - 8th edition Bologna, 2426 January 2008 | International Live-media Floor call for participants deadline 16 October 2007 | The call for participation is now open for the International Live-media Floor of Netmage 08, a festival aimed to explore media innovation within the context of electronic arts that will take place in Bologna from the 24th to the 26th January 2008. The Live-media Floor is the main section of the Netmage Festival program, an international platform to confront practices of generating and/or mixing images and sound of every type and format. A window on cinematic and inter-media aesthetics that change form year by year. Participation is open to projects that employ electronic, electroacoustic, analogue and cinematic means to produce visuals and sound. The projects selected will be performed in a single event space, single or multi-screen, for a duration of about 20 minutes each. All material must be sent to: Netmage, Via Cà Selvatica 4/d, 40123 Bologna, Italy tel (++39) 051 331099 http://www.netmage.it/images/pdfeng.pdfentry form mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]bando at netmage.it http://www.netmage.itwww.netmage.it to be received before 16 October 2007. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Call for Workshop Applications, Turkey, August 6-12
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:29:39 +0300 From: info meeting point [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Call for Workshop Applications, Turkey Call for Workshop Applications, Turkey August 6-12, 2007 Gülpinar, Turkey The Meeting Point project is an international gathering around art and creativity, taking place in a rural setting with participants from different cultural backgrounds. For more information, please visit: http://www.diyalog-der.eu/meetingpoint www.diyalog-der.eu/meetingpoint The Meeting Point project is an international gathering around art and creativity, taking place in a rural setting with participants from different cultural backgrounds. It is a mobile project aiming to take place in a different village each year. It consists of a series of events around the central backbone of three hands-on workshops on photography, video and local cuisine. Meeting Point intends to create at least a weeklong community where cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary experiences will be shared. The village will be a playground for creativity during the day and will be converted into a festival venue at night with theatre, music and screenings. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Experimental Media Arts Diploma at Srishti, Bangalore
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:37:43 +0530 From: Ayisha Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Srishti school of Art Design Technology, is seeking students who have completed an undergraduate program in any field to enroll in our new Experimental Media Arts advanced diploma. This program does not presume any foundation in the arts or media. Instead we are looking for candidates who have an interest in interdisciplinary work at the intersection of art, science. technology and new media. In addition to course work, students will work on collaborative and self directed projects with professors, artist in residence and their peers. The Center is housed at Srishti in Bangalore, but the projects will extend to other organizations and cities. Please go to http://cema.srishti.ac.in for more information on the program and how to apply. You can also email us at cema [at] srishti.ac.in With Best Wishes Geeta Narayanan (DIrector, Srishti) Ayisha Abraham (Coordinator, CEMA) -- Ayisha Abraham 002 Serena # 2 Lloyd Road Cooke Town Bangalore 560005 tele: 91-80-25464058 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Muhtelif - contemporary art magazine, Istanbul
Muhtelif 2 is out! Muhtelif yaz sayisi cikmistir! muhtelif 2 Guncel sanat yayini Contemporary art publication Istanbul 2007 Say 2 Number 2 Ucretsizdir Free Content Igor Zabel Diyalog Dialogue Hrant Dink Ruh halimin guvercin tedirginligi A pigeon-like unease of spirit Natasa Petresin Tarihi kim yazmali? Who shall write down the history? Ahmet Ogut Allahm lutfen beni cok unlu bir sanatci yap! Please God make me a famous artist! Adnan Yldz Deeparture Deeparture Ovul Durmusoglu Kurum ve Kriz:Rooseum Institution and Crisis: Rooseum Jaques Ranciere Siyasi Ozne Olarak Sanatcilar ve Kultur Ureticileri, Neo- Liberal Kuressellesme Doneminde Muhaliflik, Mudahale, Katlmclk, Ozgurlesme Artists and Cultural Producers as Political Subjects, Opposition, Intervention, Participation, Emancipation in Times of Neo-Liberal Globalisation Pelin Tan / Anselm Franke Jest Üzerine On Gesture Servet Kocyigit Brroomm Editorler Editors Ahmet Ogut, Pelin Tan, Adnan Yldz Ceviriler Translations Muhtelif, S¸evin Yldz, Oyku Ozsoy, Ozlem Unsal Ingilizce Redaksiyon English Proof Editors Ashkan Sepahvand Turkçe Redaksiyon Turkish Proof Editor Beril Sonmez Tasarm Design Ali Cindoruk Sayfa Tasarm Page Design Bora Ozkus¸ Kapak Illustrasyonu Cover illustration Ahmet Ogut printed in Istanbul, 2007. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: SocialEast Forum on Art Visual Culture of Eastern Europe
From: MajaReuben Fowkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16 Jul 2007 Subject: CFP: SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture .. SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe SEMINAR SERIES - CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals for papers are invited from art historians, curators and artists that examine the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers are sought for the SocialEast Seminar on Art and Empire (Manchester, 17 November 2007) and the SocialEast Seminar on the Legacy of 1968 (Venue to be confirmed, May 2008). To suggest a paper for either of the next two seminars, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2007. The SocialEast Forum was initiated in 2006 by Dr. Reuben Fowkes of MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University and is a platform for collaborative, transnational research on the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe. Documentation of the first four SocialEast Seminars on Art and Ideology, Art and Documentary, Art and Revolution and Art and Memory, which were held in Manchester, Budapest and Zagreb 2006-7 can be found on the SocialEast Forum website www.socialeast.org SocialEast Seminar Series 2007-8 Two SocialEast Seminars will be held during 2007-8 to address the topics of Art and Empire and the Legacy of 1968. The seminars will be accompanied by a contemporary art programme, including exhibitions, artist presentations and film screenings. No.5 Art and Empire Manchester, 17 November 2007 This seminar considers the issue of colonisation as a historical problem in the relationship between the Soviet Union and the countries of the Eastern Bloc, examining whether cultural imperialism during the Cold War should be understood as a complex two-way process. It will also include discussion of the issue of the relationship of Eastern European contemporary art with the West, in terms of the activities and interests of art institutions, curators and collectors in a post-socialist global art economy. No.6 The Legacy of 1968 Venue to be confirmed, May 2008 This seminar will examine the multiple legacies of 1968 for contemporary art in terms of new artistic practices involving dematerialisation, performance and the use of new media; social and institutional critique; as well as the impact of political upheavals on art. It will also consider the contemporary implications of the social movements and artistic radicalism of 1968 against the backdrop of the organised commemoration of the 40th anniversary, as well as the specificities of the experience of 1968 in the countries of Eastern Europe. -- ___ H-ARTHIST Humanities-Net Discussion List for Art History E-Mail-Liste fuer Kunstgeschichte im H-Net Fragen an die Redaktion / Editorial Board Contact Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beitraege bitte an / Submit contributions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.arthist.net ___ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Mistress Guenièvre on Radio90 - NOW
Mistress Guenièvre invites you for: What : Second State radio show. Who : DJ Mistress G and guests (incl. MC abroeck introducing the Cumbias Experimentales of Dick el Demasiado, and others) When : Monday, July 16 2007 from 7 to 9 p.m. MST Where : Radio90 Station, Glyde Hall, 3rd floor - www.radio90.fm - 403.762.6216 tune in to http://www.radio90.fm Mistress G comes back into life in a Second State of mind __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Rencontres Int 2007/2008 ::: Call for FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Festival 2007/2008 ::: Call for Entries ::: Appel a' proposition ::: Teilnahmeaufruf ::: FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA From: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] EN FRAN«AIS PLUS BAS DANS LE MESSAGE AUF DEUTSCH UNTEN IN ENGLISH | CALL FOR ENTRIES: UNTIL THE 15th OF AUGUST, 2007 | RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID | FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA | http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm *** Please forward this information as widely as possible *** The 'Rencontres Internationales' will take place in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin in June 2008. Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and not much distributed filmmakers. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without any limitation of geographic origin. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats) * Video / Video art / Experimental video * Experimental Film * Documentary, experimental documentary * Fiction - short, medium and feature length * Animation movie MULTIMEDIA CYCLES * Installation * Net art * Performance, concert + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Video and film submissions are received on DVD. ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE 15th of AUGUST, 2007. Entry forms and information regarding the 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid' are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The 'Rencontres Internationales' offer more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organisations - to testify of the vivacity of creation and its distribution, but also of the artistic and cultural contexts that often are experiencing deep changes. The festival reflects specificities and crossings of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. The festival aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. The 'Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid', an event without competition, are supported by French, German, Spanish and international cultural institutions. http://art-action.org/en_soutien.htm PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD OUT THIS PIECE OF INFORMATION to creative organizations, art networks, production companies, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with. Best wishes. The Rencontres Internationales EN FRAN«AIS | APPEL A PROPOSITION: JUSQU'AU 15 AOUT 2007 | RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID | FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA | http://art-action.org/fr_info_appel.htm *** Merci de faire circuler cette information le plus largement possible *** Les Rencontres Internationales se dÈrouleront ý Paris en novembre 2007 au Centre Pompidou, au Jeu de Paume et sur d'autres lieux. La mÍme programmation sera prÈsentÈe ý Madrid en avril 2008 et ý Berlin en juin 2008. Ces trois ÈvÈnements proposeront une programmation internationale inÈdite consacrÈe aux nouveaux cinÈmas, ý la crÈation vidÈo contemporaine et au multimÈdia, rÈunissant des úuvres d'artistes et de rÈalisateurs reconnus sur la scËne internationale aux cÙtÈs de jeunes artistes et de rÈalisateurs peu diffusÈs. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + TOUT INDIVIDU OU ORGANISME PEUT EFFECTUER UNE OU PLUSIEURS PROPOSITIONS D'OEUVRE. L'APPEL A PROPOSITION EST OUVERT POUR LES CYCLES FILM, VIDEO ET MULTIMEDIA, sans restriction de genre et de durÈe. Les propositions sont gratuites, sans limitation de provenance gÈographique. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + CYCLES FILMS ET VIDEOS - Tout support film et vidÈo * VidÈo / Art vidÈo / VidÈo expÈrimentale * CinÈma expÈrimental * Documentaire, documentaire
[spectre] (fwd) Hitchhiking to Transilvania - 1-31 August 2007
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:12:24 +0300 From: Fundatia Culturala Meta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime-ann Hitchhiking to Transilvania - 1-31 august 2007 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Hitchhiking to Transylvania - collaborative video art project* 1 ñ 31 August 2007** *Concept: *Iuliana Varodi // www.morisena.org *m **o r i s e n a** ** *offers a space for international collaborative art projects, seminars on ecology, sustainability, contemporary art related issues, summer camps and at times a dorm for backpackers:: About 7 video artists from north and south, east and west will be invited to hitchhike to Transylvania. On the way, they will record images, sounds / music representing whatever charms or intrigues them. The meeting point is Morisena, the centre for art residencies, cultural exchange and local development established in Sangeorgiu de Mures, on the 1st of August 2007. The first week will be devoted to time for the artists to get familiar with each other, to watch each others material and to figure out a way of working together and to decide about the ways the material will be used for the final film, for example recomposing fragments according to a script to be written together. Artists may need to shoot some more material on the spot / in the surroundings. The last week will be reserved for the editing and final processing of the film. At the end of August a screening will take place at Teatru 74 (in Targu Mures). Dissemination, as well as a DVD publishing and spreading through our network will be provided. The movie will be presented submitted to various art / alternative film festivals. Morisena will provide the necessary technology for editing as well as food and lodging during the project. The conditions will be quite basic, and together we'll make sure the place will be clean, messy and cozy. There will be homemade wine, jams, bread and more, all produced at Morisena from fruits and vegtables coming mainly from our own (and neighboring) gardens. *Continuity and follow up*: in 2008 we intend to have the film travelling back to the original departure points of each artist, with a team of caravans leaving Morisena at the same time and stopping on the road to various locations ñ at centres that would be interested in discussing the film. Various screenings can take place simultaneously, followed by round table discussions and teleconferences via webcams in order to discuss issues such as identity of the traversed spaces etc. This project can be developed in collaboration with SODAart (www.sodaart.at) in the context of their NOMAD project, that can provide the needed caravans equipped with all it takes for screenings and round-table discussions. Fundraising ideas: www.eurocult.org, www.fondsbkvk.nl, www.canon.com, etc For applications, please send a CV and a motivation letter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.musafirfoundation.net www.morisena.org www.stupgrup.ro ::: adress Sangerogiu de Mures Str Principala nr 940 + 40 265 319 771 :: Romania : -- Fundatia Culturala Meta Str. Sfintii Apostoli nr. 37A, sector 5, Bucuresti tel.:(004) 031.805.21.23 fax. 031.805.21.24 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: www.metacult.ro __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[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] venice, kassel, muenster - reviews reviewed
for an overview over some of the reviews of this summer's major european art shows, see: http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/kunstsommer_2007/debatte_kunstsommer_2007/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] PRAGUE/BERLIN - arts/sciences/technologies conferences Nov 2007
PRAGUE / arts/sciences/technologies/practices/theories / BERLIN three major conferences in Prague and Berlin, November 2007 MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences International Conference Prague, Municipal Library, 8 - 10 November 2007 Info: http://mutamorphosis.org Vilém Flusser International Conference on European Tradition and Future in the work of V. Flusser Prague, Goethe-Institut, 12 - 14 November 2007 Info: http://www.goethe.de/prag re:place 2007 International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science, and Technology Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 15 - 18 November 2007 Info: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace Three major conference events on interaction of arts, sciences and new technologies will take place in Prague and Berlin this November. Visit the MutaMorphosis conference (8-10 Nov.) which is part of the e n t e r 3 festival and Leonardo 40th Anniversary celebrations and bring yourself up to date with contemporary art practices in extreme environments and at the border between arts and sciences. Take part in a Prague symposium about the exceptional media theorist Vilém Flusser (12-14 Nov.). Then make the short journey to Berlin, where the re:place 2007 conference (15-18 Nov.) will feature outstanding interdisciplinary research and debates about the histories of media, art, science, and technology. DOWNLOAD THE FLYER http://mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/07/18/PRAGUEBERLINNOVEMBER2007.pdf CONTACTS Pavel Sedlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katerina Krtilova [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andreas Broeckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] call: Short Films, Music Videos for backup2007, Weimar/D
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:57:01 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nettime-ann Last call for entries. Short Films and Music Videos for backup2007. new deadline 25th of august To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 The 9th Annual Backup_festival will take place from 18. ñ 21. October 2007 in Weimar, Germany. --- backup.award - short films --- This year, once again, we are looking for young film makers and media creatives interested in submitting work for the international category of the backup.award and who would like the chance to win an award from the 3750 Euros worth of prizes we have on offer. Backup is interested in film works that reflect and re-define the limits of short film and video and which explore creatively different methods and styles of production. In particular this year the festival is focused on the hybridisation of visual communication methods and on works which seek to break down traditional practices of narrative structure, production and distribution. In acknowledgement that many works submitted will cross-over numerous traditional category guide-lines in their content, The Backup_Festival pre-selection committee will sort entries according to their content and form. Works will then be put into competition blocks that reflect their character. This frees film makers from needing to adhear to strict self-categorization of their creative output. Prizes for the best entries will be awarded by an independent jury of filmmakers, TV executives, producers, designers and media theorists. The call for entries will be announced at international academies of film and art, universities, polytechnics, Film and Media Agencies, Film Clubs and centres of learning and culture via www.backup-festival.de To qualify for entry into the competition, all works must be submitted in a common video format, must have been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and must be no longer than 15 min. in length. The deadline for entries is the 25th of August 2007 All entries must be submitted by the 25th of August 2007 and must include a DVD of the work/s, film stills, a dialogue list, a synopsis, a filmography and a biography of the film maker. --- backup.clipaward - music videos --- This year, once again, we are looking for young film makers and media creatives interested in submitting work for the international category of the backup.clipaward and who would like the chance to win an award from the 3750 Euros worth of prizes we have on offer. By awarding the backup.clipaward, the backup_festival offers an overview of current developments within the field of international music video culture and provides a public forum for experimental music video screenings. Particular emphasis is put on music videos which create an extraordinary symbiosis of film and music by using different forms of visual communication and production techniques. Itís imperative to make image audible and sounds visible. The pre-selection committee and the jury will judge ideas, concepts and the interaction of image and sound as well as the artistic exploration of the possibilities of music video. The call for entries will be announced at international academies of film and art, universities, polytechnics, Film and Media Agencies, Film Clubs and centres of learning and culture via www.backup-festival.de To qualify for entry into the competition, all works must be submitted in a common video format, must have been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and must be no longer than 7 min. in length. The deadline for entries is the 25th of August 2007 All entries must be submitted by the 25th of August 2007 and must include a DVD of the work/s, film stills, a dialogue list, a synopsis, a filmography and a biography of the film maker. All musical compositions featured in works submitted to the festival must be used with the permission of their legal owner. Failure to obtain authorization for compositions used in works submitted will result in their expulsion from the competition. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Robert Bosch academic Regional Fellowships in Bucharest
Robert Bosch Regional Fellowships The New Europe College, an Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, invites applications for one-term Fellowships in Spring - Summer 2008 (from March through July, 2008) The two Fellowships shall enable young outstanding researchers - social scientists and humanities scholars - or academics from the Balkan region to pursue their work in Bucharest, with the support of a decent stipend and benefiting from the institute's excellent infrastructure and in its stimulating multidisciplinary atmosphere. Fellows are expected to stay in residence at the New Europe College in Bucharest and to participate in the academic program of this vital Romanian centre of research and debate. For more information on the NEC, please consult the website (www.nec.ro) or turn to the NEC directly. Eligible are scholars (doctoral or post-doctoral level) from the West Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Preference is given to applicants below 45 years. A good command of English is desirable; fluency in other foreign languages (French, German) an advantage. Successful candidates receive a monthly stipend of 600 Euro for four months. The Fellowships also include accommodation, travel costs for Bucharest, and a research allowance. Additionally, Fellows are offered a lump sum of 2560 Euros for a one-month research trip to a German institution. The Fellowships are sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart (Germany). Applications must use the forms provided on the New Europe College website (www.nec.ro), and also contain a CV (with publications) and a well-written research proposal (3-5 pages) for the period in question. Applications that satisfy the formal requirements will be considered by an international jury (including representatives of the New Europe College and members of its Boards). Deadline: 30 September 2007 Successful candidates will be notified by the end of November, at latest. To apply, or if you have questions, please contact Ms Irina Vainovski-Mihai Program Coordinator Tel. +40-21-307 9910 Fax: +40-21-327 0774 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing address: str. Plantelor 21, 023971 Bucharest, Romania http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157553 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Regional Meeting of Art, Montevideo/UG
Regional Meeting of Art Region: Frictions and Fictions Art in Transit -- A dialogue with history Montevideo 2007, Uruguay (Mvd-Era07) August 9 to September 30 Blanes Museum National Museum of Visual Arts Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo Concept and production: Blanes Museum and Friends of Blanes Musem Millán 4015-11700 Montevideo 598 2 3362248 http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy http://www.encuentroregionaldearte.org.uy http://www.era.org.uy http://www.era.org.uy The Friends of the Blanes Museum are pleased to announce the Official Launch of the international project Regional Meeting of Art. Region: Frictions and Fictions. Art in transit- A dialogue with history (Mdv-Era07), which will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. The idea is to create a continuous event from August 9 through to September 30, 2007, marked by an essentially binding and polemical character. The project will be held in differents venues as the Blanes Museum, the National Museum of Visual Arts, the Spanish Cultural Centre of Montevideo, but also in urban spaces as a site for the interventions of contemporary artists. It is the first more important international exhibition in Montevideo.Conceived to promote the dialogue between an ERA world-region project (which includes a historical exhibtion and a contemporary international art exhibition) and an ERA city-region project (with the participation of artists from the local art scene), it will include different formats of contemporary artistic practices, together with the organisation of conference cycles and theoretical debates, with the publications of the records and dissemination of the event. The project organized in is structured on the idea of contributing to generate active links between people who work in the areas of artistic creativity and thinking, and those who develop knowledge on the basis of research in social sciences, anthropology and political sciences.The selected central theme for all interventions by artists and analysts will revolve around the contemporary crisis of the concept of 'region'. The border policies, the multicultural dynamism created by migration and the stigma -- oftentimes -- of risk, of clandestinity, and the rupture and pervading effect of urban life on the public and private spheres, the subtle forms of cultural colonialism in the framework of an economically globalised world and, finally, the crisis of place suffered by subjects in this context, are some of the factors that will be approached through the view of contemporary art, in a dialogue with the view of XIXth Century regionalist art (Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay and Urug uay) images gathered for the first time in an ehibition. Era region-world project: Regional Art of the 19th Century. History of art was put together from a European perspective and centred on the succession of stylistic changes, and later on the succession of the avant-gardes. This accounts for the need of the art from the Rio de la Plata to find a perspective to deconstruct the heavy burden of European historiographical tradition. With this exhibition project we advocate that the visual culture of liberalism has subjected the regional visual tradition, and the existing silence on this issue has persisted in the construction of the histories of art. La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam attempts to respond to current issues on the concept of region, establishing a dialogue with the historical art exhibition of the 19th Century. It seeks to suggest, in an impressive and metaphorical manner, the existing tensions in the physical, social, cultural and intellectual borders of our times. The curatorial approach of La Cuadratura del Cono shall not be specific. It will not provide direct comments on the historical processes of the 19th Century, but rather introduce works of art that refer, in a complex, critical and provocative manner, to the outcomes of these processes -- borders, states, nationalism, power structures -- as we experience them today. It will gather 19 artists from 11 countries: Monica Bonvicini; Luis Camnitzer; Claudia Casarino; Claudio Correa; Jose Damasceno; Lucia Egaña; Shilpa http://www.e-flux.com/www.e-flux.com __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Sound art work 'Labyrinthitis' by Jacob Kirkegaard, Copenhagen 2 Sept
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:17:45 +0200 From: Ingeborg Reichle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rohrpost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sound art work 'Labyrinthitis' by Jacob Kirkegaard, Medical Museion, Sunday 2 September, Copenhagen In connection with the conference 'Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body' held Monday 3 September, Medical Museion has commissioned sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard to create a new work. Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his listening ear inwards -- to his own ear. By using specially developed listening equipment, he has captured the microactivity which the hair cells of the ear send out. LABYRINTHITIS consists entirely of sounds generated in Jacob Kirkegaard's own ears. Deep inside the cochlea there are thousands of microscopic hair cells functioning as sensory receptors. When sound enters the ear, they begin to vibrate in the watery liquid surrounding them, like underwater piano strings. Thus, the hearing organ does not only receive sound. It also generates sound, just like an acoustic instrument. Some of the hair cells in the cochlea can change their shape to such an extent that they are enabled to move the basilar membrane and produce sound themselves. These faint tones resemble the sound of a tinnitus -- and they can be recorded with a microphone in the ear canal. Jacob Kirkegaard employs the 1787 auditorium of Medical Museion as well as the audience for his composition: His listeners become part of an interactive concert as their own auditory organs respond to the tones played out into the auditorium. The room, at the same time, turns into one big resonant labyrinth of sound. Jacob Kirkegaard LABYRINTHITIS * Disorientation (Preludium) * Vertigo (Canon) * Nausea (Finale) played on The Spiral Organ will be performed in Medical Museion, Bredgade 62, Copenhagen on Sunday 2 September 2007, at 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Entrance is free, but seat reservations are necessary. Please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED], indicating which of the three performances you prefer to attend. For background information, please see http://www.ku.dk/satsning/biocampus/artandbiomedicine/sound_event_english.htm -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/ __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) urban interface oslo info
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:38:53 +0200 From: susanne jaschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends and colleagues, I am happy to inform you about the continuation of the urban interface series in Oslo, Norway. Apologies for cross-postings. urban interface | oslo is a project that explores the interspaces between the public and the private. urban interface is and ongoing series and first took place in Berlin earlier this year. From 13th September to 7th October six new artworks will be presented in diverse public spaces in the districts of Grünerløkka, Grønland and Tøyen, Oslo. urban interface | oslo is a project curated by Susanne Jaschko and produced by Atelier Nord. EXHIBITION The process-based artworks put a searchlight on the continually changing processes in the collective, private and public urban space. The exhibition will run from 13th September to 7th October 2007. The participating artists are: Laura Beloff (Finland): The Head Bjørnar Habbestad and Jørgen Larsson (Norway): Telart HC Gilje (Norway): Soundpockets John Hawke (USA) and Sancho Silva (Portugal): Orange Works Vibeke Jensen (Norway): Blue Wall of Silence Michelle Teran (Canada): Friluftskino CONFERENCE In addition to the exhibition, the international conference 'The Porous City: Art claiming the urban void' will take place at Fabrikken, Nedregate 7, Oslo 14th and 15th September 2007, 10.00 - 18.00 hrs both days The conference will focus on how contemporary art responds to the urban environment. Artists, theoreticians and curators will discuss the constraints and potentials of urban space. The conference speakers are Lev Manovich, Florian Rötzer, Martin Rieser, Jørn Mortensen, Jan Inge Reilstad and Drew Hemment with additional presentations by the artists participating in the urban interface | oslo exhibition. The moderators are Susanne Jaschko and Jeremy Welsh. A detailed program will be available on our website: http://oslo.urban-interface.net. The conference is free of charge. To register, send an email to the producer, Siri Austeen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An 'Open Forum', arranged on the second day of the conference, will provide a platform where artists and designers can present previous, current or future projects to the audience. - A blog follows both the exhibition and the conference. It will document both work processes and events. You are invited to contribute to the blog with your own articles related to the specific theme raised by urban interface | oslo, as well as the artworks, activities and happenings. To register as a contributor, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Contact us for more information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website: http://www.oslo.urban-interface.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Call - media art in Gdynia/PL - deadline 15 sept
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:23:16 +0200 (MEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Franziska Eißner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ausschrteibung Danzig Medienkuenstler 'Mediascream! Simulation-Stimulation' as a part of the new multimedia festival Transvizualia 007 in Gdynia. idea The current edition of Transvisualia: Mediascream! (re)constructs polyphony of narration that stratifies images and sounds with a high amplitude of emotions. At the point of intersection of many views and forms, a s(t)imulated place of brief interactions comes into being. It allows for freeing the energy and emotions. The ,,Scream of multimedia will be at the same time seductive and irritating, physiological and strange, compact and cathartic. The alternative reality of facts and media artefacts will subtly affect the audience leaving long term changes in their perception. The transfer of data, images and sounds; the circulation of energy, the attack and passion. It's the process of our false self-identification; a kind of entering and exiting different worlds; an approval of quick transformations and unexpected (re)actions. The current edition of Mediascream! deals with the unpredictable, bodily and emotional experience of multimedia and with the (im)possibility of real d!ialogue and exchange. more info: http://www.myspace.com/transvizualia http://www.transvizualia.com There is also a competition: deadline 15 of September 2007 Malgosia Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka mobil: 509 101 982 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe (Nov 2007 / May 2008)
From: Reuben Fowkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:48:19 +0100 Subject: CFP: SocialEast Forum on Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe SocialEast Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe SEMINAR SERIES - CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals for papers are invited from art historians, curators and artists that examine the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers are sought for the SocialEast Seminar on Art and Empire (Manchester, 17 November 2007) and the SocialEast Seminar on the Legacy of 1968 (Venue to be confirmed, May 2008). To suggest a paper for either of the next two seminars, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deadline for submissions is 15 September 2007. The SocialEast Forum was initiated in 2006 by Dr. Reuben Fowkes of MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University and is a platform for collaborative, transnational research on the art and visual culture of Eastern Europe. Documentation of the first four SocialEast Seminars on Art and Ideology, Art and Documentary, Art and Revolution and Art and Memory, which were held in Manchester, Budapest and Zagreb 2006-7 can be found on the SocialEast Forum website www.socialeast.org SocialEast Seminar Series 2007-8 Two SocialEast Seminars will be held during 2007-8 to address the topics of Art and Empire and the Legacy of 1968. The seminars will be accompanied by a contemporary art programme, including exhibitions, artist presentations and film screenings. No.5 Art and Empire Manchester, 17 November 2007 This seminar considers the issue of colonisation as a historical problem in the relationship between the Soviet Union and the countries of the Eastern Bloc, examining whether cultural exchange during the Cold War should be understood as a complex two-way process. It will also include discussion of the issue of the relationship of Eastern European contemporary art with the West, in terms of the activities and interests of art institutions, curators and collectors in a post-socialist global art economy. No.6 The Legacy of 1968 Venue to be confirmed, May 2008 This seminar will examine the multiple legacies of 1968 for contemporary art in terms of new artistic practices involving dematerialisation, performance and the use of new media; social and institutional critique; as well as the impact of political upheavals on art. It will also consider the contemporary implications of the social movements and artistic radicalism of 1968 against the backdrop of the organised commemoration of the 40th anniversary, as well as the specificities of the experience of 1968 in the countries of Eastern Europe. Dr Reuben Fowkes Research Fellow MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design), Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Uncomfortable Truths - Slave Trade - Contemporary Art, Hull/UK
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:43:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Christine Meisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Uncomfortable Truths Uncomfortable Truths The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Dates: 15 September 2007 - 06 January 2008 Uncomfortable Truths will address the ways in which the legacy of slavery informs art and design. This exhibition of new and specifically commissioned work will commemorate the bicentenary of the Parlimentary abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, seeking to reassess the human cost of slavery. The cross-cultural experience of the trans-cultural Atlantic slave trade is reflected by the choice of artists who are from the United States, Britain, Africa and Europe, including Fred Wilson, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare, Romuald Hazoumé and Christine Meisner. Exhibition organised by the Victoria Albert Museum, London More venue information on Uncomfortable Truths website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/uncomfortable_truths/index.html Ferens Art Gallery Queen Victoria Square Kingston upon Hull HU1 3RA [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: Feminist Art - CSA (New York, 22-24 May 08)
From: Cultural Studies Association US [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Sep 2007 Subject: CFP: Visual Culture Division--CSA 2008 Call for Papers Feminist Art The Visual Culture Division invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) to be held on the campus of NYU in Greenwich Village, in New York City, May 22-24, 2008. Deadline: October 22, 2007 http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm Feminist Art This is an exciting time in the history of feminist art, as evidenced by the recent opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn museum, the Feminist Futures conference at MOMA, the WACK! show at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the establishment of the Feminist Art Project, and issues focusing on feminism and art in the National Women's Studies Association Journal (Spring 2007) and Signs (Winter 2008). Such flourishing institutional discourse would seem to suggest, more than 35 years after the publication of Linda Nochlin's Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? women artists, that some parity is finally being achieved. Yet, as artists and activists participating in each of these venues note, women continue to be underrepresented in the shows and collections of museums, galleries, and collectors. More importantly, women artists of color, gay/lesbian/trans/bi-gendered artists, and global women's issues continue to be marginalized within many of feminism's institutionalized venues and discourses. What is the role of feminist art today? What does it look like? Who does it include and who does it exclude? How can it continue to impact the social and cultural values surrounding gender, race, and sexuality today? Theories, critiques, histories, counter-histories, and counter-memories of feminist art, past, present, and future are welcome. For more information: http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm Please submit via email a 500-word abstract of a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name, department, and institutional affiliation, email address, and brief CV by October 22 to: Kelly Dennis Chair, CSA Visual Culture Division Department of Art and Art History 830 Bolton Rd U-1099 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1099 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: Art in Public Spaces - CSA (New York, 22-24 May 08)
From: Cultural Studies Association US [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Sep 2007 Subject: CFP: Visual Culture Division--CSA 2008 Call for Papers Art in Public Spaces The Visual Culture Division invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) to be held on the campus of NYU in Greenwich Village, in New York City, May 22-24, 2008. http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm Deadline: October 22, 2007 Art in Public Spaces Public art, particularly in the form of monuments, has a centuries-old history, one traditionally associated with civic and state ideals-ideals that were increasingly subverted in the post-revolutionary era by the destruction of extant monuments and the erection of anti-monuments. Urbanization provided an important backdrop to the development of the public spaces of modernism, enabling as it did the flourishing of mass culture and mass media. As the nature and function of public space continued to shift over the course of the twentieth century, so did the meaning of public and of art in those spaces. From Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial; and from Spencer Tunick's Naked States to Creative Time's Panasonic-funded The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, not only have the role and function of art in public spaces changed, so has the definition of public art's social responsibility. As the rhetoric of globalization increasingly de-emphasizes the city in favor of the flows of capital, information, and identity, what is meant by public space is less clear as the boundaries between public, private, and corporate space are increasingly blurred-if indeed they ever really were secure. Theories of public space now often include not only the virtual public space of, for example, Second Life, but, more problematically, even the private spaces now made public on the Internet via webcams and surveillance. In the face of Robert Smithson's non-sites, of controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, of graffiti gone high art, and of home videos gone viral, how are we to understand the ways that the art and visual culture of public spaces intersects with or redefines social responsibility today? Can we even talk about public space or public art anymore? What, if anything, is lost or gained by the redefinition of these terms? Topics might include, but are certainly not restricted to the following: * The nomadism of site-specific art characterizing encounters between local and global artists characterizing biennales of the last decade * The AIDS quilt * The ongoing destruction of traditional monuments such as the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in Afghanistan and that of Saddam Hussein by US troops * Graffiti art, street art, tagging, web graffiti, hacking * Homelessness and private space in public * Public space and invasion of privacy * Surveillance in public and self-surveillance in private Please submit via email a 500-word abstract of a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name, department, and institutional affiliation, email address, and one-page CV by October 22 to: Kelly Dennis Chair, CSA Visual Culture Division Department of Art and Art History 830 Bolton Rd U-1099 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1099 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] tesla-berlin threatened with closure
dear friends,
berlin's mediaartslab TESLA is facing closure
by the end of this year. the spaces in the
podewils'sches palais and the complete funding
are being withdrawn after three years of
pioneering work.
the immediate reason for this is that the local
government that funds tesla needs the money for
something else ('cultural education', fostering
the appreciation of art by young people, e.g. by
bringing artists into schools, building
partnerships between art institutions and
schools, etc.). moreover, they were supposedly
not happy about the relatively low number of
paying visitors at tesla. they completely
disregarded the fact that we had many non-paying
visitors, and ignored the singular role that
tesla has as a laboratory and production place
for artists working with different media and
technologies.
if you would like to comment on this to our state
secretary for culture, andre schmitz, who is
politically responsible for this decision, it
would be much appreciated. please, cc us.
regards,
-a
t e s l a
media art laboratory
call to action
in light of the current threat to t e s l a 's
existence, we call upon artists, audience, and
colleagues, to communicate to the state of berlin
what the city risks to lose with this decision.
learn more about the current situation at
http://www.tesla-berlin.de , write a letter or an
e-mail to mr andre schmitz, the state secretary
for cultural affairs, and please remember to send
a copy to t e s l a , as well, for our
documentation. you will find the necessary
addresses at the end of this mail.
rather than generic protest letters, we
particularly encourage qualified statements on
the meaning and importance of media art, on the
need for venues for artistic production,
presentation, and reflection, on support for
media art in berlin, and on t e s l a 's role in
both a local and international context. in the
coming months, we will increase our efforts to
attain support from the state of berlin for this
branch of the arts, and we hope that this action
will make it clear that a real need and a broad
interest exists.
we thank you for your support. we hope that this
campaign will reach those responsible for
cultural politics and demonstrate to them the
vital need for a competent center for art and
media in berlin. please forward this call trough
your mailing list. please address any questions
to moritz von rappard (pr and press) at 030. 247
49 788 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
andreas broeckmann, detlev schneider, carsten seiffarth
Herrn Staatssekretär André Schmitz
beim Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin
Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
Brunnenstraße 188 - 190
D - 10119 Berlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
t e s l a
media art laboratory
podewils'sches palais
klosterstraße 68
d - 10179 berlin
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[spectre] (fwd) call for artist-initated, artist-run, artists' spaces
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:51:22 -0400 From: R Labossiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: artist-initated, artist-run, artists' spaces For those of you who follow, are, or have in the past been engaged with artist-run centres or collectives or artist-initiated and organized projects, we are seeking submissions to a book about this milieu; the book will be a kind of profile, snapshot, cross-section with many short texts (3-500 words) by many many people (100+). In particular we are looking for challenging, imaginative, future-oriented texts. It has always been the case that artist-initiated activities suffer extraordinary pressures (financial, administrative) but we are feeling that we are on the cusp of a kind of sea change in which artists work differently and have different organizational support needs; that is what we hope the book will address. Please visit the book website: http://www.decentre.info or the related wiki: http://socialsynergyweb.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=arcbook:artist-run_culture_book_project I look forward to hearing from you, Robert Labossiere Managing Editor YYZBOOKS http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] (fwd) Fluxus East exhibitions in Berlin
FLUXUS NETWORKS FLUXUS EAST September 27 to November 4, 2007, Wed - Sun 2-7 pm Opening: September 26, 7 pm FLUXUS NETWORKS IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE Künstlerhaus Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2 D-10997 Berlin Gábor Altorjay, Eric Andersen, Tamás St. Auby, Azorro, Robert Filliou, György Galántai, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Tadeusz Kantor, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Július Koller, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Vytautas Landsbergis, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Slave Pianos, Endre Tót, Gábor Tóth, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, Jirí Valoch, Ben Vautier, Branko Vucicevic, Emmett Williams curator: Petra Stegmann, exhibition architecture: Andrea Pichl Fluxus is well-known as an (anti-)artistic, international network with centres in the USA, Western Europe and Japan. But what about this intermedia art -- art encompassing music, actions, poetry, objects and events -- beyond the Iron Curtain? What echo did Fluxus find in the states of the former Eastern Bloc, and what parallel developments existed there? As a programme of action, Fluxus -- according to its self-styled chairman, the exiled Lithuanian George Maciunas in a letter supposedly to Nikita Chruscev -- was predestined to bring about unity between the concretist artists of the world and the concretist society of the USSR. Maciunas planned Fluxus as a collective based on the model of the Russian LEF (Leftist Arts Front). But these plans -- e. g. for a performance tour by the artists on the Trans-Siberian Railway --, developed with polished communist rhetoric in manifestos and letters, were to remain no more than a utopia. After 1962, a different FLUXUS EAST developed through creative exchange between Fluxus artists and artists/musicians of the former Eastern Bloc, leading to events including Fluxus festivals in Vilnius (1966), Prague (1966), Budapest (1969), and Poznan (1977). FLUXUS EAST represents a first stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the exhibition shows parallel developments and artistic practices inspired by Fluxus, which are still adopted by some young artists today. Besides the classic Fluxus objects, the display will include photographs, films, correspondence, secret police files, interviews and recordings of music that document the presence of Fluxus in the former Eastern Bloc. As an interactive exhibition, FLUXUS EAST aims to facilitate a profound encounter with ideas, works and texts -- some presented as facsimiles to permit intense study. It is possible to play at FLUX PING PONG, and visitors are also invited to explore the POIPOIDROME by Robert Filliou. Performances by Eric Andersen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Ben Patterson, Tamás St. Auby, Ben Vautier and others will take place at the opening on September, 26th. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue (German/English, ca 250 pages, ca 200 images, hardcover). The exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and the catalogue are funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. From September 27-29, 2007 the conference FLUXUS. NETWORKS BETWEEN WEST AND EAST -- a joint event of Künstlerhaus Bethanien and House of World Cultures -- will take place at House of World Cultures and Art Forum Berlin.http://www.hkw.de/de/programm2007/new_york/veranstaltungen_14292/fluxus_14921/AlleVeranstaltungen.php Further exhibition venues: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (November 30, 2007 - January 13, 2008),Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (February 7 - March 30, 2008), Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (April 17 - June 1, 2008). Network programme in Berlin: Tschechisches Zentrum Czechpoint Czech Action Art of the 1960s to the 1990s Exhibition, September 14 - November 2, 2007 Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Portable Intelligence Increase Museum. Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Actionism in Hungary during the 60s - 1956-1976 / The Near-East-European Criss-Cross (1956-1989) Exhibition, September 26 - November 4, 2007 Polnisches Institut Berlin Galeria Akumulatory 2 Exhibition, September 28 - November 8, 2007 Art Forum Berlin Slave Pianos: Dissident Consonances (The Flux-Labyrinth the Iron Curtain at the Art Forum Berlin) Concert, September 28, 2007 For more information about FLUXUS EAST contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea Pichl Straßburger Str. 43A 10405 Berlin +49 30 4421098 +49 177 388 2166 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] RAMI. October 4 -15, 2007 in Beirut
ENGLISH === Art and New Media seminar at R A M I - International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia With this seminar given by Ricardo Mbarkho at RAMI, participants will widen their knowledge, experiments and research in art using new media. They will study and think the New Technologies of Information and Communication (Internet/Cyberspace, mobiles, satellites, digital networks, interactive games, etc.) with their impact on the artistís social and political environment, and how this impact is or could be shaped in their projects. So what are the new possibilities to experiment with? How to collaborate with electronic engineers and scientists for this purpose? What are the new esthetics that were never possible before the invention of the virtual/cyberspace, of the interactivity, and of the digital network with the Internet? This seminar is theory and aesthetic oriented; a research laboratory in new media art is thus implemented in class. The aim is to cover a quick overview on the history of new media art in order to analyze art works and understand the judgment criterion for this new esthetic. The participants will be constantly oriented to define and locate their positioning as artists operating in the new media field, within the global todayís art practices. -- RAMI: The RAMI project is an international platform for experimentation, exchange and circulation dedicated to contemporary creation, digital tools and multimedia in the Mediterranean. (Lebanon, Egypt, France - 2006/2007) October 4 -15, 2007 in Beirut / Step 5 Developed by SHAMS-Beirut, ZINC/ECM-Marseilles, l'ATELIER of Alexandria and ASTAR-Milan between September 2006 and December 2007, the RAMI project is hold in 7 steps in Marseille, Aix, Beirut and Alexandria. In this step, three workshops, two research seminars, one technical unit and several cartes blanches will be animated by French, Italian, Lebanese and Egyptian artists. Info: Site: http://rami.lafriche.org Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rami is financed by Anna Lindh Foundation, Al Mawred Al Sakafi Al Arabi, Dramastica Institute, Open Society Institute, Ford Foundation, French Cultural Centre in Beirut, Region Provence-Alpes-CÙte d'Azur, MinistËre des affaires ÈtrangËres franÁais. Rami is endorsed by the Goethe Institut, la BibliothÈca Alexandrina, the Yasmin network, and the CCF díAlexandrie... FRANCAIS SÈminaire Art et nouveaux mÈdias ý RAMI Rencontres Arts et MultimÈdia Internationales Avec ce sÈminaire de Ricardo Mbarkho ý RAMI, les participants Èlargiront leur connaissance, expÈriences et recherche dans líart utilisant les nouveaux mÈdias. Ils Ètudieront et penseront le les Nouvelles Technologies d'Information et de la Communication (Internet/Cyberespace, mobile, satellites, rÈseaux numÈriques, jeux interactifs, etc.) avec leur impact sur l'environnement social et politique de l'artiste, et comment cet impact est ou pourrait Ítre faÁonnÈ dans leurs projets. Donc quelles sont les nouvelles possibilitÈs pour expÈrimenter avec? Comment collaborer avec les ingÈnieurs Èlectroniques et les scientifiques pour ce but? Quelles sont les nouvelles esthÈtiques qui n'Ètaient jamais possibles avant l'invention du virtuel/cyberespace, de líinteractivitÈ, et du rÈseau numÈrique avec l'Internet ? Ce sÈminaire est orientÈ vers la thÈorie et líesthÈtique; un laboratoire de recherche dans les nouveaux mÈdias est donc installÈ en classe. Le but est díavoir un aperÁu sur l'histoire des nouveaux mÈdias et líart, pour analyser des travaux artistiques et comprendre les critËres du jugement pour ce nouvel esthÈtique. Les participants seront orientÈs constamment pour dÈfinir et trouver leur positionnement en tant quíartistes qui opËrent dans le champ des nouveaux mÈdias, dans la sphËre de l'art aujourd'hui. -- RAMI : Plate forme de Rencontres Arts et MultimÈdia en MÈditerranÈe. Liban, Egypte, France ñ 2006/2007 RAMI Beyrouth du 4 au 15 octobre 2007, au Tournesol ñ Beyrouth / Etape 5 Le projet RAMI est une plate-forme díexpÈrimentation et de diffusion qui, entre septembre 2006 et dÈcembre 2007, propose des Èchanges internationaux autour de la crÈation contemporaine et des outils numÈriques et multimÈdia. tat des lieux dynamique, ce projet propose aux artistes, au public et aux professionnels un espace díÈchange et de rÈflexion. Le projet RAMI se tient en 7 Ètapes entre Marseille, Aix, Beyrouth et Alexandrie. AprËs une Ètape en septembre ý Marseille, la 5e Ètape aura lieu ý Beyrouth du 4 au 15 octobre 2007 Info: Site : http://rami.lafriche.org Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RAMI est un projet conÁu et propose par: SHAMS ñ Beirut, ZINC/ECM ñ Marseille, avec líATELIER of Alexandria et le studio Azzuro/ASTAR ñ Milan, en association avec le RÈseau arts-sciences en MÈditerranÈe Yasmin. Rami est financÈ par : Anna Lindh Foundation, Al Mawred Al Sakafi Al Arabi, Dramastica
[spectre] The Light, Illumination, Electricity project, santralistanbul
From: basak senova [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Light, Illumination, Electricity project, santralistanbul Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:57:01 +0300 -- The Light, Illumination, Electricity project launches on 5th of October with talks by Andreas Broeckmann and Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag E1 301, 17:00 santralistanbul www.santralistanbul.org 0212 4440428 Every half an hour there are shuttles from Taksim AKM to santralistanbul. -- Light, Illumination, Electricity santralistanbul 01 September - 30 November 2007 Talks 5 October 2007 , Friday 17.30 - 19.30 Machine Lights - Projected Lights in Contemporary Art Andreas Broeckmann, TESLA - Laboratory for Arts and Media Borders The Infinite - Forming Gas and Electromagnetic Waves Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag, sonarc-ion Project 16 October 2007 , Tuesday 17.30 - 19.30 Attraction, Oscillation, Inframince Etienne Rey, Dirigeable Project Light and Narration in Sensible Environments Paolo Rosa, Studio Azzurro 02 November 2007 , Friday 17.30 - 20.00 Art and Knowledge in Balance, Light Art (from Artificial Light) Gregor Jansen, ZKM Center for Art and Media Workshops with Children 27 October 2007 , Saturday 10.00 - 12.00 ,14.00 - 16.00 Cyclop , Ceren Oykut 28 October 2007 , Sunday 10.00 - 12.00 ,14.00 - 16.00 Light Travels Through My Body , Aylin Kalem 03 November 2007 , Saturday 10.00 - 12.00, 14.00 - 16.00 Sound Light Work , Carlo Crovato 04 November 2007 , Sunday 10.00 - 13.00 ,14.00 - 17.00 Alternative Flow , Erhan Muratoglu Sound Light Work Carlo Crovato 30,31 October, 1,2 November 2007, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 - 17.00 Open Studio - Exhibition 1 - 30 November 2007, santralistanbul Adham Hafez Borut Savski Bruno Voillot Carlo Crovato Cynthia Zaven Ceren Oykut Cevdet Erek Marko Kovacic Remy Rivoire Renaud Vercey santralistanbul residence project, curator: Basak Senova, NOMAD santralistanbul - NOMAD - Townhouse - SSCA - Zinc Supported by Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures NOMAD http://www.nomad-tv.net __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] JOB: Ass Prof, Dept Design Computation Arts, Concordia/Montreal
Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts Concordia University's Department of Design and Computation Arts invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2008. We are seeking applicants who can teach in both the Design and Computation Arts programs. The preferred candidate should have expertise in one or more of the following domains: social media, interaction design, experience design, community technologies, or human centered and participatory design. The Department of Design and Computation Arts offers five programs: a BFA in Design; a BFA Specialization in Computation Arts; a BSc or BFA Major in Computation Arts (integrated major with http://www.cs.concordia.ca/Computer Science); a BFA Minor in Computation Arts; and, a Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice. We are currently developing a Master's Degree. Our department emphasizes a conceptual approach, one that addresses the broad vision or culture of design within contemporary society, and enhances strategies for communication, application, representation and dissemination. The undergraduate Design Major is located primarily within the domains of image, object-making and screen-based media, with a particular focus on design practice as a persuasive form of intervention within the physical and discursive landscape. The Computation Arts program provides students with a rich foundation in creative work at the intersection of design, art and technology. The program guides students in developing digital media work that is aesthetically engaging, conceptually provocative and technically innovative. Our approach to teaching emphasizes an awareness of the cultural and political implications of a society that is increasingly wired and networked together. The Department of Design and Computation Arts is located in one of Concordia's newest buildings, the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex on St. Catherine Street in the heart of the downtown (Sir George Williams) campus. In this stunning facility we are able to take advantage of cross-disciplinary opportunities with other Fine Arts departments as well as state-of-the-art labs, equipment and resources, including the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology. In addition to teaching, the candidate is expected to develop a program of collaborative and cross-disciplinary design and/or computation arts research. The candidate is also expected to participate in the administration of the Department, including curriculum development, student advising, organization of special events, and committee participation. The ideal candidate should possess an MFA, MSc, PhD, or equivalent; teaching experience at the university level; demonstrated ability to attract external funding for research; a strong emerging profile or an established design practice and research profile; and, administrative and committee service experience at the university level. Fluency in French would be considered a very strong asset. Applicants should submit a cover letter; a curriculum vitae; a statement of teaching philosophy and interests; documentation of research, conference presentations and design practice; evidence of teaching experience including course outlines, samples of student work, course evaluations; and, any additional relevant support documents to the departmental contact below. In addition, they must arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly from referees to the departmental contact. Please address correspondence to: Martin Racine, Chair, Department of Design Computation Arts, Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext 4789 Fax: (514) 848-8627 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Civic address: Engineering Visual Arts Complex Sir George Williams Campus 1515 St. Catherine Street West, EV 6-771, Montreal, Quebec For further information, applicants are encouraged to consult: Department of Design Computation Arts website: http://design.concordia.cahttp://design.concordia.ca Department of Computer Science website: http://encs.concordia.ca/Programs/Computer-Science.htmhttp://encs.concordia.ca/Programs/Computer-Science.htm Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology website: http://www.hexagram.orghttp://www.hexagram.org Faculty of Fine Arts website: http://finearts.concordia.cahttp://finearts.concordia.ca Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position for July 1, 2008. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. All applications and letters of reference should reach the department no later than November 1, 2007. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Concordia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ART iT e-news Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:51:08 +0900 ART iT Topics Fourth anniversary, revamped edition on sale http://www.art-it.jp/e_index.php ART iT is happy to announce the release of our seventeenth edition - marking our fourth anniversary - and with it a more article and information-filled revamping of our website. We ask for your continued support of our new print and web editions. ART iT No. 17 Art in Japan and Asia-Pacific Fall / Winter 2007 JPY1,400 / US$15.00 / CAN$18.00 Out of Tokyo: Evolutions in Japanese art Roppongi Crossing Space for Your Future Murakami Takashi Front Cover: Nawa Kohei + Kito Kengo Photo: Ishikawa Natsuko Message from the Editor The Japanese art scene revived and revamped To coincide with our fourth anniversary, we decided to revamp both the content and design of ART iT. The website www.art-it.jp has also been overhauled, with a number of articles and the Exhibition Calendar transferred there. In addition we have launched ART iT e-news, and will offer exhibition reviews plus a plethora of other exclusive content. The art scene changes by the day, and using both print and internet we'll be aiming to respond as quickly as possible. Japanese contemporary art, for a time eclipsed by work coming out of the likes of China and India, is looking healthy again too at long last. A younger generation of artists have honed their abilities and are ambitiously producing and presenting a stream of new work. There have also been some noteworthy successes in relations with the international art world. By an odd coincidence, three shows scheduled for Tokyo this autumn tackle the themes of 'crossing domains', 'intersection', and 'hybridization'. In a land without the history or environment of the West, but where like every other place on Earth globalization is proceeding apace, what constitutes original, distinctive artistic expression? We hope you'll find the answer in this issue of ART iT. Ozaki Tetsuya, ART-iT publisher and editor-in-chief ART iT Topics ART iT website overhauled http://www.art-it.jp/e_index.php Also coinciding with our fourth anniversary, the ART iT website has been overhauled, now providing easy-access, up-to-date information on the ever-evolving Asia-Pacific art scene and marking the launch of the Asia-Pacific's most powerful art website. Taking advantage of the immediacy and convenience of the internet, we'll be updating the following segments on a regular basis including web exclusives. http://www.art-it.jp/e_index.phpwww.art-it.jp http://www.art-it.jp/e_review.phpReviews (New! Web original) ART iT correspondents in Japan and around the world review the shows they've seen and think you should know. http://www.art-it.jp/calendar/e_2.phpExhibition Calendar http://www.art-it.jp/e_schedule.phpSearch ART iT's exhibition calendar has moved to the Web where it is now linked to a gallery list and search engine. Here we can provide broader coverage of the Asian-Pacific art scene and update info as it changes. http://www.art-it.jp/e_smgo.phpArt Market: The Show Must Go On ART iT's popular series on the booming art market has also moved to the Web, where we can report on the turn of events as they happen at key contemporary art fairs and auctions. Plus... http://www.art-it.jp/e_interview.phpInterviews, http://www.art-it.jp/e_patron.phpStructures that support the arts, http://www.art-it.jp/originals02en/ART iT originals, and a plethora of other content including that linked to the magazine. We will also continue to introduce the current and back issues of the magazine, making online subscriptions and purchases easier than ever. So bookmark us and stay tuned! New exhibition reviews http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=610th International Istanbul Biennial http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=4Choi Jae Eun: Lucy and Her Time http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=9Dialogue with the City http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=7Lee Ufan http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=8Masada Takeshi: New Paintings http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=3Morimura Yasumasa: Bi[bi:]-Class, Be Quiet http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=21Shirana Shahbazi Meanwhile http://www.art-it.jp/e_review_detail.php?id=10Zhang Huan: Altered States New articles http://www.art-it.jp/e_interview01.phpInterview with Ernesto Neto http://www.art-it.jp/e_interview02.phpConversation between Higashionna Yuichi and Ukawa Naohiro http://www.art-it.jp/e_patron.phpStructures that support the arts: Deutsche Bank http://www.art-it.jp/e_smgo.phpArt fairs in focus: 01: Frieze Art Fair (London) http://www.art-it.jp/e_cotm17.phpThe future will be... list compiled by Hans Ulrich Obrist Advertise in ART iT e-news! For information please contact
