Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht

Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht

ZKMZentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie

Karlsruhee

Curatorial concept
The visible world and the world of sight, as is well known, is the world of light. Art as the field of the visible - as painting shows - has always been bound to the universe of light. Albert Einstein solved the mystery of light's essence in 1905 through wave-particle duality. Light is both an electromagnetic wave and a current of particles. It is a form of energy that in a vacuum would travel at a speed of 299,792,458 meters per second. When light hits a prismatic structure it divides into different wavelengths that are visible as colors. Its brightness is measured in lux and lumen describes the stream of light, or the amount of light that is emitted from a source of light.
Painting has concentrated primarily on the depiction of natural light and the wave phenomena that are known from optics and other areas. It is only since Heinrich Hertz discovered in 1889 in Karlsruhe, »that electric waves reproduce exactly like optical waves« [Max Planck, 1894] and have the same speed, i.e., that there is a real and symbolic relationship between light and electricity, that a universe of artificial light has had its influence on all of us.


ARTISTS
A · Vito Acconci · Franz Ackermann · Dennis Adams · Marc Adrian · Yaacov Agam · Giovanni Anceschi · Giovanni Anselmo · Stephen Antonakos · Siegrun Appelt · John M Armleder · B · Werner Bauer · Julien Berthier · Thomas Beth · Joseph Beuys · Alberto Biasi · Thomas Berger · Bigert & Bergström · Vladimir Bonacic · Ecke Bonk · Davide Boriani · Jonathan Borofsky · Martin Boyce · Erich Buchholz · Angela Bulloch · Pol Bury · C · Nino Calos · Chryssa · Jürgen und Nora Claus · Victoria Coeln · Gianni Colombo · Tony Conrad · Waltraut Cooper · Martin Creed · D · Björn Dahlem · Gabriele De Vecchi · Koenrad Dedobbeleer · Hugo Rudolfo Demarco · Jürgen Drescher · Sven Drühl · Chiara Dynys · E · Fred Eerdekens · Viking Eggeling · Olafur Eliasson · Elmgreen/Dragset · Tracey Emin · Manfred Erjautz · F · Spencer Finch · Berta Fischer · Oskar Fischinger · Fischli/Weiss · Dan Flavin · Joachim Fleischer · Sylvie Fleury · Ceal Floyer · Lucio Fontana · Peter Friedl · G · Horacio Garcia-Rossi · Alberto Garutti · Kendall Geers · Klaus Geldmacher · Karl Gerstner · Walter Giers · Imi Giese · Paul Gittins · Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster · Felix Gonzalez-Torres · Gun Gordillo · Gerhard von Graevenitz · Tue Greenfort · Helga Griffiths · Bruno Gronen · Gruppo MID · Brian Gysin · H · Zaha Hadid · Mark Handforth · Daniel Hausig · Werner Haypeter · Klaus Heider · Jeppe Hein · Christian Herdeg · Diango Hernandez · Georg Herold · Lori Hersberger · Nic Hess · Christoph Hildebrand · Noritoshi Hirakawa · Hofstetter Kurt · Carsten Höller · Jenny Holzer · Berthold Hörbelt · Stephan Huber · Markus Huemer · J · Alfredo Jaar · Birgit Jensen · Dieter Jung · K · Yoshiaki Kaihatsu · Claudia Kapp · Kazuo Katase · Peter Keene · Mike Kelley · Stefan Kern · Jon Kessler · Martin Kippenberger · Astrid Klein · Gyula Kosice · Joseph Kosuth · Brigitte Kowanz · Dieter Krieg · Ferdinand Kriwet · Mischa Kuball · Hans Peter Kuhn · Vollrad Kutscher · Susanne Kutter · Swen Kuttner · L · Thorbjörn Lausten · Bertrand Lavier · Julio Le Parc · Claude Leveque · Golan Levin · Benita Liebel · Alexander Lieck · David Lieske · Won Ju Lim · Thomas Locher · Sarah Lucas · Adolf Luther · M · Heinz Mack · Frank Joseph Malina · Bernhard Martin · Manfredo Massironi · Anthony McCall · Paul McCarthy · Christian Megert · Isa Melsheimer · Mathieu Mercier · Mario Merz · Tatsuo Miyajima · Volker Möllenhoff · Simon Dybbroe Møller · László Moholy-Nagy · Achim Mohné · Jonathan Monk · François Morellet · Leonardo Mosso · Reinhard Mucha · Christian Philipp Müller · Jörn Müller-Quade · Matt Mullican · Bruno Munari · Jan van Munster · N · Maurizio Nannucci · Bruce Nauman · Tim Noble · O · Germano Olivotto · Tony Oursler · P · Jorge Pardo · Zdenĕk Pešánek · Goran Petercol · Finnbogi Pétursson · Rudolf Pfenninger · Daniel Pflumm · Otto Piene · Jack Pierson · PIPS:lab · Hermann Pitz · Fabrizio Plessi · Riccardo Previdi · R · Patrick Raynaud · Martial Raysse · Nikolaj Recke · Erwin Redl · Tobias Rehberger · Anselm Reyle · Jason Rhoades · Hans Richter · Rivka Rinn · Daniel Roth · Tim Otto Roth · Pierre Rovère · Gerhard Rühm · Walter Ruttmann · S · Michael Sailstorfer · Sarkis · Michael Schmid · Ruth Schnell · Nicolas Schöffer · Patrick Schumacher · Michael Schuster · Kurt Schwerdtfeger · Marie Sester · Paul Sharits · Jessica Shaw · Damir Sokić · Keith Sonnier · Stefan Sous · Aleksandar Srnec · Simon Starling · Katja Strunz · T · Gerold Tagwerker · Yuji Takeoka · Paul Thek · Jan Timme · Jean Tinguely · Rikrit Tiravanija · Rosemarie Trockel · Joëlle Tuerlinckx · James Turrell · U · Günther Uecker · Giuseppe Uncini · V · Gregorio Vardanega · Grazia Varisco · Woody Vasulka · Michel Verjux · W · Shugang Wang · Robert Watts · Sue Webster · Peter Weibel · Franz West · Pae White · James Whitney · John Whitney · Thomas Wilfred · Dominique Willoughby · Wolfgang Winter · Claudia Wissmann · Johannes Wohnseifer · Manfred Wolff-Plottegg · Teres Wydler · Cerith Wyn Evans · Y · Haegue Yang · Penny Yassour · Z · Joseph Zehrer · Giancarlo Zen · Chen Zhen · Heimo Zobernig · Gilberto Zorio · Christof Zwiener ·

http://www.zkm.de/lichtkunst/

Mark Faigenbaum

One person's trash is another's poignant mixed-media artwork
Marianne Costantinou



A man who rummages in the trash could be called a lot of things.
Mark Faigenbaum calls himself an artist. And anyone who has seen the creations he's built from his found treasures would have to agree.
His kind of mixed-media artwork goes by a lot of names: salvage art, scavenger art, found art, recycled art, assemblage, collage -- and, yes, even junk -- but for Faigenbaum, 46, it's a way to preserve the past in a modern way.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/10/DDGQ1G51FD1.DTL

y.ah.oo!

y.ah.oo!
We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)
We want to thank everyone who has helped us along the way - our employees, our great investors and advisors, and especially our users. We still want to get your feedback, and we look forward to bringing you new features and more servers in the future.
I look forward to continuing my vision of social and community memory, and taking it to the next level with the del.icio.us community and Yahoo!

http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html

Video - The future of print journalism is ... video!

Newspaper Journalists' New Job: Video - The future of print journalism is ... video!

OK, so that'snot an entirely new thought. But it is a trend that's picking up steam.In the U.K., the Press Association is undertaking a big project to help convert many regional newspaper journalists into video-journalists, reports David Dunkley Gyimah, senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, who has been doing some of the training for the program. He explains: "It's the newspapers' answer to thwart the BBC's plans to introduce what's termed ultralocal television.""The results for the first batch have been tremendous," he says. He's building a video-journalism website which among other things will showcase some of the video work being done by newspaper journalists.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=93350

The Future of News According to Digg

The Future of News According to Digg

The Future of News According to DiggEverything seems to have been said about Google News and other automated news tools. But what of mass human-powered news selection? Is the wisdom of the masses dead just because Wikipedia got some bad press lately? I don't think so. It might prove its real power on other sites shortly.Take the young but popular tech-news site Digg.com as an example. It's somehow similar to Slashdot.org but has a different philosophy: "Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do." It is gaining popularity rapidly. Business Week Online recently featured its founders.An interesting aspect is that Digg.com is considering expanding its range of topics, which has caused quite a bit of discussion among its users. Perhaps this system indeed could work with breaking news better than anything we know yet. Thousands of users who push a story to the front page might scoop all the wires and automated systems that take time to crawl the Web.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31

post secret

You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession or childhood humiliation. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative."

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ is now a book PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren

Photos: Creative uses for dead computers

Photos: Creative uses for dead computers

http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877_11-5842915-8.html

call for entries videoex 2006

call for entries videoex 2006

Videoex is Pleased to announce the call for entries for the 2006 edition of the Festival


VIDEOEX invites you to submit your work for the international & swiss competition (entry deadline 3 February 2006).
VIDEOEX International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival
18- 28 MAY 2006 Zurich Switzerland
We are looking for:

experimental films (8mm/16mm/35mm),
videos, (experimental, videoart, ...)
innovative animation,
experimental digital & graphic productions(to be screened),
experimental documentaries,
experimental music videos

entry deadline 3 February 2006
For Details download entry form & rules www.videoex.ch
no entry fee
Send tapes & entry form & brief description to:
VIDEOEX - Kanonengasse zurich - switzerland

www.videoex.ch

Journalists for sale on eBay

Make a bid

Jason Deans, broadcasting editorFriday December 9, 2005
The editorial staff of the Western Daily Press are offering the services of journalists about to be made redundant by owner Northcliffe up for auction on eBay.

from mediaguardian

Electronic Literature Online

Electronic Literature Online
Sunshine 69 by Robert Arellano (Bobby Rabyd)
The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot” by Stephanie Strickland.
Hegirascope by Stuart Moulthrop
Alternumerics by Paul Chan
Exhale by Orit Kruglanski and Raquel Paricio
What We Will broadband interactive drama by John Cayley et al.
Varicella by Adam Cadre (file is a PC executable that must be installed)
Poems That Go Ingrid Ankerson and Megan, eds. (see below selections)
V by Stephanie Strickland
Him and Help by Dane
Superstitious Appliances and Nine Attempts to Clone a Poem by Jason Nelson
e-poets Book of Voices Kurt Heintz, producer (see below selections)
The Doll Games by Shelley and Pamela Jackson
The Intruder by Natalie Bookchin (text by Jorge-Luis Borges)
Blue Company by Rob Wittig
Email Lit by Alan Sondheim
-][selec][text: co][deP][l][oetry] _ by Mez

Articles Online
Hypertext/Cybertext/Poetext by John Cayley
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star by Nick Montfort, including excerpts from "Deadline" and "Eliza"
Introduction: Codework by Alan Sondheim
Entries on Interactive Cinema in START HERE> by Michelle Citron

site http://loki.stockton.edu/~rettbers/nmsf03/readings.html

The tenth annual Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition

The tenth annual Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition

Deadline: January 20, 2006.

Enter the most prestigious design competition for interactive media, the tenth annual Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition. Any interactive project created for digital distribution on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, interactive kiosk or handheld device is eligible.
Selected by a nationally representative panel of distinguished programmers, interface designers and creative directors, the winning entries will be published in the September/October Interactive Annual of Communication Arts and on our Web site. Over 70,000 copies will be distributed worldwide, assuring important exposure to the creators of these outstanding projects.

Entry RequirementsInformation on eligibility, fees and preparation of entries.
Interactive Annual FAQsFrequently Asked Questions about applications and file formats.
Download Interactive Annual 2006 Entry Form You can download a PDF version of our entry form that can be viewed and printed with Acrobat Reader (108K file size).
If you don’t have a copy of Acrobat Reader, go to the Adobe Web Site and see the instructions for downloading a free copy of the necessary software.

http://www.commarts.com/CA/magazine/comp/

Part of the Commarts Network, The Communication Arts site is the online counterpart of Communication Arts magazine and is owned by Coyne & Blanchard, Inc., the parent company of Communication Arts magazine. Directed toward designers, art directors and students, the site includes content from each issue, purchase information and entry forms for the competitions. Founded in 1959, Communication Arts is the leading trade journal for visual communications. It's the largest design magazine in the world and showcases the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Each year includes eight issues of creative excellence. The magazine has an audited paid circulation of 74,834. Communication Arts was the first major design publication to launch a Web presence in 1995. Several redesigns later, we realized that the most popular areas of our site had grown to where they could easily stand on their own. So, we decided to divide the content into three distinct sites. commarts.com is an extension of the magazine; designinteract.com focuses on multimedia and technology and creativehotlist.com is a dedicated career site for creative professionals.

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