EVOLUTION 2006

EVOLUTION 2006: 3-9 April, Leeds, UK
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Lumen present Evolution 2006, their fifth series of events, screenings and performances exploring
avant-garde approaches to film, video and sound.

FEATURING:
Live performances by Tony Conrad, Jürgen Reble/Thomas Köner and Guy Sherwin. Talks and retrospective screenings with
Michael Snow and Rose Lowder. Screenings of new artists' film and video from around the world
including work by Fred Worden, Ben Rivers, Ximena Cuevas, George Kuchar, Laure Prouvost, Manuel
Saiz, Oliver Bancroft, Jayne Parker, Wenhua Shi, Masha Godovannaya and others. Workshops on video
synthesis and Super 8 filmmaking with LoVid and no.w.here.  Installations by Michael Snow and
Karen Mirza/Brad Butler.

View the full programme online at:
http://www.lumen.org.uk/evolution2006

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Smart and funny sketch comedy videos worth sharing.

telemusicvision

High-res music videos showcasing the work of independent musicians.

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Popular videos that have been "bombed" up to the front page on videobomb.com

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harris interactive

Harris Interactive^® (NASDAQ:HPOL) will participate in the JPMorgan Global Internet Conference in New York City.

Gregory T. Novak, president and CEO, will discuss the Company’s progress and strategies for achieving profitable growth at 4:45 p.m. ET on March 13, 2006.

Access to the live webcast of the presentation, including supporting slides, will be available via the Harris Interactive website at www.harrisinteractive.com/ir or the JPMorgan conference website: http://equityconferences.jpmorgan.com. The webcast will be available for replay at that location approximately 24 hours after the live presentation, and be archived there for 90 days.

noise online festival

Hello press people and may we welcome you to the world of NOISE. Europe’s first cross-media showcase for creative talent, aged 16-25 or 15 years and under! In the EPK, you'll find the following:

-The NOISE launch press releases with quotes from NOISE funders and curators
-Case study stories from NOISE Australia
-Podcasts from the NOISE Curators
-Podcast from Denise Proctor, NOISE Chief Executive
-NOISE project press releases
-Exclusive NOISE Logos and images

To download your NOISE EPK please log in at the upper right corner of this page.
http://www.noisefestival.com/

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AsylumNYC

Wooloo Productions and White Box present AsylumNYC: an opportunity for
non-US artists to exhibit and live in New York City. AsylumNYC will
provide a talented artist with both a solo show at a recognized New York
institution and the legal aid necessary to obtain an artists visa in the
United States of America.

Location:
White Box
525 West 26th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York 10001

Date:
April 24, 2006, 8PM – April 29, 2006

All interested artists are encouraged to apply before April 1, 2006 at:
www.AsylumNYC.com


CREATIVE ASYLUM IN NEW YORK CITY
Based on the concept under exploration by Wooloo Productions in
AsylumHOME.net, which addresses the difficulties faced by asylum seekers
in Europe, AsylumNYC targets the challenge faced by artists interested in
working in the United States.

After an online application process, White Box’s gallery space will become
a creative asylum where successful applicants will be invited to develop a
work/project from April 24 to April 29, 2006. Projects must actively
challenge a regime(s) of exclusion in New York by including otherwise
excluded individuals from cultural, economic or physical structures in the
City.

Once an artist’s project is selected, AsylumNYC will provide a free lawyer
to try to obtain a O- artist visa. If successful, the artist will be
awarded the opportunity to stay in New York for three years.

February 8, 2006 marks the launch of the www.AsylumNYC.com where
interested artists may apply until the April 1 deadline. To apply for
asylum, artists must be able to be present at White Box, 525 West 26th
Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), New York, New York 10001 on April
24th, 2006 at 8 PM and STAY until 6:00pm on April 29th, 2006. While
staying at White Box, the artists will be provided with lodging and food,
but cannot leave the premises for the duration of the week.


ABOUT
Wooloo Productions is a provider of public and experimental spaces. Acting
on the level of facilitation, every Wooloo production aims to encourage
new forms of interaction and agency among members of diverse communities.

AsylumNYC is produced and organized by Wooloo Productions
(http://www.wooloo.org) in close collaboration with White Box
(http://www.whiteboxny.org) and the Franklin Furnace Archive
(http://www.franklinfurnace.org) in New York.

For more information, please email Martin Rosengaard, Media Manager:
Martin@wooloo.org or call: +49 (0) 30 6676 3097

Please visit http://www.AsylumNYC.com for all project details.

subtle.net/empyre

March 2006 on -empyre- soft-skinned space:

Is Modernity our Antiquity? (for the Documenta 12 Magazine Project)

Please join the conversation this month at www.subtle.net/empyre, with special guests

Christoph Bruno (FR), Erik Kluitenberg (NL), Christiane Paul (US), Dirk Vekemans (BE), and as moderator/guest, Christina McPhee (US)

Is Modernity our Antiquity?

It is fairly obvious that modernity, or modernity’s fate, exerts a profound influence on contemporary artists. Part of that attraction may stem from the fact that no one really knows if modernity is dead or alive. It seems to be in ruins after the totalitarian catastrophes of the 20th century (the very same catastrophes to which it somehow gave rise). It seems utterly compromised by the brutally partial application of its universal demands (liberté, égalité, fraternité) or by the simple fact that modernity and coloniality went, and probably still go, hand in hand. Still, people’s imaginations are full of modernity’s visions and forms (and I mean not only Bauhaus but also arch-modernist mind-sets transformed into contemporary catchwords like “identity” or “culture”). In short, it seems that we are both outside and inside modernity, both repelled by its deadly violence and seduced by its most immodest aspiration or potential: that there might, after all, be a common planetary horizon for all the living and the dead.
--Roger Beurgel, artistic director of Documenta 12

A bit of background:

Documenta, the festival of art that occurs every five years in Kassel, has invited all of us at the -empyre- list to participate in a formal discussion aroundthree questions, or leitmotifs, throughout this year. This month is the launch of our participation in this project, which will continue in July and November 2006, again with topics selected by the Documenta team. All over the world, some seventy online and print journals will initiate dialogue around three core questions; the results will integrate into Documenta 12 itself next year in Kassel (summer 2007). FMI http://www.documenta12.de/documenta12/english/leitmotifs.html A special thanks to Alessandro Ludovico of http://neural.it. Alessandro is an empyre list member and former featured guest (2003), who has honored us by bringing -empyre- into the Documenta project this year.

join us at http://www.subtle.net/empyre

ken rinaldo

sensitive site for KEN RINALDO
http://www.kenrinaldo.com/

Brooke Knight

The Upgrade! Boston with Brooke Knight

Screenshots - Taken with a cell phone camera through a window blind in a restaurant.

WHAT: Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator who has been working with digital media for over a dozen years. His current areas of interest include webcams, the landscape, and text in all forms. Knight is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches classes in interactive media. He received his MFA in photography from CalArts in 1995.
WHEN: Thursday, March 2nd, 7PM - 9PM
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge, MA.
MORE INFO: http://www.turbulence.org/upgrade/archives/03_06BK.html

artist link http://www.brookeknight.com/

biomapping

Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own bio data.

The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. This can be used to plot a map that highlights point of high and low arousal. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited.

How will our perceptions of our community and environment change when we become aware of our own and each others intimate body states?

http://www.biomapping.net/

PIEMONTE SHARE 2006

Torna per la seconda edizione il più importante appuntamento italiano con le arti, le culture digitali e nuovi media. Saranno visibili per 5 giorni installazioni interattive, performance dal vivo, musica, Dj e Vj live set,seminari e workshop. L'edizione PIEMONTE SHARE 2006 che si realizza in occasione della XX Giochi Olimpici Invernali Torino 2006 e si svolgerà durante i Giochi Paraolimpici avrà come tema il superamento del limite... [segue]

The most important date with Italian art, digital culture and new media is coming back, with its second edition. There'll be five days packed with interactive installations, live performances, music, DJ and VJ live sets, seminars and workshops. PIEMONTE_SHARE_2006 runs parallel with the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin 2006 and kicks off during the Paralympics with the theme Limitless: breaking down the barriers...


ENGLISH VERSION BELOW

Nella cultura digitale questi temi rappresentano molti versanti della sfida intellettuale che anima la ricerca tecnologica. Trasmissione a distanza, realtà virtuale, ambienti intelligenti, ma anche l'open source, la questione copyright/copyleft, i creative commons, sono contesti tecnologici e giuridici. Con questi contesti stiamo ora imparando a convivere, sono stati progettati per il superamento della dimensione spazio temporale, il superamento della fisicità, il superamento dei vincoli del corpo, il superamento del digital divide, che portano al problema della condivisione del sapere con i Paesi del Terzo Mondo, e a dibattere di aspetti sociali e politici che il digitale inevitabilmente porta con sè. Ma non costituiscono forse queste sfide
(i superamenti dei limiti) anche l'anima dell'attività sportiva? Tecnologie e sport si muovono nella prospettiva di ampliare le possibilità di azione dell'uomo, abbassando le soglie che si pongono come barriere, sia fisiche che mentali. Non esistono infatti solamente opposizioni dovute all'opacità e alla pesantezza dei corpi e della materia, ma vincoli dati dalle ideologie, da pregiudizi, dall'ignoranza.
ENTRATA LIBERA per tutti gli eventi del Festival

for update and information check www.toshare.it

Evento: "Piemonte Share Festival 2006": festival di culture e arti legate ai nuovi media e alle tecnologie digitali.
Quando: da mercoledì 8 marzo a giovedì 16 marzo 2006
Dove: Sede principale Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti - Via Accademia Albertina 6 - Torino
sito: www.toshare.it e.mail info@toshare.it
telefono tel 0039.011.8170974 fax 0039.011.8391304
Organizzazione: The Sharing, via Rossini 3 - Torino


ENGLISH VERSION

PRESS RELEASE

The most important date with Italian art, digital culture and new media is coming back, with its second edition. There'll be five days packed with interactive installations, live performances, music, DJ and VJ live sets, seminars and workshops. PIEMONTE_SHARE_2006 runs parallel with the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin 2006 and kicks off during the Paralympics with the theme "Limitless": breaking down the barriers.

In digital culture, these issues represent two sides to the intellectual challenge that animates technological research. Distant transmissions, virtual reality, intelligent environments, but also open source, managing copyright/copyleft, and creative commons - these are technology and legal issues that we are still learning to live with. They have been designed to overcome the time and space dimension, the physical aspect, body limits, the digital divide, but they also lead to the problem of sharing knowledge with Third World countries and debates on the social and political aspects that the digital culture inevitably brings with it.

But don't these challenges of breaking down barriers also include the passion of sport?

Technology and sport both move with the aim of increasing our chances of succeeding in what we do, by overcoming all physical and mental barriers. In fact, opposition due to dull or heavy bodies or matter doesn't exist, only obstacles through ideologies, prejudices and ignorance.

FREE ENTRY to all the Festival venues

For updates and information check www.toshare.it

Venue: "Piemonte Share Festival 2006": festival of art, digital culture and new media.
When: from Wednesday 8th of March to Thursday 16th of March, 2006
Location: Main location Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti - Via Accademia Albertina 6, Torino
website: www.toshare.it e.mail info@toshare.it
telepone: tel 0039.011.8170974 fax 0039.011.8391304
Production: The Sharing, via Rossini 3 - Torino

LOVEBYTES 2006

LOVEBYTES 2006 ENVIRONMENTS
20 - 25 MARCH
SHEFFIELD UK

The 10th Lovebytes International Festival of Digital Art and Media explores the relationship between physical and digital environments.
Featuring live music and multi-media performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions of new media work from around the world.

Exhibitions run for various periods between 20 March - 11 June

Extended programme information
http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/2006

UK mail-list subscribers will receive a printed programme by post.

1. MAIN PROGRAMME 23/24/25 MARCH

ALL EVENTS AT THE SHOWROOM CINEMA UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
http://www.showroom.org.uk


THURSDAY 23 MARCH

Warp X Launch
Q&A session with the Warp X team
6pm | 120 mins | FREE

Warp X is a pioneering new digital film studio based in Sheffield, with offices in Nottingham and London, and is allied to Warp Films and Warp Records. Warp X intends to build on Warp's reputation for combining creative originality with commercial success, with releases like Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes, Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny and Chris Morris' My Wrongs and 117. Warp X wants to make exhilarating films with outstanding new and established creative talent.
http://www.warpfilms.com


Fuzzy Interference: Digitising the Environment
Presentation
6pm | 120 mins | FREE

Fuzzy Interference debates the use of digital technology in urban environments and the regeneration of cities, questioning how non-physical aspects of spatial interaction can have a positive effect on regeneration and 're-branding' a space. Panel chaired by Sue Ball (Sue Ball/MAAP), with Colin Fournier (spacelab), Jeremy Till (Univ of Sheffield), Sam Vardy and George Legg (GM Products) and Martin Rieser (Bath Spa University). Fuzzy Interference is part of Regen Month 06 / Cultural Industries Quarter Agency and Allen Tod Architects.
http://www.ciq.org.uk/regenmonth


Sprawl Performance 9pm | 120 mins The Sprawl Club - London-based sonic innovators since 1996 - present an evening of eclectic post-digital music by 3 artists who excel in their fields:
http://www.sprawl.org.uk

Leafcutter John Leafcutter John's 'The Forest and The Sea' features a dynamic hybrid of electronic and acoustic songs, telling a true story, the compositions are bound together by a meticulous narrative enriched by haunting vocals and traditional instrumentation.
http://www.leafcutter.33-rpm.net

SI-CUT.DB Co-Sprawl curator Douglas Benford has been releasing his digital music as SI-CUT.DB, with several albums released under this guise, since 1991. http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk

Iris Garrelfs Iris Garrelfs, co-founder of Sprawl, is known for her emotive, improvised performances and multichannel installations. Her new album Specified Encounters (BipHop) has been moulded from dissected, transmuted voice sounds, settling somewhere between Arvo Pärt and Christian Fennesz.
http://www.irisgarrelfs.com


Mark Fell & Joe Gilmore
Djs
Showroom Bar
9pm | FREE

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FRIDAY 24 MARCH

Animating the City Film Screening 1pm | 65 mins A dynamic, diverting, sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban lives and locales. Nine diverse but intensely personal films, selected from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate!
http://www.animateonline.org


Playing the City Presentation 2pm | 80 mins As videogame technology gets increasingly powerful, the dream of being able to interact and 'play' on the streets of a living, breathing virtual city gets ever closer. The ways in which cities and urban environments have been represented in games will be discussed by writer/researcher Colin Harvey.


UK Film Council Digital Shorts
Film Screening
2.30pm | 50 mins
A selection of digitally originated short films by innovative UK film making talent.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/shorts


The Cinema of Richard Fenwick Presentation 4pm | 100 mins Award-winning short film-maker, Richard Fenwick has continually explored ideas relating to technology and landscape in the RND# series - an experimental sequence of short films that mix animation, digital FX and live action. Richard will be introducing a selection of these works and discussing his unique
style and approach.
http://www.richardfenwick.com


Japan Media Arts Festival
Film Screening
4.15pm | 60 mins
Lovebytes has worked with Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo to bring together a showcase of compelling animated shorts.
http://www.plaza.bunka.go.jp/english

Graphic Cities 05 Introduced Film Screening 5.45pm | 90 mins onedotzero continues to unearth new visions both inspired and alienated by the reflection of our urban environment. From explorations of local environs, to graphic essays to poetic city travelogues, the metropolis is envisaged as a playful, dangerous and surreal environment. Featuring brand new international perspectives from across the globe. This is a city that transforms itself constantly, shifting and shuddering into new forms and expressions. Introduced by Anna Doyle from onedotzero.
http://www.onedotzero.com


Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology Film Screening 7.45pm | 60 mins
The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology presents a reel celebrating the use of all forms of film making technology in this compilation of innovative and enticing CGI films, low budget shorts and animation from across the world.
http://www.ifct.org


CM von Hausswolff Performance 8pm | 60 mins Since the end of the 70s, Carl Michael von Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument. His music uses drones with elegant surface details and his concerts are often very physical experiences due to the vibrations of the low frequencies he uses. Hausswolff has also created the soundtrack to Thomas Nordanstad's 30-minute meditation on the Japanese island of Hashima, showing as part of the Screen Environments (Cinema 1).

Mirrorball | Made in Japan Film Screening 9.15pm | 70 mins >
From skinny budget animations to more ambitious independent short films, this screening of new work features a selection of class acts from Mirrorball.
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/


Fennesz Performance 10pm | 60 mins Christian Fennesz is known for his impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar and computer; shimmering, swirling electronic sounds of enormous range and complex musicality.
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk


A+R (Alku/Mego) Djs Showroom Bar 9pm | FREE Harsh and bloody trips along the most extreme path of computer music, putting together sonic brutality, crazy algebra, fractal structures and a slight ironic touch.

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SATURDAY 25 MARCH

Olsen Film Screening 12pm | 90 mins Olsen present a screening of avant-garde / experimental films and videos with a slice of cake. Olsen is programmed by Joe Gilmore, Sarah Handley and William Rose.
http://www.olsenorsen.org


Civic Life: Seven films by desperate optimists Screening and Q+A 2pm | 100
mins desperate optimists (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy) have spent the last two years creating a series of films that capture different places and communities in a single, daring take. Working with 35mm equipment, complex film rigs and environments, not to mention hundreds of extras and a propensity for working with both children and animals, they have generated a body of work that is both theatrical and deeply cinematic, experimental and highly accessible. Joe and Christine will introduce and answer questions about the films.
http://www.desperateoptimists.com


Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology
2.15pm | See Friday for details


Hard Candy (18) USA / 2005 | David Slade Preview Screening and Q+A 4pm |
120 mins Hayley probably shouldn't be going to a local coffee shop to meet
Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet, but before she knows it, she's mixing drinks at Jeff's place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It's Jeff's lucky night. British director (and one-time Sheffield resident and award-winning promo director for Aphex Twin, System Of A Down and Tori Amos) David Slade delights in the ambiguity of their encounter, before taking his film somewhere else entirely. Hayley isn't as innocent as she looks, and the night takes a turn when she begins to impose her own hard-hitting investigation against Jeff. Controversial, provocative, and superbly performed by the two leads, Hard Candy is a serious exploration of society's darkest taboos. David Slade will introduce this special UK preview, subject to work commitments.
http://www.hardcandymovie.com


UK Film Council Digital Shorts
4pm | See Friday for details


D-Fuse Film Screening/Presentation/Performance 4.15pm | 90 mins One of the
UK's top audiovisual artist collectives, D-Fuse present their new film works Brilliant City and Undercurrent followed by a performance remixing visuals and sound from Undercurrent. Named after a futuristic high-rise development in the absurdly fast-paced city of Shanghai, D-Fuse's short film Brilliant City presents life as observed from the 34th floor - a mesmerizing surveillance of work and play in one of the world's most transformed urban sites. Undercurrent is an investigation of river-based post-industrial cities in China and the UK, by both Chinese and UK artists, creating a series of audiovisual pieces that will be remixed live by D-Fuse.
http://www.dfuse.com


Mirrorball | Animation Film Screening 6pm | 70 mins One of the most amazing collections from a field that is in a state of expansive flux.
Animation is being pushed, pulled and twisted with the newest and oldest tools available to filmmakers. Including Emiliana Torrini, Michel Gondry and Lauri Faggioni and Devendra Banhart.
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk


Animating the City
7.30pm | See Friday for details


Aoki Takamasa
Performance
8pm | 60 mins

With a history of releases on Progressive Form, a recent collaboration on Fat Cat with Tujiko Noriko, and a new album forthcoming on op.disc, Aoki Takamasa is one of Japan's busiest and freshest young electronic artists.
While heavily pushing computers and software, Aoki's sensitivity to melody and groove coupled with his approach to live performance keeps his music warm, emotional and audience-engaging.
http://www.aokitakamasa.com


Japan Media Arts Festival
9pm | See Friday for details


Francis Dhomont Performance Workstation Studio, Shoreham St, Sheffield
10pm | 60 mins Francis Dhomont's performances promise 'nothing to see, no musician, and no instrument, but a lot to hear'. Dhomont has worked at the forefront of electro acoustic composition for over 60 years collecting numerous international prizes along the way. He will be performing 'Cinema for the Ears' an 'acousmatic' concert. The performance will make use of the former TV Studio to break from the traditional concepts of the concert setting; positioning surround sound speakers around the space and amongst the audience.


V3ctor Djs Showroom Bar 9pm | FREE Leeds diy collective of musicians, dj's, graphic artists and film and video makers promoting new and emerging electronic artists.
http://www.v3ctor.com


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2. EXHIBITIONS

Screen Environments
Exhibition
Cinema 1
24-25 March | Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 2pm-6pm
A rolling programme of films exploring the environment featuring:

All the Time in the World The Sound of Microclimates Semiconductor In All the Time in the World, Semiconductor have reanimated Northumbria's epic landscape using data recordings from the archives at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh. The Sound of Microclimates explores the sights and sounds of a series of unusual weather patterns in the Paris of today.
http://www.semiconductorfilms.org


Hashima, Japan Carl Michael Von Hausswolff/Thomas Nordanstad Hashima is an island situated just south of Nagasaki in the Chinese Sea. Once the most densely populated place in the world, it is now deserted, an empty and forbidden place, many Japanese think it is haunted.
http://www.drawnbyreality.info/hashima.html


Beyond Identity Leo Obstbaum and Miguel Marin Beyond Identity captures the detail and rhythms of Tokyo through seven films which bind into a mosaic grasping at the multiple faces of the city, the chaotic terrain, with found contrasts and rhythms of velocity and calm.
http://www.beyondidentity.com/beyondweb.html


Brilliant City
D-Fuse
See D-Fuse event on Saturday 25 for details.

Dwelling Hiraki Sawa Exhibition Screening space above Cinemas 3+4 20-31
March | 11am-11pm Hiraki Sawa creates a dreamlike universe inside a nondescript apartment. Dwelling follows the dramatic slow and solemn flight patterns of roaring miniaturised Boeings, Airbuses, Concordes, jet planes and commuter aircrafts as if documenting chaotic airport traffic.
http://www.softkipper.com

Junebum Park - Various Works Exhibition Showroom Lightwell 20 March - 16 April | 11am-11pm Like a young boy playing with his toys, Junebum Park guides and protects the people in the miniature play worlds of his video works with touching tenderness. Through a clever shift of perspective, the most ordinary of environments are transformed into extraordinary scenes in which the artist's hands interfere with the forces and currents of our everyday lives in a way that is both comic and comforting.
http://www.jbpark.com


q3apd Julian Oliver and Steven Pickles Exhibition Showroom Lightwell 14 March - 16 April | 11am-11pm q3apd transforms a virtual battlefield into a rich environment for aural composition. The state, position and orientation of software agents in a QuakeIII combat arena are used as instruments in a spatialised, realtime soundscape, allowing us to 'hear gameplay' from an entirely new angle. q3apd asks, can the dynamics of gameplay be used as a score?
http://www.selectparks.net/archive/q3apd.htm


You Are Here Mark Fell and George Saxon Exhibition Forced Ents Studio, Shoreham St, Sheffield 23-25 March | 11am-5pm You Are Here was developed through a series of workshops with young people from Abbeydale Grange School in Sheffield and artists George Saxon and Mark Fell. The work explores the city using digital technologies and is the second in a series
of projects, the 1st of which was at Sightsonic, York 05.


Come Closer Squidsoup with Cliff Randell Exhibition Showroom 5 24-25 March
| 11am - 5pm Come Closer uses wearable technology and collaborative interaction to explore and challenge our sense of personal space and proximity to others. Participants in the piece become acutely aware of each other; aware of their presence in both physical and virtual space.
http://www.squidsoup.org


Time Slice Daniel Crooks Exhibition Workstation Reception 20 March - 7 April | Mon - Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 25 March 11am-6pm Time Slice is a digital manipulation of real-time video and photographic images of people in transit. What could be considered the banal machinations of everyday life are animated and manipulated, to create a surreal sense of life on city streets and station platforms.
http://www.dlab.com.au/

Bit-Scapes HFR-LAB, coding by wojciech kosma sound by Tobor Experiment
Exhibition Commissioned by Lovebytes Millennium Galleries, Arundel St, Sheffield
20 March-11 June | Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm

Bit-Scapes is a video installation which explores the concept of digital reproduction and manipulation. Through the juxtaposition of the same footage, on three adjacent screens, the process of digitalisation is gradually manifested and the inner illusion behind the 'photographic skin' of a digital image is finally revealed.

Bit-Scapes has been specially commissioned by Lovebytes and marks the first anniversary of Lovebytes at Millennium Galleries - a permanent plasma screen gallery curated by Lovebytes with the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.
http://www.hfr-lab.com


His Life is Full of Miracles Exhibition Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield 10 March - 29 April | Wed - Sat 11am-6pm Site Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition of international animation works. The project takes the form of a self-selection 'videoteque' at which visitors select works from a 'menu' of international works, taking in stop-frame, digital, drawn and lens-based animation.
http://www.sitegallery.org
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3. LOVEBYTES AT SHEFFIELD UNION
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10
To book events call

Pet Projects / Director's Label (18) Film Screening Coffee RevolutionWednesday 22 March | 8pm | FREE A selection of pop promos and short films from the Director's Label and Darklight Festival featuring work by Pleix, Ed Holdsworth, Woof Wan-Bau and Sam Tootal & Chris Turner, Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek and Stephane Sednaoui.
http://www.darklight.ie
http://www.directorslabel.com


Film Double Bill
Film Screening/Performance
Auditorium - Sheffield Union
Thursday 23 March | 7pm | £3.50

Dead Man's Shoes (18) 86 mins | UK | 2004 | Shane Meadows Dead Man's Shoes is a gritty yet fiercely moral tale of gangland retribution. Two brothers return to the hometown they left 8 years earlier, to find it still run by the same gang of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs. Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge. Introduced by Warp
Films.
http://www.warpfilms.com


Followed by:

Media Lounge presents The Shining as rescored by Digitonal After a short interval, Media Lounge team up with electro-ambient tunesmith Digitonal, for a feature-length re-scoring and re-edited screening of Kubrick's snowbound terror classic The Shining.
http://www.medlo.net
http://www.digitonal.com


Videoblast Performance Interval Bar - Sheffield Union Friday 24 March |
8pm | FREE Flat-E provide the visual treats for a not to be missed night of virtuoso live electronic beats and vocal manipulation, melodic electronic dance music and beat driven clicky electronics from Tim Exile, Ultre, Conrad & Arms and DJ N>E>D
http://www.timexile.com
http://www.littlebig.org.uk
http://www.ultre.co.uk
http://www.flat-e.com


Urban Gorilla
Performance
Foundry & Fusion- Sheffield Union
Friday 24 March | 10pm | £10 / £11 / £12
Sheffield's finest house, breaks and techno night brings techno legend Dave Clarke for one of his stunning CDJ sets, plus rising star Nathan Fake performing a live set of his trademark blissful beats with live visuals from collaborator Vincent Oliver.
http://www.urban-gorilla.co.uk


Hidden Place Performance Raynor Lounge (off Bar One) - Sheffield Union
Saturday 25 March | 9pm | £3 / £4 Sheffield elec.soc present Calika (audiobulb records), Mint (boltfish records), Millicent (audiobulb records) and Ochre (Toytronic records/Boltfish records) with visuals from Microsketch and others...
http://www.elecsoc.union.shef.ac.uk
http://www.angryape.com
http://www.textura.org
http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk
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4. ACCESS SPACE AT LOVEBYTES
1 Sidney St, Sheffield, S1
To book events call

http://www.access-space.org

Sweet Nothings Performance Wednesday 22 March | 7pm | FREE Access Space present an audiovisual picnic from the world of the open-source including video, live music and performance featuring Jethro Bagust, Prevett and McArthur, Jake Harries and Rowan Porteus. Refreshments will be served.

Blender Workshop Julian Oliver Saturday 25 March | 11am - 3.30pm | FREE
Julian will take participants through the basics of the Blender interface, covering mesh-modelling, texturing and animation.

Supercollider Workshop Matt Gray Saturday 25 March | 4 - 6pm | FREE A 2 hour workshop on using Supercollider Server: an open source, state of the art, text-based realtime sound synthesis server and programming language.
This introductory workshop lead by Matt Gray will cover synth creation, scheduling and routines and sample manipulation and will focus on getting some quick and effective results.

http://www.lovebytes.org.uk

"Perché non parli?"

Si tiene dal 28 febbraio al 12 dicembre allo Spazio Oberdan di Milano, in Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, il ciclo di dodici incontri divulgativi sull'arte contemporanea dal titolo "Perché non parli?".

L'iniziativa rientra nel progetto "InContemporanea. La rete dell'arte" con cui la Provincia di Milano intende promuovere l'arte del presente intesa come risorsa indispensabile per la riqualificazione urbana, sia dal punto di vista culturale che da quello sociale ed economico.

Il ciclo di incontri è realizzato in collaborazione con UniCredit, gruppo impegnato in un progetto di divulgazione dei linguaggi della contemporaneità e di valorizzazione delle giovani risorse creative del nostro Paese.Da più parti arrivano domande all'arte e sull'arte, richieste di comprensibilità e fattibilità, naturalmente queste sono rivolte per la maggior parte all'arte contemporanea oggetto di un doppio ciclo di conferenze intitolate a loro volta "Fatti d'arte" e "Conversazioni d'arte".

Il titolo generale dei due cicli di conferenze "Perché non parli?", tra verità e leggenda, allude alla celebre frase che Michelangelo rivolse alla sua ancor più celebre opera, Mosè, mettendola in relazione con gli interrogativi posti non a una sola opera, ma all'arte in generale che di tante opere è fatta.

Per questo è stata programmata una serie di conferenze che agiscono su un doppio binario, quello della teoria e quello della pratica, quello del pensiero e quello della tecnica.Da una parte la prima serie: "Fatti d'arte " da febbraio a maggio ospita di volta in volta curatori, critici, storici dell'arte che in solitaria spiegano l'a-b-c dell'arte attraverso le loro categorie "tecniche" quindi: Guido Curto per la Pittura, Francesco Tedeschi per la Scultura, Francesca Comisso per l'Installazione, Sandra Lischi per la Videoarte, Gigliola Foschi per la Fotografia, Lorenza Perelli per l'Arte Pubblica.

Nella seconda, "Conversazioni d'arte ", a partire da ottobre fino a dicembre si terranno, sulle stesse tematiche, dialoghi a due (un artista e un teorico) quali: Jean Clair e Sandro Chia per la Pittura, Luciano Fabro e Daniel Soutif per la Scultura, Massimiliano Gioni e Maya Bajevic per l'Installazione, Jean-Paul Fargier e Gary Hill per la Videoarte, Hripsimé Visser e Reineke Dijkstra per la Fotografia, James Lingwood e Antoni Muntadas per l'Arte Pubblica.

In questo modo si cercherà di rispondere alle pressanti domande sullo stato e il significato dell'arte a seguito dei mutamenti legati alla globalizzazione.

Si tratta di cambiamenti che, prodotti dalla grande migrazione proveniente da mezzo mondo dell'Est e del Sud verso l'altro mezzo mondo dell'Ovest e del Nord, sta riscrivendo le mappe non solo geografiche, ma storiche, antropologiche, artistiche, ed esistenziali dell'umanità.

LA PITTURA
28 febbraio 2006
Guido Curto
Introduce Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

LA SCULTURA
14 marzo 2006
Francesco Tedeschi
Introduce Gabi Scardi

UN'INSTALLAZIONE
27 marzo 2006
Francesca Comisso
Introduce Gabi Scardi

LA VIDEOARTE
11 aprile 2006
Sandra Lischi
Introduce Vittorio Fagone

LA FOTOGRAFIA
9 maggio 2006
Gigliola Foschi
Introduce Roberta Valtorta

L'ARTE PUBBLICA
23 maggio 2006
Lorenza. Perelli
Introduce Gabi Scardi

PITTURA
10 ottobre 2006
Jean Clair e Sandro Chia
Introduce Vittorio Fagone

SCULTURA
24 ottobre 2006
Daniel Soutif e Luciano Fabro
Introduce Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

INSTALLAZIONE
7 novembre 2006
Massimiliano Gioni e Maya Bayevich
Introduce Gabi Scardi

ARTE PUBBLICA
21 novembre 2006
James Lingwood e Antoni Muntadas
Introduce Gabi Scardi

VIDEOARTE
5 dicembre 2006
Jean Paul Fargier e Gary Hill
Introduce Vittorio Fagone

FOTOGRAFIA
12 dicembre 2006 (da confermare)
Hripsimè Visser e Rineke Djikstra
Introduce Roberta Valtorta

Inizio incontri: ore 18.00. L'ingresso è libero.
Si consiglia la prenotazione via e-mail: incontemporanea@provincia.milano.it

UBERMORGEN.COM

UBERMORGEN.COM Personal Exhibition

Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia
25.2. - 8.4.06, Opening 24.2., 19h
http://www.fabioparisartgallery.com /

Text by Domenico Quaranta *

Thanks to Franco & Eva Mattes,
0100101110101101.org

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"Smile Machines" Exbhibition
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
3.2. - 19.3.06 (opening Transmediale 06)

The PsychOS-Generator
http://www.ipnic.org/psychos
creating [F]originals

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PsychOS "hansbernhardblog"
http://www.ubermorgen.com/hansbernhardblog
daily log of psychotropic drugs & food

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PsychOS Paintings
Zyprexa "Lilly 1112" and "Lilly 4117"
http://www.ubermorgen.com/psychospaintings

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New
GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself Web-Site
feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio
http://www.gwei.org /

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New
UBERMORGEN.COM Web-Site
http://www.ubermorgen.com /

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The BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR
http://www.ipnic.org /BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR
v.2.0, creating [F]originals

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the UBERMORGEN.COM Catalogue
http://www.ubermorgen.com/CATALOGUE

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hugs

Lizvlx, Hans Bernhard & Billie-Ada


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fabioparisartgallery

presents

*UBERMORGEN.COM (lizvlx/Hans Bernhard)
Lilly controls my Foriginals


Text by Domenico Quaranta


For their first Italian personal exhibition, the Austrian artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM* (lizvlx/Hans Bernhard) is showing a synthesis of their recent work -- a subtle membrane connecting the digital and the biological: a mix that UBERMORGEN.COM, an identity that lives and works on the Net, experienced on their own bodies. One of the best-known
exponents of the net.art scene, UBERMORGEN.COM are the theorists of digital
actionism, a radical practice of artistic action which experiments on
the market of attention and takes place in mass media. The most astonishing
result of this kind of practice so far has been Vote-Auction (2000),
a web site that, during the American presidential elections 2000, helped
people sell their vote in an auction. The legal prosecution against
UBERMORGEN.COM, and the media hysteria it produced, are an integral
part of the whole project. During this mass-media-performance,
UBERMORGEN.COM were interviewed up to 30 times per day. CNN produced a 30 minutes
show on the project in their legal format Burden of Proof. In this feature,
UBERMORGEN.COM never comment on whether the project was a real threat
to the integrity of the U.S. election or wheter it was a political satire.

In the mass media storm, the digital actionist works with her whole body,
as well as part and victim of the network around her. “We are children of the 1980s, We are the first internet-pop-generation... Hans Bernhard is loaded with 10 years of internet & tech [digital cocaine], mass media hacking, underground techno, hardcore [illegal] drugs, rock&roll
lifestyle and net.art jet set...” Hans Bernhard`s neuronal networks are connected to the global network, and his mental illness – the bipolar affective disorder that in March 2002 sent him to a mental hospital – is the network's illness. The video called PsychOS (2005)** sums up that
experience, in which those two levels – digital and real, bio & tech, nervous system and operative system – merge.

This nervous system, infected by the hi-tech, needs a treatment, and the
hi-tech society prescribes its remedies, “bio-chemical 'agents' which control the internal information flow”. Olanzapine, an antipsychotic drug produced by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly as Zyprexa®, is one of these agents. In the digital prints** Zyprexa “Lilly 1112” and Zyprexa “Lilly 4117” (2006), UBERMORGE.COM paints the drug molecular structure,
but during this translation process the molecule discovers to be made by bits. “Just pixels on a screen, just ink on paper”, like Foriginals (forged originals), the conceptual device UBERMORGEN.COM uses to change legal documents into legal art.

The title of the show – a declaration of poetics that seems to be a declaration of love – derives from this process. “Lilly controls my Foriginals” means “Lilly controls my artistic work”, where Lilly just seems to be a woman’s name, is in fact the name of a pharmaceutical company. Lilly “controls”, inspires as well as oversees, supervises the contact between my brain and my hard drive.

UBERMORGEN.COM’s focus on “the pixel as the molecule” and technology as a
hidden demon relates to the technology industries newest gadgets -- RFID
(Radio Frequency Identification) chips are one of the leading technologies of the future: an identification system that can collect diverse information about the products it is attached to as well as the person that has made purchase of the product. From a formal point of view,
RFID chips reveal an organic structure, surprisingly similar to a cellular structure. With the ART FID (2005) series**, UBERMORGEN.COM uses the visual impact of a suprematist painting, and tells us about this mix between biotechnologies and digital technologies, this neverending overlapping of two contiguous levels that is shaping our identity.

fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia
tel. 030 3756139 - skype: fabioparisbs
www.fabioparisartgallery.com