As the manufacturer describes it "Heliodisplay images are not holographic although they are free-space, employing a rear projection system in which images are captured onto a nearly invisible plane of transformed air."
Short interview with Petter Alexander Goldstine
> What is your background?
-I received my BFA (Bachelors in Fine Arts) in photography, focusing on social problems, working with homeless issues in Seattle, Washington, USA.
After graduation I traveled and photographed illegal immigrants in Italy, gypsies and orphans in Romania. I was trying to find the positive aspects in difficult situations.
After I spent some time in Israel/Palestine, focusing on the "peace" movement. I began to feel that photography as a communication tool, was hopeless because we (society) have been desensitized by the masses of images from the mainstream media and advertising industry.
At that point I began working/studying as an actor in a theater group called Nordic Black Theater, a trans-cultural theater group in Oslo, Norway, while searching for new ways to contact the viewer.
I now combine these two disciplines, performance and social documentary in an attempt to inform my audience.
> Where you from?
-I was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Seattle, Washington, USA.
My mother is Norwegian, which is why I live in Norway now.
> Who/What inspire your work?
-My work is inspired by all the wonderful people who have allowed me into their worlds; I want to do them justice. I am inspired by all of the generalizations I see in the world and I see in myself. I long to break myself of those generalizations.
I am inspired, even driven by, my constant fears and doubts that anything I do can make a difference.
> What is ART?
- Art is anything we put our whole mind, body and soul into. Art is anything that pushes our boundaries, those things that we are afraid to share with others because it is too vulnerable.
Art is visual poetry.
> Have you ever exhibited in Italy?
- I once had a show at the Palazzo (sic) Pio in Rome, while I was studying abroad with my art school. That was in 2000. Later, working with the illegal immigrants in 2002, gave me many ideas for public performances in Italy.
> How do you image your works in a city_space?
- I make work in the streets, in galleries and in the theater. In the city-space, I make work which breaks people out of their routine. I like this work to be playful instead of confrontational. The people of the masses will forget confrontation quickly, yet remember something
humorous or strange. Work in a city-space must appeal to that sort of an audience.
In fact I tailor all my work to the audience in that situation, in a way, site-specific.
- More about my work. I realize more and more that my work is how I push myself. I find the things that I am afraid of; talking to strangers, asking people for help, being vulnerable, standing in front of an audience, going to the bad parts of town, sharing myself. I don't believe that I am the only one afraid of these things, in fact, I believe if more of us confronted these fears the world would be a better place. If more people cared about what others think rather than convince other of what they think, we would have a lot less problems. Perhaps that is what my work is about.
In general I am very fortunate to have the upbringing I had, both the good and the bad, I am very fortunate to have the ability to learn from all that I receive in life.
There is a great photographer named Walker Evans, who once said, "Privilege, is an immoral and unjust thing to have. But if you've got it, you didn't choose to get it, and you might as well use it." This quote set me on the path that I find myself on today, to use what I have to help others.
The progress of my current project can be viewed at www.theamericandreamtoday.blogspot.com
Petter Alexander Goldstine also joined gallery2006
Soundtoys is open to artists, designers, musicians, writers and programmers who make (or who are interested in the aestheticsof); interactive web soundtoys, artworks and related texts. Work submitted for the site should explore the use of technology for the advancement of audio visual communication. At the moment artists can either make special new work for the soundtoys site, or send in existing work(s) that they would like to be featured online at the soundtoys site...
http://www.soundtoys.net
Beatrice Gibson- multi-national call centres in India 2003
<www.humancapitalsoftwaresolutions.com>
<www.nungu.com>
Sheron Wray + Fleeta Siegel – Texterritory: SMS performance 2003
<www.texterritory.com>
The co-creators and performers of Texterritory will discuss this new work where the audience direct the narrative by SMS. This commission for Future Physical incorporates dance, music and poetry. Sheron, currently a Nesta fellow, is working on narrowing boundaries between audience and performer; she also has her own contemporary dance company. Texterritory was made using a Flash interface and XML scripting by Fleeta Siegel. What further possibilities are there for this type of audience interaction?
>> Grace met Jerome in a dimly lit club two weeks ago, and since then they have been 'texting out their territory'. As Grace prepares for their date, she needs your help!
With the audience's help, she decides what to wear and even who she might call if he doesn't show up.
Texterritory's multi-media, non-linear story breaks the traditional relationships of dance, theater, and the audience. The story unfolds through texting, dance, and music.>>
Short interview with Domenico Olivero
What is your background ?
I have always like drawing and I like visit museum and galleries in Europe (Italy, France, U.K.), one day a girl-friends ask me to cooperate at one little expo in Venice, very happy and nice experience.
Where you from?
I live between Cuneo(Italy) and Nice (France).
When do you create ?
I have one space in my little flat, but everyplace is one place for make art.
who inspires your work ?
I start from my personal life and I increase with the different daily contact, friends, book, move, music…
What is art ? ( if you don't want to answer in ok)
Art is one Utopia for life
Have you ever exhibited in Italy ?
Yes for my CV visit my site :
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/domenico.olivero1/
How do you image your work in a city_space ?
Some years ago, I made some work for public space, is nice and I like the idea the ordinary people meet one “art-object”, and create a new relation whit it.
Tell me more about your work
In the 1993 I write that: ““...wide horizons in looking for new ideas, symbols, techniques, to go on evolving in indefinite worlds, putting apart sure goals and what is important is changing learning static situations, where everything is, from prehistory up to the present, linked to
the future, without limits and dimensions in a research of new relationships between forms and languages to open our mind. We have to feel alive on a planet where we want to forget our roots, meant as nationalism, elements of division but taken again as a global patrimony, and you can
understand that everything is a way to express one's being, way of existing, in a continuous research of communication with other human beings with a free glance, in a direct relationship with reality, with life traces...” Domenico Olivero 1993
more references
Now I make a new art project the name is “Aperâ” (this is one Occitanian word, means “have free time”). This work is about the attention of our relax time. The first expo is in Borgo San Dalmazzo (Italy) after at Cagnes (France).
Domenico also joined gallery2006
MOVE 2006
Presenters include:
* Laurie Anderson
* Adult Swim
* Cory Arcangel
* Current TV
* Jan Edler
* National Television
* Jean-Paul Goude
* Casey Reas
* Stardust
* Scanner
* Scott Stowell
* Smith & Foulkes
Plus additional contributions and screenings by: Psyop, Miranda July, PES, Hornet, DOMA, LOBO, Evan Roth, Juicy Wang, Warren Oliver, Friends With You, Motion Theory, Carlo Vega, Digital Kitchen, Adam Gault, CA Square, Impactist, JJ & Maithy, Monkmus, Model Robot, In Secret Agreement, Shilo, Tronic
Moderated by Peter Hall
Tactical Sound Garden Toolkit
Mark Shepard
State University Of New York At Buffalo
http://www.andinc.org/tsg/
Summary at subtletechnologies.com/symposium
The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is an open source software platform for cultivating virtual "sound gardens" in contemporary cities. It draws on the culture of urban community gardening to posit a participatory platform for new spatial practices and social interactions within technologically mediated environments. Addressing the impact of mobile audio devices like the iPod, the project explores gradients of privacy and publicity in positing a platform for public collaboration in shaping the sonic topography of urban public space.
The TSG Toolkit enables anyone living within dense 802.11 wireless (WiFi) "hot zones" to install a virtual "sound garden" for public use. Using a WiFi enabled mobile device (PDA,laptop, mobile phone), participants "plant" sounds (or “prune” those planted by other) within a positional audio environment. These plantings are mapped onto the coordinates of a physical location by a 3D audio engine common to gaming environments - overlaying a publicly constructed soundscape onto a specific urban space. Wearing headphones connected to a WiFi enabled device, participants drift though virtual sound gardens as they move throughout the city.
The TSG Toolkit is a parasitic technology. It feeds on the proliferation of WiFi access points in dense urban environments as a free, ready-made, locative infrastructure for cultivating community sound gardens in contemporary public space. Access points producing the WiFi signals used to determine the location of a participant may be open or encrypted, and need not be "owned" by those deploying the TSG system. Where the presence of WiFi access nodes is minimal, gardens simply consist of plantings along a sidewalk. Where a local density of nodes exists, gardens potentially take the scale of a neighborhood. In cities where wireless networks are pervasive, gardens potentially extend throughout the entire city.
Biography
‘Bystander’ – a responsive, immersive ‘spirit world’ environment for multiple users
Kate Richards, with input from Ross Gibson and Lian Loke
Sparke Media
http://www.lifeafterwartime.com/
Summary at subtletechnologies.com/symposium
Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of
John Storrs Hall
Summary speak at subtle technologies
Imagine it is the year 2100. The population of the Earth, doubling every 30 years or so, has reached nearly 50 billion souls. The price of a comfortable single-family house on one acre in New Jersey, doubling every 10 years or so, has reached 250 million dollars.
While your back was turned, however, nanotechnology was invented and Utility Fog has become possible. Utility Fog is a kind of universal substance, programmable matter, that can simulate everything from air to solid rock. A kind of 3D TV screen, but instead of making any desired picture visible, it makes any desired shape tangible.
So we go off somewhere, rope off a square mile, dig down a few hundred feet for foundations, and erect a block of Utility Fog a mile high. It doesn't have to be a cube, of course, it can be any shape you like, and indeed can change shape from minute to minute. As for the objects inside, nanotechnology will take care of that: it can build anything from the simplest structures to the most complicated.
In a cubic mile of Fog there are over 125 billion cubic feet. That's 10 by 10 by 10 foot rooms for 125 million people. Not that you would be stuck in a 10 by 10 foot room. First off, it's not a fixed location, it's 1,000 cubic feet of ‘personal space’ wherever you go. Secondly, it's like a Star Trek ‘holodeck’, it can seem to be any place, filled with any people and objects you choose – a vast country estate, the deck of a wooden sailing ship in the mid-Atlantic (complete with driving rain and pitching decks), or everybody’s favourite, the London of Sherlock Holmes.
And that's just your bedroom...
John Storrs Hall is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers in the field of molecular nanotechnology. He has a background in computer science, particularly parallel processor architectures, artificial intelligence, including agoric and genetic algorithms used in design, and reversible computing. He was the founding chief scientist of Nanorex Inc, is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, and founded and moderated the sci.nanotech usenet newsgroup for ten years. His research interests include molecular nanotechnology, particularly the theory of self-reproducing machines, and the design of useful macroscopic machines using the capabilities of molecular manufacturing.
He is the author of the book Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology.
9TH ANNUAL SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES FESTIVAL
June 1-4 - Toronto, ON
Digital art, science and technology buffs have rejoiced in Subtle Technology's attempts to blur the lines between science and art during previous celebrations, and this year's four-day festival promises not to disappoint. With its new theme of Responsive Architectures, participants will explore the interactions between systems, environments and their occupants through workshops, panel discussions and film screenings. Scientists Steve Vogel, Donald Ingber and John Storrs Hall will tackle such topics as robotic nanotechnology and cellular geodesic architecture for audience members, while architects Michelle Addington and Jim Lutz present their research on intelligent building material and the architecture of sound. Best of all, the festival will also premier Paul M. Rickard's film Aboriginal Architecture, Living Architecture and offer the three-day Canadian Design Research Network Parametric Design Workshop before the festival even begins.
You've seen the official trailer. Now's your chance to make it your own. RES wants you to recut, remix or remake the trailer for Richard Linklater's new science fiction film, A Scanner Darkly, opening July 7.
Check out the contest site for full details.
IN THE STREET: STREET ART
le nuove generazioni creative della street art a Milano e dintorni:
pronipoti dei "beautiful looser".
Dopo 5 anni dalla prima mostra di street art a Milano, organizzata presso la sede storica di spazio Xpo , con artisti oggi noti come Microbo, Bo130, Abominevole, Pao e altri, il nuovo Spazio XPO offre alle nuove generazioni della street art la possibilità di intervenire negli spazi e sui muri dell’ex deposito di vernici di via Padova 76, occasione per avere visibilità in un luogo-diverso dalla strada - dove confrontarsi con un pubblico trasversale e critico.
La street art e' oggi un movimento artistico e culturale internazionale, all'interno del quale, al contrario di altri "movimenti" o correnti artistiche, il ricambio generazionale esiste e consente di tenere vivo un linguaggio che si esprime con tecniche sempre nuove (adesivi, plotters, interventi grafici su diversi materiali, oggetti di recupero decorati....) e contenuti di critica sociale molto forti.
Christian Gancitano (coordinatore ass. Atelier Spazio Xpo' )
Gli artisti oltre a presentare lavori, allestiranno insieme una superficie specifica dello spazio, ricoprendola di wall paintings e adesivi, creando una coloratissima opera permanente.
Artisti:
Anatomic Stylism www.fotolog.com/anatomic12
Dem www.fotolog.com/ok_ok_ok
Detrocboi www.fotolog.com/detrocboi
El Gato Chimney www.steambiz.com
108 www.fotolog.com/108
Luze www.fotolog.com/luze
Moorg www.fotolog.com/moorg
Phobya www.pho16k
Santy www.santy.tk
Spaghettochild www.spaghettochild.com
Tellas www.fotolog.com/rootikal222
Tsunami www.fotolog.com/t_s_u
Useless_Idea www.fotolog.com/uselessidea
link Spazio Xpo' http://www.asxpo.it/
Eliot Lipp****
As a young, passionate producer expecting to break through with his music, Eliot Lipp got lucky that one of his demos did not fall on deaf ears. Rather it fell into the hands of Scott Heren AKA Prefuse 73, who appreciated the work and permitted the artist to record his first album at Eastern Developments Music. Very downtempo, it oscillates between the sound of producer Bonobo and the instrumental hip-hop of Rjd2.
Since then, Eliot has continued to prove his worth by signing with Hefty Records and releasing Tacoma Mockingbird, a surprising and personal album accentuated by much more electro.
Profoundly inspired by Tacoma, his native city that he gave up for Los Angeles at the age of 18, the music of Eliot Lipp emanates with communicative nostalgia and intuitive melancholy. This nostalgic tendency is also found in his choice of equipment: armed with a vintage synthesizer and an old sampler, Lipp resuscitates breaks and samples by magically injecting new life into them.
To his sentimental trip-hop mix, he adds the incomparable sounds of his Korg synth, as well as a dash of funk, disco and soul—all which refreshingly infuse his productions.
website http://eliotlipp.net/
listen at MUTEK
It's no wonder that Montreal's Deadbeat, aka Scott Monteith records for Stefan Betke's ~scape label; while Pole made his name for his digital and electronic updates of dub, Deadbeat is if anything even more deeply entrenched in the classic Jamaican sound, stringing pixels together into a 21st Century approximation of '70s mixing-desk voodoo.
As one half of the duo Crackhaus, Monteith lets his sense of humor (and penchant for farmer's costumes) hang out; as Deadbeat he pursues dark, rich and entrancing soundscapes built of deep bass drops and seemingly infinite delay. Rippling synthesizer washes lap against resonant electric guitar figures and brushed drums evoke the warmth of the wood-paneled recording studios of yesteryear, while Latin-inspired arpeggios and stiff backbeats nod to today's most intricately detailed minimal techno.
http://scape-music.deWithout a doubt one of the most proeminent Spanish artists of the moment, Alex Under is known for musical projects like Dolly la Parton and Musica CharlistaNet28, the collective behind such labels as CMYK, Bemysheep and Cyclical Tracks. Since his QG Madrilène, his musical recipe is spread out little by little, achieving an impact on the world scene with the materialization of his debut LP Dispositivos de mi granja released in 2005 on Trapez.
An artist in perpetual mutation, Alex Under avoids linearity and takes pleasure in subtly changing grooves, putting in contrast different micro-sounds from techno varieties such as deep, minimal and house. Powerful bass lines, humor and emotion, and a certain dose of cerebral precision, help to create a hypnotic formula evoking an immediate physical reaction once the mental stimulus has begun. Perfect for letting yourself escape...
new BLOG about streaming online and webcasts
http://internetstreamingonline.blogspot.com/
Genetic diagnosis of embryos before they are implanted into the womb could become a standard part of IVF treatment. But should such testing be allowed? Join us to debate the issues and DECIDE on a group policy position.
The Dana Centre is one of 13 institutions across 11 European countries taking part in the DECIDE project. It puts policy into your hands as cards, then you decide where your team stands. The results from each event will be fed back to European policy-makers.
live event at danacentre
15/06/06, 19.00 - 21.00
Are we dependent on technology? This surreal and physical play tracks Tom and Joy as they grasp any fleeting chance to connect in endless anonymous cities. Will technology save them or drive them apart? An audience discussion follows the play.CONIGLIO VIOLA (doppia) mostra personale a Milano dal 31 maggio
LATO A: "Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate"
Dopo il successo alla Biennale dei Giovani Artisti e lo scalpore suscitato all’ultima edizione di Miart, ConiglioViola approda negli spazi di bnd con “Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate”.
Tra video-arte e musica elettronica, tra performance e pittura digitale, ConiglioViola conduce la sua indagine “coniglio-violentando” i confini tra i generi - tra opere d’arte e opere di consumo - attraverso un’analisi che misura le sempre più indefinite frontiere dell’espressione artistica.
ConiglioViola si muove ecletticamente attraverso una contaminazione tra i vari linguaggi creativi, una baraonda di stili che si traduce nello smantellamento delle relazioni gerarchiche fra le varie arti, in uno sconfinamento disinvolto che sfocia in una miscela espressiva ed esplosiva.
bnd ripropone così una nuova visione dell’arte che si fa anche entertainment, in cui l’esposizione, il setting, il circo tra i generi diventa l’opera stessa.
Usando come pretesto la rilettura in chiave elettronica di venti brani portati al successo dalle "più feroci dive italiane degli anni ‘80", ConiglioViola, erede elettronico del BiancoConiglio, ci catapulta in mondi surreali e “zoognanti”, dove il virtuale equivale a un livello altro di realtà.
La mostra da bnd sarà da intendersi come spazializzazione di una dialettica tra quotidiano e “mitologico” attraverso un susseguirsi di set, dipinti digitali, video e installazioni che propongono una mediazione tra il gusto, i miti degli anni ‘80 e la consapevolezza ironica e decostruttiva che il sentire contemporaneo porta inevitabilmente con sé.
LATO B: ConiglioViola & Loredana Bertè in "KILL LOLA project"
Loredana Bertè - per la quale in passato hanno firmato videoclip artisti come Andy Warhol, Guido Manuli e, più recentemente, Asia Argento - ha scelto ConiglioViola per la realizzazione del suo ultimo video di animazione "Strade di Fuoco", estratto dal fortunatissimo BabyBertè, volato subito al 3° posto nelle charts.
Nei locali sotterranei di bnd verrà proiettata - in anteprima assoluta - la versione "uncensored" del video e presentata l'opera "Kill Lola".
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NABA presenta
THE UTOPIAN DISPLAY PLATFORM
Incontri sull'attivita' curatoriale contemporanea
a cura di
Marco Scotini e Maurizio Bortolotti
Curating Degree Zero Archive
una mostra e due portali per l'arte contemporanea
In occasione della chiusura del terzo ciclo The Utopian Display Platform - ciclo d'incontri sull'attivita' curatoriale organizzati da NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti e a cura di Marco Scotini e Maurizio Bortolotti - martedi' 30 maggio approda per la prima volta in Italia "Curating Degree Zero Archive", una mostra itinerante, un archivio e un portale ideati da Barnaby Drabble e Dorothee Richter.
Un'occasione questa anche per inaugurare il nuovo spazio espositivo NABA SITE ospitato nell'edificio 16 della Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, che a fine anno ospitera' anche il prestigioso e-flux video rental curato da Anton Vidokle.
Anche questo evento, come i precedenti, nasce all'interno del Biennio Specialistico in Arti Visive NABA e si apre al pubblico con la volonta' di stimolare un dibattito, un confronto, in Italia e all'estero, sulle pratiche curatoriali ed espositive. E' il solo programma di studi in Europa in grado di associare una formazione nel campo della produzione delle Arti Visive ed un programma curatoriale altamente specializzato.
Curating Degree Zero Archive giunge a Milano dopo tre anni di tour europeo in centri come il New Media Art space di Basilea, il Centro d'Arte Contemporanea di Ginevra, l'Artlab at Imperial College di Londra, lo Sparwasser di Berlino.
http://www.curatingdegreezero.org
Invitare l'archivio di Curating Degree Zero in Italia significa aprire ai curatori italiani la possibilita' di confrontarsi con le intuizioni e le ricerche di altri curatori, e quindi incentivare la ricerca e la produzione di piattaforme di dibattito e di produzione per l'arte e la cultura contemporanee.
Questo archivio poliedrico e nomade si trasforma di volta in volta in una mostra per riflettere la natura del contesto che lo ospita. Per NABA l'allestimento sara' ideato dal gruppo A12 che rivestira' lo spazio espositivo completamente in velcro bianco, proponendo un dispositivo di archiviazione e consultazione flessibile ed interattivo, in cui i fruitori potranno modificare l'assetto e l'ordine dei materiali.
Curating Degree Zero Archive fa parte di un piu' ampio contenitore di ricerca, Curating degree zero, inaugurato nel 1998 con un simposio e una pubblicazione.
Questo progetto multimediale offre al pubblico e agli addetti ai lavori un'occasione unica di riflessione sulle mostre di arte contemporanea.
Il tour italiano, promosso da Daniele Balit, Cecilia Canziani e Benedetta di Loreto, prevede di affrontare alcuni temi legati alla situazione dell'arte contemporanea in Italia. In occasione della presentazione in Italia dell'archivio Curating Degree Zero, i tre curatori hanno creato un forum di discussione in collaborazione con la NABA di Milano (www.curating.it), che ha l'obiettivo di accompagnare il tour italiano di Curating Degree Zero aprendo periodicamente delle piattaforme di dibattito su diverse tematiche.
Inaugurazione martedi' 30 maggio ore 18.00
NABA, via Darwin 20 - Milano
Spazio NABA SITE - Edificio 16
Orari: dal lunedi' al venerdi' dalle ore 15.00 alle ore 18.00
Che cos’è l’arte pubblica: Millennium Park a Chicago.
A partire dalla meta’ degli anni ’80, il pubblico è al centro delle ricerche dell’arte pubblica. Nella ricerca artistica site specific il pubblico e il luogo assumono un ruolo nuovo nel costruire al vivo partecipazione. Millennium Park di Chicago è l’esempio di come l’arte possa creare spazio pubblico, attraendo una popolazione ampia e differenziata a cui offre fruizione estetica e appropriazione dello spazio attraverso l’opera.
Lorenza Perelli
incontro con Lorenza Perelli
Martedi' 23 maggio, ore 18
Spazio Oberdan
viale Vittorio Veneto 2 - Milano
Lorenza Perelli insegna Storia dell’Arte-Arte negli Spazi Pubblici alla Facolta’ di Architettura, Politecnico di Milano, sede di Piacenza.
È responsabile dell’Osservatorio di Arte Pubblica, con l’artista Emilio Fantin, un progetto di ricerca, documentazione e diffusione dell’arte pubblica. Ha curato con CityMined di Bruxelles Salon Milano, incontro europeo periodico e itinerante di artisti, curatori, architetti e urbanisti intorno al tema delle pratiche artistiche nelle trasformazioni urbane.
Collabora con Adelina Von Furstenberg all’organizzazione Art For The World
link incontemporanea.it
Popoli alla stecca
Al bar della stecca, una serata all'insegna dell'intercultura, per finanziare una esperienza di rete che mette insieme molte associazioni del sud Milano per l'organizzazione della festa dei popoli di Opera, non piu' sostenuta dal Comune.
Seguira' un concerto dei Brugal e dj-vj set "piatto misto".
22.00 - Isola Art Center - via Confalonieri, 10 secondo piano (Stecca degli Artigiani)
http://www.isolartcenter.org
