MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(CCNMatthews - May 31, 2006) - The Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies announces that the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec has made a non-refundable contribution of $880,592 to support research and creation in media arts. This new contribution increases the Economic Development Agency's support for Hexagram and brings the institute's total financial aid to $3.7 million
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INTERFACE and SOCIETY
a project by Atelier Nord http://anart.no
exhibition Nov.10th - Nov.19th 2006
at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo Norway.
http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society/
Atelier Nord is looking for artworks/installations
concerning the transformation of our everyday live
through electronic interfaces (see details below).
APPLICATION DEADLINE 1st July 2006.
Please apply via email to sense@anart.no
subject: INTERFACE and SOCIETY exhibition
with the following information:
1) Project name / year of production
2) Artist name(s) + email / contact information
3) Short project description
4) Project URL + URL for online documentation (pdf, pictures, video)
5) Short CV
Alternatively you can send the requested information via snailmail to:
Atelier Nord
Lakkegata 55 D
N-0187 Oslo Norway
ad: INTERFACE and SOCIETY exhibition
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INTERFACE and SOCIETY
In our everyday life we constantly have to cope more or less successfully
with interfaces. We use the mobile phone, the mp3 player, and our laptop,
in order to gain access to the digital part of our life. In recent years
this situation has lead to the creation of new interdisciplinary subjects
like "Interaction Design" or "Physical Computing".
We live between two worlds, our physical environment and the digital
space. Technology and its digital space are our second nature and the
interfaces are our points of access to this technosphere.
Since artists started working with technology they have been developing
interfaces and modes of interaction. The interface itself became an
artistic thematic.
The project INTERFACE and SOCIETY investigates how artists deal with
the transformation of our everyday life through technical interfaces.
With the rapid technological development a thoroughly critique of the
interface towards society is necessary.
The role of the artist is thereby crucial. S/he has the freedom to
deal with technologies and interfaces beyond functionality and usability.
The project INTERFACE and SOCIETY is looking at this development
with a special focus on the artistic contribution.
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INTERFACE and SOCIETY is an umbrella for a range of activities
throughout 2006 at Atelier Nord in Oslo. Read more at:
http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society/
This book explores how the practice of art, in particular of avant-garde art, keeps our relation to time, history and even our own humanity open. Examining key moments in the history of both technology and art from the beginnings of industrialisation to today, Charlie Gere explores both the making and purpose of art and how much further it can travel from the human body.
A dizzying array of artworks by over fifty creators, illustrated in a dynamic design that challenges conventional art publications.
Desktop computer technology and the Internet have opened up new possibilities for artistic creation, distribution, and appreciation. But in addition to projects that might conventionally be described as new-media art, there is now a wide spectrum of work—unclassified until this book—by practitioners not normally thought of as "artists." Engineers, software programmers, biologists, and architects, among others, are producing work on the Internet that can only be described as "art." Or can it? As rapid technological and scientific advances raise new cultural, ethical, and moral issues, while the white walls of the conventional museum or gallery seem to be straitjacketing cultural development, Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito confront our definition of art.
The book explores six strands of creation:
• Code as Muse: new artistic possibilities opened up by computer programming
• Deep Play: new narrative forms and aesthetics of computer games
• Autobotography: the rise of Webcam-based performance art
• Designing Politics: seemingly real Web sites, used to subvert commercial and political enterprise
• Preserving Artificial Life: a new biology established via human-engineered viruses and other digital life-forms
• Reweaving Community: the emergence of an online art world whose fugitive existence resists definition.
About the Authors
Joline Blais teaches cyberliterature at the University of Maine, where she codirects the new media program with Jon Ippolito.
Jon Ippolito is Assistant Curator of Digital Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, where he purchased the first piece of software art, and director of The Pool, an innovative online arts group.
http://at-the-edge-of-art.com/home.html
Damien Hirst, 40, works on the probably most expensive work of art for all times. Well-known
british artist for his shark inserted into formaldehyde, straight in co-operation with a
London-based jeweller creates a model of the concentration camp (KZ) Auschwitz Birkenau
occupied with diamonds.
Project web page: http://strafjustiz.de/
(from BIG ART magazine)
BIG ART magazine
http://netzwissenschaft.org/n0name.html
http://strafjustiz.de
Call for Papers - Please distribute to relevant forums
perthDAC 2007 - The Future of Digital Media Culture
7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference
15 -18th September 2007, Perth, Australia.
http://www.beap.org/dac
KEYWORDS - computer games, hypertext theory and literature, new media narrative, streaming media, interactive and networked performance, digital aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, augmented reality, cyberculture, electronic fiction, electronic music, electronic art, games culture, games system design, games theory, interactive architecture, cinema and video, MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
ABOUT perthDAC
perthDAC is the seventh iteration of Digital Arts and Culture. DAC was the first conference to attract and present the work of researchers, practitioners and artists working across the field of digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international conference in the public program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) in Perth, Australia. BEAP celebrates and critiques new and novel technologies (digital, bio, nano, other) by showcasing artworks made with, or that are about, new technologies. perthDAC's conference program will be closely inter-woven with BEAP's exhibitions.
perthDAC's academic programme is being developed with the close co-operation and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be active on the perthDAC conference steering committee.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are sought for PerthDAC 2007 that will illuminate both the near and long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers which present research outcomes, track trends or developments, describe case studies or works in progress, are speculative projection, challenge existing paradigms or record a history, are all welcome. Submissions are encouraged from any professional, craft or scholarly field that relates to communications art/design, cultural expression, practice and aesthetics, and the technical means by which they are enabled.
perthDAC 2007 accepts submissions from fields such as the humanities, social sciences, human-computer interaction and computer science studies, as well as those working both practically and theoretically in specific areas such as: digital/interactive art, digital/electronic literature, game studies, online communities, new media studies, affective computing, experience design, virtual environment design, etc.
Topics of interests may include, but are not limited to, computer games, hypertext theory and literature, new media narrative, streaming media, interactive and networked performance, digital aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, augmented reality, cyberculture,electronic fiction, electronic music, electronic art, games culture, games system design, games theory, interactive architecture, cinema and video, MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
Artists, early career scholars and PhD students are particularly encouraged to submit.
All abstracts and then full papers will be double blind peer reviewed by an international panel, and will be published in the proceedings. Some papers will be published as a special themed journal edition.
Dates for the submission of 500 word abstracts and then full papers are:
Abstracts: 14th August 2006
Full papers: 4th December 2006
See the perthDAC website "method" page for more details on the abstracts, papers and presentations process.
perthDAC website http://www.beap.org/dac
Turbulence Commission: "mobotag" by Marta Lwin
http://turbulence.org/Works/mobotag
"mobotag" reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It's collaborative phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, "mobotag" creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds. See art, read stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your neighborhood. By sending a text message to "mobotag", with your city location, you begin an interactive tour of a neighborhood. Using a unique geocoding feature, "mobotag" tells you what other messages exist in your local area. In the near future "mobotag" will also feature art projects including "flyHere," a mobile phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; "bugBytes," collectible graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and "lookHere," a written work in short form by a native NY writer.
"mobotag" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
BIOGRAPHY
Marta Lwin is an artist, technologist, and researcher who recently completed her masters at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Her background is both in art and activism. In the early to late 90's she worked with Greenpeace, UNEP, and Women's Environmental Network and Reclaim the Streets (UK). After joining a loose network of artists at Backspace (http://bak.spc.org/) in London, Lwin became interested in the creative use of technology as it relates to biology. Currently, her work focuses on the intersection of art and technology and includes projects that critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of the relationship between nature and technology. Her work has been shown at galleries in Europe and New York. Publications covering her work including networked_performance, Engadget, Core77, Treehugger, Cool Hunting, MocoLoco, WorldChanging, Rhizome and We Make Money Not Art.
For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org
INTERACTIVE SHADOW
Interactive Shadows è un'area interattiva dove le ombre vengono cancellate per poi essere trasformate e riproiettate sulla persona stessa. La digitalizzazione e trasformazione delle ombre diventa
medium per amplificare le capacita' espressive del corpo. Le ombre digitali sono manipolate nelle loro dimensioni e nel tempo stesso di proiezione, diventando una scia surrealistica. Le ombre
interattive ricreano un ambiente dove si ha l'illusione che spazio
e il tempo siano trasformati, stimolando esperienze meditative.
Progetto di: Giovanni Cannata e Anurag Sehgal - Id-lab Interaction Design Lab)
Otolab – op7 a mixedmedia Milano
Note biografiche
Osman Khan: new media artist e scrittore di libri sull'estetica dei nuovi media. Lavora su installazioni interattive a grande scala. Artista interessato all'uso delle tecnologie per costruire sistemi che aiutino a creare oggetti per critica sociale ed espressione estetica. Diplomato in Scienza dell'ingegneria meccanica alla Columbia University di New York. I suoi lavori sono stati esposti: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, Beyond Media Festival, Firenze, Italy; UC Santa Barbara, USA; LALALA Westweek, Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, USA; nano, LACMALab, Los Angeles, USA; telic gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, USA.
www.osmankhan.com/weinterruptyourregularlyscheduledprogram
NewmediaArt at mixedmedia festival MILANO
Dextro
03/05/08/11/15/21/23/26/28
Dextro, artista Austriaco, dal 1995 conduce una sperimentazione nei campi della grafica astratta e delle animazioni algoritmiche.
Il sito www.turux.org raccoglie movimenti semi-automatici e disegni, raccolti dal 1997-2005, realizzati in parte con Lia.
Skoltz_Kolgen - Askaa a mixedmedia Festival Milano
Incontro con Ugo Volli e Michele Mariani
Il titolo dell’incontro e' “Arte e pubblicita'": si parlera' del rapporto tra arte e pubblicita', di come molti artisti hanno utilizzato il linguaggio pubblicitario per le loro opere d’arte, di come l’arte stessa sia oggetto di promozione pubblicitaria e di immagini pubblicitarie che diventano esse stesse opere d’arte.
Ore 18.15 - Bologna, Ta Matete - via S. Stefano, 17/A
