Stardoll.com
Sequoia Capital led a $6-million investment Tuesday for Stardoll.com, an online dress-up and makeover site looking to hook into the social networking phenomenon for fashion-addicted girls.
http://www.redherring.com
POSTMEDIA condition
Grazie ad un articolo di Domenico Quaranta intitolato la " LA CONDIZIONE POSTMEDIALE" - Una mostra al Centro Conde Duque di Madrid è l'occasione per ripercorrere il pensiero sulla nostra era postmediale, da Rosalind Krauss a Peter Weibel" su undo.net sono andata a rileggermi la presentazione di Peter Weibel alla mostra POSTMEDIALE KONDITIONARCO 2006 dove si trova una definizione di POSTMEDIA CONDITION qui' riassunta brevemente.
La POSTMEDIA CONDITION e' definita in due fasi :
- La prima fase (equivalence of the media) consiste nel riconoscimento a tutti i nuovi media (fotografia, film, video, digital art) dello stesso valore artistico attribuito ai media tradizionali (pittura e scultura) ...
- La seconda fase invece (the mixing of the media) consiste nell'uso di diversi media contemporaneamente come ad esempio ..... una fotografia diventa una scultura, installazioni video possono essere tratti di letteratura o architettura, i programmi di grafica di chiamano paint-program, perche' ralativi al painting, alla pittura...
Con gli ipod chiunque puo' inventarsi la propria musica, col videocasting chiunque puo' avere un canale televisivo...
The Postmedia Condition. Peter Weibel
P.S. VEDI ANCHE postmedia.net
FUTURESONIC 2006
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
THE FUTURESONIC 2006 AND PLAN CONFERENCE
MANCHESTER UK
20-23 JULY 2006
http://10.futuresonic.com/social_technologies_summit.html
The Social Technologies Summit is presented in association with PLAN - The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network, and features a linked exhibition Off The Map http://10.futuresonic.com/off_the_map.html
Opening event Thursday 20th July, 4.30pm
Conference Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd July, 10am-5pm
Delegate Pass 45 GBP
http://10.futuresonic.com/tickets.html
SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
Masaki Fujihata,
last.fm,
Regine Debatty
Steve Coast
Share NYC
Toshio Iwai (Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS),
Matt Webb,
Richard Peckham (Galileo/Astrium),
Inke Arns,
Stephen Kovats,
Tom Carden,
Atau Tanaka,
Jose Luis de Vicente,
Stanislav Roudavski,
Steve Benford,
Rob Van Kranenburg,
James Wallbank,
Ben Russell,
Drew Hemment.
Plus talks and presentations by festival artists including...
Zachary Lieberman,
Simon Pope,
Michelle Teran,
Jen Southern,
Pete Gomes,
Open Music Archive, Owl Project,
Pete Hindle,
Sven Koenig,
Victor Gama,
mimoSa,
Bandung Center for New Media Arts, and many more.
http://10.futuresonic.com/workshops.html
http://www.futuresonic.com/
C5 Quest for Success during the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA
The C5 Quest for Success - Call for Participants
Enter to play the C5 Quest for Success during the ZeroOne San Jose/ISEA
2006 Symposium August 9-12, 2006
http://www.c5corp.com
The C5 Quest for Success is an invited project for ZeroOne San Jose: A
Global Festival of Art on the Edge. The ZeroOne San Jose Festival will
transform San Jose into the North American epicenter of art and digital
culture from August 7th to the 13th, showcasing the world's most
innovative contemporary artists. http://01sj.org
Quest for Success is curatorial selection as urban game, testing
competitors' analysis, management, and cooperative decision making
skills - traits needed for success in Silicon Valley. The grand prize
is a six to twelve week residency at the Montalvo Arts Center co-sponsored
with C5 and a Silicon Valley corporate partner - a great opportunity
for the right player with the right project pitch. Contestants navigate the
streets of San Jose exploring GPS controlled narratives in an attempt
to locate the C5 Corporate Limo. Once there, you just might have the
opportunity to pitch your proposal to a panel of distinguished experts.
A single winner from each evening's competition then advances to the
final round on Saturday, August 12th. Three finalists representing
TALK, DEMO, PERFORM 'present' their pitch live on-stage to an audience of
thousands during the ZeroOne San Jose culminating celebration.
Does the smell of gasoline and oil perk you up like caffeine? Do lat
and long coordinates make your heart sing? Then apply for a chance to win
the Montalvo Arts Center C5 artist residency. Six to twelve weeks in
picturesque Saratoga, California, working on the project of your dreams
with the assistance of one of Silicon Valley's corporate powerhouses.
Does mapping make you giddy? Does your imagination swell listening to
stories about entrepreneurial masterminds and nefarious misdeeds? The
C5 Quest for Success is your opportunity to be the passionate competitor
you know you are.
Apply to participate: http://www.c5corp.com/projects/quest/You might
be the next big thing coming out of Silicon Valley!
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C5 Corporation specializes in cultural production informed by the
blurred boundaries of research, art and business practice
http://www.c5corp.com
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C5 presents the C5 Quest for Success in cooperation with GoCar, renters
of the world's first GPS Guided Story Telling cars powered by ZeeZou
gps tour software.
http://www.gocarsf.com/
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nominated d.velop digital award
BERLIN, GERMANY.- Last year the d.velop digital award [ddaa] was initiated and is in its second round. Five artists are nominated: one from Germany, one from England and three from the US. The jury will decide on the winner for 2006 at the end of June. This year [DAM] Berlin presents for the first time in its summer exhibition the nominated artists with a selection of their artworks and documentary films. At the same time Kunsthalle Bremen shows the first winner of the [ddaa] 2005, Vera Molnar, with a retrospective of her digital career which will run until 13th August 2006.
Here are the nominations for the [ddaa] 2006:
Charles Csuri, USA
Nominated by Prof. Peter Weibel, director of the ZKM, Karlsruhe
Professor at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) and Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University. He was born in 1922 and is internationally recognized as one of the most important pioneers of computer generated art. In 1964 he started writing his first programs with an IBM computer, which had to be transferred to punchcards for further information processing. He produced a wide range of artwork like plotter sketches, interactive objects and digital films. In 1965 he began creating computer animated films. He directed basic research in computer graphics for over 22 years. The results of the research have been applied to flight simulators, computer-aided design, visualization of scientific phenomena, magnetic resonance imaging, architecture, and special effects for television and films. Charles Csuri received international honours and awards. He has participated in a large number of international exhibitions.
Paul DeMarinis, USA
Nominated by Steve Dietz, curator and leader of the ISEA 2006
Paul has worked from 1971 as a multimedia artist. He is interested in the interactive utilization of the computer in the capacity of a large amount of operations for a huge amount of data. His first interactive work was generated in 1979. His artwork is characterized by numerous performance-pieces, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. Paul DeMarinis has taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He has performed internationally and created music with numerous artists. His interactive artworks have been shown around the world. He has received major awards and fellowships.
William Latham, UK
Nominated by Keith Watson, gallery owner and curator of Digital Art, London
Born in 1961, he was a student at Oxford University and at the Royal College of Art. Before becoming a research fellow at IBM UK, he lectured at the School of Art in Middlesex and the St. Martin’s College of Art. Between 1987 – 1994 at IBM, Latham established his unique artistic style and began working with IBM mathematician Steven Todd. William Latham's work is inspired by his fascination with the processes of Evolution and Mutation; influenced by Charles Darwin and H.R. Giger he deloped the program "Mutator", which creates evolutionary and organic forms.
Latham's work has been exhibited in the UK, Japan, Germany, Australia, Spain, France and Hong Kong to much critical acclaim. He is co-author of "Evolutionary Art and Computers" with Stephen Todd (Academic Press 1992).
Manfred Mohr, D-USA
Nominated by Jasia Reichardt, curator and author, London
Born 1938 in Pforzheim, Germany, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and was introduced to the first computer in 1969. His computer generated art was presented in the first museum exhibtion at the ARC, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Manfred Mohr developed a hermetical concept for the representation of cubes in a more-dimensional space. In 2000 he started to use colour, after using black and white for more than three decades. He created several series of drawings, paintings, reliefs and objects. Since 2000 he presents his algorithms as well as a process on a screen. Manfred Mohr has received numerous international awards. His work is represented in various important museums and private collections.
Roman Verostko, USA
Nominated by Bonnie Mitchell, Associate Professor and SIGGRAPH 06 Art Show Chair
Professor Emeritus, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, trained as a painter and art historian, was born in 1922 in Tarts, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the Art Institute Pittsburgh, in Latrobe (Pennsylvania) and in New York and afterwards in studio 17, Paris. He exhibited his first application of electronics in 1967, The "Psalms in Sound and Image". Since 1982 he concentrated on plotter sketches. He has experimented with and perfected the art of brush technique with a plotter, in addition to the usual ink-pen and developed his own software. Based on philosophical topics his work provides his very own aesthetics. A recipient of major awards, his work has been shown in art and technology exhibitions on four continents. Roman Verostko has published articles and lectured internationally on the subject of Art and Algorithm. 1993 he was the director of ISEA.
resources artdaily and DAMberlin
Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye
Boris, 2002 tattoed taxidermied Russian pig
17 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 35 inches
courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
17 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 35 inches
courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
0100101110101101.ORG
Nei primi accessi su 0100101110101101.ORG, trovavo una mappa che segnalava durante l'arco delle giornate i vari spostamenti di un furgoncino che si muoveva tra il nord Italia e la Catalunia.
Era il 2002 e il progetto era VOPOS un anno con un satellite di sorveglianza.
dal sito: Telephone, satellites and the Internet: VOPOS exploits and merges three kinds of nets.
The two members of 0100101110101101.ORG are the cell under control. Since the beginning of the project VOPOS they wear a GPS transmitter that, exchanging data with the satellites, constantly transmits to their website their exact position on the urban environment. A software draws on a digital geographic map the exact position in which they reside, establishing a path that traces all the movements.
Successivamente una installazione a Berlino dove ha ricostruito un finto NIKEplatz suscitando polemiche e accuse da quello ufficiale di Vienna.
Un nuovo modo di appropriarsi di grandi simboli commerciali per autopromuoversi e come atto di denuncia sociale ... il cosidetto "guerrilla marketing".
La caratteristica di 0100101110101101.ORG e' proprio il gioco con le identita'; oltre che appropriarsi dei "simboli commerciali" infatti la sua prima apparizione nel 1998 e' stata una vera reincarnazione : Darko Maver, un artista inventato e anche morto, che ha avuto numerose recensioni e una partecipazione alla Biennale di Venezia.
Su questa scia si sono formati altri movimenti come Serpicanaro, famosa stilista giapponese (e/o anagramma di san Precario) che e' riuscita a richiamare alla sua sfilata durante la settimana della Moda a Milano numerose presenze.
Internet offre la possibilita' a chiunque di reinventarsi una seconda vita, come il clamoroso "second life" con milioni di utenti che si sono riprogettati uno spazio virtuale su misura.
0100101110101101.org lavora su internet ricreando copie di siti esistenti, come biennale.py o vaticano.org o il recente unitedwestandmovie.com
dal sito su vaticano.org "The night of the 10th December 1998 begins the action that will go down in history as The First Internet Coup. Over 24 hours, a commando takes posses of the official online organ of information of the Vatican State, or the Holy See. The commando buys the domain name vaticano.org pointing it to a Canadian server, where has already been created a huge website esthetically identical to the official one (www.vatican.va) .
An editorial network works 24-7 with precise instructions: copy as many texts as possible from the official website, modify them slightly and publish them in the fake one.
Like the Pope, 0100101110101101.ORG has decided to open the Holy Doors of the Net to pilgrims from the whole world: from the moment in which Vaticano.org is opened, a huge stream of visitors pours into the fake website. Over one year the spoof website reaches more than 4 million hits: a one-year radical performance and the Net will never be the same."
0100101110101101.ORG
news - il gruppo 0100101110101101.org, Franco e Eva Mattes teknemedia
...e Alessandra Ghidoni hanno vinto il Premio New York
Marc Quinn
Come scrive Germano Celant: "Il superamento dei confini tra realta' interiore e realta' esteriore, tra mondo vero e mondo apparente, lascia risplendere o dischiude una concezione della vita e dell’essere umano in cui i segni del corpo non vogliono dire nulla, perche' lo sforzo di interpretare una persona e' un tentativo inutile, la dinamicita' e il valore non dipendono dal mostrare ma dall’espressione e dai valori interni che sono occulti".
http://www.bonomogallery.com/
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