LoCA 2007 and UBICOMP 2007

The 3rd International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2007) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany, on Thursday September 20th and Friday September 21st, right after UbiComp and right before the Oktoberfest.

http://www.ubicomp2007.org/

Ubiquitous Computing refers to the trend that we as humans interact no longer with one computer at a time, but rather with a dynamic set of small networked computers, often invisible and embodied in everyday objects in the environment.
The annual Ubiquitous Computing conference series provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives.
After Tokyo in 2005 and Orange County California in 2006, the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007) will come for four days to Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria in September 2007.

34th SIGGRAPH

The 34th SIGGRAPH International Conference and Exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques at the San Diego Convention Center, 5-9 August 2007.

- Siggraph graphic student competition
and call for 2008

- video competition for best fjorg animation

For video of the competition and the winning animations, visit http://workstations.tv/ throughout SIGGRAPH. For more information, visit www.siggraph.org/s2007/fjorg.

- BYU-BYU-View is wind interactive artwork. Try to blow into the screen. You can move objects with your breath and can feel wind from the screen. see EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (see at ivrc2006)
- A new form of ubiquitous haptic interaction that delivers weight sensations of virtual objects. Gravity Grabber is derived from the novel insight that fingerpad deformation provides a reliable sensation of weight even when proprioceptive sensation is absent.

- String Walker is a locomotion interface that uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable. String Walker enables users to maintain their positions while walking in various directions in virtual environments. Proprioceptive feedback for walking is not provided in most virtual environments.
- also ARTIST BOOKS

Co-Located Workshops & Events

Presented in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, these small symposia are related to important aspects of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Emerging Display Technologies
Saturday, 4 August, 8:30 am - 5 pm
San Diego Convention Center, Room 3

Graphics Hardware 07
Saturday, 4 August and Sunday, 5 August, 9 am - 5 pm
Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Hotel

NPAR 2007 - 5th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering
Saturday, 4 August, 8 am - 6 pm
Sunday, 5 August, 9 am - 5:30 pm
San Diego Convention Center, Room 10

Sandbox: An ACM SIGGRAPH Videogame Symposium
Saturday, 4 August, 9 am - 8 pm
Sunday, 5 August, 9 am - 3 pm
San Diego Convention Center, Rooms 29A-D, 30AB

Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)
Friday, 3 August and Saturday, 4 August, 8:30 am - 5 pm
Westin San Diego (formerly Wyndham San Diego)

geocaching at Boston cyberarts

A location-based performance piece at the last Cyberarts Festival in Boston, called OnePixel Boston, welcomes participation by geocaching players, who use GPS devices to find places by their location coordinates, posted on the Geocaching.com website.
OnePixel Boston, which was created by cartographer Steven R. Holloway, is taking place in Boston's Back Bay Fens park, in a precisely marked area representing a single pixel in an image taken by the Landsat 7 satellite.

MIND VJ

Lenara Verle

MIND VJ: An Interface to Manipulate Moving Images in Real-time Using Brain Waves

The role of the VJ is to create a visual performance in real time, inspired by the rhythm and flow of the DJ's music performance. In MIND VJ, the idea is to use the rhythm of our own brain waves as the conducting element for the performance. In this manner, we can tap into a normally "hidden" area of our body (brain function and its electrical activity) and make it "visible" in the form of projected images.
In this case, the images projected are not wave graphs, like the ones usually plotted by medical EEG machines, but artistic images, undergoing real-time changes and manipulations controlled by the current brain wave output of the subject.

The MIND VJ system is built using the following hardware and software:
- Brainwave Analyzer System IBVA http://www.ibva.co.uk/ /

- Image manipulation software MAX/MSP/Jitter
- Macintosh Computer and MIDI interface

The brain was always considered a "black box" we don't know much about. One of the ways to get direct information from the brain is to monitor its electrical activity through the technique know as EEG (electroencephalograph).

When discovered in 1908, different frequency of "brain waves" were identified and classified, and associated with different states of alertness and behavior, as well as diseases (brain seizures, etc) Provocatively, The MIND VJ project references thoughts of utopian cyber dreams about the ultimate direct brain to computer interface, and on the other side brings paranoid ideas of "mind reading" and "mind control". The ultimate goal is to create a visually interesting experience, at the same time bringing awareness to the amount of control we have (and don't have) over our own brains.

from the first The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium
in Montréal, Canada - 19-22 April, 2007

QUASI

QUASI, an expressive and intelligent robot that features an innovative behaviour control system, is to be one of the attractions of the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) TECHtalks - The 2007 Conference, being held on May 30 at the Ritz.

... Patel obtained a BS in Physics and a BS in Psychology from Harvey Mudd College where she first merged her interests in robotics and psychology by conducting research on emotion-based controllers for planetary rovers...

via Robot on mission to make people smile

Paul Vanouse

Latent Figure Protocol by Paul Vanouse takes the form of a media installation that uses DNA samples to create emergent representational images. The installation includes a live science experiment, the result of which is videotaped and repeated for the duration of the gallery exhibit.
Employing a reactive gel and electrical current, Latent Figure Protocol produces images that relate directly to the DNA samples used.
The above images were re-produced live. Each performance lasts approximately one hour, during which time audience members see the image slowly emerge.

THE TRIP-POP GAME

THE TRIP-POP GAME a Trieste






- Gaetano K. Bodanza
- David Byrne
- Anton Corbijn
- Franko B
- Robert Gligorov
- Micha Klein
- Gerald van der Kaap

June 9 - July 30 2007
http://www.lipanjepuntin.com/exhib.php

Slow Dancing

David Michalek ’s “Slow Dancing” is a video installation of 43 dancers, projected on three 50-foot screens mounted on the facade of the New York State Theater

on NYtimes

information on pdf

BodyMediaInternational Interactive Art Exhibition

BodyMediaInternational Interactive Art Exhibition
Date: 2007/7/14-8/12
Venue: Shanghai Sculpture Space
Host: Shanghai Institute of Visual Art Fudan University Shanghai Sculpture Center
Organizer:O Art CenterCurator: Richard CASTELLI( France) Yan GONG (China)

Exhibition Concept: With its booming economy, China is bound to climb another new summit through its self-reliant innovation efforts. The combination of art and science supports the whole innovation process both theoretically and technologically, and adds the human-friendly element to the concept of art-life and science-humanity.Owe to the unique characters of transition, pervasion and participation, interactive art breaks the long-existed art rules with an unprecedented organic way of thinking and presenting, which bring directly the visitors into the process of art and science experience. Conceived at the cutting edge of the trend, “Body Media—International Interactive Art Exhibition” uses its visitor’s “body” as interface, in the light of firsthand “individual experience”, explores the boundary between “Art” and “Technology”, and bridging them with the bricks of humanization and emotionization. “Art could be more, technology could be more.” this exhibition also wants to seek the future possibilities for both art and technology.This exhibition will feature eleven most active artists and art groups in this field from ten countries bringing their magnum opus and latest works, each of which makes its debut in China. Companying each piece of work are photos or videos telling the process behind each piece, hoping to fill the gap between artists and viewers. From another angle, it proves that “Science and Technology” is not something isolated and abstract to human being, instead, it cooperates with human’s spirit and body until destroying our body’s limitations as it has done to the limitations of contemporary art.

Exhibition Introduction:
Four chapters:Body, actor of the workBody represented in the workBody, receptacle of the workBody, as a work itself

Chapter 1：Body, actor of the workArtists：Jean Michel BRUYERE (France)Ulf LANGHEINRICH (Austria)TIME’S UP (Austria)DU Zhenjun (China)Julien Maire (France)
Chapter 2: Body represented in the workArtists：Dumb Type (Japan)GRANULAR SYNTHESIS (Austria)Kurt HENTSCHLAGER (Austria)Christian PARTOS (Switzerland)
Chapter 3：Body, receptacle of the workArtists：Kurt HENTSCHLAGER (Austria)Miguel ROTSCHILD (Argentina)
Chapter 4：Body, as a work itselfArtists：Theo JANSEN (Netherlands)

http://www.oartcenter.com/wblog/
http://www.oartcenter.com/
see chinadaily article This art is alive!

Kyoto prize 2007

Inamori Foundation (President: Kazuo Inamori) is pleased to announce the laureates for the 2007 Kyoto Prize, international awards presented to people who have contributed greatly to the progress of science, the advancement of civilization, and the enrichment and elevation of the human spirit.

*Advanced Technology Category Dr. Hiroo Inokuchi

(Japan, February 3, 1927 / Chemist; Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo and Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences)"

Pioneering and Fundamental Contributions to Organic Molecular Electronics"

*Basic Sciences Category Dr. Hiroo Kanamori

(Japan, October 17, 1936 / Geophysicist; Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Technology)

"Elucidation of Physical Processes of Earthquakes and Its Application to Hazard Mitigation"

*Arts and Philosophy Category Ms. Pina Bausch

(Germany, July 27, 1940 / Choreographer and Artistic Director)"

A Choreographer Who Has Broken Down the Boundaries between Dance and Theater and Pioneered a New Direction for Theatrical Art"

http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/index_e.html

see last year winners kyoto prize 2006

New York - States of Mind

Through the works of pioneers such as Marcel Duchamp, Hans Haacke, Gordon Matta-Clark, as well as of Kehinde Wiley, Carolee Schneemann, Jon Kessler and other artists, the exhibition "New York - States of Mind" presents a defining aspect of the New York art scene – namely, the specific ways in which the city's artists engage the public in debate. Accompanied by an extensive film programme, the exhibition makes visible the close mutual relationship between the inhabitants, the city and the cultures that contribute to New York's vitality.

Mary Ellen Mark- Batman and Little Barbies

link http://www.hkw.de/

A Report on the Surveillance Society

A Report on the Surveillance Society
from Privacy conference 2006

Documenta 12 magazine

MAGAZINES
DOCUMENTA 12 MAGAZINES:

LIST OF PARTICIPATING JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

• A Prior, Gent http://www.aprior.org/
• Afterall, London/Los Angeles http://www.afterall.org/
• AIDA, Tokyo
• Akhbar, http://www.akhbarelyom.org.eg/adab
• Amkenah, Alexandria
• archplus, Berlin http://www.archplus.net/
• Art China, Shanghai http://www.duoyunxuan.com/
• ART iT, Tokyo http://www.art-it.jp/
• Art World, Shanghai http://www.yishushijie.com/
• art-ist, Istanbul
• arte y crítica, Santiago de Chile http://www.arteycritica.cl/
• Bidoun, New York http://www.bidoun.com/
• Birikim, Istanbul www.birikimdergisi.com/birikim/
• Brumaria, Madrid/Barcelona http://www.brumaria.net/
• Cabinet, New York http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
• Camera Austria International, Graz http://www.camera-austria.at/
• Canal Contemporâneo, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo www.canalcontemporaneo.art.br/blog/
• Frontiers, Haikou taya.chinajournal.net.cn
• Glänta, Göteborg http://www.glanta.org/
• Grey Room, New York mitpress.mit.edu/grey
• IDEA, Cluj http://www.ideamagazine.ro/
• journal BOL, Seoul insaartspace.or.kr/en/Journal/Journal.htm
• Kakiseni.com, Petaling Jaya http://www.kakiseni.com/
• kalam, Jakarta www.utankayu.org/en
• kunst.ee, Tallinn www.kl.ee/kunstee
• Le monde diplomatique, Berlin /Oslo http://www.monde-diplomatique.de/ http://www.diplo.no/
• LTTR, New York http://www.lttr.org/
• malmoe, Wien http://www.malmoe.org/
• Masharef, Haifa
• Maska, Ljubljana http://www.maska.si/
• Metronome, Paris http://www.metronomepress.com/
• Metropolis M, Utrecht http://www.metropolism.org/
• Moscow Art Magazine, Moskva xz.gif.ru
• Multitudes, Paris multitudes.samizdat.net/
• n.paradoxa, London web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/#current
• Naqd, Alger http://www.revue-naqd.net/
• Chimurenga, Cape Town http://www.chimurenga.co.za/
• Chindwin, Yangon
• Chto Delat? /What is to be done?, St. Petersburg http://www.chtodelat.org/
• CLiCK (Surat YSC, KUNCI, LeBur, Clea), Yogyakarta http://www.kunci.or.id/
  http://www.cemetiartfoundation.org/
  clea.kunci.or.id
• Concrete Reflection, Skopje
• Criterios, La Habana http://www.criterios.es/
• Critical Inquiry, Chicago criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
• Ctrl+P,Manila www.trauma-interrupted.org/ctrlp
• Curare, Ciudad de México
• De witte Raaf, Brussel /Bruxelles http://www.dewitteraaf.be/
• diatxt, Kyoto http://www.kac.or.jp/
• domus, Rozzano http://www.domusweb.it/
• Dushu, Beijing
• -empyre-, Sydney http://www.subtle.net/ /empyre
• Esfera Pública, Bogotá http://www.esferapublica.org/
• Eurozine, Wien http://www.eurozine.com/
• exindex, Budapest http://www.exindex.hu/
• focas, Singapore
• Frakcija, Zagreb www.cdu.hr/frakcija/index.htm
• Natural Selection, Auckland http://www.naturalselection.org.nz/
• Neural, Bari http://www.neural.it/
• Øjeblikket, København http://www.ojeblikket.net/
• Off the Edge, Petaling Jaya
• Pages, Rotterdam/Tehran http://www.pagesmagazine.net/
• Pananaw, Quezon City
• Parachute, Montréal http://www.parachute.ca/
• INTO-GAL, Melbourne
• Performance Research, Manchester /London http://www.performance-research.net/
• Piktogram, Warszawa http://www.piktogram.pl/
• Pulgar, Caracas
• Punto de Vista, Buenos Aires http://www.bazaramericano.com/
• Radical Philosophy, London http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/
• Ramona, Buenos Aires http://www.ramona.org.ar/
• Remont Art Magazine, Beograd http://www.remont.co.yu/
• Revista de Critica Cultural, Santiago de Chile http://www.criticacultural.org/
• Rizoma, São Paulo http://www.rizoma.net/
• sab◊t, Ciudad de México possibleworlds.org
• Sarai, Delhi http://www.sarai.net/
• sentAp!, Ipoh, Perak
• Shahrzad, Zürich
• Site, Stockholm http://www.sitemagazine.net/
• Siyahi, Istanbul
• springerin, Wien http://www.springerin.at/
• studio, Tel Aviv http://www.studiomagazine.co.il/
• talawas, Hanoi http://www.talawas.org/
• Teorija koja Hoda – TkH (Walking Theory) journal, Beograd http://www.tkh-generator.net/
• Thai Bookazine, (Budd Page, Fah Diew Kahn, Midnight University, Open, Prachatai, Questionmark), Thailand http://www.midnightuniv.org/ http://www.prachatai.com/ http://www.questionmag.net/
• Third Text, London www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09528822.html
• trópico, São Paulo p.php.uol.com.br/tropico
• Urban China, Shanghai http://www.urbanchina.com.cn/
• Vacarme, Paris http://www.vacarme.eu.org/
• Valdez, Bogotá
• Vector, Ia s¸ i www.periferic.org/vector/vector.html
• velocidadcrítica, Santa Caterina N.L.
• Yishu, Vancouver http://www.yishujournal.com/
• Zehar, Donostia /San Sebastián http://www.zehar.net/
  

http://magazines.documenta.de/

Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?

Ricardo Basbaum - (artista brasiliano laureato in biologia)
"Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?" is a project about involving the other as participant in a set of protocols indicative of the effects, conditions and possibilities of contemporary art. Would you like to participate in an artistic experience? starts with the offering of a painted steel object (125 x 80 x 18 cm) to be taken home by the participant (individual, group or collective), who will have a certain period of time (around one month) to realize an artistic experience with it. Although the physical object is the actual element which triggers the processes and starts up the experiences, it in fact brings to the foreground certain sets of invisible lines and diagrams concerning all kinds of relations and sensorial data, making visible networking and mediation structures.
http://www.nbp.pro.br/

for DOCUMENTA 12 -
For documenta 12, twenty new objects were produced. Ten of them circulate in Brazil and Latin America, nine in Europe and one in Africa. The project is conducted in four different and complementary stages: (1) invitation to participate; (2) experiences by the participants; (3) display of the experiences at the website; (4) installation-exhibition. The first three stages are performed since the objects are distributed at the experiences’ sites, and start circulating; the fourth stage takes place with the display of the results in an sculptural-architectonic installation developed for the exhibition in Kassel in June 2007.

kasbah

Ursprung des Projektes war die Überlegung, kunstinteressierten Gästen jenseits des alltäglichen Hotel- und Jugendherbergsbetriebes während der Documenta12 eine außergewöhnliche Übernachtungsmöglichkeit anzubieten. Ziel ist es, „gewohnte“ Lebensgewohnheiten zu hinterfragen, Möglichkeiten aufzuzeigen und eine lebendige Diskussion anzuregen.

http://www.kasbah-haeuser.de/

http://www.kunsthochschule-kassel.de/

creativ TV

Creativtv.net est une web tv consacrée à l'art contemporain, à la photographie, à la BD...Creativtv vous propose de rencontrer dans ses reportages les artistes, les critiques d'artet les commissaires d'exposition qui font l'actualité artistique..., au total plus de 300 vidéossont consultables en ligne dans nos archives. http://www.creativtv.net/

Arte Nuevo InteractivA07

Arte Nuevo InteractivA07
http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva
Arte Nuevo InteractivA07, the fourth edition of a biennale international curatorial project of new art, new media, electronic art and Experimental Interdisciplinary Laboratory will take place from June 14 to July 15, 2007 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. The art exhibit is presented in conjunction with conferences, workshops, presentations, live media events, video screenings and performance with artists, curators, art historians and critics from Australia, Italy, Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Peru, Slovenia, Mexico, England, El Salvador, Guatemala, Palestine, Dominican Republic, Colombia, United States, Canada, Chile, Iran, Germany, Lebanon and India.
via noemalab

T01

Terminal Zero One (T01) is a site-specific digital art exhibition of five projects exploring themes of contemporary air travel and the architecture of airports. Airports are networks, information is increasingly networked, the T01 exhibit examines people as data, motion as trajectories and the symbiosis of virtual and actual

http://www.year01.com/terminal01/
http://www.year01.com/