Serious Games Institute

At a recent cocktail party, David Wortley set up a video camera to record images of the guests in the room. The video was streamed, live, into a computer-generated version of the party in Second Life, the online virtual world, where participants' "avatars" could watch them sipping their drinks. Then a video of the virtual version of the party was beamed back onto a screen in the real-world room.
"People were watching people watching people watching them," Wortley said, acknowledging, "It can be a little difficult to get your head around in the beginning."

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Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

On October 20, the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art will make its debut in Overland Park, Kansas. Designed by architecture firm Kyu Sung Woo Architects, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the museum will be located on the Johnson County Community College campus.

The Man for a Day Workshop

"The Man for a Day Workshop a.k.a. Drag King Workshop is a unique experience for women only. This is a workshop that I've been teaching for over 12 years and women have taken it for a variety of reasons. Maybe during a lifetime of observing men in your neighborhood, on the subway, in the office, in cars, in your home, etc., you have a certain curiosity about how they "get away" with certain behaviors that would be considered undesirable in women. You might want to experience the transformation from female to male as a way to intercept your so-called "normal" behavior as woman, and discover new responses. "

http://www.dianetorr.com//

Volare

dal comunicato stampa ... "A chiudere la mostra quasi un omaggio ad un artista che ancora ci manca come Alighiero Boetti (Aerei,1978), un'opera il cui motivo grafico e' stato riprodotto in migliaia di esemplari e regalato ai viaggiatori dell'Austrian Airlines, un grande esempio di disseminazione per andare al di là del circuito dell'arte."

http://www.archivioalighieroboetti.it/
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alighiero_Boetti

CORSOVENEZIAOTTO
C.so Venezia, 8 Milano
Ingresso libero

VOLA R E
Dal 21 settembre al 10 novembre 2007
A cura di Gianni Romano

Alighiero Boetti
Riccardo Gusmaroli
Andrea Mastrovito
Maurizio Mochetti
Charles Moody
Marco Neri
Perino e Vele
Maria Francesca Tassi

http://www.corsoveneziaotto.com/

Future Histories of the Moving Image

An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland, UK, 16-18 November 2007

Keynote Speakers: Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine, Independent Film Parliament, and London Metropolitan University, UK), Rick Prelinger (archivist, writer and filmmaker, USA), and Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies, USA)

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As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating all areas of our moving image culture.

The conference will also host an open workshop – with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate, the British Film Institute, Marcel Schwierin (Cinovid Database, Germany), Gaby Wijers (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts) and Lukasz Ronduda (The Archive of Polish Experimental Film, Warsaw) – which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources. The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme.

Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the University of Sunderland, the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal.