ArchiFest is an Architectural Design Festival that celebrates the built environment and preludes the Singapore Architecture Biennale 2010. 
Through November 30
El Sol Studios
936 South Alamo - Texas
El Sol Studios presents their 7th annual community altar and exhibit. The exhibit feature a huge collaborative community altar and art exhibit displaying this wonderful cultural Mexican celebration, as well as a group show honoring this holiday by local artists. Join us as we await the procession as they stop and read calaveras for us and our guests.
Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy) announces the exhibition EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS from 30 November 2007 to 3 February 2008
The event marks the inauguration of the CCCS - Centre For Contemporary Culture Centre La Strozzina at the Palazzo Strozzi, a space created as a platform for the vast range of practices that characterize contemporary art and culture.
The exhibition space is located in the recently restored rooms under the magnificent inner courtyard in Palazzo Strozzi known as La Strozzina.
In the past, these spaces housed the cellars of the Palazzo, a veritable jewel of the Italian Renaissance. From the end of the Second World War until the great flood in 1966, these rooms hosted the most important exhibitions held in Florence. The new centre has a total of eleven rooms of different sizes, with a total floor area of 850 square metres.
The approach chosen by the CCCS is to present a programme that features not only thematic exhibitions, but also regular installations by independent curators and, film and video cycles, workshops, performances and lectures."The CCCS is a place for contemporary culture," stresses Franziska Nori, the new centre's Project Director, "where projects will tackle aspects of urban planning, economics, social and political development, the sciences, technology as well as aesthetics and ethics, as contemporary art itself has already broken free of the individual disciplinary approach. The programme thus developed will enable visitors to experience and examine both the heterogeneity of contemporary art and a range of different curatorial and interpretive standpoints."
Yves Netzhammer, The Subjectivisation of Repetition, 2007 VideoThe inaugural installation - Emotional Systems, contemporary art between emotion and reason, 30 November 2007 to 3 February - develops in three clearly distinct yet complementary phases: an Exhibition, a Publication and a programme of Lectures designed to investigate the topic of emotions, proposing a reinterpretation of the correlation between the contemporary artist, the work of art and the user, in the light of the latest discoveries in the neurological sciences about the human brain and its effects on the emotions.
Curated by Franziska Nori and Martin Steinhoff, the exhibition is the focal point of Emotional Systems. The exhibition presents works by contemporary artists who engage, in different ways, and some more explicitly than others , with the corporal and sensorial, but also rational and cognitive aspects of the experience of emotions, both in creating the works and in perceiving them.
The artists in the exhibition include: Bill Viola (USA), William Kentridge (South Africa), Yves Netzhammer (Switzerland), Katharina Grosse (Germany), Christian Nold (Great Britain), Maurice Benayoun (France), Teresa Margolles (Mexico) Andrea Ferrara alias Ongakuaw (Italy) and the poets Elisa Biagini, Antonella Anedda and Valerio Magrelli.
The participating artists all work with different media. They have been chosen for the different ways in which their works emotionally affect the public, a process in which empathy often plays a significant role. Visitors will find themselves being involved at sensorial, cognitive and emotional levels.
Throughout the exhibition, visits will be accompanied by an art education programme (especially created for the project by Barbara Campaner) that will enable visitors to interact with the various different works and explore the exhibition's themes.
In addition to essays by the two curators, the bilingual catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale, comprises original writings and excerpts by internationally renowned scholars, including the neurologists and neurological scientists Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux, philosophers and anthropologists Ronald De Sousa, Peter Goldie, Martha Nussbaum and William Reddy and the art historian, David Freedberg.
The theme they explore in their interdisciplinary comparison is the rationality of emotions and, in Freedberg's words, the "relations between the formal aspects of an image and the emotional responses" of the user.The lectures develop the exhibition's theme from a multidisciplinary and scientific standpoint, achieved in direct encounters between Italian academics and experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
http://www.strozzina.it
Le lectures rappresentano un’ulteriore approfondimento del tema da un punto di vista multidisciplinare e scientifico, attraverso l’incontro diretto con studiosi ed esperti, esclusivamente italiani, di diversi ambiti disciplinari. Il giovedì sera sarà dedicato agli psicologi, filosofi e antropologi che presenteranno le loro teorie; il venerdì alla lettura poetica e alla performance musicale. Tra gli studiosi coinvolti: Giovanni Lucignani, Andrea Pinotti, Emilia Barile, Luigi Pagliarini e tra i poeti Elisa Biagini e Valerio Magrelli.
ART VIDEO SCREENING
Call for submissions
WHO: Artists and MA Fine art students working with videoart.
WHAT: Art Video Screening, a video art event.
WHERE: Bio Roxy’s Café, Orebro, Sweden
WHEN: 18-19th April 2008.
TO SUBMIT: More info and submission guidelines online.
http://www.artvideoscreening.se
DEADLINE: 22nd February 2008.
Art Video Screening is a private, artist-run and non-profit initiative,it's an event and platform focusing on video art and aims to supportartists work. Art Video Screening doesn't have its own screening location,but is instead collaborating with other culture organizers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART & TECHNOLOGY
24 · 25 April
BILBAO
We are proud to present you TECHNARTE 2008.
You can be part of this uniqueconference where art meets technology.TECHNARTE is a yearly conference where the worlds finest (art) professionals&top researchers meet, learn and be inspired. The international conference willbe held for the 3rd time and seems to be a very successful formula.The advantage that technology offers the artist will be presented.How creativity improves the Society of Technology will be analysed.A suitable environment for the reflection on the relation between art &technology will be created.TECHNARTE will take place in Bilbao, Spain the 24th and 25th of April 2008.Share your experience and inspire others on.You can find the conditions for the call for papers on:< www.technarte.org
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The project seeks to explore the role, character, nature and place of intellectuals and intellectual work in contemporary society. Whilst the ‘intellectual’ emerges as a particular category with the development of modernity, the ‘knowledgable’ and knowledge producers have been an important historical agent and social actor since the early Greek philosophers, and knowledge production, whether religious, scientific or philosophical, has been important in shaping social, political, economic and cultural change. Intellectuals and the knowledge they produce have been subject to competing representations: from an ‘elect’ producing knowledge for its own sake to different forms of philosopher king, servant of the state or dissenting movement intellectuals connecting politically with change in the social world. In contemporary ‘knowledge’ societies, much of the focus on the intellectual as a ‘public’ figure, residing within the media intelligentsia or institutions of higher learning, but competing theories of intellectuals and their work identify elitist, meritocratic and radical alternatives about who intellectuals are, what they do, how they are connected to and divided from other social institutions, and why we understand them the way we do.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int.html
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Cohen's installation merges images of historic
