EuroBlog 2008

Social media and the future of PR: New ideas, new research, new business
EuroBlog 2008 Spring Symposium - Brussels, March 13-15, 2008

The EuroBlog surveys of 2006 and 2007 highlighted the ways in which interactive social media technologies – weblogs, podcasts, wikis, social networking and other social softwares and services - were beginning to impact on communication.
The Brussels Symposium (March 13-15, 2008) brings together the latest academic thought with leading edge practice from Europe, the USA and elsewhere to draw new theoretical insights and encourage and shape practitioner innovation and implementation.
By identifying and presenting examples of best practice, empirical investigation and new concepts for modelling and understanding the rapid changes in relationship management, EuroBlog 2008 will shape the agenda for social media discussion.

Researchers from all over Europe and beyond, including many involved in the EUPRERA network of academics from more than 30 countries. – Public Relations executives from major companies, institutions, and specialists in online initiatives, interactive media, digital communication and issues monitoring.

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re/act

In 2008, re/act, the international student festival for digital media art, takes place for the4th time. Art and design students from all over the world are given the opportunity tomake their works known to a wide audience and to make new contacts with a network of curators, cultural policy makers, gallery owners, professors, students, and the media.
Re/act's competition addresses students of artistic study programs. An internationalpanel of experts will select the world's best works from all entries.

Awards go to works from the following disciplines:

- Video Art
- Interactive Art
- Live video & performance
- Game Art

CONDITIONS FOR ENTRY
Deadline: February 1st 2008
The submission form is downloadable at
http://www.react-festival.com/submit.htm

Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration

November 15 - December 16
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present new media work from:
Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration
Curated by:
Will Pappenheimer, Pace University
Ron Janowich, University of Florida
Merijn van der Heijden, Ohio State University

Notions of synthesis and distribution in collaboration represent a coming together of separate identities into a new and highly invigorating investigation.
As a pre-requisite, participants must question or set aside familiar rules and tools to open up a particular problem in art and visual language from different perspectives. The process is likely to encompass dialogue, brainstorming, overlay, distribution, hybridization, and new forms of cooperative invention. This way of working is not necessarily shaped by personal language or personal concerns. It can be understood as a third language. It is a way of working that is based on mutual respect and risk-taking that allows a team or group to venture into new and unknown directions.“Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration” is an ongoing and changing series of exhibitions featuring the unexpected results of artistic and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The artists, writers and thinkers were invited based on their willingness to explore and transform each other’s work. They may have already established an existing collaborative body of work or they may be encouraged to uncover this latent interest within the purview of this exhibition. Above all, this enterprise is motivated by the involvement and commitment of the curators to support and exhibit the unique potential of the collaborative process.Artists from over five countries will exhibit work in photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, new media, video, digital printing, and musical performance. Interdisciplinary collaborations will include visual arts, musical performance, criticism, writing, architecture and the social sciences. They will be exhibited simultaneously in all three of Pace University’s Fine Arts Galleries.

* Artists exhibiting at Pace Digital Gallery, Nov. 15–Dec. 16th *Julie Andreyev and Four Wheel Drift, Lynn Cazabon and Hasan Elahl, Michael Mandiberg and Julia Steinmetz, Jillian Mcdonald, Kelty McKinnon, and Beckley Roberts, John Miller and Takuji Kogo, Sal Randolph and Glowlab

http://www.csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/collab/collabshow.html

CineGrid

CineGrid

CineGrid members, Waag Society, SURFnet, SARA and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, will be the first Dutch participants in an international network to develop the cinema of the future.

CineGrid projects connect the newest generation of digital cameras and projectors to supercomputers over fiber-optic networks to make 4K cinema possible.

At the moment, there are only three places in the world where you can experience 4K cinema: two in America and one in Japan. Thanks to the Dutch initiative, by 2008 Amsterdam will become the first European CineGrid node in Europe.

see cinegrid workshop 2007


Milano, per una settimana intera,a luglio 2007, è stata teatro di un avvenimento importantissimo dell’innovazione tecnologica digitale applicata alla cinematografia.
Il palcoscenico dell’evento, primo in Europa, è stato il Duomo di Milano mentre il sistema di ripresa e registrazione era basato sul Cinema digitale 4K, ad oggi il livello di massima qualità possibile.
Il progetto “Il Duomo in 4K” nasce dalla collaborazione tra il CSC ed il Digital Cinema Consortium Japan (DCCJ) che ha messo a disposizione il completo sistema di produzione in 4K oltre al supporto tecnico.

“Il Duomo in 4K” Le nuove frontiere della Cinematografia digitale

Open Web Awards

Open Web Awards

"The Open Web Awards, hosted by Mashable.com, are the first ever online, open collaboration awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. This unique approach to an online event is about communities, so we've taken a collaborative approach to finding a winner, enabling other blogs and websites to take part. Please click here for the latest update post on Mashable.com."

astratti contatti

Spettacoli, workshops, proiezioni di video-danza ed una piattaforma giovani autori che vedono sotto i riflettori nomi affermati e giovani talenti della danza contemporanea europea: la Compagnia MK, di cui quest’anno la Biennale Danza di Venezia ha prodotto uno spettacolo, Luisa Cortesi, la Compagnia Espz e una serata giovani autori realizzata in collaborazione con Accademia Danza diretta da Susanna Beltrami e altri nomi ancora.

Un programma che fa di Consenso e Contatto un appuntamento di vitale creatività, dove è offerta agli artisti l’opportunità di sperimentare, di legare il linguaggio della danza al mezzo filmico con proiezioni di trasposizione di spettacoli su film.

La rassegna ospita una serata di Dance Screen on Tour, un’iniziativa senza scopo di lucro e non commerciale realizzata dal 1999 da IMZ di Vienna in collaborazione a SK Cultural Foundation di Colonia, con la proiezione di Blush di Wim Vandekeybus.

http://www.astratticontatti.com/

The Pleasure of Obvious Problems

Starting Date: Saturday, 1 December 2007
Finishing Date: Sunday, 30 March 2008

The Pleasure of Obvious Problems is the first survey exhibition of the work of Californian artist Meg Cranston.

The exhibition title reflects Cranston’s theory about art. “Art makes abstract concepts tangible. It makes problems, love or death or power or whatever it is, it makes those issues visible. The best art makes complex ideas obvious. That’s the pleasure of art”.

The exhibition includes a selection of Cranston’s work in sculpture, performance and mixed media installation, spanning her twenty-year career (1987- 2007). It also includes new works created especially for the exhibition. - Exhibition organized and toured by Artspace.

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