6th European Interactive TV Conference

6th European Interactive TV Conference
EuroITV 2008 Changing Television Environments

July 3rd to 4th 2008 in Salzburg, Austria
http://www.EuroITV2008.org

Supported by CITIZEN MEDIA (Gold Sponsor)
Supported by Microsoft TV (Bronze Sponsor)
Supported by Nokia (Bronze Sponsor)
In cooperation with ICT&S Center / University of Salzburg
In cooperation with IFIP and ACM (SIGCHI, SIGMM, SIGWEB)

Final Call for Papers

The EuroITV conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management.
The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.

The special theme is *Changing Television Environments*


Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:
. Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV
. Ambient intelligence, ambient media environments
. Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience
. Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema
. Asset management, metadata and content enrichment
. Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows
. Broadband and IPTV
. 3DTV and VR systems
. Audience research, ethnography, user studies
. New advertising and revenue models for television
. Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
. Business models, management, t-commerce, t-learning
. Web2.0, user-generated content
. Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
. Content management, digital rights management
. Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising
. Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation
. Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
. Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures
. Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)
. Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
. Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces
. Ethical, regulatory and policy issues

Conference Organizing Committee:
Manfred Tscheligi (General Chair)
Marianna Obrist and Artur Lugmayr (Conference Co-chairs)
Judith Masthoff (Tutorials Chair)
Lyn Pemberton (Doctoral Colloquium Chair)
Erika Reponen and Thomas Mirlacher (Demonstration Chairs)
Sander A.J.P. Limonard, Owen Daly-Jones and Gunnar Harboe (Industrial Case Studies Chairs)
Regina Bernhaupt and David Geerts (Short Papers & Posters Chairs)
Pablo Cesar and Hendrik Knoche (Workshop Chairs)
Michael Darnell and Bart Hemmeryckx-Deleersnijder (Industrial Liaison Chairs)

See http://www.euroitv2008.org

1st Keynote Speaker:
Marie-Jose Montpetit (Motorola USA)
Home and Network Mobility - Technology Office

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Host: HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S Center of the University of Salzburg

Call for Sponsors & Exhibitors: EuroITV 2008 offers exciting opportunities for sponsors and exhibitors

Nicola Frangione

20 January 2008, from 4 pm - Artpool P60

VOICE in MOVEMENT
Nicola Frangione - sound and video poetry performance

Nicola Frangione’s sound poetry and concerts are oriented towards what some artists define as "art dramaturgy". Gestures as a key form of expression are a distinguishing feature of his work. On the one hand, his vocality takes an active part in the performances of the body, playing the same role as the other linguistic elements; on the other, it stands out thoroughly, in a sound-focused dimension connected with both texts and music according to interdisciplinary approaches, harmonizing with the main orientation of "sound poetry", which is the name for half a century’s practice and pragmatic observation. (Giovanni Fontana)

Nicola Frangione was born in Forenza (Potenza), Italy, in 1953. He has been living and working in Monza since 1972, as an interdisciplinary artist experimenting with several techniques: visual arts, audio art and sound poetry, video-art and visual poetry.

Host of the evening: Endre Szkárosi
Eveent supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura

2nd Inclusiva-net Meeting

2nd Inclusiva-net Meeting : Digital Networks and Physical Space, directed by Juan Manuel de Prada.
The call for papers and projects is open until January 30, and the international advanced project production workshop-seminary will take place in Madrid from 3 to 14 March 2008.

The purpose of this open participation meeting is to explore the relationship between digital networks and physical space: how new locative technologies are chang! ing the way citizens perceive the physical and geographic space (cellphones, Google Earth, GPS...) and how these media are reorganizing civic communication and interaction (from "geobrowsers" to the Local Web 2.0 or the "hiperlocal" journalism).

Through and open call, projects to be collaboratively developed during a production workshop and papers to be publicly presented will be selected. Submission Deadline: 30th January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 8th February 2008

More information and application guidelines at http://www.inclusiva-net.org/

http://www.medialab-prado.es

ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 08

ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 08 – CALL FOR ENTRIES

The international festival of digital arts Athens Video Art Festival, calls once again all interested artists to create, experiment, express and participate in its fourth edition, “Athens Video Art Festival 08”.



Athens Video Art Festival is an international festival dedicated to digital arts and the official Greek festival for video art. It aims to the support of digital culture and the promotion of this modern and innovative form of expression, giving the artists additional motives to create, and a platform to share their artistic vision with the public. Through its three very successful previous materializations, the festival has been endorsed by national factors and media and has gained the support of a big number of artists around the globe. Athens Video Art Festival is held once a year in April and its call for entries is open from mid October to January.

Artists may participate with works of video art, installation art, web art and performance art. There is no entry fee. No restrictions apply regarding the subject. In the case of submission of video art, the length of the video should not exceed 15 minutes. The video must be submitted in DVD (PAL) or mini dv format. Artists have the right to participate with more than one works, with a maximum of four. A separate entry form must be completed for each one.
The festival is open to both Greek and foreign artists alike.
Postmark deadline: 31th January 2008.

Please visit http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/ for instructions on how to participate

Hermitage Museum Collection

Madonna delle Grazie 1542 - Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto: Madonna delle Grazie
New Attribution of a painting from the State Hermitage Museum Collection

From 8 December 2007 for the International Friends of the Hermitage Day, in the Appollo Hall, the Madonna delle Grazie is on display, painted by the 16th century artist Lorenzo Lotto, whose authorship was only recently established by its custodian, I.S. Artemieva, Doctor of History, and a senior researcher at the West European Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum.
The restoration of the painting by Lorenzo Lotto was carried out by the the State Hermitage's Laboratory for the Scientific Restoration of Easel Painting (the laboratory directory is V.A. Korobov) by artist and restorer S.A.Kiselev.

Laughing in a Foreign Language

Laughing in a Foreign Language
Friday 25 January 2008 - Sunday 13 April 2008
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/ - London

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Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art. In a time of increasing globalization, this international exhibition questions if humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with.

Laughing in a Foreign Language investigates the whole spectrum of humour, from jokes, gags and slapstick to irony, wit and satire. The exhibition brings together more than 70 videos, photographs and interactive installation works by more than 30 artists from all around the world.

Artists: Makoto Aida, Kutlug Ataman, Azorro, Guy Ben-Ner, John Bock, Candice Breitz, Olaf Breuning, Cao Fei, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Coates, Harry Dodge and Stanya Khan, Doug Fishbone, Ghazel, Gimhongsok, Matthew Griffin, Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund, Taiyo Kimura, Peter Land, Janne Lehtinen, Kalup Linzy, Yoshua Okon, Ugo Rondinone, Julian Rosefeldt, Shimabuku, David Shrigley, Nedko Solakov, Barthélémy Toguo, Roi Vaara, Martin Walde, Jun Yang.

Rojo

Fupete Punkie Totalista Vernissage- Barcelona

09.01.2008 - 05.02.2008
Fupete, artista italiano y habitual de ROJO® presenta una impresionante muestra de talento con su nueva serie de obras originales realizadas en lienzo y tecnicas mixtas, junto con su nuevo libro monográfico publicado por ROJO®. Fupete, italian artist and regular ROJO® contributor presents an impressive display of talent in a new series of original artworks on canvas and mixed medias, together with his monographic book published by ROJO®.
http://www.rojo-magazine.com/events/

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Wordpress Barcamp a Milano

iWordCamp: il Wordpress Barcamp a Milano | Posting IT
"Per il 2008 Milano è stata scelta come città che ospiterà il Wordpress Barcamp, un’evento molto interessante con un potenziale bacino di utenza molto ampio, dato che Wordpress ad oggi può essere considerato lo script per blogging più usato al mondo."

The (Self)Promotion Show

The (Self)Promotion Show

created and curated by you, the public
with an accompanying essay by Carlo McCormick

* Do art and TV belong in the same sentence?
* Do people lie about watching TV?
* Are commercials better than programs?
* Can apexart get creative people to make a TV commercial about them?

Yes, yes, yes and yes!

apexart recently held an open call, requesting submissions of a 30-second TV commercial about us from individuals and collaborative groups. The commercials are available for viewing on a public-access site, where viewers are encouraged to visit and cast votes for their favorite. In addition, all commercials will be on view as part of an innovative living-room-style installation at apexart New York from January 9 to February 16, 2008.
The winning entry will have their commercial aired on network TV.

The exhibition was conceived to examine creative practices in contemporary culture and to reconsider the current promotional model of the art world.

Commercials will be available for viewing and voting from this website starting January 9.

This exhibition has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund.

VIDEO SHOW

VIDEO SHOW

12 JANV - 9 FEV 2008

HENDRICK DUSOLLIER, YANN GONZALEZ, MARIANNE MARIC, DUDAS MIKLOS, ELODIE PONG, STEFAN RINGELSCHWANDTNER, CHLOÉ TALLOT, CORINE STUEBI

Curator : Carine Le Malet

For the past years the Magda Danysz gallery has been actively promoting video art through monthly video sessions. Now a complete show is dedicated exclusively to this art. Curated by Carine Le Malet (from Le Cube) Under my skin explores the relationship ones has to the body, let it be on the inside or the outside. Beauty, seduction, personnel fears, illness, are all intertwined in a beautiful ballet of images...

under my skin

Momentum 9 - Kader Attia

Momentum 9
"Human beings create things, but emptiness gives them meaning."

This quotation from Chinese philosopher Lao Tzeo is at the core of Kader Attia's new work for Momentum 9, the artist's first solo exhibition in the U.S.

The French-Algerian artist made waves with his 2005 installation Flying Rats, in which children sculpted from birdseed disappeared as they shared a life-sized playground with live pigeons. More recently, his recent series of works titled Ghost depicted women at prayer with vacant, aluminum foil body casts.

Kader Attia, Flying Rats, 2005.
Installation. Biennale de Lyon 2005.

His new work also evokes the theme of absence. Attia grew up in a Parisian suburb, the child of Algerian immigrants. His recollections of sleeping five kids to a room, on beds made of wooden boards and pieces of cheap foam, inspire his work for the ICA. A crowded dormitory has been created in the gallery, made with the help of students from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the ICA Teen Arts Council. The students contributed through their labor and also their form, as they traced the outlines of their own bodies lying on the foam, which were then dug out by hand. Melancholic, even macabre, the impressions resonate with the memory of bodies now missing.

Kader Attia, "Sleeping from Memory," 2007.
Courtesy of the artist and Christian Nagel Gallery, Cologne.
Photo: John Kennard.

Daniel Buren in Paris

For the inaugural exhibition at galerie kamel mennour’s new premises in Paris, Daniel Buren
demonstrates yet again his incredible talent for inventing new pathways for his art – a
talent he has been displaying for over forty years now.
Although used to creating projects for new places, this is the first time he has found himself building something for a space which is itself still under construction. Hence his conception has had to come from examining the plans and, above all, from his foresight, informed by experience: “the space of a particular place indicates certain paths for me to follow, certain visions. Here, I had the feeling that what could exist afterwards in a different place would always remain partly attached to this place. It is, It will be.

Intersections of Contemporary Art and Society

Santa Fe Art Institute:
"Intersections of Contemporary Art and Society"

2008 program starts in April
Connecting you to the Contemporary Art that makes a difference in the world
This program will examine the movement of peoples, ideas, and art as a result of three primary contemporary forces: tourism, migration, and exile. In each of these situations the person moving is essentially an outsider who engages with the culture of habitation in a way that is distinctly different than that of the members of the dominant culture.

At Arms Length

At Arms Length

Artists in this exhibition: Guy Ambrosino, Helen Dennis, David A. Faust, Christina Gundersen, Jessica Mein, Molly Springfield, Cody Trepte

Curated by Lauren Schell Dickens and Julie McKim.

Amidst recent preoccupations with new media, post-studio practice, unmonumentality, performative practice and media super-saturation, it might seem that the place of the artist's hand has been eviscerated, digitized into invisibility.

With laborious and time-consuming manual processes performed over and over, the artists of At Arms Length obsessively attempt to bring experience back within arm's reach.


These seven artists directly and indirectly address the loss precipitated by technological advancement. Labour, meticulousness, and repetitive manual processes replace the "Command-P" mentality of much contemporary art, while a deliberate, thoughtful fusing of media replaces the laise-faire "no media" approach that often renders the artist's touch obsolete.

Guy Ambrosino's, watercolors, based on the snapshots by American soldiers of Abu Ghraib prisoners, omit the photographs' central figures, leaving a setting only identifiable by caption. By methodically hand-tracing and painting these pervasive images, Ambrosino's process is a personal meditation on the possibility of familiarizing a distant event.

Molly Springfield laboriously hand-copies Xeroxed pages of theoretical texts, ink smears and all. Her meticulous drawings belabor the futility of manual reproduction, addressing the relationship between text and image, while grappling with issues of reproduction and originality, technology and labor, digital and analog, pencil and print.

Cody Trepte manually executes binary code-the universal language of computers-to explore the differences between human and technological expression. His video This is how I cope with my neuroses is a literal translation of its title into binary code, which Trepte then communicates through blinking.

The uncanny snapshot aesthetic of David A. Faust's photorealistic oil paintings evoke a subtle disquiet embedded in the American psychic landscape. By alluding to photography through themes of light, reflection and transparency, Faust reveals alienation as endemic to the banal scenes of everyday.

Christina Gundersen's series Fallen, based on both found images and original photographs, is an investigation of control articulated in the moment a horse stumbles and falls. By obsessively painting the suspended moment of mid-fall, Gundersen re-inserts the painterly hand into an otherwise photographic moment, pushing the documentary abilities of painting.

Helen Dennis combines drawing and photographic processes to create architectural images she calls "photographic drawings". By layering several drawings on top of photographic paper and exposing them to light, Dennis unites a variety of hand-rendered perspectives with a photographic process. The resulting hybrid medium temporally references both the instantaneity of photography and the duration of drawing.

Jessica Mein's work explores the tension between the mediated space of film, and the physicality of drawing. In a cyclical process that emphasizes the entwining of these two mediums, the expanded frame of video is both a means for "sketching" her drawings and a surface for their execution.

At Arms Length is a NURTUREart Emerging Curators' Program Collaboration. Learn more about all NURTUREart's programs and opportunities for emerging artists and curators at

http://www.nurtureart.org/

Dies irae - Silvano Tessarollo

dal comunicato della mostra http://www.lagiarina.it/ :

Quattro installazioni poste sotto il segno della spogliazione, della mutilazione, del disastro. Quattro giostrine (quelle “dei seggiolini volanti”) che sembrano nulla più che residui, braccia disarticolate, posticce reminiscenze formali. Ma il lavoro di Silvano Tessarollo non vuole dare atto di quella apocalisse continua che contraddistingue ormai tutte le cose che accadono nel mondo. Esso casomai mette in scena il regno dell’attesa, dell’immobilità, dove tutto è sul punto di finire, ma in realtà non finisce mai. L’eco di antiche suggestioni infantili, di giochi errabondi rimane intatto, solo che pare eternarsi nello spazio attraverso un’infinità di snodi, di pezzi accostati che danno l’impressione di resistere unicamente aggrappandosi gli uni agli altri. E’ come se Tessarollo, alla pari di Eliot, volesse puntellare con dei frammenti le rovine dei suoi sogni. E lo fa con perizia accurata, con devozione maniacale, sigillando ogni elemento con cera, pigmenti, fuochi purificatori. Egli non si piega alla disfatta: anzi fa proprio della disfatta il trionfo del suo linguaggio.

Se qualche anno fa l’artista praticava il mondo tenero, mostruoso, deliziosamente perfido dei fumetti o dei cartoons per plasmare “strane creature” che si portavano addosso le proiezioni ironiche della vita normale,

ora la grazia sghemba delle “giostre” sorge come una traccia, il tracciato visibile di una vita che si sposta sempre più verso il grado zero dell’animazione. Il biblico Dies irae (che dà il titolo alla rassegna) evoca esattamente questo: l’interruzione di ogni gesto, lo spostamento del reale al limite del vuoto, “il verbo terribile” che annuncia la fine dei tempi e dei giri degli anni.

Scrive Elena Forin in catalogo: “il vuoto sembra essere l’atmosfera di questi ambienti, un vuoto totalizzante e fortemente connotato, pieno di ferite, di drammi e lacerazioni”.

E aggiunge Luigi Meneghelli: “Una situazione estrema che spinge l’artista verso una concentrazione particolare, come chi debba inventarsi da un frammento esploso un nuovo senso del mondo”. Il che è quanto dire che Tessarollo cerca la rovina, sceglie di stare in essa, come per conoscerla meglio, capirla, provar a stare nella sua stessa vertigine.

TRASH culture

TRASH ART - up
Stracci, plastica e cicche: l’arte si fa trash - La Stampa -
Artist Cancels Worldwide Hiding of Plastic Eggs - Ecorazzi -
Giving The Gift Of Garbage: NYC Trash Art - wcbstv -

Il filosofo: 'la celebrità oggi è trash perché senza gerarchie' - igital-Sat -

TRASH TV - down
Riecco le liti in tv. L'Avvenire: "Amici è la scuola delle risse ... - TV Boomerang
TV: CIAO DARWIN SEMPRE PIU TRASH. - La Gazzetta di Sondrio
Babbo Natale: video degli spot più trash - cafebabel.com

comments

comments on the video Marc Canter about lonely girl 15

Marc Canter is a web-guru and founder of people aggregator

liljetad (1 month ago)
lonley girl 15 isnt a scam just because her videos are acting it doesnt mean its a scam. u can make a series about anything u want on youtube shes a good person with good ideas and im posting this for anyone that hates lonleygirl15 u can make fake things on youtube youtube is to get peoples attention and watch good videos. lonleygirl15 has good videos and makes people laugh and shes not a scam

maxhalter (4 months ago)

What are you talking about? She is a actor! I guess we should leave samuel jackson alone and he can deal with those snakes himself.

StarWarsGataradeRain (1 month ago)

She's an actor, I knew she was a guy from the beginning.

fuzzboxvodoo (4 months ago)

lonely girl 15 is just a kid with a childlish behaviour..she needs to be let alone, with no attention, in order to solve her problems by herself.

purpull (4 months ago)

hahaha omg! he waqs scratching his man boob! rihgt in the beginning did you see that? DID YOU SEE THAT!!!???

firegoldx (1 month ago)

LOL OMG HAHAHAHAHA

balaclava2007 (7 months ago)

Bottom line is that this fat fuck actually watched Lonelygirl15 videos, and then after hours of watching came to the conclusion she was a marketing scheme.

Deeman100uk (8 months ago)

I agree with what you say there, but doesnt that prove that the media are nothing other than snakes?

kingjames2319 (10 months ago)

Absolutely true! Lol now she even won a award, shes famous now! God she gets famous for that...

Milano Moda "uomo"

Tra gli obiettivi della Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana c'è l'organizzazione e gestione delle principali manifestazioni, eventi e sfilate che si terranno per rappresentare il sistema Moda Italiano a Milano, considerata come la Capitale della Moda, sia per l'uomo che per la donna, proprio per la convergenza tra il pret-à-porter "alto", di lusso e l'apporto degli stilisti.
Le manifestazioni sono quattro appuntamenti legati alla presentazione della Collezione Milano Moda Uomo e Milano Moda Donna, tutti a disposizione degli associati e degli ospiti dell'evento. La Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana è responsabile della presentazione della moda di sartoria a Roma "AltaRoma" e anche di diversi spettacoli televisivi come "Donna Sotto le Stelle".

Ogni anno la Camera Nazionale della Moda coordina le seguenti attività
- Milano Moda Donna autunno/inverno 2008/2009 ( 16 Febbraio - 23 Febbraio 2008 )
- Milano Moda Donna primavera/estate 2009 ( 20 Settembre - 27 Settembre 2008 )
- Milano Moda Uomo autunno/inverno 2008/2009 ( 12 Gennaio - 15 Gennaio 2008 )
- Milano Moda Uomo primavera/estate 2009 ( 21 Giugno - 25 Giugno 2008 )

calendario SFILATE Milano Moda Uomo autunno/inverno 2008/2009

eventi speciali

Sabato 12 gennaio 2008
MEN'S FASHION WEEK - SERATA ORGANIZZATA DA WALL STREET JOURNAL, SAKS FIFTH AVENUE E CAMERA NAZIONALE DELLA MODA ITALIANA - TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM - VIALE ALEMAGNA 6 - SU INVITO

Lunedì 14 gennaio 2008
DIVINA! MARIA CALLAS TRA MODA E MITO - SERATA ORGANIZZATA DA CAMERA NAZIONALE DELLA MODA ITALIANA DEDICATA ALLA MOSTRA DI MARIA CALLAS - VIA SANT'ANDREA 6 - SU INVITO

Martedì 15 gennaio 2008
"LACHIMICADELLEEMOZIONI" - SERATA EXTE' - VIA LAMBRUSCHINI 36 - SU INVITO

reGeneration è un progetto innovativo atto alla valorizzazione di nuovi designer/giovani marchi della moda in linea con il desiderio di rinnovamento sollecitato sempre piu' da tutti gli attori del sistema moda. L'iniziativa permette ai giovani designer di sfilare nel prestigioso contesto di Milano Moda Donna e di presentare davanti a stampa, buyer ed imprenditori la propria collezione.

David Beckham per Emporio Armani Underwear

David Beckham a Milano. Nudo ed appeso al muro

Le Spice Girls da Cavalli - Vivimilano - "Da sabato la moda uomo, calendario ridotto"

non solo moda - D&G: dalle passerelle al mattone tgfin.mediaset

INTERNET FASHION WEEK

INTERNET FASHION WEEK - The Future of Fashion

"La 'INTERNET FASHION WEEK' mette in collegamento la moda con la tecnologia web e trasporta il concetto di 'Fashion Week' sul medio internet.
Qui prossimamente stilisti internazionali in cooperazione con registi, fotografi e altri artisti presenteranno la loro moda a un pubblico globale.
La INTERNET FASHION WEEK sarà una piattaforma che oltre a presentare avrà lo scopo di commercializzare in modo innovativo la moda.
La prima INTERNET FASHION WEEK si terrà all'inizio del 2008."