Convegno"Culturale Digitale"- Matera 13 Marzo 2008 -

"Le nuove tecnologie digitali stanno influenzando e modificando molti micro-settori nel panorama dei Beni Culturali. Dalla Conservazione alla fruizione, vari sono gli strumenti e le metodologie affrontate in Italia e nel Mondo per una piu' innovativa gestione pubblica del bene culturale. La rivoluzione digitale ancora in atto, specie nelle tecnologie di comunicazione non segue necessariamente quella infrastrutturale di cui anzi puo' essere una valida alternativa. Medesime potenzialita' possono cosi' riguardare centri culturali piu' disagiati o meno accessibili. Oggi lo sviluppo digitale non e' ben coordinato e integrato nel Paese. E' fondamentale avviare un processo innovativo standardizzato, in cui le realta' locali devono acquisire nuovi know How, mezzi e strumenti."

Convegno"Culturale Digitale"- Matera

Call 2009 | Festival der Regionen

Call 2009 | Festival der Regionen:
"Normality - Festival of Regions 2009

In the spaces into which cities extend, the planning potential in politics and society overlap with how people plan their lives. At the point where master plan meets home improvement, in everyday life situated between parking management and the desire for recreational spaces, permeated by hopes of improving one‘s social status and the fear of losing it, historical and topical ideas about communal well-being and society intersect with the daily struggle to live a good life."

SOS 4.8

SOS 4.8 is a festival of sustanciable art action in Murcia.

The event aims to bring to Murcia the art scene's most dynamic and ground breaking artistic practices. Lasting 48 hours (with 24 hours dedicated to the live creation of the art works and the remaining 24 hours dedicated to exhibiting them), this first edition aims to encourage cultural reflection sustainability as a concept that allows us to reflect and re-frame visual culture, democracy, information society, techno-sustainability, consumer society -CULTURE- as well as tourism, immigration, nature, and urbanism -ENVIRONMENT- in an intersdicplinary environment in which both the artists and public can participate. Our goal is to establish ourselves as a cutting-edge European benchmark.

On 02 and 03 May 2008, SOS 4.8 will present transgressive representations of contemporary art, a cutting-edge musical programme and the Voices space. All this will benefit from the involvement of influential figures from the art world.

SOS 4.8 | Festival internacional de acion artistica sostenible

Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum - MIT News Office

"''Computer Power and Human Reason' raised questions about the role of artificial intelligence, and spurred debate about the role of computer systemreliance on them example of how man relies on technology in order to escape the burden of acting as an independent agent,' Weizenbaum told the journal. 'It helps him avoid the task of giving meaning to his life, of deciding and pursuing what is truly valuable.'"

la borsa digitale

Adnkronos - Ign - Louis Vuitton, la borsa ora e' digitale

"Solo 88 pezzi, numero fortunato in Cina, per una limited edition ispirata all'opera d'arte 'Il lusso e' lento' creata per l'occasione in collaborazione con il video artista italiano Fabrizio Plessi.
La borsa-arte verra' esposta e venduta esclusivamente all’interno della Maison di Canton Road e si ispira alla natura senza tempo del lusso, evocando un senso di tranquillita' nella frenesia della vita moderna ..."

"Art & Entrepreneurship"

Credit Suisse launches international "Art & Entrepreneurship" exhibition tour at the Art Dubai:

"Credit Suisse launches its 'Art & Entrepreneurship' exhibition tour at Art Dubai, featuring a new generation of 19 successful artists from around the globe."

via The FINANCIAL, News That Makes Money

*Contributing artists
Allora & Calzadilla, Anonymous, Michael Bauer, Heman Chong, Plamen Dejanoff, Latifa Echakhch, Cao Fei, Nicola Gobbetto, Gonzalez & Russom, Fabian Marti, Tzu Nyen Ho, Mamiko Otsubo, Ester Partegàs, Pavel Pepperstein, Mai-Thu Perret, André Pretorius, David Benjamin Sherry, Matthew Smith, Thukral & Tagra, Miessen & Ploughfields

**Art & Entrepreneurship Tour Schedule 2008
Dubai (March 19-21), New York (June 23-29), Berlin (September 4-6), Moscow (September 17-18), Geneva (October 11-13), Milan (October 22-23), Madrid (November 4-6), London (November 20-23), and Auction in London (November 24)

credit-suisse.com/news

https://artandentrepreneurship.credit-suisse.com/

Urban Screens Melbourne 08

Urban Screens Melbourne 08
3-8 October 2008 (conference 3-5 October 08)

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 at Federation Square, is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide Urban Screens events. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association.

USM08: Mobile Publics will be exploring the changing relations between urban screens, culture and cities. By engaging a wide range of stakeholders with distinctive interests in media and public space, USM08: Mobile Publics will promote new multi-disciplinary frameworks for understanding innovative public uses of technology, media and art in contemporary cities.

http://www.urbanscreens08.net/

Daniel Bozhkov

The countdown begins on Sunday (March 16), just before 3pm, for the launch of the Sigmund Jähn Döner Kebab Stand at Sigmund Jähn Park - a project by artist Daniel Bozhkov.

Bozhkov’s installation at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first German in space. On August 26, 1978, Sigmund Jähn flew on board Soyuz 31 to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, as a participant in the Intercosmos Space Program. Remarkable for times when both East and West Germany distinguished their heroes as clearly belonging to their respective states, Sigmund Jähn was declared, somewhat presciently, the “first German cosmonaut”.

To mark the occasion, Skulpturenpark has permitted Bozhkov to rename its grounds, Sigmund Jähn Park, and run the Sigmund Jähn Döner Kebab Stand for 7 days, 20 hours, and 49 minutes - the duration of Sigmund Jähn's flight. During business hours (noon - 6pm, daily), tasty Turkish döners will be cut and served from the spinning, celestial spit. The project involves the döner wagon, a life-size sculpture of Sigmund Jähn, and a series of hand-painted billboards, which present the Intercosmos Space Program and its internationalist and futuristic aspirations.

A live-feed, telescopic, surveillance camera focuses on the food stand and cosmonaut from an adjacent building’s top-floor suite, and will transmit to a black and white monitor at street level. The issues Bozhkov is tackling are further underlined by the 23-minute musical piece composed by Yotam Haber, in collaboration with Bozhkov. Played from a radio in the döner wagon, NASA Voyager sound recordings of Jupiter provide a space for Beethoven’s “Turkish March” to encounter contemporary Turkish rap. Everyday sounds – walking, eating, playing and grooming cross paths with Islamic prayers and speeches by Erich Honecker, Kemal Ataturk,and Helmut Schmidt, only to dissolve into YouTube performances of Mozart’s “Rondo Alla Turca”, Janissary music and German car commercials.

Daniel Bozhkov was born in Bulgaria and is based in New York. He is currently living in Italy for the year as a 2007-08 Rome Prize Fellow for Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome. Yotam Haber was born in Holland and is a citizen of Israel and the United States. He is also living in Rome as a 2007-08 Rome Prize Fellow for Music.

More Information:

http://www.skulpturenpark.org

http://www.danielbozhkov.com/

http://andrewkreps.com/bozhkov.html

Post-it City. Ciudades ocasionales

El proyecto investiga los diferentes usos temporales que se solapan sobre el territorio urbano, priorizando las perspectivas ofrecidas desde la arquitectura, el urbanismo y las artes visuales. Ciudades ocasionales pretende explorar el fenómeno desde las post-it cities, una especie de ciudades efímeras que infectan la ciudad ordinaria a partir de unos usos no codificados, temporales, anónimos y con un talante crítico implícito.

ciudades ocasionales