"A Material World"

"A Material World" at the DeBlois Gallery, Newport, features an exciting collection of new work produced by three well-known local artists, Emlen Drayton, Alice Benvie Gebhart, and Meg Little. Throughout their careers, each of the artists has explored the visual and tactile impact of non-traditional media in the creation of their art. From Drayton's metal assemblages, to Benvie Gebhart's glass-fusion collage, to Little's handmade wool rugs, their work reminds us that art is not just an oil-and-watercolor affair.

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Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World

"We are connected. To each other. To our environment. From faraway places to our own backyard. But global warming is now changing the Earth as we know it, and animals and plants from the Arctic to the Everglades are feeling the consequences.

The Irreplaceable campaign brings together four distinct groups — from the worlds of art, justice, science, and faith — to highlight the diversity of life we must protect from climate change. As you dive into these photos, be inspired, determined, hopeful. Help us protect these irreplaceable plants and animals."

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amber'08

"Interactivity is celebrated and enjoyed for the comfort and convenience it brings into our lives, and the aesthetic and practical possibilities it opens up for all creative activity. Efficiency, speed, fluidity, a frictionless flow of things, precision of form and an infinite multiplication of virtual possessions in the digital universe come to mind. Interactive technologies rearticulate our relations to ourselves and to others.

For amber'08 body process arts festival, We are interested in installations that explore the theme of “Inter-passive Persona” in the here and now of the digitalizing world."

amber'08

New Media Arts Manila

TENGALGORHYTHM: New Media Arts Manila: Minus 10 Decibels

ElectroMediaWorks ’08

"ElectroMediaWorks ’08 international presentation of Mixed Media Electronic Arts, will be held in Athens from May 14 to - May 18.
ElectroMediaWorks ’08 is open to anyone interested in the theory, technology, philosophy and practices of mixed media arts, in today’s state-of-the-art cultural landscape."

Medea Electronique

Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State

May 1 | Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State:

When: Thursday, May 1
Where: Joe’s Pub: 425 Lafayette St.
What time: 9 p.m.

With György Dragomán, Hasan Elahi, Asli Erdogan, Péter Esterházy, Chenjerai Hove, Irakli Kakabadze, Jenny Marketou, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Prose, and Ingo Schulze"

Being Everywhere

Being Everywhere
April 29–30, 2008
Toronto, Canada

"No matter where we are at any point in space or time, constraints no longer exist to limit with whom, with what, and how we interact. Pervasive, standardized wireless and Web services have enabled us to work, shop, and play beyond the office, storefront, and arcade; today, we can “be” anywhere we can connect. Computing and data are moving away from desktops and laptops and into the Internet cloud, due in part to location transparency and mobile access.

For all these upsides, there are downsides as well. How will we cope with the opportunity, freedom, and complexity of mobility as mobile devices become the next dominant user interface? We’ll examine the technology and culture inherent in our on-the-move, always-on world, where ultramobile systems will be commonplace.

The new mobility and our integrated digital lifestyles will rely on supersmart cameras, tags, surfaces, sensors, payment cards, and even cars. How will businesses cope with and react to smaller, cheaper, and faster mobile devices and technologies?"

TTI/Vanguard

Under the Influence

"Under the Influence juxtaposes historical videos with newer works, but the focus is not caught up in linear time, rather in the space of the process. In other words, the exhibition does not aim to track a historical development, but to identify precedents for the particular mix of instruction-based art making amongst close acquaintances or intimates that characterizes the more recent art in the show, and the spaces and contexts within which these works are set. Both the older and newer works lead one to wonder who is directing whom?"

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The New Normal

The New Normal:

"The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter. The concept of privacy, though widely invoked, is difficult to define. The private sphere encompasses domestic spaces, bodies, thoughts, communications, and behaviors—contexts that are usually rendered inaccessible to the public eye by legal, social, and physical boundaries. The practices that demarcate the private sphere are so much a part of the fabric of everyday life—wearing clothing, politely pretending not to overhear a cell-phone conversation— that they only become noticeable when they shift, making the private sphere visible to the public eye. Privacy, to put it bluntly, captures our attention only when it is under threat."

Exhibition Itinerary

Artists Space
New York, New York
April 25 – June 21, 2008

Huarte Centro de Arte Contemporáneo
Huarte, Spain
July 4 – September 28, 2008

The Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
November 6 – December 14, 2008

Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus, Ohio
February 11 – April 22, 2009

Street View

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"O menino andava de bicicleta e o Google coletava imagens para o incrivel Street View."

Sensory Overload

Sensory Overload tracks the development of Kinetic and Op art, whose optical stimulation and interactivity introduced new dimensions to art. Stanley Landsman's Walk-In Infinity Chamber (1968), which has not been on view for nearly fifteen years, together with Erwin Redl's dramatic Matrix XV (2007), a 25 x 50 foot LED installation, punctuate this extraordinary immersive experience.

Chronological in its presentation, the installation begins with works by László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers, two Bauhaus instructors whose ideas stimulated the developments of these styles, followed by vibrant early Op art pieces from the 1950s and 1960s by European and American artists such as Victor Vasarely and Richard Anuskiewicz. The development of Albers' ideas into geometric abstraction during the 1970s is visible in the works of artists such as Al Held and Frank Stella, and the works of Peter Halley and Philip Taaffe and those of the so-called post-hypnotic artists such as Bruce Pearson and James Siena show the continuation of the optical tradition in the 1980s and 1990s. Select images, films, and videos will be projected in two black box theaters.

The Museum has collected and exhibited new media art ever since 1967 when it co-organized Light | Motion | Space with the Walker Art Center, one of the first exhibitions on this form of art in the United States. Sensory Overload features some of the most popular works in the Museum's Collection as well as key works on loan from other institutions and private collections.

Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) - Sensory Overload

MEMEFEST 2008

MEMEFEST 2008 - EXPLORING RADICAL BEAUTY OF COMMUNICATION!

Memefest, the International Festival of Radical Communication–born in Slovenia and rapidly reaching a critical mass worldwide– is proud to announce its seventh annual competition. Once again, Memefest is encouraging students, writers, artists, designers, thinkers, philosophers, and counter-culturalists to submit their work to our panel of renowned judges.

This year, jury members will among others include new media theorist, activist and founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, Geert Lovink (http://www.networkcultures.org/), Dori Tunstall a leader in field of Design Anthropology and Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Director of the City Design Center at University of Illinois at Chicago, P.K. Langshaw, the Chair of and Associate Professor in the Department of the Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Jason Grant, Director of Inkahoots (http://www.inkahoots.com.au), the adventurous graphic design studio in Brisbane, Australia, Gon Zifroni from the excelent and inovative design research collective based in Amsterdam and Brussels, Metahaven (www.metahaven.net), and theater director virtuoso, Jernej Lorenci.

This years festival theme is RADICAL BEAUTY. Participants will respond to an excerpt taken from the movie Rize and comment on it with their works.

Here is how we defined radical beauty: Beauty is a cultural creation that expresses dominant values. In the 21st century beauty is often extremely commercialized. Radical beauty is a cultural creation that expresses the desire of a change in society. Radical beauty is about changing dominant values through action and creation. Grassroots projects are often the vectors of these changings. They experiment new practices and express new values.

Radical beauty

- content of communication: poetic dialogue and action between the world and grassroots projects or processes that are existing or yet to be realized
- process of communication: empowering relations between people
- aesthetic: evoking a strong feeling of affection or love

- with radical beauty we want to overcome to usual criticism of social construction of beauty, mostly regarding the representations of women in media.
- radical beauty is a theme but also a communications approach - Therefore we need to channel the concept of radical beauty in to specific problems/issues

As always, those whose work does not take a conventional format can enter the Beyond… category, where the name of the game is challenging mainstream practices and beliefs! Beyond… continues to grow in popularity as a category not only because of its avant-garde appeal but because it is open to non-students as well.

Memefest occurs completely online at www.memefest.org, and all entries will be available for full access and commentary in the site galleries. In 2007, Memefest received almost 500 entries from participants of every continent on the globe (‘cept Antarctica). We hope to get bigger, and to spread more of those good infectious ideas, so keep thinking- and creating.

Deadline for submissions is May 20th 2008!

International Guerrilla Video Festival

*International Guerrilla Video Festival*
*Milan 12-14 July 2008*


*Open Call: **All entries must be received by Monday 9 June 2008*


The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment. Removing the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation, it is re-positioned as a approachable medium in the public domain. The works included engage and reflect the unique architectural, historical, and
interpersonal context of each site in the festival.

The International Guerrilla Video Festival Milan 2008 will be held 12-14 July in 3 distinct areas of the city: Isola, Chinatown and Corso Como <http://www.igvfest.com/festivals-milan.html>. The International Guerrilla Video Festival is open to new single channel videos based on the specific conditions of the areas where the festival will be held. Artists who are active in the areas and artists elsewhere addressing similar situations in a different context are invited to apply. Artists are invited to work directly on site where the festival will be shown or elsewhere with similar conditions in other cities.

http://www.igvfest.com/festivals.html