The programme of PICNIC 08, the international event on media, technology and entertainment, has been revealed. PICNIC takes place in Amsterdam on 24, 25 and 26 September this year. The main theme, ‘Create the Future’, brings together a conference featuring a host of renowned international speakers with a wide range of results-oriented seminars and workshops.
The full programme is available at the updated website, www.picnicnetwork.org.
Milano Film Festival
Martedì 24 giugno, ore 19, Piazza Duomo
Prima uscita ufficiale per il Milano Film Festival, in attesa della tredicesima edizione (12-21 settembre).
Una maratona di cinque ore con i cortometraggi più belli delle passate edizioni sul grande schermo, anteprime sul programma direttamente dallo staff, aperitivo in piazza, e la possibilità per una sera di acquistare l'abbonamento ai dieci giorni di festival a soli 10 euro (anzichè 40 euro): una festa per iniziare a vivere l'atmosfera di settembre...
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Dogs' Ears :
"Dogs' Ears is about making music. Not any music, and probably not 'normal' music, but music generated by the flap of a dog's ear whether big, small, upright, floppy, in the wind, stiff to attention or just simply super-strokey."
"Sensual Technologies
27 June 2008"
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Live and Media Arts
A one day international symposium from The Brunel School of Performance, Sensual Technologies, led by Stelarc, Johannes Birringer, Susan Broadhurst and Jo Machon, features theorists and practitioners of performance, dance, music and electronic media arts. It will explore alternate and aesthetic uses of technology that extend artistic practice beyond the expected, into realms of unusual and heightened experience. The contributors to this event are leading practitioners and theorists offering diverse perspectives to the debate. They include Roy Ascott, Roger Malina, Jill Scott, Gary Hall, Rachel Armstrong, Paul Brown, Louis-Philippe Demers, Marta De Menezes, Kira O'Reilly, Kathleen Rogers, Paul Sermon, Theodore Spyropoulos, Atau Tanaka and Andrea Zapp.
**Piksel08: code dreams
December 4-7 2008
Bergen, Norway
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?
Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of
mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.
Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real, automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.
Open call for projects!
*** PIKSEL08 ***
