LIGHTWAVE festival

"LIGHTWAVE: DEFY THE DARKNESS
23:01:09 - 20:02:09

Who says we are living in dark times? LIGHTWAVE offers you an opportunity to defy the darkness at the Science Gallery in a festival to dazzle your eyes and electrify your minds.

LIGHTWAVE at the Science Gallery gives you a unique chance to experiment with illumination in the company of a bright and buzzing community of scientists, engineers, philosophers and techno-artists who are passionate about the visible spectrum. From January 23-31st the LIGHTWAVE festival will thrill and delight Dublin city, and the LIGHTWAVE exhibition will continue until February 20th."

Science Gallery

Dorkbot Milano

dorkbot milano è un incontro mensile tra artisti, designers, tecnologi, studenti e chiunque altro della zona di Milano che sia interessato all'uso creativo della tecnologia. Le riunioni di dorkbot sono gratis ed aperte a tutti.

Dorkbot è nato nel 2000 a New York grazie a Douglas Irving Repetto e si è diffuso in tutto il mondo.

Dorkbot Milano

Dorkbot milano gennaio | Arci Metissage

In Search of a New(er) Digital Literature

In Search of a New(er) Digital Literature

curated by Alan Bigelow

Given its ongoing (and often surprising) metamorphoses on the web, it is dangerous to lay claim to a universal identity for digital literature, where exceptions to the rule often signal the coming of new forms, new iterations. But as a result of recent technologies, and digital literature's explosive re-invention of itself on the web, some aesthetic patterns may be emerging on the contemporary scene that offer hope for a form still struggling for its public identity.

terminal- in search of a new(er) digital literature

Medaille College News - Blog Archive - Dr. Bigelow Curates Digital Literature Exhibitioin

Making Your Media Matter 2009

"The Center for Social Media invites established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders, and students to our 5th annual Making Your Media Matter conference."

Making Your Media Matter 2009 -- Articles -- Center for Social Media at American University

tagr.tv

TagR.tv is a festival video blog that multiplexes documenting of all kinds of digital and media arts events, and lets you experience festivals from anywhere in close to real-time.

tagr.tv - digital || art || media || hub

Italian WordCamp

Il Wordcamp, che si svolgerà il 22 e 23 maggio 2009 a Milano, è un incontro aperto a tutti ed è organizzato da WordPress Italy.

Per questa edizione avremo DUE ospiti d’onore, Matt Mullenweg, il founder developer di WordPress e Andy Peatling l’inventore di BuddyPress,la serie di plugin e temi che trasformano un installazione di WordPressmu in un Social Network.

http://www.wordcamp.it/

Show Off Vidéo 08

Show Off Vidéo 08
Vidéo Best Venues #2

Suite à la troisième édition du salon d’art contemporain Show Off, que la galerie co-organise avec la galerie Magda Danysz, Olivier Houg Galerie et la galerie Vanessa Quang, nous avons voulu mettre à l’honneur les programmations vidéos présentées dans le cadre de ce salon.

Galerie les filles du calvaire

Truc Troc

The 5th edition of Truc Troc will be exceptional. It will empower the Grand Circuit from the Center of Fine Arts in Brussels. Truc Troc fulfilled a wonderful ambition for the 1st time in 5 years by multiplying the chosen artists by 2 and the exposition size by 4. More than 200 artists will be exposed over 1600m2!

The musical atmosphere will be brought to you by Statik Dancin and the Dj'z Darko and Sweatshop reinforced by a unique live performance by Dave Aju (San Francisco).
After Party : Statik Dancin' by Darko and guests,Ter Arkenzalen, Bozar.

Statik Dancin' Deluxe is back at the Centre for Fine Arts, this time with a special edition within the framework of the annual 0090 Festival. This contemporary, multidisciplinary festival takes a broad look at Turkey, its culture, and those involved in Turkish cultural life. So why not invite the very best DJs with Turkish roots! The line-up on 31 January: Onur Özer (DJ set), who lives and works in Berlin, and Tolga Fidan (live) of the celebrated Berlin label Vakant. Not to be missed. www.myspace.com/statikdancin

www.truc-troc.be

War Problems

John Kørner
War Problems

Victoria Miro is pleased to announce the gallery’s second exhibition by Danish artist John Kørner. War Problems is a new series of sixteen large-scale works, each representing a Danish solider killed in Afghanistan and each bearing a single name – Anders, Mikkel, Thomas, Sonny.

Recently on view as part of the 2008 U-Turn Copenhagen Quadriennial, the paintings on exhibition are a significant departure for the artist, who was drawn to the subject matter after reading local news reports: ‘I had lots of questions about what Denmark was doing in the War on Terror in Afghanistan and why a country like ours was involved when we never used to take part in wars.

Victoria Miro

art KARLSRUHE 2009

At art KARLSRUHE 2009 (5-8 March) the Hamburg artist Friedrich Einhoff will receive the Hans-Platschek Prize for Art and Writing. He has been selected by the respected art historian Werner Hofmann.

The juror will be paying tribute to the artist and presenting him with the award in Foyer Ost at 5 p.m. on 5 March. Initiated by the Hans-Platschek Trust, the prize is being awarded for the second time. Einhoff was born in Magdeburg in 1936. He studied under Alfred Mahlau and Willem Grimm at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1957 to 1962. Human and animal forms are the dominant features of his fascinating paintings, mostly in acrylic paints, charcoal, and sand. The men and women often frozen in place in muted colourfulness before an austere backdrop wear enigmatic facial expressions. The communication with other living creatures also defies any tangible interpretation: familiar yet alien.

art KARLSRUHE - Internationale Messe fur Klassische Moderne und Gegenwartskunst

Diana Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit

DIANA AND ACTAEON
The forbidden glimpse of the naked body

Around a core of works of art that explicitly relate to the myth of Artemis/Diana and Aktaion/Actaeon as told by Ovid, this exhibition brings together over 300 works in a scope to be shown as such only in Düsseldorf. On its agenda is that view afforded at all periods of art, upon ‘The forbidden glimpse of the naked body’. Diana’s fate is also that of Venus, Susanna, Bathsheba, Nyssia, Phryne, Potiphar’s Wife, Baubo, Sheela-na-Gig and a host of unnamed nudes in modes classical and explicit who pass before the visitor’s eye.

They do so now in works by more than 200 artists, as paintings, sculptures,drawings, prints, photographs and videos from German and international private and public collections. Together they provide a unique account of a broad field interesting from both an art-historical and cultural-historical angle – of chastity and desire, of seeing and being seen, voyeurism and exhibitionism.

museum kunst palast - Diana Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit

SHOT VANESSA

CORRADO SASSI SHOT VANESSA
Piazza degli Affari, Milano

L’artista Corrado Sassi presenta in Piazza degli Affari a Milano la performance Shot Vanessa.

In uno spazio quadrato, non visibilmente delimitato, l’artista riunisce un gruppo di 36 donne posizionate in piedi in modo equidistante l’una dall’altra. Le protagoniste della performance sono vestite in modo simile con eleganti tailleur, quasi fossero sul loro luogo di lavoro.
Ogni 10 minuti circa viene servito al gruppo di donne uno shot di vodka, che le porterà in tempi più o meno lunghi ad uno stato di ubriachezza. La performance avrà termine quando per l’ebbrezza le protagoniste non saranno più in grado di mantenere la posizione loro assegnata sullo spazio immaginario della piazza.

SHOT VANESSA: l’arte di far ubriacare 36 donne in Piazza Affari - Arte e Salute

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Nameless Science

"Nameless Science
Curated by Henk Slager

December 10, 2008 - January 31, 2009

With projects by Ricardo Basbaum (Brazil), Jan Kaila (Finland), Irene Kopelman (The Netherlands), Matts Leiderstam (Sweden), Ronan McCrea (Ireland), Sarah Pierce (UK/USA), and Morten Torgersrud (Norway)."

The debate on artistic research emerging worldwide in the field of visual art for some five years now tends to focus on what artistic research could be or should be. As a consequence of that debate, artistic research as a yet undefined sanctuary for creative experiment and knowledge production is prone to the danger of being absorbed by an intellectually crippling academic discourse on how the specificity of research-based art as a novel modus operandi could be defined and framed. That tendency is comparable to what happened in the 1990s with the initially so radically formulated anti-disciplinary cultural studies. Such academic debate that ultimately seems to be focused particularly on institutional and managerial results–and is, moreover, connected in Europe time and again with the so-called Bologna rules, i.e. the introduction of a bachelor, master, and PhD structure in art education–provides very little insight in the specific qualities of the artistic research process as such. Therefore, it is more than urgent to approach research practices from the perspective of the artistic profession implying entirely different and also more intrinsic views. ... read all Henk Slager

http://www.apexart.org/

Under The Influence

Under The Influence opens at Girls’ Club and at Art & Culture Center of Hollywood. A multimedia exploration of artists influence one another on every level. Collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas and methods.

Amy Sillman, Shahzia Sikander, Clare E. Rojas, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Frances Trombly, Ghada Amer, Joanne Greenbaum, Lynn Gelfman, Elisabeth Condon, Lisa Sanditz, Wangechi Mutu, Quisqueya Henriquez, Ann Hamilton, Mariko Mori, Pipilotti Rist, Jen Stark

Girls’ Club Exhibitions

ShContemporary

"ShContemporary returns for the third year to the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center to create an intriguing dialogue between the Orient and Occident art scenes. 140 world class galleries representing over 29 countries met in the 2008 edition of THE Asia Pacific Art Fair. Over 25.000 visitors strolled with enthusiasm into the main sections of the fair: Best of Galleries, Best of Discovery and the newborn area of the Outdoor Projects."

ShContemporary | 10 to 13 September 2009 | Shanghai

LOSS OF CONTROL

Mit seiner letzten großen Ausstellung LOSS OF CONTROL verabschiedet sich JAN HOET nach achtjähriger Tätigkeit als inspirierender Gründungsdirektor des MARTa Herford.

Antonin Artaud, Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, Jacques Charlier, Jean Dubuffet, Jörg Immendorff, Bjarne Melgaard, Henri Michaux, Yue Minjun, Tracey Moffatt, Francis Picabia, Félicien Rops, Hana Shaikholeslami Kordestan, Adolf Wölfli und ca. 40 weitere Künstlerinnen und Künstler.

MARTa Herford - marta

Gas Zappers

Artwork website: Gas Zappers

Gas Zappers, by artist Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, is an interactive online art game that tackles global warming. Hung is among the contemporary artists and educators who have adopted video games as a new platform for social debate and aesthetic experience by developing “serious games.” In Gas Zappers, the idiom of the video game is exploited to challenge and illuminate the simplistic notion of quick fixes to environmental issues.

BAM/PFA - BAM Exhibitions

Facing China

Facing China features works of art by and photographic portraits of a unique generation of artists that flourished in the years following the 1989 revolt.

05/17/2008 –06/28/2008
Akureyri Art Museum
http://www.listasafn.akureyri.is

09/05/2008 –10/26/2008
Stadtgalerie Schwaz
http://www.stadtgalerieschwaz.at

09/05/2008 – 10/11/2008
Kunstraum Innsbruck
http://www.kunstraum-innsbruck.at

01/17/2009 –03/22/2009
Haugar – Vestfold Kunstmuseum Thonsberg
http://www.haugar.com

04/24/2009 –08/16/2009
Kuopio Art Museum
http://www.taidemuseo.kuopio.fi

09/05/2009 –11/08/2009
Salo Art Museum
http://www.saloartmuseum.com

11/28/2009 –01/10/2010
Ystads Konstmuseum
http://www.konstmuseet.ystad.se

Facing China

Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism

"Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, is a two-day forum on the state of contemporary art criticism co-organized by Artspeak and Fillip. Through a keynote address by Tirdad Zolghadr and two panels made up of international critics Diedrich Diederichsen, Jeff Derksen, Sylvie Fortin, Maria Fusco, Tom Morton and William Wood, the forum seeks to address what is at stake in the shifting value of judgment within contemporary art writing. A renewed interest in the efficacy and function of art criticism has arisen in the last decade, embedded in art market speculation, global conflict and recent economic crises. This forum will engage with the key issues produced from these conversations, specifically returning to the role of valuation in contemporary art writing."

ARTSPEAK: Events - Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism: Forum

art cologne

"The 43rd ART COLOGNE will take place in Cologne from 22nd to 26th April 2009. For a total of five days, some 180 galleries from Germany and abroad will be presenting modern classics, post-war art and contemporary art. ART COLOGNE will offer painting, sculpture, installations, video art, photography, works on paper, editions and multiples in a select presentation of the healthy variety of the modern and contemporary art trade in Europe and overseas."

- artcologne

Preis der Nationalgalerie fur junge Kunst 2009

"In autumn 2009 the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art) will be awarded for the fifth time. Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan and Director for Special Exhibitions at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York), Jessica Morgan (Curator Tate Modern, London), Beatrix Ruf (Director Kunsthalle Zürich), Janneke de Vries (Director of the Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen) as well as Bernhart Schwenk (Curator Pinakothek der Moderne, München) were nominated for the first jury."

Preis der Nationalgalerie fur junge Kunst 2009

MOVE ON

The exhibition presents recent artworks from Czech and international artists who have taken part, during 2008, in the residences run by Futura and its partners in Prague, Castle Trebesice, Bratislava, Budapest, Birmingham, Warsaw and Shanghai.

participating artists: Silvina Arismendi (UY),Vasil Artamonov & Alexey Klyuykov (CZ), Matei Bejenaru (RO) Ondřej Brody (CZ),Valentino Diego (IT), Tomáš Džadoň (SK), Amande In (FR), Eva Jiřička (CZ), Jaroslav Kyša (SK), Dominik Lang (CZ), Anna Orlikowska (PL),Tereza Severová (CZ), Julia Vécsei (HU), Liang Yue (CN)

FUTURA

MATTER OF FACT: AFTERMATH

MATTER OF FACT: AFTERMATH

O programa Matter of Fact explora uma estética educacional em performatividade. Questionando a transmissão de assunto, conhecimento e conteúdo, o performer indica métodos pedagógicos ao especular sobre a formalidade de políticas pessoais, artísticas e ficcionais da história. Um pequeno “elenco” de colaboradores usam o cronograma da exposição como ponto de partida para a reflexão sobre seu próprio método de transcender o conhecimento. Suas especificidades transitam da pura formalidade do consciente, linguagem como espetáculo visual, mediadores da produção cultural e emancipadores épicos de potencialidades utópicas (políticas).

galeriaVermelho

DISIDANZAS

NANCY SPERO. DISIDANZAS
Fecha: 29 Enero - 22 de Marzo 2009
Lugar: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo

El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo acoge una versión resumida de la exposición Nancy Spero. Disidanzas, la primera gran retrospectiva de la obra de esta artista estadounidense que se ha realizado en España.

El título de la muestra -que también se ha presentado en el MACBA (4 de julio / 24 de septiembre de 2008) y en el MNCARS (14 de octubre de 2008 / 5 de enero de 2009)- alude a dos aspectos claves en la obra de esta artista nacida en 1926: su caráter crítico y heterodoxo y la importancia que tiene el movimiento y el cuerpo en la articulación de su discurso.

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporeneo

embedded art

With more than 30 commissioned works, the exhibition in the Akademie-building at Pariser Platz not only highlights many of the pertinent issues relating to security, it also offers fascinating insights into current trends in contemporary art practice, featuring artists from Germany, Great Britain, Japan, South Africa, Italy and Slovenia showing visual art, video art, media art, photography, music, and sound art.

The video artists Korpys & Löffler film a Rhineland-Palatinate-police riot squad workshop, where officers are instructed in the use of the Taser electronic control device. Painter Moritz ® portrays 'Five Peace Monsters', the protagonists of new technologies for political control. Photographer Christina Zück travels to Karachi, where she records the 'psycho-geography' of a site on the 'axis of evil', collaborating with the Pakistani photographer Zahid Hussein on this project. British dubstep pioneer Steve Goodman (aka Kode 9) in collaboration with sound artist Toby Heys illustrate the physical sensations of future sonic weaponry with their installation 'Unsound'. The exhibition will feature works by, amongst others, Peter Kennard, Jörg Möller, Gunter Rambow, Heidi Specker, Akademie-president Klaus Staeck/REMOTEWORDS, Timm Ulrichs, and Omar Vulpinari.

embedded art

Startseite Akademie der Kunste, Berlin

market-art

The MARKET art fair is held February 13-15, 2009, at the Royal Academy of Art in central Stockholm. The 32 participating leading art galleries from the Nordic region will be showing a wide selection of Scandinavian and international contemporary art.

market-art

wiiwiiwiiwi

A group of four lovely vvvv-Geeks got a few Wiimotes and transformed them into a musical instrument.

wiiwiiwiiwii - Claudio Midolo Edgar Castellanos Pedro Mari Natan Sinigaglia

DISK/club transmediale: Festival 09

"club transmediale (CTM), Berlin’s unique festival for electronic and experimental musical culture, invites you to its 10th Anniversary Edition in January 2009.

Expect a magnificent program of concerts and performance in honour of this grand occasion, in which the festival’s long-standing friends and comrades-in-arms, the best of the season’s newcomers and yet to be discovered talents will all do their utmost to highlight the festival’s status as a forge of international talent and a creative network hub."

DISK/club transmediale: Festival 09

SHARE

Launch of the first SHARE BRUssels during Cimatics festival at iMAL, 29 NOV 2008.

Rendez-vous - SHARE Brussels

SHARE is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities.

Share Global

tenantspin ON TOUR

"travels to Tate Liverpool for The Fifth Floor (Ideas Taking Space), a groundbreaking exhibition. The exhibition runs December 16th 2008 to 1st February 2009 and we’ll be broadcasting live Tuesday to Thursday each week."

This project sees tenantspin create a “TV Studio in the gallery”; a truly interactive exhibit at Tate Liverpool. In addition, this project uses the newest innovative online video services.

tenantspin ON TOUR

FACT.TV

"EXCLUSIVES, INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS, EXPERT TIPS, EXHIBITION PREVIEWS, FEEDBACK AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE AT FACT, THE UK'S CENTRE FOR DIGITAL ART"

FACT.TV - Film, Art and Creative Television

Future Web Festival

"Workshop Future Web Festival

L’arte che deve i suoi natali ai fratelli Lumiere ha scoperto la Rete. Con alcuni anni di ritardo al cinema sta capitando quello che e' successo prima alle news e in seguito alla musica. Antonio Rollo, uno dei maggiori rappresentanti italiani del cinema 2.0, offre al pubblico un workshop interattivo.
A cura di Luca Vaglio. Ingresso libero."

Future Film Festival - Programma gio 29

Man With the Movie Camera

"Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to this site. Software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. Anyone can upload footage. When the work streams your contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”."

Man With the Movie Camera

The Danish colonial garden meets Middle Eastern war zone

The Danish artist Soren Dahlgaard, also known as The Dough Warrior, meet Israeli artist Meir Tati, also known as Yellowman, in their joint performance "The Danish colonial garden meets Middle Eastern war zone".

Meir Tati is a Performance- and Videoinstallation artist working with the reality which is his daily life in Tel Aviv. Soren Dahlgaards reality in Denmark is, opposed to Meir Tatis very calm and safe.

It is this difference in realities that Meir Tati og Soren Dahlgaard will use as a starting point. Through their joint work process, performances and discussions they will create artworks and dialogue.

Their cooperation began in Trento in Italy in 2007, where they both participated at the International Prize for Performance at Galleria Civica Museum of Contemporary Art.

The collaboration has also resulted in a show featuring videoinstallatins and explosions on paper at Stalke Up North in Gothersgade 5 - which can be seen until 13 February 2009.

LINKS:

www.overgaden.org
www.stalke.dk
www.sorendahlgaard.com
www.cphair.dk

Interrupted Game

Amel Ibrahimovic & Slaven Tolj: Interrupted Game

07.02.2009 - 05.04.2009

Amel Ibrahimovic (b. 1977) defines his exhibition as “a solo exhibition with a guest”. Ibrahimovic's guest is the legendary Croatian artist Slaven Tojl (b. 1964). As the title indicates Ibrahimovic and Tojl are occupied with the crisis that inevitably arises when life, as you know it, is brutally interrupted and you have to define a new identity. In the exhibited works the two artists create small stories, that in different ways deal with a “before” and a “now”. Through drawings, photos and video the viewer is presented with the thoughts and questions that are present, when you are torn between two cultures and you try to clarify your own "broken" identity.

Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst