"New Forms Festival 2009 :: Emancipation through Creation
The Convergence of Media Art, Electronic Music and Digital Culture
New Forms Festival 2009 (NFF09) will serve as a socially significant platform to engage the theme Emancipation through Creation. Its goal is to initiate a movement that broadens the imagination and cultural scope of artists, curators, and participants alike through emerging media technologies."
New Forms Festival 2008
10th edition, May 1st to 10th, 2009
Since 1999, Elektra - international digital arts festival - presents artists and works that combine innovative electronic music and creative imagery derived from new technologies (animation, installations and robotics). Since the beginning, we aim to be a nexus where the latest in digital technology meets diverse media, such as music, video, cinema, design, gaming and sound/interactive installations.
Elektra
Newscocoons
Muriel Waldvogel
Newscocoons is a set of pulsating media sculptures that display news - user-generated stories, videoclips, pictures, blogs - fed from geographically dispersed sources. The cocoons glow and breath slowly. Each cocoon tracks specific keywords, and embodies a theme such as alienation, chaos, body and emotions. The global shape of Newscocoons is constantly in flux, emerging from the particular constellation and intensity of information flow from the various sources. From timid to overpowering the Newscocoons may appear to be a threat to the body when overblown with information, or a soft companion in our everyday life. News happen everywhere, inundating our daily lives. Increasingly created bottom-up, in decentralized fashion as blogs, videostories, news come from the most unexpected places, in different formats and at unpredictable times. We subscribe, and news feed us.
The Newscocoons are a tangible expression of the news that is consumed. Newscocoons live and breath news articulating tangibly the energy that flows in them. They are made of inflatable, translucent specific textile, a sails material with a discrete elasticity, used in maritime cultures. Its sensuality emanates from its tension, pulse and folding sounds as the cocoons are fed information. As a magnet for news with specific themes and bias, the cocoons become independent, self-sorted worlds of news, with the potential danger of creating extreme polarization of one specific group’s views and opinions.
The cocoons express visibly and audibly how much memory is accumulated. When memory size grows, the cocoon grows, giving memory a sense of physicality, a sense of weight and a sense of volume. Cocoons grow up to a point when the eminent danger of an explosion becomes unbearable. The amalgam of news in the Newscocoons, whether generated by amateurs or professionals, whether insightful or junk, reflects the period of time we live in, with all the truths, lies and squalor.
Galerie Lucy Mackintosh
"CODE and FORM: C.E.B. Reas & Marius Watz, curated by Golan Levin"
In CODE and FORM, Los Angeles-based C.E.B. Reas and Berlin-based Marius Watz explore "generative processes." Using tools borrowed from computer science and software engineering, they write their own computer programs to create their art – whether static prints, interactive systems, or animations. Most recently, they've explored fabrication technologies, such as laser cutters, 3D printers, and computer-controlled machining systems.
Their artists' talk is 5:00pm, Tuesday, February 3 at Carnegie Mellon University. Reas and Watz's talk is part of CMU's School of Art Lecture Series and a mini-symposium on generative form and digital fabrication. For more information: www.lectureseri.es online.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
"PREDRIVE: After Technology is an exhibition that revels in the contradictions posed by digital art. Suspicious of any kind of technological sublime, PREDRIVE aims to expose contemporary art’s fetishization of new technologies – an impulse to give digital art a mystical authority. Under the conditions of technology—ideas of attention, memory, and consciousness have been thought to transform or extend themselves through mechanical, electronic or digital portals. In attempting to map out an aesthetic of the technological sublime, contemporary artists and critics alike, have been seduced by the economy of information that computer-generated art has produced. However, what this produces—at the level of the interface— is an underwhelming, less interesting version of modernist abstraction (from Mondrian to Diebenkorn)."
The Mattress Factory Art Museum
"Athens Video Art Festival is the official festival of Greece in the field of video art and new media, and covers the demands of people from the complete spectrum of creativity. It is a place of promotion of digital culture and a link between creators and organizations and at the same time an intriguing multi-dimensional event."
Athens Video Art Festival
"Milano Film Festival - September 11th-20th 2009"
Milano Film Festival 2009
Neulicht am See/ NAS / 7.02.–15.03.2009
Ein nachtaktives internationales Kunstprojekt rund um den Maschsee Hannover
Veranstalter in kuratorischer Tätigkeit: Markus Hutter und Olav Raschke in Kooperation mit dem
Kulturbüro der Landeshauptstadt Hannover im Rahmen der Gartenregion Hannover.
Das Ausstellungsprojekt „Neulicht am See“ zeigt internationale zeitgenössische Kunst im öffentlichen Raum als nachtaktive Besonderheit. 22 künstlerische Positionen aus Deutschland und der Schweiz präsentieren rund um den Maschsee temporäre Installationen, die bei Einbruch der Dunkelheit über das Medium Licht zur Geltung kommen.
Die eingeladenen Künstlerinnen und Künstler arbeiten in unterschiedlichsten Bereichen der bildenden Kunst. Die verschiedenen Arbeitsansätze bilden somit die Grundlage für eine interessante Gesamtkonstellation.
Neulicht am See
Projekt „Neulicht am See“ verwandelt Maschseeufer in Lichtkunstmuseum
A partir de l'ouvrage d'Adam Greenfield, Every[ware], Valérie Chatelet invite Daniel Kaplan et Christian Tarpin à examiner les réflexions et les questions posés par l'ubimédia dans l'évolution des villes.
Alors que le « u » d'ubiquité rejoint le « e » et le « i » dans la liste des préfixes qui désignent les derniers produits et services à la mode, les implications de l'informatique diffuse (ubiquitous computing) présentent à la fois les opportunités et les risques d'un futur où la communication machine to machine se développe, où les technologies infiltrent et recomposent nos environnements et où les choix personnels, les libertés individuelles mais aussi le bien-être sont confrontés à des menaces inédites.
Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard Conférences APRES COUP, Actualités de la pensée contemporaine
