[spectre] Fwd: M-MULTIMEDIA Torino
Da: LORENZO TAIUTI [EMAIL PROTECTED] .M-MULTIMEDIA is a show about digital languages going on in Torino and curated by Lorenzo Taiuti. Tusday 9 may 2006 7pm : IDB – INTER AMERICAN BIENNIAL VIDEO ART TUSDAY 16 may 2006 7pm : YOUNG ARTISTS' VIDEOS FROM TORINO Tusday 23 may 2006 7pm : VIDEOS from FESTIVAL TRANSMEDIALE 2006 REALITY ADDICTS - BERLIN Tusday 30 may 2006 7pm: YOUNG ARTISTS'VIDEOS FROM MILANO Amantes art-space cafè Via Principe Amedeo 38/a, Torino tel. 011 8172427 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.arteca.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Article - a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms
* Article * - a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms * Call for artistic contributions * i/o/lab and the curatorial team of Article hereby invite you to submit proposals for artistic work and conference talks to be included in Article 2006. We are interested in productions from areas including but not limited to: - interactive objects - work for mobile devices - video or concepts for broadcast television - internet-based work - installations for public spaces - installations for gallery spaces - public actions - social events - workshops We are primarily interested in completed productions but will give equal merit to incomplete/suggested work and proposals in the evaluation of applications. Article wishes to present work which is either site- or context-specific, or intended for traditional display spaces, work which explores and exploits the potential for artistic expression in everyday surroundings and objects. The artists/groups we invite will receive artists fees and funding for travel and board. We will also offer some production support, technical as well as financial. Article will be launched in the last half of November 2006. * Call for conference contributions * Article will be accompanied by a one-day conference, covering the topics of the exhibition and the field of unstable and electronic artforms. We are interested in contributions in the form of presentations/talks on subject areas relevant to the practice and theory of art in this field. * About Article: * Article is one of the main projects for Stavanger 2008 - European Capital of Culture. Article 2006 will be a pilot project for the 2008 installment, but also to underline that Article is intended as a biannual event BEYOND the scope of the European Capital year. Article will be comprised of: a main exhibition; a conference related to the themes of the biannual; in-depth practical and theoretical workshops and seminars; and contributions from local resources and other collaborative partners. The goal of Article is to promote artforms which don't merely employ electronic techniques in its production and display, but also actively comment on technology, the ethics and politics of technology and the evolution and dissemination of technology. Article wishes to establish an open arena for artforms which critique and engage social processes and present reflected positions on the expressive qualities and contexts of the media. By «Unstable artforms» we intend to encompass art which is not institutionalised and stabilised by traditional frameworks of production and distribution, art which crosses disciplinary boundaries, which engages unusual contexts and references, or art which is not anchored by permanent, static objects. The basic proposition and theme of the biannual is the artistic and democratic potential in the use of technology in a socially engaged art practice. Article will give this ephemeral and experimental art a context, and present it to a local, national and international audience. Article intends to present productions / work which are site-specific or made for traditional exhibition venues, work which explores and expands the potential of artistic expression in our immediate environment and objects. Article will be produced in close collaboration between i/o/lab, the norwegian production network for electronic arts, and invited groups and individuals from the nordic arts scenes. * Application deadline and addresses * Application deadline: 15. June 2006 Your application / project proposal can be sent as attachments to an email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also send us a snail mail to this address: i/o/lab P.O.Box 308 Sentrum 4002 Stavanger NORWAY The application should include: - Project description *OR* outline of conference presentation - Summary / abstract of the project, ~150 words - Budget - CV and biographies - Photo documentation, sketches, DVD, CD (contact us first if you wish to transfer large files over the net) * Evaluation and notification: * The applications/ project proposals will be evaluated by a programme committee and the organizers. Applicants will receive answers ASAP after the 15th of June 2006, and final confirmation within a month, for projects we wish to include in the exhibition. * Selection / Programming Committee / Process * The content of Article 2006 will be selected by a programming committee, comprised of individual artists, organizers and theoreticians specially invited to participate. The invited individuals will form a group of people with rich experience in organizing events such as this. * The Programme Committee * The Programme Committee for Article 2006 consists of Hege Tapio and Kevin Foust from i/o/lab and the following individuals, each with extensive experience in the practice and mediation of unstable arts: Jon Brunberg, Sweden. See: http://www.brunberg.se Juha Huuskonen, Finland. See: http://www.juhuu.nu
[spectre] (fwd) Vacancy - LabforCulture, ECF Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:10:00 +0200 From: Angela Plohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LabforCulture.org Sharing Culture across Europe Roemer Visscherstraat 18 NL - 1054 EX Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31.20 4121017 fax: +31.20 4122468 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE CHECK http://www.eurocult.org/lab An initiative of the European Cultural Foundation * The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Partners are announcing the post of the Director of the LabforCulture.org pilot project Position: LabforCulture Director Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Closing date: 1 June 2006 Starting on: 1 September 2006 Contract: FTE for 2 years LabforCulture (LfC) is a new, fully interactive online platform for all those involved in arts and culture who collaborate and produce across borders in Europe. It is backed by a vast network of partners and also carries out a range of offline activities, such as workshops and research. LabforCulture is a partner initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). Key Responsibilities - Overall leadership and management of LabforCulture - Further development of LfC as the innovative online reference point for all those engaged in European Cultural Cooperation across the broader Europe - Close collaboration with existing funders and ongoing financial and political lobbying to ensure sustainability beyond the pilot phase - Ensuring successful networking and communication of the project - Managing a team of employed staff members and free lancers Key competences and qualifications - Academic education - 10 years working experience in new media development and cultural management or cultural policy - Profound knowledge in the field of online information and knowledge management - Profound knowledge of the field of transnational artistic or cultural cooperation - Excellent leadership capacity, lobbying and fundraising skills - Excellent communication, public presentation and networking skills - Fluency in English and another European language - Experience of working in intercultural environment Applications in English in the form of a covering letter, detailed CV, 2 references, salary expectations, only via e-mail, to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please review the application pack online at www.eurocult.org/lab for further details. The European Cultural Foundation would like to thank all applicants for their interest however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] How I learned to love RFID, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, May 20, 2006
(Please scroll down for German version!) HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE RFID Public lecture series PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany Saturday, May 20, 2006 10:00 - 18:00 HMKV, Dortmund, in cooperation with RIXC, Riga In the framework of the exhibition mit allem rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen / face the unexpected. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - a cooperation between Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund/Germany - in English - Admission: 4 Euro, reduced 2 Euro (including admission for the exhibition Glamour and Globalization and Solar Radio Station) - Please let us know if you plan to attend the lectures - The series of lectures brings together approaches and projects that artistically and critically deal with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology - a technology that is significantly being developed and advanced by companies and research institutes in Dortmund. This technology which at first glance seems to be a simple further development of the bar code (well known from the supermarket) is much more powerful that the good old bar code technology. RFID tags are passive radio transmitters, which upon receiving a minor wireless energy impulse are sending back the information stored on their memory. Today, this information can be read already at a distance of six meters - without the process getting noticed. In addition, with its unique identification numbering system, this technology will allow for a precise identification of every object worldwide. What will it be like to live in a world where all the objects constantly will be talking to each other? PROGRAM 10:00 Welcome and Introduction - Screening of the video The Catalogue (GB 2004, 5:42 min.) by Chris Oakley - Dr. Inke Arns (Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund) Rasa Smite (RIXC, Center for New Media Culture, Riga) Francis Hunger (Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund) 11:00 Keynote: Bruce Sterling (Autor, Belgrade) Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer who has, among others, shaped the notion of cyberspace together with William Gibson (Neuromancer). In his blog http://blog.wired.com/sterling/ he discusses future technological developments. 12:00 Rena Tangens, padeluun (FoeBuD e.V., Bielefeld) Rena Tangens and padeluun are the most articulate and outspoken critics of RFID technology in Germany. They will speak about their Stop-RFID campaign, the Metro scandal, the use of RFID in the context of the World Cup and sketch a future vision for the use of RFID compatible with privacy issues. 13:30 Break 14:30 Rob van Kranenburg (Virtual Platform, Amsterdam) Rob van Kranenburg will speak about RFID and Pervasive Computing, i.e. how computer technology increasingly permeates our everyday life. He sees RFID as an unavoidable logistics technology that poses the question of social control. 15:30 Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Lammers (Fraunhofer Institut Materialfluss und Logistik, Dortmund) The Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute is one of the most significant research centers for RFID technology in Germany. An overview of its working areas and current research projects will be given. 16:30 Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (RIXC, Center for New Media Culture, Riga) und Honor Harger, Adam Hyde (radioqualia, NZ/AUS/GB/NL) Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits will introduce RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in Riga and its activities in the field of Locative Media. Honor Harger and Adam Hyde (radioqualia) will speak a.o. about Solar Radio Station, an installation developed in cooperation with RIXC. 18:00 break 19:00 - 21:00 Solar Radio Station - Live Installation The Riga based group Clausthome and VJ Martins Ratniks (F5/RIXC) will perform live in the Solar Radio Station. The live audio stream from the VIRAC radio telescope in Irbene, carrying data from the sun and from space, will be electronically enhanced by Clausthome and interpreted visually by VJ Martins Ratniks. SUPPORTED BY Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund 38. internationale kulturtage der stadt dortmund / scene: estland lettland litauen in nrw Kunststiftung NRW Der Ministerpraesident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Kultusministerium der Republik Estland Kultusministerium der Republik Lettland Kultusministerium der Republik Litauen Botschaft der Republik Litauen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Lietuvos Institutas dortmund-project LEG PHOENIX Medion Coolibri (Medienpartner) VENUE Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Rombergstr. / Ecke Hochofenstr. (no postal address!) Dortmund-Hoerde, Germany HOW TO GET THERE http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/ CONTACT Hartware MedienKunstVerein Guentherstraße 65 D - 44143 Dortmund Germany Tel: ++49 - 231 - 823 106 www.hmkv.de ++ DEUTSCH ++ WIE ICH LERNTE, RFID ZU LIEBEN Oeffentliche Vortragsreihe PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Samstag, 20. Mai 2006 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr HMKV, Dortmund, in
