[spectre] Killer-application is people-TV January 2007
Killer-application is people-TV January 2007 KillerTV wishes everybody that co-operated and watched the program a prosperous new year. KillerTV started in December with the introduction of High Definition Television and will go on in January 2007. From December onwards we broadcast in the aspect ratio of 16:9, instead of 4:3. We also improved the encoding quality (the way video is translated to computer-language). In the course of January KillerTV will be made available on demand in High Definition, Live the stream will still be at http://connect.waag.org. The new website is being developed and we will start experimenting as soon as the first version isready to use. Wednesday 10 January 2007 A workshop/presentation about film art and dreamworlds with Dutch director Erik van Zuylen. Van Zuylen is a connoisseur of European film art and will introduce German artist Hans Richter. Richter was a ‘homo universalis’ who worked as painter, designer, poet, director, writer and publisher. For Dutch company Philips he made a number of commercials and he even lived in the Netherlands for a while. For KillerTV van Zuylen shows work of this pioneer of the abstract film and tells about the influence of Richter on his work. Students and young artists also show their work and and discuss about abstract film art. The central theme of the evening is dreamworlds. Arjen Keesmaat, Machted Ardse and Kuba Szutkowski will join the discussion and show their work. Wednesday 17 January 2007 Hive (not Hyves) is a network that feels, sees and listens but also exchanges. The underlying software HIVEWARES is an open source operating system designed to function on commercial networks like WiFi. Every Hive enabled device is a node in the network. Internet- and computer-veteran Vladimir Grafov was involved with the development and tells about its history, the possibilities and the future of Hive. Grafov will be joined by Alexei Blinov, and introduced by Rob van Kranenburg. Where: Theatrum Anatomicum, waag building, Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012CR, Amsterdam When: 10 en 17 januari 2007, venue opens at 7.45 PM start 8.00 PM Stream: http://connect.waag.org KillerTV is supported by: Mondriaan Stichting - VSB Fonds - Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds - Surfnet - Pauwhoffonds ___ Killertv mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.waag.org/ cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/killertv Waag Society | Nieuwmarkt 4 | 1012 CR Amsterdam | tel +31.20.5579898 | fax +31-20 5579880 | http://www.waag.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] New Thursday Club Season at Goldsmiths, London
Hello Happy New Year to you all! this is the programme for the next Thursday Club season at Goldsmiths, please come along. best wishes, maria x -- NEW THURSDAY CLUB SEASON Supported by the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS and the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL 6pm until 8pm, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME 11 JANUARY with CHARLOTTE FROST : NEW FUTURES IN NET ART Charlotte is the editor of Furthertext www.furthertxt.org as well as a net art critic and PhD candidate at Birkbeck. Visit http://www.charlottefrost.info/ -- 25 JANUARY with MICHAEL YOUNG : LIVING COMPUTER MUSIC? Recent Compositions and Explorations with Max Michael is Lecturer at the Music Department at Goldsmiths. His music explores a variety of live and electroacoustic resources, and has reflected his interests in jazz and collaborative/interdisciplinary practice. His current research interests focus on interactive live electronics and improvisation. Michael is co-investigator with Tim Blackwell, Department of Computing, for the /Live Algorithms for Music/ research network. www.livealgorithms.org http://www.livealgorithms.org -- 15 FEBRUARY with JON MEYER Jon is a digital artist who specializes in computer graphics, animation, and user interfaces, and has worked as a Program Manager at Microsoft and as a Research Scientist at New York University's Media Research Laboratory. Jon has taught multimedia classes at NYU and at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. He is currently doing an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Visit www.cybergrain.com -- 22 FEBRUARY with BILL GAVER (TBC) Bill is Professor of Design at Goldsmiths College. He has pursued research on innovative technologies for over 15 years, his work spanning auditory interfaces, theories of perception and action, and interaction design. Currently he focuses on design-led methodologies and innovative technologies for everyday life. -- 8 MARCH with SUE BROADHURST : DIGITAL PRACTICES Sue is Subject Leader, Reader in Drama and Technologies at the School of Art, Brunel University of West London. Sue is also a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. Her new book /Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity/ has just been published by Palgrave. She is co-editor of the /Body, Space and Technology /online journal and is currently working on a series of collaborative practice based research projects entitled Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance. -- 22 MARCH with IGLOO Igloo is an award winning British art collective interested in the visual and kinaesthetic applications of the computer, who develop their own software tools and methods of working and presenting. Igloo's methodologies for combining creative art forms bring theatrical experiences to new audiences, while they aim to create new methods of interaction, blurring the boundaries between spectator and participator. They say:It is important for us to innovate rather than adapt. To experiment with different formats new methods of interaction. We take many risks with each new artwork (...). We believe in growing pieces rather than designing them, exploring ideas of being in other peoples stories, allowing audiences to join the dots, providing libraries of motion for play provoking imagination so that certain things can be left unsaid. Visit www.igloo.org.uk/ -- THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email maria x at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios www.cybertheater.org __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] transmediale.07 Salon programme
Newsletter 5.1.2007 transmediale.07 unfinish! January 31 - February 4, 2007 Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10 ** 1. transmediale.07 Salon 2. Panels and discussions 3. Presentations of artists ** 1. transmediale.07 Salon The salon programme of transmediale.07 presents artistic projects and discussions that relate to current questions in art and digital culture. German and international 'works in progress' and initiatives present themselves to the audience and invite an exchange of ideas. Throughout the festival, the transmediale salon invites its visitors to delve into a dialogue about contemporary artistic practices, their communication and their distribution. In this newsletter you will find a *small selection* of the multi-facetted Salon events; information about all other presentations, e.g. about online computer games, media art education at school, digital art projects in urban space, or the Chinese Firewall, can be found at: http://www.transmediale.de/site/salon.html ** 2. Panels and discussions Resonant Memory Traces / Theory Wednesday, 31.1. 2007, 18 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon The Institute for Media Archaeology (IMA) devotes its research to the work of female artists in the field of electronic media art. In its virtual salon, IMA presents the first two portraits of the DVD-series IMA fiction, dedicated to Liesl Ujvary and Rebekah Wilson aka Netochka Nezvanova. Followed by a discussion about the life and work of Mary Ellen Bute, a pioneering artist in the area of combining light and music. Participants: Elisabeth Schimana, Liesl Ujvary, Rebekah Wilson, Cordula Boesze, Seppo Gruendler, Martin Breindl. http://ima.or.at/?language=de Supported by: bundeskanzleramt:kunst, Niederoesterreich Kultur und FH Joanneum. Networking Bordergames Thursday, 1.2. 2007, 12 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon 'Bordergames' is an international open-source computer game project. It offers young migrants a creative tool for self-representation and for a critical analysis of their environment. It also serves as an instrument for reflecting and communicating about social conflicts. The subject and content of the different local versions of Bordergames are the specific living conditions of young migrants in political, social and cultural border areas. Starting from their immediate environment, the teenagers can choose characters, dialogues and paths by themselves, learning the specific IT skills to realize the computer game. 'Bordergames Kreuzberg' evolves from a cooperation with the Spanish art and activist collective La Fiambrera Obrera. At the transmediale.07, Spanish and Berlin-based members of the group will show the three already existing versions of Bordergames (Lavapies, Figueres and Rifgames) and will present the Berlin workshop, scheduled to start in spring 2007 in the area around Wrangelstrasse in Kreuzberg. Participants: Bordergames Kreuzberg, La Fiambrera Obrera http://bordergames.org/ Whatever happened to Tactical Media? Thursday, 1.2. 2007, 16 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon Creating a collaborative culture has been the main goal of video activism, independent practices that are based upon cooperation and networking. Can online tools and services such as YouTube or Flickr provide new cultural identities and open up new areas of dialogue and critique? What political role does the Net play today as a tool for collaborative production? Is self-sufficiency and the DIY ethos still important in the age of Web 2.0? And what is the actual relevance of tactical media today? Participants: Baerbel Schoenafinger, Katsiaryna Herasenkava, Pauluk Kanavalchyk, Anastasia Nekozakova, Petko Dourmana, Fran Ilich, Micz Flor Presented by: Joanne Richardson Designing Your Second Life Friday, 2.2. 2007, 19.30 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon In Massively Multi-user Online worlds (MMOs) like Second Life, millions of users experience new forms of entertainment, virtual commerce and creative metaphors of identity. This evolution constitutes a challenge for both, game developers and activists. But it attracts also artists, who aim to swim against the virtual stream as well. Participants: Joachim Stein, Anna Krenz, Aram Bartholl, Kaspar Gwinner, IGA Worldwide Presented by: Peter C. Krell http://secondlife.com/ http://game-face.de/ In cooperation with Game Face Content Generating Users (in German) Saturday, 3.2. 2007, 12 hrs, Akademie Hanseatenweg, Salon The Blogosphere, where many people found their place as sender, receiver and relay, has finally reached the art world. In November 2006 the Deutschlandradio began to broadcast Blogspiel, a programme whose radio and sound art contents are mostly provided by the continuous posts on its website. Sendung.net is an open online archive for audiovisual art, while Kunst-Blog.com is a forum for art criticism.
