[spectre] The Boredom Patrol at Artivistic 2007!
Artivistic 2007 [http://artivistic.org] is taking place in Montreal, from October 25-27th. Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate. The Boredom Patrol of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army [http://circasd.org] will be there, playing with all the other amazing creative people who are coming. The Boredom Patrol is a gaggle of clowns who utilize their bodies to create chaos and laughter in the borderlands to combat the dreadful seriousness and straight lines of borders and their enforcers. Then, they take their actions online to public culture spaces like YouTube, engaging anti-immigrant vigilantes in an online dialog about the politics of immigration, along with anyone else who wants to join in the fun. What ensues is a networked performance [http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/?s=rebel+clown+armyx=0y=0], an empassioned, raucous dialog about contemporary politics of migration, spurred on by the digitization of the bodies of the clowns, vulnerable and silly, face to face with the anti-immigration activists. See their videos and join in on the fun here: http://circasd.org/clown-media.html Or even better, join them in Montreal at Artivistic for the premiere of their video The Circus of (Im)Migration and a rebel clowning workshop! More about Artivistic 2007: For the third edition of Artivistic, the expression [ un.occupied spaces ] was chosen to stimulate new ideas in response to the hidden confusions caused by the infinite networks of 21C globalization and neo-liberalism. [ un.occupied spaces ] dares to link the charged issues of environmentalism, indigenous and migrant struggles, and urban practices together through the angle of occupation. In an interconnected world, critical thought and action cannot but become flexible and uncompromising at once. To think with occupation consequently becomes a strategy for approaching these issues in a way that will reveal their interdependence, and fuel creative and tactical collaborative actions between “co-artists” (artists and non-artists). Built around three interrelated questions, the event consists of roundtables, workshops, interventions, exhibitions, performances, and screenings at our temporary headquarters at 5455 av. de Gaspé, #701 and in different venues and spaces of Montreal. -- blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts gpg: 0x5B77079C // encrypted email preferred gaim/skype: djlotu5 // off the record messaging preferred __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Second Life Architecture Awards
Media Release Second Life Architecture Awards The constructed architectural spaces of Second Life share a commonality with the exotic invisible cities of Italo Calvino. They are at once familiar yet completely otherworldly: inverted, fantastical, corrupted, baroque and barren, unexpected, startling and compellingly seductive. They are both our present and our future. In September this year Dr Melinda Rackham, ANAT's Director and 3D world author and theorist, was invited to join a 6 member international Jury assessing the Annual Second Life Architecture Design Competition, a first of its kind, held at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. The jury deliberated over the 126 submissions before a live audience at the Architekturforum Linz, while being simultaneously streamed into Second Life. Four outstanding projects, that took advantage of both the artistic and technical possibilities afforded by Second Life were selected as finalists: · Berliner Tanja Meyle's Living Cloud, is a semitransparent cloud that travels with her and provides privacy and sanctuary, a consistent need for an avatar in Second Life. The cloud surrounding her avatar Creatina Ferraris is not only a transportable house; its variability brings in an association with the idea that the house is just an extension of the body of the person who inhabits it. · From San Francisco, DC Spensley creates Full Immersion Hyperformalism an usual and innovative user interface, constructed to allow an avatar to view a fine art exhibition. This structure is defined as less a building than a spatial interface containing numerous abstracted and interactive possibilities. · Adam Nash's 17 Unsung Songs allows avatars to be physically immersed in interactive sound scapes, constructions that create a tension within their Australian parkland environment. Here audiovisual elements undergo spatial modification via avatar interaction giving rise to a new aesthetic and sensory spatial construct. · Conceptually and technically innovative is White Noise, a work from Vienna based Max Moswitzer. This experiment in non-human architecture utilises the detritus of Second Life, freebie objects such as teddy bears and discarded skateboards, to construct a dazzling white snow-palace. This mishmashed building enfolds on multiple levels of detail and evokes the perfect domicile for the realm of Second Life. The selected projects are presented online (www.sl-award.com) where the public are invited to vote for their favourite project. The winner receives a 1,000-euro grand prize, which will be awarded on 25 October 2007 at the prize ceremony, which includes discussions and a party at Zollverein, Essen, the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Dr Melinda Rackham comments, ANAT is committed to enabling artists to work critically with emerging forms of practice, and the virtual terrains of Second Life are indicative of trends that will become important in future virtual 3D platforms. For more information visit www.anat.org.au. Ends __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Final call: netart wanted!
Call for proposals deadline 31 October 2007 - JavaMuseum- Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art www.javamuseum.org is looking for Internet based art (netart) for a series of features starting in November 2007 on occasion of NewMediaFest2007 www.newmediafest.org In this framework, the first of these features will become the third exhibition component besides the shows -Seven Ways for Saying Internet with Net Art curated by Elena Julia Rossi (Rome), who is, among others, also responsable for the netart shows at MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Rome/Italy - and a+b=ba? art +blog=blogart? curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. JavaMuseum, founded in 2000 as a virtual museum, is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net. Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised between 2001 and 2005 18 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart from the years 2000-2004 including more than 350 artists. In 2006 and 2007, JavaMuseum was undergoing a restructuration phase and launched JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project - http://jip.javamuseum.org, which will contain more than 100 interviews by professionals in the field of art and New Media. after its relaunch in November 2007. JavaMuseum is looking for netart projects, which are completed after 1 January 2004 and not part of the JavaMuseum, yet, max. 5 project proposals can be submitted. The entry form can be found on http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=138 - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art www.javamuseum.org info (at) javamuseum.org powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne www.nmartproject.net - the experimental platform for art and New Media from Cologne/Germany. __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] Last Call Pr0n Competition @ CUM2CUT Festival
CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival http://www.cum2cut.net Pr0n* Competition: technology becomes pornography| *hack slang for porn CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festival comes again! It is an independent pornography competition, a four day marathon in which participants are invited to release a short film, which will be shown during the Porn Film Festival Berlin (http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de). This year CUM2CUT is raised to a double level, it is not only a Porn Competition (in Berlin see http://www.cum2cut.net), but also a Pr0n one (on the net)! As usual all the short movies must be pornographic. Aim of the pr0n competition is to create and share strategies, short-ways, tricks, pranks to 'dress-up' the techology into a porn tool. Technology is the protagonist of this competition! People have to deal with pornography using media or creating digital codes or any other video projects. There is no limits to the possible uses/derivations of technology. The real limits to cross are only the sexual stereotypes. By emulating the hacker way of combining and recombining hard- and software into a more critical and all-encompassing technology, you can subvert rigid sexual paradigms and create new porn InterZones for yourselve and your community. Contrary to the Porn Competition, here people don't have to perform with real bodies, but have to deal with their technical skills. Therefore it is not necessary participants come in Berlin to shoot their movies, but they can upload them in remote on the CUM2CUT server. As the Porn Competition, the Pr0n marathon is 4 days long. You can choose to participate from 20 September to 20 October, registering yourself on the Pr0n form. After your registration, the Pr0n marathon starts! There are just a few rules to follow when making the short movie. You will receive them with you registration. A mail-reminder will inform you on your time left. Within 4 days of competition, you have to upload your video on our server. All of the films will be shown at the end of the Berlin Porn Film Festival at Kant Kino on 26 October. The Award Ceremony will be on 28 October at the same place (see Programme). An expert jury formed by people involved in porn/queer/hacker subculture and experimental cinema will select two winners. The winners will receive a prize: not money, but something really special from the Cazzo Production Team and the Berlin porn scene! At the conclusion of the Berlin Porn Film Festival and of the CUM2CUT Movies Competition there will be a great night-party at LUX club, on 27 October 2007 from 23.00h (see Programme). You are welcome to come! Register your team now! ;-) Registration closes on 20 October 2007. Competition closes on 24 October 2007. Upload here your short movie! (not later than 24 October) http://www.cum2cut.net -- 8/|\ - /c_/ Tatiana Bazzichelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/\__ web site: http://www.networkingart.eu / \ http://www.ecn.org/aha /\ mailing-list: https://www.ecn.org/wws/arc/aha /|- __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] CFP: Blick im 21. Jahrhundert - Wider de n „Analpha-BILD-ismus“
CALL FOR PAPERS BLICK IM 21. JAHRHUNDERT Wider den „Analpha-BILD-ismus“ Zweite internationale bildwissenschaftliche Konferenz in Goettweig 24.-26. April 2008 www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw Wohl niemals zuvor hat sich die Welt der Bilder und die Methoden Bilder zu erzeugen so nachhaltig verändert wie in unserer juengsten Gegenwart. Waren Bilder frueher Ausnahmeerscheinungen sind wir heute von Bildern gleichsam umsponnen. Bilder dringen in neue Bereiche vor: das Fernsehen wandelte sich zum globalen Zappingfeld tausender Kanaele, Großbildwaende halten in unsere Staedte Einzug und schaffen emotionale Kollektiverlebnisse, Mobiltelefone versenden Micro-Movies in Echtzeit; Wir erleben den Aufstieg des Bildes zum computergenerierten virtuellen Raumbild, das eine zunehmend lebensechte Sphaere entfaltet. Wissenschaft, Politik und Entertainment nutzen neue Dimensionen der Bilderzeugung und Bildwirkung. Seit den 60er Jahren verbinden sich Kunst und Wissenschaft in der Grundlagenforschung der Medienkunst und doch ruhen diese auf partiell unbekannten Traditionslinien. Eine Vielzahl neuer Moeglichkeiten individuell Bildmaterial zu produzieren, projizieren und zu versenden, fuehrt zu neuen Bildgenres. Die bildgeschichtliche Spiralbewegung aus Innovation, Verstaendnis und Bildverbot erreicht im 21. Jahrhundert neue globale Verflechtung. Diese Veraenderungen treffen unsere Gesellschaften weitgehend unvorbereitet. Brachte die Schriftkultur eine differenzierte und konzentrierte Ausbildung hervor, stehen unsere Gesellschaften bei Bildern noch nahezu im Stadium des Analphabetismus und zunehmend wird erkannt, dass wir ohne weiteren Ausbau neuer Formen der Visualisierung und „Ordnungen der Sichtbarkeit“, ihrer Reflexion und Kritik, die Wissensexplosion unserer Zeit nicht verarbeiten koennen. Neben der Kenntnis neuer Bildverfahren liegt ein zentrales Problem zeitgenoessischer Kulturpolitik in der Unkenntnis der Geschichte audiovisueller Medien. Dies steht in krassem Gegensatz zu den stets wiederkehrenden Rufen nach verstaerkter Medien- und Bildkompetenz. Die Konferenz fragt daher nach dem Denk- und Utopieraum, wie er immer wieder von Kuenstlern ausgegangen ist, und will auf dem erweiterten bildwissenschaftlichen Terrain feststellen, welche Inspirationen neue Bildwelten aus der Kunst erfahren? Welchen Einfluss hat das Medium auf den ikonischen Charakter der Abbildung? Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen ergeben sich für Bildvermittler und Museen durch die „Liquiditaet“ des Bildes? Die interdisziplinaere Konferenz möchte die Herausforderung annehmen und versuchen, Bestandsaufnahme zu machen. Erklaertes Ziel ist es hierfür verstaerkten Austausch zwischen Geisteswissenschaften UND Naturwissenschaften zu fördern, um transdisziplinaeres Arbeiten zu ermoeglichen. Proposals sind zu folgenden Themenfeldern erbeten: NEUE BILDFORMEN UND -TECHNIKEN (neue Visualisierungsverfahren in Nano-, Bio-, Neurowissenschaften, Informationsarchitektur, Fotografie, Digital Collection Management u.a.) NEUE STRATEGIEN DER BILDARGUMENTATION (in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Politik, Werbung, Diagramm/Modell, Comic, Visuelle Musik u.a) NEUE VERFAHREN DES BILDTRANSFERS (Globale Oekonomie, Tagging, Micromovies, Flickr, Second Life, You Tube, Google Earth etc.) DEADLINE proposals: 21. Oktober 2007 Konferenzsprachen: Deutsch/English. PAPERS Ein einseitiges Abstract oder abgeschlossenes Paper kann per mail eingereicht werden. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nach Zusage sind die Paper bis 21. März 2008 als PDF erbeten. Panel-Vorschlaege sind willkommen und sollten Namen der vorgesehenen Panel-TeilnehmerInnen enthalten. DAS DEPARTMENT FUER BILDWISSENSCHAFT (DBW) der staatlichen Donau-Universität Krems ist in der Kulturlandschaft Wachau (UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe) im Stift Goettweig angesiedelt. Sitz ist eine Burg aus dem 14. Jahrhundert, die, unter Denkmalschutz, kuerzlich renoviert und mit neuester EDV Konferenztechnik ausgestattet wurde. BEIRATSMITGLIEDER des Departments fü* www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw * www.VirtualArt.at * www.MediaArtHistory.org * Carl, AIGNER (St. Pölten), Roy ASCOTT (Plymouth), Sean CUBITT (Melbourne), Brigitte FELDERER (Wien), Felice FRANKEL (Boston), Beryl GRAHAM (Newcastle), Erkki HUHTAMO (Los Angeles), Douglas KAHN (Davis/California), Martin KEMP (Oxford), Harald KRÄMER (Bern), Machiko KUSAHARA (Tokyo), Jorge LAFERLA (Buenos Aires), Timothy LENIOR (Duke), Gunalan NADARAJAN (Penn State), Christiane PAUL (New York), Götz POCHAT (Graz), Martin ROTH (Dresden), Wolf SINGER (Frankfurt), Christa SOMMERER (Linz), Paul THOMAS (Western Australia), Wolfgang WELSCH (Jena), STEVE WILSON (Berkeley) * * * http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw/bildtage * Mag. Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria Donau-Universitaet Krems Department für Bildwissenschaften Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 A-3500 Krems Tel: +43/2732/893-2570 Fax: +43/2732/893-4551 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw
[spectre] invitation: Performance Intermedia Festival 2007 in Gallery ZERO Berlin
Performance: Sunday 21. October 2007, 7pm ∏ Performance Intermedia Festival 2007 at Galerie ZERO, Berlin: 19.00 Uhr - ∏_five 1 (video art) 20.00 Uhr - ∏_show 4 (performance art): Boris Nieslony, Barbara Sturm, TBL, Nezaket Ekici, Melati Suryodarmo In cooperation with OFFicyna, Szczecin ∏ Performance Intermedia Festival 2007 19-21.10.2007 PI Performance Intermedia Festival is an international festival of art events that happen in a definite place and time. It aims to create an experimental scene of modern art (performance art, multimedia, intermedia, actions in public space). First edition entitled „Private Impact” accompanied the Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art „Extra Strong Super Light” in 2003. Second edition, as Live Art Festival „PerForma”, took place in 2004 as an independent event. Third, extended edition of the project named Live Art Festival „∏ Private Impact” in 2005 included new elements (∏ guest, ∏ night, ∏ café, ∏ talk, ∏ young, ∏ workshop, ∏ five) and took place in Szczecin, Świnoujście and Berlin (AktionsBank). Fourth edition, already as “∏ Performance Intermedia Festival”, was presented in Szczecin (place of art OFFicyna, the National Museum in Szczecin), and Świnoujście (Centrala). This year’s program of the ∏ Performance Intermedia Festival includes the following elements: _presentations of known and approved artists from various countries of the world. _guest in every edition of the festival curators invite a prominent person giving a new input to contemporary art scene. _night night presentation of performance art and multimedia in the array rooms of the National Museum in Szczecin – the most representative building down town. _young an accompanying program of the festival where young artist invited by curators can present themselves before the professional artists. It gives them a chance to come into existence on the art scene and the audience gets a chance to experience another art actions. _café during the festival in the place of art OFFicyna there is a café – a place of meetings and discussions, where man can rest and relax as well as exchange observations and ideas with artists and other participants of the festival. _talk in the evenings after numerous artistic presentations there is a possibility to take part in the discussions and seminars with invited artists. _workshop intermedia workshops lead by curators and artists. Young people that often participate for the first time in an event of contemporary art, during workshops open themselves for new experiences. _five the project is a review of short productions from the field of video art. The videos come from the whole world and their duration is up to five minutes. The formula of the festival is an artistic-social formula that fits in the areas of interest of the OFFicyna Association. In cooperation with OFFicyna, Szczecin, Poland (www.officyna.art.pl) best wishes, Anna Krenz Jacek Slaski Galerie ZERO Köpenicker Str.4 10997 Berlin Tel.: 030 7407 3309 Fax.: 030 7407 3310 Mobil.: 0177 2966 833 www.zero-project.org Öffnungszeiten Mi-Sa 12-18 Uhr __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] The last pallet @ PARIS
Come take for free one of the 245 free books RESIDENCE by Jean-Pierre Théolier saved by his little brother from the rammer of Calmann-Levy. The last pallet @ Galery MYCROFT 13, rue ternaux - 75011 PARIS http://www.mycroft.com.fr 15 th october 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thth/sets/72157602517052946 till tomorow the 20 th october 2007 3 h 00 PM7 h 00 PM links_ http://www.myspace.com/cameraanimale021268 http://www.rue89.com/2007/10/17/le-syndicat-du-hype-sauve-le-roman-residence-du-pilon __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
[spectre] part-time PhD
For those who are interested in doing a part-time phd, the University for Humanistics in Utrecht, Netherlands runs a programme that starts annually and is English based. It is a programme for people who are interested in the humanities and organisational issue. The background of people involved in the programme are aesthetics, health science, interaction design, cultural development, change agents etc. The programme is meant for people who are grounding their research in some sort of practice and need a inspiring environment and feedback to develop their research into a PhD. More can be found at www.dba-uvh.nl The admission deadline is 1-12-2007 __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
