[spectre] Invitation: THE VISUAL COLLIDER

2011-09-01 Thread czegledy 

We are please to present:


The Visual Collider
Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter

Central and East European destinations: 

Budapest, Hungary 
1 September 6:30pm 
2B Gallery, 1092 Raday U. 47

Opening speech by Janos Sugar
Exhibition closing 9 September

Bratislava, Slovak Republic
6 September 6:30pm
Enter Gallery, Panska 13, 81101 
Exhibition closing 22 September


Vienna, Austria
9 September 7pm
Machfeld Studio, Max Winter Platz 21, 1020
One night intervention

Istanbul, Turkey
14 September 2pm-4pm
Karakoy Communication Center Terrace, 2 Bankalar Caddesi, 34420
As par of the Imaginary Futures Special Event


Following its first cycle of exhibitions in Vela Luka (Croatia), New 
York (USA), Banff (Canada) and Dalcrombie (Scotland), The Visual 
Collider continues its journey starting in Budapest and reappearing 
in Bratislava, Vienna and Istanbul in the second half of 2011.


In May 1, 2011, the Large Hadron Collider in France - according to a 
press release - had uncovered the much sought-after subatomic 
particle. The God particle is the pet name for the Higgs boson. 
Leading up to this event, on November 29, 2009, billions of subatomic 
particles were smashed together in nano-seconds inside the Large 
Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle 
accelerator, designed to mimic the first moments of the Big Bang, 
"bringing new understanding of the primordial universe". Thousands of 
scientists worked for decades to achieve this scientific spectacle, 
"challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, 
and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm." Inspired and 
intrigued by the Large Hadron Collider mega project, Nina Czegledy 
and Marcus Neustetter set out to create a visual collider for the 
images and impressions they produce individually.


At the actual Collider every function including research, development 
and production, is based on principles and systems. In contrast our 
method is spontaneous, immediate and intentionally unsystematic. 
Nevertheless there are significant junctures. LHC is an immense 
scientific mission - paralleling our deep interest in 
the intersection of arts, science and technology. While in the 
sciences it is prudent to build on fundamental facts with analytical 
precision, in reality these investigations are often permeated with 
the exploration of the unknown, reaching unexpected revelations. "In 
our practice working with the bizarre, traveling towards 
unpredictable destinations is a regular pursuit. In science a 
negative experimental result might become as valid as an expected 
outcome." These unexpected results including happy accidents often 
lead to significant alternate solutions or theories. The adjacent 
images presented in this exhibition reveal unconventional 
interpretations

frequently through unforeseen collisions.

By employing a personal approach to the Visual Collider we challenge 
mega-projects such as the actual LHC, asking atypical questions 
concerning the experimental smashing together of information whether 
in the form of photographic light or protons.



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Nina Czegledy, artist, curator, academic, works internationally on 
collaborative art& science& technology projects. The ever changing 
perception of the human body and its environment and paradigm shifts 
in contemporary art is the focus of most of her projects.  She has 
exhibited widely, won awards for her artwork and has lead and 
participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. Czegledy 
curated and presented numerous international touring projects and 
published extensively. The Visual Collider touring project is 
developed and presented in collaboration with Marcus Neustetter. 
Latest projects include: Areosphere/Atmosphere (with Janine 
Randerson) @ New Plymouth Observatory, New Zealand (2011), 
Aura,Aurora in collaboration with Bettine Schuelke, Marton Andras 
Juhasz and Laszlo Kiss @ artMuse Festival 2011, Bocholt, Germany, and 
@ the Plein Air festival, 2B Gallery, Budapest, (2010). The Pleasure 
of Light co-curated with Rona Kopeczky, @ the Ludwig Museum, Budapest 
(2010)  and the National Museum of Gdanks, Poland (2011),
McLuhan in Europe (2011).  Czegledy is a Senior Fellow, KMDI, 
University of Toronto, Associate Adjunct Professor Concordia 
University, Montreal, Senior Fellow, Hungarian University of Fine 
Arts, member of the Leonardo/ISAST Governing Board, member of 
Observatoire Leonardo des Arts des Techno-Sciences OLATS, and 
contributing editor to LEA. 
www.ninaczegledy.net




Johannesburg based artist, cultural activist and producer, Marcus 
Neustetter, reflects critically and playfully on his context through 
his art and collaborative projects. His strategy has been to 
pro-actively create, play and experiment to build opportunities and 
experiences that investigate, reflect and provoke. Mostly process 
driven, his production of art at the intersection of art, science and 
technology has led h

[spectre] Fwd: MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit - The New School in NYC, October 10-16, 2011

2011-09-01 Thread Eric Kluitenberg 
Begin forwarded message:

From: "Trebor Scholz" 
Date: August 31, 2011 20:30:22 GMT+02:00

CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS

MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
The New School in NYC
October 10-16, 2011

The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital
Culture conference series "MobilityShifts: An International Future of
Learning Summit." Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project
demonstrations, exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth
and educators from New York City and Chicago, MobilityShifts is a
week-long summit in October 2011. MobilityShifts makes unexpected
international connections between the theories of Jacques Rancière and
Ivan Illich, learning projects outside the bounds of schools and
universities, mobile platforms, and the Open Web. Stop, reflect, listen,
discuss, and build with artists, media scholars, policy makers,
students, technologists, teachers, librarians, legal scholars and
learning activists from 21 countries.

http://www.mobilityshifts.org
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/program/

REGISTRATION
To attend MobilityShifts you must register.
The early bird rate ends on September 15th. 

http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1
http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1

Participants include: Eduardo Ochoa, Hal Plotkin, Cathy Davidson,
Michael Wesch, Oliver Grau,  Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, Anya Kamenetz,
Geert Lovink, Shin Mizukoshi, John Palfrey, Eric Kluitenberg, Irit
Rogoff, Juliana Rotich, Benjamin Bratton, Katie Salen, Shveta Sarda,
Molly Steenson, Elizabeth Losh, Tony Conrad, Lev Manovich, Torsten
Meyer, Jan Schmidt, Tomi Ahonen, Beth Coleman, John Willinsky, Siva
Vaidhyanathan, Alexander Halavais, Giselle Beiguelman, David Carroll,
Tania Bustos, Kate Crawford, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Sean Dockray, Rolf
Hapel, Juan Manuel Lopez Garduno, Daria Ng, Chris Lawrence, Josie
Fraser, David Theo Goldberg, Marisa Jahn, Sam Gregory, Shravan Goli,
Manu Kapur, Edward Keller, Jairo Moreno, Michael
Pettinger, Michael Preston, Daniela Rosner, Richard Scullin, Ramon
Sanguesa, Elaine Savory, Luis Camnitzer, Nishant Shah, Janek Sowa, Dan
Visel, Nitin Sawhney and many others. 
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/participants

Summit Chair
Trebor Scholz

Co-Chairs: Edward Keller, Elizabeth Losh, Matthew K. Gold, David Theo
Goldberg , Karen DeMoss, Sean Dockray
Producer: Jennifer Conley Darling 
Associate Producers: Caroline Buck, Liz Carlson 

Selected workshops: http://mobilityshifts.org/workshops/
(Workshops require an additional reservation at no extra cost).

This summit builds on two previous events: Mozilla's Drumbeat Festival
in Barcelona (2010) and Digital Media and Learning in Los Angeles
(2011). MobilityShifts is sponsored by The John D. & Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, The New School and the Mozilla Foundation. We
gratefully acknowledge our partners: American University of Paris,
Carnegie Mellon University, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center,
Goethe-Institut, HASTAC, Japan Society, MetaMute, Prezi, School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, SocialText, UC San Diego’s Sixth College, and
University of Pennsylvania.


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[spectre] MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit

2011-09-01 Thread trebor scholz 
CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS

MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
The New School in NYC
October 10-16, 2011

The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital Culture 
conference series "MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit." 
Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project demonstrations, 
exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth and educators from New 
York City and Chicago, MobilityShifts is a week-long summit in October 2011. 
MobilityShifts makes unexpected international connections between the theories 
of Jacques Rancière and Ivan Illich, learning projects outside the bounds of 
schools and universities, mobile platforms, and the Open Web. Stop, reflect, 
listen, discuss, and build with artists, media scholars, policy makers, 
students, technologists, teachers, librarians, legal scholars and learning 
activists from 21 countries.

http://www.mobilityshifts.org
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/program/

REGISTRATION
To attend MobilityShifts you must register.
The early bird rate ends on September 15th. 

http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1
http://www.mobilityshifts.org/register1

Participants include: Eduardo Ochoa, Hal Plotkin, Cathy Davidson, Michael 
Wesch, Oliver Grau,  Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, Anya Kamenetz, Geert Lovink, Shin 
Mizukoshi, John Palfrey, Irit Rogoff, Juliana Rotich, Benjamin Bratton, Katie 
Salen, Shveta Sarda, Molly Steenson, Elizabeth Losh, Tony Conrad, Lev Manovich, 
Torsten Meyer, Jan Schmidt, Tomi Ahonen, Beth Coleman, John Willinsky, Siva 
Vaidhyanathan, Alexander Halavais, Giselle Beiguelman, David Carroll, Tania 
Bustos, Kate Crawford, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Sean Dockray, Rolf Hapel, Juan 
Manuel Lopez Garduno, Daria Ng, Chris Lawrence, Josie Fraser, David Theo 
Goldberg, Marisa Jahn, Sam Gregory, Shravan Goli, Manu Kapur, Edward Keller, 
Eric Kluitenberg, Jairo Moreno, Michael Pettinger, Michael Preston, Daniela 
Rosner, Richard Scullin, Ramon Sanguesa, Elaine Savory, Luis Camnitzer, Nishant 
Shah, Janek Sowa, Dan Visel, Nitin Sawhney and many others. 
http://mobilityshifts.org/conference/participants

Summit Chair
Trebor Scholz

Co-Chairs: Edward Keller, Elizabeth Losh, Matthew K. Gold, David Theo Goldberg 
, Karen DeMoss, Sean Dockray
Producer: Jennifer Conley Darling 
Associate Producers: Caroline Buck, Liz Carlson 

Selected workshops: http://mobilityshifts.org/workshops/
(Workshops require an additional reservation at no extra cost).

This summit builds on two previous events: Mozilla's Drumbeat Festival in 
Barcelona (2010) and Digital Media and Learning in Los Angeles (2011). 
MobilityShifts is sponsored by The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 
The New School and the Mozilla Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge our 
partners: American University of Paris, Carnegie Mellon University, Eyebeam Art 
& Technology Center, Goethe-Institut, HASTAC, Japan Society, MetaMute, Prezi, 
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SocialText, UC San Diego’s Sixth 
College, and University of Pennsylvania.

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Re: [spectre] MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit

2011-09-01 Thread { brad brace } 

nonsense! nothing could be further from any sustainable
truth!

/:b


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[spectre] D-Vision

2011-09-01 Thread dirk markham 

Ladies & Gentlemen,

check out D-Vision, the Drock Productions video collection:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6F03A5AFAA0CDCB8

for best results click "play all" and go to full screen. Happy viewing! :)

Big up,

Drock
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