Events

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents HOMO LUDENS LUDENS, an international exhibition and conference examining play as a principal element of today's world, and highlighting its necessity for our contemporary societies. Following the exhibitions GAMEWORLD and PLAYWARE, that reflected respectively on the different playful and social sides of gaming creativity and interactive art, HOMO LUDENS LUDENS now sets the setting that embraces these data and looks into the notion of play in ...

MediaArtHistories MA is based on the international praxis and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media Arts. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media art works and of new media in these collections of the international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new Databases and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics?

The hybrid forms of the artistic proposals submitted to VIDA and the transformation of the discipline of A-Life itself have prompted the jury to consider new issues, such as the rising importance of simulation in both social life (for example, in the concept of virtual personality) and organic life (evident in the concept of "neo-organisms"). These phenomena are increasingly present and have therfore received special attention in our current approach to art and artificial life.

As pioneer in the field, the collective Database of Virtual Art (DVA) has been documenting the rapidly evolving digital installation art since 1998. Beside new artist specials, which will be joined by editorial features, the DVA offers henceforth an innovative submission process: Collective documentation is supported by simplified *assist tools* to help upload information for publication in minutes.

Organised by CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague in collaboration with Leonardo, Hexagram - Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and Pépinieres européenes pour jeunes artistes. The conference is part of Leonardo Organisation 40th anniversary celebrations.

At the intersection of contemporary media art projects, current scientific research and technological innovations, we encounter astounding new ways in which the limits of the able and disabled body and mind are enhanced or expanded. How do such practices alter conceptions of the body, of the mind? What are the implications of these emerging practices?

Expanding the curators' field of action - allowing them to incorporate more than the supervision, contextualisation and exhibition of artwork in museums, galleries or off spaces - is closely linked to the media-specific characteristics of art produced on the Internet. Internet Art does not necessarily have to be presented in a customary exhibition space, because as long as there is a computer with Internet access, it can be accessed anywhere any time.

The seminal exhibition Still, Living presents a showcase of art that deals with biological systems. It features the international debut of work developed at SymbioticA by renowned artists such as ORLAN, Critical Art Ensemble and The Tissue Culture & Art Project, as well as other major international artists in this field.

Rhizome is pleased to announce increased funding for its Commissions Program. This year, eleven emerging artists/ collectives have been awarded commissions, for a total of $23,000, in support of new works of Internet-based art. The commissioned works will be presented on Rhizome.org and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as archived in Rhizome's online archive, the ArtBase.

The curator for our '07 symposium is Paul Brown. Paul is an artist and writer who has specialised in art,science & technology for almost 40 years. His computer-generated artwork has been exhibited internationally since 1967 and is currently on show in Europe, Russia, the USA and Australia. He is currently chair of the Computer Arts Society, a British Computer Society specialist group and is visiting professor in art and technology at the University of Sussex.

This international symposium brings together some of the world's leading media artists, theorists and researchers to explore real-time interaction in electronic media. Over the last few years network theories have started to shape our thinking about social and cultural issues. This event seeks out artistic strategies and art forms that engage with these ideas. Contributors include: Mark Amerika, Alexander R. Galloway, Andrea Zapp, Kelli Dipple, Kate Rich and Paul Sermon.

The 2007 Prix Ars Electronica invited submissions in a total of eight categories that "taken as a whole" reflect the growing diversification of digital media art as well as the ongoing development of the Prix Ars Electronica. The most obvious manifestations of these two processes are this year's two new categories: Hybrid Art and Media.Art.Research.

L'incontro è la quarta edizione di un evento biennale aperto a curatori provenienti dall'Europa centro orientale e ai commissari della Biennale Arti Visive di Venezia responsabili dei padiglioni nazionali dei paesi dell'Europa centro orientale e si avvale del patrocinio dell'INCE (Iniziativa Centro Europea) che, dopo l'edizione sperimentale del 2001, ha accolto questo meeting tra i suoi progetti culturali prioritari.

Due pomeriggi di approfondimenti sulla realtà virtuale per i Beni Culturali. Incontro con Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, Soprintendente Archeologo di Pompei Ercolano Stabia, che presenterà gli atti della giornata di studi internazionale "Ut natura ars. Virtual Reality e archeologia", tenutasi a Bologna nel 2002. Incontro con Kim H. Veltman, Direttore Scientifico del VMMI, Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute, nel corso del quale vedremo quali sono le nuove tendenze delle tecnologie digitali, e quali imp...

Today media are increasingly ubiquitous: more and more people live in a world of Internet pop-ups and streaming television, mobile phone texting and video clips, MP3 players and pod-casting. The media mobility means greater connectivity via smart wireless environments in the office, the car and airport. It also offers greater possibilities for recording, storage and archiving of media content. This provides not just the potential for greater choice and flexibility in re-working content (tv progr...

A new culture of everyday life is now upon us, bracketed by the angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. One in which everything seems to be public and nothing's private anymore. Panopticon or consummate individual liberty? At symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions, the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival will delve into what the public and private spheres have come to mean and the interrelationship that no...

LABORAL Centre for Art and Creative Industries is an exhibition centre specifically focused on the production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and new technologies.

La mostra è la prima grande occasione in Italia per vedere gran parte della produzione e delle opere dell'artista spagnolo, sicuramente uno dei più significativi autori nel panorama contemporaneo e una delle personalità più complesse e trasversali sulla scena delle arti visive.

Quale ruolo può giocare l'artista nella formazione di una società in transizione? E' possibile pensare la città come 'luogo di lavoro collettivo' in cui l'arte svolga una funzione necessaria nell'intercettare desideri, bisogni e conflitti emergenti? Come partecipano le pratiche artistiche ad una azione collettiva quando vengono a mancare - come oggi - tutti i legami classici dell'appartenenza sociale?

Lo scopo del Convegno è di elaborare la piattaforma teorica dell'Art Program del Parco d'Arte Vivente, attraverso un confronto tra i diversi filoni artistici, storici e contemporanei, che sono confluiti nella concezione del 'progetto pilota' di questo 'museo interattivo arte/natura', dal movimento 'Art in nature' all''Esthétique relationnelle', dalla 'Genetic Art' alla Bioarte.

Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, senior speakers with extensive experience in Web development review and analyze the issues and impacts of networked cultural and natural heritage. Together, we are transforming communities and organizations.

Dopo la ricostruzione dei sacrari partigiani, il Museo Virtuale della Certosa, che utilizza le nuove tecnologie dell'informazione per rendere la comunicazione culturale più attraente e interattiva, si arricchisce di una nuova applicazione, dedicata alla Prima Guerra Mondiale.

A promising generation of young artists throughout Europe who work with dedication and authenticity within the contemporary human, social and economic environments is emerging", states the mapXXL programme's description. But how do we evaluate authenticity at the turn of the century? Does young generation share the same values with artists of the past? Or do some of the emerging creative practices change the roles we attribute to artists nowadays? Which roles could these be?