Events

New MA programmes in the School of Cultural & Innovation Studies University of East London.

Elsenaar and Scha's winning article traces the historical development of using electrically manipulated human bodies for theatrical display.

The moment had come to decide who would receive the 20,000.00 and 10,000.00 Euros for the best internet-related art and research project.

Articles of the advertisements of exhibitions, a choice of presentation of contemporary works of the projects in progress and calls projet, a WHOIS database... but also a crossroads of the experiences and a place of exchange around the thems of the relations between Art (contemporary) and Nature (real or virtual).

Leonardo/OLATS and the Ours Foundation have joined forces to create a database about space art documenting the works of artists who, since the mid-19th Century, have taken outer space as a theme, subject, or object for their creations.

The jury for the Life 6.0 competition in Madrid reviewed 71 artworks that utilise artificial life concepts and techniques. These pieces were pre-selected from a record number of 89 submissions received from 21 countries. The Telefonica Foundation in Spain will give out the following awards.

LIM awards were presented for the following six categories; Best Irish short, Best International short, Best Animation, Best Documentary, Best Feature and Best Sound Track for an Irish film. The LIM awards were sponsored by City of Derry Crystal.

The Foundation's mandate is to advance knowledge in art and science through direct contact with technologies. The aim is to nurture a critical awareness of how technologies influence humans and their natural and cultural environment.

Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology(ISAST) and Leonardo/L'Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des technosciences(OLATS) along with the Paris based @rt Outsiders Festival are pleased to announce that the Leonardo-@rt Outsiders 2003 New Horizons Prize has been awarded to Ewen Chardronnet and associated artists for the work OPEN SKY.

Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo project of the same name, is a compendium of the work of women artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practice.

Students from the University of Colorado have just released the 3.0 version of their popular "Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions" (HIAFF) website. The new site, which now comes equipped with a back-end database constructed by the students features video and email interviews with many international net artists.

Whatever you always wanted to know about artists from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe but had to look long and hard to find, now you can find it with one click. culturebase.net is the name of the new Who's Who of the non European art and culture scene.

Who knows why they call it "Next Five Minutes".. Maybe, at some point in time, some cool hectic folks actually took that title seriously. I imagine them, surrounded by halos of energy, excitedly hacking along on their own little projects of counter-buzz.

The dynamics of science cannot be conceived without politics nor the dynamics of politics without science. The social, the scientific, the technological, the theoretical and the practical blend together. We want to make an exhibition where politics, science and technology explore a new future based on a diagnosis of present practices illuminated through the perspective of material history.

What I wanted to critique was not the extremely dynamic and important field of "software art" but the way it was represented by Ars Electronica 2003 festival. Its paradigm can only be described as cultural isolationism. This is a dangerous position to take. Today, when pretty much every artist and cultural producer is widely using computers while also typically being motivated by many other themes and discourses, is it in fact possible that "digital art" happens everywhere else but not within th...

Ars Electronica is one of the, if not the oldest and biggest festivals for electronic art worldwide. It was launched in 1979 and led a relatively marginal existence until the late nineteen eighties. With the introduction of the Prix Ars Electronica (since 1987), organised by the local branch of the ORF and the building of the Ars Electronica Center, it was given a permanent home and organisational base, and gained international influence and reputation through the relatively well endowed 'Prix'.

Government of India to introduce a clause which requires only Indian documentaries entered for the festival to be censored by the Indian Board of Film Censors. It may be pointed out that foreign films entered at the festival do not need to be censored.

For the third time the MARS-Exploratory Media Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication awards outstanding student projects in the fields of media art, media design, media IT and, for the first time, media communication.

The DIGI-ARTS team has pleasure in announcing the Prizewinner of the Digital Pluralism - UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003.

HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, announces the launch of its consortium, a strategic alliance of scientists, humanists, artists, social theorists, legal specialists, and information technology specialists.

Rhizome.org, an online platform for the global new media art community, today announced that the Rhizome ArtBase, its archive of new media art, now contains 1,000 art works.

Nella cornice dell'Aula Magna di Santa Lucia si è svolta la serata conclusiva di premiazione del Premio DAMS, il concorso promosso dal DAMS di Bologna su tutto il territorio nazionale.

The idea of Read_Me 2.3 is to test an alternative festival model, especially since the subject of the festival is software art, a realm where people with artists' self-identities coexist with programmers whose views on the process of creation, distribution and even the very meaning of their work can be dramatically different from those of the artists.

[Italiano] In occasione della mostra "netizens - cittadini della rete" ? stato lanciato un concorso internazionale di Net Art, a cui hanno partecipato artisti, italiani e stranieri che utilizzano il Web come mezzo creativo.[English] During the exhibition? "netizens - cittadini della rete", an international competition of Net Art was launched.? Competing artists, both Italian and international who use the Web as a creative medium.

NICA is a newly established art center aimed at contributing towards development in the fields of culture and the arts. It is located in Yangon, Myanmar and in its founding stage is being managed by IFIMA (International Forum for InterMedia Art).

In the period September - October 2002 a series of artist interventions into urban space and the space of the media were executed in Amsterdam, Moscow and Ekaterinburg, as part of the art project "debates & Credits - Media Art in the Public Domain".

Siamo qui per annunciarvi che gioved? 27 marzo 2003, alle ore 21 saremo in onda con una trasmissione comica su almeno 20 televisioni locali e via satellite. Cio? dovremmo riuscire a raggiungere tutta Italia con due ore di spettacolo.