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springerin - Hefte für Gegenwartskunst Issue 2/09, April-June: Model Laboratory Dance The current dance scene as a testing ground and paradigm for interdisciplinary work? As a field that reflects (self-)critically on itself and its methods, its institutions and working conditions, as well as on its status in the midst of other arts? This description certainly fits the Tanzquartier Wien (TQW), founded in 2001, and springerin's spring edition takes a look at the broad array of examples of d...

The new printed Neural issue #32, "Machine Affection" is available. 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION! 3 issues Europe, 30,90 Euros - World, 54,50 U.S. Dollars. http://www.neural.it/subscribe.phtml BACK ISSUES: http://www.neural.it/art/2006/01/neural_back_issues.phtml [Neural n. 32 contents] http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/post_3.phtml France Cadet interview, Ken Rinaldo interview, Douglas Irving Repetto interview, New Zealand report, news: Processing Photography, Digestive Table, Ocean_...

In occasione della proiezione del film "Il Grande Fardello / The Big Bother" nella sezione Zoomit del Tekfestival 2009 di Roma http://www.tekfestival.it/content/view/194/134/lang,it/ in anteprima rilasciamo in versione integrale l'opera sotto licenza creative commons, secondo la formula attribution sharealike. IL GRANDE FARDELLO/THE BIG BOTHER (http://thebigbother.blogspot.com/) Il film è stato originariamente prodotto sotto il titolo Il Grande Fardello nel 2004, quando era frutto di u...

Turbulence Spotlight: "MAICgregator" by Nick Knouf http://turbulence.org/spotlight/knouf/ [Needs Firefox Browser and extention download] "MAICgregator" is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the...

Presentazione di ContaminaMi, cantiere milanese di “Virale” ContaminaMi sta tra reale e virtuale, tra mondo fisico e mondo della tecnologia. Arci invita alla presentazione giovedì ore 21durante DorkbotMilano presso Arci Metissage, ingresso via De Castilla (di fronte n.8) Milano. A maggio parte il workshop gratuito, a settembre i migliori lavori andranno a Skopjie alla Biennale dei giovani artisti Milano (20 aprile 2009) - Parte a maggio ContaminaMi, uno dei tre cantieri del progetto ...

Franz Thalmair interviews Daphne Dragona. 'Tag ties and affective spies' is the title of an on-line-exhibition which presents a selection of Internet-based artworks that highlight different aspects of the Social Web. The exhibition features works by Alessandro Ludovico , Christophe Bruno , Daphne Dragona, Gregory Chatonsky, Jodi, Jonathan Harris, Juan Martin Prada, Les Liens Invisibles, Paolo Cirio, Personal Cinema, Ramsay Stirling, Sep Kamvar, The erasers, and Wayne Clements. "Tagging"...

The proceedings of the Artmedia X international Symposium, co-organised by Mario Costa and Fred Forest that took place on December 12th and 13th 2008 in Paris are now available online. http://www.olats.org/projetpart/artmedia/2008/mono_index.php On the theme " Ethics, Aesthetics, Techno-communication: The Future of Meaning", it gathered philosophers, theoreticians and artists during 2 days of presentations and discussions. Website: http://www.olats.org/projetpart/artmedia/2008/mono_inde...

(http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL’s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user B...

Rhizome is pleased to announce the launch of “Splashback: Rhizome’s Splash Pages, 1998-2002,” an online exhibition featuring the 39 splash pages commissioned over a four-year period. “Splashback” offers a brief overview of online art and design practices from ten years ago through a nearly obsolete medium, the splash page. http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/splashback/index.php Splash art originated in the 1940s in comics, where the term referred to a full page of visuals at the front o...

The countdown is on: On 30 March Cosmic Revelation will change the array of the KASCADE experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology into a giant light field of 40.000 sqm. As a light installation unique in its size for Germany Cosmic Revelation makes the energies of cosmic rays visible originating from the depths of space and interacting with our planet. One or two times per seconds the cosmic energies reveal its existence in bright flashy moments over the sixteen „cosmic mirrors“ – lig...

announcing the launch of the new online journal Version with contributions by Benjamin Bratton, Alphonso Lingis, Masao Miyoshi, Allen Shelton, Lesley Stern, Kathleen Stewart, Michael Taussig, and John Welchman Version is a new online journal for short-form writing and media work. It presents scenes, incidents, encounters, and sensory experiences drawn from everyday life, in which concepts are not only elaborated but enacted. Version works in close-up, cultivating moods, atmospheres, and ...

In the exhibition terra incOgnitO, computer viruses and computer-assisted paintings address a psychic departure from the shadow world connected to the abuses at Abu Graib. Wm Turner gallery is located at 112 Krog Street, Suite 9, Atlanta, 30307. The gallery is conveniently situated in The Stove Works building, next to Rathbun’s restaurant. Gallery hours are 12-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Saturday, and closed Sunday and Monday. More information is available at www.wmturnergallery.com or b...

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments http://soundlab.newmediafest.org is happy to launch its 6th edition SoundLAB VI - soundPOOL sound compositions - a challenge for imagination "soundPOOL " - represents an exciting composition consisting of soundcreations by 128 soundartists which want to activate the senses, to encourage the listener to dive deeply until the bottom of the pool which is offerring a wide range of unusual soundart works. Erfan Abdi (Iran), Adern X (IT), Rodolp...

Neural magazine continues to celebrate 15 years of publishing teaming up with Ink-Elektro, a print on demand focused cultural association. A workshop held by Simon Worthington (UK) and Nat Muller (NL) will inform about the current strategies of publishing in different contexts in the ever changing online/offline publishing relationship. February 21 and 22, 2009, from 9AM to 6PM Meridia Consortium, Bari (Italy) http://www.inkelektro.com/ "Paper Dreams: the Mute paper and pixel experi...

E' online la nuova Issue di Febbraio di DigiMag, mensile online di cultura elettronica e arti digitali del progetto Digicult. Come sempre ricco di interviste e approfondimenti dal mondo dell'arte e della cultura digitale nazionale e internazionale, in questo numero Digimag presenta artisti e teorici come: Trevor Wishart, Eduardo Navas, otolab, momo, corpicrudi e cada design. La vicenda di Anna Adamolo, la precaria situazione culturale di Milano, la produzione di anticorpi, le strategie bilogiche...

My name is Jung-Hua Liu and my art project is about visualizing Wi-Fi network into colourful landscape portrait. The aim of this project is to construct a collaborative website where wireless internet connection is used as an artistic medium. Besides my fieldwork in different cities to collect the Wi-Fi information, we also invite Wi-Fi users to connect and take part on this innovative project. Any participant simply needs to provide the number of their wireless rooter, which is availab...

.tank.tv is pleased to present a selection of work from Alexander Heim including: Costa, Three Seasons, Untitled (Dog), Grand Walk and Matalan. "(Heim's) new film Costa (2008) tracks the daily activities of pigeons at a busy coffee shop, following one bird scratching about the feet of commuters, another skittering across a marble floor and a third bracing itself against the wind in a concrete ledge, solemn as an eagle. With painstaking care they hunt for the scraps between glinting meta...

YES WE ARE _netart by Ciro Museres - Courtesy of Joanna Render Gallery http://yesweare.info (2008) - Technology: HTML- javascript - php- MySQL YesWeAre is a work of netart. An interactive installation where the user/spectator is invited to complete the sentence "Yes, we are_________.". The new sentence becomes a part of the work that explores visually the dynamic movement and rythm of aesthetics HTML. YesWeAre has been built as an informative space based upon affirmative sentances and s...

February 3, 2009 Turbulence | ShiftSpace Commission: "Yeas and Nays" by Christian Croft http://www.shiftspace.org/spaces/yeas-and-nays/ http://turbulence.org/works/shiftspace "Yeas and Nays" is a browser plug-in that transforms any webpage into a means for contacting Congressional representatives. It is the latest functionality added to Shiftspace.org, an application that provides an open source layer above any website. "Yeas and Nays" is a powerful tool that translates knowledge into a...

HomeArt/Pietro Grossi Visu@lMusiC/Sergio Maltagliati DVD VIDEO QUANTUM BIT LIMITED EDITION/ QuBIT 005 DOWNLOAD / STREAMING CIRCUS_8 http://www.quantum-bit.it/pietrogrossi/ Software grafico Qbasic da “HomeArt” di P.Grossi. Software musicale autom@tedMusic di S.Maltagliati updates: www.pietrogrossi.org www.visualmusic.it DOWNLOAD / STREAMING CIRCUS_8 Dal 1986 Pietro Grossi sviluppa il concetto di “HomeArt” con elaborazioni grafiche nel linguaggio di programmazione Qbasi...

Artnodes has just published its latest issue on art and locative media. You can check it at: Website: http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/8/eng/index.html