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Call for proposals ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010 Celebrate! 2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum - JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all --> in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well. On this occasion, JavaMuseum is planning a big show online, entitled: "CELEBRATE!" Founded in 2000 and active since 2001 as a corporate pa...

Es un placer para mí poner a vuestra disposición mi nuevo libro “del net.art al web-art 2.0” puede ser descargado en mi sitio a cualquier hora http://comisario.net/libros/del_netart_al_webart_2punto0.pdf esto dice la contraportada: NILO CASARES, escritor, comisario crítico de arte y promotor de arte digital y arte público. «Lo que sigue recoge una conferencia dictada en varias ocasiones sobre el arte digital (sin pretender alcanzar la altura del «Walking» de Henry David Thoureau, ...

Dal 20 novembre 2008 Droni per ricognizioni tattiche, macchine per incartare cioccolatini, umanoidi che suonano il flauto: cosa mai potranno avere in comune? La risposta è “semplice”: sono ROBOT! Esseri artificiali capaci di “sentire”, “pensare”, “agire”, e che popolano sempre più numerosi il nostro mondo. Futuro Remoto 2009 sarà una straordinaria finestra sui più avanzati risultati della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica nel campo della robotica per comprendere come i robot cambiano il no...

Open Call for projects The cross-disciplinary ‘Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea’ invites Finnish and Estonian artists to study and to marvel at the Baltic Sea, its natural phenomena and their personal relationship to the changing environs. The project will be part of Turku’s programme for the European Capital of Culture year in 2011. Artists, researchers and other cultural agents are invited to join the expedition, straddling the borderline between art and science. This open project ca...

The Station Rose Database as Digital Archive http://digitalarchive.stationrose.net/start.html On behalf of "20 Digital Years" we started to develop & program the Database in 2008, with a special interface. Our Digital Archive - saved on harddrives, discettes, photos, CDs, DVDs, U-matic video, DVs, VHS etc. - has become really huge after 20 years. Over hundred of (mostly unreleased) audio tracks, TV features, stills, videos and texts from 1988 - 2008 have been structured. The searchabl...

The Fibreculture Journal is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press - http://openhumanitiespress.org/ The Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. T...

At the 43rd BITEF, Belgrade International Theatre Festival, the Croatian theatre and intermedia group “Shadow Casters / Bacaci Sjenki” has won Special Jury Award for their performance “Vacation From History (Process_City 01)”. The jury members Patrice Pavis (president), renowned French theatrologist and theoretician, Oliver Frljic, Croatian theatre director, Maja Pelevic, Serbian playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig, German playwright and Vladimir Aleksic, Serbian-Italian actor and performer, have...

October Feature on VideoChannel Video art from Taiwan As the little brother of the continental China, Taiwan was undergoing during decades a special development, which is also manifesting itself in the practiced expressions in the arts. The feature of video art selected seven artists/directors who stand for different approaches in the moving image media Yu Cheng Yu, Ana Yu, Yin-Ling Chen, Ying-Fang Shen, Jo-Lin Hsieh, Sandra S. Chiu, Yi-Chun Lo. Please find detailed info and t...

VideoChannel - video project environments - http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is happy to launch on 3 August 2009 another highlight online. OMFC (One Minute Film Collection) is an ongoing project initiative chief curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne featuring at its start 67 films and videos with a duration of exactly one minute http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=242 VideoChannel is welcoming Ali Zaidi (motiroti, London(UK)) as a guest curator selecting 14 films by...

On the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 project GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art - is launching a portal to the eight founding European archives with a workshop and a screening installation of selected works from the collections. Workshop "Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies" September 5th, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Kollegiumgasse 2, Audimax. Experts will discuss the significance of the institutional setting with respect to the creation of...

Quoting Walter Benjamin: Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts online publication series on facebook based on daily updates since august 3, 2009 walter benjamin, paris 1937, fotoarchiv: dhm berlin the structure of facebook as a social networking tool and magazine with decentralized notes, essays and media publications, in a mixture of private and public statements coming from all kinds of content fields, enhances the concept of short daily updating and interactive communication. W...

Hi everybody, we just placed a billboard in the center of Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts. The work is called "Bagless Canister Cyclonic Vacuum" and it's the answer to this question: What if you strip down all world's ads of all those Passenger's Seat with 4-way Power Adjustment Odyssey Honda Cars and 9.99c Handmade Glycerin Soap Soaps and Free Delivery Books and Free Nights & No-Fee Flights and Last-minute Deals Big Savings Travel Right Now Flights and Counter-H...

Dopo la fine delle vacanze estive e con l’avvicinarsi dell’avvio del nuovo anno scolastico 2009/2010, comunichiamo dettagliatamente - in allegato scaricabile dal nostro sito web - i nuovi programmi di laboratorio, workshop, percorsi e incontri promossi nell’ambito delle ATTIVITÀ EDUCATIVE E FORMATIVE del PAV rivolti alle scuole e al pubblico interessato a un apprendimento continuo e permanente e strutturati in quattro campi d'indagine: Biologia Creativa, Paesaggi, Microsguardi e Ibridazioni. ...

Antennae Issue 11, titled 'Insecta' is now online. Please visit www.antennae.org.uk for your free download. It is no secret that insects are one Antennae’s favourite subjects. In 2007, the publishing of our first double issue dedicated to insects firmly assessed Antennae as an alternative publication fierce enough to invest vast amounts of publishing space on ‘underground themes’. Our ‘Insect Poetics’ volumes are still the most downloaded from our back catalogue. However, insects still are a ...

To all friends and collegues of Herbert W. Franke The fiftieth Anniversary of an Exhibition “Experimentelle Aesthetik” – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna 1959 http://www.art-meets-science.info/experimentelle-aesthetik/index.php In the year 1959, the “Museum of Applied Arts” in Vienna opened the exhibition "Experimentelle Aesthetik". The exhibition presented pictures of a young physicist named Herbert W. Franke. The then 31 year old scientist and artist presented results of his artistic ...

Perugia Arti Contemporanee, 21-26 settembre 2009, a cura di Moreno Barboni, coordinatore dei due gruppi di lavoro e dell’incontro pubblico del 24 settembre Andrea Martignoni. Prima assoluta del nuovo spettacolo HOME il 26 settembre 2009 e Workshop preparatorio Living Cinema è una performance audiovisiva-multimediale di Pierre Hébert, regista canadese membro del National Film Board of Canada e inventore della live scratch animation (una tecnica di animazione che prevede l'intervento diretto...

is happy to launch the first of a series of features of German video art. dedicated in July 2009 to Johanna Reich - video artist from Cologne/Germany http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=273 "Johanna Reich, a young video artist living and working in Cologne/ Germany, is walking consequently on a performative path in video art, giving the camera, the action or the performative process and the result in form of a video a new and very personal meaning. She involves the audience b...

If you speak German, I would like to draw your attention to a podcast by Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. The most recent programme in the series "Zündfunk Generator" deals with the concept of Gegenöffentlichkeit, which in German denotes the critical grassrooots media bringing the news either suppressed or neglected by the mainstream media. Particular emphasis is put on how the internet has furthered the concept of Gegenöffentlichkeit recently, including political blogging, Indy...

Dear Friends, Our Journal of Experimental Zoology Paper has come out (see attached) and the BBC reported on it last week! http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8116000/8116692.stm Though they simplify our findings in the story, we have found what we think is the primary mechanism behind the majority of limb deformities in frogs! The next challenge is to look at how environmental factors such as degradation may alter otherwise natural predator/prey relationships! We have a lot ...

Dear Friends, Chers Amis, Please, enjoy on this link below the press release of my last project: Veuillez trouver sur ce lien le communiqué de presse de mon dernier projet : http://franck-ancel.com/69-09-CP-PR.pdf To be continued on 2009 by conferences - A suivre aussi en 2009 lors de ces conférences. "Walk on the Mars Side" @ Annual Inter. convention of The Mars Society in University of Maryland US (1) "OOTT: Once Open a Time Theater" @ "Re-live" symposium Media Art History in Mel...

Metaverse Creativity is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=179/). Edited by Elif Ayiter at Sabanci University (ayiter@gmail.com), Metaverse Creativity investigates creativity in user-defined online virtual worlds such as Second Life®. These social environments differentiate themselves from online multi-user gaming communities in that they have no underlying social rules that are game-related: there are no scores to be ...

Ti piacerebbe coltivare un ORTO? PEDOGENESIS - OrtoArca E s t r a z i o n e d e l L o t t o bando di concorso per l’assegnazione un lotto di terreno ad uso orticolo nel territorio del Parco Arte Vivente Andrea Caretto e Raffaella Spagna promuovono un concorso pubblico per offrire la possibilità di coltivare un orto all’interno della città. Il lotto di terreno oggetto del concorso ha forma rettangolare, dimensioni 16,5 x 5 m ed è dotato di presa d’acqua per l’irrigazione. Poss...

Optica Database is a free platform for the promotion of audiovisual artists and non-profit collectives. In addition, we want to offer this site to the galleries, museums, public and private institutions, etc. In that case, there are general contracting conditions for consulting at press@opticafestival.com. From here, we want to invite you to register your web-site for constructing together, step by step, the best and more complete database dedicated to the video-art world. Visit: http://ww...

CREATE YOUR OWN PROFILE MAKE CONTACT SUBMIT YOUR EVENT BLOG ABOUT YOUR WORK ASK QUESTIONS AND The Media Art Platform (MAP) is a social networking website for media art professionals and enthusiasts: for artists, developers, technicians, curators, researchers, lecturers, students and for anyone who is generally interested in media art. Dutch media art calender http://www.mediaartplatform.org/calendar Blogs about media art: calls and recent publication: http://www.mediaartplatform....