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hi everyone, i'd like to invite you to join the #ngonet irc chat channel, to debate, organize, seek advice, or simply meet with like minded people from across the globe. everything related to nonprofit work, aimed at making the future a place we can look forward to, is ontopic. To join simply download an irc client (e.g. from http://www.irssi.org/ (*ix) or http://www.xchat.org (*ix, win32)), and connect to irc.ngonet.net (synonymous to irc.freenode.net) port 6667, and type /join #ngonet ...

DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network http://dian-network.com December: DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network - Our focus for the month of December is YARIV ALTER FIN. We proudly present his work: "YOUism: as is" http://dian-network.com/navigation.html a mixed-media performance regarding talking about talking (meta-media), idealism, people, art, and the second person singular. DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network - is a network for artists who a...

We are happy to announce the launch of our new website at www.archis.org. Start a tour through the site's unique dynamic archive - more than a decade of Archis content has been reorganised in an associative and narrative structure. Encounter coincidences and unexpected search results that will widen your scope and refuel your curiosity for the adventure of ideas in architecture, city and visual culture. The comprehensive search engine also enables you to search the Archis database by cont...

fineArt forum = art + technology netnews http://www.fineartforum.org This month's issue: - fAfText - In focus in fAfNews: AIMIA advises that urgent action is required to ensure the future of Australian digital and screen industries; MOOT Records Launch 'The Surrealestate Project', Melbourne, Australia; Australasian Computer Music Association seeks contributions, Australia; Alan Sondheim in Gridface, Online. - Australian URL - fAfText Essays: - Artist Run Spaces - Peter Anderson explor...

Media art collective, tsunamii.net is in the process of their current project alpha 3.8: translocation. In this work, the tsunamii.net website will be hosted in a different geographical location every two weeks. alpha 3.8: translocation currently hosted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Catch it before it leaves for the next country/city. Visit the website coming near you www.tsunamii.net About the alpha 3.8: The project attempts to host the tsunamii.net website on webservers in a round...

Turbulence Artists Studios: co~dec by M. Takeo Magruder http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo With co~dec, M. Takeo Magruder continues his quest to create art/media hybrids for the net. It is a translation of a one hour CNN news broadcast that has been dissected, compressedin time, space, and colorthen decompressed to its original length. In ambiguous silence co~dec slows the net to a crawl (and probably your computer as well, since the piece is very processor intensive). Takeos grids, c...

Plug'n'Pray - 'Pray by wire' gallery CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS High-tech religion and religious technology. When wired belief becomes a religious asset. Find out how new media and technology interact and interlace with religion and superstition. Discover how technology (both high- and low-) helps and supports religion. PRAY BY WIRE hunts for photos and pics taken from real life that illustrate this curious, and at the same time widespread, relationship. An image gallery / exhibition is o...

Agence TOPO presents a new web collective fiction with 10 Montreal artists http://www.AgenceTopo.qc.ca/civilites Civilities is a modular, collective fiction that brings together ten Montreal artists from a range of disciplines and backgrounds who offer diverse perspectives on "living together." The invited artists explore potential spaces of confidence, reconciliation and the cohabitation of persons, peoples and religions. From the rules of religious fundamentalisms to the moveme...

Applet Art from Bora Bora Already for 3 years we live in the new millennium. We have fast computers, broadband connections, huge flat screens, there are even three buttons on our mouses. And there are so many of us that the bridge over the Digital Divide will soon break under our weight. We are in the future. But very often WWW makes this impression disappear. Leaving messages in blogs, rephrasing thoughts for google, opening and closing tiny pages that do not even have a scrollbar and s...

20th Oscar Signorini Prize / D'Ars Art Journal Artist: CATERINA DAVINIO Solo Exhibition: Serial Phenomenologies. Digital video, computer printings, net.art. No-Stop PERFORMANCE AND POETRY EVENT For Davinio's net-project GATES, invited in the next Paris Biennial 04, since 5:30 PM, until 9:00 PM, poetry readings and performance. When: Opening: December 18 2003 5:30 PM Prize-Giving: December 18 2003 7:00 PM Exhibition since December 18 2003, until January 12 2004 (closed December 2...

In 2004 I am going to be collecting stories and writing about people and groups that are not online. Some can't afford it; many aren't sure what benefits it brings, and some don't have connectivity. Others have tried it and dropped off. A few are just opposed to it for various reasons. If you have suggestions of whom I might contact, anywhere in the world, please let me know. If someone is not online and wishes to contact me about this, they can write or phone. Thanks for your help, ...

FILE ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Launches its 2003 edition book bilingual: "Novas Medias/New Medias" www.file.org.br In the last four years FILE, a Brazilian initiative, is constituted of: FILE Exhibition, FILE Symposium and FILE Hipersonica. This event has been showing what is happening in the world nets related to the digital and electronic arts since the year 2000. Constituting an international and national reference of study and research today for the electron...

Cinematheque at MediaCentre - Le Musee di-visioniste www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/ is happy to launch on 25 November 2003 its new showcase of streaming media art works entitled "Slowtime?........" [Quicktime (.mov) as an artistic medium] which is presented at the new space of "Cinema_B". - Quicktime does not only represent a cross-plattform file format for converting and distributing (analogue/digital) video into an Internet compatible streaming f...

Hello, I am coding Retina, a light weight real time computer vision module for natural interactive interfaces. Retina allows designers and researchers to substitute mouse and keyboard with body motions, gestures, positions of objects and people. It can be easily connected to C/C++, Java, Flash MX, Director applications. Retina is a tool for the creation of interactive spaces, interactive art installations, entertainment and edutainment systems. I would be happy to receive comments about this pro...

Restructuring the Interface - Family Portrait? is a project that asks individuals to upload one html and one jpeg file to their own website - webserver. The project seeks to question the embedded societal biases that are found in the 'family portrait' as represented in the Google image search. Files can be download here: mac files: http://www.family-portrait.org/family_portrait_images.sit pc files: http://www.family-portrait.org/family_portrait_images.exe After uploading the files simp...

Nat Muller, Janet Owen, Gabriel Pickard, Joseph Rabie, and Sophia Rawlinson. Nat Muller (NL) is a free-lance writer, curator, producer, critic and delight-maker. She holds a BA from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) in English Literature and an MA in Queer and Gender Theory from Sussex University (UK). She has worked as a sex educator, bookshopkeeper, free-lance journalist and as project manager and curator at V2_Organisation , Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, and Axis, Bureau for Gender...

Amniotic City, video installazione site specific by ELASTIC Group of Artistic Research Alexandro Ladaga & Silvia Manteiga www.elasticgroup.com Roma-New York 2003 Palazzo Reale, Napoli, 2003 La Quadriennale di Roma A cura di Vincenzo Trione Gli ELASTIC Group lavorano nella progettazione e realizzazione di ambienti video che instaurano uno straniante rapporto di complicità con lo spettatore; installazioni video estremamente ironiche o disorienatnti che riflettono sulla n...

http://www.war-product-war.com warProductwar is a site for reflection and meditation on U.S. war culture. The project will develop over time as a series of installations through which participant/viewers may re-view cultural representations in possibly revealing (or at least troubling) juxtapositions. Through the course of the project, warproductwar will remain in a state of flux. Broken links and loose ends should be expected. Additions, deletions, and changes are continually pondered and in...

Turbulence Guest Curators: "ICONography" by Patrick Lichty http://turbulence.org/curators/icon "(The) development of iconography in the digital signifies far deeper connections with the human construction of meaning than merely creating a mental mnemonic to represent a program, dataset, document, etc."--Patrick Lichty For thousands of years, from Lascaux to the computer desktop, the practice of creating iconographic language has been part of human existence. Lichty con...

Graphola (www.graphola.com) è la web community e la galleria on line d'arte contemporanea nata la primavera scorsa da un'idea della Drop Srl, web agency di Civitanova Marche (www.drop.it). L'operazione, frutto dalla passione del team Drop per tutto ciò che è creatività in ambito digitale, è divenuta in pochi mesi una delle realtà più affermate nel campo della net art e del digital design. L'intento &Ati...

VISIT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/showcase/ and sign up. UPLOAD your links, promotional material, pictures of your work and more... What is the Aboriginal Artist's Showcase (AAS) Welcome to all Aboriginal writers, poets, carvers, painters, clothing designers, jewelers, crafts people, interior designers, architects, film makers, videographers, Web designers, multimedia specialists, dancers, playwrights, models, actors, and more....... A showcase of Aboriginal Artists. Open to all I...

UNTITLED PROJECTs presents: Untitled Project: EAMES/eBAY by Conrad Bakker Untitled Project: EAMES/eBAY is an attempt to locate the effects of the "push/pull" dynamic as seen through the influence of Hans Hofmann's instruction to Ray Eames, and as evidenced through her furniture designs for Herman Miller. The formal play of "push/pull" is reintroduced through the careful construction of oil paintings based upon eBay auction images selling Eames Herman Miller furniture. ...

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is happy to announce the launch of it's newly re-designed website.   Besides a new look, the site now offers a range of new services for our members, and better navigation and visibility opportunities that we hope will bring increased exposure to the work of our members and projects from the art-sci-tech field.    Here are some ...

Media / Art / Public Domain Book and DVD Released As the final part of the Dutch Russian art and media project Debates & Credits, a book and DVD documenting the project and reflecting on the outcomes have recently been published by De Balie in Amsterdam. The texts are written in both English and Russian. Debates & Credits explored the poetics and politics of public space in Amsterdam, Moscow, and Ekaterinburg, through a series media art actions specifically designed for the ur...

http://www.kultur.at/howl/mir/ a contribution from Enrico Galeran Venezia Italy http://www.egzero.org    HALLO - HALLO - MIR - a contribution from Oksana Stogova and Juergen Kierspel Samara Russia _/ _/ _/ NoToWar _/ _/ _/ No Censure  _/ _/ _/ NoToWar _/ _/ _/ No Censure&...

http://www.themeatrix.com/action/ About the Meatrix movie: The Meatrix is a product of the first-ever Free Range Flash Activism Grant. In February of 2003, Free Range, a cutting-edge design company, invited hundreds of non-profit organizations to apply for free production of a Flash movie. After carefully reviewing more than 50 applications, the grant was awarded to GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment). GRACE works to end the destructive and dangerous practices o...

Get the flavor of electronic arts at taste-E.org! Whether you're a new media arts researcher, a curator, artist, or just want to know more about the electronic arts, you're bound to find what you're looking for at taste-E.org. Taste-E.org is a frequently updated and ever-growing portal to websites related to the electronic arts. Focused on the intersection of arts, technology, and science (interactive art, robotic art, ARTificial life, etc.) taste-E.org features websites of leading artists, a...