Upgrade! Warsaw: Paweł Janicki :: August 19, 2007; 5:00 pm :: Dziekanka (dormitory of The Academy of Music), 58/60 Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, Poland.
Pawel Janicki will talk about his artist’s practice, in frames of WRO Center activities and as independent. Case histories of some past and ongoing projects (network and sound oriented projects, cooperatives and individual) [...]
Video Networks is a research project consisting of the development of an electronic interface system for enabling the creation of networked or connected video based art works and the works produced with this system. It’s purpose is to explore the potential of creating works which are cinematic in nature yet break away from [...]
You Are Here (2004) by Scott Snibbe :: You Are Here tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing the people currently being tracked. [Quicktime Video]
The technology of this system is rooted in surveillance [...]
What If I’m Not Real is the first production by the Virtual Migrants ‘v02 collective’ and is directed by Kuljit ‘Kooj’ Chuhan. It is an electronic installation where masked figures each on a raft at sea emerge across a circular triptych of three video projections. Within this landless and timeless space the intertwined conflicts between [...]
Siegfried Zielinski is an internationally recognized media theorist and educator whose recent work, Deep Time of Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, has just been translated into English and published by M.I.T. Press. Zielinski’s approach to media history provides a method that radiates with a life and dynamism that pays [...]
Festival Emergences #5 presents Smart City :: September 26-30, 2007 :: Maison de La Villette | Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris :: contact[at]festival-emergences.info :: 01 43 66 82 52.
Smart City proposes to explore how the exponential development of new technologies increases possibilities of artistic interventions in urban space. Mobile and wireless technologies (mobile phone, Bluetooth, [...]
Fashion and digital technology have been interdependent at least since the development of Jacquard’s loom. in the 1800’s. Currently, social media are merging fashion and adornment with digital communication through “embodied” forms of communication, such as the Multi User virtual Environment, (or MUVE), Second Life. Within these environments, much emphasis is placed on the customization, [...]
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The Silver Island Mountain Range is in the arid and barren Great Salt Lake desert in North America. The mountain range is called an “island” because it is surrounded by the salt flats and muds of the ancient Pleistocene era lake Bonneville, now dry in this area. The nearby cities of West [...]
Mimi Ito: Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places [PDF]: The mobile phone has become the central node of the ensemble of portable objects that urbanites carry with them as they negotiate their way through information-rich global cities. This paper reports on a study conducted in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and London [...]
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is delighted to announce we are partnering with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) for a project funded by the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) on [...]
HOSPI-TABLE: The Architecture of Human Meetings Today: OPEN CALL :: Deadline: August 8, 2007 :: We seek video-talk contributions on the Architecture of meetings and meeting-places today or maybe tomorrow. All video-talk contributions will form a “table” in a YouTube Channel, around which this year’s Summer Workshop “hospi - table : the Architecture of meetings [...]
Streamscape(s) by b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n: Although I’ve always taken pleasure in contemplating landscapes, cityscapes in particular, depictions of them have never appealed to me. Though the word used to define an observed environment and its representation is the same, the latter originates from a perception different from mine of the environment, or more precisely, one which isn’t [...]
Patrick Lichty wrote: The Issue of Remediation in SL Art: Two pieces of work that are probably the most famous Second Life - based artworks besides Cao Fei’s Cosplayer are Eva and Franco Mattes’ Thirteen Most Beautiful Avatars (a remediation of Warhol’s piece, which showed at Postmasters) and Beuys’ 7000 Oaks, which the Mattes’ performed [...]
Meter Down: writing the city in conversation with bombay taxi drivers by Kabi - “As part of a larger project on Bombay taxi drivers (kaali-peeli ki kahani), I have been recording conversations with cab drivers, with their permission of course, as we ride from one place to another in the city. I am now podcasting [...]
The House of Natural Fiber: Yogyakarta New Media Art Laboratory, was founded in 1999. Our main focus is artistic development and innovation of the arts. We intend to achieve this goal especially by introducing new media art projects and workshops to the cultural environment of Yogyakarta. Every program is aimed at interactivity with the people [...]
Mobile Media edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth - proceedings of Mobile Media 2007, an international conference held at the University of Sydney 2-4 July 2007.
Featuring 33 innovative papers on contemporary mobile media from contributors across a range of countries and disciplines, this handsomely presented book collection offers a timely assessment of the transformations [...]
The New Monstrous: Digital Bodies, Genomic Arts and Aesthetics [PDF] by Pramod K. Nayar.
“[…] My proposition here is that genetics is mediated for popular consumption, at least in the West, by not only visualizing techniques and technologies but that genetics becomes the stuff of daily dreams and debates through artistic forms. That is, genetics [...]
The Travels of Mariko Horo by Tamiko Thiel :: Global Eyes @ Siggraph Art Gallery :: August 5-9, 2007 :: San Diego.
Sometime between the 12th and the 22nd centuries Mariko HMrM, Mariko the Wanderer, journeys westward from Japan in search of the Buddhist Paradise floating in the Western Seas. She does find Paradise, but finds [...]
Upgrade! Boston: Lalie Schewadron :: August 16, 2007; 6:30-8:00 pm :: Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury Street, Boston :: 617.536.5049.
Lalie Schewadron combines new and traditional media to create installations that explore new forms of engagement with our scientific, technological and natural worlds. By digitally ‘rewriting’ images she constructs new hybridized realities. Synthesis–at the Copley [...]
Artengine and the PureData Convention Collective: Oeuvre ouverte | PureData Convention 07 :: August 21-26, 2007 :: Montreal.
PureData (1) is an open source project that uses a real-time graphical programming environment for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. Freely distributed on the Web, this collaboratively developed new media tool has made its [...]