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Showing posts with label lecture. Show all posts

23 January 2010

Lecture - Second Life

Note that Second Life has changed considerably since this 2007 lecture.










Eric Gordon moderates a panel discussion about art practice in Second Life, an 3-D online world where real business is conducted using virtual dollars that can then be traded in the real world.

Called "the biggest digital art installation in the world" by Warren Ellis, Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). In Second Life you can teleport, fly, do not age, live in a house, go to clubs, take classes, make and view art, or just "hang out." Spanning more than 42,000 acres in real-world scale, Second Life is second home to over 2 million "residents," many of whom collaboratively create its content.

This lecture is a part of the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival and produced in partnership with Emerson College and Turbulence.org's "OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media" series.1 hour 53mins

http://forum-network.org/lecture/art-living-second-life

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A Second Life update

"It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it’s raking in more cash than ever before"

full article: Jan 2010
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life

more discussion of second life on iDC January 2010
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2010-January/subject.html

22 January 2010

Hip Hop - Lectures












Selwyn Seyfu-Hinds discusses his book, Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life,. In it, Hinds shares an insider's view on the world of hip-hop music and the dramatic lives of its celebrities. Part memoir, part cultural critique, he traces the heights and depths of his hip-hop love affair and hip-hop's indelible impact on American culture. 29mins 02 secs
http://forum-network.org/lecture/bits-bites-hip-hop-life


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Professors and artists discuss how hip-hop is now being used to encourage political engagement.

Rap music continues to draw an economically and racially diverse constituency of young people who grow more and more serious about such hot-button issues as police brutality, healthcare, and joblessness. Turning away from the misogyny, materialism, and violence that are sometimes associated with their music, members of the hip-hop generation are making serious inroads toward harnessing the power of a unique movement to foster social responsibility. 1hour 13 mins

http://forum-network.org/lecture/hip-hop-politics

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Moderated by Isaiah Jackson, various panelists come together to discuss the politics, identities and cultures that have been emerging from the hip-hop movement.

In its varied aspects, hip-hop embraces music, art, and dance. Emerging in the early 1970s from the African American and Latino communities of the Bronx, hip-hop culture has evolved into a creative force drawing an economically and culturally diverse international audience. Defying controversies and negative labels associated with hip-hop, artists and activists are increasingly collaborating to move hip-hop in the direction of greater political engagement and social responsibility. Today, hip-hop has the potential to serve as a positive agent for change at the community and national levels. 1 hour 24mins

http://forum-network.org/lecture/hip-hop-culture-politics-and-identities


22 April 2009

Remix - talk at the NYPL






Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy LIVE from the NYPL & WIRED present LAWRENCE LESSIG, SHEPARD FAIREY and STEVEN JOHNSON February 26, 2009

What is the future for art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined? LIVE from the NYPL and WIRED Magazine kick off the Spring 2009 season with a spirited discussion of the emerging remix culture.

Our guides through this new world—who will take us from Jefferson's Bible to André the Giant to Wikipedia—will be

Lawrence Lessig, author of Remix, founder of Creative Commons, and one of the leading legal scholars on intellectual property issues in the Internet age;

acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey, whose iconic Obama "HOPE" poster was recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery;

and cultural historian Steven Johnson, whose new book, The Invention of Air, argues that remix culture has deep roots in the Enlightenment and among the American founding fathers.

http://www.artbabble.org/video/remix-lawrence-lessig-and-shepard-fairey-live-nypl-22609

(Its nearly two hours long and very interesting)



23 February 2009

PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL

PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL
A TWO DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING HIP HOP CULTURE
PRESENTED BY CARRIAGEWORKS

After the success of 2008’s Platform 1, PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL will take over CarriageWorks’ urban jungle with two days of high-powered Hip Hop culture representing Breaking, Graffiti, Beatboxing, MCing and DJing.

Old skooler’s, hip hop novices and everyone in between can get into the vibe of true Australian Hip Hop culture at PLATFORM 2. Over 50 emerging and established artists and performers will be featured and everyone can join in the many free events, activities, workshops and two huge nights of entertainment.


PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL INCLUDES:

FRIDAY NIGHT - FLEXING SKILLZ FREESTYLE JAM
Opening night brings over 20 of the best Australian Hip Hop artists together live on stage for Flexing Skillz - Platform 2’s high energy Hip Hop improvisation comp. Artists from each element form a crew and improvise on random topics, showcasing fearsome freestyle skills. Hosted by Morganics, accompanied by Metabass Allstars and judged by the crowd. ADULT $18 / CONC $15 / GROUP 8+ $12

SATURDAY NIGHT - FREAK THE TECHNIQUE | B*BOY / B*GIRL BATTLE
Australia’s hottest breaking crews battle it out for the Platform 2 title and $1000 prize money. Guest live acts include the Killer Queens, The Last Kinection, DJ Mathmatics and Good Buddha. Interstate judges are Demolition B*Girl (Demi from So You Think You Can Dance), Pepito and Granite Rock. Hosted by B*Boy Rely. ADULT $18 / CONC $15 / GROUP 8+ $12

SATURDAY | WORKSHOPS:

WORKSHOPS | BREAKING, POPPING, LOCKING, STREET FUNK AND MORE...
Skill up with the most experienced teachers in hip hop, beatboxing, MC technique and Graffiti Art conducting workshops all day. Tickets available through Ticketmaster soon.

SATURDAY | FREE STUFF:

CAN CONTROL | GRAFFITI DEMO & COMP
Sydney’s finest graffiti artists demo murals, throw ups and tags in a fierce competition. Check out open tag and sketch comps during the day, piece comp with quality writers, MC’s and DJ’s dropping tracks and more…. Hosted by local graffiti artists Chez and Days 1. Winners announced at 6pm.

CHALK IT UP | STREET ART ACTIVITIES
All visitors to Platform 2 can create their own chalk graffiti artwork on the CarriageWorks floor, supervised and guided by experienced street artists.

http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=platform2hiphop


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CHECK OUT FOOTAGE FROM LAST YEAR’S PLATFORM 1 FOR A TASTE OF THE ACTION

Check out what Artistic Director Nick Power had to say to 3D World about last year’s Platform 1
Footage of last year’s Platform 1 on CarriageWorks’ Facebook page
Street TV footage from last year’s Platform 1
Ubergroover.tv footage from last year’s Platform 1
Last year’s Freak the Technique finalists rip it up
All Consciousness Crew take out the Platform 1 title at Saturday night’s Freak the Technique Battle
Last year’s free Breaking Shakedown in the foyer

11 October 2008

Stellarc at de Waag

On 29 October, a new series of Sentient Creatures lectures will
start at KillerTV, hosted by the Canadian artist Graham Smith. For
this broadcast two artists have been invited to share their ideas and
present their work: Stelarc en Joe Davis.
More info: http://waag.org/news/40952

Sentient Creatures: Bio-art
29-10-2008

Joe Davis was also part of the series in 2003. He is a research affiliate in the Department of Biology at MIT. He is an artist who has done extensive research in molecular biology and bioinformatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms. He has also constructed sculptural installation pieces, working with laser fabrication in plastics, steel, and stone; laser teleoperator systems; and structural welding in mild steel.

Stelarc is an Australian-based performance artist whose work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human-machine interfaces incorporating medical imaging, prosthetics, robotics, VR systems and the Internet. His project 'The Extra Ear' did draw a lot of attention.

When?
29 October 2008 at 8 pm.
Space opens at 7.30 pm.

Where?
Theatrum Anatomicum of the Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4,
1012 CR Amsterdam

Entrance is free. Livestream at:http://test.killertv.nl/?lang=en



05 June 2008

IBM Gaming reports - de balie



The Eduverse Foundation organiseert een symposium voor IBM en The Gate Foundation waarop studenten van de Universiteit Utrecht de resultaten presenteren van hun onderzoek naar ‘serious games’ als World on Warcraft en EVE Online.

Hun studie is gebaseerd op twee IBM-rapporten: 'Virtual Worlds, Real Leaders' en 'Leadership in a distributed world. Lessons from online gaming'.

Sprekers en publiek zijn zowel fysiek als via de virtuele wereld Second Life bij de conferentie betrokken.

At De Balie and live online, also in Second Life

date | 24 june
time | 19.00-23.00 CET
language | English
organisation | Eduverse
entrance | free of charge, register via davidvgent@nl.ibm.com






download reports
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/www_innovate.nsf/pages/world.gio.gaming.html



15 April 2008

artbrussels 2008




artbrussels 2008
Friday 18 - Monday 21 April 2008

Daily from 11am to 7pm
Preview and Vernissage on
Thursday 17 April (by invitation only)
Finissage on Monday 21 April, from 11am to 10pm


Venue: Brussels Expo – Hall 1 & 3
Place de Belgique 1 – 1020 Brussels

http://www.artbrussels.be


Internationally renowned for its innovative profile, artbrussels brings together participants of 24 different nationalities. This year the Belgian galleries represent 24 percent, in other words 42 galleries. There are also 29 galleries from France, 21 from Germany, 12 from the United Kingdom and 11 from the US. For the US and the United Kingdom this is a sharp increase in comparison to the previous editions of the fair.

Artbrussels is divided into three specific zones. The ‘Art Galleries’ zone consists entirely of established galleries (122), ‘Young Talent’ is aimed at young galleries (42), and ‘First Call’ groups young galleries taking part in the fair for the very first time (14). The number of participating galleries and artists is consciously limited to guarantee the quality of what is on offer and to show a coherent presentation.

List of Galleries
http://www.artexis.com/artbrussels/home.htm


YOUNG TALENT :
1/9 unosunove
Roma | AD Gallery Athens | Adamski Aachen | ADN Galeria Barcelona | Alice Brussels | Amaro Lisboa | Apartment Athens | Arquebuse Geneva | Art Agents Hamburg | Bischoff/Weiss London | Cortes Lisboa | Cortex Athletico Bordeaux | De Bruijne Amsterdam | De March Milano | Dependance Brussels | Desimpel Brussels | F A Projects London | Figge Von Rosen Cologne | Lynch New York | Gazon Rouge Athens | Grimm München | Groeflin Maag Zürich | Hauff Stuttgart | Hustinx Liège | Klemm's Berlin | Levy Brussels | Low Mertens Berlin | Metis_NL Amsterdam | Milliken Stockholm | Mitterrand + Sanz Zürich | Mogadishni Valby | Motive Amsterdam | Low Gstaad |Parker's Box Brooklyn | Rokeby London | Salon 94 New York | Scharmann Cologne | Skuc Ljubljana | Sutton Lane London | The Agency London | Vilma Gold London | Wentrup Berlin | Zwart Huis Knokke Gstaad |


DEBATES:
Saturday, April 19, 5pm
Ephemeral Fringes
Moderated by Filip Luyckx (artistic director Sint-Lukas Galerie). Panel members : Adam Budak (Curator Kunsthaus, Graz and Manifesta 7), Charlotte Laubard (director CAPC Contemporary art museum Bordeaux), Paco Barragan (curator and art critic) and Rainer Ganahl (artist and participant of “Ephemeral Fringes”).

Saturday, April 19, 3pm
Brussels Biennal
Moderated by Barbara Vanderlinden (director Brussels Biennial) . Panel members: Bart De Baere (director MuKHA, Antwerp), Charles Asche (director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Maria Hlavajova (director BAK, Utrecht), Paul Willemsen (director Argos, Brussels).

Saturday, April 19, 11:30 - 13:30
Holy Fire: Exhibiting and Collecting New Media Art
Moderated by Patrick Lichty (USA). Panel members: Alexei Shulgin (RU), Olia Lialina (RU/DE), Steve Sacks (bitforms, New York), Wolf Lieser (DAM, Berlin), Stéphane Manguet (Numeriscausa, Paris), Philippe Van Cauteren (SMAK, BE), Domenico Quaranta (Milano) and Yves Bernard (Brussels).

03 April 2008

Oron Catts - waag lecture

LECTURE ORON CATTS TISSUE CULTURE & ART
Artist, researcher and curator Oron Catts will give a lecture on Sunday April 20th, 16.00 hrs at the Theatrum Anatomicum.
As co-founder and director of SymbioticA, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, his artistic and scientific works all concentrate on wet biology and life sciences. He is in the Netherlands on invitation of the Centre for Society and Genomics.

See further:
http://waag.org/news/34797

Lezing Oron Catts
20-4-2008
Kunstenaar, wetenschapper en curator Oron Catts zal een lezing geven over de 'ethiek van weefselcultures en kunst' op zondag 20 april om 16.00 uur in het Theatrum Anatomicum van de Waag in Amsterdam.

Als medeoprichter en hoofd van SymbioticA, School of Anatomy & Human Biology aan de Universiteit van West-Australië heeft de overgrote meerderheid van Catts’ artistieke en wetenschappelijke productie te maken met zogenaamde natte biologie en life sciences. Hij is in Nederland op uitnodiging van het Centre for Society and Genomics.

De lezing gaat over aspecten van de geschiedenis van de fragmentatie van het menselijk lichaam aan de hand van een beschouwing over weefseltechnologie vanuit medisch, utilitair en artistiek perspectief.

Het Tissue Culture & Art Project vormt het uitgangspunt voor een aantal ethische en ontologische vragen en zorgen voortkomend uit het toenemende gebruik van levend materiaal in hedendaagse weefselcultures.

Programma:
15.30 Deuren open
16.00 Introductie door Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg, The Arts & Genomics Centre (Tagc), Universiteit Leiden
16.05 Lezing Oron Catts - ‘The Ethics of Tissue Culture & Art’
16.45 Discussie, voorgezeten door Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg
17.30 Conclusie

Oron Catts (1967) is kunstenaar, wetenschapper en curator, medeoprichter en hoofd van SymbioticA, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, Universiteit van West-Australië. SymbioticA is een artistiek laboratorium gewijd aan onderzoek naar en kritiek op life sciences, dat het mogelijk maakt voor kunstenaars zich bezig te houden met de praktijk van de natte biologie en biologisch laboratoriumonderzoek. SymbioticA won in 2007 de Prix Ars Electronika Golden Nica in Hybrid Art. Oron Catts exposeerde eigen werk en dat van SymbioticA internationaal, ondermeer in MoMa, New York; Ars Electronika, Lintz; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tate Modern, London. Hij was als onderzoeker verbonden aan Harvard Medical School en werkt momenteel binnen het EMA programma van Stanford University aan een kunst en biologie initiatief.

De Lezing van Oron Catts bij Waag Society wordt mogelijk gemaakt door The Centre for Society and Genomics en The Arts & Genomics Centre van de Universiteit van Leiden.

Vrije toegang. Het aantal plaatsen is beperkt. Reserveren: info@artsgenomics.org

Live webcast te volgen via www.killertv.nl

www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
www.society-genomics.nl
www.tagc.nl

In English
http://www.society-genomics.nl/?page=586

‘The Ethics of Tissue Culture & Art’ – Lecture Oron Catts, April 20, 16.00 hrs (CET+1), Waag Society, Amsterdam
Artist, researcher and curator Oron Catts will give a lecture on Sunday April 20th, 16.00 (CET+1) at the Theatrum Anatomicum of Waag Society in Amsterdam.

As co-founder and director of SymbioticA, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, his artistic and scientific works all concentrate on wet biology and life sciences. He is in the Netherlands on invitation of the Centre for Society and Genomics.

Catts’ talk at Waag Society covers some aspects of the history of the fragmentation of the body through tissue technologies from medical, utilitarian and artistic perspectives. It will use the work of the Tissue Culture & Art Project as a departure point for dealing with a range of ethical and ontological concerns rising from the growing use of living fragments in contemporary cultures.

Programme:
15.30 Doors open
16.00 Introduction by Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg, The Arts & Genomics Centre (tagc), Leiden University
16.05 Public lecture Oron Catts - ‘The ethics of Tissue Culture & Art’
16.45 Discussion, chaired by Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg
17.30 Closure & drinks




25 March 2008

an expert's tour of second life



With a population rivalling that of London, Second Life is an extraordinary online world that is imagined and created by its users, or more aptly, residents.

Take a tour of this much-discussed cultural phenomenon with Australia's first artists in residence in Second Life - new media artist, composer, programmer, performer and writer Adam Nash and graphic designer, web developer and new media artist Chris Dodds.

Thu 27 Mar 2008, 6pm

http://www.acmi.net.au/gameon_tour_second_life.aspx


Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne

10 August 2007

Curating, Collecting and Archiving Media Art

organised by..
DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART & DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE

:: DANUBE TELE LECTURE "MYTHS OF IMMATERIALITY" :: is now archived

:: „MYTHS OF IMMATERIALITY: Curating, Collecting and Archiving Media Art” ::
Lectures and debate with

- Paul SERMON, media artist and scientist, UK
- Christiane PAUL, curator for New Media at the Whitney Museum, NY

In case you were not able to follow Danube TeleLecture #3 live from the MUMOK
in Vienna, you can now view the lecture in our archive

=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/dtl-archive
=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures

During the last decades media art has grown to be the art of our time, though it has
hardly arrived in our cultural institutions.
The mainstream of art history has neglected developing adequate research tools
for these contemporary art works, they are exhibited infrequently in museums, and
there are few collectors. Which practices and strategies in curating and documenting
of media art do experts in the field suggest?

The discussion was moderated by Dr. Michael Freund, from Austrian leading
newspaper “Der Standard”.

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:: The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems is an
institution for innovative research and teaching on the complete range of image
forms. The Department is situated in the Wachau, Austria - a UNESCO world
heritage site - in the Goettweig Monastery and is housed in a fourteenth century
castle. It is the base of the public documentation platforms www.virtualart.at and
www.mediaarthistory.org .

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The Department's new low residency postgraduate master's programs in
MEDIAARTHISTORIES www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories, PHOTOGRAPHY,
and IMAGE MANAGEMENT are internationally unique.

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Next Tele Lecture :
We will be happy to welcome you live or via streaming for
our Tele Lecture in November.
Guest will be the media theorist Lev MANOVICH.
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The Department for Image Science Team
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis



23 July 2007

lecture on street art


Tristan Manco
Oostelijk Meterhuis
from Saturday 28 July 15:00 hrs
till Sunday 29 July 15:00 hrs



Tristan Manco is a writer, graphic designer, and leading authority on the graffiti and street art scenes. He is the author of best-selling books on the subjects of stencil graffiti, contemporary street art, and Brazilian graffiti. At the Streetlab Festival Manco will give a lecture on street art.

During the Festival, there will be plenty of fashion shows, exhibitions and performances to attend, but this time around Streetlab offers visitors even more than pure visual stimuli and sources of inspiration: there are workshops and master classes by stylists, street art specialists, trend watchers, style gurus and other professionals.

Saturday: 15:00-16:00 hrs
Sunday: 14:00-15:00 hrs

Westergasfabriek
Haarlemmerweg 8-10
Amsterdam




11 July 2007

Geert Lovink - video lecture


Geert Lovink presenting a foundation of critical internet culture and talking about blogs, blogging, blogging philosophy, activism, social networks, network theory, audiences, growth and markets. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007.

Geert Lovink, born 1959 in Amsterdam, is a media theorist, net critic and activist, who studied political science on the University of Amsterdam (MA) and holds a PhD at University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a postdoc fellow at University of Queensland in Brisbane. 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam for Interactive media and associate professor for New Media at the University of Amsterdam.



http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=21F67A4E805479EF




07 June 2007

You only live TWICE



You only live TWICE
The Rietveld Academy in Second Life

SUNDAY, June 10 at 21.00 hrs


Graphic Design students go second life with Conversations falling from the sky - Confessions of a submissive avatar - 'Der Lauf der Prims' - The evolution of a fashionable newbie - and much more ...

And, Edo Paulus aka Edo Autopoiesis premieres his new virtual sound installation 'Resonating-With-secondlifeWind'.


http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-16945-en.html



WEDNESDAY, June 6 from 18.00 - 20.00 hrs

Rietveldstudents Unstable Media / Interaction Design are presenting and testing the alternative interfaces, they designed.

Location: Mediamatic, Post CS Building, ground floor, Amsterdam

You only live TWICE
De Rietveld Academie in Second Life

ZONDAG 10 juni om 21.00 uur

Een gevarieerde avond waarop studenten grafisch ontwerpen in Second Life gaan met Conversations falling from the sky - Confessions of a submissive avatar - 'Der Lauf der Prims' - The evolution of a fashionable newbie - en meer ...

En de premiere van de nieuwe virtuele geluidsinstallatie 'Resonating-With-secondlifeWind' van Edo Paulus aka Autopoiesis.

http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-16945-nl.html


WOENSDAG 6 juni van 18.00 - 20.00 uur

Studenten Unstable Media / Interaction Design van de Rietveldacademie tonen en testen de alternatieve interfaces, die ze hebben ontworpen.

http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-17101-en.html

Locatie: Mediamatic, Post CS Gebouw, begane grond, Amsterdam

23 May 2007

Montevideo



(English below)

Nieuws
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst

(in)visible sounds
2 juni - 14 juli
Opening 1 juni om 17.00 uur
Kunstenaars: Erich Berger, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Usman Haque & Rob Davis, Informationlab (Ursula Lavrencic & Auke Touwslager), Olga Kisseleva, Brandon LaBelle & James Watts, Semiconductor en Theodore Watson.
Het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst presenteert in samenwerking met het 5 days off festival de tentoonstelling (in)visible sounds. In deze tentoonstelling betreedt de bezoeker de wereld van de onzichtbare technologie. Een wereld waar gebruikt wordt gemaakt van aanwezige elektronische velden, radiogolven, frequentieverschillen en luchtverontreiniging.
Meer informatie: www.montevideo.nl

Seminar (in)visible technology
zaterdag 2 juni
Tijd: 14.00 – 16.30 uur
Kunstenaars uit de tentoonstelling (in)visible sounds presenteren hun werk(wijze) waarbij dieper ingegaan wordt op de invloed van onzichtbare technologie op het dagelijks leven.
Met: Usman Haque & Rob Davis, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding en Olga Kisseleva.
Commentator: Rob van Kranenburg.
Live stream: www.montevideo.nl
Toegang 5,- (studenten 3,-).
Reserveren: info@montevideo.nl

5 days off festival
4 - 8 juli
Paradiso, Melkweg, het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst en de Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam.
Check voor updates: www.5daysoff.nl

News
Netherlands Media Art Institute

(in)visible sounds
June 2 - July 14, 2007
Opening June 1, 5:00 p.m.
Artists: Erich Berger, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Usman Haque & Rob Davis, Informationlab (Ursula Lavrencic & Auke Touwslager), Olga Kisseleva, Brandon LaBelle & James Watts, Semiconductor and Theodore Watson.
The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents in collaboration with the 5 days off festival the exhibition (in)visible sounds. In this exhibition the visitor enters the world of invisible technology. This is the world which employs the electronic fields, radio waves, frequencies and air pollution that are present around us.
More information: www.montevideo.nl

Seminar (in)visible technology
Saturday, June 2
Time: 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Artists from the exhibition (in)visible sounds present their work which focus on the influence of invisible technology on daily life.
With: Usman Haque & Rob Davis, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding and Olga Kisseleva.
Commentator: Rob van Kranenburg.
Live stream: www.montevideo.nl
Language: English
Admission 5,- (students 3,-).
Reservations: info@montevideo.nl

5 days off festival
4 - 8 July
Paradiso, Melkweg, the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam. Check for updates: www.5daysoff.nl


Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
www.montevideo.nl

19 April 2007

Swoon at MoMA

The artist Swoon presenting her work as part of the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part 1 of 2 (edited for time)

Audio archives of the unedited presentation and discussion with Gretchen Wagner are available on moma.org/audio or through the MoMA Think Modern podcast in iTunes.

Images courtesy of Swoon. © 2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York




Swoon presenting her work at MoMA, (Part 1 of 2)

Swoon presenting her work at MoMA, (Part 2 of 2)


MoMAvideos


17 February 2007

seminar - Montevideo

Faith in Exposure

Exhibition and Seminar
24 February – 17 March
Opening 23 February, 17.00 – 19.00 hour

Curated by David Garcia

This exhibition and seminar addresses the central narrative of western democracy our 'faith in exposure', the unquestioning belief that the circulation of knowledge through news media (and other means) constrains the powerful and guarantees democracy. In a world where we may know but are still compelled to obey, Faith in Exposure is a platform for artists and researchers to ask whether it is still tenable believe the central myth of the information age; that knowing the truth shall make us free.

Exhibition:
Beirut Letters, De Geuzen, Govcom.org, Lynn Hershman, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Avi Mograbi, Sean Snyder, Thomson & Craighead, Jody Zellen

Oog (Volkskrant): Luis Mendo, Graham Harwood, Micheal Takeo Magruder, Laure Ghorayeb, Rob Hamelinck & Nienke Terpsma, Kessels Kramer, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jochem Niemandsverdriet, Max Kisman, Tjebbe van Tijen, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukacs, Lust (Thomas Castro, Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, Jeroen Barendse), Willem van den Hoed, Han Hoogerbrugge, Occulart (Geoff Lillemon), Jody Zellen, Motomishi Nakamura, Rob Moonen and Tom America. Curator: Nanette Hoogslag

The exhibition Faith in Exposure is open Tuesday through Saturday from 13.00 – 18.00 h. ; also open on the first Sunday of the month. Entry: € 2,50 (1,50 with discount)

Seminar:
Saturday 24th of February
13.30 – 16.30 hours
With Jodi Dean, Noortje Marres, Richard Rogers, moderated by David Garcia

Reservations: info@montevideo.nl, +31 (0)20 6237101
Entrance 10,- ( students 8,-)

More information Faith in Exposure: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index_agenda.php?cat=e&id=184

Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
F 020 6244423
www.montevideo.nl
info@montevideo.nl










04 February 2007

Stelarc - Gent



Tijdens het tiendaagse festival the game is up! inviteert Vooruit een internationale schare aan kunstenaars uit diverse disciplines. De centrale notie van het festival: het concept van het spel, haar codes en regels, wordt door de artiesten op eigengereide wijze uitgedaagd. Het spel is immers bij uitstek het terrein waar codes op hun rekbaarheid getest kunnen worden. De artiesten in the game is up! tonen de (verborgen) codes, leggen zichzelf (absurde) regels op, doorbreken of parodiëren ze.

Tijdens het festival staat er een speciale reeks FrictiesSalons klaar.

FrictiesSalon8: Stelarc (AU)
Wo 7/2 - 21.00 - domzaal
5 euro
Engels gesproken
vanaf 22.00 - balzaal - gratis
opening tento the game is up!

We openen de reeks Salons én het festival met de Australische performancekunstenaar Stelarc, die wordt aanzien als een van de belangrijkste vertegenwoordigers van body art en elektronische kunst. Als het gaat om het verleggen van grenzen wat betreft het integreren van technologie in het menselijk lichaam, is hij een echte pionier. Hij gebruikt daarbij allerlei robotica, VR systemen, medische instrumenten en prothesen en fungeert altijd zelf als testpersoon. Zijn fascinatie ligt in de specifieke reacties van het lichaam op technologische uitbreiding of digitale bemoeienis. Het gaat enerzijds over het construeren van waanzinnige technologische constructies (een robotische derde arm bijvoorbeeld) maar ook over het loslaten van de controle over zijn eigen lichaam (en het te laten besturen over het internet). Zijn doel is 'alternatieve, intieme en onvrijwillige reacties van het lichaam' te onderzoeken.
Stelarc zal in de domzaal aan de hand van een pak visueel materiaal een levendige presentatie/demonstratie geven van zijn werk en passie.

Aansluitend is er de opening van de tentoonstelling rond 'de game is up!' met werk van the Yes Men, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Antoine Schmitt, Tamiko Thiel, Guillaume Reymond en Aram Bartholl. Wees welkom!

http://www.vooruit.be/programma/915/

Kunstencentrum Vooruit
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
9000 Gent

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During the tiendaagse festival the game is up! ahead an international schare to artists from several disciplines invites. The central idea of the festival: the concept of the game, its codes and rules, is defied by the artists in a headstrong manner. The game is pre-eminently the area where codes on their ductility can be tested. The artists in the game are up! tones (hid) the codes, impose to itself (absurdity) rules, break through or parody they. During the festival is ready FrictiesSalons there a special range.

FrictiesSalon8: Stelarc (AU) Wo 7/2 - 21.00 - roomroom room 5 euro English spoken as from 22.00 - ballrooms - for free opening tento the game is up!

We open the range Salons and the festival with the Australian performance artist Stelarc, who becomes look as of the most important representatives of body art and electronic art. If it concerns moving borders concerning incorporating technology in the human body, he is a real pioneer. He uses thereby all kinds of robotica, VR systems, medical instruments and prostheses and acts always themselves as a test person. Its fascinatie lies in the specific responses of the body to technological extension or digital intervention. It concerns on the one hand constructing waanzinnige technological constructions (robotische a third arm for example) but also concerning releasing the control concerning its own body (and it governing boards concerning the Internet to leave). To be aim is ' alternative, intimate and involuntary examine responses of the body '. Stelarc will give a living presentation/demonstration to visual material in the roomroom room by means of a package of its work and passie.

Connecting is the opening of the tentoonstelling ' the game is up!' with work of the Yes one, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Antoine Schmitt, Tamiko Thiel, Guillaume Reymond and Aram Bartholl. Indicated welcome!




29 January 2007

WORLD CURATING

WORLD CURATING
Put on line Play, 2007-01-25 10:45. Sessions
FORUM OF DISCUSSION: "WORLD CURATING"
* Wednesday January 31, 2007 - 14h30-17h30
With Brian Holmes, activist, criticizes art, Liliane Terrier and Rui Alberto, teachers at the University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, the workshop "Mobile Studio/African Art - Swiss Scene", Charles-Henri Morling/Comité de Trouble(s)/Ravaillac.

To give a grid of reading, to produce direction and tools for analysis, to impose an interpretation of the world around us, it as well became the role of the expertise in communication which joins all the creative functions of the contemporary company, where to leave the grid will at the same time mean to transform diagrams and instituted relations, and to allow the actualization of other possibilities.

The experimental practices in art, have sometimes the capacity to make readable the relations of being able and the systems instituted, very as much as opening new spaces, beyond the critical exercise and of the production of speech and works. The major part of the worlds of art and creation is however given the responsability to preserve and to reproduce the dominant values the in conformity, where all seems to occur like if art being done, experiments living itself, did not have right to the stay.

Against-conference for the January meeting on 31 invites various interlocutors to present the projects in which they are engaged, which contribute to a transformation of spaces of creation and reflexion.

At the higher national School of the fine arts Room of conference of the palate of the studies 14, street Bonaparte 75006 Paris - free M° St-Germain-of-Meadows Entered - Where are the borders? - visual Geography and political engagement From the camping No-to border in Tarifa in summer 2001, the Spanish network Hackitectura develops a critical and militant cartography Madiaq territory which connects the two edges of the Mediterranean. They organize in Tarifa two ateliers/festivals, under the name of Fadai' At, in 2004 and 2005. In December 2006 they take part in the exposure assembled to Cairo by Ursula Biemann, under the name The the Maghreb connection, which implies multiple partners in a sociological and videographic investigation into the conditions of the sub-Saharan migration through North Africa. Brian Holmes, which collaborated in the two projects, described their crossing, their differences, and spaces which they open.

Brian Holmes, is activist, critical of art and translator, he lives in Paris and is interested in the crossings between art, political economy and social movements. Member of the group of graphic art "not to fold" of 1999 to 2001, it works then with Engineering and design department with which it founded the review "Autonomy artistic" and is a co-operator of the Tangent University created with their initiative. He contributes to reviews, Springerin (Vienna), Parachute (Montreal), Multitudes (Paris) of which he is member of the editorial board and directed his special number "the Contemporary art: the research of the outside ", with electronic lists of discussion such as Nettime, MyCreativity, IDC, etc, the initiatives between others, such as" Fadaiat/Borderline Academy ", in Tarifa in 2004 and 2005," MyCreativity "in Amsterdam in 2006," Emergent Geographies "with Extremadura in 2007.

- Mobile Studio/African Art - Swiss Scene travels like multi-media platform to Paris - Swiss Arts centre and Dapper Museum - and in Geneva - Mamco, Musée of Ethnography of Geneva. It settles temporarily and alternatively in each one of these places, at the rate/rhythm of the renewal of the exposures. This studio, which gathers the courses of first and second cycle of Liliane Terrier and Rui Alberto, acts as a neutral ground which opens the occasion to collaborate with the artists exhibitors and their curators to produce the site and/or of DVD-Romanian leading articles of the experiment in quasi real time. The Swiss artistic scene constitutes a case study, carried out in parallel with that of African art, with the Dapper Museum, Mamco and the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva, in an attempt at contemporary anthropology muséale. With vidéos of: Flo Wang, Manhal Issa, Rey Hong Flax, Xi Chen, Romain Cieutat.

Web of Mobile Studio: http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal2/

Liliane Terrier is a lecturer at the University Paris 8 Saint-Denis in visual arts. Its fields of research and teaching cover history and theory with art, literature, cinema and new technologies. It is interested particularly in the various processes specifically related to technologies which are the combinative one, performativity, interactivity and the account. A share of its activity consists of the development of situations of meetings, across the fixing of the kinds and the disciplines (Cycle Momac Paris 8, ODNM Ensad and Paris 8), of workshops where the exploration of the practices is pretext to the realization of transverse and prospective works ("GPS movie" 2004-2006, "video-interactive Investigation of a territory" 2006). Rui Alberto is a lecturer in esthetics and history of art at the University Paris 8 Saint-Denis like with the IUFM of Montpellier. This franco-Angolan-portuguais collects the masks. It is with the time its history personal and history of art that us Rui Alberto tells which discovered on late at which point the Western modern art disavows the African classic art.

Collector, Rui Alberto in its work produces readings, courses, which associate the fields of the history and the theory of arts, with the fields of the alive experimentation in art. It takes part in various projects, groups, which question the concept of interculturality in arts and education, where its critical courses come to take the direction at the same time artistic practice and of transmission.

- Policies of the translation, Charles-Henri Morling Within the framework of its number 4 devoted to the study of various manifestations of the otherness, the review Hoop net - sexualités/politiques/cultures wishes to organize a collective exercise of political translation. Benefitting from this forum of discussion to try first once this experiment, it will act, while being pressed on a text in English and confronting the proposals for a translation of each one, to see in what the translation is not a simple mechanics of transposition in another language, but that on the contrary, it implies political choices which, too often, are not assumed like such.

Ravaillac, association created in 2002, has the aim of developing the whole of spaces where to speak. It thus takes care to support the expression in all its forms (newspapers, posters, radios, televisions, Internet, debates, conferences, petitions, festivals, etc). It is devoted mainly to the edition of the review political Trouble(s) sexualities// cultures and to the organization of the Poing festival to the line. The committee of the Trouble(s) review is composed of Jonathan Désoindre, William Blanc, Thibaut Chaffotte, Marie Hermann, Elzbieta Kowalska, Charles-Henri Morling.

* This title is inspired by a chronicle of Fatima Lasay, "Cure for curators", blog of Korakora.org, fév. 2006.

Site of relay of the forum: http://contre-conference.net

Contacts: coordination (with) against-conference.net, jany.lauga (with) ensba.fr

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Liens | Textes indexés |

Aminata Traoré, Musée du Quai Branly : « Ainsi nos œuvres d’art ont droit de cité là où nous sommes, dans l’ensemble, interdits de séjour », Africultures, juin 2006
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/AinsiNosOeuvresOntDroitDeCite

Fatima Lasay, Cure pour curators, Korakora, février 2006 :
http://contre-conference.net/dp/?q=Cure_pour_curators

Fatima Lasay, Art in the Age of Techno-Propaganda :
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/

FatimaLasay-ArtInTheAgeOfTechnoPropagandaCoco Fusco, The bodies that were not ours, Routledge/Iniva, 2001 :
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/

CocoFusco-TheBodiesThatWereNotOursCoco Fusco, Questionning the Frame, In these times, décembre 2004 :
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/CocoFusco-QuestionningTheFrame

Binyavanga Wainaina, How to write about Africa, Granta, janvier 2006
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/HowToWriteAboutAfrica

Fadaiat, Technological Observatory Of The Straight, Fadaiat, libertad de
movimiento + libertad de conocimiento, septembre 2006
http://contre-conference.net/mediawiki/index.php/Fadaiat-TechnologicalObservatoryOfTheStraight-fr
Textes en format PDF | Rui Alberto « Afrique/Suisse.. » | « World Curatoring » |

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WORLD CURATING

Sessions

FORUM DE DISCUSSION : "WORLD CURATING"*
Mercredi 31 janvier 2007 - 14h30-17h30

Avec Brian Holmes, activiste, critique d'art, Liliane Terrier et Rui Alberto, enseignants à l’Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, l'atelier "Mobile Studio / Art africain - Scène suisse", Charles-Henri Morling/Comité de Trouble(s)/Ravaillac.

Donner une grille de lecture, produire du sens et des outils d'analyse, imposer une interprétation du monde autour de nous, c'est aussi bien devenu le rôle de l'expertise en communication qui s'associe toutes les fonctions créatives de la société contemporaine, où sortir de la grille signifiera à la fois transformer des schémas et des relations instituées, et permettre l'actualisation d'autres possibilités.
Les pratiques expérimentales en art, ont parfois la capacité de rendre lisible les relations de pouvoir et les systèmes institués, tout autant que d'ouvrir de nouveaux espaces, au delà de l'exercice critique et de la production de discours et d'oeuvres. La majeure partie des mondes de l'art et de la création se charge pourtant de conserver et reproduire les valeurs dominantes les plus conformes, où tout semble se passer comme si l'art en train de se faire, les expériences en train de se vivre, n'avaient pas droit au séjour.
Contre-conférence pour la session du 31 janvier invite différents interlocuteurs à présenter les projets dans lesquels ils sont engagés, qui contribuent à une transformation des espaces de création et de reflexion.

A l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Salle de conférence du palais des études
14, rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris - M° St-Germain-des-Prés
Entrée libre

- Où sont les frontières ? - Géographie visuelle et engagement politique
A partir du campement No-border à Tarifa en été 2001, le réseau espagnol Hackitectura développe une cartographie critique et militante du territoire Madiaq qui relie les deux bords de la Méditerranée. Ils organisent à Tarifa deux ateliers/festivals, sous le nom de Fadai'at, en 2004 et 2005. En Décembre 2006 ils participent à l'exposition montée au Caire par Ursula Biemann, sous le nom The Maghreb Connection, qui implique de multiples partenaires dans une enquête sociologique et vidéographique sur les conditions de la migration subsaharienne à travers l'Afrique du Nord. Brian Holmes, qui a collaboré aux deux projets, décrit leur croisement, leurs différences, et les espaces qu'ils ouvrent.

Brian Holmes, est activiste, critique d'art et traducteur, il vit à Paris et s’intéresse aux croisements entre art, économie politique et mouvements sociaux. Membre du groupe d’art graphique "Ne pas plier" de 1999 à 2001, il travaille ensuite avec Bureau d’études avec lequel il a fondé la revue "Autonomie artistique" et est co-opérateur de l'Université Tangente créé à leur initiative. Il contribue à des revues, Springerin (Vienne), Parachute (Montréal), Multitudes (Paris) dont il est membre du comité de rédaction et a dirigé son numéro spécial "L’Art contemporain : la recherche du dehors", à des listes de discussion électroniques telles que Nettime, MyCreativity, IDC, etc., les initiatives entre d'autres, telles que "Fadaiat/Borderline Academy", à Tarifa en 2004 et 2005, "MyCreativity" à Amsterdam en 2006, "Emergent Geographies" à Extremadura en 2007.

- Mobile Studio / Art africain - Scène suisse voyage comme plate-forme multimédia à Paris - Centre culturel suisse et Musée Dapper - et à Genève - Mamco, Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève. Il s’installe temporairement et alternativement dans chacun de ces lieux, au rythme du renouvellement des expositions. Ce studio, qui regroupe les cours de premier et second cycle de Liliane Terrier et Rui Alberto, agit en tant que terrain neutre qui ouvre l'occasion de collaborer avec les artistes exposants et leurs curateurs pour produire le site et/ou des DVD-Rom éditoriaux de l’expérience en quasi temps réel. La scène artistique suisse constitue une étude de cas, menée en parallèle avec celle de l’art africain, au Musée Dapper, au Mamco et au Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, dans une tentative d'anthropologie muséale contemporaine.
Avec des vidéos de : Flo Wang, Manhal Issa, Rey Hong Lin, Xi Chen, Romain Cieutat.
Web de Mobile Studio : http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal2/

Liliane Terrier est maître de conférence à l'Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis en arts plastiques. Ses domaines de recherche et d'enseignement recouvrent histoire et théorie de l'art, littérature, cinéma et nouvelles technologies. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement aux différents processus spécifiquement liés aux technologies que sont la combinatoire, la performativité, l'interactivité et le récit. Une part de son activité consiste en l'élaboration de situations de rencontres, par delà la fixation des genres et des disciplines (Cycle Momac Paris 8, ODNM Ensad et Paris 8), d'ateliers où l'exploration des pratiques est prétexte à la réalisation d'oeuvres transversales et prospectives ("GPS Movies" 2004-2006, "Investigation vidéo-interactive d'un territoire" 2006).

Rui Alberto est maître de conférence en esthétique et histoire de l’art à l'Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis ainsi qu'à l'IUFM de Montpellier. Ce franco-angolais-portuguais collectionne les masques. C’est à la fois son histoire personnelle et l’histoire de l’art que nous raconte Rui Alberto qui a découvert sur le tard à quel point l’art moderne occidental renie l’art classique africain. Collectionneur, Rui Alberto dans son travail produit des lectures, des parcours, qui associent les champs de l'histoire et la théorie des arts, avec les domaines de l'expérimentation en art vivante. Il participe à différents projets, groupes, qui questionnent la notion d'interculturalité dans les arts et l'éducation, où ses parcours critiques viennent prendre le sens à la fois d'une pratique artistique et de transmission.

- Politiques de la traduction, Charles-Henri Morling
Dans le cadre de son numéro 4 consacré à l’étude de différentes manifestations de l’altérité, la revue Trouble(s) – sexualités/politiques/cultures souhaite organiser un exercice collectif de traduction politique. Profitant de ce forum de discussion pour tenter une première fois cette expérience, il s’agira, en s’appuyant sur un texte en anglais et en confrontant les propositions de traduction de chacun, de voir en quoi la traduction n’est pas une simple mécanique de transposition dans une autre langue, mais qu’au contraire, elle implique des choix politiques qui, trop souvent, ne sont pas assumés comme tels.

Ravaillac, association créée en 2002, a pour objet de développer l'ensemble des espaces où prendre la parole. Elle veille ainsi à favoriser l'expression sous toutes ses formes (journaux, affiches, radios, télévisions, internet, débats, conférences, pétitions, festivals, etc.). Elle se consacre principalement à l'édition de la revue Trouble(s) sexualités / politiques / cultures et à l’organisation du festival Poing à la ligne. Le comité de la revue Trouble(s) est composé de Jonathan Désoindre, William Blanc, Thibaut Chaffotte, Marie Hermann, Elzbieta Kowalska, Charles-Henri Morling.

*Ce titre est inspiré d'une chronique de Fatima Lasay, "Cure for curators", blog de Korakora.org, fév. 2006.
Site de relais du forum : http://contre-conference.net
Contacts : coordination (à) contre-conference.net, jany.lauga (à) ensba.fr