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[Call for entries] Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2012-13

The 2012 Rencontres Internationales just announced their call for entries opening. Here are all the details of this major European event :  THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 16, 2012, FOR THE RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES WHICH WILL BE HELD IN PARIS IN NOVEMBER 2012 AT PALAIS DE TOKYO AND GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE, AND IN MADRID AND BERLIN IN 2013. The event will feature an international programme focused on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers rec...

Digitalarti Mag #10

Access interactive online version, download free pdf version. Or order the print version today.   Free iPad version with free Magcloud or pdf lite apps. EDITORIAL CONNECTED BODIES, AUGMENTED BY THE SUN This summer, you have several options to give your body a makeover: run it through the beachside skate parks on the U.S. West Coast, sublimate it into an online avatar, or implant it with various devices (robotics, chips, etc.) in order to increase its potential. T...

The 2012 ZERO1 biennial : Seeking Silicon Valley

The 2012 ZERO1 Biennial takes place in Silicon valley from September 12 to December 8, 2012. The ZERO1 Biennial, distributed throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, is North America’s most significant and comprehensive showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology. Through curated exhibitions, public art installations, performances, and speaker events, the ZERO1 Biennial presents work by a global community of innovative artists who are reshaping contemporary culture. E...

Exhibition : infinite listening of the Bots, July 25th to Aug. 11th, Nantes France

The collective APO33, coming from Nantes in France, opens an exhibition in the middle of summer, inviting the audience to listen to machines which listen as well, but to public spaces. BOT/BioBOTs make up a virtual community, in the continuation of the ‘POULPE’ project, with a view to assemble a collection of entities in one location in order to diffuse their production to many more places. They stand for a new approach to digital phenomena : networks, multi motionless geolocation...

Water Light Graffiti, an Antonin Fourneau and Digitalarti Artlab creation, in Poitiers

For several months, Antonin Fourneau has been part of the Digitalarti Artlab residency program to realize Water Light Graffiti. You can watch its presentation video here. Poitiers (west of France) welcomes the very first big scale edition of this artwork both aesthetic and related to game, from July 20th to 24th. On the first night, Painthouse artists came to demonstrate the potential for creation of this sparkling water graffiti. On the second night, the audience, delighted, was invited ...

Architectural Video Mapping, call for proposals by CDA Enghien les Bains (Christmas 2012, close to Paris)

The Centre des Arts of Enghien-les-Bains (close to Paris and famous for having organised this summer the 7th Bains Numériques festival) is looking for video-mapping artists for a performance around Christmas. The Centre des Arts - a place for digital creativity funded by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication - is launching a Call for Projects / architectural video mapping for 1 December. For the festive season, the town of Enghien-les-Bains organises annual events and highl...

International Artist Residencies, Budapest, from Dec.12 to Jan.13

The International Artist Residencies in Budapest are open to submissions for end of 2012, beginning of 2013. Read the following to get all the details. AIR/HMC, Budapest NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for December 2012-January 2013 http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com/id69.html Deadline: 08/11/12 Application fee: $35 "Artist residencies allow the time for dialogue and create connections that contribute to the future.." E-mail address: bszechy@yahoo.com Discipline:&n...

Cologne International Videoart Festival - 3 calls for entries until July 30th

  The Cologne OFF 2012 festival, dedicated to "videoart in a global context" takes place all around the world until end of October in Mexico. All the program details are available on their website : http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/ During this worldwide festival, three videoart competitions are open to submissions. These competitions have decided to postpone their deadline. So it remains possible to have a try until end of July. Here are the three opportunities : Cologne...

[videos] Jelly, Goldfishes and Music Boxes can make sounds... or even music.

  Here are three disruptive ways to produce sounds which struck our minds : these digital creators used fishes, jelly, or small musical boxes. Well, small musical boxes are not such a disruptive mean for producing sound, but the way their use is thought makes the whole piece worth the video time. Moreover, the two last videos deals with hands and fingers moves which make sounds, like with many basic instruments, whereas the first one is all about chance and not intentioned creation, a...

Live Notation Unit at the Arnolfini, Bristol, 27th July

Live Notation Unit is an event dedicated to live digital creation, like live-art and live-coding, taking place end of July in Bristol, UK. Here is their presentation : LIVE NOTATION UNIT Live artists and live coders, working towards live notation http://livenotation.org/ 27th July 2012 2pm-9:30pm Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA Entry: Free Symposium and performances The Live Notation Unit (LNU) takes over the Arnolfini for a day using its spaces as an experimental laboratory ...

IMAGEM-CONTATO during MOSTRA SESC DE ARTES 2012

Curated by Kika Nicolela with the collaboration of Gabriel Soucheyre /VIDEOFORMES. The festival IMAGEM-CONTATO will be held between as part of the MOSTRA SESC DE ARTES 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The program includes mini-retrospectives with representative works of the pioneer artists Norman McLaren, Nam June Paik, Jan Svankmayer and Zbigniew Rybczynski, a range of works of other reference-artists, such as Gunvor Nelson, Bill Viola, Gary Hill and Pipilotti Rist, and a select...

[call for proposals] Digital travel notebook Contest

During the RENDEZ-VOUS DU CARNET DE VOYAGE (16-18>11 in Clermont-Ferrand, France), the association "Il faut aller voir" and VIDEOFORMES are calling for projects for the "Prix du Carnet de Voyage Numérique". This prize will reward the author(s) of a digital travel work : video max. 4 minutes, vlog, blog, interactive Website.  See infos and rules. Deadline 30 September 2012 ...

The New Mappings

What's ahead of Mapping Art ? Mapping is nothing new in digital arts, even if this part of digital creation is only a few years old. First of all, what is mapping ? An enthusiastic Wikipedia contributor said: Video Projection Mapping is an exciting new projection technique that can turn almost any surface into a dynamic video display. Specialized software is used to warp and mask the projected image to make it fit perfectly on irregularly shaped screens. When done right, the end result i...

1024 ARCHITECTURE, "Mad Mappers" of space

  When the architecture world was still using 2D and 3D animation techniquesto represent their projects, Pierre Schneider and François Wunschel were busy reappropriating them for design and analysis, until the moving image itself became their sculptable raw material. Coming from a generation for whom associating ephemeral with perennial is no longer a paradox, these two ex-members of the collective eXYZt—E for energy, T for time—have hardcoded into their DNA the immersi...

ZKM - TRANSMEDIALE Aram Bartholl - Ryoji Ikeda

    At ZKM in Karlsruhe, the exhibition The Global Contemporary recently analysed the effects of globalisation on the world of art while that of the Media Museum, entitled Digital Art Works, addressed the conservation of digital works. The Transmediale Festival in Berlin meanwhile just celebrated its twenty-fifth year of existence with the exhibition in/compatible. Last but not least, Bartholl exhibited at the Dam Gallery and Ryoji Ikeda at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Art and financ...