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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ENIGMA

Eduardo Kac The central work in the "Natural History of the Enigma" series is a plantimal, a new life form I created and that I call "Edunia", a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia. The Edunia expresses my DNA exclusively in its red veins. Developed between 2003 and 2008, and first exhibited from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum [1], in Minneapolis, "Natural History of the Enigma" also encompass...

Bill Vorn

Born and living in Montreal, Bill Vorn is active in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation and performance projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research and creation on Artificial Life and Agent Technologies through artistic work based on the Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Communication Studies from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis on Artificial Life as a Media. He teaches E...

The Angel of History, by Dominique Moulon

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According to Benjamin Weil, the principal curator of Laboral, the Feedforward exhibition is just a “sequel” to Feedback, the inaugural exhibition of the Centre for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijon, Spain. Its organisation was entrusted to Christiane Paul, one of the curators of the Whitney Museum in New York, and to Steve Dietz, the artistic director of the Zero1 biennale of San José, California. The exhibition’s subtitle, “The Angel of History” is making a reference to an essay...

HORSLITS PERFORMANCES

Le Jeudi 11 mars et vendredi 12 mars 2010 19h45 rdv devant la mairie de Montreuil, Métro Mairie de Montreuil Pourquoi? Pour rassembler 4 artistes autour d'une intimité. Créer ... Comment? Le principe est simple : 4 performances vous sont proposées dans des appartements, autour d'un lit ou pas, chez un particulier. Un rendez-vous à un endroit précis vous est proposé. La jauge étant restreinte à 20 personnes, la réservation est obligatoire. Ces 4 lieux se situent dans un même quart...

ACM Multimedia 2010 - Call for Art Works and Papers, Interactive Art Program

Deadline for Long paper abstract submission: March 21st, 2010 http://www.acmmm10.org/ October 25-29th 2010 - Firenze, Italy ACM Multimedia 2010 organizes the 7th edition of the Interactive Art Program that will consist of an Art Exhibition and a Conference track. Multimedia Art Exhibition: we seek artworks that use multimedia to explore psycho-physical color phenomena, resulting in challenging and rewarding intellectual and experiential spaces. Algorithmic generation, filtering, and reco...

Feedforward exhibition

Feedforward @ LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre (Gijon/Spain) The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces—largely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies—inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title references Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus, which Walter Benjamin famously interpreted as an “angel of history” transfixed ...

DORKBOT : HYBRIDATION

La Générale Nord Est et son Labo Libre invitent DORKBOT  PARIS Date: Jeudi 11 mars Lieu: La Générale, 14 avenue Parmentier, 75011 Paris, Métro Voltaire. entrée libre. 18h30 : ouverture des portes A partir de 19h:  Jean-Baptiste Labrune présente le workshop qu'il a conduit à l'ENSAD en février en collaboration avec Dana Gordon, Leah Buckley et Kelly Dobson (MIT Media lab). puis jusque vers 21h30, les équipes du projet "hybrid materials" de l'ENSAD vous proposer...

Le MCD 57 est disponible!

MCD #57Le nouveau numéro de MCD de mars-avril est disponible!Dans ce muméro : EDUARDO KACBEN NEILLPANTHA DU PRINCECLARA MOTOLINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE[THE USER]DR.FLOY - SUMATHICOMPUTER MUSIC, le grand jeu des softwaresART NUMÉRIQUE, le rôle du marché de l'art…LUX, scène nationale de Valence...En vente, 3€, sur http://shop.digitalmcd.com/ ...

ONLY VJING @ BATOFAR

Le mardi 09, à la Cantine du Batofar, Yarkk et Milie volt du Pole-expe vj crew seront à l'ecran. Pour les accompagner, Neliointhemix, Lyes et dj Ushde. www.myspace.com/pole-expe ...

RIAM 07 LOW-TECH

Technè presents RIAM 07 LOW-TECH 25 february to 6 march 2010 - Marseille http://www.riam.info/07/ | wednesday 3th of march in Daki Ling at 7:00 pm 45A rue d’Aubagne 13001 Marseille Artkillart • Presented by Kevin Bartoli, one of the label founders CHDH (Artkillart), “Vivarium” • A/V performance Prices : 4 € + 2€ membership card to Daki Ling + informations http://www.riam.info/07/mercredi-03-mars.html | saturday 6th of march in Petit Théâtre de la Friche de la Be...

The ESTATES GenerOUs of VIDEO ART

LES INSTANTS VIDEO Numériques et poétiques are preparing The ESTATES GenerOUs of VIDEO ART 2013 - 50th anniversary of video art In 1963, Nam June Paik made a founding act, with the exhibition of thirteen distorted TV sets (Music/Electronic Television) in the gallery Parnass in Wuppertal, Germany We will celebrate the event by organising the Estates GenerOUs of Video Art Where does video art come from ? What about video art today ? Where is video art going ? 2013 - Marseille - E...

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, par George Gessert

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen's hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, includin...

Brian Mackern: Audiovisual Concert

5 March 2010, 20:30 @ iMAL Brian Mackern (*1962, Uruguay) is preoccupied with interface-design, random processes, soundtoys, real-time-video-animations, net- and soundart. His work has been presented all over the globe and won many awards. Mackern investigates the potential of new ways of structuring and combining images and sound. He developed interactive interfaces that allow him to create audio-visual compositions in countless variations. Appropriated film footage (from directors such ...

Art in the age of pervasive data

Deadline: Abstracts due 1 June 2010

 Art in the age of pervasive data is a call for papers and artworks for a new issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac edited by FutureEverything. 

This issue of LEA will seek cross disciplinary thinking on art in the age of pervasive data. 

 LEA is soliciting texts and artworks by artists, researchers, and scholars involved in the exploration of themes including:

 The networked city
 Data visualisation
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HORS D'OEUVRE / SHANGHAI (CHINE)

VIDEOFORMES ON TOUR 12/03 > 18H The young Première Exposition Internationale de Vidéo à Baoshan festival calls upon Videoformes to present a selection of videos.  Patrick Bergeron (Canada) - Robert Croma (UK) - Clorinde Durand (France) - Mihai Grecu (France) - Vicent Gisbert Soler (Espagne) - Max Hattler (UK) - Maix Mayer (Allemagne) - HeeWon Navi Lee (France) - Lorenzo Oggiano (Italie) - Reynold Reynolds (USA) - Vladimir Todorovic (Singapour) - François Vogel (France) ...

Call for entries « RÉSEAUX DE VEILLE » – WORKSHOP

Bandits-Mages send out an invitation for the opening of the Plateforme des Arts Médiatiques (Media Arts Platform) and its first workshop about networks and their practices. Deadline : february, the 15th 2010. Dates : March, from the 3rd to the 5th 2010 Place : le Haïdouc, Bandits-Mages, Friche Culturelle l'Antre-peaux, Bourges Inscriptions / Participation : The workshop is open to art student, artists, researcher, practitioner, and to public. The entry is free and the number of en...

MMIX by nicolas clauss

Coproduction L'espal MMIX* is a timeless work in four interactive tableaus, where each visitor is invited to follow with his eyes and ears what his mouse gestures reveal. At each caress, sound and visual elements get randomly muddled up on the screen creating always new combinations. A work travelling between real and surreal, dream and mind, rage and fright, where humour and drama are cruelly mixed to suggest the sad patterns of our contemporary reality. These works are part ...

living wall

Run your hand across this wallpaper to turn on a lamp, play music, or control your toaster. This interactive wallpaper can be programmed to monitor its environment and control other electronic devices, serving as a beautiful and unobtrusive way to enrich environments with computation. The wallpaper is flat, constructed entirely from paper and paint and can be paired with our paper computing kit whose pieces serve as sensors, lamps, network interfaces, and interactive decorations. ht...

VIRAGE Public Presentation

iMAL - interactive Media Art Laboratory vendredi 19 février 2010, à 10:00 A research project on authoring and controlling interactive scenarios for music, performing and installation art Presentations * Demo * Workshop * Performances * Exhibition ------------------------------------------------------- with Yannick Antoine, Pascale Barret, Laura Colmenares, Yacine Sebti (chantiers iMAL), Renaud Rubiano, Georges Gagnerez, Loïs Drouglazet (didascalie.net), Mathieu Chamagne, Charles...

PRAIRIE CALMEL

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mardi 8 juin 2010, à 19:00 la java 105 Rue du Faubourg du Temple Paris, France Prairie et Lucille Calmel improvisent en noise/drone/textes aux mélodies cachées. +anne-james chaton, jerome game, jmichel espitallier, chloé delaume. Like a trailer for an improvised soundtrack, of burning cars and incidental echoes of motel rooms, like voices, spoken, whispered, distorted. Like impressions, a drive-by shooting, like accidents, like a vague souvenir of something you’...
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