WRO 2011 Awards   On the night of 14th May Piotr Krajewski, the artistic director of WRO announced the awards of the 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011:Alternative Now. In consistence with the motto Alternative Now we have also decided to be alternative in relation to our own tradition, and for the first time ever we have not selected a jury. With due respect to the WRO history, in consistence with its present being and caring for its future – we have decided to bestow thr...

We met  Venzha Christ, le founder of the laboratory HONF in yojakarta few years ago during Club auto, an experimental research group around Gerard Couty. 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 peopl...

The majority of the lights intorduced on our website can be seen in our showroom (almost 600 products). The lamps are made in our European centre, in a Hungarian manufactory.Every piece of our lamps is made of brass.Their finish was thoughtfully crafted as a jewel -from casting to the assemblage.That is why every piece is unique. Our lamps are exclusively made of brass, glass and crystal, we do not use plastic components.We produce more than 1000 lamps with an endless variation of possibilities ...

The Gala evening took place this year inside the Tabakfabrik where most of the Ars Electronica festival is taking place.  The gala evening was co-hosted by Christine Schopf co-director Ars Electronica and Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Artistic Director. They were helped by Asimo. All Golden Nicas where awareded to the winning teams. See detailed list of Golden Nicas awards and honorary mentions here. ...

The Ars Electronica awards, the Golden Nicas, were awarded during the Ars Electronica Gala, September 3 at the Tabakfabrik.The list of Golden Nicas awards: COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFXNuit BlancheArev Manoukian (CA)http://www.arev.ca DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ARTrheo: 5 horizonsRyoichi Kurokawa (JP)http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com HYBRID ARTEar on ArmStelarc (AU)http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/projects/earonarm/index.html INTERACTIVE ARTThe E...

    The 2nd edition of the international workshop in interactive media and cultural heritage ended. Here some photos of the program and exhibit at the underground Rieti Roman town 400b.c.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11277772@N00/sets/72157624483173355/ detailed program: http://www.mediars.eu/share/Calendario_workshop2010_mediars.pdf   The participant artists: We arrived to the Mediars workshop for a two week course. Three of us com...

Pascale received award of the Banff New Media Institute program, Interactive Screen 1.0 : Beautiful Lives (14-20th August 2010). a very intensive, productive program and work closely with program curator Daniel Canty and 3 Peer Advisors : Tony Allard, Kate Hartman and Jan-Christoph Zoels.   ...

On 30th JUNE 2010 there will be a deadline for submissions for Live2011.com Grand Prix arranged by next years European Capital of Culture, Turku in Finland. We have several categories for different kind of work starting from traditional digital art pieces and installations to projects combining art and technology together. Also art created through social media or even social media applications promoting Arts and culture can participate. You can find the information on the c...

ZER01 would like to congratulate two amazing recipients of the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowships for 2010, Amy Franceschini and Monica Haller. We are extremely happy for them and excited that both Franceschini and Haller will be in the 2010 01SJ Biennial! This fellowship is known for being given to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Amy Franceschini received the fellowship wit...

The 2009 Prix Ars Electronica received 3,017 entries from 68 countries. Since the start of the awards more than 42.000 projects were received by the festival. The envclosed cartography shows the leading categories for the works submited.   The Golden Nicas 09: COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFX HA‘Aki Iriz Pääbo (SE/CA) / National Film Board of Canada www.nfb.ca/haaki “HA‘Aki” is an expressionistic   DIGITAL MUSICS ...