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Xth Sense first prize at Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument competition, US

The Xth Sense [1], has been awarded the first prize at the prestigious Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition [2] as "the world's most innovative new musical instrument." The GNMIC is an annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design, and engineering. It takes place at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US. This critically acclaimed event seeks to provide a fertile platform for the advancement of the studies on New Musical Interfaces for Musical Expressio...

Fabfest, from March 31 to April 3, future is now

FabFest is a poetic expression, with political controversy and digital revolution. Questioning, through the use of digital tools, this world of "permanent present" and then takes a shifted look at our society. For its inaugural edition, FabFest invests Gaite lyric and invites artists, intellectuals and politicians to speak of today's world with today's tools.   Saturday March 30th to Tuesday, April 3rd, at the Gaite Lyrique in Paris, FabFest will lead a ...

From now to 2062, time travel in Gaite Lyrique <video>

From february 1st to March 25, la Gaîté Lyrique invites you to travel in time through 2062. Let's have a look…   ...

Calls for Entry: Experimental Media 2012

You can now submit your work to Washington project for the Arts, as part of Experimental Media 2012. Experimental Media 2012 will program an exhibition of interactive installation works, a video screening program, and a series of workshops.  It explores recent developments in the field of art and technology, including the growth of open source software and hardware, the emergence of grassroots do-it-yourself hacker communities, and the increasing ubiquity of networked devices in daily l...

Digitalarti Mag #8

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 "THE GEOCITIES OF THINGS" The “Post Digital ramblings” by Russell Davies at the Strp festival were very inspiring to me. “We can make our own stuff. We can express ourselves. We can build what my friend Andy Huntington calls “The Geocities of Things”. We can add life and connectivity to the things ...

Launch of The Cube Prize's apply

The Cube Prize 2012 will be awarded for the first time during the Cube Festival to the best creation in digital art by a young artist under age 35. The aim of this Prize is to bring to light, showcase and support the work of an up-and-coming artist from the international digital arts scene. The 2012 Le Cube Prize will be awarded to a digital work of art from the past two years in the following fields: interactivity, generativity, network, internet, mobility. These works must be innovative...

[CALL/APPEL] eContact! 14.3 — Biotechnological / Biotechnologique

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Marco Donnarumma - Music for Flesh II - Interactive performance for enhanced body, 2011 eContact! 14.3 -- Biotechnological Performance Practice eContact! extends an open call for contributions to an issue focussing on the use of the body in electroacoustic performance practice, coordinated by Guest Editor Marco Donnarumma. Performers, composers and others are encouraged to contribute their perspectives on the role or position of the body in experimental practices of mu...

Body and Technological Mediation: Performances, workshops and talks in Mexico DF, Seoul, Newcastle and Madrid

  Upcoming performances, workshops, talks and a call for papers: http://marcodonnarumma.com/next/october2011/ ...

CFC Media Lab at the Bata Shoe Museum

For "Technological Displacement", exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum on October 1st, CFC Media Lab brings out apps and popular technology consoles. Fourteen artists, producers & contributors from the latest installment of CFC Media Lab's TELUS Intercative Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) will invite public to explore and play in a collaborative way. This will be part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto. Technological Displacement invites the audience to re-...

Origination and Metacreation: a conversation with Ben Bogart

  [Output from Dreaming Machine #1, Ben Bogart]     Dear all, it's with great pleasure that I share with you this piece. I had an inspiring, in-depth conversation with artist and fellow Pd'er Ben Bogart over the last months, and this is the result: http://vagueterrain.net/content/2011/09/origination-and-metacreation-conversation-ben-bogart Tags: MAM, creativity, machine imagination, innovation+open source, techno-cultural met...

Hybrid Learning Materials

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This project is about developing and evaluating  the next generation of hybrid learning materials, by creating  a toolbox of Digital Manipulatives / Tangible Interfaces consisting of low cost materials, commonly used at preschool, such as paper and cardboard embedded with sensors. Children (5-6 years old) can use the materials to build their own interactive interfaces, thus exploring, simulating, and creating knowledge in an active way, being the centre of the learning process, engaging them...

Xth Sense - workshop biophysical generation and control of music - London

Xth Sense – biophysical generation and control of music Hands-on training in augmentation of the body for musical performance. Creating your own low cost biosensing wearable device for muscle sounds. See an Xth Sense performance at http://vimeo.com/20889787 Xth Sense: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/ http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/ What The workshop offers an hands-on experience ...

CONNECTED COMMUNITIES Symposium

CONNECTED COMMUNITIES Symposium Culture Lab Newcastle, UK — 12-14th September 2011 Culture Lab Newcastle is hosting an international interdisciplinary event open to the general public, on the topic of “connected communities”. This symposium includes talks and projects from theorists and practitioners alike. Registration is now open: http://side-creative.ncl.ac.uk/communities/symposium11/registrations/ TOPIC "In an era where digital technologies have supported transnational ...

Making music with muscles - Interview on Weave Interaction Design

Recently I've been interviewed for a printed issue of Weave, a German interaction design magazine. The article is about the Xth Sense framework (http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/); my idea of a biophysical music, its development, etc... Some issues about technology and interactivity were raised at som...

Raw/Roar - Intermedia dance piece for enhanced bodies - DK

The Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance  Supported by The Danish Arts Council and Augustinus Fonden  presents: ::::::: Host Guest Ghost, final event :::::::: Sunday 5th June 11.00 h Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, DK. ~ HGG is a series of artistic residencies. The project aim at fostering experimental approaches to dance, theatre and interactive technologies while forming emerging, talented ch...

LABtoLAB from 8th to 10th June

PING presents LABtoLAB, three days of meetings, workshops, concerts and performances from 8th to 10th June in Nantes. This festival aims to be a think tank as much as a recreational and a friendly moment; it will host professional meetings as well as more mass audience knowledge-sharing (device demonstrations, initiative presentations and workshops). The LAB nights will be the occasion for happy hour mixes, performances and gigs, with HP Process, Benjamin Cadon & Philippe Coudert, Di...

LABtoLAB@Nantes, laboratory for digital cultures

From June 8th to 10th, 2011, PiNG invites you to participate in 3 days of international meeting, workshops, performances and concerts about digital creation, for professionals and for a large audience. This event is part of the project LABtoLAB, a serie of meetings that took place in 2009 and 2011 between several European media labs. The programme of these three days of international gathering is articulated between: + [LABtoLAB meetings] mornings are open, upon registrati...

Music for Flesh II @ Linux Audio Conference 2011

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Briefly to mention I’ll be playing Music for Flesh II tonight at the Linux Audio Conference in the section Electro-acoustic concerts.   Concerts starts at 7pm.   Music for Flesh II is a solo sonic piece for augmented muscles sounds. It aims at demonstrating an experimental coupling between theatrical gesture and biophysical generation and control of music. Based on the Xth Sense wearable technology (open source and DIY based). I’ll also give a relat...

Pixelache, Helsinki, 2011

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Juha Huuskonen founded Pixelache in Helsinki in 2002. Since then, a truly international network has emerged around it. The curator, Mathieu Marguerin along with Kevin Bartoli, one of the members of the RYbN group, have prepared the French version, Mal au Pixel, which will take place in Paris next June. But lets first return to the latest edition of the Finnish festival, which was held primarily on the Suomenlinna Islands in March 2011. Cartography and territories Strange shapes appea...

(Un)Limited Design Contest

    FabLab Squared and Mag/Lab organize the first open design contest, during next Futur en Seine: (Un)Limited Design Contest.fr. It's based on two key concepts: open design and digital creation. The deadline for submission is May 29th; 4 finalists will be choosen to exhibe their projects in Futur en Seine from June 17th to 26th, then a final winner will be selected by the jury. More details and submission here.      ...

Call for Expression of Interests - Connected Communities Symposium

Culture Lab Newcastle is looking for some expressions of interests for talks and projects to exhibit in an international and open event about Connected Communities. The symposium will take place from 12th to 14th of September 2011, and the deadline for submission is 19th May. Find all the details about topics to approach and contacts here ...

Light Space Modulators

A solo exhibition by HC Gilje (NO) Conversations with Light, Sound and Architecture Opening April 29, 18:00-23:00 April 29 - May 22, 2011 iMAL, Brussels  HC Gilje spent more than 10 years developing a unique approach to the intersection between visual art, performance art, and live improvisation. HC Gilje is most certainly a digital artist: his main instrument is the computer and he has developed his own software, as is typical in this digital world when one wants to fre...

openLAB Exhibition

                    This second edition of openLAB, a workshop led this year by HC Gilje (NO), will see the projects of 13 artists who worked during an intensive week on the theme Projection on forms and spaces. Participating artist are: Hallveig Agustsdottir (IS), Quentin Gubin (BE), Sabrina Harri (Fi) + Alexia de Ville de Goyet (BE) (Harri de Ville), Thanasis Kanakis + Efi Kontogeorgou (GR/DE), MP...

Marco Donnarumma Live Media Concert I C::ntr::l Nature at Screenplay

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I C::ntr::l Nature v3.0Audiovisual concert for augmented bass guitar, Xth Sense biosensing technology and butterflyby Marco Donnarumma.http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/Saturday 9th Aprilh. 19.00Panoramasaal, .CHB, Berlinhttp://chb.screenplaynights.com/en/av-night/programm/Panel discussions, performances and installations by Mia Makela, Pierce Warnecke, Yroyto, Olga Mink, Abstract Birds, Servando Barreiro among the others.SCREENPLAY represents contemporary audiovisual art with sp...

Workshop: Xth Sense Biophysical Music at NK Berlin

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WhatThe workshop offers an hands-on experience and both theoretical and practical training in gestural control of music and bodily musical performance, deploying the brand-new biosensing technology Xth Sense. Developed by the workshop teacher Marco Donnarumma within a research project at The University of Edinburgh, Xth Sense is a framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music.It consists of a low cost, DIY biosensing wearable device and an...

Xth Sense, Biophysical generation and control of music [at] Imagine Create Festival

  /// Xth Sense.The Xth Sense is a low cost, Open Source-based framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music (or more generally for responsive milieux). The framework includes a low cost biosensing wearable device, and a modular DSP software (Pure Data-based) for real time capture, analysis and design with muscle sounds.Marco Donnarumma will be reporting on the methods used during the research, present findings, issues, and perspective o...

MCD's Conference: Media Labs in Europe

First MCD's Conference @ La Gaîté Lyrique: Media Labs in Europe   On the occasion of MCD#62's release about “Media Labs in Europe”, MCD invites you to a conference on a curious (and semantic) mapping of media labs in Europe, led by Catherine Lenoble (PiNG), with Benjamin Cadon (Labomedia), Agnes Lefoulgoc (CRAS – Mains d'Œuvres), Ewen Chardronnet (artist –researcher), Philippe Langlois (tmp/lab) and Anne-Cécile Worms (MCD). > direct broadcast on digital...

Who we are

 i/o/lab– Center for future arts aims to promote technological based art in any field, locally andinternationally. i/o/lab will be an interdisciplinary resource anda resource center for artists that explores and comments on technology, scienceand social context. i/o/lab to offer including dissemination and capacitybuilding through a range of educational initiatives and externally orientedactivities.www.iolab.no  FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:Art Production and projectsi/o/lab highest priority ...

MCD #62 MEDIA LABS IN EUROPE

The new MCD issue out now! LAB SWEET LAB Whether you were born into the networks or simply are interested in digital creation, nowadays there are places and communities where you can learn, create and share knowledge. These laboratories (labs) are mediation spaces dedicated to practice, expression and creation as much as critical commitment on the role of technology in art and society. Individual users, artists, engineers, researchers and designers go there to research and pro...

Program NK March 2011

Workshops Sonic Shuffle with Domenico Sciajno March 21, 23, & 24 2011 Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined: ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO: March 25th Concerts March 2011 @ NK Saturday March 19th John Duncan/ Robert Piotrowicz/ Domenico Sciajno/ Valerio Tricoli/ Ursula Scherrer Friday March 25th Arrington de Dionyso / Kakawaka Sunday March 27th  Asmus Tietchens + DJ Zipo More info www.nkprojekt.de...

We need to survive, this is our main goal

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Hi there,  This site is so complicated; we're used to deal with GOPHER, TELNET or HTTP 1.0 Transitional sites...   we at Freaknet Medialab have to deal with short time in our life, short money, a lot of work to do every day; we're sparse in the entire world, working on so many projects; some of us are in Sicilia, Italy, dealing against the local Municipalty trying to explain them what we are and where we want to go with: for example, our Computer Museum project (http://m...

Non-Bio Boom Premiere - Musicircus for Xth Sense Biosensing Wearable Tech

Dear all,I'm glad to inform you about this event.At the moment I'm artist in residence at Inspace, Edinburgh, developing a site specific, multichannel and participatory work for 10 biosensing wearable devices (Xth Sense).The piece will be premiered tomorrow Tuesday along with my other work for biosensing device Music for Flesh II; further info below.~~~Inspace is a laboratory that explores the cultural significance of informatics and new media practice.Inspace is home to a joint research partner...

Hackathon

April 8-9 Hackathon Eindhoven where creative exploration of online sensor data and streams is combined with environment control and mashups of public data. 24 hour challenge to produce another few bricks for the connected world. Free after registration, open walk in, food and drinks on open contribution. Bring your API...  http://www.madlab.nl  ...

about iMAL

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About iMAL A short history iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), is a non-profit association created in Brussels in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using computer and network technologies as their medium. In 2007, iMAL opened its new venue: a Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology of about 600m2 for the meeting of artistic, scientific and industrial innovations. A space entirely dedicated to contemporary artistic and cultural practices eme...

Live Media Updates February 2011

Read it here: http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/feb11/index.html Issue #23: news, articles, calls and events around open source culture, sonic research, new media art and shared knowledge. Tags: festival, piksel report, sonification, xth sense, biosensing wearable technology, censorship, wearable DIY, scotland Pure Data User Group, workshops, LAC2011, data visualization. + upcoming 2011 events.             ...

labtolab, a network initiative

        PING, a french association dedicated to research and innovation, initiate LABtoLAB, a network of media labs that aims to create a platform for: * sharing experiences and ways of doing; * studying specific cases; * exploring the role of the lab in offering spaces for collaborative learning and knowledge exchange; * examining the possibilities of life-long learning in the context of the lab. From 2009 to 2011, meetings, workshops an...
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