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.
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Dear all,
hoping it might be of interest, I'm writing to forward the info related to the Xth Sense (XS) Summer Workshops.
The XS is a free and open biophysical technology.
It was recently named the "world's most innovative new musical instrument" by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US).
Courses are taking place worldwide, below detailed info and how to get involved.
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Xth Sense - Sonic Body and Biophysical Music
http://marcod...
Kadâmbini, audiovisual and cinema show by Iduun
A club placed there, in the middle of nowhere. Kadâmbini, handlebar mustache and aviator glasses screwed on his head, is ready for the most incredible journey of his life : a journey mode of nonsense, absurdity and manipulation, built of loops, lights and reversed situations.
Kadâmbini is a collaboration of the four creative artist of Iduun: Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff, director, Philippe Chaurand, IHM ingineer, Alex...
RETHINK
It comes as no surprise that the festival's Congress is dedicated to
the 25th anniversary of EMAF this year. Media theoretician and
Director of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Peter Weibel and Swiss
media philosopher Gerhard Johann Lischka have been invited to present
their positions on the development of Media Art and its future in two
key lectures.
Kathy Rae Huffman will introduce the diverse range of network projects
presented and organised over the years at E...
**FRENCH BELOW
DIMANCHE ROUGE #15
Experimental Performances
@ DIVAN DU MONDE, 15 April 2012, 4pm-midnight
Multimedia, dance, video, sound, performance art, spoken word, installations
FREE ADMISSION
For its 15th edition, Dimanche Rouge invites you to discover an evening of experimental performances and
a DJ after-party on Sunday, April 15th, from 4pm till midnight. We are
thrilled to announce that the 15th edition of Dimanche Rouge will be
held at DIVAN DU ...
Brother Islands: Expanded documentary media art by Benton-C BainbridgeEvent Type:
exhibition
Start Date:
Mar 20, 2012 - Apr 28, 2012
Hours:
Open Hours: Tues. - Sat., 12:00PM-6:00PM
http://eyebeam.org/events/window-gallery-brother-islands
Half a century since its abandonment, North Brother Island fades from New York City's map as nature swallows this one block square ...
Lumiaks (Angie Eng/ Sofi Hémon) present a short demo of a work in progress, "Erglines". Project in residence at Maison Pop and Harvestworks
San Francisco composer Cheryl Leonard joins them.
March 30th 8:30pm
Maison Populaire
9bis rue Dombasle
Montreuil
Directions
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MCD #66 Writing machines
English / French, 132 pages, 9€ > Buy it online !
EDITO by Anne-Cécile Worms
New machines / new forms of writing
In December 2010, at the ZKM, a robot copied the Bible on rolls of paper, using a fountain pen to write Gothic letters, complete with decorative capitals at the beginning of each chapter, day and night. This installation by the collective Robotlab entitled bios [bible], is a very impressive writing machine*.
Indeed, the history of writing ...
Post Digital Art, the third International Computer Art Congress (CAC.3), will take place at Le Centquatre in Paris, from November 26 to 28, 2012. CAC.3 programs conference, workshops, exhibitions & performances.
Call for papers, art, installations and workshops, deadline for submissions: June 4th, 2012:
Researchers, artists, engineers and thought leaders are invited to present a paper on subjects including - but not limited to: Algorithmic Art, ASCII Art, Bio Art, Computer Graphi...
Invitation for proposals for the first Cyberformance Symposium [CyPosium], organised by UpStage.
Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing body of live
performance that is situated online. These events differ enormously in
form and content, are described with multiple terms (such as
cyberformance, remote performance, internet theatre, screen stage,
computer-mediated performance), are staged in a variety of online
environments (such as text-based and graphical chat ro...
VDREY presents for 2012 her new performance entitled "White
Blood Cells".
This multi-artistic performance uses
several field such as live painting, video, dance, live music,
improvisation.
After performed in Europe since several years
with these other performances, she is back with this new project
original standing out clearly from the previous work.
Small video extract (low quality)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19914464
Biographies:
VDREY:
VDREY
i...
How to instil a timeless dimension, intrinsic to art, into one’s own work, and question at the same time scientific advances of one’s era? How to seduce conquistador-collectors in the North Pole, investors in China or Europe, with a critical eye on the alienation of our ways of life tied to the development of new technologies? How to teach the art and science correlation at the Sorbonne and prepare an exhibition at the far ends of Ural and Siberia?
Olga Kisseleva’s artwork...
"There will be no web 3.0 after the web 2.0", explain Francis Pisani and Dominique Piotet in the second edition of their book, "Comment le Web change le monde?" (how is the Web changing the world?). Both authors, an analyst in Silicon Valley and an independent journalist based for a long time in California, favour the term "Web Métis" (Hybrid Web), a combination of technologies and new uses. On the occasion of the conference "Du web 2.0 au web mé...
[Wat?], abbreviation of "Who Are They?, We Are Trafik, Who Are Trafik?" is the title of the latest solo exhibition by the Trafik collective(1). [Trafik] of signs, letters, paper, pictograms, typographies, pixels, fonts, colours, LED(2), the graphic design agency, set up in Lyon at the end of the 1990s, is asserting its style and circulating the light between New York, Rennes and Taipei. Responding to the rigorous constraints of traditional graphic design, its creative proposal...
This year, the TodaysArt of The Hague and Cimatics of Brussels festivals fused and so last September, TodaysArt Brussels set itself up in several places around the city. The Almost Cinema and STRP festivals on the other hand, which took place respectively in October and November, remained in their regular spots: the Vooruit Theatre in Ghent and the Eindhoven Strijp quarter.
TodaysArt
What could be more impersonal than a station when they more or less all look like one another, and when one on...
This year, the TodaysArt of The Hague and Cimatics of Brussels festivals fused and so last September, TodaysArt Brussels set itself up in several places around the city. The Almost Cinema and STRP festivals on the other hand, which took place respectively in October and November, remained in their regular spots: the Vooruit Theatre in Ghent and the Eindhoven Strijp quarter.
TodaysArt
What could be more impersonal than a station when they more or less all look like one another, and...
I met Wayne Ashley, the Founding Artistic Director of FuturePerfect, in Montreal, at Elektra Festival, when his project was just beginning in New York. FuturePerfect now is a performance, media, visual art and technology platform. They commission, produce, and present new work, offer residencies, talks, education, and opportunities for touring. Interview.
How was FuturePerfect born? What is the philosophy of the project?
The name FuturePerfect refers to the future perfe...
Musiques & Recherches lauches its seventh biennal competition for acousmatic competition, Metamorphoses.
There are two categories of participants:
- Category A open to composers born in 1984 and after, as well as composition students (proving such quality). There is no registration fee for A category.
- Category B open to composers born in 1963 and after. Registration fee for category B amounts to 16 € for each participant
All details about the competition and the prizes ...
DIGITAL AFRICA
Digital Creation and Innovations in Africa
Bilingual Book (French/English) - Publication date: March 2013 - Publisher: MCD.
Digital Africa is a bilingual paper book published by the MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales) magazine in Paris, which presents a selection of African productions linking artistic creation to digital technologies. It was instigated by Karen Dermineur (guest Editor-in-Chief).
This publication provides an insightful view on a subject mat...
Streaming Museum, an international public art and online museum and a Digitalarti partner, will celebrate its fourth anniversary on January 31 with the US premiere of “Emotion Forecast” and “Occupy Wall Screens", real-time artworks by the renowned French artist Maurice Benayoun. The exhibition will be on view for one month at Big Screen Plaza in New York City and through 2012 at StreamingMuseum.org.
The opening reception will take place from 6 to 8 pm on January 31 at the...
