Art and Urban Practices

Art and Urban Practices: New City-Territories :: 12-13 JUNE 2007 :: VENICE :: aMAZElab via Cola Montano 8, 20159 Milan, Italy :: Ph/Fax +39 02 6071623 :: info[at]amaze.it

aMAZElab proposes an international workshop aimed at students and young artists, along with a study day / conference on the theme of Mediterranean Atlas. Art and Urban Practices. New city-territories. Artists, architects and theorists describe contemporary living and the transformations of six Mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria and Barcelona and Venice. An experimental and multi-disciplinary debate on these six “case study” cities, on contemporary perceptions of the city, as well as on the theme of new territories. Migratory flows of people, cultures and economies. The writing on the walls of contemporary city-territories, open maps with multiple meanings between their emotional, geographical, historical and social layers. Continue reading

Art, Biology and the Environment

Bios 4: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporneo :: Seville 2007 May 3 - September 2 :: curator: Antonio Cerveira Pinto.

A broad view on biotech art, including some of its relations with the human body, nano-entities, environmental issues, artificial life and robots. Open seminar on biotech and environmental art | may 2, 1800 (free entrance) Opening | may 3, 2000 (invitational).

Biotech art is part of the cognitive art vortex. It is actually the real new thing in post-contemporary culture. It is not another modern art melting down of symbolic representation. Post-contemporary art entities are basically cognitive in the way that they need both knowledge to evolve and inteligent perusers to interact. - Antonio Cerveira-Pinto Continue reading

Show of Solidarity

A year ago, the immigration reform movement swept through city centers across the United States in an historic series of marches. Over a million workers and their families took to the streets. This year a second wave of marches has been planned (May Day 2007). Although media outlets frequently focused on Latin American immigrants, the rallies invited all immigrants and their supporters to make their presence known, and many answered the call. After attending that march and being swept in the currents of political change, I began a show of hands.

As a show of hands is still in its early stages, I encourage readers to explore it and to send their feedback. Remember to register for Literatronica (even just as a guest) so the system can best adapt to your reading habits. Literatronica is available to authors who are interested in developing their own literary hypertexts. Readers can see a list of the current selections at the site. Continue reading

CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture

Hi everyone — My name is Andrew Keen and I’m the author of the forthcoming (June 5) CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture. For more about my ideas, see my Internet writing at: CultOfTheAmateur, ZDNet, and Britannica. A blogging critique of blogging, eh. What is the world coming to? Anyway, I’ve been invited by kind Trebor to join your newsgroup and discuss / defend / critique my ideas. Trebor will post my anti Web 2.0 manifesto (aka: Adorno-for-idiots). So that should provide some lite afternoon reading for y’all. All the very best from sunny south-central Berkeley, Andrew. Continue reading

the Forest of Imagined Beginnings

boredomresearchs’ latest web project is now live! Go to Explore the Forest of Imagined Beginnings & leave your thoughts embedded in the trees.

boredomresearch are interested in creating landscape environments online that develop over time, where users can explore and manipulate these environments, creating an individual experience which is both contemplative and rewarding. In the Forest of Imagined Beginnings there are no clear rules or objectives. It is simply an online landscape that is vulnerable to the whims and wants of the community that adopt this digital terrain as their own.

Forest of Imagined Beginnings will be exhibited at enter_unknown territories, International Festival & Conference for New Technology Art, Cambridge UK (25th-29th April). During this festival boredomresearch will be discussing the development of this work in a public presentation on Saturday 28th April. Continue reading

Conference ON/IN Second Life

Borders Boundaries and Liminal Spaces: A conference in the liminal space of Second Life sponsored by Ars Virtua and presented with the New Media Consortium Virtual Worlds. Teleport HERE (instructions are here) you must be a member of the NMC Guests group to use this link, membership is free)

Borders are frequently under contention; they are regions that neatly separate two entities and enable a form of deconstruction. Continue reading

A Symposium

Symposium on “the stakes and the networks of creation at the post-contemporary era” proposed by Abdallah Karroum (The apppartement 22) Morocco, from 25 to 27 Ocober 2007. (Date and place to be confirmed later)

The three principal axes of this symposium will stress on the reflexion on: 1- The practice of art as an act of participation in society. (ecology, politics, economics). How does contemporary forms of creation act and interact in society? 2- The role of the school, is it information or formation? or for providing tools of individual development or the development of the collective memory and social creativity? How to prepare students to the stakes of coperation and to the sharing of knowledge? The “workshop” as an alternative to the traditional school of art?

3- Co-operative networks and the problematic of contemporary creation. Co-operative approach of the cultural action. This window will be a platform of reflexion in order to develop an active method that we will adopt for the 3co_operative Festival of Contemporary Creation”. The question of representation of the aurhor as well as that of the subject and public will be aproached with regards to existing experiences as well as future projects. Continue reading

Call for Articles and Net Art

On-line journal Hz is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Please send your submissions to hz-journal[at]telia.com :: Deadline: 25 May, 2007. Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery. Please send your URLs to hz-journal[at]telia.com.

Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html. Continue reading

Call for Proposals

The second international Opensource: {Videodance} Symposium :: Universal Hall Arts Centre, Findhorn Foundation Community, Morayshire, Scotland :: 21st - 25th November 2007.

Screen dance is a rapidly expanding area of artistic, academic and curatorial activity worldwide. Inherent in screen dance practice is the interface and collaboration between dance artists and media arts practitioners. Opensource: {Videodance} 2007 is an open symposium for video dance-makers and dance artists, academics, curators and producers coming together, to share ideas and work, network and debate, and provide a valuable platform for current issues in the area of screen dance practice to come to the surface.

Building on the strengths of the 2006 event, this symposium expressly aims to place current screen dance practice in a wider theoretical and critical context and to bring people from the collaborating disciplines together in a way that rarely happens, in order to impact significantly and positively on the lives and work of the participating individuals. The vision is to create an exciting and supportive place for people to engage, talk, hang out, relax, think, and listen, and to enable the spontaneous and dynamic unfolding of events. The programme for the four days will be a mixture of pre-arranged presentations and open forums initiated by the participants. Continue reading

Presentations by ITP Graduate Students

Venue: The Change You want to See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer @ Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY 11211 :: L to Bedford o Lorimer, G to Metropolitan, J/M/Z to Marcy :: Hours: 12-5 pm, Saturday, April 28, 2007.

Presentations on the theory & practice of tactical media and contemporary protest art, by graduate students in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the arts.

The presenters’ talks will be grouped into three panels, to be moderated by their Professor, Marisa Olson (Editor & Curator, Rhizome), on the topics of Play & Consumption; Fear, Spectacle, and the Media; and the Interfaces and Architecture of Control. These panels will consist of both artist talks and analytical essays and audience members will be invited to give feedback on a few works in progress. Continue reading