I am writing to you as I am researching content for the constitution of a film and reading library which will be permanently installed in the reading area (which is presently being set up) at Gasworks, London, and will be available as far as possible, as an online linked bibliography or resource.

This initiative stems from Disclosures, “http://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344“, a project exploring the extent to which Open Source methodologies find applications in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. Continue reading

Exploded Views, Remapping Florence by Marnix De Nijs :: 15th May - 8th June 2008 :: Daily from 10.00 - 20.00 :: Thursday 10.00 – 23.00 :: Monday closed :: CCCS, Strozzina Contemporary Culture Center Florence Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (Italy) :: Phone: +39 055 2776461 :: Fax: +39 055 2646560 :: Contact: Franziska Nori : f.nori@fondazionepalazzostrozzi.it.

It’s dark, you step onto a treadmill, start running, and see Florence by night spread out before you. Deserted and wonderful: as you have never seen it before. As the mood takes you let it totally absorb you. Continue reading

As Naples garbage piled up higher and higher, stinky art does money talk :: Join aglio bidding :: May 16 - June 30, 2008.

AglioMania (GarlicMania) refers to TulipoMania that took place in early 17th century Netherlands. During that time, tulip bulbs were traded for enormous prices and eventually crashed, thus the term bubble economy. AglioMania re-enacts the maniac trading phenomena with garlic produced in Italy during the 6 weeks of the “Enterprise of Art” exhibition at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. Continue reading

Eddo Stern ‘Darkgame’ :: An interactive computer game :: 18 May 2008 :: Edith Russ Site for Media Art :: Katharinenstrasse 23, D-26121, Oldenburg :: Tel: +49 (0)441/235-3208 :: In Darkgame, a computer game, Eddo Stern has developed a game context in which the players are deprived of several of their senses. Special accessories allow players in Darkgame to act using only one sense: seeing, hearing or touching – constraints that can represent both advantages and drawbacks. By manipulating the scope of sensory immersion and multiplayer interaction, Darkgame is carefully designed to accommodate sighted and hearing players as well as deaf and/or blind players in the same virtual game world.  Through accessible yet balanced game design, Darkgame  challenges and experiments with the commercially established range of computer game genres.   

IMMEDIATE ART :: The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk (PL) and curator Kasia Wozniak are happy to present the IMMEDIATE ART project: the IMMEDIATE ART project concerns a wide range of phenomena that deal with the modern mutual relationships between arts and new technologies. Our aim is to build a panorama of these artistic phenomena and offer an event dealing with these issues in an integral form and wide thematic scope.IMMEDIATE ART is a series of lectures given by the eminent theoreticians. In parallel to the above mentioned lectures, the invited artists will present their works, discuss the interconnectedness of art and technology and will talk about their art from the point of view of the latest technological changes. We are deeply convinced that these two complementary cycles will provide the public with an in-depth panorama of the fascinating phenomena in the body of New Media Art. Continue reading

Conflux 2008 is open for business and accepting submissions. They have a stellar list of curators for this year’s festival who are looking forward to reviewing everything you send their way. Please go to the submissions tab on their site and follow the directions there to send them your proposal. A quick word on the $5 application fee—obviously they’d rather not charge this and they try and keep Conflux as cheap as possible (it’s mostly free) but to be fair, the costs of development work and putting on this festival aren’t cheap by any stretch! They think it’s reasonable, but feel free to reach out to them if you have any serious concern. Continue reading

V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media (NL): Call for proposals artist in residence :: 3D and Visual Aspects of Mixed/Augmented Realities :: Deadline for proposals: May 22, 2008 :: Project manager: Jan Misker, jan@v2.nl, +31 (0)10-2067273

As part of the ‘Better than Reality’ project V2_Lab will host an artist in residence focusing on 3D and various other visual aspects within the topic of Augmented Reality environments. This residency will take place in the summer of 2008. Continue reading

Welcome to the inaugural edition of : Wi: Journal of Mobile Media (formerly known as Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network) addresses the latest in international scholarship, artistic productions and design research on mobility, wireless technologies, and digital media. The theme of this first issue, “Pedestrian Traffic,” reaffirms the centrality of mobilities research and practice to the journal.

This issue brings together international artists and researchers, whose work contributes, in varying forms, to the theme of ‘pedestrian traffic.’ As the pieces in this issue demonstrate, pedestrian traffic is inherently multifarious both in theory and practice, and in the technical and non-technical possibilities it yields. Continue reading

Transmission Asia-Pacific (TX-AP): Media Activists from the Asia Pacific gather in Indonesia. Video makers, media activists, software developers and artists from 15 countries across the Asia-Pacific will be gathering in Sukabumi, West Java from May 19-25 for an online video skills camp. The goal of the camp is to bring together open source software programmers, video makers and media activists to develop the strategic use of online video distribution for social justice and media democracy. Continue reading

El Lissitzky’s proposal for a street decoration in Vitebsk

IMAGINARY PROPERTY :: Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht

Imaginary Property, a new research project of the Design department, initiated by Florian Schneider, aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. The project is set up as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. It is a laboratory where emerging concepts and terminologies are set to a series of tests. Continue reading