paraflows08 - festival for digital arts and cultures :: The topic of the 3rd festival for digital arts and cultures in the city of Vienna is UTOPIA.

UTOPIA: The term utopia, ‘the non-place’, derived from old Greek ‘u-‘, non, and ‘tópos’, place, denotes a ‘nowhere’ which is untraceable and therefore projecting all longing into an unreachable beyond. Utopia is therefore an imagination which is thinkable as an idea, yet is not directly realisable. It is the great dream, concept, and vision of a world or a time with a new social, religious or technical order.

UTOPIA can be traced back to the book ‘De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque nova insula Utopia Libellus vere aureaus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus (Of the best state law and of the new island Utopia, truly a golden booklet, as pleasant as it is cheerful)’ by Thomas Morus which was first published in 1516. Continue reading

HDTV Converter - Images created or edited in photo editors, such as Photoshop®, images created from camera RAW files, and images created with film scanners can not be displayed by photo players. The HDTV Converter changes these images into a DCF compliant format.

The HDTV Converter converts JPG, TIFF, PNG, PCT, and PICT images into one of three formats: (1) High quality HDTV 16:9 aspect-ratio, 1920×1080 pixel, DCF compliant format. (2) Original aspect-ratio images in letterboxed HDTV, 1920×1080 pixel, DCF compliant format. (3) Original aspect-ratio, 1080 pixels high, DCF compliant format. Continue reading

tinynoise :: TALKS in BETHANIEN, BERLIN :: May 11;  16h  @ HACKfemEAST exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien :: Mariannenplatz 2 - 10997 Berlin, Germany.

HACKfemEAST is an exhibition about women, technology and networks in Eastern Europe. The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. Main protagonists are women or projects in which women play an important role. Aim of the project is to provide and to develop a network platform. This is achieved through five elements: the exhibition, the opening event, two days of conferences, a publication in newspaper format and a website. Continue reading

My [public] space :: May 24 –- June 21, 2008 :: Opening May 23, 5:00 p.m. :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam :: with Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson.

The exhibition ‘My [public] space’ is a follow-up to the exhibition ‘Territorial Phantom’. In the previous exhibition the occupation of and claims to space by corporations, organizations or countries was central. My [public] space goes more deeply into the blurring of private and public information and spaces. Continue reading

the largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a 24,000 sq. ft. (2.200 m2) monitor screen for dynamic content display.the polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall & placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. the density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain & transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall. you can play with the online simulator, or watch a movie after the break.[link: greenpix.org|via engadget.com] [posted on Information Aesthetics]

Call for Artist in Residence Programme 2008 at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is calling for proposals from artists to develop a research and production project at LABoral for two months during 2008.
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is an interdisciplinary art centre created in Gijon, in the north of Spain in 2007. Its main objective is to become a research, educational, exhibition and production centre in the area of art, science and technology. Continue reading

Berkeley Big Bang 08 :: June 1-3 :: Berkeley, CA

Join us for Berkeley Big Bang 08, three days of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media, timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a new media art biennial taking place June 4-8 in San Jose. Occurring together for the first time, these two events combine to create one of the nation’s largest gatherings of new media art, a week-long “big bang” of innovation and creativity. The Berkeley Big Bang program will include a two-day symposium on new media, art, science, and the body Continue reading

“In February 2008, five artists and artist groups from all over the world were nominated in Cologne by an international group of experts for the fourth International Nam June Paik Award donated by the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation North-Rhine Westphalia), Düsseldorf. The works selected for the award will be exhibited in the permanent collection of traditional European fine art in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne from 26th of September until 16th of November 2008. On October 16, 2008, the prize will be awarded by the president of the Kunststiftung NRW, Dr. Fritz Schaumann.

In 2002, the late world artist Nam June Paik lent his name together with a drawing to this most important award for media art in Germany. Continue reading

New writing for Brown’s immersive 3D virtual environment. Cave Writing Spring’08 will be giving a number of presentations from the workshop on the evenings of May 14, 15, and 16, at the CCV (Center for Computation and Visualization) CAVE, 180 George Street (NE corner at Brook), 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Showings must be strictly limited to six people per session, so we ask that you get back to us at this email address — cayley at shadoof dot net –with your first and second choice of a preferred session. These spaces will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis and we apologize in advance if we are unable to accommodate you. Continue reading

In February 2004 the EAF presented Art of the Biotech Era – an exhibition, symposium & workshop. Since 2004 the EAF has expanded the Art of the Biotech Era project through various undertakings such as Eduardo Kac’s Biotech Art workshop in 2005 involving leading national and international artists and theorists presenting works exploring biotechnology and genomics and discussing the influence of this techno-scientific change of society, the ethical implications of genetic engineering and the concept of aesthetics in biotech arts.

As a part of the project, the EAF has commissioned texts from over 20 national and international writers, published here together with images from artists working in the field. Continue reading