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. Central idea is to involve women artists to develop independently their concept in each of the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien and be part of the network formed by the all groups and artists/activists participating. Existing networks from 11 Eastern countries are at the heart of the project and form the basis of the exhibition. A total of 11 networks are invited to the various rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien to introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of video and computer installations, documentations and presentations. The result is a “network of networks”.

A two day long conference on 10 and 11 May, held at the outset of the project, intends to bring the lines and networks together and discuss on women perspective in the Eastern cultural scenario. Its aim is to provide a forum for a form of politics based on radical invention - media and Internet art projects, performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding, organization of media festivals, etc.

On SUNDAY MAY 11th at 16h Kyd Campbell will give a talk about the development of tiny noise and some other projects she was a part of in Eastern Europe. This will be in the framework of the Activism and Accessibility of Technology panel. Kyd will talk alongside Andreea Carnu (RO) and Ana Filip (RO/SK), moderated by Jasmina Tesanovic (RS/USA).

The Saturday and Sunday conference program can be found here: http://hackfemeast.org/web/?page_id=8

tiny noise is a nomadic open concept audio art platform conceived by Toni Dimitrov [skopje] and Kyd Campbell [montreal] in february 2005. It started spontaneously as a d.i.y. experiment in forming an independent network by using global communication tools, personal contacts and experiences. The idea of tiny noise is to spread and connect experimental, provocative and adventurous music and sound projects at irregular times and in diverse places. tiny noise remains open to many sound/music forms, especially those enriched by other medias and looks to collaborate with other open projects.

info: tinynoise [at] gmail [dot] com
Kyd Campbell
Toni Dimitrov

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.

The copious use of digital, network and mobile technologies has had an enormous influence on our concept of public and private space, and calls up new questions about the conditions for these environments. Public space is not longer something that we can leave or exclude. Through wireless technologies – chat, mail, GSM – the public is everywhere: in our homes, our beds and even our bodies. What is private any more? What consequences does this muddying of the public and exposure to the public gaze have? Public space has become a ‘hybrid’: an entanglement of the public and private spheres.

The phenomenon of the changing concept of private and public space is twofold: on the one side there is a growing wish to express ourselves publicly via the media; on the other, public space is becoming more controlled and limited than ever. With their t-shirts, animations, games, installations and websites the artists in this exhibition throw light on this phenomenon in diverse ways.

For instance, in their work Hasan Elahi and Jill Magid employ mechanisms and technologies of control in public spaces for their own private stories, and with an enormous camera Martijn Engelbregt asks passers-by on the Museumplein what they think of being filmed. The works by Eduardo Navas and Marisa Olson respond in various ways to taking private information into the public domain of the internet. Guy Ben-Ner really is doing the same thing, but in the publicly accessible (though private property) model rooms at IKEA.

With her game Dora García responds in an abstract manner to the gray areas around the borders between the public and private, with a quiz with unanswerable personal questions which nonetheless must be answered yes or no. Eva and Franco Mattes aka 01001011101011101.org respond in an abstract, synthetic way to the phenomenon by taking a performance that was all about impinging on someone’s private space by forcing them to squeeze past naked bodies in order to enter some place, and re-enacting it in Second Life.

Susan Härtig’s tent makes a really private and mobile space possible, somewhere that no mobile telephone or other device using radio waves can
find. And finally, by revealing what is normally invisible on internet or via RFID technology, the t-shirts by Susan Härtig and Aram Bartholl address today’s hybrid space.

Open: Tuesday through Saturday and the first Sunday of the month from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. Admission 2,50 (1,50 with discount)
For more information: Marieke Istha, communication istha@nimk.nl
Website: www.nimk.nl

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.

As part of its educational programme LABoral is establishing a new programme of residency offered to artists and creators who are interested in developing research or production within this context.

The objectives of the call for artists in residence are:

- to stimulate dialogue with practitioners within the areas of interest of the centre

- to facilitate research and production projects at LABoral within the Asturian region context

- to investigate the broad possibilities of the convergence of art, science, technology and industrial creation

The call is open to artists interested in the convergent areas of art, science and technology. It is especially offered to creators who are researching notions of knowledge dissemination through the exploration of emergent practices in art, as part of a general trend towards development of hybrid formats and media.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial will support one artist in residence for two months which must be completed before January 2009. LABoral can offer financial and technical support as follows:

- Travel costs consisting of return airfare from the artists’ country of residency

- Apartment accommodation for the duration of the residency

- A monthly allowance of 1,500 euros (before taxes)

- Work studio at the art centre, as well as equipment and expertise to support the project

The artist in residence will have the opportunity and will be encouraged to participate in activities such as lectures and workshops during the course of the residency.

The submitted proposals must include a description of the project, objectives, a calendar of activity, biography and CV of the artist, as well as a description of how the project relates to LABoral. This material should not exceed 6 pages.

The proposals must be sent by email: educacion@laboralcentrodearte.org <mailto:educacion@laboralcentrodearte.org>

The submission will be reviewed by a committee of experts from LABoral.

Important dates:

- Deadline for applications: 30th May 2008
- Communication of selected artist: 20th June 2008
- The residency must be completed before January 2009

Contact email for queries: educacion@laboralcentrodearte.org <mailto:educacion@laboralcentrodearte.org>
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial Gijon, Spain

www.laboralcentrodearte.org

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 in partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; campus media lab demonstrations; and an alternate reality game. Berkeley Big Bang is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of work by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe.

For gallery exhibitions, see: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang/EN0169

– Richard Rinehart
Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
bampfa.berkeley.edu
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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. The drawing, which reads: „Paik NRW okay“, commemorates Paik’s 19-year activity in this German federal state – particularly in the two cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf – of which he spent more than 10 years as a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of arts.  1963, the year the „Exhibition of Music“ was held in the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, is considered the year of birth of media art. With this award, the Kunststiftung NRW intends to revive the enormous creative energies which are active until this day within the works of this global artist, and to encourage a young generation of artists to break new innovative ground. The award includes an exhibition of the nominated, during which the first prize amounting to 25,000 euros will be awarded as well as a junior prize for an artist from North-Rhine Westphalia for finishing a project amounting to 15,000 euros.

The nominating experts met on the spot in Cologne at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corbout, with its extraordinary collection from medieval art to impressionism: Solange Farkas, Videobrasil and MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Sao Paulo/Salvador de Bahia), Yukiko Shikata, NTT InterCommunication Center ICC (Tokio), Walid Raad, artist, (New York/Beirut), Miklos Peternak, C3 Center for Culture & Communication (Budapest) and Udo Kittelmann, Museum of Modern Art (Frankfurt/Main).

They selected the following artists and artist groups for the award:
The Speculative Archive / Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (Damaskus/Los Angeles); Biopresence / Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel (Tokyo/London); Attila Csörgo (Budapest); Tatiana Blass (São Paulo) and GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental from Salvador de Bahía”

Thanks to Marcus Baston and e-flux

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.

Wednesday, May 14
- Session 1: 6:30-7:10
- Session 2: 7:10-7:50
- Session 3: 7:50-8:30

Thursday, May 15
- Session 1: 6:30-7:10
- Session 2: 7:10-7:50
- Session 3: 7:50-8:30

Friday, May 16
- Session 1: 6:30-7:10
- Session 2: 7:10-7:50
- Session 3: 7:50-8:30

By Monday, May 12, there will be a program with some details of the pieces to be shown accessible on the Writing Digital Media website: http://writingdigitalmedia.org

Please also visit the CCV website: http://www.ccv.brown.edu/

With thanks to Prof. Jan Hesthaven (CCV Director), Prof. Clyde Briant (Vice President of Research), Sharon King, Sam Fulcomer, everyone else associated with CCV and the Cave, and special thanks to CCV’s John Huffman.

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. Art in the Biotech Era is a comprehensive compilation of theories and practices surrounding issues of art and biotechnology.

Published by the Experimental Art Foundation
February, 2008ISBN 0-949836-52-4210mm x 210mm234 pp/36pp colour images

Contributors: Introduction by editor Melentie Pandilovski

Writers & Artists: Miguel Amado, Roy Ascott, André Brodyk, Stuart Bunt, Heath Bunting, Gary Cass, Boo Chapple, Melinda Cooper, Critical Art Ensemble, Gina Czarnecki, Kirsty Darlaston, Joe Davis, George Gessert, FOAM (Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney), Eduardo Kac, Diane Ludin, Marta de Menezes, Mez, Anna Munster, Michalis Pichler, Liljana Simjanovska, Niki Sperou, Mike Stubbs, Eugene Thacker, Zoran Todorovic, Polona Tratnik, Raewyn Turner, Recombinant I-Ching Collective, Tissue Art & Culture (Oron Catts, & Ionat Zurr), Tanja Visosevic, Morag Wightman, Adam Zaretsky.

For more information: http://www.eaf.asn.au/aitbe_about.html

Sorry about the inactivity on Networked Performance. I’m having back surgery tomorrow and will return to posting as soon as I am able.

Best,
Jo

Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT present Inter_connections seminar, the concluding event of a curatorial residency undertaken by Basak Senova. Senova is assistant professor at Kadir Has University, an independent curator and founding member of the Istanbul association NOMAD. Senova was resident at i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre in January 2008 as part of the programme of International Curatorial Research Residencies initiated by the Curatorial Network.

The seminar reflects upon the notion of perceiving urban based realities within cross-territorial practices and networks9. There are presentations by Basak Senova; Ute Meta Bauer (Director of the Visual Arts programme at MIT, artistic director of the 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art & co-curator of Documenta 11); Paul O’Neill (curator, writer and Research Fellow with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol researching the development of contemporary curatorial practice); i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre.

Basak Senova is mapping cross-cultural generosity, sharing, communication, social interaction and exchange in contemporary art practice. Starting with the structuring of an active personal curatorial network map, she aims to detect and process parallel cases and counter-actions, which set new modes and channels for social, political and cultural information flow.

Part of the Curatorial Network programme, delivered by KURATOR, ArtProjects and Solutions and supported by Arts Council England South West.