Roberto Aguirrezabala. Net.art 1998 - 2008 :: until April 6, 2008 :: The Huarte Contemporary Art Centre, Huarte (Navarra), Spain :: Curators: Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana.

The Huarte Art Centre is pleased to announce the first net.art solo exhibition by Spanish artist Roberto Aguirrezabala. His works are focused in his two fetishes subjects: the concept of identity and the interpersonal relations in the age of Internet. His projects avoid the stereotype of the website, do not exhibit banners or navigational menu and manage to address the user towards unforeseen thematics developments. The show displays three net.art works: Continue reading

Fatherboard, the SuperAvatar, is an avatar that - escaping from the virtual worlds (or from the computer generally speaking) - forms into a physical shape. It is similar to cyborgs - but is not a cyborg - and it is made out of the (recycled) hardware components of the computer where it comes from. Fatherboard steps in to the “real world” and starts interrelating with the human beings (the audience). The essence of its dialog with humans is to be found in the idea of a confrontation between the “artificial” intelligences and the ones of their creators. The whole show is theoretically based on the concepts expressed in the Polymorphic Intelligence (see Polymorphic Intelligence 1, 2) and the Big Sieve theories, by Luigi Pagliarini. Continue reading

[Image: Teknolust, 2002, Lynn Hershman Leeson. Production still from 35mm feature film, courtesy the artist, Gallery Paule Anglim, SF, and bitforms gallery, NY] Lynn Hershman Leeson: Autonomous Agents - A Real + Second Life Symposium :: November 24, 2007; 1.00 - 5.00 pm :: The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK :: Second Life at 3.30 - 4.30 pm GMT. Contact susan.fletcher [at] manchester.ac.uk for Second Life location.

Lynn Hershman Leeson: A Real + Second Life Symposium coincides with the major retrospective exhibition Autonomous Agents: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson. Continue reading

Fastforward on New Media Art: Robots - with France Cadet / Christian Faubel / Pascal Glissmann e Martina Hofflin / Ken Goldberg / Leonel Moura / Kenneth Rinaldo / Robotlab :: curated by Laura Bardier :: November 8 - December 3, 2007 :: Palazzo delle Arti Napoli [PAN], Via dei Mille 60, 80122 Napoli.

A recurring image in contemporary society is the growing speed of digital information. Technology evolves and absorbs information at a dizzying speed, whereby knowledge is transmitted to intelligent machines in a process which seems to be leading us towards a post-human hybrid state. The exponential evolution of information technologies may produce the means by which artists will be able to create beyond their own vision and knowledge. Continue reading

TECHNARTE :: April 24-25, 2008 :: Bilbao, Spain :: Call for Papers :: Papers can be sent by Internet through this web page or by e-mail to technarte [at] technarte.org before January 14, 2008.

TECHNARTE is an international conference on art and technology that seeks to become the most important event of its kind. The aims are to present technological developments that enhance a broader expression of modern art, and to provide a forum for debate and reflection on the convergence between technology and art. Modern art, stimulated and encouraged by new technologies and its own impetus for innovation, is advancing in a surprising manner. Continue reading

“Gordon Pask’s The Colloquy of Mobiles: The English cyberneticist Gordon Pask conceived the Colloquy of Mobiles for the 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity held at the ICA in London. It was a reactive, educable, computer-based system composed of five mobiles. By way of light and sound, the rotating elements suspended from the ceiling communicated with each other, independent of external influences.

Using flashlights and mirrors, the people at the exhibition could nevertheless take part in the conversation between the machines. With this installation, Pask brought to a conclusion his idea for an «aesthetic potential environment».To give significance to the communication between the machines, Park designed the Colloquy of Mobiles as a social system. At the same time, the form of communication that he conceived referred unmistakably to a sexual analogy: Continue reading

The Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics - CALL FOR CHAPTERS :: Proposals Deadline: November 15, 2007 :: Full Articles Due: February 28, 2008.

At the core of the fundamental questions of “what is art” and “what is technology” we focus The Handbook of Research on computational Arts and Creative Informatics at the convergence of computer science and artistic creativity. We seek to discover new ways to conceptualize art and investigate new methods of self expression through the use of technology. Here we are inviting experts in a wide range of disciplines to discuss the emergence of expression and art through that of science, information technology, computer science, artificial intelligence and many other related fields. We see this book as a comprehensive recourse where artists and scientists can collaborate on ideas, practices and experimentations on these topics. Continue reading

Steven Pinker and other leading scientists join artists for a 24-hour Experiment Marathon featuring robots, three-way kissing booths and out-of-body experiences :: October 13 - 14, 2007 :: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA [Nearest Tube: South Kensington or Lancaster Gate].

Olafur Eliasson together with Hans Ulrich Obrist convenes the 24-Hour Experiment Marathon which blurs the boundaries of art and science and creates a laboratory of experience. A huge variety of experiments exploring perception, artificial intelligence, the body and language, takes place in and around the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen. Continue reading

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VIDA 10.0: International Competition on Art and Artificial Life :: Project Submission: September 17-October 22, 2007 :: Jury: November 7-9, 2007.

Fundación Telefónica is attempting to promote the convergence of Art, Science and Technology by holding an international competition which rewards those works of art developed using Artificial Life technologies. At previous editions, prizes were given to art projects created with robots, electronic avatars, chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automatons, computer viruses, virtual ecologies which evolve by interacting with the participant and works which delve into social aspects of Artificial Life. Continue reading