EOD 02 _ electric organ discharge 02 :: April 12 - 19, 2008 :: Théâtre de l’Agora, Place de l’Agora - BP 46 F-91002 Evry cedex.

EOD 02 is an installation by Frederik De Wilde created in collaboration with LAb[au]. EOD 02 is a new-media installation exploring the capacity of special species of living blind fishes to perceive (electrosense) their environment and communicate with each other by emitting electric signals, either in pulses or waves. The installation is based on four aquariums of taintless mirror, each presenting a specific composition of fish producing different electric signals. In each aquarium antennas capture the electric communication between the fishes and render these signals into sound. Under each aquarium a matrix of leds is placed pulsing according to the intensity and rhythm of the emitted signals. In this manner the electrical impulses of the fishes drive sound, light and an entire audiovisual space. More info.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Multimedia exhibition; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: Calls for film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations :: Deadline for poster presentations: May 24, 2008 :: Deadline for film&video / multimedia projects: May 31, 2008.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen. Continue reading

Kunstensite vzw and Courtisane Festival present the mini-symposium Mediakunst 2.0 with Geert Lovink and Mark Amerika focusing on the changing shape and repositioning of media-art in the age of Web 2.0.

In a string of fast paced mini-lectures and presentations, Amerika and Lovink will explore some of the recent tendencies within both the field of media-art as well as popular digital culture. They will attempt to maneuver through the hype and trends emanating from these emerging fields while taking into account broader cultural and historical perspectives. Continue reading

SwanQuake is a unique project involving the ongoing making of an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphic environments and motion-capture driven characters created from a variety of materials and methods by an interdisciplinary team gathered together and led by Igloo.

In each of the pieces, using a game controller, the viewer navigates freely throughout the 3D computer graphic environments. The spaces are comprised of both exterior and interior landscapes, each thematically, visually & sonically distinct where users can interact with avatars to create new performances / performance spaces. Continue reading

Aurora Picture Show, recognized as the most innovative microcinema in Texas, presents the fifth annual Media Archeology Festival April 17-19, 2008. Curated by Aurora Artistic Director Andrea Grover and New York musician/curator Nick Hallett, this year’s festival is titled Media Archeology: Live and Televised and features multimedia artists who incorporate audio/visual technology with live performance. Each of the performers uses pre- recorded video and audio to create a mise-en-scène of projected sets, props, and environments- sometimes creating a stage, a sound-scape, or an entire cast. Continue reading

SIMULTAN04 - Video and Media Arts Festival :: Timisoara, Romania :: May 22 - 24, 2008 :: Call for Entries :: Deadline: April 10, 2008 (postmark).

Under the theme Temporary Tactics, Simultan04 explores a conflict situation, a difficult cohabitation between the independent audio-visual works and the cultural, social and political context in which they are born. Temporary Tactics wishes to highlight time and space connected “speculative” situations, the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment. Continue reading

TOSMItraining in open source, multimedia instruments at InterSpace. The 2008 training will cover the fields of 3D CGI, post-production, animation and special effects, media content for the web, web TV and e-marketing. The training is mainly based on open source software and provides skills in innovative and efficient tools and distribution channels allowing for achieving quality production and/or education process at low expenses. Therefore we believe the sessions can be of advantage to professionals, managers and trainers in the audiovisual production and marketing. Continue reading

Digital Chile_08 - Isabel Aranda, Klaudia Kemper, Alberto Lagos, Roberto Larraguibel, Félix Lazo and Claudio Rivera-Seguel :: Electronica Digital Chile Road-Show - Live Audio / Visual Performance :: March 1, 10 pm - 3 am :: Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], 1195 Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal, Canada.

This travelling exhibition, which now visits Montreal for its Canadian première, is an exciting overview of avant-garde art in Chile. It shows the great wealth of themes and styles that currently inspire the imaginations of Chilean artists. The mixed-media digital artworks of this exhibition are installations that invite the audience to reflect on and experiment with the sometimes inscrutable, often complex behavior of human beings. Continue reading

InterSECT - Angie Eng, Zeena Parkins, and Kyoko Kitamura :: February 28, 2008; 8:30 pm :: Roulette, 20 Greene Street in SoHo, New York.

“Suffering from video block, I realized we get to make the rules as we go. Who says we have to finish the script first! In the middle of editing this project … which started out as a video HD short … I missed the magic of accidents and spontaneity in making cinema in reel time. Hence…” - Angie Eng

Video, installation, and time-based performance artist Angie Eng presents InterSECT, a digital live mix of a cinepoem originally produced as a video short (Play Here / Schpilin Aqui) with a Voom HD Labs Residency in 2006. With live electric harp and electronics by Zeena Parkins and narration by Kyoko Kitamura, InterSect explores the collision of 2 traditional worlds (Hassidim and the Puerto Ricans) in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Upgrade! Tel Aviv - Jerusalem - Power, Violence, Motion, Speed: Art and Technology through Futurism by Duprass (Liora Belford and Ido Govrin) :: Opening and Live Performance: March 1, 2008; 2 pm :: Meeting with the Artists and Closing: March 13, 2008; 8 pm :: Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4, Jerusalem.

The Futurist Manifesto wished to construct a new aesthetic model which would suit the modern world. The typical representation of that aesthetic was the machine and especially the modern modes of transportation. The aim of the manifesto was to encourage the driving forces behind those modern technological symbols: Force, Violence, Motion and Speed; in order to release the world from the investigation of the ancient past. Continue reading