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

From Cinema to Machinima — Software, Database, and the Moving Image - Panel Discussion with Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christiane Paul (Moderators), Henrik Bennetsen, Char Davies, Scott Kildall and Second Front, Howard Rheingold (via Second Life), Scott Snibbe, and Camille Utterback :: April 14, 2008; 7:30 - 9:30 pm :: San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street campus :: Free and open to the public.

A panel discussion and virtual performance event, From Cinema to Machinima will explore the many ways in which the digital medium has reconfigured, even transformed, the moving image and thereby redefined concepts of cinema. Continue reading

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

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

MILLENNIUM FILM - Personal Cinema Program - Winter Series 2008: Alan Sondheim :: March 15, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Film Workshop, Inc. 66 East 4th St. New York, NY.

CUTTING THE EDGE. Alan Sondheim, Azure Carter, Sandy Baldwin and Gary Manes have been working for the past several months at the Virtual Environments Laboratory, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Sondheim will be presenting the results of that research, which involves avatars, human modeling, phenomenology of virtual lives, choreography, motion capture, and a host of other issues. Continue reading

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes - Art as Contextual Art - Film/Art between Experiment and Archive :: Curators: Lukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang and Leire Vergara :: December 20, 2007 - March 30, 2008 :: sala rekalde, Alameda Recalde 30, Bilbao 48009, Bizkaia (Spain).

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes - Art as Contextual Art is the next stage of an exhibition and research project that explores the “continuous” history of experimentation in film and art and the interaction of both fields. Grounded in the extensive Polish experimental film output of the 1970s, 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes will offer a selection of films mostly produced by Polish artists from that period, whilst including contemporary international artistic proposals that constitute a challenge for the interpretation of the history of experimental cinema. Continue reading

The 4th edition of the Pocket Films Festival, organized by the Forum des images, will take place at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France, from June 13-15, 2008. The 2008 registration forms for the Pocket Films Festival are online.

International Call for Projects: We are looking for all types of audiovisual participatory projects using mobile technologies. Categories: CINEMA SCREEN and MOBILE SCREEN - Main Jury Prize for each section: 1,500 euros. Cinema Screen is open to all films shot with mobile phones and / or digital cameras. Pocket Films also launches this year a section open to all video contents developed for portable screens, Mobile Screen. Continue reading

The Pepitasausage Racetrack is an online art piece by Danish artist, Jette Gejl Christensen. The piece is part of a project called ‘pop-up art’ in which artist from Århus, Denmark are invited to create digital art pieces for virtual pop-up windows in a web browser. This piece presents an endless pepita-textured tunnel in which the camera travels like a race car. Once in a while the ‘car’ crashes, causing the camera to move outside the pepita-sausage as if it was floating in space. The car will always find its way back inside the tunnel where it’ll continue its endless loop. Continue reading

Soft Machines and the Cinematographic Imaginary, Nowe media i film - International conference within the confines of the 15th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Plus Camerimage :: November 30, 2007, 12:00 – 6:00 pm :: The Grand Theatre Łódź.

Beginning in the last decades of the 20th century, the increasing expansion of multimedia has made the digital synthesis of image, interactivity, non-linearity and intermediality not only ephemeral practices of contemporary art, but also prevalent and established characteristics of popular culture. Continue reading

In 1964, Italian artists Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello gave birth to one of the most interesting and significant experiments in the fields of art and cinema: Uncertain Verification, a paradoxical assemblage of cinematographic extracts taken from over 450,000 feet of Hollywood footage from the 50s, originally destined to be destroyed and purchased for the price of 15.000 liras.

Over forty years later, the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles are reinterpreting and re-actualizing Grifi’s and Baruchello’s deconstructive action in order to complete the originally planned conceptual dissolution, picking up where the two artists left off, at the unfinished phase of dispersion, the Disperse. Exclamatory Phase. Continue reading