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.

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.

This year’s b.TWEEN forum has a range of creative and commercial opportunities on offer. To win a grand prize of £10,000, industry specialist development workshops and have your work screened in the Interactive Gallery, at the ICA, FACT and on Big Screens across Manchester: get involved. Submissions to be uploaded on the forum’s website.

EXPLODING NARRATIVE: Propose an original, exciting idea for an mscape and you could win one of five £1,000 development grants, a £10,000 grand prize and the chance to see your idea become reality. mscapes are location based mobile games, stories and educational journeys. They are experienced on GPS-enabled PDAs and based on easy to use software developed by HP Labs. We are looking for:

- ideas that engage with location-based collaborative gaming, learning or stories
- from artists, film makers, games designers, e-learning experts and creatives

INTERACTIVE GALLERY: Exhibit your engaging, interactive installation at b.TWEEN08. We are looking for Technology-enabled, life-enriching, glee-inducing works that will engage young and old alike. Every year at b.TWEEN we have a gallery of interactive installations that delegates and museum visitors can play with and be inspired by. Exhibits in the b.TWEEN08 Interactive Gallery will also be screened at the ICA, FACT and on Big Screens across Manchester. Past galleries have included Igloo, Squidsoup, Alexei Shulgin, Soda and Transmute Collective.

b.TWEEN08: Nowhere else will you find such a diverse mix of ideas-rich indies and ideas-hungry big industry players meeting on a level playing field to explore and exploit the creative and commercial potential of digital technologies. Book tickets. Supported by: Channel 4, BBC, New Media Age, HP Labs, NWDA, Technology Strategy Board, Museum of Science and Industry, Ambient Worlds, ICA, FACT, Creative Partnerships and the Arts Council of England.

MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films’ starring you. Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you? MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. If Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” at Deitch Projects is about the positive power of DIY, MTAA’s Self-Selected Super St*rs is about the malaise of knowing that all future ‘it’ girls will never really be Edie. It’s about the ever present fear of running out of beer before the night ends.

Here’s how it works: Two directors/camera operators will set up at Light Industry deep in the heart of Brooklyn. The space will have some cheap/random props and costumes. If you want some acting direction, we’ll have scripts and improv notes ready. If acting isn’t your thing, just come in and be your fabulous self. The shooting will be continuous and casual with both films projected live for your viewing pleasure. Join us for the entire shoot or just walk in for your close-up.

Trevor Paglen of the Department of Geography University of California at Berkeley on The Other Night Sky - Artist / geographer Trevor Paglen will talk about his recent project to track and photograph 189 classified “moons” (reconnaissance satellites) in Earth orbit. Along the way, he introduces us to an international network of satellite observers, tracks the history of two “stealth” satellites, and contemplates the relationship between classical empiricism and democracy.

Ken Goldberg, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media on Robots as Naturalists - Ken will present experiments and questions raised by robots and social networks, ranging from ouija boards to human “tele-actors,” and tell a true story about how invasions of privacy led him and his students to investigate how robots can assist in monitoring the natural environment. He’ll describe a robotic system they’ve deployed to assist the search for the ivory billed woodpecker, a bird of extreme interest to birdwatchers, ornithologists, and conservationists whose last confirmed sighting was in 1944. Ken will also present the manifesto of the Berkeley Center for New Media and propose a hopefully controversial definition of “media.”

Carlo Sequin on Knotty Sculptures.

Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, on the forthcoming UC Berkeley Big Bang conference - Berkeley’s New Media Center and Leonardo ISAST are organizing a two-day academic conference to be held in June 2008 at the Berkeley Museum. Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Museum, will present the Berkeley day of the conference (first day of the conference).

Kris Paulsen, grad student at Berkeley Center for New Media on Participation TV - Kris will examine a sequence of projects from the 1960s to the present in which artists have worked to reverse the unidirectional structure of broadcast television. These artists feed back into the networks by disrupting broadcasts, “hijacking” programs through pseudo-events and hostile takeovers, and by developing their own multi-directional systems that challenge the television viewer’s traditionally passive role. By exploiting the potential for liveness on television news, CCTV, and public access, the artists addressed in this talk attempt to put viewers into direct contact with the event and with the others who are watching - the network becomes a crowd.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to Piero Scaruffi: p [at] scaruffi.com

Born in 1964 in Plock. Studies: 1986 1988 at PWSSP in L dz; 1988 1993 at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Graduated under professor Grzegorz Kowalski. Since 1992 he run a.r.t. Gallery in Plock. Urodzil sie w 1964 r. w Plocku. Studia: 1986 1988 w PWSSP w Lodzi; 1988 1993 na Wydziale Rzezby Akademii Sztuk Pieknych w Warszawie. Dyplom w pracowni prof. Grzegorza Kowalskiego. Od 1992 prowadzi w Plocku galerie a.r.t.

Selected individual exhibitions / wybrane wystawy indywidualne: The Suggestion of a New Space / Sugestia nowej przestrzeni , PWSSP, L dz 1988; A Prayer / Modlitwa , Teatr Dramatyczny, Plock 1989, Galeria a.r.t. Plock, Galeria Dziekanka Warszawa 1992; Aneta II, Centrum Sztuki Wsp lczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa, Galeria a.r.t. Plock 2000 audio-video installation / instalacja audio-wideo , Warszawski Aktyw Artyst w, Warszawa 2005

Selected group exhibition / wybrane wystawy zbiorowe: Muzeum Akademii Sztuk Pieknych, Warszawa 1991; Mystical Perseveration and a Rose / Perseweracja mistyczna i r za, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot 1992; Places, Non-Places / Miejsca nie miejsca, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko 1992; A Dialogue of Works and Positions / Dialogi dziel i postaw, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko 1992; bergange, Galeria Medium, Bratyslawa, Muzeum Sztuki Wsp lczesnej, Passau 1993; Galeria Budapeszt, Budapeszt 1995; Transhumacja, Galeria Obraz w, Kowno, Litwa 1995; Me and AIDS / Ja i AIDS, kino Stolica, Warszawa, Galeria a.r.t. Plock, Stowarzyszenie Artystyczne Wieza cisnien , Bydgoszcz, Galeria Wyspa, Gdansk, 1996; Photography 97 / Fotografia 97, Palac Sztuki, Krak w 1997; Parteitag, Galeria a.r.t. Plock 1998, gallery BWA, Katowice 1999; A Forum of Galleries and OtherArt Places in Poland / Forum Galerii i Innych Miejsc Sztuki w Polsce , Centrum Sztuki Wsp lczesnej Laznia, Gdansk 2000; Performer Shows and Video / Pokazy performer w i wideo, Olsztyn 2000 Sexxx, Teatr Academia, Warszawa, Galeria a.r.t., Plock 2001; Plastyka Plocka, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Plock 2001; Cold War / Zimna wojna, Stowarzyszenie Teatralne Laznia , Krak w 2001; Irreligion / Irreligia , Atelier 340 Muzeum, Bruksela 2001 2002; What Does the Corpse s Glassy Eye See / Co widzi trupa wyszklona zrenica , Teatr Academia, Warszawa 2000, Zacheta, Warszawa 2002, Muzeum Okregowe, Bydgoszcz 2003; Poland / Polska, Teatr Akademia, Warszawa 2002; What Do Artists Live On / Z czego zyja artysci, Centrum Sztuki Wsp lczesnej Laznia, Gdansk 2003; Inc. Art Towards the Corporate Appropriation of the Place of Public Expression in Poland / Inc. Sztuka wobec korporacyjnego przejmowania miejsc publicznej ekspresji w Polsce, Galeria XX1, Galeria Program, Warszawa 2004, BWA Zielona G ra, Galeria Bielska BWA, BWA Awangarda, Wroclaw, Fundacja Wyspa Progress, Gdansk, Galeria Sztuki Piekary w Legnicy; The Visual Art sof Plock / Plastyka Plocka, Plocka Galeria Sztuki, Plock 2004; Sculptors take photographs / Rzezbiarze fotografuja, Muzeum X. Dunikowskiego, Warszawa 2004; Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded Contemporary Image of Artists / Egocentryczne, niemoralne, przestarzale wsp lczesne wizerunki artyst w, Zacheta, Warszawa 2005; At a Very Center of Attention Part 1 / W samym centrum uwagi czesc 1; Centrum Sztuki Wsp lczesnej 2005. Demos kratos wladza ludu, Galeria Klimy Bochenskiej, Centrum Artystyczne Fabryka Trzciny, 2006 Warszawa, 2007 Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Prawdziwe zycie, wola art, Warszawa

The Upgrade! Warsaw monthly gathering of media artist that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration. Events are informal. Entrance is free.

The Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media (CREAM) invites you to presentations and discussions of new work using mobile phones by Mark Amerika, Chris Fry and Max Schleser.

Mark Amerika will be showing his new work which composites various art personas and artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present.

Chris Fry will be showing and talking about his research into how mobile and pervasive artworks offer the potential to transcend the traditional boundaries of time and place, allowing for highly personalized experiences. He will refer to his recent artworks Nomadic Guru and Magic Ray.

Max Schleser will be showing excerpts and discussing his work on mobile-mentary a film that captures Japanese metropolitan centres through the lens of a mobile phone and will discuss his research into the impact of mobile phones on the transforming mediascape.

Perception of viruses stems both from the way we consider the most recent epidemic diseases and from an innate fear of having one’s own body invaded by other efficient organisms, capable of re-arranging their working patterns in order to facilitate infiltration into their host. Perception of spam, as one of the inescapable communication phenomena of our times, is a changing lively part of our everyday infoscape. Spam is extremely pervasive and effective for billions of persons whose (easy to spot and trade) personal and open communication door are infiltrated usually after being verbally titillated. Cultural infections that potentially change our identity, with communicative distances growing shorter, are becoming more and more inevitable. Continually reinventing the concise language on the net, the verbal protection / censorship game will be played using different code / sign combinations. With a constant retina overload, few strategic (key)words can make the difference.

Alessandro Ludovico (IT) is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural.it magazine from 1993, (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2004). He is the author of: ‘Virtual Reality Handbook’ (1992), ‘Internet Underground.Guide’ (1995), ‘Future Digital Sounds’, (2000) and co-edited the ‘Mag.Net Reader’ series (2006-2008). He’s one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of ‘Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He was also an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara. Since 2005 he works with Ubermorgen and P.Cirio on projects such as ‘Google Will Eat Itself’ (Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2005, Rhizome Commission 2005, nomination Transmediale Award 2006) and ‘Amazon Noir’ (2nd prize Transmediale Award 2008, 1st prize Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007) projects.

CIANT GALLERY is a non-for-profit space for presentation of experimental projects which connect the worlds of arts, sciences and new technologies. The Gallery is operated by CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague with support of the City of Prague and the Municipality of Prague 3.

Hop into a white limousine with eight strangers to converse about anything in art for one hour. Hosts, who are critics and curators, will guide conversations and offer refreshments.

Featuring: Laurel Beckman; Chris Barr; Julia Bradshaw, James Morgan, and Bennett Goble; Elisheva Biernoff; Cesar Cornejo; Holly Crawford; Sharon Daniel; Bryan and Vita Hewitt with Chuck, Inc.; Heike Liss and Ellen Lake; Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry; Neighborhood Sign Club with Alison Pebworth, Leigh Ann Martin, and Megan Saperstein; Nancy Nisbet; Jennifer Parker with Matthew McGuinness; Sasha Petrenko; Johanna Poethig with VPA Painting and Mural Class, CSU Monterey Bay; Alyssa C. Salomon; Randy Sarafan; and Sherri Lynn Wood.

Subversive Complicity brings together a group of artists whose work inhabits the interstices of contemporary life — physical, temporal, and conceptual gaps within existing structures — in order to subvert everyday systems and raise social awareness in subtle, humorous, and radical ways. What happens when artists working within these spaces adapt and co-opt the strategies, languages, mannerisms, and visualizations from divergent social personas and cultural sources to create alternative modes of action and expression?

The resulting range of projects presented in this exhibition suggests the myriad of possibilities for public and private transformation to emerge when artists assume such diverse roles as agent provocateur, broadcaster, political activist, conversationalist, oral historian, engineer, broker, trader, benefactor, gamer, and even evangelist. Through gallery documentation of past actions and a series of ongoing and special events these artists invite audiences! into a set of conversations, resistances, and exchanges at once real and imagined, geographic and social, local and global.

Come join us in this exploration of how art can disrupt, re-shape, and otherwise invigorate our daily existence through interventions enacted on the streets of San Francisco, across the landscape of the Bay Area, and within other cities and virtual realities far beyond.

This exhibition was developed in association with the Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice Festival hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz. Critical Conversations in a Limo was organized by Heather M. Mikolaj (Curator) and Clare Haggarty (Assistant Curator), in collaboration with University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Dee Hibbert-Jones and E.G. Crichton.

This show will feature new and experimental works in dance, music, and video art. Each artist/team came up with a work based on meditations on the word “SPACE.” The artists with works being shown are:

Nina Barnett & Robyn Nesbitt, Jessica Feldman, David Jensenius, Hiram Navarrete, Jessica Noe & Kate March, Blithe Riley, Kathleen Stanard, Carl Testa.