An event in time is a collection of many smaller moments coalesced into measure. It is composed of factors, facts, contexts, scope, details and duration. An event begins, an event ends, but its true measure is not that simple, nor should it be; time is not to be caught and cleaned on a hook like a fish, nor is an event in time just a sequence of moments with a beginning and end. It is more akin to a cumulus, that puff of cotton cloud of so many paintings and postcards, for it also is something of a single form, yes, but much more.” From Immersive Event Time by Jeremy Hight, NeMe.

Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerrilla projectionists and inventors!

LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar, LIGHTWAVE 2009 promises to mesmerize audiences not only within the Science Gallery, but to captivate on-lookers city wide as interactive experiences, roving installations and participatory workshops flood the creative, cultural quarters of Dublin.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send new, in-progress or interdisciplinary project proposals (installations, events, workshops) highlighting interactivity, connectivity, participation and public engagement both confined by, and freed from the gallery walls. We are looking for proposals of the highest standard that incorporate art, science and new technology in exciting and engaging projects focusing on light. Examples of project themes already proposed are the development of sustainable light sources in Africa, light pollution, effects of light on the body and the creative control of light through technology. Fresh and innovative projects that investigate a variety of themes are very welcome.

Exhibition details including Expression of Interest can be viewed here.

Too young to have a retrospective exhibition yet too evolved in her career not to have one, New Media Public Artist Eileen Botsford, presents for the first time in Athens, through The Preretrospective Exhibition, a series of works from 2005 till present. Her mediums of work – film, net.art, photography, interactive, and installations – many of which have been presented as part of various public art projects and exhibitions internationally, provide a rare insight into the world of artist Eileen Botsford.

Personal and intimate yet mesmerizing and profoundly engaging to the audience’s psyche, Botsford tackles issues of our perception of mind and body, and questions about social identities and aesthetics. Working with her core subject, ‘the human’, the majority of her works present and analyse aspects of our being.

The works presented in ‘The Preretrospective Exhibition’ live on locations on-site and on-line; many have been exhibited in solo exhibitions and site-specific projects such as The Bodymode Show, Pearlfisher Gallery (London, 2007), St. Pauls Cathedral, Covent Garden (London, 2007), as well as group exhibitions such as Biennalle1: Public Screen (Thessaloniki, 2007) and numerous film festivals internationally.

Eileen Botsford was born in Athens, Greece and brought up in an international family living between Athens, Syros Isle and the U.S.A. For the past 12 years, she has lived in London, where she studied Public Art and Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, followed by an MFA in Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Through her career she has worked internationally on large scale Public Art projects and New Media Set Designs, as well as creating numerous films and online pieces. Articles and interviews on her work have been published in Vogue, the British Council’s ‘Greek Modern Pioneers’, Kathimerini Newspaper’s ‘K’ Magazine, the Art Papers (USA) and numerous online publications.

On her work with interactive net.art pieces, Botsford explains:

“It is an alternative way to create sensations and experiential journeys, to exhibit yourself to a vast audience, to be able to share something without the egotistical response that accompanies the expectation of your work being judged.”

When talking about her obsession with ‘the human’, as she calls it:

“My work as an artist for the past 7 years has concentrated primarily on the human form, mind and behaviour in relation to its social parameters. I have developed communication through the use of the ‘the human’ through works in various mediums, interactive, net.art, video, site-specific and still imagery. My primary aim is to explore all optical and audio sensory channels, set a number of questions related to the human form, mind and behaviour and expand our mental parameters of perception on ourselves.”

When talking about her national identity and home, Eileen explains:

“I am part Greek, part American and part English, I have lived in these three countries for long periods of time and my lifestyle has never been solely associated to any of these nationalities, I am a patchwork, or a ‘tourlou tourlou’ of all of them. I only know I most feel at peace when in Greece, and in a way being at peace is being at home.”

Digital Live Art is the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Live Art and Computing. (re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art seeks to bring together practitioners and academics from the varying worlds of Performance, Computing and HCI for a lively debate and after-party event which will explore this emerging field. This year, (re)Actor3 is co-locating with one of Europe’s largest and longest running HCI conferences - HCI 2008 which is being held in Liverpool UK - host of Europe’s 2008 Capital City of Culture events. HCI 2008 is the premier annual conference on human-computer interaction in Europe attracting hundreds of delegates from dozens of countries - this is where you have to be if you want to mingle with leaders in usability, user experience, interaction design, the web, wearables, mobile computing - anything where people act with computers.

KEYNOTE: Martyn Ware (Illustrious Company). Martyn is the founder member of both The Human League and Heaven 17, and one of the leading figures in electronic music. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 27 year career to date, working with Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples. Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique “Heightened Reality” three-dimensional sound technology and bespoke musical composition in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world who include The Science Museum, London, The Royal Ballet, and collaborations with the artists Cathy De Monchaux, Tim Head, Gary Stevens, David Bickerstaff and Philip Tsiaras (at the 2003 Venice Biennale).

VENUE - DAYTIME EVENT: As before, this year we include both a daytime and evening event. The daytime event will take place at the Holiday Inn Liverpool City Centre (next to Lime Street Station), on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008. The day will consist of keynote presentations, formal papers, interactive installations and demonstrations.

EVENING AFTER PARTY - This is LIVErpool: The daytime event will be followed by This is LIVErpool. Specially commissioned installations, live performances and DJ Jazzbo will be followed by featured artists from the enthralling Future of Sound. The Sancho Plan’s performance explores real-time interaction between music and video and its potential for narrative and storytelling. Neurofeedback artist Luciana Haill has over 15 years experience recording raw brainwaves (EEG) utilising medical biofeedback technology to make music. Tilly Automatic investigates the issues of interactive performance and instrumental development focusing on the piano and live electronics. The event takes place at Liverpool’s Contemporary Urban Centre (CUC) boasting 170,000 square feet within a Grade II listed converted warehouse. CUC aims to reflect the themes of contemporary life in the urban environment, particularly from the point of view of marginalised and excluded communities.

PROGRAMME/ SCHEDULE: A full list of commissioned performances, installations, demonstrations and papers is available on our website. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings, included on our website, and made available through the distinguished ACM Digital Library and the British Computer Society’s eWiC digital library.

REGISTRATION: Registration and ticket information is available on our website. Online registration for daytime activities closes August 22, 2008.

EVENING ONLY TICKETS: Tickets for This is LIVErpool available online.

(re)Actor DIRECTOR: Jennifer G. Sheridan, BigDog Interactive Ltd.

CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Nick Bryan-Kinns, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London
Tom Lloyd, Dreamtime Film.

HCI 2008 CHAIR: David England, Liverpool John Moores

HCI ADMINISTRATION: Liverpool John Moores University

Sponsored by BigDog Interactive, Centre for Digital Music, Dreamtime Film, Liverpool John Moores University, Routledge

Jointly organized by
BigDog Interactive Ltd. & HCI 2008

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Maribeth Back, FX PAL California, USA
Christopher Baugh, University of Leeds
Steve Benford, University of Nottingham
Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University
Susan Broadhurst, Brunel University
Nick Bryan-Kinns, C4DM, Queen Mary, University of London
Linda Candy, University of Technology, Sydney
David Collins, Doncaster College
Beatriz da Costa, University of California
Steve Dixon, Brunel University
Jon Dovey, Bristol University
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex
Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter
Eva Hornecker, The Open University
Boriana Koleva, University of Nottingham
Charles Kriel, London Metropolitan University
Sally Jane Norman, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Angela Piccini, Bristol University
Mark Plumbley, C4DM, Queen Mary University of London
Sara Price, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education
Marta Ruperez, FACT
Mark Sandler, C4DM, Queen Mary University of London
Atau Tanaka, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Martyn Ware, Illustrious Company

TECHNICAL & WEB
BigDog Interactive

VOLUNTEERS
Liverpool John Moores University

In the paper presented at TEI in 2007, the authors describe how this sensory mapping creates an expressive and emotional interface allowing couples to communicate through touch, gestures, and body language.

See also her paper: The aesthetics of touch in interaction design! See also Mutsugoto by Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis and Matthew Karau. [Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure]

Zachary Lieberman - + www.thesystemis.com + www.tmema.org :: Lieberman es artista, ingeniero y educador cuyo trabajo está centrado en la exploración los usos creativos y humanos de la tecnología. Produce instalaciones, trabajos on-line, conciertos y performances que giran alrededor de los temas cinéticos y gestuales, creaciones interactivas y síntesis sonoras. Vive y trabaja en Nueva York, donde imparte clases de síntesis audio-visual y procesos de imágenes creativas en la Parsons School of Design.

En colaboración con Golan Levin ha creado una serie de instalaciones – Remark y Hidden Worlds- que presentan diferentes interpretaciones de cómo sería la voz si pudiésemos visualizar nuestra propia habla. A estas siguió Messa Di Voce, un concierto-performance en el cual, el habla, los gritos o las canciones de dos vocalistas son radicalmente amplificados en tiempo real por un software de visualización interactivo. Ambos han recibido recientemente una nominación del Wired magazine’s artist of the year award, y han mostrado sus trabajos con gran éxito de público en numerosas exposiciones internacionales.

Lieberman ha sido artista residente en el Futurelab de Ars Electrónica, en Eyebeam, y recientemente en el Dance Theatre Workshop, donde ha estado investigando acerca de cómo puede usarse la tecnología para apoyar el proceso coreográfico.

Alejandro Tamayo + www.thepopshop.org -Alejandro es ingeniero de la universidad EAFIT con estudios de postgrado en diseño y arte electrónico en el Design & Computation Arts de la Universidad Concordia. Es director de los énfasis Vida Lab e Innovación Tecnológica y Cultura de la PUJ.

Susan Elizabeth Ryan, What is Wearable Technology Art? Susan Ryan proposes that wearable technology projects contribute to a history of projects that might not seem to be linked together or thought of as part of a cohesive practice.

Patrick Lichty, Building a Culture of Ubiquity - Patrick Lichty’s presentation, originally given at the Emotional Architectures summit at the Banff New Media Institute in 2000, illustrates changes in the culture of ubiquity that is based on the proliferation of (mobile information devices) and discusses the impact of wearable computing on the relationships between body and space.

Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Dress For Stress: Wearable Technology and the Social Body - Susan Ryan considers the work of artists, designers, and activists who, since the 1990s, have worked with clothing as survival mechanism and social tool — a “body of records” of technological, biological, and performable wearables that are vehicles for ideas and collective experience.

Susan Elizabeth Ryan, A Virtual Interview with Geert Lovink - Susan Ryan discusses communication- oriented wearable technology with media theorist, critic, and activist Geert Lovink who teaches at the Institute for Networked Cultures, University of Amsterdam.

Laura Beloff, The Curious Apparel: Wearables and The Hybronaut - Laura Beloff investigates wearable artistic experiments that explore concepts related to ubiquitous computing and to the merger of virtual and physical space in a hybrid space. In her research, she introduces the figure of the Hybronaut, a person coupled with a wearable device, who exists in hybrid space.

Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson, Negotiations - Negotiations by Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson, an interactive performance system consisting of two connected costumes, explores issues of cross-cultural communication using readily available digital effects and surveillance technologies.

Anne-Marie Skriver Hansen, The Body-as-Interface: A possibility to merge mind spaces with hybrids of physical and virtual worlds The essay proposes a set of ideas behind physical interfaces that provide us with the ability to express abstract concepts in the hybrid of virtual and physical worlds. It considers the types of communication that may arise as a result from the linking of body and mind, and it debates the use of stimulus in the communication with other people and our surroundings.

Sarah Kettley, Crafting the Wearable Computer - Sarah Kettley outlines a novel methodology for the development of computational wearable artefacts as everyday sites for authentic engagement. This methodology comprises a set of preliminary protocols for craft in design, a novel approach to the identification of distributed user groups, and a new method for the evaluation of wearable artefacts.

intelligent agent is a service organization and information provider dedicated to interpreting and promoting art that uses digital technologies for production and presentation.

Editor-in-Chief: Patrick Lichty
Director: Christiane Paul

Shadows Never Sleep tells the story of a restless shadow on a nighttime adventure. This “zoom narrative” introduces a new storytelling format that takes advantage of the multi-touch interface of the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing readers to swipe their fingers across the screen and zoom in and out of images instead of turning pages.

This project was the centerpiece of Karpinska’s Master’s thesis at Brown University’s Literary Arts program, a suite of five stories investigating the potential of digital media for children’s literature. Her advisor, digital media writer John Cayley, has observed that “While the average person in contemporary culture may see a break or rupture between expensive, high-end mobile phone and storybook, a child will reach out towards a readily accessible toy and begin to simply to read, to allow its story-teller to begin. Karpinska has put the story-teller into the device.”

Nick Dalton programmed the application and Roxanne Carter posed for the shadow silhouettes.

To download the application using your iPhone or iPod Touch, launch the Apple Store and search for “Shadows Never Sleep.”

On a Mac or PC, launch iTunes and search the iTunes Store for “Shadows Never Sleep,” then
sync to your iPhone or iPod Touch. [link]

If you don’t have an iPhone or iPod touch, go here to view Web and video demos of the work.

The DreamLoading project, created by Rafael Beznos, consists in a set of researches, installations and interactive interfaces integrating multiple technological media, artists and collaborators from all around the world, uniting music, video projections, fine arts, architecture, graphite, interactive programming, 2D and 3D animation and digital art in the creation of multimedia experiences, among them interactive samplers of audiovisual for touch-screen or tabletop surfaces (projection over an interactive film on glass or acrylic), interactive art and video exhibition with related animation. For each exhibition it is developed a theme and form related to the place where the work is performed. There have been already several exhibitions of the Dreamloading installations since 2006 - Castelo Branco (PT), Londres (UK), Almeria (ES), Devon (UK), São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre (BR) in the last three editions of the FILE (Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica).

Rafael Beznos is graduated in recording and phonographic technology. He is also musician, producer and DJ, researcher on multimedia and interactive art, programmer, web artist, screenwriter, composer, video maker, VJ and animator, uniting in this diverse path of production the necessary experience to develop the Dreamloading and its derivations, that cause learning, enjoyment, inspiration, information and creativity for those who experience and interact with the work.

“Basically its a low budget breakfast bar controlled by the daily habits of a bunch of hens on Gorgie City Farm in Edinburgh. Each time an egg gets laid a signal is sent to the web enabled toaster (courtesy of arduino and my excellent colleague Ian Campbell!) sets the coils in motion and returns the action of egg laying to the gallery goers as hot toast for consumption! Not only that, on the breakfast table is a peck controlled iTunes soundsystem, each peck on the piezo mic’ attached to the chicken feed bowl causes the ‘Cock Rock Disco’ playlist to skip forward a track - perpetual flutterings of chicken inspired songs!

Online the same egg laying response generates a single random number, after six numbers are generated / eggs are laid a lottery ticket is purchased online, therefore returning back to its source a percentage of funds received for this project! and hopefully making me a millionaire! genius eh?!

I like it anyhow, in fact I am really please with it, it utilises all the same sophisticated technology as other more respectable sophisticated projects, it pushes the uses of these networks to the limits, with realtime biological actions governed by an equally random factor (the chickens), its a project, its a happening, an event and most importantly at the end of all this it manifests itself as something so spectacularly simple and commonplace (a slice of toast), people would ask why ever bother at all! lol”

Jaygo Bloom is a UK based multimedia artist whose practice includes audio visual installation, game hacking, film making and physical computing. Over the past year he has been developing a wide variety of new online and offline projects ranging from his globally aware interactive games console ‘Tao Joystick’ to his 8bit latino percussion interface ‘Marrackattack’. Working independently and also as part of the Glasgow based audio visual team ‘Pointless Creations’. Popular for his public interventions, blue screens and old sports car, other successful projects have included Glasgow International05, Pixelache05, Recontres Paris/Berlin, and Pong.Mythos.