HACKfemEAST is an exhibition about women, technology and networks in Eastern Europe. The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. Main protagonists are women or projects in which women play an important role. Aim of the project is to provide and to develop a network platform. This is achieved through five elements: the exhibition, the opening event, two days of conferences, a publication in newspaper format and a website. Central idea is to involve women artists to develop independently their concept in each of the 14 rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien and be part of the network formed by the all groups and artists/activists participating. Existing networks from 11 Eastern countries are at the heart of the project and form the basis of the exhibition. A total of 11 networks are invited to the various rooms of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien to introduce their work, their strategies and their aims in the form of video and computer installations, documentations and presentations. The result is a “network of networks”.

A two day long conference on 10 and 11 May, held at the outset of the project, intends to bring the lines and networks together and discuss on women perspective in the Eastern cultural scenario. Its aim is to provide a forum for a form of politics based on radical invention - media and Internet art projects, performances, network platforms, software development, artistic coding, organization of media festivals, etc.

On SUNDAY MAY 11th at 16h Kyd Campbell will give a talk about the development of tiny noise and some other projects she was a part of in Eastern Europe. This will be in the framework of the Activism and Accessibility of Technology panel. Kyd will talk alongside Andreea Carnu (RO) and Ana Filip (RO/SK), moderated by Jasmina Tesanovic (RS/USA).

The Saturday and Sunday conference program can be found here: http://hackfemeast.org/web/?page_id=8

tiny noise is a nomadic open concept audio art platform conceived by Toni Dimitrov [skopje] and Kyd Campbell [montreal] in february 2005. It started spontaneously as a d.i.y. experiment in forming an independent network by using global communication tools, personal contacts and experiences. The idea of tiny noise is to spread and connect experimental, provocative and adventurous music and sound projects at irregular times and in diverse places. tiny noise remains open to many sound/music forms, especially those enriched by other medias and looks to collaborate with other open projects.

info: tinynoise [at] gmail [dot] com
Kyd Campbell
Toni Dimitrov

The exhibition ‘My [public] space’ is a follow-up to the exhibition ‘Territorial Phantom’. In the previous exhibition the occupation of and claims to space by corporations, organizations or countries was central. My [public] space goes more deeply into the blurring of private and public information and spaces.

The copious use of digital, network and mobile technologies has had an enormous influence on our concept of public and private space, and calls up new questions about the conditions for these environments. Public space is not longer something that we can leave or exclude. Through wireless technologies – chat, mail, GSM – the public is everywhere: in our homes, our beds and even our bodies. What is private any more? What consequences does this muddying of the public and exposure to the public gaze have? Public space has become a ‘hybrid’: an entanglement of the public and private spheres.

The phenomenon of the changing concept of private and public space is twofold: on the one side there is a growing wish to express ourselves publicly via the media; on the other, public space is becoming more controlled and limited than ever. With their t-shirts, animations, games, installations and websites the artists in this exhibition throw light on this phenomenon in diverse ways.

For instance, in their work Hasan Elahi and Jill Magid employ mechanisms and technologies of control in public spaces for their own private stories, and with an enormous camera Martijn Engelbregt asks passers-by on the Museumplein what they think of being filmed. The works by Eduardo Navas and Marisa Olson respond in various ways to taking private information into the public domain of the internet. Guy Ben-Ner really is doing the same thing, but in the publicly accessible (though private property) model rooms at IKEA.

With her game Dora García responds in an abstract manner to the gray areas around the borders between the public and private, with a quiz with unanswerable personal questions which nonetheless must be answered yes or no. Eva and Franco Mattes aka 01001011101011101.org respond in an abstract, synthetic way to the phenomenon by taking a performance that was all about impinging on someone’s private space by forcing them to squeeze past naked bodies in order to enter some place, and re-enacting it in Second Life.

Susan Härtig’s tent makes a really private and mobile space possible, somewhere that no mobile telephone or other device using radio waves can
find. And finally, by revealing what is normally invisible on internet or via RFID technology, the t-shirts by Susan Härtig and Aram Bartholl address today’s hybrid space.

Open: Tuesday through Saturday and the first Sunday of the month from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. Admission 2,50 (1,50 with discount)
For more information: Marieke Istha, communication istha@nimk.nl
Website: www.nimk.nl

Join us for Berkeley Big Bang 08, three days of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media, timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a new media art biennial taking place June 4-8 in San Jose. Occurring together for the first time, these two events combine to create one of the nation’s largest gatherings of new media art, a week-long “big bang” of innovation and creativity. The Berkeley Big Bang program will include a two-day symposium on new media, art, science, and the body in partnership with Berkeley Center for New Media and Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; campus media lab demonstrations; and an alternate reality game. Berkeley Big Bang is presented in tandem with BAM/PFA exhibitions of work by media artists Trevor Paglen, Jim Campbell, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Scott Snibbe.

For gallery exhibitions, see: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang/EN0169

– Richard Rinehart
Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
bampfa.berkeley.edu
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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.

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.

Heike Wiermann, Holger Mader and Alexander Stublic focus on video art installations, media facades and art in the public sphere. Their latest projects cover for example the spectacular media facade design (”twists and turns”) of the Uniqua tower in Vienna, where they have managed to transform the structure of the architecture into an ever-changing, fluid state of transition. Furthermore, they co-initiated OSRAM’s new light platform Seven Screens, which they launched with their LED-piece Reprojected. This installation focuses on the shadows of computer-simulated people. The group engages in a site-specific and medium-specific way with visual perception.

Upgrade! Berlin is currently also involved in the development of the Media Facades Festival Berlin and is thus taking the opportunity to invite Alexander Stublic and Holger Mader for a public talk about their media facades and other collaborative works in the public sphere.

More infos on Mader | Stublic | Wiermann. More infos on the Media Facades Festival.

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.