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

[Image: Still from “Amongst Fables and Men” Tonight artist Eddo Stern will host “QQ More”, a screening he curated of offbeat fan-made machinima dealing with real-life issues such as drugs, pornography, and death at Brooklyn’s Light Industry. The show begins at 8pm and will be followed by a discussion between Stern and Alexander Galloway. I conducted an email interview with Stern about his interest in the phenomenon and its relevance to his own art practice. - Ceci Moss

In gaming parlance, what does “QQ More” mean? How does this relate to the concept behind your program “QQ More”? 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

Video creators, scholars, activists, policy makers, technologists, and entrepreneurs will gather this February at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for 24/7: A DIY Video Summit, the first-of-its-kind international event focused on the fate and future of visual media in the 21st century.

The summit, which takes place from February 8 - 10, at the USC University Park Campus in Los Angeles, will explore the incredible dynamic at play as millions of people flock to online video sharing sites like YouTube, Revver, imeem, Stage6 and Eyespot where they watch and contribute video content around the clock, 24/7. Webcast [Quicktime]; SLURL. More >> Continue reading

Tower of Babeli: A metaverse conceptual artist’s beautifully enigmatic “Desert” machinima: Antonioni meets Dali meets machinima: a woman with an umbrella strides into the desert, and receives a parade of visitations, which are only comprehensible in the final frames (and then only somewhat.) At 20-plus minutes,”Gaz of the Desert” is best viewed after hours, and after you’ve had a chance to turn off the lights and settle in. Strange, languorously paced, and gorgeously dreamlike, it’s the work of Gazira Babeli, a metaverse conceptual artist whose Second Life-based work has been featured in the great We Make Money Not Art blog and several European gallery shows. “Gaz” plays like a steampunk version of Salvador Dali’s “Temptation of Saint Anthony“, with stovepipe hats and rocket launchers where the elongated elephants would be. [blogged by W. James Au on New World Notes]

Discovered via Bettina Tizzy’s Not Possible in Real Life blog, an already indispensable guide to quality content and artistic ambition in Second Life.

In China, RMB is the abbreviation of “renminbi”, literally, “people’s money”, and the name of the currency you use in that country. In Second Life, “RMB City” is the new project of my friend China Tracy. (New York Times sketch of the real life artist behind the avatar here.) Her “i.mirror” SL machinima was a hit at the prestigious Venice Biennale, and subsequently (as I later learned), was added to the gallery collection of a famed Italian fashion designer– perhaps the most prominent example of an SL-based artwork succeeding in the real world. Continue reading

Reflexive Architecture, by Keystone Bouchard, Jon Brouchoud. Continue reading

In August 2007, the NMC is planning a very special, one-of-a-kind event — a week-long online symposium on the topic of creativity to be called the Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. The first in a series of conferences and events exploring virtual worlds of all kinds, the symposium is intended to redefine the way we think about online conferences. As such, the Symposium on Creativity will be held entirely inside the virtual world of Second Life, and will make full use of the wide range of affordances offered within this virtual world. Continue reading

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