City of Nodes is a collection of works from the last decade that explores the everyday domains of street, neighbourhood and the entire city as platforms for mapping, movement and communication. These projects adopt a bird’s-eye view of urban space and storyboard the city towards a number of idiosyncratic ends. In these augmented and annotated cities, space and context are interrogated, surveillance technology exposed, fleeting histories archived and the role of the body reconsidered.

It was quite exciting for me to research this project as it will serve as the foundation for a venture that I’ll be working on later in the year. Beyond my enthusiasm about this body of work, I was an early fan of the use of delicious as a tool for curation (see my post Tagging as Curation from last summer); contributing to TAGallery felt right on point with my research interests. What follows is a brief introduction to a few of the projects included in City of Nodes.

256² from aram bartholl on Vimeo.

Aram Bartholl is German artist whose work explores the intersection of web culture and everyday life. 256² was an exercise in delineating a parcel of land from NewBerlin (a reproduction of Berlin in Second Life) in Berlin proper. For this 2007 project, Bartholl used chalk to trace the bounding box of a 256 square meter area in Alexanderplatz reinforcing the connection between this public space and its virtual counterpoint.

One Block Radius was a 2004 project by Christina Ray and Dave Mandl founded on archiving the ephemera of a Manhattan city block (now the site of the New Museum). The work utilizes a web interface to store a variety of entries which catalog photographs and experience via categories such as rules/regulations, daily life and sounds/noise. I really enjoy the rigor of this project and in many ways it seems prescient of sites like Everyblock, a web service that I’ve written about several times in the past.

City of Nodes was also an opportunity for me to finally pay homage to Amsterdam Realtime, a 2002 project by Esther Polak, Jeroen Kee and The Waag Society. The work equipped volunteers with GPS devices to track their movements over a two month period. The resulting “personal” maps were compared and composited as part of retrospective exploring 100 years of cartography in Amsterdam. Amsterdam Realtime is as a benchmark locative media project and an ancestor to later, influential work including Polak’s MILK project (2005), the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s Real Time Rome (2006) and Stamen Design’s Cabspotting (2006).

TAGallery 021: City of Nodes also contains work by Tuur Van Balen, Gordan Savic, Tom Carden, the Insitute for Applied Autonomy, John Geraci, Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer + Kati London + Laila El-Haddad + Thomas Duc + Ran Tao + Charles Pratt, Shawn Micallef + James Roussel + Gabe Sawhney and David Rokeby.

You can view the full list of projects and annotations via this link. [posted by Greg Smith on Serial Consign]

The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO, announces the start of the presentation of projects period for the 6th edition of its international public art programme which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public art and will generate a series of interventions of an ephemeral or temporary nature in the centre of Madrid, whose authors will mainly be selected through this open call for presentations. A specific call for presentations of sonorous work, which includes collaboration in the audiovisual TV Interventions project, is also announced. PARTICIPATION BASES:

1. Reflecting from the stance of contemporary art practice on cultural, social and political environment, the purpose of this call for applications is to select artists to produce interventions of a temporary or ephemeral nature aimed at contributing to activate the public space. The initiative includes two specific projects for the Casa de América and Círculo de Bellas Artes buildings, which will be incorporated into Madrid Abierto with other invited projects and selected sonorous and audiovisual works.

This edition of Madrid Abierto will be dedicated to emerging practices that critically engage with the urban environment. Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 aim to include a wide variety of practitioners and art forms that establish their strengths in an expanded role, and that work in the social realm of art practice and audience participation. The idea is to produce and show work that connect various disciplines and that opens up for collaborations between, for example, artists, architects, designers, computer programmers, social scientists and urban planners.

For cities to thrive, to be communicative and alive, and to function as catalysers of public life, it is necessary to stimulate civic participation and community involvement. Given the current framework, where society often fail to negotiate some of the most immediate challenges, how can pooling resources such as the ones found in interdisciplinary groups, develop alternative work methods? How can inertia and nostalgia be substituted by visionary and inspiring tools that act as catalysts for change?

2. The programme schedule is as follows:

- Application deadline: until September 10th 2008.
- Selection of artists: until October 31st 2008.
- Preparatory meetings and seminars: February 2009.
- Elaboration of final projects: until April 30th 2009.
- Assessment of projects and installation permits: until June 30th 2009.
- Execution of artistic interventions and transmission of sound and audiovisual works: February 2010.

3. Coinciding with ARCO, the interventions will be take place in February 2010 in Madrid, with some form of presence or reference in the junctions Paseo de la Castellana-Recoletos-Prado and Calle de Alcalá-Gran Vía.

The sound works will be transmitted by Radio 3, Radio Nacional de España in February 2010. Audiovisual works will be presented during this time too.

4. Artists of all nationalities are encouraged to present their applications (except for the Casa de América project, which is open to Latin American artists only), either individually or as a team. In the case of team application, one representative must be appointed.

5. A) Artistic interventions.-Each participant must include:

* Curriculum of no more than 2000 characters with a photocopy of the author or authors’ National Identity Document (or equivalent).

* Description of a project already executed and the draft of a project for Madrid. In both cases no more than 4000 characters.

* A maximum of six sketches or images of the project or draft project in jpg format with a maximum resolution of 72 dpi.

* Description of the technical set up and needs of the draft project.

* Estimated and broken down budget of the draft project, including details of items that could possibly be self-financed.

* All the files must be PC compatible. Files sent from an Apple computer must have adequate extensions (doc, xls, pdf, jpg, tif, etc.).

* Should the above-mentioned information fail to be received in full, the participation will be rejected.

* The maximum budget for each selected artist is 15,000 euros. In all cases this sum includes expenses derived from the preparatory meeting in February 2009, as well as travel, accommodation, production, transport and set up of the intervention in February 2010, the author or authors fees (up to a maximum of 2000 euros) and any applicable taxes.

B) Sound Art.- Each participant must include:

* Curriculum of no more than 2000 characters and a photocopy of the author or authors’ National Identity Document (or equivalent).

* Description of the proposed piece, not exceeding 4000 characters.

* Maximum length of work is10 minutes per author and must be sent on a CD.

* Selected artists will receive 500 euros. A direct master copy of the work will form part of the documentary collection and public archives of Madrid Abierto. The work may possibly be placed on the website, for non-profitable purposes and with prior consent of the authors.

C) Audiovisual work.- The audiovisual work selected in the 2008 and 2009 calls for applications for TV Interventions will form part of the Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 programme in collaboration with Fundación Rodríguez and Centro Cultural Montehermoso (and may be transmitted by Canal Metro). Those selected will receive 500 euros and a direct master copy of the work will form part of the documentary collection and public archives of Madrid Abierto. The work may possibly be placed on the website for non-profitable purposes and with prior consent of the authors.

Audiovisual applications will not be accepted through the Madrid Abierto application procedure.

6. All the proposals must be sent by electronic mail to abierto [at] madridabierto.com prior to September 10th 2008.

7. The advisory committee of Madrid Abierto, presided by Programme Director Jorge Díez and comprised of Cecilia Andersson, Guillaume Dèsanges, Ramon Parramon, Mª Inés Rodríguez, Fito Rodríguez and artist group Democracia, participates in the various phases of this edition. Casa de América and Círculo de Bellas Artes will appoint a representative for the task of selecting each institution’s intervention.

Cecilia Andersson will be this edition’s curator. In collaboration with the advisory committee of Madrid Abierto, she selects the participating artists on the basis of their track record, the quality and viability of the proposals and the total reversibility of the interventions. The organiser may round off the selection with invited artists, up to a maximum of 50% of the total number of selected artists in the open invitation. Since these projects will occupy public spaces, Madrid Abierto will obtain the necessary municipal permits to the set up the interventions.

Should the selected artists use images or elements belonging to third parties, they must provide authorisation of the proprietors for the use of images or extracts in the project.

8. Madrid Abierto reserves the right to publish and reproduce the selected artistic interventions for all purposes associated with the promotion of the programme, and shall incorporate all generated documentation into its documentary collection and public archives. The selected projects and works are the property of the authors and, as the case may be, the promoting institutions shall have a preferential right to purchase them.

9. Participation in this call for applications entails full acceptance of the conditions of entry.

Direction: Jorge Díez
Curator: Cecilia Andersson
Adviser Committee: Cecilia Andersson, Democracia, Guillaume Dèsanges, Jorge Díez, Ramon Parramon, Fito Rodríguez and Mª Inés Rodríguez
Coordinator: RMS La Asociación
Graphic Design: 451
Organize: Asociación Cultural Madrid Abierto
Sponsors: Fundación Altadis, Comunidad de Madrid and Ayuntamiento de Madrid Collaborators: Fundación Telefónica, ARCO, La Casa Encendida, Ministerio de Cultura, RNE3, Canal Metro, Círculo de Bellas Artes and Casa de América

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.

People from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures come together at the festival to re-imagine the city as a playground, a space for positive change and an opportunity for civic engagement. The Village Voice describes Conflux as a “network of maverick artists and unorthodox urban investigators - making fresh, if underground, contributions to pedestrian life in New York City, and upping the ante on today’s fight for the soul of high-density metropolises.”

From architects to skateboarders, Conflux participants have an enthusiasm for the city that’s contagious. Over the course of the long weekend the sidewalks are literally transformed into a mobile laboratory for creative action. With tools ranging from traditional paper maps to high-tech mobile devices, artists present walking tours, public installations and interactive performance, as well as bike and subway expeditions, workshops, a lecture series, a film program and live music performances at night.

Conflux is produced by Glowlab, an independent, Brooklyn-based production and publishing studio with a gallery in Williamsburg and a web-based magazine at glowlab.com. We’ve worked with arts organizations including Eyebeam, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Van Alen Institute and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, as well as local universities such as New York University, Hunter College and Parsons. Conflux has been reviewed in publications including the New York Times, the Village Voice Flash Art and Art Review Magazine and covered on numerous arts blogs and cultural websites such as Flavorpill, Nylon, Rhizome and Gothamist.

Conflux is an event attended by people of differing backgrounds who share a common desire to understand, explore, and ultimately heighten their enjoyment of the urban environment while learning how to sustain and improve it. Conflux visitors are introduced to the ways cutting-edge artists utilize performance, visual art and music to address topics including the environment, sustainable development, the increased presence of technology in cities, emerging trends in social/local networking and ways we can humanize the urban experience by encouraging dialogue amongst communities.

As a fiscally-sponsored project of the Brooklyn Arts Council, Conflux has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Artists Space, the Puffin Foundation and the Independence Community Foundation.

Moving the Map is an artistic project that investigates the discourse of political spheres regarding migrations, and from which there will be debate on the analytical focus and on the execution of urban artistic practices from the articulation and recognition of the migrating weave with local scenarios.

Moving the Map takes form from the design of a certain number of artistic projects and expositions, a collaborative symposium and production networks beginning from the articulation of existent cultural discourses in the context of Central American cities. One step further from the supranational settings and rigid identities; In such sense its necessary to take into consideration that the contemporary discourse of migrations has constituted the base of new explorations that highlights the expansion of new artistic narrative and in consequence the rupture with the social effects in all the countries of Central America.

The aim of the project is to work starting from the contemporary artistic setting, the characterization of each artistic practice for readings of its papers in moments of high mobility and social re-composition, discourse, positioning, spaces and symbolism; For such aim, the inter-relation between independent artists, cultural solicitors, specialists and cultural institutes are used as a platform to give way for the localization of the public spheres conforming a vast system of connections from which artistic discourse tends to re-establish the dynamics of inter-relationship in our own context.

In this framework of glances, Moving the Map is profiled as a necessary process for proposing the mediation of contextualized art in the construction of the regional in moments that Central American society is living in time and space of constant socio-cultural change and where our surroundings highlight the limitations of its borders, and the mobilization of the artistic scene has circulated by the sustainability of networks that are not made out of borders, but human inter-relationships.

The major axis of the project consist of:
• The commissioning of artistic projects of specific sites
• Inter-regional Collaborative symposiums
• International Program of performance
• Circulation of local and international projects
• Commissioning of artistic projects of specific sites

The commissioning of the intervention project for urban space will be articulated in an annual project of two artistic projects with 4 invited artists every year. They will take as reference for their interventions the growing area of demographic explosion of the city of Tegucigalpa. For curatorial selection and production, a panel of regional curators and solicitors will be invited.

Inter-Regional Collaborative Symposium/Regional Artistic Practices

Symposiums are a platform for exchange, that have as goal to generate the interaction from the strategic design of three head offices in the Central American region. For the development of this proposition, the participation of international panelists will be integrated so that with a international perspective the incidence papers of the contemporary artistic practices in and from our region will be boarded properly.

International Program of performance

A international program of six artistic propositions for the putting in the scene and investigative practice of the performance as territory for the exploration of relationships between temporal space versus physical space. Participating in this scene will be: Emerging artists with inter-disciplinary propositions that include video performance, installation, situations like that of carnival expressions in evocation to the muting of memory and territory.

Circulation of local and international projects

The putting in practice of a circulation program of artistic projects of local and international origin, has the objective to create a process of approximation and insertion with collective and individual propositions from artists that operate outside strictly institutionalized margins. The invitation of two annual regional projects will be the urban scenario of a zone in process and movement of experiences from emerging creators.

Moving the Map 2008/ 2009 plataform are sponsored by: STICHTING DOEN / MONDRIAN STICHTING / ARTS COLLABORATORY / HIVOS People Unlimited.

The Center of Contemporary Visual Arts CAVC/ MUA:

Established the organization under the curatorial and artistic direction of the curator Bayardo Blandino in 1999, assuming his functions as part of the programmatic extension of the Association Women in the Arts ‘Leticia de Oyuela’, Since then his principal activities have oriented his objectives to direct the access of contemporary expression for the creation of a proper cultural space for the articulation of the diversity and pluralism of the contemporary setting of Honduras and Central America. CAVC/MUA during its trajectory contributes to the articulation of interdisciplinary innovative propositions, for the promotion of local, national and international initiatives by means of stimulating dialogues and cross glancing with the professionalizing and formational processes of contemporary artistic practice.

SCAPE 2008 will open with a distinctive list of artists showcasing new work in public space. A city is a dynamic system constantly in flux, that reflects the shifting values of society, where social and political representations, cultural production and consumption, tourism and leisure play out. Globalisation has led to greater mobility and increasing migration, transforming cities at an increasingly rapid pace. Culturally, this shift has seen shopping malls become surrogate social spaces, and urban centres designed to capture the tourist dollar over the need for public space that appeals to local inhabitants.

Driven by a desire to explore the potential for a new culture of space, Wandering Lines: Towards a New Culture of Space presents works by 25 artists across Christchurch city who reflect the conditions and conflicts of Christchurch’s public spaces. The title Wandering Lines (de Certeau: 1998) is drawn from the notion that ‘indirect or errant trajectories obeying their own logic’ can provide new understandings of space (ibid).

Making seemingly invisible contingencies visible, artistic interventions can propose a different experience of locale and situation, or suggest opportunties for more relevant public space, to counter the effects of privatisation and neo-liberal economic policies on social space.

SCAPE 2008 is firmly positioned within the dynamic systems of the city and will develop relationships between artworks and an infinite number of spatial, urban, social, psychological, individual or communal, political and historical conditions that exist in the city. In this sense, interweaving art within the social and urban context is vital in activating a critical dialogue towards a new culture of space.

In line with Vito Acconci’s definition of the function of art in public space, SCAPE 2008 projects are considered in accordance with their ability to de-design the spatial politics and established ‘ways of operating’ to reveal conflicts and contingencies in the urban realm.

Structured around three intersecting layers, SCAPE 2008 is interested in researching drivers behind global conditions of change in cities, mapping the complex textures and terrains that are specific to Christchurch city and creating a spatial dialogue that brings forward aspects of the city that resonate with global issues.

The SCAPE Christchurch Biennial is New Zealand’s only international biennial dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art in public space. It plays a unique and important role as it focuses on commissioning new works of art. This year approximately 90 per cent of the artworks shown in the Biennial will premiere in Christchurch..

Artists: AVL - Atelier van Lieshout (The Netherlands), Billy Apple (New Zealand/United States); Hannah & Aaron Beehre (New Zealand), Erick Beltrán (Mexico), Guillaume Bijl (Belgium), Elmgreen & Dragset (Norway/Denmark), Ayşe Erkmen (Germany/Turkey), Pat Foster & Jen Berean (Australia), Carmela Gross (Brazil), Lonnie Hutchison (New Zealand), Ann Veronica Janssens (Belgium), Paul Johns (New Zealand), Maider López (Spain), Tea Mäkipää (Finland), Callum Morton (Australia), Tatzu Oozu (Germany/Japan), James Oram (New Zealand), Murat & Fuat Şahinler (Turkey), Karin Sander (Germany), Marnie Slater (NZ), Ron Terada (Canada), ZUS - Zones Urbaines Sensibles (The Netherlands), Felice Varini (France/Switzerland)

o-curated by Turkey’s internationally renowned Fulya Erdemci and New Zealand’s Danae Mossman.

SCAPE previews 19 September, following the 2nd Singapore Biennale (9, 10 Sep) and the 6th Taipei Biennial (11, 12 Sep). Direct flights are available from Singapore to Christchurch and from Taipei (via Singapore or Sydney) to Christchurch.

Focusing on creative strategies and possible futures for art in public space the SCAPE 2008 Public Programme is concentrated over the opening weekend 20-21 September.

*at Christchurch Art Gallery until 30 Nov

References

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Los Angeles: 1998
İbid.

The second volume of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series asks the question: what lessons can architecture learn from software development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement? Written in the form of a quasi-license, Urban Versioning System 1.0 posits seven constraints that, if followed, will contribute to an open source urbanism that radically challenges the conventional ways in which cities are constructed.

About the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series [Series Editors: Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard :: Published by the Architectural League of New York]

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series extends a discourse initiated in the summer of 2006 by a three-month-long discussion on the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) mailing list that culminated in the Architecture and Situated Technologies Symposium at the Urban Center and Eyebeam in New York, co-produced by the Center for Virtual Architecture (CVA), the Architectural League of New York and the iDC. The series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: how our experience of space and the choices we make within it are affected by a range of mobile, pervasive, embedded or otherwise “situated” technologies. Published three times a year over three years, the series is structured as a succession of nine “conversations” between researchers, writers and other practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

About the Architectural League: The mission of the Architectural League is to advance the art of architecture. The League carries out its mission by promoting excellence and innovation, and by fostering community and discussion in an independent forum for creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines. We present the work and ideas of the world’s most interesting and influential architects and designers to New York, national and international audiences, through lectures, exhibitions, publications, and the worldwide web. We identify and encourage talented young architects, through competitions, grants, exhibitions, and publications. And we help shape the future of our built environment by stimulating debate and provoking design thinking about the critical issues of our time.

The Architectural League is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. League programs are also made possible by contributions from foundations, corporations, and League members and friends.

in absentia is presented by DARE-DARE Centre de diffusion dart multidisciplinaire de Montral, located in Montreal in a park with no name between Saint-Laurent and Clark, between Arcade and the Rosemont/Van Horne overpass. The launch party will take place on June 24, 5-11 pm in the park with no name. This event is free and open to the public. There will be DJs and a cash bar and a possibly a laser light show if we find the time.

in absentia is a web-based writing project that addresses issues of gentrification and its erasures in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. In recent years many long-time low-income neighbours being forced out of Mile End by gentrification. So far fiction is the best way I’ve found to give voice these disappeared neighbours, and the web is the best place I’ve found to situate their stories. Our stories. My building is for sale; my family may be next. Faced with imminent eviction I’ve begun to write as if I’m no longer here, about a Mile End that is no longer here. By manipulating the Google Maps API, I am able to populate “real” satellite images of my neighbourhood with “fictional” characters and events. in absentia is a web “site” haunted by the stories of former residents of Mile End, a slightly fantastical world, a shared memory of the neighbourhood as it never really was but as it could have been.

The project will launch in Montreal in the Mile End’s parc sans nom on June 24, 2008 from 5-11PM. New stories will continue to be added until November 30, 2008.

The launch of in absentia marks the end of DARE-DARE’s Dis/location: projet d’articulation urbaine. On July 1st, DARE-DARE’s blue trailer will leave the vacant lot that was its home for two years and move towards Montreal’s downtown, in Cabot Square, corner Sainte-Catherine and Atwater. The launch of in absentia will be the last event held in the Mile End’s parc sans nom, so come on out and help make it a great one.

SmartCity is an artistic project of research and production on the theme of the European city of
the future. It aims at exploring the new possibilities of artistic intervention in the urban space. At the forefront of new practices, SmartCity invites artists, architects, designers, researchers, engineers and groups of citizens to operate on a rereading of urban space. The project offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable city, centered around the citizen.

SmartCity is an European program of meetings, production and experimental workshops, production of artists’ projects in the urban space and events: monumental audiovisual installations, performances, locative art, sound design, ephemeral or interactive architectures, projects involving inhabitants, urban game art, installations in the shops, etc.

The call for projects SmartCity 2008 is already closed. You were many who sent us your propositions and we thank you for it. The selection is in progress. The answers will be communicated in the course of July. Within the framework of our permanent day and activities 2009, you can thus continue to send us your propositions.

Besides, Dedale appeals to specific projects in partnership with the Citéinternationale universitaire de Paris /
CitéCulture.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEDALE / CITE INTERNATIONALE UNIVERSITAIRE DE PARIS

In the frame of the SmartCity project, Dedale and the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris jointly invite artists to realise an art project on the Cité territory.

Objectives :
To propose to a wide public a second reading of urban space and territorial issues, working on the modification of territory perception. To present projects directly connected with the inhabitants daily, their practices and urban environment, based on territorial characteristics (architectural, social,
historical and geographical).

Art fields concerned :
Visual arts, live art, architecture, sound and interactive design.

Action territory: the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. The Cité internationale is located on a wooded park of 34 hectares in the south of the French capital and represents the largest concentration of residence halls in Paris and the Ile-de-France region: 5 500 beds in 37 residences. The residents - students, researchers, artists, etc. - come from more than 130 nationalities. From its creation, these has contributed to make the Cité a space of encounters and cultural exchanges. The strong artistic activity of the Cité enables to enhance this intercultural mix.

Identified as a laboratory of architectural innovation from its first building phase around 1925 and during the second wave in the 60’s, the Cité has to face the challenge of a new urban planning today.The Cité site presents many various communication axes, having for effect to produce several nuisances. The most important is the south ring road, made up of 5 lanes. There is also the RER line, the David-Weill avenue, an aqueduct underground line, etc. The harmonisation of the site and the regulation of the generated pollutions are right now the main priority for the Cité.

More information on:
www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

Thematic:
In the south park, the ring road cuts the Cité in! to two parts: Paris part and Gentilly district part. For the moment, the only way to join the two sides by foot is limited by two narrow footbridges. Around the main topic of the ring road integration, artists are invited to shape new connexions between the Cité internationale and Gentilly.

Nature of the researched projects :
- Monumental audiovisual installations
- Strolling projects and artistic tours, connexions between residence hall
- Installations / ephemeral and interactive architectures
- Art project involving nature
- Sound design of public spaces, infrastructures, buildings
- Art projects involving the residents of the Cité and the inhabitants of the Gentilly city
- Urban game art
- Locative art
- Projects using mobile technologies, interactivity and ICT
- Projects connected with urban pollutions: sound, visual, atmospheric, electromagnetic
pollutions

: A minimum 10 000 ¤ will be given to the project ::

: Deadline for project submission:: 30 July 2008

: How to apply ::
You need to send by post :
- a project presentation and a production budget
- an artist biography
- CD-ROM or DVD for illustrating your project

To the following address:
Dedale
23, rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
France

Presentation of the call to projects’ carriers :

Dedale : Dédale is a platform of search, production and distribution (dedicated to the art and to the new media in Europe. It organizes, particularly since 2002, the Emergences festival, an international
meeting of the new artistic forms and the new technologies in Paris (meetings, shows, installations, electronic musics). http://www.festival-emergences.info

CitéCulture / Cité internationale CitéCulture is the cultural center of the Cité Internationale. It intervenes mainly in the domains of music, architecture and visual arts. Centered on the artistic experiment and the exchange between the cultures, CitéCulture welcomes foreign artists, manages working spaces, makes students and Parisians discover the contemporary creation and sensibilize them to architecture and urbanism. http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

More information :

Map and pictures of the Cité Internationale de Paris (format pdf, 628 ko)

[...] To begin the present discussion, I re-purpose the term “telepathic communication” as a rhetorical tool. By telepathic communication I mean the current and future set of personal mobile communications devices, services and infrastructure – from simple mobile phones to immersive, shared augmented reality.7 As one of the leading legitimate scientific investigators of psychic phenomena described it:

We venture to introduce the words Telesthesia and Telepathy to cover all cases of impression received at a distance without the normal operation of the recognised sense organs. These general terms may, we think, be found of permanent service.

“Of permanent service”, indeed. The adoption of this term is intended to focus our attention on the cognitive and sensory nature of mobile communications over the purely functional, social aspects. That is, by employing this term, I seek to emphasize the nature of mobile communications as an extension of the self, rather than exclusively a media for social communication…” — Thinking in Telepathic Cities [PDF] by Anthony Townsend.

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.