Call for Works for the first Canadian 60×60 Project (2008) :: Deadline: March 31, 2008 (postmark).

Vox Novus, in collaboration with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), is inviting composers to submit recorded works 60 seconds or less in duration to be included in the first Canadian version of the annual 60×60 Project. 60 compositions will be selected to be played continuously in a one-hour concert. The Canadian 60×60 concert season will begin with a debut in Montréal and continue throughout Canada in venues to be announced. Concerts may also include a visual component (a clock, video clips, spectrographs, dance, etc.). Continue reading

“Ecological Art is an art practice, often in collaboration with scientists, city planners, and architects that results in direct intervention in environmental degradation. Often, the artist is the lead agent in that practice.” Aviva Rahmani, 2006

Virtual Cities and Oceans of If - An International Virtual Residency and Event on Global Warming hosted by Aviva Rahmani on TalkShoe.com. Virtual Cities and Oceans of If addresses global warming and political conflicts by demonstrating, analyzing and interpreting the local impact of global warming at international real world sites. Aviva Rahmani talks with artists, scientists, and others every Tuesday morning at 10 am. Guests are ecological art practitioners and affiliates. Continue reading

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) & the Mississauga Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC) will serve up an audio feast in celebration of Art’s Birthday on January 17, 2008. While Mississauga sound and media artists perform in the Civic Centre, special guests will be beamed in via the Internet from Japan, Vienna and other parts of the world.

Art’s Birthday 2008 Mississauga will take place at the Great Hall in the Mississauga Civic Centre on January 17, 2008, 2-10 pm :: Admission & Parking are FREE (note: buses are also available from Toronto). CKLN radio will broadcast the day’s activities both on radio from 2 to 5 p.m. and on the Internet from 2 to 10 p.m. Continue reading

KCRW will air a story on Blue Morph by Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski, on Studio 360 :: December 9, 2007; 6:00 pm (PST) / on WBUR Boston, 90.9 FM on Saturdays at 7:00 PM. Check Station Listings for your area.

Blue Morph is an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Nanotechnology is changing our perception of life and this is symbolic in the Blue Morpho butterfly with the optics involved - that beautiful blue color is not pigment at all but patterns and structure which is what nano-photonics is centered on studying. Continue reading

INVITATION TO JOIN KUNSTRADIO’S CELEBRATION OF ART’S BIRTHDAY 2008! Celebrating Art’s Birthday is a tradition started by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on January 17th 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when somebody dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.

Throughout the last decades artists have continued organising annual celebrations in the spirit of Filliou’s “Eternal Network” or “La Fête permanente”. In 2008 people all over the world will again be preparing numerous networked birthday parties for art, several of these under the motto “Forever Young”. Continue reading

Backyard Radio Berlin: Imagine Radio 2.0 :: November 1-4, 2007 :: livestream & podcasts; microradio transmissions: 107.7FM

Micro.fm snatches the radio from tv towers and broadcasting agencies and instead of showering down on the city, the radio waves beam out of the districts and neighborhoods. Micro.fm uses small fm transmitters and wireless access points to broadcast in an area like a house or a neighborhood, it allows everybody with broadband access to run a tiny radio transmitter covering the own block. Everyone who passionately cares about his or her neighborhood adopts the medium and populates the ether. Backyard Radio reintroduces radio into the context of social media and peer to peer networks. A digitized version of the micro radio of the early 80’s, it is a great pleasure to have Tetsuo Kogawa present with the Radia.Fm Network. A long weekend of lectures, workshops, concerts and broadcasts take radio art apart and put it back together again. Continue reading