Art+Communication X: SPECTROPIA :: October 16-19, 2008 :: Riga, Latvia :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: April 21, 2008.

…Electromagnetic fields are biologically active. Emitting from every electronic device, electromagnetic fields affect our body and the living nature. They interact with the natural emissions and intersect the boundaries of our planet. Invisible and omnipresent, electromagnetic fields have become ghosts of the modern world…

Entitled SPECTROPIA, this year’s festival - organised by RIXC - continues artistic explorations within the invisible space of electromagnetic spectrum surrounding us. The festival programme will feature 3-day SPECTROPIA exhibition with live events, workshops and artists presentations. It will be accompanied by international conference, performances, film and video screenings. Continue reading

Acoustic Space Issue # 7: SPECTROPIA - On Spectral Ecology and Art :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for abstracts - April 21, 2007 :: We are seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic Space journal to be published for the next Art+Communication Festival. Entitled SPECTROPIA, this year festival edition will take place in Riga, October 16 - 19, 2008.

The print journal, Acoustic Space is a forum for net.radio, sound art and creative explorations in the networked electro-acoustic environments. Now in its 7th edition, Acoustic Space - SPECTROPIA issue investigates the rapid transformation of the usage of the radio frequency spectrum that we are witnessing in the 21st century. Continue reading

The eXtensible Electric Guitar Festival is set to begin tonight, and runs April 4-5 at Clark University in Worcester, MA USA.

Since its development in the mid-twentieth century, the electric guitar has had a profound influence on many aspects of music, creating new sounds, spurring the development of new musical styles, and reshaping concepts of musicianship. In the early twenty first century, despite retaining its iconic status as a symbol of innovation and transgression, the electric guitar and its uses now seem commonplace, almost routine; in short, the instrument may be in danger of losing its edge. The Extensible Electric Guitar Festival aims to rediscover and showcase the electric guitar’s spirit of innovation and exploration. More information and the schedule of events. Continue reading

Netaudio, the Offline Festival for Online Music comes back to London after a great festival in Berlin in 2007: Netaudio’08 will take place from October 22 to 25 at Shunt, a extensive labyrinth of tunnels underneath London Bridge Station. Over four nights we will celebrate the creative output of networked musicians and online communities with talks, workshops, showcases and performances.

Parts of Netaudio’08 will be programmed through an open call for entries. With this call we would like to give you the chance to put our attention to your creative activities related to the festival theme. Call for entries runs in 3 strands: performance, installation and conference. Download the entry forms.

Sonic Fragments: Narrative and Mediation in Sound Art - A two-day festival and symposium :: March 28-29, 2008 :: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ :: Free and open to the public.

Please join us as we host an international group of scholars and practitioners who are gathering to explore the roles of narrative and mediation in art practices that engage sound as a material. The symposium will consist of three panel discussions as well as an exhibition of audio-works for portable music players made expressly for the geography, architecture, and social spaces of the Princeton University campus. Continue reading

MATA presents its 10th Annual Festival of New Music :: March 31 - April 4, 2008 :: Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

The 2008 MATA festival features a collaboration with the Diapason Gallery for Sound Art, and will present a sound installation that runs for the length of the festival including works by Micah Silver, Lief Enge, Michael Schumacher, Marina Rosenfeld and many others. Admission to the installation is free. Continue reading

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) :: Stevens Institute of Technology, Babbio Center (River & 6th Streets) in Hoboken, NJ :: April 5, 2008 :: all events are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Art & Technology Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, founded in 1966 by engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, and artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, to provide artists with access to new technology and to promote collaborations between artists and engineers. Continue reading

Pekarnananana :: March 20, 2008 - Ljubljana :: March 21-22, 2008 - Maribor :: With Brian Mackern, Strotter Inst., Incite, Fouad Bouchoucha & Yann Gerstberger, Fouad Bouchoucha, Freeze Da Booty Hunter, Jankenpopp, T’m, Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Program here.

Pekarnananana is the very first edition of a radical multimedia experience. A brand new event which gathers performers and artists from all over the world on a special time giving focus to contemporary performance practices. Initiated by the collective La Vitrine, Pekarnananana aims to hear from a broad range of nowadays artists, working within the realms of new music, sound and visual media. A fair cultural program featuring enlarged practices propitious for discoveries that sets the appointment with authentic and updated art forms. The event hands to you a ticket towards unexpected and rich performer’s stages.

Curated by James Webb, NewMusicSA’s 2nd Unyazi Festival, Fear of the Known, is a festival of “extreme listening” featuring some of the most adventurous sound artists, theorists and experimental musicians from South Africa and the rest of the world.

Fear of the Known will be hosted at the University of Cape Town (March 12), the University of Stellenbosch (March 14 + 15) and at the University of the Witwatersrand (March 16). Details >>.

The Mapping Festival is getting actively prepared! It will take place in Geneva (CH) from April 10 - 20. The Mapping Festival has been promoting VJing and live video mixing for 4 years. As a digital creation laboratory, the festival has won an international reference status in the world of audiovisual arts.

During the 10 days of the festival, you will be able to see multimedia installations, AV performances, lectures, workshops, concerts and clubbing nights, between the Centre of Contemporary Art, the Spoutnik cinema, l’Etage, and the Zoo/Usine.

Ez3kiel (Jarring Effect – F) Live :: Shy Fx (Digital Soundboy - UK) DJ Set :: Samim feat Miguel Toro (Get Physical – CH/DE) Live :: The Bloody Beetroots (Mental Groove - IT) DJ Set Continue reading