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Clubbing
Lunchmeat Festival - 09-14/03/10 - Prague
Conception of multimedia Lunchmeat festival is obvious: a musician and a visual artist drawn together, the sound and the image as equal parts of one corpus.
Clubbing - Vjing - Electronica

New Media
Futurologia / russian utopias - 05/03-23/05/10 - Moscow
Futurologia explores the legacy of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, showing how the work of pioneering artist Kazimir Malevich continues to influence Russian artists today
New Media

Virtual Worlds
Remap Berlin - 05-21/03/10 - Twinity
The exhibition hall “Altes Museum” in the virtual world Twinity will open the exhibition: Remap Berlin by the Italian artist and photographer Marco “Manray” Cadioli
Virtual Worlds - Software Art - Networking

Art+Science
Tomas Saraceno - until 20/06/10 - Stockholm
Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first major presentation of the renowned artist Tomás Saraceno's work in Europe, with new works shown for the first time
Art+science - Hyper Architecture - Design

Audiovideo
AV festival 10 - 05-14/03/10 - Many Cities
AV Festival 10 the biennial international festival of electronic arts returns from 5-14 March 2010. This year the curatorial theme is energy, explored as a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life.
Audiovideo - New Media - Design

Audiovideo
Sonic Acts 2010 - 25-28/02/10 - Amsterdam
Sonic Acts is one of the most important festival in Europe on audiovisual art and practices. It took place out of different venues in Amsterdam, from De Balie to Paradiso and NIMK
Audiovideo - Live Media - Electronica - Live Cinema

Video Art
Arrested Time - 26/02-03/04/10 - Adams (MA)
Arrested Time is an exhibition of works combining contemporary technologies with traditional drawing and printmaking methods. Curated by Jo-Anne Green
Virtual Worlds - Video Art - New Media

Interaction Design
Vectoral Elevation winter olympics - until 28/02/10 - Vancouver
“Vectorial Elevation” is an interactive artwork that allows you to direct powerful light beams and transform Vancouver’s skyline between February 4 - 28, 2010.
Net Art - Interaction Design - Public Art

Sound Art
Madrid Abierto 2010 - until 28/02/10 - Madrid
The first edition of MADRID ABIERTO as a biennial event and the theme for this edition is collaboration. The open call for works announced its openness for proposals that spans across disciplines
Sound Art - Public Art

Sound Art
Florian Hecker Exhibition - 12/02-28/03/10 - London
Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces
Sound Art - Experimental

New Media Art Market
Expanded Box - 17-21/02/10 - Madrid
Once again, ARCOmadrid is opening up its own particular “black box” to provide room for renowned international artists using new media in their works. Curated by Domenico Quaranta
New Media Art Market - New Media Art - Net Art

Graphic Animation
Theorizing Animation: Content & Context
In consideration of what seems like an explosion of online and museum exhibitions celebrating animation, we would like to spend the month considering the intersection between art, animation, and theory
Video Art - Graphic Animation

Audiovideo
Sonic Acts XIII - 25-28/02/2010 - Amsterdam
The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. The Expanded Space programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema
Audiovideo - Live Media - Video Art

New Media
Lovebytes 2010 - Sheffield
Lovebytes is a cultural festival for the digital age. A season of extraordinary events taking place at some of Sheffield's landmark venues and public spaces, from February to June 2010
New Media - Software Art - Interaction Design

Performing Art
Digital Incarnate - 08/02-02/04/2010 - Chicago
Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media, is an investigation through multiple lenses to explore the body and identity as they are transformed through technological evolution
Performing Art - Interaction Design - Video Art

New Media
Artefact Festival - 09-14/02/2010 - Leuven
In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed?
New Media - Networking

New Media
Kinetica Art Fair 2010 - 04-07/02/2010 - London
Robots Drawing Humans, Light Beings, World Pioneering Kinetic Masters, Work from Cybernetic Serendipity and a Giant Orchestral Milk Float, All Part of Kinetica Art Fair 2010, developed by Kinetica Museum
New Media - Technology - Audiovideo

New Media
transmediale.10 - 02-07/02/2010 - Berlin
The transmediale 2010 festival kicks off at Berlin's House of World Cultures with a welcome address by Computer Art pioneer Herbert W. Franke and a special live concert featuring Charlemagne Palestine
New Media - Audiovisual - Video Art - Software Art

Networking
The Wave Opus 1 - 19-20/02/10 - Berlin
WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion « Innovative Artistic and Economic Practices » and WJ-SPOTS Berlin « 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet » will be part of the program of transmediale 2010
New Media - Networking - Net Art

Hack Art
The Influencers - 04-06/02/10 - Barcelona
Art, communication guerrilla, radical entertainment presentations, screenings, workshops, actions. The Influcencers is a project by Bani Brusadin, Eva & Franco Mattes: 0100101110101101.ORG
Hacktivism - Net Art - Hack Art

Hack Art
Foodpower performance - 02/02/10 - Milan
At 5.30PM Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food-I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi
Hack Art

Design
The Storyteller - 29/01-09/04/10 - New York
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center presents The Storyteller, an exhibition exploring how contemporary artists use narrative as a way to understand the social and political events of our time
New Media - Design

Networkign
Around Simulation: Yasmin Discussion
A Yasmin discussion for January / February titled Around Simulation. Moderated by Pier Luigi Capucci and Jennifer Kanary Nikolov. it wish to answer to some questions. What is simulation? How does it work?
Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Networking

Video Art
...On the Eastern Front - 22-01/07/03/2010 - Budapest
The exhibition examines the effects of the changes taking place on the area of the former "Soviet block" on the individual and the different groups of society from the aspect of socio - psychology
Video Art

Audiovideo
Netmage 10 - 21-23/01/2010 - Bologna
The tenth edition of the Netmage festival presents an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations
Live Media - Audiovideo - Electronica - Video Art

Audiovideo
Sonic Acts XIII - 21-23/02/2010 - Amsterdam
The XIII Sonic Acts Festival is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. It examines the importance of physical space in times
Live Media - Audiovideo - Electronica - Video Art

Hack Art
Beggar's Food: Foodpower performance - 02/02/2010 - Milan
Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food | I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi
Hack Art

Art + Science
Cloud Core Scanner - 15/01-27/02/2010 - Berlin
Artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, was invited by the German Aerospace Center to participate in one of its zero-g flights and to work under conditions of weightlessness on her art project Cloud Core Scanner
Art + Science

Technology
The Artwork Between Technology & Nature 21-23/01/2010 - Aarhus
Aarhus University and the national art museum in Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, are organizing an international conference entitled The Artwork between Technology and Nature
Technology - Hacktivism - Art & Science

Software Art
Iannis Xenakis - 15/01-08/04/2010 - New York
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), one of the most important figures in twentieth-century music
Experimental - Electronica

Software Art
Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum - 14/01/2010 - London
The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new development in computer music research, livecoding. Several London-based researchers will perform a short piece using livecoding techniques
Software Art - Electronica - Live Media - Free Software

Art+Science
The Universe Resounds - 12/01/2010 - New York
An interdisciplinary examination of painting, synesthesia and abstraction from modern to contemporary times, including from the perspectives of art history, neuroscience, music, film, physics & performance
Audiovisual - Art+science

Software Art
Venus 2.0 - until 27/01/2010 - Berlin
The [DAM]Berlin contemporart art gallery will for the first time in Europe exhibit new software works by Mark Napier in the form of objects, life-size and smaller prints and a projection
Software Art - Net Art - New Media Art Market

Graphic Design
Decode: Digital Design Sensation - 08/12/09-11/04/2010 - London
Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases, at Royal Albert Museum, the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations
Graphic Design - Software Art - Generative Art - Interaction Design


Slideshow Digicult Flickr account. It makes a collection of pictures and moments from events that professionally involved Digicult in the last years. But also exhibitions, reviews and cultural events that we simply visited. Created with flickr slideshow.

PIET ZWART INSTITUTE: call for applications
MASTER OF MEDIA DESIGN & COMUNICATION


A Master programme focused on a critical engagement with the culture of the Internet and computer media, their artistic design, technology and theory; a small (20 students in total), English-taught, two-year full-time Master course with a multidisciplinary community of students and teachers, and a strong emphasis on personal contact and collaboration. A challenging programme with trimestrial thematic projects, theory sessions and a technical course.  Students receive
strong tutorial support with weekly individual meetings with both staff and guests.

Application Deadline: 1 May 2010
DANUBE UNIVERSITY: call for applications
INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES


The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki Huhtamo, Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Paul Sermon, Edward Shanken, Jens Huaser, Sean Cubitt, Christa Sommerer, Gerfried Stocker, Knowbotic Research, Frieder Nake, Oliver Grau. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis.

Application Deadline: 28 March 2010
JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE: call for applications
FINE ART, DESIGN OR THEORY RESEARCHER


Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions. Candidates are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians who have won their spurs globally. The researchers can also avail themselves of facilities that support their projects

Deadline: 15 April 2010

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POWER PERFORMANCE

Created at Mutek festival
at Monument National (Montréal) in May 2009, POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations.
SKETCH-A-MOVE

Sketch-a-Move is a 5 weeks project by Loiuse Victoria Kinkler did with Anab Jain. The brief was set by Mattel Hotwheels to come up with a new concept for their small toycars.
BUSCANDO SR.GOODBAR

Buscando Al Sr.Goodbar from Transmediale award winning Michelle Terran, is a journey through Murcia, that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos.



DIGITAL ZOETROPE

Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year’s festival 'Citystates'. Opting to create an installation and identity that integrate into each other, Troika designed a modern digital zoetrope as the cornerstone of the identity.

SILICON DREAMS

The exhibition, Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union, will take place at Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián It explores the convergence of these three fields from the perspective of a group of artists


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: POLITICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA

It is an abstract submission for an edited book on the creation, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and Middle East. The intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.



555 KUBIK

555 KUBIK "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle

CALL: CYNETARTS

TMA Hellerau hosts the international competition of Cynetart, an digital art and technology festival, that takes place in Dresden, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects. The call for entries ends bu will be extended until March 2010

INJECT BY HERMAN KOLGEN

It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the INJECT project. The genesis of the principal visual material for this project was a shoot, in an immense cistern filled with water, which lasted six consecutive days.


LIGHT BULB

light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.







QUADRILATERAL BIENNAL 2009. CORNERS AND INTERSECTIONS
Angoli e intersezioni (Corners and intersections)....
Giulia Simi

JOURNALISM IS A PROCESS, NOT A PRODUCT. AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID COHN FROM SPOT.US
American Journalist,...
Simona Fiore

TOWARDS THE EDGE OF CHAOS: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEONARDO SOLAAS
Born in Argentina, the artist Leonardo Solaas lives...
Jeremy Levine

WARREN NEIDICH, BETWEEN BRAIN AND CULTURE
The emerging of new technologies implies mutations which have...
Tiziana Gemin

RAN SLAVIN, IMPROVISATION LIVE CINEMA
In the international panorama of audiovisual performances, one of...
Bertram Niessen
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ART TECH MEDIA 2009. SCI-FI JOURNEY BETWEEN SCIENCE & CULTURE
After a year of intense activity, including...
Barbara Sansone

VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON
The idea that music and moving images were somehow connected dates back to Newton...
Monica Ponzini

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Regent's Park it's a beautiful park in the heart of London. But for the last three years,...
Sarah Nussenblatt

MACHINES AND SOULS
“Machines and Souls”, an extremely well chosen title for an exhibition that is really...
Barbara Sansone

THE DIGITAL MARKET OF ELEKTRA
Last 6th and 7th of May Montreal's Cinémathèque Québécoise has hosted for...
Donata Marletta
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CONNECTIVISM & OPEN EDUCATION. EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE
“A property of one entity must lead to or become...
Simona Fiore

WOMEN IN (VIDEO)GAME. GENDER LUDIC CULTURE
On 25-26 March at the University of Bradford in England it...
Luigi Ghezzi

MINDFUL TECHNOLOGIES. AWARE OBJECTS AND ECO-VISUALIZATIONS
Visual voltage is the travelling exhibition...
Serena Cangiano

WE ARE NOT ALONE - PART 1
We are not alone. The philosophical observation of the technological contemporary...
Salvatore Iaconesi

GEERT LOVINK: LIST CULTURE AND THE ART OF MODERATION
Geert Lovink is one of the most influential cultures...
Donata Marletta
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UCLA SCI | ART NANOLAB 2010
LOS ANGELES: 21 JUNE / 2 JULY 2010

A two week summer course including lecture, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, offered through UCLA's Summer
Institute. Open to high school students. This introductory studio / lab course explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences - bio and
nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific
research study.

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OFFF FESTIVAL
PARIS: 24-26 JUNE 2010

Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases this year in Paris top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms.

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