New Media Jenny Holzer - until 14/11/10 - Montreal
For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer's work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities. In this exhibition, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty New Media - Design
Video Art Pipilotti Rist: Friendly Game - 08-25/07/10 - Barcelona
The Fundació Joan Miró and the Fundació Caixa Girona present Friendly Game–Electronic Feelings, an exhibition by Pipilotti Rist, winner of the 2009 Joan Miró Prize, with the support of art collector, Han Nefkens Video Art - Video Clip
Hack Art Google Wars: An Island of Doubt - 19/07/10 - Montreal
The 90-minute performance will feature Johannes Grenzfurthner, member of the Austrian art collective monochrom, as the Game Master, and four Montrealers from the creative scene as improvisational players Networking - Hack Art - Hacktivism
New Media Artplatform Zebrastraat - Gent
At the occasion of the third biennale for contemporary technological art in the Zebrastraat, Gent, Belgium, the New Technological Art Award Foundation Liedts-Meesen goes to the work Gravity of Julien Gachadoat New Media
Audiovideo Live Media & FLOSS workshop - 26-30/07/10 - London
In-depth Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance seminary using FLOSS. Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool Audiovideo - Electronica - Free Software - Open Source
Performing Art Teatro a corte - 08-25/07/10 - Turin
The best of European panorama, with performances of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, acrobatics, street theatre, equestrian theatre, objects, videos and installations, is the protagonist of unique events Performing Art - Video Art
Net Art Feed Back - 08-24/07/10 - Los Angeles
48 artisti da oltre 18 paesi si riuniscono al LACDA tramite lo spazio di performance in rete Live@808. Live@808 è un'applicazione web in cui video, audio e numerosi altri media si scontrano Net Art - Networking - Video Art - Free Software
Social Media Mapping for Clarity - 06-09/07/10 - Amsterdam
The second evening of Map Fest is dedicated to Mapping for Clarity. Guests are Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. Urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen will be moderating the evening Social Media - Networking - Design
Hyper Architecture V2: The Invisible City - 08/07/10 - Rotterdam
To rethink the ‘invisible city’ under the pressure of rapid urbanization, this edition of Test_Lab will feature a selection of graduated artists, architects, designers from European art and design academies Hyper Architecture - Networking - Social Media - Public Art
Hacktivism Arts Catalyst: Arctic Perspective - 18/06-10/10/10 - Dortmund
Simultaneous exhibitions of photographs, videos, maps and architectural models from work by the Arctic Perspective Initiative are displayed in London and Dortmund this summer. Hacktivism - Locative Media - Social Media - Technology
Audiovideo Rojo Nova at MIS - 01/07-15/08/10 - Sao Paulo
In 2010 MIS celebrates its 40° anniversary introducing ROJO®NOVA – Contemporary Culture, a collaborative exhibition organizd by ROJO® Audiovideo - Electronica - Graphic Design - Interaction Design
Software Art Ape-X: Andre Sier Solo Exhibition - 18/06-31/07/10 - Lodz
Andre Sier works as intermedia artist and programmer. He studied philosophy, painting and sculpting. He creates objects that needs audiovisual programming lenguages Software Art - Generative Art
Live Media Messmatik: Luminokinetika - until 31/07/10 - Rotterdam
'Studies of light before the live' and 'Luminokinetika' is a solo exhibition in two parts by Messmatik. The first part will be presented in HBgalerie in the form of a photo-installation Audiovideo - Live Media
Video Art Moving Images - until 31/10/10 - Koln
The Museum Ludwig presents since 30 years its first ever overview of its wide-ranging collection of film and video works. Many installations will be presented that extend into the third dimension Video Art - Experimental Cinema - Audiovisual Design
Hacking Mal au Pixel 2010 - 20-27/06/10 - Paris
Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. Hacking - Hacking Design - Technology - Free Software
Electronica Sonar 2010: Saturday 19th Program - 16-19/06/10 - Barcelona
Sonar by Night presents shows by The Chemical Brothers, Roxy Music, Fuck Buttons and Matthew Herbert’s One Club, the Lucky Me showcase and dj sessions by DJ Hell, Angel Molina, Dixon Electronica - Clubbing - Experimental
Electronica Sonar 2010: Friday 18th June Program - 16-19/06/10 - Barcelona
Sónar by night presents the live shows by LCD Soundsystem, Air, Plastikman, The Mary Anne Hobbs showcase and sets by 2manydjs, Magda, Claude VonStroke and Hudson Mohawke, among many others Clubbing - Electronica - Experimental
Electronica Sonar 2010: Thursday 17th Program - 16-19/06/10 - Barcelona
The first day of the festival programme features acts by Caribou, Broadcast, Cluster, Tristan Perich, Speech Debelle and Pete Tong, among many others artists, musicians and audiovisuals Electronica - Clubbing - Live Media - Audiovideo
New Media Sonarmatica 2010 - 16-19/06/10 - Barcelona
SonarMàtica splits itself in two this year for Sonar 2010 Barcelona and Sonar 2010 Galicia, two different exhibitions which can be seen in Barcelona and A Coruña on 17th, 18th and 19th June. New Media - Robotics - Artificial Intelligence
Electronica Sonar 2010 - 16-19/06/10 - Barcelona
Sonar, the advanced music and multimedia art festival, takes place in Barcelona every year during three days in June. Sonar’s diverse artistic offer splits between the Sonar by Day and Sonar by Night Electronica - Clubbing - Experimental
Experimental Cinema Celluloid. Cameraless Film - until 29/08/10 - Frankfurt
This exhibition focuses on a particular film genre in which footage images are created directly on film stock. As opposed to other forms of film, the material is removed from its conventional context of use Experimental Cinema - Audiovideo - Video Art
Graphic Design Direcktorenhaus Berlin
Last May 28th, 2010 the Direktorenhaus opened a new art space in Berlin, an experimental laboratory for the synthesis of the arts. Traditional crafts will be combined with analogue techniques and digital media Design - Graphic Design - New Media
New Media Persistence of Vision - until 05/09/10 - Liverpool
How does memory influence what we see? What part does technology play in shaping both how we see and what we remember? FACT presents an exhibition exploring the relationship between vision, memory and media New Media - Audiovideo
New Media II European Conference - 10/06/10 & 16/06/10 - Bilbao & Madrid
Our current everyday lives reflect a panorama of global, political, social and economic uncertainties and therefore raises the need to respond with imaginative initiatives that might help to develop new models New Media
New Media Matt Mullican Solo Exhibition - 04/06 - 29/08/10 - Villeurbanne
The IAC is presenting the largest solo exhibition by Matt Mullican, in which the artist has opted for putting his oeuvre into perspective in a mode combining the experimental and the archival New Media
Audiovideo LaptopsRus Meeting - 04-06/06/10 - Madrid
LaptopsRus concludes its touring season with a spectacular performance at Matadero Madrid, a conference at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and an AVLAB workshop at Medialab Prado Audiovideo - Live Media - Vjing - Free Software
New Media Symposium: Medialibraries And Archives - 28-29/05/10 - Gijon
The current situation of art and research centres calls for a new, groundbreaking approach to forms of conserving and documenting new media projects and collections and making them available to the user New Media
Interaction Design SVA MFA: Thesis Exhibition 2010 - 21/05-25/06/10 - New York
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the MFA Computer Art Thesis Exhibition 2010, bringing together creative projects from graduating students. The exhibition is curated by Charley Lewis Interaction Design - Networking - Audiovideo - New Media
Hyper Architecture V2 Test Lab: Urban Screen Series - 20-21/05/10 - Rotterdam
A screen is a powerful medium in an artist’s hands. Urban screens can therefore be seen as an ideal tool for artistic public interventions as well as an exciting new exhibition format Hyper Architecture - Networking - Social Media - Hacking
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.
NIMK AMSTERDAM: call for general/artistc director
The NIMk is seeking an artistic generalist with knowledge of and a vision for new media art, who will further expand the tasks and programmes of the Institute: a person with vision, whose innovative ideas and élan will define the new course of the NIMk. The candidate has acquired experience in the direction or management of an institution involved with presentation or collection, and is able to give form to aspirations in concrete projects and products in an inspiring manner: exhibitions and other public events, expert meetings and publications, feeling at home in the network of visual art and new media.
MEDIA ART HISTORIES MEETING: call for projects
The Media Art Histories Board invites applications to host the 5th
International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology. The conference series aims to engage a growing
community of scholars from a range of disciplines including art history,
contemporary art practice, art theory, history of science, history of
technology, science studies, media studies, sociology,
philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, music
history, information sciences, visual studies and
critical theory, to develop new research in the fields of the histories of media art,
science and technology
The new 'Open Web Award 2011' - a special third platform for creative
excellence alongside the 'transmediale Award 2011' and the 'Vilém
Flusser Theory Award 2011' is a new platform aimed at highlighting and
promoting radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:
are on the web and about the web; use open source and free technology (may they be soft- or hardware); incite participation and/or collaboration. The winner(s) of the 'Open Web Award 2011' will receive a total prize
of 5000 EUR, and be given the opportunity to have 'supported' status
on Drumbeat
Deadline: 31 July 2010
After three years of research and one year of experience as a satellite engineer, Hojun Song has found that it is possible to launch and operate a personal satellite.
VIDEO DRESSES
The Video dresses are created by 15000 LEDs. One dress displays hazy silhouettes of sharks in the sea whilst the other shows a time-lapse sequence of a rose blooming
MY SECRET HEART
My Secret Heart is a new commission by Streetwise Opera of an installation written by electronic composer Mira Calix, video artists Flat-e and sound designer Dave Sheppard
A PARALLEL IMAGE
A Parallel Image is an electronic camera obscura, an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Franz Büchinger, supported by Fels-Multiprint. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the currently still valid principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered. Gebhard Sengmüller is an artist working in the field of media technology. Since 1992, he has been developing projects and installations focussing on the history of electronic media
BLINKS & BUTTONS
Between Blinks & Buttons is a twofold thesis project about the camera as a networked object. Through making their photos public on the Internet, individuals create traces of themselves.In addition to their value as a memory, each image contains a multitude of information about the context of its creation.
SENSITIVE TO PLEASURE
Sensitive to Pleasure is a work by Sonia Cillari at the end of an art-residency at Nimk about conflict, an intimate piece in which the artist emphasizes her controversial relationship with her own work in front of the public. Cillari stands outside the door of a dark Ambisonic cube, where she grants entry to only one visitor at a time.
THE ATTENBOROUGH DESIGN GROUP
The Attenborough Design Group investigates the use of animal behaviours to defend emerging technologies. These products include the Gesundheit Radio, which sneezes periodically to expel potentially damaging dust, Floppy Legs, a portable floppy disk drive which stands up if it detects liquid nearby, and the AntiTouch Lamp, which sways away from you if get too close to its bulb.
PLAYAROUND WORKSHOP
Playaround workshop DIWO culture (09-13 August): each module is a smaller circle of the bigger circle of workshop, each has it unique culture, specific motifs and potential of reconnecting to other circle. From Do-It-Yourself to Do-It-With-Others; digital culture & art offer potentials to connect shared interests.
FINE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS
The arrangement of this fine collection of curious sound objects, includes six exceptional exhibits from the world of sounds and acoustics. At first sight looking trivial, each object incorporates a very unique ability. §A project by Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, developed at University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
DIGITAL CREATURES
Digital Creatures is a dispersed net-artwork/digital poem built from 40 sections, each an interactive, multimedia artwork. What makes this project unique and exciting is that each interlinked section is hosted on a different website, with the theme / look / aesthetic / poetics of that section.
MYLICON/EN: SOLD DOWN THE RIVER
We would like to talk about social issue, we would like to say something about negative externalities, about Moral hazard, social costs and about market failure.
But there are no words left, all has gone, we have been sold down the river.
In few years, driving suv and drinking cola, smiling to the world corporations and conomists have sold down the river landscape and people, the whole planet.
You see who's in charge in many democratic nations?
Do you have words to explain to yourself what is modern democracy? The new stunning Audiovisual Art work, and future live cinema set by Italian experimental duo Mylicon/en.
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.
2010 01SJ BIENNIAL
SAN JOSE': 16 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2010
The 2010 01SJ Biennial is predicated on the notion that as artists, designers, engineers, architects, marketers, corporations and citizens we have the tools to (re)build the world, conceptually and actually, virtually and physically, poorly and better, aesthetically and pragmatically, in both large and small ways. 01SJ is about how powerful ideas and innovative individuals from around the world can make a difference and come together to build a unique and distributed city-wide platform for creative solutions and public engagement. Under the theme “Build Your Own World,” ZER01, in collaboration with dozens of partners, will present over the course of 4 days, from September 16-19, hundreds of artworks, performances, events, and artist talks, which not only imagine the future of the world) but begin to build it.
