ana otero
Since 2003
Works in Barcelona Spain

BIO
Ana Otero holds a M.A. in Museum Studies by the New York University, a Postgraduate Degree in Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media by MECAD/ESDi and a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication by the Universistat Autonoma of Barcelona.

During seven years Ana was the multimedia art director for the broadcasting company based in Barcelona Media Park (now Teuve). Simultaneously to her professional career, Ana co-founded the collectives J13 (1998-2000) and no_a (2000-05) focus on the experimentation of art and new technologies.

In NYC, Ana worked on art education through new media for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as part of Rhizome where she curated the online show “Google Art, or How to Hack Google” and participated in the site redesign, collaborated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in the online curatorial-educational project Museum as Hub and as web manager for Art21, a non-profit organization focus on contemporary art.

Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies


Jeremy Blake, an up-and-coming artist who sought to bridge the worlds of painting and film in lush, color-saturated, hallucinatory digital video works, has died, the New York City Police said yesterday. He was 35 and lived in the East Village in Manhattan.

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Call for Projects VIDA 10.0


VIDA 10.0 is an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines, such as robotics and Artificial Intelligence.We are looking for artistic projects that address the interaction between "synthetic" and "organic" life". In previous years prizes have been awarded to artistic projects using autonomous robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user participation, and works that highlight the social side of Artificial Life.

Please find the call for projects here http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/english

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TEXT a::minima Feature on Molleindustria


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Molleindustria is a project that takes aim at starting a serious discussion about social and political implications of the videogames. Using simple but sharp games we hope to give some starting point for a new generation of critical game developer and, above all, to test pratices that can be easly emulated and virally diffused. So far we have published nine games (four of them are available only in italian), some theoretical essays and other web-based project like Mayday NetParade or where-next.com.

A spectre is haunting the net: the spectre of political games. Small and viral online games able to spread dissonant messages. They emerge and disappear in the ever-changing world of the blog, forum and mailing lists. Sometimes they are blended into the undeground gamedesign scene, sometimes they pop in the glossy pages of popular magazines, sometimes they are disguised as works of art.

I’m talking about a spectre because political games don’t exist, or better, they have always existed: every video game - as every cultural product - reflect author’s ideas, visions and ideologies. Every video game is essentially political.

Why super Mario is a plunder? Has anybody ever seen him fixing a pipe? He probably fit better into the shoes of a rampant Wall Street broker, a social climber who attack every being that comes across his path. His eternal dissatisfaction, his continuous run, his orderliness in killing enemies sounds suspicious. In the typical level-based structure of arcade games we can recognize some qualities of the yuppie ideology: success is like a ladder that gets harder and harder to climb. There are many partial achievements but the whole plan is often difficult to understand. Individualism, competition an accumulation of useless points are constant. It's the neo-liberal short-sightedness, the means that becomes the ...

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Philip Ross, nature networks


Philip Ross was one of the artists featured in Rhizome’s Networked Nature exhibition earlier this year. His work consists of designed and constructed controlled environmental spaces which:

nurture, transform, and refine a variety of sculptural artifacts much as one might train the growth of a Bonsai tree.

Two works which look particularly spectacular on his website and employ ideas of networks are Junior Return and Jarred In.

Junior Return

Junior Return (image above) is:

a self-contained survival capsule for one living plant. Four blown glass enclosures provide a controlled hydroponic environment; one holds the plant, another the water reservoir for the plant, the third holds the electronics and pump that control the plant's resources, and the last for the rechargeable battery that gives the energy required to keep the plant alive in this container. An air pump goes off for a few seconds every minute, supplying air to the plant and to the water reservoir. A digital timer counts down from sixty to zero, displaying the time left until the pump will activate. Then, with little notice, a few bubbles appear in the water, the only indication that anything is actually going on.

The latest 'version' of Junior Return is titled Clone Army which consists of ighteen of the small hydroponic units networked together in different formations.

Jarred In

Jarred In (image above) is a sixteen feet tall and twelve feet wide hanging garden installation.

In this garden pairs of plants are housed in life support pods suspended from a chandelier like armature. The roots of the plants swim in illuminated, water filled boxes. Water is pumped up from tall Plexiglas reservoirs resting on the ground. The reservoirs are attached to a central pod on the ground, referred to by the folks at The Exploratorium as "mother ship" and housing six Dwarf ...

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Rhizome 2007-08 Commissions Announcement


Not sure if this went through the first time...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lauren Cornell
Date: Jun 14, 2007 1:06 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Rhizome 2007-08 Commissions Announcement
To: rhizome <list@rhizome.org>

Rhizome is pleased to announce increased funding for its Commissions Program. This year, eleven emerging artists/ collectives have been awarded commissions, for a total of $23,000, in support of new works of Internet-based art. The commissioned works will be presented on Rhizome.org and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as archived in Rhizome's online archive, the ArtBase.

The commissioned artworks were selected by Rhizome members and a jury composed of Suhjung Hur, Curator, Art Center Nabi; Rudolf Freiling, Curator of Media Arts, SFMoMA; Marc Garrett, CoFounder and CoDirector of Furtherfield; Christina Ray, Founder and Director of Glowlab and the Conflux Festival; and Lauren Cornell and Marisa Olson of Rhizome. Rhizome members awarded three of the eleven commissions including our first ever Community Award, a new category created to support projects that enhance participation and communication on Rhizome.org. This award went to conglomco.org (Tyler Jacobsen & Kim Schnaubert) for zHarmony (see below for details).

The Rhizome Commissions program is supported, in part, by funds from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support is provided by generous individuals and Rhizome members.

08 Commissions Online At: http://rhizome.org/commissions/2007/

Descriptions and proposal urls are below.

Add Art ---- Member Selection
By Steve Lambert with Evan Harper at Eyebeam OpenLab
AddArt is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database.
http://www.addart.eyebeam.org/

Eavesdropping
by Jack Stockholm
http://www.oddible.com/eavesdropping/rhizome/
Eavesdropping is a networked audio system designed for guerilla performance to raise awareness of our ambient communication in public spaces. This project highlights the intentionality and exhibitionism of bringing our private actions into the public sphere.

Ebay-Generator
by UBERMORGEN.COM (ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO and PAOLO CIRIO)
http://www.ipnic.org/Ebay-Generator/commissions/rhizome_commission.html
Ebay-Generator will generate songs based on the public data mined from Ebay sellers and buyers. Users' rating, sold objects, times and frequency of transactions and other data will be automatically transformed into a structured text, which a supercollider-application will use to generate music and lyrics.

JELLOTIME.COM
by Rafael Rozendaal
http://jellotime.com
JelloTime.com will be a website with a single flash animation. You will see a green plate with a red Jello dessert. When you touch the jelly with your mouse, it 'wobbles'. It will shake and make a strange sound, the more you pull it, the more it will shake. I really want to emulate the feeling of jelly, something between solid and liquid. A feeling that is very familiar in real life that might seem strange on a computer screen.

Phrenology
by Melanie Crean with Chris Sugrue and Paul Geluso
http://melaniecrean.com/rhizome.html
Phrenology will investigate the perception of space, whether real, virtual or imagined, though writings created by incarcerated women in a workshop the artist will teach at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility . The piece will consist of a series of 360 degree photographic panoramas that interconnect through text included in the environments. Viewers will be able to move through the different environments to read the women's writing in a form of spatial poem, accompanied by an experimental sound track based on the text.

Remote Instructions
by Lee Walton
http://www.leewalton.com/remote_Instructions.html
Remote Instructions is a web-central project that will utilize both the communication capabilities of the web and spectatorship of its users. From a central hub, Lee Walton will collaborate with strangers globally via the web and orchestrate a series of video performances that will take place in real cities, neighborhoods, villages and towns around the world. A Remote Instructions website will be created to host video projects and promote networking among collaborators.

Second Life Dumpster
by eteam
http://meineigenheim.org/dumpster/
In Second Life each avatar has a trash folder. Items, that get deleted end up in that folder by default. The trash folder has to get emptied as often as possible, otherwise the avatars performance might diminish. But, where do deleted things end up? What are those things? Second Life Dumpster will explore these questions by starting and maintaining a public dumpster in Second Life for the duration of one year.

ShiftSpace - An OpenSource Layer Above Any Website
by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv
http://www.shiftspace.org
While the Internet's design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform that attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools.

VF, Virta-Flaneurazine-SL, Proposal for Clinical Study ---- Member Selection
by Will Pappenheimer and John Freeman
http://www.willpap-projects.com/VF/VirtaFlaneurazineSL.html
Virta-Flaneurazine-SL is a potent programmable "mood changing" drug for Second Life (SL). A member of the "Wanderment" family of psychotropic drugs; when ingested it automatically causes the bearer to aimlessly roam the distant lands of SL for up to a full day. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and moving in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL freed from its limitations as a fast growing grid of investment properties.

The Wrench
by Knifeandfork (Sue Huang and Brian House)
http://knifeandfork.org/rhizome_submission/
The Wrench will recast Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench into a mobile phone text-message exchange between participants and an artificially-intelligent agent. Taking place over the course of a week, the dialogue is not pre-determined; it employs Knifeandfork's nonlinear narrative software engine. The system is intended to present a convincingly human agent within a realtime plot progression. The AI will have specific, dynamic narrative goals for each interaction, designed to intertwine the lives of the character and participant through the ubiquitous yet restrictive communication channel of text-messaging.

zHarmony ---- Member Selection
by conglomco.org (Tyler Jacobsen & Kim Schnaubert)
http://conglomco.org/zharmony/
zHarmony is an addition to Rhizome that will combine the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services like eHarmony with Rhizome's existing database of artists. zHarmony will produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility.

EVENT

***EVA LONDON 2007***


***EVA LONDON 2007***
*Electronic Visualisation & the Arts *

Communicating the uses and implications of electronic
visualisation in culture and the arts

MONDAY 9th JULY - FRIDAY 13th JULY 2007
Full three day conference programme with six workshops

http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/
* REGISTER NOW *

*NEWS* Workshop 5 will present the European Digital Library project, a
highly significant development in cultural digitisation.

Dr Angelina Russo of Queensland University of Technology, Australia, is
running a workshop on PLANNING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR MUSEUMS

Conference venue:
The London College of Communications, University of the Arts London

*Monday 9th July*
Workshop 1: Research Workshop
Workshop 2: 3D Models for Cultural Heritage applications: European
projects *NEW DETAILS ONLINE*

*Tuesday 10th July*
Workshop 3: Planning social media for museums
Workshop 4 / meeting: Association of fine art photographers
Workshop 5 : European Digital Library: museums and heritage
Evening: Computer Arts Society meeting, Birkbeck

Wednesday 11th July
*CONFERENCE*
The technological landscape: theory and ideas
Visualisation: the museum & gallery context
Workshop 6: JISC ICT: New directions in e-Science & visualisation

Thursday 12th July
*CONFERENCE*
Digital arts & technologies
Visualisation Session

Friday 13th July
*CONFERENCE*
Imaging in 2D and 3D
Imaging in 2D and 3D: EC projects
Panel session and conference close

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Dr Suzanne Keene
Reader in Museum Studies
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PY
+44 (0)20 7679 4935


DISCUSSION

Digital Art Curation and Practice: Aesthetics, Participation, Diversity


Digital Art Curation and Practice: Aesthetics, Participation, Diversity
is a new resource available free online from AHDS Performing Arts.

The 2 year Digital Art Curation & Practice project set out to examine,
through case studies, 'transitional' activities where galleries are
expanding their events to include digital media. The project questioned
existing definitions surrounding exhibit, event and performance in order
to understand the potential for the future development of digital arts
exhibition spaces. The resource includes articles in pdf format and
images of digital performance. It can be downloaded from
http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/digitalartcuration.htm

All AHDS Performing Arts collections are available from
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/

Daisy Abbott
AHDS Performing Arts

D.Abbott@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Tel:0141 330 2758
Explore AHDS Performing Arts at http://performingarts.ahds.ac.uk/

EVENT

BIORAMA, Friday July 13th


Dates:
Fri Jul 13, 2007 00:00 - Wed Jun 13, 2007

DIGITAL UNIT RESEARCH presents
@MEDIA Centre Huddersfield

BIORAMA

Friday July 13th
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A one-day event serving to contextualise, examine and expand upon the work and theory produced while Andy Gracie is Artist in Residence at the DRU.
The research undertaken during the residency weaves together the microbiology of the Pennines around Marsden Moor, traditional and digital networking systems, perceptions of landscape and the history and possible future of interstellar communication.

Biorama Hike
_starting at 10 a.m.
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A 5 mile guided walking lecture and environmental study with Andy Gracie and Brandon Ballangee on Marsden Moor lasting around 3 hours. The walk will cover some of the physical territory featured in Andy's research, the talk will cover the parallel conceptual territories and simple scientific experiments will be carried out at various points on the way.

Each participant will receive the Biorama Hiking kit with which to enhance their experience of the event. Particpants should book in advance as places are limited and should bring sturdy walking footwear and sun block.

Biorama Sessions
_starting at 3 p.m.
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The Biorama Sessions will introduce a number of artists whose work explores the natural environment, artificial landscapes and interactions with real or imagined lifeforms.

Participants:
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Andy Gracie
Brandon Ballengee
C-Lab
etoy
France Cadet
London Fieldworks

Special guests in the evening.

designed and presented by Monica Bello (CAPSULA) for the Digital Research Unit
contact: monica@capsula.org.es
info: http://00capsula00.wordpress.com


EVENT

"404 FESTIVAL" 4th EDITION > EUROPE 2007


Dates:
Thu Jun 14, 2007 00:00 - Mon Jun 11, 2007

404 FESTIVAL" 4th EDITION > EUROPE 2007

VIENNA
14 JUNE - 19.30 PM
FLUC
[PRATERSTERN 5]
www.fluc.at

PERFORMANCE - MUSIC - VIDEO
AEROSTATIC (USA)
VLADIMIR MANOVSKI & ALEKSANDAR SECEROV (SERBIA)
404 TEAM (ARGENTINA): GINA VALENTI, MARIANO GUZMAN, ANDRES C4 & GUSTAVO BOURGUIGNON (VJ SET + DJ SET)
GUILLERMO GIAMPIETRO & LARA BARACETTI (ITALY) - PERFORMANCE
SADMB (JAPAN) - PERFORMANCE
GINA VALENTI (ARGENTINA)
CLAN-BALACHE (ARGENTINA)
ONIRICAM (ITALY) - PERFORMANCE
SYNCHDUB (BELGIUM)

404 AUSTRIA COORDINATOR: GERHARD DAURER
404 CREATION AND DIRECTION: GINA VALENTI & MARIANO GUZMAN

"ASTAS ROMAS" & "404 FESTIVAL" LAUNCHED AN EUROPEAN TOUR THAT BEGUN ON MAY 31TH 2007.

MEMBERS OF THE "404" TEAM ARE VISITING DIFFERENT CITIES, PRESENTING LIVE CONCERTS, PROJECTIONS, PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS.

ARTISTS FROM JAPAN, BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, SERBIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM, SLOVENIA AND ARGENTINA JOINED THIS TOUR.

SCHEDULE, VENUES AND INFO OF THE ARTISTS + 2006 PHOTOS AND REVIEW!
404 FESTIVAL | WWW.404FESTIVAL.COM

IF YOU WANT US IN YOUR CITY JUST SEND AN E-MAIL TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: info@404festival.com