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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EVENT

Unimovie - International Short Film and Video Festival


Dates:
Sun Jul 01, 2007 00:00 - Fri May 04, 2007

The 11th edition of Unimovie - International Short Film and Video Festival will take place in Pescara (Italy), from the 3rd to the 6th of October 2007.

2 competitions:
- International Short Films and Videos
- National Short Films and Videos

For entry form and rules: http://www.unimovie.it
Dead line for entries: the 1st of July 2007

Any info at the following address:
e-mail: info@unimovie.it
web: http://www.unimovie.it


OPPORTUNITY

JOB OPPORTUNITY - new media art professor


Deadline:
Fri Jun 01, 2007 00:00

:: Job Opportunity
:: new media art professor - Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
:: Deadline: June 1, 2007.

The New media department (nmedia.avu.cz) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech republic (http://www.avu.cz) is seeking professor for at least one year, beginning October 2007.
The New media department seeks candidates with an interdisciplinary approach to the role played by new technologies in artistic, social, and political fields. Prior art teaching experience or knowledge of new media art practices and procedures is strongly preferred.
We invite applications from artists working in such areas as: video art, interactive art, data visualization, digital motion capture, web art, etc.

The school is situated very close to the city center, in a cubistic villa facing the biggest park in Prague. The New Media department was founded in 1991 as part of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as one of the first schools of this kind in Eastern Europe. The Academy offers housing and a salary in accordance with the Academy of Fine Arts pay scales. Please send cover letters, works samples (catalogues, publications) and resumes to chisa@avu.cz.
The deadline for the applications is June the 1st, 2007.

Academy of Fine Arts
New Media I
http://nmedia.avu.cz
U akademie 4
17022 Praha 7
Czech republic


EVENT

Call For Participation - - ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings


Dates:
Mon Apr 30, 2007 00:00 - Wed Apr 25, 2007

ICHIM07 - International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings
Toronto, October 24-26, 2007
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/

Call For Participation
Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007

The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have -- since 1991 -- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental, academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts.

ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format.

You are invited to submit a proposal for participation in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include:

Heritage Information & Society
* Policy
* Law
* Economics and Funding
* Convergence of Institutions

Technologically Mediated Heritage
* Resources
* Public Programs
* Services
* Collaborations

Cultural Knowledge
* Acquisition
* Retrieval
* Preservation

Digital Heritage
* Digital Art
* Representations
* Delivery methods
* Evaluation

Organizational Policy
* Best Practices
* Impacts
* Innovations

Cultural Heritage Information Systems
* Research
* Prototypes and Models
* Innovative Design
* Applications
* Architectures
* Networks

Education and Infrastructures
* Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals
* Cultural & Linguistic Diversity

*** Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007. ***
Submit your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/ichim07.proposal.form.html

Session Formats
For further details regarding the format of ICHIM07 sessions, see the description of Session Formats at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/sessions/sessionFormats.html

Proposal Review
All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee. Invitations will be issued in May 2007.

Written Paper Required
All presenters are required to provide written papers by July 31, 2007. A briefing book on the state of Cultural Heritage Informatics, 2007 will be prepared for delegates.

Questions?
Contact ichim07@archimuse.com

ICHIM07 Co-Chairs
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Archives & Museum Informatics

ICHIM07 Program Committee

* Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
* David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK
* Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
* Jean Francois Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
* Susan Chun, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
* Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece
* David Dawson, MLA, UK
* Sara Diamond, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada
* Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada
* Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada
* Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA
* Mark Jones, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
* Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland
* Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria
* Xavier Perrot, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France
* Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA
* Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
* Jutta Treviranus, University of Toronto, Canada
* Nicole Vallieres, McCord Museum, Canada
* Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia

David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Co-Chairs: ICHIM07
produced by October 24-26, 2007, Toronto, ON
Archives & Museum Informatics
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/
email: ichim07@archimuse.com


EVENT

CALL FOR PAPERS - CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART)


Dates:
Thu May 31, 2007 00:00 - Wed Apr 25, 2007

:: CALL FOR PAPERS
:: CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART) TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER / 8 - 9 November, 2007
:: Deadline: 31 May 2007

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organizations such as
publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated
and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the
future of such 'top-down' institutions in the age of 'bottom-up' access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2.0 - encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google,
MySpace and more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their
cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a
gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance?

For the twenty-second CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We particularly welcome contributions from those working in either
'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of
cultural access and distribution.
Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed
paper with CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 31 May 2007 to

Hazel Gardiner ( hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk)

Dr Charlie Gere
Chair, CHArt
CHArt
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Kings College, University of London
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
WC2R 3DX


EVENT

CALL FOR PROJECTS - MEDIALAB MADRID


Dates:
Fri Apr 27, 2007 00:00 - Wed Apr 25, 2007

MEDIALAB MADRID issues a *call for projects* to be developed in a
collaborative way during the new edition of *Interactivos?*, that this
year tackles the relationship between *magic and technology*. The
production workshop will be held by Daniel Canogar, Simone Jones and
Zachary Lieberman.

Deadline: 27th April

More information and application guidelines at:
http://www.interactivos.org/
http://www.medialabmadrid.es/