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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Discussions (26) Opportunities (30) Events (90) Jobs (2)
EVENT

The Influencers


Dates:
Thu Feb 28, 2008 00:00 - Mon Feb 18, 2008

THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

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*February 28-29-1 March 2008*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
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with ALAN ABEL, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO, SANTI CIRUGEDA, BRODY CONDON, LAIBACH, MONOCHROM, TREVOR PAGLEN
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Welcome to 4th edition of The Influencers, the talk show you won’t see on TV!

The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.

The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories: impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In these three days they are going to present their work, show known and less known material and speak with the public about challenges, goals and strategies.

With The Influencers, the border between disciplines is erased (since the message really is the message, and the medium is just a tactic), links between apparently distant projects are found, and bold genealogies are drawn between different countries and generations. Ambiguities are also explored and contradictions are discussed. In the manipulation of everyday symbols, as well as within what is excessive and politically incorrect, we will possibly find inspiration for changing the present and imagining the future.

The Influencers 2008 will take place at the CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
c/ Montalegre 5 - 08001 Barcelona
tel. (0034) 933064100

FREE ENTRANCE


OPPORTUNITY

Inclusiva-net workshop


Deadline:
Tue Feb 26, 2008 00:00

Medialab-Prado issues a call for all those interested in taking part in
the Inclusiva-net workshop, by collaborating in any of the teams that
will develop the selected proposals on *digital networks and physical
space*, that will be taking place at Medialab-Prado from *March 3
through 14*.

If you are interested, please check the selected projects

and visit the forum
where you can contact authors, ask questions.

Online submissions
http://medialab-prado.es/article/2_encuentro_inclusiva-net_convocatoria_para_participar_como_colaborador_en_el_taller
deadline: *February 26*

Medialab-Prado will offer accommodation in a youth hostel for 10
collaborators coming from outside Madrid (first-come-first-served
basis): don't forget to specify arrival and departure date if your are
going to chose this option.

More information: http://www.inclusiva-net.org
Inclusiva-net Forum: http://forommm.intermediae.es/viewforum.php?id=5


OPPORTUNITY

HoritzóTV’08


Deadline:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 00:00

International meeting of horizontal, community and experimental tv.
La Capella, Barcelona May - June, 2008

HoritzóTV is an international meeting of horizontal, community and
experimental tv’s broadcasting either on internet or anallogically.
HoritzoTV aims to discover and exchange tv projects and to promote
the meeting among its protagonists and creators. It will take place
in Barcelona including meetings, pannels, live streamings and special
events.

Analogical or digital tv project doing research on live streaming,
working on horizontal interactive tv, enhancing networking and
culture exchange all around the world, empowering diversity and
creation.

You are invited to submit proposals to be broadcasted in HoritzóTV
or to come to Barcelona and present them personally during our
international meeting.

Please contact:
Clara Garí clara@horitzo.tv


EVENT

Moving Forest at transmediale08 berlin


Dates:
Fri Feb 01, 2008 00:00 - Tue Jan 29, 2008

As part of the 12 hour Moving Forest performance (11:00 -23:00) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Moving Forest of the People Front calls for an act of insurgency with Berliners for the final FOREST march toward CASTLE takeover Transmediale08.

On February 1 at 19:00
CALL for DS Revolt:go northwest 20 Allied Clearing House [Bundestag]
CALL for Radio Gun Revolt: Symphony of noise [Siegessäule]
CALL for AIR: GAMEoverTAKEoverOVER [JVA Berlin Moabit]
CALL for transmission: autonomous transmitting units [JVA Berlin Moabit]

For those of you who have a few streams of rumblings, disruption, upheaval, turbulence, turmoil and convulsion or simply uplifting, please join backyard radio's CALL for netstreams: Conspire and take remote control

BACKYARD RADIO in association with AKA THE CASLE invites all net streamcasters to join the multi-channel sonic uproar by sending in net streams. The moving forest - its standing, its moving is floating towards the center of empty wireless power. Conspire with your radio station, sound studio, toy shop, sample archive, live
improvisation, mouth poetry, boombox collection. You´ll be streamed, televised, wiretapped remixed, multiplexed, oversampled, frequency modulated and broadcasted. Each network sound stream gets on air for 20 minutes slot and mixed into the ensemble stream and microradio broadcast.

SIGN UP for your time slot at http://www.movingforest.net/

mailto: info@backyardradio.de

Moving Forest presented by AKA the castle
CONSPIRE, Transmediale08
House of World Cultures, Berlin
February 1, 2008

'Moving Forest', is a 12-hour 5 act sonic performance operating with public wifi and mobile technology - an expandable citywide operatic manoeuvre/intervention. Derived from Kurosawa's
film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle, 'Moving Forest' renders the film's final
sequences (12 minutes in length) into a 12-hour 'sonica' of grand scale. 'Moving Forest'
reinvents a modern edition of a Castle Central (here: the House of World Cultures) and a city in
revolt. Inside the castle, the downfall of the assumed power; outside in the city, the mobilised
urbanites march with generated sounds of insurgence towards the imaginary Centre. 'Moving Forest' collaborates with sound artists to compose acts and scores, at the same time, drafts
a PD (pure data) conspiracy scheme, performing live with citywide performance transmitted by wifi.

[AKA the castle] is a temporal performance troop bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites to realize the 12 hour Moving Forest.


EVENT

VIDA 10.0 Awards


Dates:
Mon Jan 21, 2008 00:00 - Mon Jan 21, 2008

Location:
Spain

The hybrid forms of the artistic proposals submitted to VIDA and the transformation of the discipline of A-Life itself have prompted the jury to consider new issues, such as the rising importance of simulation in both social life (for example, in the concept of virtual personality) and organic life (evident in the concept of "neo-organisms"). These phenomena are increasingly present and have therefore received special attention in our current approach to art and artificial life.

Jury for the Vida 10.0 competition: Daniel Canogar (Spain), Monica Bello (Spain), José-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru/UK), Simon Penny (USA) and Nell Tenhaaf (Canadá). The jury reviewed 152 submissions received from 32 countries.

Vida 10.0 competition awards are as follow:

FIRST PRIZE
etoy.CORPORATION
Mission eternity sarcophagus (Switzerland, 2006-07)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/MissionEternitySarcophagus-en.html

SECOND PRICE
Oron Catts y Ionat Zurr
NoArk (Australia, 2007)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/NoArk-en.html

THIRD PRICE
Leandro M. Nuñez
Propagations (Argentina, 2007)
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/popUpPremiados/html/Propagaciones-en.html

SPECIAL MENTIONS
David Rokeby
Cloud (Canada, 2007)

Julius Popp
bit-flow (Germany, 2006-07)

Jed Berk
ALAVs 2.0 (USA., 2006)

London Fieldworks
Hibernator: Prince of Petrified Forest (Great Britain, 2007)

Evelina Domnitch y Dmitry Gelfand
Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory (USA - Belarus, 2007)

Kelly Dobson
OMO (USA, 2007)

Chris Sugrue
Delicate Boundaries (USA, 2007)

INCENTIVES FOR IBERO-AMERICAN PRODUCTION
Alex Posada y Alejo Duque
Greenbots (Spain)

Francisco López
Sonic Alter Ego (Spain)

Hamilton Mestizo Reyes, Luis Enrique Martínez, Sofía Cordero, Marcela Ayala, Patricia Muethe y Jonatan Gómez
Electricium Vitum (Colombia)