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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DISCUSSION

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS


There's still time to register at the *pre-conference rate* for EVA London

***ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS***

*Visualising:*
ideas and concepts, in museums and galleries, digital arts, sound,
music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, the
European Digital Library, social media for museums, heritage and fine
art photography, computer arts, JISC ICT

REGISTER for:

7 workshops
3 keynote speeches
3 full conference days
Visualisation Session
Visits to the Kubrick Archive
Screening from SMARTlab
2 receptions
Conference dinner
Conference proceedings

http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/2007

EVENT

CALL FOR ENTRIES - Artistic Competition of the KVB Kolner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG


Dates:
Tue Jul 31, 2007 00:00 - Fri Jun 29, 2007

// Call for entries
// Artistic Competition of the KVB Kolner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG
Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sud Stadtbahn Koln)
// Submission Deadline 31 July 2007

For further information please consult the section Kunst/Art at:
http://www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de

Contact: art@neumann-luz.de
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The KVB Kolner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (the public tranport company of the city of Cologne) have initiated an international art competition for the artistic design of eight stations - seven below and one above ground - of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Sud Stadtbahn Koln). -In two resolutions of the Cologne City Council on 14 November 2002 and 4 April 2006 the KVB, as awarding authority of this major underground railway project, were commissioned to organise the competition, which was launched on 18 May 2007 with the international call for submissions. National and international artists are to be involved in this multi-stage international art competition. Through the artistic design of the stations, the "city below" shall be made accessible for both Cologne's inhabitants and its visitors as a new place of discovery which sensitises us for associating with art, and at the same time makes an important contribution to the discussion about topics of urban living, the "city before our eyes". The financial means for the competition, including the realisation of the art works, amount to 1.75 million euros.

Application procedures

The competition will be run in two phases with a preliminary application procedure. The preliminary application procedure is open to national and international artists who can prove themselves experienced with projects in public space in general, and with buildings and interiors in particular. With proof of no more than three already executed projects the entrants should illustrate the way in which their art conceives space as a unity, and explain the use of spatial references.

Out of the applicants of the preliminary application procedure, 27 artists or artist groups will be accepted for the first phase, to which further 13 artists have been separately and directly invited in the run-up to the competition, namely: Baren-brock + Osterwald (D), Guillaume Bijl (B), Ceal Floyer (NL), Doris Frohnapfel (D), Hans Haacke (USA), Stefan Hofmann (D), Peter Kogler (A), Thomas Schoenauer (D), Stefan Sous (D), Joelle Tuerlinckx (B), Brigitta Weimer (D), Lawrence Weiner (USA), and Eusebius Wirdeier (D). In October 2007 these 40 artists or artist groups will be asked to develop a basic concept of their planned entry.

Starting in May 2008, the second phase will require ten selected artists re-spectively groups of artists to refine their ideas into tangible plans. Out of these ten proposals the competition jury will select the finalist, or even finalists, as it is in the jury's power to recommend that the KVB commission one artist or artist group for each separate station, special construction or tunnel section. The winner or winners will be announced in April 2009. It is planned to display the proposals submitted for the second phase in an exhibition, for the benefit of an interested public and of the competing artists. The realisation of art works is scheduled to finish by the end of 2010.

Entrants to the preliminary, open phase must submit their documents by 31 July 2007.

Rules and information relating to the competition can be downloaded at:
http://www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de

Queries can be addressed to Kathrin Luz at art@neumann-luz.de


EVENT

CALL FOR PROJECTS - TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AWARD


Dates:
Fri Jul 27, 2007 00:00 - Thu Jun 28, 2007

// CALL FOR PROJECTS
// TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AWARD
// Electronic Arts and Video Festival Transitio_mx 02
// Deadline: July 27th, 2007

http://transitiomx.net

granted by the US-Mexico Foundation for Culture, Inc.
Fomento Educacional, A.C. and
Fundacion BBVA Bancomer

TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
The configuration of transnational communities corresponds to the continuous and increasing flow of people, goods, technology and information. In the context of this exchange, social networks are conformed linking daily and permanently the origin communities with the destination ones, creating social pluri-local and inter-cultural spaces.

In the specific case of the Mexico-United States relation, the migratory phenomenon constitutes a central inexhaustible subject in the territorial displacements debate. The Transnational Communities Award sets out to explore artistic, cultural and social articulation projects that take place in virtual space, the arena in which the global and the local converge.

GUIDELINES
The award will recognize transnational communities that link Mexico and the United States and that have been able to translate their presence onto the Internet, thus recreating their social dynamics through the web, shortening geographic distances, and transcending cultural conflicts by innovation. The emphasis of the award is set on digital projects that creatively use the technological and conceptual tools available in the net to improve the communitarian communication and interaction channels, giving rise to online spaces in which common stories and practices are shared.

The Transnational Communities Award is directed towards artistic, cultural and social projects for which the Internet is a necessary tool to express and present diverse visions of a changing world. Special consideration will be given to such projects that are committed to extend the access to production and distribution of contents in the Internet and that prioritize the horizontal communication among their members, setting into practice the culture of participation that defines the new generation of digital technologies by becoming virtual platforms of collaboration and collective development.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA
I. The call is open to individuals, groups, associations, organizations and institutions that develop communitarian projects of a cultural, artistic and social character by using media convergence to create new social narratives that respond to transnational issues. Proposals working in the following formats will be accepted, as long as they use the internet as their main communication and interaction medium: video (communitarian video, documentary, videoart, video clip, videomails, soap operas, etc.), net.art, civil journalism, digital communities, online forums, weblogs, social networks, online videogames, online artistic collaboration projects, electronic literature, digital narrative, musical collaborations, communitarian radio, and pod casts, among others.

Special attention will be given to projects that tackle subjects related to identity, the borders, diversity, diasporas and hybridizations, as well as those which resort to the collective intelligence and creativity to generate open source tools, giving place to open contents and distribution.

II. Projects that work with the following tools, among others, will be able to participate:

Social Software

Web 2.0 Applications

System of social networks

Development of open source tools for creative collaboration

III. It will be possible to participate with up to 3 projects.

IV. The projects will have to be registered by their author. In case that the project has been made by a group, it will have to designate a representative.

V. The official languages of the award will be Spanish and English.

VI. Participation in this award implies the authorization to the National Center for the Arts to present the work within the framework of the Festival; and the authors grant permission to use images of the work for diffusion and dissemination of the event, according to the Federal Copyright Law. The rights of the work remain the sole property of the author.

VII. Participants release all announcing institutions of any controversy regarding copyright matters that the work in competition may lead to.

VIII. Decisions made by the Committee and the international Jury will be unquestionable.

IX. Participants accept the conditions set on this call. The Planning Council of the Festival will solve any case not foreseen earlier.

ELEGIBILITY CRITERIA

X. The projects will be pre-selected by a Committee that will evaluate all submitted works and decide if they are suitable to continue to the second and last stage.

XI. Such works chosen to go on to the final selection will be published in a national circulation newspaper and on the Festival’s webpage, http://transitiomx.net, on August 19th, 2007.

XII. The jury’s recognition will be given to projects that:

a) their activity, pertinence, and vitality is evident at first sight

b) give priority to the horizontal participation of their members

c) offer the possibility of inclusion and participation for agents external to the community

d) present effectiveness and functionality characteristics in dialogic processes

e) companies with exclusive profit-making aims are excluded

APPLICATION

XIII. All the proposals must be presented as an Internet website

XIV. Proposals will be received from the publication of this announcement and until 6 p.m. (GMT -6) on July 27th, 2007. The date of shipment will be taken into account as long as the shipment is done using express mail and not ordinary service.

XV. DOCUMENTATION:

To obtain the participation guidelines for the award; as well as the Registration Form and all the information on the documentation that must be included, please check Festival’s webpage http://transitiomx.net or the Multimedia Center webpage http://cmm.cenart.gob.mx

PRIZE
Finalist works will be evaluated by an international jury who will determine the following prizes:

a first prize of 3,500.00 U.S. dollars
the honorary mentions considered pertinent

The prizes and mentions will be presented and awarded within the Festival framework.

For further information and document delivery, please refer to:
Centro Nacional de las Artes
Centro Multimedia
Avenida Rio Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club,
C. P. 04220, Coyoacan, Mexico, D. F.
Office hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: Ana Villa, by phone 1253 9400 Ext. 1290 or by email:
concurso@transitiomx.net
http://www.transitiomx.net

CONTACTS
Mariana Delgado
Communication and Public Affairs Coordinator
US-Mexico Foundation for Culture, Inc.
Col. Juarez
06600 Mexico, DF.
Ph. (52 55) 5535 6735
Fax. (52 55) 5566 8071
mariana [at] contactocultural.org
www.contactocultural.org


DISCUSSION

.fiction DOCUMENTAIRE 2006.2007


.fiction DOCUMENTAIRE
2006.2007

“The truth is somewhere between the documentary and fictional, and that
is what I try to show.
What is real one moment has become imaginary the next. You believe what
you see now, and the next second you don’t anymore.”
(Robert Franck : my and my brother 1964-1968)

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Direct access

amina_zoubir
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/amina_zoubir/video.html

auriana_houssin
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/auriana_houssin/document/page1.html

benjamin_chassagne
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/benjamin_chassagne/animation.html

claudia_gomez
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/claudia_gomez/audio.html

dominique_gonin
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/gonin_dominique/document/page1.html

frederic_bachmann
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/frederic_bachmann/documents/video.html

gary_burgi
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/gary_burgi/video.html

marine_le_saout
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/marine_le_saout/documents/explication.htm

melanie_lepaih
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/melanie_lepaih/telecharge/page2.html

nelly_boulesteix
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/nelly_boulesteix/

piamelissa_laroche
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/piamelissa_laroche/document/video.html

rocio_burga
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/rocio_burga/documents/video.htm

romain_cieutat
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/romain_cieutat/documents/page1.html

yann_aucompte
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/yann_aucompte/installvid/installvid.htm

liao_zhexi
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/2007/liao_zhexi/projet/avi2.html

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Canal 14 /xavier cahen/. fiction DOCUMENTAIRE
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal14/

Don't forget to visit other chanels !
http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/index2.html

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Find other works on Arpla :
"Arpla is the data-processing Server from the Visual Art department of
Paris 8 universtity, Saint-Denis, 93, France.
You'll find work of students” 1999>2007

EVENT

CALL FOR PROJECTS - MONA Horse Bazaar Prize


Dates:
Fri Jul 13, 2007 00:00 - Tue Jun 26, 2007

//$5000 MONA Horse Bazaar Prize
//Deadline: July 13th, 2007

*MONA (http://www.mona.net.au ) and Horse Bazaar
(http://www.horsebazaar.com.au) are offering the world’s richest prize for the production of panoramic content.

The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic content is an open digital art
prize for the production of screen-based content that best uses Horse
Bazaar’s unique panoramic projection system. The screens are
custom-built for the environment and extend for nearly 20 metres around
the bar. Casting aside the traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists
are asked to produce digital content at an 8:1 ratio.

The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize aims to cultivate the appreciation and
production of panoramic virtual decor.

This is an acquisitional competition; winning pieces will become a part
of the MONA art collection.

*Entries close on July 13th*. Submissions will be shown at Horse Bazaar
in the lead up to the gala and award night that will take place on
Saturday 21st July. Entry is unrestricted and artists are invited to
submit multiple entries should they so desire.

International entries are welcome. Feel free to spread the word!

For more information see http://www.horsebazaar.com.au/hbprize.html