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

New Media & Social Memory


Dates:
Thu Jan 18, 2007 00:00 - Tue Jan 16, 2007

New Media & Social Memory
Jan. 18, 2007
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is proud to
present New Media & Social Memory, a public symposium to discuss
strategies for preserving digital art at a time when digital
technologies are evolving and becoming obsolete at an astonishingly
rapid pace. While focussing on digital art, the symposium will also
address larger concerns about the long-term conservation of our
increasingly digital culture, including how we decide what digital
materials - from Web sites to video games - are worth saving. The full
day of presentations and panel discussions by leading experts in the
field of digital preservation, including Stewart Brand and Bruce
Sterling,
will be held in the museum theater on Thursday, Jan. 18.

This symposium is open to the public free of charge; however, due to
limited space, online registration is required. See attached image for
program. For more information or to register, visit
http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao.


OPPORTUNITY

Call for Papers: MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences


Deadline:
Wed Jan 31, 2007 00:00

MUTAMORPHOSIS

First Call for Abstracts: Deadline 31st of January 2007
MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, International
Conference, Prague

International Conference organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER
festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary
celebrations. The festival will feature also the first retrospective
exhibition of Frank J. Malina.

8th - 10th of November 2007, Prague , Czech Republic

Conference website: http://www.mutamorphosis.org

The conference will explore the major mutations that are affecting the
future of our world. We invite papers from artists,
scientists and researchers on the evolution of living beings and the
societies they constitute, and on modes of knowledge, expression and
communication of humans, animals and other forms of life.

'MutaMorphosis' seeks a multiplicity of perspectives as well as a
qualified and diverse group of conference participants. The
conference will concentrate on the growing interest -- within the
worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND
HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments appear as symptomatic
indicators of the mutations that are taking place; they are potential
vectors that make possible an awareness of the different problems at
the origin of the disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the
Earth's eco-systems.

We invite practitioners in the arts, sciences, engineering and
humanities to submit abstracts that explore the limits and extremes
within the following streams of interest:

1. LIVING BEINGS

How do the arts and sciences deal with new ideas about strategies of
life in extreme conditions?

Keywords: adaptation, artificial life, bioart, biotechnology, cell,
cloning, control, emergence, ethics, evolution, extremophilia, hybrid,
limit, organization, performativity, self-organization, strategy,
survival, symbiogenesis, symbiosis, tissue, transformation,
transgression, transplantation, unpredictability.

2. SPACE

How do the arts and sciences face radical scales and extreme environments?

Keywords: Antarctica, astrophysics, colonisation, climate, dark
matter, dark energy, deserts, deteritorialization, ethics, exobiology,
exploration, geotagging, globalization, map, macro, micro, nano,
singularity, outer space, speed, territory, underwater, vacuum.

3. COGNITION

How do the arts and sciences address evolving ideas about cognition in
extreme environments?

Keywords: collective intelligence, complexity, connectivity, decision,
deficiency, distributed, ethics, intelligence, dysfunction, emotion,
efficiency, information, instrument, handicap, manipulation, memory,
mobility, networked, pathology, perception, sensorial, simulation,
system, therapy, visualization, web 2.0.

All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by an international
advisory panel. Submissions accepted and presented at the conference
will be published in the conference proceedings.

500-word abstracts required by 31st of January 2007 via email to
mutamorphosis@ciant.cz

Please include URL of web site where your work is documented.

Join us in Prague 8th - 10th of November 2007.

Conference Steering Committee: Alban Asselin, Louis Bec, Annick
Bureaud, Don Foresta, Denisa Kera, Roger F. Malina (co-chair:
rfm.mutamorphosis@gmail.com), Louise Poissant, Pavel Sedlak (co-chair:
sedlak@ciant.cz ), Pavel Smetana

Organiser: CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies
in Prague ( www.ciant.cz, CZ)

Co-organisers: Leonardo (www.leonardo.info , USA; www.olats.org, FR) ,
Hexagram (www.hexagram.org , CAN), Pepinieres europeenes pour jeunes
artistes (www.art4eu.net , FR)

Partners: Centre for Global Studies at Charles University (
http://cgs.flu.cas.cz, CZ), CYPRES Arts Sciences Technologies Cultures
(www.cypres-artech.org , FR), Czech Academy of Sciences - Week of
Science and Technology (www.avcr.cz/tydenvedy , CZ), French Institute
in Prague ( www.ifp.cz, CZ), MARCEL ( www.mmmarcel.org, GB) , UQAM
(www.uqam.ca , CAN)


EVENT

Andy Gracie and Monica Bello at Ljubljana


Dates:
Tue Dec 12, 2006 00:00 - Sun Dec 10, 2006

Andy Gracie (hostprods) and Monica Bello have been invited by artist Polona Tratnik to present their projects in Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, on the 12th of December, and at the University of Koper on the 13th.
Andy will talk about /Borderlines States/ and Monica will be presenting CAPSULA, the project set up on the 2005 with Ulla Taipale to investigate art science and nature confluences.

http://www.hostprods.net/
http://www.capsula.org.es/diasdebioarte/
http://www.cccb.org/now/ang/index.htm


EVENT

12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 - International Competition


Dates:
Thu Feb 15, 2007 00:00 - Thu Dec 07, 2006

WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw, Poland announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.
The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is 5000EUR and the total prize money awarded is 8000EUR.

The deadline date for entry submission is 15 February 2007.

Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jury announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale.

Agenda:
16 - 20 May 2007 competition, special events, symposium;
16 May - 17 June 2007 exhibition

National Museum in Wroclaw, WRO Art Center
http://wrocenter.pl/?go=en/


EVENT

Re:place 2007 - Call for Proposals


Dates:
Sat Jan 15, 2005 00:00 - Thu Dec 07, 2006

Re:place 2007
Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology
15 - 18 November 2007
Berlin, Germany

re:place 2007, the Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology, will take place in Berlin from 15 - 18 November 2007 as a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This conference is a sequel to 'Refresh!', the first in this series, chaired by Oliver Grau and produced by the Database of Virtual Art, Leonardo, and Banff New Media Institute, and held at the Banff Center in Canada in September 2005, which brought together several hundred artists, scientists, researchers, curators and theoreticians of different disciplines.

More information about Re:place 2007>> http://leonardo.info/isast/events/replace2007.html

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
re:place 2007 welcomes contributions from established as well as from emerging researchers in diverse fields. The conference will be of interest to those working in, but not limited to, the following areas: art history and theory, literary studies, cultural studies, film and media studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, philosophy, history, gender studies, human-computer interaction, contemporary art, musicology, sound studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, science, technology and society studies, history of science, and history of technology.

The DEADLINE for submissions will be 15 January 2007.

INFORMATION about the submission process>> http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace