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

OPEN CALL - PARAFLOWS 07


Dates:
Fri Jun 15, 2007 00:00 - Wed May 16, 2007

:: OPEN CALL
:: PARAFLOWS 07 EXHIBITION Vienna
:: DEADLINE: 15th of June, 2007

PARAFLOWS 07 - Annual Convention for Digital Arts and Cultures

The topic of the 2nd annual convention for digital arts and cultures in
the city of Vienna is UN_SPACE.

"A body is defined by having length, width and depth." (Euclid)
In his Philosophy of Nature, Aristotle employs the three dimensions of
the body as the basis for his theory of space. For Aristotle, space is
the sum of all places occupied by bodies. Space is defined as the limit
of the surrounding body toward what is surrounded. This is a theory of
relations by which Aristotle rejects the definition of space as the void. Empty space is an impossibility since space is always occupied and there can be no in between.

If aside from the space a body occupies an empty space existed which it
enters, empty space and occupied space would overlap, resulting in an
unnecessary duplication of space" (Aristotle, Physics).

This year's Paraflows exhibition, titled UN_SPACE, is going to focus on
inaccessible, invisible, theoretical, and immaterial space per se.
Virtual spaces - a prominent issue in media and net art - as well as
social and personal space dimensions and territories (see Erving Goffman, Territorien des Selbst) and real spaces like architectonic, geographic, or elementary, are to be compiled, visualised, and discussed according to their characteristics, their meaning, and their respective insufficiencies.

We also think of UN_SPACE as the elimination of distances, borders and
barriers interfering with cultural, social, political and media reality.
Concepts dealing with the development of inaccessible territories,
technical approaches and theoretical attempts are key aspects of this
year's exhibition.

Further information on PARAFLOWS: www.paraflows.at
Please submit proposals featuring contemporary artworks dealing with the
topics mentioned above.

All proposals must be submitted via mail as PDF-files: un_space@paraflows.at

in special cases via snail mail to:
paraflows
paraflows headoffice
c/o monochrom
QDK, Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
AUSTRIA

Mandatory information for submissions to PARAFLOWS 07 - UN_SPACE:

1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 page max., photos are recommended
4) technical details, room/space requirements, technical requirements
(hardware, operating system, additional software)
5) additional information
6) biography
7) documentation of earlier projects and works ( url, website will do)

Language: all submissions have to be in ENGLISH or GERMAN, projects
dealing with text must have English and/or German subtitles

We especially encourage international submissions.

DEADLINE: 15th of June, 2007

paraflows 07 / CONTACT
office at paraflows.at
Festival-Management: Judith Fegerl, Guenther Friesinger
Office: MQ Musumsquartier, paraflows headoffice, c/o monochrom, Quartier
fur digitale Kulturen
A-1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1, Austria

Paraflows07 is supported by the City of Vienna, MA7 - net culture


DISCUSSION

CALL FOR PROJECTS - *FRONTE[I]RAS 07


FRONTE[I]RAS 07. INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY ARTS OPEN *CALL FOR ARTISTIC PROJECTS*

Places: *Pontevedra* (Galicia, Spain) and *Noda*r (S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal).
Dates: *September / October 2007*
Organization: *Alg-a.org* (Galicia) and *Binaural* (Portugal).
Format: *Artistic Residency + Symposium + Itinerant Exhibition Fronteras 07.*

*PRESENTATION*

_This event will comprise a program of artistic residencies in Galicia and Portugal. Two simultaneous residencies will take place, one in Nodar (a small rural village in Portugal) and another on the outskirts of Pontevedra (Galicia).
Several artists from different origins and backgrounds will gather during 10 days on each residency space for the development of artistic projects in close connection with social thinkers who will hold a critique observatory during the same period.

As a result of the work produced during the residencies, a final presentation of the developed projects will take place in the form of an itinerant exhibition, starting in Pontevedra and ending in Portugal.
A parallel round of conferences and audiovisual artistic talks related to the proposed theme will also take place.

*+ info (http://www.alg-a.org/spip.php?article519)*

2.- *[alg028] - Chistopher McFall. Touch Type: The Rising. New net label alg-a release*.

"Touch Type: The Rising" was composed in the winter of 2006 and represents a composite of prepared field recordings taken from the Kansas City metropolitan district. Furthermore, the bitter cold conditions that prevailed throughout the winter yielded an abundant series of field recordings that served as exquisite primers, especially concerning the more "musical" aspects of this work, as many were derived from manipulations of ice accumulated on a series of chain-link fences.

The remaining analog and digital recordings were taken from a variety of sources throughout the city, ranging from distant church bells to rush hour traffic.

+ info (http://www.alg-label.com/spip.php?article113&lang=gl)

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FRONTEIRAS 2007. ENCONTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTES TRANSDISCIPLINARES.
*CONVOCATORIA DE PROXECTOS ARTISTICOS*

Recepcion de proxectos: *11 Maio / 22 xuno*
Lugar: *Pontevedra* (Galiza. Espana) /* Nodar* (S. Pedro do Sul. Portugal).
Data: Setembro / Outubro 2007
Organiza: *Alg-a.org (http://www.alg-a.org)* (Galiza) e *Binaural (http://www.binauralmedia.org)* (Portugal).
Formato: *Simposio + residencia artistica + exposicion Fronte[ i ]ras 07.*

*PRESENTACION*

Este evento consta dun programa de residencias artisticas paralelas en Galiza e Portugal. Proponse a posta en marcha de duas residencias: unha en Nodar (pequena aldea o norte portugues) e outra nos arredores de Pontevedra (Galiza).
Ali conviviran durante 10 dias artistas internacionais, os cales desenvolveran os seus proxectos especificos, xunto con teoricos que neste tempo levaran a cabo un observatorio critico.
Como resultado do traballo desenvolvido nas residencias, elaborarase unha mostra colectiva dos participantes a nivel internacional. Esta mostra tera un caracter itinerante, comezando en Pontevedra para rematar en Portugal.
Para completa-lo simposio, programarase un ciclo de conferencias e proxeccions de proxectos audiovisuais ligados a tematica proposta.

*+ info (http://www.alg-a.org/spip.php?article519)*

2.- *[alg028] - Nova release do Net label. Chistopher McFall. Touch Type: The Rising.*

Touch Type: The Rising" foi composta no inverno de 2006 e representa unha composicion de grabacions de campo preparadas tomadas no districto metropolitano de Kansas City. Ademais, as condicions climaticas do duro inverno produciron unha abundante serie de grabacions de campo que serviron como exquisitos samples, sobretodo empregados nos momentos mais "musicais" do traballo, xa que moitos foron extraidos de acumulacion de xeo que producian uns efectos de "chain-link".

O resto das grabacions analoxicas e dixitais foron tomadas de diversas fontes da cidade, dende as campas distantes da igrexa ata o rumor do trafico.

+ info (http://www.alg-label.com/spip.php?article113&lang=gl)

2:- *Balor [a little Galician accent but good]* e un proxecto documental sobre a creacion colectiva de cultura independente galega,percorrendo dende os albores do s.XX ata os nosos dias.

Consta de 4 seccions:

Arquivo Audiovisual, con entrevistas e outros documentos audiovisuais sobre persoas relacionadas coa creacion colectiva de cultura na Galiza.

Arquivo Fotografico, onde ve-las fotografias sobre cultura e emigracion que os usuarios doan o proxecto Balor.

Mapa da Emigracion, unha ferramenta interactiva para localizar historias perdidas e encher de novas e vellas experiencias migratorias.

Filme Documental, un proxecto sobre o percorrido de dous emigrantes galegos en New York que, afastados por noventa anos, colaboraron na creacion de cultura independente galega.

Das escolas laicas nos 20 ata a arte dixital do novo seculo.

*+ info (http://www.balor.alg-a.org/spip.php?rubrique3)*

DISCUSSION

Bios 4


:: Bios 4
:: CAAC — Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
:: Seville 2007 May 3 — September 2

curator: Antonio Cerveira Pinto

A broad view on biotech art, including some of its relations with the
human body, nano-entities, environmental issues, artificial life and
robots.

Open seminar on biotech and environmental art | may 2, 1800 (free entrance) Opening | may 3, 2000 (invitational)

Biotech art is part of the cognitive art vortex. It is actually the real
new thing in post-contemporary culture. It is not another modern art
melting down of symbolic representation. Post-contemporary art entities
are basically cognitive in the way that they need both knowledge to evolve and inteligent perusers to interact. — Antonio Cerveira-Pinto

ARTISTS
Agnes Denes | Amy Youngs | Andrew Kotting, Giles Lane, Mark Lythgoe | Andy Gracie | Andy Lomas | Aniko Meszaros | Antony Hall | Genetic Architectures | Aviva Rahmani | Beatriz da Costa | Bestiario (Santiago Ortiz, Jose Aguirre, Carolina Valejo, Andres Ortiz) | Betty Beaumont | Bill Vorn | Bioteknica (Shawn Bailey, Jennifer Willet) | Brandon Ballenge | Catherine Wagner | Cynthia Verspaget & Adam Fiannaca | Dmitry Bulatov | Driessens & Verstappen | Eduardo Kac | France Cadet | Biopresence (Georg Tremmel, Shiho Fukuhara) | George Gessert | Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey | Joe Davis | Justine Cooper | Kathy High | Ken Rinaldo | Laura Cinti, Howard Boland (c-lab) | Mark Cypher | Marta de Menezes | Mateusz Herczka | Natalie Jeremijenko | Nell Tenhaaf | Norman T White | Paul Vanouse | Paula Gaetano | Peter Gena | Philip Ross | Polona Tratnik | Sonya Rapoport | Theo Jansen | Ursula Damm | Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski, in collaboration with Gil Kuno, Sarah Cross, Tyler Adams, Paul Wilkinson |

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ANTONIO CERVEIRA PINTO (CkS)
Artist, content designer, writer and professional consultant,
presently futurizing the world in a post-carbon era. Post-contemporary
culture, complex art and architecture, is my specific field of
investigation and creativity.

EVENT

Medialab Madrid - LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN


Dates:
Wed May 17, 2006 00:00 - Mon May 14, 2007

MLM presenta el LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN dirigido por Antonio Lafuente.
El PROCOMUN es la nueva manera de expresar una idea muy antigua: que algunos bienes pertenecen a todos y que en conjunto forman una comunidad de recursos que debe ser activamente protegida y gestionada. Esta constituido por las cosas que heredamos o creamos conjuntamente y que esperamos legar a las generaciones futuras.

17 de mayo de 2007: JORNADA SOBRE EL PROCOMUN. Con ella se pone en marcha en Medialab Madrid el LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN.

Mas informacion en: http://www.medialabmadrid.es/

- PROGRAMA -

17 de mayo de 2007

* Mesa 1 · de 10:00 a 11:45h*
Antonio Lafuente (Estudios de la ciencia)
Ramon Guardans (Ecologia. Biologia)
Carmen Otero (Derecho economico internacional)

* Mesa 2 · de 12:15 a 14:00h*
Juan Carlos Salazar (Teoria economica)
Javier Candeira (Escritor y activista en temas de cultura y politica digital)
Joaquin Rodriguez (Critica Cultural)

* Mesa 3 · de 16:30 a 18:15
Javier de la Cueva (Derechos de propiedad intelectual)
Miquel Vidal (Tecnologias de la Informacion y la Comunicacion)

* Mesa 4 de 18:15 a 20:30*
Jordi Claramonte (Arte y movimientos sociales)
Mac Polu (Biocomputacion)


EVENT

Medialab Madrid - LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN


Dates:
Wed May 17, 2006 00:00 - Mon May 14, 2007

MLM presenta el LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN dirigido por Antonio Lafuente.
El PROCOMUN es la nueva manera de expresar una idea muy antigua: que algunos bienes pertenecen a todos y que en conjunto forman una comunidad de recursos que debe ser activamente protegida y gestionada. Esta constituido por las cosas que heredamos o creamos conjuntamente y que esperamos legar a las generaciones futuras.

17 de mayo de 2007: JORNADA SOBRE EL PROCOMUN. Con ella se pone en marcha en Medialab Madrid el LABORATORIO DEL PROCOMUN.

Mas informacion en: http://www.medialabmadrid.es/

- PROGRAMA -

17 de mayo de 2007

* Mesa 1 · de 10:00 a 11:45h*
Antonio Lafuente (Estudios de la ciencia)
Ramon Guardans (Ecologia. Biologia)
Carmen Otero (Derecho economico internacional)

* Mesa 2 · de 12:15 a 14:00h*
Juan Carlos Salazar (Teoria economica)
Javier Candeira (Escritor y activista en temas de cultura y politica digital)
Joaquin Rodriguez (Critica Cultural)

* Mesa 3 · de 16:30 a 18:15
Javier de la Cueva (Derechos de propiedad intelectual)
Miquel Vidal (Tecnologias de la Informacion y la Comunicacion)

* Mesa 4 de 18:15 a 20:30*
Jordi Claramonte (Arte y movimientos sociales)
Mac Polu (Biocomputacion)