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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - AV FESTIVAL 08


Dates:
Mon Oct 15, 2007 00:00 - Sun Sep 30, 2007

// SNEAK PREVIEW & CALL FOR PROPOSALS
// AV FESTIVAL 08 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
// Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2007

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK

AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North East of England. The next AV Festival will be held 28 February - 8 March 2008.

The theme of AV Festival 08 is Broadcast.

This October, the BBC begin to switch off analogue television signals in the UK, paving the way for television to become entirely digital. At the same time as this profound change in our experience of broadcasting takes place, the internet and mobile networks have created opportunities for us to 'broadcast ourselves' in entirely new ways. As the landscape of broadcasting changes irrevocably, AV Festival 08 will be a catalyst for debate about the future of broadcasting, and an event to celebrate a century of on-air and online transmission.

AV Festival 08 will include internationally renowned artists, filmmakers, researchers and musicians as well as emerging practitioners. It will feature:
- New commissions of art, music and moving image
- Open Air: an outdoor programme of events
- Concerts & Performances
- Exhibitions in galleries and museums
- A moving image programme
- FM Radio Stations
- Club events and parties
- An industry debate
- Seminars, conferences and talks
- Workshops

We will be making a full announcement about the festival theme and some aspects of the programme mid October.

___AV Festival 08: getting involved

AV Festival 08 is providing creative practitioners with an opportunity to contribute ideas to the programme. In the next two months, we will announce a series of opportunities for artists, musicians, filmmakers, DJs, VJs, designers, theorists, technologists, scientists, philosophers and others to contribute to the festival.

The first of these opportunities is a call for proposals for a site-specific audio art commission at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. The fee is GBP5000. If you have an idea for a new work which responds to our theme and the context of the Winter Gardens, we would like to hear about it. See below for more details.

In the coming weeks, we will also call for proposals from artists and producers who want to get involved with our radio stations, filmmakers who want to create a new work for the festival, and critics and philosophers who want to contribute to our conferences.

___AV Festival 08: call for proposals

AV Festival will commission new work especially for the festival, as well as present creative work which has already been produced.

We are now calling for proposals from artists or musicians for a new site-specific audio artwork for the Sunderland Winter Gardens. Experienced artists are invited to submit original ideas for a work that responds to both the festival's theme and the unique environment of the Winter Gardens.

The fee for this commission is GBP 5000.

Artists wishing to submit a proposal must download the brief for this commission from the AV Festival website, read the guidelines and send a proposal by email.

DEADLINE: 15 October 2007
DOWNLOAD BRIEF: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities/
EMAIL PROPOSALS TO: michelle@avfestival.co.uk

We will announce further calls for proposals for other parts of the programme in the coming weeks. If you want to be kept informed of future opportunities, please subscribe to our mailing list by filling up the sign up box on http://www.avfestival.co.uk

___AV Festival 08: joining our team

Over the coming weeks, we will be inviting tenders from freelance individuals, or companies, who want to get involved in the production of AV Festival 08. We are now inviting tenders for thefirst of these contracts: AV Festival Programme Manager, Middlesbrough. We are also inviting proposals for several paid placements for exceptional young people. There are more details about all these opportunities at: http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunities

___AV Festival: the story so far

The AV Festival is run by an independent charitable company called Audio Visual Arts North East.

AV Festival has run two successful festivals thus far. The first was held 18 - 22 November 2003 and consisted of over one hundred events across three towns in two weeks. It included new a newly commissioned film by The Light Surgeons which aired on BBC Television, screenings of Matthew Barney's
Cremaster Cycle, a Mike Figgis film retrospective, a world premiere by Peter Greenaway, new work by Richard Fenwick, performances by the Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Food, Tina Frank and General Magic, onedotzero screenings and a lively programme of workshops and lectures. The archived AV Festival 03 website can be found at: http://www.avfest.co.uk/03/new/index2.html

The second AV Festival - LifeLike took place in over 25 venues from 2-12 March 2006. Over 10 days, AV delivered over 90 events in 3 urban centres. Curatorially, AV Festival 06 investigated life sciences. It featured challenging new work by Michael Nyman, Neil Bromwich & Zoe Walker, D-Fuse, Carsten Nicolai, and many others. It included 15 ambitious new commissions from artists, filmmakers and musicians such as Ryoji Ikeda, Ken Rinaldo, Andy Gracie and Anthony McCall, Gina Czarnecki, UMAMi, Time's Up, :zoviet*france:, Suguru Goto and others. The archived AV Festival 06 website can be found at: http://www.avfest.co.uk/06/

___AV Festival 08: supporters

AV Festival 08 is organised by Audio Visual Arts North East, an independent charitable company.

AV Festival 08 forms part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class festivals and events programme managed by culture10, based at NewcastleGateshead
Initiative.

AV Festival 08 is supported by Arts Council England, North East, Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council, ONE NorthEast, Middlesbrough Council, Sunderland City Council, Tyneside Cinema, Northern Film & Media, UK Film Council.

___AV Festival 08: partnership network

AV Festival has developed close working relationships with some of the region's key cultural organisations. Our past or current partners include:
- University of Teesside, Middlesbrough: http://www.tees.ac.uk
- Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle: http://www.tynecine.org
- Arts Development, Middlesbrough Council
- Arts Development, Sunderland City Council
- The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead : http://www.thesagegateshead.org/
- Forma, Newcastle: http://www.forma.org.uk
- Alt-Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.altgallery.org
- Discovery Museum, Newcastle: www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery
- Hatton Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton
- Centre for Life, Newcastle: http://www.life.org.uk
- NO-FI, Newcastle: http://www.no-fi.org.uk
- Isis Arts, Newcastle: http://www.isisarts.org.uk
- Codeworks: http://www.codeworks.net
- CultureLab: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/culturelab
- Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle: http://www.sidecinema.com
- Polytechnic, Newcastle: http://ptechnic.org
- Name, Newcastle: http://www.name-site.com
- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens:
- http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland
- National Glass Centre, Sunderland: http://www.nationalglasscentre.com
- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland: http://www.ngca.co.uk
- Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland: http://www.regvardygallery.org/
- CRUMB, Sunderland: http://www.crumbweb.org
- /sLab, Sunderland: http://www.slab.uk.net/
- University of Sunderland: http://www.sunderland.ac.uk
- Washington Arts Centre, Sunderland
- mima, Middlesbrough: http://www.mima.uk.com
- Empire, Middlesbrough: http://www.theempire.co.uk
- Kino Cinema, Middlesbrough: http://www.tenfeettall.co.uk/kino
- Cleveland College of Art & Design, Middlesbrough: http://www.ccad.ac.uk
- UMAMi, Newcastle: http://www.umami.tv
- Dance City, Newcastle: http://www.dancecity.co.uk
- White Hot Communications, Newcastle: http://www.whitehotcomms.co.uk
- Velcrobelly, Newcastle: http://www.velcrobelly.co.uk
- Waygood Gallery, Newcastle: http://www.waygood.org

___AV Festival 08: contacts

For more information contact:

AV Festival
c/o Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town Hall
West Street
Gateshead
NE8 1HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 2328289, ext 112
Email: info@avfestival.co.uk
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/

AV Festival is run by Audio Visual Arts North East. A Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No 06141603. Registered Charity Number
1120368. Registered Office: c/o Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town Hall, West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HE, UK.


EVENT

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Stranger of the Month (Next Wave Festival 2008)


Dates:
Fri Oct 12, 2007 00:00 - Thu Sep 06, 2007

// Call for Expressions of Interest
// Stranger of the Month (Next Wave Festival 2008)
// Deadline: 12th October 2007

Combining the collaborative impulse in contemporary art with
user-centric trends in new media, Stranger of the Month draws upon the
wisdom of the crowd.

Taking the stranger as its subject, artists conduct a viral marketing
campaign throughout media platforms to engage and produce a community of participants. Through this process, it becomes apparent that publics
emerge by virtue of being addressed; they are relational, not static.

Interaction with its publics will be entirely mediated; artists may
either inhabit social networking sites to contact their participants,
such as Facebook, or 43Things, or alternately, they may use traditional
spaces for public broadcast, such as the classified sections of the
local newspaper or community bulletin boards.

Written instructions may stand-alone for their critical merit, or
alternatively invite a variety of responses from participants. Both
written instructions and generated responses will be presented
throughout public spaces such as Federation Square, during the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and be reproduced in an online instructional manual.

Expressions of interest should include:

- A 200 word paragraph describing what you'd like to do
- Two JPEG images of the artist's most recent work
- A 200wd bio and one-page CV

Interested? Send your questions or applications to
curator[at]strangerofthemonth.com , or mail a
letter to our postal address.

Our mailing address is:
Stranger of the Month
PO Box 171
East Melbourne
Victoria 3002
Australia

Find Out More:
An information session will be held at the Meat Market, North Melbourne,
Thursday, September 6, 2007, from 6-8pm.


OPPORTUNITY

CALL FOR ARTISTS - Lanternhouse International and folly


Deadline:
Sat Sep 01, 2007 00:00

// CALL FOR ARTISTS
// Lanternhouse International and folly
// Deadline: September 1, 2007

Lanternhouse International and folly are working together to provide the perfect creative environment for artists working with technology.

Talented digital artists spanning the whole spectrum of art using sound, the internet, software, film, design, visual art etc - who are looking for the perfect environment in which to develop their work should contact Ulverston-based Lanternhouse International.

This pioneering arts company is working with folly to offer a unique environment for digital artists to develop their practice based at The Lanternhouse - an inspirational Creation Centre, a unique, artist designed resource in beautiful southern Lakeland, Cumbria, UK. It is an ideal place to dream, devise and develop new work and explore creative ideas.

Lanternhouse International and folly are enthusiastic about attracting digital artists to be based at this National Creation Centre in Ulverston. It can offer a truly unique, stimulating location, zero-cost work spaces but, most important of all, the buzz of creative exchange.

Folly, a leading digital arts organisation, based in nearby Lancaster is working in partnership with Lanternhouse to ensure that the artists are tied into a network of opportunities and professional development, distribution and technical support.

If you want to find out more just contact Lanternhouse International Creative Director, Stephen Powell, or Executive Director, George Harris on 01229-581127 for a chat or Kathryn Lambert, Creative Director of folly on 01524 388 550

We welcome applications from international artists.

Deadline for submissions 1st September 2007.

stephen 'at' lanternhouse.org
george 'at' lanternhouse.org
kathryn.lambert 'at' folly.co.uk

Executive Director
Lanternhouse International
Lanternhouse
Ulverston
Cumbria
LA12 0AA
T: 01229-581127

SRC=http://www.folly.co.uk


EVENT

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Netmage 08


Dates:
Tue Oct 16, 2007 00:00 - Tue Aug 07, 2007

// CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
// Netmage 08, International Live-media Festival - 8th edition
// Bologna, 24>26 January 2008
// Deadline 16 October 2007

The call for participation is now open for the International Live-media Floor of Netmage 08 a festival aimed to explore media innovation within the context of electronic arts that will take place in Bologna from the 24th to the 26th January 2008.

The Live-media Floor is the main section of the Netmage festival program, an international platform to confront practices of generating and/or mixing images and sound of every type and format. A window on cinematic and inter-media aesthetics that change form year by year.

Participation is open to projects that employ electronic, electroacoustic, analogue and cinematic means to produce visuals
and sound. The projects selected will be performed in a single event space, single or multi-screen, for a duration of about 20 minutes each.

All material must be sent to:
Netmage, Via Ca Selvatica 4/d, 40123 Bologna, Italy
tel (++39) 051 331099
bando@netmage.it
hhtp://www.netmage.it

to be received before 16 October 2007.
XING via ca’selvatica 4/d 40123 bologna italy
pressoff@xing.it
www.xing.it
www.netmage.it


EVENT

16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil


// 16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
// September 30 to October 25, 2007

http://www.sescsp.org.br
http://www.videobrasil.org.br

The ties between video, cinema, and the visual arts are the object of investigation of the 16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil, to be held at SESC Avenida Paulista, in Sao Paulo, from September 30 to October 25, 2007. Synthesized in the curatorial theme Limite: Movimentacao de imagem e muita estranheza [Limit: image movement and lots of strangeness], the relations among those fields, which unfold into expanded images and multiple narratives, are present in all sections of the Festival, from the competitive exhibition to the special curatorships, from the conferences to the participation of guests Peter Greenaway, Marcel Odenbach, Kenneth Anger, Arthur Omar, Carlos Adriano, Edgard Navarro, Eder Santos, and Detanico Lain.

The theme of the 16th Videobrasil was inspired by the feature film Limite (1930), by Mario Peixoto, which caused surprise by introducing, into Brazilian cinema and audiovisual production, all sorts of hybridizations and experimental strategies, using a camera that assumes its own visibility and the intentionality of writing. The film will receive a special tribute at the Festival, and is one of the subjects of the third edition of the annual publication Caderno Videobrasil, to be released during the event.

Southern Panoramas
Curated by Solange Farkas, director of Associacao Cultural Videobrasil and of the Museum of Modern Art - Bahia, the 16th Videobrasil will bring together, in the Southern Panoramas competitive exhibition, sixty-six works produced during the last two years in seventeen countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania. The selection was made from 791 works submitted, and includes both productions by artists with a background in the field of electronic art, and those who use video as a research tool.

The exhibition will feature work by the Brazilians Eustaquio Neves, Wagner Morales, Cao Guimaraes, Giselle Beiguelman, Marcellvs L., and Nuno Ramos, the duo Mauricio Dias (Brazil) and Walter Riedweg (Switzerland), the Argentines Leon Ferrari, Andres Denegri, Gustavo Galuppo, Marcello Mercado, and Federico Lamas, the Australian John Gillies, the South African Gregg Smith, the Lebanese Akram Zaatari, the Chilean Claudia Aravena Abughosh, the Moroccan Bouchra Khalili, and the Mexicans Marco Casado and Salvador Ortega.

Divided into the sections State of the Art (for the production of established artists), Contemporary Investigations (for research processes), and New Vectors (for emerging artists), Southern Panoramas will highlight proposals that use cinema as raw material and/or "data bank," remixing sequences, recontextualizing scenes, and reprocessing classic images by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, and Godard.

Guest artists
The quest for a deterritorialized cinema, the procedures of which are in line with contemporary artistic practice, has also determined the choice of guests such as Peter Greenaway, who will bring to the event new developments of Tulse Luper Suitcases, his project-manifesto on the future of cinema. His participation includes a live image session, an installation, lectures, and a blog http://blogdovideobrasil.blog.uol.com.br . The German video art pioneer Marcel Odenbach will have his largest exhibition to date in Latin America, featuring installations, films, a lecture, and a previously unseen work, commissioned by the Festival. Kenneth Anger, one of the inventors of underground cinema in the United States, will have a retrospective screening of nine short films produced between 1947 and 1972.

The Brazil Axis will feature artist Arthur Omar, who has been breaking down borders between different artistic territories since the 1970s, as he travels between film, photography, video, installations, and Web art; Edgard Navarro, from the state of Bahia, whose resume includes some of the most irreverent and original videos in the history of Brazilian visual art; filmmaker and master in cinema Carlos Adriano, who operates between documental and experimental film; Eder Santos, one of the foremost Brazilian electronic artists; and the duo Detanico Lain, which is also responsible for the graphic identity of Videobrasil.

For more information on the 16th International Electronic Art Festival_SESC Videobrasil and other Associacao Cultural Videobrasil activities, visit our Web site: http://www.videobrasil.org.br

Concept and production:
Associacao Cultural Videobrasil