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

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


EVENT

CALL FOR ENTRIES - International Prize for Performance


Dates:
Tue Aug 22, 2006 00:00 - Mon Aug 06, 2007

// CALL FOR ENTRIES
// International Prize for Performance, 3rd Edition
// Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento
// Deadline: 12:00 AM on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 (Italian time)

The official announcement of the International Prize for Performance, organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with centrale FIES is out. The Prize, which counts its third edition this year, can be characterized as the first and only prize for performance that exists in the world and proposes the same formula as last years, which saw high participation numbers from both the public and the artists.

All artists of all nationalities, from all formative backgrounds (visual arts, dance, music, poetry, etc.) and born from January 1st, 1972 are invited to participate. The first prize is fixed at 5,000 euros and there will also be minor prizes awarded.

The initiative aims to select among the participants twelve young performers from all over the world, who are invited to realize a never before seen performance on the evenings of October 5th and 6th, 2007 at the former hydroelectric power station Centrale di Fies in Dro (Trento). Performances will run under the eyes of a jury composed of some of the most absolute names in the Italian and international contemporary art world, one of whom will be president, the artist and performer Jimmie Durham.

Other members of the jury are specialists with different backgrounds, in order to guarantee the Prize a multidisciplinary character; they are: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (art critic and Artistic Director of Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Bergamo), Rune Gade (Associate Professor at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen), An-Marie Lambrechts (Artistic Director of Toneelhuis Theater, Antwerp), David Weinstein (Director of Programs of P.S.1, New York), Barbara Boninsegna (Artistic Director of drodesera FIES), Fabio Cavallucci (Artistic Director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento).

Applications must include all materials, as specified in the official announcement, and be sent via email to performance@galleriacivica.it (posted materials will not be accepted).

The expiration date for the application form and materials is fixed at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 (Italian time).

The official announcement is available at http://www.workartonline.net


EVENT

CALL FOR PROJECTS - Curator Season at The Red House


Dates:
Sun Sep 30, 2007 00:00 - Sun Jul 29, 2007

// CALL FOR PROJECTS
// Curator Season at The Red House(Sofia, Bulgaria)
// Deadline: September 30, 2007

The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate announces an invitation to curators and artistic formations to offer a project for the Red House Curator Season in the field of contemporary visual arts and new media suggesting also certain critical view. The most attractive creative projects or proposals for series of exhibitions or other accompanying events will be given the opportunity to fulfill their potential at the Red House areas as well as to be included in the Red House Centre Programme.

Requirements for the projects invited:

The call refers to two periods (January - July, 2008 and September, 2008 - July, 2009 ) and is open for participants interested to take part in one or both of them.

The proposal should contain:
• a clear concept in the field of visual arts and new media for the period chosen, including a description of the authors, exhibitions and the accompanying events.
• arguments on how this program matches the aims of the Red House
• vision on the financial sources and the budget needed for the project
• enclosed CVs of the curator, the artists or the team that offers the concept

The deadline for participation is September 30, 2007

Please address your proposals or any further questions to: visualarts@redhouse-sofia.org

http://www.redhouse-sofia.org/


EVENT

CALL FOR PROJECTS - VIDA 10.0


// CALL FOR PROJECTS
// VIDA 10.0 - International Competition on Art and Artificial Life.
// Project submission dates: September 17-October 22, 2007

Fundacion Telefonica is attempting to promote the convergence of Art, Science and Technology by holding an international competition which rewards those works of art developed using Artificial Life technologies.

At previous editions, prizes were given to art projects created with robots, electronic avatars, chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automatons, computer viruses, virtual ecologies which evolve by interacting with the participant and works which delve into social aspects of Artificial Life.

Selected Projects

A total of 20,000 euros will be awarded to the projects selected by the jury:

First prize: 10,000 euros
Second prize: 7,000 euros
Third prize: 3,000 euros

Exhibition

The selected projects will be exhibited at the International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid in February 2008.

Incentive for Production

The competition's second category will help finance Artificial Life art projects (and those of associated disciplines) that have not yet been made. The competition is open to participants from anywhere in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Jury

The works submitted will be examined by an international jury that will be meeting as of November 7, 2007. The prize winners' names and special mentions will be announced at an award ceremony.

Members of the Jury
Monica Bello Bugallo, Spain
Daniel Canogar, Spain
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Canada/Mexico
Jose-Carlos Mariategui, Peru
Nell Tenhaaf, Canada
Simon Penny, USA/Australia

Dates:
Project submission dates:
September 17-October 22, 2007.
Deliberation by the jury:
November 7-9, 2007.

You may send your proposal in along with the application form and required materials to any of the following addresses:

SPAIN
Angeles Perez Muela
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacion Telefonica
Gran Via, 32. 5a planta
28013 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34 91 584 23 05
Fax: 34 91 584 0656

PERU
Ana Maria Castaneta
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacion Telefonica
Av. Arequipa 1155
Santa Beatriz
Lima, Peru
Phone: 511 210 1544
Fax: 511 419 0501

ARGENTINA
Silvana Spadaccini
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacion Telefonica
Arenales 1540
1061 Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 5411 4333 1317
Fax: 5411 4333 1307

CHILE
Claudia Villaseca
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacion Telefonica
Providencia, 111 - P. 25
Santiago, Chile
Phone: 562 691 3741
Fax: 562 236 7138

BRAZIL
Adriana Lomonaco
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacao Telefonica
Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1188 -- conjuntos 33 e 34
CEP 01451-001 Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil
Phone: 5511 3035 1956
Fax: 5511 3035 1950

MEXICO
Francisco Mijares
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundacion Telefonica
Av. Prolongacion Paseo de la Reforma, 1200 -- piso 08
Colonia Cruz Manca. Cuajimalpa de Morelos
C.P. 05349 -- Mexico D.F. Mexico
Phone: 5255 1616 7587
Fax: 5255 1616 8053

For further information on the competition, please write to:
Angeles Perez Muela: angeles.perezmuela@telefonica.es

Applicants may consult the winning projects from previous years at the VIDA website, http://www.telefonica.es/vida in order to determine whether their projects fit in with the philosophy
of the prize.


OPPORTUNITY

CALL FOR ARTISTS - DISONANCIAS 2007/08


Deadline:
Wed Oct 03, 2007 00:00

// CALL FOR ARTISTS
// DISONANCIAS 2007/08
// Deadline for applications: 3 October 2007, 9 am (Spain)

DISONANCIAS 2007/08 is pleased to announce the call for proposals from international artists to work on joint research programmes with heads of R&D&I in companies and research centres located in the Basque Country (Sapin).

This year, the following entities are participating: DORLET, EiTB, FUNDACION IKERTIA, GRUPO SARKIS/LAGUNKETA, IMAR, LANIK, LANTEGI BATUAK, POLO GARAIA and TECNALIA. The concepts they want to investigate have mainly to do with architecture, urbanism, and with relation and communication spaces.

If you are interested, please consult the rules and regulations and apply online.

Further information: http://www.disonancias.com, info@disonancias.com.

DISONANCIAS is sponsored by SPRI and the Basque Government (Industry, Trade and Tourism Department) and promoted by Grupo Xabide.