Kevin McGarry
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International Summer Workshop at ETC


The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2006

May 31 - June 11, 2006

The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2006 is a collaborative video and sonic arts opportunity, sponsored by the Center and the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) at Alfred University. Academic credit is available through Alfred University.

The ISW website http://www.etcisw.com has all the information you need to register, plus a look at past Workshops complete with video clips and photos, as well as biographies of the instructors.

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FW: CLOSED CIRCUIT VIDEOINSTALLATIONEN (new book)


BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:

Slavko Kacunko
CLOSED CIRCUIT VIDEOINSTALLATIONEN
Ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst
mit Bausteinen eines Kunstlerlexikons auf DVD

The book and the DVD-ROM have finally been published.

Keywords:
Media Art, Media Art History, Media Theory, Video, Installation, Components
of an Artists-Encyclopedia

Language: german

The publication (a Book (1200 pages) & a DVD (13.000 images)) may be ordered

1) in the bookstores: ISBN 3-8325-0600-4

2) directly from the publisher:
http://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/buch?isbn00

3) over this newsletter: order@closed-circuit.de

Price: 98.- E

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The book focuses on one of the most important aspects of the history of the
media art

DISCUSSION

FW: MAAP in Singapore ....


MAAP - Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
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'MAAP in Singapore' 2004
"GRAVITY"
Exhibitions: 1 October - 28 November
Conference and Festival Focus Week: 27-31 October.
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MAAP has started with a bang and a digital rumble ... it's on during October
and November ... 7 galleries and more ... look out for ....

Friday 29 October
Tune in or drop into the ZERO GRAVITY PARTY live broadband mix event between
the Singapore Art Museum and The Block QUT Creative Industries Brisbane AND
online www.maap.org.au for link...

From 27 October check
A live internet public art project 'Peoples Portrait' by Zhang Ga rendered
in real-time on video walls in public spaces in Singapore, Brisbane, New
York, Linz, Rotterdam and other locations connecting people of different
race and cultures to create a celebratory experience of the 'self portrait'.
Upload your face at QUT Brisbane, Singapore CBD Sand ... check site for
details!

GRAVITY as the central festival theme will be linking the weightless code of
digital media to the conceptual weight of ideas in a concentrated
examination of New Media Art. This international program explores
underlying themes of GRAVITY - the gravity of real and virtual space, social
gravity, and the ultimate gravity of ideas referenced and linked to the
Conceptual Art movement... and find out why a dead French artist is in an
Asian focused new media exhibition in Singapore in 2004.

MAAP in Singapore has a range of Partner Programs sourcing content from
regional networks with additional exhibitions and screenings managed by
cooperative local venues and collaborators.

MAAP in Singapore Exhibitions:
'GRAVITY' curated by Kim Machan - Singapore Art Museum
'-+- (negative plus negative)' curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong Earl Lu
Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
'Scan' at The Substation hosts Videotage, Hong Kong; Ssamzie Space, Seoul,
Asia Art Archives Hong Kong - The Substation
'The Gravity of Sound' 'Audio Tunnel: curated by Lawrence English - The
Esplanade,Theatres on the Bay Tunnel
'Gravity Extended' The Esplanade,Theatres on the Bay
'I thought I knew but I was wrong' new video art from Australia curated by
Sarah Tutton/Alexie Glass (Asialink&ACMI) - Gallery 3 Nanyang Academy of
Fine Arts
' Transformations New Media: Indigenous Australian artists' organised by
Bridget Tracy Tan and MAAP Gallery 3 Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
'Katawan, Sati (Body Force)' new media from Philippines and Myanmar, cura=
ted
by Fatima Lasay - The Gallery, National Institute of Education
Refereed Conference: 'New Media Art, Technology and Education' Nanyang
Technological University (27-28 October,Trebor Sholz key note.
'GRAVITY' Symposium - Singapore Art Museum (30 October).

As MAAP oscillates between the gravitational pull of online and physical
spaces, MAAP is planning an online residency that will physically locate
artists in Singapore for the festival and then continue support and training
over a twelve-month period - net/works.- will commence at the opening of the
festival.

Singapore' is part of the SENI: Singapore Art and the Contemporary visual
arts festival.
Further information www.maap.org.au info@maap.org.au

MAAP in Singapore partners with

Singapore National Arts Council www.nac.gov.sg
Singapore Art Museum www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM
The Substation, Singapore www.substation.org
Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
www.lasallesia.edu.sg/secondary.html
Esplanade Theatres on the Bay www.esplanade.com
Switch Media, Chang Mai http://switchmedia.culturebase.org
Nanyang Technological University www.ntu.edu.sg
The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education www.nie.edu.sg
The Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts www.nafa.edu.sg
Siggraph, Singapore Chapter http://singapore.siggraph.org
The Year of Living Digitally, Singapore http://www.livedigitally.net
The Australian High Commission Singapore www.singapore.embassy.gov.au

MAAP in Singapore is generously supported by
main sponsors
Australia Council www.ozco.org.au
TheNational Arts Council, Singapore www.nac.gov.sg
The National Heritage Board Singapore www.nhb.gov.sg
Arts Queensland www.arts.qld.gov.au
Brisbane City Council www.ourbrisbane.com
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade www.dfat.gov.au

and
Australian Film Commission www.afc.gov.au
Art Victoria www.arts.vic.gov.au
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University www.gu.edu.au
QUT Creative Industries www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au
SAE Institute, Singapore www.saeasia.com
Tourism Queensland www.tq.com.au
NEC www.nec.com.sg
Asia Pacific Breweries www.apb.com.sg
The Gallery Hotel, Singapore www.galleryhotel.com.sg

Partner Programs and Advisors
The Digital Art Museum of the China Millenium Monument,
http://www.bj2000.org.cn
Switch Media, Chiang Mai, http://switchmedia.culturebase.org
Asialink www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au and Australian Centre for the Moving
Image www.acmi.net.au
Experimenta Media Arts www.experimenta.org
DLux Media Arts www.dlux.org.au
Videotage Hong Kong www.videotage.org.hk
Art Center Nabi, Seoul www.nabi.org.kr
Ssamzie space www.ssamzie.com.kr

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DISCUSSION

November Calling


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Promise to show-up and vote against Bush/Cheney
Promise to make reminder-to-vote calls right before the election to a
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To make a bigger impact, ask everyone you're planning to call to join the
phone tree too, and then keep spreading the word.

DISCUSSION

THREAD: Thinking of art, transparency and social technology /Flash Formalism


Here is all of last week's invigorating conversation threaded as one-

Date: 10/05/04-10/08/04
From: Liza Sabater <blogdiva@culturekitchen.com>, bensyverson
<rhizome@bensyverson.com>, curt cloninger <curt@lab404.com>, Rob Myers
<robmyers@mac.com>, ryan griffis <grifray@yahoo.com>, Pall Thayer
<palli@pallit.lhi.is>, Steve Kudlak <steve.kudlak@cruzrights.org>, Jess
Loseby <jess@rssgallery.com>, Francis Hwang <francis@rhizome.org>, t.whid
<twhid@twhid.com>, jm Haefner <j.haefner@sbcglobal.net>, Eric Dymond
<e.dymond@sympatico.ca>, Alexander Galloway <galloway@nyu.edu>, Jim Andrews
<jim@vispo.com>, "~~~~|//////|~~~~" <llacook@yahoo.com>
Subject: Thinking of art, transparency and social technology

Liza Sabater <blogdiva@culturekitchen.com> posted:

Should we consider Bill Gates the Bin Laden of net art?

The problem with Java --at least in some of the Head Potato's work-- is that
because it works at the hardware level, it presents a whole 'nother level of
problems. So the clocking will be fine on a Dell but fucked up on a HP.
There will be flicker --and a horrid, ugly flicker-- one screen, but not the
other. And all of this varies from one version of Windows to another. Of
course, some artworks will look and even work completely different in a Mac.

The Johns (Simon and Klima) have it right when they decided to control both
the hardware and software. The time wasted banging heads on a keyboard and
cursing at Gates could probably be used optimizing or even building
"signature" hardware. I personally believe if you are going to sell software
art at a gallery, that's the way to go. BTW, even JODI are shlepping their
own hardware these days.

But let me bring another issue to the table, one I think other net creatives
have brought to light pretty well. It's the issue of TRANSPARENCY.

Artists have always kept notes, some way or another, for their ideas and
process. But it is not until they are dead (or made an offer they cannot
refuse) that people can take a peek at them. If ever. But not just artist as
in Art makers. Most people involved in creative work will keep some kind of
record of their discoveries and obstacles. The problem, again, is that these
are mostly kept tucked away in private libraries or bedroom drawers.

I believe it is time for net artists to stop pretending anybody beyond their
immediate peers understand what they are doing. Seriously. Not even the
people in most arts organizations (I'm thinking granting institutions and
the like) understand the difference between creating your own metasoftware
in Java so you can create software art versus a person who gets their hands
on Flash and makes an animation. To this day I find myself saying at art
openings, "No, that Levin/Simon/Napier is not an animation. It's software
creating the art." To which they most inevitably get the "deer in the
headlights" look on their faces. Ugh.

MTAA was interviewed for Petit Mort and it's worth the reading (great pics
of the sexy beasts and a fantabulous one of EndNode AKA Printer Tree). This
is the part that mostly caught my attention:

I