Website: http://www.pauwaelder.com
Website: http://www.pauwaelder.com
<nettime-ann> Call for Proposals Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival

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24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2007
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The 24th edition of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is
going to take place from November 13 to 18, 2007. On six days the
festival presents about 220 international documentary films as well as
experimental and artistic works. Moreover, the media art exhibition
MONITORING, the DokfestLounge with audiovisual performances and the
interfiction symposium do top off the festival program. Having this
profile the Kasseler Dokfest annually attracts both a regional audience
as well as professionals of the film and media industry from Germany,
Europe and the rest of the world.
We invite all artists, filmmakers, distributors, gallery owners,
universities or institutions to submit latest works and projects to the
different sections of the festival program. Deadline for entries is
August 1, 2007.
Kati Michalk / Gerhard Wissner
phone: +49.561.707 64 21
fax: +49.561.707 64 41
http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest
dokfest@filmladen.de
mail:
c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
Germany
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at second glance
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Most persistence of vision projects I have seen involve moving a strip of leds fast enough that our eye perceives it to be an image. Make magazine has covered many projects of this type.
Jens Wunderling, a student of the Digital Media Class at UDK Berlin, has created at second glance, an alternative approach to POV. Instead of moving the LEDs, Wunderling has them fixed in position, but plays with saccades (our eyes never look straight, but always make fast tiny movement around an area).
So if you happen to glance past the work, you may notice something unusual. On second glance, if you shake your head, you will be able to clearly see the symbol. Created as a “guerilla messaging device, made to place hidden critical messages within the abundant medial environment in the city”.
Developed using Arduino and Processing, the source code of which is available on his site, and 32 ultrabright LEDs.
More from Jens Wunderling
loopArena at Cybersonica, Building a multitouch, loopArena multitouch
John Cage performs Water Walk
John Cage performing Water Walk on TV game show I've got a secret in 1960, while being set up as something of a freakshow the presenter still goes to great lengths to convince the audience that Cage is 'serious'. Cage handles the occasion with a light touch and a good sense of humour, when the presenter warns Cage that while the audience are nice people ... some of them are going to laugh, is that alright he replies with a winning smile of course I consider laughter preferable to tears.
via WFMU
<nettime-ann> Call for Entries: Gameplay: Video Games in Contemprary Art Practice -- Chicago
Via: Mason Dixon
Call for submissions: Gameplay: Video Games in Contemporary Art Practice
The word gameplay refers to the creative, resistant, or artful manipulation of video games by users. It can be said that "gameplay" relates not only to the strategic, but also emotional framework of play, as it is a unique reflection the individual's meaningful bond to the game itself. According to Sid Meier, a world-renowned designer, a game is a "series of interesting choices." If art can also be considered a "series of interesting choices," what happens when the realms of art and video game intersect?
Around the Coyote is seeking submissions for our July 2007 group show, Gameplay: Video Games in Contemporary Art Practice. For Gameplay, we are looking for artists who use video games in a myriad of ways: Do you use video games or its software to explore your own identity or place in this world? Do you use it politically, as a site of resistance? Do you use it as a tool for interactivity or collaboration with other artists or subjects? Do you see virtual worlds as a site of meaning? Does your video game work result in art objects such as photographs, installations or performances?
If your practice is related to video games, and you would like to be considered for Gameplay: Video Games in Contemporary Art Practice, please apply in accordance with the following application procedures. For questions, please contact jessica@aroundthecoyote.org.
Deadline and Application procedure:
If would like to be considered for this exhibition, please submit the following to the Around the Coyote Gallery no later than May 5, 2007 at 6pm.
1. Digital documentation of each submitted piece - artists can submit a maximum of six images on CD. All submitted images must be of work that is available ...
Mal Au Pixel: Koelse.org [Video]
http://pixelache.ac
Video in Google
Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura Society of experimental electronics At Mal Au Pixel, Paris 2006 Video by Christina Kral.

EDUARDO KAC- ART AND BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP
ART AND BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP
18-21 MAY 2005
VENUE : EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace at Morphett Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Since the early 1960s the social impact of computer technology has been a dominant issue and since the early 1980s the digital revolution has been provoking profound changes in the way we live. Now, in the twenty-first century, we realize that the next frontier of artistic investigation is biotechnology.
The field of biological studies is changing from a life science into an information science Biosemiotics, for example, is an interdisciplinary science that studies communication and signification in living systems. Biotechnologies are introducing complex ethical issues, such as the patenting and sale of genes from foreign peoples. Genetic engineering is transforming forever how society approaches the notion of "life."
A few contemporary artists have been responding to this change and are already working with transgenics, interspecies communication, cloning, tissue culture and hybridization techniques to redefine the boundaries between the artwork and living organisms. This workshop will discuss the complex and fascinating relationship between biology and art in the larger context of related social, political, and ethical issues.
PROGRAM
18 May 1:30-4:30pm
A Brief History of Art and DNA
Presentation (slides, video) and discussion
Questioning the Ideology of Biology
Participants will be asked to read before the beginning of the workshop the following texts: "A Reasonable Skepticism", "All in the Genes?", and "Causes and Their Effects" in: Richard C. Lewontin: The doctrine of DNA : the biology of ideology (London; New York : Penguin, 1993). Participants will be expected to discuss these texts.
19 May 1:30-4:30pm
Art and Ecology Presentation (slides, video) and discussion
20 May 1:30-4:30pm
Art and Genetics Presentation (slides, video) and discussion
21 May 1:30-4:30pm
Consciousness in Non-human Animals and Plants
Screening and discussion of "Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry".
Discussion will be based on the following texts: Thomas Nagel. "What is it Like to be a Bat?" in Philosophical Review October 1974, pp. 435-450; R. H. Bradshaw. "Consciousness in Non-Human Animals: Adopting the Precautionary Principle" in Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 5, N. 1, 1998, pp. 108-114; Alexandra H. M. Nagel. "Are Plants Conscious?" Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 4, N. 3, 1997, pp. 215-230; Daniel Dennett. "Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why" in Social Research 62 (3), Fall 1995, pp. 691-710.
REGISTER
The Workshop is FREE. Travel and accommodation is at cost to the participant.
There is limited capacity.
Workshop texts will be available from the EAF and can be distributed via email.
Register your interest in attending the Workshop by Thursday 5 May providing contact details and brief resume:
Email: biotech@eaf.asn.au - "Biotech Workshop"
Post: Experimental Art Foundation, PO Box 8091, Station Arcade, South Australia, 5000
Fax: +61 (0)8 8211 7323
Phone EAF Director, Melentie Pandilovski, for further details +61 (0)8 82117505
Eduardo Kac's residency in Australia has been made possible with the assistance of the South Australian Government through Arts SA's Artist in Residence Program.
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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, bookshop and artists studios.
Lion Arts Centre North Terrace at Morphett Street Adelaide
PO Box 8091 Station Arcade South Australia 5000
Tel: +618 8211 7505 Fax +618 8211 7323
email: eaf@eaf.asn.au bookshop email: eafbooks@eaf.asn.au web: http://www.eaf.asn.au
Director: Melentie Pandilovski Administrator: Julie Lawton
Program Manager: Michael Grimm Bookshop Manager: Ken Bolton
The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. The EAF is proudly smoke-free.
Contagious Media Showdown @ Eyebeam
April 28-June 4th the New Museum of Contemporary Art will feature "Contagious Media", an art exhibition presented in conjunction with the Showdown.
http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/index.php
Ars Electronica 2005- Hybrid: Living in Paradox
Digitization and globalization are bringing about worldwide processes of restructuring and intermingling of cultures, identities, disciplines and previously discrete fields, specialties and domains. The rapid ongoing abrogation of boundaries and fusions in art, technology and society will occupy the focal point of the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival.
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Information about today`s Press conference with Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center) and Christine Schoepf (Austrian Broadcasting Company - Upper Austrian Regional Studio on www.aec.at/presskit
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>>>> 2005 Ars Electronica Festival: The Theme
Nike products in Lagos, manga comix in Grieskirchen, Muslim headscarf-rappers in Berlin, ethnic look as accessorized lifestyle, media moguls as prime ministers-these are just a few examples of how borders are disintegrating and new identities are emerging in a globalized, technologized world.
Science, research, media, politics, art, cultural identity and the definition of physicality-boundaries are vanishing clear across all spheres and aspects of society. Traditionally separate domains are blending together to engender new products, alliances and forms of expression. The consequences of this trend that is increasingly encompassing and pervading all facets of human creativity are "mixed," hybrid solutions like nanotechnology, bionic prostheses, culture jams, hybrid motors, podcasting and blogging-to name just a few. Via modern media and international networking, individuals have long since come to define themselves in terms of a cultural mix composed of highlydiverse influences. This development is the source of insecurity among many different segments of the human community and triggers defensive reactions ranging as far as racism and fundamentalism.
"Hybrid - no other term provides such a consummately appropriate and comprehensive description of the highly paradoxical current state of our world, one that is characterized by interrelationships that, among other things, are extraordinarily contradictory," is how Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker sums this up."Cultures are being superimposed upon one another and fused together, barriers are being broken down-national ones as well as those of a material, technological, psychological and ethical nature."
An internationally unique series of presentations and events including symposia, addresses by artists, exhibitions and installations, concerts, performances, workshops, seminars and interventions in public spaces will be dedicated to elaborating on this theme.
>>>> Hybrid Theory / Symposium
The essential driving forces behind the incredibly rapid and widespread development of hybrid phenomena recently have been new technologies. A select group of top-name international theoreticians, philosophers and scientists will undertake an analysis of the causes and consequences of and the deep-seated interconnections among these manifestations. Derrick de Kerckhove, head of the Marshall McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto and one of the world's leading media experts, is curating the "Hybrid" theme symposium at the Brucknerhaus in Linz. Defining the fundamental issues he plans to address, De Kerckhove stated:"Hybrid, the symposium, wants to explore the receding or vanishing boundaries of identity, the strategies and patterns of how things mix, match and marry in design, architecture or recombinant engineering. [...]
A good question is: does the rising consciousness of the hybrid condition spell a permanent feature of a globalized culture, or merely a transition phase between the era of hardware and the era of software?" During four sessions scheduled for September 2-3, internationally renowned experts will convene in Linz to confront the basic principles and effects of the increasing amalgamation of all aspects of human existence and the waning of the limits that had formerly separated distinct realms.
>>>> Hybrid Art / Performances and Exhibitions
The artistic efforts being undertaken at the Srishti School of Art and Technology in Bangalore, India comprise a mixture of old artforms with modern media and, in doing so, become hybrid forms of expression between yesterday and today. The City of Bangalore itself is an example of a radically hybrid combination of different tendencies in a single region, one in which 700 slums are no less characteristic of the cityscape than a flourishing IT industry that has earned it the nickname "Silicon Valley of the East."
On Linz's Main Square, the Srishti School will be organizing a very special kind of music, video and light performance. Artists in Linz and in Malwa in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh will be linked up live to present a fascinating mixture of traditional artistic recital and international performance featuring a video and light show.
The Srishti School will also assume responsibility for this year's Campus Exhibition at Linz's University of Art and Industrial Design. The centerpiece of this installation will be the concept of freedom at the nexus of commercial interests and individual creativity. In the view of Geetha Naranayan, director of the Shrishti School and curator of the exhibition, the success or the ongoing development of a society ought to be measured to a lesser extent in accordance with the standards of economic progress. Much greater importance should be attributed to the ongoing development of personal freedom in the sense of the personal capacity for expression and improvement in the quality of life for all societies on a global level.
Theo Jansen is already "breeding" the seventh generation of his multi-legged walking critters designed to roam the Dutch coastline. His multifarious constructions-or perhaps "life forms"would be a more appropriate characterization-range from tiny creatures to immense yet surprisingly nimble behemoths that blend high-tech engineering and biological principles. They all have one thing in common:They move about on multiple sets of legs, and all of their movements are fed by gusts of wind, whereby Theo Jansen's creations can also be said to represent a vision for futuristic, alternative forms of locomotion. In any case, one of his newest creatures already comes equipped with a saddle.
The Dutch artist has been constructing his hybrid forms at the interface of nature and technology for about 14 years. Jansen has constantly enhanced and upgraded his creatures in a process that he refers to as "evolution."
>>>> Prix Ars Electronica
As the world's most important competition in the cyberarts, the Prix Ars Electronica has been a trend barometer in the expanding world of media art since 1987. The centerpiece of the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival lineup is the Prix Ars Electronica awards ceremony staged jointly by the ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio and the Ars Electronica Center in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Gala in the Brucknerhaus. The CyberArts 2005 exhibition at the O.K Center for Contemporary Art will showcase the projects singled out for recognition by the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica. The winners - outstanding proponents of media art from all over the world - will present and discuss their work within the framework of the Prix Forums. The conference being sponsored by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science will launch a new aspect of the Festival program.
>>>> Hybrid - Living in Paradox: Thursday, September 1 to Tuesday, September 6, 2005
The Ars Electronica Festival's new format has proved its merit. Running from Thursday to Tuesday makes possible a more intensive use of the entire weekend, which is now positioned right in the middle of the lineup of events."Hybrid - Living in Paradox" will manifest itself in a broad spectrum of forms and a wide variety of venues - via symposia, discussions with artists and workshops, exhibitions, installations and interventions in public spaces, as well as performances and concerts. The logo of this year's Festival is based on a graphic by internationally renowned artist Daniel Lee, who utilizes software to create hybrid forms that blend human and animal expressions. Daniel Lee's visual art has been on public display in a number of settings recently, in particular the exhibition entitled "Andererseits: Die Phantastik" (The Other Side: The Fantastic) in the Landesgalerie and the Schlossmuseum Linz.
For updates, log on to www.aec.at/hybrid
During the months leading up to the festival, our website www.aec.at/hybrid will provide you with regular updates about the festival theme, program details and news. During the festival, www.aec.at/hybrid will become Ars Electronica's online showcase, delivering live streams from the symposia and online reportage about what's been going on at the festival.
Press information in the form of press releases, photo material in print-ready format and background information is available at Ars Electronica's press portal at www.aec.at/press. Beginning on June 14, 2005 at this address,we'll be starting online festival accreditation for representatives of media outlets.
The Ars Electronica Festival is produced by the Ars Electronica Center, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio, Brucknerhaus Linz and the O.K Center for Contemporary Art. Associate producers are the Linz University of Art, the Lentos Museum of Art, Architekturforum Oberosterreich and Posthof. The Prix Ars Electronica is produced by the Ars Electronica Center and the ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio. Ars Electronica and the Prix Ars Electronica are supported by the City of Linz, the Province of Upper Austria, the Office of the Chancellor of the Republic of Austria/Art Department, Telekom Austria and voestalpine.Additional Support: KulturKontakt Austria, Casino Linz, Postlingbergschlosl, Sony DADC und Spring
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Information about today`s Press conference with Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center) and Christine Schoepf (Austrian Broadcasting Company - Upper Austrian Regional Studio on www.aec.at/presskit
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Ars Electronica
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Pressemeldungen/Pressemappen
Press Releases/Press Kits
http://www.aec.at/press
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mob: +43.664.81 26 156
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Assistent Pressebetreuung / Assistant Press
tel: +43.732.7272-966
fax: +43.732.7272-632
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Hauptstrase 2-4, 4040 Linz, Austria
"Hybrid - Living in Paradox" is the title of Ars Electronica 2005
Living in Paradox
Ars Electronica 2005
Linz - Thursday, September 1 to Tuesday, September 6
Press Conference Invitation
Dear Sir or Madam,
"Hybrid - Living in Paradox" is the title of Ars Electronica 2005.
Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center) and Dr. Christine Schopf (Austrian Broadcasting Company - Upper Austria Regional Studio) present this year's theme and give a preview of the 2005 Festival program.
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 10 AM
Location: Ars Electronica Center - Sky Media Loft Cafe & Bar, Hauptstrase 2-4, 4040 Linz, Austria
Prix Ars Electronica: Entry Deadline Extended
The Ars Electronica Center and the ORF Upper Austria are pleased to invite artists, scientists, researchers and developers throughout the world to take part in the Prix Ars Electronica, the international competition for cyberarts being held for the 19th time this year. One of the categories is specially dedicated to up-and-coming computer artists: Austrian kids and young people can put their creativity and talent on display in “u19 - freestyle computing.”
Those interested in entering have until March 18, 2005 to submit their projects. Contestants will be vying for one of the coveted Golden Nica statuettes as well as prize money totaling 110,000 euros.
Juries composed of internationally renowned experts will convene April 21-24 in Linz to judge the entries and select the prizewinning works. Jury co-chairpersons are Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder and Dr. Christine Schopf.
The Competition Categories
The competition is held in an appropriately wide range of categories, each of which is designed to keep the Prix Ars Electronica on the leading edge of developments in the various domains of the cyberarts. The lineup for 2005 includes:
* Digital Musics
* Interactive Art
* Computer Animation / Visual Effects
* Net Vision
* Digital Communities
Total prize money: 110,000 euros
* 6 Golden Nicas
* 12 Awards of Distinction
* Up to 12 Honorary Mentions in each category
* u19 - freestyle computing
For young people in Austria age 19 and under (www.u19.at )
The “u19 - freestyle computing” category presents itself once again in 2005 as a fascinating proving ground for the digital artistic skills of the cybergeneration. Kids and young people age 19 and under are invited to submit their creative works for prize consideration. Awaiting the winners are a Golden Nica and two Awards of Distinction. In this category, jurors take the particular contestant’s age into consideration in judging his/her work. In order to achieve greater parity among the various age groups, additional merchandise prizes are also awarded to kids 10-and-under and to the 11-to-14-year-olds.
Winners will receive prizes with a total value of 10,000 euros.
[the next idea] Art and Technology Grant
Discovering the ideas of tomorrow in the minds of today’s youth. The target group of this category includes students at universities, art schools, polytechnic colleges and other educational institutions, as well as all young people interested in media culture. Anyone who has come up with a not-yet-realized concept in the fields of media art, media design or media technology is welcome to enter. The winner receives a 7,500-euro grant as well as an invitation to spend a semester as scientific assistant and artist-in-residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. [the next idea] is made possible through the support of voestalpine.
Awards Ceremony and Exhibition during the Ars Electronica Festival
Prizes will be awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival (September 1-6, 2005 in Linz). In conjunction with the Festival, prize-winning works will be displayed as part of the CyberArts 2005 exhibition at the O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, and the prize-winning artists will have the opportunity to speak about their work at the two-day Prix Artist Forum.
Prize Donors and Sponsors
The Prix Ars Electronica’s lead sponsors and prize donors are Telekom Austria, voestalpine AG, the City of Linz and the Province of Upper Austria. Patrons are KulturKontakt Austria, Casinos Austria, Postlingberschloss’l, Sony DADC and Spring.
Prix Ars Electronica Online
Anyone interested in entering will find all they need on the Internet: complete information, details about the current competition, and the possibility of online registration. An entry folder is also available by mail.
* Prix Ars Electronica 2005: prixars.aec.at (Queries: info@prixars.aec.at)
* u19 freestyle computing: www.u19.at (Queries: u19@prixars.aec.at)
Prix Ars Electronica
The 2005 Prix Ars Electronica is the 19th running of the cyberarts competition that is conceived as an open platform for a wide array of disciplines in the field of digital media at the interface of art, technology and society. With 28,213 works submitted from 87 countries since its inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is the most important and successful international showcase of excellence in the cyberarts.
Ars Electronica
Presseteam: Partner der Medien
Press Team: Partner of the Media
Pressemeldungen/Pressemappen
Press Releases/Press Kits
http://www.aec.at/press
Bilder (300 dpi)
Images (300 dpi)
http://www.aec.at/pictures
Mag. Wolfgang A. Bednarzek MAS
Pressesprecher / Press Officer
tel: +43.732.7272-38
mob: +43.664.81 26 156
fax: +43.732.7272-638
mailto:wolfgang.bednarzek@aec.at
Mag. Robert Bauernhansl
Assistent Pressebetreuung / Assistant Press
tel: +43.732.7272-966
fax: +43.732.7272-632
mailto:robert.bauernhansl@aec.at
Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrase 2-4, 4040 Linz, Austria