Pau Waelder
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

BIO
Graduate in Art History by the University of Barcelona, currently studying for a PhD on digital art. Works as a freelance curator and art critic. Consulting professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, he has coordinated and written teaching materials for several courses on art and digital culture. He is also an editor of the blog "Arte, Cultura e Innovación" supported by the Open University of Catalonia and Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain), and the Media Art editor at art.es contemporary art magazine (Spain).
Website: http://www.pauwaelder.com

<nettime-ann> Call for Proposals Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival



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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

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Goethestrasse 31
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at second glance


at second glance

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.

Watch video
Development blog

More from Jens Wunderling
loopArena at Cybersonica, Building a multitouch, loopArena multitouch

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John Cage performs Water Walk


cage.jpg 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

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<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 ...

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Mal Au Pixel: Koelse.org [Video]


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Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura Society of experimental electronics At Mal Au Pixel, Paris 2006 Video by Christina Kral.

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PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2005: The Results


PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2005: The Results

Creative artists from 71 countries submitted 2,975 works for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration this year. Computer Animation and Interactive Art are the areas that showed strongest growth in the number of entries. Prize money totaling EUR 110,000 will be awarded to the winners in six categories.

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This text, pictures and information about today`s Press conference with Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center) and Christine Schoepf (Austrian Broadcasting Company - Upper Austrian Regional Studio on <http://www.aec.at/presskit> www.aec.at/presskit
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Ever since its inception, the competition's focus has been on state-ofthe- art creativity in the key fields of digital media: Computer Animation / Visual Effects, Digital Musics, Interactive Art and Net Vision.With the inauguration of the Digital Communities category in 2004, the Prix Ars Electronica has devoted increasing attention to the impact art and technology are having on social developments. The "u19 - freestyle computing" category for young people and [the next idea] art and technology grant offer Austria's computerized younger generation and up-andcoming young artists a creative platform and prominent showcase for their encounters with new media.

The astounding number of countries from which entries were submitted this year powerfully underscores the international significance of the Prix Ars Electronica. The competition's activities have resonated not only in the major Western industrial nations but also in small states-the Solomon Islands, for instance-located in distant regions of the globe. Entries from Iran, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and the Congo are impressive testimony to the Prix Ars Electronica's intercultural impact. The winners of this year's Golden Nicas are from Poland, India, Latvia, the US, Canada and Austria. A host of internationally prominent experts convened April 21-24 in Linz. Over the course of intensive deliberations, they evaluated the projects that were submitted for Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration this year and reached their final decisions on April 24. From a total of 2,975 entries, the seven juries selected the winners of six Golden Nicas, 12 Awards of Distinction and 73 Honorary Mentions as well as the recipients of [the next idea] art and technology grant and several merchandise prizes.

The juries also named the winners of two special awards. Once again this year, the winning projects confirm the competition's role as a barometer of international trends in the world of media art.

>> Using technology as an artistic implement is now something taken completely for granted

Asked to sum up the general trends that have emerged from the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica competition, Ars Electronica Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker concluded that technology as an object of artistic consideration has now clearly been relegated to a position of secondary importance as compared to Prix Ars Electronica competitions in previous years, when the technology itself consistently occupied the focal point of attention."New media are now taken completely for granted as artistic instruments that can be used to express a broad spectrum of ideas, concepts and narratives," Gerfried Stocker said.

"Accordingly, investigations analyzing the discourses inherent in social and political circumstances have assumed an increasingly prominent position in contemporary media art, as have art-immanent manifestations and elaborations, as well as reflections of the formal syntax of the early days of media art," Christine Schopf added.

"More and more museums and festivals are making space available to display media art, which is providing artists not only with a material basis for their professional existence but also with a more professional way to go about doing their art. This state of affairs has manifested itself at the Prix Ars Electronica as a continually rising standard of quality being exhibited by the works submitted," Gerfried Stocker went on to note.

Both Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schopf have ascertained that there is wide-ranging acceptance of media art in many different circles throughout the art scene.

>> Trend Barometer of the Media ArtWorld

Once again in 2005, the winners of the six Golden Nica statuettes underscore the Prix Ars Electronica's preeminent position as seismograph signaling the emergence of new developments in global media culture.

Like every year, the prizewinning works in the "classic" categories of digital media art impressed the jurors by successfully combining a highly professional approach with extremely innovative ideas.

A very sarcastic sense of humor is the outstanding feature displayed by Tomek Baginski in his film "Fallen Art" the winner of the Golden Nica in the Computer Animation / Visual Effects category. An impressive work of animation that, within a few minutes time, tells a very unusual story full of unexpected plot twists and turns,"Fallen Art" nevertheless succeeds on its own terms as a superb and fully realized work of filmmaking.

The Golden Nica in the Digital Musics category goes to acoustic pioneer Maryanne Amacher for her installation "TEO!," a sonic sculpture conceived as a sound installation for the Esplanade des Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

The linkup of individual biographies and the existential spheres inhabited by human beings whose lives are interconnected via international trade is the centerpiece of */MILKproject, the winning work in the Interactive Art category. In this installation by the RIXC-Riga Center for New Media Culture, visitors experience the incredible diversity of cultures and realms of life in a Europe that is in the process of growing together. The plot structure in this narrative is provided by the international trade in milk-one of mankind's most basic and most important foodstuffs -between Latvia and the Netherlands.

Processing opens up new possibilities for artistic work in the graphics field. This software-a programming language and a development environment for working with graphics-was created collaboratively by a large community. Benjamin Fry and Casey Reas initiated the project; for their efforts, they've been named the recipients of the Golden Nica in the Net Vision category.

Akshaya, the winning project in the socio-politically oriented Digital Communities category, comes from India. This is the most ambitious development program that has ever been launched to take advantage of information and communication technologies.Within a period of three years, Akshaya has established 6,000 Internet centers in the Indian State of Kerala, set up infrastructure for the local population and, in doing so, simultaneously created 50,000 new jobs.

The winning projects in the two competitions for young people are efforts that take two highly contrasting approaches to creativity.With his method of scanning entire film sequences from the monitor screen and utilizing this material to create images-"frozen time" as it were-Klagenfurt native Markus Sucher has come up with what amounts to a completely new artform, which he refers to as Rennacs Studies.

A completely different approach is being taken by the designer of the project that has been singled out for recognition with [the next idea] art and technology grant for up-and-coming young artists under age 27."USED Clothing" as conceptualized by Linz native Martin Mairinger shows how secondhand clothes can be transformed into a communications medium.

The "USED Clothing" project will be brought to fruition over the coming months at the Ars Electronica Futurelab and will make its public debut in September for the men and women of Linz to try out in actual practice. And another Linz native came up with one of the concepts that garnered an Honorary Mention in [the next idea] art and technology grant competition: The Machine_Man project functions by means of the electrical stimulation of muscles to transform human beings into industrial robots on an assembly line.

>> Prix Ars Electronica at the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival

The Prix Ars Electronica awards ceremony will be staged by the Ars Electronica Center and the Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio in conjunction with the Ars Electronica Festival on September 2, 2005 in the Brucknerhaus in Linz. The "Cyberarts 2005" exhibition in the O.K Center for Contemporary Art will showcase the prizewinning works and thus offer visitors an impressive glimpse of state-of-the-art excellence in the digital arts. The Prix Artists' Forum is a multi-day event at which prizewinning artists will discuss their work.

As part of this year's Festival, Ars Electronica will be opening a special "u19 - freestyle computing" exhibition, which will run until March 2006 in the Museum of the Future.

A documentation of the competition is being released by the Hatje Cantz Verlag publishing house to coincide with the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival. This media package entitled "CyberArts 2005" will consist of a detailed and comprehensive catalog as well as a DVD and a CD.

The Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio is producing a documentary film about the Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica, which will be aired on September 4, 2005 on ORF 2 and on September 5, 2005 on 3sat.

Prize Benefactors and Sponsors

The Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica are conducted by the Ars Electronica Center in cooperation with the Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio, the Brucknerhaus Linz and the O.K Center for Contemporary Art. Cooperating institutions are the Linz University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz's Lentos Museum

of Art, the Architecture Forum Upper Austria and Posthof Linz.

The Ars Electronica and Prix Ars Electronica are subsidized 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; Siemens, FESTO, Microsoft, Sony DADC, Casino Linz and Quelle.

Additional Support: 3com, Lexmark, Postlingbergschlosl, KulturKontakt Austria, Spring und Linz AG.

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EVENT

SymbioticA Biotech Art Workshop


Dates:
Mon Jun 20, 2005 00:00 - Wed May 18, 2005

http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/sad/SymbiotechWshop05.html,

SymbioticA Biotech Art Workshop
20-24 June 2005
At University of Wollongong, Faculty of Creative Arts and
School of Biological Sciences.

A five day intensive workshop dealing with hands on exploration of biological
technologies and issues stemming from their use. Through the arts, SymbioticA
seeks to take science beyond the laboratory and help the public develop a
critical awareness of science and new biological technologies. The
workshop will
introduce participants to issues, concepts and techniques relating to
contemporary art practices dealing with the manipulation of life. Emphasis is
placed on developing critical thought, ethical issues and cross-disciplinary
experimentation in art. Current and historical practices dealing with the
manipulation of living systems will be traced through exploring art,
culture and
biotech. The tools of modern biology will be demonstrated and perfomed through
artistic engagement, which in turn will open discussion about the broader
philosophical and ethical implications into the extent of human intervention
with other living things. The practical components include DNA extraction and
fingerprinting, genetic engineering, selective breeding, plant and
animal tissue
culture and basic tissue engineering techniques.

Please note that a public seminar around bioart and ethics will be
held on Day 1
of the workshop from 2-5pm, which will be open to the public. For
further information
please check UOW website closer to the date.

Places are limited to 20. 6 places remaining

Cost $150/ 100 (concess) (including GST) for the five day intensive including
tutorials, lab space, consumables.

Tea and Coffee provided.

Prepared and presented by Oron Catts and Gary Cass, SymbioticA, School of
Anatomy & Human Biology and the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural
Science, The
University of Western Australia.

For all information, please contact:
Catherine Fargher email: iristorm@ozemail.com.au
Phone: + 61 02 93145121.

To register contact:
Sarah Powell: sarahp@uow.edu.au
Phone +61 02 4221 5853.

Information on workshop, seminar can also be found at the UOW website:
http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/, accommodation at
http://www.uow.edu.au/about/accommodation/ and maps at


EVENT

OPTICA 2005 - International encounters of video art and photography


Dates:
Fri Jul 01, 2005 00:00 - Mon May 16, 2005

OPTICA 2005

To follow the path leading to Video-art and Contemporary Photography unavoidably implies examining the way we look at things. A way of looking that over the years has changed to reveal its complicity with history and its discursive potential translated into a cultural image.

Looking is not only a habit covering things outside ourselves, but rather this close relationship with our surroundings also corresponds to an internal laboratory. This inner quality becomes a register of the collective memory in the act of portraying us “from within”, with our own reality.

From our Collective we aim to create a space of inter-relations and divulgation allowing the general public to approach the world of Video-art and Contemporary Photography.

OPTICA is born with the ambitious objective of situating itself as an essential point of reference within the artistic-cultural circuit of our region of Asturias. We want it to become a space open to anyone interested in knowing more about contemporary audio-visual culture. In this way, we want to connect the new audio-visual trends and to try to establish a symbiotic relationship between creators and their surroundings.

OPTICA is a current inventory of attitudes, characterised by the eclecticism necessary in order to understand the future. We observe and portray what passes before our eyes, because never again will it happen.

In this context, we propose a model of research and divulgation based on a structural review of the new audio-visual currents, through a process of exploration implying the conception of an open space, in which creators and the public can interact.

More information at: http://www.opticafestival.com/


OPPORTUNITY

New Geographies Project


Deadline:
Mon May 16, 2005 09:01

// New Geographies Project > http://www.laberintos.org

> laberintos.org, in collaboration with betabelle.org, it summons to
artists who
are interested in web art, they can participate in the generation of
on-line work
proposals that reflect, meditate and analyze the problems and definition
of new
geographies. those new geographies are understood as relations generated

from a globalized society (mobility, space, territory, emergent
geographies,
ubiquity, temporality, frontiers, and connected crowds).

participation criteria:

1> unpublished work, produced on 2005, format: .gif, .jpg, .swf, .mov,
.mpeg, .dir,
.html, etc.

2 >there are two modalities:
a) the work can be hosted in the artist‚s site (without limit of size).
b) It could be hosted in our server, (if it is installed in
laberintos.org, the work
must be smaller than 500 kb).

3 > each artist can participate with up to 3 works.

4 > main topic: new geographies (mobility, space, territory, emergent
geographies, ubiquity, temporality, frontiers, connected crowds)

5 > selected works will be part of the project during 2005 - 2006.

6 > you can send your proposals to our email address info@laberintos.com.mx, indicating name of the artist(s), title of the work, date of realisation, country of origin

7 > selected participants can cancel their participation whenever they want to

8 > there is no deadline

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ESPANOL:

// Proyecto Nuevas Geografias > http://www.laberintos.org

> laberintos.org, en colaboracion con betabelle.org, convoca a artistas
interesados en el arte de la red y nuevos medios a participar en la
generacion
de propuestas de trabajo en linea que reflexionen, mediten y analicen la

problematica y definicion de las nuevas geografias, entendidas estas como
las
relaciones que se generan a partir de una sociedad globalizada
(movilidad,
espacio, territorio, geografias emergentes, ubicuidad, temporalidad,
fronteras,
multitudes conectadas).

criterios de participacion:

1 > obra inedita producida en 2005, en formato .gif, .jpg, .swf, .mov,
.mpeg, .dir,
.html, etc.

2 > dos modalidades:
a) la obra puede estar alojada en el sitio del artista (sin limite de
tamano).
b) ser alojada en nuestro servidor, (si se instala en laberintos la obra
no debera
rebasar los 500 kb.)

3 > cada artista puede participar hasta con 3 obras.

4 > tema central: nuevas geografias (movilidad, espacio, territorio,
geografias
emergentes, ubicuidad, temporalidad, fronteras, multitudes conectadas)

5 > las obras seleccionadas formaran parte del proyecto durante 2005 -
2006.

6 > envio de propuestas a nuestra direccion de contacto:
info@laberintos.com.mx, especificando nombre de artista(s), nombre de la

obra, link, fecha de realizacion, pais de origen.

7 > los participantes seleccionados pueden cancelar su participacion en
el
momento que asi lo dispongan.

8 > no hay fecha limite.

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EVENT

Announcement of the Results of the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica


Dates:
Mon May 23, 2005 00:00 - Mon May 09, 2005

Announcement of the Results of the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica
International CyberArts Competition

Dear Colleagues,

With prize money totaling 110,000 euros being awarded to the winners in seven categories, the Prix Ars Electronica will once again reconfirm its position as the most important and highest endowed international showcase of excellence in digital media art.

The competition's co-organizers-Gerfried Stocker representing the Ars Electronica Center and Dr. Christine Schopf of the Austrian Broadcasting Company's Upper Austria Regional Studio-will announce the results of the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica.

Date/Time: Monday, May 23, 2005, 10 AM

Location: Ars Electronica Center - Sky Media Loft Cafe & Bar

We're looking forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,

AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz

Museumsgesellschaft mbH

Ars Electronica

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tel: +43.732.7272-38
mob: +43.664.81 26 156
fax: +43.732.7272-638
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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
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