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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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


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]


http://pixelache.ac
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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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OPPORTUNITY

Mediateca CaixaForum- 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia


Deadline:
Fri Jan 28, 2005 00:00

5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia
Mediateca CaixaForum (Fundacio "la Caixa")

Metanarrative(s)?
:: international meeting on the artistic direction of
audiovisual and multimedia narratives and syntax ::

Barcelona, Spain, January 28-29 2005
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/jsp/index.jsp

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dead-line for proposals (both papers and works): 1 November 2004

Context:

The Fifth Symposium on Art and Multimedia is dedicated to 'digital
metanarrative' from any focus, from all points of view. The organizers'
intention is none other than to create and help flourish possibilities
of acquiring greater knowledge in this experimental domain, in which we
feel that guidance of the art form (in the sense of providing proper
direction to it), is crucial.

We have opened two calls aimed at gathering texts and works related to
research and experimentation in narrative or non-narrative forms that
set out to go beyond the limits established today, and that have been
developed in the field of art and audiovisual and multimedia
communication, coming to be known as 'metanarratives' ('meta' in the
sense of 'after').

We have started up this website to collect the proposals, and a weblog
that will encourage communicative participation. We will also facilitate
the live presentation of selected papers and works during the course of
the Symposium to be held next January 2005.
1. Call for papers
All authors of theoretical research related to digital metanarrative are
invited to take part in the 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia with any
papers on new forms of narratives in the Internet Age. Issues like the
modification and questioning of the traditional (Aristotelian) concept
of storytelling (account of effective causality, temporal and spatial
cohesion etc...), will be central themes at the conference. We seek:

* theoretical reflections on digital narrative(s)
* online documentation on multimedial art

We are looking for papers that respond to the following questions:

What do we mean by digital narrative(s)?
What kind of changes has the new technological concept brought about in
narrative approaches?
To what syntactic particularities has this lead?
Can we speak of post-narrative or metanarrative models?....

Requirements:
- BA or similar in Art History, Music History, Fine Arts, Philology,
Philosophy and Humanities, Documentation Science, Audiovisual
Communication, Design studies or similar.
- Students enrolled on a recognised Master course
- Students enrolled on a Doctorate course

Documentation:
We need the following documents before 1 November 2004 at
metanarrative@lmi.ub.es:
- Abstract of the paper, min 500 max 1000 words, sent by e-mail in Word,
Openoffice or ASCII format
- Brief list of the used sources
- Author's current CV and contact details (email, telephone, address,
fax etc).
- An additional written document with the author's motivation and future
projects.

Selection:
A jury of three representatives of 'Mediateca' and 'Grup Recerca VALL'
of the University of Barcelona will select six papers and notify the
authors prior to 1 December 2004.

The selection criteria are the following:
1. Relevance to the call and its objectives
2. Relevance to the current research panorama in this field
3. Originality
4. The author's motivation and prospects for the future

The authors of the selected papers will be invited to Barcelona to
present them personally at the 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia at
'CaixaForum' of "la Caixa" Foundation, 28 and 29 January 2005. On the
day of their presentation, invited authors will receive 600 euros
(residents in Spain 400 euros and residents in Catalonia 200 euros) to
cover travel and accommodation expenses.
The dead-line for the complete version of the selected papers is 15
December 2004. The final format will be of the author's choosing: text,
hypertext or hypermedia. Papers will be accessible to users of the
Mediateca website for an indefinite period of time.

2. Call for works or experiments on digital metanarrative

We seek artistic research works in which the challenges and benefits of
narrative or metanarrative renewal are presented, and also those
non-narrative creations which may contribute to fostering the debate on
digital narrative.
* Artistic works based on the notions of digital narrative.
Key words: digital narrative, media narrative, electronic textuality,
electronic books, art on CD-ROM or DVD, on-line narratives, weblogging,
web-based stories, community creation, digital environments, video
games, narratology, ludology.
* Artistic creations approached from a non-narrative position that
question the narrative structures in advanced (expanded) communication.
Key words: web art, net art, mail art, software art, communication
aesthetics, information aesthetics, digital architecture

WHY NOT TAKE PART!?

Documentation to be sent to metanarrative@lmi.ub.es:
- The work and/or exact references of where and how it may be consulted.
- An additional text by the author

Deadline:
1 November 2004

Selection:
The selection criteria will include:
- Pertinence to the call.
- Relevance in the current panorama of artistic practices.
- Originality in the twofold sense of the word:
- that it is an original work by the author,
- that it stands out for its form and/or content.
- Motivation and future prospects expressed in the documentation

A jury of three representatives of the Mediateca and of the VALL
Research Group of the University of Barcelona will select six works. The
decision will be notified to the authors prior to 1 December 2004.

The authors of the selected papers will be invited to CaixaForum to
present them personally. Works will be presented publicly at "la Caixa"
Foundation's CaixaForum in Barcelona during the 5th Symposium on Art and
Multimedia on 28 and 29 January 2005. On the day of their presentation,
invited authors will receive 600 euros (residents in Spain 400 euros and
residents in Catalonia 200 euros) to cover travel and accommodation
expenses.

The selected works or their URL will be accessible to users of the
Mediateca website for an indefinite period of time. If the author so
desires, the Mediateca will host the work on its server.

5th SYMPOSIUM on ART and MULTIMEDIA
Mediateca CaixaForum de la Fundaciˆ„ "la Caixa"
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/jsp/index.jsp
Av. Marques de Comilles, 6-8
08038 BARCELONA
Catalonia, Spain
Espanya

Information and address to send papers and works:
VALL Research Group
Attn. Cilia Willem
metanarrative@lmi.ub.es

University of Barcelona
Pg. Vall d'Hebron, 171
Edifici Llevant, despatx 005
08035 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain

tel. +34 934 035 065 / +34 934 034 413

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DISCUSSION

Ars Electronica t+25 timeline


INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
Los Angeles, 8 August 2004

Ars Electronica <http://www.aec.at>, the oldest, largest, and most prominent art and technology festival in the world, today launched a web site inviting participants to make predictions about the next 25 years, year by year, and to vote on predictions already posted. The project, called the "t+25 timeline" <http://www.aec.at/predictions>, is part of the Festival's 25th anniversary celebration, to be held in September, in Linz, Austria. The theme of this year's festival is "TIMESHIFT - the World in Twenty-Five Years."

The t+25 timeline was announced at Siggraph 2004 in Los Angeles, an international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques expected to attract over 25,000 attendees. The announcement, during the Siggraph Artist Round Tables, marks the launching of a beta version intended to "seed" the timeline with entries.

During the Ars Electronica Festival, 2-7 September, t+25 will exhibit as a public installation, where attendees can participate. It will remain accessible online during this time. When the Festival ends on 7 September 2004, t+25 freezes and will be available online as an archive.

t+25 is open to anyone on the Web. Registration is not required. Voting is based on a simple one vote per entry per day per computer basis.

"The t+25 timeline is a cultural experiment," says guest curator Michael Naimark, "intended to encourage imaginative articulation of future scenarios. It is also intended to be iterative and emergent, with entries and votes affecting more entries and votes. Our goal is to enable creative surprise."

"Ars Electronica has a long history of engaging the artistic community in social and cultural issues," continues Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker. "With t+25, we have opened up the creative process to anyone willing to speak about or vote on future ideas."
Though the Web is laden with predictions, prophesies, and scenarios, very few sites exist for open posting and voting. The most prominent of these sites is by the Long Bets Foundation <http://www.longbets.org>, where participants can post predictions as public wagers, or "accountable predictions."

"t+25" is a faster, looser version of Long Bets" says Naimark. "Theirs is situated in life. Ours is situated in art. We fully expect ours to complement theirs."

Ars Electronica 2004
TIMESHIFT - The World in Twenty-Five Years
Linz, Thu 2 - Tue 7 September
www.aec.at/timeshift

"TIMESHIFT - The World in Twenty-Five Years" is the title of the 2004 festival for art, technology and society; transformation, upheaval and the future are its programmatic concepts. The point of departure is reflection upon the past 25 years; the aim is to identify the developments that promise to be the driving forces in art, technology and society over the next quarter century.

Will key technologies like nanotechnology lead to another technological revolution that will change our lives as fundamentally as digital media have done? What areas of social confrontation can we anticipate? Does the way we deal with new technologies change in light of our ever-increasing experience or do we still lapse into the same automatic reaction mechanisms of enthusiasm for or hostility towards innovation?

What conclusions can be drawn from the past and utilized in addressing these emerging issues? Ars Electronica has 25 years of development and experience behind it, and has amassed an enormous archive documenting its unique breadth as a discussion forum. On the basis of the experience thus gained and in keeping with its mission as an instrument of social analysis, Ars Electronica 2004 will also be dedicated to the question of whether ongoing social development-in the sense of a learning curve derived from the past and applied to the future-is possible.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Mag. Wolfgang A. Bednarzek MAS
Pressesprecher / Press Officer

Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrase 2-4, 4040 Linz, Austria
tel: +43.732.7272-38
fax: +43.732.7272-638
mailto:wolfgang.bednarzek@aec.at

www.aec.at
www.aec.at/press

EVENT

"Access" wins Webby Award in net art category


Dates:
Thu May 13, 2004 00:00 - Thu May 13, 2004

Access" by Marie Sester, is the winner of the Webby Awards in the net art category. Presented in Ars Electronica in september 2003, this interactive installation lets web users track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system. The project website now displays information, photos and videos of past exhibitions.

The people's voice winner was Dragan Espenschied's "Gravity", presented at Olia Lialina's online gallery art.teleportacia.org

Nominees for this category included Anne-Marie Schleiner's "Velvet Strike" project and Johannes Gees' "Communimage".

Links:
Access - Marie Sester
http://www.accessproject.net/index.html

Gravity - Dragan Espenchied
http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/GRAVITY/

Webby Awards winners
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/webby_awards/nominees.html


EVENT

Ars Electronica in New York


Dates:
Thu May 20, 2004 00:00 - Mon May 10, 2004

Digital Avant-Garde:
Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica

Exhibition, screenings and talks at Eyebeam, American Museum of the Moving Image and Austrian Cultural Forum

U.S. premiere exhibition of innovative digital media works of the past and present, sponsored by SAP, the world's leading supplier of business software.

New York, NY, May 10, 2004 - Ars Electronica, one of the world's most renowned institutions involved with digital media culture, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this summer. To mark the occasion, Ars Electronica will collaborate with the American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, and the Austrian Cultural Forum, to present Digital Avant-Garde, a series of exhibitions, screenings, and discussions in New York City from May 20 to July 18, 2004. Since its formation in 1979 in Linz, Austria, Ars Electronica has championed innovative media works that combine art and technology through the presentation of international festivals and a museum, and through the Futurelab, a pioneering research facility for developing new works.

Digital Avant-Garde will showcase fascinating digital-media projects that include winners from past festival competitions in the Prix Ars Electronica's interactive art category as well as the latest trends in this art form represented by installations produced at the Ars Electronica Futurelab and works that have come out of Ars Electronica's artist-in-residence program. In addition to these exhibitions, ancillary presentations such as workshops, chats with the artists, screenings and symposia will provide background on the history of digital creativity and current developments in the field. This program is being made possible by the generous support of SAP, the world's leading supplier of business software.

With queries please contact:
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Wolfgang A. Bednarzek
AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Hauptstrasse 2, 4040 Linz, Austria
tel ++43.732.7272-38
fax ++43.732.7272-638
wolfgang.bednarzek@aec.at


EVENT

ARS ELECTRONICA 2004: Timeshift - The World in 25 Years


Dates:
Mon Sep 06, 2004 00:00 - Fri Apr 23, 2004

ARS ELECTRONICA 2004
Timeshift - The World in 25 Years

The 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Festival of Art, Technology and Society
"TIMESHIFT - The World in 25 Years" is the title of the 2004 festival; transformation, upheaval and
the future are its programmatic concepts. The point of departure is reflection upon the past 25 years;
the aim is to identify the developments that promise to be the driving forces in art, technology and
society over the next quarter century. The younger generation of media artists and theoreticians will
meet Ars Electronica's founding generation and, together with an audience of wide-ranging backgrounds
and diverse interests, confront the past and the future of phenomena at the interface of
art, technology and society.

Ars Electronica 2004: A New Format
Ars Electronica has gotten a bit of a makeover this year. From now on, the festival will begin on
Thursday and run until Tuesday; this makes it possible to intensively utilize an entire weekend, which
is now positioned right in the middle of the line-up of events. The Prix Ars Electronica Gala will move
from the ORF's studio to the impressive ambience of the Brucknerhaus' Main Concert Hall. And Ars
Electronica is adding a new venue-the Lentos Museum of Art, where the "Digital Avant-Garde"
anniversary exhibition will be on display.

Timeshift will manifest itself in various formats and an array of venues: at symposia and talks with
artists, in discussion forums and workshops, at exhibitions, installations and interventions in urban
spaces, as well as at performances and concerts. Special events and guest presentations will significantly
expand this year's festival program.

Detailed information at www.aec.at/timeshift

Ars Electronica 2004
Organization:
Ars Electronica Center Linz and ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Upper Austria Regional Studio
Co-organizers: Brucknerhaus Linz, O.K - Center for Contemporary Art, Kunstuniversitat Linz
Concept & Artistic Direction: Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schoepf

Contact:
Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrasse 2
4040 Linz, Austria
festival@aec.at
www.aec.at/timeshift

Sponsors of Ars Electronica 2004 and Prix Ars Electronica 2004:
City of Linz, Province of Upper Austria, Republic of Austria

SAP AG, Telekom Austria, voestalpine
Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Quelle AG, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Oesterreichische Brauunion, FESTO, Mitsubishi Electric, Sony DADC, Siemens AG, KLM, Spring

Additional support provided by Casinos Austria, Poestlingberg Schloessl, OKS Oesterreichischer Kulturservice, Lexmark, 3com