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Transmission.06/mimesis 2007-01-16 23:01:00
TRANSMISSION.06/ mimesis
(tactics of mimetic intervention in everyday life)
Open Call for the creation of a Web Archive.
TRANSMISSION.06/Mimesis is an open call for the creation of an art archive about public interventions concerning camouflage and invisibility strategies in everyday life. This is the last part of the three year project TRANSMISSION), curated by progettozero(+).
http://www.progettozeropiu.com/mimesis
This project intends to investigate the strategies and the dynamics of camouflage and likeness, of subtle sabotage and tampering: the techniques of fusion and intrusion between artistic language and daily life, media and public languages.
The selected works of the archive will be proposed via web and then displayed in different locations across Europe.
You should carry out an intervention in a public/urban space (including media), using and altering the languages present in the context. These actions should attempt through mimetic strategies to render t Read more:Transmission
Matthew Barney 2008-02-26 08:23:00 Il Filmstudio e l’associazione Complus Events presentano gli ultimi due film dell’artista visivo americano Matthew
Barney .
Quest’evento, in particolare per lo spettatore colto ed informato, potrebbe essere un modo originale di andare oltre le attuali categorie della comunicazione, oramai limitanti e limitate.
L’AUTORE
Grande artista visivo americano, Matthew Barney ha iniziato come film-maker
White House Redux 2008-02-26 08:09:00 White HouseRedux
, concorso internazionale di idee per la nuova sede della Casa Bianca
"In occasione dell'elezione del 44esimo Presidente degli Stati Uniti, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in associazione con Control Group e il patrocinio di Abitare, ha indetto un concorso per il palazzo presidenziale del futuro, nuovo simbolo del potere politico." Read more:White
, White House
Shanghype 2008-02-26 08:02:00 Shanghype
(27. 2. - 4.5. 2008) curator: Davide Quadrio participating artists: David Cotterrell, Olivo Barbieri, Pierre Giner, Alexander Brandt, Melanie Jackson, Mattia Matteucci, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zhang Ding, Yang Zhenzhong, Liang Yue, Song Tao and Huang Kui The exhibition of Chinese videoart. As part of this idea, FUTURA and BizArt are building a first communication
nextMEDIA 2008 2008-02-26 07:34:00 nextMEDIA 2008:
"Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research will deliver the opening keynote address at nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content. In his keynote address Bill will speak to emerging trends around physical computing and a human-centered approach to technological design and innovation."
OhGizmo! 2008-02-26 07:30:00 OhGizmo!:
"OhGizmo! is a frequently updated blog that focuses on gadgets, innovation and design. It sets itself apart by recognizing and catering to two personality traits shared by most gadget lovers: a keen sense of aesthetics, and an almost childlike hunger for amazement."
Goolag 2008-02-26 07:20:00 Goolag
Today CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), the world's most attractive hacker group, announced the release of Goolag Scanner, a web auditing tool.
Goolag Scanner enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via Google. The scanner technology is based on "Google hacking," a form of vulnerability research developed by Johnny I Hack Stuff. He's a lovely fellow. Go buy him a drink.
CULT OF
Can a burqa be sexy? 2008-02-26 06:58:00 For the Modern Muslim Woman: Lifting the Veil Using a 'Bluetooth Burqa' -
International -SPIEGEL ONLINE - News:
"Can a burqa be sexy? Markus Kison, a Berlin-based artist has invented a digitally-enabled robe that will send an image of a woman's face -- or anything else -- via Bluetooth."
via twenty1f.com - fashion for the 21st century
BMW ART CAR 2008-02-26 06:52:00 Dal 29 maggio al 20 luglio - MONACO OSPITA LA BMW ART CAR - News
- Quattroruote
"La sedicesima edizione di BMW Art Car si terra', dal 29 maggio al 20 luglio, nelle sale della Pinakothek der Moderne di Monaco."
Nokia Morph 2008-02-26 06:31:00 "Nokia
announces Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept,"
read on textually.org
TVOT08 2008-02-26 06:29:00 TVOT08 Conference Guide Now Available on the Web
[itvt] has just published the conference guide to our TV of Tomorrow Show 2008 (March 11th-12th in San Francisco) on :
Share Festival 2008 2008-02-26 05:38:00 Share Festival
2008
Manufacturing
Festival: March 11/16 2008
CONFERENCES
WEDNESDAY March 12th 2008
Accademia Albertina, Via Accademia 6 – Torino
02:30 p.m.
Manufacturing: From Digital to Digifab
Share Festival confereces start - Sterling and Boeri discuss about digital manufacturing. As Bruce Sterling says \"mappa c'è più di quanto ci sia sul territorio\", but it is certainly true that \"nella Read more:Share
Narrative Matters 2008 2008-02-26 05:36:00 Narrative Matters 2008:
"2008 Theme: 'Storying Our World'
As humans we continually story our experiences.
We construct our world through our personal, community, institutional and political narratives.
The 2008 Narrative Matters conference theme aims to explore all of these narrative sites. Narrative continues to gain recognition as something people do, use and research. The Narrative Matters
RIT - NTID - Media 2008-02-26 05:34:00 RIT - NTID - Media - NTID News:
"RIT/NTID has announced the winners of the annual national Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students."
New digital projects teach English in India 2008-02-26 05:27:00 New digital projects teach English
in India
, monitor air pollution:
"An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones to teach English to children in India have won funding for two University of California, Berkeley, professors."
:: SmartCity EU :: 2008-02-25 11:04:00 :: SmartCity EU ::
"SmartCityEU is an art project which explores and develops new artistic interventions within urban spaces in European cities during a 2 year period in 2008 and 2009.
At the forefront of new practices, SmartCityEU operates an art rereading of urban space and offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable European city reoriented towards citizens.
SmartCityEU has been
Avvistamenti 2008-02-25 10:27:00 Dopo la sezione monografica di dicembre scorso, dedicata a Studio Azzurro, uno dei più importanti laboratori di video-arte e sperimentazione visiva al mondo, nel corso della quale il pubblico ha potuto dialogare con l’artista fondatore di Studio Azzurro, Paolo Rosa, Avvistamenti riparte in versione Underground, con ben due sezioni dedicate ai video prodotti da giovani artisti pugliesi e greci, i
12th Festival of computer-based art 2008-02-25 10:14:00 Call for entries for the 12th Festival
of computer-based art CYNETart_08 at Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.:
"TMA Hellerau hosts this international competition of CYNETart, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects, every two years. They can apply with projects that fully utilise digital technologies in their conceptual, creative and performing processes, thereby opening up
Computational Aesthetics 2008 2008-02-25 09:50:00 Computational Aesthetics on Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
Computational Aesthetics will be held the Hotel Riviera in Lisbon, Portugal.
It is the fourth event on this topic following a Workshop in 2005 in Girona, Spain, a Dagstuhl seminar in Germany in 2006, and a Symposium in 2007 in Banff, Canada. Accepted papers will be fully refereed and will be published by the Eurographics Association Read more:Computational
Worlds Away 2008-02-25 09:22:00 Because suburbia occupies a dominant presence in so many lives—a place of not only residence but also of work, commerce, worship, education, and leisure—it has become a focal point for competing interests and viewpoints. The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. On the one hand, the suburbs are portrayed as a middle-class Read more:Worlds
Exister_08 2008-02-25 08:36:00 Numero zero/improvisation è un progetto che Roberto Zappalà e Giovanni Sollima stanno conducendo già da alcuni anni, a partire dal 2005, quando in una prima fase era dominato dall’improvvisazione.
La stima reciproca, e un percorso che in entrambi i casi coniuga l’altissima qualità dei lavori alla continua ricerca svolta nell’àmbito dei rispettivi linguaggi, sono il terreno di partenza per questo
CULTURAS VISUALES / DISEÑOS GLOBALES 2008-02-25 08:26:00 w3art - la ::comunidad artìstica:: online
Interferencias Críticas, Epistemologías Visuales e Interculturalidad
SIMPOSIO
Sábado, 1 de Marzo 2008
CENTRE D’ ART SANTA MÒNICA www.centredartsantamonica.net El objetivo central de este simposio es dar luz a las interacciones entre la visualidad, los procesos globales actuales y las negociaciones transculturales. A partir de la presentación de
OSCAR winners 2008-02-25 06:57:00 Special OSCAR winners - TRAILERs
watch the trailers online
no country for old manla vie en rosefreeheldwinner short films animatedwinner short filmsThe Golden Compass TrailerElizabeth: The Golden Age"Taxi To The Dark Side" - TrailerRatatouille TrailerSoundtrack - Atonement 1st partSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - N...Trailer for "The Bourne Ultimatum"JUNO TrailerThere will be
European Outsider Art Fair 2008-02-24 17:01:00 European OutsiderArt Fair
19 - Outsider Art Fair:
"European Outsider Art Fair (EOAF) scheduled for Vienna, May 2008 in the Austrian National Library.
European Outsider Art Fair (EOAF Vienna 2008) will take place in the heart of Vienna in the Austrian National Library and will be the premier forum for specialists in the fields of Outsider Art, Art Brut, Naïve Art." Read more:European
'BRAILLINA' 2008-03-13 09:41:00 ansa news : ARRIVA 'BRAILLINA', BAMBOLA PER NON VEDENTI
"Una Barbie istruttiva per bambini non vedenti. Si chiama 'Braillina' e sara' una delle attrazioni principali del Polo Tattile Multimediale (Ptm), il primo centro polifunzionale in Europa dedicato all'integrazione di ciechi e ipovedenti che sara' inaugurato sabato 15 marzo a Catania."
la borsa digitale 2008-03-13 09:39:00 Adnkronos - Ign - Louis Vuitton, la borsa
ora e' digitale
"Solo 88 pezzi, numero fortunato in Cina, per una limited edition ispirata all'opera d'arte 'Il lusso e' lento' creata per l'occasione in collaborazione con il video artista italiano Fabrizio Plessi.
La borsa-arte verra' esposta e venduta esclusivamente all’interno della Maison di Canton Road e si ispira alla natura senza tempo del lusso,
"Art & Entrepreneurship" 2008-03-13 09:35:00 Credit Suisse launches international "Art & Entrepreneurship
" exhibition tour at the Art Dubai:
"Credit Suisse launches its 'Art & Entrepreneurship' exhibition tour at Art Dubai, featuring a new generation of 19 successful artists from around the globe."
via The FINANCIAL, News That Makes Money
*Contributing artists
Allora & Calzadilla, Anonymous, Michael Bauer, Heman Chong, Plamen Dejanoff,
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 2008-03-13 09:09:00 Urban Screens Melbourne
08
3-8 October 2008 (conference 3-5 October 08)
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 at Federation Square, is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide Urban Screens events. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association.
USM08: Mobile Publics will be exploring the changing relations Read more:Urban