Art news
What is disability? - An International Call for Postcards
VSA arts invites your participation in a collaborative art project. We’re taking a creative approach to investigate the different ways people interpret the same word: disability. The call is open to everyone around the world—people of different cultures, ethnicities, geographic locations, and abilities. You do not have to consider yourself an “artist” to participate. Please contact Liza Key, Artist Services Coordinator, at efkey@vsarts.org to receive a shipment of printed calls for the project (available while supplies last). Additional copies of the postcard and alternative formats are uploaded to the site: www.vsarts.org/postcardproject.
The deadline for receipt of postcards is February 5, 2010. VSA arts will curate an exhibition, both online and in Washington, D.C., to represent the submissions as part of the 2010 International VSA arts Festival held June 6-12, 2010.
The deadline for receipt of postcards is February 5, 2010. VSA arts will curate an exhibition, both online and in Washington, D.C., to represent the submissions as part of the 2010 International VSA arts Festival held June 6-12, 2010.
Categories: Art news
Constellations Project
Brisbane based artist-run-initiative inbetweenspaces is seeking submissions for the video art project ‘Constellations’. Scheduled to coincide with the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the project will install contemporary video art from the Asia- Pacific Region in a range of gallery, business and private sites across the Brisbane CBD. The project aims to exhibit different types of video art from a range of practitioners including collaborative, performative and multi-channel works.
The first round of submissions closes 27/11/09 but works will be continuously reviewed and accepted until the end of February 2010.
for more information contact: info@inbetweenspaces.org
visit:
The first round of submissions closes 27/11/09 but works will be continuously reviewed and accepted until the end of February 2010.
for more information contact: info@inbetweenspaces.org
visit:
Categories: Art news
dataMorphose: Data Visualization through Physical Tension Structures
dataMorphose [christianekeller.de] is a series of amazingly beautiful and sophisticated physical data sculptures which represent information by the shape and motion of sail-like tensile structures.
Each triangular canvas represents a separate data object. Its data values are conveyed by the tension of the canvas, which in turn determines its size, movement and position in space. One vertex of each canvas is attached to the ground floor of a transparent cube, so that each canvas can receive its meaning through the projection of words and numbers onto that area. In all, this means the user is required to learn the visual language in order to understand the visualization, which is claimed to be intuitive to learn.
One sculpture visualizes the current time. The hours, minutes and seconds are assigned to one sail respectively. To represent the hours, the central canvas changes its position in space. The other two sails visualize the values from 0 - 59 by changing their shape: one vertex moves along the vertical edge of the cube: the downward movement shows the values from 0 - 29, the upward movement the values from 30 - 59. The second sculpture conveys web traffic data through the motion of 4 sails: the faster a canvas moves the higher the activity of the website or the search term. The last sculpture shows statistical information by a succession of 5 sails.
Technically, nylon threads are attached on the vertices of the canvas, which lead down into the base and are moved by servo motors according to the data values. You can watch them move in the documentation video below.
Reminded me of Level Green and Pulsating Emotion Visualization Organism.
Categories: Art news
Visualizing the Actual Cost of Getting Sick
"The Cost of Getting Sick" [ge.com] is a a new data visualization tool developed in collaboration with Ben Fry, Director of Seed Visualization. It enables the exploration of some the 6 million patient records currently stored in GE's proprietary electronic medical records database.
The online interactive tool allows users to slide a bar to select one's age and then select parts of the pie chart in order to investigate a more complete picture of the actual costs associated with a wide range of chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, depression, and hypertension.
A short, slick interview with Ben Fry regarding GE's two recent data visualizations can be watched below.
See also Visualizing the Major Health Issues Facing Americans Today and On the Origin of Species.
Categories: Art news
Basekamp Potluck Chat: Jorge Rojas, Tue Nov 24, 6:30 PM EST
Hi everyone,
This week we’ll be talking with Jorge Rojas about his work that connects online worlds and people in real space.
Jorge Rojas: My space(s) and Low Lives
My Space project:
http://www.jorgerojasart.com/ (Works > Projects)
Low Lives project:
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782
Jorge Rojas’s “My space” project series creates environments where communicative and social encounters can occur. “My space” is an ongoing project in which the public is invited to participate in a series of interactive, community building projects. The projects incorporate new media, installation, mixed media and performative action to explore the intersection of technology-based communication, artistic interaction and daily life.
“My space: Guadalajara” took place in a storefront window of an art museum in Guadalajara, Mexico and involved over 800 visitors collaborating on paintings.
“My space: Politico” was featured at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in September through November, 2008. Visitors were interviewed regarding their political views about the elections.
“My space: Bronx” was a twelve hour collaborative painting that encompassed the entire surface of the Blue Bedroom art space.
“My space: West Chicago” was a weeklong community-building project at the West Chicago City Museum and involved new media, installation and several community murals.
“My space: Miami” was a weeklong interactive performance in which the artist built a large cardboard box inside a gallery where he lived, worked, slept and ate for a week, interacting with the public at the gallery during regular hours and online through a 24/7 live video broadcast.
Jorge recently curated “Low Lives” a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues in the U.S.: FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses. Low Lives examines works that explore the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work. The artists and artist collectives participating in this exhibition transmitted their performances from countries including Argentina, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Macedonia, Mexico, United States, Vietnam and Wales.
Biography:
Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist, artist educator and curator whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in artistic production. Rojas uses both traditional and new media as well as performative elements to investigate communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures and communities. He studied Art at the University of Utah and at Bellas Artes- El Nigromante in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where his primary focus was on painting and sculpture. Rojas’ works have been exhibited across the United States, Mexico and India, and are included in numerous private and public collections including The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach, California. Rojas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Morelos, Mexico.
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See you all Then!
Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename: ‘basekamp’
Send a chat message to 'basekamp' to join the chat.
If you come to the potluck in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
(basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa)
This week we’ll be talking with Jorge Rojas about his work that connects online worlds and people in real space.
Jorge Rojas: My space(s) and Low Lives
My Space project:
http://www.jorgerojasart.com/ (Works > Projects)
Low Lives project:
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782
Jorge Rojas’s “My space” project series creates environments where communicative and social encounters can occur. “My space” is an ongoing project in which the public is invited to participate in a series of interactive, community building projects. The projects incorporate new media, installation, mixed media and performative action to explore the intersection of technology-based communication, artistic interaction and daily life.
“My space: Guadalajara” took place in a storefront window of an art museum in Guadalajara, Mexico and involved over 800 visitors collaborating on paintings.
“My space: Politico” was featured at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in September through November, 2008. Visitors were interviewed regarding their political views about the elections.
“My space: Bronx” was a twelve hour collaborative painting that encompassed the entire surface of the Blue Bedroom art space.
“My space: West Chicago” was a weeklong community-building project at the West Chicago City Museum and involved new media, installation and several community murals.
“My space: Miami” was a weeklong interactive performance in which the artist built a large cardboard box inside a gallery where he lived, worked, slept and ate for a week, interacting with the public at the gallery during regular hours and online through a 24/7 live video broadcast.
Jorge recently curated “Low Lives” a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues in the U.S.: FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses. Low Lives examines works that explore the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks, though seldom utilized for performance art, provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting and viewing performances. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work. The artists and artist collectives participating in this exhibition transmitted their performances from countries including Argentina, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Macedonia, Mexico, United States, Vietnam and Wales.
Biography:
Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist, artist educator and curator whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in artistic production. Rojas uses both traditional and new media as well as performative elements to investigate communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures and communities. He studied Art at the University of Utah and at Bellas Artes- El Nigromante in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where his primary focus was on painting and sculpture. Rojas’ works have been exhibited across the United States, Mexico and India, and are included in numerous private and public collections including The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach, California. Rojas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Morelos, Mexico.
—
See you all Then!
Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename: ‘basekamp’
Send a chat message to 'basekamp' to join the chat.
If you come to the potluck in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
(basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa)
Categories: Art news
Rent instead of Hotel in NYC
To Rent an Apartment in NY is alot better than to stay in a hotel if you are visiting.
Categories: Art news
Made In California 25th Annual Exhibit
Made In California 25th Annual Exhibit
The Brea Art Gallery is now calling for entries through January 25, 2010 to present next year's Made In California exhibit. This very popular show will be the 25th annual juried exhibition and will run from March 27 – May 7, 2010. The prospectus is available online or at the Brea Art Gallery.
This year’s juror, Grace Kook-Anderson is Curator of Exhibitions for Laguna Art Museum. She was a co-founder of InSitu (2007-2008) and co-curator for InSitu: Richmond at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008). She was also the exhibition organizer for Amateurs at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco (2008). Her curatorial projects focus on contemporary art with an emphasis on the investigation of place and social change. Grace has been at Laguna Art Museum since 2008.
First: $500, Second: $350, Third: $200, Popular Choice: $100. Plus Purchase Awards.
For more information:
www.breagallery.com
breagallery@cityofbrea.net
Prospectus:
http://www.cityofbrea.net/images/default/citydocs/CommSvc/Prospectus_web.pdf
The Brea Art Gallery is now calling for entries through January 25, 2010 to present next year's Made In California exhibit. This very popular show will be the 25th annual juried exhibition and will run from March 27 – May 7, 2010. The prospectus is available online or at the Brea Art Gallery.
This year’s juror, Grace Kook-Anderson is Curator of Exhibitions for Laguna Art Museum. She was a co-founder of InSitu (2007-2008) and co-curator for InSitu: Richmond at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008). She was also the exhibition organizer for Amateurs at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco (2008). Her curatorial projects focus on contemporary art with an emphasis on the investigation of place and social change. Grace has been at Laguna Art Museum since 2008.
First: $500, Second: $350, Third: $200, Popular Choice: $100. Plus Purchase Awards.
For more information:
www.breagallery.com
breagallery@cityofbrea.net
Prospectus:
http://www.cityofbrea.net/images/default/citydocs/CommSvc/Prospectus_web.pdf
Categories: Art news
MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?!
#!/bin/bash
cat <<":*" |
_
_ _ ____ _ _ _______|_|
| |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____|
| _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____
| | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____|
| | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______
|_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________|
|_|_ ____ _______ _________
|_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _
| |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_|
08-13 DEC | __ | | _ _| | |
2009 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_|
POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_|
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
The fourth edition of make art - What The Fork?! distributed and open
practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 8th
to the 13th of December 2009.
With Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes
(NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni
Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR),
Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste
(HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray
Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP),
Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR),
IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ...
http://makeart.goto10.org
--
make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des
Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS*) dans l'art numérique.
*FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software
La quatrième édition de make art - "What The Fork?!" pratiques
distribuées et ouvertes en art logiciel libre - se déroule à Poitiers
(FR), du 8 au 13 décembre 2009.
Avec Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes
(NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni
Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR),
Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste
(HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray
Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP),
Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR),
IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ...
http://makeart.goto10.org
:*
(
( echo ''
echo '<' ) | (
echo '#include '
echo '#include '
echo 'int main(int c, char **a){'
echo 'char *makeart = calloc(2009,1);'
sed -e 's/+/++*makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/-/--*makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/>/++makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/ -e 's/\./putchar\(*makeart\);\n/g' \
-e 's/,/{int i = getchar\(\);if\(i!=EOF\)*makeart=i;}\n/g' \
-e 's/\[/while\(*makeart\){\n/g' \
-e 's/\]/}\n/g' \
-e 't' \
-e 's/.//g'
echo 'return 0;}'
) | gcc -O2 -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -o makeart -xc - &&
./makeart | ./makeart
)
cat <<":*" |
_
_ _ ____ _ _ _______|_|
| |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____|
| _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____
| | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____|
| | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______
|_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________|
|_|_ ____ _______ _________
|_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _
| |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_|
08-13 DEC | __ | | _ _| | |
2009 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_|
POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_|
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
The fourth edition of make art - What The Fork?! distributed and open
practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 8th
to the 13th of December 2009.
With Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes
(NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni
Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR),
Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste
(HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray
Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP),
Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR),
IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ...
http://makeart.goto10.org
--
make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des
Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS*) dans l'art numérique.
*FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software
La quatrième édition de make art - "What The Fork?!" pratiques
distribuées et ouvertes en art logiciel libre - se déroule à Poitiers
(FR), du 8 au 13 décembre 2009.
Avec Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes
(NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni
Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR),
Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste
(HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray
Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP),
Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR),
IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ...
http://makeart.goto10.org
:*
(
( echo ''
echo '<' ) | (
echo '#include '
echo '#include '
echo 'int main(int c, char **a){'
echo 'char *makeart = calloc(2009,1);'
sed -e 's/+/++*makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/-/--*makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/>/++makeart;\n/g' \
-e 's/ -e 's/\./putchar\(*makeart\);\n/g' \
-e 's/,/{int i = getchar\(\);if\(i!=EOF\)*makeart=i;}\n/g' \
-e 's/\[/while\(*makeart\){\n/g' \
-e 's/\]/}\n/g' \
-e 't' \
-e 's/.//g'
echo 'return 0;}'
) | gcc -O2 -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -o makeart -xc - &&
./makeart | ./makeart
)
Categories: Art news
MY DANCE THE SKULL Book Launch
ALEKSANDRA WALISZEWSKA BOOK LAUNCH
WITH A UNIQUE PERFORMANCE BY TALVIHORROS
FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2009
18.00 - 22.00
DESIGNERS BLOCK
32 CREMER STREET
LONDON, E2 8HD
My Dance The Skull is pleased to present its debut book launch from the polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska.
On the night will also be a unique improvisational performance by electro-acoustic
musician Talvihorros.
Quality wine will be offered by the Italian Studio Umami.
ALEKSANDRA WALISZEWSKA is a collection of Waliszewska’s paintings made in 2009.
The artist lives and works in Warsaw. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a
degree in painting in 2001. Since then, she has had around 20 solo exhibitions and participated in
numerous group exhibitions.
“Her drawings and paintings show us a studious mix of what seems like a visible influence of punk poster art with more highbrow aesthetics (the religious phantasmagoria of Goya comes to mind), plus heaps of beautifully muted colors and folk scare delivered through teens seduced by decidedly evil-eyed
animals and men facing brutal ends.”
Diego Gerlach
TALVIHORROS will be giving a never before seen performance of improvisation based upon Some
Ambulance; his latest release on Benbecula’s Mineral Series.
“Some Ambulance should be the first port of call for those with even a passing interest in where electro- acoustic and ambient music is heading in 2009/10, while I can imagine the uninitiated finding lots to love too...Talvihorros’release has come from nowhere and knocked me sideways. It is not an exaggeration to say this is one of my favourite records this year.”
- Magazine
MY DANCE THE SKULL IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HOUSE FOUNDED IN 2009 AND BASED IN LONDON. OUR AIM IS TO PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS WHOSE WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE DANGEROUS AND CONVULSIVE BEAUTY OF THE EVERYDAY LIFE.
WITH A UNIQUE PERFORMANCE BY TALVIHORROS
FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2009
18.00 - 22.00
DESIGNERS BLOCK
32 CREMER STREET
LONDON, E2 8HD
My Dance The Skull is pleased to present its debut book launch from the polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska.
On the night will also be a unique improvisational performance by electro-acoustic
musician Talvihorros.
Quality wine will be offered by the Italian Studio Umami.
ALEKSANDRA WALISZEWSKA is a collection of Waliszewska’s paintings made in 2009.
The artist lives and works in Warsaw. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a
degree in painting in 2001. Since then, she has had around 20 solo exhibitions and participated in
numerous group exhibitions.
“Her drawings and paintings show us a studious mix of what seems like a visible influence of punk poster art with more highbrow aesthetics (the religious phantasmagoria of Goya comes to mind), plus heaps of beautifully muted colors and folk scare delivered through teens seduced by decidedly evil-eyed
animals and men facing brutal ends.”
Diego Gerlach
TALVIHORROS will be giving a never before seen performance of improvisation based upon Some
Ambulance; his latest release on Benbecula’s Mineral Series.
“Some Ambulance should be the first port of call for those with even a passing interest in where electro- acoustic and ambient music is heading in 2009/10, while I can imagine the uninitiated finding lots to love too...Talvihorros’release has come from nowhere and knocked me sideways. It is not an exaggeration to say this is one of my favourite records this year.”
- Magazine
MY DANCE THE SKULL IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING HOUSE FOUNDED IN 2009 AND BASED IN LONDON. OUR AIM IS TO PROMOTE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS WHOSE WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE DANGEROUS AND CONVULSIVE BEAUTY OF THE EVERYDAY LIFE.
Categories: Art news
Camden Art Gallery - New Exhibition of Brazilian Artist NENO RAMOS
CAMDEN ART GALLERY - LONDON
IS DELIGHTED TO INVITE YOU TO THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF BRAZILIAN ARTIST
NENO RAMOS
FROM 29th NOVEMBER UNTIL 18th DECEMBER 2009
PREVIEW: SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2009 - 6:30pm
AT
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
61 CHALK FARM ROAD
LONDON
NW1 8AN
TEL 020 7485 6644
E-MAIL: info@camdenartgallery.com
www.camdenartgallery.com
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL.
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
________________________________
61 Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8AN
London
Te: +44 207 485 6644
Te: +33 9 66 87 0545
www.camdenartgallery.com
info@camdenartgallery.com
manager@camdenartgallery.com
IS DELIGHTED TO INVITE YOU TO THE SOLO EXHIBITION OF BRAZILIAN ARTIST
NENO RAMOS
FROM 29th NOVEMBER UNTIL 18th DECEMBER 2009
PREVIEW: SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2009 - 6:30pm
AT
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
61 CHALK FARM ROAD
LONDON
NW1 8AN
TEL 020 7485 6644
E-MAIL: info@camdenartgallery.com
www.camdenartgallery.com
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL.
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
________________________________
61 Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8AN
London
Te: +44 207 485 6644
Te: +33 9 66 87 0545
www.camdenartgallery.com
info@camdenartgallery.com
manager@camdenartgallery.com
Categories: Art news
Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 2: Globalization and agency
Together, the projects featured in Feedforward create a complex picture of the global political and social forces that drive us forward. The exhibition features both the problematic aspects of the present and future, and the potential for collectivity and responsible action. At the nadir of the current global economic crisis, Feedforward is in effect about cleaning up after the 20th century and asks the question, what is progress now? continue
Categories: Art news
Juried Annual 2010 @ Pro Arts
From November 24, 2009 – January 15, 2010:
Artists' Reception: Thursday, December 3, 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 14, 6 PM
Pro Arts announces Juried Annual 2010, Selections by Sherman Sam, an independent curator based in London. Exhibition events are free and open to the public.
The critically acclaimed Juried Annual is an exhibition that consistently showcases the best new work in the region. Nearly 300 artists submit work digitally in a variety of media for consideration, and over 1,000 pieces are reviewed for exhibition.
Sherman Sam is an artist, writer and freelance curator based in London and Singapore. He is contributing editor at www.kultureflash.com and is London correspondent for the Brooklyn Rail. From 2006-8 he was the Inspire Curatorial Fellow at the Hayward Gallery in London's Southbank Centre.
Featured Artists:
Robert Abrams, Chris Ashley, Steven Barich, Timothy Buckwalter, Jane Fisher, Adam Green, Elizabeth Johnson, Lisa S. Kang, Eric Larson, Helen Lee, Janet Lucroy, Anna Ludwig, Rico Marcelli, Michael McConnell, Klea McKenna, Jill McLennan, Dominic Hoang Nguyen, Lauren Parent, David Ryan, Tim Ryan, Julianne Sterling, Marilyn Wong, Lika Yurkovetsky, Pamela Zwehl-Burke.
150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland | www.proartsgallery.org | 510.238.3167
Artists' Reception: Thursday, December 3, 6 – 8 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 14, 6 PM
Pro Arts announces Juried Annual 2010, Selections by Sherman Sam, an independent curator based in London. Exhibition events are free and open to the public.
The critically acclaimed Juried Annual is an exhibition that consistently showcases the best new work in the region. Nearly 300 artists submit work digitally in a variety of media for consideration, and over 1,000 pieces are reviewed for exhibition.
Sherman Sam is an artist, writer and freelance curator based in London and Singapore. He is contributing editor at www.kultureflash.com and is London correspondent for the Brooklyn Rail. From 2006-8 he was the Inspire Curatorial Fellow at the Hayward Gallery in London's Southbank Centre.
Featured Artists:
Robert Abrams, Chris Ashley, Steven Barich, Timothy Buckwalter, Jane Fisher, Adam Green, Elizabeth Johnson, Lisa S. Kang, Eric Larson, Helen Lee, Janet Lucroy, Anna Ludwig, Rico Marcelli, Michael McConnell, Klea McKenna, Jill McLennan, Dominic Hoang Nguyen, Lauren Parent, David Ryan, Tim Ryan, Julianne Sterling, Marilyn Wong, Lika Yurkovetsky, Pamela Zwehl-Burke.
150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland | www.proartsgallery.org | 510.238.3167
Categories: Art news
001-000
moving my pictures generator matrix to http://www.001-000.com/ (ready for beta-test)
Categories: Art news
Artist-in-Residence Studio Open House
STUDIO OPEN HOUSE @ BASEKAMP
SUNDAY NOV. 22 12-4PM
723 Chestnut St. 2nd Floor
As part of their Artist-in-Residency Program, Basekamp currently has a number of of live/work studios available to interested participants. Please join us on Sunday to learn more about this opportunity along with other related programming information or contact us at projects@basekamp.com We look forward to seeing you then.
Basekamp Residency Program
Basekamp is a non-commercial organization of people researching and co-developing interdisciplinary, self-organized art projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship-blurring configurations for the past decade. We use our Philadelphia space, along with temporary camps in other locations, as a home base to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art communities. The goal is to continue proposing collaboration as a practical and theoretical stance, and to participate in its evolution.
Basekamp is currently preparing for their next project, Plausible Art Worlds, which launches January 2010 . In conjunction with this event we are excited to announce a search for individuals, collectives, satellite groups and meta-organizations to participate in the residency program for short and/or long stays during this coming year. Basekamp residents will have the opportunity to participate in and facilitate activities connected to scheduled Plausible Art Worlds 2010 programming.
What is Plausible Art Worlds?
Plausible Artworlds is a collaborative initiative that aims to provide a platform for examining and accompanying the emergence of plural artistic environments. This comes in context of ever growing numbers of art-related practices both requiring artworld settings different from those currently on offer, and proactively involved in bringing them into existence. Artists’ ideas about, and experiments with, alternate artworlds will be made accessible through a series of 50 weekly email broadcasts and live events, culminating in an online and printed publication. The series of events are loosely delineated into six categories, with roughly two months devoted to each subject. More information at .
Studio Details
$375 per month per live/work studio space. These financial contributions help to keep Basekamp’s doors open and sustain largely self-organized activity. Work spaces include 24 hour access to facilities including a woodshop, internet access, kitchen, washer/dryer, two bathrooms and shower, and common space. The space is partitioned into 8 live/workspaces; dimensions vary. We will be showing spaces to prospective residents on an ongoing basis. Please call Michael G. Bauer at 323-404-2569 to schedule a visit.
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Mish Mash
CALL FOR ARTICLES Istanbul, November-20-09
SUBJECT mish mash
In December 2009 LEA – Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a member of the Leonardo/ISAST/MIT Press family – will re-launch. Its new format will combine the features of a high-production-value art magazine with the scholarly rigor of an academic journal. Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, intend to produce a well illustrated, attractive and readable magazine that will simultaneously be available online as a hyperlinked screen-resolution PDF document, a high-resolution print-on-demand magazine and in a downloadable version for book readers on electronic devices like the Amazon Kindle. The publications will be integrated into a regularly updated web portal that will provide additional and supporting services like announcements, opportunities, interactive content-oriented blogs and Wikis. This LEA online environment is intended to be a hierarchical content generator with the quarterly publication representing a punctuated pinnacle of this multidimensional, user-driven, discipline-oriented social network.
LEA will focus on the convergence of arts, science and technology and combine special issue front-end features with ongoing thematic background content. It will combine invited and commissioned essays with peer-reviewed scholarly papers.
The target audience for the publication encompasses a broad spectrum ranging from professionals active in the field to laypeople with a general interest in the contemporary arts. We believe the time is right for an arts, sciences and technology publication pitched centrally within the arts mainstream.
The theme of the first issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac magazine is mish mash.
The first issue will be a collection of articles, reviews and opinion pieces that discuss and analyze the complexity of mixing things together as a process that is not necessarily undertaken in an orderly and organized manner. In this issue there will be contributions from Frieder Nake, Stelarc, Paul Catanese and other important cultural operators.
Although the magazine is thematically structured, the concept of mish mash leaves a wide open opportunity to discuss issues in interdisciplinary education; art, science and technology interactions; personal artistic practices; history of re-combinatory practices; hybridizations between old and new media; cultural creolization; curatorial studies and more.
Under the editorship of Lanfranco Aceti and Paul Brown the magazine call is open to the0retical, scientific and cultural analyses as well as practice based pieces or a mish mash of all of the above.
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) will produce an online and print on demand issue, as well as host curated images and videos online.
Proposals to: info leoalmanac.org
a) Subject heading: mish mash.
b) 500 hundred word abstract for articles.
c) 2 images at 72 dpi resolution no larger than 800 pixels width for artists.
d) Links to previous work, videos or personal sites.
e) Deadline for full papers is February 15, 2010 for publication in the first issue.
f) Please feel free to disseminate and forward this call to interested parties.
Our publication formats allow for full-color throughout and we encourage rich pictorial content where relevant and possible. Note however that all material submitted must be copyright cleared (or due diligence must be evidenced). For online publication a wide variety of media content may be considered (animation, mp3, flash, java, etc…)
* For scholarly papers please submit the final paper ready for peer review. Your contribution will be reviewed by at least two members of the LEA board and revisions may be requested subject to review.
* For themed and pictorial essays please submit an abstract or outline for editorial consideration and further discussion.
* Please keep your news, announcements and hyperlinks brief and focused – include contact details and a link to an external site where relevant. We reserve the right to sub-edit your submissions in order to comply with LEA policies and formats. Where material is time-sensitive please include both embargo and expiry dates.
* In all cases specify special system considerations where these are necessary (platform, codecs, plug-ins, etc…)
We hope you share our excitement about the new LEA and we look forward to hearing from you!
For further information or images submission contact: Ozden.Sahin leoalmanac.org
Lanfranco Aceti
Lanfranco.Aceti leoalmanac.org
Editor in Chief, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Paul Brown
Paul.Brown leoalmanac.org
Co-Editor, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
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Digital Arts MFA Tulane University
Digital Arts MFA Tulane University
The Digital Arts area of the School of Art allows students to explore the expressive and conceptual potential of digital-based projects ranging from print to physical computing.
Application deadline is February 1st. Please note that the GRE is not required of MFA applicants in studio art. You may complete almost all of the steps for the application process online.
http://www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/applying.cfm
Alternately, you may download the application and forms and mail them to:
Tulane University
School of Liberal Arts
Director of Graduate Studies
102 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Your supporting materials of college transcripts, Images/video of your work on CD and or DVD should be mailed to:
Newcomb Art Department
202 Woldenberg Art Center,
6823 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA, 70118
Images should be of recent pieces and indicate your primary interest and direction. The studio art faculty reviews all applications in the first week of March and makes recommendations to the School of Liberal Arts on candidates to accept. All admitted students receive a financial aid package that consists of a tuition waiver and an assistantship stipend of $13,000 per year. Further information may be obtained from our web site at www.tulane.edu/~art/ If you have more questions about the program, specific requirements or deadlines, please contact me at (504) 314-2407 or email me at khjones@tulane.edu
Best Regards,
Kevin H. Jones
Assistant Professor Digital Arts
Newcomb Art Department
Graduate Coordinator
The Digital Arts area of the School of Art allows students to explore the expressive and conceptual potential of digital-based projects ranging from print to physical computing.
Application deadline is February 1st. Please note that the GRE is not required of MFA applicants in studio art. You may complete almost all of the steps for the application process online.
http://www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/applying.cfm
Alternately, you may download the application and forms and mail them to:
Tulane University
School of Liberal Arts
Director of Graduate Studies
102 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Your supporting materials of college transcripts, Images/video of your work on CD and or DVD should be mailed to:
Newcomb Art Department
202 Woldenberg Art Center,
6823 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA, 70118
Images should be of recent pieces and indicate your primary interest and direction. The studio art faculty reviews all applications in the first week of March and makes recommendations to the School of Liberal Arts on candidates to accept. All admitted students receive a financial aid package that consists of a tuition waiver and an assistantship stipend of $13,000 per year. Further information may be obtained from our web site at www.tulane.edu/~art/ If you have more questions about the program, specific requirements or deadlines, please contact me at (504) 314-2407 or email me at khjones@tulane.edu
Best Regards,
Kevin H. Jones
Assistant Professor Digital Arts
Newcomb Art Department
Graduate Coordinator
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IT'S JUST MEDIA: Horror and contemporaneity
On his referential analysis of Poltergeist, Douglas Kellner (UCLA) in his book Media Culture claims that "media culture provides social allegories which articulate class and social group fears, yearnings, and hopes. Decoding these social allegories thus provides a diagnostic critique with insight into the situation of individuals within various social classes and groups, like youth. Thus, fantasy and entertainment may be the vehicle of deadly serious diagnoses of the contemporary era which cultural studies should analyze and interpret."
NEOCRONICA.ORG is inviting Academics, authors, students and artists to send contributions on the topic of horror and media. Criticism, analysis, debates and ideas on television, journalism, design, advertising, film, literature, games, semiotics, social studies and others are welcome. Any kind of media sent will be evaluated, such as new media art, games, music, video or text.
DEADLINE: December 31st 2010
Guidelines:
GAMES, VIDEO, MUSIC
Please write a statement about your work (500-1000 words) and a personal bio (200-250 words).
Do not attach files, but feel free to send your links.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Please do not attach files, but send your links. Sole works or collections are equally welcome. Please attach a statement about your work (500-1000 words) and a personal bio (200-250 words).
TEXT
Not more than 20 pages (A4), and please attach a personal bio (200-250 words).
IT'S JUST MEDIA: Horror and Contemporaneity will be released as an eBook from NEOCRONICA.ORG New Media Publishing House under a CreativeCommons license.
Please send your submissions to neocronica@neocronica.org.
NEOCRONICA.ORG is inviting Academics, authors, students and artists to send contributions on the topic of horror and media. Criticism, analysis, debates and ideas on television, journalism, design, advertising, film, literature, games, semiotics, social studies and others are welcome. Any kind of media sent will be evaluated, such as new media art, games, music, video or text.
DEADLINE: December 31st 2010
Guidelines:
GAMES, VIDEO, MUSIC
Please write a statement about your work (500-1000 words) and a personal bio (200-250 words).
Do not attach files, but feel free to send your links.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Please do not attach files, but send your links. Sole works or collections are equally welcome. Please attach a statement about your work (500-1000 words) and a personal bio (200-250 words).
TEXT
Not more than 20 pages (A4), and please attach a personal bio (200-250 words).
IT'S JUST MEDIA: Horror and Contemporaneity will be released as an eBook from NEOCRONICA.ORG New Media Publishing House under a CreativeCommons license.
Please send your submissions to neocronica@neocronica.org.
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2010 WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT FILM FESTIVAL: CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS!
2010 WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT FILM FESTIVAL
CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS
The Women of African Descent Film Festival, co-presented with the Brooklyn Chapter of the Links Inc., seeks feature length and short films directed, written or produced by female filmmakers of African descent. The festival is now accepting submissions of narrative feature and short films, documentaries and animations for the festival, which will take place in May 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Submissions can be registered through the festival’s Withoutabox site, which also includes additional information about the event.
To access the application form through Withoutabox please visit - https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6442
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Formed in 1952, The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links, Inc., an organization of African American professional women, is dedicated to the support of educational, civic, and cultural activities in Brooklyn. A chapter of The Links, Inc., an international organization comprised of 276 chapters and over 11,000 members in 42 states, the District of Columbia, South Africa, the Bahamas and Germany, the Brooklyn Chapter works under the guidelines of the national body in providing services to its Brooklyn community in four mission areas: services to youth, health and wellness, the arts, and civic involvement.
The foundation for all of the chapter's programs and services is rooted in the African American tradition of giving and volunteerism. Members share a deep sense of communal responsibility, and for the past 50 plus years have been committed to actively initiating and supporting educational, cultural, and civic programs, that positively impact the lives of people from Brooklyn's African American/Caribbean communities.
To mark the milestone of its 50th Anniversary, and to continue its legacy of showcasing the talent and accomplishments of the African American arts and artists, the Brooklyn Chapter began co-sponsoring with Brooklyn Arts Council a film festival for women filmmakers. On May 18, 2002, the chosen films explored the impact of the positive linkages that women of African descent have to their families, friends, communities and the broader world. This tradition has continued annually since then and takes place at the Spike Lee Screening Room at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University in May of each year.
GENERAL RULES
Only films directed by, written by or produced by female filmmakers of African descent will be considered. Please do not submit if you do not fit this criteria.
Submission must be made online. At the end of your submission process you will be asked to complete the online Terms of Submission Agreement form which you must sign in order to complete your submission.
Any number of titles may be submitted by an entrant. A separate entry form must be submitted for each title. Separate DVDs must be submitted for each entry.
Entries must be complete works no longer than 120 minutes in length. They must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Industrial or instructional works and those previously submitted to the Film Festival are not eligible. All films and videos in a language other than English must be subtitled in English for Festival presentation. All entrants must complete the online application form and mail or hand-deliver a DVD for jury screening.
LABELING
All tapes must be labeled with the following information:
* Film Title, total running time, and category (narrative; experimental; documentary; animation.)
* Shipper’s name and telephone number.
* Withoutbox tracking number.
Entries may be disqualified if they are not properly labeled.
PACKAGING
Films and videotapes must be shipped in a padded envelope.
RETURN OF ENTRIES
Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like us to return your DVD. Be sure to indicate that you would like your preview screener returned; we will not do so unless you indicate for us to do so on your application form.
JUDGING AND NOTIFICATION
Judging will take place January – March 2010 by a jury of film industry professionals working in the New York metropolitan area.
CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS
The Women of African Descent Film Festival, co-presented with the Brooklyn Chapter of the Links Inc., seeks feature length and short films directed, written or produced by female filmmakers of African descent. The festival is now accepting submissions of narrative feature and short films, documentaries and animations for the festival, which will take place in May 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Submissions can be registered through the festival’s Withoutabox site, which also includes additional information about the event.
To access the application form through Withoutabox please visit - https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6442
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Formed in 1952, The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links, Inc., an organization of African American professional women, is dedicated to the support of educational, civic, and cultural activities in Brooklyn. A chapter of The Links, Inc., an international organization comprised of 276 chapters and over 11,000 members in 42 states, the District of Columbia, South Africa, the Bahamas and Germany, the Brooklyn Chapter works under the guidelines of the national body in providing services to its Brooklyn community in four mission areas: services to youth, health and wellness, the arts, and civic involvement.
The foundation for all of the chapter's programs and services is rooted in the African American tradition of giving and volunteerism. Members share a deep sense of communal responsibility, and for the past 50 plus years have been committed to actively initiating and supporting educational, cultural, and civic programs, that positively impact the lives of people from Brooklyn's African American/Caribbean communities.
To mark the milestone of its 50th Anniversary, and to continue its legacy of showcasing the talent and accomplishments of the African American arts and artists, the Brooklyn Chapter began co-sponsoring with Brooklyn Arts Council a film festival for women filmmakers. On May 18, 2002, the chosen films explored the impact of the positive linkages that women of African descent have to their families, friends, communities and the broader world. This tradition has continued annually since then and takes place at the Spike Lee Screening Room at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University in May of each year.
GENERAL RULES
Only films directed by, written by or produced by female filmmakers of African descent will be considered. Please do not submit if you do not fit this criteria.
Submission must be made online. At the end of your submission process you will be asked to complete the online Terms of Submission Agreement form which you must sign in order to complete your submission.
Any number of titles may be submitted by an entrant. A separate entry form must be submitted for each title. Separate DVDs must be submitted for each entry.
Entries must be complete works no longer than 120 minutes in length. They must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Industrial or instructional works and those previously submitted to the Film Festival are not eligible. All films and videos in a language other than English must be subtitled in English for Festival presentation. All entrants must complete the online application form and mail or hand-deliver a DVD for jury screening.
LABELING
All tapes must be labeled with the following information:
* Film Title, total running time, and category (narrative; experimental; documentary; animation.)
* Shipper’s name and telephone number.
* Withoutbox tracking number.
Entries may be disqualified if they are not properly labeled.
PACKAGING
Films and videotapes must be shipped in a padded envelope.
RETURN OF ENTRIES
Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like us to return your DVD. Be sure to indicate that you would like your preview screener returned; we will not do so unless you indicate for us to do so on your application form.
JUDGING AND NOTIFICATION
Judging will take place January – March 2010 by a jury of film industry professionals working in the New York metropolitan area.
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Ambient.TV's Mapping CCTV around Whitehall.
Ambient.TV's Mapping CCTV around Whitehall.
Review by Rob Myers.
Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. The second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras, no. 40 in Villiers street, by intercepting its signal as it was transmitted wirelessly without encryption. As passers-by entered the marked area covered by the camera, they were alerted to the its presence and handed a copy of the map of CCTV cameras in Whitehall.
"Mapping CCTV around Whitehall", 2008, is, as its name implies, a performance of mapping Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras around the UK's parliament in London and a video record of that performance by Ambient.tv's Manu Luksch. Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of "Mapping CCTV In Whitehall" has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV. This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective encapsulation of the project's ideas and aesthetics.
Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch codirect Ambient Information Systems (AIS), a crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools. They work as artists under their own names and also as ambientTV.NET. They have a history of conceiving works that integrate curatorial and collaborative aspects (e.g., VBI), research (FACELESS and the Data Protection Act), community involvement (BOW SPACE), and hybrid media installations (ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY). Of particular interest are concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, privacy, surveillance. The establishment of participative processes, creation of tools, and archiving and documentation are signal features of recent projects.
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A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Review by Rob Myers.
Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London, within a zone covered by SOCPA (Serious and Organized Crime and Police Act 2005). A map of the hundreds of cameras in the zone was made over two days of observation. The second part involved mapping the range of one of these cameras, no. 40 in Villiers street, by intercepting its signal as it was transmitted wirelessly without encryption. As passers-by entered the marked area covered by the camera, they were alerted to the its presence and handed a copy of the map of CCTV cameras in Whitehall.
"Mapping CCTV around Whitehall", 2008, is, as its name implies, a performance of mapping Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) security cameras around the UK's parliament in London and a video record of that performance by Ambient.tv's Manu Luksch. Starting with a HAL 9000-like image of a CCTV lens, the video of "Mapping CCTV In Whitehall" has a glitchy techno aesthetic of sound and images with a post-MTV-Style Guide reportage feel. The first half consists of a recording of the police stop-and-search interviewing Luksch under anti-terrorism legislation, with a map of the area superimposed. The second half consists of CCTV views of the range of Camera number 40 being taped out, and of the people caught within those bounds. Words flash on the screen to identify the subjects of CCTV. This redeployment of the language of mass media visual persuasion opens up what we see rather than closing it down, making it a very effective encapsulation of the project's ideas and aesthetics.
Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch codirect Ambient Information Systems (AIS), a crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools. They work as artists under their own names and also as ambientTV.NET. They have a history of conceiving works that integrate curatorial and collaborative aspects (e.g., VBI), research (FACELESS and the Data Protection Act), community involvement (BOW SPACE), and hybrid media installations (ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY). Of particular interest are concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, privacy, surveillance. The establishment of participative processes, creation of tools, and archiving and documentation are signal features of recent projects.
----------------->
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
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Lansdown Lecture - Brendan Walker on Vicarious Thrills - London 2 December 2009
Lansdown Lecture: Brendan Walker on Vicarious Thrills
When: 4:45pm, Wednesday 2 December 2009
Where: Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK
A Lansdown Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University.
Brendan Walker will show how he uses a mixture of performance and broadcast technologies to thrill new audiences, spanning Theatre, Theme Parks, and TV.
Brendan Walker describes himself as 'the world’s only Thrill Engineer'. Brendan originally trained as a military aeronautical engineer, before researching and teaching in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. Brendan now runs Aerial - a design practice specialising in the creation of tailored emotional experience, with clients such as The Science Museum, Merlin Entertainment, and Disneyland. He is a visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham.
Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book.
When: 4:45pm, Wednesday 2 December 2009
Where: Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT, UK
A Lansdown Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex University.
Brendan Walker will show how he uses a mixture of performance and broadcast technologies to thrill new audiences, spanning Theatre, Theme Parks, and TV.
Brendan Walker describes himself as 'the world’s only Thrill Engineer'. Brendan originally trained as a military aeronautical engineer, before researching and teaching in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. Brendan now runs Aerial - a design practice specialising in the creation of tailored emotional experience, with clients such as The Science Museum, Merlin Entertainment, and Disneyland. He is a visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham.
Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book.
Categories: Art news