Naked on Pluto — by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk — is the winner of VIDA 13.2, the prestigious international art and artificial life contest. Continue reading

The Principle of Reciprocity by Dr. Hector Rodriguez from Videotage Unlimited on Vimeo. Continue reading

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Flussi Festival presents: Live Media and FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Workshop with Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD :: August 25-28, 2010 :: Teatro comunale Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino, Italy :: Cost: 50 euro; limited to 20 participants; accommodation available; register by sending an email to luca [at] flussi [dot] eu.

Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance laboratory using FLOSS. Pure Data audiovisual real-time processing, tricks and tips to create your own performance tool. Complete program available here (in Italian; please write us to request comprehensive info in English). Continue reading

Screening of Struggle in Jerash: A film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White :: June 30, 2010; 7:00 - 9:30 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) :: 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.

As the first Jordanian audio-visual works begin to fall into the public domain, a constellation of interests are translating, drafting and revising copyrights laws, trade agreements and licences to control the flow of culture and build new markets. Against the backdrop of these emerging intellectual property markets, in 2008 artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White embarked on a period of research in Amman, Jordan – speaking to lawyers, copyright activists, software developers, artists, musicians, journalists, curators, filmmakers and critics – in an attempt to seek out the common cultural resources of Jordan’s public domain. Continue reading

[Image: 'Nine Steps to Collaborative Composites' qthomasbower @flickr] Mashup Cultures, Sonvilla-Weiss. Stefan (Ed.), Springeren: This volume brings together cutting-edge thinkers and scholars together with young researchers and students, proposing a colourful spectrum of media-theoretical, -practical and -educational approaches to current creative practices and techniques of production and consumption on and off the web. Along with the exploration of some of the emerging social media concepts, the book unveils some of the key drivers leading to participatory engagement of the User.

Mashup Cultures presents a broader view of the effects and consequences of current remix practices and the recombination of existing digital cultural content. Continue reading

Esse, Nosse, Posse Common Wealth for Common People — Online exhibition and Platform :: Curated by Daphne Dragona (Greece).

Contributing artists and theorists: Burak Arikan & Engin Erdogan (Τurkey), Samuel Bianchini (France), Michael Bielicky, Kamila B. Richter (Chech Republic/ Germany), Marcelo Expósito (Spain), Furtherfield (UK), Pat Kane (UK), Carlos Katastrofsky (Austria), Dmytri Kleiner (Germany), Nicholas Knouf (USA), Tobias Leingruber (Germany)/ Jamie Wilkinson (USA)/ Greg Leuch (USA), Aarton Koblin & Daniel Massey (USA), Geert Lovink (Netherlands), MediaShed & Eyebeam (UK/ USA), Molleindustria (Italy), Ge Jin aka Jingle (China), Matteo Pasquinelli (Italy), Platoniq.net (Spain), Juan Martin Prada (Spain), Kate Rich (UK), Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse (USA), Trebor Scholz (USA), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Dan Phiffer & Mushon Zer-Aviv (US/IL). Continue reading

Interactivos’10: Neighborhood Science - workshop led by Platoniq, Douglas Repetto and the work group formed by Andres Burbano, Alejandro Araque, Alejandro Duque and Alejandro Tamayo :: June 7 - 23, 2010 :: Medialab-Prado, Plaza de las Letras, Calle Alameda, 15, 28014 Madrid, Spain :: Call for Projects and Papers - Deadline: April 19, 2010.

Interactivos’10 is a workshop which develops projects gathering and putting into action collaboration and local urban knowledge networks using free software and hardware technologies and “Do it yourself” (DIY) and “Do it with others” (DIWO) methods. Continue reading

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative :: March 26-27, 2010 :: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam.

Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern counterparts Britannica and Encarta in the dust, such scale and breadth places Wikipedia on par with such historical milestones as Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, the Ming Dynasty’s Wen-hsien ta- ch’ eng, and the key work of French Enlightenment, the Encyclopedie. Continue reading

hello wor(l)d! Workshop — Pure Data, Microcodes, Fluxus :: March 2-4, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: het Paleis (Erlenmeyer zaal), Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL) :: Call for Participation — Deadline February 19.

The workshop hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and live coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try. Continue reading