In January 2011, we celebrate the 1,000.048th Birthday of Art :: Join in by contributing gifts of all kinds! You can upload videos, audios, images and other bits & bytes at kunstradio.at.

And this time we have a special contest: the most beautiful, terrifying, annoying or desperate scream video will be awarded. Amazing prizes and world fame are waiting for you!

Find all information on Art’s Birthday here http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/AB2011 or here
http://viralradio.at or here http://artsbirthday.ebu.ch or simply here
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Spill»Forward — An Exhibition of Earth Art for the 21st Century :: MediaNoche & Online.

Following on the heels of a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate talks in Copenhagen, the Earth Day disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this exhibition of Earth Art for the 21th CenturyTM. Artists and designers from around the world are invited to address the theme of sustainability in the future. Works responding to the Deepwater Horizon accident, or related ecological and cultural concerns, will be given precedence. Submission deadline: July 20, 2010.

Visit the site to sign up for news regarding the exhibition and a related lecture series. Or upload a contribution to Spill » Forward in a few simple steps. This call for participation encompasses diverse forms including: images, sound, video, interactive. Continue reading

YTAND (You’re the Artist Now, Dawg!) :: A Digital Minimalism Exhibition :: curated by Patrick Lichty :: Pages due 4/15/10 ::
Launch 5/1/10 ::

User-driven viral media sites such as YTMND.com have created a form of “internet - native” aesthetics that also seen on sites like deviantart.com, 4chan.org, and many others, that have inspired New Media artists like Marisa Olson, Jon Satron, JonCates and Cory Arcangel to create forms such as “dirt style” and “glitch”. As the YTMND.com site states, a “YTMND” is:

A page(s) featuring a juxtaposition of a single image, optionally animated or tiled, along with large zooming text and a looping sound file. YTMND is also the general term used to describe any such site. (from ytmnd.com) Continue reading

Posted by Mitchell Whitelaw on Teeming Void: This essay was commissioned by Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway, to coincide with HC Gilje’s solo exhibition blink (video below). It looks at Gilje’s recent work - which spans audiovisual installation, performance, hardware, and networked forms - through the notion of specificity (developed earlier here).

blink (hc gilje 2009) from hc gilje on Vimeo.

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Let Us Imagine a Straight Line by Joseph Butch Rovan, featuring dancer Ami Shulman — A multi-movement intermedia project for interactive image, sound, and performance — one in a series of Studies in Movement :: October 17 - November 8, 2009 :: Opening: October 16; 5:00 pm :: Digital Humanites Lab (lower floor), Cogut Center for the Humanities, Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI.

Studies in Movement is a series of intermedia études based in part on the unique visual legacy of the great French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904). From his pioneering work with graphical recording devices to his work with stop-action photography, Marey sought to break down locomotion in order to learn how humans and animals moved in the natural world. Continue reading

Pamela Z, Todd Reynolds, and Luke DuBois :: August 28, 2009; 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY :: Make reservations early because seating is limited ::

Working separately and together Pamela Z and Reynolds/Dubois will surround you with moving images and a sonic frenzy of sampled concrète sounds, voice & processing, and violin & processing. In their first shared evening, composer/performer Pamela Z (voice, electronics, video) and Todd Reynolds + R. Luke Dubois (violin, electronics, video) will present a program sonically and visually rich layered works. Continue reading

The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago :: June 1 - October 9, 2009 :: Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street, Chicago.

2009 is the centenary of the publication of The Plan of Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago: A Multi-Sensory Journey Through Chicago and Its Neighborhoods corresponds with the celebration of this historic event. An interactive installation at the Chicago Cultural Center Visitor Information Center (77 E. Randolph Street), The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is part of the citywide summer tourism initiative, Explore Chicago: Take A Neighborhood Vacation (June 1–September 30). More than 40 artists and organizations have joined in creating this exploration of Chicago through the five senses.

Visitors and locals can experience Chicago imagery, sounds, fragrances, flavors and textures captured in miniature neighborhood scenes such as a mapping of the tastes and recipes of Chinatown, and an exploration of East Garfield Park candy. SPC’s participating artists and organizations have designed installation pieces which invite people to interact with the sensory “artifacts” of Chicago in creative and imaginative ways, and to think about synesthetic connections with things that relate to Chicago. The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago is commissioned by the City of Chicago, and it is co-curated by Annie Heckman and Dan Godston. Continue reading

The End of Something — A collection of reflections on the Global Crisis :: July 31 - August 30, 2009 :: Volume, 114-116 Amersham Vale, Deptford Police Station, New Cross, London :: Images of Ebb Workshop :: August 1; 1:00 - 5:00 pm :: Deskspace medialab. To reserve a place, please RSVP with phone number to: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!).

Images of Ebb (with Adnan Hadzi (Deptford TV) + Rob Canning (GOTO10)) will introduce participants to Sousveillance and CCTV filmmaking where material and images from the Deptford.TV archive will be edited to submissions from Sounds of Ebb. Continue reading

SPECTRUM: multi-channel sound and video installations by DRAW :: June 6, 13, 20 and 27; 2:00 - 8:00 p.m. :: at Diapason Gallery, 882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

“A sound spectrum is a representation of a sound…in terms of the amount of vibration at each individual frequency. It is usually presented as a graph of either power or pressure as a function of frequency.”

SPECTRUM is a sound and image sculpture utilizing multiple (number to be determined) audio and video channels across both of Diapason’s exhibition spaces. The process at the core of SPECTRUM is the visualization of sound through spectrographic analysis, which breaks up a complex wave into its constituent parts and displays them on a 2 or 3 dimensional grid. These analyses and their corresponding sounds form the basis for several complex, layered compositions. Continue reading

MUV Festival 2009 :: June 9 - 14, 2009 :: Florence, Italy.

MUV is an event that explores a world of languages that intersect: the digital arts, electronic music and audiovisual experimentation. Now in its fifth edition, the festival will take place in the beautiful location of Sferisterio “Tambourine” Parco delle Cascine of Florence. The festival opens this year with the current issues of environmental sustainability and collection calls to investigators electronic, techno-visionaries, designers dell’immateriale, activists and designers are able to think about a sustainable future in which technology evolved is the best antidote to the destruction of the planet. Continue reading