The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival starts to accept entries today, July 17th, 2009 :: the application period is until 25th September 2009 :: Art, Entertainment, Animation, Manga :: Award-winning works will be exhibited 3-14 February, 2010 at The National Art Center, Tokyo.

The Festival seeks dynamic creative works from all over the world that are opening up a new era. Please visit the official website for detailed information. A press release (PDF file) can be downloaded from the following address. Continue reading

Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology :: November 26-29, 2009 :: Melbourne, Australia.

The Media Art History national conference committee of Austrialia would like to invite you to attend the Re:live the international media art history conference. Over three stimulating days, historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will explore the latest research and theories that challenge;

Conference Sessions on the History of :: art-science-technology :: biology :: the environment :: liveness :: the life of machines :: innovation :: 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

Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Broadcast Yourself, a symposium that will contrast traditional media with the “YouTube” Generation :: April 1, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Lecture Hall 213, 144 West 14th Street, NYC.

Broadcast Yourself will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists. Continue reading

OSRAM Art Projects presents SEVEN SCREENS - Bjørn Melhus’ Screensavers - an Interactive Multimedia Installation on LED Screens :: until April 22, 2009 :: OSRAM Haus, Hellabrunner Straße 1, 81543 München, Germany.

Screensavers is the name the internationally acclaimed media artist Bjørn Melhus has given his digital clones. With his sound reactive computer animations, whose images and texts are generated from an actual radio program, the artist renders the everyday language of mass media visible. Continue reading