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Malice in Sonderland — a real time audiovisual performance reflecting the contemporary relevance of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland by Korhan Erel and Alexandra Reil :: January 19, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (MAK), Säulenhalle / MAK Columned Main Hall, Stubenring 5, A 1010 Vienna.

Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance the sound composer Korhan Erel, Istanbul, and the media artist Alexandra Reill, Vienna, work with the original material of Norman Z. McLeod’s feature film Alice in Wonderland shot in 1933. With experimental digital methods they research the theme and plot of the complex fairy tale and in the framework of the MAK NITE© perform a phantasmagoric live interpretation, an improvisation composed of digital worlds and abstract sound collages. Continue reading

Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing by Alfredo Cramerotti: Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art, Aesthetic Journalism investigates why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries, and reportage. Art theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti traces the shift in the production of truth from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism – a change that questions the very foundations of journalism and the nature of art. This volume challenges the way we understand art and journalism in contemporary culture and suggests future developments of this new relationship.

Writer, curator, artist and consultant for the creative sector, Alfredo Cramerotti works with a variety of media such as TV, radio, publishing, art exhibitions, festivals and curation. Continue reading

NetSci 2010 Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks — A Leonardo Satellite Symposium :: May 10, 2010 :: BarabásiLab, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University in Boston, MA :: Call For Papers — Deadline: January 22, 2010 (registration opens same day).

By means of keynotes, contributed talks and interdisciplinary discussion we will explore and identify important issues surrounding the convergence of arts, humanities and complex networks. On the one hand we will concentrate on network structure and dynamics in areas ranging from art history and archeology to music, film and image science. In the same time we are interested in the development and critique of network visualizations from medieval manuscripts to the latest tools, such as Cytoscape and Processing. Continue reading

Simulation as a Global Resource by Pier Luigi Capucci, NOEMA [This paper was originally presented at the International Conference “Consciousness Reframed 10 – experiencing [design] – behaving [media]”, Munich, MHMK, University of Applied Sciences, November 19 – 21, 2009]

The idea of “simulation” is a very intriguing, multifaceted and complex issue. Words like “verisimilitude”, “emulation”, “imitation”, “copy”, “reproduction”, “clone”, “replica”… are commonly used. In our everyday life we imagine situations, events, projects and decline them to the future: we simulate possible worlds and test them in a sort of permanent “what if” which is continuously reworked and modified. This process has been methodologically formalized in the sciences, where we build models, simulations, which try to describe facts, events and phenomena. Models and simulations have a very important cognitive role in knowing and understanding the world we live in. Continue reading

HYPE — Branden Hall & Joshua Davis — is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program. To get started, the user needs only the most basic knowledge of programming – variables, conditionals, loops, and functions, for example. As the user learns more about programming they can extend HYPE and thus grow their skills, while at the same time inspiring the next generation.

Now, that’s not to say HYPE is just for people who are new to programming. Instead, HYPE is for anyone, regardless of skill, who wants to play with code. Fundamentally, the point of HYPE is to make Flash fun again. We made HYPE to help bring back the playfulness that once defined our community. Continue reading

Neural Issue #34: Fake’ology, winter 2009 (ISSN: 2037-108X): Subscribe now supporting us directly, or buy the magazine from the closest of the more than 200 stores (Neural is from now on distributed by Central Books in Europe and Asia, by Ubiquity in USA and by Selectair in Australia and New Zealand). A back issues pack is also available.

interviews: .Yes Men .Janez Jansa .Lieutenant Murnau .Les Liens Invisibles :: articles: .False Files .Too Good to Be True .The Onion News Network :: reports: .Abandon Normal Devices .Energija :: news: Tardigotchi, Pa++ern, Amatagana, Sk8monkey, Tim Tate’s Reliquaries, Heavy Metal Moshpit, Pitch Control, scoreLight, STiMULiNE, SoleNoid beta, Pirate Kiosk, Netless, Can’t You See I’m busy, 21st Century Home, Embroidered Text Messages. Continue reading

Blast Theory Intern and Residency Programmes :: Call for Applications — Deadline: January 31, 2010.

20 Wellington Road Residency Programme 2010 – 2011. Expressions of interest are invited from individuals working in the following fields: Pervasive & location based gaming & interactive media; Mobile & portable devices in cultural & artistic practice; Games design and theory; Interdisciplinary and live art .

Residency applications are welcome from UK and international practitioners and should be for a minimum period of 3 weeks to maximum of 3 months. The Residency Programme is a new model of residency initiated and run by artists. Continue reading

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston, Massachusetts is conducting a search for a regular full-time faculty position in net art. Position will begin September 2010.

The SMFA seeks a practicing artist/designer with a portfolio of net art, including web based art, networked art, software art and new media that expands to other disciplines such as photo, sound, video, installation, animation, performance or book arts. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to work across media with students and faculty.

We are seeking an educator who has a strong grounding in theoretical, historical and practical aspects of the effect of technology in the arts and will be able to address the discourse of new media and web-based art. Continue reading

PlayLab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games :: January 21-24 + February 4-7, 2010 :: Medialab-Prado, Plaza de las Letras, Calle Alameda, 15, 28014 Madrid :: Call for Collaborators for Selected Projects — Deadline for Registrations: January 20, 2010.

Collaborators can join any of the developing teams that will carry out the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the same time learning from the other group members and from the leading tutors: Mar Canet, Antonin Fourneau, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Directed by Flavio Escribano. Continue reading