this is an interview with mary flanagan while setting up the opening exhibition at laboral centro de arte in gijon, spain – talking about her work, the “giant joystic”:
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BIP is an event promoted by FAWI (Fondazione Arezzowave Italia) and ARSNOVA, curated by Associazione Culturale NADA and managed by TODO.
The event will be the 20-21st of July in Florence, in collaboration with ElettroWave, the major free event of electronic music.
If you want to play with space, time, people and technology, if you fiddle around with the idea the space can be programmed, if social patterns are your breakfast, if you are not scared by a drunk young audience, if you keep telling your friends that environments are not passive wrappings but active processes, if you dream about pervasive computing, if your perceptions keep shifting, if your projects are about interplay, exploration and humor, if tinkering with technology is your obsession…
Then… this call for works is your unique chance to experiment with interaction design within the context of an electronic music festival.
Nightlife, extreme characters, clubbing freaks, young unrespectuful and challenging audience. You know what we are talking about, don’t you?
They are looking for projects. Not vague ideas or proof of concepts. Real projects that can substantially and meaningfully enrich the Elettrowave event and strengthen involvement. Clubbing is the context and not the object of BIP.
They’re looking for something innovative, passionate and fresh that can make a difference: interactive installations, environments, sound and/or visual projects, etc.
All project proposals must be submitted by May 10th, 2007.
Late entries will not be accepted. By submitting a project, entrant warrants that it is his/her original design.
The submission form is available at www.todo.to.it/bip2007/submission
Participants need to provide us with all the information required in the submission form.
late review of DEAF07. because i participated the trackingworkshop i didnt have much time to write during the festival, and also it was packed with not-to-be-missed program, so it was a real good and interesting festival i can recommend !
interact or die !!!
i dont see the interaction as a destiny like luca, but more like a dying hype in mediaart. last years interaction was a main theme and i understand the title it is more like a persiflage on interaction.
Generally speaking – everything is interaction. Every perception is already an action, so perceiving an “non-interactive work” is already interacting.
In the Symposium on Saturday Interaction was a maintheme, seen from different perspectives like artistic, architectonic, social, political, biological and cognitive. The speakers were Detlef Mertins, Lars Spuybroek, Howard Caygill, Noortje Marres and Jeanne van Heeswijk
A pity i missed, but it should be online as realvideostream
also the other seminars you should be able to watch
There is also a very good blog with loads of pix and interviews with some artists on the DEAF website
I’m at the DEAF07 Festival in the city of Rotterdam. First of all from an italian point of view it’s always amazing to realize how a good organizations of the fluxes of a city can generate a better life: less cars and more bicycle means less noise, the appropriation of the pubblic space by art sculpture means a space the citizens care of.
Now about DEAF07 i think it’s really well organized. First of all the exhibtion space at Las Palmas it’s inside a building that will be inaugurated next week, but also if you enter trough dust and working people, you don’t care at all as you get in. The space is really raw and trough cement column you can see a lot of interactive art pieces.
And many of these installation are really beautiful. This exhibition is really interesting particularly for his strong statement about interaction: interact or die. It’s a message to the media art scene, that in the last years floated with no clear direction, now the DEAF 07 exhibiton says it loud: interact or die, that’s the destiny for media art. All the pieces are in singular ways intercactive, from mouse to shadow, from fingers to a knife.hand.chop.bot, you can interact with all the part the of the body, from playful to amazing sensation, from surprise to emotions of pure fear.
What really interested me was the qualitative differences of the interaction, that floating trough different ranges provide a clear picture of interactive installations at our time.
The same interactive attitude is implemented in the seminars, that rather than a simple conference and discussion model, they’re structured more on different modules that even overlap eachother: for example the seminar Critical Ecosystem today was really interesting both for the content and for the structure of the seminar itself, that startd with a talk of Matthew Fuller about “art for animal”, that said that “what is suggested in this initial sketch of possible field is a myriadic ecology of perceptual cognitive
sets, some of which may overlap or share functions and capacities.”
Then another talk by Jan Willem Dol about the Greenpeace Campaign greenmyapple.org and after a game about the simulation of life by Rens Kortmann, that continued while Anthony Hall show on another stage his reasearch with wood crafted noise making machines and complex systems to make music with fishes inside a aquarium.
The exhibition is open till the 29th of april, so if you pass by Rotterdam, please go to.
Then the place to go is the Un-DEAF festival, where in a open and shared environment there’re talks, music, parties.
late but still there is a video showing the highlights of stelarcs presentation and lecture, due a lack of organisation the last 5 min are missing – to be completed…
At least one week to think about what Arthur Kroker said at the conference in Transmediale the 2th of february. Soon the book “Born against ideologies” will be pubblished, meanwhile some excerpts from that speech.
The canadian researcher point out that after the capitalism it was free to became global, it became an intensive capitalism with no barrier on his multiples trajectories.
But this complex world needs other answers: against the technology and his power structure rise the escatological society.
The escatological society born from the failure of reason. After 500 years dominated by the reason and the technology both the biosphere and the memesphere reacts to the promises not rewarded.
If 20th century was a struggle between the ideologic assolutism and the technological assolutism, the 21th century is about the research of the god killed in the century before. God never died thanx to the failures of reason and technology. Tecnocracy rivitalize faith, science is all about faith, and once it failed, it merged into religion.
The rise of a ideologic compromise between the privatization of religion and the collettivization of science. U.S.A. Represents a unique fusion of the language of technology and the speech of religion: the reason has failed so the technology needs a new light.
The language of will became the fire for the technological research and development. Technology and religion intersects eachother as terrorists and “civilized world” do.
In the era of speed of light the quantic phisycs describe the contemporary politics: oppositions are “galactic singularities” that lives at the same time in the same place. The capitalism became global and the terrorists find a parassistic way of integrating into it.
Are we born again ideology?
video by julia staudach. check her youtube channel
now something very controverse. we all know that transmediale moved to akademie der künste because of the whole lot more of exhibition space thats offered there. now, its rather absurd that the space is not used, but reduced to less than half, as seen at the past festival. i dont want to criticise the selection of works being showed, since its the jury’s personal descision. but just see for yourself…
also this video only shows a small exzerpt of only some of the exhibited works.
this is the story of a bunch of funny and brave people who do their thing in belarus. they are involved with indymedia and report mostly from demonstrations, but do some real funny videos, too. they started with a newspaper they had to stop publishing in 2003, due to charges for insulting the belarus president. thinking of the political landscape in this young democracy, they do a very dangerous job. its good to see that the indymedia spirit continous in baltic countries, since in countries like austria people do not pay too much attention to it anymore. tactical media as a concept sounds good to me, if the content is funny and well edited, like navinki home videos’, watching gives you a political correct feeling and is a lot of fun…
check indymedia belarus
the istanbul bilgi university is located in the center of istanbul and offers beside a ecological and a law department also a faculty for communication that offers miscellaneous under- and postgraduate art studies.
the university is part of the erasmus programme since 2 years now.
they are about to build some kind of media arts center in a former powerplant from the 20ies. it’s supposed to house the fact. f. communication feat. a campus, a library, ateliers and a museum of modern art.
looks like a great projekt to me, opening is supposed to be sept. 2007
http://www.ibun.edu.tr/
hq-video vom vortrag (danke an rainer kohlberger)
friedrich kittler, professor für ästhetik und geschichte der medien auf der humboldt universität in berlin, spricht über die endlichkeit der algorithmen, ja sogar der logik. diese – mit wortwitz und charme gespickte keynote, behandelt den werdegang des algorithmus’, von den abakusrechnern der antike bis hin zu den clusterrechnern der heutigen zeit.
vor allem die endlichkeit von unendlichen prozessen wie der endlosschleife, die aufgrund von äusserlichen einflüssen plötzlich stoppt, verdient seine besondere aufmerksamkeit.
der charmante und lebendige vortrag dieses bedeutenden deutschen philosophen wirft, vor allem für die medienkunst, fragen auf die nicht nur an der oberfläche kratzen sondern bis tief zu den wurzeln vordringen. medienkunst in der heutigen zeit braucht die ‘computerei’ wie die maler den pinsel, der algorithmus als seele des rechners ist als grundbedingung dieser kunstform anzusehen…
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