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Kunsthaus Graz and the Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel are organising a symposium on the subject of robotics in the context of art. The event will explore the cultural history of the phenomenon, robots in everyday use and the importance of artificial intelligence for the development and self-image of society.
Robot Dreams is a platform for diverse scientists, artists and cultural historians to pursue the social, cultural historical and artistic implications of the subject. The symposium is closely connected with the joint exhibition program the two museums are planning for summer and autumn 2010 likewise focusing on the phenomenon of robotic and art.

http://www.kunsthausgraz.at

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ART AND CODE is a symposium on programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us. The event takes place the weekend of March 7-9, 2009 on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. It features hands-on workshops and a conference showcase for 11 different creative toolkits – programming languages made by artists, for artists.

http://artandcode.ning.com

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The Conference will focus on three clearly complementary regions: national, international (European, Asian) and Ibero-American. The conference is open to the general public, especially those connected to the visual arts and in particular those working in digital art.

www.artechmedia.net

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/04/art-tech-media-conference/feed/ 0 Cyber Feminism Past Forward http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/03/cyber-feminism-past-forward/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/03/cyber-feminism-past-forward/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:01:07 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=767 “Cyber Feminism past forward consists of a “cyber fems virtual real” exhibition with feminist net art, websites, posters, screenings and “cyber fems real meetings” with presentations, panels and performances. The exhibition focuses on current works of international media artists, the history of women’s movements and celebrates the pioneers of cyberfeminism. In the panel “Name the depoliticalization of cyber feminisms!” we will concentrate on the essential question of the exhibition: how are aspects of the depoliticalization of feminisms emerging in light of today’s global politics?

Exhibition opening: March 8 2007, 7 pm
Austrian Association of Women Artists
Vienna/Austria
http://www.vbkoe.org

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Featuring: The Artists-In-Labs project: pelle digitale e qualche nuova prospettiva femminista.”

Prof. Dr. Jilll Scott (Nazionalitá Australiana) è Research Professor presso l’instituto di Cultural Studies in Arte, Media e Design presso l’Universitá di Arti plastiche e figurative di Zurigo Svizzera (Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich). La sua attuale ricerca nel campo degli studi e delle ricerche di media design include la percezione mediata da sensori somatici, HCI e cognizione umana e le ricerche sincretiche sulle bio-technologie. Ha recentemente pubblicato i lavori: artistsinlabs-Processes of Inquiry: Springer Press, 2006 and Coded Characters, Hatji Cantz 2003. Ha scritto articoli per molte riviste su arte, scienza e tecnologia, e ha realizzato performance, video e opere d’arte interattive in tutto il mondo. Jill è anche la progettista e il leader del AIL-Artists-in labs Residency project presso il HGKZ e Direttore del Z-Node del Planetary Collegium, di cui À membro del Board of Directors.

www.planetary-collegium.net
http://jillscott.org

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/03/jill-scott-a-milano/feed/ 0 The Hacker Corner http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/02/the-hacker-corner/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2007/02/the-hacker-corner/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:47:09 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=798 Giovedi 8 febbraio alle ore 21.00 Shake inaugura THE HACKER CORNER, luogo di dibattito per la condivisione dei saperi informatici con: Second Life e l’evoluzione delle interfacce su computer, un incontro con il gruppo Idearium.
Il duo dinamico di presentazione, per Idearium, sará composto da Leandro Agrò (aka: leeander) e Aaron Brancotti (aka – Babele Dunnit),  uno dei pionieri delle Realtá virtuali in Europa, progettista di software, hardware e nuovi tipi di interfacce.
Non solo teoria però in viale Bligny, per l’occasione Spazio Shake sará trasformato da proiezioni interattive, da realtá virtuali e altre meraviglie 3D che riproducono ambienti e avatar di Second Life il gioco on line che conta oltre 3.300.000 iscritti. Ciò che distingue Second Life dai normali giochi 3D on line è che ogni personaggio che partecipa alla “seconda vita” corrisponde ad un reale giocatore. Gli incontri tra personaggi si configurano come reali scambi tra esseri umani attraverso la mediazione “figurata” degli avatar, alter ego elettronici di ogni singolo giocatore. Le transizioni economiche in questo eden fiscale senza tasse, sono compiute in Linden dollar (L$) convertibili in dollari.”

Per partecipare al grande gioco, per sconfinare dal virtuale al reale e viceversa, basta portare un computer portatile (con batteria ben carica) e vestire a festa il proprio avatar di Second Life. Grazie ad una connessione internet WiFi sará possibile interagire con gli altri giocatori. Virtualmente in via Bligny sará presente tutto il gruppo Idearium animatore di Idearium.org, una eZine/community dedicata alla comunicazione e al dibattito sullÌinteraction design, che si À distinta per la grande capacitá visionaria su questi temi.

giovedi 8 febbraio alle ore 21.00
Shake spazio pubblico – viale Bligny 42 – Milano
inaugurazione THE HACKER CORNER – ingresso libero
Incontro su: Second Life e l’evoluzione delle interfacce su computer
interviene il gruppo Idearium – www.idearium.org
Coordinano: Leandro Agrò (aka: leeander) e Aaron Brancotti (aka – Babele Dunnit)
Informazioni: www.shake.it

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Grazie alle associazioni culturali Ariella Vidach-A.i.E.P. di Milano e Avventure In Elicottero Prodotti di Lugano, capofila e promotori del progetto europeo, la Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna accoglie e organizza laboratori e incontri cui parteciperanno il prof. Joseph Paradiso, direttore del Responsive Environments Group del Media Lab del MIT di Boston e Tamas Waliczky uno dei primi e più importanti artisti della sperimentazione con i media interattivi.

Info e iscrizioni
Associazione Ariella Vidach – A.i.E.P.
Tel./Fax +39 02 3450996
e-mail: organizzazione@innetproject.net
Formulario di iscrizione sul sito www.innetproject.net

Sede evento
Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Viale Milano 21
21013 Gallarate VA
Tel. 0331.791266
sito: www.gam.gallarate.va.it

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MAO, Neapolitan no profit agency with an European mission that speaks English and like to import in Italy all that would remain unknown (while exports the best Italian practices), continues its mission to disseminate digital culture and the most relevant topics of new arts to Italian audience. MAO invites the German Artist de Cologne to open the new cicle of the talks Understanding new media dedicated to the stars of the German Scene by producing and curating an open lecture streamed on the web as every talk offered before in Italy, where audience is acclaiming such moments dedicated to indepth with strong quality issues the debate on digital culture.

The seminar, entitled The network, memory and identity: a challenge for digital art, is dedicated to explore the most recent Agricola’s projects. Agricola tells, for the first time in Italy, about his Java Museum and the experience of [R] [R] [F]—> 200X (Remembering, Repressing, Forgetting), a flash video festival (as well as an online environment) that put together more than 800 artists and 50 curators of international standing and gives evidence of how is possibile, also in the art world, to apply the networking aptitude and culture. Curators select a numbers of artists on a theme base, after each selection and after the consequent online and offline exhibition, they put new visions and new culture insights, with the creation of new memories and connections. Therefore, after the different acquiring of further themes of selection and after having done further editions, Agricola created a network and an incredible database, either structural and performative that is filled by all the viewpoint of the participating artists/curators but mainly assuring infinite other collective and rizhome-based visions.

Since 2004, the festival selected just two themes, the memory and the identity, that are the core of the talk, curated by MAO, that the artist will offer on December 12, in Naples, starting at 4 pm.
The lecture will be the first European occasion to appreciate the festival results, because it has been closed and just presented to MACRO (Museum de Arte Contemporaneo, Rosario, Argentina), on last November 14. So MAO offers, according to its mission, an absolute preview, that could be easily followed from each part of the world by the web streaming on mediartsoffice.eu website.

Agricola will be introduced by the MAO curators, that will announce also the next no profit projects.
To give the salutation of the collaborating University, the madam professor Jocelyne Vincent, Director of Dipartimento di studi americani, culturali e linguistici of Universitá degli Studi di Napoli ÏL’OrientaleÓ, together with Tiziana Terranova, culture media and film science of the Essex University (UK), visiting professor to the department managed by Professor Vincent thanks to the Ïbrain incentivesÓ programme dedicated by Italian Ministry of Education to the mobility return of Italian researcher abroad.

Understanding New Media 2.2
The German Scene:
The network, memory and identity: a challenge for digital art
Open Lecture by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Tuesday Dec. 12, 2006 4 pm – 6.30 pm
Universitá degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale, Palazzo del Mediterraneo
Via Nuova Marina 59 Naples (I)
Hall 1.1 / free entrance, English language
Video streaming on www.mediartsoffice.eu
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de

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This edition will showcase a large and refined selection of visual artists, performers, musicians amongst the most innovative of the field. The leit-motiv of the whole event will be ‘the Diamond’, an attempt to gather artists and experts coming from as many disciplines as possible (sculpture, dance, theater, literature, music, visual arts, etc.), all with a marked high-tech approach, and to extraordinarily have them converge to the stimulating location of Ecoteca, in Pescara.

www.artificialia.com/peam2006

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seeks to address the local, intra-regional and trans-national variations that constitute international creative industries as an uneven field of actors, interests and conditions. The conference explores a range of key topics that, in the majority of cases, remain invisible to both academic research and policy-making in the creative industries.
Overall, the conference adopts a comparative focus in order to illuminate the variability of international creative industries. Such an approach enables new questions to be asked about the mutually constitutive tensions between the forces, practices, histories and policies that define creative production, distribution and organisation within an era of information economies and network cultures.

MyCreativity: Convention on International Creative Industries Research
Date: 16-18 November, 2006
Venue: PostCS 11, Post CS Building, Amsterdam www.ilove11.nl
Organisation: Institute of Network Cultures, HvA Interactive Media, and Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
Concept: Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter
Contact: Shirley Niemans, shirley(at)networkcultures.org
Mailing List: http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/my-ci

Institute of Network Cultures
HvA Interactive Media
Weesperzijde 190
NL-1097 DZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
t: (+31) 20-595 18 63
f: (+31) 20-595 18 40
www.networkcultures.org

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INnet06
INTERACTION DESIGN: INTERFACCE
incontro e tavola rotonda
con:
GOLAN LEVIN
LIMITEAZERO
TROIKA RANCH

sabato 21 ottobre 2006 – dalle 10.30 alle 18.00
Villa Olmo – via Cantoni, 1 – COMO – ingresso libero
www.innetproject.net

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/10/interaction-design-interfacce/feed/ 0 Geert Lovink in Naples http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/10/geert-lovink-in-naples/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/10/geert-lovink-in-naples/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:17:13 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=986 The first MAO talk, placed in the section labelled Understanding new media, is dedicated to the stars of the Dutch Scene. On Friday October 6, 2006 at Napoli/Naples, thanks to the crucial support of The Dutch Embassy in Rome, and the contribution of the Degree course Lingue, culture e istituzioni dei Paesi del Mediterraneo of the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, MAO invites Geert Lovink, well known Dutch mass media theorist and activist (his essays translated in Italian are “Dark Fiber” and “Internet non è il Paradiso”).
Lovink is the most important Net theorist and the first to highlight the sharp limits of this media. Abosolute sui generis thinker, Lovink is a young intellectual: very popular in big universities, he is, in paralleli, a very welcomed theorist of counterculture cyber and not. Lovink will meet the public in a free entrance conference, from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm at Palazzo del Mediterraneo of the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Oriental: the talk will be also streamed on Internet in realtime thanks to C.I.L.A. (Centro Interdipartimentale di servizi Linguistici ed Audiovisivi) on the site www.cila.unior.it and on the MAO site.

www.mediartsoffice.eu

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Added to Naples and New York, other One Web Days will be ruled, in the same hour, in: San Francisco, Toronto, Champaign (Illinois), Boston, Austin, London, Wien, Sofia (where the Sept. 22 is also the Bulgarian Independence National Holiday!). Happenings will take place in pretty unusual forms and venues: parks and gardens, squares, pub, old vans re-furnished as flashmobiles travelling around the town districts.

MAO had chosen, for the Italian OWD venue, Naples and a superb historical palace windowed on a splendid courtyard replaced with a feng-shui designed garden: La Controra, a new hostel opened just few step up the National Archeological museum, in front of Salvator Rosa Stop of Subway Line 1, one of the Metrò dell’Arte new stations.
September 22, Napoli, La Controra (Piazzetta Trinità alla Cesarea, 231), you’ll find: internet desktop to chat in real time with all the One Web Day surfers worldwide, meetings with bloggers and journalists, music session and playlists free selected from Pandora.com by the public, a not-at-all-virtual happy hour!

www.mediartseurope.eu
www.onewebday.org

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Esistono un pubblico e uno spazio specifico che contribuiscono a delineare l’identità di queste due pratiche artistiche o entrambe sono caratterizzate da spettatori e luoghi di fruizione eterogenei?
I talk sono tenuti da artisti e critici che si occupano di comunicazione digitale, fra cui Bianco-Valente (videoartisti), Andrea di Mario (Pesaro Film Festival), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural.it) e Valentina Tanni (Exibart.com).
I lavori sono accompagnati da proiezioni a ciclo continuo di materiali video (tra i quali una rassegna di video del Pesaro Film Festival) e delle opere dei relatori. Un percorso espositivo ospita video-installazioni e opere digitali.

STRUTTURA
Dal 15 al 17 settembre 2006
San Vincenzo (Torre e Biblioteca) e Campiglia Marittima (Teatro dei Concordi) – Livorno
www.struttura.li.it

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/09/struttura/feed/ 0 Schwartz + Boyce http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/schwartz-boyce/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/schwartz-boyce/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:51:12 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1115 Harkness A/V and Monkey Town are proud to present an evening of computer-generated video by pioneering artist Lillian Schwartz and “inheritor” of the tradition, in his NYC debut, Nate Boyce. Lillian Schwartz, in her tenure as a film/graphics consultant to Bell Laboratories from 1969 to 2002, developed a body of visionary techniques for the creation of computer-generated art.  Her works combine these technologies with electronic music and abstract aesthetics to enable some of the most groundbreaking work of its kind, influencing the fields of gaming, special effects and virtual reality, in addition to newer generations of video artists. You can read more about Lillian Schwartz on her web site, www.lillian.com.

Nate Boyce is from San Francisco, where he uses newish software (Jitter, Maya) to nostalgic effect. His videos and installations maximize (in his words) “perceptual anomaly” and “retinal fatigue” to create a mood of general disorientation. He collaborates with acid-noise-electro duo, Eats Tapes, and is part of video trio, Phase Chancellor, featuring members of Matmos.

You can see his video for Pteryd by Eats Tapes here:
http://www.tigerbeat6.com/eats_tapes_pteryd.mov

Both artists will be in attendance to present their work (Lillian Schwartz will only be at the 7:30 performance). We are extremely excited to pair an exciting newcomer to our video scene (Boyce) with an esteemed, established filmmaker such as Lillian Schwartz.

HARKNESS A/V PRESENTS
LILLIAN SCHWARTZ + NATE BOYCE

Friday, July 21
MONKEY TOWN
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Showtimes: 7:30pm and 10pm
Admission: $8
reservations are recommended
http://www.monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/schwartz-boyce/feed/ 0 The Digital Art Weeks http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/the-digital-art-weeks/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/the-digital-art-weeks/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:10:32 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1130 The Digital Art Weeks PROGRAM (DAW06) (Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday 12th to Saturday 15th July, 2006) is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting again this year of symposium, workshops and performances, the program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of the application of technology in the arts.

www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/07/the-digital-art-weeks/feed/ 0 C.STEM http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/c-stem/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/c-stem/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:04:42 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1188 Giovedì 1 giugno e venerdì 2 giugno 2006 si terrà a Torino la prima edizione di C.STEM, il primo evento italiano, con rilevanza internazionale, dedicato alla diffusione culturale di sistemi generativi e procedurali nell’ambito dell’arte digitale sperimentale. L’evento, realizzato da Associazione Culturale 32 Dicembre in collaborazione con Teknemedia.net, supportato da Allegretti Contemporanea, si compone di una mostra (allestita nella sede dell’Associazione 32 Dicembre), una conferenza e una festa (che saranno ospitate dall’AB+ Club).

La mostra vedrà affiancate le opere di artisti italiani e internazionali che operano nell’ambito dell’arte generativa. Ospiti di questa prima edizione saranno il norvegese (ma berlinese d’adozione) Marius Watz e gli italiani Alessandro Capozzo, Fabio Franchino e Limiteazero. Venerdì 2 giugno gli artisti saranno invitati a prendere parte a una tavola rotonda (moderata da Domenico Quaranta) per discutere del proprio lavoro sullo sfondo dell’attuale scenario italiano e internazionale.
La serata si chiuderà con il C.STEM party, un’occasione per discutere con gli artisti in maniera informale in un ambiente abitato dai loro lavori audio-visuali, che saranno proiettati per tutto il locale. Dopo metà giugno, la mostra si trasferirà nella Galleria Allegretti Contemporanea, in via San Francesco D’Assisi 14.

C.STEM
Italian Event of Art Electronic Systems and Software Art
www.cstem.it

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/06/c-stem/feed/ 0 WAM – Web Art Mouseum http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/wam-web-art-mouseum/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/wam-web-art-mouseum/#comments Mon, 22 May 2006 20:01:31 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1219 Verrà presentato a Roma il 23 maggio il progetto WAM – WEB ART MOUSEUM. Il progetto è incentrato sulla realizzazione del primo museo dedicato esclusivamente ad una delle realtà più interessanti dell’arte contemporanea: la web art. Lo spazio, oltre ad ospitare una collezione permanente frutto del lavoro svolto da Shockart.net sin dal 1999, sará la location ideale per mostre ed eventi dedicati non solo alla web art, ma ai rapporti tra arte e tecnologia e tecnologia e comunicazione in generale.
Il progetto nasce infatti dalla mancanza di uno spazio per ospitare un progetto molto ambizioso di Shockart.net: la realizzazione della prima World Web Art Exhibition. La sensibilità delle istituzioni che hanno preso a cuore il progetto e la nostra convinzione nell’importanza socio culturale dell’iniziativa, hanno fatto sœ che si potesse porre la prima pietra proprio a Roma, cittá riferimento artistico internazionale.
Il WAM non si propone solo come spazio espositivo, ma vuole essere anche un centro di formazione rispetto alle diverse discipline collegate alla web art ed alla comunicazione digitale. Il museo diviene quindi entità aperta alla circolazione, distribuzione e connessione di varie forme di conoscenza e creatività.

L’obiettivo del WAM è quello di creare un luogo sia fisico che virtuale di interscambio di esperienze artistiche, in grado di divenire, nel corso del tempo, un centro di eccellenza dell’arte e della comunicazione digitale a livello internazionale. La creazione di un centro organizzato permetterá di divulgare e diffondere, attraverso una promozione attiva e produttiva, la cultura e l’arte digitale mediante le opere di artisti digitali di tutto il mondo potranno essere esplorate le innovazioni strutturali ed estetiche legate all’utilizzo della tecnologia, intesa come strumento di creazione artistica e comunicativa.

WAM
WEB ART MOUSEUM
presentazione alla cittá
martedœ 23 maggio 2006 – dalle 11:00 alle 23:00
Roma, piazza dell’immacolata
San Lorenzo
info: http://wam.flyer.it
www.lumesarch.org
www.flyer.it

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/wam-web-art-mouseum/feed/ 0 The Upgrade! Lisbon http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/the-upgrade-lisbon/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/the-upgrade-lisbon/#comments Sun, 21 May 2006 20:05:42 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1222 Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea welcomes next Wednesday, May 24th, The Upgrade! Lisbon monthly gathering featuring Sofia Oliveira, executive coordinator of Atmosferas – Digital Arts Center. Sofia Oliveira will present Atmosferas as well as the winners of the 2005 edition of the Atmosferas Ideas Contest.

Skechter by Gonçalo Tavares
an extension to the Firefox browser

Re-cordis by Tiago Pedroso
a project about memory, based on text and image

See-Music by Maria da Gandra
a project exploring the relations between sound and image, through the creation of several systems for sound visualizing

Sofia Oliveira’s work within Atmosferas has been one of developing a platform for creation and reflection about the experimental aspect of new technologies, by directly supporting artists, producing workshops, starting an Ideas contest and putting up a tv show about the digital arts in Portugal.
She has also curated the online projects Gas and Memória and is developing a work and reflection platform dedicated to Processing, both a community and language for generative visual programming.

Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art and technology. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that each Upgrade! node (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. Upgrade! Lisbon is curated by Luís Silva.

www.lisboa20.pt/upgrade
www.theupgrade.net
www.atmosferas.net

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/the-upgrade-lisbon/feed/ 0 The Work of Media Art in The Age of Digital Reproduction http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/04/the-work-of-media-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/04/the-work-of-media-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:01 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1271 A two-day symposium surveying current projects concerned with preserving the history of media art and initiatives aimed at stimulating practices, networks, critical appreciation and knowledge associated with electronic and digital media arts. Day 1 will provide a ‘guided tour’ of video art through the early exponents of analogue and film formats and re-examine their place within the contemporary art gallery and museum.
This will be interspersed with artists’ presentations that help explore the nature and practice of the moving image and its current conditions within the visual arts “scene’. The main drive will be to re-examine the critical frameworks between current practice and its antecedents.
Day 2 will involve presentations by members of Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers), and will explore print and electronic publications as a mean of supporting new practices and networks around digital culture. Each contributor will present their editorial positions, an overview of practice in their countries, as well as present for pubic discussion some of the debates Mag.Net is interested in – social and virtual networking, developing flexible forms of translocal and transmedia exchange, and the new possibilities available to artists and publishers, such as POD (Publishing on Demand).

Day 1: Stephen Partridge (REWIND, Dundee), Daniel Reeves (artist, USA / Edinburgh), Tina Fiske (University of Glasgow), Chris Meigh Andrews (artist, Preston), Rudolph Frieling (ZKM, Karlsrhue), Mark Neville (artist, Glasgow), Malcolm Dickson (Street Level, Glasgow).

Day 2: Daniel Jewesbury (Variant, Glasgow / Belfast), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural Magazine, Italy), Miren Eraso (Zehar Magazine, Basque Country, Spain), Slavo Krekovic (3/4 Magazine, Slovak Republic), Christian Hoeller and Georg Schollehammer (Springerin, Austria), Simon Worthington (Mute, London).

The Work of Media Art in The Age of Digital Reproduction.
28th – 29th April
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall St. Glasgow.
http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/index.html
£25 each day or £40 for both. Please download
booking form from the website and return to
Street Level: 26 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QP

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