BYOB Linz I + II

pack your beamer, grab your laptop, pick your video. BYOB Linz is taking off on Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd.
(for remote-participation goto our vimeo group)

BYOB is an exhibition concept by Dutch artist Rafaël Rozendaal. “Bring Your Own Beamer” is a series of one-evening-shows where artists team up with a beamer of their choice to project their videos in a gallery setting. (see byobworldwide.com). BYOB Linz is hosted by grrrilla galleries, a time-spaced gallery temporarily occupying public spaces, currently consisting of Nina Wenhart, Ina Fischer, Sandra Krampelhuber and Felix Vierlinger.

From aug 31st to sep 6th, the Ars Electronica festival is taking place in Linz. BYOB Linz is not an official part of the festival. but as ars electronica was always meant to be a festival for the artists, we started looking for & found many empty time-spaces within this festival's schedule that could be claimed and taken over by artists. to change from a visitor into an active participant, "bring your own beamer" - set up as a series of grrrilla galleries - seemed to us like a perfect format for this purpose. anyone who wants to participate is welcome to simply come along, bring their videos and beamers and start projecting.

we've planned on doing two evenings of BYOB during the festival week.
the dates & locations we have chosen for these events are:

Thursday, September 1st, starting at 22:00, @ the underpath next to the ars electronica quarter

&

Friday, September 2nd, starting around 21:30 (after the prix ars gala), danube park in front of brucknerhaus
(in case of rain, we can provide umbrellas)


in addition to these two planned events, we want to encourage anyone to find their own time-space slot for more BYOB grrrilla galleries. to help you find such a slot, we've adapted the official ars electronica festival's schedule and highlighted possible slots in time and space that seem interesting for a BYOB..
the are no "rules" other than to (1) find an empty slot in the festival's schedule as not to interfere with the official program and to (2) stage it in a place where there already is an audience.


borrow-a-beamer: for those of you who travel to Linz without a beamer: we've organized a couple of beamers that people could borrow & share.


remote-participation: and as many of you cannot be in Linz physically, but might still want to participate: we are putting together a playlist that will be about an hour long. upload your video to the "BYOB Linz - grrrilla galleries" group on vimeo to be included in the program.



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the grrrilla galleries only exist in time-space.
they are born out of a lack of a physical space we can permanently occupy, coupled with the desire to make, create, exchange and become active.
grrrillagalleries.blogspot.com


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BYOB is an exhibition format conceived by Rafaël Rozendaal. Find out more about past BYOBs on byobworldwide.com

Conference "The Philosophy of Computer Games", Athens, April 2011

Call for Papers to the international conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games 2011″,
to be held in Athens, Greece, on April 6th-9th 2011. Accepted papers will have a clear focus
on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will also attempt
to use specific examples rather than merely invoke “computer games” in general terms. The
over-arching theme of the conference is Player Identity.

Deadline for submissions is 17.00 GMT, February 1st, 2011.
Send your abstract to submissions@gamephilosophy.org.
For more info http://2011.gamephilosophy.org/

FILE 2009 - symposium

FILE 2009 symposium, Electronic Language International Festival, 27th - 31st of August, 2009 @ Sesi Paulista's cultural space, Sao Paulo, Brasil

"FILE Symposium intends to create a new point of debate besides the Europe/US axis, with the intent of discussing the electronic digital culture in its international relations, and also to broaden the dialogue on digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension. FILE Symposium is a space for discussing new media that will have round-tables with artists, theoreticians and researchers from Brazil and abroad in the area of art-technology."

url:
http://www.file.org.br/file2009/eng/index.php
http://www.file.org.br/

CALL FOR PROPOSALS, MEDIAMODES CONFERENCE

MediaModes Graduate Student Conference at the School of Visual Arts, NY

MediaModes is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference that provides
a critical forum to present current scholarship and academic research
projects at the intersection of media, art, and society. Open to all current
graduate students and those who have received a graduate degree within the
last year, MediaModes is sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism & Writing and
MFA Computer Art Departments at the School of Visual Arts.

Proposals due June 15, 2009
Send to: abstracts@mediamodes.com
Find out more at: http://www.MediaModes.com

Ars Electronica 2009: Human Nature

Ars Electronica announced the topic for its next festival:
http://www.aec.at/humannature/index_en.html

The festival will take place in Linz, Austria, from Thursday Sept. 3rd to Tuesday Sept. 8th, 2009.

This year is the 30th anniversary of Ars Electronica. The festival started in 1979, from 1980 to 1986 it was held biannually, from 1987 on yearly.

Re:live CFP

MEDIA ART HISTORY 09
Re:live
Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Call For Papers – Deadline 19th December 2008
http://www.mediaarthistory.org

Sponsored by Leonardo and the Victorian College of the Arts (University of
Melbourne)

Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff and Media
Art History 07 Re:place in Berlin, Media Art History 09 Re:llve in Melbourne
will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions Media Art
History 09 - Re:live, a refereed conference, is calling for papers, panels
and posters on the histories of digital, electronic and technological media
arts. With the theme of Re:live we are especially interested in expanding
the range of topics to include sustainability, live arts and the
technological arts of life, both organic and nonorganic.

How do the media arts change? Through innovation, accident, discovery,
mutation or crisis? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound
like they do? What options and potentialities and eccentricities in the
history of media have been lost or overlooked or suppressed? What hopes have
been realised and which dashed? What is the history of speculation on
alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art
history?

Participants are asked to address at least one the following areas in their
abstract:
- histories of the art-science-technology connection in particular works,
careers, exhibitions and institutions, especially in national and regional
perspective
- histories of biology, the life sciences and bioart in relation to media
arts
- histories of the environment, environmental sciences, ideas of
sustainability and ecology in the discourses and practices of media arts
- histories of liveness and performance in relation to media arts theory and
practice, including network performance, multimedia performance and the
relation of media to the histories of theatre
- histories of the life of machines, cyborgs, virtual communities and the
arts of transmission
- histories of the liveness of real-time arts and art-science-technology
collaborations in such areas as earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy
- histories of innovation, accident, discovery, and speculation on
alternative futures in media arts

We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about these
histories in the Asia-Pacific region. Proposals are welcomed from artists,
curators, arts organisers and researchers in media, art history, performance
studies, literature, film, and science and technology studies.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in Leonardo (MIT
Press). We are negotiating with academic presses for one or two anthologies
from the conference.

Submissions: A dedicated website with updates and online paper submission
system is available at http://www.mediaarthistory.org. Abstracts of
proposals, panel presentations and posters should be submitted in either
text, RTF, PDF or Word formats

Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 19th December 2008.
Please submit proposals at:
http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/relive/openconf.php

Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, conference co-chairs.

Prof Sean Cubitt
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au
Director, Media and Communications Program
Faculty of Arts
Room 127 John Medley East
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia

Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667
Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494
M: 0448 304 004
Skype: seancubitt
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/
http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/
http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/
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Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series
http://leonardo.info

hacked raven input

A classical band setup of bass, guitar, keyboards and drums to reenact media art theory and to bend archival data. Tracks include Zielinski's re:place manifesto, the Vasulka Archive and their 1992 Eigenwelt der Apparate-Welt exhibition.
Performed by Hacked Raven Input (Hans-guck-in-die-Luft, jake elliott and electrocute)



Thursday, 01/17/2008 @ quitch (Linz), 20:00 CET

http://www.qujochoe.org/hub/