Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation

On October 28th, "Digital Art Works. The Challanges of Conservation" will start at ZKM. An exhibition of 10 case studies of conserving ZKM's collection and an accompanying series of symposia will address different approaches in archiving and preserving digital media art.

case studies:
http://www.digitalartconservation.org/index.php/en/case-studies.html

symposia including Alain Depocas, Antoni Muntadas, Herbert Franke, Siegfried Zielinski et al
http://www.digitalartconservation.org/index.php/en/symposium-i.html

exhibition: "Roboterträume" (robot dreams) @ kunsthaus graz

exhibition:
09.10.2010-20.02.2011, 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr
kunsthaus graz, austria

http://www.museum-joanneum.at/de/kunsthaus/ausstellungen_3/robotertraeume

catalogue available here
contributing authors:
Isaac Asimov, Wenzel Mracek, Jutta Weber, Lilian Pfaff, Joachim Schätz, Manuela Kraft und den Kuratoren Katrin Bucher Trantow, Peter Pakesch, Andres Pardey und Roland Wetzel

Kehrer Verlag
Deutsch/Englisch
160 Seiten
Preis: 36 €

paraflows 2010, Sept. 9th - Oct. 10th

paraflows 2010, "mind and matter" exhibition and symposion in vienna, started last week:
http://2010.paraflows.at/index.php

noise & capitalism

a recent title published by arteleku audiolab, edited by Mattin & Anthony Iles, with constributions by Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Mattin, Nina Power, Edwin Prévost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson.

the full book can be downloaded here

an exhibition as concert based on the book is taking place at CAC Bretigny the next weeks.

Roy Ascott retrospective, "The Syncretic Sense"

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/future.html
starting: April 4th 2009
end: May 24th 2009
Plymouth


from the Plymouth Arts Center's website:

"The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration with
i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth).

Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium and coined the term telematic art. Since the 1960s he has been a pioneer of art, which brought together the science of cybernetics with elements of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art. Parallel to his artwork, Roy Ascott is a highly acclaimed teacher and theorist of art pedagogy.

This exhibition explores the influences and rhetoric of Roy Ascott’s work, mapping the impact, history and development of technology and looking to the future of Web2 and Second life. Roy Ascott sees telematic art as the transformation of the viewer into an active participant in creating the artwork, which remains in process throughout its duration. Significantly, the content of his projects were often spiritual: staging the first planetary casting of the I Ching with an early form of network in 1982; whilst his major installation at the Ars Electronica centre in 1989 explored Gaia theory.

The exhibition also looks back at the impact of Roy Ascott’s experimental years of art education. In the 1960s Roy Ascott was the head of Groundcourse at Ealing College of Art and developed one of the most influential and unorthodox approaches to teaching foundation studies in art. The basis of the course was developed around cybernetic theories of systems of communication: the flow of information, interactive exchange, feedback, participation and systemic relationship.

Roy Ascott studied under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton at King’s College, Newcastle, University of Durham. His exhibitions include Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica Linz and Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil. He was President 
of the Ontario College of Art and Dean of San Francisco Art Institute. He is President of the Planetary Collegium, an international research network based in the University of Plymouth www.planetary-collegium.net

Press enquiries: Contact Hannah Prothero
Marketing & Communications Manager
Phone: 01752 276993
Email: hannah at plymouthartscentre dot org"

"

"IX" on the Rhizome Artbase

IX, a project developed by the computerwitches from the h3x3n collaborative, has recently been added to the Rhizome Artbase.

http://rhizome.org/object.php?48444

Ars Electronica Festival 2008

Today, Thursday the 4th of September, the 29th Ars Electronica Festival starts in Linz, Austria. This years's topic "A new cultural economy - The limits of intellectual property" deals with copyright issues and open access.

For everyone who can't be there in person, Ars offers webcasts and podcasts of the various symposia and conferences. The program can be found here: http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/program/content.asp



For webcasts go here: http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/stream/webcasts.asp,
for podcasts follow this link: http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/stream/podcasts.asp

"This is Tomorrow" - exhibition catalogue

the complete catalogue online can be found here:
http://www.thisistomorrow2.com/images/cat_1956/cat_web/FrameSet.htm

BITMAP: as good as new - vertexList (2008)

"BITMAP: as good as new is a group exhibition celebrating the history of the digital image, the aesthetics of early computing, and early video-game consoles. BITMAP, recently featured at the Museum of Modern Art, highlights old-school CRT’s, pixels, and 8-bit music. The exhibition will be held at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Curated by vertexList. Exhibit runs June 25-July 25, 2008, free to the public.

B I T M A P: as good as new" is proud to feature:

Cory Arcangel, Lee Arnold, Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberley Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI, Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
Drexel University
33 and Market St.
Philadelphia PA 19104
215 895 2548

Opening reception:
Thursday, June 26th, 5-7pm + special screening of "8 BIT" @ 4 pm

Media Art in China 2 - Synthetic Times

in addition to the last post:
MIT press just published a catalogue "synthetic times".
essays can be found here: http://www.mediartchina.org/forum

bit international

bit international
[Nove] tendencije - Computer
und visuelle Forschung
Zagreb 1961-1973

ZKM, 23.02.2008-22.02.2009

http://www02.zkm.de/bit/

"Mit dieser Ausstellung widmet sich das ZKM | Karlsruhe einer der wichtigsten internationalen künstlerischen Strömungen der 1960er Jahre, den Neuen Tendenzen, und ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte der computergestützten Künste. 1968 entschieden sich die Neuen Tendenzen, den Computer als Mittel künstlerischen Arbeitens in ihr Programm aufzunehmen, um so ihren Avantgarde-Anspruch zu behaupten und an der Definition einer Technologie mitzuwirken, von der man vermutete, sie würde die Zukunft der Zivilisation bestimmen. [...]"

Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society

PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, May 10 - June 29, 2008
















"Wireless communication is, in this day and age, a given in all realms of society. Yet what manner of artistic potential is presented by the electromagnetic waves perpetually enveloping us today? And how might these influence our psyche?

From 10 May through 29 June 2008 the Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund (HMKV) is presenting – in cooperation with the Ars Electronica, Linz (European Capital of Culture 2009) and with RIXC, Riga – the exhibition Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund."

more:
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2990&rubric=exhibitions&


artists:
Robert Adrian X / Norbert Math (AT)
Michael Aschauer (AT)
Erich Berger (AT)
Bureau d'Etudes (F)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (USA)
Paul DeMarinis (USA)
Evelina Domnitch / Dmitri Gelfand (BY/RU/NL)
Mark Fischer (USA)
Bulat Galeyev (RU)
Joyce Hinterding / David Haines (AUS)
Hivenetwork (GB)
Derek Holzer (USA)
Martin Howse (GB)
Luke Jerram (GB)
Voldemars Johansons (LAT)
Aaron Kaplan / Doron Goldfarb (AT)
Jacob Kirkegaard (DK/ D)
Bas van Koolwijk (NL)
Anthony McCall (USA)
Marko Peljhan (SLO)
Oskars Poikans (LAT)
Julian Priest (NZ)
Martins Ratniks / Clausthome (LAT)
RIXC (LAT)
Scanner (GB)
Nina Sobell (USA)
Adam Somlai-Fischer (HU) / Usman Haque (GB) / Danil Lundbäck (SE) / Bengt Sjölen (SE)
Take 2030 (F/GB)
Evamaria Trischak (AT)
Udo Wid (AT)
Franz Xaver (AT)

homo ludens ludens

symposion at LABoral (Gijon, Spain) from 19th to 20th of April 2008

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/seminarios/proximos/3

speakers include: Roy Ascott, Laura Beloff, Julian Oliver, Mackenzie Wark and Margarethe Jahrmann

The symposion is accompanied by an exhibition that runs until September