Sunday, October 10, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Symposium: The Digital Oblivion - Substance and Ethics in the Conservation of Computer-Based Art
4. – 5. 11. 2010
10.00–18.00
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst
und Medientechnologie
Karlsruhe, Germany
As part of the broader research project digital art conservation, this international symposium aims to investigate the future of our digital cultural memory, focusing in particular on the preservation of computer-based art. For a couple of decades now, digitalisation has allowed the content of cultural memory to be more easily processed and circulated. However, the preservation of digital contents is fundamentally conditioned by the need to conform to an ever more rapid sequence of new technical systems. This functional obsolescence presents a systemic threat to digital cultural memory. Again and again, the threat of obsolescence leads previous criteria of cultural memory – longevity and authenticity – ad absurdum. The practice and theory of art collecting and preservation has also seen a paradigm shift, presenting curators, collectors, scholars and conservators with a new set of as yet unsolved problems. Whereas traditional media and tools remained in the possession of artists and curators, new digital media have definitely reduced the autonomy of these cultural actors.
Parallel to day-to-day collecting and exhibition practice – necessarily pragmatic – conservation theory has recently seen a normative debate on the ethics of preservation, a discussion comparable to developments elsewhere in the humanities and natural sciences, as well as in bioethics and environmental ethics. The conference’s discussion of the ethics of conservation aims to overcome the current uncertainty surrounding the preservation of digital media art as part of our cultural heritage. This set of interconnected themes forms the context for the questions posed by the first international symposium of digital art conservation, a threeyear research project funded by the European Union: What consequences will the ongoing systemic change of cultural memory have for our consciousness of time and of history, and for our image of ourselves and the world? Are traditional criteria for conservation – a work of art’s originality, longevity and inherent economic value – at all applicable to new media art? Should standards of best practice be developed for the conservation and collection of digital media art?
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Hans Belting
Professor emeritus for the science of art and media theory,
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Edmond Couchot
Professor emeritus Université de Paris VIII
Alain Depocas
Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation,
Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal
Herbert W. Franke
Artist, scientist and writer, Egling
Rosina Gómez-Baeza Tinturé
Director, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijon
Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber
Head of degree programme conservation of new media and digital
information, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Antoni Muntadas
Artist, New York
Daria Parkhomenko
Director, LABORATORIA Art & Science Space, Moscow
Dr. Ingrid Scheurmann
Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, professorship
architectural heritage and applied historical
building research, Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Serexhe
Head curator, ZKM | Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter Weibel
CEO, ZKM | Karlsruhe
Dr. Klaus Weschenfelder
President ICOM Germany
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
Professor for media theory, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Entrance free, no booking required
Languages /Sprachen/ langues: EN, DE, FR
ZKM_Medientheater
Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
10.00–18.00
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst
und Medientechnologie
Karlsruhe, Germany
As part of the broader research project digital art conservation, this international symposium aims to investigate the future of our digital cultural memory, focusing in particular on the preservation of computer-based art. For a couple of decades now, digitalisation has allowed the content of cultural memory to be more easily processed and circulated. However, the preservation of digital contents is fundamentally conditioned by the need to conform to an ever more rapid sequence of new technical systems. This functional obsolescence presents a systemic threat to digital cultural memory. Again and again, the threat of obsolescence leads previous criteria of cultural memory – longevity and authenticity – ad absurdum. The practice and theory of art collecting and preservation has also seen a paradigm shift, presenting curators, collectors, scholars and conservators with a new set of as yet unsolved problems. Whereas traditional media and tools remained in the possession of artists and curators, new digital media have definitely reduced the autonomy of these cultural actors.
Parallel to day-to-day collecting and exhibition practice – necessarily pragmatic – conservation theory has recently seen a normative debate on the ethics of preservation, a discussion comparable to developments elsewhere in the humanities and natural sciences, as well as in bioethics and environmental ethics. The conference’s discussion of the ethics of conservation aims to overcome the current uncertainty surrounding the preservation of digital media art as part of our cultural heritage. This set of interconnected themes forms the context for the questions posed by the first international symposium of digital art conservation, a threeyear research project funded by the European Union: What consequences will the ongoing systemic change of cultural memory have for our consciousness of time and of history, and for our image of ourselves and the world? Are traditional criteria for conservation – a work of art’s originality, longevity and inherent economic value – at all applicable to new media art? Should standards of best practice be developed for the conservation and collection of digital media art?
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Hans Belting
Professor emeritus for the science of art and media theory,
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Edmond Couchot
Professor emeritus Université de Paris VIII
Alain Depocas
Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation,
Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal
Herbert W. Franke
Artist, scientist and writer, Egling
Rosina Gómez-Baeza Tinturé
Director, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijon
Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber
Head of degree programme conservation of new media and digital
information, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Antoni Muntadas
Artist, New York
Daria Parkhomenko
Director, LABORATORIA Art & Science Space, Moscow
Dr. Ingrid Scheurmann
Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, professorship
architectural heritage and applied historical
building research, Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Serexhe
Head curator, ZKM | Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter Weibel
CEO, ZKM | Karlsruhe
Dr. Klaus Weschenfelder
President ICOM Germany
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
Professor for media theory, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Entrance free, no booking required
Languages /Sprachen/ langues: EN, DE, FR
ZKM_Medientheater
Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Bit International : A Little-Known Story ...
A little-known story about a movement, a magazine, and the computer\\\'s arrival in art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 : [bit international [Nove] tendencije. Computer und visuelle Forschung Zagreb 1961-1973. Exhibitions: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum 28.04.-17.06.2007, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 23.02.2008-18.01.2009] / ed. by Margit Rosen. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, 2011. - 576 S. : zahlr. Ill.
ISBN: 978-0-262-51581-8
This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment which took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago, but whose impact has been felt far beyond that time and place. Ostensibly, the “little-known story” concerns the advent of computers in art and a movement which began in 1961 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. It was through the activities of that movement, known as New Tendencies, and its supporting institution, the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, that the “thinking machine” was adopted as an artistic tool and medium. Pursuing the idea of “art as visual research,” the New Tendencies movement proceeded along a path which led from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art with its dynamic apparatuses to computer-generated graphics, film, and sculpture – from “programmed art” without computers to art generated or controlled by computers.
With their exhibitions and conferences on the theme of computers and visual research and the launch of the multilingual, groundbreaking magazine bit international in 1968, the New Tendencies transformed Zagreb, already one of the most vibrant artistic centers in Yugoslavia, into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain gathered around the then-new technology. For a brief moment in time, Zagreb was the epicenter for exploring the aesthetic, scientific, and political potential of the computer. This volume, edited by Margit Rosen, includes new essays by Jerko Denegri, Darko Fritz, Margit Rosen, and Peter Weibel; a great number of essays and texts that were first published in New Tendencies exhibition catalogs and bit international magazine; and historic documents. Over 650 black-and-white and color illustrations testify to the wide and diverse panorama of artworks that were presented in the exhibitions, and introduce the movement’s protagonists. Many of the historic photographs, translations, and documents are presented here for the first time. The book presents the long overdue history of the New Tendencies experiment and its impact on the art of the twentieth century.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
CFP: virtual histories (deadline: oct. 24th)
CALL FOR PAPERS | VIRTUAL HISTORIES
Graduate Humanities Forum | http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/ghf.shtml
Penn Humanities Forum | http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania
DEADLINE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010
SUBMIT proposals (250 words maximum) and one-page CV by e-mail
attachment to Scott Enderle (enderlej@english.upenn.edu).
The Graduate Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania
invites submissions for its 11th annual conference: "Virtual
Histories." The one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place
on Friday, February 18th, 2011 at the Penn Humanities Forum in
conjunction with its 2010-2011 topic: "Virtuality."
Ours is, as the commonplace would have it, an age of information.
Viewed as part of the old-fashioned scheme of Stone, Bronze, and Iron,
our age seems rarefied indeed: hard yet malleable, iron is apt to be
shaped by our will, but information is infinitely more so. Poised to
escape into pure ideality, we may find it easy to forget that the
virtual also has a history.
"Virtual Histories" foregrounds the historical matrix in which our
information technologies are embedded, seeking traces of the virtual
in the rituals and dreams of the past, while at the same time
considering the history of virtuality as one not yet enacted.
We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplines exploring
points of continuity and rupture between past, present, and future
virtualities. How do the other worlds of religious doctrine overlap
with the other world of Second Life? What is the long history of
icons, scripts, and avatars? To what degree are instant wire transfers
more virtual than the bills of sale and credit, bank notes, or paper
money of earlier centuries? What is the phenomenology of a bank run?
What are the ramifications of virtual experience for the empiricism of
Locke, Berkeley, and Hume? What is the material history of the
virtual? How have constructs of gender and race virtualized bodies,
and what are the ethics of bodily escape and transcendence among
Platonic users of sites such as match.com?
At the same time as we seek to historicize the virtual, we invite
contributions that limn possibilities not yet realized, exploring the
potential of distant reading and text mining, and considering
prospects that continue to emerge for politics, social interaction,
and art, not only in visual, but also in auditory and even tactile
forms. What new subjectivities and experiences might the virtual make
available, perhaps even as it calls into question the stability of
those concepts?
Other topics for proposals might include the following:
-The demarcation of the virtual.
-The material bases of virtual superstructures.
-"New" media of past eras and virtual appropriations of "old" media.
-Grammars and ideologies of the virtual.
-Imagined communities and virtual nations.
-Intellectual Property and virtual appropriation.
-Mimesis, simulation, and sensory prosthetics.
Conference Keynote: LISA NAKAMURA (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
GRIEFING CULTURE AND INCIVILITY ON THE INTERNET
Lisa Nakamura is the author or coeditor of four books, including
_Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet_ (University of
Minnesota Press, 2007) and _Race After the Internet_ (with Peter
Chow-White, Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She is currently working on
a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a
Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds. Nakamura is the
Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the
Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program, and
Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses on Asian Americans and
media as well as introductory and advanced courses on new media
criticism, history, and theory.
Proposals should be no longer than 250 words, and should be submitted
along with a one-page CV by email attachment to Scott Enderle
(enderlej@english.upenn.edu). The deadline for proposals is Thursday,
October 14th, 2010.
--
Scott Enderle
Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts
Graduate Research Assistant
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
scott.enderle@gmail.com
862-812-8910
Graduate Humanities Forum | http://humanities.sas.upenn.
Penn Humanities Forum | http://humanities.sas.upenn.
University of Pennsylvania
DEADLINE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010
SUBMIT proposals (250 words maximum) and one-page CV by e-mail
attachment to Scott Enderle (enderlej@english.upenn.edu).
The Graduate Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania
invites submissions for its 11th annual conference: "Virtual
Histories." The one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place
on Friday, February 18th, 2011 at the Penn Humanities Forum in
conjunction with its 2010-2011 topic: "Virtuality."
Ours is, as the commonplace would have it, an age of information.
Viewed as part of the old-fashioned scheme of Stone, Bronze, and Iron,
our age seems rarefied indeed: hard yet malleable, iron is apt to be
shaped by our will, but information is infinitely more so. Poised to
escape into pure ideality, we may find it easy to forget that the
virtual also has a history.
"Virtual Histories" foregrounds the historical matrix in which our
information technologies are embedded, seeking traces of the virtual
in the rituals and dreams of the past, while at the same time
considering the history of virtuality as one not yet enacted.
We invite submissions from a wide range of disciplines exploring
points of continuity and rupture between past, present, and future
virtualities. How do the other worlds of religious doctrine overlap
with the other world of Second Life? What is the long history of
icons, scripts, and avatars? To what degree are instant wire transfers
more virtual than the bills of sale and credit, bank notes, or paper
money of earlier centuries? What is the phenomenology of a bank run?
What are the ramifications of virtual experience for the empiricism of
Locke, Berkeley, and Hume? What is the material history of the
virtual? How have constructs of gender and race virtualized bodies,
and what are the ethics of bodily escape and transcendence among
Platonic users of sites such as match.com?
At the same time as we seek to historicize the virtual, we invite
contributions that limn possibilities not yet realized, exploring the
potential of distant reading and text mining, and considering
prospects that continue to emerge for politics, social interaction,
and art, not only in visual, but also in auditory and even tactile
forms. What new subjectivities and experiences might the virtual make
available, perhaps even as it calls into question the stability of
those concepts?
Other topics for proposals might include the following:
-The demarcation of the virtual.
-The material bases of virtual superstructures.
-"New" media of past eras and virtual appropriations of "old" media.
-Grammars and ideologies of the virtual.
-Imagined communities and virtual nations.
-Intellectual Property and virtual appropriation.
-Mimesis, simulation, and sensory prosthetics.
Conference Keynote: LISA NAKAMURA (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
GRIEFING CULTURE AND INCIVILITY ON THE INTERNET
Lisa Nakamura is the author or coeditor of four books, including
_Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet_ (University of
Minnesota Press, 2007) and _Race After the Internet_ (with Peter
Chow-White, Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She is currently working on
a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a
Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds. Nakamura is the
Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the
Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program, and
Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses on Asian Americans and
media as well as introductory and advanced courses on new media
criticism, history, and theory.
Proposals should be no longer than 250 words, and should be submitted
along with a one-page CV by email attachment to Scott Enderle
(enderlej@english.upenn.edu). The deadline for proposals is Thursday,
October 14th, 2010.
--
Scott Enderle
Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellow in the History of Material Texts
Graduate Research Assistant
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
scott.enderle@gmail.com
862-812-8910
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Paul Brown - based in OZ April to November 2010
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
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Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University
Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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
Monday, September 13, 2010
nonlinear history
Andrey Smirnov's Nonlinear History (of audiovisual composition) features some long forgotten yet amazing equipment...ppts and videos can be downloaded here
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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.
the full book can be downloaded here
an exhibition as concert based on the book is taking place at CAC Bretigny the next weeks.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Open Call for Artists - ANEMIC FESTIVAL
Join us in creating the ANEMIC Festival, November 4 - 16, 2010!
2010 marks the first annual ANEMIC FESTIVAL, initiated by the organization « M77 Arts, Digital creation & Training ». The international festival of the independent creation dedicated to the short-films, animated films, documentary films, video arts, vfx & motion graphic , visual arts, digital creation, multimedia performance & installation, web art and all forms of crea(c)tion in situ & urban. The festival needs you ! We are looking for willing volunteers to help us to build an international platform gathering and displaying all independent & contemporary creations.
2010 marks the first annual ANEMIC FESTIVAL, initiated by the organization « M77 Arts, Digital creation & Training ». The international festival of the independent creation dedicated to the short-films, animated films, documentary films, video arts, vfx & motion graphic , visual arts, digital creation, multimedia performance & installation, web art and all forms of crea(c)tion in situ & urban. The festival needs you ! We are looking for willing volunteers to help us to build an international platform gathering and displaying all independent & contemporary creations.
Interview with Ken Knowlton
Zach Lieberman interviewed Ken Knowlton:
http://thesystemis.com/category/blog/
http://thesystemis.com/category/blog/
ken knowlton interview from thesystemis on Vimeo.
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