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ISEA2006 Symposium
ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
CALL FOR PROSALS FOR COMMISSIONED WORKS
THEME: COMMUNITY DOMAIN
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu./
calls.html
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/
communitydomain1/

This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive artworks and projects reflecting on the thematic of Community Domain. Up to three commissions will be awarded, and the results will be shown at the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose Festival.

ABOUT THE ISEA2006 SYMPOSIUM AND ZEROONE SAN JOSE FESTIVAL

The 2006 edition of the internationally renowned ISEA Symposium will be held August 5-13, 2006, in San Jose, California.

The Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. Prior host cities include Helsinki, Paris, Sydney, Montreal, Chicago, Manchester and Nagoya.

ZeroOne San Jose is a milestone festival to be held biennially that makes accessible the work of the most innovative contemporary artists in the world. In 2006 it will be held in conjunction with the ISEA2006 Symposium.

See http://isea2006.sjsu.edu for more information about the Festival and
Symposium.
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On Transit: Visual Narratives in North America
Instituto de Cultura de Baja California
Mexicali, Mexico
June 20th-July 22, 2005
Opening Reception: Monday, June 20, 7pm
http://www.geocities.com/
bizarre_inc/
ot/ot.htm
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Creative Capital highlights

creative-capital.org/highlights/

JAMES BIDGOOD is participating in Exit Art’s exhibition Homomuseum in New York City, exhibiting five photographs. Bidgood was also the honored artist at Exit Art’s Spring benefit, Gayla! On May 18th, in conjunction with the exhibition. www.exitart.org. May 21 – June 30
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RED DIVE presents Peripheral City in the financial district as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival in New York City. The walking performance tours meet at Chase Plaza under the DuBuffet sculpture. Call 212-615-6797 for more time, date, and reservation information. www.reddive.org. June 23 and 30, July 7 and 14, August 11 and 18
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AMELIA RUDOLPH'S vertical dance company Project Bandaloop will be performing on tour starting on June 23 at the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, UT and traveling through Nevada, Montana, Indiana and Oregon through September 17. For date and time information, visit the website: www.projectbandaloop.org.
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KARYN OLIVIER, currently participating in PS1’s Greater New York 2005 exhibition in Queens, New York City, will have a solo show at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas. Olivier was also featured in the group show Double Unconsciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, this spring. www.ps1.org, www.womenandtheirwork.org, www.camh.org. June 30 – July 30
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LIZ COHEN AND TED PURVES (visual artists), and Caveh Zahedi, Ellen Bruno, Sam Green and Bill Daniel (film/video artists) will be participating in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial Festival of Regional Visual Art, Performance, and Film/Video in San Francisco. www.ybca.org. July 16 – November 6
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*Target Foundation sets up internet television station CULTURETV*
CULTURETV will be officially launched on the 15th of June and can be seen daily on the CULTURETV website. This makes it the first daily station which has been produced especially for culture, art and new media.

http://www.culturetv.tv
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This FRIDAY at 6PM at the Boston Center for the Arts the opening reception for Sifting the Inner Belt.
Sifting the Inner Belt
June 17 - July 31, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday, June 17, 6PM - 8PM
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
Organized by Hiroko Kikuchi & Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu, Jeremy Chan Peng Chu, Catherine D'lgnazio, Natalie Loveless, Kim Szeto, and William Ho

"Community doesn't mean understanding everything about everybody and resolving all the differences; it means knowing how to work within differences as they change and evolve."

- Lucy R. Lippard
Sifting the Inner Belt is the culmination of a year-long, site-specific social performance and research art project consisting of a series of performance interventions and performance-based research projects, which closely observe and examine, i.e. sift, the South End neighborhood with an emphasis on creating emotional, conceptual and physical bridges between the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and the Berkeley Street Community Garden (BSCG).

"Inner Belt" refers to the ill-conceived and never completed highway project from 1948-1971 that would have created an inner beltway highway around downtown Boston and between the South End and Lower Roxbury.  In the process of the failed project, hundreds of homes were destroyed, many families displaced, and yet, because the project was stopped, over one hundred gardens have sprung up.  The foundations of these homes, the spirit of these families, and the legacy of the impact remain today.

Conceived by Hiroko Kikuchi and Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu in the summer of 2004, Sifting the Inner Belt was developed as a collaboration of artists, activists and community residents: Jeremy Chan Peng Chu, Catherine D'lgnazio, Natalie Loveless, Kim Szeto, and William Ho.  It is based upon ideas of audience participation, communication, and political intention, and is constructed through a generative process involving dialogue and community outreach through specific efforts, including research and interactive performance art.  The exhibition in the Mills Gallery includes site-specific installations, video, sound, photography, written documentation/books, and a display of final and in-progress research.  A series of performance events will occur throughout the show in and around the BCA and the BSCG.

For more information on Sifting the Inner Belt please visit siftingtheinnerbelt.com.
Sifting the Inner Belt is supported by the LEF Foundation and National Bitter Melon Council.
Media Sponsor: the Weekly Dig
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Noise
Seen and Unseen

a 4-night sound performance festival
spanning the fringes of aural stimulation

Submission Deadline: June 27, 2005
Performance Nights: July 20 - 23, 2005

Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre is offering the opportunity for music and sound artists to participate in a new sound performance festival. We are looking for acts that vary in length from 5 to 60 minutes, and vary in style from the analog sound art, to digital noise and glitch pieces, to digitally or mechanically assisted and composed music, to musical perversions of classical instruments.

4 nights (Rough Schedule)
Wednesday July 20: analog & instrumental sound artists
Thursday July 21: digital & mechanical musicians
Friday July 22: musical perversions of classical instruments
Saturday July 23: noise and glitch artists

If you are interested in performing please send a bio paragraph, a description of what you would like to perform and digital sound file or a url where we can stream a sample of your sound art.

Submit your proposals to:
Judson Williams at judson@ontological.com
Morgan Pecelli at morganp@ontological.com
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BINARY KATWALK is an on-line exhibition space focusing primarily on work that is highly experimental and would benefit from a non-traditional exhibition space. The site is co-curated by Sindee Nakatani and Jeremy Hight. We are looking for new media work, for cross disciplinary works, for experimental works in particular mediums, and for works that are pushing into new horizons in form and functionality. We are looking for work ranging from hybrid new media narratives to experiments with digital imaging and photography. Each edition will have a new call for work and an invited artist's solo exhibition. We are currently taking submissions for our initial edition.
Contact : info@binarykatwalk.net
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Mobile Journeys is pleased to announce the first Australian commissioning program for mobile phone artworks. Between 10 and 15 commissions are
available for works in the following areas:

- short video
- sound
- text based
- locative
- social networking
- games
- performance
- installation

There is no required theme but the works must be specifically made for
mobile phones, working within the constraints and exploiting the
opportunities of this platform.

Commissioning fees will range between $750 for short video, sound and
text-based works to $2,500 for locative works and games. The exact amounts
will be determined on a case-by-case basis. All proposals will be assessed
on artistic merit and feasibility.

Selected artists are expected to develop their projects independently and
without significant technical assistance from Mobile Journeys.

The call for proposals closes on June 24. Applicants will be notified about
the outcome of the selection process by June 30. Mobile Journeys requires most of the selected project to be completed by late July to be showcased at
the d>Art.O5 Exhibition at Sydney Opera House in August. Extensions on this
completion deadline will be granted on a case-by-case basis.

For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit
www.mobilejourneys.com

Mobile Journeys is a national initiative exploring the creative potential of mobile devices. The Mobile Journeys consortium consists of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, the Australian Network for Art and Technology and dLux media arts and is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.
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Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky

SOFT CINEMA: Navigating the Database
softcinema.net

DVD-video with 40 page color booklet

The MIT Press, 2005

ISBN 0-262-13456-X


What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Google and blogging?
Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN?
To investigate answers to this question Lev Manovich - one of today’s most
influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture – has
paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky to
create the Soft Cinema project. They have also invited contributions from
leaders in other cultural fields: DJ Spooky, Scanner, George Lewis and
Jóhann Jóhannsson (music), servo and Andreas Angelidakis (architecture),
Schoenerwissen/Office for Computational Design (data visualization), and
Ross Cooper Studios (media design).

SOFT CINEMA: Navigating the Database is the Soft Cinema project’s first DVD
published and distributed by The MIT Press (2005). Although the three films
presented on the DVD reference the familiar genres of cinema, the process by
which they were created and the resulting aesthetics fully belong to the
software age. They demonstrate the possibilities of soft(ware) cinema - a
'cinema' in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom
software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever
exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.

'Mission to Earth' is a science fiction allegory of the immigrant
experience. It adopts the variable choices and multi-frame layout of the
Soft Cinema system to represent ‘variable identity’. 'Absences' is a lyrical
black and white narrative that relies on algorithms normally deployed in
military and civilian surveillance applications to determine the editing of
video and audio. 'Texas' is a ‘database narrative’, which assembles its
visuals, sounds, narratives, and even the identities of its characters from
multiple databases.

The DVD was designed and programmed so that there is no single version of
any of the films. All the elements – including screen layout, the visuals
and their combination, the music, the narrative, and the length – are
subject to change every time the film is viewed.

The development of Soft Cinema project was made possible by the commissions
from ZKM Center for Art and Media and the BALTIC, The Centre for
Contemporary Art. The resulting computer-driven installations and films have
been exhibited in museums, galleries, media and film festivals around the
world, including ZKM, Karlsruhe; the ICA, London; SENEF, Seoul; the ICC,
Tokyo; DEAF, Rotterdam, Transmediale, Berlin; and Chelsea Art Museum, New
York.


Lev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media
(The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad
ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He is Professor of Visual
Arts, University of California, San Diego and a
researcher at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information
Technology www.calit2.net.

Andreas Kratky has been responsible for media design and co-direction of a
number of groundbreaking new media projects, including the award-winning
DVDs That’s Kyogen and Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles 1920-1986
(both published by ZKM).


SOFT CINEMA: NAVIGATING THE DATABASE is available through The MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu, online resellers www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com,
etc.) and selected bookstores.

Additional information:
softcinema.net/

email: manovich at ucsd.edu
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3er Taller De Tecnologías Del Cuerpo: Tecnopoder y Lenguajes Emergentes
teoría crítica_teoría queer_danza interactiva_electroacústica_vídeo_arquitectura virtual generativa
Impartido por: Jaime del Val - Instituto REVERSO
con la colaboración de José Manuel Berenguer y la participación de Ana Martínez Collado.
Fechas: del 11 al 16 de Julio
Horario:
módulo cerrado: de 10:00 a 14:00 h
módulo abierto: de 16:00 a 20:00 h. Inscripción gratuita, plazas limitadas. Plazo de solicitud hasta el 1 de Julio Lugar: Sala del Patio Sur del Centro Cultural Conde Duque Más información e inscripciones en www.medialabmadrid.org
medialabmadrid.org/

El taller abordará conceptos, instrumentos y técnicas para el trabajo transdisciplinar en el contexto de danza interactiva, electroacústica, vídeo en tiempo real y arquitectura virtual generativa, desde un marco crítico de estudio de las relaciones entre cuerpo, arte y tecnología.
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Make sure to read through our monthly features, just released this past Sunday. this month we feature interviews, reviews and recommendations by Ana Valdez, Ignacio Nieto, Mark Hancock and our invited guests Sala-manca--plus another PDF release in collaboration with a minima::, a media publication based in Spain.

Enjoy the month.
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