Anonymous video artists have projected onto the Maine State House the mural by artist Judy Taylor originally installed to commemorate Maine’s labor history. The mural’s removal by Maine’s new governor Paul LePage has provoked outcries of censorship from artists and educators.
In an age when the Canadian government is muzzling scientists, religious groups are using special search engines like Jewogle to filter out unwanted results, and one in five Americans believes the earth is at the center of the solar system…you might just want to hear Randy Olson speak.
Season seven of this venerable intermedia festival finds newly minted U-Me MFAs mixing it up with the likes of Fluxus mainstay Dick Higgins and DJ paul j. bosse, the “junky but funky beat mechanic.”
Sep 072010
The HTML5Rocks site may be slanted toward Google’s implementation of HTML5 (and works best in Google’s Chrome browser). But it’s an impressive compendium of demos and how-to’s for everything HTML5, from 2- and 3d animations, to instant text columns, to building databases in the browser (“Web Storage”), to drag-and-drop with a single line of code. Web designers, prepare for HTML5 to rock your world.
Sep 072010
Touched by the expression of a dying baby Orangutan, Willie Smits and the Orangutan Survival Foundation regrew a destroyed rainforest in Borneo using satellite imagery and permaculture (though he doesn’t use the word in his TED talk). Why was the project so successful and long-lived (still going after twenty years)? The key, according to Smits, is not to swoop in like an environmental missionary with no regard for the economic plight of local people, but to factor human economic activity in the complex ecological solution.
Have you ever wished you could use Jedi mind powers to speed up your boring professor’s PowerPoint presentation? Or force the words “Happy Birthday Jennifer!” suddenly to appear on his screen? Now you can, thanks to Dutch researcher Niels Teusink, who combined an Arduino board and Metasploit software to demonstrate how to hack a presenter’s computer by hijacking his remote.
More on the talk:
Historian Nils Gilman, a consultant at Global Business Network/Monitor, is co-author of a forthcoming book on the subject.
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“Deviant Globalization” Nils Gilman, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, 7pm, Monday, May 3.
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This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audios and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download.
http://www.longnow.org/seminars/
More on the talk:
Historian Nils Gilman, a consultant at Global Business Network/Monitor, is co-author of a forthcoming book on the subject.
…
“Deviant Globalization” Nils Gilman, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, 7pm, Monday, May 3.
…
This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audios and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download.
http://www.longnow.org/seminars/
Virion Exhibition dates are from 19 July – 1 of August
Virion is a screen based digital art exhibition that links to public sites across Brisbane, focused in the Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network.
Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each.
Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represent a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices.
All submissions also play on the Virion website: www.virion2010.com.au
Throughout the exhibition the audience is invited to respond and participate by contributing further content to the show. Sites will be updated progressively to include all work.
Online Artist submissions will open in early May. To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.
For Exhibition questions please e-mail virion.submissions@gmail.com
Virion Exhibition dates are from 19 July – 1 of August
Virion is a screen based digital art exhibition that links to public sites across Brisbane, focused in the Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network.
Virion provides artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience. The exhibition is open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. There is no juried selection process and each work is given equal showing time. Submissions may be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 100MB each.
Each screen will play a compilation of diverse images and video that represent a wide & integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens are located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize & diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices.
All submissions also play on the Virion website: www.virion2010.com.au
Throughout the exhibition the audience is invited to respond and participate by contributing further content to the show. Sites will be updated progressively to include all work.
Online Artist submissions will open in early May. To be included in the opening of the exhibition submissions must be received by July 14.
For Exhibition questions please e-mail virion.submissions@gmail.com
Apr 262010
Waterfall Arts presents Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais talking about her work in ecology, the New Commons, and cross-cultural networking on Monday 26 April at 7pm.
Have you ever played a guitar that sounds like a thunderstorm? Worn glasses that automatically upload a photographic history of your everyday life? Schussed down Sugarloaf with skis made from organic materials?
This Wednesday, thirty-five New Media seniors will rock the U-Me campus with a night of curb-jumping capstones.
Held in Lord Hall from 4 to 6pm on Wednesday 28 April (Maine Day), this event showcases senior projects that reveal or transform what we take in with our eyes, ears, and even taste buds. More than one-off student projects, many of these startups already have sizable audiences, proving that an economy in the dumps is little deterent to the creative undergrads of the University of Maine’s New Media Department.
Open Your Eyes: The 2010 Capstone Night
Wednesday 28 April 4-6pm
Lord Hall
Find out more about projects featured in the 2010 Capstone Night
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Create10 :: the conference for innovative interaction design
30th June – 2nd July 2010
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh UK
http://www.create-conference.org/
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The Create10 conference is seeking submissions in the form of full papers, workshops, short presentations, demonstrations and exhibits.
THEME : : Transitions
Analogue <> Digital
Academic <>Practice
Place <> Time
Real <> Virtual
We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial, academic, public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from any paradigm – the web, mobile and hand held, products or consumer electronics. We would particularly like to encourage submissions from students. They will be given the opportunity to showcase and discuss both finished work and work-in-progress in a supportive environment.
The Create conference centres on the discipline of interaction design, a young disciple with roots in human-computer interaction, ergonomics, product and graphic design, multi-media and art. An interaction designer is a difficult person to pigeon hole and can be found in mobile phone companies, consumer product manufacturers, design consultancies, as a single practitioner, or within academic computing and design departments.
We are seeking original, unpublished work under the following categories:
Full Papers (2 stage submission)
: : High quality academic papers for peer review (max 6 pages)
Other Submissions (single stage)
: : Practical half-day workshops
: : Short papers and/or case studies from practitioners within the field
: : Short presentations and/or posters from students to be presented in informal student sessions
: : Demonstrations and/or videos of installation-based exhibits or creative work in progress
Please note that all successful authors will be expected to pay to register for the event.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions of :
max 1 page abstracts for papers : 15th March 2010
max 2 page proposals for all other submissions : 31st March 2010
Notification of acceptance : Early April 2010
Full paper submission : End of April 2010
http://www.create-conference.org/calls-for-participation/
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Student Design Competition
In addition to the above call Create10 is organising a unique competition for students.
Today=92s art, design and technology students are the people who will be defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will become in the near future. Create10 is a conference that celebrates innovative interaction design, whether digital products, services, environments or new interaction paradigms.
This competition is aimed at students from a wide range of disciplines, for example: interaction design, product design, industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion, multimedia, HCI, and related fields. Students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, can enter for up to a year after completing their studies.
Entries will be assessed by a jury of leading creative design practitioners and academics: Dr Shaleph O=92Neill, Mark Daniels, Anab Jain, Crispin Jones, Di Mainstone, Christopher Pearson
All selected submissions will be exhibited at the Create10 conference exhibition in June/July 2010 in Edinburgh, at New Media Scotland’s Inspace. There will be one free conference place available for each successful entry, as well as access to assistance with travel.
Further details here: http://www.create-conference.org/student-competition/=
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http://www.create-conference.org/
On 25 February 2009, the University launched its new name, Edinburgh Napier=
University. For more information please visit our website.
Edinburgh Napier University is one of the top 10 universities in the UK for=
graduate employability (HESA 2009)
Create10 :: the conference for innovative interaction design
30th June – 2nd July 2010
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh UK
http://www.create-conference.org/
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
The Create10 conference is seeking submissions in the form of full papers, workshops, short presentations, demonstrations and exhibits.
THEME : : Transitions
Analogue Digital
Academic Practice
Place Time
Real Virtual
We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial, academic, public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from any paradigm – the web, mobile and hand held, products or consumer electronics. We would particularly like to encourage submissions from students. They will be given the opportunity to showcase and discuss both finished work and work-in-progress in a supportive environment.
The Create conference centres on the discipline of interaction design, a young disciple with roots in human-computer interaction, ergonomics, product and graphic design, multi-media and art. An interaction designer is a difficult person to pigeon hole and can be found in mobile phone companies, consumer product manufacturers, design consultancies, as a single practitioner, or within academic computing and design departments.
We are seeking original, unpublished work under the following categories:
Full Papers (2 stage submission)
: : High quality academic papers for peer review (max 6 pages)
Other Submissions (single stage)
: : Practical half-day workshops
: : Short papers and/or case studies from practitioners within the field
: : Short presentations and/or posters from students to be presented in informal student sessions
: : Demonstrations and/or videos of installation-based exhibits or creative work in progress
Please note that all successful authors will be expected to pay to register for the event.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions of :
max 1 page abstracts for papers : 15th March 2010
max 2 page proposals for all other submissions : 31st March 2010
Notification of acceptance : Early April 2010
Full paper submission : End of April 2010
http://www.create-conference.org/calls-for-participation/
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Student Design Competition
In addition to the above call Create10 is organising a unique competition for students.
Today=92s art, design and technology students are the people who will be defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will become in the near future. Create10 is a conference that celebrates innovative interaction design, whether digital products, services, environments or new interaction paradigms.
This competition is aimed at students from a wide range of disciplines, for example: interaction design, product design, industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion, multimedia, HCI, and related fields. Students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, can enter for up to a year after completing their studies.
Entries will be assessed by a jury of leading creative design practitioners and academics: Dr Shaleph O=92Neill, Mark Daniels, Anab Jain, Crispin Jones, Di Mainstone, Christopher Pearson
All selected submissions will be exhibited at the Create10 conference exhibition in June/July 2010 in Edinburgh, at New Media Scotland’s Inspace. There will be one free conference place available for each successful entry, as well as access to assistance with travel.
Further details here: http://www.create-conference.org/student-competition/=
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http://www.create-conference.org/
On 25 February 2009, the University launched its new name, Edinburgh Napier=
University. For more information please visit our website.
Edinburgh Napier University is one of the top 10 universities in the UK for=
graduate employability (HESA 2009)
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SUBVERSIVE EXCERPTS
—————————————————————————-January 29 – February 28, 2010
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Link: http://www.trafo.hu/programs/1866The Center for Culture and Communication Foundation in Budapest, partner of the exhibition “Subversive Practices”, which was on view at Württembergischer Kunstverein in summer 2009, presents an excerpt from this project in collaboration with Trafo Gallery.
The exhibition includes work by the artists and artist groups Carlos ALTAMIRANO; Collective Actions; Taller E.P.S. Huayco; Ion GRIGORESCU; Claus HÄNSEL; Indigo Group; Letícia PARENTE; Luis PAZOS; Dan PERJOVSCHI; Pere PORTABELLA; Ruth Wolf- REHFELDT; Herbert RODRIGUEZ und Horacio ZABALA.
The exhibition devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes. The focus is on artistic practices that not only radically question the conventional concept of art, the institutions, and the relationship between art and public, but that have, at the same time, subversively thwarted structures of censorship and opposed the existing systems of power.
See also: http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/programme/2009/exhibitions/subversive
Idea and Concept: Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ
Curators: Ramón Castillo / Paulina Varas, Fernando Davis, Cristina Freire, Sabine Hänsgen, Miguel Lopez / Emilio Tarazona, Ileana Pintilie Teleaga, Valentín Roma / Daniel García Andújar, Annamária Szőke / Miklós Peternák, Anne Thurmann-Jajes
Curator Trafo Gallery: Nikolett Eross
Special event:
February 12, 2010, 5 – 9 pm
Film program; Lectures Ileana Pintilie, Iris Dressler, Hans D. ChristSupported by: European Commission
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From Wired:
You just sent an important business contact an e-mail with a PowerPoint presentation attached. This is the sort of presentation that could make or break your career.
To your delight, you get a quick reply back. This is certifiably good news! You click the message and your hopes are deflated: “I couldn’t get the file to open on my computer.”
Yes, there are people who don’t own PowerPoint. [That would be me-- Jon.] And, even though there are other programs that can open up your document, the best option is probably to use an online service to convert your presentation into something anyone can see. Plus, you don’t have to include a 5 MB attachment that way. Even in today’s broadband world, large attachments are poor form.
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Share_Presentations_Without_PowerPoint
From Wired:
You just sent an important business contact an e-mail with a PowerPoint presentation attached. This is the sort of presentation that could make or break your career.
To your delight, you get a quick reply back. This is certifiably good news! You click the message and your hopes are deflated: “I couldn’t get the file to open on my computer.”
Yes, there are people who don’t own PowerPoint. [That would be me-- Jon.] And, even though there are other programs that can open up your document, the best option is probably to use an online service to convert your presentation into something anyone can see. Plus, you don’t have to include a 5 MB attachment that way. Even in today’s broadband world, large attachments are poor form.
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Share_Presentations_Without_PowerPoint
From Wired:
You just sent an important business contact an e-mail with a PowerPoint presentation attached. This is the sort of presentation that could make or break your career.
To your delight, you get a quick reply back. This is certifiably good news! You click the message and your hopes are deflated: “I couldn’t get the file to open on my computer.”
Yes, there are people who don’t own PowerPoint. [That would be me-- Jon.] And, even though there are other programs that can open up your document, the best option is probably to use an online service to convert your presentation into something anyone can see. Plus, you don’t have to include a 5 MB attachment that way. Even in today’s broadband world, large attachments are poor form.
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Share_Presentations_Without_PowerPoint
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Still Water lab, 4th floor, Chadbourne Hall
Monday 30 November 4-5:30pm
Italian curator Laura Barreca contrasts the long view of traditional art history and conservation with the brief lifespan of contemporary artistic media, asking how works in ephemeral media should be preserved for the future in the light of controversies such as the restoration of the Sistine Chapel. All are welcome to attend this informal discussion for all or part of the allotted time.
Currently an Italian Academy Fellow at Columbia University, Laura Barreca has taught at the Faculty of Architecture, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, as professor of the Course of History of Contemporary Art, in 2009. She is Assistant Professor of the Chair of History of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Conservation of Cultural and Artistic Heritage, University of Viterbo. She works as external consultant for the Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, for the Land Art project “Sensi Contemporanei” (Basilicata 2009). For the MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo she is curator of the project “Committenze contemporanee”, in collaboration with UniCredit Group and Galleria Borghese. Since 2007, she worked as Junior Curator at PAN| Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. Since the completion of her Ph.D., she has been writing articles and papers, and has been invited to present lectures in several conferences (Madrid 2007; Montreal 2008; Rome 2008-2009) about “Conservation and Documentation of New Media Art”.
This discussion is sponsored by the U-Me New Media Department, The Intermedia MFA Program and the Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series Fund.