Chris Joseph
Along its editions, the Digital Art Festival [Festival de Arte Digital – FAD] has become one of the biggest and most important platforms, focused not only on the enjoyment, but also on promoting the thinking on the digital art produced around the world. During its five editions, 220 artists from 20 countries have passed by the festival. The selection process for 2012 is open, and the artists interested must sign-up until April 30th.
This year, FAD looks for artists who are creating new forms of interface and interactivity, which may or may not be done via computer. Works that are within this theme will be given priority in the selection, but works connected to other areas of art and technology will also be accepted nevertheless. Selected artists will have their works exposed throughout the month of September at the Inimá de Paula Museum [Museu Inimá de Paula], in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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http://www.festivaldeartedigital.com.br/en/inscreva-se-fad-edital-2012/
International Media Arts Collaboratory is a two-week group residency. The collaboratory will be a relational platform in which media arts specialists from around the world come together to collaborate among themselves and/or with the local community in the creation and appreciation of media arts for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilisation of skills. Participants will live and work together in an arts village or homestay in the rural township. This project welcomes individual or team proposals involving artistic production, or theoretical presentations on how media arts contribute to the global marketplace of ideas. The theme is open. Further details click here (PDF).
Deadline: Ongoing until November 2012
OpenLab will be happening @nnnnn on 5th May in London.
If people have any open source / diy projects they’re working on and want to either do a presentation or performance or both then feel free to add yourself to this wiki
http://xwiki.sentinelweb.co.uk/bin/view/OpenNight/Signup
just click EDIT this page above the fish skeleton circuit.
If you don’t want to present or perform but are interested then just come along anyway and lurk about. There’ll be food, drink, code, visuals, sounds, circuits, etc etc etc.
About OpenLab
http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/
Openlab is a loose collective of artists centred around London, UK, who use and develop open source software and technology for music, art, noise, performances, and just about anything else they feel like doing with it. Openlab organises performances, talks, workshops, events, and beer-y meetings across the UK for like-minded individuals to share and exchange ideas and let loose their creative inner daemons. Our main mission, besides being a support group/drinking club, is to promote the use of open source software and media by demonstrating how damn cool it is.
Time & Date: 21st May 2012 – 2nd Jun 2012
Contact: hello@digitalshoreditch.com
Venue: Digital Shoreditch Big Top, @Hackney House, 186 Shoreditch High Street, Shoreditch, E1 6HU London, United Kingdom
Digital Shoreditch is the festival celebrating the outstanding creative, technical and entrepreneurial talent of East London and Tech City. The festival will run from May 21st to June 1st 2012 and will be highlighting the thriving digital and tech talent from Clerkenwell to Stratford, Old Street to Bethnal Green and Dalston to the City and beyond.
Digital Shoreditch’s inaugural festival in 2011 attracted contributions from 180 companies, where 2,000 people attended 50 events in the first week of May. We are planning to showcase 500 companies and individuals for a phenomenal celebration of our collective talent and capabilities, and aiming for attendance by tens of thousands of people in 2012.
The 2 weeks programme for 2012 will include talks, educational workshops, open studios, exhibitions, family days, awards and parties that will engage, inspire and celebrate the cream of the digital crop. There will be something for everyone, from the tech-head to the merely curious.
The programme is designed to explore and represent a wide spectrum of industry areas, and will attract executives working in areas such as advertising, branding, broadcasting, production, film, mobile, gaming, web, and graphics, to facilitate B2B interaction and share best practice.
The event al7so provides a forum for media financiers, politicians, Arts institutes, the press and the public, making it the ideal platform to display leadership, attract new business, gain further brand exposure and recognition, and engage with other pioneering creative developers.
Digital Shoreditch’s emphasis is on nurturing an extensive and exciting community, facilitating an enormous spectrum of individuals and companies to connect and exchange ideas, generate greater openness, and provide opportunities for innovators from all walks of life to contribute to a flourishing creative society.
Tickets are now on sale, get them while they’re still hot! http://digitalshoreditch.com/tickets
Music, Technology and Innovation
De Montfort University, Leicester
New Media Events 2011-2012
Wednesday April 25th, 2012 7pm
Phoenix Square (Film & Digital Media)
Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
Visible Bits, Audible Bytes 2
Join Phoenix Square for a compelling showcase screening of works from an eclectic group of audiovisual artists from around the world. Ranging from the playful and sensuous to the edgy and experimental, these artists and their works are redefining the potentials of sound and image in the 21st century. Curated by Bret Battey and presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at DMU.
Flat-E (images) + Ultre (music): Ionisation (2005)
Jean Piché (images and music): OCÉANES (2010-11)
Bret Battey (images and music): Clonal Colonies (2011)
Glenn Marshall (images) + Peter Gabriel (music): The Nest That Sailed the Sky (2009)
Canda? ?i?man (images and music): FLUX (2010)
Jean Piché (images and music): Ange (1979/2012)
Numbercult (images and music): EVE (2009)
Robert Seidel (images) + Heiko Tippelt & Philipp Hirsch (music): _grau (2004)
Canda? ?i?man (images) + Egidija Medeksaite (music): EFF-FLUX (2011)
Tickets: £5 (£2.50 conc.) please call the Box Office (0116-242-2800) or book online ( http://phoenix.org.uk )
http://dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/events/events-calendar/sue-thomas-lecture.aspx
Date: 26 April 2012
Venue: Hugh Aston Building
Time: 6pm (tea and coffee from 5.30pm)
The Future of Cyberspace
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel ‘Correspondence’, short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue ‘Hello World: travels in virtuality’. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on ‘Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors’, a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Please book online or contact the Events Office on (0116) 250 6376 or eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk
