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16m00s. By Escha, babel, zedex, Justynn Tyme, The Cheeky Monkey (William H. Logsdon) and Gacky.

Escha - 391 countdown (ATV mix) (0:00 - 1:36)
babel - A Picnic With Venger, part 3 (Afternoon Tea) (1:36 - 5:21)
zedex - The Simple One (from The Gold Suite) (5:21 - 6:25)
Justynn Tyme - Brain In A Bottle #2 (6:25 - 6:43)
Escha - Song For Katie (6:43 - 9:26)
The Cheeky Monkey (William H. Logsden) - Tales of India (9:26 - 10:24)
Gacky - Small World (10:24 - 15:26)
zedex - The Simple One (reprise) (15:26 - 16:00)

“NESTS & MAGIC, some different ways of creating Cyberliterature” at http://arteonline.arq.br/rufus/

The book is a non-linear narrative created using different processes. It was based on “The Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino and on the “Furnarius Rufus Village” by Celeida Tostes (Brazilian artist). English version: Sabrina Gledhill.

Table of Contents:

1) Prologue: Nests & Magic, a magic experience

“I immediately felt that that this wasn’t a coincidence. It couldn’t be. I had found the nest precisely on the day when I was going to visit an exhibition by Cleone, who had studied the art of clay with Celeida, and when I was just getting starting on a new project that was precisely about the Furnarius Rufus Village … I’m absolutely convinced that this was the way Celeida found to communicate with me from the dimension where she now dwells. “

2)- Question: Rufus, how to introduce the modification of the urban space: cities without walls, rumblings and rage?

A text and a “game - machine” with maps of many cities of the world to you “transform” in nest cities.

3)- The 10 Nest Cities, which were built from bird nests. Each nest city has its own text performing in a semiotic way over its map:

“Aestiva is a city that is rebuilt every day in an attempt to untangle its streets. The result is this: the more it is untangled, the more tangled it gets. Aestiva residents always carry a compass in their pockets. And they like it like that because, the more tangled things get, the safer they feel.”

4)- The pdf book : The ten cities, with their ten texts in English and Portuguese simultaneouly, to you download and print.

More at: http://arteonline.arq.br/rufus/

The Senster and SAM (Sound Activated Mobile)

Alex Zivanovic will talk about the work of the late Edward Ihnatowicz, a pioneer of interactive kinetic art. In particular, he will concentrate on SAM, a sculpture exhibited at the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968, and the Senster, exhibited in the Evoluon in Eindhoven from 1970 to 1974. Both sculptures moved recogniseably in response to the sound and motion of the people around them, giving the impression of being alive.

The talk will explain how this was achieved and what we can learn from these ground-breaking works. In particular, Alex will talk about how natural, elegant motion can be achieved.

Cost: £7 / £5 concessions

Kinetica Museum SP2 Pavillion Old Spitalfields Market London E1 6AA
info@kinetica-museum.org Tel: 020 7392 9674

PAUL B. DAVIS [BEIGE]
30th MAY - 23rd JUNE 2007
PV WED 30th MAY 6PM

SEVENTEEN
17 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8AA
www.seventeengallery.com

Paul B. Davis utilises outdated/obsolete computer technologies, including most notably Nintendo games systems, in order to perform specialist interventions into the territory of the digital art medium. While the materials utilised are ready-made, the use principle is entirely hand crafted; Davis altering the existing code while adding nothing new. This idea, the implemented projection of an alternative potential onto a ready-made object, exactly and succinctly captures the structured abridgement – between computers and art, between theory and praxis, ongoing in Davis’ practice.

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chyphertext_performance @ e-poetry 2007

EVENT: Chyphertext Performance
TAGS: networked writing performance
AUTHOR: Bjørn Magnhildøen/noemata
TIME: May 23, around 22h - 23h (CEST)
OFFLINE: Le Cube, Paris - http://www.lesiteducube.com/
ONLINE: http://noemata.anart.no/cp/

This is an networked writing performance that consists of a hybrid of human/machinated real-time writing and reading. The writing is performed by
1) plain computer keyboard writing,
2) server-based machinated, algorithmic writing,
3) interactions from from readers online,
4) text feeds from the processes surrounding the writing (like system monitoring, net connection monitoring, ftp logging, website hit statistics logs, etc),
5) data transformation - the writing is transcribed into streaming music as midi-event, and the images are transcribed as text/code and then into music.

All this semi real-time, the lag can be some seconds from input to output. The format of the writing is plaintext, ciphertext/code, and hypertext. For convenience the performance is streamed over the web in a regular browser. The piece is made especially for the e-Poetry 2007 festival.

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RATIONAL REC presents THE OULIPO NIGHT
Tuesday 5 June 2007
Organised by Andrew Infanti and Matthew Shlomowitz
Bethnal Green Working Men’sClub 44 Pollard Row, London E2 (5 mins from Bethnal Green tube)
£5 on the door, doors open at 8pm, first performance 8.30pm
http://www.rationalrec.org.uk
Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion based at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, incorporating sound, music, text, performance, film and dessert into a damn good night out. Come along and be artistically, intellectually and alcoholically stimulated.
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The Festival of Youth Arts 2007 is offering a FREE one day VJ Workshop for young people, aged 16-25.

Frolic AV will be running an intimate VJ workshop at Camden Jongleurs on Monday 28th May, 10AM - 11PM. This one day workshop will familiarise participants with the basics of DVD mixing and Live Visual Effects processing. Participants are encouraged to bring their own DVD material. At the end of the workshop there will be a live performance of experimental/acoustic music and spoken word in which participants will have the opportunity to perform live visuals and exercise their new skills during the evening event.

This is FREE, but places are VERY limited. Please contact mailto:matthew@festivalofyoutharts.org.uk for registration or more information.

For more information about the Festival of Youth Arts 2007 Visual Arts Programme visit http://www.myspace.com/fyavisualarts

Interactive Futures: The New Screen
Nov. 15-19, 2007 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Part of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (VIFVF)
Co-sponsored by Open Space Artist-Run Centre - http://www.openspace.ca/

IF07 Director: Steve Gibson - sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca
VIFVF Director: Kathy Kay - director@vifvf.com

Open Space Director: Helen Marzolf - director@openspace.ca

Co-curators:
Julie Andreyev - lic@telus.net
Randy Adams - runran@runran.net
Steve Gibson - sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, PERFORMANCES, & SCREENINGS
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Monday June 18, 2007.

2007 Theme: The New Screen

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year’s event is The New Screen. IF07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances (with or without sound), new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.

The development of tools and strategies for the presentation of screen-based environments has radically accelerated in the past few years. Artists and writers are exploring new ways of controlling narrative flow, formal structures, and ways of viewing. Immersive tools for experiencing visual environments have allowed artists to provide radically subjective experiences of visual surroundings and forms. With the introduction of interactivity, multi-screen environments, and media-rich web-based applications, a new era of performed, live, streaming and/or improvised media art is contributing to the creation of new modes for the screen that are distinct from older forms such as print, film or video art.

The New Screen will include installations, screenings and performances by visual artists, writers and performers. These practitioners are critiquing usual modes of visual interface, such as rectangular screens and determined techniques of interactivity. Interventionist strategies, public participation, experimental projection methods, and destabilizing interactive interfaces are some of the approaches that are used in their work. For IF07, leading Canadian and international artists, researchers, and educators working with screen-based media have been invited to present their work and to participate in the installation, performance, and panel events.

IF07 is seeking further papers, artists’ presentations, performances and screenings related to the theme described above. Screenings may include demonstrations and/or documentation of screen-based, interactive and installation projects. Successful submissions will be selected for their critical, innovative and aesthetic tendencies.

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Axis ( www.axisweb.org ) is the UK’s online resource for information about contemporary art and artists. The website includes a directory of over 2400 current practising artists in the UK and a series of programmes designed to keep you up-to-date with current developments in contemporary British art.

Dialogue ( www.axisweb.org/dialogue ) is Axis’s free online art journal, generating new critical writing on contemporary art practice. A platform for contrary opinions and broad discussion, each issue prompts and engages in topical debates and critically explores the practice of the artists represented across the Axis website. Dialogue is produced in quarterly editions with essays, interviews, reviews and documented discussions. Future issues will also contain podcasts, audio clips, video clips and an online forum.

Are you an artist / curator / arts professional / writer and keen to contribute to future issues of Dialogue? We are currently looking for features for issues 7 and 8 to be published in October 2007 and January 2008. To be considered for commission all we need from you is a proposal outline (under 500 words) and a CV.

Go to www.axisweb.org/cfp for full submission guidelines.

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