Chris Joseph

Another great piece by Katie Haegele discussing Alice as digital literature and pedagogical resource - ‘Art, film or game? ‘Inanimate Alice’ redefines ‘publish’.

NF08: Mosaics will examine the wide array of works that are found within Media Arts. Works for the festival should examine relations of cross-cultural media - through video, sound, electronic music, internet, print, and writing. A mosaic has traditionally referred to art which takes pieces of a part to create a whole. The word has been used in multiple references across literature, media, science, software, video, and religion to describe different constellations of this phenomena. To quote Sean Cubitt, ‘A newly global connectivity creates new arenas for interaction between science, art, and technology, but also creates the preconditions for global crises.’

In recent years many political scientists and economists have discussed the equalizing effects of the internet on global culture. In addition to film, music and visuals and installation art series, NF 08 will be creating shared media pieces connected via the internet and wireless performance. These pieces will have the ability to become part of a larger discourse on all platforms including audio, video, textual, design, locative, and performance. NF will be looking for applications that incorporate artists’ personal work associated with the festivals current programming as well as proposals incorporating this greater participatory project.

To find out more about the events within New Forms, please go to http://2007.newformsfestival.com/events/. Programming includes installation, electronic music (techno, dub, live performance, a/v), presentations and film. NF is always looking to expand its partnerships in the local community as well, and is open to new opportunities with ARC’s, Galleries and Collectives. Please contact malcolm@newformsfestival.com with any questions around New Forms Festival 08: Mosaics. Please check online at www.newformsfestival.com for submission form information over the upcoming weeks.

Submission Deadline for NF 08 is March 1st, 2008.

The De Montfort Creativity Assistant is a tool designed by Sascha Westendorf and Keno Buss to help develop creative ideas in a transdisciplinary multimedia context, based upon the thesis that “creativity is an emergent property”. The intention is to first understand the stages that creative people move through in their journeys of exploration, discovery, innovation, and composition. The well-established path from preparation to incubation to illumination and verification is a good starting point, but more elaborate models are needed to guide software design for individual and social creativity support, and to deal with the controversial question of how such creativity support tools can be evaluated.

The De Montfort Creativity Assistant toolkit is available from

http://dmu-ca.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/

where you may find reviews, reports, a guided tour and facilities for feedback/questions.

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org

is happy to launch its Christmas edition of net:NET - netart features. Like edition I , also the 2nd edition of net.NET is presenting 7 artists and selected works –>

“D.F. MAZE”, 2006 by Ernesto Rios (Mexico)
“District of Leitavia”, 2004 by Ian M Clothier (New Zealand)
FUSE, 2004 by SoiiZen Art Labs (Taiwan)
“Antroptic”, 2007 by Ethan Ham/Benjamin Rosenbaum (USA/CH)
“Sonic Map of Battersea Park”, 2007 by Gaya Gajewska (UK)
“X_Reloaded”, 2005 by santo_file (Spain/Italy)
“Neue Kathedrale des erotische Elends”, 2004- by Dirk Vekemans (Belgium)

The feature can be accessed on JavaMuseum directly via http://www.javamuseum.org/2007/index5.html or any other feature of the 2007 series on www.javamuseum.org

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Edition I of net.NET, launched on 1 November 2007 is featuring works by
Adele Prince (UK), J.T.Wine (USA), Carlo Sansolo (Brazil)
Les Liens Invisibles (Italy), MEZ (Australia), Konstantia Sofokleous (Cyprus)
Katty Vandenberghe/Chris Diedericks (South Africa)

All net.NET - netart features are also launched in the framework of NewMediaFest2007 - and can be accessed via the festival interface on http://2007.newmediafest.org and http://www.newmediafest.org/blog/

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JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org
wishes all its visitors and friends in all parts on the globe a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Peaceful New Year 2008 !!

Listen also to the Christmas message “urbi et orbi” by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, director and curator of JavaMuseum, on AgricolaTV - http://tv.agricola-de-cologne.de/blog/

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