Chris Joseph

Manolis Kelaidis at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK on 1st November 2007. Supported by the Arts Council England.

Manolis is a designer and engineer who likes his books to be made of paper. His recent work looks into the future of the traditional book as an interface to access digital content. He is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and a Fellow at Imperial College’s Tanaka Business School in London. His previous work ranges from designing art exhibitions for Sony to researching at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich.

The blueBook project makes printed pages digitally interactive by embedding circuits in each page printing text with conductive ink. When you touch a “linked” word on the page your finger completes a circuit, sending a signal to a processor in the back cover which communicates by Bluetooth with a nearby computer, bringing up information on the screen.

ARTECH 2008, 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ARTS
7, 8 November: Portuguese Catholic University - Porto, Portugal
http://artes.ucp.pt/artech2008/

Call for Submissions

Artech 2008 is the fourth international workshop held in Portugal and Galicia on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims to promote contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the conception, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art. Artech 2008 brings the scientific, technological and artistic community together, promoting the interest in the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, a common space for discussion, an exchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital artists and a way of understanding and appreciating new forms of cultural expression.

Main Topics

Main areas are related with sound, image, video, music, multimedia and other new media related topics, in the context of emerging practice of artistic creation.

Although non exclusive, the main topics of the conference are:
* Art and Science
* Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design
* Creativity Theory
* Electronic Music
* Generative and Algorithmic Art
* Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
* Media Art history
* Mobile Multimedia
* Net Art and Digital Culture
* New Experiences with New Media and New Applications
* Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
* Technology in Art Education
* Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit:
* A full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation
* A short paper up to four pages for poster presentations or Art Installations proposals Submissions are accepted in the conference official languages: English, Portuguese, Galician and Castilian.

Format

Artech 2008 has the format of a conference with technical sessions, invited talks and discussion panels as well an exposition area for installations. All the contributions are subject to a blind peer-review and evaluation by the International Programme Committee. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a duly registered book (ISBN) and a selection of the best papers will be published in an appropriate scientific and technological academic journal.

Important dates

Full papers submission: 2 June 2008
Installations proposals and short papers submission: 9 June 2008
Full papers notice of acceptance: 7 July 2008
Installations proposal and short papers notice of acceptance: 14 July 2008

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Call for Book Artworks for the 2nd geekFest bienalle. 26&27 May 2008.

piCOt invites submissions for an Artists Book Library for geekFest 2008 - a two-day festival of digital, live art and time-based practices by cultural experimenters.

geekFest presents work which is hybrid, interactive, relational and negotiates a space with the audience through technology. Through various media; action, installation, performance, new media and book arts the festival presents the ways in which artists use technology to explore the location/situation of the festival.

We invite you respond to the idea of art and technology / borders and meeting points.

geekFest takes place at the coastal location of Branksome Dene Chine in Poole, Dorset. The word ‘chine’ means a ‘deep, narrow ravine cut through soft rocks by a water course descending steeply to the sea’. This landscape is peculiar to Dorset and the Isle of Wight. As the walls of the chines erode continually, the strata are clearly visible. Chines are therefore very important for their fossil records, their archaeology and the unique flora and fauna they provide shelter to. The walk between the chines of Bournemouth and Poole is approximately 3 miles.

More about the festival: Building on the success of the 2006 festival geekFest aims to create a professional situation and a supportive environment for experimental artists to show new work and to develop a dialogue with existing and new audiences. geekFest aims to actively promote and celebrate the diversity of experimental culture.

For more information on 2006’s festival please visit www.geekfest.org.uk – 2008’s website will go live on 12th May.

Submission Criteria.

For selection please submit up to 6 photographs (jpg or tiff format) of a new or existing book work which responds to the brief above, an approx. 200 word artist’s biography and description of the work, including dimensions. Please include contact details, preferably an email address with your submission.

Please send this information either by email or post to reach us by 12noon on 12th May to:

Esther Yarnold
piCOt
c/o Image Lab
Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts
21 Kingland Road
Poole
Dorset
BH15 1UG
UK

esta [at] interim.org.uk

This is an open submission. Please note that your work will be exhibited in a ‘Library’ installation alongside other artists’ work. All work will be made available for visitors to handle – please do not submit work which is fragile, or that should be displayed behind glass. piCOt cannot be held responsible for any damage to the work, and artists must provide their own insurance.

We will let you know if your work has been selected by email by 16th May. Work will need to be delivered or dropped off in person to the above address by 5pm on 21st May.

We will catalogue all work upon receipt and return to you after the festival – if your work requires packaging larger than an A5 jiffy bag, please provide this with your submission of the work. Alternatively we can arrange collection from Lighthouse. All work will be returned by the end of June.

AL and AL:Eternal Youth
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool UK
Until 08 June FREE Entry

This exhibition is the first solo presentation in the UK of work by artist duo AL and AL. Forming a vital part of Liverpool’s Year of Culture celebrations and FACT’s Human Futures programme, the exhibition features a new video installation Eternal Youth (2008) commissioned by FACT which is shown alongside two existing works and a blue screen interactive studio.

UK artists AL and AL make spectacular computer generated videos, which radically re-appropriate contemporary pop culture through an inventive use of celebrity icons, live action performance and animation special effects.

Publication:
A publication to accompany the exhibition, featuring a Q&A with graphic novelist Grant Morrison and an essay by Marina Warner, produced by FACT and distributed by Liverpool University Press is available from: www.facttrading.co.uk

For further information on the exhibition and related events visit: www.fact.co.uk

Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

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*29 MAY with RICHARD COLSON
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Linking the Senses *

Richard Colson considers the role of gesture as part of any process of making art and reflects on its use in his painting and in his work using digital technologies. The talk will try to unravel aspects of experience that have a direct bearing on the interdependence of vision, auditory phenomena, gesture and spatial changes in both the creation of art and its reception by the viewer. Richard will use visual art works and examples of creative writing and will try to show how an awareness of spatial position can have a critical influence on the nature of what is perceived.

RICHARD COLSON is the author of The Fundamentals of Digital Art (AVA Publishing Uk Ltd) and co-curated Sense Detectives at Watermans Arts Centre. He is a Director of the annual Takeaway Festival of DIY Media at the Dana Centre, Science Museum. His paintings are in collections at the House of Lords, the House of Commons, Royal Dutch Shell and Pearson PLC.
www.kwomodo.com

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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

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*15 MAY with COLM LALLY & VERINA GFADER
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Condensation revisited: strategic walking / access to knowledge / economics of things / conversation pieces *

In June 2007 Colm and Verina were invited to take part in the residency programme: Reference Check, a co-production lab taking place at the Banff New Media Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada. During the residency they expanded the notion of “interface” associated with various forms of online communication and exchange, to other, perhaps more radical, forms of spaces between different entities. At the core Colm & Verina’s actions emerges the search for where a site of potential resides beside of technologies’ restrictive mode of ex/inter-change and so-called collaborative or networked practices. Colm & Verina will present the “document” of the process that their project Condensation took during the residency at Banff. This includes questions of: the necessity of temporary frameworks; the character of dialogical communication processes; the failure as a site of potential. In an informal setting the “document” will take the format of a line, or “walking” – of virtually making a tour through various landscapes…

COLM LALLY is founder and director of E:vent. Since 2003 Colm has taken a hands-on role developing the E:vent programme, focusing on media art; video; performance; and electronic music. Colm was a co-organiser of Node.London 06 and is co-director of Arts in Action artists community.

VERINA GFADER completed a practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College, London in 2006, and recently joined CRUMB (web resource for new media art curators) as post-doc research assistant.

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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

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8 MAY with CAMILLE BAKER & MARILENE OLIVER
:
MINDTouch
&
Making DICOM Dance – The Digitised Body as a site for performing subjectivity*

MINDTouch explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying “liveness” within mobile networked environments. MINDTouch involves creating a mobile networked performance that utilizes a database of streamed and/or archived video-clips created by video-enabled mobile phones, to then be retrieved, streamed and remixed during (a) live visuals performance(s). The participants invited to contribute to the video blogs are asked to explore their own consciousness, non-verbal emotional /affective senses and dream states, embodiment and communication.
www.smartlab.uk.com/2projects/mindtouch.htm

CAMILLE BAKER is a Ph.D. Candidate at SMARTlan, University of East London, conducting research on Networked Performance Media, funded by BBC R+D.
www.swampgirl67.net

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Making DICOM Dance: Marilene Oliver’s practice-based research looks at medical and laser imaging technologies that scan bodies and break them down to bytes. Oliver examines from an artist’s perspective, the processes needed to convert flesh to pixel (digital photography), flesh to voxel (MRI, CT and PET) and flesh to xyz co-ordinates (3D laser scanning). Oliver will present a selection of artworks made using MRI data (where the subject of the scans is bespoke) and CT data (where the subject of the scans are either infamous or anonymous). The presentation will be both technical and theoretical, concentrating on the performative puppeteering activity that emerges when working with MRI and CT data.

MARILENE OLIVER is currently a research student in the Fine Art Print department at the Royal College of Art. Oliver has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy, Royal Institution, Science Museum (UK). Oliver was awarded the Royal Academy print prize in 2006 and the Printmaking Today prize in 2001.

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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

Thursday 1st May 2008, 6.00pm - 7.15pm

Paul Brown, Origins and Emergence - a brief history of the digital arts

Doors open at 5.30pm for drinks. This event is free and open to the public, however places are limited - please email info [at] ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat.

Download the flyer for this event (PDF)

This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the history of the digital arts from their origins in the analogue kinetics and Jazz/Poetry performances of the 1950’s to current practice. Key themes like Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life/Emergence, Computational and Generative, Interaction, Convergence, Communication and Networking will be identified and discussed. In particular the speaker will revisit predictions he made in the late 1980’s when he suggested that any new media need a minimum 40 year gestation period which he suggests is now coming to term. He will illustrate this hypothesis by using current web2 manifestations as examples of digital media emerging in their own right in contrast to our previous metaphorical adaptations.

About Paul Brown:

Paul Brown is an Anglo-Australian artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late 1960s and in computational & generative art since the mid 1970s. His international exhibition record spans four decades and includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks. He has participated in shows at major venues like the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; the Adelaide Festival; ARCO in Spain and the Venice Biennale. His work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA.

From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for LEA, the e-journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press), and the journal Digital Creativity (Routledge). From 1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the Internet’s longest established art ‘zines and he is currently Chair of the international Computer Arts Society (CAS) and moderator of the DASH (Digital ArtS Histories) and CAS e-lists.

During 2000/2001 he was a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia Council when he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. From 2002-05 he was a visiting fellow in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he worked on the CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc…) project and he is currently (2005-08) visiting professor and artist-in-residence at the CCNR, University of Sussex where he is working on a project to evolve robots that can draw.

He lives on the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland, Australia.

Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his website at http://www.paul-brown.com.

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