Open Up-workshop on digital facades: collaborators needed (Madrid, Spain)

Call for collaborators
Open Up Workshop: projects for the digital façade of Medialab-Prado
Deadline: February 8, 2010
Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010
Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain)

Join us for the Open Up international workshop! This event is focused on the development of 8 selected projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado cultural center’s building. The goals of the workshop are to explore the relationship between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities, and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation.

According to its field of interest, each collaborator can be part of any team, bringing his/her knowledge and ideas to the workgroup and, at the same time, learning from the group and the teachers: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo.

For residents out of Madrid, Medialab-Prado will cover for the stay of a limited number of participants at a Youth Hostel during the workshop.

No entry fees.

More information, call guidelines and submission form:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up_convocatoria_para_colaboradores
Selected projects: http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up_proyectos_seleccionados
Email: medianeralab (at) medialab-prado.es
Venue:
Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)

Workshop INTERACTIVOS? in the framework of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm

INTERNACIONAL CALL FOR PROJECTS
Workshop INTERACTIVOS? in the framework of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm

A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

CALL DEADLINE: 15th of February 2010
DATES OF WORKSHOP: 8th to 20th of April 2010
LOCATION: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Spain)

Call for the presentation of projects to take part in Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, as part of the programme for artists and creators of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. A maximum of eight proposals will be selected to be collaboratively developed in the workshop that will take place prior to the opening of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm, on April 23rd 2010.

The exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm reveals a huge shift from a culture based on the concept of manifestation and the final product (industrial society) to a culture of process. The Interactivos? workshop leading up to the exhibition is devoted to the production of artworks which follow the thesis of the exhibition. As in the exhibition, the probes and prototypes made during the Interactivos? workshop are processes that evolve, develop and alter over time. The projects developed during Interactivos? will be shown in the exhibition.

Check the guidelines at www.laboralcentrodearte.org

VideoChronic: Video Activism and Distribution in Indonesia

EngageMedia and Kunci Cultural Studies Center are pleased to announce
the launch of Videochronic. This publication is the result of a
collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with
video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of
technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and
limitations of online video distribution.

The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of
video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist
organisations. Access to the tools for producing and distributing video
have become increasingly democratised over this period.

But how are video activists taking to using new video distribution
technologies? Beyond the hype how are these tools being used on the
ground? This research explores how social change video work is currently
being distributed in Indonesia, from VCD to vodcasting, Creative Commons
to Copyright, and considers how are activists might approach
distribution in the future.

This 140 page book presents both English and Indonesian versions of the
research as well as colour illustrations including a visualisation of
the development of video activism and online video.

The research can be downloaded as PDF or hard copies may be ordered.

Full details at
http://engagemedia.org/videochronic

Mapping Festival Call for entries

Call for entries 2010!

The 6th edition of the Mapping Festival is coming and the call for entries too!

From May 6th through the 16th 2010, the Mapping Festival will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, in differents venues: Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Théâtre du Grütli, Théâtre de la Parfumerie, Zoo & Spoutnik / Usine and Uptown Geneva.

You have many ideas and projects, the call for entries is now open, so we are counting on you to be there and spice up the Mapping Festival menu!
This year again, the festival will promote the mix of disciplines, and you will be able to apply for the following categories:
VJing
Audiovisual set
Installation
Outdoor projection
Lecture / Workshop / Presentation / Demo
This year, the application is on line on our web site: www.mappingfestival.com
Beware, the delays to apply are short: you can apply until January 4th 2010.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications and all the team wishes you the best for 2010!

Appel à projet 2010!

La sixième édition du Mapping Festival aura lieu du 6 au 16 mai 2010 à Genève (CH) !

Différents lieux genevois accueilleront cette année le Mapping Festival: Le Bâtiment d’art contemporain, le Théâtre du Grütli, Théâtre de la Parfumerie, Zoo & Spoutnik / Usine and l’Uptown Geneva.
Vous avez plein de concepts derrière la tête, l’appel à projets est lancé, nous comptons donc sur vous et vos idées pour venir mettre votre grain de sel et assaisonner le menu du Mapping Festival.
La pluridisciplinarité est toujours à l’honneur du festival et voici les différentes catégories qui sont mises en avant:
 VJing
Performance audiovisuelle
Installation
Projection / Performance en extérieure
Conférence / Workshop / Présentation / Démo
Cet année les inscriptions se feront en ligne via notre site internet : www.mappingfestival.com. Quelques clics et c’est dans la boîte. Attention: les délais sont courts, nous attendons vos candidatures jusqu’au lundi 4 janvier 2010.
En se réjouissant de recevoir vos dossiers, toute l’équipe du Mapping Festival vous adresse ses meilleurs voeux pour 2010 !

Call For Papers VIRT3C@Hull 2010 Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption of Collaborative Networks

Call For Papers

   The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference of the Virtual
   Communication, Collaboration and Conflict (VIRT3C) Research Group at
   the University of Hull

   VIRT3C@Hull 2010 Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption
   of Collaborative Networks

   19-20 March

   http://virt3c.wordpress.com/

   Public Keynote speaker:   Geert Lovink

   Keynote speakers:

   Gabriella Coleman [Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU]

   Mathieu O’Neil [Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV & Australian National  University]

   Our plenary theme is Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption of Online Collaborative Networks. As virtual society develops, and peer technologies and practices pump in its heart, this conference brings together academics of all disciplines to discuss conflict in the adoption of collaborative networks. This is a time of confrontation between older forms of communication and organization and new ways of sharing, collaborating and acting collectively.

We seek to explore conflicts emerging in the transition from, and resistance to, horizontal participatory networks, as well as conflict within collaborative networks. We welcome suggestions for panels and papers on any area relating to our theme, and particularly in the following  areas:

   Network Theory
   P2P and FLOSS methodology adoption
   FLOSS methodology
   Open source conflicts and forking
   Adoption by NGOs and the developing world
   Adoption by social movements, hacktivism, cyberconflict
   Institutional resistance to networks
   Online P2P places and conflicts

   We encourage contributions, including, but not limited to, politics,
   economics, computer science, business, psychology, sociology, and law.

   With your abstract of no more than 300 words please include the
   following information:

   Name, postal address, email
   Institutional affiliation and position (if applicable)

   Please send abstracts in Word or pdf format to the organisers at athina.k   (at)   gmail.com

   Provisional Deadline for abstracts: 15th January 2010

Call for projects on digital facades:oPEN uP

Deadline: December 10, 2009
Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010
Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain).

Worskhop tutors: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo.

Open Up is a workshop for the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado’s building. This call is addressed to the presentation of proposals to be collaboratively developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.

The goal is to explore the relation between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation such as receiving and participating in the different phases of content production. Selected projects will be developed under the supervision of teachers, technical assistants and an extensive group of collaborators.

Projects presented in this call will have to explore aspects such as: development of strategies for public participation, activation of urban space through the screen, foster public visibility of agents that normally have none, visualization of public collectives; interaction with portable devices, etc.

All those interested in collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from January 5 through February 8, 2010.
Check the call guidelines and submit your project before December 10, 2009. No entry fees.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up
More information and call guidelines:
medianeralab (at) medialab-prado.es
Venue:
Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)

Database of Virtual Art : Collective Tool for the Field

Pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art (DVA) has been
documenting the rapidly evolving digital installation art for more than
a decade. Cooperating with known media artists, researchers and
institutions as members allows the DVA to develop into the collective
project in the field. There have been a number of online archives
supported over the years, but almost all no longer have funding and have
either disappeared or exist in a frozen condition.

The DVA is beginning a renewed phase of further development with
existing and new members. Based on the *concept of expanded
documentation* it epitomizes a collective, *facebook-like* project
dedicated to media art. 500 artists selected from over 5000 applicants
offer the best selection of thousands of high quality artworks. Besides
the artists, more than 300 theorists and mediaarthistorians are
contributors. The DVA is a scholarly project and from the beginning a
university-based endeavor.

NEW FEATURES of the DVA :::
::: Optimized upload system allowing contributors to add, revise, &
cross-link information in a clear online procedure.
::: Artists can easily upload videos, as well as work descriptions,
digital documents, technical data, institutions and bios.
::: This rich online resource has a systematic thesaurus built from
various international keyword systems.
::: Any contributor from the field can submit to the news-ticker.
www.virtualart.at
Inviting a new wave of contributions to use the enhanced and improved
interface.
:::::::  Database of Virtual Art  :::::  ADVISORY BOARD  ::::::
Roy ASCOTT, Beryl GRAHAM, Erkki HUHTAMO, Jorge LA FERLA, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Martin ROTH, Steve WILSON
http://www.virtualart.at/about/advisory-board.html

CREATIVE RIGHTS On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft

CREATIVE RIGHTS
On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft
 
Azin Feizabadi
Gilbert & George
Christian de Lutz
Triple Candie
 
Creative Rights Library
 
Opening: 27 November 2009, 8pm
Duration of Exhibition: 28.11.-7.2.2010, Sa+So 2-6pm
Winter pause: 18.12.2009-3.1.2010
 
Workshop: “Copyright and Related Themes for Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers
and other Creative Professionals” in German with the Berlin based lawyer Andreas Lichtenhahn, 28 November, 3pm (for free, registration necessary)
 
Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the fourth exhibition in the series Art and Law: The exhibition Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints. The exhibition “Creative Rights” consists of three parts: The exhibition with four ar-tistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright.
 
The exhibition shows four positions offering unique views on appropriation, fair use (a term defining legal use of images outside of copyright restrictions) and ‘copyleft’( the decision of the artist to forego the protections of copyright).
 
Triple Candie (curatorial duo Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett) provoked controversy in 2006 with their exhibition David Hammons: The Unauthorized Retrospective in which they exhibited color and black and white copies from books, brochures, catalogues and websites documenting the work of the American artist David Hammons. The resulting exhibition, part of which is on display in “Creative Rights” as a curatorial quotation, cast a unique critical light on both Hammons work and art world traditions, and was both highly praised and criticised.
 
Repetitions-Revolutions-Rituals by the Iranian-German artist Azin Feizabadi documents a project started by the artist in 2004 when he sprayed an image of a woman in a headscarf using a stencil throughout the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. The work, initially an homage to his mother, the artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi, who as an 18 year old during the Iranian Revolution, sprayed left wing graffiti in Tehran, was missused in 2006 by the German glossy newsweekly Focus for its cover, with the words ‘The Multi-cultural Lie”. Feizabadi has chosen to ‘reappropriate’ the image in a specific way.
 
Christian de Lutz’s work The Copyright Piece (2009) situates itself on the border between infringement and fair use, making reference to this legal gray area, as well as functioning as a critique of both the current financial and art markets. The artwork consists of a CD with a sound piece which the artist created by substantially altering a piece of music. In addition to the CD there is an artist text and a contract, which offers the work to a collector under certain circumstances.
 
Planed (2007) by Gilbert and George, the Italian-British artist duo, is featured in the exhibition as an example of ‘copyleft’, a chosen alternative to traditional copyright. The artists offered the work as 9 files for download, in cooperation with the BBC and Guardian newspaper. The work was offered for free to the general public, without any stated restrictions.
 
In addition to the exhibition there is the Creative Rights Library, a collection of articles, manifestos and documents covering a number of topics pertaining to copyright and ‘copyleft’. It features two current cases of artists in copyright disputes. The American artist Shepard Fairey, known for his now famous Obama campaign posters, is currently in a legal dispute with the Associated Press (AP). The other case is that between Richard Prince and the photographer Patrick Cariou. Richard Prince used photographs from Cariou’s book ‘Yes Rasta’ in his recent series of collages ‘Canal Zone’. Cariou filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Additionally the library will have materials on the artists in the exhibition as well as material on both US and German copyright law, Creative Commons, the Stanford University Fair Use Project as well as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties.
 
As a third part of “Creative Rights” on Saturday, 28 November at 3 PM Art Laboratory Berlin will also present a workshop on Copyright and Related Themes for Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers and other Creative Professionals (see above).
 
-Regine Rapp, 2009

If you have any questions or wish material about the exhibition, please contact
presse@artlaboratory-berlin.org
 
For further information about Art Laboratory Berlin please also visit our website:

http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-press-current.htm

Craftivism

Saturday 12 December 2009 – Sunday 14 February 2010
Preview Friday 11 December 6pm – 8 pm

Invited artists + collectives: Kayle Brandon + Heath Bunting / Rhiannon Chaloner + Manuel Vason / glorious ninth / GOTO10  / Rui Guerra / Household / Christine + Irene Hohenbüchler / JODI / Mandy McIntosh / Gloria Ojulari Sule / Trevor Pitt + Kate Pemberton / Janek Simon / Stephanie Syjuco / Clare Thornton / and projects produced with local residents.

Craftivism is an Arnolfini / Relational contemporary art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially-engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of ‘craftivism’ (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.

The project attempts to collapse the distinction between ‘making’ and ‘doing’ – the former associated with craft, the latter with human action. It places an emphasis on interaction and participation in the wider social realm, and employs aspects of self-organisation and ‘open-source’ principles. The artists involved engage with craft-based traditions through diverse practices including art, technology and fashion. Selected works exemplify ‘innovation’ in the general sense that newly invented forms might diverge from established rules and perceived norms.

Craftivism is developed in relation to a range of contexts and includes nine artist-led participatory projects developed with local communities, the outcomes of which are shown as part of a gallery-based interactive exhibition, online and in free software-related projects, workshops, talks and the uncurated satellite event UnCraftivism. An exhibition at Colston Hall will also take place and events at Full Circle – St. Paul’s Youth and Family Centre, Knowle West Media Centre and The Mall Bristol.

The project will invite public interaction and provide opportunities to take part, make work and learn craft-based skills to customise products. It encourages wider communities to embrace the ‘freedom’ to create, modify and distribute products, and in so doing demonstrates the possibilities for people to modify their own lives.

Craftivism is part of the Artist/Activist season, a series of Arnolfini projects in Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 which provides a socially-active forum for debate and learning around issues of climate change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism…..

http://www.craftivism.net/wiki/Main_Page

RDEX

installation:

* RDEX by Claude Heiland-Allen

rdex-client is an installation that explores in an autonomous hyperspace mathematical model, searching for interesting emergent behaviour (life-alike, alife). The model is a kind of continuous non-linear cellular automaton, based on partial differential equations representing chemistry of two reagents involving reaction and diffusion.

 The mathematical equations of the model have four parameters, that need to be set to concrete values when running the simulation. rdex-client explores this 4D parameter space at random. rdex-client analyses the behaviour that emerges from the system, moving on to a new set of parameters if it fades into unchanging uniformity or explodes into erratic numerical instability.

Much more time is spent evolving the cellular automaton when neither of those alternatives occurs: when it finds something really quite interesting… http://rdex.goto10.org