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Art Tech Media

The First International Art Tech Media Conference has been set up in order to reflect upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new technological media within an international context. In a globalised world, dominated by communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future that affects our everyday life, it is essential to make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost infinite.... READ MORE...

Networked Nature

Foxy Production presents Networked Nature, a group exhibition that inventively explores the representation of 'nature' through the perspective of networked culture. The exhibition includes works by C5, Futurefarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross, Stephen Vitiello, and Gail Wight, who provocatively combine art and politics with innovative technology, such as global positioning systems (GPS), robotics, and hydroponic environments.... READ MORE...

Planetary Collegium Montreal Summit

The first International Planetary Collegium Summit will be held in Montreal from April 19 to 22, 2007, on the premises of University of Quebec in Montreal's Coeur des Sciences. Among the speakers are many internationally recognized artists, thinkers and researchers, such as Roy Ascott, founder of the Planetary Collegium, transdisciplinary artist Victoria Vesna, astrophysicist Roger Malina, nanotechnologist James Gimzewski, philosopher Pierre Lévy, culture theoretician Derrick de Kerckhove, media artist and theoretician Bill Seaman, and many others.... READ MORE...

EMAF 2007

20 Years of the European Media Art Festival - the forum for Expanded Media in Europe. The meeting point for audiences and guests from home and abroad. Around 250 new works of media art, including world premieres, will be presented... READ MORE...

Geert Lovink @ Argos

Geert Lovink (NL/AUS) is a media theorist and activist and Internet critic and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First Recession. He worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and India . He is a member of the Adilkno collective and co-founder of Internet projects such as ... READ MORE...

Deaf 2007

From 10 through 29 April 2007, the eighth Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) will take place in Rotterdam. This international festival is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. It will be the first event to take place in the fully renovated Las Palmas cultural center in Rotterdam 's Kop van Zuid area. This year's theme is Interact or Die!... READ MORE...

Andreas Broeckmann, Contemporary New Media Art

The last edition of Transmediale represented for us a change edition and after gathering many opinions and impressions during the festival we can say that, according to many, it was an edition of difficult comprehension. Despite it, as point of reference for all who deal with new media, Transmediale is on everybody's lips, even after its end. And as each important appointment it is always under floodlights, giving confirmations and wrong-footing with its changes.... READ MORE...

Valdoca, Concerto D’elite

Al Teatro del Parco di Mestre, nell'ambito di Fuori Contesto 2007, si respira un'aria quasi spirituale, interiore, aspettando l'aprirsi del sipario, consapevole riparo onorato che svelerˆ la quiete scenografica. In un attimo il pianoforte, i fiori distesi, i palchetti sui quali vedremo corpi femminili salire e brandire lance insanguinate mostrano giˆ la staticitˆ coreutica, la centralitˆ drammaturgica.... READ MORE...

Optronica: The Audiovisual Culture

The second edition of Optronica took place in London from 14th to 19th March, in the restructured National Film Theatre Complex, opened with the name of BFI Southbank and in the incredible IMax Cinema , near the first one. This edition confirmed the British festival as an not to be missed appointment for the lovers of Live Media and Live Cinema, and as meeting for the experts of the sector.... READ MORE...

Maria Roussou, Immersive Interactive Experience

Maria Roussou worked for years (1993 - 1997) at the CAVE of Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago . From 1998 till 2002 she directed the Virtual Reality Department of the Foundation of the Hellenic World in Athene. She cooperated with several museums, such as the Minneapolis Walker Art Center , where she was in charge of online art education. She studied Electronic Media and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Illinois University in Chicago , she is PhD in Computer Science at London University and teaches New Technologies & Museums for Master of Arts program in Museum Studies at Athene University .... READ MORE...