Art

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...

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...

Technology Expanding The Reason

In the past the landscape was understood as a physical place; the distance you could see to the horizon or the rows of corn needing to be plowed before sundown. Now, with ubiquitous Google Maps, the World Wide Web, digital photography and nanotechnology, the landscape, a physical place has been evolving into the landscape as a virtual place. As experimenters and meaning-makers, artists create an important dialogue about how technology impacts and changes our notion of the meaning of this landscape.... READ MORE...

Digital Aesthetic 2

Digital Aesthetic 2 is a multi-venue exhibition, conference and website organised by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Dr. Chris Meigh-Andrews at the Electronic and Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire, both in Preston.... READ MORE...

Upgrade!Amsterdam

'Locative media' are hot: from cell phones to GPS, to other means of satellite communications. A world without the latter seems unthinkable, or perhaps even non-navigationable. Experiments with locative media within the arts have mostly focused on and taken place within an urban context.... READ MORE...