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A New Dark Age For Dutch Culture

Annette Wolfsberger
The letter Meer dan kwaliteit' (More than Quality') by the State Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra (VVD, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) arrived in the electronic mailboxes of Dutch art and cultural institutes on Friday, 10 June 2011. It stated that €200 million would be brutally slashed from the arts and culture budget, starting as early as 1 January 2013... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Certain Pleasure. Zhang Peili And Electronic Media

Robin Peckham
Zhang Peili is an enigmatic figure: while he is widely respected in China as a pioneering video artist and a progenitor of the use of electronic media in the wake of the 85 New Wave movement of the mid-1980s, his international reputation relies primarily on a small number of survey exhibitions motivated by multicultural agendas and staged amidst work of vastly divergent practical initiatives.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

Festival SESC Videobrasil

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The particularities of contemporary artistic production from the geopolitical South of the world inspire the Southern Panoramas Seminar, the main activity in the Educational Curatorial Program developed for the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.... READ MORE...
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Flussi 2011

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Terza edizione per «Flussi», festival internazionale di arti digitali. Come tutti gli anni, sarà la terrazza del Teatro «Carlo Gesualdo» di Avellino il palcoscenico per i live set di artisti di spessore internazionale... READ MORE...
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Share Prize 2011

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Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age. Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from 25th June to 20th August 2011, by completing the entry form on the website.... READ MORE...
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Translife: Media Art China

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Following the groundbreaking international new media art exhibition "Synthetic Times", a 2008 Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, the National Art Museum of China presents "TransLife", the next installment of the "Media Art China" series, now instituted as a triennial, slated to open on July 26, 2011, in Beijing.... READ MORE...
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The Invisible Pavillon

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The art, my friend, is flowing in the wind. The Invisible Pavilion is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks will fill the whole area of the Giardini.... READ MORE...
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Transmediale: thematic call for works

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The 2012 edition of transmediale takes place in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 31 January – 5 February 2012 exploring the theme of in/compatible. tm.12 postulates that incompatible beings drive the logic of contemporary cultural production. We understand in/compatible beings as aesthetic things and processes that do not necessarily connect on the terms we are used to. The festival wants to raise the question of what happens when such incompatible beings are brought to the fore rather than hidden away in the dark underbelly of digital culture?... READ MORE...
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Car culture Media of Mobility

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From 18 June, 2011 to 8 January, 2012 the ZKM | Media Museum will present artistic reflections on both material and immaterial mobility: Each has its origins in Baden: the invention of physical mobility by Carl Benz in Mannheim, in 1886, as well Heinrich Hertz's discovery of electromagnetic waves as the foundation for worldwide radiocommunication in Karlsruhe in the same year... READ MORE...
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Media Adventures In Belgrade. The Share Conference

Julianne Pierce
Things are happening in Belgrade. This historic city sitting at the junction of the Danube and Sava rivers is throwing off a troubled past and with the enthusiasm of its young population, is striving to create a dynamic and media savvy cultural hub. The SHARE Conference, held in early April 2011 is an example of the entrepreneurism that appears to be taking hold in this rapidly emerging creative environment.... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Byob. Bring Your Own Beamer

Silvia Bianchi
In our case BYOB means Bring Your Own Beamer. It is a new format of itinerant exhibition in which space is transformed for one day in a digital version of a nineteenth-century picture gallery. By using a projector local artists are invited to show everything that could fall within the definition of image motion: from a Skype video call to a photoshop screen to a performance with Finder.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Festival Tecarteco 02 Creazioni

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EMAF Osnabruek è uno dei più importanti forum di media art internazionale, un laboratorio di esperimenti creativi e artistici che contribuisce alla formazione dei contenuti e dell'estetica dei media. Un fervido luogo d'incontro che ospita artisti, curatori, fiduciari, proprietari di gallerie oltre ad un pubblico specializzato, determinante per lo sviluppo delle tematiche e dell'estetica dell'arte dei media.... READ MORE...
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Fach & Asendorf Gallery

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The Internet, it is everywhere. It is here, it is there and it is where you actually are. It is so huge that nobody ever could print it. It is so deep that no one ever would dive to its end. There is peace and war in it, love and hate and all between. Once you have traveled trough it, you will never forget, and you will come back, asap, lol.... READ MORE...
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