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Pure Data in the summer

Pure Data (Pd) presents the ultimate, free software environment for sheer audio, video and hardware pluggability, patching and piping. Pd provides the basis for all manner of audiovisual performance and trans-media installation, as well as satisfying the artistic quest for heady experimentation and improvisation..... READ MORE...

Biological Imperative

Structured around what the Tissue Culture and Art Project has called "cultural perceptions of life", Biological Imperative freely mixes ideas of partial personhood, the possibilities of regeneration, multiples, fecundity, the semi-living, and the undead (things that just won't die.)... READ MORE...

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008

During the summer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the National Art Museum of China will present SYNTHETIC TIMES - Media Art China 2008 in its current location at the center of Beijing . NAMOC is the only national art museum in China that is dedicated to the research, presentation and promotion of modern and contemporary arts.... READ MORE...

How To Talk to Images

For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.... READ MORE...

Hacker Space Fest

The first Hacker Space Fest (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab near Paris, France in June 2008. The goal of this festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on.... READ MORE...

Tuned City

Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and conference project planned for July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposes a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic... READ MORE...

Cronosfera Festival

CronoSfera Festival intende affacciarsi sull’ immaginario contemporaneo e sulle percezioni del Futuro, sul piano dell’espressione artistica, attraverso un concorso video e mostre di arte contemporanea; sul piano scientifico, attraverso tavole rotonde gestite da giovani ricercatori e divulgatori scientifici... READ MORE...

Marianne Weems: Digital Divide And Theatre

Marianne Weems is the founder of American techno-theatre ensemble The Builders Association, specialised in theatre exhibitions exploiting the richness of interactive digital technology and panoramic screens. In 2004, they brought to RomaEuropa the multi-awarded Alladeen , winner of an Obie Award, a not so much fairy-tale story about employees in a call centre in Bangalore .... READ MORE...

Sonar 2008: Advanced Music & Cinema Beyond

The presence of Spain at S˜nar 2008 is very important, with a third of the music schedule presenting more than ninety artists including composers, DJs and producers. At the centre of the festival there is also a tribute to the creative advertising communication on the Internet, from the fake to the self-promotion through MySpace. Starting from the coordinate image of S˜nar 2008, conceived at first as a series of short amateur videos in which strange genetic experiments are filmed, in a mysterious place, by mixing animals and talking human heads; the anonymous broadcast of the videos on YouTube and through a false website caused an incredible response with hundreds of thousands of hits in few hours.... READ MORE...

We Are Not Alone – Part 2

Having achieved presence, the research systematically proceeded through the study of identity, following two directions: on one side the inversion of the strategy designed for 'Talker' and 'Talker Performance' and, on the other side, the creation of a totally virtual identity. Ex-novo. 'Dead on SecondLife' inverts the process created for 'Talker Performance'. The direction changes: body shifts towards virtual.... READ MORE...