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Learning Machines Art Education and Alternative Production of Knowledge

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano) – the first private art Academy in Italy founded by artists in order to oppose the rigid structure of the official Academy, organizes and hosts an international project "Learning Machines. Art Education and alternative production of knowledge". Through a vast number of initiatives this event will not just articulate the past and future of NABA, but will also stem to provide a profound reflection, and open up a discussion on the relationship between art and education, between institutional and non-institutional practices.... READ MORE...

Club Transmediale 11

This 12th edition of Berlin's unique Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts takes place from 01 - 06. February 2011 under the watchword #LIVE!?. With new venues and novel themes, CTM 2011 appears this year in a new guise to fathom the latest developments at the interface of music, art and technology, in terms both of theory and practice.... READ MORE...

Madatac 02

At the height of the 2009 economic crisis, the first edition of MADATAC (Muestra Abierta de Arte Audiovisual Contemporáneo) came as a salutary shock. Based on the interchange of experience and know how, MADATAC is a unique and inclusive springboard for cutting edge audio-visual art; this year it's back…and stronger.... READ MORE...

New Media Art & Education Always Already New

Celebrating the 30 years of the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, NABA, and as part of our blueprint program aimed at exploring the relations among culture, art and technologies, the PhD Program of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node and the NABA School of Media Design & New Media Art, in collaboration with NoemaLab are organizing a 3-day meeting on December 16 – 18, 2010, in Milan @NABA to challenge, foresee and debate in a subversive, non linear, anarchic and non academic free way, future strategies and forms of education in Media, Art & Design and the role of the research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technologies.... READ MORE...

Spazi Enattivi

Una performance sviluppata da Master Digital Exhibit and Set Design 2010 & Ariella Vidach-AiEP | Avventure in Elicottero Prodotti in collaborazione con il Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano e TEC ART ECO.... READ MORE...

Parasol Elektroniczny Rumors from the Eastern underground

The first episode of the "Parasol Elektroniczny. Rumors from the Eastern underground" series is an exception in two regards. Firstly, as I happened to be on a journey to Tallinn at that time, Felix Kubin conducted the interviews with the artists himself. This task is usually carried out by our umbrella agents. The second unusual feature is its duration. At over 80 minutes, it could almost be considered a double feature. However, television pilot programs are often longer than their follow-ups, and I don't see any reason why this should not apply to audio features too. Also, the Estonian episode is a good introduction to the vibrancy and variety of the Eastern European underground scene.... READ MORE...

The ADA Symposium

The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and produc...tion, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the ethical complexities of global air travel, and the social complexities of remote participation?... READ MORE...

Alter Nature: We Can

Celebrating the 30 years of the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, NABA, and as part of our blueprint program aimed at exploring the relations among culture, art and technologies, the PhD Program of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node and the NABA School of Media Design & New Media Art, in collaboration with NoemaLab are organizing a 3-day meeting on December 16 – 18, 2010, in Milan @NABA to challenge, foresee and debate in a subversive, non linear, anarchic and non academic free way, future strategies and forms of education in Media, Art & Design and the role of the research and production spaces for artists and creative professionals working with technologies.... READ MORE...

Manifest Dynasty Media Arts in China

It is said that a new Gallery or Museum opens in China every 3 days; Ai Weiwei installs another monumental sculpture across the globe and 70 million visitors trudge through the World Expo in Shanghai. Three or so centuries after Chinoiserie entered the Western Art Vocabulary, and despite some recent market deflation, China is definitely still IT.... READ MORE...

Club To Club X

Il decennale di Club To Club, festival internazionale di musiche e arti elettroniche, si svolgerà dal 4 al 7 novembre 2010 a Torino e in contemporanea dal 3 al 5 novembre a Istanbul, con un'anticipazione a Milano, il 21 e 23 ottobre e a Roma il 2 ottobre. Torino, Istanbul e Milano saranno unite dalle sonorità e dalle performance di Club To Club, appuntamento internazionale tra i più importanti e attesi per gli appassionati di musica e cultura elettronica.... READ MORE...

Piemonte Share Festival Smart Mistakes

Piemonte Share Festival is featuring a series of exhibitions, conferences, dialogues, workshops, screenings and performances focused on the topic of SMART MISTAKES – to help broaden our minds, sharpen our skills, and inspire creative expression. Smart mistakes, mutation, failure, dysfunction, discrepancy, accident, unexpected change, chance discovery, the aesthetics of error, mass waste, project failure, abandoned projects, disaster, flaws, imperfections, glitches, misappropriation, side-effects, slip-ups, flops.... READ MORE...

The digital oblivion International Symposium

As part of the broader research project digital art conservation this intermational symposium aims to investigate the future of our digital cultural memory, focusing in particular on the preservation of computer-based art. For millennia, transmission systems with long-term stability shaped our sense of time and of history, helping form our image of ourselves and of the world. The ever-present threat to cultural heritage from external factors - whether war, deliberate destruction or processes of natural decomposition - meant that cultural memory was arranged with longevity and reliability in mind.... READ MORE...

Mapping Time Exhibition

This fall, the gallery@calit2 presents "Mapping Time," an exhibition by Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com). The lab is directed by Lev Manovich, UCSD Professor of Visual Arts and Calit2 researcher; its core participants are Jeremy Douglass (Calit2 post-doctoral researcher) and William Huber (PhD student in Visual Arts). In addition, undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Communication, Visual Arts, and Calit2 participate in the lab's work.... READ MORE...

Laboral SummerLab 2010

For the third year running, LABoral has organised SummerLAB, an annual event conceived to bring young digital creators and developers together with the purpose of working on collaborative projects. After an open international call, eight projects were chosen to be developed over a period of ten days during the month of July at Plataforma 0_LABoral Centro de Producción.... READ MORE...

STRP Festival

STRP Festival (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) is one of the largest art & technology (e-culture) festivals in Europe, that fuses music, art and technology. At STRP there are projects of young game designers next to major works from the international art circuit and experimental live cinema next to successful pop artists and DJs. During the next edition, STRP will experiment on a large scale with the use of RFID- and cognitive technologies to enhance the festival experience of the visitors by adding an extra technological layer. With this experiment, STRP Festival aims to explore new ways of organizing and experiencing art.... READ MORE...

Jason Mena We all shall play in the ruins

Jason Mena's work entails a multi-faceted approach to contemporaneity that, drawn from conceptualism and minimalism, reveals the complexities and contradictions of the ever increasing urbanization of space. The City and its architecture becomes the main protagonist and consequently witness of the post-modern condition. Reality and fiction converge, they appear and disappear in the urban landscape, provoking multiple reactions and interpretations.... READ MORE...