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Hacking the city

Hacking the City is an innovative project which reacts to changing structures of public space, mobility, and communication in the city. The project is mainly focussed on Essen, European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010. Participants are artists, web designers, practitioners of guerrilla communication, street artists, performers, and musicians.... READ MORE...

Media Facade Festival Europe 2010

From 27 August to 02 October 2010, seven European cities will be connected through the medium of urban screens and media facades. Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 (MFF 2010) is a pilot project for artists and media designers. It will employ the networked urban screens infrastructures in 'Joint Broadcasting Events' throughout Europe for transnational circulation of artistic and cultural exchange.... READ MORE...

Between: Borders

John Palmesino and Florian Schneider, advising researchers Design at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), will discuss how in the presence– as well as in the absence – of a scandal, new forms of participation, neutralization and caretaking become the constitutive elements of a border regime that operates beyond the patterns of inclusion and... READ MORE...

Antoni Muntadas Political Advertisement

With each presidential election since 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled a new edition of Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the present. This compelling anthology, updated to include advertisements from this year's presidential campaign, charts of selling of the American presidency in the media age... READ MORE...

Urban Images Symposium

To connect with the rest of the world, we invest a certain amount of trust in various relations. Trust is by default an ambiguous notion, it is one grounded in good faith as much as in doubt. As individuals we not only have these relations to our fellow citizens, but also increasingly with modes of connection. With proliferating forms of media, information comes to us in many guises, and the message is more and more opaque; marketing poses as friendship, solitude as community, populism as democracy.... READ MORE...

Incite/

incite/ (Hamburg) is an audiovisual electronic duo formed in 2002 by Kera Nagel (who also has her own solo project called Axiomatic Integration: www.a.i.radylon.com) and André Aspelmeier (who also works as GradCom: www.gradcom.org).... READ MORE...

The Gate of Milan The final exposition

The next 30th of September, at the Urban Center Milano within Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the exhibition of the international architecture competition "The Gate of Milan" winning project and finalists, will open. The exposition, sponsored by Urban Centre Milano, will remain active from the 1st to 25th of October 2010, from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 18.00 and free admission.... READ MORE...

Signal 2010

Experimentation, research, improvisation on new forms of sound, with an eye towards the most significant expressions of past sound is the type of SIGNAL festival , a festival dedicated to contemporary music and its many side languages now in its fifth edition.... READ MORE...

Illustrative Berlin 11 Young Illustrators Award

In May 2011, the 6th Illustrative- the leading international festival for contemporary illustration and graphic arts, will take place in Berlin again. Artists from all over the world can now apply for the festival: Until October 22nd, 2010 they can submit works in order to be considered for the Swatch Young Illustrators Award. On November 5th, 2010 the nominees will be awarded in advance and invited to the "Illustrators Night", a celebration at Direktorenhaus in Berlin.... READ MORE...

Space Invaders Art in the computer game environment

In Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment the Netherlands Media Art Institute brings art and games culture together. In an artistic, playful yet serious manner, Space Invaders reveals the influence of games on art and society. This group exhibition with Dutch and international media artists examines the increasing blurring of the boundaries between game worlds and reality.... READ MORE...

01SJ Biennial

Il prossimo 16-19 settembre a Silicon Valley, California, ZER01: L'Art and Technology Network inaugurerà la terza Biennale 01SJ. Festival d'arte contemporanea medio-agnostico, la Biennale 01SJ si concentra sul legame tra arte, tecnologia e cultura digitale.... READ MORE...

Celeste Prize 2010

28 international art critics and curators will decide in a unique, totally open process, the 50 finalist artists for this year's 40,000 € Celeste Prize 2010 in New York. The prize is the highest international award in contemporary arts with this kind of selection process... READ MORE...

Noord, Pars Pro Toto

Noord is an international art project concerning Amsterdam-Noord. This peripheral borough serves as a pars pro toto for The Netherlands. It is conflicting and heterogeneous, but at the same time has a strong sense of solidarity and camaraderie. It is also one of the most undiscovered, and therefore exciting locations of The Netherlands. Together with local and international artists, Mediamatic is mapping Noord. The result will be the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands, launched on September 4 at Mediamatic Bank.... READ MORE...

Media City Seoul 2010

To connect with the rest of the world, we invest a certain amount of trust in various relations. Trust is by default an ambiguous notion, it is one grounded in good faith as much as in doubt. As individuals we not only have these relations to our fellow citizens, but also increasingly with modes of connection. With proliferating forms of media, information comes to us in many guises, and the message is more and more opaque; marketing poses as friendship, solitude as community, populism as democracy.... READ MORE...