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Iannis Xenakis Composer, Architect, Visionary

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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). One of the most important figures in twentieth-century music, Xenakis originally trained as an engineer and was also known as an architect, developing iconic designs while working with Le Corbusier in the 1950s.... READ MORE...
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Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum

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The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new and exciting development in computer music research, livecoding. Several London-based researchers in this area will perform a short piece using livecoding techniques, thus helping the audience get a hang on this new and cross-disciplinary approach to music creation.... READ MORE...
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… on the Eastern front

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The exhibition …on the eastern front examines the effects of the changes taking place on the area of the former "Soviet block" on the individual and the different groups of society from the aspect of socio-psychology. It concentrates on the human dimensions of the transition period lasting since the end of the eighties, on micro-processes. The period since the demolition of the Berlin Wall is characterised by democratisation everywhere in the region. However, the rate, timing, technique and extent of transition are different in every country. Consequently, the responses given to the challenge of transition are answered in various different ways by individuals, by groups and by society. The exhibition uses a psychological viewpoint to examine the relations and dynamics of the various groups of society and the individuals.... READ MORE...
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Around Simulation A Yasmin discussion

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We extensively use and live into simulation. In our everyday life we imagine situations, events, projects and decline them to the future: we simulate possible worlds and test them in a sort of permanent "what if" which is continuously reworked and modified. This process has been methodologically formalized in the sciences, where we build models, simulations, which try to describe facts, events and phenomena. Models and simulations have a very important cognitive role in knowing and understanding the world we live in.... READ MORE...
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Cloud Core Scanner

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Clouds, their formation and their substance, have long been a much-discussed topic in art and science. For artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Cologne, studies of mineralogy and sculpture), it was thus a unique opportunity to be invited by the German Aerospace Center to participate in one of its zero-g flights, which are primarily reserved for scientific purposes, and to work under conditions of temporary weightlessness on her art project Cloud Core Scanner.... READ MORE...
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The artwork between technology and nature

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Aarhus University and the national art museum in Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, are organizing an international conference entitled The Artwork between Technology and Nature. The conference will take place at the museum in Copenhagen on 21-23 January 2010 and aims to raise questions and debate focused on art history and theory in continuation of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, COP15.... READ MORE...
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The Universe Resounds: Kandinsky, Synesthesia and Art

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In conjunction with the final days of the Kandinsky exhibition on view through January 13, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is pleased to announce The Universe Resounds: Kandinsky, Synesthesia, and Art, an interdisciplinary examination of painting, synesthesia, and abstraction from modern to contemporary times, including from the perspectives of art history, neuroscience, music, film, physics, and performance. A reception and exhibition viewing follows the symposium.... READ MORE...
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transmediale.10 Futurity Now

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The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of books, is being hosted by transmediale, together with FLOSS Manuals in the run-up to the festival. Six people will be locked in a room in Berlin for 5 days to produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title – Collaborative Futures. They will create the concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days. With Michael Mandiberg (New York), Mushon Zer-Aviv (New York), Mike Linksvayer (San Francisco), Marta Peirano (Berlin), Alan Toner (Berlin), and Adam Hyde (Berlin)... READ MORE...
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Netmage 10

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The tenth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna, 21,22,23 January 2010) will present, in the historical castle of Palazzo Re Enzo, an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations.... READ MORE...
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Spazialismo

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Bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Spazialismo, a group exhibition that examines Lucio Fontana's concepts in the 1940s and 50s about how we consider structures of space in the modern, yet natural, world. The exhibit is also intended to serve as a vehicle for contemporary review of Spatialist texts - such as "Manifesto Blanco" (1946), "Movinetto Spazialle"(1948), "Manifesto tecnico della Spazialismo" (1951) and the enthusiastic "Television Manifesto" (1952).... READ MORE...
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Being in the world

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The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to present Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, an exhibition curated by Berta Sichel on view from December 2, 2009 to March 07, 2010, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 2-6 2009).  ... READ MORE...
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Decode Digital Design Sensations

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Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.... READ MORE...
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Craftivism

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Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational contemporary art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially- engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of 'craftivism' (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.... READ MORE...
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Pixxelpoint 2009

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Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open at the Mestna galerija Nova Gorica on December 4, 2009, at 8.00 PM. The festival will take place from December 4 to December 11, 2009, and will have two venues: the Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, every day from 9.00 AM to 7.00 PM; and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia (Via Carducci 2, Gorizia), every day from 2.00 to 7.00 PM. ... READ MORE...
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