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DanceMe: call open for performers, videomakers, musicians and critics!

Posted by Perypezye Urbane on May 30, 2010 at 4:52pm

DanceMe is a cross-media project based on an internet platform (www.danceme.org) where 10 artists (6 performers, 2 videomakers, 2 musicians) and 2 critics will work together for 12 months in creating dance pieces.

The call is open until June 13th!

DanceMe

ETP Phase 1 :: Workshop in Prague

Posted by European Tele-Plateaus on June 25, 2009 at 2:51pm

In the framework of enter4 – the 4th International Art | Science | Technology Festival in Prague (18th – 25th April 2009) the first workshop of ETP-project took place.So, the aim of Prague-workshop was to get an introduction from the beginning of using the motion sensing system Kalypso. The networked environment »body-spaces_09explorations« was the basis for the workshop – mainly carried out by the TMA.Proposed artistic production, testing, presentation and sustainable application of unique transnational audiovisual interaction sites are based ona) interactive sites open to the public, equipped with camera-motion sensing systems EyeCon and Kalypso (author: Frieder Weiß) and technologies for the control, generation and reproduction of audiovisual processes;b) their transnational networking on the basis of the network technology OpenSound Control (OSC) andc) an original European co-production of audiovisual virtual environments that »generate« themselves via physical actions of the visitors or performers to transnational European hyper-sites of intercultural encounter.

Dear Everyone We would like to invite you all to a performance of No Living Room on 29th July at 8.30pm, at the Arcola Theatre in the festival Adventures in Movement for Create 09. watch showreel

Posted by Brian Curson on July 16, 2009 at 4:09pm

Dear EveryoneWe would like to invite you all to a performance of No Living Room on 29th July at 8.30pm, at the Arcola Theatre in the festival Adventures in Movement for Create 09.

watch showreel

No Living Room is the culmination of years of work combining our projected environments with dance. although some of the material has been shown before this narrative reworking creates a piece much closer to our vision of what we call Virtual Reality Theatre.

The blurb is:
alKamie presents
(No) Living Room
Cutting-edge virtual-reality meets physical theatre to playfully challenge economic mantra.…
Arcola Theatre, 8.30 pm
27 Arcola St., London E8 2D
020 7503 1646

With the icecaps and economies alike in meltdown `No Living Room' playfully empties the complexities of consumerism and economic growth into dream-like cinematic theatre. Through live virtual reality and quirky physicality we tumble into a woman's fears and fantasies, to surface from calamity, in the midst of alternative possibilities. read more
how to get there

more about alKamie:

Sincerely yours
Brian Curson & Robyn Stuart
al'Ka-mysts

Transitio_MX 03: Autonomies of Disagreement New Media Art and Video International Festival - Call for Entry

Posted by body pixel on May 26, 2009 at 9:00am

In order to support, acknowledge, and promote current research and production in new media art, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes through its Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional de las Artes calls the local and international artistic community to the Third New Media and Art Contest which will take place in the New Media and Art Video International Festival.The contest is open to any individual, group and association engaged in the production of artwork created with new media technologies, including video art, sound art, net-art, installation, composition, performance and related disciplines.The Third New Media and Art Contest, Autonomies of Disagreement, provides a setting of located practices, where disagreement allows for dialogue and exchange in the realms of local and international new media art.This international contest is concerned with acknowledging those distinct technological displacements and art’s current status, bearing a particular emphasis on those artworks whose technological innovations and contributions are supported by means that can be used for creation, stressing above all a critical perspective.1 Residual topographyThis category seeks to reveal the discourses pronounced by means of obsolete technology (electronic and digital) and those articulated when contrasting local technologies with high technology appropriations. It is open for installation; interactive, immersed or sound environments; robotic art; hardware hacking; circuit bending; physical computing; site intervention; or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.2 Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving imagesIn order to analyze the moving images technological reconfigurations (and/or its possibilities) and consider its unusual territories, this category is intended to welcome artworks that use moving images in any of its modalities, be it lineal presentation or interaction: single channel video, 16mm, live cinema, Vj´s, videogame, mobile video, interactive animation, augmented reality, or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.3 Dissident territories: the emergence of technologyIn order to explore technological developments that differ from industrial ones, this category looks for research and technology development projects who seek for innovations in the use of digital tools and electronic circuits with expressive and experimental means: free hardware and software, bioethical technology, gadget development, applications, devices or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.4 Concealed order: viral construction of web contentsThis category will welcome those works whose poetics distinguish or surpass conceptions regarding mobile interfaces and information networks. Those that bear important contributions on distribution, expression and collaboration will be more privileged: internet, bluetooth, GPS, radiofrequency, mobile telephony, infrareds or any other related disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth$35,000 (Thirty five thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.All works must be submitted after this notification and no later than June 19th at 15:00 hrs.Works postmarked after the application deadline will not be considered. The submission date will be considered only if artworks are sent thorough express mail, not through ordinary mail. Submissions must clearly indicate the category.International submissions must be clearly labeled as “Material cultural sin valor commercial”. THE FESTIVAL WILL NOT COVER MAILING OR OTHER CUSTOMS FEES.Participants agree on these terms. Eventualities shall be resolved by the Festival’s Planning Committee.DocumentationTo learn more about application guidelines, obtain application forms, and other relevant information, please visit:http://en.transitiomx.netor the Multimedia Center website:http://cmm.cenart.gob.mxFor further inquiries and application submission please contact:Centro Nacional de las ArtesCentro MultimediaAvenida Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club,C. P. 04220, Coyoacán, México, D. F.From 10:00 to 15:00 hrs.Ana Villa. Tel. ( 52 55) 41 55 00 00 Ext. 1207concurso03@transitiomx.net

Studying "virtual worlds" in school

Posted by Allison on September 8, 2009 at 2:13am

My new grad school program is called the Interactive Telecommunications Program, or ITP. ITP is within the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. This is actually my second Master's degree. One of my major interests is in studying dance and movement, and technology. This semester I'll be taking a class on Virtual Worlds. I think I should spend some time researching virtual performance, and I'm interested in discovering the similarities and differences of virtual worlds and other studies in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

ETP phase 1 :: workshop in prague | field report

Posted by European Tele-Plateaus on June 26, 2009 at 1:40pm

Prague (Ivor Diosi) participated in the trial bridge effort between Dresden and Madrid using this minimalist setup on my table, with my faithful oprec-testing doll:

image 1: actuality 2009-04-25Here's a slightly zoomed picture of the cameras I had at my disposal. To the left is a Creative Optia AF, a very solid webcam in its category. To the right is the camera module from TrackIR 4 Pro, which is in essence an infrared USB webcam. Unfortunately, the directshow filter from the manufacturer's website, which I figured would make its image accessible from Kalypso, and had to be installed on top of its driver, was crashing my workstation. I decided to stuck with the Optia and move on.

image 2: cameras 2009-04-25This is the screenshot of Kalypso settings, using a patch which I shamelessly modified from Frieder's original design for the day. You can notice the ambition to include an iPhone in the mix.

image 3: kalypsopatch 2009-04-25I had had arranged for some port forwarding the day before with our kind netadmin, ports 7000-7010 were being forwarded to my workstation, so I was hoping for clear reception. Kalypso and oscclient installed/run without any hitches. Upon closer look with OSC Monitor, I can confirm I was receiving contourDresden and contourMadrid messages. The later until late at night, and its preview is what's shown on the first two shots above. Also, for the record, I did recognize the movement pattern early on :-)

ETP Phase 1 :: first public presentation

Posted by European Tele-Plateaus on July 15, 2009 at 11:30am

On April 25th 2009, 14 experts in media art met in the Trans-Media-Labor in the GebäudeEnsemble Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau to discuss the topic „Innovation in the crisis – Do our ideas have a chance?“ in the context of TMA WILL. The project European Tele-Plateaus – transnational sites of encounter and coproduction (ETP) took the centre stage. At the same day just a couple of hours ago, the first presentation of the previous achievements of the project took place. Unfortunately, because of technical problems, a networked environment could not be set up. Nevertheless, the local environment was being used by the interested audience. The person inside the environment is able to control audiovisual processes just by his or her position and the quickness of the movements. Definitely, the target of ETP exceeds all mentioned facts, because it also aims the production of publicly accessible, networked Virtual Environments. Therefore, three networked performances and six networked installations are planned which will take place simultaneously in all co-operating cities (Dresden, Prague, Madrid, Norrköping). The idea of the project was put up for discussion within TMA WILL. This discussion can be divided into three main focuses: “How can a Virtual Environment be defined?”, “How notices the audience performances with networked Virtual Environments?” and “Why is the ETP-project applied as intercultural?”Jadwiga Müller for TMATranslation by Louisa Zschinzsch

ETP phase 1 :: discussion about networked artistic practices

Posted by European Tele-Plateaus on June 26, 2009 at 12:00pm

At April 21, 2009 @ DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, a discussion about networked artistic practices took place.Participants:Thomas Dumke (DE), Georg Hajdu (DE), Johan Melin (SE), Klaus Nicolai(DE), Marlon Barrios Solano (VE/USA), Andrea Szigetvári (HU), Frieder Weiß (DE)This discussion was an introduction of the state-of-the-art of experimental practices in the field of networked and/or distributed creativity. Concepts and people behind two leading European initiatives called ETP (European Tele-Plateaus) and CO-ME-DI-A (Cooperation and Mediation in Digital Art), were on the main focus. How do artists think about networks and how do they make use of high-speed Internet in order to collaboratively create one single installation or performance with its co-creators being in different locations?

Marlon Solano Barrios, Johan Melin, Frieder Weiß, Klaus Nicolai, Thomas Dumke, Gregor Hajdu (f.l.t.r.)

Frieder Weiß, Klaus Nicolai, Thomas Dumke, Gregor Hajdu (f.l.t.r.)

amberConference - Call for papers

Posted by body pixel on June 9, 2009 at 11:00am

The first international conference of amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber’09 Art and Technology Festival, on 7,8 November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aims and scope of this conference are to create a platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and topics in which Social Science, Art and Technology converge.The theme for this year's event is the Cyborg, a phenomenon that has captured the attention and imagination of artistic, academic as well as scientific communities in terms of creative, theoretical, and technological output. The conference seeks previously unpublished papers of a maximum of 4500 words within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Sciences and Art Papers discussing original artwork.Topics can cover (but are not limited to)Machinic/Cyborg ArtRobotics and robotic artCyborg and Performing artsAvatars (virtual worlds and virtualenvironments)Computer GamesWearable and Tactile TechnologiesArtificial intelligencePost humanismNew modes of embodimentAgencyMedicineGenetic engineering, biology, clones and hybridsReligion, tradition and eternal lifeMilitarismGenderDeadline: 1st of August 2009Click here for more details: www.amberconference.org

SUPERNATURAL 2-Virtual Cycle (org. La Porta from Barcelona) soon on the net

Posted by helena febres fraylich on December 5, 2008 at 6:03pm

Second edition of the virtual cycle SOBRENATURAL6 new pieces specially created for the net: video creations, documentaries, short films, tributes, lies, manifestoes... from 12th December at: www.laportabcn.com.( see edition 2007)http://laportabcn.com/laportabcn/Ciclo.do?id_cicle=10La Porta is an artists collective based in Barcelona founded in 1992. Since then, it has generated activities and context for creating, thinking about and investigating contemporary performance based on the body and movement - works, artists and experiences that are changing the way the body and dance are presented and represented.

live internet broadcast mediatised sites performance festival 19.04.08

Posted by tamara on April 19, 2008 at 12:41am

for full schedule clickwww.mediatisedsites.net http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mediatisedsitess-show - channel live between 2-00 – 5-30pm BST and 8-00-9-00pm BSTTune in to the following URLs for live feed of virtual performances:Laura Cooper performs Exercise Rose(es) from 1-2pm BST http://www.ustream.tv/lauracooperLive from the British Council in Bangkok

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