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Wishes for a peaceful 2008.

Warm Regards,
Jo and Helen

New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)construction of identity :: Edited by: Fred Dervin & Yasmine Abbas :: Call for Abstracts :: Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2008. Full chapters will be expected to be submitted by September 1, 2008.

The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual’s self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its “disciples”: be they companions in Second Life, readers (for example on a blog) or listeners (Podcasts). Continue reading

With his project Liberate Your Avatar Paul Sermon best known for his telepresence research explored the merge of virtual and real worlds on a public screen. At Urban Screens Manchester 07 he presented the interactive piece on a temporary screen in All Saints Gardens on Oxford Road.

Beforehand Sermon had recreated the actual square in Second Life. Liberate Your Avatar transformed the screen situated in All Saints Gardens into a portal between these two parallel worlds, allowing both ‘first life’ visitors and Second Life avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a live interactive installation. Continue reading

A presentation made by Ruairi Glynn in November 2007 at Europrix Graz, Austria about some of the elements of architecture, technology and cultural history that most inspire him in his research and installation art work exploring the potential for an Interactive Architecture.

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Project Bandaloop, at Community Hospital North, Part One

Despite the increasing availability of megapixels and bandwidth, we have become used to the resolution and detail loss, often due to cheap and lossy image compression techniques. The most interesting content on the net is usually not the official crystal clear streamed video, but some unofficial or plainly pirated one, digitally stolen from other sources through non professional hardware and software combinations and then uploaded on content sharing websites and peer-to-peer networks.

WINDscale is an artwork by Rob Smith that visualizes wind speed in a picture. It uses an anemometer (a tool for measuring wind speed) placed on Jaywick Martello Tower on the Essex Coast (East of England). Continue reading

Yuri’s Night World Space Parties: Bay Area 2008 – Call for Submissions of Art and Science Installations – Deadline: February 8, 2008 :: April 12th, 2008 2 pm – 2 am :: Hangar 211, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Yuri’s Night World Space Parties celebrate humankind s first venture into space by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The event is a unique convergence of artists, scientists, astronauts, performers, technologists, and musicians to pay tribute to our shared global heritage in space exploration. Continue reading

FreqOUT! is an innovative London based community education programme for young people. It seeks to explore the artistic and educational potential of wireless technology in order to engage socially excluded young people living in the 20% most deprived areas of the UK. Artists, tutors and youth workers facilitate activities that enable the young people to discuss and create responses to current issues and technologies. Through involvement with technology, exposure to artists, members of the business community and statutory service providers we aim to increase the young people’s opportunities for work and further education. Continue reading

The Wooster Group: There is Still Time.. Brother :: Directed by Liz LeCompte – Developed with Jeffrey Shaw for his interactive panoramic cinema.

There is Still Time.. Brother is a commission for an installation that consists of an interactive projection for a 360° screen. The commission is rooted in the recording of a Wooster Group performance developed specifically to be viewed as a projection on a 360° screen. The video is revealed by way of a window that scans around the screen, never showing the whole of the projection at once. Continue reading

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes – Art as Contextual Art – Film/Art between Experiment and Archive :: Curators: Lukasz Ronduda, Florian Zeyfang and Leire Vergara :: December 20, 2007 – March 30, 2008 :: sala rekalde, Alameda Recalde 30, Bilbao 48009, Bizkaia (Spain).

1,2,3… Avant-Gardes – Art as Contextual Art is the next stage of an exhibition and research project that explores the “continuous” history of experimentation in film and art and the interaction of both fields. Grounded in the extensive Polish experimental film output of the 1970s, 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes will offer a selection of films mostly produced by Polish artists from that period, whilst including contemporary international artistic proposals that constitute a challenge for the interpretation of the history of experimental cinema. Continue reading