Patterns + Pleasure Festival :: a new festival for adventurous electronic music in Amsterdam :: organized by STEIM ((Studio for electro-instrumental music) :: September 26-28, 2010 :: Theater Frascati, Nes 63 Amsterdam, Netherlands ::

For 42 years STEIM has helped local and international artists build their own dream instruments. The Patterns + Pleasure Festival will feature some of the newest and most adventurous approaches in today’s live electronic music. Every artist brings their own unique rendition of musical styles and genres - from Industrial Drone to Instrumental Hip-Hop and Tuvan singing to Boogie-Woogie-Noise. Continue reading

Call for Papers (including publishing opportunity in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Intellect Ltd) :: Deadlines: see below:: Two Thousand + TEN Symposium: Improvisation (on performance and technologies) :: November 6, 2010 :: Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast, Ireland ::

KEYNOTES: Professor Georgina Born (Cambridge University/University College London); Professor David Borgo (University of California San Diego); Evan Parker (saxophone) - invited performer and director of the ‘improvised music collective’

The Two Thousand + symposia series, in its fourth edition in 2010, has established itself as a forum for contemporary critical exchange and discussion relating to the performing arts. Since 2006 the symposium has been running alongside the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music in Belfast. Continue reading

ISEA2010 RUHR :: From August 20-29, 2010 more than 500 international scientists and artists will get together for the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which will be held in Germany for the first time. In keynotes, more than fifty panels and workshops, they will discuss crucial issues in electronic art and media philosophy.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS are: Roy Ascott (gb), David d’Heilly (jp/us), Fernando Garc’a Dory (es), Brian Massumi (qc/ca), Margaret Morse (us), Marko Peljhan (si), Peter Weibel (de/at), Harald Welzer (de).

They will present their papers in the context of the five main topics around which the ISEA2010 RUHR Conference as a whole is organised. Continue reading

[Image: Church According to McLuhan by Art Clay] Digital Art Weeks :: until July 16, 2010 :: Xian, China.

DAW is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of symposia, workshops and performances, the Digital Art Weeks programme offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrates resulting synergies in an exhibition and a series of performances during the Festival each year, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of application of technology in the arts.

The Digital Art Weeks programme for Xian, China will continue its focus on innovation in the presentation of scientific and artistic research within the context of cultural exchange with the goal of mutual enrichment and knowledge transfer. Continue reading

Resonanzen Festival for Audio Culture :: April 15th - 18th, 2010 :: Schaubuehne Lindenfels and Tapetenwerk Leipzig, Germany :: Performances & Concerts // Exhibition // Symposium ::

At the festival Resonanzen contemporary radioplays, sound installations, concerts and performances
will be presented and discussed. The various contributions are dedicated to different questions concerning the staging of the listener and the listening. Furthermore, a central focus of the festival is to create a platform for an exchange between younger artists and established artists.

How does a sound find its image, how does a body find its song and why isn´t the machine beeping anymore?

For schedule, see: http://resonanzen-leipzig.de/?page_id=44

Sonification (what, where, how, why), A Symposium :: March 4-5, 2010 :: École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence, France.

The purpose of this symposium is to conduct a state of the art review of the use sonification* within art projects, with a focus on the use of data taken from our surroundings (in a broad sense) as opposed to gestural interfaces or electronic instruments.

What distinguishes sonification from other forms of data mediation? What are the different ways in which sonification is used in art? What parallels, similarities, differences & contradictions exist between the use of sonification or audio display for technical & for artistic purposes? What differences in the artistic approach does the use of realtime as opposed to recorded data imply? What is the importance of the relationship between the source of data and the way in which it is mediated? Continue reading

[Image: Network visualization of the Documenta 12 Magazines project] Critics Floating in the Virtual Sphere: Will Art Criticism Survive the Digital Age? — International Seminar :: December 9, 2009; 2:00 -5:00 pm :: De Balie, Amsterdam and Live webcast.

The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. Continue reading

ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, will take place in the cities of the German Ruhr area from August 20 - 29, 2010. Due to many requests we have postponed the deadline for our Call for Submissions to 25 September 2009. This will give people an extra 10 days to prepare and edit their submissions. We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations, exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in public space, from visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers, software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media.

The submission form is here. Continue reading

Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (TES) :: August 7-8, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie #170, Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community and New Adventures in Sound Art are pleased to announce the 2009 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. The symposium presents a selection of refereed papers and presentations as well as a keynote lecture by internationally acclaimed scholar Annette Vande Gorne. This is your opportunity to find out the latest in sound art activity around the world. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming issue of the CEC’s online journal, eContact! More info here. Go to here and click on on-line registration to register.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Broadcast Yourself, a symposium that will contrast traditional media with the “YouTube” Generation :: April 1, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Lecture Hall 213, 144 West 14th Street, NYC.

Broadcast Yourself will address the issues of power and control extended by traditional media outlets in contrast with the do-it-yourself attitude pervasive in the tech-savvy younger generation. Symposium panelists will also speak to the impact that radio and television can have in shaping the events of our time; how artists can directly engage, challenge, or subvert the structure and authority of broadcast media; and how our culture is shaped by the actions of individuals and artists. Continue reading