RHIZOME DIGEST: 01.20.06

<br />RHIZOME DIGEST: January 20, 2006<br /><br />++ Always online at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/digest">http://rhizome.org/digest</a> ++<br /><br />Content:<br /><br />+opportunity+<br />1. Joel Slayton: ISEA2006_Call_Extended<br />2. Linda Lauro-Lazin: Call for Participation - SIGGRAPH 2006 - Boston<br />3. Felicia Rice: UC Santa Cruz MFA Call for Applications<br />4. Sherry Hocking: Finishing Funds 2006 - Grants to NYS Media and New<br />Media Artists<br /><br />+work+<br />5. Martin Rieser: Hosts : a major digital art event in Bath Abbey<br />6. rick silva: SATELLITE JOCKEY<br /><br />+announcement+<br />7. Turbulence.org: Turbulence Spotlight: &quot;No Animals Were Hurt&quot; by Peter<br />Brinson<br />8. Marisa Olson: Update on Steve Kurt'z case<br />9. Kate Armstrong: Upgrade Vancouver<br />10. Christiane_Paul@whitney.org: DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART – new affiliation<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Rhizome is now offering Organizational Subscriptions, group memberships<br />that can be purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions<br />allow participants at institutions to access Rhizome's services without<br />having to purchase individual memberships. For a discounted rate, students<br />or faculty at universities or visitors to art centers can have access to<br />Rhizome?s archives of art and text as well as guides and educational tools<br />to make navigation of this content easy. Rhizome is also offering<br />subsidized Organizational Subscriptions to qualifying institutions in poor<br />or excluded communities. Please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/info/org.php">http://rhizome.org/info/org.php</a> for<br />more information or contact Lauren Cornell at LaurenCornell@Rhizome.org<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />1.<br /><br />From: Joel Slayton &lt;joel@well.com&gt;<br />Date: Jan 17, 2006 3:23 PM<br />Subject: ISEA2006_Call_Extended<br /><br />ISEA2006 Symposium Call for Papers, Posters and Artist Presentations<br />Deadline Extended to January 30th<br /><br />More information on the Call for Participation to come!<br /><br />Joel Slayton<br />Chair, ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose<br /><br />Steve Dietz<br />Director, ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />2.<br /><br />From: Linda Lauro-Lazin &lt;LLAUROLA@pratt.edu&gt;<br />Date: Jan 17, 2006 11:53 AM<br />Subject: Call for Participation - SIGGRAPH 2006 - Boston<br />The SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery is accepting submissions for artwork which<br />uses digital technology in creative/innovative ways and explores new<br />territories and crosses traditional boundaries.<br /><br />DEADLINE Jan 27, 2006 5 PM Pacific time<br /><br />The SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery is considering (but not limited to) the<br />following types of work:<br /><br />? Interactive Art Installations and Environments<br />Artworks that involve electronically mediated spaces, kiosks where the<br />environment is part of the art, and art that expands beyond the frame.<br /><br />? Fusion Works<br />Works that combine innovative technology and creative art expression.<br /><br />? Interactive Electronic Art Sculptures, Objects, Robotics<br />Sensor-driven art, robotics, found-object art, constructed interfaces.<br /><br />? Interactive Audio Installations<br />Experimental interactive music, digital sound environments.<br /><br />? CD/DVD-ROM and Web-based Work (on the monitor)<br />Screen-based work, database art, web art, interactive programs.<br /><br />? 2D Still Images<br />Digital painting, digital imaging, prints, and mixed-media works.<br /><br />? 3D Still Images<br />Framed still-image artwork created using 3D software or algorithms.<br /><br />? 4D Wall-hung Work<br />Works that reside in a frame or on the wall but move. For instance, a<br />plasma screen with a slowly evolving image, or a projection onto a frame<br />on the wall. These types of work typically require electricity and<br />possibly special equipment.<br /><br />? Interactive Electronically Mediated Performance<br />Digital art happenings, small-scale dance, music, theatrical, performance<br />art and/or hybrid works that uses technology in a creative/innovative way.<br /><br />? Art Animations (submitted to the Computer Animation Festival)<br />Artistically expressive, experimental, narrative or non-narrative.<br /><br />? Art Talks and Sketches (submitted to Sketches)<br />Thought-provoking ideas, works in progress, ideas behind the artwork,<br />theoretical paper presentations, &quot;the making of&quot; the artwork, etc.<br /><br />? Art Papers<br />Theoretical papers that deal with contemporary, historical, and conceptual<br />issues in digital art.<br />If your artwork is thought-provoking, explores ideas in innovative ways,<br />address contemporary issues, interactively engages the viewer in the<br />unfolding of meaning, and captivates the viewer's intellectual and<br />creative self, then you should submit your work online at the SIGGRAPH<br />2006 website:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2006">http://www.siggraph.org/s2006</a><br /> Click Call for Participation - Art Gallery<br /><br />SIGGRAPH 2006 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA July 30 - Aug 3.<br /><br />The absolute deadline for submissions is Jan 27, 5:00 Pacific time.<br /><br />Bonnie Mitchell<br />SIGGRAPH 06 Art Show Chair<br />&quot;Intersections&quot;, Boston, MA USA<br />July 30 - August 3<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.siggraph.org/s2006">http://www.siggraph.org/s2006</a><br />art@siggraph.org<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Support Rhizome: buy a hosting plan from BroadSpire<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/hosting/">http://rhizome.org/hosting/</a><br /><br />Reliable, robust hosting plans from $65 per year.<br /><br />Purchasing hosting from BroadSpire contributes directly to Rhizome's<br />fiscal well-being, so think about about the new Bundle pack, or any other<br />plan, today!<br /><br />About BroadSpire<br /><br />BroadSpire is a mid-size commercial web hosting provider. After conducting<br />a thorough review of the web hosting industry, we selected BroadSpire as<br />our partner because they offer the right combination of affordable plans<br />(prices start at $14.95 per month), dependable customer support, and a<br />full range of services. We have been working with BroadSpire since June<br />2002, and have been very impressed with the quality of their service.<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />3.<br /><br />From: Felicia Rice &lt;fsrice@ucsc.edu&gt;<br />Date: Jan 17, 2006 10:00 AM<br />Subject: UC Santa Cruz MFA Call for Applications<br /><br />The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz is<br />currently accepting applications.<br /><br />New Technologies have profoundly changed contemporary culture and<br />inevitably altered the role of the arts in society. The Digital Arts and<br />New Media MFA Program serves as a center for the development and study of<br />digital media and the cultures they have helped create. Faculty and<br />students are drawn from a variety of backgrounds such as the arts,<br />computer engineering, humanities, the sciences, and social sciences to<br />pursue interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research and production,<br />in the context of a broad examination of digital arts and cultures.<br /><br />To learn about the application process and faculty:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu">http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu</a> .<br /><br />To explore the inner workings of the program and the proposed program<br />revision for 06-07:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://danm.ucsc.edu">http://danm.ucsc.edu</a>.<br /><br />Always happy to respond to your inquires,<br /><br />Felicia Rice<br />Program Manager, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program<br /><br />Porter D-121, UC Santa Cruz<br />Phone: (831) 459-1554<br />Fax: (831) 459-3535<br />Email: fsrice@ucsc.edu<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />4.<br /><br />From: Sherry Hocking &lt;etc@experimentaltvcenter.org&gt;<br />Date: Jan 19, 2006 11:04 AM<br />Subject: Finishing Funds 2006 - Grants to NYS Media and New Media Artists<br /><br />The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER is pleased to announce FINISHING FUNDS<br />2006<br /> FINISHING FUNDS provides individual artists with grants up to<br />$2,000 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative<br />moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new<br />technologies. Eligible forms include media as single or multiple<br />channel presentations, computer based moving-imagery and sound<br />works, installations and performances, interactive works and works<br />for new technologies, CD ROM, multimedia and the Web. We also<br />support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be<br />surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms;<br />all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and<br />documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the<br />program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must<br />be residents of New York State; students are not eligible. The<br />application requires a project description, resume and support<br />materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selection is<br />made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year.<br />Announcement is made in late May.<br /> The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York<br />State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by mediaThe<br />foundation.<br /> Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2006<br />Guidelines and applications are available on the web at<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/">http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/</a> in the ETC News Section or by mail or<br />email.<br /><br />Sherry Miller Hocking, Program Director<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Rhizome ArtBase Exhibitions<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/">http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/</a><br /><br />Visit &quot;Net Art's Cyborg[feminist]s, Punks, and Manifestos&quot;, an exhibition<br />on the politics of internet appearances, guest-curated by Marina Grzinic<br />from the Rhizome ArtBase.<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/cyborg/">http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/cyborg/</a><br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />5.<br /><br />From: Martin Rieser &lt;martin.rieser@gmail.com&gt;<br />Date: Jan 14, 2006 4:34 PM<br />Subject: Hosts : a major digital art event in Bath Abbey<br /><br />PRESS RELEASE<br /><br />HOSTS<br />An Interactive Cinema work for Bath Abbey<br />Supported by Bath Film Festival 2005<br />Dates: Bath Abbey Church 9th-27th February 2006<br />Monday-Saturday 10am-6.00pm<br />Description<br /><br />HOSTS is an ambitious project inspired by the motif of Jacob's Ladder on<br />the West front of Bath Abbey. Bristol-based media artist Martin Rieser<br />will hang five giant screens at strategic points of the Abbey space. <br />Wearing a special ultra-sound badge and wireless earphones, the<br />participant in HOSTS triggers the presence of a variety of evanescent<br />projected video characters. As the participant approaches a screen, these<br />individual characters or messengers appear to move forwards from a deep<br />space and come into focus. If the participant then moves on, the<br />characters too pass onwards from screen to screen, keeping pace with them.<br />In this way, once a participant has entered the installation they become<br />part of the story space. By standing in front of a screen they will<br />eventually be paired with and addressed directly through a series of<br />aphorisms by their individual messenger.<br /><br />Concept<br /><br />HOSTS combines poetry performance, animation and cinema in a unique blend.<br />The words of the spoken and animated aphorisms are apparently those of<br />humans, fraught with ambiguity and misunderstanding. Perverse and fragile,<br />the aphorisms hover between the portentous and the mundane, inflected over<br />and over into different meanings by the messengers. We are captured by the<br />messengers and hurled into their drama in the same way that an unwilling<br />passenger in a train can be given someone's life story. This is not always<br />a comfortable experience. HOSTS is intended as a spiritually enhancing<br />experience for a broad audience, not usually drawn to a media art gallery.<br /><br />HOSTS is a major multidisciplinary exercise involving film-makers,<br />animators, programmers, electronic engineers, lighting /cameramen,<br />professional actors, and social scientists. The sensor developments have<br />already been made in partnership with Bath University's Wearables Group.<br />Support has been given to the project by Bath Spa University under their<br />research enhancement funding, since this project lines up with the work of<br />the CTOL research group (Critical Topologies of Landscape) and with an<br />AHRB Study award. Bath Abbey and The Bath Film Festival are also<br />supporting the Project.<br /><br />HOSTS represents a step-change in the way cinema can be made interactive<br />for a mobile audience. It combines the latest technology with innovative<br />creative ideas.<br /><br />A disk of supporting visual material (Jpegs and QuickTime) is available on<br />CD by request<br /><br />Contact Details: Martin Rieser<br /><br />Tel: 0117 9731041 Mob: 09766766429<br />e-mail: martin.rieser@gmail.com<br />Websites: www.martinrieser.com/Hosts.htm www.sof.org.uk<br /><br />–<br />Martin Rieser<br /><br />Professor of Digital Arts<br />Bath Spa University<br />Sion Hill, Lansdown<br />Bath BA1 5AF<br />0044[0]1225 875875<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mobileaudience.blogspot.com">http://www.mobileaudience.blogspot.com</a><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.martinrieser.com">http://www.martinrieser.com</a><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sof.org.uk">http://www.sof.org.uk</a><br /><br />20 Elliston Road<br />Redland<br />Bristol BS6 6QE UK<br />Tel:0044[0]1179731041<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Rhizome.org 2005-2006 Net Art Commissions<br /><br />The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to<br />artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via<br />panel-awarded commissions.<br /><br />For the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commissions, eleven artists/groups were selected<br />to create original works of net art.<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://rhizome.org/commissions/">http://rhizome.org/commissions/</a><br /><br />The Rhizome Commissions Program is made possible by support from the<br />Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, the<br />Greenwall Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and<br />the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support has<br />been provided by members of the Rhizome community.<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />6.<br /><br />From: rick silva &lt;rick@ricksilva.net&gt;<br />Date: Jan 19, 2006 12:08 PM<br />Subject: SATELLITE JOCKEY<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://satellitejockey.net/">http://satellitejockey.net/</a><br /><br />satellite jockey uses the software google earth like a dj or vj<br />would use turntables or a video mixer. capturing satellite video of<br />pixilated landscapes and glitchy fly-overs and using them as source<br />material for live audio/visual performances and installations.<br /><br />+2 vids now online at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://satellitejockey.net/video.htm">http://satellitejockey.net/video.htm</a><br />++think locally act globally<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />7.<br /><br />From: Turbulence.org &lt;turbulence@turbulence.org&gt;<br />Date: Jan 13, 2006 9:07 AM<br />Subject: Turbulence Spotlight: &quot;No Animals Were Hurt&quot; by Peter Brinson<br /><br />January 13, 2006<br />Turbulence Spotlight: &quot;No Animals Were Hurt&quot; by Peter Brinson<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/spotlight/brinson/index.htm">http://turbulence.org/spotlight/brinson/index.htm</a><br />Needs Flash Player<br /><br />&quot;No Animals Were Hurt&quot; is a short film about Alan Turing. The more views<br />the film receives, the closer it gets to telling his story.<br /><br />The picture plays too quickly while the sound plays at normal speed, but<br />with each visitor the picture slows. After enough visitors, the sound and<br />picture will play at equal speeds, allowing the story to finish.<br /><br />It is indeed short, but it gets longer with every 50 unique visitors.<br />It'll reach its full length upon receiving nearly 5000 unique views.<br /><br />Whether it is at the movie theater or at home, we make decisions when we<br />see a film. We decide to go, and we decide whether or not we recommend it<br />to others. &quot;No Animals Were Hurt&quot; plays on these choices in order to<br />highlight the relative imbalance of which facts are and are not well known<br />about Turing. He is the father of modern computing, an accomplishment<br />that's impact on culture has few rivals. But even many of his biggest fans<br />do not know how and why he died. So if you want to see the end, tell a<br />friend.<br /><br />BIOGRAPHY<br /><br />Peter Brinson is a filmmaker, game developer, and educator living in Los<br />Angeles. His work considers the narrative possibilities found in animal<br />protagonists, bot behavior, emergent systems, and game-play. His films,<br />internet technologies, and computer games have shown at home and abroad.<br />Brinson attended the University of North Carolina and the California<br />Institute of the Arts, and currently teaches at the University of Southern<br />California and the University of California at San Diego.<br /><br />For more information about Turbulence Spotlights, please visit<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/spotlight">http://turbulence.org/spotlight</a><br /><br />Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director<br />New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://new-radio.org">http://new-radio.org</a><br />New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856<br />Turbulence: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org">http://turbulence.org</a><br />New American Radio: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://somewhere.org">http://somewhere.org</a><br />Networked_Performance Blog: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/blog">http://turbulence.org/blog</a><br />Upgrade! Boston: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://turbulence.org/upgrade">http://turbulence.org/upgrade</a><br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />8.<br /><br />From: Marisa Olson &lt;marisa@rhizome.org&gt;<br />Date: Jan 17, 2006 2:46 PM<br />Subject: Update on Steve Kurt'z case<br /><br />-PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY-<br /><br />January 17, 2006<br /><br />Dear supporters of Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble,<br /><br />Your support is needed now more than ever.<br /><br />Whereas the hopes for dismissal of Steve?s case were high last fall, on<br />Thursday we received bad news on the recommendation concerning the<br />pre-trial motions. Although it has been over 18 months since Steve was<br />charged with ?mail fraud? and ?wire fraud??charges carrying a maximum<br />possible sentence of 20 years in jail?he will now have to wait at least 8<br />months, and possibly much longer, for the final decision on these motions.<br />(Please see <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caedefensefund.org">http://www.caedefensefund.org</a> for more about the case.)<br /><br />Magistrate H. Kenneth Schroeder recommended that all our motions for<br />dismissal of the case and suppression of evidence be denied, with one<br />exception: there will be a hearing on the suppression of statements made<br />while Steve was illegally detained. (Schroeder?s recommendations also<br />include a footnote stating that since Steve?s co-defendant Robert Ferrell<br />is gravely ill at this point, Ferrell?s case is being held in dormancy.)<br /><br />Magistrate Schroeder's recommendations will next go to the Federal<br />District Court to be heard by Judge John T. Elfvin, who will make the<br />final ruling on the pre-trial motions, thereby determining whether or not<br />the case will go to trial. If the motions are denied by Elfvin, Steve can<br />choose to appeal to the next higher federal court, or go directly to<br />trial.<br /><br />LEGAL DETAILS AND TIMELINE<br /><br />Schroeder?s recommendation cited legal precedent that ?An indictment<br />returned by a legally constituted and unbiased grand jury? if valid on its<br />face, is enough to call for trial of the charge? [even if] ?the grand jury<br />acted on the basis of inadequate or incompetent evidence.? (Please see<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caedefensefund.org/announcements/order1.12.06.pdf">http://www.caedefensefund.org/announcements/order1.12.06.pdf</a> for the full<br />text of the recommendation.) In other words, once the legal machine is<br />turned on, it is very difficult to turn off. Therefore, supporters should<br />prepare for the likelihood that Steve?s case will go to trial.<br /><br />Within the next 10 days Steve?s lawyer, Paul Cambria, will file an appeal<br />of Schroeder's recommendations. Steve?s lawyers will then get a hearing<br />for their appeal of all of Schroeder?s recommendations in Judge Elfvin's<br />court. There, Cambria will make essentially all the same arguments as at<br />the hearing last spring before Schroeder. (For the press release detailing<br />those arguments and more information about the case, please see<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caedefensefund.org/releases/051705_Release.html">http://www.caedefensefund.org/releases/051705_Release.html</a>)<br />&lt;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.caedefensefund.org/releases/051705_Release.html%29">http://www.caedefensefund.org/releases/051705_Release.html%29</a>&gt; This<br />appeal hearing will probably happen in mid-summer of 2006. We will then<br />have to wait once again for Elfvin?s final ruling on all the motions for<br />dismissal and suppression.<br /><br />(There is no date for the other hearing, on the suppression of statements,<br />but it will happen sometime within the next 60 days.)<br /><br />SUPPORT NEEDED MORE THAN EVER<br /><br />Although any actual trial is still far off, your continued support has<br />made, and continues to make, all the difference in this case. Without your<br />support, Steve would probably be in jail now awaiting trial. As we know,<br />justice in politically motivated trials is won in the court of public<br />opinion as much as in the court of law.<br /><br />Because of your support, we have raised the more than $200,000 necessary<br />for Steve and Robert Ferrell?s defense. Due to the overwhelming success of<br />this fundraising effort, there are 3 main forms of support that we now<br />need:<br /><br />1) Publicizing this precedent-setting case and its implications for<br />artists, intellectuals, researchers and others?particularly in outlets<br />that will reach the Buffalo population. In this regard, we are still<br />hoping for a real investigative story into the DoJ?s and prosecuting<br />District Attorney William Hochul?s motivations in this case. Anyone who is<br />interested or knows such a journalist?particularly one who could spend<br />some time in the Buffalo area?is encouraged to contact the Defense Fund<br />at: media (at) caedefensefund.org<br /><br />2) Publicizing this case wherever possible. Anyone interested in helping<br />to publicize this case through creative means at the College Art<br />Association Annual Conference (February 22-25 in Boston) please contact<br />the Defense Fund at: media (at) caedefensefund.org<br /><br />3) At the time of the actual trial, should one occur, helping to mobilize<br />support for a massive demonstration in Buffalo, NY.<br /><br />Thank you once again for your continued support.<br /><br />In solidarity,<br /><br />The CAE Defense Fund<br />media @ caedefensefund.org<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />9.<br /><br />From: Kate Armstrong &lt;kate@katearmstrong.com&gt;<br />Date: Jan 18, 2006 5:09 PM<br />Subject: Upgrade Vancouver<br /><br />Join us Thursday, January 26th at 8pm for a discussion with Kenneth Newby,<br />Martin Gotfrit, Aleksandra Dulic and Dinka Pignon, who will show us One<br />River (running) and talk about their work with the Computational Poetics<br />Research Group. As always, we will adjourn after the talk to the Whip<br />Gallery [209 east 6th avenue] for a drink and some chatter.<br /><br />One River (running) is an interactive, immersive audio environment<br />designed to create both a visual and audio experience of rivers using a<br />complex system of moving sound, moving images, and a physical structure<br />also designed to echo the river&#xB9;s undulating geographic form. The<br />artwork&#xB9;s images originate from digital photographs of people&#xB9;s mouths<br />whom the team interviewed. These still images were then algorithmically<br />programmed. The mouths recognize the voices, and move as though they are<br />speaking the words they hear. The artists created a voice recognition<br />software program to do this synchronization. The video is listening and<br />responding to the audio. The piece was recently exhibited at the Surrey<br />Art Gallery.<br /><br />Kenneth Newby, Martin Gotfrit and Aleksandra Dulic are part of the<br />Computational Poetics Research Group, a research project that works at the<br />intersections of art, culture and computation and aims to articulate some<br />of the features of an emergent poetics of digital art performance while<br />developing a tool-set to enable artists working in the computational<br />medium to create, present and document their work. A key objective of<br />their work is to share the compositional process and the issues that arise<br />in the work of interdisciplinary computational media performance.<br />Contemporary computational techniques enable creative and performing<br />artists to enter into new collaborative relationships with encoded<br />systems.<br /><br />When: Thursday, January 26 at 8pm<br />Where: Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada<br />FREE! Everyone welcome.<br /><br />URL: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/">http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/</a><br /><br />On NowPublic: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/node/27770">http://www.nowpublic.com/node/27770</a><br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />10.<br /><br />From: Christiane_Paul@whitney.org &lt;Christiane_Paul@whitney.org&gt;<br />Date: Jan 20, 2006 8:20 AM<br />Subject: DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART – new affiliation<br /><br />DEAR COLLEAGUES AND DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART USERS,<br /><br />We are happy to announce the new affiliation with improved and long term<br />support provided by the department for Cultural Studies of the Danube<br />University Krems, Austria, which will assure preservation and growth of<br />the Database of Virtual Art.<br /><br />D V A<br />As pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art has been documenting<br />the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art since 1999. It is<br />supported by the German Research Foundation and various other<br />institutions. Our research-oriented, complex overview of immersive,<br />interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation<br />with renowned media artists, researchers and institutions. The database is<br />based on open-source-technologies and allows individuals to post material<br />themselves. Currently it contains hundreds of work descriptions including<br />several thousand digital documents, videos, technical data, institutions<br />and bio-bibliographical information. As one of the richest resources<br />online, with a freshly implemented scientific Thesaurus the database<br />responds to the demands of the field.<br /><br />www.virtualart.at<br /><br />We encourage your remarks and suggestions!<br />DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS (DUK)<br />The cultural studies department in Krems contains, in addition to the<br />program in image science, contains also film, contemporary music and<br />intercultural studies programs - so that the approach is already<br />multimedial, like the subject of Media Art History. With our international<br />faculty members we will continue offering new global programs in the field<br />of media art, collection, curation, preservation and image management.<br /><br />Center for Image Sciences: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis<br /><br />DUK NEWSLETTER: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/zbw/engnewsletter">http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/zbw/engnewsletter</a><br /><br />PERFECT COMBINATION<br />Beside the Database of Virtual Art - the Goettweig Print Collection<br />(collection database online soon), which contains 30.000 original prints<br />from Renaissance to Barock until now, allows in-depth research into its<br />large resources. We are glad to report that Danube University is able to<br />provide our field soon with an open archive contextualizing media art in<br />art and image history.<br /><br />NEW ADVISORY BOARD<br />At the same time, we are also excited to inform the field of researchers,<br />artists, scholars, students who have found the database a value to their<br />studies, that we have a newly formed advisory board who will help guide<br />the Database of Virtual Art in the future. Their contributions to the<br />field and their importance to the ongoing developments of media art as the<br />art of our times needs no introduction, but further biographical can be<br />found under:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.virtualart.at/common/advisoryBoard.do">http://www.virtualart.at/common/advisoryBoard.do</a><br /><br />We welcome Roy Ascott, Beryl Graham, Erkki Huhtamo, Jorge La Ferla,<br />Gunalan Nadarajan, Christiane Paul, Martin Roth, and Steve Wilson as<br />advisors to the Database of Virtual Art.<br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Rhizome.org is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the<br />New Museum of Contemporary Art.<br /><br />Rhizome Digest is supported by grants from The Charles Engelhard<br />Foundation, &#xA0;The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for<br />the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on<br />the Arts, a state agency.<br /><br />+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<br /><br />Rhizome Digest is filtered by Marisa Olson (marisa@rhizome.org). 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