Recently added to the Artbase: QR Calligraphy 

The piece is a reflection about the history of the reproduction of images, extending its boundaries to the interactive scope, it requires audience participation to complete. Draws a parallel between the traditional context of printmaking and contemporary mas media dissemination of images in the digital age of Internet and mobile phones. Start from the visual similarities found between the geometric Kufic Arabic calligraphy and QR codes (Quick Response) used to transmit information current data can be decoded with a mobile phone camera. This type of calligraphy, best known for being the first in which the Quran is written, it also has great importance in the dissemination of mystical poetry. Using computer software, were coded Mathnavi different fragments, a masterpiece of Sufi mystical poetry, unlike other branches of Islam, using the intuitive practice and experience, to get a direct knowledge of spiritual realities (Tahqeeq) throughunveiling (kashf) and inspiration (ilham). The computer language of process and production codes, is scheduled and runs on an arabic numeral system, the binary system of zeros and ones, thus the contents of a medieval expression that seems to have stuck in time, serves as a starting point for a process that generates an image of the 21st century. The project consists of eight parts, one for each volume of Mathnavi. - Manuel Fernández

Events/Lectures/Exhibitions:

• Resonate - Belgrade New Media Festival - March 2012
• Johansson Projects presents Follies of the Digital Arcade, Oakland, CA. Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:00 - Sat Mar 17, 2012
• A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance, apexart, NYC. Jan 11, 2012 18:00 - Sat Mar 10, 2012

Jobs:

• Tenure-Track Faculty, History of Design, MassArt
• Assistant Professor, specializing in Digital Sculpture, School of Art+Design and School of Film & Media studies at Purchase College, SUNY
• Adjunct Professor, Dymanic Web Design, Art Department at The College of New Jersey. 
• Chair for the Department of Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University
• Editorial Fellow, Rhizome

Call for Submissions:

• 39th SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques seeks artists. The conference takes place next year in Los Angeles and the deadline for submission is January 10, 2012.
• Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School announce a call for papers and projects to the 12th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference, taking place April 13-14,2012. Deadline: JANUARY 15, 2012
• Gays Hate Techno is a new web project seeking to publish thoughtful, subjective writings on the intersection of techno music, identity, perception, history, and politics from a queer perspective.

Misc:

• Podcast: Conversation with William Bennett, Ràdio Web MACBA radiophonic project
• DIGIMAG 69 - NOVEMBER 2011
• VisualcontainerTv presents on ExhibitContainer — "Flowers Of Chaos " Chinese Animation Videoart selection curated by Cecilia Freschini. An online broadcast of video art through Wed Jan 18, 2012

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