Art+Communication festival From October 4 to November 4, 2012 Riga and Liepaja will be the host cities for the 14th International Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication ‘2012”. The “Art+Communication” festival is renowned across Europe for its proposed innovative themes. Each year, the festival gathers around hundred participants from Latvia, Europe and other world countries,… Continue reading ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today
Category: New Media
Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Leviathan, a documentary film about fishing ships in the Northern Atlantic, by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, won the international critics’ prize at the Locarno Film Festival. I could see it, thanks to Mark Peranson and Bettina Steinbrügge, and indeed, I pass you on the recommendation to go and see this work, which achieves “an… Continue reading Leviathan and the Sensory Ethnography Lab
Video Vortex #9 – Re:assemblies of Video
Video Vortex #9, Re:assemblies of Video, is conceived and hosted by the Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab of the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. The conference will be held from February 28 until March 2, 2013. The call for contribution is open until 31 August 2012. Online video vortices such as… Continue reading Video Vortex #9 – Re:assemblies of Video
Resiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming Chaos
Michael V. Copeland recently interviewed Joi Ito, for Wired.com. In the interview, the head of MIT´s media lab shared his thoughts on what it’s going to take to maneuver through the next phase of disruption brought by technology, mentioning what, for him, seem to be the 9 principles to work in a world like this… Continue reading Resiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming Chaos
Connecting People Apart – events series
A Post-Media Lab event series, Lüneburg/Berlin, Germany, June 20th – 23rd 2012 20 June Opening presentation – ‘Talk to Me’ with Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits (RIXC) with a contribution by Nishant Shah (Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore). Reception and drinks. Venue: Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg. 19:30-22:00 21 June ‘What Would the Community Say?’… Continue reading Connecting People Apart – events series
“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research… Continue reading “Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
Call for submissions: Next idea grant
Austria The Ars Electronica Linz GmbH in Linz/Austria welcomes submissions for the “next idea grant” 2012. Every year Ars Electronica awards prizes to artistic works in the field of media arts in the following seven different categories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX Interactive Art Digital Musics & Sound Art Hybrid Art Digital… Continue reading Call for submissions: Next idea grant
Interactive Futures (IF) in Vancouver: Animal Influence
Vancouver, BC 17th to 19th of November 2011 From the 17th until the 19th of November 2011 you are able to visit the conference „Interactive Futures (IF)“ in Vancouver, BC. The conference includes exhibitions, performances and screenings as well as a workshop with well-known speakers like the ethologist Marc Bekoff and new media artist Lisa… Continue reading Interactive Futures (IF) in Vancouver: Animal Influence
“99 Is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary”
October 31st, 2011 Sloan Fellow, MIT (USA) “How do we observe or quantify the impact of an artistic intervention or the impact of a documentary film? Lucy Walker will be reflecting on the experience of making and showing the film Waste Land, a documentary about artist Vik Muniz’s collaboration with the self-designated recyclables materials pickers… Continue reading “99 Is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary”
“Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology”
October 17th, 2011 MIT Media Lab, USA “Moore’s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different “public” to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advances in technology… Continue reading “Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology”
