arts http://www.aliak.com/taxonomy/term/42/atom/feed 2008-06-06T16:26:50+01:00 Beijing digital arts and sound art links http://www.aliak.com/content/beijing-digital-arts-and-sound-art-links 2010-07-22T14:33:10+01:00 2010-07-29T08:20:19+01:00 AliaK started making a list of Beijing (& some Shanghai & general China) digital media arts & sound art projects & links. I haven't seen any of these projects in person, but they all sound interesting. some may no longer be active..
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Tsinghua Art and Science Media Laboratory
http://tasml.parsons.edu
Tsinghua University is one of the most acclaimed higher learning establishments and a national key research institute in China.

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Tsinghua Art and Science Media Laboratory

http://tasml.parsons.edu

Tsinghua University is one of the most acclaimed higher learning establishments and a national key research institute in China.

The University considers the confluence of art and science to be a primary subject for higher education in the twenty-first century. In response to the University’s mandate, its branch of arts education, The Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, has hosted a ground-breaking exhibition and symposia series titled “The Millennium Dialogue: Beijing International New Media Art Exhibition and Symposium” in 2004, 2005 and 2006, positioning itself at the forefront of new media art discourse and production and as a leader in advocating new creative visions by linking art, science and technology among China’s finest art and educational institutions.

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Arthub Asia

http://arthubasia.org

ArtHub is a multi-disciplinary organization devoted to contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia. In collaboration with museums and other public / private spaces and institutions, it initiates and delivers ambitious art projects through a sustained dialogue with visual, performance, and new media artists. Inspired by the opportunities generated by the collective intelligence of the thinkers across media, Arthub serves as a collaborative production lab, a creative think tank as well as a curatorial research platform. Arthub is committed to furthering experimentation, knowledge-production and diversity among dedicated artists, art professionals, scholars, and arts organizations in the region.

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Continua gallery Beijing

http://www.galleriacontinua.com/english/mostre.html?luogo=Beijing

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Berlin China Cultural Bridges (BCCB)

http://www.berlin-china-bridge.com/en/index.html

Berlin China Cultural Bridges (BCCB) is an organization that promotes cultural exchange between Berlin and the creative cities of China. BCCB initiates and organizes exhibitions, discussion forums, lectures with the creativehttp://www.berlin-china-bridge.com/en/img/trans.gifminds who live and work in these cities as well as exchange programs and collaborative projects.

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shanghai unlike

http://www.shanghai.unlike.net

the definitive city guide for the mobile generation

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The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) - beijing

http://www.cafa.edu.cn/channel.asp?id=10

The Central Academy of Fine Arts, located in Beijing, the capital of China, is an academy where culture, history and art are flourishing, which enjoys the best art resources of the world. CAFA, as a leading institution for modern art education in China, provides a rich land for those who wish to learn experience and engage in creativities, which has nurtured quite a lot of pre-eminent artists in the past ninety years.

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ShContemporary10
Shanghai in Art

http://www.shcontemporary.info/English/event/welcome/

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World Expo 2010

http://www.shcontemporary.info/English/visitors/world-expo/

http://en.expo2010.cn/hqindex.htm

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Vitamin Creative Space

http://www.vitamincreativespace.com/en

http://vitamincreativespace.blogbus.com/tag/EnglishVersion/

Vitamin Creative Space is exploring an alternative working mode, specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. In order to operate independently from institutionalized funding, it is active both as an "independent" art space and as a "commercial" gallery. Vitamin Creative Space is actively challenging the preconception by merging these two, which traditionally are opposed strategies for supporting and presenting contemporary art, raising the searching of new Chinese contributions both from artistic practice level and institutional level within the new global context.

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2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture

http://www.szhkbiennale.org/en/

http://hkszbiennale.org/news

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Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change

http://artandclimatechange.culture360.org/participants/shu-yang/

Shu Yang is an independent curator, critic and artist. He received his Bachelor degree in art in 1993 and Master degree in arts in 1996 from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. He taught fine art in Architecture Department of Tianjin Institute of Urban Construction from 1996 to 1998. He moved to Beijing in 1997. He taught as visiting lecturer at Art & Design Academy of North China University of Technology in Beijing from 2000 to 2003 and was a member of the Beijing Paper Tiger Theater Studio from 2000 to 2006. Shu Yang worked as executive editor of Chinese contemporary art magazine Next Wave in 2001. He curated the China’s New Photography at 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2002. Participated as independent curator of China-UK Arts Management Placement Programme at Visiting Arts in London and Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, initiated DaDao Live Art Festival and curated China’s Photographic Painting in 2003. He is a member of Independent Chinese Pen Center since 2004 and curated Dashanzi International Art Festival from 2004 to 2006. He worked as chief-editor of art Magazine 798 Art Info, planner of 798 Biennale 1 and director of SOHO Newtown Cinema of Eshu Art House in 2005. To be visiting professor for Performance Art Class at 3rd Studio of Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts and artistic director of Inter Art Center at 798 Art Zone, Beijing in 2006. He is the curator of magazine art and a programmer of Beijing Lightning Factory in 2007. He is the art director of DaDao Live Art Festival and curator of Live Art Biennale of China in 2008.

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"SOHO New Town Cinema of Eshu Centre"

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Kenneth Fields

http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn/htmldocs/staffKen.html

beijing sound art

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Kenneth Fields

http://daohaus.org/

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Electroacoustic Music Studies Network

http://www.ems-network.org/spip.php?article254

2006, Beijing. Terminology and Translation Conference

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Electronic Music in China article

http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/11_3/china_gluck.html
Introduction

Although the beginnings of electronic and computer music in China date back only to the mid-1980s, early initiatives by a small number of individual enterprising composers have spawned a wealth of diverse activity. Several key composers studied abroad and returned to China grounded in various European æsthetics and compositional and technical disciplines, while at the same time traditional Chinese instruments and æsthetics have often emerged as integral elements in a new, complex and fascinating musical synthesis.

The most significant developments in electronic music have taken place at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, but creative work has grown at other universities and, more recently, outside academia. As composer Ping Jin observes, the number of institutions with studios is likely to grow as resources become available: “Many conservatories have been trying to build a program but lack both faculty and funding.” Speaking for the non-academic musicians, composer Dajuin Yao cites a Chinese proverb: “The wrapping can no longer contain the fire inside.”

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The China Electronic Music Center

http://cemc.ccom.edu.cn/

Introduction. The China Electronic Music Center was founded in 1993 by Professor Zhang Xiaofu. CEMC is a pioneer in China for the academic study and production of computer music. The studios are professionally equipped for mulifunctional use including digital recording and composition of electronic music. CEMC is the leader in developing curriculum and research for computer music in China. The mission of the center is to promote the entrance of electronic music onto the stage of the modern music concert hall while inquiring into the cultural aspects of chinese electronic music.

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Sound Art in China

http://www.post-concrete.com/

http://www.post-concrete.com/blog/

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Red Gate Gallery

http://www.redgategallery.com/

Founded in 1991 by Brian Wallace who first arrived in China in 1984, Red Gate Gallery is the first private contemporary art gallery to be established in China. Prior to opening its doors at the 600-year old Ming dynasty watchtower in Dongbienmen, Brian Wallace has started from the late 80s to organize and curate exhibitions for young Chinese artists in other exotic locations such as the Ancient Observatory Tower.

Today, Red Gate is recognized both as a tour de force and trail blazer in the history and development of the contemporary Chinese art scene. Over the last 18 years, the gallery has been engaging and promoting Chinese artists by exhibiting the best of Chinese contemporary art as well as facilitating cultural exchanges and dialogues between China and the rest of the world through its vibrant residency program established in 2001.

Red Gate gallery represents 18 artists who work with various medium, reflecting the dynamic and ever-evolving local art scene. With monthly exhibitions, the gallery showcases painting, works-on-paper, graphics, sculpture, photography and installation by both established artists and emerging talents. The gallery also holds regular special exhibitions in collaboration with guest curators and galleries from China as well as overseas. In addition, Red Gate gives art talks for various organizations and holds charity events and various functions as part of the gallery’s aim to cultivate interest and appreciation for Chinese contemporary art on the whole.

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Musicacoustica Festival

http://en.ccom.edu.cn/pae/bma/index.shtml

Annually Musicacoustica Festival held in Beijing and has become a worldwide known Festival. It attracts many experts' attention in international electro acoustic music and multimedia fields. As the initiator and sponsor of Musicacoustica, the only international modern electro acoustic music festival in China, Central Conservatory of Music has successfully conducted many electro acoustic music concerts in different subjects and master classes in different academic fields in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2005 successively. All of these events filled academic gaps in the same field in China and positively contribute to the development of Chinese electro acoustic music.

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The Frontier of Chinese Experimental Music and Sound Art Dajuin Yao in conversation with Aaron Ximm

Chinese sound artist Dajuin Yao talks about his work as a field recordist, radio host, founder of label Post-Concrete, and organizer of Sounding Beijing, the first-ever experimental sound art festival in China. Dajuin plays released and unreleased work from his label, his archive, and his China Sound Unit field recording project.

Compiled and edited by Yao in 2003, the double CD "China: The Sonic Avant Garde" continues to be one of Vermilion Sounds' favourites CD . Highly recommended.

Interviewer Aaron Ximm is a field recordist and sound artist best known for his Quiet American project (www.quietamerican.org) and the Field Effects concert series he hosts in San Francisco.

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Sounding Beijing Festival 2003

http://www.post-concrete.com/festival/

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china.sound.unit

beijing.sound.unit

http://www.post-concrete.com/csu.html

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http://www.post-concrete.com/005/index.html

CHINA – the sonic avant-garde

POST 005 2xCD digipak

This first-ever, 2-hour survey of the current experimental music and sound art scene in Mainland China features 15 artists mostly in their twenties from all over the country. The double-CD set shows what is really happening today on the Chinese new music cutting-edge. No more symphonies or string quartets with self-Orientalizing titles and pentatonic motifs. In fact, you won't hear one Chinese instrument here. The incredibly wide range of styles cover everything from plunderphonics, musique concrete, experimental electronics, ambient, sample collage, plug-in modulation, text-sound, sound poetry, mixer feedback improv, hardcore noise, radio art, political satire, to post-concrete recording art documenting a family karaoke scene. This is only the beginning of something unpredictable. No to be missed.

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Resonance Exhibition/ Performance/Talks, Samson Young and Yao Chung-Han

http://rhizome.org/announce/view/55611

Resonance an exhibition about the word sound. It is about the sound of the word, the meaning of the word, and the usage of the word; that is to say, it asks what sound is, how sound is used, and what sound can do. One may wonder why an artist would choose to work with sound, as opposed to music or visual art, but would find that answers are rarely forthcoming.

Resonance attempts to present an abstracted territory for this dialogue, stripping sound down to its most basic elements; the same elements that contribute to the other creative modes and methods in question. Just as Seth Kim-Cohen, working in the Duchampian conceptual tradition in his book In the Blink of an Ear, has called for an art of “non-cochlear sound” opposed to the “sound-in-itself” associated with John Cage, this project wonders what happens when the sound is removed from sound art. As an exhibition, it engages in the transformation of music into sound, of sound into pressure, and of the sonic into an anti-essentialist conceptual program.

The goal of this curatorial program, writ large, is to re-examine the underpinnings of the characteristic styles, concepts, and devices that have come to represent the genre of sound within the field of contemporary art. In this vision, sound moves from medium or material to a more historically and contextually loaded territory, an object that can no more reject the lineages of both Cage and Duchamp than it can avoid participation in the carnival of post-conceptualism altogether. I/O (Input/Output) presents the works of two artists currently working through this problem: Samson Young, the Hong Kong composer, scholar, and artist known for his contributions to everything from game art to new classical performance, and Yao Chung-Han, the Taipei-based sound artist widely recognized for his research into the breakdown points of the technological matrix that surrounds us. Both are representatives of the new wave of emerging sound cultures across greater China and into the international sphere, offering new points of entry into these questions.

Yao Chung-Han here includes the installation, I Will Be Broken (2010), a floor-to-ceiling suspended column of circular fluorescent lamps tied together in a mesmerizing totem with its own power cords. As the piece slowly strangles itself into forced obsolescence with the surges of electricity through both body and frame, its lighting sources fluctuate along with a soft, uncanny buzzing. Although the visual spectacle and conceptual nervousness are at first domineering, the work functions primarily on the level of and through the medium of sound, emitting an atonal and unpredictable sound that requires attention by virtue of its low volume and commands consideration based on its ever-evolving almost organic state. Here, sound is a by-product that comes to both lead and stand in for an abstract choreography of relevance and terror that plays out on the stages of perception, ultimately creating an un-composed cacophony through physical experience.

Approaching the sound barrier from the other direction, Samson Young strips down music to some of its most basic elements, ultimately transforming it into sound. For the installation, Beethoven Piano Sonata,
nr.1 - nr.14 (Senza Misura) (2010), the artist has programmed forty-seven exposed circuit boards, each one simultaneously ticking and blinking to the tempo of a single movement of all of Beethoven's early fourteen piano sonatas. The effect is mesmerizing both visually and sonically, recalling the aesthetics of

Gyorgy Ligeti's, Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronome, more than anything else, but simultaneously stripping down such musical experiments in timing and composition to a naked framework of pure temporality, creating a totalizing experiment that verges on pure sound without reducing itself to the exercises in taste typical of sound-in-itself.

I/O Gallery is proud to offer a stage for these explorations of physical sensation, cognition, composition, temporality, and destruction. Conceived in collaboration with the Society for Experimental Cultural Production, this exhibition-along with an associated series of performances and talks featuring Yang Yeung, Cedric Maridet, and Yao Dajuin among others-hopes to throw into relief the problems that mark discourses of sound, art, music, and new media today, contributing to an ongoing conversation.

Artist Biographies
Yao Chung-Han
Yao Chung -Han was born in Taipei and graduated in 2008 from the Graduate School of Art and Technology, Taipei National University of the Art. He is an active member of the new generation of sound artists in Taiwan, which include the group IO Lab. His works are mostly concerned with sound, while at the same time, searching for the ultimate connections between video, installation, space and various media.

Recent exhibitions include: Non-Places-Architecture of Pheromonal Presence, Architecture Exhibition, SCU, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010; Emergencies!014, NTT ICC, Tokyo, Japan, 2010; TOKYO STORY, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan, 2010; SuperGeneration@TAIWAN, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 and Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2009.

Samson Young
With formal training in classical music and a keen eye for visuals, spatial installations and new technologies, Samson Young has been known to combine his diverse interests into uniquely intermedia concert experiences. Beyond the classical concert stage, Young’s creative output spans the widest possible range: from composition for symphony orchestra and live electronics, to amusement ride-turned-interactive installation, to multi-channel video featuring himself dressed as a character from a well know children’s television progrmame.

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Chinese sound art: 2,500 years of listening
public talk by Yao Dajuin

http://cilnews.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/talk-by-yao-dajuin-chinese-sound...

Founder of China Sound Unit and educator, Yao Dajuin gives a talk addressing the history of Chinese ways of listening and how it compares and conflicts with those of the West.
*in English, supplemented by Mandarin

Dajuin Yao is a sound artist, music producer, curator, radio host, art historian. For decades, Dajuin has been promoting experimental music through radio shows, websites and teaching. He has curated large-scale international new media events, including Sounding Beijing 2003 and the opening ceremony for the 2008 Shanghai eArts Festival. In 1997 Dajuin founded China Sound Unit, which is devoted to documenting and recontextualizing Chinese urban sound phenomena with a series of recordings, performances and installations. Each installation covers one city and makes use of various historical, spatial and aural analogies. Dajuin is also the producer of the sound art record label Post-Concrete. He has developed full curricula in sound art in China and Taiwan and currently teaches at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. http://www.post-concrete.com

Enquiry: Yeung Yang – yangy@soundpocket.org.hk
presented by soundpocket

http://www.soundpocket.org.hk

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Get It Louder – Sound Art

http://www.getitlouder.com/sound_en.htm

SOUND ARTISTS:

Fu Yu + Jia Haiqing (8gg)
Jin Shan
Justin Zhong Minjie
Li Chin-sung
Li Jianhong
Lin Zhiying
Stefanie L. Ku
Sun Lei (718)
Wang Changcun
Xu Cheng

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China's first electronic music festival to shake Beijing

2009-05-25

http://www.eurochinabusiness.com/news_info.php?id=7

BEIJING, May 21 -- China's first electronic music festival is set to shake Beijing this weekend, giving DJs and their disciples the official stamp of approval for what used to be seen as a decadent Western youth movement.

INTRO 2009 (Ideas Need to Reach Out) stars more than 20 foreign and local VJs and DJs playing 15 hours of continuous music at D-Park in the 798 Art Zone, to an expected audience of 10,000 people.

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INTRO will focus on electronic music as an art form, hoping to drag rave out from its underground shadows into the light of day.
Acupuncture Records managing director Miao Wong says electronic music is not intrinsically anti-social. On the contrary, it is simply a kind of music played by DJs and a lifestyle choice for its fans. "There is always a positive and negative," she says. "People can do bad things but we want to focus on the bright side and do it right."

The Party supports this party. It is part of the Meet In Beijing Arts Festival, which is sponsored by the China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA), under the Ministry of Culture, Beijing municipal government and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

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Someone with a firm grasp of the history of electronic music in Asia is DJ @llen, also known as the "Godfather of Electronic Music in Taiwan", who currently plies his trade in Beijing. An organizer and DJ of Taipei's first rave in 1995, he says it was a do-it-yourself operation, using his own turntables and rented loudspeakers.

"It's harder to do DIY parties here because of the police and government. It (the mainland) has skipped most of the DIY stuff and gone straight to the commercial this is a very professionally organized event - just look at the promotion and list of sponsors."
He is dubious about INTRO's status as China's first electronic music festival and cites O2culture and the Yen DJ collective as being among this country's pioneers. Underlining this assertion is the fifth anniversary of the Yen Electronic Music Events series that will be held next month, also at the 798 Art Zone.

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]]> Gökhan Okur on the Streaming Festival http://www.aliak.com/content/g%C3%B6khan-okur-streaming-festival 2010-07-01T09:39:21+01:00 2010-07-29T12:13:30+01:00 isfth This months program is a collection of five animations made by artist Gökhan Okur.
Working mainly as an illustrator, Okur experimented by adding time to his illustrations.

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Working mainly as an illustrator, Okur experimented by adding time to his illustrations.

His animation Last train ride was featured in our first edition of the festival in 2006. We’re proud to welcome him back with the première of his latest work: "Off the phone".

http://www.streamingfestival.com/program/gokhan_okur.php

http://www.gokhanokur.com

]]> Funware Shared Artist in Residence http://www.aliak.com/content/funware-shared-artist-residence 2010-04-13T15:00:34+01:00 2010-04-13T15:03:07+01:00 AliaK Artist in residence Call for Proposals
http://nimk.nl/eng/artist-in-residence-call-for-proposals
Funware Shared Artist in Residence:
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
Piksel, Bergen (NO)
CALL
BALTAN, NIMk and Piksel have launched an open call for proposals as part of the exhibition project Funware. We are looking for interesting new software art projects that can be developed in the period of June – November 2010 through a shared residency. The new work developed during the residency will be presented in the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010.
This residency is a collaboration between three labs, based on a desire to investigate the ways and potential of working within a network of labs that support the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge. The form of this collaboration aims to provide the most specific and relevant support to artists working on art and technology projects in residence. Knowing the capacities and competences of each lab/organisation, the residency exchange will offer targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, local context and time) to be provided at different stages of the research and development of the project specific to each organisation. Off- and online dissemination of form and content via this partnership and the building of structural relationships are crucial to the collaboration.
FUNWARE
Funware, conceptualised by Olga Goriunova (runme.org), is an exhibition about the fun in software. Making and using what has become known as software is experimental, humorous, and eventful. However improbable it might sound for today’s all encompassing dullness of forms, databases, schedules and processors, “fun” has informed and guided the development of software from its very inception. The rise of net art and the changes the Internet and desktop computers brought to culture gave rise to software art at the turn of the millennia. Performed by amateurs, artists, alternative coders or professional programmers for “fun”, software art as an aesthetic practice questions, tangles and experiments with the materiality of software has subsequently lost its visibility again, as attention is turned to the social web and software applications for third generation mobile phones, which all harness some of the energies constitutive of aesthetic software. Funware reflects on the history of engagement with software, that demonstrates its non-industrial, non-professional, non-commercial, or non-academic character.
The exhibition demonstrates the trajectory of humour and affect as constitutional to software and computing. The exhibition aims to make such an ‘obscure’ technological object as software, open, palpable and approachable, bridging a gap between ‘serious’ production such as technology and ‘non-serious’ production such as different forms of art. The exhibition has a few distinct threads: games; ASCII; code art; a few vectors of AI; computers in popular culture; spyware, conceptual software, hardware modification, hacker/virus approaches, sound, software modification, pranks, participatory web. And as software is intertwined with the hardware it runs upon and the networks that construct the society in which it rules, the exhibition features a lot of projects dealing explicitly with computer hardware or the materiality of hardwareas well as engaging projects experimenting with sound.

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http://nimk.nl/eng/artist-in-residence-call-for-proposals

Funware Shared Artist in Residence:
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
BALTAN Laboratories, Eindhoven (NL)
Piksel, Bergen (NO)

CALL

BALTAN, NIMk and Piksel have launched an open call for proposals as part of the exhibition project Funware. We are looking for interesting new software art projects that can be developed in the period of June – November 2010 through a shared residency. The new work developed during the residency will be presented in the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010.

This residency is a collaboration between three labs, based on a desire to investigate the ways and potential of working within a network of labs that support the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge. The form of this collaboration aims to provide the most specific and relevant support to artists working on art and technology projects in residence. Knowing the capacities and competences of each lab/organisation, the residency exchange will offer targeted support (in the form of resources, space, technical support, local context and time) to be provided at different stages of the research and development of the project specific to each organisation. Off- and online dissemination of form and content via this partnership and the building of structural relationships are crucial to the collaboration.

FUNWARE

Funware, conceptualised by Olga Goriunova (runme.org), is an exhibition about the fun in software. Making and using what has become known as software is experimental, humorous, and eventful. However improbable it might sound for today’s all encompassing dullness of forms, databases, schedules and processors, “fun” has informed and guided the development of software from its very inception. The rise of net art and the changes the Internet and desktop computers brought to culture gave rise to software art at the turn of the millennia. Performed by amateurs, artists, alternative coders or professional programmers for “fun”, software art as an aesthetic practice questions, tangles and experiments with the materiality of software has subsequently lost its visibility again, as attention is turned to the social web and software applications for third generation mobile phones, which all harness some of the energies constitutive of aesthetic software. Funware reflects on the history of engagement with software, that demonstrates its non-industrial, non-professional, non-commercial, or non-academic character.

The exhibition demonstrates the trajectory of humour and affect as constitutional to software and computing. The exhibition aims to make such an ‘obscure’ technological object as software, open, palpable and approachable, bridging a gap between ‘serious’ production such as technology and ‘non-serious’ production such as different forms of art. The exhibition has a few distinct threads: games; ASCII; code art; a few vectors of AI; computers in popular culture; spyware, conceptual software, hardware modification, hacker/virus approaches, sound, software modification, pranks, participatory web. And as software is intertwined with the hardware it runs upon and the networks that construct the society in which it rules, the exhibition features a lot of projects dealing explicitly with computer hardware or the materiality of hardwareas well as engaging projects experimenting with sound.

We offer:
- Residency period at each of the different labs (residency time at location will be project dependent) in the period of June – November 2010. Specific dates at each location are to be determined in collaboration with the selected artist.
- Artist(s) fee.
- Production budget (including support of travel and accommodation, accommodation is not provided for in Amsterdam).
- Presentation of the project in the Funware exhibition in Eindhoven (MU) and Dortmund (HMKV).
- Public presentation of the results of the artist’s research at BALTAN Laboratories, NIMk and Piksel;
- Support for the documentation of the research and final work, and dissemination of this documentation.

Requirements:
- Proposals are welcome from professional artists worldwide;
- The concept should fit within the theme of the exhibition Funware, in which it will be presented;
- The work should be created using free/open source software;
- The artist should have experience working in collaborative settings with people from different disciplines;
- The artist must be willing and able to travel to Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Bergen for residency periods (exact dates and period will be made in accordance with the artist);
- The artist must be willing to openly and thoroughly document the artistic process.

What are we looking for:
- Outline of the concept underlying the work that you wish to develop (200 words max).
- General outline of the scope of the final work (200 words max – please include visual sketches).
- Outline of the research and development plan for the work (250 words max)
- Motivation for why you would like to work in the context of this particular residency as well as an overview of your interest in the technologies mentioned above (250 words max).
- Indication of your planning divided between the three labs, i.e. what would you like to develop where.
- Up-to-date CV including links to previous work.

Please send your submission to call@nimk.nl
Deadline for submission is Friday 23 April 2010.

The candidate is chosen by representatives from the three partner organisations. Applicants will be informed by May 10th.

ABOUT THE DIFFERENT VENUES

Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL)

The Artist in Residence (AiR) programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute supports the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work. The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues. There is access to studio and exhibition equipment, technical support from the Institute's staff and production help from interns. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realisation of the concept.

BALTAN Laboratories (Eindhoven, NL)
BALTAN Laboratories initiates, supports and disseminates innovative research and development activities in the field of art, technology and culture. A two-year pilot initiative located in a space of 500 m2 at Strijp S in Eindhoven, it is a first step towards a broader Art Science Lab in the former NatLab (Philips physics laboratory). BALTAN provides space, a critical framework and support for artistic research into technological culture. The pilot phase is intended to develop a radical and sustainable identity for the laboratory of the future. The Funware residency exchange with NIMk and Piksel in 2010 is an integral part of this research. BALTAN offers an open and flexible residency context in which we dialogue closely with the artist throughout the development of their project. Interaction with other research projects being undertaken at BALTAN is key to all residencies at BALTAN. We provide support for documenting, disseminating and reflecting on the research process and results of the residency, and offer a unique local context in which to work. BALTAN' s core team includes four artistic advisors: Marc Maurer (Maurer United Architects), Geert Mul, Gideon Kiers and Lucas van der Velden (Telcosystems).

Piksel (Bergen, Norway)
Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.
The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections between art, politics, technology and economy.

]]> SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens - Call for Expressions of Interest (NZ) http://www.aliak.com/content/scanz-2011-eco-sapiens-call-expressions-interest-nz 2009-10-08T03:24:49+01:00 2009-10-08T03:24:49+01:00 AliaK Call for Expressions of Interest _
http://www.intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens
/
\\\\\\\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
Extinction or adaptation? Evolution or Revolution? What are we facing?
The complexity and urgency of the crises of today calls for us to
engage together in new ways. Deep shifts in our consciousness may be
required for long-term cultural changes to occur. This is a call for
expressions of interest from people who are concerned with these issues.
A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to
early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. Initial
expressions of interest are due 21 November, 2009.
\
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The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens symposium will be an event involving
individuals from a number of different worlds (e.g scientists,
artists, social activists and community change agents, cultural
commentators, educators, tangata whenua). Our primary aim is to
facilitate connections and foster innovative, and practical solutions
to the issues we are facing. Accordingly, a mixture of presentations,
discussions, informal exchanges and workshops are planned. Roger
Malina will be presenting from France on 'Open observatories', and Te
Huirangi Waikerepuru will speak on Maori conceptions of environment.
The symposium will inspire and inform the residency that follows, and
also provide opportunities for people to collaborate on projects
beyond SCANZ.
\
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The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens two week residency is designed for those
individuals or groups who would like to work on creative, poetically
pragmatic or provocative projects which raise awareness of the issues
that confront us, generate connections between people, and with their
natural environment, and which grapple with the challenges of
individual and collective evolution.
Interdisciplinary approaches and the involvement of diverse groups is
welcomed. Residency projects can take place in a wirelessly networked
botanic garden, along the coastline and with communities. Networked,
DIY, or otherwise actively and openly distributed concepts are also
encouraged. Project participants are not necessarily required to be in
New Plymouth. Residency projects that are shortlisted will be included
in funding applications.
read more for details or visit http://www.intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens

]]> Call for Expressions of Interest _
http://www.intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens

/
\\\\\\\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens

Extinction or adaptation? Evolution or Revolution? What are we facing?

The complexity and urgency of the crises of today calls for us to
engage together in new ways. Deep shifts in our consciousness may be
required for long-term cultural changes to occur. This is a call for
expressions of interest from people who are concerned with these issues.

A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to
early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. Initial
expressions of interest are due 21 November, 2009.

\
//////////////// / Symposium

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens symposium will be an event involving
individuals from a number of different worlds (e.g scientists,
artists, social activists and community change agents, cultural
commentators, educators, tangata whenua). Our primary aim is to
facilitate connections and foster innovative, and practical solutions
to the issues we are facing. Accordingly, a mixture of presentations,
discussions, informal exchanges and workshops are planned. Roger
Malina will be presenting from France on 'Open observatories', and Te
Huirangi Waikerepuru will speak on Maori conceptions of environment.
The symposium will inspire and inform the residency that follows, and
also provide opportunities for people to collaborate on projects
beyond SCANZ.

\
//////////////// / Residency

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens two week residency is designed for those
individuals or groups who would like to work on creative, poetically
pragmatic or provocative projects which raise awareness of the issues
that confront us, generate connections between people, and with their
natural environment, and which grapple with the challenges of
individual and collective evolution.

Interdisciplinary approaches and the involvement of diverse groups is
welcomed. Residency projects can take place in a wirelessly networked
botanic garden, along the coastline and with communities. Networked,
DIY, or otherwise actively and openly distributed concepts are also
encouraged. Project participants are not necessarily required to be in
New Plymouth. Residency projects that are shortlisted will be included
in funding applications.

read more for details or visit http://www.intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens

Expressions of Interest _ Please supply:

1. Name of main contact person. Name of the collaborative group where
applicable.

2. Affiliated or associated organisations (if applicable).

3. Symposium _ Please provide up to a half page summary of your
proposed contribution, including your background, and interest, in the
themes we have presented.

4. Residency _ If you are interested in attending the residency,
please provide a half page summary of your proposed project, clearly
stating how you feel the project addresses concerns raised.

Propositional expressions of interest, i.e. those that propose working
with organisations or people not yet contacted, are acceptable.

//////////////// / Email this to: ecosapiens @ intercreate.org by
November 21st 2009. (remove spaces in email address)

/.><.\ For more information please see:

SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens _ http://www.intercreate.org/view/eco-sapiens

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]]> This Is Not Art & Electrofringe 2009 http://www.aliak.com/content/this-is-not-art-electrofringe-2009 2009-10-06T08:49:33+01:00 2009-10-06T13:12:58+01:00 AliaK This Is Not Art festival 2009
This is Not Art is the parent arts, music festival of experimental and underground arts & music held annually in Newcastle, North of Sydney, Australia. The 2009 festival was held between October 1-5. The festival comprises of various festivals, listed below.

Electrofringe
Sound Summit
Critical Animals
National Young Writers' Festival
Crack Theatre Festival

video playlist : (all videos taken at the festivals - individual videos also in separate articles below)

]]> This Is Not Art festival 2009
This is Not Art is the parent arts, music festival of experimental and underground arts & music held annually in Newcastle, North of Sydney, Australia. The 2009 festival was held between October 1-5. The festival comprises of various festivals, listed below.

Electrofringe
Sound Summit
Critical Animals
National Young Writers' Festival
Crack Theatre Festival

video playlist : (all videos taken at the festivals - individual videos also in separate articles below)

]]> Crankthesteza http://www.aliak.com/content/crankthesteza 2009-06-23T03:11:20+01:00 2009-06-23T04:21:05+01:00 crankthesteza Crankthesteza.org is a new brisbane Net / independent label in Brisbane. I am looking for the unusual, usual, weird and bizarre forms of music. Check it out and drop us your tracks on the drop box..
We also hire P.A's and production gear with a community approach. Will soon have a production library and memberships are coming soon.
Drop by and have a look.. any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks Stoicdee
peas :)

]]> Crankthesteza.org is a new brisbane Net / independent label in Brisbane. I am looking for the unusual, usual, weird and bizarre forms of music. Check it out and drop us your tracks on the drop box..

We also hire P.A's and production gear with a community approach. Will soon have a production library and memberships are coming soon.

Drop by and have a look.. any feedback would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks Stoicdee

peas :)

]]> Call for Entries: Aesthetica Creative Works Competition http://www.aliak.com/content/call-entries-aesthetica-creative-works-competition 2009-05-07T17:03:30+01:00 2009-05-08T04:45:19+01:00 Aesthetica Aesthetica is looking for entries to the 2009 International Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. The 2008 Competition was a successful springboard for artists’ careers around the globe.
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition: Artwork, Photography & Sculpture, Fiction and Poetry
Three winners will be awarded £500 each
All finalists will be published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual, in stores December 2009
Entry to the 2009 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is £10
This allows you to submit up to 5 images, 5 poems or 2 short stClosing date to receive Creative Works is 31 August 2009
The winners and finalists from last year, went on to secure further exhibitions, commissions and publications. The winners and finalists were published in the Aesthetica Annual. It's a great opportunity to bring your work to a wider audience.

]]> Aesthetica is looking for entries to the 2009 International Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. The 2008 Competition was a successful springboard for artists’ careers around the globe.

The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition: Artwork, Photography & Sculpture, Fiction and Poetry
Three winners will be awarded £500 each
All finalists will be published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual, in stores December 2009
Entry to the 2009 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is £10
This allows you to submit up to 5 images, 5 poems or 2 short stClosing date to receive Creative Works is 31 August 2009

The winners and finalists from last year, went on to secure further exhibitions, commissions and publications. The winners and finalists were published in the Aesthetica Annual. It's a great opportunity to bring your work to a wider audience.

For further details on the successes of artists and writers from the 2008 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition please visit http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com

For competition guidelines and to enter the competition please visit http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm

]]> Announcing Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology Discussion Group on the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) http://www.aliak.com/content/announcing-synaesthesia-art-science-technology-discussion-group-leonardo-education-forum-lef 2009-03-01T00:28:42+00:00 2009-03-01T00:31:58+00:00 AliaK Announcing Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology Discussion Group on the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
Following the Synaesthesia Discussion on YASMIN Discussions List, during the month of February 2009, we wish to inform you that this discussion will continue on the Leonardo Education Forum on the topic of Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology.
To join the discussion, please register at: http://forum.lefnet.org/node/26
This Discussion Group invites comments on Synaesthesia, Art / Science topics as well as announcements on art projects, research and relevant events.
The LEF Synaesthesia Discussion Group is part of the Leonardo Synesthesia and Intersenses Special Project launched in 1999 by Jack Ox and Jacques Mandelbrojt (www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/synesthesia/synesthesia.html) and is currently moderated by Veroniki Korakidou, PhD Candidate - Research Associate at the University of Athens NT Lab, Communication and Media Department.

]]> Announcing Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology Discussion Group on the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)

Following the Synaesthesia Discussion on YASMIN Discussions List, during the month of February 2009, we wish to inform you that this discussion will continue on the Leonardo Education Forum on the topic of Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology.

To join the discussion, please register at: http://forum.lefnet.org/node/26

This Discussion Group invites comments on Synaesthesia, Art / Science topics as well as announcements on art projects, research and relevant events.

The LEF Synaesthesia Discussion Group is part of the Leonardo Synesthesia and Intersenses Special Project launched in 1999 by Jack Ox and Jacques Mandelbrojt (www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/synesthesia/synesthesia.html) and is currently moderated by Veroniki Korakidou, PhD Candidate - Research Associate at the University of Athens NT Lab, Communication and Media Department.

Current members of the Leonardo Working Group on Synaesthesia, Art, Science & Technology include : Roger Malina, Amy Ione (painter, writer), Paul Hertz (artist, independent curator), Cindy Keefer (Director of the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles).

All YASMIN & LEF
Members are invited to join.

We are interested in contributions to this Discussion Group, including comments on relevant topics, announcements on upcoming events, links to art / science projects or articles, as well as current research or bibliography updates.

We also
welcome news and updates on existing Networks and activities related to Synaesthesia, Art & Science.

This Group has been created following the Syn(a)esthesia Discussion on YASMIN in February 2008, moderated by Carol Steen, co-founder of ASA (American Synesthesia Association) and the Synaesthesia Discussion on YASMIN Discussions List during the month of February 2009 (http://estia.media.uoa.gr/pipermail/yasmin_discussions/).

We especially wish to thank the YASMIN Synaesthesia Discussion 2009 respondents : Cretien van Campen (moderator of the Synesthetics Netherlands website and author of the "Leonardo Book Series" book "The Hidden Sense"); Hervé-Pierre Lambert (member of Institut Nicod, ENS/EHESS, Paris); Jack Ox (co-editor with Jacques Mandelbroijt, "Synesthesia and Intersenses"1999-2001); Dr. Jamie Ward (Associate Professor at the University of Sussex, UK); Elizabeth Seckel (University of California, San Diego, research assistant at the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD), as well as the YASMIN Syn(a)esthesia Discussion 2008 respondents : Greta Berman (art historian at the Julliard School) and Avishai Henik (faculty of Humanities and SocialSciences, University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva) for their contributions and, of course, all the YASMIN Members who contributed to these two discussions.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Leonardo Education Forum invites all educators and students to join the Forum and participate in the various discussion groups.

http://forum.lefnet.org/

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) is a working group of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). The Leonardo Education Forum promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities.

For futher information on Leonardo Network: www.leonardo.info

]]> 2009 ELECTROFRINGE FESTIVAL – CALL FOR PROPOSALS http://www.aliak.com/content/2009-electrofringe-festival-%E2%80%93-call-for-proposals 2009-02-18T08:11:34+00:00 2009-02-18T08:13:52+00:00 AliaK Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers, cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers, experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn't fit these boxes.
Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture held from the 1st - 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia. Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.

]]> Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2009 festival. We are looking for creative expressions from artists, sound artists, performers, media makers, digital filmmakers, researchers, cross-artform practitioners, curators, producers, writers, experimenters, enthusiasts and anyone who doesn't fit these boxes.

Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture held from the 1st - 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia. Electrofringe is part of a group of festivals collected together under the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative use and re-use of technology and electronic artforms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange.

Electrofringe seeks proposals in the following program areas: Artist and project presentations, workshops and demonstrations, panels, interventions, live art, performance (Electro-Performance), residencies (Electro-Residencies), mobile works (Electro-Manoeuvre), online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) plus special events (something you want to propose).

All presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, panels, performance, residency, intervention, live and mobile works submission proposals are due by TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009.

Only online artworks (Electro-Online) and single-channel video works (Electro-Projections & Electro-Être) submission proposals are due by SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009.

See the Electrofringe website for submission details: www.electrofringe.net

]]> Renew Newcastle http://www.aliak.com/content/renew-newcastle 2009-02-17T11:25:21+00:00 2009-02-17T11:26:19+00:00 AliaK Renew Newcastle is a not for profit company limited by guarantee. Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.
Renew Newcastle aims to find artists, cultural projects and community groups to use and maintain these buildings until they become commercially viable or are redeveloped. Renew Newcastle is not set up to manage long term uses, own properties or permanently develop sites but to generate activity in buildings until that future long term activity happens.
Renew Newcastle was founded to help solve the problem of Newcastle's empty CBD. While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle's CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying because there is no short term use for them and no one taking responsibility for them.
Renew Newcastle has been set up to clean up these buildings and get the city active and used again.
-- info from Renew Newcastle About page
visit http://renewnewcastle.org for more details

]]> Renew Newcastle is a not for profit company limited by guarantee. Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.

Renew Newcastle aims to find artists, cultural projects and community groups to use and maintain these buildings until they become commercially viable or are redeveloped. Renew Newcastle is not set up to manage long term uses, own properties or permanently develop sites but to generate activity in buildings until that future long term activity happens.

Renew Newcastle was founded to help solve the problem of Newcastle's empty CBD. While the long term prospects for the redevelopment of Newcastle's CBD are good, in the meantime many sites are boarded up, falling apart, vandalised or decaying because there is no short term use for them and no one taking responsibility for them.

Renew Newcastle has been set up to clean up these buildings and get the city active and used again.

-- info from Renew Newcastle About page

visit http://renewnewcastle.org for more details

]]> 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2009) in India http://www.aliak.com/content/4th-annual-carnival-e-creativity-cec-2009-india 2009-02-16T08:53:28+00:00 2009-02-16T08:55:04+00:00 AliaK The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2009) is scheduled to be held February 27 to March 1, 2009, in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.
As always, this will be about Presentations, Performances, Exhibits, Meetings, and Screenings, involving direct and indirect participation of e-Creative Practitioners of all description from around India and the world, spread over 3 days of intense private, and also public, creative interaction.
read more or visit http://www.theaea.org/cec%5Fcac/cec09/ for more details
Organizers :
The Academy of Electronic Arts (The AeA) is a Private Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.
Managing Trustee of The AeA & Incident Director for CeC 2009: Shankar Barua
Co-Curator: Ima Pico (Spain)
Co-Curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
Co-Curator: Moritz Neumuller (Spain)

]]> The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2009) is scheduled to be held February 27 to March 1, 2009, in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.

As always, this will be about Presentations, Performances, Exhibits, Meetings, and Screenings, involving direct and indirect participation of e-Creative Practitioners of all description from around India and the world, spread over 3 days of intense private, and also public, creative interaction.

read more or visit http://www.theaea.org/cec%5Fcac/cec09/ for more details

Organizers :
The Academy of Electronic Arts (The AeA) is a Private Trust that serves as a learning, sharing, mentoring, networking, benchmarking, empowering and broadly inclusive, but non-educational, institution.

Managing Trustee of The AeA & Incident Director for CeC 2009: Shankar Barua

Co-Curator: Ima Pico (Spain)
Co-Curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany)
Co-Curator: Moritz Neumuller (Spain)

program :

Friday, February 27 (time to be announced)

Aparna Panshikar [Opening Invocation] (Hindustani Classical Vocal)
Shankar Barua [Amateur-Slot] (Guitar & Live Audio-Video Processing), in experimental collaboration with Aparna Panshikar (vocals) & Ashim Ghosh (Percussion)
Roger Sinha (Dance), with Caroline Nadeau (Technical Director), presenting ' Zeros & Ones'. Developed in the winter of 2007-'08 in Bangalore, India's 'Silicon Valley', this piece highlights the digital divide separating e-haves and e-have nots. Using a hybrid vocabulary where spoken word, video, and new technologies allow the emergence of a poetic language of the body, the dance examines how close East and West can come together before they collide. Wired up with sensors, one on each limb and attached to the special metallic bells, all feeding through an interactive software (max/msp), each movement triggers fragments of sound and poetry, turning Sinha into a 'physical spoken word DJ'.

Saturday, February 28 (time to be announced)

JOPO & Ingeborg Poffet (Harmonium, Reeds, Vocals, Electronics, Visuals), presenting the world-premiere of 'Cryptochronics', as Duo Fatale. In this project, created in 2009, they encode and decode chronicles, myths and legends, look behind crypts and create some themselves from their modern point of view. (It's an exciting way of keeping legends alive while questioning them at the same time)

* Also in experimental collaboration with Aparna Panshikar (Vocals)

N3krozoft Ltd feat. aether9 ~ Live audiovisual performance by Manuel Schmalstieg, Chloe Cramer & Boris Kish, also in realtime interaction with the global aether9 collective,.. if connectivity permits~;o)

Sunday, March 01 (time to be announced)

Krisgatha Achmad (Visual & Sonic Art) Performing 'Disolated Instruments', which presents scratch techniques on digital vinyl turntable

'Spontaneous Sensory Reactions' ~ Vinny Bhagat (laptop || objects), Ashhar Farooqui (laptop || voice), and Maria Fava (laptop || optics)

'Popular Hindi & English Music' ~ Akash Jain, Abhijeek Thapa and the college band of Birla Institute of Applied Sciences - Bhimtal. Details awaited

Presentations ::::
[venue: Playfield near Flowermead]
February 28 & March 1 || Mornings & Afternoons

~.~

Shankar Barua
Upon The Academy of Electronic Arts, the Carnival of e-Creativity (past, present, and hoped-for future), and also a bit about his own personal creative explorations of, and work with, new technologies

Aparna Panshikar
Upon carrying forward a profound inherited legacy of traditional Hindustani Classical music into ever-new terrains, by performing true to the form all over the world, whilst at the same time also constantly exploring possible new matrices and interstices with other musical traditions, including cutting-edge electroacoustic paradigms and practices, together with leading global practitioners. But of course, as she says, 'To capture in the flow of time, the essence of sounds, silences and harmonies interwoven in the raga is the aim of my music expression..'

Manuel Schmalstieg, Chloe Cramer & Boris Kish
On Aether9, a collaborative art project initiated during a workshop at the Mapping Festival (2007) in Geneva, Switzerland, to explore the field of realtime video transmission. Developed by an international group of visual artists and collectives working in about a dozen different locations (disseminated throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East) and communicating primarily through the Internet, Æther9 intends to become a functional framework for collaborative video performance.

Moritz Neumuller
Presenting 'Image Vortex', an analysis (with special focus upon the Spanish art scene in particular) of the new tendencies towards a convergence of Photography, Film & Video Art, which is variously finding a firm place, under the broad label of ‘visual arts', in art exhibition spaces and galleries around the world. Moritz, an independent curator based in Barcelona, also sets out to provide insights into the art structures that permit and support this new hybrid image culture, whereby museums even started to actually collect such media quite some time ago, as frontline 'Fine Arts'

JOPO & Ingeborg Poffet
Upon composing, improvising and performing music continually in a nomadic and stylistic 'neverland' since 1989, to arrive at a creative space entirely their own, that they call 'Souldrifting-music'. The duo deploys an accordion, in dialog with saxophone, as well as vocals that touch upon the avant-garde, and also ethnological depths influenced by their voyages and performances around the world. So that listeners everywhere may draw the delight of their very own 'worldmusic'

Dhananjay Gadre, with one of his students, Nehul Malhotra
Upon being an inveterate inventor and innovator of the 'jugaad ' kind, producing an endless series of large and little gadgets and geegaws on an ongoing basis,.. so as to exhuberantly and immediately share DIY directions for almost every one of them with the larger global jugaad community,.. whilst somehow at the same time serving as a full-time electronics educator at the very prestigious Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, in Delhi

Kristoffer Orum & Anders Bojen
Overviews upon their joint creative media works over the years, with special focus upon one of their current ongoing works, called Radiant Copenhagen, which lays out the simple proposition that, ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it'. This project involves architects, writers, musicians, engineers and visual artists from Copenhagen itself, and also others from across Europe

Marc Lee
Upon creating network-oriented interactive installations; experimenting with information and communication technologies, and; projects that locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative 'issue-clusters' that are essential for communication processes in digital networks. To also present works of recently realized interactive installations, including an overview of his current work on the Pro Helvetia Residency in Bengaluru, in which he will try to make visible the inspirations from his stay in India.

Ashim Ghosh
Presenting excerpts from his diverse creative multiple-media interventions over the past 25 years. The presentation will include images and soundscapes/music

Roger Sinha (with Caroline Nadeau)
Upon his dance works that have been presented and televised across many countries of the world, all largely inspired by a deep-felt and intense need to reclaim his Indian heritage and to use this tradition to shape a modern expression of his reality. Roger's work uses the universality of the body to explore cultural harmony and dissonance, and tensions created by the collision of East and West. Beautifully expressive mudras (hand gestures) and the rhythmically complex footwork of Indian dance combine with the full body movements of modern dance, ballet and the martial arts. Critical successes include Burning Skin (1992), LOHA (2000), THOK (2002) and Apricots Trees Exist (2004). He recently finished a two week run of his new solo Zeros & Ones (see Performances) and his 3rd duet collaboration with Natasha Bakht, entitled Thread

Vinny Bhagat & Maria Fava & Ashhar Farooqui
Upon Music Technologies, Sound graphics, Image RT elaboration, Photos, Feedback Animation. And upon research in 'Optical electro acoustics' ,.. works in SuperCollider, live Video, and so on

Susan Visvanathan & Ratna Raman
Upon research, information-gathering and also the dissemination of ideas, using new technologies ~ currently specific, in their work, to an ongoing project that delves deeply into medieval English/European music. In the 'normal' course, Susan is Professor of Sociology at Jawharlal Nehru University, and Ratna is Assoc. Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara College

Mahiema Anand
Looking at modern video technology as a Tool of Individual Empowerment, Mahiema is Creative Director & Partner of Zonsta Creations. a Mumbai-based film/video production company, with a branch in New Delhi. She has been producing primarily lifestyle programs, often focused upon spirituality, wellness and alternative practices, for local and foreign networks for over ten years, and sees herself somewhat as a crusader of social values in today's rapidly changing world of shifting perspectives

Michael Aschauer
Presenting an overview of his recent projects and experiences on how to blow up or exploit boundaries of existing medias within undertakings such as long-term slit-scan photography and mapping as in '24/7' (http://m.ash.to/@/@/Projects/24-7), 'Danube Panorama Project' (http://www.danubepanorama.net/) and 'Nile Studies' (http://www.nilestudies.net/) as well as pirating live broadcasts to remix and re-broadcast with 'ASCII-WM 2006' (http://www.ascii-wm.net/)

Ajay Jain
Upon professional networking on the Internet, particularly in regard to using the LinkedIn system, upon which he has authored a successful book. Also upon his personal experiences in blogging on travel (Kunzum.com) and technology (TechGazing.com)

David Jimenez
Upon applying photography to create images that come more from imagination than from reality,.. changing continuously according to moment and circumstances, as 'open projects', wherein the individual images are in fact like words or phrases that combine to create larger structures. His presentation will include screening of a standalone video, 'Lo que queda' ('What remains' || 9min.), which sets a selection of his image-works to music

Krisgatha Achmad
Upon practicing as an Asian new media artist across the world, constantly combining cutting-edge technologies and tradition to cast new sounds and visuals into ever-new matrices of entertainment and revelation. And, upon scratch techniques on digital vinyl turntable, of previous performance works, comparing streaming live improvisation in real-time with software elements, images, video, and sound, as imaginary connectivity.
Krisgatha's participation is partly supported by Arts Network Asia, an enabling grant body, working across borders in multiple disciplines, that encourages collaboration initiated and implemented in Asia by Asian artists, and engaging with Asian arts communities

Gonzalo Ortiz
Upon Spanish-Indian interferences, interventions, interstices and associations in cultural matters, past and present, and also in regard to possibilities and propositions for the future. Gonzalo is Cultural Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in New Delhi

Anirudh Goutham
Upon the genesis, practice and ongoing evolution of their new little animation-studio in Bangalore (Morph Digital Solutions), along with overviews upon multiple applications of animation, industry issues, and also needs in the Indian context, along with a case-study of how a small team worked on an international project

:::: EXHIBITS ::::
[venue: Flowermead Complex]
February 27, 2:30pm to March 1, Evening

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:: A Few Little Inventions ::
by: Dhananjay V. Gadre & Nehul Malhotra (Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, New Delhi)

Electronic Birthday Blowout Candles ~ Turn the gadget on, and 20 tiny, multicolored LEDs start flickering (just like normal candles). Blow air over the “candles”, and they start to go off (just like normal candles again). Keep blowing till you put them all off.

Battery-less Electronic Dice ~ Our electronic dice doesn’t use any batteries. But of course, it needs energy to operate, which you as the user provide, by gently shaking the dice. And when you stop, it shows a random LED pattern between 1 and 6. And no, you can’t manipulate the dice in any way. No more Shakuni Mamas. We vouch for a fair deal.

Electronic Flickering Candle ~ A warm white high-brightness LED packaged in a Perspex tube and a wooden base, operates with batteries to flicker just like a normal candles. A perfect replacement for normal candles, with no flames. To quote a YouTube comment: Great job! I wish I knew how to make one, especially for the altars. This is a fire-safe solution when we pray using candles.

Tiny Tengu ~ A remake of the famous Tengu toy originally made by Mr. Jones (http://www.tengutengutengu.com/). Ours is just smaller and cheaper to make. It has a LED display matrix that mimics a face, with twinkling blue eyes. It responds to ambient noise/sound/music and makes different faces for different sound frequencies. Will keep you enthralled for hours.

Touch Sensitive LED Sensor and Display Matrix ~ LEDs used for both sensor and display. In this project we have arranged 10 LEDs in a straight line, to independently sense when you put a finger over any one of them. For this exhibit, the matrix has been programmed to simply generate different notes on a small buzzer. It can equally be adapted to work like a DJ’s controller console as well.

Bi-directional LED Spinning Top with Message Display ~ A spinning LED top using AAA batteries. The LEDs are arranged along the radius of the top and when you spin the top, these are programmed to display a message. When you spin it the other way, a different message is displayed.

Fire-free LED Matchstick ~ A monster-size matchstick, that is both fire-free and also fire-safe. Strike the matchstick against the side of a specially designed matchbox to have the white LED ‘match-head’ light up, flicker awhile, and then eventually splutter off, just like a normal matchstick.

You Touched My Heart – Valentines LED Heart Display ~ A perfect Valentines Day project. LEDs are arranged in a heart shape. Bring your hand close to the heart, and it starts blinking faster and faster….

:: DSI ~ 2000-2005 ::
Retrospective of Digital-Still-Imaging from ‘ The IDEA’ series of CD-Gazettes (2000-2005), earlier exhibited in CeC & CaC 2008, as framed prints, in India International Centre, New Delhi. The vinyl prints will be exhibited in CeC 2009 bound together as a 16in. x 20in, flip-through folder.

Works by: Zazie (Austria), Nilanjan Das (India), Bruce Eves (Canada), Tom Chambers (USA), Margie Labadie (USA), Elena Ray (USA), David Camp (USA), Joe Nalven (USA), Roopesh Sitharan (Malaysia), Pankuj Parashar (India), Warren Furman (USA) , Chaz Maviane-Davies (Zimbabwe), Afanassy Pud (Russia), Gerald O'Connell (UK), Maurizio Manzieri (Italy), Pieter Zandvliet (Netherlands), Bob Schuchman (USA), Melvin Strawn (USA), Tibor Kovacs-egri (Hungary), Sophie Gaur (India / Australia), Ansgard Thomson (Canada), Jaideep Mehrotra (India), John Antoine Labadie (USA), Siegfried Schreck (Germany), Karin Kuhlmann (Germany), Istvan Horkay (Hungary), Ileana Frometa Grillo (Venezuela), Hans-Georg Turstig (Germany / USA)

:: Videopatía ::
webwork by: Irma Solernou, Beatriz Sánchez & Antonio R. Montesinos

Videopatía shows a collection of crystal jars where some small persons are trapped inside. The jars can exchange places and the characters inside will react depending on the person they have on the left or on the right side, (they can start communicating with each other, try to escape, seek attention, get crazy…) While one user is playing with the videos, we understand that he/her becomes “videopata”: a collector of videos or small people. The viewer plays with them and supposedly manipulates their behavior.

:: Wireless Robot ::
by Student of Birla Institute of Applied Sciences - Bhimtal
Details Awaited

:::: Software Inputs ::::
for the performances

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VJinie ~ by Robert Praxmarer

A live webcam-based video-manipulation software, specially modified/simplified for performance use in CeC 2009. It was originally created in 2007-'08 by Robert, an artist, technologist and teacher (Austria), who has been well-known almost all of his life thus far; first as a specially gifted child,... and then increasingly as a radical and cutting-edge technology innovater, associated with Ars Electronica for several years before going independent to pursue further studies, research, and art practice.

C::NTR::L ~ by Marco Donnarumma

A brand-new software, developed in PureData, for live audiovisual improvisation, using almost any standard string instrument as the audio-video controller. Marco himself, who may be better known to some as "The !S.A.D! DJ", is an Italian multimedia artist, researcher, lecturer, and also an organizer and artistic director for the annual global event called 'Live Performers Meeting', which is one of the broadest events in Italy and Europe focused upon New Media Arts.

:::: Short Creative Videoworks ::::
& Unaccompanied Presentations
[venue: Flowermead Cottage]
(note: adult materials will be culled for closed-door screening)

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:: GLOBAL ART-VIDEO '09 ::
Coordinated by Toni Calderon and Ima Pico (Forjaarte || Valencia)
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:: AMERICAN DREAMS ::
Curator ~ Jillian Mcdonald (New York)

Natural Interpretation ~ Rick Silva's poetic intervention plugs the white dune, snow-crusted brook, and other quiet wonders into his scheme as hapless instruments in a sublime analogue remix. Stephanie Lempert translates the mouth movements of passive goldfish into English monosyllables.

Relentless Remix ~ Orit Ben-Shitrit and Harold Moss's magazine imagery montage permits us a glimpse of their subterranean dreamworld populated by strange monsters. Liselot van der heijden finds innuendo and ridiculous machismo in one familiar posture from a Hollywood western. Paul Slocum's solicited recreations of a melodramatic scenario from sitcom television are fascinating in their subtle variations.

Fantastic Mischief ~ Marina Zurkow's space invaders cavort unseen as they infiltrate New York City's gritty textural infrastructure. Tricia McLaughlin's 'machine for living' posits an architecture that happily destroys and asexually reproduces itself in a satirical romp.

You're Not My Father ~ by Paul Slocum, is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show Full House, overlaid with sound loops from the scene's original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist; each was paid $150. Instructions for shooting the scene and delivering the footage were issued to the crews. The project includes participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco.

You Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine ~ by Liselot van der Heijden, features ubiquitous cowboy John Wayne, inexhaustibly shows off acrobatic tricks with his gun.

Villa Savoye ~ by Tricia McLaughlin, in which Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye's own shadow tramples on the building, as pink innards are pushed out of the interior. Working with the remains of the original building, the pink gooey blobs start to form a new home. These breathing blobs also stick to the shadow 'monster', adding to the changing form of the structure. In this animation the 'machine for living in' is now a living machine.

A Rough Mix ~ by Rick Silva remixes nature in this glitchy and poetic high definition work.

The Long from Inside ~ by Orit Ben-Shitrit and Harold Moss, is a digital time-based composition that gives a glimpse into a psychological state reflecting both internal and external realities. At its heart is a reconstructed narrative of a quotidian cinematic world that slowly begins to rupture.

The Space Invaders ~ by Marina Zurkow is a composite of live action footage and 2D character animation that plays off vaudeville sketches, early cartoon pranks, and Grand Guignol's shock theater. In The Space Invaders, USA's Homeland Security Advisory System -particularly Code Orange- is made manifest as a set of characters who gallivant beneath the radar in New York City. Rendered as fleshy, capricious agents, these particular 'invaders' personify the nostalgic arcade game of aliens who fall from the sky. The video's amoral crack-dwellers, hobs and giants who translucently roam the streets come from inside, and not by spaceship or by airplane.

Read My Lips ~ by Stephanie Lempert, addresses the role of language as one of many possible methods of communication, with the artist drawing attention to our use of the spoken word's interpretation within each society. Working with a speech pathologist to decipher the “words spoken” by each fish, the artist is able, through inflection and tempo, to bring new meaning to the breath movements of common goldfish.

:: THE NAMASTIC ART COLLECTIVE :: (Helsinki, Finland)
Realised in Cooperation with AV-ARKKI, Finland
(120 minutes)

Digital and media art are one of the strongest and most innovative fields of art in Finland. This is due to many reasons, including the fact that Finland is a high-tech country and artists have always been interested in experimenting with the new possibilities of new media. Sometimes there is also interaction between art and enterprises who are directly interested in the discovery of new tools or new ways to use old devices. There is innovation everyday in this field; it evolves very quickly with technique as well as with aesthetic. And it reflects on society, on our way of living, on our identity.

In this investigation, some of the artists play with technology as a tool to reach something beyond the Human, the Mental Projection of a Digital Self. Sometimes in a playful and joyful way, sometimes in a more introspective and demanding As Finland does not have a very long tradition of art and there is a sense of freedom among the artists when they create. The same goes for the public too. Most people, especially the younger generations, are rather open minded and tech-savvy and can appreciate the convergence of art and technology very well. This kind of “mental climate” combined with accessible technology and good venues is fertile ground for interesting digital art. This has also attracted many foreign artists to come to live and work in Finland, enriching the art scene with their knowledge and energy. The Namastic Art Collective has set out to take Finnish digital art to international festivals also to share the products of this unique culture with the wider world.

X-Rayed ~ by Juha Mäki-Jussila
Love Song ~ Adel Abidin
Beat Box – Alternate Take ~ by Jani Rusica
Pulse + ~ by Pink Twins
Neon ~ by Egle Oddo
Elle ~ by Rikard Lassenius
Bewegung ~ by Kristina Frei & Marko Timlin
Blue Giraffe ~ by Mikko Maasalo
Seven ~ Pekka Sassi
The Egg ~ by Maurice Blok
The Burden ~ by Oirjetta Brander
The Elicopter ~ Markus Renvall
For Better, For Worse ~ Heta Kuchka
Caustically Happy ~ Tjader Knight

In the Forest There Is a Path of Martin Heidegger ~ by Jaana Kokko (12:00 || 2006-2008)

When working as an artist-in-residence in Freiburg, Germany, my studio was situated near the philosopher Martin Heidegger's home. The Black Forest was next to his house, and on the edge of the forest was a path named after him.

In the video, I am addressing my questions and thoughts to Professor Heidegger. He acts as a narrative link, a person that moves the video's plot forward. The piece presents hope for a better and more equal encounter between people.

Performers: Percy Cubas (Freiburg 6/ 2006), Maja Teofilovic (Berlin 4/ 2006), Jaana Kokko (Freiburg 1-6/ 2006), Alexander Lackmann (St. Petersburg 8/ 2005), Outi Vuoriranta (Voiceover, Helsinki 5/2008),

Nordic improvisation meeting 2007 participants (Outokumpu, Finland 6/2007): Keskusta pyörille -mielenosoittajat. Järj. Maan Ystävät. (Helsinki 10.7. 2007).

Soundmaterials: Cembalo: Jontte Knif || Äänitys: Kuisma Eskola (Helsinki, Sibeliusakatemian kamarimusiikkisali 11/2006)

Additional sound recording: (water birds, chrystal: Samy Kramer. (Helsinki 4-5/2008)
Sound Mix, Sound Editing: Samy Kramer
Script, Cinematography, Sound and Editing: Jaana Kokko
Translations: Elina Mikkilä, Jaana Kokko, Samy Kramer

Further reading, watsching/ or direct Quotes in the text: Heidegger, Martin - Arendt, Hannah: Briefe (1925-1975). Verlag Vittorio Klosterman, Frankfurt am Main, 1991. 2. painos. Hertzog, Werner: Maasta se kääpiökin ponnistaa. Elokuva. 1970. Jarman Derek: Puutarha. Elokuva. Great Britain, 1990. Kokko, Jaana : Luopumisen Estetiikasta (Ideologisen taiteen näyttämö 12/2004). Lackmann, Alexander : "To Sappho", Kokoelmasta Erotica. Omakustanne, St. Petersburg, 2006. Ton Steine Scherben. http://www.riolyrics.de. http:// www.youtube.com

Thanks: Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, Samy Kramer, Outi Vuoriranta, Kirsi Liimatainen, Andrea, Maja Teosovic, Percy Cubas, Kathrin Hintsch, Rolf Störtzer, Johannes Rühl Arts Council of Finland (2006) Visek (2007)

:: THE FRAGILE ::
Curator Sergio Zavattieri ~ in cooperation with Zelle Arte Contemporanea & Galleria Gianluca Collica (Italy)
We may be asking too much of art. Nowadays, we are more dependent on technology and consumerism in general. In that way we almost forget about what is going on inside us, which is habitually something actually more intricate and significant. Perhaps, for the same reason, we are every day trying to construct a different world for ourselves.
(Total Duration: 60'58” minutes)

Monster ~ by Robert Morgan (12' / 2004 / UK)
Mater ~ by Paolo Bonfiglio (7'20''/ 2007 / Italy)
Current Electra presents: Antony Hill ~ by Cane CapoVolto (04'14” / 2007 / Italy)
Current Electra presents: Christoph Heemann ~ by Cane CapoVolto (5'42”/ 2007 / Italy)
The Bride ~ by Katia Beltrame (14'43” / 2006 / UK)
Orgasm in the Movies, 2008 ReEdit ~ Stephana Scmidt (15'30” / 2008 / Germany)
Recollection Music Box ~ by Federico Lupo (2'09”/ 2008 / Italy)

:: PURE SCREEN *02 ::
Curator Sophia Crilly. (Manchester, UK)
PureScreen is Castlefield Gallery's regular screening event for artist film and video. Since its inception, in March 2003, the programme has provided a platform for outstanding recent work and supported new and established practitioners and curators. It operates an annual, international open call for submissions for new works, and also produces PureScreen: Film & Video Artists Information Pack, compiling international resources with the intention of assisting artists and curators whose practice involves the production and exhibition of moving image work.

PureScreen is supported by Arts Council England, and from each new season of screenings a DVD compilation is produced, which tours internationally, in order to support and promote the practice of the artists PureScreen has worked with.

The films selected for inclusion on PureScreen DVD *02 represent the highlights and a cross-section of the diversity of works from the 2006/07 season of screening programmes, featuring recent work by UK and internationally based artists.

The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous ~ by Jordan Baseman (London, UK / 2004 / 16')

The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous takes place during a demolition derby held in Barrow-in-Furness. The work features ‘Grandad': a 41 year old grandfather, demolition derby driver and philosopher, and Adam: a six foot tall, 30 stone drag entertainer, whose stage name is ‘The Fat Tart'. (Support by Grizedale Arts)

Love is a Burning Thing ~ by Dave Griffiths (Manchester, UK / 2005 / 7' 40”)

Fiery bursts lurk between movie reels, signalling unseen mechanics. Projectionists watch and count the governing pulse, anxiously attempting to perform seamless changeovers. This film draws from an ongoing collection of cue-dot episodes that are painstakingly sifted and appropriated from free digital-TV broadcasts. This growing archive of near-redundant objects provides an archaeological means of remembering cinema's outgoing physicality, and a method of inquiry into narrative and perceptual processes.

Untitled (Dog) ~ by Alexander Heim (London, UK / 2006 / 4' 15”)

Shot in the suburbs of China's rapidly growing capital, Beijing; a stray street dog wanders around a busy road and for a moment makes it his place to rest, strangely disorientated and unaware of the threat by the cars. His inability to differentiate between manmade and natural environment makes him vulnerable, yet keeps him in charge of the situation in an almost glorious way.

Colours ~ by Hamish Dunbar & Jack Holden (London, UK / 2005 / 13)

Colours was inspired by a real character based in San Francisco known as the Red Man; an elderly gentleman, whom for no apparent reason always painted his face and hands in red paint and dressed impeccably in red clothes. The Red Man died in December 2002, aged 84. His unique appearance had killed him: the Chinese food colouring and other substances he had used to paint himself had poisoned his blood and damaged his internal organs. The film was created using extracts from the artists' personal archive of their own film footage, with the inclusion of new scenes featuring a red man.

Barenzirkus ~ by Jim Hollands (London, UK / 2005 / 7' 15”)

A found footage work depicting a Russian Bear Circus from the 1960's. Purchased from a second-hand shop in Liepzig, the artist re-filmed the Super 8 film on video and added his own sound. It provides a meditation upon the nature of abuse and heartbreak. The work contains images that some people may find upsetting.

Lenox ~ by Esther Johnson (Hull, UK / 2006 / 10' 15”)

Lenox is a look at the past and present of one of Buffalo's oldest hotels and the many stories contained within its weathered walls. A journey through a hotel's faded 1920's Art Deco interior, versus shabby retro Americana.
Humming ~ by Lisa Keiko Kirton (Aberdeen, UK / 2005 / 5' 30”)

A woman returns home after a night out, and we see her removing her adornments, slowly stripping away the facets of conventional beauty and becoming adopting her true state, whilst humming a tune.

Eden ~ by Rob Kennedy (Glasgow, UK / 2004 / 1' 49”)

A fragmented city of extraordinary light penetrates a brief staccato bombardment of words. Snatched glimpses of private worlds, drenched in the sulphur flood of city night, fight with these words, to tell a tale of waiting and desire. A story of maladjusted scale, set amidst the auditory fizz and crackle of electronic construction.

Derf ~ by Jeremy Newman (Ohio, USA / 2004 / 3' 58”)

Derf is a documentary video short about an alternative cartoonist from Cleveland, Ohio. From his teenage years with Jeffrey Dahmer, to garbage truck epiphany, it traces his path to underground celebrity. The story is told through his drawings and commentary.

Automatic Film 1 (In Another Place) ~ by Alex Pearl (Melton, UK / 2005 / 4' 30”)

Automatic Film 1 was made using a range of automatic camera operators and actors, which were let loose in a disused church.

Ghost Story ~ by Erica Scourti (London, UK / 2006 / 3' 50”)

In Ghost Story, Erica Scourti tells her life story as a collage made up of the titles of various celebrity autobiographies. The artist's own biography thus becomes a fragmented tale told in part very subjectively through the prism of memory. The line between real life and fiction is blurred, likewise calling into question the veracity of what is recounted in the cited books.

Cross Examination ~ by Josh Weinstein (New York, USA / 2005 / 5' 40”)

Cross Examination takes the man on the street interview into the realm of a sociological experiment in which the artist spontaneously asks strangers on the streets of New York about himself based on their immediate perceptions of him. The humorous and candid responses belie the complexity of the experiment.

Nowhere Man ~ by Marilyn Whittle (Hertfordshire, UK / 2006 / 1' 40”)

A digitally re-worked 16mm vintage, found-footage film, which shows the protagonist searching into archaic virtual reality goggles. As the film progresses it becomes apparent that his sense of self is lost, which culminates in his implosion.

:: VIDIOT IN CONTEMPLATION ::
Videoart Center Tokyo. Curator Yuki Yoshida. (Japan)

life IMAGED ~ by Kazumi KANEMAKI (2006 13min)

The juxtaposition of the images between a Western movie by Hollywood and the artist's routine life in the split screen, makes us compare the drama and the daily life. This also shows her daily life where surrounding images internalizes her. This work involves gender issues, since there is an attitude that as a woman it's hard to accept herself as the "Loser" in the Western movie.

Living in the Box ~ by Kentaro Taki+Naoya Ooe (2007 7min)

Body parts are displayed in the white box as specimen. Each part tries to seek something and these behaviors seem to remind ourselves of today's blockaded situation. This is the collaboration work with Naoya Ooe(operation) + Maiko Date(dancer) directed by Kentaro Taki. This is the short version of the original work.
AI ~ by Sung Nam HAN (2006 9min)

This is the second part from trilogy on "AI=sexual intercourse." In front of fusuma painting "Kaede-zu"by Tohaku Hasegawa(16c. painter), a couple make indirect intercourse by gazing each other. Their cross-gazing intercourses with the movements of fusuma painting. "At this moment, the couple are as if without heaven, without ground, without society, without people at all.

SHOT ~ by Nishiyama Shuhei (2007 11min)

Each “moment” of destructive force of the reality has been shot, recorded, and visualized. Set the boundary of before and after deconstruction at the 'moment' when image and sound of collision match together, and the artist visualizes idea of 'non-revertible'. This work deconstructs the image of deconstruction by differentiation, repetition, expansion and addition of image/sound of different moments.

Pathologic Video Practices ~ by Naoya Ooe (2006 2min)

The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, evokes the sense of falsehood but new perspectives. The extendation relates to the reference to media that to release from captivity of information system.

The Lost in the Backyard of Surface ~ Naoya Ooe (2006 7min)

The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, is a fiction but creates the new perspectives. From the point of video, this discloses the principles of imprisonment by the media information, and will be extended to the criticism against media.

Abrare Koinobori (GOLDENSHIT) ~ by Katsuyuki HATTORI+Yusuke SHINMURA (video performance 2005 15min)
This video consists of 6 acts of rhythmical and optical composition of a live quartet. The spectator encounters the boundary between the light and the image. A documentation of the premiere performance at Art Space Kimura, Tokyo in 2005.

Bild:Muell=Image:Junk ~ by Kentaro Taki (video installation 2006 5min)

A documentation of a video installation exhibited in Yokohama Portside Gallery in 2006. "Bild:Muell" means "Image: Junk" in German. The video collage projected on various shaped cubes simulates the cityscape overflowed with images/information.

:: THE COLOGNE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL - IV ::
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

:: CologneOFF IV - Segment 1 ::

Etude, by Dario Bardic (2007, 3:20, Croatia)
Dear Neighbour, by Christian Bermudez (2006, 7:00, Costa Rica)
J.F.'s Toolbox, by Virginie Foloppe (2004, 5:50 France)
Foreigner-Straniero, by Giuseppe Girardi (2008, 6:56, Italy)
Nocturne, by Bill Domonkos (2006, 4:43, USA)
Anatolia, by Sinasi Günes (2006, 2:18, Turkey)
Coagulate, by Mihai Grecu (2008, 5:56, Romania)
Joined at the Head, by David Jakubovic (2008, 4:40, USA)
Africa, by Ane Lan (2007, 4:34, Norway)
Interception, by Roch Forowicz (2007, 11:33, Poland)
Displaced Treshold, by Brad Schwede (2008, 7:19, Australia)

:: CologneOFF IV - Segment 2 ::

Beautiful Landscape, by Pietro Mele (2006, 1:46, Italy)
Who is Miri Nishri, by Miri Nishri (2008, 14:00, Israel)
A journey through the South-Sami Lappish country ~ an encounter with Sami tales and Yoiks by Linda Persson (2008, 14:47, Sweden)
Tin Can Crowns, by Mikael Prey aka Fetish23 (2007, 12:00, Sweden)
Fashion Death by Daniel Rodrigo (2007, 4:53, Spain)
El Camino-The Way, by Felipe Matilla Alonso (2008, 12:00, Spain)
A Growing White Stone, by Shoko Toda (2008, 14:34, Japan)
Levitate?-Tomato Juice, by Yu Chung-I (2005, 1:47, Taiwan)
Suspect, by Magsamen + Hillerbrand (2008, 3:30, USA)

:: CologneOFF IV - Segment 3 ::

The Occidentialist, by Daniel Slåttnes (2007, 1:18, Norway)
Meeting Florchen Gordon, by Grace Schwindt (2008, 4:29, UK)
N.Orleans, by Julio Velaso (2008, 5:20, Colombia)
Is Fighting Our Machine, by Liu Wei (2003, 4:10, China)
Undisclosed Beauty, by Anders Weberg (2008, 3:13, Sweden)
Eungyung - I have always been a foreigner, by Maria Ylikoski (2008, 11:15, Finland)
Switch, by Yu Cheng Yu (2008, 4:32, Taiwan)
Trace, by Lin Ying Chen (2007, 5:36“)
Test Phantom, by Robin Kiteley (2007, 5:03, UK)
Spaghetti, by Carla Della Beffa (2007, 2:42, Italy)
Opened, by Jay Needham (2006/2007, 5:00, USA)
Testimony, by Nhieu Do (2008, 7:12, USA)
Rise, by Michal Brzezinski (2006, 2:03, Poland)
Scalable City New Trailer, by Sheldon Brown (2008, 4:00, USA)
Memory, by Walters, E.W. (2007,2:34, Poland)
Personal Text Public Body, by Beatrice Allegrati (2007, 15:00, UK)
Acquaintences, by Irina Novarese (2007/2008, 10:41, Italia)
Planet Spa, by ŽELJKA FUDERER LEVAK (2008, 5:09, Croatia)
apart cisne, by Érika Fraenkel (2004, 2:20, Brazil)
Reigning Cats and Dogs, by Michael Fortune (2007, 5:00, Ireland)
The Bitty Anomy, by Lo, Yi-Chun (Taiwan)
Hitchhiker, by Yoko FUKUSHIMA (2007, 2:03, Japan)
Let's Make a Deal, by Rafael (2008, 2:45, Belgium)
The Crowning, by Magrin, Alberto (2008, 2:21, Italy)
The Rosary | Sibha as a Communal Sculpture, by Richard Jochum (2007/2008, 5:08, Austria/USA)

:: CologneOFF IV - Mother ::

New Samples, by Marina Landia (2006, 4:20, UK)
Pastry, by Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (2005, 5:51, Iceland)
Mother, by Antti Salvela (2008, 1:00, Sweden)
Mother and Lost Daughter, by Joshua & Zachary Sandler (2008, 3:54, USA)
Timed Out, by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (2008, 9:35, Germany)
I Carry Your Heart, by Jessica Curry (2008, 6:11, UK)
Matter, by Jeanette Louie (2008, 8:00, USA)
Mother-Mater, by Paolo Bonfiglio (2007, 7:20, Italy)
She was also there, by Nicole Pruckermayr (2008, 5:49, Austria)
The Chair, by Grace Schwindt (2008, 9:47, UK)
Stop Stealing My Face, by Grace Graupe-Pillard (2007, 3:11, USA)
Between Love and Duty, by Sonja Vuk (2008, 6:25, Croatia)

:: INDEPENDENT SHORT CREATIVE VIDEOWORKS ::
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FILE – Electronic Language International Festival (17:43 || Brazil || wwweb) ~ Conception & Organization: Ricardo Barreto & Paula Perissinotto

A collective documentation of FILE's 2007 edition, which presented different kinds of works in several categories: FILE Media Art, FILE Hipersonica, FILE Games, FILE Cinema Documenta and FILE Symposium, which usually proposes discussions about the electronic-digital culture in its relations to art, science and technologies.

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, is the primary art and technology festival of Brazil and Latin America, as well as one of the most renowned events in the world in this area. It has, for nine years so far, inserted Brazil into the global context of art and technology, by performing exciting global compilations of cutting-edge artistic productions in the fields of electronic and digital arts, and also by working as an indicator of the plurality of such productions.

DA_7_8_RYSS, 2008-2009 (20:00 || USA) ~ Tom Chambers & Students

Middle school students [7th and 8th grades] at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. participated in a classroom assignment involving GIMP 2 photo software [a Photoshop equivalent], and vocabulary-building through word identification/meaning, via the Internet. Each student was given a particular word to discover the meaning of online, and then translate that meaning into Digital Art. As a result, vocabulary enhancement came to the forefront, with skills-acquisition in digitally manipulating photographs.

7th Grade Students: Brenda Alvarez, Manuel Ambriz, Jocelyne Arredondo, Julio Arredondo, Adrian Bahena, Jonatan Betancourt, Marion Bock, Jessica Bravo, Bianca Camposano, Ana Caseres, Christopher Castillo, Omar Cervantes, Oscar Cervantes, Lucy Coronado, Andy Cortes, Eduardo Cortez, Amanda Del Castillo, Erik Diaz, John Dominguez, Cynthia Estrada, Jennifer Flores, Daniel Garcia, Jennifer Garcia, Lucia Garfias, Sotero Garza, Isel Gomez, Alondra Gonzalez, Americo Gonzalez, Israel Guajardo, Kimberly Herrera, Jesus Izarraras, Geneva Ledesma, Maylin Lira, Christian Lopez, Maribel Lopez, Ramiro Marban, Francisco Martinez, Kelly Martinez, Veronica Martinez, Jessica Medrano, Grecia Menchaca, Noe Mondragon, Zachary Morales, Maritza Moreno, Blanca Moscoso, Rosario Moscoso, Tania Nieves, Fabian Ornelas, Alberto Orozco, Guadalupe Ortega, Jacqueline Ortiz, Sergio Ortiz, Marcelo Ortuño, Jonathan Peña, Ruben Perez, Blanca Ponce, Nataly Ponce-Landaverde, Frank Porche, Abigail Ramirez, Crystal Ramirez, Ivan Ramirez, Jorge Rangel, Joanna Renteria, Paloma Resendiz, Daniel Rivera, Omar Rodriguez, Luis Ruiz, Pedro Sanchez, Yosthman Sandoval, Roberto Silva, Fidel Torres, Joen Torres, Jazlyn Treviño, Mayreli Uyoa, Tiffany Valle, Melitza Vargas, Vasquez Arron, Vazquez Daniel, Vazquez Jesus, Tony Villalta, Zuniga Jessica

8th Grade Students: Raul Aguirre, Maria Ambriz, Lesly Arreguin, Martin Benitez, Patrick Bock, Jasmin Bonilla, Reyna Bravo, Rosalinda Castro, Maribel Ceron, Jose Chairez, Julie Chavez, Nohemi Chavez, Priscilla Cortez, Jacqueline Cruz, Zarait De Leon, Jorge Delgado, Roy DuQue, Jessica Gil, Alexis Gomez, Leonel Gudino, Jose Gutierrez, Lilliana Gutierrez, Bryan Hernandez, Christian Hernandez, Jennifer Herrera, Jessica Herrera, Raymundo Izaguirre, Adriana Lopez, America Loreto, Arthur Luevanos, Moises Maldonado, Armando Marquina, Eugenia Martin, Erika Martinez, Kimberly Martinez, Christian Moreno, Jennifer Moreno, Pedro Negrete, Daisy Orozco, Raymond Orozco, Catalina Pacheco, Leimy Palacios, Vanessa Paloma, Humberto Perez, Ana Ramirez, Oscar Ramirez, Alexandria Ramos, Johnathan Rivas, Fabian Rodriguez, Jose Rodriguez, Linda Rodriguez, Elizabeth Roman, Christopher Saldaña, Rafael Saldivar, Autumn Sanchez, Jacob Santillan, David Solano, Eloisa Tijerina, Alma Tovar, Monica Velez, Julio Zavala, Kimberly Zuniga, Samantha Vasquez

This is Art (0:30, Italy, 2008) ~ Gruppo Sinestetico

Fluxus Experiment (6:45, Italy, 2008) ~ Gruppo Sinestetico

Ek Khwaish (India, 2008) ~ Namesh Nath Dham

an experimental image-based short film on Child-Trafficking, made by a school student

Riyaz Master Project (4:12, Netherlands, 2008) ~ Marta Moreno Munoz (aka Umabeecroft)

an experimental non-narrative road movie filmed in India. This is the short version

Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste (6:5, Italy, 2008) ~ Claudio Parentela

'…I'm interested and I like strong contrasts…generally everywhere…in particular in art… I like much to mix all in myself…in my mind, in my art'

Re make up (1:00, Chile/Spain, 2005) ~ Sara Malinarich

An installation that culminates in action. This video show us a sequence of how a face makes up virtually, projecting to another people the image that her desired to transmit, but at the same time, forgetting small traces of what she try to conceal. An image reconstructed that the artist had given herself to go out and to be contemplated.

Stay in Place (5:30, Chile/Spain, 2006) ~ Sara Malinarich, with Maren Pimstein

Capture of a moment of chat connection between two friends through Internet. Thus, a tele-sharing space arises between them when both maintain this telematic dialogue by video conference system. The woman in the upper window is Maren Pimstein, located in Santiago of Chile at 14:32 hrs. 12th of June 2006; the other one is Sara Malinarich, located in Cuenca, Spain at 19:32hrs of that same day.

Cita a Ciegas (Blind Date) (5:00, Chile/Spain, 2008) ~ Sara Malinarich, with Aida Mañez

A telesharing action that forms part of the INTACT project, proposed and directed by Sara Malinarich.

Milady Smiles (2:50, Italy, 2007) ~ Caterina Davinio

A Jaguar promenade crossing Swiss hills, mysterious psychedelic passages from color to a '60s past in black & white, Sound mixes music, noise, electronic elaboration of conversation fragments, and the Jaguar motor itself.

"24/7 - Into the Direction of Light" (09:00, Austria, 2008) ~ Michael Aschauer

Blackness at the beginning turns into ever-lightening shades of blue, eventually becoming a view of the sea ~ water and sky, changing constantly in fast motion, before returning once again to the blackness of night. Shot over a period of seven days, 24 hours each, the work uses digital technology to continue the tradition of that branch of experimental film dedicated to exploring the mechanisms of cinematographic representation, using landscapes and their topographic features, or natural phenomena.

:: Spanish Videoworks ::
& one Interactive Piece
curtaed by Ima Pico
~

La casa por el tejado ~ by Teresa Tomás (3D Anim., 16:00, Spain, 2004)

RAIN goes down the stairs naked. The drops falling down, dance forming a source. She falls on the roof-sea that turns into the doors of a cupboard. She chooses a suit of conches and fish as a dress. Dressed RAIN is called SEA. Tired she goes to sleep, hangs her suits, the cupboard is transformed in bed. SEA wraps itself up to dream of the sheets that were doors. They are raised by a bunch of balloons in the sky as they contemplate her last transformation. SEA seated, is transformed in CLOUD with the form of an armchair.

Destejer el arco iris by Teresa Tomás (3D Anim., 13:00, Spain, 2007)

A white rabbit goes in through a keyhole, like a magician's top hat, and decomposes, as light does through the prism, into seven coloured rabbits. The characters in this story are changed from beings of light into coloured rabbits along a journey through a metaphorical maze.

Temor&Amor 1 ~ by Carlos Cid (10:00, Spain, 2005-2007)

Exploring emotions is the root, the base, the heart of this project, and this has contributed to its progress.
The project stems from the power of fears. The project shows how fears surround souls, how they invade people and deform their movement or at times almost stop them, slow them down, or make them fall. It is an expression of intimacy. This is the starting point.

From there it is a trip, an internal exploration, a metaphor of growth and openness. Of how, departing from fear, it is possible to get in a field of life, one gets rid of the fear's weight, experiences the liberation, and gets reborn within love.

Symbols are used to represent this movement: clothes represent fears, the ties. The nudity, is love and liberation. In the process, bravery and will play an essential part, as well as our connection with nature.
And the unthinkable is uncovered.

This project is raw poetry, it is melody and it is dance. It is a very intimate spiral and a call to detachment. A testimony of intuitive internal strength. The most enrooted is the most paralysing. This project flourished as its participants matured. Sincere and open. A beautiful invitation to liberation, to love and to nature.

Kaizen ~ by Carlos Cid (4:30, Spain, 2007)

'Kaizen' defines a series that Carlos Cid has planned as a work in progress, of which we present the first images. At the same time, we will show the video work of this series that Cid has autonomously developed, favouring a fruitful and dialectic dialogue with his photographic work.

Human-nw ~ by Montse Arbelo y Joseba Franco (12:30, Spain)

Laughter and tears, like life and death, go hand in hand and are part of our everyday life. But war – violence – is a personal decision exercised with the objective of dominating the other. The desire to impose one's own culture on everyone else has been a constant element among individuals and groups. This situation is constantly aggravated by the different degrees of control over technology and energy resources. The victims are always victims, and the tyrants are never innocent. Visitors won't have a single point of view, they will have to make distinctions and position themselves, strip themselves of their own identities in order to encounter the other, in the others, the thousands of characters who come to life in the images that surround them. They can't opt out. They will go on to form part of this History.

Videopatía ~ by Irma Solernou, Beatriz Sánchez and Antonio R. Montesinos (interactive Webwork, Spain, 2006)

LISTED UNDER 'EXHIBITS'

:: SOME MINUTES OF A TIME ::
a retrospective of time-based art by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
[58 minutes :: 2004-2008]

A cycle of mainly experimental ‘hybrid' videoworks, created through 2004-2008 by the well-known Cologne based media artist Agricola de Cologne, representing primarily 'time', 'history', and also the subcategories 'memory' and 'identity'.

The works are collectively about very personal time, with the artist allowing the audience to participate in his personal experiences, perceptions and stories, transformed into moving pictures via the medium of video, in different ways in each different work. **In the normal course, several of these works may need to be viewed several times over, so as to be properly understood**

1. Inability of Being Nude (2:00, 2004) ~ Taking up the classical theme of the 'nude' in a contemporary interpretation, as a psychological condition. The viewer is confronted with different levels and movements of baring/exposing. He becomes very quickly aware, that he did not enter a peep-show, but is disturbing intimacy, a process of emptiness.

2. Truth – Paradise Found (3:00, 2004) ~ The story of the human desire to be as close to truth as possible. But who will ever succeed while living a life dominated by fast-running time, and endless searching? The work consists of three sections, a spiritual section, a physical section, and the acting level. The original raw video was filmed in 2003 at the Rila Monastery, known as the spiritual centre of Bulgaria.

*Awarded as ‘Best Experimental Film' at the 3rd International Budapest Short Film Festival, 2007.

3. Distortion Projected (4:50, 2005) ~ In 1998, Agricola de Cologne became a victim of a terror attack. This work is his attempt to make the traumatic experiences perceivable via metaphorical images on an emotional level. The artist's voice, performing one of his musical compositions, uses sound instead of words in order to symbolize the speechlessness and inability of the people around him to react properly.

4. House of Tomorrow (3:00, 2005) ~ The house of tomorrow is the house of one's identity. It does not need to be a concrete house or building, but represents a secure and protected place where people can stand for what they are and represent, as human beings, with many identities in different fields, wherein the sexual identity represents just one amongst many others.

*Awarded 'Magmart Video Art Award Naples (Italy) 2006', and 'Bele.Arte.Lamia Video Art Award Lamia (Greece)'

5. Message from Behind a Wall (10:00, 2005) ~ The segregation wall in Palestine is a fact. In November 2004, an artistic action against the wall ended, taking place at six different places in Palestine where walls were under construction, initiated by Palestine artists by inviting artists from different countries to paint an artistic message on the concrete. When Agricola de Cologne was in Bethlehem in February 2005, he visited several places where the Israelis were erecting the wall. The part of the wall that he filmed is situated opposite the AIDA refugee camp (UN), and was at that time a temporary playground for children. And, these children made their own contribution to the huge wall paintings. Message from Behind a Wall, featuring Faten Nasdas, one of the initiators of the wall paintings, is transporting different messages, but the main message represents the action of children's innocence. The moving picture is a unique document of the day of 17 February 2005. Meanwhile, the construction of the wall in Bethlehem is nearly completed.

*Thanks to Faten Nasdas, International Center Bethlehem, children of Bethlehem

6. Home so near, home so far (11:30, 2006) ~ Filmed during a visit to the home of Marcela Rosen, artist, and Ricardo Castro, the Mapuche Indian living in Santiago/Chile, who is seen reciting a poem in Mapuche language, and playing a typical Mapuche musical instrument, the Thruthruka.

7. Urban.early sunday morning_raw, v. 2 (4:30 – 2007) ~ Digital video created in Flash, inspired by the Central Station of Milan (Italy).

Metropolis: sunday morning, between open end and twilight, between hope and resignation, between following a dream and returning that night to the home town or village outside. Coming from the disco, full of the impressions of that juicy girl or that horny boy, doubtful of whether preserving innocence or following the instinct for an outstanding erotic adventure. It is the moment of not yet knowing, vacillating between yes or no. It is a same ritual each weekend, even if decisions are made once. It is a game between identifying and identity. The work describes the urban landscape as a scenario of a play, wherein the protagonists are embedded without any chance of escape.

8. Bareback – serial DIScharge (6:00, 2007) ~ This experimental film tells the story of a homeless person, with identity lost to traumatic experiences, using the form of allegorical representation to point to essential questions of human existence.

*Awarded the 'Videoart Award Bele Arte Lamia 2007 - high commendation', and the 'FONLAD Video Award 2007 ONLAD - Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt'

9. RED: One Day on Mars (8:00, 2007) ~ A human being is obliged to spend at least one day in his lifetime on Mars. Mars, the red desert planet; Mars, the god of war. Mars can be anywhere, anyplace that is identified with the inhuman, violence, hate, rage, revenge and despair. The original film material was recorded 2006 in Palestine & Israel.

*Awarded the 2008 Special Jury Award for 'Best Experimental Film” at The 1st International Cyprus Short Film Festival, 2008

10. En [code] ed (5:30, 2008) ~ A videowork created in Flash, inspired by a visit of Thessaloniki, which sets out to describe the principle of 'code', or 'coding', in the form of an allegory, a metaphorical story as a ritual of meeting, dominating and resigning. The code is identified as a state of the static, dogmatic and conservative, which asks for obedience, but gives no chance to escape.

:::: Infrastructure Support ::::

Ashim Ghosh
Sattal Estate
Shiva Rana
Bacchus Barua

:::: Participant Support ::::

Pro Helvetia
Embassy of Spain
Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bandish ~ The School of Music
Arts Network Asia
Pt. Telcom Indonesia
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
Canada Council for the Arts
Consiel des Arts Montreal
Consiel des Art et de Lettres Quebec
The Academy of Electronic Arts

]]> SCANZ 2009: Raranga tangata - The Weaving Together of People (New Plymouth, New Zealand) http://www.aliak.com/content/scanz-2009-raranga-tangata-the-weaving-together-people-new-plymouth-new-zealand 2009-01-24T12:00:19+00:00 2009-01-28T00:49:04+00:00 AliaK SCANZ 2009: Raranga tangata
The Weaving Together of People
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is the interCreate Research Centre's major project, a two week residency for artists, producers, writers, theorists and curators will be held in New Plymouth New Zealand from January 26th to February 8th 2009. Project partners are the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Puke Ariki integrated library and museum.
Raranga tangata refers to the weaving together of people, a phrase used to describe the internet and adopted by Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl in their work. The aim for SCANZ 2009 is to weave an enduring fabric of people and technology, located in this place: Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.
Residency
January 26th–February 8th
Symposium
February 7th–8th

]]> SCANZ 2009: Raranga tangata
The Weaving Together of People

Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is the interCreate Research Centre's major project, a two week residency for artists, producers, writers, theorists and curators will be held in New Plymouth New Zealand from January 26th to February 8th 2009. Project partners are the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Puke Ariki integrated library and museum.

Raranga tangata refers to the weaving together of people, a phrase used to describe the internet and adopted by Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl in their work. The aim for SCANZ 2009 is to weave an enduring fabric of people and technology, located in this place: Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand, Pacific Ocean.

Residency
January 26th–February 8th

Symposium
February 7th–8th

Residency
January 26th–February 8th

The residency themes are Environmental Response and Participate/Display. Occurring along side the residency are a two day symposium (February 7 and 8), presentation evening & opening event (February 7), and curatorial workshop.

Participants
International attendees include Nina Czegledy, Brett Stalbaum, Sally Jane Norman, Jacques Sirot, Sarah Cook, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Melinda Rackham and Dominic Smith of The Polytechnic. New Zealanders attending include Lisa Reihana, Stella Brennan, Sean Kerr, Rachel Rakena, Natalie Robertson, Danny Butt, Herman Pi’ikea Clarke, Alex Monteith, Naomi Lamb, Caro McCaw and Jon Bywater.

Residency Themes
1. Environmental Response
This theme involves responses to the human, natural, or technological environment of Taranaki, New Zealand Aotearoa, South Pacific Ocean, Earth.

2. Participate/Display
This theme involves projects where the audience is involved in the art work in a way that changes the art work.

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Symposium
February 7th–8th

The symposium theme is Interconnections. Papers and presentations were gathered that locate interconnections between Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian knowledge and belief systems, and a view based on integrated systems.

Presentations are intended to refer to:
– Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian knowledge and belief systems
– Integrated systems, including ideas around chaos, complexity and/or post-structuralism
– Interconnections between the above
– Digital media and Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian context
– Digital media and Pasifika, Maori or Polynesian projects
– Intersections between Pasifika and digital media context
– Cultural hybridity and digital media practice context and projects

read through the schedule

http://www.intercreate.org/view/scanz-2009-raranga27 for more details

]]> Parsons Art Books - Auckland http://www.aliak.com/content/parsons-art-books-auckland 2009-01-24T11:12:40+00:00 2009-01-24T11:15:34+00:00 AliaK Parsons Bookshop located in central Auckland stocks International Art books, Exhibition Catalogues, Art Theory, Design, Photography, Architecture and Fashion books, as well as a large stock of New Zealand, Maori & Pacific books including Fiction, Poetry, Art, Small Press and Limited Edition Titles, Politics, History, Biography and Natural History. http://www.parsons.co.nz for more details

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Parsons Bookshop located in central Auckland stocks International Art books, Exhibition Catalogues, Art Theory, Design, Photography, Architecture and Fashion books, as well as a large stock of New Zealand, Maori & Pacific books including Fiction, Poetry, Art, Small Press and Limited Edition Titles, Politics, History, Biography and Natural History. http://www.parsons.co.nz for more details

]]> Squat Space - Sydney http://www.aliak.com/content/squat-space-sydney 2009-01-17T10:32:34+00:00 2009-01-17T10:32:34+00:00 AliaK Squat Space was born from the energy of artists and activists of the Broadway Squats.
The organisers cleared out an old locksmith shop and launched a dynamic art and event space in December 2000. The gallery played host to political film screenings, free dinners, durational performances, experimental sound nights, site-specific installations...
SquatSpace opposed the standard "pay-as-you-show" system used by many high-rent artist-run-galleries in Sydney. Exhibiting was free, with artists usually becoming involved in the life of the squatting community in some way.

]]> Squat Space was born from the energy of artists and activists of the Broadway Squats.

The organisers cleared out an old locksmith shop and launched a dynamic art and event space in December 2000. The gallery played host to political film screenings, free dinners, durational performances, experimental sound nights, site-specific installations...

SquatSpace opposed the standard "pay-as-you-show" system used by many high-rent artist-run-galleries in Sydney. Exhibiting was free, with artists usually becoming involved in the life of the squatting community in some way.

The gallery was pivotal in raising awareness for the ongoing campaign to save the Broadway Squats from eviction. Highlights of its six-month existance at Broadway included Hilik Mirankar's Space in the City installation, Arlene TextaQueen's major TextaNudes gallery show, Media Jam co-ordinated by 7U?, Spontaneous Combustion hosted by Elf Tranzporter, Anne Walton and Teri Hoskin's Daily Bred residency, and the SquatFest film night.

The Broadway Squats were granted their caretaker lease, and subsequently evicted, in July 2001. Since that time SquatSpacers have gone underground, unleashing site-specific events, art-activism, and culture jamming. Highlights include the Champagne Soccer-Shocker (Oct 2001), ArtBarter (Dec 2001), SquatSpace Authorised Poster/Stencil Wall in the city (current), unReal Estate at This is Not Art (Newcastle Oct 2002), SquatSpace Corporate Expo Booth (Performance Space Aug 2002 and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Nov 2002), and SquatFest Film nights (at the Midnight Star Feb 2002, at the Sydney park Brick Kilns 2003, and the empty Sydney Dental Hospital Feb 2004).

-- info from squat space about us page

]]> NUCA - Network of Un-Collectable Artists http://www.aliak.com/content/nuca-network-un-collectable-artists 2009-01-17T05:15:55+00:00 2009-01-17T05:16:56+00:00 AliaK NUCA - the Network of Un-Collectable Artists - is a nation-wide affiliation connecting those who gravitate towards ephemeral projects, participatory experiences, illegal art actions, and activities that oddify everyday life. Some members make unwieldy installation projects, while others alter billboards, project images in abandoned spaces at night, or exchange ideas rather than objects. Some simply make dead ugly paintings that would never sell.
Because such artworks are often fiendishly tricky to document, they seldom grace the columns of "recognised" publications. NUCA is building a publicity machine of its own, so artists may exchange essential info about their activities, collaborate on new projects, and connect with Uncollectable others.

]]> NUCA - the Network of Un-Collectable Artists - is a nation-wide affiliation connecting those who gravitate towards ephemeral projects, participatory experiences, illegal art actions, and activities that oddify everyday life. Some members make unwieldy installation projects, while others alter billboards, project images in abandoned spaces at night, or exchange ideas rather than objects. Some simply make dead ugly paintings that would never sell.

Because such artworks are often fiendishly tricky to document, they seldom grace the columns of "recognised" publications. NUCA is building a publicity machine of its own, so artists may exchange essential info about their activities, collaborate on new projects, and connect with Uncollectable others.

NUCA would like to invite you to join its ranks. Please send an email introducing yourself and your interests, to info@uncollectables.net. Archives of NUCA projects can be found at the NUCA documentation page. visit http://www.squatspace.com/uncollectable for more details

]]> [brisbane] BF09 UNDER THE RADAR - call for applications http://www.aliak.com/content/brisbane-bf09-under-the-radar-call-applications 2008-12-15T01:50:06+00:00 2008-12-15T01:54:24+00:00 AliaK After the immense success of "BF08 UNDER THE RADAR", Brisbane Festival 2009 is putting the call out for applications for the 2009 event. A 16 day theatrefest within a festival, BF09 UNDER THE RADAR celebrates the creation of new work, taking risks, self discovery and pushing the boundaries!
BF09 UNDER THE RADAR is now calling for applications from artists and companies with brave, stimulating, relevant and innovative shows that the world needs to see. We're looking for fresh ideas and the crossing of art forms. We’re after stories that explore the big questions or transform the everyday and mundane. It has to be new - the rest is up to you. Surprise us!
plays | burlesque | physical theatre | street theatre | theatre of image | dance theatre | musical theatre | cabaret | junkyard | circus | public performance – all welcome to apply.
Read more or go to www.brisbanefestival.com.au OR www.myspace.com/bf08utr for more information

]]> After the immense success of "BF08 UNDER THE RADAR", Brisbane Festival 2009 is putting the call out for applications for the 2009 event. A 16 day theatrefest within a festival, BF09 UNDER THE RADAR celebrates the creation of new work, taking risks, self discovery and pushing the boundaries!

BF09 UNDER THE RADAR is now calling for applications from artists and companies with brave, stimulating, relevant and innovative shows that the world needs to see. We're looking for fresh ideas and the crossing of art forms. We’re after stories that explore the big questions or transform the everyday and mundane. It has to be new - the rest is up to you. Surprise us!

plays | burlesque | physical theatre | street theatre | theatre of image | dance theatre | musical theatre | cabaret | junkyard | circus | public performance – all welcome to apply.

Read more or go to www.brisbanefestival.com.au OR www.myspace.com/bf08utr for more information

From Friday 18 September to Saturday 3 October BF09 UNDER THE RADAR will take over Brisbane's Metro Arts building for the third time, aiming the spotlight at young and emerging theatre artists who operate under the radar of the mainstream.

Next year we will also move beyond theatre, taking BF09 UNDER THE RADAR and all its quirky splendour to the masses on the streets of Brisbane's CBD. For the first time street theatre will be included in the programme with an estimated 10 shows being staged in shop fronts, vacant retail premises and on the streets over 2 weeks.

BF09 UNDER THE RADAR producer Fiona MacDonald said "We were amazed by the sheer number of applications in 2008 and also the quality of the work. We're hoping for many more pleasant surprises this year. The BF08 UNDER THE RADAR "Best In Show" winner has since been programmed in festivals across the country as well as receiving a substantial scholarship. So if you're into theatre and performing, make sure you send us an application. You've got nothing to lose!"

Successful BF09 UNDER THE RADAR applicants will receive 100% of box office takings for a season of 4-5 shows, venue and technical hire, production and marketing support from the festival to get their show up and out there plus an awesome chance to expand their creative networks, hook up with like minded artists and arts workers and share a platform with some of the world’s best productions

Applications must be received by 6pm (EST) Monday 16 February 2009.

A selection committee of Australia's arts industry practitioners from various art forms will then consider each application. The committee will meet in Brisbane in early 2009 to determine which productions will feature in BF09 UNDER THE RADAR. Successful applications will be notified in April 2009.

Through BF09 UNDER THE RADAR, Brisbane Festival aims to give a leg up to artists and companies on the edge of the mainstream.

BF09 Artistic Director and CEO Lyndon Terracini said "Everyone has to start somewhere. Anyone who works in the arts has been there and knows how hard it is to get a break. BF09 UNDER THE RADAR is our way of fostering the next generation of performers."

Go to www.brisbanefestival.com.au OR www.myspace.com/bf08utr for more information.

]]> Patta Chitra Katha - traditional folk art of storytelling using visual language http://www.aliak.com/content/patta-chitra-katha-traditional-folk-art-storytelling-using-visual-language 2008-11-16T10:32:41+00:00 2008-11-21T19:04:20+00:00 AliaK Senthil Kumar posted a video on WADI facebook group called "Arjuna the Archer : AD 2008"

he's also posted it to youtube :
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UPtfEkl_o

there's now a facebook page for Patta Chitra Katha

I wanted to find out more about this artform and technique, so I googled (without much luck, due to googling the wrong things) and asked the Sarai Reader list and received lots of helpful information from many people. after reading about it, it reminds me a bit of an equivalent to multi-media, or even video blogging from a few hundred years ago. multiple paintings / panels on scrolls (equating to video frames?) are read and music played whilst they're read, so there's a mixture of images, music, text, written / spoken word. the artists travel to different villages - equivalent to the communication methods / networks of today transmitting the multimedia messages & works. originally the works were made on cloth using vegetable based paints but these days modern paints are used and most works are done on paper. I hope the traditional methods are not lost completely! the style of painting comes from Orissa, West Bengal & Bangladesh. modern artists use both traditional, classical topics as well as current topics & stories - they are trying out new variations of the art too, to keep the method alive and to learn new techniques & skills.

I made a video for VloMo08 day16 explaining how I found out information about Patta Chitra Katha :

VloMo08 : day16 - Patta Chitra Katha - traditional folk art of storytelling using visual language from kath on Vimeo.

read more for information about this special artform ...

]]> Senthil Kumar posted a video on WADI facebook group called "Arjuna the Archer : AD 2008"

he's also posted it to youtube :
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UPtfEkl_o

there's now a facebook page for Patta Chitra Katha

I wanted to find out more about this artform and technique, so I googled (without much luck, due to googling the wrong things) and asked the Sarai Reader list and received lots of helpful information from many people. after reading about it, it reminds me a bit of an equivalent to multi-media, or even video blogging from a few hundred years ago. multiple paintings / panels on scrolls (equating to video frames?) are read and music played whilst they're read, so there's a mixture of images, music, text, written / spoken word. the artists travel to different villages - equivalent to the communication methods / networks of today transmitting the multimedia messages & works. originally the works were made on cloth using vegetable based paints but these days modern paints are used and most works are done on paper. I hope the traditional methods are not lost completely! the style of painting comes from Orissa, West Bengal & Bangladesh. modern artists use both traditional, classical topics as well as current topics & stories - they are trying out new variations of the art too, to keep the method alive and to learn new techniques & skills.

I made a video for VloMo08 day16 explaining how I found out information about Patta Chitra Katha :

VloMo08 : day16 - Patta Chitra Katha - traditional folk art of storytelling using visual language from kath on Vimeo.

read more for information about this special artform ...
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"Arjuna the Archer : AD 2008" video description :
An initiative to revive the lost art of Patta Chitra Katha : A thousand year old traditional folk art of storytelling in the original visual language, hand printed on dried patta leaves and handloom cloth using characters from ancient Indian Mythology.

The roots of Patta Chitra Katha can be traced back today to two remote villages of Orissa on the East Coast of India.

This short film is a modern day Chitra Katha in animation that celebrates the intricate form of this historic hand printing craft, that was handed down from generation to generation, until it got lost somewhere in the advent of machine printing.

Arjuna the Mythological Archer adorns this first ever handmade version of The Great Indian Yellow Pages, in a vivid story that simplifies online yellow pages and encourages online transactions through the life of Arjuna in 2008 AD.

A Short Film that bridges Mythology with Technology. Supported by Sulekha.com, India's largest Yellow Pages & Classifieds. Created by Famous House Of Animation & JWT India.

video link : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=43962506411

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googling for "Patta Chitra Katha" gives a single result (16/11/2008) :
http://sridharcal.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/11/1000-year-old-lost-art-f... - he seems to be referring to the video on facebook (you need to login to post comments so I didn't)

"A little unknow fact, kept secret from more than 1000 years, this quaint religious town (Puri - 350 miles from Kolkata (Calcutta)) also was the inspiration of an art form called : Patta Chitra Katha. The legend goes that this all started with an annual temple ritual that required the deities to be displaced for cleansing. Patta Chitras were used to temporarily fill in their place while the ceremony was performed."

"Just like the Madhubani paintings from North Bihar, Patta Chitra Katha is an indegenous art form represented by mixing tamarind seed paste with rice powder and applying it on the face of a white cloth to create the canvas! Fine brushes made from the hairs of a mongoose or rat or sometimes even a buffalo(!) is what the artist now needs to colour his imagination."

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there was an Chitra Katha exhibition in Delhi by Ananata Maharana earlier this year at India Habitat Centre

"This exhibition of traditional Orissa patta chitra paintings (on cloth) draws inspiration from sources as varied as the Geetagovida as well as ancient palm leaf manuscripts. The heritage series has been especially painted by the doyen of traditional Puri paintings, 'Shilpaguru' Ananata Maharana along with his family members."

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google book : Indian Art Worlds in Contention - by Helle Bundgaard, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

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a list of pdf files about Chitra Katha & other topics

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Chitra Katha - Creative Commons Short Film Contest

"On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of India's independence, Creative Commons India is organizing a short film contest, on "Better governance through Right To Information"."

The plan: Contestants will be invited to make a short film up to 5 minutes in length in Hindi or English based on the dramatization of a true story on -- "Better governance through Right To Information". The top 5 films will be given exciting awards and chosen for viewing at Avenues at a special prize distribution ceremony. "

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I asked on the Sarai Reader list, and had a couple of informative responses - thanks very much Kshmendra, Budhaditya, Prem, Raja, Rama, & Samantak !!

Kshmendra Kaul pointed me to these urls & info :
reply1, reply2, reply3

Patta Chitra - It's Past and Present - by Prafulla Kumar Samantaray

handcrafts of Orissa - it talks about "PATTA" not as a Leaf but as Cloth :

"""" Patta chitras are miniature paintings, used as wall hangings with religious themes as their subject matter. Legends from the lives of Lord Krishna are mainly depicted on this specially treated cloth known as Patta."""""

Elsewhere the "PATTA" is mentioned as Silk Cloth. Orissa has a rich tradition of various weaves and textures for silk

Someone proficient in the language Oriya (hopefully from this List) should be able to clarify whether PATTA is Leaf or a Cloth.

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Chitra Katha = Story telling through pictures.

In this case I presume the pictures would be the paintings on (as referenced by you) Leaves (Palm Leaves).

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I came across Archana's name at the sarai mail list archive

carrying the piece by her "Painted Folklore - Tradition of Chitrakatha".

It does not talk about the PATTA style having been used for Chitra Katha but she might be a useful source of information

Another site however mentions that they have a collection of folk paintings depicting "Ramkatha" (story of the Hindu diety Ram) in the Patta Chitra Katha tradition

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from the Orissa Tourism website

Traditional Paintings of Orissa

Patachitras - The tribal, the folk and the classical are the three streams of the Orissan School of Painting. The classical Orissan painting, pattachitras is painted on a specially prepared cloth (patta), coated with earth to stiffen it and finally finished with lacquer after painting, producing motifs in vibrant colours. Pattas are now used as wall hangings. The subject matter of patta paintings are closely connected with the Jagannath cult and the episodes from Ram and Krishna life. Pattas showing in scenes of Rasa Lila, Vastra Haran, Kaliya Dalan images of Lord Jagannath musical themes of eroticism, nature and wild life and sets of ganjapa cards, small circular cards made in sets of 96 discs, executed in vigorous folk style are special. The traditional chitrakars (painters) have the honour of painting the Puri temple deities and their chariots (cars) every year.

Palm leaves (Chitra pothi) have long been used as writing materials. An exclusive indigenous tradition of Orissa, the craft of palm leaf manuscripts dates back to the medieval period. With the help of an iron pen orstylus (lohankantaka), the artist first inscribes the text or design on the surface of palm leaves, then applies a paste of tamarind seed, oil and charcoal. When the residue is rubbed off, the groove stands out distinctly. Usually the legends of the Mahabharat and Ramayan, images of gods and goddess, the nature and wild life themes are presented. The visual effects are enhanced using the vibrant vegetable and mineral colours. Romantic figures drawn on small leaves now serve as book marks, greeting cards and playing cards. Of late, the traditional artists clustered in the village of Raghurajpur, about 50 km from Bhubaneswar have revived this art from.

Originally, Pattachitra artists were settled by the Gajapati King of Puri to paint divine trinity on specially treated clothes to be hung inside the sanctum of Jagannath Temple for the darshan of devotees during Anavasar (retirement in seclusion) when the Lord steps out of the temple alongwith brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra to mingle with the masses, the occasion of annual Rath Yatra. Originating from this tradition, this art developed and gained popularity.

The village of Dandasahi near Raghurajpur has been identified as another centre. Ananta Moharana and his son Panu Moharana together have added some new elements to Patta paintings.

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and Budhaditya mentioned this :

Pata Chitra Katha is basically an ancient form of story telling, that incorporates very raw and down-to-earth visual narrative, along with oral/aural presentation in the form of songs/chants.

I came from an area that you may hear of 'Bengal', where this genre of archaic tradition still exists, but lost some of its aura. I used to know a few people who survives only with this art, but I lost contact with them. However, if you anyway visit Bengal by any chance, (or visit virtually as we do these days) we may find some of them. But please don't impressed by mere 'exotic' stuff, that they use for survival.

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Rama mentioned :
Patta Chitra means scroll paintings. Katha is a story. The scroll paintings tell stories, which are sung as the scroll is unfolded revealing panel after panel which illustrate the song's words.

the Cuckoo's Call blog has an article about Patta Chitra with a video and photo showing a modern one telling the story of rebuilding after the tsunami (of December 2004) created by Rahim, son of the blog author's friend patua Dukhushyam Chitrakar.

paintings by modern Patua artists can be purchased from indigoarts website

from the indigo arts website :
The scrolls are by various artists, all of whom by convention share the surname Chitrakar, meaning painter, whether actually related or not.

The Asian Heritage Foundation provides the following background :

"The Patuas, or travelling scroll painters and storytellers from West Bengal, india, have never been so far from home. Marginalized by television and film, these artists sing traditional tales from mythology and interpret contemporary events, improvising new lyrics. As travelling showmen they are complete artists: painters, scriptwriters, singers, performers, all in one. Painting stories on handmade scrolls called Pat, then setting them to music for rural audiences, the Patuas faced the predicament of many of our folk artists, who travl farther to earn less, often mass-produced their art, or take up other jobs in the hinterlands of modern industry...

The Patuas continue to explore the timeless and the transitional, commenting on how our worlds are being transformed for worse or better, telling fragments of our human predicament."

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Raja mentioned :

the tradition of pata-chitra may be found in orissa and west bengal.
the practitioners are called patuas (or chitrakaars).
the tradition is still alive.
the orissan pata is more classicized - and done on palm leaves or on a
coated cloth (pata).
the bengal pats are more vigorous.

the video on facebook is based on the palm-leaf drawings of orissa.
these are etched using a stylus and filled with black ink - resulting in a
fine lines.
the pata-chitras on cloth use colours.

there are a few scholars who have researched this and written about it.
these include dr. dinanath pathy / dr. j.p.das / dr. jyotindra jain.
i have also been interacting with the orissan patuas and should you want
further details - let me know.

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Prem mentioned :

On the route from Bhubaneswar to Puri, just a little before you reach Puri, is a turning toward a village called Raghurajpur. There is a sign at the highway marking this turn, which identifies Raghurajpur as a "heritage village". This village is full of craftsmen from the tradition of patta chitra katha; and if you go there they will allow you into their homes and seek to sell you their wares. They are also quite willing to talk about and demonstrate their craft (unless you are fluent in the language, you will need an Oriya interpreter).

However, one should be warned that the craft has not remained within the traditional idiom. Firstly the work now is more on paper than on cloth. Secondly they use chemical pigments rather than the traditional vegetable pigments; as a result of which the colours are far more garish. However, if you are patient and willing to spend some time going from house to house, you will come across some pieces of spectacular work. You will also come across a few old pieces on cloth done using vegetable pigments.

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Indigo Arts Gallery has a collection of modern pieces created after the Tsunami to raise funds for the region

there's more examples at the following links as well as information about the artists, Gurupada and Montu Chitrakar from West Bengal :
http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_asianart_indiptg2a.html
http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_asianart_indiptg2b.html

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Samantak mentioned :

Pata Chitra Katha is an art that is still alive and well in southern West Bengal, Orissa and Bangladesh. There are many scholarly works on this art of scroll painting accompanied by musical and chanted commentary. "Chitra Katha" means "picture tale or story or talk" and "pata" or "patta" (pronounced "pot" or "poto") means a "scroll". It has nothing to do with films in this context.

You can google "scroll painting pata" for some interesting links including one to Banglapedia - which is a kind of Wikipedia for things Bengali.

Regarding the use of vegetable dyes. Some "patua"s (makers of pata paintings) or "chitrakar"s (painters - lit. picture makers) in West Bengal still use the traditional dyes and techniques while others use commercially made paints.

Regarding Prem's comment on the use of paper vs. cloth, in West Bengal and Bangladesh the paintings are done on paper pasted on cloth. The scrolls can be quite long. (I have one which is about 18 inches wide and about nine feet long.)

The subject matter of patas has changed. There are contemporary patas on, for example, the evils of dowry, the need to universalize education and so on. The government has used patas to spread such social messages in areas still inaccessible and/or lacking electricity.

Patas are also wonderful examples of the the syncretic culture of Bengal. Many patuas are Muslims who paint Hindu folk tales and take on a Hindu name, using "Chitrakar" (see above) as a surname - so for example, someone with the name Salim Ali may take on the name "Ajit Chitrakar". Patas are also made by Santals.

Anyway, I mustn't bore you with more on this matter which has been a subject of fascination to me for the last 30-odd years. Do write to me if you want more information on this fascinating folk art form.
And good luck with the painting on cloth!

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rajendra mentioned :

In karnataka, the finely made of leather ,colored with natural dyes, are the two dimensional puppets used to tell the stories /epis, known as togalu bombe kunitha, this can be seen at the Chitrakalaparishath, Near shivananda circle, bangalore or also in villages of Shimoga dist, Light source is used to bring out the finesness and grandeur of the story telling , as the puppets come alive and dance to the rythm and songs.

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vaid mentioned :

In Bengal, there is a village of patua artists in Midnapur district.
Jhalpala theatre group active in children's theatre in Bengal does collaborative work with Patua artists and performs at different theatre spaces doing plays for children in Kolkata and other places.

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subhadeepta mentioned :

for pata chitra katha...contact Dr. Roma Chatterjee at the Department of SOciology, Delhi School of Economics Delhi University. She works on patas from Bengal...and will be able to help you

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thanks very much to everyone who provided links and information and suggestions for further research! it's a wonderful style of art & I'm glad that it's still being practiced even if the materials have changed slightly.

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GENDERED SPACES - Craftswomen’s Stories of Self-Employment in Orissa, India

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Palm leaf manuscripts may go digital article in Times of India, about a digitisation project that the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthaanams (TTD) is contemplating.

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Madhva’s palm leaves get a digital touch

Modern imaging technology has now come to the rescue of a 700-year-old palm
leaf manuscript of “Sarvamoola Grantha” of Madhva-charya, proponent of Dvaitha
philosophy.

The collection of 36 works containing commentaries in Sanskrit, which was lying in
a wooden box of Udupi’s Palimaru Mutt, is now being digitally stored forever.
A team led by Dr P R Mukund and Roger Easton, professors in the Rochester
Institute, US, is working on the project since December, 2005. Sri Vidyadheesha
Swamiji of Udupi Palimaru Mutt inspired Dr Mukund to use the modern technology
to preserve the manuscript for the future generations.

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there's some art works for sale on Indian ebay

Panchmukhi Ganesha palm leaf painting - tribal folk art has a great explanation of the art

Panchmukhi Ganesha palm leaf painting - tribal folk art

Product Details :-

Palm Leaf Painting or Patta Chitra is an ancient art form, which was practiced in quite a few regions of India. If it was known as patta chitra in Orissa, the Tamilians called it Olaichuvadi. This art form was an offshoot of written communication on palm leaves. In the pre paper days messages and letters were etched out on palm leaves and dispatched. Slowly the text began to be embellished with illustrations. Theses illustrations became an art Form itself. A single painting takes around 8 weeks to 15 weeks time depending on details of painting.
Palm Leaf Painting-the technique

Palm leaf painting or etching involves a few intricate steps:

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Rows of same sized palm leaves are first arranged together and sewn.
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These neatly sewn palm leaves are then folded in such a way so as to make a pile.
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These paintings are first etched out, which means that the designs and images are neatly etched on the surface of the palm leaf using a sharp pen like object.
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Ink (or a concoction of charcoal of burnt coconut shells, turmeric and oil) is then poured along the lines; the lines are now defined.
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Vegetable dyes are also added to give these paintings some color, but these paintings are mostly, dichromatic (black and white).
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The panels of the paintings are unfolded like a fan to reveal a beautiful patta chitra.

Palm Leaf Painting in the modern world

This ancient art form has found admirers far and wide. Not only does the intricate designs and aesthetic depiction of Gods and Goddesses attract ones attention, the use of the leaf adds to the quaint charm of the Art form. This form painting is hailed as very eco friendly too. Today there are small towns exclusively dedicated to this art form in South India.

Details about this painting -

Ganesh is the Hindu God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles or God of elimination of troubles. He is also called Ganapati (leader of people), Buddhividhata ( god of knowledge ), or Vighnahara (god to remove obstacles). He is one the most important Gods in the Hindu religion so that all sacrifices and religious ceremonies, all serious compositions in writing, and all worldly affairs of importance are begun with an invocation to Lord Ganesh.

Panchmukhi means Five faced. In this painting artist has etched the image of Five faced lord Ganesha

Size - 15.4 " x 12.4 "

Folds of palm leaves - 12

* The painting is unframed and will be sended in safe packing.

Disclaimer - Descriptions for products are taken from scripture, written and oral tradition. Products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. We make no claim of supernatural effects. All items sold as curios only.

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Palm Leaf Wall Painting Most Ancient Orissa Indian Gods is another


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Decoding the transformation from Tamil palm leaf manuscripts to early letterpress printing

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books found on questia.com :

Culture and Customs of India by Carol E. Henderson

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Comet Media & COSMOS
a non profit group working in educational communication & new media. they have festivals, projects & publications
http://www.cometmedia.org
http://groups.google.com/group/cosmos_mumbai
upcoming events
aliak.com Comet & Cosmos page
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Digital artists - THE WEBMUSEUM CYBERCULTURE RESEARCH LIBRARY page
http://www.lastplace.com/page177.htm
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CRIT
http://crit.org.in

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Comet Media & COSMOS
a non profit group working in educational communication & new media. they have festivals, projects & publications
http://www.cometmedia.org
http://groups.google.com/group/cosmos_mumbai
upcoming events
aliak.com Comet & Cosmos page

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Digital artists - THE WEBMUSEUM CYBERCULTURE RESEARCH LIBRARY page
http://www.lastplace.com/page177.htm

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CRIT
http://crit.org.in
CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) is a group of architects, scholars, technicians and artists who have worked together over the past seven years in Mumbai. Our collective was established in early 2003 with the aim of undertaking urban research, design and activism in the cities of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. CRIT regards this vast urban realm as its laboratory and terrain for articulating an emerging urbanism. Our understanding of urbanism is based on the belief that everyday exchange between disciplines and collective research is essential to transforming urban spaces and civic life.

Since 2003, CRIT has undertaken research and design projects throughout the Mumbai Metropolitan Region on housing, environment, conservation, spatial and planning policies in the context of urban development. Our current and completed projects are grouped within the following programmes: Metropolitan Peripheries, Community Housing, Public Spaces, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Sanitation and Waste Management. We also occassionally produce print and web publications, curate exhibitions, organise workshops and public events as part of our ongoing series Metrologue.

current projects include :
# Housing Typologies in Mumbai - their pdf report is very interesting & talks about the different types of housing such as single-dwelling homes, chawls (private & government / council flats & apartments), slums & their rehabilitation schemes over past few decades, urban fringe housing, new apartments in new & existing residential areas + more.
# SARAI-CRIT Workshop on Emerging Urbanism in India
# Geographies of Resistance
# Housing Experiment at Betwala Chawl

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mumbai urban stories blog
http://mumbai-urbanstories.blogspot.com

Urban Stories(working title) seeks to explore the myriad hues and dimensions of the culture of the city of Mumbai through a collection of stylized visual essays. A visual experiment of sorts, Urban Stories will employ such diverse genres as collage and typography, illustration and photography. The resulting collection will emerge as a unique narrative of Mumbai, its pasts and presents, peoples and places.

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The IDEA - Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts
Shankar Barua put together a cd zine documenting Indian electronic arts between 2000 - 2004. it's an excellent collection - highly recommended! he's in Delhi, but some artists mentioned are in mumbai
http://www.geocities.com/shankarb.geo/idea.htm

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Third Eye Asian Film Festival of Mumbai
http://www.filmfestivalworld.com/festival/Third_Eye_Asian_Film_Festival_...
The Asian Film Festival aims to establish interaction between the Asian Film fraternity and create a dialogue with the West.

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Nancy Adajania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Adajania
Adajania has written and lectured extensively on contemporary Indian art, especially new media art and its political and cultural contexts, at international venues such as Documenta 11, Kassel; the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe; the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and the Transmediale, Berlin; the Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Copenhagen; Lottringer 13, Munich, among others.

As Editor-in-Chief of Art India (2000-2002), Adajania developed a discursive space singlehandedly, in an Asian context, for emergent new-media and interactive public art practices and social projects on a global level. She has contributed essays and reviews to Springerin (Vienna), Metamute (London), Art 21 (Paris), Public Art (Minneapolis), Art Asia Pacific (New York), X-Tra (Los Angeles) and the Documenta 12 Magazine (Kassel, 2007).

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Prema Murthy
http://www.premamurthy.net
Prema Murthy has exhibited her net art, prints, drawings, animation and installation in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad at venues including PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, The National Gallery in Capetown, and the India Habitat Center in New Delhi.

She is the co-founder of the collective Fakeshop, which was selected for the 2000 Whitney Biennial and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. She received her MFA from Goldsmith's College, London and a BA in art history from the University of Texas, Austin. Her works are in several public and private collections including the Queens Museum of Art and the Neuberger Berman Collection. Born in Seattle, WA, she has lived in India, the Philippines, and the UK. She is based in New York and teaches Digital Media at Sarah Lawrence College.

ctheory review on fakeshop collective
polystar youtube user has videos created by the fakeshop collective

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UNESCO - Artists in Asia and the Pacific
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13953&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&...
This page provides Biographies on individual artists in Asia and the Pacific

related : The IDEA's UNESCO / Sarai review

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gender and space conference / project
http://www.pukar.org.in/genderandspace/gender-space.html
The Gender and Space Project focuses on gender as a category to examine the ordering and experience of the city and its varied spaces, particularly public space. Public space in the context of the study refers to public places, ranging from streets, public toilets and market places (across class contexts) to recreational areas and modes of public transport.

The project is located in and focuses on the city of Mumbai.

Research on this project combines traditional social science research such as ethnography, interviews and group discussions along with methodology drawn from the areas of film, photography, architecture. The project also has a strong pedagogic component involving elective courses in architecture and liberal arts colleges and short workshops. The project aims to understand the hierarchies and boundaries that determine access to public space along a variety of axes (class, caste, religion, geographic location and gender). It hopes to unsettle the gendered binaries regulating women's presence in public space, raising questions about the ways in which ideas of private-public, respectability-unrespectability, safety-violence, rational-risky are reflected the discourses of public space and citizenship.

gender - space references & links to other publications

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book : Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition
Edited by Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos

via http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2003-February/002410.html

This volume, third in the series on Bombay, or Mumbai, brings
together essays that treat the renaming of the city as a point of
departure in visiting enduring themes in Bombay's life. As Bombay
explodes into the megapolis of Mumbai, the volume examines whether
transition is merely in the name or it has larger implications for
the city's growth—in terms of an enormous expansion in size,
diversity, population and function.

The essays collected here offer exhilarating and provocative insights
on what Bombay has become, as it steps into the new millennium. Has
living in Mumbai meant a better life for its inhabitants or are they
still condemned to the continued struggle for existence, and
consequently withdrawal? Among other themes, the volume inquires
whether the city has managed to retain its identity or is it has lost
it like any other large metropolis.

More specifically, the essays focus on diverse aspects of the city's
social, political and economic life including housing rent control,
the participation of Dalits and minorities in the city's life and
activity, health-care and life in the shanties, the twin evils of
crime and communalism, and the world of films.

This vivid but realistic volume on Mumbai will serve as an essential
and contemporary urban social history of Mumbai and will be useful to
sociologists, historians, urban theorists, political scientists, and
culturalists. In addition, activists, scholars, journalists and
academics concerned with everyday life, culture, history and urban
spaces of cities and particularly Mumbai will also find the volume of
interest.

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MUMBAI READER
http://www.udri.org/pub_balcony.asp?PubId=21

via http://news.t2india.com/woi-arc-01112006.php
"The Jawaharlal Nehru urban renewal mission programme is intended to upgrade various cities in India. What this really means is that the cities are to be made fit for foreign capital so that it feels cosy. At the same time basic infrastructure for the poor is crumbling, basics like primary schools, postal offices and subsidized foodgrain shops."

"On the brighter side Mumbai is projected prominently at the 10tth international architecture exhibition on 'cities, architecture and society' at Venice being held from September 10 to November 19. Mumbai was the only Asian city chosen for the exhibition."

"A presentation on Mumbai was made by the Mumbai-based Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI) and a highly informative 375-page book Mumbai Reader, containing articles by various experts, was brought out. It has good reference value apart from analytical content. UDRI's trustees include industrialist Ratan Tata, architect Charles Correa and prominent corporate leaders Keshub Mahindra and Deepak Parekh."

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dharavi - a mumbai slum
http://www.dharavi.org

dharavi.org is a multimedia wiki website designed to gather information, images, and ideas on Dharavi in Mumbai. Dharavi is one of the largest informal settlement in the world. dharavi.org offers a space to discuss the Dharavi Redevelopment Project and its alternatives

from the dharavi.org introduction page :
"Often dubbed "Asia's largest slum," Dharavi is in fact a heart-shaped agglomeration of primarily informal settlements, literally located in the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital. Once a remote settlement on the outskirts of the city, Dharavi — due to Mumbai's rapid northward expansion — now finds itself strategically located between the city's two main suburban railway lines and a stone's throw away from the Bandra-Kurla Complex, the new financial and commercial center."

"These geographic advantages and Mumbai’s relative shortage of developable land combine to make Dharavi a prime piece of real estate potentially worth billions of dollars, creating pressure for redevelopment. "

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Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI)
http://www.udri.org

The URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE is a forum that supports interaction among architects, urban designers and professionals from such related fields as urban economics, sociology, planning, conservation and history.

UDRI publications list

2008 Fellowship notification via Sarai Reader list : Mumbai issues fellowship, Urban Design Research Institute

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airoots / eirut
http://www.airoots.org

airoots/eirut is a multipolar blog oscillating between dream and reality. It is about adventitious roots, urban forests and villages, natural cities, lost tribes, new nomads and everything in between and under. It is a space for creative thought and expression in words, images and sounds and a laboratory for ideating and experimenting with new visions about urbanism, technology, pedagogy and other things

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nomadology.com
http://www.nomadology.com

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urbanology.org
http://www.urbanology.org

Urbanology is a think & action tank active in the fields of urban development, design, architecture and new media. We explore, document, archive, research and intervene in urban spaces around the world. In the last ten years Urbanology has lead projects in Mumbai, Tokyo, New York and Bogota.

Urbanology works with a variety of partners including community groups, NGOs, media, academic institutions, governments and corporations acting in the capacity of project managers, advisers, consultants, resource persons and coordinators.

Our projects are collective and innovative in nature. We are committed to the idea of social responsibility and of developing creative urban visions for a sustainable future.

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Urban Typhoon
http://www.urbantyphoon.com

Urban Typhoon Workshop in Koliwada, Mumbai: March 16-22, 2008
Participatory Urban Design & the Future of Alternative Communities

Urban Typhoon brought together artists, architects, activists and academics from all over the world with the residents of Koliwada, Dharavi to collectively generate ideas, visions and plans, and archive biographies and histories. The workshop's philosophy is based on the idea that communities should be allowed to determine their future and that everyone, no matter the age, language or qualification should be allowed to participate in the process.

The material generated within the workshop is being uploaded onto dharavi.org a wiki based website allowing anyone to log in and contribute.

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the where
http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com

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mumbai in a world of cities
http://bombayology.net/2008/04/15/mumbai-in-a-world-of-cities

Panel Session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

Over the last decade, Mumbai has become far more prominent within international coverage of contemporary urbanism. This greater focus on Mumbai has been a welcome rejoinder to a continued predominance of North American and European cities within urban studies and debate. Yet in accounting for urban change in Mumbai, there has been a tendency to uncritically adopt Eurocentric models and terminology.

This session seeks to explore some of the ways that Mumbai disrupts and contradicts existing categories, histories and narratives of urban analysis. The session will question some of the institutional frameworks for urban research and a tendency for debates about the future of cities to be initiated and directed by experts and practitioners based in the global North.

It will attempt to assess why Mumbai has recently assumed significance as an urban archetype, and examine ways urbanists can help facilitate scholarship in cities such as Mumbai, and develop new progressive forms of learning and research. The aim is not to isolate Mumbai as an exceptional form of urbanism nor to confer paradigmatic status on Mumbai, but to show how a city such as Mumbai can be used to generate new theoretical dialogue, greater historical perspective and open up new channels of urban policy formation.

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mumbai 2009 - spacelab project
http://www.spacelab.tudelft.nl/Media/Mumbai.pdf
A collective research project offered by the Spacelab and Globalisation research teams

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Urban Poverty and Transport: The Case of Mumbai
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=801486

Abstract:
This paper reports the results of a survey of 5,000 households in the Greater Mumbai Region conducted in the winter of 2004. The goal of the survey was to better understand the demand for transport services by the poor, the factors affecting this demand, and the inter-linkages between transport decisions and other vital decisions such as where to live and work. This paper, the first of several research outputs, describes the salient facts about travel patterns in Mumbai for both poor and non-poor households.

A striking finding of the survey is the extent to which all households-especially poor households-rely on walking. Overall, 44 percent of commuters in Mumbai walk to work. The proportion of the poor who walk to work is even higher - 63 percent. Walking is an even higher modal share for non-work than for work trips. A second finding is that public transit remains an important factor in the mobility of the poor, and especially in the mobility of the middle class.

Overall, rail remains the main mode to work for 23 percent of commuters, while bus remains the main mode for 16 percent of commuters. The modal shares for bus are highest for the poor in zones 1-3 (21 percent of the poor in zone 2 take the bus to work), while rail shares are highest for the poor in the suburbs (25 percent of the poor in zone 6 take rail to work). Is the cost and lack of accessibility to transit a barrier to the mobility of the poor? Does it keep them from obtaining better housing and better jobs? This is a difficult question to answer without further analysis of the survey data. But it appears that transport is less of a barrier to the poor who live in central Mumbai (zones 1-3) than it is to the poor who live in the suburbs (zones 4-6).

The poor who live in zones 1-3 (central Mumbai) live closer to the non-poor than do poor households in the suburbs. They also live closer to higher-paying jobs for unskilled workers. Workers in these households, on average, commute short distances (less than 3 kilometers), although a non-negligible fraction of them (one-third in zone 2) take public transit to work. It is true that the cost of housing for the poor is higher in central Mumbai than in the suburbs, but the quality of slum housing is at least as good in central Mumbai as in the suburbs.

The poor who live in the suburbs of Mumbai, especially in zones 5 and 6, are more isolated from the rich than the poor in central Mumbai: 37 percent of the poor live in zones 5 and 6, whereas only one-fifth of higher income groups do. Wages for skilled and unskilled labor are generally lower in zones 5 and 6 than in the central city, and it appears that unemployment rates for poor males are also higher in these zones. The lower cost of slum and chawl housing in zones 5 and 6 may partly compensate for lower wages. However, a larger proportion of workers in poor households leave zones 5 and 6 to work than is true for poor workers in other zones. Commuting distances are much higher for poor workers in the suburbs than for poor workers in zones 1-3.

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]]> The Streaming Festival is now Streaming! http://www.aliak.com/content/the-streaming-festival-now-streaming 2008-10-23T20:24:23+01:00 2008-10-24T06:02:52+01:00 isfth Today at 1900hrs (GMT), we opened the 3rd edition of the Streaming Festival. We are proud to announce that this edition contains a variety of artistic films that come from all over the world.
What?
The festival selected 130 filmmakers, and will show 190 films of which 106 are being premièred on the Streaming Festival! All those works were selected by the festival staff and divided into 14 programs, each program lasting from one to two hours.
http://www.streamingfestival.com/program/special-programs

]]> Today at 1900hrs (GMT), we opened the 3rd edition of the Streaming Festival. We are proud to announce that this edition contains a variety of artistic films that come from all over the world.

What?
The festival selected 130 filmmakers, and will show 190 films of which 106 are being premièred on the Streaming Festival! All those works were selected by the festival staff and divided into 14 programs, each program lasting from one to two hours.
http://www.streamingfestival.com/program/special-programs

What’s different?
In contrast to previous editions, visitors can now view the films separately from the main program. So, it is possible to enjoy the films one by one, or execute a program of your choice and sit back and relax. Visitors can comment on films on the Streaming Festival forum, or send the filmmaker a personal message.

Video Player
We use the Silverlight player program as our main player. Be sure to install Silverlight to view the films in the best possible quality. If you can’t install Silverlight, try the lightwindow or external player option. However, these seem to work slower.

Finally..
Obviously the rules at an Internet festival are different from those at a regular offline festival. The unique experience of the Streaming Festival is as different for each viewer as much as we each differ from our fellow man and woman.

You choose when and how to watch each program in your own way. Observe the films in the harmonious tranquillity of your own silent solitude or watch with your friends, discussing and pausing the films at your whim.

However you want to watch the Streaming Festival is completely up to you and how you best appreciate the work on show.

]]> ELECTROFRINGE 2008 :: 2nd - 6th October :: Newcastle, Australia http://www.aliak.com/content/electrofringe-2008-2nd-6th-october-newcastle-australia 2008-09-30T02:52:06+01:00 2008-09-30T03:00:37+01:00 AliaK Australia's largest festival of experimental electronic arts and culture, "Electrofringe", will burst through the cracks of Newcastle from October 2 – 6, 2008, for its eleventh year as part of "This Is Not Art". More than 100 emerging and established artists from Australia and overseas will take part in 80 events over five days including workshops, gigs, screenings, performance and public intervention.
Electrofringe in 2008 brims with new ventures. These include an artists-in-residence program and a three-week interactive media exhibition. New program gems include a hybrid media/dance performance, an all-girls soldering workshop, a chorus composed for Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, an audiovisual "love-in", and a chamber recital for robots.
Special international guests include Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), Domenico Sciajno (Italy), xtine (US), The League of Imaginary Scientists (everywhere) and The Green Eyl & Sengewald (Germany). Japan is well represented by elongated harshcore musician Maruosa, noise artists Pig & Machine, and experimental multi-instrumentalist KK NULL.
Electrofringe 2008 features an impressive screening program including award-winning highlights from the Japan Media Arts Festival and SIGGRAPH 2008, surround-sound selections from New York's Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Centre and eclectic works from France’s Arcadi festival. There are also two specially curated screening reels called ElectroEtre and ElectroProjections compiled from open, international call-outs.
Head to: www.electrofringe.net for more details, and see you in Newcastle!
Electrofringe 2008 is directed by Alex White, Elmar Trefz and Somaya Langley.
-- electrofringe & the other festivals as part of This is Not Art are my favourite festivals in the world - very grassroots. Newcastle becomes abuzz with creativity and people at this time of year. I hope you can all check them out this year!

]]> Australia's largest festival of experimental electronic arts and culture, "Electrofringe", will burst through the cracks of Newcastle from October 2 – 6, 2008, for its eleventh year as part of "This Is Not Art". More than 100 emerging and established artists from Australia and overseas will take part in 80 events over five days including workshops, gigs, screenings, performance and public intervention.

Electrofringe in 2008 brims with new ventures. These include an artists-in-residence program and a three-week interactive media exhibition. New program gems include a hybrid media/dance performance, an all-girls soldering workshop, a chorus composed for Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, an audiovisual "love-in", and a chamber recital for robots.

Special international guests include Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), Domenico Sciajno (Italy), xtine (US), The League of Imaginary Scientists (everywhere) and The Green Eyl & Sengewald (Germany). Japan is well represented by elongated harshcore musician Maruosa, noise artists Pig & Machine, and experimental multi-instrumentalist KK NULL.

Electrofringe 2008 features an impressive screening program including award-winning highlights from the Japan Media Arts Festival and SIGGRAPH 2008, surround-sound selections from New York's Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Centre and eclectic works from France’s Arcadi festival. There are also two specially curated screening reels called ElectroEtre and ElectroProjections compiled from open, international call-outs.

Head to: www.electrofringe.net for more details, and see you in Newcastle!

Electrofringe 2008 is directed by Alex White, Elmar Trefz and Somaya Langley.

-- electrofringe & the other festivals as part of This is Not Art are my favourite festivals in the world - very grassroots. Newcastle becomes abuzz with creativity and people at this time of year. I hope you can all check them out this year!

]]> stencil print by SYKE http://www.aliak.com/content/stencil-print-syke 2008-09-28T12:12:58+01:00 2008-09-28T13:11:27+01:00 AliaK
280920082113, originally uploaded by AliaK
this is Sydney / Newtown artist SYKE - her myspace is www.myspace.com/syke23
SYKE started an outdoor art area in newtown (sydney) where she and other artists paint and then people can donate what they can for the art works. I think they'd suit the as often the works are on sections of cardboard boxes. the article mentions sometimes kids save up their pocket money to buy some... nice way to start kids appreciating art & craft / creating things instead of buying mass produced wares

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280920082113, originally uploaded by AliaK

this is Sydney / Newtown artist SYKE - her myspace is www.myspace.com/syke23

SYKE started an outdoor art area in newtown (sydney) where she and other artists paint and then people can donate what they can for the art works. I think they'd suit the as often the works are on sections of cardboard boxes. the article mentions sometimes kids save up their pocket money to buy some... nice way to start kids appreciating art & craft / creating things instead of buying mass produced wares

there's an interview with her @ www.throwshapes.com.au/TS22.html

paintings bought at the Newtown Underground Art Fair, Sydney 27/09/2008
www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=34878433775

]]> stencil print by Peter Strong http://www.aliak.com/content/stencil-print-peter-strong 2008-09-28T12:02:25+01:00 2008-09-28T12:11:29+01:00 AliaK
280920082112, originally uploaded by AliaK
this is a print from Peter Strong - one of the Ohms Not Bombs crew
"These canvas's are mixed media works by Peter Strong.

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280920082112, originally uploaded by AliaK

this is a print from Peter Strong - one of the Ohms Not Bombs crew

"These canvas's are mixed media works by Peter Strong.
For years I have been experimenting in different mediums from sample based music to screen-printing, painting and stencil art. I fuse originally rendered drawing with sampled imagery, my inspiration comes and goes and is recorded in my collection of silk screens, audio sample banks, spray stencil cuts and j-peg files. These works on canvas utilize these mediums and works with themes celebrating the Earth's diversity, the chaos of modern life and the search for a meditative stateof mind in these sometimes confusing times that we live in..."

www.myspace.com/shmedia

paintings bought at the Newtown Underground Art Fair, Sydney 27/09/2008
www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=34878433775

]]> cytoplasm - phil price sculpture (Auckland waterfront) http://www.aliak.com/content/cytoplasm-phil-price-sculpture-auckland-waterfront 2008-09-18T06:56:35+01:00 2008-09-18T07:33:25+01:00 AliaK Phil Price designed kinetic sculpture called 'cytoplasm'. located at Waitemata Plaza, Auckland - near Viaduct / waterfront. video taken 4th June 2007

The Auckland city what's on site has some more info on auckland city sculptures

"Phil Price's kinetic work is one of the most popular on the Viaduct walkway. It comprises 16 pod-like discs that move both individually and collectively in the wind. No two views of the work are the same, and herein lies much of Cytoplasm's attraction."

]]> Phil Price designed kinetic sculpture called 'cytoplasm'. located at Waitemata Plaza, Auckland - near Viaduct / waterfront. video taken 4th June 2007

The Auckland city what's on site has some more info on auckland city sculptures

"Phil Price's kinetic work is one of the most popular on the Viaduct walkway. It comprises 16 pod-like discs that move both individually and collectively in the wind. No two views of the work are the same, and herein lies much of Cytoplasm's attraction."

"This work is a perfect embodiment of art and science. Price honed his skills working with motorcycle designer John Britten in the 1980s. He became interested in exploring how modern materials such as the high performance plastics developed by NASA could be used in art. Cytoplasm is one of a suite of works using similar materials to create moving sculptures that have won awards both in New Zealand and overseas. There is a scientific basis to the theme of the work as well as in its materials. Cytoplasm is the jelly-like material that fills cells and carries out life's processes. It is constantly moving and flowing."

"Price describes his work as playing with ideas and forms. For him, art is an ongoing exploration that is never fixed. He is interested in the range of associations that viewers bring to his work. Cytoplasm has been described as a cactus, a sea plant, a windmill, a science fiction creature, and a futuristic tree. In a sense it is all of these. The artist is interested in the viewer's personal response to these strange waving forms."

]]> SONIC BODY - sonic installations and video works by, through and for bodies http://www.aliak.com/content/sonic-body-sonic-installations-and-video-works-through-and-bodies 2008-09-10T02:38:34+01:00 2008-09-10T02:47:09+01:00 AliaK JOLT and West Space present SONIC BODY - sonic installations and video works by, through and for bodies. Artists are Brandon LaBelle (USA), Philip Samartzis & Marcia Jane, Bruce Mowson, and James Hullick. October 1-4 2008 at West Space. OPENING Thursday October 2, 6-8pm ::: with performance by James Hullick at 7pm (no entry fee) ::: CLOSING Saturday October 4, 5pm ::: with performance by Philip Samartzis & Lizzie Pogson ($5 entry) :::
Brandon LaBelle (USA) is an artist and writer working with sound and auditory issues. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006), and Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. http://www.errantbodies.org/labelle.html
Marcia Jane is a video and film artist based in Melbourne. Her interests lie in flickering, pulsating, rhythmic abstraction; and audio-visual sensory experiences. Marcia lectures in visual art at Swinburne University and studies at RMIT's School of Art. http://www.permutations.net
Philip Samartzis is an internationally acclaimed electro-acoustic maestro and teacher to many of Melbourne's most successful sound artists through his work at RMIT. His current practice is dominated by the use of field recordings as source material for sonic works. http://www.microphonics.org "one of the leading lights of Australian experimental music" Rare Frequency 2006
Bruce Mowson is a Melbourne-based sound and video artist. He has conducted research into the phenomenon of absorption in audio-visual media though a series of exhibitions and performances and teaches at RMIT University. http://www.brucemowson.com
James Hullick is an installation artist, composer, pianist and electro sound-artist. Hullick is also Artistic Director for JOLT. http://www.jameshullick.com "...a highly reduced transparent psychogram, that shocks as much as electrifies the listener" Reutlinger Nachrichten (Südwestpresse) 2007
read more or visit http://joltarts.org and http://westspace.org.au for more details

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SONIC BODY
sonic installations and video works by, through and for bodies

Brandon LaBelle (USA)
Philip Samartzis & Marcia Jane
Bruce Mowson
James Hullick

October 1-4 2008 at West Space
Level 1, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
HOURS Wed-Fri 12-6, Sat 12-5

OPENING Thursday October 2, 6-8pm
•• with performance by James Hullick at 7pm (no entry fee) ••

CLOSING Saturday October 4, 5pm
•• with performance by Philip Samartzis & Lizzie Pogson ($5 entry) ••

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Brandon LaBelle (USA) is an artist and writer working with sound and auditory issues. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006), and Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. http://www.errantbodies.org/labelle.html

Marcia Jane is a video and film artist based in Melbourne. Her interests lie in flickering, pulsating, rhythmic abstraction; and audio-visual sensory experiences. Marcia lectures in visual art at Swinburne University and studies at RMIT's School of Art. http://www.permutations.net

Philip Samartzis is an internationally acclaimed electro-acoustic maestro and teacher to many of Melbourne's most successful sound artists through his work at RMIT. His current practice is dominated by the use of field recordings as source material for sonic works. http://www.microphonics.org "one of the leading lights of Australian experimental music" Rare Frequency 2006

Bruce Mowson is a Melbourne-based sound and video artist. He has conducted research into the phenomenon of absorption in audio-visual media though a series of exhibitions and performances and teaches at RMIT University. http://www.brucemowson.com

James Hullick is an installation artist, composer, pianist and electro sound-artist. Hullick is also Artistic Director for JOLT. http://www.jameshullick.com "...a highly reduced transparent psychogram, that shocks as much as electrifies the listener" Reutlinger Nachrichten (Südwestpresse) 2007

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by JOLT Arts Inc
http://joltarts.org
http://westspace.org.au

Marcia Jane's installation is supported by RMIT Union Arts.

]]> The World Tree exhibition of paintings by Tim Parish http://www.aliak.com/content/the-world-tree-exhibition-paintings-tim-parish 2008-06-06T16:21:59+01:00 2008-06-06T16:26:50+01:00 AliaK from The World Tree exhibition page on undergowth.org :
Protestors gather under the tree of life as bulldozers approach. Televisions vomit endless waterfalls of information. A disembodied totem of animal, vegetable and mineral world stares at you in profile. The city speaks in confusing angles where we lose perspective. The world tree is burning while man meditates under its shade.
"The World Tree" is an exhibition of new paintings by Melbourne artist Tim Parish, co-founder and art director of Undergrowth.org at Open Studio
The opening night will include music from Kafka and performance artist Si on Sunday the 15th of June at 7pm.
Details:
Opening Night:
7pm Sunday the 15th of June
with music by KAFKA
and spoken word performances by Si and Verbatim
Exhibition Dates:
15th - 29th June 2008
Address:
OPEN STUDIO (review)
204 High St, Northcote
(86 Tram Line opposite Northcote Town Hall)
visit http://undergrowth.org/theworldtree & http://undergrowth.org/user/verb for more details or to see samples of Tim Parish's work
or add the exhibition's event to your facebook event list : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14691799635

]]> from The World Tree exhibition page on undergowth.org :

Protestors gather under the tree of life as bulldozers approach. Televisions vomit endless waterfalls of information. A disembodied totem of animal, vegetable and mineral world stares at you in profile. The city speaks in confusing angles where we lose perspective. The world tree is burning while man meditates under its shade.

"The World Tree" is an exhibition of new paintings by Melbourne artist Tim Parish, co-founder and art director of Undergrowth.org at Open Studio

The opening night will include music from Kafka and performance artist Si on Sunday the 15th of June at 7pm.

Details:

Opening Night:

7pm Sunday the 15th of June
with music by KAFKA
and spoken word performances by Si and Verbatim

Exhibition Dates:

15th - 29th June 2008

Address:

OPEN STUDIO (review)
204 High St, Northcote
(86 Tram Line opposite Northcote Town Hall)

visit http://undergrowth.org/theworldtree & http://undergrowth.org/user/verb for more details or to see samples of Tim Parish's work

or add the exhibition's event to your facebook event list : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14691799635

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