DASH Archives - July 2007

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Dear List, 
 
organised by 
DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART  &  DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE 
 
:: DANUBE TELE LECTURE MYTHS OF IMMATERIALITY ::  is now archived  
 
:: 廛MYTHS OF IMMATERIALITY: Curating, Collecting and Archiving Media Art  :: 
Lectures and debate with  
 
-      Paul SERMON, media artist and scientist, UK 
-      Christiane PAUL, curator for New Media at the Whitney Museum, NY 
 
In case you were not able to follow Danube TeleLecture #3 live from the MUMOK  
in Vienna, you can now view the lecture in our archive 
 
=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/dtl-archive  
=> www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures   
 
During the last decades media art has grown to be the art of our time, though it has  
hardly arrived in our cultural institutions.  
The mainstream of art history has neglected developing adequate research tools  
for these contemporary art works, they are exhibited infrequently in museums, and  
there are few collectors. Which practices and strategies in curating and documenting  
of media art do experts in the field suggest? 
 
The discussion was moderated by Dr. Michael Freund, from Austrian leading  
newspaper  Der Standard . 
 
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:: The DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems is an  
institution for innovative research and teaching on the complete range of image  
forms. The Department is situated in the Wachau, Austria - a UNESCO world  
heritage site - in the Goettweig Monastery and is housed in a fourteenth century  
castle. It is the base of the public documentation platforms www.virtualart.at and  
www.mediaarthistory.org .  
 
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The Department's new low residency postgraduate master's programs in  
MEDIAARTHISTORIES www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories, PHOTOGRAPHY,  
and IMAGE MANAGEMENT are internationally unique. 
 
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> Next Tele Lecture : 
We will be happy to welcome you live or via streaming for  
our Tele Lecture in November.  
Guest will be the media theorist  Lev MANOVICH.  
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The Department for Image Science Team 
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis  

Dear Sir or Madam,

The german museum ZKM | Center for Art and Media is searching for a
possibility to contact Mr. Alan Mark France, born 1943, who worked in the
late 1960s in London and produced some remarkable works of computer
generated art. We would be happy to get into contact with this person in
order to obtain more information on his work as well as to ask him for his
agreement to republish in a book on early computer art some of the artworks
he had handed in for the exhibition "Tendencije 4 - Computer and Visual
Research" in Zagreb. I Heard that Mr. France is related to your insitution
and we would be very thankful if you could provide an address, where we can
contact Mr. France or forward our message to him. Any other informations
about his contemporary residence would also be very helpful.


With kindest regards, Adam Rafinski


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ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Adam Rafinski
Lorenzstr. 19
D-76135 Karlsruhe
fon: +49 721 8100 1936
fax: +49 721 8100 1139
email: rafinski@zkm.de
www.zkm.de

TO; CACHE Network
From: Roger Malina

Call for help documenting 1982,83 SIGGRAPH art shows

As part of the Leonardo collaboration with SIGGRAPH this year,
we are pleased to bring to your
attention the 25th anniversary of the first juried art show at SIGGRAPH
in 1982. ( there were several art shows at siggraph before then, but non
juried)

Copper Giloth, chair of the 82 artshow, has been working with a team
of students from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
and Amherst Regional High School to compile documentation on
a web site at

http://people.umass.edu/sig82art

Also they are beginning to document the 1983 art show , the chair
was: giloth@oit.umass.edu

They are trying to contact some of the artists and othere involved.
If you have information on any of these people please contact
Copper Giloth

Yes, I am looking for pictures of the exhibition, contacts for
artists, corrections to the information on the site.  There are still
a few people I just can't get contact info.

They are:
Assante, Michael
Balabuck, Richard
Faught, Robert
Frankel, Richard
Hedelman, Harold
Hockenhull, James
Johnson, Tony
Nakamae, Eihachiro
Winkler, Dean

Looking Back 25 Years: Siggraph'82 Art Show

25 years ago, ACM Siggraph sponsored its first juried public
exhibition of experimental two-dimensional, three-dimensional,
interactive and time-based works by artists and scientists
experimenting with computer graphics technologies. Prior to the 1982
Art Show several informal art shows had taken place in the late 1970's
and in 1981 Darcy Gerbarg curated the 1981 Siggraph Art Show.  The
popularity of the previous shows convinced the Siggraph organization
to fund the 1982 open competition.


As chair of the Siggraph'82 Art Show, Copper Giloth had been the
keeper of the documents slides and videotapes from this exhibition. In
the fall of 2007, five senior art students in her Information Design
course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Zinj Guo, Dana
Ramponi, Jen Zolga, Lindsay Weber, and Vesna Vrankovic, reviewed these
materials. The students' task was to inventory and organize these
primary resource materials and devise a strategy for making them
available to the community. The slide set, exhibition catalog and
artist interviews were their only resources as they began collecting
images of all the artwork in the show.  They created an artist
database to track materials on hand and what was missing, and then
used online resources and direct contact with artists to acquire
additional images and documents related to the exhibition. Using this
data, they designed and constructed a Web site documenting the
exhibition.

Amherst Regional High School seniors, Beryl Gilothwest and Lexi
Abrams-Bourke, are finalizing and correcting the data on the site.

http://people.umass.edu/sig82art

All of the students working on this project are between 21 and 23 in
age; they were not even born at the time of this exhibition. Most of
them didn't know the term "frame buffer". Their generation has grown
up with small compact computers, sophisticated graphics software as
well as accessible and cheap printing. They are accustomed to seeing
high-resolution synthetic images in movies and videogames. Most of
them collect images with a digital camera or the camera in their cell
phones.  In the 25 years since this exhibition both the vocabulary for
describing the technology and the tools used to make most of the works
from the show have changed dramatically. Thus the very process of
making the site confirmed the need to document the history of computer
art.

In the end, the purpose of the Web site is to make an accurate
representation of the show available to the community through the
inclusion of images of all works in the exhibition including, plotter
drawings, serigraphs, books, sculptures, murals, videos, drawings,
Ektachrome, Cibachrome and Polaroid prints and frame buffer display.
The Web site also includes the exhibition catalog, documentation of
the interactive installations, excerpts of interviews with 20 artists
from the show, articles about the exhibition, artists' statements and
other original documents.

Here is a list of the interviews available so far:
1. Rick Balabuck and Michael Collery
2. Colette and Charles (Jeff) Bangert
3. Muriel Cooper and Ron McNeil
4. Tom Dewitt Ditto, Vibeke Sorenson, and Dean Winkler
5. Frank Dietrich and Zsuzsanna Molnar
6. Tom Eatherton
7. Tom Eatherton and Terill Moore
8. David Em
9. Bill Etra
10. Rob Fisher interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen
11. Darcy Gerbarg
12. David Geshwind interviewed by John Mabey
13. JoAnne Gillerman
14. Cynthia Goodman
15. Howard Gutstadt and Bill Etra
16. James Hockenhull
17. Harry Holland interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen
18. Kris Holmes
19. Margot Lovejoy interviewed by Cynthia Goodman
20. Robert Mallary interviewed by Cynthia Goodman
21. Marvin Minsky interviewed by Louise (Etra) Ledeen
22. David Morris
23. Phil Morton
24. Francis Olschafskie
25. Ed Post
26. Ron Resch
27. Joan Truckenbrod
28. Stan Van Der Beek
29. Jane Veeder

Copper Frances Giloth
Director of Academic Computing
Office of Information Technologies
Associate Professor of Art
giloth@oit.umass.edu


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Paul Brown - based in the UK March-July 2007
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
Skype paul-g-brown
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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re:place 2007

The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art,
Science and Technology

Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Date: 15-18 November 2007

Information: http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace 


An interdisciplinary forum of over 70 researchers 
and artists from all over the world, re:place 
2007 presents multiple historical relations 
between art, science and technology. The title 
're:place' refers to the sites and the migration 
of artistic and knowledge production. This theme 
is highlighted during the panel discussions and 
poster sessions, particularly in the 'Place 
Studies' stream which looks at specific 
historical instances and settings. Special 
attention will be given to alternatives to the 
'Western' historical paradigms through 
presentations about art-science relations in the 
former Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America. 
The conference includes general forum discussions 
on interdisciplinary research strategies, as well 
as keynote lectures by Lorraine Daston and 
Siegfried Zielinski.

replace 2007 is a project of Kulturprojekte 
Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen 
der Welt, Berlin. Funded by 
Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin. Conference 
partners include Leonardo, Database of Virtual 
Art at Danube University Krems' Center for Image 
Science, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute 
Media.Art.Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum für 
Kulturtechnik at Humboldt Universität Berlin, 
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and others. 
Supported by Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin - 
CzechPoint and Schwedische Botschaft Berlin.

Conference chairs: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/USA)

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Conference ticket (3 days): EUR 50 (full) / EUR 20 (concessions)
Day ticket: EUR 25 (full) / EUR 10 (concessions)

Contact and information: 
replace@mikro.in-berlin.de, 
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace 


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PRAGUE / art - science - media - theory / BERLIN
8-18 NOVEMBER 2007

Three major conference events on art, science and 
media theory will take place in Prague and Berlin 
this November. Visit the MutaMorphosis conference 
(8-11 Nov.) and bring yourself up to date with 
contemporary art in extreme envirnments at the 
border between art and science. Take part in a 
Prague symposium about the exceptional media 
theorist, Vilem Flusser (12-13 Nov.). And then 
make the short journey to Berlin, where the 
re:place 2007 conference (15-18 Nov.) will 
feature outstanding interdisciplinary research 
and debates about the histories of media, art, 
science, and technology.

http://mutamorphosis.org / 
http://www.goethe.de/prag / 
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace 

Flyer download (1.9 MB) for this series at: 
http://mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/07/18/PRAGUEBERLINNOVEMBER2007.pdf 


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Programme re:place 2007

check http://tamtam.mi2.hr/replace for updates



*** 13 / 14 / 15 November, pre-conference 
workshops and events (to be announced)


****** Thursday 15 November **********************************

*** Opening Session
15 November, Thursday, 14.00-15.00, Auditorium

Welcome by Andreas Broeckmann (DE), Gunalan 
Nadarajan (SG/US), Bernd Scherer/HKW (DE)

Introductory talk by Oliver Grau (DE/AT): 
MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital 
Humanities


*** Panel 1: Place Studies: Art/Science/Engineering
15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Auditorium

Michael Century (CA/US), Encoding motion in the early computer:
knowledge transfers between studio and laboratory

Stephen Jones (AU): The Confluence of Computing and Fine Arts at the
University of Sydney, 1968-1975

Eva Moraga (ES): The Computation Center at Madrid University,
1966-1973: An example of true interaction between art, science and
technology

Robin Oppenheimer (US/CA): Network Forums and Trading Zones: How Two
Experimental, Collaborative Art and Engineering Subcultures Spawned
the "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" and E.A.T.


*** Panel 2: Intersections of Media and Biology
15 November, Thursday, 15.00-17.30, Theatersaal

Assimina Kaniari (GR/UK), Morphogenesis in Action: D'Arcy Thompson
and the experimental in Leonardo from LL Whyte to now

Jussi Parikka (FI): Insect Media of the Nineteenth Century

Michele Barker (AU): From Life to Cognition: investigating the role
of biology and neurology in new media arts practice

Boo Chapple (AU): Sound, Matter, Flesh: A history of crosstalk from
medicine to contemporary art and biology


*** Keynote 1/Helmholtz Lecture (speaker t.b.c.)
15 November, Thursday, 18.30 at Helmholtz-Zentrum, Humboldt University


*** Special Lecture Presentation
Timothy Druckrey (US): Cinemedia - Visions of Computation in Cinema
15 November, Thursday, 21.00 at TESLA Media>Art