From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:54:29 +0200
MEDIA ART HISTORIES Conference 2013 in Riga! After Liverpool this Sept/Oct 2011, Melbourne 2009, Berlin 2007 and Banff 2005, the Media Art Histories board has decided to grant the next conference to RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Latvia. The successful host was chosen from a variety of applications from different continents answering the international call for proposals and the board is pleased that the 5th conference will take place in the heart of the Baltic region. MAH Board: Sean CUBITT, Oliver GRAU, Linda HENDERSON, Erkki HUHTAMO, Machiko KUSAHARA, Doug KAHN, Martin KEMP, Tim LENOIR, Gunalan NADARAJAN and Paul THOMAS Renew 2013 will address current tendencies in sustainability quests from various perspectives. As media art is based on increasingly aging technology and is dependent on energy (electricity) the conference will discuss how sustainability approach can be applied to the issues of producing, preserving and representing the media artworks * how to renew them. By focusing on practices and histories of networked media arts, Renew will cover abroad range of topics to include early communication arts (mail, fax, radio,satellite, etc.), net.art and net.radio, open source and network culture, locative media and wireless communities, hybrid networks and electromagnetic art, and at last but not least * artistic investigations of renewable energy, and future visions of art within converged information and energy networks. Original MISSION STATEMENT Media Art Histories Conference Series (2004): Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, this conference series on the Histories of Media Art will discuss for the first time the history of media art within the interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of art. Numerous individuals and institutions collaborate to produce the international art history conference series covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art. written by: Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Annick BUREAUD, Dieter DANIELS, Sara DIAMOND, Diana DOMINGUES, Jean GAGNON, Oliver GRAU, Machiko KUSAHARA, Roger MALINA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Manrai HSU, Ryszard KLUSZCYNSKI, Edward SHANKEN www.mediaarthistories.org
From: Paul Brown <Paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:13:36 +1000
Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change Pioneers of computer art are in danger of becoming the lost generation of our cultural heritage because scientists are unable to preserve their work http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/08/digital-art-hilary-lloyd Regards Keith Watson Kinetica Art Fair Co-ordinator keith@kinetica-museum.org +44 (0) 7802 74 84 84 skype: kw1330 Tel: 0207 3929674 www.kinetica-museum.org
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 17:40:19 +1000
Dear Colleagues, The Fluxus Reader has been out of print for many years now. In the run-up to 2012, I've been getting requests for copies -- I don't have any, and I don't know anyone who does. It's clearly been a desirable book for some time. Owen Smith told me that he was already seeing used copies at $300 a few years back. Today, I did an Amazon search for used copies, and I found prices running from $449 up to $2,500! (The expensive copy seems to have a drawing in it, but even the "cheap" copies cost too much.) For a while, now I've wanted to make a free digital edition available, but the small typeface has made it difficult to get a clean copy. Rebecca Parker, manager of the Research Bank here at the Swinburne University library has gone to an expert outside service to prepare, digitize, and proof The Fluxus Reader. The digital copy is now available for download at: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234 Download times are swift over the next, but the complete book runs 36MB. To make it easy for those who only wish one chapter, Ms. Parker has also prepared a single PDF for each chapter for use as stand-alone texts. To preserve the coherence and continuity of the book, Rebecca set each chapter up with the front matter for the entire book. The book is an open access edition, configured for full search and accessible for copy and paste for scholars or students who wish to quote from the book. All details and pages are identical with the print edition. The PDF files are set to print out on a full-page format for easy reading. In my contract with the publisher, I kept the copyright of the book as editor. In making the digital edition of the Fluxus Reader available, I do so granting full permission for use in any format or medium. Please feel free to share this information, to distribute the URL, or to copy the book. Any library that wishes to add the Fluxus Reader to its digital resources collection is free to do so. Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life | University of Chicago Press | http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226033594 ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ February to September 2011 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
From: marc garrett <marc.garrett@FURTHERFIELD.ORG>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:39:45 +0100
Internet Interventions: Imperica magazine interviews Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield. Networks are disrupting our society. They offer new opportunities, while bringing age-old issues into sharper focus. If networks offer us a chance to engage and connect with others in order to crystallise thinking, the devices that provide a connection to them can be ecologically unpleasant. According to Ruth Catlow, we are nowhere near a harmonious resolution to these problems – even though we can almost feel them within our grasp. Catlow is the co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield, a digital community of co-creators that are interested in the intersection between art and technology, complimented by the Furtherfield Gallery in north London, a space dedicated to the exhibition and performance of work. Underpinning the organisation is a creative approach which is inspired by the metaphors and material media of networks within art. http://www.imperica.com/features/ruth-catlow-internet-interventions/ Furtherfield continues to offer new angles on received and perceived thinking. As arts funding starts to put digital creativity at risk, Catlow is adamant that, as digital media becomes more sophisticated and more connected, this is a space that should build, not shrink. "What gets missed out is how much value there is in a much more networked, lateral, thinking approach that isn't just about markets, but is pumping value into the communities that are engaged with it - that doesn't fit into the existing model of metrics. The value of this approach is missed." Ruth Catlow is co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield. Re-rooting Digital Culture takes place on Friday 13 May at the University of Westminster. Chair: John Hartley Speakers: - Michel Bauwens - On how Peer to Peer thought and technology point towards alternative production methods and a sustainable future. Catherine Bottrill - On working with producers and consumers to consider the environmental long-tail of digital culture. Ruth Catlow - On ecological approaches to tools, networks and behaviours in a digital art community. http://www.furtherfield.org/event/re-rooting-digital-culture-media-art-ecologies
From: Sarah Forrest <sarah.forrest@FACT.CO.UK>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:17:10 +0100
Rewire Conference 2011 28 - 30 September, Liverpool The fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Rewire, is hosted by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and Liverpool John Moores University. Drawing upon parallel perspectives of technological and scientific development from arts and cultural theory, the conference will be discursive, with open conversation and debate at its centre. Student groups of four or more students can purchase tickets at the bargain concession rate of £50.00 per head. Early Booking is advised as discounted tickets are limited. www.rewireconference2011.org Sarah Forrest Press and Marketing Assistant FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) 88 Wood Street Liverpool, L1 4DQ t: + 44 (0)151 707 4418 f: + 44 (0)151 707 4445 http://www.fact.co.uk Admin: +44 (0)151 707 4444 Bookings: +44 (0)871 704 2063 Information: +44 (0)151 707 4464 ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge Lives Everywhere Until 12 June 2011 Here at FACT, we believe that galleries are not just about objects; they are about the people that use them. Knowledge Lives Everywhere is an exhibition celebrating and showcasing the work of FACT's community, schools and young people's programmes. ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:17:54 +1000
I'm sorry to spam the list but I am trying to contact the late Billy Kluver's partner - Julie Martin. This is in regard to a new history which will include a section about Experiments In Art and Technology - EAT. If anyone has a contact I will be grateful if you could send it to me - or, if you prefer - send her my details and ask her to contact me. Please pass this on to people who may know. Thank you Paul Brown ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ February to August 2011 mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====