DASH Archives - July 2011
the book is out: Art++ / the text: Notions of the Program in 1960s Art =?windows-1252?Q?=96_?=Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:04:55 +1000
.Notions of the Program in 1960s Art – Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art by Darko Fritz fritz.d@chello.nl The book Art++, edited by David-Olivier Lartigaud presents text by Darko Fritz "La notion de « programme » dans l’art des années 1960 – art concret, art par ordinateur et art conceptuel". Paper was presented at the conference Art-oriented programming 2 (Programmation orientée-art 2) at the Amphithéâtre Richelieu of the Sorbonne, Paris, 20th October 2007. > pdf from the book [French] http://darkofritz.net/text/darko_fritz_ART++.pdf > pdf [English, txt only] http://darkofritz.net/text/Fritz_Notions_of_the_Program_in_1960s_Art.pdf _____________________________________ ART++ OR PROGRAMMING ORIENTED ART Editions HYX (Architecture-Art contemporain-Cultures numériques), Orléans editor: David-Olivier Lartigaud contributors : Inke Arns, Samuel Bianchini, Andreas Broeckmann, Christophe Bruno, Wendy Chun, Geoff Cox, Florian Cramer, Anne-Marie Duguet, Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Darko Fritz, Matthew Fuller, Alexander Galloway, Olga Goriunova, Graham Harwood, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Anne Laforet, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Geert Lovink, Nathalie Magnan, Alex McLean, Karen O’Rourke, Miller Puckette, Gilles Rouffineau, Antoine Schmitt, Nicolas Thély, Sylvie Tissot, Jo Walsh, Adrian Ward French edition only 456 pages four-colour ISBN : 978-2-910385-51-4 Since the late 1990s, a “back to programming” movement in the production of digital artworks has been gaining momentum. Although the artist is no longer obliged to also be a programmer to be able to utilize computers, as was the case in the “pioneering days” of computer generated art in the 1960s and ’70s, writing one’s own code is becoming a contemporary way to assert a certain intellectual and creative independence... By gathering a selection of texts, original and/or hitherto unpublished in French, this book placed under the direction of David-Olivier Lartigaud, seeks to analyze and to understand this new approach to the question of computer /art through a unique look at contemporary thinking in this domain. Art ++ is the first title of Script, the collection dedicated to digital culture published by Éditions HYX. The development of digital technologies is determining new artistic and cultural challenges. ART++ aims to analyze and understand the rise of programming culture in our world, one composed of algorithms, data, statistics and networks. This debut title of the collection Script, directed by David-Olivier Lartigaud, presents a selection of original texts and texts hitherto unpublished in French by some thirty authors. Software Art Software Art involves a heterogeneous group of practices associating reappropriation of interfaces, development of experimental software applications, generation of bugs and viruses as well as search engines and social networks. All the production in this domain is symptomatic of a transformation of the relationship between art and the computer. Although it is no longer necessary for the artist to a programmer to be able to utilize these machines, as was the case in the time of the “pioneers”, writing code is becoming a contemporary way of affirming one’s intellectual and creative independence. The interviews and texts on theory comprising this book seek to decode this “return to programming” increasingly manifested in the production of artworks. A mutation of cultural practices The challenge of these creations is not just restricted to the technical horizon technique; it also consists of exposing the wellsprings of our globalized and controlled society. An exponentially increasing number of applets made available for downloading, copying and for linking to networks has opened a new area of analysis and reflection for art. Although linked to computer programming by their essence, the projects dealt with in this book demonstrate total freedom in terms of forms and pose the question of what “artworks” are. These texts, between aesthetics, criticism and politics enable the reader to analyze the issues and theories linked to the digital revolution and to understand contemporary thinking in this field. Art ++, Collection Script The first book of the new collection from Éditions HYX dedicated to digital cultures, Art++ was developed under the direction of David‐Olivier Lartigaud. Discovering the challenges related to digital culture, pondering the convergences and mutations underway, understanding the dissolution of the barriers between the sciences and techniques, sharing the controversies and debates on future trends; these aims are the guidelines of the Script collection. > about / purchase: http://www.editions-hyx.com/site/web/uk/library/horscollection/horscollection21.html > contents: http://www.editions-hyx.com/site/media/download/extrait/artplus-sommaire.pdf ==== 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 ====
ACM SIGGRAPH Announces Winner of 2011 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:18:03 +1000
Forwarded from ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community: http://siggrapharts.ning.com/ A message to all members of ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community ACM SIGGRAPH Announces Winner of 2011 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art ACM SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques will present its Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art to Charles Csuri for his visionary and creative merging of art and technology. Through his work, Csuri inspired generations to embrace computer imaging as a serious form of artistic investigation. An artist, computer graphics pioneer and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, Csuri will receive the award at SIGGRAPH 2011in Vancouver, BC, August 8. ACM SIGGRAPH Art Award Chair Cynthia Beth Rubin said Csuri is a true visionary. Decades ago he embraced the aesthetic potential of early computer imaging, and since then he has unfailingly worked in both teaching and aesthetic production, keeping us growing, discussing, and moving forward. Csuri was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio States Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), a leading center on the use and integration of emerging arts technologies, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Chuck Csuris early and unique vision of an interdisciplinary collaborative, creative research center between the arts and sciences continues to permeate our culture, said Maria Palazzi, director of ACCAD. All of us who have had the privilege to study and work in this environment are profoundly grateful to Chuck for his vision, persistence and leadership in this field and at Ohio State. He has impacted the lives of generations of students who are now top professionals in graphics and animation throughout the world. Csuri began his work in intertwining of art and computer science in the 1960s. He experimented with computer animation, winning awards and acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. As a painter, Csuri was immersed in the passionate discussions of his time, when abstract expressionists challenged everything from the purpose of art to the functions of abstract compositional elements. Through his personal network of colleagues, he was also aware of parallel discourses among scientists who debated the role of computers in society. His profound understanding of these two cultures put him in a unique position to merge aesthetics and computing, long before either group recognized the potential synergies. With support from NSF, the US Navy and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Csuri directed research on computer graphics for over 22 years. The results of these studies have been applied to flight simulators, computer-aided design, architecture, magnetic resonance imaging, visualization of scientific phenomena and special effects for TV and film. Csuris work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the ZKM Center for Art and Media, and other important collections. He received B.F.A. and M.A. degrees from Ohio State. Visit ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community at: http://siggrapharts.ning.com/ ==== 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 ====
Zdenek Sykora, Known for Computer Geometrical Paintings, Dies
From: Paul Brown <paul@PAUL-BROWN.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:43:58 +1000
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49076 PRAGUE (AP).- Czech painter Zdenek Sykora, who was one of the first to use computers for his geometrical paintings, has died aged 91. Sykora's aide Veronika Hudeckova says he died at his home in the town of Louny on Tuesday evening. Born Feb 3, 1920, in Louny, Sykora's style gradually developed from landscape paintings in the late 1940s to geometrical abstract structures. In the 1960s, he became one of the first artists in the world to use computers to help him create geometric abstract paintings. Later on, Sykora turned to a less strict system of line paintings with lines of color moving across large canvasses in random directions. His paintings are owned by galleries around the globe, including the Pompidou Center in Paris. Sykora died on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 aged 91 years. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. ==== 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 ====
The Long Beach Museum of Art explores it's video history
From: Kathy Rae Huffman <kathyraehuffman@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:41:24 -0700
Dear colleagues, This exhibition is the culmination of 2 years of research and investigation into the history of the international video program at the Long Beach Museum of Art, in Southern California, supported by the Getty Foundation. It is one of the reasons for being off the radar for the past couple of years (since ISEA 2009). Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999 will be on view between 7 Oct 2011 12 Feb 2012 at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Im happy to welcome you at the press conference on 29 September 2011, or the opening reception on 6 October 2011. There will be several special events, and an indexed, illustrated publication. Please consult the project website for the specifics. www.lbma.org see: Exchange and Evolution Warmly, Kathy Kathy Rae Huffman Bartningallee 21 Berlin 10557, Germany kathyraehuffman@gmail.com
Rewire 2011: Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:01:23 +0200
Rewire 2011: Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology LIVERPOOL, 28-30 September 2011 Hosted by FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology) at Liverpool John Moores University In partnership with LJMU; AND (Abandon Normal Devices); Crumb at the University of Sunderland; Lancaster University; Site Gallery; University of Sussex; University of the West of Scotland; Universiteit van Amsterdam; and the Database of Virtual Art at the Department for Image Science, Danube University The Media Art History Board and Rewire Co-chairs would like to invite you to attend the latest international media art history conference, following Banff 2005; Berlin 2007; and Melbourne 2009. Rewire will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will illuminate the global phenomena of media art. by discussing new paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances, book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across Liverpool. Chair: Mike STUBBS, Director at FACT Co-chairs: Paul BROWN, Sarah COOK; Juan CRUZ, Charlie GERE, Andy MIAH, Ed SHANKEN, Laura SILLARS Keynotes: ● Professor Andrew PICKERING of Exeter University, an internationally-known figure in Science and Technology Studies and author of The Mangle of Practice (Chicago University Press, 1995), and The Cybernetic Brain (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ● Professor Tanya HARROD, leading historian of the history of craft and author of The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 1999) ● Steve KURTZ and Shady EL NOSHOKATY. Kurtz is a founding member of the pioneering media art collective Critical Art Ensemble. El Noshokaty is an artist and academic. Speakers: Trish ADAMS, Alessandro ALFIERI, Jamie ALLEN, Patrick ALLEN, Pau ALSINA, Rosanne ALTSTATT, Perry BARD, Clarisse BARDIOT, Dorothy BARENSCOTT, Penelope BOYER, Victoria BRADBURY, Jo BRIGGS, Christoph BRUNNER. Patricia BUENO-DELGADO, Andrew BURRELL, Glòria Munilla CABRILLANA, Jackie CALDERWOOD, Vito CAMPANELLI, Natalia CANTÓ, Jon CATES, Karen CHAM, Paolo CIRIO, Kathy CLELAND, Leon CMIELEWSKI, Felicity COLMAN, Leonie COOPER, Sean CUBITT, Nina CZEGLEDY, Adson DA ROCHA, Michael DARROCH, Hamda DARWISH, Katie DAY GOOD, Annet DEKKER, Emile DEVEREAUX, Sara DIAMOND, Michael DIETER, Zara DINNEN, Diana DOMINGUES, Denise DOYLE, Vince DZIEKAN, Ernest EDMONDS, Francesca FRANCO, Darko FRITZ, Charlotte FROST, Gabriela GALATI, Antonio Bonome GARCIA, Petra GEMEINBOECK, Paul GIRARD, Michael GODDARD, Meredith GODLEY, Monika GÓRSKA-OLESINSKA, Susan GRABOWSKI, Beryl GRAHAM, Simone GRISTWOOD, Charlie GULLSTROM, Markus HAFNER, Simon HAGEMANN, Orit HALPERN, Ben HALSALL, Graham HARWOOD, Thomas HENSEL, Inge HINTERWALDNER, Nadav HOCHMAN, Vanina HOFMAN, Lissa HOLLOWAY-ATTAWAY, Kristen HUTCHINSON, Sharon IRISH, Robert JACKSON, Janis JEFFERIES, Alice Ming Wai JIM, Nigel JOHNSON, Stephen JONES, Marina Soler JORGE, Aleksandra KAMINSKA, Eva KEKOU, Gail KENNING, Jörn KETELSEN, Ji-hoon KIM, Harald KLINKE, Saskia KORSTEN, Guilherme KUJAWSKI, Machiko KUSAHARA, Katja KWASTEK, Maria LAKKA, Nicholas LAMBERT, Caroline LANGILL, Venus LAU, Stephanie LAUKE, Christophe LECLERCQ, Mike LEGGETT, Jonathan LESSARD, Jacob LILLEMOSE, Ana Gabriela Godinho LIMA, William LOCKETT, Alessandro LUDOVICO, Jung-Yeon MA, Elena MARCEVSKA, Janine MARCHESSAULT, Armin MEDOSCH, Chris MEIGH-ANDREWS, Gabriel MENOTTI, Cristiano MIOSSO, Kasia MOLGA, Rosana MONTEIRO, Josei NAGAYASSU, Frieder NAKE, Rachel O’DWYER, Elaine O’HANRAHAN, Margrét ÓLAFSDÓTTIR, Robin OPPENHEIMER, Karen O’ROURKE, Christian OYARZUN, Camille PALOQUE BERGES, Abraham PAREDES, Jussi PARIKKA, Karen PATTERSON, Christiane PAUL,Robin PECKHAM, Valentina PEÑA, Jeremy PILCHER, Morgan QUAINTANCE, Peter RICHARDSON, Ben ROBERTS, Janice ROBERTSON, Axel ROCH, Rebecca ROUSE, Rie SAITO, Chris SALTER, Rob SAUNDERS, Margaret SCHAVEMAKER, Jens SCHRÖTER, Theresa SCHUBERT MINSKI, Adele SENIOR, Mark SMITH, Morten SØNDERGAARD, Josephine STARRS, Jenny STEELE, Wanda STRAUVEN, David TEH, Daniel TEMKIN, Sarah THOMPSON, Jenny TILLOTSON, Heidi TIKKA, Sarah TODD, John TONKIN, Magdalena TYZLIK-CARVER, Rebecca UCHILL, Tomohiro UESHIBA, Eduardo VALLE, Silvana VASSALLO, Sander VEENHOF, Erandy VERGARA-VERGAS, Natasha VITA-MORE, Lioudmila VOROPAI, Pau WAELDER, Birk WEIBERG, Nina WENHART, Florian WIENCEK, Ewa WÓJTOWICZ,Ian WOJTOWICZ, Suzette WORDEN, Maria X, Andrea ZAPP Special thanks to our International Advisory Committee and the Media Art History Board for their expertise and support Further information can be found at: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/ Details of the schedule and events available at: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=105