THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

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*July 6 7 8 - 2006*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers
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with VUK COSIC, PAUL D. MILLER / DJ SPOOKY, MOLLEINDUSTRIA, IRWIN / NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST, VINCENZO SPARAGNA, OSCAR BRAHIM, CHICKS ON SPEED
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program: http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers/06/en
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Is the new video 'film,' video or film?
Tom Sherman

Video art has been pushed around and roughed up by a technological revolution throughout its forty-year history. Analog video, rolling through several formats of technological evolution, has been completely replaced by digital video.

Filmmakers, in the meantime, have lost their photochemical medium. Production in 16mm or 35mm film has become cost prohibitive beyond film's perceived advantages over video. Those who still shoot in photochemical film end up editing in and outputting in video. And film projection is a dying art.

SpacePlace: Art in the Age of Orbitization
An Art Satellite.
A work in progress.

A project of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2006

presented at the ZKMax, Munich, from 07 June to 31 December 2006

SpacePlace [web] :: http://www.orbit.zkm.de
SpacePlace [mobile] :: http://mobile.orbit.zkm.de
SpacePlace [Bluetooth dual-screen public access] :: ZKMax, Munich, 07 June - 31 Dec. 2006
[Underpass Maximilianstrasse/ Altstadtring passage; accessible 24 hrs]

Press release: http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/292

A discussion on the CRUMB New Media Curating list about this project: "web-'curating' in the age of consumer generated content"

Every once in a while the mailing list "nettime" takes a look at itself and many don't like what they see. This time the cause was a meeting of list members in Montreal called the Nettime North America Gathering.

The thread starts here:
report_on_NNA tobias c. van Veen

Vieille Femme aux Tatouages 2002

Gilles Barbier
Carré d'Art -Museé d'Art Contemporain
Place de la Maison Carrée in Nîmes, France
May 31st to September 17th, 2006
http://musees.nimes.fr/carreart/ac-carre.htm

By Joseph Nechvatal
http://www.nechvatal.net

Gilles Barbier’s remarkably ambitious exhibition at the Carré d'Art Museé d'Art Contemporain in Nîmes (Southern France) plays pithily with many current intellectual strands which interest me: net culture, artificial intelligence, image profusion, micro-organisms and science fiction (among others). But what struck me as most exact to its weird visual propositions was its deep reflection (one might even say brooding) on the theme of ignobility, and this grubbily shifted something in my head.

Added on June 03, 2006, 07:07 AM
by subcommendantepirate (1 videos)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1bGxxrwhC38&search=pirate%20bay

Swedish police raiding the ISP that hosted Bit torrent-tracker The
Pirate Bay. (http://thepiratebay.org)

Tags:
bust raid pirate bay bit torrent

A new political party focused on decriminalizing so-called Internet piracy and making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general elections, the head of the party said on Tuesday.

"We will participate in the general elections in the autumn," head of the new "Pirate Party" Rickard Falkvinge told AFP.

Read more:
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2791&date=20060103

Whitney Biennial 06: An Afterword

Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz

The articles have been written and the doors of the Whitney Biennial are now closed.

It is an historical truism in cultural production that after World War II, but especially after the freedom struggles of the late 1950s and 1960s, to think of art along traditionalist lines as devoted to beauty (or even only to itself) became suspect. More pressing were questions of authority and interest, of exclusion and inclusion, and critical art practices took on such post-Duchampian topics as "Who conditions the context in which artworks are situated and by which they are certified?" Aesthetics for many became a productive problematic for art rather than a field delimited by notions of "the beautiful" as its proper expression; no longer attached to the ineffables of the beautiful or the sublime, a new aesthetics was, rather, addressed to the play of cognition and sociality. And this has been the case in advanced practices of the last 50 years.

The challenges of curating net art - an international web conference

Friday, May 26, 3:30 - 5 PM EST.

This web conference is presented within the framework of the local
Upgrade!-meeting in Sofia and is hosted by the Mobile Studios project http://www.mobile-studios.org and Eyebeam http://www.eyebeam.org in New York. A panel of international artists and curators is meeting up virtually to discuss various aspects of the mediation, curation and funding of net art.

On Everything
an art project by Pall Thayer
2006

"On Everything" generates a real-time audio/visual presentation of
everything by appropriating material being shared by the worldwide
public in the form of shared images and diaries. The source material
is endless, thus the work goes on forever. Material is synthesized,
mixed and, ultimately, abstracted, to allow for varied

Noritoshi Hirakawa

THING EDITIONS OPEN HOUSE
MAY 13 - MAY 20, 2006
RECEPTION: MAY 13, 2006, 4 PM - 7 PM
125 MAIDEN LANE, 10TH FLOOR (bring photo ID)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038

Works by:
Jan Baracz, Christoph Draeger, Peter Fend, Rainer Ganahl,
Amy Granat & Olivier Mosset, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Simone Huelser,
Joerg Lohse, Daniel Pflumm, Wolfgang Staehle, Caspar Stracke, Beat Streuli.

More info at http://editions.thing.net

For more information or to make an appointment contact editions (at) thing.net or call Gisela Ehrenfried at 917 362 1844.

Swing Space at 125 Maiden Lane provided by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Thank you!