Hello from the Mapping Festival!

This message is to inform you about some changes being made to the fourth edition of the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Switzerland.

The date of the festival will take place from the 10th through the 20th of April, 2008.

THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY CONTINUES ITS 4th PRESENTING SEASON
5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NYC 11101
7 train to Vernon/Jackson (1st stop in Queens -
5 minutes from Grand Central!)

Linda Post / LEVEL
On view November 29 - December 22, 2007
Opening Reception - Saturday December 1, 5-7pm

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I'm currently putting together a course in ethical considerations for new media artists. I'm interested in gathering resourses for this course. If you are interested in contributing topics, art work and/or text either authored by yourself or links to the work of others please contact me at mcooley@gmu.edu.

Paula Scher to open OFFF New York

Call for Expressions of Interest
Deadline: 12th October 2007

Combining the collaborative impulse in contemporary art with
user-centric trends in new media, Stranger of the Month draws upon the
wisdom of the crowd.

Taking the stranger as its subject, artists conduct a viral marketing
campaign throughout media platforms to engage and produce a community of

RECOGNISE
Friday 22 June - Friday 7 September 2007

RECOGNISE is taking place in a spectacular setting of an old warehouse in London's Finsbury Park from June to September 2007. The latest productions of more than 40 international artists will be shown for the first time in London. The exhibition will additionally include screenings, talks, panel discussions, performances, and interventions selected from an astounding range of artworks, which are a survey of a vast and diverse array of international artists addressing the Middle East.

Press Release
2nd Share Award 2008 Digital Art Award

Competition entries from 15th June to 30th September 2007 on the site www.toshare.it

Share Award is coming back: an international contest for works of digital art.

The competition aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts and is open to all Italian and international artists.
The main requisite for participating in the competition is to create a work in which digital technology is applied as a language of creative expression. There is no limitation to shape or format, also in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material (e.g. computer animation/visual effects, digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema, audiovisual performance, etc.).

I4
Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion

International Research Conference
J W Goethe University
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology

Organized by:

Research Network for Media Anthropology / FAME Frankfurt
October 24–26, 2007

 
Even before the emergence of social software, web logs and wikis, it was clear that digital communication technologies are, in essence, complex social software programs with the power to change people’s perception, the way people experience their environment, their ability to abstract, their rules of trust, and much more besides. Whereas the 1980s and 1990s were marked by “quasi-social” connections between people that occurred en passant, by strategies of urban artistic “repurposing” (Digital Amsterdam), by a conspiracy of Internet-using consumers, and by a user-based cyber society, the situation has now changed fundamentally.