From Dresden to Coventry in real-time



The Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. is pleased to

announce that on Friday, May 26, 8.30 pm (German time) we

will start the linkage phase of the media art

project \"Virtual squares of World Culture\". After months of

testing and preparation, this is our contribution for

Dresden\'s 800th anniversary. In Dresden, the \"Interactive Pavilion\"

has become an inherent part of the Pleasure Garden next to

the Old Marketplace in the city centre. Now, it will be

linked with a similar interactive installation in Dresden\'s

sister city Coventry. Thus, a unique virtual audio-visual

environment is created. Here, citizens and visitors of both

cities can communicate, play, and dance with each other.



The technological and artistic preconditions for this

telematic project were created by Frieder Weiß (Nürnberg/Berlin)

and by the Dresden-based media artists DS-X.org and

Holger G. Herrmann. For this stage of the project, the TMA

cooperates with Coventry University, School of Art and

Design. Both partners aim at a long-term linkage of the two cities within this transnational platform of interaction.

In the course of this year, more sister cities will be

included in the network. Klaus Nicolai, director of TMA and

initiator of the \"Virtual Squares\", sees a long-term and

permanent network growing in the future - between different

continents even. This telematic form of art in global

public sphere would not have been possible without the

support of The City of Dresden and T-Systems Multimedia

Solutions Dresden. If you would like to support the

project, too, get in touch.



We are looking forward to seeing you on either side of the

channel on Friday, May 26, 8.30 pm Dresden time!





Opening of the interactive Installation Dresden – Coventry:

Friday, May 26

8.30 pm (Dresden!), Interactive Pavilion, Old Marketplace/Pleasure Garden

7.30 pm (Coventry!), University Square opposite Coventry Cathedral

The installation is available for use:

Friday, May 26: 8.30-11 pm, Sat + Sun, May 27+28, noon-11 pm Dresden time – take one hour off to find out Coventry times.



Project Partners and Sponsors

- City of Dresden – Coordination Office City Anniversary 2006

- City Management Dresden e.V.,

- T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH,

- DREWAG,

Neumann&Müller GmbH Veranstaltungstechnik, Sächsisches Fortbildungs- und Umschulungswerk, Elbe Park Dresden, LionsClub Dresden, Fenster & Türen Service Vetter GmbH, Wegas Werbung, esb mediencollege, m&m-bauprojekt, Architektursommer DD



Veranstalter:

Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. und Coventry University, School of Art and Design

Festspielhaus Hellerau

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56

D-01109 Dresden, GERMANY

Tel. +49-351-889 6665

Fax +49-351-889-6667

Email presse@body-bytes.de

www.t-m-a.de

PR: Susanne Bochmann

PIPS:lab, Luma2solator
Interactive Performance
Sunday, 21 May, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

PiPS:lab is a collective of young Dutch artists specialised in different disciplines. With the computer as a mixer and music, theatre, film, text, photography and a significant dose of humour as ingredients, a PiPS:lab production never fits the expectations. From absurd media theatre to interactive installations, PiPS:lab produces every single element itself: the software, a great deal of the hardware, the music, the stories, the performance and visuals.

Create a piece or place your tag, write or paint with light. The Luma2solator has its own visual language. The technique designed by PiPS:lab enables every user to become the artist. The light tracks will directly become visible on the large screen. After 30 seconds the result gets stored and if the installation is connected to the Internet will be published under a unique number as well. This enables the artist to look up his or her works at home as well.


This event is kindly supported by the Oldenburgische Landschaft with means of the State of Lower Saxony.


Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Katharinenstraße 23, D-26121 Oldenburg
t. +49 (0)441 235 31 94, www.edith-russ-haus.de

What Is A City?

Western Humanities Alliance

25th Annual Conference

October 19-21, 2006

Calgary Institute for the Humanities

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

For over 5000 years, cities have been a primary forum
for meaning-making and place-making. They have been
studied in artifacts, literature, and history,
expressed in texts, visual and performing arts, and
they have been analyzed in their social and physical
settings. Cities have inspired imagination, signified
aspirations, and they have demonstrated human
limitations.



The world is rapidly moving to a new context
characterized by profound influences of cities.
Indeed, for the first time in history, over half of
the world lives in urban centers. No country is
preventing urban migration and it is likely that
populations will continue to grow in scale and
complexity.



The Urban Age – a cooperative initiative by the London
School of Economics dealing with the future of cities
– notes that after decades of neglect, cities in the
21st century are at the center of economic growth, and
are focal points of social, political and cultural
innovation. The city is now viewed as an
agglomeration of opportunities, a promising milieu,
and as a resource rather than a liability.



To know and understand cities – built or imagined – is
to know and understand ourselves.



Proposals are invited for the 25th Annual Conference
of the Western Humanities Alliance on the theme: “What
Is A City?”

In the spirit of the Western Humanities Alliance
mandate to foster disciplinary and interdisciplinary
scholarship – researchers from diverse fields of study
are invited to present papers addressing the question
“what is a city?”



Submissions are welcome from the arts and
humanities, from architecture and urban design, from
sociology, anthropology and geography – from all
disciplinary or interdisciplinary settings able to
engage the question.



Proposal submissions should be sent by June 15, 2006
to:

WHA Conference Committee

Calgary Institute for the Humanities

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta

T2N 1N4, Canada

cih@ucalgary.ca

www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH



Proposals should be submitted electronically, be no
more that 500 words in length, and also include a
short biography of each author or participant.

Proposals for individual papers or for complete
sessions are encouraged. Selected papers from the
conference will be published in a special journal
issue of the Western Humanities Review.

For information on the Western Humanities Alliance: http://wha.ucdavis.edu

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Invitation:

Virtual Residency
+++ a call for a virtual migration to the model house Europe +++

We are looking for artistic concepts for installations which are concerned with
the complex theme of ‚Migration‘, be it direct or indirect and would like to
invite artists of any kind (media artists, painters, sculptors etc. just to name
a few) to participate in the project.

Submission from 1 May 2006 to 15 August 2007.

(The database can be accessed for 15 months.)

Residency, residence, resident – habitation, life, resident in, residence permit…

A state of personal and collective destabilization, chaotic change, emptiness…
creative transit…

... clearly an extensive topic – what will happen before and after a stay or the
issuing of a residence permit? Who (or what) entitles a person to settle down
somewhere else and what motivates people to do so? What inner processes drive
people to change?

The project Virtual Residency calls for an artistic migration and provides
places of residence to the resulting ideas, concepts and images in the World
Wide Web and at real places in the form of exhibitions in Germany, Poland,
France and Luxembourg.

All the artistic concepts, which have been submitted, will be presented at the
four exhibitions. About ten works (at each location) will be realized as media
installations in the different institutions. All necessary material will be paid
for by the Virtual Residency. A comprehensive and multilingual catalogue of each
exhibition will be published.

The following Internet address will provide you with any further information in
English, German, French and Polish. If you would like to participate in the
project please register here:
www.virtual-residency.net


Conditions for entry:

If you would like to participate in the Virtual Residency just click on new
registration and register. Your concept and the corresponding image video or
sound files can be entered into a database. (Menu item NEW REGISTRATION). Please
enter all concepts and other data in English as well.

Information about yourself (how you look like, social environment, biography) is
welcome!

You will be notified immediately, should your concept be chosen by the project
team or the European partner institutions. In order to secure a professional
implementation of your concept, the organizers will be in contact with you to
discuss any technical details regarding the exhibition of your work.
Important:
All concepts, which have been entered into the database since 1 May 2006 and
have not been chosen for an exhibition, may still be selected for one of the
follow up exhibitions!

We are looking forward to your participation!

We would be very grateful if you would forward this invitation to any interested
friends, colleagues, institutions or galleries.

If you need any further information please contact us:

e-mail: info@virtual-residency.net

Timetable:

The Virtual Residency project starts on 1 May 2006 and ends in December 2007.
On 1 May 2006 the first call for the participation in the project will be
announced on the following web site: http://www.virtual-residency.net
The database of the Virtual Residency will remain accessible until 15 August 2007.

Artists who would like to take part in the first exhibition in Poland can enter
their concepts into the database until 6 August 2006.

The first exhibition will open at the Galeria Biala, Centrum Kultury in Lublin,
Poland on 6 October 2006.
The exhibition will run from 7 October to 27 October 2006.


Artists who would like to take part in the second exhibition in Germany can
enter their concepts into the database until 09 December 2006.

The second exhibition will open on 4 March 2007 at the Handwerkergasse -
Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte – Europäisches Zentrum für Kunst und
Industriekultur.
The exhibition will run from 5 March to 1 April 2007

Artists who would like to take part in the third exhibition in France can enter
their concepts into the database until 1 March 2007.
The third exhibition will open at the Galerie Faux Mouvement, Centre d’Art
Contemporain in Metz, France on 26 April 2007.

The exhibition will run from 27 April to 8 June 2007

The closing event will take place within the context of the "European capital of
culture 2007“ project in the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain in
Luxembourg, (Luxembourg) in December 2007. You will get an overview of all the
‘’Model house’’ exhibitions that had been held in the partner countries.


SHORT CONCEPT:

Virtual Residency + + + a call for a virtual migration to the model house Europe
+ + +

The dramatic European transformation processes of the last fifteen years have
been the catalyst for the multimedia and exhibition project the Virtual
Residency of the media artists Monika Bohr, Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert and
Gertrud Riethmüller.

The project group is calling on artists world wide to participate in a virtual
‘’migration’’. The project initiates a creative transit of images, motives and
concepts through the World Wide Web to real exhibition venues in Europe.

The artistic experiment the Virtual Residency uses the examination of the
states of personal and collective destabilization as the actual, powerful engine
of the migration movements. Hope, fear, dreams, necessities, distress and the
wish and the will for change generate individual images. They are examples,
‘’samples’’ or patterns for migration motives. Through the virtual projection
screen of the project, its Internet platform, they receive a direction, they
will be made visible and find a domicile. There, on behalf of their creators,
they become virtual residents.

The project group will then enable a part of the virtual residents to
materialize their ideas and concepts in reality. Based on the ‘’sample
character’’ of the concepts that had been submitted to the Virtual Residency,
the group has developed an approach to realize the ideas as real multimedia
installations in various exhibitions in Europe, so called ‘’model houses’’. One
associates the term ‘’model house’’ with a collective image of the paradise. It
is a pure place, a white place, a vessel, at the same time a ‘’void’’, a ‘’blank
space’’, a place without it’s own character, without personality. Thus, the
‘’model house’’ will be the ideal projection screen for migration motives. Model
houses will be created from October 2006 in Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg.

The Virtual Residency is being supported amongst other sponsors by the
organizers of the Luxembourg and Greater Region European Capital of Culture 2007
project, as well as the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Saarland, the
office of the plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany (Saarland) and
other sponsors and partners. The project executing organization is the HBK Saar
- School of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken.

With the support of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany

http://www.urbanunits.com/index.php?module=News&id=cntnt01&cntnt01action=detail&cntnt01articleid=5&cntnt01returnid=31
Hamburg 13.5.-21.5. 2006
The urban units project shows several installations and photos at

KuBaSta (Raum für Kunst Bauen Stadtentwicklung) | Repsoldstr.45 | Münzviertel | Hamburg | Germany

between 13. and 21. may 2006

opening is saturday 13. may 20h with audiovisual performance of Urban Units' 31101 orchester
not the other dates which might be around.

tuesday-friday
19h-23h
saturday-sunday
16h-23h

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german
urban units sind
* Karsten Drohsel, stadtplanungsstudent und urban artist
* Malte Steiner, medienkünstler und stadtraumbeobachter

„wir wollen nicht erklären, wir wollen sichtbar machen...“
die ausstellung „urban units“ ist in drei teile gegliedert:
abgeschlossene systeme
mit fotoarbeiten von karsten drohsel,
alternierende systeme
mit einer interaktiven installation von malte steiner
konkurrierende systeme
mit einer gemeinsamen arbeit beider künstler, ein interaktives environment.

zur eröffnung am samstag den 13.5. spielt das „31101orchester“, ein elektroakustisches projekt der künstler, ein audiovisuelles konzert.

Termin

* 13. Mai 2006-21. Mai 2006

Veranstalter

urban units,
KuBaSta / ueber normal null
im Rahmen des Hamburger Architektursommers 2006

Veranstaltungsort

galerie kubasta, repsoldstr. 45, hamburg

http://www.urbanunits.com

http://www.artandthecity.nl/

Since 1945, the world’s metropolises have undergone both growth and decline. These developments have brought not only economic and social change, but also cultural transformations that have found their reflection in all artistic media. The physical and mental city has proven a fertile breeding ground for the visual arts, film, graphic design, and the written word. Furthermore, while cities continue to generate and project a unique identity, they have also become globalized commodities in themselves. The products of these interactions and their precise mechanisms are the subjects of this conference. How have artists, filmmakers, designers and writers dealt with the singularity, complexity and diversity of their surroundings? In what ways does the metropolis contribute to their work? How have they absorbed and transformed their various environments? And how do these works alter the city and our perception of it? What role does contemporary “city branding” play and how does a city “remember”?

Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm will bring together around 40 international scholars for a two-day symposium on this important topic, among them Malcom Miles (UK), M. Christine Boyer (US), and Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen (NL).

Art and the City
A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm
11-12 May 2006
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Het Trippenhuis
Kloveniersburgwal 29
1011 JV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Conference fee (includes lunch, coffee/tea, conference program)
€ 40 (two days) / € 20 (1 day) standard conference fee
€ 15 (two days) / € 7.50 (1 day) special student/PhDs. candidate rate

BOOKING FORM

Organizing committee
Jeroen Boomgaard, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Rietveld Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte
Rachel Esner, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Esther Cleven, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Margriet Schavemaker, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Wanda Strauven, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Sponsored by
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Institute of Culture and History
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Rietveld Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte, supported by SKOR and VMZ
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

For more information mail to: icg-fgw@uva.nl

Thursday, 11 May

9.00-9.30

Registration

9.30-9.40

Welcome by organizing committee

9.40-10.30

Keynote lecture
Malcolm Miles
University of Plymouth
Recreating a Public Sphere?

Tea/coffee break

Session 1: City Branding
(Moderator: To be announced)

10.45-11.05

Venda Louise Pollock
University of Glasgow
Cultivating the Past for a Changing Present: Public Art in Urban Regeneration

11.05-11.25

Ward Rennen
Universiteit van Amsterdam Programming the City:
The European Capitals of Culture

11.25-11.45

Michael Wintle
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Brussels: Visualizing the EU

11.45-12.05

Roemer van Toorn
Berlage Instituut, Amsterdam
Towards a Practice of Dissensus. Aesthetics as a Form of Politics

12.05-12.30

Discussion

Session 2: New York into Art
(Moderator: Rachel Esner, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

10.45-11.05

Robert S. Mattison
Lafayette College
Robert Rauschenberg: Urban Diversity and Crisis in New York during the 1950s

11.05-11.25

Joshua A. Shannon
University of Maryland
Donald Judd and the Postmodernization of New York

11.25-11.45

Royce W. Smith
Wichita State University
“What Attracts You to Dark Things?”: Imagining Urban Queerscapes in the Art of David Wojnarowicz

11.45-12.05

Susanne Stemmler
Center for Metropolitan Studies-Berlin
City, Music, Text: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s New York in the 1980s

12.05-12.30

Discussion

Lunch

Session 3: Citygraphy
(Moderator: To be announced)

14.15-14.35

Andri Gerber
ETH Zürich
The City as Poetical Text: Isidore Isou and Lettrism

14.35-14.55

Caroline Igra
University of Haifa
The Individual Revealed: Narrative vs. Descriptive Cityscape in the Twentieth Century

14.55-15.15

Sabine van Wesemael
Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Physical City and its Mental Spaces Since 9/11

15.15-15.35

TBA

15.35-16.00

Discussion

Session 4: (The) Street (and) Art
(Moderator: Jeroen Boomgaard, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Rietveld Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte)

14.15-14.35

Shelley Hornstein
York University-Toronto
Curating Place for Museums-Without-Borders

14.35-14.55

Hannah Feldman
Northwestern University
Art During War: The Street, The City, and the Nation in “La France Déchirée”

14.55-15.15

Hanna Harris
University of Helsinki
Moving Between Streets and Screens: Urban Spaces and the Italian Telestreet

15.15-15.35

Lara Schrijver
Delft
From New Babylon to an Aesthetic Collective

15.35-16.00

Discussion

20.00-22.00

Stedelijk Museum CS-Club 11
A Special Evening with Contemporary Artists

Friday, 12 May

9.00-9.15

Announcements

9.15- 9.45

Keynote lecture
M. Christine Boyer
Princeton University New Orleans
La Ville fatale

9.45- 10.15

Keynote lecture
Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen
Amsterdam
Artistic Blasting

10.15-10.30

Discussion

Session 5: Cinematic Cities
(Moderator: Wanda Strauven, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

10.45-11.05

Mark Shiel
King’s College-London
“Celtic Tiger”: Dublin and its Imaging

11.05-11.25

Floris Paalman
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Cinematic Proliferation of a City: Rotterdam in the 1960s and 1970s

11.25-11.45

Caroline Philipp
Humboldt University
Horizontality/Real-Time vs. Simultaneity of Time and Space: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Filmic Interactions with the City

11.45-12.05

Anna M. Dempsey
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Cinematic Los Angeles: Architectural Landscapes and Dreamscapes of Dystopia

12.05-12.30

Discussion

Session 6: City Graphics
(Moderator: Esther Cleven, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

10.45-11.05

Christoph Ribbat
University of Basel
Glowing Cities: The Cultural History of Neon

11.05-11.25

Sandra Schürmann
Universität Hamburg
New Tastes and Modern Life – Reemtsma’s Cigarette Advertising and Display Windows

11.25-11.45

Miguel Antunes
New School University - New York
Visual Disobedience in New York City

11.45-12.05

Daniel van der Velden
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Logo Parc: Economy, Symbol and Architecture on the Amsterdam Zuidas

12.05-12.30

Discussion

Lunch

Session 7: Urban Memory
(Moderator: Leen Engelen, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

14.15-14.35

Lanfranco Aceti
Univeristy College London
Imaged Cities: War Times and Spaces of Peace

14.35-14.55

Danielle Leenaerts
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Photographic Missions and the Construction of City Identity: The Case of Brussels

14.55-15.15

Carolyn Loeb
Central Michigan University
The City as Subject: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin

15.15-15.35

Richard D. Lloyd
Vanderbilt University
Sitting on the Barstools of Giants: Place Aura and the Contemporary Production of Culture

15.35-16.00

Discussion

16.15-17.00

Closing Discussion
(Moderator: Margriet Schavemaker, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Urban Play

Imagine a world where the city is a digital canvas, the street a gallery, performances happening in a thousand moving places at once. There are art forms out there, struggling into the light, and a new kind of festival.

This is where people take over the city and use the technology that surrounds us for creative, experimental, challenging ends. Some call this media art, others locative media. We call it urban play.

OFF THE MAP Lose yourself in the glitches as you glide over the deserts and canyons of Arizona, collaborate to remix the sounds of your city, get lost in Manchester for the weekend! Includes world premiers and UK-firsts.

INSTRUMENT An exhibition of artist-made instruments, noise generators, image manipulators, head twisters. Featuring sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, Toshio Iwai, Zachery Lieberman, Victor Gama and many others.

SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT AND MORE Explore the creative, political and social potential of new technologies. Conferences and artist talks include the Social Technologies Summit; PLAN conference ft. Masaki Fujihata, Atau Tanaka and more.

GET INVOLVED Be a part of the festival... join international and local artists, get skilled up in workshops, or get your hands dirty in participatory events

www.make-tv.net

Interact live with artists from the UK and Tokyo.
MakeTV and Sideshow have come together to host a series of live broadcasts
on the web.
MakeTV is a live broadcast channel open to both viewers and producers.

Live TODAY
Eye Candy Telly Shop
Gareth Howell and Nicola Sumner Smith
A spoof of tv shopping channels, with Gareth and Nicola trying their best to
sell original art through the screen. Customers will be able to call in and
buy online, or to request goods through the chat interface.
9pm BST Thursday May 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

Car Park "Grande Opening"
Frank Abbott and Visual Arts students from Nottingham Trent University
School of Art and Design
A series of "Car Park" pieces developed over the four Thursdays, connecting
a distant visual performance space (a car park) and a very intimate sound
space (the interior of an office) .
6pm BST Thursday May 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th

... Later in May
This is our translated response: Monologue and Dialogue
Emma Lewis, Leif Gifford, Johnny Scarr, Amanda Young, Yoko Negami, Yuichi
Ota
A team of artists in Nottingham and Tokyo we will begin a dialogue which
consists of two monologues. The casts will consist of one sided
conversations which can only be made full sense of when both casts are
watched. These conversations will consist of speech, text and music and will
involve both English and Japanese languages.
1pm and 1.15pm BST, Thursday May 18th, Thursday May 25th

Endless Landscape

The Endless Landscape webcast “YOU DECIDE” invites you to play along at
home, and shows how to take part in this collective online artwork.
Judge whether an artwork was made by an artist or not, and pick out the
intended meaning. Use live chat and enter your choices to win prizes!
From 2pm BST, Thursday May 25th

Home Clearance
Informed by her new work House Clearance, Jeanie Finlay will be going
through the household stuff in her house, continuing the Ebay clear out she
has been doing. She will time ebay auctions to coincide with the live
broadcast so viewers will have to the opportunity to comment, bid or offer
an exchange live.
Times to be confirmed, Thursday May 25th

for more information go to: www.sideshow-online.org

MakeTV is a new web broadcast channel created by Active Ingredient and
Little Big Head.

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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Kassel Documentary and Video Festival takes place annually since
1982 and is organised by the Filmladen Kassel e.V. The festival
presents contemporary documentary films and videos, the media art
exhibition MONITORING, a Festival Lounge for Live Visuals and the
interfiction symposium. It attracts a regional audience, as well as
producers and professionals of the film and media industry from
Germany, Europe and the rest of the world by screening about 240
international films and videos that are seen by more than 6,000
guests each year.
This year, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will take
place from November 7 to 12, 2006. We invite all filmmakers, media
people, and artists to submit their latest works and projects to the
different sections of the festival program. Deadline for entries is
August 1, 2006.

DOCUMENTARY/FILM/VIDEO/ART
The documentary film traditionally makes up the heart of the
festival. Thus, the festival puts its main emphasis on current films
and videos exploring their subject by documentary means. The festival
is also interested in experimental and artistic works.

MONITORING
The exhibition MONITORING is devoted to contemporary space-oriented
media art. Around 15 media installations and sculptures are selected
among the entries and displayed at Kassel KulturBahnhof during the
festival. The exhibition is organised in cooperation with the
Kasseler Kunstverein and the documenta Archive of the City of Kassel.

AWARDS
Part of the introduced art works of the festival’s program will be
nominated for one of the four awards. The newspaper HNA recognizes an
outstanding production from the region of Northern Hesse with its
"Golden Hercules", worth Euro 2,500. The festival seeks to support
the best documentary submitted by a young director. Therefore, the
City of Kassel sponsors for the first time Euro 5,000 for the "Golden
Key" award. "Ritter Sport" supports the "Golden Cube" (Euro 2,500)
which is awarded to the best installation of the exhibition
MONITORING. Additionally, the festival and the Werkleitz Gesellschaft
present the grant "A38". The three-month artist-in-residence grant,
worth Euro 4,000 and, additionally, Euro 4,000 for allowance in kind,
is supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (East-West Exchange
Program).

INTERFICTION
This year’s interfiction symposium (including lectures, presentations
and a workshop) is dedicated to prosumer culture - DIY-production
within an arena of consumption. Researchers, writers and others
interested in transdisciplinary exchange on the related issue are
invited to join the conference and to discuss their ideas and
projects. For further information and the separate entry form please
visit: www.interfiction.org

LIVE VISUALS
The lounge of the festival presents a program of audio-visual
performances and VJ-art. Concepts for Live Cinema, music and
experiments are welcome.

*******Apologies for cross posting*********************
*******Information auf Deutsch finden Sie unten**********

The Momental
May 5 - June 10 | Opening Friday May 5 | Finissage June 9
Sparwasser HQ | 161 Torstrasse | 10115 Berlin | http://www.sparwasserhq.de
Mi-Fr 16-19, Sa 14-18


Exhibition:
Larissa Fassler, Ivana Franke, Germaine Koh, Stephan Kurr, Jeff Preiss und Åsa Ståhl
Lectures:
Mark Paterson, Christel Weiler + Barbara Gronau, Johan Zetterquist with Judith Manzoni
Workshops:
Stephan Kurr + Jürgen Krusche, Markus Miessen
Curator: Pia Fuchs (dt. ID v. Patricia Reed)
Schedule of Events:
http://aestheticmanagement.com/momental/


"Through all the changes 'something' remains - that something is the momentŠno sociological or historical determination can adequately define this temporalityŠits wish is to reinstate discontinuity, grasping it in the very fabric of the lived." Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life Volume II

The Hybrid as Interface
Popularized historical events are frozen and endure in time for a collective gaze by the Monument. The everyday, on the other hand refuses an enduring expression, residing in a muddled zone of fleeting instants of co-presence. The tension between the everyday and the monument is captured in the hybrid terrain described by The Momental, of standing out only to disappear, all the while making itself felt. The interfacing of this highly subjectivized temporal interval (the moment) and its' occasional perception as a phenomenological, albeit fleeting, 'monument' of sorts, questions the notion of time itself, shifting our mundane experience of mechanical time into a an unmeasurable realm, where duration is malleable.

The diverse collection of works and events operate as experiments in dis-alienation. They seek to instigate responsive situations for their receivers by giving voice to silent codes of common behaviour. From an anonymous delivery of flowers, to the audibility of a stranger - the works dwell in the infra-ordinary, yet subtly twist its numbed course, skewing the habitual beyond habit. As gestures of encounter, the works collectively seek to re-write co-habitative rituals from the inside - the lived. The works deliberately stall the ethics of circulation, preferring rather to delicately obstruct the negligent flow of efficiency, opening up a space where other narratives can find a temporary abode.

The Momental confronts the colonization of everyday routines, through de-rational modes of production, analysis and discourse. Like the indeterminacy of the moment itself, these forms of knowing reside in the interstices between the proverbial map and the territory, between the read and the spoken. This alternative grammar of the everyday percolates through our coherent surroundings, producing novel choreographies of the quotidian - where lived time re-enters the stage and reveals the poetic potentiality of the theatre of the trivial.

The Momental is kindly supported by:
Kulturamt Mitte, Berlin; The US Embassy, Berlin; The Canadian Embassy, Berlin; IASPIS, Sweden; Swedish Embassy, Berlin

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1. 04.05.06 Eröffnung: Terry Gilliam auf der SPOTS Licht- und Medienfassade

In der Ausstellungsreihe "Transition" wird ab heute, den 04.05.06 die Arbeit
"Past People of Potsdamer Platz" vom Regisseur Terry Gilliam (u.A. " Monty
Pythons Flying Circus", "Brazil", "12 Monkeys", "Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas",...) auf der SPOTS Licht- und Medienfassade am Potsdamer Platz
gezeigt. Die Arbeit wird für fünf Wochen bis zum 08.06.06 täglich ab
Dämmerungsbeginn bis in die Morgenstunden zu sehen sein.

SPOTS ist eine Installation von realities:united Architekten, Berlin. Die
Ausstellung "Transition" wurde von Ingken Wagner kuratiert.

04.05. - 08.06.06 Terry Gilliam, "Past People of Potsdamer Platz"
Dämmerung bis in die Morgenstunden
Potsdamer Platz 10, Berlin

Weitere Informationen unter:
http://www.spots-berlin.de/
http://www.realities-united/spots/



2. Kommende Vorträge & Präsentationen von realities:united

08.05.06, The Design Annual: Inside Urban
Vortrag von Tim Edler/ realities:united innerhalb der von Andreas und Ilka
Ruby kuratierten Gesprächsreihe "Urban Moods" (unter anderem mit Toyo Ito
(Tokio), Jean-Philippe Vassal (Paris), Ole Scheeren (OMA Asia), Bjarke
Ingels (BIG Kopenhagen) und Anderen).

Samstag, den 08.05.06, 17:00
Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
http://www.thedesignannual.com/

14.05.06 achtung berlin - media showcase berlin brandenburg
Präsentation von Tim Edler/ realities:united beim Media Showcase Berlin
Brandenburg im Rahmen des Schwerpunktes "Medien im Raum"

Sonntag, den 14.Mai 14:00 - 16.30 Uhr
Hackesche Höfe Filmtheater
Rosenthaler Str. 40/41, Berlin
http://www.achtungberlin.de/media_showcase.216.0.html

17.05.06 HTWK Leipzig, Fakultät für Architektur
Vortrag von Jan Edler/ realities:united in der Positionen-Vortragsreihe an
der HTWK Leipzig

Mittwoch, den 17.05.06, 18:00
HTWK Leipzig im Audimax
http://www.architektur-htwk.info/

19.05.06 Designfusion 06, Fachbereich Gestaltung, FH Trier
Vortrag von Jan Edler/ realities:united

Freitag, den 19.05.06, 19:00
FH Trier
Aula am Paulusplatz, 2
http://www.designfusion-online.de

20.05.06 MOVE 3: "Under the Influence" Conference
The Professional Association for Design,
New York University, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Lecture by Jan Edler/ realities:united

Samstag, den 20.05.06, 10:00am - 06:00pm
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University
556 LaGuardia Place, Washington Square South, New York NY
http://move2006.aigany.org/

...und in Vorschau auf den Juni:

22.06.06 Sheffield Hallam University, Architecture Week: Melt Inspiration
Seminar on Art, Architecture & Technology
Exploring architectural and digital art partnerships - where support for
digital art is built into the fabric of the building, and digital art is
central to the way the building is used. Jan Edler, realities:united and
Chris Speed, IDAT Portsmouth (Arch -OS)

Donnerstag, den 22.06.06, 18:00
Sheffield Hallam University (GB), The Hub
http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/event.asp?eventURN=2541

Below is an announcement of a new book on art and technology,
published this month, and a related talk at the Institute for
Contemporary Arts in London on the 30th May

Art, Time and Technology
By Charlie Gere
Published by Berg in May 2006
Hardback
£50.00
ISBN 1845201345
Paperback
£16.99
ISBN 1845201353

Art, Time and Technology examines the role of art in an age of 'real
time' information systems and instantaneous communication. The
increasing speed of technology and of technological development since
the early nineteenth century has resulted in cultural anxiety.
Humankind now appears to be an ever-smaller component of dauntingly
complex technological systems, operating at speeds beyond human
control or even perception. This perceived change forces us to
rethink our understanding of key concepts such as time, history and
art. Art, Time and Technology explores how the practice of art - in
particular of avant-garde art - keeps our relation to time, history
and even our own humanity open. Examining key moments in the history
of both technology and art from the beginnings of industrialization
to today, Charlie Gere explores both the making and purpose of art,
and how much further it can travel from the human body.
This is the first book that critically situates the technologies of
real-time computing within the broader discourses of visual and media
history. From Jack Burnham to John Cage, Leroi-Gourhan to Marshall
McLuhan, and Les immateriaux to Stanley Kubrick, Gere challenges us
to consider the role of the entire apparatus of communication in the
ongoing construction of art as information processing system.
Barbara Maria Stafford, author of Devices of Wonder: From the World
in a Box to Images on a Screen

About the author

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research at Lancaster University
and is the author of Digital Culture

http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=Art,%20Time%20and%20Technology#

Art at the Edge of Time

Talk and Discussion
Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tue 30 May 2006.
19:00
Nash Room
The average newscast these days is likely to report the outbreak of a
new computer virus or a new technique for growing bodily organs. In
an age when technology seems increasingly to have a mind of its own,
art offers an important check on technology's relentless
proliferation. This dialogue between new media artist-curator Jon
Ippolito and scholar Charlie Gere probes the seismic shift in art's
role during a time of accelerated change.
The participants will draw on research from two books just published
this spring. At the Edge of Art (Thames & Hudson), by Joline Blais
and Jon Ippolito and Art, Time and Technology, by Charlie Gere (Berg
Press). Both books are available from the ICA bookshop with a 10%
discount for ICA members.
Jon Ippolito is Assistant Curator of Digital Arts at the Guggenheim
Museum, New York, and director of The Pool, an online arts group.
Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research at Lancaster University
and is the author of Digital Culture.
Art at the Edge of Time is part of the Man Machine Season
Full Price : £5.
ICA Members : £4.
http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14895
(In lieu of a more formal book launch for Art, Time and Technology
please join me for a drink in the ICA bar after the talk on the 30th)


Charlie Gere
Reader in New Media Research
Director of Research
Institute for Cultural Research
Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594446
E-mail: c.gere@lancaster.ac.uk
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/staff/gere.php

Next September, Dedale will organize the fourth edition of the festival
Emergences (Off Villette Numerique) in Paris.
The rendezvous of new artistic forms and new media Emergences brings together French and international artists in Paris within a resolutely trans-disciplinary and original program.

The program turns around workshops, meetings, shows, perfomances and installations.
Main artistic themes: Mobility, network and ubiquity | The intimate, the unusual and the
strange | The urban and nature | Art in the city

For this edition, we are looking for projects in all disciplines, especially, performances, circus, visual arts, architecture, game art, biotech art, artistic interventions in public spaces, networked performances (in the framework of collaborations with festivals in
France and abroad)...

Projects involving the audience and/or taking into account the venue as a space will also be welcomed.

This year, 7 specific call for proposals have been launched on the following themes: Digital territories | Mobil'art | PxPxP | RX90 /Robotics | Metadesign |Gameart | Networked projects (fore more detailsdownload the call for proposals).

Deadline for project submission: May 30, 2006

Project contents:
a project presentation
a biography of the artist
a video documentation on CD-Rom or DVD-Rom

The projects must include a completed information form (available for
download) and sent by post to the following address:
Dedale | Festival Emergences
Call for proposals
23, rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
We would be grateful if you would kindly spread our call for proposals
next to the artists you are in touch with.
For more information you can visit the Emergences web site :
http://www.festival-emergences.info/2006/callspro.htm

Building the memory of the Social Forums
Open call for a creative approach to memorization
MEMO/CREALAB // ESF Athens may 4-7 2006

WHY

With the miniaturization and spreading of media tools, more and more
activists carry their own camera, camcoder, minidisc recorder,
microphone, etc, recording in many different ways the events they
participate in.

The European Social Forum (ESF) is one of those spaces where the actors
themselves produce their own data and reading of the event. Their
productions become thus part of the process or unfolding of the event.

The Memory project, which has been supported and developed for one year
by a european team of volunteers, proceeds from different experiences of
collecting and emphasizing the data produced during the ESF. It aims to
create a space of articulation and visibility of this multiple production.

Inside this Memory Project, the Memoculture group emphasizes the
creative approch to the production of data. Text still remains the
dominant trace while new tools allow us to develop new forms of
productions (sounds, visuals, audiovisuals, artistic
) which are as many
readings of the social lives and struggles we experience.

WHAT

That’s why for the Athens EFS (4 to 7 may), the Memory project will open
a laboratory space, called CREALAB, aimed at involving the participants
in the production, the gathering and the streaming of multimedia traces
of the event.

We call on cultural actors, artists, media activists etc
to participate
in the building of this creative memory :
- during the ESF with Crealab
- after the ESF publishing their productions on the Memoculture website
(actually here : http://www.crealab.info/memoculture)

HOW

Several activities will be organized and proposed to all participants
during the 4 days of the Athens ESF.
- A web radio
- A web TV
- A web photo
- Workshops
(more details :
http://www.crealab.info/memoculture/doku.php?id=athenes_2006)

All the productions will be memorized on websites and accessible through
the « Memoculture website ».

These activities will be 'animated' by different european people (see
below) but volunteers are really welcome :
- to help in animating the different activities
- to assure a daily welcoming time
- to participate in the production of contents

We also intend to carry out «live performances » during the forum with
the productions of participants (ex : projections).

We will build a physical space in the Forum to work, provided with some
equipment (computers, free tools, some cameras, recorders
.), but don’t
forget to bring your own equipment !

If you’re interesting in the project :
- you can subscribe on our mailing list « crealab » at
http://lists.nomadfkt.org/mailman/listinfo/crealab
- you can contact one activity referent
- you can contact Sophie (sophie.gosselin@free.fr) or Carole
(carole.faure@altermundo.info) for general info

CONTACTS

- mailing list Crealab : (crealab@lists.nomadfkt.org)
- web tv : Julien (info@apo33.org)
- web radio : Rachid (rachid.sadaoui@freesurf.fr)
- web photo : Carole (carole.faure@altermundo.info)
- project « graine de parole »: Françoise (f.feugas@ritimo.org)
- project « wall of propositions »: Pierre (pierre.george@club-internet.fr)
- workshop « open tools memory project » Nuria (nuriavergesbosch@gmail.com)
- workshops “how to built”
o servers: Jean-François (bretzel@apo33.org)
o electronics / free hardware (micro, transmitters, controllers)
Alejandra (alejandra@v2.nl)
- workshop « activist research and free open tools » : Mayo
(Lilaroja@gmx.net)
- workshop « cartography » : Yves (ydegoyon@free.fr)
- general technical support : Jean-François (bretzel@apo33.org)

w h a t : Public art festival "Talking Monuments" as part of cultural marathon "Perm Cultural Capital 2006"

w h e r e : Perm city, Ural region of Russia

w h e n : September 2006

w a n t e d : media art projects reflecting on the role of monuments in contemporary urban environments and searching for their new mythologies

d e a d l i n e : July 20, 2006

m o r e i n f o : Anfim Khanykov anfimx@yandex.ru

RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES: Subtle Technologies 2006 Festival
Toronto, Canada

June 1-4, 2006: Subtle Technologies Symposium
May 30-June 1, 2006: CDRN Parametric Design Workshop
http://www.subtletechnologies.com

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
*Register by May 7, 2006 for discount*

How do responsive systems affect us? Interactive art, scientific
research in complex systems and leading ideas in architecture and
design come together in this 9th annual international forum. We
invite artists, architects, designers, engineers, scientists, and the
general public to join us in this dialogue. Research presentations and
artist talks will be complemented by exhibitions and workshops.
Keynote lecture by Steven Vogel, author of the pioneering text 'Life
in Moving Fluids.' The Symposium is preceded by the Canadian Design
Research Network Parametric Design Workshop.

To register, and for more information visit:
http://www.subtletechnologies.com/
Subsidized registration is offered for students and the underemployed.
Interested in volunteering? Contact us at
ktrethewey@subtletechnologies.com

Partners: soundaXis, InterAccess Media Arts Centre, Canada Design
Research Network, University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape and Design, University of Waterloo School of Architecture

Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, Ontario
Arts Council Toronto Arts Council, Bentley Systems Inc.

Mapchester: Making an open-source map for Manchester

INVITATION
Mapping Weekend
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May, 2006

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapchester
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** When bands like the Happy Mondays stalked the Hacienda, Manchester was dubbed 'Madchester'; now, a new generation of phreaks are in town, renaming the city 'Mapchester', showing that it isn't just music that puts the city on the map. **
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Mapchester is a collaborative 'wikimap' project, generated and maintained by users in the same way as Wikipedia. It kicks off with a Mapping Weekend, when Manchester is mapped in a weekend! A number of spin off projects will then take place during the Futuresonic festival, 20-23 July 2006 under the Mapchester banner, and the data generated will be used in a test-case festival guide.

Mapchester will generate a new kind map of Manchester - produced by collective, community effort that will be completely copyright-free. Mapchester was first proposed at the PLAN workshop (http://www.open-plan.org), as a test-case for how a city could be mapped and a guide for a festival created on collaborative and open principles.

Mapping Weekend invitation: We are seeking map hackers and citizen cartographers to participate in mapping the city for free. Our goal is to bring together as wide an array of different people who are interested in mapping and get them to walk / cycle / drive / bus / train / skate / etc / along city streets recording GPS tracks and noting down road names. These tracks will then be put online in the OpenStreetMap database and edited into map features. We hope that collectively people will work to completely map whole quarters of the city over the weekend.

Please spread the word about Mapchester and forward this invitation to come and map Manchester to other people who might be interested.

Getting involved:

|||| How: Just come along and choose an area of central Manchester to map. Head out with a GPS device (Global Positioning System, which monitors signals from satellites to record location) and notepad to record street names and other notable features. You can map for the whole day or just for a few hours. No prior mapping experience needed - intro briefings and equipment training will be provided.
|||| When: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May, 2006. Welcome briefings held at 10am and 2pm both days.
|||| Where: Mapchester HQ, Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester M1 6ED, see http://manchesterdda.com/article/12/ . (The space has been generously provided by the Manchester Digital Development Agency and they are also helping in signing people up to take part.)
|||| Registering: if you are interested in participating please send an email: mapchester@manchesterdda.com or call Jo Blackwell on tele: 0161 255 8111. (Please indicate on what days you want to participate and whether you have your own GPS / laptop.)
|||| Refreshments: Drinks and a sandwich lunch will be provided for participants.
|||| What to bring: If you have it please bring your own mapping equipment (GPS, laptop, camera, notepad + pencil, etc). If you don't have a GPS receiver, don't worry, there will be a number of extra units available on each day. If you have never used a GPS receiver, don't worry either, hands on training will be provided.
|||| Further questions: please contact Martin Dodge (m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk).


Some background:

Mapchester is an experiment in 'citizen cartography' that we hope will make a significant contribution to wider efforts in so-called 'open-source' mapping. This an emerging and rapidly growing cartographic activity, driven in part by technology (cheap GPS equipment and online collaboration tools, like OpenStreetMap.org), but also by a very different ethos to knowledge production. Under open-source models the right of authorship are de-centred and the ownership of knowledge is seen as a common resource that can be distributed and re-used without restriction or license. As such 'opening' up mapmaking has real potential to empower people to create their own knowledge and encourages re-use of cartographic resources in novel, creative ways.

The map data produced for central Manchester will contribute to OpenStreetMap.org, one of the leading projects in the open-source mapping field. Currently, OpenStreetMap has mapped 25,000 kilometres of roads in the UK, including all motorways. However, thus far the majority of this data is for London and Birmingham and many other major cities are hardly mapped at all. It is hoped that an intensive effort to build a map of the whole of a city in a weekend will inspire others and be important to build momentum across the country.

All the map data generated for Mapchester will be free to view, edit and use via the OpenStreetMap platform. An editable map will also be created and used as a test-case festival guide for the Futuresonic International Festival, held in Manchester 20-23 July 2006.


Mapchester mapping weekend is supported by:

|||| Future Everything / Futuresonic International Festival
(http://www.futureeverything.org/)
|||| University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development
(http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/)
|||| Manchester Geographical Society (http://www.mangeogsoc.org.uk/)
|||| Manchester Digital Development Agency (http://www.manchesterdda.com/)

Mapchester organising committee:

Steve Coast (OpenStreetMap.org); Drew Hemment (Future Everything); Mick Lockwood (Salford University); Martin Dodge & Chris Perkins (Geography, University of Manchester).

Thanks to:

Mikel Maron (WorldKIT), Libby Miller (FOAF), Ben Russell (PLAN), Steve Benford (Mixedreality Lab) and all others supporting this project.

Please spread the word about Mapchester and forward this invitation to come and map Manchester to other people who might be interested.

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Call for workshop participation

Public Private Interface - Art and Technology in Public Space

Wednesday 7th of June - Saturday 10th of June
at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway by Susanne Jaschko & Erich Berger

Free participation
Application deadline Friday 19th of May
Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no

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Urban public space operates as an interface between the
individual and the public.
It is a highly social, political and economic space.
Nowadays digital technologies are omnipresent in this space,
employed as systems for communication, control and organisation.
The use and application of these technologies have strongly
effected our understanding, perception and behaviour of
public and private spaces.

The workshop will deal with the public space as field of artistic
expression. We will analyse the properties and conditions of
public space and the potential for art responding to this specific
environment. Special attention will be laid on art and design using
the existing technological infrastructure.

The workshop will consist of:

* Introduction into the theory and history of public space
* Analysis of public space and its typology
* Technological infrastructure of public spaces
* Potential for art in public space
* How to conceive art and design for public space
* Concept development and discussions
* Hands on experiments, research and presentations

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WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

Participation is free of charge.

Artists, designers and practitioners interested in participating
are asked to apply with a CV to sense@anart.no

Application deadline Friday 19th of May

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Workshop directors and producer:

Susanne Jaschko (DE) http://www.sujaschko.de
Erich Berger(AT/FI) http://randomseed.org

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Private public interface is part of the Interface and Society project at
Atelier Nord, http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society/ .

Upcoming workshops at Atelier Nord:

September: Mobile media art with Laura Beloff (FI)

ATELIER NORD
PHONE +47 23060880
FAX +47 23060884
E-MAIL office@anart.no
URL http://anart.no
MAIL Lakkegata 55 D, N-0187 Oslo, Norway

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