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31 January

Masaki Fujihata

Masaki Fujihata Work from Field-works “Field-Works is a series of projects which reconstrust collective memories into cyberspace as a kind of video archive by using position data captured by GPS and moving image captured by Video. Simultaneous Echos is the most recent production of the series Field-works, composting video images and locational data captured by [...]

26 January
Posted in e-flux, Rhizome

Americas Society Art Gallery: Arturo Herrera

Americas Society Art Gallery

Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) is an exhibition anchored by a digital projection—the artist’s first work to incorporate sound and moving images. This two-channel projection is based on the 1923 ballet, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century’s most significant modernist experiments of gesamtkunstwerk.

4 January
Posted in Art21, Rhizome

Weekly Roundup

In the first weekly roundup of 2011: a Cai Guo Qiang New Year’s celebration in Taipei, Barry McGee in Brazil, two artists make art “scherenschnitte,” Richard Serra is ready for TV, and more. Barry McGee gives us a video, Transfer SP Brasil, that documents his time in  Sao Paulo this past summer for the Transfer exhibition. [...]

3 January
Posted in Rhizome

LiveBox welcomes new curator Matt Griffin

Matt Griffin has joined the LiveBox team as curator for sound art and performance. Matt Griffin is a Canadian sound artist and composer living and working in Chicago. He holds a BFA in Music from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and an MFA in Sound from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has curated programs for the Experimental Sound Studio, The West Coast Composers Symposium, the Two Can Play at That Game Festival (Chicago) and Around the Coyote. His work has been shown around the world, from Takaka Hill, New Zealand, to Regina, Saskatchewan. Matt also runs the experimental music record label Electricity is Magic.<br />
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In addition, LiveBox has an open call for “Subtitles” – a yearlong exploration of projects inspired by literature. Each 3rd Friday, hosted by ThreeWalls, will be unique combination of media, performance and readings. We are looking for video, new media, sonic and sound, performance, and literary work inspired by or evoking the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Doris Lessing and Roald Dahl.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/xzAWnEEJO3Y" height="1" width="1"/>

17 December
Posted in e-flux, Rhizome

Tate Liverpool / FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology): Nam June Paik

Tate Liverpool
17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011

Media artist, performance artist, composer and visionary, Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. Paik’s radical ideas on art and technology transformed what we now understand as video and media art.

13 December
Posted in Rhizome

OMPOSING WITH PROCESS 2.2 Exclusives podcast, features exclusive works by Marcus Schmicker and EVOL

COMPOSING WITH PROCESS 2.2 Exclusives podcast, features exclusive works by Marcus Schmicker and EVOL

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Each episode of this series is followed by a special accompaniment programme of exclusive music by some of the leading sound artists and…

15 November

Jennifer Steinkamp

Stills from Daisy Chain video installation The Wreck of the Dumaru video installation and Orbit, 2 video installation Jennifer Steinkamp “My artwork uses computer animation to craft immersive interactive projection installations. Three dimensional computer graphics are the basis of my animation; animations that take full advantage of the computer’s ability to create motion and points [...]

5 November
Posted in Art21, Rhizome

William Kentridge: Collaboration

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE In celebration of Art21′s new feature film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible — which premiered nationally on October 21, 2010 and will continue to air on PBS (check local listings) — the Exclusive series devoted the past six weeks to telling stories about Kentridge’s numerous [...]

11 October
Posted in Rhizome

Rhys Chatham and Angie Eng: Echodes

On Friday and Saturday, October 15 and 16, The Kitchen welcomes back its first Music Director, the composer and musician Rhys Chatham, for the premiere of Echodes, a live multi-media concert created with the media artist Angie Eng. Joining Chatham and …

11 October
Posted in Rhizome

Rhys Chatham and Angie Eng: Echodes

On Friday and Saturday, October 15 and 16, The Kitchen welcomes back its first Music Director, the composer and musician Rhys Chatham, for the premiere of Echodes, a live multi-media concert created with the media artist Angie Eng. Joining Chatham and …

9 October
Posted in Rhizome, theartblog

Pews announced; visual art takes a beating

We are sorry to be the bringers of bad tidings. The Pew Fellowships in the Arts were announced this week, and boy oh boy, this was not good news for people in Philadelphia in the cutting edge visual arts scene. Rather, the new selection process rewarded people working in other disciplines like architecture and jazz [...]

20 September
Posted in Rhizome

2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition

The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is pleased to announce the 2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Program.<br />
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The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by Frances Richard and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) <http://www.ascap.com>.<br />
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The postmarked deadline is October 15, 2010.<br />
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For more information, and the application form, please visit the conference web site at http://www.seamus2011.org<br />
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All students wishing to apply for the 2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commision Competition should submit works to the 2011 SEAMUS National Conference. Submission of works is an online process, during which student member status is confirmed. In addition, applicants to the student commission competition will need to fill out and mail hard copies of (1) proof of student status and (2) a completed and signed 2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Application Form to the address provided in the application instructions. The application form for the competition can be downloaded from conference web site (http://www.seamus2011.org)<br />
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AWARDS<br />
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A maximum of two prizes may be awarded. The decision of the judges will be final.<br />
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First Prize<br />
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* Commission of $1250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music<br />
* Performance of the commissioned work at the 2012 SEAMUS National Conference<br />
* Performance of the submitted work at the 2011 SEAMUS National Conference<br />
* Recording of the submitted work on the SEAMUS Compact Disc Series.<br />
* Certificate of recognition<br />
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Second Prize<br />
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* Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music<br />
* Performance of the commissioned work at the 2012 SEAMUS National Conference<br />
* Performance of the submitted work at the 2011 SEAMUS National Conference<br />
* Certificate of recognition<br />
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ELIGIBILITY<br />
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Applicants to the 2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition must be student members of SEAMUS and either a United States citizen or currently enrolled in an academic course of study within the United States that leads to high school diploma, or baccalaureate, masters, or doctoral degree in music or electro-acoustic music, or a program that includes electro-acoustic music and related fields.<br />
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Paula Matthusen<br />
SEAMUS<br />
Board Officer for Members at Large<br />
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1 September
Posted in Rhizome

Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists

Vociferous: Sound Works by 21 Contemporary Colombian Artists

Opening Thursday, September 2, 6pm
w/ special performance by Ricardo Arias and Carlos Gómez, 8pm

Installations run Saturdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2pm-8pm
Diapason, 882 Third Avenue, 1…

27 August
Posted in Artasty, Rhizome

Sesper – Formol – Baglione Famiglia

01.07.2008 – 02.08.2008

Garage Fuzz, Most, of street art, toyart, children, etc.. Finally, Alexandre Cruz is a maniac. It is difficult to say what is the specialty of this inhabitant of megalopolis Sao Paulo, as it does 300 things at once and he con…

23 August
Posted in Art21, Rhizome

Weekly Roundup

As summer 2010 winds down this week’s roundup gets ready for an exciting fall season when Mark Dion embarks on an expedition in Oakland, Andrea Zittel lands on the Portland Art Museum front patio, Cindy Sherman steps out in Balenciaga, and Matthew Ritchie and Trenton Doyle Hancock gear up for Super Bowl XLV and more! [...]

22 August
Posted in e-flux, Rhizome

ARTIMAGE CONTEMPORARY informe: Longing For …

ARTIMAGE CONTEMPORARY informe

Longing For … is a hybrid performance-installation focusing on translatory movements of choreography and architecture. With respect to the investigative movement as a specific form of experience and construction of space, the experiment of translating and representing actual characteristics of architecture, i.e. spatial quality in conjunction with actions, and so in conjunction with time is carried out by the intercreative team Richard Siegal, choreographer/ dancer, Peter Welz, artist, Alexander Kada, designer, Julie Guibert, Camille Revol, Paula Sanchez and Alessio Silvestrin, dancers, Hubert Machnik, composer, Christine Peters, dramaturg and Jean-Philippe Lambert, interactivity programming.

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