Jayson Musson’s show The Hard Sell, at Marginal Utility on 319 N. 11th Street, is an atypical gallery show, to say the least. The walls are full of long, written rants, hilariously offensive t-shirts and the occasional art object, like a sculpture. It’s apolitical, atheistic and, come to think of it, a-pretty-much-any-other-adjective-you-can-muster. It’s a splendid [...]

POSITION:Stetson University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of Art to serve its interdisciplinary Digital Arts program (art, music, computer science) and to join faculty in art, art history, new medi…

Oceanographic Museum / Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
20 November 2010 – 20 May 2012

The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco hosts a unique exhibition dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea, bringing together contemporary art and science. The exhibition presents a monumental installation by the celebrated Sino-French artist Huang Yong Ping and features an exceptional collection of maritime objects that illustrate the rich biodiversity of the Sea.

BODY NATUREMarta De Menezes and Dario NeiraOn Friday February 4th 2011, at 18.30,PAV- Living Art Park is pleased to announce Body Nature, the dual personal exhibition by Marta De Menezes and DarioNeira, curated by Claudio Cravero within the ArtProgram …

For many years, I was set on becoming a doctor of sorts. I had done an undergraduate thesis in experimental psychology, was doing research at a hospital, and on my way to getting a clinical degree. But at some point, I realized my favorite part of working in science was not theorizing which part of [...]

We are very happy to be finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge for Philadelphia, sponsored by the Miami-based Knight Foundation.  The list of the 63 finalists (out of 1.752 applicants) includes local big fish and small fry like us, with about a third of the finalists from the visual arts realm.  Here’s the list below. [...]

REMINDER :: 2011 SYNAPSE RESIDENCIES NOW OPEN :: CALL FOR APPLICATIONSDEADLINE :: 5PM FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2011The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creative practitioners and science and research organis…

REMINDER :: 2011 SYNAPSE RESIDENCIES NOW OPEN :: CALL FOR APPLICATIONSDEADLINE :: 5PM FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2011The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creative practitioners and science and research organis…

Lenox-Lenox Work from TMRRW(dot)net (and their oeuvre). “TMRRW(dot)net combines predictable and unpredictable change in order to form a cubic time capsule of tomorrow’s relics. Predictions arise by mapping the course of natural disasters and desiccated resources, and non-predictions are postulated from science fiction and myth. The resulting guided tour of The Last Gallery presents attributes [...]

Dear All,<br />
<br />
Leonardo Electronic Almanac has inherited a large archive of papers,<br />
articles and information.<br />
<br />
This material was held in the archive as historical documentation and<br />
as part of the revamp of LEA we have decided to revisit this history<br />
and compare it with contemporary developments.<br />
<br />
LEA rekindled 1 is the first historical comparative issue of the<br />
Leonardo Electronic Almanac on the history and contemporary<br />
developments at the intersection of art, science and technology. For<br />
this first issue of LEA rekindled, our editorial intention is to<br />
re-open a dialogue with those who participated and contributed towards<br />
building the history of contemporary art interactions with science and<br />
technology as well as with the new generations of artists, critical<br />
commentators, scientists and technology experts. You can find out more<br />
information on: http://ow.ly/3pA9D<br />
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We are asking to the community at large to consider LEA rekindled not<br />
only as an academic publication outlet but also as a repository for<br />
images and documentation (photographic, audio and video). If you have<br />
images from some of the art, science and technology events of the past<br />
20 years that you would like to contribute for publication, please do<br />
get in touch with LEA staff by sending an email to:<br />
info@leoalmanac.org with the subject ‘LEA rekindled 1’.<br />
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We look forward to the opportunity of working with you in<br />
re-contextualizing, publishing and archiving these images, artworks<br />
and documentation in stable formats.<br />
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LEA is also delighted to announce that for the rekindled issues the<br />
Senior Editorial and Curatorial team is composed of: Lanfranco Aceti,<br />
Paul Brown, Beryl Graham, Craig Harris, Errki Huhtamo, Stephen Jones,<br />
Terrence Masson, Frieder Nake, Christiane Paul and Bruce Wands.<br />
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"Pastoral V.2" is a curated overview by Jon Leidecker hoping to underline the history of those classic works of electronic and concrète music which sought to mimic and extend the voices and sounds of our pastoral landscape, which can be closer to the heart of the medium’s inherent potential than the more common identifications with inhuman or alienated expressions of industrial culture.<br />
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Link: http://bit.ly/dlkapp<br />
Music: http://bit.ly/a4LREP <br />
Very recommended related text/essay: http://bit.ly/a4LREP <br />
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The emerging medium of electronic music found its way to a wider public audience in the 1950′s, accompanied by descriptions of the sounds as inherently unearthly, fantastic, or cold and inhuman. Partially this was in response to the medium’s instant adoption as sound effects for science fiction films and television shows, as spearheaded by Louis and Bebe Barron in their score for the film "Forbidden Planet". But electronic musical instruments also possessed the ability to closely emulate and extend the voices of the animal world to a greater degree than any musical instrument in history. A gated tone oscillator or untempered synthesizer gives a player a better chance at creating melodies that sound like birdsong than any violin or flute – save perhaps for a recording of a flute that’s been sped up several octaves, using the techniques of musique concrète.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/nykFLRGWf1k" height="1" width="1"/>

Please open your books, turn to the first page, and follow along with:
– Brigid Doherty on Walter Benjamin and the “furnished man”
– Emily Apter on the design and dynamics of the seminar
– D. Graham Burnett on the sea slug’s role in cognitive science
– Daniel DeWispelare on the andrometer of Sir William Jones and many more.

TRANSMEDIA<br />
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN ARTS + MEDIA + DESIGN<br />
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Haachtsesteenweg 138 – 1030 Brussels<br />
23-25 November 2010<br />
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DIGICULT / MARCO MANCUSO: SEMINAR<br />
New Media Art, Design & Culture: the Digicult critical overview<br />
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http://transmedians.be/projects_new/?p=1225<br />
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Digicult from 2005 has being an online/offline Italian/International cultural and editorial platform which focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 50 professional people, who represent a wide Network of journalists, curators, artists, theorists, practioneers and critics. Digicult leads the art-agency Digimade and is the editor of the monthly magazine Digimag, which focuses on some cultural, productive and artistic issues like: networking, hacktivism, video art, sound art, audiovideo, design, art+science, new media, software art and performing art with a critic and journalistic approach.<br />
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Starting for the daily experience directing Digicult & Digimag, Marco Mancuso has been developing in these years a wide and critic overview on the creative and productive field of contemporary international New Media Art, Design and Culture. Monitoring the most successfull, experimental and cross disciplinary experiences of the most important and known artists, festivals, platforms, media centers, galleries and events worldwide, Digicult has been presenting the idea of a Seminar that give the partecipants a critical and historical overview of the most interesting artistic e productive realities in the field of digital art & design, connecting them to the development of digital technologies, softwares, hardwares, trends, aesthetics and styles in the last years.<br />
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Mirroring the multifaced, interdisciplinary, fast developing and cross mediated world of contemporary digital art & design, the Seminar is thought as a meta-journey between some of the most vital and experimental art and producting disciplines using digital technologies, hardwares, softwares and applied sciences. After a first day in which this creative world is evalueted for the main subecjets that constitute it (methods, technologies, cultural and professional areas of interest, trends, markets and professional roles), the second and the third day are deeply focused on the presentation of artists and designers working in the fields of: “AudioVideo” and the link between sound, light and image; “Interaction” and the link between design, software, performance and space; “Art & Science” and the link between technology, hybrid design and applied science; “Networking” and the link between open source culture and online platforms for art and design.<br />
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http://www.digicult.it/en/<br />
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/<br />
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MARCO MANCUSO BIO<br />
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Marco Mancuso is new media art critic, curator, journalist and teacher, expert of the impact of digital, interactive, software and open source technologies on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Founder and Director at Digicult project and Digimag magazine, Marco Mancuso focuses his researches on the connection between sound, light, image & space, with an historical/theoretical point of view, among a cross-disciplinary territory crossing art, cinema, music, design, architecture & science. As Digicult director, Marco Mancuso has been also expertising and skilling in the last years on networking strategies, online marketing & comunication developments and web 2.0 editing & journalistic activities. With the art-agency Digimade he is working for international art festivals, galleries, cultural and media centers as guest curator and media partner, organizing exhibitions and cross media events, workshops, meetings and screenings and promoting, among others, Italian live media & live cinema artists. His interviews and critical texts can be read on Digimag archive, while his essays were published in festival and exhibition catalogues and written for lectures and presentations he joined internationally. Marco Mancuso teaches “Multimedia Art Languages” at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan and “New Media Art” and “Audiovisual Design” at IED (European Institute of Design) in Milan and is invited as guest lecturer to seminars and workshops at many Italian and international Universities.<br />
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WHEN<br />
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Tuesday 23/11/2010 – 10h00 till 17h00<br />
Wednesday 24/11/2010 – 10h00 till 17h00<br />
Thursday 25/11/2010 – 10h00 till 17h00<br />
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PROGRAM<br />
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Lection 1 – 23/11/2010 – Morning (10.00-13.00):<br />
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* Introduction and presentation to the Seminar<br />
* Digicult project description and analysys<br />
* Referential online platforms, blogs and websites<br />
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Lection 1 – 23/11/2010 – Afternoon (14.00-17.00):<br />
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* New Media Art: inter-disciplines, methodologies, technologies, cultural and professional areas of interest, trends<br />
* The market of New Media Art: festivals, galleries, media centers, prizes, events<br />
* The artist/designer figure and the critic/curator function<br />
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Lection 2 – 24/11/2010 – Morning (10.00-13.00):<br />
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* Audiovideo: sound-image connection within an historical-critical view among disciplines and artists<br />
* Video footage review<br />
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Lection 2 – 24/11/2010 – Afternoon (14.00-17.00):<br />
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* Interaction: the man-machine interaction among design, software, performance and space<br />
* Video footage review<br />
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Lection 3 – 25/11/2010 – Morning (10.00-13.00):<br />
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* Art & Science: boundary territories among art, design, technology and applied sciences<br />
* Video footage review<br />
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Lection 3 – 25/11/2010 – Afternoon (14.00-17.00):<br />
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* Networking: the Open Culture and the new frontiers of net art, data installations, online performances and collaborative design<br />
* Video footage review<br />
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TRANSMEDIA<br />
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Transmedia is a two-year, full-time course in arts, media and design and leads to a master’s degree in Transmedia. The program focuses on research and its integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. During the first INPUT year, you hone both your production and research skills in the Transmedialab, engage with the history and theory of transmedia art in lectures and seminars, attend public events and, of course, mainly devote time to your own work. This input confronts and fuels you with different ways of working and thinking in order to develop your ideas and methods further. During the second OUTPUT year, you devote most of your time to your individual practice leading up to your graduation project, i.e. a (body of) work supported by a research dossier. Transmedia offers a stimulating environment where your work comes first: a continuous and independent art practice that seeks for a dialogue with similar practices from other disciplines. You are invited to engage in an ongoing conversation on your work (process) through tutorials, group discussions, seminars, workshops and the interchange of ideas and skills with fellow students, internationally recognized teachers and visiting artists. The aim of our program is to encourage you in producing art-work that involves the computer either as a working tool or as a presentation model. Still, we emphasize the user’s creativity rather than the machine.<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/b8mtCIb-OYQ" height="1" width="1"/>

LiveBox open call for “Subtitles” – a yearlong exploration of projects inspired by the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Doris Lessing and Roald Dahl. Subtitles will be hosted by ThreeWalls Chicago, 3rd Fridays of the month beginning January 21, 2011<br />
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We are looking for video, new media, sonic and sound, performance, and literary work inspired by or evoking the writings of Poe, Lessing and Dahl. Each 3rd Friday will be unique combination of media, performance and readings. <br />
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Edgar Allen Poe, Doris Lessing and Roald Dahl followed their own paths, significantly influencing the genres they are noted for. Poe developed a theory of composition; theme or plot was subordinate to the construction of a single intense mood. Doris Lessing is known for both her radical writing on social issues and as a science fiction writer. Her novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic, but she would argue her most important work is Canopus in Argos a science fiction series. Roald Dahl is most known for his unsentimental and wickedly humorous children’s books, but he also wrote 60 adult short stories noted for their dark sense of humor and surprising endings.<br />
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Submissions will be received on an ongoing basis. If you have something we’d like to see it. Otherwise, start writing, filming and creating – surprise us. Send a one page description of your proposal and a URL link to your website, plus for sound and video include a link to a VIMEO or You Tube sample. cf@liveboxgallery.com<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/OuolcaR8BpU" height="1" width="1"/>

ecoarttech lecture & presentation
@ the Upgrade Boston
November 16, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
MIT Media Lab , 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir cofounded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore convergent medi…

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality ==
== Release reading/party at HBC Berlin (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9) ==
== Featuring Special Guest Andreas “Krach” Stoiber ==
== November 13, 2010, 9 PM ==

The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k You…

Shedhalle Zurich
9 October – 23 December 2010

Lately, history and the past have become topics in art to an ever greater extent. In contrast to the science of history, art not only places special emphasis on the questions of memory and retrospection and the investigation of new narratives.

Assistant Professor in Interactive Media
Department of Visualization
College of Architecture – Texas A&M University

The Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas has a faculty position open for a tenure-track Assist…

My eyes are droopy and I’m over-caffeinated. This writing marathon is killing me and wrangling my brain.  To make matters worse, I haven’t left my house in a few days, pacing around aimlessly in my bathrobe, haplessly eating all the food in my fridge.  I’m almost certain that my behavior is not abnormal, considering I [...]

NTERRUPTIONS #1. Pastoral V.2. By Jon Leidecker (An overview on the relationship between birdsong/pastoral landscape+avant-garde)

“Pastoral V.2″ is a curated overview hoping to underline the history of those classic works of electronic and concrète m…