New York, NY, December 6, 2016 – Renowned Art + Technology company The Artery, which is actively expanding its award winning talent base by seeking the most talented digital artists in the world, has established a special artistic collaboration with acclaimed Video Artist Ronen Sharabani, a 2006 Cannes Gold Lion Prize winner. Vico Sharabani, The Artery’s Founder and Creative Director, as well as a brother of Ronen Sharabani, made the announcement. This new collaboration between The Artery and Sharabani has been designed for two purposes: To develop and present innovative and original Video Content to museums, art galleries, and other…
Spring 2016: V.12 N.01 Mestizo Technology: Art, Design, and Technoscience in Latin America
Mestizo Tech link to web edition: http://median.newmediacaucus.org/mestizo-technology-art-design-and-technoscience-in-latin-america/ Mestizo Tech link to LULU edition: http://www.lulu.com/shop/new-media-caucus/mestizo-technology-art-design-and-technoscience-in-latin-america/paperback/product-22924280.html Latin America is a diverse geographical and cultural region populated by a wealth of extremely productive new media specialists with significant local and global exposure. Yet, scarce are academic English language anthologies composed of theoretical writings that survey the status of art, technology and design practices in and by that constituency. With this in mind, Media-N’s mission has been to support a provocative theme that might begin to fill the gap. “Mestizo Technology: Art, Design, and Technoscience in Latin America” is the title proposed by Guest…
Report from Computer Art Congress 5
Bonjour de Paris! I’m writing today quite early in the morning before I head out to Charles de Gaulle and return home. In my short stay I’ve had difficulty sleeping, so I thought I might make use of some of that time while everything is still relatively fresh in my head. Its likely I won’t get it all here before I begin traveling, but I couldn’t wait to get started. The Computer Art Congress is an international gathering around Art, Science, Technology, and Design. The first edition was celebrated in Paris (2002), followed by Mexico City (2008), Paris (2012), and and…
The Body Electric – an Invitational Exhibition at UW Whitewater
Over the past several years I have been managing the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater Motion Capture Studio. Our space is relatively small and we use a markerless system manufactured by Organic Motion. I was drawn to the use of MOCAP in animation because it offered a different way to make things move on the screen in relation to human movement. As I learned more about what MOCAP data looks like, I started to see potential for its use beyond conventional approaches that create figurative remediated versions of captured movements. This lead me to begin using samples from our studio…
Call For Entries – The Fuse Factory Annual Juried Exhibition 2016
Deadline for Applications: October 15th, 2016 The Fuse Factory Art and Technology Lab is pleased to announce the Call for Entries for the Annual Juried Exhibition 2016: ANTHROPOCENE The Fuse Factory’s annual juried exhibition features work created with technology-based new media, electronic, and digital tools. Our upcoming exhibition will run from Monday, November 7th to Wednesday, December 7th at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery, located on the Ohio State University-Mansfield campus. Accompanying the exhibition is a series of hands-on workshops that will be held at the Ohio State University main campus, the Columbus College Art & Design, and the ROY…
“Behind the Smart World Research Lab” at Ars Electronica 2016
For most of us consumers electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks, printers or microwaves are a fundamental and indispensable parts of our daily lives. As a result of rapid growth and constant innovation the electronic industry is the world’s fastest growing industry. The “Internet of things” is increasingly adding electronic devices onto our shopping list. Devices that are adding up to a 24h surveillance system that are tracking every aspect of our life and are containers for private data. The life cycle of these products are considerably short and when they break we do not know how to fix…
INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL – IMPACT16 – Symposium and Public Presentations
How and where do alternative realities come about both in and between different fields of knowledge? How can we productively uncover contradictory “rift zones” in today’s world? What kind of frameworks for action can we cultivate? 4-DAY SYMPOSIUM with extensive interdisciplinary exchange 30 PARTICIPANTS (artists, scientists and experts from other varied fields) 3 ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS with 3 ARTIST COLLECTIVES impact16 is aimed at artists and advanced students, practitioners and theoreticians from the natural and social sciences, technology, architecture and urban planning, philosophy, political activism, as well as from the visual and performance arts. APPLICATIONS UNTIL 10. OCTOBER 2016 Online application form:…
Assistant Professor of Creative Arts and Technologies at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
The Department of Communication and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute seeks to hire an Assistant Professor whose research and practice addresses the intersections between the creative arts and technologies. The preferred candidate will be able to work at the levels of theory and practice, integrating insights and applications in the arts, humanities, and technologies to engage students to become creative thinkers, practitioners, and problem-solvers. The successful applicant will develop and teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses that encourage students to explore and develop their creative, aesthetic, and technical abilities and that contribute to…
Visiting Assistant Professor Visual Studies – Digital 2016-17 at Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University QUALIFICATIONS: • MFA (or comparable degree) with in-depth working knowledge in the use of digital media in art and design. • Deep practice and knowledge in the use of time-based and interactive media. • Familiarity and facility with theory relevant to Visual Studies, New Media, Foundations, and Contemporary Art and Design. • Ability to organize and maintain a healthy studio environment with engaging studio activities and projects. • Successful candidates will be able to work in digital media in relation to other studio and intellectual ways of knowing and working. Visual Studies is organized to operate…
Call – iDEAS Exhibition 2016
iDEAS 16 is an international exhibition which explores current ideas and processes in hybrid form, digital art, design, and new media. The iDEAS exhibition coincides with the fourteenth annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) conference, to be held on the campus of Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, from October 5th-8th. All entries will be selected based on a juried body of professional artists including the highly respected, Christiane Paul and Dene Grigar. DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES EXTENDED – August 15th, 2016 (12:00am CST) When Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:00AM CDT -to- Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 1:00PM…