March 19, 2004
LMCC Open Studios, 3/20-3/21
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) marks the end of the second session of the award-winning artist residency program, LMCC/Workspace: The Woolworth Building, with Open Studio Weekend March 20 and 21, 2004.
Located high above Manhattan in the landmark Woolworth Building, in space generously donated by The Witkoff Group, 14 artists share their site-inspired work created during a five-month residency on the 33rd floor of the celebrated skyscraperits free, informal, and open to the public. For security reasons, an RSVP is essential to attend all open studio events. Online anytime: www.Lmcc.net/rsvp no later than 4 p.m., March 17th. By Phone: 212-219-9401 x100; MF, 15 p.m., no later than March 3rd.
Posted by richard ting at March 19, 2004, 10:50 AM
March 08, 2004
ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program
ACM Multimedia 2004 Interactive Art Program
Columbia University, New York City† October 10 - 15, 2004
http://www.mm2004.org/acm_mm04_call4interactiveartprogram.htm
ACM Multimedia 2004 is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing, from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. We especially encourage introduction of novel media such as haptic, smell, sensors, animation, etc.. With this year'snew ACM MM Interactive Art Programwe wish to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology.
The Interactive Art Program will consist of two technical paper tracks and an exhibition. We invite researchers in technical areas and artists working with digital media to submit their original contributions to the following tracks:
1.† Technical Papers Tracks:Submission Deadline April 5, 2004
Tools for creating multimedia art:performance, immersive, narrative, multi-modal, networked art, etc. The emphasis is on novel technical tools developed specifically for the creation of multimedia art in any form. We particularly encourage submission of tools in new and emerging areas.
Tools developed by artists in the creation of multimedia art works:† will describe the process and technical details of the creation of artistic works that have required either the development of new multimedia tools, or novel uses of currently available multimedia tools. Artists that develop their own tools are strongly encouraged to submit their work to this track.
2.† Multimedia Art Exhibition:Submission Deadline May 3, 2004
DIGITAL BOUNDARIES: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness
Curatorial Committee
Mark Tribe, Director of Art & Technology, Columbia University School of the Arts
Christina Yang, Curator of Visual Art and New Media, The Kitchen
Pamela Jennings, Alejandro Jaimes
"Digital Boundaries: Multiculturalism, Identity, and Awareness". We seek art works that, using multimedia, explore issues of cultural identity, cultural awareness, and the boundaries created or enforced through the use of multimedia technology. The emphasis for the exhibition is on interactive art works that realize powerful artistic concepts using multimedia content and technologies.
At no time in history has technology had the prospect of making a stronger cross-border impact on culture. Technology can be used to create or reinforce boundaries (being fingerprinted and photographed at an airport-- a multimedia experience), as well as to dissolve them (we are bombarded by images and sounds from all over the world). Many of us are being empowered with the ability to easily create digital content, document and share our own experiences and those of others, challenging the roles of art (passive vs. interactive) and revolutionizing the way we see and hear the world. At the same time, only a small percentage of people have access to technology (boundaries of the haves and the have-nots). Multimedia content and technology are of special consideration because they appeal directly to our senses, elevating the age-old dilemma of the distinction between reality and representations of reality. Does this new proliferation and imbalance of multimedia technology help reinforce boundaries and cultural differences? Does it contribute to define cultural identity in a new age in which everyone talks about multiculturalism? Does it raise cultural awareness or simply numb our senses making us take deep cultural differences for granted because what we "see" or "hear" is commonplace in this "new" multicultural world? Does it create new boundaries in art or help unify multiple art forms? How can art, in its many roles, make use of the same technology that raises these issues to address them?
For this exhibition, we seek multimedia artworks that challenge the participants to consider these questions through the innovative use of new multimedia technologies and the combination of multiple media(photography, video, sound, etc.). All formats are welcome (narrative, performance, interaction, immersion, etc.).
