September 12, 2006
Rafael Lozano Hemmer at bitforms
On Friday, September 15, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, the renowned new media artist draws on surveillance and phantasmagoria for his second solo exhibition in the U.S. The exhibition is called Underscan, Relational Architecture 11. It's a large-scale public art project commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency in England. Thousands of "video-portraits" taken in Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham will be projected onto the ground of the main squares and pedestrian thoroughfares of these cities. At first, the portraits will not be visible because the space will be flooded by white light coming from the world’s most powerful projector. As people walk around the area, their shadow will be cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits. The short video sequences begin with the subjects in a still position turned away from the camera. As they appear within pedestrians' shadows, their bodies move and their heads turn to look straight at the pedestrian, potentially giving rise to an interesting range of interactions. When a shadow moves away from a portrait, the portrait likewise reacts by losing interest and looking away.
Posted by richard ting at September 12, 2006, 11:03 PM
August 03, 2006
Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web
What happens when video games meet Web 2.0? When virtual worlds meet geospatial maps of the planet? When simulations get real and life and business go virtual? When a virtual Earth becomes your desktop, and your avatar becomes your online agent? What happens is the metaverse. Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and potential social impacts. Areas of exploration include the convergence of Web applications with networked computer games and virtual worlds, the use of 3D creation and animation tools in virtual environments, digital mapping, artificial life, and the underlying trends in hardware, software, connectivity, business innovation and social adoption that will drive the transformation of the World Wide Web in the coming decade.
On Thursday, August 10th from 6-9 PM Eyebeam hosts a Metaverse Roadmap Pre-Release Party with a series of short presentations and open conversations about the emerging metaverse space and what the Metaverse Roadmap has uncovered so far.
Posted by richard ting at August 03, 2006, 08:48 PM
July 17, 2006
Bushwick Arts Project - BAPLab
BAP will be hosting the first in a series of programs entitled the “BAPLab” taking place on July 22nd 2006. Showcasing well known artists side by side with emerging artists, the Lab’s purpose is to expose both audience and artists alike to the vast spectrum of digital culture. Located at 3rd Ward, in the outer edges of Bushwick, the Lab is an experimental event where artists are encouraged to explore new paths and investigate new ideas through a curated program of electronic music, video, sound installations and interactive works.
Part exhibition, part creative R&D program, the BAPLab is a festival of ideas. An environment where artists can explore new approaches to creative expression.
Posted by richard ting at July 17, 2006, 05:15 PM
June 13, 2006
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea -- Thesis Show
The Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, which just recently moved to Milan had it's end of semester thesis show last week. You can find an archival of the projects on the Experientia blog. Some of the projects include Ana Camila Pinho Amorim's 'uni.me' and Aram Saroyan Armstrong's 'Pooptopia'. The Institute will eventually be absorbed by the Domus Academy's 'I-Design' programme, so check out these projects now since the staff from Ivrea will not be moving to the Domus Academy. Could be your last opportunity to see work that represents the vision of the staff from Ivrea.
Posted by richard ting at June 13, 2006, 10:40 AM
May 08, 2006
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP. This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
Posted by richard ting at May 08, 2006, 12:31 PM
March 26, 2006
Move 3 - Under the Influence
This design summit for motion-based artists and designers will explore the fascinating sources of inspiration behind work that inspires you. MOVE3 will deliver the directors, designers, animators, ad legends and art stars who not only create groundbreaking work, but shape the future.
Posted by richard ting at March 26, 2006, 12:09 PM
February 11, 2006
Fashion In Colors
The Fashion in Colors symposium will explore the science, psychology, and symbolism of color. Events include an explanation of how the human brain perceives color and light, a behind-the-scenes exhibition tour, and a panel discussion on color customization with industry experts from Nike, KitchenAid, Glacéau, and ColorWare. Additional programs will include a studio visit, family events, and exhibition tours.
Posted by richard ting at February 11, 2006, 05:35 PM
UbiComp 2006
Ubicomp 2006, the Eighth International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing, will be held in Orange County, California, September 17-21, 2006, hosted by the University of California, Irvine. Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance.
We invite you to submit original, high-quality research contributions in all program categories, including full papers, demonstrations, posters, and videos.
Contributions on all topics related to ubiquitous computing are welcome, including:
* tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous computing systems
* mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing
* laboratory and in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies in use
* location-aware and context-based systems for ubiquitous computing
* privacy, security, and trust in ubiquitous and pervasive systems.
The UbiComp conference has traditionally had a strong workshop program. Workshops allow small groups to gather for intensive discussion around focused topics of interest. The goal of workshops is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. Ubicomp 2006 will have two days for workshops.
Posted by richard ting at February 11, 2006, 05:24 PM
January 16, 2006
Design 2.0 - Discussions on Design Strategy & Innovation
Core77 and BusinessWeek Present "From Complexity to Clarity":
Distilling the ingredients of great customer experiences
One of the biggest challenges of brand and service design is to take complex systems and represent them to users as simple and clear experiences. From Google to Apple, from Kodak to FedEx, this panel discussion will center on the strategies for developing clear artifacts and experiences from sophisticated palettes.
Posted by richard ting at January 16, 2006, 08:47 PM
January 12, 2006
Enter The Alist
ALIST CHINATOWN WORLD TOUR NEW YORK CITY
Opening Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 at the Reed Space
The first city stop on a 8 city chinatown world tour. A showcase of illustration and artwork based on New York City's chinatown District. The second stop in the tour is Toronto. Other tour destinations have yet to be announced.
Posted by richard ting at January 12, 2006, 10:53 AM
December 10, 2005
ITP, NYU Winter Show 2005 - Dec. 18 & 19
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Winter Show 2005
Date and Time:
Sunday, 12/18/2005, 2pm - 6pm
Monday, 12/19/2005, 5pm - 9pm
An amazing display of interactive technologies, resulting in physical
installations and screen-based projects. Twice a year, ITP hosts a
student show that draws roughly 2,000 visitors over the two days.
The diversity and creativity of the students are evident in the work
as they explore a wide range of fields like interactive art and
sound, assistive technology, wireless devices and physical computing
to name a few. This event is free and open to the public. There is no need to RSVP.
Posted by richard ting at December 10, 2005, 05:42 PM
November 18, 2005
Cut and Paste Design Competition
Cut & Paste is a live event that evokes the theme of the "battle", paying homage to MC/DJ contests, dance-offs, and graffit artists. Eight contestants will go head to head in an elimination tournament where they will have 15 minutes to produce a design that best exemplifies a theme, with the materials and tools provided.
Posted by richard ting at November 18, 2005, 06:58 PM
October 12, 2005
Tokion's Creativity Now Conference
Tokion Magazine announces the Third Annual Creativity Now Conference, to be held at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall on October 15th and 16th, 2005. This unique symposium will bring together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film, new media, publishing and marketing. In the same room for the first time, the people shaping today's popular culture will spend two days exchanging their ideas, methods and inspirations before an audience of 2,000.
Creativity Now will consist of several panel discussions and individual presentations.
A large cross section of the contemporary creative community is expected to attend the conference, which will be open to the public. Creativity Now will be the definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2005.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at October 12, 2005, 01:47 PM
October 10, 2005
FILE FESTIVAL 2005
FILE - International Festival of Electronic Language is a non-profit cultural organization whose purpose is to disseminate and to develop arts, technologies and scientific research, by means of exhibitions, debates, lectures, and courses. The festival promotes an yearly meeting in Brazil, in the city of São Paulo, of international arts and new-media professionals.
FILE's sixth edition happens at SESI's Art Gallery, with the exhibition of webart, netart, artificial life, hypertext, computer animation, real-time teleconference, virtual reality, software art works, besides games, interactive films, e-videos, digital panoramas, and electronic-art and robotic installations, in interactive and immersive rooms.
The FIESP Cultural Center mezzanine will host the fourth edition of FILE Symposium, bringing this year the renowned new-media thinker Ted Nelson, and also dozens of lectures by Brazilian and foreign professionals, who will discuss the digital-electronic culture in its relations to art, sciences and technologies.
Posted by richard ting at October 10, 2005, 11:32 AM
May 26, 2005
Barry McGee - One More Thing
May 07, 2005 — August 13, 2005
18 Wooster Street, New York
Deitch Projects is pleased to present One More Thing a museum scale exhibition of new work by Barry McGee. Deitch Projects is the third venue of a project that began at the Rose Art Museum in April 2004 with an exhibition curated by Raphaela Platow and proceeded to Melbourne Australia in November 2004 with a project curated by John Kaldor. Barry McGee works cumulatively folding one body of work into the next.
The vitality and chaos of the street are always present in Barry McGee’s exhibitions. The visitor is greeted by over turned trucks, over flowing dumpsters, and dozens of discarded Thunderbird and Night Train bottles. Animated drawings flickering on piles of television sets surrounded by hundreds of geometrically painted panels create a cacophonic environment.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at May 26, 2005, 07:16 PM
April 23, 2005
INVITE TO RES 10 EXHIBITION
R E S 1 0 E V E N T N Y C
Thursday, April 28 8-11 pm
467 Greenwich St. #6 (1 block below Canal)
RSVP to events@res.com
RES invites you to experience this year's RES 10 in person as we celebrate the work of artists, designers, directors and musicians chosen by the staff of RES as the most interesting to watch in 2005.
The 2005 RES 10 includes:
T A L M A G E C O O L E Y
R A M O N & P E D R O
I N S T I T U T E F O R A P P L I E D A U T O N O M Y
D J / R U P T U R E
N A G I N O D A
N E I L L B L O M K A M P
M. I. A.
K O I C H I R O T S U J I K A W A
S O F A K E
S A I M A N C H O W
By invitation only. RSVP to events@res.com
Posted by richard ting at April 23, 2005, 11:15 AM
April 22, 2005
Creative Time presents Look and See by Jim Hodges
Celebrate the opening of Jim Hodges' Look and See with your friends at Creative Time.
Thursday, May 5th from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park
(Two West Street @ Battery Place)
Jim Hodges' new 9-ton sculpture, Look and See, is a camouflage curtain that transports visitors to a refractive environment fusing their own fluid image with the opposing landscapes of skyscrapers and nature in Lower Manhattan. Hodges transforms materials explored in previous works-shattered mirrors, cutouts, and camouflage-and combines them with stainless steel for the first time, pushing his practice into new terrain.
Jim Hodges is the fifth artist to participate in Creative Time's Art on the Plaza, following internationally acclaimed artists Jim Campbell, Gary Hume, Zhang Huan, and Shirazeh Houshiary & Pip Horne. Art on the Plaza is an ongoing public sculpture series presented at The Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park in cooperation with Millennium Partners and The Battery Park City Authority.
Check out the website.
Posted by richard ting at April 22, 2005, 12:04 PM
September 16, 2004
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
LEMUR debuts ModBots installation at
'ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show'
Friday-Sunday, September 17-19, 2004, 12 - 6 pm
Third annual ArtBots held in Harlem for the first time, at The Mink
Building at 126th & Amsterdam!
LEMUR participates in 'ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show' from
Friday-Sunday, September 17-19. This is LEMUR's return to ArtBots;
last year, the New York artist collective received ArtBots' coveted
"People's Choice" award. ArtBots and LEMUR make their Harlem debut at
The Mink Building at 126th & Amsterdam for three days of robotic fun.
LEMUR debuts a new percussion ensemble consisting of thirteen ModBots
instruments. ModBots are miniature modular percussion robots in a
variety of styles and functions, including singing bell bots and
percussion "beater" bots. During ArtBots, the ModBots ensemble will
sometimes perform an improvised cacophony of percussive music and
sound; at other times, it will perform composed pieces, including
"Music for Robots", written by downtown composer and regular LEMUR
contributor Joshua Fried. Kids and ArtBots attendees will also have
the opportunity to play with the ModBots ensemble, using interactive
sensor inputs.
The ModBots ensemble was created by LEMUR artist Bil Bowen. Bowen is
a sound artist and engineer with a background in music composition
and architectural theory. He is a founding member of the Aires
Project, and is currently building mechanized idiophonic sculptures
for interactive installation-compositions within existing
architectural spaces.
Posted by richard ting at September 16, 2004, 03:39 PM
September 07, 2004
Resfest New York Starts Thursday!
Posted by richard ting at September 07, 2004, 11:17 PM
May 23, 2004
Digital Avant Garde
New York
May 21st - July 18th, 2004
Posted by richard ting at May 23, 2004, 08:33 PM
May 19, 2004
Kidrobot presents The Dunny Show
May 17 through July 17 2004
at the Visionaire Gallery
11 Mercer Street (between Grand & Canal), SoHo, NYC
Posted by richard ting at May 19, 2004, 01:35 PM
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
February 05, 2004
Invention at Play
http://www.inventionatplay.org/
Posted by richard ting at February 05, 2004, 04:27 PM
February 02, 2004
Dorkbot - 2/4
Dorkbot
Dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term). This month: Honeygun Labs presenting work they've been doing developing content for live remixing in different situations, Cary Peppermint discussing strategies for media synaesthesia and actively performing the media, and Jeannie H. Lee on Shh ... She's Asleep solo performance art work.
Columbia University Computer Music Center in Prentis Hall
632 West 125th street, third floor, Manhattan
1,9 trains to 125th Street station
7p; $free
dorkbotnyc@dorkbot.org
Posted by richard ting at February 02, 2004, 08:09 PM
January 06, 2004
Midwizest
details here : http://www.midwizest.com
or read this fun filled description:
mid-wiz-est
jan 9 - feb 11
stay gold gallery
451 grand street
brooklyn
Opening Reception
Friday, January 9, 2004 / 7pm-12am
A collective of established and up-and-coming artists will be graphcally exploring their interpretations of the Midwest. As a highly under-rated part of the hip hop culture and design world, the Midwest is thriving with talent that does not have the direct opportunity, outside of the world-wide web, to be exposed to the culture of the coasts.
This show will be an opportunity for these artists to gain exposure outside of their immediate environment. Each artist will create an individual interpretation using any medium and application. All artists have roots in the Midwest and a range of styles from graffiti art to experimental web based design. Included will be a performance by a group of Chicago based MC's and DJ's.
Posted by richard ting at January 06, 2004, 10:57 AM
December 08, 2003
NYU ITP Winter Show 2003
ITP Winter Show 2003: An exhibition of interactive student work including multimedia installations, physical and virtual interaction design, sound and video design projects.
December 16 & 17
5 - 9pm
An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded by Red Burns in 1979
as the first graduate education in alternative media, it has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production, and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway at Waverly Place
4th Floor, South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
Please call 212-998-1880 or
email itp.inquiries@nyu.edu with questions.
This show is free and open to the public.
Posted by richard ting at December 08, 2003, 11:33 AM
November 18, 2003
Motion Studies: Augmented Space Media Art for an Urban Environment
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Motion Studies: Augmented Space Media Art for an Urban Environment Tuesday, November 25, 2003 from 7 - 9pm What is electronically augmented space? What are its cultural applications? What are its poetics and aesthetics? Digital artist and architect Marek Walczak, sound artist Ben Rubin, and computer scientist Steven Feiner discuss an old conceptual problem in a new context: how to combine, juxtapose, and overlay various layers of data onto physical space. From large scale interactive buildings at the new World Trade Center that track and reflect pedestrian movement on the sidewalk, to digital soundscapes that gurgle up from underneath Battery Park City’s new Teardrop Park, Walczak, Rubin and Feiner discuss the challenges of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing new media for an urban environment. |
Posted by richard ting at November 18, 2003, 11:31 AM
November 07, 2003
ceci n'est pas un nike
[in response to previous post on nikeartspace]
http://www.desvirtual.com/nike/
Ceci n'est pas un nike talks about on line creation and its conditions. Its point of departure is the conceptual confusion between interface and surface.
Magritte's pipes are its strongest referencs and it updates the discussion about the differences between image and representation, denying the Web as an adendum of the screen or an epiphenomena of the computer.
The discussion takes place in an image warping program_ the e-nike generator. It stresses the conflict between code and representations allowing transformations in this site icon. You are invited to create and upload your own nike to our "no-nike_center" and to destroy some nikes too.
Moreover, I would like to have you adding your layer to the e-palimpsest, intereacting, in real time, with the critical text, using only your browser.
BTW, this is not a nike, but a web site.
So create, destroy and rebuild.
Just do it!
Giselle Beiguelman, 2002
Posted by richard ting at November 07, 2003, 10:10 AM
October 22, 2003
Novel User Interfaces
NYC-CHI presents:
"Novel User Interfaces" - a panel discussion of physical computing
with Kevin Centanni, Dan O'Sullivan and Robert Fabricant.
Remote Lounge (lower level)
327 Bowery above 2nd St
Thursday 23 October 6:30 to 8:30 PM
2 for 1 well, alcohol and draft beer special
--FREE!!!--
--NO RSVP NECESSARY--
Join NYC-CHI as we present three visionaries in the field of physical computing, and see demos of some of their work.
Many thanks to the Remote Lounge for hosting this event.
NYC-CHI is:
Scott Weiss, Chair
Maria Moratis, Vice-Chair
Fleur Levitz, Information Chair
Posted by richard ting at October 22, 2003, 11:01 AM
September 22, 2003
PDPal - October 9th
October 9 - December 12, 2003 PDPal: PDPal is a public art project for PDA's (personal digital assistants), the web and 59th Minute created by artist Marina Zurkow, architect Scott Paterson, and technologist Julian Bleecker , in which users can make maps to capture and share moments from their experience in Times Square.
Posted by richard ting at September 22, 2003, 11:18 AM
September 10, 2003
IMPAKT ONLINE
Apart from the yearly festival, Impakt also organizes various other projects. One of them is Impakt Online. With Impakt Online we want to contribute to the development of the internet as an artistic medium. Every year Impakt supports six artists to complete a net.art project.
Impakt Online focuses on projects which use the Internet's special characteristics - projects which exist thanks to the interactive, non-hierarchical complexity of the Internet environment, to current developments in networked technology both on the desktop in in the palm of your hand, and to new ways of organizing information which have the possibility to change the way you view your world. This year, Impakt has chosen three themes to investigate: "The Art of the Narrative", "Out of the Box" and "Database Dilemnas". Each of these themes involves a differing set of technologies, approaches and viewpoints about the use of the Internet and the new media technologies which are becoming more and more part of our daily lives. The first two themes, "Art of the Narrative" and "Out of the Box", have their premeires during the Impakt Festival, June 3-9 2003. The last theme, "Database Dilemnas", will launch December 1, 2003, and further themes for 2004 will be announced at the end of 2003.
Posted by richard ting at September 10, 2003, 11:08 PM
September 03, 2003
Digital Media: The Big Ideas w/Jeff Dachis
Digital Media: The Big Ideas w/Jeff Dachis
Wednesday, September 10th, 6 - 8pm
The New School Swayduck Auditorium. 65 Fifth Avenue
RSVP to cic@newschool.edu
Jeff Dachis, founder and CEO of Razorfish, discusses the current state
of the digital media industry, while introducing a 13-session course he
will teach at The New School this fall. This discussion introduces the
core ideas and practices that have played a formative role in the
technological and cultural evolution of digital media. From GameBoys to
laptops to plasma screens, discussion focus on the variety of issues
determining the specific creative, economic, technological, and social
purposes that necessitate and define digital media and the societal
values that inform such content.
RSVP to cic@newschool.edu
Posted by richard ting at September 03, 2003, 10:25 AM
August 27, 2003
Doors of Perception in Bangalore
Doors of Perception announces a "working party" in Bangalore, India, on 11 and 12 December, to celebrate its tenth birthday. DoorsEast 2003 is a cluster of events on the theme: "Local knowledge: design and innovation of tomorrow's services". The main event is a two-day international encounter - part conference, part open space workshop - on 11 and 12 December. It will address the question: "how do we design new services, enabled by ICT, that are based on local knowledge, and use local content?" DoorsEast features case studiesof location based information (GIS / GPS), WiFi networks, tools and methodologies for mapping local knowledge, and other new ways to design for mobility, geography, and access.
Doors' partners in the event are the Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS) and the National Institute of Design, in India; and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and Nokia, in Europe. Presenters and participants include: grassroots innovators from India and South Asia; designers of future service scenarios from MediaLab, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and others; Jussi Angesleva, the winner of Open Doors in 2002; Webby Award winner Marcel van der Drift; Derrick de Kerckhove, McCluhan Program director; Darlie O Koshy, Director, National Institute of Design in India; Open Doors peoples' choice Live|Work, from London; Ezio Manzini, Milan Polytechnic University; philosopher Patricia de Maertelare; e-democracy expert Bert Mulder; future services designers from Nokia; Jogi Panghaal, DoorsEast; Aditya Dev Sood, Center for Knowledge Societies, Bangalore; Marco Susani, Motorola; and symposiarch John Thackara, Doors of Perception.
John Thackara commented: "The first major industry, textiles, owed a great deal to the transfer of knowledge from India. Our focus in design is now shifting its focus from things, to systems, and there are many new ways we can learn from South Asian thought".
http://www.doorseast.org/
http://www.doorsofperception.com/
