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Open Congress

http://opencongress.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage

Tate Britain, October 7, 8

Prog:Me

http://www.progme.org/e_home.htm

C0dE 0f practice

C0dE Of practice:
Online panel discussion
associated with Curating / Immateriality / Systems
June 9 - July 14, 2005
Tate Modern, London

with Christiane Paul, Charlie Gere, Trebor Scholz and Patrick Lichty

Moderated by Sarah Cook with Beryl Graham.

http://www.tate.org.uk/contact/forums/onlineevents/

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Fusion 05

Fusion 05

Culture and Congress Center (KKL)
Lucern, Switzerland
May 21

For me, the main interest in this symposium was to look at interdisciplinarity and art-sci collaborations at the example of AIL project. Here artists worked in science labs for 6 months. The symposium was framed to self-critically present the results. The questions that I contributed to the discussion included: What is a successful arts-science collaboration? Which properties of collaboration came into play in the specific projects? It seemed that such collaborations need to be based on mutual interest on the side of the artist and the scientist. A common role for the artist otherwise, is that of the illustrator, the role of somebody who aestheticizes science maybe, for example, to make it more accessible to a broader audience. Artists could become instrumental in visualizing science results to secure funding for science. Possible models for more successful outcomes could be more long-term approaches to such collaborative projects. With more time, artists and scientists could locate genuine mutual interest.

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June 6th
Gallery P74
Slovenia, Ljubljana

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Share, Share Widely

A Conference on New Media Education, May 6th

The Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th street)
New York City

http://newmediaeducation.org -- website

The Thing
New York, NY

Join us for an intensive one day conference about new media education. Connect with new media researchers and educators, present, discuss, and exchange syllabi or other public domain materials in a temporary gift economy zone. Bring your USB memory key and laptop.
"Share, Share Widely" is organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) in collaboration with the Office of the Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and the New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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"I know new media art
when I see it."

The Art of Participation: Collaborative Mapping

May 16, 6pm
The Thing at Postmasters Gallery

A lecture by Dr. Judith Rodenbeck
and Trebor Scholz

Museum curators often frame new media art in modernist terms that attempt to provide easy and familiar rules for institutional inclusion or exclusion. Yet while many emerging participatory mapping projects can be experienced at art festivals such as Transmediale, ISEA, and Ars Electronica, when it comes to more traditional art institutions their validity as art is often questioned. Emerging art needs new venues and old venues need a new definition of art.

This event takes two approaches to the problem. One is to probe the aesthetic criteria on which institutions base their decisions about constantly shifting shape of new media art projects; the other is to explore a partial genealogy for collaborative mapping projects. Since the 1960s the notion of simple physical participation has increasingly been supplemented by more media-based and technologically mediated interactivity. An art historical line from Marcel Duchamp's nominalist interventions into the
spaces of display idea to the participatory projects of the 1960s, routed through the open forms advocated by John Cage and Umberto Eco, can be traced in the background of collaborative mapping projects.

The open access flow of information in participatory mapping projects constitutes an aesthetics that has the potential to reverse engineer the original military purposes of networked technologies. Locative techno-creative projects contrast the hierarchical organization of the military command-control-communication model and the commercial hard sell with online models of urban sites annotated and updated collectively by a multiplicity of the people who actually inhabit them. This gesture is similar to that behind the creation of the virtual city De Digitale Stad in Amsterdam in the 90s and other collaborative networked authoring projects.

About:
Judith Rodenbeck is an art historian whose work concentrates on intermedia and time-based practices of the 1960s. She is currently chair of the Division of Visual Culture at Sarah Lawrence College.
http://pages.slc.edu/~jrodenbe/

Trebor Scholz is a New York-based media artist whose practice includes the facilitation of discursive networks and writing about collaborative new media art and education.
http://distributedcreativity.org | http://molodiez.org

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Debate at New School Graduate Faculty

McKenzie Wark and Trebor Scholz in conversation with Richard Barbrook about his "Imaginary Futures" Project

Monday, April 18, 6pm

New School University
Graduate Faculty
Room 316
65 5th Ave
(between 13th & 14th Sts)

'Imaginary Futures'
In the modern world, our understanding of the present is often shaped by sci-fi fantasies about what is to come.
Ironically, the most influential of these visions of the future are already decades old. We are already living in the times when they were supposed to
have come true. In his presentations, Richard Barbrook will analyze the origins and evolution of three imaginary futures: artificial intelligence; the information society; and the gift culture. By showing that the future is what it used to be, he will argue that it is time for us to invent new futures.

Richard Barbrook is one of the most radical critics of the neo-liberal cyber-elite. In contrast, Barbrook thinks that the importance of the latest wave of technological innovation lies precisely in its ability to challenge the ideologies of the self-proclaimed opinion leaders. The Net allows for the emergence of spontaneous and flexible virtual communities, defining themselves less by market exchange than by social convention.
Richard Barbrook was educated at Cambridge, Essex and Kent universities. During the early-1980s, he was involved in pirate and community radio broadcasting. In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Richard worked for a research institute at the University of Westminster on media regulation within the EU. For the last few years, Richard has been coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster and was the first course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies (http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/). At present, Richard is preparing 'Imaginary Futures' for publication as a book. Richard is currently researcher in residence at the Institute for Distributed Creativity (http://distributedcreativity.org).

Trebor Scholz is a media artist, writer and organizer who works in the fields of media art, event-based cultural practice, education, and network culture.
http://molodiez.org

McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard 2004) and several other books. He co-edited the nettime anthology Readme! (Autonomedia 1999). He teaches media studies at New School University.
http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark/

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