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RHIZOME DIGEST: January 31, 2007

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1. elssilvrants AT hotmail.com: call for residencies in beijing
2. Sherry Hocking: Finishing Funds 2007
3. Genco Gulan: Open Call for Web Based Art: Web Biennial 2007
4. missmellyj AT gmail.com: Version>07 Call for participation

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5. Lauren Cornell: Professional Surfer
6. Turbulence.org: 3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence
7. communicate AT anat.org.au: Where Do Art & Fashion Meet Hi-Tech?
8. r.smith AT preston.gov.uk: Digital Aesthetic 2: Conference/Exhibition/Website
9. Paul Green: Existential Computing at The Hayward
10. Zev Robinson: artafterscience at ARCO 07, Madrid

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From: elssilvrants AT hotmail.com <elssilvrants AT hotmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007
Subject: call for residencies in beijing

beiLAB residencies
in Beijing, China
for artists, architects, scientists, curators and researchers

We invite projects undertaking RESEARCH or developing DISCOURSE / zooming in on CHINA’S URBAN AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS / confronting art and technology with the different realities of the CHINESE CITY / doing so from a MULTITUDE of perspectives and disciplines

MORE INFORMATION www.theatreinmotion.org/beilab

The beiLAB is a multidisciplinary work space and research platform in Beijing, China, covering an office space, an artist studio and a project space for lectures and workshops. BeiLAB is conceived as a meeting place for artistic, architectural, scientific and corporate communities researching China’s social and urban realities in all its greyscales.


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Organizational memberships with Rhizome

Sign your library, university or organization up for a Rhizome organizational membership! Give your community access to the largest online archives of digital art and new media art-related writing, the opportunity to organize member-curated exhibitions, participate in critical discussion, community boards, and learn about residency, educational and professional possibilities. Rhizome also offers subsidized memberships for qualifying institutions with limited access to the Internet. Please visit http://rhizome.org/info/org.php for more information or contact Ceci Moss at ceci AT rhizome.org

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From: Sherry Hocking <etc AT experimentaltvcenter.org>
Date: Jan 24, 2007
Subject: Finishing Funds 2007

The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER is pleased to announce FINISHING FUNDS 2007.

FINISHING FUNDS provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate students are not eligible. The application requires a project description, resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selec!
tion is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year. Announcement is made in early June.

The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by mediaThe foundation.

Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2007

Guidelines and applications are available on the web at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/ in the ETC News Section and the Grants area or by mail or email.

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From: Genco Gulan <istanbulmuseum AT yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2007
Subject: Open Call for Web Based Art: Web Biennial 2007

Web Biennial is a project produced by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM. Artistic director, Genco GULAN, welcomes all to participate the project through the portal http://webbiennial.org

We do not have any technical limitation. One project per artist/ e-mail.
Sorry, NO Portfolio sites, NO Commercial Projects.
This project is totally free and open for all. No discrimination of any kind.

Web bots welcome. All languages welcome except, in the head tags.
Web Biennial is a NO concept, NO curator, NO location, NO sponsor, Art event since 2003.
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Please send us the URL of your Web Based Art project.
Put inside the head tags of your index page:
"Web Biennial 2007 - Name of the Artist - Name of Your Project."
For example Web Biennial 2007 - Sinan Can - Bionicle Wars
NO REDIRECTION PAGES PLEASE! The index and the web site needs to have the same domain name. NO ATTACHMENTS PLEASE!
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e-mail submissions to: webbiennial AT yahoo.com
Please also put in the subject line of your email:
"Web Biennial 2007 - Name of the Artist - Name of Your Project."
Submissions and exhibition Start: February 1st - End December 31 2007.
We will work first come first serve bases. Collaboration proposals from Festivals, Institutions, Individuals welcome.
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From: missmellyj AT gmail.com <missmellyj AT gmail.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2007
Subject: Version>07 Call for participation

Version07 call for participation.
Deadline March 7, 2007.

An unconventional network of creators, workers, musicians, organizations, artists, activists, producers and organizers are collectively waging asymmetrical warfare on the established systems of control in our cultural, political and art worlds.

The Insurrection Internationale is a moment. It is a point of confluence between various networks and subcultures that believe in the solidarity of our multitudes. Together we are waging a revolt against established systems and authority to create new worlds to inhabit. We are creating alternate realities, independent economies, developing alliances and infrastructures to support our beliefs. We are engaging in a culture war against the establishments in all their guises.

This year Version will explore the various networks undermining the forces of stagnation, decay and business as usual. Individuals and groups involved in creating alternative modes of operations, communications and networks of cooperation are invited to our annual convergence this spring to discover the plausible worlds we can create together.

"This is the final struggle/Let us join together and tomorrow/The International/Will be the human race"

Version is a massive complex DIY festival with many components. Choose your own adventure.

To submit a project to Version07 we ask you to select a category or platform
And look at our call for participation site:

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://www.versionfest.org

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM
http://adoptanamerican.com/version07/submit/add.php

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From: Lauren Cornell <laurencornell AT rhizome.org>
Date: Jan 25, 2007
Subject: Professional Surfer

Hello,

We just launched a new online show called Professional Surfer, which
explores web browsing as an art form. The show is part of Time
Shares, our online exhibition series co-presented by the New Museum.

http://www.rhizome.org/events/timeshares/professionalsurfer.php

all best, Lauren

Executive Director
Rhizome

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PLATFORM FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

PLATFORM international Animation Festival, a major new multi-platform event taking place in Portland, Oregon June 25-30, is inviting proposals for animated installations. Mixed-media entries welcome, as long as some element of animation is included. Detailed specifications for a range of galleries and indoor and outdoor sites in Portland`s arts district, a reclaimed industrial neighborhood known as The Pearl, are available on our website, http://www.platformfestival.com/content/installations.aspx

Entry Deadline is February 1st.

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From: Turbulence.org <turbulence AT turbulence.org>
Date: Jan 26, 2007
Subject: 3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence

January 25, 2007
"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence"
Essays by Josphine Bosma, Beln Gache, and Eduardo Navas

Turbulence.org and New Media Fix (http://newmediafix.net) are pleased to announce the publication of "3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence," three texts about works from the Turbulence.org archive. The texts--published in English, Italian and Spanish--were written and translated by members and affiliates of New Media Fix. They include "The Body in Turbulence" by Josephine Bosma; "Narrating with New Media: What Happened with Whatever has Happened?" by Beln Gache; and "Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats" by Eduardo Navas. The translations are by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Francesca De Nicol, Raquel Herrera, and Brenda Banda Corona & Ignacio Nieto. Ludmil Trenkov designed the PDF and HTML documents.

"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The essays may be read and/or downloaded at http://www.turbulence.org/texts/nmf/ or http://newmediafix.net/Turbulence07/

BIOGRAPHIES

JOSEPHINE BOSMA (1962) is a writer and critic. She started working in the field of new media art making radio shows, documentaries and interviews about the topic for VPRO and Patapoe radio in 1993. She has published interviews, reviews and texts about art and new media in various books and magazine, both on and offline, since 1996. Her work mostly focuses on net art, sound art and net culture. Bosma has also organized several events, like the radio section of the tactical media festival Next5Minutes 2 (1996) and 3 (1999), an evening about net art criticism (2001) and the newsletter CREAM (2001/2002). She lives and works in Amsterdam.
http://houseoflaudanum.com/bosma

BELN GACHE has a Master's Degree in Discourse Analysis with a thesis on the argentine writer Julio Cortzar. She has published books such as Escrituras mades, del libro perdido al hipertexto (Nomadic Writings, from the lost book to hipertext) (Spain, Gijn, Trea, 2006), El ser escrito: lenguajes y escrituras en la obra de Xul Solar (The Written Being: languages and writings in Xul Solar's works) (Madrid, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofa, 2002), Jorge Macchi, el destino como principal sospechoso, (Jorge Macchi, Destiny as the Principal Suspect) (France, Centre Contemporain dart, Montebeliard, 2001). As a narrator she has published the novels Lunas elctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric Moons for Moonless Nights) (Sudamericana, 2004), Divina Anarquia (Divine Anarchy) (Sudamericana, 1999) and Luna India (Indian Moon) (Planeta, 1994). Since 1996 she develops Wordtoys , a compilation of net poems and other non-linear works.
http://www.belengache.com.ar

EDUARDO NAVAS is an artist, historian and critic specializing in new media; his work and theories have been presented in various places throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has been a juror for
Turbulence.org in 2004 and for Rhizome.org in 2006-07, New York. Navas is founder and was contributing editor of "Net Art Review" (2003-05), is co-founder of "newmediaFIX" (2005 to present) and is co-founding member of "acute.cc", an international group of artists and academics who organize event and publications periodically. Currently, Navas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art and Media History, theory and Criticism at the University of California San Diego. www.navasse.net

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade


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Rhizome.org 2005-2006 Net Art Commissions

The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via panel-awarded commissions.

For the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commissions, eleven artists/groups were selected to create original works of net art.

http://rhizome.org/commissions/

The Rhizome Commissions Program is made possible by support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, the Greenwall Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support has been provided by members of the Rhizome community.

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From: communicate AT anat.org.au <communicate AT anat.org.au>
Date: Jan 31, 2007
Subject: Where Do Art & Fashion Meet Hi-Tech?

Where Do Art & Fashion Meet Hi-Tech?

While most Australians sun themselves on summer holidays wondering whether there was more to the ipod, 7 international and local facilitators and 20 specially selected artists and designers will be busy indoors stitching the worlds of textile and technology together over 3 intensive weeks at the Australian Network for Art and Technology?s (ANAT) reSkin media lab series.

By no means a simple sewing circle, reSkin will see artists and facilitators research, develop and rapid-prototype sensor, time based and reactive clothing. It?s jewellery-shoes-bags-personal-environmental-you-name-it designs, gadgets, gizmos and devices; anything wearable and technologically integrated.

Designer of ZiZi, the affectionate couch, Stephen Barrass, will lecture alongside leading Australian sound artist Alistair Riddell, Montreal-based squishy circuit designer Joanna Berzowska and fellow MIT media lab alumni, LA-based multimedia designer and programmer Elise Co. The sessions will delve into cutting edge concepts of ?smart? artefacts, exploring embedded electronics within the design of everyday objects.

The innovative and extensive reSkin Lab project will conclude with an exciting opportunity for the public to join in the debates that will shape our digidesign future, with the WearNow forum which will be hosted over two days at the National Museum of Australia.

WearNow :: ?TECH? is the new ?BLACK?
Fri 2nd AT ANU Gallery
Sat 3rd AT National Museum of Australia
ANAT?s WearNow public forum of critical discourse around wearable futures.


To register, please go to www.anat.org.au/reskin
or email: tamara AT anat.org.au

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From: r.smith AT preston.gov.uk <r.smith AT preston.gov.uk>
Date: Jan 25, 2007
Subject: Digital Aesthetic 2: Conference/Exhibition/Website

Digital Aesthetic 2

Preston, UK.

Conference/Exhibition/Website

Conference now booking!
16th & 17th March 2007
for more details and how to book please visit:

www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk

Exhibition
17th March - 3rd June 2007

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From: Paul Green <paul.green AT gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2007
Subject: Existential Computing at The Hayward

EXISTENTIAL COMPUTING

PART 1, SENTIMENTALITY:
A 5 DAY WORKSHOP WITH MILTOS MANETAS AT THE HAYWARD IN LONDON
1. There is "sympathy" between humans and computers, there are "feelings".
1.1 In both directions.
2. There are new theories about time. Maybe time doesn't even exist!
3. People meet and exchange information. There are institutions such as The Hayward that invite artists such as myself to talk to people. I suspect it is just data that they want to know about each other.
4. Art is what is happening when data meet beautifully. This is very rare.

Miltos Manetas is an internationally renowned artist born in Greece in 1964. He lives in London and Los Angeles and his Internet Paintings (internetpaintings.com) are exhibited at the gallery Blow de la Barra in London (blowdelabarra.com) from 27 January 2007.
Manetas makes websites that are art works, they hang on the internet as a painting hang on the walls of a museum. Manetas signs them as unique pieces and collectors buy them as such. (see: jacksonpollock.org)
In 2000, he started Neen (neen.org), a new art movement.
More about Manetas: www.manetas.com

Website of the project (under construction):
http://existentialcomputing.com

Join Miltos at The Hayward for a five-day workshop to explore digital art and work together to create a work that will be showcased at The Hayward on Saturday 3 March.
The "Digital Dialogues" series of workshops are part of the 100 IDEAS programme.

Time: 12pm – 5pm
Dates: 13 – 17 Feb 2007
Venue: Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, The Hayward, Southbank Centre, London

These workshops are FREE. To enrol please contact Paul Green: paul.green AT southbankcentre.co.uk

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From: Zev Robinson <zr AT zrdesign.co.uk>
Date: Jan 28, 2007
Subject: artafterscience at ARCO 07, Madrid

Hi,

After several months of hard work on various collaborations, two galleries will be taking artafterscience projects to ARCO 07, Madrid Feb. 15-19.

The Galeria Punto, Valencia (Stand 7E, No. 178) will be showing the video installation La Noche Electoral (Election Night), all about ideologies, history and spectacle. Created in collaboration with Los Torreznos, who have been selected to represent Spain at the Venice Biennale, the video installation is an edit of old newsreels and educational films along with their performance -.
http://www.artafterscience.com/noche_electoral/noche_electoral.htm

The Galeria Canem (Stand 7E, No. 187), Castellón, will exhibit the new media project Minimal Movement with Music created by artafterscience (Adrian Marshall and Zev Robinson) in collaboration with composer Diego Dall Osto with interaction between the video and the music. The random elements and processes create a generative work in which the viewer never sees the same thing twice. We have been working closely with Diego on other collaborations which will be showing later in the year.

As usual, more info at www.artafterscience.com

Hope to see you there.

Zev Robinson
www.artafterscience.com
www.zrdesign.co.uk

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