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Contemporary Art: Who Cares?

I think quite in line with the theme of October Contemporary in Hong Kong, we are all asking who want Contemporary art.

Registration will start in November 2009.

Contemporay Art: Who Cares? will take place at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam from 9 - 11 June 2010. Participants are also welcome at the pre-symposium reception on the evening of the 8th of June.

Tickets to the three-day international symposium will cost:
€ 290
€ 160 for students
Included in the price of the ticket is a copy of the book Inside Installations (working title), which is due for launch in March 2011.

The programme is being created in collaboration by a group of experts from 34 organisations who are working together under the umbrella project PRACTICs. Most of these individuals worked together during the EU project Inside Installations (2004-2007). For more information about PRACTICs follow this link.

Co-organisers of the symposium would like to point out that there will be no call for papers, but there will be a call for posters. This is expected to be sent out in November 2009.

CA:WC will feature plenary lectures as well as a choice of circa 10 parallel sessions per day; discussions, workshops and site visits. There will also be time allocated to poster presentations and networking sessions. The themes for the congress are as follows:

Day 1: Artistic production and collection development

Day 2: Care & conservation

Day 3: Access, presentation & the public

More details on the programme will be posted alongside registration information in November.

If you have any questions about the Contemporary Art: Who Cares? symposium please send an email to contemporaryartwhocares@gmail.com

The first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale

Opening Amsterdam Biënnale 2009 + Mediamatic Travel
Friday 16 october 2009, 20 hrs.
Exhibition open until 13 december 2009

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is the first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale in the world. More than 30 curators from the Mediamatic Travel network present contemporary art from their city.

The exhibition opens on Friday with the pavilions of Kabul, Napels, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Belgrade, Boston, Talinn and Brooklyn. We will have weekly openings of new pavillions untill the end of the exhbition.

The Biennale is a part of Mediamatic Travel, our new travel-office to the contemporary art worldwide. Friday travel.mediamatic.net will go on-line and with Partizan Publik we will present, the Travel Catalogue Destinations 2010.

Opening hours

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is opened from 17 October till 13 December 2009. Open from Monday – Friday from 1 pm – 7 pm and Saturday + Sunday from 1 pm – 6 pm.
Location :Mediamatic BANK, Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam

There are many interesting ideas in the proposals to the biennial. And the material for the
city pavilions are listed as:
Bamboo Pavilion
Price: €65
Styrofoam Pavilion
Price: €85
Honeycomb Cardboard Pavilion
Price: €185
Inflatable Pavilion
Price: €170

WALLED GARDEN by Virtueel Platform

WALLED GARDEN
by Virtueel Platform
20 & 21 November 2008, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam

Virtueel Platform invites you to take part in WALLED GARDEN. This international working conference will approach the development and future challenges of the current Web 2.0 through exploration, experimentation and exchange of knowledge. Our goal: a blueprint for policy makers, funders and practitioners that works towards a public garden.


WALLED GARDEN will address issues of identity, mobile communities and networks by focussing on the tendency towards online gated and closed communities. How does this affect the (in)accessibility of information and knowledge? Now is the time to identify success factors and failures of Web 2.0 and to initiative new tools and strategies for the future Web. Keywords: trust, transparency, accountability, enforcement, privacy, personalization, context-awareness.

Virtueel Platform sows the seeds with lively debates but we need your expertise!


WALLED GARDEN breaks with the traditional conference format. Structured participative group dialogue will be interspersed with inspirational presentations from artists, researchers and technologists. Registration is open until Monday 10 November.


Speakers and moderators

Sessions will be led by international researchers, including:

Bronac Ferran (Royal College of Art, London),
Tom Klinkowstein (Media A, New York),
Tapio Mäkelä (University of Salford),
Erin Manning (Senselab, Montreal),
Aymeric Mansoux (goto10.org),
Sabine Niederer (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam),
Matt Ratto (University of Toronto),
Edward Shanken (University of Amsterdam),
Adam Somlai-Fischer (The Kitchen, Budapest)


Virtual and physical presentations by:

Celia Pearce (Georgia Tech),
mez breeze (_Augmentology 101_ ),
Aenimae (Performing Creativity Platform),
Aymeric Mansoux & Marloes de Valk (Metabiosis),
Tom Klinkowstein and Irene Pereyra (2030 – a day in the life of..) and many more.


Registration closes on 10 November 2008!

If you want to be part of WALLED GARDEN please mail to workshop@virtueelplatform.nl

Since there is a limited number of seats available, a selection process will take place if the quantity of applications succeeds this number. Therefore, please send us a short statement of max 250 words describing why you want to participate and what you would like to gain by taking part.

The fee is 150 euro (students 75 euro) for two days, including lunches and dinner.


About Virtueel Platform

Virtueel Platform is an independent expertise centre that stimulates innovation and supports knowledge exchange in the field of e-culture in the Netherlands. Virtueel Platform has an international orientation and provides insight in Dutch e-culture for the international cultural community. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has given Virtueel Platform the task of supporting interdisciplinary e-culture. Our aim is to encourage new kinds of partnerships, particularly between parties who would not normally work together. The resulting projects then go on to serve as examples of good practice.

ARTIST in RESIDENCE [AiR] 2007 @Montevideo, Netherlands

Deadline : 1 Sept !!!!!

Details:
residency period 3 months
dates from September 2007
location Amsterdam, Netherlands

The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice. The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work.

Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive
* installation art, in which the following occurs:
* interaction between tools and/or software
* interaction between tools and artwork
* interaction between audience and artwork

The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues. There is access to studio and exhibition equipment,
technical support from the Institute’s staff and production help from interns. The technical staff is specialized and has good contacts with programmers of the following software, a.o.: PD/PDP, Blender, Dynebolic, Linux. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realization of the concept.

It is integral to the mission of the AiR program that artists participate in presenting their work in a public form appropriate to their project. This can include gallery installations, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, on-line projects, or multimedia performances, in addition to open studio events and workshops. For this reason we ask that artists include in their proposal possible examples of how they might like to present their work publicly.

At this moment the Netherlands Media Art Institute provides in travel costs. It doesn’t provide accommodation for artists living outside of Amsterdam. However, we are willing to help the search but cannot guarantee a place for living.

Form

Final Call for papers: Network Culture

NEW NETWORK THEORY
International Conference

Location: Amsterdam
Dates: 28-30 June 2007

Organized by: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam Polytechnic, HvA), and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam.

New Network Theory, the 2007 ASCA International Conference, organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam Polytechnic) and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, has issued its first call for papers. The conference, to be held on Thursday, 28 June to Saturday, 30 June, 2007, also includes a public program with renowned speakers.

Significant dates

Deadline for Submission of Paper Abstract (500 words) and Biography (100 words): 10 January 2007

Submit to: networktheory@networkcultures.org

Acceptance Notification: 1 March 2007

Further inquiries to: Dr. Eloe Kingma, Managing Director, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Oude Turfmarkt 147, Oude Turfmarkt 147, 1012 GC, Amsterdam, tel: +31 20 525 3874, asca-fgw@uva.nl.

Conference organizers:

Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/University of Amsterdam)
Sabine Niederer (Institute of Network Cultures)
Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)
Jan Simons (University of Amsterdam)

Locations: Pakhuis de Zwijger Media Warehouse (28 June), University of Amsterdam (29-30 June)

Invited Speakers and Facilitators: Katy Borner, Wendy Chun, Nosh Contractor, Florian Cramer, Mario Diani, Matthew Fuller, Martin Kearns, Valdis Krebs, Alan Liu, Noortje Marres, Anna Munster, Claudia Padovani, Jussi Parikka, Warren Sack, Ramesh Srinivasan, Rob Stuart, Tiziana Terranova, Kenneth Werbin. The speakers and facilitators are unconfirmed.

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General Introduction: Rethinking Network Cultures

The object of study has shifted from the virtual community and the space of flows to the smart mob. When the object of study changes, so may the distinctions that dominate, particularly the schism between place-based space and place-less space, both organised and given life by networks. We would like to exploit the potential of writing contemporary network theory that suits and reflects the changes to the objects of study that come to define our understandings of network culture – a post-Castellsian network theory, if you will, that takes technical media seriously.

It is time to look for elements that can make up a network theory outside of post-modern cultural studies (which marvelled at the place-less place) and ethnographic social sciences (which reminded us of the ground). What network culture studies needs is a ‘language of new media,’ perhaps even signage, to speak in terms of Lev Manovich; what it currently has is a science-centered ‘unified network theory,’ to paraphrase the language of Albert-László Barabási.

Whilst it may come as no surprise to critical Internet scholars, the notion that networks are not random but have underlying structures remains the key insight for network scientists. Instead of posing new questions, the work that follows from that insight often seeks to confirm that structure and its accompanying patterns, across more and more network-like objects. The question remains which specific contribution critical Internet scholars and practitioners can make to opening up network thought. Such is the purpose of the network theory conference. How must we rethink network culture with a renewed emphasis on technical media and social software?

Suggested Topics:

Networks and Social Movements
Anomylous Objects, Parasites of the Net
Networking and Social Life
Social Software and Insider Networks
Network Policy
Network Governance / Organised Networks
Actor-Network Theory and the Assemblage
Gamers Contribute to Network Theory
Network Knowledge Production
Networks and Disengagement
Media Networks
The Link
Locative Media and Networks
Mapping Quests

Other topics may be suggested.