ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS -CALL FOR PAPERS

*Monday 6th - Wednesday 8th July 2009*
CALL FOR PAPERS
**Visualising* *
ideas and concepts in culture, heritage and the arts: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, computer arts

OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS by 31 January 2009

/EVA London 2009 will be co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society, a Special Interest Group of the British Computer Society, and by the BCS. /

We invite offers of papers. For proposals we require only a summary of the paper on not more than one page. It must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website.

Papers may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for the arts and culture, broadly interpreted, including technology, use and users, creative, visual and performing arts and music, strategy,organisational implications and policy.Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited. They will be published as hard copy and online.

We hope to offer bursaries again to attend EVA London for those who do
not have access to grants.

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EVA London 2009's conference themes will include, but are not limited to:

* Enabling the arts through digital technologies
* Crossing disciplinary boundaries
* Visualising ideas and concepts
* Moving and still images in museums and galleries
* Web 2.0 technologies in cultural heritage organizations
* Digital and computational arts
* Sound, music, film and animation
* 2D and 3D imaging
* Virtual and augmented worlds
* Fine art and photography
* Interactive technologies

Research into the uses of museum stored collections:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/storedcollections/

Media Matters launches phase 2

A consortium of curators, conservators, registrars, legal advisors, and media technical managers from New Art Trust, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Tate has launched the second phase of Media Matters, an innovative website designed to provide international guidelines for the care of time-based media works of art (e.g. video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based installations).Here

What had everybody done before

Lists and links are so important resources these days. I like very much when people feedback to me that there are a lot to see and read in my blog. I understand it is not original and not personal, lacking two of the selling point of great traffic blog. I mantain the blog because I want to display the bookmarks that help me to understand new media and art and generate new idea and possibilities for others.

I went to Golin Levin's (an artist that has quite a number of fans in Hong Kong)FLONG and find out that the list that he looks at is gone... and he had rebuild from other sources a very interesting list... I sure find very interesting stuff here. And thank you for sharing.

I also find an interesting interview on the competition for writing on web (hypertext?!)-"active/onBlur: an interview with Talan Memmott conducted by Mark Amerika".

When I met Andreas in Singapore, he said that there were many archives in the world for new media and they did not have the same system but all claimed to be unique, even though there were things that were overlapped. In the end, some will survive and some will die. I am wondering what list / archive will live on. I also go to this archive (trAce) and think about a search method today.

'Digital Heritage: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Chinese Video Art Archive

Following the workshop and open archive on 'Digital Heritage: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong' in December 2006, the Goethe-Institut Hongkong continues to explore the Video Art topic, this time in mainland China, by jointly-presenting the 'Open Archive: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany + Chinese Video Art Archive' with Vitamin Creative Space from May 23 to June 21, 2008 at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou.

The open archive focuses on saving, maintaining and mediating the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century. Important video works from the past 40 years in Germany and China will be shown at the open archive at Vitamin Creative Space. The works from Germany curated by Wulf Herzogenrath were previously shown at the ZKM Center for Art, Media Karlsruhe and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf and the Goethe-Institut Hongkong (2.12.2006 - 15.1.2007), among them videos by Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski, Nam June Paik... etc. Works from China, curated by Hu Fang from Vitamin Creative Space, include those by Cao Fei, Feng Mengbo, Kan Xuan, Li Yongbin, Lu Chunsheng, Tseng Yu-Chin,Tsui Kuang-Yu, Jun Yang, Xu Zhen.

The installation at Vitamin Creative Space is designed by Map Office (Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix).

Vitamin Creative Space Address:
Room 301, 29 Hao,
Hengyijie, Chigangxilu
Guangzhou, 510300, China
Tel: +86 20 8429 6760
www.vitamincreativespace.com

Archives at Argos and you tube video selcted by INC

image taken from one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern Performances

With the first edition of the bi-annual event OPEN ARCHIVE #1, Argos opens its collections, revealing the multiple correlations latent in the numerous audio-visual works comprising its archive. A series of curated programmes and specially grouped thematic sections highlight the new acquisitions and works selected by an international jury. A lively, diverse series of conferences, lectures, performances and screenings completes the project aiming to activate some of the key issues in audiovisual culture today. The long list of international guests includes Tony Conrad, Ken Jacobs, Eliane Radigue, Lev Manovich, Laura Mulvey, Keith Sanborn, Charles Curtis, David Toop, Steve Reinke, Philippe-Alain Michaud, among many others.

Parallely to OPEN ARCHIVE #1, Argos will continue its extra muros activities with a series of international events featuring works and artists from the Argos collections. In October and November the Ecran d'Art series at Cinéma Arenberg will bring to Brussels the work of Japanese artist Naomi Kawase and British avant-garde filmmaker John Smith. Another legendary avant-garde filmmaker, Kenneth Anger, will be the subject of a full retrospective programme and international seminar taking place in November at the Film Museum.



VIDEO VORTEX : RESPONSES TO YOUTUBE
Conference
Fri 05.10.2007 11:00 - 19:00

Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the Internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as well. With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of social actors, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used? How do artists and activists react to the popularity of YouTube and other 'user-generated-content' websites? What is the impact of the availability of massive on-line images and sound databases on aesthetics and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an art form and experience, influenced by the development of widely spreading internet practices? What does YouTube tell us about the state of art in visual culture? And how does the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?

This Video Vortex conference is the first in a series of international events, aimed at critical research and reflection surrounding the production and distribution of on-line video content, at the instigation of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC).

Johan Grimonprez, Peter Horvath, Lev Manovich, Ana Kronschnabl & Tomas Rawlings, Adrian Miles, Simon Ruschmeyer, Keith Sanborn, Peter Westenberg

moderated by Geert Lovink
Co-production with Institute of Network Cultures

20:30 VIDEO VORTEX screenings: the Conference will be followed by a selection of exceptional, witty and provoking Internet videos, compiled for the occassion by international and local guests.

TatePlayer: archive of talks, performances, videos...

From Museum Lab

Tate was one of the first museums in the world to record and archive its events online, but never had a good infrastructure to display this rich collection. The Tate Player encompasses audio and video of Tate’s events, and adds new Tate Shots and existing audiovisual works from the Tate Modern collection, such as videos by Gilbert & George, and interviews with Frank Stella and Sol LeWitt.

New Media & Social Memory

on 18th Jan. 2007 : The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is proud to present New Media & Social Memory, a public symposium to discuss strategies for preserving digital art at a time when digital technologies are evolving and becoming obsolete at an astonishingly rapid pace. While focussing on digital art, the symposium will also address larger concerns about the long-term conservation of our increasingly digital culture, including how we decide what digital content - from Web sites to video games - are worth saving.
Symposium Program

10:00-10:15
Introductions
Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator, BAM/PFA
Jane Metcalfe, Founder & Original Publisher, Wired Magazine, BAM/PFA Board

10:15-11:00
Stewart Brand, President, Long Now Foundation

11:10-12:00
Stewart Brand, President, Long Now Foundation, in conversation with
Kevin Kelly, Editor at Large, Wired Magazine
Jon Ippolito, Assistant Professor of New Media, University of Maine

12:00-1:00
Lunch break

1:10-2:00
Alexander Rose, Executive Director, Long Now Foundation
Kurt Bollacker, Digital Research Director, Long Now Foundation

2:10-3:00
Marisa Olsen, Editor and Writer, Rhizome.org
Michael Katchen, Archivist, Franklin Furnace

3:10-4:00
Jeff Rothenberg, Computer Scientist
Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator, BAM/PFA

4:10-5:00
Bruce Sterling, Author, Founder, Dead Media Project

5:00-7:00
Public reception

All about Video art

Workshop 2.12.2006 (Sat)
Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai


Pictures : Bjørn Melhus, No Sunshine, Germany, 1997 |Rosemarie Trockel, Buffalo Billy + Milly, Germany, 2000 | Joseph Beuys, Filz-TV, Germany, 1970



10:00am - 12:30pm
Welcome note by Michael Müller-Verweyen, Director, Goethe-Institut Hongkong

Session 1 - Flash back to the last 40 years of Video Art
- The discovery of video art and the establishment of a video art archive

Speakers
- Wulf Herzogenrath, Director, Kunsthalle Bremen; Curator of 40 Years of Video Art
- Ellen Pao, Founder, Videotage

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch break

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Session 2 - The impact of video art on the traditional art and vice versa
- How did the new technical options change our concept of art?
- What do people find challenging with new technology?
- Does technology bring video art to an end?
- Video Art vs Amateur Video

Speakers
- Isaac Leung, Programme Director, Videotage
- Yip Yuk-yiu, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong

3:15pm - 4:00pm
- Coffee break
Intermission - screening of video art works at Goethe-Studio

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Session 3 - Is video art the antiquity of new media art?
- How did video art change the definition of art, from its original documentary form to its new focus on visual impact?
- Internet distribution: how does the new trend of internet distribution influence video art (e.g. You Tube)?
- Is video art becoming a traditional art form (such as painting and sculpture)?

Speakers
- Tobias Berger, Executive Director, Para/Site Art Space
- May Fung, Video artist
- Wulf Herzogenrath, Director, Kunsthalle Bremen; Curator of 40 Years of Video Art

Programme subject to change.
Conducted in English. Admission free.

The '40 Years of Video Art - Digital Heritage' installation which takes place at the Goethe-Gallery from 2.12.2006 - 15.1.2007 focuses on saving, maintaining and mediating the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century. The works were shown in Germany earlier at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf before coming to Hong Kong, among them videos by Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski, Nam June Paik... etc. Apart from the package curated by Wulf Herzogenrath, Director of Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany, an overview of Hongkong-based video and new media art collective Videotage's own archive from the past 20 years will also be showcased in the installation.

Installation at Goethe-Gallery designed by: Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix