Winner for “Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)”

the winners of our international juried competition, “Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)”. They are, ANNE HELMOND, PATRICK LICHTY, ANNA MUNSTER, MARISA OLSON, and KAZYS VARNELIS.

Each will receive a commission of $3,000 to develop a chapter that will be open for revision, commentary, and translation. “Networked” will launch on July 1, 2009.

The runners-up are Ele Carpenter, Christine Nadir, Mark Shepard, and Jason Freeman.

NETWORKED COMMITTEE: Steve Dietz (Northern Lights, MN) :: Martha CC Gabriel (net artist, Brazil) :: Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures, The Netherlands) :: Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MA) :: Anne Bray (LA Freewaves, LA) :: Sean Dockray (Telic Arts Exchange, LA) :: Jo-Anne Green (NRPA, MA) :: Eduardo Navas (newmediaFIX) :: Helen Thorington (NRPA, NY)

NETWORKED PARTNERS: New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) :: newmediaFIX :: LA Freewaves :: Telic Arts Exchange.

LAUNCH EVENTS: Digicult :: Freewaves :: Re:live 09 :: Telic Arts Exchange :: Upgrade! Boston :: your name here (contact jo@turbulence.org).

More information is available here:
http://turbulence.org/networked/guidelines.html

Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) : A Juried International Competition

Call for Proposals
Deadline - December 15, 2008
"A networked book is an open book designed to be written,
edited and read in a networked environment."
(Institute for the Future of the Book)

Five writers will be commissioned to develop chapters for a networked book about networked art. The chapters will be open for revision, commentary, and translation by online collaborators. Each commissioned writer will receive $3,000 (US).
Details.

Call for Net Art in Hz

On-line journal Hz is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Please send your submissions to hz-journal@telia.com

Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery. Please send your URL to hz-journal@telia.com

Deadline: 25 November, 2008

Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html

b.tween 08 and Peter Greenaway

b.TWEEN 08: worldwide 18-20 June

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/webcast


CONTENTS

1. Watch Live, Interact

2. b.TWEEN Awards

3. Who, When & Where

4. Network Now

1. Watch Live, Interact & Vote

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/webcast

b.TWEEN 08 will be webcast to a web-wide audience so you can participate in the conversation where ever you are


2. b.TWEEN Awards

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/btween-08-awards-ceremony


Tune in live, play your part and vote for your favorite

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3. Who, When & Where

http://just-b.com/btween/programme/19june

http://just-b.com/btween/programme/20june

Below are a selection of highlights from the b.TWEEN programme:


Thurs 19 June
Protect or Share

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/protect-or-share

Digitised content is easy to share and copy. That is exactly what people do with it: often illegally and often free. There is no turning back.

Some see this radical change as the tragic demise of traditional business. Others seize disruption as opportunity


User Centric Design

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/channel-4-cross-platform-innovation

Businesses and products have to be people-shaped or they will not survive this changing media scape


Fri 20 June
When Worlds Collide

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/when-worlds-collide

It is often said that the impact of new communications technologies never comes as fast as its early adopters believe, but always has a more profound impact than anyone expected


Aggregators & Integrators

http://just-b.com/btween/sessions/aggregators-integrators

In theory, the internet means that businesses can reach their end-users directly. The value chain has been blown wide open and the assumption until recently was that middle men would soon be a distant memory

4. Network Now

http://just-b.com/btween/pages/btween

b.TWEEN people are able to take advantage of an exclusive offer with MOO

Claim your 10% discount off 1 pack of MiniCards at MOO

The code to claim the discount is moobtween

NB: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Peter Greenaway can no longer make it b.TWEEN 08 and Cory Doctorow is taking his place


b.TWEEN 08 is supported by:

Channel 4, BBC, New Media Age, HP Labs, NWDA, Technology Strategy Board, Museum of Science and Industry, Littlewoods, 4Talent, Nesta, Aegis Media, Carat, Ambient Worlds, Northwest Vision & Media, Skillset, Aime, Kinura, Magnetic North, Metronet, Business Link North West, BIMA, ICA, FACT, Someth:ng Labs, MOO, Barrels & Bottles, Unltd, Raw Nerve, Creative Partnerships and the Arts Council of England

Yueh Hsiu Giffen Cheng: Online Collaborative Creations: Fortune Telling Practices in Taiwan

由黄专策划的“气韵（QI YUN）——中国抽象艺术国际巡回展”将于2007年6月1日至7月1日在中国深圳OCT当代艺术中心首次展出。同年8月和10月将继续移师北京、香港举行，08年将远赴美国展出。
Recently there seems to have some discussions about Qi Yun from recent abstract painting in recent art fair, artist commune and museum of art, thinking about Qi and net art, I found this :

Research Title: Online Collaborative Creations: Fortune Telling Practices in Taiwan

The research will be divided into two parts: the exegesis and the major creative project. Investigation of the developed circumstance of net art will be the main focus of the written section. The research on the modes of fortune telling in Taiwan will be served as the conceptual core for the major creative project. Thereafter, a series of net art projects will be created based on the research findings.

Net art has existed since the inception of the early World Wide Web in the 1990s, with several movements developing at the same time. In Europe, a core group of artists, among them Russian artist Olia Lialina(b.1971) and Alexei Shulgin(b. 1963), British artist and activist Heath Bunting, Slovenian Vuk Cosic, and the Barcelona- based team jodi (Joan Hemskeerk and Dirk Paesmans), who were connected through the online mailing list nettime- founded by media theorists and critics Geer Lovink and Pit Schultz and devoted to Internet culture and criticismdrew attention to the genre of art on the Net and formed the " net.art"( with a dot) movement. The term was officially used for the first when Vuk Cosic organized a small gathering- "net.art per se"- in Trieste in 1996(Christiane 2003, p. 112). Net art has become a broad umbrella for numerous forms of artistic articulation that often overlap(Christiane 2003, p. 109). In fact, Internet provides artists with the pleasant experience of combining virtual reality and the real world. Due to the feature of height - interactivity function and popularization of using Internet, I have decided to create projects using Internet as the medium. There are many kinds of art forms based on internet usage. Besides, attributing to the era of high technology, the art form found in the Internet still has many variations ongoing with. After more than one year of my research progress, I have decided to focus on the form of collaborative creation in the internet sphere.

Whether it is the East or the West, fortune telling has always been an interesting phenomenon. In Taiwan, fortune telling is linked to the icons and symbols of a lifetime from palm reading, facial features or even the interpretation of a mole on one’s body. The so-called Five Elements Performance within the nature, is represented by the term “Qi” which could also be explained closely in the relation to the word “Fate”. The ritual that is generated from the process of seeking for the unknown future destiny is all being demonstrated in an interesting symbolic form. The flourishing zodiac in the west is also an iconic sign for fate. Interpretation of the meanings and patterns from the icons, cards or Tarot can also be represented through a series of meaningful signs. From collecting, sorting, and analyzing the symbols, rituals and significance of the events that related to fortune telling, these meaningful signs could be categorized systematically and then utilized as the conceptual core for the creation project.

Although originating from the ancient times, fortune telling is a popular tool for divination which has been carried out continuously in the modern hi-tech society. Accordingly, the idea of creating fortune telling service has brought about an interactive behavior, which has become an indispensable basic element to engage with people. While appreciating the process to seek divination, one is also experiencing at the same time an alternative form of combined ancient and technical kinds of fortune telling. This kind of philosophy thought will be the paradigm for this research.
The entire research of this project incorporates the theme of Taiwanese traditional fortune telling practices, with the function of collaborative creation based on internet medium. Due to the execution of this collaborative creation project, it will require public involvement. Thus, stimulating and enticing user to participate and contribute to the project is a top priority of concern for this creative project.

In the sense of collaborative creation through Internet, the outcome of the image or totem will keep changing itself by the increased number of participant. In other words, each participant has an effect on the creation of the art work. However, the participants cannot predict the changes in the next step of the work. Similarly, based on the assumption of fortune telling in China, it is deemed that everything in the world is impacted by each other(Zhou jian nan 2005). For example, a person who somehow being connected with “some people”, every thing that he or she has done will become potential elements impacting “that some people” in some ways. The destiny between the person and with ‘that some people’ are said to be having involvement with each other. In short, both the collaborative creation and people’s destiny are in the same way based on the perception of an outcome which keeps changing itself by having people’s participation.

When exploring the originality of art, it can be categorized into three doctrines from the sociological point of view which are: Theory of Decoration, Theory of Labory, and Theory of Religion. It can be said that religious belief and art are in fact deeply connected from their originality. The fact that our forefathers were unable to decipher the mystery and metamorphosis of the mother nature, and the creation and birth of various rituals including Nature Worship, Animal and Plant Worship, Totemism, Fetish Worship, Idolatry and Man Worship, and Ghost Worship and Ancestors Worship. In the times that followed, additional objects of worship were also added such as the roles of wizard and sciomancy medium (using ghost or some kinds of sprite that common people cannot see or communicate with). Based on the theories of origin of art, it could be attributed to the ritual form through various religions in the ancient time, and the development of fortune telling is on the basis of such religious beliefs. Thus the idea of combination between art and fortune telling is built on this concept.

In addition, the theme of fortune telling encompassed in this creative project attempts to motivate and stimulate end user to contribute to this project. According to my field studies that I have done till now, majority of people will pay their attention when some people indicate that they have the ability to predict people's fortune. From this simple point of view, I believe that user will be very keen to participate in this kind of creative work with fortune telling as the theme.

From http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/research/research_students/yueh_hsiu_giffen_cheng.html
Yueh Hsiu Giffen Cheng will also write in this book 'Circulating Contexts--CURATING MEDIA/NET/ART,' by Cont3xt.net that will be launched at Vienna's Depot next Monday.
Here is his blog.

The "html-movement-library" plus "Singing Website Wallpaper"

Singing Website Wallpaper gives voice to html by re-interpreting the code of three Websites such as yahoo.com, msn.com, and google.com as a musical score and visualizing the scales as printed patterns on wallpaper. While the sound component of the installation is influenced by the "live" html code of each site, the wallpaper shows "frozen" source code from each site translated into a visual set of functionality-related symbols. Depending on how the momentary html code of the site is structured, the program matches the acccording sound files to each html tag. For instance, if the html tag "table" appears in the code, my program (php) will interpret and "sing" the tag as "a", "b" and "e", as they are notes in musical notation. The same goes, for example, with the tag "head": we hear the "h", "e," "a," and "d." "h" exists in German music notation, so there is an extra "note" to sing...
Review

a + b = ba ? ~[art + blog = blogart?]

JavaMuseum - http://www.javamuseum.org is starting its 2nd phase by publishing on open call focussing on the question whether blogs and/or blogging can be tools for creating a new type of net based art.

The launch of this new project in September 2007 is planned to be also the occasion for re-launching JavaMuseum after a phase of re-structuring since 2005.

JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art,founded in 2000, realized between 2001 and 200518 show cases focussing on Internet based art in a global context,including more than 350 artists from 40 countries.In this way, JavaMuseum was able to show for the first time the dimension of Internet based art as a new and individual art genre, even if it is continously said to be dead.

For a + b = ba?, JavaMuseum is inviting
artists to submit such an art project
which is using the blogging technology.

One blog project only can be submitted.

Please use this form for submitting:

1. first name/family name, email address, URL homepage
2. short artist bio/CV
3. title of project, year of launch
4. URL of project
5. short project description ( English, no more than 300 words)
6. 2 screen shots (jpg, 800×600 px)

7. answer the questions of the interview
which can be found here —>

Please send the requested material via email to
info@javamuseum.org
subject line: a+b submission

extended deadline 31 July 2007

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JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art

JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

Neterotopia

A project by: NICC and Love Difference, in collaboration with: Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Curated by: Daniele Balit

Locations:
Palais de Tokyo - site de création contemporaine  Paris.
NICC, Antwerp.
Careof, Milan.

Artists: 0100101110101101.ORG, Christophe Bruno, Ghazel, Susan Hefuna, Nathalie Hunter, Yuji Oshima, Peter Lemmens and Eva Cardon, Adam Vackar, Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone, Version (Gabriela Vanga, Ciprian Muresan and Mircea Cantor).

Internet Sites: http://www.arman.fm, http://www.corriere.it, http://www.film.it, google ad words, http://www.inrockuptibles.com, http://www.liberation.fr, http://movies.tenuae.com, http://www.sortiraparis.com, http://www.viamichelin.it, http://www.villagevoice.com, http://www.wunderground.com
 

Neterotopia is an event that takes place from 16th to 31st March in various spaces on the Net. Eleven artists from different countries have been invited to choose an Internet site and use the spaces usually reserved for advertising: Christophe Bruno, Ghazel, http://www.sortiraparis.com, Susan Hefuna , Nathalie Hunter http://www.google.com, Yuji Oshima http://www.arman.fm, Peter Lemmens and Eva Cardon, Adam Vackar , Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone , Version (Gabriela Vanga, Ciprian Muresan and Mircea Cantor), 0100101110101101.ORG.

These spaces are thus transformed into exhibition surfaces and
points of access to a pathway branching through the public and virtual space of the Internet, the major node of which is the http://www.neterotopia.net website.

Through the stations installed in physical space, the public can see the artworks on-line, and experiment with digit@al, a special device by artist Pierre Mertens that puts a new slant on the rules of chatting.

Neterotopia traces the confines of a hybrid space, with a changeable and heterogeneous geography, drawing on Michel Foucault旧 concept of Heterotopia. As opposed to the non-places of Utopia, Heterotopias (literally: places of difference), are defined by Foucalt as other spaces capable of accepting difference and possibility, while not detaching from the real world. Neterotopias are therefore inserted into the Network system of communication, observing its rules and limits, while giving a new value to these advertising spaces.

Six net art projects from an international call by the Electronic Arts Program at California State University, Chico

A review is written by Max Marsh for new media fix.