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Inside the Artists Studio with James Chimpton is a radio program/robotic chimp developed at Eyebeam by Jeff Crouse and Steve Lambert for Neighborhood Public Radio's "___ American Life" at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

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From Cinema to Machinima -- Software, Database and the Moving Image
A panel discussion and Second Life event
Sponsored by the S.F.A.I. Film Department

Monday, April 14, 2008 - 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Lecture Hall, San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut St., San Francisco

A panel discussion and virtual performance event to explore ways the digital medium has reconfigured the moving image and thereby redefined concepts of cinema. The digital medium has transformed the moving image. Image sequences have become discrete units that can be remixed in new constellations, through software processes or interaction by the viewer. Digital interactivity is connected to databases. The possibility of assembling and reconfiguring media elements from a compilation of image sequences have created new cinematic forms.

These emerging cinematic forms include database cinema, interactive narrative or non-narrative films, as well as machinima- filmmaking within computer games or 3D virtual worlds, such as Second Life, where characters and events can be either controlled by humans, scripts or artificial intelligence.

"From Cinema to Machinima" will bring together artists who will present their works in the area of digital cinema. The discussion will be followed by a short performance event in Second Life, which will be broadcast in the Lecture Hall.

Moderators: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chair, SFAI Film Department; Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum.

Participants: Henrik Bennetsen, Char Davies, Scott Kildall & Second Front, Howard Rheingold (via Second Life), Scott Snibbe, Camille Utterback.

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NEW LIFE BERLIN is a contemporary art festival dedicated to new modes of moving and existing.

NEW LIFE BERLIN is curated from the participatory art community WOOLOO.ORG , and will take place in Berlin between 1st and 15th June 2008. In addition to the published program, the curators invite members of the online community to participate throughout the festival itself.

In this way, NEW LIFE BERLIN connects the resources of a global artists network with the physical geography of Berlin, as Europe's pre-eminent centre for cultural production.

By inviting participation (while still retaining curatorial control), NEW LIFE BERLIN will investigate the much discussed "online community" - How effective is this community? What binds this community? What governs it? In contrast to traditional art festivals and biennials, NEW LIFE BERLIN will not represent a set of cultural conclusions, but create a model for a fluid cultural landscape.

The NEW LIFE BERLIN festival program is structured along three themes:

Transnational Communities. What do 'community' and 'identity' mean today? Presenting projects from both artistic and sociological starting points, NEW LIFE BERLIN will use group participation to explore real-life cultural mobility.

Artistic Social Responsibility. What is the relationship between cultural practitioners and corporate entities in the new millennium? How does contemporary cultural production relate to the concept of 'Corporate Social Responsibility'?

Participation and Intervention. How do participatory arts practices affect the socio-cultural environments in which they take place? How and why can local audiences become involved in artists' projects, and what does their involvement mean in terms of civic engagement and social empowerment?

To apply for participation in the festival as an artist or writer, please go to www.wooloo.org/festival

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The Lament Project
The Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts announces the release of its new online sound/art collaboration called "The Lament Project." "The Lament Project" is part of the 2008 release of Viralnet.net, the Center's online journal and project space. Curated by Cindy Bernard, Kathy Brew, Beth Rosenberg, Martha Wilson and Tom Leeser.

The curators invited fifty artists from various media to submit a one-minute original sound work that they could describe as a lament, a wail, a moan or a cry.

'The Lament Project' grew from a desire to work with a wide variety of interdisciplinary artists to produce a unique online project that could respond to the personal and social anxiety found in today's contemporary global culture. We thought that the best way Viralnet.net could cut through the corporate media's commodification of suffering and conflict, would be in a personal and visceral way, using sound.

The lament is one of the world's oldest musical and poetic forms for expressing sorrow and grief. It is found in both the east and the west, in classical traditions as well as folk traditions. It has evolved over the centuries informing new genres along the way, like the blues. It is a primal sound that is born from a place deep inside the individual and reflects the cries of the larger collective.

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Morgan Croney

236 Grand Street
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick
Web Site

Morgan Croney is an artist who takes Sol LeWitt's famous dictum, "Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically", quite seriously. His complex of geometric forms and mathematical notations suggest nothing so much as deliberately purposeful rationality while leading nowhere - nowhere rational, anyway - and giving very few clues as to the mechanism of their production. The result is a critique of rationality - or, maybe, rationality for its own sake, devoid of its normal impulses.

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Programmable Media II: Networked Music, a one-day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled music, will be held on April 11, 2008 at Pace University, NYC. The symposium is free and open to the public, and will include artist presentations and live performances.

Based on the rapidly expanding archive of music/sound experiments to be found on Networked Music Review and the fifteen short works recently commissioned for it, the symposium aims to stimulate critical and far-ranging discussion on emerging music and sound art practice.

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Jason Van Anden, Neil and Ion-- Mixed Feelings, 2003.

Robots
Evolution of a Cultural Icon
San Jose Museum of Art
April 12, 2008 - October 19, 2008

Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon examines the development of robot iconography in fine arts over the past 50 years. In 1920, the term robot was coined from a Czech word robota, which means tedious labor. Since then, the image and the idea of a robot have evolved remarkably from an awkward, mechanical creature to a sophisticated android with artificial intelligence and the potential for human-like consciousness.

more here: http://01sj.org/?p=383

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tobias c. van Veen, DIGITAL BREAKDOWN [GIMME A BREAK], 2007

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments announces
"soundOBJECTS"
exhibition of soundobjects
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) to be presented in the framework of NewMediaFest2007 - at "La Nau" - exhibition palace of DIGITAL MEDIA Valencia 2008
17 April -10 May - Valencia/Spain

"soundOBJECTS" -
will feature sculptural objects dealing with digital sound and space by the artists Andrew Burrell (Australia, Martin John Callanan (UK), Chad Eby (USA), Heloisa Escudero (Brazil/Sweden), Timo Kahlen (Germany), Jesse La Flair (USA), Dario Lazzaretto, Italy), Matt MacKisack (UK), Paul Magee (UK), Dan Mikesell (USA), Jeff Morris (USA), Jay Needham (USA), Sean O'Neill (USA), Dmitry Strakovsky (USA), tobias c. vanVeen (Canada)

After the show, the website will be extended by a comprehensive documentation online and PDF.

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Andrzej Zielinski
5%, 2005

Oil on canvas on wood panel
20 x 20 inches

Andrzej Zielinski
4$, 2005

Oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches

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