The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the next discussion on the Synapse elist which, throughout 2008, is investigating the leading-edge of art and science research collaboration.

The April discussion will concern robotics and artists' engagement with the field. As well as surveying contemporary projects, the conversation will focus on the ramifications of artists working alongside scientists on robotics, now and into the future.

Discussion Guests include: Kirsty Boyle, Paul Brown, Shuhei Miyashita, Leonel Moura, Douglas Repetto, Mari Velonaki

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On April 11, form 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is please to present a new video performance work by Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org)

surrogate - substitute, proxy, replacement; deputy, representative, stand-in, standby, stopgap, relief, pinch-hitter, understudy.

Eva and Franco Mattes continue their investigations into power, authorship and identity with "The Surrogates" a new performance based video project. Combining elements of theater, video, surveillance, and social interaction, "The Surrogates" transforms OTO into an experimental social space questioning the distinction between the viewer and the viewed....

More info at http://www.tinjail.com/over_the_opening

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A challenge to digital artists to explore the complex ethical and societal issues emerging from genomic research and new genomic technologies.

The Art Exhibit Subcommittee of the 2008 GE3LS International Symposium is staging a digital art contest in conjunction with the Symposium being held in Calgary April 28-30. Further information on the Symposium can be found at http://www.genomecanada.ca/ge3ls2008/index.asp?l=e

We welcome submissions of original digital works of art that address the ethical, legal, and social themes related to the human genome, biology in the 21st century, or genetics in society. For the purposes of this contest digital art is defined as art that is created in a digital form. It can be drawn using a computer, created from a source such as a digital photograph, or be entirely computer generated. We will not accept digitized images of oil, acrylic or mixed media paintings.

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Marius Watz: ElectroPlastiques :: Until April 23, 2008 :: Emily Davis Gallery, Folk Hall, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Ohio.

Watz uses the computer to generate work which he describes as "a particular brand of visual hedonism, marked by colorful organic shapes and a 'more is more' attitude." Most of his works deal with drawing machines implemented in software, live visuals for music or large-scale projections. The exhibition will showcase a variety of Watz's generative work, including large scale projections of ElectroPlastiques #1 and #2, five rapid prototypes, large format printouts, and his Universal Digest Machine, which received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica -- the world's leading media arts festival in Linz, Austria.

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Paul Thomas, Midas
Don't miss sk-interfaces Closing Event:
stitched-up
29 March 2008
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool UK
A packed one-day event of live performances, artist talks, experiments and interactive art

stitched-up presents:
Interactive Installation
A rare opportunity to experience artist Paul Thomas' audio-visual installation Midas.
Future of the Body
A discussion on the future of the body with international artists Eduardo Kac, Atau Tanaka and Paul Thomas. Followed by an exclusive book signing session with Eduardo Kac of Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond.
S.S.S Performance
A distinctive live performance from S.S.S (Sensors_Sonics_Sights) featured artists Atau Tanaka, Cecile Babiole and Laurent Dailleau, transforming The Box into a dynamic environment with visuals and gestural interactive sound.

An offsite cultural experiment, Truth Serum from The Office of Experiments (founded by artist Neal White) will be conducted at a secret venue. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst in association with FACT. To sign up to the experiment visit.

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>>Female Armor<<, 2007 (ripped data from custom "sexy armor" computer game mods) by James Whipple.

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John Michael Boling, Untitled, gif.
Look at how fast artist John Michael Boling can navigate the web and work that video camera! It's like he's on speed, or as our new masthead suggests, LSD. As a means of rather forcibly injecting our fair coverage this week with the Net Art you're not likely to find in any of the booths, we're sporting one of our favorite net artist's work in our masthead. While the artist's work takes many directions and forms, an interest in movement and animation pervades the majority. This may simply be a formal preference, but since the results so often serve to underscore the density and invested energy users place in the web, the approach strikes me as at the very least practical to those concerns. All of my favorite works to date can be found on Boling's website, Lord of the Flies, RGB Chord, Twenty Years Ago Today amongst them.

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Datapainting is a website with a series of generative works by Yann Le Guennec which use data in their creation and explore some of the image generating possibilities of php, something rarely used (or at least highlighted) to artistic ends.

Each picture is a dynamic composition which results from a program. In programs, some parameters vary randomly or according to data suitable for the moment and the technical context in which the picture generation takes place. Each picture is thus a representation in the field of possibles ones created by the code. Each image is then an element of an infinite and disordered series.

Here is a short selection of some of the more interesting works. Flickr Mixr (image above) creates pictures live from Flickr feeds.

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