We have just started a new group on Arts-Humanities.net with a focus upon social approaches or 'web 2' within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

The aim of this group is to critically discuss and share thoughts about the use of social software applications, techniques, and principles within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

Visual Highlights:

A virtual choir that projects the head of a singer for each note you play.
A robot whose gestures are triggered by a popular travel card.
Jellyfish musical instrument. [read more...]

CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production.

The Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) is offering a 6 Month residency in 2009 for a visual artist working with digital technologies. [read more...]

http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/

OpenLab 5 : Cafe OTO, 25th April 2009

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening at Cafe OTO, Dalston. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night. The preliminary line up goes like this: [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 23 March 2009

All Posts: http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts:
The Radical Reinvention Imperative: Academic Librarians in the New Economy/ACRL 21 March 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-ra... [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 9 March 2009

All Posts: http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts:
- Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall: Milestone in Live Performance Delivery, Archiving 8 March 2009

- Global “Plant Conservation Report” Released: Stewardship of Specimens, Indigenous Knowledge, DNA 8 March 2009 [read more...]

INTERACTIVOS?'09: GARAGE SCIENCE
International Project Development Workshop

Deadline for collaborators: January 25
Workshop & Seminar dates: January 28 - February 14
Venue: Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain) [read more...]

CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd INCLUSIVA-NET MEETING: NET.ART (SECOND EPOCH). THE EVOLUTION OF ARTISTIC CREATION IN THE NET-SYSTEM
International Seminar

Deadline for entries: January 12 , 2009
Dates of the event: March 2 - 6, 2009 at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (Argentina) [read more...]

www.co-pilot.net is an open resource designed to connect knowledge, ideas and experiences among artists, organisations and people interested in the intersections between art, technology and social engagement. [read more...]

During a workshop with Beatriz Cantinho(dance), Ricardo Jacinto(Cello) and Nuno Torres(sax), we explored the potential of a body tracking system in real time improvisation. Predefine rules for spacial and motion analysis of the performer were fed to sound manipulation modules, extending the soundscape created by the acoustic instruments. [read more...]

Creative Practice/Creative Research
Materiality/Process/Performativity

Symposium July 10-12 2008
York St John University [read more...]

The third and final day of Intimacy was a symposium, with feedback from particpants and engaging discussion. A short montage of which can be found in this video.

Flight Paths: a networked book

"I have finished my weekly supermarket shop, stocking up on provisions for
my three kids, my husband, our dog and our cat. I push the loaded trolley
across the car park, battling to keep its wonky wheels on track. I pop
open the boot of my car and then for some reason, I have no idea why, I [read more...]

The Empty Space Gallery

The Empty Space Gallery exists to foster creativity, and encourage debate
about what ‘art’ is and what ‘artists’ are. It’s a novel way of
encouraging people to engage with this thing we call ‘art’ and what it
might be. Ultimately it is an experiment in ‘art’, ‘artists’, those that [read more...]

The Film As Document In (Of) Real Time
A meta-linguistic performative experiment.

Key questions:
1. In my video live installations I investigate the perception of time
(psychological time ), non simultaneous artist and audience interchange in
liveness, and the production of the video document. Live recording,
pre-recording and their transmission, as overlapping layers of [read more...]

Painting in Light: Experimental Film and the Advent of Improvisational
Cinema

The traditional model for cinematic expression is as a controlled
environment moving forward in a linear direction. From its inception the
art of filmmaking has been dominated by a single form of chronological
development. Each film exists as a series of frames that are static at the
start of the film. [read more...]

This is a discussion thread meant to host a follow-up discussion to the one day workshop "Theorie cum praxi, a workshop on the materiality of AV theory-practice in Fine Art PhD research", organized by The Slade School of Fine Art of the UCL and funded by AHRC. [read more...]

Trends Business Research (TBR) have asked me to distribute the following announcement - it may be of interest to some of you: [read more...]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS: 31st MARCH 2008

2nd International Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts and Humanities: "On Interaction/ Interactivity in Music, Design, Visual and Performing Arts", July 24-30, 2008. Baden-Baden, Germany [read more...]

Interview run by Ben Craggs.

Rachel Zerihan is a PhD Researcher at the School of Arts, Roehampton
University and Sessional Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.

Firstly may I take this opportunity to thank Rachel, the
co-organiser of Intimacy, for taking time out to contribute to this
discussion? [read more...]

folly - the digital arts agency and charity based in England 's NorthWest - announced the completion of the first edition of the Digital Artists' Handbook:

www.digitalartistshandbook.org

From their announcement: [read more...]

This hugely significant event will illustrate many of the aesthetic, philosophical, scientific and medical issues raised in the exhibition sk-interfaces, and will feature specialists of international renown from a wide range of fields and disciplines. [read more...]

Things have been a little quiet on this list for a while now. I thought I might just draw attention to Sk-interfaces series of events that are taking place at FACT in Liverpool ove the next month or so.

http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=128

I attended a workshop yesterday (Saturday 2nd Feb) that got me thinking... [read more...]

Things have been a little quiet on this list for a while now. I thought I might just draw attention to Sk-interfaces series of events that are taking place at FACT in Liverpool ove the next month or so.

http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=128

I attended a workshop yesterday (Saturday 2nd Feb) that got me thinking... [read more...]

Sean Eisenstein is a audio-visual technology artist and performer. Sean is currently studying for an MRES in Digital Art and Technology at the i-dat, Plymouth. He produces both performed and interactive works, as well as a range of mutant sub species in between. [read more...]

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to submit proposals to its Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS strands. Join us for one of the biggest Social's of the year.

A £5000 commission plus many other opportunities are available:
Art and Conference deadlines -- 5pm 18th December 2007
Music and EVNTS deadlines -- 5pm 7th February 2008

2008 Theme - Social Networking Unplugged [read more...]

This is Martina who performed the one to one encounter
The Seal of Confession on Saturday at the Albany Theatre
between 4 and 7 pm.
I am wondering whether anyone who has seen the piece is interested
in giving their constructive feedback on their perception of the approach to Intimacy taken.

All the Best
Martina

www.martinavonholn.com

This thread has been set up to facilitate a focussed discussion on the partcipants and events taking place at Intimacy.

Intimacy is packed full of events. Kicking off today, Friday 7th December, with workshops, seminars and performances leading to the FREE LAUNCH EVENT tonight at 6.30pm - Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths. [read more...]

Intimacy Meal at The Albany on Saturday 8/12, from 8:30pm.

If you would like to meet the Intimacy artists and speakers in a relaxed and merry atmosphere while going for some on the one to-one or small group intimate performances at The Albany, come and have supper with us on Saturday 8/12 from 8:30pm.

Meal options cost 10 GBP p/p and are as following: [read more...]

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the importance of the body and body image in Second Life? I must admit I had not ventured into this area until last week - but thought I should log on and explore considering one of the seminars is going to run 'there'. [read more...]

I though this documentary might be of interest to the group. Includes an interesting section on Kira O'Reilly who is appearing at Intimacy.

I will post up some reactions in a bit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmL2JkYU0k
'Art Shock: The Human Canvas'

Best

Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance.

Discussion Forum Open!

As a precursor to the series of events that take place in December an online discussion is taking place on our Digital Arts & Humanities group. Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance. Join now to contribute.
To kick things off, Intimacy organisers Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan have kindly agreed to appear online for an interview to discuss the event and to give their responses to the theme of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance. [read more...]

Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital Performance.

Discussion Forum Open!

As a precursor to the series of events that take place in December an online discussion is taking place on our Digital Arts and Humanities
group. http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/448 Join now to contribute. To kick things off, Intimacy organisers Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan have kindly agreed to appear online for an interview to discuss the event and to give their responses to the theme of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance. [read more...]

We are pleased to let you know that you can now book tickets online for the Seminars, Workshops and Symposium that have been scheduled to take place during the 3-day event: INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance.

Visit our website http://www.intimateperformance.org for the full programme and to book. Tickets are limited so Book Now! [read more...]

We are pleased to let you know that you can now book tickets online for the Seminars, Workshops and Symposium that have been scheduled to take place during the 3-day event: INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance. [read more...]

intimacy across visceral and digital performance: logo

Sherry Turkle (MIT) discusses the emerging role of 'computational entities' (eg robots or software agents) that present themselves as having states of mind that are affected by their interactions with human beings. What is their emerging role in our psychological, spiritual and moral lives? What kinds of relationships are appropriate to have with machines? What is a relationship? [read more...]

A three-day event featuring workshops, seminars, presentations, performances and a one-day symposium, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] and Rachel Zerihan. [read more...]