Friday, March 25, 2011

Prize for academic writing on (Media) Art Histories

via Art&Education:

Art&Education announces inaugural Papers Prize:
No Rules–Negotiating Art and Deregulation

Deadline: May 30th, 2011

In support of young scholars conducting innovative research in contemporary art, Art&Education is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its inaugural Papers Prize, which includes a research sum of 2000 USD and the opportunity to present a paper at a conference, organized by Artforum & e-flux co-sponsored by Society of Contemporary Art Historians, on the subject of the deregulation in art practice and history.
What is the relationship between art and deregulation? Over the past four decades, the deregulation of global markets has been accompanied by the rise of flexible labor, the proliferation of highly sophisticated financial instruments, and increasing social complexity. Art&Education wishes to examine the possible links between such economic shifts, the putative rise of post-industrial society, and contemporary artistic practices, taking into account the renewed global interest in performativity, social and technological networks, and collaboration.  By considering such topics in dialogue or counterpoint with historical precedents, we hope to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding of artistic production and reception today–a field in which rules aren't bent but are simply fluid.

Proposals may include subjects such as:
  • Pre-histories and legacies of institutional critique
  • Models of artistic autonomy within historical conditions of economic deregulation
  • The legislation of public-private partnership between the state, funders, and art institutions
  • The recent "pedagogical turn" in which art and education entwined, and the concurrent decline of higher education and student activism
  • The changing forms of artistic resistance and critique, to include strategies of appropriation, mimicry and performativity
  • The rise of alternative spaces, and their changing relation to traditional spaces of the museum, gallery and studio
  • Post-studio art practices and the dematerialized artwork as it relates to social and economic mechanisms of Post-Fordism.
  • Reconfiguration of Think Tanks as a discursive and social model in contemporary art
Final Entries will be reviewed by the Selection Jury: 
Daniel Birnbaum, Director, Moderna Museet
Claire Bishop, Associate Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Tim Griffin, Artforum International
Suzanne Hudson, Co-founder and President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Molly Nesbit, Professor Art History, Vassar College
Brian Kuan Wood, Editor, e-flux journal

One submission will be chosen as a recipient of the Art&Education Papers Prize. The winner and two-runners up will be given the opportunity to present a 20-minute portion of their research at a conference, featuring both invited and submitted papers and presentations. Details will be announced at a later date.
Texts should be research-based articles pertaining to art history or contemporary art, and may be drawn from conference papers, seminar papers, dissertation chapters, etc.  All submitted texts will be considered for publication on Art&Education

We ask that you submit pieces anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 words with a 100 word abstract and full contact information by midnight of May 30th 2011.
No late submissions will be considered.

Please submit articles, abstract and bios by email to papers@artandeducation.net.
A free contributor-driven platform, A&E Papers seeks to expand publication opportunities for art historians, theorists, curators, and artists, and to make papers more easily available to the public.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Jeff Koons Must Die! (by Hunter Jonakin)

This is one of the funniest pieces I've seen in a long while!

"Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is made up of a fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet, and a simulated digital environment presented in a first-person perspective. Viewers must pay twenty-five cents to play the game and the virtual environment is traversed with a joystick and two arcade buttons. The premise of the video game is to allow the viewer to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons."

http://hunterjonakin.com/koons.php 

Saturday, March 19, 2011

google's institute for internet & society, berlin

via Geert Lovink on nettime, march 19th 2011


http://www.internetundgesellschaft.de/

The following mission statement has been developed by the
multistakeholder team that boostraps the research institute. The
mission statement is meant to serve as a totem for the community
behind the institute; it is therefore a living document that will
develop over time.

Mission Statement    (Version 1.0)

The Internet and society research institute (*the name is not decided
yet*) centers on research and deliberation on the culture and practice
of (1) Internet based innovation, (2) Internet policy, and (3) related
legal aspects. We strive to provide insights enabling all stakeholders
to better shape the transformations the Internet stimulates within our
networked societies in Germany, Europe and internationally.

Specifically, the institute:
       • focuses on transdisciplinary research and collaboration between
academics, policy makers, civil society and private sector.

       • promotes a humanistic conception of the Internet and a user
centered approach to Internet policy making and innovation, multi-
stakeholder governance in digital ecosystems, their relationship with
society, and their constitutional implications.

       • supports the continued development of a free¹ and open² Internet
and its potential to increase welfare, democratic capacity, sciences
and the arts. Hence we aim to better understand the qualities,
dynamics, and implications of the Internet with regard to society and
governance at large.

¹free space = in that there are little restrictions on content and
behavior and contribution is broadly permitted

²open space = based on a philosophy of openess, i.e. open standards
that ensure interoperability and open innovation

--
 ‎
FAQs

Q: Which institutions and who are you working with to set up the
institute?
A: We are currently in the process of identifying the best academic
partners. We hope to announce the concrete plans including the
academic institutions and the team of leading academics within the
next months after we have reached a final agreement.

Q: When will the Institute start its operations?
A: The plan is to inaugurate the institute later in the year.

Q: Why are you funding such a research institute?
A: Web-based innovations cause a variety of social, economic and
political transformations. These demand interdisciplinary research
carried out in a specialized center of excellence. While Germany is
already the home to many world class researchers the Internet and
society institute will give the community a space to exchange and
learn from each other and to tap into the insights of other
stakeholders from civil society, business and politics.
Additionally, we want to further our investments in Germany and we
believe that such an independent research institute will improve
understanding and discussion about Internet governance and Internet
based innovation.

Q: What are the research subjects of the institute?
The Internet & Society Institute centers on research and deliberation
on the culture and practice of (1) Internet based innovation, (2)
Internet policy and (3) legal aspects.

Q: Will the Institute focus on research about/for Germany?
A: The institute will strive to provide insights enabling all
stakeholders to better steer the transformations the Internet
stimulates within our networked societies in Germany, Europe and
internationally.

Q: Where will the institute be based, will it be with the Humboldt?
A: We are currently finding the best organisational set-up for the
institute. Humboldt University is one of the potential partners and
possible hosts for the institute.

Q: Who will be heading the institute?
A: We believe the institute should be led by a board made up of
thought leaders from academia, the Internet community, politics and
web entrepreneurs.

Q: Will the name be the Google Institute?
We believe that the institute should be independent and pursue an
academic mission that is in the public interest.

Q: Is this the first time you are installing such an institute or is
there a role model from Google in other countries?
A: Yes, this is the first time we are founding a research institute
for Internet and society.

Q: How many professors/staff will be working there?
A: It is too early to talk about details. The idea is to work with a
core faculty that organizes and supervises research through Calls for
Proposals, with PhD-students as well as national and international
partner institutions.

Q: Will the institute be open for other companies/institutions as
well? Can others support with additional funding?
A: We are actively looking to work with partners from academia, civil
society and the private sector. We are certain this will be an
important step to broaden the scope, relevance and impact of the
institute.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube (2011)

Geert Lovink, Rachel Somers Miles (eds.)



 

Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (’2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the moving image has become expansively more popular on the Web, significantly contributing to the culture and ecology of the internet and our everyday lives. In response, the Video Vortex project continues to examine critical issues that are emerging around the production and distribution of online video content.
Following the success of the mailing list, the website and first Video Vortex Reader in 2008, recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (October 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (November 2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic possibilities of online video. Through contributions from scholars, artists, activists and many more, Video Vortex Reader II asks what is occurring within and beyond the bounds of Google’s YouTube? How are the possibilities of online video, from the accessibility of reusable content to the internet as a distribution channel, being distinctly shaped by the increasing diversity of users taking part in creating and sharing moving images over the web?
Contributors: Perry Bard, Natalie Bookchin, Vito Campanelli, Andrew Clay, Alexandra Crosby, Alejandro Duque, Sandra Fauconnier, Albert Figurt, Sam Gregory, Cecilia Guida, Stefan Heidenreich, Larissa Hjorth, Mél Hogan, Nuraini Juliastuti, Sarah Késenne, Elizabeth Losh, Geert Lovink, Andrew Lowenthal, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Rachel Somers Miles, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Teague Schneiter, Jan Simons, Evelin Stermitz, Blake Stimson, David Teh, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Andreas Treske, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Linda Wallace, Brian Willems, Matthew Williamson, Tara Zepel.
Copy Editor: Nicole Heber
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
Supported by: the School for Communication and Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam DMCI).
ISBN: 978-90-78146-12-4
378 pages
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License.

publisher
Direct download

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

celebrating the 100th international women's day - 100 female artists and digital media

(i posted this on my p/art//icles blog before:

This project was done on March 8th, 2011, the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day. Throughout the day I had been posting female artists working in the field of New Media Art to twitter and facebook. The goal was to post 100 artists for the 100th anniversary.

a short notice:
A few of the artists included might or might not be women. After 100 years of the celebration of International Women's Day what it means to be female has to be expanded and embrace gender rather than sex.

This list of 100+ female media artists is necessarily incomplete, please add more artists in the comments field! (the focus here is on artists + digital media; curators, theoreticians,... will be the focus of a separate project)
There is absolutely no intended order in this list. The entries on top were the last ones, the entries on the bottom of the list the starting points.


enjoy!


START: 11.12 am
END: 11:08 pm
March 8th, 2011



nina wenhart • 11:08 PM • Twitter
ninjafx: #IWD11 female artists & digital media: via @notendo: #IWD11 - Tina Frank + Billy Roisz + Tali Hinkis + Kaffe Matthews + Chicks On Speed

nina wenhart • 10:59 PM • Twitter
ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: compilation of 100 artists for #IWD's 100th birthday - completed (though there are many more...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Brenda Laurel #virtualreality #interactiveart http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/

ninjafx: #IWD11 these were 99 now, if i counted right

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabrina Raaf #interactiveart http://www.raaf.org/about.php

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Cynthia Breazeal #robotics #roboticsqueen http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Pattie Maes #netart #interactiveart http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Francoise Gamma #digitalgraphics #animatedgifs #netart http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Krystal South #videoart #webart http://www.krystalsouth.com/

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: RT @nullsleep: (part 2) @PrintedCircuit Raquel Meyers, Lesley Flanigan, Marina Zurkow

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: RT @nullsleep: (part 1) @artfagcity @kiostark @SimonaLodi

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabrina Ratte #videoart vimeo.com/sabrinaratte

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laura Parnes #videoart www.lauraparnes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Camilla Padgitt-Coles #VJ #electronicmusic vimeo.com/ivymeadows

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alexandria McCrosky #digitalgraphics http://alexandriamccrosky.computersclub.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Aurora Halal #videoartist #electronicmusic http://www.aurorahalal.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alexandra Gorczynski #videoart http://hologramcity.blogspot.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Bea Fremderman & Jeanette Hayes #netart http://justshutty.tumblr.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alice Cohen #videoart http://vimeo.com/user1658854/videos

ninjafx: #IWD11 - @look_im_lucid (lindsay howard) just sent a great list with female media artists, so the following posts are all lindsay's input

ninjafx: RT @nullsleep: @ninjafx here are some more • @petcortright @BiellaColeman @LaurelHalo @juliaxgulia Alexandra Gorczynski, Laura Brothers,...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: via @chrissugrue (part 2) Simone Jones, Clara Boj, Geraldine Juarez, Becky Stern, Jackee Steck

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: via @chrissugrue (part 1) Karolina Sobecka, Addie Wagenknech, Kaho Abe, Grisha Coleman

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laurel Halo #digitalgraphics #netart http://www.laurelhalo.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Petra Cortright #netart #digitalgraphics http://petracortright.com/ @petcortright

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Rachelle Viader-Knowles #interactiveart http://uregina.ca/rvk/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabine Seymour #wearabletechnology http://www.fashionabletechnology.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Margarita Benitez #wearabletechnology http://margaritabenitez.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sage Keeler #netart #digitalgraphics http://fourmegabytememorylane.blogspot.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Jennifer Chan #videoart #digitalgraphics http://www.jennifer-chan.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 these were about 60+ female media artists now, for the 100th birthday 100 artists would be great. any more suggestions from anyone?

ninjafx: RT @robmyers: @ninjafx: Tessa Elliot http://surgerydar.co.uk/ & Tracey Matthieson http://ur1.ca/3fcc5 got me into digital art && are...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ellen Sandor #mixedmedia http://www.artn.com/Ellen_Sandor

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Claudia Hart #3dcomputergraphics #artgames http://www.claudiahart.com

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Nina Valkanova #programmer #interactiveart http://ninavalkanova.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Gabi Kepplinger of Stadtwerkstatt #netart #networkedart #artinpublicspace...http://www.stwst.at/index.php?m=6&sm=1&sid=51

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Eva Grubinger #netart #networkedart http://www.evagrubinger.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Thecla Schiphorst #interactiveart #performance http://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/

ninjafx: RT @tw1tt3rart: #INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY ♀╭━╮╱╭━╮╱╭━╮╱╭━╮♀ ♀┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃♀ ♀╰┳╯╱╰┳╯╱╰┳╯╱╰┳╯♀ ♀━╋━╱━╋━╱━╋━╱━╋━♀ ♀╱┃╱╱╱┃╱╱╱┃╱╱╱┃╱♀...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lindsay Howard #netart #curating #digitalgraphics http://ow.ly/4ajmI http://ow.ly/4ajn0...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sara Ludy #netart #digitalgraphics #videoart http://www.saraludy.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Eva Wohlgemuth, Kathy Rae Huffman #netart http://ow.ly/4aj4S + http://ow.ly/4aj6s

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Helen Thorington, Jo-Anne Green #netart #radioart #pioneers http://turbulence.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Tina Auer of Time's Up #interactiveart www.timesup.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Jessica Westbrook #interactiveart #videoart http://www.jessicawestbrook.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Faith Wilding #cyberfeminism #performanceart http://faithwilding.refugia.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Tiffany Holmes #interactiveart http://tiffanyholmes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Marta de Menezes #bioart http://www.martademenezes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Manu Luksch #cctv #hacktivism #videoart http://www.manuluksch.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Isabella Bordoni #electronicmusic http://www.ib-arts.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Heidi Grundmann #artradio #radioart http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/grundmannbio.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Elisa Rose of Station Rose #netart #electronicmusic http://www.stationrose.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Agnese Trocchi #netart #videoart http://www.newmacchina.info/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female m artists & digital media: Jill Scott #interactiveart #videoart #body http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/scott/biography/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Melinda Rackham #netart http://www.subtle.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ruth Catlow #netart #artinpublicspace @furtherfield http://ow.ly/4agBQ

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Margarethe Jahrmann "nybble engine toolZ" #gameart http://www.climax.at/nybble-engine/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Monica Panzarino #interactiveart #videoart http://www.monicapanzarino.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Melissa Barron #hacking #obsoletemedia www.melissabarron.net @m3li554

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Dain Oh #animatedgif #netart @lunarbaedeker http://ittakestwotostereo.blogspot.com

ninjafx: ... heroines!

ninjafx: #IWD11 exceptionally wonderful media artists, pre-digital: Steina Vasulka, Charlotte Moorman, Valie Export, Dara Birnbaum - you're...

ninjafx: RT @yokoono: Total communication equals peace. And it will eliminate ignorance, apathy and hatred. #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Tamiko Thiel #augmentedreality #virtualreality #AR #VR http://ow.ly/4a84U

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Naoko Tosa, f.e. "Talking to Neurobaby" #interactiveart #robotics http://ow.ly/4a7Xr

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ulrike Gabriel, f.e. "terrain 01" #robotics #artificialintelligence #interactiveart...http://vimeo.com/7723230

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natasha Vita-More #transhumanism http://www.natasha.cc/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Agnes Hegedüs, f.e. "handsight" #interactiveart http://csw.art.pl/new/99/7e_agndl.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Christina Kubisch #electronicmusic http://www.christinakubisch.de/index_en.htm

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Daniela Alina Plewe, f.e. "Ultima Ratio" #interactive art http://ow.ly/4a74X

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Sandra Rosas Ridolfi, Nina Wenhart of h3x3n #netart #interactiveart www.h3x3n.net http://sandraridolfi.com/ ninawenhart-cv.blogspot.com

ninawenhart-cv.blogspot.com
ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ushi Reiter #electronicmusic #interactiveart http://www.servus.at/blower

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Hannah Perner-Wilson #interactiveart http://plusea.at

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Mika Satomi #interactiveart http://nerding.at

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Marie Sester #interactiveart http://www.sester.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Mendi Obadike #netart #conceptualmusic http://www.blacknetart.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Jennifer McCoy #interactiveart http://www.mccoyspace.com/

ninjafx: hoppsa, my #IDW11 posts should of course also be #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lynn Hershman Leeson f.e. "America's Finest", "Conceiving Ada" #interactiveart #netart #videoart...http://www.lynnhershman.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Vera Molnar "machine imaginaire", part 2: #generativeart #pioneer #granddame #alltimefavorite...http://www.veramolnar.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Vera Molnar "machine imaginaire", her imaginative comp to produce permutations #generativeart...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Victoria Vesna #interactiveart http://victoriavesna.com

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Annie Abrahams #netart #networkedart http://www.bram.org/info/aa.htm

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laura Beloff #wearbletechnology #networkedart http://ow.ly/4a4Ow

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Christa Sommerer, f.e. "interactive plant growing" #interactiveart http://ow.ly/4a4jj

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lisa Jevbratt #netart #dataviz #biofeedback http://jevbratt.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sherrie Rabinowitz, Kit Galloway "Hole in Space", "Electronic Café" #telematicart #netart...http://www.ecafe.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Beatriz da Costa #tacticalmedia #hacktivism #bioart http://ow.ly/4a3wl

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natalie Bookchin #netart http://bookchin.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Honor Harger of radioqualia #netradio #opensource http://www.radioqualia.net/ @honorharger

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Chris Sugrue, part of the eyewriter team #interactiveart #programmer http://csugrue.com/...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Camille Utterback "textrain" #interactiveart http://camilleutterback.com/

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & media art collectives: Monika Fleischmann #interactiveart #mediaartdatabase http://ow.ly/4a2ua www.netzspannung.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artist collectives & digital media: Old Boys Network #netart #cyberfeminism http://www.obn.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists collectives & digital media: VNS Matrix "A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century" #netart #cyberfeminism...http://lx.sysx.org/vnsmatrix.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Rachel Baker #netart #hacktivism http://ow.ly/4a2d0

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natalie Jeremijenko #netart #hacktivism http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Amy Alexander #netart #softwareart http://amy-alexander.com/ @uebergeek

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Young-Hae Chang of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES #netart http://www.yhchang.com

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & media art collectives: Olga Goriunova #softwareart #netart http://readme.runme.org/ http://runme.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Eva Mattes of 0100101110101101 #netart #gameart http://www.0100101110101101.org/blog/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Joan Heemskerk of #JODI #netart #gameart #glitchart http://jodi.org

ninjafx: lol RT @markrhancock: Happy Int Women's Day. You are all bloody amazing. I love women!

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Clara Rockmore #electronicmusic #theremin #pioneer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Rockmore

ninjafx: RT @juspar: Inspirational women #iwd: Elizabeth Grosz, nature, sex, aesthetics #academicIWD #IWD11

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: Mary Flanagan #gameart http://ow.ly/49X9a

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: Mez Breeze #netart #mezangelle http://ow.ly/49WXU http://ow.ly/49WZB @netwurker !u r pure...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Anne-Marie Schleiner #gameart #hacking #opensource http://www.opensorcery.net

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Char Davies "Osmose" #virtualreality http://ow.ly/49WEp

ninjafx: RT @franckancel RT @bookmarks_books: Women supporters of the Paris Commune jailed in 1871 http://bit.ly/e1D8HN #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Maryanne Amacher #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49WmF

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Eliane Radigue, 1st woman to receive golden nica @ prix ars in dig.musics, 2006 #electronicmusic...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliane_Radigue

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Daphne Oram #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49Wgb

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Ursula Bogner #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49Wdt

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists + media art: Delia Derbyshire #electronicmusic #pioneer http://ow.ly/49Wc7

ninjafx: RT @katecrawford: Hedy Lamarr was my kinda gal: Hollywood star, jewel thief, scientist, and co-inventor of a precursor to wifi....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

ninjafx: thx igor! RT @intima: #IWD11 follow/check @ninjafx: tweets with links to radical female digital media artists→ http://twitter.com/#!/ninjafx

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 05: Rosa Menkman #softwareart #glitchart #videoart #obsoletemedia @r0o0s http://ow.ly/49VRC

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 04: Olia Lialina "my boyfriend came back from the war" #netart @GIFmodel http://ow.ly/49VLz...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 03: netochka nezvanova #NN #netart #softwareart #nato.0+55+3d #nebula.m81 http://ow.ly/49VDq

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 02: Cornelia Sollfrank "female extension" #netart #hacking http://www.artwarez.org/femext/

11:12am via HootSuite
ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 01: LIA #generativeart #netart @liasomething http://www.liaworks.com/

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

happy 100th birthday, international women's day!

happy 100th birthday, international women's day! celebrating it by tweeting +fb-ing about female media artists. please join!


#IWD11

(on twitter -> ninjafx, on fb: nina wenhart)

A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973

This recent MIT press publication documents a short-lived but intense artistic experiment that took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place: the New Tendencies movement, which begun in Zagreb in 1961. Pursuing the idea of “art as visual research"” the New Tendencies movement proceeded along a path that led from Concrete and Constructivist art, Op art, and Kinetic art to computer-generated graphics, film, and sculpture.

With their exhibitions and conferences and the 1968 launch of the multilingual, groundbreaking magazine Bit International, the New Tendencies transformed Zagreb into an international meeting place where artists, engineers, and scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain gathered around the then-new technology. For a brief moment in time, Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations of the aesthetic, scientific, and political potential of the computer.

further links:
http://www02.zkm.de/bit/index.php?lang=en
http://aminima.net/wp/?p=859&language=en
http://dada.compart-bremen.de/public/docUploads/41.2.fritz.pdf
http://darkofritz.net/text/bitomatik_Fritz_eng.pdf
http://darkofritz.net/text/Fritz.NT_oris%2054.pdf
http://darkofritz.net/text/CIP_no.07-08-2006_Fritz_Bonacic.pdf
http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/731

The Philosophy of Software and the Ontology of Code

Simon Yull & David Berry present @ Goldsmiths
 
Date: 17 March 2011 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Venue/Location: Room RHB 309 (Main Building) Goldsmiths, New Cross, London
 
Simon Yuill: The Ontology of Code and the Coding of Ontology
 
David Berry: The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age 
 

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

David Berry
Palgrave Macmillan, May 2011

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Code-Mediation-Digital/dp/0230244181

review on furtherfield:

"As software increasingly structures the contemporary world, curiously, it also withdraws, and becomes harder and harder for us to focus on as it is embedded, hidden, off-shored or merely forgotten about. The challenge is to bring software back into visibility so that we can pay attention to both what it is (ontology), where it has come from (through media archaeology and genealogy) but also what it is doing (through a form of mechanology), so we can understand this ‘dynamic of organized inorganic matter’.  In this talk I want to present some of the arguments of my new book, The Philosophy of Software, but also to think through some of the implications of code/software for the changing nature of the university itself."

Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source

David Berrry,
Pluto Press, 2008


http://www.amazon.com/Copy-Rip-Burn-Politics-Copyleft/dp/0745324142/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

from: http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

"The production of non-proprietary software, more commonly known as free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS), has taken parts of the academic, activist and governmental world by storm. It has not only forced an intellectual reassessment of theories of human nature and creativity that help justify the expansion of intellectual property regimes, but it has also inspired academics, journalists and activists to craft similar endeavours.

David Berry, mindful of these developments, has written a persuasive account on the politics of copyleft and open source. Copy, Rip, Burn stands apart from its cohort because of its overtly critical bent. Berry offers a rich discursive analysis of FLOSS, but also situates it within the backdrop of capitalist forces that ultimately blunt, he argues, its radical potential. Within this general frame, he also builds - and this is the intellectual heart of his book - a typology drawn from the Roman legal system, which he uses to explode the binaries between private/public and property/commons commonly used to describe FLOSS. Given Berry's fresh intellectual contribution, this book is a must-read for any scholar or activist interested either in FLOSS or the general politics of IP regulation.

read more here...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Media Archaeology. Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka
University of California Press, May 2011

The book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. With contributions from internationally prominent scholars, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today’s interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting ‘old’ or even ‘dead’ media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding ‘new’ media in their
complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.

The introduction is available here.




INSECT MEDIA: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

By Jussi Parikka, University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2010
Posthumanities Series, volume 11
Book launch /March 4th, 19.00, General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin

Insect Media analyzes how insect forms of social organization - swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence - have been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society. Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, Jussi Parikka provides a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology.

More info at http://www.jussiparikka.com and his blog Cartographies of Media Archaeology.