Digital #MediaArt(s) Numérique(s)

Les évolutions technologiques questionnent les manières d’aborder l’acte artistique et sa transmission. Cette journée cherchera à éclairer les enjeux au cœur des pratiques des acteurs culturels, artistiques ou éducatifs d’aujourd’hui.

10h – 17h
Conférences et tables rondes ponctuées d’intermèdes musicaux de Xavier Garcia.

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18h30
« Dématérialisé », spectacle de Pierre Amoudruz et David Guerra (association AADN, Lyon).

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Journée professionnelle organisée par le CFMI – Lyon 2 (gratuit)
En partenariat avec le Service d’Action Artistique et Culturelle, la Direction de l’Action Culturelle et de la Diffusion des Savoirs de l’Université Lyon 2, l’Ina GRM, la Biennale des arts numériques RVBn et l’ACEMI.

ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in art, interactivity, and electronic and digital media.

ISEA2017 invites to reflect on the contributions that art, design, and technology provide as alternatives for social development based on respect for natural biodiversity and having pacific coexistence of the communities. ISEA2017 welcomes submissions in three broad categories: academic (papers, posters, panels, and roundtables), creative (artworks, installations, performances, and design cases) and learning (residence, workshops, tutorials, artist or designer talks, and institutional presentations).

Artificial intelligence has done it again. Now that Facebook, Uber and Co. are suffering from an increasingly bad public image, the reinvention of Virtual Reality has already lost its allure, and the Internet of Things doesn’t seem to be able to get beyond the self-replenishing refrigerator, the thrill engendered by futuristic super-machines is dominating the headlines.

So what are we to make of artificial intelligence? Gigantic job eliminator? Or the next step in evolution, the one in which technology finally asserts its mastery over us? Or maybe the source of redemptive systems that develop new medications for us and operate on us, that invest and multiply our capital, and that even make better business executives because the boss is finally a more rational decision-maker? Artificial intelligence has many faces and they’re sure to pay attention to us all.

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With its approximate 30,000 visitors over a span of 10 days, STRP Biënnale stands amongst the world’s ten leading festivals on creative technology. Over time our audience has come to appreciate STRP’s installations, performances, lectures and workshops as much as they love the music. Talented young makers are shown next to famous pioneers within the field. STRP offers artists from all disciplines assignments for new pieces and challenges her audiences to not only look and listen, but also to experiment themselves.

STRP Biënnale’s hybrid program makes it unique to both young and old, layman and professional. STRP is characterised by its accessibility, enticing content, drive for curiosity and international appeal. STRP is the supercollider between creativity and technology within Eindhoven’s DNA.

STRP distinguishes itself by relating contemporary themes to a curious audience and as such make future tangible in the now.

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) push the boundaries of human knowledge. Unconventional ways of thinking and creativity open novel and visionary fields of research that radically shift. Our project brings together artists and FET projects using best practice methods to create high-impact collaborative outcomes including the production of new artworks, major exhibitions, media campaigns, and socially engaged events including festivals, debates and participatory workshops.

Six leading international artists are hosted within FET projects through fully funded embedded residencies. Through in-depth collaborations with researchers and reflecting on the projects, the artists explore, engage and communicate these new areas of research to reach the widest possible audiences, opening up societal discussions, raising awareness and enhancing take-up of radically new technologies.

In our video section you can also find introductory videos by our coordinator, Erich Prem, and our artist partner, Anna Dumitriu, to give you an overview of our project.

Le Mirage Festival est un cocktail magique qui se sirote pendant quatre jours et quatre nuits. Subtil équilibre d’expositions, de conférences et de soirées électro, la recette 2017, intitulée "(Im)atérialités", promet des effets surprenants : donner accès à des choses habituellement invisibles, perturber les limites de la perception, envoûter les sens, titiller la réalité… Ses ingrédients principaux sont des couleurs, du son et du mouvement… Konbini vous présente des pépites repérées dans la programmation de cette 5e édition, qui se déroule jusqu'au 12 mars à Lyon.

Rendre visible l’immatériel, c’est le jeu auquel se prêtent les artistes présentés dans le parcours d’exposition (accessible à tous, gratuitement) qui s’installe aux Subsistances, à la Taverne Gutenberg, au Musée des Beaux-Arts et à l’École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. "Le numérique est hyper présent dans notre quotidien, l’idée cette année était d’explorer sa présence, de dévoiler l'intangible", nous explique Jean-Manu Rosnet, cofondateur du festival...

Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, TADAEX, was founded in 2011 with the aim of opening new horizons for Iran’s interdisciplinary and digital art. Its intention has been to create a serious and independent atmosphere for enthusiasts and researchers alike. The non-commercial nature of this art, in addition to the high cost of the equipment, have always made it difficult for the Iranian artists to participate and gain experience in the digital arena.

Thus, the potential for exhibiting and presenting artworks in this field could not be properly realized, and therefore, by presenting works by international artists and creating a platform for engaging with and exchanging of their knowledge, TADAEX has endeavored to pave the way for Iranian digital artists to develop and nurture their art.

With its approximate 30,000 visitors over a span of 10 days, STRP Biënnale stands amongst the world’s ten leading festivals on creative technology. Over time our audience has come to appreciate STRP’s installations, performances, lectures and workshops as much as they love the music. Talented young makers are shown next to famous pioneers within the field. STRP offers artists from all disciplines assignments for new pieces and challenges her audiences to not only look and listen, but also to experiment themselves.

STRP Biënnale’s hybrid program makes it unique to both young and old, layman and professional. STRP is characterised by its accessibility, enticing content, drive for curiosity and international appeal. STRP is the supercollider between creativity and technology within Eindhoven’s DNA.

STRP distinguishes itself by relating contemporary themes to a curious audience and as such make future tangible in the now.

Artefact is a themed exhibition and festival on contemporary visual arts, current events and societal challenges. In 2017, Artefact looks at the Act of Magic. What does magic mean today? Which role does it play as a social phenomenon? How is it used as a metaphor? And how do contemporary artists tackle the subject? From poetry to strategy, from magical object to obscure systems, from harmless distraction to manipulation: the artists in The Act of Magic investigate what enchants us today.  

Curators: Karen Verschooren (STUK) & Ils Huygens (Z33)

Artefact is an initiative of the Province Vlaams-Brabant i.c.w. Stad Leuven, and is  supported by KU Leuven, Culture Office and the Group Science & Technology in the context of the policy guideline ‘art and science’.

Sur 514 films reçus de 41 pays, le comité de sélection en a gardé 43, répartis en huit programmes et provenant de 21 pays, d’Europe mais aussi d’Asie (Chine, Iran), d’Australie, d’Amérique latine (Chili, Brésil), du Canada… « Des vidéos du monde entier, de différentes formes et de thèmes divers », précise Gabriel Soucheyre.

En tout, huit lieux situés dans le centre-ville de Clermont-Ferrand accueilleront des d’artistes, parmi lesquels le musée Bargoin et le travail numérique d’Isabelle Dehay sur la nature, les plantes. On y retrouvera aussi une sculpture vidéo d’Anne-Sophie Aymard. La salle Gilbert-Gaillard accueillera éelle aussi trois artistes: Joris Guibert qui travaille avec les tubes cathodiques des téléviseurs d’antan sera là, aux côtés des travaux de Christine Maigne qui nous emmène « dans un monde méditatif » et de Véronique Rizzo qui, avec Dreamers propose une œuvre-hommage au cinéma....

The elusive transition of digital culture is shaping a future ‘beyond digital’, where the physical and the digital are merging. In the late 90’s N. Negroponte stated that “the digital revolution is over”. Almost two decades later and having accepted that the digital culture has been stabilized into our everydayness, we are moving forward to a most abstract creation. The necessity of innovation and excess of limits, has been a primary goal imposed by the ever evolving technological fetish.

This futuristic lifestyle is reflected from the coherence of the ‘real – virtual’ boundaries. The humanization of technology along with the social and economic crisis lead to a replica of the physical world where everything is countable in digits, therefore simplified and transparent. Yet is post digital the real progress?

We call all artists that are fond of cutting-edge technologies to continue submiting their works in the following categories: #Installations, #WebArt, #VideoArt, #Animation, #DigitalImage, #AVPerformances, #Music, #Workshops, #Ομιλίες taking advantage of technolgies such as #VirtualReality, #360ovideo, #AugmentedReality, #3DPrinting, #ETextile, #Mappingprojection

Hello to all,

I’m (very) glad to remind you that Polymorph and its engine will be presented at FOSDEMthis year, in the devroom “Open Game Development“.

The presentation is focused on the engine, why we did it and how we propose to conceive interactive 3D and video games.

I hope to see you there, even if all presentations are streamed 

Best regards,

François Zajéga

Practical info:

• date: Sunday 5th of February 2017
• hour: 15h30 – 15h55
• location: ULB, Campus du Solbosch, Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, room AW1.126

Educational and experimental platform Transmit proudly presents second year of Transmit Festival! Festival will consist from a/v performances, live acts, talks, exhibition and panel discussions.

This year's theme is “Technology is now” We don’t wish for a different kind of technology. We want a different perception of technology. Technology is often thought of just as a series of different versions of the same product or principle made mainly for economic profit. This reduction bores us as much as centuries lasting techno-optimism. Technology itself has much greater potential...

The British Science Festival and Brighton Digital Festival are looking to co-commission a new digital artwork that will be presented in a gallery space at the University of Brighton, Edward St Campus throughout the British Science Festival and Brighton Digital Festival (5 September to 13 October 2017).

We are particularly interested in works that explore and respond to themes of place: the shifting horizons of physical and virtual environments; the possibilities of technology to reimagine, reinvent and reinterpret space and place, and new opportunities to facilitate collaboration and connect people, place and things.

We are looking for an original artwork or a significant development of an earlier piece. Proposals can involve online work but a thought-out exhibition proposal must be included. Proposals should be aimed at a public audience and a focus on public engagement and participation will be viewed favourably.

Organized by Victoria Bradbury and the New Media 420 Advanced Interactive Design students

Hackathons first emerged in the commercial tech sector where people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming. Art Hacks branch off of this phenomenon while also stemming from art historical precedents of collaborative making practices in the New Media field. At this event, groups will combine computer code with traditional art materials to co-create projects. Hack It! DIY Dystopia will engage participants to combine code, microcontrollers and cardboard to envision, prototype and develop survival-oriented materials.

La réalité virtuelle est souvent associée au jeu vidéo. Pourtant, de nombreux artistes produisent des « expériences » immersives, souvent courtes, dans lequel l’utilisateur n’agit pas, ou très peu. Mardi 1er mars, une trentaine étaient présentées à la Gaîté Lyrique, à Paris, dans le cadre de Kaléidoscope. Cet événement, entièrement consacré à ce type de production, faisait une halte dans la capitale française avant de poursuivre sa tournée internationale à Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Tokyo ou encore Melbourne.

Du dessin animé à la prise de vue réelle, de la poésie à l’horreur, de l’information au clip musical : tous les possibles de la réalité virtuelle étaient présentés, offrant un aperçu alléchant des potentiels de cette technologie. Sélection.

Final chapter of the report from the Artefact festival at STUK in Leuven (this way for the previous posts, ladies and gentlemen —> Dataghost 2. The kabbalistic computational machine and Artefact festival: Magic and politics.)

This year, the event looked at magic, its meaning, reach and role in contemporary culture and society. The topic was analyzed through various lenses: entertainment, politics, finance, technology, etc. 

The relationship between technology and magic is a particularly puzzling and interesting one. You’d think that progress in science and technology would automatically mark the demise of our interest for magical thinking and occult forms of knowledge. Far from it. It seems that humans have an inherent need to leave some space in their world for the unaccountable and the supernatural. That’s why progresses in science and technology have often been accompanied by the arrival or renewal of paranormal phenomena. The advent of photography, for example, saw a rise in the popularity of spiritism and photography was even used as a proofthat ghosts and other spiritual entities did indeed exist.

Artists are invited to apply directly to co-presenters National Young Writers' Festival,  Critical Animals and Crack Theatre Festival.

For 20 years This is Not Art has celebrated Newcastle as a first-rate creative city. As one of Australia's leading contemporary and emerging arts festivals, TiNA provides a national platform for experimental and emerging arts practices. The festival supports artists to take risks, experiment, and extend the boundaries of their art forms and practices. Now is your chance to get involved!

The next TiNA Cultural Festival. 28 September - 1 October, 2017. Newcastle Australia

Organization for the promotion and development of sound art in Chile. In 2016 they realized the X version of the Sonorous Art Festival in Valparaiso.

HeK is dedicated to digital culture and the new art forms of the information age. It is a place for creative and critical discourse on the aesthetic, socio-political and economic impact of media technologies. HeK shows contemporary art that explores and configures new technologies; it promotes an aesthetic practice that uses information technology as a medium, makes it vividly accessible and actively intervenes in its processes. HeK thereby addresses the pressing issues of twenty-first-century culture and makes an active contribution to their future evolution.

As an interdisciplinary venue, the institution engages with all aspects of the current arts scene and thereby crosses traditional genre boundaries between the visual arts, music, theater, dance, performance and design. Its insights into art production at the intersection of the arts, the media and technology draw a broad public. In a diverse program comprised of exhibitions, mini-festival formats, performances, concerts and educational opportunities, HeK picks up on current social issues and the challenges posed by increasingly ubiquitous digitization...

Si l’on parle quasiment toujours des lines-up de Peacock Society, on s’attarde plus rarement sur les acteurs des différentes scénographies numériques innovantes qui font de ce festival une expérience multi sensorielle, qualifié à juste titre de «festival des cultures électroniques (…) de la musique aux arts visuels». Ces scénographies révolutionnent notre façon de vivre, de penser et de ressentir la musique en mettant le spectateur au centre du processus créatif.

Depuis sa création, l’agence WE LOVE ART – à l’origine du festival – œuvre pour la culture de demain dans les domaines de la musique, de la scénographie, des arts numériques et de la technologie en proposant des événements novateurs où les nouvelles technologies sont mises au service de la création et du public. Et ce n’est pas un hasard si l’agence a proposé deux années des créations dans le parcours officiel de la nuit blanche – en 2010 en collaboration avec 1024 Architecture ; et cette année sur le Pont des Invalides, pour une performance bluffante...

Une fois tous les deux mois, Beat à l’air vous emmène à la découverte des meilleures scénographies immersives mêlant art sonore et visuel.

Du 24 au 26 février se tenait au 104, à Paris, le salon Virtuality (http://www.virtuality-paris.com), dédié, comme son nom l'indique, à la réalité virtuelle. Réalisateurs, producteurs et distributeurs de cinéma s’y sont pressés pour explorer la façon dont la « VR » pourrait permettre d'augmenter, voire de réinventer le septième art. Après avoir exploré les promesses de la « VR 4D », intéressons-nous ici aux ressorts de création et de production de ce nouvel art.

Le Centre Pompidou présente Mutations / Créations, une nouvelle manifestation, tournée vers la prospective et l’interaction des technologies numériques avec la création ; un territoire partagé entre art, innovation et science. Transversale, aux croisements des disciplines, mêlant recherche, arts et ingénierie, cette manifestation annuelle convoque, pour sa première édition, la musique, le design et l’architecture. Elle propose deux expositions – « Imprimer le monde » et « Ross Lovegrove » –, le Forum Art-Innovation, intitulé « Vertigo », ainsi que des journées d’étude et des ateliers.

Chaque année, des expositions thématiques et monographiques s’articuleront à une programmation de rencontres et d’ateliers qui feront du Centre Pompidou un « incubateur », lieu de démonstrations de prototypes, d’expériences artistiques in vivo et d’échanges avec les créateurs. Cette plateforme sera aussi un observatoire critique et un outil d’analyse des impacts de la création sur la société. Comment les champs de création se sont-ils emparés des technologies numériques pour ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives industrielles ? Comment interrogent-ils les effets sociaux, économiques, politiques, les limites éthiques de ces développements industriels ? Quels enjeux pour les mutations formelles dans les domaines de la musique, de l’art, du design et de l’architecture au regard des avancées des technosciences ?

Set to BMI songwriter David Bowie’s iconic track “Heroes,” Creative Director Melissa Painter and her key collaborators have crafted a multidimensional experience using 2-D, virtual reality, and augmented reality headsets. The stage is the historic Theater at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles where the film component was created, and the plot…