Digital #MediaArt(s) Numérique(s)

Sansar is a new social, virtual-reality world coming later this year from the company behind Second Life.

In theory, you can do whatever you want in virtual reality, and my VR tour guide and I are taking this seriously: we’re dressed like aliens (he’s red; I’m green), standing on the stern of a floating ship looking out at beautiful tiny islands levitating in the distance and a serene garden below us.

Where else can we go? The possibilities are limitless, in a sense, because we could also just build a new virtual space to hang out in if what we want doesn’t exist...

This two-year online exhibition will present 100 artworks from net art history, restaging and contextualizing one project each week.

Devised in concert with Rhizome's acclaimed digital preservation department, Net Art Anthology also aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible. The series takes on the complex task of identifying, preserving, and presenting exemplary works in a field characterized by broad participation, diverse practices, promiscuous collaboration, and rapidly shifting formal and aesthetic standards, sketching a possible net art canon.

DADA-DATA celebrates 100 years of the Dada movement. It’s a viral, vibrant, living homage, connected to our times like DADA was at war with its own. Stroll through our Depot, an ever-changing anti-museum of major DADA works. And take part in the weekly Hacktions.

Dada-Data is a digital project with a storm of interactive Dada events called “Dada Hacktions.” On the other hand, it will be an online anti-museum, the DADA-Depot.

Dada-Data est un hommage vivant, viral, fait de détournements, d’autodestruction, de dérision, et ancré dans notre époque, comme Dada était en guerre contre la sienne. Ce webdocumentaire propose une narration moderne, faite de collages, d’hyper-texte, de manifestes, de ReadyMades connectés.  

The International Digital Art Festival Patchlab takes place between 11 - 16 October  2016 in Krakow, Poland. This event is dedicated to interdisciplinary digital art and created on the boarders of humanities, new technologies and creative programming.

This 5th edition of the festival focuses on the relation between human and machine, especially the relation existing within the new virtual reality, and on the issue of privacy and online  safety. More than 30 invited artists will present their works. 

Patchlab is an exhibition at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki presenting selected interactive installations and VR works, interdisciplinary dance spectacle, audiovisual performances and live acts, also screenings of selected works awarded during MADATAC Festival in Madrid...

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Où sont les femmes dans le numérique ? La question revient régulièrement dans certaines discussions-débats récents ouverts à des manifestations « tech » comme à Web2day ou récemment à Viva Technology dont les organisateurs avouaient rencontrer des difficultés à mobiliser des femmes. La Journée de la Femme Digitale souhaite quant à elle encourager plus de mixité dans des secteurs encore trop peu paritaires. En effet, dans le numérique le chemin à parcourir est encore long : la part des femmes dans les métiers du numérique n’est que de 28% en France (voir l’article [Débat] Les femmes prennent-elles enfin leur revanche dans le numérique?).

Qu’en est-il dans l’art numérique ? Compositrices, artistes sonore, chorégraphes, plasticiennes, chercheuses, enseignantes en robotique en encore commissaires d’exposition ou directrices de festival, la gent féminine, bien qu'encore minoritaire, n'en est pas moins investie et se fait peu à peu sa place dans les festivals et expositions.  Faute de pouvoir donner des statistiques précises, Digitalarti Media revient sur la création numérique en 8 artistes féminines s'appropriant  les nouveaux enjeux des domaines de l'art & des technologies.

Hostanartist est une plateforme en ligne qui permet à des “propriétaires” d’espaces privés ou publics - maisons de vacances, appartements, chambres, ateliers, locaux libres - d’offrir à des artistes des lieux de résidences de création. En échange de ces résidences, les artistes offrent à leurs mécènes une œuvre d’art, un texte original, un cours particulier, un concert privé ou toute forme qui permet de créer un lien inédit avec leurs hôtes.

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Project initiated by David Guez et Anne Roquigny

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Host an Artist is an online exchange platform for property owners and artists. Owners of summer houses, bungalows, apartments,warehouses, empty offices can share their space with artists as temporary artistic residencies. In exchange for this hosting, artists will offer a work of art, an original work, singing or painting lessons, a private concert or any other art form to create a unique link between themselves and their hosts

ACOUSTIC CAMERAS invites composers and sound artists to annex the real-time flow of webcams located in various places around the world.The flow of webcams is intercepted but not modified. The artist is invited to deliver a sound piece or piece of music related to this flow; This sound piece acting as a modification of reality.The resulting work is the encounter of a recorded sound piece and the live capture of a fluctuating landscape. Depending on the season, depending on weather, depending on time of day or night, the camera sweeps continuously the filmed location (seaside, city or mountain) and writes in real time the film of the artist's music. Music or sound design, by monopolizing the filmed landscape, soon takes on a narrative, dramatic dimension, according to the principles of film music. At the slight difference that here the film is written simultaneously...

A proposal by Christophe Demarthe, co-edited by Optical Sound (Pierre Beloüin & P. Nicolas Ledoux) and la manufacture des Cactées (Didier Hochart & Thierry Weyd).

Du 19 février au 21 mars 2016, Digital Choc revient pour sa 5e édition. Organisateur du festival tokyoïte, l’Institut français du Japon y présente une programmation strictement franco-japonaise. A travers un thème intitulé “futurama”, les artistes invités explorent le futur et interpellent par leurs regards hétéroclites. Ce mélange bi-national et les différences culturelles qui en découlent, rendent l’événement tout particulièrement fascinant.

Digital Choc a le mérite de se positionner au croisement de deux cultures fortement reconnues pour leur créativité dans le champs numérique. Pourtant, s’il existe une réelle admiration des Français pour l’art nippon, peu d’artistes japonais associés à la scène numérique sont encore connus dans l’Hexagone. La réciproque est tout aussi vrai, au point que certaines célébrités nationales, comme 1024 Architecture, peuvent n’avoir quasiment jamais été présentées au Japon. L’Institut français du Japon, à l’initiative du festival Digital Choc, permet une perspective nouvelle sur ces deux pays. Il s’agit ici de créer une passerelle entre quelques uns des artistes les plus prometteurs et de faire rayonner deux cultures numériques incontournables dans divers lieux phares de Tokyo. ...

combines physical objects with the benefits of a flexible augmented user interface.

This platform allows you to:

• Create Augmented Reality content with HTML tools
• Create Augmented Reality without any knowledge about 3D Programming
• Connect the functionality of objects with a simple drag and drop paradigm
• Program your objects with Arduino

Watch the Talk: https://vimeo.com/134679257

Festivals come in all shapes and sizes. EFFE primarily considers festivals a cultural event that takes place in a specific place, over a specific period, and that are conceived as a total package. This is a loose definition and all festivals that think they represent the criteria are welcome to apply! Visit the guidelines for more details.

How to Apply:

Start by registering on the EFFE Professional Community or log in if you already have a festival profile. Click “Yes, I want to apply” when saving your profile. Detailed instructions on how to apply can be found here.
Use your login to sign in and begin your application. You can save the application and complete it later. You can spend as much time as you want working on your proposal – we can't view it until you submit it. All required fields must be filled in.
The administration fee must be paid before the application is confirmed, either by credit card (PayPal) or Bank transfer.
The deadline is 17 February 2017. Don’t miss it!

This text has been written for the proceedings of the international conference "New Perspectives, New Technologies", organized by the Doctoral School Ca' Foscari - IUAV in Arts History and held in Venice and Pordenone, Italy in October 2011

In the late nineties and during the first decade of this century the term “new media art” became the established label for that broad range of artistic practices that includes works that are created, or in some way deal with, new media technologies. Providing a more detailed definition here would inevitably mean addressing topics beyond the scope of this paper, that I discussed extensively in my book Media, New Media, Postmedia (Quaranta 2010). By way of introduction to the issues discussed in this paper, we can summarize the main argument put forward in the book: that this label, and the practices it applies to, developed mostly in an enclosed social context, sometimes called the “new media art niche”, but that would be better described as an art world in its own right, with its own institutions, professionals, discussion platforms, audience, and economic model, and its own idea of what art is and should be; and that only in recent years has the practice managed to break out of this world, and get presented on the wider platform of contemporary art. ...

L'espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume ouvre ses portes à une série d'expositions dématérialisées, coordonnées par l'artiste curateur Nicolas Maigret. Intitulé Futurs Non-Conformes, ce programme mêle art, ethnographie, critique et spéculation à travers 3 cycles (passé, présent, futur). Une occasion pour interroger son curateur autour des thèmes de l'anticipation, de la propagande de l'innovation et de l’archéologie des médias.

Nicolas Maigret, Futurs Non-Conformes correspond à une forme que l’on peut appeler le « musée virtuel », pouvez-vous nous présenter ce concept ?

Nicolas Maigret : Futurs Non-Conformes est une exposition en ligne, rassemblant une série de liens contextualisés autour de pratiques artistiques et techno-critiques. J’ai proposé que l’on articule ce programme autour de trois cycles, avec différents points de vue et différentes approches, qui chacune viennent décoder, décrypter et révéler les enjeux propres à différentes technologies, tout en développant une forte dimension critique. Nous avons donc écrit les présentations de chacun des projets avec les artistes, pour ensuite offrir un accès direct,via des liens hypertextes, aux expositions en ligne qui peuvent être aussi bien des collections d’objets (photos), que des éditions de magazines ou d’articles, des documentaires, etc...

Polymorph is a hub for artists, designers, academics, musicians, developpers et enthousiasts focused on experimental video games.

Its main goals are:

• promotion of libre vision & tools;
• empowerment of graphical exploration;
• investigation alternative gameplays.

Polymorph is hosted by F/LAT (Free / Libre Art and Technology), a non-profit organisation located in brussels, belgium.

Les collaborations entre les filières de l’art et de la culture, de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche sont, à l’heure où les processus d’exploration et d’expérimentation se décloisonnent, de plus en plus courantes. Création artistique et recherche technologique, domaines qui entretenaient auparavant des interactions quasi-inexistantes, se sont aujourd’hui nettement rapprochés : certains artistes travaillent directement dans des laboratoires pour interroger les nouveaux enjeux scientifiques et, à l’inverse, des chercheurs vont à la rencontre de créateurs et collaborent afin d’imaginer avec eux de nouvelles façons de présenter leurs travaux. Ces créations communes nées de l’alliance art-science interrogent  la culture scientifique d’un œil nouveau et rendent les connaissances plus accessibles en inventant, si telle est l'intention souhaitée, de nouvelles manières de faire de la médiation scientifique sur des supports et outils venant redéfinir l'œuvre d'art.Retour dans cette compilation spéciale Art-Sciences sur quelques événements, artistes et projets que nous avons évoqué sur Digitalarti Media...

It consists of 16 festivals and art centres and aims to support, promote and exchange innovative and aspiring musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound. SHAPE attempts to present a variety of idiosyncratic music and sonic art from all over Europe, and provide audiences and professionals with insightful lectures, talks and workshops by experts in various fields related to sound and performance.

The platform was formed by members of ICAS (International Cities of Advanced Sound) – a global network of independent non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing sound cultures, music and related arts.

Each year, the 16 involved associations will collectively choose 48 creatively strong artists and musicians to participate in a mix of live performances, residencies, workshops and talks across festivals and special events.

However, it is also possible for musicians and artists to apply for becoming participants of SHAPE for 2016 or 2017 (deadline: 30 April 2016). Musicians are asked to send an approximately 10 minute long streamable video or audio excerpt of their live performance to info (at) shapeplatform (dot) eu (no attachments please, only links).

Audiovisual artists are asked to send streamable video documentation of their work (up to 10 minutes in length) to the aforementioned e-mail. Materials that are not sent in accordance to these requirements, will not be considered.

As the creation of the annual SHAPE artist roster is rather complex and demands consensus from 16 different organizations, we will not be able to get back to artists or musicians with detailed evaluations of the submitted materials. However, they will be contacted in the case if they’re chosen for SHAPE rosters of 2016 or 2017.

SHAPE is a three-year initiative, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Besides NewMediaFest, also ENGAD – Engaged Arts Directory was initiated by Agricola de Cologne in 2001 – so it’s the time to celebrate also this project’s 15th anniversary.

ENGAD was established as a media art platform following the curatorial goal to encourage contemporary artists using new media to deal with engaged contents reflecting political, cultural and social developments on Earth. As a platform, the project is representing an appeal against any totalitarianism – this is good especially in these time when there are continuously attempts to restrict and even eliminate freedom and the democratic rights and values – tendencies which can be obswerved in all parts on the globe, and especially in these countries which have a democratic constitution.So, an eseential goal of ENGAD is to activate and sensitize the artists and the audience alike via new approaches and technologies. ...

http://engad.org