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The yes men crashing the party at UCSD next Wednesday:

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UCSD Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Wednesday, April 20, 7:00 pm
VAF Performance Space
THE YES MEN

Directions:
[http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu/
~visitors/]
The Yes Men have gained international notoriety for impersonating World Trade Organization spokesmen on international TV and at business conferences around the world.

They describe what they do as Identity Correction. Unlike Identity Theft, which criminals practice with dishonest intent, Identity Correction is the art of impersonating a powerful criminal to publicly humiliate them for conspiring against the public good. Their targets have included big bad bureaucracies like the World Trade Organization, nasty world leaders such as George Bush, ugly right-wing think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, and heartless corporations such as Dow
Chemical.
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Radiator Digital Cultures Series 2005

With 2 major events taking place simultaneously, Radiator will feature current innovative artistic approaches in the field of digital arts:

The Radiator Festival for New Technology Art

Radiator and Digital Cultures Symposium on Performance, Dance, and
Technology Art


Radiator Festival for New Technology Art
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The Radiator Festival for New Technology Art is offering a diverse programme of new artists’ commissions, exhibition, performances, installations, screenings, Trampoline platform events as well as workshops, artists’ talks, music events and much more.

Run by Trampoline, the Radiator Festival takes place every 2nd year in Nottingham. Involving partners from throughout the East Midlands, the festival also retains a strong link to Trampoline's 2nd home, Berlin. As a local hub for digital arts activities, Radiator aims to promote digital arts in the region while at the same time instigating exchange by inviting UK-wide and international artists to Nottingham.

At the heart of the festival's programme lies a commissioning scheme, producing 5 new pieces of professional high quality new media artwork.

+ Contact Details:

Symposium Registration / Information and Radiator Festival Information:
Anette Schäfer / Miles Chalcraft
Trampoline / Radiator Festival
info@trampoline-berlin.de
www.radiator-festival.org
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11th International Media Art Biennale
WRO Media Art Centre, Wroclaw, Poland
http://wro05.wrocenter.pl/wro05intro_en.html
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A great service offered by NAMAC

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association that comprises organizations and individuals that want to support independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts.
The membership is paid but fees are very modest and entitles you to several services, of which I want to underline - because I just used it... - a Members-Helping-Members program, where you sign-up to look for peers' expertise on the areas you select from 115 areas or offer your own. The areas include many of interest to the net art comunity such as "curating" and "installations preservation".
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The Leicester Spring School in New Media, 19-21 April 2005, is a great
opportunity for museum practitioners and academics to participate and get
actively involved in discussions, workshops and presentations around the
conceptual and practical issues of envisioning, designing, developing and
assessing new media for the museum and heritage sector.

The finalised programme of the School is now available online on
http://www.le.ac.uk/
ms/professional/
springschoolprog.htm

Participation in the Spring School includes free entry to 'The Digital
Object' - UK Museums and the Web Conference 2005
(http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk
/meetings/1_2005.htm)

A few places for this exciting event are still open and a limited number of
bursaries are available after application. For more information about the
Spring School and to register on-line please visit the following web-page:
http://www.le.ac.uk/
museumstudies/
professional/
springschool.htm
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upcoming event

LAb[au] is pleased to invite you to:

..MR.xpo 08: " Fabric _ Information Architecture, Artifices and S(t)imulated Spaces"
..in the context of 'Cycle 2/3: To be structured: About Information-Architecture'
..taking place at: MediaRuimte, platform for digital art & architecture
..Fabric |ch| ...> is a Swiss electronic architecture studio exploring new spaces between
..architecture.and information theories, philosophy and electromagnetism, cognitive theories and
..virtual reality,.hermeneutics and computer networks. Fabric | ch is a playground for
..experimentation of contemporary.space: material:non-material, visible:invisible, ..inhabitable:uninhabitable, localised:distributed, unique:ubique.
..Mostly focused on the “networkspace”, fabric will present their most recent works.
..Program:
..Thursday 14.04.2005 _ 18.00 h: Exhibition - Opening
..14.04 ...-...21.04.2005 _ 18.00 - 22.00 h: MR.xpo 08
..Friday..- . 15.03.2005 _ 20.30 h: Lecture by Fabric

More Info at MediaRumite.be

Also:

LAb[au] + Wolf K _ Res Publica + M. Wathieu invited by: 'Le Centre des Arts' at Enghien-les-Bains _
..Paris [ F ] to present its.performance: " Man in e.space.mov "
..in the context of the Némo - festival [ ...> ].
.."My themes - the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking,
..standing - are as simple as they are universally valid. Besides they are inexhaustible."

=. ..Oskar . Schlemmer
..The performance ‘ MAN in eSPACE.mov ' is the result of the collaboration in between the French
..based.dance company ‘Res Publica' and the Belgian collaborative agency LAb[au] _ between dance
..and architecture. The performance is a first step towards an interactive dance performance
..examining the notion of space and its action inside, movement, while confronting it to
..communication and computation.technologies which extends the perception and understanding, its
..interrelationship, between the body.and space _ bodyspace.
..The performance is co-produced by Arcadi
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Isabel Saij contributes a review to Museum of the Essential and Beyond
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO SPONSOR ISEA HEADQUARTERS

April 5, 2005

The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) requests expressions of interest from institutions with an interest in sponsoring and supporting its Headquarters activities.

The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies. ISEA publishes a newsletter; hosts an online archive and exchange environment and oversees the International Symposium on Electronic Art, a regular gathering of the international art, science and technology community.

For information and reference the overview of the Roles of the HQ and the ISEA Board is posted on the ISEA website at:
http://www.isea-web.org/
eng/hq_tasks.html.


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File Festival 2005 - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Deadline: 17 April.



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Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline: 16 May

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Selections from the Redproject. Visit the website for a full list of opportunities.
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Questioning the relations between sound and image, New Sounds, New Visuals is an exhibition now on at Le Cube - Espace de création numérique, in Paris. One of the work included in the show is Sonoises, by Sylvain Hourany, a web site where the visitor can explore some visual-acoustic patterns.
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Check out an excellent text by Nick Montfort: I will try to show that online communities do confer author status upon some types of writers, and that the activity of these writers is not monolithic. Some of it involves programming, markup, design, careful editing and revision; other sorts of authorial activity do not necessarily involve these, but entail keeping current with other online writing and cultivating a community that manifests itself in writing.

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The new printed English edition of Neural is out.

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PixelACHE 2005 : Dot Org Boom (suomeksi »)

The festival starts on Thursday afternoon 14th of April and closes on Sunday evening 17th of April.

The main theme for PixelACHE 2005 is Dot Org Boom. Dot Org Boom is the non-profit version of the Dot Com Boom (RIP). The essential ingredients of this rapidly growing phenomenon are open source community, open content initiatives, media activist networks and myriads of NGOs around the world. PixelACHE Festival will bring together a diverse group of artists, engineers, activists, architects and designers to discuss and develop the future of Dot Org Boom.

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Turbulence Spotlight: knitPro by microRevolt

"knitPro" is a program that translates digital images into knit, needlepoint, x-stitch and crochet patterns. microRevolt uses "knitPro" to make 'logoknits' -- knitted garments with the logos of sweatshop offenders. microRevolt is now accepting submissions for the "KnitPro Needlecraft Art Show," an exhibit of needlecraft used from "knitPro" patterns.

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The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2005
May 25 â•„ June 5, 2005

The Experimental Television Center International Summer Workshop 2005 is a collaborative video and sonic arts opportunity, sponsored by the Center and the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA).

The new ISW website has all the information you need to register, plus a look at past Workshops complete with video clips and photos.
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