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May 20, 2005
Winners of Turbulence's Comp_05

http://turbulence.org/
comp_05/awards.htm


New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce the winners of its Turbulence Comp_05:

1. PERIPHERAL N°2 KEYBOARD by Marika Dermineur and Khalil Bennis with others (France)

2. MEME.GARDEN by Mary Flanagan and Daniel C. Howe (U.S.)

3. SWM05: DISTRIBUTED BODIES OF MUSICAL-VISUAL FORM by Troy Innocent and Ollie Olson with the Shaolin Wooden Men and Harry Lee (Australia)

4. mimoSa: URBAN INTERVENTION AND INFORMATION CORRECTIONAL MACHINE by Ricardo Ruiz, Alexandre Freire, Etienne Delacroix, Giuliano Djahdjah, Joao Carlos, Murmur, Romano and Tatiana Wells (Brazil)

5. GOTHAMBERG by Marek Walczak, with Martin Wattenberg, Vivan Selbo, Christiane Paul, Warren Lehrer, Johanna Kindvall and Chuck Crow (U.S)


Each team will receive $5,000. The commissioned works will be launched in spring 2006. Over one hundred, mostly collaborative, applications involving several hundred individuals were received, many of which were highly competitive.

Comp_05 was made possible by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

COMP_05 JURORS: Wayne Ashley, Arcangel Constantini, Sara Diamond, Melinda Rackham and Helen Thorington.

For project descriptions and more information, see http://turbulence.org/
comp_05/
awards.htm
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May 20, 2005
Winners of Turbulence's Comp_05

http://turbulence.org/
comp_05/awards.htm


New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce the winners of its Turbulence Comp_05:

1. PERIPHERAL N°2 KEYBOARD by Marika Dermineur and Khalil Bennis with others (France)

2. MEME.GARDEN by Mary Flanagan and Daniel C. Howe (U.S.)

3. SWM05: DISTRIBUTED BODIES OF MUSICAL-VISUAL FORM by Troy Innocent and Ollie Olson with the Shaolin Wooden Men and Harry Lee (Australia)

4. mimoSa: URBAN INTERVENTION AND INFORMATION CORRECTIONAL MACHINE by Ricardo Ruiz, Alexandre Freire, Etienne Delacroix, Giuliano Djahdjah, Joao Carlos, Murmur, Romano and Tatiana Wells (Brazil)

5. GOTHAMBERG by Marek Walczak, with Martin Wattenberg, Vivan Selbo, Christiane Paul, Warren Lehrer, Johanna Kindvall and Chuck Crow (U.S)


Each team will receive $5,000. The commissioned works will be launched in spring 2006. Over one hundred, mostly collaborative, applications involving several hundred individuals were received, many of which were highly competitive.

Comp_05 was made possible by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

COMP_05 JURORS: Wayne Ashley, Arcangel Constantini, Sara Diamond, Melinda Rackham and Helen Thorington.

For project descriptions and more information, see http://turbulence.org/
comp_05/
awards.htm
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Based in New Zealand, the group et al. will use the internet to monitor and make changes to their installation at the 51st Venice Biennale of International Art. This will allow group members to continue working in New Zealand and around the world while retaining 24/7 contact. Et al.’s installation, the fundamental practice will be representing New Zealand at the 51st Venice Biennale of International Art. A work created specifically for the 51st Venice Biennale will be installed in the New Zealand pavilion from 8 June – 6 November 2005.

"Central to et al.’s work is an exploration of the human tendency to establish truths and orthodoxies in response to the ‘unknown’. It is a concern that is reflected in et al.’s long-standing choice not to reveal their identities. The group is currently steered by one artist who remains anonymous outside the title et al., thereby protecting her own mutability, and the homogeny of the group."
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1 - New >> launch of the netopticon project
2 - no-org.net at the opening event of The Upgrade! Tel Aviv
3 - Sugia Event
:: :: :: :: :: :: :: The netopticon project is online. It features along with net works dealing with surveillance and dataveillance, an approach to the dealing of those themes in the local and physical context.
http://www.no-org.net/
opticon/



The Upgrade! Tel-Aviv: no-org & sala-manca opened the serie.
http://maarav.org.il/
theupgrade/


Once a month or two a group of new media artists, curators, activists and enthusiasts gather in Israel, for a session titled The Upgrade! Tel-Aviv. Organized by Mushon Zer-Aviv
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YPO BERLIN  

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20.05.2005
Change etc. at the Typolab

Etc. publications develop and design magazines, books and exhibitions.
Our talk is about: Genious, Failure & Issues that Matter.

14:00 h

TYPO Berlin 2005
im HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT
(Typolab)

John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.typo-berlin.de
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TYPO BERLIN  

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19.05.2005
“Wandeln” Live performance

steinbrüchel (music)
http://www.synchron.ch
vs.
onlab (visuals)
http://www.onlab.ch

21:00 h (sharp)

TYPO Berlin 2005
im HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT
(Auditorium)

John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Free entry
http://www.typo-berlin.de
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Windmills Online
Tristan Egolf's website

Tristan Egolf - author of "Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt," commited suicide May 7 at the age of 33.

"Lord of the Barnyard" was refused by 70 publishers in the U.S. before it was chosen by a French publisher while Egolf was a street performer in Paris.

"Windmills Online: A Multi-Media Literary Publication and Radio Station

Open Your Ears, Flex Your Head"

"a work of substance, significance and originality ... it owes a discernible debt to Steinbeck and Faulkner." Times Literary Supplement in London on Egolf's first novel.

Egolf was also known as having been part of ‘The Smoketown Six’

"we decided between us that reconstructing an image from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos during the passing of president Bush’s motorcade would be an effective, dialogue-provoking expression of our revulsion for this country’s involvement in the war."

We will miss you
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Selected News

Yahoo Joins the online music Frenzy: For as little as $5 a month, Yahoo Music gives subscribers access to a library of more than a million songs. The service is very similar to those offered by Napster and Real Networks except for two important differences: price and reach.

Firefox is in good standing with IBM: "IBM recognizes a bandwagon when it sees one," says Andy Jaquith, an analyst at the Yankee Group. "Besides, it's migrating its whole operation to Linux."

Safari in Open Source Dilema: In an e-mail seen by CNET News.com, a leading Apple browser developer suggested that architects of the KHTML rendering engine--the heart of a browser--consider abandoning the KHTML code base, or "tree," in favor of Apple's version, called WebCore. KHTML was originally written to work on top of KDE (the K Desktop Environment), an interface for Linux and Unix operating systems.

Toshiba dispells the myth of fantastic awards given for online linking. People should ignore such announcement: Al respecto queremos informar que Toshiba no tiene absolutamente nada que ver con este tipo de correos electrónicos, y alerta a todos aquellos usuarios que lleguen a recibir un correo electrónico de estas características a que lo ignoren.

Mac's Tiger might be prone to Crackers: While fiddling with the widgets, he found that Tiger would automatically install them on his computer. ''I happen to think autoinstall is great," said Meyers. ''I think it's really cool." But then he realized the damage that could be done if someone wrote a malignant widget that automatically installed itself and attacked its host.

Cell phone films make it to Cannes, first prize of 8,000 Euros: Dans le cadre d'un concours organisé par l'opérateur Orange ayant pour but de découvrir de nouveaux talents cinématographiques, cinq jeunes auteurs de films courts pour téléphone mobiles ont été récompensés au Festival de Cannes, publie aujourd’hui Voila. Le jury était présidé par le cinéaste français Régis Wargnier, l’actrice Aure Atika, le réalisateur Olivier Dahan et la productrice Pascale Faure.
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Christina McPhee is interviewed for C Theory by Francesca de Nicolo (our very own NAR contributor).
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Yong Hae Chang and Heavy Industries are discussing their works on Empyre. Although the threads are not officially listed on the website, You can find them here.
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Turbulence Guest Curators: "Why rock?" by Annie Abrahams and Clément Charmet
with texts by Alan Sondheim and Frédéric Madre
http://turbulence.org/curators/rock/rock.htm

"Why rock?" presents sound works by net artists with real or supposed rock affinities. Why rock? Is it a need to make an adolescent dream come true or an urge to become more pop(ular)? Is it about making the body present on the screen or taking control of the power of the word? Is it an escape from net art production patterns or because we believe 21st century rock stars will emerge from the net?

Works by Alexei Shulgin, Pavu, Richard Stallman, Igor Stromajer, V.N.A.T.R.C., Talan Memmott, Cory Arcangel, Clément Charmet, Dragan Espenschied, Annie Abrahams, Clement Thomas, Alan Sondheim and Marc Garrett.
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