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If in Roxbury MA, consider attending, otherwise peruse the links

WHEN: Friday July 29th, 4-6pm
WHERE: Arts In Progress, 2201 Washington Street
Dudley Square, Roxbury, MA

Throughout the month of July, the Institute teamed up with youth researchers from the Media Arts Summer Program at Roxbury's ARTS IN PROGRESS to document and perform corporate commands found in their local environment.

A collaborative map of the research conducted by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things will be on display at the Media Arts Summer Program's closing reception on July 29th @ Arts In Progress' Teen Arts Center from 4-6pm.

"CORPORATE COMMANDS: DUDLEY SQUARE" is a research project by The Institute For Infinitely Small Things, in collaboration with Arts In Progress and facilitated by the AIR Satellite Program of the Berwick Research Institute.

During the closing, in addition to many works created by the Media Program's students there will be an interactive performance of a newly collected corporate command by members of the Institute along with video and audio documentation of the month long collaboration.

Arts In Progress, located at 2201 Washington Street (on the corner of Ruggles Street) in Roxbury's Dudley Square, is easily accessible via the MBTA.

Take the Silver Line to Dudley Station, and walk north one block on Washington Street. The entrance to Arts In Progress is located on the Ruggles Street side of the intersection. Arts In Progress is also a short walk from Ruggles Station, Orange Line station.

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR INFINITELY SMALL THINGS
www.infinitelysmallthings.net
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things is a research organization dedicated to the creation, collection and documentation of all things infinitely small, past, present and future. The Institute's research projects are concerned with creating a critical cartography through which to explore notions of political power, social control, and collective agency. This project is made possible by iKatun [www.ikatun.com], a 501c3 organization that supports artistic research and technological development to facilitate critical inquiry into social and political affairs.

ABOUT ARTS IN PROGRESS
www.artsinprogress.org
Arts In Progress, Inc. (AIP) fosters the education and healthy development of urban youth through the arts. Each July, Arts In Progress offers a full-time media arts program that provides in-depth training in photography, creative writing, video production and journalism. In addition to arts instruction, students participate in community projects and use their developed skills in media arts to capture the many dimensions and voices of the neighborhood.

ABOUT THE BERWICK
www.berwickinstitute.org
The Berwick Research Institute is a non-profit, artist-run space located in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Founded in January of 2000, the Berwick Research Institute provides emerging artists with a laboratory where they can experiment with new forms and concepts without the pressures of a commercial environment. In our programming, we bring artists and audiences together to foster a community that is based on innovation and dialog.

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TRANSMEDIA :29:59
http://www.year01.com/
transmedia2959
one minute media artworks on the Yonge-Dundas Square video billboard every half hour 24/7

August 1 - 31st, 2005
29th minute: Manu Luksch - 'Movie Stars'
59th minute: Jillian Mcdonald - 'Screen Kiss'

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Launch event: August 3rd, 8-10pm: vjs fluid & faux amie - music by cyan
& naw!
Dundas Square - Yonge & Dundas Street, Toronto
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Year Zero One is pleased to announce the launch of TRANSMEDIA :29:59, a year long programme on the pedestrian level video billboard at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto. Beginning August 1st 2005, one minute video works will be broadcast 24/7 every half hour on the 29th and 59th minutes.

Featured for the month of August is Jillian Mcdonald's 'Screen Kiss' & Manu Luksch's 'Movie Stars'.

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Intelligent agent Vol. 5 No. 1 -- Special Issue: Artistic Virtual Environments
Articles now available at
http://www.intelligentagent.com

intelligent agent is published in a modular format:
+Thematic threads
Special Issue Vol. 5 No. 1:
//artistic virtual environments//
+reviews of games, exhibitions, books

All content is available in html and as pdf files.

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Celebrating Turbulence's Networked_Performance Blog
http://turbulence.org/blog

The networked_performance blog is now one year old. With 1,100 entries, and 1,200 visits per day (and climbing), networked_performance has become an important resource for practitioners, scholars and the general blogosphere. Our Guest Bloggers have included Nathaniel Stern (South Africa), Michelle Kasprzak (Canada), Régine Debatty (Belgium), Yukihiko Yoshida (Japan), and Adriana de Souza e Silva (US); Luís Silva (Portugal) will begin in September. Renowned author, Howard Rheingold ("The Virtual Community" and "Smart Mobs"), said "Networked Performance (is) one of my favorite blogs about location-based experiments beyond the usual boring stuff."

Helen Thorington and Michelle Riel have been guests on "empyre" this month (http://www.turbulence.org/
blog/archives/
001078.html), presenting their analysis of the blog contents, and they'll be moderating the "Networked Performance: How Does Art Affect Technology and Vice Versa?" panel at SIGGRAPH 2005 on Monday, August 1 from 3:45-5:30 p.m.

Here's a sampling of posts from our current index page (http://turbulence/
org/blog):

INDIA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: GRANTS FOR INDIAN NEW PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
SOCIAL MACHINES: CONTINUOUS COMPUTING

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING/DIGITAL SOUND WORKSHOP

BODILY (TRANS)FORMATIONS

LAURIE ANDERSON: THE RECORD OF THE TIME

THE REENTRY SERIES; SYNTHETIC METEOR SHOWERS

CRACKS IN THE PAVEMENT: GIFTS IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

HTML WRESTLING

3 X 3

HAPTIC SPACES: THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RELATION BETWEEN TOUCH AND SPACE

ART & THE NETWORK SPACE OVER ACCESS GRID

SMS SATYAGRAHA

KODAMA:WHISPERING TREES

LIVE ACTION SCOTLAND YARD

AUTONOMOUS EXPRESSIONISM AND NETWORK ARTS: NEW PARADIGMS IN ART, EMOTIONAL INTERACTION, AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

MOLLYCODDLE


To include your news, events, articles and projects on the networked_performance blog, please send an email to turbulence@turbulence.org


Thanks for your interest and support.


Best,
Jo

(Sent by Turbulence)

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If in Los Angeles... if not peruse the URL

UDC announces regular opening hours for the rest of July and August. AUDC's Wilshire Boulevard Facility [http://www.audc-office.com], a small, flexible exhibit space and office, will be open from 2 to 6 every Thursday and by appointment throughout the rest of the week. The Facility is located at 6128 Wilshire (at Fairfax), Suite 211, Los Angeles, California.

Please call #211 at the street level intercom, take the elevator to the second floor, walk straight ahead toward the fire escape. We are to your left.

Throughout the summer, AUDC's Wilshire Boulevard Facility will host an interpretive display on Ether, analyzing the role of the individual, objects, and telecommunicational society from the Cold War to the present day.

Also, in anticipation of the publication of our text on Muzak and the Culture of Horizontality, in  [http://www.amazon.com/
exec/obidos/
ASIN/849595186X/
audc-20] Verb: Processing, AUDC has greatly updated its Wiki Pages on the topic [http://www.audc.org/
projects/index.php/
Muzak].

In this project, AUDC explores the parallels between sonic and architectural ideologies. After recounting a brief history of the acoustic realm and the commodification of music with the record player, AUDC turns to General George Owen Squier’s development of signal multiplexy — the ability to transmit more than one signal over a wire and the basic foundation of modern telecommunications — and his subsequent use of that technology with the Muzak Corporation. Between the 1930s and the 1980s, Muzak became known for producing canned music that manipulates emotions while masking background sounds. In its online text, AUDC tells the story of Muzak’s Stimulus Progression, a programming cycle based on the corporation’s analysis of songs for their emotional content and energy levels. Factoring in tempo, type of music, instruments employed, and the size of orchestra, Muzak determined a stimulus value for each song carefully varied the level of stimulus during the day to offset decreases in worker efficiency during mid-morning and mid-afternoon slumps. The Stimulus Progression created nothing less than an invisible backdrop to modern architecture and, just as Muzak manipulated emotions during the workday, it played a crucial role in the rise and fall of the American downtown and the subsequent development of a culture of horizontality.  

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This week enjoy two reviews on globalization by Molly Hankwitz and Eduardo Navas. See the Weekly Features directly below this section.

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Petit Mort, perhaps the coolest webzine around today, launches its latest issue packed with interviews.

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A release on a promising open source collaboration

July 26, 2005 - The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.42, a cross-platform Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool.

Inkscape 0.42 is the most feature-filled release to date, with an exceptional number of major and minor new features, usability improvements, and bug fixes. While some of the new features simply fill long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary. Inkscape 0.42 is one step closer to full SVG compliance. This release adds:

* Flowed Text: Text objects that automatically re-flow to any shape (and not just a rectangle).
* Text Selection: One can now select part of a text and apply any style to the selection, just like in a word processing application.
* Gradient Tool: A completely redesigned and much easier to use on-canvas gradient interface with handles displayed directly in the drawing.
* Effects: These are now usable from within Inkscape on all platforms. This version ships with a collection of effects including path interpolation, randomization, and various fractal algorithms.
* Color Swatches: This standard facility of most graphics software is now a part of Inkscape.
* Colored Clones: Clones may now be painted differently from their original.
* Tile Tracing: The Tile Clones dialog can trace an existing image with tiling, producing a multitude of exciting effects.
* Grid Arrange, Baseline Align, Unclumping: There are new, powerful ways to arrange objects.
* Better PS/EPS Export: PostScript level 3 gradient support, better text handling, and a command line option for batch export are in this release.
* Command Line SVG Analysis: Inkscape may now be used from the command line to query coordinates and dimensions of objects in an SVG file.
* Better SVG/CSS Compliance: Notably, internal CSS stylesheets are now supported (read-only).
* Mac OS X Support: In addition to Linux and Windows, Inkscape 0.42 is now available as a fully self-contained dmg package for Mac OS X.

There are also dozens of smaller features and usability enhancements (especially in the Fill & Stroke dialog, Node tool, and drawing tools). In this version the development community closed 404 bugs, some quite serious, and 165 feature requests. Overall, the Inkscape developers are very excited about this release and heartily recommend upgrading.

Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages:
http://sourceforge.net/
project/showfiles.php
?group_id=93438

For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.42:
http://inkscape.org/
cgi-bin/wiki.pl?
ReleaseNotes042

Community submitted screenshots:
http://www.inkscape.org/
screenshots/


About Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web
Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported
SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha
blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape
supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path
operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also
imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and
exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a
fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work
includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a
lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension
mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented
development process.

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The current calls for ISEA2006 (August 5-13, 2006, San Jose, CA) for
Community Domain commissions and Pacific Rim projects close August 1,
2005. See below.

For information about upcoming calls to submit work for the ISEA2006:
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu./
calls.html

To join the ISEA2006 mailing list:
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/
mailman/listinfo/
isea2006

Please note there is currently no "general" call for works for ISEA2006.

PACIFIC RIM
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnmscall/
This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive artworks and projects reflecting on the thematic of the Pacific Rim. We are seeking proposals that address, but are not limited to, art works that emphasize radical and alternative responses to contemporary cultural conditions throughout the Pacific Rim. Of particular interest are projects that focus on engagements and interaction strategies with Diaspora communities as well as work that enable new discourses, platforms and explorations.
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/prnmscall/


COMMUNITY DOMAIN COMMISSIONS
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/
communitydomain1/
This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for exhibition of interactive artworks and projects reflecting on the thematic of Community Domain. Up to three commissions will be awarded, and the results will be shown at the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose Festival.
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/
communitydomain1/

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The Upgrade! Boston: Barbara Lattanzi
http://turbulence.org/
upgrade/index.html
WHEN: July 26, 2005 @ 7:00 pm
WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect Street, Cambridge

The term "participation" provides a point-of-reference for experimental software art by Barbara Lattanzi. Such projects as Lattanzi's net-based "CSPAN Karaoke" emphasize the improvisational and cooperative dimension of Participation as critical (or ironic) re-figuring of the human-computer interface. Software such as "The Interrupting Annotator" derive partly from late-1980s/early-1990s models of media activism, public access tv, and other versions of community communications. Some of Lattanzi's projects, such as "EG Serene", involve small-scale, cine-software applications for video improvisation, that "open source" key works from the 1970s era of structuralist, experimental filmmaking.

In 2005, "C-SPAN Karaoke", received an "Honorable Mention" at Transmediale, the Berlin-based international media art festival. The Artport website of the Whitney Museum of American Art featured, during January, her gatepage, "C-SPAN x 4". The gallery version of "HF Critical Mass Applied to Cinematography by NASA" was included in the 2005 exhibition "Reverse Engineers". The production of Lattanzi's multimedia applets and software has been stimulated in part by the open structures of net-based cooperative venues such as the on-line archive of software art, "Runme.org" and Rhizome "Artbase", where her work is included. She currently teaches at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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History of Networked Art,
people, places, events, technologies and theories

a conference curated by Tommaso Tozzi and Alessandro Ludovico

Friday, July 29, 2005

Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts)
Via Roma 1 - Carrara (Tuscany, Italy) tel. +39 0585 71658

9.30am - 1.30pm / 3.00pm - 7.00pm


with (in alphabetical order):

Robert Adrian (Wien, AU)
Hans Bernhard (Wien, AU)
Arturo Di Corinto (Roma, IT)
Steven Kovats (Rotterdam, NL)
Enrico Pedrini (Genova, IT)
Cornelia Sollfrank (Hamburg, DE)
Luca Toschi (Firenze, IT)

installation:
Giuseppe Chiari (Firenze - IT)
"Audio and Video recording from the seventies and eighties"

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BINARY KATWALK is an on-line exhibition space focusing primarily on work that is highly experimental and would benefit from a non-traditional exhibition space. The site is co-curated by Sindee Nakatani and Jeremy Hight. We are looking for new media work, for cross disciplinary works, for experimental works in particular mediums, and for works that are pushing into new horizons in form and functionality. We are looking for work ranging from hybrid new media narratives to experiments with digital imaging and photography. Each edition will have a new call for work and an invited artist's solo exhibition. We are currently taking submissions for our initial edition.
Contact : info@binarykatwalk.net

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Artnodes offers a set of great writings on the commonalities of science and art.
NODO: ARTE Y CALCULABILIDAD/ La relación entre las artes y las ciencias del
cálculo o matemáticas.

NODO: ARTE Y CALCULABILIDAD/ La relación entre las artes y las ciencias del
cálculo o matemáticas.
http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/esp/

NODO: ARTE Y CALCULABILIDAD/ La relación entre las artes y las ciencias del
cálculo o matemáticas.

Con artículos de>

Michele Emmer (La perfección visible: matemática y arte)
http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/
esp/art/
emmer0505.html

Josep Perelló (Poincaré y Duchamp: encuentro en la cuarta dimensión)
http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/esp/
art/perello0505.html

Inke Ans (El código como acto de habla performativo)
http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/
esp/art/
arns0505.html

Santiago Ortiz (Narrativa, vida, arte y código)
http://www.uoc.edu/
artnodes/esp/
art/ortiz0505.html

Cordially sent by Raquel Herrera Ferrer

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 II INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ART 404 > OPEN CALL
www.404festival.com

Deadline: August 15th 2005
"Astas Romas" is organising the second "International Festival of Electronic Art 404", to be held at "Centro Cultural Parque de España" and "Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia", in Rosario, Argentina from November 29th to December 2nd, 2005.
"Astas Romas" is making a world-wide call to artists and theorists to take part in this Festival 404'05 in order to estimulate and divulge new productions around electronic art.

Authors may participate in the following areas: net-art, still image, animation, video, electronic music, audiovisual set, theory, performance and any other proposals made by the authors.

The program includes: screening of videos and animations, conferences, performances and concerts.
Participation in this festival is free, open, and has no age-limit. The Festival´s deadline to present works is on August 15th 2005. The date will be taken from the post office cancelling stamp. The only requirements to submit your work are to follow the instructions published on www.404festival.com

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