Studio of Electronic Arts

Ionat Zurr

Academic Coordinator

SymbioticA

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The Aesthetics Crossovers of Art and Science VISA2214 (6 or 12 points)

This Unit is a practical and theoretical investigation, through critical engagement, of the nexus and differences of the art and science cultures through the use of the technologies of life sciences/biotechnology as an art form. The unit is run through SymbioticA: the Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory.

Themes explored will include the culture of the artist and scientist; the sole genius versus the lab team; creative thinking and the system of hypothesis, control and experimentation; history and philosophy of science; genohype and examples of art and science collaborations in art history. International artists in residence at SymbioticA will contribute to the unit. Field days to observe where art and science cross over will be included and practical skills of the laboratory will be learnt resulting in an art project or prototype.

Students from all disciplines are encouraged to enrol to include diverse discussions and skill sharing.

Contact: Ionat Zurr. ionat@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au.

Visit the UWA handbook for further unit information http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/visa/visa2214

Enrol online at http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/access/index.shtml

IV International festival of contemporary arts

The BODY NAVIGATION

DANCE/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA/MUSIC

10-13 July 2008 / St.Petersburg, Russia
Application deadline - March 10, 2008

THE BODY NAVIGATION is a cross-art festival for research the body as a medium for contemporary arts. Festival program provides collaboration with people coming from different cultural contexts, based on shared specific questions of the body and environment, and their multi-media exploration.

This year festival focuses on the issue of the perception of the body by new information technologies. HUMAN-INFORMATION WORKSPACE
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dance and technology choreography performance installations virtual environments realtime processing The submitted project focuses on the integrated body and its medial “embodiment” in dance performances, installations, or performances. The transposition is using suitable interfaces and software (f.i. camera motion sensing-systems), which allow for the real time inter/action/exploration of physical movement with audio/visual processes.

Festival will navigate from the urban environments of St.Petersburg and Kronshtadt to the theatre and musical club spaces.

Festival events include research projects and workshops, in and outdoor performances, audiovisual performances and screenings. 1-6 of July will be organized international MediaLab.
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MediaLab invites artists who research and work on /Technology and musical performance/Computers and music/ Dance and media / Performance and music/

Organizer of the festival is non-commercial partnership «ART NAVIGATION».

Submissions for the festival program and MediaLab should include: Viewing copy and / or supporting material on DVD or VHS Description of performance/project. Other relevant materials [press, photos, and promotional materials, technical information. Deadline to submit proposals by e-mail is 20th of February, 2008. And last day of getting documents by post is 10th of March, 2008.

Artists will need to consider travel, accommodation and visa costs, and to seek financial support from local funding sources. Festival committee provides you with letters and invitations to support individual funding applications. For more information please contact by e-mail: navigatsia@yandex.ru

We would like to ask you to spread this information around your community. If you are interested in participating at the Body Navigation 2008, please read carefully the information and send the application form and the info pack till March 10, 2008 to the following address:
The Body Navigation festival
(for Khabibulina Ludcia)
A/Box N102,St.Petersburg,190013, Russia

RAW is an international Video Art series located in Brooklyn, NY, which was successfully launched on August 12th, 2007 at Monkeytown in Williamsburg. This ongoing series will feature work from the best international & domestic video artists in all genres, forms, and styles. RAW is the first Video Art event to incorporate fine dining. Each screening features guest chefs who specialize in raw, vegan cuisine. Submissions are sought from video artists working in any genre, there is no entry fee, but works must be under 20 minutes long. For more information visit the website. Deadline is ongoing.

http://www.raw.perhapsmedia.net/

Interesting interview with Bill Viola (in two parts):

Part 1
Part 2

2008: Man With a Movie Camera is a global remake of Vertov’s 1929 film
(Man With A Movie Camera) using the web to archive, sequence and
deliver submissions to the Big Screen Manchester
UK www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/ on
October 11 with more public venues in the UK through
2008. http://dziga.perrybard.net/ has a
scene index and every shot of Vertov’s film is logged, with an intro
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Interesting site.

OPPORTUNITIES:Call out for zine artists ~ chance to win Luna tickets
09-03-07

In April 2007 ARTRAGE aims to give would-be zine creators the opportunity to produce a whole new wave of local zines.

The artists will be responsible for creating, producing and printing/copying their zine’s and ARTRAGE will provide an unparalleled opportunity to have the work promoted and sold as part of the celebrations surrounding the International design conference Semi-Permanent 07. The artists keep the profits and the fame!

Whether you are an artist, a designer, a writer or photographer this is the perfect opportunity to show off your stuff, spread your views and prove that Melbourne isn’t the only state that knows how to use a photocopier.

If you are interested in producing a work for this event and would like to receive further information then please forward your name, contact details, relevant biography, and a description of the content of your intended work as soon as possible to luke@artrage.com.au.

Finished, copied works will need to be received by March 26th.

Chance to win Luna double pass to see THE BRA BOYS

Thanks to Luna Palace, over the next few weeks ARTRAGE will be giving away free double passes to see new release films showing at Luna Palace Cinemas. With each mail out the first 5 people who email lucky@artrage.com.au with Gimme gimme gimme in the subject line will recieve a free double pass!

In this the second giveaway we have double passes to see The Bra Boys. Email us to find out if it’s your lucky day!

www.artrage.com.au

www.myspace.com/thebakeryperth

To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please email ARTRAGE with Unsubscribe Me in the subject line.

*February Event*
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6:30pm Tonight
eCentral TAFE (in Theatrette)
140 Royal St, East Perth

Abstract
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Paul Bourke : Novel projection environments

Paul’s Website : http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/
Image Gallery of Dome Installations :
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/exhibition/domeinstall

Paul Bourke will present and discuss a number of the more unusual
projection environments he has either developed or been involved with.
This will include VROOM (the Virtual ROOM) at the Melbourne Museum, a
360 degree stereoscopic cylinder at iCinema in Sydney, planetarium
domes including a buckyball dome at GinGin, and some smaller more
personal immersive environments. Applications of such environments
include visualisation, engaging spaces for education, entertainment,
and gaming. Some discussion will also be given to what application or
game developers need to do in order to create content for such
environments.

Biography
Paul Bourke is employed as a visualisation researcher at the
University of Western Australia providing scientific visualisation
services to researchers within university and externally. During his
career he has worked in organisations where he concentrated on
architectural, brain/medical, and recently astronomy visualisation.
One of his many interests are innovative and immersive display
technologies and how they may be used to enhance scientific
visualisation as well as support engaging exhibits in public spaces
and for education. An ongoing interest has been how to create
immersive environments at a lower price point in an attempt to remove
one barrier to their wider deployment.

Directions to the Venue
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Enter through the main doors on the corner of Royal St and Fielder St.
Follow the signs from the reception desk up the stairs to your right
and into the next building to the Theatrette. Parking is available on
the street and at the rear of the building. Claisebrook train station
is a short walk away. Bicycle parking is available at the rear of the
building.

Directions have been kindly written by Nick Lowe
(SIGGRAPH Perth Committee Member at Large and Head of One Twenty)
http://events.onetwenty.org/index.php/2006/11/24/whats-a-siggraph-perth-event-like-anyway

The new Hybrid Art category, a new prize for Media.Art.Research, and the integration of Net Vision into Digital Communities are the most visible signs of the intensive work that is being done on the definition of the competition’s categories. As always, the aim is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.

And with [The Next Idea] Art and Technology Grant, the aim goes even further.
This category`s target group includes students at universities, art schools, technical schools, and other educational institutions as well as creatives from all over the world, aged 19-27 and is focusing on as-yet-unproduced concepts in the fields of art, design or technology. The winner receives a stipend in the amount of 7,500 Euro and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Judging will be done by a panel of experts. The Ars Electronica Futurelab makes its resources and its staff’s expertise available to support the realization of the project during the term of residency. The awarded concept or the completed work will be presented in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “CyberArts 2007” catalog and as part of the Ars Electronica Exhibition at the 2007 Ars Electronica Festival. Strongly committed to an interdisciplinary approach, and as part of an international network of collaborating institutional associates, the Ars Electronica Futurelab carries out its R&D projects together with artists and scientists from all over the world. The awarding of this grant is made possible by voestalpine.

Prix Ars Electronica 2007
Online Submission Deadline: March 9, 2007

Computeranimation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art,
Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle competition, [the next idea] grant,
Media.Art.Research Award

All details about the categories and the online submission
are available online only at:

Total prize money: 122.500 Euro

Bill talking about his work.
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