Posts from 2009
decode: digital design sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin and Troika.
The exhibition explores three themes:
Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how 
code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works.
Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits.
Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind 
by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the 
internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.
The exhibition is centered in the Porter Gallery with a series of interventions throughout ‚Äö√ѬÆthe museum including work by Jason Bruges Studio in the John Madejski Garden and ‚Äö√ѬÆa projection on the exhibition road façade by Simon Heijdens. There are also a number ‚Äö√ѬÆof specially commissioned one-off performances for the Sap Weekend: Digital Design Festival from 26-28 February 2010.
In partnership with SAP at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Cromwell Road London W7 UK
8 December 2009 – 11 April 2010
Curated in collaboration with onedotzero; www.onedotzero.com
For more information, see; www.vam.ac.uk
The Urban Screens reader was launched this evening as part of US09 in Amsterdam. Urban Screens 09 is organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with MediaLAB Amsterdam, Trouw de Verdieping and the International Urban Screens Association. At the venue, installations by MediaLab Amsterdam, visuals by Visual Foreign Correspondents.
The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. In assembling contributions from a range of leading theorists as well as case studies dealing with artists projects, screen operators and curatorial experiences, the reader offers a rich resource for those interested in the intersections between digital media, cultural practices and urban space.
Edited by Meredith Martin, Scott McQuire and Sabine Niederer. Contributions from Simone Arcagni, Alice Arnold, Giselle Beiguelman, Liliana Bounegru, Kate Brennan, Andreas Broeckmann, Uta Caspary, Sean Cubitt, Annet Dekker, Jason Eppink, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Mike Gibbons, M. Hank Haeusler, Bart Hoeve, Erkki Huhtamo, Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Meredith Martin, Scott McQuire, Julia Nev‚à ö√⬨¬∞rez, Sabine Niederer, Shirley Niemans, Nikos Papastergiadis, Soh Yeong Roh, Saskia Sassen, Leon van Schaik, Jan Schuijren, Audrey Yue.
Supported by: the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in collaboration with Virtueel Platform, the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, the School for Communication and Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, MediaLAB Amsterdam and the International Urban Screens Association. The editors would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Research Council in supporting this research.
To order a copy, email; books@networkcultures.org.
For more information on the US09 event, see the INC blog at; networkcultures.org/wpmu/urbanscreens
See the link below for an interesting use of a mobile projection unit in NY as a two-part campaign for ‘Alice' – created by Klip Creative (http://klip.tv/) and Fallon.
The project incorporated images projected onto three different façades in NYC, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the old Virgin Megastore in Union Square, and the Maritime Hotel. All were mapped and content was animated based on the architecture.
To view video see http://vimeo.com/8084373
Call for submissions for an Environmental Film Festival, to be screened FOC at public screens.
Requirements: G rated feature and short-length films, discussing different elements of the climate change, environmental, sustainability and related technology development debate and “best practice” solutions around the world. A variety of content that caters for a range of viewpoints.
Deadline: December 1st 2009
To apply email Timothy Holborn; timothy.holborn@theitvcompany.com.au
The Willimantic Screen Project, described in my first entry, was inspired by the ultimate urban screen project, Nina Colosi's Streaming Museum StreamingMuseum.org. With its new exhibition, New Era: The Middle East, the Streaming Museum was a partner and participant in this year's Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival in Prague, CZ, October 7-13,. As part of my ongoing effort to establish a screen site in Willimantic, I went to the festival in order to have a direct experience of the Streaming Museum's contribution to the festival and observe the effect of cultural content on media screens in public space.
The opening of the festival at the Vernon City Gallery in Prague presented the Streaming Museum on a large screen in a storefront window. Although the presentation format fell short of the power of a public media screen in highly trafficked public space, it was by far the most compelling piece in the exhibition, presenting a wide variety of creative work and offering viewers the opportunity to gather, interact and experience the work in an unconfined space. I was immediately able to visualize a similar presentation in downtown Willimantic. The use of empty storefront space could transform areas of our downtown in the best way possible – using formerly empty space to deliver information, creative projects and live performance to a public audience.
This was a welcome revelation, because while I had been wrestling with the logistics of creating an outdoor screen site, struggling with issues of zoning, funding, security and maintenance, I had ignored a simple, direct, affordable solution which could solve these problems and establish a site quickly and effectively.
Proceeding in this new direction, I am researching the equipment necessary to make this happen. I am also investigating potential sites for outdoor projections which, along with a media screen may equip us to present a film and video festival in downtown Willimantic, an idea which as been discussed in recent years. Along with this research, I have joined the board of the Thread City Development Committee, a group whose mission is to promote revitalization activities in Willimantic.
Video of Streaming Musem at TinaB in Prague is available at: junebisantz.com/TinaBFestival
Send comments and suggestions to: junebisantz@mac.com
For info on my work, including related public projects visit: junebisantz.com
elmur.net are continuing to build a collective movie – ‘an infinite container of free imagination'
elmur.net is a non-profit initiative; an internet site and audiovisual collective installation hoping to build a social dialogue through artistic creation. All the images on the site are at the same time, being projected on public spaces around the world. elmur.net is a platform at the service of society and its development.
elmur.net is a free public exhibition platform open to everyone that aims to open a visual dialog. It is also a creative experiment; a practical application of the educational capabilities of the audiovisual media.
To get involved, log on www.elmur.net, watch the collective movie on the home page, create your clip and upload it on the site.
For more information see; www.elmur.net
The ARTWalk organization, in partnership with The City of Rochester, New York, and numerous stakeholder groups in the ARTWalk 2 project, seeks an artist or team to create a permanent, exterior work of new media sculpture, a multi-screen showcase for digital and time-based media located in a small public plaza at a busy intersection in the Neighborhood of the Arts.
The integrated screens will be programmed with rotating works in film, video and digitally based media that will be created by a regional consortium of new media artists, curated by program directors at Visual Studies Workshop and the editors of their publication Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
The screens will deliver new media content to pedestrians during certain hours of the day and evening, and the work must function as a sculpture when the screens are not activated.
The budget is $150,000 (all inclusive). DEADLINE: November 23, 2009.
This Work is open to artists or teams living in the United States. Finalists will be chosen by December 2, 2009 and will submit concept design documents for an advance technical review on December 21, 2009. Finalists interviews will be on January 13, 2010. The Work will be installed in the summer of 2011.
On 16 November 2009, the latest release of the Red List of Threatened Species‚Ñ¢ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will for the first time be broadcast on digital screens in public spaces around the world.
The IUCN Red List is a global study on plants and animals facing extinction. IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.
The Red List of Threatened Species will be presented internationally on urban screens using a creative visualisation by Australian artist Debbie Symons. Symons' World Species Market is designed to replicate an LED stock exchange screen, with countries listed by the imminent loss of their animal and plant species.
‘World Species Market documents the 6,245 species that have been added to the Red List since the 2000 IUCN survey, which is equivalent to 1.9 species being added every day for the past nine years,' said Symons.
A multidisciplinary artist, Symons combines science technology with art that interrogates humanity's ecological conundrum between economic development and its direct impact on species recorded on the IUCN's Red List.
World Species Market (v.1) was launched at Federation Square in Melbourne in July. The project [World Species Market] has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and was chosen by the IUSA for its first global environmental awareness campaign.
‘The International Urban Screens Association is proud to host Debbie's conservation work internationally through our membership of public screens in order to highlight the plight of our planet's endangered species. We feel that communities around the world will be moved by her work,' said IUSA Chairman Glenn Harding.
‘World Species Market is a timely and profound visualisation of the critical situation many of the world's endangered species find themselves in,' said Mr Kit Wise, Acting Head of the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne where Symons is completing a Masters of Fine Art. ‘Drawing upon the ever increasing flow of media imagery, Debbie transposes one form of crisis upon another, questioning our priorities and asking us to sit up and take notice.'
For those interested in showing the World Species Market on November 16 it will be available in movie formats from IUSA by contacting paul.staubli@urbanscreensassoc.org with your requirements. The piece will also be streamed live from www.debbiesymons.org.au
For further information please contact: Paul Staubli, International Urban Screens Association + 61 439 978 744 or by email: paul.staubli@urbanscreensassoc.org
For further video information please contact: Debbie Symons, +61 408 318 400
On 16 November 2009, the latest release of the Red List of Threatened Species‚Ñ¢ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will for the first time be broadcast on digital screens in public spaces around the world.
The IUCN Red List is a global study on plants and animals facing extinction. IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.
The Red List of Threatened Species will be presented internationally on urban screens using a creative visualisation by Australian artist Debbie Symons. Symons' World Species Market is designed to replicate an LED stock exchange screen, with countries listed by the imminent loss of their animal and plant species.
‘World Species Market documents the 6,245 species that have been added to the Red List since the 2000 IUCN survey, which is equivalent to 1.9 species being added every day for the past nine years,' said Symons.
A multidisciplinary artist, Symons combines science technology with art that interrogates humanity's ecological conundrum between economic development and its direct impact on species recorded on the IUCN's Red List.
World Species Market (v.1) was launched at Federation Square in Melbourne in July. The project [World Species Market] has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and was chosen by the IUSA for its first global environmental awareness campaign.
‘The International Urban Screens Association is proud to host Debbie's conservation work internationally through our membership of public screens in order to highlight the plight of our planet's endangered species. We feel that communities around the world will be moved by her work,' said IUSA Chairman Glenn Harding.
‘World Species Market is a timely and profound visualisation of the critical situation many of the world's endangered species find themselves in,' said Mr Kit Wise, Acting Head of the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne where Symons is completing a Masters of Fine Art. ‘Drawing upon the ever increasing flow of media imagery, Debbie transposes one form of crisis upon another, questioning our priorities and asking us to sit up and take notice.'
For those interested in showing the World Species Market on November 16 it will be available in movie formats from IUSA by contacting paul.staubli@urbanscreensassoc.org with your requirements. The piece will also be streamed live from www.debbiesymons.org.au
For further information please contact: Paul Staubli, International Urban Screens Association + 61 439 978 744 or by email: paul.staubli@urbanscreensassoc.org
For further video information please contact: Debbie Symons, +61 408 318 400
Urban Screens is a series of events and seminars that has been organized around the theme of outdoor display screens (LED signs, plasma screens, projection boards, information terminals as well as intelligent architectural surfaces) in urban areas. It supports the idea of using public space as a platform for creation and cultural exchange, strengthening the local economy and encouraging public discussion.
Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The INC and the MediaLAB are proud to present a day-long program dedicated to current Urban Screens research and practice, in Trouw Amsterdam on 4 December 2009.
The event will include a seminar with lectures by Urban Screens researchers and professionals, followed by the launch of the Urban Screens Reader, which is produced by the INC and the University of Melbourne.
Topics include:
Urban Screens as Architecture, with Matthijs ten Berge (illuminate), Mettina Veenstra (Novay Research), Usman Haque (to be confirmed). Moderator: Merijn Oudenampsen (Mute, Flexmens).
The Mobile Screen, with Martijn de Waal (The Mobile City), Nanna Verhoeff (Utrecht University), Annet Dekker (Goldsmiths and Virtual Platform), Auke Touwslager & Ursula Lavrencic (Cellphone Disco). Moderator: Jan Simons
The Mediatized City, with Theodore Watson (Graffiti Research Lab), Juha Van Zelfde (VURB) , Gijs Gootjes (MediaLAB Amsterdam), Visual Foreign Correspondents.
Urban Screens Reader Launch, with Sabine Niederer
The Urban Screens Reader draws together theories, technologies, histories and artistic deployments of urban screens in public spaces. Edited by Meredith Martin, Scott McQuire and Sabine Niederer. Contributions by Giselle Beiguelman, Andreas Broeckmann, Uta Caspary, Sean Cubitt, Annet Dekker, Erkki Huhtamo, Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat, Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Saskia Sassen and more.
Urban Screens 09 is organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with MediaLAB Amsterdam, Trouw de Verdieping and the International Urban Screens Association. At the venue: installations by MediaLab Amsterdam, visuals by Visual Foreign Correspondents
Full Program is online on: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/urbanscreens/09/
For registration information please email: register@networkcultures.org
Ticket Price: 12 (full) / 10 (students with student card).
Note: Fee includes lunch and a copy of the Urban Screens Reader
