THE INTER-SOCIETY FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS
THE ISEA NEWSLETTER
#42 JUNE 1995
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Editors: Dirk Boon, Wim van der Plas (Holland). Correspondents: Yoshiyuki
Abe (Japan), Ray Archee (Australia), Peter Beyls (Belgium), Leslie Bishko
(US/Canada), Paul Brown (Australia), Annick Bureaud (France), Jurgen Claus
(Germany), Roger Malina (US), Rejane Spitz (Brazil).
Lay-out: Rene Pare (Grafico de Poost). Text editors: Ray Archee, Seth
Shostak. Honorary Member: Herbert W. Franke
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL . HERBERT W. FRANKE . ISEA95 . COMPUTER GRAPHICS . WIRETAP 1.6 .
PUBLICATIONS . WWW . CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION . CALENDAR
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EDITORIAL
Our Full and Institutional Members will receive their first issue of
Languages of Design this month. We would like to hear your comments.
ISEA95 (Montreal, Canada) is coming along fine. The Preliminary Program
will appear soon. Those of you that have access to the World Wide Web can
check the ISEA95 Website or access it through the ISEA Website
(http://www.xs4all.nl/~isea). The Call for Participation for ISEA96
(Rotterdam) will be on our Website within days of the appearance of this
Newsletter.
In the last ISEA95 Brochure, there is was no mention of the discount for
ISEA-members. However, there is a (Can)$ 40 discount (10% of the
participation fee). ISEA95 assured us that this will be properly stated in
the Preliminary Program.
ISEA is staging several meetings: a Press Meeting (open to anyone interested)
at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria on June 21 and the annual ISEA/ISAST
Meeting at Siggraph (Los Angeles, USA, August 6-11). The date, time and room
of this meeting will be in our next Newsletter (July) and in the Siggraph
final program. It will also be announced on the BOF (Birds of a Feather)
Meeting Bill Board at Siggraph. At those meetings, both ISEA95 and ISEA96
will announce their plans. We also expect a representant of ISEA97 (Chicago,
USA) at the meeting in L.A.
The ISEA Meeting at Siggraph will be followed by the Siggraph Art Task Force
Meeting. The Art Task Force was founded last year, when many artists
expressed disappointment with the position of the arts within this very large
scale computer graphics event.
At ISEA95 we will continue the discussion on the founding of ISEA Branches in
several countries, that was started last year in Helsinki. In order to get
results in Montreal, we like to start now via an internet-discussion:
Anyone interested in the ISEA local activities, please send e-mail to Yoshi
(y.abe@isea.or.jp) for inclusion in the mailing list of
branch-issue@isea.or.jp
As you know, the editors of this Newsletter reside in Holland. We are afraid
this makes this newsletter appear very parochial: we have too many
announcements of Dutch events in the Newsletter, compared to the rest of the
world. But maybe you can help. Just leave the ISEA address at any interesting
event you visit or know of, tell them it is for their press mailing list.
Thank you!
HERBERT W. FRANKE ISEA'S FIRST HONORARY MEMBER
The ISEA Board HAS decided to invite Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke to be our
first Honorary Member. Honorary Membership will be awarded occasionally and
is especially meant for pioneers, who are still active as freelancers. Prof.
Franke kindly accepted the invitation.
Herbert Franke was born in 1927 in Vienna, Austria. He studied physics,
mathematics and chemistry at Vienna University and wrote his dissertation on
Electro Optics. In the fifties, he was active in experimental photography and
he became a publicist on subjects such as scientific photography, visual
perception, relationship between art and technology, futurology, etc. He also
became an author of science fiction literature.
>From 1955 he experimented with computer graphics, first producing analog
graphics using an osciloscope. In the sixties, he began work in experimental
aesthetics. At the Siemens research lab in Munich, Germany, he started
digital computer graphics in 1970. At Munich University he was appointed a
professor in 'cybernetic aesthetics' in 1973. From than on, he produced
several computer animations, e.g. 'Projections, Rotations' and experimented
with multi media presentations. Later in the seventies he did system analysis
for the development of computer graphics software for micro computers In 1979
he was one of the founders of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
>From 1984 he was a professor in Computer Graphics and Computer Art at the
Munich Academy for Visual Arts. In 1989 he created the 'Digital Ballet' for
ARTWARE, Hannover, Germany and in 1993 he co-founded the Medialab Munich.
In the meantime his scientific work in physics and chemistry continued, as
well as his publishing. In 1992 he was awarded the Karl Theodor Vogel Prize
for his technological publications. He wrote several books on computer art,
among which 'Machine Art' as one of the better known. Since most of his work
has only appeared in German, Herbert Franke is much better known as a
computer art pioneer in Europe than in the USA. This is one of the reasons
why the ISEA Board thought Herbert W. Franke's work deserves more attention.
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ISEA95
September 17 - 24 1995, Montreal, Canada.
Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art
Advanced Conference Program (pending final confirmation from the
participants).
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19
09:30-10:30 INVITED SPEAKERS : ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER
11:00-12:30 PANELS :
-Recombinant Culture
Facilitator: - Arthur Kroker+ Marilouise Kroker, Canada
Panelists: - Alain Renaud, France - Douglas Kahn, Australia - David
Rothenberg, Usa - Lev Manovich, Usa - Stelarc, Australia - Lynn
Hershman, Uusa
-Gender and Technology: What Problem?
Facilitator: - Carol Gigliotti, Usa
Panelists: - Roy Ascott, Uk - Victoria Vesna, USA - Timothy Binkley,
USA- Brenda Laurel, USA - Simon Penny, USA - Mary Leigh Morbey, Canada -
Nancy Paterson, Canada- Char Davies, Canada- Greg Garvey, Canada
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 INVITED SPEAKER : BRUCE STERLING
15:30-17:00 PANELS
-Narrativity, Interactivity and Metaphores
Facilitator: - Martin William Rieser, UK
Panelists: - Andrea Zapp, Germany - Toni Dove, USA - George Legrady,
USA - Michael Hill, Australia - Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Germany
-Three-space, Time-base, In-yer-face Art: The Aesthetics of Real Space
Interactives
Facilitator: Simon Penny, USA
Panelists: - Kenneth Rinaldo, USA - Norman White, Canada - Doug
Back, Canada - Edouardo Kac, USA - Louis Philippe Demers + Bill Vorn,
Canada - James Hagan, USA - Margaret Morse, USA - Theodore Kreuger
- Gordon Monahan, Canada - Diana Burgoyne, Canada
-Sounding Out Genders: Women Sound Artists Talk about Gender and
Technology
Facilitator: - Andra McCartney, Canada
Panelists: - Wende Bartley, Canada - Susan Frykberg, Canada - Kathy
Kennedy, Canada - Hildegard Westerkamp, Canada
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20
09:30-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER : to be announced
11:00-12:30 PANELS :
-Body Matters
Facilitators: - Sara Diamond, Canada - Mary Anne Moser, Canada
Panelists: - Cameron Bailey - Diller + Scofidio - George Lewis, USA -
Loretta Todd , Canada - Char Davies, Canada
-Emerging Architectures
Facilitator: - Roy Ascott, UK
Panelists: - Julio Bermudez + Debra Gondeck-Becker, USA - Jeffrey
Hannigan, USA - Marcos Novak, USA
-Sound in Space
Facilitator: - Nigel Helyer, Australia
Panelists: - Nicholas Gebhardt, Australia - John Potts, Australia
- Virginia Madsen, Australia
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 INVITED SPEAKER : GEERT LOVINK
15:30-17:00 PANELS :
-Artificial Life
Facilitator: - John McCormack, Australia
Panelists: - Louis Bec, France - John D Mitchell, USA - Louis-Philippe
Demers + Bill Vorn, Canada- Mike King, UK - Jeffrey Ventrella, USA
-The Ideology of Interactivity: Freedom, Choice, Creativity
Facilitators: - Kim Sawchuk + Catherine Richards, Canada
Panelists: - Julien Winfield - Simo Alitalo, Finland - Doug Back,
Canada
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21
09:30-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER : MARK PESCE
11:00-12:30 PANELS :
-Net Culture
Facilitator: - Michael Century, Canada
Panelists: - Antya Umstadter + Ronaldo Kiel, USA - John Byrne, UK -
Jeffrey Schultz, USA - Fred Forest, France - Josephine Grieve, Australia
-Body Narratives
Facilitator: - Brenda Laurel, USA
Panelists: - Sally Jane Norman, France - Kitsou Dubois, France -
Thecla Schiphorst + Sang Mah, Canada - Christine Ross, Canada
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 INVITED SPEAKER : DANIEL LANGLOIS
15:30-17:00 PANELS :
-Being and Tools
Facilitator: - Daniel Langlois, Canada (to be confirmed)
Panelists: - to be announced
-Sharing Subjectivities
Facilitator: - Frances Dyson, Australia
Panelists: - Elisabeth Goldring, USA - Isabelle Delmotte, Australia -
Diane Gromala, USA - Heidi Tikka, Finland
Computer and Sculpture in the USA & France
Panelists: - Timothy Duffield, USA - Rob Fisher, USA - Christian
Lavigne, France
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22
09:30-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER : DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER
11:00-12:30 PANELS :
-Artificial Creativity
Facilitator: - Pierre Levy, france
Panelists: - Christopher Dobrian, USA - Peter Beyls, Belgium - Peter
Gena + Charles Strom, USA - Martin Sperka, Slovakia - Louis Bec, France
-Emerging Art Practices
Facilitator: - Annette Weintraub, USA
Panelists: - Patricia Search, USA - Dieter Daniels, Germany - Thomas W
Sherman, USA - Tapio Makela, Finland - Nils Aziosmanoff, France
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30 PANEL :
Art Critique
Facilitator: - Derrick de Kerckhove, Canada
Panelists: - to be announced
15:30-17:00 ISEA PLENARY SESSION
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INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday September 19
10:45-11:10___ Jeffrey Ventrella, USA, Disney Meets Darwin - Evolving
expressive notions
11:10-11:35___ Marc Roelens, Veronique Bourgoin, France, Nouvelles
perspectives pour l'image de synthese
11:40-12:05___ Michel Bret, France, Betezeparticules
12:05-12:30___
15:15-15:40___ Cynthia Pannucci, USA, Water-Strider : an interactive
sculpture for the water
15:40-16:05___ Robert Fischer, USA, Work-in-Progress : Interactive
Art/Science Planetarium event on cell biology
16:10-16:35___ Victoria Vesna, USA, Installation "Virtual concrete"
16:35-17:00___ Jake, France, Fluide virtuel, Human Light-Human, World
Utopian process
Wednesday September 20
10:45-11:10___ Gary R. Greenfield, USA, The Cubes
11:10-11:35___ Laurent Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer, Japan, Trans
Plant / A-Volve
11:40-12:05___ Christian Hubler, Germany, Co-realities - interaction
with bodies of hybrid information
12:05-12:30___ Christophe Ramstein, Canada, Les interfaces
multimodales avec retour de force
15:15-15:40___ Mara Helmuth, USA, Granular Synthesis and The F Curve
Sound Generator
15:40-16:05___ Todor Todoroff, Belgium, Instrument de synthese
granulaire dans MAX/FTS
16:10-16:35___ David Clark Little, The Netherlands, Composing with Chaos
16:35-17:00___ Alvin Curran, USA, Music from the Center of the Earth
15:15-15:40___ Ian Haig, Australia, The Computer Graphics Crisis
15:40-16:05___ Dominique De Bardonneche-Berglund, Switzerland, Eaux
d'images-Ophelies
16:10-16:35___ Kate Midgley USA, From Picts to Acrylics
16:35-17:00___ Lanny Webb, USA, Illusions of Reality
Thursday September 21
10:45-11:10___=20
11:10-11:35___ Nigel Helyer, Australia, Hybrid
11:40-12:05___ James K-M, Canada, Restless Machines
12:05-12:30___ Mike Leggett, Australia, The 21st Century Greek Bronze
10:45-11:10___ McKenzie Wark, Australia, Virtual antipodes
11:10-11:35___ Jain Sadhna, UK, Gurus and Gods
11:40-12:05___ Agustin Fernandez, UK, The Andean Connection
12:05-12:30___ Vladimir Petriaevsky, Mikhail Zalivadny, Russia,
Computer Music: A View from Sankt Petersburg
10:45-11:10___ Wayne Draznin, USA, The Surveillance Series
11:10-11:35___ Georg Muhleck, Germany, Datagraphy & Architecture
11:40-12:05___ Eduardo Kac, USA, Photonic Webs in Time: The
Aesthetics of Holography
12:05-12:30___ Hal Thwaites, Canada, Three-Dimensional Technologies
and the Electronic Arts
15:15-15:40___ Gerfried Stocker, Austria, Horizontal Radio
15:40-16:05___ Brian Evans, USA, Implicate Beauty, Multimedia Art on
the World Wide Web
16:10-16:35___ Paul Brenner, USA, The File Room
16:35-17:00___ Thecla Schiphorst, Stephen Hawryshko, Canada, Immerce:
A visual database
Friday September 22
10:45-11:10___ Joel Slayton, USA, Large Scale Experimental Media and
Performance
11:10-11:35___ Isabelle Chemin, Guido Hubner, France, Perception:
Fast Forward
11:40-12:05___ Axel Mulder, Canada, Sensing the Art - Facilitating
the Creation of Interactive Art
12:05-12:30___
10:45-11:10___ Jean-Paul Longavesne, France, Machines peindre et
informatique picturale
11:10-11:35___ Jean-Marc Philippe, France, La relation art/alliage
memoire de formes : 10 ans de parcours. 1500000$ en recherche de
developpement. 4 realisations.
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INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Friday September 22
14:00-14:30___ Bulay M Galeyev, Russia, Survey of works by Institute
"Prometey" (1962-1995)
14:30-15:00___ Rejane Spitz, Brazil, Dirty hands on the keyboard. A
revolutionary lab
14:00-14:30___ Justine Bizzocchi, Canada, Centre for Image and Sound
Research
14:30-15:00___ Cynthia Pannucci, USA, ART & SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS :
A magnet for new & pioneering work
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EXHIBITING ARTISTS (partial list of the selected projects, pending
confirmation from the artists)
Carlos Azambuja (BRAZIL) A NOT SO USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE
Thomas Bayrle (GERMANY) SUNBEAM AND SUPERSTARS
Benoit Berry (FRANCE) MENTAL GONFLETTE
Peter Bosch, Simone Simons (THE NETHERLANDS) KRACHTGEVER
Paul Brown (AUSTRALIA) THE DELUGE (AFTER LEONARDO)
Bernard Caillaud (FRANCE) IMAGE ET FORME TEMPORELLE
Kathleen Chmelewski, Nan Goggin,Joseph Squier, Robb Springfield (USA)
BODY, SPACE, MEMORY
John Colette (AUSTRALIA) 30 WORDS FOR THE CITY
Jean-Marie Dallet (FRANCE) VOYAGE NO. 17
Charles de Mestral (CANADA) RETURN TO ATLANTIS - II
Hans Dehlinger (GERMANY) COMPUTER GENERATED DRAWINGS
Linda Dement (9AUSTRALIA) CYBERFLESH GIRLMONSTER
Louis-Philippe Demers, Bill Vorn (CANADA) THE FRENCHMAN LAKE
Donato Di Blasi (FRANCE) ESPACE DE DEPLACEMENT
Roz Dimon (USA) INFORMATION WOMAN: AND THE BEACH IN
HER ELBOW
Bruce Evans (CANADA) FLORA FLOOR
Claude GauDon (SWITZERLAND) GAUDON SCHAFFT ORDNUNG, VERSION X
Phillip George (AUSTRALIA) MNEMONICON
Herve Graumann (SWITZERLAND) RAOUL PICTOR CHERCHE SON STYLE
James Hagan (USA) ROBARTIC SCULPTURE
Ian Haig (AUSTRALIA) "ANTHROPOID OF GENUS GEEKOID" (STILLS
FROM THE ANIMATION "ASTROTURF")
Graham Harwood (UK) A REHEARSAL OF MEMORY
Paul Hertz (USA) DEADPAN, OR, THE HOLY TOAST
Troy Innocent (AUSTRALIA) SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN
Michi Itami (USA) THE IRONY OF BEING AMERICA-AKIRA
Mogens Jacobsen (DENMARK) THE ENTROPY MACHINE
James K-M (CANADA) RESTLESS MACHINES + INTERACTIVE
PAINTINGS
Eduardo Kac (USA) MAYBE THEN, IF ONLY AS
Mike King (UK) PROGRAMMED=3D=3DDAMNED
Alan Koeninger (AUSTRALIA) MEGALOPOLIS
John KP Ludwig (GERMANY) DIE VETERANEN
Joseph Lefevre (CANADA) TRACES ET CONSTRASTES
George Legrady (USA) SLIPPERY TRACES
Cecile Leprado (FRANCE) LE TRIANGLE D'INCERTITUDE
Marie-Christiane Mathieu (CANADA) SOLARIS
Jon McCormack (AUSTRALIA) TURBULENCE
Kevin McTavish (GERMANY) THE AFTERLIFE PORTRAITS
Van Mielwee (USA) RECONSTRUCTIONS
Michael Muhleck Georg, Schlosser (GERMANY)FINE ART, FINE CHESS, FINE DATA
Carlos Eduardo Muti Randolph (BRAZIL) ASYLUM FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE
Ed Osborn (USA) LAST CALL
Nancy Paterson (CANADA) THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN
Simon Penny (USA) PETIT MAL
John J.H. Phillips, Carolyn Healy (USA) UNTITLED
Ravi Rajakumar (USA) PERMUTATIONS
Sonya Rapoport (USA) THE TRANSGENIC BAGEL
Nicolas Reeves (CANADA) MORPHOLOGIES SURRATIONNELLES
Jacques Remus (FRANCE) CONCERTOMATIQUE ET LA CAMERA MUSICALE
Catherine Richards (CANADA) CURIOUSITY CABINET AT THE END OF THE
MILLENNIUM
Frederic Roverselli (CANADA) ESPACE META
Ron Saito (USA) ADAM NAMING THE ANIMALS
Kim Sawchuk, Kathy Kennedy (CANADA) TELE VENTURA: A TEENAGE TELEPHONE
SUSPENCE THRILLER
Thecla Schiphorst (CANADA) IMMERCE
Jill Scott (GERMANY) FRONTIERS OF UTOPIA=20
Bill Seaman (AUSTRALIA) PASSAGE SETS/ ONE PULLS PIVOTS AT THE
TIP OF THE TONGUE
Geoffrey Shea (CANADA) EZROM'S ROOM
Josephine Starrs, Leon Cmielewski(AUSTRALIA) USER UNFRIENDLY INTERFACE
Gerfried Stocker (AUSTRIA) EPROM - THE AESTHETICS OF
DISAPPEARANCE
Gerd Struwe (GERMANY) AUTOMATIC SKETCH ARTIST
John Tonkin (AUSTRALIA) ELECTIVE PHYSIOGNOMIES
Gisele Trudel (CANADA) TIMEPIECE
Michele Turre (USA) PLAYING DRESS UP
Paul Vanouse, Peter Weyhrauch (USA) THE CONSENSUAL FANTASY ENGINE AN
AUDIENCE DRIVEN INTERACTIVE FICTION
Anna Gabriele Wagner (USA) EMERGENCE
Dennis Michael Wilcox (AUSTRALIA) ZENOTROPE
Dan Zero (AUSTRALIA) ANGELUS NOVUS 2.5
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CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES (Partial list of projects, pending confirmation
from the artists)
Sergio Barroso (CANADA) CHARANGAS DELIRANTES + CHRONICA DE
ULTRASUENO
Wende Bartley, Fides Krucker (CANADA) ELLIPSIS
Michele Biasutti (ITALY) TAVOLA IV
Jean-Guy Boisvert (CANADA) DAVID EAGLE : DEAPENING THROUGH THE
SILENT SPHERES
Tim Brady (CANADA) COLLAPSING POSSIBILITIES WAVE + LOUD
Chris Brown (USA) TALKING DRUM
Luigi Ceccarelli (ITALY) LA GUERRA DEI DISCHI
Michael Century, Frances Dyson (CANADA) CENDRES
Jol Chadabe (USA) AFTER SAME SONGS
Darren Copeland (CANADA) ALWAYS BECOMING SOMEBODY ELSE
Francis Dhomont (CANADA) CHIAROSCURO
Agostino Discipio (ITALY) HYBRIS
Paul Dolden (CANADA) IVRESSE
John Duesenberry (USA) WAVEBREAK
Agustin Fernandez (UK) ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FOR CHARANGO
BASSE
Gilles Gobeil (CANADA) LE VERTIGE INCONNU
Peter Hannan, Henry Kucharzyk (CANADA) GEMINI VARIATIONS + HIGHWAYS
Jens Hedman (SWEDEN) ANCHORINGS/ARROWS + THREADS & CHORDS
Ursula Hentschlager (AUSTRIA) MOTION CONTROL MODELL 5
FranDois Houle (CANADA) DOLDEN
Marcelle Hudon, Todd Swift, Tom Walsh (CANADA) GENESIS AFTER BABEL
Alcides Lanza (CANADA) VOO (FLIGHT 1992-I)
Katie Lavers (AUSTRALIA) SKADADA
Michael McNabb (USA) THE FAR AND BRILLIANT NIGHT
Bill Meadows (USA) THE LANGUAGE OF DREAM
German Meira, Jorge Sad,Juliana Moreno, Enrique Entenza (ARGENTINA)
MUSIQUES D'UNE ETHNIE IMAGINAIRE
Montanaro Danse / John D Mitchell (USA) TIME IN THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE
Adolfo Nunez (SPAIN) JUREL
Jurgen Reble (GERMANY) ALCHIMIE
Fleabotics (CANADA)
Robert Rowe, Mari Kimura, Elliott Sharp (USA) COMPUTER IMPROVISATION
Daniel Scheidt, Tureski, Krucker (CANADA)TEMPTING GHOSTS
Randall Smith (CANADA) ELASTIC REBOUND 1994
Atau Tanaka (FRANCE) OVERBOW
Mark Trayle (USA) ARCANA 33 1/3
Trevor Tureski (CANADA) GHOSTS
Hildegard Westerkamp (CANADA) INDIA SOUND JOURNAL
Info: ISEA 95, 307 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Bureau 515B, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada. Tel: 1-514-990-0229, Fax: 1-514-842-7459, Email: ISEA95@ER.UQAM.CA
WWW: http://isea95.com.uqam.ca/isea95.html
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COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN FINE ARTS: E-MAIL ART 2
Martin Sperka
The opening of exhibition "Computer Graphice in Fine Art: E-Mail Art 2"
which was announced in ISEA Newsletter #38, took place on May 30 at the House
of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Images from artists as well as computer scientists dealing with art from
Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, Israel, New
Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia and USA are exhibited. Picture files were
transmitted by e-mail and printed on Nova Jet and Dye Sublimation
Proof Positive printers.
The selection from the exhibition is also on WWW.
URL: http://www.cvt.stuba.sk/art/new.html
If you have no Mosaic or Netscape software for browsing images, you can use
textual browser LYNX (lynx < URL > ) and download images. Images on WWW are not
original, mailed by the authors but they are reduced in size and compressed
(all are JPEG format).
The printed catalogue (unfortunatelly black and white version) will be
mailed to exhibiting artists later. Thank you again.
Martin Sperka
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18, 814 37 Bratislava,
Slovakia. E-mail: sperka@cvt.stuba.sk
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WIRETAP 1.6
Sunday afternoon June 25 1995, Rotterdam, Holland
Admittance from 13.00hrs. Start program from 14.00hrs. Admittance free
The WIRETAP programs are informal presentations on CD-ROM, CD-i, Virtual
Reality and Internet. Artists from the Netherlands and abroad present
projects they are currently developing. The audience has Internet access and
has the possibility to view productions on CD-ROM.
PROGRAM
- CROSSINGS (Stacey Spiegel and Rodney M. Hoinkes, Toronto)
- THE FILEROOM (Antonio Muntadas and Paul Brenner).
Two projects presented at the Ars Electronica 1995
- EXTRA: 'T TREFPUNT ('The Meeting Point' an installation by Hermen Maat)
CROSSINGS
CROSSINGS is a scientific project on landscape-architecture using Virtual
Reality and Internet, it is a collaboration between the University of Toronto
and artist Stacey Spiegel, further collaborators are (landscape)architects
and artists and the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien Technologie in Karlsruhe.
CROSSINGS researches the possibilities of the Internet for large
infrastructural projects in the landscape. How can architects design
collectivelly through Internet? CROSSINGS will be presented at the
forthcoming DEAF95 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival in Rotterdam in November
1995 in cooperation with Rotterdam based architects.CROSSINGS explores the
limits of Virtual Reality representation techniques, it is a research into
the potential of 3D-interactivity and navigation on World Wide Web.
THE FILEROOM
THE FILEROOM: 'an interactive computer project addressing cultural
censorship' is initiated by Antonio Muntadas and produced by the Randolph
Street Gallery from Chicago. The Randolph Street Gallery is an artists
collective that has grown into a large center for contemporary art.
THE FILEROOM uses recently developed commication technology to provide
access to a database containing cases on international cultural censorship.
The database contains information on censorship sorted by country and
furthermore gives historical information on related subjects. This WWW-site
is directly connected to online discussiongroups and contains original texts
from censored books and other writings.
'T TREFPUNT
'T TREFPUNT (THE MEETING POINT): 'so far and yet so close, so close and yet
so far', is an interactive installation by Dutch artist Hermen Maat. Two
visitors sit opposed to each other at a table. Both wear headsets and have a
microphone enabling them to have contact. Between them is a black box
wherein their faces are projected. Although the two are very close, the
sense of distance is apparent. By pushing two red buttons on the table the
visitors hear fragments of other conversations on communication and
perception, the fragments can be food for the conversation of the visitors
or a disturbing element.
Contact:
V2_Organisatie, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: 31-10-404-7693, E-mail: V2@V2.nl
URL: http://www.vpro.nl/www/arteria/V2onW3/Icons/V2Page.html
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ORGANIZATIONS
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EKKL
The Elektronisch Kunst Kollektief Limburg (EKKL) was founded two
years ago. They recently had an exhibition in Maastricht
('Digital Directions'). Limburg is a province of Holland, with
Maastricht as it's capital. The EKKL wants to be a platform where
artists, working with electronic media, can meet and exchange
experience.
Info: Rene ter Horst or Nelis Paashuis, tel: 31-43-613583 or 251560
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PUBLICATIONS
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INDIE VISIONS
IndieVisions -- a newsletter for Artistic Technologists -- is a new
newsletter published by PAVO, the creator of the MIDItools Computer Kits.
Technology is not naturally beautiful. However, in the fertile arms of
creativity, it can be used to intensify our experiences. It hardly matters if
your friends call you a musician, nerd, artist, cyberpunk, genius, hoser or
hacker; what matters is that you are bold enough to use technology to create
what has yet to be created. In each issue, you will learn how people like you
are using technology on stage, in the classroom, at church, in art
installations and museum exhibits, in dance clubs, etc. Learn to control
everything from water fountains to virtual reality devices. Subscriptions are
US$20/year in the US (6 issues); US$25 in Canada; US$30 elsewhere.
Contact: IndieVisions, 10 South Front Street, Philadelphia PA 19106 USA.
Tel: +1-215-413 2355, E-mail: IndieVis@aol.com
HE-EX
Information bulletin of Heure Exquise video art distribution center. Contains
catalog. The center also hold files on video artists, the major video
festivals, a library, etc.
POB 113, 59370 Mons en Baroeul, France. Tel: 33-20-43243-2, fax -3
MEDIAMATIC
Mediamatic Vol 8 #2/3 is a new dubble issue, called the Home Issue.
Architects, theorists and multimedia designers speculate on the implications
of new technologies on the meaning of the term 'Home'. Mediamatic is
bi-lingual (Dutch-English). Included is a CD-ROM (for Macintosh only) called
Airbag, produced by Paul Groot and Jans Possel for the Amsterdam Rave Art
Ensemble V.O.L.V.O. This band has a hit in Amsterdam called Airbag. They
call it "The anti-interactive CD-Rom" (!).
Contact: Mediamatic, POB 17940, 1001 JL Amsterdam, Holland
Tel: 31-20-626-6262, Fax: -3793, E-mail: editors@mediamatic.nl
http://www.mediamatic.nl/
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HOTWIRED
HotWired reviews BODY, SPACE, MEMORY, an interactive artwork by ad319
(Kathleen Chmelewski, Joseph Squier, and Nan Goggin)
Jim Ure and Biff Russ respond to the Web version of BODY, SPACE, MEMORY in an
article for HotWired titled "Web Art 101". The authors offer their thoughts
on the difference between the [soon to be published] CD-ROM
version and its' on-line counterpart, as well as the
notion of "collaboration" as a form of art-practice.
"...BODY, SPACE, MEMORY is an important piece
of work. It is ambitious, demanding, touching,
and at times, lyrically beautiful. It is also
a notable model of collaboration, for which
every member of the collective should be
commended".
The HotWired review can be accessed at:
http://www.hotwired.com/
BODY, SPACE, MEMORY itself resides at:
http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/ad319/bsm/bsm.html
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CALL FOR WWW CONTRIBUTIONS
_Space Art News_ Announces "The End of the Space Age"
URL: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/san.html
E-mail: mason@mitpress.mit.edu
The current decline of space-exploration budgets for NASA in the United
States and for similar programs in Russia and other space-faring nations
could spell the end of the Space Age.
Just as, in earlier times, political and other changes led to the end of
cathedral building in Europe or the fall of greatcivilizations in Mesopotamia
and Central America, so the current situation may indicate that the age of
human exploration of space is coming to an end (with only commercial
enterprises in the near-earth environment surviving as viable space
activities).
The editors of _Space Art News_ seek WWW contributions related to this topic
from composers, artists and humanists. (Contributions should be in the form
of texts or links to other WWW sites.)
Space Art News (SAN) is published by the International Society for the Arts,
Sciences and Technology on behalf of the International Academy of
Astronautics. It covers all aspects of space exploration and astronomy as
they relate to music, the visual arts and humanities. In addition to seeking
"End of the Space Age" projects, the editors also encourage artists,
composers and all other interested parties to submit other relevant materials
to be considered for WWW publication.
Please direct inquiries and submissions to mason@mitpress.mit.edu.
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PUBLIC DOMAIN
Beginning September 16 through September 24, Public Domain and the
experimedia journal Perforations will engage a project called The
Technological Uncanny under the auspices of the Piedmont Arts Festival
exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia called "Messages and Stories From the Everyday
World".
This will consist of a www site which will be interactive with other web
sites as well as pre-loaded material which will form the basis for the next
issue of Perforations.
We are currently looking for relevant web sites with which to connect as well
as pre-loaded material relevant to the topic. We need sound files, Quick Time
movies, graphics, text, photos, and hypertext documents concerning:
--the demise of the biological
--the revenge of the biological
--the mathematical sublime
--necrological hermeneutics
(the return [communication] of the dead/the death of the
dead/the living dead)
--machinic unconscious
--anomalous phenomena associated with technical media
--doublings/dopplegangers
(including deconstruction, conspiracy as political rhizomatic
double, artificial life/intelligence, as well as
the more 'prosaic' folkloric Others)
--uncanny and aporetic elements of the everyday in association with
the technical
--the machinic abject embedded in the every day
--the un-Heimlich Maneuver (the demise of the 'domestic' stemming
from the very heart of the domestic as it encounters a
global technical/telematic culture)
--the Ghost Dance of attempts to resist these lines of flight
(The Masque of the Red Death/Bartleby the
Scrivener/terrorism)
--daemonic demographics
--the technological singularity
To help spur your thinking along these lines we will include the prospectus
for the show.
All material should be in to Public Domain by the first of August.
For more information inquire at info@pd.org
or: Public Domain, Inc./Perforations
P.O. Box 8899, Atlanta, GA 30306-0899, USA.
issues 2-5 of Perforations may be viewed (sans graphics) at:
http://noel.pd.org/Public_Domain.html
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LEONARDO WWW site
Leonardo is pleased to invite you to contribute to its WWW-site
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html.
The Leonardo World Wide Web site is Leonardo/ISAST's latest electronic
publication. Current features and works in progress include galleries;
collaborative projects involving artists worldwide; sound files; articles;
announcements and calls for contributions; reviews; and Web-site specific
artworks. One of the site's primary objectives is to publish and publicize
works that make original and experimental uses of the World Wide Web.
We are especially interested in working with individuals and groups to
solicit works and establish ongoing projects. We encourage you to send
proposals, ideas or leads that you would like us to pursue.
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CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION
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TELEPOLIS
Exhibition and Symposion on the Interactive and Networked City.
The city as a topic and leading metaphor of a european exhibition-project:
telepolis is going to be built out of the utopian concepts for a society as
formulated by the network-communities, out of the digital tools and
machine-phantasies that are changing our urban environement, out of the
vision of global communication in the computer-age. A global society based on
satellite, cable- and computer-networks is settling down in telepolis.
Telepolis is a new diversified data-space whose dimensions cannot yet be
predicted, which is constantly being remodelled and updated, where new
ways of working, communicating and interacting evolve, reaching a level of
tele-existence and tele-society, different from existence in real life, but
with effects on this existence that are both, complex and remarkable.
The exhibition is going to set up telepolis, following its functional
districts: The streets of the city, city-center and marketplace, art- and
culture, social institutions, educational and research institutions, work and
production, entertainment, living.
You are invited to join us building the european telepolis, as a visitor or a
citizen, as a producer and creator of innovative ideas. Contact the Telepolis
Organisation Office in Munich, visit our construction site in the
WorldWideWeb. We are looking forward to your participation.
Telepolis
Exhibition and Symposium on the Interactive and Networked City
* Venue: Exhibition and Conference Center of the Luxemburg International
Trade Fair (FIL)
* Exhibition: 4 - 12 nov 1995
* Opening: 3 nov 1995, 6 pm
* Symposium: 10 - 11 nov 1995
* Concept and Realisation: Medialab Munich
* Projectmanagement: Stefan Iglhaut, Armin Medosch, Florian Roetzer
Contact:
Armin Medosch, Corinna Schneider, Susanne Waldmueller, Lothringer Strasse 13,
81667 Munich, Germany. E-Mail: armin@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de
Tel: +49-89-484073, Fax: +49-89-484074
WWW http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/MLM/telepolis.html
Telepolis is a Luxemburg Goethe-Institut Project supported by "Luxemburg
Cultural City of Europe 1995"
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SPRINGTY
Springty '95 in Utrecht (The Netherlands) is looking for artists who want to
participate via the electronic highway.
Springty '95 is a manifestation that will take place in December 1995.
We want to show different kinds of technical developments that will have a
certain effect on our community.
Like the electronic highway. If there are some artists that are interested,
please contact: Anne de Haan, E-mail: J.M.E.P.deHaan@stud.let.ruu.nl
or Ernst Houdkamp/Ruud Bakker, E-mail: Springty@dds.nl
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION VIA FAX
Paul Rutkovsky & DooDaaFlorida
MIMING/MOCKING MIAMI
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA.
Thursday, June 22, 1995
7:15 PM to 8:30 PM
Send images/text, etc. that mime and mock Miami. The audience at the
Center for the Fine Arts (CFA) will return images in response to your
faxes. This is part of the weekly THURSDAY NITE LIVE at the CFA, open to
the general public. Participants are welcome to send Fax images/text prior
to June 22 to: 305-324-4337, 24 hours a day starting June 5. All faxes
received will be exhibited at the Center for the Fine Arts.
Fax for THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE: 1-305-375-1729 (June 22, 7:15 PM to 8:30 PM
only--Eastern Standard Time)
Information/Questions: 1-904-575-3339
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ZOLOTAKIS
June 7 - 23 1995, Amsterdam, Holland
80 typographical shapes by Apostolis Zolotakis, who exhibited at
the second ISEA Symposium and at the ISEA exhibition of the Dutch
Electronic Art Festival, last year.
Open Wed.-Fri. 11-17 hrs
Netherlands Design Institute
Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam, Holland
MANUSCRIPTS
June 10 - July 24 1995, The Hague, Holland
Project initiated by Pedrag Sidjanin. "The taking over of archetypes and
tautologies of cultures and their transformations into new thought/visual
quality. Syncretism of classical and new creative media (from painting and
sculpture to video and computer based art) mostly in the form of
installations and performances, aims to extend the borders of artistic
action". 'Electronic Manuscripts' from many international artists.
Wed-Mon 13-17.30 hrs
Schroder Galerie, Anna Paulownastraat 56A, The Hague, Holland.
Tel/fax: 31-70-3453142
DRIESSENS/VERSTAPPEN A.O.
June 18 - July 16 1995, Sittard, Holland
Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen use electronic technology in a unique way
in their installations. Together with Ivo van den Baar, Ellen Seegers, Han
Hoogerbrugge and Rolf Engelen they exhibit (Wed-Sun. 14-17 hrs) in:
Kunstcentrum Sittard,
Leyenbroekerweg 113a, 6132 CD Sittard, Holland
Tel: 31-46-523686, Fax: -584989
ARS ELECTRONICA
June 20 - 24 1995, Linz, Austria
Theme: Mythos Information; Welcome to the Net Worlds.
"Ars Electronica 95 will ask critical questions to dogmas and myths of
postmodern information society".
Info: Brucknerhaus, Untere Donaulande 7, A-4010 Linz, Austria
Tel: 43-732-7612244, Fax: 7612350
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL '95
International Conference and Exhibition
June 25 - 30 1995, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Info: CGI 95 Secretariat,
Conference Office, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Tel: 44-0-113-233-6102, Fax: 44-0-113-233-6107
Email: rcsdmw@central.admin.leeds.ac.uk
THE INCIDENT
June 30 - July 2 1995, Fribourg, Switzerland
"A new international event, in which major figures of the worlds of art and
technology will sit down for the first time with researchers into phenomena,
covering areas such as UFO research, parapsychology, dreams and other
subjects that concern exploration of human consciousness". Includes
exhibition of installations by James Turnell, Chen Chih-Cheng and Kathleen
Rogers. Also: Concerts, Performances, Films, CD-ROMs.
Info: Belluard-Bollwerk International 1995, POB 120, CH 1701 Fribourg,
Switzerland. Tel: 41-3722-2285, Fax: 6185 E-mail: 75337.206@compuserve.com
MULTIMEDIA EAST
July 25 - 27 1995, New York, USA
Info: Tel: 1-212-226-4141, Fax: -4983
ACM SIGGRAPH 95
August 6 - 11 1995, Los Angeles, USA.
22nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Conference and exhibition.
Info: SIGGRAPH 95, Conference Management Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc.
401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Tel: 1-312-321-6830, Fax: 6876, Email: siggraph95@siggraph.org
MACWORLD
August 8 - 11 1995, Boston, USA
Info: Tel: 1-617-361-2001, Fax: -3389
INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA '95
August 23 - 25 1995, Washington, USA
Info: Tel: 1-703-3470055, Fax: -3493169
EUROGRAPHICS'95
August 28 - September 3 1995, Maastricht, Holland
Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Virtual Realty. Tutorials on Monday and
Tuesday, Papers & Panels Wednesday-Friday, Workshops on Monday-Tuesday and on
Saturday-Sunday. Exhibition, demonstrations and industrial presentartions
Wednesday-Friday. Advance Program available from:
Eurographics95, c/o Lidy Groot Congress Events, POB 83005, 1080 AA Amsterdam,
Holland. Tel: 31-20-67-93218, Fax: -58236, E-mail: eg95@cwi.nl
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS IN MUSIC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
September 3 - 5 1995, Edinburgh, UK.
Info: Emilios Cambouropoulos, Faculty of Music, Univ. of Edinburgh,
12 Nicolson Sq., EH8 9DF Edinburgh, UK. Email: emilios@music.ed.ac.uk
EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 1995
September 6 - 10 1995, Osnabruck, Germany
For information and entry forms contact
EMAF, Postfach 1861, D-49008 Osnabruck, Germany.
Tel: 49-541-21658, Fax: 28327, Email: EMAF@BIONIC.ZER.DE
WWW-info: http://EMAF.NDA.NET/nda/emaf
MULTIMEDIA WEST & INTERNET
September 12 - 14 1995, San Francisco, USA
Info: Tel: 1-212-226-4141, Fax: -4983
ISEA95
September 17 - 24 1995, Montreal, Canada.
Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art
Info: ISEA 95, 307 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Bureau 515B, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada. Tel: 1-514-990-0229, Fax: 1-514-842-7459, Email: ISEA95@ER.UQAM.CA
WWW: http://isea95.com.uqam.ca/isea95.html
VIDEO EXPO
September 19 - 21 1995, New York, USA
Info: Tel: 1-914-328-9157, Fax: -0649
SHOWBIZ EUROPE
September 23 - 25 1995, Munich, Germany
Info in USA: Tel: 1-714-51384-00, Fax: -81
GRAPH EXPO
October 8 - 11 1995, Chicago, USA
Info: Graphic Arts Show Company, Tel: 1-703-2647200, Fax: -6209187
DOORS OF PERCEPTION III
November 7 - 10 1995, Amsterdam, Holland
Title: Info-Eco Communities'. Theme: 'on matter'
Info:
NVI, Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam, Holland.
Tel: 31-20-5516500, Fax: -6201031, E-mail desk@nvi.mediamatic.xs4all.nl
http://www.mediamatic.nl/
XI COLLOQUIUM ON MUSICAL INFORMATICS
November 9 - 11 1995, Bologna, Italy.
Info: Lelio Camilleri, Comitato Organizzatore del XI Coloquio di Informatica
Musicale, Conservatorio di Musica G.B. Martini, Piazza Rossini 2, 40126
Bologna, Italy. Tel: 39-51-233975, Fax: 223168, Email:
lelioc@mailserver.idg.fi.cnr.it
AV EXPERIMENTAL
November 9 - 15 1995, Arnhem, Holland
AVE is an international festival for audiovisual experimental arts. AVE will
present films, videos, installations, performances, audio art and other art
works. It aims at stimulating the new and investigative use of time based
electric, electronic or visual mediums in modern art practice. AVE also
actively stimulates dialogue between artists, critics and audience. AVE has
free participation and free entrance.
Deadline for entries July 1st.
Entryforms and info: AVE, POB 307, 6800 AH Arnhem, Netherlands.
Tel 31-85-511300, fax 517681
ISEA96
September 16 - 20 1996, Rotterdam, Holland
Organized by the Rotterdam Polytechnic. Including DEAF96, organized by V2. In
cooperation with R96 (Rotterdam Festivals).
The final version of the Call will soon be distributed.
Preliminary Call for Participation: http://www.xs4all.nl/~isea
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The Inter-Society aims at joining a world-wide network of artists, scien-
tists and their institutes, making it easier for the institutes and
individual members to share expertise with each other. The aims of the
Inter-Society are to promote a structured approach to electronic art and
to help finance worthy electronic art projects. For membership information
contact ISEA at the address on the front page.
ISEA distributes a hard copy version of this Newsletter in order to keep
its members, who have no access to Electronic Mail, informed. Those members
can, if they desire, get in touch with the Email addresses mentioned in this
Newsletter by contacting ISEA.
Support: Erasmus University Rotterdam (Law Dept), Amsterdam University,
V2 Organisation, YLEM, ISAST, Media Research, Museum der Stad Gladbeck,
The Council for the Int. Bienale in Nagoya, KITT Engineering, Viking
Eggeling-Salskapet, Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Softimage
Inc, Lokman Productions, ARTCOM in Deutschland e.V., Painatuskeskus Oy,
Tallinn Art University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BSO Medialab,
Koln Academy for Media Arts, Monitor Information Systems.
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