[Ada_list] digital art events in the Netherlands

Digital Arts events in Rotterdam, the Netherlands 


D E A F  in Rotterdam  (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival - a bi-annual event)
in / around the Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam

9 - 12 nov with some workshops/extras 
http://www.deaf04.nl/

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Wednesday, Nov 17  |  19.00 - 20.30hrs
Public lecture: FLORIAN CRAMER  |  Executable Code and the Cultural Imagination: A Sketch of a history
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/fcramer/cramlect
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MEDIA DESIGN RESEARCH

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  |  OPEN HISTORY TIMELINE  |

As a core part of the 'Decade of Web Design' project, beginning before and continuing after the forthcoming conference in January we have initiated an 'open research' website/database. The online forum is a visual and textual timeline generated out of a self-customisable questionnaire. Using a custom content management system the site allows for:

_ Users to add images, comments and links to make a collective history of the web as it developed. Such elements might include histories of their own first homepage; the first use of a technology; original html code; reminiscences of key designers, innovators, critics and technologists.

_ Using a question based interface users can write their own questions and respond to those of others. All questions entered will then be available, ensuring that no one set of views or way of writing predominates.

_ Multi-lingual use

http://www.designtimeline.org

A Decade of Web Design: Open timeline in collaboration with Institute for Network Cultures, University / Hogeschool of Amsterdam Saturday &
Sunday, January 21/22,  2005   |   Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
more info: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/decade1stannounce/view
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TRAMJAM - ROTTERDAM RUSHHOUR

Media art students, sound artists, noisy citizens and other interested people are invited to to join a ROTTERDAM TRAMJAM SESSION initiated by Mumbai Streaming Attack, a networked performance study group currently based at SNM/HGKZ in Zurich.

After two tramjam performances in Berlin and Vienna this year, Mumbai Streaming Attack invites each sound artist to choose a tramline and design sound materials that characterize that particular tram routing. The sound materials can be collected or composed sound, pre-recorded for collective replay. TRAMJAM-Rotterdam Rushhour further explores a mobile interface with the Rotterdam tramvibe by inviting on site/on tram live sound upload through mobile devices.

TRAMJAM - ROTTERDAM RUSHHOUR is a networked streaming audio performance
inviting public participation via mobilephones on trams or microphones/walkie talkie on site. The live performance is scheduled as a public event with netstreaming and local radio broadcast for the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, whose theme this year is: "Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems".

Drop-in to take part:
Tuesday - Thursday, November 9 - Nov 11  |  10.00 - 21.00hrs
PZI   |  Overblaak 85  |  Het Kubus gebouw  |  NS, tram & metro stations, Blaak

Friday, Nov 12  |  15.00 - 19.00hrs  |  Performance  location: to be announced

More info: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/Seminars2/tramjam/
Mumbai Streaming Attack: http://www.snm-hgkz.ch/
For participation, please send e-mail to: tramjam-rotterdam(at)www.snm-hgkz.ch

This event is organised by New Media Studies, Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich, V2_ organisation, institute for the unstable media and MDR and is part of the DEAF04: http://www.deaf04.nl/
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FLOSS BOOTcamp  |  BLENDER and ARDOUR workshop

Many open source and free software projects are developed via collaborative processes, through the active feedback of developers and users. The goal of this workshop is to bring together people from a variety of backgrounds in an informal setting to make contact, have discussions, exchange ideas, give feedback or suggestions for the software and interfaces, to learn new things and to have fun! Experienced users and/or developers will be present to help.

The BOOTcamp will be a workshop with presentations, demonstrations, discussions and a hands-on afternoon. The focus will be on two open source projects: Blender (http://www.blender3d.org) and Ardour (http://www.ardour.org). In the morning there will be presentations and demonstrations of both software projects for all participants. In the afternoon there will be parallel hands-on workshops each focusing on one of the projects.  At the end there will be drinks and a chance to evaluate and have further discussions.

For more information and detailed registration process:
http://www.deaf04.nl/flossbootcamp

Friday, November 12  |  9.30 - 19.00hrs
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek  |  Van Nelleweg 1, 3044 BC  |  admission: 8 Euro, lunch included  |  language: English

This event is organised by MDR and V2_organisation, institute for the unstable media and is part of the DEAF04: http://www.deaf04.nl/
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EXECUTABLE CODE AND THE
CULTURAL IMAGINATION:  A SKETCH OF A HISTORY
Public lecture: FLORIAN CRAMER

Algorithmic instruction code can be found, centuries before the invention of the computer, in Latin poetry, the Kabbalah, Western composed music and several forms of experimental poetry from the 17th to the 20th century, thus forming an important, but often neglected historical pretext of contemporary computer arts. While these examples are formally simple or even primitive by contemporary standards, they are linked to a rich technological, artistic, philosophical and religious imagination. The lecture tries to sketch its rich and very contradictory history from Pythagorean mathematics to contemporary digital art and culture, showing how the idea and phantasm of the word becoming flesh is both written forth and transformed from kabbalistic spells to computer viruses.

Florian Cramer is a Berlin based writer who has published in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing. One of the group working on the http://www.runme.org/ Software Art repository and an editor of the Unstable Digest of code poetry, he is currently Research Fellow at Media Design Research.

Wednesday, Nov 17  |  19.00 - 20.30hrs
Overblaak 85, Rotterdam  |  Het Kubus gebouw  |  NS, tram & metro stations Blaak
Florian Cramer: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/homepage/

This event is organised by MDR and is part of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, organised by V2_organisation, institute for the unstable media. http://www.deaf04.nl/
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PUBLICATION: MA MEDIA DESIGN |  GRADUATION SHOW GUIDE 2004

- Maria Claudia de Azevedo Borges - Victoria Donkersloot - Ana Gabriela Jiménez - Nick Koning - Todd Matsumoto & Wijbrand Stet

In September 2002 the Piet Zwart Institute launched a two-year full-time Master of Arts course in Media Design. This course encourages an engaged, technically, socially and culturally adept and experimental approach to digital media. In June 2004, the first year of students graduated.

More information: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/programme/gradshow04
Download exhibition guide (6.1 MB PDF file)  [Requests to have it posted by mail, to Leslie Robbins: l.j.drost-robbins(at)hro.nl]
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The Piet Zwart Institute is the postgraduate studies and research programme of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl