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April 28, 2005

DESIGNINART 5.0

[fringe] presents

DESIGNINART with

Victor Vina / Elisava Escola Superior Disseny
Tobi Schneidler / Interactive Institute Smart Studio
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May 4th
Big Love Gallery
Tunnbindaregatan 21
16:00 - 18:00

quick links:
Victor Vina | www.dosislas.org
Tobi Schneidler | maoworks, www.tobi.net, smart studio

WELCOME!

VICTOR VINA
Originally trained as an industrial designer, Victor holds an MA in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art in London. During summer 00 hecollaborated with Mediamatic, Amsterdam. From 01 to 03 he worked as a visiting researcher at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, where he developed an open system to design personal networks. Victor recently directed a workshop with Roger Ibars at the Media and Interaction Unit of Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. He is currently researching at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona and curating a design exhibiton for Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM) in Las Palmas. One of his latest projects, developed with Hector Serrano, is currently on show at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.

Discovery in Digital Craft
Through a selection of rambling projects and workshops developed at different schools and research institutions, Victor will discuss how an open approach to the creative process with digital media, and in particular the design of electronic objects, might lead to new and unexpected results. In particular he will analyse three of the constructs he uses more often when dealing with interactivity: automation, modularity and connectivity.

The discussion will also be centred on how the projects have been analyzed and interpreted from different perspectives in the continuum between art and design, and how these interpretations might enhance or diminish the meaning of the proposals.

1 knowledge and cognitive networks
2 networking physical space
3 design your own network
4 open networks in public space

http://www.dosislas.org/victor

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TOBI SCHNEIDLER
Tobi Schneidler is designing physical places that propose new tangible interaction between people, information and responsive space. Technology is a strong ingredient in all his work, but not an end in itself. Past projects include the RemoteHome, a trans-locational apartment in London and Berlin, the Avesta Works interactive museum experience in Sweden and the RefashionLab, an experimental fashion shop.

Tobi has recently established m.a.o.works , the office for mediating architecture and objects, to develop projects like the Vestigii Ticker Chair, for a Berlin based fashion brand. m.a.o.works has been working as a consultant with clients such as MVRDV architects (Rotterdam), Central Saint Martins Innovation centre (London),Arup Research and others.

In addition to commercial projects, m.a.o.works is involved in a number of experimental and research based missions. The office is also collaborating with groups like the Smart Studio Interactive Institute, as well as a range of independent artists, designers and engineers.

Tobi‚s work has been shown at venues such as the Science Museum London, Centre Pompidou and SF MOMA (collaboration). One interactive object, the Responsive Fields, has recently become part of Peter Weibel‚s Algorythmic Revolutions show at ZKM Karlsruhe. Upcoming shows will include the Victoria&Albert museum and the ICA (both London).

Tobi has also been teaching at the Royal College of Art London, KTH Stockholm and Central Saint Martins, as well as lecturing at numerous venues such as Princeton School of architecture, the Architectural Association London, Klein Dytham‚s Super Deluxe in Tokyo and the Universität der Künste Berlin.

www.maoworks.com
www.tobi.net
http://smart.tii.se

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April 22, 2005

DESIGNINART 4.0

[fringe] invites you to:

DESIGNINART with
Maja Kinnermark / HDK, Hogskolan for design och konsthantverk
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April 27th
Big Love
16:00-18:00
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Welcome!

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April 12, 2005

DESIGNINART 3.0

[fringe] invites you to:

DESIGNINART with
Timo Arnall / Oslo School of Architecture / www.elasticspace.com
Andrew Morrison / Intermedia, University of Oslo / www.intermedia.uio.no

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April 20th
Konsthogskolan Valand
16:00-18:00
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Welcome!

TIMO ARNALL
www.elasticspace.com

Timo Arnall is a designer and researcher working between London and Oslo. As lecturer and researcher at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design he teaches interaction design, physical computing, storytelling and design methodology.

ANDREW MORRISON
www.intermedia.uio.no

Andrew Morrison is based at InterMedia, University of Oslo where he works on a variety of projects on electronic arts, adaptive dgital design and the mediation of research online. He is currently working two book collections, one reporting on and analysing projects about digital multimmodal discourse and another more generally on Design Studies. Narrativity is one of his main enduring interests.

for more information contact margot.jacobs@tii.se
www.tii.se/reform
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/fringe.htm

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April 10, 2005

JOB OPPORTUNITY IN FLORIDA

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Department of Communication, is seeking an Instructor in New Media Production at its Davie campus, to teach courses in the Department≠Äôs BA in Multimedia Studies, which includes sequences in Film & Video Studies and Multimedia Journalism. The Department seeks a scholar of digital art and new media practice with expertise in new media as art and communication. Ideal candidates will cross media platforms and have experience in creating and analyzing multimedia texts. Candidates must be able to offer instruction in the integration of text, image and audio. Applicants should possess practical skills in more than one of the following media platforms: digital photography, computer-based imaging technologies, web and graphic design, and multimedia authoring. Applicants must also be proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Studio, and have some experience in scripting. The position is a renewable nine-month, non-tenure track appointment beginn
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ing August 2005. The teaching load is the equivalent of four courses per semester, and includes teaching introductory and advanced interactive multimedia courses, as well as managing the Department≠Äôs Proteus website and serving as a web design consultant for the College of Arts and Letters. MFA, MA, or equivalent professional experience required. All candidates must have an active production record. Application deadline: June 3, 2005. Send letter of application, cv, letters of recommendation, and samples of creative work to: Dr. Eric Freedman, Chair, New Media Search Committee, Department of Communication, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991. E-mail (for questions only): efreedma@fau.edu. For detailed information on FAU, visit our web sites at: http://www.fau.edu and http://proteus.fau.edu. Florida Atlantic University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Institution.

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SELF-PORTRAIT IN MIRROR-CD   SELF-PORTRAIT IN MIRROR-CD   SELF-PORTRAIT IN MIRROR-CD

Take that CD that you will throw to the garbage uses.  Use it as a mirror and with an appropriate marker, or any other appropriate instrument, make your self-portrait on him.  In this way, we recycle in an artistic way.  

The received works will be exposed in a web-gallery that will be created.  Documentation for all the participants.No return. Don't forget your postal data and e-mail.
Deadline :  july, 31  year 2005  

Suggestion. - the permanent markers works well for this.

To:
Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenón  
C/ Santa Maria de Guia  
nº 1 . 4º C  
ES-41008  Sevilla  España

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Call for Submissions for 'I Am / You Are'

Call for submissions for ‘I Am/You Are≠ artist book edition #108. Submissions may be two dimensional art or writing that responds to the statements on the front or back cover of the book (‘I Am≠ and/or ‘You Are≠). As the book is filled the line of distinction between ‘I Am≠ and ‘You Are≠ blurs. This is book #108 of #112 and is part of a larger collaborative project, simply titled ‘I Am /You Are≠, which will be exhibited on June 30th, 2005 in Chicago at the Foundation Gallery. The exhibition will travel with further venues yet to be announced.

Submission requirements:
A= 1-3 submissions (2-D, smaller than 8≈x10≈) for inclusion in book
B= Brief typed bio and city and country of residence

For more information on the gallery www.foundation-gallery.org

For more information on this project refer to www.you-are-beautiful.com

To submit contact Colleen Baran at ineedyoursecrets@yahoo.ca with the heading ≥I am / You are≈
Text or simple back and white submissions may be emailed with color or photographic work mailed to
Colleen Baran/ 15,872 98th Ave/ Surrey BC/ V4N 2V3 Canada

Deadline is June 5thth 2005 (but as space is limited early submissions will insure inclusion)

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Scholarships in International MFA

Scholarships in International MFA Program to Promote Independent Thinking and Innovative Art Work

Transart Institute announced today that through a generous grant from Foundation M and other sources 15 scholarships amounting to $37,500 have become available to students of their low-residency Master of Fine Arts program and non-degree summer workshops.

Transart Institute's low-residency MFA in New Media program - the first of its kind anywhere - offers an opportunity for working professionals to further their career with self-directed artistic study supported by self-chosen artist mentors and Transart Institute faculty and intensive summer residencies including lectures, seminars, workshops, critiques, exhibitions and performances. The unique transdisciplinary program creates the possibility of interaction and cooperation between performance and video artists, programmers, sculptors, vjs, curators, painters and game designers etc. Genres include: animation, architecture, cyberart, film, video, graphic design, installation, interactive art, interdisciplinary art, performance art, photography, and sound/music. The summer workshops which are an integral part of the MFA program are open to the public by application.

Eight scholarships of $2,500 will go to accepted students of merit and financial need and two scholarships of $5,000 are available to candidates from East European and new EU-member countries. Five full scholarships of $750 will be given to participants of the Transart Institute's non-degree summer workshops which are open to all. Recipients will be selected on the basis of creative potential as exemplified by portfolio.

Scholarship application deadline for the academic year 2005/06 is May 31st, 2005.
Further information is available at the Transart Institute's website: www.transartinstitute.org

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April 09, 2005

DESIGNINART 2.0

[fringe] invites you to:

DESIGNINART
with David Cuartielles and Otto Von Brusch from AESWAD
on April 13th 16:00-18:00, Konsthogskolan Valand

David Cuartielles
Blue Noise [art-science-design from an academic practitioner's point of view in Scandinavia]

Blue Noise is the name for one of those unrealizable engineer's dreams. With white noise we describe the idea of a uniform distribution over the signal spectrum. Pink noise would be a low-band noise that can be formed by an analog filter clearing up the higher frequency range. Blue noise is the opposite, the high frequency range with no harmonics in the lower side of the spectrum. According to the mathematical transforms used for signal treatment, the blue noise *called like this because of the analogy to the color spectrum, where blue is composed by higher frequency signals than any other color- will loose its qualities when brought into the digital world. In other words, blue noise will never be the real blue noise within the digital domain.

Otto von Busch
Otto von Busch is a PhD-candidate, DIY-demagogue, fashion designer and style theorist trying his best to shake the certainty we take for granted and the 'common sense' by defying the operating system of modernity and fighting interpassivity. As a subversive partisan he is focusing on the realm between the second skin and the clothed body in the modes of fashion production.  Performing artistic action research on the possibilities of design based on micro-political methods, social reorganization, participation and methods of  resistance through design.
Active at HDK Gothenburg and ITU Istanbul.

DESIGNINART
Art and design have long had a close and contested relationship. Critical issues - intention and function, audience and interaction, method and artifact - are shared and between the disciplines. Today, the incorporation of new interactive and time-based technologies into processes and practices have again challenged and blurred the borders between traditional notions of art and design. Shifts in the cultural and institutional context have also altered perspectives - these days galleries and museums seem to be filled with ‘design’ exhibitions.

More recently, the emergence of critical design (with much of its roots in conceptual art), new media art, experimental and interaction design suggests to some extent an increased exchange or reversal of roles between the artist and the designer. In these forms of practice, designers are focusing less on solving the problems at hand and more on artifacts and methods for speculation and critique. Various artists, in turn, are focusing on conceptual art practice to work with systems or patterns as ‘solutions’ in particular situations. Inspirations, methods, and roles are blurred in an emerging territory of creative and interdisciplinary practice, requiring that we re-examine basic notions and foundations.

Perhaps we are exploring new notions of material and immaterial artifacts...
Perhaps we are in a discovery phase with new technologies and techniques...
Perhaps we are at a turning point in societal and cultural aspiration...

DESIGNINART is a series of events exploring these notions in concept and practice arranged by [fringe], a new media and electronic art and design collective initiated by the RE:FORM studio of the Interactive Institute.

Taking the frame of Sweden’s 2005 Year of Design, DESIGNINART aims to surface and experiment with traditional notions – raising new examples, voices and participation in culture of creative practices.

We invite participation from designers, artists, architects, musicians, sociologists, theoreticians, educators and students of art and design, with a special focus on new media and electronic art alongside interaction and critical design.

Themes or questions
·borrowing and cross-fertilizing methods and techniques
·defining 'quality' in art and design
·design beyond utility
·new genres and modalities
·art of systems or patterns solutions
·high design & free art
·function and intent
·technological impact and inspiration
·new skills and traditional experience

for more information contact margot.jacobs@tii.se

www.tii.se/reform
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/fringe.htm

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April 03, 2005

"Early Adopters"

OPEN CALL (http://adelheidmers.org/3arts/opencall.htm)

Exhibition working title: "Early Adopters"

location: The Three Arts Club, Chicago, USA
dates: doors open September 15, 2005   
reception: October 6, 2005 
closing (with potential reception): October 27, 2005

1. Call for essays and other text contributions we can post, and other web based contributions we can link to, from artists and theorists who reside in cities worldwide, to contribute "reports on art audiences" from their locations.

2. We are also seeking laminated "poster presentations" from local artists or from others who don't mind to mail them to Chicago, 24"x18" (appr. 60cm x 45cm) to be displayed on long shelves along two gallery walls, for viewers to handle and/or for contributors who can be present at the gallery to talk about.

Project Description: For this exhibition during "Chicago Artist Month 2005", artists are asked to look back at their viewers. They are asked to show how they envision their local lay, amateur or connoisseur community to make use of and support them, to assess the immediate field they need to communicate within. Specifically, I am asking to investigate how citizens support or are desired to support visual art: as viewer, collector, sponsor, discussant, newspaper reader, volunteer, board member, co-creator,etc. I am envisioning work that deals with these subjects explicitly, for an exhibition that will have aspects of a symposium or lecture series, addressing (supporting, defying, expanding) the thesis that urbanites are more diverse, adventurous, daring and playful than their more conservative, rural, small town, suburban or exurban counterparts, but also need to be made more aware of the crucial role they play in sustaining the art community whose products and productions t
hey enjoy. This question is primarily inspired by the urban/rural split in the US election maps. For examples, see: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
Would there be similar distributions in art audience maps?

In addition to the call for national and international reports and for posters, three artists who use diagramming as part of their current strategies have been invited to create more extensive works. I will contribute a map of the concept of this show, and four administrators/theorists have been invited to consider talks, discussions or lectures. This is a project by Adelheid Mers, on the invitation of gallery director Annie Morse.

Please contact me by email if you are interested in contributing, or can put me in touch with additional "correspondents" from other cities.

We are currently planning to report on this show at a symposium on artistic inquiry in Canada, in November.

I have set up a message board to help prepare for the show at http://adelheidmers.org/3/

very best regards, 
Adelheid

adelheidmers@earthlink.net 
http://adelheidmers.org

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