Leonardo Electronic Almanac

LEA

Established in 1993, Leonardo Electronic Almanac is the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo – Journal of Art, Science & Technology.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), jointly produced by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST), and published by MIT Press, is an electronic journal dedicated to providing a forum for those who are interested in the realm where art, science and technology converge. For over a decade, LEA thrived as an international peer reviewed electronic journal and web archive covering the interaction of the arts, sciences, and technology.

In 2010 the journal was re-launched by Lanfranco Aceti, Editor in Chief, and Paul Brown, Co-editor, to meet the challenges of the publishing industry in the 21st century.

The new LEA will emphasize rapid publication of recent work and critical discussion on topics of current relevance. The new LEA encourages contributions from scholars, artists, scientists, educators and developers of new technological resources in the media arts.

Content will include feature articles on theoretical and technical perspectives, profiles of media arts facilities and projects, insights of artists using new media, reviews and interdisciplinary projects. Curated galleries of current new media artworks will also feature regularly. LEA will also publish special issues on topics including but certainly not limited to: locative media, electronic text and poetics, history of digital media, dromology, environmental issues, transculturalism, virtual art and digital culture.

Heal’s Bicentenary

18 Slade students will be in residence within the windows of Heal’s Tottenham Court Road store until 7 February 2010. Including Alex Springer who built a vintage pinhole camera to take your photograph; Jayne Wilton creating the installation ‘Catching Breath’ where 200 breaths will be caught as copper plate etchings, acid washed and displayed to create a large scale collage; and Gavin Weber has taken a 1830s press from Slade to the Heal’s window to print on demand from wood blocks carved by many Slade staff and students: including a storm cloud… for you to buy

RTX – Radio Tower Xchange

RTX RIXC

Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the interchange between infosphere and psychosphere. Different types of data, sounds and magnetism: all these elements poetically meet in multimedia, which is here the synesthetic melting pot of experimental sound compositions. This collective, which promotes the Radio Tower Xchange project, by connecting online performances and audio art events, wants to pay homage and at the same time criticize the “broadcasting philosophies”, embodied in the “symbolism” of radio towers themselves. Technologies for sharing that are evolving towards direct transmission, not “for the audience” but “from the audience” which, thanks to WiFi networks and the multiplication of “emission points” and the simultaneous demand for those inputs, pave the way to the emergence of new systemic chains. Neural Review.

The idea behind this event is both paying homage and a critique of the broadcasting philosophies and histories the radio towers represent, and an investigation into the evolving practice of unregulated online broadcasting. [Adam Hyde]

In 2007 Xchange network for alternative audio content providers and Net broadcasters celebrated its 10th anniversary. RTX event was co-organised by RIXC (Riga, Latvia) in collaboration with partners: Okno (Brussels/BE), Tesla (Berlin/DE), Ellipse (Tours/FR), Projekt Atol (Ljubljana/SI), and Performing Pictures / Interactive Institute (Stockholm/SE) in the framework of the project “Waves – electromagnetic waves as material and medium for arts” (2006-2007). Live audio and sound art contributions; Martin John Callannan. Sonification of You. Horia Cosmin Samoïla / Spectral Investigations Collective. VLF in Paris Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. Campa-Sacrow Nils Edvardsson. Power Lines in Sweden Clausthome. Solar Radio Station Superfactory. Ringsendungen live stream from Bratislava (elpueblodechina, Isjtar, Annemie Maes and code31) live stream from Brussels (Society of Algorithm) live stream from Orleans (GSA Psy Ops Soundsystem) stream from Ljubljana (DJ Woo and Fennesz) Support: Latvian State Cultural Capital Foundation, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Culture 2000

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Data Soliloquies (Richard Hamblyn & Martin John Callanan)

Data Soliloquies is a book about the extraordinary cultural fluidity of scientific data. A wide array of graphs, charts, computer models and other forms of visual advocacy have become inescapable fixtures of public science presentations, though they are often treated as if they were neutral ‘found objects’ rather than elaborate narrative constructions containing high levels of statistical uncertainty. Through a mix of essays and artworks, this witty and engaging book — the result of a collaboration between Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute — examines the theatricality of scientific data display, while critiquing some of the poorly designed statistical wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate.

ISBN 9780903305044 (January 2010)

Available for order on Sladepress.com

Reviews
Furtherfield, Pau Waelder

Rubric Journal: Grid

Rubric

rubric is a new, experimental journal discussing art, writing, theory, and the points at which they intersect. The journal operates in a curatorial format, with contributors asked to respond to a specific theme or idea for each issue.

We aim to highlight nuances within subjects and methodological procedures whilst bringing together critical theory, art writing, and art practice. Through a diverse approach to each area of focus we propose to construct and consider potential possibilities, applications, or limitations.

rubric is a free journal, published quarterly in print and online.

Outside the Material World, Tate Modern

Thomson and Craighead will be talking about recent work at Tate Modern on December 12th as part of this event – do come along if you are able:

+ Outside the Material World. Saturday 12 December 2009,
11.00–17.00 Starr Auditorium, Level 2, Tate Modern

To coincide with the exhibition Pop Life: Art in the Material World, this symposium explores artists’ relationships to the market from the 1970s to the present by focusing on mail and ephemeral art outside the market, and in collections and exhibitions today. Given the present financial crisis, strategies of insertion and the circulation of art are reassessed by artists, curators, archivists and academics.

Speakers: Felipe Ehrenberg, Professor Dawn Ades, Thomson and Craighead, Michael Asbury, Adrian Glew, Cristina Freire and, co-curators of Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Alison Gingeras & Catherine Wood.

See: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20640.htm
for full programme and ticket information

Digital Lives

BL

Two of Martin’s websites are among the 42 archived in the British Library’s Digital Lives special collection

Collection of Internet sites selected to illustrate the growth of personal digital content on the WWW. As digital technology has become more accessible the individual increasingly has the means to edit, store and distribute personal material feeding a burgeoning trend for digital creativity and consumption. This collection exhibits the various forms of this output such as weblogs, articles, portfolios of work, audio and visual recordings.

Tim Head: Raw Material

Laughing Cavalier
Laughing Cavalier (still), Tim Head 2002

21 November 2009 to 9 January 2010

A major solo exhibition by Tim Head at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
The exhibition will showcase a selection of digital works, drawings and prints and will include a dramatic outdoor digital projection on the Library and Art Gallery building to coincide with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (until 29 November).

Admission free
Monday – Friday 10am–5pm
Saturday 10am–4pm
Sunday 22 and 29 November 10am–4pm
Closed all other Sundays and Bank Holidays

Huddersfield Art Gallery
Princess Alexandra Walk
Huddersfield
HD1 2SU

The exhibition will tour to Kettles Yard in Spring 2010

You Are Here

berliner mauer

From interrogating Nicolas Bourriaud’s ideas of a new age of the altermodern to the daily life of a political actitivist in the World Bank-backed last dictatorship in Europe -Belarus, You Are Here goes a way to offering a sort of field book for contemporary Europe. A continent where young artists and activists blend forms and travel in their work, living in one country while all the while subtly interrogating their home countries’ traditions and expectations. A generation has come of age in a post- Wall Europe who no longer feel obligated to answer the national questions, but instead answer to their unique personal experience, one of borderless work and travel, mediated by translation and the Internet. Such instances of artistic, intellectual and activist projects are given space in You Are Here, offering the chance to see whether such young practitioners really are writing from a freedom and plurality born in 1989 back into a new, wider and pan-European tradition in 2009.

Edited by Line Madsen Simenstad and John Holten
Texts and artwork by Ann Cotton (AUS), Anna Bro (DK), Agnieszka Drotkiewicz (POL),
Martin John Callanan (UK), Volha Martynenka (BEL), Francesca Musiani (IT), Christophe Van
Gerrewey (BE), Urszula Wozniak (GER)

9 November, 2009
English (with Polish, German, Belarussian, Danish)
ISBN 978-3-00-028868-5

Book Release Party @ Basso Berlin (Köpenickerstr 187, Berlin-Kreuzberg) 21 Uhr, Mittwoch, 11. November

Aglow

Aglow

Aglow was the first in a series of critical material encounters exploring an interdisciplinary approach to materiality, exploring luminescence as an electronic, synthetic and natural phenomenon at the macro and micro scale, as a scientific phenomenon and cultural material. This session was convened by Melanie Jackson and hosted by The Slade Research Centre at Woburn Square and the Material Culture Group, in the Department of Anthropology. This is an inter collegiate group from Birkbeck, Kings and UCL.

Several Interruptions

Thomson & Craighead’s new video work Several Interruptions is now available to watch online. It has been commissioned by the Arts Council of England especially for the re-branding of their new website, which went online today! You can watch it online and read a short text about the work written by Sarah Cook here:

http://artscouncil.org.uk/our-work/several-interruptions/
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/interruptions.html

Mobile Research Station no.1

On a wasteland at the centre of Berlin there is a strange apparition – Mobile Research Station no.1 has landed.

If you happen to be in Berlin over the next month please drop by and see the researchers in their luxury pod.

As a sculpture, Mobile Research Station no.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster. Using a standard building-waste container as its basis, the station nevertheless forms a luxurious designer-pod provided for an eccentric set of researchers. Rather than researching the frozen wastes of Antarctica or the moons of Saturn, the invited artist/researchers have begun their research into the wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin.

The invited researchers are: Martin John Callanan (London), Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson (Manchester/Berlin), Tim Knowles (London), Annika Lundgren (Gothenburg/Berlin), Katie Paterson (London), Esther Polak (Amsterdam)

Initial research can be seen on the Research Station Blog
Or, one of the researchers themselves can be found daily at the station anytime from now till the sept 20th.

Mobile Research Station no.1 at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum
Research Communications Day: Sunday, September 20, 8 pm

The artists findings will be communicated in an evening of short presentations taking place in the park itself – drinks and snacks will be available from 8pm. [in case of bad weather mail for update…]

We hope to see you here in the wilderness.

Slade MA/MFA Fine Art Show ’09 from 11–17 June

Thursday 11, Friday 12 June 10am–8pm / Saturday 13, Sunday 14 June 10am–5pm
Monday 15–Wednesday 17 June 10am–8pm

Edward Atkins, Katerina Botsari, Stephanie Conway, Patrizio Di Massimo, Nisha Duggal,
Jamie George, Ella Golt, Ananú Gonzales-Posada, Iain S. Hales, Jung-Ouk Hong,
Benjamin Jenner, Da Kyoung Jeong, Do Kyoung Kim, Joshua Kim, Susan Kordalewski,
Rebecca Kressley, Paolo Lonzi, Leah Lovett, Sarah Macdonald, Allison Maletz, Janne
Malmros, Kate McLeod, Katherine Murphy, Kjarten Abel, Gianni Notarianni, Hye Joung Park,
Sion Parkinson, Kate Keara Pelen, Robert Phillips, Matthew Robinson, David Rule,
Sepideh Saii, Ed Saye, Somayeh Seyed Mohseni, Kristin Sherman, Gunwoo Shin, Lisa Smithey,
William Stein, Helen Sturgess, Masako Suzuki, Damian Taylor, Melis van den Berg,
Patrick Ward, Richard Whitby, Tessa Whitehead, Sally Wright, Ben Youngman

The Slade School of Fine Art
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel +44 (0)20 7679 2313

www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/degree2009

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