Nanowiki – tracking #nanotechnology #geekgirl

NanoWiki is a digital online publication to track the evolution of paradigms and discoveries in nanoscience and nanotechnology field, annotate and disseminate them, giving an overall view and feed the essential public debate on nanotechnology and its practical applications.

Homesense: Every Home has a Story to Tell #geekgirl

Homesense is an open research project collaboration between Tinker London and EDF R&D. Bringing open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home selected households will create their own smart homes and live with the technologies that they have developed themselves without any prior technical expertise.

Source: Interactive Architecture

Last Words – a group exhibition that explores language, knowledge and communication #australia #asia

Split over two exhibition periods and featuring artists from Australia and the Asia region, Last Words is a group exhibition that explores language, knowledge and communication in an age of cultural diversity and globalisation. It is the culmination of a series of mid-career solo exhibitions and performances, which 4A has undertaken throughout 2010 that tackle ideas of communication.

When we talk about our contemporary locations, they are increasingly defined by the interaction of local, national and global references. It is a world that is undergoing constant change and expansion, where culture, geography and traditional forms of identification are neither consistent or certain. What happens when our boundaries – geographical, psychological, physical and cultural – dissolve? How, then do we articulate history, politics, where and how we live?

Last Words aims to set up a discourse around the ways in which meaning is constructed in a time of uncertainty, through artworks which act as a catalyst for reflection on the contemporary world.

A publication documenting the Last Words project will be available later in the year.

Artists in this exhibition include: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Eric Bridgeman, Zhang Ding, Hikaru Fujii, Archie Moore, Shen Shaomin.

100 ways to say I Love You – Call for Participation

October 2010 :: SASA Gallery University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

This work is situated around shifting language use with digital communication and the subconscious interplay of symbol/number in nonverbal mobile communication. In examining the interaction between the user and the mobile interface, many sequences of I love you (ILY) are used when sending the endearment. For example to send message ILY on a Motorola v3 requires the sequence; ok v 9 9 9 9 L- v v v v L-L- 4 4 4 4 #5 5 5 # 9 9 9 L- L-

To achieve an authentic outcome to the project the artist is seeking contact with interested people to share their interfacial sequence in the sending of the message ”ily to someone they ‘love’. If you are interested in being involved, please contact Jaynie Langford at jnilalang@gmail.com

Who said scientists can’t dance? Video Competition for chance to win $1,000 USD #verygeeky #geekgirl

“Dance Your Ph.D.” video competition is inviting applications from anyone who has a Ph.D. or is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in a science-related field to transform their research into an interpretive dance and submit it for a chance to win up to $1,000 USD. Finalists from each category will have their Ph.D. dance videos screened at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. This is your chance to prove to the world that scientists CAN dance!

http://www.facebook.com/danceyourphd
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/

Open Call: Learn to Play – Call For Proposals – Build Your Own World #geekgirl

Submission Deadline 31 July 2010 :: Cupertino, USA

Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere? Learn to Play is calling for submissions around games as art on the theme ‘build your own world’. Learn to Play will be opening this fall as parallel programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial.

http://learn.toplay.us/

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’ #arts #artspace #cognitivecapitalism

‘the creative class doesn’t exist’
With Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos
Location: Artspace

In Sydney for one public event only: Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos in dialogue on artists, precarity and collective experimentation.

The changing boundaries between work and leisure, the conquering of distance via tele-technologies and the exponential expansion of the culture industries in the late twentieth century are supposed to have created a new ‘creative class’. People who work in the media, the Internet, museums and the entertainment industry seemingly comprise this engine-room of neoliberalism. Yet the segmented and differential nature of these industries generates a situation where most artists, for example, declare an income from their activities that falls below the poverty line. Contrary to the idea that the creative class embodies the values and privileges of the expanding creative industries, many artists and art workers instead find themselves in the same boat as intermittent, casualised and precarious workers.

In this conversation between the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato and the artist Angela Melitopoulos, a space opens up for questioning the current place of artists and of ‘creativity’ within cognitive capitalism. They discuss the contradiction deep at the heart of creative industries and contemporary cognitive capitalism: the erasure of non-productive time, which is precisely the time required for creation to take place at all. They debate the question, initiated by Marcel Duchamp, of how ‘an-artist’, rather than the Artist, might function to open up new ways of feeling, doing and saying and of experimenting with new institutions that might promote different forms of collective creation.

Maurizio Lazzarato is a sociologist and philosopher who lives and works in Paris. Among his recent publications are: Lavoro immateriale. Forme di vita e produzione di soggettivita (1997); Videofilosofia. Percezione e lavoro nel postfordismo (1997); Tute Bianche. Disoccupazione di massa et reddito di cittadinanza (1999); Post-face à Monadologie et sociologie (1999); Puissance de l’invention. La psychologie economique de Gabriel Tarde contre l’economie politique (2002); Les Revolutions du capitalisme (2004).

Angela Melitopoulos, is an time-based artist, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. Her work has been shown in many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York). Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London.

6 July 2010, 6:00pm
ARTSPACE

T: +61 2 9356 0555
F: +61 2 9368 1705
artspace@artspace.org.au

Playlist – a reinvention of obsolete technology and art.

iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technologies is proud to announce Playlist: Playing Games, Music, Art, an exhibition focused on the artistic reinvention of obsolete digital media. Produced and hosted by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial (Gijon, Asturias) in the frame of the Mediateca Expandida, Playlist now moves to Brussels enriched with twelve new participants and a broader range of artworks.

Open from June 4 until August 21 2010.
iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Koolmijnenkaai 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels

For more information visit www.imal.org

#TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal stability points

XII International Festival for New Media Culture
ART+COMMUNICATION 2010
in collaboration with „Textures” – the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

Riga, June 14 – 20, 2010

This year the Festival for New Media Culture „Art+Communication” will focus on the emerging biotechnologies as means for artistic expression as well as challenge to the constantly changing materiality in arts. Festival programme with its title “TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points” will take place in collaboration with a large scale academic research event – „Textures” – the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts which is devoted to exploring materials, structures, surfaces and interfaces transformed by the networked media.

The main event of the festival is the biotechnology art exhibition “TRANSBIOTICS” which will be held June 15 – 20 inkim? Galleries at Spikeri. Although using technologies and scientific discoveries in art is not a novelty, using “live matter” in creating artworks can be considered as an unusual practice. The exhibition will feature a collection of international biotechnology artworks which will be made available to Latvia’s audiences for the first time.

More information – http://rixc.lv/10

The iDress & iTee – iPad compatible iClothing – designs by Davina Reichman & Luke Staley

iPad Fashion Clothes

Now the iPad has launched, iClothing innovates with fashion and technology by bringing the two together with a flair of style. Ordering the iDress and iTee is easy and online at www.iclothing.com.au.

The Unisex iTee comes in white and black. The protective almost invisible front pouch store and carries your iPad with you on the move. Perfect for men and women with a digital lifestyle. Made from 100% cotton jersey, the simple tee has never been so technologically compatible.

The iDress is a black, above the knee, short sleeved dress with a built in protected pocket to carry and store your iPad without hindering your movement or style. Constructed out of durable cotton sateen, the iDress is the perfect work/day dress, comfortable and iPad compatible.  From the office to the cocktail lounge, read your iPad comfortably on your way to the next party in town.

“iTee & iDress feature reinforced padded pouches which are comfortable and almost unnoticeable. Perfect storage for the iPad.” says Davina Reichman, Managing Director, iClothing.

“Developed with the digital lifestyle of Apple lovers in mind, they are 100% Australian made and designed.” says Luke Staley, Creative Director.

ABOUT DAVINA REICHMAN
Davina Reichman, Managing Director of iClothing and Fashion Entrepreneur, developed the unique concept of iClothing. Davina graduated in 2006 as a Master of Business Administration (MBA), specialising in Strategic Management (UTS) and holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (USyd). Davina is the Managing Director of Being Born Again Couture – www.beingbornagain.net

ABOUT LUKE STALEY
Luke Staley is the Creative Director of iClothing and the founder of Alconleigh. Alconleigh’s design philosophy is grounded in timeless elegance, luxury and wearability. It’s for women of spirit – women who are not afraid to be women.