Climate Crisis Video Callout from engagemedia

It’s Time for Reel Action! In the leadup to Copenhagen meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in December EngageMedia is putting together a compilation of Climate Change stories from around the Asia-Pacific. The IPCC meeting is pivotal in this age of climate crisis. The compilation will be distributed online, via DVD and screened in Copehangen. If you want your video to be there find out how to submit.

Videohuahua yep a Chihuahua helps make video projects

Six legged video projection anyone? You’re going to need a miniature projector and cables, you’re going to need a Mexican video artist by the name of Fernando Llanos, and most of all, you’re going to need, a chihuahua. Fresh from their recent Mapping festival performance, Fernando explains some more.

You are sitting at an airport with a chihuahua, laptop and video projector. A Californian with long blond hair wants to know what the ‘Videohuahua’ sticker on your laptop means. What do you tell him?

It’s a project I made as an artist, it started with me becoming a superhero, VIDEOMAN, and projecting video on the streets, like videograffiti, and now my Chihuahua projects some video too. I’m like Batman, a weird man with no super powers but some technology and lots of guts, and Chamaco is like Robin.

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Waiting to Turn into Puzzles at Frankston Art Centre

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles Installation

(Cube 37), Frankston Art Centre, Victoria

10-30 August, 2009

From Dusk till dawn
Featuring Video Projection and Sound Installation

Waiting to Turn into Puzzles is the latest collaboration between film artist Louise Curham and composer David Young. Shot in Yokohama Japan, this 45 minute hand-processed super 8 film/music work forms the basis of the musical scores. The inter-medial nature of the work creates a hovering connectedness between image and sound, shifting the boundaries between the artforms. Similarly the graphic music notation allows a certain freedom and spontaneity in the performance of the music which accompanies the film, whilst remaining precisely structured.

As part of the opening of Waiting to Turn Into Puzzles installation in Cube 37, an excerpt of the work will be performed by Melbourne-based Quiver Ensemble. Quiver consists of a group of highly focused young musicians who are passionate about contemporary art music, experimental improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. The four core players are also co-directors who share a dedication to innovative programming and close composer-performer collaboration.

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Make your own television shows on OMG TV

OMG I’m on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in NYC on channel 14. We’re broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV transmitter. The website acts as an aggregator of online video content. You get to create the shows, vote on the shows, and participate in the whole process.

Create your own T.V. shows! There are a number of ways that you will be able to submit content, such as, an RSS feed via Yahoo Pipes, a Youtube playlist, or by keywords and selection fields.

OMG.TV

Extended deadline Flash and Thunder

Since the Internet became popular in the late 90′ies of 20th century, the software program “FLASH”, once developed and prepared for the commercial market by Macromedia, and now owned by Adobe, represents a vector based developing environment which enables the creator to combine different media and develop vector based animations especially for the Internet. .swf data file extension became a standard for animations online and offline, and Flash video and its .flv file format stands for “videostreaming” on the net.
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Cinematheque is looking for the best artistic Flash works created since 2000.

Please find the regulations and entry form on
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=408

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streaming media project environments
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the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany

Extended deadline: 31st Aug, 2009

Chris Howlett Flashbacks

Opening Wednesday 5 August, 6-9pm, 2009
Balmoral Room, Brisbane, Australia

A multi-disciplinary exhibition combining contemporary art with immersive interactive gameplay, live action documentation and video art works.

Chris Howlett’s new interactive video and sound art exhibition called Flashbacks opens at the Balmoral Room in City Hall coinciding with the Brisbane International Film Festival. The works in this exhibition explore a number of fundamental questions around the way in which new technologies shift cultural and political understandings of our physical and psychological selves. Through combining 3D game play with interactive game mods, video projections, sound works and site-specific installations, these works activate an immersive space from which to critically and creatively consider how reality and simulated environments both construct and reconfigure our ideas about the nature of identity.

Howlett’s work asks us to reflect on how we function as a society in response to these new spaces of interaction, how we might respond to the political dimensions of these expanded sites of inhabitation, and how they might also represent a more troubling scenario for the possibility of dissent or opposition in our media saturated culture.

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Neda Agha Soltan and the Ethics of Imagery

Excerpt from an article by Fred Ritchin…

Video of the death of Neda Agha Soltan, who was shot in the chest as she stood near a peaceful protest in Tehran this Saturday, has become a powerful symbol as it has spread worldwide through social websites and news media alike. But for news organizations, this video also poses hard questions: When, how and in what context should we use graphic, violent, deeply upsetting images and video?

In the first in a series of guest posts, author and NYU photography professor Fred Ritchin addresses what journalists need to know.

The 1972 photograph by Nick Ut of children being napalmed in Vietnam, an iconic image that did much to focus the world on the war’s horror, was almost not published because it showed a traumatized, naked Vietnamese girl from the front.

Source Dart Center

Melbourne City Wiki

Tell Melbourne what you hope for it’s future. Write a message or add a drawing; be its voice and imagination. Help craft a future for Melbourne’s next generations.

City Wiki is based on the concept that the future of design for cities will be strongly centered on human interaction supported by multimedia and technology. The interactive installation is a means of recording collective ideas and personal responses. Photos, video footage and comments of City Wiki are posted online daily, promoting ongoing discourse and further involvement in creating a future for our city.

17 – 24 July, 24 hours
Location: Higson Lane, Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 9654 3644
Cost: Free

Source: State of Design

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest running documentary film festival in the US. The Festival takes place each November at the American Museum of Natural History. The Mead showcases far-reaching international documentaries and a range of non-narrative films and videos. The Festival seeks works that showcase the diversity of non-fiction storytelling including: animation, indigenous media, experimental and essay films, as well as hybrid works. The Festival seeks works made within the last 3 years and that is of any length.

Send in your submissions http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/submit/

Deadline has been extended til June 26th, 2009 so hurry!

More information on Margaret Mead from Wikipedia

Qi Zhang plays Prokofiev

Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself.