TV of Tomorrow Show 2007 looking for artists

Posted by: Brian

Wow! It has been a busy morning. I have been finding all sorts of events related to technology and the arts, and the TV of Tomorrow Show being held in San Francisco March 13-14, 2007, is yet another one I feel the need to mention here.

In addition, the show is seeking submissions from artists…

Call to Artists
We are seeking artistic interpretations of the theme “The TV of Tomorrow” to be displayed at the show. If you have something you’d like to submit, please contact Tracy at 415-824-5806 or swedlow@itvt.com for details…Learn more (PDF)

Two (and a half) more days to catch “Networked Nature” in NYC

Posted by: Brian

See, the following exhibit and the event I just posted that is taking place Monday at Alfred University’s School of Art & Design are the types of things we here at Technology and the Arts need to find out about sooner so we can include them on the Events calendar we hope to have just set up. Please…if you hear about events like these, try to remember to drop us a line so we can share that information with our audience. Thanks!

NET WORTH

by Ben Davis

“Networked Nature,” Jan. 11-Feb. 18, 2007, at Foxy Productions, 617 W. 27th St., New York, N.Y. 10001

There’s actually not that much that is networked about the artworks by six art teams and artists in Foxy Production’s “Networked Nature” show. Instead, the exhibition is an essay in an increasingly popular style: the estheticized science project.

What the imprecise title does do is gesture towards a theme — artworks that tackle the murky border between technology and nature, a hot-button issue in these days of anxiety about man-made environmental disaster. Sponsored in part by the College Art Association and scheduled to coincide with the yearly talk-fest’s roll through town, this spare, focused show is custom-built to lend itself to weighty pontificating. What’s interesting, however, is not so much what it all says about science as what it says about the internal contradictions of this breed of experimental art itself (curator Marisa Olson works for Rhizome.org, the influential web art advocates, and thus particularly, ahem, plugged in).

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Alfred University’s School of Art & Design hosts artist Victoria Vesna

Posted by: Brian

If you are interested in technology and art, and you are in the vicinity of Alfred University in lower, western New York state (and not completely snowbound) on President’s/Presidents’/Presidents Day*, this may be worth checking out…

School of Art & Design hosts visiting artist
2/15/07

On Monday, Feb. 19, at 4:30 p.m., in Binns-Merill, room C, visiting artist Victoria Vesna will present “Art/Science Collaborations: Being in Between.”

Vesna is a media artist exploring the overlap between technology and identity formation. Her installations bridge scientific and artistic languages. She has produced different models for rendering abstract models of the universe tactile and visual, bringing nanoscience into the experiential realm.

Her collaborators have included Tibetan monks at the Gaden Lhopa Khangsten Monastery and Dr. James Gimzewski, nanoscience pioneer. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has won the prestigious Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork (1998).

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wales and is chair of the Design/Media Arts at the University of California at Los Angeles. Vesna is the North American editor of AI & Society and editor of Database Aesthetics.

Directions to Alfred University.

By the way, I have to admit I had never heard of Alfred University until I found this event through a Google News alert. However, it looks like Alfred’s School of Art & Design is right up Technology and the Arts’ alley as the university offers a master of fine arts degree in electronic integrated arts.

(*Editor’s note: I was checking to see where the apostrophe should go, if one should be included at all, in the name of Monday’s holiday. Is it “President’s Day” or “Presidents’ Day” or “Presidents Day.” Well, officially, it is none of those. As far as the United States government is concerned, the third Monday in February is the observed date of Washington’s Birthday. Here is the explanation from Snopes.com. The National Archives adds: “This holiday is designated as ‘Washington’s Birthday.’ Though other institutions such as state and local governments and private businesses may use other names, it is Federal policy to always refer to holidays by the names designated in the law.” So, of course, WhiteHouse.gov — the official Web site of the President of the United States of America — has a page in its section for kids titled “President’s Day.”)