[Experimenta] Experimenta ebulletin 31 May - 12 June

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EXPERIMENTA EMAIL BULLETIN
Welcome to the Experimenta Email Bulletin for 31 May -12 June 2008. This
bulletin contains a listing of Australian media art events and Australian
and international opportunities.

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::: EXPERIMENTA NEWS

EXPERIMENTA PLAYGROUND SYDNEY: UNTIL 7 JUNE

Experimenta Playground closes in Sydney at 8pm on Saturday 7 June. For
those who live in and around Sydney, this is your last chance to
experience the digital media playground that has thrilled thousands of
people of all ages since opening at Performance Space at CarriageWorks on
8 May.

The exhibition offers something for everyone and is full of delightful
surprises. It features interactive artworks, video installations, short
films and extreme art on screen by over 30 Australian and international
artists.

Entry is free.

Open: Wed – Sat, 12noon – 8pm
Venue: Performance Space @ CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh

Please visit the website for a map and directions.
http://performancespace.com.au/location.php
www.experimenta.org/playground-touring/

:::EVENTS


01::MELBOURNE - LITTLE BIG SHOTS
02::MELBOURNE – FRAMED #04 - DIGITISE ME
03::MELBOURNE – OVER HERE, OVER THERE AT BUS
04::MELBOURNE - STREAM COLLECTIVE SCREENING EVENT
05::SYDNEY - 2008 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
06::SYDNEY –BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2008
07:: SYDNEY - BIENNALE OF SYDNEY ONLINE VENUE
08::SYDNEY – THE WAYBACK MACHINE AT MOP
09:: BRISBANE – TECHNOLOGY IN FASHION PRESENTATION
10::BRISBANE – OUT OF THE BOX CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL
11::ALL STATES - MIFF ON-DEMAND


:::OPPORTUNITIES

12::ALL STATES – CANBERRA GLASSWORKS PUBLIC ART TOWER
13::ALL STATES – ENHANCE TV ATOM AWARDS
14::ALL STATES – GAME ON – CONCEPT ART COMPETITION
15::ALL STATES & INTERNATIONAL – FLIKERFEST 2009 SUBMISSIONS
16::ALL STATES & INTERNATIONAL– ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL
17::MELBOURNE - MOTION GRAPHICS WITH FINAL CUT STUDIO
18::MELBOURNE – MEET THE FILM INDUSTRY MIXER

:::INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

19::AUCKLAND – MIRROR STATES
20::LONDON – FRIEDRICH KITTLE AND TECHNOCULTURE AT THE TATE
21::NY- NEW SILENT SERIES


:::INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

22::VIENNA – PARAFLOWS 08 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
23::GERMANY – VIDEOCHANNEL – CALL FOR ENTRIES
24::CANADA - WHO WILL GIVE UP THEIR DISTINCTIONS? CALL

::ONLINE

25::TANK .TV
26::MELBOURNE BASED ARTS COLLABORATION SITE
27::SYNAPSE ELIST JUNE  - COGNITION AND AI


:::EVENTS


01::MELBOURNE - LITTLE BIG SHOTS

Tickets are now on sale for Little Big Shots, Melbourne’s Major
International film festival for kids! Perfect for families, kids and
teenagers aged from 2 to 18, Little Big Shots, Melbourne’s major annual
film festival for under 18s, returns forits fourth year! The festival will
screen a fresh crop of 87 films from 25 countries at the Australian Centre
for the Moving Image at Federation Square before taking off on its
Australia-wide tour.

Little Big Shots will also screen a pre-schoolers’ session at ArtPlay on
Birrarung Marr at 10.30am on Friday June 6, and an animation workshop in
conjunction with Nickelodeon at 11.15am and 3.45pm on Sunday June 8.
Bookings for these sessions can be made by calling (03) 9664 7900 or by
emailing artplay@melbourne.vic.gov.au.

When: Wednesday June 4 – Monday June 9, 2008
Cost: all tickets $6
Bookings essential: (03) 8663 2583 or boxoffice@acmi.net.au.

For more info. check out: http://www.littlebigshots.com.au

02::MELBOURNE – FRAMED #04 - DIGITISE ME

Distribution platforms, open platforms, Creative Commons licenses,
portable content, videocast - what is it, what does it all mean for
filmmakers, and how can it be used to their advantage? Join us at FRAMED
#04: DIGITISE ME!, for our regular free lunchtime seminar series.
Presented by OPEN CHANNEL, FRAMED #04 will feature speakers Andrew
Apostola (Portable Film Festival), Andrew Garton (Video Slam), Sherwin
Akbarzadeh (Portable Content) and Jim Shomos (Forget the Rules).

When: Thursday 5 June, 12.30 - 2pm
Where: Digital Harbour Theatrette, Innovation Building, 1010 Latrobe St,
Docklands (note change of venue)
Free. RSVP: marketing@openchannel.org.au
FRAMED 08 is generously supported by Film Victoria.

http://www.openchannel.org.au/framed/03.html

03::MELBOURNE – OVER HERE, OVER THERE AT BUS

A new video installation by artist Bonnie Lane, Over Here, Over There is
an attempt at a seemingly impossible connection, the dream of ultimate
communication between artist to work, work to audience, work to space and
audience to audience. It creates a multi-sensory experience of sight,
sound and touch that explores the longing to be utterly and entirely
connected to another person.

Now showing at Bus Gallery 117 Lt Lonsdale Street
Until Sat 7 June
Gallery Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday: 11:00am - 6:00pm and Saturday:
11:00am - 4:00pm
www.bus117.com


04::MELBOURNE - STREAM COLLECTIVE SCREENING EVENT

SEEING SOUND is a free 16mm film screening of experimental sound-image
works from the 60’s and 70’s. Featuring beautiful, vibrant films by
Norman McClaren, Guy Sherwin, Len Lye, Tony Conrad and more.

Inexpensive bar available too, so come join us for a beer or two.
Free entry.

Friday June 20, doors open 6pm
Kaleide Theatre
RMIT City Campus, 360 Swanston St, Melbourne

SEEING SOUND is brought to you by Stream Collective in association
with Otherfilm (Brisbane), and supported by RMIT Union Arts.

http://www.streamcollective.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=33617039504



05::SYDNEY - 2008 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

Sydney Film Festival is New South Wales' pre-eminent showcase for
contemporary cinema from Australia and around the world. The festival
provides audiences with an annual showcase of films that range from the
audacious to the charming, and that illuminate the many cultures of our
world.

Dates: 4-22 June
Venues: State Theatre, Dendy Opera Quays, Greater Union George Street
Cinemas.
For more information and a full program check out: www.sydneyfilmfestival.org

06::SYDNEY –BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2008

Revolutions - Forms That Turn
The 2008 Biennale of Sydney, under the artistic direction of
internationally renowned curator, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will bring
together significant historical works with the art of today and
investigate revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning
upside down or inside out and changing perspectives.

With over 180 artists exhibiting and public events on most days - there's
something for everyone to enjoy in this year's Biennale. So get involved
and revel in Sydney's international festival of contemporary art.

Exhibition Dates: 18 June - 7 September
For program and venue information go to:
www.bos2008.com


07:: SYDNEY - BIENNALE OF SYDNEY ONLINE VENUE

The 2008 Biennale of Sydney also has an Online Venue revolutionsonline.

Included in the online venue are projects based on the exhibition theme
Revolutions – Forms That Turn. Enjoy stumbling upon these – not knowing
what may be a few clicks away! The Online Venue is designed to discover
works in a non-linear way. Artist works are presented together by themes.
Each visit to the venue presents a new constellation of works that may
include film, audio, images, interactive works, live streaming
performances, texts and links to existing websites. Works will be
continuously uploaded to the venue, creating an ever-changing space.

One of the works featured in The Online Venue is "Inanimate Alice" by
Chris Joseph and Kate Pullinger. The work is described as 'a digitized,
interactive and dynamic story for the modern reader'.

Check out "Inanimate Alice" and other online Biennale works at:
http://www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline/

08::SYDNEY – THE WAYBACK MACHINE AT MOP

In the exhibition The Wayback Machine, Sydney-based artists Jaki Middleton
and David Lawrey collaborate on a series of new sculptural installations
that take iconic films from the period of their childhood as sites for
exploration and manipulation. Combining the technology of pre-cinematic
objects such as the perpetual gallery and the praxinoscope, with scale
models of historical film sets and locations; the artists merge different
visual languages of the past to create works that draw new connotations
and meanings in the present.

The wayback machine is the third major collaboration between Jaki
Middleton and David Lawrey. In 2007 the artists completed a New Visions
commission for Experimenta Playground, currently on show at Performance
Space @Carriageworks, Sydney.

Until Sunday June 8
Venue: MOP - 2/27 - 39 Abercrombie St, Chipendale, NSW
Gallery Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday: 1 – 6 and Sunday: 1 - 5 pm

09:: BRISBANE – TECHNOLOGY IN FASHION PRESENTATION

Artist and researcher Danielle Wilde discusses her investigation into how
technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience. Based at
Monash University and the CSIRO division of Textile and Fibre Technology,
Ms Wilde creates wearable interfaces and body extensions that inspire
people to move. Her aim is to elicit deep emotional responses and to prod
people into considering their relationship with their bodies and
technology in society.

Date: 5 June
Time: 5 - 6pm
Cost: Free
Where: QUT Creative Industries Precinct , The Shed 2, Z Block
Contact: 07 3138 5495 or ciprecinct@qut.com

http://www.ciprecinct.qut.com

10::BRISBANE – OUT OF THE BOX CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL

Out of the Box is Australia's leading arts and cultural festival for 3 to
8 year olds and, in collaboration with early childhood teachers, artists
and researchers, has been developing extraordinary arts experiences for
children since 1992. The festival program consists of theatre
performances, participatory workshops in design, animation and
construction and hands-on activities, exhibitions, art installations and
displays.

Dates: 10-15 June
Venues:  Queensland Performing Arts Centre, GOMA, State Library of
Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery and Queensland Museum Southbank.

For more info check out: www.outoftheboxfestival.com.au

11::ALL STATES - MIFF ON-DEMAND

The Melbourne International Film Festival is proud to present a selection
of festival films, curated especially for BigPond Movies.

BigPond Movies on-demand includes Award-winning films such as Dance Like
Your Old Man, directed by Gideon Obarzanek and Edwina Throsby (won Best
Documentary at MIFF shorts Awards in 2007); Look Sharp, directed by Amy
Gebhardt (winner of Best Student Production at the MIFF shorts Awards in
2006); In My Day, directed by Dave Jones (won Best Animation in 2005);
Melbourne production The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Megan
Spencer’s Lovestruck: Wrestling’s No.1 Fan.

The MIFF movies are available to download and view from BigPond Movie
Downloads. BigPond Movies is the country's first online movie download
service with a wide library of feature films, including new releases and
even classic TV series, plus high-quality movie trailers streamed on the
site.

For further information, visit  http://downloads.bigpondmovies.com  and
search on “Melbourne International Film Festival”

:::OPPORTUNITIES

12::ALL STATES – CANBERRA GLASSWORKS PUBLIC ART TOWER

Expressions of Interest (EOI) are invited from artists to design a public
art tower of glass and light for Canberra’s world-class glass art centre. 
Artists need only provide information on their previous experience to be
considered for short-listing in the first part of this tender process (see
information box below).

The Canberra Glassworks is located in the historic Kingston Powerhouse
building and the new arts facility was opened in May 2007.  It has access
facilities for glass artists, exhibition spaces, artist’s studios, a café
and a retail area.  The public artwork for the Canberra Glassworks will
interpret the former Powerhouse smokestack up to the height of the
historic smokestack.

Artists short-listed in the EOI process will be paid $3,300 GST inclusive
to provide a written response to the selection criteria and to prepare
concepts for presentation to the Evaluation Team.


TENDERS CLOSE: Tuesday 17 June, 2pm

Project officer: Rita Brokans Ph: (02) 6207 5578
Technical Officer: Libby Gordon (artsACT) Ph: (02) 6207 2180

Further information available at http://www.arts.act.gov.au/pages/page111.asp



13::ALL STATES – ENHANCE TV ATOM AWARDS

Established in 1982, the ATOM Awards have awarded excellence in over
thirty categories of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia for over
25 years. Since 2007, the ATOM Awards have been partnered by EnhanceTV.
The 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards are open to students, production companies,
independent filmmakers, educational bodies and educational producers, and
celebrate the very best of Australian and New Zealand product.

The EnhanceTV ATOM Awards are at the forefront of the development of
Australian screen culture, with particular emphasis on documentary, new
media, short film and educational/vocational productions. Schools are
encouraged to enter projects and showcase the skills and talents of their
students. Producers are encouraged to enter the awards to gain high
profile exposure for their projects; for both it is an opportunity to
further media-making careers through networking and relationship building
with like-minded practitioners at the Awards ceremony.

This is a unique opportunity for student work to be seen by an industry
audience.

Entries close:   Tuesday 10 June, 12pm

Download and entry form today from www.atomawards.org


14::ALL STATES – GAME ON – CONCEPT ART COMPETITION

This is an invitation to all game enthusiasts to visualise and present a
game world landscape in the medium of your choice. Entries are to be
uploaded and will be critiqued by a panel of judges, at the end of which a
finalist will be announced and a prize given on Wednesday August 6.

The competition will close on June 25.
Visit  www.60sox.org.au to sign up and enter now!

15::ALL STATES & INTERNATIONAL – FLIKERFEST 2009 SUBMISSIONS

Flickerfest, Australia’s premiere international and national short film
competition is currently calling for entries. The Flickerfest 
international competition is open to any  production available for 
screening on 35mm. Betacam is also acceptable for the Australian and
Documentary Competitions. All films must be under 30 minutes and must have
 been completed within 2 years of the closing date.  Films must be in
English or have English subtitles. Due to the competitive  nature of the
Festival, we favour Sydney premieres  and films that have not been
broadcast in Australia. Flickerfest is an Academy® accredited festival.

When: 9 -18 January 2009
Where: Bondi Pavilion Queen Elizabeth Drive Bondi Beach 2026 NSW
T: +61293656877
E: coordinator@flickerfest.com.au

Entry Deadlines:
Australia 29 August 2008
International 12 September 2008

Entry forms are downloadable at www.flickerfest.com.au

16::ALL STATES & INTERNATIONAL– ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS

The acclaimed biennial Adelaide Film Festival is one of the youngest but
most dynamic and innovative film festivals in the world, with a program
including special events, live performance and the premiere of films
commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.

The Adelaide Film Festival 2009 is calling for submissions of feature
films, documentaries and shorts made in Australia and internationally,
completed after February 2007. All genres of contemporary screen culture
are welcome including drama, documentary, experimental, new media, and
animation.

Submission deadline: 17 October.

http://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org

17::MELBOURNE - MOTION GRAPHICS WITH FINAL CUT STUDIO

Orientate yourself within the special effects department of Final Cut
Studio 2: the software’s most intuitive program. Cross the bridge between
editing and creating the moving image, in short: 2D and 3D animation.
Guided by an experience editor, you will be put through your paces with
practical exercises that will have you filtering and animating objects in
real-time, compositing 3D images and applying behaviours for a rapid,
fluid approach to animation. Take advantage of full keyframe curve editing
for fine-grained precision. Or mix and match to get just the effect you
want.

A maximum of four participants ensures one-to-one tutoring and allows
students to work at their own pace.

Pre-requisites: Final Cut Pro Introduction or equivalent.  Basic editing
skills and/or experience necessary.

When: June 13, 14, 15
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm Fri, 10:00am - 5:30pm Sat & Sun
Cost: $678 full / $565 OC members
Bookings: 03 8610 9300 / shortcourses@openchannel.org.au

http://www.openchannel.org.au

18::MELBOURNE – MEET THE FILM INDUSTRY MIXER

Filmmakers – the people behind Victoria ’s vibrant games industry want to
meet you! Framework is a series of events aimed at bringing the local
games and film industry together to develop strategies for sustainability
and growth.

At the mixer, you will get an introduction to the key players in the
Victorian games industry and hear them talk about the sort of film
industry partnerships
they are looking for. You will also hear Shilo McClean - games/film
industry analyst – talk about her perspective on the convergence of
cultures. The ensuing conversation will give the games people an insight
into the creative processes developed by film producers and the film
people a better understanding of games and their impact on modern culture

Free – refreshments provided
Date : Wednesday, 4 June
Time: 17:30 – 19:00
Venue: FIX Docklands, 439 Docklands Drive , Waterfront City , Melbourne

If you would like to attend the first mixer, please RSVP to
lana.schwarcz@aftrs.edu.au


:::INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

19::AUCKLAND – MIRROR STATES

Both art and technology act as mirrors that reflect our selves and our
relationship to the world. Both also create “quasi-others” – entities
which we endow with subjectivity through the projection of ourselves.
Mirror States draws together art and technology, combining these two
powerful systems of reflection and projection. The exhibition presents
digital and interactive artworks that offer arresting glimpses of the self
and intriguing interactions with digital others. Computer technologies
allow artworks to ‘come to life’, demonstrating life-like behaviours and
sophisticated modes of audience interaction. In these encounters with
digital others the audience enters into a new participatory relationship
with the artwork. These can be magical moments or uncanny and disturbing
confrontations depending on the style and mode of the interaction.

The exhibition brings together some of the leading artists working in
digital media in Australia and New Zealand and demonstrates the strength
and diversity of contemporary digital art practice in Australasia

Venue: MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland, New Zealand
Exhibition dates: until 28 June
http://mic.org.nz/events/exhibitions/present/mirror-states/

Mirror States will also be exhibited at the Campbelltown Art Centre,
Sydney, Australia from18 July—24 August.
www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

20::LONDON – FRIEDRICH KITTLE AND TECHNOCULTURE AT THE TATE

Friedrich Kittler has been hailed as the 'Derrida of the digital age' and
his work is indispensable to anyone thinking about technoculture. This
landmark event brings one of today's foremost philosophers of media to
Tate Modern for an unmissable opportunity to examine the relationship
between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and
practitioners. For anyone interested in our complex interactions with the
technologies that surround us this event is essential, while for those
unfamiliar with Kittler it presents an opportunity to discover the work of
the leading figure in the flourishing area of German media theory.

Media Matters is a two-day series of events that comprises:
A keynote lecture and performance by Friedrich Kittler with Joulia Strauss
and Martin Carle: 'Preparing the Arrival of the Gods'.

A symposium featuring leading thinkers in the fields of cultural theory,
film and the arts including Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor and Alex
Galloway. Plus a Q+A with Friedrich Kittler and Anthony Moore.

'Gramophones, Films, Typewriters': audio, video and text works by ten
international artists Curated by Seth Kim-Cohen.

Event dates:
Friday 27 June, 18.30-21.00
Saturday 28 June 10.30-17.45 and 19.00-20.45

Venue: Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Tickets are also available for the individual events.
For tickets book online at
:http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/14733.htm
or call 020 7887 8888.

21::NY- NEW SILENT SERIES

Organized by Lauren Cornell, Director of Rhizome. The New Silent Series
will present contemporary art engaged with new technology. The series will
include screenings and performances, as well as a critical conversational
strand that will bring together leading scholars, artists, critics, and
public figures to illuminate the complex interactions between technology,
culture, and creative practice. The series will present artists working at
the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those
responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new
tools and media.

The New Silent Series takes place every second Friday of the month. Visit
www.rhizome.org/events for audio/video documentation and a list of
previous events.

Venue: New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
www.newmuseum.org

:::INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

22::VIENNA – PARAFLOWS 08 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

paraflows 08 - festival for digital arts and cultures.

In 2008, Paraflows 08 Utopia will try to develop linguistic roots which
corresponds with last year’s exhibitions topic UN_SPACE – which dealt with
non-space and impossible spaces – this year we will again strive to
provide a multi-layered examination involving the overwhelming
architectonic and historical reality of the venue – the MAK
Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark.

In the context of the topic UTOPIA, we want to gather concepts of a
possible future, draw perspectives, dreams and prognoses, to take a
prognostic look at the future.

Further information can be found on www.paraflows.at

Please submit proposals featuring contemporary artworks dealing with the
topics mentioned above.

Pls send PDF-files via e-mail to utopia(at)paraflows.at
or post mail to:
paraflows
c/o monochrom, quartier 21, MQ
Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Vienna, AUSTRIA

23::GERMANY – VIDEOCHANNEL – CALL FOR ENTRIES

Videochannel is glad to launch a new videoart project, entitled "MOTHER"
and invites video and film creators to participate and contribute.

"Mother" as a theme, refers in first place to everybody's mother or
grandmother and their meaning to the creator. Every human being is a child
of a mother, without the mother there is no family, no tribe, no people,
no society, no social future. But mother can be interpreted also in
different ways, the language uses "mother" in electronics for instance in
"motherboard" or in a figurative sense as the roots or basics of being.

VideoChannel always tries to bring a very personal note into the otherwise
anonymous online environment.

Like all VideoChannel projects, "Mother"  is planned to be presented
online as well as in physical space via screenings after its launch in
October/November 2008.

The regulations and the entry form can be found at
www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=292
Deadline: 1 September

For more info see: http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

24::CANADA - WHO WILL GIVE UP THEIR DISTINCTIONS? CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society would like to invite Canadian
independent media artists to submit proposals for an exhibition on the
theme “Who will give up their distinctions?” Expanded cinema, new-media
and experimental works will be given preference and Cineworks will fully
support the exhibition of the chosen work[s] in our studio space for
showing during the first part of September 2008.

I am black, white, yellow, red, brown. I am man, woman; young, old. But we
are human, simply. How are common distinctions around identity a fruitful
creative medium? Is it even ever possible to transcend difference and, if
so, why bother? Think about imperatives to declare yourself and the
ensuing confusion, but don’t forget how your declarations are received. Is
this an age where hybrid identities are usurped by privileged aesthetics?
How do hybridity and authenticity intersect? Explore the possibility to
simultaneously embrace and transcend our distinctions by asking how much
is enough.

Deadline: 16 June

For submission information go to: www.cineworks.ca/2008/06/16/
Submissions can be sent by post only to the following address:

Who Will Give Up Their Distinctions?
c/o Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
#300-1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

::ONLINE

25::TANK .TV
Founded by Tank magazine in 2003, the online gallery tank.tv is an
inspirational showcase for innovative work in film and video. Dedicated to
exhibiting and promoting emerging and established international artists,
www.tank.tv acts as a major online gallery - a platform and archive for
contemporary moving images.

tank.tv curates eight shows a year, often in collaboration with major art
institutions. tank.tv organises screenings and events exploring innovative
contexts in which to exhibit moving images. tank.tv is happy to consider
unsolicited submissions.

www.tank.tv

26::MELBOURNE BASED ARTS COLLABORATION SITE

Melbourne Creative is designed to foster cross disciplinary collaboration
on creative projects. By joining up, creating a homepage with your examples
of your work and then joining the group that corresponds with your practice,
you are allowing others an effective way to seek out potential
collaborations. The site also features events, chat and a forum for work,
call outs, reviews and ideas.

Free. All welcome.

www.creativehub.ning.com
e: kit.webster@gmail.com
w: http://www.kitwebster.com.au

27::SYNAPSE ELIST JUNE  - COGNITION AND AI

The topic under discussion this month is Thinking Inside the Box:
Cognition and Artificial Intelligence. Throughout June the Synapse elist
will discuss cognition and artificial intelligence and, specifically,
artistic engagement with these research arenas.

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is investigating the
leading-edge of art and science research collaboration throughout 2008.

As well as surveying contemporary projects, the discussion will concern
itself with some of the underpinning issues raised by the research and
practice of these fields - one of which would have to be the apparent
irony in bringing these two meta-disciplines together - with one,
artificial intelligence (AI), on a head-long endeavour to replicate human
intelligence, and the other, cognitive science, still strides away from
understanding how we think and when and why.

Discussion guests:
DANIEL BISIG was born in 1968 in Zürich, Switzerland. He holds a
Master's degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Protein
Crystallography, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
In 2001 he joined the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the
University of Zurich as a senior researcher.
http://www.bitingbit.org

GORDANA DODIG-CRNKOVIC is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. She holds
PhD degrees in Physics and in Computer Science and her current
research interests are in Computing and Philosophy. She is particularly
interested in the process of knowledge generation and the production of
meaning. http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/gdc/

PHILIPPE PASQUIER is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver, Canada. He holds a PhD in the field of artificial
intelligence from Laval University, Québec.
http://www.sfu.ca/pasquier/

REVA STONE is a Canadian artist who creates computer-assisted
installations engaging with a variety of digital technologies. She is
interested in the drive to model, simulate, engineer and manipulate
biological life, which has led her to situate her work at the
increasingly blurred boundary between what is born and manufactured,
what is animate and inanimate.
http://www.revastone.ca

TATSUO UNEMI was born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1956. He has researched AI and
A-Life since 1980 and holds a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of
Technology, where he later worked as a research assistant.
http://www.intlab.soka.ac.jp/~unemi/

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Liz Hughes - Artistic Director
Emma McRae – Curatorial and Project Coordinator
Maria Rizzo - Communications and Sponsorship
Kentia Boyle – Administration

Experimenta gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council,
the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, the Australian
Film Commission, Film Victoria, Arts Victoria, The City of Melbourne, and
the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State
and Territory governments.
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