Here it is an interview we had with Michael Kargl & Franz Thalmair from CONT3XT.NET

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“Virtual Suicide as Decisive Political Act”,  from _Activist Media and Biopolitics_ conference, University of Innsbruck, Nov 2010.
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3 Feb, 14:00 – 16:00

Open Zone, Response:Activities – Workstation

The jury selected seven submissions in their search for innovative, original and visionary art works and projects that address, question and artistically contribute to the technological society. These nominated works  reflect upon the contemporary  relation to, and understanding of the human, in a dynamic, complex and mediated environment, where collaborative practice increasingly becomes a central model.

Wikipedia Art Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern (us)	MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL – Kritik der politschen Ökonomie Christin Lahr (de)
Seppukoo.com Les Liens Invisibles (it)	Serendipitor Mark Shepard (us)
Intelligent Bacteria – Saccharomyces cerevisiae HONF – The House Of Natural Fiber (id)	Spatial Sound Sculpture Christopher Warnow, Daniel Franke (de)
Newton Ho Tzu-Nyen (sg)

For more info > www.transmediale.de/en/awards2011

The text, that you can read here, includes many references to our recent works. Hope you’ll enjoy it.

Una discussione tra artisti e teorici che hanno riflettuto sull’evoluzione/rivoluzione di internet nel web 2.0, o che si sono serviti della rete come spunto o mezzo per la realizzazione delle loro opere. Questo si propone il convegno Arte 2.0, organizzato a Genova dal Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce. Un focus su un fenomeno che ha cambiato radicalmente il mondo virtuale, consentendo il passaggio da un modello statico di relazione col web ad uno dinamico, rendendo la rete modificabile dall’utente in un rapporto interattivo. A parlarne arrivano dunque Raffaele Mastrolonardo di Totem, il critico d’arte ed esperto di new media Domenico Quaranta, e gli artisti Useless idea, Drop drop, Les liens invisibles e Alterazioni Video.

Mercoledì 17 giugno 2009 – ore 10.00
Via Jacopo Ruffini 3 - Genova
Info: 010585772 – museocroce@comune.genova.it
Web: www.arteduepuntozero.blogspot.com

This year’s edition of the festival focus on the theme “FOR GOD’S SAKE! How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity”, suggested by the Italian art critic, teacher and curator Domenico Quaranta. In his words, “contemporary artistic projects have often raised such issues as technological fetishism, the oracular nature of the internet, the fideistic attitude we have towards the media and the evangelizing bent of those who produce them. This art often takes a critical approach, but also looks for an authentic vehicle of spirituality in the media. Taking this as its theme, Pixxelpoint 2008 addresses saints and heretics alike, showing projects which explore the relationship between media and spirituality at a key point in human history, a time of civilization clashes and neocon upsurges, apocalyptic nightmares and hopes for a new enlightenment.”

Among the works, distributed between the two spaces of Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica and Galerija Tir in Mostovna, the ones selected through the international call for artists are presented together with the ones proposed by internationally renown artists invited to take part in the exhibition. As in the previous editions, the festival program involves panels, workshops, musical events and the screening of a movie. The events will take place on both the sides of the border between Italy and Slovenia: together with Mostovna, Associazione Lucide and Dams – Università di Udine, located in Gorizia, have been involved. They will produce Pixxelmusic, a parallel festival that will run from December 10 to 12, 2008.

THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition, distributed between Nova Gorica and Mostovna, is the result of a difficult process of selection of the more than 110 applications arrived this year; a selection that should take into account not just the quality of the proposals, but also their ability to embody the suggested theme in a different way, and to integrate effectively the projects shown by the invited artists. The exhibition consists of 30 works by 30 different artists. Among them, etoy’s Mission Eternity project, described as a “digital cult of the dead”; the network of meditating computers set up by the German artists Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger; the Empathy Box by the Italian collective Io/cose, which helps building a spiritual community based on the sharing of pain; the anti-institutional, new media rituality suggested by Otherehto; Martin Conrads and Ingo Gerken’s conceptual work, an interrogation on the ritual use of communication technologies; and then Gazira Babeli and Patrick Lichty’s video-installation 7UP, a research on the meaning of an avatar life, and Janez Janša’s remake of Koyaanisqatsi, which uses Google Earth as a source. The video screening, situated in the Galerija Tir in Mostovna, collects all the videos on show at the festival, putting together some brand new works with recent “classics” such as Negativland’s The Mashin’ of the Christ (2004) and Eddo Stern’s Deathstar (2004) , an exploration of the relationship between religion and violence.

Below, the complete list of all the participating artists:

ALTERAZIONI VIDEO (Italy); GAZIRA BABELI & PATRICK LICHTY (Italy / USA); BridA / JURIJ PAVLICA, TOM KERŠEVAN, SENDI MANGO (Slovenia); MARTIN BUTLER (Netherlands); MARTIN CONRADS & INGO GERKEN (Germany); BRYANT DAMERON (USA); ETOY (Switzerland / International); UTE HÖRNER & MATHIAS ANTLFINGER (Germany); IO/COSE (Italia); JANEZ JANŠA (Slovenia); JAŠA (Slovenia); MARKUS KISON (Germany); CLEMENS KOGLER & KARO SZMIT (Austria); OLIVER LARIC (Germany); LES LIENS INVISIBLES (Italy); KEVIN LOGAN (USA); MANU LUKSCH (UK); MOLLEINDUSTRIA (Italy); PETROS MORIS (Italy); NEGATIVLAND (USA); OTHEREHTO (Cyberspace); PASH (Germany); CRISTIANO POIAN & PAOLO TONON (Italy); SECOND FRONT (Second Life / International); DANA SEDEROWSKY (Sweden); GULI SILBERSTEIN (Israel); ALAN SONDHEIM (USA); EDDO STERN (USA).

PIXXELMUSIC

On December 10, 2008, at 6.30 PM Pixxelmusic, a related festival, will open in the restaurant “Al Falegname” in Gorizia, Italy. The festival will run until December 12, and includes many different events. Pixxeldinner, a dinner / panel (coordinated by Marco Mancuso, director of the editorial project Digicult) that will take place after the opening mixing pleasure, conviviality and culture, will involve the following speakers: Claudio Sinatti, filmaker, vj and video artist; Antonio Riello, artist and teacher; Peter Mlakar, head of the Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy of the NSK; Jurij Krpan, director and curator of the Galerija Kapelica in Ljubliana; and Claudia D’Alonzo, indipendent curator. Pixxellab (December 11), a vj session with the Dutch artist EBOMAN and the Italian duo Mylicon/EN, and Pixxelnite (December 12), with the group Useless Wooden Toys, will close the festival.

PROGRAM

December 5th 2008

8 p.m. Opening of Pixxelpoint – 9th International New Media Art Festival

Mestna galerija Nova Gorica (City Gallery)

December 6th 2008

6 p.m. Workshop with members of art group Etoy

Mestna galerija Nova Gorica (City Gallery)

9 p.m. Electro Music Night

DJ set Roli, Gogo, Krle

Mostovna

Entrance fee: 3 EUR

December 9th 2008

6 p.m. eXistenZ, D. Cronenberg (Canada, UK, 1999)

Kinemax, Hall 2 (P.zza Vittoria 41), Gorizia

In collaboration with organization “La Farfalla sul mirino”.

Film will be screened in Italian language. Free entrance.

December 10th 2008

6.30 p.m. Opening of Pixxelmusic08

Restaurant Al Falegname (Via Maniacco 2), Gorizia

7.30 p.m. Pixxeldinner

Restaurant Al Falegname (Via Maniacco 2), Gorizia

Participation confirmation needed. Contact pixxeldinner@yahoo.it.

December 11th 2008

3 p.m. Workshop with art group Mylicon/EN

Palazzo del Cinema, Dams Cinema, Red Hall

(P.zza Vittoria 41), Gorica

In collaboration with Universita di Udine, DAMS Gorizia.

9 p.m. Pixxellab

Participating: Mylicon/EN, EBOMAN

Performances

Auditorium della Cultura Friulana (via Roma 5), Gorizia

December 12th 2008

10 p.m. Pixxelnite

Mostovna

End of the festival

MORE INFOS:

www.pixxelpoint.org

www.pixxelmusic.com

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