Future everything

FutureEverything commissions new artworks and presents exhibitions on society, technology, environment and the city, with a focus on artworks that are participatory, sited in public space, and in an urban context.

Each year the festival also features a special focus on an annual theme. In 2010 the annual theme is The City Experiment - Doing It Together.

Sub-themes include

The City Experiment The ways people can experiment in remaking the city.

iPhone and the Derive Art in the age of the iPhone and Android.

Adaptive Cities Cities are not static but fluid and alive.

Data Visualisation Interpreting complexity.

Rapid Prototyping Launching the UK's first FabLab.

Sub-themes include:

The City Experiment The ways people can experiment in remaking the city.

iPhone and the Derive Art in the age of the iPhone and Android.

Adaptive Cities Cities are not static but fluid and alive.

Data Visualisation Interpreting complexity.

Rapid Prototyping Launching the UK's first FabLab.

Read a statement on the festival themes here.

FutureEverything now invites submissions of artworks, social interventions or digital culture innovations for inclusion in the FutureEverything 2010 Art Programme.

Más futuro por aquí.

"Sonic Outlaws" (1995); Craig Baldwin

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Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music.

Craig "Tribulation 99" Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape.

"Gleefully Anarchic!" - Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Baldwin conceptualizes history as a lurid exploitation flick" - J. Hoberman, Village Voice

"Our sense of the shape of creativity and of originality must always be in question if we are to flourish. Sonic Outlaws does precisely that." - Chris Chang, Film Comment

Para verlo completo, ir a Ubu.

Get lost; Artist map downtown New York

GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary. The maps were collected in a fanzine publication that was distributed for free at galleries, not-for-profit institutions and other sites that animate the life of downtown New York.

GET LOST brings together fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future.

An exercise in emotional geography, GET LOST sketches the coordinates for an endless drift across the streets and myths of downtown New York.

GET LOST is the city as seen through the eyes of: 16beaver group; Francis Alÿs; Cory Arcangel; Jennifer Bornstein; Beth Campbell; Marcel Dzama; Isa Genzken; Inaba and Associates; Dorothy Iannone; Chris Johanson; Christopher Knowles; Terence Koh; Julie Mehretu; Jonas Mekas; Aleksandra Mir; Thurston Moore; Dave Muller; William Pope.L; Lordy Rodriguez; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Lawrence Weiner.

GET LOST is a New Museum production, edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions. To view copies, visit the New Museum Resource Center. To purchase, visit the New Museum Store.

Beginning Wednesday, June 6, 2007, free copies of GET LOST were made available to the public at the following markers of the downtown scene and cultural organizations around the city: Opening Ceremony (35 Howard Street), Babeland (43 Mercer Street), Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery), The Bowery Hotel (340 Bowery), Congee Village (100 Allen Street), Lost City Arts (18 Cooper Square), Freemans Restaurant (Freeman Alley at Rivington Street), Two Boots (155 East 3rd Street), Patricia Field (302 Bowery), Screaming Mimi's (382 Lafayette Street), Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street), Artist's Space (38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor), The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street), Sculpture Center (44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City), The Rotunda Gallery (33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn), Bronx Museum (1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street, Bronx), and the Bedford Cheese Shop (229 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn). GET LOST was also distributed at the galleries of participating artists.

Para verlo completo, en Get Lost.

Dream of art spaces collected

En el evento genial que estuvimos invitados a participar BarraDiagonal unos días atrás, MODIFI, pudimos conocer entre otros muchos proyectos interesantes, la iniciativa Dreams of Art Spaces Collected. Desde la página de Dorothee Albrecht (una de las componentes del proyecto), una pequeña reseña:

Dreams of Art Spaces Collected investigates visions and experiences in exhibiting and mediating contemporary art starting with Europe, China and Australia, collecting various perspectives from artists, non profit project spaces and artist run initiatives. The research is based on extensive video interviews with practitioners, artists, art curators and theorists. It’s an open collection of video interviews, but also of images, publications and links.

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Un poco más desde la página del propio proyecto:

DREAMS OF ART SPACES COLLECTED emerged as an artistic research project by the artists Dorothee Albrecht, Alf Löhr, Andreas Schmid and Moira Zoitl for the Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK), Berlin in 2007.

Their decision to focus on a collection of video-interviews naturally led towards an extension of already existing networks and experiences, starting from Australia, as Alf Löhr was based in Melbourne at that time, starting from China, as Andreas Schmid has been concerned with Chinese contemporary art since he studied in Hangzhou during the mid-80s, and starting from Europe, but more from the margins of Europe, along the interests of Moira Zoitl and Dorothee Albrecht. This parallel beginning seems very important in highlighting the networking character of the collection starting from different nodal points around the globe. It is conceived as a setout open to affiliation with other networks; an opportunity for the emergence of new networks between artists in different parts of the world.

Investigating visions and experiences in exhibiting and mediating contemporary art, the artists collected various perspectives of artists, curators and theorists with the emphasis on non-profit project spaces and artist run initiatives.

To initiate a conversation we used the following questions:

If you imagine the art space of your dreams. What’s it like? What is it supposed to do? How would you evaluate existing setups? What are the focus and the strategy of your space? What kind of audiences is your space trying to attract?

Seguir leyendo.

Para ver las entrevistas, aquí.

MY MAP IS NOT YOUR MAP / seminario en Arteleku

“!Mi mapa no es tu mapa!”

La frase “¡mi mapa no es tu mapa!” puede ser pronunciada principalmente de dos modos: con un tono de estrañeza, por ejemplo en el marco de una visita turística, al comprobar que el mismo espacio no está organizado del mismo modo en el mapa de quien nos acompaña. En este momento la siguiente reacción podría ser del tipo “¿Cuál es el mapa correcto, nos habremos perdido?”.

El segundo tono que podríamos utilizar para pronunciar “¡mi mapa no es tu mapa!” sería más severo o agresivo, una reafirmación que reclama una visión del espacio que otros no comparten, por ejemplo, en el contexto de los territorios palestino-israelí.

Introducción general al seminario

Estas disciplinas no se centran en el desarrollo de precisas tecnologías de posicionamiento y mapeado, sino en transformar el sentido y el contexto de ese posicionamiento. Se preocupan por describir el espacio físico no sólo mediante geografías objetivas sino también relativas, partiendo de la concepción de que un lugar nunca llega a ser ni puramente cartesiano ni puramente psicogeográfico.

Los artistas e investigadores de este seminario destapan estas desorientaciones sociogeográficas para inventar y jugar con nuevas cartografías e interfaces de localización. Son tecnologías y tácticas que recuperan el sentido de navegación como búsqueda trascendente y que transforman nuestra percepción del territorio, redibujando el mapa que lo describe con las huellas sociales ignoradas por las fotografías de satélite.

Atendiendo a este panorama de conflicto en la representación del territorio con nuevos medios, el seminario centrará el debate en estas cuestiones específicas:

· Estrategias, herramientas y ejemplos de remapeado subsersivo.

· Evidenciando, explotando o conciliando discrepancias en el mapeado colaborativo de Internet.

· Alterando la percepción del entorno físico: tácticas e interfaces híbridas.

Una cita ineludible para los interesados en las estratégias desde la cartografía con conferencias y talleres en este seminario.

Toda la info en Arteleku.

Conflux festival

The Conflux Festival is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography. It is a three-day event that promotes the intellectual and artistic investigation of everyday urban life though emerging artistic, technological and social practices. Over the past five years, the festival has grown into an international art event with a global reach and a reputation for presenting cutting-edge artistic work within the realm of public-space arts.

For a few days each September, Conflux transforms the city into a temporary laboratory for creative experimentation and action. Past Conflux works and events have included mapping projects, high-tech mobile public space interventions, artist-facilitated walking tours, public installations, interactive performances, bike and subway expeditions, workshops, lectures, film programs and live music performances.

Conflux is attended by people with a common desire to understand, explore, celebrate, and improve the urban environment. Conflux visitors are introduced to strategies for utilizing performance, visual art, and music to address the environment, sustainable development, the increased presence of technology in cities, emerging trends in social/local networking, and ways to encourage community dialogue and humanize the urban experience.

Para saber más sobre Conflux festival.