Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement. This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most important American artists of his generation

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"Illuminated" - Motion Capture Dance Animation created by Kevin Abbott at Western Michigan University:
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SITE Santa Fe Interview with director Laura Heon. Part 2/2. Lucky Number Seven is SITE Santa Fe’s seventh international biennial, curated by Lance M. Fung. In this episode we also have a look at the work of the artists Wael Shawky, Fabien Giraud, Raphael Siboni, Studio Azzurro, Soun Hong, Scott Lyall, and Piero Golia. More info.

Exhibition walkthrough of Lucky Number Seven, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial, and interview with SITE Santa Fe's director Laura Heon. Part 1/2.

Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement. This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most important American artists of his generation. The installations, films, photographs, and drawings on view focus on a central element of McCarthy's practice: the way the body is destabilized through dislocations of architectural space. The disorientation that threads though all of the works shown here is at once formal, corporeal, and psychological. The screens, projectors, and rotating cameras of Spinning Room place the viewer at the center of hypnotic environment whereas the moving walls and doors of Bang Bang Room collapse our notion of stable architectural space. In Madhouse the walls and chair spinning at varying speeds conjure a similar state of physical and mental disorientation.

Omer Fast, winner of the 2008 Bucksbaum Award, discusses his 2008 Whitney Biennial work, "The Casting" (2007), a four-channel video featuring a young American army sergeant who recounts two stories--which seem to be his own anguished memories--one about dating a woman while stationed in Germany, and the other of accidentally killing a civilian in Iraq.

"When the power of love, overcomes the love of power, the world will know the peace." This prophecy by rock legend Jimi Hendrix could be the foreword to a manifesto on the use of music in the propagation of nationalism, but instead it's a point of inspiration for "The Sonic Self," an exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum. Open through August 30, the show brings together a range of "participating artists from around the world with the main goal that their collaborative projects will bridge disparate audio-visual practices and expose their shared languages." In keeping with recent curatorial trends, "The Sonic Self" is part-exhibition and part-workshop, aiming to explore the relationship between sound and identity through installations, audio/visual performances, and participatory events in which collaborators work to innovate new devices for the creation of auditory autobiographies. While the relationship at stake seems most universally to be about "being heard," the selected artists are working with material ranging from live performances to field recordings to computer-generated sound to DJ samples. In the spirit of tracing "similarities and differences in the growing confluence of audio and visual experiences in contemporary complex and diverse global culture," the project will travel to St. Petersberg, Russia, and Chennai, India, following its New York debut. - Marisa Olson

Video: Philip Dadson and Don McGlashan in From Scratch's performance of "Drum/Sing."

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Despite its title, P.S.1's current survey of Finnish art Arctic Hysteria leans towards the cool and calculated, with moments of dotty humor. In keeping with a culture known for both outdoor saunas and Linus Torvalds, much of the work deals with nature, technology or both; the two themes come together with another Finnish national icon in Tea Mäkipää's video My Life as a Reindeer, created from antler-mounted footage obtained in a manner reminiscent of Sam Easterson. Even more heroically silly are two pieces by electronic music and media art pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi, resurrected in conjunction with a documentary on the artist: Master Chaynjis, a meandering mechanical head billed as a "swearing robot," and DIMI-S, a.k.a. the Sexophone, an early electronic instrument that generates sounds through interpersonal body contact. Another historic visionary revived in this largely contemporary show is architect Matti Suuronen, whose UFO-style Futuro House provides the inspiration for a site-specific "Futuro Lounge," which serves as an unfortunately impractical screening pod and reading room. Elsewhere, the exhibit is video-heavy, with two notable standouts. Dancer Reijo Kela provides a very rare object -- a dance video that doesn't suck -- with 365 Days-Reijo Kela's Video Diary of 1999, in which the artist propels himself by various, often comical means from one side of the frame to another: skiing, skipping, crawling, running nude. Audio-visual band Pink Twins present four of their neo-image-processing videos in one room, creating an overwhelming environment of digital rainbow cascades, melting satellite maps, and looping explosions. Atypical of the rest of Arctic Hysteria's relatively detached sensibility, Markus Copper's Kursk feels like walking into the set of a truly scary horror film: a room stuffed with sporadically clanking, mechanized black deep-sea diving suits, it elicits claustrophobic unease and a far more directly emotional response than the rest of this otherwise fore-brainy selection. - Ed Halter

Image: Huutajat, The Screaming Men, 2003 (Still image from video, 76 min., Directed by Mika Ronkainen) Courtesy the artist Photo by Matthew Septimus.

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We had the first Eyewash at DNA and this video presents highlights of the evening collaborations among real-time of dance, video and sound artists Artists featured: featured video artists include: CHiKA + Bubblyfish - VJ Nokami - Chaometric - Vanessa Velasquez + Pascal Rekoert/Flexicurve - VisualHornHonking + Rebekah Kennedy/Urban Wash Dance Music by DJ ActivePhaze

We had the first Eyewash at DNA and this video presents highlights of the evening collaborations in realtime of dance, video and sound. Artists featured: featured video artists include: CHiKA + Bubblyfish - VJ Nokami - Chaometric - Vanessa Velasquez + Pascal Rekoert/Flexicurve - VisualHornHonking + Rebekah Kennedy/Urban Wash Dance Music by DJ ActivePhaze

Cinedans 2008 http://www.cinedans.nl "Dance for All" Program: Amsterdam, Rialto, 3 juli, 19.30h & 5 juli, ...
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Cinedans 2008 http://www.cinedans.nl

Garden of Earthly Delight Program: Amsterdam, Rialto, 5 juli, 16.30 uur etc.

Made by Josselin Carré
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deadline: September 5, 2008 Award Competition - Call for Entries transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH festival for art and digital culture berlin 27 January - 1 February 2009 club transmediale.09 - STRUCTURES festival for adventurous music and related visual arts 23 - 31 January 2009 _Call for Entries_ :: Deadline: 5 September 2008 :: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009 Find the complete call and submission form for [...]

Deadline: October 1, 2008 Call for proposals for video art programs and media-arts exhibitions Espace Videographe - Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.vidographe.qc.ca Espace Videographe, the programming division of Videographe, invites artists, curators, art centres and galleries to submit proposals for video art programs and media-arts exhibitions. Every year Espace Videographe presents seven activities in different venues, and in partnership with other [...]

deadline: August 15, 2008 **Piksel08: code dreams Festival for Free / Libre & Open Source Audiovisual Software, Hardware & Art December 4-7 2008 - Bergen, Norway http://piksel.no How does code dream? What are the dreams of code? Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software [...]

deadline: Friday 4 July 2008 Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand Starting October 2008 http://www.artspace.org.nz ARTSPACE leads Auckland’s contemporary art scene, presenting cutting edge work from New Zealand and international artists. We present approximately eight exhibitions a year, with additional space and contacts to support performances, screenings and lectures. Over our 21-year history, six different directors have led ARTSPACE. We are [...]

MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS CALL FOR PROJECTS - installations, performances, presentations November 24-30, 2008 - Poitiers, France http://makeart.goto10.org/call Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The third edition of make art - OpenOS - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of [...]

New work by Eyebeam commissioned artists Taeyoon Choi and Joseph DeLappe June 21 - July 19, 2008 Exhibition opening June 21, 6PM 540 W. 21st St. Taeyoon Choi will present a new work Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck that travels around New York City, shooting and printing pictures of tourists. Along with the ducks, there will be digital prints, drawings, and video documentation of interventions in public spaces. Joseph DeLappe will present documentation, artifacts and new works derived from his 240 mile walk on a treadmill and in cyberspace, The Salt Satyagraha Online— Gandhi's Salt March in Second Life, including large format prints, stop-action animations, video and a large scale cardboard replica created from the 3D model of his online avatar, Mgandhi Chakrabarti. Videographer: Jason Jones

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The Upgrade! partners with the 2008 World Science Festival. Dr. Steven Kurtz, the artist accused by the US Department of Justice of "bioterrorism" stemming from his use of scientific materials in his award-winning art practice, and science writer Carl Zimmer for a panel discussion on the ethics of scientific and creative research and freedom of speech. This month's Upgrade! New York is a collaboration between Eyebeam and the World Science Festival, with additional support from the Berkeley Center for New Media. Videography: Jason Jones.

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Keywords: science technology bioterrorism biology art
Added: June 26, 2008

In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site (there are actually several buildings on the property in addition to the Glass House), shot over a couple picture perfect spring days.

Bringing together 24 street artists from all over the world, Electric Windows is a semi-permanent installation of large-scale work exhibited on the exterior windows of a 19th century blanket factory in Beacon, NY. We traveled to the small town earlier this year to meet some of the artists and watch them make "urban art" in a not-so-urban setting. We also interview one of the organizers, Daniel Weise, a vet of the NYC street artist scene who recently moved to Beacon and co-founded Beacon's Open Space gallery there.

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Added: July 17, 2008

For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/homedelivery Installation footage for Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans, June 9-July 11, 2008, as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Music courtesy of Lineland and Audio Dregs Recordings. More information at: http://www.lineland.net and http://www.audiodregs.com © 2008 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Added: July 17, 2008

Screening on July 20th and 24th, 2008 as part of the Premiere Brazil, 2008 Film exhibition: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=9219 Estratégia Xavante (The Xavante Strategy). 2007. Brazil. Directed by Belisario Franca. The film portrays the attempts by the indigenous Xavante nation to preserve their territory and traditions, following the touching personal stories of young men sent to study the customs of urban Brazilian society in order to become spokespersons for their people. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 86 min. Sunday, July 20, 2008, 2:00 p.m. Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:00 p.m. Trailer courtesy of the filmmaker

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Added: July 11, 2008

For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/homedelivery Installation footage for BURST*008 project, June 5-6, 2008, as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Music courtesy of The Big Sleep and Frenchkiss Records. More information at: http://www.thebigsleep.net © 2008 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Added: July 10, 2008