From sophia at kunstwerk-blend.co.uk  Thu Mar 12 02:53:26 2009
From: sophia at kunstwerk-blend.co.uk (sophia lycouris)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:53:26 -0000
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] call for papers
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International Journal of Arts and Technology  (IJART)

Call For papers

Special Issue on: "Creativity and Interdisciplinarity ? a Discursive
Tension?"

Guest Editors: 
Dr Sophia Lycouris, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Dr Mark Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK
on behalf of Research Group CIRCLE (www.eca.ac.uk/circle) 

CIRCLE is a group of artists/researchers engaged in Creative
Interdisciplinary Research into Collaborative Environments. Its members are
staff and research students at Edinburgh College of Art and the University
of Edinburgh and include Prof. Simon Biggs, Mariza Dima, Henrik Ekeus, Sue
Hawksley, Beverley Hood, Dr. John Lee, Dr. Sophia Lycouris, Vangelis
Lympouridis, Ann Marie Shilito, Dr. Chris Speed, Wendy Timmons, Dr. Penny
Travlou and Dr. Mark Wright.

For further information about the call, please visit:
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1159 

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From czegledy at interlog.com  Thu Mar 12 20:25:36 2009
From: czegledy at interlog.com (nina czegledy)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:25:36 -0600
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] CIANT LAB RESIDENCIES - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Message-ID: <a0624081dc5de308bdc25@[198.161.30.96]>

>Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:21:09 +0100
>Subject: CIANT LAB RESIDENCIES - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
>From: CIANT PRAGUE <info at ciant.cz>
>
>CIANT LAB 2009 Arts Research Residencies
>
>Media artists from the Czech Republic and beyond, are invited to 
>apply for a three-month arts research residency at CIANT LAB in 
>Prague, Czech Republic, between April to end of 2009. The deadline 
>for applications is Friday the 3rd of April 2009.
>
>Artists are offered a media laboratory space, a payment of 1000 EUR 
>per month and access to lab equipment and technical support. The 
>emphasis for this residency is on collaborative research and 
>development in the field of networked/distributed performance. 
>Presently, two positions are on offer: A. Area of 3D modeling (3ds 
>MAX), avatar creation and integration with motion capture systems 
>driven virtual environments, B. Area of interactive sound creation 
>(max/MSP, PD, etc.).
>
>CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies 
>(<http://www.ciant.cz>http://www.ciant.cz) is a non-profit 
>art/science organization with an artist residency, commissions, 
>research, production, promotion, and training programs. CIANT has 
>worked with over 400 artists in the last couple of years supporting 
>interdisciplinary practice, mobility and exchange. CIANT LAB engages 
>with artists and researchers to produce work that challenges use and 
>impact of emerging technologies in arts, culture and society.
>
>Selection criteria: The ability to research, interpret and present 
>innovative ideas. Experience in the field of networked/distributed 
>performance. Experience in public presentation of completed work and 
>its proper documentation. Experience of working on fixed term 
>residencies with deadlines.
>
>To apply please provide the following:
>
>- Project description, Artist Statement and CV
>- Supporting materials/documentation of previous work.
>
>Please send your application to: CIANT (Attn: Pavel Sedlak, 
>Vice-Director), Kubelikova 27, 13000 Prague, Czech Republic. 
>Applications via email will be accepted but must have the Subject: 
>"CIANT LAB 2009 Residency Application". For more information about 
>this opportunity and application process please email 
><>sedlak at ciant.cz.  
>
>DEADLINE: Friday 3rd of April 2009, 11 PM CET. Selection will take 
>place before the end of March, all applicants will be notified 
>shortly after that.
>
>Equal Opportunities
>
>CIANT seeks to ensure that no present or potential member of our 
>staff or project participants will be treated less favorably than 
>another on the grounds of age (up to statutory retirement age), 
>class, colour, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, 
>political persuasion or sexual orientation. CIANT LAB premises have 
>limited access.  However, we aim to ensure that as many of our 
>activities are as accessible as possible. If you have any particular 
>access needs, please contact us.
>
>Association registered in the Czech Republic No. 69061998.
>
>---
>
>Join us also at: 
><http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53347391050&ref=ts>http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53347391050&ref=ts
>
>RECENT NEWS ABOUT CIANT
>
>CIANT will run a conference session at SCIENCE BEYOND FICTION: THE 
>EUROPEAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE 
>(<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/>http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/) 
>on Wednesday, April 22, 2-3.30 PM, with accepted title "Bridging the 
>Gap between Brain and Machine: New Challenge for Art and Science". 
>We will discuss state-of-the-art and future of BMI (brain-machine 
>interface) technology.
><http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/documents/programme.pdf>http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/documents/programme.pdf
>
>Featured current research and co-production projects:
>
>1. GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art
><http://www.gama-gateway.eu/>http://www.gama-gateway.eu/
>
>2. CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge for 
>Preservation, Access and Retrieval
><http://www.casparpreserves.eu/>http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
>
>3. CO-ME-DI-A - Cooperation and Mediation in Digital Arts
><http://www.comedia.eu.org>http://www.comedia.eu.org

From czegledy at interlog.com  Thu Mar 12 23:49:14 2009
From: czegledy at interlog.com (nina czegledy)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:49:14 -0600
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] Social Technologies Summit - Early Bird
	Registration
Message-ID: <a0624081bc5df03e0489b@[198.161.30.59]>


>From: Drew Hemment <drew at futureeverything.org>
>To: nina czegledy <czegledy at interlog.com>
>Subject: Social Technologies Summit - Early Bird 
>Registration deadline this week
>Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:16:25 +0000
>
>Hi Nina, please forward to people interested.
>Thanks, Drew
>
>
>SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT:
>THE FUTURESONIC CONFERENCE
>13-16 May 2009, Manchester UK
>
>Final Days for Early Bird Delegate Registration: till Fri 13 March
>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
>
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Social Technologies Summit:
>The Futuresonic Conference
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>The Social Technologies Summit is the leading 
>international conference that brings together 
>500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, 
>researchers and technologists to explore the 
>latest upgrade affecting today's digital 
>culture. This is the place where the technology 
>and digital sectors connect with the creative 
>vision of the international digital arts 
>community.
>
>Pioneering ideas will be presented, which will 
>transform the way you and your organisation 
>operate, innovate and interact. Combining 
>keynotes, critical debates, demonstrations and 
>experiences with open space and participatory 
>sessions, it is an engaging, critical and 
>essential event to attend.
>
>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
>
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Conference Programme
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>This year sees Futuresonic's most explosive conference programme.
>
>Keynote speakers include inventor of the term 
>'social tools' and leading thinker on the social 
>web Stowe Boyd; Jamais Cascio, co-founder of 
>Worldchanging.org on social media and the 
>environment; Rachel O'Connell, VP People 
>Networks at Bebo.com on identity and trust; Adam 
>Greenfield, expert on next-generation mobile and 
>human-friendly interfaces; and Tom Ilube, Davos 
>advisor and CEO of Garlick, on shaping the way 
>business and society prepare for the Semantic 
>Web.
>
>Other world renowned contributors include James 
>Marriott from PLATFORM; Helen Aspell, Head of 
>Digital at Equality and Human Rights Commission 
>UK; Grammy-nominated data visualiser Aaron 
>Koblin; Roland Harwood, Director of Nesta 
>Connect; Stephan Agamanolis, CEO of Distance 
>Lab; international artists working with web and 
>locative technologies Christian Nold, Tapio 
>Makela and Jonah Brucker-Cohen; Dave 
>Griffiths/FoAM, organisers of the influential 
>Luminous Green events; Lee Bryant founder of 
>Headshift; and Ewan Mackintosh, educationalist 
>and Digital Commissioner at 4IP.
>
>Plus following on from the success of the first 
>Nokia Open Lab held in Helsinki in 2008, Nokia 
>Open Lab comes to the UK for Futuresonic.
>
>The themes for the conference this year include 
>Environment 2.0; Digital Futures; Identity and 
>Trust; Mobile; and Semantic Web: Cultural 
>Algorithms.
>
>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
>
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Futuresonic 2009
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>A part of the Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
>
>Now in its 14th year, Futuresonic is an 
>international festival featuring world premiers 
>of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide 
>music programme, and visionary thinkers from 
>around the world. Featuring 50,000 festival 
>visitors and 300 artists at 100 events in a 
>city-wide urban festival experience.
>
>In 2010 Futuresonic will return as FutureEverything
>
>http://www.futuresonic.com
>
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Register
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Final Days for Early Bird Delegate Registration: till Fri 13 March
>
>Visit http://www.futuresonic.com/conference for 
>current information and to register
>
>Participants will be issued with a delegate pass 
>for the Futuresonic festival, which gives access 
>to the Social Technologies Summit: The 
>Futuresonic Conference and art and music 
>festival programme*.
>
>*Some festival events have limited capacity and will require a
>ticket. A list of these restricted events is 
>announced on our website www.futuresonic.com.
>
>PASS OPTIONS(all prices exl vat)
>Early Bird Pass - book by 13 March 2009 ?80
>Advanced Pass - book by 12 May 2009 ?120
>Door Pass (bought on the door) ?150
>Single Day Pass May 2009 ?85
>Students/Concessions Pass No deadline ?30
>
>Further discounts available for group bookings, 
>for further details contact 
>ideas2009 at futuresonic.com
>A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes 
>will be available on each day of the conference.
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>The Festival
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and 
>Ideas is an international festival now in its 
>14th year occupying the orbits of both digital 
>culture and music. It combines the Social 
>Technologies Summit with art and music events, 
>exhibitions and live performances across the 
>city.
>
>13-16 May, Manchester UK
>
>Transforming the city into a space of experimentation, making it come alive
>
>Futuresonic is presented by FutureEverything 
>CIC. It is a Regularly Funded Organisation (RFO) 
>of Arts Council England North West, a pillar 
>event of Manchester City Council and is 
>supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
>
>Futuresonic is presented in partnership with 
>ImaginationLancaster 
>http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk, a major new 
>research lab at Lancaster University.
>
>In 2010 Futuresonic will return as FutureEverything
>
>http://www.futuresonic.com
>
>#futr09


From rmalina at alum.mit.edu  Thu Mar 12 23:40:22 2009
From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:40:22 +0100
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] Pari center, italy Art Science and The Sacred
Message-ID: <4fe4f0af0903121440u2451b116ve5edb5037d0f46aa@mail.gmail.com>

ART SCIENCE AND THE SACRED AND NEW SCIENCE/NEW PARADIGMS
===============================================================

There are still places available for the June 4-10 course on
"Art, Science and the Sacred" and for 3-9 September's "New
Science/New Paradigms". For additional information visit

*http://www.paricenter.com/programs/courses/*

or write to *info at paricenter.com<http://www.prontomail.com/prontomail/noframes/mailer/t_baseform.asp?whattodo=compose&fldToStr=info at paricenter.com>
*

From rmalina at alum.mit.edu  Thu Mar 12 23:42:51 2009
From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:42:51 +0100
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] cafe des arts des sciences des technique
	april 2 paris, web cast
Message-ID: <4fe4f0af0903121442q49053e00ub4f14b7c3a07e0b4@mail.gmail.com>

WEB-CAST

*Caf? des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques*

Organis? par Ars Mathematica ( Christian Lavigne et Simon Diner )



*[ http://web.cast.free.fr ]*

* *
FNAC Digitale

77-81 boulevard Saint Germain

75006 Paris

M? Od?on



Auditorium 1er ?tage





30 ?me s?ance

*Jeudi  2 Avril 2009*

*18 h  -  20 h*









 Pascal Ruef  et Pierre Emmanuel Fillet



Machines imaginaires, diagrammes et intuitions

        Art du contr?le et abstractions.



         Depuis Leonardo da Vinci le statut des machines imaginaires pose le
probl?me de la nature de la cr?ativit?. Les artistes qui pr?sentent ici
leurs machines imaginaires issues de la cr?ation num?rique, r?fl?chissent
non pas tant sur le caract?re de machines de leurs images, que sur les
processus ? l'oeuvre dans leur cr?ation.





*? L?acte de l?art s?est transform? en l?examen direct de nos processus
perceptuels. ?*

Avec cette citation de Robert Irwin* *nous entrons dans le domaine des
sciences cognitives qui analyse les processus perceptuels.

Mais qu?en est-il de l?acte de cr?er. Cr?er et contempler sont-ils deux
actes analogues ?

            Si l?on se r?f?re aux travaux de neuroscientifiques comme
Edelman et Walter Freeman, la perception et l?action ne sont pas deux
ph?nom?nes ind?pendants, l?un d?input, l?autre d?output, mais constitue
plut?t un m?me processus permettant d?interagir avec le monde, processus
dont la dynamique est r?git par les lois d?un certain chaos spatiotemporel
via lequel se r?v?le la structure d?un n?o-m?canisme, si?ge d?une
auto-organisation.

            Ce que propose souvent l?art n?est pas de rencontrer ce qui est
vu, mais l?acte de voir en lui-m?me, pour ce qu?il est.

            Et cet acte de voir, de recevoir est analogue ? cet acte de
cr?er, de donner ? voir.

            C?est donc bien une cr?ation double qui sera l??uvre de
l?artiste et du spectateur, dans une exp?rience o? l?art se d?finit comme
?naction, notion due au biologiste et neurologue Francisco Varela.

            L?id?e de base de la conception enactive est que l?exp?rience
est une activit? de rencontre avec le monde; qu?elle a une dimension
singuli?rement corporelle et temporelle, que son caract?re est d?fini par
les lois de la ?contingence sensorimotrice?. C?est ainsi la nature
exp?rientielle de l?art qui est mise ? contribution dans l??tude de la
conscience perceptuelle en fournissant aux percevants des occasions de
s?appr?hender eux-m?mes dans l?acte d?exploration des formes et ainsi de
jouer un r?le dans l?investigation ph?nom?nologique.

            On pouvait d?j? noter que, dans l??uvre de Merleau-Ponty,
l'esth?tique de l'art avait un sens et un statut particulier ? l'int?rieur
de la ph?nom?nologie. *Dans ? L??il et l'esprit ? et ? Le visible et
l'invisible ? l'esth?tique et la ph?nom?nologie tendent de plus en plus ?
co?ncider, ? s'identifier l'une ? l'autre : l'esth?tique devient une
ontologie de l?art, et celle-ci devient le mode par excellence de la
ph?nom?nologie. L'esth?tique n'est plus un "quartier" de la ph?nom?nologie :
la ph?nom?nologie est devenue "esth?tique" quasiment par d?finition - ? tel
point que l'on peut se demander si on ne passe pas d'une "ph?nom?nologie de
l'art" ? une "ph?nom?nologie comme art". Ainsi la ph?nom?nologie
merleau-pontienne tout enti?re s'envelopperait-elle - se d?velopperait-elle
- sur le mode de l'art*.*

    Dans ? l?Oeil et l?Esprit ? Merleau-ponty parlera m?me de tableaux
autofiguratifs crevant la peau des choses et d?un peintre qui, naissant dans
le milieu des choses, en r?v?le la morphogen?se.

? *La vision du peintre n?est plus regard sur un dehors, relation
? physique-optique ?seulement avec le monde. Le monde n?est plus devant lui
par repr?sentation : c?est plut?t le peintre qui na?t dans les choses comme
par concentration et venue ? soi du visible, et le tableau finalement ne se
rapporte ? quoi que ce soit parmi les choses empirique qu?? condition d??tre
d?abord ? autofiguratif ? ; il n?est spectacle de quelque chose qu?en ?tant
? spectacle de rien ?, en crevant la ? peau des choses ? pour montrer
comment les choses se font choses et le monde monde*. ?

Mais dans cette approche de l?art comme ph?nom?nologie de la cr?ation et de
la vision, la transparence de l?exp?rience pose probl?me ? toute tentative
de faire de l?exp?rience perceptuelle elle-m?me l?objet de l?investigation

Les philosophes, les psychologues et les chercheurs en sciences cognitives
tentent tous ? leur mani?re d??laborer une m?thode pour r?soudre ce
probl?me, d?o? cette question : Peut-il y avoir un art ph?nom?nologique de
l?exp?rience esth?tique, et peut il y avoir tableau de l?appareil cognitif
par et pour lui-m?me ?

Les images accompagnant ces questionnements ont pour objectif de donner ?
voir les plans d?une machine de vision diagrammatique, autot?lique et
imaginaire.







Pascal Ruef



Photographe et cr?ateur d?images en tout genres (s?rigraphies et images
num?riques)



Pierre Emmanuel Fillet :

From sophia at kunstwerk-blend.co.uk  Thu Mar 12 02:53:26 2009
From: sophia at kunstwerk-blend.co.uk (sophia lycouris)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:53:26 -0000
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] call for papers
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International Journal of Arts and Technology  (IJART)

Call For papers

Special Issue on: "Creativity and Interdisciplinarity ? a Discursive
Tension?"

Guest Editors: 
Dr Sophia Lycouris, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Dr Mark Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK
on behalf of Research Group CIRCLE (www.eca.ac.uk/circle) 

CIRCLE is a group of artists/researchers engaged in Creative
Interdisciplinary Research into Collaborative Environments. Its members are
staff and research students at Edinburgh College of Art and the University
of Edinburgh and include Prof. Simon Biggs, Mariza Dima, Henrik Ekeus, Sue
Hawksley, Beverley Hood, Dr. John Lee, Dr. Sophia Lycouris, Vangelis
Lympouridis, Ann Marie Shilito, Dr. Chris Speed, Wendy Timmons, Dr. Penny
Travlou and Dr. Mark Wright.

For further information about the call, please visit:
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1159 

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From czegledy at interlog.com  Thu Mar 12 20:25:36 2009
From: czegledy at interlog.com (nina czegledy)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:25:36 -0600
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] CIANT LAB RESIDENCIES - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Message-ID: <a0624081dc5de308bdc25@[198.161.30.96]>

>Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:21:09 +0100
>Subject: CIANT LAB RESIDENCIES - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
>From: CIANT PRAGUE <info at ciant.cz>
>
>CIANT LAB 2009 Arts Research Residencies
>
>Media artists from the Czech Republic and beyond, are invited to 
>apply for a three-month arts research residency at CIANT LAB in 
>Prague, Czech Republic, between April to end of 2009. The deadline 
>for applications is Friday the 3rd of April 2009.
>
>Artists are offered a media laboratory space, a payment of 1000 EUR 
>per month and access to lab equipment and technical support. The 
>emphasis for this residency is on collaborative research and 
>development in the field of networked/distributed performance. 
>Presently, two positions are on offer: A. Area of 3D modeling (3ds 
>MAX), avatar creation and integration with motion capture systems 
>driven virtual environments, B. Area of interactive sound creation 
>(max/MSP, PD, etc.).
>
>CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies 
>(<http://www.ciant.cz>http://www.ciant.cz) is a non-profit 
>art/science organization with an artist residency, commissions, 
>research, production, promotion, and training programs. CIANT has 
>worked with over 400 artists in the last couple of years supporting 
>interdisciplinary practice, mobility and exchange. CIANT LAB engages 
>with artists and researchers to produce work that challenges use and 
>impact of emerging technologies in arts, culture and society.
>
>Selection criteria: The ability to research, interpret and present 
>innovative ideas. Experience in the field of networked/distributed 
>performance. Experience in public presentation of completed work and 
>its proper documentation. Experience of working on fixed term 
>residencies with deadlines.
>
>To apply please provide the following:
>
>- Project description, Artist Statement and CV
>- Supporting materials/documentation of previous work.
>
>Please send your application to: CIANT (Attn: Pavel Sedlak, 
>Vice-Director), Kubelikova 27, 13000 Prague, Czech Republic. 
>Applications via email will be accepted but must have the Subject: 
>"CIANT LAB 2009 Residency Application". For more information about 
>this opportunity and application process please email 
><>sedlak at ciant.cz.  
>
>DEADLINE: Friday 3rd of April 2009, 11 PM CET. Selection will take 
>place before the end of March, all applicants will be notified 
>shortly after that.
>
>Equal Opportunities
>
>CIANT seeks to ensure that no present or potential member of our 
>staff or project participants will be treated less favorably than 
>another on the grounds of age (up to statutory retirement age), 
>class, colour, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, 
>political persuasion or sexual orientation. CIANT LAB premises have 
>limited access.  However, we aim to ensure that as many of our 
>activities are as accessible as possible. If you have any particular 
>access needs, please contact us.
>
>Association registered in the Czech Republic No. 69061998.
>
>---
>
>Join us also at: 
><http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53347391050&ref=ts>http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53347391050&ref=ts
>
>RECENT NEWS ABOUT CIANT
>
>CIANT will run a conference session at SCIENCE BEYOND FICTION: THE 
>EUROPEAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE 
>(<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/>http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/) 
>on Wednesday, April 22, 2-3.30 PM, with accepted title "Bridging the 
>Gap between Brain and Machine: New Challenge for Art and Science". 
>We will discuss state-of-the-art and future of BMI (brain-machine 
>interface) technology.
><http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/documents/programme.pdf>http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009/documents/programme.pdf
>
>Featured current research and co-production projects:
>
>1. GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art
><http://www.gama-gateway.eu/>http://www.gama-gateway.eu/
>
>2. CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge for 
>Preservation, Access and Retrieval
><http://www.casparpreserves.eu/>http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
>
>3. CO-ME-DI-A - Cooperation and Mediation in Digital Arts
><http://www.comedia.eu.org>http://www.comedia.eu.org


From czegledy at interlog.com  Thu Mar 12 23:49:14 2009
From: czegledy at interlog.com (nina czegledy)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:49:14 -0600
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] Social Technologies Summit - Early Bird
	Registration
Message-ID: <a0624081bc5df03e0489b@[198.161.30.59]>


>From: Drew Hemment <drew at futureeverything.org>
>To: nina czegledy <czegledy at interlog.com>
>Subject: Social Technologies Summit - Early Bird 
>Registration deadline this week
>Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:16:25 +0000
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>Hi Nina, please forward to people interested.
>Thanks, Drew
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>SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT:
>THE FUTURESONIC CONFERENCE
>13-16 May 2009, Manchester UK
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>Final Days for Early Bird Delegate Registration: till Fri 13 March
>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
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>Social Technologies Summit:
>The Futuresonic Conference
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>The Social Technologies Summit is the leading 
>international conference that brings together 
>500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, 
>researchers and technologists to explore the 
>latest upgrade affecting today's digital 
>culture. This is the place where the technology 
>and digital sectors connect with the creative 
>vision of the international digital arts 
>community.
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>Pioneering ideas will be presented, which will 
>transform the way you and your organisation 
>operate, innovate and interact. Combining 
>keynotes, critical debates, demonstrations and 
>experiences with open space and participatory 
>sessions, it is an engaging, critical and 
>essential event to attend.
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>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
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>Conference Programme
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>This year sees Futuresonic's most explosive conference programme.
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>Keynote speakers include inventor of the term 
>'social tools' and leading thinker on the social 
>web Stowe Boyd; Jamais Cascio, co-founder of 
>Worldchanging.org on social media and the 
>environment; Rachel O'Connell, VP People 
>Networks at Bebo.com on identity and trust; Adam 
>Greenfield, expert on next-generation mobile and 
>human-friendly interfaces; and Tom Ilube, Davos 
>advisor and CEO of Garlick, on shaping the way 
>business and society prepare for the Semantic 
>Web.
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>Other world renowned contributors include James 
>Marriott from PLATFORM; Helen Aspell, Head of 
>Digital at Equality and Human Rights Commission 
>UK; Grammy-nominated data visualiser Aaron 
>Koblin; Roland Harwood, Director of Nesta 
>Connect; Stephan Agamanolis, CEO of Distance 
>Lab; international artists working with web and 
>locative technologies Christian Nold, Tapio 
>Makela and Jonah Brucker-Cohen; Dave 
>Griffiths/FoAM, organisers of the influential 
>Luminous Green events; Lee Bryant founder of 
>Headshift; and Ewan Mackintosh, educationalist 
>and Digital Commissioner at 4IP.
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>Plus following on from the success of the first 
>Nokia Open Lab held in Helsinki in 2008, Nokia 
>Open Lab comes to the UK for Futuresonic.
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>The themes for the conference this year include 
>Environment 2.0; Digital Futures; Identity and 
>Trust; Mobile; and Semantic Web: Cultural 
>Algorithms.
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>http://www.futuresonic.com/conference
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>Futuresonic 2009
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>A part of the Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
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>Now in its 14th year, Futuresonic is an 
>international festival featuring world premiers 
>of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide 
>music programme, and visionary thinkers from 
>around the world. Featuring 50,000 festival 
>visitors and 300 artists at 100 events in a 
>city-wide urban festival experience.
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>In 2010 Futuresonic will return as FutureEverything
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>http://www.futuresonic.com
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>Register
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>Final Days for Early Bird Delegate Registration: till Fri 13 March
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>Visit http://www.futuresonic.com/conference for 
>current information and to register
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>Participants will be issued with a delegate pass 
>for the Futuresonic festival, which gives access 
>to the Social Technologies Summit: The 
>Futuresonic Conference and art and music 
>festival programme*.
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>*Some festival events have limited capacity and will require a
>ticket. A list of these restricted events is 
>announced on our website www.futuresonic.com.
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>PASS OPTIONS(all prices exl vat)
>Early Bird Pass - book by 13 March 2009 ?80
>Advanced Pass - book by 12 May 2009 ?120
>Door Pass (bought on the door) ?150
>Single Day Pass May 2009 ?85
>Students/Concessions Pass No deadline ?30
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>Further discounts available for group bookings, 
>for further details contact 
>ideas2009 at futuresonic.com
>A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes 
>will be available on each day of the conference.
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>The Festival
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>Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and 
>Ideas is an international festival now in its 
>14th year occupying the orbits of both digital 
>culture and music. It combines the Social 
>Technologies Summit with art and music events, 
>exhibitions and live performances across the 
>city.
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>13-16 May, Manchester UK
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>Transforming the city into a space of experimentation, making it come alive
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>Futuresonic is presented by FutureEverything 
>CIC. It is a Regularly Funded Organisation (RFO) 
>of Arts Council England North West, a pillar 
>event of Manchester City Council and is 
>supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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>Futuresonic is presented in partnership with 
>ImaginationLancaster 
>http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk, a major new 
>research lab at Lancaster University.
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>In 2010 Futuresonic will return as FutureEverything
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>http://www.futuresonic.com
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>#futr09



From rmalina at alum.mit.edu  Thu Mar 12 23:40:22 2009
From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:40:22 +0100
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] Pari center, italy Art Science and The Sacred
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ART SCIENCE AND THE SACRED AND NEW SCIENCE/NEW PARADIGMS
===============================================================

There are still places available for the June 4-10 course on
"Art, Science and the Sacred" and for 3-9 September's "New
Science/New Paradigms". For additional information visit

*http://www.paricenter.com/programs/courses/*

or write to *info at paricenter.com<http://www.prontomail.com/prontomail/noframes/mailer/t_baseform.asp?whattodo=compose&fldToStr=info at paricenter.com>
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From rmalina at alum.mit.edu  Thu Mar 12 23:42:51 2009
From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:42:51 +0100
Subject: [Yasmin_announcements] cafe des arts des sciences des technique
	april 2 paris, web cast
Message-ID: <4fe4f0af0903121442q49053e00ub4f14b7c3a07e0b4@mail.gmail.com>

WEB-CAST

*Caf? des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques*

Organis? par Ars Mathematica ( Christian Lavigne et Simon Diner )



*[ http://web.cast.free.fr ]*

* *
FNAC Digitale

77-81 boulevard Saint Germain

75006 Paris

M? Od?on



Auditorium 1er ?tage





30 ?me s?ance

*Jeudi  2 Avril 2009*

*18 h  -  20 h*









 Pascal Ruef  et Pierre Emmanuel Fillet



Machines imaginaires, diagrammes et intuitions

        Art du contr?le et abstractions.



         Depuis Leonardo da Vinci le statut des machines imaginaires pose le
probl?me de la nature de la cr?ativit?. Les artistes qui pr?sentent ici
leurs machines imaginaires issues de la cr?ation num?rique, r?fl?chissent
non pas tant sur le caract?re de machines de leurs images, que sur les
processus ? l'oeuvre dans leur cr?ation.





*? L?acte de l?art s?est transform? en l?examen direct de nos processus
perceptuels. ?*

Avec cette citation de Robert Irwin* *nous entrons dans le domaine des
sciences cognitives qui analyse les processus perceptuels.

Mais qu?en est-il de l?acte de cr?er. Cr?er et contempler sont-ils deux
actes analogues ?

            Si l?on se r?f?re aux travaux de neuroscientifiques comme
Edelman et Walter Freeman, la perception et l?action ne sont pas deux
ph?nom?nes ind?pendants, l?un d?input, l?autre d?output, mais constitue
plut?t un m?me processus permettant d?interagir avec le monde, processus
dont la dynamique est r?git par les lois d?un certain chaos spatiotemporel
via lequel se r?v?le la structure d?un n?o-m?canisme, si?ge d?une
auto-organisation.

            Ce que propose souvent l?art n?est pas de rencontrer ce qui est
vu, mais l?acte de voir en lui-m?me, pour ce qu?il est.

            Et cet acte de voir, de recevoir est analogue ? cet acte de
cr?er, de donner ? voir.

            C?est donc bien une cr?ation double qui sera l??uvre de
l?artiste et du spectateur, dans une exp?rience o? l?art se d?finit comme
?naction, notion due au biologiste et neurologue Francisco Varela.

            L?id?e de base de la conception enactive est que l?exp?rience
est une activit? de rencontre avec le monde; qu?elle a une dimension
singuli?rement corporelle et temporelle, que son caract?re est d?fini par
les lois de la ?contingence sensorimotrice?. C?est ainsi la nature
exp?rientielle de l?art qui est mise ? contribution dans l??tude de la
conscience perceptuelle en fournissant aux percevants des occasions de
s?appr?hender eux-m?mes dans l?acte d?exploration des formes et ainsi de
jouer un r?le dans l?investigation ph?nom?nologique.

            On pouvait d?j? noter que, dans l??uvre de Merleau-Ponty,
l'esth?tique de l'art avait un sens et un statut particulier ? l'int?rieur
de la ph?nom?nologie. *Dans ? L??il et l'esprit ? et ? Le visible et
l'invisible ? l'esth?tique et la ph?nom?nologie tendent de plus en plus ?
co?ncider, ? s'identifier l'une ? l'autre : l'esth?tique devient une
ontologie de l?art, et celle-ci devient le mode par excellence de la
ph?nom?nologie. L'esth?tique n'est plus un "quartier" de la ph?nom?nologie :
la ph?nom?nologie est devenue "esth?tique" quasiment par d?finition - ? tel
point que l'on peut se demander si on ne passe pas d'une "ph?nom?nologie de
l'art" ? une "ph?nom?nologie comme art". Ainsi la ph?nom?nologie
merleau-pontienne tout enti?re s'envelopperait-elle - se d?velopperait-elle
- sur le mode de l'art*.*

    Dans ? l?Oeil et l?Esprit ? Merleau-ponty parlera m?me de tableaux
autofiguratifs crevant la peau des choses et d?un peintre qui, naissant dans
le milieu des choses, en r?v?le la morphogen?se.

? *La vision du peintre n?est plus regard sur un dehors, relation
? physique-optique ?seulement avec le monde. Le monde n?est plus devant lui
par repr?sentation : c?est plut?t le peintre qui na?t dans les choses comme
par concentration et venue ? soi du visible, et le tableau finalement ne se
rapporte ? quoi que ce soit parmi les choses empirique qu?? condition d??tre
d?abord ? autofiguratif ? ; il n?est spectacle de quelque chose qu?en ?tant
? spectacle de rien ?, en crevant la ? peau des choses ? pour montrer
comment les choses se font choses et le monde monde*. ?

Mais dans cette approche de l?art comme ph?nom?nologie de la cr?ation et de
la vision, la transparence de l?exp?rience pose probl?me ? toute tentative
de faire de l?exp?rience perceptuelle elle-m?me l?objet de l?investigation

Les philosophes, les psychologues et les chercheurs en sciences cognitives
tentent tous ? leur mani?re d??laborer une m?thode pour r?soudre ce
probl?me, d?o? cette question : Peut-il y avoir un art ph?nom?nologique de
l?exp?rience esth?tique, et peut il y avoir tableau de l?appareil cognitif
par et pour lui-m?me ?

Les images accompagnant ces questionnements ont pour objectif de donner ?
voir les plans d?une machine de vision diagrammatique, autot?lique et
imaginaire.







Pascal Ruef



Photographe et cr?ateur d?images en tout genres (s?rigraphies et images
num?riques)



Pierre Emmanuel Fillet :