MACHINIMA course in FALL 2010
MACHINIMA: EXPERIMENTAL NEW MEDIA ART & GAMES
jonCates
FVNM 4866 THURSDAYS 9 AM - 4 PM
FALL 2010 – FILM, VIDEO & NEW MEDIA STUDIO COURSE
Machinima literally combines "machine" and "cinema" using computer-based games to develop film and media art. Machinima views video games and game culture as New Media. Video game engines become artistic toolsets and authoring systems allowing artists to use the underlying code structures to create their own media artworks. Students play video games, learn to render artworks in realtime with low cost, commercially available game engines and free and open source software systems, discuss online distribution, and screen machinima artworks.
jonCates is a New Media Artist who makes, curates, collects and teaches experimental Machinima as well as various other Digital Art forms. His projects and programs show widely internationally and online: http://systemsapproach.net
CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY OPEN at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!
CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY OPEN at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010!
The criticalartware crew invites you to participate in the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY OPEN at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010! Hosting the ARTWARE CATEGORY at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010, we invite submissions of Critical Glitch Artware to be exhibited and experienced in the context of the largest running North American demoparty! The ARTWARE CATEGORY will feature experimental works of Noise && New Media Art; Realtime Audio-Video Performances; Art Mods and Art Games as well as a Glitch Art screening program curated by Nick Briz!
The CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY opens on Friday April 16th. Entries to the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY should be sent to criticalartware by Tuesday April 13th 2010.
CONTACT us to SUBMIT your PROJECTS to the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY:
criticalartware AT gmail DOT com
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
The criticalartware crew won first place in the 'Artware' category at BLOCKPARTY 2008 and revealed their secret source codes at BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2009. BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010 mark the first public opening of the ARTWARE CATEGORY as organized by criticalartware. The criticalartware crew has participated in and organized Artware events internationally in Chicago, Mexico City, Helsinki, San Francisco, Vienna, Bejing and Aarhus:
http://criticalartware.netThe criticalartware crew is currently constituted by jonCates, Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy and Mark Beasley.
Nick Briz curates Glitch Art and exhibits his own work internationally at festivals such as the Images Festival in Toronto, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the FILE Media Arts Festival in Rio, Brazil and the Sidney Underground Film Festival:
http://www.nickbriz.comABOUT THE EVENT
Blockparty is the largest running North American demoparty. Founded in 2007 by Jason Scott and Christian "RaD Man" Wirth, it has partnered with Notacon in Cleveland, Ohio:
http://www.demoparty.usNotacon (pronounced "not-a-con") is an art and technology conference which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio:
http://www.notacon.org...
http://criticalartware.net/CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY DEMO INVITE by m4k3r aka Mark Beasley (2010)
http://criticalartware.net/nfo/ONLINE NFO
http://criticalartware.net/img/CGAC.jpgWWWEB FLIER *
* the CRITICAL GLITCH ARTWARE CATEGORY was made possible in part by the Satromizer by Ben Syverson:
http://bensyverson.com/software/satromizer/Jon Satrom (on whom the Satromizer is based) + Ben Syverson (the artware developer who created the Satromizer) are founding members of previous versions of criticalartware.
LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MediaArtHistories MA awarded to Fran ILICH
LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MediaArtHistories MA awarded to Fran ILICH
From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four continents, Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Muñozhas been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media.Art.Histories MA program at the Department of Image Science at Danube University, Austria. The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, jonCates and Oliver Grau selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates based on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication, independent vision, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Ilich is Director of the Literature Department at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Founding Director of Possible worlds.org and Founding CEO of Spacebank. He was Co-founder and Moderator Nettime-Latino and has contributed essays to Wired News, Modem.txt, and Al Fin. His videogame artwork, "Banner" (with Blas Valdez) was exhibited at 01 San Jose (2009) and ARCO XX, Madrid (2001). His Internet soap opera, "Fea y Rebelde" was exhibited at Documenta 12, Kassel (2007). He was General Director and Curator of the Borderhack! festivals in 2001, 2002, and 2005.
=> LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist.
=> FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES
(low-residency; English language, international faculty) The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER,Sean CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others.
Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and mediahistory are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed.
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah
=>DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and life long learners. Our students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria, Austria, Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace. The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings.
=> LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and
technology. Through publications, initiatives andpublic forums, Leonardo/ISAST facilitates cross-disciplinary researchin these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination.
=>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement of artistic research andacademic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society.
Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah
http://www.leonardo.info
http://www.virtualart.at
http://www.mediaarthistories.org