hi,

finally i cut a short movie from my performance TEMPEST at Pixelache05

http://plot.bek.no/~erich/tempest-live.mp4

cheers

erich

Announcing: Generator.x conference
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23-24 September 2005, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway
http://www.generatorx.no/

Intrigued by the power of computation and the realization that all digital media are in fact software, a new generation of artists and designers are turning to code as a means of new expression and a way to better control their medium. Software is not the transparent interface it has traditionally been thought to be. Instead, it is a material that both limits and permits personal expression.

True literacy means being able to both read and write. If to use pre-existing software is to “read” digital media, then programming is the equivalent to writing. The Generator.x project focuses on artists and designers who embrace this new literacy not as a technical obstacle, but as a way to redefine the tools and the media they work in.

Through a conference, an exhibition and a blog, Generator.x examines the role of software and generative strategies in current digital art and design. Subjects to be covered include:

* Generative aesthetics
* Computational design: Designing processes
* Performative software
* Software by creatives for creatives

The project is a co-production between Atelier Nord and the National Touring exhibitions of Norway.

Confirmed speakers
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Erich Berger (NO / AT)
Pablo Miranda Carranza (SE / SP)
Gisle Frøysland (NO)
Hans Christian Gilje (NO)
Susanne Jaschko (DE)
Golan Levin (US)
Sebastian Oschatz (DE)
Casey Reas (US)
Amanda Steggell (NO)
Marius Watz (NO)

The conference is hosted by Atelier Nord, and will be accompanied by the opening of the Generator.x exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Architecture of Design, as well as a club event with live performances. For details about the exhibition, please see http://www.generatorx.no/generatorx-exhibition/.

Registration for the conference will be available soon, for more information please visit http://www.generatorx.no/ or email info@generatorx.no.

Credits and support
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Generator.x is a co-production between Atelier Nord and Riksutstillinger (the National Touring Exhibitions of Norway), as a result of an initiative by Marius Watz. Generator.x is supported by the Norwegian Cultural Council, PNEK, the Goethe-Institut Oslo and the Austrian Embassy in Norway.

For more information, please visit http://www.generatorx.no/.

Piksel05 and PixelACHE06 are planning to collaborate, again… Everyone interested in open source audiovisual software should pack their bags and head to Bergen in October 2005… Application deadline 15. August!!!
- juhuu

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- Piksel05 - october 16-23. 2005
- call for participation
- deadline 15. august 2005

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Piksel[1] is an annual event for artists and developers working with open
source audiovisual software tools. Part workshop, part festival, it is
organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK)
[2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging
ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops,
performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of open source.
Piksel05 will take place in Bergen october 16. - 23. 2005.

The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly
controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of
technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial
demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is
focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic
control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention the close
connections between art, politics, technology and economy.

One of the results of the past Piksel events is the initiation of the Piksel
Video Framework for ‘interoperability between various free software
applications dealing with video manipulation techniques’[3].

Piksel05 will also feature the release of the Piksel LiveCD[4], a Linux
distribution containing the software used and developed at Piksel. The
package contains a suite of innovative audiovisual and artistic software,
free video plugins, and documentation from the past Piksel events.

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One of the pioneers of ‘database cinema’ just released a new non-linear DVD of his work, Soft Cinema…It would interest all PixelACHE attendees and artists.. -tim (RESPAM)

Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky

SOFT CINEMA: Navigating the Database

DVD-video with 40 page color booklet

The MIT Press, 2005

ISBN 0-262-13456-X

What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Google and blogging?
Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN?
To investigate answers to this question Lev Manovich - one of today¹s most
influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture ­ has
paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky to
create the Soft Cinema project. They have also invited contributions from
leaders in other cultural fields: DJ Spooky, Scanner, George Lewis and
Jóhann Jóhannsson (music), servo and Andreas Angelidakis (architecture),
Schoenerwissen/Office for Computational Design (data visualization), and
Ross Cooper Studios (media design).

SOFT CINEMA: Navigating the Database is the Soft Cinema project¹s first DVD
published and distributed by The MIT Press (2005). Although the three films
presented on the DVD reference the familiar genres of cinema, the process by
which they were created and the resulting aesthetics fully belong to the
software age. They demonstrate the possibilities of soft(ware) cinema - a
‘cinema’ in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom
software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever
exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.

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