ARTBOTS 08
Art Bots 08 features 15 works by 16 artists from 9 countries, as well as performances, workshops, lectures, and an awards ceremony. Participating works were selected from an international open call for "robotic art and art-making robots", and represent a broad and inclusive cross-section of the tremendous range of creative art and robotics activity.

Sound artist Ray Lee (UK) will open the show with "Forcefield", a kinetic sound machine performance. Metal fabricator/artisan Phillip Isohe (Kenya) has created this year's Robots' Choice Award, and designer Eliza Gauger (USA) created the 2008 ArtBots logo. Members of the EU funded Living with Robots and Interactive Companions project will lead a workshop/panel discussion with the artists...website

Fast Forward - Design and the Visual-Sonic Interface
A day of overviews and talks on the emerging interface of sound and images, as explored by artists and practitioners working in visual-sonics, generative, immersive, interactive and synaesthetic arts.

Fast Forward aims to provide inter-industry briefings on areas of new media, art and design developments that will impact on your sector. These are the developments that will impact on the opportunity-space of media in marketing, product-launches, advertising,
events, entertainment and exhibition design. So to stay abreast of these cutting-edge developments and be a better-informed player in your business, join us at this Fast Forward event.

Speakers include:
* Michael Faulkner and A. N. Other, D-Fuse
* Anthony Rowe, Squidsoup
* Russell Richards and Maurice Owen, KickiT
* Ollie Sorenson, VJ Anyone

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P O L A R R A D I O - A talk & performance by r a d i o q u a l i a
A talk and sound performance presenting Polar Radio - Antarctica's first artist-run FM radio
station.

In 2007, Adam Hyde from r a d i o q u a l i a voyaged to Antarctica to help establish the first
phase of Polar Radio - a research project which tests the feasibility of establishing community radio stations in the two Polar Regions - Antarctica and the Arctic Circle. He was part of the first Interpolar Transnational Art Science Consortium (I-TASC) reconnaissance expedition to Antarctica, and was a guest of the South African Antarctic Programme, based in the Dronning Maud Land sector of Antarctica, at the base, SANAE IV. (72ƒ 03' S 02ƒ 47' W)

Adam and the I-TASC crew created a mid-range FM radio station. This involved installing and configuring FM transmitters and receivers, designing and erecting antennae in the Antarctic ice. The first prototype radio station began FM broadcasts on 29 December 2006.

The broadcasts consisted of radio art developed by r a d i o q u a l i a and hundreds of hours of music, radio art, sound art, DJ-sets, documentaries and podcasts produced by musicians, documentary makers, podcasters and DJs from around the world, collected via a public call for content.

This informal event will consist of a presentation about Polar Radio and a discussion about working in Antarctica, followed by a sound performance by r a d i o q u a l i a.

The talk will give an overview of the establishment of Radio SANAE, the first node of Polar Radio, in Antarctica, and will cover such salient points as:

* the role of radio in Antarctica
* how to build your own antenna from found objects
* what the net looks like over a 1k connection shared between 70 scientists
* can artists really teach scientists anything?
* common symptoms of contextual hyper neurosis

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LESS REMOTE
For the first time, the arts and humanities have been invited into the professional space explorers global meeting place -The International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow. Artists, thinkers and writers will contribute to debates about going back to the moon and on to Mars, living in space, art in zero gravity, the future of the International Space station and the search for life and human origins in scientific missions.

Less Remote features presentations by Tomas Saraceno, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Marko Peljhan, Zbigniew Oksuita, Rachel Armstrong, Andy Miah, Sarah Jane Pell, Nina Czegledy, Lowry Burgess and many other key contemporary figures who have worked either with space agencies or in the space context recently...website

Remixing the Masters
Four interviews by artist-filmmaker, Lynn Hershmann Leeson, partially shot in the virtual world of Second Life, Hershman Leeson and Tilda Swinton, pose questions to a selection of guests, including a politician, journalist, scientist and lawyer.

Subverting the distinction between real and simulated, the interviews explore interwoven themes of revolution, empowerment, technology and the remix. Each interview examines how new and mass media mechanisms have generated change and how cultural and technological infrastructures have shaped the ability of individuals to have social and political impact.

Gilberto Gil discusses his exile from Brazil and his involvement in The Tropicália movement, how after living and playing music in London, he returned to Brazil, eventually taking up the position of Minister for Culture, where he continues to promote free culture.

Elena Poniatowska, a renowned journalist and author dedicated to the promotion of equality and human rights, discusses how the mass media in South America remained silent at the time of the student massacres in Mexico in 1968 and how, through her use of publishing and distribution mechanisms, she inadvertently shifted state and cultural consciousness with an account of those events.

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who is credited with having identified “the aging gene” or Telomeres in our DNA discusses how this information shifts our understanding of who we are as humans, how in fact we are ourselves a genetic remix; and how advances in macro photographic processes have aided that revelation.

Lawrence Lessig, the mastermind behind Creative Commons, discusses open content licensing and how it will function globally in allowing people to use copy left to shift the boundaries of ownership and shared knowledge...website

RHIZOME: RADIO VILLAGE NOMADE
Rhizome are curating an online sound project and are interested in your participation.

This audio project, RadioVillageNomade, will take place, day by day, for 214 days over 7 months (May-Nov 2008) at La Corbiere in Switzerland. An audio play will be created using material contributed by invited artists and sound manipulators from all over the world. The "transmission" at this point is via our website, where a new mp3 is posted daily. The mp3s will be available for download with the intention that they be reused as raw material for new submissions. Selected pieces will also be broadcast on European public radio. At the end of the 214 days they will weave all submissions into a 24 hour audio play.

The aim of this project is to cultivate works out of sounds which were designed without the intent to distinguish themselves from others, sounds that highlight the ever changing moments that make up our collective realities. Each day's piece will be a "window" into a life and sound world different than our own. Recognizing that global politics currently impose a climate of demarcation between peoples, our goal is to provide a context for creative cooperation that supersedes nationality and ethnicity and finds common ground in art. Below is a basic description of the type of submission we are interested in for Radio Village Nomade. Creative approaches are HIGHLY encouraged.

In general, as few restrictions as possible are imposed. We ask that artists define for themselves what constitutes a moment in time and how that might be captured as audio.

Submissions should be mp3 files (320kbps), 7 seconds to 7 minutes in length. Please avoid merely posting tracks from albums; music is not discouraged but the composition should relate to a moment...website

The Kinetica season of talks at Bishopsgate Institute focuses on the groundbreaking ideas of the infamous and pioneering cybernetic Ratio Club of the 1950s through to the ICA's landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition of the late 1960s.

The series will offer an exciting overview of some of the most innovative thinkers and revolutionaries in the world of robotics and cybernetics this century. This series of panel discussions will be chaired by Kinetica Director Tony Langford. Events in the season include:

* Workshop: Artist Balint Bolygo presents New Technologies in Drawing 11 Oct 08, 1400-1800
* Talk: Art, Cybernetics and Robotics 14 Oct 08, 1930
* Talk: New Collaborations: Scientific Materials and Artistic Practice 28 Oct 08, 1930
* Talk: Man & Machine: The Convergence 11 Nov 08, 1930
* Workshop: Sound Performance Workshop with artist Ray Lee 15 Nov 08, 1400-1800
* Performance: RAY LEE: Force Field 20 Nov 08, 1930

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