REFF - REMIX THE WORLD! REINVENT REALITY!

Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Private View: Friday 25 February 6.30-9pm with Live Performance by Garrett Lynch at 7.30pm
Special guests on the night: Dr. Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, Garrett Lynch, Quayola, and Eleonora Oreggia aka XNAME.

In a world where individuals and communities are connected via real-time technologies in a state of mutual hyper-presence, what does it mean that our interactions can be traced and viewed by people unknown to us? Can we claim these effects to consciously produce new realities and create new adventures beyond given structures and stories? Can we remix our realities?

REFF - REMIX THE WORLD! REINVENT REALITY! at Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP) offers tools and strategies to explore different ways of 'being' with others physically and virtually to intervene in the world. Let's see what we can do..." Furtherfield.

Italian artist duo Art is Open Source (AOS) and Fake Press will present an ongoing exhibition of their latest project, REFF (RomaEuropaFakeFactory). REFF presents itself as a fake institution, designing crafted applications and invasive practices; a book; an urban performance; and an augmented reality drug that creates alternative, stratified, mashed-ups, remixed worlds. In the AOS scenario the drug reinvents reality and the artists are “pushers”, distributing an illegal substance around the world.

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offf festival

OFFF is an entity in continuous transformation, alive and evolutionary. More than a decade ago, it was born as a post-digital culture festival; a meeting place to host contemporary creation through an in depth programme of conferences, workshops and performances by the most relevant artists of our time.

These days, OFFF keeps being a reference event throughout the world. A festival hosted in Barcelona, New York, Lisbon and Paris which has featured renowned artists such as Joshua Davis, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Neville Brody, Kyle Cooper, The Mill, Digital Kitchen, Ben Fry & Casey Reas, Golan Levin, Chris Milk, Rob Chiu, Julien Vallée, Paula Scher, Rick Poynor, Erik Spiekermann, Dvein, Erik Natzke, Vincent Moon, Ze Frank, Alex Trochut, among others…The festival where a new generation of artists has originated and developed. All of them started attending OFFF as spectators. Today, they take up its main stage.

The OFFF phenomenon has also produced the creation of an extensive international network of artists, developers, theorists and even more importantly, people who love art in all its multiple expressions: students, fans, professionals and the curious. People who want to show what they do, to discover what others do and, above all to share their knowledge and their desires to inspire and to be inspired.

Additionally, the OFFF network includes a teaching centre, OFFF Atelier, a continuous presence in the web 2.0 and a permanent group of artists, organizers and producers ready to host OFFF events wherever they are in demand.

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STRP Festival

STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology (e-culture) festivals in Europe, that fuses music art and technology. The multidisciplinary program is a mix of a 360- degree experience with adventure which appeal to a wide audience. At STRP there are projects of young game designers next to major works from the international art circuit and experimental live cinema next to succesful pop artists and DJs. At STRP you find interactive art, light art, robotics, concerts, DJs, theatrical and dance performances, experimental music, interviews, discussion, live cinema, films, lectures, video art, animation and workshops.

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Video Art Festival Miden

Kalamata / Greece

Video Art Festival Miden is ready to strike again this summer inviting
us on a journey to the visual universe of cotemporary global
video-creation. An adventurous as much as delightful trip to the
thoughts and quests of the avant-garde video-artists of the new
generation who reflect the most sharp and interesting trends of
contemporary art.

Festival Miden will take place at the traditional neighborhoods of
Kalamata’s Historic Centre, at Amfias square, in July 8-10, 2010 (9.30
pm), with free entrance.

Attached to this e-mail you will find the Press Release and the poster
of the festival.

Detailed screening program at www.festivalmiden.gr
http://www.festivalmiden.gr/deltiatypou_eng.html

E-mail: info@festivalmiden.gr

ESCOLAB

Este grupo se ha creado para invitarte al ESCOLAB, LABoratorio COLaborativo EStival.

Un encuentro creativo que realizaremos del 19 al 29 de agosto de 2010 (ambos incluidos), cerca del Santuario de Bellmunt (Sant Pere de Torelló), en medio de un entorno rural. Este lugar es Nautarkia, un espacio en la naturaleza concebido y creado desde el código abierto para jugar, compartir y crear.

Durante estos once días tenemos previsto reunir a un centenar de personas, donde habrá creadores audiovisuales, programadores, artistas escénicos, periodistas, pensadores de arte contemporáneo, electrónicos, sociólogos, psicólogos, activistas sociales, físicos, campesinos y un largo etcétera de viejos y nuevos amigos que nos han acompañado durante la larga trayectoria de la asociación Telenoika.

La idea es utilizar los tres primeros días para conocernos y poner sobre la mesa los intereses y conocimientos de todos para concebir pequeños o grandes proyectos que desarrollaremos el resto de días. Proponemos un juego en un espacio y unas normas creadas por los propios jugadores donde viviremos una fuerte experiencia de convivencia social, política y creativa.

Desde Telenoika nos encargaremos de adecuar el espacio y las infraestructuras técnicas y humanas para conseguir un medio adecuado para poder desarrollar la EscoLab, carpas, instalaciones de agua, eléctricas, de red, transporte desde Sant Pere de Torelló hasta Nautarkia, un equipo profesional de cocina, etc.

Los participantes haremos acampada libre en prados cercanos, aunque disponemos de un número reducido de camas en habitaciones en una masía cercana que podremos turnarnos entre nosotros en función de las necesidades físicas de cada uno. También te agradeceríamos que nos hicieras saber si tienes alguna necesidad especial tanto para comer como dormir.

A cada participante pedimos que se lleve su propio material de trabajo, equipo de acampada y una contribución para pagar el coste de la comida que consumirá durante los once días del encuentro que hemos estimado en 140euros. En caso de venir menos dias sale a 15€/dia.


aterrizaje del 19 al 29 de agosto de 2010 en Sant Pere de Torelló
[Nautarkia, un espacio en la naturaleza concebido y creado desde el código abierto para jugar, compartir y crear]

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Interferenze

This year, in its fifth edition, Interferenze offers an unusual writing of the natural environment which, through rural landscapes, outlying lands and the "inappropriate places" catches a glimpse of the ultimate sense of a complex action of a semantic reclaiming of identity and sustainability of territories.

"Rural 2.0" is a new way of looking at rurality starting from the territory itself, but overcoming it's mere sense by communicating it as a mirror through which it is possible to read our contemporary times even in the aspects related to urban cultures; it allow us to see it as a way of life that opens up to a metropolitan dimension and to its fast changes, giving value not only gives to the impact on the environment but as well on society and culture.

In this sense, the rural territory is seen as a (new) medium through which we are able to re-draw and re-read the environment through an open and unique perception of boarder areas, such as cultural, aesthetic and social spaces.

www.interferenze.org

PROYECTOR 2010

Ha pasado más de medio siglo desde que artistas y creadores transformaran el uso de la televisión y comenzaran a investigar con las pri meras grabadoras digitales; sin embargo, el videoarte se considera aún como una especie de moda, temporal y novedosa. En España, desde hace al menos una década, se suceden numerosos festivales y exhibiciones que apuestan por formatos de video para sus iniciativas.

La intención de PROYECTOR 2010 es realizar una pequeña pero variada muestra de videoarte internacional, invitando a variados comisarios especializados para que nos presenten sus últimas programaciones y participen en el ciclo de mesas redondas donde también los propios artistas podrán exponer y comentar sus trabajos.
El festival se complementa por dos talleres donde se analizarán las diferentes etapas de la creación de una pieza de vídeo y cuyos resultados serán el objeto de una exhibición durante el festival, se invitará a distintos agentes culturales a presentar proyectos, así como se realizará un ciclo de videoperformance, coordinado por Ana Matey.

Como diría el videoman Fernando Llanos "Videemos".
Mario Gutiérrez Cru

proyectorvideoartfestival.blogspot.com