There's a great new media artist resource located at
http://www.betaspace.org

There are many opportunities here for artists to view, submit, and/or
collaboratively create works of new media art.

Date: 7.22.03
From: Randall Packer (press@usdat.us)
Subject: Visitor Center Opens in Washington, DC

US Department of Art & Technology
Washington, DC
http://www.usdat.us
press@usdat.us
 

Press Secretary
For Immediate Release: July 22, 2003
 

Visitor Center Opens in Washington, DC
"Enter a Citizen, Exit a Revolutionary"

WASHINGTON, DC - On August 15th, 2003, the US Department of Art &
Technology opens its Visitor Center at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C. A special VIP pre-opening event will take place on
August 14th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. The Secretary and his staff, along with
military aides and secret service, will be on hand to greet visitors.
Curator Paul Brewer will host.

Two years ago, following 9/11, the President made a dramatic move to
embrace the arts through the creation of the US Department of Art &
Technology. The US DAT Visitor Center tells the story of how the
Department was formed by artists seeking to reclaim America's
Government. The appointment of Randall M. Packer as the Department's
first Secretary was one of the most radical decisions made in the
history of the White House. Packer's vision for the nation is "to
promote cultural growth, improved aesthetic standards for all Americans,
and to insure that the artist as visionary, as social revolutionary, has
voice in the national dialogue."

Only a block from the White House and just a short walk from the
nation's historic Mall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art stands as a major
center dedicated to the avant-garde. It is a place where culture
reflects everyday life and breaks through the illusion established by
the spectacle.

In choosing the Corcoran as the site of the US DAT Visitor Center,
Secretary Packer states, "The Corcoran is a remarkable institution that
believes art must be active within the culture, not owned by it. With
the museum's close proximity to the White House, we now realize our
ideals to reconstruct the environment in order to bring about new
behaviors through experimentation and propaganda."

The exhibit, with its theme, "Enter a Citizen, Exit a Revolutionary,"
features a unique collection of tactical media, information panels, and
a historical timeline detailing the chronology of the Department and its
extraordinary development. Also included is a video promoting the
Department's "Experimental Party," featuring speeches and announcements
by Secretary Packer, National Chairwoman Roberta Breitmore,
avatar-candidate for President Abe Golam, WeTheBlog.org founder Jeff
Gates, and the Exquisite Corpse. "We are proud to be able to bring our
story to the public's attention," said Tanya Spam, the Department's
Assistant Secretary of the Bureau for the Conservation and Preservation
of the Suspension of Disbelief, and an independent writer and editor in
Washington, DC.

The Visitor Center, which will be on exhibit through October 6, 2003,
was organized by the US Department of Art & Technology, the Corcoran
College of Art & Design, and the White House Office of Appropriations,
in cooperation with the National Park Service.

In conjunction with the show will be a 24/7 live web broadcast over
Tel-SPAN (usdat.us/tel-span), the telematic channel of the US Department
of Art & Technology, featuring up-to-the-minute proclamations, rants,
remixes, manifestos, and other forms of anarchist entertainment by sound
artists DJ Spooky, Rick Silva, Trace Reddell among others, as well as a
first glimpse of the Media Deconstruction Kit.

The US Department of Art & Technology Visitor Center, located at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St., N.W, Washington, D.C. from August
15 - October 6, will be open from 10 am to 5 pm daily. Closed every
Tuesday. Extended hours Thursday evenings until 9 pm and for special
Situational Events sponsored by the Department.

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Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
press@usdat.us

The US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdat.us

The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States principal
conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry
into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves
the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by
supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of
new media technologies into the social sphere.

The Experimental Party
http://www.experimentalparty.org

The Experimental Party - the "party of experimentation" - is an
artist-based political party that has been formed to activate citizens
across the country in an effort to bring the artists' message to center
stage of the political process. This is a political awakening,
'representation through virtualization' is the major political thrust of
the Experimental Party, it is the driving force. The Principal Artists
are Roberta Breitmore (created by Lynn Hershman), Jonah Brucker-Cohen,
Jeff Gates, Abe Golam (from Mark Amerika's Grammatron), Jon Henry
(Exquisite Corpse), Randall Packer, and Wesley Smith.

Tel-SPAN
http://www.usdat.us/tel-span

Tel-SPAN is a public service of the US Department of Art & Technology.
Its mission is to provide global access to the artistic process in an
increasingly cybernated society. Tel-SPAN provides its audience access
to live, real-time distribution of broad forms of cultural content, and
to other forums where critical artistic issues are discussed, debated
and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a
balanced presentation of all radical points of view. Tel-SPAN is
sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center and the
Open Source Streaming Alliance. The Principal Engineer is Joe Reinsel.

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Date: 7.25.03
From: Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah@coin-operated.com)
Subject: DATA::::EVENT::::13.0

+++ Please Forward Around to People Who Might Be Interested++
+++ Below is info on how to join the Mailing List as well +++

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DATA::::EVENT::::13.0
When: Tuesday, July 29th, 2003 - 7pm
Where: Stags Head Pub (Upstairs Room), Dame Lane, Dublin, Ireland

DATA 13.0 wont be unlucky! Featuring presented work by artists/designers
Romek Delimata (747-X Flight Simulator), Niki Gomez (Cybersalon.org),
Rebecca Allen (MLE, UCLA, Virtual Reality), Short Film by Aki Aro
(AKUMA) + special guests, screenings/animations and more!!

All D.A.T.A. events are FREE and open to the public!

More info on DATA 13 Presenters:

Romek Delimata URL:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~romek/sim_site/Page_1x.html
Romek is an artist / motion-picture special effects designer based in
Dublin, Ireland. For the past five years he has built a homeade 747-X
flight simulator (from the discarded cockpit of an Aer Lingus Boeing
747) in a shipping container behind his studio space. The simulator has
all of its original controls and interfaces to an EPIC capture card and
is networked to computers running a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
The simulator is currently on exhibition at EuroJet Futures exhibition
at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. He's also worked on films such
as Braveheart, Behind Enemy Lines, and Flight of the Pheonix. exhibit
URL: http://www.royalhibernianacademy.com/HTML/upcom/eurojet03.html

Niki Gomez URLs: http://www.watermans.org.uk/ http://www.cybersalon.org/
Niki is head of new media arts at Watermans arts centre, West London
which consists of gallery, theatre and cinema spaces. Previously, she
headed Cybersalon, a monthly independent event at the ICA, London which
brings together digital artists, business and education to discuss ideas
and showcase new work. Cybersalon has given birth to Cybersonica -
London's only festival of electronic music and sound art. Niki has an
MSc in Interactive Multimedia and has worked in new media building web
sites, teaching and writing. Previously Niki worked for the
Cybertheatre, Brussels, the world's first arts venue devoted solely to
digital art- www.nirvanet.com. She has also worked in Brussels in the
European Commission and Parliament in areas of Media and Human Rights.

Rebecca Allen URL: http://www.rebeccaallen.com
Rebecca Allen is an internationally recognized media artist inspired by
the potential of advanced technology, the aesthetics of motion and the
study of behavior. Her work, which blurs the boundaries between physical
reality and virtual reality, between biological life and artificial
life, takes the form of interactive art installations, computer animated
films and live multimedia performances. Allen received a BFA from Rhode
Island School of Design and MS from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She was a member of the Architecture Machine Group at MIT
(now known as MIT Media Lab) followed by the NYIT Computer Graphics
Laboratory, a world renowned computer animation research center. She was
founding co-director of the UCLA Center for DigitalArts and founding
chair of the UCLA Department of Design |Media Arts, where she is
currently a professor.

Aki Aro
Aki is a Dublin-based audio-visual artist. He is currently working as a
graphic designer and a music producer. His main interest at the moment is in
digital video and audio production.

AKUMA Synopsis
The past comes to haunt Richard when a data CD is delivered to his door.
The virtual ghost of Hans, a man Richard once set up for a murder, is
hungry for revenge. Hans traps Richard into the virtual-reality world.
Richard's friend Lynn is trying to trace a strange computer signal with
a computer hacker. The signal happens to be the very same signal that
Hans is controlling. Lynn becomes Hans' next victim.
 

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Please bring your work to show! We encourage
people to bring projects/ works in
progress/ideas/and any other types of media to
show/perform the night of the event or just think
is cool and think others should know about it!

If you have something specific in mind please
contact us beforehand to arrange for specific
equipment, etc.. Thanks!

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ABOUT D.A.T.A.:

Dublin Art and Technology Association D.A.T.A. Group

The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) is a group formed with
the intention of promoting, exploring, discussing, and exhibiting art
and technology in Ireland and the world. Based in Dublin, DATA is built
on the idea that collaboration between artists, musicians,
technologists, and academia is the key element in creating a rich
cultural environment for the dialogue and conception of technological
art practices. We aim to create an informal space where art and
technology can meet and allow people from multiple backgrounds to come
together, collaborate, and explore new directions and art practices.

DATA is dedicated to both showcasing the work of local technologists,
musicians, and artists using technology as well as providing a meeting
point for the intersection of these disciplines.

Our aim is to encourage collaboration between group and non/group
members and support an open forum for ideas, practice, and presentation.
All forms of art and tech are welcome for showing at the group events -
from interactive work to net-based projects to digital video to audio
projects to theatrical performances to installations - and we will be
asking for an open call for people to present their projects at the
various events and venues around Dublin.

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Contact Info:
Website: http://www.data.ie
To Join Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/datagroup/

Co-Founders:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah@coin-operated.com)
Nicky Gogan (nicky_gogan@yahoo.com)

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All D.A.T.A. events are FREE and open to the public

JEFF GOMPERTZ  /  FAKESHOP:  PROJECTS FOR 3 ASIAN CITIES

Opening Reception & Artist Presentation:   August 7, 2003   7pm - 9pm

Gallery Hours:     August 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21   1pm - 4pm

Arts International Gallery
251 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor
Corner of E. 20th Street & Park Avenue South
RSVP: (212) 674-9744, Ext. 218

Click here for on-line press release, including images and more
information: http://artsinternational.org/whats_new/gompertz.htm

Combining Net technologies with traditional tools of multi-media
production, Jeff Gompertz has been creating web specific installations
and installation specific websites since 1995. Built around contemporary
themes, these projects incorporate architectural, digital video/imaging,
net broadcasting, audio and performance. Since the founding of the
artist collective Fakeshop (www.fakeshop.com) in 1997, his production
methods have included bringing these elements to work in collaborative
projects. Winner of a Pollock-Krasner award and exhibited at the Whitney
Museum, Deitch Projects, Eyebeam, Franklin Furnace, and Gavin Brown,
among many other galleries and museums internationally, Gompertz is
perhaps best known for his interactive Japanese capsule hotel projects,
installed at The Kitchen in 2001 and included in the Cooper Hewitt
Museum's New Hotels for Global Nomads exhibition in 2003.

At Arts International, Gompertz will make a presentation of works
currently in progress/proposal form to be realized at architectural
sites in three Asian cities:  the Hanoi Army Museum in Hanoi, Vietnam;
the skeleton buildings of downtown Bangkok, Thailand; and the Russian
Cultural Center/Gem Mining Company in Vientianne, Laos.  Combining
elements of installation, digital imaging, video-conferencing, and
web-design to create "architectural interventions" at each site, the
projects will also include collaborations with local artists and
performers to explore the social, political, and historical context of
each chosen site.  The presentation at Arts International will also
include media documentation of the award-winning capsule hotel project
already completed with the cooperation of owner/operators of capsule
hotels in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, made possible with help from the Japan
Foundation, Franklin Furnace and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.   On the
afternoon of August 7th, Gompertz and architect Jose Salinas will
preview these three new proposals in a mixed-media format.

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From: Shana Ting Lipton (3kan@sbcglobal.net)
Subject: BIO-ART FEATURE, Nantes, France 2003

ART IMITATES LIFE-SCIENCE
The Bio-Art Movement Finds (Cultures & Grows) Its Wings in France
Text and photos: Shana Ting Lipton

NANTES, France-
This was the birthplace of science fiction writer Jules Verne. And
during World War I, it was here that surrealist king pin André Breton
met a wounded soldier in a hospital ward whose conviction that art was
nonsense was one of the catalysts for the Surrealism and Dada art
movements. Verne was a writer who read scientific journals and
incorporated them into his fantastical literary works. Breton and his
ilk, called upon the Freudian world of psychoanalysis and dreams for
inspiration in their artistic forays. These crude and early hybrids of
the arts were conceived here in Nantes. They crossed boundaries and
found ways to marry science and art. It's March 13th, 2003. It's a
chilly, gray day in downtown Nantes. A walk over a bridge and just past
some railroad tracks takes me to the foot of the huge cement building.
It used to be the LU biscuit factory, but just three years ago it was
transformed into the cultural center, Le Lieu Unique. Founded by 'the
French pope of alternative culture' Jean Blaise. Its raison-d'être is to
provide an all-purpose locale (café/bar, gallery, lecture space,
bookstore, restaurant) where the arts and everyday life can seamlessly
co-habitate, far from the alienating snobbery of the Paris art scene.
It's a sort of casual open forum for diverse ideas.

For the next couple of months, the image of a large fluorescent green
rabbit is draped over the side of Le Lieu Unique (known to locals in its
former nomenclature, LU). Beneath it are the words "L'Art Biotech"
(translation: bio-art), heralding a two-month long exhibit and a one-day
symposium in the name of a growing art-meets-science movement.

Full article at:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/3kan/bio-art-1.html

More articles, blog, info, etc.:
www.shanatinglipton.com