digitalisms

forwardretreat:

Why does the Internet respond as it does to the work of Jeff Koons? I believe that Koons’s work provokes a particularly vehement response in the digital world, and I want to find out why.

Because, even in the best circumstances, it resembles troll-baiting a little too much.

Love this series of images from (19-year-old!) Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi in which she imagines the weird hypothetical real-life models of some of art history’s most famous abstracted portraits. via Colossal

Sneak preview of the sweet #ArtsTech swag for the Unconference tomorrow! Tote bag design by the incredible @mariuswatz!

artstech:

OH HEY, CHECK OUT THE AWESOME FEATURED SESSIONS AT OUR UPCOMING #ARTSTECH UNCONFERENCE!

We’re gearing up for a full day of art & tech nerdery and revelry at the #ArtsTech Unconference on Saturday, April 27th. The event will bring together:

- Arts professionals and artists who are using digital media to connect with audiences

- Artists using technology in their creative practice

- Arts & tech start-ups

We asked the #ArtsTech community to submit some ideas for featured sessions, and have selected the best ones from the incredible ideas we received.

Join us on the 27th to participate in one of these sessions or come to lead one of your own. RSVP HERE:

http://artstech-unconference.eventbrite.com/

Session Type: Panel discussions and case studies dealing with digital strategy, social media, online identity management for individuals and organizations.

Teaching Engineers About Art

Presenter: Daniel Doubrovkine

This presentation will explain how engineers and art historians worked together to create the Art Genome Project for Artsy. Daniel will explore the tools and methods used in this exciting collaboration between art and science.

Performing Arts for a Wired 21st Century Audience

Presenter: Kathryn Jones

The performing arts industry is in a crisis - audiences continue on a 30 year declines, revenues are falling and there are fewer jobs in the performing arts today than there were in 1990. However, the truth is that the audience isn’t actually in decline, it’s online. This panel discussion will explore this change and how the performing arts can adapt to remain relevant today through through live streaming and other digital productions.

Multimedia Storytelling

Presenter: Brendan Schlagel

Brendan will lead a discussion on how multimedia is changing the nature of storytelling. He will explore everything from specific creative techniques and the pragmatics of telling an engaging story to the fundamental principles that will guide this field forward.

The Audience as Users

Presenter: Ben Elgart

Artists and creative technologists now engage their audiences not just as recipients or participants, but also as users. Methods from a user-centered design approach can help refine your vision to ensure that it opens the appropriate dialogue for your audience. This overview will provide a framework to think about your process and help you identify what techniques will advance your work and when to put them into action.

The Top Ten Strategies for Mastering Social Media in Real Time

Presenters: Susi Kenna & Lucy Redoglia

From press conferences to live performances to public art to high-profile parties—topics will touch on planning techniques, tools of the trade, managing participation, post-event tips and how to be a live tweeting pro. From the initial discussion, participants will compile a useful guide to planning and executing timely social media campaigns.

Session Type: Theoretical discussions around art and digital technology, touching on new media art, media theory, and the aesthetics of code.

Concepts, Code and Creativity

Presenter: Robert Strati    

This roundtable discussion led by Robert Strati explores issues concerning the conceptual connections and trends between contemporary art and technology. Participants will look at examples such as GLI.TC/H Conference, ArtStack, and Mechanical Turk to examine what the current landscape reveals about our intellectual and creative state.

Tactile New Media - Digital Arts meets Traditional Craft

Presenter: Ken Amarit

Part demo, part presentation, part discussion, Tactile New Media explores the role traditional crafting plays in creating works that are ultimately digital. Ken Amarit will begin this session with a demo of his game, Voyager, crafted from wool, stop-motion animated and digitized video game.

Beyond the Algorithm: The Content of Tech Art

Presenter: Carla Gannis

Beyond the Algorithm will discuss the work of artstech practitioners generating critically and socially engaged content. Topics will include how digital artists use current social networks to traverse class stratification and ethnic divides and why does exclusion still exist once artists are off the network and in the gallery?

1 Second Everyday

Presenter: Cesar Kuriyama

After years working in advertising and frustrated with his memory, Cesar Kuriyama took a year off to record 1 Second Everyday, documenting every moment in his life. Kuriyama will present the project as well as the much-lauded iPhone App.

Group (Art) Therapy for the Lonely Digital Genius

Presenter: Dr. Lori Kent

Feeling isolated, stuck in a silo? Visual arts professor and creativity expert, Dr. Lori Kent leads this (fake) therapy session on digital silos, isolation, tribes, and the 21st century environments in the applied arts and technology.

Session Type: Performance

Blogologues: The Internet Performed

Presenters: Allison Goldberg & Jen Jamula

A discussion about why social media is relevant to theater, and how it’s changing storytelling, how theater artists can embrace tech more wholeheartedly, and possible performance of 1-3 short sketches based on live tweets from Unconference participants

Session Type: Hands-on workshop with moderate to advanced technical skills required.

Spacebrew Workshop

Presenter: Julio Terra

One hour hands-on workshop about Spacebrew – a project of the LAB, to build an open, dynamically re-routable software toolkit for choreographing interactive spaces.

Digital Sound Manipulations

Presenter: Michael Feld

A workshop on using every day sounds and objects as instruments as a source for digital music and sonic possibilities. Participants will gain hands on experience working with electronic instruments, working together as an ensemble, and how to use this art form as a teaching tool.

 Beautiful Code

Presenter: Zeeshan Lakhani

A presentation aimed at those without the background in the theory behind programming semantics and design patterns, to show how coding as a discipline that is just as important as the outcome or product of the code itself.  Participants will leave knowing how to write better code for collaboration, and recognize some of the elegant abstractions and paradigms that are generalized across the board for all programming languages.

 Vine-POPS

Presenter: Miriam Simun

The session will include a short presentation on the history and socio-technical history of POPS (Privately-Owned Public Spaces), a short presentation and ‘how-to-tips’ on making compelling VINE videos, and then a 20 minute sojurn into the three POPS in Astor Place, where participants will make their own VINE-POPS.

Session Type: Hands-on workshop, no technical skills required

How Do You See Yourself? A Wearable Tech Workshop

Presenter: Sylvia Heisel

Experimental workshop where users will play with and photograph themselves wearing new tech materials and non-traditional clothing items such as reflective thread, tyvek, and LEDs.

How to Be a (Secret) Change Agent in Your Organization

Presenters: Jen Leavitt & Michelle Paul

Participatory workshop that hopes to engage everyone in thinking about what makes an organizational change successful.

 

I love Aram Bartholl’s new curatorial project, which brings net art offline,  but I’m not sold on Dot Dash 3, the most recent incarnation of the virtual gallery. This time with “patented technology.”

hyperallergic:

What’s the Best Way to Show Digital Art, Both Online and Off?

Screen shot of a gallery in Dot Dash 3, of the “Animate Me” group show

What’s the best way to show…

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You can do so much with RGB! Check out these trippy GIFs of a the “New Troglodytes” cave. 

Studio visit with @micahganske to see his amazing 3D printed sculpture. This one took 700hrs to make! Made on a MakerBot Replicator 1.

bookstacks:

martinaboone:

The Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut via Kami Garcia

Pick up the books of Mr. Vonnegut from the library! Click here! 

(via kchayka)