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Here it goes, the first mailout of 2012.
Below you’ll find the events coming up in the next months.

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http://marcodonnarumma.com/next/february2012/

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Tags: liveness, gesture, biomedia, prosthesis, Pure Data, open NIME, award, body/music, body/hacking, seminar.

Pillow Talk – a series of projection for performance documentaries, organized by Japanese media artist Yamaguchi Noriko.
“Performances cannot be shared by people of all the time, however much appreciation they received. Since they are consumed immediately and become “something that happened” very soon, their records should be all the more important. However, documentary movies of performing arts have not had frequent chances to be projected.
This exhibition is to create that opportunity for ourselves. Lying on the floor of a comfortable space with high ceiling, why donʼ t you enjoy these unexplored movies with us?”

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Pillow Talk #3 took place last Saturday at the KCUA, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan.
The event included screenings of 3 performances hosted at this year WRO Biennale; namely, my audiovisual work I C::ntr::l Nature, along with works by Istvan Kantor, Megan May Daalder. The programme of Pillow Talk also included works by Ichihara Hiroko, Sako Kojima and Tomohiko Kyogoku.

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http://yamaguchinoriko.com/pt3/artist_wro.html
http://www.kcua.ac.jp/gallery/event/1948.html

In his memory I’m posting this awesome video (originally posted by Hans Christoph Steiner to the Pd list).

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Learn about Mathews work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mathews

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I forward this message originally posted by Simon Yuill to the Electron Club list.
I completely agree with his thoughts, and warmly suggest you to spend 3 minutes reading the open letter, to better realize what’s going on.
Thanks.

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Digital arts organisations have been especially hit by the cuts in funding with many groups who are internationally recognised as important pioneers having 100% cuts. This includes Access Space in Sheffield, the longest running hacklab space in the UK who have done more than anyone here to encourage the use of Free and Open Source Software and recycled technologies amongst the arts and community media. They helped Electron Club out when we started along with a few other projects in Scotland (such as Radius who did the Glasgow Green Map project).

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A copy of the letter is below, if you would like to add your name please do so here: http://www.coda2coda.net

From Jaromil, via Spectre mailing list

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http://PiXXXeL.net – made in Am*dam (and beyond!)
At PiXXXeL we focus on free and open source software practices, 360 degrees! and with direct participations of developers and pioneers living around or, as in this case, passing by the city of Amsterdam.
More precisely you’ll find us in Keizersgracht 264 at http://nimk.nl

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This mail announces our 3rd appointment of a regular series we are organizing during 2011 and this time we’ll focus on… MONEY : )
old media that can use a bit of an update – so free software developers are busy on it and there is some interesting running code to look at.
Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009, whose use online has grown during 2010 and is booming just as we are talking.

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http://pixxxel.net/bitcoin-digital-currency

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We’ll have a presentation of this technology by an experienced nomadic developer and bitcoin expert: Genjix – who is also a developer of free software solutions based on Blender and Crystal Space.
Then we’ll proceed with a Q&A session and a critical overview of the limits and, arguably, things that can be made better in Bitcoin, as well things that go wrong.

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You are all invited to be with us and brainstorm openly, but please register your presence with a mail to ilse@nimk.nl so that we can be sure we’ll accomodate everyone at NIMk.
Here some links to know more what we are talking about:

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http://www.bitcoin.org
http://genjix.freehostia.com
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets
http://www.silkroadmarket.org
http://DYNDY.net

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Please distribute to anyone interested,
ciao!

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PikselSavers – screensavers that makes a difference!

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PikselSavers is a screening programme of short movies and software art curated by the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway. The programme was selected based on an open call for participation and includes 10 contributions from artists working in a wide range of digital media and techniques. All works are made using Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

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PikselSavers take the screensaver as a point of departure and inspirational springboard. They are videos and software based on the screensaver format ? short audiovisual (non)narratives made for endless looping. Possible thematic fields includes but are not limited to: sustainable resource allocation, renewable technologies, energy harvesting, fair trade hardware, free content, open access, DIY economy, shared development.

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PikselSavers was comissioned by and first shown at the biennial for art and technology in Trondheim, Meta.Morf 2010 – New.Brave.World!, arranged by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre.

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More info: http://www.piksel.no/pulse/pikselsavers

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The new issue of thesaddj.com news aggregator is now on-line!

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Issue #23: news, articles, calls and events around open source culture, sonic research, new media art and shared knowledge.
Tags: festival, piksel report, sonification, xth sense, biotechnology, censorship, wearable DIY, scotland, workshops, LAC2011, data visualization.

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+ upcoming 2011 events.

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Read it here http://www.thesaddj.com/newsletter/feb11/index.html

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A provoking new work by italian duo Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico (Neural.it), mixing reality, social virtuality to possibly shedding some light on some of the most subtly vicious behaviours of our present society.
I have to say I was just expecting such kind of work to come out sooner or later, and this project fulfilled all my expectations.
Take a look by yourself. Follow an excerpt from the original press release.
Make sure you read the comprehensive information about the concept and development on their website.

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Press Release, February 10th, 2010. Somewhere in Europe.

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* Face to Facebook.
http://face-to-facebook.net

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Face to Facebook is a project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, who wrote special software to steal 1 million public profiles from Facebook, filtering them through face-recognition software and posting the resulting 250,000 profiles (categorized by facial expression) on a dating website called Lovely-Faces.com.
The project was launched at Transmediale, the annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, on February 2nd, in the form of installation displaying a selection of 1,716 pictures of unaware Facebook users, an explanatory video and a diagram detailing the whole process. The Lovely-Faces.com website went online on the same day.