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'::::' :: :: _________________________________________________________________ FINEART Forum October 1, 1992 Volume 6 : Number 10 _________________________________________________________________ Contents: Editorial: Roger Malina ARTEC 93: Roger Malina FISEA: Roman Verostko International Sculpture Exhibition: Alexandre Vitkine Networked Virtual Art Museum: Carl Loeffler Exhibit: Wade Riddick MANIFESTATION FOR THE UNSTABLE MEDIA IV: Wim van der Plas Call for Papers: Michael Benedikt Lecture by Michele Emmer: Roger Malina Vilem Flusser Network: Roger Malina Telenoia: Alex Adriaansens Correction: Nancy Nelson New Subscribers: Nancy Nelson __________________________________________ Fineart Forum to suspend publication; Leonardo Electronic News to Continue ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Roger Malina, Executive Editor, Fineart Forum. I regret to inform our readers that we have been informed by CRSS Architects Inc that they are terminating prematurely their grant to Leonardo. CRSS Inc is having severe financial difficulties due to the continuing recession and have terminated a number of programs initiated with Leonardo last year. As a result of the loss of this financial support, Leonardo is forced to suspend temporarily the publication of Fineart Forum. Fineart Forum is published by Leonardo on behalf of the Art, Science, Technology Network. Interested organisations who may be interested in taking over publication of Fineart Forum should contact me at rmalina@cea.berkeley.edu. Fineart Forum is a free electronic newsletter published from information submitted by its readers and re-disseminated as a service to the community. Leonardo will continue to publish it's electronic newsletter Leonardo Electronic News on a monthly basis and encourages readers of Fineart Forum and Leonardo Electronic News to continue to submit electronically items for publication in Leonardo Electronic News. Items which cannot be accommodated in Leonardo Electronic News will continue to be posted on Leonardo's on-line data base FAST and published on the FAST diskette. Many of these items will also be included in the Leonardo Resource Directory to be published by MIT Press in 1993. We also encourage our readers to send in suggestions on how electronic newsletters such as Fineart Forum and Leonardo Electronic News can find ways to obtain earned income to defray the publication costs. Leonardo has published electronic newsletters biweekly since 1988 in the belief that these services are of great value to the art and technology community. In the past we have been fortunate to receive corporate support from the Maxwell Foundation, the Macmillan Foundation and CRSS Architects Inc which have defrayed the costs of these newsletters which have been provided free to the readers. We continue to be committed to finding ways to continue these electronic newsletters, but feel that at this point innovative approaches will be needed to ensure that these services can continue. We thank readers of the electronic newsletters who have sent small donations to Leonardo in response to previous calls for contributions. Even small donations from a fraction of the 1000s of readers of Fineart Forum and Leonardo Electronic News would make it possible for us to continue these services. Leonardo is a 501 (c)(3) non profit corporation so that in the US donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Your contributions, as well as ideas on the future of how electronic newsletters can be developed and survive may be sent to: Dr Craig Harris, Executive Director, Leonardo/ISAST, 672 South Van Ness, San Francisco, Ca 94110, USA. Phone 1-415-431-7414, Fax 415-431-5737. Donations may also be sent by email with a Visa or Mastercard number with expiration date to isast@garnet.berkeley.edu Attention: Annie Lewis. We look forward to hearing from you ! ___________________________________________ Date: 24 September 1992 From: Roger Malina Subject: Artec '93 ARTEC '93 The Third International Biennale in Nagoya 23 April - 6 June 1993 An event of art and technology, consisting of four main parts; international competition & exhibition, open competition & exhibition, lighting & illumination and a symposium. Closing date for entries: 31 October 1992 Send enquiries to: The Open Competition, The Council for the International Biennale in Nagoya, c/o the Chunichi Shimbun, 1-7-1, Sannomaru, Naka-ku, Nagoya, 460-11, Japan, tel: 052 221 0753, fax: 052 221 0739. ___________________________________________ Date: 09 June 1992 From: Roman Verostko Subject: FISEA FISEA 93 * Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art Minneapolis, Minnesota/USA/November 3-7, 1993 Hosted by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, host for FISEA 93, is coordinating regional, national and international initiatives to make this a lively "state of the art" forum. The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and Leonardo, the International Society for Art Science and Technology, endorse this Symposium which will build on foundations established at Utrecht (FISEA 88), Groningen (SISEA 90), and Sydney (TISEA 92). Committed to an exchange of ideas among professionals on the practice and theory of electronic art, this symposium presently plans to: - exhibit recent art which uses electronics: animation, 2-D art, "tele-art", and concert/performance arts. - present papers and panels on research, technology and theory related to art and electronics. - present workshops (Nov 3-4) on "state of the art" research and technology associated with art and electronics. - present papers and panels on historical and philosophical issues related to this art. - publish proceedings and documentation of exhibitions. - provide a forum for professional poster sessions. - provide a trade show. Through a call for participation, to be issued later this year, this Minneapolis symposium will draw electronic artists and scientists into greater dialogue with humanities scholars and vice versa. Papers addressing philosophical issues, critical language and historical context will be included. We anticipate a lively mix of exhibitions and installations with discussions exploring continuities between these on- going electronic arts activities and historical art traditions. The symposium welcomes artists, scientists, philosophers and art historians to participate in this critical dialogue. Preliminary program plans are now under way. If you or your organization ia able to contribute some service, please be in touch with us. FISEA 93 Minneapolis College of Art & Design 2501 Stevens Avenue, South Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA tel: 01 612 874 3754 fax: 01 612 874 3732 email: fisea93@mcad.edu Roman Verostko tel/fax: 01 612 822 3800 email: roman@mcad.edu ___________________________________________ Date: 24 June 1992 From: Alexandre Vitkine Subject: International Sculpture Exhibition CALL FOR PARTICIPATION An INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCULPTURE EXHIBITION is planned to take place in Paris in the near future. An art gallery in Paris seems interested, and several artists, including Masaki Fujihata, are ready to participate. The purpose of the exhibition is to make the project for the International Computer Sculpture Atelier more widely known, especially to potential sponsors. Purpose of the Computer Sculpture Atelier: In this Atelier, artists will be able to produce sculptures on computer-controlled machines. Graphic artists could add a third dimension to their works, sculptors could experiment with a new tool and students could be trained. This symbiosis of Science, Industry and Art may be of universal interest, since apparently only a few experiments of this kind have been carried out. Therefore the Atelier could provide a prestigious showcase for manufacturers' most recent equipment. Various techniques may be used, such as milling, loviformage (coilforming by welding), stereolithography, joining or stacking of plates cut out with tools such as lasers or water jets. Current status of the Atelier project: Artists in several countries and schools are already interested. A technical school near Paris, which has produced several sculptures for the originator of the project, is willing to produce the Atelier if funds are provided. More potential participants, as well as sponsors willing to donate funds or equipment, are still being sought. Artists who have produced computer sculptures or who intend to produce some in 1992 and are interested in participating in the exhibition are encouraged to contact: Alexandre Vitkine 66, rue d'Auguesseau 92100 Boulogne FRANCE ___________________________________________ Date: 22 August 1992 From: Carl Loeffler Subject: Networked Virtual Art Museum STUDIO FOR CREATIVE INQUIRY FAX: (412) 268-2829 TEL: (412) 268-3452 ANNOUNCING: Networked Virtual Art Museum Technical Demonstration, to be conducted at Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds of Learning, Munich, Germany, September 10-11, 1992 The Networked Virtual Art Museum is a project directed by Carl Eugene Loeffler, Research Fellow, at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, CMU. The pioneering project investigates telecommunications and virtual reality, and provides a basis for multiple users located in distant geographical locations to be conjoined in the same virtual, immersion environment. The project employs telecommunication hardware, as well as the hardware associated with virtual reality: data eyephones and multi-directional navigation devices. The immersion environment is an art museum, which contains galleries offering exhibitions. The exhibition presented for the Munich demonstration is conceived by Director Carl Eugene Loeffler and is titled Fun House. While based on the traditional concept of the fun house, the exhibition features advanced programming concepts such as agents with Artificial Intelligence, mirrors offering reflections, and a game room which explores gravity and other aspects of physics illustrated by thrown objects. Considered as a whole, the project is on the advancing edge of telecommunications thru the exploration of immersion environments, networked over long distance, while supporting multiple users. The use of agents, and the articulation of physics and other details like reflective mirrors, places the project at the forefront of the design of virtual worlds. The Networked Virtual Art Museum utilizes the WorldToolKit, a virtual world development software, available from Sense8 Corporation. The Virtual Research head mounted display, and the Ascension Technology 6-D mouse (The Bird), and 486/50 compatible with DVI and MIDI comprise the basic system hardware. The first public demonstration of the project will take place September 10-11, in conjunction with Expedition 92: Launching New Worlds of Learning, held in Munich, Germany., under the auspices of UNESCO and the Commission of the European Community. Expedition 92 conducts two days of keynote addresses, workshops, and technical demonstrations. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Eugene Loeffler Project Director Telecommunications and Virtual Reality Studio for Creative Inquiry College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University Tel: (412) 268-3452 FAX: (412) 268-2829 Email: cel@andrew.cmu.edu ___________________________________________ Date: 31 August 1992 From: Wade Riddick Subject: Exhibit Wade Riddick will be showing his interactive abstract kinetic computer art in the 6th floor gallery of the Bass Concert Hall at the University of Texas during the run of "Evita" (Sept.8-13). His program, "Video Crawlpaper" runs on a 24bit color Macintosh equipped with a touch screen. Users can use their fingers to tour various abstract shapes, control their motions, their colors and a number of other things. The software is part of a display of graduate student art and can be seen one hour before the show and during the intermission. "E vita" runs Tuesday - Friday starting at 8p.m. and Saturday at 2p.m. and 8p.m. and Sunday at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Those interested can contact Wade Riddick at his email address for more information. A demonstration version of the software is available for free. ___________________________________________ Date: 4 September 1992 From: Wim van der Plas Subject: MANIFESTATION FOR THE UNSTABLE MEDIA IV MANIFESTATION FOR THE UNSTABLE MEDIA IV --------------------------------------- V2 Organisation September 26th-October 4th, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands The annual festival of the V2-Organisation is this year focussed to the influence of electronic media on visual arts and architecture. We would like to establish a relation between art and architecture, because both have come across similar problems. There is a newly created electronic space where immateriality rules. The disintegration of traditional time and space questions our rapidly vanishing social structures (social, political and cultural) as constructed last centuries and which have always been the motivation for art and architecture. In different ways the artwork is under question. Traditional relations and the hierarchy between the artwork, the observer and the artist are put to question by an artform that is time based and interactive. The shift is from a closed decision-defined work to an open and non-defined system, from object oriented art to a context and observer oriented art. The fragmentation caused by the new media devaluates ideology (as a base for society) or better put: it makes it possible for all ideologies to be valid at the same time. The western cities with their pluriform content in both ethnical and religious aspect show this already. How does all this affect our architecture? How can our art and architecture deal with the immaterial tendencies in our society that seems to deny the body or gives a different view on the human body as being a big failure and far from sufficient in the frame of the possibilities that new technologies give us. Or should we see these developments more positive and cross new frontiers by applying the new technologies as prosthesis that can help us cross these borders? How can we establish an art and architecture that deals with the new conceptions of time and space? Symposium. On Friday October 2nd an international group of artists, architects and writers will discuss issues as mentioned above. Interactive Artworks An exhibition os artworks will be presented at the V2 building. The works demonstrate what kind of art the new conceptions of time and space as performed in electronic space could bring. Most of them also question the traditional relationship between the artwork-observer-artist. The works vary from VR based works to videoworks. Maquette Exhibition A small maquette exhibition will be realized in cooperation with the Technical University of Eindhoven(NL). The maquettes will show the change in interpreting time and space in models in the last century. There will be models of the military academy, road constructions and models from the TU in Eindhoven. This exhibition will take place outside the V2 building. For more information please contact: V2 Organisation Muntelstraat 23, 5211 PT 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Tel : 31-73-137958, Fax : 31-73-122238 ___________________________________________ Date: 16 September 1992 From: Michael Benedikt Subject: Call for Papers ******************* A n n o u n c e m e n t *************** a n d -------- CALL FOR PROPOSALS, ABSTRACTS, AND PAPERS --------- 3 C Y B E R C O N F THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE MAY 14 and 15, 1993 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ********************************************************************** The Third Conference on Cyberspace will be held May 14 and 15, 1993 at The University of Texas at Austin. This is a call for proposals for performances and demonstrations as well as for extended abstracts and papers, approximately twenty four of which will be selected by the Program Committee for development and presentation at the Conference. Selected papers, abstracts, and proposal documents will be published as The Collected Papers of the Third Conference on Cyberspace and available at the Conference. Arrangements are being made to broadcast parts of the Conference on National Community Cable Television. Papers should be around 6,000 words. Abstracts and proposals for performances and demonstrations should be between 800 and 1000 words, with illustrations and photographs where necessary. All are due in hard copy and digital form at the address below by January 1, 1993. Videotapes and recordings are also encouraged. Selectees will be notified by February 15, 1993. For more information, and a copy of the full announcement and call for papers, write |3CYBERCONF |THE THIRD International CONFERENCE ON CYBERSPACE |Submissions |School of Architecture |The University of Texas at Austin |Austin, Texas, 78712 |email: 3cyberconf@bongo.cc.utexas.edu |PHONE: 512-471-6619 |FAX: 512-471-0176 ___________________________________________ Date: 24 September 1992 From: Roger Malina Subject: Lecture by Michele Emmer LEONARDO/YLEM LECTURE: MICHELE EMMER ON VISUAL MATHEMATICS Professor Michele Emmer From Italy will give a talk on Visual Mathematics and other aspects of art and mathematics on Monday October 12 at 7:30pm. The talk will be given at the Center for EUV Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. The street address is 2150 Kittredge Stret, Berkeley. Professor Emmer is the Guest Editor of the Leonardo Special Issue on Visual Mathematics that has just been published. For further info contact Roger Malina : rmalina@cea.berkeley.edu ___________________________________________ Date: 24 September 1992 From: Roger Malina Subject: Vilem Flusser Network Dear friends, Vilem Flusser left us some time ago. His thought and work have marked and influenced us profoundly. He gave us a link between scientific, artistic and philosophical reflections, thus enriching and inspiring us. Vilem Flusser's death deprives us of the creative development of his thought by himself, but it also threatens our own development by depriving us of the net which had been formed around him. In order to counteract this danger and to allow Vilem Flusser's work to remain alive and develop further, we have decided to create the international society called "Suppose/Angenommen-Network/Reseau des Amis de Vilem Flusser". We would like this network to be formed by all those who feel they have been directly or indirectly influenced by Vilem Flusser's work. By all those who seek to deepen their knowledge of his thought. By all those who wish to benefit from the participation in an international, interdisciplinary network. By all those from whom activities and projects sponsored by this network may also mean an enrichment of their thoughts and activities. Vilem Flusser's Network is above all a network. Each participant will receive the addresses of all other participants, Each participant shall, as soon as our means allow us, receive periodical information on artistic, scientific and philosophical projects and questions of the other participants. Vilem Flusser Network will itself also organize meetings, seminars and projects of different kinds, as well as take part in outside projects. Vilem Flusser's legacy, which will later become "Vilem Flusser's Archives" and which is now in preparation, will be made available to the associates of this network. Network del Amis de Vilem Flusser 17 route de Saint Leonard, 67530, Boersch, France tel: 33 88 95 94 88, fax: 33 88 95 99 99 ___________________________________________ Date: 24 September 1992 From : Roy Ascott Subject: Telenoia Telenoia - a V2 Organization project by Roy Ascott artists online from 00.12h 31 October 1992 to 00.12h 1 November 1992 Telenoia is about telematic connectivity, mind-to-mind across the globe. Artists worldwide making images, texts, music together. We want to make authoring a collective experience and a collaborative process. The themes we hope will weave their way through our networking will recognize that it's Halloween - a kind of electronic, metaphysical, out-of- body trick or treat. We also want to use this 24 hour period, noon Saturday to noon Sunday, to create a new day of the week - the eighth day of the week. We'll use email like Earn, Bitnet, as well as Picturetel and fax. We'll use Macs and Amigas, modems and fax machines. Contact Alex Adriaansens, tel: 31 73 137958, fax: 31 73 122238. ___________________________________________ CORRECTION This conference was listed in the calendar section of the last Leonardo Electronic News (LEN 2:9) with incorrect information. 24-27 October 1992 Music Analysis, 3rd European Conference of Music Analysis Trento, Italy Contact: Academia Filarmonica Trentian, Via Oriola 12, Trento 38100, Italy, tel: 39 0461 238008, fax: 39 0461 238166. **** The 3rd conference is to take place in 1993 and the place has not been defined yet (it may be in Marseille or Madrid or ???) My apologies.******** ___________________________________________ New Subscribers Ron Ansbach ransbach@web.apc.org Rosemary Bryan serials@ucscm.ucsc.edu David Buchanan dbb@virginia.edu Stephanie Frontz sfrz@db1.cc.rochester.edu Alexis Grosofsky grosofsky@beloit.edu Doug Gruber doug_gruber@theater.baylor.edu Gary Howell ghowell@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu Susan Jurist susan_jurist@ucsdlibrary.ucsd.edu Scott Lesser lesser%quasar.decnet@faxon.com Xia Li xli@uvmvm.bitnet Tom McNulty mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu Dana Paxon 71201.2213@compuserve.com Vedder Wright vwright@world.std.com ___________________________________________ Exec. Editor: Roger Malina Editor: Nancy Nelson ASTN President: Annick Bureaud, ASTN, 57 Rue Falguiere, Paris, France Correspondents: Canada - Jeff Mann {intacc!fineart@cs.utoronto.ca} Italy - Francesco Giomi {conserva@ifiidg.fi.cnr.it} Japan - Hiroshi Okuno {okuno@ntt-20.ntt.jp} USA - Judy Malloy {jmalloy@well.sf.ca.us} Susan Kirchman {smk@archone.tamu.edu} ISEA - Wim van der Plas {ISEA@rug.nl} Published by: Leonardo, the International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) on behalf of: The Art, Science and Technology Network (ASTN) with support from: The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) and the Visualization Laboratory, Texas A&M University. ___________________________________________ Send requests for subscription to Fineart Forum to: Europe: CONSERVA@IFIIDG.FI.CNR.IT Asia: OKUNO@NTT-20.NTT.JP USA and all others: fast@garnet.berkeley.edu or FAST@UCBGARNE.bitnet with the message: SUB FINE-ART your email address, first-name, last-name, and postal address. 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