This looks quite interesting, if I can make it to London in the next month (doubtful), would like to go:

Responsive Ecologies

by CaptinCaptin and Parag K Mital
6 December - 21 January 2011

A new interactive installation by captincaptin and Parag K Mital, Responsive Ecologies explores notions of captivity, collective behaviour and human-nature social relations. The forms of interaction within the work take inspiration from the study of ecology (the relations of organisms, and their interactions with the environment) and reflect upon the possible implications of our actions and activities on the sustainability of future ecologies. As each individual visitor has the capability to expand or constrain the experiences of others, a coordinated approach is required in order to see the installation in its completed form.

Responsive Ecologies is a multi-screened enclosed projection in which a collection of videos are deconstructed and interlaced in response to audience interaction within the space. This installaion was produced through captincaptin's ongoing collaboration with ZSL London Zoo and Musion Academy, and includes other works created through this partnership.

LINK

 

The Game Of Life

The Game of Life Foundation

The Game of Life was established on September 13, 1999.

The Game of Life aims to organize projects in the field of spatial representation in electronic music.

With our programming we bring a variety of quality electronic music into the limelight.

We offer composers (in the broadest sense) the opportunity to work with our cell display system Wave Field Synthesis (WFS is the only mobile system in the world). Thus we offer listeners an experience with the current surround sound systems at home not to do.

We are closely involved in the process of creating, producing and programming stages and help where possible to the audience development.

http://gameoflife.nl/

Exhibitions | 2012 Open Call

Dear all,
this looks like a potentially useful opportunity:

To coincide with the Olympics in 2012, Watermans is pleased to announce a new opportunity to present a series of ground-breaking installations that explore interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. For full details about the Open Call please download THIS ATTACHMENT. If you would like to discuss the project with our programmer in charges of this project, please contact Irini Papadimitriou at irini@watermans.org.uk

Website here

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner

mechanics ... tubes motors wheels cables bearings ...

YouTube - Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection]

Change of Plans - 5pm tomorrow

Hey guys,

I was thinking that tomorrow would be better to meet at Princess Street at 5pm, is that good for everybody.

Thanks,

Matthew

two monitors; one playing encrypted video, the other translating to midi via movement & lightest area

YouTube - VJ System - Vocal Joystick - Featured on Hacked Gadgets

YouTube - VJ System - Vocal Joystick - Featured on Hacked Gadgets

MA Media Lab: 6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using Soon

*By the way, I've put andrea's links onto a separate page - to the right of here under 'arduino information' =>
for ease of access. Have added a couple things, so if anyone else wants to add any links arduino-programming-related feel free.

--------------------------
This came up sometime recently, so thought I'd re-poost it:

MA Media Lab: 6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using SoonLINK
a technol...: "6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using SoonLINK a technology that creates a direct connection from our brains to our computers - is beginning to re..."

Pedestal Blog - Manchester Based

http://yourpedestal.blogspot.com/

A new Blog started by Scott Causier creating a platform for Artist to share inspirations and promote their own work. Hop on, join and see what we can learn from each other.

c'est fantastique, non?


A Slow Year from Ian Bogost on Vimeo.

A Slow Year is a collection of four games, one for each season, about the experience of observing things. These games are neither action nor strategy: each of them requires a different kind of sedate observation and methodical input.


The game attempts to embrace maximum expressive constraint and representational condensation. I want to call them game poems. The set comprises a little collection, a kind of videogame chapbook.

digital fiddling now online

http://digitalfiddling.blogspot.com/

'Media Arts' is a somewhat an obscure and wide-ranging subject: encompassing contemporary art, digital/analogue processes, art history, technology, and so on. With the growth of online networks - new groups, organisations, blogs etc, appear every week - it's hard to keep track of things. Even open-source technology can sometime be elitist: who knows where to look, for example, to learn a certain programming language? And now with the cultural spending cuts, communication links and online networks are more valuable.

This is my own solution for dealing with these issues - to create a searchable archive of artists, galleries, residencies, opportunities, open calls, talks, softandhard-ware, etc. Feel free to browse and search - it's only a platform to find more things, which in turn will be put back into the archive.. And forward on to anyone who will be interested!

But remember this is incomplete, not 'polished', and an ongoing process. Free information costs nothing, but does require time and effort to maintain. If everyone puts in what they take out, this could be a really great resource. Do you know of something that would be useful to be on the site? Do you know someone who is a good source of information who would be willing to co-edit this regularly? Do you know someone who could help to host the site or re-design into a more user-friendly archive?

"Interactivity” can change the way one experiences art, and it can also change the type of art. The function of interactivity alters the viewer’s position to that of a participant who drives the experience of art. The viewer will become an active participant, and the artist a server, a creator of an interactive system.…like a digital networking system. A system is not a static object, it is a dynamic system reacting to the participant depending on the way the artist created it.

Masaki Fujihata

Chloe will tell us more about this artist, but looks really interesting. He has a couple of books.

52 Princess Street

Hey there everyone,

I arranged to meet people at 52 Princess Street at 10 this morning, but no one turned up. If anyone wants to go another time, just email me or just head down there yourself.

Thanks,
Matthew

Window dimensions - 52 Princess Street

I've attached window dimension, all windows are about the same size so if you intend of using other windows, you can use this dimensions. There is also the possibility to project on 2 windows. You will have to know the distance between windows so you can map your video/animation/projection.

You can always visit Norman (8am - 6pm) and ask for access into the space for farther details.

Kinect - motion tracking is officially commercial (update)

**EDIT**

Open source hardware company Adafruit Industries is offering a $2,000 bounty for the first person or group to upload code and examples under an open source license to GitHub for the Xbox Kinect released today. The Kinect sensor outputs video at a frame rate of 30 Hz, with the RGB video stream at 32-bit color VGA resolution (640×480 pixels), and the monochrome video stream used for depth sensing at 16-bit QVGA resolution (320×240 pixels with 65,536 levels of sensitivity). The Kinect sensor has a practical ranging limit of 1.2-3.5 metres (3.9-11 ft) distance. The open hardware group would like to see this camera used for education, robotics and fun outside the Xbox.

But Microsoft isn't taking kindly to the bounty offer. "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a company spokesperson told CNET. "With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant."

So in response Adafruit doubled it to $2k

"We think First Robotics could use this," Torrone said. "We think educators could use this. Look at all the cool stuff people did with the Wii remote."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/

arduino_day1

Before we all forget all those nice links, fresh concepts blablabla...i am gonna upload what we have been seeing today...then more, but that will be other day.


ARDUINO
Check the forum link.It´s really useful(you might find the solution of your problems, because you are NOT the only one who get stuck!!). Do not hesitate asking, they are pretty effective, nice, fast... but be tidy (I mean, if you have a hardware problem, upload the question in the hardware part...)

1.-hacking-toys:
LEGO EDUCATION
hackman

2.-arduino´s friends softwares: ^

eyesweb
isadora
processing
max/msp
pure data
vvv
openframeworks


3.-components instructions and shop:
COOL COMPONENTS
OOMLAUT
LADYADA
PARALLAX It is more orientated to basic stamp, but you can check the wide range of the sensors and components. I also like the explanations of the components....precise, variety...


color code for the resistors

52 Princess Street - Info & Meet

Hey there Everyone,

Here are some images of 52 Princess Street. If anyone would like to come down and check out the space i have arranged to meet there at 10am on Tuesday (16th November) Anyone from the lab is welcome to join and if you cant make that time then please just say and we can figure out another day or time.

Have a look at the images and start thinking about some ideas you might like to apply. Once youve seen the space and building you might start to expand your ideas, which would be great. Ill let Paul Mcann know we are coming down and you can
meet him as well.
Hope to see you there,

Matthew

Tele: 07955953591
email: m.d.stanners@gmail.com
P.S feel free to ring, text or email me.




























Location:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&expIds=25657,26637,27026,27031,27033,27040,27403,27510,27566&xhr=t&q=Princess+Street+52&cp=18&client=firefox-a&hs=dvF&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=52+Princess+St,+Manchester+M1+6JX&gl=uk&ei=EhfcTMrQKc6JhQfim8T_Dw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBUQ8gEwAA

reactable live performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgy1S8qymx0

Kinect - motion tracking is officially commercial

Introducing Kinect
for Xbox 360

You are the controller. No gadgets, no gizmos, just you!

 

Bradford - KITTENS, TEAPOTS, PENIS ENLARGEMENT

Sorry about that - just a choice quote just to get your attention... and maybe .. opinion(s).. 

'Digital Folklore' by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied [LINK]


An interesting point that may form the Bradford project ideas... That the history of the internet has focused on the medium, not so much the users, coining the term 'digital folklore'. Also a slight mention of education, which perhaps fits into your suggestions, Katy..

As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …

...today's school children are educated as "Real Users." They learn how to use Microsoft Office to type business letters and design PowerPoint presentations, before they learn how to make a game or even spell IKEMZDOL ("I könnte mich zu Tode lachen", the German version of ROFL or LOL) correctly.  Users must understand their integral role in the process, demand comprehensible systems, work for better computer education and begin to see themselves as developers again. Studying Digital Folklore can do this, and help give back users the power they have earned and deserve.

The domain of the digital must belong to people, not computers. The personal computer must be regarded as a medium with a cultural history shaped more by its users and less by its inventors. In February 2009, speaking at TED conference, Sir Tim Bernes-Lee stated that he invented the web 20 years ago.  Though officially he has the right to claim this, the web is in fact 16 years old, because that is when people started to use it.

Henry Jenkins wrote in his 2002 article "Blog This!"(8): "We learned in the history books about Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph, but not about the thousands of operators who shaped the circulation of message." To rephrase him, we could say that we have studied the history of hypertext, but not the history of Metallica fan web rings or web rings in general. This book is an attempt to fill this gap.

Arts Council Publication (pdf)

‘At a time when the dizzying potential of digital technology is transforming the way we make, distribute, receive and exchange art it would be absurd to define excellence in the language of the conventional art forms.’
- Arts Council England publication, 2010 (pdf) very recommended..

Places to visit for Media Art

Please add to the list any galleries that show media art. I'll include some of the obvious ones for those who are less familiar with Manchester.



The Cornerhouse
http://www.cornerhouse.org/
 

Madlab
http://madlab.org.uk/


The International 3 
http://www.international3.com/exhibition.php

Bureau
http://www.bureaugallery.com/ 

Castlefield
http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/


Manchester City Art Gallery
http://www.manchestergalleries.org/

The Whitworth Gallery
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/

Islington Mill; Salford
http://www.islingtonmill.com/ 

UCLAN

University of Central Lancashire; Preston

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/adp/electronic_digital_art/study_collection.php
Has an electronic archive view by appointment; also In Certain Places - site specific initiative. PR1 gallery shows students work etc;

The Harris Museum and Gallery; Preston

http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/coming-soon.html
-some of the touring exhibitions here are very good and they do have links with the University so there have been conferences. The upcoming 'Current' looks interesting / relevant to us.

The New Continental; a pub in Preston that supports the local art scene; film screening etc.
http://www.newcontinental.net/

Peter Scott Gallery; Lancaster University
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/peterscott/index.htm 

Lanternhouse; Ulverston

http://www.lanternhouse.org/

FACT; Liverpool

http://www.fact.co.uk/

OPenEye; Liverpool

http://www.openeye.org.uk/

The Grundy; Blackpool - varied programme not especially media art but I like to support this gallery because I used to live in Blackpool!

http://www.grundyartgallery.com/

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art ; Gateshead; Tyne and Wear

http://www.balticmill.com/

Tramway; Glasgow

http://www.tramway.org/


Fabrica; Brighton
http://fabrica.org.uk/about-fabrica/


SCAN; Bournemouth
http://www.scansite.org/scan.php 

no.w.here   London
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/


This could go on forever - this doesn't even include Yorkshire! it's a work in progress...

stuff / research for bradford - Aaron Koblin

[Data Visualisation]
http://www.checkfacebook.com/
Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/info.html
Using 'mechanical turk': https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Mechanical Turk, the webservice by Amazon that allow software developers to coordinate users that execute tasks which computers cannot be able to complete. Merchanical Turk offers different forms of crowd-sourcing specifically where the people are participating really don’t having any context of the overall project that they are building.

The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left."

http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

2,088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey. 
http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html



Chrome Experiments website: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.

an important message..

From David Shrigley. Feel free to post on any other sites!

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In it’s first year as part of the MMU Art and Design School the Medialab  has been visited by a long list of creative practitioners who have shown their work and discussed their working practice. Collectively, the discussions provide insight into the diverse methodologies currently being applied within the field.

This year we intend to record the discussions in order to produce a book.

What kind of questions would you like to ask that might help you in your practice? Have  a look at the ones listed below and feel free to make suggestions or amendments. Especially interested in ideas for Film / Photography practitioners (and those who work between / across media) as these aimed are more to Media Arts.  [They are also good questions to try and answer yourself.] 

By the way, this is not a plan to structure the talks in a very formal way – these are questions that could be asked at the end of the artist’s talk is they have not already been discussed.

Do you use the term ‘media art’ to describe your work? Any thoughts on how this term defines practice?

How would you describe your methodology?

Which artists’ work have particularly influenced your practice or inspired you?

How does technology figure within your practice both practically and philosophically?

What experience have you had of collaboration?

Has failure helped you to learn?

At what point in your process do you consider an audience?

Giant visuals at The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Sep 17 2010

Obscura contributed to this event with the 'projector tree' - an installation of 20 video projectors as well as providing the majority of the visuals throughout this 5 hour programme of music, art and poetry. A lot of the visual material was gathered in the antique collections of the library. The visuals covered a large area of the giant library hall (which is 29 meters from floor to ceiling) and in the eyes of the audience it probably was a totally immersive experience. Balconies and walls became the canvas of ever changing visual themes and the many glass walls became an active part of the installation as they rendered beautiful reflections on other surfaces.

looking for a bit of privacy...

After Sid´s post, My little piece of Privacy seems to be a good answer, simple but fun and nice...and moreover...reclaiming some kind of privacy.

IMP

The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) is a UK government initiative to extend the government's capabilities for intercepting and storing communications data. It has been widely reported that the IMP's eventual goal is to store details of all UK communications data in a central database.
In 2008 plans were being made to collect data on all phone calls, emails, chatroom discussions and web-browsing habits as part of the IMP, thought likely to require the insertion of 'thousands' of black box probes into the country’s computer and telephone networks. The proposals were expected to be included in the Communications Data Bill.

The "giant database" would include telephone numbers dialed, the websites visited and addresses to which e-mails are sent "but not the content of e-mails or telephone conversations." Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Home affairs spokesman said: "The government's Orwellian plans for a vast database of our private communications are deeply worrying." The Home Office has denied reports that a prototype of the IMP had already been built.

The UK's new coalition government has apparently revived the IMP in their recent Strategic Defence and Security Review.

hacking a touchscreen made for windows 7.

Robot / AI development may be even funnier than watching someone fall over in the street 'slapstick-style' :)

MA Design And Media Lab - THE HOTSPUR PRES building, MANCHESTER

I Value The Arts is a public engagement campaign led by The National Campaign for the Arts, is the UK’s only independent lobbying organisation representing all the arts.

The NCA currently works across the arts and political sectors to:-

• Provide a united voice for the arts, especially for arts organisations across the UK and for all artists, staff and volunteers who work in the arts
• Campaign for better access to the arts, so that everyone in the UK has opportunities to experience the arts and to take part
• Campaign for adequate and sustainable levels of resources and support for the arts.

The NCA's contacts within government and its ability to work in partnership with a wide range of public bodies and arts organisations have ensured that it is widely recognised as a powerful and effective advocate for the arts, able to lobby the people who matter.

more robots! very funny :)

A Decap-Sound

A Decap-Sound

A Decap-Sound

James Prevett-In Search of the Miraculous

Stephen Calcutt-Pseudorandom

Phoebe Myers-Shadow Box MK3

Every time this rotates it is because your eyes are moving and re-adjusting without you realising it. Try to stop your eyes moving! By Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Hello hello.
Saw this on rhizome, thought it looked interesting and maybe in line with some of the things coming up at the moment. A new publication called 'form and code in design, art and architecture'.

Once the exclusive domain of programmers, code is now being used by a new generation of designers, artists, and architects eager to explore how software can enable innovative ways of generating form and translating ideas. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture offers an in-depth look at the use of software in a wide range of creative disciplines.

Mandelbrot _ fractal veg

Sid just had a look at your post on the 3d mandelbrot and had a quick look at the site.
A while ago I took some pictures of a wierd and wonderfull cabbage/coliflower, that looks very much like the 2d fractal images, but in 3d
May be it's just an example of mathmaticians and physacists trying to decode the natural world.......... hmmmmmm maybe who knows.

I didn't eat it in the end...

FREE 5 WEEK COURSE ON PROCESSING + ARDUINO

FREE 5 WEEK COURSE ON PROCESSING + ARDUINO [MAILING LIST]

Started 31August but you cn still join:

http://creativelive.com/courses/arduino/

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
just a shame about the music

A combination workshop and challenge to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction. (click image for link)

ALSO:
CALL FOR EXISTING WORKS
Make It Yourself is an exhibition of inventive Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects to accompany the major solo exhibition Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Manchester Art Gallery between 18 September 2010 and 30 January 2011. Deadline: Monday, 13 September 2010.

CLICK HERE FOR LINK

[Click to Stream Album]

Using computerized 'throat singing' and binaural beats. 'The Burning of Scholars' title comes from Emperor Qin Shi Huang's book burnings and burial of scholars. Created mostly from synthesized speech, by breaking down the phonetics and acoustics that form words and meaning, only the resonances remain.

1-bit symphony

simply genius! Love it..

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. 1-Bit Symphony is available from Cantaloupe Music.

Zoomings- Mandelbrot + Deep Space

3-D Mandelbrot (infinite fractal) Open source, see here

Somewhat similar to Ars Electronia / FutureLab, 'Deep Space' project:

DEEP SPACE - OVERVIEW from Ars Electronica on Vimeo.

Haroon Mirza - Artist, Sheffield

Haroon Mirza - Artist, Sheffield

"his work manifests in many guises from computer generated photorealism to self-referencing video and sound installations"

Low Tech Sensors And Actuators Contributions Page

http://www.lowtech.propositions.org.uk/wiki/

Notes on funding cuts, and 'why the arts matter'

With a joint constituency of at least 60,000 individual professionals, galleries, public collections, studio groups, visual art businesses, organisations and producing agencies VAGA and eleven fellow representative bodies have written to the Secretary of State, pointing out the finely tuned ecology of the visual arts and urging him to consider carefully the timing and scale of the cuts.

Click to read the letter from the VAGA website.

Quote from the Axis website:

Philanthropy, we are told, is the answer. Well, maybe it will work for the Royal Opera House, which last year raised no less than £17m in charitable income through donations, legacies and other sources. But there are no philanthropists waiting in the wings to fund the regional arts infrastructure on which so many artists depend.

What can we do to avert these reckless cuts or, at any rate, to mitigate their worst effects?

We can put pressure on MPs to lobby on our behalf, for there are many, even within the coalition government, who are privately concerned about the speed and scale of the cuts that are being proposed.

We can also respond to the DCMS consultation about lottery shares which closes on 21st August 2010 [link]. In theory lottery funding will flow back into the arts sector once the Olympics are over, but only if the consultation currently underway makes a compelling case for this to happen.

Arts Council England has developed an advocacy toolkit which marshalls factual evidence about the importance of the arts to the economy, society and the individual...[LINK - "Why the arts matter!!"]

Inevitably, however, these arguments focus on the big picture and institutions, rather than individual art forms and practitioners. One of the most remarkable achievements of the last 15-20 years has been the groundswell of artist-led activity in many parts of the UK and the concomitant growth of independent production outside mainstream organisations. Without this vital test-bed of activity, it is hard to know where future experimentation and innovation will come from.

Dragonfly festival

LINK
This year, SoundFjord, the UK's first sound art dedicated gallery, brings a fine collection of international sonic art to the Dragonfly cultural programme.

In the centre of idyllic surrounds your ears will deceive you. From the tree's tropical birds shall sing of their home in the Amazon, industrial clanks and groans will ripple across the lake, whilst spectral voices will coo and woo us into their depths; doors will creak and slam where there are no openings, chinks of light will fall on pools of liquid ambience and abstract composition; muttering and laughing, preaching and monologues, all mingle with the instruments on the main stage, and the music of nature itself.

Be sure to follow your ears to the SoundFjord Sound Art Tent, to be found in the open field between the Art Hut and the Bronze-Age Bar.

Wayne Hemingway

Anyone who has seen and enjoyed the sculpture exhibition at Tate Liverpool that Jack and Wayne Hemingway curated

 http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/thisissculpture/default.shtm

might also be interested in another of his ventures:

http://www.badartsalon.co.uk/

Big Ideas (don't get any) by James Houston

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar

Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

Monday 26 July 2010 Responding to today's announcement by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of plans to abolish the UK Film Council, Tim Bevan CBE, Chairman of the UK Film Council, said:

"Abolishing the most successful film support organisation the UK has ever had is a bad decision, imposed without any consultation or evaluation. People will rightly look back on today's announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency. British film, which is one of the UK's more successful growth industries, deserves better.

Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) to be abolished:

Responding to the government's announcement that the MLA is to be wound up by April 2012, Chair Sir Andrew Motion and Chief Executive Roy Clare pledge a smooth and orderly transition to deliver the best possible future for museums, libraries and archives across England and for the people and communities who expect to use them.

In a joint statement, Sir Andrew Motion and Roy Clare say: "Stormy seas call for cool heads and steady hands. The team in the MLA have worked tirelessly and with commendable commitment to develop the capacity of the organisation since 2007. Now, faced with an unforeseen degree of economic pressure, government has chosen to balance the books and to prioritise the rationalisation of its existing cultural agencies as a contribution."

Wait from Sid Volter on Vimeo.

6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using Soon

LINK

a technology that creates a direct connection from our brains to our computers - is beginning to reach the market via toys and game controllers. In the process, these thought-controlled sensors are inspiring innovations that, for instance, allow you to call someone on your phone by simply thinking about them.

From the first-ever thought-generated tweet, to the U.S. military funding the development of advanced prosthetic limbs, to implantable brain sensors, advancements in BCI are not only transforming the lives of people who are locked in because of total paralysis, but are ushering in an era where we will be able to build the Internet as fast as we can think.

SoundFjord

I feel like Sid has mentioned this before, but i told spyros about it and he had not recollection so here is a link to the first ever british gallery/research space dedicated to sound art, SoundFjord, based in london.

http://www.soundfjord.org/

sound tree

http://vimeo.com/5583313

Princess Street Photographs

Hi all,

I have put some pics of the Princess Street Showcase on my blog:

http://sophie-pollock.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-two-princess-street-exhibition.html

I will be sending you the larger versions of the files, along with some more pictures, via a zip folder to your email over the weekend!

Was a great a night!

Soph

Images

Anyone any images of the show the other night?

HYBRID SONIC MACHINES

Hi everybody...
I thought you'll find it interesting. We do like frequencies...

http://microrobotic.wordpress.com/hybrid/

Princess St

Princess St exhibition space.

sockets (and one to the right outside frame)

Vanessa Bartlett blog, 'Group Therapy' on artist newsletter's 'choice blog'.

Vanessa Bartlett blog, 'Group Therapy' on artist newsletter's 'choice blog'.

I've been talking & debating a bit on the subject of art and mental health. Have a read (if you're up for it!) & she mentions the googlemap video I posted up earlier.

But I think it deals with a lot of much wider and interesting questions relevant to art & technology..

Pretty Fucnky Fresh! - All they need is an Artist! ;)

Near the Egress from antonio martinez on Vimeo.

details of ACE cuts

On 24 May 2010 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced a £19 million reduction in our 2010/11 income from government. This cut is in addition to an earlier in-year reduction of £4 million announced in the April 2009 Budget, meaning that our 2010/11 budget has been reduced by a total of £23 million.

We've been working hard to find ways to implement this cut while protecting art, and the organisations that enable it to happen, to the fullest extent possible. The cut to regularly funded organisations' 2010/11 income from Arts Council will, therefore, be limited to 0.5 per cent.

This relatively minimal reduction has been made possible only by the exceptional use of £9 million of the Arts Council's historic reserves, access to which was previously blocked by government. Had this not been the case, we would have been forced to pass on a three per cent (£10.8 million) cut to our funded organisations.

In addition, we have identified cuts to other areas, these include:

* £1.8 million from the revenue grants of the two highest funded organisations not directly producing art (£1.6 million from Creativity Culture and Education and £0.2 million from Arts & Business, a four per cent reduction)
* £0.4 million from further cuts to our operating costs (bringing savings on operating costs to a total of £6.9 million this year)
* £6 million from savings due to the postponement of a major public engagement project, cuts to our audience development plans, and to funds for partnership working with local authorities and the private sector

Full information HERE

Full break-down by region (pdf) HERE

PODCAST: Art and Media Conversation event

PODCAST: Art and Media Conversation event
Castlefield Gallery
Listen and watch podcasts of the Art and Media Conversation event that explored the relationships and boundaries between media art and visual art, and was part of the FutureEverything art strand.

Welcome to Soundspiration: a page dedicated to works that inspire the SoundFjord Team!

This page has been incited to concentrate attention on a number of inspirational sound artists and their works. Over a period of two months, chosen artists are given a Soundspiration Spotlight: works are available to listen to (and in some cases, download where permission is been granted).

SoundFjord also details further information about the artists and their works, so you are able to fully acquaint yourself with their creative practices.

Listening Station
Our bi-monthly artists are:

John Hudak | People Like Us | .tobias c. van Veen. | Sid Volter | Michael Day

http://www.soundfjord.org/soundspiration.htm

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

The Festival is now inviting proposals for commissions in two categories; ‘Artists’ Moving Image’ for an artist or film-maker to make a new piece of moving image work, and ‘Film Score’ for a musician or composer to write and perform a new soundtrack to an existing film or films of their choice.

Each commission offers a fee of £2,500 to create new works relating to the festival theme, ‘Stagings’.

The works will be presented as part of the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, 2010 from 15th to 19th September in Berwick-upon-Tweed. A number of unique venues are available for presentation of the commissions.

http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/

the sosolimited show (but see comment- they've bin sneaky):

http://vimeo.com/12450169

[hey matt..]

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.