hi all, I have just completed an essay film, DREAMS REWIRED (Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode 2015), which I thought might interest you: it is made from nearly 200 film excerpts from 1880-1930ies, and traces the promises o, then and todayf media technologies in the pubic imagination. It is doing it's festival circuit now (next in Graz), but soon it should also be accessible in cinema screenings and on DVD, updates on the film's website.

http://www.dreamsrewired.com

Reminder! Call for entries
artvideoOELN - audiovisual experiences 01
Deadline: Monday, 2 March 2015
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=6267

2nd International Workshop on Movement and Computing, MOCO15 DEADLINE EXTENDED.
The deadline for all papers and demos submissions is extended to March 15, 2015 (5:00pm PST)
http://moco.iat.sfu.ca/deadline-extension/

International Workshop on Movement and Computing (MOCO15) Intersecting Art, Meaning, Cognition, Technology - August 14-15 2015, Vancouver Canada will be co-located with ISEA2015

BIOSEMIOTICS and PLANT POETRY

Digital Media Archaeology in Practice
Workshops with Ben Fino-Radin (MoMA) & Vincent Leclair (Sicilium)
9, 10 & 11 April 2015, Brussels

iMAL and PACKED are organising a 2-days workshop and a 1-day open atelier on the handling of obsolete data carriers and computer hardware. On April 9th and 10th, Ben Fino-Radin, Digital Repository Manager at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will host a workshop on data preservation and access from obsolete and current media carriers. These two days will be followed by an open atelier by Vincent Leclaire (Sicilium) where participants will get advices and examples on how to keep legacy computer equipment working to access and experience data stored on obsolete carriers.

SCHEDULE

* • 9 & 10 April, 9:30 - 17:30 : Data Preservation Bootcamp with Ben Fino-Radin
* •11 April, 09:30 - 17:30 : Open atelier - Vintage Computer Hardware Care & Data Retrieval

PRACTICAL INFO
Free - Registration mandatory. The number of participants for the Ben Fino-Radin workshop is limited to 12

Location
iMAL - Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai
1080 Brussels

More info : http://www.imal.org/en/activity/digital-media-archaeology-practice

Welcome to the Future!
The floppy cd-rom revolution
19 March - 26 April 2015
Brussels

In 2015, iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels present, in collaboration with PACKED, Centre of Expertise in Digital Heritage, a series of exhibitions, workshops and symposiums on cultural heritage in the digital age.

Welcome to the Future! is the first event of our Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age program. This exhibition proposes a selection of artworks and cultural documents published on floppies and cd-roms mostly in the 90s. It presents early pioneering works featuring remarkable experimentations in hypertext and hypermedia narration, interface design and interactivity aesthetics. This historical reflection on 20 years of new media art also questions the future of today’s born-digital content.

PRACTICAL INFO
Opening:
Thursday 19 March, 18:30 - 22:00

Exhibition:
20 March - 26 April 2015, Wed - Sun, 13:00 - 18:00

Location
iMAL - Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai
1080 Brussels

More info : http://www.imal.org

Hi folks - Antirom are holding an event on Friday and Saturday in London to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the CD-ROM. We'll be showing some of the original material and talking about the thinking of it at the time as well as a panel on Saturday looking at the evolution of the interface. Our plan is to make the original CD-ROM image available for download for media arts scholars/archeologists too.

All the details are here: http://antirom.com

#VIRAL @ Boston Cyberart Gallery
The history and cultural assemblage of viral digital culture has morphed significantly since the Frankfurt Museum for Applied Art added viral code to their permanent collection in 2002 and hosted the ground-breaking “I Love You – computer_viruses_hacker_culture” exhibition. A fascination with viruses, as previously witnessed in the Slovenian Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale, has seeped into contemporary culture; it has “gone viral”, so to speak. In #VIRAL, this evolution is explored through the various forms in which digital art exists and through the many expressed applications of the word “viral” and “virus”.
February 28 – April 5, 2015: http://bostoncyberarts.org/gallerypage/#701