Hey @SAIC folks, I’m real excited to be teaching New-Media: Crash Course next fall semester [for which there is still space available ] NM:CC is the first step into the New-Media track at SAIC (in the Film, Video, New Media and Animation department), meaning it’s the pre-req for really rad classes like Realtime: Systems + Glitch + Art Games Studies + etc.

Next semester NM:CC will run along side a new co-requisite: Systems, Codes & Spaces, taught by  Nicholas Sagan (students must enroll in both courses simultaneously)

• Systems, Codes & Spaces critically introduces the art of nonlinear media art via an understanding of its historical and theoretical trajectories.  Students view and analyze structurally a variety of works in the mediums of video, installation, interactive media, new media and experimental 3D.   Readings drawn from Jack Burnham, Pamela Lee, and Edward Shanken are discussed to assess the contemporary state of the field.  [FVNMA:2101 WENS: 6pm-9pm]

Any questions/thoughts send me an email: nbriz@saic.edu

Was excited to get this in the mail the other day ^_^ a symposium-publication of selected writings by students in the undergraduate department of art history, visual art and theory at the University of British Colombia.  Carli Vierke (now an alumn of UBC on her way to NYU) wrote a really rad piece entitled “Negotiating Corporeality, Negotiating Identity: The Artist’s Use of the Cyborg as Response to a Technological Age 1969-2009″ which chats a bit about “A New Ecology for the Citizen of a Digital Age”. If/when a pdf goes online I’ll make sure to link bax to it here

I’ll be giving a short talk about glitch art over on the north-ish side of Chicago at Pecha Kucha. It looks like it’ll be an evening of pretty interesting presentations tonight (3/6/2012) at Martyrs’ (3855 N. Lincold Av) doors open at 6pm ($10 cover) presentations kick off at 8:20 sharp. More info here!

Excited to be included among projects like Extrafile and Phone Story in the Hacktivism News section of the latest issue of Neural. You can read the article here.

presented by Upgrade!Chicago @ The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642

[TUES--FEB21--@7PM] //$5 DONATION

On Tuesday, Feb 21 (7pm) Upgrade!Chicago presents an evening of experimental sound/music performances and noise/new-media lectures by Nicolas Maigret (Paris) and HARD R (Chicago). Upgrade!Chicago is an art and technology series which presents new-media projects, engages in informal critique and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! Chicago is the local node of the international Upgrade! network and meets at the Nightingale Theatre.

Nicolas Maigret has been developing experimental sound and electronic image projects (performances, installations, programming, radio) since 2001. Maigret takes the internal characteristics of the media, which are revealed through their errors, dysfunctions, borderlines or failure threshold, and develops them into sensory and immersive audio visual experiences. After studying Intermedia arts with a focus in avant-garde theoretical education, he joined the laboratory Locus-Sonus in Nice dedicated to networked sound art research. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux and is presently involved in an artist run space named Plateforme in Paris. He develops digital and sound art projects in collaboration with Nicolas Montgermont under the name Art Of Failure. His works have been presented in various exhibitions and venues such as File (Sao Paulo, BR) – Gli.tc/h (Birmingham, UK) – DeOrigenBélico, (Caracas, VE) – Sonica (Ljubljana, SI) – Leeds FIlm Festival (UK) – Le Zoo (Genève, CH) – Artivistic (Montreal, CA) – ESG (Kosice, SK) – Cimatics (Brussels, BE) – Gaite Lyrique (Paris, FR).

http://peripheriques.free.fr + http://artoffailure.free.fr

The remix and the multiple have become an interdisciplinary language. The hybrid process of combining fragments in a non-linear re-interpretation has found an essential voice in today’s visual practice. The remix allows for a major conceptual leap in making art on a meta-structural level. Artists draw together and make sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it. The machine has allowed us the ability to re-conceptualize our relation to knowledge and to organize it, rather than merely accumulate information.

Alex Valentine
Nick Briz
Corkey Sinks
Caleb Sheridan
Daniel Luedtke
Matthew Cummings

BYOB (After party @ Rodan!)

Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

http://carouselproject.blogspot.com/

@the Nightingale Theatre [1084 N. Milwaukee Chicago, IL]

Chris Cuellar is a Los Angeles (previously Chicago) based new-media artist, writer and provocateur. His works occupy various media simultaneously including www, installation, social-media and printed texts. His pieces, occasionally brain-busting but often conceptually simple, deal with themes of digital identity, distribution of information, labor, spam, networks and telepresence in a way that never fails to incite a re-evaluation of these issues. He has worked and performed for the Austin New Music Co-op in Austin, TX; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hyde Park Art Center; the Red Rover Reading Series in Chicago; and Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn.

Chris Cuellar will be presenting on a series he recently organized for the Art21 blog where he transformed the guest column into “a practical art-making resource” as well as a “vehicle for the un-distribution of existing works.” He asked a small group of artists to give away their secrets in the form of online tutorials. “Each how-to is meant to give the reader enough information to accurately reproduce the project presented.” Furthermore, “in order to reduce issues of artistic ownership, each artist’s contribution has been more or less ‘anonymized’ before posting, with as many overt references to the the individual artist or original project removed as possible.” Cuellar asks why display a work when you can use a work? Why distribute copies when you can distribute a process? “Why buy a work, when you can just make it yourself?”

Read more about the series and view the tutorials on the art21 blog

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Upgrade! Chicago is the local Chicago-based node of the international Upgrade! network, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. Upgrade! Chicago presents new media projects, engages in informal critique, and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year.
http://upgradechicago.org/

Upgrade! Chicago meets @ The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
The Nightingale is a rough and ready microcinema dedicated to screening emerging work across film, video, and new media genres and aims to support Chicago’s vibrant cinema community.
http://nightingaletheatre.org/

Andrew Rosinski over at DINCA recently started a series called t0p5, “a DINCuratorial series featuring guest participants that curate five embeddable internet videos. There are no guidelines for their selections, other than participants are encouraged to reflect upon their choices in however many words they deem necessary.”

For my DINCuratorial slot I put together the following:

• Over the summer I taught a video remix class at Marwen (here in Chicago) for middle school students. The class served as an introduction to video editing (non of these students had any kind of serious prior editing experience) as well as an introduction to remix based work, theory and politics. I was extremely surprised how in depth we were able to discuss critical theory (a subject usually reserved for college level students) and digital policy. By the end of the course every student was producing critical, technically proficient, and occasionally hilarious remix videos, and most could explain to you in serious detail their fair-use rights and how best to navigate intellectual property issues on the web. I was extremely proud of the work they produced in class, and while I think you should check out all their videos here, I’ve forced myself to choose only five for DINCA’s t0p5. I think these exemplify their various projects + perspectives fairly well. Enjoy ‘em (and keep in mind these videos where made by 11 – 13 year olds!)

Check out the videos/post here!

thnx for the invitation Andrew!

DOWNLOAD: [SampleChest v1.0] +++ [SourceCode.zip]

if you’re a Max/MSP person, you can also download the source-files and incorporate this patch into your own video-app projects. Make sure you read the README file for some important set-up instructions before appropriating the patch into your projects.

sadly, I only really have this working on Mac, but if you’re a PC Max person and can remix this patch into a PC version please send me a copy. Also, if any Pure Data people can appropriate some of this into a PD version that would be super rad! Please share that if it happens.

thnx to Mark Beasley, youtube-dl team, phihag and Bill Orcutt