Alpha-Ville 2011

 

International Festival of Post-Digital Culture:  Theme “Zeitgeist, from digital to post-digital”

Programme highlights and new additions, including Matthew Dear // Jennifer Cardini // Andy Stott // Moritz Stefaner // Anstam // Nicolas Provost // Stardust // Written Images // Carsten Nicolai // Bitquid plus further acts to be announced and the 1st London Symposium on Post-digital Culture.

Taking place from 22nd to the 25th of September, the third edition of Alpha-ville Festival will spread across several venues in London, running alongside the London Design Festival and the Digital Design Weekend at V&A , and including venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, Rich Mix, Netil House, The Vortex, XOYO and Space Studios.

This year’s theme explores the transition from digital to post-digital culture . It showcases an extensive programme of innovative and ground breaking work by some of the most influential international digital artists, aimed to investigate the intersection between art and technology, and the impact on both society and the creative practice.

Through social media, interactive art, open labs, meet-ups, talks, workshops, screenings, live music, visual performances and parties , Alpha-ville offers a new experience for a wide audience, both off and online, promoting interaction, participation and awareness of how we perceive and use digital and the impact on our lives – the post-digital era.

ille 2011 – Digicult.it.

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Liam Gillick

The term “contemporary art” is marked by an excessive usefulness. The contemporary has exceeded the specificity of the present to become inextricably linked to the growth of doubt consolidation. At the same time, it has absorbed a particular and resistant grouping of interests, all of which have become the multiple specificities of the contemporary.

Liam Gillick Contemporary Art Does Not Account For That Which is Taking Place’ http://bit.ly/rmRERS

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In 1975 Keith Sonnier submitted a preliminary request to NASA to do an interactive transmission between artists via the CTS public satellite, coast to coast.

In 1976 he asked Liza Béar to coproduce this project with him. They travelled to Washington DC to attend workshops, crack the bureaucratic code and learn the NASA lingo.

They had to persuade NASA to schedule time on the CTS satellite, which was designed for public use, and to send a portable earth station or satellite truck to the Battery
City Park Landfill.

They also travelled to San Francisco to visit Brad Gibbs at Ames Research Center, a permanent earth station, and to meet artists who would participate in the transmission. These included Margaret Fisher, Terry Fox, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler and Alan Scarritt. [move names to next post]

Video artist Sharon Grace became the West Coast coordinator for the project.

www.keithsonnierstudio.com
http://squaringoff.blip.tv
http://www.bombsite.com/issues/3/articles/61

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