DASH Archives - November 2009

Pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art (DVA) has been
documenting the rapidly evolving digital installation art for more than
a decade. Cooperating with known media artists, researchers and
institutions as members allows the DVA to develop into the collective
project in the field. There have been a number of online archives
supported over the years, but almost all no longer have funding and have
either disappeared or exist in a frozen condition. 

The DVA is beginning a renewed phase of further development with
existing and new members. Based on the *concept of expanded
documentation* it epitomizes a collective, *facebook-like* project
dedicated to media art. 500 artists selected from over 5000 applicants
offer the best selection of thousands of high quality artworks. Besides
the artists, more than 300 theorists and mediaarthistorians are
contributors. The DVA is a scholarly project and from the beginning a
university-based endeavor. 

NEW FEATURES of the DVA ::: 
::: Optimized upload system allowing contributors to add, revise, &
cross-link information in a clear online procedure. 
::: Artists can easily upload videos, as well as work descriptions,
digital documents, technical data, institutions and bios.
::: This rich online resource has a systematic thesaurus built from
various international keyword systems.
::: Any contributor from the field can submit to the news-ticker. 


www.virtualart.at 
Inviting a new wave of contributions to use the enhanced and improved
interface. 


:::::::  Database of Virtual Art  :::::  ADVISORY BOARD  ::::::
Roy ASCOTT, Beryl GRAHAM, Erkki HUHTAMO, Jorge LA FERLA, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Martin ROTH, Steve WILSON 
http://www.virtualart.at/about/advisory-board.html 


PERFECT COMBINATION
Beside the Database of Virtual Art -  the Goettweig Print Collection
(www.gssg.at) containing 30.000 original prints from Renaissance to
Baroque until now, allows in-depth research into its large resources. We
are glad to report that Danube University is able to provide open
archives contextualizing media art in art and image history. 

DANUBE UNIVERSITY
The Department for Image Science offers a Master of Arts program
MediaArtHistories:  www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis  www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 

The DVA is partner of:
Re:Live - World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and
Technology  www.mediaarthistory.org 
DANUBE TELELECTURES : www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures 

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) will run a one day forum on the 26th November 2009 prior to the media art history conference Re:live.The LEF@Re:live will be focused on mapping the terrain: Institutional capacities in media art, science and technology creating an exchange on the burning current issues in education.

The LEF intend to publish policy papers in the course of the next few years. Contributions by participants of LEF conferences in 2008 form the base of our introductory LEF Strategic Summary document available for comment at
http://mass.nomad.net.au/leonardo-education-forum-strategy-summary-on-media-art-education/ 

The Forum will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, 234 St Kilda Road, SOUTHBANK Victoria 3000

Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne Campus Map 2009


We are delighted to report that the Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) continues its successful international education event-initiative and correspondingly we hope you can join us at the public sessions scheduled at the forthcoming Media Art History Conference Re:live 09.

If you are interested in attending the Leonardo Education Forum workshop, which is carrying on from the excellent work done at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Belfast and Ars Electronica towards the further development of an educational policy paper, please contact us. 


10 00 am Welcome 
Su Baker, Associate Professor Art, Head of School, Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne
Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair, Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University and  Dr Paul Thomas, Australian representative for LEF, Co chair Media Art History Conference, Re:live 09, Director Centre for Research in Art Science and Humanity Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
 
10.10 am Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair presents LEF international initiatives & Policy Papers

10.30 am Dr Paul Thomas and Jeremy Blank will report on the Australian national media art scoping study.

11.00 am Reports from delegates on LEF@ISEA - Ars on the three themes

11.15 am Professor Oliver Grau,, Chair for Image Science, Head Department for Cultural Studies DANUBE UNIVERSITY, Krems, AUSTRIA

11.30 am Professor Ross Harley, Head of School, Media Arts, Acting Associate Dean Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia

11.45 am Professor Ian M Clothier, Faculty of Art, Commerce and Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand, Director: Intercreate.org, SCANZ2006 & 2009

12 pm lunch

1.30 - 3.00 pm  Working groups focus:

1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / OrganizationalCapacities and Benchmarks

3.00 pm summary by session chairs

The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
Working group leader: Oliver Grau 

The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
Working group leader:  Ross Harley 

The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational
Capacities and Benchmarks
Working group leader:  Ian Clothier

Working group co-leaders to be announced.

3.15pm - 4.30 pm Darren Tofts, Associate Professor in Media & Communications Faculty of Life & Social Sciences.
Resolutions and outcomes 


(With refreshments.)

Please feel free to circulate.

Contact/Organizers: Nina Czegledy 
Paul Thomas p.thomas@curtin.edu.au and Julian Stadon 

>> INVITATION <<

Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk, Poland,

cordially invites You to the lecture of 

Prof. Martin KEMP

on Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 6 p.m.

Jaskolcza Street 1 80-767 Gdansk

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"Atthe Cutting Edge: Computer Graphics and Renaissance Art Techniques ofComputer Graphics and Computer Vision can be brought into very fruitfuland innovatory dialogues with certain aspects of Renaissance art,especially in th analysis and construction of space.  Computer visionwill enter into dialogue with paintings by Masaccio, Uccello and Pierodella Francesca. The works of Leonardo will extend the dialogue intoareas of geometry, motion, hydrodynamics and flight. The potential isfor enhanced research and public communication"

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Martin KEMP FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University.

Hehas written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art andscience from the Renaissance to the present day. Books include, TheScience of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi toSeurat (Yale University Press), and The Human Animal in Western Art andScience (Chicago 2007. He has published extensively on Leonardo daVinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellousworks of nature and man (1989 and 2006).

Increasingly, he hasfocused on issues of visualization, modelling and representation. Hewrites a regular column on Science in Culture in Nature (an earlyselection published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000). The Nature essaysare developed in Seen and Unseen (OUP 2006), in which his concept ofstructural intuitions is explored. 

He has curated andco-curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes,including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London andLeonardo da Vinci. Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria andAlbert Museum in 2006 and Seduced. Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now,Barbican Art Gallery London, 2007. He was also guest curator for Ca1492 at the National Gallery in Washington in 1992. 

He wastrained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University andthe Courtauld Institute, London. He was British Academy WolfsonResearch Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based inScotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews. He has held visitingposts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles and Montreal.

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For more information please contact:

Kasia Wozniak
Curator
Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia
Jaskolcza Street 1
80-767 Gdansk
Tel. +48728177090