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Visual Foreign Correspondents is a platform for international video artists to reflect on recent events and to take the role of correspondent through their work. Die ZEIT online will provide additional background information and interviews to the invited artists and projects, and invites for critical discourse about the work.

Coinciding with the 20th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin wall, WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong together with Visual Foreign Correspondents Foundation, invited seven international artists to develop work relating to borders and boundaries and to take different positions relating to the nature of virtual or physical boundaries, walls or barriers as well as reflecting on the current state of the world. In times of a global economic crisis and international acts of terrorism, there is a clear tendency to re-erect or strengthen existing barriers; just as the European Union is strengthening its exterior borders.

A project of Visual Foreign Correspondents, Amsterdam, and WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong in collaboration with ZEIT Online.

SCREENINGS IN BERLIN:
- U Bahnhof Kochstraße/Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin-Mitte
(21 September – 9 November 2009, 7 – 21 hrs, Sat & Sun 11:30 – 20 hrs)

- Media facade of Collegium Hungaricum,
Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin (9 November 2009)

SCREENINGS IN AMSTERDAM:
- Melkweg, Die Wende Festival, 1-30 November 2009 http://www.die-wende.nl/

- CASz in Amsterdam (December 2009)
(more information to follow)

ARTISTS:
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Simon Faithfull (Great Britain), Mariam Ghani (US, Afghanistan), Han Hoogerbrugge (Netherlands), Little Warsaw (András Gálik & Bálint Havas, Hungary), Lena Merhej (Lebanon), Berit Zemke (Germany)

http://www.visualcorrespondents.com
http://www.wl-project.org
http://www.zeit.de/kultur

THE INTERNET PAVILION
03 June – 22 November 2009

Started by Miltos Manetas in 2009
Curator – Jan Aman
Producer – Art Production Fund

53rd International Art Exhibition -
La Biennale di Venezia
Collateral Events

Location: The Internet.

http://www.PadiglioneInternet.com
http://www.Biennale.net

General quarters: S.A.L.E, Magazzini del Sale.
Design and Propaganda – M/M (Paris)
Music – Mark Tranmer (GNAC), Howie B.
Architecture – Christian Wassmann
Film – Sonja Kroop
Web Design – Digital Club, London.

Opening on June 03, at 12 PM, at the physical outlet of the project, S.A.L.E Magazzini del Sale, Vaporetto Zattere.

An Internet Pavilion for the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2009.

The largest pavilion ever!

At the 53rd Venice Biennial, a completely new pavilion will be presented – the Internet Pavilion. With the theme for this year’s biennial, “Making Worlds”, it is only logical that the Internet is represented, for the first time, by a pavilion of its own. The Internet is a new part of our world that has never been represented in Venice. It is a different territory from the existing pavilions. The Internet is not defined by physical or geographical borders, nationalities, or a specific language. The Net is still new and developed with such speed that its legislation, as well as its impact on our lives, is under constant redefinition. The Internet is transforming our lives and senses; it is transforming the way we behave, communicate, share information and develop ideas. As this is what we often say art does, it is of special interest to present the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial.

The Pavilion is composed by two websites:

- PadiglioneInternet.com, hosts a collaboration by Miltos Manetas and Rafael Rozendaal. It will open on June 03 and similar to the physical buildings of the Biennial, it will close down in November.

- Biennale.net, holds the discussion and the history of the project and at the same time, it is the “entrance” for a number of collateral exhibitions and projects.

Among them:

- “New Wave”, an online show with a physical component featuring Petra Cortright (US), Martijn Hendriks (NE), Harm Van den Dorpel (HO), Sinem Erkas (UK), Elna Frederick (US), Parker Ito (US), Oliver Laric (AU), Guthrie Lonergan (US) and Pascual Sisto (ES/US).

- The WikepediaArt Embassy hosted by Scott Kildall(US) and Nathaniel Stern (US)

- The latest work by Aleksandra Domanovic (SE)

- An online show with Chinese Internet artists. (it will open later this Summer)

- The second updated edition of “Random Rules”: A Chanel of Artists’ selections from YouTube curated by Marina Fokidis (it will open later this fall)

- “PAGES” by Christian Wassmann. A piece of architecture that turns Internet into space and space into Internet. Mr. Wassmann will build “PAGES”- which he brought it with him in pieces from NY-at S.A.L.E on June 03

A video that explains Mr. Wassmann mental process can be found at http://padiglioneinternet.com/architecture

- “Network of Love”, a performance by AIDS-3D (US) on June 03 at 12 AM at S.A.L.E

-The “Book of Si” by Colin Payne and Miltos Manetas. A modern “Book of Sand” in the tradition of Borges where a webpage can be found only once and never again.

During the preparation of the Internet Pavilion a number of stakeholders from the various ranks of the Internet industry has been contacted, commercial as well as non-commercial. This is an investigation of the fact the digital territory is introduced at the Venice Biennial for the very first time.

These might operate independently, outside of the “official” terrain of the Venice Biennial and the Padiglione Internet, creating a contrast between cultural elite and the different creative powers of the Net. Between others we highlight here the presence of Tiscali which will offering free WiFi via the visitors of Biennale.net and the PirateBay.org and their project Embassy of Piracy, also hosted by S.A.L.E.S

The Internet Pavilion is a project initiated by the Greek born, London based artist Miltos Manetas, curated by Jan Aman and produced by Art Production Fund.

Press Events:
Venice, 3-4 June, To be announced via Biennale.net

For more information, please contact:
Pelle Strandberg at Strandberg & Haage
and Chloé Nelkin at Exposure, London
(info@theinternetpavilion.com)
and Chiara Lunardelli at Light-Box.it
(chiara.lunardelli@light-box.it)

Thanks to:
- Charles de Jonghe d’Ardoye/think.21 for producing the AIDS-3D performance.
- the Media Machine team for the Book of Ci:
Colin Payne – Creative Director
Luigi Tommaseo – Software Construction Paul Marsh and James McKeown – Physical Design
Pino – Hardware Deconstruction

Thanks to

Rob Auten, Giampaolo Abbondio, Riccardo Lisi, Filipa Ramos, Marco Baravalle and all our friends at S.A.L.E at Light-box.it and at TPB

Dedicated to

Dr. Leonard Kleinrock who started it all in 1969.

onedotzero_adventures in motion: final call for submissions from onedotzero on Vimeo.

onedotzero adventures in motion: now open for submissions!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 29 MAY 2009

Art by Eugenio Merino.

HYPERLUCID
Training to live in a new reality
Curated by: Domenico Quaranta
For: Prague Biennale 4
Karlin Hall, Thamova 8 – Praga 8
May 14 – July 26, 2009
Directors and General Curators: Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi
General Editor / Curatorial Advisor: Nicola Trezzi
Official website: http://www.praguebiennale.org/

ARTISTS: Alterazioni Video; Gazira Babeli; Shane Hope; Miltos Manetas; Gerhard Mantz; Eva and Franco Mattes; UBERMORGEN.COM; Damon Zucconi.

Reality is not the one we were used to anymore. Media infiltrate it more and more, and fill up our dreams, which usually come when our eyes are open. Wide open. In the frame of “Expanded Painting”, H Y P E R L U C I D is an exhibition collecting works born on the invisible edge between two different levels of reality (apparent reality and media reality), and documenting the continuous trespassing from one level to the other. The walls in between are more and more porous, and sometimes even the more lucid gaze can’t help but wonder which level of reality it is looking at in a particular moment. All of us had this feeling, in front of 9/11 pictures. Media don’t produce simulacra
anymore: they produce events, history, life. They overwhelm us with icons, brands, pixellated images of tortures, wars, outrages. The hardest fight happens there. They help us to construct new levels of
reality, both abstract and hyperreal, and to get used to them.
Finally, videogames are the places of our training: there, through more and more complex social and narrative dynamics, and through a photorealism which even overcomes our playing needs, we forget how to recognize simulation, and we exercise our brain for the next step: the one in which, between tangible reality, simulated reality and media reality there are no barriers anymore, but only the sheets, translucent and easy to pass through, of a chinese shadows theater. We took the last train to the world of Perky Pat, and there is no way to come back. H Y P E R L U C I D doesn’t collects paintings. Here, painting is not a medium, but a cultural frame, a context of reference for the new generation of the image makers. Alterazioni Video, Gazira Babeli, Shane Hope, Miltos Manetas, Gerhard Mantz, Eva and Franco Mattes, UBERMORGEN.COM and Damon Zucconi, no longer paint: they shoot, they manipulate, they code, they make scripts, sometimes they fight with other virtual characters. Yet, in the end, they produce images.

MORE INFOS & DOWNLOADABLE IMAGES: http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/hyperlucid.html
CATALOGUE TEXT: http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/hyperlucid/HYPERLUCID_catalogue_text.pdf

The Social Technologies Summit is the leading international conference that brings together 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers and technologists to explore the latest upgrade affecting today’s digital culture.

Pioneering ideas will be presented, which will transform the way you and your organisation operate, innovate and interact. Combining keynotes, critical debates, demonstrations and experiences with open space and participatory sessions, it is an engaging, critical and essential event to attend.

The themes for the conference this year include Environment 2.0, Digital Futures, Identity and Trust, Mobile and Semantic Web: Cultural Algorithms.

Science Gallery is seeking ideas and proposals from scientists, engineers, artists, designers and creative thinkers for a new interdisciplinary exhibition and festival exploring nanotechnology and its implications for our future.

Focussed on the dreams, nightmares, possibilities and achievements of this broadly interdisciplinary field, the exhibition will explore what it means to act in a realm we can never directly see and to consider how our emerging science and technology is enmeshed with some of our deepest hopes and fears.