Concept NULL Newsletter #6
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The Spotlight 🔦
Exhibitions🏛️
The Collision Project | Online Exhibition at Screen Service
Location: Online
Date: June 14, 2023 → July 10, 2023
The Collision Project 2023 was designed to facilitate remote collaborative pairings between early-career artists. In January 2023, SS invited interested practitioners to submit to their participation pool. Three pairs were created, based on thoughtful commonalities and exciting divergences amongst the artists. This online exhibition displays open-ended narratives and the playful, process-driven experimentation of artists working in tandem.
Pair 1. Cóilín O'Connell and Mel Galley // Pair 2. Cara Farnan and Teresa Collins // Pair 3. Aisling Phelan and Elinor O’Donovan
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Articles 📰
Club Code: Zen, Algorave, and Phenomenology
The article describes an algorave event at a venue called Persona, located in New York City, organized by Club Code, which is a collective of creative coders. The article highlights the freedom and empowerment that live-coding offers to artists, as well as the immersive and transcendent nature of the algorave experience. It also explores the fusion of art, technology, and philosophy in the underground scene. Ultimately, the article suggests that in the world of algorave, it is our own minds that dance to the rhythm of code and creativity.
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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
Naomi Klein discusses the debate around artificial intelligence includes a lesser-known disagreement over the term "hallucinate" used to describe the inaccuracies generated by chatbots. While acknowledging the machines' fallibility, proponents of generative AI adopt this term to evoke a myth of birthing an intelligent entity. However, the real hallucinations lie with tech CEOs who envision AI solving all societal issues. The theft of human knowledge by big tech companies, the potential deepening of the climate crisis, and the false hope of AI improving governance are among the dangers obscured by these hallucinations.
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The Malware Museum
You ever put a virus in a museum? The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing...
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Caroline Busta - UCLA - CLEARNET vs. DARK FOREST:
Fascinating Youtube presentation from Caroline Busta’s notes on the psychogeography of art through the lens of the “clearnet, dark forest and dark net”.
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Open Calls📯
Vilnius Light Festival - Project Proposals
Deadline: 2023-06-30
Lithuania
Project proposals are invited to reflect on and interpret the phenomenon of continuous urban transformation. The festival take place in January of 2024.
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ARTECH 2023 - Call for Papers
Deadline: 2023-06-16
Portugal
You can write a paper by tomorrow right? Authors are invited to submit papers from all areas related to digital art and art installations, interactive art or media artworks for review by the international committee. Both research and applications papers are of relevance to ARTECH 2023
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Quasi Publication
Deadline: 2023-07-05
Online
Quasi are seeking creators whose practice, critically or not, connects with or questions ideas around our relationship with technology through imagery, video, sound and writing. They will collate the works of successful applicants into a physical publication that will be released in Autumn 2023 ready for an unorthodox winter read. Please note that QUASI are a not-for-profit arts collective, so at present are unable to pay contributors, though this is a long term aim of ours. Publication gets circulated around Bristol & London
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11th 1 minute Projection Mapping Competition
Deadline: 2023-06-22
Japan
The Projection Mapping Association of Japan Present tje 1 min projection Mapping Competition. The theme of this year’s competition, “LINK,” is to “connect” and “synchronize” various things from small “connections” around us to the future with the creators’ sense. They expect works that connect all areas such as “country,” “era,” “people,” “culture,” “technology,” “expression,” “society,” “issues,” “future,” and “potential,” and that also have diversity and value as visual expressions.
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Net Art Died - The Wrong Biennale
Deadline: 2023-07-14
Spain
Artist Fabio Fon will create an online pavilion at The Wrong Biennale 2023/24 with recent works of net art (or web art or internet art) created between the years 2021 and 2023, in dialogue with the paradigms of this Internet-based production. If you are an Internet artist, you can contribute to a new horizon of creations.
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L/nt Art Collective
Deadline: 2023-07-01
Sweden
Lint is back for its annual publication, and this year's discussion will revolve around the theme of "loot." We invite artists from around the world to submit their work for consideration. Lint is accepting digital art stills submissions. Magazine Lint is a curated art magazine published once a year by the Lint Art Collective based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Studio Vacancies 🔓
Spacecraft Artist Studios - New Associate Member Scheme - Open Call
Limerick, Ireland
OPEN CALL: Spacecraft is inviting applications for our new Associate Membership Scheme. The scheme is designed to provide more local artists with access to our facilities. We are offering artists the opportunity to utilise our project space on a part-time basis over an 8 month period, between July 2023-March 2024.
What you get: You will receive 20 hours access to project space per month, to be used in a minimum of 4 hour blocks. Booking the project space is managed online via our shared google calendar and will be administrated by Spacecraft members. The project space is a 9.1 m X 6.15m space, it is equipped with power outlets, WIFI, a table and chairs and a bathroom. There are no storage facilities. The space may be used how you wish, previous uses of the space include the creation of large sculptural works and installations, the documentation of artwork, photo shoots, filming, workshops and more. The associate membership has a fee of €30 per month, to be paid in two installments of €120, first payment on taking up the membership, and second payment on month 4 of the scheme.
How to apply: If you are interested, please email spacecraftlimerick@gmail.com with a short statement outlining why you wish to be an Associate Member, and how the scheme will assist your practice; an artist statement and up to three examples of your work.
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That’s it for now! The newsletter gets sent out 1st and 15th of every month and we post open calls and events as they come in on our Instagram so be sure to follow us there.
Again, thank you for all of your support as we continue to grow our project with the help of a great community and, as we always say, we would love to hear your thoughts, projects, events or other open opportunities so drop us an email.
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