Futuresonic 2008 Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas - 1st-5th May

The Futuresonic 2008 festival 1st-5th May in Manchester is 5 days and nights of live music, art premieres, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring a world-class programme of over 300 artists in 30 venues and spaces across the city centre. Futuresonic is an international festival of Art, Music and Ideas now in its 12th year occupying the orbits of both digital culture and music. The 2008 theme is The Social - Social Networking Unplugged, the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival. For more information and booking details go to: http://www.futuresonic.com/

Digital Artists' Handbook

The Digital Artists' Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.
The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible. The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools, others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies. Find out more about how to get involved at: http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/

Database of Virtual Art

The Database of Virtual Art documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art. This complex, research-oriented overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions. The web-based, cost-free instrument - appropriate to the needs of process art - allows individuals to post material themselves. Compiling video documentation, technical data, interfaces, displays, and literature offers a unique answer to the needs of the field. All works can be linked with exhibiting institutions, events and bibliographical references. Over time the richly interlinked data will also serve as a predecessor for the crucial systematic preservation of this art.

http://www.virtualart.at/common/recentWork.do

Danube TeleLecture #4 REMIXING CINEMA : Future and Past of Moving Images with Lev Manovich and Sean Cubitt

The Department For Image Science & Database of Virtual Art presents Danube TeleLecture REMIXING CINEMA : Future and Past of Moving Images with Lev Manovich and Sean Cubitt - live stream now available at: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/veranstaltungen/id/10963/index.php?URL=/en/department/bildwissenschaft/veranstaltungen/telelectures/10963

Other past lectures/debates are available from their archive:

Sarat Maharaj and Machiko Kusahara: Does the West still exist?

Gunalan Nadarajan and Jens Hauser: Pygmalion Tendencies: Bioart and its Precursors

Christiane Paul and Paul Sermon: Myths of Immateriality: Curating and Archiving Media Art

http://ww.donau-uni.ac.at/dtl-archive