CEEMAC 2000+ on Soft Borders" 4th Upgrade International Conference, 18-21 October 2010, Sao Paulo

Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival, that will take place in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, from 18th to 21st/October/2010.
The previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA), Ocklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedonia).
The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers from 30 countries to present and discuss the field of new media art, in the international and local contexts, especially in Brazil, the country that is hosting the present edition of the event.
The new media festival that is also part of the Soft Borders event will present artworks selected by two curators - a Brazilian and an Upgrade! International Network curator.
The Soft Borders theme, that drives either the conference and the art festival, aim to discuss the borders dissolutions between the many fields of the knowledge and life, the contamination of the one another, particularly regarding the relationship between art-science-technology.

CEEMAC 2000+ remote presentation will take place on 19th October between 2:00 - 2:30 pm (Brazil time zone).

TIME ZONE CONVERTER: http://tinyurl.com/2etud7a
CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION: http://prezi.com/4oitgt3vxfva/ceemac2000/
SOFT BORDERS PROGRAM: http://softborders.art.br/programa.html
SOFT BORDERS WEB: http://softborders.art.br/eng/
UPGRADE! WEB: http://www.theupgrade.net/

Monoskop/log

"New Media Art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s (2009)" abstract is a part of Monoskop/log - Living archive of writings on art, culture and media technology
http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log/?p=1207

Thesis abstract in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA)

The peer review panel (Yiannis Colakides, Andrea Polli, Tom Lessor, Christo Doherty and Sheila Pinkel) has reviewed abstracts submitted for Leonardo Abstracts Service Database. „New Media Art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s” was one of the top ranked by the peer reviewers this year. Thanks to it you can find its publication in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), Leonardo's e-journal:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/new_media_art_in_central_and_eastern_europe

Established in 1993, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, a peer reviewed journal, is the electronic arm of the pioneer art journal, Leonardo - Journal of Art, Science & Technology. LEA Editorial Board is composed of internationally recognized academics who are experts in their respective fields.
The focus of LABS and Leonardo is the interaction of art and science and of art and new technologies, by artists, researchers and scholars who in some way investigate philosophical, historical and/or critical applications of science or technology to the arts.

Leonardo LABS 2010

“New media art in Central and Eastern Europe in the 2000s” abstract is part of LABS (Leonardo Abstracts Service Database at Pomona University) a comprehensive database of abstracts of Ph.d, Masters and MFA theses in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology.
http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/SearchDetails.aspx?UID=291

LabforCulture European Cultural blogging map

CEEMAC2000+ blog is part of LabforCulture European Cultural blogging map.


http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents/research-in-focus/cultural-blogging-in-europe/european-cultural-blogging-map

"Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known category within the blogosphere. LabforCulture wanted to find out more about the role of blogging in the cultural sector generally and what it means for LabforCulture specifically. [...] Our specific focus was to look at individual European blogs that take contemporary and popular culture as their main starting point. This ‘viral exploration’ includes a series of in-depth interviews with bloggers from the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and the Netherlands, among others. As part of the ongoing series of exploring cultural blogs across Europe we are launching an interactive map of the European cultural blogging scene."

FLEFF 2010 – Map Open Space

Central Eastern European Media Art Chart (2000–Now) has been selected as part of exhibition curated by Sharon Lin Tay and Dale Hudson*: MAP OPEN SPACE during FLEFF 2010 (The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival organized through Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA).

"Maps orientate and determine the ways in which we perceive and understand the world and our place in it. Maps reveal and illuminate, but they also conceal and obfuscate. This year’s digital exhibition for FLEFF, Map Open Space, focuses on ways that mapping can be mobilized towards the concept of “open space.” Rather than defining and dividing, Map Open Space engages with technologies of mapping that act as radical cartography and radical historiography to invite new participation and facilitate new questions. By enlisting perspectives that often pass ignored or unrecognized, Map Open Space explores the interfaces and intervals of the digital, abstract, and immaterial with the localized, materialized, and grounded. Our selection for this year’s exhibition makes use of mapping in both practical and conceptual ways."

The jurors for Map Open Space were Babak Fakhamzadeh (Iran/Netherlands) Ismail Farouk (South Africa) and Christina McPhee (United States).


http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/gallery/3615/?image_id=28185#photo
Wider description about FLEFF you can find on
http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
website under MAP OPEN SPACE.

*Map Open Space Curators' Bios
Dale Hudson is an assistant professor at Texas State University–San Marcos. His work on global cinemas and new media appears in Afterimage, Cinema Journal, Journal of Film and Video, Screen, and Studies in Documentary Film.　He has worked as a co-curator of new media art for FLEFF since 2006.
Sharon Lin Tay is an academic, theorist, and curator. She teaches film and digital theory at Middlesex University in London, England, and has co-curated the new media art exhibition for FLEFF for the last three years. Her new book about women filmmakers and digital artists, entitled Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices (2009), is published by Palgrave Macmillan.