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Art – Place – Technology blog now online

ARC Co-directors Iliyana Nedkova and Chris Byrne will be blogging from Art – Place – Technology, an international symposium on new media art curating and theory, taking place in Liverpool 30 March – 1 April 2006.

We’ll be bringing you news and reports from the Art – Place – Technology Symposium as it happens. We’ll also be audio blogging the speakers’ presentations (or podcasting if you prefer). Bookmark this page for future reference. Here is the RSS newsfeed.

Sound Toys at Threshold artspace

“One of Perth Concert Hall’s biggest attractions is Threshold artspace – the innovative exhibition which sits in the glass-fronted foyer of the hall” Auditoria, October 2005

“Tonne’s sound toys are part of a new art trend using dynamic data visualization’’, says ARC Co-Director Iliyana Nedkova. In her capacity as Horsecross Creative Director of New Media, Iliyana has curated Players – Horsecross’ exclusive year round celebration of artists’ games and toys. Showing thoughout March 2006 at Threshold artspace, Sound Toys 2002-05 is the first time Tonne’s innovative audio-visual work has been seen in a public gallery as a mini-retrospective.

Players launched in November 2005 with the Scottish premiere of four interactive titles by Peter Appleton, Onno Baudouin and Simon Robertshaw, originally commissioned by the BBC for their large urban screens. Trigger Happy by Thomson & Craighead featured throughout February 2006. Trigger Happy is a clever and engaging take on popular game Space Invaders, “An ungodly alliance of arcade game firepower and literary theory” – J.J.King. Thomson & Craighead’s work appeared courtesy of the Arts Council Collection – the largest loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world.

Showing next as part of Players are world or Scottish premieres including First Person by Beverley Hood throughout April; spring_alpha: audiography by Simon Yuill in May; Untitled by Sunny Lee will show during June; Do You Know Your Europe? by Mare Tralla in July; reproduced by Sam Hill across August; September 12 by Gonzalo Frasca in (naturally) September; and Influx by Joanna Kane during October.

Dorkbot Alba 3

The third Dorkbot Alba event will take place on 19th March, at the Forest Café, Edinburgh, in association with Dialogues festival of electronic music.

The speakers/presenters are Andrew Cavers, Fergus Ray Murray, Greg Miller, and Kirsty Stansfield.

Dorkbot Alba is the Scottish branch of Dorkbot, a global movement of small, autonomous gatherings with a similar goal: offering a platform to artists, designers, scientists, nerds, students and others who let themselves be inspired by technology.