Fra gennaio e aprile 2012, l’Open Media Hub metterà in palio 10 postazioni di co-working gratuite per 6 mesi, inclusive di tutti i servizi e di alcune ore di mentoring, destinate a persone, professionisti, micro-società e associazioni operanti o che vogliano svilupparsi nel settore della comunicazione mediale.

tutti i dettagli :
http://www.openmediahub.com/openmedia48/

We’d like to receive an proposal from you before Novembre 22th, with some preliminary info on the technology and artistic spin. The project, or a first version of it, must be finished by December 10th. Our budget is in the range of 1,500-4,000 euros, depending on the quality of the proposal.

WHO/WHAT: Tecnoconsult International (“TI”) – as developer of the 120M€ and 57,000sq.mts Open Media Park (Q1-2014) and Digital Artists Labs (Q1-2014), promoter and financer of Open Media Cluster,(Q3-2012) and operator of the Opem Media Hub (Q1-2011) – would like to make a timeline-based web animation that would describe the evolution of the Hub, Cluster and Park project to date and its unfolding in time.
(Websites and under underconstruction)

STORY: We see it as mostly 2D animation where – while a timeline on the screen (on a top slider?) – elapses months and years, a zooming in and out of an aerial view of the area is combined with an appearing of overlay images, vectorial elements and text elements – will describe what building of office/production spaces and localization of media/video services have happned and will happen in time (1990-2014), with an decisive enphiasis on what we (TI) have done and will do.

FORMATS: Possibily, it would be something that can be used, possibly with slight modification, primarily as a self-presentation with audio that can be launched on the site which may also:
- for non-HTML5 browsers: be saved as a h264 video (or as a flash file)
- be runnable and understandable without audio
- be started from different points in the timeline
- ? be used for live presentation in alternative to a powerpoint presentation
- ?? linkable to a page on the side of the presentation screen where a list of more detailed description of the events unrolling (taken from our Timeline page) would scroll on in sync with the animation (as it seem to be possibile with popcorn.js)
- … more

The animation should be editable for the future as the project changes.

AVAILABLE SOURCE FILES
-ALL
-aerial view from Google Maps
-onlique views from Bing Maps
-streetside views from Google Streetview (Santa Cornelia, Cassia Bis, Via Olmetti (i.e. Hub) and more)
-list of core descriptions of each project, websites (and updated&extended website by end Novembre 2011)
-Park:
-street side 3D renderings of the architecture, plus one SW aerial oblique
-new (urban) plans, including new roads and new highway exit
-Cluster project:
-new (urban) plans,
-Hub (operational by 11-30-2011:
-detailed floor plans
-pictures of the refurbished spaces (available by November 25th)

www.parcotelematico.it

Alessandro Fabrizi conductor more information,  description, synopsis and cast at

http://www.sac.or.kr/eng/bannerPage1.jsp?htmlURL=/eng/lab2011/tosca/index.html

presented by Alessandro Fabrizi and MEDIARS

Won Kim

San Paolo Dentro le Mura, Rome
May, 30, 2011 8:30pm

via Napoli, 58 (next to via Nazionale)
info 349/5757431
silviamarinelli77@gmail.com

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MEDIARS featured on the magazine DIGITALARTI LES NEWS DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ #5 March 2011.

It’s the second time this month directly and indirectly we get featured in the same page of a magazine with Rafael Lozano Hemmer, it’s great honor!

MEDIARS is pleased to spread the news about a show co-exhibiting work of Yoshie Sakai, past workshop participant.

“The Quotidian World” Video Art Exhibition
curated by Devon Tsuno

February 24 – March 22, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 24th from 6 to 8 pm

Artists:
Kent Anderson Butler
Camlab
Diana Sofia Estrada
Betsy Hunt
Kiel Johnson
Zach Kleyn
Kushami
Ryan Lamb
Daisuke Okamoto
Carl Pomposelli
Yoshie Sakai

Cypress College Art Gallery
9200 Valley View Street
Cypress, CA 90630
(714) 484-7133

http://www.cypresscollege.edu

http://www.cypresscollegeartgallery.com

Gallery Hours: 12 pm to 4 pm (Monday through Thursday)
Parking $2, Lots 1 or 8

Please come by this Thursday night for the opening reception from 6 to 8 pm if you are in the neighborhood!

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the winners of its 2010 Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge. The top prize of $125,000 was awarded to a team of two developers from Lithuania, Paulius Liekis and Arminas Didžiokas for Paparazzi. Second prize of $50,000 was awarded to Defiant Development Pty Ltd. for Inch High Stunt Guy. Third prize of $25,000 was awarded to five graduate students at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts for their submission, Danger Copter. The Challenge, which kicked off with the public availability of Qualcomm’s AR software development kit (SDK) in October 2010, encouraged developers to create a new generation of vision-based AR applications, including innovative games, educational applications and interactive marketing concepts.

http://developer.qualcomm.com/dev/augmented-reality/developer-challenge

Kinetica Art Fair is organised by the Kinetica Museum and is the first event of its kind in the UK. The fair brought together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on ‘kinetic art’: universal concepts and evolutionary processes though the convergence of kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology. The theme of this year’s show was the evolution of body, brain, mind and consciousness.

Kinetica Art Fair: The Evolution Of Body, Brain, Mind And Consciousness.

AR-Blog, the ARmedia Augmented Reality Blog, is an updated source of information especially targeted to people who want to get informed on the latest  developments and opportunities related to the field of Augmented Reality tools and applications. The Blog is an ideal place for developers, marketers, content creators, system integrators and just curious people to satisfy their information needs.

http://arblog.inglobetechnologies.com

from the Press Release, February 10th, 2010. Somewhere in Europe.

* Face to Facebook.
http://face-to-facebook.net
Face to Facebook is a project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, who wrote special software to steal 1 million public profiles from Facebook, filtering them through face-recognition software and posting the resulting 250,000 profiles (categorized by facial expression) on a dating website called Lovely-Faces.com.
The project was launched at Transmediale, the annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, on February 2nd, in the form of installation displaying a selection of 1,716 pictures of unaware Facebook users, an explanatory video and a diagram detailing the whole process. The Lovely-Faces.com website went online on the same day.

At the end of the day Cirio’s and Ludovico’s Facebook accounts were disabled and a “cease and desist” letter from Perkins Coie LLP (Facebook lawyers) landed in their inboxes, including a request to give back to Facebook “their data”.
We can properly define it as a performance since it happened in a short time span, involved the audience in a trasformation, and evolved into a thrilling story. The frenzied pace of these digital events was almost bearable.

* The Social Experiment.
In the subsequent days the media performance continued at a very fast pace and what we still define as a “social experiment” was actually quite successful. Starting on February 4th the news went spontaneously viral: thousands of tweets and retweets pointed to the Lovely-Faces.com website or to articles and blog posts, often urging people to check if they (and their loved ones) were on the website or not. In a few days Lovely-faces.com received 964.477 page views from 195 different countries. Reactions varied from asking to be removed (which we diligently did) to asking to be included, from anonymous death threats to proposals of commercial partnerships.

* Back to Facebook.
We approached the Electronic Frontier Foundation about legal counsel, but after a second warning by Perkins Coie, we temporarily put up a notice that Lovely-Faces.com is under maintenance. But they are not ok with that.
They want Lovely-Faces.com not to be reachable. And they even want the same for Face-to-Facebook.net, the website where we explain the project. So basically their current aim is to completely remove the web presence of this artistic project and social experiment.
They missed out on Face-to-Facebook also being meant as a homage to FaceMash, the system Mark Zuckerberg established by scraping the names and photos of fellow classmates off school servers, which was the very first Facebook.
Furthermore, it’s a bit funny hearing Facebook complain about the scraping of personal data that are quasi-public and doubtfully owned exclusively by Facebook (as a Stanford Law School Scholar wondered analyzing Lovely-Faces.com). We obtained them through a script that never even logged in their servers, but only very rapidly “viewed” (and recorded) the profiles. Finally, and paradoxically enough, Facebook has blocked us from accessing our Facebook profiles, but all the data we posted in the last years is still there. This proves once more that they care much more about the data you post than your online identity.

We’re going to reclaim the access to our Facebook accounts, and the right to express and document our work on our own websites.
And even if we are forced to go offline, Lovely-Faces.com will never go offline in the minds of involved people.

Face to Facebook data:

People who asked to be removed from the database: 56
People who asked to be included in the database: 14

Commercial dating website partnership proposals: 4
Other partnership proposals: 9

Cease and desist letters by Perkins Coie LLP (Facebook lawyers): 1
Other threatened lawsuits or class actions: 11

Anonymous email death threat: 5

TV reports: 3
Online news about Lovely-Faces.com (source: Google News): 427

Number of times “lovely faces” introductory video has been viewed on you tube: 31,089
Unique users on Lovely-Faces.com: 211.714