GOTO10 are the current and last artists group in residency at Grand Union for the SEARCH ENGINE project. Over the course of their residency, from 16 April to 30 April, GOTO1O will be working in the gallery space, developing the project /points of presence/

Event: Thursday 28 April, 12 – 8 pm: Open studio day and project presentation 6.30 – 8 pm: Project presentation by Rob Canning and Barbara Kukovec

SEARCH ENGINE, curated by Marialaura Ghidini, is a six-week open-residencies programme aimed at facilitating new processes of production, collaborative research and forms of distribution.

For SEARCH ENGINE Grand Union has invited three artists groups – Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel, American Mountains, GOTO10 – to work in the project space for two weeks each; taking as their departure point the investigation of the complex relationship between history and technology, and the way it connects to the Grand Union locale, Digbeth (Birmingham).

Using Wi-Fi signals to create a semi-hidden textual web, GOTO10 will intervene in the public spaces of Digbeth by creating “hacked” spaces.

GOTO10 artists will be exploring the surroundings of Grand Union and collecting information from notice billboards, and other communication nodes. The collected data will subsequently be “remixed and retransmitted” into the gallery locale in the form of a series of 32-character text strings.

By creating multiple simultaneous WLAN access points (Wi-Fi hotspots), these strings will combine to create a constantly evolving poetic structure. This will be transmitted and visible to residents in the Digbeth area as well as being unconsciously collected in the device memory of passers-by. These access points will also act as portals to a series of site-specific galleries only accessible through the local wireless intranet.

make art
festival of free art and technologies
from 4 to 7 november 2010
Maison de l’Architecture, Poitiers

« in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art »

make art is an international festival dedicated to free/libre arts and technologies, distributed digital artworks and net art. The sixth edition of make art focuses on works halfway between art and design, collaborative, scalable and participative methods. The adventure “in-between design” begins here, to be imagined in this creative development, where everyone can participate and where artwork keeps on evolving. Are these projects just curiosities or a real alternative to the graphic conformism ruled by an industry that dictates its aesthetic codes? Please come and join us to answer this question…

with Awkward Family Photos (Greece), Marije Baalman (Netherlands), Emanuele Bonetti (Italy), Loredana Bontempi (Italy), Vito Campanelli (Italy), Benjamin Cadon (France), Calcyum (France), Alberto de Campo (Austria), Andrés Colubri
(Argentina), ginger coons (Canada), Dorothé Depeauw (Belgium), Luc Döbereiner (Germany), LAFKON (Germany), Aditya Mandayam (India), Xavi Manzanares (Spain), Oscar Martin (Spain), Gabriel Menotti (Brazil), Yota Morimoto (Japan), Jaime
Oliver (Peru), Open Source Publishing (Belgium), Evan Raskob (United States), <stdin> (France), Dan Stowell (Great-Britain), Daniel Temkin (United States), Dave Young (Ireland), Simon Yuill (Great-Britain).

Detailed program available at: http://makeart.goto10.org/2010/?lang=en

make art
festival des arts et technologies libres
du 4 au 7 novembre 2010
Maison de l’Architecture, Poitiers

« in-between design :la redécouverte de la collaboration dans les arts numériques »

make art est un festival international dédié aux arts et technologies libres, aux oeuvres numériques distribuées et à l’art en réseau. La sixième édition de make art se penche sur les créations à mi-chemin entre art et design, aux méthodes participatives, évolutives et collaboratives. L’aventure “in-between design” débute ici, elle s’imagine dans ce développement créatif, où la participation de chacun est possible et où l’oeuvre ne cesse d’évoluer. Ces projets sont-ils juste des curiosités ou bien une véritable alternative au conformisme graphique régi par une industrie qui nous impose ses codes esthétiques ? Venez nous rejoindre pour répondre à cette question…

avec Awkward Family Photos (Grèce), Marije Baalman (Pays-Bas), Emanuele Bonetti (Italie), Loredana Bontempi (Italie), Vito Campanelli (Italie), Benjamin Cadon (France), Calcyum (France), Alberto de Campo (Autriche), Andrés Colubri (Argentine), ginger coons (Canada), Dorothé Depeauw (Belgique), Luc Döbereiner (Allemagne), LAFKON (Allemagne), Aditya Mandayam (Inde), Xavi Manzanares (Espagne), Oscar Martin (Espagne), Gabriel Menotti (Brésil), Yota Morimoto (Japon), Jaime Oliver (Pérou), Open Source Publishing (Belgique), Evan Raskob (Etats-Unis), <stdin> (France), Dan Stowell (Grande-Bretagne), Daniel Temkin (Etats-Unis), Dave Young (Irelande), Simon Yuill (Grande-Bretagne).

Programme complet : http://makeart.goto10.org

GOTO10 is supported by SPACE through the PERMACULTURES programme. PERMACULTURES supports artists using technology and exploring media culture against the backdrop of apparent ecological crisis. SPACE hosts 1-3 month residencies in the MediaLab supporting artists to develop and produce new work.

During the residency SPACE have offered GOTO10 time and space to develop new projects,  the residency will also host a puredyne code sprint as well as workshops and public events  related to the projects developed during the residency.

The residency can be followed here: http://permacultures.goto10.org/ or if you are in London feel free to drop in to say hello!

SPACE is London’s original radical artist support organization. Set up in East London in 1968 to provide affordable studio space for visual artists, SPACE remains at the vanguard in promoting the role of artists in society. SPACE provide platforms which enable creative people to experiment, develop and thrive, and for a broad public to engage with this creativity, through exhibitions, residencies, courses and workshops.

GOTO10 will be in residency in SPACE until late October 2010.

We’re pleased to announce the new call for projects for the forthcoming edition of make art, which will take place in Poitiers from the 4th to the 7th of November.

make art 6th edition will focus on in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art.

We’re currently seeking new, innovative media art and design works and projects focusing on the above theme :
– graphical artworks and installations
– lectures
– project presentations
– software and hardware demos

Deadline : 31st July 2010

More info and how to apply at : http://makeart.goto10.org/call

What happens when you try to combine FLOSS and digital art ? What is the creative influence between art and free software ?
This lecture will be given by Thomas Vriet (in French) as an immersion to “FLOSS art” movement.

Venue: Rurart, cultural center nearby Poitiers (FR)
Date: Thursday 27th May – 18h
More infos: click here

Que se passe-t-il lorsque l’art numérique et les Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS) se rencontrent ? Quelle est l’influence créative entre l’art et le logiciel libre ?
Cette conférence par Thomas Vriet (en français) est proposée comme une introduction au courant du “FLOSS art”.

Lieu : Rurart, centre culturel à Rouillé près de Poitiers (FR)
Date : jeudi 27 mai – 18h.
Plus d’infos : cliquez ici

The fifth edition of make art – chmod +x art – will take place in Groningen (NL), from the 2nd to the 7th of March 2010.

Workshop hello wor(l)d!, exhibition, Hocus Pocus lecture evening, Placard headphone concert, breakfast club, speed geeking & PechaGnucha, bookshop

With: Wayne Clements (GB) , Martin Howse (GB), Graham Harwood (GB) , IOhannes Zmölnig (AT), Pall Thayer (IS) , Dave Griffiths (GB), Gabor Papp (HU), Agoston Nagy (HU), Florian Cramer (DE), Nathalie Magnan (FR), Dmytri Kleiner (RU), …

http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x

Hacktion is a free micro event spreading over two days during the open days of the École Supérieure d’ Art et Design Saint-Etienne, in France. This event is organized by Aymeric Mansoux (http://goto10.org) and Antoine Moreau (http://artlibre.org) with the support of the ESADSE and the participation of Enrike Hurtado (http://www.ixi-software.net), Florian Cramer (http://pzwart.wdka.nl), Daltex (http://www.daltex-lab.com) and Anne Laforêt (http://www.sakasama.net).

Planning
• jeudi 21 janvier
Noon: Potlach Feast with the «cabas noir» Part I
Afternoon: Présentations from Antoine Moreau, Aymeric Mansoux, Enrike Hurtado, Daltex, as well as works from the students.
Evening: performances from Aymeric Mansoux, Enrike Hurtado, Anne Laforet + Daltatron session with Daltex.

• vendredi 22 janvier
Morning: roundtable with Florian Cramer, Anne Laforêt, Daltex
Noon: Potlach Feast with the «cabas noir» Part II
Afternoon: Programming crash course with Enrike Hurtado + improvised discussions, hacking, writing and drawing.

Workshop with Enrike Hurtado:

Crash course on programing. How to gain control of computers. Computers are pervasive in nowadays world. They are present in almost all moments of our lives, catching a train, sending an email, reading a newspaper… However, the design and production of those systems is controlled mostly by engineers. Thanks to modern programming languages and free software this is not so true any more. Any person
with some reasonable effort and cheap hardware can learn programming and therefore have its say on this. From the perspective of an artist/musician/creator, gaining control of the tools we use or at least understanding how they are built, gives us another perspective on the politics, ethics (and esthetics) implied by them.

In this crash course we will be exposed to tools, ideas and processes used on this field from a practical point of view. We will write small computers programs that communicate different computers in the network, we will control basic graphics, sound and video. We will get content from the internet such as images or data from websites and use it in our applications.

booking, info and hugs:http://www.esadse.fr