The Zeitgeist Movement: Orientation Presentation

The Zeitgeist Movement is the activist arm of The Venus Project, which constitutes the life long work of industrial designer and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.

The book of the movement: THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT - OBSERVATIONS AND RESPONSES - Activist Orientation Guide

Mr. Fresco’s background includes industrial design and social engineering, as well as being a forerunner in the field of Human Factors.

A documentary, titled Future By Design, on the life, designs and philosophy of Jacque Fresco is now available.
The film Zeitgeist Addendum featuring Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project produced by Peter Joseph was recently released. It can be viewed at www.ZeitgeistMovie.com
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/dloads.htm

Is this a nightmare or a joke?
Is this a new-retro recovery of the ever-evolutionary/progressive positive-thinking of monternism or is this a blooming branch of the emerging hypermodernism?

The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal

http://www.toutfait.com
more on Art Science Research Laboratory
http://www.asrlab.org/

"There is nothing in a Caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a Butterfy"

by R. Buckminster Fuller

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index
http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex

The Whitney's Buckminster Fuller: Starting with Universe
http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/about.jsp

CVM - Center for Visual Music

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Library.html
http://www.si21.com/interakt/

http://www.ktonycia.com/

http://www.improvisa.es/

Edu-Factory

Conflicts and Transformations of the University
http://www.edu-factory.org/edu15/

The Maastricht McLuhan Institute

The Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI), European Centre for Digital Culture, Knowledge Organisation and Learning Technology, was officially opened by Dr Eric McLuhan (the son of well-known media theorist Marshall McLuhan) in November, 1998 and began its formal activities in January, 1999 at the Grote Gracht 82 in Maastricht.
The mission of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) is to study and develop methods for knowledge organisation and knowledge management in a digital, distributed, multimedia world. These methods will be applied to cultural heritage, the design of learning technologies and new electronic services for business. Research will also explore the implications thereof.

Here you can find all about perspective in many articles wtitten by Dr Kim H. Veltman - Scientific Director and Manager Digital Culture of the instistute.
Download for free two of the forth volumes of his seminal work:
Bibliography of the Literature and Sources of Perspective.
Volume 1. Sources of Perspective
Volume 2. Bibliography of Sources
Volume 3. Literature on Perspective and Appendices
Volume 4. Bibliography of Literature
http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/people/Veltman/publications.htm#Perspective

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

Whatever you need to know about Artificial Intelligence in an academic approach.
http://www.aisb.org.uk/

RIXC, Centre for New Media Culture

Recently founded Centre for new media culture in Riga - the RIXC is the joint effort of a number of independent local cultural groups working in the fields of new media, art, film, music, youth culture and the social projects. The founders of RIXC are E-LAB - Electronic Arts and Media Centre (http://re-lab.net), LOCOMOTIVE- film studio (http://www.karosta.org) and BALTIC CENTER - NGO for education and social development; members and partners include: SVAIGS99% (http://svaigs99.lv), Bio.codes, Djs AG & Raitis, VARKA CREW, F5, OPEN, CLAUSTHOME, ORBITA (http://www.orbita.lv), K@2 (http://www.karosta.org), and others.
The aim of the centre is to bridge the traditional gap between 'high' and popular culture and the divisions between various youth, sub- and minority cultures. The RIXC intends to become a meeting place for different types of culture on local and international scale.
The main fields of activities include:- organising of public events (festivals, workshops, performances, club events, etc.)- Media lab - production space, where different artistic disciplines can meet and collaborate (video, film, audio, cd-rom and web design, electronic music,…) - Training programmes - specially geared towards specific target groups (artists, young people, minorities and local ethnical groups, administrators and managers of the media centres, etc.)- Educational and social programmes- Research into the fields of new media and culture, particularly in streaming media (developing of Acoustic space research programme).
RIXC is the member of NICE network (Nordic-Baltic-North-East European network for small scale innovative initiatives in the field of new media culture (http://nice.x-i.net), and takes part in other international and cross disciplinary networks, co-projects and mailing-lists in the field of new media culture in Europe, Canada and other parts of the world.
http://rixc.lv

ResCen, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts

ResCen, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts, is a multi-disciplinary, artist–driven research centre. It is designed to be a bridge between academia and the practices of professional performing artists. Established in 1999, its base is at Middlesex University, London.
ResCen, the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts, exists to further the understanding of how artists research and develop new processes and forms by working with professional artists and others.
http://www.rescen.net/index.html

SCAN

SCAN is an agency developing media arts in the South of England. It works in partnership with a broad range of individuals, groups and institutions nationally and internationally to commission innovative projects that cross and merge disciplines drawn from arts, media, humanities, science and technology. SCAN explores ideas, sites and tools showing the creative potential that media arts offer in our changing society.
SCAN welcomes approaches from organisations or individuals who wish to develop their ideas or would like to be involved in SCAN’s initiatives.
http://www.scansite.org/scan.php

POST FUNDING EASTERN EUROPE CENTER FOR CONTEXT AND COMMUNICATION

http://www.ccc-k.net/
The Center for Communication and Context Kyiv (CCCK) and its investigation Post Funding Eastern Europe emerged in response to the Center for Contemporary Art Kyiv and its exemplary economic and political position. Since August 2006 CCCK has in publications, discussions, exhibitions and articles aimed to encourage to debate the values and roles possibly assigned to contemporary art in relation to the ideological background of its financial stake-holders in Ukraine.
In its prospective extension CCCK aims to instigate a further re-reading of East European and Central Asian Soros Centers for Contemporary Art (SCCAs), which were established through Soros funding during the 1990s and had to re-position themselves since the final cease of Soros funding for the Art Centers during the 2000s.
With the emergence of Soros Art Centers in the 1990s local art-scenes experienced a sudden increase of resources, enabling the freshly founded Centers to give out grants, realize productions, to foster local art-scenes and to organize large-scale exhibitions. Whereas Soros Centers proved added values in relatively stable and developed cultural scenes of countries as Slovenia or Poland, especially in countries at the outskirts of the Soros program such as Ukraine, Belarus, Kazachstan or Russia the final cease of funding forced those centers to close down or to persist without substantial funding.

imai - inter media art institute

http://www.imaionline.de/
Medien Kunst Archiv
http://87.193.163.99/customize/index.html
REWIND http://www.rewind.ac.uk/index.htm

MEDIA ART HISTORY

http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
DANUBE TELELECTURES - Archive
Department for Image Science.
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/departmentinfo/index.php
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 ArtLev MANOVICH and Sean CUBITT: Remixing Cinema: Future and Past of Moving Images www.donau-uni.ac.at/dtl-archive
www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures

C:Art:Media

C:Art:Media is an international two-year master's programme aimed at students committed to a contemporary art practice using digital media in the realization of their work. The strength of C:Art:Media lies in the ambition to take the relation between art and technology to its fullest potential. Depending on the students' ambitions and interests they can choose to take either a Master of Science or a Master of Fine Arts Degree.

Read more about C:Art:Media and the application process at the C:Art:Media

webpage:
http://www.valand.gu.se/cartmedia

Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media

Projects
MEDIATE is a multimodal and interactive space conceived for children with severe autism. Through visual, sonorous and tactile interaction, MEDIATE wishes to give the child the opportunity to have fun, play, explore and be creative in a predictable, controllable and safe space, by the action of the child’s own body.

EMPAC - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

http://empac.rpi.edu/
http://empac.rpi.edu/commissions/

"From Milton Cohen's Space Theater to EMPAC"

Abstract by Franck Ancel
In 1957, a few years after the famous performance in the United States at Black Mountain College (1952) called "Untitled event", Artist Professor Milton Cohen created his "Space Theatre". In Ann Arbor - and mainly in his loft until 1966 - he experimented with a 360-degree form of theatre construction, presenting visual, light and sound shows in collaboration with other artists. These events eventually led to the creation of the "Once Festival" (1961-66) and later the "Once Group". The founding members of this group are the composers Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, Donald Scavarda, and Bruce Wise; the architects Harold Borkin and Joseph Wehrer; the director George Manupelli; the painters and sculptors Mary Ashley and Milton Cohen.Some of the problems of future multimedia performances when dealing with electronic music arose here. (1)

Ten years after the official inauguration of the Centre for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, this concept was continued in the USA with the construction in Troy, situated halfway between New York and Montreal, of a theatrical venue unique in the world: EMPAC, which became the first type of theatre to turn entirely towards our digital era, while maintaining a "traditional" layout. For its official inauguration during the first weekend of November 2008, one of the key projects was a 360-degree immersive environment especially created by a theatre company, The Wooster Group. (2)The conference was animated with visual documents (some never seen before), sound documents and interviews (in English) carried out or discovered during a research trip to Ann Arbor, Cambridge, New York and Troy, in November 2007, and was sponsored in part by the ARIAS Laboratories, CNRS (National Committee for Scientific Research).

One year after the conference held on the French scenographer "Jacques Polieri: beyond theatre", this historical and current study aims for a better understanding of the challenges of contemporary creation in the making.

(1) http://sonhors.free.fr/panorama/sonhors11.htm

(2) Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center http://empac.rpi.edu/

NTUA - Multimedia Technology Laboratory

MEDIALAB - NTUA
http://www.medialab.ntua.gr/main.html
http://www.medialab.ntua.gr/

House of the World Cultures

The House of World Cultures has set itself the task of presenting cultures from outside Europe through their fine arts, theatre, music, literature, film and the media and engaging them in a public discourse with European cultures. The House of World Cultures’ programme focuses on the contemporary arts and current developments in the cultures of Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as on the artistic and cultural consequences of globalisation. It gives priority to projects that explore the possibilities of both intercultural co-operation and its presentation.
http://www.hkw.de/en/hkw/selbstdarstellung/anfang.php

Europe NowEurope Next
http://www.europe.culturebase.net/index.php