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• Conference: Art & Recherche
• Location: École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Belleville
• Forum des écoles supérieures d’art : 15:00 – 19:00 / 8.2.2012
• Colloque internationale art et recherche : 9:00 – 19:00 / 9+10.2.2012
• English language link: Art & Research
• Organisers: ENSPAC + Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
• Program: Art & Recherche (français), Art Research, Symposium Art Research, Research Program Manifesto (english)

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking at 15:00 in a short presentation at the Symposium on Art & Research, organized by the Ministry of Culture. My presentation, on the CityMedia project, is part of a series of round-table/lightning-round presentations that have been divided into different groups. Here is an outline of tomorrow’s presentations

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• CityMedia Platform
• Software: CityMedia
• Video: CityMedia at Mapping (vimeo)
• Project: CityMedia
• Exhibition: Mapping Festival 2011
• Location: Batiment d’art contemporain Genève (Map)
• Installation: BAC, 11:00-19:30, 19-30 May 2011
• Conference: From HAL to Kinect: Live Visuals and Body Tracking, BAC, 16:00-19:00, 25 May 2011
• Workshop: Body Double: Kinect Hacking, BAC, 10:00-17:00, 26 May 2011
• CityMedia Production: Pierre-Emmanuel Reviron, Seconde Nature
• Development: Atelier Hypermédia, École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence
• Artistic direction + system design/development: Douglas Edric Stanley, et al.
• System development: Guillaume Stagnaro
• Additional development: Stéphane Cousot, Tomek Jarolim, Pierre Rossel (Media Design —HEAD), Julien Gachadoat (2Roqs), Memo Akten
• Structure + Scenography: Elizabeth Guyon, Digital Deluxe
• Project consultants: Fing
• User study: Zinc/Friche + Telecom Paris Tech (CoDesign Lab & Media Studies)
• Application Development: École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence, Media Design —HEAD
• Application Design: Jane Antoniotti (ESAA), Joël Belouet (ESAA), Maria Beltran (Media Design —HEAD), Carine Bigot (Media Design), Cédric Brunel (Media Design), Alexandre Burdin-François (Media Design), Matthieu Cherubini (Media Design), Pascal Chirol, Julien Gachadoat, Lizzie Houellebec (ESAA), Hyejin Kim (ESAA), Tomek Jarolim, Leïla Jacquet (Media Design), Nicolas Levacher (Media Design), Baptiste Milesi (Media Design), Maxime Mollon (Media Design), Raphaël Muñoz (Media Design), Cristina Dos Santos (Media Design), Stéfan Piat, Cassandre Poirier-Simon (Media Design), Ellwood-Léo Spafford (Media Design), Douglas Edric Stanley, Emilie Tappolet (Media Design)

Citymedia Project & Body Double Workshop – Mapping Festival Profile from mappingfestival on Vimeo.

FILMED AT MAPPING FESTIVAL – GENEVA – MAY 2011
www.mappingfestival.com

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Conférence : « Vers une esthétique ludique » Conférencier : Douglas Edric Stanley Date & heure : 10h45-12h00, mardi le 14 décembre 2010 Lieu: Amphithéâtre, L’école supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence, map Live stream : SelfWorld dans le cadre du Festival Gamerz’06 update l’enregistrement de la conférence se trouve ici : Gamerz 06 Conférences Les organisateurs du Festival Gamerz’06 m’ont rajouté à la dernière minute (!?) dans la liste des conférences qui auront lieu cette semaine à L’école supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence. Je parlerai juste après l’introduction du festival. Je reviendrai, entre autres, sur les rapports entre jeux vidéo et la création artistique, et plus [...]

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Speaker: Douglas Edric Stanley Seminar: Art I : Installations interactives Time+Date: 14:30-20:30, 13 November 2001 Location: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal Department: Research Center for Science and Technology in Art, Escola das Artes Host: Carlos Caires Just a quick note to announce that I’ll be conducting a seminar this afternoon at the Portuguese Catholic University. I’ll be showing work and discussing our research at the Media Design department in Geneva and the Atelier Hypermédia in Aix-en-Provence. More specifically, we’ll be discussing the current mutation of art/media in the wake of the massive introduction of algorithmic machines, and role these machines [...]

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Conférence: Karsten Schmidt (aka Toxi) Date: mardi 12 octobre 2010, 16.00 Lieu: Auditoire, Head – Genève, 15 Bd James-Fazy (carte) Workshop: du 11 au 15 octobre 2010 Lieu: Head – Genève, HEPIA, 4 rue de la Prairie (2e étage) Karsten Schmidt and I are currently teaching parallel workshops at the Master Media Design in Geneva. I’m basically teaching the basics of Processing and introducing the core principles of algorithmic design, whereas Karsten is working on data visualization and doing what he does best. For those in town, he will be giving a conference tomorrow (Tuesday) at the main HEAD building [...]

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Livre : Processing Plate-forme : Floss Manuals Auteurs : Adama Dembele, Julien Gachadoat, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra, Adam Hyde, Alexandre Quessy, Horia Cosmin Samoïla, Douglas Edric Stanley, Lionel Tardy Organisation: Christian Ambaud, l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Présentation publique : Mains d’oeuvres, 11 septembre 2010, 15h-17 (entrée libre/free!) We’re just at the halfway-point, writing a collective manual on Processing using the expertise of Adam Hyde and his Booksprint technique. This book is being written directly in French (no translations) so I’ll switch over now into that part of my psyche. Actuellement nous sommes à mi-chemin sur notre manuel collectif [...]

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Presentation: Memo Akten Location: Atelier Hypermédia, l’École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence Time + Date: 14h00 | Friday 20 november 2009 Website: Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company Memo Akten is currently working in the Atelier Hypermédia in preparation for the Mobility Workshop in December where we will be using (amongst other things) iPhones for their GPS capacities. We are also discussing multitouch for a big project that has just been green-lighted (more on that later) and finally OpenFrameworks development and ofxiPhone for OpenFrameworks. Tomorrow he will give a presentation of his work to the students of the Atelier as well as anyone [...]

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Installation: « Bohlen’s Experiment No.1 » Concept+Development: Douglas Edric Stanley Technical platform: OpenFrameworks + PaulStretch + Arduino Event: 8° Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia Exhibtion: « Instinto computacional » Curator: Suzete Venturelli Location: UNB Gallery (September 2009) / Museu Nacional da República (TBA) Lecture: 08:00 – 09:00 Friday September 18, 2009 After some complications actually getting into the country, I am now finally in Brazil for the 8° Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia in the capital city of Brasília. Last night was the opening of the exhibition on « computational instinct » where I’m currently showing a new piece, « Bohlen’s Experiment No.1 ». And tomorrow Joseph [...]

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Conference : Création : de l’idée à sa réalisation — Comment artistes et techniciens travaillent-ils ensemble ? Speakers : Mathieu Audejean et Angela Frères (Les Fabricateurs / Panem et circenses), Pierre Andrac et Jany Jérémie (Lieux publics et Cie), Douglas Edric Stanley (École des beaux arts d’Aix-en-Provence) Moderator : Marc Voiry Conference series : Sirènes et blablabla Location : Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France Date & Time : Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 18:00 Live radio broadcast : Radio Grenouille 88.8, Marseille Live stream : Radio Grenouille Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in a radio debate on the subject of collaboration between [...]

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Presentation: WJ-Spots #1 Speakers: Aliette Guibert, Agnès de Cayeux, Anne Laforet, Anne-Marie Morice, Annick Rivoire, Annie Abrahams, Antoine Schmitt, Bruno Alacoque, Albertine Meunier, Christophe Bruno, Cyrille Thomas, David Guez, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Douglas Edric Stanley, Elisabeth Klimoff, Emmanuel Verges, Eléonore Hellio, Erik Minkkinen, Etienne Cliquet, Fred Forest, Grégoire Courtois aka Troudair, Gregory Chatonski, Isabelle Arvers, Ivan Chabanaud, Jacques Perconte, Jérôme Joy, Jocelyne Quelo, Joelle Bitton, Julie Morel, Lucille Calmel, Margherita Balzerani, Martine Neddam aka Mouchette, Nathalie Magnan, Nicolas Frespech, Nicolas Horber, Nicolas Maigret, Olga Kisseleva, Olivier Auber, Olivier Forest, Olivier Legal & Vincent Voillat et David Georges-François, Peter Sinclair, RYBN, APO33, [...]

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Conférence: Simon Doury, Béatrice Lartigue, Étienne Mineur, Douglas Edric Stanley Exhibition: « Code_source » Venue: L’encroyable, Entrepôt de la Sernam, Chaumont When: Saturday, 16 May 2009, 19h30 Festival: Féstival international de l’affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont, 2009 Article: Étapes:168 On Saturday, I’ll be speaking at « code_source », an exhibit organized by Etienne Mineur (cf. Incandescence) as part of the Féstival international de l’affiche et du graphisme de Chaumont. The exhibit will attack the question « what is interaction design? » through a historical survey of software, hardware, theoretical productions and games from this still-emerging field. There will also be a section [...]

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Presentation: abstractmachine.vb7d8 Speaker: Douglas Edric Stanley Venue: Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève, Geneva, Switzerland Department: CCC Dates: 3 décembre, 2008 Time: 9h-12h / 14h-17h I’ll be heading to Geneva tomorrow for a talk on Wednesday morning, followed by a mini-workshop in the afternoon at the CCC. We will be discussing the role of algorithms, software, and machines in the changing political landscape of our contemporary societies. There will obviously be some discussion of code and hacking in there, but I also want to discuss the role I think games and/or « electronic ludism » (i.e. the larger context of play [...]

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Biennale: Figures of Interactivity Symposium: Cinema, interactivity and society Venue: TAP, Poitiers, France Dates: November 19-21, 2008 Schedule Speakers: Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Bertrand Augereau, Jacques Aumont, Yves Bernard, Samuel Bianchini, Jean-Louis Boissier, Victor Burgin, Jean-Claude Bustros, Jim Campbell, Luc Courchesne, Frédéric Curien, Jean-Marie Dallet, Anne-Marie Duguet, Masaki Fujihata, Thierry Guibert, Christian Laroche, Georges Legrady, Alain Liedts, Julien Maire, Denis Mellier, Stephan Natkin, Bernard Perron, Louise Poissant, Yannick Prié, Vincent Puig, Jeffrey Shaw, Douglas Edric Stanley, Bernard Stiegler, Steina Vasulka, Gwenola Wagon, Gene Youngblood I’ll be travelling tomorrow to Poitiers for what looks like a very rich roster of speakers discussing… [...]

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Festival: Pikslaverk Venues: The Icelandic Academy of the Arts, The Reykjavik Municipal Art Galleries Location: Reykjavik, Iceland Dates: November 6-9, 2008 Presenters: Amy Alexander, Konstantinos Vassiliou, Loud Objects, Olle Essvik, Stefan Nussbaumer, Douglas Edric Stanley I’ll be in Iceland starting tomorrow (cool!), and all through the weekend for the Pikslaverk festival which is part of the Pixelache network. I’ll be presenting the abstractmachine.vb7d8 on Saturday and apparently also talking about the usual (code&art) on Sunday. Ok, fire up all your Iceland-is-bankrupt jokes and post the best ones in the comments: so far, anyone I tell I’m leaving for Iceland comes [...]

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Workshop: Objets interactifs : interfaces physiques et design algorithmique Location: Institut d’arts visuels, Orléans, France Artist: Douglas Edric Stanley, with Caroline Kassimo-Zhand & Olivier Bouton Dates: 27-30 October, 2008 Yet another workshop next week. This time I’ll be returning to the Institut d’arts visuels, a design school in Orléans, to kick-start a year-long project with a group of their students involving algorithmic objects. I’ll also be giving a conference on Wednesday, but I haven’t figured out the title yet, so I’ll post that at a later date. Here is the official description of the project, written by Caroline : Atelier [...]

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Seminar: Programmation avancée avec OpenFrameworks Location: l’Atelier Hypermédia, l’École Supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence Dates: October 13-17, 2008 Time: 9h-12h / 14h-18h As I mentioned last week, starting tomorrow I will be teaching a week-long intensive introduction to OpenFrameworks and C++ programming for artists and creative types. If you’re motivated and want to join in, let me know. Unfortunately, my blog has been down all week and I only figured out how to fix it today (Sunday), so this call for stragglers will probably be too late. But if you’re already in the south of France, we still have some room for [...]

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Workshop: Art numérique Biennale Puglia 2008, Italy Presenter: Douglas Edric Stanley Location: Bari Fiera del Levante, padiglione 152 – Regione Puglia Time: 16:00 Date: 26 May, 2008 I will be in Italy next week (from Saturday evening to Wednesday morning), in the Puglia region, for a mini-workshop (Monday afternoon + Tuesday morning) on the usual: code-based art, using development tools in an artistic context, interactive installations, and the type of work we do at the Atelier Hypermédia. Of note, I will be presenting the tools we use, and in that mix will be OpenFrameworks, which might be of interest. It [...]

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Conference: Des idées et des arts Location: Amphithéâtre Charve, Université Saint Charles, Marseille Address: 3, place Victor Hugo 13003 Marseille Un séminaire du Master Médiation Culturelle des Arts, Université de Provence, Marseille Dates: 21, 28 April 2008; 5 May 2008 Time: 17.00 – 19.30 Update: download texte (en français) here: Antagonisme et imbrication (pdf) I’ve been invited to speak tomorrow in Marseille for a conference series on the relationship between the art work (« l’oeuvre ») and its reception (participatory, interactive, relational). Anyone who knows me, knows my hostility to these terms, so for my part, I will be trying [...]

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Workshop: L’orientation algorithmique Location: Institut d’arts visuels, Orléans, France Artist: Douglas Edric Stanley, www.abstractmachine.net Dates: 31 March – 4 April, 2008 Yes, I am off to yet another workshop this afternoon. This time to the IAV in Orléans, a design school that is organizing all week a series of workshops, conferences, and presentations dealing with the theme La légèrté (lightness). This concept is obviously following in line with what is probably now 100% of the design schools in the world who have jumped onto the bandwagon of durable design. And yet while I’m thrilled with this turn of events, I [...]

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Workshop: Art du code Location: l’École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux Dates: 19 | 20 | 21 March 2008 Hi. I’ll be in Bordeaux this week, in yet another workshop on how to make art using code. Here’s the official statement: Workshop Art du code par Douglas Edric Stanley professeur d’Arts numériques à L’école supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence 25 étudiants (bases en informatique souhaitées) Préinscriptions au secrétariat de l’école Introduction aux pratiques actuelles de la programmation dans le champs artistique. Initiation au logiciel open source Processing. (processing.org) Artiste d’origine américaine, Douglas Edric Stanley est professeur d’Arts numériques à L’école supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence [...]

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