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DUTCH GOVERNMENT RAISES TAXES ON ARTS: It was 6% , will be 19%!!!
The planned cuts to arts and culture are totally out of balance!
As expected, the VVD, CDA and PVV parties in the Netherlands have agreed to make deep cuts to government arts funding. Their disastrous new coalition agreement slashes the cultural budget by more than 200 million euros.
The new cabinet’s plans directly threaten the continued existence of countless Dutch cultural institutions. These cuts amount to a quarter of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science’s budget which is only 0.5 percent of the total government budget. ( A bit of motorway…) The arts sector will thus receive a disproportionately hard blow. The result will be a drastic longterm worsening of the artistic and cultural climate in the Netherlands.
Sign the petition protesting the cabinet’s plans on the Stop Culturele Kaalslag (‘Stop Cultural Demolition’) website. More than 60,000 people have signed so far.
post updated 2010.11.14 01:00 CET | shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-jD
Economies of the Commons 2 – International Conference on Open Content
November 12 , 13 – 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands + online
How are we going to pay the bill for Free Culture that is to remain as publicly accessible as possible?
LIVE ONLINE:
http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1987
Second Life screening:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/188/188/88
Timetable:
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September 9 to 12th the arts, music and technology festival GOGBOT is not only happening at multiple locations in Enschede, but just as in recent years also on location in the virtual world Second Life.
Under the motto “The Singularity is Near …” both known artists such as Stelarc, as well as newcomers bring interactive 3D sculptures, machinima and live performances.
Parallel with the physical event in Enschede, the virtual GOGBOT 2010 opens thursday 23:00 CEST (=SL 1 pm PDT) with the announcement of the winners of the GOGBOT Singularity Art & Design Contest and with the opening of the exhibition in the KST (Kueper Singularity Tower). This will also be projected on 2 large video screens at Media Art Café Berlijn in Enschede. Also Stelarc‘s performance in SL (live from Melbourne, Australia) at 23:50 CEST (=SL 1:50 pm PDT) is screened @ MACBerlijn.
Sunday, after closure of the physical festival locations, GOGBOT continues exclusively online from 19:00 CEST (=SL 10 am PDT): Live performance art by Stelarc and others. Followed by the virtual GOGBOT Afterparty with DJ ‘s and musicians located in different countries is next. So get your SL avatar out of the closet or register a new avatar for free! This event will partly be broadcasted on DFM web radio.
Gogbot 2010 Online Artists:
Stelarc, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Leona Upshaw, Solkide Auer, Bas Janssen, Dread Rat, Eifachfim Vacirca, Anamkhai Sodwind, Jce Emoto, Khannea Suntzu, Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves, Artistide Despres, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Mescaline Tamas, Lookatmy Back, La Baroque, Fuschia Nightfire, Firlefanz Roxley, Moewe Winkler, Cae Sands, Meta Lord, Zauselina Rieko, Kueperpunk Korhonen – and others …
GOGBOT 2010 Online 3D is produced by PLANETART in collaboration with Meta.Live.Nu and Brennende Buchstaben.
GOGBOT 3D Online Festival program and more info updates:
http://GOGBOT.LIVE.NU
http://GOGBOT.NL – Enschede festival program & info
http://BLOG.GOGBOT.NL – News
http://gogbot10.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/gogbot-2010-ook-online-live-3d
http://kueperpunk.blogspot.com/2010/09/gogbot-2010-parallelevent-in-secondlife.html
‘Pixel-Porn-Art’ of the Flickr group ‘Sexand Life’ at Amsterdam Art exhibition
15 – 23 may 2010
KunstVlaai-ArtPie is an international bi-annual alternative art fair in Amsterdam, one of the largest art events of The Netherlands.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010
http://flickr.com/groups/kunstvlaai
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/kunstvlaai2010
http://twitter.com/#search?q=kunstvlaai
http://twitter.com/#search?q=artpie
Dutch art & tech organisation PLANETART selected the explicit erotic Flickr Slideshow of the ‘Sexand Life’ group to stream full-screen on a few large HD monitors as part of their “Technological Singularity” themed show at the KunstVlaai-ArtPie exhibition.
http://flickr.com/groups/sexandlife/pool/show
http://planetart.nl/now.htm
http://flickr.com/planetart
Check this Second Life & Virtual Worlds Porno-art exhibit out if you are anywhere near the Gashouder building at the Westergasfabriek Culture Park, Amsterdam this week.
http://kunstvlaai.nl/2010/participants-2010/gashouder
http://westergasfabriek.nl/english/engels_zalen_detail.php?d…
http://westergasfabriek.nl/agenda/agenda_item.php?id=1338&am…
More info coming up…
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May 7-8: MetaMeets 2010
“Europe’s Premier 3D Internet Developer Conference”
May 7th & 8th 2010
http://metameets.wordpress.com
2009: Amsterdam, The Netherlands + Virtual Holland, SL
2011: Berlin, Germany + Berlin , SL + … ?
blog post short link: http://wp.me/p9f2i-fR
Second Front members Great Escape (aka artist Scott Kildall) and Man Michinaga (aka Patrick Lichty, also the animator of The Yes Men) were special guests in De Hoeksteen Live! at the NIMk. Interviewed by Prince Clause Fund director Els van der Plas. Live on SALTO 1 TV (Amsterdam) + web.
They talked about the about the CPoV (“Critical Point of View”) Wikipedia Conference in Amsterdam where they did presentations. (Patrick Lichty: “This-presentation-might-get-me-killed”)
Furthermore about the virtual world Second Life and their performance art group Second Front in particular. And about new media in general.
Above photo’s by Anne Helmond
VIDEO-ON-REQUEST:
- Video Part 3 (01:00-02:00) – Interview with Patrick & Scott starts from about 01:55.3
mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280100.asf
- Video Part 4 (02:00 – 3:00 wintertime)
mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280300.asf
- Video Part5 (04:00 wintertime) – Last few minutes of the Reuters SL intervention video by Second Front
mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280400.asf
These above video files will be available online for a maximum of 4 weeks after the live broadcast of march 28/29 (2010).
Second Front’s Breaking News III Video (2007)
Watch the first two hours video of this edition of De Hoeksteen Live! with special attention for the current NIMk workshop ‘The Media City’ here: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bw
This blog post is also posted at: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bn
updated 2010 03 29 06:00 CET
http://ElectroSmogFestival.net
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
March 18 – 20, 2010
Online + SL + #Amsterdam #London #NewYork #Helsinki #Riga #Madrid #München #Banff #Delhi #NewZealand #Dhaka #Nairobi #Montréal #Forres #Cambridge #Strasbourg #Barcelona #Boston #SaoPaolo #Wuppertal #San Francisco + more locations on the planet connected!
Follow the conference in SL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22
Live streams on the web:
http://www.debalie.nl/live/live_2010.html
http://coolmediators.net/websites/electrosmoglive.jsp
#esmog
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23esmog
“ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility we refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and products in travel and transport, and their ecological unsustainability.”
‘Web3’ Second Life related programs in the ElectroSmog Festival:
Friday march 19:
Designing for (im)mobility
- 13:00-15:00 CET (= SL 5 am – 7 am PDT) Debate with Sicarius Fegte, developer of Land of NoR, using Second Life as a platform for Roleplay Gaming. (MMORPG) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Resonance/149/4/70
Saturday march 20:
VIRTUAL-URBAN-WILDERNESS
DFM RTV INT & Meta.Live.Nu , De Balie , Engage & Schijnheilig present parallel parties happening in a squat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and a Cyber-Nomad-Camp (Virtual Holland, Second Life)
- 22:00 – 22:30 CET (= SL 2 pm – 2:30 pm PDT) – Avatar Orchestra Metaverse – Experimental live music & visuals from a secret sim (SL) .
- 22:30 – 23:00 CET (= SL 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm PDT) – Second Front – Live performance art from Oddessy sim (SL).
- 23:00 – 00:00 CET (= SL 3 pm – 4 pm PDT) – RaaskalBOMfukkerz – Live from Amsterdam. (NL)
- 00:00 – 00:30 CET (= SL 4 pm – 4:30 pm PDT) – DJ Ninah Puchkina – Live streaming from San Francisco (USA)
- 00:30 – 01:00 CET (= SL 4:30 pm – 6 pm PDT) – DJ Yamna – Live streaming from San Francisco (USA)
- 01:00 – 02:00 CET (= SL 4:30 pm – 6 pm PDT) – DJ Jce Emoto – Live streaming from Amsterdam (NL)
Teleport:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/22/222/22
Live streams:
http://MBTV.live.nu Channel 2
Please refresh page for last-minute updates!
2010 03 20 18:00 CET
[ Nederlands persbericht hier ] update 20100215 07:50 CET
MMIF 2010
MaMachinima International Festival
Saturday Feb. 20th , 2010
MMIF sims (SL™) + PLANETART, Wibautstraat 150 Amsterdam (NL)
‘MMIF 2010′ is the second edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with a screening in physical space (‘RL’). A seven hour movie marathon with a two hour afterparty. MMIF 2010 can also be followed on the web via live stream broadcasts.
The MMIF is a celebration of ‘Machinima’: a new cinematic art form, created with virtual worlds and video games. On 3D Internet platforms like Second Life®, any kind of movie sets can be build for very low costs. The MMIF aims to bring machinima to a wider audience, online – and offline. Machinima artists from all over the world are present in real time at the virtual MMIF Theatre. They present over 50 short films and have talks with other machinimatographers and an international audience.
Audience in Amsterdam can follow the MMIF event projected live on a big screen at the PLANETART Medialab Artspace. They can bring their own laptop computers to interact with the show on the big screen. Free wireless Internet and electricity is provided. No entrance fee at PLANETART, however tickets are required – reservations must be made via email. Details at http://MMIF.org
The MMIF is a volunteer-run non-profit collaboration of MaMachinima with PLANETART , Volkskrantgebouw, Meta.Live.Nu, Pop Art Lab, VMax, AviewTV, Ystreams.TV, Metaworld Broadcasting, MetaMeets, Gallery Fermate, Museum Of The Bohemian, and many volunteers. MMIF 2010 is financed by donations and gifts. Virtual land sponsored by Linden Lab®. The MMIF was initiated by the Dutch film maker Chantal Harvey.
MMIF 2010 info, promo video, full programme, live streams, contact and latest updates and changes at http://MMIF.org
MMIF 2010 ARTISTS:
Gala Charron – Ogogoro – Lainy Voom – Draxtor Despres – Bryn Oh – Rohan Fermi – Toxic Menges – Tara Yeats – Phaylen Fairchild – Pooky Amsterdam & Russell (Rosco) Boyd – Poid Mahovlich – CodeWarrior Carling – Evie Fairchild – Graham Miami – Kronos Kirkorian – Osprey Therian – Chaffro Schoonmaker – SaveMe Oh – Dulci Parx – Chatnoir Studios – Paisley Beebe – Rysan Fall – Sol Bartz (phil Rice) – Rocksea Renegade – Cisko Vandeverre – Nitwacket (Pyewacket Bellman) – Chantal Harvey – Lowe Runo – Pia Klaar – Al Peretz – Halden Beaumont – Kolor Fall – Binary Quandry – spyVspy Aeon – Animatechnica – Miles Eleventhauer – Lizsolo Mathilde – Delgado Cinquetti – L1aura Loire – Iono Allen – Pyewacket Kazyanenko – Fort Knight – Luca Lisci – Larkworthy Antfarm – Beans Canning – Gtoon Jun – Tutsy Navarathna – Hadji Ling – Colemarie Soleil – Xineohp Guisse – Lorin Tone – Ian Friar – Suzy Yue – Claus Uriza / Emily Hifeng – Meta Lord, and others.
MMIF 2010 TIMES:
Saturday 20th of February
19:00 CET (= SL 10 am PST) – DOORS OPEN
20:00 CET (= SL 11 am PST) – Opening ceremony + Machinima film screenings
03:00 CET (= SL 6 pm PST) – THE END + After party online in SL
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
PLANETART Medialab Artspace
Wibautstraat 150
1091 GR Amsterdam (NL)
VIRTUAL LOCATION:
MMIF 1, 2, 3, 4
Second Life®
Teleport links via http://MMIF.org
INVITATION:
Create 2D & 3D ‘ATOMPUNK’ art for the GOGBOT 2009 Festival! Create 3D Avatars, Vehicles, Environments, Sculptures and any other digital Atompunk things you can think of. Also photo’s, graphic designs, video’s and other ‘2D’ artworks are very welcome to join this exhibition and contest! Digitally manipulated or not.
Invent, create and present what your idea’s about ATOMPUNK are, to the world!
CONTEST:
- First Prize: 10000 L$
- Second Prize: 5000 L$
- Third prize: 3000 L$
- Extra prize by the public: 2000 L$ for most favorites in the Flickr ATOMpUnk group on sunday september 13th at 22:00 CEST (= SL 1 pm PDT)
[ L$ = Linden Dollars, exchangeable for US Dollar’s or Euro’s or other currencies. 1 US$ is worth about 270 L$. To win any of these prizes you need at least a free Second Life account and a free Flickr account]
A professional GOGBOT art jury will critically review and judge the digital Atompunk entries on artistic quality, technical quality and originality. At 11th of september the 3 very best Atompunk Digital Artworks will be awarded. This will be announced during the ATOM.LIVE.NU happening in newBERLIN (SL) + ATAK Enschede (NL) These 3 winners will also be exposed on large videoprojections to a ‘RL’ audience at the GOGBOT Festival!
DEADLINE:
Last day for submissions: 9th of september 2009
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Please upload screenshots or video of your virtual Atompunk objects and Atompunk avatars or photo’s and digital image artworks a.s.a.p. to http://flickr.com/groups/atompunk with at least these 3 tags: ‘GOGBOT2009‘ and ‘ATOMPUNKFESTIVAL‘ and ‘ATOMPUNK‘
Please also confirm Ze Moo about your participation in this festival if you are going to upload some Atompunk works. CONTACT: IM in SL or send a Flickr mail
EXHIBITION OF ALL PARTICIPANTS:
- In SL september 9 – 30th, 2009, at Second Enschede sim in Second Life (during and after the ‘RL’ GOGBOT 2009 Festival )
- Exposure on the web: ‘forever’.
Meta.Live.Nu 
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