This online study group relates to practices, projects and communities engaged with the creation of digital tools and protocols that facilitate autonomous user control over the data that constitutes digital identity and digital behaviour, and the exploration of the interfaces between public / private, personal / social and real / virtual. We will look at a range of existing and planned projects, and come to an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and practical possibilities. This theme was proposed by Owen Kelly (Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Aalto University Art Education).
The third stop on theVirtuality Grand Tour* isWednesday 22.2. at 18.00 EEST / +2 GMT.
This time our host and tour guide isDarko Aleksovski, anartist and criticliving in Macedonia. He will present to us as a website tour, the curious urbanization and architecture of two Macedonian cities, considering the urban, political and economical aspects, as complementary social phenomena: What is it that a city needs the most, or doesn't need at all?
Again the event will last for 1 hr, andwe meet up in ourTwitvisio #pixelversitychannel(sign in with a Twitter account).
* A ‘grand tour’ was, in the...
The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ continues its activity onWednesday 15.2. at 18.00with the second stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour*. Hosted byOwen Kelly, lecturer and researcher at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, we will introduceOpenSim, a open-source virtual world environment, andJokaydiaGRID, a 3D Virtual World focused on Arts and Education.
Participation in the virtual world environment requires in advance to download a OpenSim viewer such asImprudence, and also toregister with JokaydiaGRID. Again the event begins at...
The Pixelversity cluster theme ‘Virtuality, Social Identity & Augmented Reality’ begins its activity onThursday 26.1. (today!)with the first stop on theVirtuality Grand Tour. A ‘grand tour’ was, in the tradition of classical learning, a travel around cultural landmarks. In this theme we revive the practice online.
Each stop on the Virtuality Grand Tour (VGT) explores different online platform(s) and tools, and is hosted by a particular persons. Pixelversity facilitatorAndrew Patersonstarts with exploring some online organisational tools, including Twitvisio (Twitter video-hangout),...
Naked on Plutois an open source, multiplayer online facebook game which serves as the focus for a wider examination of online privacy via a blog, interviews, public events and lectures. The project was developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel, between June and November 2010, byDave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.
The project recently won theVIDA 13.2 Award. The Art and Artificial Life International Awards created by Fundación Telefónica in 1999, and has since become a worldwide reference for artistic research on artificial life.
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Dave will talk about FoAM, who are bringing their Groworld Bazaar to Pixelache in March. He will give more context and background to this project as well as revealing other related and not so related work that FoAM has been developing in recent years. As well as explaining FoAM's work in connecting plants and people, the talk will include cooking recipes, livecoding, robot cats playing chess, and demos of prototype computer games. http://fo.am
Dave was raised on an early education in weaving, bell ringing and 8bit computers, and is now a software artist and enthusiastic livecoding...