Call for workshop participation

Tangible code

Wednesday 15th of February – Saturday 18th of February

at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway

by Marius Watz & Erich Berger

Free participation

Application deadline Friday 27th of January Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no

Recently, code evidently became artistic material and programming artistic practice. The coding artist literally hacks his/her artwork, forms it with skilled hands, touching and communicating with and through it.

Physical electronic interfaces enable the artist to tighten the relation between the artwork and the audience.

Tangible code is a workshop for artists and practitioners who are interested in the concepts of programming and physical computing.

The employed tools are the multi platform and open source programming and hardware environments Processing and Arduino. (more…)

 

Brand the Hong Kong Design Institute

Brand the Hong Kong Design Institute

Prizes Champion US$10,000. 4 Finalists US$1,000. each

Submission Deadline 31 March 2006

Please visit www.hkdilogo.edu.hk for more details.

Organisers Vocational Training Council Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education

 

Finnish students of architecture and interior design are encouraged to enter a competition for the best potential design of a Finnish Nationality Classroom to be built in the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. The entries must incorporate the technological requirements of the contemporary university teaching classroom into an architectural interior that is expressive of Finland’s past, prior to 1787, the year of the University of Pittsburgh’s founding. First Prize is a trip to visit Fallingwater, the most acclaimed work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and $1000, second prize is $1200 and third prize is $800. Entries must be postmarked by Tuesday January 31st, 2006 and the judging will conclude in early 2006.

The contest rules and instructions on how to enter are available online: FinnishRoomDesignContest.pdf.

The Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange of the University of Pittsburgh honors the people of many different nationalities who have come to America. The collection of 26 classrooms showcases the rich cultural heritage of many of Pittsburgh’s ethnic groups. The rooms are gifts to the University and the ethnic committees formed to create classrooms honor and preserve the traditions of their heritage.

The Finlandia Foundation, Pittsburgh Chapter and the Finnish Committee at the University of Pittsburgh are organizations dedicated to the support and preservation of Finnish culture. This group is working to raise the funds necessary for the construction of the Finnish Nationality Classroom. To reach this goal, they need the support of other Finns and Finnish Americans. Please consider sending a contribution to support the construction of the Finnish Nationality Classroom. Contributions may be made online, by credit card or by check. For more information visit the website http://www.pittsburghfinns.org.

You can also help by sharing this information with your friends, family, and local cultural organizations. Adding a link to http://www.pittsburghfinns.org on your organizations website is a great way to help spread the word.

Any help to spread the word about our project is much appreciated.

 

PRESS RELEASE

Final Decision: NIFCA Is Shut Down Together with nine other culture committees and institutions within the Nordic Cultural Collaboration

The Nordic culture ministers decided 26 October 2005 during the meeting of the Nordic culture ministers in Reykjavik to shut down 10 of 21 committees and institutions within the Nordic Cultural Collaboration at the end of the financial year 2006. These include the following: The Nordic Steering Committee for Children’s and Youth Culture (BUK), Nordic Steering Committee on Culture and Mass Media (KM), Steering Committee for Nordic Cultural Projects Abroad, Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale (NKD), Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts (NordScen), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Nordic Literature and Library Committee (NordBok), Nordic Museum Committee, The Nordic Music Committee (Nomus), and Nordisk Journalistcenter (NJC). For more information about the decisions taken in Reykjavik, please, see the web site of the Danish Ministry of Culture: www.kum.dk

The new structure for the Nordic Cultural Collaboration will be made up of time-limited programs initiated by the culture ministers. Three overall programs are already decided upon: A mobility and residence program starting in 2006 that includes the recidence and mobility programs already developed by NIFCA, NordScen, and Sleipnir. A thematically oriented program geared toward developing Nordic computer games for children that starts in 2006, as well as a cross-sector art program planned to start in 2007.

NIFCA and other culture institutions and committees now begin extensive work, together with the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Culture Secretariat, in finding ways that the new structure can include the important functions handled by the committees and institutions during the past twenty years and more.

On behalf on NIFCA we want to warmly thank you for the strong support we have experienced during the past months from a wide spectrum of players in the field, institutions and seats of learning in the Nordic region, as well as internationally.

For more information about the process concerning the restructuring of the Nordic Cultural Collaboration, please visit our website: www.nifca.org

Board of NIFCA, 24 November 2005

For more information, please contact: Åsa Sonjasdotter Chair of NIFCA´s board +45 29 80 92 21 / aasa@post7.tele.dk