Ptarmigan Artist-in-Residency Programme

http://ptarmigan.fi/air

Residency in Helsinki, application deadline 15 May

Looking for the mythical beasts of Lithuania and finding some.

With or without you Bergen

"> In January 2010 I had an exhibition in the student gallery Kaffistofa that was titled “With or without you Bergen”. The exhibition involved a video performance that I did in relation to Edvard Grieg, the composer. When I didn't get the chance to see the Edvard Grieg museum in Bergen I decided to do my own version of it. Which involved a performance in the role of the museum director and a recreation of the museum itself. With this performance I contemplated what a place mediates, how we define it and experience it in our memories, in our imagination.

Also for this exhibition I showed a video of an oil station and played a sound piece which involves me walking up to people in Bergen and asking them the question: “What can you tell me about this place?” In this piece I work with the idea of Foucault’s heterotopia.

I continued with this performance in Vilnius and will also do in the other cities as well.

In Bergen I put postcards in random postboxes and got sent back 4 out of 10. For the exhibition I scanned them and printed out. They were in a rack in the exhibition space and people could take with them if they wanted. By doing so I kept the process continuous and open.

I got published an article about the exhibition and the project in an Icelandic newspaper, there I mention the project in general and the process:

PHOTOS from workshop in Vilnius and Nida

PANORAMIC INTERCHANGE Vilnius and Nida 2010

hot

For our Icelandic friends.. Dutch artist called Rafael Rozendaal

http://www.hotdoom.com/

Landscape in the making/live images from Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland

http://mila.is/um-milu/vefmyndavelar/eyjafjallajokull-fra-hvolsvelli/

http://www.mila.is/um-milu/vefmyndavelar/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

Eruptive Iceland

Dear friends of the Nordic Panoramic. We decided our landscape needed some freshening up for your arrival in Iceland in May. Here are photos of a new landscape in the making in Fimmvörðuháls, courtesy of artist (and former professor at Iceland Art Academy) Anna Líndal.

several exhibitions on landscape

Landscape without Horizon
Near and Far in Contemporary Photography
28 March - 15 August 2010
Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany

http://www.moyland.de

Return of the Landscape
13 March - 30 May 2010
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
http://adk.de/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/index.htm?we_objectID=25022

Lands End. Landscape between Image and Space
20 March - 16 May 2010
Shedhalle, Zurich
http://www.shedhalle.ch/

Landscape 2.0. On the reality and the artificiality of landscape
28 August - 15 November 2009
Edith Ruß Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/index.php/Programm/Landschaft20?userlang=en

Skúr

My work from december 2009. A little Bergen influence, perhaps.



I will post the pictures (when I get them together) from the solo exhibition wich I had in the end of january this year. It includes some of the elements made for this installation and more.

Sindri

quotes from an interview Hans-Ulrich Obrist über Kunst, by Eva Karcher, SZ 27.2.2010

Obrist: Ich träume von einem Palast der unrealisierten Projekte. In diesem Gebäude möchte ich Tausende unrealisierte Künstlerprojekte aus der ganzen Welt zeigen. Nur den Ort dafür habe ich noch nicht gefunden. Wer weiß, vielleicht wird es eines Tages das historische Marathon, ein Dorf nordöstlich von Athen, sein.

Karcher: Wie wird dieser Palast aussehen?

Obrist: Wie ein Kristallpalast, oder wie der visionäre Fun-Palast des britischen Architekten Cedric Price. Er sollte ein Zentrum für alle Künste sein, von Theater bis Tanz. Das war auch immer mein Prinzip, die Kunst nicht zu isolieren. Sie braucht geschützte Räume, aber gleichzeitig muss man für sie Brücken bauen zu anderen Disziplinen.

Karcher: Das klingt nach der alten Idee des Gesamtkunstwerks.

Obrist: Was ich daran nicht mag, ist der totalitäre Anspruch. Heute geht es nicht mehr um Collagen und Panoramen. Sondern um Kräftefelder, um Energien.

Karcher: Welche Trends sehen Sie in der Kunst?

Obrist: Es gibt nicht mehr eine zentrale Bewegung, alles hat sich atomisiert. Ein Comeback erleben gerade Praktiken, die originäre Erfahrungen in den Mittelpunkt stellen, wie Zeichnungen und Performances. Man sucht nicht mehr Repräsentation, sondern Realität.

Karcher: Körpererfahrung statt Branding?

Obrist: Richtig.

John's incredible pizza place

http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/JIPC-tour/JIPC.html

http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/

George Lawerence

Panoramic Opportunity

Call for Content for IDA360

Immersive Digital Arena - Experimental Week, February 2010

Do you have high quality; innovative 360° based photographic, video, audio, graphic or animation material that you would like to be shown in a panoramic, immersive environment? This is an exciting opportunity to view and experiment with your work on a large scale alongside other leading panoramic and immersive artists, specialists and media professionals.

ICCI (Innovation for the Creative & Cultural Industries) at the University of Plymouth, in collaboration with Igloo Vision (www.igloovision.com) are hosting a test event in February in preparation for a large scale, week long, public event ‘IDA360’ to be held in Plymouth during October 2010, using a larger 20m diameter x 6m high 360° screen with 6.1 surround sound system.

We would like to invite potential exhibitors to contribute new and experimental work to test within a 12.5 metre diameter immersive arena in February. This test event will be held over 5 days, 15th – 19th February 2010 during which we will show work and explore the possibilities of this viewing environment. We are particularly interested in content that combines image and audio and may contain a narrative.

The material will be shown using five 1080p HD streams combined for one 360° image, run from five PC’s in sync across a network. It is also possible to project 5 standard format screens simultaneously.

At this time we are looking for:
1. One example per person; image, video or audio (video maximum duration 3 minutes, short exerts from longer videos accepted)
2. Resolution: (9600x1080) photographs or (5120 x 768 or 9600 x 1080) for video.
3. Image formats: JPEG, TIFF
4. Video formats: preferably uncompressed QuickTime movies in five separate files. For example a panoramic film made at 5210 x 768 would be sliced into five 1024 x 768 files. These will be converted onsite into the required code for the system we are using
5. If compression is necessary for video files then use Quick Time h.264 compressor, set everything to high quality, 100% and set a key frame for every frame.
6. Video should be at a frame rate: ideally 30fps but others fps acceptable.
7. Audio: stereo wav files are ideal, however you may have created a sound piece in 6.1 in which case you would need to save as 3 separate stereo Wavs. These would need to be flattened to 1) as front & left, 2) as mid & right, 3) as back & right.
8. If you have video with a stereo soundtrack and do not have the ability to extract the audio this can be completed on site.
9. This information is available online: http://plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=28780

Expressions of Interest and a brief overview of your work By 29th January 2010
Copy of your work on CD or DVD, with technical requirements attached By 8th February 2010

Please note that this is an experimental event so that if you have any technical questions such as how to split video into 5 screens, or would wish to carry out experimental work in person; then please contact us by the 29th January.

1. ICCI do not guarantee that any submissions will be shown at the main IDA360 event, October 2010
2. Please do not send original material, ensure you retain a copy, submissions will not be returned.
3. We reserve the right not to display offensive or otherwise inappropriate material and reserve the ultimate right not to display media content for any reason. The University of Plymouth will not be held liable for any eventuality arising from the presentation of media material.
4. By sending work to us you represent that you are the original author of the submission, that you have all the necessary permissions and release forms from individuals, properties and other owners of dominant intellectual property in the relevant jurisdictions.
5. By sending content you licence us the non-exclusive use of your submission for the period of February 2010. Any other use of the material would be subject to an additional agreement.

All work should be sent on CD or DVD only to the address below and include the following information:

Your name, home/business address, e-mail address, telephone number including national code, title of work, location & date produced, File type/ size/ compression, short description, duration and any further information.

ICCI/IDA360
209-210, Smeaton Building,
The University of Plymouth, e: icci@plymouth.ac.uk
Drake Circus,
Plymouth, PL4 8AA t: +44 (0)1752 585060
United Kingdom

w: plymouth.ac.uk/ICCI
Administrator Sarah Hemingway sarah.hemingway@plymouth.ac.uk

Panoramic circuit?

http://www.vimeo.com/985696

street view car sightings

Panoramic works by ULRIKE HEYDENREICH

http://www.vandermieden.com/?page_id=1909

19th International Panorama Conference Istanbul April 16-18

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends
The International Panorama Council and Culture Co., a subsidiary of the
Greater City of Istanbul, are happy to announce the 19th International
Panorama Conference 2010. The conference will take place from 16 through
18 April 2010 at Istanbul, Turkey. A post-conference tour to main
attractions of the city is scheduled on April 19. It is an honour for
IPC to be hosted in this fantastic city which is one of Europe’s 2010
Cultural Capitals.

This is to invite you to participate in the conference. We will deal
with questions of historic panorama paintings and related media forms,
with modern interpretations of panoramas and with the future of the
media. We will also focus on the future of the International Panorama
Conference as a membership association.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in April. The conference is open
to members of IPC and all others interested. So please feel free to
forward this invitation to your partners and friends.

Best regards,
Patrick Deicher M.A.,
Secretary and Member of the Board


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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA COUNCIL
Secretariat
Patrick Deicher
Hochruetistrasse 39
CH - 6005 Luzern

+41 79 637 31 53
info@panoramapainting.com
www.panoramapainting.com

Guido van der Werve

Small notion on this Dutch artist Guido van der Werve.

With extra interrest in this work:

Nummer negen: The day I didn't turn with the world 2007

Time-lapse photography to HD video. Geographic North Pole. TRT 8'40"

A time laps where the artist is standing for 24 hours at the geographic North Pole, refusing to turn with the world. By turning with the same speed as the earth for a whole day Van Der Werve does not.

some links

Postcards of Bergen: www.bergenskort.com

Library of Congress collection of panoramic photographs: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo

Richard Wentworth, An Area of Outstanding Unnatural beauty: www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2002/an_area_of_outstanding_unnatural_beauty

Bristol Camera Obscura: www.brightbytes.com/cosite/2bristol.html

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