Stanley (2006), performed October 26 through November 18 of 2006, was not an easy show to produce. However, with the help of a multi-talented company and crew, as well as the resources offered by the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre and Digital Performance Institute’s Residency Program, it became what The New York Times called “deliciously thought-provoking premise…striking and original”.
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“In all utopias, the inhabitants share most values and consent to whatever degree of social control they experience. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of utopias are portrayed as free and they have transcended contemporary problems in society such as poverty, sexism, and war.”
–Unknown 2005
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http://www.telefonica.es/vida/
DEADLINE: October 22, 2007

VIDA 10.0 is an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines, such as robotics and Artiftcial Intelligence.We are looking for artistic projects that address the interaction between “synthetic” and “organic life”.

First prize: €10,000
Second prize: €7,000
Third prize: €3,000
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Digital Performance Institute Artist Residency Program
DEADLINE: Sept 4
(deadline extended for Labor Day weekend, previously announced as Aug 31)

The 2007 application for the DPI Residency is available.
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Piemonte Share is announcing a new competition!!!

“Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.”
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http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/274/102
PERFORMANCE / PARTY: July 21 2007 3PM $10
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave @ 46th Ave. Long Island City

My email informs me that “LEMUR Pulls Out the Bots for PS1’s Warm Up 2007 this Saturday. Featuring GuitarBot, XyloBot and more, plus Eric Singer and Leif Krinkle”
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“Inspired by the myth of Icarus, RUS is a modern exploration of a man lured into a dark, heightened world, the physical and emotional boundaries he exceeds, and the devastating results that occur. RUS is a hybrid performance piece with multiple channels of video, text, music, an experimental video puppet rig, and dance.”
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A research group in Switzerland … the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) … partnered with a theater company Les Voyages Extraordinaires (The Extraordinary Voyages).

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Ullanta is a group that seems to have been active up to about 1998, with the goal of creating robotic performances in the theater. They even did several pieces based on Gertrude Stein (Play, and Bon Marche Weather)!
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Multiple projections on actors vrml-hair, vrml-hat, shadow-video

MOA (Making of Americans)
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http://cybertheaters.wordpress.com/
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http://www.robotclothes.com/

“Robot Clothes is an art and commercial research and development partnership, specializing in robotic systems, interaction design and product prototyping.”

Well the partnership of Michelle Kempner and James Powderly looks like what it really want’s to do is churn out some high tech art. That sounds great to us.
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I picked up this Kill A Watt device to find out how much power each workstation (PC, monitor, phone) really drew here at work because I noticed that if you go by the rated amps on the back of all the devices we should have melted down about 6 years ago.
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http://www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=felcall
DEADLINE: August 6 2007

Eyebeam is soliciting applications for it’s R&D OpenLab, Production Lab and Education Lab Fellowships.
Better than your average grant, the Eyebeam fellowships provide enough to really live on for a year, giving you a year to really work on your project, and a awesome environment to do it in.

http://www.troikatronix.com/izzy-updates.html

Well it’s good news for those of us using this premium grade A video effects software.
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Universal Robots: Online Radio stream
July 4, 2007 : 8pm - 9:30pm
Listen live on free103point9.org

31 Down provides a truly alternative sound track to the independence day festivities with a hypnotic sound and image collage inspired by the lives and works of the Brothers Capek, who coined the term robot in the 1920s with their famous science-fiction play, R.U.R.
It makes me wonder, am I free, or just a slave to this internet computer thing someone glued my hands to?
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In collaboration with “Feed the Herd“, Doppleganger is a residency project at 3 Legged Dog through the month of July. Description below:
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