Chris Sugrue is an artist and programmer whose works experiment with the magical and illusory possibilities of digital technology. She creates fictional worlds that have taken the form of interactive installations, audio-visual performances and algorithmic animations. Her works have explored topics in artificial life, computer vision, electromagnetism, optical effects, and augmented video. She has exhibited internationally in such festivals and galleries as Ars Electronica, Sónar Festival, Pixel Gallery, Medialab-Prado, Matadero Madrid, and La Noche En Blanco Madrid.

Sugrue’s interactive installation, Delicate Boundaries received an honorary mention from Vida Art and Artificial Life Awards and first prize from Share Festival. In 2009, she collaborated to help develop the EyeWriter, a low-cost eye controlled drawing tool for ALS patients. The EyeWriter was honored with Design of the Year award for interactive category, the Future Everything Award, and a Golden Nica from Ars Electronica.

Sugrue holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. She has worked as a creative engineer at the Ars Electronica Futurelab where she was the lead interaction developer for a stereoscopic interactive dance performance with artist and choreographer Klaus Obermaier. Sugrue was the recipient of a year-long fellowship at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York, and has held artist residencies with Hangar in Barcelona, La Casa De Velázquez in Madrid and Harvestworks in New York. She has taught courses in the Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design, the Interface Culture program at the KunstUniversitat in Linz, Austria, and numerous workshops on visual and creative programming.

The multimedia artist and activist Annemie Maes will give us some answers and practical tips. She has long been involved in eco-technologies and grass-roots activism. In 2004, she and Guy van Belle set up OKNO, an artists collective that aims to develop innovative cultural projects linking art and technology. For example: Connected Open Greens – the outskirts of town where culture and nature can come together symbiotically, where regenerative energy technologies meet traditional gardening and where art projects might make new biotopes. The question is this: to what extent can new organisms, new surroundings and new landscapes be generated by merging the artificial with the natural?

OKNO members operate two Open Green Rooftop Gardens in Brussels. They observe and record the growth, flowering and decay of plants as well as providing a habitat for insects and keeping bee colonies.
In Zagreb, Annemie Maes will be talking about the Connected Open Greens project, one feature of which is urban bee-keeping.

Projection of short movies made by young artists and students of new media arts from Muenchen and Zagreb.

Projections will be held at Hacklab01, Pierottijeva 11, AKC Medika,  Zagreb, on 30. December 2010  at 8 pm.  Chill Lab starts right after the projections.

Projection ‘Movie for good night 2’  is part of Upgrade!Zagreb gatherings for promotion of  new media arts.

4 filmmakers and 1 blogger from Berlin go on a journey around the world to shoot a documentary and to connect people in a different way: Inside our custom-made caravan we carry an interactive installation. It collects and combines people from various cultural, geographical, religious and personal backgrounds. With the help of pink sticky-notes*, people can mix themselves up with me, your neighbour, – creating a collage of themselves and find out how it would feel to be someone else.

The purpose of this journey is to meet you in person & mishmash you up.

Analog/digital workshop ‘Friday five o’clock tea

ingredients:
- recycler /audio software – introduction and basic tutorial
- recycling plastic bags – making of new things
- unrecycled tea and cookies
- some music in the background

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Maja Petrić is an artist and predoctoral associate at the University of Washington’s Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media (DXARTS). She holds a Masters degree in new media art from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program and Masters degree in journalism from University of Zagreb, Croatian Studies.

Her work explores methods of manipulating spatial experience in function of art. Through transformative spatial experiences, she aims to create new opportunities for accessing the sublime – transcendent qualities, whether physical, emotional, intellectual, metaphysical or artistic. By means of experimentation with both technology and traditional materials, she creates spatial installations for facilitating new interpretations and incarnations of the sublime.

Her approach to invention and exploration of new forms in digital and experimental art combines principles of architecture, lighting design, audiovisual systems, multisensory devices, electrical, mechanical and software engineering.

http://www.majapetric.com

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Umjetnica Maja Petrić trenutno radi kao znanstvena novakinja na doktorskom studiju Centra za digitalnu umjetnost i eksperimentalne medije (DXARTS) Sveučilišta Washington. Završila je magistarske studije na sveučilištima u New Yorku i Zagrebu. Na njujorškoj Tisch School of Arts na studiju nove medijske umjetnosti magistrirala je program interaktivnih telekomunikacija, a na zagrebačkim Hrvatskim studijima novinarstvo.

Njezin rad istražuje razne metode manipuliranja prostornim iskustvom u svrhu umjetnosti. Iskustvo prostornih transformacija nastoji potaknuti nove načine pristupanja sublimno – transcendentnom, bilo da se radi o fizičkom, emocionalnom, intelektualnom, metafizičkom ili umjetničkom. Prostorne instalacije za nova tumačenja i inkarnacije sublimnog ostvarene su kombiniranjem i eksperimentiranjem suvremenim tehnologijama i tradicionalnim materijalima.

U istraživanju i osmišljavanju novih oblika digitalne i eksperimentalne umjetnosti, u svojevrsnom spoju kombinirana su rješenja arhitekture, dizajna svjetla, audiovizualnih sustava, multisenzornih uređaja, električnog, mehaničkog i softverskog inženjerstva.

http://www.majapetric.com

‘Movie for good night’

Projection of short movies made by young artists and students of new media arts from Muenchen, Vancouver, Istambul and Zagreb.

Projections will be held at NANO Galeriji, Gajeva 26, Zagreb,26. November 2009. at 7,15 pm.

Projection ‘Crtić za laku noć’ is part of Upgrade!Zagreb gatherings for promotion of  new media arts.

Sandro Đukić presents topic ‘About problems of the reality of an image’ through his work.

Discussion and refreshments follow after the presentation. Meet people interested in media art, exchange ideas about projects and get inspired. Welcome!

Sandro Đukić is an artist who in his works – spatial, architectonic and photographic installations and constructed films – moves from one medium to another with ease. By doing those movements, he applies different layers and meanings of spaces and by doing that he defines himself as virtual visual artist with tendency towards critical interpretation of space and date of inception of the artwork. The idea of including the viewers of one exhibition space into next work, enrolls from current work to another, new work continously.

Sandro Đukić was born 1964. in Zagreb. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1989. In period from 1989 to 1993 he attended Art Academy in Dusseldorf -class of prof. Nam June Paik and prof. Nan Hoover. At the same academy he attended postgraduate studies -class of prof. Nan Hoover, in period from 1993. to 1994. Exhibited in Slovenia, Germany, USA, Italy, Serbia, Austria and Croatia and lectured at the numerous conferences dedicated to media art -Rijeka, Zagreb, Plasy. In 1991. he received Croatian Artist Association Award.

Links:
http://www.kulturpunkt.hr/i/vijesti/1163/
http://www.matica.hr/Vijenac/vijenac389.nsf/AllWebDocs/Poetsko_fotografsko_djelo
http://www.zarez.hr/180/vizualna5.htm
http://www.d-a-z.hr/ostalo/predavanja/sandro-dukic-prostor-realnosti.htm
http://www2.mmsu.hr/en/exhibitions/dukic/index.html

Darko Fritz is born 1966 in Croatia and live and work in Amsterdam and Zagreb. He is media artist, curator and graphic designer. Studied architecture at University of Zagreb and art media at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He work with reproductive medias and technology in artistic and cultural context. Work with video since 1988 (as TV virus). First computer- generated environment in 1988. Digital photography since 1990. First attempt to webcast 1994. Founding member of artist groups Cathedral (1988), The Imitation of Life Studio (1987 – 1990), Young Croatian Electronic Films (1991) and The Future State of Balkania (1998). Involved in various on&off-line networks (Syndicate, Spectre, Nettime, Culturenet.hr …). He curated exhibitions ‘Culture of graphic design in the Netherlands’ (1999), ‘I am Still Alive’ (internet art and computer art fom sixties, 2000), CLUB.NL (art and art networks from the Netherlands, 2000), ‘Lights from Zagreb’ (interactive light installations, 2001) and <dis.location> (2003). He wrote a first overview of media art in Croatia (since 1960s) as editor for culturenet.hr web portal (from 2001).

more:http://darkofritz.net