also see: BBC ON THIS DAY

Delicious News Feed: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/navasse?count=15

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

I'm currently an invited curator for Transitio_MX:
http://en.transitiomx.net/info/directorio

The biennale includes an open competition:
http://en.transitiomx.net/concurso

Sunday, May 24, 2009

An audio recording of my presentation "The Three Chonological Stages of Sampling" for the conference RE: Recycling_Sampling_Jamming, Berlin is available online:

http://www.recycling-sampling-jamming.de/teilnehmer.php?what=10

Friday, May 15, 2009

Diary of a Star and The Quixote have been archived at Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC).

Link to intro page:
http://netescopio.meiac.es/db/inicio.pl

Direct link to artist page: http://netescopio.meiac.es/db/artista.pl?id=138

Sunday, April 12, 2009

My interview "Track me Not. Please!" by Lucrezia Cippiteli, originally released in Italian in Digicult in February 2009 is now posted in English on my blog, Remix Theory:

http://remixtheory.net/?p=370

Friday, March 27, 2009

Currently participating in the exhibition "Internet Art in the Global South"

http://jafnetart.digitalarts.wits.ac.za/

Monday, March 09, 2009

I'm lecturing at Center of Culture of Spain and the University of El Salvador:

http://www.ccespanasv.com/
eventos.php?idcat=43

Mar, 10 mar '09 - 06:20
Curando Latinoamerica con Eduardo Navas (El Salvador)


Centro Cultural de Espana. 10 de marzo. 18.30 horas.
Remix en arte contemporaneo y cultura global.


Universidad de El Salvador. 11 de marzo. 10.00 horas
La condicion de la produccion estetica en el arte contemporaneo despues del postmodernismo.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

An interview about my online project Traceblog has been published in Digicult Media Magazine, February 2009 issue:

http://www.digicult.it/
digimag/article.asp?id=1354

Sunday, February 01, 2009

I'm participating in Re-* RECYCLING_SAMPLING_JAMMING, a conference about remixing taking place in Berlin, February 26-28, 2009.

Main link:
http://www.recycling-sampling-jamming.de/
Direct link to my presentation:
http://www.recycling-sampling-jamming.de
/teilnehmer.php?what=10

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Text: Remix: The Bond of Repetition and Representation, by Eduardo Navas. This text was published in December 2008 in Inter/activos II by Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires. The publication was produced in support of a new media workshop and theory seminar by the same name which took place in 2006, organized by curator and writer Rodrigo Alonzo.



Interview with Sheldon Brown reblogged on remixtheory.net:

Interview: Scalable City: Interview with Sheldon Brown, by Eduardo Navas. This interview was commissioned by gallery@calit2 for the exhibition "Scalable City". Exhibition dates: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 - Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

Thursday, December 04, 2008

My audio recording commentary for the work of Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick is part of ASPECT Volume 12: Vital:

V.12: Vital presents nine artists exploring that which is essential, grave, indispensable, and/or critical to existence. Vital features works by Mel Chin, Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy, Goatsilk, Rachel Mayeri, Park McArthur, Andrew Mowbray, Elisabeth Smolarz, Deke Weaver, and Suara Welitoff. Optional audio commentaries are provided by Ute Meta Bauer, Eduardo Navas, Ricardo de Mambro Santos, Meredith Tromble, Michael O'Malley, Matthew Nash, Angelique Campens, Una Chaudhuri, and Andrew Witkin.

More detail here: http://aspectmag.com

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Currently collaborating with Turbulence.org Telic Arts Exchange and LA Freewaves on a Networked Book. Do consider submitting abstract-proposals:

http://turbulence.org/networked/

Five writers will be commissioned to develop chapters for a networked book about networked art. The chapters will be open for revision, commentary, and translation by online collaborators. Each commissioned writer will receive $3,000 (US).

Guidelines: http://turbulence.org/networked/guidelines.html

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

My most recent project, Traceblog is currently featured at Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, for the month of October. When visiting the site, click on the link "net art project."

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Dub, B Sides and Their [re]versions in the Threshold of Remix, a text I wrote for Vague Terrain's Digital Dub August 08 issue was reposted at remixtheory.net with minor edits, and an additional quote, to clarify the history of dub in Jamaica.

Also reposted at remixtheory.net is an interview with DJ Spooky I conducted for the same Vague Terrain issue: Reggae, Dub and Memory Play: Paul D. Miller

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

The summer exhition of gallery@calit2 opens on Wednesday, August 6. It features work by Adriene Jenik and *particle group*.

Press release excerpt below:
http://gallery.calit2.net/adrieneParticplePress.php

New UC San Diego Exhibition Envisages Future of Nanoparticles and Distributed Social Cinema

gallery@calit2
Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego
Map & Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/

August 6 to October 3, 2008
Closing Reception: October 2 at 6 to 8 PM


New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 6 at the gallery@calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.

Read the entire press release at Calit2

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Remix Theory has a new section called Music Playlist, in which you can listen to music I've selected from Last.fm. Please feel free to listen to my growing music selection, and to also send me feedback as well as suggestions.

New Section: Music Playlist
(http://remixtheory.net/?page_id=328)

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Dale Hudson has written an analysis of my online project Goobalization, among other film influenced media works. The text is published in Studies of Documentary Film, Vol. 2, Issue 1, a peer reviewed journal.

The article is available online as PDF for free through research institutions:
http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/sdf/2/1

Abstract:

Undisclosed Recipients: database documentaries and the Internet

This article argues that new media disrupt the linear structures conventionally ascribed to documentary, emphasizing spatiality and relationality. On the Internet, 'database documentaries' facilitate selection and recombination of 'documents' (audio-visual evidence) through user acts, hypertext, algorithms and random access memory. Specifically, the article examines two pieces that address the controversial subjects of globalization and war. As database documentaries, Eduardo Navas's Goobalization and the collaborative Permanent Transit: net.remix by Mariam Ghani, Zohra Saed, Qasim Naqvi and Edward Potter destabilize quests for 'totalizing meaning' by emphasizing interactivity, contestation and multiplicities of meanings. The database evokes endless recombinations, so that meaning, Hudson argues in relation to these works, is explicitly polyvocal, unstable and contested.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Participating in Interactivos? at Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain:

Interactivos?'08 - Vision Play: Selected Projects and Papers

Selected papers to be presented at the seminar and projects to be developed at the workshop Interactivos?'08 - Vision Play (May 30 - 14 June 2008).

Papers

* Cuadrats 40 anos despues - Domingo Sarrey Quadrats
* The Camera and The Perspective, as Tool and Metaphor - Nadine Wanono
* The Visual Web: Where Semantics meets Computer Vision - Manuel Sanchez-Gestido
* Caida del juego: lo inaparente en la imagen - Marta Morales
* Visiones barrocas: conocimiento e ilusion - Jose Ramon Marcaida
* Alchemy of Light - Ruth Sergel
* Demiurgos de la Luz (o de la caverna a la cultura VJ_proyecciones en tiempo real) - Carmen Gil Vrolijk
* The Bond of Repetition and Representation - Eduardo Navas

Friday, May 09, 2008

Diary of a Star is part of an exhibition at the Netherlands Media Arts Institute:

*My [public] space* at the Netherlands Media Art Institute

May 24 - June 21, 2008
opening May 23, 5:00 p.m.
Netherlands Media Art Institute

Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora Garcia, Susan Hartig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. **0100101110101101.ORG**, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson

The exhibition 'My [public] space' is a follow-up to the exhibition 'Territorial Phantom'. In the previous exhibition the occupation of and claims to space by corporations, organizations or countries was central. My [public] space goes more deeply into the blurring of private and public information and spaces.

[...]

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

The exhibition I curated, "Exposure" A Video Installation About Surveillance, pre-9/11 by Marie Sester, is opening on Thursday April 10, 2008, at gallery@calit2. Information below:

New Exhibit at UC San Diego's gallery@calit2 Explores Themes of "Exposure" and Surveillance

"Exposure"
A Video Installation about Surveillance Pre-9/11, by Marie Sester
April 10-June 6, 2008
Artist Lecture: April 10, 4:30-5:30 PM, Room 4004
Reception at 6 PM

gallery@calit2
Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Map & Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/
directions/
http://gallery.calit2.net
http://calit2.net

Thursday, February 28, 2008

My review of the exhibition "Net Art in Colombia: it's Ugly and Doesn't Like the Cursor" curated by Juan Devis, has been published by Latinart.com/ for their February, 2008 issue.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The website for gallery@calit2 is currently up. Feel free to peruse:
http://gallery.calit2.net

Saturday, February 02, 2008

I organized the exhibition "An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick]" featuring Mary Flanagan's work. It runs from February 4 to March 17, 2008 at gallery@calit, UCSD:

"An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick]"
Exhibit open February 4 to March 17, 2008
Reception February 14, 6 - 8 PM
Gallery at Calit2
Atkinson Hall
University of California, San Diego

Read the news release

Friday, January 04, 2008

I've finally completed my blog project, Diary of a Star. It took me three years to finish it. Part of me will miss writing about Andy Warhol:

http://navasse.net/star

Friday, November 30, 2007

I'm participating in a discussion panel at Cinegrid 2007, taking place at Calit2, on Wednesday, December 3:

http://www.cinegrid.org/
workshop07/agenda.php

2007 CineGrid International Workshop (2nd Annual)

Workshop sponsored by CineGrid, a non-profit organization headquartered in California.

CineGrid's mission is to build an interdisciplinary community that is focused on the research, development, and demonstration of networked collaborative tools to enable the production, use and exchange of very-high-quality digital media over photonic networks.

Event organized by: Pacific Interface, Inc.

Hosted by: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Location: Calit2 Auditorium, 1st Floor, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, CA

December 2-5, 2007
December 2 - CineGrid Tutorial Session followed by Welcome Reception (both optional)
December 3-5 - CineGrid Workshop

Monday, November 19, 2007

De Volkskrant newspaper, published in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is featuring my third Goobalization animation from November 20 - December 3, 2007, as part of a curatorial project by Jody Zellen:

http://extra.volkskrant.nl/oog/client/
index.php?artworkId=176

Many thanks to Jody Zellen and Nanette Hoogslag

Goobalization is een steeds vernieuwende serie van korte animaties gemaakt over en met het gebruik van Google. De beelden zijn, via Google, gedownload van het web en worden getoond in relatie tot vier thema's: waakzaamheid, verschil, verzet en globalisering.
Google, de meest populaire zoekmachine, wordt gebruikt om wereldwijde activiteiten te promoten, maar kan ook ingezet worden deze te bevragen en er tegen te verzetten door juist de verschillen en relaties te laten zien.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

My ongoing project Diary of a Star is now archived at Computer Fine Arts.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

I was recently interviewed by Greg Smith for Serial Consign. Many thanks to Greg for his interest in my research. Excerpt of his intro follows:

http://serialconsign.com/node/124

One of my favourite blogs over the last year has been Remix Theory, a writing project quarterbacked by media theorist and artist Eduardo Navas. Eduardo is also the author of Remediative and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture, a fantastic essay that beat-juggles a variety of paradigms that range from remix history through to data mashups. Eduardo and I have been firing questions back and forth over email for a few weeks and he has provided a compelling window into his research.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Remix Theory was recently reviewed in Rhizome News:

"Rhizome News: Remix Your Blogroll"

Permalink: http://rhizome.org/
news/?timestamp=20070827

August 27, 2007

Remix Your Blogroll

Is your blogroll getting stale? Do you need to pump some bass into your RSS feeds? You might consider adding Remix Theory, a relatively new blog maintained by media artist, writer, and curator Eduardo Navas. While Navas has written on the contemporary climate in essays such as 'Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture,' he makes a distinction between remix culture, and remix proper, and focuses directly on the latter creative act. This inquiry has been addressed by the prolific critic in a number of projects, including his essay on The Blogger as Producer; his curatorial project, The Latency of the Moving Image in New Media, at Los Angeles' Telic Art Space; and his recent interview with Yto (Isabel Eranda) in the Chilean magazine, Escaner Cultural. Remix Theory aggregates Navas's work, alongside excerpts and projects from others. In addition to coverage of various manifestations of the principles of remix, one essential goal of the blog is to define the term, itself. Navas insists that this effort must begin with the study of remixed music, before branching out. Offering copious historical and bibliographic resources to that effect, the site is stimulating on several levels, offering insight into new art works and new means of discussing them. - Elizabeth Johnston

http://remixtheory.net/

Thursday, August 16, 2007

I'm excited to present my ongoing research at the CECUT in Tijuana, MX, for the Upgrade International, this August 29, 2007, at 7 PM.

Cecut
http://www.cecut.gob.mx/
Entrada libre
En colaboracion con DeamAddictiveLab
http://upgrade.dreamaddictive.com

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

I was recently interviewed by Yto (Isabel Aranda) for the magazine Escaner Cultural, based in Santiago de Chile. The interview is currently only available in Spanish:
http://revista.escaner.cl/node/279
Escaner Cultural's main page:
http://www.escaner.cl/

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Noemalab, an online resource based in Milan, Italy has archived The Three Basic Forms of Remix: A Point of Entry. You can find the original entry at Remixtheory.net

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

My most recent essay "Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture" has been released in the quaterly journal Vague Terrain. The issue is titled Sample Culture:

Announcing the launch of Vague Terrain 07: Sample Culture

The latest edition of the Toronto based digital arts quarterly vagueterrain.net is now live. The issue, vague terrain 07: sample culture is a provocative exploration of contemporary sampling of sound, image and information. This body of work examines the remix as a critical practice while addressing broader issues of ownership and intellectual property.

Vague terrain 07: sample culture contains work from: brad collard, christian marc schmidt, defasten, des cailloux et du carbone, [dNASAb], eduardo navas, eskaei, freida abtan, jakob thiesen, jennifer a. machiorlatti, noah pred, ortiz, rebekah farrugia, and an interview with ezekiel honig conducted by evan saskin.

For more information please see http://www.vagueterrain.net

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

I just uploaded a revised version of The Blogger as Producer to Remixtheory.net. The essay was revised for publication in the book Instalando/Installing released on April 2007, by the Chilean Collective Troyano. The text was originally released on Netartreview in March 2005. Also available in Spanish.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Below is a brief announcement of an exhibition I curated at Telic, in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

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The Latency of the Moving Image in New Media, at Telic, Los Angeles

May 25 to June 16

An exhibition of videos, online art, blogs, and audiovisual interfaces by artists who make the most of latency as a crucial element in their works. Curated by Eduardo Navas.
Go to the exhibition:
http://www.telic.info/
onlinegallery/latency/

TELIC Arts Exchange
975 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
T: 213.344.6137
http://www.telic.info
info@telic.info

"The Latency of the Moving Image in New Media" presents artists who make latency part of visual language in their works.

Some of the works included in the exhibition are to be experienced online while others are to be seen as projections in an actual space, and others are downloadable interactive projects developed as freeware. The works will be available for viewing at Telic in a way that is sensitive to their original contexts.

Near the end of the exhibition, AAAARG.ORG presents an open conversation about latency with Eduardo Navas. Relevant texts will be posted to http://aaaarg.org/
category/latency. The date and time of this conversation are to be announced.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

I recently posted a summary of my theory of Remix at Remixtheory.net
Direct link here:
http://remixtheory.net/?p=174

The summary has been made part of the website's section "Remix Defined"
http://remixtheory.net/?page_id=3

Excerpt:
REMIX DEFINED

To understand Remix as a cultural phenomenon, we must first define it in music. A music remix, in general, is a reinterpretation of a pre-existing song, meaning that the "aura" of the original will be dominant in the remixed version. Of course some of the most challenging remixes can question this generalization. But based on its history, it can be stated that there are three types of remixes.

Read the entire entry:
http://remixtheory.net/?p=174

Thursday, April 19, 2007

My essay on Remix originally written in English, Italian and Spanish for Turbulence.org has been reposted in Spanish at Escaner Cultural, based in Santiago de Chile.

http://www.escaner.cl/
http://revista.escaner.cl/node/69

Thursday, February 22, 2007

I'm very pleased to announce a new online resource, I created to share my research on Remix:

http://remixtheory.net
http://remixtheory.org
http://remixtheory.com

Here is part of the text I sent out to various lists as my official online release a few weeks ago:

Remix Theory is an online resource by Eduardo Navas that offers some of his research on Remix.

Navas focuses on Remix itself as opposed to Remix Culture. In this site you will find a brief definition of Remix, which is examined more extensively in essays that will be added to this website as they become available.

Remix Theory is not meant to function on a daily basis. It is a resource updated periodically, according to the flow of research. It does not focus on the latest information, but on relevant material to the history of Remix, some which may have been published years ago. The site contains material that is obtained from other online sources, with the proper reference. The content of the site consists of reviews, articles, projects and images relevant to Remix. The site also features texts and projects by Eduardo Navas.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Glad to announce a collaboration that finally sees the light of day:

"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" Essays by Josphine Bosma, Belén Gache, and Eduardo Navas

Turbulence.org and New Media Fix (http://newmediafix.net) are pleased to announce the publication of "3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence," three texts about works from the Turbulence.org archive. The texts--published in English, Italian and Spanish--were written and translated by members and affiliates of New Media Fix. They include "The Body in Turbulence" by Josephine Bosma; "Narrating with New Media: What Happened with What has Happened?" by Belen Gache; and "Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats" by Eduardo Navas. The translations are by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Francesca De Nicolo, Raquel Herrera, and Brenda Banda Corona & Ignacio Nieto. Ludmil Trenkov designed the PDF and HTML documents.

"3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" was funded by the Nationa Endowment for the Arts. The essays may be read and/or downloaded at http://www.turbulence.org/texts/nmf/ or
http://newmediafix.net/Turbulence07/

Series Editors:
Jo-Anne Green
Helen Thorington
Eduardo Navas

Texts:
Josephine Bosma "The Body in Turbulence"
Belén Gache "Narrating with New Media What Happened with What has Happened?"
Eduardo Navas "Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats"

Translators/Translation Editors:
Raquel Herrera
Brenda Banda Corona
& Ignacio Nieto
Lucrezia Cippitelli
Francesca De Nicolo

Print and Online Design:
Ludmil Trenkov

Please contact the respective author for copyright attribution specifications.This text is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Currently in Rome,Italy; presenting at the first netcase at the Museum La Sapienza on December 19, 2006. Info below:

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netcase #1 Eduardo Navas Net(work) Art: Criticizing, producing and curating

Spanish and Italian below

Eduardo Navas is a critical theorist and artist currently based in Los Angeles/San Diego. During his lecture at MLAC Navas will present some of his art, theory and criticism focused on culture and media at large. The lecture will also focus on Navas's recent research on Remix as a cultural activity affecting curatorial practice; he will present examples of New Media projects that challenge the way curators approach contemporary art.


..:: netcase ::..

netcase is not just a space for exposition, not just a space for networking
as artefact, but also a space for questioning and discussing networking as
critical practice: networks as spaces of production. netcase proposes
curating as a practice invested in understanding new media and methods of
production.
netcase is a project by MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of
"La Sapienza" University of Rome, a museum and laboratory exploring new
forms of cotemporary art practice. netcase at the MLAC is an editorial and
multimedia curatorial project that embraces and oversees new technologies as
its focus.
netcase is curated by lucrezia cippitelli and domenico scudero

netcase no es solamente un espacio para exposiciones o para el networking
como obra de arte, sino también un espacio para cuestionar y discutir el
networking como practica critica: networks como espacios de producción.
netcase propone la curadoria como practica enfocada en entender los nuevos
medios y sus metodos de producción.
netcase es un proyecto del MLAC – Museo Laboratorio de Arte Contemporanea de
la Universidad "La Sapienza" de Roma, un museo y laboratorio que explora las
nuevas formas de la practica del arte contemporaneo.
netcase en el MLAC es un proyecto curatorial, editorial y multimedial que
abraza y investiga las nuevas tecnologias.
netcase es un proyecto de lucrezia cippitelli y domenico scudero

netcase non è solo uno spazio per esposizioni o per il networking inteso
come opera d'arte, ma piuttosto uno spazio in cui indagare e ridiscutere il
networking come pratica critica: i network come spazi di produzione. netcase
propone la curatoria come pratica dedicata alla comprensione dei nuovi media
e metodi di produzione.
netgcase è un progetto del MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea
dell'Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, un mudeo e laboratorio volto ad
esplorare nuove forme di pratiche artistiche contemporanee.
netcase è uno spazio editoriale e multimediale che vuole mettere a fuoco ed
esplorare le nuove tecnologie.
netcase è un progetto curato da lucrezia cippitelli e domenico scudero

www.mlac.it/netcase
netcase at mlac.it

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I was recently invited by a minima, a print magazine focusing on art, technology and new media, to write a brief reflection on selected writings from their past issues. I share the honor with Pablo de Soto, Raquel Herrera and Raquel Renno; three artists and critics who also share their reflections on the magazine. The text are part of the NOW exhibition currently taking place at the CCCB, in Barcelona, Spain.

Official info in English:
NOW is a working platform that will take place at the CCCB from 2006 to 2009. The project reflects on the present on the basis of the scientific, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations taking place at the start of the 21st century ? because today it is no longer possible to explain art and culture without interiorizing scientific concepts and working with a systemic view of the world.

NOW is a process of research, creation and diffusion bringing together different local and international agents involved in promoting a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalized cultures

a minima:
http://www.aminima.net/
NOW:
http://www.cccb.org/now/ang/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/cat/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/cast/index.htm
http://www.cccb.org/now/ang/index.htm

Spanish info on a minima's contribution:

Pablo de Soto, Raquel Herrera, Eduardo Navas y Raquel Renno seleccionan rutas de lectura para a minima::

a minima:: es un proyecto que pretende dar visibilidad a trabajos de artistas e investigadores interesados en la implicacion de la ciencia y de la tecnologia en la cultura y el arte. Desde 2003 ha generado un archivo documental y ha establecido una red de trabajo entre diferentes colaboradores. El proyecto se concreta en forma de publicacion impresa editada bimestralmente en formato libro.

La muestra propuesta para NOW se basa en una seleccion de articulos realizada por cuatro artistas y teoricos vinculados a la publicacion.

Cada uno de ellos propone un recorrido de lectura, una ruta sencilla de navegacion a traves de textos publicados en a minima.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A summary of my 5 day Remix seminar which took place at Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (CCEBA) has been published (Spanish only).

A big thanks to Gabriela Perez del Pulgar for taking, summarizing and revising the notes for publication. A very special thanks to Belen Gache and Gustavo Romano who organized the seminar.

You may access the summary here:
http://cceba.org.ar/evento/
taller.pl?id=3

General seminar information :
http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363

Friday, September 22, 2006

The exhibition Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA opens at the San Diego Museum of Art.

I was part of the UCSD VisArts Research Group who assisted Roberto Tejada in curating the exhibition.

A recognition goes to my fellow researchers: Katherine Becvar, Fabian Cereijido, Moriah Evans,Nicole Holland, William Huber, Bill Kelley, Jr., Rebecca J. Kinney, Carlos Martell, Annie Mendoza, Patricia Montoya, Irene Robles-Huerta, and Yagna Yass. A special thanks to Monica Jovanovich and Jillian Mollenhauer for their special curatorial assistance this summer, making the final exhibition possible.

http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-paper-traces.html
Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA
September 23-December 31, 2006

A new exhibition curated by the UCSD VisArts Research Group reveals the depth and breadth of the Museum's Latin American collection. With approximately 60 prints and drawings of varying media and sizes—nearly all on view for the first time—Paper Traces boasts examples by major artists from all over Latin America, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, José Luis Cuevas, and Antonio M. Frasconi. It also highlights SDMA's new acquisitions, such as Hugo Crosthwaite's Bartolomé and Leonora Carrington's High Priestess.

The prints, drawings, posters, and portfolios displayed range widely over time and place and include art from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, and Venezuela. They present subject matter common to everyday life in Latin America—national identity, labor, ethnicity, social class, and family—and explore the role of traditional media in depicting these themes.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

My project Diary of a Star is currently part of an online exhibition focused on Blogs, organized by no-org.net:

http://www.no-org.net/blogs/

Blog, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog one of the most spread forms of expression on the web -varying from personal diaries to community weblogs, professional knowledge exchange resources, political campaigns and more. In their different manifestations, blogs (moblogs, videoblogs, photoblogs, etc.), became a phenomenon influencing in many cases upon social and cultural areas: journalism, politics, alternative knowledge sources, literature, art, etc.

The *blogs?* project takes blog as art and as a stage for net artworks investigating the language, the aesthetics, the impacts and the practices of blogs, blogging and the blogoesphere.

Blog? presents works utilizing the blog platform for creation of artwork. Works that break the conventional purpose of the platform, conveying a message or delivering data, by emphasizing poetical and aesthetic manifestations of blog, and by exposing capabilities of the blog as a platform for creating art. Blog-specific works.

Friday, September 01, 2006

I'm back in Los Angeles and San Diego, and just received a link to my radio interview in Conexion Social, which took place in Santiago de Chile.

The interview was in Spanish:
http://www.conexionsocial.cl/node/33

El arte nos ayuda a familiarizarnos y a captar algo de nuestra nueva era digital. Necesitamos apropiarnos de lo digital, de lo cientifico y tecnologico en nuestra cultura. (Herve Fisher, filosofo y artista)

Eduardo Navas, historiador, escritor y net artist salvadoreno especializado en nuevos medios, converso con Conexion Social sobre las nuevas relaciones entre arte y nuevas tecnologias, especialmente a traves de la plataforma que ofrece la web, donde la comunidad cobra especial importancia en la valoracion de la propuesta de una obra artística, y tambien a la hora de crear algo. Bienvenidos a la cultura del remix, a los espacios donde crear algo nuevo, se menzcla con el copiar, cortar, pegar y poner a disposicion de otros en la red. Una apuesta que concibe al trabajo artístico como un regalo libre de ser compartido y apreciado por tod@s.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Currently in Santiago de Chile, presenting on Remix Culture at the Conference, Updating Art and Technology, organized by Troyano Collective:

A series of conferences that will aboard the limits between art and technology from the last expiriencies made by artists. The event is divided in two phases;


-From 6 pm in the Centre Cultural of Spain of Santiago, Chile, during the days 17, 18 and 19 of August, will be broadcasted online to Espacio H located in the city of Cordoba, Argentine. These actvities will be part of the 8th Digital Days Works from Cordoba, Argentine. 2006


-Since the days 24th, 25th y 26th of August in the School of Arts in the city of Valparaiso, will be transimitted the 8th Digital Days Works from Cordoba, Argentina.

PROGRAM
Cultural
Centre of Spain of Santiago, Chile
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17 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Igor Stromajer (sl) Mobil Technology: Wpack.
-Marina Zerbarini (ar) Bio Arte: Heat, Vapor
Humidity. Turner in the
XXI cent.
-Enrique Rivera (cl) Technology and Politics:
Cybernetic Synergy,Basis
and Convergence betweenen Art + Science+ Technology
in Chile

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18 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Dmitry Bulatov (ru) Bio Art: Third Modenization:
Works of Techno-
Biological Art Works -
-José Miguel Tagle (cl) Bio Art: The Brain of the
Chaman.
Neurobiological Rersearch and Bioelectronic
Instalations.
-Mirko Petrovich (cl) Technology and Politics:
Gesture Control in the
Audiovisual Interactive Systems.
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19 of August / 18 - 21 hrs.
-Angellique Waller (us) Technology and Politics:
Ebay Longing
-Eduardo Navas (sa-us) Technology and Politics: The
Culture of
Remix. The influence of the Break in DJ Culture and the Ideology of Repetition.
-Marc Tutters (ca) : Beyond the
Locative Medias

>more information
www.t-r-o-y-a-n-o.cl

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Presenting at Taller H, Arte and Comunicacion, Cordoba, Argentina.

jueves 10 de agosto 2006 | 20 hs .
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Eduardo Navas*


charla y dialogo sobre
culturaremix


invita
arte & comunicacion
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www.tallerh.com.ar
humberto primo 756 - cordoba -arg
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*
Eduardo Navas De paso por Cordoba, ofrecera una charla introductoria al tema de su presentacion en Santiago de Chile, en el marco de "Actualizando Arte y Tecnología" Ciclo de conferencias sobre Bio Arte, Tecnología y Política y Dispositivos Móviles, que recibiremos en Taller h en simultaneo del 17 al 19 de agosto proximos, como actividad previa a las Octavas Jornadas de arte y medios digitales
| http://www.liminar.com.ar/jornadas/chile.htm |

Monday, August 07, 2006

Currently in the advisory panel for perthDAC 2007, in Australia.

The submission date for 500 word abstracts for perthDAC 2007 is only a couple of weeks away (28th August). Full details at:
http://www.beap.org/dac/

Conference dates 15 - 18th September 2007

Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) is the leading cross-disciplinary scholarly/research conference series for the analysis of developments in the broad field of digital media, expression and communication.

In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international conference in the public program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) in Perth, Australia.

BEAP celebrates and critiques new and novel technologies (digital, bio, nano, other) by showcasing artworks made with, or are about, new technologies. perthDAC's conference program will be closely inter-woven with BEAP's exhibitions.

perthDAC's academic programme is being developed with the close co-operation and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be active on the perthDAC conference steering committee.


Theme

The Future of Digital Media Culture
In the early 1990s, the very term digital was new and novel. However, it has taken only fifteen years for e-mail, the Internet, mobile phones, the power of searchable databases, games, film and TV special effects and workplace software tools to become a common and essential part of modern life. Research has not only described the arrival of these new forms, but is increasingly addressing the unexpected social and cultural uses of digital communications and virtual work/play environments.

In the same historically brief time, popular attention has turned to the potentials and problems of the newer new technologies, bio and nano. In addition, the global phenomenon of terrorism, super-epidemics and climate change have developed from distant concerns to everyday realities. Thus the context for digitally mediated processes is also very different.

perthDAC 2007 will explore the complex interaction of human behaviour and new technologies that will be The Future of Digital Media Culture.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Back in Buenos Aires.
Lecturing at Telefonica Cultural Center on Saturday August 5.
http://www.fundacion.
telefonica.com.ar/espacio/

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Currently in Montevideo, Uruguay, attending the Soundtoys events organized by Brian Mackern.

PLATAFORMA SOUNDTOYS // INTERFACES SONOROVISUALES
Edicion II - Julio 2006
Montevideo, Uruguay

http://34s56w.org/soundtoys2006/

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Dentro del lanzamiento del entorno/plataforma "soundtoys/interfaces sonorovisuales 2006", se presentara un ciclo de conciertos en el Centro Cultural de Espana --Montevideo y en la Alliance Francaise de Montevideo. Este evento contara tambien con conferencias a cargo de los artistas participantes y muestra de sus obras en el marco del fac / 05982:01, organizado por la Fundacion de Arte Contemporáneo.

Artistas:
Julia Masvernat (Argentina)
Szkieve (Belgica-Canada)
Cooptrol (Uruguay)
Brian Mackern (Uruguay)

Organiza:
34s56w.org http://34s56w.org

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I will be presenting and discussing new media projects at CCEBA (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires) from the 17 to the 21 of July:
http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363
http://www.cceba.org.ar/
tapa/tapa.pl

Excerpt in Spanish:
La investigacion de Navas como artista y teorico se enfoca en el fenomeno de "Remix Culture," o Cultura Remix, la cual se ha popularizado globalmente debido a las posibilidades que ofrece Internet. La definicion general de la cultura remix esta ligada a la estetica de "copy/cut & paste" comun en los nuevos medios gracias a las computadoras. Hoy, la idea del remixar (del tomar segmentos de material pre-existente para combinarlo en nuevas formas de acuerdo al gusto del individuo) ha sido extendida a otras areas de la cultura, incluyendo las bellas artes, al mismo tiempo que juega un papel vital en la comunicacion masiva.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Currently in Amsterdam:

Eduardo Navas gives presentation at the Waag in Amsterdam, 29 June 2006, 4.00 PM

On Thursday 29 th of June at 4 PM Eduardo Navas of the University of San Diego will give a lecture at the Waag building in Amsterdam about the subject of his Ph.D, remix culture.
Generally, remix culture is referenced as the global activity made possible by digital technologies largely supported by the cut/copy and paste aesthetic made popular as computers became part of everyday life. Today, the concept of remixing (of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms according to one’s taste) has been extended to other areas of culture, including the Visual Arts; and plays a vital role in mass communication. The notion of the remix often referenced in popular culture is actually dependent on the model of music remixes which started to be produced around the 60s in New York City.

Navas is currently developing an in-depth theory of remix culture; and in order to have a greater understanding of it, He is also developing performances that explore the creative and critical potential of remix as a tool as well as a medium.
Navas will be introduced by Sher Doruff.

Where: Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag building, Nieuwmarkt 4 1012CR, Amsterdam
When: 29 June 2006, 4.00 PM
Stream: http://connect.waag.org



Eduardo Navas
Ph.D. Candidate
Art & Media History, Theory and Criticism,
University of California San Diego

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Currently in Berlin. Doing a brief presentation of my work at Berliner Technische Kunstschule (BTK) on June 21, 2006

http://www.htk-berlin.de/index.html

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Traveling to Buenos Aires in July to interview artists and do a workshop at CCEBA:

http://www.cceba.org.ar/evento/
evento.pl?evento=363
http://www.cceba.org.ar/
tapa/tapa.pl

Lunes 17 de Julio, 10 Hs.
EDUARDO NAVAS. NET ART. Presentacion de trabajos recientes y análisis de obra

Medialab / Encuentro con cupo limitado e inscripcion hasta el 10 de julio de 2006.

Dirigido a artistas con produccion en el campo de los medios electronicos.
Enviar datos personales, un breve curriculum vitae y segun el caso, imágenes o links a sus trabajos a inscripcion@cceba.org.ar.
Esta actividad forma parte del programa de ayuda CCEBA 2006 para la realizacion de proyectos net art/medios digitales.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

I'm currently a juror for the Rhizome 2006-07 commissions:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

+ Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2006 +

Rhizome is pleased to announce that with support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, between eight and eleven new Internet art projects will be commissioned in 2006.

The fee for each commission will range from $900 – $3,000.

Artists are invited to submit proposals for new works of Internet-based art. There is no required theme. The works can manifest offline, as long as the Internet is a primary vehicle in the creation of the work, and the final work is accessible online, whether through a web browser, software, or some other use of internet technologies.

When evaluating proposals, the jury will consider artistic merit, technical feasibility, and online accessibility. Although we will provide some technical assistance with final integration into the Rhizome web site, artists are expected to develop projects independently and without significant technical assistance from Rhizome.

Read more on how to submit a proposal

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Critical analysis of "The Quixote" by George L. Dillon in "Anti-Laokoon: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web" (in Writer's Craft: Culture's Technology, Ed.: Carmen Caldas-Coulthard and Michael Toolan, Rodopi.) See table of contents here.

Excerpt: One site that manages to have a lot of text and pieces of text with images both ways is Eduardo Navas' "The Quixote." This edition of Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" wants to display two languages (those of translation and original) and to use sentences as panels superposed over a book image. The site divides the story into a series of such pages. On all of them, the flow of text is interrupted at the sentence and the visual integrity of the text is reduced by making the "pages" transparent (and the type very large). However, Navas also presents the connected text (albeit alternating Spanish and English translation) in a pop-up window that can be positioned and scrolled and is in a sense outside the design frame (though depicted here in the lower lefthand corner of the main window).

Read the entire essay

Friday, February 10, 2006

Recent commentary on Diary of a Star at La Magia della Scrittura

Eduardo Navas, Il Diario di una stella

Uno dei capolavori di Eduardo Navas, famoso artista dei nuovi media, e "Il Diario di una stella". In questo progetto (che può essere visualizzato nella pagina www.navasse.net/star) Navas seleziona parti del Diario di Andy Warhol e le presenta in forma di blog. Anzi, di due: in quello di destra l'artista trascrive le pagine del diario di Warhol così come sono state pubblicate (blog diary); quello di sinistra invece raccoglie le riflessioni di Navas. L'artista infatti non si e dedicato alla sola lettura del diario, bensì è entrato in relazione con esso: ha iniziato così un viaggio virtuale nella rete e, attraversando una serie infinita di link, ha raggiunto i luoghi e delle persone menzionate da Warhol.

Read the entire comment at La Magia della Scrittura

Saturday, January 21, 2006

My Article "Reflections on Conceptual Art and its relation to New Media, a month long conversation at Empyre" is published on noemalab (Italy):

Excerpt:
With this assimilation of criticism in mind, what actually happens with the shift from object to information is that the artist -- in particular the new media artist -- can develop work using a materialist approach following the parameters of conceptualism while not worrying about objecthood -- as theorized by Michael Fried [12] -- and this may be why some people confuse new media practice following a materialist analysis with Conceptualism as understood with the likes of Michael Asher or (to show the complexity of Conceptual art) Adriane Piper. However, the basic criticism that made conceptualism a specific movement of resistance is no longer there; meaning, the object of art is no longer expected to be present, or critiqued in order to call something art, in the realm of new media. This type of criticism itself is institutionalized; it is part of what today is known as "Institutional Critique." This does not mean that there is no such thing as a conceptual online practice that of critiquing the object of art or the institution, only that the criticism of such practice is quite different because the object of art is information (data) that can be presented in various forms. And the resistance of the object based on its co-option by a commercial market is conveniently supported by the rise of the gift economy. [13]

Read the entire article here:
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/
ideas/ideas_articles/navas_
conceptual_art.html

Visit Noemalab

Friday, December 16, 2005

Recent Review of Diary of a Star in Artkrush:

Sound Blog by Soyoung Park, Diary of a Star by Eduardo Navas, and Data Diaries by Cory Arcangel
Rhizome.org

Since 1996, Rhizome.org has been the premier website for innovative web-art projects by international artists. Rhizome boasts 1,500 projects, an archive of 2,500 articles, two regular email publications, online exhibitions, and shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, which formed an affiliation with the site in 2003. More than just a weblog on new media art, Rhizome hosts several projects in its online archive, the ArtBase, that comment on the prevalence of web diaries and blogs. Soyoung Park's Sound Blog presents letters to an imaginary lover with ambient sounds recorded from her daily life. Diary of a Star by Eduardo Navas appropriates selections from The Andy Warhol Diaries — weaving the pop artist's entries into a blog format and adding commentary based on information gathered while looking for links. Cory Arcangel's Data Diaries offers a month's worth of hard-drive data run through a QuickTime software program designed for media authoring. The results are chaotic, pixelated videos that delight the eye as much as they rile the ear. (PL)

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Participating in Incognito, a benefit event at Santa Monica Museum of Art:

On Saturday, December 10, 2005, Santa Monica Museum of Art presents INCOGNITO, an exhibition and art sale benefiting the non-profit museum. INCOGNITO features works created by over 500 contemporary artists in an identical 8 x 10 inch format and signed on the back. All works will be for sale at $250.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Traveling to the New Media and Video Biennale of Santiago Chile
From November 18 to the 28, 2005
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Centro Cultural de Espana
El Sindicato
Universidad ARCIS

CURADORES DEL PROYECTO / PROJECT CURATORS

Ignacio Nieto
ignacio_nieto01@yahoo.es
09.673.55.21

Alejandro Albornoz
mankacen@gmail.com

Italo Tello
itelius@graffitichile.cl

Ricardo Vega
rvegamora@gmail.com

http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p=196
http://www.bienaldevideo.cl/index_v0.php

Presenting on conference the 24th:
THURSDAY 24.11
CENTRO CULTURAL DE ESPANA

17:30ˆ 18:00 hrs.
Introduction of Project Troyano; Elena: Ignacio Nieto,
Italo Tello, Ricardo Vega
18:00 ˆ 19.30 hrs.
Connferences: Eduardo Navas: Relation Between Hacker
Culture and Blogs Technology. Lucrezia Cippitelli: New
Media Art in Cuba

19:45 ˆ 21:00 hrs.
Dominico Scudero: Fake Curating, Museo Laboratorio di
Arte Contemporánea of Sapienza University. Rome

21:15 ˆ 22:00 hrs.
Live Music: Jacobino Discos (Namm, Papafrita)



//////// EXPOSITION //// CONFERENCES ////
WORKSHOPS //// SANTAIGO, CHILE

Introduction

“Elena” is the name of the curational operative of the Troyano collective, which attempts to contextualize a series of works developed during the last 25 years, that haven‚t received the recognition they deserve in Chile.

Read more

Monday, October 03, 2005

Current Interview on digicult.it:

NEWMEDIAFIX. EDUARDO NAVAS E LA NET-INFORMATION
Eduardo Navas e un artista interdisciplinare (come lui stesso si definisce): net artista, musicista, specialista delle dinamiche dei Nuovi Media. E' anche critico e professore di Teoria e Pratica dell'Arte nella Scuola Otis di Arte e Disegno di Los Angeles.

Conosciuto come l'ideatore del progetto NAR-Net Art Review, che ora ha terminato la sua attivita editoriale, ha lanciato nel mese di settembre NewmediaFIX, un nuovo progetto di comunicazione critica sui progetti che coinvolgono pratiche e produzioni artistiche per , in e attraverso la Rete [...]



Recent Reviews on Random:

Diary of a Star: "Bloggando Andy Warhol"

I Diari del genio della Pop Art sono una delle letture piu stimolanti per chiuque aspiri a comprendere la natura e i meccanismi dell'arte contemporanea nell'era della tv, del cinema e delle reti. Il dandy dei nostri tempi (come lo definisce Eduardo Navas) mostra, attraverso aneddoti della sua vita da superstar, descrizioni dettagliate dei suoi gusti e delle sue idiosincrasie, uno spaccato curioso e rivelatore...


newmediaFIX: books / mags : NewmediaFix

Eduardo Navas, net artista, musicista e ricercatore, ha lanciato dai primi di settembre il sito New Media Fix, dopo aver deciso di sospendere gli aggiornamenti di Netartreview, magazine on line gia da diversi anni. Il nuovo progetto si propone come una piattaforma dove trovare segnalazioni, links e concosrsi, ma anche testi ed interviste....

Monday, September 19, 2005

Current Exhibition:
ITINERARIOS Y SOUVENIRS
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seleccion de obras de Net art y CDROM
Artistas: Antoni Abad, Lucas Bambozzi, Arcangel Constantini, Dora Garcia, Fran Ilich, Jorge Macchi, Brian Mackern, Eduardo Navas. Seleccion: Gustavo Romano
Featured: Goobalization

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Recent Exhibitions:
June 22 -- September 10, 2005
Artbase 101 at the New Museum and Rhizome
New York City
Featured: DIARY OF A STAR

Press Release:
Rhizome ArtBase 101 surveys salient themes in Internet art, a practice that has flourished in the last ten years. The exhibition presents forty selections from Rhizome.org's online archive of new media art, the ArtBase, which was launched in 1999 and currently holds some 1,500 works by artists from around the world. Featured works are grouped by ten unifying themes and include seminal pieces by early practitioners as well as projects by some of the most pioneering emerging talents working in the field today. Encompassing software, games, moving image and websites, Rhizome ArtBase 101 presents the Internet as a strapping medium that rivals other art forms in its ability to buttress varied critical and formal explorations.


Rhizome ArtBase 101 is currently on exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. At the Museum, all 40 works are installed on computers and some have additionally been elaborated into installations. Rhizome Members receive half price admission to the New Museum during the run of the show, June 23rd - September 10th. **Please note that as our membership is constantly fluctuating, we will submit an updated list of our Members to the New Museum admission staff each Friday over the Summer. Practically, this means if you become a Member on Tuesday of a given week, your membership will not be noted at the front desk until the following Monday.


For the duration of the exhibition, all 40 works will be available here to the general online public. Many of these works would usually be accessible only to Rhizome Members as they are located within our archives.


InteractivA 05
Featured: Goobalization
Executive Curator:
Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet
Invited Curators:
Lucrezia Cippitelli, Gita Hashemi
Junio 16-Julio 30 Centro Cultural Olimpo
Mérida, Yucatán, México