With only one week left, take a look now: http://lab.tintarts.org

Image: Lauren McCarthy. http://res007.tintarts.org/

The TINT Arts Lab is a platform that offers invited artists a space to present a new project in the form of a self contained blog. Its motivation is to nurture an open and public discussion of the projects concept, context, development, presentation and documentation between the artists, a core team of commentators, which include; Michael Demers, Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Greg J. Smiths and Pau Waelder and also the interested media arts community (that’s you!). Please don’t shy away to express your own thoughts. Critical but fair feedback to the artist’s projects and the arts lab in general is highly appreciated. The arts lab is in its first season and we see it in a beta phase.

Born out of curiosity it shall remain an open platform in constant change. A probe that will help to learn more about media arts and its motivations, modes of production, documentation, and reception in an age of crowd-sourced networked complexity.

This week the Arts Lab has opened its doors, ready to run its first season. Please join our residents in their open ended journey towards a new piece of work:

This Belongs To by Glittermouse
A public participation project launched by Glittermouse in which contributors use light and shadows to temporarily claim spaces.

Jonestown Periphery by Aaron Oldenburg
Aaron Oldenburg makes use of geo-coded video interviews to explore the (re-)representation of past and present places around Jonestown, Guyana.

Mechanical Components by Stuart Dunbar
Stuart Dunbar presents the concept and development of a musical sculpture that can engage in intimate interactions with the viewer.

The Unemployed by Jody Zellen
Unemployment statistics culled by Jody Zellen from all over the world will become aimless wanderer stopping only to occupy the curious.

Colour Data Processing by Lossless Processing + Error (Jordan Tate, Adam Tindale, Ryan Boatright)
Lossless Processing + Error are concerned with image sorting, accuracy of colour reproduction, and loops that compare reality and digital reproduction.

On the Materiality of the Image by Eleana Louka
Found images will be used by Eleana Louka to explore materiality of the digital in juxtaposition with the physicality of body.

Relation Alterations by Lauren McCarthy
Lauren McCarthy continues her Tool Series and integrates electronics into a table to investigate how objects can influence and mediate our social interactions.

Virtual Assistance by Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson will continue to use outsourcing strategies to investigate globalized labor, capital, and information.

Please find more information on the arts lab website: http://lab.tintarts.org. Keep informed of residencies new postings and comments by subscribing to our RSS feed.

‘It’s all about interaction this week at Granville Arcade. Whether fashioning jewelery from old circuit boards, doing the robot dance with the kids, or making music with a Wii remote. We will be taking control of the future on all fronts and getting to grips with open source and Linux. There’ll be techtastic treats from visual programming for beginners, MASH live interactive digital screen, TINT media arts, computer recycling and all day drop-in IT support.’

Saturday, April 24, 2010, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Brixton Village / Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PS

Artists include:
Genetic Moo
Owen Bowden
Stuart Dunbar
Vincent Van Uffelen

Anyone is welcome, artists, designers, architects, technologists, hobbyists and scientists…. basically those people interested in the crossover of art, science and technology!

TINT opens its Arts Lab in May 2010 to provide an online platform for artists to present and develop ideas through critical feedback and open discourse. Based on a framework of constructive critique and knowledgeable support, participating artists are invited to explore their work within the boundaries of media art. Participating artists will be required that they develop their project in their own workspace, documenting their progress thoroughly at all stages from conceptional to realisation in a dedicated blog. With the labs focus on the documentation of these usually opaque processes we enable a dedicated team of artists, theorist and practitioners as well as the wider community to respond to the project and provide thereby the possibility for artistic development. Once all the first round projects are completed, they will be jointly presented in a TINT curated event in a London based venue.

Call for artists projects
Project proposals from artists and art groups that wish to realize an experimental media art projects, such as sonic, digital, code based, custom or hacked electronics art, and want to submit their projects to the arts lab’s supportive platform of constructive critique.

Please send a project outline (with sketches) and a CV to lab@tintarts.org

Please send a short summary of your field of interests and a CV to lab@tintarts.org

As we are still looking for a regular venue to have meetups, instead of cancelling this one, we thought it would be a great chance for us to meet in an informal atmosphere and discuss possible collaborations, events and opportunities. Also giving us the first change to introduce the TINTarts lab!!!!

Over the next month we will be working very hard to find that allusive venue for our Meetup, it will preferably be somewhere in East London, Shoreditch/Hackney area. If anybody has any suggestions or an available space please get in touch. If you have any questions or thoughts on the Meetup please email us at: info@tintarts.org

Location: Watermans Arts Centre, London
Exhibition dates: September & October 2010

TINT in collaboration with Watermans Art Centre in London is organising an exhibition of Media Art using Floss (Free/libre/open source software) as well as hacking, modding and DIY projects.

We are looking for artists who are striving to make something expressive and artistically engaging with the deluge of technologies in the networks, mobile phones, gadgets and toys. This could include coding and hardware projects, which have either been built using free software or hardware, or have been created by modifying an existing device to produce a hybrid mutilation, or a completely new object in it’s own right. Selected artists will be exhibiting alongside some of the leading hacking and open source artists and collectives in the UK, such as The Owl Project, Genetic Moo, Tine Bech, Michael Zeltner, Alex Zivanovic, Alex McLean, Peter Forde and more.

Parallel to the main exhibition at the Watermans Art Centre an event will be held to coincide with the London Digital Week on 21st – 27th September 2010. This will allow some of the artists to talk about their work and present a program of workshops in opensource hardware/software.

Deadline: Monday 29th March 2010
Please send a project outline with sketches, artists statement and CV to: info@tintarts.org

We will get back to everyone by the 14th April 2010. If you have any questions please email us at: info@tintarts.org.

View the Exhibtions Page for more details on TINT at Kinetica Art Fair 2010.

Photo Credits: Parag Mital
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