The recent research project and series of exhibitions After Neurath revisits the work of Otto Neurath, renaissance man of the Vienna Circle who had attempted to relate the puzzle of social change by pictorialising knowledge. Marina Vishmidt assesses Neurath's attempt to bridge the world between art and non-art in the terms of current debate and draws a materialist line under any positivistic expectations of the exhibition as research [1]

Interest in the rapidly developing visual programming language Pure Data, the ‘crack cocaine’ of multimedia software, is growing. In this review of bang, the book about Pure Data published as part of the International Pd Convention held in Graz 2005, Andy Farnell momentarily puts down the pipe to focus on the phenomenon and the scene around it

Waves, a recent exhibition and conference in Riga curated by RIXC and Armin Medosch, tuned in to artistic engagements with the electro-magnetic spectrum. By exploring the material, if imperceptible, base of the information sphere, this event attempted to escape the conventional fetishisation of message over medium. But here, Rob van Kranenburg argues for a less esoteric, more abrasive confrontation with the 'matrix'

Five students from Chelsea College of Art have prepared an ambitious programme of public talks, discussions, workshops and screenings to investigate art and activism

For programme details and times see http://collide-collabo.org/

collide/collabo, a series of events and workshops free and open to the public, 25th- 29th June 2006, 10-20h, Chelsea College of Art, Millbank London SW1P 4RJ, tube: Pimlico

Brief Description:

The Art - Place - Technology International Symposium on Curating New Media Art took place at The School of Art and Design and FACT in Liverpool 30 March - 1 April 2006.  This post on the CRUMB mailing list reviews a selection of the conference presentations and also mentions Mute

Dear crumb list,

I hope that this post about the Art-Place-Technology conference does not interrupt the flow of the current discussion on this list. I should also say that I missed some presentation in the beginning of the event. Here it goes: