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The satellite based Global Positioning System (GPS) allows us to record basic information about their location, direction, altitude and speed. Using small hand held devices, artists can record and interpret this data to create mapping, locative, durational and other works. GPS allows us to take back knowledge of our whereabouts, and to annotate this knowledge, or to reuse it as we wish.

Artists can use access to this locative data that forms the background to all our lives, to add another layer of information to work. Whether we want accurate information or chaotic disinformation, the gps satellites transmit unceasingly 24 hours a day, not caring whether we make use of their datastreams or not. We can anonymously take up their offering and convert it to human data. This one day live workshop will introduce the basic functioning of the GPS and demonstrate GPS devices and software along with digital cameras. Participants will be able to use GPS devices and digital cameras in the field to create their own personal mappings of the locality. These mappings will form the basis for a workshop in creating combined and annotated maps and images. We will spend the day looking at software and hardware and discussing psychogeographic and locative issues while making our own maps, playing gps games and adding to the global store of waypoints. visit http://locative.x-i.net for details

A two-day conference exploring live electronics, interactivity and sonic art. 19th-20th February 2005. Key note talk by Alejandro Vinao. Paper sessions: Saturday 9.30-5pm, Sunday 10-12.30pm. Interlace music performances are being held in conjunction with the Sonic Interactions conference. visit http://incalcando.com/interlace/ for details on Interlace and http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/sonic-interactions.html
for details on Sonic Interactions conference

FutureScreen Mobile investigates the potential of mobile phone devices and technologies as platforms for creation, distribution and presentation of screen based and new media art. Focusing on the development of skills and knowledge, FutureScreen Mobile consists of a series of workshops and master classes and a research component. Outcomes of all FutureScreen Mobile events and research will be presented on the dLux media arts website with the aim of establishing an invaluable knowledge base for artists interested in working in the mobile domain.

Questia is an online library of books and journals. Some free books are available whilst others are accessible via subscription. visit http://www.questia.com/ for more details

Vloggercon was held late January in New York - a conference about vlogging. check out the vlogging yahoogroups mail list if you'd like more info or visit the vlogging wiki at http://www.me-tv.org, and view the photos at Flickr

Mapping New Territories sets out to survey a new landscape - the landscape of Swiss media art. This voyage of discovery is charted by an exhibition (30 January through 27 March 2005), a symposium (12 March 2005) and a publication (book and CD-Rom, forthcoming May 2005). En route, we will explore the still young history of Swiss media art, from its tentative beginnings in the 1990s to its rapid development in recent years.

hack.it.art - Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy is being held from January 15th till February 27th 2005 at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin. The project hack.it.art is an exhibition and event about technological, artistic and political activism in Italy. There will be workshops and events on various aspects of Hacktivism. More info on: http://www.ecn.org/aha

The Interactive Design Competition is back. Last year we received hundreds of entries from ad agencies, freelancers, design studios, artists, museums, galleries, broadcasters and non-profit organizations.

All selected websites will form part of an exhibition online and at the festival. Your work will also be celebrated at our Awards ceremony. All winners will be featured in the VIDFEST program and receive a VVIP Pass - access to all the activities, conference sessions, and parties of VIDFEST.

It has been twelve months since INFECTED MUSHROOM hit Cyclone Orphic with their dynamite live set. Despite a rare tropical cyclone - some eleven hundred people turned out to see one of the most intense performances ever witnessed. Well INFECTED MUSHROOM are back.

Returning as a part of their national tour, INFECTED MUSHROOM will play 100% LIVE through the only system that will do them justice - FORTY FIVE THOUSAND WATTS of MEGABLAST SOUND SYSTEM.