Here and there in Europe

Incomplete calendar-like post about what's going on in Europe these days:

ARCO is running in Madrid until February 13. El Pais has a Video showing the highlights of the contemporary art fair. (via dunadigital.)

Work by Spanish artist Javier Mariscal + Zaha Hadid's "multi-use" counter dispayed at the Kenny Schachter Rover stand

Biomapping + NodeL

NODE.London [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London] will be a month long season of media arts projects across London in March 2006. The programme is to die for (if only i could be in Europe in March! Sigh!): Ruairi Glynn will be showing C.L.A.V.E., Stanza will be there with Sound Cities, Thomson & Craighead will present Decorative Newsfeeds, Christian Nold will draw the Greenwich Emotion Map, Lektrolab is organising two workshops: one workshop teaches how to hack games and make graphics for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the other teaches how to make animations and VJ with Amiga computers.

Run Motherfucker Run + Jukebots

STRP, a festival at the intersection of art, technology and popular culture, runs in Eindhoven, on March 24-26. Highlights include: the fabulous Robotlab, ELF, the the cockroach controlled mobile robot, run motherfucker run, Spatial Sounds (one of my favourite works ever), Nervous, by German artist Bjoern Schuelke, a bright and fluffy hemisphere that becomes nervous, beeps and moves frantically when you approcah it.

Mediamatic is organising a Machinima workshop. "Participants will be guided through Machinima production process by experts from the fields of gamedesign and animation. Besides technical instructions on set design, character creation, re-camming and post production, we will focus on cinematic and artistic possibilites of shooting film in 3d engines." 14-17 March, Amsterdam.

Still at Mediamatic, lovely Hobby Princess Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (University of Helsinki, Finland) will be giving a Crafters Manifesto lecture on Wednesday, February 15, 8 pm.

Storyboard by Stefhan Caddick explores the text phenomenon. An LED sign facing the street from Gallery 39 in Cardiff will display SMS sent from members of the public to its receiver. To send a message to the sign text: 07929 461727 (add +44 if you're texting from outside the UK.) The sign will be active from 11th February to 18th March 2006.

Erwin Wurm, his fat vehicles, houses and melting buildings are having a show at the Macro, in Rome until May 31, 2006.

Reminder:

ARTEFACT festival consists of installations, concerts, theatre & performances, a symposium and a software / video exhibition, on February 13-18 at STUK, in Leuven (Belgium).

Días de Bioarte’06 [Days of Bioart ’06], a series of presentations, workshops, debates and space for consultation about biological and living art with some of the pioneer artists, curators and critics in the field. 16th - 17th February, Barcelona.

The AV Festival 06 explores the relationship between digital and biological life. 2-12 March, Northumberland.

Images: Diario de Novarra, El Pais, exibart and the above-mentionned event websites.