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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>NovelArt NewsBlog Feed</title><link>http://blog.novelart.org/</link><description>Our basic belief is that the whole is bigger than the sum of it&#039;s parts. 

This network is founded to promote cooperation, creativeness and enable novel opportunities. One cornerstone of this network is to make possible new projects and collaborations that perhaps otherwise never would have occurred.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Return to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novelart.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NovelArt &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novelart.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Website &lt;/a&gt;</description><item><title>Summer projects</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=53</link><description><![CDATA[ As August nears it's end a little look in the rear view mirror seems appropriate. During the course of the summer the Ministry completed a couple of small projects: HopArt in his birth-town and an attempt for "The Worlds longest street-painting".    HopArt in Eslöv    Street-painting project  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:57:28 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Qiezli blog</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=52</link><description><![CDATA[ Our member  Jeremy Turner  has been deeply engaged in the Second Life 
virtual community for many years and have currently designed his own 
"bot" named Qiezli, as a home-work assignment in his University 
education.   Second Life is a popular chat-based virtual world. It is a user-generated world because people can create and exhibit their own content (clothes, objects, architecture etc) in this collaborative space. But there is also "robots" in SL which the creators/designers have put in there in the first place. Most of those robots are "chatter-bots" who walk around as humanoid avatars and engage in Eliza-like conversation.  Jeremy explains: In Second Life, any avatars that are not controlled by a human and are autonomous/automatic are called "bots" (short for "robots"). However, since my entity is meant to be some alien abstraction, I do not think the word "bot" is visually appropriate. I prefer the word "agent" since it applies to all artificial intelligences (as well as ourselves but that gets a bit confusing).  Qiezli is a "living" alien creature made out of shifting abstractions and representations. It wears video on its body. It daydreams about ideas in its inventory and occasionally when interacting with someone else, it may show video-portraits on its body.  I want to start creating artificial agents in virtual worlds. Qiezli may become an automated performance artist or perhaps have its own ideas about what it wants to do..that will take more programming though. I have always been interested in Artificial Intelligence. I also wanted to represent the utopian possibilities of cyberspace somehow so I focused on abstract aesthetics rather than a social message, for its content.  Qiezli hovers around in the air and "wears" various abstract video-patterns on its body...it kind of visualizes what it is "imagining" at the moment. When it meets one person, it "reflects" a video-portrait of one avatar (not the same person). When it meets more than one person, it wears a group video-portrait.  Jeremy has recently put up  a blog about Qiezli , in a bit of a haste. The reason to hurry with a blog now is that he is submitting a conference paper about Qiezli and documentation was required to be online so Jeremy hastily assembled a blog. Jeremy says that even before he entered academia, he was in the habit of documenting as much as he could on blogs.  Turning Qiezli into an agent was a homework assignment. Jeremy took "Metacreation" last term (by Prof. Philippe Pasquier) and the goal of the course was to create an agent that appeared to exhibit its own sense of "creativity". Jeremy's ambitions are to turn his dissertation ideas towards designing virtual agents like these. He needs approval of his committee first though... But he says: I will find out this summer. Best of luck Jeremy!  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:52:02 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>FOURCE</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=51</link><description><![CDATA[    A new project is under way at the Ministry of Art. The new project has already a temporary website and the official Website is in pipeline. Check it out at:  fource.se    The project is a new light art project and has in fact a connection to a previous light art project named SILO-SILO. You can check the images from that project  here .   Fource has an ambition to change the world around us, and how we'll look upon it...   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:34:44 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Austin gig</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=50</link><description><![CDATA[ Member Walt sent us a newsletter the other week to let us all about an interesting gig he has got coming up on Thursday night, Jan. 13, 8-10pm at Casa de Luz, 1701 Toomey Rd. (over behind the original Chuy's on Barton Springs Rd.). This will be a free 2 hours of improvisational music, singing and dancing, being organized by Brock Roser, late of the band/performance artist troupe Kan'nal (http://www.kannal.org/). Brock is an innovative player of the Australian didgeridoo, as well as a percussionist and vocalist. Each year, he puts together one of these improv performances, and this year Walt has been invited to join in. Walt will be playing guitar, Turkish saz and doing a few processed vocal effects. Lots of talented Austin musicians, singers and dancers will be up on the stage, and it should be quite the spectacle! Do not miss this if you are in Texas on Thursday!! Get over to Austin!   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:49:49 +0100</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Lucky no. 13</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=49</link><description><![CDATA[    Walt is sending us a note to tell about his new solo album, ominously-titled " Well....Let's Look at Your Track Record, Shall We? ", release date Nov. 5, 2010. It is available to listen to, you can read about it (and even to buy physical CD or download tracks) here:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/walterehresman.  Downloads are available, also, at all the usual places, and you can also listen to the entire opening track here:  http://www.myspace.com/waltehresman  (click on "Summer Calls the Shots").   The cover shows Old Scratch himself, behind a big oak desk with law books and a framed picture of the Titanic sinking in the background, evaluating the new recruit in Hell and piercing the layers to get at the Truth so as to better assign the proper level. Dante would be proud.  Being the 13th solo album since 1989, Walt feels he really hit upon a lucky number for 2010. I think you'll find this album has a bit more of a jazzy feel in places, but there's also some shark guitar so hopefully it all balances out. Walt hopes you enjoy what you hear, and buy copies for your aged auntie, beloved clergy, and just generally all friends and family of delicate and frail disposition......if you're in their will, of course.  On a side-note Walt also adds that since last Summer, he's been playing lead guitar and talking drum with a 10-piece West African ensemble called "Aciable". It's lead by singer/dancer Jean-Claude Lessou, from the Ivory Coast. They have been gigging heavily around Austin, and hope to get into the studio early in the new year.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:11:25 +0100</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Vilks on Tour</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=48</link><description><![CDATA[ Member Vilks is on a North American Tour at the moment in cooperation with The International Free Press Society. If you are in the neighborhood of Toronto or Boston check it out!     Here's all info you'll  need to see  the events on location.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:00:32 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Better version of the Sergel Symphony documentary video</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=47</link><description><![CDATA[   Member Mr Lidbo has just made us aware of another (better) documentary of his fantastic symphony at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, August 10. This gives perhaps a little better insight of the magnificent art/sound project. Enjoy!  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:58:07 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Busy Lidbo</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=46</link><description><![CDATA[ Another great project of Mr Lidbo is a huge outdoor concert in the middle of Stockholm. Lots of unusual sounds and performances was put together by Maestro Lidbo for a very special concert "The Sergel Symphony". The loud and sometimes disturbing sounds from Stockholm will join 
forces, and together with a chamber music orchestra they will play The 
Sergel Symphony. Written and conducted by Håkan Lidbo.     
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:12:38 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Trancelaysions</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=45</link><description><![CDATA[ One of the latest projects from member Håkan Lidbo. A most commendable invention, translating the translated... Check it out! &gt;&gt;&gt;  Trancelaysions    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:50:46 +0200</pubDate><category>Member news</category></item><item><title>Latest HopArt</title><link>http://iloapp.novelart.org/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=44</link><description><![CDATA[   A little peak from the 30 years anniversary in Ladonia the other weekend. A special jump was made on the ever on-going HopArt Tour.   
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