To the music communities of the world,

We at the 11Eleven Project would like to offer you and your music community a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of an global creative-arts project. For 24 hours on 11/11/11, anyone who has access to a video camera, digital camera, microphone, mobile phone or email will be asked to create a snapshot of their day; to define their day in a creative way.

This is a chance to collaborate with artists all over the world, including our Grammy award-winning executive music producer, Imogen Heap.

If it’s the sound that wakes you, the song in your head, the words you’ve never put down on paper or the defining image or footage that paints your experience, we want you to share it with the world! This is your chance to be part of something big, REALLY BIG.

The footage, audio, text, visual and photographic material will be collated and used as the ingredients for a variety of 11Eleven Project initiatives, including a 2 hour cinematic documentary, photographic book and world music collection, all of which will be available worldwide.

The 11Eleven Project is completely not-for-profit and the sales of our projects and merchandise will go to support a variety of charities including The Hunger Project, Save the Children, World Wildlife Fund, Global Voices, Opportunity International and Hamlin Fistula.

The objective of the project is to plant a seed of compassion, to allow all people to gain perspective of our world as a whole. It is a time capsule, a human snap shot of life in the 21st century - a unique global perspective told by the people, for the people. By bringing the world together as one, we open up the opportunity for people to view our planet as a singular entity. 11/11/11 is an occasion to illustrate the commonalities amongst all people and to witness the shared experience amongst every human being living on planet Earth. With this representation may come an enlightened sense of global awareness, responsibility and recognition.

How YOU can get Involved:

Arte Laguna and the Italian cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) are working together since 2006 on promoting contemporary visual Art. Main result of this collaboration is the International Art Prize ARTE LAGUNA. The main purpose is to support emerging and also already affirmed artists, giving them the possibility to show their artworks in high quality expositive settings around the World.

Born in 2006 from the collaboration between the cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art) and Arte Laguna, the Prize, over its five editions, has lived a structural evolution, becoming an established international prize supporting contemporary art talents and one of the most important events of the contemporary art scene. Over 15,000 international artists exhibited their artworks thanks to Arte Laguna and many of them now have a great career.

In his work Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer , John C. Lilly wrote:

"All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. None of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

Despite the great varieties of programs available, most of us have a limited set of programs. Some of these are built in. In the simpler forms of life the programs were mostly built in from genetic codes to fully formed adultly reproducing organisms. The patterns of function, of actionreaction were determined by necessities of survival, of adaptation to slow environmental changes and of passing on the code to descendants."

Laurie Anderson incorporated some of Lilly's ideas, his ways of de-constructing dominant perspectives and explorations of human - dolphin communication in this short piece:

Culture Lab, Newcastle University announces RENDER 10: an exhibition featuring creative digital media works from the Culture Lab research community.

RENDER 10 presents the forward-looking scenarios of contemporary audiovisual experimenters from the Digital Media Masters of Research course, as well as members of the Culture Lab research community. Focusing on live media, performance, expanded reality, interactive video and sound installation, the exhibition comprises a range of new projects addressing technology and media with a critical, empirical and often playful approach.

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[The User] Coincidence Engine One: Universal People's Republic Time

In its most enigmatic form, a work of art facilitates a personal encounter in a space that lies between what is familiar and what is irreparably alien. It is by a process of discovery and investigation, by experimental play and unproven hypothesis, that this uncharted space between what is known and what is obscure is navigated. And it is in the movement between those two poles, that a work of art both reveals and conceals itself.

During his current 12-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Guy Laliberté’s unique social/humanitarian mission will have one clear purpose: to raise humanity’s awareness of water-related issues.

The first Poetic Social Mission in Space is a symbolic moment for Laliberté. After 25 years, Cirque du Soleil will be introduced to Russia, the country where Laliberté is training for his voyage and from where the Soyuz TMA-16 rocket will launch him and the Expedition 21 crew into space. The timing could not be more appropriate!

If you think the global financial crisis is bad, think again. The looming environmental collapse associated with global warming will make the current depression in global greed seem like child's play.

Earth Hour 2009 aims to give a voice to all people across the globe and invites everyone to participate in the creation of a stunning and vivid image of our home planet with its lights turnedd off. Be part of the message!

VOTE EARTH!!!
Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Switch off your lights (and everything else for that matter: tv, radio, ipod, and yes, your computer, too) for just one hour, enjoy the silence, do something in the dark (ideally something that raises our collective consciousness, the choice is yours ... ), and join the world for Earth Hour.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix

From July 17th until August 30th, 2008, the Sonic Self is bringing together local and international sound artists, musicians, video/multimedia and performance artists to facilitate the exchange and development of pioneering ideas, innovative skills and practices in contemporary Sound Art discipline.

The Sonic Self- a sound-art related exhibition aims at developing an open and direct audio-visual dialog between video and sound artists in order to expose significant similarities and differences in the growing confluence of audio and visual experiences in the emerging Sonic Culture, where; communication, sound and visual experience merge as significant pattern in the cultural sensibility towards sound and the surrounding persistent, random audio architecture a kind of sonic explosion that can be seen as a breakthrough of the Sonic Itself.

The Sonic world (an audible space); an emerging intersection between the audio and visual experiences, based on increasing internet and digital technology inventions -- gave the sound a significant stage in the surrounding environment in the multimedia environment of contemporary culture then ever before.