Coahulla Creek High opens with digital tablets for all

Dalton Daily Citizen (Tennessee) - Gone will be the days of lugging loads of heavy textbooks when Coahulla Creek High School’s 700 students occupy the building on Crow Road in Varnell in a few weeks.

The high school, which has been under construction for three years, will open Aug. 8 with 100 to 200 students more than expected for the first year since Whitfield Board of Education members voted to allow anyone who wants to to attend it, and since students got word they’ll get their own iPad-like digital devices.  Read more.

LouisianaDigitalMediaCenter at LSU to House Video Game Development Workers

KATC 3 (Louisiana) - Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal joined Electronic Arts Inc. Head of Worldwide Quality Assurance Mike Robinson, LSU Chancellor Michael V. Martin, and Mayor-President Kip Holden to break ground on the 94,000-square-foot LouisianaDigitalMediaCenter that eventually will be home to 600 video game development workers and LSU's Center for Computation & Technology.  Read more.

Turn On, Plug In, Walk Out: How "Street Show" Transforms a Single USB Stick Into a Guerrilla Art Gallery

Art Info - There aren't too many art exhibitions in Chelsea that you have to hunt for, with the rare exception being those fifth-floor galleries that don't seem to have an elevator or staircase. But even through Michael Manning's "Street Show: The Things Between Us" has a street-level Chelsea location, most viewers will pass it by without a second glance. That's because the entire exhibition is condensed onto a USB stick embedded in the façade of Eyebeam, a new media art center and gallery space on West 21st Street. The only way to view the show? Bring your own laptop along, and ideally your own USB extension cord, too.

"Street Show: The Things Between Us" gathers the work of 22 new media and Internet artists...read more.  Read more.

'Invention & Intervention,' Hong Kong's big new media arts festival

CNN - Making use of digital art, computer robotics and interactive art, as well as new media arts advances in technology, a dynamic exhibition in Hong Kong -- “Invention & Intervention -- Power Showcase of Hong Kong New Media Artists” -- reflects our lives and emotions.

Joel Kwong, exhibition curator and program director of Microwave, which organized the expo together with the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, says, “Hong Kong new media artists are maturing at an amazing speed, surpassing that of traditional artists.”

With the number of art venues and exhibitions proliferating around the city in recent years, Hong Kong, has become a breeding ground for new media artists, nurturing local talents.  Read more.

Second Degree in Digital Arts

Times of Malta - The University of Malta has launched a postgraduate award in digital arts practice and theory that takes a cross-disciplinary approach to creative expression and communication. This is a relatively new and exciting field of research that covers the convergence of technology with fine art, video, film, performance, games, design and online art.  Read more.

"Digital Art Battle" in NYC

DNA Info (NYC) - A group of street artists will compete in a "digital art battle" Wednesday night, using handheld computer tablets to create real-time works in front of a live audience.

The event, held at the Openhouse Gallery on Mulberry Street, features eight artists working in pairs as their designs are projected live in the rotating exhibition space.  Read more.

GIFs Gone Wild: Brooklyn's New Media Art Haven 319 Scholes Stirs Up the Real and the Digital

Art Info - 319 Scholes, a polished, garage-like space located in the industrial wilds between Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood and what is optimistically called "East Williamsburg," might not immediately strike visitors as the next great hope of new media art. However, over the past two years of its history, the art space — something between a small-town rec room, a teenage-bedroom multimedia lair, and an alternative gallery — has become a meeting spot for the digital art community with an ambitious program of multimedia installations, internet art, and independent projects.  Read more.