networked performance

Jody Zellen’s Spine Sonnet for iPhone is a poem generator that makes sonnets from the titles of art and art theory books; 14 titles are combined each time you tap the screen and that makes the poem.It was developed from a web project Jody made for LACMA. You can read more about it here.

[YASMIN] Kartharine S. Mills wrote:In the discussion on hybrid spaces, an earlier post from Martin and Dimitiris (20 July) talked about The synchronous experience of a mobile spatial interface and of the non-mediated physical environment, a hybrid spatial experience, material (space determined by material elements) and immaterial space (determined by digitally produced representations) are merging. [...]

Storytelling Part 1: Change of Storytelling from story kitchen on Vimeo.

LPDT2 is a reworking of Roy Ascott’s 1983 work La Plissure du Texte (The Pleating of the Text) in Second Life. [via Network Research]

“The SMSlingshot — by VR/URBAN — is an autonom working device, equipped with a high frequency radio, hacked arduino board, laser and batteries. Text messages can be typed on a phone-sized wooden keypad which is integrated in an also wooden slingshot. After the message is finished, the user can aim on a media facade [...]

Posted on Shareable by Paul M. Davis:Following last week’s excerpt of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for the Digital Age, we follow with a Q&A with the author, featuring questions from Shareable’s community of contributors and advisors. On Wednesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 14, we invite our wider community [...]

Upgrade! Johannesburg Remote No 3: Peter Traub (based in Charlottesville, Virginia, US) :: October 27, 2010; 6:30 – 7:00 pm (South African Time) :: Digital Arts Seminar Room, Digital Arts Convent Building, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (directions) + streamed live.In this remote lecture Peter will talk about several of his recent pieces that focus [...]

Of, By, and For: New Work by Daniel Peltz and Paul Notzold — Two new urban interventions :: until November 19, 2010 :: Cambridge Arts Council, 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA.Of, By, and For presents two models of artistic intervention into urban life that examine city structure, site, and community. Though they represent distinct [...]

[Image: Nullalux/Emily]

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.Video Mapping — by Macula, Lukáš Duběda, Michal Kotek — during 600 years anniversary of the astrological tower clock situated at Old Town Square in center of Prague. Sound: data-live; Production: Tomato Production.

In the Mud and Blood of Networks: An Interview with Graham Harwood by Anthony Iles, Mute Magazine:“Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHA) build contraptions that expose and collapse down the productive chains linking telecommunications media to some of the raw materials that constitute them. In this interview with Anthony Iles however, Harwood rejects theoretical discourses [...]

319 Scholes presents DUMP.FM IRL (Curated by Lindsay Howard) :: October 22-30, 2010 :: Opening: October 22; 7:00 pm - 1:00 am :: 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY.dump.fm is an image-based chat room for real-time communication. Founded in November 2009 by Ryder Ripps in collaboration with Scott Ostler (of MIT Exhibit) and Tim Baker (of [...]

A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data, Workflow — A workshop on the politics of cognition between the expanded mind, software studies and cultural theory :: October 21, 2010; 9:30 am - 6:00 pm :: The Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH :: There is no charge for attending the workshop but numbers [...]

Panels. An inquiry into the spatial, the sonic and the public :: October 29-30, 2010 :: NAiM/Bureau Europa, Avenue Céramique 226, 6221 KX Maastricht.Unitl 16 January the installation entitled Panels by artist Paul Devens can be experienced, viewed and heard in NAiM/Bureau Europa. The installation occupies the whole upper hall of 800 m2 with a [...]

Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2010: lost & found. Rediscover, reinterpret. — exhibition, concerts and DJ-sets, headphone concerts, a film-, video- and lectures programme, artist talks, student’s projects a the retro game lounge and workshops :: October 28-31, 2010 :: Basel, Switzerland.Exhibition: Aram Bartholl, Julius von Bismarck, Critical Art Ensemble, Paul B. Davis, Aleksandra Domanovic, Gijs [...]

The Root of The Root — Generative Art by Marius Watz, Paul Prudence and Aaron Meyers :: October 18 - November 21, 2010 :: Opening: October 22; 6:00 pm :: Processing Workshop by Marius Watz — October 18-26 :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY.This exhibition showcases three artists working with generative code [...]

[Image: Maria from "Metropolis," Director: Fritz Lang, 1927. Film still, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.] Robot Dreams :: October 9, 2010 – February 20, 2011 :: Kunsthaus Graz, Lendkai 1, A–8020 Graz, Austria.Robots are no longer found just on the factory floor or as highly developed imaginary creatures in science-fiction stories. They are moving into our homes, taking to [...]

New Imaging: Transdisciplinary Strategies for Art Beyond the New Media :: November 5-6, 2010 :: Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, Australia. A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as technology and as aesthetic idiom, as opportunity for creative initiatives [...]