networked performance

NoneOfTheseCandidates Macbain for United States Senate is a native of Nevada and Second Life. He is a lifelong independent, founder of Nevadans 4 Hyperreality and a veteran of the America’s Army Game where he has served in maps that look like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He is single and lives in the Shady Oak [...]

Turbulence.org and Pace Digital Gallery announce an Open Call for Networked Art to be commissioned for the exhibition Turbulence.org @ PaceDigitalGallery 2.Three commissions @ $3,000 will be awarded. The deadline for proposals is November 1. The works will premiere at Pace and on Turbulence in April 2011.The curators are seeking works that address the notion [...]

DataCity Seminar Series: Digital Networks and the Politics of Urban Governmentality :: October 9, 2010; 4:00 - 7:00 pm :: Amber Platform, Necatibey Cad. No: 66 Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey.Speakers: Özgür Uçkan (Dr., Bilgi Üniversitesi), Burak Arıkan (Artist), Ahmet Misbah Demircan (Mayor, Beyoğlu), Silvia Cazacu (Journalist, Romain), Prokop İstvanek (ZTOHOVEN, Czech Republic).Technological networks and digital data [...]

Que Le Pongan la Macarena: Distance Dancing over the Internet :: October 14, 2010; 7:15 – 8:15 pm :: Mobius Art Space, 725 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA + Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporaneo, La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. FREE and open to the public. No dance talent required. RSVP to: [...]

[Rendering of "Geometric Death Frequency—141"] Federico Díaz: Geometric Death Frequency—141 :: October 23, 2010 – March 2012 :: Opening Reception with the Artist: October 23; 2:00 - 4:00 pm :: MASS MoCA, 87 Marshall Street, North Adams, MA.Geometric Death Frequency—141 is a new site-specific sculpture by Prague-based artist Federico Díaz. Created from 420,000 black spheres [...]

Urban Speaker by Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena :: October 8, 2010; 3:00 - 7:00 pm :: Tompkins Square Park (7th St. side between Av. A & B), New York City.Urban Speaker is an art installation that transforms public space into an instant stage for mass communication. This portable urban furniture allows people to broadcast [...]

101010 UpStage Festival :: October 10; 8:00 pm - October 11, 2010; 4:30 pm (New Zealand time, find your local time here) :: Online + 11 “real life” access nodes from Auckland to Vietnam!.Most shows will perform twice (some three times) during the festival, to give people in different time zones a chance to see [...]

Upgrade International 2010: Soft Borders — full conference, exhibition and performance program here :: October 18-21, 2010 :: São Paulo, Brazil.Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival; previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA), Oklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedonia). The conference will gather artists, curators and researchers [...]

Indeterminate Hikes (IH) by ecoarttech @ Conflux 2010 :: October 9, 2010; 2:00 pm :: Meet at East Village, corner of Lafayette & Astor Place, New York City.Indeterminate Hikes (IH) is an Android app that acts as your personal guide through New York City’s Urban Wilderness. With its database of hiking trails and by determining [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Jane Prophet :: October 26, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).Jane Prophet, a renowned British visual artist, uses traditional and new media and materials to produce surprising and beautiful objects. Site-specific installations include “Conductor,” a flooded power station lit with [...]

We AR in MoMA — YOUR ART in the MoMA: DIY ‘guerilla’ augmented reality art invasion / exhibition @ MoMA :: October 9, 2010; 4:00 pm :: Museum of Modern Art, New York — Floors 1 to 6 + virtual floors 7 & 8 + garden :: Required: iPhone or Android device.Augmented reality artists worldwide [...]

Catalytic: Communities/ Networks/Participation :: Call for Relational Work — Deadline: October 11/18, 2010.We are interested in what is going on in art right now. As entertainment, critical resistance, or one more commodity fetish, art can provide an outlet for those of us who dream of revolutions and utopias. We want to track the diverse ways [...]

Down in Fukuoka with the Belarusian Blues: Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries :: October 7 - November 7, 2010 :: Gallery Hyundai, 80 Sagan-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-190, Korea.The controversial new masterpiece that everybody’s talking about — everybody who’s anybody. It’s the best entertainment in town — and Seoul is a big town.Down in Fukuoka with the [...]

Posted by Rob Holmes on Mammoth:[Not a cyborg plant, but certainly technobotanical; image by NL Architects via Inhabitat]1. This post is for 50 Posts About Cyborgs.2. This is a cyborg arboretum. That is, a collection of various plants not naturally found in geographic proximity, brought together for educational purposes, whose constituent plants happen [...]

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.[...] “Take, for instance, Keiichi Matsuda’s Augmented City. Matsuda (whose previous video, Domestic Robocop, we noted at beginning of the year) produced the short for his Masters Thesis at the Bartlett School of Architecture. In both Augmented City and Domestic Robocop, we see one example of what a cyborg [...]

[Image: Jean Cocteau, "The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d'un poète)," 1930. 35 mm black-and-white film, with sound, 50 min. Film still by Sacha Masour.*] Chaos and Classicism: Performance, Digital Workshop, and Film Screening :: October 9 and 10, 2010 :: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York City.In [...]

Helene von Oldenburg: Slovník sítí/A Dictionary of Nets — Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nets, Webs and Networks (But Were Afraid to Ask) :: September 29, 2010; 6:00 - 7:00 pm :: CIANT Lab, Kubelikova 27, Prague, Czech Republic.Nets are everywhere. They are organized differently. Have a look at various systems like informatics, [...]

Abandon Normal Devices (AND) — Festival of New Cinema & Digital Culture :; October 1-7, 2010 :: Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new festival, taking place across the Northwest until 2012 and beyond. A catalyst for production and experimentation, AND invites us to consider what are our normal devices and how might we abandon [...]

Posted on The Teeming Void by Mitchell Whitelaw: Measuring Cup is a little dataform project I’ve been working on this year. It’s currently showing in Inside Out, an exhibition of rapid-prototyped miniatures at Object gallery, Sydney.This form presents 150 years of Sydney temperature data in a little cup-shaped object about 6cm high. The data comes [...]