networked performance

Upgrade! Paris: A reality by 1.0.3 (Adelin Schweitzer & Benjamin Cadon, Géographies Variables Residents) :: May 26, 2010; 4:30 - 6:3o pm :: Le 104, Paris, Atelier 11 (Part of “The Common Factory”)The project “A reality” builds on an initial premise: there is not a reality but rather a set of paradigms that make [...]

Rob Myers Reviews Jaron Lanier’s book ‘You Are Not A Gadget’, Furtherfield.org:Jaron Lanier’s book “You Are Not A Gadget” is a timely polemic, a cry of the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. I found reading it a frustrating and inspiring experience. For every time I wanted to throw the book at the [...]

Electrified Salon: Hacking Public Space — Johan Pas and Alessandro Ludovico :: June 1, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Foyer Theaterzaal, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium.Occupied City. Artistic Actions in Urban Space: The Prehistory — Public urban space can be considered a battlefield of conflicting images and meanings. Artists have been using this aspect of the modern metropolis [...]

Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art — Book Launch :: June 3, 2010; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Procter Street, London, UK.With the impact of surveillance on urban space, architecture, and citizenship this collection of essays helps us to understand the times we live in [...]

InterAccess, Year Zero One, and the Subtle Technologies Festival present Contingent Ecologies: Investigations at the Edge :: until June 12, 2010 :: Reception: June 4; 7:30 pm :: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada.Three visionary projects explore and re-imagine our future ecologies: API Arctic Perspectives Initiative by Marko Peljhan + Matthew Biederman :: The [...]

Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers — A Pilot Seminar in New Media Arts :: June 1-5, 2010 :: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia.New media arts. Whether you make it, curate it, present it, write about it, teach it, programme it, or shape it in some other way, [...]

Charting Art’s Thoughts — by Chiara Passa — is a spontaneous neuronal network of thoughts. Thus, thoughts about digital art from ‘Hyperuranium’ have landed on a virtual map. The short (140 characters as twitter displays messages) art’s thoughts are generated from Twitter posts that match a database of keywords related to art. At every page’s [...]

AGENCE TOPO presents Web site launch of Geoweb and realtime telematic performance with Aether9 :: May 26, 2010; 6:00 pm :: Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Saint-Laurent Blvd, Montréal.Geoweb: A body of four web art projects exploring the thematic of the geographic web: Nowadays, popular cartographic and earth visualization tools have become an [...]

JardínSolar - SolarGarden — by Dream Addictive — is a series of sculptures that explore the field of sound interaction, using renewable energy as supply source. The intention is to integrate open source hardware and software, and solar cells as energy source, proposing a series of prototypes that generate audio and relational interfaces.The creatures in [...]

City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community — Art Exhibit and Symposium: June 11-13, 2010 :: Community Training Workshops: June 19-20, 2010 :: San Francisco, CA.City Centered is a three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium [...]

A new commission for BRASS: Durham International Festival 2010 (Produced by Forma): The Miners’ Hymns — A film by Bill Morrison with live musical score by Jóhann Jóhannsson :: July 15-16, 2010; 9:30 - 10:30 pm :: Durham Cathedral, Durham, UK. The Miners’ Hymns is an homage in film and music to the coal mining [...]

Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop conducted by SymbioticA (Australia) :: June 19, 2010 :: Riga, Latvia :: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION — Deadline: May 31, 2010. Part of Art+Communication 2010: Transbiotics festival, and SLSA-EU 2010: Textures Conference :: June 14-20, 2010.Tissue culture and tissue engineering represent a new area for artistic engagement. These branches of [...]

ArtTrail Festival 2010: Multiple Endings :: November 19 - December 5, 2010 (Provisional dates) :: Cork City, Ireland :: OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS — Deadline: May 28, 2010; 5:00 pm.ArtTrail, an annual festival of contemporary artistic practice, facilitates and supports site-specific and site-responsive projects in the Cork City area. It offers the context and [...]

Parade: Public Modes of Assembly and Forms of Address :: May 21-23, 2010; 5:00 pm :: Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London, UK.Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public. Set in a [...]

Critical Code Studies — Keynote: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University) :: July 23, 2010 :: University of Southern California.As digital humanitarians continue to turn their attention to the software and hardware that shape culture, the interpretation of source code offers a rich set of symbols and processes for exploration. Critical Code Studies names the [...]

Upgrade! Eindhoven: Jodi interviewed by Walter van der Cruijsen :: May 27, 2010; 8:00 - 10:30 pm :: Temporaty Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven.Jodi is 2 internet artists, Joan Heemskerk (NL) and Dirk Paesmans (BE). In the mid 1990s, they established a visual language for artwork created specifically for the web. Their [...]

[Image: Top - Julius von Bismarck's "Image Fugurator." Bottom - "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett, on Turbulence.org] Between Play and Politics: Dysfunctionality in Digital Art by Marie-Laure Ryan, Electronic Book Review, March 2010: “Let me jump right into the heart of my topic, by presenting two examples. The first, Image Fugurator, a [...]

An Interview with Joseph Young of The Neo Futurist Collective by Marc Garrett, Furtherfield.org: Founded by Joseph Young in 2007 - The Neo Futurist Collective consists of a group of highly accomplished artists who have come together to celebrate urban noise in all its’ visual and aural forms. Inspired by the Milan Futurists and [...]

Artificial Analog Neural Network (AANN) — by Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) — is an interactive, handmade electronic sculpture that responds to environmental stimuli in a display of light and sound. The sculpture is a 45 neuron network whose topology was influenced by multi-layered connectionist network models used in neural network computing, and by the [...]

Osram Art Projects – Seven Screens (Mittlerer Ring, Munich, Germany) presents: Harun Farocki: Umgiessen Variation on Opus 1 by Tomas Schmit :: May 20 - November 21, 2010 :: Opening: May 19; 7:00 pm :: OSRAM Art Projects, Hellabrunner Str. 1, 81543 München, Germany, U1 Candidplatz.The eighth installation on the SEVEN SCREENS was realized by [...]