networked performance

Domain Gallery is pleased to present reCAPCHAT, a solo exhibition by french artist Jimpunk curated by Manuel Fernández.reCAPCHAT use the reCAPTCHA system, an extension of the CAPTCHA test that recognizes text in images to determine when the user is human or not. Jimpunk has modified these systems to generate a nonsense chat, an intervention in [...]

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. The deadline for New York practitioners is May 31, 2012; June 30, 2012 for everyone else. The Application Guidelines are here.Turbulence.org is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 16 years it has [...]

[Tom Sachs, "Mars Yard," 2011-2012. Mixed media, dimensions vary. & "Mars Excursion Roving Vehicle (MERV)," 2010-2012. Mixed media, 123 x 52 x 60 inches. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.] Creative Time / Park Avenue Armory present Tom Sachs: Space Program Mars :: May 16 – June 17, 2012 :: Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York [...]

Bioart and Textiles Workshop with Anna Dumitriu :: May 26, 2012; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (UTC+01) :: The Barn Gallery, St. John’s College, The University of Oxford, St. Giles, Oxford, UK (map) :: Reserve your space here.On this practical and theoretical workshop with Anna Dumitriu, participants will begin to learn how to work safely [...]

Please support this inspiring and important project! Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is a line of mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. The project is focused on creating networks of communication [...]

Drama, by Timo Kahlen, is generated as the viewer plays and re-plays the film, to create individual and always different endings based on chance outcomes of the film’s miniature drama, a struggle of life and death, always different, again and again.

for the time being: a choreosonic performance by DAP-Lab :: May 26, 2012; 7:30 pm :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, UK.for the time being explores the sound of movement in a 30-minute premiere of a new stage work inspired by the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) and its fantastical visual designs. [...]

The Mapping Practices of Catherine D’Ignazio by Christine Temin, Art New England:“Catherine D’Ignazio is an artist, software developer, and educator. She leads the Experimental Geography Research Cluster at RISD’s Digital+Media program. Her artwork has been exhibited at the ICA Boston, Eyebeam, MASS MoCA, and the Western Front, among other locations. Her artwork is participatory and [...]

New Day New Standard — A public art project and nanny hotline: 646 699 3989.New Day New Standard is a public art project and interactive hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, eldercaregivers, and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, passed in New York State in November 2010.Built on an open source framework, [...]

DEAF2012 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) :: Symposium: Vital Beauty - May 16-20, 2012 :: Rotterdam, the Netherlands.The symposium focuses on the question of how the age-old notion of beauty can regain an importance appropriate to the 21st century.Our need for beauty has not diminished, as hard as modernism tried to erase it from art and [...]

Carrie Bodle: Wavelines :: May 18 - July 14, 2012 :: Artist Reception: May 18; 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm :: CoCA Georgetown Gallery, Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave S., Seattle, WA (Facebook event page).Bodle creates a new video and sound installation for CoCA based on two previous works, Sewing Sonification (2009) and Waveforms [...]

PLATFORM3: B∃SETZT– Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics :: International Video Call — Deadline: June 1, 2012.PLATFORM3 - Spaces for Contemporary Art is a unique, progressive art location in Munich. Since March 2009 it has been offering space for local as well as international exhibitions and discourse projects. It is a production location as well [...]

Radius Episode 24: Xprmtal Short Wave Radio B-Side (Radius Edit) by Desh (D3SH) & Ekis (X) :: May 10, 11, 15 2012; 12:00 pm CST.Xprmtal Short Wave Radio B-Side (Radius Edit) is a landscape of scrapheap hills, rusty heavy-duty machinery, abandoned building sites sheltering engine cults’ followers. A constant metallic buzzing interferes with encoded technical [...]

Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World :: May 15, 2012; 12:30 pm (ET) :: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA + webcast live :: RSVP Required.How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and [...]

ReLocate: Community Engagement and Solidarity :: Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska - Call For Civic Media Artist — Deadline: May 28, 2012.The Alaska Design Forum (ADF) is looking for an Civic Media Artist to join a group of social artists and scientists participating in our upcoming initiative ReLocate. ReLocate is a collaborative initiative that develops venues [...]

Deep Thought V.2 is an artificial intelligence machine, a futuristic fortune teller who uses Twitter as its memory center, from which extracted phrases to communicate in random and poetic way with its environment. Deep Thought analyzes brain signals with galvanic sensors, understanding moods from the variation of current in the skin. It then uses this [...]

Barbara Lattanzi’s Optical De-Dramatization Engine :: June 8-11, 2012 :: Opening Reception: June 8; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway, #602, NYC.In the algorithmic work, Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E.) applied in 40-hour cycles to Thomas Ince’s ‘The Invaders’, 1912, 20 frames were sampled from each minute of Thomas Ince’s [...]

dichtung-digital Nr. 41 (2012), Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek (Editorial):Simon Biggs and Penny Travlou: Distributed Authorship and Creative CommunitiesAn investigation into creativity as driving force for emergent communities marks the research theme of this article that discusses the use of various ethnographic methodologies to gather information on the interpretation and on the performativity of ‘creativity’ [...]

Agence TOPO and the Réseau Accès culture of the Ville de Montréal present: Detours - Poetics of the City … A mobile art and technology project that will tour 5 Montréal Maisons de la culture as part of the first International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) :: May 10 - June 13, 2012 :: Launch: May [...]

[Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG Reenactment of Valie Export and Peter Weibel's Tapp und Tastkino, (2007)] From Plaintext Players to Avatar Actors: A Short Survey of Online Gaming Performance by Mathias Jansson:Performance art emerged in the mid-1960s into the 1970s and was a way to push the boundaries between art and everyday life. Many [...]