networked performance

DRHA 2010 Conference - Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity :: September 5-8, 2010 :: Brunel University, West London, UK :: Call for Papers and Performances — Deadline Extended: April 14, 2010.The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/ sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this [...]

ARE YOU CONNECTIVE or can happiness be synthesized? with Stefanie Wuschitz (artist) + Amir Hassan (coder) :: mzbaltazarslaboratory + metalab/Vienna :: April 20-24, 2010; 2:00 - 7:00 pm daily :: Open to the Public: April 24; 7:00 pm :: West Germany (WG), Skalitzer Street 133, 10999 Berlin :: Register: workshop∗aa-vv∗org until April 15.Transiting from the [...]

Book launch: Critical Strategies in Art and Media — with brief remarks by Marco Deseriis (NYU), Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Ken Wark (NSU), and Trebor Scholz (NSU) :: April 15, 2010; 6:30 - 8:15 pm :: Wollman Hall, New School University, 65 West 11th St, 5th Floor, New York, [...]

[Image: Ricardo Dominguez] “While we believe that poetry, walking art and queer technology cannot be “spread-sheet Excel-ed,” we, in b.a.n.g. lab, harbor our own concerns for the lack of accountability that enables the UC system to continue transforming a public university for the state of California into a private corporation, accessible to a select few. [...]

Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook; Roberto Simanowski, Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla (eds.), Reihe Medienumbrüche.Digital media is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. But while there is a number of grand theoretical texts about digital literature there as yet is little in the way of [...]

CTheory Interview — Archaeologies of Media Art: Jussi Parikka in conversation with Garnet Hertz:Introduction: Media archaeology is an approach to media studies that has emerged over the last two decades. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Kittler, but also diverges from all of these theorists to form a unique set of tools [...]

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage by Axel Bruns: We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME’s Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge’s advertising agency of the year. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the [...]

[Image: Sabrina Gschwandtner, Wartime Knitting Circle, 2007, Wool, cotton, wood, knitting supplies and paper, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist.] BUCHAREST BIENNALE 4 — Handlung: On Producing Possibilities :: May 21-July 25, 2010 :: Centre for Visual Introspection, The Geology Museum, LaBOMBA, PAVILION UNICREDIT - centre for contemporary art and culture, Political Science Institute, ParadisGaraj.BB4 [...]

ZER01: The Art and Technology Network presents 01SJ Biennial 2010: Build Your Own World :: September 16-19, 2010 :: San Jose, CA.Question: What do Rockwell Group, video memento mori, artist Rigo23, multimedia opera, collector Dennis Scholl, robotic sculpture, Adobe Systems Inc., inter-species food, the sound of climate change, DIY practice, cellist Zoë Keating, complex biological [...]

RADIATOR presents: GOING SOLO: Rural Adventures in an Urban Network — Artists’ Residency with Dan Belasco Rogers, Simon Faithfull and Esther Polak :: April 8-11 + May 14-15, 2010 :: Derbyshire and Nottingham.In our increasingly crowded lives, it can be difficult to find the time to think. To generate that new idea, sometimes all [...]

The Architecture of Virtual Space — by Or Ettlinger — is in fact two studies in one. On one hand, it is a methodical articulation of the elusive idea of virtual space. On the other, it is a historical overview of works of architecture that were made specifically as the content of pictorial works of [...]

TELE_TRUST by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat: How do we trust each other as networking bodies? Do we need to look each other in the eyes? Or do we need to touch each other?In TELE_TRUST Lancel and Maat explore how in our changing social eco-system we increasingly demand transparency; while at the same time we [...]

After Thought (2010) — Portable Testing Kit and Custom Video — by Scott Kildall — is a portable personality testing kit, which uses flashcards and brainwave analysis to test stress and relaxation levels. After the session, Kildall feeds the results into his custom software which generates a unique video edit to reflect the subject’s emotional [...]

Zach Lieberman: Interactive Art from PopTech on Vimeo.

The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mute:Tackling the conundrum of the future’s relationship to the present through the prism of digital culture, this year’s Transmediale festival strayed into some chaotic philosophical territory. In her review, M. Beatrice Fazi dismisses conceptions of the future as linear effect of the present, [...]

The Poetics of Code – HD Traffic by John F. Simon, Jr. and Lagoglyphs by Eduardo Kac. March 15 – May 15, 2010 :: Streaming Museum.Code lies at the core of both works as method and meaning. In HD Traffic, Simon built with software code an architectural Mondrian-inspired work designed to integrate real-time traffic data [...]

Augmented Systems: Explorations in Complex, Emergent, and Generative Systems Workshop with Alexander Jones Gross (University of Main) :: March 25-26, 2010; 6:30 - 9:30 pm + March 27; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm :: CIANT - Art laboratory, Kubelíkova 27, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic :: Zdarma / V angličtině / For free / [...]

Performing Public Space :: until March 21, 2010 :: Closing Party and Performances: March 20; 2:00 - 11:00 pm :: La Casa del Tunél, Calle Chapo Márquez 133, Colonia Federal, Tijuana BC, Mexico.As towns and cities are increasingly overwritten by the needs and desires of globalized capital, so public spaces and the behaviors they support [...]

The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.“Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others.” – Tony Quan, aka Tempt One