networked performance

Networked Derive :: March 17, 2010; 12:30 - 1:30 pm :: University at Buffalo | Bauhaus–Universität, Weimar | Online.Networked Derive is a collaborative performance that takes place simultaneously between two geographically-separate locations. Using mobile phones, twitter feeds and a simple mapping system, performers in both locations engage in a series of geographical occupations that coincide [...]

Upgrade! Joburg has organized and will host a new art and technology group primarily based in Johannesburg but with members from across South Africa.The Hacksaws group had its first meeting today in the Seminar Room of the Digital Arts Division. The group has 16 members to date and anyone with an interest in art and [...]

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 6 — MicroPublicPlaces by Hans Frei and Marc Böhlen :: Available from lulu.com or as a free download.The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it are [...]

Posted by Corina MacDonald on Vague Terrain: The fifth and final DOCAM Summit took place two weeks ago in Montreal. Over five years the project, spearheaded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, brought together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to investigate the issues inherent to the documentation and conservation of media arts heritage. [...]

The School of Art at The Cooper Union and Danspace Project present Deborah Hay: A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty :: March 24, 2010; 7:00 pm :: The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC :: Free admission.A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty is a performative talk framed around the [...]

Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality, and Museum Quality :: March 13 -April 6, 2010 :: Opening: March 20; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Open Source Gallery, 255 17th Street, Brooklyn, NY.Ondrej Brody (CZ) & Kristofer Paetau’s (FIN) work, Painting China Now (2007), is the starting point for their new work on [...]

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Random Access: Six challenging takes on significant works by Paik and 2009 acquisitions in a new permanent exhibition :: March 13 - May 20, 2010 :: Nam June Paik Art Center, 85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-905 Korea.Random Access is a theme Paik addressed frequently throughout his practice. As early as 1963, when Paik presented [...]

Changing Room by Michael Takeo Magruder — A mixed-reality installation exploring the mutability and reusability of artefacts, concepts and situations in the Digital Age.Changing Room is an evolving artwork that considers the transitory nature of shared, virtual and mixed-reality environments and the creative potential of working within these liminal spaces. Blending the shared virtual environment [...]

In Lieu of Unity / En lugar de la unidad with Eduardo Abaroa, Margarita Cabrera; Livia Corona; Minerva Cuevas; Mario García Torres, Máximo González, Paulina Lasa, Teresa Margolles, Pedro Reyes and Tercerunquinto :: March 26 – August 15, 2010 :: Opening Reception: March 26; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Ballroom Marfa, 108 E. San Antonio
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ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of work for V16: Lo-tech, and V17: Hi-tech. Artists have historically co-opted emerging technology, adapting and expanding complex developments to suit their own goals. Conversely, there is nostalgia for obsolete technology. We seek work that exploits antiquated or sophisticated technology, [...]

Synthetic Aesthetics: Call for Residents — Deadline: March 31, 2010.We seek participants for a project on synthetic biology, design, and aesthetics. The project will provide funding to bring together scientists and engineers working in synthetic biology with artists, designers,and other creative practitioners.Resources will be made available for twelve funded ‘embedded residencies’, in which six artists [...]

Art and Technoscience: Practices in Transformation — Keynotes by Roy Ascott and Jill Scott :: March 24-25, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Kaikukatu 4.The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of environmental issues. Facing the threat of global warming, the findings of [...]

NOTE: DIFFERENT VENUE AND TIME Upgrade! Boston: Lily & Honglei (杨熙瑛, 李宏磊) :: March 22, 2010; 3:00-5:00 pm :: Auditorium Room 222, O’Leary Library, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 71 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA 01854 [map]Lily Xiying Yang and Honglei Li are new media artists from Beijing, currently based in New York City. Since 2005, they [...]

A Light Green Light: Toward Sustainability in Practice by Sabrina Raaf — Curated by Steve Dietz :: April 2 - June 4, 2010 :: Panel Discussion (Sabrina Raaf and Steve Dietz, moderated by Jordan Crandell): April 2; 6:00 - 7:00 pm and Opening Reception 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, First Floor, 9500 [...]

Radars & Fences III: Borders, Affect, Space — A symposium with Ricardo Dominguez & Amy Carroll, Teddy Cruz, Helga Tawil Souri, Laila el Haddad & Mushon Zer-Aviv :: March 12, 2010; 9:30 am - 5:00 pm :: Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square - 5th Floor, New York, NY :: Please RSVP.Radars and Fences 2010 will [...]

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance by Chris Salter (with a Foreword by Peter Sellars), MIT Press:This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational — from a “ballet of objects and [...]

I Spy: Surveillance and Security with Deborah Aschheim, Hasan Elahi, Trevor Paglen, Paul Shambroom :: until April 30, 2010 :: Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 5th Street East, Ketchum, Idaho.I Spy: Surveillance and Security examines the relationship between surveillance, security and privacy in the early 21st century.The attempted bombing on Christmas Day of [...]

Upgrade! Milwaukee: Zach Lieberman — Making the Invisible Visible :: March 10, 2010; 7:00 pm :: Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL 120), University of Milwaukee, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee WI.In this talk Lieberman will present his interactive works and collaborations, focusing on the artistic process as research. He will show works such as Manual [...]

Localitzats [Located] aims to show how the emergence of technology in each of the different aspects of our daily life leads to the irreversible loss of privacy, which affects us all; a fact that we often do not seem to be sufficiently aware of. In this case, the work focuses on the Priorat region, a [...]