networked performance

ilinx. Berliner Beitrage zur Kulturwissenschaft: Mimesen :: Call for Artists — Deadline: March 1, 2010.ilinx. Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft tests the potential and limits of cultural science. Its title (ilinx, gr. = vortex) is programmatic, since vortices emerge where different approaches, theories, and data collide, where calm continuous flow is disturbed and turbulently transformed by [...]

Cinema is dead; long live cinema (Peter Greenaway). How has the explosion of new media changed the ways we think about cinema, about questions of film aesthetics and film history? How can cinema studies contribute to the theory, analysis, and creative practice of new media? This two-day symposium seeks to stimulate a crossdisciplinary conversation on [...]

[Image: Usman Haque's Natural Fuse] ZER01, xClinic and Pachube.com call for Out of the Garage, Into the World :: September 4 - 20, 2010 :: South Hall, San Jose, California :: Open Call for Projects — Deadline: March 29, 2010 (application).ZER01: the Art and Technology Network, in collaboration with xClinic and Pachube.com is soliciting proposals [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYwPQxbYtc0The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus — by the German artists Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus — is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. It was the winning entry for the Arco BEEP Award 2010.The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked [...]

Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms :: February 27 - March 19, 2010 :: Machina Speculatrix (A Machine that Watches) performance with Mira Calix, February 26, 7:30 :: Architectural Association, London.The forthcoming exhibition Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms puts forward a series of questions: Can architecture facilitate new forms of communication? Can design enable? Can we [...]

Dada South? Exploring Dada legacies in South African art 1960 – the present :: until February 28, 2010 :: Symposium: February 18-19 :: Iziko South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Company’s Garden, Cape Town, South Africa.The critically acclaimed exhibition Dada South? is one of the first locally-produced, independently curated museum exhibitions in South Africa that [...]

Vague Terrain 16: Architecture/Action :: The latest of edition of Vague Terrain presents a timely and nuanced consideration of ubiquitous computing. Guest curated by the American artist/programmer Joshua Noble, the issue provides a window into the practices of several leading researchers. Given the arrival of gestural interfaces and preliminary deployments of augmented reality technology and [...]

Spring 2010 Lecture Series: The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. :: Mondays at 7:00 pm :: MIT’s Bartos Theater (Wiesner Bldg, E15), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA.The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative. is a lecture series introducing key figures whose artistic practice is situated at the intersection of performance art, avant garde dance, and activist [...]

Art in Translation: International Conference on Language and the Arts :: May 27-29, 2010 :: University of Iceland and the Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland :: Call for Papers — Deadline: February 22, 2010Like so many nations historically on the cultural and geographical fringes of globalized society, Iceland has seen tremendous growth in its presence on [...]

RHA Presents Critique of Archival Reason featuring Herman Asselberghs, Jeremiah Day, Cecilia Gronberg (in collaboration with Jonas (J) Magnusson), Shoji Kato, Irene Kopelman, and Sean Snyder :: Curated by Henk Slager :: February 19 - March 13, 2010 :: Opening: February 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: GradCAM, Royal HIbernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin [...]

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance presents the 2010 DOCAM Summit (March 3-5), which will mark the end of five years of research. DOCAM is an international research alliance initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and [...]

rAndom International, Wayne McGregor, et al @ EMPAC: Dr. Philip Barnard: Cognition, Emotion and Action (TALK) :: February 17; 7:00 pm :: Dr. Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, Wayne McGregor on R-Research (panel discussion) :: February 23; 6:00 pm :: rAndom International: Real-Time Reactive Systems in Art and Design (TALK) :: February 24; 7:00 pm :: [...]

The 2010 Comparative Literature Symposium: Longing in the Age of New Media :: February 19, 2010; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm :: University of Southern California, Social Sciences Building, B40, Los Angeles, CA.In the current age of new media, various fields of study are experiencing a literal vanishing of the very materials that have traditionally [...]

d-CLIC Danse + Danse numérique + Performance audiovisuelle :: Vendredi 19 février 2010 à 21h :: Théâtre de Verdure & Salle de cinéma, Institut français Léopold Sédar Senghor, 89 rue Joseph T. Gomis, Dakar, Sénégal.Danse numérique: Une pièce chorégraphique dirigée par Andréya Ouamba, avec 15 danseurs africains et 3 artistes du collectif RYBN (Paris), issue [...]

Special Issue of Participations – Screen Dance Audiences :: Call for Papers — Deadline: May 1, 2010.Screen dance is a dynamic and hybrid practice that is rapidly increasing in prominence and profile. Its presence morphs between hugely popular forms (Strictly Come Dancing; the Hollywood ‘dancical’); avant-garde practice (presented at dedicated screen dance festivals); the extremely [...]

Center for Contemporary & Digital Performance Research Seminar Series: The Rise of the Bio-Virtual: Non-place, Disappearance, Indistinction (Life in the Digital Kamp) by Matthew Causey :: February 17, 2010; 2:00 pm (GMT) :: Drama Studio Gaskell Bld. 048, School of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge/West London, Cleveland Road + The one hour talks and 30-minute discussions [...]

Office for the Arts at Harvard presents The Art-Science Nexus: Two Talks: February 23, 2010; 4:00 pm: Meaning, Matter, and Measurement: A Choreography of Science and Art by Liz Lerman ::February 24, 2010; 4:00 pm: Hypermusic Prolouge: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes by Hèctor Parra and Lisa Randall :: New College Theatre, 10-12 Holyoke [...]

IMAGINE: Towards an Eco-Aesthetic, 2011 :: The Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark :: Open Call to Artists and Curators for Proposals — Deadline: March 15, 2010.Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] Art [...]

Bruce Sterling, KeynoteHenry DeTamble has a genetic disorder known as “chrono-impairment” that causes him to time travel unpredictably. The different dimensions of past, present and future flow into each other, creating a state of atemporality.The speed of our society is constantly increasing in terms of processes, logistics and media, causing the present to “shrink”. We [...]

Thursday Club: Igor Štromajer & Ballettikka Internettikka [Internet Ballet] :: February 18, 2010; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London.Ballettikka Internettikka (Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman) is the umbrella name for a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the [...]