networked performance

Infected Seminar - Creating Insecurity (pre-launch) with Heath Bunting, carlos katastrofsky, glorious ninth :: May 28, 2009; 4:30 - 6:30 pm :: Art & Social Technologies Research, RL206/207, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth.Artists Heath Bunting and carlos katastrofsky will discuss new projects they are developing as part of a short residency with Art & [...]

[Image: Superstruct video] Resetting Theory — Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, C-THEORY.NET:Our argument, need we say, is not that “games make you kill,” in the sense asserted in moral panics about the play of “Doom” or “Grand Theft Auto”. It is that digital games are systemically [...]

Wearable Technology — Fashion, Function, Raising Awareness :: May 13-17, 2009 :: Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany.In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Media Art (NIMk) in Amsterdam the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art presents the exhibition Wearable Technology - Fashion, Function, Raising Awareness NIMk aims to contribute to the [...]

Northern Lights - Experimenting with Art in Public Places: In September 2008, with support from the Jerome Foundation, Northern Lights commissioned 6 new projects as part of our Art(ists) On the Verge program. These projects will now be on display over the next several months:ART-A-WHIRL :: May 15, 5:00 - 10:00 pm; May 16, 12:00 [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFmet0pbvwJune 4 is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Be part of a memorial made of dancing bodies in cities around the world — use this video (also available in Cantonese, German, Mandarin, and soon Spanish) to learn a dance based on the steps of tank man, who faced off the tanks in [...]

Geert Lovink wrote: “On the event of the Montevideo/ Netherlands Media Art Institute 30th anniversary, departing curator Susanne Jaschko put together a one day symposium entitled Positions in Flux. Regine Debatty at We Make Money Not Art blogged about it. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend the morning session. The event on May 8 [...]

Upgrade! Johannesburg: Christaan Hattingh :: May 19, 2009; 1:15 - 2:00 pm :: Digital Arts Seminar Room – Digital Convent (opposite the WSOA, Map), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Award winning Digital Artists Christaan Hattingh will be speaking about his work. His focus will be on his artistic use of signal processing. He is qualified [...]

[Image: Luis Silva] Getting too close to art: An email conversation between Les Liens Invisibles and Luis SilvaLuis Silva: So, how close did you get to Duchamp’s bicycle?LLI: Too much I think. With the ambiguous title Too close to Duchamp’s bicycle — one of our last small pieces — we wanted to suggest our poetical [...]

Jodi (2009)

Will Henry Jenkins Hear About It? by Lanfranco Aceti — A socially networked artwork/game … don’t tell Henry :: May 11 - September 10, 2009 :: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION.We are throwing bottles in the sea with a message to Henry Jenkins as well as throwing a message in the sea of the information of [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7QThere’s been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram’s ambitious project to create a comprehensive “computational knowledge engine.” The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University hosted a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. Participants included Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain. [...]

Define Your Terms (or Kanye West Fucked Up My Show): Paul B. Davis (Beige) :: May 27 - July 4, 2009 :: Seventeen Gallery, 17 Kingsland Road, London.Paul B. Davis’ probing, contemplative second solo show at Seventeen represents a bold step forward for the artist… though not necessarily one he expected to take. It was [...]

amberFestival: (un)Cyborgable? :: November 6-15, 2009 :: Istanbul :: Call for Participation — Deadline: August 1, 2009.Living in a technologically-mediated environment causes changes and shifts in human habits, postures and behaviors. Technologies have an impact on our perceptions; each new technology demands new practices of body and speech as well as a new comprehension of [...]

Amirali Ghazemi — Parallel Paths of Contemporary Iranian Art :: May 13, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana.A multimedia lecture and an artistic intervention, performed by Amirali Ghazemi will present Ghazemi’s curatorial work, particularly his eleven years long collaboration with Teheran underground Parkingallery and his collaboration with International Roaming Biennial of [...]

Documentation of several pieces from Night Work, (Nathaniel Stern) with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, is now live (see below).Night Work, an exhibition featuring Milwaukee-based art professors and instructors at the artist-run Armoury Gallery, premiered my new body of collaborative works with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Playfully called “Distill Life,” this ongoing series of art objects combines hand-made [...]

Magic Acts — Angie Eng, Okkyung Lee and Satoshi Takeishi :: May 28, 2009; 8:00 - 9:00 pm :: Issue Project Room (Old American Can Factory), 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, South Brooklyn, NYLive video artist, Angie Eng, revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist [...]

A 10 minute video of the ITP Spring Show 2009 by ITP alum Matthew Belanger. The ITP show is “a festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP”. ITP is “a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the [...]