networked performance

Natural History of The Enigma — by Eduardo Kac — … is a plantimal, a new life form I created and that I call Edunia, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia …Developed between 2003 and 2008 … (t)he Edunia has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of [...]

Ashley Ferro-Murray wrote:“In “Some Thoughts on Obsolescence” William Kentridge makes a comment on contemporary technology. “There is a way in which working with contemporary technologies, either as a medium or as subject matter — cell phone rather than Bakelite phone — becomes very much about fashion, style, and temporality.” He explains, “A refusal to move [...]

V.O.S.T. OV/OT — exhibition, screenings and performances curated by Alexis Chazard & Marika Dermineur :: May 21 - 31, 2009 :: AV performances at Cinema Nova: May 23; 9:30 pm :: Screening sessions at iMAL every evening of the exhibition at 8:00 pm :: iMAL, Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels.V.O.S.T. OV/OT explores the connections between cinema, [...]

Eye of the Storm :: June 19-20, 2009 :: Tate Britain, Millbank, London.This two-day symposium brings together scientists, artists, social scientists and policy-makers to explore scientific controversy from an interdisciplinary perspective. From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells. Eye of the Storm [...]

2009 Visual Artist’s Residency at Sonic Arts Research Center :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: May 30, 2009.The Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) is offering a 6 Month residency in 2009 for a visual artist working with digital technologies. This residency is co-hosted by the European Culture 2007 project CO-ME-DI-A (Cooperation and Mediation in [...]

Upgrade! Zagreb: Sandro Đukić :: May 7, 2009; 7:00 pm :: net.club mama, Preradoviceva 18, Zagreb, Croatia.Sandro Đukić presents topic About problems of the reality of an image through his work. Discussion and refreshments follow after the presentation. Meet people interested in media art, exchange ideas about projects and get inspired. Sandro Ðukić is an [...]

Tactical Media (Electronic Mediations), by Rita Raley, University of Minnesota Press (May 15, 2009) — Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, [...]

I-Machine Festival — Robots - Performance - Fashion - Film :: May 9 -17, 2009 :: Opening: May 8; 8:00 pm with performance: Paul Granjon, „Low Tech Songs“ :: Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany.I-Machine will focus on robot research and portable electronics, known as wearable technology. This will be [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Lily & Honglei (杨熙瑛, 李宏磊) :: May 19, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: DIFFERENT VENUE: Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute for Technology N51-390, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA (map).Lily & Honglei, an artist team from Beijing, recently initiated the Cyber Museum of Contemporary Art in Second Life. Built [...]

Piksel09 :: November 19-22, 2009 :: Bergen, Norway :: Open CALL for PROJECTS — Deadline: July 15, 2009.Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free/ libre and open source technologies & art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries [...]

Engagement Party presents MOCA Grand Prix —Nathan Phillips (Game voice); Wendy Yao (DJ set); Guthrie Lonergan (Blogging) :: May 7, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA.For their final Engagement Party event, Knifeandfork invites participants to race remote-control cars through MOCA’s current exhibition, A Changing Ratio: [...]