networked performance

[Indeterminate Hikes + (2012) Android App & Performance. Whitney Museum of American Art ISP Exhibition, The Kitchen, NYC] Interview with Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint of Ecoarttech by Sophia Kosmaoglou, Furtherfield.org:Refusing to regard technology merely as a tool, Ecoarttech expand the uses of mobile technology and digital networks revealing them to be fundamental components [...]

Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer: Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy :: May 2, 2012; 6:00 pm :: EMPAC, corner 8th Street and College Avenue, Troy, NY.What do we sense during surgery? Touch, sounds, and smells in the surgical theater, as well as engagement with others and the intersubjective experience of the senses during medical [...]

Web Biennial 2012 (Wb12): OCCUPY CONTENT: Have we reached the end of the Internet as we knew it? :: Open Call — Deadline: June 15.The last few years threats over the openness and the democracy of the medium have significantly augmented. With the introduction of the new Internet censorship laws on the name of intellectual [...]

[Fig. 6. A single page of the Book of Stamps. It acts as a score that sends instruction to computer application that generates a soundscape based on the type and number of symbols that were stamped onto the page.] The Book of Stamps: Travel Guide for a Sonic Landscaping from Cities to Urban Cultures by [...]

Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction with João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Luis Dourado, Mark Aerial Waller, Neïl Beloufa, Neill Blomkamp, Omer Fast, Paweł Althamer, The ARPANET Dialogues, Wanuri Kahiu :: until July 1, 2012 :: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA, UK.Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency [...]

[A network of nodes (29)] Emergence in the Social Web by Liat Berdugo:Abstract: Complex systems sometimes exhibit what’s known as emergence — the phenomenon wherein the whole is more than the sum of its parts. For instance, ants acting individually are mindless, but collectively they self-organize to form intelligent colonies with intricate behavior patterns. I [...]

[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60's, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between [...]

Situated Technologies: Beneath and Beyond Big Data — A symposium with Philip Beesley, David Benjamin, Laura Forlano, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Omar Khan, Laura Kurgan, Helen Nissenbaum, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard, and Kazys Varnelis :: April 28, 2012; 2:00-5:00 pm :: Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, 3 AIA and New York State [...]

Digital Memory and the Archive by Wolfgang Ernst, Edited and with an Introduction by Jussi Parikka:In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, [...]

Low Lives 4: Networked Performance Festival — 60 live performance-based works over two days, each transmitted over the web and projected in real time at venues across the globe :: April 27, 2012; 8:30 - 11:30 pm (EST) and April 28; 3:00 - 6:00 pm (EST) :: Streamed at www.lowlives.net.The project celebrates the transmission of [...]

Tweets in Space by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern:We will beam Twitter discussions from participants worldwide towards GJ667Cc — an exoplanet 22 light years away that might support earth-like biological life. Anyone with an Internet connection can participate during two performance events, which will simultaneously take place online, at the International Symposium on Electronic Art [...]

Turbulence Commission: Space Video by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett, with sound by Thomas Aston [Needs Speakers/Headphones]:Space Video addresses ideas of exploration in relation to inner and outer space. Having noticed that there are shared aesthetic qualities of video imagery that accompany disparate cultural and scientific phenomena including guided meditation, hypnosis, undersea and space exploration [...]

Click on image to go to video. Transcription of talk here. Related: James Bridle’s The New Aesthetic and Bruce Sterling’s An Essay on the New Aesthetic.Bruce Sterling says: James Bridle is a Walter Benjamin critic in an “age of digital accumulation”. Bridle carries out a valiant cut-and-paste campaign that looks sorta like traditional criticism, but [...]

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works 1977 to Present :: until May 5, 2012 :: bitforms gallery nyc, 529 West 20th St., New York City.bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent [...]

Soup / No Soup, Rikrit Tiravanija :: April 7, 2012; noon-midnight :: Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris, Ile de France.As a prelude to the public opening of La Triennale 2012 at the Palais de Tokyo and associated institutions in and around Paris on April 20th, the renowned contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will [...]

Fonlad 2012 Call For Artists — Deadline: March 31.The Fonlad Festival, in its 8th edition aims to celebrate Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman, proposing as global theme “Performing Acts”. It seeks to present a body of work that has at its core the record of performances (artistic or not), the body in [...]

Visualizar el sonido [Visualizing sound]: Representations of Sound in Contemporary Creation :: until June 25, 2012 :: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Los Prados 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias), Spain.In 2007, LABoral held the first L.E.V. (Laboratory of Visual Electronics) Festival, whose initials pay tribute to Lev Thermen, the Russian scientist who was the [...]

Somatics & Technology Conference and Workshop :: June 22-23, 2012 :: University of Chichester, UK :: Call for Papers, Artworks, and Presentations — Deadline: April 28. The first conference of its kind in the UK to disseminate a spectrum of digital arts linked with the Somatic, this event will integrate advanced critical and theoretical [...]

Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language :: until July 28, 2012 :: EMPAC, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York.The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is pleased to announce A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language, an exhibition by New York City-based media artist Ben Rubin.As Rubin works [...]