networked performance

Urban Organics: Figuratively describing the country of Matrizenzubehoerleute… :: May 3, 2009; 12:00 - 4:30 pm :: DIY Art Centre, 114-116 Amersham Vale, New Cross :: Call for Participants: Places are limited, please wrote to events [at] cultura3.net with the heading “Urban Organics Workshop.”The city presents an unmapped, sparsely inhabited place, extravagantly rich in unexplored [...]

[Photo by mediaboytodd on Flickr] Co-Modify by @Platea — Online Public Art Collective to Enact Fictional Sponsorships on Social Media Networks :: May 3-9, 2009 :: Participate on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Instructions here.Online public art collective @Platea will be performing Co-Modify, a commentary on and exploration of the commodification of social media. From [...]

We begin 2009 with a special issue of Krisis on Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the arts, edited by Ruth Benschop. The relation between art and philosophy has always been special. Not least because both claim a special status, as a practice or idea that would express what is highest or most laudable. In [...]

“The site of curatorial production has been expanded to include the space of the Internet and the focus of curatorial attention has been extended from the object to processes to dynamic network systems. As a result, curatorial work has become more widely distributed between multiple agents including technological networks and software. This book reflects on [...]

Fluid Nexus — by Nick Knouf with Bruno Vianna, Luis Ayuso, and Mónica Sánchez — is an application for mobile phones that is primarily designed to enable activists to send messages and data amongst themselves independent of a centralized cellular network. The idea is to provide a means of communication between people when the centralized [...]

Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return :: until 10 May 2009 :: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London.Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages and mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995). Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images and his influence on twentieth-century art [...]

“ABSTRACT: Focusing on the mail art movement and its legacy for other forms of networked art, this article looks at how historically, culture has accompanied technological change.The mail art movement provided separate but fertile ground to explore themes of disembodiment in a networked society prior to spread of digital technology. Surfacing in the 1950s and [...]

“We are rapidly headed towards a new era of human interaction that is marked by perpetual conversations and perpetual info drip-feed, as enabled by the umbilical of the mobile. With its always-on and always-carried potential, the mobile allows our streams of consciousness and related intentions to be converted instantly into actions with both local and [...]

A New “Platform” for Games Research?: An Interview with Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort (Part One) by Henry Jenkins.Any time two of the leading video and computer game scholars — Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) and Nick Montfort (MIT) — join forces to write a book, that’s a significant event in my book. When the two [...]

Digital Remains — by Michele Gauler — is concerned with the role data plays when we remember deceased people. It assumes a world in which our data is stored on the network creating digital archives of generations of people.Personal access keys are used to remotely log on to the digital remains of a person and [...]

Part of KIOSK: Artifacts of a Post-Digital Age (curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta), Mark Napier’s Sacred Code, consists of algorithms that read the holy texts (The Old Testament, The New Testament and the Koran) bit by bit, literally reading the text as a stream of zeroes and ones. At this lowest level [...]