networked performance

Space: Atacama multi-media art… in the extreme — An International Travel Summer Course :: June 2009 :: Chile.Space: Atacama is a six credit, four week multimedia, adventure art course that will take students into the remote, northern desert region of Chile to investigate themes of perception, space, positioning, self-awareness, environmental appreciation, and other notions relating [...]

Surveillance with Yasmine Chatila, Tomory Dodge, Jeffrey Gibson, Charles Harlan, Shin il Kim, Caitlin Maloney and Angelo Plessas; curated by Rachel D. Vancelette :: April 9 - May 16, 2009 :: Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, New York, NY.“Surveillance” is defined as “close or vigilant watch over someone or something,” and derives, by way [...]

Geotagging + Mapping Workshop with Archimedia :: April 11, 2009; 1:00 - 5:00 pm :: Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA.All you need to know to understand locative media as an artform. Look at projects. Learn about geotagging. Make a mind map. Experiment and learn in this new and important medium. To [...]

Transmission Interrupted — Performances, Screenings and Talks with Adel Abdessemed, Pilar Albarracín, Yto Barrada, Mircea Cantor, Jem Cohen, Jimmie Durham, Simryn Gill, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, Lia Perjovschi, Michael Rakowitz, Ernesto Salmerón, Yara El-Sherbini, Sislej Xhafa :: April 18 - June 21, 2009 :: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, UK.Transmission Interrupted [...]

Turbulence Commission: School of Perpetual Training — by Stephanie Rothenberg — is an ironic edutainment website that exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. An animated personal trainer leads eager job seekers through a series of webcam game training exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and [...]

Turbulence Commission: Hard Data — by R. Luke DuBois — is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source “score” of events. Using Xenakis’ understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois [...]

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI by John Johnston, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008 — In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments — “machinic life” — in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life, [...]

MIT Visual Arts Program Lecture Series presents COLLISION: science, technology and contemporary art — Brain, Body, Network … Sebastian Seung and Amber Frid-Jimenez :: April 6, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Joan Jonas Performance Hall, N51-337, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.Brain, Body, Network: What is the connection between neural networks and networked culture? How does analyzing [...]

FLOSS Manuals is proud to announce a three day book sprint for the Pure Data FLOSS Manual. This sprint will take place simultaneously in New York City and Berlin from April 4 - 6, 2009.There are possibilities to participate in person by coming to one of the locations below, or remotely via the IRC interface [...]

Wi: The Journal of Mobile Media — Active Radio … Launch and Demo :: April 7, 2009; 11:00 am - 1:00 pm :: Simultaneous Broadcast**: MONTREAL: Department of Communication Studies C-Pod Space, Room CJ 2.192; and Concordia University–Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West; TORONTO: Mobile Media Lab at York University, 217 York Lanes; BOLOGNA: Marconi [...]

Biotech Art – Revisited :: Exhibition: April 9 - May 2, 2009 — Opening: April 8, 6:00 pm :: Symposium: Life, Death & Biotechnia — April 8; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Workshop: Vital Micro-Ecologies: Splice, Dice, Duplicate — April 14-17 :: Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End) Adelaide, South [...]

Tomorrow the web-based dance visualization project Synchronous Objects will launch. Synchronous Objects is a joint project of William Forsythe and Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) and the Department of Dance. Tomorrow, April 1st at 3 PM Eastern Time, there will be live streaming of the “Forsythe Symposium: Choreographic [...]

Cambridge Scholars Publishing Ltd. Call for Papers — Deadline for Abstracts: April 3, 2009.This is a call for papers to appear in an edited volume with the provisional title of Performing Technology: User Content and the New Digital Media to be published at the end of 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Ltd. The call was [...]

Over the course of several weeks, The Art Gallery’s website will reveal projects developed for the internet that employ a variety of forms: from digital narratives, online gaming, open source programming, and database art, to traditional methods of documentary filmmaking in virtual environments. This exhibition is not intended to survey Internet art in its entirety; [...]