networked performance

We Did It Ourselves presented by Guthrie Lonergan :: April 6, 2009; 7:30 pm :: Light Industry, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, New York.“The success and failure (and illusion and depravity) of DIY in the era of Web 2.0 — Little entries in The Big Database — selections of new Internet art and Internet [...]

banquete_nodos y redes. Net Culture in Spain :: until June 28, 2009 :: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.The exhibition banquete_nodos y redes guides us from neural micro worlds to global dynamics of digital networking. Showing current positions in Spanish media art that deal with networked systems, it [...]

Tactical Nomadic Storytelling by Pattie Belle Hastings :: March 20, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Atelier Nord, Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, N-0167 Oslo, Norway.Tactical Nomadic Storytelling (TNS) is an art project that combines live storytelling and props with mobile digital media (visual and audio). Pattie Belle Hastings, currently in residence at Atelier Nord, is creating a [...]

Upgrade! Istanbul: Accessing Information - Mithat Bereket & Atilkunst :: March 19, 2009; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: Cibali Campus, Cinema Hall #2, Kadir Has University, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul.The meeting concentrates on mobile journalism, alternative information channels, activist criticism on media, censorship and auto-censorship in Turkish media.Mithat Bereket discusses mobile journalism by giving a [...]

The Art + Politics of P2P — Michel Bauwens, Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova :: March 24, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.The presentation introduces the work of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives - a clearing house for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives. The interest is in how P2P networks challenge hierarchical server-client relations [...]

From The Technological Herbarium (1) - Telegarden by Ken Goldberg by Gianna Maria Gatti (Note: Later in 2009, the AVINUS Verlag/Press of Berlin will publish Gianna Maria Gatti’s book The Technological Herbarium in both English and German editions (the original book is L’Erbario Tecnologico, Bologna, Clueb, 2005). The Italian-to-English translation is by Alan N. Shapiro, [...]

Territorial In/-/Formation — Workshops by Linda Hilfling :: March 21, 2009; 10:30 am - 5:00 pm :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam.This workshop examines the performative gaps in between laws and their structure of participation in offline as well as online territories. A number of casestudies and artistic projects will serve as the [...]

Adam Trowbridge: Dog Days :: March 18 - 19, 2009; 8:00 pm :: University of Illinois Chicago, Art and Architecture Building, 929 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL. Dog Days is an experimental theater performance incorporating live theater, iPod-shuffled dialogue and Ninetendo Wiimote-controled video projection. Located at the edges of human intersection — where communication breaks [...]

Netherlands Media Art Institute presents Positions in Flux: Artists and Institutions in the Networked Society :: May 8, 2009 :: Trouw Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 131, 1091 GL Amsterdam and Streamed Live.Positions in Flux will center on some of the major parameters for the current and future development of contemporary media art. In particular it will reflect [...]

Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games — A Film Screening, Symposium and Workshops with Asi Burak, Anita Fontaine, Jesper Juul, Friedrich Kirschner, Marcin Ramocki, Jason Rohrer, Adriana de Souza Silva, Mushon Zer-Aviv :: March 20-21, 2009 :: Emerson College, Boston + streamed live on the web and in Second Life.Video games [...]

Experimental Geography: An Aesthetic Investigation of Space :: March 21, 2009; 3:00 - 5:00 pm :: New Museum Theater, 235 Bowery, Nee York City.Creative Time curator Nato Thompson will lead a discussion of Experimental Geography with Lize Mogel and Damon Rich, two artists who participated in his exhibition (for Independent Curators International) and book (Melville [...]

V.01 β — With: Cory Arcangel, Damien Aspe, Claude Closky, Serge Comte, Daniel Firman, Valéry Grancher, Pierre Huyghe, Space Invader, Djamel Kokene, Miltos Manetas, M/M, Philippe Parreno, Bruno Peinado :: April 3 - 25, 2009 :: Opening: April 2; 8:00 pm :: Lieu Commun, 25, rue d’armagnac, Toulouse, France.During “Paradis artificiels”, Lieu Commun is positioning [...]

[Image: Kriegspiel by RSG; design by Mushon Zer-Aviv] IEEE Games Innovation Conference 2009 :: August 25-28, 2009 :: Imperial College, De Montfort University, South Kensington Campus Imperial College Exhibition Road, London, United Kingdom :: Call for submissions — Deadline: April 10, 2009.The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09) aims to [...]

COMMA 1: Miguel Palma :: until March 21, 2009 :: Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD (Nearest stations: Moorgate & Liverpool Street).This March, Bloomberg SPACE launches COMMA, a dynamic new programme of commissions enabling artists to experiment and expand their work. In the front gallery Miguel Palma presents a fragile equilibrium with two [...]

090909 UpStage Festival :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: May 31, 2009.The third UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 090909 (9 September 2009). The call is now open for performance proposals. The 090909 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current [...]

Metropolis M (Nl/En), No 1-2009, Shareware: Deimantas Narkevicius; Nicolas Bourriaud; Art From Palestine: In the framework of a major solo exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, we bring an interview with Deimantas Narkevicius. Christophe Gallois speaks with Nicolas Bourriaud and Nat Muller discusses young Palestinian art and its reflection on the role of Palestinians [...]

Constraint City at ARCO Madrid by Gordan Savicic:Oscar Abril Ascaso invited me to participate in his project Techformance which will take place around Murcia/ Cartagena and will eventually be shown at ARCO Madrid, one of the biggest art fairs in Europe. I’ve been invited to do a public performance with some citizens from Cartagena [...]

Microcodes are very small code-based artworks. Each one is a fully contained work of art. The conceptual meaning of each piece is revealed through a combination of the title, the code and the results of running them on a computer. As works of art these are the creative work of Pall Thayer. As programs they [...]

Liminal: A Question of Position :: March 11 – April 25, 2009 :: Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place London EC2A 3BA (Nearest tube: Old Street/ Liverpool Street).Rivington Place will be transformed into a contemporary urban playground inviting visitors to position themselves in relation to migration and dislocation, both physically and culturally. Over [...]

Mobiles in a Box: Tools and Tactics for Mobile Advocacy!: Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work.Mobiles in-a-box is designed to inspire you, to present possibilities for the use of mobile [...]