networked performance

FreeJ documentation from network cultures on Vimeo.“… In the final plenary session the network showed a visualization (made by Crash) from the edits of FreeJ software files from the starting point of the project (November 2001) until now. This video was very interesting because it very clearly shows the workflow on a central project and [...]

dorkbot BUFFALO :: March Edition :: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 :: 7:30pm - 9:30pm :: Sugar City,19 Wadsworth St., Buffalo, NY :: Featuring presentations by: Marc Böhlen, Bill Sack, and Nick Stedman.Marc Böhlen is an artist-engineer. His practice, /realtechsupport/, offers technology support, the kind of support technology really needs today. Marc is currently Associate [...]

paraflows 09 - festival for digital arts and cultures :: The topic of the fourth festival for digital arts and cultures in the city of Vienna is URBAN HACKING.The city of Vienna has a long tradition of art performances and interventions in public spaces. This year’s festival paraflows09 would like to connect these approaches to [...]

Dear Readers,I’m participating in Network Cultures Winter Camp, Amsterdam, March 3-7, 2009, so don’t expect any new content until March 9.The Institute of Network Cultures invited Upgrade! International to participate in Winter Camp, along with Blender Foundation, Bricolabs, Dyne.org, Edufactory, Floss Manuals, freeDimensional network, Genderchangers, MyCreativity, and Planetart.I will represent Upgrade! Boston (BTW, check out [...]

NanoArt 2008 INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EXHIBITION - 3rd Edition is open for public viewing on www.nanoart21.org NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanosculptures (structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at [...]

paraflows 09 - festival for digital arts and cultures :: The topic of the fourth festival for digital arts and cultures in the city of Vienna is URBAN HACKING.The city of Vienna has a long tradition of art performances and interventions in public spaces. This year’s festival paraflows09 would like to connect these approaches to [...]

CollaborationTransmission — Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006, Paris, France with with Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter, Calverley St, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK :: Call for Student Group Collaborations.We announce the online project, entitled CollaborationTransmission. CT aims to link students of art academies, university cultural departments, or independent organisations, to [...]

dorkbot BUFFALO :: March Edition :: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 :: 7:30pm - 9:30pm :: Sugar City,19 Wadsworth St., Buffalo, NY :: Featuring presentations by: Marc Böhlen, Bill Sack, and Nick Stedman.Marc Böhlen is an artist-engineer. His practice, /realtechsupport/, offers technology support, the kind of support technology really needs today. Marc is currently Associate [...]

Public Avatar — Interactive public experiment :: March 6, 2009; 2:00 - 6:00 pm :: Gallery Simulaker, streets of Novo Mesto, SloveniaPublic Avatar , an extraordinary new art project by media artist Martin Bricelj will bring to the streets a real avatar! You will be able to control Public Avatar - a human agent in [...]

Generative Nature: Aesthetics, Repetitiveness, Selection and Adaptation by Marco Mancuso, critic, curator and Digicult director (for Mr. Bruce Sterling’s workshop “Designing Processes Rather Than Art” November 25-28 2008, Fabrica)In his De Rerum Natura, Lucretius denies any kind of creation, providence and original bliss and maintains that people freed themselves from their condition of need thanks [...]

Upgrade! São Paulo: Coletivo OlhoCaligari :: March 7, 2008, 10:00 am (9:30 for coffee) @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.Creating sound images from the group OlhoCalegari integrates poetical and visual artworks, based on the interactive possibilities, the unpredictability and the spontaneity of the musical improvisations is the challenge for the [...]

4th Annual ATA [Artists' Television Access] Film & Video Festival :: October 2009 :: Call for Entries: Deadline (postmark) — May 29, 2009.Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work (20 minutes or less) to its 4th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Video, Super 8 and 16 mm animation, [...]

Intelligent Environments 09 Conference :: July 20-21, 2009 :: Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona :: Call for Papers — Deadline: March 13, 2009.I would like to invite those of you who are active in the field of Intelligent Environments and particularly on the design of intelligent spaces for supporting human everyday activities or mediated communication [...]

Ceci n’est pas une CAA :: February 27-28, 2009 :: TELIC Arts Exchange, 972B Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA. The Public School is hosting its own conference with many of the same amazing people who are visiting Los Angeles for CAA (College Arts Association). Ours will be free; it will be modeled as a [...]

Flußgeist by Gregory Chatonsky :: until March 21, 2009 :: Artist Talk: February 28; 2:00 pm :: OBORO, 4001, rue Berri, local 301, Montreal, Canada.Flußgeist is a series of works inspired by the concept of Zeitgeist. Strangely, industries have quite intuitively appropriated this notion to refer to pages giving access to flux suspension, i.e., for [...]

Mission Eternity lecture by Etoy :: March 12, 2009 8:00 pm :: Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68 1017 HL Amsterdam. Also see Etoy Digital Stowaway Workshop.The lecture is part of the Ik R.I.P. exhibition evening programme. With their long term project MISSION ETERNITY, Etoy explores life after death. We all know that we leave behind mortal [...]

Cambridge MGFest : March 5-8, 2009 — Featuring Shepard Fairey’s Money, Addictive TV’s Slumdog Millionaire, Remix, Trollback+Co and more :: $7 for entry to all art events. Plus a Silent Auction for over $18,000 in software & DVDs, no minimum bid.Online Artist Feature: Turbulence.org: Five net.art works including: live action comic strip built from daily [...]

State of the Union Website Explores the Decline of Political Language 1790-2009: A Software Art Project by Brad Borevitz — The update of Brad Borevitz’s State of the Union website includes Barack Obama’s first major address of his tenure, the 2009 address to the joint session of Congress and the American people on February 24th. [...]

Garrett Lynch’s Between Saying and Doing is part of @, an exhibition by Ars Virtua being held at locations in real life (Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA*) and Seventh Eye (Second Life) from February 26 - 28, 2009. The opening is on February 26 at 9:30 pm (PST).@ is an exhibition that [...]

Radars & Fences II: Tactical Bioart in the Age of Biotechnology :: March 5, 2009; 4:30 - 8:30 pm :: Information Law Institute, Room VH218, 40, Washington Square South, New York University, New York :: The conference is free but seating is limited. RSVP.Radars & Fences II features five researchers and artists who have been [...]