networked performance

NEXUS/foundation for today’s art in Philadelphia, in conjunction with The Hacktory, presents uNintended Uses, an exhibition of hacked and repurposed video games, electronics, kinetics, musical instruments, motion sensors, painting, computers, circuitry and public spaces. The artists are utilizing technology as their palette to open up worlds of new possibilities. The exhibition includes Michiel van der [...]

Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) :: February 28 - April 18, 2009 :: Opening: February 28; 7-10 pm :: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY.Corpus Extremus (LIFE+), the second exhibition of Exit Art s Curatorial Incubator Program, will present work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life [...]

new media: why — the fifth in a series that explores aspects of technology-based art with Burak Arikan, Margot Lovejoy, Douglas Irving Repetto, and Paul Vanouse :: March 13-June 28, 2009 :: Opening: March 12; :: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY.The exhibition will [...]

Thursday Club: Manthos Santorineos: 21st Century: End of Illusion, Birth of the Fake Image, and the Replacement of Light with Memory :: February 23, 2009; 6 -8 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London.Digital representation (the encoding of any natural phenomenon in the form of numbers) [...]

Ergenekon.tc by Burak Arikan: “Every society has its diagram(s)” — “Foucault”, Gilles Deleuze, Sean Hand. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006.Ergenekon.tc shows the network diagram of the society depicted in the 2455 page Ergenekon bill of indictment. Ergenekon is an illegal covert network found in Turkey, the lawsuit is in progress. Connections between the actors of [...]

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group: Nick Montfort, Eden Medina, Gene Koo :: February 19, 2009; 5:30 - 8:00 pm :: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St 2nd Fl, Cambridge, MA.Platform Studies and the Atari VCS (Atari 2600) - Nick Montfort: Researchers have long studied specific cultural artifacts, such as particular books and paintings, [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Jeff Crouse and Mark Skwarek | Joseph Hocking :: February 24, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: North 181 - entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. [Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line "E"].Jeff Crouse creates [...]

Monday Nights @ VAP Lecture Series: Collision — Energy, Community, Communicationwith Jegan Vincent de Paul, Wendy Jacob, Jae Rhim Lee :: February 23, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Collision is a cross-disciplinary lecture series that examines the intersection of research in [...]

[Image: (sans femme et sans aviateur) by Jorn Ebner] Contemporary Flâneurie: Reconfiguring Cities :: March 7 - April 12, 2009 :: Opening Reception: March 7; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Curator’s Talk: March 8; 2:00 pm :: Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland University, 2200 N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, Michigan.In Modernity, the flâneur, while strolling [...]

Cultural Peacekeeping in the Theaters of Possessions Performance / Presentation by Konrad Becker :: February 20, 2009; 7:00 pm :: 16 Beaver Group, 16 Beaver Street, 4th / 5th fl., New York, NY :: Free and Open to all.Konrad Becker would like to speak /perform on the topic “Theatres of Possession”, which deals playfully with [...]

Third Woman/Vienna Underground presents Vienna is a dangerous place by The Institute of Unnecessary Research :: February 18, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kunsthalle Project Space, Treitlstrasse 2, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria.The project scripts an interactive Mobile Video Game related to U-Bahn spaces, using mobile phone sensing, that presents thematic content by progressively revealing the [...]

Socially Disorganized with Halil Altindere . Yu Cheng-ta . Jordi Colomer . Daniel Guzman . Minouk Lim . Ahmet Ogüt . Wael Shawky . Kuang-Yu Tsui . Nasan Tur . Matthias Wermke; Curator Vasif Kortun :: February 19 - March 21, 2009 :: Opening: February 18; 6:00 pm :: Curator’s Talk: February 20; 2:00 pm [...]

LIVE from the NYPL & WIRED present Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy — Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson :: February 26, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Celeste Bartos Forum, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, New York City.What is the future [...]

Mostly it Happens at Night :: February 19 - February 28, 2009 :: Flatstation, Florijn 42, 1102 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Flatstation presents the first in a series of yearly curatorial projects. The guest curator is invited to work at Flatstation and create a project in Amsterdam South-East, also known as the Bijlmer. Curators Maaike Gouwenberg [...]

Winter Camp 09 Introduction by Geert Lovink (and a response by Shannon Clark via nettime):“If we take network technologies seriously, we have to ask ourselves: What’s next after the initial excitement? What happens after we have linked up, found old classmates, become friends and even meet up? Will networking be seen as an additional loose [...]

TeDance - Perspectives on Technologically Expanded Dance; edited by Daniel Tércio. With Sarah Rubidge, Sophia Lycouris, Asa Unander-Scharin, Aylin Kalem, Kirk Woolford, Paula Varanda, Heather Rikes, Martin Époque/Denis Poulin, José Braz, Rudolfo Quintas, Stephan Jürgens and Daniel Tércio. Short video clips and respective synopsis of the installations and performance work presented at the TeDance conference [...]

Theater of Code — with Ursula Endlicher, Adrianne Wortzel, MTAA; Curated by Christiane Paul :: March 3, 2009; 7:30 pm :: Light Industry, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, New York.Theater of Code will present three performance / interventions that explore how computer code, scripting language, and software applications relate to the movement of bodies [...]

Thursday Club: Giorgos Artopoulos & Eduardo Condorcet: The House of Affects — Correlating Digitally Distributed Narrative to Adaptable Spaces :: February 19, 2009; 6 -8 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London.The House of Affects project is an interactive audiovisual environment aiming to use several video [...]

Fundamental Research Lab’s portal NEST has advanced tools that serve to search and visualize direct and latent relations between people, groups, events, projects, places, institutions and fields of art and culture. These relations are presented and visualized by labeled multi-graphs. Therefore we have different types of links, what permits to build hierarchies and semantics.Central to [...]

(The Iowa Review-Web) TIR-W Volume 9 no. 2: Instruments and Playable Text :: Stuart Moulthrop, Guest Editor “The genealogy of instruments and playable texts, considered as a literary (or essential fictional) micro-movement, is best understood in terms of transition, or a series of transits. Transit 1: De Paris à [...]