networked performance

“Over the coming years, Robots are destined to play a significant part in our daily existence. The idea of sharing our lives with these artificial entities in their various guises has captured the public imagination for decades.Robots have represented both our hopes and fears for what the technological future may hold, yet at this time [...]

Agence TOPO, in partnership with the spoken word Festival Voix d’Amériques, presents Sortir de l’écran / Spoken Screen :: February 5, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Canada.Sortir de l’écran / Spoken Screen is an evening of stage and audiovisual performances by four eclectic collectives from Montréal and Toronto:Mantra-Tratratra-Boom!Boom!Boom! by Istvan [...]

Ik R.I.P. … on death, the internet and self representation :: until March 29, 2009 :: Mediamatic BANK, Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.What happens to your online presence when you die? Will you rest in peace or would it be better to arrange in advance how you would like to be portrayed? With the exhibition [...]

CuteXdoom II :: Opening Party: February 13, 2009; 6:00 - 10:00 pm :: Maxalot Gallery, Haringpakkerssteeg 10-18, Amsterdam, Netherlands.A bedazzling shindig to celebrate CuteXdoom II, the latest installment in digital diva Anita Fontaine and her collaborator Mike Pelletier’s ongoing body of work that transmorphs commercial technologies to surprising new ends.The CuteXdoom II exhibition is based [...]

We are pleased to announce the winners of our international juried competition, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). They are, ANNE HELMOND, PATRICK LICHTY, ANNA MUNSTER, MARISA OLSON, and KAZYS VARNELIS.Each will receive a commission of $3,000 to develop a chapter that will be open for revision, commentary, and translation. Networked will launch on July 1, [...]

Turbulence Commission: ABSML by Jeff Crouse, Andrew Mahon, and Steve Lambert: ABSML is a new markup language that enables the creation of complex sentence formulas for 21st century automatic writing. ABSML tags replace parts of speech and sentence components using sophisticated semantic analysis, regular expressions, and web-based resources. In the right combination, the tags create [...]

Tivon Rice: Between Here and a Kind of Fleshlessness :: February 6 - March 14, 2009 :: Opening and Artist Talk (7:30): February 6; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: 911 Seattle Media Arts Center, 402 Ninth Avenue North, Seattle, WA.In this installation of new works, Rice invites the viewer to explore presence, distance, and the [...]

Abstract: This observational text posits the conundrum of experiencing locative media projects first-hand, which are intrinsically nomadic and ephemeral, whereby their traces or archival afterlives are left behind as data, tags, and other textual, aural and image renderings. Likewise many locative media projects are increasingly repositioning these iterative aspects contextually, spatially, or through diverse viewing [...]

Abstract: Locative media remain a useful frame for understanding how collaborative sensing will broadly empower groups to author alternative narratives of urban public space. The case of Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls is used to describe this process in the context of a recent large public art work.[...] Public art provides an interesting case [...]

Abstract: Locative media is an emerging field of creative practice and a platform for experimenting with new experiences in the urban environment that has become increasingly interesting to artists. The use of locative media for artistic purposes has linked geography and maps to urban life and experience in new and sometimes unusual ways. This connection [...]

Media Arts in the World Mapping is launched. View with Google Earth / Google Maps. This is a art project made for the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival, and this is a visualization of information of a media art festival all over the world that used Google Earth and Maps.Detailed place information, logomark of festival, [...]

ShiftSpace Workshop / ARTEFACT Festival :: February 12, 2009; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm :: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Bruxelles/Brussel 1080.ShiftSpace is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web. While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how [...]

GeoTales with Esther Polak (NL) :: February 23-27, 2009 :: iMAL, Brussels :: Maximum Participants: 15GeoTales proposes a 5 days unique and creative experimentation workshop with mobile and location based technologies (GPS: Global Positioning System, Mobile networks and smart phones) under the direction of Esther Polak (NL) and her assistant Tijmen Schep (NL). While reflecting [...]

First Screening - Computer Poems by bpNichol (2007) — Jim Andrews, Geof Huth, Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, Dan Waber.From -empyre-: “In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. He distributed First Screening through Underwhich, an [...]

Tantalum Memorial by Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, Matsuko Yokokoji at Transmediale: The telephone-installation is a memorial to the more than 3 million people who have perished in the complex wars that have gone on in the Congo since 1998, often referred to as the ‘Coltan Wars’. The ore coltan is used as the raw material [...]

Corpora in Si(gh)te by doubleNegative Architecture :: January 27 - March 8, 2009 :: .CHB - Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin :: part of Transmediale.Architecture as an environmental, spatial measuring machine Architecture is an intelligent corpus, a reflection of the environment surrounding itself. The information technology of Corpora in Si(gh)te by doubleNegative Architecture has maintained the mutality [...]

During 2004 a number of international events will be looking at the emerging field of locative media, commencing with MobiloTopia at Transmediale.(1) One issue to be explored is the relationship between the interventions of geo hackers or artists and mechanisms of surveillance and control. 2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline [...]

Gender and Performativity — A Curated Film Program by Lasse Lau :: January 3, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Egypt.Gender in this film series curated by Lasse Lau is about the notion of the stylized and performed. What Jacques Lacan described as [...]

Artist Talk by Lasse Lau :: January 31, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Egypt.Lasse Lau (born 1974 Denmark) is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. Agency of Public Resources (APR) is the imaginary common subject matter [...]

Upgrade! Istanbul: on Social Networks — İsmail Hakki Polat and Burak Arikan :: January 28, 2009; 6:30 pm :: Cibali Campus, Cinema Hall #2, Kadir Has University, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul.Ismail Hakki Polat focuses on social networks and sharing through Web. 2.0 and also discusses the Web 3.0 as the intersection point of the physical [...]