networked performance

This assortment of new works offers a characteristic sampling of the kinds of work that I have been making over the past decade. It includes computer-refined drawings in the form of a calendar, media-critical and political works, and aesthetic experiments with network-based public participation. Once again, issues relating to extinction and the troubled environment [...]

Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons by Matteo Pasquinelli, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam — After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet activism and the art world [...]

Lebensraum / Living Space — a public performance :: January 18, 2009; 2:00 - 4:00 pm :: Starting from and returning to Project Space 176, 176 Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, London, we will be walking along Prince of Wales Road.Lebensraum is a series of movies dealing with ‘living space’. Through case studies of [...]

Double Bind presents Removal by Robin Nicolas :: January 12, 2009; 8:30 pm GMT+1 (Paris time) in the virtual salon of panoplie.org. Open to all. (You must obtain a password to participate in the chat.) Removal, deletion, suppression, cleaning, disappearance, withdrawal, ablation, expulsion, transfer, liquidation, remotion, clearance, elimination, eradication, purge, riddance, dismissal - The deconstruction [...]

Digital Beacons 32Ko — A project by Catherine Rannou (in collaboration with the Festival @rt Outsiders, European House of Photography, Paris, and the Contemporary Art Center La Passerelle, Brest).Digital Beacons 32Ko consists of exchanges of “digital beacons” between Catherine Rannou and five addresses in France during her stay in Antarctica (October 2008 - March 2009). [...]

Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990; Edited by Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel; MIT Press.Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with this through their support of artistic communities and creative interactions. In the 1920s and 1930s, [...]

The NomadicMILK project by GPS artist Esther Polak is in Nigeria until January 22. There, Polak is using satellite technology to track both the distribution of “Peak” brand milk from harbor city Lagos to the capital of Abuja as well as a nomadic Fulani family of cow herders in Abuja’s vicinity. By showing the people [...]

To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising campaign, thank you. We are deeply grateful.As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them [...]

Toni Dove’s Lucid Possession:: January 15, 2009 @ 8:30 p.m. and January 16, 2009 @ 10:00 p.m. :: HERE Arts Center 145 6th Ave., New York City ::Lucid Possession, the uncanny manifestation of a virtual multiple personality, combines music, text, dimensional robotic screens and projections to create a character, like an instrument, that speaks, [...]

Dorkbot SoCal 33 — Deborah Aschheim, Brian Evans, David Guttman :: January 10, 2009; 1:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado, Los Angeles, CA.Deborah Aschheim creates works that blur biology and technology, exploring concepts of memory, architecture, and neural networks through drawings, sculpture, writing, installation and sounds.Brian Evans explores the intersection between reductivist [...]

For hundreds of years, artists and craftspeople have been creating machines as artworks. The history of automata includes such traditions as European clockwork constructions, and Japanese karakuri ningyo. More recently, artists have begun working with robotics and embedded electronics to create self-contained mechanical and electronic devices. Initially, this sort of work often meant collaborating with [...]

Upgrade Vancouver: The Memelab - Inaugural Performance of the Creative City Collective :: January 14, 2009; 6:00 - 11:00 pm :: ( ) space (attached to Emily Carr Masters Studios), 1612 West 3rd ave at Fir St., Vancouver, BC.The Creative City Conversation is a collaboratively constructed, improvised performance that will bring together sound, media and [...]

Scalable Relations — a series of networked exhibitions of media artworks by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet) :: January 9 - March 14, 2009 :: BEALL Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine + other venues at UCDARnet institutions. Scalable Relations brings together works that explore digital media’s capability of [...]

Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm: PERFORMANCE & GAME ART - Rasmus Albertsen [SE], Nathalie Fougeras [FR], Bendix Freutel [CH] :: January 10, 2009; Exhibition: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm; presentation about machinima and performance in virtual worlds by Rasmus Albertsen: 3:00 pm :: Ahlbergshallen i Östersund, Rådhusgatan 42.Rasmus Albertsen: “There are three keywords which have fitted my artwork [...]

Asian Hot Shots Berlin 2009 – Festival for Film and Video Art by Saki Satom, Sookoon Ang, Sung Hwan Kim, Chan Sook Choi, Jeuno JE Kim, Masakazu Saito, Shahram Entekhabi :: January 10 - 18, 2009 :: Opening: January 9, 2009; 6:00 pm :: Velvet Projects Berlin, Brunnenstr. 3, 10119 + Jet, Memhardstr. 1, 10178, [...]

Audience — by Chris O’Shea (conceived by rAndom International) — is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention.When members of the [...]

Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments by Troika: Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded by Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel and Eva Rucki. In Digital by Design, Troika presents the most exciting smart objects and their designers who push the boundaries of interactive technology and intelligent design, creating new realms [...]

Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) launches a website accompanying the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City.On view until April 19, 2009, Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening [...]

Twitter is the web service that perfectly epitomizes the information sharing addiction of our age. The micro-blogging platform allows users to create a constant flow of short text-based messages (tweets) that can be spread with different systems, such as SMS, RSS or Instant Messaging. Updates usually concern everyday activities and trivial thoughts, and are shared [...]