networked performance

Among all countries that limit access to Internet content, China has the most extensive censorship. Thanks to the Golden Shield Project (aka Great Firewall of China), China has proved itself able to deny a vast majority of its Internet users access to information that it feels could weaken its authoritarian power. The system blocks content [...]

Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, MIT Press — In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote [...]

Urban Research 2009 :: February 5-15, 2009 :: Directors Lounge, Berlin :: Call for Artists Exploring Contemporary Urban Space — Deadline: January 5, 2009.The relations between the built environment and social communities — the interaction between electronic networks and public space in cities — the forced changes of a globalized market on urban communities and [...]

Turbulence Commission: Without A Trace by Jody Zellen — In July 2007, Jody Zellen began saving the daily online version of the comic strip Real Life Adventures, removing the text so that all that was left were the empty thought bubbles. She has also been tracing the print version of the New York Times every [...]

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 [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEDym1aOZs“Micha Cardenas is a 31-year-old man taking hormones to become a woman. So, it’s not surprising perhaps that Cardenas views the boundaries of gender as being somewhat fluid and has questions about what it means to be male and/or female. But what if the question isn’t merely gender identity, but an issue of species? What [...]

@ :: Call for Works — Deadline: January 26, 2009.Concurrent with the New Media Caucus panel Space: The New Frontier at the National CAA 2009, @ is an exhibition that examines space and site. With simultaneous locations in Los Angeles and Second Life (SL), @ challenges artists to consider place & placelessness from within the [...]

[Image: 29, the symphony, by Luca Bertini] Interviewing the crisis is a series of articles hosted on artsblog.it in which Salvatore Iaconesi and penelope.di.pixel analyze some of the issues of the rising financial crisis through a sequence of reports and interviews.The project starts out with an introduction. The first interview is with Helen Thorington and [...]

Upgrade! International has been invited to participate in Network Cultures Winter Camp, an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures that will take place from March 3-7, 2009 in Amsterdam. The other participants are Blender Foundation, Bricolabs, Dyne.org, Edufactory, Floss Manuals, freeDimensional network, Genderchangers, MyCreativity, and Planetart.When a network settles down, and is not [...]

9th Annual EFF-Austin SXSWi Party — Plutopia: Living Systems Theory :: March 16, 2009 :: Austin, Texas :: Call for Artists — Deadline for Intent to Submit: January 15, 2009.This year at SXSW Interactive the Plutopia Party will focus on Living Systems Theory. We are looking for art in all media that underscores the Integrated [...]

Hacking at Random (HAR2009) — International Technology & Security Conference :: August 13-16, 2009 :: near Vierhouten, The Netherlands :: Call for Papers - Deadline: May 1, 2009.From the ancient days long before the first wayback-machine snapshot, hackers have a track record for appropriating technology that was meant for something completely different and putting it [...]

Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer: This ground-breaking work of scholarship explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in dance, [...]

Dear Friends,Mark Amerika says: “Turbulence is a permanent part of the digital art and electronic literature curriculum I have developed at the University of Colorado and a major component of our special topics courses too. The students who pass through our media arts program are amazed at everything Turbulence has achieved over the years. A [...]

Wall & City by Lily & Honglei :: December 21 - March 21, 2009, :: Closing Reception/Artist Talk: March 21; 7:00 -8:00 pm (EST) (4:00 -5:00 pm STL) :: Exhibition Hall, Monash College, Melbourne, Australia and Second Life: Monash University [SLURL].Wall & City is a machinima of Second Life performance and installations. The film contains [...]

Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT :: until February 1, 2009 :: Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT unites political bravura with visual sensitivity and beauty, centering on Holzer’s work since the 1990s. The exhibition is not a conventional survey; it offers several distinct but related bodies of [...]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent — Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski :: January 16 - March 1, 2009 :: HTTP Gallery, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY (directions)Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without ever having met? Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates [...]

Daniel C. Howe & Bill Seaman exhibit the Architecture of Association, as part of Dans la Nuit, des Images at Grand Palais in Paris :: December 18, 2008 - January 1, 2009.A large-scale generative installation modelling human associative processes in diverse media, the Architecture of Association (AoA) algorithmically generates and combines fragments of video, text, [...]

(IN)VISIBLE: Learning to Act in the Metaverse by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, SpringerWienNewYork: Now that humans seem to have arrived at the end of their campaigns of discovery, conquest and exploitation, the virtual, infinite, digital spaces are being conquered. It was only a matter of time before the technical possibilities permitted people to construct parallel worlds in [...]

Stuttgarter Filmwinter :: January 22-25, 2009 :: Media-Space 09 - artist talk and discussion :: January 23; 2:00 pm :: Ex-Ikea, Kronenstra_e 36, 70174 Stuttgart.The current financial crisis certainly marks a rupture, if not an end to the most recent form of neo-liberalism. What are the effects? Can we find different ways to think and [...]

Error One: Into the Light :: late afternoons and nights from December 19, 2008 - January 4, 2009 :: Opening: December 18, 2008; 7:00 pm with a Performance by Caron Geary (UK) at 9:00 pm :: Leopold de Waelplaats, Antwerp.The eleventh edition of ERROR ONE brings together international artists who work with video, audio, photo [...]