networked performance

Wasteland Twinning Network Forum — An exploration of urban wastelands and networked transdisciplinary practice :: September 21-23, 2012 :: Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin.The Wasteland Twinning Network hijacks the concept of ‘City Twinning’ and applies it to urban wastelands in order to generate a network for parallel research and action.The Forum will bring [...]

Daniel Temkin - 98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall :: October 5-28, 2012 :: Opening: October 5; 7:00 - 11:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Majuer Street, Brooklyn, NY (L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitian).98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall provides drunken encounters with compulsive systems. A program continually preens itself, inserting lines [...]

Remediating the Social :: Conference: November 1-3, 2012 :: Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF :: Exhibition: November 1-25, 2012 :: Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.The Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) research project invites scholars, artists, researchers and performers to the conference, Remediating [...]

xCoAx 2013: 1st International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X :: June 27-28, 2013 :: University of Bergamo, Bergamo Città Alta, Italy :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: December 31, 2012.The development of computational tools and media has been radically transforming the landscape for the practice of design, the arts and numerous cultural manifestations. [...]

[Internet Cache Self Portrait: July 17, 2012, Evan Roth, 2012] Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age — Curated by Domenico Quaranta :: October 18 – November 4, 2012 :: Opening: October 18; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY. Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as [...]

Right or Risk? The 1st Public BioBrick: Exploring Public Access to the Tools of Synthetic Biology :: September 24, 2012; 7:00 - 9:00 PM (BST) :: Grant Museum of Zoology, London, United Kingdom.Synthetic Biology is turning genetic engineering into a simple exercise, with thousands of DNA components - BioBricks - available to program bacteria. What [...]

Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts, Hannah B Higgins (Editor), Douglas Kahn (Editor), University of California Press:Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and [...]

Community without Community in Digital Culture by Charlie Gere, Palgrave Macmillan: The word ‘digital’ refers to both digital data, as used in computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity, community, and participation. Thus, in its drive towards greater connectivity, our [...]

Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska, MIT Press:In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects — computers, smart phones, iPods, [...]

Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship — A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian, Claire Bishop, Verso Books:Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new [...]

DEADLINE EXTENDED for Remote Encounters: Connecting Bodies, Collapsing Spaces And Temporal Ubiquity In Networked Performance :: April 11-12, 2013 :: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN :: Call for Papers and Performances - Deadline: September 30, 2012; 4:00 pm.The keynotes / lead performer lineup [...]

Turbulence Commission: Crow Sourcing by Andy Deck:How does the crow fly? Eager beaver, take the bull by the horns. Talk turkey and get on your high horse. Clear up the hogwash contributed by the birdbrains. Monkey around and make them eat crow. If you know a hawk from a handsaw, or have the memory of [...]

Turbulence Commission: Word Market by Belen Gache [Sign up for a free account]:Word Market (WM) is an Internet portal dedicated to buying and selling words, using a unique currency, the ‘Wollar’. In times of increasing privatization of public spaces and the profusion of copyright laws, WM allows you to own, trade and profit from words [...]

The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen — an ultra-archival disc of images capable of lasting in space for billions of years:In 1963 NASA launched the first communications satellite “Syncom 2″ into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, humans have slowly and methodically added to this space-based communications infrastructure. Currently, more than 800 [...]

We Won’t Fly For Art: Media Art Ecologies by Ruth Catlow, Culture Machine Vol 13: Paying Attention (2012):“The insights of American anarchist ecologist Murray Bookchin into environmental crisis hinge on a social conception of ecology that problematises the role of domination in culture. His ideas are becoming increasingly relevant to those working with digital technologies [...]

Expanded Life Definition: Michał Brzeziński :: October 5 - November 5, 2012 :: Czytelnia Sztuki, Willa Caro, ul. Dolnych Wałów 8a, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.The exhibition touches the problem of transspecies communication and the changing definition of life in the context of information systems, and the changing definition of a human kind transformed by the recent [...]

INTERFUN - Tel Aviv Speed Show with Ran Slavin, Ben Hagari, Talia Link, Dana Darvish, Vanilla Royal, Ilan Yona, Tzion Abraham Hazan, David Oppenheim, Yael Kanarek; Curator: Doron Golan :: September 6, 2012; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: 20 Allenby Street (near Herbert Samuel Boardwalk), Tel Aviv, Israel.

Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University:This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its [...]

The Unconscious Performance of Identity: A Review of Johannes P. Osterhoff’s “Google” by Owen Mundy, Rhizome.org:As part of this year’s Transmediale festival in Berlin, media artist Johannes P. Osterhoff organized an online collaborative performance of search engine queries, simply titled, “Google.” For one week, Osterhof convinced myself and 36 other participants to add a unique [...]

Via Inception helmet creates alternative reality by Mo Costandi, guardian.co.uk.