networked performance

“Contrary to early predictions that the internet will render geography obsolete, the discipline is increasingly gaining importance. In a 1998 speech at the California Science Center, former US Vice President Al Gore, called for replacing the prevalent desktop metaphor with a “multi-resolution, three-dimensional representation of the planet, into which we can embed vast quantities of [...]

Light InSight — alien productions / Joseph BEUYS / Evelina DOMNITCH & Dmitry GELFAND / Nina FISCHER & Maroan EL SANI / FUJIMOTO Yukio / Ingo GC NTHER/ Bengt SJC LCN & Adam SOMLAI-FISCHER with Usman HAQUE / Jochem HENDRICKS / Mischa KUBALL / Anthony McCALL / Nam June PAIK / TAKATANI Shiro; Curated by: [...]

MIT Visual Arts Program Fall Exhibition: X-topia and Y-topia - A collaborative exhibition project exploring the notions of urban utopia, dystopia and heterotopia :: December 9 - December 11, 2008 :: Opening: December 8; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: MIT Visual Arts Program, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Building N52, Third Floor, (adjacent to the MIT Museum) [...]

Turbulence Commission: Tumbarumba by Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum [Needs Firefox Browser and Tumbarumba extension]: Tumbarumba is a frolic of intrusions — a conceptual artwork in the form of a Firefox extension. Tumbarumba hides stories — twelve new stories by outstanding authors — where you least expect to find them, turning your everyday web browsing [...]

media-N spring edition, 2009: Foreignness and Translation in New Media :: Call for Papers — Deadline: February 14, 2009.This issue will deal with the relationship between foreignness and translation in new media. We look forward to a discussion on the idea of foreignness seen as an investigation surrounding notions of travel, displacement and migration beyond [...]

Dear Friends,Our annual Fundraising Campaign begins now. Once again, we need your support. Several artists have donated prints, posters, books, musical scores and DVDs.2008 was our most active year yet. We launched 30 COMMISSIONED WORKS on Turbulence.org and Networked_Music_Review; co-presented two exhibitions – MIXED REALITIES (with Ars Virtua and Huret & Spector Gallery) and LUMENS [...]

Liquidacion Total, in collaboration with Medialab-Prado, Madrid, presents In a short stretch of time — A project on narratives and micro-fictions.On the basis of the publication “Zonas de intensidades”, (Aconcagua Publishing, Madrid, 2008), Virginia Villaplana proposes a workshop on generative writing, creativity and collective production of knowledge. The lines of work to be developed [...]

Time Slip by Antoine Schmitt — On the screen or on a public display, a news ticker constantly displays scrolling textual news, but these news are conjugated at the future tense: “the NASDAQ will drop 4.3 points today”, “A plane crash in Madrid will kill 153 people”, “The Giants will crush the RedSocks 10 to [...]

Storytelling is fundamental to being human: itʼs how we share our experiences, learn from our past, and imagine our future.With the establishment of the Media Labʼs Center for Future Storytelling, the Media Lab, together with Plymouth Rock Studios, is rethinking what “storytelling” will be in the 21st century. The Center will take a dynamic new [...]

Curating Architecture with AMO/Rem Koolhaas & Reinier de Graaf; Ângela Ferreira; Nikolaus Hirsch & Philipp Misselwitz; Walid Raad, with response by Celine Condorelli :: November 20 – December 14, 2008 :: The Showroom, 44 Bonner Road, London.Bringing together artistic and architectural projects by distinguished international practitioners, Curating Architecture focuses on the relationship between [...]

Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich - Version: November 20, 2008.“[...] What is “software studies”? This book aims to contribute to the developing intellectual paradigm of “software studies.” What is software studies? Here are a few definitions. The first comes from my own book The Language of New Media (completed in 1999; published by MIT [...]

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2009 (ANZCA09): Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship :: July 8-10, 2009 :: QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia :: Call for Papers - Deadline: February 5, 2009.Communication exists as an everyday social practice, as a skill or art applied in a range of contexts (business, politics, [...]

Haikus by Kuang-Yu Tsui — Video art selection from 2002 to 2006 :: December 4-5, 2008 :: Le FRUC, 3biz rue Labbé, 34 000 Montpellier, France.The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Life (Single Channel Video, 09’ 00” loop, 2002): Extending from the series of Eighteen Copper Guardians in Shao-Lin Temple and Penetration, the artist [...]

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) presents: David Hammons: Six Sites in Alexandria — Interventions / Works in Public Space :: Opening November 26, 2008; 6:00 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt :: Curated By Salah M. Hassan.Six Sites in Alexandria is conceived as a citywide [...]

“We often think of mobile technologies simply in terms of their communication capabilities, but their increasing ability to trace our movements and collect information about the spaces through which we pass, can also make it easier for people to keep track of the places and things that matter most to them. From geo-visualisations and mapping [...]

TWO Thousand + NINE Symposium :: May 16, 2009 :: Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, Ireland :: Call for Papers/Presentations — Deadline: January 1, 2009.The theme for 2009 centers around the notion of content, in particular on user-generated content, interaction and design. Dissemination of “content” has dramatically been challenged by environments such as Facebook, Youtube [...]

Dear Friends,Our annual Fundraising Campaign begins now. Once again, we need your support. 2008 was our most active year yet. We launched 30 COMMISSIONED WORKS on Turbulence.org and Networked_Music_Review; co-presented two exhibitions – MIXED REALITIES (with Ars Virtua and Huret & Spector Gallery) and LUMENS (with Greylock Arts and MCLA Gallery 51); co-presented two symposia [...]

Copying-it-right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton - jonCates (2008) — In 2007 I initiated the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive in the Film, Video & New Media department @ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This Archive contains Phil Morton’s “personal video databank” which stretches across 30 years of Media Art [...]

Geoff Cox: Social Networking is Not Working (Txt: Clemente Pestelli / Eng: Chiara Resmini) — Geoff Cox is an artist, teacher and organiser of events connected with digital experimentation in the United Kingdom. Within his curatorial route for Arnolfini, an organisation dealing with contemporary art, he developed an interesting project whose topic is the [...]