networked performance

Liberating Voices - A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution by Douglas Schuler: In recent decades we have witnessed the creation of a communication system that promises unparalleled connectedness. And yet the optimistic dreams of Internet-enabled engagement and empowerment have faded in the face of widespread Internet commercialization. In Liberating Voices, Douglas Schuler urges us to [...]

The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce the last talk of our 40th anniversary year: Ranulph Glanville - No Longer a Shrinking Violet? :: December 2, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Institute of Archeology - Room 410, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London [Map].The significance of cybernetics in the development of computer arts is [...]

Season 6: 404 Festival 2009 :: Santa Fe, Argentina :: Call for Participation - Deadline: February 10, 2009.This call is free and open for authors of any age and nationality. In order to participate of the 404 Festival you must: a) Read and accept the General Terms and Conditions; b) Complete every field in the [...]

PureData + Antidatamining (Flux Aesthetics) Workshop :: December 15-18, 2008 :: iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, Brussels :: Registration is Open!The RYbN collective proposes an initiation to PureData for approaching flux aesthetics. How to recover data on the web in order to feed an installation? [...]

Liquid Artifacts: Architecture in Virtual Worlds by Jon Brouchoud :: November 17, 2008; 12:00 - 1:00 pm :: Metanomics Island and partner locations, San Francisco, CA.Host Robert Bloomfield welcomes Jon Brouchoud of Crescendo Design and Studio Wikitecture. The October 2008 issue of Architectural Record — one of the world’s foremost publications on architecture — featured [...]

An ocean of writing, artwork, and graphics is being created and stored on “web 2.0″ sites. Much of it exists to realize our desire to define ourselves. We self-identify (and self-promote) not only through the “bios” and “abouts,” but also the various bits of media and social connections we collect.Self-Portrait makes literal the social networking [...]

Electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s presented the world premiere of his ground-breaking marvel Pulse Front, a spectacle of lights controlled entirely by the heart rate of passers-by. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Electronic artist, develops large-scale interactive [...]

Experimenta Playground - Perth :: November 15, 2008 - January 27, 2009 :: Opening: November 15, 2008 :: Western Australian Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Perth.The exhibition is a digital media playground of interactive artworks, video installations and short films by over 30 Australian and international artists and filmmakers. In enjoyable and sometimes surprising [...]

LX 2.0 Project’s new commission, the piece Google Is not The Map by Les Liens Invisibles launches tomorrow.“The world is my idea”: this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer from “The World as Will and [...]

Digital Cities: London’s Future :: November 20, 2008 - January 24, 2009 :: Opening: November 20, 2008; 6:30 - 9:00 pm :: The Building Centre, Store Street, WC1E 7BT, London, United Kingdom.Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city. It will look at the [...]

IDENSITAT#5 :: 2008 - 2010 :: Open Call for Projects - Deadline: January 9, 2009.ID #5: While in former editions a specific theme was proposed, the methodology that IDENSITAT has been rehearsing along its 10 years of life is now synthesized in the initials ID. The project, pioneered in Calaf in the year 1999, has [...]

(2005)James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 Tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news — and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.James Surowiecki argues that people, when we act en masse, are smarter than we think. He’s the [...]

Aleksandar Janicijevic has been developing Urban Squares since July 2001. It consists of an intensive collection of urban square images. The photos have been taken in more than 15 countries, stitched together as 360˚ panoramas and prepared in two formats, a Quicktime VR that can be viewed as an interactive movie, and some of them [...]

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Upgrade! Boston: Jody Zellen :: November 18, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: North 181 - entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. [Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line "E"].Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles based artist who [...]

MIT Visual Arts Program Lecture Series THIS IS TOMORROW? Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia: Remote Habitats WITH Lucy Orta, Nicholas Makris, Armin Linke :: November 17, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Joan Jonas Preformance Hall (Bldg N51, Rm 337), 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.Lucy Orta, trained as a fashion designer but working as an artist [...]

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy - A special double issue featuring the essays: Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey and Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko.Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea or person, and addresses issues including [...]

Disobedience - An ongoing video archive :: November 14 - December 18, 2008 :: Riga Art Space, Kungu street 3, Riga, LV – 1050, Latvia :: Curated by: Marco Scotini; Assistant curator: Andris Brinkmanis.Disobedience is an archive and a video station about the relationship between artistic practice and civil and social disobedience. Founded in 2005, [...]

2009 Subtle Technologies Festival - Networks :: June 11-14, 2009 :: Toronto :: Call for Submissions - Deadline: January 5, 2009.The 2009 Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto is currently seeking submissions for its festival under the theme of networks. As in previous years, the 2009 festival will explore its theme from a broad cultural and [...]

Competing Ideas - The upcoming Forum of Essays on Art will host — following a proposition from Jacques Serrano who conceived the event — a first “competition of ideas” on the theme of Rethinking the Social and Economic Conditions of Art (visual arts). Texts may be submitted in French, English or Dutch :: Deadline: November [...]