networked performance

At the End of October 2008 the Media-Space which is part of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, an internationally renowned Film festival that features short film, experimental film and new media, is starting now an online curator discussion to establish a new experimental space and built up the program fort the show in January. To start the [...]

WORLD OF ART, School of Contemporary Arts presents: Laboratorium of Curatorial Practices 2008/2009 :: Angela Harutyunyan - Interstices of History: Collective Writing and / as Curating (Lecture) :: November 10, 2008; 8:00 pm — AND — Angela Harutyunyan - Techniques of Viewing: Representation and Interpretation of Video Art (Workshop) :: November 14-16, 2008 :: [...]

Hz is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery. Please send your submissions or URLS to hz-journal [at] telia.com. Deadline: November 25, 2008Hz is published [...]

Tactical Media Files, a “living archive” for Tactical Media’s present, past and future.Tactical Media: Tactical Media emerged when the modest goals of media artists and media activists were transformed into a movement that challenged everyone to produce their own media in support of their own political struggles. This “new media” activism was based on the [...]

Hi friends,I’m a long-time lurker and finally find occasion to use the “Trebor told me to post” preamble. For context, I’ll disclose that my day job involves managing Greenpeace’s Online Organizing program, with a focus on online / offline integration, distributed labor, and social networking strategy. In my other life, I’m a founding member of [...]

Visual Foreign Correspondents presents Experience ‘World Justified (left, centre, right)’ by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (2004-2008) :: Live online now and launching November 5, 2008: 8:00 pm :: De Balie, Klein Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam.World Justified (left, centre, right) takes the logic of word processing and dislocates simple diagrams of word alignments into a world [...]

The Dream Director: Luke Jerram :: On Tour 2008 / 2009 :: ICA (London), FACT (Liverpool) and De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea), UK.Luke Jerram’s The Dream Director is a unique art event, installation and exploration investigating the hidden realm of dreaming. Where do people go when they dream? What do they see? What do they [...]

“[...] To consider the function of art in virtual worlds, one has to look at the history of art that involves the creation of social situations. Emblematic of these are the Dadas and Futurists, whose soirees and evenings of syntesi broke the boundaries between art and theatre. Excommunicated Surrealist Antonin Artaud wrote of the “Theatre [...]

“No landscape, vernacular or otherwise, can be comprehended unless we perceive it as an organization of space; unless we ask ourselves who owns or uses those spaces, how they were created and how they change. — John Brinkerhoff Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984)I worried a bit about whether the social processes that are transforming [...]

DIYcity is a site dedicated to finding ways people can make their cities work better with the use of emerging web technologies.What do I mean ‘making cities work better’? I mean making them more efficient, more effective, more sustainable, better able to respond to problems, friendlier and generally more accessible to the individual user. DIYcity [...]

I’ve been playing around with various twitter mashups, tools and toys lately, and I just had to give this one a quick mention. Unusually for me, I am about to talk about some art…Gregory Chatonsky’s work L’attente/The Waiting (warning, Flash-heavy), part of a series called “Flußgeist”, the “spirit of the flow”, mashes up twitter posts [...]

Double-Taker (Snout) — by Golan Levin, with Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders and Fannie White — deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant’s trunk, which responds [...]

Seeming somewhat gimmicky at first, “Taiwa Hensokuki,” a 2006 work by Mohri Yuko, is comprised of two IBM laptop computers that have speech synthesis software installed - one set to move from text to speech; the other set to speech recognition. Mohri’s work, included in the Extended Senses exhibition, provides a new setting [...]

Olafur Eliasson - Yellow Fog … a permanent intervention in public space, daily at dusk :: Verbund, Am Hof 6a, 1010 Vienna, Austria.32 fluorescent tubes are embedded in the pavement along the 48 meter façade of the Verbund headquarters, emitting a specific yellow light, attuned by the artist himself. Daily at dusk fog rises up [...]

“In 1996 Virilio may have originally predicted a “global accident” that would occur simultaneously to the world as a whole. Only twelve years later in the last autumn days of 2008 — exactly 40 years after the tumultuous political events of 1968 — is it possible that Virilio’s “global accident” has itself been accidented? Slowly, [...]

Dorkbot Canberra (CBR) - ACT Dorks show their stuff! :: November 6, 2008, 6:00 pm :: Canberra Contemporary Artspace Manuka, 19 Forneaux St. Forrest, Canberra, Australia.Prepare to be astonished by ’speaking’ collars, artworks that produce and destroy themselves, recycled organisms, teenage memories ignited by science, interactive deception, drawing without beginning or end and The Bible [...]

Playground - Live Art Festival :: October 31 - November 7, 2008 :: STUK Artscentre, Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.For the second edition of Playground STUK once again focuses on artists exploring the boundaries between various art disciplines. This international live art festival presents performances, installations and live actions. Many of these performances are new [...]

Opening Performance Lecture & Museum Hall Meeting launching Automatic for the People: ( ) - a new project by MTAA (part of The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now curated by Rudolf Frieling) :: November 8, 2008; 3:00 - 5:00 :: SFMOMA, D-Space, Koret Visitor Education Center, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA.Dictate the details [...]

Liminal Zones - The Nicosia Seminar with Aristide Antonas, Haim Bresheeth, Celine Condorelli, Armin Linke, Maria Loizidou, Angela Melitopoulos, John Nassari, John Palmesino, Yiannis Papadakis, Ines Schaber, Florian Schneider, Eyal Sivan, Pelin Tan, Eyal Weizman and Phillipe Zourgane :: November 5-7, 2008 :: Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, 68 Ledras Street + Goethe-Zentrum Nicosia, [...]

Translucent Futures with Angelo Vermeulen, Michaël Samyn & Auriea Harvey, Lowdjo and Guild for Reality Integrators and Generators :: October 31, 2008; 6:00 pm - 1:00 am :: FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels, Belgium.During FoAM’s October Research Gathering, Angelo Vermeulen will present a round-up of Translucent Futures. Two specific topics are explored in [...]