networked performance

The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive ‘value abundance’? by Michel Bauwens, Aljazeera: [...] Open-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it. Not only is the world faced with a global resource crisis, it is also facing a crisis of intensive development, because value creators are increasingly income-less. The knowledge [...]

Bitcoin – Finally, Fair Money? by The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London and Scott Len, Mute: Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency deploying peer-to-peer networking to enable secure and anonymous transactions without a central bank. Unlike many economic commentators, The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society and Scott Len take the currency seriously [...]

This Is Not A Protest Song! Art, Civic Engagement And Networking :: Lectures: March 21, 2012; 9:30 am - 2:30 pm (open to all) :: Workshops: March 21-22 :: Wissenschaft & Kunst, Bergstraße 12, Salzburg, Austria.This symposium covers questions of art, political engagement and activism by focusing on practical working methods.Throughout history, art has been [...]

The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (Micha Cárdenas, et al) explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art, including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality approaches. Building on the notion of “trans” from transgender, signifying the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transreal aesthetics cross the boundaries [...]

Espacio Enter Canarias, Art, Science, Innovation :: November 8-11, 2012 :: Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands :: Call for Projects — Deadline: May 30, 2012.Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Festival for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological [...]

Symposium: Rethinking Robert Smithson :: March 30, 2012; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Prinsessegracht 4, The Hague, Netherlands.On the occasion of the new publication Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement, Alauda Publications proudly presents the symposium Rethinking Robert Smithson about the legacy of the artist Robert Smithson (1938–1973) and [...]

Low Lives:Occupy :: March 3, 2012; 6:00-10:00 pm (EST) :: Online.Low Lives has partnered with Occupy with Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to present Low Lives: Occupy! a unique one-night-only program of live performance art, happenings, and public actions, simulcast to presenting host venues around the world. Low Lives: Occupy! partner [...]

Codings with Giselle Beiguelman, Commodore, Adam Parrish, Jörg Piringer, Casey Reas, Pall Thayer; curated by Nick Montfort :: until March 30, 2012 :: Pace Digital Gallery, 163 William Street, New York City.Codings shows the computer as an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters. The works in the show continue and divert the traditions of [...]

Flashfl00d is a semi-secretive mass public exhibition of rapidly-distributed hidden flash drives containing downloadable exhibitions. Curatorial members of Little Berlin along with other Philadelphia galleries, collectives, artists, hackers and members of the public have been invited to embed USB flash drives known as dead drops in public locations such as walls, phone booths and staircases.A [...]

America’s Got No Talent — by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki — is a web-based software project that synthesizes and processes the steady stream of Twitter feeds for several American reality television shows such as “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent,” “America’s Next Top Model,” and “X Factor US” among others in this genre. The project [...]

Digitize This: Exploring/ Exploiting The Rise Of Digital Arts & Digital Humanities :: November 2-3, 2012 :: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: April 1.Instances from and reflections on the dual rise of the digital humanities and the digital arts: to include panels, workshops, and roundtables [...]

Ismar 2012 - The 11th IEEE International Symposium On Mixed And Augmented Reality :: November 5-8, 2012 :: Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA :: Call for Participation — Deadline: May 18.The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek to interactively mix virtual media with a person’s perception of the physical world around them. [...]

Turbulence Commission: We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation In 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield:We Ping Good Things To Life is an ever evolving and expanding interactive networked installation that brings together elements of Toy Theater, Vaudeville performance, Surrealism, and consumer culture. Users can activate dozens of store-bought, found, and [...]

[Image: Les Belles Infidèles by Ethan Ham, et al] International Conference: Translating E-Literature :: June 12-14, 2012 :: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France :: Call for Papers - Deadline: March 15.Translating E-Literature is organized by OTNI: Objets textuels non identifiés (UTO: Unidentified Textual Objects), a research project into the evolution of textuality in the [...]

Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large :: February 18 – May 27, 2012 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco CA.Audience as Subject is a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. It includes artworks that illuminate audiences as [...]

Bring Your Own Beamer :: March 16, 2012; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: VIVID, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands B9 4AR :: Open Call — Deadline: February 24.Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is an international series of one-night exhibitions inviting artists, armed with films and projectors, to convene and explore the art of [...]

EXB: City as Studio II — An evening of art, thought, writing, media works, participatory performances, exploration, trespass and the sending and multiplication of different kinds of signals :: February 25, 2012; 7:00 pm :: Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054.Featuring: Agat Sharma, Anirban Gupta-Nigam, Asim Waqif, Bhagwati Prasad, Dyuti Mittal, Gitanjali Dang, Gowhar [...]

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Performance Series at Dia:Beacon — Yvonne Rainer :: February 25-26, 2012; 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm + May 13; 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm :: Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY.Dia Art Foundation is pleased to present dance works by renowned avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. This retrospective will celebrate the depth of [...]