networked performance

It’s all in the game… Exhibition: October 3 - 26, 2008 :: Festival: October 3-5, 2008.’Interactivity’ is a word that seems to gain more importance and magic everyday. In 2008 AveCom focusses on an audiovisual phenomenon that is indisputable connected to interactivity; AveCom and Square Eyes Festival are organizing an event based on the interactivity [...]

Titled Fade: A Light Installation by Erwin Redl :: September 26 - November 30, 2008 :: Opening Reception: September 26; 6:00 pm :: Huret & Spector Gallery, 6th floor, Emerson College, Tufte Building, 10 Boylston Place, Boston.“My work reflects upon the condition of art making after the “digital experience.” The formal and structural approach to [...]

While the term “crowd sourcing” generally refers to a large group of people (i.e. internet users) contributing to the realization of a project, it might also apply in interesting ways to the newest installation by Jody Zellen. In “The Blackest Spot,” at LA’s Fringe gallery, she culls footage of crowds and corrals them into content [...]

“There is a strain of net art referred to among its practitioners and those who follow it as “pro surfer” work. Characterized by a copy-and-paste aesthetic that revolves around the appropriation of web-based content in simultaneous celebration and critique of the internet and contemporary digital visual culture, this work — heavy on animated gifs, YouTube [...]

Night School Public Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija
 :: September 25 - 27, 2008 :: New Museum, 235 Bowery, 

New York, NY.September 25; 7:30 pm - Rirkrit Tiravanija introduces the land with a screening of Phillippe Parreno’s Boy from Mars. Initiated in 1998, the land is the merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a [...]

MEditerranean RIm WIkiart Project [MERIWIP] invites people living in the countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea to be wikiartists by collaborating in creating a web-enabled peer-produced artwork.Anyone from the 21 Mediterranean Rim countries (Spain, France, Monaco, Malta, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) [...]

Berlin’s Media Facade Festival :: EXHIBITION: October 16 - December 12, 2008 :: CONFERENCE :: URBAN SCREENINGS.The interface between virtual and real urban space: Deutsches Architektur Zentrum [DAZ] are proud to present a number of media facade projects as part of Berlin’s Media Facade Festival. The presentation will provide technical background information on how these [...]

Trade&Row presents Exchange Rate: 2008, an international performance exchange organized by artist Elana Mann in response to the 2008 US presidential elections. Audiences everywhere can experience the project around the world via the website. The artists of Exchange Rate: 2008 will be presenting their election themed performances in Los Angeles and many cities around the [...]

100 Second Film Festival – 2008 Call for Entries :: DEADLINE: November 15, 2008 :: CONTACT: Jason Daniels - 978-866-6952 or 100seconds [at] gmail.com.The 100 Second Film Festival is a short format, non commercial moving image festival open to all. An all new installment of festival will premiere on the big screen this winter and [...]

‘ON’ REMOTEWORDS – an interdisciplinary communication project – has marked its third location :: Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 5, 50937 Cologne, Germany.For any Internet user programs like Google Earth / Virtual Earth costs nothing and reproduces the whole surface of the earth in impressive detail. The detailed resolution of the raster data [...]

Festival Emergences 6 - Conference| Artistic Workshops | Wanderings … Smartcity | New Urban Challenges, New Art Forms :: until September 30, 2008 :: Cite Internationale Universitaire | Paris 14 | Gentilly.Like last year, Emergences’ artistic programmation evolves around SmartCity.SmartCity is a European project with a focus on production and artistic distribution. At the forefront [...]

CUREDITING is a curatorial/editorial project which starts from Walter Benjamin’s point of view of translation formulated in the essay “The Task of the Translator” in the early 1920ies. Relating the so-called original and its translation by using the metaphor of a tangent which touches the circle in one single point only to follow thereafter its [...]

Sara Kraft - HyperREAL 1.1 :: October 10-12, 2008; 8:00 pm :: CounterPULSE, 1210 Mission, San Francisco, CA :: Tickets.CounterPULSE presents the first chapters of groundbreaking Bay Area artist Sara Kraft’s newest work, HyperREAL, as part of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now 5 Festival. HyperREAL is a postmodern mashup meditation [...]

A History of the Future of Narrative: Robert Coover from Scott Rettberg on Vimeo.

Building Lumens - Or how to network 160 lamps over the internet:“What impresses me about the project is the combination of ambition, community spirit, and humor that went into it. The website makes it look all so simple and elegant, but it’s easy to overlook how much work went into it. Fortunately, Matt’s documented that, [...]

Since we last spoke about monuments :: September 14 - November 9, 2008 :: The Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague.They are revered and vandalized, communitarian emblems or collective Freudian slips, instruments for populism or weapons for political protest, deliberate distortions of history or elaborate demonstrations of our forgetfulness. The exhibition ‘Since we last spoke about [...]

I’m happy to release Cutups, a new Space for the ShiftSpace web application. With Cutups users can select and “cutup” text on any webpage.I developed Cutups to give writers, poets, artists, and everyone else the ability to realize new possibilities inherent within the material of a given text. While the number of texts available for [...]

Untethered: A sculpture garden of readymades - Featuring: Jessica Banks, Ayah Bdeir, Michel de Broin, Max Dean, Paul DeMarinis, Kelly Dobson, Germaine Koh, JooYoun Paek, Sascha Pohflepp, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Thomson & Craighead, Nor_/d (Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger) and Joe Winter, curated by Eyebeam curatorial fellow Sarah Cook :: September 25 - October 25, 2008 [...]

Conversations At The Edge: GLITCH: Creative Problem Creating curated by Jon Satrom :: September 18, 2008; 6:00 pm :: The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, IL.What happens when the creative roadblocks — errors, glitches, accidents — become the building blocks in the art-making process? This program highlights artists who intentionally create problems [...]

3rd ATA Film and Video Festival :: October 2-4, 2008; 8:00 pm :: 992 Valencia at 21st Street. Artists’ Television Access (ATA) celebrates independent and underground film with 3 nights of freak out subversive beauty, spotlighting the work of many local, national and international underground film and video makers.On Thursday, October 2, the festival opens [...]