networked performance

Walled Garden: The new [in]equalities endorsed by technology :: Amsterdam :: November 20 - 21, 2008 :: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION.Virtueel Platform organises Walled Garden, an international conference with a focus on the (in)accessibility of information and knowledge. Driven by the rise of online gated and closed communities, we will address issues of identity, communities and [...]

VISUALIZAR’08: Database City - International Project Development Workshop-Seminar :: November 3 - 18, 2008 :: Medialab-Prado, Madrid (Spain) :: Call for Projects and Papers: Deadline: October 5. Open and participatory workshop-seminar around the theory, tools and visualization strategies applied to the urban context. The selected projects must be open to the participation of other interested [...]

Experimental Geography - A traveling exhibition organized by iCI, New York :: Touring September 2008 through August 2010 :: Curated by Nato Thompson :: First stop: Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana :: September 19 - December 12, 2008.iCI announces the tour of Experimental Geography, an exhibition that explores the distinctions between [...]

Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea presents LX 2.0 Project’s new commission, Our Political Work by Brooklyn-based artists MTAA. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. — George OrwellContinuing a series of computer-driven [...]

The Purple Blurb series of readings of, talks on, and discussion about digital writing is continuing at MIT this Fall 2008. This semester is a gamey one, and features three speakers who bring a variety of perspectives to how writing and digital media intersect. Please note that the first of three is *not* in the [...]

Amplified Intimacies - an exhibition by Interstices :: until October 18, 2008 :: OBORO, 4001, rue Berri, local 301, Montréal (Quebec) Canada.The communication networks that have developed over the last decade or so introduce a particular type of public where social relations are amplified through the instant globalization of exchanges. Strangely, these exchanges are often [...]

At last the book VJam Theory: Collective Writings on Realtime Visual Performance is ready and available for purchase. For those of you who don’t know, the book is the outcome of our third experiment in collective theoretical writing, VJam Theory. You will find on the website the necessary information to buy the book online. The [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Savic Rašovic [a.k.a Pirun] :: September 23, 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"].Savic Rašovic was invited to represent Upgrade! [...]

Su`per`struct´ v. t. 1. To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation - Superstruct is the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019 — and imagine how we might solve the problems we’ll face. Because this is about more than [...]

AirXY: From Immaterial To Rematerial :: an installation by Erik Adigard, M-A-D + Chris Salter :: commissioned by The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale :: Out There: Architecture Beyond Building :: Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice Italy :: September 14, 2008 - November 23, 2008 :: 10-6 daily.AirXY is a multimedia installation that introduces new [...]

Marisa Olson Writes Her Dissertation - an endurance performance in 31 acts :: Directed by Michael Mandiberg :: Performed by Marisa Olson :: daily :: Click here Marissa will be writing “roughly during normal business hours, New York time.” Veterans of web-based autobiographical performance, Olson and “Coach Mandiberg” have teamed-up to get Marisa through her [...]

You will not see much action on the blog while I’m in Skopje for the 3rd meeting of Upgrade! International: Chain Reaction - a 4 day festival curated by the Upgrade! International community :: September 11 – 14, 2008. The event will be documented via Mobicases – Live Sampling of the City of Skopje.Chain Reaction [...]

Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2 — Call for Work :: Deadline: September 30, 2008 :: The Electronic Literature Organization invites the submission of literary works that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the computer. Works will be accepted from June 1 to September 30, 2008. Up to three works per author will [...]

Of everyday life practices in infoware: creative usage of Web services applications :: October 3, 2008; 9:30 am - 5:30 pm :: Universite Paris 8, Room B106, Vincennes Saint-Denis, 2 rue de la Liberte, 93526 Saint-Denis, France :: Open to the general public, please RSVP at camille dot pb at gmail dot com.It will feature [...]

New Blood - Nao Bustamante, Sasha Dela, Sergio De La Torre, Double Happiness, Sujin Lee, Jeanne Verdoux and Lance Wakeling :: September 13 - October 12, 2008 :: Opening Reception and Performance: September 13; 7 - 10:00 pm:: vertexList, 138 Bayard Street, Brooklyn, NY.New Blood marks a turning point at vertexList and the beginning of [...]

Turbulence Commission: Wikireuse by Julia Christensen - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - For six years, Julia Christensen has been creating a body of work about how communities are reusing abandoned “big box” buildings — the large, free-standing, warehouse-like buildings made prominent by one-stop-shopping corporations like Wal-Mart and Kmart. In 2004, she made a website about the [...]

Upgrade! Boston welcomes Upgrade! Zagreb to Upgrade! International!Join Upgrade! Zagreb for a presentation of Andreja Kuluncic’s newest net work Bad News and, afterwards, an informal discussion and refreshments :: October 2, 2008; 7:00 pm :: net club mama, Preradoviceva 18, Zagreb, Croatia.Andreja Kuluncic is an artist who lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Her artistic practice is [...]

A World Where Many Worlds Fit - A section on the counter-globalisation movement for the Taipei Biennial 2008 :: Curated by Oliver Ressler.The trope A World Where Many Worlds Fit goes back to the Subcomandante Marcos, when talking about the Zapatistas struggles in the Lacandonian Rainforest in Mexico. Since their uprising in 1994 the Zapatistas [...]

ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008: SPACE and PLACE - Design for the Urban Landscape :: September 18 - November 2, 2008 :: :: ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam, Staalstraat 7 A/B, 1011 JJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.For over a month and a half, ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008 promises to set the city’s pulse racing with a dynamic and multidisciplinary programme that combines [...]

AirXY: From Immaterial To Rematerial - an installation Erik Adigard, M-A-D + Chris Salter; commissioned by The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale: Out There: Architecture Beyond Building :: Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice Italy :: September 14 - November 23, 2008.AirXY is a multimedia installation that introduces new spaces of meaning and presence: an architecture of [...]