networked performance

“…(R)ecent confrontations within the field of contemporary art have precipitated an awareness that there have emerged in increasing numbers, within the last decade, new critical, artistic formations that foreground and privilege the mode of collective and collaborative production. Is this return an acknowledgment of the repressed memory of a social unconscious? Is the collectivization of [...]

[Image: Steve Powers, The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, 2008; installation view; photo by David B. Smith; courtesy Creative Time] “In 1934, during Hitler’s ascendance to power, Walter Benjamin gave a lecture called The Author as Producer, at the Institute for the Study of Fascism in Paris. With urgency, Benjamin questioned the role of the author and [...]

[Image: Saul Alverez, Primary ventures in house-breaking or Pissing my pants while wearing a coyote pelt, 2005] “[...] Joao Ribas: There are two things you mention that bare developing. One is a change in the models of production, which in an odd way have partly veered off into a blurred territory on both sides in [...]

Virta-Flaneurazine by Will Pappenheimer and John (Craig) Freeman :: September 6 - October 4, 2008 :: Opening Reception: September 6, 6-9:00 pm :: Fringe Exhibitions, 504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA :: Call for Participants.Virta-Flaneurazine (VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment [...]

RESET/PLAY - Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi :: September 6 - November 2, 2008 :: September 6, 3:00 pm - Talking Art with guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum :: Arthouse, 700 Congress Avenue, [...]

Platform2 presents Parade for the Future :: September 13, 2008; 4:00 - 5:30 pm :: Meet outside Park Street Station, Boston, under the giant blue wave.Come one, come all to a Parade for the Future! Let’s celebrate what hasn’t happened yet, notably the impending submergence of our city under water due to climate change.Platform2 will [...]

Buckminster Fuller Symposium :: September 12 - 13, 2008 :: The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Astor Place, New York, NY.Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to [...]

[Image: Joachim Schoenfeldt - Four Musicians (moo, roar, chee-ow, yeeeoh), 2008 (detail of installation view, Gwangju Biennale Hall)] The 7th Gwangju Biennale - Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions :: September 5 - November 9, 2008 :: Opening Ceremonies & Exhibition Tour: September 5, 2008 :: Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, Uijae Museum of [...]

[...] The topic for this month is Pictures of the brain: a look at the relationship between brains, imaging technologies and the field of neuroaesthetics.The focus for this discussion is going to be on the relationship between the arts and the neurosciences. Given the scope of both fields, a did few initial parameters were necessary. [...]

Here are 2 concept movie of ObaMcCain (Obama * McCain) and OBAMApPING (Obama mapping) and MccAinPPING (McCain mapping). They will be exhibited in Virtual Residency Project Exhibition @ Location One Gallery from September 10 to November 4.ObaMcCain (Obama * McCain) by Hidenori Watanave and Koichiro Hajiri, Ph.D: These chatterbots automatically generates the conversation from “Phrase [...]

(IN)visible networks - Basekamp, Furtherfield.org, glorious ninth (Kate Southworth & Patrick Simons), Sönke Hallman and Dominic Thomas :: September 1-6, 2008 :: Opening: September 3, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: The Poly, Main Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.(IN)visible networks draws attention to different political, ethical and aesthetic strategies used by artists to expose the conditions and [...]

Upgrade! São Paulo: Digital Affections: Communicational Processes Between Biological and Technological Systems - Rachel Zuanon :: September 20, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.This meeting has as goal to provide the reflection about the communicational systems between biological and technological systems, based on the affective computing [...]

[Image: Martha Rosler, Point and Shoot, 2008] OUT NOW! - Friends of William Blake (Patrick Cockburn, Kathy Kelly, Trevor Paglen, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jalal Toufic) :: September 5 - November 8, 2008 :: Opening: September 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: e-flux, 41 Essex Street, New York City :: Lecture program [...]

FILE Sao Paulo, Electronic Language International Festival, which took place in Brazil this August is subtitled Two Thousand and Eight Million Pixels. A heading that references the vast resolutions made possible by the 4K digital projection systems that were used to show cinematic work at the festival this year, and forming one of the main [...]

Upstage Walk-Through :: September 12, 2008; 5:00 pm New Zealand time; 7:00 am Western European time (find your local time here).The open walk-through is an opportunity for people interested to learn about UpStage to have a guided tour through the on-stage player tools, and for those who have some experience of UpStage to get together [...]

Upgrade! Eindhoven: Anita Fontaine :: September 8, 2008; 8 - 10:30 pm :: TAC (Temporary Art Centre), Vonderweg 1, 611 BK Eindhoven. The discussion will be in English. Australian artist Anita Fontaine works in the realm of interactive, motion and new media. She creates conceptually challenging and surreal experiences to expand the parameters of [...]

GPS Film - Location-Based Mobile Cinema Premieres in Singapore :: September 4, 2008; 2:00 pm :: Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery, 16-17 Duxton Hill.GPS Film is new media artwork from filmmaker Scott Hessels that invents a new way of watching movies based on the viewer’s location and movement. Using a GPS-enabled PDA or mobile phone, [...]

Bunk is seeking submissions for two upcoming issues of new media art:1) Spring-Summer 2009: The Mad Bunkers Mash (Humor and Literary) A mash-up of two stately magazines, the literary giant Mad Hatters review and Bunk Magazine. The mash up issue seeks mashups, mashers, and works to be mashed. Deadlines: Those Who Wish to Be Mashed: [...]

Disclosures II: The Middle Ages - A symposium, performances and party :: September 6, 2008 :: Laxton, Nottinghamshire :: Exhibition by Olivia Plender :: September 6 - October 5, 2008 :: Nottingham Castle.Disclosures II: The Middle Ages will explore the idea of ‘commons’ - both agricultural commons (the grazing of animals and growing of crops [...]

Synapse - Sustaining Ecologies - how to ensure our ecosystems survive us: Welcome to the September discussion looking at the role artists play in bringing to popular consciousness arguably the biggest issue facing this and future generations: how do we halt our negative impact on our complex and increasingly fragile ecosystems? Throughout the month [...]