networked performance

The Jeremy Bailey Show :: September 19 - October 19, 2008 :: Opening and Performance: September 19; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: HTTP Gallery, Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, London.If Jeff Koons had fallen for the Microsoft Help Paperclip rather than vacuum cleaners or La Cicciolina, presumably the result would have looked [...]

VolaVola/Fly Me is a new feature film by the Italian director Berardo Carboni (Shooting Silvio - actually distributed by 20th Century Fox ). The project is currently in production in both real and virtual spaces. The film is being shot both as a live action film and as machine generated animation (machinima). So, there are [...]

The New Forms Festival and SWARM present Performative - roots+wires and Free Daily :: September 4, 2008; 8:00 pm - September 5, 2008; 1:00 am :: Open Studios, 252 East 1st, Vancouver, BC. Performative explores differing approaches to new media integration within interdisciplinary contexts. Stemming from research in the fields of dance, lecture, and installation, [...]

At Dislocate06, Hamilton, Southern, and St. Amand will present Running Stitch a project which explores how a track made with a GPS device changes our awareness and experience of place through the new vantage points and perspectives afforded by the use of satellite navigation. Visitors to the exhibition are given a GPS-enabled mobile phone to [...]

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 - Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens :: Exhibition: October 16 - December 12, 2008 :: Conference: October 17 - 18, 2008 :: Urban Screenings: October 17 - November 3, 2008.Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 is an innovative project, engaging a wide range of stakeholders with distinctive [...]

dorkbot-nyc - David Steinberg, Christina McPhee, and Sam Pluta :: September 3, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Location One, SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. David Steinberg: mobile music machines - Lots of interesting musical software have been developed more or less recently for portable videogames consoles [...]

3rd meeting of Upgrade! International: Chain Reaction - a 4 day festival curated by the Upgrade! International community :: September 11 – 14, 2008 :: European University, Skopje; Cultural Center Tocka; Cultural Center CK; Open Graphic Studio – Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia :: Call for Participation: Workshops + Lectures - Application Deadline: [...]

Special Issue of Dance Chronicle (Published by Routledge) - Choreographers at the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Practices in Concert Dance :: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin :: Call for Research Articles: Deadline: January 30, 2009.Choreographers today are pushing the edges of dance as a concert form: extending movement capacities of the body, [...]

The Order of Things :: September 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009 :: Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp [MuHKA], Leuvenstraat 32 2000, Antwerp, Belgium.The Order of Things is an exhibition on the uses of archival images, image archives and image banks (and various other manifestations of a classificatory, encyclopaedic impulse) in contemporary art. It takes [...]

Online Videos by Veoh.comData Cities Modelling Movies @ Metropolis’ Connecting Cities Congress :: October 22-25, 2008 :: Sydney, Australia :: Call for entries.Research leaders from all disciplines relevant to the data modelling revolution in planning, designing and managing cities are invited to present their latest achievements to senior government delegates from more than 100 cities [...]

Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Exhibition: Connected Communities; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne :: Registration Reminder.Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08), hosted by Federation Square Pty Ltd, is the first international urban screens conference and exhibition to be staged in the Asia Pacific region, [...]

Mother’s Day by Smadar Dreyfus :: September 13 - November 8, 2008 :: Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.Extra City is delighted to announce the premiere of Mother’s Day (2006 – 08), a multi-channel sound and video installation by Smadar Dreyfus (1963 Tel Aviv, lives and works in London). Following [...]

In 2008, the Wiesbaden Grant Follow Fluxus – after Fluxus will be awarded for the first time. The goal is to support young international artists whose works suggest ideas inherent to the Fluxus art movement in order to keep the art current alive. The establishment of the grant was inspired by the “Fluxus Festival of [...]

In collaboration with Art 2102, Genesis Project presents - Roundtable Discussion and Closing Reception :: August 28, 2008; 7:30 -10:00 pm (discussion will begin at 8:15) :: Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA :: You are invited to participate (see below).Join the Genesis artists-in-residence, Genesis board members, LA- based artists Emily [...]

In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After - Exhibition, Film, Performance, Talks, International Conference :: August 29 - October 26, 2008 :: Opening August 28; 7:00 pm :: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.From the 1930s on, colonial North Africa was transformed into a laboratory for European modernisation fantasies. [...]

Peter Horvath Retrospective :: September 3 - November 23, 2008 :: Opening Reception: September 3; 8:00 pm :: Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Paseo de la Reforma y Gandhi s/n Bosque de Chapultepec, México, 11580.Over the past ten years, Peter Horvath has experimented with new Internet-based forms of cinematic narrative. His work is known for [...]

Don’t You #$&ing Look At Me! Surveillance in the 21st Century - Gary Hill, Manu Luksch, and James Coupe :: September 12 - October 31, 2008 :: Opening Reception: September 12; 6-10:00 pm :: 911 Seattle Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N (at Harrison), Seattle, Washington.Gary Hill, recognized internationally as one of the most [...]

On the Culture of Free Software: Interview with Christopher Kelty by Geert Lovink - It is still rare that anthropologists study modern technology, let alone the politics of free software. The Houston-based scholar Christopher Kelty, who just moved from Rice University to UCLA, has done precisely that. Instead of observing the behavior and codes of [...]

LoCA 2009 - 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness :: May 7-8, 2009 :: Tokyo, Japan :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: January 9, 2009.The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. [...]

O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech): Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints :: March 9-12, 2008 :: San Jose, California :: Call for Participation: Deadline: September 17, 2008.We live in two worlds: one filled with abundance and the other with constraints. Each has its own favorite—or essential to survival—inventions and directions. Each has been [...]