networked performance

EcoArtTech’s Externalities: Wilderness and its Others :: September 5, 2008; 7 - 10 pm :: Over The Opening (MTAA’s Studio), N6th St., Brooklyn, NY [map and directions].EcoArtTech (Christine Nadir & Cary Peppermint) continue to rethink relations between humans, technics, technology, and the environment with Externalities: Wilderness and its Others a networked, video-based performance piece. The [...]

Into the Open: Positioning Practice :: September 14 - November 23, 2008 :: The U.S. Pavilion for La Biennale di Venezia, 11th International Architecture Exhibition.Into the Open: Positioning Practice highlights the means by which architects reclaim a role in shaping community and the built environment, to expand understanding of American architectural practice and its relationship [...]

OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Enping Road, Shenzhen, China :: Call for Residency Applications - Deadline: April 2009.OCAT International Art Residency is one the important programs of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT). In each year, OCAT invites five young and experimental artists, critics and curators from the visual arts area for residency in OCAT’s studios, and [...]

“Introduction: Time is plastic. Our linear measure is man made for convenience. The oversimplification of minutes, hours, days is functional in a base utilitarian sense, yes, but fails to account for point of entry, context, point of view, the density of what is occurring in time and how it is thus experienced. Time is geometric; [...]

12 International Video Festival - v i d e o m e d e j a: Pop Video :: December 12 - 14, 2008 :: studio m, Novi Sad, Serbia :: Call for Submissions - Deadline: October 1, 2008 :: Categories: video | film | media installations | network | live projects.Like previous years we [...]

Intercreate Research Centre presents SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata Symposium: Interconnections :: February 7-8, 2009 :: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand :: OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS - Deadline: October 15, 2008.Interconnections: Chaos theory, Complexity, Cybernetics, Post-structuralism + Pasifika, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Indian, Asian, Polynesian and Maori Knowledge and Belief systems.We are seeking [...]

Artspeak presents Carrall Street - Althea Thauberger :: September 30, 2008; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: the 200 block of Carrall Street, Vancouver (in front of Artspeak Gallery) :: curated by Melanie O’Brian.Althea Thauberger’s one-night performance will present the street (brightly lit like a film set at nighttime) as a stage, or zone of [...]

HYDROUS ‘08 (conference) :: August 21, 2008; 6:00 pm - midnight :: V_2 Institute for Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam and streamed live.HYDROUS ‘08 is an interdisciplinary scholarly roundtable and arts event that is devoted to shifts in contemporary water governance. It brings together new studies and cultural works undertaken by scholars and artists working [...]

Writers and their works in a virtual space: Trope — promoting new writing in Second Life :: Invitation to Melbourne Writers’ Festival roundtable :: August 28, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: ACMI Cinema 1, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Australia.Trope promotes new writing within virtual space, and launched [...]

Pikslaverk - New node in the Pixelache Network - Reykjavik! :: November 6 - 9, 2008 :: Reykjavik, Iceland :: Open Call - Deadline: September 30, 2008.The Pikslaverk 2008 conference is the Icelandic component in the international network of Pixelache conferences. It is organized by Lorna (the Icelandic organization for electronic arts) in collaboration with [...]

LIGHTWAVE 2009 :: Festival: January 24 - February 1, 2009; exhibitions until February 21 :: Open Call - Deadline: September 5, 2008. Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerrilla projectionists and inventors! LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international [...]

Eileen Botsford - The Preretrospective Exhibition :: September 18 – 30 September, 2008 :: Booze Cooperativa, 57 Kolokotroni St. Athens.Too young to have a retrospective exhibition yet too evolved in her career not to have one, New Media Public Artist Eileen Botsford, presents for the first time in Athens, through The Preretrospective Exhibition, a series [...]

Daniel Howe and Aya Karpinska have two pieces, open.ended and No Time Machine (the latter funded by Turbulence) in Text in Video:“Text in Video explores how through use of the written word in time-based media, artists make the journey from awe to anger to internal beauty to humor. Sometimes the integration is implemented purely for [...]

(re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :: September 3, 2008 :: Holiday Inn & Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, Liverpool City Centre, UK. Digital Live Art is the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Live Art and Computing. (re)Actor3: The Third International Conference on Digital Live Art seeks to bring [...]

a new set of generative visual themes that are directly created from, & visually accompany poems. each theme can be interactively explored online.in the 2008 version, all words words in a poem based on their frequency in the text, which are placed on a line. the most frequent words are thus relatively large & placed [...]

CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2008 Conference: Seeing… Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture :: November 6-7, 2008 :: The Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London :: Places are limited so early booking is recommended. The booking form is available online. Bookings made before 1 [...]

The Nam June Paik Art Center opens to the public with its inaugural art festival :: October 9, 2008 - February 5, 2009 :: Nam June Paik Art Center, 85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-905, Republic of Korea.Supported by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Gyeonggi Province, the Nam June Paik Art Center is located in Yongin, [...]

Banff New Media Institute Co-production Residency: Almost Perfect - Call and Response :: Program Dates: October 30 - November 30, 2008 :: Early Application Deadline: August 22, 2008 :: Application Deadline: September 19, 2008.The Almost Perfect Call and Response residency at the Banff New Media Institute is an annual, concentrated four-week experimental prototyping lab that [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTgrvJx_gYThe Bright Idea Shade is a project of the Eyebeam OpenLab, by Sustainability Action Group members Michael Mandiberg and Steve Lambert, with Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres. We are converting all of our silver tipped incandescent bulbs into compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs (as they burn out.) The problem is a bare CFL [...]

Beijing - Five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in bright blue LED “throwie” lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel after displaying the banner for about 20 seconds at 11:48 pm August 19th. Their whereabouts are currently unknown. Read the press [...]