networked performance

[Earth_To_Disk (aka Flat Earth Society), 2008-2011] Art of Failure :: until March 16, 2012 :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY.Imperfections identify a medium as it is with glass becoming visible by accumulated dusts and scratches. The Art of Failure collective, Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont, experiment within the capacity of contemporary technologies to [...]

Undertaking Transmodern: At the Threshold of the Present Moment :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: April 1.The Transmodern Performance Festival cordially invites you to submit scores, ideas, images, essays, plays, poems, parlor games, recipes, instructions for a performance, etc. for a publication on the theme of TRANSmodern. This publication will work as a collection of [...]

In The Urban Crisis: To celebrate the launch of its two new graduate programs focused on urban transformation, Parsons The New School for Design has organized In the Urban Crisis, a lecture series featuring leading voices shaping the global dialogue about city development. Organized by Miguel Robles-Duran, the series highlights core themes of the MS [...]

Robots And Avatars :: March 16 - May 27, 2012 ::FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 4DQ, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Join us in a near future where robots, avatars and telepresence form part of an exciting new reality. From pervasive networked gaming to robots [...]

The HTMlles 10: Risky Business — Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture :: November 10-18, 2012 :: :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: April 2.The 10th edition of the HTMlles will take up the notion of risk. To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility… [...]

Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival :: April 27-28, 2012 :: Open Call for Proposals
 — Deadline: March 25.Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines [...]

Blow-Up is pleased to announce Locating Story by Dora García, a Twitter performance beginning February 20.Locating Story combines twitter, geo-location software and performance. A performer will monitor a person as they move through the city, from home to work, from his work to elsewhere. The performer does not know the person; like a detective, he [...]

La Re.Play: An Exhibition of Mobile Media Art:: February 22-26, 2012 :: Los Angeles, California.Mobilizing Los Angeles as a place to play and a place in play, LA Re.Play presents leading international artists working with mobile and geolocated media. The exhibit accompanies the double session presentation on Mobile Art: The Aesthetics of Mobile Network Culture [...]

Hz Call For Articles — Deadline: March 10 :: Please send your submissions to hz-journal [at] telia.com.Online journal Hz is looking for articles on New Media, Sound Art, Electro-Acoustic Music, Virtual World/ Machinima and Social Media. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Hz is published by the non-profit organisation Fylkingen in Stockholm. [...]

[Image by boredomresearch. Courtesy of [DAM]Berlin/Cologne.] Intuition and Ingenuity :: February 17–26, 2012 :: Opening Reception: February 16; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Artists’ Talk: February 21; 7:00 pm :: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ.Intuition and Ingenuity is a group exhibition that explores the enduring influence of Alan Turing – the father of [...]

Slought Foundation is currently in the planning phase for Mixplace Studio, an urban pedagogical research initiative that will transform our organization in the years ahead. It is being developed together with People’s Emergency Center (PEC), the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) at PennDesign, and Estudio Teddy Cruz (ETC). The underlying premise of Mixplace is that we [...]

The Aspen Movie Map Beat Google Street View by 28 Years by Derek Mead, Mother Board:“Imagine a virtual reality mapping environment designed to perfectly replicate a city’s streets and buildings. It could be powered by the data from a team of cars driving around with roof-mounted cameras pointing in every direction, whose images can then [...]

David Weinberger on Too Big To Know: We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it’s becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge [...]

Mengele’s Skull: The Rise of Forensic Aesthetics :: February 4 – May 6, 2012 :: Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel, 60594 Frankfurt am Main.The exhibition “Mengele’s Skull” is structured around a specially commissioned book of the same title co-authored by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman. Artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl has been commissioned to [...]

[Tokyo Hacker Space's meeting place. Photo Credit: David Powell] 4S/EASST Panel: Hacking Science and Technology Studies (STS) - bio-hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces :: October 17-20, 2012 :: Copenhagen, Denmark :: Call for Papers - Deadline: March 18.During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software and computers. This is now [...]

Woman, Art & Technology: Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Furtherfield.org.

On netbehaviour, Tamiko Thiel wrote: “Today at the Transmediale in Berlin, Germany’s most important media art festival, Transmediale director Kristoffer Gansing censored augmented reality artist Tamiko Thiel in a discussion billed as an “open conversation.”During the panel discussion “25 years of transmediale / reSource Activism VIDEOMAKERS UNITE!,” Thiel was invited by a panelist to talk [...]

Join The Craigslist Revolution! Bashar Al-Assad Is Looking For A Job! Joseph Delappe has posted an ad on the Reno Craigslist. It reads:“I am Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Ba’ath Party. The circumstances of my current employment may soon be coming to an end, therefore I am looking for [...]

Data Deluge :: March 2 –July 8, 2012 :: Ballroom Marfa, 108 East San Antonio Street, Marfa, Texas :: Opening: March 2; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: Community Dinner: 8:30 pm at the Capri :: Luke R. DuBois with Bora Yoon Performance: 9:30pm at the Capri :: Exhibition Walk-Thru with the Artists: March 3; 2:00 [...]