networked performance

Transcendental Smoothie - Magsamen + Hillerbrand :: August 22 – September 27, 2008 :: Opening Reception: August 22, 2008; 6:30-8:30 pm … Artist talk at 6:00 pm :: Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, Houston, TX.The John M. O’Quinn Gallery at Lawndale Art Center is transformed into a kaleidoscopic world of video that raises questions [...]

Lara Schnitger & My Barbarian - Dance witches Dance :: August 30 - November 30, 2008 :: Opening: August 29, 5:00 pm … with a performance by My Barbarian ::The T-time with Lara Schnitger: August 31; 12.30 pm :: Museum Het Domein, Postbus 230, 6130 AE Sittard, The Netherlands.Dance witches Dance plunges the public and [...]

The web was built on openness and designed from the ground up to enable sharing of code - view the source from early web pages for examples. Yet it seems that already Second Life content creators want strict restrictions on copying, even going so far as to support the DMCA. So, [...]

Fibreculture Journal Issue 13: After convergence: what connects? :: Edited by Caroline Bassett (University of Sussex, UK), Maren Hartmann (University of the Arts Berlin, Germany), Kate O’Riordan (University of Sussex, UK)After convergence: what connects? Making this question the subject of this special issue we set out to address two questions at once. The first was: [...]

Web 2.0: before, during and after the event - An issue of the Fibreculture Journal critically exploring the ontogenesis of Web 2.0 :: Issue Editors: Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie :: Call for Papers - Deadline: October 31, 2008 :: Publication Date: May 1, 2009.In 2005 Tim O’Reilly famously used the phrase ‘an attitude, not [...]

Project Netarts.org 2008 - Call for nominations :: Deadline: September 15, 2008 :: First prize: 100,000 yen.From 1995 to 2003, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts hosted the “Art on the Net” project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. After the nine years of “Art on the Net,” we launched a [...]

OneAvatar connects your body to your Avatar in virtual worlds. You and your Avatar will be finally one, sharing the same experiences even at physical level. You get hurt, you Avatar gets hurt. Your Avatar dies, you die. (available for Second Life, World of Warcraft)Virtual Worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft address [...]

Turn and Widen - The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale :: September 12 - November 5, 2008 :: Opening: September 11, 2008 :: Seoul Museum of Art, 30 Misulgwan-gil (37 Seosomun-dong), Jung-gu, Seoul (100-813).The 5th Biennale is significant in retracing prior exhibitions for the preparation of the next decade. Therefore it aims at asking [...]

Reminder: Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds :: Revised call for chapters - Deadline: August 15, 2008.Scholarly articles on emerging issues of life in virtual worlds such as Second Life are solicited. Work that connects streams of ethics research and theory to virtual worlds as they are and to what they are developing [...]

[Image: Kevin Schmidt, Wild Signals, Video installation, 2007] Wild Signals. Artistic Positions between Symptom and Analysis :: September 13 - November 9, 2008 :: Württembergischer, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Schlossplatz 2, D-70173 Stuttgart.Wild Signals. Artistic Positions between Symptom and Analysis comprises works by eleven international artists who have appropriated scientific methods in different ways. Historical documents are [...]

Everyone’s A Curator :: August 16, 2008; 7:00 pm :: TELIC Arts Exchange, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA :: SCREENING IS FREE / $5 TO RESERVE A VIDEO SLOT.Saturday evening will feature a screening of YouTube videos curated by its audience. All are invited to select their favorite YouTube clip and submit the [...]

[Image: Judy Malloy: Concerto for Narrative Data] The Iowa Review - Web Volume 9 no. 2: Instruments and Playable Text :: Stuart Moulthrop, Guest Editor :: Featured Authors: Judy Malloy ⇒ Concerto for Narrative Data; John Cayley ⇒ riverIsland QT; Nick Montfort ⇒ The Purpling; Shawn Rider ⇒ So Random + PiTP; Elizabeth Knipe ⇒ [...]

[Image: cover of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody] Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody is reputed to be the best book ever written on Web 2.0. By why the strange silence on questions of copyright, privacy and ownership? Felix Stalder delves beneath the slick prose and upbeat message. ‘Communication tools don’t get socially interesting until [...]

Developing the most “natural” human-machine interface has always been one of the IT industry Holy Grails. The ancestral codes that oversee our instinctual behaviors are more often than not misguided by cultural signs and related meanings expressed in the software and hardware aesthetic. Playing with these ideas, Cyberskin by Joan Healy brilliantly conveys the idea [...]

ArtCamp08: The Year is 20/20 @ New Forms Festival :: September 20, 2008 :: Intersections Digital Studios, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada :: Call for Applications (by Invitation Only).“The year is 20/20…” We are producing a manifesto for the future of the city. 40 carefully selected visionaries will be invited to [...]

Dislocate 08: International Festival for Art, Technology and Locality :: August 30 - September 21, 2008 :: Yokohama, Japan.Dislocate is an ongoing project examining the relationship between art, technology and locality. Exploring the impact of new media upon our experience and expression of place, Dislocate08 examines the creative potential of the technologies which surround us [...]

Re:live - Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology :: November 26-29, 2009 :: Melbourne, Australia :: Call For Papers – Deadline: December 19, 2008.The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success [...]

COASTOMIZE! and other MIXED REALITIES :: August 16 - September 14, 2008 :: August 13; 7:00 pm :: Herman De Croo Centre, PAM / Provinciaal Archeologisch Museum, Paddestraat 7. 9620 Zottegem (Velzeke), Belgium (starting point of several locations).If the bounds of reality could be mapped geographically, the horizon would be an ideal frame of reference, [...]

“[...] The German media arts historian, Oliver Grau, spoke about the need to develop a large archival project that would map and conserve the heritage of media arts practice. He argued that there have been a number of efforts to develop such a resource, but that they have all foundered under the weight of technological [...]

SPECFLIC 2.6: An Interview with Adriene Jenik by Eduardo Navas:Adriene Jenik combines literature, cinema and performance to create works under the umbrella of Distributed Social Cinema. For Jenik, this term means that the language of cinema has been moving outside of the conventional movie screens on to different media devices, which today include, the portable [...]