networked performance

Keep in Touch designed by Nima Motamedi at Simon Fraser University, Canada, is a networked fabric touchscreen designed to support and maintain intimacy for couples in long distance relationships. To achieve this she created a novel sensorial interface by combining the visual and tactile senses together. Each partner is presented with a blurred digital projection [...]

Dorkbot Mexico - Zachary Lieberman (Estados Unidos), Alejandro Tamayo (Colombia) :: 09 de Agosto de 2008 / 20:00 HRS :: Antigua Christ Church, Proyecto Museo Británico Americano en MéxicoArtículo 123 número 134, casi esquina Bucareli Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México :: ENTRADA LIBRE.Zachary Lieberman - + www.thesystemis.com + www.tmema.org :: Lieberman es [...]

Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series: When Absence Becomes Presence - Curated by Sonja Simonyi and Niels Van Tomme :: December 4, 2008 :: Calling all Video and Sound artists - Deadline: September 17 (postmarked).For When Absence Becomes Presence, the next installment of the WPA’s Experimental Media Series, curators Sonja Simonyi and Niels [...]

[david rokeby / seen / 2002] I’m excited to announce the launch of TAGallery 21: City of Nodes, a selection of geographic and cartographic work that I’ve curated for the fine folks at Cont3xt.net. City of Nodes is a collection of twelve new media projects from the last decade that reconsider the representation of [...]

Rebooting America - Edited by Allison Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej and Josh Levy.The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work? Is it possible to redesign our government [...]

intelligent agent Vol. 8 No. 1 - Social Fabrics print issue now available. It can be ordered as hardcover and paperback (here) or downloaded for free as PDF. It features the catalog of the Social Fabrics fashion & technology exhibition (curated by Susan Ryan and Patrick Lichty) of the Leonardo Educational Forum at the 2008 [...]

[Image: The Seamless Globe c. 1630] Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission :: International Conference :: April 24-26, 2009 :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes. His division between the durable and the [...]

I’ve spent three days hanging out at the Creative Capital retreat at Williams College. Creative Capital is an arts development organization that supports artists both fiscally and via extensive coaching - these retreats give the artists sponsored a chance to show their work, and a couple of days where artists and [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7mkSNRenEHidenori Watanave and a student team of Tokyo Metropolitan University are developing a 3D image database of Oscar Niemeyer in Second Life. This is an official art project of “The 100th anniversary of exchanging between Japan and Brazil“.A big image screen appears from a floating box, and when it is touched, the original website is [...]

Aya Karpinska has published her first work of digital literature for children, Shadows Never Sleep, as an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is available for free from the iTunes Apple Store.Shadows Never Sleep tells the story of a restless shadow on a nighttime adventure. This “zoom narrative” introduces a new storytelling format [...]

REBRANDING ACTS is an investigation into cultural identity in an age of global migration. The project asks artists to look closely at the ongoing production of “nationality” in their home countries and to examine the ways in which this public narrative includes certain individuals and groups - while excluding others.The REBRANDING ACTS project encourage [...]

Upgrade! São Paulo: Interface: The Bridge Between Worlds - Rafael Beznos :: August 16, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station. The DreamLoading project, created by Rafael Beznos, consists in a set of researches, installations and interactive interfaces integrating multiple technological media, artists and collaborators from all [...]

The Geographical Web or Geoweb :: CALL FOR PROJECTS - Agence TOPO Residency program for Web art production under the artistic direction of Sylvie Parent :: DEADLINE: August 15, 2008.Nowadays, the popularity of cartographic and earth visualization tools such as Google Maps and Google Earth has become an increasingly tangible component of how we experience [...]

Synchroni-Cities is about finding similar places in different cities. It’s about ways to go. Invitation for Participation! Travel one trail to many places. Ever tried to make it to a friend following his instructions? »Go there… turn left… turn right… hey look up it’s me in the window…« Ever had the feeling that the path [...]

Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - A Special Issue on Material Computing :: CALL FOR PAPERS :: Deadline: October 1, 2008.A fantastic class of new materials is blurring the boundaries between computation and physical form, and as a result bringing computer science into the realms of a host of other disciplines, among them architecture, [...]

Jaygo Bloom’s WORLDWIDEWEGG project just launched at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, as part of ALT-W [until September 13, 2008 :: 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow].“Basically its a low budget breakfast bar controlled by the daily habits of a bunch of hens on Gorgie City Farm in Edinburgh. Each time an egg gets laid a [...]

Exciting stuff!After more than 9 months (a real pregnancy), the new § release and website we’ve been working on is finally out!The code is totally rewritten!The system is much more stable.Support for Firefox 3There’s a new developer API and a bunch of new space-developers using it.Every shift has a copy on a static url outside [...]

“…the error condemned today will sooner or later find itself in the treasure houses of discovery. - Michel Serres, Conversations on Science, Culture, and TimeIt is fairly agreed in the field of media arts that the aesthetics of interactive media are articulated to the event. But just what do we mean by the term event? [...]

“Body Navigation,” from the Recoil Performance Group, is an interactive dance installation that was part of Danish Dance Theatre’s “Labyrinth” performance, which premiered this past May in Copenhagen:Body Navigation is based on responsive digital media that allows for the dancers to create graphics with their movements in the stage environment around them. Based on rules [...]

Masaki Fujihata, The Conquest of Imperfection :: August 22 - October 19, 2008 :: Preview: August 21, 2008 6.00 - 9.00 pm :: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK.For his first major UK solo show Masaki Fujihata’s The Conquest of Imperfection will feature eight major installation works, created between 1995–2008. Fujihata uses interactive technology, virtual [...]