networked performance

Stories of identity and histories that connect countries, cultures and centuries are among the performances selected for the 080808 UpStage Festival, which takes place on August 8, 2008.The festival features 14 live online performances by artists in 14 time zones, and will be accessible to anyone with a standard internet connection and browser. People in [...]

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller - The House Of Books Has No Windows :: Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition :: July 31 - September 28, 2008 :: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.A rare chance to experience the work of one of the most internationally respected artist partnerships, Janet Cardiff and [...]

Lately, a number of institutions, based on more or less conventional models, seem to be focusing on fomenting art and culture created with digital, networked and portable devices. This is not a new phenomenon, but there seem to be different approaches, and a variety of unfoldings that shift away from the classic MediaLAB models, as [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xr17Sl038Nicola Feiks and Mario Strk performing betwixt and between in Brut Konzerthaus, Vienna.The playhouse is dark. Two performers enter the space, each of them equipped with a mobile phone capable of recording video. Slowly the light is turned on illuminating the audience while the stage remains dark, thus hiding the camerawoman and -man. After three [...]

Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid :: Call for Entries - Deadline: August 25, 2008.Rencontres Internationales will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin [...]

International Prize for Performance, Fourth edition :: Deadline for Applications: August 31, 2008 :: Final evenings: October 10-11, 2008 :: Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Via Belenzani 46, 38100 Trento - Italia :: galleria_civica [at] comune.trento.it The International Prize for Performance, organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with Centro [...]

This year, at Ars Electronica (sept 4 - 9) openFrameworks is planning to make something pretty unique. Essentially, it’s a laboratory space where a group of us will make artwork live during the course of the festival. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang [...]

SPECFLIC 2.6 by Adriene Jenik + Particles of Interest by particle group :: August 6 - October 3, 2008 :: Reception: October 2; 6:00 pm :: gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, CA.New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive [...]

“Feurbach’s The Essence of Christianity (1843) discusses the importance we make of images and illusions, and that we prefer “the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being”. Second Life, the 3-D online ecosystem that is created and maintained by those who virtually inhabit it, is [...]

Dorkbot SoCal 30 :: July 26, 2008; 1:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.Steven Gentner will be speaking about a robot project built using RoboRealm, a powerful free computer vision based application for use in machine vision, image analysis, and image processing systems.Gil Kuno’s sonic artworks displace natural activity [...]

Launch of n.e.w.s. at ISEA 2008 :: July 28, 2008 7 - 10 pm :: The Substation, 45 Armenian Street, Singapore.n.e.w.s. is a horizontally-organised, cumulative knowledge-based website for contemporary art and new media framed by curatorial contributions from around the globe, bringing together voices and images from North, East, West and South. n.e.w.s. reflects geographic [...]

The Discreet Charm of Technology: Arts in Spain :: until August 24, 2008 @ Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain:: September 26, 2008 - February 15, 2009 @ ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.This exhibition presents for the first time, both in Spain and abroad, a representative selection of over sixty [...]

Nathaniel Stern is an American-born interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, printmaking and physical theatre. Nathaniel graduated with a degree in Textiles and Apparel Design from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1999, and went on to study at the Interactive Telecommunications [...]

Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art - A buzzword of new media under scrutiny :: September 4, 2008 :: Part of Ars Electronica - A New Cultural Economy, Linz, Austria :: Organized by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research.Interaction: The relation between two or more relatively independent things or systems of change which advance, hinder, limit, or otherwise affect [...]

[Image; Seul Bi and the "troop soup" (pude chige)] 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Or, let’s find a completely new art criticism by Brian Holmes - For most of the twentieth century, art was judged with respect to the previously existing state of the medium. What mattered was the kind of rupture it made, [...]

Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 :: Call for Artists of all Nationalities :: Deadline: September 10, 2008. The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO, announces the start of the presentation of projects period for the 6th edition of its international public art programme which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public [...]

Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (Art and Social Space Laboratory) :: August 2008 :: Quito, Ecuador.The Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (LAES) is a collaborative research workshop directed by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr. for the Education Department of the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador (Central Bank Museum of Ecuador). [...]

[Image: Christian Nold's Biomapping] ” … Over the last three years or so I have investigating practices in which participants perform actions that can be framed as cartographic and that are carried out according to a framework provided by the artist or group of artists. I myself produced such a work in 2003 in my [...]

boDig 08 – ara-yüz(süz) :: September 15-25, 2008 :: Istanbul :: Call for Installations - Deadline: August 15, 2008.Multidisciplinary artistic creation platform boDig is organizing a series of events called boDig 08 on bodies & technologies within the frame of the International Project Absent Interfaces Lab. The partners include L’animal a l’esquena (Celrà/Girona) and [...]

Publish and Be Damned, the One-Day Self-Publishing Fair :: August 3, 2008; 12 - 6 pm :: Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES :: Free admission.Publish and Be Damned, the One-Day Self-Publishing Fair, in its 5th year, provides a network for artists, writers, and musicians to distribute and disseminate material amongst other producers, and [...]