networked performance

Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization by Jeffrey S. Juris (Duke University Press): Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action(PGA)— including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and [...]

International symposium: (New)Media Art in Museums: production - keeping - presentation :: City Hall, City Government edifice, Korzo 16, Rijeka, Croatia (organized by Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) :: October 15 - 17, 2008 :: Call for papers - Deadline: August 20, 2008.The aim of the international symposium (New)Media Art in Museums is to [...]

Breaking Boredom - Engy Aly, George Azmy, Hani Mahfouz, Ibrahim Eslam, Mahmoud Hamdy, Mofa. Curated by: Ahmed Foula :: August 7 - 21, 2008 :: Opening: August 7, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.Far from the consumptive aspect, which is closely connected to [...]

Out of this World ::until September 13, 2008 :: Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA.Jean-Pierre Aube, Maria Antelman, Vera-Maria Glahn, Marcus Wendt and Gail Wight investigate macro and micro cosmologies in the form of an interactive installation, video installations and photography.Artist and programmer, Jean-Pierre Aube holds an MFA from Université du Québec a [...]

Upgrade! International 3: Chain Reaction :: September 11-14, 2008 :: Skopje, Macedonia :: Open to the Public.The first and the second Upgrade! International gatherings took place in the United States in 2004 and 2006. After this experience, some members of the network expressed their wish to get familiar with other countries, artistic contexts and realities [...]

OpenSpime is a project of a pervasive technology infrastructure that allows individuals and corporations to better understand their environment, through the use of a series of GPS-enabled sensors.A brainchild of Leandro Agrò, Roberto Ostinelli and David Orban, OpenSpime was inspired by Bruce Sterling’s vision of “Internet of Things”. Sterling describes a new type of technological [...]

CONFLUX Festival 2008 :: September 11-14, 2008 :: Center for Architecture, NYC.Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment. [...]

[Image: Negativland and Tim Maloney (US), Gimme the Mermaid, Video, 2002, Screenshot] Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System - Art in the Age of Intellectual Property :: July 19 - October 19, 2008 :: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund, Germany‘You can’t use it without my permission … I’m gonna sue your ass!’ shouts Disney’s [...]

StoryBank – using mobiles to share stories in an Indian village by David Frohlich and Matt Jones, Receiver Magazine #20: [...] The starting point for the StoryBank project then, was a sense that the villagers had valuable stories and information to share, which might be extended with new technology. In particular, the way they currently [...]

Upgrade! Skopje presents: ДЕН ОД ЖИВОТОТ - UM DIA NA VIDA - A DAY IN A LIFE - EIN TAG IM LEBEN [streaming performance] :: July 19, 2008; 2:00 - 4:00 pm :: CARMA Caffe, near Universall Hall, Skopje.A Day In The Life begun as a multimedia project, initiated by Upgrade! Munich on [...]

thisAbility vs. Disability: Looking at Disability through Creative Senses :: July 22 - August 30, 2008 :: Opening Reception: July 22; 6 - 9 pm :: Total Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), Seoul, Korea :: Workshop & Artist Presentation: July 26; 3 – 5 pm.thisAbility vs. Disability is an international electronic art exhibition looking upon [...]

Andrea Juan, Antarctica Project III, Methane :: until August 30, 2008 :: The Project Room for New Media, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York.Argentine visual artist Andrea Juan received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005 to develop Antarctica Project. Juan traveled to Antarctica four times where she recorded images [...]

A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80 by Catherine Mason, with a Foreword by Professor Clive Richards, Coventry School of Art & Design: Based on four years of research and numerous interviews with practitioners, this book uncovers the little known history of early British computer art. It is an [...]

Mediatopia {mashup, remix, transmit} :: Call for Participation: Submit any media files, playlists, links, node coordinates, live webcasts or URLs. Please read criteria for Border Transmissions at ISEA 2008 Singapore for related context. Your media can be uploaded or linked into the Mediatopia database and be included in the participatory sequence produced onsite at the [...]

They are “Real” architect that had produced many architectural projects in physical world, and also, they are “Virtual” architect in Second Life, too. In “Digital Design Competition 2007” (I was a jury member), they won the Grand-prix of competiton.They got a cooperation by Japanese information- technology company “GMO Tea-cup communications inc.”, and realized their [...]

Since January 2007 TAGallery asks “What if a link turns into the representative of the artefact, the context and the exhibition at once?”. Until now - July 2008 - there are 500 different answers, represented by 438 artists, 473 artworks, 483 tags, a dozen of curators and still 999 exhibitons to come. Finally it is [...]

One-hundred-and-fifteen days until Election Day! I have started to machine-knit to expedite Stitch for Senate helmets. A good many people have volunteered and we’re on track to make it to 100. Right now we have 51% of the helmets, the newer ones being the Class II Senators (whose term is up, many seeking re-election) …the [...]

S[t]imulation: an interactive painting by Marc Tuters: In completion of the class of 2008 USC SCA IMD MFA, S[t]imulation is a 12×8 foot interactive painting in which the texture of the actual painting was virtually processed in Derivative’s Touch Designer and then projected back onto itself to scale. (It remains temporarily on display at the [...]

Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225 :: until September 14, 2008 :: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA.We have always contemplated the night sky with awe, envisioning ties to mythic pasts or space-bound futures. The night sky of the present is pregnant with [...]

User Labor — A framework for sustaining user labor across the web — by Burak Arikan and Engin Erdogan: With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services. Our aim is to construct criteria and context for determining the [...]