networked performance

The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform. Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the [...]

Posted by Andres Manniste on nettime: Vincent Gallo versus Jillian Macdonald:Artist Jillian Mcdonald has run into trouble with Vincent Gallo, who is represented at the Whitney Biennial this year. It is about her 2004 work, “To Vincent, With Love.”Incidentally, the Whitney actually has a version of this work in their Artport. I find this all [...]

Spaces Of Life: The Art Of Sonya Rapoport :: until March 11, 2012 :: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California.The art of Sonya Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of intellectual curiosity and scholarship, and the domestic one of spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents [...]

Artaud Forum 2: Konnecting Gestures - International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies :: March 30 - April 1, 2012 :: Antonin Artaud Performance Centre,Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, UK.This symposium and performance laboratory will bring together an invited group of international theatre, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, art theorists and researchers engaged [...]

Re-New / Imac 2012: Cybernetics revisited – towards a third order? :: November 19-24, 2012 :: Copenhagen, Denmark :: Call for Papers and Artistic Works - Deadline: March 1.The combined media art and conference event is a critical and inclusive project that addresses the use of interactive media in art and everyday use. It combines [...]

Objects On My Dresser: Artist Talk And Performance With Sonya Rapoport And Dr. Revathi Vikram :: February 12, 2012; 1:00 - 3:00 pm :: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California.As part of MCAM’s current exhibition, Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, Sonya Rapoport and Dr. Revathi Vikram, psychiatrist, come together [...]

Decode/Recode: Celebrate 100 Years of Alan Turing: We invite you to collaborate in a globally networked interactive event to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, as part of the official opening of the University of Salford building at MediaCity on 23rd March 2012. As part of this significant event we will be [...]

[BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić] Symposium: Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating :: March 16-17, 2012 ::  Zagreb, Croatia :: Call for Participation - Deadline: February 10, 2012.This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and image. More concretely, [...]

CODED CULTURES - Subcuratorship Beyond Media Arts with Michal Wlodkowski, Luise Reitstätter, Joasia Krysa, Sydney Ogidan, and Eva Fischer (Moderated by Georg Russegger) :: February 2, 2012: 4:00 - 6:00 pm :: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany.Based on questions about contemporary media art festivals, in the autumn of 2011 CODED [...]

From The Anti-Piracy Discussion We Haven’t Had Yet by Scott M. Fulton, III on ReadWriteWeb: “In 1959 (as I recall), my mother, an acclaimed professional artist, had entered a handful of her oil paintings into an annual art show. Someone attending the show noted that one particular work, the face of a peasant boy, strongly [...]

Geometry by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves :: until September 12, 2012; dawn - midnight :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS.Geometry is a kinetic installation that uses light as a means of communication and is inspired by such communication devices as light houses, military signal lights and the Morse code. The interplay of the different [...]

Theory in Action, the journal of the Transformative Studies Institute (quarterly publication print ISSN: 1937-0229 electronic ISSN: 1937-0237), is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, whose scope ranges from the local to the global. Its aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discussion of current research (qualitative and [...]

R15N: The Revolutionization of Communications.

Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics - Reimagining The Political Geography Of Place And Space :: Call for Papers - Deadline: March 5, 2012.In the coming issue we wish to focus on political geographies, as well as artistic interventions in, and reimaginations of, such geographies. The distinction between “place” and “space” is of particular interest, [...]

404 International Festival of Art & Technology :: Open Call — Deadline: February 28, 2012.404 International Festival of Art & Technology has been awarded by “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” (National Arts Founding) for the production of the ninth season, which will be organized in different phases throughout 2012.404 Festival launches an open call [...]

Machine Libertine is a newly created media poetry group.The method of our work is the exploration of the role of media in the development of literary art practices including poetry film, text generators and performance art. The main principles of the group are formulated in Machine Poetry Manifesto and agree with two of Eugenio Tisselli’s [...]

Review of Josephine Bosma’s Nettitudes, Let’s Talk Net Art (2011) by Eric Kluitenberg (via spectre):Nettitudes, the new book by Josephine Bosma, is an important contribution to the often confusing and unbalanced discussion about the Internet and contemporary art. This contribution becomes especially clear from what the book does not do. First of all, Bosma does [...]

Anomalia :: February 16 - May 18, 2012 :: Opening: February 16; 5:30 - 8:30 pm :: University Art Gallery, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California.Anomalia features four international contemporary artists whose work engages scientific models of research and representation. Charles Gaines, Erick Meyenberg, Erick Beltrán, and Jorge Satorre employ empirical systems in their [...]

Posted by Andres Manniste on nettime: Vincent Gallo versus Jillian Macdonald:Artist Jillian Mcdonald has run into trouble with Vincent Gallo, who is represented at the Whitney Biennial this year. It is about her 2004 work, “To Vincent, With Love.”Incidentally, the Whitney actually has a version of this work in their Artport. I find this all [...]