networked performance

le catalogue: The catalogue contains representations of objects and installations realized between 1990 and 1996. These representations are gradually deteriorated by the users of the catalogue. The single fact of consulting a catalogue’s page adds a double stripe in the form of a cross. The combination of the observation’s time and the observer’s point of [...]

Join -empyre- in August 2007 for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Being in Second Life - hosted by Melinda Rackham with special guests: Annabeth Robinson, Patrick Lichty, Stephan Doesinger, Dr Ricardo Peach, Christy Dena, Kathy Cleland, Adam Nash, and Dr Fabio Zambetta. [Image: W. James Au aka Hamlet Linden meeting China Tracy.]
Neal Stephenson’s [...]

Mary Bates Neubauer: New Work :: August 9 - September 1, 2007 :: Reception: August 9, 7-9 pm :: Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, 107 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.
Mary Neubauer’s current work uses visual information obtained through digital processes to create and record 3D data. Illuminated, processed photograms, laser-scanned images, animations, [...]

PRAGUE / arts / sciences / technologies / practices / theories / BERLIN - three major conferences in Prague and Berlin, November 2007:
MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences - International Conference :: Prague, Municipal Library :: November 8 - 10, 2007 :: Vilim Flusser - International Conference on European Tradition and Future in the work Vilim [...]

Birds Eye View: Call for Interactive, New Technology Artworks :: In 2008 Birds Eye View (BEV) will launch its new strand “PRESS PLAY. New media and interactive art”, exhibiting the work of selected women artists working creatively with the moving image and new technology. Birds Eye View, the UK’s first major women’s film festival, is [...]

Upgrade! São Paulo: Humanity 2.0 by gil giardelli + Art in Second Life by martha gabriel :: July 31, 2007, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.
Humanity 2.0 by gil giardelli - The Internet was first ruled by military and secondly by investors. On the third wave — called [...]

Mediamatic, the Amsterdam based cultural institute, will organize the workshop Games-in-Crossmedia from 16 to 21 October 2007. During the annual Cinekid Festival Mediamatic will bring professional media makers, producers from broadcasters and production companies up-to-date on game culture and will provide makers with the tools to incorporate game aspects in cross-media projects.
Games and Internet are [...]

NeuroZappingFolks is a non-linear zapping through the Internet, a path leading to the inside of a web of relations, a web that can be explored from one tag to a site, to another tag, to another site… from word to image to word to image. NeuroZappingFolks is then the simulation of a brain lost in [...]

The English Interactive Artist Ruairi Glynn argues that architecture should not only react to people and the environment, it should interact with these forces. He’s devoted himself to the study of ‘Interactive Architecture,’ and maintains a popular blog by that name which documents his own work and that of others. His most recent project, entitled [...]

Satellite Voyeurism Workshop :: July 21, 2007 :: The workshop Satellite Voyeurism addresses questions of production and reception of satellite images. In addition to public lectures by international media artists, committed scientists and commercial companies’ representatives of the regions’ geo-data industry, a two day workshop program with up to 12 participants takes place. Within the [...]

Promiserver is a fast, lightweight, open, web-based platform for writing and participating in microcontracts, referred to within the system as promises. Promiserver is a new approach to online trust and commitments. Write promises in code, and they run on the server. All promises are open source, transparent processes. We’ve overloaded the term promise with a [...]

MediaArchitecture2007 :: September 11-12, 2007 :: Central Saint Martins Innovation, Central London :: £ 250 registration in advance only here.
Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building [...]

Zone V2_, Unstable Media, Act - Interact - V2_ EXHIBITION IN MOCA, TAIPEI :: August 10 - October 28, 2007 :: AND Unstable Media Conference :: August 11-12, 2007 :: Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan :: Organized by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. To celebrate the 25 [...]

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID :: FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA: CALL FOR ENTRIES: Deadline: AUGUST 15, 2007.
The Rencontres Internationales will take place in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations. The same program will be presented in Madrid in [...]

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A Second Life Machinima by Robbie Dingo (Duration 4′17″)
“Frameless heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget - like the strangers that you’ve met”. [Don McLean]. Ever looked at your favorite painting and wished you could wander inside, to look at it from different perspectives? Spend a single day in [...]

“[…] Mr. Weinberger: You and I agree that genuine talent is scarce and needs nurturing. But your picture of talent is formed by the binary view the traditional media have forced on us. Because it’s been so expensive to produce, market and distribute cultural products (books, records, films), the lucky few who get published get [...]

“A building with waterfall walls that can display images and words is being designed by a team of architects and engineers. The interactive “digital water pavilion,” to be unveiled at the International Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain, will feature an exhibition area, café and various public spaces—all enclosed within curtains of recycled water.
The MIT team’s [...]

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Delicate Boundaries, a work by Chris Sugrue, uses human touch to dissolve the barrier of the computer screen. Using the body as a means of exchange, the system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them… Via we-make-money-not -art.

THE MACHFELD AFFAIR by JACK HAUSER :: July 23-August 11, 2007 :: Opening: July 23, 2007, 5pm :: MACHFELD | Studio, Max Winter - Platz 21/1, 1020, Wien.
Since 1999, Jack Hauser has been creating performative, subcultural interventions which he calls choreographic operations. THE MACHFELD AFFAIR is a transmedia exhibition in the rooms of the MACHFELD [...]

Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art. The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts. The competition jury will award a prize of €2,500.00 to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies. The candidates for the prize (a [...]