networked performance

“[…] Individually, most Twitter messages are stupefyingly trivial. But the true value of Twitter — and the similarly mundane Dodgeball, a tool for reporting your real-time location to friends — is cumulative. The power is in the surprising effects that come from receiving thousands of pings from your posse. And this, [...]

echelon: who is watching you? :: August 3 - September 1, 2007 :: Opening: August 3; 6pm-10pm :: Polvo, 1458 W. 18th St., 1R Chicago, IL :: 773.344.1940 :: info[at]polvo.org :: ARTISTS: Anni Holm, Drew Browning and Annette Barbier, Dustin Klare, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Finishing School, Gretel Garcia, Ian Simmons, Jesus Macarena-Avila, Noelle Mason, [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Synthetic Aesthetics of New Media Art :: Deadline: October 1, 2007 :: Presented by The New Media Caucus in association with the College Art Association :: February 20–23, 2008, Dallas, TX.
Contrary to traditional aesthetic theories that argue for the primacy of either the subjective and phenomenological, or formal and objective interpretations [...]

LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries LABworkshops :: VIDEO: RECORD, GENERATE, PERFORM :: August 6-10, 2007; 4-9 pm :: Registration :: 15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and motivation letter :: Registration fee: 50 euros.
Free Tools for Creators: Whether for ethical, economical or technical reasons more and more digital artists [...]

PURE DATA WORKSHOP @ KITCHEN BUDAPEST [August 13-17, 2007] :: OPEN CALL :: Fee: 65 EURO :: Deadline: August 9, 2007 :: Led by Agoston Nagy.
Pure Data is a free and open source, real-time graphical programming environment, which is used widely for visual arts, theater, sound, installation, performance, controlling physical objects, and for many other [...]

“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone. Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by [...]

“[…]Self-organizing protests do occur, even in nations which have adequate and well-tested mechanisms for the redress of grievances; all it takes is a minority sufficiently energized and empowered – with wireless technologies – to spread the word … While the vast majority of Australians might be horrified at the results of such a spontaneous act [...]

“[…] To understand why games might be good for the mind, begin by shedding the cliché that they are about improving hand-eye coordination and firing virtual weapons. More than 70 percent of video games contain no more bloodshed than a game of Risk, and are popular because they challenge mental dexterity. Among the best-selling game [...]

The Crow Road is a GPS-based interactive tool based on the real geography which inspired Iain Banks’ novel The Crow Road. Developed by Professor Martin Rieser and Dr Tim Middleton at Bath Spa University. Programmed by Amy Bonham, using Flash Lite mobile programme complete with video, audio, text and still image related to each location [...]

Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements 2007: The intent of Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements, 2007 was to get a sense of what is happening in New Media from the ground level - from the artists who are creating it. This edition is a [...]

[Image: Bordy Theatre at Emerson Island, Duck Peck, 2007] Internet Research 8.0 - Let’s Play: Call for Papers / Participation :: Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 :: Paper Deadline: August 15.
Second Life (R) is a 3d [...]

Call for Participation: NetNiet.org Draadloos (Wireless) Festival, September 1-9, 2007 :: Utrecht, Netherlands :: contact: info[at]netniet.org.
The free NetNiet.org Wireless Festival 2007 explores the relation between the city and wireless media. The festival consists of lectures, presentations, workshops and installations. We are looking for: Artists who work with wireless media who want to present or install [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Maura Jasper + Video Sharing :: July 19, 2007; 7:00-9:00 pm :: Studio Soto, 63 Melcher St, 1st Floor, Boston.
Maura Jasper is a conceptual multimedia artist whose work investigates how pop cultures and histories shape and inform identity. She has exhibited and screened work widely in the United States and overseas, including at [...]

Nuart is a dynamic city wide event on both gallery and street walls. From the first week in September an international team of street artists start to leave their mark on the city of Stavanger, Norway. The resulting work will form a static show at Rogaland kunstmuseum that runs until November 4. There’ll be Nuart [...]

XML Melbourne - Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile :; August 10 - 12, 2007 :: Melbourne, Australia.
XML Melbourne focuses on digital media’s spectacularly emerging platforms of what are essentially new forms of community-building. Traditional media has been organized around a single principle: that “Content is King”. Whoever owns and controls the production and distribution of [...]

2008:Man With a Movie Camera is a participatory video — initiated by Perry Bard — shot by people around the world who are invited to record video according to the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera and submit it to a website which will archive, sequence and deliver the submissions to The [...]

Dear Readers,
Welcome to our new blog. Please bear with us as we work out the kinks.
Now a WordPress blog, networked_performance has been re-designed and has added functionality, most notably Live Stage which keeps you informed about events in real-time. And our comments are on again, so don’t hesitate to get involved!
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Watercouleur Park, 2007, by French artists group Qubo Gas, is the 11th commission by Tate for its Net Art Programme. Qubo Gas (Laura Henno, Jean-François Ablézot, Morgan Dimnet) is a French collective of artists active since 2000. Their practice, involving works on paper, collages, video installations, digital animations and frescos, primarily focuses on drawing, its [...]

InfoMus Lab: Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale’s The EyesWeb Project - The EyesWeb research project aims at exploring and developing models of interaction by extending music language toward gesture and visual languages, with a particular focus on the understanding of affect and expressive content in gesture. For example, in EyesWeb we aim at developing methods able [...]

LIVE WEBCAST OF Disrupting Narratives :: July 13, 2007, 10.00 – 18.30 :: Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, Bankside, London SE1 :: in collaboration with iRes (Research in Interactive Art & Design) at University College Falmouth :: Concept by Kate Southworth, developed in collaboration with Tate Modern :: Tickets £20 (£12 concessions) booking recommended or [...]