networked performance

Mobile Phone Video Art Classics by Mark Amerika :: E:ventGallery, 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6PU :: July 14, 7 - 10pm :: Followed with music by dj duo Telethesia, 10pm - midnight.
Mark Amerika’s recent artwork has investigated the emergence of digitally constructed identities, theoretical fictions, meta-histories, and collaborative networks. In his new [...]

Rescuing ‘Luddite’ from the Luddites
“[…] A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys. An argument is especially Luddite if the discomfort of the newly challenged professionals is presented as a general social crisis, [...]

Future avatars will be adept at manipulating human response
“Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal of the project, sponsored by [...]

Brenda Laurel writes: “[…] Rachel has described our interest in how people leave marks on places. We wanted to give people the ability to “mark” the virtual environments, and we arrived at voice as a convenient modality for doing so. Voice offered several advantages over writing or drawing. Through prosody, voice permits greater expressiveness and [...]

Eclectic Tech Carnival aka /etc 2007 will held from July 11-15, 2007 in Linz, Austria. The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women interested in technology. It’s held once a year, each time in a venue where there has been an interest in hosting one. The first was in Pula, Croatia in 2002, followed [...]

Second Life: Foundations, Sites of Engagement, and Remediations of History :: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, ON M6J 2Y8 :: 416 599 7206 :: Instructors: Patrick Lichty (a.k.a. Man Michinaga), Scott Kildall (a.k.a. Great Escape), Second Front Collective :: Dates: July 16 and July 23, 7pm-10pm both days :: Cost: $125 (non members) $100 [...]

Escape Velocity is a 360° immersive audiovisual installation designed to evoke the experience of leaving the earth’s surface temporarily to float in zero gravity with other astronauts. The installation features a unique multimedia device: the Panodome. This ambitious project was initiated after Virgin Galactic and the Society for Arts and Technology first made each other’s [...]

CUT UP: NEW WORKS - OFF SITE PROJECT IN HACKNEY WICK :: JULY 20 - 21, 2007 :: Seventeen, 17 KINGSLAND ROAD LONDON E2 8AA
The truth be told, there is no truth any more. Nor is there any real sense of history or proof of existence. Truth and its artifice have been erased, undone and [...]

Bienvenidos a Upgrade! Tijuana! En nuestra sesión de julio: live acts generados a partir del desarrollo de aplicaciones y música electrónica de avanzada :: July 25, 2007; 7-9 pm.
AMY ALEXANDER: Artista e Investigadora del C.R.C.A en la universidad de San Diego California. En esta ocasión Amy presenta una sesión en vivo basada en su proyecto [...]

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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Waag Society’s Locative Media workshop @ Sarai, Delhi, India.

Dear Readers,We are making final adjustments to our new blog which we hope to launch later today. Now a WordPress blog, it has been re-designed and has added functionality, most notably "Live Stage" (for events in real-time). And our comments will be turned on again!

Thanks to Mushon Zer Aviv - Shual.com (design) and Dan Phiffer (developer).

Thanks for your continued interest and support.

Jo and Helen

Glowlab seeks volunteers to work with the fourth annual Conflux Festival, taking place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from September 13th-16th. We're looking for volunteers in a variety of areas: tech support, audio / video / photo documentation, general installation, sales, event staff. You'll have the opportunity to assist national and international artists, work with local venues and get hands-on production experience. Previous event production experience is preferred, but not required.

About Conflux:Conflux is the annual New York City festival where visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.

Volunteer Requirements: You must: have a working mobile phone; be available for at least one full day of the festival; be able to attend a short volunteer meeting Monday August 20th and / or Monday September 10th from 7pm-8pm. For more information, contact Sarah Pace: pace[at]confluxfestival.org