networked performance

Fifteen Days is a prequel of Jeanette Doyle’s work for Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, an upcoming exhibition opening in June 2012. For a period of fifteen days (November 9-27, 2011), Doyle will perform a dematerialized act at The Warhol. An extension of the performance will be rendered immaterially on The Warhol’s website. The project emerges from [...]

Cyberfest: Show Us Your Tongue :: November 18-23, 2011 :: The State Hermitage Museum, Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, Gallery of Experimental Sound, & the venues of Saint Petersburg Association of Galleries, Russian Federation. Cyberfest is Russia’s annual exposition of technology art by top international artists. Cyberfest enters its 5th year this November with over 80 [...]

Notes on a New Nature Curated by Nicholas O’Brien :: November 10-20, 2011 :: Opening: November 10; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York.For me the Internet has always been a physical space. Working as a sculptor, the first moment I started experimenting with HTML code and viewed the results in the [...]

[Public Movement, 2010. Performance documentation: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon] Positions by Public Movement: (1) November 4, 2011; 1:00 pm :: Washington Square Park :: (2) November 6; 1:00 pm :: Union Square South, New York City. This November, the action and research group Public Movement will present Positions, a choreographed demonstration that [...]

Turbulence Commission: Endgame: A Cold War Love Story by Tal Halpern [Needs Adobe Flash Player]:Endgame: A Cold War Love Story — for the web and Flash enabled touch screen devices (DROID) — is a puzzle whose pieces are culled from an archive of long forgotten propaganda. In it a story about art, exile and history [...]

Dreaming of a Butterfly by António Caramelo: “45 acrylic tubes are arranged within the display box. Each tube has a “mechanical” butterfly placed within and their movements are synchronised with the sound system — where microphones obtain real time sound of the surrounding area, and amplify the sounds to the internal subwoofers speakers to produce [...]

Place Making and The Art of Engagement by Linda Carroli, ArtsHub, October 10, 2011:Urban innovation can mean or refer to many things and there’s no shortage of ideas about how to make cities better. As the theory and more deterministic ‘forecasting’ goes, cities must get better if they are to foster and sustain the types [...]

Ever wondered what solar cells do at night? Introducing Meet Discotrope: The Secret Nightlife of Solar Cells by Amy Alexander and Annina Rüst, with algorithmic sound design by Cristyn Magnus. Discotrope performances invoke both alternative energy and the curious history of dance in cinema – from backlots to backyards – from Thomas Edison to [...]

Blowup: We Are All Crew :: November 3-5, 2011 :: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth, this edition of Blowup will present the ‘Strategic Art Initiative 2.0′ exhibition of re-created early telematic artworks; the worldwide premiere of ‘Them F*ckin’ Robots’, a [...]

On nettime, Timothy Druckrey wrote: No doubt lengthy paeans will be forthcoming from the Kittler scholars. They will be, of course, well deserved for a thinker whose work traversed so many spheres. For us in the media, Kittler’s work has been an indispensable source of rigor and insight. Back in 1987, I read the first [...]

Naked on Pluto — by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk — is the winner of VIDA 13.2, the prestigious international art and artificial life contest.Naked on Pluto proposes a playful yet disturbing online game world, developed with Free/ Libre Open Source Software, which parodies the insidiously invasive traits of much “social software”. [...]

Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and published by Open Humanities Press (OHP), Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life — with life understood both philosophically and biologically — which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers [...]

“In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic view of this media. Slipping inside the device, the artist has designed some chroma keys of himself and, using a cinematic technique, [...]

Medium_Massage 2.0 :: an infinite inventory :: November 5 – December 3, 2011 :: Opening Reception: November 5; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Scotiabank, 80 Spadina Ave, Suite 310, Toronto, Canada.“All media are extensions of some human faculty – psychic or physical” The Medium is The Massage, Marshall McLuhan p 26Medium_Massage 2.0 :: an [...]

The Deleted City is a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century. At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage. The early citizens of the net (or netizens) took their netizenship serious, [...]

Mapping Community Arts: Subversion, Repressive Tolerance and Pastoral Power by Pascal Gielen — organized and moderated by Hakan Topal with a response by Alex Villar :: November 8, 2011; 6:30 pm :: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York, NY.In recent years there has been increased attention to so-called ‘socially engaged art practices’. Equipped [...]

Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation Exhibition :: October 29, 2011 - February 12, 2012 :: Opening: October 28; 7:00 pm :: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.For a few decades now, digitalization in the art context has enabled and simplified the processing and distribution of data. [...]

Moving Forest 500 Slogans Workshops: AKA the Castle presented by Furtherfield :: December 2-4, 2012 (times below) :: Victoria & Albert Museum, Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL.The Moving Forest 500 Slogans Workshop brings together writers, artists, performers, theatre practitioners, soundists, noisers, singers (of all genres), scholars and folks to decipher [...]

Thrilling Wonder Stories 3 — a transatlantic ideas festival featuring the finest in speculative design and spatial fiction :: October 28, 2011; 12:00 - 10:00 pm (London Time) :: Architectural Association, London, and Studio-X NYC + Follow online with our livestream and the Twitter feed (hashtag #tws3).We have always regaled ourselves with speculative stories of a [...]