networked performance

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.“Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of [...]

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.“Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of [...]

Electronic Cafe International, “Hole in Space Revisited,” 1980-2009. Courtesy of the artists From Six Pacific Standard Time Artworks Worth Seeing by Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly Blogs: “In 1980, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz set up two two-way video screens, one in Century City and one at Lincoln Center in New York. They used satellite technology [...]

[Image: spencer lowell and www.ecloudproject.com] From Postscapes: Tracking the Internet of Things: These 10 networked art projects show the many ways that using real-time data like weather, pollution sensors, wave monitoring and all the other outputs that are streaming around us can be used to visualize and engage our environment in new ways.1) [...]

The Critical Engineer Manifesto:The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and [...]

The Virtual Water Project by Timm Kekeritz, part of Surface Tension, Dublin.People use large amounts of water for drinking, cooking and washing, and even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, and almost every other physical product. Usually, the amount of freshwater that goes into making a product – its virtual water [...]

Projecting the Future of Painting in Claudia Hart’s 3D Utopian eScapes by G. Roger Denson.

Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology :: June 7-24, 2012 :: Michoacán, Mexico :: Call for Applications — Deadline: November 1, 2011.The Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology is a site-based and community-oriented program for artists from different disciplines, scientists, educators and activists, aimed at fostering socially and ecologically-conscious cultural development in the [...]

The COAL Prize Art&Environment — Focus on Rural Issues and Agriculture :: Call for Entries – Deadline: January 15, 2012.The COAL Prize Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, [...]

2012 Electronic Literature Organization Conference — Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints :: June 20-23, 2012 :: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV :: Call for Papers — Deadline: November, 30, 2011.ELO 2012 Media Arts Show :: June 18-30, 2012 :: Monongalia Arts Center, Morgantown + online :: Call for Works — Deadline: November 30, 2011.Electronic Literature: [...]

games++ — organized by Alex Myers and Jeff Thompson :: November 4, 2011; 9:00 am - 9:00 pm (make games); 9:00 - 11:00 pm (play games) :: Drift Station Gallery, 1746 “N” Street (at 18th), Lincoln, Nebraska.Do you make video games? Board games? Other games of a less well-defined category?games++ is a 12-hour game development [...]

Gretta Louw - Controlling Connectivity :: Online Performances: November 2-12, 2011 (see times below) :: Exhibition: November 26, 2011 - January 15, 2012 :: Art Laboratory Berlin.With the opportunity for connectivity and limitless access to information comes the obligation to be increasingly available to receive and transmit; to be perpetually connected. The consequent erosion of [...]

The Departments of Intermedia and Fine Art Theory and Curatorial Studies of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts initiate the seminars Mapping the Local and Site Specific Interventions in Public Space :: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Andrássy út 69-71, 1062 Budapest, Hungary.Mapping the Local presents an overview of the major phenomena, trends and issues [...]


Spontaneous Combustion! Performance and Social Networking in Digital Art :: New Media Caucus Sponsored Panel at College Art Association, Los Angeles, 2012 :: Call for Papers — Deadline: November 1, 2011.This panel will explore the dynamics of social networking sites and open source software as it is being utilized in postmodern digital art practice. Currently, [...]

Body, Space & Technology :: Call for Articles, Reviews, Reports, Visual Artworks, Sonic Artworks and Performances:Body, Space & Technology, now in its eleventh year of publication, is an on-line interdisciplinary, innovative refereed journal that welcomes submissions from all aspects of contemporary arts and new technologies. As well as articles, perspectives and reviews of books we [...]

‘TranSonic’ Perception in Interactive ChoreoSonic Performance Practice by Stan Wijnans, Body, Space & Technology Journal, Vol 10 Number 2:This paper reflects on the creation and perception of an interactive spatial ChoreoSonic1 performance environment. The term ‘Transonic Perception’ is introduced to describe the intimate bodily experience of the dancer who creates the 3D spatial sonic environment [...]

11:11:11 UpStageFestival — 5 time zones, 12 shows, 24 hours, 34 artists! :: November 11, 2011; 11:00 am (New Zealand time) - 11:00 pm (European time) :: Anyone with a standard internet connection and browser can attend with just one click.It’s always a big job to work out a schedule across so many time zones, [...]

SKOR| Foundation for Art and Public Domain presents: Actors, Agents and Attendants II: Social Housing—Housing the Social :: November 4-5, 2011 :: Felix Meritis, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam.Social Housing—Housing the Social is a two-day symposium that emphasises the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader political and philosophical idea [...]

Fall 2011 Purple Blurb @ MIT, Cambridge, MA:Seeing and Writing: Russian Multimedia Poetry by Natalia Fedorova :: October 24, 2011; 5:30 pm :: 14E-310 — Natalia Fedorova’s work includes an interactive novel, Madame Ebaressa and a Butterfly, co-written with Sergeij Kitov; 7, a  hyper fiction piece with three possible endings; Dialogue Between a Policeman and [...]

Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings by Judith F. Rodenbeck, MIT Press:“Happenings” have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion. Scholars, meanwhile, locate happenings in a genealogy of avant-garde performance that descends from futurism, surrealism, and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s. In [...]