networked performance

The Printing Dress by Asta Roseway and Sheridan Martin Small: You are probably familiar with the old saying, “You are what you eat” but how about, “You are what you tweet?” What if this concept were incorporated into garments of the future? Would you censor yourself, knowing you would reveal your statements to the world [...]

Performing Mixed Reality by Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi, MIT Press:Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists is employing digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed, and often deeply subjective theatrical performance. The work of these artists is not only fundamentally transforming the experience of theater, it [...]

Marked Territory — A Physical Twitter Client that lets you Retweet News Stories Based on Brute Strength — by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, with Erin KennedyMarked Territory is a physical Twitter client in the shape of a typical carnival strength meter. Participants utlize a large mallet to hit a strike zone that drives a typical carnival light [...]

Marelo Coelho, Lyndl Hall and Joanna Berzowska have developed a series of techniques for building sensors, actuators and circuit boards that behave, look, and feel like paper.By embedding electro-active inks, conductive threads and smart materials directly into paper during the papermaking process, they have created seamless composites that are capable of supporting new and unexpected [...]

Exquisite Zone by Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder @ GLOW 2011 Festival :: November 5 - 12, 2011 :: Kennedyplein, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.The title, Exquisite Zone, references the 1920-30s surrealist drawing game called ‘Exquisite Corpse’, in which each collaborator adds to a collective composition.Exquisite Zone invites nightly participants to use their smart phones to [...]

Training for a Better World :: Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, 26, Quai Aspirant Herber, Sète, France.Is the artist, Annie Abrahams, in training for a better world, when she appears on the invitation for the exhibition, Training for a Better World, spinning around in a deserted landscape? Maybe. Yet, the pieces she has presented to the [...]

Algorithmic Unconscious curated by Phillip Stearns :: November 4 - 28, 2011 :: Opening: November 4; 6:30 - 11:30 pm (Performances start at 9:30 pm) :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY.Digital is anti-noise. In the shift from analog, physical, or chemical forms of art making — where physical agents operate on physical material [...]

Brick + Mortar International Video Festival curated by Christoph Cox :: October 14, 2011; 5:00 – 10:00 pm + October 15; noon – 8:00 pm :: Locations throughout downtown Greenfield, Massachusetts.The 3rd annual Brick + Mortar International Video Festival presents a selection of video and film installations that focus on sound, music, and relationships [...]

make-shift by Helen Varley Jamieson (from Umetnost Radi Akcije Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia) and Paula Crutchlow (from London) :: October 15, 2011; 8:30 pm (find your local time here) :: Go to www.make-shift.net and follow the LIVE LINK in the top right hand corner.

make-shift is a unique and intimate networked performance that speaks about the [...]

Fibreculture Journal 18, Trans:It is now perhaps a commonplace that digital, networked and informational media are extremely transient. They diversify in form and function at a dizzying rate. At the same time, they transit and fuse “social” and “natural” differences in a manner which reconfigures all the worlds involved. It is also perhaps a commonplace [...]

["Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi" by Timo Arnall (with Jørn Knutsen & Einar Sneve Martinussen)] :: Invisible Fields :: October 14, 2011 - March 4, 2012 :: Arts Santa Mónica, La Rambla, 7, Barcelona, Spain.Invisible Fields brings together over a dozen internationally known artists, designers and scientists to explore the radio spectrum - the invisible environment [...]

Third International Conference on Computational Creativity :: May 30 – June 1, 2012 :: Dublin, Ireland :: Call for Papers — due January 16, 2012.We invite papers that make a scientific contribution to the field of computational creativity and report work that involves computation (e.g., fully autonomous systems, modeling, support for human creativity, [...]

Senses Places - Mixed Reality Participatory Performance Environment @interACT :: October 15, 2011; 11:00 am [EST] :: LEA Simulator, Second Life.Senses Places is a playful mixed reality performance environment for audience participation. An ongoing dance-technology collaboration generating whole body multimodal interfacings keen to a somatic cross-cultural dance approach. Senses Places stresses the awareness and integration [...]

Emotional Skin: Performance and Sensorial Environments — a VIDA 13.0 workshop with Sonia Cillari :: October 26-28, 2011 :: Matadero Madrid. Paseo de la Chopera 14, Madrid, Spain.The Italian artist Sonia Cillari, honourable mention in VIDA 13.0, will share with participants her exploration of sensorial and perception mechanisms in immersed environments and the consciousness, perception [...]

“Sea and Spar between, a work by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, is a generator of poetic lines formed by melding words and expressions from “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The work looks like a huge blue “ocean” of digital lines (about 225 trillion in total) explorable by randomly [...]

“Boskoi is an application for Android mobiles that allows people to create a checklist of geo-localized spontaneous food in urban areas. Created by Joey van der Bie, Maarten van der Mark and Vincent Vijn the application was developed with Ushahidi, an useful open source platform for collecting, displaying and mapping information on mobile devices. Recently [...]

With most demonstrations and street protests it’s hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in [...]

Identity Bureau Workshop: How to Make a New Identity by Heath Bunting :: October 20, 2011; 10:30 am - 5:00 pm :: Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam.An identity is a mutable object. It’s negotiated between people, organizations, and institutions, formalized in documentation, actions, and possessions. In this workshop Heath Bunting (UK) shows [...]

[(c) WerkPhoto Stefan Schick] Exchange Radical Moments! Live Art Festival :: November 11, 2011; 12:01 am - 11:59 pm :: Berlin, Bitola, Chisinau, Linz, Liverpool, London, Paris, Prague, Riga, Słubfurt, Stockholm + Live Streams online.Exchange Radical Moments! interrupts everyday life with Live Art — site-specific interventions, community art, public interventions, performances and live acts disrupting [...]