networked performance

By McKenzie Wark. Commissioned by Vectors Journal. Art by Kevin Pyle. Music by The Love Technology.

Turbulence Spotlight: Aleph Null by Jim Andrews:Aleph Null is a generative, interactive, open source work written in JavaScript using the HTML5 canvas tag. No plugin required. Aleph Null is color music. No audio. It takes practice to tease the really good stuff out of it. It’s like an instrument that way. Or a game in [...]

[Jack Ox, Ursonate, CAC, New Orleans 2004] Jack Ox’s Visualization of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate :: Exhibition: September 16 - October 28, 2011 :: Performance: September 17; 2:00 pm with Kristen Loree performing the Ursonate and digital projections by Jack Ox :: Mesa Library Gallery, 2400 Central Ave, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA with live-streaming [...]

MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly — the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together. It’s a big concept at early stages; Tibbits shows us three in-the-lab projects that hint at what a self-assembling [...]

ISEA2011 presents Southern Ocean Studies :: Pro­jec­tion on the Cupola: September 14 - 21, 2011; 9:00 am - 11:00 pm :: Discussion: September 16; 8:00 - 10:30 pm :: Çem­ber­l­i­tas Hamam (built by Mimar Sinan in 1584).Lan­franco Aceti, ISEA2011 Is­tan­bul Artis­tic Di­rec­tor and Con­fer­ence Chair, in­vites you to dis­cuss is­sues of con­tem­po­rary ecol­ogy, melt­ing of [...]

[I Love Your Work by Jonathan Harris] Social Media :: September 16 - October 15, 2011 :: Opening: September 15; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: The Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY.The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists exploring public platforms for communication and social networks through an aesthetic and conceptual lens. In [...]

Urban Rhythms will be an artwork for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. I have been fortunate to have already received two grants for the development of the project; an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and an Artist Fellowship from the City of Santa Monica. These funds plus any others [...]

Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images by Tamiko Thiel + Invisible Istanbul: Urban Dynamics by PATTU Istanbul (Cem Kozar & Işıl Ünal) — AR intervention in the Istanbul Biennial :: September 18, 2011; 2:00 pm :: Look for the yellow “Invisible Istanbul” logo at the cafe in front of Antrepot 5/Sanat Limani, Istanbul Biennial.Invisible Istanbul [...]

Mutualisms :: September 9 - September 25, 2011 :: Opening: September 9; 6:00 - 10:00 pm :: Symposium: September 11; 1:00 - 5:00 pm :: Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 South Morgan Street, 60608, Chicago, IL.Mutualisms is a collaborative curatorial project organized by Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars, exploring the ways in which networks of friendship [...]

ISEA Istanbul presents Demand Player Sovereignty Workshops by Third Faction :: September 10-13, 2011: See times and venues here (presenting for the first hour live in Istanbul and then continuing the program in World of Warcraft. To participate please join us on Demon Soul server (US) and message Myriammoore on the Horde side or MataHari [...]

Origination and Metacreation: A Conversation with Ben Bogart, Vague Terrain:Ben Bogart is a Canadian artist whose works encompass science, machine creativity and open source ethics. His innovative and fascinating investigations on artificial imagination and machine learning are effectively demonstrated through his body of work, which is neatly underpinned and strongly characterized by a critical analysis [...]

The New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX 04: Collateral Affections is the only event of its kind in Mexico. This year, our main theme explores the notion of technology as affection: How does technology affect us? How does it intervene in aesthetic activities? This festival is open to all those who are interested in [...]

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry Reviewed by Jussi Parikka, Leonardo Reviews.“Probably no one who reads Leonardo publications needs to be convinced of the centrality of software for modern art, culture, or academia. Yet, outside these circles, I think there is demand for such books as [...]

SALT presents Becoming Istanbul, 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu :: September 13 - December 31, 2011.SALT Beyoğlu’s second comprehensive exhibition Becoming Istanbul will be accompanied by parallel programs 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu. Turkey’s aim to find itself a valid place within the global networks of politics, economy, commerce, culture and tourism has [...]

[The Post Reality Show by Randall Packer] ISEA Istanbul presents Interart|Intersensorium. On the Interrelation of Media and the Senses — Chair Per­sons: Dr. Anke Fin­ger, Dr. Chris­tiane Heibach; Pre­sen­ters: Chris­tiane Heibach, Ran­dall Packer, Cre­tien van Campen, Semir Zeki, Bir­git Mers­mann :: Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011; Session 1: 9:00 - 10:30 am Session 2: 1:00 -2:30 pm [...]

Not There — Manifest.​AR Venice Bi­en­nial 2011 In­ter­ven­tion :: until December 31, 2011; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Kasa Gallery, Istanbul.Not There is an ex­hi­bi­tion of art­works from the Manifest.​AR Venice Bi­en­nial 2011 AR In­ter­ven­tion still up and run­ning at the Venice Bi­en­nial. Cu­rated by Lan­franco Aceti and Ozden Sahin, the ex­hi­bi­tion at Kasa [...]

Nick Briz Explains the Glitch-Art Methods of JODI, Chicago Art Magazine:In an effort to branch out further into the world of tech-based and internet art, Chicago Art Magazine attempted to send interview questions to the Belgium-based artist collective JODI, who have been making art for the internet for almost 10 years. When we attempted to [...]

neomaflux by Troy Innocent + Indae Hwang :: Part of UNCONTAINABLE: Terra Virtualis — Curated by The Australian Centre of Virtual Art (ACVA)
 @ ISEA2011 :: September 14 - October 14, 2011 :: Nuru Ziya Suites, Istanbul.noemaflux describes an act of shifting perception. In this work it is centered on the experience of an augmented [...]

ISEA Istanbul presents Leaf++ by FakePress Publishing, part of Digitization of Biological Data :: Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011; 2:45 - 4:25 pm :: Sa­banci Cen­ter Room 2, Sa­banci Cen­ter, Lev­ent.Natural interfaces and cross-medial technologies allow for the creation of new publishing paradigms in which the term book can be disarticulated and rearranged into unexpected forms, fostering [...]