networked performance

Calling all Curators: 5×5 Temporary Public Art Project :: $100,000 (US) per curator for the artist and curator fees :: Deadline for Proposals: September 16, 2011.5×5 is a public art initiative that will result in twenty-five groundbreaking temporary public art installations that will be installed concurrently throughout Washington, DC in the spring of 2012. The [...]

Symptoms — an exploratory workshop and tour lead by Martin Howse :: Part of Invisible Architectures :: September 9-11, 2011; 12:00 - 5:00 pm daily :: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.“And this is the reason why it is impossible in a visitation to prevent the spreading of the plague by the utmost human vigilance: viz., that [...]

Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) :: October 11-12, 2011 :: The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK :: Online registration.Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development. This exciting two-day symposium will [...]

PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, is an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa.PLAND finds its inspiration in a legacy of pioneers, entrepreneurs, homesteaders, artists, and other counterculturalists who – through both radical and mundane activities – reclaim and reframe a [...]

[Mischa Kuball, "Platon's Mirror," 2011. ZKM, Karlsruhe © Onuk] Mischa Kuball, Platon’s Mirror :: Curator: Blair French :: August 31 – September 30, 2011 :: Opening: August 31; 6:00 pm :: Artspace, 43–51 Cowper Wharf Road Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, Sydney Australia.Düsseldorf-based media artist Mischa Kuball works with light’s socio-political dimensions across a range of gallery [...]

Blowup: Every Artist, A Journalist: Examining the tension between documentary methods and artistic expression, and address where notions of truth and beauty fit in this mix — with Lino Hellings (NL), Alfredo Cramerotti (UK), Gair Dunlop (UK) :: August 25, 2011; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam.Documentary images are a common method [...]

Sherry Turkle talks about why we expect more from technology and less from each other.Sherry Turkle is a professor, author, consultant, researcher, and licensed clinical psychologist who has spent the last 30 years researching the psychology of people’s relationships with technology. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and [...]

Techno-Ecologies: XIII International Festival for New Media Culture Art+Communication 2011 :: November 3 – December 11, 2011 :: Riga and Liepaja :: Call for Participation.Techno-Ecologies features a conference (November 4–5) and exhibition (November 4 – December 11) as well as broad programme of performances, screenings, public lectures and workshops in Riga and Liepaja, Latvia.Everyday life [...]

Imagery in the 21st Century, edited by Oliver Grau, with Thomas Veigl, MIT Press:We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today’s information explosion [...]

Fluid Nexus is an application for Android phones and desktop computers enabling exchange of messages without the need for centralized mobile networks. Messages are transferred by short-range networking technologies like bluetooth and through the movement of people from one location to another.In the second decade of the twenty-first century, networks continue to be defined by [...]

WIFE is visceral, live, contemporary, dance, interacting with original, projected, animations and music. She is the creation of Nina McNeely, Kristen Leahy, and Jasmine Albuquerque. Her three members are dancers, choreographers, teachers, editors, animators, and performers thriving in the underbelly of L.A subculture. She finds inspiration from myth, folklore, archetypes, and the subtleties of everyday [...]

[Edward Hopper, Gas (1940)] Place and Placelessness in America, The New Atlantis: Journal of Technology and Society:In the 1990s, the mavens of high technology praised in breathless tones a new “placelessness.” Thanks to the Internet and the forces of globalization, we were told, physical location would become irrelevant to our public and private lives.Perhaps [...]

HASTAC Conference - Digital Scholarly Communication :: December 2-3, 2011 :: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor :: Call for Proposals - September 15, 2011.We seek topics which may range over but need not be restricted to the role of digital technologies in: Reformulating scholarly projects and products. (This might include questions of narration and argumentation, evidence [...]

Call for Proposals for D|N|A Post-Symposium Publication :: Database | Narrative | Archive: An International Symposium on Nonlinear Digital Storytelling was held in Montréal, 13-15 May 2011. D|N|A attracted over sixty educators, artists, filmmakers, scholars and technologists from North America, Europe and Australia.D|N|A was conceived in light of some emergent practices in the digital arts [...]

[Image: Golan Levin, QR Hobo Codes/QR Stenclier and Will Pappenheimer, bUD, Bureau of Urban Devolution] Distributed Collectives — curated by Kelani Nichole :: until August 27, 2011 (Closing Reception: 6:00 - 10:00 pm) :: Little Berlin, 2430 Coral Street, Philadelphia.Distributed Collectives is an exhibition of three web-based artist groups: Computers Club, Manifest.AR and F.A.T. The [...]

Berkman Center for Internet and Society presents Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn — Cathy Davidson, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University and co-founder of HASTAC :: September 20, 2011; [...]

Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 1: MISH MASH, August 2011.Transmediation as Betrayal: The Case of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Editorial by Lanfranco Aceti: When inheriting the history of a publication like the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) it is difficult to stay faithful to historical traditions and at the same time catch up with the [...]

Total Art Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to establish a dynamic forum for interdisciplinary discourse grounded in the arts. We are committed to nurturing new ways of understanding and interrogating work that crosses the practice-theory lines endemic to traditional academic and artistic worlds.The journal takes its name from Alan Kaprow’s 1958 essay, “Notes [...]

Beyond the sunbeam through trees by Noritoshi Hirakawa, with Michael Rother (Musician), Yoko Ando (Dancer) :: until August 21, 2011 :: YCAM [Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media], 7-7 Nakazono-cho, Yamaguchi, 7530075 Japan.Contemporary artist Noritoshi Hirakawa has been examining individual interpretations of free will to live utilizing a wide range of styles and rather propositional [...]

A stateless person is someone with no citizenship or nationality. According to the United Nations and Refugees International, an estimated 12-15 million people in the world are not citizens of any state, and are therefore inherently deprived of the right to have rights.The issue of statelessness is largely underrepresented and unseen, similarly to stateless people [...]