networked performance

Tangible Feelings — A Symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts :: September 16 - 18, 2011 :: iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages Koolmijnenkaai 30 - 1080 Brussels.With the emergence of affordable EEG devices and other biofeedback sensors for the health and game industry, we see more and more artists inspired by these promising [...]

Connected Communities Symposium :: September 12-14, 2011 :: Culture Lab Newcastle, UK.Culture Lab Newcastle is hosting an international interdisciplinary event open to the general public, on the topic of Connected Communities. This symposium will include talks and projects from theorists and practitioners alike, selected from a call for expressions of interest.Many theorists have regarded [...]

Upgrade! Chicago: Juanjose Rivas :: August 27, 2011; 7:00 pm :: The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL.Juanjose Rivas is a Noise && Dirty New Media Artist based in Mexico City. His experimental musics, video art projects and realtime audio video performances have been screened and performed internationally. From his recent performance at BENT Festival [...]

threewalls’ Hand in Glove Conference ::October 20–23, 2011 :: PHONEBOOK 3 Release event: October 21; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: Geolofts, 3636 S. Iron St., Chicago, IL.Hand-in-Glove is a new semiannual conference that addresses the pragmatic realities and imaginative possibilities of self-organized, noncommercial and artist-run spaces, publications, residencies, and a variety of other projects that [...]

Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit with Graham Harwood, Eleonora Orreggia, Wilfried Hou je Bek, Stephen Fortune, Suzzanne Treister, Mike Challis, Cad Taylor, Ryan Jordan, Andy Bolus, Martin Howse, Kathrin Guenter, Jonathan Kemp, John Bowers, Mariko Ogawa, Laetitia Barbier :: August 28 - September 4, 2011 :: The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit presents an intense week-long series of interventions, [...]

Nato Thompson’s Socially Engaged Art Outside the Bounds of an Artistic Discipline from creativetime.Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time and is the Curator of the Living as Form project. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including Bookforum, Frieze, Art Journal, Artforum, Parkett, Cabinet and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. His book [...]

Brian Holmes‘ Post-Fordisms and Culture, Presented as part of Living as Form from creativetime.Brian Holmes is an art critic, cultural theorist, and activist based in Paris and Chicago whose work centers on the mapping of contemporary capitalism and the intersections of political and artistic practices. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate [...]

Claire Bishop’s Participation and Spectacle: Where Are We Now?, Presented as part of Living as Form from creativetime.Claire Bishop is an Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and an internationally recognized scholar and curator of contemporary art. Her critical work focuses on [...]

Networked Cultures provides a filmic archive of practitioners from the fields of art, architecture, theory and activism talking about their work in the light of global cultural transformation.Network Creativity: Azra Akšamija, Stefano Boeri, Katherine Carl, Branka Curćić, Olga Lopoukhova, Margarethe Makovec, Kyong Park, Marjetica Potrc, Irit Rogoff, Florian Schneider, Srdjan Jovanović WeissContested Spaces: Ayreen [...]

[Sans façon, "Limelight Saturday Night," 2005] Playing the City 3 :: August 11–25, 2011 :: Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt.More than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt with their actions, performances, and installations. Art will take to the street again. Playing the City 3 will focus on public space as a [...]

Surveillance Cinema: James Coupe :: August 11, 2011; 7:00 - 8:00 pm :: Henry Auditorium, University of Washington, 15th Ave NE and NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA.In conjunction with the exhibition The Talent Show (through August 21), The Henry Art Gallery invites you to join artist James Coupe for a screening and discussion of the [...]

The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop, Duke University Press.For thirty years “the death of the author” has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer’s irrelevance to the reader’s experience. In this [...]

The Interception series of actions consists of the illegal interception of CCTV cameras monitoring urban areas. The intercepted CCTV cameras are then used in order to raise public awareness of the growing issues of social surveillance implemented by means of technological devices — Surveillance Culture.This time the action involved the use of a remote control [...]

City as Studio, Edition 2: Call for Proposals — Deadline: August 30, 2011.The Sarai Programme at Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice (CSDS), Delhi is an interdisciplinary platform for the investigation and interpretation of contemporary urban life. Sarai produces events and processes, publishes offline and online content and generates contexts for research and creative practice.The Sarai [...]

Morgan Packard: Dihedral Product — Generative Crowd-Sourced Sculpture with Music Performances :: August 6-14, 2011 :: PERFORMANCES: Construction begins August 6. Public invited to participate :: OPENING: August 12; 7:00 -10:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer St. at Lorimer. L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan. Sol LeWitt knew that artists of many diverse types [...]

interACTicons, remixed :: August 4, 2011; 7:00 - 8:00 pm :: The Big Screen Plaza, Eventi Hotel, 851 Sixth Avenue at 29th Street, New York, NY (In the Courtyard).InterACTicons — by Ursula Endlicher — is a participatory, philosophical and theatrical investigation into the depth of the Internet as well as of its surface - [...]

Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city’s population. In this mind-bending talk he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and [...]

“The Situationist Drawing Device is a backpack-sized mechanism for recording the experience of landscape. Designed by Ji Soo Han and Paul Ornsby, and operating by way of mirrors, the Device “records a journey taken in an altered state of perception through drawing.” It is an “intermediary and interpretative tool,” the designers add, one that stands [...]

Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities — that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city’s population. In this mind-bending talk he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and [...]

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the [...]