networked performance

Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t [...]

SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain and Land Art Contemporary present Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971–2011) :: September 17 – November 27, 2011 :: CBK Emmen, Ermerweg 88b (De Fabriek), Emmen, the Netherlands.Forty years after the completion of the earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in Emmen, the film that land art [...]

(He)artbreaking to the Core: Zombie Data and the Arts of Re/De/Transcoding with Nina Wenhart (chair), Rosa Menkman, Melissa Barron, Daniela Kuka :: September 16, 2011; 1:00 -2:30 pm :: ISEA Istanbul.Digital corpses all abound, zombie data that is still there, but cannot be performed anymore. Change is inevitable, if the artwork should survive. Besides the [...]

Experimental Arts Conference :: August 19-20, 2011 :: National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, GPO Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 Sydney, Australia.What is experimentation? What makes art ‘experimental’? What are the results of aesthetic experiments and why do we need them? Could artists invent new modes [...]

[FEAST #10, February 2011. Image courtesy of FEAST.] Living as Form :: Exhibition: September 24 – October 16, 2011 :: Historic Essex Street Market, NYC :: Creative Time Summit 3: Living as Form :: September 23, 2011 :: NYU Skirball Center, 566 Laguardia Place, NYC (Tickets. Living as Form is free and open to the [...]

“… Shadow Cities isn’t just the future of mobile gaming. It may actually be the most interesting, innovative, provocative and far-reaching video game in the world right now, on any system.” - Seth Schiesel, Brave New World That’s as Familiar as the Machine It Fights With.From their website: Shadow Cities is a location [...]

Third Hand Plays: “Scrape Scraperteeth” by Jason Nelson by Brian Stefans:“Jason Nelson’s huge body of electronic literature, most of it done in Flash, might at first seem the work of an obsessive outsider; the fact that he is an American living in Australia might only confirm this assumption. Each of his pieces is [...]

Ultra-red | Art, Collectivity, and Pedagogy: Changing the World in which we Live, Chto delat?:The art world is going through a period of intense fascination with collectives. This is often combined with an enthusiastic interest in pedagogy. Curators, critics and institutions champion collectivity and pedagogy as, among other things, an alternative or corrective, if you [...]

PDPal - Mapping Without Terrain (2002-’04) by Julian Bleecker, Marina Zurkow , Scott Paterson, now part of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, MOMA.“To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to know a few square meters of it… tiny incursions into disembodied vestiges, [...]

Unlike Us – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives: Proposal for a research network, a series of events and a reader [Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol)]The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers [...]

Life Online: Call for Proposals — Deadline: July 26, 2011.The National Media Museum in partnership with FutureEverything is commissioning a new media artwork for inclusion in [Open Source], the first exhibition in the new Life Online temporary exhibition space due to open in March 2012. This exhibition will form a major part of the Museum’s [...]

[Bins & Benches by Greyworld] The Australian National University School of Art presents Public Interactions: Dialogues on Art and Public Space, an international symposium to be held in Canberra from the July 20 - 23, 2011.International and local artists, architects, designers and public intellectuals will converge to explore the role of art in the public [...]

Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design by Xtine Borrough Book Launch + Dorkbot - featuring Xtine Borrough, Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Jeremy Rotsztain :: July 26, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles.Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design offers an inside look into the process [...]

Pulse Sensor: an Open Hardware Heart-Rate Sensor — by Yury Gitman — is a plug-and-play heart-rate sensor for Arduino. It can be used by students, artists, athletes, makers, and game & mobile developers who want to easily incorporate live heart-rate data into their projects.

Here’s an interesting border project that predates Border Haunt and also references BlueServo:The Texas Border — by Joana Moll — is an audiovisual installation in which the recorded broadcasts of surveillance cameras placed along the US Mexican border in Texas are shown. BlueServo is an Internet platform run by The Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition where [...]

Turbulence Commission: look art - a MUD/MUSH* exhibition with works by Thomas Asmuth, Alejandro Duque, and Christopher Poff :: Openings: July 16, 2011 at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm PST [Needs Software Download. Follow Directions to Connect]* MUSH is a pun on MUD — most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, [...]

Grow a New Eye - A Technology project in San Francisco, CA by Tanya Marie Vlach. From the Huffington Post:Vlach, who lost an eye in a car accident, is now seeking funding for a tiny, wireless-enabled camera to be inserted into her prosthetic eye. Her implant will contribute to a number of artistic projects. She [...]

Trespass: First a Parade, Then a Party :: October 2, 2011; 11:00 am :: 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA.The streets of downtown Los Angeles will erupt in a parade of local artists and residents, complete with music, dancing and performance. The parade is the culmination of Trespass, a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit [...]

Performing the Border — a video essay by Ursula Biemann (43 min. 1999) — is set in the Mexican-US border town Ciudad Juarez, where US industries assemble their electronic equipment.Performing the Border looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations. The video [...]

University of the Trees is a global participatory framework - online and on the ground - recognising different kinds of thinking and knowledge, and prioritising experiential knowing.University of the Trees is an alternative, mobile university that offers ‘instruments’ and approaches for exploring the connection between imagination and transformation, between the poetic and the practical, and [...]