networked performance

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Professor Wendy Brown, CCIG Keynote Lecture from CCIG on Vimeo.Walled States, Waning Sovereignty: Professor Wendy Brown Keynote LectureSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, dozens of walls have been erected between and within nation-states. Why? What are these walls doing — materially, performatively, symbolically? What is their relationship to the [...]

Printed Book + Physical Hyperlinks = Real Page-Turner by Delana in Architecture & Design.Try to describe a recent dream to someone and the details are likely to dissolve into absolute nonsense. Dreams themselves are ephemeral, fleeting and altogether mysterious. But trying to figure out the connections between different events in the dream and certain components [...]

Bad for artists? On digitization, remuneration and copyright by Leonhard Dobusch, Eurozine:According to recent research, it is not illegal copying that is threatening the livelihood of artists, as record companies tell us, but an inequality built into the existing copyright system itself. Leonhard Dobusch on why, in a winner-takes-all culture, stronger copyright protection only benefits [...]

The Body Electric: An Evening with Jesse Malmed :: July 20, 2011; 7:00 pm (reception to follow) :: Whitsell Auditorium, The Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum.Whip smart, blissfully dense and multipronged cinema and performance; conceptual poetics, direct address, participatory movie song. Jesse Malmed presents a fascinating and manifold mix of conceptually rich video L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E [...]

[Esther Hunziker, "DUMP," 2010. Still.] Connect. Art between Media and Reality :: until September 11, 2011 :: 
Shedhalle Zurich, Seestrasse 395, 8038 Zurich, Switzerland.Smart technologies, everywhere available and tailored to our needs, determine our daily lives. We gossip, have affairs, send and receive our information electronically. Even support for revolutions is stoked up virtually. Mobile [...]

e-flux journal / Sternberg Press presents: Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art — Book launch with Hito Steyerl :: July 19, 2011; 8:30 pm :: Pro qm, Almstadtstr. 48-50, Berlin.Let’s be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least [...]

Other: The Nihilists :: July 16, 2011; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: (starting from) Mynyndd Llanwenarth Car Park, Grid Ref: SO268167, Sugar Loaf, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire NP7 7LA, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.A one-day visual art event, with a sound performance by Team Sports. The Nihilists is a series of outdoor installations by [...]

FILE São Paulo 2011 Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica | Electronic Language international Festival :: July 19 to August 21, 2011 :: FIESP Cultural Center - Ruth Cardoso, Avenida Paulista 1313, São Paulo, Brazil. FILE São Paulo 2011 program includes immersive and interactive installations, tablets, animations, games, machinimas, besides works of web art, video, documentaries, music [...]

Particle Falls from Andrea Polli on Vimeo.Although air is invisible, it has a major impact on public health. Santa Clara County received a failing grade for air quality in the American Lung Association’s 2009 State of the Air Report and currently surpasses unhealthy short-term pollution particles a yearly average of 11 days, the 24th highest [...]

Ars Virtua is pleased to announce the opening of look art, an art show in a multi-user dungeon commissioned by Turbulence.org. Featured artists are Thomas Asmuth, Alejo Duque, and Christopher Poff. The artwork represents a conceptual re-interpretation of the portrait through ascii text, a distopian data exchange platform and an interactive artists manifesto.Receptions are scheduled [...]

Tracing the Ephemeral: Tactical Media and the Lure of the Archive by David Garcia and Eric Kluitenberg“Tactical Media emerged when the modest goals of media artists and media activists were transformed into a movement that challenged everyone to produce their own media in support of their own political struggles. This “new media” activism was based [...]

A group of activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers now known as Public Laboratory came together to organize the Gulf Oil Mapping project. Since May 2010, we have been working with New Orleans-based Louisiana Bucket Brigade to get Gulf Coast residents out on boats and along beaches to produce high-resolution aerial imagery of the [...]

Make Capitalism Work For Me!: A Public Art project in Cleveland, OH by Steve Lambert.

Open call for submissions to MOEBIUS, new journal of iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, a research group at the University of North Texas. Special consideration will be given to submissions received by September 1, 2011.MOEBIUS examines the convergence of theory & practice in the electronic arts. We are currently [...]

[Wiener Torso Spinner by Will Pappenheimer] Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and the Centre for Digital Material Culture present: Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy :: November 4, 2011 :: University of Sussex :: Call for Papers — Abstract Deadline: August 19.From magicians to immersive media and from the circus to cyborgs, the celebration and/or [...]

Architecture Omi presents Augmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Space Out of Thin Air — Acconci Studio, Asymptote, Cleater Studio, Kol/ Mac, Metaxy, Leeser, Studio Daniel Libeskind, SHoP, SITE :: July 9, 2011; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: The Fields Sculpture Park at OMI, 1405 County Route 22 Ghent, New York.Bring your smart phone for [...]

Data Bodies, Networked Portraits — Critical reflections on today’s interconnected self :: until August 28, 2011 :: Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru.We have been living in a networked world for 15 years now. Interconnected sets of nodes, as sociologist Manuel Castells described networks, seem to have progressively become the context of our everyday life, of our [...]

Symbiotica Lab presents Aesthetics of the Multicosm, a talk by Joe Davis :: July 22; 2011; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: Alexander Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia, Perth.Artists operate within both the miniscule contexts of cells and molecules and the vastly larger macrocosm of human experience. While scientists ponder higher dimensions and the existence [...]

Border Haunt by Ian Alan Paul — a border database collision at borderhaunt.com on July 15, 2011.“Border Haunt is an attempt to bring two different databases associated with the U.S.-Mexico border into contact with one another for the duration of one day. It is an invitation to join a temporary network of people from across [...]