networked performance

Gap by Dušica Dražić :: June 28 - July 10, 2011 :: 15 Kordunska Street, 5th floor, 0-24h, Zagreb, Croatia.Today, artist Dušica Dražić starts her two-week performance Gap as part of the eleventh UrbanFestival. She conceptualised Gap as an experiment: she will move into the apartment in 15 Kordunska Street, remove the front door and [...]

Anna Dumitriu: Normal Flora :: July 30 - September 17, 2011 :: Opening July 30; 2:00 pm :: R-Space @ The Linen Rooms, 32 Castle Street, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.This major new solo show by international artist Anna Dumitriu blurs the boundaries between art, textile crafts and science. It will feature: a dress patterned using pigments [...]

French street artist Invader recreates Joel Brodsky’s iconic Jim Morrison photo with Rubik’s CubesFrom Andy Baio’s post, Kind of Screwed.

[Public Smog by Amy Balkin] Breathtaking: Media Art and Public Participation in Climate Issues by Andrea Polli, Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association Eleventh Annual Convention, University of Maine, Orono, June 10–13, 2010:The accelerating crisis in climate change and the realization that humans are the primary cause of this change has raised questions about ownership [...]

What is Eco-Art? by Leila Christine Nadir, Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association Eleventh Annual Convention, University of Maine, Orono, June 10–13, 2010:“Ice, sticks, rocks: these need not be the media of eco-art. The Greek etymological origins of “eco-art” are oikos (house or dwelling) + art (to fit together). To fit together a home — [...]

Lab to test and explore the online venue TAP :: July 4-8 and 14-15, 2011 :: Call for Participation.Networked/ telematic/ telepresence performance/ presentation & real time media mixing laboratory exploring & testing the online venue, TAP. Scores/ parameters/ mini-scripts on the theme of water, interaction between webcams & body movements/ voice & media, mixing & [...]

remixthebook by Mark Amerika, University of Minnesota Press, September 2011:A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital mediaDigital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading [...]

Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism by Stephen Ramsay: Rethinking digital literary criticism by situating computational work within the broader context of the humanities.Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay’s intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as [...]

WATERWHEEL is cranking up for its online launch, August 22, 2011.Uploading media/data is already possible on the website. Below is a short video showing how to do it on the temporary interface. The July 4-15 laboratory on the TAP will allow people to try not only webcams (which can move, rotate, resize, flip in real [...]

The Commons by Linda Carroli:Taking cues from the examples and critics cited here, the idea of the commons has emerged as a networked space of creative and generative possibility and risk. To recover is to reclaim. In shaping the commons, Jay Walljasper states that we “recognise some forms of wealth belong to all of us, [...]

[Image: Kitty Kraus, "Untitled," 2008. Courtesy the artist and Galerie NEU, Berlin.] Constellations :: June 25 - September 11, 2011 :: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester UK.Constellations presents a series of artworks that reflect impermanence, ephemerality and movement. Featuring internationally acclaimed artists Kitty Kraus, Takahiro Iwasaki, Katie Paterson and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, each of the artists [...]

Gone to Croatan: Strategies of Disappearance, curated by Robert Rumas (Gdansk) and Daniel Muzyczuk (Torun) :: until August 14, 2011 :: Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmunder U (6th floor), Leonie-Reygers-Terasse, D-44137 Dortmund.The first European colonists in the New World disappeared leaving behind the settlements and a paper note with the words Gone to the Croatan. [...]

Dead Drops Master Class with Aram Bartholl :: June 29, 2011; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm :: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam.The term “Dead drops” refers to places where spies leave information behind to be picked up by others; a method often used among spies during the Cold War. In Aram Bartholl’s version of the [...]

Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover, University of Chicago Press.Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with [...]

[Water wARs: Squatters Pavilion by John Craig Freeman] Future of Water exhibition and event series :: October 20, 2011 - January 20, 2012 :: Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: July 15, 2011.Calling all armchair hydrologists, liquid artists, part-time diviners, fluid technologists and steamy scientists! This October Science [...]

File Type - curated by Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart :: June 17 - July 30, 2011 :: Opening reception: June 17; 5:00 - 8:00 pm :: Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria Street, Chicago, Illinois.The specificity of work in electronic media warrants investigations that refine categories past “the digital” or “the internet.” File Type is [...]

Steina: Involving People into this Magic :: until September 25, 2011 :: Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York.Steina’s love affair with art began as a young girl growing up in Reykjavik, Iceland. She began playing violin and attended every concert, play, opera, and gallery she could. In 1959, she received a [...]

Network as Material: An Interview with Julian Oliver by Taina Bucher, Furtherfield.org: I met the Berlin-based media artist and programmer Julian Oliver in Toronto as part of the Subtle Technologies festival, where he taught a workshop on the Network as Material. The aim of the workshop reflects Oliver’s artistic and pedagogical philosophy nicely; to not [...]