networked performance

[Image via] Webinar: Interacting with a Digital ‘Person’: what impact(s) and implication(s) for identity? :: June 20, 2011; 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm (GMT +2) :: Streamed live here. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the speakers and share their own experiences.Speakers: Yasmine Abbas (Neo-nomad research), Georges Chapouthier (Research director [...]

[Image: "Pragmatic Geography" by Luis Camnitzer, courtesy Alexander Gray Associates] Posted on [iDC] by Trebor Scholz: Dear all,Many of you on this list have participated in discussions around the Free Cooperation conference in 2004, Share Widely in 2005, Situated Technologies one year later and recently The Internet as Playground and Factory. In the context of [...]

Discontrol Party by Samuel Bianchini (EnsadLab / DRii) :: June 24-25, 2011 8:00 pm - 2:00 am :: La Gaíté lyrique, 3, bis rue Papin, Paris.Discontrol Party is a dispositif which brings together two worlds: that of state-of-the-art surveillance techniques and that of partying. The dancefloor/ live music venue/ performance space will appear in [...]

Hacking the City – Interventions in Public and Communicative Spaces: The project “Hacking the City” took place on the occasion of the “European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.” Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called “Mapping the Region.” Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum [...]

e-flux journal issue no. 26: Artistic Thinking: In the February 2009 issue of e-flux journal, Luis Camnitzer suggested in his essay “Art and Literacy” that a core problem in education (particularly for artists) can be traced back to an early stage when one is taught to read and write, in that order.On one level, it [...]

[Image: Impressing Velocity, 1992-1997] Impressing Velocity by Masaki Fujihata (via):Fuji-san, the volcano visible from his office, inspired another work by Fujihata. In 1992, he and several friends climbed Japan’s landmark for the Fuji-san project. In a rucksack they carried, for the purpose of acquiring the primary data, a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a laptop [...]

Read and interview with Stadler on Bookforum.Publication Studio is a maker and destroyer of books. We print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books; a digital commons (where anyone can read and annotate [...]

Augmented Window :: June 17-26, 2011 :: Centre Pompidou, Gateway level 6, Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France.Directed and curated by Thierry Fournier, Augmented Window is a sensory observatory. Different artists and authors have been invited to produce a critical reading or original work on the landscape itself. Each contribution is geo-localized and presented on [...]

Why Are There No Great Women Net Artists? Vague Histories of Female Contribution According to Video and Internet Art by Jennifer Chan; originally published at http://pooool.info (The COMPLETE ESSAY is available here PDF):Since the women’s liberation movement, various gains and losses have occurred in regards to the representation of women in art.[1] In its infancy, [...]

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. Deadline: June 30, 2011. The Application Guidelines are here.Turbulence is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 15 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in [...]

UpStage is seeking real-life access node hosts for its November 11, 2011 Festival.Real life (RL) access nodes are held in conjunction with the UpStage festival to provide venues for proximal audiences around the world. A node is a physical venues that hosts screenings of sections of the festival. In the past, these venues have [...]

Systems/Layersby Nurri Kim & Adam Greenfield, Diffusion Transformations, March 2011 (Download A4 | US Letter PDF 5.3Mb Read Online):Around the world, urban form and metropolitan experience are being transformed by the presence of networked computation. The urban fabric and discrete elements in it are newly empowered to capture, process, transmit, display and even act on [...]

Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India - Research training and curriculum workshop :: August 19 - 22, 2011 :: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad :: Call for Participation - Deadline for submission: July 15.Locating Internets is an innovative, multi-disciplinary, workshop that engages with some of the most crucial debates [...]

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

[Image: A single spark can start a prairie fire' 星星之火，可以燎原 - by 4 Gentlemen] Exchange between Tim Murray, John Craig Freeman, and Tamiko Thiel on -empyre-:Tim wrote: I’m interested by the participants (ManifestAR Venice Biennial AR Intervention) choice not to extend the availability of the works more broadly online as net.art pieces. Was this [...]

Video Vortex Satellite Meeting: A mini-festival comprising workshops, seminars, screenings and artists’ talks in conjunction with cellsbutton #05 2011: Institutional Cells Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival :: July 15-23, 2011 :: Yogyakarta.Indonesia has seen an explosion of video practices and organizations since the arrival of affordable platforms for production and distribution. To date, much vital [...]

via dance-tech.net: Interview with Bertha Bermudez @ Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back, April 1-4, 2011, Zagreb.

net.walkingtools. Transformer.shift() by Micha Cárdenas, UC San Diego: The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a polyvalent, polygendered, collectively created project, a multiplicity. On one level, it is a J2ME java based application that allows users to access the GPS receiver function of a cheap cell phone without having service. On another level, it is an attempt [...]

Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars: How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet by Jeffrey Ventrella:Why does the tail wag the brain? What is virtual autism? Why can’t our avatars walk hand-in-hand? Will a nonverbal Babel fish save the world? Jeffrey Ventrella, a seasoned virtual worlds programmer and visual language expert, [...]