networked performance

Bunrakuraku :: Galaxy Gallery, 大阪市北区中央区千日前２－３－９ ユニバースビル1F, Osaka, 542-0074, Japan.Bunrakuraku is a new interactive project from SaBa, exploring the intersection of technology, participation, and puppetry. Taking inspiration from international styles of puppet theater, ranging from Japanese Bunraku to Punch and Judy, this work explores the intersection of audience and puppeteer ― with a few extra limbs [...]

Arcade Cabinet Curation :: Curate a video game cabinet for the Cooperative Gaming Co-op :: Call for curators — Deadline: July 30, 2012.As part of the Zero1 Biennial, John Bruneau and James Morgan are bringing together a wide range of game developers to show in a classic golden age setting. We are building a half [...]

The Imaginary App: A new book about Apps and the way they have changed everything! Featuring many writers, artists, and theoreticians :: Edited By Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko :: CALL FOR ARTISTS — Deadline: October 15, 2012.Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko, editors of The Imaginary App, [...]

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Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by Tony D. Sampson, University of Minnesota Press:In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors; it instead points toward a theory of [...]

[Alfredo Jaar, "The Cloud"] Border Crossing :: until September 16, 2012 :: Kunsthallen Brandts, Brandts Torv 1, 5000 Odense, Denmark.Why have we drawn borders between the countries of the world which are defined so strictly that people risk losing their lives if they cross them? Why is the right to migrate not a human right? [...]

[Collective Geology of the Erased Space by Paul Catanese] Expanded Artists’ Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: September 15, 2012.The Center for Book and Paper Arts, a program of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, recently received a $50,000 Arts in Media grant from the National [...]

Harrell Fletcher: Where I’m Calling From :: June 28, 2012; 8:00 pm (BST) :: Online at BMW Tate Live: Performance Room.Artist Harrell Fletcher invites busking musicians to take their performances from the tube stations and streets of London into the gallery to play live, online to the BMW Tate Live Performance Room’s global audience. Harrell [...]

Fifth Wall is an App designed for the iPad that considers the digital tablet as a new performance space. It explores the unique spatial, visual, and temporal conditions of the tablet, and its possibilities for choreography. The performance was created to embrace the multi-directional orientation and gravitational pull of the iPad. Viewers can focus on [...]

Remitting Default: Sonic Diagrams – Kenya (Robinson) :: July 6, 2012; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Recess, 41 Grand Street, New York City.On July 6, 2012, Kenya (Robinson) will report back from the midway point of her time spent as the inaugural artist in Recess’s online residency program, Analog. Over the past year, the artist [...]

[Qiu Zhijie, "Map of Utopia," 2012. Courtesy of the artist] Prompts & Triggers, Qiu Zhijie, Blueprints (2012) :: June 28 - August 19, 2012 :: Opening: June 28; 5:00 - 8:00 pm :: Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.For the second edition of Prompts [...]

New Aesthetic New Anxieties is the result of a five day Book Sprint organized by Michelle Kasprzak and led by Adam Hyde at V2_ from June 17–21, 2012. Authors: David M. Berry, Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O’Reilly, José Luis de Vicente. You can download the e-book as an EPUB, [...]

Bring To Light: Nuit Blanche New York 2012 :: October 6, 2012 :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: July 13, 2012.Bring to Light is a site-specific contemporary art exhibition that illuminates the streets, parks, and industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Bring to Light is New York’s “nuit blanche,” part of a global network of locally [...]

In April, Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, unveiled a new commission on campus: an architectural projection entitled And That’s The Way It Is by New York artist Ben Rubin. Later this month, Rubin and his team of EAR Studio Collaborators — data artist and programmer Jer Thorp [...]

amberPlatform: Amber Art and Technology Festival and Conference :: Türkgücü Caddesi No:3A Tophane, Beyoğlu 34425, Istanbul, Turkey :: Call for Artworks - Deadline: June 30, 2012 :: Call for Papers - Deadline: August 31, 2012. amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore the theme of Paratactic Commons in today’s world. We see the theme [...]

Turbulence Commission: Memorial Project for Jobbers’ Canyon Built with ConAgra Products by Nicholas O’Brien [Best viewed in Chrome, Firefox or Safari]Memorial Project for Jobbers’ Canyon Built with ConAgra Products pays homage to lost architectural treasures. In 1989 ConAgra, the second largest agricultural distributor in the United States, began building its new corporate headquarters in Omaha, [...]

Clouds is a computational documentary featuring hackers and media artists in dialogue about code, culture and the future of visualization.This is a preview of a feature length production to be released later this year.By Jonathan Minard (deepspeedmedia.com/) and James George (jamesgeorge.org/)Supported by:The STUDIO for Creative InquiryArt && Code festival 2011RESONATE festival 2012Eyebeam Art+Technology CenterFeaturingPhillip Whitfield [...]

Remote Schmink-a-thon (Weather Data Make-Up Marathon): a performance/ installation by Ursula Endlicher :: June 22-23, 2012 (Streamed Live June 23) :: New Media Festival, Woodstock, Vermont.A wireless wood creature (part mushroom/ part spider/ part unknown, possibly human) finds itself in a Woodstock, wondering which one. And just to be on the safe side, it inspects [...]

MYRIAD: Creation, Communication and Collaboration Between Insects and Humans by Loren Kronemyer :: June 15, 2012; 3:00 - 5:00 pm :: SymbioticA, School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth.In this talk, Loren will speak regarding her current project attempting to manipulate the trailing behaviour of ants to form text [...]