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All The Worlld’s A Screen — A live telematic performance by Charlotte Gould & Paul Sermon :: May 28, 2011; 4:00 - 6:00 pm (Manchester) + 5:00 - 7:00 pm (Barcelona) :: MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN + Hangar.org, Poblenou, Barcelona.Audiences in Manchester and Barcelona will be joined together on screen for the [...]

Turbulence Artists’ Studios: Andreas Maria Jacobs — Using Google search results, textual fragments found on the Web are programmatically rearranged, deformed or crushed. By applying this strategic process new, dismantling and reorienting contexts arise, not directly conforming to the mundanity of the original result listings, deconstructing and re-contextualizing the actual text. Both reflecting and reinforcing [...]

Susan Kozel wrote: “(T)he IntuiTweet project (is) an initiative that began in conjunction with the Theatre Academy and University of Art and Design in Helsinki but which will be developed further here (MEDEA is a centre for new media at Malmö University, Sweden). The goal of this project is to provoke and exchange physical intuition [...]

[Image: 1970s collaboration facsimile] From Art and Electronic Media Online Companion directed by Edward Shanken: Composite Fax Image by Lief Brush, Sonia Sheridan, and Willard Van De Bogart:Using fax machines connected to a conference call phone line, in 1972 artists Lief Brush in Iowa City, Sonia Sheridan in Chicago and Willard Van De Bogart in [...]

The Invisible Pavilion @ Venice Biennale — Curated by Simona Lodi and Les Liens Invisibles :: June 1 - November 27, 2011 :: Press Conference and Tour: June 1; 5:00 pm, Giardini (main concourse, in the shade near Belgium Pavilion). In partnership with Manifest.AR.Participating Artists: Artie Vierkant ● Costant Dullart ● CONT3XT.NET ● IOCOSE [...]

Discotrope Work-in-Progress Preview - May 2011 from Amy Alexander on Vimeo.Discotrope is an audiovisual performance for public spaces by Amy Alexander and Annina Rüst. Dance party performances invoke both alternative energy and the curious history of dance in cinema – from backlots to backyards.

Micro-Nutrient Couture by Emily Crane (2010).“Micro-Nutrient Couture evolved from a restrictive brief based on the premise of zero resources to create fashion futures; without the current mass production capabilities available, what would a fashion practitioner do?Micro-Nutrient Couture from Emily Crane on Vimeo.Micro-Nutrient Couture aims to create a fashion experience in a world exploring ‘the constant [...]

Urban Guide for Alternate Use: A celebration of re-use and resourcefulness in the city through alternate uses for urban objects and areas :: Alternate Uses For: Street Signs, Advertising, Buildings, Billboards, Fire Hydrants, Infrastructure, Lamp Posts, Newspaper Boxes, Posters, Scaffolding, Seating, Telephone Boxes, Traffic Cones, Trees, Windows :: Cities: London, Madrid, New York, Amsterdam, Bat-Yam, [...]

Rambler Shoes from ricardo O'nascimento on Vimeo.“Rambler, developed by Ricardo O”Nascimento and Tiago Martins, is a critical take on near obsessive microblogging habits and elicits reflection on the personal nature, amount and usefulness of information generated everyday through blogging and social platforms such as Twitter.Rambler is a critical embodiment of the (until now) metaphorical notion [...]

Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data — and at times vast numbers of people — and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the “Wilderness Downtown” video that customizes for the user, his [...]

Creative Time Tweets: Public Art, 140 Characters at a Time explores Twitter as a viable place for art that engages audiences, promotes dialogue, and intersects with the physical world, providing a rich environment where — 140 characters at a time — revolutions are organized, the banalities of everyday life are shared, and artists create site-specific [...]

Diorama Panorama: Zoe Beloff Gets Inside Your Brain with 3D Movies and Models in ‘The Somnambulists’ by Tanja Laden, LA Weekly Blogs:“Using early media like 19th century stereopticon slides, found footage and her own original 3D films, Zoe Beloff is a scavenger who makes quirky, multidimensional pieces of multimedia. She describes herself as a “medium” [...]

Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts; Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, Victoria Vesna (eds), University of Chicago Press.Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The authors introduce the concept of artists as context providers — people who [...]

The Crystal Coffin – Virtual China Pavilion :: Concept by Lily & Honglei :: Mobile Phone Augmented Reality realization by John Craig Freeman :: Part of Manifest.AR’s Venice Biennial 2011 Augmented Reality Intervention :: June 1 - November 27, 2011.The augmentation is inspired by the crystal coffin displayed in Mausoleum of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen [...]

Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space :: June 9-10, 2011 :: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.Technology is transforming privacy and reshaping what it means to be in public. Our interactions — personal, professional, financial, etc. — increasingly take place online, where they are archived, searchable, and easily replicated. Discussions of privacy often [...]

Digimag 64 - May 2011: “We tend to look for patterns everywhere. This capability is embedded in our perceptual mechanism and has saved our ancestors in critical events over millennia, from identifying a moving object in a grassland or a threatening face in a crowd. But we also look for patterns in data, information, facts, [...]

Here, in the city of cities, after built to fail, and after the crash and whimper proved the material immateriality of things, futARism emerges. We long for those rituals and traditions of eon that still resonate, while making meaning from the ether. Augmented Reality is our tool; love, divine and exquisite, our guide! — Amir [...]

Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles (download the PDF):In this Virtueel Platform Research, Virtueel Platform takes the online software art repository Runme.org, the internet based-art commissioning and exhibition platform Turbulence.org, and the electronic art preservation research project AktiveArchive as cases for exploring the different ways organisations deal with the [...]