networked performance

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The Value of Art :: until July 16, 2011 :: [DAM] Berlin, Tucholskystr. 37, 10117 Berlin, Germany.The Value of Art is the first piece from a series of artworks in which Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau deal with the accumulation of value taking place in museums as well as on [...]

From The New Materiality by Nathaniel Stern, Furtherfield.org; a review of the exhibition The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft:“For the first half of the 20th century, curator Fo Wilson reminds us, the practice of craft was heralded as a “remedy” to how human values were changed by the Industrial Age. [...]

Making is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity, from DIY and Knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 by David Gauntlett: In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that, through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark [...]

[Image: The Vitruvian World by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, David Steele] From Black Box to Second Life: Theatre and Performance in Virtual Worlds :: May 20, 2011; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Performance Studio 3, School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, United Kingdom.Immersive virtual worlds have grown enormously [...]

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 [...]

Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture :: July 11 - August 9, 2011 :: School of Visual Art, NYC. Crossing the boundaries into architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, new media technologies and other arenas, the revitalization of public art has become a global trend, as more sensitivity to the nuance of site [...]

CNC #2 - Mobile Art: Locating Mobile Network Cultures by Mimi Sheller from itucph on Vimeo.

Federico Díaz: outside itself at the Veniice Biennale :: June 4 - September 30, 2011 :: Opening: June 4; 6:00 pm :: Nappa 90, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice.Federico Díaz, acclaimed Prague-based artist, is creating a self-replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data that gives new meaning to the term “going viral.” Imagine thousands of black [...]

Symposium Datapolis Mark Shepard: Pathetic Fallacies and Category Mistakes from CIANT Prague on Vimeo.Symposium Datapolis Dimitris Charitos: Hybrid Urban Spatial Experiences from CIANT Prague on Vimeo.Symposium Datapolis Katharine Willis: Hybrid Places: Flashmobs and Foursquare from CIANT Prague on Vimeo.Symposium Datapolis Daphne Dragona: Mapping the Commons from CIANT Prague on Vimeo.Symposium Datapolis Alessandro Ludovico & Paolo [...]

With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets — like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away — to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving [...]

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Text to the Paratext: Sean Dockray in conversation with Geert Lovink and Annet Dekker :: May 23, 2011; 10:00 pm :: Smart Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105 (Auditorium), Amsterdam.The Institute of Network Cultures, CREATE-IT Applied Research Centre at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam are pleased to present an evening with L.A.-based artist and theorist Sean Dockray. [...]

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. Via TinEye: when robots start to look for and at pictures by Tjebbe van Tijen.

In Between States, by The Collection Agency, is a video installation and net art project currently in production that explores the interconnected narratives of a postwar displaced persons camp and a corporate park located outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The project juxtaposes a personal story of Paul Amitai’s family’s experience living in the camp, with a [...]

Limbo is a website and iPhone app that presents and delivers live digital drawings by the artist Simon Faithfull. The iPhone app is free to the first 150 users to download it. To launch the project the artist will embark on a residency on a Dover-to-Calais cross-channel ferry, from May 14–19, 2011. Without ever leaving [...]

The Royal Opera House, London is premiering Live Fire Exercise on May 13, 2011. Resident choreographer Wayne McGregor collaborates with visual artist John Gerrard, introducing a virtual landscape to the stage. Astonishingly real but meticulously fabricated by the artist, Gerrard’s real time portraits unfold to the enigmatic Michael Tippett score.

Online from Reno, NV and Antena Gallery Chicago, Chatroulette: Discipline and Punish, a performance by Joseph DeLappe — part of Daisy Chain :: May 12, 2011; 4:00 - 8:00 pm (PST) :: online.A reading of Foucault’s classic text Discipline and Punish – The Birth of the Prison whilst connected to the online video/chat site, Chatroulette. [...]

Northern Spark: a nuit blanche:: June 4 (sunset 8:55 pm) - June 5 (sunrise 5:28 am), 2011 :: Along the Mississippi River and surrounding areas in Minnesota.Northern Spark is a new MN Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival — a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding [...]

Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture — Written, Directed & Edited by Roger Stahl :: with interventions by Anne-Marie Schleiner (Velvet-Strike), Wafaa Bilal (Domestic Tension), and Joseph DeLappe (Dead in Iraq):Video games like Modern Warfare, America’s Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now [...]

Upgrade! Boston: Dietmar Offenhuber: Diagrammatic Reasoning :: May 24, 2011; 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).Abstract: Charles Sanders Peirce conceived the notion of diagrammatic reasoning as a method of inquiry through diagrammatic operations, emphasizing the fundamentally spatial and sensory nature of language and thought. [...]