networked performance

The Juxtaposium: Open Letter/Invitation to Event Organisers from Baruch Gottlieb, Brian Holmes, Alessandro Ludovico, Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum, Edward Schanken:Curators, festival and symposia organizers, please use this letter as a starting point to help us develop together a new symposium format. Use our desire to speak about each other’s work and make it [...]

Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube; Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles (eds), Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-12-4, paperback, 378 pages.Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success [...]

The Arpanet Dialogues Vol.II: ARPANET Test June 1976 with Samir Amin, Steve Biko, Francis Fukuyama & Minoru Yamasaki (available to read online and a PDF in English & Arabic):In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a rare series of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters representing a wide range of perspectives [...]

NYC on Channel TWo, Apr 6, NYC from Channel TWO on Vimeo.

Silent Zone: Ethical Intrusions in Aesthetic Behavior :: April 5 - June 8, 2011 :: gallery@calit2, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California.Curated by Karla Villegas, Silent Zone: Ethical Intrusions in Aesthetic Behavior features the work of José Antonio Vega Macotela, Laura Balboa, and Laboratorio 060. The exhibition includes “Time Divisa,” a ceramic tile relief installation [...]

Anomalous Press: Call for Literary Arts:Anomalous Press, a new multi-format multi-media literary arts journal, welcomes submissions of literary works of texts (poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation) and especially seeks hybrid, multi- and new media, audio or video literary works, and images. We realize literary is a slippery term, and we most assuredly do not mean [...]

Marc Garrett: A Historical Context of Furtherfield :: March 29, 2011; 7:40 - 9:00 pm :: Department of History of Art & Screen Media, Room 122, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London :: RSVP nick.lambert [at] gmail.com.Marc Garrett (UK), an activist, artist and writer and co-director and co-founder (with artist Ruth Catlow) of [...]

New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks present Pixilerations [v.8] :: September 22 - October 2, 2011 :: FirstWorks Festival, Providence, Rhode Island :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: April 19.In an era of Facebook/ Twitter-inflamed revolutions, biotechnology ethics wars, and Youtube-generated museum exhibitions, this year’s festival seeks to examine the question “Where – and what [...]

Kayak Libre: free thinking/free transport by Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel :: until April 2, 2011 :: Digbeth, Birmingham.Kayak Libre is a temporary experimental infrastructure for Digbeth in the form of a water taxi service along the canal network. The fare is a conversation: reflections about alternative modes of transport and possible futures of the [...]

From the (Trans)Gendered Body to the Cyborg: Feminism, Art, and Technology — Panelists: Bang Geul Han, Yael Kanarek, Muriel Magenta and Gayle Salomon; Moderators: Kat Griefen and Ferris Olin :: March 26, 2011; 2:00 pm :: Cantor Auditorium, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.Now in its fourth year, the annual [...]

New Materialism: Naturecultures :: April 7, 2011; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Nicolaï Church, Nicolaaskerkhof 8, Utrecht.The Centre for the Humanities organises a conference around Donna Haraway’s concept ‘naturecultures’. Apart from scholars (from all around the world) who will rewrite Haraway’s concept in various practices, dance company LeineRoebana will perform fragments of recent [...]

Turkish and Other Delights | Burak Arıkan by Elizabeth Wolfson, art:21.“Burak Arıkan is a busy guy. When we met in Istanbul two months ago to discuss his work, he had recently returned to the city from a net art conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was preparing to leave for a human rights conference in Senegal [...]

[Image: "What a building desires" 2005. Excerpt from Richard Goodwin's Porosity Research into Public space.] Experimental Arts :: Main Conference and Discussion Forum: August 19-20, 2011 :: National Postgraduate Conference: August 17-18 :: Scientia Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia :: Call for Papers — Deadline for Abstracts: April 27.“We have entered the [...]

Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge:After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for [...]

Performance Academy :: August 13-23, 2011 :: On location in the former Coal Mine Göttelborn & Media Gallery, HBK Saarbrücken/ Academy of Fine Arts Saar, Germany :: Call for Participants — Deadline: July 15, 2011.During ten days in August, the international Interaktionslabor in Göttelborn collaborates with XMLab and Donlon Dance Company on creating a new [...]

Performance Academy :: August 13-23, 2011 :: On location in the former Coal Mine Göttelborn & Media Gallery, HBK Saarbrücken/ Academy of Fine Arts Saar, Germany :: Call for Participants — Deadline: July 15, 2011.During ten days in August, the international Interaktionslabor in Göttelborn collaborates with XMLab and Donlon Dance Company on creating a new [...]

On-Curating.Org Issue 07: Being-With: Community – Ontological and Political Perspectives :: Edited by Elke Bippus, Joerg Huber, Dorothee Richter, Institute for Critical Theory, Zurich University of the Arts:This edition of On-Curating.org places ontological and political perspectives on notions of community at the centre of its debate. We believe that such an explicit discussion of community [...]

Urban Digital Narratives: Workshop and Symposium Athens :: Workshop: Locative Media: The Street with Μartin Rieser and Eύα Κέκου — April 13, 2011 :: Symposium: Urban Digital Narratives — April 15; 10:30 am - 6:30 pm :: E.I.E. Eθνικό Ιδρυμα Ερευνών,V. Kostantinou 48 Athens, Greece.Workshop on Locative Media: Martin Rieser will be developing an exhibition/ [...]

Mediated Motion: Dance + Tech + Artspace :: May 24-28, 2011 :: La Mama Galleria, 6 East First Street, New York City, New York :: Call for Submissions: Deadline — April 4. Culturehub is seeking submissions for a week long Dance and Technology Art Exhibit. We are looking for projects or works of art that [...]