Project 929: Mapping the Solar — Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention by Joseph DeLappe :: May 19-29, 2013 :: LIVE STREAM.Project 929: Mapping the Solar is a 460 mile bicycle ride to drag pieces of chalk to physically and symbolically draw a line around an area that would be large enough to create the [...]
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. receives two National Endowment for the Arts grants to support Turbulence.org :: Grants two of 817 NEA Art Works grants totaling $26.3 million in funding nationwide:New York — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) is [...]
Turbulence.org Commission: Submersible by Yotam Mann and Niv Bavarsky [Needs Chrome 21+ or Safari 6+ and Speakers/Headphones]:You are at a helm of a submarine navigating the depths of the ocean. At each strata, you see and hear different organisms. In the sunny epipelagic zone, watch the fast and massive tuna swim by in schools. Or [...]
Enlisting Participation Online: Andy Deck and Zannah Marsh :: April 14, 2013; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: Harvestworks, NYC and Live Streamed.Following a brief introduction by Turbulence.org’s Co-Director, Helen Thorington, artists Andy Deck and Zannah Marsh will present their recent net art commissions, Crow Sourcing and Awkward_NYC/ Awkward_Everywhere. Both artists designed participatory platforms and enlisted [...]
WoodEar by Peter Traub with Jennifer Lauren Smith :: April 16-May 3, 2013 :: Opening Reception: April 16; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: Pace Digital Gallery, NYC.Commissioned specifically for Pace Digital Gallery WoodEar, the installation, expands into the gallery the software that launched on Turbulence.org in 2012. The work attempts to merge the dynamic qualities [...]
Turbulence Commission: Awkward_NYC / Awkward_Everywhere by Zannah Marsh:“Awkward_NYC” is now “Awkward_Everywhere.” It is a collaborative online map for reporting social accidents and small interpersonal traumas that occur unexpectedly in public spaces. Anyone can add a story to the map. The map pinpoints sites in the New York Metropolitan or anywhere in the world where misunderstandings, [...]
JODI: “goodmorning goodnight” :: A new project in the Sunrise/Sunset series @ sunset or sunrise, New York time (Next Sunset: 5:54 PM Next Sunrise: 6:20 AM):Sunrise/Sunset is a series of net art projects commissioned by the Whitney specifically for whitney.org to mark sunset and sunrise in New York City every day. Unfolding over a timeframe [...]
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence :: Call for Proposals: Orwell Residence, Minecraft :: Deadline: March 21, 2013 midnight PST.Artist, coders, poets, and engineers are invited to apply for a six week artist residency in the virtual environment / game space of Minecraft. Minecraft is a sandbox where creativity and ludology intersect in a highly social space rich [...]
Turbulence Commission: Panemoticon by Ali Miharbi and John Priestley [Needs Firefox (16 or later recommended), headphones/speakers, mouse/trackpad]:We know how you feel. Panemoticon observes your behavior, makes a few inferences about your emotional state, and plays music to match your mood. Your mouse/trackpad use says a lot about your energy level, confidence, and perceived control over [...]
Dear Friends,We need your support! Donations are tax-deductible for US Residents.About to embark on its 33rd year, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. — an independent not-for-profit organization founded in New York City — continues to commission networked art for its world-renowned website Turbulence.org (1996-): its over 220 works span a crucial 16-year period of [...]
Yono Pixel-Art Jam/Hangout Online with Ed Stastny: I’d like to invite you to come hangout with us Sunday (October 21) while we doodle and code. I’ll specifically be focused on facilitating Yono participation (taking reservations, editing data, uploading pieces) and making Yono pieces, but you can do your own thing or just pop in to [...]
“Benjamin Poynter’s In A Permanent Save State is a surreal and visually striking interactive narrative that the creator says imagines the spiritual afterlife of seven overworked laborers who have committed suicide, alluding to real-life events at Foxconn’s electronics manufacturing plants in 2010. But the game was quietly removed from the App Store less than an [...]
1 Have You Been Here Before 2 No This Is The First Time — A Performance Lecture With Director and Artist Robert Wilson :: October 29, 2012; 7:00 pm :: Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA.Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series & the Intermedia Arts Program of Mills College, [...]
[Crow Sourcing by Andy Deck] WWW: World Wild Web with Paula Crutchlow & Helen Varley Jamieson, Andy Deck, Mary Flanagan, Genetic Moo, Dominic Smith, and Sarah Waterson :: October 18 - December 1, 2012 :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ.To be alive is to be wild. And we humans have a [...]
Turbulence Commission: WoodEar by Peter Traub [Needs download, and Speakers/Headphones]:Bringing the body of the tree to the network is a natural fit — a tree is a network too: roots sensing and absorbing nutrients, leaves sensing and photosynthesizing sunlight, and phloem and xylem running throughout to carry nutrients across the structure. WoodEar attempts to merge [...]
Association for Public Art Presents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Open Air :: until October 14, 2012; Nightly, 8:00-11:00 pm :: Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.The Association for Public Art in Philadelphia (aPA, formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association) presents the world premiere of Open Air by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Open Air is a spectacular interactive light [...]
Digital Aesthetic³ 2012 Conference and Exhibition – the third and final manifestation of the Digital Aesthetic series :: Conference: October 5-6, 2012 :: University of Central Lancashire, Preston :: Exhibition: October 6, 2012 – January 5, 2013 :: Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston :: October 6-19, 2012 :: PR1 Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, [...]
Augmented Reality Dance :: October 7, 2012 :: World-Wide Call for Participation.On Sunday the whole world is invited to join a globally synchronised choreography. By following the instructions on a smartphone, a dance routine is performed. A dance to be experienced alone, together. As a distributed worldwide flashmob. While standing anywhere on earth, moving your [...]
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art; Edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin; Preface by Lucy R. Lippard:In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 [...]
Evil Media by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, MIT Press:Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first [...]