[Image: A glimpse of Honda's brain-interface technology] Posted by Geoff Manaugh on BLDGBLOG: “I thought I’d jump into the ongoing conversation swirling around Tim Maly’s Cyborg Month — of which you can read more here — with some loose thoughts about what an architectural cyborg might be. There have already been some significant stabs made [...]
MTAA (Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden) will be conducting a barn-raising on October 1, 2010 from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST) on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the Filament Festival. It will be streamed live.A commercially-available barn-building kit acts as the starting point, but MTAA and our group of volunteers [...]
Turbulence.org and Pace Digital Gallery announce an Open Call for Networked Art to be commissioned for the exhibition Turbulence.org @ PaceDigitalGallery 2.Three commissions @ $3,000 will be awarded. The deadline for proposals is November 1. The works will premiere at Pace and on Turbulence in April 2011.The curators are seeking works that address the notion [...]
Live Shorts @ Filament Festival (EMPAC): You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About — a MTAA lecture/performance controlled by the audience and the Internet :: October 2, 2010; 2:45 pm + October 3, 2010; 3:45 pm :: Streamed live. We NEED your tweets! (Please tweet away with the hash tag #mtaa and you’re tweets will [...]
Biotopia - Art in the Wet Zone International Exhibition and Symposium @ PORT 20:10 – Festival of Contemporary Art & Social Technology :: Opening: October 15, 2010; 3:00 - 5:00 pm :: Utzon Centre, Aalborg, Denmark.Today, where the tension and exchange between digital and biological existence is becoming ever more evident, a new situation of [...]
Nina Czegledy: The Creative Use of Light in Art & Science :: September 27, 2010; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: CIANT Lab, Kubelikova 27, Prague, Czech Republic.Internationally renowned curator Nina Czegledy (HU/CAN) will talk about the intersection of Art and Science with focus on light, and the achievements of György Kepes and Frank J. Malina [...]
The Anthropology of Hackers by Gabriella Coleman, The Atlantic: “A “hacker” is a technologist with a love for computing and a “hack” is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn’t mean to compromise the Pentagon, change your grades, or take down the global financial system, although it can, but that is [...]
Big light shows announced for all-night festival White Night 2010 :: October 30-31; 6:00 pm - 7:00 am :: Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, United Kingdom.Four new public artworks have been chosen to form the focal points of Brighton’s forthcoming all-night festival. The special commissions will be revealed at Brighton & Hove White Night [...]
Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the Google Maps API) with instructions for action and movement inspired by Fluxus, Vito Acconci, and Yoko Ono, among others. Enter an origin and [...]
MADE HERE — produced by the hybrid performance venue HERE Arts Center — is a documentary series and website devoted to the challenging and eclectic lives of performing artists in New York City. Their latest issue is Technology, which examines how many artists are embracing the impact that the digital is having on their [...]
Provocative Objects: the extradition — a cyberSurreal, interdisciplinary and immersive exhibit-event & experience :: November 12, 2010; 6:00 pm :: Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts :: Call for Participation.Co-curated by The Dynamic Media Institute’s very own David Tamés and lou suSi, we are currently accepting informal but professional calls [...]
An Artangel Commission — Susan Philipsz: Surround Me, a Song Cycle for the City of London :: October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011 (Saturdays and Sundays only) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Various locations through the City of London.Every day of the working week, the City of London is alive to the sounds [...]
#WB: quoting Walter Benjamin, Paris, die Hauptstadt des XIX. Jahrhunderts — A new e-book and its premiere in the form of an interactive, analog-digital reading on the contemporary relevance of Walter Benjamin :: October 7, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Jewish Theater Austria, 6, Kandlgasse, A 1070 Vienna.September 26, 2010, is the 70th anniversary of the [...]
Cinematique - trailer from Adrien Mondot on Vimeo. Website.
Upgrade! East Midlands — Austerity vs Autonomy: DIY Funding :: November 17, 2010 :: One Thoresby Street, East Midlands, UK.Times are tough! In the UK, the coalition government’s ‘austerity package’ has outlined unprecedented budget cuts across all sectors with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport headlining a 25% cut to spending on culture as [...]
SKOR, Foundation Art and Public Space, Amsterdam presents Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility, the first in the series of symposia Actors, Agents and Attendants (October 29-30, 2010) that aims to discuss the role of art and the creative industries in the formation of contemporary civility. Specifically, it will question how the current infrastructural [...]
Pollino Sky Festival 2010 from Francesco Giannico on Vimeo.Music & Video by Francesco GiannicoThis video was made using audio and video materials recorded on August 31, 2010 under the projectPollino Sky Festival in the the National Park of Pollino, Pro Loco di San Severino Lucano. The collection of audio samples elaborated in electroacoustic way … [...]
The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts (also known as MMAXXI) is a 7” digital photo frame bought on eBay equipped with a 4GB pen drive. Founded and directed by Domenico Quaranta, the MINI Museum will travel from node to node around a network of artists, and will host temporary solo shows by the artist [...]
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Counterconsciousness - Stephen Willats :: until November 21, 2010 :: Badischer Kunstverein, Waldstraße 3, D - 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany.The Badischer Kunstverein is pleased to present the London artist Stephen Willats in an extensive solo exhibition. From the 1960s until today, Stephen Willats has developed a pioneering practice based on collaboration, interactivity and participation within the [...]