People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.Steven Berlin Johnson is the best-selling author of six books on the intersection of [...]
Inspired by the underground 80s hip hop scene, Graffito — by Proboscis — pays homage to guerrilla street art and turns it into a celebration of pop culture on a massive scale. Graffito hands over the VJs canvas to the hips, fingers, hands and creative minds of the audience. It is FREE.Graffito is an experiment [...]
Biotech Art Workshop @ SEAFair 2010 (Skopje Electronic Arts Fair) :: October 4-7, 2010 :: Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts :: Call for 10-15 artists from Macedonia and Central & Eastern Europe :: Deadline: September 30, 2010.The Visual Cultural Research Centre, Euro-Balkan Institute and the Research Centre [...]
People’s Biennial :: curated by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher :: organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) People’s Biennial opened September 10, 2010 at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, and will travel to four other locations through 2012.People’s Biennial is a project conceived by the artist Harrell Fletcher and the exhibition-maker Jens [...]
Michaela Melian: Memory Loops — 300 Audio Tracks on Sites of NS Terror in Munich 1933–1945 :: A project by the Municipal Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich / ‘Freie Kunst im öffentlichen Raum’ in cooperation with the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation / Radio Play and Media Art Dept.With Memory Loops, Munich [...]
Lessons of Excess by Dan Tesene — A Data Visualization of the Consumption of Oil in the World against the Scale of Midtown :: until October 9, 2010 :: Devotion Gallery, New York.How much oil is consumed by the population daily? How many buildings would it take to house it all? Comparing oil production [...]
R&D Residency for Disabled Artists (UK-based), Ulverston Cumbria — Call for artists developing work across a range of art-forms, particularly those interested in working in a participative fashion to explore new technologies and future ways of life :: Hosted by Prism Arts, Lanternhouse and Folly :: Deadline: November 1, 2010.A unique opportunity for a [...]
Audiovisual Thinking Journal is the world’s first journal of academic videos about audiovisuality, communication and media. The journal is a pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video.International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of Audiovisual Thinking is [...]
Upgrade! Johannesburg Remote No 2: Lagos Soundscapes — Emeka Ogboh (based in Lagos, Nigeria) :: September 21, 2010; 6:30 – 7:00 pm (South African Time) :: Digital Arts Seminar Room, Digital Arts Convent Building, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (directions) + streamed live.Lagos Soundscapes is an ongoing sound project that explores Lagos as a vibrant [...]
Media Fields Journal Issue 2: Media, Labor, Mobility :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: October 15, 2010.This issue of Media Fields Journal brings together interdisciplinary approaches to media, labor, and mobility. We invite manuscripts, art projects, and interviews that foreground the dynamic between the global circulation of media texts and the global dispersion of media [...]
Membranes Surfaces Boundaries: Creating Interstices :: October 9 - November 11, 2010 :: Opening: October 8; 6:30 pm :: Aedes am Pfefferberg, Christinenstrase 18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany. At first glance, surfaces are boundaries. But already the natural philosophers of Classical Antiquity were aware of the enigmatic character of this perception. Material consisted of small particles, [...]
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a constructivist: Perry Bard’s The Man With the Movie Camera: The Global Remake by Seth Feldman, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media:“Dziga Vertov has always had trouble remaining an historical figure. Having died in 1954, he became a participant in: Soviet cultural politics of the Khrushchev era; the [...]
Upgrade! Paris, Éditions MF and RYbN present: POLITIQUE 0 :: October 1-3, 2010 :: French Communist Party Headquarters, 2, Place du Colonel Fabien - Paris, M° Colonel Fabien + Conference/Performances streamed live on selfworld.net room #44.October 1; 6:00 - midnight :: Screening “R.I.P. in Pieces America”, by Dominic Gagnon, followed by a discussion with the [...]
Device_art 3.010: Croatia_Slovenia_Japan :: September 23 - October 1, 2010 :: Miraikan – National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, SuperDeluxe, Waseda University Toyama Campus, Japan.Artists: Yoshi Akai (JP), Miha Ciglar (SI), Stefan Doepner (DE/SI), Sanela Jahic (SI), Janez Jansa (IT/SI), So Kanno (JP), Ines Krasic (HR), Margareta Lekic (HR), Ivan Marusic Klif (HR), Martina [...]
Wind Coil Sound Flow (2009) — by Ken Gregory — is an electro-mechanical audio system that poetically reproduces the processes involved in operating an Aeolian Kite Instrument in the field. The Aeolian Kite Instrument is a wind instrument based on an Aeolian harp. The kite’s towline is acoustically coupled to a resonator. The resonator amplifies [...]
CompleNet 2010 :: October 13-15, 2010 :: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:: Hosted by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro COPPE / UFRJ.This international workshop on complex networks (CompleNET 2010) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase [...]
The International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art, North America (INCCA-NA) together with Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) present A Talk by Artist John Gerrard :: October 25, 2010; 7:00 pm :: The Museum of Modern Art, New York.As part of Modern Mondays at MoMA, Irish‐born artist John Gerrard presents his recent work in [...]
Time/Bank @ Liverpool Biennial :: October 18 – November 28, 2010 :: 52 Renshaw Street, L1 4PN, UK.Starting about a year ago, Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle have been developing a time bank for the art community. On a practical level, their Time/Bank is a platform where artists, curators, writers and other people in their [...]
Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean :: September 17, 2010 – February 6, 2011 :: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.Live Cinema/In the Round features the works of Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Hassan Khan, Gülsün Karamustafa, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou, artists from the [...]
transmediale.11 — RESPONSE:ABILITY: In our post-future era of acceleration and densification of information, the state and nature of being live and online becomes one of the crucial definers of our social presence. Response and action are compressed into an existential here and now triggering a durée of continuous digital stimulation.With RESPONSE:ABILITY transmediale.11 explores the emerging [...]