Nagasaki Archive is the web content to tell the world the reality of the atomic bomb on digital archive of the globe. It provides a lot of photos and experiences of survivors in 3D using with digital globe “Google Earth”. You can see photos from the same angle they were taken 65 years ago, and [...]
Pits to Bits, Interview with Graham Harwood by Matthew Fuller (posted on nettime): This interview follows on from a project called Coal Fired Computers (300,000,000 Computers - 318,000 Black Lungs) carried out in Newcastle in spring 2010 for the AV Festival. The project, by Graham Harwood, Matsuko Yokokoji with Jean Denmars involved a means of [...]
On Yasmin, Roger Malina wrote: … are any of you involved in the FABLAB network? What is a Fablab? Fab Lab is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory. It is a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools. Currently the labs include a laser cutter that makes 2D and 3D structures, a sign cutter that [...]
What Are we Waiting for? Sustainable Ideas and Simple Actions — curated by Daniel S. DeLuca and Sandrine Schaefer as a facet of the People in Space Project - An interactive artistic research delegation to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo :: Call For Proposals — Deadline: August 17, 2010.The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai anticipates [...]
A Meeting is a Meeting is a Meeting: 9 short holiday performances by Annie Abrahams and Antye Greie for You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, show co-curated by Anna FC Smith and Nathalie Boobis :: Unit 15/16 Eckersly Mill, Swan Meadow Rd, Wigan WN3 5BJ, England. Preferences August 5; 7pm Press evening Patriotism [...]
Flussi Festival presents: Live Media and FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Workshop with Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD :: August 25-28, 2010 :: Teatro comunale Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino, Italy :: Cost: 50 euro; limited to 20 participants; accommodation available; register by sending an email to luca [at] flussi [dot] eu.Theoretical and practical audiovisual live performance [...]
Lighthouse Monthly Talk: Andrea Polli :: August 5, 2010; 7:00 pm: :: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington St, Brighton :: To book please go here.Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New Mexico. In her work, global weather and air pollution data are transformed into mesmerising video and sound installations. Many of Polli’s works rely [...]
Fundación Telefónica announces the VIDA 13.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition :: Call for Entries — Deadline: November 7, 2010.At a time when the notion of life is once again located in an uncertain domain, a wide range of artistic initiatives come together to illustrate and investigate this phenomenon; they examine the impact on [...]
2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-11) :: April 27-29, 2011 :: Mexico City, Mexico :: Call for Papers — Deadline: December 13, 2010.Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity, including but not limited to:computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical and meta-level reasoning, and re-representation; metrics, frameworks [...]
The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities — An Interview with Heath Bunting - Part 1: In this two part interview, Marc Garrett discusses with Heath Bunting his current work within two distinctive areas of digital culture and sport-art starting with The Status Project, which studies the construction of our ‘official identities’ and creates what Bunting [...]
Towards a Double Consciousness: NSK Passport Project :: July 26-31, 2010 :: Centre for Contemporary Art, 9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to host the internationally renowned artists collective IRWIN, members of NSK (New Slovenian Art). Over a one week period of screenings, lectures and panel discussions, Towards [...]
Narrative | Identity — curated by Nicole Bebout and Sonja Hofstetter :: February 3 – March 12, 2011 :: AC Institute, 547 West 27th Street, New York :: Open Call for Group Exhibition — Deadline: September 12, 2010.“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a [...]
The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference: The Digital Narrative: Deconstruction/Reconstruction — Pushing scholarship, creativity and imagination :: November 4-6, 2010 :: Emily Carr University, Vancouver B.C., Canada.New digital technologies and mediums are informing, challenging and reinventing our notions of narrative structures and storytelling. Non-linear, virtual, artificial, interactive, and cyber culture have become common terms [...]
The Center for Historical Reenactments and Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism present PASS-AGES: references & footnotes with Dineo Seshee Bopape, Ernest Cole, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Zanele Muholi and Mary Sibande with contributions from Sean Jacobs, Coco Fusco, Desiree Lewis, Hlonipha Mokoena, Gabi Ngcobo and Zamani Xolo :: July 24 - August 1, 2010 :: [...]
TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality — Curated by Yves Béhar :: July 10 – October 3, 2010 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA. The history of craft and design began with individuals making what they could not afford to buy, which [...]
MMC LUKA presents Cinemaniac 2010: The InVisible MAFAF — Curated by Branka Bencic :: July 18 - August 6, 2010 :: Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA), Istarska 30, 52100 Pula, Croatia.Cinemaniac - established in 2002 as the support programme at the Pula Film Festival in order to present innovative events in art and [...]
LevelFive: Brody Condon — Call for Participation :: September 3-5, 2010 @ Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles on (50 spots) :: September 16-18, 2010 @ San Jose Convention Center during the Zero1 Biennial (75 spots).LevelFive is a live role-playing event focused on critically exploring self actualization seminars from the 1970’s. The LevelFive performance [...]
mez breeze wrote: In 2008, several articles here at Augmentology examined the concepts of Synthetic Presencing and Synthapticism. Both concepts are part of a theoretical framework that attempts to explain developing cultural > augmentological patterns. Presencing embodies a rethink of conventional entertainment modes:Fiction and non-fiction classifications are designed to map to boundaries of known forms [...]
When Life Becomes Art: Molecular Biology and the Arts – A Lecture by Dr. Ingeborg Reichle (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) :: July 20, 2010; 7:00 pm :: Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Aula, Filzengraben 2, 50676 Köln. By contrasting contemporary art with recent scientific developments, it is possible to demonstrate that art [...]
[Image: Collaborative art illustrating how culture has become collaborative especially with the Internet. (Wes Bausmith Laila / Los Angeles Times)] Technology changes how art is created and perceived by Neal Gabler, Special to the Los Angeles Times — Through the Internet, video games, YouTube, Twitter, et al, original art is sampled and re-envisioned by anyone [...]