Everyone is a Designer In the Age of Social Media by Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink, BIS Publishers.Everyone is a Designer, Manifest for the Design Economy presents the ChoiceGeneration of 2010. Looking back at the first edition (2000), when we proposed the idea of democratization of design, a decade later this programmatic statement has become [...]
[YASMIN] The Hybrid City as an Interface with Daphne Dragona, Haris Rizopoulos and Iouiliani Theona; moderated by Dimitris Charitos and Martin Rieser. In the beginning of the 21st century, urban environments, within which social life evolves, are radically being reordered by technological systems and networks. Mobile telephony has restructured the way people socialize within urban [...]
Nicholas O’Brien wrote on Bad at Sports: I was very excited when Jason Rohrer agreed to conduct and interview with me within his newest game Sleep is Death. The game typically allows a host player and a guest player 30 seconds each to collaboratively navigate an interactive story. In the video above, you’ll be getting [...]
The Virtual Prigione by Chiara Passa (Demo version 2’30’’, 2010):The Virtual Prigione is an interactive portrait video-sculpture inspired by the concept of the latest “unfinished” sculptures of Michelangelo, named “Prigioni.” The website that hosts the virtualsculpture becomes dynamic and interactive. The user can sculpt using the mouse as a chisel. The Virtual Prigione represents [...]
Upgrade! Berlin & MMX present: Media Facades Festival 2010 :: July 22, 2010; 8:00 pm - 12:00 am :: MMX Open Art Venue, Linienstr. 142/ 143, 10115 Berlin-Mitte.Upgrade! Berlin is glad to present the makers and a selection of the artworks of the Media Facades Festival Europe 2010: From August 27 - September 12, 2010, [...]
Designer Suzanne Lee “Grows” a Wardrobe From Bacteria by Diane Pham, 07/11/10, Inhabitat:Being cutting edge in fashion means creating hot new looks that will get heads to turn. Here is one designer who’s taking this idea to a whole new level by branching out into a frontier you’d never expect to see a fashionista. With [...]
Not For Sale — An interactive storefront window installation by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield curated by Greylock Arts :: July 29 – October 31, 2010 (On view 7 days per week / 24 hours a day) :: Opening Reception: July 29; 6:00 – 9:00 pm :: MCLA Gallery 51 Annex, 65 Main Street, North Adams, [...]
The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin by Matthew Biro (2009): In an era when technology, biology, and culture are becoming ever more closely connected, The Dada Cyborg explains how the cyborg as we know it today actually developed between 1918 and 1933 when German artists gave visual form to their [...]
[Image: Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments by Carmin Karasic, Rolf van Gelder and Rob Coshow, 2007] Situated Simulations: Designing a Mobile Augmented Reality Genre :: Project Leader: Gunnar Liestøl, The INVENTIO-project, Department of Media & Communication, University of Oslo.A situated simulation requires a broadband (3G) smartphone with substantial graphics capabilities, GPS-positioning features, accelerometer and electronic [...]
[Image: James Kennard; photo by Karen Fraser] Tracing Mobility Warsaw - Evasion Training Camp for Escapists - 2-day workshop by Heath Bunting (UK) & James Kennard (UK) :: July 16-18, 2010 :: The Knot, Praga Północ, Warsaw, Poland.Following hot on the heels of R8R’s success with Tracing Mobility in the UK, the Nottingham festival broadcasts [...]
[Image: Vincent Callebaut Architecte, Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture, 2009; Concept rendering for New York City] Art Works for Change presents The Nature of Cities at Shanghai World Expo 2010 :: until July 31, 2010 :: United Nations Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Oakland, California.The Nature of Cities — guided by the Expo theme [...]
Hybrid Participatory Performance: Real Virtual Games in Second Life :: July 11, 2010; 2:00 - 3:30 pm BST (6:00 - 7:30 am PST/SLT) :: The Place, London + Second Life :: Part of Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference: Dance and Spectacle.This working group session starts with a 5-10 mn hybrid participatory performance based [...]
NJP Reader #1: Contributions to an Artistic Anthropology:The Nam June Paik Center is dedicated to the artistic and intellectual legacy of Nam June Paik, the renowned Korean-born artist who transformed visual art worldwide. In addition to its function as an exhibition space, the Nam June Paik Art Center developed a new publication, NJP Reader. The [...]
Upstage Walk-Through :: July 13, 2010; 10:00 am UK time (find your local time here).The open walk-through is an opportunity for newcomers to learn the basic operations of UpStage and how to create live online performances in this platform. It’s also a chance for regular UpStage users to meet, chat and jam. the walk-through lasts [...]
Conflict Kitchen — by John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski — is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration [...]
Learn to Play: Open Call — Deadline: July 31, 2010 :: Submit to: info [at] toplay.us.Are you a game maker? Are you telling compelling stories about your life or the world around you? Are you doing interesting things through games and interactivity that cannot be done elsewhere? If you are telling a story, relaying an experience, [...]
“The ideas that we proffer are based on off-the-shelf existing technologies. We just change the solution-bases and do things that aren’t necessarily as obvious. We don’t have a problem with thinking about science fiction — in fact we actually embrace it.” Mitchell JoachimMitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a [...]
[Image: The Vitruvian World by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker and David Steele] London School of Economics -MARCEL Symposium: Artistic Research and Experimentation in Digital Media with Don Foresta, Anna Dumitriu, Tom Corby, Hasan Bakhshi, Stuart Dunn, Nicola Triscott, Rachel Smithies, Rachel Baker, Helen Sloan, Samuel Bianchini, Ruth Catlow, Michael Takeo Magruder, Hugh Denard :: [...]
Participationism and the Limits of Collaboration — Presentations by Jodi Dean, Not An Alternative, John Hawke; Moderated by Astra Taylor :: July 8, 2010; 7:30 am - 9:00 pm :: Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 540 West 21st St, btw 10th & 11th, New York, NY.Today everyone sings the praises of participation: leading academics hail [...]