New Life Residency (HD) from wooloo on Vimeo. Wooloo’s New Life Residency is the world’s first non-visual residency program for artists. The residency is organized as part of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and will take place this fall in the Region of Murcia, Spain.For one week each, five artists will be [...]
Summer 2010 - e-flux journal no. 17: In Search of the Postcapitalist Self, guest-edited by Marion von Osten as her contribution to the 6th Berlin Biennale:A number of alternate, informal approaches to art and economy that arose in the Berlin of the 90s created a great deal of space and potential for rethinking relations between [...]
Nicholas Knouf wrote: Dear -empyre-,I don’t want to derail the very interesting present discussion on labour and alienation, but I wanted to announce a new project that, coincidently, has a bearing on the conversation this month. The project, Journal of Journal Performance Studies (JJPS), is a series of three interrelated works that engage with academic [...]
Turbulence Commission: Journal of Journal Performance Studies by Nicholas Knouf [Needs Firefox Browser]:Journal of Journal Performance Studies (JJPS) is a series of three interrelated works that engage with academic publishing. The project consists of a Firefox extension, an online radio, and a journal. The JJPS Firefox Extension overlays bibliometric data, graphs of journal ownership, and [...]
Turbulence Commission: I am unable to tell you by Benjamin Dean [Needs webcam]:I am unable to tell you is an experiment in collective solipsism. It’s about leaving your fingerprints on the glass you were trying to clean. It’s only someone else’s experience. It’s about the closure property of sets. It’s just the referents. It’s depth-first [...]
The 26th Annual CHArt Conference: Technology and ‘the death of Art History’ :: November 10-11, 2010 :: London, UK :: Call for Papers — Deadline Extended: June 30, 2010.In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme that some have talked of [...]
SITE Santa Fe’s 2010 International Biennial: The Dissolve :: June 20, 2010 – January 2, 2011 :: Opening Weekend Events: June 18 - June 20, 2010 :: SITE Santa Fe , 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico.It is the mission of SITE’s International Biennial to identify, distill, and present a new quality in the [...]
The Emergence of Consciousness Project: Investigating Machine Consciousness Through Performance Art – Event with performance/installation, talks and robot-building ‘drop-in’ workshop takes place :: July 25, 2010: Installation + Workshop (Steve Carpenter, robot building): 12:00 - 5:00 pm; Talks: 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Harry Witchell, Inman Harvey, Anna Dumitiru); Performance: 3:30 pm :: Lighthouse, Brighton, UK [...]
Art, Criticism, and Its Markets — Reading Discussion :: June 16, 2010; 7:15 pm :: 16 Beaver Group, 16 Beaver Street, 4th fl., New York City :: Free and open to all.Over the last 20 or 30 years, there has been an increasing amount of criticism written which is directed at the economy or market [...]
Satellite/Border/Footprint — Workshop with Lisa Parks (UCSB, Santa Barbara) :: July 31–August 2, 2010 :: Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany :: Call for Participation — Deadline: June 20, 2010.The workshop aims to discover and unveil the non-static and invisible border lines in a productive and critical manner. Workshop participants are (media) artists, but also concerned citizen [...]
Archive2020 - Sustainable Archiving of Born-Digital Cultural Content with chapters by Annet Dekker, Martine Neddam, Anne Laforet, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk, Florian Cramer, Caitlin Jones, Gabriele Blome, Gaby Wijers, Lizzie Muller, Jeroen van Mastrigt, Maurits van der Graaf, Gerhard Nauta; published by Virtueel Platform. Read it online or download the PDF.INTRODUCTION: “Digitisation of archives [...]
Mitchell Whitelaw wrote: In response to the UK Met Office’s recent data release and Manuel Lima’s call for visualisations, there’s been a flurry of #climatedata activity in the last couple of days, including some revealing visualisations. Though I’m looking forward to playing with the data myself, this isn’t a post about visualisation. It’s a simpler [...]
[Image: Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net] N. Katherine Hayles wrote:Hi everyone, I am delighted to be joining in the conversation on publishing, copyright, and other matters associated with this month’s topic. My own view comes from my position within academia, so it isn’t applicable everywhere or [...]
Sónar Festival 2010: SonarMatica — 34 artists, 20 works, 2 cities :; June 17-19, 2010 :: Barcelona + Galicia.The Sónar 2010 Barcelona exhibition displays interesting artistic work produced using and based around the world of robotics. Robotic dogs, chairs that put themselves up and machines for drawing self-portraits are some of the curious works that [...]
Goethe Institut Nairobi presents ‘Sketches’ by Sam Hopkins :: June 14 - 25, 2010 :: Goethe Institut Nairobi, Maendeleo House, Monrovia Street, CBD, Nairobi, Republic of Kenya.Like the title Sketches implies, the show can be described as a collection of ideas in different forms and in differing stages of completion. These works have emerged as [...]
The Celestial Hopscotch :: June 16, 2010; 4:00 - 7:00 pm :: in front of DREISIPTZHALLE for The Volta Show in Basel.Visitors of all countries play The Celestial Hopscotch while The Volta Show! The Celestial Hopscotch will be streaming at 18:00 on Internet there aether9.org in partnership with Dock18 (*). Direct link.The Celestial Hopscotch grid [...]
Imprint II – Henry Daniel and Owen Underhill :: June 17-20, 2010 :: San Francisco.Imprint is a daring, site-specific work for dancers, large music ensemble and telepresence technology. It explores the resonance of cultural artifacts and stories as transmitted from place-to-place, time-to-time, and person-to-person. Music by Owen Underhill is paired with Henry Daniel’s spectacular [...]
Cross(x)Species Adventure Club: A Molecular Gastronomy Workshop :: June 19, 2010; 3:00 - 5:30 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 West 21st Street, New York, NY.We are recruiting the adventurous for a hands-on workshop introducing the use of molecular gastronomy in service of ecosystems design. Like the web 2.0 of the food systems, the Cross(x)Species Adventure Club [...]