Das Theater ist auf der Straße: Wolf Vostell’s Happenings :: June 6 – August 15, 2010 :: Opening: June 6; noon :: Museum Morsbroich, Gustav-Heinemann-Strasse 80, 51377 Leverkusen, Germany.Wolf Vostell (born Leverkusen 1932 – died Berlin 1998) realised more than fifty Happenings between 1954 and 1988 that turned spectators into participants. By moving out of [...]
Topographies of the Insignificant: Seeking Contributors — from Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, Luxembourg and Moscow — for a Collaborative Internet Project. In early 2009 we, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, initiated a collaborative project in which a team of architects, artists, designers, engineers and musicians created an alternative vision of Copenhagen, an imaginary future [...]
Cyborg Soldiers and Militarised Masculinities by Cristina Masters, Eurozine:“Increasing military interest in the body cancels the transgressive potential of the cyborg. Where humans become the weakest link in contemporary warfare, the cyborg represents a desire for total masculinist control and domination. Machines, not human bodies, are now the subjects of the text.Feminisms, technology and the [...]
virus.circus buffalo // micha cárdenas and elle mehrmand from azdel slade on Vimeo.Due to recent viral outbreaks, protective latex barriers must be worn at all times.Cover your cough! Be a virus fighter! We want our citizens to be safe, healthy and happy.Skin to skin contact may result in viral contamination.Touching, and illness, are prohibited by [...]
Binary Code View: Rob Smith, Anthony Gross, Rafael Rozendaal :: June 26 - July 30, 2010 :: theAGENCY, 66 Evelyn Street, London.The artists all work using methods and frameworks available only via or on the internet in order to create original artworks. All artists are making work for and showing in established fine art [...]
Owning Online Art: Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks, Markus Schwander and Reinhard Storz (eds.); an interdisciplinary research project produced by UAS Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design, DACollection / DAStore, Aktive Archive, xcult, Plug-In Basel and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture:INTRODUCTION: In the publication Owning Online Art – Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks, [...]
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?John Underkoffler led the team that came up with this interface, called the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. His company, Oblong Industries, was founded to move g-speak [...]
ADDED: CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICHAEL BENSON AND BRIAN HOLMES ON NETTIME (BELOW). Watch her online until May 31, 2010.From: Michael BensonSubject: [iDC] The Artist is PresentDate: May 24, 2010To witness the exhibition “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art – the institution’s first major performance art retrospective – is to experience [...]
YTAND (You’re the Artist Now, Dawg!): A Digital Minimalism Exhibition Curated by Patrick Lichty: User-driven viral media sites such as YTMND.com have created a form of “internet - native” aesthetics that also seen on sites like deviantart.com, 4chan.org, and many others, that have inspired New Media artists like Marisa Olson, Jon Satrom, JonCates and Cory [...]
[Image: Seppukoo by Les Liens Invisibles] Sean Dockray wrote:Everyone now wants to know how to remove themselves from social networks. It has become absolutely clear that our relationships to others are mere points in the aggregation of marketing data. Political campaigns, the sale of commodities, the promotion of entertainment – this is the outcome of [...]
An 11 minute documentary by Simon Cottee exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation and chiptune music. Interviews with Jason Rohrer, Joe Brumm and Alex Yabsley. Music from http://8bitcollective.com/.
U-Ram Choe: Kalpa :: until June 11, 2010 :: bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St, 2nd floor, New York City.bitforms gallery is pleased to present new sculpture by Korean artist U-Ram Choe in a second solo exhibition. Realized over the course of a year, this work is rooted in a journey to the American [...]
The Academy Strikes Back — Renee Green, Irit Rogoff, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Dieter Lesage :: June 4-5, 2010 :: European Artistic Research Network (EARN), Sint-Lukas Auditorium, College of Art and Design, Brussels University, Groenstraat 162-184, Brussels, Belgium.The Academy Strikes Back is the concluding presentation of a two-year project aimed at the current academicization of art education. [...]
The 26th Annual CHArt Conference: Technology and ‘the death of Art History’ :: November 10-11, 2010 :: London, UK :: Call for Papers — Deadline: June 8, 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 the [...]
_feralC_ - A Socumentary* — by mez breeze– is textually driven by the interactions of five Twitter chars [primary characters or entities] and their Pupa Mistress [PM. The PM initially functions as a Twitter based information hub for the interactions between the chars and other contributing entities [such as yourself]. These additional contributing entities, or [...]
After 5 years of stitching and 2 years of touring the Nike Blanket Petition is in full view at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) in Portland, Oregon - 9 miles from Nike Headquarters. The CEO Mark Parker has been invited and has politely agreed to visit the museum before June 11 - the [...]
The Executive Series: Debriefing from Angie Eng on Vimeo.The Executive Series: Think Tank from Angie Eng on Vimeo.
[Image: Cat Mazza/microRevolt] The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft :: Panel Discussion with Fo Wilson (moderator), Shaun Bullens, Donald Fortesque, Wendy Maruyama, Cat Mazza, Nathalie Miebach :: June 18, 2010; 12:15 - 1:15 pm :: Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA.Curated by Fo Wilson, The New Materiality: Digital [...]
Coal Fired Computers: Graham Harwood and Jean Demars in conversation with Matthew Fuller :: June 1, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London :: Book here.Whilst we take in the shape of government, the politics of power takes on a new meaning as Harwood, Jean Demars and Matthew Fuller discuss [...]
Huis Clos | No Exit - On Translation — Telematic performance with 6 performers :: May 29, 2010; 8:30 pm :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam. (Part of the Performmikka Internettikka event curated by Petra Heck)6 Netartists will challenge one another into collective actions. What will happen when they will only [...]