Phillip Sterns: Analog Neural Networks: Art, Electronics & the Brain :: May 19, 2010; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: 573 Metropolitan (btw Lorimer & Union), Brooklyn, NY.Generative art mimics the mechanisms of self evolving biological systems to produce compelling organic forms. This practice is most commonly carried out in computer software and translated into physical [...]
Camera Explora by Mark Selby:Inspired by the route maps that many of us keep after a journey, Camera Explora scales this practice from one that plots the places we visited, to one that plots the experiences we record. Photography becomes a tool for exploration. Each camera comes with a map of a city to which [...]
Filament: Festival of New Work in Performance, Visual Arts, Sound, and Media :: October 1-3, 2010 :: EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.MTAA (NYC): a barn raising driven by audience participationHans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA): a 24-channel immersive sound installationBalletLab (Australia): choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscapeYanira Castro (NYC): dance, [...]
common practice: Texts by mez breeze :: June 3, 2010; 5:00 - 8:00 pm :: Reading Room, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK and online.Italo Calvino said ‘the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures and the actions, and of the objects on which these actions could [...]
DK04: Gerçekliğin Sürümleri | Versions of Reality with Banu Cennetoğlu, Lola Schulmann (Migreurop), Cemil Türün (Yoğurt Technologies) :: May 18, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Garanti Galeri, İstiklal Caddesi 115, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey.As an ever-expanding network of material is uploaded to the internet where copies and derivatives increasingly take precedent over “originals”, not only [...]
Nicholas O’Brien, Bad at Sports: A Conversation with Jon RafmanJon Rafman and I had a chance to catch up in Second Life last week and do a series of interviews that culminated in the above video (which contains NSFW graphic imagery near the end). We discuss his recent work and its relationship to cinema studies, [...]
Bad at Sports: Episode 244 - Nathaniel Stern
Yarra — by Ernesto Rios — is an arts investigation which offers multiple interpretations of site, place and space. It is a collaborative multi-disciplinary audiovisual project that celebrates the pleasure of drifting in the culturally and socially diverse City of Yarra in Melbourne Australia. Yarra brings together self selected writers and sound artists to record [...]
Agents & Provocateurs :: May 14 - July 18, 2010 :: Opening: May 14; 6:00 pm :: HMKV at the Dortmunder U (3rd floor), Center for Art and Creativity, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany.With works by more than 30 international artists, Agents & Provocateurs considers two distinct forms of confrontation — agency and provocation — [...]
The Open Video Alliance presents: Open Video Conference :: October 1-2, 2010:: New York City :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: June 7, 2010. Travel funding is available.We are now accepting proposals for panels, presentations, workshop sessions, demo sessions, and other programming. Join us and over 1000 participants during our groundbreaking two-day conference and take [...]
escape/hatch: what about free communication? A tactical media workshop with Arzu Ozkal and Patrick Lichty in collaboration with Burak Arikan :: June 11-20, 2010 :: cura bodrum residency, Bodrum, Turkey :: Open Call for Participation — Deadline: May 16, 2010.In the post-millennial Internet, free communication is increasingly difficult, as is free critical discourse on global [...]
InShadow: International Festival of Video, Dance and Technologies :: December 7-11, 2010 :: São Luiz Municipal Theatre, Lisbon :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: May 14, 2010.This is the second edition of InShadow – International Festival of Video, Dance and Technologies. It is the result of three previous editions of Dance Without Shadow International Exhibition, [...]
e-flux journal – issue #16 May 2010:Things would be much simpler if there existed a consistent means of evaluating art’s capacity to provide a concrete value for people. It’s a problem to which capital provides the most immediate solution — beyond the mundane routine of the art market, Brandeis University’s (ongoing) attempt to close their [...]
DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media International Conference :: November 12-14, 2010 :: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada :: Call for Papers — Deadline: May 20, 2010.A renewed emphasis on participatory forms of digitally-mediated production is transforming our social landscape. ‘Making’ has become the dominant metaphor for a variety of digital and digitally-mediated [...]
Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers wrote: Process as Paradigm: Concept and ContextOn April 23rd at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial in Gijon, Spain the exhibition Process as Paradigm – art in development, flux and change opened, curated by Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers. With this empyre discussion, the we as curators wish to [...]
Institut d’art contemporain presents: Brain Space Laboratory Station 3: Towards Modified States of Consciousness and Ann Veronica Janssens :: June 18, 2010 :: 11 rue Docteur Dolard, 69100 Villeurbanne, France.Initiated by IAC director Nathalie Ergino and Ann Veronica Janssens, the Brain Space Laboratory aims to use artistic experiments to look into the practical and theoretical [...]
DRHA 2010 Conference - Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity :: September 5-8, 2010 :: Brunel University, West London, UK :: Call for Papers and Performances — Deadline Extended: May 14, 2010.The conference’s overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/ sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this [...]
Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres; Jörgen Schäfer, Peter Gendolla (eds.)While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mouse, nowadays human-machine interactions are organized by considerably more complex interfaces. Consequently, this book focuses on literary processes [...]
Test_Lab: Urban Screen Savers: Will artists end up merely designing urban screen savers, or can we save the urban screen as an artistic medium? Featuring: Michelle Teran, Ubermatic (CA) | Gunnar Green, TheGreenEyl (DE) | Matthias Oostrik (NL) | Toine Horvers and Paul Cox (NL) | Rui Guerra, I₦TK (PT) :: May 20, 2010; 8:00-11:00 [...]
“Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It’s called Democracy.” - Alan Badiou*“Democracy is becoming more an empty ritual, devoid of the ability to deliver true alternatives and true choices.” - Franco Bifo Berardi“A lie is the beginning of a new story. That’s why we love Art.” - Oscar WildeONE MAN ONE VOTE? [...]