Since the 1950s, guerrilla sign ontologists, situationists and psychogeographers have delighted in using the power of the map to decode the urban landscape. They have explored Manchester using a map of Milan, wandered Newcastle guided by a map of the Berlin U-Bahn, and explored Hackney with a map of the moon. This re-use of maps [...]
Turbulence Commission: I’m Not Stalking You; I’m Socializing: Black & White by Liz FilardiOne of the original cases of criminal stalking in America is retold within the framework of a social network called Black & White, which consists of two mirrored profiles, those of Laura Black and Richard Farley. The website extrapolates on the tongue-and-cheek [...]
Upgrade! Eindhoven: Tetsu Kondo (Japan) :: March 14, 2010; 8:00 -10:30 pm (doors open 7:30) :: Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.The next Upgrade! Eindhoven presents Albert van Abbe and MAD Artist in Residence, Tetsu Kondo discussing Kondo’s work and vision. Kondo is an artist, musician and researcher whose work includes drawing, installations and musical [...]
Video Vortex Reader II :: Call for Contributions — DEADLINE: May 10, 2010.In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube [...]
e-flux journal Issue #14 March 2010: Education Actualized, guest-edited by Irit Rogoff :: Lecture: Participation - A User’s Guide by Irit Rogoff :: March 8, 2010; 6:30 pm :: Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NYC.All around us we see a search for other languages and other modalities of knowledge production, a pursuit of other modes [...]
The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google by Eric Gordon: The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late [...]
Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda — Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world :: March 11, 2010; 8:00 -11:00 pm :: V_2, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam + and streamed live.Featuring: Maurice Benayoun (FR) | Marc Lee (CH) | Damian Stewart (NZ/AT) | Opening: Alessandro Ludovico (IT) | Screening: [...]
Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs — curated by: Gabriela Rangel and José Luis Blondet:: March 2 – April 30, 2010 :: Opening Reception: March 2; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue on 68th Street, New York City.Marta Minujin is a prominent voice of the Argentinean avant-garde art scene in the 1960s and 70s, [...]
[Image: Merry-go-Round by Lily & Honglei] Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds :: Call for Papers — Deadline: August 30, 2010.Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds. Machinima - referring to “filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D [...]
Upgrade! Boston: Joseph DeLappe + Pete Froslie :: March 11, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute for Technology N51-390, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA (Entrance to the right of the MIT Museum).Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of [...]
The Century of the Self, Part 1http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t [...]
Low Lives 2 curated by Jorge Roja :: April 30, 2010; 7:30 - 10:30 pm (EST) :: Call for Participation — Deadline: March 30, 2010.Now in its second year, Low Lives is a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at numerous venues throughout the U.S. and [...]
Visual Interpretations - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences :: May 20-22, 2010 :: HyperStudio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA :: Call for Proposals: Deadline: March 31, 2010. Free but you must Register.How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does [...]
DRHA 2010 Conference - Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity :: September 5-8, 2010 :: Brunel University, West London, UK :: Call for Papers and Performances — Deadline: March 31, 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 respect [...]
Greg J. Smith of Serial Consign writes: Toronto-based Derivative software is teaming up with Richie Hawtin to organize a contest so that fans can design visuals for the Plastikman 2010 tour. Essentially they have bundled a custom version of their TouchDesigner software with four Plastikman tracks and are allowing fans to make visualizations which may [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ljvfBO1DrEMerry-go-around by Lily & Honglei [Video of Second Life Performance/ Installation; 3'3" with sound; 2009]Merry-go-around reflects 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China, particularly in memory of thousands of students died in the devastating disaster. The background with school rumbles is composed with Honglei’s oil paintings based on pictures of the earthquake ruins. The merry-go-around is covered [...]
The Studio: 19 Years + The Power Tool by Jon Brunberg :: February 25 - March 21, 2010 :: Opening and Conversation (Jon Brunberg & Catrin Lundqvist @ 6:15): February 25; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Moderna Museet, Box 16382, 10327 Stockholm, Sweden.The Power Tool is an internet-based art work that offers you the possibility [...]
7th International Multimedia Art Meetings: RIAM 2010 - Low-Tech :: February 25 - March 6, 2010 :: Marseilles, France.Nowadays, artistic events devoted to connections between art and technology are facing a paradox: how to stand back from technological glorifications, in a consumerist world constantly saturated by new gadgets? RIAM (International Multimedia Art Meetings) have always [...]
Are You Conductive? - hands on, creative workshop & interactive installation with Stefanie Wuschitz (Vienna) :: March 17 - 20, 2010; 2:00 - 7:00 pm + March 20, 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Werkstatt, Brienner Straße 48, München.Focusing on uniting sustainable low tech and untypical materials with high tech in a poetic and fluent way, [...]
Concrete Geometries: Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes — Exhibition, Symposium and Publication :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: April 12, 2010 :: The Architectural Association School of Architecture, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES,UK.The Concrete Geometeries Research Cluster is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences and humanities that [...]