Upgrade! New York 10th anniversary with Alexander Galloway, Mushon Zer-Aviv, and Savic Rašovic :: May 21, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W 21st Street, New York City.After a humble beginning in a New York bar in 1999, the Upgrade! has blossomed into an international network with over thirty nodes meeting regularly all across Europe, [...]
Freephone Art Project: Provides Deported People with a Phone Call :: May 30, 2009; 1:00 - 6:00 pm :: Lui Velazquez Gallery, Calle Josi Maria Larroque #273, 2do Piso, Int. 6, Colonia Federal, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, C.P. 22 300.The Freephone is an art project that aims to provide people just deported from the US [...]
body>data>space and Coney present Freeze B :: June 5, 2009; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Enghien-les-Bains train station, Place De Europe & Place Verdun, Paris — Part of Bains Numeriques #4 (June 5 -13, 2009).On June 5, the town of Enghien-les-Bains will be transformed. Using all five senses you are invited to follow from the [...]
AntiWar404: GetPeaceful.org — Perceive what’s gone missing from the web.Since the start of the World Wide Web thousands of anti-war and pro-peace projects have already come and gone. Now GetPeaceful.org presents a first-ever collection of its kind documenting the traces of anti-war movements that have disappeared among the sponsored links, spams, and twittering machines of [...]
Æther9 - LIVE improvisational performance :: May 23, 2009; [Local time here] :: online and at Trans-Sesiones, Museo de Arte Moderno (Medellin, Columbia) 2:00 - 7:00 pm; and Video Vortex Conference, Multimedia Cultural Center (Split, Croatia) 9:00 pm - 2:00 am.Æther9’s five hour LIVE improvisational performance can be seen and heard on our website while [...]
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives; edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin [Also see Henry Jenkins' interviews with the editors, Part 1 and Part 2]:The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narratives — featuring an ongoing and intricately developed storyline, many characters, and multiple settings — [...]
Upgrade! Berlin and Transmediale present eXgae (Barcelona): Multiply and Share Forth. For the Free Sharing of Knowledge and Culture :: June 4, 2009; 6:00 – 12:00 pm :: Klubraum Podewil, Podewils’sches Palais, im Klubraum Klosterstr. 68, 10179 Berlin.The Internet allows the horizontal exchange of information and culture between everyone. Over the course of the [...]
1st CASZuidas Urban Screen Festival :: September 4-5, 2009 :: Zuidplein, Zuidas, Amsterdam :: CALL FOR ENTRIES — Deadline: July 20, 2009.CASZuidas Urban Screen Festival is a new international festival specially aimed at artworks for urban screens. The focal point of the festival is the contemporary art screen CASZ, which has graced the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s [...]