Piratbyran (Pirate Bay) Artist Talk + Guerrilla Music Swap :: April 26, 2009; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Not An Alternative @ The Change You Want to See, 84 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY.With Sara Sajjad of Piratbyran, the Swedish arts collective that founded The Pirate BayThe Pirate Bay trial verdict made international headlines last week, [...]
“Can a noncommercial critical website use the trademark of the entity it critiques in its domain name? Surprisingly, it appears that the usually open-minded folks at Wikipedia think not.Last February, a pair of artists, working with several collaborators, created a Wikipedia article and invited the general public to add to it, following Wikipedia’s standards of [...]
N.A.S.A. “Money” featuring the music of David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip and artwork of Shepard Fairey from Paul Griswold on VimeoVia MGFest.
transitio_mx festival — The Third New Media and Art Contest: Autonomies of Disagreement :: October 2009 :: Mexico City :: Call for Submissions.In order to support, acknowledge, and promote current research and production in new media art, the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) through its Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional [...]
The new issue — Neural 32, Machine Affection — is out.new media art: .France Cadet interview. .Ken Rinaldo interview. .Douglas Irving Repetto interview. .New Zealand report. .news: Processing Photography, Digestive Table, Ocean_v1, m/e/m/e 2.0, Connect. .reviews: . ..books: The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, Data Flow, Aesthetic Computing, Junk Jet n.2, Buffalo Heads.emusic: .Ralph Schreiber interview. [...]
Abstract: The concept of a ‘strange ontology’ is articulated via the intersection of philosophical and computational definitions of ontology. Within digital media, each simulated world requires both; an ontology, to define its existence as data; and a subject, the player or user, who engages with the simulation. Glitches or interventions in these simulations create ontologies [...]
The Khronos Projector — by Alvaro Cassinelli — is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to [...]
Watching the Sky is a data visualisation project I’ve been working on for the past six months or so. The work is almost ridiculously simple: slit-scan type visualisations of large image time-series, shot from the window of my Canberra office. All the images from this process are up on Flickr. Recently UK [...]
The After School Arts Program (ASAP) presents Mathew Timmons and Robert Summers on What’s wrong with Relational Aesthetics? :: April 25, 2009; 1:00 - 4:00 pm :: Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He directs General Projects at various locations including [...]
Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector is the first book to be published about Ellie (Harrison’s) work. It was released (today) to coincide with the artist’s solo exhibition at the Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art.Ellie Harrison was a ‘data collector’. For over five years she documented and recorded information about nearly every aspect of [...]
Abstract: The map can be active, malleable, open source fed, and even, in a sense, intelligent and able to adapt. The possibility also exists for this map to have a function that based on key words will search databases on-line to find maps, animations, histories and stories etc to place within it for your study [...]
Post-Anatomical Architectures - Microdances - Undoing the PanChoreographic — a 2-Day Workshop with Jaime del Val/REVERSO and Common Body :: May 9, 2009; noon - 8:00 pm + May 10; 11:00 am - 3:00 pm :: MediaLab Prado, Madrid :: Call for Participation — email jaimedelval [at] reverso.org.Surveillance cameras are placed on the skin, pointing [...]
On nettime, jaromil wrote: … As some of you might already have heard, the second appeal to The Pirate Bay court case ended up with the conviction of four people behind the popular bittorrent tracker and website. Alan Toner give us two extensive accounts about the situation on his blog (here and here).Further below you’ll [...]