http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRckZT5XuQPanelists — Joi Ito, Yochai Benkler, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Howard Rheingold (moderator) — discuss what they see as our key challenges as we chart a future where DIY, amateur and grassroots video becomes even more a part of our everyday lives. Linking themes from the summit altogether, panelists review the present struggles and [...]
Machine Improvisations :: April 24 – June 20, 2009 :: Opening + One Night Stand: featuring the world premiere of 12_Series, a new generative multichannel computer installation by Telcosystems — April 24, 2009; 5:00 - 11:00 pm :: Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA.Machine Improvisations brings together a body of work created by [...]
Into the Open: The Conference :: April 24, 2009; 5:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The curators will pose the following questions to the guest speakers, who have 20 minutes to present. Informal conversation with the public to follow, mediated by 3-4 agents provocateurs from the faculty of [...]
Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, Mirko Tobias Schäfer (editors) :: Book Launch: May 15, 2009; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Studio T, Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht, NL.Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a [...]
United Technologies — Stefan Brüggemann, Rita McBride, Corey McCorkle, Jason Rhoades, Ai Weiwei :: April 23 - September 30, 2009 :: Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland.In Design and Crime, art historian and critic Hal Foster states that, at our time when aesthetics and utilitarianism are being subsumed into commercialism, everything – from [...]
MAICgregator is a Firefox extension that aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic [...]
[Image: Ann Hamilton’s "Tropos"] Joseph Tabbi wrote: Michael, you ask, about e-lit: does it arrive JIT (’just-in-time’)?Certainly it emerges in the time of neo-liberal politics and economics, and that affects the work and also its institutional organization.I do suspect that creative and scholarly work increasingly is produced from compulsion. “De-Christianized Christian guilt” - there’s a [...]
[...] net.art that will not be version numberedFirefox extensions (putting aside (sadly) for the moment the regrettable continued use of male language) or add-ons are today presenting a relatively low-barrier entry into the development of web- and browser-based artistic projects. While we do not want to discount the level of programming knowledge necessary to build [...]
Psychogeographical Research - Raedle & Jeremić :: Opening: April 25, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Centre culturel de Serbie, 123, rue Saint Martin 75004 Paris, M°Châtelet / Rambuteau.Raedle & Jeremić call their artistic practice OUT-Praxa or Psychogeographical Research, with the latter being a clear reference to the situationist neologism of psychogeography. It suits perfectly that their [...]
Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self, edited by Christian Nold, 2009 — Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.Essays by Raqs Media [...]
The Institute for Network Cultures presents the 4th edition of Video Vortex :: May 22-23, 2009 :: Split, Croatia.Organized in collaboration with the Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.8. After previous Video Vortex events in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, Video Vortex Split will focus on [...]
Playing the City with Artists Anonymous, A Wall Is A Screen, Ulf Aminde, Cezary Bodzianowski, Robert Ladislas Derr, Dara Friedman, Dora García, Wiebke Grösch and Frank Metzger, Yolande Harris, Sharon Hayes, Tony Hunt and Christian Pantzer, Allan Kaprow, Leopold Kessler, Mads Lynnerup, MOMUS, Roman Ondák, Raumlabor, Bernhard Schreiner, Tino Sehgal, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nasan Tur, Silke [...]
Turing Tables - An Untitled Composition for Tectonic Spaces by Franz John: Several million earthquakes of different intensities occur each year. Seismological institutes throughout the world measure these vibrations and exchange and communicate this collected data among themselves via automated internet-transfers. It is this meta-perception that Franz John makes visible in his project Turing Tables, [...]
DIY Wearable Technology Workshop by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (aka KOBAKANT) :: May 16-17, 2009 :: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, the Netherlands :: Call for Participation — Deadline for Applications: May 3.V2_Lab will organize a wearable technology workshop with an emphasis on DIY techniques and performing arts. The aim of the workshop is to [...]
Data Visualization & Processing Workshop, by Karsten Schmidt (toxi) :: April 20-22, 2009; 10:00 am - 6:00 pm :: Clube Portugu’s de Artes e Ideias, Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2º (ao Chiado), Lisbon, Portugal.Data is everywhere around us. Through the ongoing technological developments and digitalization, ever more aspects of our lives become subject to [...]
Upgrade! Milwaukee: Patrick Lichty and Christopher Burns :: April 19, 2009; 7 :00 - 9:00 pm :: MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave, Milwaukee, WI.Please come to our first-ever Upgrade! Milwaukee.Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. [...]
“A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance cameras. Canadian Rob Spence’s eye was damaged in a childhood shooting accident and it was removed three years ago. Now, he is in [...]
I do really like new media installations which are messy, which don’t try to hide what they are or how they work, they seem to reveal in their own form as new media. There was a trend a few years ago that good new media installations tended to be immaculately presented and just show the [...]
Usually work produced as part of a short workshop tends to be quite a routine testing of process and technique and not a fully fledged work / performance however intensive workshops can provide that opportunity to explore very directed ideas which may not have been possible for the artist due to knowledge or access to [...]