DOCAM and art press present the launch of the new issue of art press 2: Conserving Technology-Based Art: Issues and Solutions :: March 4, 2009; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, 372 Sainte-Catherine West, Suite 507, Montréal.art press 2, n° 12, February/ March/ April 2009: Conserving Technology-Based Art: Issues and Solutions: [...]
Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine :: March 4-8, 2009, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.Somewhere between waking and sleeping, between thought and feeling, lies a body that we possess but cannot control – Chunky Move’s startling new work begins here. Mortal Engine is a dance-video-laser performance using movement-responsive technology to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the [...]
The Yes Men Fix the World — Artist’s Talk & Presentation :: March 3, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Muriel Richardson Auditorium, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, Canada :: Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.THE YES MEN impersonate captains of industry, agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, and then smuggle [...]
Next Wave is excited to announce its Call for Proposals for the 2010 Next Wave Festival (Melbourne, Australia). It will take place in May 2010. DEADLINE: March 13, 2009.Next Wave is seeking projects that respond in interesting and complex ways to the 2010 Next Wave Festival theme NO RISK TOO GREAT. The Next Wave Festival [...]
a canary torsi by Yanira Castro, Rozalia Jovanovic and YOU :: Call for Proposals: Deadline: March 16, 2009.New modes of communication create new meanings, and new narratives. With the rise of the twitterverse, new vocabulary has given way to new modes of dialogue. a canary torsi is currently commissioning the creation of a new work [...]
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe present Notation. Calculation and Form in the Arts :: March 1 - July 26, 2009 :: Opening: February 28; 7:00 pm :: ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.Notation is dedicated to the spectrum of diverse artistic processes existing between the conception [...]
APODIO official new release on Sourceforge — APODIO is a 5 year old Gnu/ Linux distribution, dedicated to multimedia tools for audio/ visual creation, to run your own radio, TV, make your own film, animation, art installation, Live Coding and other A/V performance… There is a forum to talk about it. We are waiting for [...]
Tate Encounters: Research in Process — Resolutely Analogue?: Art Museums in Digital Culture :: March 2-6, 2009 :: Tate Britain, Duveen Studio, Millbank, London. To what extent does the web visitor have agency to “act back” or to “author” their interactions with museum websites? How is new media being conceived as an “interpretative” or “augmenting” [...]
Harvestworks 2008 Artists-In-Residence Joseph Delappe and Sawako :: February 23, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway #602, New York City.Joseph DeLappe will discuss a work in progress that seeks to create an interactive system that facilitates performative reenactments by “walking” famous routes of protest and pilgrimage through diverse data co-mingled [...]
Nick Montfort :: March 12, 2009; 7:00 pm. :: 32-141, Stata Center, MIT, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA :: Free and open to the public.Nick Montfort — Assistant Professor of Digital Media in MIT’s Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies — writes poems, text generators and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad [...]
Caterina Davinio is participating in Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2009) :: February 27 - March 1, 2009 :: Uttarakland, Delhi, India.The 4th annual CeC 2009 will take place in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand. As in the past [...]
Turbulence Spotlight: (sans femme et sans aviateur) by Jorn Ebner [Allow Pop-ups; Firefox users read instructions](sans femme et sans aviateur) is a browser-based work that was inspired by Eric Rohmer’s film “The Aviator’s Wife”. It depicts contemporary Paris, happened upon following the main locations of the movie. The photographic imagery and the audio material were [...]
“Since the 1980s poetry has effectively moved away from the printed page. From the early days of the minitel to the personal computer as a writing and reading environment, we have witnessed the development of new poetic languages. Video, holography, programming and the web have further expanded the possibilities and the reach of this new [...]
Art and Code — a symposium on programming environments for artists, young people, and the rest of us :: March 7-9, 2009 :: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.Art and Code features hands-on workshops and a conference showcase for eight different creative toolkits — programming B8languages made by artists, for artists. Presenters include: Tom McMail, Microsoft [...]
CAA Panel: Artist as Startup: Web Application as Cultural Intervention :: February 27, 2009; 2:30 - 5:00 pm :: Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA :: Chair: Michael Mandiberg, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.New developments in web programming have allowed individuals and small groups [...]
Electrofringe Festival :: October 1-5, 2009 :: Newcastle, Australia :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: March 31, 2009.Electrofringe is a five-day festival of electronic arts and culture. It is part of a group of festivals collected together under the This Is Not Art umbrella. Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative use and re-use [...]
Add-Art — currently being developed at the Eyebeam Development site — is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.The current show is Net Art 1.0, curated by Steve Dietz. “It is little more than a [...]
1909 -100X100 - 2009: The Art of Silences by Franck Ancel :: February 20; 12:00 am - May 29, 2009; 12:00 am.“At this time of planetary financial collapse, 100 years after the launch of the first manifesto of the avant-garde artist movement by Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who wanted « to kill the moonlight », [...]
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be — Kevin Bewersdorf, Charles Broskoski, Marc Horowitz, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Kristin Lucas, Michael Mandiberg, Eva and Franco Mattes, Joe McKay, JooYoun Paek, Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spiritsurfers) :: February 28 - April 4, 2009 :: Opening: February 28; 6-8 pm :: Postmasters Gallery, 459 [...]