Dare We Do it in Real-Time? performance presentation by body>data>space and Post Me_New ID as part of the Kinetica Art Fair :: February 27-28, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Kinetica Museum, 35 Marylebone Road, London (opposite Baker Street Tube).In a topical world of blurred personal and public space and simultaneous local / global habitats lies the [...]
“Jessica Loudis recently reviewed Trevor Paglen’s Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World, published earlier this month by Dutton. Loudis’ review will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Brooklyn Rail, but is currently available on her blog. In addition to reviewing the book, Loudis had a chance to [...]
Tilt Festival: Cine Remix Online :: Call for Entries — Deadline: March 10, 2009.Video sharing sites like Youtube and DailyMotion are now the norm, and remixers everywhere are busy mashing-up film clips, movie-trailers and music videos and posting them for the world to see. French music and digital arts festival Tilt are launching a video [...]
Virtual Art: Lily & Honglei, John Craig Freeman + Will Pappenheimer :: February 15 - 28, 2009 :: Opening Reception: February 19; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York City.Virtual Art unveils the latest trend and experiment in the field of new media art - creating contemporary artistic expressions [...]
CitySpinning: Porous City — Seeking designs for a mobile cultural space in Bangalore :: Call for Proposals: Deadline: March 15, 2009 :: Prizes.CitySpinning has opened a competition for designs of a mobile cultural space in the form of a human powered vehicle which is light, configurable, collapsible, extensible and made with grown or recyclable materials [...]
Lunar Outpost — A Workshop on Wearable Art and Interactive Performance with John D. Mitchell, Galina Mihaleva, Hilary Harp, Keiko Courdy :: May 18 – 29, 2009 :: Tempe Campus, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.In response to initiatives to create a fully occupied operational base on the moon by 2024, the theme for this year’s [...]
Techformance with Blast Theory, Michelle Teran, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Gordan Savicic, Diego Diaz & Clara Boj, Roger Bernat, Ramón Palazón and Flashmob Murcia :: February 11-16, 2009 :: A project by Oscar Abril Ascaso for the Region of Murcia Booth at the 28th ARCOmadrid.Techformance is an exhibition project updating the by-now historical idea of the collective [...]
Art: Law: New Media :: February - March 2009; 3:30 - 4:45 pm :: Hastings College of the Law, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, California :: Free and open to the public, RSVP Roslyn Foy at foyr [at] uchastings.edu.Hastings Law School, in collaboration with visiting professor Sonia K. Katyal, invite you to an exciting new [...]
Public Netbase: Non Stop Future — New Practices in Art and Media: # Discourse # New Art Practices # Tactical Media # Digital Mediaculture, Networking and Participation # Public Netbase # World-information.org.“An ultimate reference book for those who want to find out about cultural discourse and practice from the beginning of the internet explosion in [...]
Urban Screens: Call for Papers :: Deadline: April 3, 2009.Following three successful Urban Screens events in Amsterdam (2005), Manchester (2007) and Melbourne (2008), we have started the preparations for an Urban Screens Reader. This publication is produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication. [...]
The Aesthetics of Gaming — curated by Michelle Kasprzak (Scotland) :: February 10 - March 3, 2009 :: Reception: February 26; 5:00 - 7:00 pm (5:00 pm lecture by Joe McKay / 6:00 pm reception) :: Pace Digital Gallery, 163 William Street, NYC (between Beekman and Ann streets).At the Interactive City summit in [...]
Turbulence Spotlight: MrsCoryArcangel.com by Scarlet Electric — Part fansite, part cultural critique, part exercise in stalking MrsCoryArcangel.com is a website devoted to Cory Arcangel. Featuring animated gifs, collage, and textured backgrounds, MrsCoryArcangel.com embraces an aesthetic deemed by Arcangel as “dirt style.” Dirt style, as Arcangel defines it, is the “true spirit of the web.” The [...]
Media Art Scoping Symposium - Vital Signs II — Media art education at the intersection of science, technology and culture :: July 4 - 5, 2009 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia :: Call for Abstracts - Deadline: March 27, 2009.The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the current pioneering educators, artists [...]
History of Telematic Art: The Australian Perspective: “Artist’s use of communication networks between the mid 1970’s to mid 80’s represents a remarkable pioneering effort that acted as a precursor to the internet. This site is by no means intended to provide a comprehensive history of art telecommunications but overviews some of the major developments and [...]
YesWeAre — by Ciro Museres — is an interactive installation where the user/spectator is invited to complete the sentence “Yes, we are_________”. The new sentence becomes a part of the work that explores visually the dynamic movement and rhythm of aesthetics HTML. YesWeAre has been built as an informative space based upon affirmative sentences and [...]
Anti-bodies: beyond the body ideal Launch and discussion event with Helen Cole, Geoff Cox/Joasia Krysa, Luis Silva, Sara Black, Paula Orrell, Nicola Hood, Lee Callaghan/Ben Ponton, Paul Darke, Lois Keidan, Keith Khan, Paul O’Neill, and Zoe Shearman (moderator) :: February 19, 2009; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA.Anti-bodies: [...]
BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life at Siggraph 2009 :: Auguest 3-7, 2009 :: New Orleans, Louisiana :: Call for Art and Papers — Deadline: February 18, 2009; 10:00 pm (UTC/GMT).The Juried Art Gallery at Siggraph this year offers expanded opportunities for both exhibiting and publishing work. A select group of works will be [...]
Upgrade! Paris: Christophe Bruno presents Dadametre, with María Inés Rodríguez and Dominique Moulon :: February 5, 2009; 7:00 pm :: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Conferences room, 1st floor, Palais des études, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris. Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to [...]
A Practice Without Discipline | Networked Cultures in conversation with Helge Mooshammer and Peter Moertenboeck — view original project [Peter Mörtenböck / Helge Mooshammer (eds.): "Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space"; NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008.]In 2005 Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer initiated the Networked Cultures project, a research platform on the potential [...]
Turbulence|ShiftSpace Commission: Yeas and Nays by Christian Croft [Needs Firefox Browser and ShiftSpace Download]: Yeas and Nays is a browser plug-in that transforms any webpage into a means for contacting Congressional representatives. It is the latest functionality added to Shiftspace.org, an application which provides an “open source layer above any website.” “It’s a unique function,” [...]