Sophie Kahn and Lisa Parra: body/traces :: January 27, 2009; 3:00 pm :: EMPAC, Studio 2, Troy, New York. New media artist Sophie Kahn and choreographer Lisa Parra present a work-in-progress showing of their video installation, body/traces, a 2008-2009 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission. Using a DIY 3D laser scanner and stop-motion 3D digital animation to [...]
Cathy Weis: New Works + Electric Haiku: Calm As Custard :: February 6 - 7, 2009; 8:00 pm :: EMPAC, Troy, New York.In choreographer Cathy Weis’ work, performers partner with technology to negotiate the boundaries between the recorded and live, the electronic and human, and real and imagined experience in surprising, whimsical and moving ways. [...]
FNB Dance Umbrella 2009: Montage Video Dance Festival — screening of local and international video dance :: March 7, 2009; 5:00 pm :: Dance Space, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa :: Screendance Workshop by Jeannette Ginslov: February 12; 6:00 - 9:00 pm + February 14; 9:00 am - 12:00 pm :: AFDA, 41 Frost Avenue, Auckland [...]
parahouse_12 - a self evolving participatory environment by Egon March Institute & partner productions :: January 26, 2009; 9:00 pm :: Studio Martina Schumacher & Joulia Strauss, entrance B, 6th floor, U-bahn 6, Ullsteinstrasse, Mariendorfer Damm 1-3, 12099 Berlin.At Ostranenia festival at Bauhaus in 1997, an international group of artists joined their forces to live [...]
: In Search of a New(er) Digital Literature (Artists/Works): “Given its ongoing (and often surprising) metamorphoses on the web, it is dangerous to lay claim to a universal identity for digital literature, where exceptions to the rule often signal the coming of new forms, new iterations. But as a result of recent technologies, and digital [...]
Tactical Tech is an international NGO working at the point where advocacy meets technology. We use our technical expertise to increase the impact of campaigns in social justice and human rights. Tactical Tech believes that new technologies have significant potential to enhance the work of campaigners and advocates, giving them the tools to gather and [...]
The Grafting Parlour: Growing Light and Other Conversations at LIGHTWAVE (January 23 - 31) :: January 23 - February 20, 2009 :: Workshop: January 28; 3:00 pm :: Artist Talk: January 29, 6:00 pm :: Science Gallery, Trinity College, Pearse Street, Dublin.Growing Light and Other Conversations is an eco-communication system for interfacing with science, with [...]
Superlight - Selections from the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art :: January 23 - May 10, 2009 :: Opening: January 23, 2009; 5:00 - 10:00 pm :: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.There is nothing particularly lighthearted about global climate change. Or terrorism. Or the history of colonialism. Or [...]
Greylock Arts announces Two Online Exhibitions of Web Comics: .Comics — A group exhibition of web comics curated by John Mitchell: Cartoonists have embraced social networking sites and self-publishing tools like no other community of artists. In this exhibition, we have asked arts journalist, comics enthusiast, writer and comics creator, John Mitchell to curate an [...]
Thursday Club: Nick Montfort: Changing the Way Interactive Fiction is Told :: January 22, 2009; 6 -8 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London.Stories give pleasure and provoke not only because of what happens in them, but also because of how they are told. It is [...]
Root Division invites artists working in web-based media to submit work for Algorithmia :: March 11 - 28, 2009 :: Root Division, 3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA :: Open Call for Web Artists — Deadline: February 9, 2009.Works selected will be displayed both in the Root Division gallery on a [...]
Interspecies — Beatriz da Costa, Antony Hall, Ruth Maclennan, Rachel Mayeri, Kira O’Reilly, Nicolas Primat :: January 23 - March 22, 2009 :: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH, UK. Can artists work with animals as equals? It has recently been discovered that humans are closer to the higher primates than was previously thought. [...]
Mountain Walks with artists Simon Pope and Ibon Aranberri — Picos de Europa National Park (Asturias, Spain) :: March 6, 2009; 8:00 pm - March 7, 2009; 6:00 pm :: Call for Participation — PLACES: 20 (taking part in both routes) — DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: February 27, 2009 :: As part of the activities of [...]
Double Bind presents auto/hetero — A meeting between jeanfrancois blanquet and TITsANUS, a multilingual web performance :: January 26, 2009; 8:30 pm GMT+1 (Paris time) in the virtual salon of panoplie.org. Open to all. (You must obtain a password to participate in the chat.)“jeanfrancois Blanquet is an inventive, talented and complete artist, he builds prudently, [...]
Special Issue of New Media And Society: Mobile Communication and The Developing World; Rich Ling & Heather A. Horst, guest editors :: Call For Papers — Deadline: March 1, 2009.We are seeking papers for a special edition of the journal New Media & Society focusing on mobile communication and media, and its impact on the [...]
To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising campaign, thank you. We are deeply grateful.As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our organization’s survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either require a membership fee — thereby blocking public access to our sites; or we must take them [...]
January 17, 2009 - New York, Berlin, Toronto, London, Moscow: Created by Paolo Cirio, The Big Plot is a romantic spy-story played on the info-sphere. It looks at the role of espionage in intrusions into people’s internet lives, the dysfunctional sociality that is being created by media communications, the political use and exploitation of social [...]
ARENA: David “DC” Spensley aka DanCoyote Antonelli :: January 15 - 17, 2009; 10:00 pm (1:00 pm SLT) :: ARENA EX.IT, Second Life.“I call this grouping “Recent Retrospective” because it contains art from different bodies of my work done in the last three years as an artist in residence in the virtual world. Most prominent [...]
Platform2 presents MANIFESTO!SLAM — Perform your 5-minute manifesto on Inauguration Day while riding a biodiesel bus around town :: January 20, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: RSVP by replying so we can send you the pickup location in Boston :: Call for Submissions: email info [at] ikatun.org.We invite you to stand on a soap [...]
“Watch Late Fragment straight through and you won’t really understand why a young woman kills her doting father. Take control of the film, unlocking hidden footage and shuffling scenes around, and you learn that Dad may dote a little too much. Because the truth is, our perception of stories and characters shifts as we learn [...]