“While computer users the world over were discovering the power of weblogs, wikis, and RSS, and online industries were facing boom and bust, net artists had already pushed the aesthetic and technical limits of the internet and experienced their own series of booms and busts — from the high of net art’s inclusion in museum [...]
Monument 08 by Lily & Honglei :: January 25 (Chinese New Year Eve) - February 26, 2009 (end of first month on Lunar Calender) :: Opening Reception and Dance Performance (Winter Blossom by Story House): January 30, 2009; 8:00 pm EST (5:00 pm SLT) :: Land of Illusion, Monument 08, Second LifeLily & Honglei — [...]
Upgrade! Dakar: Open Source Tools, Community, Possibilities & Digital Creation in Dakar :: January 17, 2009; 1:00 - 6:00 pm :: AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie), Dakar, Senegal.LINUX & OPEN SOURCE IN DAKAR: A way to discover Open Source Tools & Programming language (Python), Actors and an Audience (we hope) composed by Artists involved [...]
Sousveillance: The Art of Inverse Surveillance — Conference, public interventions and concert :: February 8 - 9, 2009 :: Aarhus University, Erhus, Denmark.With the growing spread of pervasive digital technologies the public urban space has become open for new forms of both observation and surveillance. Moving away from cameras and directional microphones, face- and voice [...]
Landscapes from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.This is a test film I made a few years ago, using one of my favourite software apps ever - Terragen. Music by Ligeti.It’s just a study of natural landscapes and rock formations, with care for composition, lighting and camera, inspired by Kubrick and Koyaanisqatsi cinematography.Terragen uses height-field maps (flat grayscale images) [...]
Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City - An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous / pervasive computing and urban architecture; curated by Mark Shepard.In September 2009, the Architectural League will present Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City, a major exhibition that will imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed [...]
Intelligent Agent Magazine Issue 9.1: Art in Virtual Worlds & The Age of “All at Once” :: Call for Scholarly texts, essays, artist’s works and missives :: Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2009.Since the turn of the millennium, an increasing amount of effort has been placed in the exploration of art in virtual worlds from [...]
Last Days… by Michael Takeo Magruder: On the 27th of December 2008 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resumed with brutal intensity. Last Days… is constructed from one hundred images collected from online news services during the final five days of 2008. The photographs have been removed from their journalistic context and stripped of all but their basic [...]
SEED presents BIN: a collective experiment :: until February 20, 2009 :: Artist/Curator Talk: Jessica Westbrook (shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system”) + Adam Trowbridge (Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics) — January 28; 5:30 pm :: Installation Reception — February 6; 5:30-8 pm :: AVA Center, [...]
One Day Sculpture is not an exhibition. It is a cumulative series of one-day public artworks commissioned across New Zealand over one year. Featuring new work by 27 artists from 18 countries, the series includes Thomas Hirschhorn, Roman Ondák, Javier Tellez, Michael Parekowhai, Lara Almárcegui, Paola Pivi and Rirkrit Tiravanija. One Day Sculpture was [...]
Eduardo Kac’s Lagoglyphs: The Bunny Variations and Wildfire :: January 15 - February 9, 2009 :: Opening and Lecture (Life Transformation - Art Mutation): January 15; 6:00 pm :: Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia | Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Laznia, 1 Jaskolcza Street, 80-767 Gdansk, Poland. “Lagoglyphs are a series of works in which the artist [...]
Playable Media: A New Research Focus at UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program; under the direction of Noah Wardrip-Fruin :: Applications Due February 15 for Fall 2009 Admission.UC Santa Cruz is pleased to announce an MFA for artists working with computer games, software toys, interactive fictions, rhetorical simulations, and related [...]
Networked Publics, edited by Kazys Varnelis: Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and [...]
Over The Opening (OTO) presents Secret School Session 01: Wheel In the Sky by Huong Ngo :: January 17, 2009; 7 - 10 pm :: Over The Opening (MTAA’s Studio), N6th St., Brooklyn, NY [map and directions].OTO is pleased to present the first installment of Huong Ngo’s nomadic curatorial project Secret School featuring the work [...]
AGM 09: under_ctrl :: January 15 - 25, 2009 :: QUAD Art, Film and Media Centre, Derby and Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham.AGM 09 under_ctrl explores our behavior with technologies of surveillance and counter-surveillance. New media artists, designers, writers and performers respond to the cultural environment generated by CCTV and (self) recording. This 7th edition of [...]
Upstage: Enacting Collective Intelligence :: February 8, 2009; 11:00 am New Zealand time (find your local time here).UpStage will be used to present a performative paper at Intercreate, the SCANZ Symposium in New Plymouth, New Zealand, February 7-8, 2009. On-site presenter Helen Varley Jamieson and globally-dispersed collaborators Vicki Smith (Aotearoa), Dan Untitled (Aotearoa), Miljana [...]
Lights On Tampa presents Tampa Public Mood Ring by Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen — A gradient project in art, steel, sports and blogspace :: January 10 - February 1, 2009 :: Downtown Tampa, Florida.The Tampa Public Mood Ring (TPMR) is a combined internet and spatial artwork installation which allows an online news community to [...]
A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era — Towards a new language criticism by Tatiana Bazzichelli“A networking art platformThe ahaCamping took place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October 2008 at the S.A.L.E independent exhibition space in Venice (The Salt Warehouses, Dorsoduro 187-188). It was organized and managed directly by [...]
Superenhanced: UBERMORGEN.COM :: January 17 - March 7, 2009 :: Opening and Performance: January 17; 6.00 pm :: Fabio Paris Art Gallery, via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia.Superenhanced is dedicated to the pressing issue of torture. Though torture is banned almost everywhere, it has re-emerged under a new set of names with the neutral, [...]
Surveillance and Society: Performance, New Media, and Surveillance :: Call for Papers — Deadline: March 31, 2009The relationship between the visual arts and surveillance has been explored through large scale exhibitions (CTRL:Space, ZKM), and texts such as Loving Big Brother (McGrath, 2004) have introduced questions of performance and performativity into the surveillance debate. However, as [...]