Jennifer Steinkamp at International Cairo Biennale :: December 20, 2008 - February 20, 2009 :: Gallery 4, Second Floor, Palace of Art, Opera House Complex, Gezira, Cairo.The United States will be represented at the 11th International Cairo Biennale by new-media artist Jennifer Steinkamp as well as with a diverse program of activities designed to promote [...]
Above: Video documentation of the performance Between Saying and Doing Between Saying and Doing is a video documenting an intervention performance at Eva and Franco Mattes (http://www.0100101110101101.org) Synthetic Performances exhibition in Second Life on the 4th of April 2008. The aims of the Synthetic Performances were to re-enact historical 20th century performances within virtual environments [...]
Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain by Hal Roberts :: December 23, 2008; 12:30 pm :: Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts and webcast live :: RSVP required. Google’s AdWords system serves ads alongside about a quarter of all web traffic. In the process of serving [...]
KURATOR and LX 2.0 Commissions and Residencies 2009: Infected: Viral Call for Viral Work — Artist commissions for Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal, the South West, Cultural Olympiad, UK :: Deadline: January 31, 2009 (sent by email to info [at] kurator.org.KURATOR and LX 2.0 are looking for a new work to infect the Olympics. We will [...]
Performances Night / Festival multimedia GAMERZ 04: I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E. and Confipop - 4 bits Gameboy Live :: February 6, 2009; 9:00 pm to midnight :: Aix-en-Provence, France.I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E. -Immersive Media Dance Integrating in Telematic Environments: I.M.M.E.D.I.A.T.E. creation is an international co-production performance in the field of technological art with a strong emphasis on “future prototyping and fabrication [...]
Neural 15th Anniversary: Issue #31: Neural magazine celebrates 15 years of publishing with Issue #31 and joining S.W.A.M.P. group (Doug Easterly and Matt Kenyon) for a collective micro-printing action.Subscribers will receive a numbered / limited edition of S.W.A.M.P.’s “Notepad” sheet of paper with an envelope. It looks like an everyday yellow legal paper, but each [...]
Upgrade! Brussels/Ghent and OKNO-Brussels present: Politics of Change :: December 18-20, 2008 :: OKNO, Koolmijnenkaai 30/34, 1080 Brussels, Belgium.Politics of Change is a research project in which artists, theorists and activists reflect on innovative ideas, contributions and solutions which support distributed and grassroot structures. This reflection takes place through a program of free discussion and [...]
Upgrade Sofia: Valeria Petkova and Petko Dourmana (hosted by Margarita Dorovska) :: December 22, 2008; 6:00 pm :: Goethe Insitute Sofia, 1 Budapesta St., Sofia, Bulgaria.The common ground between the scientific experiments of Valeria Petkova and the art installations of Petko Dourmana lies in generating experiences in which human perceptions reach beyond the way we [...]
“… At the beginning of this collaborative project we reflected on the relationship between our two different research perspectives. Caitlin’s approach, based on the tools of the Variable Media Network, focused on locating the artist’s intent as a means to aid future conservation considerations. The key principle of this approach is to record information about [...]
Turbulence Commission: Plazaville produced by G.H. Hovagimyan, with Christina McPhee and Artists Meeting [Needs Quicktime plugin]Plazaville is a new media video art work set in 21st century New York City. It is based on the classic 1965 movie Alphaville by Jean Luc Godard. The scenes from the original Alphaville are being re-enacted, interpreted and improvised [...]
Dear Friends,If you value this blog, please understand that it cannot continue without your support. Several artists have donated prints, posters, books, musical scores and DVDs; take a look. Or go here to donate right away.2008 was our most active year yet. We launched 30 COMMISSIONED WORKS on Turbulence.org and Networked_Music_Review; co-presented two exhibitions – [...]
The aim of The Bridge Project, says Elif Ayiter, “is to visually demonstrate my personal understanding of the evolution of the computer generated “image work” [01], by means of a free associative process that utilises the search and query mechanisms of the internet. I have tried to create a structure that displays this process by [...]
[Image: Burak Arikan: Twitter networks / Jeff Clark: TwitArcs] In general, I’m a fan of social software, believing that it has great potential to be useful in the overlapping spheres between the personal and the professional. Nevertheless, I’m somewhat of a late comer to the Twitter revolution. Despite early enthusiasm from smart people like [...]
Curing the Vampire consists of four interviews by artist-filmmaker Lynn Hershmann Leeson. Partially shot in the virtual world of Second Life, Curing the Vampire is being released one episode at a time. Subverting the distinction between real and simulated, the interviews explore interwoven themes of revolution, empowerment, technology and the remix. Each interview examines how [...]
Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE :: Call for Projects — Deadline: January 24, 2009.In the 1980s architect Bernard Tschumi posed the following question: “If writers could manipulate the structure of stories in the same way as they twist vocabulary and grammar, couldn’t architects do the same, organizing an architectural program in a similarly objective, detached, or [...]
Automatic for the People: ( ) will be performed by MTAA on February 7 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. What they do during this performance and how they do it is up for a vote. Go here to participate. This is the situation thus far…Prologue - a live audience at SFMOMA votes [...]
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) - with Steve Wilson, Dor Abrahamson, Kavita Philip and Beatriz da Costa, Paul Rabinow and Piero Scaruffi :: January 12, 2009; 6:00 - 9:30 pm :: SFSU, 835 Market (between 4th and 5th Streets) (BART and MUNI tip: the building is above the Powell Station), San Francisco :: admission [...]
For three months, Warsaw offices of Polish Deputies were inundated with spam relating to the increasingly vital problem of ‘Surveillance Culture’ - social surveillance carried out by means of technological devices. In the materials sent to the Deputies, the author emphasised that decisions regarding such important changes, interfering with everyday environment of Polish citizens, should [...]
4th Radiator Festival and Symposium: Exploits in the Wireless City :: January 13-18, 2008 :: Nottingham, UK :: Launch Event: January 14, 6:00 -11:00 pm — Broadway Media Centre, Backlit (tbc), Surface Gallery.Exploits in the Wireless City aims to instigate discussion, debate and new interdisciplinary research networks based on the understanding that the development of [...]
Pervasive Games: Interfaces, Strategies and Moves by Thomas Dreher :: English :: German:Pervasive Games: Interfaces, Strategies and Moves reviews the actual state of the discourse about the fundamentals of this kind of games. Terms like the “immersion“ and “magic circle“ are transferred from theories on computer games in nearly all articles on the subject. The [...]