Schematic: New Media Art from Canada - Peter Flemming, Germaine Koh, Joe Mckay, Nicholas Stedman, Norman White :: November 8 - December 20, 2008 :: SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare St., Hackney, London, UK. Schematic showcases the creativity and technological innovation of artists who also act as inventors and engineers. The exhibition explores our relationships [...]
Warren Neidich - Political Art in the Sixties was about Delineation, Political Art Today is about Differentiation :: November 5, 2008; 7-9 pm :: Small Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London.“The diagram is indeed a chaos and a catastrophe but it is also a germ of order and rhythm? … As (Francis) Bacon [...]
NO LAB in RMB City by Cao Fei (aka:China Tracy) + Map Office (Gutierrez + Portefaix) @ Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] :: October 30 - November 30, 2008 :: Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and in Second Life. Visitors (via Second Life avatars) can wander among the virtual shotgun houses and oak [...]
(2003)Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it.Jared Diamond is an award-winning scholar of ecology, biology and history, and [...]
(2003)Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on. Steven Johnson is the best-selling author of five thoughtful and surprising books linking science, technology and [...]
The Harwood Art Center and Richard Levy Gallery are soliciting proposals for LAND/ART :: Summer / Fall, 2009 :: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA :: Call for Artists Proposals - Deadline: November 17, 2008.In the summer and fall of 2009 many of New Mexico arts organizations will join together to present LAND/ART, exploring relationships of land, [...]
Gas Zappers, by artist Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, is an interactive online art game that tackles global warming. Hung is among the contemporary artists and educators who have adopted video games as a new platform for social debate and aesthetic experience by developing “serious games.” In Gas Zappers, the idiom of the video game is exploited [...]
Temporary Services has started its own publishing house and online store: Half Letter Press. Public Phenomena, it’s first self-published release, is the result of over ten years of photographic documentation and research on the variety of modifications and inventions people make in public. From roadside memorials to makeshift barriers, people consistently alter shared common spaces [...]
V2_Lab Workshop - Better than Reality :: November 24 - 27, 2008 :: V2_Lab, Eendrachtsstraat 10, off Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam :: Call for Participation - Deadline: November 13, 2008.Better than Reality is a project in which artistic use of augmented reality technology is explored. After a series of residencies* that took place last summer, [...]
Altroequipe presents WORKSHOPMOBILIGENCE :: November 25-27, 2008; 12:45 - 5:45 pm :: Auditorium delle Scuderie Aldobrandini Piazza Marconi 5, Frascati (Rome), Italy :: Deadline: November 15, 2008.The WORKSHOPMOBILIGENCE is based on the interactive process between choreography / dance, sound, light, architecture, motion capture (VICON Real Time), motion graphics (3D animation with MAYA and LEMUR). The [...]
Toni Dove: Spectropia :: November 13, 2008; 8:00 pm :: EMPAC Theater, 110 8th street, EMPAC Building, Troy, New York.Spectropia is a highly imaginative live-mix cinema event, a “scratchable” movie performed by video DJs playing a movie “instrument”. Toni Dove’s sci-fi hybrid, features time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set [...]
Upstage Walk-Through :: November 4, 2008; 8:00 pm New Zealand time (find your local time here).The open walk-through is an opportunity for people interested to learn about UpStage to have a guided tour through the on-stage player tools, and for those who have some experience of UpStage to get together to improvise, play and jam.Please [...]
al’Ka-mie presents Living Room - in a full world the only room left is virtual… as part of Chisenhale Dance Space’s 25th celebration :: November 22, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Chisenhale Dance Space, 64 - 84 Chisenhale Rd, London.Using state of the art animated digital scenography Living Room moves like a film as a woman [...]
It’s Always Halloween by Jacob Ciocci :: October 31, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Light Industry, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York. Pittsburgh artist Jacob Ciocci will present a new 20-minute mix of original videos and animations. He will also be premiering his new performance I Let My Nightmares Go which uses a video [...]
By-Pass: Everyday Life and Contemporary Urbanism in India and China :: November 15, 2008; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: De Balie, Amsterdam and online.For the first time the majority of the world population today lives in cities. A significant part of the new urban expansion in the past decade has been in Asia, where [...]
Paradise of the Assassins - live the legends in virtual world Performance :: November 2, 2008; 7:00 pm CET; 10:00 am PST :: Land of Illusion, Second Life (contact Lily Jun in-world for visits) :: Installation at MAD emergent art center, Eindhoven, Netherlands.The performance is taking place in Land of Illusion (in Second Life) created [...]
An Interview with Paul D. Miller on his Antarctica film Terra Nova by Elena Glasberg, Adjunct Associate Professor, Princeton University [Terra Nova Sinfonia Antarctica trailer]Elena Glasberg: When did Antarctica emerge into your world? Do you recall images? Was it fiction? Or, learning of historic exploration figures?Paul D. Miller: I guess some of my most formative [...]
TPFKATAIn 2006, NYU professor Jay Rosen penned an astute observation about the changing power relationships in the media industries - and more specifically, the world of journalism - regarding the impact of internet. His analysis had the catchy title “The People Formerly Known as the Audience”, and pointed towards a shift in access to [...]
Image Radio presents Living in the Datacloud - a symposium with Annet Dekker, Lorna Goulden, and Heath Bunting :: November 1, 2008; 2:00 – 5:00 pm :: Auditorium, De Witte Dame and streamed online by CityTV.nl [rtsp://stream.citytv.nl/ livectv.sdp]. The Datacloud already has a profound impact on our lives. As networks and institutions link and store [...]
ThePatchingZone - a transdisciplinary lab for innovation :: Call for Student Applications for GO FOR IT! - Deadline: November 3, 2008 :: Rotterdam, The Netherlands.GO FOR IT! is a creative collaboration project developed for and with local youth, students and researchers in Rotterdam. We are looking for current graduate and post graduate students to join [...]