Digital+Hangul by Yi Sang Han Gul @ Art Center Nabi, a specialized institution for Media Arts, showcases new experience and communication with Hangul (the Korean character) and new media. It is on view from until November 18.The section shows aesthetic approaches of Hangul — which comprises works that show typography and visualization of Hangul. Included [...]
Before I leave the room, tired and ready to go home, I look back in after Ihave turned the lights off. The 8 cameras positioned all around the room, on the walls and in the ceiling grid splay their red light across the floor, the computers, the chairs, staying on, always capturing, always seeing.I am [...]
Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga :: October 16 - November 6, 2008 :: Lecture and Reception: October 16; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University, Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York. Brooke Singer’s work explores and blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts [...]
Trances - Four Dance-Related Works by Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, Mathias Poledna :: October 11 - December 15, 2008 :: Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Place du Château, 87600 Rochechouart, France.“Why have moving images of bodies taken the place of statues? Because the world has been set in motion, firstly as a [...]
Le Laboratoire: Ryoji Ikeda & Benedict Gross; Shilpa Gupta & Pamela Sklar; R&Sie(n) & François Jouve :: Schedule below :: Le Laboratoire, 4 rue du Bouloi, 75001 Paris.Conceived and initiated by the Franco-American scientist and writer David Edwards, Le Laboratoire is a ONE YEAR OLD experimental art and design centre located in the heart of [...]
The Right to the City - Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Philippe Rekacewicz :: October 20, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: MIT Visual Arts Program, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor - Adjacent to the MIT Museum - Entrance is on Front Street).How does a series of anxiety-producing events and incidents play out [...]
Performing Presence: From the Live to the Simulated - An international conference :: March, 26-29, 2009 :: Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter, UK :: CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: December 1, 2008.What creates a sense of presence? the presence of a live performer … the presence of the past … in a memory [...]
The Internet of Things - Network Notebook Launch :: October 28, 2008; 5:00 pm :: Waag Society, Theatrum Anatomicum, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam :: Free entrance, send an email to reserveren [at] waag.org if you want to attend.The Internet of Things is the second issue in the series of Network Notebooks. It’s a critique [...]
Inside Networked Movements: Interview with Jeffrey Juris by Geert Lovink - Jeffrey Juris wrote an excellent insiders story about the ‘other globalization’ movement. Networking Futures is an anthropological account that starts with the Seattle protests, late 1999, against the WTO and takes the reader to places of protest such as Prague, Barcelona [...]
Fearless City Mobile - Call to Local and International Mobile Media Artists and Technicians: Fearless City Mobile is a two-way social media system for marginalized residents and artists of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). It is an interactive communication system that uses Mobile Muse 3’s technology platform to confront the digital divide through peer training, skill [...]
Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics (ed. Naomi Sunderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs): What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life — things of awe and spiritual significance — are translated into products accessible to few people? This book critically analyses this historic recontextualisation. Through mediation — when [...]
Traceblog is a daily ghost log of Eduardo Navas’s online searches, created with TrackMeNot (TMN). While Navas surfs the web, TrackMeNot is activated with the aim to cover his online surfing. TrackMeNot is a browser extension designed for search engine obfuscation. The developers define the Firefox plug-in as follows:TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that [...]
Northern Lights presents Experimenting with Art in Public Places :: October 10-11, 2008 :: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.Experimenting with Art in Public Places is a symposium free and open to the public, presented by Northern Lights with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which will explore ways to support and [...]
Ways of Seeing John Berger - A Day-Long Series of Screenings Devoted to John Berger’s TV and Film Work :: October 10, 2008 :: Great Theatre, New York University, 19 University Place, New York City.Few artists alive today have changed the way in which people imagine, view and think about the world around them more [...]
Physical Virtuality - What’s the weight of an avatar? :: November 1, 2008; 6:00 pm GMT (7:00 pm CET; 10:00 am PST) :: Science Center NEMO, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands :: and in Second Life [SLurl to be announced on sndrv.nl/slurl].Visitors at the Science Center will be physically connected to inhabitants of the virtual [...]
A book which is an encounter between an artist, Eduardo Kac, and a philosopher, Avita Ronell. In Life Extreme, Kac and Ronell focus on human created beings, a kind of an alternative evolution going back to the 17th century but mainly concentrated on rarely seen creatures of the last decennia. Kac, one of the prominent [...]
ICA (London) presents Memory Cloud by Minimaforms :: October 9 and 10, 2008; 7:00 - 9:30 pm :: Trafalgar Square, London. For three evenings in October, a new interactive smoky communication will be underway in central London - one that combines a very modern medium with a 5,000-year-old one. In Memory Cloud, visitors can text [...]
Annie Abrahams’ The Big Kiss :: October 10, 2008; 7 - 10 pm :: Over The Opening (MTAA’s Studio), N6th St., Brooklyn, NY [map and directions].What’s contact in a machine mediated world? What’s the power of the image? How does it feel to kiss without touching? Does the act change because we see it? What [...]
Historicizing a Pen by Jane Halloway :: October 16, 2008; 3:00 pm :: Dowd Fine Art Gallery, State University of New York College at Cortland, Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 162, Cortland, New York.The pseudonym, Jane Halloway, will present the lecture Historicizing a Pen on the behalf of CarianaCarianne. In her debut, Jane will discuss [...]
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