Artistic Bedfellows - Histories, Theories & Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices, edited by Holly Crawford: Although the modernist notion of art as autonomoushas been thoroughly contested, the discourse of the artist as celebrated individual persists. As a counter to that, this eclectic collection of writings on ‘collaboration as a cultural practice’ starts from the standpoint [...]
Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (edited by Andy Miah): In recent years, the long-term future of humanity has become of particular concern to various governance bodies and scholarly institutions. This is due to the many biological transgressions that have begun to occur through emerging technologies, such as genetic modification, cloning, stem cell [...]
Commissioned for Interact 15, Clouds of clouds — by Miguel Leal and Luis Sarmento — is a random generator of cloud images. Each new cloud is unique and indexed to a particular time (GMT) on a particular day. It was developed in Perl + MySQL; the database has more than 1,000,000 photos gathered from Flickr [...]
Heterotopia and the City Public Space in a Postcivil Society; Edited by Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter.Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has [...]
Artivistic 2009: TURN*ON :: Montreal, Canada :: Call for Participation - Deadline: November 1, 2008.The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by [...]
Open Source Meeting at Le Arti in Citta festival :: October 10, 2008; 10am-1pm / 4pm-7pm :: Fondazione Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, Perugia.On October 10, the group ‘Umane Energie’ and the ‘Flussi’ section of “Le Arti in Citta” festival are promoting a seminar called Open Source Meeting at the ‘Fondazione Accademia di Belle [...]
“Since the late 1980s, researchers have been working on a “post-desktop” paradigm for human-computer interaction, known as “ubiquitous” or “pervasive” computing. Combining any number of mobile, networked and context-aware technologies, pervasive computing involves the embedding of computational capacities in the objects and environments that surround us. When this research began to spread from university and [...]
The exhibition Net Art in Colombia: It’s Ugly and Doesn’t Like the Cursor curated by Juan Devis consists of online projects developed by Colombian artists who approach the Internet as a medium worthy of aesthetic exploration, as well as a tool of dissemination. While some members of online new media communities in different parts of [...]
Software Studies: A Lexicon, edited by Matthew Fuller - Some years ago, Lev Manovich called for “software studies” to be established as an interdisciplinary field capable of re-thinking programmable media at the interface of cultural theory and computer science. Conceived partly against so-called speculative accounts of virtual reality and cyber-identities, this suggested re-orientation aimed for [...]
As part of Metal’s Village Green, The MediaShed presents The Eco-Media Open Day featuring: The Internet vs. Pigeons Race; Human Telephone Lines; A Requiem for Cod; an Olympics of Lobbing, Shouting and Whistling :: September 27, 2008; 12 – 4 pm :: Chalkwell Park, Chalkwell Avenue, Southend-on-Sea.An afternoon of fun experiments to see how we [...]
Multinational Monitor: You argue that expanded copyright protection is harming cultural production and expressive life. Why? Bill Ivey: [...] To me, copyright has become too long and too wide … For example, back in the fall of 2004, a federal court decided that even a tiny amount of musical material couldn’t be used in a [...]
Agnes Denes Retrospective: Art for the Third Millennium - Creating a New World View :: September 26 - December 7, 2008 :: Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, PALACE OF ARTS, H-1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1. :: September 27, 2008; 4 pm - Agnes Denes’ guided tour :: September 29, 2008; 5 pm [...]
Urban Sreens Melbourne 2008 :: Public Multimedia Program: October 3-8, 2008 :: Conference - Mobile Publics: October 3-5, 2008 :: Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia.As part of USM08, Melbourne’s central city square comes alive with an Extensive outdoor exhibition that explores the diverse local infrastructure of urban screens, utilized to create the atmosphere of a lively [...]
The Morning Line by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU :: October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009 :: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo at the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Biacs) curated by Peter Weibel with co-curators Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee.The Morning Line is a groundbreaking architectural project, designated [...]
LAb[au] presents its new large scale urban installation Binary Waves in the context of the Art Grandeur Nature Biennale of Paris :: until October 19, 2008 :: Saint Denis RER D station, Paris.The installation Binary Waves is constituted by a network of rotating and luminous panels of 3 meter-high and 60 centimetres wide, forming a [...]
Urban Space, Time to Play - “Urbanized Landscape” Shanghai eArts Festival 2008 International Workshop w/V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media :: October 19 - 22, 2008 :: No.395, Shilong Rd, Xuhui District, Shanghai :: Number of participants: 30.The city is no longer a clearly localizable spatial unit, but has transformed into an “urban field”, a [...]
SECOND LIFE 《第二生命》 - presented by Videotage :: October 6 - November 4, 2008: Exhibition Opening: October 4, 2008; 7 - 11 pm :: Workshop: October 25, 10 am - 5 pm :: No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong.In SECOND LIFE, Videotage plans to [...]
Thursday Club Autumn Term 2008: Murray McKeich: Computational Creativity :: September 25, 2008; 6 -8 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London. Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne Australia who has established himself as a leading practitioner of digital media in Australasian [...]
On Purpose: Design Concepts - Åbäke, Droog Design, Daniel Eatock, Electronest, Ann-Sofie Back, Will Holder, Peter Jensen, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, Metahaven, Alex Rich, Savage, Yuri Suzuki :: until November 9, 2008 :: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, UK.On Purpose: Design Concepts looks at conceptual design practices, and the questions of functionality and purpose. [...]
video_dumbo 2008 :: September 26-28, 2008; 12 pm - 12 am :: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn NY. OPENING: September 26, 7:30 pm screening of in complete by Shelly Silver followed by Hack the Debate and live audiovisuals by Zarah Cabanas (aka Lady Firefly).Current TV’s Hack the Debate is an interactive broadcast [...]