Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology by Susan Kozel — In Closer, Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies, and the philosophical approach of phenomenology. Trained in dance and philosophy, Kozel places the human body at the center of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems, and affective computing, asking what can be discovered as we [...]
Virtuelle Mauer/Reconstructing the Wall - an interactive 3D installation by Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter (T+T) :: August 13 - September 7, 2008; Opening: August 13; 7:00 pm :: Speakers: Dr. Lieselotte Kugler, Director, Museum for Communication Berlin; Rainer Klemke, Berlin Senate Office for Cultural Affairs, Head of Senate Working Group for the Berlin Wall [...]
[ ... ] New Media - New Networks [1]If you mention the term new media in the presence of one of the most prominent artists of the extremely popular virtual world of Second Life, Gazira Barbelli, you will automatically activate a programme script, which will blow away your avatar to a completely different, unwanted [...]
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience; Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip — Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeuMlGq3X-MLumens — by Matthew Belanger, Sean Riley, and Ven Voisey — is an installation of lamps networked across three spaces: Greylock Arts (Adams, MA), MCLA Gallery51 Annex (North Adams, MA), and Turbulence.org. Scores of lamps have been borrowed from the residents of Adams and North Adams to fill the two gallery spaces. Their images and [...]
Media Matters is a multi-phase project designed to provide guidelines for care of time-based media works of art (e.g., video, film, audio and computer based installations). The project was created in 2003 by a consortium of curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and Tate. The consortium launched its [...]
Mexican artist Lilia Perez Romero presents her work Frontera v.2 concluding her stay in the Netherlands Media Art Institute. With Frontera v.2 visitors can play with their own portraits. This interactive installation consists of two main components: a video booth and a playback screen. The video booth serves as a tool with which spectators can [...]
Moving the Map: CAVC / MUA Plataform 2008 / 2010 :: Center of Contemporary Visual Arts, Barrio la Plazuela, Ave. Cervantes, Casa 1331, Tegucigalpa, Honduras :: Open Calls for the Interchanges Programs - Deadline: July 30, 2008.Moving the Map is an artistic project that investigates the discourse of political spheres regarding migrations, and from which [...]
VIDA 11.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. We are looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. VIDA 11.0 is searching for projects that relate technology [...]
Practice of Encroachment: From the global border to the border neighborhood :: July 10 - October 25, 2008 :: Opening Reception: July 10, 2008, 6-8 pm :: PARC Foundation Gallery, 29 Bleecker Street, New York.Estudio Teddy Cruz’s research-based architectural studio, located at the San Diego-Tijuana border, has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit [...]
AveCom: It’s all in the game :: October 3 - 26, 2008 :: Arnhem - Nijmegen, The Netherlands :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Deadline: September 15, 2008.‘Interactivity’ is a word that seems to gain more importance and magic everyday. In 2008 AveCom focuses on an audiovisual phenomenon that is indisputable connected to interactivity: games. AveCom [...]
Technology and Humanity: The following is a call for articles for a forthcoming themed issue of eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students. eSharp is pleased to support new and early-career authors, and has actively encouraged emerging academic talent since 2002.The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and personal [...]
“My creative practice is based on identifying internal systems of mapping the external as well as the internal environments of the body. My background is Bodyweather, having been trained and endorsed by Tess de Quincey who herself trained under Min Tanaka - the founder of Bodyweather in 1970’s Japan working on the Bodyweather Farm with [...]
Interrupt 2008, to be held at Brown University from October 17-19, is a three-day festival of readings, performances, and symposia organized around the theme of “interruption” in digital art and programmable literary practices. Why “Interrupt”? In computing, a hardware interrupt request or IRQ is used to prioritize the execution of certain processes over others. It [...]
Over the past few months, the team at RemixAmerica.org has wondered how much of an impact voter-generated videos will have. If we look at the Obama campaign and search YouTube, you will find Vote Different, will.i.am’s “Yes We Can,” Obama Girl, The Empire Strikes Barack, and Baracky - just to name a few.Yet YouTube’s term’s [...]
SCAPE Christchurch Biennial prepares to launch 5th biennial of art in public space: WANDERING LINES: Towards a New Culture of Space :: September 19 - November 2, 2008 :: City-wide outdoors and at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.SCAPE 2008 will open with a distinctive list of artists showcasing new work in public [...]
Last year I was invited by The Bewaerschole in Zeeland to do a GPS project together with Ivar van Bekkum. As we will be executing this project in July mostly, (the opening is July 27, you are ALL invited to come over!) I thought it would be interesting to post on this BLOG a regular [...]
25th Jerusalem Film Festival: The Story of Batya M. - An original telenovela screening with life dubbing performance by Sala-Manca Group with the live music performance of Yarden Erez (composer of the film soundtrack) :: July 16, 2008; 10:00 pm :: Hamaabada, Hebron rd 28, Jerusalem :: Entrance Fee: 15 nis including the party after [...]
Upgrade! Johannesburg: Jeanette Ginslov :: July 11, 2008; 1:15 pm :: Digital Arts Seminar Room, WSOA, Braamfontien Johannesburg.South African choreographer and dance video director/editor Jeannette Ginslov blends dance and new media, in eclectic multimedia explorations and improvisations, dance and video, dance and interactive technology. Participation, immersion, sensory change, empathy, process and framing. The dancer, audience [...]