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Moody Mushroom Floor by Haque Design + Research - A smell / sound / light floor that develops moods and aspirations in response to the ways that people react to the individual outputs.
The “mushroom” actions are determined by their goals — each mushroom sets its own particular goals at any particular moment. These goals are [...]
Mes-etoiles (My stars) is an interactive wall that responds to the proximity of people, and provides feedback in the form of light. This means that users are able to use their bodies to draw with the light. The wall consists of numerous squares that each holds a collection of white lights. When a person [...]
The Northern Way Virtual Gateway Commission - The Northern Way, working with Arts Council England to deliver the 10m ‘Welcome to the North’ public art programme, wishes to commission a truly innovative and original virtual artwork ‘Gateway to the North’. Tenders are invited from organisations seeking to work with a named artist(s), individual artists or [...]
Grand Text Auto: Noah Wardrip-Fruin / Mary Flanagan / Michael Mateas / Andrew Stern / Nick Montfort / Scott Rettberg :: October 4 – December 15, 2007 :: Opening: October 4, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. :: Symposium: October 5, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. :: Performance: October 5, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. :: Beall Center [...]
5VOLTCORE premiered a self-fulfilling cybernetic system that played with the senses and perceptions of the User and the sensors and the processes of the Machine for DEAF07. The Robot is equipped with a knife that the Machine uses to s(t)imulate the test of courage - a kind of game known as Mumblety-Peg. The User puts [...]
The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre presents Karaoke Confessions by Antoinette Murdoch :: Opening: August 25, 2007; 6pm :: Exhibition closes: September 15, 2007 :: Loveday Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa :: thepremises[at]onair.co.za.
You don’t have to like me: the collective title for approximately 20 “speech-bubbles” form part of Antoinette Murdoch’s installation and performance [...]
SOCIAL FABRICS LEF Exhibition: Call for Proposals :: Submissions are invited for wearable technology proposals for an event-style exhibition of wearable technology art, to be held at the College Art Association 2008 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas.
Social Fabrics will explore artists’ creative deployment of mobile, socially interconnective media as wearable attire or personal accoutrements. This [...]
On Everything by Pall Thayer - “I’ve set up another CodeChat page for the visualization applet for my piece On Everything. Setup and installation took all of about 1.5 minutes following the installation guide that comes with CodeChat’s source. I hope that others here who are creating code-based artwork will also use the CodeChat system [...]
“Shadows are being used by Japanese researchers as an non-intrusive way for friends to stay in touch. Called Teleshadow the system pipes video of what people are doing at home via the net to their friends’ houses. But instead of showing images in full motion and colour, Teleshadow turns them into shadow outlines projected on [...]
Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference :: May 29 - June 1, 2008 :: Vancouver, Washington :: Call for Proposals :: Deadline: November, 30, 2007 :: Sponsored by Washington State University Vancouver & the Electronic Literature Organization :: Dene Grigar & John Barber, Co-Chairs.
Producing a work of electronic literature entails not only practice in [...]
Upgrade! Tijuana: Eduardo Navas + Ford Proco :: August 29, 7 -10:00 pm ::@ cecut.
Eduardo Navas es artista, historiador y crítico especializado en nuevos medios; su obra y teorías han sido presentadas en varios lugares en Estados Unidos, Latino América y Europa. Ha sido jurado para ” Turbulence.org” en 2004, también fue jurado para las [...]
In August 2007, the NMC is planning a very special, one-of-a-kind event — a week-long online symposium on the topic of creativity to be called the Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. The first in a series of conferences and events exploring virtual worlds of all kinds, the symposium is intended to redefine the way [...]
Argos, Centre for Art & Media, and The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) present: Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube conference :: October 5, 2007; 11:00 am :: ARGOS, Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium :: +32 2 229 00 03 :: stoffel[at]argosarts.org.
Speakers: Lev Manovich, Nora Barry, Keith Sanborn, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl, [...]
The League of Imaginary Scientists is a non-exclusive society for creative scientists, mechanically-inclined artists, absurdist inventors, and self-proclaimed quacks (think subterfuge meets centrifuge). The League specializes in building mega-media constructions of scientific mythologies. Media artist Lucy H. G. is a returning LKV artist-in-residence, having worked and exhibited in Trondheim in winter, 2005. As Dr. [...]
containment - confinement - circumscription: a 12-hour durational performance by Natalie Loveless, Dillon Paul, David Buuck :: August 18, 2007, 12:00 pm - 12:00 am :: Studio Soto, 63 Melcher St. Boston, MA 02210 :: 617-426-7686 :: admission free : donations accepted.
Natalie Loveless, Dillon Paul, and David Buuck will create simultaneous durational performances using the [...]
[Image: Invisible art works adorn buildings around Edinburgh] “Scottish researchers are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds. Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content. The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people [...]
Game Art - Feng Mengbo, Natalie Bookchin, John Paul Bichard, Petra Vargova, Gonzalo Frasca, Linda Erceg, Joseph Delappe and Göran Sundqvist :: August 30 - October 7, 2007 :: Opening: August 30, 5-9 pm :: Mejan Labs, Akademigränd 3, SE-111 52, Stockholm :: +46 8 796 60 30 :: info[at]mejanlabs.se
From the margin of the toy [...]
Beware of the God: This site intends to be a resource of diverse material documenting, analysing, and musing upon the impacts and aspirations of religious literalists in the public sphere. It is being produced in Australia - so that is its first focus. However, you will also find here information, ideas and reportage from other [...]
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media - edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin ::Publisher: The MIT Press (February 28, 2007) ::ISBN-10: 0262083566 ::ISBN-13: 978-0262083560 :: Review by David Cox, MA for newmediaFIX.
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media elucidates many of the techniques, approaches and [...]