[Details of dark version (Mushroom's mycelium) left, light version (Spider web) right.] Light and Dark Networks by Ursula Endlicher, commissioned by the Whitney Museum for whitney.org:Light and Dark Networks consist of two online data performances taking place anywhere on Whitney.org during sunrise and sunset in New York City, and are directed by actual weather and [...]
The Social Media Reader, edited by Michael Mandiberg: With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection [...]
in/compatible aesthetics symposium: Uncorporated Subversion: Tactics, Glitches, Archeologies with Michael Dieter (au/nl), Jussi Parikka (fi/uk), Julio D’Escrivan (ve/uk) and jon.satrom (us); Moderated by Rosa Menkman (nl) :: February 3, 2012; 4:00 - 5:30 pm :: Auditorium, HKW.Today, the average user is obliged to stay on top of the technological curve, thrust into a vortex of [...]
Negative Dialectics in the Google Era: A Conversation with Trevor Paglen by Julian Stallabrass :: OCTOBER 138, Fall 2011, pp. 3–14. In the last seven years, in a series of performances, publications, exhibitions, and installations, Trevor Paglen has explored the world of hidden military projects and infrastructure. One of his best-known series is Limit Telephotography, [...]
Network by Michael Rigley.
Cory Arcangel, Nik Kosmas, Daniel Keller, Ed Fornieles, Oliver Laric, Jon Nash, Rafael Rozendaal, Karen Archey, Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture :: June 22-23, 2012 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank, Melbourne 3006 :: Call for Papers: Interference Strategies for Art - Deadline for Abstracts: March 30, 2012.The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore the [...]
[3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer's traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company.] Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance:As the object has become a central issue in both theory and the arts, the Goethe-Institut New York dedicates a weekend to [...]
The Rhizome, Complexity and Pasifika View of ulu by Ian Clothier.This is an animation which presents key concepts of integrated systems. The first scene presents the rhizome of Deleuze and Guattari. The second scene is terms that describe a diagram of nonlinear relationships by an engineer. The third involves the Pasifika understanding of ulu or [...]
Programmed Visions: Software and Memory by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, MIT Press:New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things - mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in [...]
Theory Beyond Codes: Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other “Novel” Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media by Rachel Lee :: CTHEORY: Theory, Thechnology, Culure VOL 35, NOS 1-2 :: Editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.I. Don’t Press. Just TouchIn a 2007 news article in the ~Korea Times~ covering the then innovative technology [...]
Eve Sussman and her collaborative team Rufus Corporation are touring their latest film project whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir, to the Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, and Site Santa Fe in January and February 2012.An expedition to the banks of the Caspian landed Rufus Corporation in a dystopian “future-opolis” that became the location for their experimental film noir. Pushing [...]
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution - Assembled by Andrew Boyd with Dave Oswald Mitchell:From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed [...]
Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss: Performing Data (2011) [English/Polish]:Performing Data exhibition (April-June 2011) is a review of Fleischmann and Strauss´ body of work from Virtual Reality (Home of the Brain) up to Mixed Reality (Murmuring Fields or Energie-Passagen), from Fluid (Liquid Views) to Rigid (Rigid Waves) up to Floating Interface (Media Flow).Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss [...]
Art, film, and technology converge at the Sundance Film Festival with world premieres of feature films and New Frontier, a dynamic presentation of cinematic media installations, multimedia performances, and transmedia experiences.Portraits of two of today’s most provocative artists bring contemporary art to the big screen, in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and Marina Abramović: The Artist [...]
The reSource for transmedial culture, a new framework for the transmediale festival, aims to create a distributed platform for networking, curating and research throughout the year 2012 and beyond by envisioning the festival as a peer-production context of sharing knowledge and practices.Together with the other programme strands – the exhibition Dark Drives: Uneasy Energies in [...]
Workshop on Open Data in a Semantic Web Perspective :: May 27, 2012 :: York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (co-located with Canadia AI 2012) :: Call for Papers: Deadline - February 22, 2012.Open Data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions [...]
During the 2012 – 2013 academic year, Terminal will award four – $500 stipends to assist in the creation of new internet based art works. The submission deadline is February 15, 2012.Terminal can provide webspace for completed projects, or the artists may elect to host the project themselves (with Terminal retaining a copy for archiving). [...]
Perceptive Dislocations by Tamiko Thiel and United| Dislokations| Kartell :: January 27, 2012; 4:00 pm CET (7:00 am PST) :: Meeting Point: Goethe-Institut Island, Second Life (Requires installation of Second Life software and setting up an avatar in the virtual world!).Goethe-Institut Second Life Artist-in-Residence Tamiko Thiel and the United|Dislokations|Kartell (U|D|K) are pleased to present their [...]
Being Social :: February 25 - April 28, 2012 :: Opening: February 25; 1:00 - 4:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Being Social is the opening exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park in North London. Furtherfield has established an international reputation [...]