The Birdwatchers: Gabriela Albergaria, Jeffrey Blondes, Adriana Salazar, Marina Zurkow, curated by Laura Bardier :: until January 21, 2012 :: bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York City.The Birdwatchers is a group exhibition featuring work of four contemporary artists that observe nature and repurpose it within altered landscapes, as part of their interdisciplinary practice. [...]
[Image from Perspectives on a Dance in Sol LeWitt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)” by Nell Breyer © 2011 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York] Nell Breyer: Video and Performance Extracts @ ThIStHaT ShoW no.4 and no.5 :: January 13-14, 2012; 8:00 pm :: Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, [...]
Low Lives: Occupy! :: March 3, 2012 :: Open Call for Artists and Presenters - Deadline: February 6, 2012Low Lives launches new program in partnership with Occupy With Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives: Occupy! an international platform designed to enable artists, audiences, and presenters in alliance [...]
["Myths of Rape" by Leslie Labowitz-Starus, performed for "Three Weeks in May," Suzanne Lacy, 1977. Photo: Suzanne Lacy] Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival :: January 19–29, 2012 :: More than 30 New Works, Re-Inventions, Commissions and Happenings to Unfold Across Los Angeles.The art of Pacific Standard Time heads into the streets, clubs [...]
Ghost Radio is an ongoing audio collage/fm transmission project by Ven Voisey included in the 2012 deCordova Biennial. To contribute your story, call the Ghost Radio hotline: (213)4-GHOST5 (aka 213.444.6785):“True ghost stories and paranormal experiences are gathered through individual conversations, spirit communication attempts, telephone messages, radio technology experiments, found audio clips, social media sound fragments… [...]
e-flux journal issue 31, with contributions by Keller Easterling, Gean Moreno, Gregory Sholette, Sven Lütticken, Grant Kester.As we continue to reflect upon the chain of political upheavals of 2011, it may be interesting to consider a particular shift in the status of information technology, now that it has been deployed as such a powerful force [...]
January 14, 2012; 3:30 - 5:00 pm: Tour of the exhibition Controlling_ Connectivity with Gretta Louw and Regine Rapp (curator); 4:00 pm: Artists’ talk Current Artistic Practices on Time and Technology :: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin.In connection with the exhibition Controlling_Connectivity by Gretta Louw and the series Time and Technology Art Laboratory [...]
P.I.E. (Personal Immersive Environments) :: January 15, 2012; 10:00 am – 4:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.Join Amy Jo Diaz and Casey Hughes for an afternoon of personal-diorama-making. These dioramas are intended to produce miniature immersive environments using both two and three-dimensional elements and a point-of-view.The workshop will begin [...]
Articulated Cloud - Pittsburgh Childrens Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. 2004. Composed of thousands of translucent, white plastic squares that move in the wind, the artwork is intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.
Affexity an interdisciplinary pilot choreographic project examining affect, dance on screen and cities. A project of embedded choreographies, in the city of Malmö Sweden, accessed by Argon Augmented Reality Platform, via iPads and iPhones.Affexity is a play on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity.’Affexity is a choreographic exploration with Augmented Reality on mobile devices with 2 [...]
Radius - Range: Local, Distant, Fringe is a three-part, location-based series of radio transmissions that explores the phenomenon of signal strength. The series seeks to break, bend, and highlight the economic, political, and technical dimensions of the electromagnetic spectrum.Range uses the criteria found in proprietary mapping software that plots radio station coverage areas to analyze [...]
[Figure 1. Senster on display at the Philips Evoluon, Eindhoven, 1970-1974] Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity by Simon Penny, Fibreculture Journal #19, 2011: Ubiquity:“Introduction: As I write this, at the end of 2010, it is sobering to reflect on the fact that over a couple of decades of explosive development in new media art [...]
The Medium is Not the Message: On the Future of New Media Studies by Florian Kramer [to Graduates of The Media Department of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, September 2011]:Dear graduates,Let me make a wild guess: Perhaps it has become more difficult for you to say what media are - and what media studies are - [...]
[Figure 1. Scripted Space] The Scripted Spaces of Urban Ubiquitous Computing: The Experience, Poetics, and Politics of Public Scripted Space by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Pold, Fibreculture Journal #19, 2011: Ubiquity:The computer is moving out into physical and urban reality. Since Mark Weiser’s call for a ‘computer for the 21st century’ in 1991 a [...]
Techno-Ecologies: Call for Papers — Deadline: February 15, 2012 (abstracts are welcome by January 31).Concept:: Technology can no longer be understood as an alterity (otherness) that stands in opposition to biological and social relationships. Going about our regular practices of everyday living we inhabit complex technological spheres of life that require a different, a more [...]
The Mobile Audience: Media Art And Mobile Technologies, edited by Martin Rieser, with an Introduction by Howard Rheingold:The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing is creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. This book tracks the history and genesis of locative and wearable media and the ground-breaking work [...]
Second Nature: Origins and Originality in Art, Science, and New Media, Rolf Hughes, Jenny Sundén (eds.), Axl Books:With the practices of art, science and technology increasingly converging, the concepts of origins and originality raise some of the most pressing questions in contemporary research, including issues of agency and accountability, hybridity and identity, intellectual property and [...]
3rd Leonardo Satellite Symposium: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012 :: June 19, 2012 :: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois :: Call for Proposals - Deadline: March 16, 2012.We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary [...]