GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place; Edited by Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson; Routledge:In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies.GeoHumanities maps this emerging [...]
Betabeat wrote: “For anyone who wasn’t aware, there are a few hundred protesters hanging out downtown in a park plaza two blocks from Wall Street. Despite allegations of Twitter censorship, tweets are collating around the hashtags #occupywallst, #occupywallstreet, #ows and #nycga. So when Betabeat walked past an iPad hooked up to a projector showing short [...]
Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts by Brian Massumi, MIT Press:Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on [...]
Welcome to Jack Gamble’s entry for the 2011 Nowa Nowa Nudes.The goal of this profile is to explore themes of Narcissism and the Virtual Nude in the context of social networking. The premise of the entry surmises, that in participating with Network Culture, we relinquish certain rights and expose ourselves to Deep Web meta-searches, data [...]
LoVid and Jill Magid :: October 4-28, 2011 :: Opening Reception: October 4; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University, 163 William Street, New York, New York.LoVid: 486 Shorts (2006) stems from a personal interaction with an ordinarily closed off part of a common machine. By getting inside the black box (the [...]
CONT3XT.NET presents: Well, Being In The Loop Gets You Ahead. (Iteration III, Progress) with Michael Kargl, Birgit Knoechl, Annja Krautgasser, Wolfgang Lehrner, Les Liens Invisibles, Lisa Rastl :: October 8-21, 2011 :: Opening: October 7; 7:00 pm :: Glockengasse No9, Vienna, Austria.Progressive thinking and the human striving for something better, truer and more beautiful are [...]
Radius Episode 14: Sara Pinheiro — Quem Contra Um Conto, II :: Radius will transmit Quem Conta Um Conto, II for five days to mirror the narrative stages found in Chris Vogler’s “Hero’s Journey” on October 1 (1:12am CST), 4 (5:12am CST), 7 (10:12am CST), 10 (3:12pm CST), and 13 (8:12pm CST).Quem Conta Um Conto, [...]
Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic :: October 2 - December 18, 2011 :: Argos Centre for Art and Media, Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic is a transnational multidisciplinary event curated by Okwui Enwezor and [...]
Through the Vanishing Point by Lewis Kaye and David Rokeby + Illuminated Manuscripts by Robert Bean — two multimedia exhibitions dedicated to Marshall McLuhan, showing a new technological portrayal turned into the future about this major intellectual figure of the 20th century :: until November 16, 2011 :: Canadian Cultural Centre, 5 rue de Constantine, [...]
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 3: John Cage and His Circle of Influence conference + exhibition :: October 7-9, 2011 :: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Asheville, NC.The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in partnership with UNC Asheville and the John Cage Trust is pleased to announce ReVIEWING Black Mountain [...]
Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective :: June 28-30, 2012 :: Utrecht University, the Netherlands :: Call for Papers and Panel Proposals — Deadline: January 10, 2012.The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration [...]
Mediating Place — curated by Meredith Hoy and Kevin Benisvy :: October 5 - 25, 2011; Monday - Thursday, 12:00 - 7:00 pm :: Opening Reception: October 5; 5:00 - 8:00 pm :: Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, McCormack building floor 1, 100 William T. Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA.The show seeks to address issues of place [...]
Expanding the Documentary: New Media and the Digital Documentary :: October 14, 2011; 9:00 am - 10:00 pm :: SUNY, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY :: Registration required.Artists, in recent years, have pioneered forms of interactive, environmental, and database art that document socio-political, cultural, and natural phenomena that were once the purview [...]
Upgrade! San Diego: Kim Stringfellow :: October 19, 2011; 7:30 pm :: Space4Art, 325 15th Street, San Diego, CA :: Free and open to the public. There will be a cash bar!Kim Stringfellow will join us in the opening event to launch the San Diego node. She will talk about her current work addressing ecological, [...]
Open Studio Izmir — Screenings, discussions, presentations and workshop with a focus on videodance, sound and performance :: October 11-16, 2011 :: K2 Contemporary Art Center, Cumhuriyet Blv.No:54, Büyük Kardicali Han, Kat:2 Konak-İZMİR, Turkey.Open Studio will consist of public program and the workshop (October 12-15, Izmir, Turkey), which will explore relationship between dance, interactive performance/live [...]
Architectures of Memory by Helen Hyunkyung Park and Natalie McKeever :: October 21, 2011; sunset :: Mitchells Cove, West Cliff Drive and Sunset Ave, Santa Cruz, California.Architectures of Memory is a site-specific, multi-channel video projection event situated within the ocean inlet at West Cliff Drive and Sunset Avenue in Santa Cruz, California. Through personal recollections [...]
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Xavier Leonard (X.L): 433m — a (dis)Locative sound design at Soundwalk 2011 :: October 1, 2011; 5:00 - 10:00 pm :: East Village Arts District, Long Beach, CA.433m uses Layar, an Augmented Reality browser for smartphones to transplant the ambient audio experience of one site (San Diego) into the space of another (Downtown Long Beach).Leonard [...]
Upgrade! Zagreb: Anne Roquigny and WJ-S Workshop :: October 3-7, 2011 :: net club mama, Preradoviceva 18, Zagreb, Croatia.DJs / VJs / WJs — WJ-S is a software and a flexible public device for web performances allowing WJs (webjays, artists, curators, web addicts, web mutants…) to play live with online text, sound and visual… WJs [...]
CuratingYouTube presents: Anonymous: Shared Identity in the Era of Global Networks — Online Exhibition Curated by Sakrowski with support from Ute Fischer:Anonymous: Shared Identity in the Era of Global Networks attempts to give an overview of the movement of the Internet-activists ‘Anonymous’ through a comparative and aesthetic investigation in the form of a series of [...]