Tracing Mobility – Open Platform :: November 26-27, 2011 :: Berlin :: Call for Participation - Deadline: October 17, 2011.It is in our movement that we give ourselves away. Our trails reveal a course that, when mapped, indicates our design. So we are tracked and our presence logged.Tracing Mobility sets out to examine the shifting [...]
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest — Yochai Benkler, Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director :: October 18, 2011; 6:00 pm :: Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. :: Free and Open to the Public; RSVP required. (Listen to David Weinberger’s interview with him here).Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) [...]
[Rosmarie Weinlich] NARRACJE Natura Miasta - Installations and Interventions in Public Space :: November 17-20, 2011; 5:00 pm to midnight :: Dolne Miasto, Gdansk, Gdansk 2016/i Kultura, the Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland.In 2009 the City of Gdansk introduced the idea of a night time festival of contemporary art and design in public space. The [...]
Antoni Muntadas — Between the Frames: The Forum (Barcelona), 1983–1993 :: until April 2012 :: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA Collection, Plaça dels Àngels, 1, 08001 Barcelona.‘Art, as part of our time, culture and society, shares and is affected by rules, structures and tics like other economic, political and social systems in our environment.’ [...]
A Complicated Relation, part II :: until November 20th :: Kalmar Konstmuseum, Stadsparken, SE 392 33, Kalmar, Sweden.Kalmar Konstmuseum is proud to present the second part of the museum’s major fall exhibition, A Complicated Relation. The exhibition follows on the heels of the widely noted and highly acclaimed exhibition Friction and Conflict - Cultural exchange [...]
Immersion Into Noise by Joseph Nechvatal, Open Humanities Press:The noise factor is the ratio of signal to noise of an input signal to that of the output signal. Noise can block or interfere with the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication. But in Information Theory, noise is still considered to be [...]
Field_Notes – Cultivating Ground :: September 26 - October 2, 2011 :: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Lapland, Finland.Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds is a week long field laboratory for theory and practice on art&science work. Five expert groups (Arctic Waters, Biological Milieu, Body Nature, Environmental Computing, Second Order) will develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches [...]
Hacking the Academy: A Book Crowdsourced in One Week: MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library, is pleased to announce the open-access version of Hacking the Academy, The Edited Volume. The volume is forthcoming in print under the University of Michigan Press digitalculturebooks imprint.This volume was assembled and edited by Dan Cohen and Tom [...]
Social Text: Call for Visual Works — Deadline: October 15, 2011.Debt is arguably the central economic and political issue of our times. Since the recession triggered by the crisis subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, political economists have spent much time bringing to light the arcane financial instruments (e.g. Collateralized Debt Obligations) that have driven the [...]
Site Reading | Pamela Z :: September 26-27, 2011; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: 60 Spring Street, New York City.Composer/performer Pamela Z will lead participants on a walk that creates musical scores from the graphic features (micro and macro) of downtown Manhattan. Participants will form a roving experimental sound and performance ensemble that will interpret [...]
How Can We Understand Code as a “Critical Artifact”?: USC’s Mark Marino on Critical Code Studies (Part One), by Henry Jenkins:The Humanities and Critical Code Studies (HaCCS) Lab opened this summer at the University of Southern California with the specific goal of developing the field and fostering discussion between the Humanities and Computer Science. Current [...]
The Assignment Book: A project by Luis Camnitzer :: September 21 - October 16, 2011 :: Opening: September 21; 6:30 - 9:00 pm :: Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons, The New School for Design, 66 5th Ave @ 13th Street, New York City.“In The Assignment Book I am trying to bridge the [...]
Museo de Arte de Ponce announces its first on-line art video exhibition, 11 in 2011:With 11 in 2011, the Museo de Arte de Ponce is expanding beyond its physical galleries and, in fact, beyond the need for visitors to actually visit the museum, while at the same time acting on a philosophy of creating new [...]
Fresh Kills+: A 21st Century Walk in the Park @ Sneak Peak :: October 2, 2011; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm :: Freshkills Park, Staten Island, New York City.On the occasion of the annual Sneak Peak event, a new augmented reality (AR) application for smartphones is being launched, allowing visitors to navigate and understand features [...]
Arcipelago Balkani, Public Dialogues, Open City :: September 29 - October 15, 2011 :: Symposium and Presentation of Arcipelago Balkani: An Alternative Map: September 29; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: Opening: 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kriterion Art House, Obala Kulina Bana 2, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.Arcipelago Balkani: An Alternative Map, published by Silvana Editoriale [...]
[HIV-1, coloured green, budding from a cultured lymphocyte. Photo: HIV-1, coloured green, budding from a cultured lymphocyte. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.] Online gamers crack enzyme riddle, from ABC News:“Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or World of Warcraft: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of [...]
Learning from YouTube by Alexandra Juhasz, the first video-book published by MIT Press:YouTube is a mess. YouTube is for amateurs. YouTube dissolves the real. YouTube is host to inconceivable combos. YouTube is best for corporate-made community. YouTube is badly baked. These are a few of the things Media Studies professor Alexandra Juhasz (and her class) [...]
Riverscaping/Alles Am Fluss is an international and northeastern US public realm public art/design-build competition on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts :: Deadline: December 10, 2011.The objective of this competition is to uncover new public realm art, architectural and environmental approaches to riverscapes at two scales: regional and intimate. Each designer/artist/team will produce an overall strategy [...]
Call for Experimental/Glitch Videos to be screened at the Leeds International Film Festival, November 2011:We are looking for works that fit within the term “Destructural Video”. Destructural Video is a revisionist term to describe the work of artists who aestheticize the exploration, investigation and exploitation of medium specific faults and flaws in electronic moving image [...]
The Assignment Book: A project by Luis Camnitzer :: September 21 - October 16, 2011 :: Opening: September 21; 6:30 - 9:00 pm :: Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons, The New School for Design, 66 5th Ave @ 13th Street, New York City.“In The Assignment Book I am trying to bridge the [...]