Content | Form | Im-material — Five Years of http://CONT3XT.NET/: Book Launch with an introduction by Tom Waibel :: September 15, 2011; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Herrengasse 13, Vienna, AustriaWhy is it still easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single work of Internet-based Art [...]
Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity by Sacha Kagan:What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental [...]
Northern Lights.mn presents Nightmare on the Mississippi — An ephemeral public artwork by Andréa Stanislav :: August 26, 2011; 9:00 - 10:30 pm :: Launching from Harriet Island, Saint Paul, MN.Nightmare is a public video work that creates the illusion of a white horse galloping on the Mississippi, at night, and in slow motion. The [...]
Ebb and Flow, the Internet cave by Fred Forest :: until October 30, 2011 :: online and at Centre d’art Le LAIT - Moulins Albigeois, 41 rue Porta, 81000 Albi, France.In the 1970s, as a pioneer of video art, and media and network art, Fred Forest, who was born in 1933, ushered in the concept [...]
Spiral Drawing Sunrise, a device for the site specific recording of sunrises by Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum :: September 14-20, 2011; times here :: part of ISEA2011.Spiral Drawing Sunrise’s main component is a “phototropic car”, a small robotic rover that runs on solar energy, not unlike the carts used by NASA to explore [...]
chicks on SPEED SHOW curated and organized by nina wenhart :: September 3, 2011; 6:30 - 9:30 pm :: the internet cafe that has no name, Graben 17 (corner of Graben / Marienstr), Linz, Austria.chicks on SPEED SHOW is the first speed show evva in linz && the first one that only showcases female artists. [...]
Magnetic Cities – Tallinn by Christina Kubisch Commissioned for gateways. Art and Networked Culture, 2011 (also see Electrical Walk): Magnetic Cities – Tallinn is part of a new group of works by German sound artist Christina Kubisch in which she creates portraits of cities using photographs and electromagnetic sounds. Visitors to the photographic installation receive [...]
Tallinn Wall by Thomson & Craighead @ gateways. Art and Networked Culture, 2011:Tallinn Wall is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us, a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a ten kilometer radius of the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn. The artists Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead manually manufacture a [...]
Memopol-II by Timo Toots @ gateways. Art and Networked Culture (see video):Memopol-II is a social machine that maps the visitor’s information field. By inserting an identification document such as a national ID card or EU passport into the machine, it starts collecting information about the visitor from (inter)national databases and the Internet. The data is [...]
Scanner, The News Of The World & The Art Of Listening In by Luke Turner, The Quietus:Robin Rimbaud - AKA Scanner - once trawled the airwaves recording ‘found’ telephone conversations. He discusses his controversial work, and remembers when the News Of The World tried to buy his archive of recordings.“Back in the days before digital [...]
Freestanding by Petko Dourmana :: Commission for gateways. Art and Networked Culture, 2011:Presenting two towers in augmented reality on smart phones and telling their stories with drawings and video, Freestanding invites audiences to compare the concepts and contexts in which the structures were conceived. One of the towers was never built, but managed to become [...]
ISEA Istanbul — Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn with Marc Tuters, Tristan Thielmann, Mark Shepard, Michiel de Lange :: September, 20, 2011; 9:00 - 10:30 am :: Sabanci Center Room 4, Levent.William Gibson no longer writes about cyberspace in the future, but instead about locative art in the atemporal present. Having emerged [...]
New York Electronic Art Festival presents Blue Morph by Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski :: until September 25, 2011 :: St. Cornelius Chapel, Governor’s Island, NY. Blue Morph is an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. The piece emerges in sound and [...]
BYOB Linz I + II :: September 1, 2011; 10:00 pm @ the underpath next to the Ars Electronica Quarter + September 2; 9:30 pm (after the prix ars gala), Danube Park in front of Brucknerhaus (in case of rain, we can provide umbrellas), Linz, Austria :: Remote-participation: upload your video here.BYOB (Bring Your [...]
Remixthebook: Everything, all at once: Review by Mark Hancock, Furtherfield.org:“For us, art is not an end in itself … but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticismof the times we live in.” Hugo Ball.The challenge in trying to review a book like Mark Amerika’s Remixthebook, is the feeling you can only do [...]
Blast Theory’s A Machine To See With at Edinburgh Fringe :: August 24-28, 2011; 2:00 - 7:00 pm daily :: St George’s West, 58 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Have you ever wanted to rob a bank? Blending secret missions and high adrenalin, you are in an interactive heist movie on the streets of the city, [...]
For headphones or speakers. Works develop individually, are generated as the viewer moves across,pauses or clicks at the responsive texture of the sound objects. Roll over & click to generatethe audio works at your own pace.Audio Dust, 2011Signal-To-Noise, 2011From Scratch, 2011Carpe Diem, 2011Undo/Delete, 2011Supported by a scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany 2010.
The Digital Decomposition of 10 Ruston Close: An installation by John Wild :: until September 6, 2011 :: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, London + online.The Digital Decomposition of 10 Ruston Close explores the relationships between trauma, memory and architecture within the digital age.A photograph of 10 Ruston Close, formally 10 Rillington Place, will [...]
Digital Futures in Dance Conference :: September 8-10, 2011 :: Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth, UK.Digital Futures in Dance is an opportunity for artists, promoters, producers, venues, academics and creative and digital companies to come together to discuss future possibilities for dance and technology. With an increasing growth in interdisciplinary practice, Digital Futures in Dance investigates [...]