Jeffrey Ventrella — in a post entitled Jaron Lanier Yanks my Homunculus — points us to this video in which Lanier discusses Kinect and Somatic Computing:“At the end he explains how “being” a molecule can help you achieve deep intuition for what it is like to dock with another molecule.”“Jaron Lanier believes that humans of [...]
Ubicidade | Ubicity :: June 27-30, 2011; at 9:00 am - 4:00 pm :: Electronic Computational Center - University of São Paulo, Avenida Professor Gualberto, 71, travessa, 3 Cidade Universitária, Butantã, São Paulo, Brazil.Ubicity is a Telematic Art Project, proposed to stimulate conceptual, mediatic and aesthetic experimentation through streaming, videoconferencing and social media. Its main [...]
Archive Books announces No Order: Art in a Post-Fordist Society :: This editorial research and investigation project focuses on the relationships between contemporary art systems and capitalism’s production processes.By means of an investigation into current creative industries — and their social, economic and semiotic assemblages — the magazine contributions (essays, articles, interviews and dialogues as [...]
Screengrab 2011: Nostalgia :: December 12, 2011 :: eMerge Media Space, James Cook University, School of Creative Arts, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia :: Call for Art — Deadline: July 22, 2011.Nostalgia runs deep in the network. The clean lines and coded purity of interface culture and consumer electronics belies a deeper yearning for the origins [...]
Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World by Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg, Spring 2011 (Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Available here as a free download):The authors articulate the foundations of a future manifesto for an Internet of Things in the public interest. Nold and Kranenburg propose [...]
[Image: AUDiNT Installation at Site Gallery, Sheffield, 2010. Courtesy of Artist] The Martial Arts of Sonic Hauntology with Toby Heys, Jon Cohrs, Steve Goodman, Dave Tompkins, Andy Battaglia (moderator) :: Jun 13, 2011; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street, New York City.This panel will explore the intersection of sonic culture and [...]
R-Shief is a digital platform that provides real-time analysis of opinion in the Arab world about late-breaking issues. By using aggregate data from Twitter and the Web, R-Shief can dissect how people in Egypt are reacting to, say, the latest changes to the constitutional process, or how Libyans perceive the presence of NATO forces and [...]
Madame Wang: Journal of Geographically Dispersed Collaboration:Madame Wang is a Quarterly Arts journal dedicated to dispersed collaboration, migration and encounter architectures, co-action and Post-human writing programmes. It has been formed in response to a mounting need to examine, engage and critique an emerging arts-practice that is multiple, data intelligent and severally located. Madame Wang participates [...]
Botaniq: Workshop on the Conservation of Experiences with Unstable Art :: June 16-18, 2011 :: Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, La Rambla, 7, Barcelona, Spain. A new edition of the workshop Botaniq - Archive of Experiences will take place during the exhibition Sistemes Vius [Living Systems] of Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.Botaniq is an open archive [...]
Speculative :: June 16 – August 28, 2011 :: Opening Reception: June 16; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Performances by Micha Cardenas, Elle Mehrmand, Christopher O’Leary, Zach Blas, Malcolm Smith & Claudia Salamanca, MAL IDEA (Michelle Lee) — June 30; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Panel Discussion with Christopher O’Leary, Zach Blas, Jack Halberstam, and [...]
Gone with the Wind — Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Walter Marchetti and Resonance104.4fm :: June 9 - July 17, 2011 :: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London.This exhibition brings together three pioneers of sound art, Max Eastley (born 1944, UK), Takehisa Kosugi (born 1938, Japan) and Walter Marchetti (born 1931, Italy). Each artist has developed [...]
Solar Sound Workshop taught by David Casey :: June 11, 2011; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.Ever wanted to learn how to build your own solar-powered gadgets for use in sustainable installations & outdoor computing? This workshop will provide an introduction to attaching mini solar panels to [...]
Jeff Koons Must Die!!! The Video Game from Hunter Jonakin on Vimeo. More here.
Texte zur Kunst Issue No. 82: Artistic Research:With artistic research, the June 2011 issue of “Texte zur Kunst” addresses a theme that has been increasingly discussed in the past two decades, particularly at the level of policies on higher education. In university and academic education, there are currently signs of a trend determining art as [...]
Monetary Utopias with Jaromil & Marco Sachy, Enric Duran, Christian Nold, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Baruch Gottlieb :: CONFERENCE: MCDate – le café numérique | Upgrade! Paris with Mal au Pixel Festival; June 17, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Maison des Métallos, 94 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris + and on Digitalarti live stream.For its sixth edition, [...]
Ricardo Dominguez wrote on -empyre-: In order to maximize impact and attempt to gain visibility for nameless, anonymous, stateless, non-represented global citizens at the Venice Biennale, we have decided to conduct a virtual sit-in to augment our flash-mob to be conducted on June 4 2011.YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN ON THE WEBSITE OF [...]
Turbulence Commission: You Don’t Know Me by Liangjie Xia [Needs Software Download]:You are not always who other people think you are; you even hear your own voice in a different way. By recording and manipulating a recording of your voice with You Don’t Know Me, you will be able to restore your real voice and [...]
Lies, Inc.: Eva and Franco Mattes :: June 9 - July 30, 2011 :: Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield, UK.Site Gallery is delighted to present the first UK solo-retrospective of tricksters, pranksters and media hackers Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org. Renowned for their masterful subversions of public media, their work is precariously balanced [...]
Calibrated Cuisine: Mobile to Mobile Dinner Party :: June 18, 2011; 4:00 - 7:00 pm :: Furtherfield, 71 Ashfield Road Unit A2, London + ITP Camp, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University, NYC.You are invited to share a meal with New Yorkers connected by mobile technology. The goal is to create a co-present experience where [...]
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. Deadline: June 30, 2011. The Application Guidelines are here.Turbulence is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 15 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in [...]