Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway will present The State of Things at La Biennale di Venezia - with Jacques Rancière, Eyal Weizman, Judith Butler, T.J. Clark and others :: June 1 – November 17, 2011 :: Venice, Italy.The State of Things is a series of public lectures that will be held throughout the Biennale [...]
Calabi Portal Project — a laboratory for ideas and the imagination :: Call for Proposals — No Deadline.This competition is open to visionary designers, artists, architects, and scientists, and any collaborative combination. All designs will be theoretical. No background or experience in engineering, construction, or actual fabrication materials is required as the structure will be [...]
Scott Draves: Pioneer of Generative Art :: May 13 – June, 2011 :: Opening: May 13; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY.What is the relationship between man and machine? Is open source a sustainable way to run a creative society? Can digital creations have the subtlety we know in [...]
LAYAR DAY L.A. Augmented Reality Symposium & Workshop :: May 20, 2011; 1:30 - 6:00 pm (PT) :: Pasadena, CA.Workshop: Hacking Space and Time in AR: Artist Sander Veenhof and Gene Becker of Layar will lead a hands-on workshop for artists, designers & enthusiasts who want to learn to make AR experiences on the Layar [...]
Faster Than Sound: Soundfields — featuring Blast Theory, Chris Clark, Beaconsfield ArtWorks, Bruce Gilbert, James Bulley :: May 28-29, 2011 :: Suffolk, UK.Faster Than Sound presents a unique electronic musical exploration. New technological and musical works will guide visitors on a journey around Snape Maltings, and reflect outside conditions with music that develops in parallel [...]
[Image: Caleb Charland, "Four Spheres with Compass, Penlight and Drill (Demonstrations series)," 2007] Experimental Station: Research and Artistic Phenomena :: May 14 - October 9, 2011:: Opening: May 13; 8:00 pm :: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain.Experimental Station is an exhibition that explores the crossroads and overlaps of art and science, [...]
Armin Medosch | Automation, Cybernation and the Art of New Tendencies (1961-1973): Art as Visual Research :: May 11, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Academy of Fine Arts, DG14/Turm 4 (top floor, then go up the staircase by room 214), Schillerplatz 3, A-1010 Vienna.Armin Medosch’s lecture, organised by the WWTF Art(s) and Sciences research project Troubling [...]
CIAC Magazine #39 — Chance: An Imaginary Tool For e-Arts featuring original artworks from five net artists: Gregory Chatonsky: My Voice and Phenomena; Mouchette aka Martine Neddam: Turkmenbashi, Mon Amour; Jhave: Give Me Your Light; Mark Amerika: Immobilité (Extraterrestrial Glitch Remix); Thomson & Craighead: Template Cinema.“Video is the new net art” writes Mark Amerika on [...]
The Virtual Prigione iPhone App, by Chiara Passa, is an interactive portrait video-sculpture inspired by the concept of the “unfinished” sculptures of Michelangelo, “Prigioni.” The Virtual Prigione represents various states of being. The spectator can choose to liberate the sculpture from the marble (using chisel as -) and its dependence material, so the body-statue sublimates [...]
Geotales Workshop: Drawing with Satellites – Using GPS as a Tool for Telling Stories; led by the Dutch artists Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum :: May 3 + May 13, 2011 :: The Center For Contemporary Arts of East Africa, The Go-Down Arts Centre , Dunga Road, Industrial Area, Nairobi, Kenya.People moving can be [...]
Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader :: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-13-1, paperback, 385 pages. (download PDF or email books [at] networkcultures.org for a free hard copy):For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, [...]
May 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space: Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures with Janis Jefferies (UK), Valérie Lamontagne (CA), Ashley Ferro-Murray (US), Sabine Seymour (US), Susan Elizabeth Ryan (US), Danielle Wilde (AU/FR), Sarah Kettley (UK), Lucy Dunne (US) :: Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Tim Murray (US).During the month of May 2011, -empyre soft-skinned space will [...]
Susan Philipsz, Sunset Song :: May 8 – June 26, 2011; Tuesday – Sunday, noon until sunset :: Linda Pace Foundation at CHRISpark, 111 Camp Street, San Antonio, Texas.In her sound sculpture Sunset Song (2003) Susan Philipsz’s sings both the male and female parts of the 19th-century American folk ballad “Banks of the Ohio.” Philipsz [...]
Made Real: Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern :: May 27 - June 25, 2011 :: Furtherfield Gallery, LondonUnit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, London.Networks — social, political, physical and digital — are a defining feature of contemporary life, and yet the exact forms and operations can seem nebulous and hard to grasp. For [...]
Newstweek is a device for manipulating news read by other people on wireless hotspots. Built into a small and innocuous wall plug it appears part of the local infrastructure, allowing writers to remotely edit news read on wireless devices without the awareness of their users. Now, HOWTO allows others to make Newstweek devices for under [...]
NAMAland by Connor McGarrigle (via -empyre-) NAMAland “visualised an aspect of the Irish financial collapse. At the risk of depressing you all with the details of what’s going on here in Dublin the project is an AR overlay of Dublin which identifies ~120 properties (pulling from a growing SQL database) which were bought by NAMA [...]
Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings by Judith F. Rodenbeck, MIT Press:“Happenings” have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion. Scholars, meanwhile, locate happenings in a genealogy of avant-garde performance that descends from futurism, surrealism, and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s. In [...]
Vida 13.2 Art & Artificial Life International Competition:: Call for Submissions — Deadline: July 27, 20011The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their [...]
The Heard and the Unheard - Soundscape Taiwan: Hong-Kai Wang — Yu-Hsien SuCurator Amy Cheng :: June 4 - November 27, 2011 :: Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo delle Prigioni.The Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan is pleased to announce that Hong-Kai Wang and Yu-Hsien Su will represent Taiwan at the 54th International [...]