Interactive Art Workshops with Don Ritter :: June 6 - July 14, 2011 :: Aesthetic Machinery, Berlin, Germany :: Call for Participants — Deadline: May 20.Aesthetic Machinery presents a collection of intensive workshops on the creation of interactive art environments, including interactive video installations, interactive sound installations, interactive light installations, interactive video performances, and interactive [...]
[Image: Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder, "2Face, Brooklyn, New York," 2011] Low Lives 3 - International Festival of Live Networked Performances :: April 29, 2011; 8:00 pm - midnight + April 30; 3:00 - 6:00 pm [EST] :: Multiple venues world-wide + View the live performances online.Low Lives 3 will feature more than fifty live [...]
Programmed Visions Software and Memory by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, MIT Press:New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things — mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in [...]
Procedural :: May 6 - 29, 2011 :: Opening: May 6; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: MacArthur B Arthur, 4030 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, California.Procedural is an exhibition of instruction-based works. Thirteen artists were invited to create new pieces in the form of instructions to be performed and fabricated by the curators, Jackie [...]
Upgrade! Paris #44 — Public presentation at the occasion of the exhibition Relaxation situationnelle, with The Wa & Jérôme Fino :: April 27, 2011; 5:00 pm :: Ateliers Lorette, 1 place Lorette – 13002 Marseille.Technocratic management of public spaces considers the body as an object that interferes with flow regulation. Citizens are patronized, attacked by [...]
From the Editorial: “This issue is an exercise in media ecology that is paradoxically unnatural. Instead of assuming a natural connection to the established tradition of Media Ecology in the Toronto-school fashion of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, and the work of scholars involved in the Media Ecology Association, our issue stems from another direction; its [...]
Augmented Reality Drug @ Opening Party of the CAMMOVIE Videoart Platform :: April 30, 2011; 6:30 pm :: Casoria Contemporary Arts Museum, Via Duca D’Aosta, 63, Casoria, Naples, Italy.The AR Drug is just the latest example of REFF’s international youth program, touching universities, schools and free groups of young people to methodologically reinvent reality through [...]
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld: The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven’t quite achieved the flying cars [...]
Living Mediations: Biology, Technology and Art — A forum hosted by HASTAC Scholars. Register to join the conversation.Summary: Much contemporary scholarship is interested in how the biological body, on any scale, becomes a site for political, technological, scientific, and critical engagement. The founding of the Human Genome Project in 1988 marked the life sciences as [...]
SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology, MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies and MIT Music and Theater Arts present Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0 :: April 21-23, 2011 :: Media Lab, 6th Floor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA :: free and open to the public.What is dance [...]
Manifest.AR :: April 22 – May 8, 2011 :: Opening Reception (on the deck): April 22; 3:00 - 5:00 pm :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston.Manifest.AR is an international artists collective working with emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. The group sees this medium as a way of transforming [...]
Other Sights for Artists’ Projects is pleased to announce Digital Natives, a public art project on the electronic billboard at the Burrard Street Bridge, in Vancouver, Canada from April 4–30, 2011. Located on Skwxwú7mesh territory in the heart of the city, the digital signs, facing north and south, flash a static advertisement every ten seconds. [...]
Never written stories :: Symposium: June 20-23, 2011 :: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Av. Constitución 23, 28931 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain :: Open Call for research projects on artistic theory and practice — Deadline for Applications: May 16.Beyond the economic problem, the negativity of the current crisis is basically linked to the deactivation [...]
Daisy Chain: An Anarchic Performance Event :: May 13, 2011; 6:00 - 10:00 pm :: Antena, 1765 S. Laflin, Chicago, Illinois :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: April 30.Daisy Chain is an interconnected series of performances that will be featured at Antena Gallery while simultaneously occurring across the Internet. Performances should incorporate one or more [...]
Lumia: art/ light/ motion is an exciting new media exhibition presented by State Library of Queensland in partnership with Queensland-based Kuuki collective artists Priscilla Bracks and Gavin Sade :: until June 5, 2011 :: slq Gallery, level 2, Cultural Centre, State Library of Queensland, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.Explore contemporary life and encourage thought [...]
Out-of-Sync: The Paradoxes of Time :: until May 22, 2011 :: Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 3, Park Dräi Eechelen, L-1499 Luxembourg.Out-of-Sync broaches the sweeping issue of the place taken up by the dimension of time in the visual arts from a specific angle: it is concerned with works in which several temporalities [...]
Un-Conference: Re-Rooting Digital Culture - Media Art Ecologies :: May 13, 2011; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: CREAM (Centre for Research in Education Art and Media), University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street Campus, RS 152 Cayley Room, UK :: Book now! email ale[at]furtherfield[dot]org.Over the last decade the awareness of anthropogenic climate change has emerged in [...]
The 14th WRO Media Art Biennale — WRO 2011: Alternative Now :: May 10–15 2011 (exhibitions open until June 19, with selected shows remaining open through mid-September) :: The WRO Art Center, ul. Widok 7, 50-052 Wrocław, Poland.The WRO Media Art Biennale, established in 1989, is an international forum for new media art and digital [...]
Paradise Lost :: until July 24, 2011 :: İstanbul Modern, Meclis-i Mebusan Ave. Liman, İşletmeleri, Sahası Antrepo No:4 Karaköy, İstanbul, Turkey.Curated by Paolo Colombo and Levent Çalıkoğlu, Paradise Lost takes a closer look at contemporary artists’ approach to a series of topical subjects pertaining to the forms of using technology, and regarding nature, the animal [...]
Electronic Village Galleries Penryn :: April 15, 2011; 6:30 – 8:30 pm :: Penryn Town Hall, Higher Market Street, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.Electronic Village Galleries Penryn is an event exhibiting four collections of network, sound and new media art. The evening will be hosted by Fi Henshall and include discussion with Rob Gawthrop and Patrick [...]