Konstruct is an investigation into generative art in an Augmented Reality environment. It is a sound reactive AR experience for the iPhone that allows the user to create a virtual sculpture by speaking, whistling or blowing into the device’s microphone. A variety of 3D shapes, colour palettes and settings can be combined to build an [...]
ReGeneration: Open Call — Deadline: May 2, 2011.Cities bear some similarity with other complex biological systems that are sustained by resource distribution networks, such as the circulatory or vascular systems. But there also are fundamental differences that make cities uniquely human: social interactions and the concentration of economic and cultural activities in larger cities lead [...]
Sonic Unconscious — Yolande Harris, Scorescapes :: April 16, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Issue Project Room, At the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY .The Sonic Unconscious brings together three artists whose work begins in the field: Jana Winderen, Yolande Harris and Gina Badger.Yolande Harris’s Scorescapes is a program including [...]
The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. Berry, Palgrave Macmillan:The Philosophy of Software is a critical introduction to the subject of code and software, and develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. The book has been written specifically for people interested in [...]
UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project developed by Jason Freeman, Carl DiSalvo, Michael Nitsche, and many of our students at Georgia Tech. Our goal in developing UrbanRemix was to design a platform and series of events that would enable participants to develop and express the acoustic identity of their communities, and enable participants [...]
Upgrade! Boston: Mark Shepard — Pathetic Fallacies and Category Mistakes: making sense and nonsense of the (near-future) Sentient City :: April 26, 2011; 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of [...]
Electronic Art on the Waterways featuring Greg Sholette :: April 22, 2011; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts :: SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP.Join Assistant Professor of Art Cat Mazza’s digital media class aboard UMass Boston’s Division of Marine Operations 64-foot vessel for a lecture by artist and writer Greg Sholette on his [...]
The Global art system, contemporary internationalism and ways to challenge the mainstream — A two day workshop with Lucrezia Cippitelli :: April 29-30, 2011 :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.Samir Amin’s analysis of the concept of Eurocentrism traces its origins back to the end of the [...]
David Galbraith: KenKen GS :: April 10 - May 12, 2011 :: Gridspace, 112 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, New York .KenKen GS is a new installation work that continues David Galbraith’s exploration of a tightly-coupled yet non-linear and generative relationship between image and sound. The work’s compositional basis includes the structure and expanded numerical content of [...]
The Border Crossed Us — A temporary public art installation by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things :: April 20 - May 1, 2011 :: Opening Ceremony: April 20; 3:30 pm :: UMass Amherst Campus.The Border Crossed Us transplants the US-Mexico border fence in southern Arizona to the UMass Amherst campus in the form of [...]
DATAPOLIS @ Enter, 5th International Art | Science | Technology Biennale :: April 15-17, 2011 (Limited version of the exhibition will run until Sunday, April 24, 2011) :: Opening: April 14; 6:00 pm :: National Technical Library (NTK), Technická 6,160 80 Praha 6 - Dejvice.DATAPOLIS is one evening and three days of full-size experiment in [...]
HUMAN + :: April 15 - June 24, 2011 :: The Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Dublin, Ireland.HUMAN+ will invite you to consider a future of augmented abilities, authored evolution, new strategies for survival and non-human encounters through a range of installations and laboratories exploring the future of our species. This major international exhibition draws [...]
April 2011 on –empyre- soft-skinned space: Re-emergence of the Augment :: Moderated by Patrick Lichty (US) with special guests Rodney Berry, Tamiko Thiel, Mark Skwarek, John Craig Freeman, Will Pappenheimer, Alan Sondheim, and Damon Loren Baker.In Simulations and Simulacra, Jean Baudrillard wrote of the supercession of the virtual over the physical. The mediascape would [...]
Robert Whitman, Passport :: April 16-17, 2011; 8:00 pm :: Simultaneous performances at Riverfront Park, Beacon, New York (near Dia:Beacon) and Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair, New Jersey.Passport is a new theater piece by artist Robert Whitman (American, b. 1935), a pioneer of multimedia installation and performances. Passport — which imagines the possibility of being in [...]
SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Weeks, September 6–17, 2011 :: Call for Entries — Deadline: May 31, 2011.Haus der Kulturen der Welt invites up-and-coming curators to apply for SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Moderated by international curators, scientists and other experts, [...]
AbstractView II: Copyright or Personality Rights :: April 12-17, 2011 :: Opening: April 10; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Punt WG, M. van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands.In the late summer of 2009 Polak and van Bekkum were working in a remote area in the Highlands of Scotland. They were collecting GPS data from king [...]
Turbulence Commission: Channel TWo: NYC by Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook (installed at Turbulence @ Pace Digital Gallery 2, April 5-29, 2011.)Eleven years into the new century, it is time to discuss the terms of surrender. Not a surrender to any civilization but the surrender of civilization to those in control who would use any [...]
Summary User Generated Content is an exhibition about social media, self-publishing and the virtual environments that we create for ourselves. We are interested in how these ‘highly accessible’ self-publishing tools and ‘user generated content’ has had an affect on creative practice in conjunction with the recent explosion of such sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot, [...]
Cornerhouse presents New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK :: April 8 - June 5, 2011 :: Preview: April 7; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH, UK.At a moment when North Africa is convulsed by civil unrest and social turmoil, and pro-democracy rallies in Algiers defy government bans, New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK brings together [...]