[The artists have placed tweets in front of Mt. Fuji, a symbol of Japan’s strength and perseverance] Sea of Tweets — by Mark Skwarek, Tamiko Thiel, and John Craig Freeman — allows viewers to tweet wishes to those in Japan affected by the terrible earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Participants tweets from around the [...]
[Image: Ted Nelson at at Keio University, Japan 1999 (image Belinda Barnet)] The Computer World Could Be Completely Different: A Public Lecture From Ted Nelson :: April 4, 2011; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Melbourne, Australia.Fish, they say, aren’t aware of water. Most people, including computer scientists, don’t [...]
Vacanza! (Holiday!): A Relaxed Augmented Reality Workshop :: April 1-3, 2011 :: @ AHAcktitude, Carrara, Italy.At AOS (and in the other initiatives such as REFF and FakePress) we’ve been proclaiming the rise of a new (or old?) idea of Augmented Reality, a philosophical approach screaming: “Autonomy! You have the power and tools to shape your [...]
Babel Fiche is a crowd-sourced film that collects and remixes amateur video footage. During 2011 we are gathering and selecting contemporary clips which describe everyday life around the Earth. These movie fragments will be printed on colour microfiche – a photographic medium capable of lasting 500 years and simply requiring light and a lens to [...]
Regional Relationships commissions artists, scholars, writers and activists to create works that investigate the natural, industrial and cultural landscapes of a region. It is a platform to re-imagine the cultural histories and spatial configurations that exist around us; it is an invitation to see what we can learn — learn what we can see [...]
“Fire,” Panel 2 of The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki.
Rivane Neuenschwander’s film in high-speed motion shows ants devouring a map of the world rendered in honey. On view at the Whitechapel Gallery now.
Rethinking the Politics of Art: The Machete Group :: March 19, 2011; 8:00 - 10:00 pm :: Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA.In an era in which many have declared the failure of the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde attempts to link art and politics, the Machete Group proposes to revisit this general problematic by emphasizing [...]
Jon Satrom: Prepared Desktop :: March 26, 2011; 8:00 pm :: Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, Illinois :: FREE - RSVP Required. LAMPO and the GRAHAM FOUNDATION are pleased to present Jon Satrom and his Prepared Desktop. By inserting Easter eggs, capitalizing on computer customization, and abusing applications, he upgrades conventional computer programs [...]
Source Code :: until April 10, 2011 :: Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt, Phoenix, Arizona.Source Code reintroduces Jon Haddock’s Isometric Screenshots to Phoenix after ten years of extensive exhibition nationwide. Alongside this acclaimed series, the video game art of Jason Rohrer (New Mexico), Paolo Pedercini (Pittsburgh), and Carlo Zanni (Italy, 1975) will be shown in [...]
Disclosing The Invisible: Jill Magid and Heath Bunting; Moderator: Huib Haye van der Werf, curator Nederlands Architectuurinstituut :: March 25, 2011; 1:30 pm :: Stedelijk Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam.WikiLeaks’ recent exertions have revealed that a great deal of information is never made public. Their activities, along with the rapid advances in technology and recently [...]
Electrofringe 2011 :: September 29 - October 3, 2011 :: Newcastle, Australia :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: March 31.Electrofringe is committed to fostering creative and innovative uses of technology and electronic art forms, while focusing on artistic development and skills exchange. We are looking to unearth emergent forms, present innovative work and encourage interesting [...]
VARIATIONS #6. The Library, a podcast series by Jon Leidecker on the history of appropriative collage RWM MACBA: In the sixth episode of this series of podcasts, we encounter the establishment of sound libraries, collections explicitly curated for further use: sound objects presented as authorless, unfinished ingredients. Though some libraries contain newly commissioned generic sounds, [...]
Out of Memory: Patrick Tighe, with composer Ken Ueno :: until March 13, 2011 :: SCI-Arc Gallery, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California.Out of Memory, by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Tighe — together with renowned composer Ken Ueno and fabricator Machineous — is an installation accompanied by a site-specific [...]
A Brief History of Privatisation: Ellie Harrison :: March 12 - May 2, 2011 :: Opening: March 11; 6:00 - 9:00 pm (serving specially themed cakes commemorating state owned services of past and present) :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS, UK.A Brief History of Privatisation is a major new installation in which the [...]
UPGRADE! PARIS #42 /DEV/ART/#8: Benjamin Gaulon aka RECYCLISM :: March 18, 2011; 7:00 - 11:00 pm :: Blackboxe, 17 rue de la Chapelle, 75018, Paris.Benjamin Gaulon received a degree in Visual Communication from l’École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and a MFA in Interactive Media & Environment from the Frank Mohr Institute. During his [...]
Rhizome Commissions 2011 :: Open Call — Deadline: April 14, 2011.This year, Rhizome will commission ten international emerging artists to create original works of new media art, with grant awards ranging from $1,000 to $5000. Projects can can manifest for a variety of contexts, including the web, mobile devices, the gallery or public settings. Grant [...]
Detektors: the rhythms of electromagnetic emissions, their psychogeophysics and micrological auscultation.Almost any electronic gadget can be transformed into an audible and sometimes rhythmical sound object. Detektors is firstly (A) a cartography of user-generated geolocational sound recordings, logs and walks, which reveal hidden electromagnetic geographies of our urban areas and secondly (B) a database and catalog [...]
CTheory Digital Inflections presents: “Synthetic Emotions” by Barbara Rauch (2:00 pm ) + “Werewolves, Magnetic Fields and Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary” by Ted Hiebert (3:00 pm) :: March 16, 2011; 2:00 - 4:00 pm (PST) :: Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Technology and Enterprise Facility (TEF) 170, 2300 McKenzie Street, University of Victoria, [...]
Turbulence Commission: Quartet With Pyramid Scheme by Jordan Topiel Paul, Eric Laska, Richard Kamerman, Reed Evan Rosenberg:Quartet With Pyramid Scheme is a streaming online sound installation whose audio content is collected through a sixteen-week pyramid scheme structure. Every two weeks, a new set of participants (recruited by prior participants) submits sound samples that the quartet [...]