Queer Relational with Micha Cardenas (US), Felipe Zuniga (MX/US), Emily Roysdon (US/SE), Marc Léger (CA), Virginia Solomon (US/CA), Tara Mateik (US), Amy Wiley (US), and Robert Summers (US) — moderated by Christina McPhee (US) [Subscribe]

How might queer theory and practices inflect/torture/distort or otherwise improve ‘relational aesthetics’? Is the relational aesthetics meme often complicit, if accidentally, with heteronormativity? How does queer practice and theory politically develop the space of the democratic ‘violence of
participation”? A paranoid concern launches our topic — may cliches of relationality mitiigate against excess, ephemera, and the variable and uncontrollable power of the engaged artist/writer? Asking what is a queer space of participation, the list itself enacts its own making for an intersubjective ‘queer’ text. A hypertext and linear edit of the conversation will be published in 2010 and presented in the Queer Caucus for Art panel at College Art Association, Chicago 2010.

WoW at WoW –WoW Workshop and Lecture by Aram Bartholl :: July 11-12, 2009 :: Laguna Art Museum, CA.

July 11: 1:00 pm — Aram Bartholl’s WoW workshop will be held the day before his lecture. Bartholl will extend the project shown in the exhibition out onto the streets of Laguna Beach. Everyone is welcome to participate and enjoy an afternoon of art making and have the opportunity to be involved in a collaborative performance. The workshop and performance will be documented on video, and the edited version will be shown in the exhibition. Continue reading

Wondermare :: July 8 - August 8, 2009 :: Scene One: July 8, 6-8 pm :: apexart, 291 Church Street, NYC.

Be part of the cast in an interactive film epic where expectations are challenged and realities are remade. Wondermare is based on the notion that much of the behavioral conditioning programmed in our subconscious is the unhealthy byproduct of a world out of balance, a “house of cards” on the brink of catastrophe; the truth of which is obscured from us by our own myopic pursuits and illusions. Continue reading

Upgrade! Milwaukee: Nadav Assor and Maria Bolivar :: July 12, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave, Milwaukee, WI.

Nadav Assor: “I am greatly interested in theories and explorations of urban architectural, emotional and ideological sub-structures. One tactic I use in exposing and reshaping the structures around me is digitization, in the sense of reduction to a primal, reconfigurable matter. The transformed digital matter is recast into its original context, physically manipulated in an ongoing live process that ranges from the absurd to the violent. Continue reading

GOO GONE: Risk, Responsibility, and Toxins in the Landscape — Brooke Singer, Anne Rabe, Sarah Vogel :: July 7, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third St. at Third Ave., Gowanus, Brooklyn.

CUP’s office is now located in a potential SUPERFUND SITE. Superfund is a federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. There are over 1,331 final and proposed sites on the National Priorities List (NPL), and thousands more wait for approval. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed adding the Gowanus Canal to this list. Continue reading

Summer of Love 2.0: A Durational Social Media Performance by Patrick Lichty (w/Second Front, Janell Baxter, T. Burtonwood, and many others) :: July 7-12, 2009; noon - 5:00 pm (daily performances by Second Front from 2:00 - 3:00 pm) (Group Hug Panoramic Photos, July 12, 3:00 pm) (Special Events all through the week. Go to Facebook for the most up-to-date info) :: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago + Second Life.

I am performing a durational/relational piece about Social Media asking, “What is Love?” After seeing an ad campaign by Macy’s with pure-looking hippie girls selling the “Summer of Love”, and the YouTube video talking about 2.0, I’ve come to wonder about what love has become since 1967. Continue reading

HIT me baby one more time, Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Amazon Mechanical Turk — Aaron Shaw :: July 7, 2009; 12:30 pm :: Berkman Center, Harvard University, 23 Everett Street, second floor, Cambridge, MA and webcast live. RSVP required.

What is Amazon Mechanical Turk? Why on earth would anybody do piece rate jobs over the Internet for a nickel a pop? Are the results of AMT work any good? Isn’t it true that distributed labor markets will bring about the end of civilization as we know it? How can I use Mechanical Turk to acquire friends, riches, and wisdom? Continue reading

Nula is the source of a ser­ies of file­casts, each con­sist­ing of an as­semb­lage of sounds, im­ages, or words, made avail­ab­le for down­load, shar­ing, com­men­tary, and fur­ther man­i­pu­la­tion. File­casts are gen­er­al­ly, tho not ex­clus­ive­ly, cre­ated from found ma­ter­ial. It would per­haps be coun­ter­pro­duc­tive to de­lim­it what this ma­ter­ial may con­sist of, or what trans­for­ma­tions it may un­der­go. the ten­den­cy here will simp­ly be to let the work speak for it­self as much as it can.

The word ‘nula’ means ‘zero’ or ‘nothing’ in several languages; notably Czech, which I point out only because I am based in Prague. The esthetic impulse behind Nula emphasizes “showing” or “alluding” rather than “expressing”. Continue reading

Critical Practice presents Parade: Publicness — PubliCamp :: July, 5, 2009; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Kennington Park, Kennington, London SE11, England.

We intend to explore different conceptions of the publicness — historical, cultural, political, social, architectural and digital. We aim to develop a shared ethic towards the notion of public goods and will not be deterred by the disagreeable, contentious, messy, inefficient, live, improvisatory and provisional nature of Being in Public. Public, common or shared resources are like muscles, they become stronger with exercise. Continue reading

The new issue — Neural 33, Scripting Green — is out.

new.media.art: .Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers interview .Beatriz da Costa interview .HeHe interview .Transmediale report. news: X-Train, Dead Pixel in Google Earth, TimeStopper . Suffering Machine, Thumbarumba. reviews. books/dvds/floppys: White Heat Cold Logic, Optical Vacuum, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Synthetic Times: Media Art China, nkdlunch.mp4, tapetrff.mp4 .centerfold: ‘Common Flowers’ by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel. Continue reading