Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution - Assembled by Andrew Boyd with Dave Oswald Mitchell:

From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down.

Until now.

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Continue reading

Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss: Performing Data (2011) [English/Polish]:

Performing Data exhibition (April-June 2011) is a review of Fleischmann and Strauss´ body of work from Virtual Reality (Home of the Brain) up to Mixed Reality (Murmuring Fields or Energie-Passagen), from Fluid (Liquid Views) to Rigid (Rigid Waves) up to Floating Interface (Media Flow).

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss from the Fraunhofer IAIS Research Institute show an intersection of the body and immaterial digital data. From Body Space (Virtual Striptease) to Knowledge Space (Semantic Map): Interactivity as an extension of touch is a central strategy of their work – interactivity with its complex relationship to reality, re-presentation and presence. Continue reading

Eve Sussman and her collaborative team Rufus Corporation are touring their latest film project whiteonwhite: algorithmicnoir, to the Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, and Site Santa Fe in January and February 2012. Continue reading

The reSource for transmedial culture, a new framework for the transmediale festival, aims to create a distributed platform for networking, curating and research throughout the year 2012 and beyond by envisioning the festival as a peer-production context of sharing knowledge and practices. Continue reading

Art, film, and technology converge at the Sundance Film Festival with world premieres of feature films and New Frontier, a dynamic presentation of cinematic media installations, multimedia performances, and transmedia experiences.

Portraits of two of today’s most provocative artists bring contemporary art to the big screen, in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. Cinematic media installations, multimedia performances, and transmedia experiences are found in the Festival’s New Frontier program. Continue reading

On nettime olia lialina wrote: Dear nettimers,

I thought I should post the intro to my Still There research here. There must be still people on the list who remember what I remember, or remember it differently.

In September 1996, I came to Rotterdam to participate in the Dutch Electronic Art Festival – not as an artist yet but as a film curator, or, to say it better, as a film curator from Moscow who made a website for a film club. For many people, the mid-90s were all about going online, making websites, travelling to the East and to the West.[1]

It was my very first media art event. Continue reading

Albion A.R. Art Walk :: April 22 - May 17, 2012 :: Reiger and Victory Parks - Albion, Michigan :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: February 11.

Albion College and the city of Albion, Michigan seek artists and designers to submit work for consideration for a virtual public art exhibit to launch the first annual Albion A.R. Art Walk. This Augmented Reality competition will feature sculptures digitally overlaid in Albion’s Reiger and Victory Parks from April 22 through May 17, 2012.

Up to 20 works of art will chosen from around the world for this inaugural year of the Albion A.R. Art Walk. Continue reading

Little Paper Planes is pleased to present Two Point Oh, an online exhibition curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour, featuring work by Constant Dullaart, Ian Dolton-Thornton, Ryan Trecartin, Sabrina Ratté, Pronunciation Book, Kalup Linzy, Sara Ludy, David Horvitz, Chris E. Vargas and Greg Youmans, and Jeremy Deller. Continue reading

Embroidered Digital Commons Workshops with Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles :: Saturdays, March 3 - April 28, 2012 (excluding April 7); 10:00 - 12:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London. Continue reading

Designing Civic Encounter: Documents and Discussions on Urban Transformation in the Arab World curated and edited by Ursula Biemann and Shuruq Harb. Continue reading