Posted by Andres Manniste on nettime: Vincent Gallo versus Jillian Macdonald:

Artist Jillian Mcdonald has run into trouble with Vincent Gallo, who is represented at the Whitney Biennial this year. It is about her 2004 work, “To Vincent, With Love.”

Incidentally, the Whitney actually has a version of this work in their Artport. I find this all very confusing.

She writes, “I just received a cease and desist letter from Vincent Gallo’s attorney suggesting I added no creative material in making my video (which took me 8 months to make in 2004), To Vincent with Love. Also this letter claims I am causing him personal injury. It also demands I keep the letter confidential, and that we reach a settlement to be paid to Mr Gallo.” Continue reading

Decode/Recode: Celebrate 100 Years of Alan Turing: We invite you to collaborate in a globally networked interactive event to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, as part of the official opening of the University of Salford building at MediaCity on 23rd March 2012. As part of this significant event we will be connecting for 24 hours with 24 partners worldwide for a live digital media jam. Continue reading

Re-New / Imac 2012: Cybernetics revisited – towards a third order? :: November 19-24, 2012 :: Copenhagen, Denmark :: Call for Papers and Artistic Works - Deadline: March 1. Continue reading

Objects On My Dresser: Artist Talk And Performance With Sonya Rapoport And Dr. Revathi Vikram :: February 12, 2012; 1:00 - 3:00 pm :: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California. Continue reading

Spaces Of Life: The Art Of Sonya Rapoport :: until March 11, 2012 :: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California.

The art of Sonya Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of intellectual curiosity and scholarship, and the domestic one of spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents a group of Rapoport’s interactive works, created between 1980-2010, that function in the intersection between questioning and inviting.

The installation will be structured so as to infuse the spaces of the museum with the energy of the artist’s Berkeley home and studio. Continue reading

Artaud Forum 2: Konnecting Gestures - International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies :: March 30 - April 1, 2012 :: Antonin Artaud Performance Centre,
Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, UK.

This symposium and performance laboratory will bring together an invited group of international theatre, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, art theorists and researchers engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance traditions of the past century and their impact on current performance knowledge and physical (or physical-digital) techniques. Continue reading

[BADco. "Responsibility for Things Seen", 2011, photo: Dinko Rupčić] Symposium: Actionable Image: Agency of Image, Performance of Body, Apparatus of Spectating :: March 16-17, 2012 ::  Zagreb, Croatia :: Call for Participation - Deadline: February 10, 2012.

This symposium and its topic are a continuation of BADco.’s artistic interest to relate performance and image. More concretely, it was motivated by our most recent work Responsibility for Things Seen that was presented in 2011 within the Croatian participation at the Biennale di Venezia. The work required us, in the absence of performers in the six-months exhibition, to pursue the idea of ‘theater by other means’ and to custom develop a database video system that unfolds a particular nexus of body, image and technology. Continue reading

Geometry by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves :: until September 12, 2012; dawn - midnight :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS. Continue reading

CODED CULTURES - Subcuratorship Beyond Media Arts with Michal Wlodkowski, Luise Reitstätter, Joasia Krysa, Sydney Ogidan, and Eva Fischer (Moderated by Georg Russegger) :: February 2, 2012: 4:00 - 6:00 pm :: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany.

Based on questions about contemporary media art festivals, in the autumn of 2011 CODED CULTURES presented City as Interface. Hereby curators and artists tried to create new models of representation, transmission and intervention within a concept of sub-curatorship beyond media arts and within public space. Continue reading