On Gaps and Silent Documents :: February 9-14, 2010 :: STUK arts centre, Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, ‘Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate.’ Creating archives is continual selection. As such, it reveals the priorities and blind spots of the keeper of the archives, his world and his time. Continue reading

Film, Video & New Media and the Upgrade! Chicago present: Danielle Wilde: Swing that Thing, a presentation on body-worn devices for performance and play :: February 9, 2010; 6:00 pm :: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MacLean building, Room 1307, 13th floor, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

Australian artist and scholar Danielle Wilde will elaborate an emergent definition of poetic body-worn devices for performance and play, that encourage people to move in unusual ways; and a series of non-augmented devices that explore how we might conceive of and develop technologies that we can’t yet imagine. By extending the body, mechanically, gesturally and sensorially we can encourage people to move in extra-normal ways, so view and experience their bodies from perhaps hitherto unknown perspectives. Continue reading

hello wor(l)d! Workshop — Pure Data, Microcodes, Fluxus :: March 2-4, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: het Paleis (Erlenmeyer zaal), Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL) :: Call for Participation — Deadline February 19.

The workshop hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and live coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try. Continue reading

Parafacts & Parafictions: Helguera, and Blachly & Shaw :: February 10, 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY.

Parafacts and Parafictions: Helguera, and Blachly & Shaw is an evening of performance-presentations organized in conjunction with the exhibition Companion, curated by REV- and currently on view at EFA Project Space. Pablo Helguera and Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw will enact live components to their projects included in Companion, followed by a Q & A session moderated by Marisa Jahn, artist and exhibition curator. Continue reading

Center for Contemporary & Digital Performance Research Seminar Series presents Surfing Disciplines: From Antonin Artaud to neuroplastic arts? by Gordana Novakovic :: February 10, 2010; 2:00 pm (GMT) :: Drama Studio Gaskell Bld. 048, School of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge/West London, Cleveland Road + webcast at dance tech net TV.

The digital revolution is changing the nature of our perceptual processes, and this in turn is changing our conscious experience of the physical world, inducing changes in cognition on a scale that is still unknown. As inhabitants of the modern city we are in constant interaction, both active and passive, with digital technology. These facts concern all of us in different ways, but from my own perspective I want to ask: how does all this affect the artist? Continue reading

Aion Experiments — with the Morris/Trasov Archive, Sam Keogh, Pádraic E. Moore, Takeshi Murata, Ulf Rollof, Ciarán Walsh, Robin Watkins and the Foundation for Aion Research :: February 12 – April 10, 2010 :: Closing Event: The Luminiferous Aether :: April 9; 7:00 pm :: Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ireland.

This experiment differs from some of the more intensive previous Aion Experiments in which volunteers remained under close observation for prolonged periods. Throughout the duration of this exhibition several devices will be installed in the exhibition space, which will in turn become highly charged with energy that fosters cell regeneration and cerebral stimulation. Continue reading

Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity and Interactive Media :: February 8 - April 2, 2010 :: Reception: February 11; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: The Arcade, Columbia College, 618 S Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor, Chicago, IL.

Whether through motion capture, live processing, animation or other means of data visualization, the body is the referent and inspiration for many digital media artists working with interactive technologies. Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media is an investigation into this confluence, gazing through multiple lenses to explore the body and identity as they are transformed and represented through technological evolution. Continue reading

City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community :: June 11–13 & 19, 2010 :: Invitation to Submit Proposals — Deadline: March 1, 2010 [Application Form]

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression. Continue reading

[Image: Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments by Carmin Karasic, Rolf van Gelder and Rob Coshow] The Next Wave of AR: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences with Tish Shute, whurley, Jeremy Hight, Joe Lamantia, Thomas Wrobel :: April 1, 2010; 3:15 pm :: Where 2.0 Conference, San Jose, California.

This panel will discuss shared augmented realities, considering some of the essential possibilities and challenges inherent in this new class of social augmented experiences. The format is presentation of a small set of scenarios (defined in advance, with audience input) describing likely future forms of shared augmented realities at differing scales of social engagement for discussion by a panel of leading practitioners in technology, experience design, networked urbanism, interface design, game design, and augmented reality. Continue reading

The Public School presents Ambivalence as part of Actions, Conversations, Intersections an exhibition of participatory projects :: Sundays in February 2010, 3:00 - 5:00 pm.

Our course on Ambivalence will be meeting simultaneously in two places - the Municipal Art Gallery (the site of the Actions, Conversations, and Intersections exhibition until April 18, 2010) and Telic Arts Exchange (where The Public School regularly holds classes). Each group will be able to see and hear the other through a commonplace video conference call (Skype, iChat, etc.). Teachers, speakers, and other guest presenters will go to whichever location seems more appealing that day and no one will be informed of their decision until the last minute. Continue reading