Priva(te)cy: ContainerArt Rome – Jerusalem :: November 22 – December 2, 2007 :: Piazza del Risorgimento, Rome.

ContainerArt, co-produced with Enzimi, organizes in Rome an itinerant exposition of contemporary and avant-garde art. Displaying – in various containers scattered through the city – art installations, pictures, videoworks and sculptures of the most innovative artists. For this occasion some members of nITroStudio in collaboration with Javier Ideami realized Priva(te)cy…

Virtual Narcissus: interconnected faces :: Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible (Paul Klee) Continue reading

Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality by Edward Castronova -Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around fun. Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? Exodus to the Virtual World explains the growing migration into virtual reality, and how it will change the way we live–both in fantasy worlds and in the real one.

Video Vortex.2 – Johan Grimonprez & Charlotte L’ouzon, Martijn Hendriks, Jaap de Jonge, Meta.Live.Nu presents DFM RTV INC, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Oog Volkskrant Online, Park 4DTV, Rabotnik, Sonic()bject, Martin Takken, Thomson & Craighead :: December 8, 2007 – February 3, 2008 :: Opening: December 7, 5:00 p.m. :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam.

Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Continue reading

Dorkbot SoCal 25 – Dave Bullock, Rama Hoetzlein, Barry Hertz Sr. :: December 1, 2007; 1:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Dave Bullock: HDR Photography – Today’s digital cameras have a limited dynamic range compared to film. If you shoot a photo of a landscape with a beautiful cloudy sky, your landscape will be properly exposed, but your clouds will be washed out or vice-versa. High-Dynamic Range photography allows you to circumvent your sensor’s limitations by taking multiple photos with different exposures and combining them on your computer. Continue reading

Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr from the art/biology think tank SymbioticA will be at Machine this weekend. They will be speaking on Saturday night, and leading a tissue culturing workshop Sunday. SymbioticA’s past projects include growing all kinds of amazing things, including…

1. Disembodied Cuisine. Pre natal sheep skeletal muscle cells cultured onto/into a degradable polymer (PGA) scaffold to create a semi living steak. Upon creation this project was cooked and eaten. There’s a nice article on Disembodied Cuisine in issue 16 of Cabinet magazine.

2. Victimless Leather Immortalised cell lines which are cultured and form a living layer of leather like tissue in the form of miniature stich-less coat shape. Good images of Victimless Leather here. Continue reading

Night School at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY :: Application Deadline: December 15, 2007 – Night School is an artist commission in the form of a temporary school. For this project, artist Anton Vidokle is organizing a yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops that use the New Museum as a site to shape a critically engaged public through art discourse. Night School takes place on the last weekend (Thursday-Sunday) of each month, January 2008 through January 2009. Continue reading

DARC – General Direction for Contemporary Architecture and Art MAXXI – National Museum of the XXI Century Arts present NetSpace: Journey into Net Art: Bodies in Cyberspace :: December 4, 2007 – March 2, 2008 :: Opening: December 3, 2007; 12:00 pm MAXXI, via Guido Reni 2f, Rome.

Bodies in Cyberspace is the latest exhibition in the Netspace: Journey into Net Art, a series curated by Elena Giulia Rossi. The project was initiated by the Educational Service and set up with its support. Its aim is to offer the necessary tools to get acquainted with net art, the contemporary artistic art practice that uses the internet as its only creative tool. Continue reading

Last weekend the Values at Play research project launched version 1.0 of its website, which offers a wealth of game design ideas and scholarship about games and human values. Valuesatplay.org has also begun accepting submissions for its Social Impact Game Contest. The Values At Play project, a collaboration between Hunter Colleges innovative Tiltfactor Lab and New York University, is an inquiry into the ideas and belief systems latent in video games. Continue reading

Terms & Conditions by Burak Arikan – Terms & Conditions are often written for legal regulations but they are never read by consumers, as a result consumers are often exploited by agreeing on these unreadable terms. In this piece, terms & conditions of five social web services are re-written using a custom typeface. The resulting images are generated by three processes: me typing the words, the program deciding on the size of each letter each time I hit the key, and the instructions for the fonts. With this piece we both recycle unread terms & conditions text and point to the moment where people give away their rights to the capital.

Terms & Conditions was recently exhibited at the Tobacco Warehouse during the Amber Festival in Istanbul. If you want to try it, here is the first version of the program written in 2005.

Art, Technology, Culture – A Series of Conferences at Friche Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille, France :: presented by Alphabetville, Zinc-Ecm, and Leonardo/Olats :: Free entrance.

Interested in the field of technological and new media art, but also into the relations between scientists, engineers, artists and cultural players, this new series is opening an enjoying and common reflection around the relationship between art, technology and culture.

December 5, 2007; 6.30 pm: Critical Spaces for Art, Technology and Culture – This conference will propose a presentation of Leonardo/Olats, and will focus and report on the recent Mutamorphosis international conference in Prague. Continue reading