The New Forms Festival and SWARM present Performative – roots+wires and Free Daily :: September 4, 2008; 8:00 pm – September 5, 2008; 1:00 am :: Open Studios, 252 East 1st, Vancouver, BC.

Performative explores differing approaches to new media integration within interdisciplinary contexts. Stemming from research in the fields of dance, lecture, and installation, the works utilize disparate new media technologies to not only accent and augment performance techniques, but to entirely pollinate the creation and presentation of the work. Continue reading

At Dislocate06, Hamilton, Southern, and St. Amand will present Running Stitch a project which explores how a track made with a GPS device changes our awareness and experience of place through the new vantage points and perspectives afforded by the use of satellite navigation. Visitors to the exhibition are given a GPS-enabled mobile phone to track their journeys through the city centre. These walks result in individual GPS ‘drawings’ of the visitor’s movements that are then projected live in the exhibition to disclose hidden aspects of the city.

Each individual route is sewn, as it is taking place, into a hanging canvas to form an evolving tapestry that reveals a sense of place and interconnection. The walker, who is aware of the line they are producing and of the audience at a distance, also becomes a performer of their relationship to a local place. It is only through being live and participatory that the audience perceives the push and pull of the relationship between themselves, the stitcher who sews the route onto the canvas, and the viewer at a distance and sees the city emerge from the canvas.

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 – Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens :: Exhibition: October 16 – December 12, 2008 :: Conference: October 17 – 18, 2008 :: Urban Screenings: October 17 – November 3, 2008.

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 is an innovative project, engaging a wide range of stakeholders with distinctive interests in the public space. Through round tables, a workshop, panel sessions, lectures, urban screenings on media facades and an architecture exhibition the event will promote a multi-disciplinary action research approach to technology, architecture and media art in modern cities. Continue reading

dorkbot-nyc – David Steinberg, Christina McPhee, and Sam Pluta :: September 3, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Location One, SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.

David Steinberg: mobile music machines – Lots of interesting musical software have been developed more or less recently for portable videogames consoles (Gameboy, PSP, etc.), PDAs or other similar platforms. I’ll present many of these applications (for Nintendo Gameboy, Palm OS, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Gamepark consoles, etc.), explain what’s needed to use them, who created them, what are the advantages and disadvantages of developing musical software for each platform and of course show some examples of what can be done with these new instruments. Continue reading

3rd meeting of Upgrade! International: Chain Reaction – a 4 day festival curated by the Upgrade! International community :: September 11 – 14, 2008 :: European University, Skopje; Cultural Center Tocka; Cultural Center CK; Open Graphic Studio – Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia :: Call for Participation: Workshops + Lectures – Application Deadline: September 5 :: No experience necessary; free and open to the public.

Workshops:

PURE DATA INITIATION – RYbN [Paris] will educate participants in Pure Data visual programming language, an open source and free software, created by Miller Puckette, basically dedicated to sound processing: September 12, 15:00-18:00 hrs, European University Skopje.

KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party: playing Guy Debord’s Game Of War – Mushon Zer Aviv [New York] led by Mushon Zer Aviv, is a reminiscence of Guy Debord’s game from 1978, released as a new, free online computer game: September 13, 14:00-17:00hrs, Cultural Center “CK”. Continue reading

Special Issue of Dance Chronicle (Published by Routledge) – Choreographers at the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Practices in Concert Dance :: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin :: Call for Research Articles: Deadline: January 30, 2009.

Choreographers today are pushing the edges of dance as a concert form: extending movement capacities of the body, intermixing movement genres, integrating the virtual with the actual body through technological applications, presenting dance in non-traditional sites, challenging audience-performer boundaries, and in other ways exploring and expanding dance as a theater art. Papers might address such subjects as those listed below (as well as other topics proposed by authors): Continue reading

The Order of Things :: September 11, 2008 – January 4, 2009 :: Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp [MuHKA], Leuvenstraat 32 2000, Antwerp, Belgium.

The Order of Things is an exhibition on the uses of archival images, image archives and image banks (and various other manifestations of a classificatory, encyclopaedic impulse) in contemporary art. It takes as its point of departure a web-based project by Vancouver photo-artist Roy Arden titled The World as Will and Representation, an online image archive consisting of a staggering 30,000+ jpegs from which Arden, who helped to flesh out many of the germinal ideas for this exhibition, selects the visual motifs for his recent digital photo-collages. Continue reading

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Data Cities Modelling Movies @ Metropolis’ Connecting Cities Congress :: October 22-25, 2008 :: Sydney, Australia :: Call for entries. Continue reading

Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Exhibition: Connected Communities; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne :: Registration Reminder.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08), hosted by Federation Square Pty Ltd, is the first international urban screens conference and exhibition to be staged in the Asia Pacific region, following successful events in Amsterdam in 2005 and Manchester in 2007. USM08 will present an integrated conference program of keynote lectures and panel sessions in the BMW Edge Theatre and an outdoor multimedia program of curated screenings, skype enabled “townmeetings”, joint broadcasting, interactive and participatory screen-based projects. Continue reading

Mother’s Day by Smadar Dreyfus :: September 13 – November 8, 2008 :: Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

Extra City is delighted to announce the premiere of Mother’s Day (2006 – 08), a multi-channel sound and video installation by Smadar Dreyfus (1963 Tel Aviv, lives and works in London). Following on from her seminal large scale installation Lifeguards (premiered at the 9th Inter-national Istanbul Biennial, 2005), Mother’s Day is part of Dreyfus’ investigation into the role of the voice in the constitution of contested public spaces, as well as its function as a mediator between individual and collective and its implication in the negotiation of cultural perspective. Continue reading