Natalie Jeremijenko: Connected Environments :: until October 24, 2010 :: Opening: September 10; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: Neuberger Museum of Art, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY.

Natalie Jeremijenko, artist-engineer, philosopher-activist, “thingker,” invites participation in re-imagining and redesigning our collective relationship to natural and technical systems. Projects include grassroots mapping of the BP Oil Spill, information-space from the Bureau of Inverse Technology, robotic geese, a bat translator, networked greenlights, Cross[x]Species Adventure Club, X Clinic Prescriptive products, auxiliary wings and an edible gallery guide. Continue reading

Open House is a new computer application and installation by Jack Stenner and Patrick LeMieux which allows virtual guests from around the world to remotely control physical aspects of a “distressed” house in Gainesville, FL. The house at 1617 NW 12 Rd. is currently abandoned and in financial limbo due to the US housing collapse. Virtual markets transformed this otherwise livable property into a ghost house. Now Open House allows individuals to repopulate this disenfranchised space and assume the role of virtual squatters — opening the doors, flickering the lights, rattling the shutters, and remotely occupying the abandoned property. Live video feedback integrates real-time physical effects with one’s virtual actions and multiplayer functionality allows for many people to live in the house at once. Simply download and run the application, so, you too can manipulate that sacred icon, the American home. Continue reading

LONGING FOR … #Score 1: Experiences You Can Share, Bodies, Movement, Spaces — Curator: Charlotte Pöchhacker :: Premiere: August 26, 2010; 6:00 pm :: LONGING FOR … HETEROTOPIA OF SENSES :: August 28, 2010; 6:00 pm :: Arsenale Novissimo, Tesa 92, Venice, Italy.

There are 2 distinct kinds of movement: there is the traversed space, and the act by which the space is traversed. In one case a spatial order is established and in the other case, qualities within a temporal sequence are distinguished. — Henri Bergson

Longing For … is a hybrid performance-installation focusing on translatory movements of choreography and architecture. Continue reading

Space Invaders - Art in the Computer Game Environment — Exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between video-game space and real space with Jeremy Bailey, Aram Bartholl, Mark Essen, Cao Fei, Anita Fontaine, Riley Harmon, JODI, Michael Johansson, Ben Jones, Yuichiro Katsumoto, Walter Langelaar, Ludic Society, Julian Oliver, Ubermorgen.com :: August 28 – November 6, 2010 :: Opening: August 27; 5:00 pm (with DNK DJ UNIT (Masterfader & The Snail) and Live Visuals by Riley Harmon) :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In Space Invaders: Art in the Computer Game Environment the Netherlands Media Art Institute brings art and games culture together. In an artistic, playful yet serious manner, ‘Space Invaders’ reveals the influence of games on art and society. Continue reading

[Image: Daniel Rozin "Circles Mirror" 2005] Upgrade! Boston: Spectral Analogies: Casey Reas and the Art of Programming. A talk by Meredith Hoy :: September 28, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab, Lecture Hall (6th Floor, Room ), 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abstract: Incorporating the work of Daniel Rozin, Casey Reas, and Sol LeWitt, Spectral Analogies places the notion of the digital in an expanded field, framing it as a mechanism, a process, and a constructive method that operates well beyond the boundaries of computational technology. Continue reading

Plausible Artworlds: Pad.ma — Potluck and Skype Conversation :: August 17, 2010; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: skype “basekamp” and/ or 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA.

The Pad.ma project is a result of the efforts of oil21.org from Berlin, the Alternative Law Forum from Bangalore, and three organizations from Mumbai: Majlis, Point of View and Chitrakarkhana/CAMP.

Pad.ma, short for Public Access Digital Media Archive, is an interpretative web-based video archive, which works primarily with footage rather than “finished” films. Pad.ma provides access to material that is easily lost in the editing process as well as in the filmmaking economy, and in changes of scale brought about by digital technology. Continue reading

The HTMlles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture 2010 is currently seeking proposals for its 9th edition, to be held from November 13-20, 2010, in Montreal, under the theme of home /land. The deadline for proposal submissions is September 13, 2010, at 9:00 pm.

Initiated by Studio XX in 1997, and evolving as quickly as technology itself, the HTMlles Festival is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation, including but not limited to: Continue reading

The Miracle of Chile is a multifaceted art project investigating Milton Friedman’s famous phrase “Miracle of Chile.” In 1981 Friedman declared the phrase to reflect a transformation of Chile’s economy through a neoliberal formula of privatization, deregulation of markets and cuts to social spending.

Today, we live in the midst of a global economic crisis that has lead us to question neoliberal philosophy. The art project consists of a workshop, public situation, bus intervention and a virtual labyrinth. Each element asks participants in Chile (the first country to fully adopt neoliberalism) to identify the Miracle of Chile as reflected in personal lives and civil space.

The project has been realized by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and Kurt Olmstead for the exhibition portables at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Vespucio, curated by Ignacio Nieto. It is on view September 19, 2010. More >> Continue reading

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