Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice [DIAP] MFA Program @ City College of New York (CUNY) :: Artist-in-Residence Project: Call for Applications — Deadline: January 15, 2011.

[DIAP] seeks an artist working in digital/interdisciplinary media for a three-month project residency from March 1 – May 30th, 2011. The [DIAP] Artist-in-residence position is an opportunity for an artist working in digital and interdisciplinary media to realize a creative project in residence at The City College of New York under the auspices of the Art Department’s soon-to-launch Master’s Program in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice. Candidates should be emerging or mid-career artists interested in a research an collaboration agenda that focuses on digital and interdisciplinary media and which explores the relationship between technology and art. Continue reading

Annie Abrahams: Allergic To Utopias — Interview by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], Digicult.

What makes for a livable world is no idle question. It is not merely a question for philosophers. (…) Somewhere in the answer we find ourselves not only committed to a certain view of what life is, and what it should be, but also of what constitutes the human (…). – (Butler, Judith Undoing Gender New York and Abigton: Routledge, 2004, p. 17)

Annie Abrahams, born in the Netherlands, has been based in France since 1985. She holds a doctorate in biology from the University of Utrecht and is a graduate in fine arts from the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Arnhem. Continue reading

[Image: Word Toys by Belén Gache] A Modular Framework / Un Marco Modular curated by Eduardo Navas :: November 9 – December 10, 2010 :: CENTRO CULTURAL DE ESPAÑA, Calle La Reforma #166, Col. San Benito, San Salvador, El Salvador.

A Modular Framework is an exhibition that brings together artists from Latin America, or artists who have ties to Latin America, and have been producing new media work since at least the mid-nineties, when new media and digital art began to take shape. Most of the works included in this exhibition are recent, and were chosen as examples of diverse and rigorous art practices. The artists, themselves, while they crossover to art practice at large, are pioneers in digital and new media art in their own countries and for this reason they were invited to participate in A Modular Framework. Continue reading

Inter-face :: November 13, 2010; 6:00 – 9:00 pm :: Eight Grand, 1013 Grand Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York.

Inter-face, curated by Coral Silverman, is a group show exploring the ways in which our lives are being shaped by technology. The exhibition — featuring Emma Andrea, Jonathan Nissenbaum, Coral Silverman, Felisia Tandiono, Vitor Teixeira — presents new work addressing themes of communication, technology, and the virtual world. Inter-face asks the viewer to consider the many definitions of the term, as the point of interconnection between two entities, both between a person and a machine and between two people. Continue reading

[Image: Jenniches’ SPAN 1 (2007-2009). Digital Lightjet print, 67.5″ x 93.5″] Mechanics of the Imagination :: November 3-27, 2010 :: Opening: November 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: Prescott College Art Gallery (Sam Hill Warehouse), 232 N. Granite Street, Prescott, Arizona.

Isabelle Jenniches’ Mike O’ Callaghan – Pat Tillman Bridge, Hoover Dam, Nevada: Two webcams are mounted on either side of the Colorado River to monitor construction of a suspension bridge as part of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. The robotic camera on the Nevada side of the Colorado River has an extreme range of motion that allows for views deep into Black Canyon and across to Sugarloaf Mountain. Continue reading

On the web, a new “Friend” may be just a click away, but true connection is harder to find and express. Ze Frank presents a medley of zany Internet toys that require deep participation — and reward it with something more nourishing. You’re invited, if you promise you’ll share.

Boris Groys: Rules of Repetition: Reflection of the Medium in the Time-Based Art from Institute of Fine Arts on Vimeo.

Tessel — by LAb[au] (on view November 6- December 6, 2010 @ MediaRuimte, Brussels) — is a kinetic installation investigating the perception of sound and space.

Its name is derived from ‘tessellation’, a term applied to the geometric subdivision of a surface into plane units, also known as ’tiling’. It also describes a software technique that allows calculation of renderings through the subdivision of surfaces into polygons. The term has its origin in the Latin word ‘tessella’, describing the square tiles used to make mosaics.

Tessellation has been applied throughout history from ancient to modern times, from two to n-dimensional configurations and merges science and art through mathematics. Here Tessel is based on the ‘pinwheel pattern’, a non-periodic tiling coined by mathematicians Charles Radin and John Conway, which allows the creation of an infinitely complex geometry constructed with a simple single ‘seed’: a right triangle. Here, the pinwheel pattern is transformed, folded and transposed to the third dimension. Continue reading

Turbulence.org and Pace Digital Gallery announce an Open Call for Networked Art to be commissioned for the exhibition Turbulence.org @ PaceDigitalGallery 2.

Three commissions @ $3,000 will be awarded. The deadline for proposals is November 1. The works will premiere at Pace and on Turbulence in April 2011.

The curators are seeking works that address the notion of “Levels | Hierarchies”, as in chains of command, levels of play, stages of life, degrees of comfort... Pace Digital Gallery is, itself, distributed across three floors of a building; within a broad stairwell to be precise. Practitioners are required to address the theme according to both the physical space and the distributed space of the Internet, where the works will permanently reside. Continue reading