Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube; Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles (eds), Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-12-4, paperback, 378 pages.

Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (’2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the moving image has become expansively more popular on the Web, significantly contributing to the culture and ecology of the internet and our everyday lives. In response, the Video Vortex project continues to examine critical issues that are emerging around the production and distribution of online video content. Continue reading

The Arpanet Dialogues Vol.II: ARPANET Test June 1976 with Samir Amin, Steve Biko, Francis Fukuyama & Minoru Yamasaki (available to read online and a PDF in English & Arabic):

In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a rare series of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters representing a wide range of perspectives within the contemporary social, political, and cultural milieu. The ARPANET Dialogues is a serial document which archives these conversations. Continue reading

NYC on Channel TWo, Apr 6, NYC from Channel TWO on Vimeo.

New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks present Pixilerations [v.8] :: September 22 - October 2, 2011 :: FirstWorks Festival, Providence, Rhode Island :: Call for Submissions — Deadline: April 19.

In an era of Facebook/ Twitter-inflamed revolutions, biotechnology ethics wars, and Youtube-generated museum exhibitions, this year’s festival seeks to examine the question “Where – and what – is New Media Art today?” New Media art traditionally held a role at the intersections of art, science, technology, ansd social realms, yet artists who do not identify as New Media artists now make free use of the same tools as video game programmers, robotics engineers, and DJs. Continue reading

Silent Zone: Ethical Intrusions in Aesthetic Behavior :: April 5 - June 8, 2011 :: gallery@calit2, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California.

Curated by Karla Villegas, Silent Zone: Ethical Intrusions in Aesthetic Behavior features the work of José Antonio Vega Macotela, Laura Balboa, and Laboratorio 060. The exhibition includes “Time Divisa,” a ceramic tile relief installation that replicates the main wall of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in Mexico City, and “The wind blows where it wants to” a series of dialogues with inmates of the prison, by José Antonio Vega Macotela. Continue reading

Anomalous Press: Call for Literary Arts:

Anomalous Press, a new multi-format multi-media literary arts journal, welcomes submissions of literary works of texts (poetry, fiction, nonfiction and translation) and especially seeks hybrid, multi- and new media, audio or video literary works, and images. We realize literary is a slippery term, and we most assuredly do not mean the fifth definition as listed on Dictionary.com. Neither do we think of the term as exclusive — H.G. Wells and Anaïs Nin created great works of literature. If it’s good, it’s good. Period. We want works that challenge us, and challenge you, to move outside our comfort zones, individually and collectively, and socially and anti-socially, and liminally and subliminally, and into spaces new and old and musty and fresh.

Marc Garrett: A Historical Context of Furtherfield :: March 29, 2011; 7:40 - 9:00 pm :: Department of History of Art & Screen Media, Room 122, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London :: RSVP nick.lambert [at] gmail.com.

Marc Garrett (UK), an activist, artist and writer and co-director and co-founder (with artist Ruth Catlow) of internet arts collectives and communities furtherfield.org, netbehaviour.org and the Furtherfield Gallery (formerly known as HTTP Gallery) in London. Through these platforms various contemporary media arts exhibitions and projects are presented nationally and internationally. Marc also hosts a weekly media arts radio programme on Resonance FM and last year co-edited the publication Artists Re: thinking games. He is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck University, London.

Kayak Libre: free thinking/free transport by Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel :: until April 2, 2011 :: Digbeth, Birmingham. Continue reading

From the (Trans)Gendered Body to the Cyborg: Feminism, Art, and Technology — Panelists: Bang Geul Han, Yael Kanarek, Muriel Magenta and Gayle Salomon; Moderators: Kat Griefen and Ferris Olin :: March 26, 2011; 2:00 pm :: Cantor Auditorium, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.

Now in its fourth year, the annual From the (Trans)Gendered Body to the Cyborg: Feminism, Art, and Technology series considers the most current critical issues and concerns for women artists, and celebrates Women in the Arts during National Women’s History Month. Continue reading