French street artist Invader recreates Joel Brodsky’s iconic Jim Morrison photo with Rubik’s Cubes

From Andy Baio’s post, Kind of Screwed.

Anna Dumitriu: Normal Flora :: July 30 - September 17, 2011 :: Opening July 30; 2:00 pm :: R-Space @ The Linen Rooms, 32 Castle Street, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

This major new solo show by international artist Anna Dumitriu blurs the boundaries between art, textile crafts and science. It will feature: a dress patterned using pigments from environmental bacteria and antibiotic embroidery; a large-scale collaborative crochet based on the bacteria from the artist’s own bed; an indigo blue coloured patchwork stained with MRSA bacteria grown on chromogenic agar and patterned with clinical antibiotics and other tools in the research and treatment of this disease; a Whitework embroidered lab coat patterned with images of bacteria and moulds found on it; and a new series of works about the emerging field of bacterial communication (in collaboration with Dr Simon Park and funded by The Wellcome Trust). Continue reading

[Image: Rinko Kawauchi, Murmuration, 2010*] Voices of the Sea Artists Commissions :: Call for expressions of interest — Deadline: July 11, 2011.

Voices of the Sea is a unique commissioning opportunity created by a partnership of arts organisations. In Brighton and Hove, UK: Fabrica, Blast Theory, Brighton Festival, Lighthouse, Photoworks, the University of Brighton and in France, the Musee de Beaux Arts Calais. We seek to commission two artists, each with a strong track record, to create two major new works, responding to the coastal context and maritime heritage of South East England.

The commissions are inspired by The Boat Project by Lone Twin, beginning its maiden voyage in 2012 and visiting Brighton as part of Brighton Festival. Continue reading

Gap by Dušica Dražić :: June 28 - July 10, 2011 :: 15 Kordunska Street, 5th floor, 0-24h, Zagreb, Croatia.

Today, artist Dušica Dražić starts her two-week performance Gap as part of the eleventh UrbanFestival. She conceptualised Gap as an experiment: she will move into the apartment in 15 Kordunska Street, remove the front door and open the space to everyone – for stopping by, coffee, work or stay; at any time of day, regardless of her presence or absence. In the period from her moving in until July 10, we invite you to visit this neither- private- nor- public space in Kordunska and to spend time in the gap. Continue reading

Post-Fordisms and Culture by Brian Holmes, moderated by Yates McKee — Part of Living as Form :: June 30, 2011; 6:30 - 8:00 pm :: The Cooper Union - Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY.

Brian Holmes is an American Born (California) theorist, writer and translator living in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and the French cartography collective Bureau d’Etudes. Continue reading

Manifesto vs Manifesto — performance, concert, lecture, publication of Crash [Manifesto] and Italian Transhumanist Manifesto in a special issue of the magazine Rita Baum :: June 30, 2011; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.

The performance and meeting is a clash between two manifestos, and two approaches to the development of culture: the Italian Transhumanist Manifest by Riccardo Campa and Crash [Manifesto] by Robert B. Lisek. The first of these postulates and physical and mental amplifying of human and crossing the limits imposed by our biological structures through the use of technology and unfettered freedom of scientific research. Continue reading

Käthe-Kollwitz-Prize 2011: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller — Award Ceremony and opening of Pariser Platz :: June 28, 2011; 7:00 pm :: Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Plenarsaal, Berlin.

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2011 has been awarded jointly to Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. On this occasion the artist duo from Canada will be showing four works in the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts). The exhibition at Pariser Platz will focus on the construction and deconstruction of acoustic perception and illusionist spaces. The real occurrences in Cardiff’s and Miller’s stories only reveal themselves when people enter the space and engage their visual and tactile senses. Continue reading

[Image: Insurance.AES256 by Michael Takeo Magruder. See video below.] All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism — Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti & Simon Sheikh :: until July 31, 2011 :: QUAD Gallery, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS.

The exhibition All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism presents the provocative idea that art and journalism are two sides of a unique activity; the production and distribution of images and information. The exhibition brings to the surface how images and information are communicated, and the aesthetic principles used in the act of transmission.

Whereas journalism provides a view on the world, as it ‘really’ is, art often presents a view on the view, as an act of reflection. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. Deadline: June 30, 2011. The Application Guidelines are here.

Turbulence is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 15 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.