Turbulence Commission: We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation In 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield:

We Ping Good Things To Life is an ever evolving and expanding interactive networked installation that brings together elements of Toy Theater, Vaudeville performance, Surrealism, and consumer culture. Users can activate dozens of store-bought, found, and donated objects to create a unique performance, alone or with others, via the live streaming video feed.

Inspired by the work of friend and artist Jarvis Rockwell, Act 1: Remember When We Used to Have Fun? explores the hidden lives of toys. Continue reading

[Image: Les Belles Infidèles by Ethan Ham, et al] International Conference: Translating E-Literature :: June 12-14, 2012 :: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France :: Call for Papers - Deadline: March 15.

Translating E-Literature is organized by OTNI: Objets textuels non identifiés (UTO: Unidentified Textual Objects), a research project into the evolution of textuality in the digital age. It is supported by the Electronic Literature Organization.

E-literature is an emphatically global phenomenon. Its authors are of many different nationalities. Sometimes they write in a form of global English. Continue reading

EXB: City as Studio II — An evening of art, thought, writing, media works, participatory performances, exploration, trespass and the sending and multiplication of different kinds of signals :: February 25, 2012; 7:00 pm :: Sarai-CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054. Continue reading

Bring Your Own Beamer :: March 16, 2012; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: VIVID, 140 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands B9 4AR :: Open Call — Deadline: February 24. Continue reading

Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large :: February 18 – May 27, 2012 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco CA.

Audience as Subject is a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. It includes artworks that illuminate audiences as collective bodies as well as the individuals who comprise them. It asks: What is the civic potential implied by different publics? Continue reading

(Read a review here) Good Listeners is a browser plugin that exposes the secret ways in which our browsing habits are shared with and mined by 3rd party web trackers (like Google Analytics and Facebook “Like”) without our consent or knowledge. Whenever a site exposes the visitor’s data to a third party service a confessional booth window is opened and the priest in the window offers words of invisible wisdom, divine providence and spiritual guidance pertaining to matters of web browsing, social networking, e-commerce and digital identity.

Good Listeners in a critical/ amusing/ awkward visualization and sonification of the vast data dimension passively generated by us and aggressively collected and mined by these mysterious omnipresent all-seeing tracking forces of the web. Continue reading

[Earth_To_Disk (aka Flat Earth Society), 2008-2011] Art of Failure :: until March 16, 2012 :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY. Continue reading

Performance Series at Dia:Beacon — Yvonne Rainer :: February 25-26, 2012; 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm + May 13; 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm :: Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY. Continue reading

Slought Foundation is currently in the planning phase for Mixplace Studio, an urban pedagogical research initiative that will transform our organization in the years ahead. It is being developed together with People’s Emergency Center (PEC), the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) at PennDesign, and Estudio Teddy Cruz (ETC). Continue reading