Not Here Not There :: Call for Papers - Deadline: January 31, 2012.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac in collaboration with The Samek Art Gallery and with Kasa Gallery announces a special issue titled: Not Here Not There. This issue arises out of the territory between two cultural streams.

In the 1960’s, artist Robert Morris articulated the strategy of representation summarized by ‘site vs. non-site’ whereby certain artworks were simultaneously abstract and representational and could be site-specific without being sited. In the 1990’s net.art re-de-materialized the art object and found new ways to suspend the artwork online, between (web)site and non-site. Continue reading

Amir Baradaran presents: Growing Panes and The Buzzz @ Art & Patronage in the Middle East: The Summit :: January 12, 2012 :: The British Museum, London, UK. Continue reading

Amir Baradaran, The BuZZ @ Pulse Miami :: December 1-4, 2011 :: Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Booth B-104, The Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida.

This project represents the newest development of FutARism under the auspices of Augmented Reality (AR). As a minimal still life installation, a faintly historical looking vase accompanied by an antique magnifying glass sit upon a pedestal covered with the artist’s signature markers. Upon closer inspection, one recognizes that the found objects are incomplete: the magnifying glass is missing its lens, and the vase is empty. What are these fragments doing, exalted atop a pedestal? Continue reading

The Real-Fake :: until December 2, 2011 :: November 17: Panel Discussion with the Curators, 12:30 - 2:00 pm :: University Galleries, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, New Jersey.

The Real-Fake is an exhibition that presents the approaches employed by artists exploring artificial xyz space, the non-referenced synthetic image or object, and the specific qualities of the virtual camera that records it. Its purpose is to position 3D computer graphics in the discursive context of contemporary art. Continue reading

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Affexity is an interdisciplinary pilot choreographic project examining affect, dance on screen and cities. Continue reading

Performing Mixed Reality by Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi, MIT Press:

Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists is employing digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed, and often deeply subjective theatrical performance. The work of these artists is not only fundamentally transforming the experience of theater, it is also reshaping the nature of human interaction with computers. In this book, Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi offer a new theoretical framework for understanding these experiences — which they term mixed reality performances — and document a series of landmark performances and installations that mix the real and the virtual, live performance and interactivity. Continue reading

Senses Places - Mixed Reality Participatory Performance Environment @interACT :: October 15, 2011; 11:00 am [EST] :: LEA Simulator, Second Life.

Senses Places is a playful mixed reality performance environment for audience participation. An ongoing dance-technology collaboration generating whole body multimodal interfacings keen to a somatic cross-cultural dance approach. Senses Places stresses the awareness and integration of simultaneous sensory-perceptions, local-remote embodied connections, a place where participants and environments meet and engage kinesthetic/ synesthetically. Continue reading

Augmented Structures v1.1: Acoustic Formation by Refik Anadol and Alper Derinboğaz :: until November 13, 2011 :: Yapı Kredi Cultural Centre, Istiklal Street, 161, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey. Continue reading

October/November @ 319 Scholes: Ecologías Correlativas, Notes on a New Nature, Monthly Music Series: Leisure :: 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn NY.

How has the (contested) term ‘ecology’ mutated over past decades? If we cannot separate nature from culture, what is the role of subjectivity in the ‘ecological’? Where are opportunities to reconfigure social models with technology? How does one reconcile the space between a screen and a landscape? What can the natural world tell us about the online environments that we’re building everyday?

Over the course of the next few months, 319 Scholes will be exploring two schools of thought related to technology and ecology. Next week, chimera+ will introduce Ecologías Correlativas, an exhibition of projects by artists, architects and scientists who are creating DIY, largely open source, technologies to navigate environmental and socio-political ecologies. Continue reading