Turbulence Commission: A More Subtle Perplex by Ben Dean [This is an open source project: you can contribute to the Perplex here]:

A More Subtle Perplex is an experiment in quasi-linguistic formalism, in gibberish. Borrowing and inverting techniques from computer science and analytic linguistics, it blindly strives to produce the outer appearance of language — to be all form and no content. The Perplex produces synthetic languages, or at least their syntactic forms, by writing letters to you. The production of the text and the production of a given language are interdependent. Continue reading

Yono Pixel-Art Jam/Hangout Online with Ed Stastny: I’d like to invite you to come hangout with us Sunday (October 21) while we doodle and code. Continue reading

Daniel Temkin – 98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall :: October 5-28, 2012 :: Opening: October 5; 7:00 – 11:00 pm :: Devotion Gallery, 54 Majuer Street, Brooklyn, NY (L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitian).

98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall provides drunken encounters with compulsive systems. A program continually preens itself, inserting lines of code to change its visual representation, but along the way, introducing glitches and new patterns of behavior. A therapist program tries to dispense advice as her logic slowly breaks down. Continue reading

Life in Code and Software: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology, David M. Berry (ed), Living Books About Life:

The essays in this collection explore the relationship between living, code and software. For Berry, technologies of code and software increasingly make up an important part of our urban environment – indeed, their reach stretches to even quite remote areas of the world. Life in Code and Software introduces and explores the way in which code and software are becoming the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially forming a computational ecology, made up of disparate software ecologies we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational environment, Berry argues, and think about how today we live in a highly mediated, code-based world – a world where computational concepts and ideas are foundational, and within which, code and software become the paradigmatic forms of knowing and doing.

The SKOR Codex is a printed book which will be sent to different locations on earth in the year 2012. It contains binary encoded image and sound files selected to portray the diversity of life and culture at the Foundation for Art and Public Domain (SKOR), and is intended for any intelligent terrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find it. The files are protected from bitrot, software decay and hardware failure via a transformation from magnetic transitions on a disk to ink on paper, safe for centuries. Instructions in a symbolic language explain the origin of the book and indicate how the content is to be decoded. Continue reading

Live Notation Unit Symposium and Performances: Live artists and live coders, working towards live notation :: July 27, 2012; 2:00 – 9:30 pm :: Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA.

The Live Notation Unit (LNU) takes over the Arnolfini for a day using its spaces as an experimental laboratory in which to combine two radical performance practices: Live Art and Live Coding.

The LNU will approach programming as performance art, performance art notation as code, code as speech, bodies as interpreters, and more. Continue reading

Clouds is a computational documentary featuring hackers and media artists in dialogue about code, culture and the future of visualization. Continue reading

Code of Contingency :: June 14-28, 2012 :: Opening: June 14, 7:00-10:00 pm (performances by Taeyoon Choi, Giuliano Obici, and Michael Pollard) :: Workshops: June 16-17;, 1:00-6:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY.

“If you subtract human perception, everything moves.” – Steve Goodman, Sonic Warfare: Sound Affect and the Ecology of Fear

Code of Contingency explores whether sound, as a learning device, has the potential to open up new pedagogical frameworks. Continue reading

CODE – A Media, Games & Art Conference :: November 21-23, 2012 :: Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia :: Call for Papers and Creative Works — Deadline: May 31. Continue reading

Nature In Code: Physical Systems In Processing :: April 26-29, 2012 :: Laboratorio Symbolon, C. Llatzeret 13 bx, Poblenou, Metro, Barcelona, Spain :: Call for Participants — Registration Deadline: April 24. Continue reading