The Poetics of Code – HD Traffic by John F. Simon, Jr. and Lagoglyphs by Eduardo Kac. March 15 – May 15, 2010 :: Streaming Museum.

Code lies at the core of both works as method and meaning. In HD Traffic, Simon built with software code an architectural Mondrian-inspired work designed to integrate real-time traffic data flow. Kac’s series of Lagoglyphs artworks, reference and expand upon his controversial genetically altered Alba the GFP Bunny 2000. The real-time animations, continuously flowing and reconfiguring themselves, place emphasis on the generative mutability of writing and the encoded nature of life. Continue reading

Cinema is dead; long live cinema (Peter Greenaway). How has the explosion of new media changed the ways we think about cinema, about questions of film aesthetics and film history? How can cinema studies contribute to the theory, analysis, and creative practice of new media? This two-day symposium seeks to stimulate a crossdisciplinary conversation on moving image culture that avoids both cinephile nostalgia and uncritical celebrations of media convergence.

The Material and the Code is a two-day symposium at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center. It features a screening on February 26, and a full day of presentations on February 27.

The Material and the Code is dedicated to the memory of Anne Friedberg (1952-2009).

Lovebytes - A Festival of Digital Creativity and Culture :: Opening: February 12, 2010; 6:30 - 10:00 pm @ Sheffield Winter Garden and Millennium Gallery :: Lovebytes, Workstation, Sheffield, S1 2BX, United Kingdom.

Lovebytes is a cultural festival for the digital age. A season of extraordinary events taking place at some of Sheffield’s landmark venues and public spaces, from February to June 2010. The festival opening night features a late night opening of the digital art exhibition Code:Craft along with with live performances by Francisco Lopez, Russell Haswell and Mark Fell. Continue reading

hello wor(l)d! Workshop — Pure Data, Microcodes, Fluxus :: March 2-4, 2010; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: het Paleis (Erlenmeyer zaal), Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL) :: Call for Participation — Deadline February 19.

The workshop hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and live coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try. Continue reading

HYPE — Branden Hall & Joshua Davis — is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program. To get started, the user needs only the most basic knowledge of programming – variables, conditionals, loops, and functions, for example. As the user learns more about programming they can extend HYPE and thus grow their skills, while at the same time inspiring the next generation.

Now, that’s not to say HYPE is just for people who are new to programming. Instead, HYPE is for anyone, regardless of skill, who wants to play with code. Fundamentally, the point of HYPE is to make Flash fun again. We made HYPE to help bring back the playfulness that once defined our community. Continue reading

Symbio — with Aljoscha, Eleanna Anagnos, Richard Fajnor, Joseph Farbrook, Andrew Johnson, Marek Kvetan, Joao Simoes, Al Wildey :: December 21, 2009 - February 14th, 2010 :: Opening: December 21; 6:00 pm :: Vaclav Spala Gallery, Narodni 30, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic.

Technology is influencing the way we conduct our everyday routines. Digital developments methodically build and redefine technology’s existence in our cultural identity. Digital media constructs an abstract version of our reality into complex recreations that can be viewed on a monitor. The exploration of our world in virtual reality, as opposed to a world that can be touched, is how new media is changing traditional forms of art. Continue reading

Streamflow Conditions: Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks with John Cayley (CA), Roderick Coover (US), Ian Hatcher (US), Mez Breeze (AU), José Carlos Silvestre (BR), Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US), Rui Torres (PT) :: December 5-6, 2009; 5:35 - 5:35 pm :: http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org.

Timestamp: 24 hours of networked writing :: Online Launch: December 5-6; 4:35 - 435 pm (UTC-7/MST sunset in Denver, Colorado): artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means. Continue reading

Facebook User Labor Enactments — The code = The choreography by Ursula Endlicher, with Burak Arikan :: November 13, 2009; 6:00 pm :: The New School, 66 West 12th, Room 404, New York City :: Free but registration is required.

Facebook User Labor Enactments is a new live performance which uses Burak Arikan’s ULML code (User Labor Mark-up Language) as choreography. Five performers and the audience will together shape the course of the show. Arikan’s newly developed ULML-based software application collects user activity on Facebook; the performance will combine this online information as well as audience submitted ideas right on stage. Continue reading

Mobile Art && Code: A symposium on the artistic and tactical potential of mobile and locative media :: November 6 - 8, 2009 :: Carnegie Mellon University campus, Pittsburgh, PA.

Mobile Art && Code is a three-day symposium focused on the design of new forms of mobile and locative experiences. FRIDAY and SUNDAY feature hands-on workshops in arts-oriented mobile phone programming (including workshops in creating software for the iPhone, Android, Nokia, SMS text messaging, etc.); interface design for mobile devices; interactive telephony and voice-response systems; and prototyping with the Arduino (a tiny computer which is popular for making interactive objects). Continue reading

Ursula Endlicher’s Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 - www.google.com (final part) — The Code=The Choreography :: October 3, 2009; 8:00 pm :: Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Brooklyn, NY.

In the final show of Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited, three dancers, two performers, the audience, and the artist will interpret the HTML tags of google.com in real-time to create new dance movements, which will immediately be translated into text-based descriptions, and stored online in the html-movement-library. This information is reused on stage as new instruction material, and then recycled yet anew… Continue reading