Decode/Recode: Celebrate 100 Years of Alan Turing: We invite you to collaborate in a globally networked interactive event to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, as part of the official opening of the University of Salford building at MediaCity on 23rd March 2012. As part of this significant event we will be connecting for 24 hours with 24 partners worldwide for a live digital media jam. Continue reading

Embroidered Digital Commons Workshops with Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles :: Saturdays, March 3 - April 28, 2012 (excluding April 7); 10:00 - 12:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London. Continue reading

WaterCheers H2O[tʃɪəz] - A Monthly Program of Collaborative Web-Performance :: December 30, 2011; 11:00 pm - 2:00 am :: online :: Call for Participation.

THE TAP online performance & collaborative venue will be accessible by audience and performers with just a click, no download needed, and will be free. ‘Live’ performers from various locations will interact with audiences in real time using webcams, media from The Waterwheel and drawing tools. Audience can participate online through a chat facility or directly with the ‘live’ performers on site. Continue reading

Transmittance #2 - Telepresence Performance :: December 13, 2011; 8:00 pm (CET) :: http://transmittance.si ( Online audience can watch and interact with the performance live using a recent version of popular browser like Firefox or Chrome) & Tobacco 001 Cultural Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcasted. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society - opening non-dualistic perspectives. Continue reading

New Collaborative Research Projects In Digital Media Arts - An Integral Component Of UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program :: Deadline: January 3, 2012.

The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz is initiating new collaborative research projects in the context of the program’s ongoing research. Collaborating with faculty and contributing to digital media arts research is a critical component of each student’s experience in the DANM MFA program. MFA students entering in Fall 2012 will have the opportunity to collaborate on the following projects: Continue reading

So What Again Is HASTAC? Post #HASTAC2011 Reflections on a Network Founded on a Theory That’s a Practice by Cathy Davidson, originally posted on HASTAC:

We have just finished two and a half glorious days at the University of Michigan. Soon we at HASTAC Central will write a formal thank you blog to all the incredible planners, organizers, and participants of our fifth HASTAC Conference, Digital Scholarly Communications, sponsored by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Kidder Residency in the Arts, and led by two of our HASTAC Steering Committee members, Danny Herwitz and Julie Thompson Klein. And many others. Incredible event.Incredible people.

Now some overview thinking, not just about the #hastac2011 but about what it all means at this point in HASTAC’s history: Continue reading

Rhythms of Time Sharing (RoTS) in collaboration with Vox Populi, Philadelphia is seeking performers/ collaborators/ artists/ writers working within the conceptual remit of Participation for a live, transatlantic broadcast event in late January 2012. DEADLINE: December 16, 2011

Rhythms of Time Sharing’s first live event will take the form of a collaboration between two artist collectives – KIOSK (London) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). This one-off event will be held at the Vox Populi space in Philadelphia formed of live performances in the gallery and nocturnal performances streamed across the Atlantic from KIOSK’s studio in South East London. Continue reading

The Wild West of Chronic Pain: Collaborations among Artists, Scientists & Health Care Experts by Artist in Residence Dr. Diane Gromala, Transforming Pain Research Group, SFU, Canada Continue reading

Trust Me I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration presents Adam Zaretsky: Mutate or Die :: December 10, 2011; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: The Theatrum Anatomicum, De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This series of public events, taking place in international settings, investigates the new ethical issues arising from art and science collaboration and consider the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved. At each event (before a live audience) an internationally known artist will propose an artwork to a specially formed ethics committee Continue reading

games++ — organized by Alex Myers and Jeff Thompson :: November 4, 2011; 9:00 am - 9:00 pm (make games); 9:00 - 11:00 pm (play games) :: Drift Station Gallery, 1746 “N” Street (at 18th), Lincoln, Nebraska. Continue reading