Objects On My Dresser: Artist Talk And Performance With Sonya Rapoport And Dr. Revathi Vikram :: February 12, 2012; 1:00 - 3:00 pm :: Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, California. 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

UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 Book Launch and a performance of Nablus Soap by Jack Persekian :: December 16, 2011; 7:00 pm :: House for Cooperation, (buffer zone, across from Ledra Palace), Nicosia, Cyprus.

UNCOVERED is a three-year research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project. Continue reading

Blowup: We Are All Crew :: November 3-5, 2011 :: V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

To acknowledge the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth, this edition of Blowup will present the ‘Strategic Art Initiative 2.0′ exhibition of re-created early telematic artworks; the worldwide premiere of ‘Them F*ckin’ Robots’, a documentary on the work and influence of electronic art pioneer Norman White; a keynote lecture by Dutch thinker and author Arjen Mulder, examining the things we love and love to hate about McLuhan; and a closing party for the exhibition featuring a custom cocktail. Continue reading

Charging Bull - Wall Street: an avatar-occupation organized by Jeremy Owen Turner (Canada) and Jacquelene Drinkall (Australia) in Blue Mars Lite (a Mac/PC client which integrates avatars with photos from Google’s map API) :: October 9; 1:00 - 1:30 pm (PST) :: Details here.

Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design edited by Xtine Borrough Panel Discussion - featuring Xtine Borrough, Michael Mandiberg, Ethan Ham & Robert Nideffer :: October 13, 2011; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 West 21st Street, New York, New York.

Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge) offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap. Continue reading

Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture screening + panel discussion with Fred Ritchin (moderator), Roger Stahl, Wafaa Bilal, Joseph Delappe, Anne-Marie Schleiner :: October 21, 2011; (screening) 6:00 pm (panel) 8:00 pm :: Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 006 :: Free but RSVP required.

Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture (Media Education Foundation, 2011, 45 min.), written and directed by Roger Stahl, examines the culture of war-themed video games through work of three pioneering artists and activists: Joseph Delappe, Anne-Marie Schleiner, and Wafaa Bilal. Continue reading

Mediating Place — curated by Meredith Hoy and Kevin Benisvy :: October 5 - 25, 2011; Monday - Thursday, 12:00 - 7:00 pm :: Opening Reception: October 5; 5:00 - 8:00 pm :: Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, McCormack building floor 1, 100 William T. Morrissey Blvd., Boston MA.

The show seeks to address issues of place in the environment, politics, the home, media and technology with work like Ben Bray’s periodic streaming video updates from his current expedition in the Arctic, John Craig Freeman and collaborators’ augmented reality installations famed for using their politically-minded virtual exhibitions to crash renowned venues such as the MoMA and the Venice Biennial, Ann Torke’s residual accumulation sculptures from the home, and much more. Continue reading

Upgrade! Chicago: Chris Cuellar :: October 4, 2011; 7:00 pm :: The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL.

Chris Cuellar will be presenting on a series he recently organized for the Art21 blog where he transformed the guest column into a practical art-making resource as well as a vehicle for the un-distribution of existing works. He asked a small group of artists to give away their secrets in the form of online tutorials. Each how-to is meant to give the reader enough information to accurately reproduce the project presented. Furthermore, in order to reduce issues of artistic ownership, each artist’s contribution has been more or less ‘anonymized’ before posting, with as many overt references to the the individual artist or original project removed as possible. Continue reading

Fresh Kills+: A 21st Century Walk in the Park @ Sneak Peak :: October 2, 2011; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm :: Freshkills Park, Staten Island, New York City.

On the occasion of the annual Sneak Peak event, a new augmented reality (AR) application for smartphones is being launched, allowing visitors to navigate and understand features of the site as well as its transformation from landfill to park. Freshkills Park+ is an experience built with the Layar Browser application and is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Nokia and Blackberry devices. Continue reading