Agence TOPO and the Réseau Accès culture of the Ville de Montréal present: Detours - Poetics of the City … A mobile art and technology project that will tour 5 Montréal Maisons de la culture as part of the first International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) :: May 10 - June 13, 2012 :: Launch: May 10, 2012; 6:00 pm :: Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville, 10 300 Rue Lajeunesse, Montréal, metro Henri-Bourassa, Montréal, Canada.

Detours - Poetics of the City is a Web work for mobile platforms created by Taien Ng-Chan and produced by Agence TOPO as part of its 2011-2012 artist in residency program. Continue reading

Barbara Lattanzi’s Optical De-Dramatization Engine :: June 8-11, 2012 :: Opening Reception: June 8; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, 596 Broadway, #602, NYC.

In the algorithmic work, Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E.) applied in 40-hour cycles to Thomas Ince’s ‘The Invaders’, 1912, 20 frames were sampled from each minute of Thomas Ince’s 40-minute film. The O.D.E. software (coded in ActionScript) takes each sampled minute and dynamically extends it to one hour. At the end of 40 hours, the cycle repeats. Continue reading

Mobile Focus: A day of discussions and presentations focusing on mobile technologies, followed by the launch of the web work Detours: Poetics of the City by Taien Ng-Chan :: March 24, 2012; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Notman House (Home of the web in Montréal) 51, rue Sherbrooke West, Montréal. Continue reading

Exhibition: Isidore Isou: Hypergraphic Novels, 1950–1984; curated by Frédéric Acquaviva :: until April 13, 2012 :: Book Release: April 12 :: The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, Skeppsbron 20, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lorsqu’on rompt, on n’a pas de public, on forme un public future.
(When you break away, you don’t have an audience, you are creating a future audience.)
– Isidore Isou, Les Journaux des Dieux (1950, “The Gods’ Diaries”)

The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm is proud to present an exhibition and an accompanying catalogue focusing on one unique but essential aspect of Isidore Isou’s work: his innovative and ultra-contemporary contribution to the novel, especially what he called the hypergraphic novel. Continue reading

Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large :: February 18 – May 27, 2012 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco CA.

Audience as Subject is a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. It includes artworks that illuminate audiences as collective bodies as well as the individuals who comprise them. It asks: What is the civic potential implied by different publics? Continue reading

[Image by boredomresearch. Courtesy of [DAM]Berlin/Cologne.] Intuition and Ingenuity :: February 17–26, 2012 :: Opening Reception: February 16; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Artists’ Talk: February 21; 7:00 pm :: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ. Continue reading

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