Plataforma Cero of LABoral presents Orbitando Satélites / Orbiting Satellites — a critical and artistic investigation of satellites :: May 10-14, 2011 :: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain.

Orbitando Satélites proposes an exercise in the visualisation and investigation of these “rarae aves” that operate in habitually imperceptible frequencies and distances. We listen to them with DIY antenas and radios, showing how to locate them and observe them with free hardware and software.

In the tradition of the independent groups involved in the creation of free/libre infrastructures the meeting unites amateurs and experts, from various countries and cultures, to develop a declaration which poetically sketches this occult ring that surrounds us. Continue reading

AbstractView II: Copyright or Personality Rights :: April 12-17, 2011 :: Opening: April 10; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Punt WG, M. van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

In the late summer of 2009 Polak and van Bekkum were working in a remote area in the Highlands of Scotland. They were collecting GPS data from king size helium balloons which moved in the rhythm of the wind. They planned to visualize the generated data in Google Earth. A technological landscape painting with gps-data and Google Earth figuring as paint and canvas. Continue reading

The First Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon — a global 24-hour event :: April 8-9, 2011; 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm (NL time):: MADlab, Vestdijk 280, 5611CZ Eindhoven :: Participation is free after registration. Food and drinks in open contribution format. Register as individual or team by sending a mail to info [at] madlab.nl.

Calling all developers, designers, makers, mixers, mashers, tinkerers, philosopher-mechanics and sales engineers! Join us in helping to define and build the Internet of Things on Global Internet of Things Day! Use Pachube if you want, or build on other APIs – make something physical, or virtual; Continue reading

The Anthropology of Hackers by Gabriella Coleman, The Atlantic:

“A “hacker” is a technologist with a love for computing and a “hack” is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn’t mean to compromise the Pentagon, change your grades, or take down the global financial system, although it can, but that is a very narrow reality of the term. Hackers tend to value a set of liberal principles: freedom, privacy, and access; they tend to adore computers; some gain unauthorized access to technologies, though the degree of illegality greatly varies (and much, even most of hacking, by the definition I set above, is actually legal). Continue reading

Device_art 3.010: Croatia_Slovenia_Japan :: September 23 - October 1, 2010 :: Miraikan – National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, SuperDeluxe, Waseda University Toyama Campus, Japan.

Artists: Yoshi Akai (JP), Miha Ciglar (SI), Stefan Doepner (DE/SI), Sanela Jahic (SI), Janez Jansa (IT/SI), So Kanno (JP), Ines Krasic (HR), Margareta Lekic (HR), Ivan Marusic Klif (HR), Martina Mezak (HR), Satoshi Morita (JP/DE), Magdalena Pederin (HR), Borut Savski (SI), Saso Sedlacek (SI), Silvio Vujicic (HR).

Googling the term “device art” will produce results mostly related to either Japan or Croatia. This is because device art as a project was initiated independently and serendipitously in these two countries in 2004, sharing the name but differing in concept, goals, artistic, cultural and historical background. Continue reading

GLI.TC/H — an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners :: September 29 - October 3, 2010 :: Chicago :: Call for Entries — Deadline: August 20, 2010.

GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken. GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & tool building. Artworks and Projects, artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, screen-captures, systems, websites & installations. Texts, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia. Continue reading

Unleashed Devices :: September 1 - October 22, 2010 :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS, UK.

Unleashed Devices is an exhibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects by artists who explore technologies critically and creatively. By reconstructing, remixing and reinventing everyday electronic devices, these take on a new life as they shift our vision of the use of data and purpose of technology. Playing with frontiers, such projects not only challenge our conception of technology but also music, art and design. Here, they reveal the power of DIY modes as tools to stimulate social reflection and participation. Continue reading

Hacking the City – Interventions in Public and Communicative Spaces :: July 16 - September 26, 2010 :: Museum Folkwang, Ruhr, Germany.

Hacking the City is an innovative project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. The project is mainly focussed on Essen, Cultural Capital Ruhr.2010. Participants are artists, nerds, web-designers, communications guerrillas, street artists, performers and musicians. Among these are: Boran Burchhardt, Peter Bux, Brad Downey, San Keller, Knowbotic Research, Christin Lahr, M+M, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Richard Reynolds, Jörg Steinmann, Michelle Teran, Stefanie Trojan, Annette Wehrmann, V2A.net, Georg Winter. Further projects will presented in the museum at the Base Station. Continue reading

TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality — Curated by Yves Béhar :: July 10 – October 3, 2010 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA.

The history of craft and design began with individuals making what they could not afford to buy, which created a deep and personal connection between owner and object. With the Industrial Revolution, the tradition of craft mostly disappeared as people became enamored with the abundance and affordability of mass-produced, high-quality goods. The rise of mass-production and mass-consumerism undeniably elevated the average person’s quality of life. However, the cultural sameness that materialized, combined with the loss of individual connection to objects, left many feeling dissatisfied. As a result, they took matters into their own hands. Continue reading

Electrified Salon: Hacking Public Space — Johan Pas and Alessandro Ludovico :: June 1, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Foyer Theaterzaal, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium.

Occupied City. Artistic Actions in Urban Space: The Prehistory — Public urban space can be considered a battlefield of conflicting images and meanings. Artists have been using this aspect of the modern metropolis since the years of the early avant-garde. However, the street only became a real artistic platform in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. Art historian Johan Pas will sketch an outline of the ways visual artists have been dealing with the urban fabric as a context for actions and interventions from the early 1960’s on. The focus will be on American and European artists associated with movements as happening, body art; conceptual art and performance. Their legacy can be read as the prehistory of contemporary urban art guerrilla. Continue reading