Performing Public Space :: until March 21, 2010 :: Closing Party and Performances: March 20; 2:00 - 11:00 pm :: La Casa del Tunél, Calle Chapo Márquez 133, Colonia Federal, Tijuana BC, Mexico.

As towns and cities are increasingly overwritten by the needs and desires of globalized capital, so public spaces and the behaviors they support are becoming evermore shrunken and controlled. At the same time however, everyday examples of common usage – a skate boarder curving past a crowd, a girl chopping and bagging melon on the sidewalk, a child dancing up a mountain of steps – counterpoint homogenization and regulation. Continue reading

ElectroSmog - International Festival for Sustainable Immobility :: March 18 - 20, 2010 :: Amsterdam  | New York | Madrid  Riga | London | Banff | New Zealand | Munich | on-line.

ElectroSmog festival means zero travel (no presenter will travel beyond their local or regional boundaries to participate in this event, and a crucial dimension of the festival will be its on-line presence), going beyond the broadband enclaves (remote connection to lower bandwidth spaces, do-it-yourself telematics, and information technologies for the majority world will be central concerns the festival will address) and includes thematic discussions, presentations and connected debates (a series of interlocking thematic programs, connected discussions and debates all transmitted live over the internet), as well as satellite events. Continue reading

Upgrade! Boston: Joseph DeLappe + Pete Froslie :: March 11, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: ACT - MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA (Entrance to the right of the MIT Museum).

Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he directs the Digital Media program. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad - including exhibitions and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Peru, China and the Netherlands. Continue reading

Thursday Club: Igor Štromajer & Ballettikka Internettikka [Internet Ballet] :: February 18, 2010; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, South East London.

Ballettikka Internettikka (Igor Štromajer and Brane Zorman) is the umbrella name for a series of tactical art projects which began in 2001 with the exploration of Internet ballet. It explores wireless Internet ballet performances combined with guerrilla tactics and mobile live Internet broadcasting strategies. Igor will discuss some of these projects as outlined below. Continue reading

City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community :: June 11–13 & 19, 2010 :: Invitation to Submit Proposals — Deadline: March 1, 2010 [Application Form]

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression. Continue reading

Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory presents If You Lived Here Still… An archive project by Martha Rosler :: January 17 – March 14, 2010 :: Opening: January 16; 5:00 pm :: Open forum: January 17; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Nieuwekade 213-215, 3511RW Utrecht, The Netherlands.

In 1989-1991, artist Martha Rosler organized her project ‘If You Lived Here…’ at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City. ‘If You Lived Here…’ was a seminal group project on housing, homelessness and the systems and conditions underlying them such as gentrification, bureaucratic complicity or non-compliance and increasing privatisation of the public sector. It took a radical approach toward art and institutions of that time, in a mode that might be called cross-disciplinary and “participatory”. Continue reading

Wayfarer v 2 - Urban Agents — Sign up now to play online! :: October 26 - November 7, 2009 :: Public Forum: November 8; 1:30 - 4:00 pm :: The Black Box Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.

Wayfarer v 2 - Urban Agents is a locative social media event, converging gameplay, creative intervention and site. During the 2 week event, urban agents are out on the streets of Melbourne creating socially responsible interventions; citizens (that’s most of you) form a short term online community using the Wayfarer website; and advocates are those of you who have agreed to add a bit more to the debate… Continue reading

[Image: Traveling Music by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Julia Wolfe] evento 2009: Collective Intimacy: The artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux :: October 9 - 18, 2009 :: Bordeaux, France.

evento 2009 is a new biennial event that will take place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux. This year’s edition will present artistic, theoretical and performative interventions by over 50 participants, articulated by the notion of Collective Intimacy, the concept proposed by its curator, Didier Fiúza Faustino: Continue reading

Josetti Höfe Façade —
Urban Space and Site Specific Interventions :: Open Call — Deadline: October 20, 2009 :: Josetti Höfe, Rungestr 22 - 24, Berlin, Germany.

International artists and designers who work with urban space and site specific interventions, are invited to submit a project for Josetti Höfe’s Façade. Guidelines:

- Any media/materials are permitted for the intervention, except those which can damage the façade’s surface - The intervention must be visible from the views described in this website (view “The façade” link) - Artists with previous experience in site specific projects and interventions in public space are encouraged to apply Continue reading

Artivistic invites you to Participate in TURN*ON :: October 15 - 17, 2009 :: Montréal.

You are invited to dress-up your pubes and play with your profiles with other sexy folks from all over the world for the upcoming fourth Artivistic gathering. TURN*ON brings together artists (aka “Artists”), academics (”nerds”), and activists (”rebels”) who take charge of issues related to sex, technology and politics. We invite you to MAKE the world with and alongside them.

The three-day gathering will consist of workshops, films, interactive audio and visual installations, performances, actions, discussions, as well as moles and infrastructural interventions for and within our movements. Continue reading