The New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX 04: Collateral Affections is the only event of its kind in Mexico. This year, our main theme explores the notion of technology as affection: How does technology affect us? How does it intervene in aesthetic activities? This festival is open to all those who are interested in digital culture and creative production via electronic media: videoart, netart, installations, composition, and similar endeavors. International exhibition, symposium, workshops and more.

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ISEA Istanbul presents Demand Player Sovereignty Workshops by Third Faction :: September 10-13, 2011: See times and venues here (presenting for the first hour live in Istanbul and then continuing the program in World of Warcraft. To participate please join us on Demon Soul server (US) and message Myriammoore on the Horde side or MataHari on Alliance).

Demand Player Sovereignty or DPS is a movement in civil disobedience led by Third Faction. Our goal is to gain greater autonomy for the players of the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft not only to support the diverse and creative play styles that are created by the players, but also to earn the players a voice to change the rules of the game itself. Continue reading

Invisible Istanbul: Captured Images by Tamiko Thiel + Invisible Istanbul: Urban Dynamics by PATTU Istanbul (Cem Kozar & Işıl Ünal) — AR intervention in the Istanbul Biennial :: September 18, 2011; 2:00 pm :: Look for the yellow “Invisible Istanbul” logo at the cafe in front of Antrepot 5/Sanat Limani, Istanbul Biennial.

Invisible Istanbul is the first Augmented Reality (AR) Intervention into the Istanbul Biennial, using GPS positioning to place virtual artworks within the real physical space of Istanbul and the Biennial, creating surrealistic and poetic juxtapositions between real and virtual within the context of the hidden urban dynamics of Istanbul. Continue reading

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Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit with Graham Harwood, Eleonora Orreggia, Wilfried Hou je Bek, Stephen Fortune, Suzzanne Treister, Mike Challis, Cad Taylor, Ryan Jordan, Andy Bolus, Martin Howse, Kathrin Guenter, Jonathan Kemp, John Bowers, Mariko Ogawa, Laetitia Barbier :: August 28 - September 4, 2011 ::

The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit presents an intense week-long series of interventions, field trips, open workshops and evening discussions led by international artists and researchers exploring the Suffolk countryside through the interdisciplinary lens of psychogeophysics, defined as the combining of psychogeographic techniques (methods of wandering) with the study of geophysical traces (geophysical archaeology, the revealing of place). Continue reading

Designing Civic Encounter - Symposium . workshop . tour curated by Shuruq Harb and Ursula Biemann, ArtTerritories :: July 21–24, 2011 :: Sharek Youth Forum, Ramallah.

Designing Civic Encounter is a series of interventions engaging in existing and potential forms of urban development and public culture. The event will unfold through a bus tour traversing urban locations within and around Ramallah city enabling debates and conversations at different stations, a two-day symposium on questions of urban transformations in Palestinian and other Arab cities, and a full day workshop with visionary social architect Teddy Cruz.

Inspired by ongoing dialogues on ArtTerritories’ website and by the wider civic movements in the region, ArtTerritories proposes an open forum for the inquiry and discussion of the public urban experience under the current trends in planning, financing and building practices. Continue reading

[Bins & Benches by Greyworld] The Australian National University School of Art presents Public Interactions: Dialogues on Art and Public Space, an international symposium to be held in Canberra from the July 20 - 23, 2011.

International and local artists, architects, designers and public intellectuals will converge to explore the role of art in the public spaces of the contemporary community. Diverse practices will be revealed across digital, relational, guerrilla, ephemeral, heritage, commemorative and architectural spaces. Participants will discover Canberra’s vibrant public art scene, as well as glimpsing the failed dreams of those projects that might have been. Continue reading

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The Institute for Infnitely Small Things invites you to… Transgender Bathroom Dedication :: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Part of “Boston’s Best 40-ennial”, a 19-minute historical and totally unauthorized exhibition in the bathroom of the MFA Boston organized by Greg Cook on June 20th, 2011. Disclaimer: The piece may or may not still be up. If you go there to see it let us know what you find.

Transgender Bathroom Dedication dedicates the men’s room at the MFA Boston to Dean Spade who was arrested in 2002 for using the men’s room in Grand Central Station and dedicates the women’s room at the MFA Boston to Chrissy Pollis who was the victim of a transgender hate crime in a Maryland bathroom in May 2011. These two new works are gifts to the MFA Boston on behalf of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things. Continue reading

Hacking the City – Interventions in Public and Communicative Spaces: The project “Hacking the City” took place on the occasion of the “European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.” Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called “Mapping the Region.” Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum activities. More than thirteen projects in public space, a “Base-Station” in the museum and a homepage (www.hackingthecity.org) were realized.

“Cultural hacking” borrows the idea of reprogramming and alienating existing cultural codes. Appropriation, transcription, manipulation and revaluation are used to alter everyday situations, objects, rules or routines. Continue reading