The 15th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Distributed Microtopias :: Call For Submissions — Deadline: August 15, 2012. Continue reading

The Mapping Practices of Catherine D’Ignazio by Christine Temin, Art New England:

“Catherine D’Ignazio is an artist, software developer, and educator. She leads the Experimental Geography Research Cluster at RISD’s Digital+Media program. Her artwork has been exhibited at the ICA Boston, Eyebeam, MASS MoCA, and the Western Front, among other locations. Her artwork is participatory and distributed — a single project may take place online, in the street and in a gallery — and involve multiple audiences participating in different ways for different reasons. Her practice is inherently collaborative.

“In the early days of the Internet, you had a handle,” D’Ignazio recalls. Hers is Kanarinka. “It was given to me by a friend from Montenegro. In Montenegran it means ‘canary.’” Continue reading

ReLocate: Community Engagement and Solidarity :: Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska - Call For Civic Media Artist — Deadline: May 28, 2012. Continue reading

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

[DPoN showing temperatures in the low-60's, clear skies, and winds out of the south (indicated by the vertically-oriented yellow streak to the right)] Dynamic Performance of Nature: Augmenting Environmental Perception Through Social Media And Architectural Informatics by Brian W. Brush, Yong Ju Lee & Noa Younse:

Abstract: Architecture has always functioned as a mediating structure between humans and the environments in which they live; a static assemblage of semi-inert materials orchestrated, amongst other things, to temper environmental forces for human habitation. With advances in material and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Continue reading

The Aspen Movie Map Beat Google Street View by 28 Years by Derek Mead, Mother Board: Continue reading

The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform.

Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.

Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Continue reading

The Oil Show :: November 12, 2011 – February 19, 2012 :: Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at Dortmunder U (3rd floor), Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany.

We have reached Peak Oil – the maximum capacity of global crude oil extraction and production. After Peak Oil, the total global oil production cannot be increased. In the future, demand will always exceed supply. The global struggle for resources will intensify. Despite this our dependency on oil is growing further. We cannot, or do not seem to want to do without oil. We are seriously dependent.

The works in the exhibition deal with our dependency on oil and the economic, political, and social entanglements and consequences of this growing dependency. Continue reading

Mapping Community Arts: Subversion, Repressive Tolerance and Pastoral Power by Pascal Gielen — organized and moderated by Hakan Topal with a response by Alex Villar :: November 8, 2011; 6:30 pm :: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York, NY.

In recent years there has been increased attention to so-called ‘socially engaged art practices’. Equipped with a sense of urgency and intent, artists and curators develop work with the support of communities or groups to tackle political and social issues. While the success of these projects are not easily measurable, they often reiterate the role of artist/ curator as protagonists of specific forms of social change, which posits a direct contrast to recent activism which carefully distances itself from any leader-based political organizational categories. Continue reading

The Departments of Intermedia and Fine Art Theory and Curatorial Studies of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts initiate the seminars Mapping the Local and Site Specific Interventions in Public Space :: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Andrássy út 69-71, 1062 Budapest, Hungary.

Mapping the Local presents an overview of the major phenomena, trends and issues of contemporary art based on various subjects in each semester; a special emphasis will be placed on the East European region, in the form of seminars, presentations held by invited lecturers, field trips to museums, institutions and artist studios. The course is primarily directed towards Erasmus students as well as local students of the Intermedia and Fine Art Theory and Curatorial Studies departments. Continue reading