“Boskoi is an application for Android mobiles that allows people to create a checklist of geo-localized spontaneous food in urban areas. Continue reading

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American Plutocracy: A marker for the occupation of Wall Street and beyond by John Craig Freeman:

In September 2011 citizens began to gather and then occupy Liberty Plaza near Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. American Plutocracy seeks to mark occupation sites across the U.S. Wall Street is everywhere. Find an occupation site near you. Learn how here.

Mountain Ghosts by Halsey Burgund :: until mid-November :: Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Mountain Ghosts is a site-specific sound art installation that infuses the entire University of Colorado / Colorado Springs campus with a location-based layer of audio created collectively by the artist and participants. Building on Burgund’s interest in systems, collected voices, and participation, Mountain Ghosts explores sound as fundamental to our experiences of space, place and history. Participants use a custom smartphone app to make audio recordings that the Mountain Ghosts system then codes by location and immediately assimilates into a collective databank for other visitors to access. Continue reading

Tracing Mobility – Open Platform :: November 26-27, 2011 :: Berlin :: Call for Participation - Deadline: October 17, 2011.

It is in our movement that we give ourselves away. Our trails reveal a course that, when mapped, indicates our design. So we are tracked and our presence logged.

Tracing Mobility sets out to examine the shifting terrain of global versus individual mobility and how its hand in hand development with networked infrastructure is transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance.

WE ARE OPEN: Trampoline opens a platform to anyone who has something to say about mobility and migration in the networked space. Continue reading

Arcipelago Balkani, Public Dialogues, Open City :: September 29 - October 15, 2011 :: Symposium and Presentation of Arcipelago Balkani: An Alternative Map: September 29; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: Opening: 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kriterion Art House, Obala Kulina Bana 2, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.

Arcipelago Balkani: An Alternative Map, published by Silvana Editoriale and curated by Claudia Zanfi, offers an alternative journey through the ‘New Balkans’, featuring an analysis of the city’s contemporary cultural life and that of the people in this youthful melting pot, through the eyes of both artists and writers.

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ISEA2011 presents Southern Ocean Studies :: Pro­jec­tion on the Cupola: September 14 - 21, 2011; 9:00 am - 11:00 pm :: Discussion: September 16; 8:00 - 10:30 pm :: Çem­ber­l­i­tas Hamam (built by Mimar Sinan in 1584).

Lan­franco Aceti, ISEA2011 Is­tan­bul Artis­tic Di­rec­tor and Con­fer­ence Chair, in­vites you to dis­cuss is­sues of con­tem­po­rary ecol­ogy, melt­ing of the poles and the im­por­tance of water in world cul­ture while bathing in the sur­round­ings of this his­tor­i­cal build­ing adorned with the art­work of Gavin Baily, Tom Corby and Jonathan Macken­zie.

The art­work you will see here shows the South­ern Ocean cir­cu­lat­ing the Antarc­tic land mass (cen­tral). The pro­ject soft­ware runs in real-time gen­er­at­ing the ocean cur­rents on the fly, to which are mapped var­i­ous other eco­log­i­cal data sets. Continue reading

Urban Rhythms will be an artwork for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. I have been fortunate to have already received two grants for the development of the project; an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and an Artist Fellowship from the City of Santa Monica. These funds plus any others I accrue will be used to adapt the project for the iPad and Android devices and to integrate my data visualization project, The Unemployed into the App.

This artwork continues my investigations into the relationship between hand drawn and computer generated figures and consists of a series of interactive animations where viewers can add figures to the mobile device’s screen and direct their movements and interactions by shaking the device or moving their finger over the screen. Continue reading

SALT presents Becoming Istanbul, 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu :: September 13 - December 31, 2011.

SALT Beyoğlu’s second comprehensive exhibition Becoming Istanbul will be accompanied by parallel programs 90 and The Making Of Beyoğlu. Turkey’s aim to find itself a valid place within the global networks of politics, economy, commerce, culture and tourism has become the burden of İstanbul. The city is promoted to new users, both locally and internationally, with imagery far removed from its actual overall state and infrastructure. SALT Beyoğlu will host three projects that examine İstanbul from different vantage points, attempting to offer a more multifaceted understanding of the city. Continue reading

ISEA Istanbul presents Leaf++ by FakePress Publishing, part of Digitization of Biological Data :: Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011; 2:45 - 4:25 pm :: Sa­banci Cen­ter Room 2, Sa­banci Cen­ter, Lev­ent.

Natural interfaces and cross-medial technologies allow for the creation of new publishing paradigms in which the term book can be disarticulated and rearranged into unexpected forms, fostering new ways of interacting with data and information.

Leaf++ is the product of a research project that goes in this direction in which a prototypal interactive system involving computer vision, gestural interfaces, augmented reality technologies and cross medial systems to create a novel tool to experience botanical information about plants and their leaves. Continue reading