P.I.E. (Personal Immersive Environments) :: January 15, 2012; 10:00 am – 4:00 pm :: Machine Project, 1200-D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Join Amy Jo Diaz and Casey Hughes for an afternoon of personal-diorama-making. These dioramas are intended to produce miniature immersive environments using both two and three-dimensional elements and a point-of-view.

The workshop will begin with a brief discussion of dioramas with examples representing the breadth of the medium. The participants will be asked to imagine a context (fictional or not) which they will construct within a provided frame. Continue reading

Live Mashup Performance: Übermahlung und Frottage – Dan Untitled Live :: December 14, 2011; 9:00 pm :: Terrace Bar (Level 1, Garden Club), 13 Dixon Street, Wellington, New Zealand.

Live to-air-set on Radio Active :: December 14, 2011; 5:45 pm (NZ time) :: tune in (88.6FM in Wellington) or stream (radioactive.fm, and comments welcome on @radioactive.fm on facebook)

Dan Untitled’s live mashup act is a bit crazy. Music you can bounce to, but pushing the boundaries of what might seem technically possible - live samples, scratches and fretless bass all at the same time. Continue reading

Charging Bull - Wall Street: an avatar-occupation organized by Jeremy Owen Turner (Canada) and Jacquelene Drinkall (Australia) in Blue Mars Lite (a Mac/PC client which integrates avatars with photos from Google’s map API) :: October 9; 1:00 - 1:30 pm (PST) :: Details here.

A Little Less Conversation: A conference about exhibiting contemporary performance :: October 1, 2011; 1:30 - 4:30 pm :: de Appel arts centre, Auditorium, Temporary Stedelijk 2, Amsterdam :: Reservations required through reservations [at] stedelijk.nl.

A Little Less Conversation will question, in an unusual and dynamic fashion, how contemporary performance art is exhibited. Ephemeral and immaterial in its nature, performance becomes tangible the moment it is exhibited, whether experienced live or through documents. Although it is first and foremost an art of the here and now, the widest access we have to a performance, paradoxically enough, is still based on objects and residual elements such as text, photography, audio or video. Continue reading

remixthebook by Mark Amerika, University of Minnesota Press, September 2011:

A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media

Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art through the mashup.

In remixthebook, Mark Amerika explores the mashup as a defining cultural activity in the digital age. Continue reading

Vacanza! (Holiday!): A Relaxed Augmented Reality Workshop :: April 1-3, 2011 :: @ AHAcktitude, Carrara, Italy. Continue reading

VARIATIONS #6. The Library, a podcast series by Jon Leidecker on the history of appropriative collage RWM MACBA:

In the sixth episode of this series of podcasts, we encounter the establishment of sound libraries, collections explicitly curated for further use: sound objects presented as authorless, unfinished ingredients. Though some libraries contain newly commissioned generic sounds, specifically designed for maximum flexibility, the most widely used sounds are often sourced from commercial recordings, freed from their original context to propagate across dozens to hundreds of songs. From presets for digital samplers to data CD ROMs to hip-hop battle records, sounds increasingly detach from their sources, used less as references to any original moment, and more as objects in a continuous public domain.

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[Image: 'Nine Steps to Collaborative Composites' qthomasbower @flickr] Mashup Cultures, Sonvilla-Weiss. Stefan (Ed.), Springeren: This volume brings together cutting-edge thinkers and scholars together with young researchers and students, proposing a colourful spectrum of media-theoretical, -practical and -educational approaches to current creative practices and techniques of production and consumption on and off the web. Along with the exploration of some of the emerging social media concepts, the book unveils some of the key drivers leading to participatory engagement of the User.

Mashup Cultures presents a broader view of the effects and consequences of current remix practices and the recombination of existing digital cultural content. Continue reading

TODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS is an art project by James Coupe, commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices. The project uses status updates and demographic profiles from Facebook to automatically generate video narratives. Continue reading

[Image: Merry-go-Round by Lily & Honglei] Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds :: Call for Papers — Deadline: August 30, 2010.

Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds. Machinima - referring to “filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies” as well as works which use this animation technique, including videos recorded in computer games or virtual worlds - is challenging the notion of the moving image in numerous media contexts, such as video games, animation, digital cinema and virtual worlds. Continue reading