Turbulence Commission: Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise by Jason Nelson [Needs speakers/headphones]:

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is an art/ poetry/ adventuring game, a playland for exploring our ever-present desire for constant and over-blown rewards. Our worlds (digital and breathing) are filled with needless and unearned praise, we are built to love exploding trophies for fifth place. This art/poetry game satisfies your compliment addiction by celebrating your walking/ jumping/ falling through strange and wondrous anatomical lands.

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is a 2013 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Continue reading

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. receives two National Endowment for the Arts grants to support Turbulence.org :: Grants two of 817 NEA Art Works grants totaling $26.3 million in funding nationwide:

New York — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive NEA Art Works grants. NRPA is recommended for two grants totaling $47,000 to support commissioning new work for Turbulence.org and for continuing to archive Turbulence.org at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media, Cornell University. Continue reading

JODI: “goodmorning goodnight” :: A new project in the Sunrise/Sunset series @ sunset or sunrise, New York time (Next Sunset: 5:54 PM Next Sunrise: 6:20 AM): Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Panemoticon by Ali Miharbi and John Priestley [Needs Firefox (16 or later recommended), headphones/speakers, mouse/trackpad]:

We know how you feel. Panemoticon observes your behavior, makes a few inferences about your emotional state, and plays music to match your mood. Your mouse/trackpad use says a lot about your energy level, confidence, and perceived control over your environment. Panemoticon tracks and analyzes these data to create an image of your mood, and then generates music, adjusting properties such as tonality (major/minor), harmonic & rhythmic complexity, tempo, timbre, and proximity. Collective mood is calculated for all Panemoticon users on a given site. Continue reading

[Internet Cache Self Portrait: July 17, 2012, Evan Roth, 2012] Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age — Curated by Domenico Quaranta :: October 18 – November 4, 2012 :: Opening: October 18; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age is an attempt to show how art responds to the information society. The last decade has witnessed an incredible growth in the production and distribution of images and cultural contents. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Crow Sourcing by Andy Deck:

How does the crow fly? Eager beaver, take the bull by the horns. Talk turkey and get on your high horse. Clear up the hogwash contributed by the birdbrains. Monkey around and make them eat crow. If you know a hawk from a handsaw, or have the memory of an elephant, well then, make a bee-line for the website and separate the sheep from the goats until you’re dog tired. It’s the cat’s meow. Crow Sourcing engages collective memory and insight to demystify and reanimate a dizzying array of sayings, idioms, and expressions that will be discussed and collected via Web, mobile, and social media until the end of 2012. The results will then be presented as printed matter. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Memorial Project for Jobbers’ Canyon Built with ConAgra Products by Nicholas O’Brien [Best viewed in Chrome, Firefox or Safari]

Memorial Project for Jobbers’ Canyon Built with ConAgra Products pays homage to lost architectural treasures. In 1989 ConAgra, the second largest agricultural distributor in the United States, began building its new corporate headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. In the process, twenty-four buildings over six city blocks were demolished. The district, known as Jobbers’ Canyon, was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places and is considered the largest lost site on record. Using preserved records and architectural drawings O’Brien has ‘rebuilt’ ten of the buildings, substituting the original construction materials with products distributed by ConAgra. Continue reading

[Gustavo Romano, 'The IP Poetry Project', automatic poetry generating software, computer monitors, 2006] Speed Show: Public Access with Natalie Bookchin, Double Happiness, Parker Ito, Geraldine Juarez, Caleb Larsen, Kristin Lucas, Eduardo Navas, Jon Rafman, Gustavo Romano, River of the Net, Brad Troemel, Jonathan Vingiano :: June 12, 2012 ;4:30 - 9:00 pm :: Living Space Internet Café, 1 Coral Street, London, SE1 7BE, United Kingdom.

Public Access is an exhibition of Internet-based works by a group of artists originating from the Americas. It presents a selection of works by artists who address the nature of public participation and relational platforms. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Searching for Michelle/SFM by Maja Kalogera [Best experienced in Opera and Firefox; also viewable in the newest versions of Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Needs Speakers/Headphones]:

Searching for Michelle/SFM is a networked, non-linear narrative. It begins as a search for a lost painting, then loses itself and finds itself once more, exploring ideas drawn from interface design, new media theory and film noir along the way.

Searching for Michelle/SFM is a 2012 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Continue reading

The Baltic Goes Digital Call for Submissions - Deadline: June 15, 2012.

The Baltic Goes Digital is an open contest for artworks that utilize web-based, mobile or locative media to create a vision of an imaginary, non-existent ‘Baltic City’.

The contest is organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdansk and the Gdansk City Gallery as part of the international ART LINE project, which is co-financed with funds from the European Regional Development Fund operating within the South Baltic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013.

The contest is aimed at artists and people interested in its subject-matter – i.e. graphic artists, designers, architects, programmers – from the Baltic states (Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia). Continue reading