Project 929: Mapping the Solar — Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention by Joseph DeLappe :: May 19-29, 2013 :: LIVE STREAM. Continue reading

{Crowdsourced} Noir / Love Beyond Recognition — Josefina Posch in collaboration with Mike Blackman :: September 8, 2012; 12:00 - 6:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavillion, Finsbury Park, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Come and help Swedish artist Josefina Posch and her UK collaborator and new media artist Mike Blackman shape the interactive, live stream project to be shown at Furtherfield Gallery in December. Join our drop-in “clipsourcing” workshop and use our computer application specifically created for the project to rate short movie clips from a Film Noir archive of stylish Hollywood crime dramas from the 1940-50s. Continue reading

The Tanks: Fifteen Weeks of Art in Action :: until October 28, 2012 :: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, United Kingdom.

Converted from the former oil tanks of Bankside Power Station, the Tanks at Tate Modern have been specially designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron to showcase live art, installation, and the moving image.

Over a period of fifteen weeks this summer, these stunning, raw industrial spaces are launched with a new commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim, a pair of collection displays featuring two new acquisitions — Suzanne Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt (1985–87) and Lis Rhodes’ Light Music (1975) — and Art in Action, a rolling festival of performance and film projects by over 40 established and emerging artists from around the world. Continue reading

Live Notation Unit Symposium and Performances: Live artists and live coders, working towards live notation :: July 27, 2012; 2:00 - 9:30 pm :: Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA.

The Live Notation Unit (LNU) takes over the Arnolfini for a day using its spaces as an experimental laboratory in which to combine two radical performance practices: Live Art and Live Coding.

The LNU will approach programming as performance art, performance art notation as code, code as speech, bodies as interpreters, and more. Continue reading

Live Visuals For Performance, Gaming, Installation, And Electronic Environments - Leonardo Electronic Almanac :: Call for Papers — Deadline: September 1, 2012.

Key advancements in real-time graphics and video processing over the past five years have resulted in broad implications for a number of academic, research and commercial communities. They enabled interaction designers, live visualists (VJs), game programmers, and information architects to utilize the power of advanced digital technologies to model, render and effect visual information in real-time. Continue reading

ACT 5 IS NOW LIVE! Turbulence Commission: We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation In 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield:

We Ping Good Things To Life is an ever evolving and expanding interactive networked installation that brings together elements of Toy Theater, Vaudeville performance, Surrealism, and consumer culture. Users can activate dozens of store-bought, found, and donated objects to create a unique performance, alone or with others, via the live streaming video feed.

Inspired by the work of friend and artist Jarvis Rockwell, Act 1: Remember When We Used to Have Fun? explores the hidden lives of toys. Continue reading

Jennifer and Kevin Mccoy: Index :: until October 13, 2012 :: EMPAC, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York.

Index is an EMPAC-commissioned public art installation by Rensselaer Arts alumni Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which consists of multiple sculptures filmed via small, live cameras. The resulting video projection, as well as the models, will appear throughout our public spaces during an extended residency with the artists.

Inspired by a J.G. Ballard short story called The Index, in which an alphabetized list of people and places are turned into an implied, overarching narrative, the McCoys’ list spans the 1960s to today, referencing globalization, technology, mass migrations, and war. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation In 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield:

We Ping Good Things To Life is an ever evolving and expanding interactive networked installation that brings together elements of Toy Theater, Vaudeville performance, Surrealism, and consumer culture. Users can activate dozens of store-bought, found, and donated objects to create a unique performance, alone or with others, via the live streaming video feed.

Inspired by the work of friend and artist Jarvis Rockwell, Act 1: Remember When We Used to Have Fun? explores the hidden lives of toys. Continue reading

Audience as Subject, Part 2: Extra Large :: February 18 – May 27, 2012 :: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco CA.

Audience as Subject is a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. It includes artworks that illuminate audiences as collective bodies as well as the individuals who comprise them. It asks: What is the civic potential implied by different publics? Continue reading

Decode/Recode: Celebrate 100 Years of Alan Turing: We invite you to collaborate in a globally networked interactive event to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, as part of the official opening of the University of Salford building at MediaCity on 23rd March 2012. As part of this significant event we will be connecting for 24 hours with 24 partners worldwide for a live digital media jam. Continue reading