Video Vortex Reader II :: Call for Contributions — DEADLINE: May 10, 2010.

In response to the increasing potential for video as a significant form of personal media on the Internet, the Video Vortex program examines key issues that are emerging around the independent production and distribution of online video content. With the rise of YouTube and alternative platforms, the moving image on the Internet has become expansively more prominent and popular. As a wide range of technologies is now broadly available, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has reached a totally new dimension. Continue reading

The Studio: 19 Years + The Power Tool by Jon Brunberg :: February 25 - March 21, 2010 :: Opening and Conversation (Jon Brunberg & Catrin Lundqvist @ 6:15): February 25; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Moderna Museet, Box 16382, 10327 Stockholm, Sweden.

The Power Tool is an internet-based art work that offers you the possibility to measure your individual power. The piece is process-based and in continuous progress. Jon Brunberg has sharpened the tool for this exhibition, for its visitors, and their decisions regarding their own power. Continue reading

Arrested Time by Nathaniel Stern with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger — An exhibition of works combining contemporary technologies with traditional drawing and printmaking methods curated by Jo-Anne Green :: February 27 - April 3, 2010 :: Opening Reception: February 27; 5:30 - 8:30 pm :: Greylock Arts, 93 Summer Street, Adams MA.

Nathaniel Stern’s Given Time simultaneously activates and performs two permanently logged-in Second Life avatars, each forever and only seen by and through the other. They hover in mid-air, almost completely still, gazing into one another’s interface. Viewers encounter this networked partnership as a diptych of large-scale (8 feet tall) and facing video projections in a real world gallery, both exhibiting a live view of one avatar, as perceived by the other. Continue reading

Para/Site Art Space is honored to present two exhibitions in its Hong Kong Venue: FAX & Move On Asia: The End of Video Art. These exhibitions are the result of collaborations between Para/Site Art Space and iCI/The Drawing Center (New York) and LOOP Alternative Space (Seoul).

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Faxes by nearly 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center will form the core of the exhibition, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. Each institution on the tour will invite up to twenty additional artists to submit works, which will be presented at all successive venues. Continue reading

For Nothing by Pedro Torres :: January 7-17, 2010 :: AntiFrame - Independent Curating Project, Apartado 108, 2736-180 Cacem, Portugal.

Pedro Torres presents at Round Corner, the sound-installation For Nothing, based on the work by Samuel Beckett Texts For Nothing.

Pedro Torres entices us to hear voices that plunge into the emptiness. Murmured vocal blows. Spoken murmurs, whispered, hard to save. Like the sound. Like every other voices we hear and don’t want to hear, the inner voices that usually chase us and betray us too often. Is there infinitude of muted sounds that elude us: either because we don’t pay them the due attention or just because our hearing ability is formatted between the 20 hertz and 20 kilohertz? Continue reading

One Part Human :: January 9 - February 13, 2010 :: Opening: January 9; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, New York City.

One Part Human brings together artists who explore the tension between human and technological capabilities in today’s scientific society. The exhibition includes two remarkable motorized sculptures by Canadian artists who have not exhibited previously in New York: Perfect Vehicle by Simone Jones and Robotic Chair conceived by visual artist Max Dean and realized in collaboration with Raffaello D’Andrea and Matt Donovan. Brian Knep, an artist in residence at Harvard Medical School, will exhibit photography and high definition video related to the microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most studied multi-cellular organisms in the world Continue reading

PlayLab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games :: January 21-24 + February 4-7, 2010 :: Medialab-Prado, Plaza de las Letras, Calle Alameda, 15, 28014 Madrid :: Call for Collaborators for Selected Projects — Deadline for Registrations: January 20, 2010.

Collaborators can join any of the developing teams that will carry out the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the same time learning from the other group members and from the leading tutors: Mar Canet, Antonin Fourneau, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Directed by Flavio Escribano. Continue reading

MindTouch by Camille Baker — part of Unity Exhibition 09 :: December 17, 2009; 5:30 - 6:30 pm :: London University and online.

Come and play with your mobile phone or join us online. Making live, collaborative streaming video collages/ mixes, you can VJ with your friends remotely and stream the mix back to your phone… with your smartphone, vj with the world!!

There will be two groups live in London and the remote online or mobile participants. The live setting is a party context and the remote group can see what’s going on through the live mixed videos or contribute your own.

Digicult DATA - Sincronie Festival 2009 curated by Marco Mancuso :: December 15, 2009 — Lecture by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfand: 7:30 – 8:30 pm :: Screening of Hidden Worlds: 9:00 – 10:00 pm :: screening :: Performance by 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid: 10:00 - 11:00 pm :: Teatro Arsenale, Milan.

Digimag presents DATA, the third meeting of the Sincronie Festival of 2009. The event will be an encounter with two Soviet artists, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, who will talk about their artistic production on the brink between art and science, and will exhibit their live performance 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid. The event will be enriched by the projection of the video screening Hidden Worlds, where a series of audiovisual works have been selected that investigate the relationship between audiovisuals and science. Continue reading

MindTouch by Camille Baker, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute:

The intention of this project is to contribute to performance technology studies by investigating ‘liveness and presence’ within the context of a specific networked, mobile media performance research project, currently underway, in order to uncover any new understandings that may have emerged from the use of new wireless and mobile technologies.

This project explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying “liveness” within mobile networked environments. Continue reading