[Image from Perspectives on a Dance in Sol LeWitt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)” by Nell Breyer © 2011 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York] Nell Breyer: Video and Performance Extracts @ ThIStHaT ShoW no.4 and no.5 :: January 13-14, 2012; 8:00 pm :: Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA.

Nell Breyer’s choreography and video installations have been shown in the US, Canada, Europe, the UK and Bangladesh. Her work focuses on the intersection of dance, new media, and visual art. Continue reading

Hypo Chrysos by Marco Donnarumma - a new biomedia performance for enhanced body, interactive multichannel sound and video, Matadac Festival :: December 16. 2011; 8:00 pm :: Auditorium, CaixaForum, Madrid.

Hypo Chrysos is the second piece of a series of bio-interactive works based on the Xth Sense (XS), an open, biophysical and wearable technology I’ve recently developed. The work was composed ad hoc for the Matadac Festival in Madrid, which this year explores the theme of Machines and Flesh. In conjunction with this premiere, I’m teaching a workshop on biophysical generation and control of music and video using the Xth Sense tech.

Bivouac Projects: New Media, Film, And Video :: January 19, 2011 :: 701 Center for Contemporary Art, 701 Whaley Street, Columbia, South Carolina :: Call for Artists Working at the Intersection of Art and Technology - Deadline: December 30, 2011. Continue reading

Webcasts of Media Squares - International Public Seminar on the New Forms of Protest and their Media (hosted by De Balie, Amsterdam, September 30, 2011).

Social protest has become almost inseparably linked to a plethora of media images and messages distributed via internet, mobile phones, social media, internet video platforms and of course traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio and television. A popular category to have emerged recently is the ‘twitter-revolution’. In almost all cases (Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, London) the role of the platform turned out to be less than essential in retrospect. Protests mostly manifested on the streets and particularly the public squares (’Take the Square’). Continue reading

Urban Research 2012 :: February 9–19, 2012 :: Directors Lounge, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7 Berlin / Mitte, Germany :: Open Call For Film And Video Works - Deadline: Dec 20, 2011.

The program Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2012, reaches beyond the genre “city films”. Contemporary artists are engaged in local politics, they are concerned with specific urban problems and developments, and they are directly interacting with the public with performances and public interventions. Continue reading

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Ryan Hughes: We’ve been Re-Distributed :: December 1-16, 2011 :: Opening: November 30; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Artist Talk: December 6; 12:00 pm :: ARTicle Gallery, Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands b3 3bx, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

You can already directly stream video using your laptop or mobile phone, and it is only a matter of time before the constant broadcasting of one’s life becomes as common as email. And this is no new phenomenon or theory. People have been sending comical fragments of their home movies to T.V. clip show You’ve Been Framed since 1990. Continue reading

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WebJs Networked Performance — Hyperactive Lithuanian Artists Make Their Mark In Net Art :: November 18, 2011; 9:00 - 11:00 pm (EET) :: Vilnius Academy of Arts Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, LT-93121 Neringa, Lithuania.

From tackling boring politicians to celebrating fishing trophies, a two month long project has given Lithuanian artists a much-needed boost in net-based art.

WebJs, a mix of eight weeks research, internet folklore and an endless stream of internet data, is the result of a residency programme in Nida Art Colony, supported by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artist’s Association. Continue reading

[Pro-test Lab at the Occupy Boston, Dewey Square, Boston, 2011. Photo by Nomeda Urbonas.] Disobedience Archive Continue reading