Intact Workshop — Teleshared Actions. Connection and Cognition :: September 23-25, 2011; 10:00 am - 7:00 pm :: Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industria, Gijón, Spain — In collaboration for remote connection: Hangar.org, Barcelona, España.

Teleshared actions are procedures for collaborative creation in real time. The works are produced online between two or more users by means of interactive systems or telepresence. These expanded performative practices generate new spaces, languages and narrative forms. The possibility of the “body-less” message. And all of this founded on a basic concept: transform space into time. The workshop consists of teleshared actions which give an incentive to experimentation and critical reflection in relation to remote communication processes. Continue reading

Waterwheel Launch :: This is a Call for Proposals for performances/ presentations (of 5 minutes each maximum) for the launch of Waterwheel - with a deadline for proposals of August 12, 2011. The entire performance/ presentation program will be no longer than 30-45min.

Waterwheel, a new online platform exploring ‘water’ as a topic and metaphor, will be launched on August 22, in Brisbane (Australia) and will take place live online on the TAP at 6.30 p.m. You can find your time here. Continue reading

Ars Virtua is pleased to announce the opening of look art, an art show in a multi-user dungeon commissioned by Turbulence.org. Featured artists are Thomas Asmuth, Alejo Duque, and Christopher Poff. The artwork represents a conceptual re-interpretation of the portrait through ascii text, a distopian data exchange platform and an interactive artists manifesto.

Receptions are scheduled in the space on July 16, 2011 at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm Pacific time.

You can connect as a visitor via telnet or mud application our server is named turbulence.sjsu.edu and our public port is 2860. Request an account http://bit.ly/look-art-login to have your own login/password. We also have a http to telnet gateway from Mosha.net (works with firefox and IE): connect as visitor, or to connect and enter credentials (your login and password).

For more information “look” at the site on July 13 at 5:00 pm.

Lab to test and explore the online venue TAP :: July 4-8 and 14-15, 2011 :: Call for Participation.

Networked/ telematic/ telepresence performance/ presentation & real time media mixing laboratory exploring & testing the online venue, TAP. Scores/ parameters/ mini-scripts on the theme of water, interaction between webcams & body movements/ voice & media, mixing & layering media (also with webcams), interaction text/ voice/ sound/ chat, interaction online/ onsite spaces with or without projections.

Documentation of previous laboratories on the blog. Continue reading

WATERWHEEL is cranking up for its online launch, August 22, 2011.

Uploading media/data is already possible on the website. Below is a short video showing how to do it on the temporary interface. The July 4-15 laboratory on the TAP will allow people to try not only webcams (which can move, rotate, resize, flip in real time), but also mix & use media palettes, realtime drawing tool & type chat. Details below.

Waterwheel is an online space where you can interact, share, perform and debate about water as a topic and metaphor, with people around the world or right next door! It is cost-free, accessible with just a click, and open to everyone of all ages. It fosters creativity, collaboration and inter-cultural-generational exchange. Continue reading

R-Shief is a digital platform that provides real-time analysis of opinion in the Arab world about late-breaking issues. By using aggregate data from Twitter and the Web, R-Shief can dissect how people in Egypt are reacting to, say, the latest changes to the constitutional process, or how Libyans perceive the presence of NATO forces and Bahrainis perceive the presence of Saudi military, or how the pro-regime supporters in Syria are acting out on social media platforms. We are achieving this through the results of our Pan-Arab Internet aggregator as well as Twitter data mining tools, and by publishing data visualizations based on findings. Continue reading

Limbo is a website and iPhone app that presents and delivers live digital drawings by the artist Simon Faithfull. The iPhone app is free to the first 150 users to download it. Continue reading

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader :: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Institute of Network Cultures, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-78146-13-1, paperback, 385 pages. (download PDF or email books [at] networkcultures.org for a free hard copy):

For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability and accuracy, to unveil the complex, messy, and controversial realities of a distributed knowledge platform. Continue reading

Artvertiser with Julian Oliver and Damian Stewart :: Workshop: May 4-6 and 10-17, 2011 @ Finnish Academy of Fine Art :: Public Presentation/Lecture: May 4 and 17-19 :: Artvertiser Walk: May 7 and 11-13 :: Helsinki, Finland.

The Artvertiser imagines a near-future where advertising in public space can be replaced by art. It is an urban, augmented-reality project, consisting of custom-made handheld binocular devices and specially designed software. The Artvertiser situates the ‘read-only’, proprietary imagery of our public spaces as a ‘read-write’ platform for the presentation of non-proprietary and critically engaging content. During the workshop, participating artists will create visual works to replace urban advertisements in Helsinki. Continue reading

Tracing Mobility – Cartography and Migration in Networked Space @ transmediale, Neu Bar, Greifswalder Str. 218, Berlin :: January 30 — Call for Ideas.

Following events in the UK, Warsaw and the Croatian coast in 2010, Trampoline will present the exhibition, Tracing Mobility – Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in November 2011, alongside an open platform of ideas. The opportunity starts now. On January 30th, during Transmediale’s ‘DAS Weekend’, we invite you to pitch your idea in an informal manner over a drink at Neu Bar. The ‘pitch’ can take the form of a presentation, performance or simply a chat with us. Get in touch with us asap to book a slot or to request further information. Continue reading