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

Turbulence Commission: Awkward_NYC / Awkward_Everywhere by Zannah Marsh:

“Awkward_NYC” is now “Awkward_Everywhere.” It is a collaborative online map for reporting social accidents and small interpersonal traumas that occur unexpectedly in public spaces. Anyone can add a story to the map. The map pinpoints sites in the New York Metropolitan or anywhere in the world where misunderstandings, outbursts, physical altercations, arguments between friends or strangers, and romantic spats or break-ups have occurred. It taps into the confessional, voyeuristic, narrative impulses that typify online behavior and subverts the notion of mapping as reductive, objective, and authoritative. As stories are added to the map, a series of data visualizations depicting the emotional terrain of various cities will be generated. 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

MyMirrorCity by Will Pappenheimer (with Manifest.AR, for the Conversations exhibition) :: August 24 - October 21, 2012 :: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Nikolaj Plads 10, Copenhagen, DK - 1067, Denmark.

MyMirrorCity transforms the Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Nikolaj Church building, the surrounding area and as much of Copenhagen as possible into a city of mirrored buildings. Participants take a picture of themselves (or any image of their desire), upload it, and it then appears on every facet of all the buildings around them in augmented reality space. Continue reading

Coming Soon! Explorations in Urban Renewal from the Physical to the Virtual by Stephanie Rothenberg, part of “Art Environment Action!” exhibition :: Opening: September 27, 2012; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s (SJDC), 66 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street), New York. Continue reading

Turbulence Commission: Awkward_NYC by Zannah Marsh :: Participate via the website or twitter, #awkwardnyc:

Awkward_NYC, or “The New York City Map of Awkward Social Interactions in Public Spaces,” is a collaborative online map for reporting social accidents and small interpersonal traumas that occur unexpectedly in public spaces. The map pinpoints sites in the New York Metropolitan area where misunderstandings, outbursts, physical altercations, arguments between friends or strangers, and romantic spats or break-ups have occurred. These mishaps are characteristic of the human urban experience — they’re unsettling, often comic, strangely powerful mini-narratives and dramas that would otherwise go untold, but may linger in memory for months and years, as we move through the same urban landscapes, day in and day out. Continue reading

ReLocate: Community Engagement and Solidarity :: Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska - Call For Civic Media Artist — Deadline: May 28, 2012. Continue reading

Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction with João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Luis Dourado, Mark Aerial Waller, Neïl Beloufa, Neill Blomkamp, Omer Fast, Paweł Althamer, The ARPANET Dialogues, Wanuri Kahiu :: until July 1, 2012 :: Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA, UK.

Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to apply the forms and concerns of science fiction to narratives situated in the African continent. It considers the complex undercurrents for this occurrence in art today, and posits other and possible realities existing simultaneously, via careful re-orientations of tense; elevating the need for vigilance towards the present and future over a concern for the past. Continue reading

Social Media For Urban Research :: March 27, 2012; 6:30 - 8:30 pm :: Studio-X NYC, 180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York City.

Social media are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, from connecting with friends and sharing images to exploring cities through location-based applications. These new services have given us a different vantage point from which to understand, explore, navigate, and geographically record the places we live.

This panel discussion brings together academics, professionals, and journalists who are researching, building, and using social media data to better understand our urban environment. Continue reading

Messages for our Future - Collaborative Digital Art: Japanese Tsunami:

It’s been year since a tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan. And to honor those who are bravely rebuilding their communities, Jason Nelson recently collaborated with a group of students and residents from Tohoku, Japan to create an interactive artwork. Armed with donated cameras, they took hundreds of photos of both the disaster’s aftermath and, more importantly, their hopeful recovery. They then responded to these visions with poetic message. Nelson then compiled these photographs and texts and using an infinitely recombining/ zooming engine, created an interactive mosaic digital artwork.