In Lieu of Unity / En lugar de la unidad with Eduardo Abaroa, Margarita Cabrera; Livia Corona; Minerva Cuevas; Mario García Torres, Máximo González, Paulina Lasa, Teresa Margolles, Pedro Reyes and Tercerunquinto :: March 26 – August 15, 2010 :: Opening Reception: March 26; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Ballroom Marfa, 108 E. San Antonio
 Street, Marfa, TX.

In Lieu of Unity brings together artists from Mexico – citizens, residents and emigrants – who have sustained a curiosity about social relations in their art practices. Their focus demonstrates that the nature of existence is contingent not merely on the cognizance of being, but more so on the relationships between individuals and the collectives they form. Continue reading

Tuvalu Visualization Project is an art project visualizing information of Tuvalu on Google Earth. This project has been executed as a joint research of NPO Tuvalu Overview and Hidenori Watanave Laboratory @ Tokyo Metropolitan University from September 2008.

It is said that Tuvalu is exposed to danger of going under water by sea level rising because of global warming. However, we suppose that it is important to understand not only the problem of global warming, but also the real situation of Tuvalu. The Internet is an effective tool for collecting information, but it was difficult to obtain information of the real situation of Tuvalu from the Internet. Continue reading

Hyde Park Visual History Project - Project Premiere :: October 17, 2009; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: Hyde Park Drive In - Route 9 - Hyde Park, NY.

The Hyde Park Visual History Project, developed by artist Matthew Slaats, is a community centered artistic project that engages the elaborate evolution of the local landscape and its inhabitants through images and sound.

Conceived as a public art installation, the Hyde Park Visual History Project serves as a dynamic meeting point for the community, the arts, and the history of Hyde Park, New York. By gathering visual and auditory material from local residents, the project uses a community centered approach to understanding the complexity of context in America. Continue reading

Cristian Bettini (a.k.a. P.ankh): Donkijote.org — Once upon this time there was a clever donkey with its digital armour and its errant knights… :: September 24 - November 1, 2009 :: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain.

Donkijote.org, the winning entry of the open competition Digital_LAB 2009, is an analogue/digital project that will gather data using altogether innovative techniques during four journeys taken by the artist Cristian Bettini (a.k.a. P.ankh) and the donkey Minuto through different areas of Asturias. The donkey will operate as a living interface equipped with digital hardware such as a GPS, a mobile Internet connection, a computer, a camera and a video camera with which it will create a memory of Asturias, producing and collecting information, re-mapping the territory and geo-categorising knowledge. Continue reading

סיור בעזה דרך רחובות תל אביב | You Are Not Here (Gaza) :: September 10 - 25, 2009 :: 61 Eilat Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

A new edition of the You Are Not Here tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv will be launched as a part of the ArtTLV biennial celebrating the 100th year of Tel Aviv.
With the help of a two sided map, a cellular phone and the Israeli electricity company’s pole numbering system, Palestinian blogger Laila El-Haddad guides us on a tour of Gaza, walking through the streets of Tel-Aviv. More details here.

בעזרת מפה דו צדדית, טלפון סלולרי ומערכת מיספור העמודים של חברת החשמל, הבלוגרית הפלסטינית לילא אל-חדד מובילה אותנו בעיר עזה תוך הליכה ברחובות תל-אביב. פרטים נוספים ב: http://www.youarenothere.org

بمساعدة خريطة ذو وجهين وهاتف خليوي ونظام ترقيم عمدان شركة الكهرباء الاسرائلية ، المدونة الفلسطينية ليلى الحداد تقودنا في جولة في غزة بينما نسير في شوارع تل أبي

Lecture by Dina A.Ramadan :: August 2, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), 10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt.

Dina A. Ramadan’s contribution to ‘A.K.A. EDUCATION?’ will examine the role that art education has historically played in producing artists and imagining art audiences in Egypt. That the dominant narrative of the ‘birth’ of modern Egyptian art history is so indebted to the existence of an academic institution- the founding of the School of Fine Arts in Cairo by Prince Yusuf Kamal in 1908- is by no means coincidental, but in fact extremely telling. A mapping of multiple ways in which this educational project manifests itself therefore becomes particularly pertinent. Continue reading

Where We Are Now Issue #1: The Aesthetics and Politics of Intimacy :: Launch Celebration and Performance/reading by Jill Magid and Eddie Vas: June 25, 2009; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: The New School, Vera List Courtyard, 66 West 12th Street, NYC.

Where We Are Now (WWAN) is an open and loosely organized platform with the mission to illuminate, deepen and amplify the discourse around an aesthetic practice with political content in New York City. For the inaugural issue of its online journal, WWAN examines the aesthetics and politics of intimacy through essays, projects, legal cases, and interdisciplinary research by a select group of artists and cultural practitioners. Continue reading

Memory Landscape by Gregory Chatonsky — A project for The Waterpod (see description and dates below): Throughout the city, metal plates are fixed on walls. On it is written a phone number followed by to figures. If we call the number, we can leave a message on an answering machine and describe what we see in front of us. We can also listen to other people’s messages describing the place we are standing at right now. On the internet, a dynamic map of the city allows us to surf through this body of urban voices.

New York–based photographer and sculptor Mary Mattingly has designed The Waterpod, a floating eco-habitat that recalls the work of Buckminster Fuller, Andrea Zittel, and Constant Nieuwenhuis. Continue reading

Creative Time presents PLOT09: This World & Nearer Ones :: Summer 2009 :: Opening Reception: June 27; 2:00 - 4:00 pm :: Governors Island, NYC (free Ferry).

PLOT: This World & Nearer Ones — curated by Mark Beasley and produced in association with Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, the National Parks Service, New York & Company, and the Office of the Mayor — will intervene in the architectural and natural fabric of the island, transforming its historic buildings and vast lawns, from the iconic Fort Jay to St. Cornelius Chapel through installation, performance, video, and auditory works — inviting audiences to reconsider the island’s past and future. Continue reading

Simply Screen: In-Betweeners of Asia :: Call for Lens-Based Art — Deadline: June 15, 2009 :: Award: 2400 EUR + full tuition scholarship to attend Transart Institute Summer Certificate Program 2009 + Berlin Screening venue: Tanzfabrik Berlin.

This is a call for lens-based artists working in film, video or animation, who deal with issues of in-betweenness and hybridisation in the context of Asia. Simply Screen relates to the course Dichotomy, Diversity, Discourse: Art on the Pacific Rim of the 2009 Transart Institute Summer Residency. Continue reading