Radars & Fences III: Borders, Affect, Space — A symposium with Ricardo Dominguez & Amy Carroll, Teddy Cruz, Helga Tawil Souri, Laila el Haddad & Mushon Zer-Aviv :: March 12, 2010; 9:30 am - 5:00 pm :: Hemispheric Institute, 20 Cooper Square - 5th Floor, New York, NY :: Please RSVP.

Radars and Fences 2010 will explore the production of the Israel/ Palestine and Mexico/ US borders, examining how they engage affects, bodies, and spatial scales. Despite their seemingly confounding specificities, it is our intention to open up a dialogue between these borders in order to enable new terms of practical and political engagement. By bringing this plurality of perspectives into dialogue around the themes of affect and space, we hope to reinvigorate critical analysis of the border in all of its (im)materialities and locations.

City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community :: June 11–13 & 19, 2010 :: Invitation to Submit Proposals — Deadline: March 1, 2010 [Application Form]

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression. Continue reading

VOLUME Magazine #22: The Guide + Beyroutes Launch Event :: December 22, 2009; 5:00 - 7:00 pm :: Athenaeum News Centre, Spui, Amsterdam.

Guiding – as it is commonly understood – is not about creating; it’s about helping. The guide has no goal other than to lead someone safely to the destiny of their choice. The guide is skilled; he or she actually can lead the way, but does so without ambition beyond delivering quality service. The guide sells safety where risk is involved.

With The Guide, VOLUME presents a diverse collection of guides and attempts to guide. From strange maps, bike tours and magnetic navigation belts to the conception of Paris’ 13th arrondissement as a series of islands; here, the guide is understood as not simply a service or selling point, but as an exploratory tool, a generator for a proactive engagement with the city. Continue reading

TEH Plot by Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook :: until January 22, 2010 :: FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer Street M1, Boston, MA.

TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in research, displaced communication, simulation, nature/culture, and geography. TEH is currently examining weather as a shared experience/vocabulary, and presents this research through installation and technologically mediated experience.

TEH plot is a Summer Scene in Boston and includes: generated cicadas, liquid fresh cut grass, Meatballs glitch, and responsive cluster lighting… amongst other Summery components.

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) presents
The Aesthetic Compass. Human Geography and its Reverberations in Art with contributions by Jeremy Beaudry, Sherif El Azma, Bassam El Baroni, Nida Ghouse and Yaiza Hernández Velázquez :: December 12, 2009; 4:00 - 7:30 pm :: Manifesta 8, Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería, Pabellón 5, C/ Madre Elisea Oliver Molina, s/n 30002 – Murcia, Spain.

ACAF will concentrate on the recent borrowing of methodologies and discourses from the field of human geography within contemporary art production and theorization. ACAF curators Bassam El Baroni and Jeremy Beaudry will publicly auction off a number of generic prototypical projects that deal with notions of human geography and cultural dialogue in order to expose what the various concepts embedded in human geography offer to artists and curators. Continue reading

Almost Perfect Co-production Residency: Call for Applications — Deadline: December 5, 2009.

The Banff New Media Institute’s Almost Perfect Co-production Residency aims to explore location-based artwork and the repercussions of producing work for place. This annual, concentrated, experimental prototyping lab explores the creation and context of location.

The massive scale of Banff National Park’s Rocky Mountains and the expanse of the Great Plains to the east provide a unique opportunity to un-tether from the usual coordinates of place. Geographies of time, scale, and great disruption lay exposed, lending themselves to the call and response of technology and nature. Continue reading

AVANT-GUIDE TO NYC: Discovering Absence :: November 4 - December 19, 2009 :: Opening: November 4, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: 291 Church Street, New York City.

Including work by: Julieta Aranda, caraballo-farman, Kabir Carter, Dexter Sinister, Eckhard Etzold, Andrea Geyer, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Pia Lindman, Anna Lundh, Nina Katchadourian, Carlos Motta, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Katya Sander, Ward Shelley, Xaviera Simmons, and Alex Villar. Curated by Sandra Skurvida.

This exhibition is a viewfinder trained onto the specific sites of the cultural fabric of New York City. The past, represented by the memory imprint of an artistic activity that occurred at a certain site, is “covered” by a current artwork focused on the same site. Through this double take, the past and the present collapse onto each other on a city map. Continue reading

3rd Riwaq Biennale 2009 presents A Geography: 50 Villages :: October 12 - 16, 2009 :: Riwaq, Nablus Road, El Sharafeh, Al Bireh, Palestine :: Opening: October 12; 9:30 am — Birzeit University :: Reception: October 12; 6:00 pm — Birzeit Historic Centre.

Can a biennale be a biennale in a state that is not a state? In a place that is so overwhelmed with visual realities? What if this idea can be understood as an artwork itself, leaving room to speculate on its own conception, validity and continuity?

These are just a few of the questions posed by the 3rd Riwaq Biennale, which forms itself first and foremost around a conceptual art project introduced by the artist Khalil Rabah. Continue reading

Incident.net & La Chambre Blanche are pleased to announce the creation
of an art in residence program, based on the theme Variable Geographies. This program, in two sessions (2009-2010 & 2010-2011), will allow 12 artists from France and Canada to produce internet and network art pieces.

The call for residencies’ deadline is the 30th September and must be send by mail only, compressed (.zip or .sit), at both addresses: geo [at] incident.net, production [at] chambreblanche.qc.ca. Continue reading

Local Report is the latest in a series of communication media works that Robert Whitman has produced since 1972.

The basic structure of these works was for 30 people assigned to different parts of the city or calling area to call at five minute intervals and describe something they saw at the moment; these reports were then broadcast live. Whitman put the incoming calls directly on the air as they came in, his only intervention being to end the call when, as he puts it, “The caller has produced a coherent image.” Ninety calls over a thirty minute period produced the final work. The news reports capture the nature of a specific place and time, revealing it to audience and participants alike. Continue reading