A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites: Papacharissi, Zizi (Editor), Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo (Introduction by), Routledge:

A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new theory and research on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics addressed include self presentation, behavioral norms, patterns and routines, social impact, privacy, class/ gender/ race divides, taste cultures online, uses of social networking sites within organizations, activism, civic engagement, and political impact.

“The complex and sometimes contradictory phenomena of social media are among the most discussed aspects of digital culture today, and A Networked Self examines these phenomena through a variety of perspectives and approaches from sociology and communication theory. Continue reading

Gap by Dušica Dražić :: June 28 - July 10, 2011 :: 15 Kordunska Street, 5th floor, 0-24h, Zagreb, Croatia.

Today, artist Dušica Dražić starts her two-week performance Gap as part of the eleventh UrbanFestival. She conceptualised Gap as an experiment: she will move into the apartment in 15 Kordunska Street, remove the front door and open the space to everyone – for stopping by, coffee, work or stay; at any time of day, regardless of her presence or absence. In the period from her moving in until July 10, we invite you to visit this neither- private- nor- public space in Kordunska and to spend time in the gap. Continue reading

Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space :: June 9-10, 2011 :: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

Technology is transforming privacy and reshaping what it means to be in public. Our interactions — personal, professional, financial, etc. — increasingly take place online, where they are archived, searchable, and easily replicated. Discussions of privacy often focus solely on the question of how to protect privacy. But a thriving public sphere, whether physical or virtual, is also essential to society. Continue reading

Symposium Datapolis Mark Shepard: Pathetic Fallacies and Category Mistakes from CIANT Prague on Vimeo.

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Upgrade! Paris #44 — Public presentation at the occasion of the exhibition Relaxation situationnelle, with The Wa & Jérôme Fino :: April 27, 2011; 5:00 pm :: Ateliers Lorette, 1 place Lorette – 13002 Marseille.

Technocratic management of public spaces considers the body as an object that interferes with flow regulation. Citizens are patronized, attacked by these anti-ergonomic devices. Space is degrading / degraded. Today, public space ceases to be a shared space. It embodies the violence of powers. — Gilles Paté

The french law of 21 January 1995 laid the foundation for the prevention of malice in the planning and construction. Continue reading

Trevor Paglen: A Hidden Landscape :: April 4-27, 2011 :: Opening: April 4; 7:00 - 10:00 pm :: Aksioma Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Trevor Paglen is going to mark the opening of the new Aksioma Project Space with a very concise exhibition of four projects from his wide-spread artistic research on landscapes and phenomena that are hidden from the public view and work in the heterogeneous interests of the state apparatus. He is going to show a selection from his work Symbology (2006), in which he has collected a wide range of perplexing symbols and insignia that signify secret military operations, various units, command affiliations, and programmes, by which members of these programmes are able to identify one another. Continue reading

Touched: A Space of Relations — Janine Antoni, Lygia Clark, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Annette Messager :: until April 16, 2011 :: bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St., New York NY.

Touched: A Space of Relations explores the sense of touch as a metaphor of bodily presence and an extension across boundary. Actualizing our understandings of public/ private and inside/ outside, touch is a gesture system. It manipulates physical, social, psychological and electronic domains, aiding in their transformation.

Presenting a cross-generational selection of voices, Touched: A Space of Relations includes the work of four prominent artists working in Europe and the Americas. Continue reading

Disclosing The Invisible: Jill Magid and Heath Bunting; Moderator: Huib Haye van der Werf, curator Nederlands Architectuurinstituut :: March 25, 2011; 1:30 pm :: Stedelijk Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam.

WikiLeaks’ recent exertions have revealed that a great deal of information is never made public. Their activities, along with the rapid advances in technology and recently in politics, have resulted in shifts in power relations in the public domain. Governments, private organisations, the media and the public at large are seemingly being obliged to reconsider their roles and tasks. The work of Heath Bunting and Jill Magid centres on notions of power and control, and the ways in which these are underpinned by visibility, invisibility and secrecy. Continue reading

Extimacy: Art, Intimacy And Technology – curated by Pau Waelder, with Gazira Babeli, Clara Boj, Martin John Callanan, Grégory Chatonsky, Diego Díaz, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Laurent Mignonneau, Paul Sermon, Christa Sommerer, Carlo Zanni :: until May 1, 2011 :: Museum Es Baluard, Placa Porta Santa Catalina, 10, 07012 Palma, Spain.

Inside the immense flow of data exchange, the new technologies have facilitated an interdependency between the spheres of what is private and what is public, between interior and exterior, leading us to reveal, in an increasingly natural manner, our experiences, thoughts and feelings, enlarging the circle of intimacy to the point of sharing our inner life with the invisible, abstract audience of Internet users. Continue reading

Public Interfaces — Conference and PhD Workshops :: January 12-14, 2011, Aarhus University, Denmark.

The interface as a cultural paradigm: In the case of computers, interfaces mediate between humans and machines, between machines and between humans. Interfaces thus involve an exchange between data and culture. In this sense, the computer interface can be described as a cultural interface combining cultural content (images, text, movies, sound) with machine/media control (buttons, menus, filters, etc.) and networks (World Wide Web). As such, the interface can be seen as a cultural paradigm affecting not only our creative production and presentation of the world but also our perception of the world. Continue reading