The reSource for transmedial culture, a new framework for the transmediale festival, aims to create a distributed platform for networking, curating and research throughout the year 2012 and beyond by envisioning the festival as a peer-production context of sharing knowledge and practices. Continue reading

Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process :: December 7, 2011; 6:00 pm :: EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY :: FREE + Open to the public.

Robert Lue, biologist and director of life sciences education at Harvard, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in both science research and education. Lue is the founder of BioVisions, a collaborative initiative led by Harvard scientists to improve the beauty and precision of science visualization. Continue reading

Call for Papers for Issue No. 1/2012 – Performative Science: Reconciliation of Science and Humanities or the End of Philosophy? Deadline: January 15, 2012.

Studia UBB. Philosophia proposes an international debate on performative aspects in scientific practices and methodology. Whilst there exists a discourse on performativity within social sciences and the humanities for quite some time it is rather new to discuss performative aspects within the „hard“ sciences like physics, too, with Andy Pickering’s Mangle of Practice being a seminal work in this context. In the latter work it has been argued that the concept of performativity can fruitfully be applied to action theoretical considerations in the experimental process. Using the notions of “context of discovery” and “context of justification” introduced by Hans Reichenbach, Pickering’s result might be accepted as an aspect within the context of discovery but incompatible with the context of justification. Continue reading

Notes on a New Nature Curated by Nicholas O’Brien :: November 10-20, 2011 :: Opening: November 10; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York. Continue reading

[Public Movement, 2010. Performance documentation: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon] Positions by Public Movement: (1) November 4, 2011; 1:00 pm :: Washington Square Park :: (2) November 6; 1:00 pm :: Union Square South, New York City.

This November, the action and research group Public Movement will present Positions, a choreographed demonstration that invites people to take a stand on any number of urgent issues. Presented in Warsaw, Holon, Bat-Yam, Eindhoven, Heidelberg, Stockholm, and now New York, the Movement invites the public to embody their preferences, aspirations, and beliefs — manifesting political and philosophical ideas as physical positions in Washington Square Park and Union Square South. This will be Public Movement’s first presentation in the United States. Continue reading

Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 17 Issue 1: MISH MASH, August 2011.

Transmediation as Betrayal: The Case of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Editorial by Lanfranco Aceti: When inheriting the history of a publication like the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) it is difficult to stay faithful to historical traditions and at the same time catch up with the evolution of contemporary online media and social networks.

Academic Vanitas: Michael Aurbach and Critical Theory by Dorothy Joiner: In a satiric series of sculptures, Michael Aurbach uses laughter to lampoon the excesses of the contemporary scholarship known as critical theory. Spun from psychology, linguistic hermeneutics, and philosophy, critical theory, in Aurbach’s view, tends to deemphasize art objects, substituting fatuous speculations for straightforward analysis. Continue reading

City as Studio, Edition 2: Call for Proposals — Deadline: August 30, 2011.

The Sarai Programme at Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice (CSDS), Delhi is an interdisciplinary platform for the investigation and interpretation of contemporary urban life. Sarai produces events and processes, publishes offline and online content and generates contexts for research and creative practice.

The Sarai Programme, in keeping with its history of support to independent thinking and creativity, invites applications from artists and practitioners in diverse media for the second edition of the City as Studio project, which seeks to bring contemporary artistic and cultural practice into the contentious, active space of today’s urbanity. Continue reading

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data. Continue reading

Unlike Us – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives: Proposal for a research network, a series of events and a reader [Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol)]

The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on ‘alternatives in social media’. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software. Continue reading

RAM (Random Access Memory) SEGMENT I — shift from a permanent state of saving to a permanent state of transmission :: June 25-26, 2011; 5:00 - 10:00 pm :: MicaMocaProject, Lindower Str. 22, 13347 Berlin.

RAM travels back and forth in time finding artistic, technical, theoretical, psychological, sociological, philosophical, political, retrospective and futuristic approaches. RAM applies them to the growing collection and overlays of materialized data.

RAM creates an environment using reconfiguration, memory testing, visualization, research, transforming, transmitting and linking stored data information. Continue reading