The School of Art at The Cooper Union and Danspace Project present Deborah Hay: A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty :: March 24, 2010; 7:00 pm :: The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC :: Free admission.

A Lecture on the Performance of Beauty is a performative talk framed around the question “can a formal and stimulating adherence to a prescribed set of hypothetical conditions be seen as choreography even if there is no learned movement?” Hay was a member of a group of experimental artists that was deeply influenced by Merce Cunningham and John Cage. The group, later known as the Judson Dance Theater, became one of the most radical and explosive 20th century art movements. Her ground breaking research and performances continue to influence new generations of artists throughout the world today. Continue reading

RHA Presents Critique of Archival Reason featuring Herman Asselberghs, Jeremiah Day, Cecilia Gronberg (in collaboration with Jonas (J) Magnusson), Shoji Kato, Irene Kopelman, and Sean Snyder :: Curated by Henk Slager :: February 19 - March 13, 2010 :: Opening: February 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: GradCAM, Royal HIbernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

The concept of archive naturally seems to evoke an image of control and survey. For example, in The Order of Things, Foucault has described the archive as a system introducing order, meaning, boundaries, coherence and reason into what is disparate, confused, and contingent. Continue reading

The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance presents the 2010 DOCAM Summit (March 3-5), which will mark the end of five years of research. DOCAM is an international research alliance initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Its main objective is to develop new methodologies and tools to address the issues of preserving and documenting digital, technological, and electronic works of art.

The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together artists, researchers, students and museum practitioners (conservators, curators, technicians, etc.) in order to expose and explore the issues raised by current research. At this occasion, DOCAM will launch its new website, featuring the following main research results: Continue reading

Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory presents If You Lived Here Still… An archive project by Martha Rosler :: January 17 – March 14, 2010 :: Opening: January 16; 5:00 pm :: Open forum: January 17; 2:00 - 5:00 pm :: Nieuwekade 213-215, 3511RW Utrecht, The Netherlands.

In 1989-1991, artist Martha Rosler organized her project ‘If You Lived Here…’ at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City. ‘If You Lived Here…’ was a seminal group project on housing, homelessness and the systems and conditions underlying them such as gentrification, bureaucratic complicity or non-compliance and increasing privatisation of the public sector. It took a radical approach toward art and institutions of that time, in a mode that might be called cross-disciplinary and “participatory”. 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.

MindTouch by Camille Baker, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute:

The intention of this project is to contribute to performance technology studies by investigating ‘liveness and presence’ within the context of a specific networked, mobile media performance research project, currently underway, in order to uncover any new understandings that may have emerged from the use of new wireless and mobile technologies.

This project explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying “liveness” within mobile networked environments. Continue reading

In a wilderness at the heart of Berlin a strange apparition has landed. Simon Faithfull’s Mobile Research Station no.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster. Using a standard building-waste container as its basis, the station nevertheless forms a luxurious designer-pod provided for an eccentric set of researchers. Rather than researching the frozen wastes of Antarctica or the moons of Saturn, the invited artist/researchers have begun their investigation into the surrounding wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin. There initial findings and questions can be found in this blog as and when they happen. Continue reading

Read | Write The Learning Screen by Greg Ulmer — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: Networked art, new media innovations, and the Internet as a cultural phenomenon in general are manifestations of a civilizational shift in the apparatus (social machine) from literacy to electracy. The historical analogy (grammatology) with the previous (and still ongoing) shift from orality to literacy shows that the shift is gradual, with many transitional features, but ultimately produces a new dimension of experience in every area of the lifeworld (technology, institutions, individual and collective identity behavior). This essay addresses the situation of teaching electracy in a literate institution, describing a pedagogy for bootstrapping literate practices into an electrate skillset. What is the fundamental practice (logic, rhetoric, poetics) of thinking and communicating native to online learning? Continue reading

Founded by artists Tapio Makela and Marko Peljhan, M.A.R.I.N. Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network is a mobile residency programme set on board a catamaran sailboat, redesigned and equipped to be a sustainable environment for transdisciplinary research in arts, sciences and technology.

For their maiden voyage M.A.R.I.N. will sent sail on an 11-week long residency on the Irish Sea, starting from ISEA2009 in Belfast and traveling down the coast of Cumbria to Liverpool. Mapping marine ecology along the Northwest coastline, using sensors and a small field laboratory and combining maritime history, interviews, and public workshops. Continue reading

folly, Art Locates Me and the Forestry Commission, Grizedale are collaborating to create a unique residential opportunity for a group of young carers from across Cumbria to engage with digital technology, sustainable energy and the forest environment.

The partnership is inviting expressions of interest from artists to participate in 3 days research and development from November 6 - 8, 2009 at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria. The remit for the 3 days is to consult with the partner organisations and the group of young carers to develop ideas for creating and installing digital art in Grizedale Forest on a temporary basis.

These ideas will be used to create Pod Camp, a series of residential opportunities for the artist and young people to develop the ideas further. Pod Camp will be launched in April 2010 and will take place at Grizedale Forest as part of the Abandon Normal Devices festival. Continue reading