[Image: COP19, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, 2013. Photo: Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.] Anthropocene Observatory by Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog), Armin Linke, and Anselm Franke :: February 7 – April 26, 2015 :: Opening: February 6, 6:00 pm :: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Lange Nieuwstraat 4, 3512 PH Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Anthropocene Observatory is a research exhibition and discursive space that proposes to rethink the contemporary world through the prism of the “Anthropocene thesis.” The Anthropocene is understood as an epoch in geological chronology during which the global impact of human activities is inscribed onto planet Earth. Continue reading

Sensate Journal For Experiments In Critical Media Practice :: Call For Submissions - Deadline: September 30, 2012.

Sensate is a new online interdisciplinary journal publishing works of critical media practice. It is currently accepting submissions from academics, scientists and artists interested in working on collaborative projects which cross the boundaries between research and making.

Building on the groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice, we believe in creating a space for redefining the terms in which such collaborations can be presented, articulating modes of working that are derived from artistic practice with revised standards for peer-reviewed academic production. Continue reading

Digital Manual: Authority, Authorship and Voice: The project looks at how the Digital Manual can be a paradigm for exploring multi-authorship, co-creation and publication in other digitised textual forms as well as how it can have relevance to the analogue book and serve as a premise to learn valuable lessons. Continue reading

Proof-of-Process :: June 5-10, 2012; 12:00 - 6:00 pm :: Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova, Vancouver, Canada. Continue reading

Videobrasil em Contexto Prize — Residency for Visual Artists with a Research-based Practice :: Open Call — Deadline: June 4, 2012. Continue reading

by Jen Rhee, via: Open-Site.org

Artists-in-Labs: Networking in the Margins, Jill Scott (Editor):

Networking in the Margins is about sharing information in the margins where immersive learning can expand the exact sciences and demand a more robust level of dialogue from the humanities and the arts. At base of these margins, sits an attitude, which values mixed levels of fantasy, reality and logic and accepts unexpected results. Therefore, this new edition will feature how the AIL artists from the disciplines of sculpture, installation, performance and sound and AIL partner scientists from the disciplines of physics, computer technologies, environmental ecology and cognitive analysis have complimented each others research from 2006 to 2009. While scientists have certainly learnt about art, artists have become more involved in ethical and social debates about scientific discovery in relation to society. Continue reading

Video Vortex #8: The Politics, Cultures and Art of Online Video :: May 17-19, 2012 :: The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia.

Video Vortex has taken place twice in Brussels and Amsterdam and once in Ankara, Split and Yogyakarta. The Video Vortex network was founded in in 2007 and deals with the cultural, political and artistics aspects of online video. Video Vortex 8 is organized by the Kazimir Association in Split and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. Continue reading

Slought Foundation is currently in the planning phase for Mixplace Studio, an urban pedagogical research initiative that will transform our organization in the years ahead. It is being developed together with People’s Emergency Center (PEC), the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) at PennDesign, and Estudio Teddy Cruz (ETC). Continue reading

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