Made Real: Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern :: May 27 - June 25, 2011 :: Furtherfield Gallery, London
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, London.

Networks — social, political, physical and digital — are a defining feature of contemporary life, and yet the exact forms and operations can seem nebulous and hard to grasp. For this exhibition artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern bring new kinds of interactive arts objects into existence, taking these networks as their artistic materials and play-spaces. Three works are shown for the first time in the UK: Wikipedia Art, a collaborative work “made” of dialogue and social activity; Given Time, an Internet artwork that creates a feedback loop across virtual and actual space; and Playing Duchamp, a one-on-one meeting and game between an absent artist and viewer/participant. Continue reading

Upgrade! Boston: Patrick Lichty :: March 15, 2011; 7:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).

Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between people and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney Biennial, Turin Biennial, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA), and TED Conference. Continue reading

somatic SENSOR :: January 21-22, 2011; 8:30 pm :: Highways Performance Space, 18th Street Arts Center, 165118th Street; Santa Monica, CA + Attend in Second Life.

Highways Performance Space Artistic Director Leo Garcia presents somatic SENSOR, curated by Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, and Dino Dinco. Emerging out of queer experience, the works in somatic SENSOR move along lines of flight exploring desire, technology, the erotic and the viral. Rejecting control society to find new forms of relationality, somatic SENSOR includes performances, digital and networked media, drawing and soft sculpture to open borders between realities and bodies. Continue reading

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China – living in between Real and Unreal by Xiaoying (Juliette) YUAN — Presentation for “Making the Reality Really Real,” the 11th Consciousness Reframed International Research Conference, November 4-6, 2010, Trondheim, Norway.

Introduction: The current presentation, as part of author’s PhD research on the topic of “Media Arts and Human Ecosphere”, focuses on Chinese artists’ research on the theme of “Reality”. Continue reading

LPDT2 is a reworking of Roy Ascott’s 1983 work La Plissure du Texte (The Pleating of the Text) in Second Life. [via Network Research]

NoneOfTheseCandidates Macbain for United States Senate is a native of Nevada and Second Life. He is a lifelong independent, founder of Nevadans 4 Hyperreality and a veteran of the America’s Army Game where he has served in maps that look like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He is single and lives in the Shady Oak Trailer Park in the New Hamlet region of Second Life. Visit him in Second Life.

Media artist Joseph DeLappe announces the virtual candidacy of his avatar, NoneOfTheseCandidates Macbain for United States Senate representing the great state of Nevada! “None of these candidates” is a voting option for Nevada voters for President of the United States and all state constitutional positions, including U.S. Senator. Continue reading

Hybrid Participatory Performance: Real Virtual Games in Second Life :: July 11, 2010; 2:00 - 3:30 pm BST (6:00 - 7:30 am PST/SLT) :: The Place, London + Second Life :: Part of Society of Dance History Scholars Annual Conference: Dance and Spectacle.

This working group session starts with a 5-10 mn hybrid participatory performance based on a short structured movement improvisation between avatars (Second Life users) and participants in London, through SL video broadcast. The performance is followed by working group discussion of the proposed issues including all the physical and virtual participants. Continue reading