City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community :: June 11–13 & 19, 2010 :: Invitation to Submit Proposals — Deadline: March 1, 2010 [Application Form]

Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression. Continue reading

I. From the Dematerialized Object to Immaterial Labor

Anglo-American Conceptual art, which emerged in the mid to late 1960s, displayed a new interest in linguistics and information theory that clearly distinguished it from the industrially coded production aesthetics of Pop art and Minimalism. The thesis that went along with this was that replacing author-centered object production with linguistic or information-based propositions represented a challenge not only to any traditional “material-object paradigm” (Art & Language) but also to those aspects of craftsmanship within “production values” that are crucial to any claims to authorship and the “work,” and this perhaps helps to explain how and why the history of Conceptual art has mistakenly been written as a history of “dematerialization of the object.”(1) Continue reading

WHITE NOISE III: Pandora’s Sound Box curated by Lara Pan for PERFORMA 09 :: November 2 - 22, 2009 :: Opening: November 2, 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: White Box, 329 Broome St., New York City.

Pandora’s Sound Box is an interactive multimedia exhibition conceived to destabilize and reactivate our vision of the current global political landscape through performance, sound, video and site-specific installations. The exhibition demonstrates a kind of experiment of the associative imagination by which the viewer may explore other dimensions of experience while simultaneously becoming a performer. The title of the exhibition was inspired by Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s controversial 1929 film Pandora’s Box, which exposed and explored the fear of female sexuality. Continue reading

Stream | Peninsula Artist Commission: Performing Social Space :: November 2009 – July 2010

Stream is a creative production agency based in the London Borough of Greenwich, where our programmes bring together innovative art practice and local people. We invite artists to find inspiration in the geographies, peoples and locales in which our projects are sited and offer a stimulating environment in which to realise ambitious new work. We work in collaboration with the artists we commission to realise the full potential of projects, and are committed to creative excellence and meaningful participation in all the work we produce. We look for artists whose practice combines a conceptual sophistication with a lightness of touch, and are keen to support the professional development of the artists we commission Continue reading

Wayfarer v 2 - Urban Agents — Sign up now to play online! :: October 26 - November 7, 2009 :: Public Forum: November 8; 1:30 - 4:00 pm :: The Black Box Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.

Wayfarer v 2 - Urban Agents is a locative social media event, converging gameplay, creative intervention and site. During the 2 week event, urban agents are out on the streets of Melbourne creating socially responsible interventions; citizens (that’s most of you) form a short term online community using the Wayfarer website; and advocates are those of you who have agreed to add a bit more to the debate… Continue reading

Josetti Höfe Façade —
Urban Space and Site Specific Interventions :: Open Call — Deadline: October 20, 2009 :: Josetti Höfe, Rungestr 22 - 24, Berlin, Germany.

International artists and designers who work with urban space and site specific interventions, are invited to submit a project for Josetti Höfe’s Façade. Guidelines:

- Any media/materials are permitted for the intervention, except those which can damage the façade’s surface - The intervention must be visible from the views described in this website (view “The façade” link) - Artists with previous experience in site specific projects and interventions in public space are encouraged to apply Continue reading

flux-s cross-disciplinary arts festival :: September 10-13, 2009 :: Strijp-S, Eindhoven (NL).

This former industrial area, Strijp-S, is undergoing far-reaching changes, and over the next ten to fifteen years will be transformed into the new cultural heart of Eindhoven. By means of visual arts, performance, new media, music, architecture, poetry and literature, interventions and experimental theatre, flux-s responds to these future developments, and the audience is invited to experience Strijp-S in an intense and imaginative ways and freely project their own thoughts on it. Continue reading

Under the bridge: Eight artistic interventions in public space — Liverpool: Garston: Dorota Buczkowska, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Łukasz Jastrubczak; Gdansk: Dolne Miasto: Ross Dalziel, Kevin Hunt, Maeve Rendle, Rita Slater :: May - October 2009 :: over Church Road in Garston, Liverpool and over Szopy Street, Gdansk.

Under the bridge is about the series of artistic interventions in the public and “mental” space of two bridges, and seeks to analyse the subconscious of the district, symbolically linking two spaces. Can art for at least a short while eliminate the ugliness of the two bridges? Will their oppressiveness disappear for a moment? Continue reading

Out of Character | Vuk Cosic :: August 1 - November 2009 :: Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Mill Street, Perth, UK.

Horsecross is delighted to present Out of Character – the first solo exhibition in Scotland by internationally recognised artist Vuk Cosic described as ‘an archaeologist of the future’. The exhibition features new commissions and acquisitions, which echo Cosic’s earlier signature works. They are showing alongside the artist’s own favourites from the permanent Horsecross collection of contemporary art. Out of Character reflects Cosic’s interest in media archaeology and his belief that the role of the artist is to move away from the blind adoption of engineering defaults and instead to suggest ‘constructive abuse’ of technology. Continue reading

In The City is Creative — by Michelle Teran — everyday performative acts, as depicted on YouTube videos, are located and reenacted in the city where they took place.

People meet in different ways now, even in the most strangest manner. Imagine flying over a city and witnessing all the things that are taking place there. Connect to Google Earth and find Eindhoven, a small city in The Netherlands. As you get closer, a number of YouTube videos appear on top of the city. As you bring up each video you start to experience what is taking place there. Continue reading