Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Installation View :: September 23, 2011 - January 14, 2012 :: Opening: September 22; 6:00 - 9:00 pm :: 601Artspace, 601 West 26th St. #1755, New York, NY.

For Installation View, the McCoys bend their artistic practice of revealing how meaning is made to focus on how meaning is displayed. Their curatorial effort here aims to discover the private lives of artworks. As an intervention into 601’s collection, they have created a site-specific exhibition out of non-site-specific art. Whether situated outdoors, in a guesthouse, or in an artist’s studio, Installation View shows artworks the way they more frequently exist, instead of in a state of exhibition. Continue reading

ISEA Istanbul presents Site Specifics: Mobile Media Art and the Contexts of Place — Chair Per­son: Chris­tiane Paul; Pre­sen­ters: Tanya Toft, Jack Toolin, Teri Rueb :: Sep­tem­ber 19, 2011; 9:00 - 10:30 am :: Sa­banci Cen­ter Room 4, Sa­banci Cen­ter, Lev­ent.

The panel dis­cusses cat­e­gories of loca­tive, site-spe­cific media art and their im­pact on un­der­stand­ing the con­text of place. Mo­bile com­put­ing po­ten­tially en­ables var­i­ous forms of so­cial in­ter­ac­tion and has to be con­sid­ered in re­la­tion to con­cepts of em­bod­i­ment, the cre­ation of mean­ing, as well as in­di­vid­ual au­ton­omy and agency. Continue reading

Spiral Drawing Sunrise, a device for the site specific recording of sunrises by Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum :: September 14-20, 2011; times here :: part of ISEA2011.

Spiral Drawing Sunrise’s main component is a “phototropic car”, a small robotic rover that runs on solar energy, not unlike the carts used by NASA to explore the environments of distant planets. Except that this cart is designed to make observations of a distant body, the sun, in familiar settings, like a public square. It functions as a kind of sun-powered, mobile hour glass: the cart, tight to a pole with a longinsh rope, moves when its panels have collected a given amount of sunlight. And as it continuously deposits sand, the cart leaves behind a patterned spiral trail. Continue reading

SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain and Land Art Contemporary present Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971–2011) Continue reading

[Image: Rinko Kawauchi, Murmuration, 2010*] Voices of the Sea Artists Commissions :: Call for expressions of interest — Deadline: July 11, 2011.

Voices of the Sea is a unique commissioning opportunity created by a partnership of arts organisations. In Brighton and Hove, UK: Fabrica, Blast Theory, Brighton Festival, Lighthouse, Photoworks, the University of Brighton and in France, the Musee de Beaux Arts Calais. We seek to commission two artists, each with a strong track record, to create two major new works, responding to the coastal context and maritime heritage of South East England.

The commissions are inspired by The Boat Project by Lone Twin, beginning its maiden voyage in 2012 and visiting Brighton as part of Brighton Festival. Continue reading

Augmented Window :: June 17-26, 2011 :: Centre Pompidou, Gateway level 6, Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France.

Directed and curated by Thierry Fournier, Augmented Window is a sensory observatory. Different artists and authors have been invited to produce a critical reading or original work on the landscape itself. Each contribution is geo-localized and presented on a touch-screen window that looks out onto a landscape that is simultaneously displayed as a live video feed on the window itself.

Augmented Window is premiered within the Futur en Seine Festival, at Centre Pompidou. Continue reading

[Image: A single spark can start a prairie fire' 星星之火，可以燎原 - by 4 Gentlemen] Exchange between Tim Murray, John Craig Freeman, and Tamiko Thiel on -empyre-:

Tim wrote: I’m interested by the participants (ManifestAR Venice Biennial AR Intervention) choice not to extend the availability of the works more broadly online as net.art pieces. Was this choice a technological determination related to the smartphone interface and the desire for onsite intervention or were there added considerations involved.

John Craig Freeman wrote: Hi Tim et al, Technically the works in the ManifestAR Venice Biennial AR Intervention are net art, as they use both mobile and wifi networks. I get your point however. The site-specificity of this technology is exactly what attracts me to it. Continue reading

Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture :: July 11 - August 9, 2011 :: School of Visual Art, NYC.

Crossing the boundaries into architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, new media technologies and other arenas, the revitalization of public art has become a global trend, as more sensitivity to the nuance of site is increasingly valued. This residency will delve into a process that reflects key site-specific aspects and intrinsic elements: scale, history, social meaning and formal aesthetics.

Federico Díaz: outside itself at the Veniice Biennale :: June 4 - September 30, 2011 :: Opening: June 4; 6:00 pm :: Nappa 90, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice.

Federico Díaz, acclaimed Prague-based artist, is creating a self-replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data that gives new meaning to the term “going viral.” Imagine thousands of black spheres morphing according to changes in ambient light generated by the fluid interactivity of viewers. A mathematical program enables two robots to build, and together, arrange about 2,000 5-centimeter-diameter balls every 12 hours. Continue reading

Faster Than Sound: Soundfields — featuring Blast Theory, Chris Clark, Beaconsfield ArtWorks, Bruce Gilbert, James Bulley :: May 28-29, 2011 :: Suffolk, UK. Continue reading